Mayor Ismael Rodríguez Ramos said Mon day that Barrios Arenas, Fuig, La Joya, Santa Rita, Magüeyes and Santa Juanita in the southwestern coastal town are still in the dark, as well as some areas in other communities.
LUMA Energy, the private consortium in charge of the island’s electricity transmission and distribution system, claims to have restored power to more than 1.34 million customers, or 92%. Regarding the Ponce region, of which Guánica is part, LUMA has reported that 84% of custom ers have service.
“In that remaining 16% are our communities, and because the consortium itself admitted that they have no way of knowing where there are pockets without service, unless people call, well, we in the municipality are already reporting the dark areas,” the mayor said.
Rodríguez Ramos pointed out that he is concerned
that LUMA will take several more days to complete the work, given the two atmospheric disturbances already under observation in the Atlantic Ocean. One system is several hundred miles east of the Windward Islands in the Caribbean, with a 30% chance of development over the next 24 hours and a 40% chance of development over the next four days.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service reported that the second system, located hundreds of miles south of the Cape Verde Islands off the African coast, could form a tropical depression by mid-week.
“It has a 70% chance of developing, and we are watching how that goes,” the mayor said.
More than 10 downed poles await LUMA in Guayama
Guayama Mayor O’brain Vázquez Molina, asked the energy consortium to take immediate action in Barrio Carite, where more than 10 electrical utility poles have been down since the passage of Hurricane Fiona. The southeastern coastal municipality is also in LUMA Energy’s Ponce region.
“Recovery will not be possible if we leave so many homes unattended,” Vázquez Molina said. “The consortium has not properly attended to that neighborhood, and I, as mayor, am in defense of these communities. Here in Carite, many older people with health conditions urgently need electrical service. We in the Municipality of Guayama are doing our part, and LUMA has to do its part. This goes beyond measuring everything in simple percentages. We are talking about human lives.”
The mayor added that there are also streets and rural areas of Guayama in darkness, where no LUMA vehicles or personnel are working.
“They do nothing to energize them, when in some cases, we know, it is only to reset fuses,” he said.
According to LUMA Energy on Sunday afternoon, “given the severity of the damages in the most affected regions,” the consortium’s brigades are prioritizing and carrying out crucial repairs in the west and south of the island. The estimate is that by Thursday, the Ponce and Mayagüez regions, which suffered the most damage after Hurricane Fiona, including severe flooding and damage to roads, bridges and electrical infrastructure, will be fully energized.
On Monday morning, 79.6% of the customers with out electricity in Puerto Rico 16 days after the passage of Hurricane Fiona were in 29 municipalities that make up the regions of Ponce and Mayagüez.
we must remember that Fiona aggravated and restated problems that existed before Fiona and that they need to be taken care of.”
President José Luis Dalmau Santiago welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden to the island on Monday while demand ing equal treatment for Puerto Rico under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, among other things.
“President Joe Biden’s visit to Puerto Rico is of great importance at a time when Puerto Ricans have just faced an emergency. Likewise, it occurs five years after the passage of Hurricane Maria, whose recovery efforts are in an initial stage,” Dalmau Santiago said in a written statement. “Therefore, our first demand is that not only the disbursement of federal funds be expedited, but also that the pending projects materialize.”
“The people expect concrete actions in their communities so that they have adequate housing infrastructure that is required not only to face any emergency, but also for the future development of Puerto Rico,” the Popular Democratic Party lawmaker added.
“This visit should allow President Biden to understand the effects of an unequal distribution of the Medicaid and Medicare programs in Puerto Rico,” Dalmau Santiago said. “The refusal to give a greater contribution to the island, compared to other state jurisdictions in the United States, places the health of Puerto Ricans and our health system in a precarious condition. It is for this reason that we advocate for the modification of the hundreds of contributions to Puerto Rico in the area of health.”
The senator also noted that beginning in 2021, Puerto Rico needs an economic development tool that encourages job creation and, at the same time, addresses the need of the United States government to establish in its jurisdiction a center for research and manufacturing of bio-medical and high-tech products, which makes the island the ideal place to benefit the economy and, at the same time, national security.
“Finally, we cannot lose perspective that President Biden’s visit is taking place at a vital moment where Puerto Rico wishes to continue its close relationship with the United States, united
Senate President José Luis Dalmau Santiagoby the common citizenship and commitment that exists between both peoples, by the principles of democracy,” Dalmau Santiago said. “Likewise, the friendship of both peoples is intertwined in appreciation and collaboration with the common causes we long for and respect for our history as a Latin American and Caribbean country. “Welcome to Puerto Rico, Mr. President and First Lady.”
Bernabe: President should be held accountable for prom ises made to Puerto Rico
Citizen Victory Movement (MVC by its Spanish initials) Sen. Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl said Monday that Puerto Rico should take advantage of the president’s visit to insist on substantive actions that the island needs, some of which were part of Biden’s campaign proposals.
“It is good that the president can observe directly the damage caused by Fiona and take the necessary immediate measures that can hasten recovery,” Bernabe said. “Although, in practical terms, Puerto Rico needs more action than visits,
Bernabe also pointed out that “we often hear the phrase that elected officials have to account for their execution, an idea with which we are in agreement.”
“But this applies to everyone, including the president of the United States,” he said.
The MVC senator noted that “the Biden-Harris proposal for Puerto Rico included supporting a fair process to solve the problem of status.”
“He also recognized the negative effect of policies imposed by the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the president’s position was to explicitly end the Board’s austerity policies,” Bernabe said. “In addition, he promised debt-related help (“debt relief”) that would allow Puerto Rico to properly renegotiate its debt.”
“None of these promises or proposals has been completed,” he said. “Little or nothing has been done by the White House to initiate a process of decolonization, apart from some general and vague statements, similar to those of past administrations. It is irresponsible that all branches of the federal government recognize that Puerto Rico is a possession of the United States, under the full powers of Congress, that is, a colony, and take no action to initiate a process of decolonization.”
“On the other hand,” Bernabe added, “the Fiscal Control Board continues to impose its austerity policies, expanding its radius of action on issues such as labor reform, which is outside the powers given it under PROMESA [the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act].”
Regarding the debt, Bernabe noted that “after the terrible agreement of COFINA [the Spanish acronym for the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp.], another agreement was approved on the general obligation debt and the oversight board is now rene gotiating the debt of the [Puerto Rico] Electric Power Authority, without the appearance of ‘debt relief’ actions of the federal government to help us in the battle against the bondholders.”
Puerto Rico’s government bank accounts totaled $18.86 billion as of Aug. 31, a 3.7% hike from the month before, according to a Treasury Department report.
The summary dated Sept. 30 showed that accounts increased by $676 million from nearly $18.19 billion on July 31.
The difference came due to a $651 million increase in public corporations and legally separated entities, a $226 million increase in restricted accounts and/or those subject to Title III bankruptcy proceedings, and a $4 million increase in pension-related accounts. Meanwhile, the re port noted a $109 million decrease in central government non-Treasury Single Account (TSA) balance accounts, and a $96 million decrease in the central government’s TSA.
The bank account balance of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) increased to $1.23 billion as of Aug. 31, from $1.03 billion the prior month. PREPA has been in bankruptcy since 2017 and is currently embroiled in disputes over its $9 billion bonded debt with creditors.
Meanwhile, the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp.’s account balance remained at $21.7 million in August, the document showed.
The report also included the bank account balances for other instrumentalities such as the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, which increased to $1.06 billion in August from $922.2 million in July, and the University of Puerto Rico, which increased to $440.9 million in August from $438.8 million the previous month.
A separate liquidity report from the Puerto Rico Fis cal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority for August
for some 15 commonwealth component units showed a different picture.
The Puerto Rico Ports Authority saw August liquidity decrease to $125 million from $125.4 million, primarily due to a $800,000 transfer to restricted accounts, the report said.
The Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority operating net cash flow in August decreased to $83.5 million from $93.9 million, mainly due to payroll and related costs and higher purchase services.
“This impact was expected and accounted for in the liquidity plan,” the document said.
The Puerto Rico Convention Center District Author ity’s cash slightly decreased to $44 million, from $45.8 million, at the end of August. The decrease was due to a past years’ utilities payment of $2.6 million.
want to be treated the same as our fellow Americans in our time of need.”
The president said that “we were anxious to be here.”
“It is people like you that do so much for your communi ty,” Biden said. “Thank you, governor, for your partnership. I mean it when I say we’re going to help rebuild everything in a resilient way.”
“Jill and I have Puerto Rico on our minds and in our prayers,” he said.
Regarding the list of petitions Pierluisi conveyed, such as an extension of assistance and help to rebuild the power infra structure, the president said: “We are with you; I am confident that we will be able to do everything you want, governor.”
Biden recognized that Puerto Rico has been through major difficulties since Hurricane Maria five years ago, and said the island “is full of strong people, and you have had to do a lot without the help you have needed.”
By ALEJANDRA M. JOVER TOVAR Special to The STAR alejandra.jover@gmail.comPresident Joseph Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden came to Puerto Rico on Monday afternoon to view recovery two weeks after Hurricane Fiona made landfall in the southwestern corner of the island.
Air Force One landed at Mercedita Airport in the southern coastal municipality of Ponce, one of the areas most affected by the hurricane. In fact, part of the airstrip had to be closed days before for cleaning due to flooding.
Biden is the 11th U.S. president to visit Puerto Rico on official business.
Upon arriving, the first couple was received by Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón and U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), among oth ers. They then traveled to the Las Américas Port, where Biden delivered a message, notably, in front of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) generators, signifying the urgency of restoring power to the island two weeks after Fiona. As of press time Monday, 93% of the island had power, with the Ponce and Mayagüez regions the most affected and least energized.
After a briefing, Pierluisi took the podium and thanked Biden for his support, “which has included the full cooperation of Cabinet members from key agencies.”
“The Biden administration has worked with us,” the gover nor said. “FEMA’s collaboration has been critical to our efforts to rebuild the island. My team and I provided the president with a summary of where we are with Hurricane Fiona. This is critical to be able to provide our residents with the help they need.”
“To that end, I have asked the president for an additional 180 days of assistance for recovery efforts,” Pierluisi said. “We
“[With Fiona] roads have been washed out again. We’ve seen homes flooded, farms decimated. For days, people have lived without electricity and water, some without knowing when they’ll have it again,” Biden said. “Those who survived Maria are reliving the nightmare all over again. The numbers may seem abstract, but every number and every life is a person. We read the obituaries and feel like they were people we knew who cared about their community and made a difference. They will not be forgotten.”
“Through these disasters, many have been displaced, but somehow they continue to rise up and deserve all the help their country can give them,” Biden added.
The president said he would make sure that federal funds are provided as swiftly as possible and that the federal govern ment will continue to cover the cleanup process after Fiona. He reminded people that “we deployed FEMA personnel, search and rescue, and personnel for power restoration that now we have to get to 100 percent.”
“The main story for reporters has been the storm. But there is also the story of what people did after the hurricane: churches
The president said “we were anxious to be here.”
and organizations cooked for their neighbors, organized ac tivities for children, provided water for those who couldn’t get it, and during the storm, people made extraordinary efforts to save their neighbors,” Biden pointed out. “There are no para troopers; these were neighbors willing to do anything. Thanks to ordinary people, the recovery is underway.”
