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companies to manage the program and enrollment process, including Sunnova Energy International Inc. (Sunnova), the UMA launched its Customer Battery first company to join the CBES initiative.

Energy Exchange (CBES) initiative on Additionally, other renewable energy Thursday to provide participating socompanies, including Fortress Power, lar customers with battery energy storage Sunrun and Tesla, have joined the prosystems to increase grid stability.

It is a battery-powered emergency gram. The companies will contact their demand response program that will help qualified customers to invite them to improve service reliability for the entity’s 1.5 enroll in the initial phase of the pilot million customers in Puerto Rico. Through program. the program, the battery systems will help Customers who participate in the increase energy reserves during periods of program will be compensated by their highest demand to reduce service interrup- LUMA Energy CEO Juan Saca renewable energy company based on the energy contributions they make through tions caused by insufficient generation. their batteries.

Renewable energy companies will “As a leading residential solar and battery energy storage activate the batteries of customers enrolled in the CBES when necessary to supply energy to the grid to reduce energy de- company in Puerto Rico, Sunnova is proud to collaborate with LUMA through this innovative energy solution,” said William mand and improve system reliability.

“LUMA’s new CBES initiative is another important J. Berger, president and CEO of Sunnova. “We firmly believe resource that will assist us in our continued work to improve that the initiative will not only improve Puerto Rico’s electrical system reliability for our customers islandwide,” LUMA CEO grid, but participating customers will also be recognized and Juan Saca said. “This initiative will help us face the challenge rewarded for their valuable contribution. The implementation of always maintaining the balance between energy demand of these programs is crucial to transforming Puerto Rico’s and supply and minimize the impact of service interruptions electricity sector.”

“This will ensure a more sustainable and reliable future caused by constant generation shortages.”

“We are proud to collaborate with leading renewable for all communities on the island,” Berger added.

LUMA’s CBES initiative is one of many programs the energy companies and participating solar energy customers to improve service reliability for everyone in Puerto Rico,” company is launching as part of its “Building a Better Energy Future” initiative. The goal is to improve customer service, Saca said.

LUMA will work collaboratively with renewable energy reliability and safety in communities over the next 12 months.

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Ponce interim mayor stands by suspended Irizarry Pabón

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once’s interim mayor, Marlese Cifre, said Thursday that suspended Mayor Luis Manuel Irizarry Pabón did not ask her for money; however, she acknowledged that he has given “contributions” to the Popular Democratic Party.

She also said she would stand by the mayor.

“Would you put your hands in the fire for the mayor?” asked a reporter.

“Yes.” she responded.

“Is he innocent?” the reporter asked. “Yes he is,” Cifre replied.

“At any given time before authorities reached Human Resources, were you as a civil servant on the record with Human Resources?” she was asked.

“I’m not taking up space, I’m assuming the responsibility of directing this town with the responsibilities that that entails and that we all need to be together, that if we have

done well until yesterday, we will do better, because our city deserves it,” Cifre said.

She denied that she had given money to the mayor.

“The Mayor of Ponce never, not as a mayor, not as a candidate, not as a doctor, not as a friend, never ever, asked me for any money,” she said. “Absolutely nothing.”

Ponce Interim Mayor Marlese Cifre said the "Mayor of Ponce never, not as a mayor, not as a candidate, not as a doctor, not as a friend, never ever, asked me for any money.”

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House lawmakers urge Senate panel chair to expedite disbursement of funds for nonprofits

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Rep. Yashira Lebrón Rodríguez

he New Progressive Party minority leader in the island House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, along with Bayamón District Rep.Yashira Lebrón Rodríguez, asked the Senate Finance Committee Chairman Juan Zaragoza Gómez on Thursday to expedite the disbursement of the money granted to nonprofit entities in Puerto Rico.

“Nonprofit organizations are the backbone of the service provided to the people,” Méndez said. “It is a platform for direct aid that the government, due to its bureaucratic structure, cannot provide expeditiously.

During my journey through public service, I have defended tooth and nail the work these entities do. However, this is the third time that the Popular Democratic Party delegation in

the Senate has delayed, without real justification, the disbursement of the funds that these organizations need to continue operating.”

Méndez made his statements in response to calls from hundreds of nonprofit organizations that have had to cut staff due to the uncertainty associated with the disbursement of the allocated funds.

“We echo the words of the [former House] speaker,” Lebrón said. “These entities are too important to leave the disbursement of funds to the last minute, as is happening this year, the third time in a row that this has happened, for no reason. The Senate has to act now.”

“Our call is to Senator Zaragoza to speed up the process, remembering that in just two weeks, the period for approving measures in this ordinary session ends on Nov. 14,” she

added. “Enough of playing with these entities that are essential to Puerto Rico.”

According to Law 113-1996, which creates the Special Joint Commission on Legislative Funds for Community Impact, there must be two field inspectors to review the evaluation process of each entity that requests legislative assistance to contribute to its operations. In the past four years, that number has increased to four.

“Doing a titanic job, under unique circumstances in our history such as the impact of hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, earthquakes and the COVID-19 pandemic, these inspectors managed to visit the facilities of more than 540 of these organizations,” Méndez pointed out. “Today, some 619 entities have applied. We are at the beginning of November, and nothing has happened.”

Measure to increase tax deduction for education expenses clears Legislature

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he island Legislative Assembly has passed a measure co-authored by Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiago, which seeks to encourage family savings for the benefit of youth, with an expansion of the deduction allowed by the Internal Revenue Code of Puerto Rico in an educational contribution account.

Senate Bill 619, which now goes to La Fortaleza for the governor’s signature, was co-authored by Sen. Migdalia González Arroyo and states that student loan debt in Puerto Rico has reached around $213 million, which causes a financial impact on youth before

completing their degrees.

According to the bill’s preamble, “the economic burden represented by student loans causes young people with big dreams and professional aspirations not to be interested in universities, as they do not have the necessary resources …”

Faced with this situation, Dalmau Santiago introduced the initiative to grant a tax benefit and promote savings.

“This measure will allow us to pay for our children’s education, with tax relief and responsible financial planning, thus reducing the expenses that are allocated for these purposes,” he said. “Likewise, we encourage our young people to choose to enter university

and be much more prepared to face their professional life.”

The bill states that the deduction allowed by the Internal Revenue Code has not been changed for 10 years, despite increases in the costs of college education. In the absence of any modification, the measure proposes that the maximum amount allowed as a deduction will not exceed $500 for each beneficiary.

Also, for tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2021, the maximum amount will not exceed $1,000. In cases where more than one relative contributes to the account created for a beneficiary, the amount of the deduction will be according to the amount contributed by the relative depositing it.

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Comptroller confirms federal probe in Aguadilla

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ommonwealth Comptroller Yesmín Valdivieso Galib confirmed Thursday that federal authorities are investigating the Municipality of Aguadilla and added that her office is actively collaborating in the process.

“The feds announced their investigation Commonwealth Comptroller Yesmín Valdivieand we are providing support,” Valdivieso said so Galib

in an interview with Radio Isla 1320.

“Remember that we have a task force created two years ago with Joseph González.

Our support varies; in some cases we provide information and in others, we look for what they need. In this situation, we are working together. We will speak when the time is right.”

On the perception of mayors and public corruption, Valdivieso said: “Mayors must real-

ize that they are an easy target and that there will always be someone watching over them.

People have had enough of it and write to us about what they know. We cannot be indifferent to what is happening.”

However, federal authorities have yet to officially confirm the existence of such an investigation. TeleOnce reported recently on the alleged investigation in Aguadilla.

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Taking on an acute social ill At House summit, a plethora of gov’t organizations & nonprofits discuss sexual abuse of children on the island

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hild abuse is a tough subject to discuss, and when it comes to sexual abuse against children, the conversation becomes even more difficult. Even though these subjects can make people uncomfortable, it is more than necessary for the government and other organizations to come together and talk about them in order to develop effective policies -- and finding sustainable funding -for preventing child abuse in the first place, intervening in a timely way with active cases, providing maximum support to victims, and implementing effective supervision of people who have been convicted of sexual crimes after their release from incarceration.

On Oct. 31, two bills were filed in the House of Representatives related to child sexual abuse, which are: House Bills (HB) 1932 and 1933. While HB 1932 is directed toward supervised release of people who have convicted heinous crimes related to sexual violence, incest, lewd acts, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, child pornography, seduction, and persecution of minors, HB 1933 is directed toward transforming centers that provide rehabilitation for minors who have suffered sexual abuse into a new entity.

The two bills seem to be different, but they are both directed toward combating violence against minors. The bills have yet to be approved and have not gone through the process of public hearings yet either; however, as a first step in considering both bills, the island House of Representatives hosted the Summit Against Child Violence on Thursday at the Capitol.

The summit included a significant number of public and nonprofit organizations, all gathering together to discuss violence against children and especially sexual violence against children. The Puerto Rico Police Bureau, Peace Coordinator for Women, Justice Health Center, ADFAN, Family Department, Carlos Albizu University, Rape Victim Assistance Center, Center for Integrated Services for Minor Victims of Sexual Abuse, El Sendero de la Cruz, Department of Justice, Institute of Forensic Sciences, Institute of Psychotraumatology of Puerto Rico, Dominican Wom-

en’s Center, Peace Coalition for Childhood, Residential Treatment Clinic for Minors, Ricky Martin Foundation, and University of Puerto Rico (UPR), among others, were all in attendance.

The summit was an opportunity for different organizations to express themselves on the issue of violence against children in general and also to talk about the new House bills and how they felt about them.

Ex-governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá told the STAR that “the subject that is being discussed here is a subject that my wife Piti, when she was alive and was part of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, legislated The summit included a significant number of public and nonprofit organizations, and advocated for.”

“What we are discussing here basically all gathering together to discuss violence, and especially sexual violence, against gives continuity to what she was advocating children. (Photo by Richard Gutiérrez/The San Juan Daily Star) for,” he said. “She presented legislation which was, in my personal opinion, the most im- Assistance Center published the “Puerto Rico he said. “The situation was made a lot better portant legislation related to sexual crimes Violence Report” corresponding to the year because of these centers that help and protect against minors.”

2022 and identified that the main victims of these people, but it is obvious that there is Meanwhile, UPR President Dr. Luis A. this criminal behavior were females between still a lot of work in terms of their resources Ferrao Delgado was also part of the event and zero and 17 years old. Specifically, the most and their expansion.” stressed the importance of the university’s vulnerable age groups were 11 to 15, six to “Today our goal was to help the causes presence there. of agencies that already have programs op10 and 16 to 17 years old, respectively.

“We have all of the intention to give our However, these demographic data only erating but do not have the resources to be part in this situation,” Ferrao told the STAR. reflect a statistical trend over groups that face effective,” the House speaker added. “Not “We have a responsibility to the island. We are a greater degree of vulnerability, given that everything will be done from the perspective developing professionals in the area of social experts in the issue recognize that no child, of approving a law, but from the perspective work that eventually might have to encounter regardless of sex, race, color, nationality or of giving these agencies the resources so that cases related to child violence, as well as status immigration, is exempt from having they can achieve what they desire, from the people who are studying psychology who his privacy and personal integrity violated perspective of the current public policy.” will also probably happen across individuals through acts of criminal sexual abuse.

The public policy Hernández Montañez who are facing these situations. Therefore, the What did the summit accomplish? was talking about is HB 338 from Dec. 31, UPR has to be present in these types of events; House Speaker Rafael Hernández Montañez 1998, known as Children’s Rights Bill. we have to commit our resources. We have said it was a step in the right direction. “There “I am feeling optimistic that both bills many students doing internships in the Family is a sensitive public policy, which is around will be approved, perhaps not in this ordinary Department. We are saying ‘here’ once again.” 25 years old, and whose goal is to protect session, but at the beginning of the next one,” “This is a subject that people often hide those who suffer violence against minors,” the House speaker added. from; it is a taboo subject,” the UPR president added. “The worst part is that a lot of the time this happens within the family context.

It is an uncomfortable subject, but one that needs to be discussed. It is even more difficult when incest situations are accounted for in the matter. It is not just that we want to be a part of this summit, we have to be a part of it. It’s our responsibility.”

According to the Police Bureau, during 2022 there were 1,572 sexual crimes, incidents that in 74% of the cases were committed against minors under 17 years of age, an alarming figure that does not include thousands of victims who, out of fear, language limitations or distrust of the justice system, remain in silence. The Institute for Prevention and Control of Violence of the Rape Victims

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Pro-statehood lawyer questions legality of bill allowing foreigners to vote

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ro-statehood lawyer Gregorio Igartúa is urging Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia to veto the proposed bill that would allow foreign nationals to vote in local elections, arguing it has constitutional problems.

House Speaker Rafael Hernández Montañez and other lawmakers filed House Bill 1891 in October allowing foreigners to vote. The measure is now before the Senate, which also has its own version of the bill.

Sens. Ana Irma Rivera Lassén and Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl of the Citizen Victory Movement (MVC by its Spanish initials) had filed Senate Bill 1340, which also would allow foreigners residing in Puerto Rico the right to vote in elections.

“Currently, foreigners residing in Puerto Rico cannot vote in elections because they do not have U.S. citizen- Pro-statehood attorney Gregorio Igartúa ship. This goes against internationally recognized human rights, unjustifiably denies them the fundamental right to vote, and excludes them from choosing the government “Immigrants who live in Puerto Rico work here, consume under which they live,” Rivera Lassén said at the time. here, contribute significantly to our economy, enrich our

culture, have families and are an important part of our society. With this bill, we seek to end this discriminatory and undemocratic exclusion and recognize the right to vote of every person who resides in Puerto Rico, regardless of their citizenship.”

Igartúa said the bill has problems. First, he noted, it was ironic for local politicians to advocate allowing foreigners to vote in local elections but not say anything about allowing Puerto Rico residents to vote for the U.S. president.

The bill is supported by the Dominican Committee of Human Rights, but Igartúa pointed out that foreign residents have loyalties that may be in conflict with those of the U.S. citizens living in Puerto Rico and which may influence their vote.

Igartúa also raised questions as to the bill’s legality.

The State Election Commission had asked the House of Representatives to evaluate the application of the current federal provision that establishes a ban on foreigners voting in the election of federal officials, including the resident commissioner.

HUD grants extension for use of recovery funds under CDBG-DR

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and island Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) granted an extension for the use of recovery funds under the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program until Dec. 31, 2029.

“Since my administration began, I have made it a priority to expedite the reconstruction on our island. Thanks to the good relationship that my government has had with President Biden’s administration, we have managed to eliminate bureaucratic processes in the use of federal funds, which has allowed us to today have thousands of projects under construction and underway,” the governor said in a written statement. “I thank the federal Housing Secretary Marcia Fudge for working hand in hand with our Secretary William Rodríguez to achieve this extension. We will continue to expedite the projects we have underway and with this news we will ensure the maximum use of the funds available for reconstruction.”

The federal government had set a final date for the use of the funds in September 2026. Following a petition presented by the island Housing Department, the extension was granted.

Rodríguez stated that “we are grateful to the federal government for this extension that will undoubtedly help us continue the recovery process that we have been successfully leading.”

“This new extension is evidence of the federal government’s confidence in the management that this administration is carrying out and places us in a better position to complete

the work of transforming Puerto Rico,” he added.

The extension will benefit the projects carried out by municipalities with recovery funds, as well as projects at the state level.

After hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, the Puerto Rico government had unrestricted access, facilitated by the Biden-Harris administration, to funds in 2021 to continue the implementation of more than 20 different programs approved

in the Action Plan under recovery funds.

A few weeks ago, HUD Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman visited the island to observe first-hand the progress of the recovery work and after being pleased with what she saw, she said she took a positive view of an extension that would give continuity to the reconstruction process.

Meanwhile, the CDBG mitigation funds continue with 2032 as the expiration date.

The federal government had set a final date for the use of funds under the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program in September 2026. Following a petition presented by the island Housing Department, the extension was granted.

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George Santos to keep seat after House votes not to expel him

By MICHAEL GOLD, LUKE BROADWATER and GRACE ASHFORD

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Republican-led effort to expel Rep. George Santos of New York failed decisively earlier this week, after a group of lawmakers from Santos’ home state could not persuade nearly enough of their colleagues that his admitted lies and federal indictment were sufficient grounds to oust him.

Even as House members condemned Santos for lying to voters and donors about his biography and résumé and apparently falsifying ties to the Holocaust and Sept.

11, many said that expelling him now — nearly a year before his trial is even set to begin — would set a dangerous precedent.

With Republicans holding a razor-thin majority that they are loath to imperil, many of them, including Speaker Mike Johnson, chose to defer judgment on Santos’ fate to the conclusion of the criminal case or a continuing House Ethics investigation.

But dozens of Democrats also opposed the motion to expel Santos, even as their party has been unified in calling for his resignation.

The vote — 213 opposed to 179 in favor, with 19 representatives voting “present” — is the second time in nearly six months that Santos, 35, has evaded a push to expel him. And it has cleared the way for him to remain in office as he fights the 23-count federal indictment accusing him of involvement in a range of fraudulent schemes.

Santos said after the vote that he did not consider surviving the resolution a win. “This is a victory for the process.

Due process won today,” he said. “Not George Santos.”

The resolution — which fell more than 80 votes shy of the two-thirds ma-

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. jority needed — was introduced by Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, a first-term Republican representing a neighboring district on Long Island. It was backed by four other first-term Republicans from New York and supported largely by Democrats, who pushed a similar effort in May after Santos was first indicted.

Every Democrat and 77 Republicans would have had to vote to expel Santos, assuming all 433 members voted on the matter. That high bar was never in danger: While 24 Republicans bucked Johnson’s view and voted to oust their colleague, 31 Democrats voted against expelling Santos.

Santos attacked those in his party who voted to expel him. “It’s very sad to see that more Democrats believe in the rule of law and the presumption of innocence,” he said.

Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., who voted

against the resolution, said it was not proper to expel Santos with both the criminal case and the ethics investigation outstanding.

“We will again have to consider, once those proceedings have concluded, whether he belongs in this body,” she said.

Santos’ criminal trial is tentatively scheduled to begin in September. The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday declared that it was “expeditiously” reviewing the allegations against Santos and would “announce its next course of action” on or before Nov. 17.

