U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein denied a request from Puerto Rico Electric Power Au thority (PREPA) fuel line lenders Wednesday to examine the power utility’s court settlement with Vitol, a firm that has agreed to help push a debt adjustment plan for bankrupt PREPA.
Dein, who assists U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain with the island’s bankruptcy cases, denied the request after the Financial Oversight and Management Board made the settlement with Vitol public as part of its objection to the fuel line lenders’ request.
The fuel line lenders earlier this month said they learned for the first time on Nov. 2 that Vitol had settled its litigation with PREPA for about $45 mil lion and that the company would be put in its own class to try to push through PREPA’s debt adjustment plan. PREPA has been in bankruptcy since 2017 but the bankruptcy court has insisted on having a debt adjustment plan by Dec. 1.
Under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, a debt adjustment plan containing more than one impaired class with one class accepting, or no impaired accepting class in a single-class plan, can be confirmed under section 1129(b) without the acceptance of other classes.
Lawyers for the oversight board stated that Vitol had agreed to accept 50% of the ultimate recovery percentage for the general unsecured claims class. Vitol will be placed in its own class, which will receive such separate treatment, and Vitol will vote in favor of the plan, creating an impaired accepting class.
Given the importance of the oversight board’s responsibility to file a plan on Dec. 1 with a real istic prospect of confirmation, the fuel line lenders said they believe that information about the actual terms of the agreement between the board and Vitol, including the circumstances under which Vitol’s commitment to vote in favor of the plan arose, must be made available promptly.
The U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee under the trust agreement for the PREPA bonds, Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA Bondholders, National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. and Syncora Guarantee Inc. asked to join the urgent motion of PREPA’s fuel line lenders seeking
to examine the Vitol settlement agreement.
However, the oversight board made the settle ment public.
“As the Fuel Line Lenders acknowledge in the reply, the substance of the information sought by the document requests (to which the PREPA Bondhold ers and the Trustee joined) has now been voluntarily produced by the Oversight Board through the public filing of the Vitol Settlement Agreement,” Dein said.
The magistrate judge also said that at present, good cause does not exist for further examination of the oversight board regarding the Vitol settlement agreement.
In September, the Title III bankruptcy court entered an order that sought to resolve PREPA’s bankruptcy case after mediation talks collapsed. First, the court established a litigation schedule for a lien challenge to PREPA’s bonded debt. Second, the court ordered mediation of certain issues and third, the court or dered the oversight board to file by Dec. 1 a proposed plan of adjustment it believes could be confirmed.
By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.co
The organization CAMBIO warned Wednesday of an increase in expenses for the hiring of external consultants in the operation of the island’s electrical sys tem after LUMA Energy took control of the transmission and distribution system last year. This, the group said, is despite the fact that the executive director of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) had emphasized that the privatization contract would reduce the costs of external consultants and improve administrative efficiency.
According to financial documents filed by LUMA with the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau and published by the P3A in a report on the finances of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), in fiscal year 2022, LUMA spent $103.5 million on consultants and legal services. That represented a 55% increase compared to fiscal year 2021, when PREPA spent $67 million on those items, and 125% compared to fiscal year 2020, when PREPA
Ingrid Vila Biaggi, president and co-founder of
spent $46 million. (In both cases, represen tation expenses before the bankruptcy court are excluded.)
“We were sold that privatization was going to bring knowledge and experience to reduce dependence on contractors, but we see the opposite,” said engineer Ingrid Vila Biaggi, president and co-founder of CAMBIO. “LUMA contracts external consulting and legal services for $100 million in addition to
the $117 million it already receives under its privatization contract. Clearly they are being paid for an expert report that they do not have and that they end up subcontracting, making the service more expensive.”
The organization also denounced that there is little transparency about the contracts signed by LUMA because many are not on the website of the Comptroller’s Office. For example, although LUMA spent $7.1 million on legal services in fiscal year 2022, the contracts for legal services available in the Comptroller’s Office’s contract registry only total $250,000 for that year.
“We sent a letter to the Comptroller urging her to demand that LUMA file its contracts and comply with the law,” said Cathy Kunkel, CAMBIO’s energy program manager. “LUMA is spending public money and the people have the right to know who is receiving this money and for what kinds of services.”
Meanwhile, in the early months of the current fiscal year, LUMA awarded multimil lion-dollar contracts to outside contractors for project management and engineering
services related to the billions of dollars in FEMA funds earmarked for grid reconstruc tion. Among them is a $120 million, threeyear contract with a single contractor, TRC Solutions.
“We were told that one of the reasons for bringing LUMA to Puerto Rico was their knowledge of handling federal funds allocated to the electrical system. Even now they say that removing LUMA would delay work with federal funds,” Vila Biaggi said. “However, the hirings show that LUMA evidently has no capacity to handle federal funds. Also, how does this differ from so many embezzlement cases we have seen in Puerto Rico in which the government selects companies without the necessary expertise that subcontract to third parties to perform the work, increasing costs for the country? This information adds to the questions we have raised from day one about the irregularities in the contracting process of LUMA and its poor service, and leads to the conclusion that this contract has to be terminated.”
By THE STAR STAFFGov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday that he will appoint Nino Correa Filomeno again as interim commissioner of the Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration after the Senate did take up Correa Filomeno’s confirmation on the last day of the regular session.
“Well, I’m going to appoint him again on an interim basis, because I can’t leave the bureau beheaded and Nino has done an exemplary job. So I don’t think there’s any controversy here that he remains in that position on an interim basis,” the governor said in response to questions from reporters. Asked if there is another person to replace Correa Filomeno, Pierluisi said: “There are personnel in
the Emergency Management Bureau, but the ideal person to lead that bureau is Nino Correa.”
“I submitted a bill that has never been acted upon,” the governor continued. “... When it is vast experience like Nino’s, it should be sufficient for appointment. I think it is rather that there were so many appointments pending confirmation that they could not cope or could not deal with everything. I don’t think there was any controversy regarding the confirmation of Nino Correa as interim.”
Pierluisi also noted that he wasn’t likely to convene an extraordinary session of the Legislature.
“I’m not contemplating it,” he said.
The governor’s statements came after his participation in the inauguration of new neuro-interventional operating rooms at Mennonite Hospital of Caguas.
Temporary Disaster Recovery Centers (DRC) in Aguadilla, Cabo Rojo, Guánica, Naguabo, Rincón, San Germán and Yabucoa will close permanently today at 5 p.m., the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday.
The other temporary Federal Emergency Manage ment Agency (FEMA) DRCs will continue to offer services from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and will close on Sundays, unless otherwise noted.
Hurricane survivors can still apply for assistance if they have not already done so. The deadline to apply is Monday, Nov. 21.
As Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia headed for Washington, D.C. to testify before a House committee on the island’s energy problems, the Justice Department issued an opin ion Thursday declaring the legality of the LUMA Energy contract to operate Puerto Rico’s electric power transmission and distribution system.
The House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing today to discuss the recon struction of the energy grid.
Meanwhile, Fermín Fontanés Gómez, exec utive director of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A), said Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández confirmed the legality of the operation and management agreement granted to the private consortium LUMA Energy.
The contract has been criticized because LUMA is not investing in the grid. As a result, all of the firm’s expenditures must be paid with public funds.
The Justice Department found that the con
tract is not contrary to law, morality or public order. Nor does the contract contain clauses or provisions contrary to the law, morality or public order.
“Consequently, we recognize that, from
the reading and study of the law, the legislative background and the clauses of the O&M Agree ment, there does not emerge, from its face, any patent element that could lead us to conclude that there are circumstances contrary to mo
rality, law and public order in the contracting process carried out to establish the public-private partnership with LUMA,” a statement from P3A said, quoting from the opinion.
“On the contrary, we note that the process and subsequent contracting were carried out thoughtfully, taking care of every detail and with the intention and genuine purpose of having the highest public interests of Puerto Rico in mind,” the agency said.
From the documentation examined, Justice concluded that the selection of LUMA as a proponent and the subsequent signing of the O&M Agreement were in strict compliance with the P3 Law, public energy policy, and the requirements of the Financial Oversight and Management Board.
The Justice Department said it considered that the transformation of PREPA’s energy infra structure is required by the island’s fiscal plan, and also considered the effect of the contract’s cancellation on the disbursement of funds for the grid’s reconstruction.
Before Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced the installation of temporary generators to prevent blackouts this week, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) had considered a measure to that effect a month ago.
Tomás Torres Placa, the consumer representative on the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) governing board, said LUMA Energy had asked the PREB to approve the installation of electrical generators after the passage of Hurricane Fiona. LUMA said the power generators were needed to provide service while PRE PA’s generating units were in repair and maintenance.
“The matter was under consideration,” Torres Placa told the STAR on Wednesday Pierluisi announced with fanfare the increase in generation capacity on Tuesday, arguing that he had requested the generators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in October.
FEMA Federal Coordinator Nancy Casper said the proposals from PREPA’s Stabilization Task Force, created by FEMA at the governor’s request, included installing temporary generation using generating barges and high-capacity portable generators for up to one year.
In fact, FEMA already has specific units identified and is taking steps to contract and mobilize them to
Puerto Rico, which can take between one and six months, Casper said.
Additionally, FEMA is working expeditiously at existing generating plants to allow the reincorporation of units in need of repairs, she said.
The Puerto Rico Power System Stabilization Task Force includes: FEMA, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Envi ronmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“This assistance would be in addition to the funds that we already have assigned to the power grid,” Casper said. “The priority is to provide stability in the
shortest time possible and thus be able to repair the system before the next hurricane season. Also, the aid considers and respects the Integrated Resource Plan and the renewable energy goals of our energy public policy.”
“The temporary generation will allow us to repair generating units that we are using today and that we cannot turn off to make repairs, since we do not have enough generating capacity,” Pierluisi said.
Karina Castellanos, the CEO of security services provider Grupo Eulen in the Do minican Republic, said Wednesday that female leadership continues to be insufficient in the Caribbean.
Castellanos, a guest speaker at the 2022 Women Economic Forum – Caribbean, which opens today at Interamerican University of Puerto Rico’s San Juan campus, said that according to data from the 2022 United Nations Strategic Development Plan, the participation rate of women in the workforce has risen from 20% to 65%, which demonstrates significant progress. However, 78% of women in the workforce are in low-productivity jobs.
Castellanos runs the security and services division at Grupo Eulen in the Dominican Repub lic. The company founded in Spain in 1962 has a global presence in 14 countries and Castellanos is the first and only woman in the executive posi tion at the company.
“My job represents a step forward for breaking the glass ceiling in upper management positions at Grupo Eulen, but there is still much to be done,” said Castellanos, who used as an example that in the Dominican Republic there exists only two institutions run by women – the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Women.
Castellanos, who has occupied a senior management position in the mining industry that is traditionally held by men in other countries in the region, said with conviction that the presence of female leadership is insufficient.
A study by the Inter-American Develop ment Bank reveals that the glass ceiling continues in the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Of 1,259 listed companies in 31 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, only 37% have women in their business directory and 73% lack women in senior management positions, Castellanos noted.
For example, according to data from the Ministry of Economy in the Dominican Republic, of the 599,000 public sector employees, despite that more than 65% of the jobs are occupied by women, very few reach high level positions, she said.
The International Labor Organization states that the female population in Latin America and the Caribbean earn a 17% lower salary per hour compared to men, which represents another chal lenge for a region whose economic and social future depends greatly on it taking on feminine leadership with challenging positions.
Castellanos said Grupo Eulen is becoming a stronger advocate to boost equality in its opera tions. At a global level, 54% of the multinational company´s 90,000 employees are women.
Another reality that continues to demon strate inequality among men and women is the salary gap. Gender equality and diversity are topics that are taken seriously. Since Grupo Eu len arrived in the Dominican Republic in 2000, salaries have been equal for men and women who occupy the same position, both in security and services, Castellanos said.
“We are a company in the Dominican Republic tied closely with corporate governance in favor of our employees,” she said. “Our salaries are the most competitive in the country and the women get training workshops, which helps keep staff turnover at 2%.”
Castellanos said the promotion of women should serve as a roadmap for gender equality as part of a comprehensive policy framework in the public and private sectors, and should be included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Global Goals.
“The public-private alliances in the Do minican Republic and Law No. 47-20 created a solid base for the development of projects where social sustainability and equality are a priority,” the executive said. “Regulation and institution alism have positioned the country above other countries like Costa Rica. Now the important part is execution.”
Law enforcement regulations of Law No. 47-20 for Public-Private Partnerships established by the decree 434-20 has an objective to pro mote investments in the country to contribute to economic development.
Afederal judge earlier this week blocked the government from con tinuing to use a Trump-era public health emergency measure to swiftly expel migrants who cross the southern border unlawfully, an order that could enable thousands of potential asylum-seekers to enter the country.
Judge Emmet Sullivan for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that the measure, known as Title 42, was “arbitrary and capricious” and had been implemented in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Originally invoked by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Pre vention, Title 42 has been used as a key enforcement tool at the border since the Trump administration first implemented it. The measure has held back thousands of migrants who otherwise would most likely be allowed to enter the country and process asylum claims.
Most migrants affected by the measure are those whom Mexico agrees to accept; other migrants must be detained and flown to their home countries if not given authority to enter the United States.
The decision will lead to a significant change in how the Biden administration manages what has been a record number of unauthorized border crossings. The public health authority allows border officials to act more quickly than under the ordinary procedures that are designed to guarantee migrants the right to petition for refuge in the United States.
Backlogs at the border, before Title 42 was imposed, had sometimes caused overcrowding in holding facilities, which drew condemnation from human rights groups, created images of chaos and raised questions about the administration’s ability to handle the influx.
“What this means is that normal immigration law is in effect at the border. Migrants cannot be expelled to Mexico or their home countries,” said Aaron ReichlinMelnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council.
“There could be a sudden surge in
overcrowding, as the agency tries to franti cally find bed space to put people,” he said.