Aside from the money already allocated to the island after Hurricane Maria, Biden announced $60 million from the Infrastructure Act to provide additional assistance to de velop new public works that would be resilient against future weather events.
“I am ready to deploy more resources from the Department of Energy to transform the entire system,” he said.
“We’ll help as they work to repair their grid quickly,” the president vowed. “We are committed every step of the way as long as it takes. We will not leave here, as long as I am president, until everything that can be done is done.”
President Biden said he would make sure that federal funds are provided as swiftly as possible and that the federal government will continue to cover the cleanup process after Hurricane Fiona.
and certain historical developments, they all have some things in common.
the aftermath of the most recent natural disaster in Puerto Rico, the so-called “insular cases” doctrine returns to knock on the doors of the United States Supreme Court on Friday when the high court hears a case involving people born in American Samoa.
Once again, the highest judicial forum in the United States is asked to consider revoking the jurisprudential framework that, since 1901, has established that territories and their inhabitants deserve different treat ment, fewer rights and fewer constitutional protections.
The new case is Fitisemanu vs. United States, and on this occasion, at issue is un equal treatment in citizenship matters for people born in American Samoa.
The Supreme Court will consider the Certiorari filing requesting the revocation of the insular cases.
Although the situation of each territory is different, according to the conditions of the treaties by which they were acquired
The insular cases are the constitutional infrastructure on which unequal treatment is based, and which can be seen in recent times in disaster recovery, bankruptcies of government entities, congressional repre sentation, taxes, civil rights, benefits from federal programs, among other contexts.
“Microjuris, in its mission to make legal debate accessible to all, has united efforts with the Equally American and Latino Justice organizations, who have joined to gether to lead legal efforts to address these challenges and revoke this group of cases,” said Ataveyra Medina Hernández, CEO of Microjuris and moderator of a panel on the subject that will be held this week. “By uniting the voices of all territories, we create an opportunity to assess the complexities of the insular cases and the dimensions which today impact the life and rights of the people who are born and live in the territories, from a non-partisan human rights perspective.”
The organizations will participate in a panel entitled “Insular Cases: ‘Odious and Wrong,’ Voices from the Territories,” which
Once again, the United States Supreme Court is being asked to consider revoking the jurisprudential framework that, since 1901, has established that U.S. territories and their inhabitants deserve different treatment, fewer rights and fewer constitutional protections.
will take place Wednesday, at 7 p.m. ET on the Microjuris Facebook channel.
The panel will feature Neil Weare from Guam and Charles Ala’ilima from Ameri can Samoa, both lawyers in the Fitisemanu case; a legislator from the Northern Mariana
Islands, Sheila Babauta; Lía Fiol Matta, a lawyer dedicated to civil rights matters in Puerto Rico; and Brian Modeste, director of insular affairs for the Committee on Natural Resources in the U.S. House of Representatives.
NewProgressive Party (NPP) Rep. Jorge Navarro Suárez filed a complaint on Sunday alleging he was assaulted by another man as he was leaving a concert at José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Hato Rey. It was the second time since 2018 that the lawmaker had been involved in a physical altercation. The lawmaker did not answer requests for comment.
In the complaint, Navarro Suárez stated that at about 11:55 p.m. on Oct. 1 while he was leaving a concert at the coliseum and was about to look for his vehicle in the coliseum parking lot, he had an altercation outside an el evator with an individual who insulted him and hit him in the face. As a result of the incident, the lawmaker suffered a contusion in the area of his mouth, he said in the complaint.
The case was referred to the Assaults Division of the San Juan Criminal Investigations Corps, which is handling the investigation.
House NPP Minority Leader Carlos ‘’Johnny’’ Méndez Nuñez said Navarro Suárez ‘’has to do an act of intro spection’’ and ‘’self-evaluate’’ after he was involved in yet another brawl.
Méndez Nuñez said Navarro Suárez told him that he got involved in a squabble with another person, whom the legislator identified as artist William Bass Morales, near the parking lot elevator and that it was captured on video.
The lawmaker filed a complaint against Bass Morales.
‘’I called him [Sunday] and asked him to explain to me what had happened and I told him that if it was like he told me, he should act on the matter,’’ Méndez Nuñez said in an interview with local news outlet NotiCel.
‘’I believe that he, like on other occasions, has to do an act of introspection,” Méndez Nuñez added. “He has to assess himself.”
A previous occasion in which Navarro Suárez hit
the headlines because of his involvement in a brawl was in 2018, when the legislator got involved in a fight at a restaurant with another individual who was accompanied by two women.
The lawmaker, at the time, said he had been drinking but was not drunk.
A year later, a video of Navarro Suárez, seemingly drunk, on Black Friday in 2019 at the Placita in Santurce went viral, and earlier this year a video of him sleeping during a legislative session also went viral.
Onthe third day after Hurricane Ian pul verized Fort Myers Beach, the rescuers from Florida Task Force 2 embarked on a laborious new task: to knock on every door that was still standing. It was the only way to make sure they had not missed anyone still waiting to be rescued — or someone who had perished.
“Fire department!” Noel Armas, a rescue squad officer, yelled as he banged on doors at the Mariner’s Boathouse & Beach Resort, on the mangled island’s southern end, which had not been hit as hard as other parts. “Anybody need assistance?”
He put his ear to the window of one unit, fearing that an older person, or someone who was injured or unable to move easily, might be stuck inside and in need of help. Down the hall, Vincent Pangallo, a rescue specialist, clanged on the elevator doors with a huge metal hammer, to make sure no one was stuck.
The rescuers, most of them firefighters who work for the city of Miami, had been the first task force deployed by the state to arrive behind Ian on Wednesday night, rushing in with highwater vehicles to save dozens of people from up to 12 feet of storm surge. One woman told the rescuers that the current had been so strong that she had let go of her husband and he had been washed away.
“After a storm has passed, that 48-hour period offers the greatest opportunity to find survivors,” said Capt. Ignatius Carroll Jr., who was deployed with the task force and is the executive officer to the Miami fire chief.
Now it was Saturday. The water had rece ded. The team and others that came after it had found at least 750 people who had stayed on Fort Myers Beach during the storm, in defiance of mandatory evacuation orders issued for the area Tuesday morning. Rescuers had taken about 200 of them off the island.
Right after the storm, authorities allowed some residents to return with their cars. But the destruction was so widespread that they had later limited people to crossing only on foot. By Sunday, it appeared that even some of those trips were being blocked at a checkpoint.
Among those who stayed after the storm, two had apparently experienced cardiac arrests and needed ambulances, Carroll said, including one whose attack happened in front of a squad of rescuers. The rescuers performed CPR, and the person survived and was sent to a hospital on the mainland.
Many other residents planned to stay,
Darcy Bishop cleans up her home, which will need to be demolished after flooding from Hurricane Ian, in Naples, Fla., Oct. 1, 2022. For decades, Bishop has cared for her two brothers, who have cerebral palsy, but the hurricane proved to be her biggest test yet.
despite the lack of power and water and the presence of dangerous debris everywhere. The rescuers praised how the community had come together to share meals and supplies — “It’s kind of inspiring,” Armas said — but they nevertheless worried about what the coming days might bring.
Already, a fight had broken out on one block, Pangallo said. As they knocked on doors, they came across one that someone had tried to force open, probably with a screwdriver.
“After three or four days, people are frustra ted, aggravated,” he said. “They think the power’s supposed to turn back on.”
He continued: “They become agitated. And they start going to see what they can get from their neighbor, because their neighbor’s gone. And the next thing you know, looting begins.”
He also worried about the mounting death toll, which rose to at least 54 in Lee County on Monday. As of Sunday, the rescuers from this task force had not come across any people who had died.
The middle part of Fort Myers Beach, a white-sand town of about 5,600 year-round residents on Estero Island, looked as if it had been bombed. Entire homes had floated off their concrete slabs. Wooden structures were reduced to splinters. On one block, the only bit of a house left standing was its white front door.
The ruins cut a jarring scene against the beautiful, deep orange glow of sunset.
“Look at this paradise,” Armas said,
pointing to the nightfall. Then he pointed to the shattered homes. “And then you have this.”
Even the most experienced rescuers, with many years of experience responding to hurrica nes, said they had never seen such a destructive storm surge.
“At this level?” said Christopher Dudot, a rescue specialist. “It’s terrifying.”
He said he considered Ian a lesson on how risky it could be to focus on a hurricane’s wind speeds and not how much water it might thrust onto land.
“This was almost like a biblical event,” he said, “because it was the dirty side of the
hurricane, the king tide and the high tide at the same time.”
The first couple of days on the island, the task force members — a group of more than 80 people — had eaten a diet of mostly peanuts and Pop-Tarts while working 20-hour shifts, Carroll said. They arrived in a long convoy with swift boats, an 18-wheeler full of supplies and tools to cut a path onto Fort Myers Beach. Last year, the squad was deployed to assist after a condominium collapsed in Surfside, north of Miami, killing 98 people.
Now, in Fort Myers Beach, dazed-looking residents scuttled around on bicycles or hauled carts of supplies — bags from the grocery store, gas canisters — from the mainland. They mostly had to get on and off the island on foot by crossing the Matanzas Pass Bridge. Rally points along the main drag, identified by spray-painted plywood, gave residents a place to await rides to the bridge. One corner featured a tent and a folding table with neatly arranged bottles of booze lined on top.
On one block, rescuers came across three people with shovels and other tools trying to clean their muddied property.
“Are you going to make us leave?” one of the young men asked Pangallo, who unlike most of the other task force members works for the Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Department.
No, Pangallo said. He just wanted to know that they had enough food and water and knew how to stay safe while running their generator.
The man recounted climbing to the second story of the house with a chain saw during the storm, fearing that they would have to cut through the attic. He and another man rescued two women and two dogs from another house that had been overtaken by the storm surge, he said.
“We’re lucky to be alive,” the other man said.
Members of the South Florida Search and Rescue team break down the door of an elderly woman’s apartment after neighbors said that they had not heard from her following the destruction caused by Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Oct. 1, 2022.
Thelast Supreme Court term ended with a series of judicial bombshells in June that eliminated the right to abortion, established a right to carry guns outside the home and limited efforts to address climate change. As the justices returned to the bench Monday, there were few signs that the court’s race to the right is slowing.
The new term will feature major disputes on affirmative action, voting, religion, free speech and gay rights. And the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority seems poised to dominate the new term as it did the earlier one.
“On things that matter most,” said Irv Gornstein, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law, “get ready for a lot of 6-3s.”
Several of the biggest cases con cern race, in settings as varied as educa tion, voting and adoptions.
They include challenges to the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. As in last term’s abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, long-standing precedents are at risk.
The court has repeatedly upheld affirmative action pro grams meant to ensure educational diversity at colleges and universities, most recently in 2016. In an interview that year, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the issue had been perma nently settled.
“I don’t expect that we’re going to see another affirmative action case,” she said, “at least in education.”
In that same interview, though, she said she feared what would happen were Donald Trump, then on the campaign trail, to become president.
“For the country, it could be four years,” she said. “For the court, it could be — I don’t even want to contemplate that.”
Trump went on to name three members of the Supreme Court, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who succeeded Ginsburg after her death in 2020.
