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City, Marrero Díaz met again with representatives from S&P and Moody’s.

So far this year and in collaboration with the oversight iscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority Executive Director Omar Marrero Díaz led a delegation of officials board, significant steps have been taken to restructure what from the Puerto Rico government’s fiscal team to New York remains of the debt, including a third debt adjustment plan for City to hold meetings with the credit rating agencies Standard the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority that would restructure about $9 billion and is still being elucidated in federal court. In & Poor’s (S&P) and Moody’s, it was announced Monday.

Joining Marrero Díaz in the delegation Treasury Secretary addition, the work of private companies contracted to operate, Francisco Parés Alicea; Labor and Human Resources Secretary improve and maintain electricity distribution and transmission Gabriel Maldonado González; Office of Management and assets in the case of LUMA Energy, and more recently the genBudget (OMB) Executive Director Juan Carlos Blanco Urrutia; eration assets under Genera PR, continues, the fiscal team said.

Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) Executive Director Likewise, recovery efforts from the fiscal crisis have generFermín Fontanés Gómez; and Office for Recovery, Reconstruc- ated positive comments from Fitch Ratings, as well as the federal tion and Resilience Executive Director Manuel Laboy Rivera. Government Accountability Office, with reports highlighting One of the conditions for the Financial Oversight and the reduction in total debt by almost 60% and progress in the Management Board to be dissolved is for Puerto Rico to be able publication of financial reports of the Puerto Rico government, among other achievements, the officials said. to return to the markets with good credit ratings.

Fontanés Gómez of the P3A said the island government “During meetings with credit rating agencies, we provided a detailed update on efforts to restructure what remains is seeking to promote its economic development by securing of the government debt, promote economic development and private capital for public projects through the public-private discipline in financial management, and eventually regain ac- alliance model to execute large-scale transformation projects, cess to capital markets,” Marrero Díaz said. “In addition, an as well as contribute to restructuring and fiscal stability of the update was provided on the sustained economic growth that island.

“This has not only strengthened Puerto Rico’s position Puerto Rico has had over the past two years and 10 months.”

This is the third session of meetings that the government’s and credibility in the markets, but has also confirmed that we fiscal team has held with the accreditation houses. On Feb. are a ripe destination for investment opportunities,” Fontanés 14-16, similar presentations were made to representatives of Gómez added. “It is important that Puerto Rico continues to S&P, Moody’s and Fitch Ratings in Miami. Additionally, dur- promote the investment appetite that is already on the table. ing the PRNOW investment event held last May in New York Eyes are on the island.”

Meanwhile, Parés Alicea presented to the representatives of the accrediting houses the results of the Treasury Department’s efforts to increase collections and improve financial transparency by integrating more technology.

“Income continues to be greater than expenditures and we anticipate that the government’s finances will continue to be stable,” he said. “We present the results of work that ensures a healthy cash flow to meet all our obligations. In addition, we are on our way to issuing the financial statements for the year 2022. The prudence, discipline and control that we have practiced as a government, without a doubt, is yielding good results.”

Blanco Urrutia, meanwhile, provided an update on the OMB’s efforts to improve government operations and fiscal responsibility.

“The OMB is responsible for maximizing the utilization and performance of all the resources we have available, including federal funds,” he said. “Examples such as the Public Service Reform and the IDEAR project in the Department of Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority Executive Education reflect how we are responsibly prioritizing areas of great importance using existing tools.”

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PIP, MVC won’t appeal ruling banning political coalitions to top court

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he Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) and the Citizen Victory Movement (MVC by its Spanish initials) announced Monday they will not appeal to the commonwealth Supreme Court a ruling making it illegal for different political parties to form coalitions.

The PIP and MVC are interested in reaching agreements on candidacies that have the support of both communities. To those ends, they legislatively and judicially challenged provisions of the Electoral Code approved before the 2020 election that prohibit coalitions of common candidates.

“Efforts to get the Legislative Assembly to repeal the ban on common candidates were unsuccessful,” the political parties said.

“Neither the NPP legislative minority, originally responsible for the ban, nor the current PDP legislative majority in the House and Senate, which had promised to repeal the 2020 code, gave way to the proposal to repeal the ban.”

The two parties then jointly appealed to the judiciary so that, in exercising its responsibility as guardian of the Constitution, it would invalidate the ban as contrary to the fundamental constitutional rights of the two

parties and their candidates, their members, and the general electorate.

“These are fundamental rights such as freedom of political association, the constitutional rights of all political parties, the right to vote, freedom of expression, and the prohibition of political discrimination that violates equal protection under the law,” they said.

The Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeals both refused to invalidate the ban on a coalition of candidates.

“The latter accepted our arguments regarding the justiciability of the lawsuit and recognized that both the plaintiff parties and the candidates Juan Dalmau and Manuel Natal pursue legitimate and valid objectives,” the parties said. “But since, in an uncertain future, other people could have illicit purposes, the Court of Appeals validated the prohibition imposed by the two political parties that have taken turns in the exercise of government power for decades, to the detriment of the rights claimed by the parties that threaten their control of legislation, the government and the electoral apparatus.”

The lawyers who represented the PIP are Carlos Iván Gorrín Peralta, Arturo Hernández González and Juan Mercado Nieves. Representing the MVC were José J. Lamas Rivera, Jorge

Puerto Rican Independence Party Sen. Juan Dalmau Farinacci Fernós, María de Lourdes Guzmán, Alejandro Torres Rivera and Yanira Reyes Gil. “After a careful analysis of the ruling handed down by the Court of Appeals on August 30, 2023, the legal team reports that the leaders of both parties have accepted its recommendation not to appeal to the Supreme Court to review the decision,” the parties said.

“Even if an unlikely favorable decision were achieved from [the high] court in favor of the

PIP and the MVC, there would be no time left to make it a reality. The electoral calendar has already begun to run. All political parties and their members have begun internal processes so that in less than two months the candidacies for all positions that will be subject to election next year will be formalized.”

The PIP and MVC will now have to concentrate their efforts on the identification of candidates, on agreements on those candidacies that will have the support of both communities within the rigid demands imposed by current legislation, and on the political strategies so that the electorate can realize what the three branches of the government of Puerto Rico have refused to make viable, the parties said.

“Neither the ruling of the Court of Appeals nor the prohibition of allied candidates will prevent the progress of the talks to forge an alliance that offers the country an electoral option to transcend the NPP-PDP rotation,” they said.

Attorneys Juan Dalmau Ramírez and Manuel Natal Albelo will soon make an announcement on the results of the efforts to provide the electorate with viable options that change the island’s current course, the parties added.

SEC adds online voter registration option

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he latest public service office in Puerto Rico to adopt an online approach to make things easier for citizens, the State

Elections Commission (SEC), unveiled at a press conference on Monday its new technological system, the ElectronicVoter Registry (eVR), with which the voter will be able -- from anywhere and in real time -- to carry out their electoral transactions electronically.

“Times move forward and push us to modernize and streamline electoral processes,” said Jessika Padilla Rivera, the SEC interim chairwoman. “With the help of technology, we intend to provide voters with direct access that allows them to have an easy, safe and direct way to carry out electoral procedures without the need to visit a board of permanent registration.”

Now, from any electronic device, voters will be able to register and update their electoral records. Registering in the new eVR system is very easy, Padilla Rivera was quick to point out. She said voters will only need to have an email address, and complete and provide the information and required documents. The voter will receive a response once their request has been processed and approved.

“With the eVR we give absolute power to the voter, converting their electoral registration into their property,” Padilla Rivera said. “We urge you to keep an eye on the SEC social networks and the portal cyber www.ceepur. org, where we will be providing information on how to use this new technological system.”

The official stressed that the new system is not a replacement in terms of the current system and how it works, but rather an additional tool to add to the SEC’s arsenal.

“This doesn’t mean that individuals won’t be able to transfer and change data on their electoral cards the traditional way, it’s just an extra tool,” she said.

Aníbal Sanbrana, deputy director of the Office of Information Systems and Electronic Processes (OISEP) added: “We have taken all of the precautions to make sure that all data is well protected, all of the servers are well protected. We are confident that voters’ data will not be breached.”

In other words, voters should not be worried about cyberattacks, and the officials insisted on the system’s reliability.

“Our systems … will have the capacity to withstand the volume of people who are going to use it,” OISEP Director Eduardo Nieves said. “While right now we don’t expect a high demand, our systems are prepared for when demand does come.”

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Puerto Rico receives $800 million for infrastructure

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia participated in the signing of two agreements Monday between the Housing Department and the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) as well as with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA). With a joint investment that exceeds $800 million from mitigation funds, both agreements seek to strengthen critical infrastructure and guarantee the well-being of the population in different regions of the island.

“Our administration is maximizing the use of federal mitigation funds … to carry out public works that impact the quality of life of our people while preventing future damage in the event of hurricanes, earthquakes, or some other type of emergency,” the governor said. “The first One of the two projects, an exhaustive renovation of agreement is between the Housing Department and PREPA the Patillas dam, will improve strategic infrastructure and is related to the seismic renovation of the Patillas Dam. that serves some 100,000 citizens.

The Department of Housing has set aside $558 million of CDBG-MIT funds to cover all matching required for FEMA The governor added that the project will improve mitigation projects. The improvements to the Patillas Dam strategic infrastructure that serves some 100,000 citizens. will be carried out in two phases over seven years.”

“The Department of Housing is also signing an agreement with the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority to support the Water Supply Improvement Project -- Bauta Southern Region,” Pierluisi said. “This project impacts the towns of Villalba, Juana Díaz, Ponce, and Coamo, which receive their drinking water supply from both groundwater wells and surface sources. Additionally, the expansion of the Toa Vaca Treatment Plant or the construction of a new water treatment plant in that area, as well as new pipelines for the areas currently served by groundwater wells, are under study.”

Island Housing Secretary William Rodríguez Rodríguez noted that “these two important agreements with PRASA and PREPA address two instances of utmost importance for a large sector of our citizens.”

“The mitigation funds that are being allocated for these projects, specifically, come to address situations that may occur in the future and thus mitigate damage,” he said.

“At the same time, we are turning our island into a more resilient one. Under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program we will continue to attend to other important projects that we will soon announce.”

APPU wins union vote to represent UPR faculty

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he Puerto Rican Association of University Professors (APPU by its Spanish initials) took 97 percent of the vote in an election held last week to become the union representing faculty at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR).

“After 63 years of fighting for the recognition of our right to organize collectively, today the UPR teachers’ union is born,” said APPU President María del Mar Rosa Rodríguez, a professor at the UPR Cayey Campus, in a written statement.

Rosa Rodríguez emphasized the importance of the milestone and thanked the professors for exercising their right to vote and supporting the APPU. “It is thanks to all that committed faculty that today we

can organize collectively and work for the university toward a future that we deserve, that students deserve and that the country deserves,” she said.

Rosa Rodríguez stressed that the election marks only the beginning of the relationship between the newly formed union and the UPR. “Now we will begin to work on the draft of that first UPR teachers’ collective [bargaining] agreement and then sit down to negotiate,” she said. “We will do it in a participatory and inclusive way and we have all the know-how for the development of the agreement.”

A celebration of the union victory has been scheduled for Friday, Dec. 8, with additional details to be made available on the APPU website.

The vote marks the beginning of the relationship between the newly formed faculty union and the University of Puerto Rico.

Senate votes to include Vieques in environmental preservation fund

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arolina District Sen. Marissa “Marissita” Jiménez Santoni announced on Monday the approval of Senate Bill 571, which includes the offshore island municipality of Vieques as a participant in the Permanent Fund for the Environmental Preservation of Culebra.

“I thank my fellow senators for endorsing this initiative that brings justice to the residents of the island municipality of Vieques,” said Jiménez Santoni, who authored the bill. “When the Fund was created, it was done under the premise that Culebra is

unique, butVieques also has its unique tourist charms. It is time for both island municipalities to benefit from the scope of this law.”

Law 293-2004, better known as the “Permanent Fund for the Environmental Preservation of Culebra Law,” established a permanent fund to finance environmental preservation and maintenance work in Culebra, thus making possible a permanent alternative to allow, among other things, a payment source for the disposal of solid waste generated by the thousands of visitors to the small island municipality.

The bill to include Vieques in the fund passed unanimously (22 votes in favor and none against) in session last Thursday.

In the evaluation of the measure, Vieques Mayor José Corcino Acevedo said “indisputably, our island of Vieques has ample reasons for its ecological integrity to be conserved and protected, just as the legal framework through Law 293-2004, supra, already protects the island of Culebra.”

“Therefore, Vieques and Culebra, including their keys and surrounding waters, require a recurring source of economic resources that is destined to annually pay for all the studies, work, expert personnel and expertise necessary to achieve the aforementioned ecological conservation of our natural resources,” the mayor said.

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Puerto Rico at center of revived team Trump attack ads against DeSantis in Iowa

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and SHANE GOLDMACHER

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he super PAC supporting Donald Trump will begin airing an attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Iowa, a shift in strategy after months of focusing its messaging on its likely general election opponent.

It will enter the rotation as part of an ad buy totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars by the group Make America Great Again, which supports Trump. It aims to paint DeSantis, with less than three months before the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, as insufficiently conservative, by accusing him of supporting statehood for Puerto Rico.

It marks a change in approach by the super political action committee, which abandoned negative ads about DeSantis at the start of this past summer. The group shifted to focusing on the likely general election opponent, and attacking President Joe Biden, beginning in August, a move that might appeal to some primary voters but that also sent the message that Team Trump saw DeSantis as a fading threat.

DeSantis’ team took something of a victory lap over the existence of the ad, with Andrew Romeo, a spokesperson, saying it showed that “after months of pounding their chest that they already had the race won, Team Trump is now being forced to publicly admit that Ron DeSantis is climbing in Iowa, and is a dire threat to their chances of securing the nomination.”

Romeo described a litany of problems such as the southern border crisis and the war in the Middle East and said that amid all of it, “Team Trump inexplicably has decided to level false and hypocritical attacks on Ron DeSantis … about Puerto Rico.”

An official with the super PAC declined to comment on the ad.

Trump’s team appears to be trying to crush DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, speaks at the First in the Nation Leadership Summit in Nashua, N.H. on Oct. 13, 2023. (John Tully/The New York Times) in the state where he has turned his focus in the remaining weeks before the caucuses. And the fresh attacks are coming as he tries to stave off Haley, pushing him into a two-front political battle with reduced resources.

“Liberals have a plan to make Puerto Rico a state, adding two Democrats to the Senate, and Ron DeSantis sided with the liberals’ power play,” the ad says. “Ron DeSantis sponsored the bill to make Puerto Rico a state.”

It ends by saying, “DeSantis sided with the liberals and sold out Iowa conservatives. Ron DeSantis is just plain wrong.”

The topic of statehood for Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory since 1898, has been politically charged for years,

with many Republicans opposing it, suggesting it would help Democrats electorally. As a congressman, DeSantis, along with several other members, co-sponsored a bill that did not openly call for statehood for Puerto Rico, but laid out a path by which it could be accomplished. DeSantis’ state has a number of Puerto Rican constituents, and his support for an effort to explore a pathway to statehood was politically resonant in Florida.

The ad comes as DeSantis is fending off the threat of movement in the state by Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, after DeSantis had held steady in second place for months, though well behind Trump.

DeSantis’ team pointed to a statement Trump gave in early 2016, as a first-time candidate, in which he also supported a process for Puerto Rican statehood.

But since then, and during his presidency, Trump was adamantly opposed to statehood, primarily after officials in Puerto Rico criticized his performance in response to Hurricane Maria.

DeSantis has also been critical of Puerto Rican statehood more recently, and in starkly political terms.

In a recent virtual event with voters in the Virgin Islands, which is holding its primary in February, DeSantis was asked about whether he would support territories gaining a voice in the Electoral College.

“Well, how would the Virgin Islands vote for president — would they be red or blue?” he said to laughs, according to a recording of his remarks.

“I don’t want to pony up three electoral votes for the other team.”

He later added: “People are Americans and they should be treated as equal citizens. How that works with the Electoral College, you know, I’m not sure that there’s going to be necessarily a movement on that front.”

Businessman-Army vet throws his hat into the ring for mayor of Cidra

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usinessman Lisando “Saso” Morales Vázquez announced Monday that he will seek to become the new mayor of Cidra in November 2024, under the banner of the New Progressive Party (NPP).

MoralesVázquez, a U.S. Army veteran, plans to file his candidacy on Friday, Nov. 17 at NPP headquarters.

The 47-year-old said he decided to run for mayor based on the hundreds of complaints he hears on a daily basis.

“Really, our Municipality of Cidra is starring in one of the worst moments in its history,” he said.

“Right now, sadly, it has very big needs: services for our seniors, they have shrunk or, at worst, disappeared.”

