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UPR Carolina provost asked academic senate to greenlight appointments that breached norms

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ollowing a recent STAR report, University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Carolina Campus Provost José Meza Pereira sought the Academic Senate’s green light to ratify his appointments of several deans made in violation of norms and due process.

The UPR Carolina Academic Senate approved his request, which the STAR learned was criticized by at least one member, who noted that the request did not proceed further because the appointments were illegal.

UPR governing board member Herman Cestero told the STAR he would be bringing the matter to the board’s attention.

Meza Pereira’s actions have occurred under the noses of the UPR governing board and its president, in what sources have described as yet another example of the governing board’s inadequate supervision of campuses.

While the UPR president is an ex-officio member of each of the 11 campuses’ academic senates, a sitting president has not shown up at those meetings in years, the sources close to UPR Carolina said.

Because of the disconnect between the governing board and the campuses, Meza Pereria appointed deans to the different departments without consulting the UPR Carolina Academic Senate.

UPR regulations state that when there is a vacancy for a dean position, the provost in 60 days must inform the academic senate or the faculty, or department in question of the vacancy. If a dean does not head a specific department, then the notification must be made to the academic senate, which has 30 days to appoint a consultation committee.

The provosts must also seek the approval of the governing board and the UPR president for the appointment of all deans. The governing board has 60 days to approve the appointment.

In the 15 months that Meza Pereira has been provost at UPR Carolina, he has appointed six deans using the mechanism and without consulting.

“In all cases, he sends an email to the staff on the same day he makes the appointment, which sometimes is made retroactively. At the same time, he has never officially informed the academic senate of the vacancies of the positions for dean,” a source said. “He has never asked the academic senate for a consultation committee nor has he ever asked for a consultation committee for non-teaching staff impacted by the appointment of the deans.”

The sources backed their claims with documents. One of the situations that has alarmed the Carolina campus is the

appointment of Gregory Bermúdez Rivera as interim dean of administrative affairs. Bermúdez Rivera was appointed for the period running from July 7, 2020 to Aug. 31, 2020.

Nonetheless, after the one-month period finished, Meza Pereira allowed Bermúdez Rivera to remain in the position for more than a year “in a clandestine and illegitimate manner.”

While Bermúdez Rivera has been working in the university system for over 20 years, he does not have a formal college degree needed to occupy the position. The letter written by Meza Pereira, a copy of which was obtained by the STAR, merely states that his 24-year experience in different positions qualifies him for the job. The appointment, the sources said, is also illegal because the rules state that after 30 days, all interim appointments must go before the UPR governing board.

Meza Pereira also appointed Jonathan Ramos Scharrón, a professor, as interim dean of the Hotel and Restaurant Administration School; José Ayala, an assistant professor, as interim dean of academic affairs; and Ana Rivera Soto, who was interim registrar, as interim dean of student affairs.

Ayala replaced Rafael Méndez, a natural sciences professor and department director, who had also been appointed in an interim fashion without the consultation of the academic senate. Soto replaced Alexy M. Márquez, who was only on the job from February to September of this year.

None of those appointments have been taken to the UPR Carolina academic senate, according to documents obtained by the STAR.

A UPR governing board member said he would be bringing the matter to the board’s attention.

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NPP will attend status dialogues as statehood efforts continue

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ew Progressive Party (NPP) Sen. Thomas Rivera Schatz informed Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago on Monday that although his party will appear as part of the planned Dialogue Table to discuss Puerto Rico status alternatives, the NPP will continue to lobby for statehood in Washington, D.C. Sectors within the NPP consider the party’s decision to participate in the Dialogue Table to be treason. They said a majority of voters in a referendum last year selected statehood as a status option. In May of this year the NPP held an election to select shadow delegates to lobby for statehood. For instance, pro-statehood advocate Miriam Ramirez de Ferrer has criticized members of Congress who have refused to sign Puerto Rico’s admission request.

She also said individuals should pursue statehood and not depend on the NPP or delegates.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said he will continue to pursue statehood but is allowing Rivera Schatz to show up for the talks.

In a letter addressed to Dalmau Santiago, Rivera Schatz said the Dialogue Table should include the presidents of the Republican and Democratic parties on the island.

Dalmau Santiago invited the presidents of the various political parties on the island to establish a Dialogue Table and on Sunday indicated that all the presidents had

Sen. Thomas Rivera Schatz agreed to show up.

“About the Dialogue Table to which you have invited the political leadership to discuss the issue of Puerto Rico’s

status, I suggest you include the local presidents of the national parties, Democrat and Republican,” Rivera Schatz wrote in the letter.

LUMA ordered to prepare plan for EV charging system

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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uerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) Chairman Edison Avilés Deliz announced on Monday that LUMA Energy was ordered by resolution to present the first phase of its plan for the distribution of energy for electric vehicles (EV) on the island.

“This resolution is the result of the effort and input of the different sectors related to the industry,” Avilés Deliz said in a written statement. “It is a combination on par with any private sector management, since the current legal framework allows it; even long before this novel alternative became a matter of public discussion.”

As part of its preparation, the regulatory entity this year requested and has received the comments of Cambio PR, the Electrician Experts Association, the Independent Puerto Rico Energy Bureau Chairman Edison Avilés Deliz Office for Consumer Protection, the energy public policy program of the Department of Economic Development efficient alternative or renewable energy systems.

Planning for the aforementioned implementation, and Commerce, Mr. Ángel Rodríguez and Tesla Inc. In addition to outlining its jurisdiction on the matter, Avilés Deliz said, has been developed, “in constant the PREB emphasizes, as part of its determination, the dialogue to ensure compliance with Article 3 of Law importance and need to implement an energy system 33 of 2019, which expressly includes the electrification with a low dependence on oil and the eradication of of motor vehicles.” The document, having highlighted the generation of coal-based energy, promoting more the relevance of the workshop held on the subject last

September, establishes that in January and February the second and third workshops will be held, aimed at discussing both the criteria to be considered as priorities in the strengthening and development of infrastructure and in the optimal use of the pilot programs, respectively.

Among the main guidelines established by the PREB to LUMA Energy for the preparation of its plan, are from the obligation to consider the behavior, present and future, of the consumer, the deployment of the necessary infrastructure and technology in accordance with the demand and other elements of the market, and the locations and costs most appropriate to the network available over time in each geographic region of Puerto Rico.

Likewise, LUMA must submit, on or before May 31, 2022, its proposal to configure a rate process that encourages recharging outside peak hours and that addresses different aspects and trends related to the diversity of uses for which electricity is offered at the charging point and the growth and desirability of the installation of energy storage systems.

LUMA Energy must present the first phase of its plan on or before Sept. 1, 2022, after having participated in three technical compliance hearings scheduled for Feb. 25, May 31 and Aug. 31 of the same year.

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In closing argument, fiscal board stresses that POA doesn’t cut public pensions

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he Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico provided closing arguments on Monday in hearings seeking to confirm the plan of adjustment (POA) that would restructure some $33 billion in commonwealth debt, emphasizing that the latest version of the debt deal doesn’t cut government employee pension benefits to authorize new bond issuances.

The oversight board late Sunday filed yet another version of the eighth amended POA. Before Monday’s hearing, the oversight board filed a motion seeking to change the Government Development Plan Debt Recovery Authority’s votes to reject the plan, to votes accepting it. Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is overseeing the case, granted the motion.

The Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF), meanwhile, filed a motion over the weekend complaining that the oversight board added three laws to the list of laws it wishes to preempt, a move that, the AAFAF said, will allow the board to hinder pension benefits for future retirees.

In a statement, the oversight board described the proposed POA as a “historic opportunity” for Puerto Rico to reduce the commonwealth’s outstanding debt by almost 80%, from $33 billion to $7 billion. The POA includes a base contribution to a pension reserve trust of a minimum $175 million a year. If in any given year the certified fiscal plan as of the effective date of the POA projects a primary budget surplus exceeding $1.75 billion, the base contribu-

tion to the pension reserve trust would rise to 50% of that projected surplus. In addition, the government would contribute to the pension reserve trust for 10 years, compared to eight years as contemplated under a previous plan.

Judge Swain, however, noted that there are potentially non-dischargeable claims that the plan currently treats as unsecured claims.

Swain said Monday that she is not sure what claims will be determined as non-dischargeable as she hasn’t made a final decision.

Oversight board attorney Martin Bienenstock, of the law firm Proskauer Rose, said the plan would still be feasible even if there is a ruling that all $400 million of the relevant claims are non-dischargeable. The judge was referring to eminent domain claims that opponents of the POA say are not getting just compensation under the plan. Those individuals, including Finca Matilde, claim the plan violates the Takings Clause.

Speaking in support of the plan, Brian Rosen of Proskauer Rose provided background in the case, noting that the court had already scheduled time to consider disclosure statement approval back in March 2020 when the case was then halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Rosen said the suspension of the case led to further mediation that garnered more creditors in support of the plan, which resulted in a revised version last February.

Rosen argued that the settlements embedded in the POA are acceptable and reasonable taking into account the complexity of litigation and the adverse effects that would occur if they weren’t approved. Meanwhile, the POA met

U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain the requirements of a best interest evaluation conducted by McKinsey & Co., an adviser to the oversight board.

Michael Mervis, another lawyer with Proskauer Rose, addressed an objection from retail bondholder Peter Hein. He noted that Hein has argued that the plan should not be viewed on an aggregate basis to determine whether it is fair and equitable for creditors.

Instead, Hein argues that it should be determined whether treatment is fair individually on a class-by-class basis.

The oversight believes the collective test of fairness is the appropriate standard for approval, Mervis said. Further, he said the general obligation (GO) bondholder class Hein is focused on has overwhelmingly accepted the terms of the POA. Hein has argued that GO debt should be paid even before the government’s operating

costs, Rosen noted, but that would mean paying the debt first before paying teachers or firefighters.

Rosen rejected Hein’s argument that the fiscal plan budget includes non-essential spending, such as advertising fees, that don’t have to be paid before bondholders. Rosen said that if advertising for tourism is cut, the economy will suffer.

Bienenstock then proceeded to discuss that the plan satisfies fair and equitable standards, noting that the pension classes are the most benefited when compared to other creditors. Creditors overall are getting the same recoveries they would get outside the bankruptcy case.

The AAFAF, which was represented by Peter Friedman, a lawyer with O’Melveny & Myers, spoke in favor of the plan even though his client maintains that pension cuts are unacceptable.

Robert Gordon, a lawyer with Jenner & Block, which represents the Official Committee of Retirees, said the protection of pensions is supported by sound financial policies. Previous versions of the plan called for an 8.5% cut to pensions higher than $1,500 per month.

Unsecured creditors committee (UCC) representative Luc Despins, a lawyer with Paul Hastings, said the UCC fully supports the plan.

Voters in the class by a majority supported the plan even though not everyone voted. He said no one in the UCC’s class is challenging plan treatment or arguing that the plan doesn’t meet the best interests of creditors test.

Opponents of the plan were slated to provide closing arguments at press time.

Medina Cardona denied new trial in Arellys Mercado murder case

By THE STAR STAFF

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he Puerto Rico Supreme Court issued a resolution on Monday declaring not applicable a petition for a new trial for the convicted Jensen Medina Cardona.

“The petition for certiorari presented in this case has been examined, and is not provided,” reads the resolution.

“It was agreed by the Court and certified by the Secretary of the Supreme Court.”

Medina Cardona was found guilty of the murder of Arellys Mercado Ríos in events that occurred in August 2019 in Villa Marina de Fajardo.

Medina Cardona’s defense requested a petition for certiorari in which they sought a new trial.

Sentencing in the case is scheduled for Jan. 11, 2022.

Medina Cardona could face up to 129 years in prison.

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Amid spike in slayings, police can't ‘divine’ where they’ll happen, top cop says

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

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olice Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa said Monday that his police officers “are not fortune tellers” with the ability to predict when one person is going to kill another.

“For the 20,000 policemen that I have, it is impossible that there can be a policeman for every situation, because we can’t predict the future,” the island’s top cop said in response to questions from the press. “We are working.

We have work plans in the Auxiliary Superintendency and the special units, doing the appropriate work. Is it that this is long term or medium term? Yes. You are not going to see the results now; you are going to see them next year.”

Thirteen homicides were recorded over

Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa the past weekend, seven of which occurred in the early hours of Sunday, as reported by the Puerto Rico Police Bureau.

“All plans have been modified,” López Figueroa said. “We had preventive patrols over the weekend. We have the necessary patrols and we have the investigations running. And the plans are aimed at this, to counteract the murders, to arrest the people who are responsible for them. And we ask citizens for cooperation.”

The commissioner said the recent crimes are being committed by organizations that charge for murders. Sometimes there is cooperation on the part of a member of the criminal organization of the person to be killed, to locate the target.

“The best example is the video that is being

seen [of the double murder] in Guayama,” the police commissioner said. “That person had just left the court, because his case was suspended. … One of his partners sold him out to kill him on that highway.”

Also, what is classified as stalking occurs.

“These crimes are the consequence of crime not paying and I’m going to tell you why,” López Figueroa said. “Individuals who are involved in drug trafficking have to be careful every day that their enemies or even friends who might want to take their position don’t kill them.”

“They take advantage of these days to show camaraderie and become vulnerable and have people who in the underworld are called ‘setiators’ [stool pigeons], who are people who locate them. That is why these deaths occur at the most vulnerable moment, so that these [targeted] people cannot respond to the attack.”

Ex-police sergeant arrested in domestic violence incident

By THE STAR STAFF

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gents from the Domestic Violence Division of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau (PRPB) are investigating a gender violence complaint against an ex-police sergeant that occurred in the town of Coamo on Monday.

According to the police, Kelvin Antonio

Meléndez Rodríguez, a former sergeant in the PRPB, was arrested for allegedly striking his partner on different parts of the body in the presence of minors.

The woman reportedly received medical assistance.

Meléndez Rodríguez is in the custody of the Police and the prosecutor on duty has been consulted for the possible filing of charges.

Double homicide causes closure of PR-53 in Guayama

By THE STAR STAFF

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olice agents from the Guayama district were investigating an attack on Monday around 12:30 p.m. on the PR-53 expressway, kilometer 86.2, between Guayama and Salinas.

According to the police, a vehicle that had been hit with several gunshots was encountered at the scene. Two people were reported to have been killed in the incident.

The highway was to be closed from the Pozo Hondo light at the entrance of the prison in Guayama, until exit for the Aguirre neighborhood.

Citizens were being urged to take alternate routes (Highway 3) while authorities investigated the case.

After 13 killings were recorded on the island over the weekend, authorities on Monday reported a double-homicide on highway PR-53 between Guayama and Salinas.

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As Thanksgiving approaches, US virus cases tick upward once more

By MITCH SMITH

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month ago, new coronavirus cases in the United States were ticking steadily downward and the worst of a miserable summer surge fueled by the delta variant appeared to be over. But as Americans travel this week to meet far-flung relatives for Thanksgiving dinner, new virus cases are rising once more, especially in the Upper Midwest and Northeast.

Federal medical teams have been dispatched to Minnesota to help at overwhelmed hospitals. Michigan is enduring its worst case surge yet, with daily caseloads doubling since the start of November. Even New England, where vaccination rates are high, is struggling:Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire have tried to contain major outbreaks.

Nationally, case levels remain well below those seen in early September, when summer infections peaked, and are below those seen last Thanksgiving. But conditions are worsening rapidly, and this will not be the post-pandemic Thanksgiving that Americans had hoped for. More than 90,000 cases are being reported each day, comparable to early August, and more than 30 states are seeing sustained upticks in infections. In the hardest-hit places, hospitalizations are climbing.

“This thing is no longer just throwing curveballs at us — it’s throwing 210-mile-an-hour curveballs at us,” said Michael Osterholm, a public health researcher at the University of Minnesota. He said that the virus had repeatedly defied predictions and continues to do so.

The new rise in cases comes at a complicated moment.

Last Thanksgiving, before vaccines were available, federal and local officials had firmly urged Americans to forgo holiday gatherings. But in sharp contrast, public health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectiousdisease expert, have mostly suggested this year that vaccinated people could gather in relative safety.

In interviews across the country, Americans said they were not sure what to think.

Jess Helle-Morrissey, 43, a therapist who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, said she has decided to host a dinner, although case rates in her state are among the country’s worst. About 4,200 cases are emerging every day and hospitalizations are soaring in Minnesota.

“They are diligent maskers and don’t take any extra risks,” she said of her guests. “Everyone who is coming, I keep saying, is, you know, vaxxed to the max.”

In important ways, the country is in better shape than during previous upticks. Doctors have learned more about how to treat the virus and experts are hopeful that antiviral pills will soon be approved. Most crucially, many Americans have been vaccinated. The availability of those shots — including the recent approval of booster doses for all adults — has raised confidence for many who said they planned to proceed with holiday celebrations.

But about 50,000 coronavirus patients are hospitalized nationwide, and tens of millions of Americans have declined to be vaccinated. The course of the virus in Europe, where Austria is entering a lockdown and some areas of Germany have shut down Christmas markets, has raised fears about just how high case numbers might rise in the United States.

“The last thing I want is what Austria is doing,” said Dr. Allison Arwady, the public health commissioner in Chicago, where cases have started to rise. “I really, really don’t want to go there.”