After the vote Wednesday, Rep. Nick LaLota of New York, part of D’Esposito’s faction, said he thought that the committee’s statement had persuaded some representatives to “hold off” until it published its report.

But he said that he and D’Esposito

would press for another vote after the Ethics Committee released its findings, and he expected they would garner more support.

Santos, who is running for reelection, also faces a crowded Republican primary next year in which local and national leaders have said they will not back him.

But he narrowly avoided becoming the first representative since the Civil War to be removed from office without a criminal conviction, and only the sixth member of the House to be expelled in the body’s history.

Federal prosecutors charged Santos, who represents parts of Long Island and Queens, with 23 felony counts for his participation in a series of financial schemes involving his personal and campaign finances. They have accused him of filing false financial reports, fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits, stealing the identities and credit card numbers of campaign donors and falsifying a $500,000 personal loan to his campaign.

Santos has pleaded not guilty to all counts and has denounced the case against him as politically motivated and a “witch hunt,” language similar to that used by former President Donald Trump when referencing his four criminal cases.

But last month, his former campaign treasurer, Nancy Marks, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and said in court that she conspired with Santos to report the fictitious $500,000 loan and other fake contributions.

D’Esposito and a number of first-term New York Republicans in vulnerable swing district seats launched the effort after Marks’ plea, and prosecutors charged Santos with 10 more felonies.

“My colleagues in New York did this because it is politically expedient for them,” Santos said after the vote.

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Biden to visit Maine after Lewiston massacre

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Maine, told officials with the Sheriff’s Office in Sagadahoc County, where Card lived, that he had grown increasingly paranoid, punched a friend and said he was going to carry out a shooting rampage.

But despite those warnings, it does not appear that authorities ever contacted Card, who carried out the deadliest mass shooting of the year.

The president had been scheduled to travel to Delaware on Friday, as he does most weekends. White House officials did not provide details about when he would leave Washington or whether he intended to keep his weekend plans.

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resident Joe Biden will travel to Maine on Friday to pay his respects to the 18 people killed and more than dozen wounded during a gunman’s rampage through a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, last week, the White House announced.

Shortly after the massacre, Biden declared his frustration at the taking of yet more lives in a mass shooting.

The gunman, Robert R. Card II, 40, was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot, two days after the killings.

“Once again, an American community and American families have been devastated by gun violence,” Biden said last Friday as the discovery of Card’s body brought an end to a vast search and lockdowns in the state. “In all, at least 18 souls brutally slain, more injured, some critically, and scores of family and friends praying and experiencing trauma no one ever wants to imagine.”

In a statement, the White House said the president and the first lady would “pay respects to the victims of this horrific attack and grieve with families and community members.” The president will also meet with emergency medical workers, nurses and other officials, the White House said.

The visit will most likely also be an opportunity for the president to repeat his call for a ban on assault weapons and tougher gun control and mental health measures that Republicans and a few Democrats have blocked on Capitol Hill.

In his statement last week, Biden said, “I once again call on Republicans in Congress to fulfill their obligation to keep the American people safe.” But with Republicans in charge of the House and Democrats only narrowly in control of the Senate, any effort to pass major gun control legislation is all but certain to fail.

Maine has high rates of hunting and gun ownership and has stopped short of the “red flag” laws in other states that allow police to take guns from people who are found to be a danger to themselves or others.

Instead, Maine has a “yellow flag” law that requires the police, a mental health clinician and a judge to agree that an individual is a danger before firearms can be taken away.

The president’s visit will come as Maine’s law enforcement officials are struggling to explain why nothing was done to prevent Card’s rampage even though officials at his Army Reserve unit had warned officials of his deteriorating mental health.

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This Florida school district banned cellphones. Here’s what happened.

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ne afternoon in late September, hundreds of students at Timber Creek High School in Orlando poured into the campus’s sprawling central courtyard to hang out and eat lunch. For members of an extremely online generation, their activities were decidedly analog.

Dozens sat in small groups, animatedly talking with one another. Others played pickleball on makeshift lunchtime courts. There was not a cellphone in sight — and that was no accident.

In May, Florida passed a law requiring public school districts to impose rules barring student cellphone use during class time. This fall, Orange County Public Schools — which includes Timber Creek High — went even further, barring students from using cellphones during the entire school day.

In interviews, a dozen Orange County parents and students all said they supported the no-phone rules during class. But they objected to their district’s stricter, daylong ban.

Parents said their children should be able to contact them directly during free periods, while students described the all-day ban as unfair and infantilizing.

“They expect us to take responsibility for our own choices,” said Sophia Ferrara, a 12th grader at Timber Creek who needs to use mobile devices during free periods to take online college classes. “But then they are taking away the ability for us to make a choice and to learn responsibility.”

Like many exasperated parents, public schools across the United States are adopting increasingly drastic measures to try to pry young people away from their cellphones.

Tougher constraints are needed, lawmakers and district leaders argue, because rampant social media use during school is threatening students’ education, well-being and physical safety.

In some schools, young people have planned and filmed assaults on fellow students and then uploaded the videos to platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. Teachers and principals warn that social apps such as Snapchat have also become a major distraction, prompting some pupils to keep messaging their friends during class.

As a result, many individual districts — among them, South Portland, Maine, and Charlottesville City, Virginia — have banned student cellphone use throughout the day. Now Florida has instituted a more comprehensive, statewide crackdown.

The new Florida law requires public schools to prohibit student cellphone use during instructional time and block students’ access to social media on district Wi-Fi. It also requires schools to teach students about “how social media manipulates behavior.”

Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok each have policies barring bullying, as well as systems to report bullying on their platforms. In a statement, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, said it supported efforts by parents and educators to foster a healthy academic environment, including “limiting students’ access to personal devices during school hours.”

In a statement, TikTok said activity like posting videos

Confiscated cellphones stored in a specialized safe at Timber Creek High School in Orlando, Fla. on Oct. 6, 2023. A new state law requires Florida public schools to ban student cellphone use during class time. of school bullying and violence “violates our community guidelines, and we remove it when we find it.” Meta, Instagram’s parent company, declined to comment.

More restrictive school cellphone rules could have benefits, such as boosting students’ focus on learning. But they could also increase surveillance of students or hinder crucial communications for teenagers with family responsibilities or after-school jobs.

It is unclear how many other schools ban student cellphone use. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, published in 2021, reported that about 77% of schools prohibited nonacademic cellphone use during school hours.

The new rules this fall in Orange County Public Schools, the nation’s eighth-largest school system, show how — and why — some districts are intensifying their cellphone crackdowns.

During the pandemic, Orange County educators say, many students’ attachment to their phones seemed to deepen. Students rarely looked up from their devices as they walked down school hallways. Some teenagers covertly filmed their classmates and spread the videos on apps like Snapchat.

“We saw a lot of bullying,” said Marc Wasko, the prin-

cipal of Timber Creek, which serves about 3,600 students.

“We had a lot of issues with students posting, or trying to record, things that went on during school time.”

After the Florida law took effect in July, Orange County decided to impose even stricter rules. The blanket ban bars students from using cellphones during the entire school day — even the time between classes.

In September, on the first day the ban took effect, Timber Creek administrators confiscated more than 100 phones from students, Wasko said. After that, the confiscations quickly dropped. Phone-related school incidents, like bullying, have also decreased, he said.

The ban has made the atmosphere at Timber Creek both more pastoral and more carceral.

Wasko said students now make eye contact and respond when he greets them. Teachers said students seemed more engaged in class.

“Oh, I love it,” said Nikita McCaskill, a government teacher at Timber Creek. “Students are more talkative and more collaborative.”

Some students said the ban had made interacting with their classmates more authentic.

“Now people can’t really be like: ‘Oh, look at me on Instagram. This is who I am,’” said Peyton Stanley, a 12th grader at Timber Creek. “It has helped people be who they are — instead of who they are online — in school.”

Stanley added that she also found the ban problematic, saying she would feel safer at school if she could carry her cellphone in her pocket and be able to text her mother immediately if needed.

Other students said school seemed more prisonlike.

To call their parents, they noted, students must now go to the front office and ask permission to use the phone.

Surveillance has also intensified. To enforce the ban, Lyle Lake, a Timber Creek security officer, now patrols lunch period on a golf cart, nabbing students violating the ban and driving them to the front office, where they must place their phones in a locked cabinet for the rest of the school day.

“I usually end up with a cart full of students,” Lake said as he sat behind the wheel of a black Yamaha golf cart during lunch period, “because I pick up more on the way to the office.”

Lake said he also monitored school security camera feeds for students using cellphones in hallways and other spaces. Students who are caught may be taken out of class.

Repeat violators can be suspended.

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Evertec announces merger with Sinqia Move positions San Juan-based company as the financial technology leader in Latin America

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ocused on continued expansion and significant growth in Latin America, leading end-to-end transaction processing company Evertec (NYSE: EVTC) announced this week the closing of the purchase transaction with Sinqia, a leading provider of technology solutions for financial institutions in Brazil, after signing a definitive acquisition agreement in July.

Evertec CEO Mac Schuessler said “with this integration we will be a more diversified, faster growing, and stronger company bringing Evertec’s experience in payment solutions to Sinqia’s approximately 1,000 customers in Brazil, complementing its current software offerings, and cross-selling Sinqia’s products to our customer base of existing financial institutions in other countries in Latin America.”

Sinqia’s consistent double-digit organic growth, coupled with its successful acquisition strategy, has resulted in an overall revenue growth rate of 52% over the past four years with approximately 85% recurring revenue from a very diverse customer base. Those characteristics align perfectly with Evertec’s strategic goals of diversifying into key markets with high growth potential, with proprietary software and where there is an opportunity to add value.

“The combination of a solid financial position, predictable cash flow and knowledge of the region is a solid platform to significantly expand our presence in an attractive market like Brazil,” Schuessler pointed out.

“Combining our digital payments platform with Sinqia’s

banking and financial software platform will position us as the leading financial technology company in Latin America.”

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has been an important strategic focus, enabling Evertec to expand into new geographies and broaden its product offerings, and the acquisition of Sinqia represents another step in this transformation. The Brazilian company has a consistent history of growth, both organically and through a successful M&A strategy, with great potential for important revenue synergies when combined with Evertec.

Evertec’s goal with the acquisition is to democratize financial services technology in Latin America and the Caribbean, which requires exploring opportunities in the entire ecosystem, gaining relevance in different markets throughout the region and operating as a multinational financial technology company.

“The acquisition of Sinqia helps us achieve this objective,” the Evertec CEO noted. “Given its growth strategy and attractive financial profile, complimentary product portfolio and its strong presence in Brazil, it is the ideal partner to continue strengthening our footprint in the region.”

How does the move impact customers? Schuessler said it will now be possible to reflect on new capabilities and evaluate opportunities to continue servicing Evertec’s existing customers.

“Sinqia is a leader in its segment, providing software solutions for financial institutions in Brazil with its six business units: Banks, Funds, Pensions, Consortium, Digital and Services,” he said. “These assets are highly complementary to Evertec’s payments product offering, with minimal direct overlap. Together, they represent a complete and comprehensive value proposition for customers.”

Evertec’s partners will have the possibility of offering services to some 1,000 customers in Brazil, who poten-

Evertec CEO Mac Schuessler tially need the same types of services. For external stakeholders, the transaction will translate into long-term value for the company.

With regard to employee impact, the integration between the companies started at the end of September, and significant changes are not expected in the near future as Evertec’s focus is to become familiar with Sinqia and understand its processes and products, to foster the “best of both” in both culture and among employees.

In this context, day-to-day operations are not expected to be impacted and no significant immediate changes will be made to the organizational structure. Schuessler added that he expects the transaction to provide the joint company with additional skills and capabilities globally.

“This is a highly complementary transaction, and our hope is together to provide increased opportunities for our joint teams,” he said.

Schuessler also pointed out that his focus is on longterm growth, investing in each company’s technical capabilities and market know-how.

“We will communicate regularly and provide updates to ensure everyone is well informed about any developments that may arise,” the Evertec CEO said. “The goal is to minimize disruption while creating a stronger, and more successful company.”

Toyota recalls 1.8 million RAV4 SUVs over potential fire risk

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oyota, the world’s largest automaker, recalled more than 1.8 million RAV4 sport utility vehicles spanning several model years this week because a replacement battery could pose a fire risk.

The voluntary recall covers 1.85 million vehicles from model years 2013 to 2018, the company said in a statement. Some of the vehicles may be equipped with replacement 12-volt batteries that have dimensions that are too small, it said.

“If a small-top battery is used for replacement and

the hold-down clamp is not tightened correctly, the battery could move when the vehicle is driven with forceful turns,” it said.

Movement from a strong turn could create a short circuit that could potentially ignite a fire, the company said.

It was unclear if there had been any fires or accidents related to the recalled batteries. An inquiry sent to Toyota was not immediately returned.

The company’s recall filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which usually contain information about such incidents, were not yet

available in the agency’s recall listings Wednesday night.

Toyota said it expected to notify affected owners by late December, adding that dealers would replace the hold-down clamp, the battery tray and the positive terminal cover for free. The company asked owners to visit the highway traffic agency’s website or Toyota’s recall website to check if their cars were under recall by providing their vehicle identification numbers.

The RAV4 recall announced Wednesday was the second one announced by Toyota in a week. On Oct. 26, the company recalled 814,000 Highlander sport utility vehicles because the front bumper could fall off.

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Wall Street indexes rally on bets of peak US interest rates, strong earnings

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all Street’s three main stock indexes rallied nearly 2% on Thursday on hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve has reached the end of its interest rate hiking campaign and a batch of upbeat quarterly financial updates added to the bullish mood.

The Fed held interest rates steady on Wednesday as expected, and while Chair Jerome Powell left the door open to further tightening he also acknowledged the impact of a recent surge in bond yields on the economy.

The comments, viewed as hints that the central bank is done with its rate hikes, sent longer-dated U.S. Treasury yields tumbling, which supported stocks.

“Powell’s comments in the presser yesterday were what everyone wanted to hear,” said Justin Burgin, vice president of equity research at Ameriprise Financial in Troy, Michigan.

Burgin also pointed to better-than-expectated earnings reports. While the current-quarter guidance has been weaker than previously expected, Burgin said analysts are still forecasting growth.

“The fact the wheels didn’t come of the bus for the fourth quarter is pretty good,” he said.

According to the latest LSEG data, Wall Street is forecasting fourth-quarter earnings growth of 7.2%, down from 11% on Oct. 1, before the reporting season began. And for the third quarter, 80.9% of companies reporting so far have beat analysts’ expectations while 14.9% have missed expectations.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) rose 564.5 points, or 1.7%, to 33,839.08, the S&P 500 (.SPX) gained 79.92 points, or 1.89%, at 4,317.78 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) added 232.72 points, or 1.78%, at 13,294.19.

The S&P 500, in its fourth straight session of gains, boasted its biggest one-day percentage gain since April. Also the benchmark index closed above its 200-day moving average for the first time since Oct. 24.

The small cap Russell 2000 index (.RUT) finished up 2.7% for its biggest one-day percentage gain since June 6.

The Nasdaq in its fifth consecutive day of gains, registered its biggest one-day percentage increase since July 28.

After stocks tumbled in October, “the set-up was well primed for a bit of a relief rally,” said Emily Leveille, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

All 11 major S&P 500 sectors rose, led by energy (.SPNY) and rate-sensitive real estate (.SPLRCR) with gains of more than 3% each. The communications services sector (.SPLRCL) rose least, adding 0.9%, followed by consumer staples (.SPLRCS) which gained 1.3%.

Among individual stocks, Starbucks (SBUX.O) rallied 9.5% after the coffeehouse company’s fourth-quarter results beat estimates. Also Qualcomm(QCOM.O) shares climbed 5.8% after the chip designer forecast first-quarter sales and profit above estimates.

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Data released earlier in the day showed the number

of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased moderately last week.

This week’s key economic data release will be the October non-farm payrolls report due on Friday.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by a 7.30-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 3.16-to-1 ratio favored advancers.

The S&P 500 posted 10 new 52-week highs and nine new lows; the Nasdaq Composite recorded 40 new highs and 140 new lows.

On U.S. exchanges, 11.96 billion shares changed hands compared with the 10.78 billion average for the last 20 sessions.

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US to press Israel for ‘pauses’ in war against Hamas

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ecretary of State Antony Blinken will urge the Israeli government to agree to a series of brief cessations of military operations in the Gaza Strip to allow for hostages to be released safely and for humanitarian aid to be distributed, White House officials said Thursday.

The message comes as President Joe Biden revealed Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had previously agreed to halt shelling briefly on Oct. 20 to allow for the release of two Americans, Judith Raanan, 59, and her daughter, Natalie Raanan, 17.

The push for what U.S. officials call “humanitarian pauses” is one of several subjects Blinken will raise with Netanyahu and other officials when he arrives in Israel on Friday for another round of diplomacy amid fierce fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, the group that controls Gaza.

White House officials said the request for pauses was far different from an overall cease-fire, which the Biden administration believes would benefit Hamas by allowing it to recover from Israel’s intense bombardment.

But Biden is under increasing pressure to respond to what humanitarian groups have called an urgent crisis for civilians in-

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Dutch Creek Farms in Northfield, Minn., Nov. 1, 2023. President Biden is under increasing pressure to respond to what humanitarian groups have called an urgent crisis for civilians in Gaza. side Gaza, where food, water, medicine and fuel are in short supply. A strike on a refugee camp in Gaza this week killed dozens of people even as Israeli officials said they killed a top Hamas leader.

At a fundraiser in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, a protester confronted Biden and demanded that he call for a cease-fire.

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Biden responded: “I think we need a pause.

A pause means give time to get the prisoners out.”

The president then revealed the previously agreed-upon pause for the two American hostages, using a common nickname to refer to Netanyahu.

“I’m the guy that convinced Bibi to call for a cease-fire to let the prisoners out,” Biden said. National security officials said later that despite the president’s use of the word “cease-fire,” he was talking about a brief pause in the Israeli bombardment, not a broader end to hostilities across Gaza.