The Homeland Security Department late Tuesday filed for a five-week delay before the order went into effect to give officials time to prepare.
“During the period of this freeze, we will prepare for an orderly transition to new policies at the border,” Marsha Espinosa, a department spokesperson, said in a statement.
Under the ruling, migrants who come to ports of entry along the border would not be turned away but would be allowed to lodge asylum petitions and perhaps remain in the country while they are under review.
The U.S. Border Patrol used the health order more than 1 million times last year, primarily to turn back migrants from Mexico and Central America. More recently, the measure was invoked against Venezuelans who had been crossing the border in large numbers after fleeing their broken country.
Earlier this year, the Biden adminis tration announced that it had planned to suspend the measure and resume normal border processing procedures, only to be blocked by a federal judge in Louisiana after Republican states filed suit.
“The ruling hopefully puts an end to Title 42 for good and will restore our
country’s long commitment to providing desperate asylum-seekers with an oppor tunity to present their case,” Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said. It filed a suit on behalf of a group of asylum-seeking families who were not able to enter the United States.
It is possible that Republicans, who have supported the continued use of the order, could introduce legislation next year to keep it in place. But it would probably die in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
In requesting the emergency delay of the judge’s order, the government said it would need to move additional resou rces to the border and coordinate with nongovernmental organizations and state and local governments to help prepare for what is expected to be a large new influx in migrants.
Last month, nearly 40% of migrants who crossed the border were expelled under Title 42.
Sullivan said that in adopting a mea sure intended to control the movement of the coronavirus across the border, the CDC had failed in its obligation to apply the least restrictive means necessary to prevent spread of disease, and that the agency had not properly explained why it took this action.
He said that the government had not shown the policy to be effective as a measure to control the spread of disease.
“The lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of the Title 42 policy is espe cially egregious in view of CDC’s previous conclusion that the use of quarantine and travel restrictions, in the absence of eviden ce of their utility, is detrimental to efforts to combat the spread of the communicable disease,” the judge wrote in the 49-page ruling.
He noted that at the same time Title 42 was preventing asylum-seekers from entering the country, millions of other travelers were crossing the border under less restrictive standards, such as in buses and cars.
Sullivan referred to evidence provided by plaintiffs in the case that during the first seven months that Title 42 was in place, border authorities encountered on avera ge “just one migrant per day who tested positive for COVID-19.”
The judge also agreed with the ACLU’s argument that the agency had failed to consider alternatives such as processing migrants outdoors and ramping up vacci nations to limit the spread of COVID-19.
The Homeland Security Department developed plans to address a spike in migra tion last spring, when President Joe Biden, trying to end some of the most restrictive immigration policies of his predecessor, signaled his plans to end the policy, which the Trump administration introduced in March 2020.
Several border states went to court in an attempt to preserve Title 42, arguing that its end would cause a drastic increase in migrant arrivals.
(The government recently expanded the use of Title 42 to address large numbers of Venezuelans crossing the border. At the same time, the administration created a narrow legal path for up to 24,000 Vene zuelans to come to the country by obtaining sponsors and applying from outside the country for humanitarian parole. Officials have credited the combination of the two actions with slashing the number of Vene zuelans crossing illegally.
Those numbers will likely go up now that the public health authority is off the table.
ignited to carry the Orion spacecraft, where astronauts will sit during later missions, toward orbit.
Less than two hours after launch, the upper stage fired one last time to send Orion on a path toward the moon. On Monday, Orion will pass within 60 miles of the moon’s surface. After going around the moon for a couple of weeks, Orion will head back to Earth, splashing down on Dec. 11 in the Pacific Ocean, about 60 miles off the coast of California.
The launch occurred years behind schedule, and bil lions of dollars over budget. The delays and cost overruns of SLS and Orion highlight the shortcomings of how NASA has managed its programs
The next Artemis mission, which is to take four astro nauts on a journey around the moon but not to the surface, will launch no earlier than 2024. Artemis III, in which two astronauts will land near the moon’s south pole, is currently scheduled for 2025, although that date is very likely to slip further into the future.
By KENNETH CHANGNASA’s majestic new rocket soared into space for the first time in the early hours of Wednesday, lighting up the night sky and accelerating on a journey that will take an astronaut-less capsule around the moon and back.
This flight, evoking the bygone Apollo era, is a crucial test for NASA’s Artemis program that aims to put astronauts, after five decades of loitering in low-Earth orbit, back on the moon.
“We are all part of something incredibly special,” Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, the launch director, said to her team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the launch. “The first launch of Artemis. The first step in returning our country to the moon and on to Mars.”
For NASA, the mission ushers in a new era of lunar ex
ploration, one that seeks to unravel scientific mysteries in the shadows of craters in the polar regions, test technologies for dreamed-of journeys to Mars and spur private enterprise to chase new entrepreneurial frontiers farther out in the solar system.
At 1:47 a.m. Eastern time, the four engines on the rocket’s core stage ignited, along with two skinnier side boosters, As the countdown hit zero, clamps holding the rocket down let go, and the vehicle slipped Earth’s bonds.
The glare from the engines was as bright as a giant welding torch, turning night into day for a few minutes. A loud rumble then rolled over the space center.
As the rocket rose, its destination — the moon — was located just to the right in the night sky.
A few minutes later, the side boosters and then the gi ant core stage dropped away. The rocket’s upper engine then
Still, the sprawling expense of Artemis might be the cost of sustaining political support for a space program in a federal democracy, said Casey Dreier, the chief policy adviser for the Planetary Society, a nonprofit that promotes exploration of space. Even if Artemis is not the best or most efficient design, it provides jobs to the employees of NASA and aerospace companies across the country, he said. That provides continu ing political support for the moon program.
“Congress has done nothing but add more money to Artemis every single year it’s been in existence,” Dreier said.
While private spaceflight proponents believe their ap proach will prevail, no one in Congress has yet pushed for canceling S.L.S. or Orion. The CHIPS and Science Act, recently signed into law by President Joe Biden, calls for NASA to include the vehicles in plans to send astronauts to Mars, and directs the agency to launch SLS at least once a year.
NASA is currently negotiating with the rocket’s manu facturers for up to 20 more launches.
“I think the program itself is shaping up to be very politi cally sustainable,” Dreier said. “I challenge people to show me the public anger about the SLS program and how it translates to political pressure to cancel it. And I just don’t see it.”
Cascading midterm losses rippled from east to west — Pennsylvania, Michi gan, Arizona, Washington. Recrimina tions from fellow Republicans poured in. A rival’s star continued to rise in Florida.
Yet when Donald Trump stepped onto the flag-bedecked stage at his gilded Palm Beach palace on Tuesday evening to declare that he would run for president again, it was as if none of it had happened.
The former president cannot stop trying to make his own reality and cannot start accepting responsibility for his actions or acknowledging their consequences. In the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose world of Trump, all successes accrue to him, and any failings are someone else’s fault — the 2018 midterms, when Democrats took back the House; his own presidential loss in 2020; and now 2022, the worst showing of a party out of power in two decades.
In that sense, with the smoke still rising on a national rebuke, the choreographed conviviality on Tuesday night was the ultimate in not taking responsibility.
Instead, Trump spun out an alternate vision where the news media has not repor ted all his successes and where much of the blame for the party’s shortcomings in the midterms “is correct,” although none of that blame belongs to him. And while the country, he told supporters, has slid from greatness to abject embarrassment in two short years, its citizens “have not yet realized the full extent and gravity of the pain our nation is going through” — a suggestion that voters would have punished the party in power if they had only shared his understanding of President Joe Biden’s depravity.
He showed, in other words, that the word “loser” remains his ultimate epithet.
“If he thinks he can win in 2024, he is going to run in 2024, and I doubt there is anyone who can change his mind on that,” said Mick Mulvaney, an acting chief of staff in Trump’s White House. “The question is whether, in light of 2018, 2020 and last week, is he — himself, and no one else — starting to recognize that if the presidential election were held today, he would probably lose.”
Mulvaney added, “A lot of folks think that, myself included, but we don’t matter.”
Trump’s hand-picked candidates for the Senate in Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada lost. His most ardent and loyal followers fell short — some far short — in their quests for
the governorships of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. Two of his revenge picks to knock off House Republicans who voted to impeach him lost critical general election races in Michigan and Washington.
And his unwavering insistence that Republicans run in 2022 on the false claim that victory was stolen from him in 2020 helped turn a referendum on Biden’s political stewardship into a choice between conti nuance of control for a stumbling Democratic Party or a transfer of power to a Republican Party that many voters found beyond the pale.
To Trump, none of that had any bearing on his desire to return to power.
“He’s in his late 70s and has never taken responsibility his entire life,” said Peter J. Wehner, a senior aide in George W. Bush’s White House and a prominent conservative critic of Trump. “The idea that he will take responsibility now stretches credibility.”
History makes the point.
“I don’t take responsibility at all,” Trump said in March 2020 of the government’s falte ring response to the rampaging coronavirus, as he pinned the blame on Barack Obama, who had left office nearly four years before.
“People thought that what I said was totally appropriate,” Trump said in Texas, six days after his supporters violently ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as he dismissed any notion that his exhortations to march on Capitol Hill had any consequences.
Caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women — “when you’re a star, they let you” — Trump brought women who once accused Bill Clinton of misconduct to a debate in 2016 with Hillary Rodham Clinton, a classic in the blame-shifting genre.
After a botched special operations raid in Yemen left a Navy SEAL, Chief Petty Officer William Ryan Owens, and several civilians dead, Trump said of his generals in 2017, “This was something they wanted to do,” adding, “and they lost Ryan.”
Asked that year why Republicans had failed to enact health care legislation, he de clared, “We’re not getting the job done, and I’m not going to blame myself, I’ll be honest.”
Allegations of tax fraud and accounting malfeasance at his company, the Trump Or ganization? That was all the doing of Allen H. Weisselberg, its former chief financial officer. Strong-arming Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, into announcing an investigation of his political rival? “A perfect call.” Absconding with classified documents from the White House? Those were his.
“Do you understand why they took those items from you?” a kindergarten teacher pretended to ask the former president in a spoof TikTok video. “No, not for no reason, friend. Those did not belong to you. You took them home, and you were not supposed to, so they took them back, the FBI.”
Trump’s unwillingness to take responsi bility for six years has been met with willing partners in the Republican Party. Responding to unending charges of Trump’s wrongdoing, his allies initiated deflecting investigations of their own, into China’s culpability for the pandemic, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s failings on Jan. 6 and the “collusions” of Biden’s son Hunter with Russia.
With the failure of the Republicans’ promised “red wave,” there may yet be conse quences for the former president, whether he accepts them or not. As Republican senators stare at another two years in the minority, or as a Republican House frets over governing next year with a razor-thin majority, Trump’s erstwhile allies may re-evaluate their support. And some of them may see Florida’s newly reelected Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, as an alternative.
“I don’t think that’s the right question,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., snapped on Monday when a reporter asked if she would endorse Trump’s new run. “I think the question is who is the current leader of the Republican Party. Oh, I know who it is: Ron DeSantis.”
In that, South Carolina’s Mark Sanford, a Republican former governor who was driven out of Congress for criticizing Trump, sees a possible break with past patterns. He pointed to Club for Growth, a mainstream conservative political action committee, daring to email out four new polls on Monday that show
DeSantis leading Trump among potential primary voters in the GOP.
“You’ve watched people contort them selves to fit into Trump’s orbit, to not be in his cross hairs,” Sanford said. “But the carnage has become so widespread, it’s metastasized to such an extent that people who thought it was someone else’s problem now understand it’s theirs.”
Wehner, the senior aide in the Bush White House, pointed not only to Republi can lawmakers who have said that it is time the party move on from Trump, but also to conservative media outlets that have been remarkably critical, including The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal and Fox News.
“It’s completely cynical,” Wehner said. “They’re now breaking with him not because he’s done anything unethical or immoral — he’s been doing that for decades. It’s simply because they are now making the judgment that he is no longer the path to power.”
A colleague of Wehner’s in the Bush White House, John Bridgeland, struck a more optimistic tone.
“After violating so many democratic norms and values, and misunderstanding our democratic institutions, perhaps President Trump can look in the mirror, finally respect the will of the people and stand down from his ambitions,” Bridgeland said Tuesday, before Trump’s announcement.
In light of what unfolded at Mar-a-Lago, that felt more like the wishful thinking of a born optimist than the judgment of a seasoned student of Trump.
“Many, many people have told him before that his political career was over,” Mulvaney said. “And all of them have been wrong up to now.”
Walmart this week reported a rise in sales in its latest quarter, signaling that consumers conti nued to spend despite high inflation and that the retail behemoth had moved past the operational missteps that plagued it earlier this year. It also increased its fullyear forecast for revenue and profit, and projected confidence by announcing a $20 billion share buyback.
The retailer’s U.S. sales increased 8.2% in the third quarter versus the same period last year, comfortably beating analysts’ estimates. Revenue for the quar ter rose to nearly $153 billion, also more than expected.
Walmart’s stock jumped 6.5% on Tuesday, its biggest one-day increase sin ce 2020. Shares of other major retailers, like Amazon and Target, also rose.
Walmart said in August that its customers were feeling the effects of in flation and changing their shopping ha bits accordingly. Doug McMillon, the company’s CEO, said the retailer was ad justing to that reality. As the prices of food and gas increased, shoppers pulled back on discretionary spending for items such as clothes and knickknacks for the home. That left Walmart with excess inventory that it had to get rid of at a loss.
“We’re being thoughtful and balan ced about inventory levels by category and expenses as we work through the
fourth quarter and position ourselves for next year,” McMillon said Tuesday on a call with analysts.
At its stores in the U.S., Walmart said the overall number of transactions and the average amount a shopper spent per trip increased in the third quarter, su ggesting that high inflation did not deter consumers as much as some had feared.
