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Governor says he’ll likely sign tax bill, but wants to prevent court action by fiscal board

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Tuesday that he is inclined to sign the tax bill that the Financial Oversight and Management Board rejected on the basis that it does not comply with the commonwealth fiscal plan.

“I am inclined to sign it, yes, but it is important that we give all the relevant information to the [oversight] board and that the board, instead of litigating this matter, which would be unfortunate, [and] would entail an expense that would not be what we want to be incurring,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “Because what I hope … our goal is for the board to allow me to sign it and for it to be implemented subject to some agreements.”

“I see myself inclined to sign it,” he added. “What happens is that I don’t want to have a clash with the board and, to make matters worse, then, well, the court invalidates the law. That is what we want to avoid at all costs.”

Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea said earlier on Tuesday that he would recommend to the governor that he sign the tax amendment bill approved by the Legislative Assembly, despite the oversight board’s objection.

“My recommendation is that he sign it,” Parés Alicea said at a press conference. “When you see numbers of this magnitude, I do not see inconsistency with the fiscal plan. I don’t see it.”

The Treasury secretary reiterated that the government has the financial capacity to grant the relief contained in the bill “without preventing us from complying with the state’s obligations, including those contracted in the debt adjustment plan confirmed by the federal court.”

“If we can get the [oversight] board to understand the importance of this issue for the people, I am sure that they will finally support the approved bill, whose fiscal impact would be about $550.2 million annually,” Parés Alicea said. “It would be unfair on my part not to recommend that the governor sign the measure.”

The governor pointed out that he has 30 days “to sign or veto the measure.”

“I want those 30 days to be taken advantage of; for example, to update and reach joint agreements to update the fiscal plan,” Pierluisi said. “For example, the collections that this plan establishes are significantly

less than what we have already achieved. And in the expense area. In other words, I think we have to do this process of updating or reviewing the fiscal plan now.

Because when the board wrote [their objection], one of the things they pointed out is that the measure is inconsistent with the fiscal plan. Well, it is inconsistent with the current fiscal plan, which must be reviewed.”

“Aside from that, to the extent, and the board apparently didn’t have that in its sights, there are provisions that allow the government to adjust spending,” the governor added. “Yes, if by some chance, the collections are not enough to cover all the budgeted expenses. In other words, the measure even distinguishes a mechanism to adjust spending. The PROMESA Law [Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act] also gives the board the power to adjust expenses quarterly to the extent that collections do not cover expenses. In other words, I want all of this to be discussed within this period of time, to prevent the board from challenging the measure, to prevent the board from going to court to have the measure revoked.”

Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea said “it would be unfair on my part not to recommend that the governor sign the measure.”

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Woman found guilty of the contract murder of her stepmother

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fter a trial that lasted almost two years, Judge Mariela Miranda found Keishla Pérez Bigio guilty of agreeing and paying $1,500 to two subjects to murder her stepmother, businesswoman Hilda Padilla Romero, it was reported Tuesday.

“Finally justice was done for Hilda and her family. It has been an arduous and extensive process, but it finally concluded with the expected result,” Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández stated in a written communication upon learning of the decision of the Court of First Instance in Bayamón. “Those responsible for the vile crime were found guilty and will face the consequences of their actions. My total solidarity with Hilda’s relatives. I hope they can live in peace and recover from the deep wounds left by the crime. They have the full

support of the Department of Justice.”

Padilla Romero was shot on Sept. 30, 2019, while she was driving along Los Filtros Avenue in Guaynabo accompanied by her two daughters, ages 8 and 17. The minors were unharmed.

The joint Police Bureau-Bayamón Prosecutor’s Office investigation revealed that Pérez Bigio hired William Avilés González and Luis González Martínez to murder her stepmother after having several violent confrontations with her. The main charge was demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt by prosecutors Iván Rivera Labrador, Carmen Iris Ortíz Rodríguez and Gracielis Vega Bermúdez, who presented vast testimonial, documentary and expert evidence to prove first-degree murder against Pérez Bigio and Avilés González. The latter was also found guilty of a charge of violation of the Puerto Rico Weapons Law. The judge did not determine guilt on the charges

Hilda Padilla Romero

of attempted murder against the minors.

González Martínez confessed to the facts and reached an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office to testify against the other two defendants. He subsequently decided not to testify at the trial. However, the Prosecutor’s Office managed to use the testimony he offered during the preliminary hearing stage, after his being declared an unavailable witness. González Martínez is being prosecuted in a separate trial.

The Prosecutor’s Office also prevailed, despite the opposition of the defense, for the court to admit as evidence three audio recordings of Pérez Bigio, taken from González Martínez’s cell phone, which confirmed the conspiracy to kill Padilla Romero. Pérez Bigio’s voice was identified at the trial by Yaireishka Morales Padilla, the victim’s daughter.

The sentencing hearing was scheduled for Feb. 9, 2024.

Meléndez Ortiz promotes PR’s inclusion in SSI program

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s part of his agenda in the U.S. capital, at-large Rep. José Enrique “Quiquito” Meléndez Ortiz, who is now a candidate for resident commissioner, will be promoting the inclusion of Puerto Rico in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.

“The fight for statehood is a fight for equality,” the New Progressive Party legislator said. “Our goal is for the Puerto Rican family to feel the benefits of statehood.

Rep. José Enrique Meléndez Ortiz

There is a long list of programs that are not implemented on our island or are only half-done due to the colonial condition that we have lived in for more than 125 years. This affects the quality of life of our people, as well as the social and economic development of families. We are going to work on this issue now.”

SSI is a federal program that provides additional Social Security benefits to people who are blind and/or otherwise disabled, as well as to seniors with low or no income. It also provides hospitalization services and

other necessary health assistance.

“An example of that unequal treatment of U.S. citizens living in Puerto Rico is the incomplete application of Social Security, as is the case with SSI,” Meléndez Ortiz said.

“The average beneficiary in the states of the union receives about $590 per month. That level of binary assistance provides significant support to our vulnerable people. Puerto Rico, if this program is implemented, could receive up to $1.95 billion annually, according to data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and published in 2014.”

Lawmaker says racing industry will lose money if resolution stands

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ep. José Aponte Hernández predicted Tuesday that the Puerto Rican equestrian industry will lose about $40 million if Resolution CJ-21-10, which was approved by the island Gaming Commission at the request of the Camarero Race Track, and which increased the cost of the “Pick 6” wager from 25 to 50 cents, is not

immediately canceled.

Aponte said last Saturday alone over $100,000 was lost in horse racing wagers due to the resolution.

The veteran New Progressive Party lawmaker made it clear that next Monday he will be filing a resolution to investigate the “true” reasons behind the increase.

“According to the information we have received, since this Resolution was

initiated on Nov. 1, which was promoted by the racetrack, with the objection of all other components of the equestrian industry, the wagers in horse racing have dropped dramatically by over $524,000,” Aponte said.

“If the month continues without eliminating that provision […], the industry is poised to lose about $3 million in the month and over $40 million in a year. That’s unacceptable.”

Aponte stressed that it is believed

that the “great” reality of Resolution CJ-2110 was to further promote the use of the video gaming system, the so-called “little machines” that the racetrack operates in equestrian agencies around the island.

“On Monday we will be filing the research resolution, which I believe will have other co-authors, to begin the process of reviewing the real reasons behind this increase […],” he said.

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DNER secretary: Planned bio bay Yule lighting event not authorized

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atural and Environmental Resources Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega said Tuesday that an annual Christmas lighting event slated to be held this weekend in La Parguera in Lajas was not authorized.

“After the holding of a Christmas lighting in the La Parguera Nature Reserve, in Lajas, was publicly revealed, I confirm that the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) has not received any formal request related to this activity convened by the La Parguera Community Association,” Rodríguez Vega said.

“The DNER reminds the community and event organizers that any activity in protected natural areas must obtain the corresponding authorization from the department, in accordance with the laws and regulations administered by the DNER, in particular Regulation 8013,” the official said. “This regulation is essential for the responsible management of protected areas and to ensure that activities do not compromise the ecological integrity of these vital spaces.”

Rodríguez Vega added that the Law for the Control and Prevention of Light Pollution specifies in its Article 8, subsection A, the classes of outdoor and special areas. La Parguera, a bay that is part of the bioluminescent bay ecosystem in the southwestern coastal town of Lajas, falls under a special class, pursuant to the protection of the wildlife and marine resources of the area, she said.

In the absence of formal authorization, and to ensure compliance with environmental regulations, the Ranger Corps of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources will be obliged to intervene to prevent any unauthorized activity, DNER Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega said.

In the absence of formal authorization, and to ensure compliance with environmental regulations, the DNER Ranger Corps will be obliged to intervene to prevent any unauthorized activity, the DNER chief added.

“This measure ensures the protection of our valuable natural resources and compliance with the laws that protect them,” Rodríguez Vega said.

Earlier on Tuesday, a prominent community leader from Lajas had publicly asked

PDP convention set for April

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nder the slogan “We Are a Single Force!,” Popular Democratic Party (PDP) President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González and party political coordinator

Víctor “Vitito” Pérez announced on Tuesday that the 2024 PDP Convention will take place at the Ponce Hilton next April 12-14.

“To have a PDP in a position to win, we have to be united as a party,” Ortiz González said. “That sharing in brotherhood energizes and strengthens us as a team. As president, I am working to strengthen our institution for 2024. For this reason, we will be holding our Popular Convention so that all the ‘populares’ of the island can meet and work hard in advance of the great popular victory in November.”

Pérez noted that a General Assembly will be held on Sunday, April 14 to address various issues related to the November election.

Popular Democratic Party President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González, at lectern

the DNER to issue a cease and desist order against the owners and operators of houseboats who intend to inaugurate the annual offshore Christmas lighting tradition in La Parguera this weekend.

“We have heard the mayor of Lajas, Jay Martinez, promoting a Christmas lighting event on the houseboats permanently located in La Parguera Bay,” community leader Jorge Echevarría said. “It is important to note that this activity contrasts with the protection of the red mangrove (rhizophora mangle) and the single-celled dinoflagellate organism (pyrodinium bahamense) responsible for light or bioluminescence in places such as La Parguera.

The lighting that is intended to be sponsored is something that goes against the protection of the ecosystem that requires certain physical, chemical, biological and ecological conditions [...] for the phenomenon of bioluminescence to occur, or illumination by biological means, as occurs in Mosquito Bay in Vieques, La Parguera and Moncio José in Lajas and Laguna Grande in Fajardo, which is why Puerto Rico is one of the few places in the world to have bioluminescent bays.”

The Popular Democratic Party leader said it is up to the DNER and its secretary to issue a cease and desist order to stop the illumination of the houses and houseboats nestled in the red mangrove along the shores of La Parguera Bay. The central government agency has the responsibility to protect the island’s natural resources, Echevarría said, so it must take immediate action to avoid an ecological disaster

in the top tourist attraction in the southwest of Puerto Rico.

“However, the bioluminescent bay at La Parguera is under several threats: sediment from access routes, a continuous increase in visitors, some of whom leave behind debris and other pollutants, and, most evidently, the increasing illumination of the surrounding area,” he said.

“We know that the combined night lighting of existing and under-construction homes, road lighting and institutional lighting shed and reflect a significant amount of light on this valuable natural resource. It is important to know that the bay of La Parguera has to be free of all these pollutants, so it is vital that there is a compatible ecosystem around the bay. The construction of new houses or structures should be avoided and there should be zero deposit of chemical pollutants in [the bay’s] waters.”

Many of the liquids that are generated in houseboats and then deposited in the sea are deadly compounds for the microorganism responsible for bioluminescence, Echevarría added.

“In order for the human being to perceive the wonderful phenomenon of bioluminescence, there can be no artificial light of such magnitude as to compete with the phenomenon,” he said. “Consider that the light emitted by the full moon alone is enough to significantly reduce the perception of light from dinoflagellates.”

The STAR was unable to reach Lajas Mayor Jayson Martínez Maldonado for comment before press time on Tuesday.

“Our president wanted to take the opportunity to bring together all our delegates, so we will take advantage of this event to work and convene all the members of our highest

governing body for a General Assembly in which we will address matters of utmost importance to our party with an eye on the general election,” he said.

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Johnson pays Trump visit as he faces mounting criticism from the right

By ANNIE KARNI

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ouse Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday night visited former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to a person familiar with the meeting, making his first pilgrimage to see the Republican presidential front-runner since his surprise elevation to the top post in the House last month.

The visit to Trump’s Florida home came at a tricky moment for the inexperienced speaker, who is already facing criticism from hard-right allies livid at him for teaming with Democrats last week to pass legislation to avert a government shutdown. The person confirmed the private meeting on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.

Trump’s influence over spending fights in Washington may be limited, but Johnson’s decision to meet with him within weeks of his election is a sign he knows he cannot afford to have Trump weighing in publicly against him and hardening right-wing opposition to his leadership.

Johnson has taken other steps to ingratiate himself to the far right and cement his hold on the gavel. Late last week, he announced he was publicly releasing surveillance video of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a step far-right lawmakers and activists have been demanding as they seek to undercut the

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday night visited former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to a person familiar with the meeting, making his first pilgrimage to kiss the ring of the Republican presidential front-runner since his surprise elevation to the top post in the House last month. facts about how supporters of Trump violently stormed the complex seeking to overturn his electoral defeat.

Since Trump’s election in 2016, Republican congressional leaders have had to cultivate some kind of working relationship with him. But Johnson, who defended the

former president in two Senate impeachment trials and played a lead role in trying to help him invalidate the 2020 election results, is positioning himself as the first speaker to be in complete lock step with the former president.

The meeting at Mar-a-Lago was reported earlier by Punchbowl News.

Last week, Johnson officially endorsed Trump — a move former Speaker Kevin McCarthy resisted even while proclaiming that the former president would be the Republican nominee and would be reelected.

“I endorsed him wholeheartedly for reelection in 2020, and traveled with his team as a campaign surrogate to help ensure his victory,” Johnson said in a statement to The New York Times. “I have fully endorsed him once again.”

The endorsement came in response to a report by the Times that in 2015, Johnson had posted on social media saying that Trump was unfit to serve and could be a danger as president.

“The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House,” Johnson wrote in a lengthy post on Facebook on Aug. 7, 2015. “I am afraid he would break more things than he fixes. He is a hot head by nature, and that is a dangerous trait to have in a Commander in Chief.”

Johnson, who until last month never held a top-tier position in leadership, was in Florida for a fundraising trip. He made a stop at Mar-a-Lago for an event for Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., according to the person familiar with the meeting with Trump.

A spokesperson for Johnson did not provide additional information about the meeting.

2024 presidential debate dates and locations are announced

By MAGGIE ASTOR

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he Commission on Presidential Debates on Monday announced the dates and locations of three presidential debates to be held during the general election campaign next year, as well as one vice presidential debate.

The presidential debates are scheduled for Sept. 16 at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas; Oct. 1 at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia; and Oct. 9 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The vice presidential debate is scheduled for Sept. 25 at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

The moderators and formats for each debate are not expected to be announced until next year, but the events are scheduled to run for 90 minutes with no commercial breaks.

The commission, which receives no funding from the government or political parties, has sponsored all general election presidential and vice presidential debates since the 1988 election.

“The United States’ general election debates, watched live worldwide, are a model for many other countries: the opportunity to hear and see leading candidates address serious issues in a fair and neutral setting,” the commission’s leaders, Frank Fahrenkopf and Antonia Hernández, said in a statement.

To be eligible to participate in the debates, candidates will be required to have at least 15% support in national polls. In most elections, that means only the Democratic and Republican nominees are onstage, but it is not out of the question that a third-party candidate like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could qualify this

cycle given voters’ deep dissatisfaction with the major-party choices.

It remains to be seen whether former President Donald Trump, who has refused to attend the Republican primary debates, will

The stage set for the third Republican presidential primary debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, on Nov. 7, 2023.

agree to participate in the general election debates if, as appears likely, he is his party’s nominee. The Republican National Committee cut ties with the Commission on Presidential Debates last year after accusing it of bias, but it will ultimately be up to the nominee to decide whether to take part.

It is also unclear whether Biden will be interested in participating. His team has not committed to debating Trump, who could be convicted of felonies before the events begin. And the Biden campaign is still upset with the commission over what it sees as lax enforcement of COVID protocols at the first debate in 2020, soon after which Trump was diagnosed with the virus.

A spokesperson for Biden declined to comment Monday, and a spokesperson for Trump did not comment on the record.

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Federal court moves to drastically weaken Voting Rights Act

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federal appeals court earlier this week moved to drastically weaken theVoting Rights Act, issuing a ruling that would effectively bar private citizens and civil rights groups from filing lawsuits under a central provision of the landmark civil rights law.

The ruling, made by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, found that only the federal government could bring a legal challenge under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a crucial part of the law that prohibits election or voting practices that discriminate against Americans based on race.

The opinion is almost certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court. The court’s current conservative majority has issued several key decisions in recent years that have weakened the Voting Rights Act. But the justices have upheld the law in other instances, including in a June ruling that found Alabama had drawn a racially discriminatory congressional map.