Biden’s comments came a week after Blinken delivered a similar message at the U.N. Security Council.

“Israel must take all possible precautions to avoid harm to civilians,” the secretary of state said. “It means food, medicine and water and other assistance must flow into Gaza and to the areas people need them. It means civilians must be able to get out of harm’s way. It means humanitarian pauses must be considered for these purposes.”

The push by the United States for the pauses is unlikely to satisfy critics of Israel, some of whom are members of the president’s party. Several Democratic lawmakers in the House have introduced a resolution “calling for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestine.”

But administration officials argue that more limited pauses could help to address the urgent humanitarian problems in Gaza while not preventing Israel from responding to the slaughter of more than 1,400 people in the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.

“What we have said should be considered and explored are temporary localized humanitarian pauses to allow aid to get to specific populations and maybe even to help with the evacuation of people that want to get out, move more to the south” of Gaza, John Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said Monday. “We do support that.

We do not support a cease-fire at this time.”

White House officials said they were pushing for pauses that are limited by location and duration for two purposes: the possibility of future hostage releases and the urgent need to clear a path for the delivery and distribution of aid to Palestinians living in Gaza.

Officials have said negotiations are continuing for the release of additional hostages, with representatives of Qatar serving as mediators. If those negotiations succeed, officials said they would urge Israel to agree to stop its operations in the area where Hamas is set to release the hostages.

That is what happened on Oct. 20, officials said. Netanyahu agreed to ensure that there would be no shelling in the area where the Red Crescent picked up the two American women. That pause ended shortly after the women were released.

U.S. officials said they were also concerned about the delivery of humanitarian aid, which is beginning to trickle into Gaza on trucks that are entering through the Rafah gate at the border between Gaza and Egypt.

The concern, the officials said, is that the trucks need a way to safely get the aid to neighborhoods without risking being hit by an Israeli airstrike or caught in the middle of fighting on the ground. And the official said the aid does no good if residents of a neighborhood are too afraid to come out of their homes to get the food or water.

Blinken will urge Israel to consider brief pauses to allow the aid trucks safe passage.

White House officials said Netanyahu and other Israeli officials remained opposed to a broad cease-fire but appeared receptive to the idea of further pauses in the fighting for those purposes.

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Drought saps the Panama Canal, disrupting global trade

By PETER EAVIS

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or over a century, the Panama Canal has provided a convenient way for ships to move between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, helping to speed up international trade.

But a drought has left the canal without enough water, which is used to raise and lower ships, forcing officials to slash the number of vessels they allow through. That has created expensive headaches for shipping companies and raised difficult questions about water use in Panama. The passage of one ship is estimated to consume as much water as half a million Panamanians use in one day.

“This is the worst we have seen in terms of disruption,” said Oystein Kalleklev, CEO of Avance Gas, which transports propane from the United States to Asia.

The problems at the Panama Canal, an engineering marvel that opened in 1914 and handles an estimated 5% of seaborne trade, is the latest example of how crucial parts of global supply chains can suddenly seize up. In 2021, one of the largest container ships ever built got stuck for days in the Suez Canal, choking off trade. And the huge demand for goods like surgical masks, home appliances and garden equipment during the pandemic strained supply chains to their breaking point.

In Panama, a lack of water has hampered canal operations in recent years, and some shipping experts say vessels may soon have to avoid the canal altogether if the problem gets worse. Fewer passages could deprive Panama’s government of tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue, push up the cost of shipping and increase greenhouse gas emissions when ships travel longer routes.

Though Panama has an equatorial climate that makes it one of the wettest countries, rainfall there has been 30% below average this year, causing water levels to plunge in the lakes that feed the canal and its mighty locks. The immediate cause is the El Nino climate phenomenon, which initially causes hotter and drier weather in Panama, but scientists believe that climate change may be prolonging dry spells and raising temperatures in the region.

Before the water problems, as many as 38 ships a day moved through the canal, which was built by the United States and remained under its control until 2000. The canal authority in July cut the average to 32 vessels, and this week announced new limits that are likely to lead to fewer than 30 passages a day. Further reductions could come if water levels remain low. The canal authority is also limiting how far a ship’s hull can go below the water, known as its draft, which significantly reduces the weight it can carry.

Container ships, which transport finished consumer goods, typically reserve passage well in advance, and have not faced long delays. But ships carrying bulk commodities generally don’t book passage.

This presents bulk shipping companies with an expensive calculus: They can risk waiting for days, pay a big fee to jump the line or avoid the canal entirely by taking a longer route.

Kalleklev said his company decided in August to pay $400,000 in a special auction to move a ship ahead in the queue, roughly doubling the total cost of using the canal.

Other companies have paid more than $2 million, a cost they will sometimes bear to ensure ships don’t miss their

An employee checks the control screens for the Panama Canal at the Miraflores Control Tower in Panama City, on Sept. 8, 2023.

next assignment. A portion of these extra costs will be passed on to consumers, already pummeled by inflation.

The drought presents tough choices for Panama’s leaders, who must balance the water needs of the canal with those of residents, over half of whom rely on the same sources of water that feed the canal.

The canal’s board recently proposed building a new reservoir in the Indio River to bolster the water supply and increase traffic through the canal, which generates more than 6% of Panama’s gross domestic product. Under the plan, the new water supply could allow for an additional 12 to 15 passages daily.

“In optimal terms, the canal can handle 38 transits per day, so 12 to 15 is a lot,” said Rodrigo Noriega, a lawyer and a columnist for Panama’s La Prensa newspaper.

Building the reservoir is expected to cost nearly $900 million, and the canal authority could start accepting bids from contractors toward the middle of next year with construction starting early in 2025. But that timeline could well be delayed; the construction of larger locks was completed two years late, in 2016, and that project was marred by cost disputes.

The new reservoir would also involve acquiring land that is protected by a 2006 law, and displace at least some of its inhabitants. Noriega said he expected Panama’s legislature to pass a law that would lift the ban on acquiring land.

But he and others note that new water sources could also be built in other places.

Without a new water source, the canal could lose significant amounts of business. Other ocean routes are, of course, longer and more expensive, but they are less likely to have unpredictable delays. One alternative is to transport goods between Asia and the United States through the Suez Canal to the East Coast and Gulf Coast. Another is to ship goods from Asia to the West Coast ports — and then transport them overland by train or truck.

“In theory, something that offers a cheaper, shorter route should always be in favor, but it’s the uncertainty that can be a killer,” said Chris Rogers, head of supply chain research at S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Global leaders warn AI could cause ‘catastrophic’ harm

The mansion house at Bletchley Park, north of London. The country estate, home of Britain’s code-breaking efforts in World War II, is the site of a two-day summit focused on A.I. safety.

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n 1950, Alan Turing, the gifted British mathematician and code-breaker, published an academic paper. His aim, he wrote, was to consider the question, “Can machines think?”

The answer runs to almost 12,000 words. But it ends succinctly: “We can only see a short distance ahead,” Turing wrote, “but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”

More than seven decades on, that sentiment sums up the mood of many policymakers, researchers and tech leaders attending Britain’s AI Safety Summit this

week, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes will position the country as a leader in the global race to harness and regulate artificial intelligence.

On Wednesday morning, his government released a document called “The Bletchley Declaration,” signed by representatives from the 28 countries attending the event, including the U.S. and China, which warned of the dangers posed by the most advanced “frontier” AI systems.

“There is potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm, either deliberate or unintentional, stemming from the most significant capabilities of these AI models,” the declaration said.

“Many risks arising from AI are inherently international in nature, and so are best addressed through international cooperation. We resolve to work together in an inclusive manner to ensure human-centric, trustworthy and responsible AI.” The document fell short, however, of setting specific policy goals. A second meeting is scheduled to be held in six months in South Korea and a third in France in a year.

Governments have scrambled to address the risks posed by the fast-evolving technology since last year’s release of ChatGPT, a humanlike chatbot that demonstrated how the latest models are advancing in powerful and unpredictable ways.

Future generations of AI systems could accelerate the diagnosis of disease, help combat climate change and streamline manufacturing processes, but also present significant dangers in terms of job losses, disinformation and national security. A British government report last week warned that advanced AI systems “may help bad actors perform cyberattacks, run disinformation campaigns and design biological or chemical weapons.”

Sunak promoted this week’s event, which gathers governments, companies, researchers and civil society groups, as a chance to start developing global safety standards.

The two-day summit in Britain is at Bletchley Park, a countryside estate 50 miles north of London, where Turing helped crack the Enigma code used by the Nazis during World War II. Considered one of the birthplaces of modern computing, the location is a conscious nod to the prime minister’s hopes that Britain could be at the center of another world-leading initiative.

Bletchley is “evocative in that it captures a very defining moment in time, where great leadership was required from government but also a moment when computing was front and center,” said Ian Hogarth, a tech entrepreneur and investor who was appointed by Sunak to lead the government’s task force on AI risk, and who helped organize the summit. “We need to come together and agree on a wise way forward.”

With Elon Musk and other tech executives in the audience, King Charles III delivered a video address in the opening

session, recorded at Buckingham Palace before he departed for a state visit to Kenya this week. “We are witnessing one of the greatest technological leaps in the history of human endeavor,” he said. “There is a clear imperative to ensure that this rapidly evolving technology remains safe and secure.”

Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo were taking part in meetings on behalf of the United States.

Wu Zhaohui, China’s vice minister of science and technology, told attendees that Beijing was willing to “enhance dialogue and communication” with other countries about AI safety. China is developing its own initiative for AI governance, he said, adding that the technology is “uncertain, unexplainable and lacks transparency.”

In a speech last Friday, Sunak addressed criticism he had received from China hawks over the attendance of a delegation from Beijing. “Yes — we’ve invited China,” he said. “I know there are some who will say they should have been excluded. But there can be no serious strategy for AI without at least trying to engage all of the world’s leading AI powers.”

With development of leading AI systems concentrated in the United States and a small number of other countries, some attendees said regulations must account for the technology’s impact globally. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a minister of technology representing India, said policies must be set by a “coalition of nations rather than just one country to two countries.”

“By allowing innovation to get ahead of regulation, we open ourselves to the toxicity and misinformation and weaponization that we see on the internet today, represented by social media,” he said.

Executives from leading technology and AI companies, including Anthropic, Google DeepMind, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI and Tencent, were attending the conference. Also sending representatives were a number of civil society groups, among them Britain’s Ada Lovelace Institute and the Algorithmic Justice League, a nonprofit in Massachusetts.

In a surprise move, Sunak announced Monday that he would take part in a live interview with Musk on his social media platform X after the summit ended Thursday.

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What happens when we lose sight of our shared humanity

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

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ne reason I’m afraid that the worst is yet to come in the Middle East is that the mutual dehumanization is the most savage I’ve ever seen it in decades of on-theground reporting in the region.

Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip is destroying tunnels, ammunition dumps and Hamas fighters, yes. But I’m afraid it’s also helping to pulverize the recognition of shared humanity that in the long run allows people to live beside one another in peace. The poisonous hatred in turn is already spilling over to the United States and other countries worldwide.

I was thinking about this as I drove the other day to meet some Palestinians who were temporarily allowed to visit Israel and became stuck in East Jerusalem. My Israeli taxi driver refused to enter the Palestinian neighborhood (“If I go there, I won’t make it out”) and finally abandoned me on the side of the road The site of the Hamas attack in Be’eri, Israel, Oct. 23, to get a Palestinian taxi. And then when I got to my destination, 2023.

I interviewed a sweet 57-year-old Palestinian woman who was talking to me about the war and told me that she approved of and she weeps daily at the bombardment of family and friends in Gaza.

Hamas’ attacks on Israeli civilians.

Meanwhile, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu I pressed her, and she insisted it was fine even to kill a 5-year-old Israeli child, because “they are all Jews and Zionists.” announced the escalation of the ground operation Saturday, That conversation pretty much broke my heart. Such he cited biblical references to the Amalekites, who were the bigotry is nurtured by Hamas propaganda but also by Israeli target of a divine genocide. In the story, God’s order was: “put bombing of Gaza: The woman said she had lost two cousins to to death men and women, children and infants.” Netanyahu Israeli fire, including a young woman married only a year ago, wasn’t advocating that literal policy, but Amalek is a code word that regularly crops up in Israeli politics for a ruthless enemy that must be crushed without mercy.

Some have been more explicit in their biblical exegesis.

“You may think you’re being merciful” by sparing a child, counsels a far-right rabbi in a chilling video posted online, but actually “you’re being vicious to the ultimate victim that this PO BOX 6537 Caguas PR 00726 child will grow up and kill.” And this too breaks my heart.

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That is the longtime pattern in the Middle East: It was Palestinian suicide bombers who propelled Netanyahu into the prime minister’s office, and it has been Israeli hard-liners who fuel extremist Palestinian groups such as Hamas and Islamic Publisher Jihad.

“Extremists need each other, support each other,” Eyad Manuel Sierra Ray Ruiz al-Sarraj, a Gaza psychiatrist who died in 2013, once lamenGeneral Manager Legal Notice Director ted to me. He complained that Israel’s blockade of Gaza since María de L. Márquez Sharon Ramírez 2007 had turned Hamas fanatics into popular heroes.

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down. A 6-year-old Muslim boy was murdered in a Chicago suburb in what police say was a hate crime: The boy was stabbed 26 times. I fear there’ll be more of this.

This is a path that leads nowhere, and that’s one reason I hope Israel will rein in the bombing and pursue more surgical strikes, while avoiding large-scale urban combat. Whatever you call the Gaza war so far, it is not surgical. The Economist found, based on satellite imagery, that 13% of Palestinians have had their homes damaged in just three weeks. While the number of dead in Gaza is difficult to pin down, and many bodies are probably still uncounted in the rubble, Unicef now calls Gaza “a graveyard for thousands of children.”

The Oct. 7 Hamas attacks understandably shattered Israel: President Joe Biden noted that if you adjust for population, the death toll was the equivalent of about 15 Sept. 11 attacks.

It’s also true, as my colleague Ezra Klein noted in his podcast, that Gaza has suffered the equivalent of about 400 Sept. 11 attacks.

More children have been reported killed in Gaza in the past three weeks than in all global conflicts together in the entirety of last year, Save the Children notes. By the count of the Gaza Health Ministry, which is under the Hamas government but whose figures are roughly accepted by humanitarian agencies and in the past have been used by the State Department, a child has died on average about once every 10 minutes in the war.

And the Gaza war is just getting started.

I don’t think this is politically sustainable for Israel, or morally sustainable for America as we provide weapons used to kill and maim civilians. Nor do I believe it will be effective at protecting Israel.

“To kill terrorist leaders without addressing the despair of their supporters is a fool’s errand and produces more frustration, more despair, and more terrorism,” Ami Ayalon, a former leader of the Shin Bet security agency, wrote in his 2020 memoir.

If the dehumanization I encountered in Israel and the West Bank was profoundly depressing, I was inspired by those on both sides who press for reconciliation and peace. A Palestinian nurse from Jenin, Mohamed Abu Jafar, whose 16-year-old brother was shot dead by Israeli forces on the street in front of his school, is an example.

“The conflict will not be resolved in military actions,” he told me. “Because they can’t kill us all, and we can’t kill them all.”

The Biden administration says it welcomes a humanitarian pause, and it should push for this more resolutely as an occasion to provide medicine, water and food to civilians while also seeking at least a partial prisoner exchange. It should also ask Israel to refocus its warfare more narrowly on Hamas itself, because every extra bomb that hits civilians digs us deeper into this crater of hatred and will make it more difficult to ever clamber out, look into one another’s eyes and find a path to peace.

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Gobernador no descarta unir esfuerzo con comisionada residente en proyecto de estatus POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – El gobernador de Puerto Rico, Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, habló el jueves sobre el proyecto HR2757 presentado por la congresista Nydia Margarita Velázquez Serrano, que busca la estadidad para Puerto Rico.

“Precisamente lo que estamos impulsando ahora es que el Senado de Estados Unidos tenga un proyecto similar o igual al HR 2757 que está pendiente ante la Cámara federal”, dijo Pierluisi Urrutia a preguntas de la prensa.

El gobernador mencionó que el sector ultraconservador, en particular los seguidores del expresidente Donald John Trump, criticó al gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis por un proyecto previo relacionado con el estatus de Puerto Rico. Sin embargo, DeSantis sostiene que el tema debe ser discutido en el Congreso.

“Eso es lo que yo quiero ver en las filas republicanas que se den cuenta que el Congreso no puede seguir ignorando el asunto del estatus de Puerto Rico. Y no meramente diciendo resuelvan ustedes. Así no funciona. El Congreso es el que tiene la última palabra aquí”, señaló.

Añadió que en el Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), todos, sin excepción, continuarán luchando por la estadidad y que no hay ninguna división en este tema.

“Así que en las filas estadistas, todos, sin exclusión, vamos a seguir en pie de lucha. Precisamente lo que estamos impulsando ahora es que el Senado de Estados Unidos tenga un proyecto similar o igual al HR 2757 que está pendiente ante la Cámara federal y ahí estaremos todos los penepés y estadistas identificados como republicanos o como demócratas. En este tema en el PNP no hay división alguna. Estamos todos en la misma sintonía”, señaló el gobernador.

Al ser cuestionado sobre una posible reunión con la comisionada residente Jenniffer González Colón, Pierluisi Urrutia indicó que es probable que se encuentren en su próximo viaje a Washington DC para discutir el tema del estatus en el Senado.

Anuncian proyectos de mejoras en la AAA Región Oeste POR CYBERNEWS

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ÑASCO – La Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA), tiene en diseño un proyecto para mejorar el sistema de transmisión de las aguas crudas desde el Río Grande de Añasco hasta la planta de filtros Miradero en Mayagüez con un presupuesto de 30.2 millones de dólares, informó el jueves, la presidenta ejecutiva, ingeniera Doriel Pagán Crespo.

“En el Oeste estamos desarrollando 39 proyectos que se encuentran en diferentes etapas ya sea planificación, diseño, subasta o construcción”, Pagán Crespo en declaraciones escritas.