“And in terms of the so-called economic development, the municipal government does not maximize our internal tourism,” MoralesVázquez added. “In other

words, it is focusing only on the area of gastronomy …”

The mayoral hopeful added public safety as another area of need, pointing out that, currently, “our municipality only has five law enforcement officers.”

Morales Vázquez, who has 21 years of experience in the field of telecommunications and as a Recreation and Sports fDepartment director in the Guayama Region, said he regrets very much that “the current mayor, of the Popular Democratic Party, Ángel David Concepción González, does not know how to do anything other than give free rein to his improvisation.”

“Cidra is not a laboratory experiment, nor is it a project of any science fair,” he said. “Our commitment is to be a town mayor, not merely a mayor. We want to work hand in hand with people, listen to their concerns and address them immediately. … Cidra is eager for a change of command now!”

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Biden to issue first regulations on artificial intelligence systems

By DAVID E. SANGER and CECILIA KANG

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resident Joe Biden was to issue an executive order Monday outlining the federal government’s first regulations on artificial intelligence systems. They include requirements that the most advanced AI products be tested to assure they cannot be used to produce biological or nuclear weapons, with the findings from those tests reported to the federal government.

The testing requirements are a small but central part of what Biden, in a speech scheduled for Monday afternoon, is expected to describe as the most sweeping government action to protect Americans from the potential risks brought by the huge leaps in AI over the past several years.

The regulations will include recommendations, but not requirements, that photos, videos and audio developed by such systems be watermarked to make clear that they were created by AI. That reflects a rising fear that AI will make it far easier to create “deepfakes” and convincing disinformation, especially as the 2024 presidential campaign accelerates.

The United States recently restricted the export of high-performing chips to China to slow its ability to produce so-called large language models, the massing of data that has made programs like ChatGPT so effective at answering questions and speeding tasks. Similarly, the new regulations will require companies that run cloud services to tell the government about their foreign customers.

Biden’s order will be issued days before a gathering of world leaders on AI safety organized by Britain’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak.

On the issue of AI regulation, the United States has trailed the European Union, which has been drafting new laws, and other nations, like China and Israel, that have issued proposals for regulations. Ever since ChatGPT, the AIpowered chatbot, exploded in popularity last year, lawmakers and global regulators have grappled with how AI might alter jobs, spread disinformation and potentially develop its own kind of intelligence.

“President Biden is rolling out the strongest set of actions any government in the world has ever taken on AI safety, security and trust,” said Bruce Reed, the White House deputy chief of staff. “It’s the next step in an aggressive strategy to do everything on all fronts to harness the benefits of AI and mitigate the risks.”

The new U.S. rules, some of which are

President Biden is set to issue an executive order on Monday outlining the federal government’s first regulations on artificial intelligence systems. set to go into effect in the next 90 days, are likely to face many challenges, some legal and some political. But the order is aimed at the most advanced future systems, and it largely does not address the immediate threats of existing chatbots that could be used to spread disinformation related to Ukraine, the Gaza Strip or the presidential campaign.

The administration did not release the language of the executive order Sunday, but officials said some of the steps in the order would require approval by independent agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission.

The order affects only American companies, but because software development happens around the world, the United States will face diplomatic challenges enforcing the regulations, which is why the administration is attempting to encourage allies and adversaries alike to develop similar rules. Vice President Kamala Harris is representing the United States at the conference in London on the topic this week.

The regulations are also intended to influence the technology sector by setting first-time standards for safety, security and consumer protections. By using the power of its purse strings, the White House’s directives to federal agencies aim to force companies to comply with standards set by their government customers.

“This is an important first step and,

importantly, executive orders set norms,” said Lauren Kahn, a senior research analyst at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University.

The order instructs the Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies to create clear safety standards for the use of AI and to streamline systems to make it easier to purchase AI tools. It orders the Department of Labor and the National Economic Council to study AI’s effect on the labor market and to come up with potential regulations. And it calls for agencies to provide clear guidance to landlords, government contractors and federal benefits programs to prevent discrimination from algorithms used in AI tools.

But the White House is limited in its authority, and some of the directives are not enforceable. For instance, the order calls for agencies to strengthen internal guidelines to protect personal consumer data, but the White House also acknowledged the need for privacy legislation to fully ensure data protection.

To encourage innovation and bolster competition, the White House will request that the FTC step up its role as the watchdog on consumer protection and antitrust violations.

But the White House does not have authority to direct the FTC, an independent agency, to create regulations.

Lina Khan, chair of the FTC, has already signaled her intent to act more aggressively as

an AI watchdog. In July, the commission opened an investigation into OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, over possible consumer privacy violations and accusations of spreading false information about individuals.

“Although these tools are novel, they are not exempt from existing rules, and the FTC will vigorously enforce the laws we are charged with administering, even in this new market,” Khan wrote in a guest essay in The New York Times in May. The tech industry has said it supports regulations, though the companies disagree on the level of government oversight. Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Meta are among 15 companies that have agreed to voluntary safety and security commitments, including having third parties stress-test their systems for vulnerabilities.

Biden has called for regulations that support the opportunities of AI to help in medical and climate research, while also creating guardrails to protect against abuses. He has stressed the need to balance regulations with support for U.S. companies in a global race for AI leadership. And toward that end, the order directs agencies to streamline the visa process for highly skilled immigrants and nonimmigrants with expertise in AI to study and work in the United States.

The central regulations to protect national security will be outlined in a separate document, called the National Security Memorandum, to be produced by next summer. Some of those regulations will be public, but many are expected to remain classified — particularly those concerning steps to prevent foreign nations, or nonstate actors, from exploiting AI systems.

A senior Energy Department official said last week that the National Nuclear Security Administration had already begun exploring how these systems could speed nuclear proliferation, by solving complex issues in building a nuclear weapon. And many officials have focused on how these systems could enable a terror group to assemble what is needed to produce biological weapons.

Still, lawmakers and White House officials have cautioned against moving too quickly to write laws for AI technologies that are swiftly changing. The EU did not consider large language models in its first legislative drafts.

“If you move too quickly in this, you may screw it up,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, said last week.

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‘A communal sigh of relief’: Emerging from lockdown, Lewiston gathers to mourn

By AMELIA NIERENBERG

been at Schemengees Bar & Grille, one of the two locations the gunman attacked Wednesday or the two days after a gunman killed 18 night. Leia’s father would have played cornhole people and injured 13 in Lewiston, Patrick with his friends but had to skip the game that night Hynes and other residents in southern because Leia’s brother had a soccer banquet.

Maine sat in their own homes, under a shelterHer dad is alive, but he lost a lot of friends. in-place order, facing their grief, their rage, in And, Leia said, five children in the deaf community do not have fathers anymore. isolation.

“I knew all of them,” she said.

Now, finally, they have started to share Leia’s friends at the vigil, all Scouts in Troop those emotions together.

2019, tightened around her, as her eyes filled “We’re social animals, whether we like with tears. They were there, in full regalia, to be it or not,” said Hynes, 65, who lives in nearby together after days of calling one another, and Durham and attended a vigil with his wife, then calling again, just to make sure everyone Heather, in Lisbon on Saturday night. “We need was still OK. other people.”

“I was frozen by the thought of losing them,” This past weekend, as Mainers began to Rosemary Boro, 17, said in a whisper. “I almost process the deadliest mass shooting in the nacouldn’t breathe.” tion this year, they finally started to mourn in Around the area, people are wrestling with person. They shared meals and filled churches. Photos of the victims of the Lewiston mass shooting are seen during a Some just gave one another a hug. memorial service at Holy Family Church in Lewiston, Maine, Oct. 29, how they can focus once again on school, how “It’s a sigh of relief,” Hynes said. “It’s a 2023. Residents in and around the city, no longer under lockdowns, spent to talk about the shooting with their children, communal sigh of relief.” the weekend coming together to mourn, share meals and prepare to bury how to reenter normal life.

And families are starting to make arrangeOn Sunday, people gathered for a vigil their dead. ments to bury their dead. from across the area to crowd into the Basilica a livestream.

Gerry Burpee, director of a funeral home in Lewiston, of Saints Peter and Paul, in the heart of Lewiston.

“This really hits home,” said John Breton, 51, who said in a text that he was trying to put his emotions to the Inside, hundreds crowded the pews. Outside, hunside for now. dreds more stood in the cold, candles in hand, watching was holding an American flag at the back of the vigil.

“It just makes me feel like I lost one of my own, “Funeral directors, in my experience, are great at helpone of my own brothers, one of my own sisters, ing others but unable to process their own grief,” he said.

Ruddy Her nández one of my own children,” he continued.

He helped embalm one of the people who died and During the vigil, Kevin Bohlin, a leader of said he has been “kind of on autopilot” since the shootings.

REAL ESTATE Lic. 9551 Calle Rubí #27 Villa Blanca, Caguas the deaf community, signed the names of the deaf “I’m just buckling down until the services and me787-436-4215 787-593-3846 people who were killed: Billy Brackett, Bryan morials are over,” he said.

MacFarlane, Joshua Seal, Stephen Vozzella. cuido para envejecientes 2,511 mts. aprox.

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“Share this sign, and let us not forget those who union meeting. When he came back to pick up his father, terraza, marq. ext., $239K O.M.O. $140,000 have been taken from us,” he signed. police cars were everywhere. At about midnight, Macneir’s ALQUILER CASA 1,125 mts. aprox.

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Halloween headaches in Salem, Massachusetts: Traffic. Crowds. Tiny liquor bottles?

T he list of public nuisances in Salem, Massachusetts, in high Halloween season is long and weird: Rowdy crowds imperiling 17th-century gravestones. Unlicensed fortune tellers. Skirmishes over parking spaces at Gallows Hill or the Museum of Torture.

This October, though, some city leaders and long-suffering residents have risen up against another scourge in Salem — the diminutive bottles of alcohol informally known as “nips.”

Innocent as they may appear, with their pocket-size proportions and frequently fruity flavors, the single-serving, 50-milliliter bottles have been pilloried and placed on trial in Massachusetts in recent years as they have piled up, drained and discarded, in gardens, parks and playgrounds. Weary of the crunchy plastic carpet underfoot — and wary of their appeal to teens and closet drinkers — a growing roster of cities and towns is moving to ban nips altogether.

For most, including Salem, reducing litter is the main objective. But the campaigns cannot help but carry a whiff of the region’s Puritanical origins. Some Salem residents said banning nips seems extreme, almost like a throwback to the intolerant era that spawned the city’s most shameful history.

Residents acknowledged that litter is a problem, especially in October, when nearly 1 million Halloween celebrants visit the city — many of them dressed in pointed hats and spider web leggings — for the 40-year-old “Haunted Happenings” festival.

The monthlong event, featuring twilight ghost tours, haunted pub crawls and witch trial reenactments, triggers traffic gridlock so fearsome that residents of neighboring towns steer clear of Salem as early as mid-September.

In this chaotic context, some locals said, a ban on nips seems like a drop in the bucket.

“The problem is, people are just going to buy a bigger bottle,” said Brian Carter, a 30-year resident of Salem who paused his evening walk to watch a couple engineer a 12-foot skeleton into place outside a house on Derby Street.

Because nips can be easily concealed, though, they pose an invisible threat to bartenders and bar owners who bear legal responsibility for patrons’ alcohol intake, said Diane Wolf, a longtime Salem bar owner who backs the proposed ban.

“We find them in the trash in the Costumes are seen prior to Halloween bathrooms,” she said, evidence that some in downtown Salem, Mass., on Oct. 22, customers are secretly supplementing their 2023. “official” alcohol intake. “Sometimes we’re like, ‘How did that person go from zero to daily, said he expected liquor store owners 60 in a minute?” to fight the ban.

Wolf — wearing a black T-shirt with the Deep Patel, a manager at Loring Liquors, slogan “Salem Is Not A Theme Park” — said near Salem State University, said he will be she was no teetotaler and sometimes stuffs among them. stockings with nips at Christmas. But she was “It would definitely hurt us,” he said, taken aback recently by an online ad for a thumping his chest with his fist in an exhair scrunchie with a secret zip pocket touted pression of injury. “It’s probably 25% of our as the perfect place to stash a nip. business that we would lose to neighboring Ty Hapworth, a city councilor who lives towns — but people will bring the nips back near the Salem Witch Museum and plucks and dump the bottles here. So it’s not solving empty nip bottles from his garden almost the problem.”

Patel did a brisk business as he spoke to a reporter, making four sales in 10 minutes on a balmy Monday evening. Two of his four customers bought nips, including a selfdescribed single mother who said she liked the low-priced minis because “a little bit of drink can go a long way.”

Not all nips are cheap; high-end options exceed $20 apiece. But the most popular cost about $1, including the ubiquitous, cinnamon-flavored Fireball (“tastes like heaven, burns like hell,” according to its slogan).

At the Bunghole, a closet-size liquor store on Salem’s Derby Street, seasonal stock includes an “adult trick or treat” bag of 15 Fireball nips.

Since Chelsea, a small city north of Boston, became the first place in Massachusetts to ban the sale of nips in 2018 — a step the city said reduced alcohol-related hospital admissions — the movement has spread. The islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard Miniature bottles of alcohol known as “nips” litter gardens, parks, and playgrounds, followed suit, and no-nip towns are multiprompting the Witch City to propose a ban. plying on Cape Cod.

A ban in New Bedford, the one-time whaling port, set to take effect Nov. 1, was postponed last week under pressure from owners of the city’s liquor stores, who said they stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual sales.

Town meeting voters in Wellfleet, on Cape Cod, rejected a ban last month after heated debate, but victorious liquor store owners extended an olive branch, offering to add a 5-cent deposit to every nip sale and donate the funds to the town to help with recycling.

Robert Mellion, president of the Massachusetts Package Stores Association, thinks a 5-cent deposit on nips statewide would be a better way to address the litter problem and has lobbied legislators for the change repeatedly without success, he said.

Even when empties are returned, however, disposing of nips is complicated: The bottles are too small to be effectively recycled, according to the state, which recommends throwing them away instead.

Attempts to pass statewide bans on nips in Maine and Rhode Island failed in recent years. Elsewhere in the country, Utah and New Mexico have enacted bans on most nip sales, as Chicago did 20 years ago.

In Salem, some residents imagine eco-friendly substitutes for the wee plastic containers. A Reddit user jokingly proposed “a refillable flask program” in the Witch City, with “booze on tap in liquor stores.”

William Legault, a former city councilor who tends bar at the Columbus Society Lounge, sees bigger problems. “If you want to do something about litter in Salem, ban cigarettes,” he said. “See how well that goes over.”

Carter had another suggestion, one that some Salemites dream of every fall.

“How about ban the Haunted Happenings,” he said, “and don’t bring all the people here?”

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UAW says it aims to organize nonunion auto plants

By NEAL E. BOUDETTE

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fter winning major gains in wages and benefits from two of the three Detroit automakers, the United Auto Workers union is looking beyond the Motor City to car companies operating nonunion factories across the South.

In a speech to union members livestreamed Sunday night on Facebook, the UAW president, Shawn Fain, said the union planned a push to organize plants at some of the nonunion automakers, such as Toyota, Honda and Tesla.

“One of our biggest goals coming out of this historic contract victory is to organize like we’ve never organized before,” Fain said. “When we return to the bargaining table in 2028, it won’t just be with the Big Three. It will be the Big Five or Big Six.” The statement was one of Fain’s clearest to date that the UAW intended to renew efforts to unionize the plants of foreign-owned automakers and Tesla, which operates nonunion vehicle plants in California and Texas.

The UAW has previously tried to unionize Southern auto plants — where workers typically make significantly less than the top UAW wage — with little success. While it has unionized some small component plants in the South, and represents workers employed by heavy truck manufacturers such as Mack and Freightliner, it has not been able to organize plants owned by any major automaker there.

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted against UAW representation in 2014. Workers at a Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, did the same in 2017. UAW organizers have also tried to win support at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama.

Fain said the increased wages and benefits in a tentative contract agreement with Ford Motor Co. would help the UAW and other unions win gains for working-class people.

Harley Shaiken, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, who has followed the UAW for more than three decades, said the tentative agreements with Ford and Stellantis should improve the UAW’s image and lift its

“One of our biggest goals coming out of this historic contract victory is to organize like we’ve never organized before,” said Shawn Fain, the United Automobile Workers president. prospects in the South.

“The union is not back to where it was 30 years ago in terms of influence, but this is a step to restoring power to the UAW and to unions in general,” he said.

On Sunday, a UAW council that oversees negotiations with Ford approved the tentative agreement hammered out with Ford on Wednesday. In a statement, Ford said it would give an assessment of how the contract affects its business after ratification.

On Saturday, the union announced it had a tentative contract agreement with Stellantis, the maker of Chrysler, Jeep and Ram vehicles.

The agreement closely follows the terms reached with Ford, a method known as pattern bargaining. Stellantis also agreed to reopen a plant in Belvidere, Illinois, that had been idled this year, and to keep an engine plant in Michigan and a machining factory in Ohio that the company had considered closing.

