Monday Nov 25, 2024

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ATI chief highlights progress in public transit

By THE STAR STAFF

The Integrated Transit Authority (ATI by its initials in Spanish) has made significant progress in the transformation of public transport systems on the island, with a focus on innovation, sustainability, and efficiency, ATI Executive Director Josué Menéndez Agosto said during a transition hearing late last week.

“These years have been fundamental in promoting changes leading to a more reliable, accessible and efficient metropolitan transit system,” Menéndez Agosto said. “We are proud of the achievements obtained, but aware that there is still much to be done to guarantee a service that fully responds to the needs of our people.

The ATI chief emphasized that from 2021-2024, ATI has implemented crucial changes that have improved the quality of life of thousands of users and have strengthened socioeconomic development, mainly in the San Juan metropolitan area.

The agency has made essential capital improvements during the past four years, Menéndez Agosto said. The maritime transit system has been rehabilitated by renovating existing terminals and acquiring specialized maintenance equipment. In addition, the purchase of four new vessels and a barge for service to the offshore island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra will exponentially increase the capacity and stability of cargo and passenger transportation, reducing operational costs and ensuring an even more efficient and safe service for users, he noted.

Menéndez Agosto highlighted that the maritime system is much more stable and reliable than before. For example, the service operator, HMS Ferries, reports an average of 97% on-time departures.

In terms of infrastructure, progress has also been made in the construction of a new passenger terminal in Ceiba and in steps toward the rehabilitation of the Mosquito Terminal in Vieques, a project that will not only modernize cargo and passenger operations but will also promote local economic development by converting the terminal into a more significant, more accessible and attractive facility for tourism and commerce, the official said. The maritime transportation system moves more than 1.5 million passengers annually between the service for the island municipalities and the metro service (San Juan-Cataño).

E-30 route that connects San Juan with Caguas, expanding mobility in the region with high-capacity buses that operate daily with 30-minute intervals and with an approximate patronage of 60,000 people per year.

In 2024, the modernization of the ticketing system began with the implementation of the Automatic Fare Collection System, a system that will allow various payment methods and will be more accessible for people with physical limitations, complying with federal accessibility requirements. The project, which is at an advanced stage, marks the first time in 20 years of service that the Urban Train (Tren Urbano) has undergone significant improvements in its fare collection and ticketing system.

“The change is so drastic that we have had to stop collecting fares since March 1st due to this implementation, and the citizen response has been impressive,” Menéndez Agosto said. “This project has the endorsement of the Federal Transportation Agency and has also been communicated to the Financial Oversight [and Management] Board of Puerto Rico. As a result of this free fare, we have perceived an immense interest in using the train and there has been a patronage of more than 2.8 million passengers so far this year, a significant number that is expected to continue to be positive when the collection system is resumed.”

The official also highlighted that all the commercial spaces located in Urban Train stations are occupied for the first time, generating added value for users and offering new opportunities for local entrepreneurs.

In addition, the ATI has diversified the public transit system by introducing the concept of micro mobility, which promotes the use of light vehicles such as bicycles, scooters and electric skateboards, integrating them as a complement to existing public transit. To advance this policy, the restriction that involved acquiring the pass known as Bici-Tren to carry the light vehicles on board was eliminated. Menéndez Agosto said the simple change in train use regulations has helped increase ridership.

Menéndez Agosto noted further that technological advances have been a crucial aspect of ATI’s strategy for integrating mobile applications that allow users to plan their trips, check schedules in real-time and receive service updates, facilitating accessibility to public transportation and positioning Puerto Rico, like other jurisdictions, at the forefront of smart mobility.

Regarding buses, one of the greatest recent successes, the ATI director said, is the inauguration in 2022 of the

Josué Menéndez Agosto, executive director of the Integrated Transit Authority

Network trains professionals in vital legal support for victims of gender violence

By THE STAR STAFF

To commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, National Network of Gender Violence Shelters President Coraly León on Sunday stressed the urgency of providing more support services to victims of sexual assault in Puerto Rico.

To achieve this goal, the shelters network is training new legal advocates in an academy to accompany survivors of sexual assault in court.

“I am a survivor of sexual violence, and I know firsthand the challenges and difficulties that survivors have when it comes to gaining access to justice,” León said about the need for support services for victims of sexual assault. “Because of the taboo, because of many of our cultural beliefs, many victims and survivors feel isolated and guilty of the painful experience they lived, which was beyond their control. They even feel disconnected from their body.”

Police Bureau statistics reported 1,278 incidents of sexual violence in 2023 in Puerto Rico, of which 79.9% of the survivors were women. In addition, 75.45% of the victims were under 17 years of age. The crime with the highest incidence reported was lewd acts (67.9%), followed by sexual assault (27.7%). Some 52.3% of the offenders were family members and 35.4% were acquaintances.

Meanwhile, the vast majority of cases of sexual violence are not reported to police. The island Department of Health has estimated that about 66,000 cases of some type of sexual violence occur annually in Puerto Rico.

“Sexual assault is one of the most terrible forms of violence that a person can experience because they lose control and autonomy [at the hands of] the aggressor, over how their body is perceived,” León said. “It makes

you feel insecure in your own skin. Victims and survivors of gender violence in settings such as courts must have qualified and sensitive staff accompanying them in one of the hardest processes that someone can go through so that they are not re-victimized in court, and to minimize emotional damage.”

The Shelter Network, with a grant from the Office of the Women’s Advocate (OPM by its initials in Spanish), has been training behavioral professionals in a Legal Advocacy Academy. The first session, with 29 participants, was for cases of domestic violence, and the academy is currently training 30 new advocates in cases of sexual assault in a second session that runs until December.

“Domestic violence and sexual violence have their particularities and that is why it is worth having different

academies [sessions] for the respective cases. The needs of survivors of sexual violence can be different,” León pointed out. “We thought it was important to create educational spaces in the legal advocacy academies specializing in each of these manifestations of gender violence.”

At the Legal Advocacy Academy, behavioral professionals such as social workers, psychologists and counselors are being trained, both theoretically and practically, by experienced legal advocates on topics such as the prevailing legal framework, intervention protocols, the various forms of sexual assault, the psychological impact on victims, myths, and realities of sexual violence, and strategies for supporting survivors. As part of the course, participants visit the courts and the Police Bureau division in charge of protection orders, and are exposed to interventions in support of real cases of victims in the courts’ specialized gender violence chambers.

Interim Women’s Advocate Madeline Bermúdez Sanabria noted that “this year, we are proud to launch our fifth Academy since 2018, focused specifically on cases of sexual assault, a critical and invisible area in the fight against gender violence.”

“This initiative, supported by state PARE funds, directly reflects OPM’s ongoing effort to ensure that every victim has the necessary support in court,” she said. “From 2018 to 2023, they have certified nearly 70 intercessors. Our goal is clear: to continue strengthening the Legal Advocacy Academy, with several academies planned this year, and to continue supporting victims with trained and committed professionals. Support in court is vital for victims of sexual assault, and thanks to the National Network of Gender Violence Shelters, this academy will offer behavioral professionals the opportunity to train in this crucial role.”

Police Members Assn. warns about use of pyrotechnics during Yule season

By THE STAR STAFF

The president of the Puerto Rico Police Members Association on Sunday advised the public about the damages and dangers of the use of fireworks and other explosives during the Christmas season.

José J. Taboada de Jesús said that in recent years the use of fireworks has escalated dramatically as a festive element in the Christmas season, so the police will be more alert than ever.

“In the last few years we have lamented accidents, especially with young people who have used explosives to

celebrate Christmas and New Years,” he said.

The use of dynamite is something that does not fit with the holiday tradition, Taboada de Jesús said, and much less as a demonstration of peace and joy that should prevail in households in communities and institutions during the island’s longest holiday season, which begins with Thanksgiving and lasts until Three Kings Day in early January.

Year after year the Police Members Association holds an intensive campaign to orient the public about “ZERO USE OF PYROTECHNICS,” he said, yet still people keep behaving in a dangerous and unlawful way.

Coraly León, president of the National Network of Gender Violence Shelters

José J. Taboada de Jesús, president of the Puerto Rico Police Members Association

Retaining wall along Carolina access ramp repaired

By THE STAR STAFF

Highways and Transportation Authority (ACT by its initials in Spanish) Executive Director Edwin González Montalvo announced Sunday that the agency has already opened the access ramp to Fragoso Avenue on highway PR-26, the Baldorioty Expressway, which had been closed for safety reasons while mitigation work was being carried out on the retaining wall before the bridge.

“From the day of the incident, we immediately contacted the mayor of Carolina and mobilized all resources to assist him,” González Montalvo said in a written statement. “Soil specialists and engineering staff from the agency were on site to conduct the necessary assessments that determined the steps to follow to correct the situation.”

Following the recommendations of the ACT soil and structural experts, excavations were conducted behind the wall to clean up contaminated material; the saturated material

was replaced with a “geo foam” material and concrete was placed on top of it. In addition, the storm drains were rebuilt and cleaned, a new storm drain was installed, gutters were built to direct rainwater and runoff, and mesh was installed to control erosion.

An assessment showed that the situation does not represent a safety risk to the bridge or to the traffic on the expressway or the exit ramp.

Meanwhile, the ACT immediately requested access to emergency funds from the Federal Highway Administration for repairs necessitated by damages from the rains experienced in recent days.

Following the recommendations of Highways and Transportation Authority soil and structural experts, excavations were conducted behind a retaining wall along the Fragoso Avenue exit ramp to clean up contaminated material; the saturated material was replaced with “geo foam” material and concrete was placed on top of it. Additionally, the storm drains were rebuilt and cleaned, a new storm drain was installed, gutters were built to direct rainwater and runoff, and mesh was installed to control erosion. (Facebook via José Carlos Aponte Dalmau)

Dominican national gets 9 years in prison for involvement in fatal human smuggling incident

By THE STAR STAFF

ADominican national was sentenced last week to nine years in prison for his involvement in a deadly human smuggling conspiracy in Puerto Rico.

According to court documents, Alcibades de Paz, 34, was one of the individuals at the helm of a vessel carrying non-citizens, including a three-year-old boy, from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. The defendant operated the boat during the human smuggling venture.

When the vessel stopped functioning, the defendant aided in starting the engine and holding the throttle of the boat’s outboard engine toward the shore of Rincón while evading law enforcement’s attempts to intercept the vessel safely.

On Dec. 23, 2022, the vessel capsized as it reached the shoreline, leading to the death of a three-year-old child who was illegally smuggled to the United States.

On Aug. 27, de Paz pleaded guilty to one count of bringing certain aliens into the United States, resulting in death. In

Feds

arrest Connecticut

By THE STAR STAFF

Taddition to his term of imprisonment, de Paz must serve three years of supervised release.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow for the District of Puerto

On Dec. 23, 2022, a vessel not unlike the one pictured above capsized as it reached the shoreline of Rincón, leading to the death of a three-year-old child who was being illegally smuggled to Puerto Rico. (X via CBP Caribbean)

man wanted in killing of mother, baby

he United States Marshals Arrest Group, the Puerto Rico Police (PRPB), and the Fajardo Municipal Police on Saturday arrested a man wanted in Connecticut on charges of murder and weapons offenses.

On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 23-year-old Lance Benuet Morales of Hartford, Connecticut allegedly chased down four people and shot them over a dispute over money. The attack left two

people dead, including a 4-month-old baby and her 20-yearold mother, while a third person was wounded by a gunshot to the leg. The fourth person managed to get all the victims to a hospital in Hartford.

“We know that this arrest will not bring back the life of the four-month-old baby or his mother, but we hope that the efforts of the U.S. Marshals Service will bring some peace to the families affected by this tragic event,” said Wilmer Ocasio Ibarra, U.S. Marshal for the District of Puerto Rico, in a written

Rico; and Special Agent in Charge Rebecca González-Ramos of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Juan made the announcement.

HSI San Juan investigated the case with assistance from the Puerto Rico Police Bureau’s Joint Forces of Rapid Action and U.S. Border Patrol, Ramey Sector.

Trial Attorney Marie Zisa of the Criminal Division’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Emelina M. Agrait-Barreto for the District of Puerto Rico prosecuted the case.