Walmart’s profit for the quarter was hit by a $3.1 billion settlement to resolve lawsuits over its pharmacies’ roles in the opioids crisis, an agreement that followed deals announced this month by CVS and Walgreens, which are still being negotia ted.
Once a beneficiary of the pande mic spending boom, Walmart has more recently looked to reset Wall Street ex pectations, initially slashing its forecast for annual earnings, only to upgrade it in re cent earnings reports. The relatively robust results in its latest quarter led Walmart’s executives to raise the company’s full-year profit outlook, saying they now expect profit to fall less sharply and revenue to rise more strongly than before. Executives said they had also improved their outlook because the retailer gained market share
during the quarter as Americans looked for ways to save money.
Analysts are examining the ear nings results closely because they signal how Walmart, the nation’s largest retai ler, may fare in the crucial fourth quarter, when holiday shopping kicks into high gear. Analysts are expecting that retai lers, which enjoyed bumper profits over the course of the pandemic, will see their margins shrink over the next couple of months, as the cost of labor, transporta tion and materials continues to rise.
Walmart is also a bellwether for the retail industry, providing a hint at what earnings might look like for Target, Macy’s and others that report this week.
Home Depot also reported on Tuesday that sales and profits last quar ter were stronger than analysts expected, with higher prices offsetting a decline in transactions. It stuck with its forecast for modest earnings growth in the fourth quarter, and it expected comparable sales for the quarter to be the lowest it would have all year.
Analysts focused on how trends in the U.S. home market were affecting Home Depot’s business, much of which
is tied to home improvement projects. The Federal Reserve’s actions to address inflation by raising interest rates have made it more expensive for Americans to borrow to buy homes.
“We have remained incredibly bu llish. There are certainly factors outside of our control,” Ted Decker, Home Depot’s CEO, said Tuesday in a call with analysts. He added that he, like many others, was wrestling with the possibility that the Fed’s actions might take the United States into a recession and, if so, how deep it might be.
Americans are feeling more uncer tain about the economy this holiday sea son than they did a year ago. In turn, Wal mart, like other retailers, has been testing out ways to capture shoppers’ dollars ear lier in the season, by pushing deals ahead of the usual timeline. It has also sweete ned the perks for members of its subs cription program, including the option to have returns picked up at their doorsteps. And it has lengthened the window for when all shoppers can return a purchase.
Strong food sales are a promising sign for how Walmart will perform du ring the fourth quarter, according to Neil Saunders, a retail analyst who is mana ging director of GlobalData. Despite ra pid food inflation, Walmart did not raise prices on traditional Thanksgiving items; a turkey will be less than a dollar a pound, McMillon said.
“We expect this to be a major draw over the period,” Saunders said in an emai led statement. “Nonfood sales may stru ggle a bit, but our sense is the early start to discounting and promotion will help.”
Walmart is not immune to the shaky economic outlook, which led the retail giant to be more conservative in its ap proach to the holiday season. It said it would hire fewer seasonal workers this year. The uncertainty also factored into how executives were thinking about 2023.
“We know some of the unanticipa ted costs experienced this year shouldn’t repeat next year,” John David Rainey, Walmart’s chief financial officer, said on a call with analysts. “That said, we’re planning our business with the assump tion that inflation continues somewhat elevated.”
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell on Wednesday as Target’s dour sales forecast due to changing shop ping pattern amid rising prices unleashed fresh worries for retailers heading into the crucial holiday season.
Target Corp tumbled as much as 16.9% as a pull back in consumer spending despite heavy discounting also hurt its third-quarter profit, which missed market expectations.
Its bleak forecast jolted the retail sector, with shares of Macy’s Inc, Best Buy Co Inc and Dollar Tree Inc dropping between 1.4% and 6.0%.
“It’s showing that there’s some weakness in the economy with the consumer. We are a consumptionbased economy, so you never want to see that,” said Thomas Hayes, managing member at Great Hill Capi tal LLC in New York.
Despite the sales warning from Target, latest data on U.S. retail sales suggested that consumer spending remained stable and could help to underpin the econ omy in the fourth quarter.
The data showed retail sales rose 1.3% last month led by motor vehicles after remaining flat in September. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast sales accel erating 1%.
“When you see a beat like this, it suggests that the Fed might interpret it as they need to do more as far as rate hikes, perhaps going a bit higher than what we had originally penciled in,” said Brian Jacobsen, senior investment strategist at Allspring Global Investments.
The data and earnings reports come on the heels of upbeat quarterly results from Walmart Inc on Tuesday that had added to market optimism driven by a softerthan-expected producer prices report.
All the three main indexes ended higher in the pre vious session as geopolitical worries were overshad owed by expectations that the improved inflation out look would allow the U.S. Federal Reserve to shift to smaller interest rate hikes.
Traders are now pricing in 89% odds of a 50 ba sis point rate hike at the Fed’s meeting in December even as policymakers emphasized this week that they intend to keep raising interest rates for now, perhaps at a slower pace.
At 10:14 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 13.63 points, or 0.04%, at 33,606.55, the S&P 500 was down 21.80 points, or 0.55%, at 3,969.93, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 150.15 points, or 1.32%, at 11,208.26.
Among S&P 500 sectors, retail and consumer dis cretionary were down 1.9% and 1.7%, respectively.
Among other stocks, home improvement retailer Lowe’s Companies Inc jumped 4.3% after increasing its annual profit forecast on steady demand.
Chipmaker Micron Technology Inc slipped 4.8% after cutting its 2023 forecast for supply of its memory chips, while U.S.-listed shares of Grab Holdings Ltd jumped 4.2% after the ride-hailing and food delivery firm bumped up its 2022 revenue forecast.
Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 2.10-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and for a 2.41-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded one new 52-week high
and two new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 33 new highs and 56 new lows.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden met on Monday for long-awaited talks that come as relations between their countries are at their lowest in decades, marred by disagreements over a host of is sues from Taiwan to trade.
Among other stocks, Biogen Inc BIIB.O and Eli Lilly LLY.N gained 3.4% and 1.4%, respectively, after the failure of Swiss rival Roche’s ROG.S Alzheimer’s disease drug candidate.
Theater operator AMC Entertainment AMC.O jumped 6.5% as Marvel’s latest film “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” grossed $330 million globally in its opening weekend,
Poland’s president said Wednesday that a Ukrainian air defense missile had most likely caused a deadly explosion in his country a day earlier, calling it an “unfortu nate accident” and easing fears that his coun try and its NATO allies could be drawn into a direct conflict with Russia.
President Andrzej Duda said early indica tions suggested that Ukrainian efforts to coun ter a barrage of roughly 100 Russian missiles had been the cause of the blast on Tuesday — not a direct attack on his country.
“We have no evidence at the moment that it was a rocket launched by Russian forc es,” Duda told reporters. “However, there are many indications that it was a missile that was used by Ukraine’s antimissile defense.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said after meeting with the alliance’s envoys that a preliminary analysis also suggested that a Ukrainian missile was responsible for the explosion, but that a fuller investigation was still underway. He stressed that there was no indication of a deliberate attack by Russia or of any Russian plans to attack a NATO ally — meaning that NATO’s commitment to collec tive defense was not at issue.
But even if the missile was Ukrainian, he said the blame belonged to Russia.
“Let me be clear. This is not Ukraine’s fault,” Stoltenberg said. “Russia bears ultimate responsibility as it continues its illegal war against Ukraine.”
The White House said it has “full con fidence” in Poland’s investigation and has “seen nothing that contradicts President Du da’s preliminary assessment.”
“That said, whatever the final conclusions may be, it is clear that the party ultimately responsible for this tragic incident is Rus sia, which launched a barrage of missiles on Ukraine specifically intended to target civil ian infrastructure,” the White House said in a statement. “Ukraine had — and has — every right to defend itself.”
Initial reports had suggested the explosion might have been caused by a Russian missile, which prompted intense discussions and even some panic over whether Russia had some
how attacked a NATO ally, possible grounds to invoke the alliance’s mutual defense clause, known as Article 5. But the results of the in vestigation so far seemed to tamp down con cerns that the explosion would rapidly esca late the conflict beyond Ukraine’s borders.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, however, was unconvinced by the initial findings, saying he believed a Russian missile was involved.
“I have no doubt that it was not our missile,” he told Ukrainian news outlets on Wednesday. He added: “If it was the use of our air defense, then I want that evidence.”
Earlier Wednesday, Oleksiy Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and De
fense Council, said Kyiv was “expecting infor mation” from its “partners” on the preliminary findings and requesting access to the site.
Russia had denied responsibility and said that it did not aim any missiles near the border with Poland on Tuesday.
Key details on what transpired have yet to be clarified. There are questions about the trajectory of the missile in question and whether it might have been aiming at or had hit a Russian missile. Investigators will also focus on what the debris from Poland shows.
Belgium’s defense minister, Ludivine De donder, said in a Twitter message that “piec es of Russian missiles and a Ukrainian inter ception missile are said to have landed in Poland.” She said this was “to be confirmed by ongoing investigations.”
Duda said that “preliminary examina tion of the scene indicates that there was no classic rocket explosion there, but that it was the result of the rocket’s fall, perhaps in con junction with the explosion of the fuel that remained.”
He also emphasized that the events in Poland had come amid a “massive, unprec edented” Russian attack on Ukraine.
“Ukraine defended itself — which is ob vious and understandable — also by firing missiles whose task was to knock down Rus sian missiles,” he said. “Therefore, we were dealing with a very serious clash caused by the Russian side, as well as the entire con flict. Yesterday’s clash is certainly borne by the Russian side.”
World leaders at the Group of 20 summit meeting struggled to find common ground on the war in Ukraine in their closing state ment Wednesday, underscoring the gulf between the West and other countries on Russia’s actions.
The summit, held on the Indonesian island of Bali, did not result in a custom ary joint communiqué, but the officials were able to agree on a “leaders’ dec laration.” That statement said that “most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine” but that “there were other views and different assessments of the
situation and sanctions.”
Major powers such as India and Chi na have been unwilling to join the West ern-led sanctions against Moscow, and Indonesia has not explicitly condemned Russia over the invasion.
Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, the chair of this year’s summit, described the paragraph on the war as the most “highly debated.”
“Until midnight we talked about this, and finally the Bali declaration was reached through consensus,” he told re porters.
Joko said that a representative from Russia had been present throughout, al though President Vladimir Putin did not
attend and Russia’s foreign minister, Ser gey Lavrov, left Bali on Tuesday before the end of the two-day summit. Asked whether Lavrov’s departure had been scheduled in advance, a spokesperson for Indonesia’s foreign ministry, Teuku Faizasyah, said in a text message, “It is my understanding.”
I Wayan Koster, the governor of Bali, said Lavrov had gone to the hospital for a check Monday and that he was healthy. A spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry later denied a news report that Lavrov had been hospitalized, calling it the “aerobatics of fake news.”
Little was expected from this year’s G-20 summit, and Joko had described it
as perhaps the “most difficult” one yet, given the broader political climate. Be fore the meeting Monday between Presi dent Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, tensions between the United States and China were at their highest in years. There was also an overriding worry among many attendees that the agenda could be overtaken by the war in Ukraine.
But Joko said the summit had re sulted in concrete and tangible results, including the establishment of a $1.5 billion pandemic fund and an $81.6 bil lion sustainability trust under the Interna tional Monetary Fund to help countries in crisis.
The Iranian authorities moved aggressively to disperse demonstrations in dozens of cities across the country this week, as an uprising demanding an end to clerical rule en tered its third month, and neither protesters nor the government showed any signs of backing down.
Security forces, adopting new tactics, flew drones and helicopters low over the crowds of protesters, sometimes opening fire on them, videos posted on social media showed.
At a metro station in the capital, Tehran, security forces shot at people waiting for a train on a platform, setting off a rush as panicked commuters screamed and tried to dodge bul lets, videos showed. Metro stations have been a common site for protests during the uprising.
In Zanjan, a city in Iran’s northwest, crowds tried to stop security forces from shov ing protesters into a van. “Let him go!” they
protests, demanding social freedom and politi cal change, and tapping into years of pent-up anger over the state’s inability to reform.
In major cities like Tehran, Tabriz, Isfa han and Mashhad, crowds on Tuesday chanted slogans and shouted their anger, their words di rected at the most powerful man in Iran: the su preme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The aim: to remove Khamenei from power.
Crowds have continued to gather in defi ance of the authorities even as the government recently pledged harsh punishment for such dis sent — including executions. Last week, 227 members of Parliament called on the judiciary to put protesters to death.
The government has deployed violent tactics against and conducted raids on univer sity campuses and high schools. Rights groups say that at least 300 people have been killed, including 50 minors, and the United Nation said 14,000 had been arrested. The government says at least 30 of its security forces have been killed.
Iran unplugged the internet and opened fire on crowds from close range, killing at least 350 protesters, according to rights groups, who say the real numbers are likely much higher.
Protesters now are starting to fight back against the government’s crackdown.
Videos from Tuesday showed protesters throwing rocks at security forces and setting up road blockades. In the city of Arak, a group of protesters smashed the windows of a security van and set it on fire with Molotov cocktails.
In Shiraz, in a bold and new act of civil disobedience, a couple kissed while standing in the middle of traffic on a busy street, with the woman dressed in jeans and a sweater and not wearing a scarf, according to a picture that spread on social media.
Young people have also begun targeting clerics by running up to them and tossing their turbans from their heads and running away, vid eos on social media show. A young activist in Isfahan said their message to the government is
down its first death sentence to an unidenti fied person, who was accused of setting fire to a government building, according to state me dia. On Tuesday another unidentified protester was sentenced to death for being an “enemy of God” and wielding a knife, the judiciary’s news outlet reported.
In Tehran, at least eight protesters have been charged with “corruption on earth” and being an “enemy of God,” which could poten tially carry the death sentence.