Passed in 1965, the Voting Rights Act was one of the most significant achievements of the civil rights movement, undoing decades of discriminatory Jim Crow laws and protecting against egregious racial gerrymanders. But the law has been under legal assault almost since its inception, and court decisions through the years have hollowed out key provisions, including a requirement that states with a history of discrimination in voting obtain approval from the federal government before changing their voting laws.

Monday’s decision by the 8th Circuit, which centered on a case in Arkansas, found that the text of the Voting Rights Act did not explicitly contain language for “a private right of action,” or the right of private citizens to file lawsuits under the law. Therefore, the court found, the right to sue would effectively lie with the government alone.

Should the ruling stand, it would remove perhaps the most important facet of the Voting Rights Act; the majority of challenges to discriminatory laws and racial gerrymanders have come from private citizens and civil rights groups.

“It will be a devastating near-death

Election workers begin to dismantle a polling place after closing on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, in Pella, Iowa. Voting rights leaders have viewed the current conservative makeup of the Supreme Court as hostile to the Voting Rights Act. blow to the Voting Rights Act if it remains the law,” said Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. “Radical theories that would previously have been laughed out of court have been taken increasingly seriously by an increasingly radical judiciary.”

But Weiser said she “would be surprised if this decision stands,” based on decades of legal precedent and recent rulings by the Supreme Court.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has been at the heart of many civil rights and voting rights decisions. The case in the Supreme Court’s ruling in June against Alabama’s map was brought by a number of civil rights organizations. In 2013, the section was also used to challenge a strict voter identification law passed in Texas.

Some conservative legal scholars heralded Monday’s decision, saying it would prevent the Voting Rights Act from being used for political ends.

“Today’s decision is a win for Arkansas and for the rule of law,” said Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, a conservative group. “The Voting Rights Act (VRA) remains intact as a tool to prevent actual discrimination and disenfranchisement. But the VRA is not, and was never intended to be, a partisan weapon

against democratically enacted election integrity laws and redistricting practices.”

The current legal debate over who can bring Section 2 claims took a significant turn in February 2022, when Judge Lee Rudofsky, a district judge in eastern Arkansas appointed by then-President Donald Trump, found that “only the Attorney General of the United States may bring suit” to enforce Section 2.

The decision was appealed to the 8th Circuit, which Monday issued a 2-1 ruling largely agreeing with the previous decision and finding that the law did not explicitly provide for a “private right of action.”

“Did Congress give private plaintiffs the ability to sue under [Section] 2 of the Voting Rights Act?” wrote Judge David Stras, an appointee of Trump’s. “Text and structure reveal that the answer is no.”

Proponents of the law and its use by private citizens point to statements made

by Congress in 1982, when the Voting Rights Act was amended. In a report that accompanied the changes to the law, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees said, “It is intended that citizens have a private cause of action to enforce their rights under Section 2.”

The 8th Circuit rejected that argument in its Monday ruling, stating that the com-

mittees’ report “does not point to a single word or phrase in the Voting Rights Act in support of the conclusion that a private right of action has existed from the beginning.”

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has faced legal challenges before. In 2021, the Supreme Court found that Section 2 could be used to strike down voting restrictions only when they imposed substantial and disproportionate burdens on minority voters.

But the court left Section 2 intact, and it has remained a critical tool for civil rights groups, especially when challenging congressional and legislative district maps.

The battle over voting rights has entered a pitched new phase since the 2020 election. After Trump tried to overturn the outcome with a campaign casting doubt on the integrity of the country’s electoral infrastructure, Republican-led state legislatures across the country passed laws adding new restrictions to voting.

Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, who argued the appeal on behalf of the challengers, called Monday’s ruling a “travesty for democracy.”

“For generations, private individuals have brought cases under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to protect their right to vote,” she said in a statement.

“By failing to reverse the district court’s radical decision, the 8th Circuit has put the Voting Rights Act in jeopardy, tossing aside critical protections that voters fought and died for.”

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Kansas school demands Native American student cut his hair to attend

R.V. Haderlein Elementary School in Girard, Kan., where a Native American student was threatened with suspension for keeping his hair long.

By JESÚS JIMÉNEZ

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n 8-year-old Native American boy who had grown out his hair to honor his ancestry was made to get a haircut after being threatened with suspension from school, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas said.

In a letter sent Friday, the ACLU called on the Girard Unified School District in southeastern Kansas to rescind the policy that requires boys to wear their hair short and to allow the student to wear his hair long, based on his cultural beliefs.

Refusing to accommodate the student’s religious and cultural

beliefs violates state and federal law, the ACLU said.

The policy will be reviewed in December, the school district’s superintendent said Monday.

The student is just the latest to have faced punishment at school over clothing or a hairstyle that reflected their cultural heritage. Earlier this year, a Black high school student in Texas with locs, which are long ropelike strands of hair, was suspended over the length of his hair. In Colorado, a high school student was barred from wearing a sash at her graduation that honored her Mexican American heritage.

Tina Daniel, principal of R.V. Haderlein Elementary, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Todd Ferguson, superintendent of the school district, said in an email that the dress code policy will be reviewed at a meeting in December. Ferguson declined to comment about the boy, citing confidentiality rules.

Ferguson wrote that “nothing matters more” to the district and staff “than creating a safe, respectful and caring school for every student.”

The ACLU said in a statement that not allowing a Native American student to wear his hair long recalled efforts to “separate Native American children from their families and tribes and to deny them their rights of cultural and religious expression.”

Starting in the early 1800s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were forcibly taken from their homes and sent to boarding schools across the United States as part of an effort to assimilate young Indigenous people. At these schools,

they were often stripped of their tribal clothing and hairstyles.

The letter does not identify the boy by name other than as an 8-year-old who is a member of Wyandotte Nation, which is based in Oklahoma, and attends R.V. Haderlein Elementary in Girard, Kansas.

The boy attended a youth event of the Wyandotte Nation over the summer and was inspired to take on the spiritual and cultural practice of wearing his hair long, the ACLU said.

But when the school year began in August, he was told that he needed to cut his hair to comply with a school dress code policy that requires boys to have short hair, according to the letter.

The school does not have a hair-length policy for girls and its dress code promotes “rigid views of gender norms and roles,” the ACLU said.

The boy’s mother, whose name was redacted from the letter, visited the school in early September to ask if her son could be exempt from the school’s hair policy, according to the ACLU. The mother also offered to show documentation that her son is a member of the Wyandotte Nation.

On Sept. 22, the boy’s mother received an email from the school’s assistant principal that said the boy was required to cut his hair by the following Monday “or he will be sent home.”

The boy’s hair was cut that weekend, the ACLU said.

The organization said that R.V. Haderlein Elementary’s “policy impacts Native American students disproportionately and perpetuates a legacy of cultural, psychological, and spiritual trauma and discrimination.”

‘Congratulations, birds’: Biden pardons a pair of turkeys

By LISA FRIEDMAN

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or the 76th year in a row on Monday, an American president took part in the pre-Thanksgiving ritual of pardoning a turkey. And President Joe Biden, who turned 81 on the same day he spared a pair of birds, wanted to get one thing straight.

“I want you to know I wasn’t there for the first one,” Biden quipped on the South Lawn of the White House, making light of an issue (his age) that polls show troubles most Americans.

“I was too young to make it,” Biden said as he saved the lives of Liberty and Bell, each weighing in at

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As Liberty — or maybe it was Bell — bobbed his head and flapped on a table, the president proclaimed: “I hereby pardon Liberty and Bell. Congratulations, birds.

Congratulations.”

The act of granting clemency to a turkey, perhaps America’s most hokey modern presidential tradition, was stuffed with the usual bad jokes and puns. “These birds have a new appreciation for the word, ‘Let freedom ring,’” the president said.

Biden also poked fun at himself.

“By the way, it’s my birthday today,” Biden told a crowd that included White House staff members and their families, a group of middle schoolers and farming groups. “I just want you to know it’s difficult turning 60,” he said to scattered laughter.

Then the president flubbed a joke, appearing to confuse pop icons Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Britney Spears.

Describing the more than 1,000 miles the turkeys traveled to appear at the White House, Biden said, “You could say it’s even harder than trying to get a ticket to the Renaissance tour, or for Britney’s tour.” He added, “She’s down in, it’s kind of warm in Brazil right now.”

Swift’s Eras Tour had to postpone a show in Brazil

over the weekend because of extreme heat in Rio de Janeiro. Spears is making headlines with a new memoir, but is not currently touring. Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour ended in October.

In a sign of where the president is turning his focus, he noted that the turkeys were named for the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, in a swing state, Pennsylvania, that might hold the key to the next election.

Biden, who spent his childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and referred to himself on the campaign trail as a “kid from Scranton,” has been to Pennsylvania 30 times since he was elected president. That is more than he has visited any other state except his home state of Delaware.

The annual pardoning of White House turkeys officially began in 1947 under President Harry S. Truman, according to the White House. Legend has it, though, that President Abraham Lincoln was the first to show mercy to a turkey at the urging of his son Tad in 1863.

The next step for Liberty and Bell is retirement, when they return to their home state of Minnesota and live out the rest of their lives at the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.

“God, they’re big,” Biden said of the birds.

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Trump’s dire words raise new fears about his authoritarian bent

By MICHAEL C. BENDER and MICHAEL GOLD

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onald Trump rose to power with political campaigns that largely attacked external targets, including immigration from predominantly Muslim countries and from south of the United States-Mexico border.

But now, in his third presidential bid, some of his most vicious and debasing attacks have been leveled at domestic opponents.

During a Veterans Day speech, Trump used language that echoed authoritarian leaders who rose to power in Germany and Italy in the 1930s, degrading his political adversaries as “vermin” who needed to be “rooted out.”

“The threat from outside forces,” Trump said, “is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within.”

This turn inward has sounded new alarms among experts on autocracy who have long worried about Trump’s praise for foreign dictators and disdain for democratic ideals. They said the former president’s increasingly intensive focus on perceived internal enemies was a hallmark of dangerous totalitarian leaders.

Scholars, Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans are asking anew how much Trump resembles current strongmen abroad and how he compares to authoritarian leaders of the past. Perhaps most urgently, they are wondering whether his rhetorical turn into more fascist-sounding territory is just his latest public provocation of the left, an evolution in his beliefs or the dropping of a veil.

“There are echoes of fascist rhetoric, and they’re very precise,” said Ruth BenGhiat, a professor at New York University who studies fascism. “The overall strategy is an obvious one of dehumanizing people so that the public will not have as much of an outcry at the things that you want to do.”

Trump’s shift comes as he and his allies devise plans for a second term that would upend some of the long-held norms of American democracy and the rule of law.

These ambitions include using the Justice Department to take vengeance on his political rivals, plotting a vast expansion of presidential power and installing ideologically aligned lawyers in key positions

to bless his contentious actions.

Trump’s allies dismiss the concerns as alarmism and cynical political attacks.

Steven Cheung, a campaign spokesperson, responded to criticism of the “vermin” remarks by saying it came from reactive liberals whose “sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.” Cheung did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

Some experts on authoritarianism said that while Trump’s recent language has begun to more closely resemble that used by leaders like Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini, he does not quite mirror fascist leaders of the past. Still, they say, he does exhibit traits similar to current strongmen like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban or Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Trump’s relatively isolationist views run counter to the hunger for empire and expansion that characterized the rule of Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy. As president, he was never able to fully wield the military for political purposes, meeting resistance when he sought to deploy troops against protesters.

“It’s too simplistic to reference him as a neofascist or autocrat or whatever — Trump is Trump, and he has no particular philosophy that I’ve seen after four years as president,” said former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a Republican who served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet after 12 years as a senator from Nebraska.

Still, Trump’s campaign style is “damn dangerous,” Hagel said.

“He continues to push people into corners and give voice to this polarization in our country, and the real danger is if that continues to bubble up and take hold of a majority of Congress and statehouses and governorships,” Hagel went on. “There must be compromise in a democracy because there’s only one alternative — that’s an authoritarian government.”

Trump’s attacks sweep from the highest echelons of politics to low-level bureaucrats whom he has deemed insufficiently loyal.

He has insinuated that the nation’s top military general should be executed and called for the “termination” of parts of the Constitution. If he wins back the White House, he has said, he would have “no choice” but to imprison political opponents.

He has tested the legal system with broadsides against the integrity of the judiciary, railing against prosecutors, judges and, more recently, a law clerk in his New York fraud trial as “politically biased” and “out of control.”

Crowds at Trump’s events have generally affirmed his calls to drive out the political establishment and to destroy the “fake news media.” Supporters do not flinch when he praises leaders including Orban, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Standing amid nearly two dozen American flags at an Independence Day celebration in South Carolina in July, Trump promised retribution against Biden and his family.

“The gloves are off,” he said. The crowd unleashed a resounding cheer.

Supporters roared in approval when Trump called Democrats in Washington “a sick nest of people that needs to be cleaned out, and cleaned out immediately.”

While Trump’s fan base remains solidly behind him, his return to the White House may be decided by how swing voters and moderate Republicans respond to his approach. In 2020, those voters tanked his bid in five key battleground states, and dealt Republicans defeats in last year’s midterm elections and this month’s legislative con-

tests in Virginia.

But Trump and his team have been energized by signs that such voters so far appear to be more open to his 2024 campaign. A recent New York Times/Siena College poll found Trump leading Biden in five of the most competitive states.

Biden has often sought to paint Trump as extreme, saying recently that the former president was using language that “echoes the same phrases used in Nazi Germany.”

Biden also pointed to xenophobic remarks that Trump made last month during an interview with The National Pulse, a conservative website, in which he said immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of America.

“There’s a lot of reasons to be against Donald Trump, but damn, he shouldn’t be president,” Biden said at a fundraiser in San Francisco.

Worries about Trump extend to some Republicans, though they are a minority in the party.

“He’s absolutely ratcheting it up, and it’s very concerning,” said former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 against Trump. “There’s just no limit to the anger and hatred in his rhetoric, and this kind of poisonous atmosphere has lowered our standards and hurts our country so much.”

Supporters of former president Donald Trump during a campaign event at Stevens High School in Claremont, N.H., on Nov. 11, 2023. Crowds at Trump’s events have generally affirmed his calls to drive out the political establishment, to destroy the “fake news media” and to remake government agencies like the Justice Department.

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The winners and losers of OpenAI’s wild weekend many affiliated with the effective altruism movement, whose adherents think that reason and data can be used to determine how to do the or a while this weekend, it looked as if most good — have warned that AI systems were Sam Altman might return as a conquebecoming too powerful, and that out-of-control ring hero to OpenAI, the company whose AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. board had fired him as CEO on Friday.

People with these fears — sometimes It would have been another shocking mocked as “doomers” or “decels” by their critwist in a saga that was already full of them.

And Altman had a lot of leverage. OpenAI emtics — were once considered fringe. But over the past several years, they’ve been moving ployees had rallied behind him since his firing, toward the mainstream, gathering signatures on and OpenAI’s investors were pushing the board open letters and warning regulators to take AI to bring him back. Billions of dollars — and, safety seriously. And on Friday, they took down possibly, the trajectory of the entire artificial inthe chief executive of the world’s leading AI telligence industry — hung on the fate of the company. board’s decision, and many expected it to cave Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, under pressure and reverse itself. who led the coup against Altman, is not an Instead, the board held firm, rejecting Effective Altruist, but he appears to have been Altman’s return and affirming in a late-night motivated by similar fears. And two of the board memo to employees on Sunday that removing members who supported the coup, Tasha Mchim was “necessary to preserve the board’s ability to execute its responsibilities and advance Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, left, with Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief Cauley and Helen Toner, have ties to Effective the mission of this organization.” It appointed executive. As OpenAI’s biggest investor, Microsoft is a big winner in Mr. Altman’s Altruist groups.

Emmett Shear, the former Twitch boss, as inte- return to the company.

If OpenAI ends up being irreparably harrim chief. med by Altman’s firing, people will blame the Hours later, Satya Nadella, the CEO of board for breaking one of Silicon Valley’s most company is still highly dependent on Microsoft, which has the Microsoft, announced that Altman and his top lieutenant, Greg enormous computing power OpenAI needs to run its models promising young startups, and destroying billions of dollars in Brockman, would join the tech giant to lead a new AI research — and which, as of Monday, will have a mini-OpenAI growing shareholder value. division.

But the board has clearly succeeded on its own terms. It inside of it, led by Altman and staffed by former OpenAI emThe OpenAI saga is far from over. Things are shifting quic- ployees. was worried that Altman was moving too fast to build powerkly, and there is plenty we still don’t know — including the reOpenAI’s board may be satisfied with this outcome — af- ful, potentially harmful AI systems, and it stopped him. That’s ason the board decided to fire Altman in the first place. (In the ter all, the board chose it, even after being given a chance to a victory for the cause, even if it comes at the expense of the memo on Sunday, the board said there had been no specific backtrack. But it looks silly for not explaining why it fired Alt- company.

Losers: Investors incident that led to the firing, but rather that Altman had simply man, and until it shares more information, it’s hard to imagine No one was rooting harder for Altman’s return to OpenAI lost its trust.) the rank-and-file falling in line. than the investors and venture capitalists who backed him, and But even without knowing much about the inciting inciWinner: Microsoft dent, we can start to assess the damage.

No one’s weekend had a bigger turnaround than Nadella. who stood to lose their money if he left.