The investigation was conducted under the Extraterritorial Criminal Travel Strike Force (ECT) program, a partnership between the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and HSI. The ECT program focuses on human smuggling networks that may present particular national security or public safety risks or grave humanitarian concerns. ECT has dedicated investigative, intelligence, and prosecutorial resources. ECT coordinates and receives assistance from other U.S. government agencies and foreign law enforcement authorities.

statement. “May this arrest serve as a message to those who insist on using Puerto Rico to evade justice. Know that the Marshals Service will not stop until they find you and bring you to justice.”

The Hartford Police Department identified Morales as the primary suspect in the shooting and issued an arrest warrant for him, charging him with murder, first-degree assault, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal attempt to commit first-degree assault and murder with special circumstances.

Through tips, Morales was located at a residence in a Fajardo neighborhood. Anyone with information that could help find a fugitive can call (787) 766-6297, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Communication Center at 1 (800) 336-0102, or contact agency the USMS Tips App.

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Trump’s choices for health agencies suggest a shake-up is coming

By EMILY ANTHES and EMILY BAUMGAERTNER

Alongtime leader of the anti-vaccine movement. A highly credentialed surgeon. A seven-term member of Congress. A Fox News contributor with her own line of vitamins.

President-elect Donald Trump’s eclectic roster of figures to lead federal health agencies is almost complete — and with it, his vision for a sweeping overhaul is coming into focus.

Trump’s choices have varying backgrounds and public health views. But they have all pushed back against COVID policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream, including an opposition to vaccines. Together, they are a clear repudiation of business as usual.

“What they’re saying when they make these appointments is that we don’t trust the people who are there,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the Food and Drug Administration.

Some doctors and scientists are bracing themselves for the gutting of public health agencies, a loss of scientific expertise and the injection of politics into realms once reserved for academics. The result, they fear, could be worse health outcomes, more preventable deaths and a reduced ability to respond to looming health threats, like the next pandemic. “I’m very, very worried about the way that this all plays out,” Offit said.

But other experts who expressed concerns about anti-vaccine views at the helms of the nation’s health agencies said that some elements of the picks’ unorthodox approaches were welcomed.

“We are playing with fire with the shakeups and choices, but at this point change is needed,” said Dr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist and former Harvard professor. He said the agencies were often too slow and bureaucratic, and their leaders too unwilling to engage with the public’s concerns. “At least there’s a better chance of positive change compared to complacency and more of the same,” he said.

One thing seems certain: It will not be more of the same.

In the final months of Trump’s campaign, he brought Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aboard with the message that a total remake of the nation’s public health system was the only way, as Kennedy’s own presidential campaign slogan

put it, to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Less than two weeks after the election, Kennedy was tapped to lead the Health and Human Services Department, a sprawling federal agency that includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health, and also oversees Medicare and Medicaid.

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has a long track record of spreading falsehoods about vaccines and using his nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, to promote a database of misleading interpretations of research data.

Kennedy “is just in a category by himself,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. “RFK Jr. just willfully disregards existing evidence, relies on talking points that have been consistently debunked.”

If confirmed by the Senate, Kennedy would oversee the agencies that regulate vaccines and set national vaccine policy — and the heads of those agencies would report to him. “He will have enormous influence,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, who oversaw the Biden administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dr. David Weldon, Trump’s pick to lead the CDC, has also promoted anti-vaccine views. An internist by training, Weldon served seven terms in Congress, representing a district on Florida’s central east coast, before returning to his medical practice.

While in Congress, Weldon was known for pushing the false notion that thimerosal, a preservative compound in some vaccines, had caused an explosion of autism cases.

“The notion that this man who held a series of false beliefs about science and medicine could rise to the position where he would head the CDC is in some sense frightening,” Offit said.

Weldon also introduced a “vaccine safety bill” in 2007 that aimed to relocate most vaccine safety research from the CDC to a separate agency within the Health and Human Services Department. The bill did not advance out of committee. The question is whether Weldon will bring similar aspirations with him back to Washington, persuading Congress to narrow the reach of his own agency.

Trump’s choice for FDA commissioner, Dr. Martin Makary — a pancreatic surgeon at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in

Baltimore — has been broadly supportive of childhood vaccines. But he has questioned the benefits of certain shots, including the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns and a third COVID booster shot for healthy children. “I think there are questions that we can ask that have been taboo to ask,” he told The Wall Street Journal.

Nuzzo, who was once a colleague of Makary’s at Johns Hopkins, said that while she disagreed with some of his views, she believed that he was qualified for the position.

“I believe Marty is a man of science,” she said. “I think he will look at the scientific evidence carefully and interpret it using the training and skills that he has.”

But how much Makary would be able to separate himself from Kennedy remains an open question. “How does he withstand the pressure of an HHS secretary who fundamentally doesn’t believe in modern medicine?”

Jha asked.

Trump’s pick for surgeon general is Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a medical director of CityMD, a chain of urgent care centers. Nesheiwat, who is also a Fox News contributor, provided on-the-ground medical treatment after Hurricane Katrina and a 2011 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, according to a statement from Trump.

She was generally supportive of the

COVID vaccines, calling them “a gift from God” in a 2021 opinion article for Fox News. But she has opposed COVID vaccine mandates and argued against the dismissal of soldiers who refused to be vaccinated.

Her upcoming book, “Beyond the Stethoscope: Miracles in Medicine,” shows the “transformative power of prayer,” according to a description on the publisher’s website. She also sells her own line of dietary supplements.

“I feel pretty good about the appointment of the surgeon general,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert at the Baylor School of Medicine in Houston. “I’ve spoken to her many times and texted her during the pandemic. She’s open-minded, thoughtful and is evidence-based.”

Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said that he would be keeping a close eye on lower-level appointees — those who carry out the day-to-day work of these agencies. He is also especially concerned about the possibility that the administration will move to fire the federal scientists working as civil servants.

“Everything that we have so far points to some radical changes that are about to occur,” Osterholm said.

Dr. Martin Makary testifies before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 28, 2023. The picks to oversee public health have all pushed back against COVID policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream.(Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

Why are Latinos fleeing Democrats? Arizona’s new senator offers answers.

By KELLEN BROWNING and JENNIFER MEDINA

The Friday before Election Day, Rep. Ruben Gallego invited his supporters to Rancho Ochoa, a rodeo venue in southwestern Phoenix, where they listened to a brass band, cheered as bull riders strained to hold on and watched the dancing horses, a staple of Mexican rodeos.

It was the celebratory culmination of an extensive effort by Gallego, a Democrat, to target Latino voters as he vied for Arizona’s open Senate seat — an effort that appeared to pay dividends. Even as Latinos, and especially Latino men, shifted drastically away from Democrats this year, and President-elect Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris in Arizona by more than 5 percentage points, Gallego won his race by more than 2 points. He seemed to outperform Harris with Latinos easily.

The shift toward Trump left Democrats, who have long operated with a belief that demographic change would equal a winning destiny, stunned and scrambling for answers. Some are looking to Gallego, a plain-talking military veteran and the son of Colombian and Mexican immigrants who has plenty of thoughts on how his party can win back working-class voters and avoid taking the Latino community for granted.

In an interview, Gallego said the Democratic Party had failed to address the deep-seated anxiety that Latino men felt over rising prices, which left them unable to provide for their families no matter how much harder they worked.

“Latino men feel like their job is to provide security for their family — economic security and physical security,” he said. “And when that is compromised, they start looking around.”

Gallego devoted significant resources to courting Latino men in a way that many voters and strategists said felt authentic. And he was quicker than many Democrats to embrace tough stances on the migrant crisis and to speak directly to blue-collar workers’ frustrations with high prices, even as traditional economic indicators were positive.

“I know how hard you’re working, where your wages just haven’t kept up with costs,” he said in a television advertisement in April. “And that’s not your fault.”

Democrats and Arizona political strategists suggested that there were lessons the party could take from Gallego’s campaign, but they cautioned that his victory was partly predicated on elements harder to replicate. Gallego was running against an especially unpopular Re-

publican, Kari Lake, and he himself is a Latino man with a working-class background. At the same time, he harnessed his Harvard University pedigree and his young family to appeal to suburban white voters.

“You cannot count on his cultural signifiers to win with Latinos,” said Regina Romero, the mayor of Tucson, Arizona. “That is the icing on the cake, but the cake itself has to be built of substance. I believe that as Democrats, we need to double down on working families and fighting for workers.”

Romero said many of Gallego’s tactics were also adopted by Harris, including her emphasis on growing up as the child of immigrants, and pointed out that the candidates whom Trump and Gallego defeated have one thing in common: They are women.

As a congressman representing a deepblue part of Phoenix, Gallego was known for years as an outspoken progressive, and he and his allies worked from the left to push out Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat turned independent, after she sided with Republicans to block parts of President Joe Biden’s agenda. (She later announced she would not seek reelection.)

Gallego’s campaign bet that it could better reach both working-class voters — especially Latinos — and highly educated white voters in the suburbs by focusing on a kind of everyman aesthetic that highlighted the candidate’s humble beginnings and blue-collar background.

Gallego speaks often about being raised

alongside his three sisters by his mother in Chicago, working at food stands and construction sites as a teenager to support them, and sometimes sleeping on the family’s living room floor. He attended Harvard and fought in the Iraq War as a Marine, seeing combat in a unit that suffered heavy casualties.

As a Senate candidate, he took steps to make it clear that he understood the Latino community, creating niche groups like Jefas (female bosses) con Gallego and Compas (bros) con Gallego, which courted Latino men.

Ilse Rodriguez, Gallego’s deputy political director who led his Latino outreach, said she worked to ensure that the campaign’s efforts felt genuine. She vetoed a corrido — a Mexican song that tells a story — that out-of-state artists had created about Gallego because it felt “more techno, Florida-esque, much more East Coast.” She instead recruited a local band.

Rodriguez persuaded the campaign’s consultants to green-light a flyer that mimicked a lotería card — used in a Mexican game similar to bingo — featuring Gallego, and she planned events aimed at portraying him as a regular person. He got behind the grill at carne asada events, hung out at an auto shop and delivered breakfast tacos to construction workers during early-morning shifts.

Above all, he indicated that he had heard their economic pain.

Gallego said Democrats had failed to connect the dots on how esoteric pieces of

policy, like the bipartisan infrastructure law, were improving people’s lives.

“Until people actually feel something — higher wages, lower costs, more security — you’re not going to get credit,” he said.

He suggested that Democrats lacked a specific initiative that they could point to as helping people immediately, like the expanded child tax credit that gave monthly payments of up to $300 per child during the coronavirus pandemic but was short-lived. Without something like that to grasp onto, Gallego said, voters were deciding based on “vibes.”

“If you rely on vibes, you better be vibing better than your opponent,” he said. “And guess what? No one vibes better than freaking Donald Trump.”

Gallego had a built-in advantage as he bro’d out with Latino men in an effort to win their votes: He actually had the beer-drinking, backslapping macho background to make his actions feel real.

Other candidates “don’t understand that part of the electorate because they’re not a Marine combat veteran who grew up fighting and drinking, literally killing people in another country,” said Chuck Rocha, a veteran Democratic consultant who is friends with Gallego and advised his campaign. “People try to be Ruben Gallego — not him, per se, but be a man’s man and show ‘I’m tough.’ You can tell they’re faking it.”

That could make it difficult for candidates without Gallego’s life story and background to replicate his outreach.

Rocha, though, said it was possible to appeal to blue-collar voters without looking like them or sharing their life experience. Candidates, he said, simply needed to come across as authentic and lean into a message of economic populism.

Gallego has long warned against relying solely on identity politics to win over Latinos. In 2020, he admonished Democrats for using “Latinx,” a gender-neutral term pushed by liberal policymakers but derided by many Latinos, in part because it is difficult to say in Spanish.

He said that he, himself, had successfully employed identity politics in his campaign, with a focus on his background and that he was set to become Arizona’s first Latino senator. But he also consistently hammered his desire to help families by lowering costs.