In Austria, about 66% of the population has been fully vaccinated against the virus. In the United States, about 59% of the population has been.

Still, millions of Americans were forging ahead with holiday plans. Federal officials expected Thanksgiving air travel to approach pre-pandemic levels. And plenty of people who hit the road this year will be unvaccinated, unmasked and largely unworried about COVID-19.

Many experts said the wide availability of vaccines, now authorized for everyone 5 and older, as well as at-home testing, made it possible for vaccinated people to host a relatively safe, although not fully risk-free, gathering.

Arwady said she planned to spend the holiday with extended family members, all of whom are vaccinated except young children who are not eligible. While reports of new

cases in Illinois have increased 62% in the past two weeks, she said she wanted vaccinated people to feel confident going about their life and to enjoy Thanksgiving.

“Is there the potential for some spread? Of course there is,” said Arwady, who suggested that unvaccinated adults consider staying home. “Are the people who are vaccinated, even if they haven’t gotten a booster, likely to end up in the hospital or die? They’re really not.”

Osterholm said he worried about breakthrough cases in vaccinated people who did not have booster shots and about the potential for future mutations of the virus. Still, he too said he would gather for the holiday with vaccinated family members who live nearby.

Officials who once urged caution were now deferring to individuals to make their own decisions.

“It’s really hard to tell people to stay away from their families,” said Mayor Katie Rosenberg of Wausau, Wisconsin, where cases have surged to their highest levels since late 2020. “I can’t anymore.”

Dr. Rebecca Smith, a public health researcher at the University of Illinois, said she planned to travel by vehicle with her children to see family but would get tested before and after.

“People want to get back to normal and we understand that — and there are ways to do that safely,” she said.

Coronavirus cases are rising again in parts of the country, but more people are traveling, and health officials have largely stopped telling people to skip celebrations.

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Suspect in custody in deadly Wisconsin parade incident

Police collect abandoned items along a parade route in Waukesha, Wis., on Monday, Nov. 22, 2021, after the driver of an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade on Sunday. The police had a person of interest in custody on Monday after the driver of a red SUV barreled through the parade, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 others.

By DAN SIMMONS, MITCH SMITH, ROBERT CHIARITO and GLENN THRUSH

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arrell E. Brooks, a 39-year-old Milwaukee man, faces five counts of first-degree intentional homicide after authorities said he drove a red SUV into a Christmas parade Sunday, killing at least five adults and injuring more than 40 others, including more than a dozen children.

The dead ranged in age from 52 to 81, Dan Thompson, chief of the Waukesha Police Department, told reporters Monday.

Brooks steered the SUV through barricades, ignoring the warnings of officers posted to protect the parade, moments after leaving the scene of a domestic disturbance, Thompson said.

The incident was not related to terrorism, and Brooks was not being pursued by police at the time, he added. He was captured shortly after speeding away from the scene, according to the chief, who said he was one of the first officers to arrive at the scene.

A police officer fired shots at Brooks’ vehicle, but “due to the amount of people” at the parade had to stop.

No bystanders were struck, Thompson said.

“We have no information that Brooks knew anyone in the parade,” Thompson added.

Brooks had been free on $1,000 bail in an earlier criminal case, in which he was accused of running over the mother of his child in the parking lot of a Milwaukee gas station with his maroon 2010 Ford Escape earlier this month. A spokesman for the district attorney’s office Monday described the state’s bail recommendation in that earlier case as “inappropriately low” in light of the seriousness of the charges and “not consistent” with office policy.

“This office is currently conducting an internal review of the decision to make the recent bail recommendation in this matter in order to determine the appropriate next steps,” the statement said.

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said President Joe Biden was receiving regular updates on the tragedy.

“Our team is in close touch with local officials to offer any support and assistance needed,” she said on Twitter.

“Our hearts are with the families and the entire community.”

It was supposed to have been a celebratory night in Waukesha. Dance groups and high school bands and politicians were marching along Main Street in the Milwaukee suburb’s Christmas parade, which was returning from a pandemic hiatus.

Then, just before 4:40 p.m., the driver of a red SUV, said to be a Ford Escape, stormed past barricades and into the crowd, striking dozens. City authorities said in a state-

ment late Sunday that the number of dead and injured could change.

Area hospitals reported treating dozens of patients, including many children. It was unclear what might have motivated the episode.

“Today our community faced horror and tragedy in what should have been a community celebration,” said Mayor Shawn Reilly, who described seeing smiling children and happy parents when he marched along the parade route earlier Sunday. “I’m deeply saddened to know that so many in our community went to a parade but ended up dealing with injury and heartache.”

Officials at Children’s Wisconsin, which treats only pediatric patients, said in a news conference Monday that it had treated 18 who were injured in the parade, including three sets of siblings. Of those 18 children, six are in critical condition, three are in serious condition, seven are in fair condition, and two have been discharged.

Another hospital, Aurora Medical Center–Summit, said in a statement that it was treating 13 patients, including three in critical condition. Officials at Froedtert Hospital said Monday they had treated seven patients.

This was the 58th Christmas parade for Waukesha, an annual event that was canceled last year because of the pandemic. The theme of this year’s event was “Comfort and Joy.”

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For Arbery’s family and friends, a time of anguish and activism

By TARIRO MZEZEWA

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rom the moment that Theawanza Brooks heard the initial account that her family was told about her nephew Ahmaud Arbery’s death, it felt off. The authorities, she said, reported that he had been involved in a burglary and killed after a tussle over a gun.

Her own trip to investigate the scene of his death — his blood still visible on the ground — made her only more skeptical. Nearly three months later, when a video became public showing Arbery being chased, cornered and then shot at close range, she felt vindicated and angry — an anger that has persisted nearly two years.

Brooks, 37, who works in retail, is among many members of Arbery’s large extended family and circle of friends who have been both griefstricken and galvanized to action since his death in February 2020. Over the past month, as the case against the three men charged with murder has played out in the Glynn County Courthouse, they have watched with anguish as the gruesome details of the final moments of Arbery’s life — but nearly none of his humanity — were described to the jury. Part of the family’s role, Brooks said, is helping the public understand who her nephew was.

“This activism kicked in me that I never saw myself being a part of,” she said. “I feel that every day that I go out, I have to have some kind of representation of Ahmaud.”

Brooks has attended the trial regularly, filling notebooks with detailed descriptions of what is said by witnesses, lawyers and the judge.

At the end of the day, she cross-references media coverage to make sure her notes are accurate before going live on Facebook to relay the day’s events to people around the world.

Diane Arbery, another of Ahmaud Arbery’s aunts, has been outside the courthouse all day, every day talking to supporters. So has Carla Arbery, an aunt whose children were especially close to Ahmaud Arbery. Ruby Arbery, still another of Ahmaud Arbery’s aunts, has brought home-cooked meals for family members and supporters. Ahmaud Arbery’s parents have attended every day of the trial, each arriving with his or her own lawyer, and sometimes sitting with high-profile civil rights activists, including the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

“I’ve been trying to watch every second, every minute because I don’t want to miss anything,” said Akeem Baker, one of Arbery’s best friends since childhood. “I feel like if I take my eyes off it, I don’t want anything to kind of slip through the cracks.”

Many of those closest to Arbery begin and end the day with a prayer. They pray throughout the day for the strength to keep watching. “We need prayer,” Diane Arbery said. “We’ve got to keep praying, and we ask everyone out there to keep praying for us.”

Last week, Black pastors from across the country joined the family in Brunswick in a show of support after a defense lawyer asked that Black pastors and civil rights leaders not be allowed in the courtroom because they could intimidate the jury.

“My heart is full of just joy in the midst of this broken heart,” Wanda Cooper-Jones, Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, told the assembled crowd before asking the pastors and activists to say her son’s name.

Brooks and Arbery’s other aunts were there too, wearing T-shirts that said, “It’s the Black pastors for me.”

Arbery, 25, was known to his family and friends as Maud or Quez. He had been a standout linebacker for the Brunswick High School Pirates and dreamed of playing professional football.

He left town briefly to attend a technical school but eventually returned to the Brunswick area and was living with his mother. “His mom was his queen,” Baker said.

He liked rapping and listening to trap music. After a hard day, he sometimes went to Madge Merritt Park, near Brunswick, to rap to clear his mind. He had recently started a job doing landscaping work with his father, and he was also working at a truck wash, according to a friend. He also had a mental illness that caused him to have auditory hallucinations.

The picture of Arbery painted by the lawyers for the men accused in his death has been difficult for the family to hear. One lawyer, building an argument that his assailants had reason to believe Arbery was responsible for a string of neighborhood break-ins, described him as “an intruder” who was caught four times on video “plundering around” a house under construction in the neighborhood.

On Feb. 23, 2020, Brooks drove to the Satilla Shores neighborhood outside Brunswick as soon as she got off work — her disbelief at the news of Arbery’s death there compelling her to see for herself.

“I was distraught,” she said. She was surprised to see that the house her nephew was accused of burglarizing had no windows or doors; it was still under construction.

“Burglary,” she said. “It just kept playing in my mind, ‘How can you burglarize this?’”

Brooks began keeping track of local news articles mentioning Arbery, trying to piece

together what happened. She wanted everyone to know what happened to her nephew and for his killers to be held accountable.

Eventually, three men —Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and their neighbor William Bryan — were charged with murder. The case became among the most highprofile in the country, contributed to the national furor over shooting deaths of Black people and the wave of protests against systemic racism. In Georgia, it propelled lawmakers to enact hate crimes legislation and to largely dismantle the state’s citizen’s arrest law.

In the months since, Brooks has marched

through the streets of Brunswick chanting Arbery’s name, knocked on doors telling residents the story of her nephew’s life and death and urged them to vote out the district attorney who initially refused to press charges against the suspects in Arbery’s killing. Her nephew’s name and likeness are on her car, her clothing, her jewelry.

“Travis McMichael got up there and talked about fearing for his son,” Brooks said. “Maud was someone’s son. What about the son he took away from Wanda and Marcus? The son that we love that we will never see again, who will never go home again?”

Akeem Baker shows a photo of himself, left, and his friend Ahmaud Arbery when they attended Brunswick High School in Brunswick, Ga., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.

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State attorneys general open inquiry into Instagram’s impact on teens

By CECILIA KANG and MIKE ISAAC

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bipartisan group of state attorneys general said last week that they had opened an investigation into Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, for promoting its social media app Instagram while knowing of mental and emotional harms caused by the service.

At least 11 states are involved in the investigation, including California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, a leader of the investigation, said the states were examining whether the company’s actions violated state consumer protection laws and put the public at risk.

“Facebook, now Meta, has failed to protect young people on its platforms and instead chose to ignore or, in some cases, double down on known manipulations that pose a real threat to physical and mental health — exploiting children in the interest of profit,” Healey said.

The move comes after a trove of documents from a former employee detailed research inside of the social media company that suggested teenagers suffered body image issues when using Instagram. The documents, called The Facebook Papers, were shared with journalists in October. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the documents and the issues at Instagram with the help of Frances Haugen, the whistleblower.

Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, another leader of the investigation, said the states would examine the “the techniques utilized by Meta to increase the frequency and duration of engagement by young users and the resulting harms caused by such extended engagement.”

“When social media platforms treat our kids as mere commodities to manipulate for longer screen time engagement & data extraction, it becomes imperative for state attorneys general to engage our investigative authority under our consumer protection laws,” Peterson said in a tweet.

The states’ investigation adds to building regulatory pressure on Meta and other giants of Silicon Valley.

Haugen and public interest groups have filed at least nine complaints to the Securities

The Facebook Papers, released by a whistle-blower, showed that roughly a third of teenage girls who already felt bad about their bodies said Instagram made them feel worse. and Exchange Commission claiming Meta misled investors about its efforts to protect users from disinformation and hate. The Federal Trade Commission and dozens of states have filed antitrust lawsuits to break up Meta, and members of Congress have vowed to create privacy, speech and antitrust legislation aimed at reining in the power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

Spanning tens of thousands of pages and gigabytes of data, The Facebook Papers show a company struggling to deal with many issues that come as a byproduct of its enormous scale and billions of users, spanning topics like misinformation, addiction and manipulation of users around the world.

Much of the information came in the form of detailed reports investigating the issues, laid out by the company’s research division.

Meta has said the research efforts are intended to address the issues they pinpoint, with the aim of improving the company’s products and services.

The documents detail that roughly onethird of teenage girls in a survey who already felt bad about their bodies said Instagram made them feel worse. “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves,” the documents said.

Meta has disputed the characterization of the initial reporting on Instagram’s issues, saying that the story lacked context, left out vital information and was a poor interpretation of the data obtained by The

Journal. The company argued that on 11 of 12 well-being issues, the surveyed teenage girls said Instagram made them feel “better and not worse.”

“It is simply not accurate that this research demonstrates Instagram is ‘toxic’ for teen girls,” Pratiti Raychoudhury a vice president and head of research at Facebook, said in a company blog post in September.

In a statement Thursday, a representative for Meta strongly disputed the claims made by the state attorneys general against Instagram.

“These accusations are false and demonstrate a deep misunderstanding of the facts,” said Liza Crenshaw, a spokesperson for the company. “While challenges in protecting young people online impact the entire industry, we’ve led the industry in combating bullying and supporting people struggling with suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and eating disorders.”

CVS will close 900 stores as it looks beyond traditional pharmacies

By CORAL MURPHY MARCOS

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VS will close about 300 stores a year in the next three years, the company said last week, as the pharmacy chain focuses on offering more health care services and expanding its digital services.

The closures, which will affect about 9% of the company’s stores, are part of an effort to realign its retail strategy, CVS said in statement on its website.

The company operates more than 9,900 stores in the United States, according to its website. A CVS spokesperson said the company did not expect CVS pharmacies in Target stores to be affected.

“We remain focused on the competitive advantage provided by our presence in thousands of communities across the country, which complements our rapidly expanding digital presence,” said Karen S. Lynch, president and chief executive of CVS Health.

CVS is aiming to remake many of its

stores. Some will offer primary care services, and others will offer broader health care services than standard pharmacies, such as treatment for diabetes. The company will also maintain traditional CVS stores, which provide prescription services and health products.

“Hybrid models really took off during the pandemic, including rapid delivery services, curbside pickup and buy online/pick up in-store,” said Ted Rossman, a senior analyst at Bankrate.com.

“Those approaches could be particularly advantageous for CVS.” CVS said earlier this month that about 70% of CVS Pharmacy customers were enrolled in its text messaging program.

“We continue to modernize our operating systems and enhance the integration of pharmacy models, simplifying consumer interactions and driving further engagement with our customers,” Lynch said during the company’s earnings conference call on Nov. 3.

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S&P 500 at record high as banks rally on Powell nomination U .S. stocks hit fresh record highs Monday, while Treasury yields jumped and the dollar extended gains, as investors reacted to President Joe Biden’s decision to nominate Jerome Powell for a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, with Lael Brainard pegged as Vice Chair.

Global market gains were capped, however, following comments from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who cautioned that the recent COVID surge in Europe’s biggest economy has become ‘dramatic’, and argued for tighter restrictions on movement and businesses in the weeks ahead.

Health Minister Jens Spahn was even more blunt, telling reporters in Berlin Monday that “by the end of this winter pretty much everyone in Germany ... will have been vaccinated, recovered or died.”

With markets closed on Thursday, and trading for only a half day on Friday, liquidity is likely to be thin this week with only 12 S&P 500 companies reporting earnings and light economic calendar highlighted by minutes of the November Fed meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

Stocks are getting their early Monday boost, however, from the sustained strength of the third quarter earnings season, which is easing into its conclusion, as collective S&P 500 profits rise 42.3% from last year to $452.9 billion. Strongerthan-expected consumer spending data, as well as continued improvements in the labor market are adding to the bullish tone.

Inflation prospects, however, are showing few signs of abating, and the current rally -- which has taken the S&P 500 to a year-to-date gain of around 25.1% -- could be tested if the Fed were to accelerate its tapering plans in order to slow the searing pace of CPI gains.

Investors will get a glimpse into a least some of that thinking Wednesday with the release of minutes from the Fed’s November policy meeting, as well as a reading of the PCE Price Index, the central bank’s preferred measure of inflation, earlier that same day.

“While there’s still more to be done, we’ve made remarkable progress over the last 10 months in getting Americans back to work and getting our economy moving again,” Biden said in a statement. “That success is a testament to the economic agenda I’ve pursued and to the decisive action that the Federal Reserve has taken under Chair Powell and Dr. Brainard to help steer us through the worst downturn in modern American history and put us on the path to recovery.”

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 280 points in the opening minutes of trading, paced by gains in bank stocks, while the S&P 500 rose 36 points to a fresh record high.

The tech-focused Nasdaq Composite added 110 points from Friday’s record high close -- and first over 16,000 points -as benchmark 10-year Treasury note yields bumped to 1.587% in the wake of Biden’s Fed decision.

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Far-right candidate leads after first round of Chile’s presidential election

A polling station in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday.

By PASCALE BONNEFOY and ERNESTO LONDONO

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hileans on Sunday gave the lead in the country’s presidential race to a far-right politician, a stunning development in a nation that has been rattled by political and social protest over inequality and the rising cost of living.