Many of these investors are techno-optimists who believe Loser: OpenAI On Friday, when Altman was fired, it looked as if Nadella The most obvious loser in all this is OpenAI itself. might lose one of his most powerful allies. Microsoft invested that AI will be an unalloyed good for society, and they loved Before Friday, the company was the hottest name in tech, $13 billion in OpenAI, and under Altman’s leadership, the com- Altman’s essentially optimistic take on AI’s future. (They also lowith a celebrity leader, a household-name product in ChatGPT, pany had become a key partner of Microsoft’s. Its technology is ved that he made them a lot of money.) and a murderers’ row of AI talent that was the envy of Silicon the backbone of many of the AI services, such as the company’s These investors now have stakes in a company with an inValley giants. It was in the middle of a tender offer that would suite of Copilot AI products, that Microsoft is betting the future terim chief executive, a workforce in revolt and an unclear path have allowed employees to cash out their stock at an eye-wate- of its business on. forward. What’s worse, the only way they can invest in Altman’s ring valuation, and its cutting-edge AI language model, GPT-4, Nadella would have clearly preferred to see Altman reins- new company is by buying Microsoft shares.

Unclear: OpenAI’s rivals was best in class. tated. But when it was clear that wasn’t happening, he did the It’s not clear yet whether rival AI companies will benefit Now, the company is in chaos. Its top leaders are gone. next best thing: swooping in to offer jobs to Altman, Brockman from Altman’s ouster.

Morale is shattered. The tender offer may fall apart. The new and their loyalists.

On one hand, companies like Google, Anthropic and chief executive has said he wants to slow AI down. And the Strategically, it was a masterstroke. Now, Microsoft will be able to continue using OpenAI’s models to power its products Meta could benefit from a weakened OpenAI if it allows them in the short term, while also giving a new, Altman-led team the to catch up to the company’s AI progress, or siphon off key emmoney and computing power it needs to build new Microsoft- ployees. (Recruiters wasted no time trying to poach unhappy owned models over the long term. He’ll get a bunch of talen- OpenAI workers on Friday.)

But it also means they will be competing with a stronger ted AI researchers from OpenAI, and Microsoft now effectively Minimun Weighter Maximum Microsoft. And it means that Altman’s new AI efforts will not owns 100% of a new AI lab that any Silicon Valley venture capiInstitution Rate (%) Average Rate (%) Rate (%) be constrained by the same convoluted nonprofit governance talist would have lined up to fund. structure as OpenAI was, meaning he might be able to move Winners: AI doomers and Effective Altruists 18.29% 18.29% 18.29% Kashable LLC For years, a community of AI researchers and activists — even faster.

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S&P 500 to See Small Gain in 2024 as US Economic Risks Rise T

he S&P 500 will end next year only about 3% higher than its current level, with a possible U.S. economic slowdown or recession among the biggest risks for the market in 2024, according to strategists in a Reuters poll released Tuesday.

The benchmark index will finish next year at 4,700, according to the median forecast of 33 strategists polled by Reuters during the last week and a half. That is 3.4% higher than Monday’s close of 4,547.38.

Nine of 13 strategists who also answered a question on whether U.S. stocks will hit a record high in the coming six months said yes, and most of them said they expect it to happen in the early part of 2024.

Wall Street stocks have rallied strongly in recent weeks, boosted by the view the Federal Reserve is done hiking interest rates and may begin to cut them at some point next year.

Investors cheered benign October inflation data last week as Americans paid less for gasoline. The S&P 500 is up about 18% for 2023 to date.

The Fed earlier in November held rates steady, but, since 2022, the U.S. central bank has hiked its policy rate 525 basis points in an effort to curb inflation.

Worries persist the economy could fall into a recession next year or at least slow.

“We see the economy weakening further into 2024, and, at some point the consumer will break,” said Paul Christopher, head of global investment strategy at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

But, he said the firm thinks the U.S. economy could quickly switch to recovery mode in the second half of the year. WFII sees the S&P 500 ending next year between 4,600 and 4,800.

A cocktail of renewed AI excitement, Nvidia’s imminent earnings update, an impressive 20-year Treasury auction and a leveling off of crude oil prices has invigorated the holiday week.

Intrigue and speculation over this year’s artificial intelligence craze has gone up several gears since Friday’s ouster of Sam Altman as boss of ChatGPT-developer OpenAI and his subsequent defection to the firm’s biggest sponsor Microsoft - fueling talk Big Tech will hoover up all the talent in the area.

Markets are anticipating inflation will decelerate and are currently pricing in a greater than 50% chance of a rate cut of at least 25 basis points by May, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool on Monday.

Still, Goldman Sachs’s economic team wrote in a recent note the Fed will hold off cutting rates until the fourth quarter of next year, with stronger-than-expected economic growth helping to forestall a recession.

Geopolitical problems are among other risks to the market heading into 2024, strategists said, with investors closely watching the war between Israel and Hamas mili-

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Ten of the 13 strategists who responded to a question on the U.S. corporate profit outlook said they expect earnings to grow in the next six months.

Overall S&P 500 earnings growth for 2023 is estimated at 2.3% after a weak first half of the year, according to LSEG data.

Analysts expect earnings to rise 11.2% in 2024 over the previous year.

But valuations have risen with recent market gains. The S&P 500 index’s forward 12-month price-to-earnings ratio is now at 19.1, up from 17 at the end of 2022 and its longterm average of about 16, based on LSEG data.

For some strategists, technology, which is up 52% for the year so far and S&P 500’s best-performing sector, is still a favorite going into 2024.

“The technology revolution continues,” said Tim Ghriskey, senior portfolio strategist at Ingalls & Snyder in New York.

Based on the poll, the Dow Jones industrial average will finish next year at 38,000, up about 8% from Monday’s close. The Dow is up 6% so far in 2023.

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Israel and Hamas suggest they are close to a hostage deal

By PATRICK KINGSLEY and MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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srael and Hamas appeared on Tuesday to be edging close to a deal that would allow the release of some captives held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for some Palestinian prisoners held by Israel during what would be a brief pause in the 46-day war.

The Israeli government announced Tuesday afternoon that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would hold an unusually intense sequence of meetings with Cabinet ministers in the coming hours “in light of developments on the issue of the release of our hostages.”

President Joe Biden echoed that optimism in brief remarks Tuesday morning.

“We’re now very close, very close,” Biden told reporters at the White House.

“We could bring some of these hostages home very soon. I don’t want to get into the details of things because nothing is done until it’s done. And when we have more to say we will. But things are looking good at the moment.”

An Israeli official, speaking anonymously in order to discuss a sensitive matter, said the ministers were expected to vote on whether to approve a brief cease-fire that would allow for an exchange.

Netanyahu, speaking with troops on Israel’s northern border, said Israel was making progress in the hostage negotiations. “I

Doris Liber wipes away tears after speaking about her son Guy Iluz, 26, to members of Congress in Washington on Nov. 7, 2023. hope we will have good news soon,” he said.

If a deal is approved Tuesday, the hostages may not be released until Thursday to allow for a 24-hour period for judicial review, Israeli officials said.

Earlier Tuesday, Ismail Haniya, Hamas’ Qatar-based political leader, told the Reuters news agency that the armed group was “close to reaching a truce agreement” with Israel.

On Tuesday evening, Israel sent another signal that a deal was close. The directorgeneral of the prime minister’s office, Yossi Shelley, convened a meeting of senior civil

servants following “developments on the issue of the release of our hostages,” according to a government statement.

Two far-right parties in the ruling coalition have said in statements that they oppose the deal under discussion because it is not expected to secure the release of all the roughly 240 hostages in Gaza. But the deal can still pass without the parties’ support.

Hamas and its allies in Gaza captured roughly 240 hostages during their raid on southern Israel on Oct. 7, which also killed an estimated 1,200 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli officials. Israel

has responded with thousands of airstrikes and invaded Gaza with ground forces, killing roughly 13,000 people in the fighting, according to health officials in the Hamascontrolled territory.

The Israeli government has vowed to destroy Hamas, but it has also come under domestic pressure to free the hostages. A brief cease-fire could allow Israel to achieve part of the latter objective before returning to the former.

People familiar with the hostage negotiations, which have been brokered mainly

by Qatar, say they centered on Hamas releasing roughly 50 children and women, in exchange for about 150 Palestinian women and teenagers jailed by Israel, as well as a pause in fighting that would last about five days.

A national security official at the White House said Tuesday that a deal to secure the release of some of the hostages in Gaza is closer than it has ever been since the attacks

by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Another U.S. official also said a deal could come together Tuesday.

A spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, Majed al-Ansari, told reporters that the talks were “at the closest point we ever have been in reaching an agreement.”

“We are very optimistic, we are very hopeful, but we are also very keen for this mediation to succeed in reaching a humanitarian truce,” he said.

North Korea launches rocket with its first spy satellite

By CHOE SANG-HUN

both times, the rockets malfunctioned and failed to thrust the Malligyong-1, the North’s first homemade military spy orth Korea launched a rocket T​ uesday in what South satellite, into orbit.

Korea​ said was an attempt to put its first military North Korea later confirmed Tuesday’s rocket launch, reconnaissance satellite in orbit, this time with tech- saying it had finally succeeded in placing the satellite in ornological help from Russia. bit after the two failed attempts.

The rocket ​flew to the south over the sea between the And this time, by receiving assistance from Russia, the Korean Peninsula and China, ​the South Korean military said North was able to overcome its technological shortcomings, in a brief statement. The United States, South Korea and Ja- according to South Korean officials who have monitored its pan have all placed their militaries on alert to guard against launch preparations in Tongchang-ri in recent weeks. such a launch, concerned that debris from the North’s rockAfter studying the debris of a previous failed launch, et might fall on the Asian allies’ territories. They also want South Korea said that the North Korean satellite was so to collect intelligence on the rocket to determine the impli- crude that it could never serve as a functioning spy satellite cations its satellite program may have on regional stability. even if placed in orbit.

North Korea launched its new Chollima-1 rocket from​ Still, the launching Tuesday was a proud moment for the its satellite launching station in Tongchang-ri near ​its north- North’s leader, Kim Jong Un, who watched the blastoff at western border with China​​in May and again in August. The the scene of the launch. Modernizing his country’s military rocket flew on the same southbound trajectory​, seeking to strength has been his main selling point as its leader. Buoyed place satellite​s in orbit so that North Korea could better by the success, the North’s space agency will ask the ruling monitor American and South Korean military movements​ Workers’ Party to support its plan to send more spy satellites in the region and improve its nuclear-attack capabilities. But into space, the North Korean news agency said.

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A launch of what the North Korean government said was the Chollima-1 rocket carrying the Malligyong-1 satellite on May 31.

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Families of hostages in Gaza are desperate for proof of life

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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orty-four days after Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was seized by Hamas, his left arm blown off by a hand grenade, his parents have no idea if he is dead or alive, hidden somewhere in the rubble of the Gaza Strip.

There is no information about the fate of Goldberg-Polin or any of the nearly 240 people believed to be held hostage in Gaza. There has been no proof of life, no evidence that they are being fed or given medicine, no contact with the outside world.

The not knowing, families of the hostages say, is nearly unbearable, leaving them desperate for information at a moment when they are receiving practically none, even as reports swirl about a possible deal for the release of some women and children.

Negotiations are taking place far from public view, and the Israeli and U.S. governments have shared very little about who might be included in a deal, the families say. Publicly and privately, officials have told relatives that the talks are too sensitive to reveal anything.

Being kept in the dark for six weeks has left the families frustrated with aid organizations including the Red Cross, which says that Hamas has refused to give its workers permission to see the hostages.

Jon Polin, Hersh’s father, rejected that explanation.

“Don’t let anybody tell you, ‘Sorry, we’re not letting you in,’” said Polin, an American living in Israel whose wife and children are also U.S. citizens. “That’s not acceptable. Go get global leaders. Go get the pope. Go get rabbis.

Go get imams. Don’t take no for an answer.

Shame on you for taking no for an answer.”

The pleas have been heard inside the Geneva headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which in 1949 was designated as the world’s neutral organization charged with discovering and disseminating information about the wounded, sick or detained during times of war.

But the organization’s leaders insist they are doing all they can — publicly and behind the scenes — to negotiate with Hamas.

“We share the frustration. We understand the pain,” said Jason Straziuso, a spokesperson for the Red Cross. “We’re not bulletproof, and it’s not possible for us to walk into a conflict zone in hostile territory without permission — to walk up to a group of people, most certainly holding guns that they will use, and demand that they let us inside. It’s not possible.”

The Red Cross has about 130 employees

were also holding some of the day, or if you died five minutes ago.” hostages.

(In 2004, before moving to Israel, Jon Polin In late October, Israeli and Rachel Goldberg’s son, Hersh, attended forces rescued one hostage, the same preschool as my children in Richand four others were released mond, Virginia.)

by Hamas about a week earInside Israel, where the faces of the hoslier. But there have been no tages are plastered everywhere on posters that further breakthroughs. proclaim them “KIDNAPPED,” activists have Warring nations have mounted an aggressive campaign to demand blocked the Red Cross from swifter action from the Red Cross. visiting hostages or prisoners “It’s very clear, we expect them to do of war in previous conflicts. more,” said Dr. Hagai Levine, chair of the IsIn 2022, eight months into raeli Association of Public Health Physicians the war between Ukraine and and a leader in a group formed to keep attenRussia, the Red Cross still had tion focused on the hostages. “To be more aslittle access to prisoners held sertive, to rise to the occasion.” by either side. In a statement “They don’t have a minute of mercy,” at the time, the group wrote Levine said of the families of the hostages. “It is that “blaming the I.C.R.C. for killing them. It is killing them.” being denied full and immediIn a video posted this week to X, the site An installation has supporting messages for hostages ate access does not help pris- formerly called Twitter, Cardon Christian, the chief protection officer for the Red Cross, exin Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 21, 2023. In total, nearly 240oners of war or their families.”

But the fact that there is no plained why the group maintains its neutrality. people are believed to be hostages in Gaza. definitive playbook in the case “We know by experience by denouncing of hostages during wartime, no one side or the other, we risk losing access to in Gaza, he said, giving it some ability to deexact timing for reporting about whether they people when they are most in need,” he said. liver humanitarian aid and to visit the scenes of destruction from the war. But even with that are dead or alive, leaves the family members “By not taking sides, we want to gain the trust access, meeting with the hostages requires an with little to hold on to as the days slowly pass. of all those involved in the fighting so we can Liz Hirsh Naftali, the great-aunt of Abigail try to ensure prisoners of war are being treated agreement with Hamas.

Straziuso said Red Cross officials were Idan, recounted on NBC News how 3-year-old humanely.”

He acknowledged, however, the uncertalking to Hamas, Israel, the United States and Abigail watched on Oct. 7 as Hamas fighters shot and killed her mother and ran with her tainty that adds to the frustration among those other nations about the condition of the hosfather and two siblings. desperate for information and said that the ortages.

“Abigail was in her father’s arms,” Naftali ganization does not always rule out denouncBut those talks have been shrouded in sesaid on “NBC Nightly News” with Lester Holt. ing the actions of one side or the other. crecy.

“We do,” he said in the video. “But only, In a statement Monday, the Red Cross “And as they ran, a terrorist shot him and killed and I insist absolutely only, when this is in the said the group is “insisting that our teams be him, and he fell onto Abigail.”

She added, “We learned that Abigail actu- interest of the civilians, the sick, the wounded, allowed to visit the hostages to check on their ally had crawled out from under her father’s and the detained.” welfare,” but added that “the I.C.R.C. does For Goldberg, that answer is not enough. body and, full of his blood, went to a neighbor, not take part in negotiations leading to the re“Why is no one crying out for these peoand they took her in.” lease of hostages. As a neutral humanitarian Hamas later seized the neighbor, her three ple to be allowed access to the Red Cross?” intermediary, we remain ready to facilitate any she said in a speech outside the United Nafuture release that the parties to the conflict children and Abigail, Naftali said.

Rachel Goldberg, who is married to Jon tions Security Council last month. “Why is no agree to.”

Separate discussions about a possible re- Polin, and other family members have said one demanding just proof of life?” lease of some hostages are being conducted they have no through intermediaries, with Israel and the idea when — or United States communicating with Hamas whether — they discover only by way of messages passed back and will anything definiforth by negotiators in Egypt and Qatar.

A leader of Hamas said in October that tive about their Especialistas: ones. not all of the Israeli hostages who were taken loved Tipos de servicios: .REPARACIÓN deto Gaza were being held by the group, a claim Goldberg that most likely complicates negotiations for tailed the grief .Instalación their release. Osama Hamdan, a member of of a mother who .Venta Automatizando su Hogar y Negocio Hamas’ political bureau in Lebanon, said other has no idea if her groups, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a son is alive “or if separate organization that is an ally of Hamas, you died yester-

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Argentina braces for its new ‘anarcho-capitalist’ president

By JACK NICAS, NATALIE ALCOBA and LUCÍA CHOLAKIAN HERRERA

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avier Milei was first introduced to the Argentine public as a combative television personality with an unruly hairdo and a tendency to insult his critics. So when he entered Argentina’s presidential race last year, he was viewed by many as a sideshow.