“You could use identity politics to connect, but you’ve got to deliver an economic message at the end,” Gallego said. “Right now, there’s these two warring camps, and they’re both wrong. You’re going to have to do both.”

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), left, then a candidate for the Senate, campaigns in Tolleson, Ariz., on Oct. 12, 2024. Gallego’s campaign focused on a kind of everyman aesthetic that highlighted his humble beginnings and blue-collar background. (Caitlin O’Hara/The New York Times)

Trump promised to halve energy costs in 18 months. Experts have doubts.

By LISA FRIEDMAN

President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly promised voters that he would cut energy and electricity prices in half within 18 months of taking office.

His transition team is just now working on a strategy to accomplish this, according to three people familiar with the discussions who asked for anonymity to discuss internal conversations.

The emerging plan is a repackaging of Trump’s energy policy. Advisers think Trump can lower prices by boosting oil and gas production, which is already at record levels in the United States. To pump up production, he plans to quickly approve new drilling projects and pipeline construction and get rid of environmental regulations that the industry says add to its costs.

But energy industry experts noted that a president has limited tools to influence how much Americans pay at the pump, and even less leverage when it comes to electricity prices. More than a dozen experts said Trump’s strategy might succeed in lowering prices, but not enough to meet his goal.

“It can’t happen,” said Ed Hirs, an energy economist at the University of Houston.

“Good luck,” said Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School.

“It is not completely impossible, but it is highly unlikely,” said Edmund Crooks, vice chair of the Americas for Woods Mackenzie, an energy consulting firm.

Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s spokesperson, declined to discuss details but insisted that Trump would halve energy prices. “He will deliver,” she said in a statement.

One lever that Trump intends to use is increasing production by swiftly approving drilling permits on federal lands and waters.

He also is expected to overhaul the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law, in ways that could exempt gas pipelines and other energy projects from environmental review. That’s something Trump tried in his first term, but it took three years to complete and was reversed by the Biden administration.

People close to the Trump transition insisted that those measures would “unleash” millions more barrels of U.S. crude production.

Energy analysts agreed that supply would most likely rise under the Trump administration and that prices would drop. But most said it would not cut gas prices in half.

“The U.S. is part of a well-integrated oil market, and the No. 1 factor that drives prices is global conditions,” Crooks said. “Is it possible that U.S. production would rise enough to cut prices in half in a sustained way? No. That’s highly unlikely.”

If it did, Crooks and others said, it would invite different problems. Getting prices as low as Trump envisions could make it unprofitable for energy companies.

Economists said the minimum price at which oil operators can drill without incurring a loss is around $45 to $50 a barrel. Currently the price of a barrel of oil is about $70.

If it were to drop to half, “at that price, you’re shutting down production,” said Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Trump has also pledged to eliminate all of the Biden administration’s regulations aimed at limiting carbon emissions from tailpipes, smokestacks, and oil and gas wells. That could save utilities and oil companies billions of dollars.

“It’s hard to overestimate how improved the regulatory and policy environment for oil and gas is going to be,” said Bob McNally, president of the research firm Rapidan Energy Group and a White House energy adviser in the George W. Bush administration.

But McNally also said deregulation combined with rapid approvals of new drilling would not result in immediate increases in production or deep savings for consumers.

“I’ve looked for the magic wand to lower prices,” McNally said. “I couldn’t find it.”

When it comes to electricity prices, which vary by location, about 40% are distribution and transmission costs that don’t fluctuate with policy, said Chris Seiple, vice chair of Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables group.

Less expensive gas could lower electricity bills but not by half, he said.

Both Seiple and Bordoff argued that speeding up the construction of transmission lines and gas pipelines would help lower electricity costs because it would add more capacity to the grid.

But another one of Trump’s promises — to boost liquefied natural gas exports — could swing the price pendulum the other direction. If European or Asian nations are willing to pay a higher price for U.S. gas, it could raise prices domes-

tically, which would be reflected in higher electricity bills, analysts said.

On the campaign trail, Trump repeated his pledge to halve electricity and gas prices more than four dozen times.

But he also gave himself an out.

“We intend to slash prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months,” Trump said. “And if it doesn’t work out, you say, oh, well, I voted for him. I still got it down a lot.”

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An oil derrick in Los Angeles, Sept. 7, 2022. Donald Trump has pledged to eliminate all of the Biden administration’s regulations aimed at cutting carbon emissions from automobile tailpipes, power plants and oil and gas wells. (Mette Lampcov/The New York Times)

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Wall Street closes higher after business activity data

Wall Street closed higher on Friday, with all three major indexes posting weekly gains, as investors took comfort from data pointing to robust economic activity in the world’s biggest economy.

A measure of business activity raced to a 31-month high in November, boosted by hopes for lower interest rates and more business-friendly policies from President-elect Donald Trump’s administration next year.

The domestically focused small-cap Russell 2000 index outperformed large-cap indexes and rose 1.8%. The index advanced 4.3% for the week, closing at its highest in more than a week.

Meanwhile, Alphabet fell 1.7% following Thursday’s 4% drop, as the U.S. Department of Justice argued to a judge the company was monopolizing online search.

AI bellwether Nvidia also slipped 3.2% in choppy trading following its quarterly forecast on Wednesday.

An index tracking S&P 500 value stocks rose 0.78% as investors rotated out of their growth peers.

“I’ve been looking for this leadership change to go from technology to everything else. I think we may be in the midst of that shift. Small caps are acting much better, values are acting better,” said Mark Hackett, Chief of Investment Research at Nationwide.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 426.16 points, or 0.97%, to 44,296.51, the S&P 500 gained 20.63 points, or 0.35%, to 5,969.34 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 31.23 points, or 0.16%, to 19,003.65.

Industrial stocks led the S&P, rising 1.36%, while consumer discretionary was the biggest sectoral decliner, falling 0.69%.

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For the week, the S&P 500 gained 1.68%, the Nasdaq rose 1.73%, and the Dow climbed 1.96%.

Expectations on the Federal Reserve’s policy move in December have recently swayed between a pause and a cut, as investors weighed the likely impact of Trump’s plans on price pressures.

There is a 59.6% probability the central bank will lower borrowing costs by 25 basis points, as per the CME Group’s FedWatch Tool.

Geopolitics were top of mind this week as investors monitored a missile exchange between Ukraine and Russia, after Moscow lowered its threshold for a nuclear retaliation. The

markets are also awaiting Trump’s Treasury Secretary pick.

“The fact that we’ve been calm on a nice, steady stair step pattern higher is very encouraging and reflective of the fact that investors aren’t acting with the emotion that they could be given the amount of uncertainties we’ve faced,” Hackett said.

In company news, Gap Inc jumped 12.8% after the Old Navy parent raised its annual sales forecast and said the holiday season was off to a “strong start”.

Intuit fell 5.7% after the TurboTax parent projected second-quarter revenue and profit below Wall Street estimates on Thursday.

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Hezbollah fires about 250 projectiles into Israel after deadly strike in Beirut

By ADAM RASGON

Hezbollah fired about 250 projectiles into Israel on Sunday, a day after an Israeli strike in the heart of the Lebanese capital killed more than 25 people.

The aerial attack was one of the largest Hezbollah has mounted against Israel since the Lebanese militant group started firing on Israel last year in solidarity with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It also coincided with a flurry of diplomacy aimed at halting the intensifying fighting in Lebanon.

More than 65 people were wounded in the attack Saturday in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. As rescuers searched through the rubble, the death toll rose on Sunday to at least 29 people, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Three Israeli defense officials said the strike was an attempt to assassinate a top Hezbollah military commander, Mohammad Haidar. One of the Israeli defense officials, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations, later said that Haidar was not killed.

On Sunday, waves of air raid sirens blared throughout much of Israel, including in the Tel Aviv area and the hilltop town of Safed. Israel’s military said that around 250 projectiles — a term usually referring to rockets — had been launched as of the evening, and that some were intercepted by air defense systems.

Magen David Adom, an Israeli emergency rescue service, said it had treated at least six people with injuries. It also shared images of cars engulfed by fires in central Israel.

Hezbollah said it had fired several salvos

By JOHN YOON

Aof rockets at Israel on Sunday.

The militant group said that one of the salvos — which it said had targeted a military installation in Tel Aviv around 6:30 a.m. — was in response to Israel’s targeting of Beirut. The Israeli military did not report an attack aimed at Tel Aviv around that time, and The New York Times was not able to independently verify the claim by Hezbollah.

The exchange of fire came as the Israeli military said it struck what it described as militant infrastructure next to a border crossing between Syria and Lebanon. It also ordered the evacuation of five villages in southern Lebanon and for at least two buildings in the Dahiya, an area just south of Beirut known as a Hezbollah stronghold. In a statement Sunday, the Israeli military said its air force

kayaker’s leg was amputated Saturday in a harrowing 20hour effort to free him after he became trapped in rocks on a river in Australia, police in the state of Tasmania said.

The man, a foreign tourist in his 60s, was then flown to a hospital in the city of Hobart, where he is in critical condition, authorities added.

The man, who has not been identified by authorities, was on a group kayaking expedition in the Franklin River on Friday when his leg got stuck between rocks in a remote section of

the rapids.

conducted “intelligence-based strikes on Hezbollah command centers which were deliberately embedded between civilian buildings” in the area.

Israel’s military has been intensifying operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon apparently in an attempt to put pressure on the militant group to reach a cease-fire deal. As its troops push deeper into southern Lebanon, the Israeli military has been stepping up bombardment of the Dahiya, a cluster of neighborhoods on the southern outskirts of Beirut that are effectively governed by Hezbollah.

The terms for a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah appear to be taking shape, according to several regional and U.S. officials briefed on the diplomacy. Despite a degree of

Emergency teams responded when they received a distress signal from a smartwatch at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, police said in a statement. When rescuers reached the remote location, they tried but failed to free the kayaker in the evening.

The kayaker spent the night partly submerged in the river; a medical team stayed with him throughout. In the morning, another attempt to free him failed as his condition deteriorated, police said.

After consulting with the man, the medical team amputated his leg using specialized equipment, police said.

“This rescue was an extremely challenging and techni-

cautious optimism, the officials warned that critical details around implementation and enforcement needed to be worked out and that disagreements could still scupper any deal.

Both Israel and Hezbollah have said they will keep fighting as the negotiations continue.

On Sunday, Lebanon’s military accused Israel of targeting one of its centers in the southern part of the country, killing a soldier and wounding 18 others, some seriously. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but it has said in the past that it was not operating against the Lebanese military — only Hezbollah.

Najib Mikati, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, said the deadly attack was “a direct bloody message of rejection of the efforts to reach a cease-fire.”

Mikati met on Sunday in Beirut with Josep Borrell, the European Union’s top diplomat, amid negotiations on a cease-fire. Borrell warned that Lebanon was “on the brink of collapse” and told reporters that there was only one way forward: “An immediate ceasefire and a full implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701.”

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701 in August 2006 as part of a cease-fire that ended Israel’s last war with Lebanon. The resolution sought to create a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to prevent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, but has failed to keep the peace.

“We must pressure the Israeli government and maintain the pressure on Hezbollah to accept” a proposal for a cease-fire, Borrell said.

cal operation,” Doug Oosterloo, acting assistant commissioner of the Tasmania Police, said in a statement. “Every effort was made to extract the man before the difficult decision to amputate his leg.”

Police said they were in the process of contacting the man’s family.

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Civil defense members work to retrieve bodies trapped under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)

A corruption case that spilled across Latin America is coming undone

By JACK NICAS and ANA IONOVA

One of the largest corruption crackdowns in recent history is being quietly wiped away. Brazil’s Supreme Court is tossing out key evidence, setting aside major convictions and suspending billions of dollars in fines in a historic series of bribery cases, arguing that biased investigators, prosecutors and judges broke laws in their ravenous pursuit of justice.

In rulings over the past year — most stemming from legal challenges from people who claim they were treated unfairly — the court has undone cases in which senior politicians and business executives had pleaded guilty.

The decisions are now cascading across Latin America, leading to the dismissals of at least 115 convictions in Brazil, according to anticorruption groups. The reversals are also casting doubt over many other cases in Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina, including the convictions of several former presidents.