Those changes put more than 40 years of affirmative action
precedents at risk, including Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 deci sion in which the Supreme Court endorsed holistic admissions programs, saying it was permissible to consider race as one factor among many to achieve educational diversity. Writing for the majority in that case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she expected that “25 years from now,” the “use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.”
The court seems poised to say that the time for change has arrived several years early in the two new cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, No. 20-1199, and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, No. 21-707. They are set to be argued Oct. 31.
The role race may play in government decision-making also figures in a voting rights case to be argued Tuesday, Merrill v. Milligan, No. 21-1086. The case is a challenge under the Voting Rights Act to an Alabama electoral map that a lower court had said diluted the power of Black voters.
In earlier decisions, the Supreme Court effectively gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which had required federal approval of changes to state and local voting laws in parts of the country with a history of racial discrimination, and cut back on Section 2 of the law, limiting the ability of minority groups to challenge voting restrictions. The Alabama case also concerns Section 2, but in the context of redistricting.
A challenge to the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, which makes it hard for non-Native Americans to adopt Native children, may also turn on whether the court views those safeguards as based on race, making them vulnerable to constitutional review. The law at issue in the case, Haaland v. Brackeen, No. 21-376, was a response to a history of children being removed from their tribes and heritage; arguments will be heard Nov. 9.
Kate Shaw, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, said the justices may conclude that these cases all present variations on the same question. “The court could announce a set of rules that, together, read the Constitution to allow virtually no consideration of race, regardless of the purposes or goals,” she said.
A second election case, Moore v. Harper, No. 21-1271, has the potential to reshape federal elections by amplifying the power of state legislatures to draw voting districts and set voting rules. It has not yet been scheduled for argument.
Nor has 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, No. 21-476, which will return the court to a battleground in the culture wars: whether some businesses open to the public may refuse to provide services to potential customers based on religious or other convictions.
The case concerns Lorie Smith, who owns a website design company that says it serves gay customers but intends to limit its wedding-related services to celebrations of heterosexual unions. She argues that requiring her to provide those services to gay and lesbian couples violates her right to free speech.
The court last considered the issue in 2018, when a similar dispute between a Colorado baker and a gay couple failed to yield a definitive ruling.
In the Dobbs decision, the justices in the majority dis agreed about whether the logic of that ruling should require reconsideration of other landmark decisions, including one establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The new case does not squarely present that question, but the court’s ruling may provide hints about the justices’ commitment to protecting gay rights and, more generally, how fast it means to move to the right.
The court’s recent run of conservative decisions led its approval ratings to plummet. In a Gallup Poll released Thurs day, 58% of Americans said they disapproved of the job the Supreme Court was doing, the highest rate since 2000, when Gallup first posed the question.
The court has near-total power to decide which cases it will hear, and it often uses that discretion to resolve disputes among lower courts. The court agreed to hear many of the major cases in the coming term despite a lack of such conflicts, an indication that the new majority is pursuing an agenda and setting the pace of change.
Lawyers who appear before the court have adjusted their arguments to this new reality.
“I think we’ve learned as litigants to go bold,” said Lisa Blatt, a lawyer with Williams & Connolly who has argued more Supreme Court cases than any other woman.
“This court isn’t insisting on baby steps,” she said. “I don’t see this court as an incremental one.”
Demonstrators rally in support of voting rights in Atlanta, Jan. 11, 2022. In the new term for the U.S. Supreme Court, which began on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, the justices will hear two election cases, one involving voting maps and another the power of state legislatures.Bangor, Maine, an unknown visitor smashed a storm window at Sen. Susan Collins’ home.
In Seattle, a man who had sent an angry email to Rep. Pramila Jayapal repeatedly showed up outside the lawmaker’s house, armed with a semi-automatic handgun and shouting threats and profanities.
In the New York City borough of Queens, a man who had traveled across the country waited in a cafe across the street from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s office to confront her, part of a near-constant stream of threats and harassment that has prompted the congresswoman to switch her sleeping location at times and seek protection from a 24-hour security detail.
Members of Congress in both parties are experiencing a surge in threats and confrontations as a rise in violent political speech has increasingly crossed over into the realm of in-person intimidation and physical altercation. In the months since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which brought lawmakers and the vice president within feet of rioters threatening their lives, Republicans and Democrats have faced stalking, armed visits to their homes, vandalism and assaults.
It is part of a chilling trend that many fear is only intensifying as lawmakers scatter to campaign and meet with voters around the country before next month’s midterm congressional elections.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if a senator or House member were killed,” Collins, a Republican serving her fifth term, said in an interview. “What started with abusive phone calls is now translating into active threats of violence and real violence.”
In the five years after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016 following a campaign featuring a remarkable level of violent language, the number of recorded threats against members of Congress increased more than tenfold, to 9,625 in 2021, according to figures from the Capitol Police, the federal law enforcement department that protects Congress. In the first quarter of this year, the latest period for which figures were available, the force opened 1,820 cases. If recent history is any guide, the pace is likely to surge in the coming weeks as the election approaches.
Despite the torrent of threats, few cases result in arrest. Tim Barber, a spokesperson for the Capitol Police, said officers have made “several dozen” arrests — but fewer than 100 — in response to threats against members of Congress over the past three years, adding that the majority come from people with mental illness who are not believed to pose an immediate danger.
“The goal is to de-escalate this behavior,” said Barber. “Most of the time, getting mental health treatment may be more successful than jail in order to keep everyone safe. When we don’t believe that is plausible, or the threat is serious and imminent, we make an arrest.”
In a review by The New York Times this year of threats that resulted in indictments, more than one-third were made by Republican or pro-Trump individuals against Democrats or Republicans deemed insufficiently loyal to the former president, and nearly one-fourth were by Democrats targeting Republicans. In other cases, the party affiliation could not be determined.
Security concerns have grown so pressing that many members of Congress are dipping into their own official or campaign
A protester holds a sign criticizing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Oct. 23, 2021. Ocasio-Cortez is among the most threatened members of the House, but the onus is on the young aides who answer the phone in her of fice to determine what constitutes a threat.
accounts to protect themselves. They have spent a total of more than $6 million on security since the start of last year, according to a Times analysis of campaign finance and congressional data.
The data suggest that the threats are particularly acute against lawmakers of color — Hispanic, Black, Asian American and Pacific Islander and Native American — who outspent their white colleagues on security by an average of more than $17,500. Democrats spent about $9,000 more than Republicans did. And members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault spent over $5,000 more than the average amount spent by members of Congress as a whole.
Security on the grounds of the Capitol, which has long been fortified by barricades, metal detectors and checkpoints guarded by a phalanx of police officers, has only increased in the wake of the Jan. 6 assault. But although the House and Senate leaders have their own security details, including plainclothes officers and armored vehicles, it can be more difficult for rankand-file lawmakers to obtain such protection, even when they are facing serious threats.
Many members of Congress say the process of getting extra support from the Capitol Police has been opaque and inconsistent.
It took 2 1/2 years for Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who is among the most threatened members of the House, to receive additional security from the Capitol Police, she said in an interview. The decision was made after the department flagged a tweet that it found to be threatening toward her.
“When I saw what it was, I was like, ‘I’ve gotten so much worse,’” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Why now?”
The Capitol Police has struggled to adjust to the rise in threats, rushing in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 assault to ramp up its response amid severe strains on the department. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger testified in January that his force needed to double the number of agents who work threat cases against lawmakers.
A police spokesperson said the department had met that goal.
The department has since opened two field offices in Florida and California, which have the most threats against members of Congress. It also has hired a new intelligence director tasked
with improving data collection and sharing. And it now provides security assessments on members’ homes and district offices.
Still, the potential for violence has continued to mount.
“We sign up for a lot of things when we sign up for this job,” Jayapal, D-Wash., said in an interview. “But having someone show up to your door with a gun, scaring your neighbors, scaring your staff and clearly trying to intimidate me — it’s hard to describe.”
Jayapal, who heads the Congressional Progressive Caucus, had grown accustomed to verbal harassment. But starting in April, she began receiving visits from a man in a car who would yell obscenities in the direction of her house.
Brett Forsell, 49, had sent Jayapal a “nasty” but “well thought-out” email back in January, which made clear that he disagreed with her, she said, but gave little indication that he intended to confront or harm her. Then about 11 p.m. one day in July — the third time he had come to her neighborhood — Forsell returned, revving his car engine, making U-turns in her street and parking near her driveway.
Jayapal’s husband, who took video of the encounter, reported hearing two male voices shouting obscenities and suggesting that they would stop harassing the neighborhood if the representative killed herself.
Forsell was arrested, and police reports said he planned to obtain a semi-automatic assault rifle and continue to return to Jayapal’s residence until she “goes back to India.” He pleaded not guilty in August and was ordered to pay $150,000 bail and submit to GPS monitoring to ensure he stayed away from Jayapal.
After the incident, she said it was a struggle to get the Capitol Police to grant her additional protection.
“It took an enormous amount of pressure for me to feel like I was getting attention from Capitol Police,” Jayapal said.
In the case of Collins, the incident at her home was a notable escalation after years of verbal threats. In 2018, after she announced she would support the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, she received a message that included footage of a since-deleted video of a beheading.
“We will c-t off your l-mbs and sl-ce off yo-r faces. We will t-ar out your tongues and dism-mber your org-as and sl-t your thro-ts while you watch,” the letter read.
It contained her personal phone numbers and addresses, as well as those of her staff and their relatives.
Three people are currently in jail and another few are awaiting some kind of action as a result of threats against her, Collins said.
The window-smashing incident was of particular concern, she said, because it occurred on a secluded side of her house, suggesting that the area had been “studied and chosen.”
“There’s been a sea change in that we now see this constant escalation and erosion of any boundaries of what is acceptable behavior, and it has crossed over into actual violence,” Collins said.
In July, the House sergeant-at-arms, the chamber’s top law enforcement official, announced it would provide an additional $10,000 for members to harden their homes against security breaches.
Still, some lawmakers say they continued to feel unsafe.
“It just feels like money was thrown at the situation,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “I just don’t know how seriously people are going to take this unless someone gets hurt.”
InJune, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a budget that set aside $12 million to create a program for transporting migrants without legal permission out of Florida. He touted it as the highlight of the state’s new spending when it came to immigration.
But just three months later, the money was being used in a place far from Florida, in a very different way: rounding up Venezuelan asylumseekers on the streets of San Antonio and shipping them on private planes to Massachusetts.
The flights last month, carrying 48 migrants, attracted international attention and drew condemnation from Democrats as well as several legal challenges. DeSantis immediately claimed credit for what appeared to be a political maneuver — dumping dozens of asylum-seekers on the doorstep of Northeastern Democrats who have resisted calls to clamp down on immigration.
Carlos Guanaguanay, left, in front of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard, on Sept. 15, 2022.
Florida of ficials have provided little information about the program or how it was engineered. But details have begun to emerge of the clandestine mission that was carried out without the knowledge of even the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, a fellow Republican: flights paid for with state money in possible violation of the state law that allocated the money; a charter airline company with political ties to the Florida governor.
And, in the middle of it all, a woman with a background in military counterintelligence whom investigators believe was sent to Texas from Tampa, Florida, in order to fill the planes.
Until now, little has been known about the woman whom migrants said identified herself only by her first name, “Perla,” when she solicited them to join the flights. A person briefed on the San Antonio Sheriff’s Of fice investigation into the matter told The New York Times that the person being looked at in connection with the operation is a woman named Perla Huerta.