On Sunday, he was elected Argentina’s next president, and is now tasked with guiding one of Latin America’s largest economies out of one of its worst economic crises.

Many Argentines awoke Monday anxious, others hopeful, but just about everyone was uncertain about what lay ahead.

Perhaps the only certainty about the country’s political and economic future was that, in three weeks, a far-right political outsider with little governing experience was set to take the reins of a government that he has vowed to upend.

In other words, it is Argentina’s Donald Trump moment.

Milei, a libertarian economist and freshman congressman, made clear in his victory speech Sunday that he would move fast to overhaul the government and economy.

“Argentina’s situation is critical,” he said. “The changes that our country needs are drastic.

There is no place for gradualism.”

Markets cheered his election, with Argentine stocks and bonds rising on U.S. exchanges (the Argentine market was closed for a holiday). Even without clarity on what he can accomplish, markets appear to view him as a better economic bet than his mostly leftist predecessors.

Failed economic policies — including overspending, protectionist trade measures, suffocating international debt and the printing of more pesos to pay for it — have sent the nation of 46 million people into an economic tailspin.

Annual inflation has surpassed 140%, the world’s third highest rate, leaving many resi-

President-elect Javier Milei greeting supporters on Sunday in Buenos Aires.

“The changes that our country needs are drastic,” he said in his victory speech. dents rushing to spend or convert their pesos to U.S. dollars or cryptocurrencies as quickly as they can, while the country’s growing number of poor increasingly line up at food banks and soup kitchens.

To fix it, Milei has proposed turning the world’s 22nd largest economy into a laboratory for radical economic ideas that have largely been untested elsewhere.

Milei, 53, has said he wants to slash spending and taxes, privatize state companies, eliminate 10 of the 18 federal ministries, move public schools to a voucher system, make the public health care system insurance-based, close the nation’s central bank and replace the Argentine peso with the U.S. dollar.

He identifies as an “anarcho-capitalist,” which, he has said, is a radically free-market strain of libertarianism that believes “society functions much better without a state than with a state.”

Now he is a head of state.

“This is a completely new scenario we’ve never been in,” said María O’Donnell, an Argentine political journalist and radio host.

“Milei has these very extravagant ideas we’ve never seen implemented anywhere in the world.”

There has been little consensus among economists over the best path ahead for Argentina, but few had suggested Milei’s approach before he arrived on the scene — and few know what to expect now that he is in charge.

Monday morning, Milei already began to wobble on some of his campaign pledges.

In one radio interview, he said Argentine law would restrict him from privatizing health care and education. In another, when asked about his plan to use the U.S. dollar, he responded that “the currency we adopt will be the currency that Argentines choose.”

What does that mean? “I’m not sure he knows,” said Eduardo Levy Yeyati, an Argentine economist and professor.

Levy Yeyati interpreted it as a sign that Milei would first aim to eliminate most restrictions on trading foreign currencies, which the Argentine government has restricted as part of its effort to prop up the value of the Argentine peso. Milei’s other comments Monday appeared to support that idea.

“Argentina has historically been a laboratory for weird ideas,” Levy Yeyati said, but many are never implemented because of economic and political realities.

He said that he believes the same will happen with Milei, at least at first. “There will be a reality check,” he said. “Most of these proposals will still be talked about, but it will be hard to implement them in the first year.”

Milei is expected to have to make political deals to carry out his plans, as his 2-yearold political party controls just 10% of the seats in Argentina’s Senate and 15% in its lower house of Congress.

He will most likely broker many of those deals with Mauricio Macri, Argentina’s former president, a conservative who has retained broad control over a large political party. The two met Sunday night.

Fernando Iglesias, a member of Congress from that conservative bloc, said he and his colleagues were eager to help Milei fix the nation. “It’s true that he has the handicap of inexperience,” he added, “but I’m hopeful that he can put together a reasonable governing team to make the changes the country needs.”

While many key people in Milei’s campaign also lack much governing experience, they have pitched that as an asset, not a liability, and many voters agreed.

One person who will almost certainly have influence in the new government is Milei’s sister, Karina Milei, who ran his campaign and whom he has described as his most important adviser.

In a 2021 television interview, he even compared her to Moses, the biblical figure bearing the message of God. “Kari is Moses,” he said with tears in his eyes. “I’m the one spreading the word.”

Karina Milei has been an enigma in Argentina, always present at her brother’s side but almost never speaking publicly. Not much is known about her past, beyond unconfir-

med reports in the Argentine news media that she studied public relations in college, ran a cupcake business and co-owned a tire shop.

Javier Milei’s campaign said she would help run the transition.

Milei announced Monday that his justice minister would be Mariano Cúneo Libarona, a lawyer turned television pundit who rose to prominence defending celebrities, including in a 1996 drug case when he represented soccer star Diego Maradona’s manager.

His new foreign minister, Diana Mondino, an economist, told reporters that one of the government’s main foreign policy goals was to end most regulations on imports and exports. She also said that Argentina would likely not enter the BRICS club of emerging nations, as had been announced in August.

“We don’t understand, with the public information available now, what the advantage would be for Argentina,” she told reporters at Milei’s victory rally Sunday. “If you all can explain to me what the BRICS are, I’ll take advantage and learn.”

Milei’s running mate, Victoria Villarruel, has spent much of her career running an organization that recognizes victims of attacks carried out by leftist guerrillas, which Argentina’s military used as justification for its bloody dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.

Villarruel, who comes from an Argentine military family, has long claimed that the atrocities of the dictatorship have been overstated, claiming that 8,500 people disappeared despite declassified records showing that even the military admitted, just two years into its rule, that the number was 22,000.

Villarruel and Milei were elected to Argentina’s lower house of Congress together in 2021, the first two seats for their Liberty Advances party.

Milei has spent little time in Congress since, proposing his first bill just earlier this month, calling on the government to do more to bring home the roughly 25 Argentines held hostage by Hamas.

Across the country, Argentines were reeling Monday with what Milei could bring, both good and bad.

Micaela Sánchez, 31, an actress and drama teacher, said she and many friends were worried by Milei’s pledges to overhaul the government, his history of attacking political adversaries and his comments downplaying the atrocities of the dictatorship.

“It’s really a bleak and frightening panorama for all of us who work in culture, who work with people, for those who educate, and for those in health care,” she said. “The only thing I can say is that I’m very scared and very sad.”

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

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Why on earth are Jewish leaders praising Elon Musk?

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

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ast week, a self-described Jewish conservative named Charles Weber took to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to address the “cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting ‘Hitler was right.’”

Weber dared those trolls to “say it to our faces.” One X user took him up on it.

“Okay,” the user replied. Jewish communities “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” Echoing the great replacement conspiracy theory, which holds that Jews are scheming to undermine white political power by importing Black and brown immigrants, he accused Jews of flooding America with “hordes of minorities.” Therefore, he said, he was “deeply disinterested” in Jewish panic about mounting antisemitism.

Then Elon Musk, the owner of X and one of the richest men in the world, chimed in, responding: “You have said the actual truth.”

Musk’s words caused a firestorm and led to a major advertising exodus from X, but they shouldn’t have been that surprising, because he has been flirting with antisemitism for a while now. He has compared liberal Jewish billionaire George Soros to X-Men supervillain Magneto — a Jew who grew to hate humanity during the Holocaust — and later accused Soros’ organization of seeking “nothing less than the destruction of western civilization.” Musk has tweeted

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Last week, an investigation by the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America found that X was placing ads for major corporations next to white nationalist and neo-Nazi content. (On Monday, X filed a lawsuit against Media Matters, accusing it of manipulating the platform’s algorithm “to force a situation in which a brand ad post appeared adjacent to fringe content.”)

So I wasn’t shocked by Musk’s words. I was astonished, however, by how easily, in the days following his antisemitic outburst, Musk was able to win praise from a few Jewish leaders simply by promising to censor common proPalestinian language. The sordid episode was a reminder of the moral rot that comes from conflating the state of Israel with the Jewish people, a rot we see on both sides of the ferocious fight over Israel’s future.

Since Oct. 7, Jews the world over have been confronted by vicious antisemitism unleashed by hatred of Israel. I’ve long argued that anti-Zionism and antisemitism aren’t the same thing; the leftists who want to see a binational state in Israel and the Palestinian territories with equal rights for all may be naive, but they are not genocidal. However, the explosion of anti-Jewish rhetoric and violence occasioned by the war in Gaza — the stabbing of a Jewish woman in France, the shootings of Jewish day schools in Montreal, the killing of a Jewish protester near Los Angeles — has forced me to reckon with how often anti-Zionism and antisemitism are intertwined. Abhorrence of the Jewish state slips easily into abhorrence of Jews.

On the right, though, there’s a mirror image of this slippage, with some defenders of the Jewish state willing to make excuses for antisemites so long as they champion Israel. Apocalyptic Christian Zionist pastor John Hagee, for example, has said that Adolf Hitler was sent by God to drive the Jews to Israel, “the only home God ever intended for the Jews to have,” and claimed that the Antichrist would be “partially Jewish, as was Adolf Hitler, as was Karl Marx.” (He later apologized for his insensitivity even as he said, “I cannot deny the tenets of my faith.”) Despite his inflammatory words about Jews, Hagee was invited to speak at the March for Israel in Washington last week.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has regularly embraced nationalist leaders who deploy antisemitic tropes, Donald Trump chief among them.

Musk appears to have learned the lesson that ardent Zionism can function as an alibi for antisemitism. As advertisers fled X last week, he suddenly announced that he was going to ban the pro-Palestinian slogan “From the river to the sea,” as well as “decolonization,” a buzzword on the anti-Zionist left. The move made a mockery of the ostensible free speech absolutism that was Musk’s excuse

for allowing so much antisemitism on X in the first place. It did nothing to curb overt white nationalists on the site, many of whom had celebrated Musk’s “actual truth” post. But it was enough to earn him plaudits from some Jewish and Israeli spokespeople. “This is an important and welcome move by @elonmusk,” tweeted the ADL president, Jonathan Greenblatt. “I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate.”

(An ADL spokesperson told me that Greenblatt’s praise was “narrowly focused on a specific policy decision” and that the group hasn’t rescinded its other criticisms of Musk.) Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for diaspora affairs, thanked Musk for “standing on the right side of history.”

X’s erratic owner was able to win this approval without even apologizing for boosting the very antisemitic conspiracy theory behind the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. It’s hard to figure out who is behaving more cynically, Musk or the Jewish leaders who are koshering him.

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Reunión de emergencia en el Senado ante crisis de abandono de adultos mayores en Puerto Rico POR EL STAR STAFF

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AROLINA – Ante las alarmantes cifras de adultos mayores abandonados en residencias en Carolina, la senadora Marissa ‘Marissita’ Jiménez convocó a una reunión de emergencia a funcionarios de esa administración municipal, la secretaria del departamento de la Familia, Ciení Rodríguez, el secretario del departamento de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli y el secretario del departamento de la Vivienda, William Rodríguez, entre

otros, para evaluar medidas de mitigación para enfrentar esta crisis.

La reunión se llevará a cabo en el Capitolio después de llegar del receso administrativo declarado por el Senado para esta semana.

“Levanta muchas banderas rojas las expresiones de la amiga, la Secretaria de la Familia, en torno al abandono de adultos mayores, particularmente en el área de Carolina. Los hechos de ayer, donde una mujer de 99 años fue encontrada viviendo en condiciones infrahumanas en su hogar de Jardines de Country Club es muy preocupante. Juntos tenemos que buscar una solución real e implementable para mitigar esto”, dijo la Senadora por el Distrito de Carolina en expresiones escritas.

De acuerdo con datos provistos por la Secretaria de la Familia, durante el año fiscal 2022-2023 el número de adultos mayores abandonados en sus hogares es de 769; un dramático incremento de los de alrededor de 300 para el 2016-2017. Según esas cifras, cada mes se registran unos 60 casos de envejecientes dejados a su suerte.

“En esta reunión cumbre, a la cual también invita-

remos a la senadora Keren Riquelme que ha trabajado este asunto de abandono en hospitales, queremos escuchar todas las partes, los secretarios de gabinetes así como la administración municipal de Carolina. Lo que buscamos es soluciones, que se puede hacer para ayudar a estas personas que construyeron el Puerto Rico que hoy tenemos. Si se necesita legislación, la someteremos; lo que sea viable y útil para frenar esta ola de abandono de nuestros envejecientes se tiene que evaluar”, añadió la Senadora del Partido Nuevo Progresista.

“También tiene que haber un elemento de responsabilidad por parte de los familiares de estos adultos mayores. No hay espacio para dejarlos abandonados. Si por cualquier razón no pueden cuidarlos, se tiene que notificar a las autoridades, en este caso el Departamento de la Familia. No es aceptable dejarlos a su suerte”, sentenció.

La realidad demográfica de la Isla coloca en sobre 740,489 (circa 2021) la cantidad de personas que pasan los 65 años, eso significa que cada año más adultos mayores que podrían estar en posición de ser abandonados por sus familiares.

Advierten sobre los peligros reales de los productos falsificados y prohibidos antes de las vacaciones POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Antes del Black Friday y el Ciber Monday, Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza y la agencia de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional se unieron el martes para advertir al público sobre los peligros reales de comprar productos que pueden ser falsificados, restringidos o prohibidos.

Este compromiso conjunto con los medios locales está diseñado para concienciar al público sobre los peligros reales de tales productos y cómo estos productos son parte de una empresa criminal transnacional más grande.

“Los peligros de comprar productos falsificados no siempre son evidentes. Hay impactos económicos, implicaciones legales y riesgos para la salud y la seguridad que es importante que usted conozca antes de comprar”, afirmó Efraín Rivas, subdirector de Operaciones de Campo para el Comercio de la Oficina de Campo de San Juan, en declaraciones escritas.

“En particular, cuando compre en línea, tenga cuidado con los productos falsificados. Los productos falsificados pueden conllevar peligros reales”, añadió.

Muchos consumidores desconocen todos los componentes negativos de la compra de artículos falsificados. Los consumidores compran medicamentos recetados de otros países pensando que los obtienen con descuento, cuando en realidad están comprando un producto inferior con ingredientes no regulados. Este

es un juego peligroso al que juegan los consumidores y que podría tener resultados mortales.

La agente especial a cargo de HSI San Juan, Rebecca González-Ramos, dijo: “Alentamos a los consumidores a tomar una posición para hacer saber a los delincuentes que no serán engañados para que realicen compras falsificadas. El Centro de DPI de HSI está comprometido a investigar y arrestar a quienes se aprovechan de consumidores inocentes y a tomar medidas para detener la venta de productos falsificados en Internet y en las tiendas. Continuaremos nuestros esfuerzos de aplicación de la ley durante la temporada navideña para atrapar a los falsificadores y proteger la salud y seguridad de los compradores navideños”.

Las tres categorías principales que afectan la salud y la seguridad del consumidor fueron el cuidado personal, los productos farmacéuticos y la electrónica de consumo. La mayoría de los artículos falsificados proceden de China y Hong Kong.

A nivel nacional, CBP y HSI incautaron 20,812 envíos que contenían bienes que violaban los derechos de propiedad intelectual (IPR) en el año fiscal (FY) 2022, lo que equivale a casi 25 millones de productos falsificados. El precio minorista sugerido por el fabricante (MSRP) total estimado de los productos incautados, si hubieran sido genuinos, superaba los 2.980 millones de dólares (USD). En el año fiscal 2022, ICE-HSI arrestó a 255 personas, obtuvo 192 acusaciones y recibió 95 condenas relacionadas con delitos de propiedad inte-

lectual.

En el año fiscal federal 2022, la oficina local de CBP en San Juan realizó 1,377 incautaciones con un MSRP combinado de más de $36 millones, mientras que, en el año fiscal 2023, la oficina local ejecutó 1,313 incautaciones con un MSRP combinado de casi $21 millones.

Recientemente, el grupo Global Trade Investigations (GTI) incautó aproximadamente 479 uniformes deportivos (camisetas y pantalones cortos) falsificados en una residencia de Guaynabo que se vendían como el producto original. Además, la CBP incautó al individuo envíos anteriores de uniformes deportivos por violaciones de derechos de propiedad intelectual. Estos uniformes llevaban marcas famosas y protegidas.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

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The best true crime to stream: Family matters

By MAYA SALAM

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amily secrets, tumult and trauma are at the heart of so many — if not most — true crime stories, and breed some of the most bizarre betrayals. Here are four picks including podcasts, television and films that explore unforgettable crimes involving families, all of whom prided themselves on presenting a perfect image until the truth came crashing through the facade.

DOCUSERIES “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal” Watching a true crime documentary that is following events that are presently unfolding — where those telling the tale also have no idea of what’s to come — is particularly gripping. And this tale of greed, corruption, outlandish cover-ups and murder in the lowcountry region of South Carolina is a doozy. It is, as New York Times television critic Mike Hale put it, an “unbeatable crime story.”

The first three-episode season, on Netflix, premiered midway through the trial of the family’s patriarch, Alex Murdaugh: the disgraced personal injury attorney and an heir to the area’s legal dynasty, who was accused of killing his wife, Maggie, and son Paul in 2021. The second season picks up from there, covering the march to the verdict. Both seasons were released this year.