La inversión en proyectos para la Región Oeste es de unos 650 millones de dólares. Algunos de estos proyectos están en planificación como la rehabilitación de la planta de alcantarillado sanitario de Aguada; en diseño está la rehabilitación de la planta de filtros Monte del Estado en Maricao; en subasta se encuentra

la rehabilitación de la planta de filtros Culebrinas en Aguadilla; y en etapa de construcción la toma flotante del embalse Guajataca, entre otros.

Pagán Crespo destacó “que este proyecto de mejoras al sistema de aguas crudas de Miradero se encuentra en el 30 por ciento de diseño y estaría pasando al proceso de subasta para el tercer trimestre del 2024”.

El mismo cuenta con fondos de la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés) (FAAST), CDBGDR y de la AAA. Esta obra beneficiará a 60,000 clientes en los municipios de Mayagüez, Añasco, Rincón, Cabo Rojo y Hormigueros.

“Este proyecto consiste en mejoras a la estación de bombas de aguas crudas de Río Grande de Añasco, desde mejoras arquitectónicas, civiles, mecánicas y eléctricas. De igual forma, se realizarán mejoras a la subestación eléctrica, junto a la instalación de un nuevo generador de energía”, explicó Pagán Crespo.

Cámara de Representantes analiza propuestas para eliminación de la “crudita” POR CYBERNEWS

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L CAPITOLIO – La Comisión de Hacienda y Presupuesto de la Cámara de Representantes, bajo la dirección de Jesús Santa Rodríguez, realizó el jueves una vista pública para discutir propuestas que buscan eliminar ciertos arbitrios relacionados con la “crudita”.

“De un análisis de estos tres proyectos, concluimos que es necesario ser más específicos sobre qué impuestos serán eliminados”, dijo Santa Rodríguez en declaraciones escritas.

La “crudita” se introdujo como un impuesto sobre

productos derivados del petróleo, con el objetivo de mejorar las carreteras y el transporte en Puerto Rico.

Las propuestas actuales sugieren su eliminación, argumentando que ya no cumple con su propósito original y afecta el costo de vida de los ciudadanos.

Roberto Rivera Báez, Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez y Nelson Pérez Méndez presentaron argumentos ante la Comisión. Pérez Méndez expresó preocupaciones sobre la viabilidad fiscal de las propuestas, mientras que Rivera Báez y Pantoja Rodríguez discutieron el impacto en las finanzas públicas.

Para que estas propuestas sean efectivas, necesitan

la aprobación de la Junta de Control Fiscal. En junio de 2022, la Junta anticipó que una de estas medidas podría reducir los ingresos en 533 millones de dólares anuales.

Santa Rodríguez mencionó que es crucial definir cuáles impuestos se eliminarán y si la eliminación será total o parcial. La propuesta del Senado podría resultar en una pérdida de mil millones de dólares anuales.

El legislador indicó que las medidas se enviarán a la Oficina de Presupuesto de la Asamblea Legislativa para evaluar el impacto de eliminar la “crudita” más reciente, que generó ingresos de 127 millones de dólares en 2021 y 123 millones en 2022.

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‘We’re making progress’: How the Rock Hall of Fame is trying to evolve

By BEN SISARIO

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he 38th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, bringing Kate Bush, Willie Nelson, George Michael, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Rage Against the Machine and the Spinners into pop music’s leading pantheon.

In addition, Chaka Khan, Al Kooper and Bernie Taupin will receive the musical excellence award. DJ Kool Herc and Link Wray will be inducted as influences and Don Cornelius, the “Soul Train” creator and host who died in 2012, will be honored as a nonperformer.

This year’s event comes at a pivotal moment for the Rock Hall, which has been under pressure for years to diversify its ranks, and in particular to admit more women.

While the hall is already home to pop heroines such as Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Joan Jett and Whitney Houston, overall women are woefully underrepresented, making up fewer than 100 of the nearly 1,000 inductees since 1986.

The institution’s public image problems were compounded recently when Jann Wenner, the Rolling Stone magazine co-founder who helped start the Rock Hall, spoke to The New York Times about “The Masters,” his book of interviews with stars such as Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen and John Lennon — all of them white men.

Justifying the absence of women and people of color, he said that none were “as articulate enough on this intellectual level” and did not qualify as “philosophers of rock.”

The response was harsh and immediate, including from the Rock Hall itself: The day after Wenner’s interview was published, the board of the hall’s governing foundation voted to eject him immediately.

But the effort to remake the Rock Hall has been underway for several years now, and many give credit to John Sykes, a longtime media executive who took over from Wenner as chair of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in 2020. He has pushed the hall to diversify its makeup, particularly on its nominating committee, which largely operates outside of the public eye. This year the hall even opened up its definition of rock ’n’ roll, calling it “a spirit that is inclusive and ever-changing.”

Still, change is taking time at an institution that has spent the better part of four decades heavily favoring male artists over female artists.

In an interview last week, Sykes addressed the hall’s progress so far, as well as its need for further change. He also spoke about plans for this year’s ceremony, including a surprise appearance by Olivia Rodrigo.

Here are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q: When you became chairman of the foundation, what was your mission or goal? Did you see it as an institution in need of change?

A: I saw it as an institution that, like the music,

John Sykes, a longtime media executive who took over from Jann Wenner as chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation in 2020, has pushed the hall to diversify. had to continue to evolve. Rock ’n’ roll music, since its inception in the ’50s, has constantly evolved to different sounds, different styles. But one thing it’s had in common is attitude and spirit. My top priority coming in was to remind the music community that rock ’n’ roll was not rock. It was not one sound. It was an amalgam of rhythm and blues, country and gospel created in the ’50s. And it kept evolving.

Number two, I needed to reset the board and the nominating committee to reflect those artists that we’re honoring. So we added nine new board members, four women, four African Americans. What I’m trying to do now is to update the general voting body that actually decides who gets in the Hall of Fame, to reflect the artists that are eligible. I want to make sure the voting body is young and diverse enough to really make the most educated decisions about who should be inducted.

Q: The biggest complaint has been about a relative lack of women inductees. How have you addressed that specifically?

A: What I’ve tried to do with the nominating committee is shine a light on the fact that these women and people of color have been underrecognized and need to be nominated and then inducted. So if you look at the last three years, we’ve inducted the Go-Go’s, Tina Turner, Carole King, Dolly Parton, Carly Simon, Pat Benatar. Sylvia Robinson, who started the first hip-hop label. Elizabeth Cotten, great blues player. Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Chaka Khan.

We have to do better, but we’re making progress.

Q: How do you actually make that change? How can you increase the representation of women without putting a thumb on the scale of what’s supposed to be a deliberative process?

A: It starts with the people you put on the nominating committee. We have six more members now on the committee, and we’ve been focusing on putting more women and people of color on the committee, because that’s how it starts.

Number two, we just remind them to understand the genesis of rock ’n’ roll. It doesn’t hurt to basically refresh people every year as to where this came from, and the fact that all of these sounds are to be honored.

Q: Why was it important for the board to take action against Jann Wenner so quickly?

A: This had nothing to do with Jann Wenner as a person or anything about his history. It would have happened to anyone on that board who said those things. That’s what I made clear to the entire boardroom when we discussed this. Because those things go against the heart and soul of what the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is all about. Rock ’n’ roll doesn’t know color. It doesn’t know gender. And for us to have one of our board members say that, we felt that we couldn’t do our jobs continuing with someone like that as part of our community.

Q: When you talk about the evolution of the Rock Hall and how it includes other genres, it raises the question of boundaries. Like, what isn’t it?

A: Rock ’n’ roll is what’s moving youth culture, what a 16-year-old is obsessed with. The only other qualification I would put on it is which of those artists inspired those that followed. In the ceremonies you’ll see Harry Styles, Pink, Olivia Rodrigo, Dave Matthews, Ed Sheeran come up and play. I call those Future Hall of Famers. They’re there because they’re so inspired by those artists that are getting inducted.

Olivia Rodrigo is coming in this year. Last year she got up and sang “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon. She’s going to play with Sheryl Crow this year. It’s this mutual admiration that connects the past with the present.

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Watching Britney Spears, as a girl and a woman

By AMANDA HESS

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here is a moment in Britney Spears’ new memoir when she is summoned to an MTV studio and made to review footage of strangers complaining that she was “too sexy.” Spears, then 18, had just performed at the 2000 Video Music Awards, where she had torn off a sparkly black tuxedo to reveal spangled nude pants and a spangled nude bra, and various pedestrians roving Times Square had decided that she had crossed a line.

MTV had produced the awards show and profited from Spears’ performance, but it wanted a piece of the backlash, too.

Now we could watch Britney Spears watch us critique her. She was expected to mount a defense — “What did I think of the commenters telling me I was corrupting America’s youth?” — but she did not know what she had done wrong. “All I wanted to do For 25 years, American culture has used her body to determine a woman’s worth — was sing and dance,” she writes in “The in “The Woman in Me,” Britney Spears asks us to take a second look.

Woman in Me.” “Why did everyone treat me, even when I was a teenager, like I was very hot. I could sense them dismantling conditional on their approval. They got to her, distributing her parts. The girls could decide that Britney Spears was in control. dangerous?”

The title of Spears’ memoir is a lyric have her voice, but the boys would take And they got to decide when she was out of it. from her 2001 power ballad “I’m Not a her body.

Looking back now, of course Britney In 2007, Spears again performed at Girl, Not Yet a Woman.” The song doubles as an articulation of Spears’ pop-star brand Spears does not seem dangerous. Like me, the Video Music Awards, this time someand the suspended adolescent state over she was a child. It was the intensity of the what against her will. She was newly postwhich she once ruled. But now, more than attention trained on her that was perverse. partum and fighting her ex-husband, Kevin 20 years later, it also feels like a premoni- Through her, I learned that the bodies of Federline, for custody of her infant sons. tion. First Spears was robbed of her child- women and girls had a speculative value. Her team, she writes, had pressured her hood, and then she was denied her adult- Men determined their worth. They invested to promote her new album and “show the hood. I grew up alongside Britney Spears, early, but they were always ready to with- world that I was fine.” She appeared in a and my arms still flail instantly into a dorky draw their attention and place it in some- glittery bikini and danced uneasily to her approximation of her choreography when- one new. I looked nothing like Britney song “Gimme More.”

She was, she writes, “not fine.” She ever I hear her music. All of the culture’s Spears, moved nothing like her, but I still scrambled messages live in my body some- felt like the culture was telling me: You are was exhausted, dizzy and unrehearsed. “It as valuable now as you will ever be. was less than a year since I’d had my secwhere, too.

The early coverage of Spears took ond baby in two years but everyone was When Spears’ debut single, “… Baby One More Time,” exploded like a glitter pains to emphasize her grip over her own acting like my not having six-pack abs was bomb on my middle school campus in career, and in many ways, it was true. offensive,” she writes. “I could see myself 1998, something about her did seem dan- Much of the appeal of her image was that it on video throughout the auditorium while gerous. I was 13 and skulking awkwardly was shaped by the tastes of an actual teen- I performed; it was like looking at myself in through the 8th grade. She was 16 and guts- age girl. In the book, she writes that the a fun-house mirror.”

This time her performance was ily scaling the pop charts, only pretending concept and styling of the “… Baby One to go to school in the song’s music video. More Time” video were hers. And yet there pitched not as a danger to America’s youth, When she danced down the hallway in her was also something suspicious about how but to her own children. After the show, schoolgirl outfit, she assumed command of tirelessly record executives and managers Ryan Seacrest grilled her about whether emphasized her power. It is uncontrover- she was fit to be a mother. A teen columour halls, too.

Spears arrived as the queen of girl- sial to think of boy bands like ’N Sync and nist for a Florida newspaper gave her “The hood, but she was not just for girls. The the Backstreet Boys as engineered. With Worst Mother Award.”

In 2007, I was a recent college gradboys — who were themselves expected Spears, it seemed important to insist that to project a compulsory heterosexual- she was responsible. uate. I spent many nights extending my Every time her handlers spoke of her adolescence by getting drunk and singity — quickly reached a consensus that her music kind of sucked but that she was authority, they reminded us that it was ing “Overprotected” at a karaoke bar. I

regularly embarrassed myself by dancing poorly to Britney Spears. And yet, when I watched her VMAs performance, I thought it was disastrous and amusing.

Now, as I read about the event through Spears’ book, I got hot with shame, and then I got mad. I am now, like Spears, the mother to two boys, and they are about the age that her children were when she was led onto that stage. I could once again imagine living in a body like hers — her postpartum fun-house body, the one that was proffered as sad proof that she had lost her waistline, her control and her worth.

The postpartum period is much like adolescence, with its startling physical changes and its extreme public scrutiny.

Of course Britney Spears was exhausted — she had two babies. Of course she was unrehearsed — she had two babies. When I watched the performance again recently, it played like found footage in a horror movie. I saw a new mother being forced to do a sexy dance for America, and for the quality of her performance to inform whether she got to keep her children.

In “The Woman in Me,” Spears compares herself to Benjamin Button, the literary and movie character who is born as an old man and ages in reverse. When she was a girl, she was treated as if she was dangerously mature. When she became a woman, she was infantilized. Spears had long felt like her body was public property, but when she was placed under a conservatorship administered by her father and a lawyer, not long after that performance at the VMAs, that feeling was made literal.

She was converted, she says, into a “child robot.” She became all body, no voice.

The memoir is pitched as Spears’ reclaiming of her voice. But every celebrity memoir is an act of ventriloquism: The book was ghostwritten, and its audiobook was read by actress Michelle Williams.

The most direct portal to Spears’ mind of late has been Instagram, where she posts wordless videos and pictures of herself in thongs or crop tops or in nothing at all, smiling and spinning and gyrating. In the book, she explains that after a life of being “prodded and posed for other people’s approval,” she no longer cares what they think. She reminds me of myself as a girl, dancing to a Britney Spears song in her bedroom. Her posts appear glitchy and unpolished. She looks like she’s playing around, investigating her new powers.

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‘José Campeche Painted It’

María Cristina Gaztambide, executive director, MAPR; Archbishop of San Juan Roberto Octavio González Nieves; Juan A. Larrea French, chairman of the MAPR board of trustees

By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS

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he board of trustees of the Puerto Rico Museum of Art (MAPR) and its executive director, María Cristina Gaztambide, recently invited a distinguished group of invitees to experience the exclusive opening of the exhibition “José Campeche lo Pinto,” part of the collection of the Archdiocese of San Juan.

Juan Carlos López Quintero, curator of the MAPR, explained the alliance that the museum made with the Archdiocese of San Juan to be able to showcase these impressive works of art featuring bishops and other religious and historical themes by the famous artist José Campeche. Guests were delighted to witness the 61 works of art in the collection, accompanied by texts by Arturo Dávila, historian of the

María Cristina Gaztambide, executive director, MAPR; Adlín Ríos Rigau

Archdiocese collection.

Art lovers and collectors enjoyed the masterful exhibit, while appetizers and fine wines sponsored by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company added to the Myrna Z. Pérez, development and membership director, MAPR; Judy Gordon-Conde; Jennifer Conde-Powers; Larisevent. sa Vázquez Zapata

Robi Draco Rosa, Marilinda “Monse” Rivera

Architects Jorge Rigau and Andy Rivera, president, Puerto Rico Historic Building Society

Omar J. Marrero Díaz, Puerto Rico secretary of state

Juan Carlos López Quintero, curator, MAPR

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The risks of strokes are higher for women

By KNVUL SHEIKH

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ach year, more than 6.6 million people worldwide die from strokes, and researchers caution that the incidence is increasing, especially in young and middleaged people and in low- and middle-income countries. In a report published this month, researchers predicted that stroke deaths would increase by about 50%, reaching 9.7 million deaths annually in 2050.

Strokes occur when the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the brain is cut off. This can happen when blood vessels get weak and eventually rupture under pressure, known as a hemorrhagic stroke. More commonly, clots or plaque can block blood vessels to the brain; this is known as an ischemic stroke. Both types can lead to permanent damage or death.

When people survive a stroke, they often face long-term disability, an increased risk of depression, memory problems and more. But the burden of the disease can be averted and the global disparities reduced, authors of the report said.

Many of the risk factors for stroke that are becoming more common across the globe — high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and smoking — are also easily treatable. Still, stroke risk can vary by population, and women in particular have some additional risk factors that may need monitoring.

In the United States, 795,000 people have a stroke every year, and about 55,000 more women than men will experience one. Women are also more likely to die from strokes compared with men.

Some of this higher risk can be attributed to women’s longer life expectancy, said Dr. Daniel Hermann, an interventional cardiologist at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston.

“Age is a huge risk factor for stroke,” Hermann said. As people get older, they are more likely to experience high blood pressure, high cholesterol, plaque

buildup, wear and tear of their arteries and poorer blood sugar control, all of which contribute to strokes, Hermann said.

For women, the period of biological change that occurs during perimenopause and menopause is also critical. Many women start to develop blood pressure issues during this transition. Experts believe this is because the hormone estrogen may help keep blood vessels relaxed and balance cholesterol levels. When the body stops producing estrogen, the incidence of stroke and other heart diseases goes up.

Studies confirm this link in women who experience menopause earlier than usual. Compared with women who undergo menopause ages 50 to 51, those who experience premature menopause before they turn 40, or early menopause between the ages of 40 and 44, have a 98% and 49% higher risk of stroke, respectively.

But excess estrogen, in the form of hormone therapy, may have the opposite effect. “There is data that estrogen replacement in perimenopause and menopause can increase the risk of stroke and so can progesterone,” said Dr. Marion Buckwalter, a professor of neurology and neurosurgery at Stanford University Medical Center. Research suggests the benefits of menopause hormone therapy only outweigh the risks if taken at a younger age or closer to menopause, when the hormone levels would more closely align with what your body used to produce.

Some evidence suggests that women who use certain types of hormonal birth control are also more likely to have a stroke, especially if they have high blood pressure, smoke or experience

migraines, all of which can increase risk. A few studies have suggested that women who undergo infertility treatment, and transgender women who take estrogen for gender affirmation have a higher risk of stroke as well.