Union workers have begun returning to work at the

three Ford plants that were affected by the union’s growing wave of strikes. Stellantis workers are expected to begin returning to work in the next day or so.

The UAW began its strikes Sept. 15 and eventually expanded the action to include about 18,000 workers at three Ford vehicle plants and more than 14,000 workers at two Stellantis plants that make pickup trucks and Jeeps along with 20 Stellantis parts distribution warehouses.

The union is continuing to negotiate with General Motors, and on Saturday expanded its strike against the automaker, telling workers to walk out at a factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee. All told, about 14,000 UAW workers are on strike at GM. The other affected locations include plants in Missouri, Michigan and Texas and 18 parts warehouses.

In a statement, GM said it was “disappointed” by the expansion of the strike, adding, “We have continued to bargain in good faith with the UAW, and our goal remains to reach an agreement as quickly as possible.”

Fain used most of his address to outline the details of the union’s tentative agreement with Ford. It calls for significant wage increases for many of the company’s 57,000 UAW workers. By the end of the agreement’s 4 1/2-year term, most workers will earn $40.82 an hour.

That gives workers now earning the top wage of $32 an hour increases of 25%; for some workers lower on the wage scale, wages will more than double. At the new top wage, employees working 40 hours a week will earn about $84,000 a year. Profit-sharing bonuses and overtime work will enable many UAW members to make more than $100,000 a year.

The tentative deal also gives workers additional paid time off, including two weeks of paid family leave and paid leave for jury duty. It also allows temporary employees, who currently earn $16.67 an hour, to gain permanent status after 90 days, and to rise to the top wage in three years.

If the agreement is ratified by a majority of Ford’s UAW workforce, most workers will get an immediate 11% wage increase and will be given bonuses of $5,000 each.

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Frazzled US stock investors eye frothy Treasury market as Fed looms

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inancial markets are bracing for what could be a momentous week, with a Federal Reserve meeting, U.S. employment data and earnings from technology heavyweight Apple Inc (AAPL.O) possibly setting the course for stocks and bonds the rest of the year.

October has lived up to its reputation for volatility, as a surge in Treasury yields and geopolitical uncertainty pressured stocks. The S&P 500 index (.SPX) is down 3.5% for the month, adding to losses that have left it over 10% off its late-July high.

Whether the ride remains rough for the rest of 2023 may depend in large part on the bond market. The Fed’s ‘higher for longer’ stance on interest rates and rising U.S. fiscal worries pushed the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield - which moves inversely to prices - to 5% earlier this month, the highest since 2007. Higher Treasury yields are seen as a headwind to stocks, in part because they compete with equities for buyers.

Investors worry that yields could rise further if the Fed reinforces its hawkish message at the central bank’s Nov. 1 monetary policy meeting. Strong U.S. employment data next Friday could also be a catalyst for yields to rise if it bolsters the case for keeping rates elevated to cool the economy and prevent inflation from rebounding.

“Stocks will start to recover when the market believes that bond yields have peaked,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.

Overall, futures markets are pricing in a near-certainty that the Fed does not raise rates in November, and a nearly 80% chance that the central bank holds rates steady in December, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool. Still, policymakers have projected they will keep the key policy rate at current levels through most of 2024, longer than markets had previously anticipated.

Investors are playing a “waiting game of how much does each economic data point need to increase to put another rate hike back on the table,” said Alex McGrath, chief investment officer for NorthEnd Private Wealth.

With U.S. Gross Domestic Product growth at a sizzling 4.9% in the third quarter, signs that the labor market remains too hot, or the Fed sees the need for further tightening to control inflation, could fuel further volatility.

“It feels like we are at a crossroads whether or not the strong growth we’ve seen over the summer months will continue over the fourth quarter,” and keep worries over inflation and restrictive monetary policy bubbling, said Charlie Ripley, senior investment strategist for Allianz Investment Management.

Adding to the bond market’s concerns, the Treasury is expected to announce its upcoming auction sizes later this week. Worries about a growing federal deficit and increased supply have helped push yields higher.

Investors are also awaiting Apple’s results on Thursday, during an earnings season with disappointments from some growth and technology giants, including Tesla and

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Google. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index is down 11% from its high, though still up nearly 30% on the year.

Some investors believe the worst of the selling may be over.

A stock market rebound would follow seasonal trends, said Stovall, of CFRA Research. Since 1945, the S&P 500 has advanced by an average of 1.5% in November, making it the year’s third-best performing month, he said.

More broadly, some believe the stock market’s trading patterns this year point to a rebound in the fourth quarter.

In the 14 instances when the S&P 500 has gained at least 10% through July and then declined in August, as it did this year, the index has increased every time over the last four months of the year, according to Ned Davis Research. The average gain in those instances has been 10%.

Stocks appear “oversold” according to technical indicators and could rally if economic data comes in as expected, said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives for the Schwab Center for Financial Research.

“The stock market is poised for a late Q4 rally.”

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‘A very slow game’: Why the pace of Israel’s ground operation counts

Pro-Palestine demonstrators during an “All out for Gaza” rally in Manhattan, on Oct. 28, 2023. Israel’s invasion of Gaza is proceeding more slowly than expected. That may suit the needs of its allies — and its adversaries, analysts say.

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n the 23 harrowing days since Hamas attacked Israeli civilians and soldiers, Israel’s Western allies have had to perform a delicate balancing act: expressing steadfast support for the country during its darkest hours, while navigating the growing public anger on their streets over the intensifying bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s neighbors in the Middle East have walked a different tightrope: managing outraged populations and, in some cases, proxy militant groups, which threaten to drag them into a broader war with Israel that they may not seek.

For both, Israel’s unfolding ground invasion of the densely populated Gaza Strip has complicated their calculations.

The phased nature of the operation has lacked the thunderous impact of an all-out infantry and tank assault, something Israel’s rivals had warned against, given the likelihood that it would cause untold civilian casualties. And yet the growing Palestinian death toll — more than 8,000, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry — and the prospect that the fighting might go on for months, has drawn thousands of

protesters into the streets from London to Istanbul, demanding a cease-fire.

Israeli officials said their planning was being driven by military, not diplomatic, imperatives: the need to prepare troops for a prolonged campaign; a desire to avoid harming the more than 200 people held by Hamas as hostages; and tactical concerns, such as searching for mines and other defenses laid by the militants.

Yet the deliberate pace of the operation may nonetheless affect the response of allies and enemies, from the United States, which has offered Israel public support as well as private pleas for restraint, to Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, which has peppered it with rockets from Lebanon but threatened to inflict more damage.

On Sunday, President Joe Biden reaffirmed his support for Israel in a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But he urged Netanyahu to “immediately and significantly increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza,” according to a White House readout of the conversation.

While military considerations are driving Israel, “in the front of the minds of the planners was also the question, ‘Can so-

mething we do tip the scale in the TehranBeirut calculations?’” said Nimrod Novick, a former adviser to Israel’s late prime minister, Shimon Peres, referring to Iran’s capital and Hezbollah’s base in Lebanon.

Hezbollah fired almost 20 rockets into Israel on Sunday, setting a house ablaze in Kiryat Shmona, near the Lebanese border, and prompting an Israeli response.

But the attacks, an Israeli official said, were within a predictable range and did not suggest that Hezbollah was on the verge of joining the war.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Sunday that his government does not want the war to “spread out.” Two weeks ago, he had declared that Israel would face a war on “multiple fronts,” waged by a network of militias across the region, if Israeli forces did not stop killing civilians in Gaza.

“Israel hasn’t made the decision that it wants to test its foes,” said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator who now runs the U.S./Middle East Project, a think tank based in London and New York. “Both sides have that in their calculations. There’s a very slow game of chess that could quickly pick up pace.”

Israel’s methodical approach has not prevented some Muslim leaders from hardening their rhetoric. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a vast pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul on Saturday that Israel was “behaving like a war criminal.” Israel responded by pulling its diplomats out of the country.

There are other signs of mounting international pressure. On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly passed a nonbinding resolution calling for a humanitarian truce in Gaza. The vote, which passed 120-14 with 45 abstentions, was supported by eight European Union countries, including France, which had previously expressed strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself.

The fact that France voted in favor of the resolution is “problematic” for Israel, said Emmanuel Navon, executive director of ELNET Israel, a nonprofit group that seeks to strengthen ties between Israel and Europe. In the Security Council, Navon said, “Israel does not want to only rely on the U.S. veto.”

The Security Council has failed to pass any resolution on Gaza, neither condemning the Hamas attack on Israel nor calling for a cease-fire. Four attempts to do so have failed because of vetoes of proand anti-Israel resolutions by the council’s permanent members, including the United States, Russia and China.

While Europe’s leaders continue to express public support for Israel, they are facing growing demands for a cease-fire in their own countries. Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through London on Sunday, many expressing outrage that Britain has so far refused to back a truce.

For the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, the war has triggered a political mutiny. More than a dozen members of his leadership team in Parliament have broken with the party to call for a cease-fire, fracturing Labour’s show of solidarity with Israel in the days after the Hamas attack.

Starmer sent his shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, for meetings in Jordan, Qatar and Egypt this week, while the government is sending Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to the United Arab Emirates.

Both are conferring with Arab leaders about how to prevent the war from escalating into a regional conflict.

Some foreign policy experts contend that the fears of a wider war are overblown.

For all their warnings, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf emirates have so far shown little appetite to get drawn into the conflict. (“What we always assumed is a geopolitical tinderbox, which explodes into a broader regional war,” said Jeremy Shapiro, a former State Department official who is research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. “It doesn’t seem to have happened, and it doesn’t seem that it’s going to happen.”

Still, Shapiro said global public opinion would inevitably turn further against Israel as civilian deaths in Gaza mount. And he predicted it would have little impact on the decisions of Israel’s commanders, who have vowed to destroy Hamas.

For foreign leaders, that could spell an ever trickier balancing act.

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Both sides pay a bloody price for coveted Ukrainian city tree lines in the northwest, and began scaling the waste heap that overlooks the coke plant.

The fighting was so intense the first day he tall chimneys of the Avdiivka Coke that the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade bePlant stand out against the skyline. Beside it a sprawling slag heap juts into the sky, gan running low on drones and called on the offering a high point overlooking the city of Av109th brigade, positioned nearby, for reinforcediivka and surrounding villages. ments.

The two landmarks have been the focus For a day and half, a drone pilot, call sign of furious fighting since Oct. 10 as thousands of Boomer, and his navigator, Grek, joined the Russian troops began a major new offensive in fight, zooming in on advancing Russian infantry eastern Ukraine to seize Avdiivka, a long-covfrom a bunker on the edge of the battlefield. A third team member loaded their drones with exeted prize that would extend Russia’s control of the coal mining region of the Donbas. plosives and launched them into the air.

Yet within days this battle for Avdiivka was “We were pushing them back but during shaping up to be perhaps the costliest of the war the night they were sending in fresh soldiers,” for Russia. Ukrainian artillery destroyed Russian Boomer said of the Russian forces. “We killed so armored columns on the approaches to the city, many we ran out of stocks.” The unit had to call and drones armed with explosives struck down volunteers to send more drones, he said. infantry as they dismounted from vehicles and On the third day of fighting, Oct. 12, they advanced on foot, according to Ukrainian sol- Soldiers fired a grenade launcher toward Russian forces near the Kreminna front started to see Russians fleeing. Boomer played a video he had saved on his cellphone of a Russian diers and commanders, Russian military blog- line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. soldier running away from a bunker. “He undergers and independent military analysts.

Waves of Russian soldiers scaled the instands he will die if he stays there,” he said.

After three days of ferocious fighting, there was a lull. dustrial waste heap to gain its heights. Each time they were tion of Ukraine’s defense in the east. The city stands a few miles from Donetsk, the largest city of the Russian controlled The drone team scoured Russian positions for targets. They shredded by Ukrainian artillery.

Nearly three weeks into the battle, the Russian army eastern provinces, well within range of its airport and main showed footage of their hits on a reserve tank set back from the front line and a van hidden in a farmyard that they said has failed to make the swift breakthrough it wanted. It has lost installations.

Even as Ukrainian troops have lost surrounding terri- was ferrying drones and equipment to Russian forces. Then hundreds of men and more than 100 armored vehicles and tanks, the Institute for the Study of War reported, and twice tory, they have continued to block Russia’s use of the main Russian troops attacked again Oct. 19.

In the tree lines on the edges of the city, soldiers are that amount by Ukrainian accounts. In the main direction of highway and railroad along the front line.

Ukrainian reconnaissance teams saw signs of a Russian fighting hand-to-hand, as the Russians have stormed trenches the attacks, it has advanced barely a mile, and in other places buildup around Avdiivka in the weeks before the first attack and the Ukrainians have counterattacked. But much of the only a few hundred yards.

As both sides have found in nearly two years of heavy on Oct. 10, said Baloo, commander of the brigade’s drone battle at Avdiivka is being fought remotely from bunkers and artillery battles, a mechanized assault against a strong defen- unit. The number amounted to at least three brigades, he said. hidden positions.

“Military vehicles and armor were gathering,” he said.

In a well-constructed underground bunker, set well sive line is always a brutal experience.

The Ukrainians are taking heavy casualties, too; one “Lots of civilians cars too, which looked like commanders back from the front line, commanders of the 1st Strike Batsoldier described how only six soldiers from his unit of more were arriving in the area.” talion of the 59th Mechanized Brigade monitored the fighting The Russians followed a predictable pattern, Ukrainian on a bank of video screens livestreaming different views of than 50 remained uninjured after the first days of fighting.

The Russian losses at Avdiivka are even more numerous soldiers said, opening the battle with heavy artillery and aer- the battlefield. than those suffered by the Russian army in battles last year ial bombardment and then advancing in columns of armored One screen showed the bodies of Russian soldiers and at Vuhledar in March this year, Ukrainian officials and vehicles. They were well prepared, sending demining equip- splayed at awkward angles on an empty road. “One is still ment forward first to clear the way and groups of armored alive,” said Bardak, the battalion’s head of reconnaissance. analysts said.

Those earlier losses of equipment severely restricted vehicles racing in behind to drop off infantry.

The wounded soldier moved, raising an arm, and then fell But with fleets of drones in the air, the Ukrainians saw back.

Russia’s ability to maneuver as it had planned, and the new losses may hamper its operations in the same way again, ac- their advance and began targeting the vehicles on the ap“He’s dead,” a duty officer said. proaches, the commanders said.

Even as they recounted successes on the battlefield, cording to the Institute for the Study of War, a Virginia-based “We have an important task, as all drone units do,” said Ukrainian soldiers did not play down Russian strengths. research group.

Battalion commanders from the 59th Brigade showed The city has been a target of Russian guns ever since Baloo. “We have to locate and dispose of the enemy before a video of a Russian multiple rocket system carrying therRussian proxy forces seized it and then lost it to Ukrainian they attack.”

Over the last year Russian forces have been steadily mobaric warheads on its approach through a village during forces in 2014.

“The most we have had is half a day of quiet,” said a pushing in a pincer movement to encircle Avdiivka, focus- the assault of Oct. 19. The Ukrainians destroyed the weapon, former lawmaker now serving in the 109th Territorial Defense ing the main thrust of their recent assaults on closing the last but it could have smashed Ukrainian defenses, and soldiers’ Brigade near the city, his hometown. “But this assault was the 6-mile gap that would cut Ukrainian access to the city. morale, if it had not been stopped, Bardak said.

Russian troops attacked from the northeast to try to cut harshest that we have had in the whole war.”

Ukraine could lose Avdiivka under the weight of such He asked to be identified only by his call sign, Deputat, the main road at the village of Berdichi. From the southwest, Russian firepower, as they did the nearby city of Bakhmut, for security reasons, as did all members of the military inter- other forces pushed up toward the village of Sieverne, which he said. lies on a smaller road into the city.

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Colombia mobilizes troops to search for kidnapped father of Liverpool player

By JAMES WAGNER

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uthorities in Colombia have mobilized the national police and the military to look for the father of soccer star Luis Díaz, a Colombian standout for the English club Liverpool whose parents were kidnapped in his hometown Saturday. Given soccer’s popularity here, the incident captured the South American country’s attention, but it also stoked fears of increasing insecurity in a nation where such kidnappings were becoming less common until a surge in recent years.

Díaz’s mother, Cilenis Marulanda, was rescued hours after she was abducted, President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said Saturday night. Colombian national police, the military and a unit that specializes in kidnapping dispatched officers, soldiers, cars and aircraft to find his father, Luis Manuel Díaz.

The parents of Díaz, who is known as Lucho, had been in a car at a gas station in Barrancas — a town in La Guajira, a region of northern Colombia along the Caribbean Sea and bordering Venezuela — when they were kidnapped by armed men Saturday afternoon, according to local reports and authorities.