The series incorporates interviews with friends, employees and acquaintances of the Murdaughs as well as with police, and incorporates a lot of home video footage of the family. Prepare to be stunned by how brazenly they move through their community, and the shamelessness with which they wield their power.

There are other deaths, surrounding the family that are hard to shake: that of Mallory Beach, who perished in a boating accident in 2019, while a drunken Paul was behind the wheel; Stephen Smith, a teenager who was found dead in 2015 along a road about 10 miles from the Murdaugh home; and Gloria Satterfield, the Murdaugh’s longtime housekeeper who fell at their home in 2018 and died shortly afterward from her injuries. But perhaps it is technology’s undeniable

Alex Murdaugh, center, as seen in the Netflix docuseries “Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal.” influence on the outcome of Alex Murdaugh’s trial that is the most jaw-dropping — for now.

PODCAST “American Scandal” Season 44: “The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst” What “American Scandal,” from Wondery, does best is to give every story it tackles the time it needs for a full telling with the required context. Until I listened to this season, every revelation I’d learned over the years about what happened to Patty Hearst — an heiress to the William Randolph Hearst media empire, who, in 1974, at age 19, was kidnapped from her home by a radical group called the Symbionese Liberation Army — left me more bewildered than I’d been before.

It’s an involved, twisty American story that spiraled into a national spectacle. And members of the tremendously influential Hearst family are found everywhere, starting with their influence on Patty, who moved to strike out on her own after growing disillusioned with their wealth and lifestyle, to the family’s public negotiations with her captors.

DOCUMENTARY “American Murder: The Family Next Door” Not unlike the Murdaugh series, this heartbreaking film, from director Jenny Popplewell, uses home videos, text

messages, law enforcement recordings and police bodycam footage to profound effect. In fact, this documentary is constructed nearly entirely out of archival footage, and the horrors that unfold are presented without much influence or input from others.

In 2018, a pregnant Shanann Watts, 34, and her two young daughters seemingly vanished from their home in Frederick, Colorado — though her purse, keys and phone were found there. Her husband, Chris, tried to spin their sudden disappearance into something it wasn’t. There is much to be sad about here, starting with the opening scene: a joyful video Shanann had posted on Facebook of herself with her girls and their dog. Through the awfulness of what comes to light, bigger questions are probed. As a film critic for the Times put it: “It is a thematic film about marriage and the deception of social media, as well as a piercing examination of domestic violence constructed with care and undeniable craft.”

“Mommy Dead and Dearest” I was unable to finish Hulu’s Emmy-winning miniseries “The Act,” a dramatized version of the strange, disturbing story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Perhaps because I’d already seen this 2017 documentary from Erin Lee Carr, which uses home video, news clips and interviews to tell the story of how the elder Blanchard inflicted mental and physical distress on her daughter for most of her life — seemingly to gain sympathy, as well as money and gifts, from strangers. It was labeled a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental disorder in which a parent or caregiver induces an illness in a child to get attention.

But the plot here gets much more complicated when Dee Dee is killed in 2015 in Springfield, Missouri, and her daughter and daughter’s boyfriend at the time, Nicholas Godejohn, are suspected.

“Things are not always as they appear,” we hear Jim Arnott, the sheriff of Greene County, Missouri, say early in the documentary. As the Times’ film critic said in his review of “Mommy Dead and Dearest,” that assertion is “a candidate for understatement of the year.”

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For Thanksgiving, 20 wines under $20

A variety of wines under $20, in New York, Nov. 13, 2023. These lively, versatile bottles are perfect for a crowd and will go with anything.

By ERIC ASIMOV

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y now, your Thanksgiving preparations may nearly be set. You are on top of the menu, who’s cooking what, seating, tasks for the children. But what about the wine?

This is the easy part of holiday planning, with just a few guiding principles to keep in mind.

If you’re having a big party, don’t worry about matching wines to dishes. The feast is too complicated, with too many different sorts of foods to worry about that. Instead, the goal is to select versatile, energizing wines, the sort that won’t weigh you down but will provide refreshment and

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pleasure with anything you serve.

In practical terms, that means wines with relatively low alcohol content, 14% maximum but better around 12% or 13%. It’s a long day, and not everybody wants to nod off on the couch.

You also want wines with lively acidity. That often makes the difference between bottles that can snap you to attention and a flat, fatiguing wine. The aim is refreshment and pleasure more than complexity and contemplation, though if you can find it all in one inexpensive bottle you’ve got a treasure.

Finally, you want a white and a red, and plenty of both. People will have their preferences, no matter how opinionated you might be about what they ought to be drinking. For wine, Thanksgiving is a time to indulge others rather than to proselytize.

Plan on one bottle per each wine-drinking adult. That sounds like a lot because it is. Most likely you won’t finish them all, which is fine. As with food, too much is better than not enough. You can give bottles away with leftovers or keep them for another time.

Stemmed glasses are great, but if you’ve invited a crowd, you may not have enough. No worries, tumblers or juice glasses will be fine. I personally would not choose single-use plastic cups because of the waste factor, but if

you need to do that, I will caution against using flimsy plastic stems, which are spills waiting to happen.

I’ve chosen 20 bottles, all under $20, that would make terrific Thanksgiving wines. I found them in New York retail shops, but if you live elsewhere you may find a different selection. Use these bottles as a guide for the type of modestly priced wines that are just right for the holiday.

Here are the 20 wines, in order of cost from least expensive.

Ramilo Wines Jackpot Vinho Regional Lisboa 2021, 13%, $10.99 Great value alert: This fruity, refreshing, lightly tannic red is the kind of delicious, interesting wine that I rarely see at this price. It comes from a region just outside of Lisbon and is a blend of organically grown castelão and aragonez, as tempranillo is known in this part of Portugal. If you’re serving a crowd, this is a great choice. (NLC Wines, Brooklyn, New York.)

Viña Zorzal Navarra Garnacha 2021, 13%, $13.99 Viña Zorzal, run by three brothers, pioneered the now-common Spanish formula of finding old, neglected vineyards, rehabilitating them and making wonderful wines that are light and refreshing rather than ponderous. This garnacha, or grenache in French, is juicy and fruity, smooth and refreshing and made from organic grapes. It, too, is a great value. (Bowler Wine, New York) Maison Foucher Vin de France Sauvignon Petit le Mont 2022, 12%, $14.99 Sauvignon blanc is generally a crowd-pleasing grape, and what better occasion to please a crowd than Thanksgiving? This super value from the Loire Valley is inexpensive partly because it’s not from one of the high-status regions like Sancerre. But it is made from organic grapes, and it’s a sedate style, easygoing and lightly herbal rather than brash and pungent. (Polaner Selections, Mount Kisco, New York.)

Storm Point Swartland Chenin Blanc 2022, 12.5%, $16 Chenin blanc is one of my absolute favorite grapes, but it’s hard to find good examples this inexpensive. This bottle from the Swartland region of South Africa offers a taste of what makes chenin blanc great: It has aromas and flavors of flowers, honey and ginger, and it’s dry and refreshing. Drink it and celebrate both Thanksgiving and South Africa’s victory in the Rugby World Cup. (Vine Street Imports, Mount Laurel, New Jersey.)

Storm Point Swartland Red Blend 2022, 13.5%, $17 Storm Point also makes this terrific red blend from Swartland. It’s 50% syrah, 40% cinsault and 10% carignan, but, as with many such blends, the syrah dominates. That’s fine with me. Syrah is a great autumnal grape. This is soft, approachable and evocative of burning leaves and crisp air.

(Vine Street Imports) Anthony Road Finger Lakes Dry Riesling 2020, 11.9%, $17.99

The San Juan Daily Star The Finger Lakes of New York is hands down the best source for riesling in the United States. Other terrific rieslings are made around the country, but the focus on riesling in the Finger Lakes makes for a lot of terrific options. This one, from Anthony Road, is dry, floral and minerally, with a texture that makes it a pleasure to drink.

A Los Viñateros Bravos Itata País Volcánico 2022, 13%, $17.99 País, or mission, is perhaps the oldest European grape planted in the Americas. This wine is made from old-vine grapes, farmed organically and biodynamically in volcanic soils in the Itata Hills. It’s fragrant, and both earthy and juicy, just the sort of versatile wine that goes with myriad dishes. (Ripe Wine Imports, New York) Celler Credo Penedès Miranius Xarello 2020, 11.5%, $17.99 Xarello is one of the Catalan grapes traditionally used in cava, the Spanish sparkling wine. But, in the hands of a top producer like Celler Credo, it can make excellent still wines like this toasty, creamy, savory white, made of biodynamically farmed grapes. (Rosenthal Wine Merchant, New York) François Chidaine Touraine Rouge 2022, 12.5%, $17.99 This is a joyous red, perfect for any sort of celebratory meal and, specifically, a wine that will go very well with the dark meat of the turkey and a lot more. It comes from François Chidaine, who practices organic, biodynamic and regenerative agriculture. It’s a blend of côt, or malbec, cabernet franc and pineau d’aunis, which gives this juicy wine a peppery edge. (Polaner Selections) ColleStefano Verdicchio di Matelica 2021, 12.5%, $18.96 I’ve written about this wine several times over the years, yet every time I come back to it, it surprises me. Maybe it’s the texture and depth — it’s not at all the stereotypical simple Italian white. It’s got both intrigue and deliciousness, and it’s refreshing, which all makes it a great Thanksgiving white. Oh, and the grapes are farmed organically. (Polaner Selections) Pierre et Rodolphe Gauthier Bourgueil Jour de Soif 2021, 13%, $18.96 Pierre and Rodolphe Gauthier mostly make age-worthy cabernet francs under the Domaine du Bel Air label.

Jour de Soif, however, is an entry-level bottle that is fresh, bright and easy to enjoy. It’s earthy, with a sort of tobacco and herb flavor. You can enjoy as a refreshment or, if you’re intrigued, ponder those flavors as they change in the mouth.

(Polaner Selections) Carlos Raposo Dão Impecável Tinto 2021, 13%, $18.99 This red is new to me, and I think it would be great for Thanksgiving. It’s fresh, floral and herbal, made of biodynamically grown touriga nacional, a principal grape of port. In this rendition, it has few of port’s tannins. It’s the sort

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of red a white wine lover might enjoy. (Grossberg/Kopman Selections, Dobbs Ferry, New York.)

Broadside Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, 13.4%, $18.99 This old favorite is the rare cabernet sauvignon that meets the Thanksgiving criteria of being versatile and immediately accessible. Sure, it’s a bit tannic — it’s cabernet, after all. But it’s bright, fruity and lightly floral, and if you serve it with turkey, stuffing and the rest, it’ll be great.

Ungrafted Itata Valley Cinsault 2021, 13.5%, $18.99 Ungrafted is a small operation begun in 2020 by Marco and Sebastian De Martino, who also run the larger De Martino winery. For Ungrafted, they have identified old Chilean vineyards that have not been grafted to American rootstocks to combat phylloxera, the vine-killing aphid that is still rare in Chile. This bottle, made from organically grown Itata cinsault, is fresh, delightful and intriguing. (Polaner Selections) Château Peybonhomme-les-Tours Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux Le Blanc Bonhomme 2021, 12.5%, $19.96 I’ve written about this wine several times because it’s so good and such a good value. It’s 45% sémillon, 45% sauvignon blanc and 10% colombard, and it’s rich, textured and stony, the kind of wine you want to keep drinking. The Hubert Family, which owns Peybonhomme-les-Tours and several other labels, has perfected the formula of farming biodynamically and making wines that always seem better than their prices indicate.

(Summit Selections, Staten Island, New York.)

Nittnaus Burgenland Anita Red Blend 2018, 12.5%, $19.96 This juicy, fruity, smooth blend of mostly zweigelt with blaufränkisch, St. Laurent and merlot is exactly the sort of red wine that’s great on the Thanksgiving table. It’s refreshing and delicious, and, at five years of age, whatever tannins that might have once structured this wine have long since mellowed. (Rosenthal Wine Merchant) Henry Fuchs Alsace Pinot Blanc Auxerrois 2021, 13%, $19.99 This is primarily auxerrois with 5% pinot blanc, and it will go with just about anything. It’s clear

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and pure, creamy, herbal, lightly smoky and refreshing. The proprietor, Paul Fuchs, farms organically and makes wines conscientiously. This is a domaine worth watching. (Peter Weygandt Selection/Weygandt-Metzler, Unionville, Pennsylvania.)

Neil Ellis Cape West Coast Sauvignon Blanc 2022, 13%, $19.99 Here’s another sauvignon blanc, this one from South Africa. It’s a bit more pungent than the Foucher sauvignon blanc from Loire, but it’s still lively and energetic, versatile enough to go with anything on the Thanksgiving table. (The Sorting Table, Napa, California.)

Domaine Dupeuble Père et Fils Beaujolais 2022, 13.5%, $19.99 For years, Beaujolais was considered an archetypal Thanksgiving wine. The marketers pitched Beaujolais Nouveau, but plain old Beaujolais is a great way to go. It’s not syrupy like the mass-market Nouveaus, nor is it as structured and complex as cru Beaujolais. It’s just delicious, refreshing and versatile. This bottle, from Domaine Dupeuble, is floral and earthy, a lovely wine. (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Berkeley, California.)

Brand Riesling Trocken Landwein Rhein 2022, 11.5%, $19.99 (1 liter) I’ve been enjoying this wine for several years, and it’s perfect for Thanksgiving. It’s full of energy and relatively low in alcohol, which means you can drink a lot of it without feeling fatigued. The brothers Daniel and Jonas Brand are based in the northern Pfalz region and use elements of organics and biodynamics in their farming. This is from organic grapes.

(Vom Boden, Brooklyn, New York.)

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Health risks linked to climate change are getting worse, experts warn

By DELGER ERDENESANAA

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limate change continues to have a worsening effect on health and mortality around the world, according to an exhaustive report published last week by an international team of 114 researchers.

One of the starkest findings is that heatrelated deaths of people older than 65 have increased by 85% since the 1990s, according to modeling that incorporates both changing temperatures and demographics. People in this age group, along with babies, are especially vulnerable to health risks such as heat stroke.

As global temperatures have risen, older people and infants now are exposed to twice the number of heat-wave days annually as they were from 1986-2005.

The report, published in medical journal The Lancet, also tracked estimated lost income and food insecurity. Globally, exposure to extreme heat, and resulting losses in productivity or inability to work, may have led to income losses as high as $863 billion in 2022. And, in 2021, an estimated 127 million more people experienced moderate or severe food insecurity linked to heat waves and droughts, compared with 1981-2010.

Emergency service workers attended to a person with heat stroke symptoms while awaiting a vigil with Pope Francis in Lisbon in August.

“We’ve lost very precious years of climate action and that has come at an enormous health cost,” said Marina Romanello, a researcher at University College London and the executive director of the report, known as The Lancet Countdown. “The loss of life, the impact that people experience, is irreversible.”

The indicators of public health tracked in the report have generally declined over the nine years the researchers have produced editions of the assessment.

The analysis also examined health outcomes for individual countries, including the United States. Heat-related deaths of adults 65 and older increased by 88% from 2018-22, compared with 2000-04. An estimated 23,200 older Americans died in 2022 because of exposure to extreme heat.

For health practitioners, the statistics are not abstract or faceless.

“These numbers remind me of the elderly patients I see in my own hospital with heatstroke,” said Dr. Renee Salas, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Salas is one of the report’s co-authors and said she viewed the project like tracking vital signs in a patient, but on a national and international scale.

The data can help fill a gap for federal policymakers.

“We have a limited set of indicators for climate change and health that are routinely collected in the United States,” said Dr. John Balbus, director of the office of climate change and health equity in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He did not contribute to this report and is not currently involved with The Lancet Countdown, but previously served as a scientific adviser to the project’s funder.

Balbus cautioned that this report mostly measures people’s exposure to climate-related risks rather than actual health outcomes, such as rates of disease. In order to get from exposures to real health outcomes, he said more investment in research was needed.

For the first time, this year’s Lancet Countdown included projections for the future. If the global average temperature rises by 2 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial temperatures, an increasingly likely scenario unless

society significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions, the number of heat-related deaths each year will increase by 370% by the middle of this century, the report found.

At the same time, researchers point out that reducing fossil fuel pollution is proving beneficial for global health. Deaths from air pollution related to fossil fuels have decreased by 15% since 2005, with most of that improvement a result of less coal-related pollution entering the atmosphere.

The value of The Lancet Countdown is its ongoing monitoring of climate change’s effects on global health, said Sharon Friel, director of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse at the Australian National University.

Friel was not involved in the report, but read it and wrote an accompanying commentary.

Howard Frumkin, a former special assistant to the director for climate change and health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the report was a valuable dashboard but that the climate impacts he most worried about were not the obvious ones highlighted. Researchers and policymakers need to pay attention to the health effects of people being displaced by climate change and migrating, Frumkin said.

“If you’re on cancer chemotherapy or if you are getting kidney dialysis or if you’re getting addiction treatment and you have to move suddenly, that’s terribly disruptive and threatening,” he said. Frumkin was not involved in the new report but was a co-author on previous editions.