It all amounts to a broad unraveling of Operation Car Wash, a sweeping investigation that, starting a decade ago, uncovered a vast corruption scheme spanning at least 12 countries. Investigators found that corporations had paid billions of dollars in bribes to government officials in exchange for public projects.

The findings upended Latin America’s political landscape, shutting down multinational businesses and leading to billions of dollars in fines and hundreds of convictions. Some of the region’s most prominent politicians and executives were sent to prison, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil.

Its undoing is now a dreary conclusion to an investigation that had once been viewed as a sea change in Latin America, promising to root out systemic corruption that had rotted the underpinnings of governments.

The public had cheered the convictions as a new dawn for the region. A decade later, Brazil and other nations have little to show for it. For some, the reversal is another example of the impunity those in power have long enjoyed.

“People who should be paying for their mistakes or their crimes, to some extent, will get away with it,” said Maíra Fernandes, a criminal lawyer and professor at the Getúlio Vargas Institute, a Brazilian university.

At the same time, she added, the reversals are not without merit. Leaked recordings and other evidence showed that a judge and prosecutors had coordinated against defendants, employed aggressive tactics to force

confessions and ordered illegal wiretaps. “Even if it leaves a bitter taste,” she said, “it’s a consequence of an operation that dirtied its hands, that violated the rules.”

In 2018, a far-right lawmaker named Jair Bolsonaro used an anti-corruption message to ride Operation Car Wash’s momentum to Brazil’s presidency. But his administration was then also stained with corruption scandals, and he ultimately shuttered Car Wash as new investigations began looking into his family. This past week, Brazilian authorities recommended charges against him for plotting a coup after he lost the presidency in 2022.

Most of the decisions to reverse Operation Car Wash have been issued by a single Brazilian Supreme Court justice, José Antonio Dias Toffoli. In an interview, Justice Toffoli said his decisions were based on prior rulings by his Supreme Court colleagues that Car Wash investigators, prosecutors and judges had illegally colluded, invalidating the evidence collected. He said he had merely extended that decision to other cases.

“Illegal evidence cannot be used to convict,” he said.

“We do this with great sadness,” he added during a recent Supreme Court hearing. “Because the state has proceeded wrongly.”

Some critics, however, believe Justice Toffoli should not be deciding the cases.

Before joining the Supreme Court, he worked as a lawyer for Mr. Lula’s political party and, later, as counsel to Mr. Lula as president. In 2009, Mr. Lula nominated him to the nation’s highest court. Mr. Lula and his party were central targets of the Car Wash investigation.

The justice was also once linked to the investigation he is now dismantling.

In 2019, Marcelo Odebrecht, the chief executive of Odebrecht, the Brazilian construction giant, named Justice Toffoli in a statement to the police about the company’s corruption scheme, suggesting the judge may have played a role, according to local news reports.

Justice Toffoli denied any involvement and was never formally charged with a crime.

“The accusations are so untrue that the interested parties have never formally challenged my participation in these cases,” he said in an interview.

After reports linking him to the scheme, Justice Toffoli made a highly unusual move to grant the Supreme Court the authority to open its own investigation into attacks against the court itself.

He called the investigation the Fake News Inquiry, and in one of its first acts, a

Then-former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greets supporters in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, April 7, 2018, when a conviction for corruption, later overturned, ended his presidential campaign. He was reelected in 2022.

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fellow justice ordered a magazine to censor an article linking Justice Toffoli to Car Wash. (The magazine was later able to republish once it showed the article was factual.)

Justice Toffoli has remained resistant to criticism. This year, he opened a criminal investigation into Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog, after it had criticized his moves to reverse Car Wash rulings.

He told investigators to look into accusations that the group misappropriated public funds during the Car Wash investigation.

Transparency International denied the accusations. Last month, Brazil’s top federal prosecutor asked the Supreme Court to drop the investigation, citing no evidence of wrongdoing. Bruno Brandão, Transparency International’s Brazil director, said in an interview that Justice Toffoli’s rulings had “opened the floodgates for impunity.”

Operation Car Wash began in 2014, when Brazil’s federal police busted a money-laundering operation at a carwash in the nation’s capital. After some digging, they realized they had stumbled upon something much, much bigger.

Over time, investigators discovered that some of Brazil’s biggest companies — including a group behind the beef giant JBS, the state oil company Petrobras and Odebrecht — had been bribing officials in power across Latin America and Africa in exchange for lucrative government contracts. The scheme was found to involve at least $3 billion in bribes, many of which had been laundered through schemes like the carwash.

It led to hundreds of convictions, including of Mr. Lula, then the former president. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2017 for accepting home renovations from construction companies in exchange for favors.

Mr. Lula has long denied the charges.

With Mr. Lula in prison and ineligible to run, Mr. Bolsonaro easily won the 2018 presidential election.

About a year later, Operation Car Wash began to unravel.

Mr. Lula was released in 2019 after serving 19 months in prison, when Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that he had been jailed prematurely. Less than two years later, the court threw out his convictions, ruling that the federal judge who oversaw Operation Car Wash, Sergio Moro, had been biased.

Leaked recordings published in 2019 by a news site, The Intercept Brazil, showed that Mr. Moro had steered prosecutors on how to pursue convictions, jailed suspects to force plea deals and ordered illegal wiretapping of defendants and their lawyers. The revelations were an enormous blow to Car Wash’s legitimacy.

“They obviously went way beyond what is permitted,” said Leandro Demori, the former executive editor at The Intercept Brazil. “They polluted the whole investigation.”

Mr. Moro, now a senator, denied any bias or illegality, noting that his rulings were later backed by other judges, including on the Supreme Court. “My conscience is clear,” he said.

Cleared of charges, Mr. Lula could run for president again, and in 2022, he defeated Mr. Bolsonaro.

Since then, the reversals have accelerated. In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that other cases, beside that of Mr. Lula, had been tainted by the illegal conduct of investigators, prosecutors and judges.

Justice Toffoli has since used that decision as the basis for a series of sweeping rulings with widespread implications.

In September 2023, he accepted a motion by lawyers representing former Odebrecht executives and tossed out evidence from the company’s plea deal. He also suspended a $2.5 billion fine against the company and tried to dismiss all criminal rulings against Mr. Odebrecht, the former chief executive, but was overruled by Supreme Court colleagues.

The Odebrecht decisions had a domino effect, casting doubt over the convictions of politicians and executives across Latin America. Lawyers in other countries could now use Justice Toffoli’s rulings to try to undo highprofile convictions, like that of Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo, who was sentenced last month to 20 years in prison for taking bribes from Odebrecht executives.

Justice Toffoli also suspended a $3.2 billion fine against the parent company of JBS.

The post-Cold War era is finished. Liberalism and democracy will go on.

A undated folded image of Donald Trump. Before Donald Trump’s victory, making detailed predictions about how his second administration would govern seemed like a fool’s errand — there were too many multitudes within the Trumpian tent, too many promiscuous promises to voters, to say for sure what forms of Trumpism would end up expressed in a second four-year whirl, writes Ross Douthat. (Rachel Stern/Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

By ROSS DOUTHAT

My column last weekend made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the reelection of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era; that the phase of history that began in 1989 terminated somewhere in between the early days of the pandemic and Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine; that wherever we are going now, we are definitely going, not just paddling in circles or in place.

To these stark claims, let me add two supplementary comments that qualify the scale and nature of the shift that I’m describing.

First, the end of the post-1989 era doesn’t mean the end of liberalism. British writer John Gray, the mordantly brilliant prophet of liberalism’s doom, has an essay for The New Statesman arguing that the transition from one era to another will also be a transition out of liberalism entirely — that Trump and perhaps after him JD Vance could put in place “a systematically constructed and deeply embedded illiberal democracy,” while a Europe abandoned by the United States collapses into a “gruesome” stew of nationalism and antisemitism, and authoritarianism sweeps the wider world. Well, maybe. But before going all the way to that conclusion, consider first how many people inside the Trump-Vance coalition still consider themselves partisans of liberal values — defenders of free speech and other liberties they deem most threatened by the left, not the right. And then consider the recent argument from Gray’s fellow critic of liberal overreach, Aris Roussinos, that the version of the liberal order that bestrode the world after 1989 was quite different from the post-World War II liberal order that preceded it: It was more utopian in its ambition, more

culturally comprehensive in its claims, more imperious and imperial and hubristic and therefore, yes, foredoomed.

Whereas the worldview that governed Europe and America after 1945 was more pragmatic and cold-eyed, much less ambitious and revolutionary — while remaining a form of liberalism nonetheless. Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan all, in various ways, fell short of post-1989 ideals of how the United States and the “liberal international order” should be governed. But none of them were “illiberal” in the way that an everyday person might use the term. They just operated within a more bounded context than their post-Cold War successors, had more preliberal and nonliberal instincts mixed in with their liberal commitments, and generally related to the world in a less fully ideological way than the post-Cold War elite.

With this past in mind, Roussinos argued, the liberals of the early 21st century may be better off in the long run for entering a more bounded future, in which they no longer preside seemingly unchallenged over the globe:

Just as the bipolar order of the Cold War world, by restraining liberalism’s inherent tendencies to radicalization and hubris, made the Western world safe for a tempered and moderate liberalism, so may the multipolar world we have entered save liberals from their own excesses. Beset by confident rivals abroad, and by the disenchantment of their own voters at home, liberals will once again have to learn restraint. The post-Cold War order ultimately proved disastrous for American liberalism: a return to the actually existing order of 1945 may prove more congenial.

To this theory of partial continuity rather than complete rupture, I’ll add a second observation: Even in a changed world order, American democracy looks reasonably robust.

I’ve always been a profound skeptic of full-scale authoritarianism-in-America scenarios, for reasons usefully expounded by Julian Waller in a 2022 essay for American Affairs. But after the 2016 election, there was a milder and somewhat more plausible form of democratic pessimism among U.S. progressives, which held that the country’s archaic constitutional institutions could allow right-wing populism to instantiate minority rule over an extended period. Combine the Trumpian advantage in the Electoral College with the small-state and rural-state advantage in the Senate, and you could imagine a country defined by a thwarted majority, in which Republicans governed steadily without ever getting close to 50% support, and either the Constitution or democracy itself gradually lost all legitimacy.

Meanwhile, there were different but related fears on the right, both the kind of fears I wrote about before the election — fears of a progressive “cathedral” uniting public and private power to throttle free debate and make democracy irrelevant — and the long-standing fears that mass immigration and demographic change would make national elections as unwinnable for the GOP as, say, statewide elections in California are today.

But simply by getting around 50% of the popular vote in 2024, Trump substantially undermined these perspectives — both the liberal conceit that his style of populism couldn’t win enough votes to claim democratic legitimacy and the mirror-image conservative anxiety that the collusion of elite institutions would shut the populist right out of power.

More than that, the nature of his winning coalition showed how the U.S. electoral order tends to rebalance itself with time and competition, in ways that aren’t always perfectly majoritarian but that make both permanent-minority-rule or one-party-state scenarios seem extremely implausible.

The question of Trump’s full destiny and legacy — whether he can be something more than a destroyer of the old order, whether his fragile new majority can expand into a governing coalition — has not been answered yet. And his second term will tell us more about whether history’s wheel is bringing us into an era that will be defined by some nationalist or populist synthesis the way the post-1989 world was defined by a triumphant liberalism, or whether we’re just entering a kind of ideological interregnum, a warringstates period in which post-Cold War liberalism has no clear or certain heir.

But for now, the weirder, stranger future that we’re entering still looks like a democratic future, with close contests for power, notwithstanding the widening field of ideological debate, in which America’s elections will remain the clearest ink in which providence’s intentions are written.

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – En el marco del Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer, que se conmemora el día de hoy, lunes, la Dra. Ada Álvarez Conde, senadora electa por acumulación bajo el Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), rindió homenaje al legado de las Hermanas Mirabal, íconos de la lucha por la igualdad y los derechos humanos. Álvarez Conde enfatizó que su sacrificio inspira a continuar trabajando para erradicar la violencia de género en todas sus formas. “Hoy recordamos a las Hermanas Mirabal, cuyo valor nos motiva a luchar contra las injusticias y a seguir construyendo un mundo libre de violencia de género. En su memoria, debemos comprometernos a establecer estrategias efectivas para combatir este mal que afecta a tantas familias en Puerto Rico y el mundo”, expresó Álvarez Conde.