Colombian authorities on Sunday morning announced a reward of 200 million pesos (roughly $48,000) for any information that would help locate the elder Díaz.

They said they were in a rush to find him because they feared that he might be taken to neighboring Venezuela, a country marred by years of political, economic and social unrest. Luis Fernando Velasco, the Colombi-

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The Colombian authorities announced a reward of 200 million pesos, about $48,000, for any information that would help locate Luis Díaz’s father, Luis Manuel Díaz. an minister of the interior, told reporters Sunday authorities were trying to block the suspects’ path to Venezuela because their traveling there was “one hypothesis” they were operating under.

“It’s not the only one, to cover all sides,” he continued. “But we’re doing a gigantic operation, and I ask all people in La Guajira that might be in the area to help us and turn in all the information that they can. What they’ve done with Lucho Díaz is not just to Lucho Díaz but to all of Colombia, and all of Colombia needs to react.”

While details of Marulanda’s rescue were not immediately known, she was safe as of Saturday night, said William René Salamanca, head of the Colombian national police. In a video posted Saturday night on X, formerly known as Twitter, Salamanca spoke briefly on the phone with Marulanda.

In another video, posted by Salamanca on Sunday morning, he spoke on the phone with the younger Díaz via the Colombian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Roy Barreras. Salamanca told Díaz, 26, that Colombian authorities were sparing no effort in trying to find his father and that the situation had moved the country. He also told Díaz that he was in La Guajira and was headed to his hometown soon to help lead the operation.

Díaz is reportedly earning more than $3 million a year, and thus may have been a target for extortion, said Sergio Guzmán, director of Colombia Risk Analysis, a political risk consultancy, based in the Colombian capital, Bogotá.

“I’m presuming it’s an extortion kidnapping, which wouldn’t necessarily be out of the norm, because Luis Díaz is not politically connected or an important player politically, and neither are his parents,” Guzmán said.

“But his notoriety, his rise to fame and perceived wealth could be more for that kind of hostage taking.”

Although kidnappings have dropped dramatically since Colombia’s peace treaty with rebels in 2016, Guzmán said the practice had surged over the past two years. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, used extortion kidnapping to fund their operations. But in recent years, Guzmán said, other criminal groups have been battling for territory previously held by the demobilized FARC, and thus more extortions, kidnappings and ransoms have been happening.

“I think it feeds into the existing pessimism about the country’s security situation,” Guzmán said of the kidnapping of Díaz’s parents. He also noted that Colombians were voting Sunday in regional elections. “If you look at the latest polls, the majority of Colombians feel dissatisfied with the overall direction of the country, but also citizens feel less safe than they have previously,” he said.

Soccer is the most popular sport in the country of nearly 52 million, and Díaz has shined for his country’s national team, winning the Golden Boot award, alongside Argentine superstar Lionel Messi, for being the top scorer during the 2021 Copa América tournament.

Díaz’s father was a gifted amateur player in Barrancas and trained his son. The younger Díaz, who is of Wayúu descent and comes from an area often overlooked for soccer talent, rose from playing for his local Indigenous team to larger clubs in Colombia before eventually landing in Europe and then last year at Liverpool, one of the biggest clubs in the world, in the Premier League in England.

Díaz, who has scored twice in nine appearances for Liverpool this season, was not in the lineup Sunday against Nottingham Forest after a last-minute change by Liverpool’s manager, Jürgen Klopp. He told reporters Sunday that what was happening to Díaz and his family was “a worrying situation for all of us and it was a pretty tough night.”

After Liverpool player Diogo Jota scored during Sunday’s 3-0 win, he ran to the sideline and held up Díaz’s jersey.

“It is our fervent hope that the matter is resolved safely and at the earliest possible opportunity,” Liverpool said in a statement Sunday morning. “In the meantime, the player’s welfare will continue to be our immediate priority.”

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Searching for humanity in the Middle East

By DAVID BROOKS

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e’re living through an era of collapsing paradigms. The conceptual frames that many people use to organize their understanding of the world are crashing and burning upon contact with Middle Eastern reality.

The first paradigm that failed this month was critical race theory or woke-ism. Yascha Mounk has a good history of this body of thought in his outstanding book “The Identity Trap.” But as it applies to the Middle East, the relevant ideas in this paradigm are these: International conflicts can be seen through a prism of American identity categories like race. In any situation, there are evil people who are colonizer/oppressors and good people who are colonized/oppressed. It’s not necessary to know about the particular facts about any global conflict, because of intersectionality: All struggles are part of the same struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed.

This paradigm shapes how many on the campus left saw the Hamas terror attacks and were thus pushed into a series of ridiculous postures. A group of highly educated American progressives cheered on Hamas as anti-colonialist freedom fighters, even though Hamas is a theocratic, genocidal terrorist force that oppresses

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LGBTQ people and revels in the massacres of innocents.

These campus activists showed little compassion for Israeli men and women who were murdered at a music festival because they were perceived as “settlers” and hence worthy of extermination. Many progressives called for an immediate cease-fire, denying Israel the right to defend itself, which is enshrined in international law — as if Nigeria should have declared a cease-fire the day after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls in 2014.

American universities exist to give students the conceptual tools to understand the world. It appears that at many universities, students are instead being fed simplistic ideological categories that blind them to reality.

The second paradigm that fell apart this month was what you might call “pogromism.” This is the belief, common in Jewish communities around the world, that you can draw a straight line from the many antisemitic massacres in ancient history, through the pogroms of the 19th century, through the Holocaust and up to the Hamas massacres of today. In this paradigm, antisemitism is the key factor at work, and Jews are the innocent victims of perennial group hate.

The paradigm has some truth to it but is simplistic.

In fact, Israel is a regional superpower, not a marginalized victim group. Israeli indifference to conditions in the territories has contributed to today’s horrible reality. The Middle East conflict is best seen as a struggle between two peoples who have to live together, not as a blackand-white conflict between victims and Nazis.

The third conceptual paradigm under threat is the

one I have generally used to organize how I see the Middle East conflict: the two-state paradigm. This paradigm is based on the notion that this conflict will end when there are two states with two peoples living side by side. People like me see events in the Middle East as tactical moves each side is taking to secure the best eventual outcome for themselves.

After this month’s events, several assumptions underlying this worldview seem shaky: that most people on each side will eventually come to accept the legitimacy of the other’s existence, that Palestinian leaders would rather devote their budgets to economic development than perpetual genocidal holy war, that the cause of peace is advanced when Israel withdraws from Palestinian territories, that Hamas can be contained until a negotiated settlement is achieved, and that extremists on both sides will eventually be marginalized so that peacemakers can do their work.

Those of us who see the conflict through this twostate framing may be relying on lenses that distort our vision, so we see the sort of Middle East that existed two decades ago, not the one that exists today.

The worldview that has been buttressed by this month’s events is unfortunately the one I find loathsome. You can call it authoritarian nihilism, which binds Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and other strongmen: that we live in a dog-eat-dog world; life is a competition to grab what you can; power is what matters; morality, decency, gentleness, and international norms are luxuries we cannot afford because our enemies are out to destroy us; and we need to be led by ruthless amoralists to take on the ruthless amoralists who seek to take us down.

I don’t want to live amid that barbarism, so I’m hoping the Biden administration will do two things that will keep the faint hopes of peace and basic decency alive.

The first is to help Israel reestablish deterrence. In the Middle East, peace happens when Israel is perceived as strong and permanent and the United States has its back.

Second, I’m hoping the U.S. encourages Arab nations to work with the Palestinians to build a government that can rule the Gaza Strip after Hamas is dismantled.

(Robert Satloff, Dennis Ross and David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy have sketched out how this would work.)

Some events alter the models we use to perceive reality, and the events of Oct. 7 fit that category. It feels as if we’re teetering between universalist worldviews that recognize our common humanity and tribal worldviews in which others are just animals to be annihilated.

What Israel does next will influence what worldview prevails in the 21st century.

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Gobernador se inclina en no apelar determinación judicial sobre presidencia CEE POR CYBERNEWS

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A FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia dijo el lunes que por el momento no va a apelar la determinación del juez del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alfonso Martinez Piovanetti, sobre la presidencia de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE).

“Eso está bajo evaluación del equipo legal. O sea

que todavía yo no, yo personalmente no he tomado una decisión al respecto. Es el equipo legal el que me recomendará si hay que apelar esa decisión o no. Me da la impresión, que al momento no hay necesidad de apelar.

La juez Padilla continúa a cargo de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones”, dijo el gobernador en conferencia de prensa.

El viernes, el juez Martínez Piovanetti sostuvo que la presidenta interina de la CEE, Jessika Padilla Rivera puede permanecer en el cargo hasta el día que culmina la Sesión Ordinaria el 14 de noviembre. Pierluisi Urrutia insistió que está disponible para reunirse con los presidentes de la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado para presentar a una persona que pueda ocupar la posición, luego de la renuncia de Francisco Rosado Colomer.

“Y como yo he dicho anteriormente, yo siempre estoy disponible para dialogar, por ejemplo, con el presidente del Senado, el presidente de la Cámara, si quieren dialogar sobre nombramientos pendientes en la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones, o sea, no descarto que hacer algún nombramiento a futuro. Lo que sí es que en todo momento lo que yo he estado velando es que no se desarticule la comisión, que no se quede descabezada por eso. En lo que se hace en otros nombramientos, pues la juez Padilla seguirá a cargo”, expresó.

Según el gobernador, por lo menos la continuidad de los trabajos en la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones no se afectaron con la determinación judicial.

“Porque una alternativa que gracias a Dios no ocurrió era que dijera que la la jueza Padilla no podía continuar ejerciendo el cargo de presidenta de la comisión y ese no fue el caso. Ese aspecto es positivo, o sea, ella sigue a cargo de la comisión, o sea que se mantiene la estabilidad en la comisión. En cuanto a allá, qué va a suceder de aquí a el fin de la sesión legislativa en curso, pues yo reitero que siempre estoy disponible al diálogo, de igual manera no descarto hacer otros nombramientos que. Así que no voy a especular más allá de eso”, mencionó.

El presidente del Senado, José Luis Dalmau Santiago demandó al gobernador y a la presidenta alterna de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE), por entender que la negativa del gobernador de someter nuevos nombramientos, procura que la presidenta alterna de la CEE ocupe el cargo de la presidencia de la CEE indefinidamente, sin haber sido nombrada ni confirmada para ese puesto en clara violación a la Constitución y a las decisiones del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico.

El juez Martínez Piovanetti desestimó la demanda presentada por el presidente del Senado.

Siembran más de 200 nuevos árboles nativos en iniciativa municipal de Aguada POR EL STAR STAFF

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GUADA – El alcalde de Aguada, Christian Cortés Feliciano, realizó ayer tercer recorrido municipal de Turismo Ecológico por la Reserva Natural Caño Madre Vieja, donde en esta ocasión lograron sembrar un total de 230 árboles nativos, desde la playa de Espinar hasta el Caño Madre Vieja. Los árboles sembrados incluyen una variedad de especies autóctonas tales como el mangle botón, palmas de yarey, uva playera y árbol de María.

“Esta es una iniciativa municipal que ha sido posible gracias a nuestra Oficina de Turismo, la Oficina para Manejo de Emergencias, y otras entidades dedicadas a la protección de nuestros recursos como el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, Para la Naturaleza, Campamento Carey, Ciudadanos Aguadeños Pro Conservación del Medio Ambiente y Surfrider Puerto Rico de Isabela”, señaló el Alcalde.

De esta iniciativa también son parte las entidades Coco Puerto Rico Inc., Viveros Jardines del Oeste, Campamento Pelícano y la Organización Voces Conscientes de Río Grande, así como a los miembros de la comunidad de Tablonal y Espinar de Aguada. “Nosotros seguimos trabajando juntos para preservar los tesoros ecológicos que

nos rodean y promover el turismo sostenible en nuestro pueblo. Una vez al mes, la Oficina de Turismo organiza los eco tours por la Reserva de Espinar, un tesoro aguadeño que cuidamos com celo porque es el único bosque costero de mangle del noroeste de Puerto Rico”, añadió el también ingeniero.

En los recorridos mensuales, a los participantes se les ilustra sobre diversos temas, desde la biodiversidad y especies de aves y plantas que habitan la zona, hasta geografía de la Reserva y Aguada, historia del barrio y la importancia de hacer turismo sostenible que involucre a la comunidad. “Nos estamos proyectando a largo plazo para atraer un turismo responsable, organizar más siembras de árboles, planea de recogidos de basura costera, delimitar y proteger en el plan territorial la Reserva, instalar letreros informativos y que se culmine la designación de la Reserva”, explicó el Alcalde.

El Caño Madre Vieja de Aguada es un humedal único en el área el cual tiene un ecosistema de mangles y humedales, además de que tiene una playa hermosa en el litoral costero que ha sido área de anidaje de tortugas, tinglares y careyes. El área ha servido de protección para las comunidades aledañas contra las marejadas. También

es hábitat de especies de peces endémicos y de aves migratorias y en peligro de extinción como la Yaguasa de Pico Negro o Chiriría, el Gallinazo Caribeño, el Pato Dominico y el Pelícano Pardo, que es una especie protegida.

Los interesados ​​en participar en los recorridos en el Caño Madre Vieja, así como de las demás actividades ambientales y culturales que promueve el Municipio, pueden llamar a la Oficina de Cultura y Turismo al 787252-2238 en horas de oficina, o acceder a Municipio de Aguada en la red social Facebook e Instagram.

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‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’: A hit that initially unnerved Disney

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hat’s this?” Jack Skellington sings excitedly when he first comes across Santa Claus’ snowy, colorful village in “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” That’s also what Disney executives asked with concern about the idiosyncratic stop-motion animation musical when they saw a rough cut.

“Anytime you’re doing something like that, which was unknown: stop motion, the main character doesn’t have any eyeballs and it’s all music, what’s to feel comfortable about?” Tim Burton said during a video call from London. “Of course they would be nervous about it.”

Burton’s “Nightmare,” currently back in theaters to commemorate its 30th anniversary, is now more popular than ever: This weekend the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles is holding a series of live concerts around the film, Disney theme parks feature seasonal attractions inspired by its characters, and merchandise, from board games to housewares, abounds.

But the eccentric and endearing movie wasn’t always a ubiquitous part of our holiday watch list. Back in October 1993, “Nightmare” was released not as a Disney title but under the studio’s more adult-oriented label Touchstone Pictures.

“They were afraid it might hurt their brand,” director Henry Selick said in a video call from his home in Los Angeles. “If they had put the Disney name on it right then, it would’ve been much more successful, but I understand it just didn’t feel anything like their other animated films.”

Based on Burton’s original story and characters, the unusual picture was directed

by Selick, by then a seasoned stop-motion artist with spots for MTV and a variety of commercials to his name. Burton’s frequent collaborators Michael McDowell and Caroline Thompson wrote the screenplay.

Over the course of its original run, “Nightmare” grossed $50 million at the domestic box office. And while that number is by no means dismal, it’s a far cry from Disney animated hits like “Aladdin,” which just a year earlier brought in $217 million from U.S. screens alone.

At the time, Disney couldn’t figure out how to market the operatic saga of Jack, a

lanky, sharply dressed skeleton, infatuated with bringing the wonder of Christmas to his monstrous friends in uncanny Halloween Town.

Selick initially worried that the number of songs Danny Elfman had composed for the movie, a total of 10 tracks for the brisk 76-minute run time, would alienate viewers. In retrospect, he said, the memorable tunes were crucial to the film’s eventual success, once audiences connected with its unconventional rules of storytelling and design.

These days Selick can’t go a week without running into a fan wearing a sweater, hat or other apparel emblazoned with “Nightmare” imagery.

“This year there’s a 13-foot-tall Jack Skellington you can buy at Home Depot, and people have them on their lawns,” Selick said.

“I like that because it’s pretty bizarre and extreme. That’s not just a T-shirt, that’s a real commitment.”

For Burton, the character of Jack Skellington embodies a preoccupation common in his work over the years: the terrifying notion of being misunderstood. “The conception of it was based on those feelings growing up of people perceiving you as something dark or weird when actually you’re not,” he recalled.

Selick compared the skeletal antihero’s amusingly manic behavior to Mr. Toad from the animated classic “The Wind in the Willows,” one of his favorite Disney protagonists.

“I’ve always been drawn to characters like Jack Skellington,” Selick said. “He gets carried away with something new and goes way overboard with his enthusiasm.”

For stop motion as a technique, “Nightmare” represented a watershed right before the advent of computer-generated animation.

Selick credited the director of photography, Pete Kozachik, for introducing the tools that set the production apart, namely designing and building the rigs that allowed the heavy Mitchell film cameras to move a frame at a time.

“That made the film so cinematic,” Selick said. “All the stop motion before had been done in lock shots or really simple little pans,” the mostly static visual language that limited other stories told in the same medium. But, Selick continued, “what Pete brought was this freedom of camera movement, which really turned it into a bigger movie.”