Huerta, a former combat medic and counterintelligence agent, was discharged in August after two decades in the U.S. Army that included several deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to military records.
Efforts to reach Huerta by phone and at her home in Tampa were unsuccessful.
The man who said he worked with her to help sign up other migrants agreed to speak on the condition that his name not be used because the events are under investigation. He said he first met Huerta on Sept. 10 outside the Migrant Resource Center in San Antonio.
She asked him to help her recruit other migrants like him from Venezuela. But he said he felt betrayed, because she never mentioned working on behalf of the Florida government. “I was also lied to,” he said. “If I had known, I would not have gotten involved.” All he was told, he said, was that “she wanted to help people head up north.”
The effort to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard appeared to have been far less organized than the more sweeping program created by Abbott in Texas that had bused more than 11,000 migrants from the state to three northern, Democratic-run cities — Washington, New York and Chicago.
But the goal for both governors was the same: draw attention to the large number of migrants arriving without legal permission daily at the southern border and force Democrats to deal with the migrants whom they profess a desire to welcome.
In the case of the flights to Martha’s Vineyard, Florida state records show that an airline charter company, Vertol Systems, was paid $615,000 on Sept. 8 and $950,000 less than two weeks later. The first payment was for “project 1” and the second payment for “projects two and three.” So far, Florida of ficials have acknowledged only the initial flights and have not spoken of plans for others.
The money to fly migrants came from a special $12 million appropriation in the state’s last budget, a brief item that gave funds to the state’s Department of Transportation to create a program “to facilitate the transport of unauthorized aliens from this state.”
The program was conceived as a means for Florida to push back on the number of migrants without legal permission being flown into the state by the federal government. As of August, DeSantis said the funds had yet to be used, because the additional large groups of migrants that had been expected had failed to materialize.
He set his sights on the place where most migrants were initially arriving — Texas.
Several Democratic state lawmakers raised objections. “They crafted this bill, they set the rules of the game, and they can’t even comply with it,” state Sen. Jason Pizzo, a Democrat, said of the DeSantis administration. Pizzo filed suit in Florida state court hoping to stop the state from spending any more money on similar flights.
No state contracts detailing the spending have been made public, and little has been said by the DeSantis ad-
ministration about the role played by state transportation of ficials in arranging or coordinating the flights.
“I have been doing this long enough to know that the state of Florida is being deliberately opaque about this incident,” said Michael Barfield, director of public access at the Florida Center for Government Accountability. “I do believe there is a misuse of state funds.”
The story of how the migrants were recruited for the flights was recounted by dozens of migrants in interviews with lawyers and journalists after arriving, mystified, on what they realized was a remote resort island with few resources.
A woman named Perla, most of them said, had approached them in San Antonio about a free flight to Massachusetts.
There were jobs there, they were told, and people to help them. The woman provided the mostly destitute migrants with free meals at McDonald’s and a place to stay at a nearby La Quinta Inn before the flight.
The migrants each received a red folder containing a map of the United States, with an arrow stretching from Texas to Massachusetts. Another map in the shape of Martha’s Vineyard had a dot for the airport and one for the community services center.
The men, women and children who signed up were flown from San Antonio and landed first in Crestview, Florida. The migrants did not disembark. From there, the flight stopped again in South Carolina before reaching its final destination on Martha’s Vineyard on Sept. 14.
There, several migrants said in interviews, they were taken in vans that had been waiting for them and deposited near a community center, where they were told to knock on the door. The woman who answered had no idea who they were and did not speak Spanish.
Beth Folcarelli, CEO at the center, Martha’s Vineyard Community Services, said she was in her of fice talking to a senior staff member at about 3:45 p.m. when outside the window they spotted a group of people walking in the nonprofit’s direction.
“The people approaching looked inquisitive, and like they were looking for help,” she recalled. She stepped out to ask what they needed.
All she understood were the words “Venezuela” and “refugees,” so she rushed inside for help from a manager named Geany Rolanti, who speaks Spanish.
Eventually, 48 people from the flights, including several children, had gathered in the nonprofit’s parking lot.
Most of the migrants eventually ended up at a military base on Cape Cod, sleeping in unused barracks. But few had any idea of what would happen to them next.
Staff members at the community center in Martha’s Vineyard arranged for a migrant named Pablo to call home to Venezuela, Rolanti said. He appeared broken.
“My love, we were tricked,” he told his wife, weeping uncontrollably. “This woman lied to us. She lied.”
TheSupreme Court’s new term, which started Monday, is studded with momen tous cases on affirmative action, voting, religion and gay rights. Those highly charged disputes can overshadow other aspects of the court’s work, notably the significant cases on its business docket, which could influence how companies are regulated, conduct diversity hi ring and more.
Chipping away at the administrative state
The Supreme Court has in recent years become increasingly skeptical of the power of administrative agencies. In its last term, it res tricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to tackle climate change and the Oc cupational Safety and Health Administration’s power to limit the spread of the coronavirus in the workplace.
The Supreme Court in Washington on Aug. 7, 2022. Upcoming Supreme Court
On Nov. 7, the court will hear a pair of arguments that could make it easier to challen ge the constitutionality of two other agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The cases are both about timing, asking the justices to decide how long people and businesses must litigate with agencies that seek to regulate their conduct before they can go to federal court.
cases could have big implications for businesses.
whether he can sue in a third state — Pennsylvania.
The Supreme Court has long said that corporations may be sued where they are incorporated or where their headquar ters are. And they may be sued in particular cases if the plaintiff’s claims are related to the defendant’s contacts with the state.
The first case, Axon Enterprise v. Federal Trade Commis sion, concerns a firm that makes body cameras for law enfor cement and was investigated by the FTC as part of a merger re view. Rather than waiting for the conclusion of the proceedings before the agency, the company tried to sue in a federal trial court, arguing that the agency’s structure was unconstitutional and that it did not have the authority to review the merger.
Even as it rejected that attempt, a divided three-judge pa nel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Axon’s argu ment had force.
The second case, Securities and Exchange Commission v. Cochran, concerns an accountant accused of misconduct by the SEC and involves a similar issue. The accountant, Michelle Cochran, sought to challenge the agency’s structure in federal court before administrative procedures were completed. The 5th Circuit agreed that she should be able to bring her claims, crea ting the sort of conflict between federal appeals courts that often prompts Supreme Court review.
On Nov. 8, the justices will consider whether states can require corporations to agree to be sued in those states’ courts as a condition of doing business in the states.
The case, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway, concerns Robert Mallory, a Virginia man who says he developed colon cancer from exposure to toxic chemicals while working in Virgi nia and Ohio for the Norfolk Southern Railway Co., which was based and incorporated in Virginia. The question in the case is
Mallory relies on none of those bases for jurisdiction. Rather, he points to a Pennsylvania law that requires companies that do business in the state to consent to being sued there. The railroad says the law is unconstitutional.
Lawyers for Mallory say the law is a sort of mirror image of the take-it-or-leave-it contracts that many businesses use to force consumers and workers into arbitration or require them to sue far from their homes.
In a brief supporting the railroad, the Biden administration said the Pennsylvania law “subverts interstate federalism by re aching beyond Pennsylvania’s borders and allowing state courts to hear cases in which Pennsylvania has no legitimate interest.”
On Oct. 11, the court will hear National Pork Producers Council v. Ross, a challenge to a California law that seeks to reduce cruelty to animals by requiring that pork sold in the state come from breeding pigs housed in spaces that allow them to move around freely.
The law forbids the sale of most pork in California unless the pig it comes from was born to a sow that was housed with 24 square feet of space. But most sows around the nation are kept in much smaller enclosures.
“These pens,” the groups challenging the California law wrote in a Supreme Court brief, “provide around 14 square feet of space and — for hygiene, safety and animal welfare and hus bandry reasons — do not allow the sow to turn around.”
Given the size of California’s market, pork producers say,
the state effectively seeks to regulate businesses outside its territory in violation the Constitution.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in San Francisco, rejected the argument that the law’s out-of-state effects made it invalid. “State laws that regulate only conduct in the state, including the sale of products in the state, do not have impermissible extraterritorial effects,” Judge Sandra S. Ikuta wrote for the panel.
The Supreme Court’s ruling could have implications for many other laws, including sta te laws addressing climate change and out-ofstate travel to obtain abortions.
The business impact of two marquee cases
Two cases on social controversies that have gotten a lot of attention also have big busi ness implications. In a major challenge to affir mative action programs, the court may strike down the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Caroli na. There may well be spillover effects for employers seeking to assemble diverse workforces.
The pipeline of highly credentialed minority candidates would tighten, defenders of the programs argued, and, depen ding on the logic of the ruling, employers’ diversity efforts could be challenged under a federal law prohibiting workplace discri mination.
A brief supporting the universities filed by scores of com panies, including Apple, General Motors, Google, Meta Plat forms and Starbucks, said that they relied on leading colleges and universities to train diverse leaders and that “racial and eth nic diversity enhance business performance.”
The court is also considering whether a Colorado web de signer may refuse to create websites celebrating same-sex ma rriages despite a state law barring businesses open to the public from discriminating based on sexual orientation and other iden tity categories. As a legal matter, the case concerns free speech, and a ruling in favor of the designer could allow other businesses engaged in expressive conduct to discriminate against groups of which they disapprove.
USstock indices rose Monday at the start of the last quarter of a tumultuous year as investors worried about aggressive rate hikes amid historically high inflation and fears of slowing economic growth.
Ten of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors rose in afternoon trading, with the energy sector head ing for its best day in more than three months.
oil majors Exxon Mobil (NYSE:) and Chev ron Corp (NYSE:) rose more than 4%, following a rise in crude prices as sources said the Organi zation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies are considering their biggest produc tion cut since the start of the COVID-19 pan demic. [O/R]
Megacap growth and technology compa nies like Apple (NASDAQ:) and Microsoft (NAS DAQ:) each rose 2%, while banks gained 2.8%.
Data showed manufacturing activity grew at its slowest pace in nearly 2-1/2 years in Sep tember as new orders dwindled, likely because rising interest rates to curb inflation cooled de mand for goods.
The Institute for Supply Management said the manufacturing PMI fell to 50.9 this month, with no estimates, but still above 50, indicating an expansion in production.
“U.S. equities are rising on weaker-thanexpected manufacturing data as traders believe bad news for the economy is good news for the stock market,” said David Madden, market ana lyst at Equiti Capital.
“There is speculation in some parts of the markets that the Fed could be ‘turning’, mean ing the bank could try to raise interest rates at a slower pace.”
The benchmark continued to support ratesensitive growth stocks, falling after British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced to veer to wards a top-rate tax cut. [US/]
All three major indices ended a volatile third quarter lower on Friday amid growing fears that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary poli cy will plunge the economy into recession. [.N]
Tesla (NASDAQ:) Inc was down 8.4% after selling fewer-than-expected vehicles in the third quarter as deliveries lagged far behind produc tion due to logistical hurdles. Peers Lucid Group fell 2% and Rivian Automotive 4%.
Major automakers are expected to report modest declines in new car sales in the US, but analysts and investors are concerned that an ob
scuring economic picture, not a stock shortage, will lead to a decline in future car sales.
Citigroup (NYSE:) and Credit Suisse became the last brokers to lower their year-end targets for 2022 as US equity markets endure the heat of aggressive central bank action to curb inflation.