Las hermanas Mirabal, también conocidas como Las Mirabal o Las Mariposas, fueron tres hermanas dominicanas que se opusieron a la dictadura de Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. Patria, Minerva y María Teresa Mirabal fueron asesinadas el 25 de noviembre de 1960. Una cuarta hermana, Bélgica Adela ‘Dedé’ Mirabal no estuvo involucrada en la situación, y la senadora electa compartió con ella en República Dominicana.

Como parte de su compromiso con la lucha contra

TRUJILLO

ALTO – Un asesinato fue reportado a eso de las 11:22 de la noche del sábado, en la carretera PR-941, barrio La Gloria, sector el Lago, en Trujillo Alto. Según el reporte de la Policía, se notificó mediante una llamada a través del Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1, sobre una pelea familiar. Al llegar los agentes, encontra-

la violencia de género, la senadora electa presentó una serie de propuestas enfocadas en prevención, atención y seguimiento:

Fomentar la inteligencia emocional desde las escuelas:

Incorporar programas de educación emocional y resolución de conflictos en el currículo escolar para que niños y jóvenes aprendan a gestionar sus emociones, identificar relaciones tóxicas y construir vínculos saludables.

Proyectos integrales de prevención y atención:

Desarrollar centros comunitarios especializados que ofrezcan apoyo integral a las víctimas de violencia y fomentar la conexión entre las oficinas de los municipios existentes de atención, incluyendo atención psicológica, asesoría legal y planes de seguridad personalizados. Estos proyectos también incluirán atender la violencia en el noviazgo, fomentar la creación de un protocolo en el Departamento de Educación para estos casos y generar campañas educativas para crear conciencia sobre el tema y eliminar el estigma. Es necesaria la prevención y la atención correcta a las que buscan ayuda.

Rehabilitación para agresores:

Implementar programas de rehabilitación obligatorios para agresores con el objetivo de romper el ciclo de violencia. Estos incluirían terapia conductual, talleres especializados sobre el tema y seguimiento supervisado

ron que una mujer de 32 años y dos hombres de las edades de 40 a 44 años, habían resultado heridos de arma blanca.

Tras lo sucedido uno de los perjudicados identificado como Edwin Resto Caraballo de 44 años, fue transportado al hospital San Francisco en condición grave. Murió en el hospital por las heridas.

Los otros dos heridos fueron atendidos en otra insti-

por profesionales de salud mental.

“La violencia de género no solo destruye vidas, sino que perpetúa un ciclo dañino que afecta a las familias y a la sociedad en su conjunto. Sólo abordando la raíz del problema y ofreciendo alternativas de prevención, atención y seguimiento lograremos erradicarla”, afirmó Álvarez Conde.

La senadora electa también destacó que es fundamental un esfuerzo conjunto entre las agencias gubernamentales, las organizaciones comunitarias y la sociedad civil para garantizar la efectividad de estas iniciativas. “Esta lucha nos compete a todos, y las acciones que tomemos hoy serán el legado para las próximas generaciones”, concluyó; no sin antes resaltar que la Orden Ejecutiva que declara un Estado de Emergencia por Violencia de Género concluye en diciembre, pero el problema está lejos de estar resuelto.

tución hospitalaria y la condición de ambos fue descrita como estable.

Relacionado a estos hechos, un hombre de la edad de 73 años se encuentra bajo custodia de la policía como parte de la investigación.

La agente Karla Millán, adscrita a la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de Carolina y la fiscal Cruz Oliver, investigan.

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‘Wicked’ review:

We’re off to see the witches

Despite its bumps, the movie is consistently amusing simply because it is “The Wizard of Oz” and it’s fun watching colorful, off-kilter characters singing, dancing and sometimes flying through the air (without a superhero suit).

By MANOHLA DARGIS

With its flying monkeys and magical shoes, oh my, the story of the Wizard of Oz has been lodged in the popular imagination for over a century. It is, after all, an archetypal American myth: an epic of good and evil, the comfort (and dreariness) of home, the draw (and freedom) of the road, the perils of power and the yearning for transformation. The 1939 film with Judy Garland, in particular, is so embedded in the American cinematic DNA that it has inspired everyone from Martin Scorsese to David Lynch, Spike Lee and John Waters, who once called (accurately!) the wicked witch “every bad little boy’s and girl’s dream of notoriety and style.”

I wonder what Waters will make of “Wicked” and its green-hued, deeply sincere heroine, Elphaba, a ready-made meme machine played by Cynthia Erivo in what becomes a showstopper of a performance. Both the character and the actress are the strongest draws in this splashy, largely diverting, tonally discordant and unconscionably long movie, which is the first installment in a two-part adaptation of the Broadway show “Wicked.” That juggernaut opened at the Gershwin Theater in 2003 and shows no signs of (ever) closing; it will presumably still be raking it in when “Wicked Part Two” is set to open in November 2025.

Like the stage musical — Stephen Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics, while Winnie Holzman wrote the book — the movie centers on Elphaba and Glinda, short for Galinda (Ariana Grande, fiercely perky), witches from the enchanted Land of Oz. Written by Holzman and Dana Fox, it opens right after Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West, is declared dead. (Dorothy is nowhere to be seen.) Glinda, aka Glinda the Good, floats in to belt the catchy “No One Mourns the Wicked,” and subsequently goes down memory lane to relate her and Elphaba’s tale, focusing on their tenure at Shiz University, a campus populated by a hardworking

ensemble and anchored by a waterfront, Disney-esque turreted castle.

“Wicked” is based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” and the big surprise in each work is that Elphaba isn’t as bad as her reputation. Hers is a classic saga of misunderstanding retooled for contemporary sensibilities, a chronicle of alienation and belonging, inchoate desire and heavy-handed moralizing that, on-screen, begins in Munchkinland when her father was the governor, her mother was a cheat and Elphaba the inconvenient result. At some point, her mother dies, as they do in fairy tales, and Elphaba grows into a sober, bespectacled child the color of farm-fresh asparagus (Karis Musongole) and, in short order, a serious, very talented melancholic.

Director Jon M. Chu opens “Wicked” big and only goes bigger, at times to a fault. His credits include “Crazy Rich Asians” and the musical “In the Heights,” but “Wicked” is a horse of another color and it’s filled with huge sets, some dozen musical numbers and many moving parts that generations of fans know intimately. From the start, Chu gives “Wicked” an accelerated pace, amping it with restless, swooping camerawork and overloading it with a surfeit of everything, with ceaselessly moving bodies and eye-popping props. There’s much to ooh and ahh over, be it Elphaba’s eyeglasses with their seashell spiral or her beautiful Issey Miyake-style pleats, but Chu’s revvedup maximalism doesn’t leave much room to savor it.

The movie settles down somewhat once Elphaba and Glinda start warming to each other (they’re forced to room together) and their initial hostility begins melting as fast as a witch doused by water. A nerve-testing variation on the dumb blonde cliché, Glinda doesn’t make it easy. Grande throws herself into the role, wringing comedy from Glinda’s vacuity and self-regard, but Glinda doesn’t have the wit or enough sharp lines to upend the stereotype the way that it’s flipped in, say, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and “Legally

Blonde.” Instead, Chu and Grande lean into Glinda’s shallowness, hair tossing and show-pony flamboyance, sending up the character’s vanity even as the camera drools over her trunks overflowing with goodies.

Despite its bumps, the movie is consistently amusing simply because it is “The Wizard of Oz” and it’s fun watching colorful, off-kilter characters singing, dancing and sometimes flying through the air (without a superhero suit). As the story progresses, a subplot involving Oz’s talking animals emerges — Peter Dinklage voices Dr. Dillamond, a professor who’s also a goat — Elphaba steps up heroically and “Wicked” becomes subtler, more delicate and moving. Erivo and Grande work nicely together from the get-go, their chemistry only becoming more persuasive as the comedy gives way to heavier themes and a story about two snippy, sniping women deepens into a tale of love, mutual respect and female friendship. Dorothy had the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion; Elphaba and Glinda have each other.

Erivo’s performance is crucial both to putting across this transformation, and to the movie’s overall effect. Rejected by her father and mocked by others, Elphaba struggles with her difference from childhood on, an existential plight that isolates her, effectively encasing her in a metaphoric green bubble. It’s one that Erivo makes palpable early on with an air of wariness and a tamped-down, at times almost withdrawn physicality that, crucially, makes a striking contrast with her richly expressive, invitingly warm singing voice, which opens a window onto her inner being. When early on, she races across a field during “The Wizard and I,” the setting recalls Julie Andrews sprinting through “The Sound of Music” while the ache in Elphaba’s voice suggests Judy Garland’s Dorothy at her most wistful and alone.

Although she cares for her sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), Elphaba emotionally awakens at Shiz, where her magical gifts are encouraged by an instructor (Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible), and she and Glinda cozy up separately to a not particularly charming prince, Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey). The school is also where Elphaba’s humanity is finally recognized by her peers when, in what’s meant to be one of the movie’s big emotional scenes, Glinda reaches out to her before revelers who, moments earlier, seemed more like a mob. Calculated for maximum uplift, it’s meant to be a stirring vision of sisterly empathy; it’s the most magical (thinking) moment in the movie. Less charitable viewers may cringe at the sight of Glinda’s display of munificence, and they also may wonder if it’s just performative self-interest.

This “Wicked” doesn’t directly address race, leaving it for viewers to engage with it or not. In his 2003 review in The New York Times of the original Broadway production, Ben Brantley wrote that the musical “wears its political heart as if it were a slogan button.” That remains true. Given that the movie ends where the show’s first act does, it’s impossible to know — well, for those who haven’t seen the show — how the subplot about Oz’s endangered animals will develop, what will become of Elphaba’s desires to aid their cause and whether this vision of a multiracial, multiethnic world over the rainbow will remain intact a year from now. There’s so much at stake and the future doesn’t look bright, but I hope that Elphaba and Glinda persevere.

‘Wicked’: Rated PG for mild magical mayhem. Running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes. In theaters.

November 25, 2024 14

José Andrés hopes to transform dining. This time, at the airport.

fast can you serve the guests.”

Last year, a record 25 million passengers passed through Reagan airport alone. But airport restaurants are constrained by operational challenges, as airports have many restrictions, policies and security checks. There’s a limited frequency of deliveries, time-consuming security screening for employees, and even a rule restricting the number and size of knives that can be used in the kitchen (at the Landing, it’s only four knives, and each under 10 inches long). Then there’s the timing of passengers, who can often unexpectedly descend all at once.

This environment has created “shortcuts” in airport dining, Andrés said.

“A lot of food is highly precooked and this is why the quality is not what we expect,” he said. “What we’re doing with Capital One, obviously, is a fresh approach.”

Food prices are also often high at the airport, a constant complaint among travelers.

‘On par with the brick-and-mortar experience’

The Landing’s 5,500-square-foot space echoes a luxurious lounge, with distinctive touches that include decorative paneling, contemporary art, and brown-and-blue tiles meant to evoke Spanish interiors.

By CHRISTINE CHUNG

Yes, it will offer grab-n-go purchases, specialty cocktails, and plenty of alcoves for suitcases and charging outlets.

It is backed by a credit-card issuer, with a world-famous chef attached.

But the new Capital One Landing, opening Tuesday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, is far from the typical airport lounge — or at least that’s the goal of José Andrés, the Michelin-starred chef with a sprawling global food empire and head of a disaster-relief nonprofit, and his partners at Capital One.

The Landing, the first airport project for Andrés, aims to elevate the airport dining experience, and, at the same time, create a welcoming space for harried travelers.

“I want people to feel like they’re coming to a place that somebody has put in love and care,” Andrés said in an interview before the opening.

Top-quality fresh food is key, he said. The Landing’s globally influenced menu was revised eight times to consider seasonality and the logistics unique to an airport. True to Andrés’ roots in Spain, the offerings will highlight tapas galore (crisp pan con tomate and gambas al ajillo among them), beers imported from Spain, and carts full of caviar cones and Basque cheesecake.