Jack Skellington (voiced by Chris Sarandon) “was based on those feelings growing up of people perceiving you as something dark or weird when actually you’re not,” Tim Burton said.

While there was talk of turning his concept for “Nightmare” into a TV special or realizing it in hand-drawn animation, Burton — who as a child adored Ray Harryhausen’s creations and Rankin/Bass tales like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” — held out until there was a team to do it in stop motion.

“If you’ve ever been on a stop motion set and you see its tactile beauty, it is like going back to the beginning of making movies in the sense that it’s all about artists making puppets, sets, there’s a feeling that’s unlike any kind of thing,” Burton said.

For Selick, one of the indicators that the movie had become a classic came a few years after the lukewarm reception to the theatrical release, but before Disney had fully embraced it. The director recalls children coming to his house trick-or-treating on Halloween night in homemade costumes of “Nightmare” characters before officially licensed versions existed.

“I’d sometimes bring them in with their parents and show them the original figure of Jack as Santa in his sled with the reindeer that I kept, and they would just scream with joy,” Selick recalled while pointing his camera to the fragile figure in a glass display case.

“It’s not really mine or Tim’s or Danny’s anymore,” Selick said. “It’s the world’s movie, and I kind of like that.”

Since 2001, the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland has been transformed every fall

into a “Nightmare”-inspired attraction known as Haunted Mansion Holiday. And each year, from early September through October, Disneyland hosts the Oogie Boogie Bash, a Halloween party three nights a week featuring and named after the movie’s rambunctious villain.

Burton believes these displays epitomize the film’s evolution from unclassifiable oddity to a uniquely beloved property. “When I see that, I go back to the early days when the film was first being done, and thinking of the journey that it’s taken, this symbolizes it in a very strange way,” said Burton.

Selick added that he was invited the first year of the Haunted Mansion Holiday. “They didn’t try to turn it into one of their other characters,” he said. “They really got the aesthetic of the designs just right.”

A sequel novel, “Long Live the Pumpkin Queen,” focused on Jack’s romantic partner, Sally, and a prequel comic, “The Battle for Pumpkin King,” were published in the last year. Yet three decades on, Burton maintained that the original animated film was a one-ofa-kind feat.

“In a certain way that’s the beautiful thing about it as it is. It’s one movie. It’s stop motion and it tells its story. And that helps make it special for me,” Burton explained. “It’s its own thing, there aren’t five sequels and there’s not a live-action reboot.”

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A professional pumpkin carver spills his guts

By CALLIE HOLTERMANN

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group of children watched as Adam Bierton made his first few slashes into the meat of a pumpkin at the New York Botanical Garden earlier this month.

Using a tool that resembled a carrot peeler, Bierton scored a horizontal eyebrow ridge and the grooves of a frown. Over the course of three hours, a steady crowd of about 20 people looked on as heaps of orange pulp formed at his feet. Every so often he spritzed the pumpkin’s facade with a bottle of lemon juice to keep its flesh dewy.

“It looks like Javier Bardem,” Jasmine Taby, a 24-year-old college student in the Bronx, said as she watched the face being carved.

Bierton, 40, is a pumpkin carver who expects to carve more than 100 pumpkins this fall. His pumpkins appear to be snarling or wailing, and often have bulging eyeballs that he scoops from russet potatoes using a melon baller. Unlike hollowed-out jack-o’-lanterns, most of his carvings have their guts intact and are not lit from within.

His interest started in childhood, partly from watching his father carve. “My household was very creative because my mother was a hairdresser, and my dad was a photographer,” he said. “My dad was always doing really outlandish jack-o’-lanterns, like, turning them upside down. He would always grab the deformed pumpkin.”

Later, as a student at the School of the Arts in Rochester, New York, he began sculpting with clay, plaster and metal. He brought tools for making ceramics home from school so he could use them on pumpkins. After honing his technique under the tutelage of other carvers, he was part of a team that won a season of “Halloween Wars,” a pumpkin-carving competition show on Food Network, in 2015.

Now Bierton, who still lives in Rochester, is one of a handful of artists who carve professionally throughout a frenzied season that begins in September and ends Nov. 1.

He has been doing weekend demonstrations each fall since 2018 at the botanical garden in the Bronx, where the edited interview that follows took place. Time pressure, he said, is far from his only challenge.

“I’m actually mildly allergic to pumpkin,” he said. “It’s like, I love something, and it fights me. Maybe that’s why I’m so attracted to it.”

Q: How did you go from an amateur to a professional pumpkin carver?

A: I had a tradition where every single year I would do an eight-hour carving. The first one I did was Beetlejuice; that was probably in 2000. I did it primarily with a paring knife and an X-Acto blade. In 2012, my mom sent me a story about the Maniac Pumpkin Carvers, a pumpkin-carving team, and I reached out.

Q: Wait, what’s a pumpkin-carving team?

A: Well, there are very few of them. Maniac Pumpkin Carvers are two guys, Marc Evan and Chris Soria, who bring in artists during the season. They primarily do etching work, which is a style of carving where you’re peeling the skin and illuminating the pumpkins from the inside. I worked for them for a couple of years.

Q: How many top-tier carvers are there in the United States?

A: I think there are fewer than 20 of us that are on the same level. And then there are another 20 that are up-and-coming.

Q: Walk me through your carving process.

A: I bathe all my pumpkins and store them with a fan blowing on them so bugs don’t get in there. Then the first step is to peel the pumpkin. You remove the hard orange skin, which allows access to that beautiful flesh that’s underneath, which is great for sculpting. Next I’ll block in the face with a ribbon tool. I’m kind of playing with perspective and drawing with shadow: the deeper the cut, the

Adam Bierton, a pumpkin carver who comes up with carving motifs based on the pumpkins’ sizes and shapes, at the New York Botanical Garden, where he has been doing weekend demonstrations since 2018, in New York, Oct. 9, 2023. darker the shadow. Gradually, I start to work with smaller tools, and I finish with knife work.

Q: How do you make money carving pumpkins?

A: Working live events. My contract with New York Botanical Garden is the majority of my season. And then a lot of the other work is with brands that are looking for pumpkins for promotional use on social media — like logo

In an undated image provided by Adam Bierton, pumpkins carved by Adam Bierton.

Bierton is allergic to pumpkins, but that doesn’t stop him from carving dozens each fall, the most of intricate of which can cost $5,000.

pumpkins and time-lapse stuff. I’m working with Starbucks and the BBC this year.

Q: How much do corporate clients usually pay for pumpkins?

A: A pumpkin can range anywhere between $400 and $5,000. I have a dream to replace my entire year’s salary with the pumpkin season. I’m not quite there yet.

Q: What do you like about pumpkins as a medium?

A: Every single pumpkin is unique, and the material changes. It’s not a consistent medium like wood or clay. I don’t usually have a design before I have a pumpkin — the size and shape leads into the design. I also love the ephemeral part. I have to create something that I can’t keep.

Q: What do most people do wrong when carving?

A: The biggest mistake is cutting a hole in the top of the pumpkin.

Q: Say more!

A: Something I learned is to go in through the back, by cutting a big square or an octagon.

Cutting a hole in the top of the pumpkin takes away from the character of a long, ornate stem.

People cut the bottom too. That’s no good, because the juice ends up everywhere.

Q: How do you decorate your own house for Halloween?

A: It’s all pumpkins. I don’t get in with the tacky stuff. There’s no blown-up spiders, even though my wife tries to bring that stuff home.

Q: Do friends ask you to carve pumpkins for them?

A: All the time. I don’t have time for that!

I don’t think people understand that I spend six hours on a single carving.

Q: How long will the pumpkin you carved today at the botanical garden last?

A: Because I haven’t opened up the cavity of the pumpkin, it has a good chance of lasting up to two weeks. It depends on the freshness of the pumpkin and the elements it’s in.

If it’s in the beating sun and there’s bugs and squirrels? See you later.

Q: How do you manage the time pressure that comes with the job?

A: I don’t sleep in October. I’m doing two or three pumpkins every single day. It’s exhausting, but there’s just no other way because it’s a time-sensitive medium. I try to tell all my corporate clients, like, let’s shoot in November, and we can use it for 2024. They’re like, “Nobody’s thinking about next Halloween.”

Q: What do you do the rest of the year?

A: I own a fried-chicken restaurant in Rochester.

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Eyedrops from major brands may cause infection, FDA says

By REBECCA CARBALLO

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ederal health officials are advising consumers to stop using more than two dozen over-thecounter eyedrops products because of a potential risk of eye infection that may lead to partial vision loss or blindness.

The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert last Friday flagging 26 eye care products including eyedrops and gels from CVS Health, Leader (Cardinal Health), Rugby (Cardinal Health), Rite Aid, Target up&up and Velocity Pharma.

The federal agency recommended Wednesday that the manufacturer recall all lots of those products after agency investigators found unsanitary conditions in a manufacturing plant, according to the news release from the FDA. Bacterial tests came back positive from critical drug production areas in the plant, which the agency did not immediately identify.

The FDA said it had not received any reports of

infection associated with these products, but it was encouraging health care professionals and patients to report any cases to the agency.

It’s imperative that these products are sterile, regulators said, because drugs applied to the eyes bypass some of the body’s natural defenses.

The FDA said consumers should properly discard these products by taking them to a drug takeback site or by checking whether a product was included on the FDA’s “flush list” of drugs that can be safely discarded at home.

CVS, Rite Aid and Target are removing the products from their stores and websites, the agency said.

Products branded as Leader, Rugby and Velocity may still be available in stores and online and should not be purchased, federal regulators said.

Rite Aid confirmed through a spokesperson that it was removing “applicable Rite Aid branded products” from store shelves. A CVS spokesperson said the retail chain “immediately stopped the sale instore and online of all products supplied by Velocity

Pharma within the CVS Health Brand Eye Products portfolio,” and that customers could return those products for a full refund. The other retailers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

There have been other recent reports of problems with eye products.

In January, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA warned consumers to stop using EzriCare Artificial Tears and Delsam Pharma’s Artificial Tears. The eyedrops were linked to a drugresistant strain of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which was linked to at least four deaths and vision loss in 14 patients.

Apotex, a Canadian Pharmaceutical company, recalled prescription eyedrops in March after some bottle caps developed cracks, which could compromise the product’s sterility.

Experts say eyedrops are generally safe to use.

By 2024, 123 million Americans are projected to use eyedrops, according to Statista, a market research firm.

Sarah Massameno August 17, 1935 - October 4, 2023

Sarah Massameno was born in London, England on August 17, 1935 and passed away at Shalom Park in Denver, Colorado on October 4, 2023, at 88.

Her father Izek Doktorczyk was Polish and her mother Esther de Miranda was English. They changed the family name to Wolf at Ellis Island because the Polish name was too difficult for most Americans to pronounce and spell.

When World War II broke out in 1939, her parents were in the United States with her sister Ruth and the task of caring for Sarah and her brother Maurice fell to their beloved grandmother Rachel Miranda in Antwerp, Belgium. Grandmother Rachel was stoutly English and had had the foresight to ask that Esther give birth to her children in England, making them British subjects. In a story that has become legend in the Wolf Family, they escaped the Nazi invasion by taking one of the last trains out of Antwerp and were able to board an English military ship because of their nationality, and so their lives were saved.

The family made it to Rayners Lane in North London to join their Aunt and their brother Samuel, where they in the formative years of their childhood endured the Battle of Britain, rationing, and wartime schooling.

In 1947, they finally were able to reunite with their parents and sister in Manhattan, where they lived in midtown on the East Side, close to Wolf’s United Nations Gift Shop.

In the nineteen sixties, Sarah returned to London, where she worked at Eastern Airlines while moonlighting as an antique vendor at the fabled Portobello Road Market.

She married David Massameno, and when he passed away, she remai-

ned Sarah Massameno and never remarried.

Sarah raised and loved cats all of her life and had a special place in her heart for Darling, the cat she brought with her from London to San Juan Puerto Rico, where she lived close to her parents and furthered her self-taught intellectual breadth working at the Casa del Libro, Old San Juan’s renowned rare book museum.

Sarah eventually settled in Boulder, Colorado to be near her nephew Govinda and niece Mariah. She came to know and love Mariah’s daughter Quinn.

Those people who were lucky to be her friends will always remember her forthrightness, wisdom, and empathy. Never has a less biased person walked this earth and if you were her friend, you shared some of these rare qualities. She did not suffer fools gladly.

She was cherished for her British wit and the countless stories she told about her adventurous life, relying on an almost superhuman memory for detail. She even proved on many occasions that she possessed the rare gift of Extra Sensory Perception When anyone asked her, “Sarah, how are you?” she would invariably answer “Content and grateful!”

Her family and friends are content and grateful, and always will be, that Sarah was part of their lives.

She is survived by her sister-in-law Yolanda Wolf, niece Monica Turenne and husband Marc, niece Mariah Quish, nephews Govinda Quish, Michael Wolf Segal, Simon Wolf, and David Wolf and wife Ana Maria Otero Otero, and her great-nieces and nephews, Mattea Turenne, Nicholas Wolf Turenne and Quinn Theodora Quish.

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Rapid Antarctic melting looks certain, even if emissions goals are met

A satellite image of icebergs created when an Antarctic ice shelf collapsed.

By RAYMOND ZHONG

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t the bottom of the world, the floating edges of one of the enormous ice sheets covering Antarctica are facing an invisible threat, one that could add to rising sea levels around the globe. They are melting from below.

As the planet warms, larger volumes of warm water are bathing the undersides of West Antarctica’s ice shelves, the giant tongues of ice at the ends of glaciers. The sheer mass of these shelves stops the ice on land from flowing more quickly into the open sea. So as the shelves melt and thin, more of the land ice moves toward the ocean, eventually contributing to sea level rise. Curbing fossil fuel emissions might help slow this melting, but scientists haven’t been sure by how much.

Now, researchers in Britain have run

the numbers and come to a sobering conclusion: A certain amount of accelerated melting is essentially locked in. Even if nations limited global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 Fahrenheit, it wouldn’t do much to halt the thinning. Staying below 1.5 Celsius is the most ambitious aim of the Paris Agreement, and at the moment, it is unlikely to be achieved.

“It appears that we may have lost control of the West Antarctic ice-shelf melting over the 21st century,” one of the researchers, Kaitlin A. Naughten, an ocean scientist with the British Antarctic Survey, said at a news briefing. “That very likely means some amount of sea level rise that we cannot avoid.”

The findings by Naughten and her colleagues, which were published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, add to a litany of gloomy prognostications for the ice

on the western side of the frozen continent.

Two of the region’s fastest-moving glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, have been losing vast amounts of ice to the ocean for decades. Scientists are trying to determine when greenhouse-gas emissions might push the West Antarctic ice sheet past a “tipping point” beyond which its collapse becomes rapid and hard to reverse, imperiling coastlines worldwide in the coming centuries.

Even so, cutting emissions of heattrapping gases could still stop even greater amounts of Antarctic ice from being shed into the seas. The East Antarctic ice sheet contains about 10 times as much ice as the West Antarctic one, and past studies suggest that it is less vulnerable to global warming, even if some recent research has challenged that view.

“We can still save the rest of the Antarctic ice sheet,” said Alberto Naveira Garabato, an oceanographer at the University of Southampton who wasn’t involved in the new research, “if we learn from our past inaction and start reducing greenhouse gas emissions now.”

Naughten and her colleagues focused on the interplay between the ice shelves and the water in the Amundsen Sea, which is the part of the Southern Ocean that washes up against Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers.

The researchers first used computer simulations to estimate changes in ocean temperature and the resulting ice-shelf melting that took place there in the 20th century. They then compared this with potential changes under several pathways for global warming in the 21st century, from highly optimistic to unrealistically pessimistic.

They found that the water at 200 to 700 meters, or 650 to 2,300 feet, beneath the surface of the Amundsen Sea could warm

at more than three times the rate in the coming decades compared with the last century, pretty much regardless of what happens with emissions.

If global warming were limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with preindustrial conditions, temperatures in the Amundsen would flatten out somewhat after about 2060. In the most calamitous emissions trajectory, by contrast, ocean warming would accelerate even more after 2045.

The reason the differences aren’t bigger is that water temperatures in this part of the Southern Ocean are influenced not just by human-driven warming of the atmosphere, but also by natural climate cycles such as El Nino, Naughten said. The differences under the various emissions trajectories, she said, are small by comparison.

The study is unlikely to be the last word on the future of the West Antarctic ice shelves. Scientists began collecting data on melting there only in 1994, and, because of the difficulty of taking measurements in such extreme conditions, the data is still sparse.

“We are relying almost entirely on models here,” Naughten said.

When mathematical representations of reality are the best option available, scientists prefer to test their hypotheses using multiple ones to make sure their findings aren’t the product of a given model’s quirks. Naughten and her colleagues used only a single model of the interactions between ice and ocean.