Credit Suisse also set a year-end price target for 2023 for the benchmark index at 4,050 points,
adding that 2023 would be a “year of weak, nonrecessionary growth and falling inflation.”
The number of emerging issues outpaced the pastures with a 5.48-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 2.24-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded one new 52-week highs and 23 new lows, while the Nasdaq re corded 45 new highs and 225 new lows.
As dusk gathered Sunday, Elena Kharkovska stood in the court yard of her apartment block, con templating what she had just learned: Without ever moving, she had suppos edly lived in Russia for one day.
President Vladimir Putin decreed Friday that four regions of Ukraine — in cluding the province of Donetsk, which includes Kharkovska’s hometown, Ly man — had been annexed into Russia.
But before the news could reach her, Ukrainian soldiers were in control of the city again, as Russian forces retreated.
Without electricity, radios or the internet, residents of the city of Lyman said, they were unaware of the grandi ose ceremony Putin held at the Krem lin on Friday to celebrate an annexation that the world largely condemned as a sham.
“I didn’t hear anything about it,” Kharkovska said as she watched a kettle of buckwheat simmer on a campfire. The town has been without cooking gas for months.
“I’m in shock,” she said, laughing. “Nobody told us anything” on Friday about how her town had supposedly been grafted onto Russia, or on Satur day, when Ukrainian troops took it back.
“It’s funny to me because it recalls a saying, ‘Without me, they married me,’” she said.
The dizzying speed with which Rus sia claimed to have owned and then lost Lyman encapsulates the energy of Ukraine’s monthlong blitz to recapture territory from Moscow. The liberation of Lyman, a strategic rail hub, is not just an important military victory, but also a potent symbol of Ukraine’s plucky abil ity to publicly humiliate a larger and os tensibly more powerful foe.
Ukraine has only a brief window to expand its counteroffensive before soldiers mobilized in a call-up Putin or dered last month will reinforce Russian positions in Ukraine. Then, once again, Ukrainian cities in the areas that Mos cow now considers sovereign Russian territory could revert to Russian control.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyyof Ukraine and Western leaders have called Russia’s annexation claims mean ingless and illegal. The territory, they say, is and will remain Ukrainian. The Ukrainian army’s swift capture of Lyman in the hours after Putin’s speech high lighted the Russian leader’s precarious hold on the so-called annexed territo ries. In a hasty withdrawal, the Russians left behind official documents, military vehicles and the bodies of their soldiers.
The retreat highlights the weak ness of the Russian army, Ukrainian and Western military analysts say, but it also portends an elevated risk of escalation. A humiliated Russia may respond by deploying thousands of newly recruited soldiers or employing its nuclear arse nal, the world’s largest.
The Ukrainian army, outgunned and outnumbered by the Russians, captured Lyman through a strategy of attacking nearby roads and villages, and never engaging in a head-on fight for the city, said Serhiy Hrabsky, a former colonel in the army.
Fighting in the pine forests and on both sides of the Oskil River, the Ukrai nian forces moved from village to vil lage, systematically shutting off every Russian route for resupply or retreat, he said. For the Russians, a journey through the pine forest became a lethal gamble.
“The key success of the Lyman op eration is that we left behind any idea of head-on assault,” Hrabsky explained. It was only a matter of time, he added, before Russian soldiers in Lyman ran out of ammunition and fuel.
When I arrived in the city Sunday, the dense forest surrounding the town bore the signs of a ferocious weekslong artillery battle. Severed branches were scattered across the road. Whole villages along the route were in ruins.
“Look at the destroyed houses,” said Roman Plakhaniv, a lieutenant in the Kramatorsk district’s police force, who arrived Sunday to patrol the city. “This was a nice, normal town. People from another country came and destroyed it.”
In the city, fall leaves blew about the streets. Stray dogs loped between the houses. Bread trucks remained parked in the lot of demolished bakery, waiting morning distributions that would never come.
Police said about 5,000 of the city’s prewar population of 22,000 remained.
On Sunday, Ukrainian soldiers and police patrolled the streets, searching for Russian stragglers. Occasional explo sions could be heard as demining teams detonated land mines. Otherwise, the city seemed firmly under Ukrainian con trol.
In front of the mayor’s office lay a heap of Russian propaganda posters, ap parently freshly torn down and partly burned in a fire. Decorated in the white, blue and red of the Russian tricolor, they were soggy from the rain. One explained the significance of Russian state symbols: the flag and the national anthem.
Inside City Hall were notices ex plaining how to apply for building per mits under the occupation authority and phone numbers to call to apply for a
Formonths, pollsters and analysts had said that President Jair Bolsona ro was doomed. He faced a wide and unwavering deficit in Brazil’s highstakes presidential race, and in recent weeks, the polls had suggested he could even lose in the first round, ending his presidency after just one term.
Instead, it was Bolsonaro who was celebrating. While the challenger, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former leftist pre sident, finished the night ahead, Bolso naro far outperformed forecasts and sent the race to a runoff.
Da Silva received 48.4% of the votes, and Bolsonaro 43.23%, with 99.87% of the ballots counted, according to Brazil’s elections agency. Da Silva needed to ex ceed 50% to be elected president in the first round.
They will face off Oct. 30 in what is widely regarded as the most important vote in decades for Latin America’s lar gest nation.
That is partly because of the starkly different visions the two men set forth for this country of 217 million people, and partly because Brazil faces a host of cha llenges, including environmental threats, rising hunger, a sputtering economy and a deeply polarized population.
But the election will also be widely watched in Brazil and abroad because it is seen as a major test for one of the world’s largest democracies. For months, Bolsonaro has criticized the nation’s elec tronic voting machines as rife with fraud — without any evidence — and has su ggested that the only way he would lose is if the election is rigged.
Bolsonaro told reporters late Sunday that he “overcame the lies” in the polls and that he felt he now had an advan tage in the second round. Even with the positive results, he also suggested there could have been fraud, saying he would wait for the military to check the results.
“Our system is not 100% ironclad,” he said. “There’s always the possibility of something abnormal happening in a fu lly computerized system.”
Bolsonaro had claimed for months that the polls were underestimating his support, using his enormous rallies as evidence. Yet, virtually every poll showed him behind. On Sunday, it was clear that he was right. He performed better in all of Brazil’s 27 states than what Ipec, one of Brazil’s biggest polling firms,
The challenger, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, left, and the incumbent, President Jair Bolsonaro. Mr. da Silva leads in the polls.
had predicted a day before the election, exceeding the projections by at least 8 percentage points in 10 states.
Pollsters appeared to misjudge the strength of conservative candidates across the country. Governors and law makers supported by Bolsonaro also outperformed polls, winning many of their races Sunday.
Cláudio Castro, the right-wing gover nor of Rio de Janeiro state, was reelected in a landslide, with 58% of votes, 11 per centage points more than Ipec’s projec tion. At least seven of Bolsonaro’s former ministers were also elected to Congress, including his former environment minis ter, who oversaw skyrocketing defores tation in the Amazon, and his former health minister, who was widely critici zed for Brazil’s delay in buying vaccines during the pandemic.
Outside Bolsonaro’s home in a rich, beachside neighborhood in Rio de Janei ro, his supporters gathered to celebrate, dancing and drinking out of plastic cups of beer. Many were wearing the brightyellow jerseys of Brazil’s national soccer team, which has become a sort of uni form for many of Bolsonaro’s supporters. (The president wore one to vote, over what appeared to be a flak jacket or pro tective vest.)
“We expected he would have an advantage of 70%” of the votes, said Silvana Maria Lenzir, 65, a retiree with stickers of Bolsonaro’s face covering her
chest. “Polls do not reflect reality.”
Still, over the next four weeks, Bolso naro will have to make up ground on da Silva, who held the top spot Sunday. The right-wing president is trying to avoid becoming the first incumbent to lose his reelection bid since the start of Brazil’s modern democracy in 1988.
At the same time, da Silva is trying to complete a stunning political revival that years ago had seemed unthinkable.
Although da Silva ended the night as the front-runner, his speech to suppor ters took on a somber tone. But he said he welcomed the chance to now debate Bolsonaro one-on-one.
“We can compare the Brazil he built and the Brazil we built,” he said. “Tomo rrow the campaign starts.”
A former metalworker and union leader with a fifth grade education, da Silva led Brazil during its boom in the first decade of the century. He was then convicted on corruption charges after he left office and spent 580 days in prison. Last year, the Supreme Court threw out those charges, ruling the judge in his ca ses was biased, and voters have since rallied behind the man known simply as Lula.
The two men are the country’s most prominent — and polarizing — politi cians. The left in Brazil views Bolsonaro as a dangerous threat to the nation’s de mocracy and its standing on the world stage, while the country’s conservatives
see da Silva as an ex-convict who was a central part of a vast corruption scheme that helped rot Brazil’s institutions.
Da Silva, 76, is pitching voters on a plan to raise taxes on the rich to expand services for the poor, including widening the social safety net, increasing the mi nimum wage and feeding and housing more people.
Da Silva has built his campaign around broad promises for a better futu re, including a pledge that all Brazilians should be able to enjoy three meals a day. His rallies have also heavily leaned on his Everyman image, with plenty of references to beer, cachaça and picanha, Brazil’s most famous cut of meat.
Bolsonaro, 67, has made his cam paign about protecting Brazil’s conser vative traditions from what he says are threats from leftist elites. He has made his campaign slogan “God, family, ho meland and liberty,” and he has vowed to fight against things such as legalized drugs, legalized abortion, transgender rights, and restrictions on freedom of re ligion and free speech.
Bolsonaro’s first term has been mar ked by turmoil, including clashes with the courts, corruption scandals and a pandemic that killed more people than anywhere other than the United States. But it has been his suggestions that he won’t relinquish power if he is voted that has alarmed many Brazilians and the in ternational community.
Last year, Bolsonaro told his suppor ters there were three outcomes to the election: He wins, he is killed or he is arrested. He then added, “Tell the bas tards I’ll never be arrested.”
Bolsonaro has questioned Brazil’s electronic voting machines for years, despite the fact that there has been no evidence of widespread fraud in the sys tem since Brazil began using it in the late 1990s.
Four days before Sunday’s vote, his political party released a two-page do cument that claimed, without evidence, that some government employees and contractors had the “absolute power to manipulate election results without lea ving a trace.” Election officials called those claims “false and dishonest” and “a clear attempt to hinder and disrupt” the election.
A day later, at the final debate before Sunday’s vote, Bolsonaro was asked di rectly if he would accept the election’s results. He did not answer.
TheNobel Prize in Physiology or Medi cine was awarded to Svante Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist, on Monday for his discoveries concerning the genomes of ex tinct hominins and human evolution.
It was the first of several prizes to be gi ven over the next week. The Nobel Prizes, among the highest honors in science, recog nize groundbreaking contributions in a varie ty of fields.
“Through his pioneering research, Svan te Pääbo — this year’s Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine — accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans,” the Nobel committee said in a statement.
“Pääbo’s discoveries have generated new understanding of our evolutionary history,” the statement said, adding that this research had helped establish the burgeoning science of “paleogenomics,” or the study of genetic material from ancient pathogens.
Nils-Göran Larsson, a professor in medi cal biochemistry for the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden, said that Pääbo had used existing technology and his own methods to extract and analyze the ancient DNA.
The Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo’s work unveiled the Neanderthal genome in 2010, opening the door to inves tigatory questions about how early humans relate to and differ from modern ones.
“It was certainly considered to be impos sible to recover DNA from 40,000-year-old bones,” Larsson said, adding later that his dis coveries would “allow us to compare changes between contemporary Homo sapiens and ancient hominins. And this, over the years to come, will give us huge insights into human physiology.”
Anna Wedell, a professor of medical genetics at the Karolinska Institute, said that Pääbo’s findings “allow us to address one of the most fundamental questions of all: What makes us unique?”
By comparing and analyzing human ge nome sequences, Pääbo’s team discovered a
previously unknown type of hominin, Deni sova, the committee’s statement said, finding that gene flow occurred from the Denisova to Homo sapiens about 70,000 years ago. That information remained relevant, the statement said — for example, in helping to inform how human immune systems reacted to infections.
Pääbo, a Stockholm native, is the son of Sune Bergström, a biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1982.
When reached by telephone in Leipzig, Germany, Pääbo “was overwhelmed, he was speechless,” Thomas Perlmann, the secretary of the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Com mittee, said in announcing the award.
Pääbo became enraptured with the pos sibility of using modern methods to study the genetic coding of Neanderthals early in his career, when he extracted the DNA from an cient mummies.
That experiment led him to become a pioneer in the swiftly evolving field of paleo genomics. He became a jigsaw master of hu man origins, developing and refining methods for recovering and analyzing DNA from an cient animal bones, such as those belonging to cave bears and ground sloths. But he was after something bigger.
“I longed to bring a new rigor to the stu dy of human history by investigating DNA se quence variation in ancient humans,” he wro
te in his 2014 memoir, “Neanderthal Man.”
In 2010, Pääbo achieved renown when he and his research team presented the first sequencing of the entire Neanderthal geno me. It was a milestone for scientists, who had been puzzled by the fossils of Neanderthals since they were discovered in a German qua rry in 1856.
Neanderthals, who lived up to 800,000 years ago in parts of Europe and Asia, had lar ge brains and used sophisticated tools to hunt large mammals. Pääbo’s genome sequence helped settle many questions surrounding their relationship to modern-day humans.
“It’s a basic scientific discovery,” Larsson said. “It identities the very small and few di fferences between anatomically modern hu mans, Homo sapiens, and extinct hominins.”
The road to that discovery was punctua ted by challenges. DNA in old bones beco mes degraded and chemically damaged. Over time, the long coiled sequence breaks into fragments, making it vexingly difficult to create an accurate reconstruction of an ex tinct organism’s genes.
In her book “The Sixth Extinction,” scien ce writer Elizabeth Kolbert likens the process to reassembling a “Manhattan telephone book from pages that have been put through a shredder, mixed with yesterday’s trash, and left to rot in a landfill.”
Indonesia announced Monday that it would set up a com mission to investigate the deaths of at least 125 people at a soccer stadium over the weekend, adding that it hoped to identify the police officers suspected of having had a role in the tragedy within days.
As public anger mounted, Mahfud MD, the chief securi ty minister, said that officers suspected of committing acts of wrongful violence while on duty at the stadium would face criminal charges.
The disaster, which unfolded Saturday in the city of Malang, where thousands of supporters had gathered to see the home team, Arema, host Persebaya Surabaya, has promp ted widespread accusations that police actions contributed to turning minor unrest into one of the deadliest stadium catas trophes in history.
After Arema suffered a surprise 3-2 defeat, some fans ran onto the field. Officers kicked and clubbed them, then fired tear gas into the stands, witnesses said, causing people to flee into narrow exit corridors.
Mohammad Choirul Anam, a member of the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights, said that only two exits were open in the stadium and that the use of tear gas by
the police appeared to have been a key factor in the crush at the exits.
The dead included 33 children aged 4 to 17, Nahar, an official at the Indonesian ministry for women’s empowerment and child protection, told The New York Times.
“I’m still thinking: ‘Did all this really happen?’” said Felix Mustikasakti Afoan Tumbaz, a 23-year-old fan whose right leg was injured when a tear-gas canister landed on him in the chaos. “How could such a tragedy occur and kill so many people?”
Listyo Sigit Prabowo, the national police chief, said Mon day that authorities had opened an internal investigation and interviewed 18 officers who had fired tear gas. Military per sonnel who were seen hitting fans would also face punish ment, Mahfud said. Ferli Hidayat, the police chief in Malang, was among nine local officers suspended Monday, a national police spokesman told a news conference.
Mahfud added that the commission’s investigation would take two to four weeks to complete. He named 10 members to the body, including two academics, two retired military officers, a former police official, a former soccer league offi cial, a former soccer player and a sports journalist.
The investigation would consider national sports policy and the role of anyone who might have contributed to the
deaths, and it would not be limited solely to those at the sta dium Saturday, Mahfud said.
He noted that authorities would provide compensation of about $4,230 to the family of each victim. The average per capita income in Indonesia was $3,092 in 2020, according to World Bank figures.
WhenNader, a 41-year-old construction company emplo yee in Tehran, Iran, shops for groceries, he constantly adjusts his list as he wanders the aisles, double-checking prices and factoring them into his bud get. His basket keeps shrinking as infla tion surges: A year ago, he gave up red meat, then chicken.
Now, with Nader’s savings gone and his rent having doubled, even cheese and eggs are becoming luxuries.
“I can’t keep up with the rising pri ces, no matter how hard I run,” Nader, who moonlights as a taxi driver to afford clothes and schoolbooks for his son, said in a telephone interview. “Our demand is for the government to fix the economy, to understand that we are breaking un der financial pressure.”
Nader, like the tens of thousands of Iranians taking part in nationwide protests against the government in the past two weeks, has many grievances to choose from: soaring prices, high unemployment, corruption, political re pression and a law requiring women to dress modestly and cover their hair. That last issue set off the unrest when a young woman, Mahsa Amini, died in the custo dy of the morality police.
But the sorry state of Iran’s economy is one of the main forces spurring Ira nians into the streets to demand change.
Armed with a sense of disillusion ment over the failure of consecutive ad ministrations to improve the economy, the protesters have chanted, “Death to the dictator,” calling for an end to Iran’s hard-line and inflexible clerical leaders hip and the Islamic Republic it built.
Economic despair is one factor uni fying the government’s opponents and supporters. Abdolreza Davari, a con servative analyst, denounced the re cent protests in a tweet this past week but acknowledged that 95% of Iranians, regardless of their political views, were “worried about their livelihoods today and for their and their children’s future.”
Decades of mismanagement and corruption, compounded by two rounds of suffocating U.S.-led sanctions aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear and missile pro grams, along with a pandemic, have fro zen Iran’s economy at pre-2012 levels or
Shopping at the Tajrish Bazaar in Tehran in June. Prices for some goods in Iran are up as much as 75 percent from last year.
worse.
Educated young Iranians are unable to find jobs that match their degrees. Amir, 24, is an architecture graduate who sells clothes in a Tehran mall. Most of his classmates from engineering school are working as shop clerks or taxi drivers, he said. (Like other Iranians interviewed for this article, he asked that his last name not be used for fear of retribution.)
Living with his parents because he could not afford rent, he said he could not imagine ever renting an apartment, buying a car, getting married or having children.
“For most of us, normal milestones in life seem like out-of-reach dreams,” said Amir. “Maybe the only way out is to leave Iran.”
In 2015, there was a flash of opti mism after Iran struck a deal with the U.S. and other world powers to limit its nuclear program in exchange for sanc tions relief.
Some foreign investments and part nerships were on the way. But in 2018, before the economy had a chance to recover, President Donald Trump exited the nuclear deal and imposed a “maxi mum pressure policy” of aggressive sanctions, targeting oil sales and inter national financial transactions. Most fo reign companies pulled out of Iran, fea ring secondary sanctions by the United States.
“Iranians aren’t really looking at just whether they’re better off compared to last year,” said Esfandyar Batmanghe lidj, the founder of Bourse & Bazaar, a research group specializing in Iranian politics and economics. “The thing that’s been weighing on everyone is, essentia lly, the country’s been stagnant for al most a decade.”
Grievances sparked by soaring pri ces and the economy’s sluggishness led to widespread protests against the go vernment in 2017 and 2019, mostly in working-class and lower-income areas. Some demonstrators called for the over throw of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and were violently sup pressed.
Inflation raged at 30%, 40%, then 50%. Iranians now pay about 75% more for food than they did a year ago. Iran’s Ministry of Labor and Social Services said in an August 2021 report that 1 in 3 Iranians, or nearly 30 million people, live in poverty.
Houri, 60, a retired government employee in Tehran, said that with her fixed income, she had to think twice be fore engaging in once-routine activities like visiting her sister across town. Two round-trip taxi rides a week, she said, and one-third of her pension is gone. At increasingly rare family gatherings, the once-lavish spreads have dwindled to tea and simple cookies. “We are get
ting by with a lot of difficulty,” she said. “Every supermarket trip is a struggle.”
The accelerating misery — and the ever-bleaker prospects — have led to an exodus of people from Iran. Although well-educated Iranians had been leaving the country ever since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the trend accelerated amid the recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical workers and young Iranians who left to study abroad and stayed there were especially likely to abandon Iran.
As the new sanctions bit, Iran’s lea ders remained defiant, declaring the ad vent of a “resistance economy” that would make the country more self-sufficient and less reliant on imports and oil sales. The government invested in domestic indus tries, urging Iranians to buy local. It also continued to evade sanctions by selling oil to China at a discount. Such measures helped the economy stagger to its knees, growing more than 4% in 2021. Inflation has slowed slightly in recent months.
But for many Iranians, that has done little to offset years of turmoil and suffe ring. Many have lost faith in the system, as successive rounds of elections have failed to deliver the political, economic and so cial reforms they have demanded, leaving protest their only option.
President Ebrahim Raisi, an ultracon servative who took office last year, pro mised to lower inflation to the single di gits within a few years, jump-start growth and create nearly 2 million jobs by March 2023. His “economic surgery” plan, many economic analysts say, has led to more inflation and a reduction in purchasing power.
To analysts and many Iranians, one way to improve the economy seemed clear: Revive the nuclear agreement with the West.
But with Iran and the United States still haggling over terms, it remains unclear whether a deal will ever be reached. Every announcement of progress or deadlock in the talks causes fluctuations in the curren cy, a barometer of Iranian optimism.
Analysts say a new agreement would quickly benefit the country: billions of do llars of oil revenue abroad would be un frozen, and its oil and gas could be sold on global markets again. But for ordinary Iranians, economic prosperity would still require overcoming systematic mismana gement and corruption.
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Ifyou’ve ever found yourself driving in stop-and-go traffic, you know that there’s a strong temptation to overreact to changes in the flow. When the cars in front of you finally start moving, you floor the gas pedal, then you slam on the brakes when traffic slows down again, and if you’re a normal human being, you probably do this over and over.
Overreacting to traffic conditions wastes fuel and annoys your passengers. More important, it creates real dangers: Accelerate too fast and you may rear-end the car in front of you; brake too hard and you may be hit by the car behind you.
Well, setting economic policy in difficult times can be a lot like driving on a congested road. And I’m hearing growing buzz, both from economists and from businesspeople, to the effect that the Federal Reserve — which clearly kept its foot on the gas too long last year — is now braking too hard in compensation. And the risks of an accident are growing.