With more than 88% of the vote counted, José Antonio Kast, a conservative lawyer and former lawmaker who promised to restore security and order and to dramatically reduce the size of the state, had carved out a 3-point lead over his leftist rival, Gabriel Boric.

The two will compete in a runoff Dec. 19.

“Today we took the first step to turn hope into reality,” Kast told supporters Sunday night outside his campaign headquarters in an upscale Santiago neighborhood. “Chile deserves peace. Chile deserves liberty.”

The race followed an unusually turbulent period in the South American nation, which has been governed for decades by centrist parties and had, until recently, been regarded as one of the region’s most stable and prosperous democracies.

Chile’s departing president narrowly dodged impeachment this month. A month earlier, the army was deployed to the south to confront an increasingly violent uprising by Indigenous militants. And since July, delegates

in the capital have been drafting a new constitution, prompted by sweeping protests in 2019 over inequality and the rising cost of living.

This tumultuous period, made still more unsettled by the coronavirus pandemic, set the stage for the first round of an unusually polarized presidential election Sunday. The centrist coalitions that have traded power in recent decades were underdogs in a race led by more radical candidates offering Chileans starkly opposed visions for the future.

Chile’s election is among several in Latin America in which incumbents and governing parties are on the defensive, partly because of the upheaval and economic pain that the pandemic has inflicted. Foremost are next year’s presidential contests in Brazil and Colombia, where the virus has killed hundreds of thousands of people and crippled large segments of their economies.

“COVID exposed inequalities, it exacerbated inequalities and made it easy to politicize those inequalities in a way that we expect will be very hard on incumbents,” said Jennifer Pribble, a political-science professor at the Virginia’s University of Richmond who specializes in Latin America. “It has generated malaise and discontent that citizens have to put on someone.”

The leading candidates vying to replace President Sebastián Piñera — who is not

eligible for reelection — are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Boric, a leftist lawmaker, promises to vastly expand the safety net, and Kast, a far-right former congressman, proposes a drastically leaner state in which the security forces are given broader authority to quell violence and disorder.

The latest public opinion polls in Chile — which have been unreliable in recent elections — had tracked Kast’s growing appeal among voters in the final stretch of the campaign. The polls also suggested that Boric would prevail in a runoff.

Kast, who won 8% of the vote when he ran for president in 2017, and Boric surprised political observers by rising to the top of the presidential contest as more moderate politicians gained little traction.

Both tapped into the simmering discontent with the establishment parties that have dominated politics in Chile since the return of democracy in the 1990s.

Dissatisfaction with the status quo burst out unexpectedly in October 2019, when an increase in Santiago subway fares set off a monthslong wave of demonstrations.

Vandalism, including arson of subway stations and other government buildings, elicited a tough response by security forces, which fired rubber bullets into crowds of demonstrators, blinding hundreds.

After failing to calm the streets for weeks, Piñera, a billionaire who was far from the ideal leader to tackle an uprising over inequality, agreed to support an initiative to convene a constitutional convention in late December 2019.

That process began in May with the election of delegates representing broad segments of Chilean society that had historically been marginalized. The body drafting the new constitution has gender parity and is led by Elisa Loncón, a scholar from the Mapuche Indigenous community.

The constitutional convention delegates are debating large-scale economic and social rights, which could upend matters like the pension system, reproductive rights and Indigenous claims over their ancestral lands.

Boric, 35, a tattooed politician who eschews neckties and would become Chile’s youngest leader ever, has been a vocal supporter of the new constitution process, which he sees as a vehicle to drastically

overhaul Chile’s market-friendly economy and political system.

“If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave,” his campaign platform says.

Boric, who is from Punta Arenas, a city in the far south, has proposed a wholesale overhaul of the social security system, shortening the workweek to 40 hours from 44 and forgiving student debt. The significant increase in public spending he envisions would be offset by new taxes on the ultrarich and a more effective system to fight corruption, his campaign platform says.

He supports legalizing abortion — which is outlawed in Chile with a handful of exceptions — and same-sex marriage.

Kast, 55, a lawyer who served in Congress from 2002 to 2018, adamantly opposes same-sex marriage and legalized abortion. He has proposed hard-line tactics to restore security in the country, highlighted by a proposal to build a ditch along the border with Bolivia, a gateway for immigrants.

He says the Chilean bureaucracy ought to be radically downsized, calling for consolidating 24 ministries into 12 but favoring a significant expansion of the prison system. His strong-armed approach would extend to an armed uprising by Mapuche Indigenous factions in the Aracaunía region, where some seek to restore ancestral lands that are under the control of lumber companies by occupying the lands and burning trucks, homes and churches.

Piñera, who last month invoked a state of emergency in Aracaunía, where he deployed the army, is completing his second, nonconsecutive term in office on a dour note.

Lawmakers came close to impeaching him this month over a transaction in 2010 involving a mining company partly owned by his family.

He leaves office with nearly 79% of the electorate disapproving of his performance and with many taking a dim view of the political class’s handling of the challenges of the past few years.

“Governing has never been easy, and we faced especially hard times,” he said in an address Wednesday. “Unfortunately, this time around, I feel that in the world of politics we have lacked greatness, unity, collaboration, dialogue and agreements to face the enormous and pressing challenges.”

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Two of 17 kidnapped missionaries in Haiti are freed, group says

By MARIA ABI-HABIB

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Haiti, but the brazen kidnapping in broad daylight shocked even local officials and residents accustomed to gangfueled violence, a further sign of the country’s growing lawlessness.

U.S. officials estimate that tens of thousands of Haitian Americans are in Haiti at any given moment, either because they live there or because they go back and forth between the countries regularly. They are prime targets for abduction, and every time a ransom is paid, the gangs get encouragement to look for new victims.

Security in the country has broken down in the wake of numerous natural disasters and political crises, including the assassination in July of President Jovenel Moïse. That has allowed gangs to increase their stranglehold over Port-auPrince and its suburbs, where nearly half the nation lives.

Violence has overwhelmed much of the capital, and by some estimates, gangs now control about half the city.

Many gangs wield enough power to bring the country to its knees.

Last month, one prominent criminal group blocked the delivery of fuel to much of the country, plunging Haiti into darkness and halting everything from hospital operations to cellphone connectivity.

The gangs, which often have political backing, have long been part of the country’s social fabric, but after Moïse’s killing, they have turned more assertive, taking control of vast swaths of territory.

In the absence of a fully functioning government since the killing of Moïse, the gangs’ power has only grown.

A spate of natural disasters has only made things worse.

In August, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake deepened the devastation of a country that has yet to recover from a quake in 2010 that killed more than 200,000 people. Rescue efforts this summer were initially hampered by security concerns, and aid flowed freely only after gangs that controlled a highway connecting the southern peninsula to the rest of Haiti declared a truce.

A severe storm followed days later.

In recent weeks, Haitian security forces have stepped up their operations to counter the criminal organizations, but security experts say that the government lacks a coherent strategy. The Haitian police need a complete overhaul, with thousands more police officers needed, a renewed focus on vetting during recruitment and money to buy new equipment, increase salaries and restore morality, American officials say.

Unless a reformed police force can step in to reimpose control after neighborhoods are cleared of the gangs, observers say, the government will be unable to restore stability.

The surging gang violence has prompted peaceful protests of late, with groups in towns and cities demanding a government response. Some blockaded roads and set tires on fire, a common protest symbol in Haiti.

wo of the 17 people with an American missionary group who were kidnapped in Haiti more than a month ago have been released, the organization said Sunday.

The hostages, who included women and children, were seized by one of Haiti’s most fearsome gangs on Oct. 16 as the missionary group visited an orphanage outside the capital, Port-au-Prince.

In announcing that two of them had been released, the group Christian Aid Ministries, based in Ohio, said it would not make public their names or say why they were freed. But the group said that those released are “safe, in good spirits, and being cared for.”

The ministry urged discretion to protect those still in the hands of the gang members.

“We ask that those who have more specific information about the release and the individuals involved would safeguard that information,” its statement said. A spokesperson for Christian Aid Ministries did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The group of hostages, which included 16 Americans and one Canadian, had been working with Christian Aid Ministries before being abducted by a gang called 400 Mawozo, which is infamous for orchestrating mass kidnappings.

The gang initially demanded a ransom of $1 million per person, but that was widely viewed as a start to the negotiations that are common in kidnappings in Haiti. It was not immediately clear how much money, if any, was paid.

The U.S. government responded carefully to the news.

“We welcome reports that two individuals held hostage in Haiti have been released,” a State Department spokesperson said. “We do not have further comment at this time.”

The spokesperson for the Haitian National Police, Gary Desrosiers, confirmed that two hostages were released on Sunday, although in its statement, Christian Aid Ministries did not specify when they were freed.

It remained unclear why only two of the 17 hostages were released — whether their family or friends had cobbled together the ransom, perhaps, or if the gang had taken pity on them for a medical condition or some other reason. In some previous kidnappings, the 400 Mawozo gang released several hostages who were severely ill or elderly from a larger group.

The youngest hostage seized from the missionary group was an infant.

Since the kidnapping, Christian Aid Missionaries has been involved in protracted negotiations for the group’s release, with the gang demanding more money and the missionary group offering to bring services into their area instead, an official with knowledge of the matter said.

The mass kidnapping of more than a dozen American citizens, five children among them, set off a furor, with U.S. lawmakers condemning the violence in Haiti, and the FBI and the State Department working with local authorities to The Christian Aid Ministries compound in Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 17, 2021. Two win the missionaries’ freedom. people associated with an American missionary group seized in a mass kidnapping in Haiti more than a Mass abductions have become commonplace in month ago have been released, the organization said Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021.

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Limping and penniless, Iraqis deported from Belarus face bleak futures

Nazar Shamsaldin on Sunday with some of his family back in Erbil, Iraq, after being deported from Belarus.

By JANE ARRAF and SANGAR KHALEEL

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t was cold in Belarus, bitterly cold, but at least it offered hope, however illusory.

Nazar Shamsaldin was one of thousands of Iraqis who made their way to the Eastern European country in recent months, hoping it would prove a jumping-off point to new lives in the West, only to become pawns in a geopolitical game.

But this weekend he was back in Iraq, sitting on the cold floor of a tiny unfinished concrete house, newly deported from Belarus. Nearby a small boy, one of a dozen children crammed into the house, trying to warm his hands over a single, battered kerosene heater.

Shamsaldin, a laborer, and 35 of his relatives had risked everything to travel West. Like many of the hundreds of other Iraqis deported last week, they are now deep in debt and despair.

The Iraqis are at the heart of a crisis that erupted after Belarus loosened its visa rules this summer, luring migrants but then pushing them across borders to punish the European Union for imposing sanctions against the autocratic Belarusian president.

Once in Belarus, many of the migrant families were abandoned in deep forests with no shelter, food or water, sometimes thrust into dangerous confrontations as they tried to make it into Poland, Lithuania or Latvia,

all members of the European Union.

“A Belarusian police officer pointed a pistol at my head, so I had to go back to Lithuania,” said Shamsaldin, 24, who had three small children with him. “In Lithuania, the commandos had guns pointed at me and told me, ‘If you don’t go back, we will kill you.’”

He got the message.

On Thursday, Shamsaldin returned with his family on an Iraqi Airways flight evacuating 431 migrants from Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

Several thousand other migrants remain in Belarus near the border. They are mostly Iraqi Kurds, like Shamsaldin, as well as Iraqi Arabs, Syrians, Yemenis and even some Cubans. But with their usefulness to Belarus diminished, the now-penniless Iraqi migrants are being deported.

Most are traumatized. Some have lingering injuries.

“The Belarusians beat us with sticks, but the Lithuanians attacked us with sticks and tasers,” said Dhiab Zaydan, a cousin of Shamsaldin’s. Zaydan, 30, had a large bandage around his leg where, he said, he was beaten with night sticks. Photographs showed his entire side to be a deep purple, which he attributed to electric shocks.

Reports of assaults at the border are common.

“People have been beaten up, and they are in distress,” said Safeen Dizayee, head of the Foreign

Relations Department of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government. “We have told these authorities that they should be treated humanely and, at least until this problem is resolved, they should be treated like normal human beings with some kind of shelter or some food.”

For many of the migrants, it was not their first attempt to leave. Shamsaldin had been trying to get to Germany, where he spent six months in 2015 before returning to Iraq to care for his sick father.

“Germany is the only country where we have experienced human rights,” he said.

Shamsaldin said that after walking for two days, he and his relatives were captured by the Belarusian police, pushed into the back of a military truck and driven to the Lithuanian border. There, they were told to cross the fence.

Once they were in Lithuania, an aid organization gave them bread and water, and medical staff assessed any injuries while a cameraman filmed the operation, they recounted. Shamsaldin’s 2-month-old son was taken to a hospital to be treated for exposure.

But once the aid organization and the cameras left, Lithuanian soldiers started using sticks and tasers, the Kurds said, trying to drive them back over the border.

Shamsaldin said he reprimanded one Lithuanian officer, telling him, “‘You destroyed our country, and now we are coming to you, and you don’t have any humanity.’”

The reference was to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, but the Lithuanian was quick to offer a correction. “That was Poland,” he replied.

While Lithuania provided support during the U.S. occupation, Poland was part of the invading force.

In a middle-class neighborhood of Irbil, Yadgar Hussein described her own tortuous journey, which led to her deportation from Poland three weeks earlier with her children. In October, they had waded through stream of sewage, she said, and walked through the forest for days in freezing temperatures after the Belarusian police cut the border fence. But once in Poland, a driver led them into a police checkpoint, where they were arrested, with her 19-year-old son and another migrant hiding in the trunk of the car.

She still cannot sleep, she said.

“The only thing I know is my life is destroyed,” said Hussein, who was married at 14 and widowed four years later when her husband stepped on a land mine.

She is divorced from the father of her three youngest children.

Hussein says she has not given up on leaving Irbil again, perhaps next time by the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece.

“If I had money, I would go by sea tomorrow for the sake of my children,” she said. “Either you die or you make it there. But nobody gets arrested.”

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The internet broke brand loyalty

By SHIRA OVIDE

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few winters ago, I and many other American women purchased the Amazon Coat, a fairly affordable piece of outerwear that grabbed attention for a hot minute. It’s an OK coat, but I keep forgetting the name of the manufacturer. I doubt that I’m a customer for life.

I’m not an oddball in this respect. One way that our lives online have rewired our brains is that we’re more comfortable buying from an unfamiliar brand. And those same changing habits may also be making us less loyal to anything that we buy.

I was talking about this phenomenon recently with Josh Lowitz and Michael R. Levin, co-founders of the research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. We talked about the ways that online customer reviews, relatively low-cost social media advertising, and newer shopping destinations like Amazon and Instagram have reordered how we evaluate and buy products. It’s thrilling in many ways, and not so great in others.

Think about the ways that you might have bought something in the Before Times — like, before 2010. Maybe you drove to your local hardware store looking for a cordless drill, and it stocked only DeWalt models.

You trusted the store to sell a good product — or if you didn’t, it was your only option anyway. That’s what you bought.

The retailer essentially made the choice for you, Levin and

Lowitz said.

That’s not usually how we shop anymore. Instead of having that solo choice, we can browse the gazillion cordless drills on Amazon from our sofas and evaluate online customer reviews.

Startups like Dollar Shave Club and Warby Parker proved that a clever product and canny advertising can turn us away from old standbys. We don’t need the store to be the arbiter of what we buy anymore. We might just need nudges on Instagram to persuade us to try new cookware.

In many ways, this is awesome. A one-person company might need only a Shopify website, listings on Amazon or a Facebook page to compete with multinational conglomerates.

Powerhouses like Nike or Levi’s can’t rest on their laurels for a century. We get more choices, are more open to trying something new and great products can break through.

But like me and my Amazon coat, it may be harder than ever to form a lasting relationship. Maybe you bought the vacuum cleaner that you saw everywhere on TikTok, but will you ever buy from that company again? These young companies, as Lowitz described, “succeed in making sales but not customers.”

What happens if companies focus solely on selling us something immediately, not on making us loyal customers? If companies need only to persuade us to buy something once, I wonder if it creates incentives to make meh products.

There is also a cost to choices. There are more chances for us to get duped from bogus reviews or other online tricks.

Sometimes, it’s a relief to have only one option of cordless drills rather than having to pick from an ocean of them online.

Molson Hart, the owner of the educational toy company Viahart that I wrote about earlier this year, told me that he believed it was still possible to build a great brand with lasting customers. It just takes fresh skills.

Products that might have been drive-by purchases on Amazon can encourage repeat buyers by tucking in welcome messages in the product packaging, or reaching out to people who post raves on social media, he said.

The idea is to be in people’s minds, so that they’ll come back for another purchase, leave a positive review on Amazon or both. (Not all customers love these tactics. And some Amazon sellers go too far by offering gift cards in exchange for reviews, which is against the company’s rules.)

“Whether it is a store, Shopify, Amazon, a billboard, an advertisement ... whatever. If you can get people’s attention and get them to think your product is good, you’re creating a brand,” Hart said. “It doesn’t matter how you do it.”

We don’t usually step back and think about why we buy certain products. When we do, it’s remarkable how much we’ve changed, and all the ways our habits have bent the shopping world.