Still, their study’s methods are broadly in line with past findings, said Tiago Segabinazzi Dotto, a scientist with the National Oceanography Centre in Britain who wasn’t involved in the new research.

This gives coastal societies reason to take the study’s predictions seriously and to plan for even higher sea levels, he said.

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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 14 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Sierra Bayamón, situada en el Barrio Hato Tejas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero treinta y ocho guion A (38-A) de la manzana noventa y tres (93) con un área de ciento setenta y cinco punto cero cero (175.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar treinta y nueve (39), en veinticinco punto cero cero (25.00) metros; por el Sur, con el solar número treinta y ocho (38), en veinticinco punto

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cero cero (25.00) metros; por el Este, con la calle setenta y seis (76), en cinco punto trescientos cuarenta y seis (5.346) metros, y un arco de uno punto seiscientos cincuenta y cuatro (1.654) metros; por el Oeste, con los solaces cuarenta y dos guion A y cuarenta y tres (43), en cinco punto trescientos cuarenta y seis (5.346) metros y un arco de uno punto seiscientos cincuenta y cuatro (1.634)”.

Inscrita al folio 181 del tomo 191 de Bayamón Norte, finca 9,281, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 3568A del tomo 270 de Bayamón Norte, finca 9281, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III, inscripción 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. SIERRA BAYAMÓN, 93-38A CALLE 7, BAYAMÓN, PR 00961. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $187,500.00.

Fecha de Vencimiento: 26 de julio de 2081. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $125,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $83,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $62,500.00, la mitad (1/2)

Tuesday, October 31, 2023 del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $98,594.25 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $18,578.71 en intereses acumulados al 16 de enero de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.91% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $5,055.84 en seguro hipotecario; $5,985.00 en tarifas de servicio; $507.02 en seguro; $1,050.00 de tasaciones; $340.00 de inspecciones; $2,030.50 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $12,500.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.

Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de septiembre de 2023.

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Yo, JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 30 de junio de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 19 de septiembre de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Solar E. Predio de terreno en el Barrio Machuchal del municipio de Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 804.3191 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.20464 cuerdas. En linderos; por el NORTE, con solar denominado F; por el SUR, con solar denominado D; por el ESTE, con camino asfaltado de uso público; por el OESTE, con sección calle a ser dedicada a uso público. Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda.”

Finca número 15,461, inscrita al folio 217 del tomo 337 de Sabana Grande.

Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San

Germán. Dirección de la Propiedad: 113 Papayo, Magina Com., Machuchal Ward, Sabana Grande, PR 00637. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $137,937.30, de principal, más intereses acumulados y siguen acumulándose al tipo de 5.685% anual hasta su total y completo pago, más la cantidad de $16,500.00, cantidad pactada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 164 otorgada el día 30 de septiembre de 2010, Ponce, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Francisco Ramón Febus Rivera y consta inscrita al folio 2017 del tomo 337 de Sabana Grande, finca número 15,461, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $165,000.00, con intereses al 5.685% anual, vencedero el día 12 de septiembre de 2089, constituida mediante la escritura número 165, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de septiembre de 2010, ante el notario Francisco Ramón Febus Rivera, e inscrita al folio 217 vuelto del tomo 337 de Sabana Grande, finca número 15,461, inscripción 3ra., y últi-

ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $165,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $110,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $82,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su-

basta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 25 de septiembre de 2023. JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV11325.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

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Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y

22 al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 14 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 9 de septiembre de 2021. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 8 de febrero de 2023, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad, y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 351 de la Manzana letra “O” de la Urbanización Reparto Baldrich, radicado en el Barrio Hato Rey, del término municipal de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de cuatrocientos veintisiete punto setenta y cinco (427.75) metros cuadrados, y con las siguientes medidas y colindancias; por el NORTE, en catorce (14.00) metros, con parte del Solar trescientos cuarenta (340) y con pared del Solar trescientos cuarenta y uno (341) ambos de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en quince (15.00) metros con la Calle San Rafael, hoy Calle Coll y Toste; por el ESTE, en veintinueve punto cincuenta (29.50) metros, con el Solar trescientos cincuenta (350) de la Urbanización y por el OESTE, en igual medida, con el Solar trescientos cincuenta y dos (352) de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto reforzado que consta de 4 dormitorios, cocina, pantry, cuarto sanitario, sala, comedor y marquesina la cual lleva el 261 de la Calle Coll y

Toste. Finca número 6,422 inscrita al folio 93 del tomo 345 de Río Piedras Norte. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. Dirección de la Propiedad: 261 Coll & Toste St. Baldrich Dev. San Juan PR00918. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: $131,563.28, de principal más intereses pactados sobre esta suma al tipo de 5.56% anual para un total de $249,807.66 a la fecha de 31 de diciembre de 2019, cual continúa acumulándose hasta su total y completo pago, más la cantidad de $34,650.00, equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 56 otorgada el día 31 de marzo de 2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Alfonso J. Gomez Roubert y consta inscrita al folio 187 del tomo 1572 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 6,422, Registro de la Propiedad de Rio Piedras Norte, Sección II de San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $346,500.00, con intereses al 5.560% anual, vencedero el día 14 de enero de 2094, constituida mediante la escritura número57, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de marzo de 2009, ante el notario Alfonso J. Gomez Roubert, e inscrita al

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folio 187 del tomo 1572 de Río Piedras Norte, finca número 6,422, inscripción 12va., Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $346,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $231,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $173,250.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean

puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 12 de octubre de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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LIME HOMES LTD. Demandante V.

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Demandado CIVIL NUM. GCD2013-0053 (307). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Litzy Cora Anaya, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 15 de septiembre de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $104,063.40 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 28 de junio de 2013 y notificada el 9 de julio de 2013, (procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Cayey, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: 1101 Villas Beatriz, Cayey PR. URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Once Cero Uno

(1101) del Condominio Villa Beatriz, radicado en el barrio Beatriz de la municipalidad de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de ochocientos veinte punto cuarenta y nueve pies cuadrados (820.49 p/c). En lindes, por el NORTE: con área común; por el SUR: patio cuyo uso le pertenece; por el ESTE: con pasillo, área común y con pared que lo separa del apartamiento once cero seis (1106); y, por el OESTE: con pared que lo separa del apartamiento diez cero seis (1006). Apartamiento ubicado en la primera planta del edificio ONCE del Condominio Villa Beatriz, con entrada principal mirando hacia el ESTE, el cual consiste de un area sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, tres habitaciones cada una con ropero, un baño y un “linen closet”. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de punto cincuenta y cinco por ciento (.55%) en los elementos comunes del Condominio. También tiene derecho dos espacios de estacionamiento identificados con el mismo número del apartamiento. Le corresponde a los Titulares de este apartamiento el uso exclusivo del patio que se extiende por el ancho en veintisiete pies y por el largo en diez pies contados desde el balcón. Las restricciones de uso de este patio se establecen en la escritura matriz y reglamento del Condominio.

Finca 25533 de Cayey, inscrita la tomo Karibe, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Guayama, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $104, 063.40, de principal, mas intereses al 5.49% desde el 1 de marzo de 2012, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; recargos a razón de 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de los (15) días después de la fecha de vencimiento; el 10 % del principal del pagaré equivalente a $10,500.00, para cubrir costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $105,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $70,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $52,500.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la primera subasta se llevará a

cabo el día 8 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el día 15 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el día 22 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama. De Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes los cuales podrán ser asumidos: Anotación de Demanda a favor de Firstbank Puerto Rico para responder por la suma de $104,063.40. Demanda expedida por el/la Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Caguas en el caso Caso Civil número GCD2013-0053 sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca Por La Via Ordinaria, Ex Parte: Firstbank Puerto Rico, el día 18 de enero de 2013., según anotación A. preferentes ni posteriores que deban ser cancelados. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá

libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes.

Librado en Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 20 de octubre de 2023.

Litzy Cora Anaya, ALGUACIL. ***

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Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Edwin Serrano cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de septiembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 1 de septiembre de 2023.

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Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que notifiquen al Lcdo. Pedro Jaime López Bergollo abogado de la parte demandante en este caso, cuya dirección es 273 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917 y su número de teléfono es (787) 766-5269, con copia de su contestación a la Demanda antes mencionada, de cuyos detalles pueden enterarse con mayor particularidad en el expediente de este caso, debiendo radicar ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, y notificar al abogado aludido tal contestación dentro del término de treinta (30) días de haberse publicado este edicto, excluyéndose en el cómputo de tal término el día de su publicación, y se le apercibe, además, que en caso de no radicar tal contestación podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía a favor de la parte demandante concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, hoy día 26 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOURDES DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, FRANCHESKA personas desconocidas AGRON RIVERA que se designe con Parte Demandada estos nombres ficticios, Civil Núm.: NG2023CV00062. que puedan ser tenedor, Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICportador, tenedores o TO. portadores, o puedan A: FRANCHESKA tener algún interés en AGRON RIVERA el pagaré hipotecario al URB SANTO TOMAS D-12 que se hace referencia CALLE SAN GABRIEL, más adelante en el NAGUABO PR 00718. presente edicto, que se POR LA PRESENTE se le publicará una sola vez. emplaza y requiere para que Se les notifica que en conteste la demanda dentro de la Demanda radicada los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. en el caso de epígrafe Usted deberá presentar su alese alega que un pagaré gación responsiva a través del hipotecario emitido por Sistema Unificado de Manejo y los señores Víctor Javier Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder Sánchez Rivera y Francis utilizando la siguiente direcMarie Quiñones Castro ción electrónica: https://unired. a favor de Marketing ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se Small Business Finance represente por derecho propio, Corporation, o a su orden, en cuyo caso deberá presentar por la suma principal su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted de $66,000.00, más deja de presentar su alegación intereses a razón del responsiva dentro del referido 6.75% anual hasta su total término, el tribunal podrá dicpago y vencimiento a la tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme- presentación, suscrito el dio solicitado en la demanda o 21 de diciembre de 2012, cualquier otro sin más citarle ni ante el Notario Héctor oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerciR. Crespo Milián, el cual cio de su sana discreción, lo enLEGAL NOTICE fue autenticado bajo el tiende procedente. El sistema ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO affidavit 2,543, el cual DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, se ha extraviado y no ha GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRINatalie Bonaparte Servera podido ser localizado, BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANcuya dirección es: P.O. Box CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE por lo que la parte 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR demandante pide que se 00936-8518, teléfono (787) BANCO POPULAR DE 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. ordene la cancelación del PUERTO RICO bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la mismo y de la hipoteca Demandante V. dirección notificaciones@orfque lo garantiza. law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO SUCESIÓN DE La hipoteca que garantiza diMI FIRMA y el sello del TribuTERESA MILLÁN cho pagaré, constituida menal, en HUMACAO, Puerto diante escritura número 93 ante SOLERO, COMPUESTA Rico, hoy día 1 de septiembre el Notario Héctor R. Crespo POR “JOHN DOE Y de 2023. En HUMACAO, PuerMilián el día 21 de diciembre RICHARD ROE” COMO to Rico, el 1 de septiembre de de 2012 en San Juan, Puer2023 IVELISSE C. FONSECA to Rico, grava la propiedad POSIBLES HEREDEROS RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. DESCONOCIDOS DE inmueble que se describe a KARILIN MORALES FIGUEcontinuación: URBANA: Solar DICHA SUCESIÓN; ROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. radicado en la Urbanización CENTRO DE Villa Fontana situado en el BaLEGAL NOTICE RECAUDACIONES DE rrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO que se describe con el número INGRESOS MUNICIPALES DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU(CRIM) Seis de la Manzana DL, con un Parte Demandante Vs.

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA área de doscientos cuarentiseis CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROmetros cuadrados con ochenLINA tiseis centímetros de metro; y U.S. SMALL BUSINESS en lindes por el NORTE, con el ADMINISTRATION Solar número Cinco, distancia Demandante Vs. de veintiún metros; por el SUR, con Solar número Siete, disFULANO Y FULANA tancia de veintiún metros; por DE TAL, POSIBLES el ESTE, con la Calle Periferal POSEEDORES DEL Este, distancia de doce metros PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO cuarentiún centímetros en área; Demandados y por el OESTE, con la Calle núCivil Núm.: CA2023CV02963. mero Cuarentinueve, distancia Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA- de once metros con diez cen-

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00280.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte deman-

dada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 10 de octubre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de forma irregular, identificado con el número cientos dos (102), localizado en la primera planta del Edificio “H” (H-102) del Condominio Chalets De San Pedro, localizado en el Barrio Florencio del término Municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con la descripción y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: en lindes, por el NORTE, en 32’3”, con pared común; por el SUR, en 32’3” con área común y pared común; por el ESTE, en 36’2”, con pared común adyacente al Apartamento G-101; y por el OESTE, en 16’0”, con pared común adyacente al Apartamento H-101 y en 22’2”, con área común y con pared común. Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Sur, que da hacia el área de pasillo que conduce a las escaleras que le brindan acceso al edificio. Consta de balcón, salacomedor, área de cocina con espacio para la lavandería, una habitación-dormitorio que es la principal (“máster-bedroom”) con clóset en su interior y un baño completo, un pasillo interior, un clóset, un baño completo de uso general, una segunda habitación-dormitorio con clóset en su interior y una tercera habitación-dormitorio con clóset en su interior. Le corresponde a este Apartamento, como anejos los usos exclusivas y particulares de 2 espacios de estacionamientos marcados con los número 217 y 218, ubicados en las áreas de estacionamientos del Condominio, según ilustrado en los planos de este Condominio. A este Apartamento le corresponde como Anejo el uso exclusivo y particular de un área privada de Patio, según ilustrada en el correspondiente “Plot Plan” del Apartamento y los planos de este Condominio. El Área total del Apartamento y sus anejos, es 1,550.97 p.c., equivalentes a ciento cuarenta y cuatro metros cuadrados con nueve de otro (144.09 m.c.), que se distribuye de la siguiente forma: Área del Apartamento: es de 888.57 p.c., equivalentes a 82.55 m.c. Área Patio anejo: es de 390.61 p.c., equivalentes a 36.29 m.c. Área de los estacionamientos: es de 271.79 p.c., equivalentes a 25.25 m.c. A este Apartamento además, le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de cero punto ocho seis dos seis por ciento (0.8626%). Inscrita en la finca número 19,824, al folio 208 del tomo 522 de Fajar-

do. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. La finca antes mencionada se encuentra afectada a un gravamen posterior al que se pretende ejecutar, la cual se describe de la siguiente manera: Aviso de Demanda del día 11 de abril de 2023, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, en el Caso Civil número FA2023CV00280, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Teresa Millán Solero, por la suma de $60,796.89, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 24 de abril de 2023, al tomo Karibe de Fajardo, finca número 19,824, Anotación A y última.

El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 28 de agosto de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $60,796.89 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 5.50% desde el 1ro de octubre de 2022; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $8,597.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $85,970.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $57,313.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la Oficina / Sala de Alguaciles de Subastas del Tribunal, Sala Superior de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $42,985.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se

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adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a.

Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2023. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #266, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.