Women also face unique risk factors during and immediately after pregnancy. Because the volume of blood increases during pregnancy and then rapidly reverses after a woman gives birth, her risk of blood clots also increases, Buckwalter said. If a woman gains excessive weight during pregnancy or develops preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, that can also increase her risk of clots and stroke later in life.

Black women in the United States are more likely to have a stroke than any other group of women. They also are more likely to have strokes at younger ages and to have more severe strokes. Many factors may drive this increased risk, including a lifetime of racial discrimination; poorer access to health care to manage underlying conditions; and a higher general incidence of high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and obesity, as well as genetic conditions like sickle cell anemia.

The best way to lower your risk is to start by keeping track of and treating high blood pressure. “You’d probably reduce strokes by about half if you treated all blood pressure,” Buckwalter said.

Get regular wellness exams starting in your 20s so you can catch blood pressure issues, high cholesterol or diabetes early on.

Stop smoking and aim for at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. Reduce the amount of saturated fat, trans fat and sodium in your diet to help maintain healthy blood pressure. “I usually recommend a Mediterranean diet or a DASH diet,” Buckwalter said, adding that “they have the strongest evidence of keeping people healthy and reducing not just your stroke risk, but also reducing dementia risk and cancer risk.”

Be aware of your family history of heart disease and stroke and use the American Stroke Association’s assessment form to check your risk. Talk to your doctor about alternatives to birth control pills if you are highrisk, and about closer monitoring of blood pressure during certain stages of life like pregnancy and menopause.

Starting in your 60s, it can also be a good idea to ask for an ankle-brachial index test, to check for plaque buildup in your leg arteries. And use the letters in FAST to remember warning signs of a stroke: face drooping or numbness; arm weakness; speech difficulty; and time to call 911. Getting medical help quickly can save your life and prevent serious disability.

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LIME HOMES, LTD. Plaintiff V.

SAYRA ALMODOVAR GUZMAN

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, November 3, 2023 by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023. BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

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

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

MIGDALIA ROSADO TORRES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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

WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for

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US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno identificado con el numero 4-A, radicado en la Carretera Estatal número 829, Barrio Santa Olaya del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 952.3293 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a .2423 cuerda, colindando por el Norte, con la Calle Municipal existente, en una distancia de 19.236 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad en un arco de 6.289 metros que se extiende hacia el este y otra sección de aproximadamente la mitad en otro arco de 5.498 metros que se extiende hacia el oeste; por el Sur, con el remanente, en una distancia de 17.254 metros, segregado en el caso número 89-15-I-300 BPL; por el Este, con el lote 5-A, en una distancia de 46.401 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad de un arco de 6.289 metros que se extiende hacia el Norte; y por el Oeste, con la calle Municipal, en una distancia de 34.300 metros, con la calle existente, en una distancia de 3.50 metros y una sección de aproximadamente la mitad en un arco de 5.498 metros que se extiende hacia el Norte. Recorded at page 256 of book 1520 of Bayamon, land number 66,838, Registry of the Property, Bayamon Section I. Physical Address: 2 St. A-4, Monserrate Hills, Bayamon, PR 00959. The property is affected to the following junior lien or attachment described below: Lien in favor of the Unites States against Jorge Luis Rivera Rivera, social security number xxx-xx-8980, for the sum of $4,833.16, notificacion number 792035811, annotated on June 21st, 2011, at page 50, book 3, volume 9. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, inclu-

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21 ding but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 2:45PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $155,656.00.

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

BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER.

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

EDWIN PEREZ APONTE Demandante Vs

JUSTO M. RIVAS MARTINEZ

Demandado Civil Número: CG2022CV01648.

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) JUSTO M. RIVAS MARTÍNEZ, MAYOR DE EDAD, SOLTERO Y CON DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA Y POSTAL EN CALLE ESPAÑA QA-3 URB. BAIROA, CAGUAS, PR 00727.

B) AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL LAS

PERSONAS QUE TIENEN ANOTADOS Y/O INSCRIPCIÓN, DERECHOS Y GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES A LAS HIPOTECAS QUE POR LA PRESENTE NOTIFICAMOS SU EJECUCIÓN.

CERTIFICO Y HAGO CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento con un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado, mediante giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en la Oficina de Alguaciles localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Caguas, el 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho, título, participación y/o interés que le corresponda a la parte Demandada y/o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: a. Bien inmueble a ser subastado: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cinco (5) de la manzana “C” de la Urbanización Residencial Bairoa, situada en el Barrio Bairoa del Término Municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una área superficial de trescientos sesenta y uno (361) metros cuadrados, siendo dicho solar de forma rectangular: en lindes por el NORTE, en dieciocho punto cero cincuenta (18.050) metros con el solar número seis (6): por el SUR, en dieciocho punto cero cincuenta (18.050) metros con el solar número cuatro (4); por el ESTE, en veinte (20.00) metros con el solar número dos (2) y por el OESTE, en veinte (20.00) metros con la calle Santa María. Servidumbres: Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, Autoridad de Comunicaciones y Municipio de Caguas. Se encuentra inscrita al folio ciento setenta (170) del tomo novecientos cincuenta y dos (952) finca número treinta y dos mil cuatrocientos ochenta y dos (32,482) Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. Dirección física: Urb. Residencial Bairoa Calle Santa María C5, Caguas PR, 00727. A la propiedad NO le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca: En garantía de un pagaré,

a favor del Portador, o a su or- rales para ser examinadas por den, por la suma de $12,000.00 los interesados. La propiedad de principal, intereses al Prime a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Rate. Vencedero a la presen- libre de cargas y gravámenes tación. Según la escritura #80, posteriores. Se notifica adeotorgada en Caguas, el 12 de más a todo acreedor que tenga mayo de 1989, ante el Notario inscripción con posterioridad Miguel A. Hernández Sanabria, al crédito relacionado en la inscrita al Folio 173 del tomo Sentencia antes mencionada, 952 de Caguas, Inscripción 6ta si alguno, para que puedan y última. Mandamiento de eje- concurrir a la subasta su les cución de Sentencia, de fecha conviniere o satisfacer antes 21 de noviembre de 2013, en del remate el importe del créel caso civil #EDI2011-0092, dito de sus intereses, costas y sobre Embargo, Tribunal de honorarios de abogados asePrimera Instancia, Sala de gurados, quedando entonces Caguas, para que se anote a subrogados en los derechos favor de Luz Milagros Crespo del acreedor ejecutante. Se enMontero, sobre la finca #32,482 tenderá que todo licitador acepde Caguas, Solar #5-C de la ta como bastante la titulación y Urbanización Residencial Bai- que las cargas y gravámenes roa, con cabida de 360.00 m/c. anteriores y los preferentes, si Con un valor la transacción de los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu$5,154.50. Esta venta se hará tante continuarán subsistentes para satisfacer la Sentencia del entendiéndose que el rematancaso de epígrafe que condena te los acepta y queda subroa la parte Demandada a pa- gado en la responsabilidad de gar la suma de $19,450.00 de los mismos, sin destinarse a su principal, interés al 12% anual extinción el precio del remate. comenzando el 4 de noviembre Y para conocimiento de la parte de 2012. Los intereses anuales Demandada, de los licitadores, por mora suman $2,334.00 y partes interesadas y público geel 10% del principal adeudado neral, expido el presente Edicto para costas, gastos y hono- para su publicación en un periórarios de abogado de la parte dico de circulación general en Demandante pactados en el la Isla de Puerto Rico, dos (2) contrato de hipoteca. En dicha veces por espacio de dos (2) Sentencia y en la Escritura de semanas consecutivas, con un Hipoteca se fija la cantidad de intervalo de por lo menos siete $21,395.00, como precio míni- (7) días entre ambas publicamo para adjudicar la Primera ciones, así como para su puSubasta. De ser necesaria blicación en los sitios públicos una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por correspondientes del municipio declararse desierta la primera, de Caguas, Puerto Rico. En la misma se celebrará en la Caguas, Puerto Rico hoy día Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el 17 de octubre de 2023. ÁNGEL Tribunal de Primera Instancia, GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL Sala Superior de Caguas, el PLACA #593.

4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A **** LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y LEGAL NOTICE se establece como precio míniESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO mo para dicha segunda subasDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUta la suma de $14,263.33. De NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ser necesaria una TERCERA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN SUBASTA por declararse deJUAN SALA SUPERIOR sierta la Segunda Subasta, la BANCO POPULAR DE misma se celebrará en la OfiPUERTO RICO cina de Alguaciles, sita en el Demandante V. Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, el ÁNGEL MANUEL AYALA 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A IRIZARRY, LEGNA IRIS LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y GARCÍA MATEO Y LA se establece como precio míniSOCIEDAD LEGAL mo para dicha segunda subasDE GANANCIALES ta la suma de $10,697.50. Si se declarase desierta la tercera COMPUESTA POR subasta se adjudicará la finca AMBOS a favor del acreedor por la totaDemandados lidad de la cantidad adeudada CIVIL NÚM. SJ2023CV00487 si ésta es igual o menor que SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO el monto del tipo de la tercera Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA subasta, si el tribunal lo estima POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMconveniente. Se abonará dicho PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. monto a la cantidad adeudada ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉsi ésta es mayor. Se notifica a RICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS todos los interesados que las ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO actas, y demás constancias del LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERexpediente de este caso están TO RICO. S.S. disponibles en la Secretaría del A: ÁNGEL MANUEL Tribunal durante las horas labo-

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AYALA IRIZARRY POR SI to Rico, dentro de los 10 días to. Copia de esta notificación gún Escritura 322 en San Juan, dad para ejecutar será adquiriY EN REPRESENTACION siguientes a su notificación. Y, ha sido archivada en los autos a 15 de junio de 2005, ante da libre de cargas y gravámesiendo o representando usted de este caso, con fecha 26 de Jesús Allende Ledesma, inscri- nes posteriores. Por la presente DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL una parte en el procedimiento octubre de 2023. En San Juan, ta al folio 651 del tomo 445 de se notifica a los acreedores que DE GANANCIALES sujeta a los términos de la Sen- Puerto Rico, el 26 de octubre Canóvanas, finca 9828, inscrip- tengan inscritos o anotados tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re- de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍ- ción 7ma. Bajo la Ley #216, el sus derechos sobre los bienes COMPUESTA CON solución, de la cual puede es- GUEZ COLLADO, SECRETA- 19 de octubre de 2017. La hi- hipotecados con posterioridad LEGNA IRIS GARCÍA tablecerse recurso de revisión RIA. VIRGEN Y. DEL VALLE poteca objeto de esta ejecución a la inscripción del crédito del MATEO

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 28 de agosto de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional.

F/Brenda Baez Acaba, Secretaria Servicios a Sala.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 401

AWILDA MARINA ROMAN CRUZ Demandante V.

CITIBANK N.A. Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2023CV04513.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALYSSA MARIE RIVERA RIVERA ALYSSARIVERA.LAW@OUTLOOK. COM MONICA A SANCHEZ RIVERA MSANCHEZ@PIRILLOLAW.COM

A: JUAN Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puer-

o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 25 de octubre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 25 de octubre de 2023.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 901 CIVIL

EDGAR JULIO GOMEZ RIVERA Demandante V.

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO P/C DE SUCESORES EN DERECHO DE SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORP. Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV07652.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALYSSA MARIE RIVERA RIVERA ALYSSARIVERA.LAW@OUTLOOK. COM

A: JUAN Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic-

DÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR es la que ha quedado descrita DEL TRIBUNAL. en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe LEGAL NOTICE de la misma satisfacer la senESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tencia dictada el 5 de febrero DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- de 2020, mediante la cual se NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA condenó a la parte demandada CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO- pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad adeudada ascenLINA diente a por la cantidad de ORIENTAL BANK $68,182.39 de principal con Demandante V. intereses al 5.50% anual desde VERONICA el día 1 de abril de 2019 hasta DIAZ MORALES su completo pago, cargos por Demandada demoras, más las cantidades Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03121. debidas de contribuciones e imSobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOpuestos, primas de seguro conTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNItra riesgo y seguro de hipoteca, DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PREmás la cantidad estipulada de SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., $9,327.90 para costas, gastos EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAy honorarios de abogado. La DO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PRIMERA SUBASTA será cePÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que lebrada el día 27 DE NOVIEMsuscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal BRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE de Primera Instancia, Sala de LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Carolina, hago saber a la parte Primera Instancia, Sala de CAdemandada, VERONICA DIAZ ROLINA, Puerto Rico. Servirá MORALES y al PÚBLICO EN de tipo mínimo para la misma, GENERAL; que en cumplila cantidad de $93,279.00 sin miento del Mandamiento de admitirse oferta inferior. De no Ejecución de Sentencia expehaber remate ni adjudicación, dido el 25 de agosto de 2023, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASpor la Secretaría del Tribunal, TA el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE procederé a vender y venderé 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAen pública subasta y al mejor ÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la postor pagadero en efectivo, que servirá como tipo mínimo, cheque de gerente o giro posdos terceras (2/3) partes del tal, a nombre del Alguacil del precio pactado para la primera Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad subasta, o sea, $62,186.00. Si con dirección física: Villas de no hubiese remate ni adjudiLoíza NN23 Calle 37, Canóvacación en la segunda subasta, nas PR 00729 y que se descricelebraré TERCERA SUBASTA be como sigue: URBANA: Solar el día 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE radicado en la Urbanización 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAVillas de Loíza, situada en el ÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la barrio Canóvanas del municipio que regirá como tipo mínimo, la de Loíza, Puerto Rico, que se mitad (1/2) del precio pactado describe en el plano de inscrippara la primera subasta, o sea, ción de la urbanización con el $46,639.50. El Alguacil que número, área y colindancias suscribe hizo constar que toda que se relacionan a continualicitación deberá hacerse para ción: Solar número 23 del blopagar su importe en moneda que NN con un área de 233.45 legal de los Estados Unidos de metros cuadrados. En lindes América, de acuerdo con la Ley por el NORTE, en 23.00 mey de acuerdo con lo anunciado tros con solar 22; por el SUR, en este Aviso de Subasta. Los en 10.15 metros con calle 37; autos y todos los documentos por el ESTE, en 23.00 metros correspondientes al procedicon solar 24; y por el OESTE, miento incoado estarán de maen 10.15 metros con solar 18. nifiesto en la Secretaría del TriAfecta a una servidumbre de bunal durante horas laborables. uno punto cinco metros por su Se entiende que todo licitador colindancia Norte para manteque comparezca a la subasta nimiento. Contiene una casa señalada en este caso acepta de concreto reforzado diseñada como bastante la titulación que para una familia. Finca 9828 da base a la misma. Se entieninscrita al Folio 64 del tomo de que cualquier carga y/o gra207 de Canóvanas, Registro vamen anterior y/o preferente, de la Propiedad de Carolina si la hubiere al crédito que da Sección Tercera. La finca antes base a esta ejecución continuadescrita se encuentra afecta a rá subsistente, entendiéndose, los siguientes gravámenes: (i) además, que el rematante los HIPOTECA constituida por Veacepta y queda subrogado en rónica Diaz Morales, soltera, en la responsabilidad de estos, sin garantía de un pagaré a favor destinarse a su extinción cualde Doral Bank, o a su orden por quier parte del remanente del $93,279.00, al 5.50%, venceprecio de licitación. La propiedero el 1 de julio de 2035, se-

ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante.

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

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JESSENIA IVETTE PAGAN RIVERA Demandante V.

JOSE ANTONIO MOJICA MARZAN

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CZ2023RF00009.

Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

MARIANO S. NAJERAURRIOLA MNAJERALAW@GMAIL.COM JOSE ANTONIO MOJICA MARZAN 170 E 118 ST APT 19 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, ESTADOS UNIDOS 10035 REGISTRO DEMOGRAFICO PO BOX 11854, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00910

A: REGISTRO DEMOGRAFICO, JOSE ANTONIO MOJICA MARZAN.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 30 de octubre de 2023. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 30 de octubre de 2023.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTHA E. ROSARIO ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

ORLANDO MATOS VALE

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MO2022CV00113.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZ KENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM KRISTIA M. BÁEZ NAZARIO LCDA.BAEZNAZARIO@GMAIL.COM

A: ORLANDO MATOS VALE.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o

Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de OCTUBRE de 2023.

En SAN SEBASTIÁN, Puerto Rico, el 26 de OCTUBRE de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante V.

MARTA TORRES NEGRON

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2022CV03206.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM

A: MARTA TORRES NEGRONURB LA PROVIDENCIA, 26115 CALLE LEMPIRA, PONCE PR 00728-3149.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los

términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de OCTUBRE de 2023. En PONCE, Puerto Rico, el 26 de OCTUBRE de 2023.

CARMEN G. TIRU QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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JUAN BAUTISTA SALAZAR Demandante Vs.

BARBARA PÉREZ HERNÁNDEZ

Demandada Civil Número: SJ2023RF01418.

Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: SRA. BARBARA PÉREZ HERNÁNDEZ. DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA.

Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. María Pagán Hernández, P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Podrá 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 como se explicó anteriormente. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 20 de octubre de 2023.

GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. DALIA

The San Juan Daily Star

Friday, November 3, 2023

RODRÍGUEZ ESTRADA, SE- procedente. Extendido bajo mi CRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A firma y sello del Tribunal, en SALA. Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 26 de octubre de 2023. KANELLY ZALEGAL NOTICE YAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SEDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- CRETARIA AUXILIAR. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUHIRAM NEGRON ECHEVARRIA; GARRICK NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN NEGRON ECHEVARRIA JUAN Demandantes V.

YOLANDA NEGRON ECHEVARRIA; ERWINS FELICIANO ECHEVARRIA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02954.

Sobre: ACCIÓN CIVIL - DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EUA.

A: ERWINS FELICIANO ECHEVARRIA Y CUALQUIERA PERSONA IGNORADA QUE PUEDA TENER INTERÉS EN ESTE CASO.