The story so far: Last year, as inflation began to accelerate, many people — myself included — wrongly minimized the risks, asserting that much of the inflation was transitory, the result of temporary
kinks (such as disrupted supply chains) as we emerged from a pandemic economy. Over time, alas, inflation didn’t just rise; it broadened, spreading from a relatively narrow range of goods to much of the economy. It was hard to avoid the conclusion that the U.S. economy was running significantly too hot.
So the Fed began hitting the brakes. It didn’t start raising the interest rates it controls until March, but long-term interest rates — which are what matter for the real economy and reflect not just current Fed actions but expectations of Fed actions — have been rising since the beginning of the year. They’re now up about 2 1/2 percentage points, which is a lot by historical standards and well above the levels that prevailed on the eve of the pandemic; mortgage rates are higher than they’ve been since the 2008 financial crisis.
These rate rises will surely cause a major economic slowdown, quite possibly a recession. True, for the moment, the U.S. labor market is still running hot, with low unemployment and high levels of job vacancies and quits. (Workers are more willing to quit when jobs are abundant.) But there are well-known lags in the effects of monetary policy. It takes time for higher interest rates to reduce investment and for this investment downturn to spread to declines in consumer spending. And let’s not forget that government spending is no longer boosting the economy. Outlays from the American Rescue Plan, which was enacted early last year, are receding in the rearview mirror.
Now, the U.S. economy did need to cool off, so the coming slowdown doesn’t necessarily mean that the Fed is overdoing it. As I said, however, there is growing buzz to the effect that the Fed is braking too hard. As far as I can tell, this buzz reflects three main observations.
First, the Fed’s urgency in tightening largely reflects concerns that inflation might become entrenched — that people might begin expecting high inflation to persist for years and might build those expectations into price and wage setting. That’s what happened in the 1970s, and squeezing out those expectations was extremely painful.
But every indicator I know about shows expected inflation falling; the risk of a rerun of “That ’70s Show” now seems remote.
What about actual inflation? There are many private sector indicators of price movements, which often show breaks in trends well before they’re reflected in official statistics. And many of these indicators, from shipping costs to rents on newly leased apartments, seem to show inflation abating.
In an ironic role reversal, many of the people who
correctly warned about inflation risks last year are now insisting that the recent good news is transitory, and some of it probably is. But a rapid decline in inflation looks more likely than it did a few months ago.
Finally, there’s growing risk that monetary tightening will produce not just a slowdown but an economic crisis — a crisis that would have a strong international dimension. For one thing, the fact that central banks are raising interest rates almost everywhere creates the danger of destructive synergy.
Also, Fed tightening has led to a large rise in the value of the dollar — a currency that still plays a special role in the world economy. And because of that role, a rising dollar often creates financial problems for other nations, which can blow back on the United States.
Do we know for sure that the Fed is braking too hard? No. The current economic situation is full of uncertainty, and any policy decision involves making trade-offs among various risks. What we can say is that the risk that the Fed is moving too slowly to contain inflation has declined, while the risk that high interest rates will cause severe economic damage has gone up — a lot.
Right now the Fed seems set to pursue further big rate hikes in the coming months. I would urge it to look hard at what’s happening and think twice.
Sobre tres cuartos de millón de dólares en ayudas a las co munidades afectadas por el huracán Fiona ha sido destina do por las diversas empresas de la Industria de Alimentos de Puerto Rico para ayudar a levantar el país.
De acuerdo con el Vice-Presidente Ejecutivo de la Cámara de Mercadeo, Industria y Distribución de Alimentos (MIDA), el auxilio brindado a las diferentes comunidades ha abarcado desde la entrega de comida caliente, donaciones de alimentos no perecederos, donativos en efectivo a través de instituciones sin fines de lucro, ayuda en la limpieza de las áreas inun dadas, donativos de enseres eléctricos y hasta compartir su planta eléctrica con la comunidad.
En el caso de Goya de Puerto Rico, además de entregar almuerzos calientes y cenas a más de 3,000 víctimas del Hu racán Fiona en los refugios y en comunidades aisladas, donó 55,000 libras de comida al Banco de Alimentos de Puerto Rico. Este segundo donativo de Goya se dio en 1,800 cajas de productos, con un valor que supera los $37,000 dólares.
Vaquería Tres Monjitas apoyó a la comunidad Villa Calma 2 de Toa Baja, llevando camiones con agua para ayudar con la limpieza de las residencias afectadas por las inundaciones causadas por el Huracán Fiona. La empresa también realizó entrega de productos como agua, leche UHT y bebidas a Co munidad Guaraguao, Portugués y la Playita en Ponce junto con sus empleados. También, donaciones a la Cruz Roja. El total monetario de las aportaciones ascendió a $20,000. En el caso de Tortillas Doña Lola, la empresa sacó una extensión en su fábrica para que todo el que necesitara, pudiera conectarse a la electricidad de la planta.
Holsum donó productos para 1,000 sándwiches, pan, ga lletas y bultos con artículos y kits de primeros auxilios para 700 familias y sobre 20,000 meriendas Holsum y Bimbo alre
dedor de la isla. Con las donaciones, al momento se han im pactado comunidades de Añasco, Cabo Rojo, Caguas, Fajar do, Hormigueros, Humacao, Mayagüez, Ponce, Salinas, Santa Isabel, Toa Baja, Utuado y Cataño.
La empresa Walmart, junto con la Fundación Walmart y Sam’s Club, se unieron para presentarle un donativo de sobre $700,000 a varias entidades sin fines de lucro que proveen abastos con alimentos y artículos de primera necesidad.
De su parte, Supermercados Econo dijo presente en el es fuerzo de ayuda a los damnificados, coordinado por WKAQ 580 AM Univisión Radio. Luego de la visita al Sector El Coquí realizada el pasado 23 de septiembre, para llevar alimentos y auxilio a esta comunidad, Econo también entregó donativos a través del Banco de Alimentos de Puerto Rico.
Como suma, Supermercados Plaza Loíza donó 150 com pras a través de la Universidad Interamericana de Bayamón. Supermercados Selectos de Levittown aportó además estufas y neveras para 15 familias afectadas en el municipio de Toa Baja. La distribuidora Plaza Provision, realizó sus donativos a través de una hilera de organizaciones. Entre ellas, los Centros Sor Isolina Ferré, particularmente en Tabaiba (Ponce) y Guaya ma, y la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, incluyendo al co medor solidario de la institución “CoMesa”. Además, el Hogar Rosa de Té para ancianos, la Parroquia Cristo Salvador y Capi lla Santa Rosa de Lima, la Fundación Stefano Steenbakkers Be tancourt, Puerto Rico Somos Todos, Iglesia Metodista, Crearte y su programa de apoyo a la comunidad, la Parroquia Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Renacer de Fortaleza, Asociación Pro Ju ventud Barrio Palmas y que impacta a todo Cataño, Huellas Educational and Community Services Foundation y el Centro Animación Misionera Espiritual / Misioneras del Cristo Salva dor en el Barrio Cotto de Arecibo. También donaron alimento para mascotas en 6 instituciones.
La distribuidora B. Fernández y Hermanos donó más de
$10,000, con artículos como cereales, meriendas, bebidas, carnes enlatadas y productos de limpieza. Las organizaciones beneficiadas fueron: Fundación Escape de San Germán, Co munidades en Peñuelas, Comunidad en Toa Baja en la Escue la Adolfina Irizarry y el Banco de Alimentos de Puerto Rico. Además, informó que continúan coordinando esfuerzos para llevar alimentos a distintas comunidades.
Por otro lado, la cadena de supermercados Agranel anun ció que los socios de la entidad darán prioridad a la compra de las cosechas de los agricultores de pequeña escala, para evitar que se pierdan como consecuencia del paso de Fiona por la isla. Los empresarios del agro pueden acudir directa mente a las tiendas cercanas a sus localidades y llevar los productos para la venta. “Otros detallistas tomaron acciones similares a nivel individual. Esto es sólo una muestra de la solidaridad de nuestra Industria”, subrayó.
Otras empresas que ofrecen servicios “business to busi ness” a la industria de alimentos en la Isla, también se unie ron. En el caso de Retail Group, ayudaron con artículos mo biliarios del hogar a los empleados que sufrieron pérdidas y auxiliaron a través de varias instituciones sin fines de lucro y hogares de ancianos en los municipios de Toa Alta, San Juan, Caguas, Comerío. El donativo total de esta compañía ascendió a los $10,000.
U
TUADO – Agentes asignados al Plan Integrado de Segu ridad del área de Utuado, arrestaron y sometieron cargos contra Julitza Gutiérrez Crespo y Melvin Cruz Bermúdez por supuesta explotación financiera, apropiación ilegal y maltrato a envejeciente en hechos ocurridos en el municipio de Utua do.
Según la Uniformada, los acusados de 31 y 28 años respectivamente, para los meses de junio y julio del 2022,
supuestamente transfirieron de la cuenta bancaria del quere llante 6,584 dólares a su cuenta. El perjudicado, de 81 años y residente en Utuado, se percató cuando fue a pagar sus cuen tas y no tenía balance.
Se informó que los acusados utilizaron la aplicación de ATH móvil.
La agente Maritza Feliciano Badillo en unión al agente Kevin Vázquez arrestaron la pareja y consultaron con el fiscal Rodríguez Quiles quien instruyó radicar 3 cargos a mujer por los artículos 127 A (maltrato a persona de edad avanzada),
182 (apropiación ilegal agravada) y 202 (fraude), mientras que al hombre los artículos 127 A y el 182.
El caso fue llevado ante la presencia del Juez Rafael Pérez Medina quien luego de escuchar la prueba encontró causa en todos los cargos fijándole una fianza global de 190,000 dólares. La fianza impuesta no fue prestada por lo que ambos fueron ingresados en la institución penal en Bayamón.
La labor de inteligencia de este caso fue realizada por el agente Juan L. Rodríguez Serrano, analista del Plan Integrado de Seguridad del área de Utuado.
SAN JUAN – El informe preliminar de COVID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) reportó el lunes una muerte y 203 personas hospitalizadas.
El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,131. Hay 172 adultos hospitalizados y 31 menores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 14 al 28 de sep tiembre de 2022.
La tasa de positividad
14.36
It started in 1995 in a home in Los Angeles’ Holly wood Hills, where two roommates — a music pro ducer and a DJ — used to compete over who could find the best sample from their record collections.
One day, Paul Stewart, the DJ, conceded that his roommate, producer Doug Rasheed, had bested him when Rasheed put on a vinyl copy of Stevie Wonder’s 1976 album “Songs in the Key of Life.”
The track that Rasheed played, “Pastime Paradise,” opened with a mournful synth loop that replicated the sound of a string section. The song that it inspired, “Gangsta’s Paradise,” would change both of their lives and catapult an up-and-coming West Coast rapper named Coolio to global stardom.
Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 59; the cause has not been dis closed. The rapper had a handful of hits before and after “Gangsta’s Paradise,” but nothing in his career would top the popularity and cultural influence of that track, which was featured in the 1995 movie “Dangerous Minds” and went on both to win a Grammy and inspire a Weird Al Yankovic parody.