Over the years, health experts involved in this project have included more research about the continued use of fossil fuels being the root cause of health issues.

“The diagnosis in this report is very clear,” Salas said. “Further expansion of fossil fuels is reckless and the data clearly shows that it threatens the health and well-being of every person.”

The researchers point out that health care systems, and other societal infrastructure health care depends on, haven’t adapted quickly enough to our current level of global warming.

“If we haven’t been able to cope today, chances are we won’t be able to cope in the future,” Romanello said.

The report is likely to be discussed at the annual United Nations climate summit in the United Arab Emirates that starts in a few weeks.

This year the summit will include a greater focus on human health.

The San Juan Daily Star el remanente de la propiedad.”

Finca número 14541, inscrita al ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO folio 181 del tomo 237 de OroDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- covis, Registro de la Propiedad NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de Barranquitas. La Hipoteca SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONI- Revertida consta inscrita al folio TO 181 del tomo 237 de Orocovis, FINANCE OF AMERICA finca 14541, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas, inscripREVERSE LLC ción 2ª. Propiedad localizada Demandante Vs. en: LOT 1 KM 20.8 PR 155 BO. SUCESION ADRIAN BAUTA ARRIBA, OROCOVIS, ORTIZ ROSADO PUERTO RICO, 00720. SeT/C/C ADRIAN ORTIZ- gún figuran en la certificación ROSADO COMPUESTA registral, la propiedad objeto POR ADRIALIZ ORTIZ de ejecución está gravada por siguientes cargas anterioRIVERA, MARILYN ORTIZ las res o preferentes: Nombre del RIVERA; JOHN DOE Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: Y JANE DOE COMO N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: POSIBLES HEREDEROS N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad DESCONOCIDOS; objeto de ejecución está graESTADOS UNIDOS DE vada por las siguientes cargas AMERICA; CENTRO posteriores a la inscripción del DE RECAUDACION DE crédito ejecutante: Nombre del INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2022CV00207. de la Carga: $253,500.00.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- Fecha de Vencimiento: 16 de TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. junio de 2096. Se entenderá ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- que todo licitador acepta como RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE bastante la titularidad de la proLOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL piedad y que todas las cargas ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutanDE PUERTO RICO, SS. te antes descritos, si los hubieA: LA PARTE re, continuarán subsistentes.

DEMANDADA, AL (A El rematante acepta dichas LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE cargas y gravámenes anterioHACIENDA DE PUERTO res, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, RICO Y AL PÚBLICO sin destinarse a su extinción el GENERAL: precio del remate. Se establece Certifico y Hago Constar: Que como tipo de mínima subasta la en cumplimiento con el Mandasuma de $253,500.00, según miento de Ejecución de Sentenacordado entre las partes en el cia que me ha sido dirigido por precio pactado en la escritura el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de hipoteca. De ser necesaria de Primera Instancia, Sala Suuna SEGUNDA SUBASTA por perior de Aibonito, en el caso declararse desierta la primera, de epígrafe, venderé en pública la misma se celebrará en mi subasta y al mejor postor, por oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal separado, de contado y por mode Primera Instancia, Sala de neda de curso legal de los EstaAibonito, el 13 DE DICIEMdos Unidos de América y/o Giro BRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 Postal y Cheque Certificado, en DE LA MAÑANA, y se estami oficina ubicada en el Tribublece como mínima para dicha nal de Primera Instancia, Sala segunda subasta la suma de de Aibonito, el 6 DE DICIEM$169,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo BRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 mínima establecido originalDE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho mente. Si tampoco se produce título, participación o interés remate ni adjudicación en la que le corresponda a la parte segunda subasta, se establedemandada o cualquiera de ce como mínima para la TERellos en el inmueble hipotecado CERA SUBASTA, la suma de objeto de ejecución que se des$126,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del cribe a continuación: “RUSTIprecio pactado y dicha subasta CA: Predio de terreno radicado se celebrará en mi oficina, ubien el Barrio Saltos del término cada en el Tribunal de Primera municipal de Orocovis, Puerto Instancia, Sala de Aibonito, el Rico marcado como el número 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, uno (1), con una cabida superA LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑAficial de cuatro mil seiscientos NA. Dicha subasta se llevará punto cero cero (4600.00) mea cabo para, con su producto tros cuadrados, en lindes por satisfacer a la parte demandanel Norte, con terrenos de Don te, el importe de la Sentencia Sergio Colon; por el Sur, con redictada a su favor ascendente manente de la propiedad; por el a la suma de $89,739.00 por Este, con un camino de acceso concepto de principal, más a la propiedad y del remanente la suma de $42,711.04 en inde la finca y por el Oeste, con

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023 tereses acumulados al 1 de marzo de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 2.920% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $17,521.17 en seguro hipotecario; $2,071.26 de contribuciones; $7,434.66 de seguro; $1,450.00 de tasaciones; $604.00 de inspecciones; $4,012.50 en adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $25,350.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en AIBONITO, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de septiembre de 2023.

JUAN BURGOS BURGOS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS F. TORRES REYES, ALGUACIL PLACA #119.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

JULIO ENRIQUE PASCUAL NÚÑEZ, INGRID MORALES ORTIZ T/C/C INGRID MORALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Parte Demandada

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

Civil Núm.: GB2018CV00421.

(201). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO,SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia Sumaria dictada el 9 de febrero de 2022 y notificada el 10 de febrero de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 16 de junio de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 17 de junio de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Centro Gubernamental, Carretera Número Veinte (20) Kilómetro 5, Guaynabo, 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 Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en los Barrios Juan Domingo y Pueblo Viejo del municipio de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, marcado con el Número diez (10) del Bloque once (11) de la Urbanización Alturas de Torrimar, con cabida de 472.78 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con el Solar Número nueve (9) del mismo bloque en una longitud de 28.97 metros; por el SUR, con el Solar Número doce (12) del propio bloque en una longitud de 26.50 metros; por el ESTE, con el Solar Número veinte (20) del propio bloque en una longitud de 16.64 metros más 0.68 metros que hacen un total de 17.32 metros; y por el OESTE, con la Calle Número tres (3) en una longitud de 16.46 metros más 0.54 metros que hacen un total de 17.00 metros. Contiene una casa residencial de una sola planta cuya estructura es de hormigón armado consistente principalmente de sala, comedor, cocina equipada, tres (3) habitaciones dormitorios con sus respectivos clósets, área de estar, dos y medio baños y marquesina para un carro. La escritura conta inscrita al folio 205 del tomo 255 de Guaynabo, Finca 15502. Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 92 del tomo 1331 de Guaynabo, Finca 15502. Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Inscripción novena (9na).

La modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 147 del

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21 tomo 1527 de Guaynabo, Finca 15502. Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Inscripción undécima (11ma). Dirección Física: Alturas de Torrimar, 11-10 Calle 3, Guaynabo PR 00969-3217. Número de Catastro: 16-086-071-744-19-001.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $420,056.84.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $280,037.89.

De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $210,028.42. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente.

Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $408,050.74 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 2.5% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $554.08 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $44,460.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. 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: a. Aviso De Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Julio Enrique Pascual Núñez casado con Ingrid Morales Ortiz también conocida como Ingrid Morales, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, en el Caso Civil Número GB2018CV00421, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $408,050.74 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 10 de julio de 2018. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Guaynabo. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su su-

cesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea.

Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, 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 periódico 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 requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de octubre de 2023. YAMIXA RAMOS CEBALLOS, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #783, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.

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MMG I PR CDGY, LLC Demandante V.

NOEL GUERRERO AVILA, SU ESPOSA ARELIS GOMERA DE LEON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(s) Caso Núm.: GB2021CV00479.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: NOEL GUERRERO AVILA, SU ESPOSA ARELIS GOMERA DE LEON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL: El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $9,347.19, contra Noel Guerrero Dávila, según certificación de fecha 20 de junio de 2014, presentado el 24 de julio de 2014, anotado al folio 3, orden #10 del tomo 1, CRIM, finca #9,035.

ACM CDGY VI LN LLC: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de demanda, de fecha 21 de julio de 2021 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, caso civil #GB2021CV00479, por concepto de cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por ACM CDGY VI LN LLC versus Noel Guerrero Ávila su esposa Arelis Gomera De León y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, por la suma de $44,639.61 y más intereses, ect. Anotado en Karibe de Guaynabo, finca #9,035, Anotación B. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 7 de marzo de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: 12 BO AMELIA CALLE BALDORIOTI, GUAYNABO, PR 00965. URBANA: Solar radicado en el sitio conocido con el nombre Barrio Obrero de Nueva Caparra de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número Uno en la Calle O del

plano de la urbanización trazado por la División de Hogares Seguros titulado Urbanización de Nueva Caparra de Guaynabo, que tiene una superficie de doscientos veintidós metros con quinientos treinta y dos milímetros cuadrados (222.532 m.c.) Colindando al NORTE, con Andrés Berrios; por el SUR, con calle Baldorioty del Barrio Amelia; por el ESTE, avenida Ponce de León; y por el OESTE, con calle Ramirez Infanzón.

Enclava una casa de terrera de madera, techada de zinc, con su balcón de concreto. Consta inscrita al folio 125 del tomo 96 de Guaynabo, finca número 9,035, Registro de la Propiedad Sección de Guaynabo. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 12 de abril de 2022 - {248 Fecha sentencia} en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $42,588.90 de principal, $3,743.33 de intereses acumulados al 21 de octubre de 2022, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago de total de la deuda, $420.63 por concepto de cargos por atrasado $788.90 por deficiencia en la cuenta escrow, $6,109.60 por adelanto de seguro (“FPI”), escrow negativo ascendente a $319.03, gastos de preservación de propiedad ascendentes a $708.15, mas cualquier adelanto adicional realizado conforme a los términos del préstamo, costas, gastos y la suma de $6,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado, para cubrir el principal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte interesada previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $60,000.00.

Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE DICIEM-

22 BRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $40,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:40 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $30,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su

extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de noviembre de 2023.

ALG. HUGO BASCÓ MEDINA, ALGUACIL PLACA #807, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023 MAITE MELECIO ROSADO, ANGELIE MELECIO ROSADO, MICHELLE MELECIO ROSADO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ANGEL MELECIO BENITEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES.

Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Demandante Vs. Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja, a SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN los demandados, acreedores y BENITEZ COLON T/C/C al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más CARMEN BENITEZ adelante se describe, y al públiCOMPUESTA POR co en general, por la presente SONIA MELECIO CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y BENÍTEZ, EDDIE JUAN HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 5 MELECIO BENITEZ, DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, mi EDWIN MELECIO oficina, sita en el Tribunal de BENITEZ, PEDRO Primera Instancia, Sala SupeMELECIO BENITEZ, rior de Vega Baja, Vega Baja, MAITE MELECIO Puerto Rico, procederé a venROSADO, ANGELIE der en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueMELECIO ROSADO, ble que más adelante se MICHELLE MELECIO describe y cuya venta en públiROSADO, FULANO ca subasta se ordenó por la vía DE TAL Y SUTANO DE ordinaria mediante Sentencia TAL COMO MIEMBROS dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA autos el día 8 de agosto de 2023. Los autos y todos los doSUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL cumentos correspondientes al ANGEL MELECIO procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría BENITEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE durante horas laborables. Que caso de no producir remate TAL COMO MIEMBROS en ni adjudicación en la primera DE NOMBRES subasta a celebrarse, se celeDESCONOCIDOS; brará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodiCENTRO DE cha propiedad, el 12 DE RECAUDACIÓN DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS DE IMPUESTOS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y en MUNICIPALES; Y LOS caso de no producir remate ni ESTADOS UNIDOS DE adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 AMÉRICA DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A Demandados Civil Núm.: VA2022CV00054. LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- mi oficina sita en el lugar antes TECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de EjecuSUBASTA. ción de Sentencia que ha sido Al: PÚBLICO EN liberado por la Secretaría del GENERAL. Tribunal de Primera Instancia, A: SUCESIÓN DE Sala Superior de Vega Baja, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha CARMEN BENITEZ COLON T/C/C CARMEN de 18 de octubre de 2023, proa vender en pública suBENITEZ COMPUESTA cederé basta y al mejor postor, todo POR SONIA MELECIO derecho, título e interés que BENÍTEZ, EDDIE JUAN tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se MELECIO BENITEZ, describe a continuación: “RÚSEDWIN MELECIO TICA: Parcela marcada con el BENITEZ, PEDRO número 433 en el plano de parMELECIO BENITEZ, celación de la comunidad rural

San Vicente del Barrio Sabana del término municipal de Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuarenta y dos con noventa y cinco metros cuadrados (542.95m.c.). En lindes: por el NORTE, con la calle José de Diego y la parcela número 434 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número 432 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con las parcelas número 434 y 435 de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la Calle José De Diego de la comunidad”. Finca número 17,263, inscrita al folio 131 del tomo 292 de Vega Alta. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: #433 Jose de Diego St. Sabana Hoyos WD, Vega Alta, PR 00692. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $61,765.98 en concepto de principal con interés al 3.199% anual, los cuales acumulan a un total de $102,009.42 a la fecha de 30 de marzo de 2022 los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $13,350.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 288 otorgada el día 14 de mayo de 2013, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Lizbet Avilés Vega y consta inscrita al folio 132 del tomo 292 de Vega Alta, finca número 17,263, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III de Bayamón. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la

subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $133,500.00, con intereses al 3.199% anual, vencedero el 30 de diciembre de 2083, constituida mediante la escritura número 289, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, eld ia 14 de mayo de 2013, ante la notario Lizbet Avilés Vega, e inscrita al folio 131 del tomo 292 de Vega Alta, finca número 17,263, inscripción 6ta. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $133,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $89,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $66,750.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose 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 no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la eje-

cución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 10 de noviembre de 2023. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL PLACA #888, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE VEGA BAJA. ***

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GLADYS CEVEDO LATORRE Demandante V,

DESCONOCIDO Y FULANO DE TAL

(Nombre de tas partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sino debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación, Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del termino de 30 días contados a partir de ta publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con 14 de NOVIEMBRE de 2023.

En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, et 14 de NOVIEMBRE de 2023.

KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, Secretario(a). f/MYRIAM FIGUEROA PASTRANA, Secretarla Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

CARLOS MANUEL CANALÉ FIGUEROA; AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2023CV01552.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

DORAL MORTGAGE A: CARLOS MANUEL CORPORATION Y OTROS CANALÉ FIGUEROA. SR Demandado(a) #922 COMUNIDAD LA ELDA MAGALI RODRIGUEZ CORA LCDAELDAMRODRIGUEZ@ FERMINA, BO. COLORES, GMAILCOM LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771; Caso Núm.: CA2023CV03028.

DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESHC-15 BOX 16040, TITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE HUMACAO, PR 00791SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. 9747.

A: DORAL MORTGAGE POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al triCORPORATION, bunal su alegación responsiva ÚLTIMO TENEDOR dentro de los 30 días a partir de CONOCIDO, Y/O la publicación de este edicto.

CUALQUIER TENEDOR Usted deberá presentar su ale-

gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYABO, PR 00970 TEL. 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Humacao, Puerto Rico a 17 de noviembre de 2023.

EVELYN FÉLIX GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA DE JESÚS GONZÁLEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs.

JOSE ANTONIO ROSARIO RODRIGUEZ (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); VIRGINIA BEATO SANTANA (TITULAR REGISTRAL)

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV03353.

Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 8 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su

The San Juan Daily Star propiedad que ubica en: URBANIZACION FAIR VIEW, #716 (T-28) CALLE LUIS ALMANZA (23A), SAN JUAN, PR 00926 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Fair View, situada en el Barrio Cupey de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número veintiocho (28) de la manzana T, con un área de cuatrocientos punto cincuenta metros cuadrados (400.50 m.c). En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número veintitrés (23) A, en distancia de trece punto treinta y cinco metros (13.35 m.); por el SUR, con el solar número siete (7), en distancia de trece punto treinta y cinco metros (13.35 m.); por el ESTE, con el solar número veintinueve (29), en distancia de treinta metros (30.00 m.); y por el OESTE, con el solar número veintisiete (27), en distancia de treinta metros (30.00 m.). Enclava una casa de concreto, diseñada para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 151 del Tomo 113 de Río Piedras Sur, bajo la finca número 4,120, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $143,000.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $95,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $71,500.00.

La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 353 otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de junio de 2020, ante el Notario Alejandro J. Mues Arias y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Sur, bajo la finca número 4,120, inscripción 7ma, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma $137,715.44 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2022, más intere-

ses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, la parte co-demandada José Antonio Rosario Rodríguez adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $14,300.00. Además, la parte co-demandada José Antonio Rosario Rodríguez se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $14,300.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023 dores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de noviembre de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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A: DAVID SOTO AROCHO, MARANGELY AGOSTO REYES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023 SOTO RIVERA.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 3 de junio de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 15 de noviembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 15 de noviembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

PEDRO, G-13 CALLE SAN MARCOS, SECCIÓN ESTANCIAS DE SAN PEDRO, FAJARDO, PR 00738; A-38 CALLE RÍO MAMEYES, RIVER EDGE HILL, LUQUILLO, PR 00773.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de diciembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de noviembre de 2023.