Por la presente se les notifica a ustedes, que se ha presentado en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, la demanda de epígrafe, en la que, en síntesis, se alega que son ustedes partes indispensables en la demanda para la división y liquidación de una participación hereditaria de la causante Yolanda Echevarria Córdoba también conocida como Yolanda Echevarría. Es abogado de la parte demandante el Lcdo. Andres J. Rodríguez Burgos, quien tiene bufete abierto en el #30 de la Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969-5650, Teléfono 787-720-9553 y se notifica a ustedes que de no comparecer a contestar esta demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes después de haberse publicado el edicto, la parte demandante podrá solicitar la anotación de rebeldía y lograr que se dicte sentencia, concediéndosele el remedio solicitado sin más sin más citarles ni oírles. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

ROBERTO DE HOYOS PAGAN

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV09188.

(505). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: ROBERTO DE HOYOS PAGAN. URB. SAGRADO CORAZON 404 CALLE SAN GENARO, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00926-4105.

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://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, Salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la cantidad adeudadas de principal de $7,903.30; más el interés legal acumulado; más $100.00 de cargos por mora los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una suma equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados según pactados. 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 Abogado Número 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy: 30

de octubre de 2023. GRISELLEGAL NOTICE DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LOYDA M. COUVERTIER RE- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA YES, SUB-SECRETARIA. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSLEGAL NOTICE TANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO TOA ALTA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR

YARISSA ENID MALDONADO SOLANO; SONIA NOEMI RIVERA ACEVEDO Demandante Vs.

MASTER MORTGAGE CORP., FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL, MAS TODO POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05899.

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

A: MASTER MORTGAGE CORP; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MAS CUAL, MAS TODO POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Lcdo. Carlos L. Segarra Matos RUA: 15,441 PO Box 582 Boquerón, P.R. 00622 Tel. (787) 851-3582 clsegarra@yahoo.com Expedido bajo mi Firma y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 25 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

ASOCIACION DE RESIDENTES FUENTE DEL CONDADO Y DEL VALLE, INC. Demandante V.

ORLANDO GARCIA ROMERO, MARISOL ALICEA AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SLG COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a) Civil: TM2010-439. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

A: ORLANDO GARCIA ROMERO, MARISOL ALICEA AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SLG COMPUESTA POR AMBOS URB. FUENTE DEL CONDADO Y DEL VALLE 27 CALLE LIRIO TOA ALTA, PR 00953.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de agosto de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 27 de agosto de 2023. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 25 de agosto de 2023.

LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

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

Demandados Civil Núm.: JA2019CV00077.

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

A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en los bienes inmuebles que se describen a continuación: LOTE “G”: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Limón del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, marcado con la letra “G” con un cabida de cuatro cuerdas setecientas sesenta y dos milésimas de otra ( 4.762 cdas), en lindes po5r el Norte, con el lote letra “H” y con terrenos de la finca [principal de donde se segrega; por el SUR, con el lote letra “F”; por el Este, con la finca principal de donde se segrega; y por el OESTE, con la Carretera Estatal Numero Ciento Treinta y Dos (132) que conduce a Ponce Peñuelas. Dirección Física: Lote “G”, Barrio Quebrada Limón, Sector Ojo de Agua, Ponce, PR. Finca número 17,899 (antes 36,961).

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

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. LOTE “H”: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Limón del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, marcado con la letra “H” con una cabida de cuatro cuerdas setecientas sesenta y dos milésimas de otra (4.762 cdas), en lindes por el Norte, con el lote letra “I”; por el SUR, con el lote letra “G”; por el Este, con la finca principal de donde se segrega; y por el OESTE, con camino público que la separa de terrenos de Alfredo Vega.

Dirección Física: Lote “H”, Ba-

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

Enclava una casa. Dirección Física: Lote “J”, Barrio Quebrada Limón, Sector Ojo de Agua, Ponce, PR. Finca número 18,171. Consta inscrita al folio 241 del tomo 1,296, hoy 540 de Ponce. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso.

C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $14,034.99 de principal, más $745.20 en intereses y otros cargos, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, y una suma equivalente al máximo por la ley aplicable para exigir el cumplimiento con el contrato, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. LOTE “G”, FINCA 17,899. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Ponce, por el tipo mínimo de $18,000.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $12,000.00. De declararse

desierta dicha segunda subasRODRÍGUEZ SALAS, ta, se celebrará una TERCERA MARITZA RODRÍGUEZ SUBASTA el día 14 DE DISALAS, DAVID CIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 1:45 RODRÍGUEZ SALAS, DE LA TARDE subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la priGLADYS RODRÍGUEZ mera, o sea, $9,000.00. LOTE SALAS Y NOEL “H”, FINCA 17,900: LA PRIRODRÍGUEZ SALAS; MERA SUBASTA se celebrará DEPARTAMENTO DE el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO 2023 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARRICO DE, en la Oficina del Alguacil Demandados del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Ponce, por el tipo mínimo Civil Núm.: IS2023CV00111. de $18,000.00. De declararse (601). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE desierta dicha subasta se cele- GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUbrará una SEGUNDA SUBAS- BASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS TA el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENDE 2023 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNITARDE en el mismo lugar an- DOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOtes mencionado. El precio para CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 SS. partes del precio mínimo de la A: PÚBLICO EN primera, o sea, $12,000.00.

GENERAL. De declararse desierta dicha El Alguacil del Tribunal que sussegunda subasta, se celebra- cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. rá una TERCERA SUBASTA Que en cumplimiento del Manel día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE damiento que me ha sido dirigi2023 A LAS 2:15 DE LA TAR- do por la Secretaria del Tribunal DE subasta lo será 1/2 del de Primera Instancia de Puerto precio mínimo de la primera, Rico, Sala de Aguadilla, en el o sea, $9,000.00. LOTE “J”, caso de epígrafe, venderé en FINCA 18,171: LA PRIMERA pública subasta y al mejor posSUBASTA se celebrará el día tor de contado y en moneda de 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 curso legal y corriente de los A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, en Estados Unidos de América la Oficina del Alguacil del Tri- y cuyo pago se efectuará en bunal de Primera Instancia de efectivo, giro postal o cheque Ponce, por el tipo mínimo de certificado a nombre del Al$14,000.00. De declararse de- guacil del Tribunal de Primera sierta dicha subasta se celebra- Instancia, todo derecho, título rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el o interés que tenga la Parte día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 Demandada en el bien inmueA LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE en ble que se describe a continuael mismo lugar antes mencio- ción: URBANA: Barrio Mora de nado. El precio para la segunda Isabela, Puerto Rico. Solar: 74 subasta lo será 2/3 partes del de la Urbanización Brisas Del precio mínimo de la primera, Mar. Cabida: 351.8866 metros o sea, $9,333.33. De decla- cuadrados. Linderos: por el rarse desierta dicha segunda NORTE, con una (1) alineación subasta, se celebrará una TER- de 22.42 metros lineales con el CERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE solar número 75; por el SUR, DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS con una (1) alineación de 27.84 2:45 DE LA TARDE subasta lo metros lineales con el solar núserá 1/2 del precio mínimo de mero setenta y tres (73); por el la primera, o sea, $7,000.00. ESTE, con una (1) alineación Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y de 11.00 metros lineales, con la para su publicación en un pe- calle número cuatro (4); por el riódico de circulación general y OESTE, con una (1) alineación por un término de catorce (14) de 18.10 metros lineales con días en los sitios públicos con- la Sucesión Villanueva. Enclaforme a la ley, expido la presen- va una estructura de concreto te bajo mi firma y sello de este diseñada para fines residentribunal, hoy 27 de octubre de ciales para una familia. Inscri2023 en Ponce, Puerto Rico. ta al tomo Karibe de Isabela, MIGUEL A. TORRES AYALA, Registro de la Propiedad de ALGUACIL PLACA #560.

Puerto Rico, Sección Aguadilla, finca número 32,043. Dirección fisica: Lot. #74, Urbanización ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Brisas del Mar, Isabela, Puerto DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Rico, 00662. B. Que los autos NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA y todos los documentos corresSALA SUPERIOR DE AGUA- pondientes al procedimiento DILLA incoado están de manifiesto BANCO POPULAR DE en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables PUERTO RICO bajo el epígrafe de este caso.

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS C. Que se entenderá que todo ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas SALAS, COMPUESTA y gravámenes anteriores y los POR: ANGEL MIGUEL preferentes, si los hubiere, al RODRÍGUEZ SALAS, crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose NANCY MINERVA que el rematente los acepta

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24 y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $107,168.76, más intereses acumulados a razón del 4.5% anual, desde el 1 de agosto de 2015, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de $126.00 por cargos por mora, más la suma de $89.75 en conexión con la cuenta de reserva, más la suma de $12,046.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 16 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Aguadilla en la oficina ubicada en el sótano al final del pasillo, por el tipo mínimo de $120,460.00.

De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $80,306.67. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $60,230.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 30 de octubre de 2023 en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. CAROL CHALMERS SOTO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL.

Rico, a 24 de octubre de 2023. deberá presentar su alegación y se dictará Sentencia conceFULANA DE TAL COMO pudien la participación que les DE SERVICIOS A SALA. CRISTINA CORDOVA PONCE, responsiva en la secretaría del diendo el remedio solicitado en corresponda en la herencia de POSIBLES HEREDEROS LEGAL NOTICE (FIRMADO)JUEZ SUPERIOR”. tribunal. Se le apercibe que de la demanda, sin más citarle ni Angel López Alicea. Los coDESCONOCIDOS DE demandados miembros de La ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Se le advierte que, si no com- usted no presentar su alega- oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI LA SUCESION ANGEL Sucesión de Angel López Ali- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- parece al Tribunal en el presen- ción responsiva a la Demanda FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, cea, se incluyen en la deman- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA te caso, enviando copia de su dentro del referido término, el en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy LÓPEZ ALICEA, A (Nombre de las partes que se le da enmendada ya que como CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBO- posición a la abogada del De- Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia 26 de octubre de 2023. SARALAS SIGUIENTES notifican la sentencia por edicto) mandante, la Lcda. Lizannette en rebeldía en su contra y con- HÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETAherederos responden por las NITO SALA SUPERIOR DIRECCIONES: (A) EL SECRETARIO(A) que susMorales Crespo, PO Box 5272, ceder el remedio solicitado en RIA. TANIA I. MÉNDEZ, SEcargas de la herencia según lo GERARDO PMB 308 SUITE 112 100 cribe le notifica a usted que el Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel. la demanda, o cualquier otro, CRETARIA AUXILIAR. dispuesto en Nuestro OrdenaILDEFONSO MELENDEZ 20 de octubre de 2023, este GRAND BLVD PASEOS miento Jurídico. Se les aperci(787) 945-5233, dentro del tér- si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de Demandante V. LEGAL NOTICE Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, SAN JUAN, PR 00926; (B) be y notifica que, de no expremino de treinta (30) días a par- su sana discreción, lo entienHILDA ILDEFONSO Sentencia Parcial o Resolución tir de la publicación, se dictará de procedente.

EXTENDIDO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO sarse dentro de ese término de BDA. ISRAEL #127 CALLE en este caso, que ha sido debi30 días en torno a su acepta- MELENDEZ, EDILBERTO Sentencia concediendo el re- BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFRANCIA, SAN JUAN, PR damente registrada y archivada o repudiación de herencia, ILDEFONSO MELENDEZ, medio solicitado sin más citarle Tribunal, hoy día 24 de octubre NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA 00917; (C) URB. VENUS ción en autos donde podrá usted ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉ- SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAla herencia se tendrá por acepNILSIA ILDEFONSO GARDENS #1745 (V-28) tada. También se les apercibe enterarse detalladamente de y sello del Tribunal en Aibonito, REZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE MÓN MELENDEZ, ROSA los términos de la misma. Esta CALLE JUPITER SAN que luego del transcurso del Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de GUZMÁN PABÓN, SUB-SEPENTAGON FEDERAL MARGARITA ILDEFONSO 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ CRETARIA. notificación se publicará una término de 30 días antes seJUAN, PR 00926.

CREDIT UNION ORTIZ, CARMEN sola vez en un periódico de RIVERA, SECRETARIA. NATAPor la presente se le(s) noti- ñalado contados a partir de la Demandante Vs. LEGAL NOTICE circulación general en la Isla LAURA ILDEFONSO LIA BURGOS MALDONADO, fica que se ha radicado en la fecha de la notificación de la JOHN DOE Y JANE de Puerto Rico, dentro de los SUB-SECRETARIA. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ORTIZ, EDNA MARIA Secretaría de este Tribunal presente Orden, se presumirá DOE COMO POSIBLES 10 días siguientes a su notificaDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL que han aceptado la herencia una Demanda Enmendada en ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, LEGAL NOTICE ción. Y, siendo o representando Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución del causante y, por consiguienTENEDORES GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA usted una parte en el procedi- de Hipoteca por la vía ordina- te, responden por las cargas MAYRA LUZ ILDEFONSO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA DESCONOCIDOS DEL miento sujeta a los términos ria en contra de La Sucesión de dicha herencia conforme el ORTIZ, SHEYSA DAVILA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUBENJMAÍN PAGARE EXTRAVIADO de la Sentencia, Sentencia de Angel López Alicea, en la Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, ILDEFONSO, KELVIN NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Demandados AUSUA COLLAZO Parcial o Resolución, de la cual cual se alega que adeuda a 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE AGUAGADIEL DAVILA Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05495.

Demandante Vs puede establecerse recurso de la parte demandante por con- la parte demandante a que, en DILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE ILDEFONSO Y SUCESION Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE NEREIDA CANDELARIA revisión o apelación dentro del AGUADILLA cepto de hipoteca la suma de vista de que La Sucesión de PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMLIGIA ILDEFONSO ECHEVARRÍA término de 30 días contados a $165,158.61 por concepto de Angel López Alicea, se incluye LCDO. MOISES PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. MELENDEZ, COMPUESTA Demandada partir de la publicación por edicprincipal, desde el 1ro de mayo a los herederos y herederos RODRIGUEZ TORRES Civil: AU2023RF00012. Sobre: ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉto de esta notificación, dirijo a de 2023, más intereses al tipo desconocidos de Angel López POR ANGEL VALENTIN RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE Demandante Vs DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREusted esta notificación que se pactado de 5.75% anual que Alicea denominados Fulano SIERRA, SANDRA LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ELIZABETH MARRERO; PARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENconsiderará hecha en la fecha continúan acumulándose hasta y Fulana De Tal, proceda a VALENTIN ILDEFONSO LARRY DOE, MARY DOE, TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de la publicación de este edic- el pago total de la obligación. notificar la presente Orden DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Y LOIDA VALENTIN to. Copia de esta notificación Además La Sucesión de Angel mediante publicación de un MIKE DOE Y LUCY DOE UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL A: JOHN DOE Y ILDEFONSO; JOHN DOE PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAha sido archivada en los autos López Alicea adeuda a la parte edicto a esos efectos una sola Demandados Demandados JANE DOE COMO de este caso, con fecha 24 de demandante los cargos por de- vez en un periódico de circulaCivil Núm.: AG2023CV01449. DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LICivil Núm.: AI2023CV00264. Sobre: octubre de 2023. En Aguadilla, INCUMPLIMIENTO BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO POSIBLES TENEDORES mora equivalentes a 4.00% de ción diaria general de la Isla de Salón: 003C-LEY 246. Sobre: DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE RICO, SS. Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre DESCONOCIDOS DEL la suma de aquellos pagos con Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza ACCIÓN CONTRADICTORIA DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉA: NEREIDA atrasos en exceso de 15 días y requiere que dentro de los PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. REZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE calendarios de la fecha de ven- sesenta (60) días siguientes a DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTA- POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNICANDELARIA POR LA PRESENTE se le DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PREGUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETAcimiento; los créditos acceso- la publicación de este edicto ECHEVARRÍA. HC-58 emplaza para que presente al RIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. rios y adelantos hechos en vir- excluyendo el día de la publica- PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE BOX 13295, AGUADA, PR Tribunal su alegación responsitud de la escritura de hipoteca; ción de este edicto conteste(n) va a la demanda dentro de los LEGAL NOTICE DO DE P.R., SS. 00602.

ASOCIADO DE PUERTO y las costas, gastos y honora- la demanda radicando el origitreinta (30) días a partir de la POR LA PRESENTE, se le emA: NILSIA ILDEFONSO RICO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO rios de abogado equivalentes a nal de la contestación en este publicación de este edicto. En plaza para que presente al triDE PUERTO RICO TRIBUMELÉNDEZ. A: ELIZABETH $17,673.90. Además La Suce- Tribunal y enviando copia de la dicha demanda se reclama la bunal su alegación responsiva NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA sión de Angel López Alicea se Contestación de la Demanda El Tribunal Superior de Puerto cancelación un pagaré otorgaMARRERO; LARRY DOE, a la demanda dentro de los 30 CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN comprometió a pagar una suma a las oficinas de CARDONA & Rico, Sala de Aibonito dictó la MARY DOE, MIKE DOE Y do el 11 de noviembre de 2008, días de haber sido diligenciado JUAN SALA SUPERIOR equivalente a $17,673.90 para MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, siguiente providencia: “Vista ante el Notario Osvaldo Toleeste emplazamiento, excluyénLUCY DOE. ORIENTAL BANK cubrir cualquier otro adelanto P.S.C. ATENCION al Lcdo. la solicitud para la orden de do Martínez, a favor de PENPOR LA PRESENTE se le nodose el día del diligenciamienque se haga en virtud de la es- Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, emplazamiento por edicto, y COMO AGENTE DE TAGON FEDERAL CREDIT tifica que la parte demandante to. Usted deberá presentar su critura de hipoteca y una suma P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, cónsono con las Reglas de UNION, por la suma principal SERVICIO DE THE ha presentado ante este Tribualegación responsiva a través Rico 00936-6221; Tel Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el de $70,000.00, con intereses MONEY HOUSE, INC. equivalente a $17,673.90 para Puerto del Sistema Unificado de Manal Demanda de incumplimien(787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 625- Tribunal ordena que se cite por

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Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESION DE ANGEL LOPEZ ALICEA COMPUESTA POR ANGEL LOPEZ BAEZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO LEGAL NOTICE POSIBLES HEREDEROS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADE RECAUDACION DE DILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES AGUADILLA SALÓN DE SE(CRIM) SIONES SALÓN 601 CIVIL MILTÓN CONCEPCIÓN VÉLEZ Demandante V.