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AN JUAN – El Gobierno de Puerto Rico anunció este lunes, la segunda fase de la campaña El Momento del Pare, la cual promoverá páginas informativas para la ciudadanía sobre los servicios y herramientas disponibles para combatir y erradicar la violencia de género.

La presidenta del Comité PARE y secretaria del Departamento de la Familia, Carmen Ana González Magaz, hizo el anuncio durante la presentación de varios murales representativos de la violencia de género, los cuales fueron inaugurados en la Placita de Santurce y en el centro comercial The Mall of San Juan.

Las páginas web del Comité de Prevención, Apoyo, Rescate y Educación de la Violencia de Género (PARE) estarán disponibles por medio de códigos QR que se ubicarán en las agencias públicas y en diversos establecimientos del sector privado para que las personas puedan escanear el código con un teléfono inteligente y acceder a la información.

“Hemos logrado un gran impacto con la primera fase de la campaña del Comité PARE en la educación contra la violencia de género. El alcance de los mensajes compartidos se magnifica gracias a la colaboración ciudadana y la conciencia de que todos podemos aportar para erradicar la violencia. Con estas nuevas estrategias llegamos a nue-

vos públicos mediante el uso de la tecnología y de expresiones artísticas que llegan a todos y todas”, afirmó González Magaz en conferencia de prensa.

La funcionaria subrayó además que “juntos podemos lograr una cultura de paz, fomentando el diálogo, siendo modelo para nuestros hijos, buscando ayuda cuando sea necesario, valorando la diversidad, identificando conductas de riesgo, y respetando la vida y los derechos de todos. No nos quedemos callados o calladas: denunciemos, intervengamos y ayudemos sin juzgar. Rechacemos la violencia en todas sus manifestaciones”.

La segunda fase de la campaña también contará con una campaña masiva de medios, que incluirá anuncios de televisión para continuar llevando el mensaje en los canales de TeleOnce, Telemundo, Wapa TV, WIPR, Fox, Mega TV y Paid Media-Liberty.

Además, GFR Media, Programatic y Noticel lo publicarán por medio digital; Planet Media, Hello Media y bMedia lo publicarán en vallas publicitarias; Univisión Radio, La X y SBS lo transmitirán por radio; y El Nuevo Día y Primera Hora lo publicará en prensa.

Mientras, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico compartirá el anuncio en sus sucursales y la empresa Liberty también se unió a los esfuerzos de promoción.

Por otro lado, a la iniciativa del código QR para los establecimientos se unieron el Centro Unido de Detallistas —que representa miles de pequeñas y medianas empresas en la Isla—, la Cámara de Comercio de Puerto Rico —que une a todos los sectores comerciales— y la Asociación de Comercio al Detal.

Estas organizaciones se han comprometido a diseminar el código QR y los afiches a todos sus socios para exhortarles a exponerlos en sus establecimientos y así dar mayor publicidad a la campaña.

Asimismo, a la iniciativa se unieron la empresa L’Oréal; los restaurantes El Mesón y Mc Donald’s; las farmacias

Walgreens; los comercios Walmart, Sam’s y Amigo; el Grupo Colón Gerena y sus restaurantes Applebee’s, Longhorn, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Sizzler y Wendy’s; entre muchos otros que ya se han comprometido a utilizar los afiches en sus tiendas, restaurantes y establecimientos comerciales.

Todas las agencias públicas recibirán hoy afiches, letreros y pegatinas con el código QR para que estén disponible en todas las oficinas del gobierno. Además, se ha preparado un archivo electrónico con todos los artes para hacérselo llegar a las agencias, corporaciones públicas y municipios. De esa forma, el código estará disponible para imprimir los afiches y el código QR en la página web del Comité PARE, de manera que se pueda publicar en la mayor cantidad de lugares.

Los establecimientos en The Mall of San Juan ya cuentan con áreas con el código QR y el esfuerzo se ha extendido a diversas áreas comerciales en el casco urbano del Viejo San Juan.

Mientras, la presidenta del Comité PARE resaltó el esfuerzo de los muralistas que se unieron a la campaña contra la violencia de género y destacó que los murales que hoy se presentaron “son representaciones artísticas de esta lucha y de la necesidad de crear una sociedad de equidad y respeto en la que no haya espacio para la violencia de género”.

71 casos positivos y una muerte por COVID-19 en informe DS POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El informe de COVID-19, el Departamento de Salud reportó el lunes, sobre 70 casos positivos confirmados y una muerte.

El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 6 de noviembre al 20 de noviembre de 2021.

La persona fallecida fue una mu-

jer de 63 años de la Región de Ponce.

Hay 35 adultos hospitalizados y 3 menores.

Con una dosis de la vacuna contra el COVID-19 hay al menos dos millones, 577 mil, 427 personas. Con las dosis completadas hay dos millones, 335 mil, 805 personas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 3,263.

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‘King Richard’ review: Father holds court

By A.O. SCOTT

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he climactic scenes in “King Richard” take place in 1994, as Venus Williams, 14 years old and in her second professional tennis match, faces Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario, at the time the top-ranked player in the world. If you don’t know the outcome, you might want to refrain from Googling. And even if you remember the match perfectly, you might find yourself holding your breath and full of conflicting emotion as you watch the director Reinaldo Marcus Green’s skillful and suspenseful restaging.

You most likely know what happened next. Venus and her younger sister Serena went on to dominate and transform women’s tennis, winning 30 Grand Slam singles titles between them (plus 14 doubles titles as a team) and opening up the sport to aspiring champions of every background.

(They are credited as executive producers of this film.) You might also know that those achievements fulfilled an ambition that their father, Richard Williams, had conceived before Venus and Serena were born.

In the years of their ascent, he was a well-known figure, often described with words like “controversial,” “outspoken” and “provocative.” “King Richard” aims in part to rescue Williams from the condescension of those adjectives, to paint a persuasive and detailed picture of a family — an official portrait, you might say — on its way to fame and fortune.

In modern Hollywood terms, the movie might be described as a two-forone superhero origin story, in which Venus (Saniyya Sidney) takes command of her powers while Serena (Demi Singleton) begins to understand her own extraordinary potential, each one aided by a wise and wily mentor. But this is a fundamentally — and I would say marvelously — oldfashioned entertainment, a sports drama that is also an appealing, socially alert story of perseverance and the up-by-thebootstraps pursuit of excellence.

It’s also a marriage story. When we first meet them, in the early 1990s, Richard (Will Smith) and his wife, Oracene (Aunjanue Ellis), are living with five daughters in a modest bungalow-style house in Compton,

California. He works nights as a security guard, and she’s a nurse. Their shared vocation, though — the enterprise that is the basis of their sometimes fractious partnership — is their children.

This is an all-consuming task: to bring up confident, successful Black girls in a world that is determined to undervalue and underestimate them. Tennis, which Richard chose partly because of its whiteness and exclusivity, is only part of the program.

The children — Tunde (Mikayla Lashae Bartholomew), Lyndrea (Layla Crawford) and Isha (Daniele Lawson), along with Venus and Serena — lead highly structured, intensely monitored lives. (A disapproving neighbor calls the authorities, convinced that Richard and Oracene are being too hard on the girls.) This is partly protective, a way of keeping them away from what Richard ominously calls “these streets” — a menace represented by the hoodlums who harass Richard and the girls during practice sessions — but it also reflects his temperament and philosophy.

He likes slogans and lessons, at one point forcing the family to watch Disney’s “Cinderella” to teach the importance of humility. “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail” is one of his favorite mottos. There is nothing haphazard or sloppy about “King Richard,” and it succeeds because it has a clear idea about what it wants to accomplish. The script, by Zach Baylin, is sometimes unapologetically corny — if you took a drink every time the Williams sisters say “yes, Daddy” you’d pass out before Venus won her first junior match — but the warmth and verve of the cast make the sentimentality feel earned.

Smith, digging into Williams’ Louisiana accent and mischievous sense of humor, plays the character as a kindred soul of sorts — a charmer with a strategy. The white men who dominate the tennis world see him at first as someone to be brushed off or patronized. Later, when confronted with the undeniable and potentially lucrative fact of Venus’ talent, they are surprised to discover that Richard’s agenda doesn’t always align with theirs. Against the advice of two top coaches, he pulls Venus off the junior tournament circuit. He is unpersuaded by agents, sneaker executives

and others who claim to have his daughters’ best interests at heart.

They see him, sometimes with affection, as stubborn and unreasonable, but he’s usually right. The film’s treatment of the coaches Paul Cohen (a suave, tan Tony Goldwyn) and Rick Macci (a manic, mustachioed Jon Bernthal) is gracious and skeptical. They are neither saviors nor villains, but rather men whose stake in the tennis system limits their perspectives. (The white tennis parents, on the other hand, are a pretty awful bunch, encouraging their children to cheat and berating them when they lose.) The coaches can see Venus and Serena’s potential as athletes, but only within the parameters of a status quo that the sisters will soon demolish.

That, too, is part of Richard’s plan. But if “King Richard” were just the streamlined chronicle of his triumph — if there weren’t at least a twinkle of irony in the title — it wouldn’t be convincing. Smith shows his usual, disarming skill at tactical selfdeprecation, but it’s Ellis and Sidney who provide the necessary complexity. Venus, after all, is the center of the narrative: it’s not only her career but also her growing independence and self-awareness that keep us interested in what happens next.

And it’s Oracene who stands as the

film’s crucial internal critic, the person who can challenge Richard’s sloganeering, bring him down to earth, and point out his failings. At times, this can seem like too much of a burden. Fairly late in the movie, she lays into Richard about his failed business and the children he has had with other women — all of it new information for the viewer, none of it ever mentioned again. The scene is not powerful because it exposes less-than-admirable aspects of Richard’s character, but because it shows how raw, messy and difficult even an apparently functional and harmonious marriage can be. (It also may foretell Richard and Oracene’s eventual divorce, in 2002.)

In the best Hollywood tradition, “King Richard” stirs up a lot of emotion while remaining buoyant and engaging.

It’s serious but rarely heavy. Richard’s advice to his daughters when they step out on the court is to have fun, and Green (whose credits include the impressive “Of Monsters and Men”) takes that wisdom to heart. This one’s a winner.

‘King Richard’ Rated PG-13. Brief violence, and some swear words and racial slurs. Running time: 2 hours 18 minutes. In theaters and on HBO Max.

From left, Demi Singleton as Serena, Saniyya Sidney as Venus and Will Smith as the future tennis stars’ father, Richard Williams, in “King Richard.”

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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ review: A play for nostalgia and merch

In “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” the main characters are adorable, wide-eyed children, played by, from left, Celeste O’Connor, Finn Wolfhard, Logan Kim and Mckenna Grace.

By MANOHLA DARGIS

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f it seems that the only movie Big Hollywood knows how to make is the one they made last year — and the year before that — there’s a reason. The industry’s franchise fever is real, though much depends on timing. My colleague Kyle Buchanan once determined that while successful sequels tend to be rolled out every few years, those that wait six years are often doomed to fail. That may be welcome news for the latest “Ghostbusters,” a cautious, painlessly watchable kidcentric romp that is opening precisely five years, four months and four days after the previous installment went splat.

“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” was directed by Jason Reitman, whose father, Ivan Reitman, directed the first two movies in the 1980s, and was in line to take on the third. Over many

years and after many more studio notes, a new director, Paul Feig, was brought in, and the third movie became a femaledriven reboot. Before it even opened, the reboot became the target of viciously sexist and racist trolling and rage, a casualty of the culture wars. But much like the troublesome apparitions that haunt this series, profitable franchises (and even barely profitable ones) rarely truly die in Hollywood.

And “Ghostbusters” is simply too goofy, too smart about dumb fun and too potentially lucrative to stay buried for long.

And so: “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” which is as cuddly and toothless as you would expect from a relaunched studio property in which the main characters are children and Paul Rudd plays a love interest. They’re all predictably adorable and have big, easy-to-read eyes, the better to widen in feigned surprise or mock fear when various ghosts come

a-calling. For their part, the cartoonish apparitions range from the cutesy to the PG-13 snarly and include a roly-poly metal muncher, a pair of slathering hellhounds and some puffy, gurgling creatures whose wide-open arms and demonically cheerful smiles have been engineered for toy shelves and maximum nostalgia.

There’s a story, sure, though you don’t care and neither do I. What matters are the jokes, energy, boos and characters, who are appealing mostly because the performers playing them are too. The main kids are a brother, Trevor (Finn Wolfhard of “Stranger Things”), and his younger brainiac sister, Phoebe (the very good Mckenna Grace). With their mom (the reliable Carrie Coon), they move to a desolate farm in the middle of Oklahoma (played by Alberta, Canada), near one of those small, non-depressed towns straight out of classical Hollywood. There, the kids pick up two charming second bananas (Logan Kim, Celeste O’Connor), crack jokes, battle demons, solve mysteries.

Jason Reitman makes easy-watching, frictionless mainstream comedies and dramas for adults (“Up in the Air,” “The Front Runner”) that deliver their laughs softly and their sanctimony seriously. Like his father, he is sentimental, but his father’s comedies are brasher, more down market and high concept: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are “Twins,” etc. The Reitmans have split the duties on “Afterlife,” with Ivan serving as the producer and Jason sharing script credit with Gil Kenan. Whatever influence the father had on the son, one of the nicer things about this joint venture is that, while the adults in the story tell the young’uns what to do, the emphasis remains on the action, not the life lessons.

Franchise sequels bank on dependability and giving the audience exactly what it expects. “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” certainly makes good on that contractual promise: There are ghosts, and they are busted. By design, there isn’t a single genuine surprise in the movie. Instead, the movie leans heavily into the previous installments in an effort to create the kind of self-generating franchise mythology that can support further sequels (and so on). It trots out the familiar gadgets, ghosts and goo as well as beloved faces and Ray Parker Jr.’s indestructible earworm of a theme song. Like the younger Reitman, Phoebe and her Scooby Gang battle ghosts on every front.

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Rated PG-13 for ghostly peril. Running time: 2 hours 4 minutes. In theaters.

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How to host Thanksgiving with unvaccinated friends and family

By CHRISTINA CARON

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n addition to the big, juicy turkey on the table, there’s also an elephant lurking in the room this Thanksgiving: the vaccination status of your guests.

It’s a tricky thing to talk about. Do you ask your aunt if she received the COVID vaccine after she RSVPs? What if she says no? Do you endure another scaled-back celebration, like last year? Or should you serve up a bunch of precautions?

According to a Marist Poll published in September, most Americans (nearly 80%) say they have gotten or will get a COVID vaccine, but nearly 20% still say they do not intend to be vaccinated.

That doesn’t sit well with some of the people who have already rolled up their sleeves. A recent Harris Poll found that half of the more than 1,400 vaccinated respondents were either “extremely” or “considerably” hesitant to spend the holidays with unvaccinated family members or friends.

For some, the risk of celebrating with unvaccinated friends and relatives just isn’t worth it. But if you’re open to gathering with a mixed vaccination status group, there are ways to do it cautiously, experts say.

“Be not afraid, but be reasonable,” said Dr. Juan C. Salazar, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and physician-in-chief of Connecticut Children’s in Hartford, Connecticut. You can still get together, he said, but each family will need to ask one crucial question: “What is the likelihood that we will get very sick from COVID-19?”

If you’re uncertain of how to proceed (or whether you ought to gather at all) we asked several experts for ideas on how to make Thanksgiving safer for everyone.

Make it a shared problem to be solved.

Start by calling your unvaccinated family members and soliciting their ideas on how to gather safely, said Daniel L. Shapiro, an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and the author of “Negotiating the Nonnegotiable: How to Resolve Your Most Emotionally Charged Conflicts.”

Ask: “What’s your advice on how we can make sure everyone feels safe and comfortable when we get together?” he suggested. Then come up with some ideas.

Perhaps you suggest that there should be

mandatory testing right before dinner, or that you should gather outside, near a patio heater.

“Try not to judge any ideas right away,” Shapiro advised. “Some ideas will be better than others, and by brainstorming together as a family, everyone can take more ownership over the chosen idea. A warning, though: If you go this route, make sure you stick to joint brainstorming and don’t slip into political debate.”

Use rapid testing to reduce risk.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, taking a coronavirus test before a holiday celebration can reduce the risk of spreading the virus, particularly when people from multiple households and different parts of the country mix.

Rapid antigen tests, which can indicate within minutes whether someone is contagious with COVID-19, are the best options, said Dr. Michael J. Mina, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a co-author of a recent New York Times editorial about the usefulness of home testing.

“Everyone knows if they come to my house, they are going to be tested,” he said.

Mina, who is hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year (and also has a newborn), will offer rapid antigen home tests to each of his guests, regardless of their vaccination status — and his family will use them as well. Any guests who are positive will need to leave.

Taking the test just before entering someone’s home is ideal, because the results only reflect whether you have a lot of virus in your nose at that very moment, he added.

If your family members balk at the idea, remind them that an infected person can easily spread the virus to other people, even if they don’t have symptoms. And while the vaccine is very good at protecting against severe illness and death, the latest data suggest that immunity against infection may be slowly waning for vaccinated people.

“If a rapid test says you’re positive, then that is a very reliable indication that you are infected and infectious,” said Eleanor Murray, an epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health. “You should not be around other people.”