Iran is also targeting three professional sectors critical to the uprising: journalists, doc tors and lawyers.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said that 62 journalists had been arrested, including reporters Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Moham madi, who first brought to light Amini’s case. A joint statement by the Intelligence Ministry and the intelligence wing of Iran’s powerful Revo lutionary Guard accused the two journalists of receiving training from the CIA to instigate un rest in Iran. Their respective newspapers have denied the allegations and said they were on assignment doing their jobs.
The U.N. Human Rights Council will convene a special session on Iran on Nov. 24, a meeting requested by Germany and Iceland and supported by 44 countries. A resolution that will be put to vote and is expected to pass
The baseball caps, red with white block letters, were meant to deliver an unmistakable message: “Make Brazil 2002 Again.”
That was the first year that Brazil elected the leftist leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as president.
In that first administration, from 2003 through 2010, he oversaw perhaps Brazil’s best moment, riding a commo dity boom and an oil discovery to lift 20 million people out of extreme poverty and Brazil onto the world stage.
Now Lula is back, set to take the re ins of Latin America’s largest nation Jan. 1, precisely 20 years after the start of his first administration.
But the nostalgia for Lula’s first goround may quickly get a reality check.
In his second administration, he will confront a country that has drastically changed. Lula is inheriting an economy with less runway for growth, a presiden cy with less muscle and a polarized, in ternet-obsessed country where a sizable portion of the public views him as a cri minal who stole the election.
“Politically speaking, he has much less power than he did, and he’s facing a much tougher challenge economically,” said Alexandre Schwartsman, an eco nomist and a director of Brazil’s central bank during Lula’s first administration.
The various challenges signal that the honeymoon could be short for Lula af ter defeating President Jair Bolsonaro last month and blocking the far-right leader from a second term. While Lula is retur ning to the top job with plenty more ex perience, he has never faced many of the obstacles ahead.
In his first administration, China’s voracious appetite for Brazil’s soybeans, iron ore, oil and meat helped fuel a run of rapid growth that made Brazil the world’s sixth-largest economy by 2012, up from 14th when he began his term. That rise helped him reinvent the country with an expanded middle class, infras tructure investments and successful bids for the Olympics and World Cup.
But now Brazil has been mired in years of sputtering growth, and China and the global economy are weaker. Lula spent much of his campaign focu
sed on getting Brazilians three square meals, and he has made clear that his new government’s top priority is direc ting more aid to the poor.
Yet how he navigates the country’s finances will be one of his biggest tests. Lula, during his last time in office, expan ded government spending with econo mic tail winds at his back. Now they are not, and it appears the market is worried about his plans.
In public comments last week about his push to raise the federal spending li mit, he said, “Why don’t the same people who seriously discuss the spending cap not discuss the country’s social issues? Why are poor people not part of the ma croeconomics discussion?” The reaction from investors was swift. The Sao Paulo stock exchange fell 3.3%, its worst day of the year.
Lula wants to lift the spending limit to fund an increase in the minimum wage and an expansion of Brazil’s social welfare program. He wants to keep the roughly $115 monthly payments that Bol sonaro began giving to low-income fami lies before the election, and he wants to add an additional $30 a month for each child in those families.
That will cost more than $13 billion in 2023 — yet Brazil’s budget has no room for additional spending.
That is in part because Bolsona ro spent up to $30 billion in economic stimulus before the election in an effort to win votes, including handouts to the poor and fuel subsidies, according to Da niel Couri, an economist who runs the Senate’s budget watchdog.
Marcelo Castro, a centrist senator who leads congressional budget talks, said he supported Lula’s effort to raise the spending limit, and he expected his colleagues would go along. But analysts said it was far from clear whether Lula could get enough votes, given the op position from Bolsonaro’s party.
In his second administration, Lula is arriving with far more political baggage that could derail his agenda. When he left office at the end of 2010, Lula was maybe the most popular man in Brazil, with an approval rating above 80%. He handed the country over to his handpicked successor and coasted into what was thought to be retirement.
Instead, he became the primary target of a sprawling corruption inves tigation that uncovered a vast kickback scheme inside his party and the Brazi lian government. Lula was convicted twice on charges that he accepted re novations and a condo from construc tion companies seeking government contracts.
He was sentenced to 22 years in pri son, but after 17 months, he was relea sed. The Supreme Court ruled last year that the judge in his cases was biased and threw out the charges. The decision did not prove his innocence, but it cleared the way for him to run for office again.
Yet the scandal ruined much of the public’s trust in Lula and his Workers’ Party. On the campaign trail, Bolsonaro focused on Lula’s convictions. And now, in defeat, Bolsonaro’s supporters are ci ting them as evidence that he stole the election.
That leaves Lula in a weaker posi tion than in 2003. Four months into his first administration, only 10% of the country disapproved of him.
Now Lula is so vehemently rejected by the right that after the election, thou sands of Bolsonaro’s supporters massed outside military bases and set up hun dreds of blockades on highways, trying to enlist the armed forces to stop Lula from taking office.
“This is our greatest challenge,” said Sen. Randolfe Rodrigues, a coordinator of Lula’s campaign who is in the running for a major role in his administration.
“Everything else is important, but to re cover the democratic culture in Brazi lian life is our biggest responsibility.”
It also could make it difficult for Lula to govern.
In 2003, conservative parties were willing to work with Lula on his priori ties. “This time, Bolsonaro hasn’t yet ac cepted his victory,” said Thomas Trau mann, a political analyst who covered Lula’s first administration as a journalist and worked as the press secretary for Lula’s successor. “The pressure he will suffer is so much bigger.”
Still, the picture in Brazil may not be so dire. By many measures, the country’s economy is in far better shape than it was in 2003. Trade and gross do mestic product are higher, and inflation and unemployment are lower.
But Brazil’s government has taken on enormous debt in recent years, and it now just exceeds 77% of the GDP, the threshold that economists have found slows a country’s economic growth. That leaves Lula with little financial flexi bility to stimulate the economy without causing a new public debt crisis.
Donald Trump is a petulant narcissist, so his feuds with Govs. Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin are surely sincere, but they also show that Trump hasn’t lost his feral instinct for media attention. In recent months, the former president has become increasingly boring, and after sabotaging Republican hopes for a red wave, his power is at a low ebb. By stoking a Republican Party civil war and announcing his run for president, he can perhaps rekindle interest in a new season of the Trump show.
Trump has very little else to keep people watching. On Tuesday, he gave an extraordinarily tedious and droning address announcing his new presidential campaign. “This is one of the most low-energy, uninspiring speeches I’ve ever heard from Trump,” tweeted Sarah Matthews, his former deputy White House press secretary. “Even the crowd seems bored.” CNN cut away 20 minutes in. Fox News lasted about 40 minutes, though it returned for the peroration, such as it was.
Still, as I listened to Trump speak about “cesspools of blood” and sadistic knife-wielding gangsters, it
was hard not to feel a sickening sense of déjà vu. Somehow, seven long years after he descended his golden escalator, we’re back to a place where most conservative elites are again united against him, waiting for a Florida Republican to take him out, even as his fanatical base remains committed. Once again, we’ve seen Trump bestowing insulting nicknames on his presumptive Republican competitors. He’s clearly lost a step — “Ron DeSanctimonious” is a lot less catchy than “Lyin’ Ted” — but no one should assume he’s finished. “Trump has told others he wants to recreate the underdog vibe of the 2016 campaign,” reported The Washington Post.
It’s now up to the rest of us to decide if we’re going to help him. In 2015 and 2016, much of the media abetted Trump’s rise, amplifying his every provocation because it was fun and profitable to rubberneck as he bulldozed through the Republican Party. All that free media helped catapult Trump to victory. Now he’s forcing us into a do-over.
I understand that we cannot avoid writing or talking about a former president who is now a leading presidential contender — I am, after all, writing a column about him. But we can all avoid letting him set the terms of the debate. The newsworthy thing about his announcement speech was not anything he said. Rather, it’s that, as The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman pointed out on “The Daily,” he’s running in part to evade potential criminal prosecution, which could arise from either his attempted coup or the classified government documents he appears to have stolen.
It’s also worth noting that, once again, he is in bed with authoritarian foreign powers. Just this week, we learned that Trump signed a deal with a Saudi real estate giant to have the Trump brand be part of a $1.6 billion project in Oman. Information keeps dribbling out about the emoluments he collected as president. The House Oversight Committee recently revealed that officials from six countries, including China and Saudi Arabia, spent more than $750,000 at his Washington hotel during his administration, sometimes renting rooms for more than $10,000 a night.
Many have used the pro-wrestling term “kayfabe,” which refers to the illusion that wrestling’s staged melodramas are real, to explain both Trump’s manipulation of reality and his fans’ willing suspension of disbelief. It’s an apt way of understanding his recent attempts to seize the spotlight. But the key through line of the Trump story is oligarchic corruption enabled
by legal impunity, not interpersonal feuds. I certainly understand the let-them-fight giddiness among some Democrats eager for a Trump-DeSantis smack-down — at times I even share it — but Trump has benefited whenever we’ve let him turn politics into pro wrestling.
In the series finale of “The Good Fight,” the only TV show to capture the berserk surrealism of Trumpera politics, a character based on the flamboyant troll Milo Yiannopoulos turns up at the show’s Democratic law firm, peddling a garbage smear against DeSantis. The firm’s lawyers must decide whether they want to be part of a Roger Stone-orchestrated dirty trick to bring down the Florida governor, paving the way for a Trump restoration. They consider it, reasoning that Trump would be easier to beat in a general election, but ultimately decide not to follow through. It’s the right decision in the show’s not-so-fictional world, and it would be in real life. DeSantis, a more effective politician than Trump, might do more damage to liberal priorities than Trump did. But Trump will do more damage to democracy itself. On Tuesday, he uttered one true line. America is “all very fragile to start out with,” Trump said. “It can only take so much.”
SAN JUAN – El gobernador, Pedro Rafael Pierluisi
Urrutia, anunció el miércoles que, por primera vez, la Administración Federal de Familias y Niños asignó 4.5 millones de dólares a Puerto Rico para el pago de los servicios de agua de familias o individuos partici pantes de programas de la Administración de Desarro llo Socioeconómico de la Familia (ADSEF), adscrita al Departamento de la Familia (DF).
“Estos fondos ayudarán a 11,086 familias o indivi duos en todo Puerto Rico que cumplieron con los re quisitos federales establecidos. En la próxima factura, estas personas verán reflejado un crédito a sus cuentas de agua que puede fluctuar desde 1.00 hasta 2,000 dólares, según la cantidad adeudada. Esto representa un alivio para nuestros ciudadanos, muchos de ellos adultos mayores con necesidades particulares. Conti nuaremos implementando iniciativas que redunden en alivios económicos y una mejor calidad de vida para todos los puertorriqueños”, explicó el primer ejecutivo en declaraciones escritas.
El Low Income Home Water Assistance Program es un proyecto piloto que, en Puerto Rico, está dirigido a participantes activos, hasta agosto 2022, del Progra ma Temporal de Ayudas a Familias Necesitadas (TANF,
por sus siglas en inglés), y a adultos mayores de 65 años o más que reciben el desembolso del Programa de Asistencia Nutricional (PAN). Los que recibieron el beneficio, que ya fue pagado directamente a sus cuen tas de la corporación pública, debían tener una cuenta activa en la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA) a nombre del participante o algún miembro del núcleo familiar y vivir bajo el 150 por ciento del nivel de pobreza establecido por el gobierno federal.
Por su parte, la secretaria del DF, Carmen Ana González Magaz, indicó que “con esta ayuda segui mos ofreciendo alternativas de alivio al bolsillo de las distintas poblaciones que servimos en la agencia. Los fondos, otorgados mediante el Plan Federal de Rescate Americano (ARPA, por sus siglas en inglés), reducirán los gastos en las facturas de los hogares en situaciones de vulnerabilidad y necesidad”.
Entre tanto, el administrador de ADSEF, Alberto Fradera, precisó que, contrario a otros programas de asistencia, en esta ocasión, los beneficiarios no ten drán que solicitar el subsidio, sino que al ser seleccio nado por los requisitos que dispone el programa, su factura reflejará un balance acreditado. “Este proyecto se une a otros que durante todo el año hemos anuncia do para el bien de nuestras familias. Mediante fondos federales, hemos servido a los núcleos familiares más
desventajados que, con estas ayudas, logran poner al día sus cuentas. Continuamos aumentando los progra mas y ampliando los beneficios para aquellos que más lo necesitan, como establece la política pública del gobernador”, sostuvo el funcionario.
– Un accidente de auto de carácter fatal con objeto fijo, fue reportado por la Policía a eso de las 11:03 de la noche del martes, en avenida Juan Ponce de León intersección calle Urpiano de la urbanización Las Delicias en Ponce.
Según la Uniformada, de la investigación realizada por el agente Miguel Feliciano de la división de Patru llas Carreteras Ponce, se establece que mientras el se ñor Enrique Garcerán González, de 34 años, conducía el vehículo de motor, marca Jeep, modelo Gladiator, color gris del año 2023, esto por la mencionada vía de rodaje, a una velocidad que no le permitió control
del volante, yendo a impactar con la parte frontal del auto, un árbol que se encontraba a orillas de la calle y posteriormente impactó, una verja de concreto de una residencia.
Como resultado del accidente, Garcerán Gonzá lez resultó con lesiones de carácter que le causaron la muerte en el lugar.
Se le dio conocimiento a la fiscal Annette Es teves, quien se hizo cargo de la investigación, en unión al agente Feliciano. Ademas, se ordnó la toma de fotos y medidas del lugar, realizadas por los agentes Abdon Lopez de Servicios Técnicos y Samuel Santiago Fornes de Patrullas Carreteras Pon ce.
SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el miér coles 4 muertes y 173 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,305.
Hay 148 adultos hospitalizados y 25 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 30 de octubre al 13 de noviembre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad está a 17.03 por ciento.