WILLIAM CALVENTE CONCEPCIÓN Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AG2023CV00923.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. HÉCTOR JAVIER CARDONA MUÑIZ LCDO_CARDONA@YAHOO.COM

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Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV09314.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A La Parte CoDemandada: FULANO Y

cubrir cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 232, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de agosto de 2018, ante el notario Carlos Martínez Olmo, de la finca número 14,030, inscrita al Folio 100 del Tomo 348 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta.

Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o re-

7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el periodo de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello de!

Tribunal. DADA hoy 31 de octubre de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA

edicto a la Codemandada Nilsia Ildefonso Meléndez. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a) (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndoseles que de no hacerlo se les anotará la rebeldía sin más citarles ni oírlos. Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida de aquello Codemandados de quienes se desconoce su paradero. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada en Aibonito, Puerto

to de contrato y cobro de dinero contra usted, solicitando el pago de $22,425.00 a la parte demandante de epígrafe; más el pago de costas, gastos y una suma no menor de $5,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogados. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuya información se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Moisés Rodríguez TorresR.U.A. Núm. 17201 P.O. Box 1661, Isabela, Puerto Rico, 00662 Tel / Fax: (787) 872-1277 moisesrod2001@gmail.com Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto 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

nejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https;// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La abogada de la parte demandante es: LCDO. JOSEPH BROCCO SANTIAGO P. O. BOX 608 PEÑUELAS, PR 00624 Tel. 787-836-3020 Email: lcdo.joseph.broccosantiago@hotmail.com Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se le anotará la rebeldía

al 5.625% anual y otros créditos accesorios. Para garantizar el pago de dicho pagaré se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria mediante la escritura número 77, otorgada el 11 de noviembre de 2008, ante el Notario Osvaldo Toledo Martínez sobre el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Santa Elena situado en el Barrio Pájaros de Bayamón, marcado con el número 4 de la manzana “A” con un área de trescientos sesenta y dos metros cuadrados con setenta y cuatro centímetros (362.74 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con los solares veinticinco (25) y veintinueve (29) “A”, en una distancia de catorce metros cinco centímetros (14.05 m); por el SUR, con la Calle Nueve (9), en un arco de doce metros y ochenta y siete centímetros (12.87 m); por el ESTE, con el solar cinco (5) “A”, en una distancia de veintisiete metros

The San Juan Daily Star (27.00 m); y por el OESTE, con el solar tres (3)“A”, en una distancia de veintisiete metros (27.00 m). Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia.” Inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 956 de Bayamón Sur, finca 42914, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La hipoteca antes mencionada consta inscrita al folio 4988 del tomo 1965 de Bayamón Sur, finca 39553, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I, inscripción 7ª. 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: http://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su 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.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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dad de Carolina, Sección II. La CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR RELICTOS, CENTRO ANETTE CHIMELIS, FULANO DE TAL, DE RECAUDACIÓN DE hipoteca consta inscrita al folio EDICTO. JOSÉ F. GIRD MEJÍAS 156 del tomo 1486 de Carolina, FULANA DE TAL, INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Finca 17741, Registro de la JGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM SUTANO DE TAL, A, B Y (CRIM) A: EVELYN Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Parte Demandada II. Inscripción quinta. La moC COMO HEREDEROS TORRES PAGAN. Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02307. dificación de hipoteca consta (Nombre de las partes que se le DESCONOCIDOS DE LA notifican la sentencia por edicto) (404). Sobre: COBRO DE inscrita al tomo Karibe de CaSUCESION. EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: AMNERY PEÑA MEDINA, POR SÍ Y COMO HEREDERA DE IRMA VIRGINIA MEDINA VARGAS T/C/C IRMA V. MEDINA VARGAS T/C/C IRMA MEDINA VARGAS A SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA: VILLA CAROLINA, 54-18 CALLE 50, CAROLINA, PR 009855507.

FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE IRMA VIRGINIA MEDINA VARGAS T/C/C IRMA V. MEDINA VARGAS T/C/C IRMA MEDINA VARGAS.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $76,366.04 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.625% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2023 hasta su comLEGAL NOTICE pleto pago, más $774.56 de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO recargos acumulados, los cuaDE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- les continuarán en aumento NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA hasta el saldo total de la deuda, SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO- más la cantidad estipulada de $7,474.00 para costas, gastos LINA BANCO POPULAR DE y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que PUERTO RICO contenga el contrato del préstaParte Demandante Vs. mo, incluyendo pero sin limitarLA SUCESIÓN DE IRMA se a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos VIRGINIA MEDINA “corporate advances”. La proVARGAS T/C/C IRMA piedad que garantiza hipoteV. MEDINA VARGAS cariamente el préstamo es la T/C/C IRMA MEDINA siguiente: URBANA: Solar #18 VARGAS COMPUESTA de la manzana 54 radicado en POR FULANO Y la Urbanización Villa Carolina, Barrio Hoyo Mulas de CaroliMENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS na, Puerto Rico, con área de 318.00 metros cuadrados. En DESCONOCIDOS, lindes por el NORTE, con el AMNERY PEÑA MEDINA solar #19 distancia de 24.00 POR SÍ Y COMO metros; por el SUR, con el solar #17, distancia de 24.00 HEREDERA DE IRMA metros; por el ESTE, con la VIRGINIA MEDINA #50, distancia de 13.25 VARGAS T/C/C IRMA V. calle metros; por el OESTE, con los MEDINA VARGAS T/C/C solares números 14 y 15 de la IRMA MEDINA VARGAS, manzana 53 distancia de 13.25 metros. En dicho solar enclava DEPARTAMENTO una casa de cemento para una DE HACIENDA POR familia. Inscrita al folio 81 del CONDUCTO DE LA tomo 440 de Carolina, Finca DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES 17741, Registro de la Propie-

rolina, Finca 17741, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Inscripción octava.

La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción.

Se interpela a los herederos para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento al Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 2787 entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy, 24 de octubre de 2023, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MYRIAM I. FIGUEROA PASTRANA, SUBSECRETARIA.

cribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 24 de octubre de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2023. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 101 SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE JOSE CHIMELIS SANCHEZ COMPUESTA POR ANETTE CHIMELIS, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, A, B, Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y OTROS

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 26 de octubre de 2023. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 26 de octubre de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JANETTE GONZÁLEZ VARGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

LA SUCESIÓN DE LOS FINADOS GERMAN SANCHEZ VELEZ Y DOLORES PITRE RUIZ COMPUESTA POR RICARDO SANCHEZ PITRE, WANDA I. SANCHEZ PITRE, JANE DOE, JOHN LEGAL NOTICE DOE (HEREDEROS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Demandado(a) DESCONOCIDOS); LA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- Caso Núm.: CI2023CV00040.

SUCESION DEL FINADO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO EDGARDO SANCHEZ CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYA- - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA PITRE COMPUESTA POR MAYAGÜEZ SALÓN DE SE- POR EDICTO. MARY DOE (HEREDEROS MARICELI PEREZ GONZALEZ SIONES SALÓN 303 DESCONOCIDOS), NOTIFICACIONES@ PHILIP RANDAL ARK GARCIACHAMORRO.COM ESTADO LIBRE Demandante V. MELISA FIGUEROA CASTRO ASOCIADO DE PUERTO EVELYN TORRES PAGÁN MELISA.FIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM RICO Y CRIM Demandado(a) A: SUCESION DE JOSE

Caso Núm.: CB2023RF00038.

Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICA-

CHIMELIS SANCHEZ COMPUESTA POR

Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00348.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

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Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 14 de marzo de 2022, expedido en el Centro Judicial de Arecibo, en el Caso Civil número AR2022CV00348, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra la Sucesión de Germán Sánchez Vélez compuesta por Dolores Pitre Ruiz por si y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria; Jane Doe y John Doe (herederos desconocidos); Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y CRIM, por la suma de $39,097.80 mas intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 25 de marzo de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 18,519, Anotación A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 22 de mayo de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización San Felipe, situada en el Barrio Hato Bajo del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: número del solar 5 de la manzana K, con una cabida superficial de 345.60 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con los solares K-6 y K-7, en una distancia de 25.34 metros, por el SUR, con el solar K-4, en una distancia de 25.30 metros, por el ESTE, con el solar K-9, en una distancia de 12.33 metros y por el OESTE, con la calle

número 11, en una distancia de Alguacil que suscribe. El pre15.00 metros. Enclava casa de cio mínimo para la TERCERA concreto para una familia. La SUBASTA será de $28,500.00, propiedad consta inscrita en la equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) Finca número 18,519, inscrita del tipo mínimo estipulado para al folio 14576 del tomo 952 de la PRIMERA subasta. Si se Arecibo, Registro de la Propie- declarase desierta la tercera dad de Puerto Rico, Sección I subasta, se adjudicará la finca de Arecibo. La hipoteca cons- a favor del acreedor por la totata inscrita en la Finca número lidad de la cantidad adeudada 18,519, inscrita al folio 145 del si ésta es igual o menor que tomo 952 de Arecibo, Regis- el monto del tipo de la tercera tro de la Propiedad de Puerto subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima Rico, Sección I de Arecibo. El conveniente; se abonará dicho producto de la subasta se des- monto a la cantidad adeudada tinará a satisfacer al deman- si esta es mayor, todo ello a dante hasta donde alcance, la tenor con lo dispone el Articulo SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 el día 9 de noviembre de 2022, de diciembre de 2015 conocida en el presente caso civil, a sa- como “Ley del Registro de la ber la suma de $39,097.80 de Propiedad Inmueble del Estado principal, más intereses al tipo Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. convenido al 6.000% anual, La propiedad a ser ejecutada desde el día 1 de noviembre se adquiere libre de toda carga de 2019, hasta su total y com- y gravamen que afecte la menpleto pago, más la cantidad de cionada finca según el Artículo $5,700.00 para costas, gastos y 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirhonorarios de abogado que la mada la venta judicial por el Hoparte demandada se obligara norable Tribunal, se procederá a satisfacer como suma liqui- a otorgar la correspondiente da y sin necesidad de nueva escritura de venta judicial y se liquidación y aprobación por pondrá al comprador en poseeste Tribunal, más la cantidad sión física del inmueble de conque se adeuda mensualmente formidad con las disposiciones a partir del día 1 de diciembre de Ley. Para conocimiento de de 2019, por concepto de las la parte demandada y de toda partidas enumeradas en el pá- aquella persona o personas rrafo primero de las Determi- que tengan interés inscrito con naciones de Hechos, más los posterioridad a la inscripción cargos por demora, más cua- del gravamen que se está ejelesquiera otros adelantos que cutando, y para conocimiento se hagan en virtud de la escri- de todos los licitadores y el tura de hipoteca. La venta de la público en general, el presente referida propiedad se verificará Edicto se publicará por espacio libre de toda carga o gravamen de dos (2) semanas consecutique afecte la mencionada finca, vas, con un intervalo de por lo excepto el gravamen preferen- menos siete días entre ambas tes aquí antes mencionado. La publicaciones, en un diario de adjudicación se hará al mejor circulación general en el Estado postor, quien deberá consignar Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico el importe de su oferta en el y se fijará además en tres (3) acto mismo de la adjudicación, lugares públicos del Municipio en efectivo (moneda del curso en que ha de celebrarse dicha legal de los Estados Unidos de venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el América), giro postal o cheque Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les certificado a nombre del algua- informa, por último, que: a. Que cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA los autos y todos los documenSUBASTA se llevará a efecto tos correspondientes al proceel 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 dimiento incoado estarán de A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, manifiesto en la secretaría del en la oficina del referido Al- tribunal durante las horas laguacil, localizada en el Centro borables. b. Que se entenderá Judicial de Arecibo, Arecibo, que todo licitador acepta como Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí- bastante la titularidad y que las nimo fijado para la PRIMERA cargas y gravámenes anterioSUBASTA es de $57,000.00. res y los preferentes, si los huQue de ser necesaria la ce- biere, al crédito del ejecutante lebración de una SEGUNDA continuarán subsistentes. Se SUBASTA, la misma se llevará entenderá, que el rematante a efecto el día 13 DE DICIEM- los acepta y queda subrogado BRE DE 2023 A LAS 9:00 DE en la responsabilidad de los LA MAÑANA, en la oficina an- mismos, sin destinarse a su tes mencionada del Alguacil extinción el precio del remate. que suscribe. El precio mínimo EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy será de $38,000.00, equivalen- día 24 de octubre de 2023. tes a dos terceras (2/3) partes ALGUACIL EFRAÍN CARDOdel tipo mínimo estipulado para NA VEGA, ALGUACIL PLACA la PRIMERA subasta. Que de #050, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASser necesaria la celebración TAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA de una TERCERA SUBASTA la INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR misma se llevará a efecto el día DE ARECIBO. 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LEGAL NOTICE LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

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EDWIN RODRIGUEZ RAMOS Demandante V.

EMI EQUITY MORTGAGE INC Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2023CV00223.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LIZBET AVILÉS VEGA LIZBET_AVILÉS@YAHOO.COM

BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandante V.

HILDA MARIA TORRES BLONDET T/C/C HILDA TORRES BLONDETT Y OTROS

ANDRES CAJIGAS Demandado(a) GONZALEZ, HAYDEE Caso Núm.: CA2023CV00032.

ROMAN MARTINEZ Y LA Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOSOCIEDAD LEGAL DE TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA BIENES GANANCIALES POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA COMPUESTA POR MCOLON@WWCLAW.COM AMBOS, EDUARDO A: HILDA MARIA TORRES ROBLES CARRILLO, BLONDET T/C/C HILDA CARMEN DEISY TORRES BLONDETT, VELEZ ROMAN Y LA HILDA MARIA TORRES SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BLONDET T/C/C BIENES GANANCIALES HILDA MARIA TORRES COMPUESTA POR BLONDETT. AMBOS, SUTANO, (Nombre de las partes que se le MENGANO Y FULANO notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que susDE TAL

A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES cribe le notifica a usted que el Demandado(a) TENEDORES Y Civil Núm.: UT2023CV00088. 21 de septiembre de 2023, este CUALESQUIER PERSONA Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, DESCONOCIDA CON PAGARÉ. NOTIFICACIÓN DE Sentencia Parcial o Resolución POSIBLE INTERES EN SENTENCIA POR EDICTO en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada LA OBLIGACION CUYA ENMENDADA. A: SUTANO, MENGANO en autos donde podrá usted enCANCELACION POR terarse detalladamente de los Y FULANO DE DECRETO JUDICIAL SE términos de la misma. Esta noTAL - DIRECCION SOLICITA. tificación se publicará una sola (Nombre de las partes que se le DESCONOCIDA. vez en un periódico de circula-

notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 26 de octubre de 2023. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 26 de octubre de 2023.

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ción general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 27 de octubre de 2023. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 27 de octubre de 2023.

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ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

CITIBANK, N.A. Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2023CV00755.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN JMONTALVO@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.

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EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 30 de octubre de 2023. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de octubre de 2023.

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AGUADA EMERALD FIELDS CANNABIS WELLNESS CENTER, LLC. Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AU2022CV00284.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN CARLOS TORO SEPÚLVEDA JUANCARLOS_TORO@YAHOO.COM

A: NATALIA ALBERTORIO RIVERA, WILFREDO ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los

10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 20 de septiembre de 2023. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 20 de septiembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ERIKA CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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DANIEL ANDRES BOTELLO TIBAQUIRA

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2023RF00499.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 27 de octubre de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 27 de octubre de 2023.

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Gustavo Torres Decos, por sí; Desimar de Soto Torres, por sí; la Sociedad de Gananciales compuesta por ambos Demandante V.

Doral Financial Corporation h/n/c H.F. Mortgage Bankers; FirstBank; Fulano de Tal, Sutano de Tal, posibles tenedores desconocidos del pagaré extraviado

Demandante V.

MUNICIPIO DE SAN JUAN; QBE OPTIMA INSURANCE COMPANY H/N/C QBE SEGUROS, (HOY) OPTIMA SEGUROS; S.P. MANAGEMENT CORPORATION; MAC DEVELOPMENT, CORP; METROPOLIS APARTMENT GP, INC.; UNIVERSAL INSURANCE COMPANY; THE GOLDMAN SACHS REALTY MANAGEMENT, LLC.,; AIG INSURANCE COMPANY PUERTO RICO; METROPOLIS APARTMENTS, LLC; CORPORACIÓN X; ASEGURADORAS “A, B y C”; JOHN DOE y JANE ROE

Demandados CIVIL NUM: BY2023CV04660.

SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE Demandados LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV07075.

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Salón: (801). Sobre: DAÑOS DE PUERTO RICO. SS. Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTAA: FULANO DE TAL DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, SUTANO DE TAL PRESIDENTE DE LOS Posibles tenedores del EL EE.UU. DE AMÉRICA, EL ESpagaré extraviado TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE o sea, la parte demandada PUERTO RICO.

Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268, y sus correos electrónicos son: alejandro@bellverlaw.com y evelian@bellverlaw.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de octubre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional.

Yesenia Bey Betancourt, Subsecretaria.

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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TA2023CV00917.

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

A: ISRAEL ROGELIO GORDON DAMIAN. URBANIZACIÓN arriba mencionada.

A: CORPORACIÓN POR LA PRESENTE se le emESTANCIAS DE SAN “X”; ASEGURADORAS plaza para que presente al tri“A, B y C”; JOHN DOE y MIGUEL, SOLAR 3 CALLE bunal su alegación responsiva 2, TOA ALTA, PR 00953; JANE ROE. dentro de los 30 días de haberURB. TOA ALTA HEIGHTS, Quedan emplazados y notifise publicado el emplazamiento por edicto, excluyéndose el día cados que en este Tribunal se F-51 CALLE 6, TOA ALTA, de la publicación. Usted debe- ha radicado Demanda sobre PR 00953-4220. rá 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.ramaiudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro de! 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. Esta acción es de Cancelación de pagaré extraviado. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal , en Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de septiembre de 2023. Lcda. Laura I Santa Sanchez, Sec Regional II. F/Sara Rosa Villegas, Sec Tribunal Conf I.