Rapid tests are sometimes in short supply, but can be found at retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Kroger, CVS or

Walgreens, both online and in stores. Many of them are pricey, often costing around $24 for two tests.

Keep an open mind when talking to relatives about the vaccine.

People may decide not to get vaccinated for a variety of reasons, so try not to make assumptions about their rationale, the experts said. Instead, ask questions and listen.

If they have a fear of needles (something called trypanophobia, which can occur in adults and children), perhaps you might ask if you can accompany them to the vaccination site and hold their hand.

Or if they say they haven’t been vaccinated because they haven’t had time to schedule an appointment, you might ask if you can assist them in doing that. “That one-on-one conversation approach really does help,” Murray said.

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines require two shots spaced three or four weeks apart, and full protection comes two weeks after the second dose. If your relatives want one of these vaccines and haven’t yet received a first dose, they’re out of time to get fully vaccinated before Thanksgiving. But there is plenty of time to do it before Christmas — and they can get one shot now, which will provide some protection before Thanksgiving, Murray said.

Alternatively, there’s still time to get fully vaccinated with the one-shot Johnson

& Johnson vaccine, but it is not as widely available as the mRNA vaccines, nor is it considered as protective as a two-dose regimen.

Think about masks, ventilation and the size of your party.

Your family may not have the money to spend on pricey rapid tests. But there are other things you can do to stay protected.

Regardless of whether your guests are vaccinated, one of the safest places to gather is outdoors. If you are attending an indoor gathering, open the windows and — if you have the extra cash — consider buying a HEPA air purifier to reduce the amount of airborne virus, Mina said.

The CDC recommends that everyone, including children 2 years old and up, wear a mask if any guests are at increased risk of serious disease, have a weakened immune system or are unvaccinated.

If you’re the one hosting Thanksgiving and you have unvaccinated family members, consider limiting your gathering to no more than 10 people and two households, Salazar suggested. “This is not yet the year where 30 people can gather in one household,” he added.

But if everyone in attendance is fully vaccinated and nobody has viral symptoms or any risk factors for serious disease, he advised that gatherings could potentially go up to three family groups or 15 people.

“Nothing is foolproof,” he added, including the vaccine.

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You should see her in a crown. Now you can see her face.

A provided image shows the Bronze Age Argaric settlement at La Bastida in Spain. Researchers are analyzing the genomes of 33 people who were buried here.

By JENNIFER PINKOWSKI

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his year, archaeologists announced the discovery of a remarkable, 3,700-year-old double burial in Murcia, Spain. Skeletons of a man and a woman were draped in silver — earrings, bracelets, rings and, most notably, a silver diadem that had once gleamed on the woman’s head.

The burial site, and particularly the crown and other fineries interred with the woman, hinted at a premodern European culture in which women might have held considerable power. The skeletons were unearthed in a large ovoid jar in La Almoloya, a key settlement of the El Argar culture, which is one of the earliest examples of a society in Europe with a ruling bureaucracy, geopolitical boundaries and other hallmarks of an advanced state.

Although the gender politics of El Argar continue to be debated, a pair of complementary research projects are solving mysteries at this burial site. One has given faces to the woman, the man and others buried at La Almoloya, while the other is filling out an intriguing genetic history for the El Argar people.

Joana Bruno, a doctoral student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, created digital facial representations of 36 people buried at La Almoloya. At the burial site, she said, “We not only have most of the facial portion of the skulls complete, but we also have the mandible, which is a very important portion of what constitutes the lower contour of the face.”

The research is part of her dissertation; the findings have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Using a combination of facial reconstruction methods, anatomical knowledge and computer software, Bruno created a series of faces that are gray-toned and rendered in profile, their distinctive noses and ears made more prominent by their

lack of hair. The reconstructions have intentionally neutral facial expressions to enable comparisons.

“We are trying to use these faces to see if the resemblance between certain traits could point us towards a shared genetic relationship” among the bodies, Bruno said.

The silver-rich woman died around 1,700 B.C., during the last phase of the El Argar culture. The upper portion of her skull didn’t survive the millenniums, but a short video by Bruno depicts her with a long narrow nose and thick silver earlobe plugs. Digital facial reconstruction of the man buried beside her (known as AY38/2) shows he had a recessed jaw, or retrognathism. A girl buried nearby (AY30/2) had the same trait.

Bruno proposed that the two were related, and genomic analysis proved her right. The man was the girl’s father.

“The fact that AY38/2 is the father of AY30/2 gives further support to retrognathism as a relevant marker of Argaric populations,” said Cristina Rihuete Herrada, a professor of prehistory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and one of the discoverers of the burial site.

Bruno also modeled the face of a boy found at the burial site. As she digitally fleshed him out, his unusually wide-set eyes emerged. The condition, hypertelorism, can be caused by a number of genetic disorders.

Understanding the genetic relationships of the Almoloya bodies to others across the Iberian Peninsula was the goal of another study, published Wednesday in Science Advances.

Researchers analyzed the genomes of 67 people buried at La Almoloya, including the silver-crowned woman, and 33 buried at the Argaric site of La Bastida. The researchers then compared them with the genomes of nearly 200 people found across what are now Spain and Portugal, spanning the years 3,300 B.C. to 1,000 B.C.

This period includes the transition from the Copper Age to the Bronze Age around 2,200 B.C. It was a time of social upheaval across China, the Near East, Egypt and Europe that may have been incited by a century of intense climate change, during which environments became much drier.

On the lower Iberian Peninsula, the delineation between the two ages is especially sharp. Copper Age sites contain monumental funerary structures, fortified mega-settlements and artifacts that originated in far-off places.

But this lifestyle was largely abandoned in the early Bronze Age. The El Argar favored large hilltop settlements like La Almoloya, and their burials were more intimate, with just a person or two interred. Their pottery, specialized weapons and bronze, silver and gold artifacts were distinctly different.

The researchers found that Argaric genetics reflected this turnover. Based on DNA extracted from teeth and cranial bones, they discovered that after the transition from the Copper Age to the Bronze Age, the El Argar had genetic links to a population in Central Europe known as the steppe people.

The researchers also found a surprising gender divide across the Argaric sites.

Based on their mitochondrial DNA, passed from mother to child, the women and girls were mostly descended from local people. Yet the men and boys were overwhelmingly related to the steppe people, and had virtually no genetic inheritance from the local people. The men and boys, tracked through their Y chromosomes, belonged to a genetic population now among the most common in Western Europe, but which was relatively new to the Iberian Peninsula 4,200 years ago. About a century after their arrival, these steppe-descended men replaced the local Iberian men entirely — and had many children with the local women.

As researchers studied these genomes, another gender difference emerged as well.

“Males have many relatives at the site, whereas the females have less,” said Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and an author of the study.

While the study focuses on population genetics at a regional scale, there are details about a few individuals in the data, too. Phenotype analysis suggests that most of them had brown eyes, brown or black hair and generally medium-toned skin. A few were redheads.

And researchers also found evidence of genetic disorders. One infant girl was found to have Trisomy X, or three X chromosomes, which is linked to a number of disorders. Their burials, however, were typical for La Almoloya. The woman with the silver crown, for instance, had the richest tomb as well as a shortened, fused spine and a stunted left thumb.

“What is important here is that people potentially impaired were not treated differently and certainly not excluded,” Rihuete-Herrada said.

The next step in their research is to try to establish family links between the people at La Almoloya based on their locations, housing environments and burials, which will inform their understanding of the Argaric social structure, including

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La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Apartamento número D guión Trescientos Dos (D-302). PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número D guión Trescientos Dos (D-302), localizado en el segundo piso del Edificio “D” del CONDOMINIO PALACIOS DE VERSALLES, cuyo Condominio está localizado en los Barrios Ortiz y Piñas de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, consiste de

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una vivienda residencial de un piso, con un área superficial de MIL QUINIENTOS OCHENTTA Y NUEVE PUNTO TREINTA Y SEIS (1,589.36) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CIENTO CUARENTA Y SIETE PUNTO SETENTA Y UNO (147.71) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con elemento común general exterior y las escaleras del Edificio “D”, en una distancia de quince punto cuarenta y dos (15.42) metros; por el SUR, con elemento común general exterior, en una distancia de quince punto cuarenta y dos (15.42) metros; por el ESTE, con elemento común general exterior, en una distancia de once punto sesenta y seis (11.66) metros; y por el OESTE, con apartamento número D guión Cuatrocientos Dos (D-402) y las escaleras y vestíbulo del Edificio “D”, en una distancia de once punto sesenta y seis (11.66) metros.

El apartamento número D guión Trescientos Dos (D-302) esta compuesto de: recibidor, sala, área familiar (“familyroom”), cocina, comedor, balcón, pasillo interior, un baño en el área del pasillo interior, closet para calentador (“waterheater closet”), closet de lavandería (“laundry”), closet de pasillo interior, dos dormitorios con un closet cada uno y un dormitorio principal (“master bedroom”) con closet, closet con pasillo (“walk-in-closet”), baño y área de tocador (“powderroom”). La entrada principal de este apartamento esta localizado en su lindero Oeste, la cual conecta el apartamento con el vestíbulo del segundo piso del Edificio “D” del Condominio Palacios de Versalles, el cual es un elemento común general del Condominio Palacios de Versalles.

Le corresponde como elemento común limitado del Condominio Palacios de Versalles dos estacionamientos sencillos identificados con los números Sesenta y Cinco (65) y Sesenta y Seis (66). Este apartamento tiene una participación de cero punto siete cero cero cuatro porciento (0.7004%) en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio Palacios de Versalles y una participación de cero punto tres dos cinco cuatro porciento (0.3254%) en los elementos comunes limitados del Condominio Palacios de Versalles. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Tercera,finca número 28,768 de Toa Alta, inscripción tercera. La dirección física de

Tuesday, November 23, 2021 la propiedad antes descrita es: Condominio Palacios de Versalles, Apartamento D-302, Edificio D, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $146,244.59 de principal, intereses al 4.00% anual, desde el día 1ro. de abril de 2016, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $15,556.30, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $155,563.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será equivalente a 2/3 partes de aquella, o sea, la suma de $103,708.66 y de ser necesaria una tercera subasta, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir, la suma de $77,781.50. 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 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 a ser vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2021. ROSAMARIE MELÉNDEZ PEÑA, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA. ***

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JOSÉ LUIS DELGADO MEDINA, T/C/C JOSÉ L. DELGADO MEDINA; SU ESPOSA CARMEN DELGADO RAMOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

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Demandados Civil Num.: HSCI2016-00754.

Sala: 208. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 16 de septiembre de 2021 y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 25 de octubre de 2016, notificada el 26 de octubre de 2016, procederá a vender el día 23 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Villas de San Cristóbal, situada en el Barrio Montones del término municipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, solar A-4 de la Avenida1 de la urbanización, área de 400.140 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 26.00 metros lineales, con el solar A-3; por el SUR, en 26.00 metros lineales, con el solar A-5; por el ESTE, en 15.39 metros lineales, con la avenida número 1; y por el OESTE, en 15.39 metros lineales, con los solares A-13 y A-14. Enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrita del tomo Karibe de Las Piedras Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Finca número 16,096. La propiedad hipotecada ubica en: Lot A-4 Avenue #1 Villas de San Cristóbal Dev. Montones Ward, Las Piedras, Puerto Rico. Que con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao. El remate comenzará por las sumas adeudadas declaradas en la Sentencia, y se llevará a cabo para con su producto, satisfacer dichas sumas.

Las cuantías de la sentencia se describen de la siguiente manera: al día 1ro de marzo de 2016, la parte demandada adeuda las siguientes cantidades a la parte demandante: $131,868.54 por concepto de principal; $630.26

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21 por concepto de intereses acumulados; $105.28 por concepto de cargos por demora; los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, $55.50 por concepto de ‘’Escrow Advances’’ y la suma de $13,609.20 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados.

Debido al incumplimiento de la parte demandada, con los términos de contrato habido entre las partes se declara con lugar la demanda y se ordena la ejecución de hipoteca y venta en pública subasta de la propiedad objeto de este pleito, declarando vencida la suma de $131,868.54 por concepto de principal adeudada al 1ro de febrero de 2016, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el saldo total de la deuda; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La subasta se llevará a cabo el día 23 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La venta de la propiedad será realizada para cubrir el importe adeudado a la demandante, el cual al momento de la Sentencia ascendía a la suma de $131,868.54 por concepto de principal, más los intereses que se acumulen hasta el saldo total de la deuda; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente, adeudada según la Sentencia, más los otros gastos, intereses y recargos que se acumulan hasta la fecha de su total y completo pago. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino 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 y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido

al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 28 de octubre de 2021. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE HUMACAO. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796.

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Demandado Civil Núm.: NG2018CV00090.

(208). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 28 de octubre de 2021 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $48,341.30 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 17 de septiembre de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos

el 18 de septiembre de 2019 y publicada mediante edicto en el Periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 26 de septiembre de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Urb. Ramón Rivero, O8 Calle 17, Naguabo, PR 00718-2346. URBANA: Solar número ocho del bloque “O” de la Urbanización Extensión Ramón Rivero (Diplo) número dos en los barrios Santiago y Lima de Naguabo, con un área superficial de 346.353 metros cuadrados, en lindes al Norte, en 11.884 metros con el solar nueve; al Sur, en un arco de 20.810 metros con la calle diez y siete; al Este, en 25.886 metros con el solar siete y al Oeste, en 11.00 metros y un redondel de 5.329 metros con la calle diez y siete. Enclava una casa dedicada a vivienda. Consta inscrita al folio 155 del tomo 138 de Naguabo, Finca número 7817, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $48,341.30 de principal, 7% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $186.46 de reserva “escrow”, mas costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $99,900.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $66,600.00.

Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $49,950.00.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo

una TERCERA SUBASTA el 23 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres y condiciones restrictivas. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. 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 los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 10 de noviembre de 2021. MARÍA DEL PILAR RIVERA RIVERA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. WIL-

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Propiedad localizada en: Urb. JULIO ROSARIO Country Club, 957 Calle RuiLEBRON, JULIA LEBRON señor, Bloque D, San Juan, PR 00924. Según figuran en la cerCOLON Y SOLIMAR tificación registral, la propiedad ROSARIO LEBRON objeto de ejecución está graDemandados vada por las siguientes cargas CIVIL NUM. KCD2013-0967 anteriores o preferentes: Nom(602). SOBRE: COBRO DE bre del Titular: N/A. Suma de DINERO Y EJECUCION DE la Carga: N/A. Fecha de VenciHIPOTECA POR LA VIA OR- miento: N/A. Según figuran en DINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBAS- la certificación registral, la proTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE piedad objeto de ejecución está AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE gravada por las siguientes carDE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS gas posteriores a la inscripción EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la DO DE PUERTO RICO. A: La Parte Demandada, Carga: N/A. Fecha de Venal (a la) Secretario(a) de cimiento: N/A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como Hacienda de Puerto Rico bastante la titularidad de la proy al Público General: piedad y que todas las cargas Certifico y Hago Constar: Que y gravámenes anteriores y los en cumplimiento con el Man- preferentes al crédito ejecutandamiento de Ejecución de te antes descritos, si los hubieSentencia que me ha sido diri- re, continuarán subsistentes. gido por el (la) Secretario(a) del El rematante acepta dichas Tribunal de Primera Instancia, cargas y gravámenes anterioSala Superior de San Juan, en res, y queda subrogado en la el caso de epígrafe procederá responsabilidad de los mismos, a vender en pública subasta sin destinarse a su extinción el al mejor postor en efectivo, precio del remate. Se establece cheque gerente, giro postal, como tipo mínimo de subasta la cheque certificado en moneda suma de $184,500.00, según legal de los Estados Unidos acordado entre las partes en el de América al nombre del Al- precio pactado en la escritura guacil del Tribunal de Primera de hipoteca. De ser necesaInstancia, en mi oficina ubica- ria una segunda subasta por da en el Tribunal de Primera declararse desierta la primera, Instancia, Sala de San Juan, la misma se celebrará en mi el 9 de diciembre de 2021, a oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal las 11:00 de la mañana, todo de Primera Instancia, Sala de derecho título, participación San Juan, el 16 de diciemo interés que le corresponda bre de 2021, a las 11:00 de la a la parte demandada o cual- mañana, y se establece como quiera de ellos en el inmueble mínima para dicha segunda suhipotecado objeto de ejecución basta la suma de $123,000.00, que se describe a continuación: 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo URBANA: SOLAR NUMERO establecido originalmente. Si NUEVE DEL BLOQUE “D” DE tampoco se produce remate LA URBANIZACION COUN- ni adjudicación en la segunda TRY CLUB, SEGUN EL PLANO subasta, se establece como DE INSCRIPCION DE LA UR- mínima para la tercera subasta, BANIZACION CAMPO RICO- la suma de $92,250.00, la mitad COUNTRY CLUB, RADICADO (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha EN EL BARRIO SABANA LLA- subasta se celebrará en mi ofiNA DE RIO PIEDRAS, TER- cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de MINO MUNICIPAL DE SAN Primera Instancia, Sala de San JUAN, PUERTO RICO, CON Juan, el 13 de enero de 2022, a UN AREA DE TRESCIENTOS las 11:00 de la mañana. Dicha OCHENTA Y CINCO METROS subasta se llevará a cabo para, CUADRADOS CON SIETE con su producto satisfacer a la CENTIMETROS CUADRA- parte demandante, el importe DOS (385.07 METROS CUA- de la Sentencia dictada a su DRADOS). COLINDA POR EL favor ascendente a la suma NORTE, EN VEINTE Y SIETE de $170,286.88 de principal, METROS TREINTA Y SIETE intereses al tipo del 6.00000% CENTIMETROS CON EL SO- anual según ajustado desde el LAR DIEZ; POR EL SUR, EN día 1 de septiembre de 2010 VEINTE Y SIETE METROS SE- hasta el pago de la deuda en SENTA Y CUATRO CENTÍME- su totalidad, más la suma de TROS CON EL SOLAR OCHO; $18,450.00 por concepto de POR EL ESTE, EN CATORCE honorarios de abogado y cosMETROS CON TERRENOS tas autorizadas por el Tribunal, PROPIEDAD DE DOLORES más las cantidades que se DIAZ; Y POR EL OESTE, EN adeudan mensualmente por

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concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de noviembre de 2021. EDWIN E LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR. ***

(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 7 de agosto de 2020, 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 11 de agosto de 2020. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de agosto de 2020. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Sec Regional. Mildred Martinez Acosta, Sec Confidencial del Tribunal I.