If Beyoncé takes home three awards in February, she will match the record for the most Grammy wins by any artist.
By BEN SISARIOAt the 2021 Grammys, Beyoncé picked up four awards, bringing her total to 28 and making her the winningest woman in Grammy history. At the 2023 ceremony, she will have nine chances to add to her total: The 41-year-old star is the top nominee for the 65th annual Grammy Awards, with all but one of her nods coming for her dance-heavy album “Renaissance.”
She leads a pack that includes Kendrick Lamar, with eight nominations; Adele and Brandi Carlile, with seven apiece; and Harry Styles, Mary J. Blige, Future, DJ Khaled and producer and songwriter The-Dream, with six each, the Recording Academy announced Tuesday.
The awards will be held Feb. 5 at Cryp to.com Arena in Los Angeles (the former Sta ples Center) in what the academy is hoping will be its return to something like normal operating procedure after two years of delays and complications caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Beyoncé’s nominations are in each of the three big all-genre categories — album of the year, plus record and song of the year for her single “Break My Soul” — as well as in the dance/electronic field and in R&B, where her
tracks “Virgo’s Groove” (R&B performance), “Plastic Off the Sofa” (traditional R&B perfor mance) and “Cuff It” (R&B song) were all re cognized. She is also up for best song written for visual media for “Be Alive,” from the film “King Richard.”
Those bring Beyoncé to a career total of 88 nominations — tying Jay-Z, her husband, for the most received by any artist in the his tory of the awards. (Jay-Z, who had held the record with 83 nods, got five more this year, for contributions to “Renaissance” and DJ Khaled’s “God Did.”)
If Beyoncé takes three awards in Fe bruary, she will match classical conductor Georg Solti for the most Grammy wins by any artist. (She is already tied for second place in that race, with Quincy Jones.)
Despite the shower of nominations Be yoncé has received over the years, going back to her time in Destiny’s Child two decades ago, she has won only once in any of the four most prestigious categories: as a credited son gwriter of “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” which took song of the year in 2010. Every other victory has been in down-ballot genre fields.
In what is sure to be one of the night’s major story lines, Beyoncé will once again
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face Adele in multiple contests, including album of the year (“Renaissance” vs. Adele’s “30”) and both record and song of the year (“Break My Soul” vs. “Easy on Me”).
The two women, both titans of contemporary pop with ardent fan bases, last squared off at the 2017 Grammys. That year, Adele’s “25” beat Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” in a closely wat ched contest for album of the year that fed into longtime com plaints that the awards often fail to recognize Black musicians in the most prominent categories. Accepting the award, a tearful Adele said, “I’m very grateful and gracious, but my artist of my life is Beyoncé.”
This year’s other nominees for album of the year inclu de Lamar, for “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,” his return after five years; Styles’ “Harry’s House”; Lizzo’s “Special”; Carlile’s “In These Silent Days”; Blige’s “Good Morning Gorgeous” (in its “deluxe” edition); Coldplay’s “Music of the Spheres”; Abba’s “Voyage,” the Swedish foursome’s first new album in 40 years; and Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti.”
“Un Verano,” a streaming blockbuster and the year’s bestselling album so far, is the first release performed entirely in Spanish to be up for album of the year. Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican star, is the top nominee at the Latin Grammys on Thurs day, with 10.
For record of the year, which goes to the artists, produ cers and engineers behind a single track, “Break My Soul” and “Easy on Me” will compete against Styles’ “As It Was”; Lizzo’s “About Damn Time”; Doja Cat’s “Woman”; Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5”; Carlile’s “You and Me on the Rock,” featuring Lucius; Abba’s “Don’t Shut Me Down”; Blige’s “Good Morning Gor geous; and “Bad Habit,” the breakout hit by 24-year-old singerguitarist Steve Lacy, who built his reputation as an innovator on the fringes of alternative R&B.
“Break My Soul,” “Easy on Me,” “As It Was,” “About Damn Time,” “Bad Habit” and “The Heart Part 5” are also up for song of the year, a songwriters’ award, along with Gayle’s “Abcdefu”; Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That”; DJ Khaled’s “God Did”; and Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” an expansion of a track that originally appeared on Swift’s 2012 al bum “Red,” which she rereleased as a fresh recording last year.
The Grammys generally disqualify old songs. But the long “All Too Well” satisfied a threshold rule because it contained more than 50% new material, the academy said. In addition to the song of the year nod, Swift is up for best country song with “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault).”
The ballot for best new artist, the last of the Grammys’ four most coveted awards, includes up-and-comers (and some now-established stars) from a wide cross-section of genres: Anitta, Omar Apollo, Domi & JD Beck, Samara Joy, Latto, Ma neskin, Muni Long, Tobe Nwigwe, Molly Tuttle and Wet Leg.
categories.
Apart from “craft committees” in the classical field and in other specialized areas such as production and packaging, the ballots include only the selections by the 11,000 music profes sionals who are voting members of the academy, Harvey Ma son Jr., the organization’s CEO, said in an interview.
“With the nomination committees being removed, it’s a pure vote from our voter members,” Mason said. “The top votegetters get the nominations. That’s it, end of story, period.”
Among the other changes this year is a new award, son gwriter of the year (nonclassical), intended to recognize writers who create songs for other artists to perform. The addition was long sought by the class of professional songwriters, a major constituency in Grammy circles that finally gained an official Songwriters & Composers Wing in 2021.
In its first year, nominations for the new songwriter award have gone to Amy Allen (for songs performed by Lizzo, Styles and others); Nija Charles (Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa, Beyoncé); Tobias Jesso Jr. (Adele, Styles); The-Dream (Beyoncé, Brent Faiyaz); and Laura Veltz (Maren Morris, Demi Lovato).
For the past two ceremonies, both hosted by Trevor Noah, the Recording Academy and its producers have had to make major adjustments as a result of delays and venue chan ges forced by the pandemic. In 2021, it presented a scaleddown outdoor show with no audience, and for its 64th edition, in April, the Grammys moved to Las Vegas for the first time in the show’s history.
This year, the academy is looking forward to a return to its home turf, although the show will still have some COVID-19 protections in place, Mason said.
“I’m so tired of addressing COVID,” he said. “I’m so ha ppy for it to go far, far away and never come back.”
“But,” he added, “we’ll see where we are in three months.”
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The ever-evolving Grammy process has gone through sig nificant changes over the past few years, much of it in response to criticism that the awards were failing artists of color and that an opaque nominating procedure enabled insider manipulation. The ballot for the top categories expanded in 2019 from five slots to eight, and then last year — in an unusual last-minute rule change — from eight to 10.
Last year, the Recording Academy eliminated most of its nominating committees — anonymous groups of academy-ap pointed experts who whittled down the choices of its voting members to decide which artists made the cut in dozens of
Comedian and television host Jay Leno, known for his expansive col lection of cars, sustained burns in a gasoline fire but was expecting to recover, he said earlier this week.
“I got some serious burns from a gaso line fire,” Leno, 72, said in a statement. “I am OK. Just need a week or two to get back on my feet.”
The Fire Department in Burbank, Cali fornia, responded to a request for comment about Leno by saying that it responded to an emergency call at an address near the Hol lywood Burbank Airport just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
Emergency medical workers “assessed and treated one adult male patient” who was taken to a hospital, the department said in a statement.
According to a 2011 story in The New York Times, Leno kept his car collection in a garage in Burbank. Every car there was
maintained with a full tank of gas, current registration and valid insurance, so he could choose any one of them for a drive. Some of the cars were almost never driven.
Best known as a longtime host of “The Tonight Show,” he is now the host of a show called “Jay Leno’s Garage,” which recently featured President Joe Biden discussing the future of electric vehicles. He is also the host of a syndicated reboot of classic com edy game show “You Bet Your Life.”
A veteran of the stand-up circuit, Leno succeeded Johnny Carson as host of “The Tonight Show” in 1992 and ultimately left the program in 2014, resuming a sched ule of speaking engagements and comedy shows across the country.
Leno had been scheduled to speak Sunday night at the Financial Brand Forum, a financial conference in Las Vegas, but was unable to attend, People magazine report ed, citing an email to attendees of the event.
“His family was not able to provide us very many details, but there was a very se
rious medical emergency that is preventing Jay from traveling,” the email said. “All we
know is that he is alive, so our prayers go out to him and his family tonight.”
12 de mayo de 1941- 4 de noviembre de 2022 “Excelente Madre, Esposa, Hija, Hermana, Tía y Educadora”
Beny nació un 12 de mayo en una pintoresca campiña del pueblo de Guaynabo. Desde pequeña, cultivó el amor a la enseñanza e instruyó de una manera u otra a sus hermanos. Demostró su vocación como maestra de historia a sus afortunados estudiantes y a sus cuatro hijos. Siempre se preocupó por infundirles una inquietud intelectual desde muy temprana edad y dedicó los veranos a desarrollar destrezas que les ayudaron a sobresalir en la escuela. Vivió fascinada por la lectura y la poesía. Sus poetas preferidos incluyen a José Gautier Benítez, Luis Llorenz Torres y Julia de Burgos. Le encantaba viajar por el mundo y explorar el interior de su amada isla. Se deleitaba tanto con la música como con la puesta del sol. Le encantaba Danny Rivera, Chucho Avellanet, Lucecita Benítez, Haciendo Punto en Otro Son, Silverio Pérez y Tony Croatto. Su esposo Millito siente que Beny está siempre a su lado como lo estuvo en los últimos 49 años de matrimonio. Janice agradece la fuente infinita de apoyo, cariño y ternura que fue su madre Beny. Janice recuerda como su mamá cantaba canción tras canción, trabalenguas y poemas para mantener a sus hijos entretenidos. Orlando agradece su inquebrantable fe y su continuo encaminamiento familiar en el amor de Dios. Gracias a esto, hoy sus hijos son fieles creyentes, buscando la gracia de Dios. Dalice siempre recordará las lecciones de vida que aprendió de su madre, y agradece el tiempo y el amor que Beny le dedicó a cada uno de su hijos y nietos, especialmente en los momentos que más la necesitaron. Emanuel aprendió a madurar en el reflejo de su amada madre Beny quien sembró la semilla del quehacer histórico, la conciencia crítica y la solidaridad en la lucha social. Su sonrisa, el amor a Dios, al prójimo, a la familia y a todo lo que nos rodea le caracterizó como mujer trabajadora y luchadora. Igualmente, transmitió a sus hijos la honradez, el trabajo, la sencillez, la humildad, la sabiduría, la comprensión, la compasión, el coraje, la rectitud, la solidaridad, la alegría, la musicalidad, la valentía, la búsqueda de conocimiento, la pasión por el arte y la cultura y el amor por la historia, por la patria y la Libertad. Hoy Beny permanece como tronco de una sola pieza de un árbol que se extiende y se comparte en nuestra conciencia y nuestros corazones. Beny amada de nuestro corazón, te amamos, hoy mañana y siempre. Descansa en los brazos de Dios
Masks have been a cultural fl ashpoint since the start of the pandemic, and mask mandates in schools have been especially incendiary. Critics have argued that there is no strong evidence to prove that masks slow the spread of COVID-19, and that in any case children weren’t wearing the right kinds of masks or weren’t wearing them properly.
Now a research paper details a socalled natural experiment that occurred when all but two school districts in the greater Boston area lifted mask requirements in the spring. Researchers took that opportunity to make a direct comparison of the spread of COVID-19 in masking and nonmasking schools.
The bottom line: Masking mandates were linked with signifi cantly reduced numbers of COVID-19 cases in schools.
Infection rates were lower among masked students — even in Boston’s public schools, where many buildings are old and lack good ventilation systems, classrooms are crowded and students are more often from at-risk communities — than among unmasked students attending newer schools in communities like Cambridge and Newton.
The study, by scientists at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston University School of Public Health and Boston’s Public Health Commission, was published last week in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The data should help dispel misinformation about the effectiveness of universal masking requirements in stemming viral transmission in schools, said Julia Raifman, an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and an author of an editorial accompanying the new study.
“Even as recently as this summer, people were saying, ‘Oh, COVID doesn’t spread in schools,’ and there was a misconception that kids don’t get COVID,” said Raifman, who was not involved in the new research. “But what we see in the study is that COVID does spread in schools, and it spreads back home, and it
spreads to teachers.”
The study did not specify the types of masks worn by the children, suggesting that any type was at least somewhat protective, she added.
“This study shows that if people are wearing masks as a group, that it reduces transmission for everyone in the population, and it reduces school absences and teacher absences,” Raifman said.
Even after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted mask requirements for schools last year, many states kept the mandates. Massachusetts, along with 18 other states and Washington, D.C., kept masking in place in public schools at the start of the 2021-22 school year but rescinded the policy in February.
Until then, trends in COVID-19 incidence were similar across school districts in the greater Boston area. After lifting the mask mandate, the state required districts to continue reporting all COVID-19 cases among students and staff members and provided funding and support services for testing.
The researchers involved in the study used that data to track COVID-19 cases week by week in 72 school districts, comparing the two that had retained masking for 15 weeks — Boston and Chelsea
— with 70 others that had lifted mask requirements at different times.
Removing of mask mandates was associated with an additional 44.9 COVID-19 cases per 1,000 students and staff members, corresponding to an estimated 11,901 cases during the 15-week period, the scientists concluded.
“We saw sustained, increased rates of COVID incidence consistently in schools that lifted the mask requirement,” said Tori L. Cowger, the study’s fi rst author and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In 12 weeks of the 15-week period, “we saw increased incidence that was statistically signi fi cant,” she added.
But just 1 in 3 COVID-19 cases in schools where mask mandates had been lifted was attributable to the change in policy; 4 in 10 cases among staff members were attributable to the policy change, she said.
Because people who tested positive were instructed to isolate for at least fi ve days, the additional cases led to at least 17,500 missed school days for students and 6,500 missed school days for staff members, the study calculated.