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daños y perjuicios en la que se solicita a este Honorable Tribunal que condene a los demandados de pagar solidariamente a la Demandante, las sumas alegadas en la presente causa de acción que surgen de la demanda, más la suma adicional por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, 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 se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. Los abogados de la parte demandante son el Lcdo. Alejandro Bellver Espinosa y la Lcda. Evelian Del Rocío Suárez Rodríguez, cuya dirección física y postal es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz

Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Amalyn Figueroa Nieves, Sec Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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With gold medal win, Adriana Díaz qualifies for World Cup in Japan

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driana Díaz won her second gold medal in table tennis at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile on Wednesday, rallying to beat Bruna Takahashi of Brazil, 4-3 in the women’s singles final.

With the victory, the 23-year-old from Utuado, who was ranked 11th in the world going into the continental competition, was awarded points qualifying her for the Table Tennis World Cup to be held in Nagoya, Japan in December.

Díaz rallied from a 2-3 deficit, winning the last two sets.

The final tally was 9-11, 14-12, 11-3, 8-11, 8-11, 11-9, 11-7.

“I nevertheless can not believe that,” Díaz said after her victory. “At one point in the match I thought she was slipping out of my hands. Bruna was playing amazing. A strategy she had never tried with me. Lots of effect, very slow. In the end, I said ‘Adriana, it’s now or never.’ I focused. Concentrate. My dad kept telling me to keep going. I caught up with her at some point.”

The two opponents shared a long and tearful embrace after the match, their 30th. Díaz holds a 19-11 advantage in her rivalry with the 23rd-ranked Takahashi.

Adriana Díaz, left, shares an emotional embrace with Bruna Takahashi after their table tennis women’s singles final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile on Wednesday. Díaz, of Puerto Rico, rallied to defeat her Brazilian opponent, 4-3, for the gold medal.

“If I didn’t win here I wouldn’t qualify for the World Cup,” Díaz added. “It was something that was always on my mind. I

didn’t say it, obviously. It was something that was always with me. It was either you win here or you don’t qualify among the best 16 for the World Cup. I didn’t want to miss the World Cup. I wanted Puerto Rico to be there. It has been one of the best years of my career. I’m happy to be back in the Top Ten. Now let’s continue.”

As previously reported, Díaz has now won seven medals all-time at the Pan Americans, the most ever by a Puerto Rican athlete.

Grappler Cruz wins bronze for Puerto Rico’s 11th medal Puerto Rican wrestler Darian Toi Cruz won medal No. 11, a bronze, for Puerto Rico on Wednesday in Santiago, in the 57-kilogram freestyle category.

Cruz advanced to the semifinals after beating Guatemalan Edwin Segura 4-0, but lost 8-2 against American Zane Richards. In the bronze medal match, Dominican Juan Ramírez did not appear due to injury, automatically awarding the medal to Cruz.

Meanwhile, Jonovan Smith was denied a medal after a 7-6 defeat against Argentine Catriel Muriel in the 125-kilo category. Shane Jones finished in ninth place at 74 kilos after falling 11-5 to the Honduran Luis Barrios.

Bobby Knight, basketball coach known for trophies and tantrums, dies at 83

By BRUCE WEBER

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obby Knight, one of college basketball’s signature coaches and a singular personality renowned for his tempestuousness and hubris, qualities that helped bring him to the pinnacle of his sport and also tainted his success, died Wednesday at his home in Bloomington, Indiana. He was 83.

His death was announced in a statement on his website.

It did not give a cause.

Mercurial and volatile, Knight was among the most polarizing characters in American sports. He was a brilliant coach who sought out intelligent players, deployed a ferocious manto-man defense, extolled the virtues of precision passing and preached the necessities of boxing out, rebounding and neverending hustle. Known as a principled perfectionist and a master teacher, he was also a driven competitor for whom losing was agony and a relentless motivator whose chief tool, it often seemed, was the anger-fueled rant.

He began his coaching career at the U.S. Military Academy and finished it at Texas Tech University. He coached the U.S. men’s basketball team to an Olympic gold medal in 1984.

But he found fame, glory and notoriety at Indiana University, where he was head coach for 29 years. An animated courtside stalker in a Hoosier-red sweater who became a statewide celebrity in a basketball-mad state, he raised the Indiana program to the national top tier while upholding academic standards — most of his players graduated — and avoiding the payfor-play recruitment scandals that bedeviled many other schools.

Over two consecutive seasons, 1974-75 and 1975-76,

his teams won 63 of 64 games. In March 1976, when Indiana won the NCAA tournament, finishing the season at 32-0, it became the seventh — and last — national champion with a perfect record. From 1971-72, his first season at Indiana, through 1999-2000, Knight’s Hoosier teams averaged almost 23 wins a season, winning 11 Big Ten titles and, in 1981 and 1987, two more national championships, before he was fired by a university administration exasperated by his displays of incorrigibility.

Sportswriter Frank Deford wrote that Knight was “a prodigy in search of proportion.” Broadcaster Bob Costas once referred to him as “college basketball’s raging bull,” and, indeed, the Indiana coach made a trademark of iconoclasm and defiance of decorum, deriding officials at top volume and hounding his players to the brink of abuse.

He cooperated with many an interviewer but clashed frequently with members of the news media, scorning especially those beat reporters whose basketball knowledge he found wanting. Although he was a voracious reader, especially of military history, and often encouraged students to focus on “the book” rather than “the ball,” he was not above disparaging the whole print enterprise: “All of us learn to write in the second grade,” he once said. “Most of us go on to greater things.”

His foul mouth was renowned: “In the course of a day, he describes an incredible number of things being done to the derrière: It’s burned, chewed out, kicked, frosted, blistered, chipped at, etc.,” Deford wrote in Sports Illustrated in 1981.

During the 1985-86 season, perhaps to counteract his reputation as media-unfriendly, Knight gave sports writer John Feinstein remarkable access for a book, “A Season on the

Brink,” that revealed Knight’s detail-oriented preparation for games, the standards he set for his players and the grueling workouts he put them through. It also revealed his popularity throughout Indiana and his charitable deeds. But it became a bestseller largely because of the profanity and fury in its pages.

Todd Jadlow, a forward on the 1987 championship team, wrote in a 2016 memoir that, among other things, Knight cracked a clipboard over his head, squeezed his testicles and made players run laps while barking like dogs. But Jadlow stayed in the Indiana program and, after he wrote the book, told ESPN, “I still have a lot of respect for him and look at him as a father figure.”

Still, over the years, Knight’s demands and personality drove more than a few players from Indiana. Sports Illustrated reported in 1976 that one former recruit, Mike Miday, quit the team, telling his student newspaper, “I deserved better than to be treated as an object and demeaned in public,” and adding, “I’m terrified of the guy.” In 1997, Jason Collier left Indiana, telling The Springfield News-Sun in Ohio that he couldn’t adapt to Knight’s style. He explained, “I tried different tactics — blocking out the yelling, like people told me to do — but when people yell at you, you take notice.”

But belligerence and volatility were not Knight’s only defining characteristics. He was a principled recruiter, and among his many demands on players was that they attend class. Players, friends and writers noted that he could be gracious, charming, charitable and playful. He was articulate as well, often in his own defense:

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“I don’t think there’s an official in the country who knows as much about basketball as I do,” he said in a Playboy interview in 1984 about his rough treatment of the referees. “Not even close. Or as much as any other coach knows. And when I’ve got a complaint, I want it listened to. I’ve seen an official not watch for traveling. I’ve seen him watch the flight of the ball instead of the shooter’s hand afterward — whether or not he gets hit. I think that basketball officiating is tough, but I don’t think there are very many officials who know how to watch logically from one to two to three to four to five in a given position on the floor.

And when I see somebody violate the logical progression of what he should be looking for, then I’m going to let him know about it.”

Many of Knight’s coaching colleagues considered him not just a genius coach but an exemplary human being. His former players include All-Americans and successful pros such as Kent Benson, Quinn Buckner, Mike Woodson (a former head coach of the New York Knicks) and Hall of Fame guard Isiah Thomas, many of whom have spoken of a love-hate relationship with their coach while they played for him but an enduring admiration afterward.

In a 2022 interview with the “Run It Back” podcast, Thomas recalled his youthful disagreement with Knight’s authoritative methods but added that, as a Black athlete, he became aware that many schools used “the athlete for his physical body but never try to develop his mind.” That was not the case under Knight at Indiana, he said, adding, “Coach Knight had the courage — key word ‘courage’ — to coach me and not try to be my friend.”

Low points in behavior Time after time over his long career at

MLB PLAYOFFS World Series

(Best-of-7) Friday, Oct. 27 Game 1: Rangers 6, Diamondbacks 5 (11 innings) Saturday, Oct. 28 Game 2: Diamondbacks 9, Rangers 1 (series tied 1-1) Monday Game 3: Rangers 3, Diamondbacks 1 Tuesday Game 4: Rangers 11, Diamondbacks 7 Wednesday Game 5: Rangers 5, Diamondbacks 0 (Texas wins series 4-1)

Bobby Knight embraces Mike Krzyzewski after Duke played a game at Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 15, 2011.

Indiana, Knight embroiled himself in controversy.

In 1979, as the coach of the American team at the Pan American Games in Puerto Rico, Knight was ejected from the first game for arguing with the referees. At a subsequent practice, he was involved in a fight with a San Juan police officer over the entry onto the practice court of a Brazilian women’s team 15 minutes before the allotted time. Although witnesses claimed the officer was at fault, Knight was arrested and charged with assault. After the Americans won the final over Puerto Rico, he cursed his opponents within earshot of reporters, saying that “their basketball is a hell of a lot easier to beat than their court system” and adding, with a profanity, that the only “thing they know how to do is grow bananas.” He left the island before his trial, at which he was convicted in absentia of assault and sentenced to six months in jail. Indiana refused to extradite Knight, who never served the sentence.

The incident did not disqualify Knight from representing the United States at the Olympics in 1984, but the American Olympic Committee appointed him over the objections of many, including the governor of Puerto Rico, Carlos Romero Barceló, who wrote to the committee that Knight “set in 1979 a shameful example both in terms of personal conduct and in terms of civic responsibility.”

Indiana’s 1984-85 season started with promise, but by mid-February, the team’s fortunes had declined and Knight was beside himself. As Sports Illustrated reported: “He was good cop one day, bad cop the next. He kicked the team out of practice; he ran them until they vomited. Sometimes, he grabbed fistfuls of jersey when yelling at players; other times he remained silent for the entire halftime.”

On Feb. 23, Indiana played host to Purdue, and Knight snapped. Five minutes into the game, Indiana was trailing. Having been given a technical foul, Knight picked up a chair and flung it onto the court, sending it skidding into a row of spectators sitting cross-legged on

the floor under the basket. No one was hurt, but Knight was ejected and suspended for a game, and the video of the incident became celebrated testimony of one of sport’s most famous meltdowns.

In 1988, Connie Chung of NBC News interviewed Knight for a show about how people working in high-pressure environments handled stress. Knight’s response was this: “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.”

Evidently realizing the inflammatory nature of his remark, he added: “That’s just an old term that you’re going to use. The plane’s down, so you have no control over it. I’m not talking about that, about the act of rape. Don’t misinterpret me there. But what I’m talking about is, something happens to you, so you have to handle it — now.”

Knight later said that the informal nature of the interview up to then led him to think that his statement was off the record and that after he made it, he asked that it be kept off the broadcast. In his autobiography, “Knight: My Story,” written with sports editor Bob Hammel, he disparaged Chung as a journalist and compared her unfavorably with other female television reporters.

The incident that led to Knight’s dismissal at Indiana occurred in a practice in 1997 during which Knight grabbed a player, Neil Reed, by the throat and seemed to choke him.

A video surfaced in 1999, and the university president, Myles Brand, suspended Knight for three games, fined him $30,000 and put him on a zero-tolerance policy.

Seven months later, a 19-year-old student called out to him in passing, “What’s up, Knight?” The student said Knight grabbed him roughly by the arm and cursed him for not using an honorific, Coach Knight or Mr. Knight.

Knight claimed he had touched the student’s arm lightly, did not curse and was merely trying to impress upon him respect for his elders and, apparently without recognizing the irony, the need for “manners and civility.” Even so, that was the tipping point. Offered the opportunity to resign, Knight would not, and Brand fired him.

A quick rise to Division I Robert Montgomery Knight was born in Massillon in northeast Ohio, on Oct. 25, 1940, and grew up in nearby Orrville. His father, Carroll, whom everyone called Pat, worked for the railroad. His mother, Hazel, was an elementary-school teacher. He was close to his maternal grandmother, Sarah Henthorne, who lived with the family and taught him to drive.

A natural athlete who excelled in all sports, Knight, who was 6-foot-1 in junior high school, started on the Orrville High School team as a freshman and was the star as a senior (by then he was 6-foot-4), leading the team to

the state playoffs.

At Ohio State, Knight was a lesser player on a great college squad; the Buckeyes won the national championship when he was a sophomore. The coach, Fred Taylor, became one of Knight’s role models, and, after graduation and a year as a high school assistant, Knight took Taylor’s advice and enlisted in the Army in order to become an assistant coach at West Point. After two years, Knight was promoted, becoming, at 24, the youngest Division I head coach in the country.

He was immediately successful, going 102-50 in six seasons at Army. In 1970, he moved to Indiana, where he took over a program that had been intermittently strong — Indiana won the national championship in 1940 and 1953 — but won only one Big Ten title in the previous decade, shared with Michigan State. Under Knight, Indiana won or shared seven of the next 13. In 1975 and 1976, he was the Associated Press national coach of the year. (He won the award for a third time in 1989.)

Exile from Indiana When Knight was fired, he claimed he did not deserve it, and his bitterness at Brand, who died in 2009, and the Indiana administration never abated. He belittled his successor, Mike Davis. He did not return to campus, despite many invitations, for 20 years.

By then, Knight had retired, having spent 6 1/2 moderately successful seasons, including three NCAA tournament appearances, at Texas Tech in Lubbock, where the spotlight rarely found him. He resigned in February 2008, in the middle of the season. Knight finished his career as the coach with the most wins in college basketball, 902 (including three by forfeit); he is now sixth. Mike Krzyzewski, the longtime coach at Duke who played for Knight at West Point, is currently the all-time leader, with 1,202 wins.

Knight married Nancy Falk, whom he grew up with in Orrville, in 1963. They divorced in 1985. He married Karen Vieth Edgar, a former high school basketball coach, in 1988. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.

In the 25th-anniversary edition of “A Season on the Brink,” John Feinstein wrote: “His good qualities are so good. His bad qualities are so bad. If I had a dollar for every time someone told me a story about encountering Knight and finding him gracious and charming and funny, I would never have to work another day in my life. If I also had a dollar for every time I’ve been told a story about Knight being a bully or being rude and obnoxious, I’d be Bill Gates.”

He added, more succinctly, “There just isn’t anyone like Knight — for better and worse.”

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(Mar 21-April 20)

Depressing news about the state of the world economy or stock market could have you feeling gloomy and wondering about your financial future. Don’t worry. The world economy is in pretty good shape and you should be, too.

Equity in property investments could be down, but they should recover shortly. Go with the flow and don’t believe everything you read or hear.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

You’ve been doing well financially. You want to do better, but you might feel temporarily discouraged. It seems you have to keep working harder to keep up the pace. This is more the result of low biorhythms than any true assessment of your situation. Today you might have to work a little harder, but you’ll get the results you want.

Tomorrow will then be easier on you.

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(May 22-June 21)

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(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

A close friend or romantic partner might not seem communicative today and you might wonder whether this person still cares for you.

He or she is experiencing a few difficulties, perhaps involving money, and so isn’t particularly good company. Listen if your friend wants to talk, but otherwise just be there. That’s what is important anyway.

Do you have a garden or some houseplants that seem a little droopy? Don’t worry about whether or not they’re all going to die. Revive them! You might feel that some things are more trouble than they’re worth. Give yourself space to be gloomy for a while and then perk yourself up.

Buy yourself a present.

Cancer

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(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Today you might think you look awful and perhaps want to go out and change your whole look. Buy some new clothes and go for a workout. Even though you probably look pretty good, these activities make you feel good and increase your self-confidence. Your self-image is proportionate to your state of mind. You might just feel a bit down now.

Today you might feel unloved even though there’s no real reason for it. Your relationships should be pretty strong, but your biorhythms are down so you might be lacking in self-confidence. Phone a close friend and get together.

Go shopping or to a movie and raise your spirits. By the end of the day you’ll feel like your old self again!

Today close friends, a love partner, or children may appear to be in a quiet, melancholy mood.

You might wonder if you’ve done something to cause it, but it probably has very little to do with you, if anything. Responsibilities could be weighing on everyone, including you. The only answer is to pitch in and take care of business.

Then treat yourselves afterward!

Plans to get together with friends tonight could be delayed by responsibilities. It won’t stop you but it will mean getting together a little later. Someone close to you might feel a little down and seek a sympathetic ear. Try to get this person to forget his or her insecurities and see the situation as it is.

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(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Home responsibilities may increase markedly today, leaving you feeling like you’re the only member of the household getting anything done.

You might give in to gloom, but don’t dwell on it for too long. You will feel a lot better if you pitch in and take care of whatever needs to be done and then treat yourself by going out to celebrate.

Go to a movie, or better yet, a concert.

You might have to work just a little harder to make money now. This might involve putting in extra time on a task, or it could simply mean that you have to make a few extra trips to the bank.

Artistic insights might not be coming as profusely as usual, but this is all right. Relax and let things be, and the ideas will start coming again.

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Hurry up and wait is today’s phrase. A visit from a close friend, love partner, or colleague might be delayed, perhaps because of something regarding money or possibly the arts. It keeps you trapped waiting, unable to go anywhere. At times like this, it’s best to distract yourself. Find something to do that engrosses you and the time will go by more quickly.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

A delay in receiving acknowledgment of some sort could happen today. This might be disappointing, but don’t let it get you down. You’ll receive it, just maybe not on time! This isn’t a good day to execute any legal contracts or start a vacation. It’s a great day to take care of mundane tasks. Get busy!

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Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

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Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

For Better or for Worse

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