The venture is envisioned as a lounge-and-restaurant hybrid — it takes reservations and will be open to all, but charges

a flat fee for entry.

Matt Knise, the head of Capital One’s travel and premium product experiences, said the Landing aims to be a “world class restaurant in an airport,” without sacrificing the things travelers expect from a lounge.

Lucrative, yet complicated

Airport food has improved in recent decades, partly because of boosted competition from credit card-operated lounges that have invested in enticing food and beverage offerings, said Claude Guillaume, senior vice president of restaurant operations for Paradies Lagardère, an airport concessions company.

In addition to Capital One, Chase and American Express have been on a tear opening upscale lounges; some lounges have announced menus designed by notable chefs.

Other acclaimed chefs have long been attached to airport restaurants, like Guy Fieri (Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey), Rick Bayless (Chicago O’Hare International Airport) and Cat Cora (multiple airports, including the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Hartsfield—Jackson Atlanta International Airport).

The exposure of airport dining appeals to chefs, Guillaume said, as does the potential money to be made.

In the United States, airport restaurants generate about $7 billion in annual revenues, according to investment bank Cougar Mountain Financial.

“You don’t have to fight to get people in the seats. The volume is there,” Guillaume said. “The biggest challenge is how

A grab-and-go section and a separate seated dining area will both be open to the public. But to sit down and order food in the dining area, visitors will pay a flat fee, as they do in lounges, rather than per dish. Venture and Spark Miles cardholders will pay $45, while Venture X and Venture X Business cardholders will have unlimited complimentary access and free entry for one guest per visit. For all other Capital One cardholders and non-cardholders, it’ll cost $90 per visit. As in a lounge, there will be a time limit on how long guests can stay.

Sam Bakhshandehpour, the global CEO of José Andrés Group, said that the company would be at the “forefront” of evolving airport dining. Longtime employees, including the company’s culinary director, will be working at the Landing in its first few months of business.

Bakhshandehpour suggested that some chef-led airport restaurants did not live up to their original efforts: “You see the name of the chef predominantly, but it looks like a billboard, and it’s not about the experience.”

“It needs to really be on par with the brick-and-mortar experience outside of the airport,” he added.

For Capital One, the Landing is part of the company’s goal to build brand loyalty and affinity, Knise said. A second location, with Andrés on board, is slated to open next year at LaGuardia International Airport in New York. And new conventional lounges are planned for Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport and New York City’s Kennedy International Airport.

Andrés said he feels invigorated by the challenge of cooking food in one of the most challenging restaurant environments.

“I have been waiting for this moment for many years to have my food in an airport. I didn’t start thinking about this yesterday, but in the end I always hesitated,” he said. “Like all the other chefs before me who have already tried this arena, between all of us, we keep pushing about how we can get a better experience in the airport in America.”

A drink is prepared at the new Capital One Landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., Nov. 12, 2024. The Michelin-starred chef and humanitarian José Andrés has partnered with Capital One to open a loungerestaurant hybrid at the airport. (Jennifer Chase/The New York Times)

The San Juan Daily Star

November 25, 2024 15

A full-body dumbbell workout you can do anywhere

By ALYSSA AGES

The dumbbell is one of the oldest pieces of strength training equipment — and it has endured for good reason. With one dumbbell or a pair, you can build a full-body workout that challenges your balance, stability and coordination.

Because they are hand-held, you can add resistance to any exercise while still moving freely.

“I find that when clients first use dumbbells, they’re often surprised at how connected they feel to their movements,” said Chloe Bardos, a trainer based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

To maintain control throughout a dumbbell movement, you have to engage your core and the muscles that stabilize your body. Learning to do this during a workout can improve your body’s ability to control its position as you move in everyday life, which is increasingly important as you age, Bardos said.

To perform most dumbbell movements, your limbs have to work independently. That can help you spot if one side of your body is weaker or less mobile than the other. You can begin to correct those imbalances by exercising with a weight that you can handle on your weaker side, said Priscilla Del Moral, a trainer in New York.

To build a full-body dumbbell workout, The New York Times asked Bardos and Del Moral to recommend exercises that are beginner-friendly and can easily be scaled up in difficulty as your strength improves.

OVERVIEW

Time: 30 minutes

Intensity: Medium

What You’ll Need:

— A light set of dumbbells (5 to 15 pounds.) If you don’t have dumbbells, some household items can be used as weights. Look for something measurable, like a 24-ounce water bottle, Del Moral said. When that becomes too easy, you can move up to something heavier, like a gallon. “That’s a way you can track your progress,” she said.

— A chair or a weight bench

How Often: Twice a week, working up to three days, with a recovery day in between.

Adjust for You:

Start with light weights. “You can always build up in weight” during your workout, Del Moral said, “but it’s harder to drop down because you’ve already stressed your body, and you’ll be going into the next set fatigued.”

If the last two or three reps start to feel challenging but you can still move with proper form, that’s an appropriate working weight, Bardos said. You can make any of these movements more advanced by adding weight, slowing down the movement or adding a pause at the top or the bottom.

FLOOR PRESS

Targets: Triceps, chest

Repetitions/sets: 8 to 12 repetitions for three sets,

The dumbbell is one of the oldest pieces of strength training equipment — and it has endured for good reason: with one dumbbell or a pair, you can build a full-body workout that challenges your balance, stability and coordination. (Theodore Tae/The New York Times)

with a 60- to 90-second rest between sets

Begin by lying on your back with your knees bent. Your upper arms should be on the floor, with your elbows out to the sides, dumbbells held horizontally above your chest. Squeeze your shoulder blades together and slowly press the dumbbells overhead. Pause and lower until your elbows touch the floor.

SUPPORTED SINGLE-ARM ROW

Targets: Upper back

Repetitions/sets: 8 to 12 repetitions per side for three sets, with a 60- to 90-second rest between sets

Stand facing a chair or a weight bench with your feet shoulder-width apart. Hinge at your hips, sending your butt back and maintaining a flat back, and place the palm of your left hand on the chair. With your right hand, grip the handle of a dumbbell and pull your right shoulder blade back. Slowly bend your elbow as you pull the dumbbell up. Pause at the top before slowly lowering, keeping your shoulder engaged throughout the exercise. Perform all repetitions for one set on this side before switching sides.

SINGLE-LEG ROMANIAN DEADLIFT

Targets: Hamstrings, glutes, core

Repetitions/sets: 8 to 12 repetitions per side for three sets, with a 60- to 90-second rest between sets

Stand with feet hip-width apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand, keeping a soft bend in your knees. Lift one leg and flex your foot as you hinge at the hips and extend your leg behind you, slowly lowering your torso toward parallel with the floor. Maintain a flat back and avoid twisting your torso. Pause and return to standing. If controlling the lowering phase of this movement feels unstable, or if you feel discomfort in your lower back, try this movement without weights at first.

GOBLET SQUAT

Targets: Quads, glutes, hamstrings, adductors

Repetitions/sets: 8 to 12 repetitions for three sets, with a 60- to 90-second rest between sets

Stand with feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart and hold a dumbbell vertically against your chest, gripping the top head of the weight with both hands. Push your hips back and bend your knees to slowly lower into the squat position, keeping your core engaged and your torso upright. Pause at the bottom before engaging your legs and glutes, rising back to standing.

SPLIT SQUAT

Targets: Quads, glutes, adductors

Repetitions/sets: 8 to 12 repetitions per side for three sets, with a 60- to 90-second rest between sets

Stand with your feet slightly narrower than hipwidth apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand. Take a big step back with your left leg, then move your right leg one small step further forward. Slowly lower your left knee toward the floor, keeping your torso upright. Pause, then rise back to standing, keeping your legs in the split stance until you complete all reps on this side.

KNEELING WOOD CHOP

Targets: Core, shoulders

Repetitions/sets: 8 to 12 repetitions per side for three sets, with a 60- to 90-second rest between sets

Begin in a kneeling position on the floor with a dumbbell on your left side. Step forward with your right foot and bend your knee so your legs are at 90-degree angles. Grab the handle of the dumbbell with both hands. With a slight bend in your elbows, twist your body toward the right side, bringing the dumbbell across your body and up above your right shoulder. Pause, then slowly return to the starting position. Pause before starting the next rep. Complete all reps for one set on this side before switching sides.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE MARCO

ANTONIO CANDELARIA ESTRELLA COMPUESTA

POR: HÉCTOR RAFAEL

CANDELARIA PÉREZ, LUISA VIRGINIA

CANDELARIA REYES Y YARIMER AMALIE

CANDELARIA PÉREZ

T/C/C YARIMER

CANDELARIA PÉREZ

TODOS POR SI Y COMO

HEREDEROS; REBECA PÉREZ PACHECO

T/C/C REBECCA PÉREZ

PACHECO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ÁNGEL DAVID PAGÁN

REYES; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00912. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de octubre de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Valle Arriba Heights, marcado con el número dos (2) de la manzana “T”, con un área de 373.75 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, con la calle #38 en 16.25 metros; al Sur, con paseo público en 16.25 metros; al Este, con solar #1 en 23.00 metros y al Oeste, con el solar #3 en 24.00 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. Inscrita en la finca 16,631, al folio 37 del tomo 434 de Carolina Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Primera Sección

de Carolina. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 23 de mayo de 2024 y notificada en este caso el 24 de mayo de 2024, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $119,137.00 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.00%; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $808.05 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose, más gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $127,623.24. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $85,084.16, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $63,811.67, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de

Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de octubre de 2024. ALGUACIL

HÉCTOR PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES

ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 Demandante Vs.

SUCESION MILAGROS VIZCARRONDO

MARTINEZ COMPUESTA

POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION

GABRIEL ORLANDO

FERNANDEZ ROMAN COMPUESTA POR SU

VIUDA MILAGROS VIZCARRONDO

MARTINEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados CIVIL N´UM.: SJ2023CV09594. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE

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

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: HORIZONTAL

PROPERTY: Apartment Number 703 of rectangular shape located at the seventh floor in the Norte Plaza Condominium, which in turn is located at 219 Rosario Street, Santurce, municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a total private area of 660.00 square feet, being its lineal measurements 28’9” wide by 24’1” and its boundaries, access and description as

follows: by the NORTH, with parking yard; by the EAST, with apartment number 704; by the SOUTH, with corridor; and by the WEST, with apartment number 702. Its main door has access to the corridor of the floor. This family unit consists of the following rooms and areas: living and dining with a storage closet, one terrace facing North (to Baldorioty De Castro Avenue), an studio area of convertible bedroom with one closet, bathroom which includes bathtub, lavatory, bidet and water closet, kitchen with single bowl sink, electric range and oven (optional) space for refrigerator, washer machine and dryer machine. In addition, this family unit has a thirty gallons electric water heater and exhaust grill in bathroom and kitchen. This unit has a share of .0196% in the common elements of the condominium.”