Opponents of masking in schools have criticized the data on its effective-
ness, but they have also raised other concerns.
Masking may cause communication problems and delays in speech development, may be particularly onerous for children with learning disabilities and makes it dif fi cult to read or communicate emotional expressions, critics have said.
And many adults, as well as children, just fi nd masks very uncomfortable, especially when worn for a whole school day.
Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, a public health researcher and fi erce critic of school masking, noted that the new study was observational and not a randomized, controlled clinical trial. As such, she said, it can point to a correlation but cannot prove a causal relationship between mandatory masking and a lower incidence of COVID-19.
Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious-disease physician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston who has criticized mask mandates in schools in the past, said that the new study was just one publication and that the medical literature on mask mandates in schools was mixed.
Schools did not abandon mask policies because they were ineffective at curbing viral transmission, Doron said, but because they could lead to other complications.
“Children with language-learning dif fi culties are having trouble understanding their teachers and their peers,” Doron said. “Children with speech dif fi culties are having trouble being understood to the point that they withdraw. Children and staff with hearing diffi culties are having trouble communicating and understanding each other.”
She added, “Even teachers who chose to continue wearing a mask prefer there not be a mandate, so they don’t have to deal with discipline all day.”
But a Boston parents’ group, BPS Families for COVID Safety, has already called for reinstating universal masking in schools, saying that the new study provides evidence that the practice protects against both illness and lost days of learning in a district where vaccination rates are relatively low and families come from communities that have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic.
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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03232. Sala: 409. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDI NARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBAS TA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dicta da el 18 de diciembre de 2019, la Orden de Ejecución de Sen tencia del 28 de marzo de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 31 de marzo de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el DÍA 11 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, locali zada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en la Avenida 65 Infantería, Carrete
ra Número Tres (3), Kilómetro 11.7 (Entrada de la Urbaniza ción Mansiones de Carolina) Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIE DAD HORIZONTAL: Balcones de Monte Real, situado en la Carretera Estatal Número 853 en el Barrio Canovanillas del término municipal de Caroli na, Puerto Rico. Apartamento Número 5502. Está localizado en el Edificio G, piso segundo, consta de un área de 1,217.60 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 113.16 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el: NORTE: en 35’ 6” equivalentes a 10.82 me tros, con paredes de bloques hacia el exterior; SUR: en 23’ equivalentes a 7.01 metros, con pared de bloques hacia el exterior y en 12’ 6” equivalen tes a 3.81 metros, con pared de bloques hacia el exterior y puerta principal que da acceso al apartamento; ESTE: en 48’ 4” equivalentes a 14.73 me tros, con pared de hormigón y bloques que lo separa del apar tamento número 5402; OESTE: en 14’ 9” equivalentes a 4.50 metros con pared medianera de hormigón que lo separa del apartamento número 5602 y en 15’ 7” equivalentes a 4.75 me tros con pared de hormigón y bloques hacia el exterior. Esta propiedad está formada por su sala, comedor, balcón, tres (3) dormitorios con closets, cocina, dos (2) baños y área de lavan dería. Le corresponden dos (2) estacionamientos identificados con el mismo número del apar tamento y una participación de .0020036% en los elementos comunes. La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 145 del tomo 1415 de Carolina, Finca Nú mero 58724, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Inscripción segunda. Direc ción Física: Cond. Balcones de Monte Real, Apt. 5502, Caroli na, PR 00987-2382. Número de Catastro: 20-089-093-10002-273. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $136,000.00. De no haber ad judicación en la primera subas ta se celebrará una SEGUN DA SUBASTA, el DÍA 18 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la prime ra subasta, o sea, $90,666.66. De no haber adjudicación en la
segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el DÍA 25 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $68,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la deman dante el importe de la Senten cia por la suma de $112,818.44 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.875% anual desde el 1 de noviem bre de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $438.27 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,600.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el con trato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. José Manuel Tous Cardona también conocido como José M. Tous, ante el Tribunal Su perior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Nú mero CA2019CV03232, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $112,818.44 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 26 de agosto de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Ca rolina. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su su cesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a prote ger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas la borables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos re queridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio
res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecuta da se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conoci miento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes inte resadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon dientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de octu bre de 2022. Manuel Villafañe Blanco, Alguacil Placa #830, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Prime ra Instancia, Centro Judicial De Carolina, Sala Superior.
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Demandante Vs. GLORIA ESTHER PLAZA T/C/C GLORIA ESTHER SANCHEZ PLAZA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2021CV03763. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
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 Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los
Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certifi cado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 17 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número vein titrés (23) del Bloque “C” de la Urbanización Toa Alta Heights, localizada en los barrios Pinas y Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con un área de CIENTO SESENTA Y OCHO PUNTO CERO CERO METROS CUA DRADOS (168.00 M.C.). En lindes por el Norte, con los solares número treinta (30 y veintinueve (29) del Bloque “C”, en distancia de siete punto cero cero (7.00) metros; por el Sur, con Calle número trece (13), distancia de siete punto cero cero (7.00) metros; por el Este, con solar número veinticuatro (24) del Bloque “C”, en distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros y por el Oeste, con solar número veintidós (22) del Bloque “C”, en distancia de veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros. Enclava una casa para fines residenciales. Finca número 6,446, inscrita al folio 147 del tomo 133 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta ins crita al folio 33 del tomo 540 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Pro piedad de Bayamón, Sección III., inscripción 7ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. TOA ALTA HEIGHTS, C-23 CALLE 13, TOA ALTA, PR 00953. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $145,500.00. Fe cha de Vencimiento: 16 de di ciembre de 2090. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie
re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $145,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Ofici na de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $97,000.00, 2/3 par tes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se es tablece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $72,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Ofici na de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 31 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Di cha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfa cer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dic tada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $103,991.43 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $13,095.72 en inte reses acumulados al 29 de noviembre de 2021 y los cua les continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.300% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,028.66 en se guro hipotecario; $1,089.26 en seguro; $525.00 de tasacio nes; $420.00 de inspecciones; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $14,550.00, para gastos, cos tas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún
interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de octubre de 2022. FRAN
CES TORRES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193.
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FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 Demandante Vs. XIOMARA CANCEL
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2022CV00152. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Vega Baja, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certifica do, en mi oficina ubicada en el
A: Todos los que tengan cualquier derecho real en la finca que más adelante se describe, las personas ignoradas, natura les o jurídicas, a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción de la finca a favor de la Peticionaria y a las personas desconoci das, naturales o jurídicas, que tuvieren derecho a oponerse o se creyeron con derecho a oponerse a la inscripción del inmueble que se describe más adelante. RÚSTICA: Solar sito en el barrio Hato Arriba Sector
Higuillales de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial aproximada de 2,570.46 me en lindes al Norte: en 26.80 metros con solar número 3, por el Sur en 31 metros con solar 1; al Este con 87.50 metros con calle dedicada a uso público; Oeste en 87.56 metros con Cristóbal Benítez. Realizada mensura a la propiedad antes descrita, resultó la siguiente descrip ción: RÚSTICA: Solar sito en el barrio Hato Arriba Sector
Higuillales de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 3,025.1816 mc. En lindes por el Norte: Isabelino Torres en distancia de 35.1030 metros lineales, por el Sur: con la ca rretera estatal número 652 en distancia de 34.4545 metros li neales, por el Este: en la Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Movimien to Internacional en distancia de 80.1084 metros lineales y por el Oeste: con Luis Ramos Na varro en distancia de 108.2661 metros lineales. Número de catastro 030-074-993-05-000.
El 25 de enero de 1990 José Miguel Zamot Rosa vendió a la Peticionaria mediante Com praventa número 20 suscrita ante el Notario José G. Terra sa Delucca la propiedad antes descrita. Y SE LE NOTIFICA A USTED que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite como persona que está en posesión de parte o todos los predios colindantes de la finca descrita, o tenga interés para que haga oposición a este expediente, si se viere perjudicado con la inscripción solicitada; advirtién dole que de no hacer oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde que fuera notificada esta citación, los Peticionarios podrán obte ner que se apruebe este expe diente y se mande a inscribir a su nombre la finca antes descri ta en el Registro de la Propie dad, sección de Arecibo. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC) al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electró nica: https://tribunalelectronico.
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PARTE DEMANDANTE Vs. CLEMENCIA CEPEDA ROMAN Y EUSEBIO CORTIJO MACHUCA
PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2018CV04880 (801). SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBAS TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: CLEMENCIA CEPEDA ROMAN, EUSEBIO CORTIJO MACHUCA; AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL
El Alguacil que suscribe, anun cia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, SALA DE SAN JUAN, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor, de contado y por moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se des cribe a continuación: URBANA (PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL):
Apartamento número veinte cero ocho (2008), ubicado en el piso veinte de Condominio Golden View Plaza, localizado
en el sub- Barrio Sábana Llana del Barrio Río Piedras del mu nicipio de San Juan. Con una cabida superficial de setecien tos veintiunos punto ochenta y tres pies cuadrados (721.83 p.c.) equivalentes a sesenta y siete punto cero sesenta me tros cuadrados (67.060 m.c.).
Contiene tres (3) habitaciones, sala comedor, cocina y un baño. Colinda por el NORTE, en treinta y cinco pies once pulgadas (35’11”) con espacio exterior; por el SUR, en treinta y cinco pies once pulgadas (35’11”) con espacio exterior y área de escaleras; por el ESTE, en veinte pies cuatro pulgadas (20’4”) con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en diecinueve pies seis pulgadas (19’6”) con el pasillo que le da acceso y con el Apartamento veinte cero nueve (2009). Este Apartamento tiene asignado el estacionamiento número ciento ochenta y cuatro (184). En los elementos comunes tiene una participación de cero punto cero cero cinco siete cinco por cien to (0.00575%). Número 32,018, inscrita al tomo de hoja móvil 972 de Sabana Llana. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. En re lación a la finca a subastarse se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $63,000.00 según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #299 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de octubre de 2005, ante la Notario Yaritza Deyá Melén dez, la cual consta inscrita al folio “81” del tomo “1,007” de Sabana Llana, finca número “32,018” inscripción 5ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 15 de diciembre de 2022, a las 10:00 de la ma ñana, en mis oficinas sitas en el TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. En relación a la propiedad a subastarse, la cantidad mínima de licitación en la Primera Subasta será la suma de $63,000.00. Si la Primera Subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adju dicación, se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 de enero de 2023, a las 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pac tada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $42,000.00. Si la Segunda Subasta no pro dujere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 de enero de 2022, a las 10:00 de la ma ñana, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo de la tercera subas ta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $31,500.00. 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: Dicha venta se llevará a efecto, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandan te el importe de su Sentencia, a saber: la suma principal de VEINTIÚN MIL SETECIENTOS
SESENTA Y TRES DÓLARES CON VEINTIDÓS CENTAVOS ($21,763.22), más intereses a razón del SEIS PUNTO OCHO CIENTOS SETENTA Y CINCO por ciento (6.875%) desde el 1 de julio de 2017, hasta el pre sente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más la cantidad de SEIS MIL TRECIENTOS
DOLARES ($6,300.00) para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, condenándola, ade más, al pago de cualquier ade lanto que haya hecho la parte Demandante. Si no se produje se remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta el tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta serán dos terceras partes de la can tidad fijada para la primera su basta, sino se produjese rema te o adjudicación en la segunda subasta, servirá como el tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta, la mitad de la cantidad fijada para la primera subasta. Para más información, a las perso nas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspon dientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la juris dicción de Puerto Rico. Se en tenderá que todo licitador acep ta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu tante continuaran subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su ex tinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la corres pondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo due ño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las dispo siciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por or den o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Se informa que la pro piedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gra vámenes posteriores. Expedido en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, a 9 de noviembre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, Alguacil.