En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 16 de noviembre de 2023. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de noviembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 16 de noviembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

KAREN MITCHELLE ROBLES LOPEZ

Demandado(a) Civil: CA2019CV02676. Sala: 409. Sobre: ACCIÓN IN REM Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: KAREN MITCHELLE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ROBLES LOPEZ. SUCESION DE MARIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- (Nombre de las partes a las que se NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE LOS ANGELES ROSA le notifican la sentencia por edicto) CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAEL SECRETARIO(A) que susVERA Y OTROS YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE cribe le notifica a usted que Demandado(a) BAYAMÓN SALÓN DE SESIOel 13 de marzo de 2020, este Caso Núm.: FA2019CV00920.

NES SALÓN 506 Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ISLAND PORTFOLIO Sentencia Parcial o Resolución - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOSERVICES, LLC COMO en este caso, que ha sido debiTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. AGENTE DE ACE ONE damente registrada y archivada GUILLERMO A. SOMOZA en autos donde podrá usted enFUNDING, LLC COLOMBANI terarse detalladamente de los Demandante V. BILLYSOMOZA@YAHOO.COM términos de la misma. Esta noIVALAINE A: RAYMOND tificación se publicará una sola ROSARIO CAMACHO vez en un periódico de circulaRODRIGUEZ ROSA Demandado(a) ción general en la Isla de PuerY FULANO DE TAL, Caso Núm.: DO2023CV00091. to Rico, dentro de los 10 días FULANA DE TAL, Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - siguientes a su notificación. Y, ZUTANO DE TAL, ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN siendo o representando usted ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. una parte en el procedimiento KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO sujeta a los términos de la SenC COMO HEREDEROS KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM tencia, Sentencia Parcial o ReDESCONOCIDOS DE LA A: IVALAINE solución, de la cual puede estaSUCESION DE MARIA ROSARIO CAMACHO - blecerse recurso de revisión o DE LOS ANGELES ROSA CALLE EXT SUR #555 apelación dentro del término de VERA. LUIS RIVERA 30 días contados a partir de la DORADO, PR 00646. publicación por edicto de esta CORREA T/C/C LUIS (Nombre de las partes que se le notificación, dirijo a usted esta notifican la sentencia por edicto) A. RIVERA CORREA EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- notificación que se considerará COMO MIEMBRO DE LA cribe le notifica a usted que el hecha en la fecha de la publiSUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE 15 de noviembre de 2023, este cación de este edicto. Copia de LOS ÁNGELES ROSAS Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, esta notificación ha sido archiVERA, URBANIZACIÓN Sentencia Parcial o Resolución vada en los autos de este caso, en este caso, que ha sido debi- con fecha 17 de noviembre de ALTURAS DE SAN damente registrada y archivada 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico,

el 17 de noviembre de 2023.

LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante V.

NATHANIEL PEREZ GARCIA (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO) Y OTROS

terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 17 de noviembre de 2023. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 17 de noviembre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2023CV01007.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DUNCAN R. MALDONADO LEGAL NOTICE EJARQUE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO EJECUCIONES@CM-PRLAW.COM PUERTO RICO TRIBUA: NORMAN EUGENE DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PARKHURST MITCHEL, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BANAIDA RODRIGUEZ YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE DE PARKIIURST Y LA BAYAMÓN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 504

partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 15 de noviembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 15 de noviembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE LLC Demandante V.

SUCESION RAFAEL ROSADO RAMOS Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2023CV02445.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDO FRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES PO BOX 195387 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00919-5387 ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE SUITE 1201, 350 CHARDÓN AVE, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918.

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, COMPUESTA POR AS TRUSTEE OF AMBOS; WILBERT NICHOLAS PARKHIJRST, FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED PATRICIA SPEIER DE SECURITIES PARKIIURST Y LA AQUISITIONS TRUST SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE A: JOHN DOE Y 2019-HB1 BIENES GANANCIALES JANE DOE COMO Demandante V. COMPUESTA POR POSIBLES MIEMBROS SUCESION FRANCISCO AMBOS; NORMAN DESCONOCIDOS DE CONCEPCION EUGENE PARKHURST LA SUCESION RAFAEL GONZALEZ Y OTROS RODRIGUEZ III, ROSADO RAMOS T/C/C Demandado(a) MARIA DEL ROSARIO Caso Núm.: BY2019CV04267. RAFAEL ROSADO; JOHN VALDERAS DE Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI- ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE PARKHURST Y LA POSIBLES MIEMBROS POR EDICTO. SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE SENTENCIA DESCONOCIDOS DE FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDO BIENES GANANCIALES FRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM LA SUCESION MARIA COMPUESTA POR ELENA CORTES VARGAS A: MIGDALIA AMBOS; PEDRO T/C/C MARIA E CORTES CONCEPCION BAEZ. ANTONIO ORTIZ ABREU, (Nombre de las partes que se le VARGAS T/C/C MARIA notifican la sentencia por edicto) NIDZA RAMOS DE ELENA ROSADO T/C/C EL SECRETARIO(A) que susORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD cribe le notifica a usted que MARIA E. CORTESLEGAL DE BIENES el 18 de abril de 2023, este VARGA. (Nombre de las partes que se le Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, GANANCIALES notifican la sentencia por edicto) Sentencia Parcial o Resolución COMPUESTA POR en este caso, que ha sido debi- EL SECRETARIO(A) que susAMBOS (TITULARES damente registrada y archivada cribe le notifica a usted que el REGISTRALES); A LA en autos donde podrá usted 15 de noviembre de 2023, este SIGUIENTE DIRECCIÓN: enterarse detalladamente de Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Parcial o Resolución URB. TERRAZAS DEL los términos de la misma. Esta Sentencia notificación se publicará una en este caso, que ha sido debiMONTE F-I CALLE CEIBA sola vez en un periódico de damente registrada y archivada LAS PIEDRAS, PR 00771. circulación general en la Isla en autos donde podrá usted

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de noviembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en-

de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a

enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos

The San Juan Daily Star de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de noviembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 16 de noviembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 14 de noviembre de 2023. Notas de la Secretaría: NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA A SOLICITUD DE PARTE DEMANDANTE. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 14 de noviembre de 2023. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN JULIA ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 15 de noviembre de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 15 de noviembre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. BRENDA SANTIAGO LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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EVANELIS GONZALEZ ROBLES JUAN GONZALEZ ROBLES

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUPeticionarios ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONEX PARTE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- CE SALA SUPERIOR DE PON- Civil número: AG2023CV01510.

CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CE SALÓN DE SESIONES Salón: 601. Sobre: Expediente ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR SALÓN 605 CIVIL SUPERIOR de Dominio. EDICTO. ESTADE MANATÍ SALÓN DE SEDOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA ORIENTAL BANK SIONES SALÓN 102 SALA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS Demandante V. SUPERIOR US SMALL BUSINESS E.E.U.U. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. S.S. ORIENTAL BANK

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A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE A: JOHN DOE ROE, PERSONAS DESCRIBIRA. Y A TODA COMO MIEMBRO DESCONOCIDAS QUE PERSONA EN GENERAL DESCONOCIDO DE LA SE DESIGNAN CON QUE CON DERECHO SUCESIÓN DE CONNIE ESTOS NOMBRES PARA ELLO DESEE RIVERA GARCÍA. PO BOX FICTICIOS, QUE OPONERSE A ESTE 773, BARCELONETA, PUEDAN SER TENEDOR EXPEDIENTE. PR 00617; VILLA O TENEDORES, O BARCELONA, D6 CALLE PUEDAN TENER ALGÚN POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que comparezcan si 2, BARCELONETA, INTERÉS EN EL PAGARÉ lo creyeren pertinente ante este PR 00617: D6 CALLE HIPOTECARIO A QUE SE Honorable Tribunal dentro de 2, BARCELONETA, los veinte(20) días contados a HACE REFERENCIA. partir de la última publicación PR 00617; D-6 2ND ST (Nombre de las partes que se le de este edicto a exponer lo que notifican la sentencia por edicto) VILLA BARCELONA, EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- a sus derechos convenga en el BARCELONETA, PR cribe le notifica a usted que el expediente promovido por la 00617.

14 de noviembre de 2023, este parte peticionaria para adquirir Demandante V.

CONNIE RIVERA GARCIA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2023CV01984.

Demandado(a) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O Caso Núm.: MT2023CV00219. RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICA- ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NO- CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA EDICTO. POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN JMONTALVO@ JMONTALVO@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de noviembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic-

Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic-

su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su oposición u objeción a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https.//unitedpoderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Aguadilla. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticinaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción,

lo entiende procedente. Rústica localizada en el Bo. Cibao de San Sebastián, con una cabida superficial de 2,337.4402 metros cuadrados. La finca está localizada en la carretera 445 km. 11.5. Colindando al NORTE con la carretera 445 km. 1.9: al SUR con terrenos pertenecientes a la sucesión de Gabriel Robles ; al ESTE con terrenos pertenecientes a Alejo Robles Méndez ; y al OESTE con terrenos de Aníbal Quiñones.. Ubica una estructura para fines residenciales en cemento y hormigón. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo.

Milton D. Rivera Adames, Urb. Villa Rita, Calle 2 B-4, San Sebastián, PR, 00685. Tel. (787) 810-7577. Correo electrónico: estudioIeqalrivera2(dqmail. com. Se le informa además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 12 de enero de 2024, a las 3:30 de la tarde, mediante videoconferencia a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho.

Toda primera mención de persona natural o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo se identificará en letra tamaño diez puntos y en negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las regla de Procedimiento Civil , 2009. Se le apercibe de que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria sin más citárse ni oírsele. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 14 de noviembre de 2023.

Sarahi Reyes Perez, Sec Regional. Arlene Guzman Pabon, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.

TO RICO, S.S.

Demandadas Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05922.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER-

Núm.:

ISCI201500931. DOLARES ($55,000.00), según ejecutado, siempre que surgen

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- escritura numero 300, otorgada de la certificación registral, A: EMILY MARRERO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el para que puedan concurrir a VALLADARES Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUN- 30 de agosto de 2008, ante el la subasta si les convenga o COMO TENEDOR CIO DE SUBASTA. El suscri- Notario Jaime F. Sepulveda Ri- satisfacer antes del remate el DESCONOCIDO DEL biente, Alguacil del Tribunal de vera, según inscripción tercera importe del crédito, de sus inPrimera Instancia de Puerto (3era). La PRIMERA SUBASTA tereses, costas y honorarios PAGARÉ a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc., o a Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, a los se llevará a cabo el día 11 DE de abogados asegurados, quedemandados de epígrafe y al ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 dando entonces subrogados su orden, por la suma de público en general hace saber DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de en los derechos del acreedor $126,850.00 de principal, que venderá en pública subas- tipo mínimo para la misma la ejecutante. La propiedad a ser intereses al 5 3/4% anual, ta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, suma de $152,929.36 sin admi- ejecutada se adquirirá libre de vencedero el día 28 de sita en el Tribunal de Primera tirse oferta inferior. En el caso cargas y gravámenes posteInstancia, Sala de Mayagüez, de que el inmueble a ser subas- riores. Y para conocimiento de noviembre de 2014, al mejor postor, en moneda tado no fuera adjudicado en la licitadores, del público en geneconstituida mediante la de curso legal de los Estados primera subasta, se celebrará ral y para su publicación en un escritura número 507, Unidos de América en efectivo, una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el periódico de circulación general otorgada en San Juan, cheque certificado, o giro pos- día 18 DE ENERO DE 2024 A diaria en Puerto Rico y en los Puerto Rico, el día 30 de tal a nombre del Alguacil del LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sitios públicos de acuerdo a las de Primera Instancia, y el precio mínimo para esta disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 agosto de 2001, ante la Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte segunda subasta será el de de las de Procedimiento Civil, notario Mireya Ocasio demandada en el inmueble dos terceras partes del precio así como para la publicación García, e inscrita al folio que se relaciona más adelan- mínimo establecido para la pri- en un periódico de circulación 166 del tomo 442 de Toa te para pagar la SENTENCIA mera subasta, o a sea la suma general diaria y en el Estado Alta, finca número 22,671, por $160,882.99 de balance de $101,952.91. Si tampoco Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, más la cantidad de hubiera remate ni adjudicación por espacio de dos semanas Registro de la Propiedad principal, $6,144.07 por concepto de en la segunda subasta, se cele- con antelación a la fecha de la de Puerto Rico, Tercera atrasos que incluye principal, brará una TERCERA SUBASTA primera subasta y por lo menos Sección de Bayamón, intereses, cargos por demora el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2024 una vez por semana. Los autos y otros cargos, los cuales con- A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y todos los documentos corresinscripción 1ra.

tinuan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda; $13,996.77 por concepto de un “piggyback” obtenido para celebrar y llevar a cabo la modificación; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Barrio Rio Cañas Abajo de Mayagüez. Solar denominado con el número cuatro (4) en el plano de inscripción en el Proyecto Balcones de Sonsire sito en el Barrio Río Cañas Abajo del término municipal de Mayagüez, con una cabida superficial de DOS MIL DOSCIENTOS QUINCE PUNTO CUATRO MIL CIENTO NOVENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS (2,215,4199). Colinda por el Norte, con el solar número ocho (8) y el solar número siete (7), por el Sur, con carretera número trescientos cincuenta y uno (351) sección tres mil trescientos cincuenta y uno (3351), por el Este, con el solar número cinco (5) y por el Oeste, con el solar número tres (3). Enclava una estructura edificada de hormigón y bloques, dedicada a vivienda para una sola familia. Este solar está afectado por servidumbre de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, servidumbre para teléfono y cable y estación LEGAL NOTICE de bomba de agua. Inscrita al ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO sistema Karibe, finca numero DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- 46073, Registro de Mayagüez.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Dirección Física: Urbanización SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ Balcones de Sonsire, Lote 4, ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC Barrio Rio Cañas Abajo, MaParte Demandante yagüez, Puerto Rico. Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta BRENDA MARIE al siguiente gravamen posteSTEWART FERIA, rior: Hipoteca en garantía de REMANSO DE pagaré suscrito a favor del PorBOQUERON, S.E. tador, o a su orden, por la suma Parte Demandada de CINCUENTA Y CINCO MIL

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son.

ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP LEGAL NOTICE Suite 209 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO 500 Calle De La Tanca DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSan Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Fax: (787) 523-2664 SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE Expido rdíaz@bdprlaw.com este edicto bajo mi firma PUERTO RICO y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 8 Demandante V. de noviembre de 2023. LCDA. ANGEL MANUEL TABARO LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MIO’FERRAL, EMILY MARRERO VALLADARES LITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, JOHN DOE

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y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $76,464.88. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito

pondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables.

(Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm.

210-2015). Expedido el presente en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 31 de octubre de 2023. ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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

REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DAVID CARRASQUILLO SANTANA COMPUESTA POR ANGEL DAVID CARRASQUILLO SANTIAGO, JOSE LUIS CARRASQUILLO SANTIAGO, CARMEN MILAGROS CARRASQUILLO SANTIAGO, YOLANDA CARRASQUILLO MALAVE; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03360.

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

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 8 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela número tres (3) radicado en el Barrio Cerro Gordo de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. Compuesta de mil (1,000) metros cuadrados y e lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de veinte punto setenta y dos (20.72) metros; con la Parcela número cinco (5), propiedad de Lydia Almeda, por el SUR, en distancia de veinticinco punto cincuenta y tres (25.53) metros; con camino dedicado a uso público que separa de una quebrada y con terrenos de Evangelino Zayas, por el ESTE, en treinta y ocho punto setenta y nueve (38.79) metros, con camino dedicado a uso público y con parcela numero dos (2) a segregarse y por el OESTE, en treinta y cinco (35.00) metros, con terrenos, ahora propiedad de Patricio Serrano.

Finca número 14,303, inscrita al folio 115 del tomo 283 de San Lorenzo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 105 del tomo 468 de San Lorenzo, Finca 14,303, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II, inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: SOLAR 3, PR-916 KM. 3.9, BO. CERRO GORDO, SAN LORENZO, P.R. 00754. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $174,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 22 de febrero de 2095. Se entenderá

que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $174,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 16 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $116,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $87,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 23 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $87,293.72 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $20,584.41 en intereses acumulados al 3 de enero de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.568% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,634.35 en seguro hipotecario; $5,740.00 en tarifas de servicio; $854.00 en seguro; $475.00 de tasaciones; $580.00 de inspecciones; $5,690.50 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $17,400.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados

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que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de noviembre de 2023. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL PLACA #593.

be de que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo. con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oirle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de noviembre de 2023. Lcda Laura I Santa Sanchez, Secretaria.

SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, Sec. Trib. Conf. I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE LEGAL NOTICE TOA ALTA SALÓN DE SESIOESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NES SALÓN 201A DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUBANCO POPULAR DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PUERTO RICO SALA DE GUAYNABO. Demandante V.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; POPULAR MORTGAGE Demandante vs.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, como síndico de HF MORTGAGE BANKERS; John Doe y Richard Doe, como posibles tenedores desconocidos

Demandados CIVIL NUM. GB2023CV01037.