Inscrita al folio 141 del tomo 742 de Santurce Norte, finca 29203, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 44 del tomo 1224 de Santurce Norte, finca 29203 Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I, inscripción 5a. Propiedad localizada en: 219 CALLE ROSARIO, COND. NORTE PLAZA APTO. 703, SAN JUAN, PR 00918. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $192,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1 de agosto de 2095. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $192,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA

SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $128,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $96,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, el 9 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente la suma de $79,526.99 por concepto de principal, la cual no incluye intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 31 de octubre de 2023. La suma global incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 31 de octubre de 2023 (los cuales continúan acumulándose) es de $173,240.30; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial; intereses y cargos por demora; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son líquidas y exigibles. 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 29 de octubre de 2024. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #368.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. ANGEL LUIS ALVARADO LOPEZ T/C/C ANGEL L. ALVARADO LOPEZ T/C/C ANGEL ALVARADO LOPEZ; ANA DELIA ORTIZ MONTES T/C/C ANA D. ORTIZ MONTES T/C/C ANA ORTIZ MONTES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CCD2012-0356. (302). Sobre: ACCIÓN IN REM Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA

SUBASTA. Yo, Ángel de Jesús Torres Pérez, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, a la 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, con fecha 1 de octubre de 2024 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $66,511.98 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 6 de mayo de 2016, notificada y archivada en autos el 17 de mayo de 2016, publicada mediante edicto en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” el 24 de mayo de 2016 y notificada por correo certificado el 26 de mayo de 2016, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Ciales, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Pesas, Carretera 149, kilómetros 21.1 interior, del término municipal de Ciales, Puerto Rico, marcado en el Plano de Inscripción con el número 2, compuesto de 900.00 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2290 cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, en veintidós

punto ochenta y nueve cuarenta y ocho metros 22.8948), con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega, por el Sur, en tres alineaciones continuas, una desde el punto cinco al punto once de diez punto setenta y cinco ochenta metros (10.6580), otra desde el punto once (11) al punto diez (10) de doce punto doce ochenta y seis metros (12.1286), ambas con área dedicada a uso público, y otra desde el punto diez (10) al punto nueve (9) de siete punto cincuenta y dos cero cuatro metros (7.5204), que suman treinta punto treinta setenta metros (30.3070), con solar marcado en el Plano de Inscripción con el número tres (3), por el Este, en dos alineaciones continua: una desde el punto siete (7) al punto ocho de dieciséis punto sesenta y uno cuarenta y ocho metros (16.6148) y otra desde el punto cocho (8) al punto nueve (9) de quince punto (15) que suman treinta y dos punto cero cuatro diecinueve metros (32.0419), con solar marcado en el Plano de inscripción con el número tres (3) y por el Oeste, en una alineación desde el punto cuatro (4) al punto cinco (5) de treinta y tres punto cuarenta y seis diecinueve metros (33.4619), con solar marcado en el plano de inscripción con el numero uno (1). Pendiente de Calificación y despacho. Enclava una estructura de concreto y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales. Inscrita al Tomo Karibe, Finca 16368 de Ciales, Registro de Propiedad de Manatí. 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 de Arecibo, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $66,511.98 de principal, 6.5% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $346.05 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactados en 10% del principal del Pagaré. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $73,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $48,666.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $36,500.00. Si se

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nal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 17 de NOVIEMBRE de 2024. EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL , TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMON. ***

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Demandante Vs. CARMEN L. VAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: HA2024CV00055. Salón: 404. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - R.60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CARMEN L. VÁZQUEZ RODRIGUEZRES ANTONIO MARQUEZ ARBONA 156 EDIF 16, ARECIBO, PR 00612. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan. otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de septiembre de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 24 de septiembre de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. YARILIS SOTO ACOSTA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. ZULEYKA

GONZALEZ ROSA

Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2023CV00497.

Salón: 0001. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ZULEYKA GONZÁLEZ ROSA - BO. LAGUNAS, CARR. 416, KM. 6.2 INT, AGUADA PR. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan. ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Aguada, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de septiembre de 2024. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NOEMÍ ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Demandante Vs. SAMUEL RIVERA IRIZARRY

Demandado

Civil Núm.: GY2024CV00023.

Salón: 1. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A:

SAMUEL RIVERA IRIZARRYBO QUEBRADAS SECT

LA CAITAL CARR 127 KM 234 HM 5, GUAYANILLA PR 00656.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-eIectronico/, 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 a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan. ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Yauco, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de septiembre de 2024. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

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CLAUDIO ROSARIO - HC 01 BOX 3337, BARCELONETA, PR

00617.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan. otero@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 27 de septiembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IXIA B. CÓRDOVA CHINEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. MICHAEL O. MORALES CASTRO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2024CV02744. Sala: 703. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MICHAEL O. MORALES

CASTRO - 20 CALLE FRATERNIDAD, URB. VILLA ESPERANZA, CAGUAS PR 00725.

De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edic-

to. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar a FirstBank al 7 de junio de 2024 la cantidad en perdida de $35,014.08 más intereses a razón del 5.95% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una cantidad equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado según pactado. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de octubre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. JESUS D. GONZALEZ COTTO Demandados Civil Neum.: AB2024CV00093. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JESUS D. GONZALEZ

COTTO - BO CAGUITAS, BDA. VAZQUEZ, CARR 156 KM 51.5, AGUAS BUENAS PR 00703; PO BOX 1453, AGUAS

BUENAS PR 00703.

De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere 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), 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.

Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar la suma de $8,050.30 por concepto del balance en perdida del préstamo personal más intereses acumulados, más los cargos por mora que se acumulen hasta el pago total de la deuda más la suma equivalente al 10% del total adeudado por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882

Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500

Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de octubre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV09714. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 451ST 7TH STREET S.W., WASHINGTON, DC 20410. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

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 los abogados de la parte demandante, LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA A su dirección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor Associates International Holdings Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma veinte mil quinientos noventa y nueve dólares con noventa y nueve centavos ($20,599.99), y créditos adicionales, con intereses al diez punto quince por ciento (10.15%) anual, vencedero el veintinueve (29) de agosto de dos mil veintisiete (2027), según consta del testimonio cinco mil cuatrocientos treinta y ocho (5,438) de la escritura número ciento noventa y uno (191), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el veinticuatro (24) de agosto de dos mil cinco (2005), ante el notario Rafael Antonio Vélez Pérez, y cuya obligación está inscrita al folio ciento treinta y uno (131) del tomo mil quinientos uno (1,501) de Río Piedras Norte, inscripción décimo quinta (15) y última. Que grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el sitio Quintana de barrio Hato Rey, término municipal de Río Piedras hoy San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ciento cincuenta y seis punto cincuenta (156.50) metros cuadrados. En colindancia con el NORTE, en veinte punto cero cero (20.00) metros, en línea, con propiedad de Deogracia Vera Sosa; por el SUR, en veinte pinto cero cero (20.00) metros, en línea

con la propiedad de Luis Calderón; por el ESTE, en siete punto ocho veinticinco (7.825) metros, con la propiedad de Filipa Pacheco de Burgos y Marcelina Hernández; y por el OESTE, en siete punto ocho veinticinco (7.825) metros, con la calle España. Contiene una casa de bloques de concreto con torta que consta de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, balcón, servicio sanitario y marquesina y lleva el número trescientos treinta y cinco (#335) de la calle España. Inscrita al folio ciento treinta y uno (131) vuelto del tomo mil quinientos uno (1501) de Río Piedras Norte, finca número ochocientos veintidós (822). Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda (2da) de San Juan. 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. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 31 día de octubre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IRIS OLIVO NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Demandante V. FELIX MANUEL

SANTANA RIVERA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00889. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 21 de agosto de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Alturas de San Pedro situada en el Barrio Florencio del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización con el número,

área y colindancias siguientes:

Número del solar: AA-15 de la Calle P. Área del solar: cuatrocientos veintiocho metros con diez centímetros cuadrados (428.10). En lindes: NORTE, en una distancia de treinta metros con cuatro centímetros lineales (30.04), con el solar AA-14 de la Calle P; SUR, en una distancia de treinta metros con ocho centímetros lineales (30.08), con el solar AA-16 de la Calle P; ESTE, en una distancia de catorce metros con cuatrocientos noventa y dos milímetros lineales (14.492), con la Autoridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; OESTE, en una distancia de doce metros con doscientos sesenta y dos milímetros lineales (12.262), con la Calle P de la Urbanización. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Inscrita al folio 86 del tomo 374 de Fajardo, finca número 15,934, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 12 de julio de 2024 y notificada en este caso el 18 de julio de 2024, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $89,526.48 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.0% desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2022; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $9,242.40 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $92,424.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $61,616.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del

Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $46,212.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de octubre de 2024.

JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. SANDRALIZ

MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #737, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR

DE FAJARDO. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. Parte Demandante Vs. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION H/N/C CITIFINANCIAL; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES

DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada

Caso Civil Núm.: AR2024CV02039. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: ASSOCIATES

INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS

CORPORATION - US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 451ST STREET S.W., WASHINGTON, DC 20410.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

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 los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré que consta del testimonio número siete mil novecientos uno (7,901) de la escritura seiscientos cincuenta y nueve (659), otorgada en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el día veintinueve (29) de agosto de dos mil siete 2007), se constituyó hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito ante el notario público Félix R. Figueroa Cabán, a fa-

vor de Associates International Holdings Corporation, h/n/c Citifinancial, o a su orden, por la suma principal de quince mil dólares ($15,000.00), con intereses al once punto tres cero uno por ciento (11.301%), vencedero el cuatro (4) de octubre de dos mil veintidós (2022) y cuya obligación hipotecaria se encuentra inscrita al folio ciento quince (115) del tomo trescientos noventa y nueve (399) de Camuy, finca número siete mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y uno (7,451), inscripción cuarta (4ta). El pagaré hipotecario que se pretende cancelar grava la propiedad que se describe continuación: REMANENTE: RÚSTICA: Solar número dos (2). Parcela de terreno sita en el Barrio Quebrada del término municipal de Camuy, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil setecientos cuarenta y ocho punto sesenta y ocho (1748.68) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto cuatro cuatro cuatro nueve uno dos cinco nueve uno tres siete uno (0.444912591371) cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, con servidumbre de paso; por el Sur, con el solar número tres (3); por el Este, con la faja de terreno segregada para uso público; y por el Oeste, con solar segregado. Inscrita al folio doscientos cinco (205) del tomo ciento cuarenta y tres (143) de Camuy, finca número siete mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y uno (7,451). Registro de la Propiedad de Arecibo Sección Segunda (2da). 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. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 4 de noviembre de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA.

MARLENE CORCHADO AROCHO, MARLENE CORCHADO AROCHO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. PENTAGON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: AG2024CV01936. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM-

PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO MÁS ADELANTE:

Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: a. Pagaré suscrito bajo el affidávit número 4,738 a favor de PENTAGON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION por la suma principal de $314,900.00 con intereses al 2.25% anual, vencedero el 1ro de abril de 2051, mediante escritura número 68 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el Notario Michel A. Rachid Fournier, según inscripción 12ª. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Maritza Guzmán Matos, PMB 767, Avenida Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 758-3276, abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante a esta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 31 de octubre de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. Zuheily González Avilés, Sub-Secretaria.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE LLACG COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND

Demandante Vs. SUCESION VILMA

ENID ORTIZ GARCIA

T/C/C VILMA E. ORTIZ

GARCIA T/C/C VILMA

ORTIZ GARCIA T/C/C

VILMA ENID ORTIZ

T/C/C VILMA E. ORTIZ

T/C/C VILMA ORTIZ

COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03853. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE

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

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 7 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:

“URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 30 del bloque L del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Extensión Reparto San Antonio, radicada en el barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 488.87 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORESTE, con los solares número 38 y 39 del bloque L por donde mide 18.34 metros; por el NOROESTE, con el solar número 31 del bloque I por donde mide 32.69 metros; por el SURESTE, con el solar número 29 del bloque L por donde mide 29.87 metros; y por el SUROESTE, con la calle número 9 por donde mide 13 metros. Enclava una casa.” Inscrita al folio 136 del tomo 1138 de

Ponce Sur, finca número 9582, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 137 del tomo 138 de Ponce Sur, finca número 9582, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II, inscripción 17ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. SAN ANTONIO, 2009 CALLE DRAMAS, PONCE, PR 00730. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: Doral Mortgage Corporation. Suma de la Carga: e $74,351.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 1º de marzo de 2031. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $217,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 3 de septiembre de 2094. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $217,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 14 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $145,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $108,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 22 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $181,751.20 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $6,795.24 en intereses acumulados al 30 de abril de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060%

anual hasta su total y completo pago; $2,863.88 en adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $21,750.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de octubre de 2024. JAVIER SEGARRA MALDONADO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #560.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES

DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados JULIO ÁNGEL

MORALES JIMÉNEZ

Parte Indispensable Civil Núm.: BY2024CV06117.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMéRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, ss. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES

DESCONOCIDOSParcela marcada con

el #143-B en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Cabo Caribe del barrio Cabo Caribe del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 00693. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado que grava el siguiente inmueble: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el #143B en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Cabo Caribe del barrio Cabo Caribe del término municipal de Vega Baja, con una cabida superficial de 358.45 metros cuadrados. En lindes, por el norte, con parcela #143 de la comunidad; por el sur, con la parcela #143A de la comunidad; por el este, con las parcelas 6 y #7 de la comunidad y por el oeste, con la calle de la comunidad Finca #24,850, inscrita al folio 25 del tomo 302 de Vega Baja, Sección IV, Registro de Bayamón. La dirección física es: Parcela marcada con el #143-B en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural Cabo Caribe del barrio Cabo Caribe del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico 00693. Scotiabank Puerto Rico, cuya entidad adquirió al extinto R & G Premier Bank mediante una fusión corporativa, vendió el Inmueble el 24 de mayo de 2011 a los Srs. (as) Jesús María Muñoz y su esposa, María Olga Bustos Macías. Además, fue el acreedor original del pagaré extraviado que se solicita su cancelación. Posteriormente, Oriental Bank adquirió mediante fusión corporativa todos los derechos y obligaciones de Scotiabank Puerto Rico. Scotiabank (ahora Oriental Bank) es el acreedor del pagaré hipotecario extraviado cuya cancelación se solicita mediante este pleito, según surge del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de Bayamón, descrito de la siguiente manera: (i) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $27,300.00, (no expresa intereses ni vencimiento), constituida mediante la escritura número 145, otorgada en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de octubre de 2006, ante el notario Néctor F. Robles Morales, e inscrita al folio 181 vuelto del tomo 421 de Vega Baja, finca número 24,850, inscripción 6ta. El referido pagaré hipotecario garantizado por la hipoteca antes descrita fue suscrito el 19 de octubre de 2006 por los deudores Miguel Ángel Rivera Otero y Carmen Milagros González Rivera bajo afidávit número 3779 ante el notario Néctor F. Robles Morales. POR LA PRESENTE se le

November 25, 2024

emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 572023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO

Ml FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy 31 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIORDE CIALES. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, Demandante, V. SUCESIÔN DE LISANDRA

I. MONTES SANTIAGO T/C/C LISANDRA MONTES SANTIAGO, COMPUESTA POR ROLANDO RIVERA APONTE POR SI Y COMO VIUDO, LISABEL RIVERA MONTES Y

ROLANDO WILLIAM RIVERA MONTES, “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE LISANDRA I. MONTES SANTIAGO T/C/C

LISANDRA MONTES

SANTIAGO, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.) Demandado.

CIVIL NUM.: MT2024CV00513. SALA: SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÔN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACION dirigido a. ROLANDO WILLIAM

RIVERA MONTES COMO MIEMBRO DE LISANDRA I. MONTES

SANTIAGO T/C/C

LISANDRA MONTES

SANTIAGO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LISANDRA I. MONTES

SANTIAGO T/C/C

LISANDRA MONTES

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Queden emplazados, notificados e interpelados, que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca de Ia que surge lo siguiente: Que se ha incumplido con las cláusulas de Ia escritura de hipoteca objeto de ejecución por haberse dejado de pagar las mensualidades vencidas desde el dIa I ro de enero de 2024, adeudándole a Ia parte demandante Ia totalidad de Ia deuda ascendente a: $75,957.56 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 7.95% desde el 1ro de diciembre de 2023; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continUan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de Ia deuda reclamada en este pleito, y Ia suma de $8,959.05 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y dernás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La propiedad hipotecada cuya ejecución se solicita tiene Ia siguiente descripción y localización: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Jaguas del término municipal de Ciales, Puerto Rico, identificado como solar cuatro (4) en

DEMANDANTE:

el piano de segregación, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos uno punto cincuenta metros cuadrados (801.50 m/c), equivalentes a cero punto dos mu treinta y nueve doscientos treinta y siete cuerdas (0.2039237 cds.) y en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cinco (35) metros lineales con el remanente de Ia finca principal de Ia cual se segrega; por el SUR, en treinta y cinco (35) metros lineales con solar nUmero tres (3); por el ESTE, en veintidós punto noventa (22.90) metros lineales con Calle de Uso Público, asI marcado en el piano de segregación; y par el OESTE, en veintidós punto noventa (22.90) metros Iineales con terrenos de Elíseo Colón. inscrita en Ia finca nUmero 11,346, inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 303 de Ciales, Registro de Ia Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. Por Ia presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar Ia demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a Ia interpelación de los herederos del causante, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de Ia fecha de Ia notificación de Ia presente Orden, acepten o repudien Ia participación que les corresponda en Ia herencia del causante conforme dispone el ArtIculo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787. de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. También se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de Ia fecha de Ia notificación de Ia presente Orden, se resumirá que han aceptado Ia herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el ArtIculo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramaiudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente par 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 concederá remedio solicitado en Ia Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de Ia parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA NUm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DAZ LLP Edificio Ochoa, 500 CalIe De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 6 de noviembre de 2024. VIVIAN Y FRESSE GONZALEZ, SECRETARIO(A) GENERAL. POR: SANDRA I. MALDONADO VEGA, SECRETARIO(A) AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITION FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. SUZETTE M. CASTILLO MONTANEZ

Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02580. Salón: 500-A. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUZETTE M. CASTILLO MONTAÑEZURB RIO PLANTATION, #2 CALLE 1 BAYAMON PR 00961.

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

ción notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 1 de octubre de 2024. Lcda. Laura Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Jeralice M. Cruz Pomales, Secretaria Auxiliar.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. MARIMELL CARRERAS NEGRÓN; VÍCTOR JOSÉ CARRERAS PÉREZ, DORIS ELSA NEGRÓN CARRERAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV04898. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: VÍCTOR JOSÉ CARRERAS PÉREZ; DORIS ELSA NEGRON CARRERAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

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 los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Látimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. 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 mayo de 2015, hasta el presente, más los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago. 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 principal global de $69,782.06, más intereses a razón del 8.95% anual, desde el 1 de abril de 2015, 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% sobre cualquier pago mínimo vencido y que no se haya satisfecho dentro de 15 días luego de la fecha de vencimiento, el diez por ciento (10%) del balance original ($7,500.00), como suma líquida pactada en concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, y cualquier otro cargo o adelanto en cuanto seguros y contribuciones (“escrow”) todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará 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: Parcela de terreno identificada como solar 3 del bloque “H” de la Urbanización Estancia, radicada en el Barrio Hato Tejas del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos diez metros cuadrados con cincuenta centésimas de otro 310.50 m.c.); y en lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número 2; por el SUR, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número 4; por el ESTE, en 13.50 metros, con la calle número 1; y por el OESTE, en 13.50 metros, con la Avenida Comerío. En dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 232 del tomo 110 de Bayamón Norte, finca 4,844, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. SE LE 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. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A 13 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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How to focus like an F1 driver

By ADAM BLUESTEIN

Most of us don’t require Formula One-level focus to get through our days. But we all struggle with distraction — and the techniques that drivers use to optimize their performance can help anyone to be more intentional and effective in all sorts of situations. We asked McLaren F1 team driver Oscar Piastri, along with a sports psychologist and an attention expert, for tricks to stay on track.

Visualize important challenges in advance.

F1 racers use simulators and mental rehearsal before an event so that when they are driving, they can focus on driving, rather than wondering what’s around the next turn. “We’re going on the simple premise that a lot of planning and practice and rehearsal makes things more automated,” said Robbie Anderson, a sports psychologist at Hintsa Performance in Finland who works with multiple F1 drivers. Racers visualize options, and then visualize doing the most favorable option several times, until it feels automatic.

Piastri — who is currently No. 4 in driver standings for the 2024 season with two wins, and who is racing in the Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend — said he spends about a day training in a simulator before each event, “getting a fundamental idea of what to do and where.”

The most effective kind of visualization re-creates the situation as realistically as possible, Anderson said. “You’re trying to pick out key sensory information — the feel of the steering wheel, the closeness of your car.”

You can do the same thing when you’re preparing for a presentation or a job interview by creating a mental image of what you will see looking out from a stage, or of the person who’ll be interviewing you. The idea is “to put yourself in the first-person perspective of a given moment,” Anderson said.

Talk yourself through it.

Anderson coaches drivers to use self-talk to help them on the course. This can be instructional (“See the target smooth through the exit”) or motivational (“Game on!”). It can be a personal mantra or a reminder, at a certain corner, to “take a breath.”

“If you don’t have these helpful language cues primed, the brain will run with the default self-talk, which isn’t always that helpful,” Anderson said. Negative instructions (“Don’t put it into the wall” or “Don’t overrun the corner”) are especially self-defeating, since the very thing you want to avoid is already in your head. “If you say, ‘Don’t think of a pink elephant,’ there it is,” he said.

Prerace rehearsals can also function as a type of mindfulness training, which has been linked to moderate improvements in attention, executive control and cognitive flexibility. Just as people who meditate learn to refocus attention on their breath, F1 drivers rehearse staying focused on all aspects of their ride, “and as soon as their attention deviates, they’re pulling it back in,” said Daniel Smilek, a professor of psychology who runs the Vision and Attention Lab at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Prepare for the unexpected.

Racing is “filled with things you can’t control,” Piastri said. “Whether it’s the performance of your car, a pit stop, the weather, what other people do on the track — having acceptance that you can’t control that stuff is quite important.”

Drivers need to anticipate when their brain is likely to “kick out” — go into a reactive, emotional state — and find ways to counter that, Anderson said. Getting cut off, for example, can make a driver angry. “In those moments of high adrenaline, you’re more at risk of making an error,” he said; to quickly get back on autopilot, drivers might tell themselves, “That happened — just race.” This same advice can work in your own life, when you’re playing an amateur sport or just driving in traffic.

Shift focus without breaking it.

On the 40th or 50th lap of the same track, zoning out is a risk. “It’s easy to start thinking about completely random things,” Piastri said.

Neurologically, our brains seem to crave distraction, Smilek said. “The system may be set up to prevent us from focusing on a task for a long time, as a functional mechanism to keep us from getting in a rut,” he explained. Momentarily diverting attention from the main task to “check in” on a related subtask can help to break up the monotony and allow us to maintain focus longer, he added.

F1 drivers aren’t just statically watching the track in front of them, but dynamically shifting attention to their cars’ performance, changing track conditions and radio communications. In the same way, during a long meeting, you can take your focus off the person talking to sharpen your notes or gauge other attendees’ reactions.

“The key is to find the variability within the task

Tsunoda, the first Japanese driver to race in Formula One since 2014, in his No. 22 Alpha Tauri car during the final of the Japanese Grand Prix, in Suzuka, Japan, Sept. 23, 2023. The techniques that F1 drivers use to optimize their performance can help anyone to be more intentional and effective in all sorts of situations. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)

that you’re doing, and then focus on the different aspects of that,” Smilek said.

Find your motivation and flow.

Drivers like Piastri often describe entering a flow state during a race, when they can sustain attention for a very long time and it feels effortless. “One of the primary factors that seems to drive these states is intrinsic motivation,” Smilek said. “If you’re intrinsically motivated to do a task, you’re much more likely to be able to sustain attention on it, and it feels effortless for a longer period of time.”

If you really need to focus, it might help to ask yourself, “What’s in it for me?” When organizing the garage, for example, think about all the ways you’re going to use the reclaimed space. Flow states are also rewarding in themselves, Smilek said. They feel satisfying, “so they kind of perpetuate the cycle.”

Flow occurs when you are working to the limits of your skills, but not pushing so hard that you fail a lot. For Piastri, it comes more easily on “street circuit” courses like the one in Singapore than it does on less complicated, high-speed tracks like the one in Monza, Italy. “You don’t have that much time to get distracted by other things,” he said.

Remember to recharge.

Anderson’s work with drivers involves four phases: prerace, race day, review and recharge. He follows a similar fourpart plan when he coaches business executives. “Everyone just wants to do one, two and three,” he said. The crucial recharge phase is often overlooked.

Research shows that intentional breaks improve attention and learning. One simple reason is that they help to reduce stress. “Stress negatively affects the brain — primarily the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in attentional control,” Smilek said.

While being fast and “doing things right technically” are essential to win, Piastri said, the mental game gives you the edge. “When there’s a lot at stake, if you’re having a bad run of things, being mentally resilient makes a big difference to the result.”

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