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Demandante Vs. SUCESION NANCY AWILDA PAGAN ALVAREZ COMPUESTA POR NANCY BATISTA PAGAN; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: TJ2021CV00288. Sobre: EJECUCIÓ DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
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 Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por mo neda de curso legal de los Esta dos Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 13 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Ciudad Universitaria, situada en el Barrio Cuevas de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, que se des cribe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el nú mero, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar doce (12) de la manzana “O”, con un área de trescientos treinta y ocho punto cero cero (338.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número cinco (5), en una distancia de trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros; por el SUR, con la calle “C”, distancia de trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número uno (11), en un
distancia de veintiséis punto cero cero (26.00) metros por el OESTE, con el solar trece (13), en una distancia de veintiséis punto cero cero (23.00) metros. Enclava una casa de concreto, diseñada para una familia. Ins crita al folio 99 del tomo 131 de Trujillo Alto, finca 6553, Re gistro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 2 del tomo 907 de Trujillo Alto, finca 6553, Registro de la Pro piedad de San Juan, Sección IV, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: CIUDAD UNI VERSITARIA, O-12 C OESTE STREET, TRUJILLO ALTO, PUERTO RICO 00976. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $228,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 31 de julio de 2097. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $228,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesa ria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la pri mera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 20 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se estable ce como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $152,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $114,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 27 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su
favor ascendente a la suma de $79,953.03 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $25,328.16 en intereses acu mulados al 19 de abril de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulán dose a razón de 2.657% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $9,983.89 en seguro hipotecario; $8,242.74 en seguro; $1,000.00 de tasa ciones; $360.00 de inspeccio nes; $11,468.44 en preserva ción; $2,223.80 en honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $22,800.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la ofici na del Comisionado de Institu ciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública su basta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afec te la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace sa ber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER CERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o perso nas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas la borables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el perió dico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos se manas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, así como para su pu blicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de octubre de 2022. JOSÉ R. CRISTOBAL, ALGUACIL RE GIONAL. MANUEL VLLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL PLACA #830.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA
PUERTO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02649. Salón Núm.: (0409). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SU BASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: DAVID E. MOREIRA PÉREZ T/C/C DAVID MOREIRA PÉREZ SUParte Demandante Vs. DAVID E. MOREIRA
El Alguacil que suscribe, cer tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Se cretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ca rolina, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor pos tor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subas tas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Extensión Villa San Antón, situada en el Barrio San Antón de Carolina, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número cuatro del Bloque K, con un área de ochocientos ochenta y seis metros cuadrados con noventa y ocho centímetros, en lindes por el NORTE, distancia de cuarenta y siete metros cin cuenta y tres milésimas de otro, con los solares ocho, nueve y diez del bloque L; por el NO RESTE, distancia de diecinue ve metros doscientos cuarenta milésimas de otro, con el solar cinco del bloque K; por el SU RESTE, distancia de veintiocho metros quinientos cincuenta y cuatro milésimas de otro, con el solar tres del Bloque K y once metros con calle número diez; y por el NOROESTE, dis tancia de treinta y tres metros trescientos siete milésimas de otro, con solares diecisiete, dieciocho y diecinueve del Blo que M. Consta inscrita al folio 92 del tomo 546 de Carolina, finca número #22,047, Regis tro
de laPropiedad de Puerto
PÉREZ T/C/C DAVID MOREIRA PÉREZ SU ESPOSA; WANDA I. IRIZARRY SOTOMAYOR T/C/C WANDA IVETTE IRIZARRY SOTO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL
Rico, Sección II de Carolina. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Ext. Villa San Antón, K-4 Ernesto Rodríguez, Caroli na, P.R. 00979. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se es tablece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $243,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca ## 29 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2004, al ante el notario José A. Candelario Lajara e consta inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 1348 de Caroli na, finca #21,439, inscripción 7ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 13 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 1:00
DE LA TARDE, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $243,000.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no pro dujere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 20 DE ENE RO DE 2023 A LAS 1:00 DE
LA TARDE, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pac tada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $162,000.00. Si la segunda subasta no pro dujere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE ENE RO DE 2023 A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar y re girá como tipo mínimo de la ter cera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $121,500.00. 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 Princi pal: $184,007.45, la cual se desglosa a continuación: una suma principal de $173,423.53, con intereses a 6.75% anual, desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $10,583.92 (piggy back), como balance diferido, la cual no genera in tereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indica da a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quin ce (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $24,300.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más
cualquier otra suma que resul te por cualesquiera otros ade lantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipo tecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares pú blicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación gene ral en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procede rá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de confor midad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal po drá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lan zamiento del ocupante u ocu pantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 2 de noviembre de 2022. SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUA CIL PLACA #713.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BA YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. NANETTE GONZALEZ
DE MIGUEL ANGEL GARCÍA GUZMAN COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04589.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: SUCESION DE MIGUEL ANGEL GARCÍA GUZMÁN COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA
DE TAL. URB. TOA ALTA HEIGHTS, CALLE 24 AA-4, TOA ALTA PR 00953; PO BOX 3121 BAYAMÓN PR 009603121. TELÉFONO (939) 350-3003.
Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligen ciamiento. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pue de acceder utilizando la direc ción electrónica https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido termino, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte deman dante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernán dez Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 3 de noviembre de 2022. LCDA.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁN DEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2022CV01207. (206). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO.
A: JOVITO MIRÓ
ALVARADO, ELIZABETH RIVERA ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: URB SAN ANTONIO, E12 CALLE 5, HUMACAO, PR 00791-3701.
FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE DORAL BANK; DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C
DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC; JOVITO MIRÓ
ALVARADO, ELIZABETH RIVERA ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 28 de noviembre de 1998, Jovito Miró Alvarado y su esposa Elizabeth Rivera Ortiz constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, con forme a la Escritura núm. 796, autorizada por la notario Pylar Gómez Vélez en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo el tes timonio núm. 5762 por la suma de $48,950.00 a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, con intereses 7% anual y vencedero el 1ro de diciembre de 2013, sobre la siguiente pro piedad: URBANA: Solar marca do con el número 12 del Bloque “E” de la Urbanización San Antonio del Barrio Mabú de Hu macao, compuesto de 325.00 metros; en colindancias: por el NORTE, en 25.00 metros, con propiedad de Palmira López de Pereyó; por el SUR, en 25.00 metros, con el solar número 13 del Bloque “E”; por el ESTE, en 13.00 metros, con la calle número 5 de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en 13.00 me tros, con el solar número 11 del Bloque “E”. Contiene una casa de concreto armado dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio 148 del tomo 148 de Humacao, Finca 4560. Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 155 vuelto del tomo 148 de Hu macao, Finca 4560. Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Ins cripción décima. La parte de mandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Admi nistración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio,
en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tri bunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Bel ma Alonso García, cuya direc ción es: PO Box 3922, Guayna bo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaa lonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publi cación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oír le. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 1 de noviembre de 2022, en Huma cao, Puerto Rico. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL AU XILIAR. IVELISSE M. MON CLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUA DILLA
VICTOR LUIS RAMOS RODRIGUEZ
Demandantes Vs. COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE AGUADA; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE
Demandado Civil Núm.: AU2022CV00362. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DOS DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE AGUADA; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE.
Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha pre sentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación del Pagaré suscrito a favor de Cooperativa de Aho rro y Crédito de Aguada, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $53,000.00, con vencimiento el 01 de noviembre de 2027, y ha biéndose constituido por la es critura número 200 otorgada en Aguada, el 19 de septiembre de 1997, ante el Notario Público Jose Emilio Blanco Casas, ins crita al folio 125 vuelto del tomo 192 de Aguada, finca número 10632, inscripción 3ra. Repre senta a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, direc ción y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
RUA 9019
Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de Torrimar Guaynabo PR 00969 Tel.: (787) 646-9168
lcdaenelperez@gmail.com Se le apercibe que si no com parecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del tér mino de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dicta rá sentencia concediendo el re medio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Senten cia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Dado en Aguadilla, a 7 de noviembre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ERIKA I. CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ
Demandante Vs. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV01555. Sobre: DEMANDA SOBRE SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.
de este Edicto, la parte deman dante podrá obtener Sentencia en Rebeldía declarando HA LU GAR la Demanda y concedien do los remedios solicitados, sin más citarle ni oírle a usted.
Deberá radicar el original de su Contestación en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe y en viar copia por correo regular o electrónico a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuyo nombre y dirección postal es la siguiente: Lcdo. Santiago Mari Roca 101 Méndez Vigo Oeste Suite 502 Mayagüez, PR 00680
Teléfono: (787) 831-2200 Fax: (888) 641-6230
Email: smari_roca@yahoo.com
EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello de este Tribunal, por orden de un Juez de esta Sala.
En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico a 07 de noviembre de 2022. LIC.
NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZA RRY, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL II. JAZMÍN SANABRIA TORRES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PATILLAS BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. JOSE A. RUIZ HUERTAS, STEPHANIE FLORES SANTANA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado(a) Civil: PA2021CV00181. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 8 de noviembre de 2022. En Patillas, Puerto Rico, el 8 de noviembre de 2022. MARISOL ROSADO
RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIVEE GARCÍA GONZÁ LEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JUAN MANUEL MARRERO
URBAY T/C/C JUAN M. MARRERO URBAY T/C/C JUAN MARRERO URBAY T/C/C JUAN MANUEL MARRERO T/C/C JUAN M. MARRERO T/C/C JUAN MARRERO COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ÁNGEL MARRERO, IRMA TORRUELLAS SALVADOR, JUAN MANUEL MARRERO TORRUELLAS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Por el presente Edicto, que se publicará una sola vez, se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Deman da sobre Sentencia Declarato ria. Usted es parte indispensa ble en esta Demanda. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: httos://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 no formula oposición, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de noviembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2022CV02642. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO.
A: JOSÉ ÁNGEL MARRERO, JUAN MANUEL MARRERO TORRUELLAS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN MANUEL MARRERO URBAY T/C/C JUAN M. MARRERO URBAY T/C/C JUAN MARRERO URBAY T/C/C JUAN MANUEL MARRERO T/C/C JUAN
A: JOSE A. RUIZ HUERTAS, STEPHANIE FLORES SANTANA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
TAL
DE TAL, Personas con posible interés en el asunto objeto de este pleito.
POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso del epígrafe solicitan do la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House, Inc. o a su orden, por la suma principal de $192,000.00, con intereses computados sobre la misma desde su fecha hasta su total y completo pago a razón de la tasa de interés de 3.169% anual, la cual será ajustada mensualmente, obligándose además al pago de costas, gas tos y desembolsos del litigio, más honorarios de abogados en una suma de $19,200.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original. Este paga ré fue suscrito bajo el affidávit número 4278 ante el notario Francisco R. Febus Rivera. Lo anterior surge de la hipoteca constituida mediante la escritu ra número 299 otorgada el 15 de noviembre de 2013, ante el mismo notario público, inscrita bajo la ley 216-2010, al folio 65 del tomo 2048 de Ponce, finca número 47,776, inscripción 6ta.
“URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ocho (8) del Bloque J de la Urbanización Villa del Carmen de Ponce, Puerto Ric, con una cabida superficial de ciento setenta y cinco (175.00) metros cuadrados. En linde ros por el NORTE, por donde mide siete (7.00) metros, con el área de parques; por el SUR, en siete (7.00) metros, con la Calle número (3) tres de la Ur banización; por el ESTES, en veinticinco (25.00) metros, con el solar número (7) siete del mismo Bloque; y por el OESTE, en veinticinco (25.00) metros, con el solar número nueve (9) del mismo Bloque. Este solar está afecto a una servidumbre de paso a favor de Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Contiene una casa de concreto dedica da a vivienda. Finca número 47,776, inscrita al folio 229 del tomo 1,401 de Ponce, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ponce. Se aperci be y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Siste ma Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede accesar utili zando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.ramajuducial.pr, salvo que se represente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la de manda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secreta ria del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala de San Juan, y no tificar copia de la contestación
de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 009367308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 60 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circu lación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solici tando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 14 de noviembre de 2022. LUZ
MAYRA CARABALLO GAR CÍA, SECRETARIA. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JUAN
MANUEL MARRERO URBAY T/C/C JUAN M. MARRERO URBAY T/C/C JUAN MARRERO URBAY T/C/C JUAN
MANUEL MARRERO T/C/C JUAN M. MARRERO T/C/C JUAN MARRERO COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ ÁNGEL MARRERO, IRMA TORRUELLAS SALVADOR, JUAN MANUEL MARRERO TORRUELLAS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Neum.: PO2022CV02642.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. MANDAMIEN
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA
DO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: “ORDEN: Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la
parte demandante a los here deros del codemandado con forme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2787 y su equivalente el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos de los causantes a saber, José Ángel Marrero, Irma Torruellas Salvador, Juan Manuel Marre ro Torruellas Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos, a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o re pudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante Juan Manuel Marrero Urbay t/c/c Juan M. Marrero Urbay t/c/c Juan Marrero Urbay t/c/c Juan Manuel Marrero t/c/c Juan M. Marrero t/c/c Juan Ma rrero. Se le Apercibe a los he rederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fe cha de la notificación de la pre sente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, y por ende, la parte demandante podrá continuar la causa acción, dado por enten dido que las partes interpeladas han aceptado la herencia con forme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785 y su equivalente el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil, edición 2020. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión del causante Juan Manuel Marre ro Urbay t/c/c Juan M. Marrero Urbay t/c/c Juan Marrero Urbay t/c/c Juan Manuel Marrero t/c/c Juan M. Marrero t/c/c Juan Ma rrero, incluyen como herederos a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos des conocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circu lación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de noviembre de 2022. LOURDES L. GÓMEZ TORRES, JUEZA.”
Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Juan Manuel Marrero Urbay t/c/c Juan M. Marrero Urbay t/c/c Juan Ma rrero Urbay t/c/c Juan Manuel Marrero t/c/c Juan M. Marrero t/c/c Juan Marrero. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, ex pido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en PONCE, Puerto Rico, hoy día
14 de noviembre de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GAR CÍA, SECRETARIA GENERAL.
KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ ME LÉNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE RAMONITA SOLIS RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS IVELISSE DONES SOLIS, ANGELICA DONES SOLIS, JOHANNY COLON SOLIS, ROSERCILIA COLON SOLIS, ANGEL LUIS MATOS SOLIS, ALBERTO RAMOS SOLIS Y JOSE
RAMON NIEVES SOLIS; Y SUS NIETOS ROBERTO ETIENE RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ Y ROBERTO AIRAM RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV00468. (409). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESION DE RAMONITA SOLIS RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS IVELISSE DONES SOLIS, ANGELICA DONES SOLIS, JOHANNY COLON SOLIS, ROSERCILIA COLON SOLIS, ANGEL LUIS MATOS SOLIS, ALBERTO RAMOS SOLIS Y JOSE RAMON NIEVES SOLIS; Y SUS NIETOS ROBERTO ETIENE RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ Y ROBERTO AIRAM RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); DORAL BANK
Y/O SUCESOR EN DERECHO POR TENER HIPOTECA EN GARANTÍA DE PAGARÉ A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $22,000.00; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR TENER AVISO DE DEMANDA ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $14,658.64.