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al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concuSUCESIÓN DE rrir a la subasta si les convenga LARRY RODRÍGUEZ o satisfacer antes del remate VÁZQUEZ, COMPUESTA el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO de abogados asegurados, queentonces subrogados en POSIBLES HEREDEROS dando los derechos del acreedor ejeDESCONOCIDOS DE cutante: Embargo Federal conDICHA SUCESIÓN; tra Elaine Díaz Vidal, seguro ELAINE DÍAZ VIDAL, POR social xxx-xx-9859, por la suma SÍ Y POR CONCEPTO de $3,920.28, notificación número 204060116, Certificación DE USUFRUCTO de fecha 17 de marzo de 2016, VIUDAL; CENTRO DE Renovación de fecha 8 de julio RECAUDACIONES DE de 2025, presentado y anotado INGRESOS MUNICIPALES el día 31 de marzo de 2016, al Asiento 2016-003407-FED del (C.R.I.M.); ESTADOS Sistema Karibe. Aviso de DeUNIDOS DE AMÉRICA manda de fecha 14 de abril de Demandados 2023, expedido en el Tribunal Civil Núm.: BY2023CV01955. de Primera Instancia, Sala de Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIBayamón, en el caso civil núPOTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS mero BY2023CV01955, sobre UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTAHipoteca, seguido por Banco DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIPopular de Puerto Rico, conBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO tra Larry Rodriguez Vazquez, RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASsu esposa Elaine Díaz Vidal TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del y la Sociedad legal de bienes Tribunal de Primera Instancia, gananciales compuesta por Sala Superior, Centro Judicial ambos y los Estados Unidos de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerde América, por la suma de to Rico, hago saber, a la parte $116,665.09 más otra sumas, demandada y al PÚBLICO EN anotado el día 18 de mayo de GENERAL: Que en cumpli2023, al tomo Karibe de Toa miento del Mandamiento de Alta, finca número 5,902, anoEjecución de Sentencia expeditación A. El producto de la sudo el día 10 de octubre de 2023, basta se destinará a satisfacer por la Secretaría del Tribunal, al demandante hasta donde alprocederé a vender y venderé cance, la SENTENCIA dictada en pública subasta y al mejor a su favor, el día 29 de agosto postor la propiedad que ubica de 2023, archivada en autos y se describe a continuación: y notificada el 31 de agosto URBANA: Solar número ciento de 2023, a saber la suma de veintitrés (123) del Bloque “E”, $116,665.09 por concepto de en la Urbanización Los Dominiprincipal; generando intereses cos en el Barrio Piñas de Toa a razón de 5.875% desde el Alta, Puerto Rico, con un área 1ro de octubre de 2022; cargos superficial de trescientos cinco por demora los cuales al igual punto seiscientos noventa y que los intereses continúan cinco (305.695) metros cuadraacumulándose hasta el saldo dos. En lindes por el NORTE, total de la deuda reclamada en veintitrés punto cero siete en este pleito, y la suma de (23.07) metros, con el solar nú$12,270.12 para costas, gasmero ciento veinticuatro (124); tos y honorarios de abogado; por el SUR, en veintitrés punto y demás créditos accesorios noventa y seis (23.96) metros, garantizados hipotecariamente con el solar número ciento ven(“Sentencia”). La adjudicación tidós (122); por el ESTE, en se hará al mejor postor, quien trece (13) metros, con la Autodeberá consignar el importe ridad de Tierras de Puerto Rico; de su oferta en el acto mismo y por el OESTE, en trece (13) de la adjudicación, en efectivo metros, con la Calle número ca(moneda del curso legal de los torce (14). Contiene una casa Estados Unidos de América), de concreto. Inscrita en la finca giro postal o cheque certificado número 5,902, al folio 177 del a nombre del alguacil del Tritomo 122 de Toa Alta. Registro bunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, se llevará a efecto el día 27 DE Sección III de Bayamón. AdeNOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS más, el Alguacil que suscribe, 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el hago saber a todos los acreecuarto piso, Oficina de Alguacidores que tengan inscritos o les de Subastas de Centro Juanotados sus derechos sobre dicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, los bienes hipotecados con Puerto Rico. Que el precio míniposterioridad a la inscripción mo fijado para la PRIMERA SUdel crédito del ejecutante, o de BASTA es de $122,701.20. Que los acreedores de cargas o dede ser necesaria la celebración rechos reales que los hubiesen de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecumisma se llevará a efecto el día tada y las personas interesadas 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A en, o con derecho a exigir el LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en cumplimiento de instrumentos el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguanegociables garantizados hipociles de Subastas de Centro Jutecariamente con posterioridad dicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Demandante V.

24 Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $81,800.80, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $61,350.60, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

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

extinción el precio del remate.

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Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EDICTO.

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Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal.

Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en San Germán, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de octubre de 2023. NORMA SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA MUNICIPAL DE SABANA GRANDE. AUREA LUGO ALMÓDOVAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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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 19 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 23 de octubre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 23 de octubre de 2023.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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JACQUELINE ROMAN

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2022CV03150.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: JACQUELINE

ROMAN. VILLA CALIZ 2 PARCELAS 102, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00727.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 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 23 de octubre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 23 de octubre de 2023.

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

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

CARMEN D GONZALEZ LOPEZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2022CV03214.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: CARMEN D. GONZALEZ LOPEZ. BO. BEATRIZ SEC. LA JURADO, CALLE 5 KM 45.6, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 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 en-

terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 23 de octubre de 2023. En Cagusa, Puerto Rico, el 23 de octubre de 2023.

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

de este caso, con fecha 24 de octubre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J . FRANCO REVENTÓS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

ISLAND PORFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.

cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 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 24 de OCTUBRE de 2023.

En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 24 de OCTUBRE de 2023.

KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

NAZARET M SILVA ADORNO

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2023CV01657.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LEGAL NOTICE EDWIN OMAR SERRANO PEÑA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO EDWIN.SERRANO@ORF-LAW.COM DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUA: NAZARET M NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SILVA ADORNO. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS(Nombre de las partes que se le TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE notifican la sentencia por edicto) SAN JUAN EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-

Demandante V.

OSVALDO R. SANCHEZ ESTRELLA

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04264.

Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: OSVALDO R. SANCHEZ ESTRELLA.

(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 30 de enero 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

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO

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

PEDRO A. RIOS GUZMAN

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SS2022CV00568.

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A: PEDRO A. RIOS GUZMAN.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 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 24 de octubre de 2023. En SAN SEBASTIÁN, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA LEBRÓN ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

A: NELSON GARCIA BLANCO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 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 18 de octubre de 2023. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUCRECIA PAGÁN MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JAVIER CRUZ COFRESI

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2023CV00970.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LEGAL NOTICE JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO JLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUA: JAVIER CRUZ NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA COFRESI. DIRECCIÓN: CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN URB. PALACIOS DEL JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIOSOL, 367 CALLE NES SALÓN 603 HORIZONTE, HUMACAO,

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

NELSON GARCIA BLANCO

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV00581.

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

PR 00794-1255.

(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

The San Juan Daily Star 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 25 de octubre de 2023. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 25 de octubre de 2023.

IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. ARSENIA MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 24 de octubre de 2023. En Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. TORRES MUÑIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

AXEL RIVERA FIGUEROA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO SU ESPOSA RITA MARÍA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- SÁNCHEZ FRANCO T/C/C NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TITA MARÍA RIVERA Y LA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARESOCIEDAD LEGAL DE CIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE BIENES GANANCIALES HATILLO SALÓN DE SESIOCOMPUESTA POR NES SALÓN 101 CIVIL - CRIMINAL AMBOS Demandados BANCO POPULAR DE Civil Núm.: CG2022CV00045.

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Demandante V.

FELIX ALBERTO CASTRO RIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2022CV02152.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS JCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW.COM

A: SUCESIÓN DE SONIA MARGARITA ALVAREZ BENEJAM COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDO FELIX ALBERTO CASTRO RIVERA; FULANO DE TAL Y SOTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN.

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

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 12 de septiembre de 2022, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 4 de octubre de 2023 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar identificado con el número Seis (6) del bloque C en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Praderas de Navarro localizado en el Barrio Navarro del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos trece punto ocho cuatro nueve cuatro metros cuadrados (513.8494 m.c.). En linderos: NORTE, en una distancia de veintiuno punto cinco cero metros (21.50 m) con el solar identificado con el número Siete (7) del bloque C del proyecto; SUR, en una distancia de veinticinco metros (25.00 m) con terrenos pertenecientes a la Autoridad de Tierras; ESTE, en una distancia de catorce punto uno cuatro metros (14.14 m) con la Calle número Cuatro (4) del proyecto y en una distancia de siete punto nueve cero metros (7.90

m) con el Solar identificado con el número Seis (6) del bloque B del proyecto; OESTE, en una distancia de diecisiete punto nueve cero metros (17.90 m) con el solar identificado con el número cinco (5) del bloque C del proyecto. Enclava una estructura de hormigón para fines residenciales. FINCA NÚMERO: 15,625, inscrita al folio 33 del tomo 414 de Gurabo, sección II de Caguas. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II, la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la Escritura número 426, otorgada el 15 de julio de 2009, se omitió incluir lo siguiente: Distancia de siete punto nueve cero metros (7.90 m) con el Solar identificado con el número Seis (6) del bloque B del proyecto. Dirección Física: URB. PRADERAS DE NAVARRO, 6-C ANDALUCIA CALLE 6, GURABO PR 00778.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $262,525.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $175,016.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $131,262.50. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $247,492.86 de principal, más intereses convenidos al

5.5000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado.

Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda, por éstos contar con Condiciones Restrictivas a su favor. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes.

Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores

expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 26 de octubre de 2023. ALEJANDRO L. URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #997, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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SUNWEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Demandante Vs.

JORGE LUIS GONZÁLEZ CLAUDIO

Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2023CV01037.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 2 de agosto de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 18 de septiembre de 2023 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número diez (10) radicado en la Urbanización Twin Valley, sita en el Barrio Río Cañas del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de dos mil cien metros cuadrados (2,100.00).

Colinda por el NORTE, con la Carretera número setecientos noventa y seis (796); por el SUR, con el solar número once (11) de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Teodoro Colón; y por el OESTE, con el solar número seis (6) de la Urbanización y la Calle ‘B’.

Finca Número 45,237, inscrita al folio 234 del tomo 1,281 de Caguas. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. Dirección Física: URB. TWIN VALLEY, LOTE 10 CALLE B CAGUAS PR 00725.

Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE

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2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $349,721.91. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $233,147.94. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $174,860.95. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $356,671.50 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 3.5000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o

el acreedor y/o inversionista, Demandado(a) dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Caso Núm.: CN2023CV00060.

Si se anula la venta, el compra- Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO dor tendrá derecho a la devo- ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN lución del depósito de la venta DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proce- KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM A: AIDELIS so de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el MUSKUS ROLDAN. acreedor hipotecario ejecutan(Nombre de las partes que se le te ni la representación legal de notifican la sentencia por edicto) éste. Por la presente, también EL SECRETARIO(A) que susse notifica e informa a Fulano cribe le notifica a usted que el de Tal y Sutano de Tal, perso- 23 de octubre de 2023, este nas desconocidas que puedan Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, tener derechos en la propiedad Sentencia Parcial o Resolución o título objeto de este edicto. La en este caso, que ha sido debiVenta en Pública Subasta de la damente registrada y archivada referida propiedad se verificará en autos donde podrá usted libre de toda carga y gravamen enterarse detalladamente de posterior que afecte la mencio- los términos de la misma. Esta nada finca, a cuyo efecto se notificación se publicará una notifica y se hace saber la fe- sola vez en un periódico de cha, hora y sitio de la Primera, circulación general en la Isla Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si de Puerto Rico, dentro de los eso fuera necesario, a los efec- 10 días siguientes a su notificatos de cualquier persona o per- ción. Y, siendo o representando sonas con algún interés puedan usted una parte en el procedicomparecer a la celebración miento sujeta a los términos de dicha Subasta. Se enten- de la Sentencia, Sentencia derá que todo licitador acepta Parcial o Resolución, de la cual como bastante la titularidad y puede establecerse recurso de que las cargas y gravámenes revisión o apelación dentro del anteriores y los preferentes, si término de 30 días contados a los hubiere, al crédito del ejecu- partir de la publicación por edictante continuarán subsistentes. to de esta notificación, dirijo a Se entenderá que el rematante usted esta notificación que se los acepta y queda subrogado considerará hecha en la fecha en la responsabilidad de los de la publicación de este edicmismos, sin destinarse a su ex- to. Copia de esta notificación tinción el precio del remate. Los ha sido archivada en los autos autos y todos los documentos de este caso, con fecha 24 de correspondientes al procedi- octubre de 2023. En Carolina, miento del caso de epígrafe Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre están disponibles en la Secre- de 2023. KANELLY ZAYAS taría de este Tribunal duran- ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MAte horas laborables y para la RICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, concurrencia de los licitadores SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL expido el presente Edicto que TRIBUNAL. se publicará en un periódico LEGAL NOTICE de circulación diaria en toda la ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUuna vez por semana y se fija- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA rá, además, en el Tribunal de CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAPrimera Instancia, Alcaldía y la GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE Colecturía de Rentas Internas CAGUAS SALÓN DE SESIOdel Municipio donde se celebra- NES SALÓN 704 rá la Subasta y en la Colecturía MIDLAND CREDIT más cercana del lugar de la MANAGEMENT PUERTO residencia de la parte demanRICO, LLC COMO dada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO AGENTE GESTOR CUAL, expido el presente que DE MIDLAND CREDIT firmo y sello, hoy día 26 de octubre de 2023. ALEJANDRO L. MANAGEMENT, INC. URBINA ROQUE, ALGUACIL Demandante V. AUXILIAR PLACA #997, SALA YAZAN S. HIJAZI SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV01113.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CA- KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM ROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE A: YAZAN S. HIJAZI - BO. CAROLINA SALÓN DE SESIOSONADORA CARR. 173 NES CIVIL 406

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K 3 AGUAS BUENAS, PR ISLAND PORTFOLIO 00703; 4960 PMB 360 PO SERVICES, LLC BOX 4960, CAGUAS PR COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS (Nombre de00726. las partes que se le FUND, LLC notifican la sentencia por edicto) Demandante V.

AIDELIS MUSKUS ROLDAN

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,

26 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2023.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

tencia, 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 25 de octubre de 2023. En Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el 25 de octubre de 2023. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria.

Rosimar López Robles, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

LA SUCESIÓN DE REMIGIO ÁLVAREZ ORTEGA T/C/C REMIGIO ÁLVAREZ T/C/C REMI ÁLVAREZ ORTEGA COMPUESTA POR MIRIAM ÁLVAREZ MARTÍNEZ, SONIA ÁLVAREZ MARTÍNEZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05601.

(502). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE Demandante V. HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORMADELINE DINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELAMEDINA PEREZ CIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HA2023CV00223. AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO A: SONIA ÁLVAREZ KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

MARTÍNEZ, COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE REMIGIO ÁLVAREZ ORTEGA T/C/C REMIGIO MADELINE MEDINA PEREZ HC 5 BOX 54942 HATILLO, PUERTO ÁLVAREZ T/C/C REMI RICO 00659 ÁLVAREZ ORTEGA; A: MADELINE A LAS SIGUIENTES MEDINA PEREZ. DIRECCIONES: REPARTO (Nombre de las partes que se le ZARINA, 35 CALLE notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- PRINCIPAL, BO. CERRO cribe le notifica a usted que el GORDO, BAYAMÓN, PR 21 de octubre de 2023, este 00956; RR 11 BOX 3733, Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, BAYAMÓN, PR 00956Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi- 9343, URB. EL CORTIJO, damente registrada y archivada NN1 CALLE 3, BAYAMÓN, en autos donde podrá usted enPR 00956-5657, 982 terarse detalladamente de los LITTLE CREEK RD., términos de la misma. Esta noORLANDO, FL 32825tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula7346, 3290 HEIDER RD., ción general en la Isla de PuerTITUSVILLE, FL 32796to Rico, dentro de los 10 días 1557. siguientes a su notificación. Y, FULANO Y MENGANO siendo o representando usted DE TAL, POSIBLES una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la SenHEREDEROS MIGUEL A. MAZA PÉREZ MMAZA@MAZA.NET

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DESCONOCIDOS DE REMIGIO ÁLVAREZ ORTEGA T/C/C REMIGIO ÁLVAREZ T/C/C REMI ÁLVAREZ ORTEGA.

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: $39,260.06 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.25% anual desde el 1 de marzo de 2023 hasta su completo pago, más $201.80 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $4,578.70 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances” La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Solar #35 radicado en el Barrio Cerro Gordo del Municipio de Bayamón, con cabida superficial de 608.645 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en 38.00 metros, con el solar #34; por el SUR, en 32.90 metros, con el solar #36; por el ESTE, en 17.00 metros con la calle principal; y por el OESTE, en 17.837 metros con Zenón Mercado. Edificación: Enclava casa de cemento en dos niveles, que consta del primer nivel de marquesina y el segundo nivel de tres baños, sala-comedor, cocina, balcón y terraza. La casa mide 43½ por 26½. Dicha estructura está construida de cemento y bloques, excepto la terraza que esta techada en zinc, no expresa valor, según consta de la Escritura #49, otorgada en Bayamón, el 12 de junio de 1997, ante el notario Samuel Pagán Pagán, inscrita al folio 187 del tomo 1154 de Bayamón, Finca 51274, inscripción quinta. Inscrita al folio 185 del tomo 1154 de Bayamón, Finca 51274. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón, Finca 51274. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. 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 demandados 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 el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, 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, 23 de octubre de 2023 en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY Demandante V.

MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO T/C/C MIGUEL ANGEL RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO, SU ESPOSA LUZ RUIZ PÉREZ T/C/C LUZ DELIA RUIZ PÉREZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2023CV02801.

(404). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

AMBOS. CALVO COLON T/C/C MENENDEZ - URB T/C/C LUZ DELIA RUIZ COLINAS DE FAIRVIEW POR MEDIO del presente edic- VIVIAN RUTH CALVO PÉREZ, POR SÍ Y to se le notifica de la radicación T/C/C VIVIAN R. CALVO 4T13 CALLE 209, COMO MIEMBRO DE de una demanda en cobro de T/C/C VIVIAN CALVO TRUJILLO ALTO PR LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL dinero por la vía ordinaria en la COMPUESTA POR 00976-8235.