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

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Parte Demandante vs.

LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA LUISA TORRES OROZCO COMPUESTA POR JAIME DELGADO TORRES, MARÍA MERCEDES DELGADO TORRES; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada CIVILN ÚM: SJ2019CV05260 (604). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JAIME DELGADO TORRES; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA LUISA TORRES OROZCO

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2021CV07035.

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Estados Unidos de América El Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE y/o RICHARD ROE

Se notifica que se presentó en esta Secretaría la Demanda de epígrafe sobre Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado Por la Vía Judicial. Se le emplaza y requiere que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Deberá notificar con copia de la misma al LCDO. JESÚS A. LEDESMA AMADOR, PO

BOX 10338, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00922, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Si dejara de hacerlo, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. El pagaré hipotecario objeto de esta demanda, fue emitido a favor de HR MORTGAGE CORP., o a su orden, por la suma de $123,000.00 con intereses al 5% anual y con vencimiento 1 de enero de 2040,ante el Notario Reinaldo Segurola Pérez, con el número de Affidavit 18,491 . Dicha obligación quedó garantizada por una hipoteca voluntaria sobre el inmueble que más adelante se describe, según surge de la escritura número 658, otorgada el 30 de diciembre de 2009, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, ante el notario Reinaldo Segurola Pérez, inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 1132 de Santurce Norte, finca 26,434, inscripción 8va., en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera.

El pago de dicho pagaré se garantizó con hipoteca constituida sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Apartamento #100 de forma sustancialmente rectangular, dedicado a vivienda y localizado en el primer piso del Condominio Bahía Palace, sito en la calle Delcasse, esquina Piccioni, Sector El Condado, Santurce, del municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área privada de mil doscientos treinta y uno punto cero cero pies cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en cincuenta y tres pies tres pulgadas, con pared exterior del edificio que lo separa de la Calle Piccioni; por el SUR, en veintiocho pies nueve pulgadas, con pared interior que da al vestíbulo y escalera y veintiún pies seis pulgadas con pared exterior que da al patio del edificio; por el ESTE, en treinta y dos pies cero pulgadas, con pared exterior que da al patio y que a su vez lo separa del solar propiedad de Sostheness Behn; y por el OESTE, en veintisiete pies cero pulgadas, con pared exterior que da a la calle Delcassse. Consiste este apartamento de sala, comedor, cocina, laundry, tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños y balcón. Su puerta principal de entrada y salida comunica directa e inmediatamente a la calle Delcasse.

Forma parte de este apartamento el espacio de estacionamiento de vehículo de motor marcado con el #9 siendo sus medidas lineales mayores de dieciocho pies cero pulgadas de ancho, que sumados al área del apartamento hacen un total de mil trescientos setenta y cinco punto cero cero pies cuadrados. Le corresponde a este apartamento una participación

en los elementos comunes y generales de once por ciento.

Finca 26,434, inscrita al folio 36 del tomo 725 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Primera.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 3 de noviembre de 2021. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaría General. Enid Diaz Rios, Sec. de Servicios a Sala.

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

MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Demandante V.

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 18 de noviembre de 2021. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 18 de noviembre de 2021. LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. DAMARIS TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR LUIS SOTO RAMOS T/C/C LEGAL NOTICE HÉCTOR L. SOTO RAMOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO T/C/C H. SOTO RAMOS DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUT/C/C HÉCTOR SOTO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RAMOS COMPUESTA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN POR FULANO DE ISLAND PORTFOLIO TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SERVICES, LLC., COMO ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA AGENTE DE ACE ONE DE TAL, HEREDEROS FUNDING, LLC. DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y Demandante Vs. C; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE JOEL S. AMÉRICA; HONORABLE CORTES NEGRON SECRETARIO DE Demandada JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO Caso Núm.: CT2021CV00080.

LIBRE ASOCIADO Salón Núm.: 401. Sobre: CODE PUERTO RICO; BRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAHONORABLE MIENTO POR EDICTO. SECRETARIO DE A: JOEL S. CORTES HACIENDA DEL ESTADO NEGRON. URB. VISTA LIBRE ASOCIADO DE DEL MORRO BIO CALLE PUERTO RICO GUARAGUAO, CATAÑO Demandado(a) P.R. 00962-4520.

Civil: CA2021CV01901. Sala: 408. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESION DE HECTOR LUIS SOTO RAMOS T/C/C HECTOR L SOTO RAMOS T/C/C H. SOTO RAMOS T/C/C HECTOR SOTO RAMOS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS A, B Y C.

(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 22 de octubre 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

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección

kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de septiembre de 2021. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 28 de septiembre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAYRA I. MARRERO MARRERO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOT ICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

RUTH NELSIRYS OCASIO RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03540.

(407). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado el 5 de octubre de 2021, que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha o fechas que más adelante se indican, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Ruth Nelsirys Ocasio Rodríguez. Dirección Física: 9A Lot, Km 13.1, RD 175, Sector Los Barros, Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico 00976. Finca 14,523, al folio 288 del tomo 286 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. “URBANA: Solar marcado con el número nueve (9), según Plano de Inscripción del Proyecto de solares denominado Finca Margarita Blondet (ARF-1), radicado en la Zona Urbana del término municipal de Trujillo Alto, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos dieciocho punto cero seis (418.06) metros cuadrados, en lindes: por el NORTE, con la Carretera Estatal

The San Juan Daily Star número ochocientos cuarenta y seis (846), distancia de veintiuno punto treinta (21.30) metros; por el SUR, con la Carretera Estatal Número ciento setenta y cinco (175), distancia de veintiuno punto cuarenta y seis (21.46) metros; por el ESTE, con el Solar número ocho (8), distancia de veinte punto sesenta y ocho (20.68) metros; y por el OESTE, con el Solar número diez (10), distancia de dieciocho punto dieciocho punto setenta y tres (18.73) metros.

Enclava casa.” Finca 14,523: Por su procedencia está afecta a: Servidumbre de paso y Alcantarillado. Por sí está afecta a: a. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $78,662.00, con intereses al 6.00% anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2038, constituida mediante la escritura número 86, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de marzo de 2008, ante la notario Ana V. Piñero Pares, e inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 807 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 14,523, inscripción 4ta. b. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de La Autoridad Para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $13,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 18 de marzo de 2018, constituida mediante la escritura número 87, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de marzo de 2008, ante la notario Ana V. Piñero Pares, e inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 807 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 14,523, inscripción 5ta.

Sujeta a Condiciones de venta, bajo el “Programa La Llave para tu Hogar”: las cuales estipulan que el inmueble tiene que constituir la residencia principal de los deudores hipotecarios y que no podrán ser arrendada o destinada a otro uso que no sea el de su residencia habitual y permanente. Los deudores hipotecarios no podrán vender, donar, permutar o de algún modo transferir la propiedad dentro de un periodo de 8 años. c. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 11 de septiembre de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV03540, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Nelsirys Ocasio Rodríguez, por la suma de $65,828.57, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 25 de junio de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto, finca número 14,523, Anotación A. El precio mínimo de este remate con relación a la Finca 14,523 antes descrita y la fecha de cada subasta serán la siguiente: FECHA DE SUBASTA: PRIMERA SUBAS-

TA: 19 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $78,662.00.

HIPOTECA: Escritura Número 86 sobre Hipoteca, otorgada el día 18 de marzo de 2008, ante el notario Ana V. Piñero Parés.

Segunda Subasta: 26 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $52,441.33. Tercera Subasta: 2 DE FEBRERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $39,331.00. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 10 de febrero de 2020, notificada el 11 de febrero de 2020 y publicada el 19 de febrero de 2020, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto del préstamo garantizado por la hipoteca antes mencionada y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma principal de $65,828.57, más intereses a razón de 6%, desde el 1 de abril de 2018, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $67.65 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $6,989.02 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $7,866.20 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores.

Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y

Tuesday, November 23, 2021 su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 10 de noviembre de 2021. LCDA. LEGAL NOTICE LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, REGIONAL. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SECRETARIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- MARÍA E. COLLAZO FEBUS, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. SALA DE BAYAMÓN para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de noviembre de 2021. MANUEL VILLAFAÑE BLANCO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

EFRAIN HIDALGOSUAREZ, LUZ MARIA RODRIGUEZ SANTANA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandado

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido 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 el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado & Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en BaLEGAL NOTICE yamón, Puerto Rico, a 10 de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO noviembre de 2021. LCDA. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, REGIONAL. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SECRETARIA MARÍA E. COLLAZO FEBUS, SALA DE BAYAMÓN SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL ORIENTAL BANK TRIBUNAL. Demandante V.

EFRAIN HIDALGOSUAREZ, LUZ MARIA RODRIGUEZ SANTANA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar

SANTANA POR SÍ Y EN A: AGUSTÍN RODRÍGUEZ TORO, SU ESPOSA REPRESENTACIÓN DE FULANA DE TAL Y LA LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ESTA COMPUESTA POR Y EFRAÍN HIDALGO AMBOS. SUÁREZ. URB. CIUDAD Se le apercibe que la parte JARDÍN III, 459 CALLE demandante por mediación GRAN ALMENDRO, TOA del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre CoALTA PR 00953-4891; lón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, EST. MIRAFLORES 44-30 Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2 CALLE 53, BAYAMÓN 65-0334, ha radicado la acción PR 00957; TELÉFONO de epígrafe en su contra. CoCONOCIDO: (787) 649- pia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto 4957; (787) 647-0605. le ha sido enviado por correo

Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva

dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribuna dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de noviembre de 2021. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguiente, responden por la cargas de la misma conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil de 1930. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de la causante Carmen Milagros Nesbit t/c/c Carmen M. Nesbit, que incluye como posibles herederos a Tai Nesbit, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. NOTIFÍQUESE. Dada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de noviembre de 2021. RAMÓN E. MELÉNDEZ CASTRO, JUEZ”.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUSALA DE SAN JUAN SUN WEST MORTGAGE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUACOMPANY, INC. DILLA. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Demandante Vs. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFERNANDO MACHADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN TORRES; EVA NILDA SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO MILAGROS NESBIT T/C/C ECHEVARRIA PELLOT ROJO CARMEN M. NESBIT

Parte Con Interés Civil Núm.: BY2021CV03136.

COOPERATIVA DE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. Demandado CABO ROJO EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICESTADOS UNIDOS DE Parte Demandante Vs TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE Parte Con Interés AGUSTÍN RODRÍGUEZ DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, Civil Núm.: BY2021CV03136.

TORO, SU ESPOSA EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y FULANA DE TAL Y: DO DE PUERTO RICO. EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICA: EFRAÍN HIDALGO DE GANANCIALES SUÁREZ POR SÍ Y EN TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE COMPUESTA POR AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE REPRESENTACIÓN DE AMBOS DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAParte Demandada DE GANANCIALES Civil Núm.: CB2021CV00179.

DO DE PUERTO RICO. COMPUESTA POR ESTE Y Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. A: LUZ MARÍA EDICTO. LUZ MARÍA RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ

SANTANA. URB. CIUDAD JARDÍN III, 459 CALLE GRAN ALMENDRO, TOA ALTA PR 00953-4891; EST. MIRAFLORES 44-30 CALLE 53, BAYAMÓN PR 00957; TELÉFONO CONOCIDO: (787) 6494957;(787) 647-0605.

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a la última dirección conocida.

Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de

COMPUESTA POR TAI NESBIT, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04948.

Salón Núm.: 506. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ORDEN DE INTERPELACIÓN. Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Honorable Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda enmendada en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil de 1930. Se ordena a los posibles herederos de Carmen Milagros Nesbit t/c/c Carmen M. Nesbit a saber, Tai Nesbit, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal a que, dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la causante. Se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días en torno a

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Ex-Parte

CIVIL NUM.:AG2021CV01173.

SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. Núm. de Catastro: 025-040-379-10-001. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.U.A EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS

A: SUCN. FELIPE MACHADO Y LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LOS PETICIONARIOS EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA MAS ADELANTE DESCRITA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que

a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizadando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr , salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin mas 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. RUSTICA: Radicada en el Barrio Galateo Bajo de Isabela con una cabida superficial de TREINTA Y NUEVE MIL CERO DIECIOCHO PUNTO UNO TRES CUATRO (39,018.134 M/C), equivalentes a NUEVE PUNTO NOVECIENTOS VEINTISIETE CUERDAS (9.927 CDS), en lindes al NORTE: con Carretera Estatal Cuatro Cuatro Siete Cuatro (4474), Julio Machado Valle, Sucn. Felipe Machado, Amalio Jimenez y Hernan Machado Martínez; al SUR: con Valentin Jimenez y Samuel Rodríguez Ramos; al ESTE: con Octavio Machado Machado, Hernan Machado Martinez, Amalio Jimenez y con Valentin Jimenez y al OESTE: con Julio Machado Valle, Sucn. Felipe Machado Machado, Sucesion Felipe Torres y Samuel Rodriguez Ramos.

Enclava una residencia de dos niveles. Número de Catastro: 025-040-379-10-001. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. Rolando Machado Acevedo, 151 Ruta 474, Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662; Teléfono: 787-830-1227. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 22 de abril de 2022, a las 3:30 de la tarde, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposción a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho.

Toda primera menciٕón de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y partes citada,

24 o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término inprorrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico a 16 de noviembre de 2021. SARAHI REYEZ PEREZ, Secretaria Regional. Zuheily Gonzalez Avilez, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

ÚRSULA PIZZINI MARTÍNEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV00750.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 27 de mayo de 2021, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 5 de octubre de 2021 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 8 de octubre de 2021 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Sala Superior, en 91 Avenida Hiram David Cabassa, Esquina Carretera Dos (2), Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno marcado con el número ocho (8) radicada en el Barrio Guanajibo de término municipal de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 952.80 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en 40.00 metros, con el solar número siete (7); por el SUR, en 40.00 metros con el solar número nueve (9); por el ESTE, en 23.82 metros, con la Calle Hipólito Arroyo; y por el OESTE, en 23.82 metros, con el remanente de la finca principal. Inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 971 de Mayagüez, Finca Número 28941, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Mayagüez,

Finca Número 28941, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez.

Inscripción décimo sexta (16ta).

DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: SECTOR CASTILLO, A42 CALLE HIPÓLITO ARROYO, MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00682-1307. SUBASTAS: FECHAS: PRIMERA: 11 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $143,223.00. SEGUNDA: 18 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO:$95,482.00. TERCERA: 25 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $71,611.50. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $143,223.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE 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, $95,482.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2022, A LAs 1:30 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $71,611.50. 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 $130,898.67 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4% anual desde el 1 de junio de 2017 hasta su completo pago, más $488.59 de recargos acumulados, más la cantidad estipulada de $14,322.30 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a) Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Úrsula Pizzini Martínez (soltera) ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, en el caso civil número MZ2019CV00750 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $130,898.67 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 17 de mayo de 2019. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Mayagüez. Anotación A. b) Bitácora: Al Asiento 2021082453-MY01, el 2 de julio de

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2021, Instancia de fecha 2 de julio de 2021, ante la Notario Nicole Marie Cobb Vélez, para que se cancele hipoteca por la suma de $141,000.00.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se le 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 los mismos, 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 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de noviembre de 2021. JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR.

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Parte Demandante Vs.

WALTER WALLACE HODGE EDWARDS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2021CV01848.

Sala: 502. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: WALTER WALLACE HODGE EDWARDS: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, cer-

tifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Reparto Valencia, situada en el Barrio Hato Tejas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar dieciocho del Bloque D, con un área de doscientos setenta y dos metros cuadrados con treinta y siete centímetros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de seis metros cincuenta centímetros con la Calle Jazmín, en arco con un radio de tres metros cincuenta centímetros con dicha Calle Jazmín; por el SUR, en diez metros con los solares treinta y seis y treinta y siete; por el ESTE, en veinticuatro metros con la Calle Jazmín; y por el OESTE, en veintisiete metros cincuenta centímetros con el solar número diecisiete.