Yo, MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil de este Tri bunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 13 DE ENE RO DE 2023 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ca rolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se or denó por la vía ordinaria al me jor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Carolina durante horas labora bles. Que en caso de no produ cir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 20 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes in dicado. La propiedad a vender se en pública subasta se des cribe como sigue: URBANA: Solar número Veintidós (22) en el Bloque “WK” en el plano de la URBANIZACIÓN DEL REPARTO LOS ÁNGELES, Ex tensión número Dos (2), sito en el Barrio Cangrejos Arriba, Ca rolina, Puerto Rico, en una ca bida de TRESCIENTOS DOCE PUNTO CERO CERO (312.00) METROS CUADRADOS; colin dando por el NORTE, en veinti cuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar número Veintitrés(23) de dicho bloque; por el SUR, en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar número Veintiuno (21) de dicho bloque; por el ESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con el solar número Nueve (9) de dicho blo que; y por el OESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Calle “B”. En este solar enclava una casa construida de hormigón armado de una sola
planta que consiste principal mente de tres dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, cuarto de baño y balcón; y que en la casa descrita se halla instalado el cual es de fácil remoción un ca lentador de agua “permaglas”, “Pes-Quince”. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscri ta al folio 87 del tomo 968 de Carolina Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera, finca número 1,035, inscripción décimo quinta-Bis. Modificada la hipoteca relacio nada en la inscripción 15ta., en cuanto a que se cancela parcialmente por la suma de $40,005.42, el principal será ahora de $77,994.58, con inte reses, comenzando el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2016, por 60 meses al 2% anual, comenzan do el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2021 por 12 meses al 3% anual, comenzando el día 1ro. de septiembre de 2022 por 171 meses al 3.625% anual, según la escritura número 34, otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de agosto de 2016, ante la Notario Público Nicole Marie Cobb Vélez, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Carolina Nor te, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera, finca número 1,035, inscripción 19na. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Urbanización Reparto Los An geles, WK22, Calle Camelia, Carolina, Puerto Rico. La su basta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte deman dante la suma de $63,835.80 de principal, intereses variables desde el día 1ro de febrero de 2020, cuya tasa de interés a esta fecha es de 3% anual hasta el día 31 de agosto de 2022 y al 3.625% anual desde el 1ro. de septiembre de 2022, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $11,800.00 es tipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están liquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mí nima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será de $77,994.58 y de ser nece saria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equi valente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $51,996.39 y de necesitarse una tercera su basta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $38,997.29. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el im porte de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Esta
dos Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, en tendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.
La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravá menes posteriores: Hipoteca en Garantía de Pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $22,000.00, con intereses al 8.95% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de marzo de 2021, según consta de la Escritura Número 35, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de febrero de 2006, ante la Notario Público Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla; inscrita al folio 87 vuelto del tomo 968 de Carolina Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera, finca número 1,035, inscripción 18va. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 18va., en cuanto a que se can cela por la suma de $6,650.00, para un nuevo principal que será ahora de $15,350.00, con intereses del mes 1 al 60 al 3.375% anual; del mes 61 al 72 intereses al 4.375% anual; del mes 73 al 84, intereses al 5.375% anual; del mes 85 al 96 intereses al 6.375% anual; del mes 97 al 108 intereses al 7.375% anual; del mes 109 al 120 interés al 8.375% anual, del mes 121 al 480 el interés será al 8.50% anual, según la escritura número 35, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de agosto de 2016, ante la Notario Público Nicole Marie Cobb Vélez, inscrita al tomo Ka ribe de Carolina Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera, finca número 1,035, inscripción 20a. Aviso de Demanda, del día 25 de febrero de 2022, expedido en el Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2022CV00528, se guido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Ramonita Solis Rodríguez, por la suma de $14,658.64 y otras sumas, ano tado el día 22 de julio de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Carolina Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Primera, finca número 1,035, Anotación B. La propiedad a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las su bastas los titulares de créditos que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que po drán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta acep tada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, debe
rá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de ge rente, la totalidad del crédito hi potecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos pos teriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TES TIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para cono cimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 28 de octubre de 2022. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL #830, ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJAR DO BANCO
Demandante V. DAEGRED
CURET TIZOL Demandada Civil Núm.: RG2022CV00133. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons tar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da 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 Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizon tal: Condominio Portales de Río Grande de Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Apartamento: D-133. Ca bida: 95.193 metros cuadrados. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del Edificio D de Portales de Río Grande, localizado en la Carretera PR número tres (3), kilometro 23.6, en el Barrio Ciénaga Baja, del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, el cual se describe en la Escritura Matriz de Dedicación al Régi men de Propiedad Horizontal y en los Planos aprobados para este Condominio, con el nú mero, área y colindancias que
Buck Showalter felt humbled but incomplete the first time he won a Manager of the Year Award for a New York team.
That was in 1994, when a 38-yearold Showalter, Major League Base ball’s youngest manager, received the accolade after a strike-shortened sea son. His Yankees went 70-43 — the best record in the American League and second only to the Montreal Ex pos — but the cancellation of the final stretch and the postseason created one of the biggest what-ifs in major league history and left Showalter unfulfilled despite being recognized as one of the year’s top managers alongside Mon treal’s Felipe Alou.
“I am honored that with the num ber of games we did have, they chose me,” Showalter said at the time. “But it’s something I didn’t feel like we took to the whole extent.”
Now 66, Showalter is once again the winner of a Manager of the Year Award after leading the New York Mets to a 101-61 record in 2022, his first season in New York City since 1995. Terry Francona, who led the youthful Cleveland Guardians to a sur prising division title, was the AL win ner. The awards are presented annual ly by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Showalter, speaking on a confer ence call, described the award as a joint effort, rather than an individual achievement.
“What an organizational recogni tion it is,” he said. “From ownership to the front office to all the people that go into it, and to the fans who sup plied so much of the energy that our team fed off of this year. Now the chal lenge ahead of us is to do it again and to sustain some things that everybody allowed us to be a part of. I’m hoping that, and rightfully so, that it’s some thing that everybody takes great pride in, because it is a recognition of the organization as a whole.”
Mets General Manager Billy Ep
pler, however, made sure Showalter got his due in a statement.
“Buck poured every ounce of him self into making the Mets better on a daily basis,” Eppler said. “I’m thrilled the voters recognized what I got to witness every day this season.”
For his fourth Manager of the Year Award — he also won in 2004 with Texas and 2014 with Baltimore — Showalter beat out Atlanta’s Brian Snitker and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Dave Roberts. The St. Louis Cardinals’ Oliver Marmol, the Philadelphia Phil lies’ Rob Thomson and the San Diego Padres’ Bob Melvin rounded out the ballot.
It was a close vote, with Showalter and Roberts both receiving eight firstplace votes. Showalter won thanks to a large edge over Roberts in both second- and third-place votes. It is the first time a Mets manager has won the award, which has been given out since 1983.
Much like Showalter’s first award, this year’s honor followed a campaign that ended sooner than he would have liked.
Under Snitker’s direction, Atlanta, which had won the 2021 World Series, erased what had been a 10.5-game deficit to Showalter’s Mets to win the National League East in the season’s final week. That forced the Mets into the best-of-three wild-card round, where they lost to the Padres.
Just like that, Showalter and com pany were done after the second-win ningest regular season in franchise his tory.
“You roll the dice and sometimes it doesn’t work out for you, but it’s pain ful,” Showalter said. “It’s painful for the players. It’s painful for the organi zation. It’s painful for our fans because I think they respected how much our guys put into it. But our motto all year has been ‘play better.’ Just play bet ter. Nobody wants to hear all the talk
about this and that and what should have been, could have been. It’s just play better.
“You lick your wounds and you feel sorry for yourself for a very short pe riod, and you realize that the task ahead of you is to sustain and maintain that level that you hold yourself to. Every team in baseball is trying to do what we’re trying to do.”
Francona, who was leading the youngest team in the MLB after missing large chunks of the previous two sea sons because of health issues, won his third AL Manager of the Year Award. All three have come with Cleveland after he won two World Series with Boston.
Francona received 17 of 30 firstplace votes, with Baltimore’s Brandon Hyde and Seattle’s Scott Servais finish ing second and third. Houston’s Dusty Baker, the Yankees’ Aaron Boone and Tampa Bay’s Kevin Cash also received votes.
Francona’s latest recognition comes after the Guardians shocked the sport with a 92-win regular season and a first-place finish in the AL Central. The small-time spenders swept the playofftested Rays in the wild-card round and took the high-rolling Yankees to a deci sive Game 5 of their AL division series before their improbable run came to an end.
While few picked the Guardians to go as far as they did, Francona has stressed that the 2022 season should represent a steppingstone in Cleveland — not just some one-off fluke.
“I know they are hurting right now, because they care, and they worked unbelievably hard,” Francona said after the division series loss. “But I hope as that wears off, they will realize just how proud we are of them and how much we care about them. And I also remind ed them that this needs to be a starting place for us. This can’t just be a good story this year. We need to take this and go, because I think we have a chance to have something really special.”
The Cy Young awards were set to be announced on Wednesday and the Most Valuable Player awards today.
NFL offenses used to be pass-happy. They later be came pass-giddy and eventually pass-post-dentalsurgery-loopy.
After decades of ever-increasing neglect, however, the running game is finally making a comeback.
Through Week 10, NFL teams average 121.8 rushing yards per game, the highest figure since 1987. Teams also average 4.5 yards per rush, the highest rate in history.
Teams rush 26.8 times per game, a rate that has been relatively steady for many years, but pass attempts have de clined to 33.7 per game, the lowest figure since 2010. That means the league’s run-to-pass ratio has increased slightly over the past two years, from 41.9% in 2020 to 42.1% in 2021 to 42.7% this year.
The change may not be dramatic, but teams are run ning more frequently and enjoying more success as a result in 2022, bucking a trend toward increased passing that be gan when the league adopted pass-friendly rules changes in 1978.
The revitalization of the running game is most notice able at the top of the league standings. The Philadelphia Eagles (8-1), with an option-heavy offense, average 142.7 rushing yards per game. The Baltimore Ravens (6-3) average 168.1 rushing yards per game thanks to quarterback Lamar Jackson’s dual-threat capabilities. The Tennessee Titans (7-2), averaging 133.4 rushing yards per game, hop into a wagon most weeks and let Derrick Henry drag them to victory.
The New York Giants (7-2; 164.8 rushing yards per game) would practically be a volleyball team without Saquon Bar kley at tailback. The Minnesota Vikings (8-1) average a mod est 107 rushing yards per game, but they often line up with a halfback AND a fullback, the way the Founding Fathers intended.
To be clear, none of the teams above — division leaders save for the second-place Giants — have high rushing totals simply because they are protecting late leads. Instead, they feature offenses that are “balanced” or “establish the run” in ways that coaches have paid lip service to for decades before inevitably donning their headsets and calling two passes for every handoff.
There are three interrelated causes for the rushing re surgence.
Dual-threat quarterbacks
Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields is almost singlehandedly skewing the NFL rushing data. Fields has 104 car ries on scrambles and designed options for 749 yards. Re moving his production from the league’s data would drop the NFL per-carry average from 4.537 to 4.502: The latter figure would still be an all-time high, but it’s still a striking illustration of the impact one player can have.
Scramblers have produced gaudy rushing figures for de cades, but never have there been as many quarterbacks run ning as frequently and boldly as there are in 2022. Fields, Jackson and Josh Allen of the Buffalo Bills are all averaging more than 50 rushing yards per game this season. As recent ly as 2012, Washington’s Robert Griffin III was the only quar terback to average more than 50 yards per game in a season.
After years of reluctance to allow their quarterbacks to run, coaches now realize that injuries on designed options
are not common and defenses rarely figure out how to neu tralize such tactics. As a result, Fields, Jackson and many others both rush for chunks of yardage and make their run ning backs more effective by giving defenders more to worry about.
During their long peaks, Tom Brady and Peyton Man ning operated in offenses designed to allow them to call sim ple run plays at the line of scrimmage if defenses were back on their heels. Copycat coaches soon began pretending that all quarterbacks were just like them and needed little more from their running games than a rudimentary fallback plan.
NFL coaches later realized that not every quarterback is a human supercomputer and are now scouring the appendi ces of their playbooks for abandoned rushing tactics.
As mentioned above, many teams dared to allow their quarterbacks to run occasionally. The Titans, Vikings and San Francisco 49ers have rescued the fullback from the brink of extinction. The Giants and Cleveland Browns have revived pulling-and-trapping tactics along the offensive line to create openings for Barkley and Nick Chubb. The Seattle Seahawks punish defenses with heavy formations with three tight ends. And so forth.
These diversified rushing tactics have allowed teams with less-than-stellar quarterbacks to thrive. Meanwhile, de fenses built to stop the passing game at all costs are getting a rude surprise.
The decline of the linebacker
As passing rates increased steadily over the past 40 years, defensive coaches began replacing one or two of their linebackers with smaller, speedier defensive backs. At first, they swapped them in only on passing downs, but eventually extra defensive backs became prominent throughout game plans and on rosters.
A modern NFL defense lines up with five defensive backs on more than 60% of offensive snaps and with six defensive backs on about 15% of snaps. That leaves just one or two linebackers to do what used to be the work of three or four in the middle of the field.
Many of the remaining linebackers are smaller, quick er pass-coverage specialists. Imagine the chagrin of some lonely, undersized linebacker when Henry, Barkley or Chubb barrels straight at him, perhaps with a fullback or a 300-pound pulling guard leading the way.
Defenses try to counter the rushing resurgence by dust ing off forgotten tactics of their own. Unfortunately, multi talented linebackers like the Dallas Cowboys All-Pro Micah Parsons have rebranded themselves as sack specialists and replaced true defensive ends in the ecosystem. The burly linebackers hanging around on most benches generally be long there, and a defense that’s built to stop Henry or Bark ley just leaves itself vulnerable to Patrick Mahomes.
Rushing rates are likely to increase a bit more in the years to come: An ever-increasing percentage of collegiate quarterback prospects are dual threats and offensive coor dinators like the Eagles’ Shane Steichen and the Seahawks’ Shane Waldron will likely bring their run-focused systems with them to head coaching gigs next year.
Teams will never be perfectly balanced — passing still nets 6.1 yards per play, making it more efficient than rush ing — but the NFL may finally achieve a tactical equilibrium after nearly a half century of swinging exclusively in one direction.
That equilibrium is both overdue and welcome. It’s much more fun to watch teams mix runs and passes in inno vative and unpredictable ways than it was to watch Brady, Manning and 30 teams that just wished they had Brady or Manning.
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