DE GANANCIALES que se alega que usted adeuda POR LA PRESENTE se le a la parte demandante, Oriental JOSE JAIME COLON, COMPUESTA CON y requiere para que Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, MADELINE JAIME SU ESPOSO, MIGUEL emplaza conteste la demanda dentro de gastos y honoraCOLON, IVYS JAIME RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO los treinta (30) días siguientes yrioslasdecostas, abogado de este litigio.

T/C/C MIGUEL ANGEL a la publicación de este Edicto. El demandante, Oriental Bank, COLON, MARIA JAIME COLON; JOHN DOE RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO. Usted deberá presentar su ale- ha solicitado que se dicte senY JANE DOE COMO 253 LEONARDY AVE., gación responsiva a través del tencia en contra suya y que se Unificado de Manejo y le ordene pagar las cantidades POSIBLES HEREDEROS OSTEEN, FLORIDA 32764- Sistema Administración de Casos (SU- reclamadas en la demanda.

DESCONOCIDOS; 9450; 12S REPARTO MAC), la cual puede acceder POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO ESTADOS UNIDOS DE SANTA MARTA, utilizando la siguiente direc- se le emplaza para que presenAMERICA; CENTRO TRUJILLO ALTO, PUERTO ción electrónica: https://unired. te al tribunal su alegación resramajudicial.pr, salvo que se ponsiva a la demanda dentro DE RECAUDACION DE RICO 00976. represente por derecho propio, de los treinta (30) días de haPor la presente se le notifica INGRESOS MUNICIPALES en cuyo caso deberá presentar que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: LCDO. LUIS G. PARRILLA HERNÁNDEZ P.O. Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168 Tel.: 787-766-7000 / Fax: 787-766-7001 lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com Abogados de los demandantes, favor notificar a Bautista Cayman Asset Company, a través de su representación legal con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia 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. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en Carolina, Puerto Rico, 20 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MYRIAM I. FIGUEROA PASTRANA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, INC.

ber 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/tribunalelectronico/, 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, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes LEGAL NOTICE a la publicación del presente ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO edicto, se le estará enviando DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- a usted por correo certificado NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA con acuse de recibo, una coSALA DE SAN GERMÁN pia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar ORIENTAL BANK de su última dirección conociDemandante V. MILTON G. MARTINEZ da: Urb. Las Quintas, 118 Calle Noruega, San Germán, PR NIGAGLIONI, 00683-3506. EXPEDIDO bajo FULANA DE TAL Y LA mi firma y el sello del Tribunal SOCIEDAD LEGAL en San Germán, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de octubre de 2023.

DE GANANCIALES LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA COMPUESTA POR IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REAMBOS GIONAL. MILITZA LORENZO Demandados VEGA, SUB-SECRETARIA. Civil Núm.: SG2023CV00446.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO LEGAL NOTICE POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYALOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIMÓN BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO FINANCE OF AMERICA RICO, SS. su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 06 de septiembre de 2023. En TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 06 de septiembre de 2023. Lcda.

Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria Regional. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.

A: MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO T/C/C MIGUEL ANGEL RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO, POR SÍ Y Parte Demandante Vs. COMO MIEMBRO DE GREGORIO LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL TRINIDAD MENENDEZ A: MILTON G. DE GANANCIALES Parte Demandada COMPUESTA CON SU Civil Núm.: TJ2023CV00196. MARTINEZ NIGAGLIONI, Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. FULANA DE TAL Y LA ESPOSA, LUZ RUIZ SOCIEDAD LEGAL PÉREZ T/C/C LUZ DELIA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. DE GANANCIALES RUIZ PÉREZ; A: GREGORIO TRINIDAD COMPUESTA POR LUZ RUIZ PÉREZ

REVERSE LLC Demandante Vs.

SUCESION VIVIAN RUTH CALVO COLON T/C/C VIVIAN R. CALVO COLON T/C/C VIVIAN

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04696.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN VIVIAN RUTH CALVO COLON T/C/C VIVIAN R. CALVO COLON T/C/C VIVIAN CALVO COLON T/C/C VIVIAN RUTH CALVO T/C/C VIVIAN R. CALVO T/C/C VIVIAN CALVO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: 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.

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Tug of war over NBA rights provides glimpse of media’s future

By KEVIN DRAPER and BENJAMIN MULLIN

tive. With CBS and Fox as unlikely bidders, the league could want games to be shown on NBC’s broadcast channel.

As for Amazon, it is seen as highly unlikely that the NBA — a league proud of being forward-thinking regarding technology — would sign a new rights agreement with only traditional media companies, according to some of the people familiar with the negotiations. Amazon has long been interested in broadcasting the NBA, according to a person familiar with the league’s negotiation history, and it has won plaudits for how it has handled Thursday night NFL games.

The media and technology companies declined to comment for this article. CNBC, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal have all previously reported on parts of the NBA’s media-rights negotiations.

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he NBA’s season tipped off last Tuesday with stars including LeBron James and Nikola Jokic beginning the long quest for a title. But the action that will have longer-term ramifications for the league, and the media and entertainment landscape, is happening off the court.

The companies holding the rights to show NBA games — The Walt Disney Co., which owns ESPN and ABC, and Warner Bros. Discovery, parent company of TNT — are collectively paying the league $24 billion over nine years for that privilege. But their contracts expire after next season, and the NBA hopes to more than double the money it receives for rights in the next deal, according to several people familiar with the league’s expectations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations.

It won’t get that without a fight. After decades in which sports leagues garnered ever-bigger piles of money for the rights to show their games, there are signs that media and technology companies are under increasing pressure to justify the exorbitant amounts they spend on broadcast rights. Interest rates are high, Wall Street is demanding profitability over growth, and streaming has reconfigured the entertainment industry.

The result of the NBA’s negotiations will say a lot about the future of broadcast networks, the cable bundle, streaming services and the sports media ambitions of technology companies.

“I think in this era that we’re coming out of, this is the last of the big deals,” said John Kosner, who advises sports media and tech startups after a two-decade career as an executive at ESPN. The NFL, the most valuable sports league in the world, did not quite double its rights fees when it signed new agreements in 2021. And that was before the stock market declined, interest rates rose and wars began in Europe and the Middle East.

Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery, which have televised N.B.A games for more than two decades, aren’t necessarily in positions to shell out lots of cash, either.

Disney has carried out extreme costcutting and layoffs this year, and CEO Robert Iger has said the company is considering “strategic options” to sell equity in ESPN.

The N.B.A. season began last week with a face-off between the Denver Nuggets, with Nikola Jokic, center, and the Los Angeles Lakers, with LeBron James, right.

Warner Bros. Discovery has also cut costs and said in August that it had a debt load of nearly $50 billion following the merger of the two companies last year.

The most likely scenario, according to the people familiar with the negotiations, is that Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery will sign new agreements with the NBA to televise fewer games. The NBA declined to comment for this article.

The two companies together show about 160 regular-season games each year, as well as the playoffs and NBA Finals. Most games are shown on cable (ESPN and TNT), with a handful on ABC. For both companies, NBA broadcast rights still represent a valuable bargaining chip in negotiations with their biggest customers: cable and satellite companies.

Those distributors pay billions of dollars to Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery for the rights to show their cable channels, including TNT and ESPN, based in part on the expectation that those channels will air sports including NBA games.

An NBA package would also help both companies shift to a streaming future.

Warner Bros. Discovery recently added a live sports package to its streaming service, Max, while ESPN has been vocal about having a stand-alone streaming offering for its flagship channel in the near future.

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are not likely to be the only companies showing NBA games, though. If those companies end up showing fewer games in the new deal, the league may create a third rights package, perhaps even a fourth, of the games no longer included in the first two packages, as well as the league’s new inseason tournament.

The most likely buyers for those packages of games are Amazon and NBC, according to the people familiar with the negotiations.

Top executives at Fox, CBS and Google-owned YouTube have said that they are unlikely to put in serious bids for broadcasting rights. The intentions of Netflix and Apple are less clear, but Netflix has long said it is uninterested in paying the kind of prices the NBA is looking for. Apple has largely committed itself to a sports strategy of buying up all of a league’s domestic and international rights, as in its recent deal with Major League Soccer. That isn’t possible with the NBA. Amazon and NBC are attractive partners to the NBA for different reasons.

For a generation, most NBA games have been watchable only with a cable package. But the collapse of the cable bundle — from around 100 million households with a cable package a decade ago to around 70 million today — has made oldschool broadcast networks, the most widely distributed television channels, more attrac-

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Where, oh where, are the WTA Finals? played in a 4,300-seat temporary stadium in Quintana Roo. The venue, on the grounds of the Paradisus Cancún hotel, will also feature t was early September, and Iga Swiatek had two on-site practice courts for the players. Opno idea where her season would end.

For the third year in a row, the WTA Finals erational costs are estimated to be $6 million, were in limbo through the start of the U.S. which includes building the stadium. The cost, Open. including $9 million in total prize money, is to “For sure, it’s pretty unfortunate and be divided among the WTA, the promoters and annoying we don’t have any decision yet,” the state of Quintana Roo, where Cancún is.

Swiatek said in late August, shortly before the “Staging the WTA Finals in Cancún was WTA announced that Cancún, Mexico, would one we could meet and tick off lots of boxes,” host this year’s championship for the world’s said Fabrice Chouquet, a director of the tourtop eight singles players and top eight doubles nament. “The culture, the fans, giving players teams. “We, as players, are not involved in all from around the world the opportunity to be of the discussions.” in Mexico, where we have great weather and Professional tennis players are highly good conditions to host the event and vibrant structured athletes who plan their schedules hospitality because that’s also the signature of months, sometimes years, in advance. Because Mexico.” the WTA Tour competes in nearly 30 countries Two years ago, the Finals were held across six continents with barely an offseason, in nearby Guadalajara and won by Garbiñe the women spend much of their lives on the Muguruza. Last year, after much delay in anAn aerial view of Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico on Nov. 15, 2020.

The cost of the road, crisscrossing time zones and navigating nouncing the venue, the event was moved to their complicated travel. Knowing when and tournament, including $9 million in total prize money, is to be divided among the the 14,000-seat Dickies arena in Fort Worth, where they are going to compete is essential WTA, the promoters and the state of Quintana Roo. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Texas, which experienced a dearth of attenTimes) to their well-being and injury prevention. dance until the final weekend. Caroline GarIn 2019, the WTA began what it thought cia won the title.

“Unfortunately, a lot of places don’t pay women a lot was to be a 10-year deal for the Finals to be held in Shenzhen, of money and, like a lot of women’s sports, we don’t have the For more than 20 years from 1979-2000, the year-end China. When COVID-19 hit the country was shut down. Then, luxury to say no to some things,” Pegula, a member of the WTA championships were played at Madison Square Garden in when Steve Simon, chief executive of the WTA, said the tour Players’ Council, said during the U.S. Open.

New York and routinely attracted more than 15,000 fans. would not return to China until it could establish the safety This year, total prize money for singles and doubles will “I think if the money was right and the arrangement was and whereabouts of former player Peng Shuai, who had dis- something that we could get behind, where we could go and be $9 million. If the champion goes undefeated in round-robin appeared after accusing a high-ranking government official of create change, then I would be OK playing there,” she added. play, she will pocket $3 million.

This year’s singles competitors include Australian Open sexual abuse, the situation became precarious. Peng eventuMaria Sakkari said she thought players needed to be champion Sabalenka, French Open winner Swiatek, U.S. ally resurfaced and retracted her claims of abuse. more open-minded. “If the WTA can help women there move Now the deal is officially dead. The big question is, will forward, then it’s a win for both of us,” she said by phone two Open champ Coco Gauff, Wimbledon winner Marketa Vonit move to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and, if so, when? drousova, Elena Rybakina, Pegula, Jabeur and Sakkari. Karoweeks ago.

The WTA board supported a move for this year, but it lina Muchova was the eighth qualifier, but she was forced to Some former players don’t agree. was scuttled before the announcement was made. Simon then “Why would the leading sport for women go to a coun- withdraw last week because of a wrist injury, allowing room traveled to Riyadh during the tour’s China swing earlier this try with such a poor track record for women’s rights?” Pam for Sakkari. month to work out details. But then war broke out in the Mid- Shriver, a 10-time WTA Finals doubles winner with Martina Sabalenka, Swiatek and Sakkari are playing for the third straight year, while Pegula, Gauff and Jabeur are second-year dle East, delaying an announcement.

Navratilova, said by phone. “They’re compromising a payout competitors. Rybakina and Vondrousova are making their FiWhile the men’s ATP Tour is playing its Next Gen ATP with core values.”

Finals in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, starting at the end of November, nals debut this year.

Navratilova wants to see progress before play. there has been dissension among the women. Many current One other issue facing the WTA Finals this year is its “I’m all for opening up a dialogue,” Navratilova, also an players, including Jessica Pegula, Aryna Sabalenka and Ons eight-time WTA Finals singles champion, said by phone. “But proximity to the Billie Jean King Cup, the international team Jabeur, are willing to go.

I need to see a commitment to women. I want to competition for women, which begins in Seville, Spain, just know their goals and their education plans. You two days after the end of the Finals in Cancún. Pegula, Gauff can’t just go in good faith. If they’re just going and Swiatek have declined to play in the King Cup. It is the for money, it’s a big mistake. The WTA will lose second year that the two signature events have conflicted.

Regardless of scheduling difficulties, travel headaches credibility for looking the other way and ignoring and the politics involved in choosing tournament sites, playSaudi’s human rights violations.”

Especialistas: ers who qualify for the WTA Finals relish the opportunity to Sabalenka and Jabeur are scheduled to join compete.

Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz in an exhiTipos de servicios: .REPARACIÓN “I always felt that it was a celebration, a reward for a bition in Saudi Arabia called the Riyadh Season .Instalación Tennis Cup in December. They will play at King- great season,” said Sakkari, who reached the semifinals last .Venta dom Arena, which has a seating capacity of about year with wins over Sabalenka, Pegula and Jabeur. “It’s huge.

Automatizando su Hogar y Negocio There are just seven other players there, and you’re playing 40,000.

By comparison, the WTA Finals will be against the best of the best. That’s very unique.”

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he planetary shift will probably be imperceptible today, but you’ll have several months to understand how this change impacts you. It will dawn on you that you feel a strong need for liberation. Perhaps you need to release yourself from the bonds of your group. Change and innovation are in the air!

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

The gentle winds of change are blowing through your life at the moment. You have a feeling of newness and an open attitude toward the world.

Some outside events give you the impression that you’re advancing in a concrete manner toward a new life. You can expect to have some pleasant surprises.

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Gemini

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Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

You mustn’t expect any enormous changes today. The process you began three or four years ago will accelerate slightly. You’re changing the moorings of your identity, the ideas that make you sure of who you are. Your family, background, and education no longer count for as much as your spiritual foundations.

The day ahead should be fairly positive. You’ll begin to feel the faintest hint of a major change beginning. This new phase will last seven months. As it progresses, you’ll find greater freedom of expression. You can expect to shift into high gear on subjects you used to avoid in the past. Some friction with siblings may arise in the next few months.

Cancer

(June 22-July 23)

The solar system is liable to trigger a transformation that will last several months. The change will center on the means you use to fulfill yourself in terms of your career and love life. If you feel hemmed in by your training or upbringing, you can expect to seek liberation from these inhibitions in the months to come.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

It’s an excellent day for you! Although no major events occur today, there’s the promise of freedom in the coming months. A fundamental shift is about to occur in your occupation and love life. As the months unfold, you can expect to be more visionary, more creative, and perhaps more rebellious. You’ll be much more effective than in the past two or three years.

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

To understand the shift occurring today, you must look at events from a lofty perspective. A slow liberation process is gathering momentum.

Over the next few months you won’t refuse an opportunity to rid yourself of an oppressive part of your past. You’ll shed your old complexes and emerge renewed. Don’t be alarmed if family relations suffer a bit. The distress is only temporary.

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

In your case, the phrase “turning point” has some meaning. This turning point could take the form of a new person or a key event that changes things forever. Sometimes amazing things we hear about really do happen. One of these things may be happening to you in the coming months.

It may be that you’ve come back deeply changed from a long voyage. Of course, travel changes everyone to some extent, but in your case, the change is more profound. You’re going to have a problem getting back into your old life.

It may feel too limiting for you. So what are you waiting for? Change it!

If you feel suffocated by your romantic relationship, if you feel it lacks spice or is too traditional, then why not liberate yourself? Today’s planetary energy will help you turn even your craziest ideas into reality. Starting today, you’re going to be asked to be more decisive.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

You’ve met some strange people who have greatly influenced your attitude about your marriage or partnership. Some people have been pushing you toward more freedom. These people have been influenced by the planetary alignments, but that’s no reason you have to be.

Freedom or lack of it is completely subjective.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

If you’ve yearned to modify something in your daily life, do it now. The planetary energy is telling you that the hour has come to make concrete changes. Whether the change you seek is at home or at work, physical or emotional, don’t be afraid to seriously upset the status quo of your life.

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