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, posibles tenedores de pagaré extraviado descrito más adelante

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: a. pagaré a favor de HF Mortgage Bankers, Inc, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $75,000.00 más intereses desde esa fecha hasta el pago total del principal a razón de 8 3/8% de interés anual, vencederos el 1 de agosto de 2010 suscrito en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el Notario Edgardo del Valle Galarza. Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a Ja Lcda.

Maritza Guzmán Matos, PMB 767, Avenida Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 758-3276, abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto.

Por la presente se les aperci-

SUCESION DE PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIZ T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIS T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TA2023CV00046.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARICELI PEREZ GONZALEZ NOTIFICACIONES@ GARCIACHAMORRO.COM MELISA FIGUEROA CASTRO MELISA.FIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO PO BOX 9024140 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00902-4140 SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO PO BOX 9020192 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00902-0192 SUCESION DE CRUCITA RENTAS PACHECO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTAN 115 CALLE ELISA VALLE URB DORADO TOWN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00646 SUCESION DE PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIZ T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIS T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERYS COMP. 115 CALLE ELISA VALLE URB DORADO TOWN DORADO, PUERTO RICO 00646.

A: SUCESION DE PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIZ T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERIS T/C/C PORFIRIO QUIÑONES NERYS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, SUCESION DE CRUCITA RENTAS PACHECO

COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de noviembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 15 de noviembre de 2023. En toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 15 de noviembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

MARIO RUBEN DUARTE RIVERA Y GLORIANNA RODRIGUEZ LEBRON T/C/C GLORIANNA RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a) Civil: TA2019CV00796. Sala: 402. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MARIO RUBEN DUARTE RIVERA Y GLORIANNA RODRIGUEZ LEBRON T/C/C GLORIANNA RODRIGUEZ.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de noviembre de 2019, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada

en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de noviembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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RICARDO ISAAC PAGAN SAN MIGUEL Demandante V.

EXPARTE

Demandado Caso Núm.: BY2023CV00882.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MELANIE M LORA MARZAN MLORALAW@GMAIL.COM SANTIAGO MARI ROCA SMARI_ROCA@YAHOO.COM PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO DESCONOCIDA, BAYAMON, PUERTO RICO 0000

A: PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de noviembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual

puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 16 de noviembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 16 de noviembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. F/ NELIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS

DENISSE VELAZQUEZ GONZALEZ Demandante Vs.

JAVIER RAMIREZ MACHIN

Demandado Civil Núm.: GR2023CV00289.

Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE BIENES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EUA.

A: JAVIER RAMIREZ MACHIN.

Por la presente se le notifica a usted, que se ha presentado en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Gurabo, la demanda de epígrafe, en la que, en síntesis, se alega que usted parte indispensable en la demanda para la liquidación de la comunidad de bienes habida entre usted y la demandante, DENISSE VELAZQUEZ GONZALEZ. Es abogado de la parte demandante el Lodo.

Juan José Berríos Colón, cuya dirección es en Vázquez y Asociados 379 Calle César González, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918, Teléfono 787-7660949 y se notica a usted que de no comparecer a contestar esta demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes después de haberse publicado el edicto, la parte demandante podrá solicitar la anotación de rebeldía y lograr que se dicte sentencia, concediéndosele el remedio solicitado sin más sin más citarles ni oírles. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su

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EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de noviembre de 2023.

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POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

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Inside man: How FIFA guided the World Cup to Saudi Arabia

By TARIQ PANJA

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s the world reeled from the coronavirus crisis in the fall of 2020, the president of soccer’s global governing body, Gianni Infantino, headed to Rome for an audience with Italy’s prime minister.

Wearing masks and bumping elbows, Infantino, the president of FIFA, and the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, greeted each other in front of journalists before disappearing with the president of the Italian soccer federation into one of the ornate state rooms of the 16th-century Palazzo Chigi, the Italian leader’s official residence.

Infantino explained afterward that they had talked about soccer’s path to recovery from pandemic shutdowns. He made no mention of the other pressing topic he had come to discuss.

Away from the television cameras, Infantino surprised the Italians by revealing himself to be a pitchman for an effort by Saudi Arabia to stage soccer’s biggest championship, the World Cup. Saudi Arabia had already secured the backing of Egypt, the FIFA president told the Italian officials, and now was looking for a European partner for what would be a unique tournament staged on three continents in 2030. Italy, he said, could be that partner.

Conte listened politely but would have known that such a partnership was politically impossible: Italy had strained relations with Egypt over the killing of an Italian graduate student in Cairo in 2016, and there was continuing discomfort across Europe about the Saudi role in the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post.

The Italian reaction to Infantino’s suggestion was at first “prudent and within a few hours negative,” said Pietro Benassi, who was the prime minister’s most senior diplomatic adviser. The country said no.

Three years later, Saudi Arabia would get its prize anyway. On Oct. 31, after an expedited process that caught its own members by surprise, FIFA confirmed Saudi Arabia was the sole bidder for the 2034 World Cup. Within hours, Infantino implied in a social media post that its status as host was a done deal and other Gulf rulers hailed it an “Arab victory” — even though the official vote was nearly a year away.

Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, at the 2022 World Cup. To many in soccer, Infantino’s advocacy for Saudi Arabia was nothing new. In the years since his visit to Rome, he had also pitched the Saudis’ co-hosting idea to Greece; championed multimillion-dollar Saudi investments in soccer; and helped shepherd rules changes that all but assured the kingdom would wind up with the World Cup. His efforts were hardly clandestine. But they have left many in soccer concerned about Infantino’s motivations, and questioning if he is using his position to prioritize FIFA’s interests or those of a friendly partner that has been leveraging its wealth to wield influence.

“How can we control that growing the game, and the values of the game, are leading the way, and not personal relationships?” said Lise Klaveness, the Norwegian soccer federation president and a critic of FIFA governance.

FIFA, through a spokesperson, responded to questions about Infantino’s actions on the president’s behalf, and said nothing improper had been done to ensure that the World Cup went to a preferred candidate. “The selection of venues for the FIFA World Cup takes place through an open and transparent bidding process,” the spokesperson said, adding that Infantino had not “triggered or initiated” discussions about Saudi Arabia’s bid with potential partners.

Still, the swiftness and secrecy with which FIFA handled the hosting rights for the 2030

and 2034 tournaments has brought new criticism of the way soccer is governed, and how the organization’s most consequential decisions are now made by a small group of top executives, led by Infantino, and then rubberstamped by a pliant governing council.

“What is incredible is this is the new FIFA,” said Miguel Maduro, the first governance head appointed by Infantino amid promises of transparency and ethical reforms.

“Yet they basically go back to the same old way of awarding World Cups.”

Saudi Arabia never hid its desire to host one. Under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi state has given sports a prominent role in efforts to project a new image of the country: vibrant, modern, open.

Billions have been spent on boxing matches, Formula One auto races, the LIV Golf tour and, most recently, an attempt to lure some of the world’s most famous soccer stars to Saudi Arabia’s domestic league.

The biggest prize, however, was always the World Cup. And in Infantino, Saudi Arabia found an enthusiastic ally. In many ways, the kingdom’s ambitions dovetailed with his own as he sought to create new legacy-defining events and projects, all of which would require major infusions of new capital.

In 2018, for instance, Infantino stunned members of FIFA’s board by demanding permission to close a deal for new competitions with investors whose identity he refused to reveal. (After the deal collapsed, it emerged

that the group behind the offer, SoftBank, counted Saudi Arabia among its biggest backers.) Three years later, Infantino infuriated many in soccer by saying FIFA would study a proposal — offered by Saudi Arabia’s federation — to hold the World Cup every two years. (The unpopular concept was shelved after a furious response.)

Despite those failures, the relationship between Infantino and Saudi Arabia only grew closer. He has frequently promoted its events on social media, and in 2021 he starred in a video released by its ministry of sports. In August 2022, he and Crown Prince Mohammed shared a suite at a boxing match in Jeddah. Months later, the FIFA president repaid the favor at the opening game of the World Cup in Qatar. Only last month, the men were photographed sitting side by side at yet another event in Riyadh.

“It is intended to send a message,” said Minky Worden, the director of global initiatives at Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group. “It’s like a visual symbol of putting your thumb on the scale.”

At the same time, Infantino was also engaging in private diplomacy that benefited Saudi Arabia’s World Cup ambitions.

After Italy passed on partnering on a World Cup bid, Saudi Arabia approached Greece with the offer, and Infantino discussed the idea with the Greek prime minister on the sidelines of a U.N. meeting in September 2021. But that idea was withdrawn after Morocco joined forces with Spain and Portugal in a potentially unbeatable bid for the 2030 World Cup. Instead, Saudi Arabia shifted its focus.

Realizing the Spain-Portugal-Morocco proposal would probably succeed over an unlikely four-nation offer from South America, the Saudis realized they could benefit from FIFA rules that would bar countries from Europe and Africa from challenging for the 2034 tournament when that bidding process began.

Then FIFA made two more curious moves.

The first three games of the 2030 World Cup, it suddenly announced, would be played in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay as a celebration of the World Cup’s centenary. (The first World Cup was played in Uruguay in 1930.) That brought South America

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From page 27 into the Portugal-Spain-Morocco bid — and eliminated yet another continent from the eligible bidders for 2034.

But with the 2030 hosts sorted, FIFA unexpectedly said that it was bringing forward the bid process for the 2034 tournament by at least three years, limiting the countries that could bid for it in ways that favored the Saudi bid, and planning to complete it in an onerous timeline: Interested nations were given only 25 days to express intent, and a few weeks more to submit official bids, which typically require significant government backing.

Infantino claimed there had been “widespread consultation” on the decision. But Klaveness, the president of the Norway federation, said she only learned of it when the official news release went out, and Australian soccer’s CEO said the changes “did catch us a little bit by surprise.”

Among those not surprised? Saudi Arabia. Within minutes, it released a statement, attributed to Crown Prince Mohammed, that it would bid for 2034. A few hours later, the head of Asian soccer declared the Saudi effort would have the full support of his entire membership.

Days later, Infantino left little doubt about the outcome he favored. At a summit of Asian soccer officials in Tashkent, Uz-

bekistan, and again during an online meeting of many of the same leaders a week later, the FIFA president urged the Asian confederation — which includes Australia — “to be united for the 2034 World Cup.” The message was not explicit. But it was received.

Indonesia, which only a week earlier had talked of bidding, dropped its plan. Australia, the only potential bidder left, pulled out hours before the deadline. Its top official, James Johnson, later said his country had concluded that any proposal stood no chance against a rival with such powerful public support. “The numbers,” he said, “are stacked against us.”

Swifties dug up Travis Kelce’s old social media … but it’s not what you think

By LOLA FADULU

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or seemingly the first time in recent memory, a celebrity’s old social media posts have been resurfaced — and not because they were racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic or otherwise offensive.

Last week, Taylor Swift fans dug up the old social media posts of Travis Kelce. But his musings on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, were widely shared and discussed because they were mundane streams of consciousness, which some found relatable, hilarious and even endearing.

Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs and two-time Super Bowl champion, “is experiencing the most positive possible version of the internet digging up your tweets from 2011,” wrote Alison Herman, a critic for Variety.

In one post from 2010 that now has more than 11,000 likes on the platform, Kelce, now 34, posted that he didn’t want to work, instead preferring to “sleep in my bed and do nothing with my life!!”

In another post from 2011 that now has more than 25,000 likes, he described feeding bread to a “squirle” and how the

Fans started speculating that Taylor Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce were dating around the time she appeared at a few Chiefs games in September. animal “straight smashed all of it!!!! I had no idea they ate bread like that!! Haha #crazy.”

It’s not unusual for fans to resurface old celebrity social media posts. But for most whose posts have reappeared, it is usually because they were problematic.

Chrissy Teigen, the model and cookbook author, had a reputation for being funny online, for instance. But in 2021, some of her posts from the 2010s were surfaced. In them, she repeatedly harassed Courtney Stodden, a model who was 16 at the time.

Older posts by Iggy Azalea and Kevin Hart have also gotten them into trouble. Azalea,

an Australian rapper known for her song “Fancy,” pulled out of an appearance at Pittsburgh Pride in 2015 after her homophobic and racist posts from the early 2010s were surfaced. Hart, the comedian and actor, stepped down as the host of the 2019 Oscars after his homophobic posts from around 2011 surfaced.

Given that record, the Swifties were pleasantly surprised to find that Kelce’s old posts were largely silly.

In addition to the thoughts about squirrels and work, Kelce also posted in 2010 about how much he loved going to IHOP and ordering the steak and eggs for breakfast, to which one user responded: “such a good order king.”

He hated long lines at Chipotle, got excited for basketball games and enjoyed a good fettuccine Alfredo at the local Olive Garden from time to time.

One user wrote that his posts repre-

sented a simpler time on that platform: “travis kelce’s old tweets perfectly encapsulate what twitter once was,” they posted.

“Dudes expressing themselves without fear of judgement during study hall.”

Still, many fans found reasons to make fun of the football star. Many pointed out the spelling errors he made in the posts, while others compared Kelce’s unsophisticated posts to complex lyrics from the song “All Too Well” that Swift, a 12-time Grammy winner whose Eras Tour this year shattered concert records, released around the same time. “oh this himbo .. i love him,” one user replied to a post that included one such side-by-side.

“It’s very melodramatic, but it also has this weird comedic bent to it, that I don’t think he was doing on purpose,” said Bobbi Miller, a culture critic and host of the pop culture podcast, “the Afternoon Special.”

Fans probably did so much sleuthing to begin with because of “the precedent of the last couple of people that Taylor has dated,” Miller said, referring in particular to Matty Healy, who has been criticized over past racist and sexist comments.

The memes and discussions around Kelce’s old posts are more evidence of the intrigue in the pair’s apparent budding relationship. Fans began speculating that the two were dating not long before Swift started to appear at a few of Kelce’s football games in September. The two have also made frequent appearances together, including on “Saturday Night Live” and at Swift’s Buenos Aires, Argentina, concert where she changed the lyrics of a song seemingly to reference him.

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HOROSCOPE 30 Aries

(Mar 21-April 20)

Important new information could come your way, perhaps through classes, books, or conversations with friends. This might open new personal and professional doors for you. You could learn new skills with technology, enhance your artistic ability, or both. Whichever you choose, this is a great day to train your talents. In doing so, you could form some powerful new friendships.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

New learning and improved communication with friends and family add greatly to your sense of self-esteem. A task into which you’ve put some effort over the past several weeks has been completed successfully. You’re now basking in the glow of others’ admiration. You may even have a few extra dollars to spend. You’ve worked hard for this and deserve it.

New learning and improved communication with friends and family add greatly to your sense of self-esteem. A task into which you’ve put some effort over the past several weeks has been completed successfully. You’re now basking in the glow of others’ admiration. You may even have a few extra dollars to spend. You’ve worked hard for this and deserve it.

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Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Life is an adventure. At least, that’s the attitude you take today. Flush with past success and basking in the affection of friends, you’re feeling especially confident and enthusiastic. You’ll consider if not adopt any possible option for your future, even if it involves taking off for an exotic land! It will involve learning and meeting new people who share your interests.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

A new unity and purpose could create a more positive atmosphere regarding your career. Recognition and an increased income are just over the horizon. Don’t be surprised if changes lie in store. You could end up in an entirely different profession! The support and affection of friends can see you through the transition.

Sagittarius

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Capricorn

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Optimism and excitement permeate any gettogethers that you’re involved in today. You and those around you tend to see only positive trends for the future - success with few obstacles. You need to hang onto that attitude because there are always obstacles. You might forge a new support group with some of these upbeat individuals. Make the most of it!

An unexpected raise could have you feeling especially generous toward those you love. Your gifts will be appreciated, but take care that you don’t wipe out all you’ve gained. Romantic ideals could permeate your consciousness, and you’ll be thinking wonderful thoughts about a passionate encounter with your love partner. Go for it. Hang onto the memory in the days and weeks to come.

Today you might be in the right mood to organize. High-tech equipment may be of help in this project, and so could the help of friends.

An optimistic, enthusiastic attitude will sustain you through any tasks. You will be more than happy with what you’ve accomplished by day’s end. Treat yourself. Go out and celebrate - you deserve it!

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Falling in love at first sight is something you never thought would happen, but it could happen today. A romantic involvement may follow or not, but the high you get from meeting a new person will make you feel better about yourself and life. A sense of adventure may have you longing to take a trip to a distant land. If you’ve wanted to plan a vacation, do it today.

You could feel especially amorous today. If you’re romantically involved, you could have an overwhelming urge for an intimate dinner with your significant other. If you’re uninvolved, expect that status to change shortly. A new person could cross your path and sweep you off your feet. Or you could see an old friend in a new light. Be prepared for anything.

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Movies that involve a lot of special effects might be especially appealing to you now. You may decide to learn more about how such effects are produced. You might also want to try your hand at computer graphics. The far reaches of your imagination might surprise you. Have fun with this. You could make it work for you in the future.

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Necessary cleaning or repairs in the home could inspire you to go a bit further and do some redecorating. Get rid of old furniture or other castoffs to make room for new objects that make your home look more attractive.

Friends and your special someone could volunteer to help you. Make a party of it! Everyone will have a good time.

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