Contiene una casa de concreto para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 66 del tomo 781 de Bayamón Sur, Finca número 35,538. Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Primera de Bayamón. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Reparto Valencia, D-18 Calle Jazmín, Bayamón, P.R. 00956. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 2102015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $102,400.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #93, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de marzo de 2004, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca # 35,538, inscripción 18va. La PRIMERA SUBASTA,

se llevará a cabo el día 12 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina piso cuarto sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $102,400.00.

Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $68,266.67. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $51,200.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: Suma Principal: $67,889.42 con intereses a 5.95% anual, desde el 1 de septiembre de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $10,240.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables.

Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente

Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 10 de noviembre de 2021. JOSÉ F. MARRERO ROBLES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #131.

blecerse 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 18 de noviembre de 2021. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 18 de noviembre de 2021. DOMINGA GÓMEZ FUSTER, SECRETARIA. ARSENIA MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

PALMAS DEL MAR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

PUERTO RICO

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 18 de noviembre de 2021. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 18 de noviembre de 2021. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. YANITZA IGLESIAS MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA LEGAL NOTICE TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL SAN JUAN ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIAMERICAS LEADING DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANFINANCE, LLC GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA CIA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO Demandante V. MUNICIPAL DE HUMACAO BANCO POPULAR DE

Demandante V.

GABRIEL M. DOLAGARAY BALADO, RUTH M. GARCIA SANTIAGO, RUTH M. GARCÍA SANTIAGO, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandante V.

JOSÉ R. CARRIÓN NÁTER T/C/C JOSÉ RAFAEL CARRIÓN NÁTER, RAQUEL RIVAS MONTIJO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

SAN MARTÍN CARABALLO CEPEDA, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV01891.

Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO (REDemandado(a) Civil Núm.: AR2021CV01084. POSESIÓN DE VEHÍCULO).

Salón Civil: 403. Sobre: CO- NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENDemandado(a) CIA POR EDICTO. Civil: HU2021CV00123. Sobre: BRO DE DINERO, EJECUA: SAN MARTÍN COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI- CIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NOTIFICACARABALLO CEPEDA, CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FULANA DE TAL Y LA EDICTO. A: GABRIEL M. SOCIEDAD LEGAL

DOLAGARAY BALADO, RUTH M. GARCIA SANTIAGO, RUTH M. GARCÍA SANTIAGO, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: PO BOX 190508, SAN JUAN, PR 00919-0508, P/C DE LCDO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ 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 15 de noviembre 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 esta-

A: JOSÉ R. CARRIÓN NÁTER T/C/C JOSÉ RAFAEL CARRIÓN NÁTER, RAQUEL RIVAS MONTIJO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(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 17 de noviembre 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

DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(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 16 de noviembre 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 de 18 de noviembre de 2021. En SAN JUAN, Puer-

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rios sea publicada por tres (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, para que cualquier persona con interés, y/o las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la presente causa de acción, los que tengan cualquier derecho real sobre la finca objeto de este procedimiento, y en general a todos, para que comparezcan a alegar sus derechos dentro de los veinte (20) días de la última publicación del edicto.

Se les apercibe que, si no comparecieren a contestar dicha petición dentro del término establecido, se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 15 de noviembre de 2021.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORISSETTE RIVERA REYES, SUB-SECRETARIA.

Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02341.

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Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado & Fernández, LLC; PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750; Tel. [787] 2741414. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 03 de noviembre de 2021. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLALEGAL NOTICE DO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- DE SERVICIOS A SALA. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUORIENTAL BANK NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Parte Demandante Vs. SALA DE CAGUAS LESTER VIRGILIO López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de septiembre de 2021. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiembre de 2021. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANABEL NEGRÓN SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

NEGRÓN AYALA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE GETZAIDA MONTIJO CABIYA COMPUESTA POR CATERINA CARBUCCIA, FULANO Y FULANA DE ISLAND PORTFOLIO TAL Y LA COMUNIDAD DE SERVICES, LLC., COMO BIENES GANANCIALES AGENTE DE ACE ONE Parte Demandada FUNDING, LLC. DEPARTAMENTO DE Demandante Vs. HACIENDA; CENTRO DE ANIBAL RECAUDACIONES DE HERNANDEZ ROBLES INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandada Caso Núm.: BY2021CV02167.

Salón Núm.: 703. Sobre: COLos peticionarios han radicado BRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAen este Tribunal una Acción MIENTO POR EDICTO. Declaratoria de Usucapión para A: ANIBAL HERNANDEZ que se declare a su favor, el ROBLES. PARC VAN dominio de la siguiente finca: SCOY DD54 VIA URBANA: Solar radicado en REXVILLE, BAYAMÓN la Urbanización Villa del Rey, P.R. 00957-5800. situada en el barrio Turabo, de POR LA PRESENTE se le Caguas, marcado con el númeemplaza y requiere para que ro diez de la manzana “M”, con conteste la demanda dentro de un área de Trescientos Treinta los treinta (30) días siguientes y Seis metros cuadrados, en a la publicación de este Edicto. lindes por el Norte, con los solaUsted deberá presentar su aleres números diez y siete y diez gación responsiva a través del y ocho, distancia de catorce Sistema Unificado de Manejo y metros; por el Sur, con la calle Administración de Casos (SUnúmero once, distancia de caMAC), la cual puede acceder torce metros; por el Este, con el utilizando la siguiente direcsolar número nueve, distancia ción electrónica: https://unired. de veinte y cuatro metros; y por ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se el Oeste, con el solar número represente por derecho propio, once, distancia de veinte y cuaen cuyo caso deberá presentar tro metros. En dicho solar ensu alegación responsiva en la clava una vivienda de concreto secretaría del tribunal. Si usted para una sola familia. Inscrita al deja de presentar su alegación folio 21, del tomo 417 de Caresponsiva dentro del referido guas, finca 11,079. Representa término, el tribunal podrá dica los peticionarios, la abogada tar sentencia en rebeldía en cuyo nombre, dirección y telésu contra y conceder el remefono es el siguiente: dio solicitado en la demanda o Lcda. Ivette Rossana García Cruz cualquier otro sin más citarle ni RUA 20231 PO BOX 373151 oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerciCayey, PR 00737-3151 cio de su sana discreción, lo E-mail: garciacruzlaw@gmail.com entiende procedente. El sisteHabiéndose dictado Orden por ma SUMAC notificará copia al el Honorable Tribunal para que abogado de la parte demanla solicitud de los peticionadante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

MELISSA RODRIGUEZ MATOS

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: CG2021CV02118.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIPartes Con Interés BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV03258.

RICO, SS. (604). Sobre: COBRO DINEA: MELISSA RO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTERODRIGUEZ MATOS. CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS POR LA PRESENTE se les DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN- emplaza y requiere para que TE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO conteste la demanda dentro de LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

SS. Usted deberá radicar su aleA: LESTER VIRGILIO gación responsiva a través del NEGRÓN AYALA Y LA Sistema Unificado de Manejo y SUCESIÓN DE GETZAIDA Administración de Casos (SUMONTIJO CABIYA MAC), al cual puede acceder COMPUESTA POR utilizando la siguiente dirección CATERINA CARBUCCIA, electrónica: http://unired.ramaFULANO Y FULANA DE judicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se TAL Y LA COMUNIDAD DE presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar BIENES GANANCIALES. el original de su contestación Quedan emplazados y notifiante el Tribunal correspondiencados de que en este Tribunal te y notifique con copia a los se ha radicado una demanda abogados de la parte demande cobro de dinero y ejecución dante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colon de hipoteca en su contra. Se Villinueva, al PO BOX 7970, le notifica que deberá presenPonce P.R. 00732; Teléfono: tar su alegación responsiva a 787-843-4168, correo electrótravés del Sistema Unificado nico mcolon@wwclaw.com. de Manejo y Administración de En dicha demanda se tramita Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede un procedimiento de cobro de acceder utilizando la siguiente dinero y ejecución de hipoteca dirección electrónica: https:// bajo el número mencionado en unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho que se represente por derecho procedimiento que la parte propio, en cuyo caso deberá Demandada incurrió en el inpresentar su alegación responcumplimiento del Contrato de siva en la Secretaría del TribuHipoteca, al no poder pagar las nal Superior de Puerto Rico, mensualidades vencidas coSala de San Juan y enviando rrespondientes a los meses de copia a la parte demandante: julio de 2019, hasta el presente,

más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio.

De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a In suma de $98,723.97 de balance principal, el cual se compone de $97,045.38 de primer principal y la suma de $1,678.59 de balance diferido, más los intereses sobre la suma $97,045.38 al 5.750% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo $10,500.00, pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento mil trescientos ocho (1308) del Condominio Villa Beatriz radicado en el Barrio Beatriz de la municipalidad de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos veinte punto cuarenta y nueve (820.49) pies cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con área común; por el SUR, con área común; por el ESTE, con pared que lo separa del apartamento mil cuatrocientos tres (1403); y por el OESTE, con pasillo, área común y con pared que lo separa del apartamento mil trescientos tres (1303). Apartamento ubicado en la tercera planta del edificio trece (13) del Condominio Villa Beatriz, con entrada principal mirando hacia el Oeste, el cual consiste de una área sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, tres habitaciones cada una con ropero, un baño y un linen closet. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de punto cincuenta y cinco por ciento (.55%) en los elementos comunes del Condominio.

También tiene derecho dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número del apartamento. Presentado al asiento mil trescientos cuarenta y dos (1342) del diario mil ciento sesenta y seis (1166).

Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección l. SE LES APERCmE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, A 17 día de noviembre de 2021.

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LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE ALEJANDRINA MALDONADO MELENDEZ COMPUESTA POR CARMEN LYDIA RIVERA MALDONADO, JESUS DANIEL SANTOS RIVERA, CARMEN ALEXANDRA SANTOS RIVERA, ISMAEL GARCIA, MANUEL RAMOS ALVAREZ, DAVID RAMOS ALVAREZ JUAN CARLOS RAMOS ALVAREZ, GLORIMAR RAMOS ALVAREZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION SOBRE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2021CV00574.

Sala: 201. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y NOTIFICACIÓN DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JESUS DANIEL SANTOS RIVERA, CARMEN ALEXANDRA SANTOS RIVERA, ISMAEL GARCIA Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ALEJANDRINA MALDONADO MELÉNDEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y

notifique con copia a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha, demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de agosto de 2019, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes.

Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma de $45,657.74 de balance principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.00% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número uno (1) de la manzana N, en el plano de la Urbanización de Terrenos proyecto PRHA guión once (PRHA-11) Zenón Díaz Valcárcel, preparado por la Autoridad sobre Hogares de Puerto Rico y aprobados por la Honorable Junta de Planificación de Puerto Rico, radicado en el Barrio Amelia Sabana del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos diecinueve punto cincuenta (319.50) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número siete (7) del mismo plano, en una distancia de veinticuatro punto treinta y ocho (24.38) metros; por el SUR, con el solar N guión dos. (N-2) del referido plano, en una distancia veinticuatro punto treinta y ocho (24.38) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar N guión tres (N-3), en una distancia de trece punto once (13.11) metros; y por el OESTE, con la calle número seis (6) del referido proyecto, en una distancia de trece punto diez (13.10) metros. Enclava casa. Inscrita al folio uno (1) del tomo setenta y cinco (75) de Guaynabo, finca número tres mil trescientos cincuenta y cuatro (3,354). Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo

SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, como miembro de la Sucesión de Alejandrina Maldonado Meléndez se ha presentado una solicitud de interpelación judicial para que sirva en el término de treinta (30) días aceptar o repudiar la herencia. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de la herencia, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante Alejandrina Maldonado Meléndez y por consiguiente, responderán por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Art. 1587 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 11041. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 16 de noviembre de 2021, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAIRENI TRINTA MALDONADO, SUB~SECRETARIA.

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

DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1 Plaintiff V.

ISMAEL PAGAN CEDENO, ET AL.

Defendants Civil No.: 3:18-CV-1889. (ADC).

FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: ISMAEL PAGAN CEDENO, WANDA IVETTE GONZALEZ RIVERA, AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP, ANY OTHER PARTY WITH INTEREST OVER THE PROPERTY MENTIONED BELOW, AND, GENERAL PUBLIC.

WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of Plaintiff to recover from the Defendants the sum of Principal Balance of $204,254.70, Interest Due through November 30, 2020 of $77,099.04, Late Charge Payment $3,935.01, Unapplied Balance ($408.30), Funds owed by Borrower $1,068.46 and Attorney fees and Costs of 10% in the total amount of $20,500.00 plus interest there-

26 after at the daily accrual rate of 7.5% until final payment, and costs, and that plaintiff have execution therefore due in the above cause, plus all expenses and advances made by the plaintiff. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150, Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution of Judgment and the Writ of Execution of Judgment thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 – Federal Office Building, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the Plaintiff, the following property: Legal Description: RUSTICA. Solar numero veintisiete (27) del Bloque CC sito en el Proyecto de viviendas conocido como Hacienda Primavera, ubicado en el Barrio Bayamón en Cidra, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y TRES PUNTO DOSCIENTOS CUARENTA Y SIETE (333.247) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con Solsticio Street; por el SUR, con el lote número doce (12) del bloque CC; por el ESTE, con el lote numero veintiocho (28) del bloque CC; y por el OESTE, con el lote numero veintiséis (26) del bloque CC. Contiene una casa tipo Yagrumo que cuenta con las siguientes facilidades: tres (3) habitaciones, dos (2) baños, y sala-comedor, cocina, marquesina doble. Inscrita al Folio 165 del Tomo 461 de Cidra, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II, Finca 16,889, 3rd Inscription.

WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: YES. Junior Liens: None. Other Liens: None. Plaintiff’s mortgage in the amount of $205,000.00 was recorded at the Caguas Property Registry, Page 165, Volume 461 of Cidra, property number 16,889, 4th inscription.

Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or

legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancelation. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the 11TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 11:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $205,000.00.

In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on 18TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 11:00 AM. and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $136,666.67, which is two thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION will be held on the 25TH DAY OF JANUARY OF 2022, AT: 11:00 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $102,500.00, which is one half of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the Plaintiff, in which was the amount of the bid made by said Plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 17th day of November of 2021. Pedro A. Velez-Baerga, Special Master, 787-672-8269, specialmasterpr@gmail.com.

The San Juan Daily Star

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO rdíaz@bdslawpr.com DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Expido este edicto bajo mi firNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ma y el sello de este Tribunal, SALA DE CAGUAS hoy 16 de noviembre de 2021.

BANCO POPULAR DE LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. ANA PUERTO RICO, INC. H. LUGO MUÑOZ, SECRETADemandante V. RIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOT ICE

MARÍA C. RIVERA COREA, AGENCIA DE FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANDemandadas Civil Núm.: CG2021CV01450. CIA SALA DE UTUADO ORIENTAL BANK Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PADemandante V. GARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. Sala: 701. EMJOHN DOE Y RICHARD PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ROE COMO MIEMBROS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉDESCONOCIDOS DE RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS LA SUCESIÓN JOSEPH ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO MANUEL GONZÁLEZ LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERLUGO TO RICO, S.S. Demandados A: MARÍA C. RIVERA

DEPARTAMENTO DE COREA T/C/C MARÍA HACIENDA; CENTRO DE C. RIVERA CORREA RECAUDACIONES DE COMO TENEDOR INGRESOS MUNICIPALES DESCONOCIDO DEL Partes Con Interés PAGARÉ como tenedor Civil Núm.: L3CI201800063. desconocido de Pagaré Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN Y por la cantidad de COBRO DE DINERO. ESTA$41,000.00, con intereses DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, al 7% anual. Vencimiento EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESel 1 de marzo de 2025. TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO Así resulta de la escritura LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERRICO. AVISO DE PÚBLICA número 42 otorgada en TO SUBASTA. El que suscribe, AlSan Juan el 2 de junio guacil del Tribunal de Primera de 1995, ante la notario Instancia, Sala de Utuado, hago Rita Lynne Rodríguez de saber a la parte demandada La Rocha, inscrita a la JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE finca 42,126, Registro de COMO MIEMBROS DESCOla Propiedad de Puerto NOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN JOSEPH MANUEL GONZÁRico, Primera Sección de LEZ LUGO, DEPARTAMENTO Caguas.

DE HACIENDA, CENTRO DE

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 & SÁNCHEZ LLP Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901

RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES, Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia por Embargo liberado el 22 de octubre de 2021, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la siguiente propiedad [PARCELA A, BO. PILETAS, PR-453 km 5.3, LARES, PR 00669]: RUSTICA: Parcela A: Predio de terreno ubicado en el barrio Piletas del término municipal de Lares, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,959.6378 metros cuadrados, equivalente a 0.4986 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos pertenecientes al Municipio de Lares; por el SUR, con terrenos pertenecientes a la finca de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con la carretera estatal del Piletas; y por el OESTE, con terrenos pertenecientes al Municipio de Lares. Finca número 19736

de Lares, inscrita al tomo Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Utuado. El inmueble antes descrito se encontrará afecto a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Oriental Bank por la suma de $70,000.00 con intereses al 4.50% anual y vencimiento 1 de julio de 2045.

Constituida mediante escritura 55 otorgada en Aguadilla el 26 de junio de 2015 ante el notario Norman E. Colon Báez. Inscrita el 19 de julio de 2021 al Tomo Karibe, finca 19736 de Lares, inscripción 5ª. (1009/420). (ii) Mandamiento de Embargo en Ejecución de Sentencia emitido el 9 de noviembre de 2017 por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Lares, en caso civil número L3CI201800063, por el cual se ordena la anotación de embargo preventivo sobre esta finca para que la misma responda por la suma de $67,689.60, más otras sumas.

Anotado el 19 de julio de 2021 al Tomo Karibe, finca 19736 de Lares, anotación “A”. (2018129995-UT01). El embargo objeto de esta ejecución es el que ha quedado descrito en el inciso (ii). La hipoteca descrita en el inciso (i) está relacionada a la ejecución del embargo descrito en el inciso (ii), ya que al momento que se dictó sentencia en el caso de epígrafe la hipoteca no estaba inscrita, ésta será cancelada como parte de la escritura de venta judicial producto de la subasta. Se celebrará la subasta para ejecutar el embargo antes mencionado en el inciso (ii) y para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 13 de septiembre de 2018 a favor de la parte demandante por la suma principal de $67,689.60 de principal, más intereses $2,184.91 al 4.50% desde el día 1 de julio de 2017 que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total, $14.84 de cargos por atrasos, y $7,000.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La SUBASTA será celebrada el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Utuado. El precio ofrecido se pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal o por cheque del gerente librado a favor del alguacil en el mismo acto de subasta y tan pronto se conceda la buena pro al postor agraciado. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento

incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables.

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

Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley en un periódico de circulación diaria en la isla de Puerto Rico, y en los sitios públicos de costumbre, expido el presente Aviso bajo firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de noviembre de 2021. JOSÉ F. RIVERA PÉREZ, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE UTUADO.

a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO a usted por correo certificado DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- con acuse de recibo, una copia NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA del emplazamiento y de la deSALA DE HUMACAO manda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: ORIENTAL BANK Urb. Mansiones del Caribe, 17 Demandante V. Calle Topacio, Humacao, PR JOSE A. ROMAN FLORES, FULANA DE TAL 00791. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día DE GANANCIALES 28 de octubre de 2021. DominCOMPUESTA POR ga Gómez Fuster, Secretaria Regional. Michelle Guevara De AMBOS León, Secretaria Auxiliar.

Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2021CV00906.

LEGAL NOTICE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSLOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LI- TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO SAN JUAN

LEGAL NOTICE

ALEX A: JOSE A. ROMAN ALVARADO TORRES Demandante V. FLORES, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL ANTHONY J. IRRIZARRY PEREZ, FULANA DE TAL DE GANANCIALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL COMPUESTA POR DE GANANCIALES AMBOS. POR MEDIO del presente edicCOMPUESTA POR to se le notifica de la radicación AMBOS XYZ RICO, SS.

de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio.

El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PMB 450, 400 Calle Calaf, San Juan, PR 00918-1314; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2018CV05405.

Sala: 903. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANTHONY J. IRRIZARRY PEREZ.

(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 2 de noviembre 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 de 3 de noviembre de 2021. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 3 de noviembre de 2021. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria.

Mildred J. Franco Reventos, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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What we learned from Week 11 in the NFL

By TYLER DUNNE

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his season, bludgeoning running attacks have paid off.

Defenses have turned to deploying two-deep safety looks to diffuse the bigplay potential of the league’s most potent quarterbacks — Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Kyler Murray. NFL front offices have also started drafting lighter, quicker defensive players capable of reacting to their improvisation.

So the smart offensive minds are countering with the run.

That pivot absolutely makes the Indianapolis Colts dangerous down the stretch.

Sunday’s 41-15 win over the Buffalo Bills made this week’s biggest takeaway clear: Jonathan Taylor has entered the MVP chat.

One year ago, he struggled to even stay on the field as a rookie. This season, it has taken a good two months for Jonathan Taylor to calibrate with the Colts’ powerful offensive line.

But Taylor’s full repertoire was on display at rainy, windy Highmark Stadium in western New York, and the Colts shoved the Bills’ top-ranked defense around behind the running game, as Taylor finished with 185 rushing yards on 32 carries with five total touchdowns.

Indianapolis fed Taylor from the start.

He carried the ball on six of the 11 plays of the opening drive, scoring his first touchdown sliding behind a block by tight end Jack Doyle and carrying Buffalo cornerback Tre’Davious White on his back on a 3-yard run.

His second score, a 23-yard reception that put the Colts ahead, 14-0, had Taylor again toting White over the goal line.

His third touchdown came late in the first half, with Taylor going over the line to punch in a score.

But Taylor saved his best to put the Bills away. In the third quarter, Buffalo coach Sean McDermott’s bizarre decision to have Tyler Bass attempt a 49-yard field goal backfired with a miss.

On first-and-10 from midfield, Taylor had a dazzling 40-yard run in which he used a high-step hesitation to zoom past Bills safety Jordan Poyer. Then on the next play, he froze cornerback Levi Wallace with a shoulder dip and knifed inside for his

Colts running back Jonathan Taylor had five total touchdowns as Indianapolis shocked the Bills. fourth score to put the Colts up, 31-7.

For the heck of it, Taylor plunged ahead for a fifth touchdown shortly after.

Monday morning will be a physically painful one for every defensive player in Buffalo, and the No. 1 reason, of course, was Taylor.

He is a fascinating thinker, a philosophy major in college who thought about attending Harvard before choosing Wisconsin, because he dreamed of becoming an astrophysicist. Taylor’s mind operates at a different level. When he wasn’t blasting Big Ten Conference defenses, he was studying the works of the German metaphysician Immanuel Kant or tending to a 500-piece jigsaw puzzle without using the box as a guide.

Now, he’s driving NFL defenses mad and, with Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry out, working his way into the MVP race.

Kansas City’s defense needed a tweak, not an overhaul.

Kansas City’s juggernaut offense had short-circuited for stretches this season while trying to compensate for a defense that gave up 30 or more points in four of its first five games.

But against the league’s most highpowered offense, its defense stepped up to

deliver a black-and-blue 19-9 win over the Dallas Cowboys that should recharge Kansas City’s Super Bowl expectations.

On a night when Patrick Mahomes wasn’t bad, but also wasn’t great, defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo managed to fluster Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott with a pass rush that held Prescott to his second-lowest yardage total (216) of the season. In all, Kansas City hit Prescott eight times, sacked him five times and intercepted two of his passes and forced a fumble.

So what changed for Kansas City’s defense? It didn’t hurt that the Cowboys were without receiver Amari Cooper, who tested positive for coronavirus and who is not vaccinated against COVID-19, and that top receiver CeeDee Lamb left Sunday’s game with a concussion. Statistically, Prescott entered Sunday as the NFL’s best quarterback against the blitz and Spagnuolo unloaded exotic pressures on him anyway. It worked.

The biggest factor of all, though, was moving Chris Jones back inside to defensive tackle after he spent much of the season on the edge. He had more sacks Sunday (3 1/2) than he had all season (three), three quarterback hits and tipped the pass that ended up being intercepted by cornerback L’Jarius Sneed to end the Cowboys’ final drive.

In giving up only 276 total yards against

an offense averaging an NFL-high 433.9 per game, it’s safe to declare this defense officially back.

On his third sack of the game, Jones busted out LeBron James’ chest-thumping celebration. On his final takedown, he easily discarded the Cowboys’ four-time AllPro guard Zack Martin.

Since Kansas City’s Super Bowl triumph over San Francisco at the end of the 2019 season — when Jones declared immediately afterward that the Chiefs would be a dynasty — Jones has been this front seven’s energy force.

Cam Newton remains must-see TV. This was a reunion of necessity, the Carolina Panthers rolling out the red carpet for Cam Newton once more.

A series of brutal decisions at the most important position in sports gave the Panthers no other choice but to call Newton, the 2015 MVP, who departed Carolina in 2019 after nine seasons with the team.

Carolina lost to the Washington Football Team on Sunday, 27-21, and now has a 5-6 record. But if nothing else, we know this out of Week 11: The quarterback who tore through the league in 2015 for 45 touchdowns en route to the Super Bowl is no more, but it’s also true that Newton, 32, had no business waiting for a job until mid-November.

After scoring two touchdowns in a limited role last week, Newton started at home Sunday and did not disappoint with three total touchdowns and 189 yards on 21 of 27 passing.

Of course, the numbers alone never do Newton justice. His arrival itself injected the Panthers with hope out of nowhere.

When he was introduced Sunday, the team blared “Coming Home” by Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey over the loudspeakers. As smoke clouded the tunnel, Newton took a moment to bask in this improbable return before screaming at the top of his lungs and sprinting onto the field.

Since he was drafted No. 1 overall in 2011, Newton’s energy has been contagious and his unique swagger, on and off the field, gave the entire franchise an identity. But as he accrued injuries in Carolina, it looked as if Newton’s arm was officially shot.

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From page 27 He spent the 2020 season in New England struggling to throw the football, with only eight touchdowns in 15 starts. And after losing a training camp battle to the rookie Mac Jones this past summer, he was released.

Carolina’s post-Newton quarterback plans simultaneously crumbled.

After one season with Teddy Bridgewater as their quarterback, the Panthers traded for Sam Darnold, who stormed out to a 3-0 start this season then regressed each week before landing on injured reserve with a shoulder injury. On Nov. 11, the Panthers essentially said, “Why not?” and signed the most beloved player in franchise history.

The team’s margin for error is now minuscule, but Newton’s presence alone will bring a glimmer of hope and, bare minimum, a ton of excitement.

His touchdowns Sunday were vintage Newton. Punctuating the game’s first drive, he stepped up as if he would run upfield, stopped and jumped to throw a 10-yard touchdown pass to receiver D.J. Moore.

Late in the second quarter, off a play fake, Newton raced to the left edge of the Washington defense and outran multiple defensive backs to the pylon, putting the Panthers up, 14-7. Newton then sprinted to mid-

field to perform his trademark “Superman” celebration.

In the end, Carolina’s leaky defense spoiled his return.

Taylor Heinicke threw for three touchdowns and Washington ran for 190 yards on 40 attempts. For the Panthers, the game was a crash to reality in a cluttered NFC, but given that Newton prepared as a starter for all of one week in a completely new, complex offensive scheme run by coordinator Joe Brady, Newton was impressive.

Carolina will keep opening that playbook for Newton and hope he still has some pixie dust.

One thing’s for certain: The NFL is a lot more fun with Newton in it.

Around the NFL Cardinals 23, Seahawks 13: Long live Colt McCoy. The journeyman quarterback has been a godsend with Kyler Murray out, and he outplayed Russell Wilson with 328 yards and two touchdowns. No DeAndre Hopkins, no problem: Five different Cardinals had at least four receptions.

Bengals 32, Raiders 13: A bye week served Cincinnati well. Possibly no team is as healthy as the Bengals, and that could ultimately be what separates them in a crowded AFC North. After struggling defensively, Cin-

cinnati held the Raiders to 13 first downs, 278 total yards and a 1-of-7 conversion rate on third down.

Texans 22, Titans 13: Houston, 10 1/2-point underdogs, shocked Tennessee on the road behind quarterback Tyrod Taylor’s two touchdown runs and a defense that forced four Ryan Tannehill interceptions.

Three of those picks came in the fourth quarter. Injuries are piling up for the Titans, who lost top receiver A.J. Brown in the third quarter with an injured chest.

Vikings 34, Packers 31: Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins finished 24 of 35 passing for 341 yards and three touchdowns, with no interceptions and a 128.4 passer rating, to beat Green Bay, which played without running back Aaron Jones and tight end Robert Tonyan, two of Aaron Rodgers’ favorite targets.

49ers 30, Jaguars 10: A trendy Super Bowl pick in August, the 49ers seemed dead

by October. But as they get healthier, they’re rediscovering their bruising identity and are now right in the thick of the playoff race at 5-5. A string of winnable games is lined up and, each week, it seems like coach Kyle Shanahan dusts off a new play for do-it-all receiver Deebo Samuel. He rushed eight times for 79 yards and a touchdown.

Kansas City defensive tackle Chris Jones had 3.5 sacks and recovered a fumble in the team’s win over the Dallas Cowboys.

Ravens 16, Bears 13: MVP candidate Lamar Jackson was a late scratch with an illness, and it wasn’t pretty offensively with Tyler Huntley at quarterback. However, Devonta Freeman bashed ahead for a 3-yard touchdown with 22 seconds left to improve Baltimore’s record to 7-3.

Eagles 40, Saints 29: Trevor Siemian has struggled mightily through three straight losses for New Orleans. He threw 18 incompletions and two picks Sunday, while Eagles coach Nick Sirianni’s decision to lean on the rushing attack continues to pay off. Philadelphia blasted the Saints for 242 yards on 50 attempts with three touchdowns.

Dolphins 24, Jets 17: Miami needs to see as much of quarterback Tua Tagovailoa as it possibly can the rest of the season to make a franchise-defining decision heading into 2022. He was solid against a bad Jets defense, completing 27 of 33 passes for 273 yards with two touchdowns.

Browns 13, Lions 10: Nothing like a date with Tim Boyle to get your defense back on track. The Browns’ passing game wasn’t sharp, but the Lions’ was worse, as Boyle threw for all of 77 yards on 23 attempts in place of an injured Jared Goff. As long as the Browns can feed Nick Chubb (130 yards), they’ll have a shot against anyone.

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Sudoku How to Play: Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules: Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

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Wordsearch

GAMES

HOROSCOPE Aries

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(Mar 21-April 20)

As your travel sector is emphasized from today, you may feel a touch of restlessness with a desire to get away from it all. An impromptu trip can give a taster of the many options open to you. It’s time to surrender to your desire for adventure, and enjoy diving into the unknown. Whether you’re an armchair traveller or have big plans, the coming weeks promise exciting experiences.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

The movement of the Sun into your communication zone, can find you busier with general admin and organization. This is a great opportunity to sort out any paperwork or get up to speed with a deadline. It may also be a chance to take stock of any ongoing projects. Been busy with a key plan? Your efforts could be lavishly rewarded. The more you put in, the more you’ll get out.

Taurus

(April 21-May 21)

Scorpio

Gemini

(May 22-June 21)

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

As the Sun enters an intense sector from today, the coming four weeks may be a call to dissolve edgy emotional blocks. By gently discussing and unpicking old issues and finally releasing them, life could ramp-up in wonderful ways. Although this may not happen right away, a fortunate Venus/Mars link suggests that by asking for help, healing might occur even faster, Taurus.

Relationships get a buzz from today, as the Sun glides into far-seeing Sagittarius. The weeks ahead are a chance to take your love life to the next level.

Stuck in a rut? If so, think about taking on board new challenges and projects. You’ll thrive as a couple if you do. Solo? You could meet that special person when doing something that takes you out of your comfort zone, Gemini.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

It’s time to look through a bigger lens, Cancer. If your day-to-day activities are boring you to tears, you’ll be ready for something different. Need fresh activities to be involved with? As the Sun moves into your lifestyle sector and outward-bound Sagittarius, be willing to reach into new areas, to study, and be eager to take on board something that could require a learning curve.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

With sweet Venus making a tentative link to feisty Mars in your sign, something you want may be just within reach. Will you make it your own though, Scorpio? It could seem you’re chasing a dream, but if you’re really determined, an extra push might secure it. Plus, as the Sun moves into your financial sector, it’s time to plan ahead for the festive season and snap up some bargains.

With the Sun now in your sign for a four week stay, this is the time to make any adventurous ideas a reality. Where do you want to travel? What do you want to see? Whatever it is, you may feel a renewed push to make it happen. But with the Moon forging positive ties to Venus and Mars, a gift or a dose of good fortune could leave you feeling uplifted and truly blessed, Archer.

There’s a change occurring from today, as the emphasis moves to a more secluded sector. It’s time to connect with deeper feelings and to tune into your dreams and intuition. This phase will last around four weeks, and might see you paying more attention to the messages of your soul. Does a goal seem out of reach? A mentor might help you to uncover your awesome potential.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

If anything has troubled you over the past week or so, it may now be time to move on and focus on other things. This could relate to a spat, or to other matters that you have been dwelling on needlessly. Whatever it is, the cosmos suggests it might not be worth hanging on to. Indeed, with the Sun now beckoning from your leisure zone, it’s time to unwind and enjoy life more, Leo.

With the Moon linking to Venus in a private sector, this is an opportunity to reflect quietly on key decisions. If it seems that you should set stronger boundaries regarding one person, then doing so can leave you feeling so much happier. Your social life perks up too, as the Sun adds sizzle to this zone over the weeks ahead, and paves the way for sparkling times to come.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Your home zone receives a boost from the radiant Sun, as it moves in for four weeks. With the festive season just around the corner, it’s a good time consider your priorities and plan, so that everything gets done in a relaxed way, Virgo. If you can ignore minor tiffs or spats, the coming days look to be especially upbeat, with happy news and a dose of good fortune on the cards.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Ready to be the star of the show? As the Sun moves into expansive Sagittarius, this is your chance to make an impact and show others how talented you are. If you have an inkling to send off your CV or apply for an interview, then do it. Don’t be too modest either, as the more you are willing to promote your abilities and even show off a little, the better your chances of success.

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CARTOONS

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Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

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Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

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