In recent years, Coolio had commented on the legacy of the song and its long shadow over the rest of his career, calling it, in one interview, both a blessing and curse (“More of a blessing than a curse,” he noted).
“That record: It took him over the top,” Rasheed, the song’s composer and producer, said in an interview Thursday. “It made him a household name worldwide.”
Coolio’s opening words, which are based on Psalm 23, became one of the most widely remembered verses in ’90s rap: “As I walk through the valley of the shad ow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothin’ left.”
The singer L.V. (born Larry Sanders), who features on the song, had already started collaborating with Ra sheed on the track, he said in an interview, when Coolio wrote those lyrics. Listening to the Wonder song in that Hollywood Hills home, it had been L.V.’s idea to turn “Pastime Paradise” into “Gangsta’s Paradise.”
L.V. recorded multiple vocal tracks that Rasheed combined to sound like a large choir singing a haunting refrain, as well as the chorus: “Been spending most their lives living in a gangsta’s paradise.”
The tale of how Coolio first heard the track dif fers depending on who is telling it. In L.V.’s version, L.V. brought the song, with his recorded vocals, to Coolio on a cassette tape, hoping to persuade him to collabo rate on it after another rapper had turned him down. In Coolio’s account, according to a Rolling Stone oral his tory of the song from 2015, the rapper was visiting the Hollywood Hills home to pick up a check from Stewart,
Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise,” built off Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise,” held No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in 1995.
who was his manager, when he heard the track.
“I walked into the studio, and asked Doug, ‘Wow, whose track is that?’” Coolio told Rolling Stone. “Doug said, ‘Oh, it’s something I’m working on.’ I said, ‘Well, it’s mine!’”
Coolio recalled writing his verses in one session, rapping about chasing his dreams and the uncertainty of whether he would live to 24 years old. (He was in his early 30s at the time, but 24 rhymed better, he said in a 2015 radio interview.)
The reinterpreted song still needed to get a green light from Wonder’s camp. But, Rasheed recalled, Won der was turned off by the profanity and violence ex pressed in the lyrics. The producer asked Coolio for a rewrite, and the rapper agreed. The other catch: Won der’s music publishing company would receive threequarters of the publishing proceeds.
“The terms were a little harsh, but without them approving it there’s no hit,” Stewart, who managed both Coolio and L.V. at the time, said in an interview
Thursday.
Stewart shopped the song around and found a very interested party in MCA Records, which was producing the soundtrack for “Dangerous Minds,” starring Michelle Pfeiffer as a former Marine who becomes a teacher at an underfunded Bay Area high school. (The movie received mixed reviews, with the Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan calling it “stereotypical, predictable and simplified to the point of meaninglessness.”)
The music video, directed by Antoine Fuqua and featuring a severe-looking Pfeiffer staring down Coolio, initially received a pass from MTV, Stewart recalled, un til MCA arranged to advertise the video on the channel, generating interest from viewers.
MTV picked it up, and “it was the most phenome nal takeoff of a record that I’ve ever seen,” Stewart said. “Gangsta’s Paradise” spent three weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 and was named the chart’s No. 1 song at the end of the year. It won the Grammy for best rap solo performance in 1996.
Then came Weird Al.
The musical parody artist and his team approached Coolio to get his blessing to make their own version of the song — “Amish Paradise” — Rasheed said, but the rapper refused. Knowing that legally speaking, Weird Al didn’t need their green light, Rasheed gave them his ap proval, despite Coolio’s skepticism.
Rasheed said that over time, he saw Coolio soften to the parody, viewing it as more homage than mock ery. And in later interviews, the rapper said that he had changed his perspective on Yankovic’s song.
“I let that go so long ago,” Coolio told Vice in 2014. “Let me say this: I apologized to Weird Al a long time ago and I was wrong.” He added, “I listened to it a couple years after that and it’s actually funny,” adding an expletive.
In an interview with Newsweek a few months lat er, Yankovic said he was relieved. “I’m not the kind of guy that has beef with people, because I go out of my way to make sure that people are fine with what I do,” he said. “That was the one little moment in my whole history where there was a problem,” he noted, saying it was “very sweet” of Coolio to have told Vice he had made amends.
While “Amish Paradise” gave Coolio’s song a boost, the track was a smash on its own. L.V. remem bered Coolio and his crew touring the world — Japan, France, Australia — and feeling like they were drawing “Michael Jackson-level” crowds that recited the lyrics along with them. Earlier this year, Coolio celebrated the song reaching 1 billion streams on YouTube.
“He put some magic on that track,” Rasheed said. “His voice, his delivery his cadence — it was something really special.”
career, with dozens of albums and decades of performances.
Sanders played free jazz, jazz standards, upbeat Caribbean-tinged tunes and Africanand Indian-rooted incantations such as “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” which opened his 1969 album, “Karma,” a pinnacle of devotional free jazz. He recorded widely as both a leader and a collaborator, working with Alice Col trane, McCoy Tyner, Randy Weston, Joey De Francesco and many others.
“Promises,” a collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sam Shep herd, an electronic musician known as Floating Points, was released in 2021.
“I’m always trying to make something that might sound bad sound beautiful in some way,”
Sanders told The New Yorker in 2020. “I’m a person who just starts playing anything I want to play, and make it turn out to be maybe some beautiful music.”
bums — “Tauhid” in 1967, “Karma” in 1969 — made clear his interest in Islamic and Buddhist thought.
His music was expansive and open-end ed, concentrating on immersive group interac tion rather than solos, and incorporating Afri can percussion and flutes. In the liner notes to “Karma,” the poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka wrote, “Pharoah has become one long song.” The 32-minute “The Creator Has a Mas ter Plan” moves between pastoral ease — with a rolling two-chord vamp and a reassuring mes sage sung by Leon Thomas — and squalling, frenetic outbursts, but portions of it found FM radio airplay beyond jazz stations.
The celebrated saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders, plays at Baby’s All Right in New York, May 6, 2015. Sanders, who first gained wide recognition for his work with John Coltrane and went on to release dozens of albums as a band leader, died in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. He was 81.
By JON PARELES
Sanders, a saxophonist and com poser celebrated for music that was at once spiritual and visceral, purposeful and ecstatic, died on September 24 in Los An geles. He was 81.
His death was announced in a statement by Luaka Bop, the company for whom he had made his most recent album, “Promises.” The statement did not specify the cause.
The sound Sanders drew from his tenor saxophone was a force of nature: burly, throb bing and encompassing, steeped in deep blues and drawing on extended techniques to create shrieking harmonics and imposing multiphon ics. He could sound fierce or anguished; he could also sound kindly and welcoming. (He also played soprano saxophone.)
He first gained wide recognition as a member of John Coltrane’s groups from 1965 to 1967. He then went on to a fertile, prolific
Sanders was born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Oct. 13, 1940. His moth er was a cook in a school cafeteria; his father worked for the city. He first played music in church, starting on drums and moving on to clarinet and then saxophone. He played blues, jazz and R&B at clubs around Little Rock; dur ing the era of segregation, he recalled in 2016, he sometimes had to perform behind a curtain.
In 1959 he moved to Oakland, California, where he performed at local clubs. His fellow saxophonist John Handy suggested he move to New York City, where the free-jazz movement was taking shape, and in 1962, he did.
At times in his early New York years he was homeless and lived by selling his blood. But he also found gigs in Greenwich Village, and he worked with some of the leading expo nents of free jazz, including Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Sun Ra.
It was Sun Ra who persuaded him to change his first name to Pharoah, and for a short time Sanders was a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra.
Sanders made his first album as a leader, “Pharoah,” for ESP-Disk in 1964. John Coltrane invited him to sit in, and in 1965 Sanders be came a member of Coltrane’s group, exploring elemental, tumultuous free jazz on albums like “Ascension,” “Om” and “Meditations.”
After Coltrane’s death in 1967, Sanders went on to record with his widow, pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane, on albums including “Ptah, the El Daoud” and “Journey in Satchi dananda,” both released in 1970.
Sanders had already begun recording as a leader on the Impulse! label, which had also been Coltrane’s home. The titles of his al
During the 1970s and ’80s, Sanders’ music moved from album-length excursions such as the kinetic 1971 “Black Unity” toward shorter compositions, reconnections with jazz standards and new renditions of Coltrane com positions. (He shared a Grammy Award for his work with pianist McCoy Tyner on the 1987 al bum “Blues for Coltrane.”) His recordings grew less turbulent and more contemplative. On the 1977 album “Love Will Find a Way,” he tried pop-jazz and R&B, sharing ballads with singer Phyllis Hyman. He returned to more main stream jazz with his albums for Theresa Records in the 1980s.
But his explorations were not over. In live performances, he might still bear down on one song for an entire set and make his instrument blare and cry out. During the 1990s and early 2000s, he made albums with innovative produc er Bill Laswell. He reunited with blistering elec tric guitarist Sonny Sharrock — who had been a Sanders sideman — on the 1991 album “Ask the Ages,” and he collaborated with Moroccan gnawa musician Maleem Mahmoud Ghania on “The Trance of Seven Colors” in 1994.
Information on survivors was not imme diately available.
Sanders had difficult relationships with record labels, and he spent nearly two decades without recording as a leader. Yet he continued to perform, and his occasional recorded ap pearances — including his wraithlike presence on “Promises” in 2021 — were widely applaud ed. In 2016, he was named a Jazz Master, the highest honor for a jazz musician in the United States, by the National Endowment for the Arts.
In a video made in recognition of his award, the saxophonist Kamasi Washington said, “It’s like taking fried chicken and gravy to space and having a picnic on the moon, listen ing to Pharoah.” Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin said, “It’s like he’s playing pure light at you. It’s way beyond the language. It’s way beyond the emotion.”
Inrecent weeks, so many people have called Bill Crain’s Hudson Valley farm rescue to surrender their ducks and chickens — many purchased at the height of the pandemic lockdown — that he fi nally marched into a local farm store and demanded to speak to a manager. His plea: Stop selling chicks and ducklings.
“They think the pandemic is over, and they don’t want to devote time to taking care of them anymore,” Crain, 78, said in an interview from his Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary in Poughquag, New York, where he said there are so many calls from people hoping to give up their pets that he must turn birds away — his coops are full.
“It’s a crisis that people are aban doning these animals,” he said.
One of the slim silver linings of the pandemic’s earliest days was the addition of animals to many families. Some people, decamping from virus-besieged cities for the countryside, stoked a craze for backyard fowl. There was an emptying of animal shelters as people stuck at home found unexpected room in their lives for cats and dogs. Socially distant and lonely, or with kids to entertain, many cleared pet store shelves of gerbils and lizards, chinchillas and snakes.
Gloomy prognostications of a swift, post-pandemic boomerang of dogs and cats back to shelters do not appear to be bearing out. But as the world rights itself — workers back in offices, students back in school — other sorts of pets are apparently not so lucky. Those who rescue and advocate for smaller animals fear that they are seeing the beginning of a tide of reptiles, birds and rodents — even some fish — given up by once enthusiastic families.
Small animal surrenders spiked by more than 50% na tionwide in the first six months of 2022, compared to the same period the year before, according to Shelter Animals Count, which collects data from more than 6,000 shelters, though they still remain about 20% lower than pre-pandem ic. In contrast, surrenders of cats and dogs have climbed less than 7% over the year before, and are still about 15% below 2019 levels.
In New York City, so many guinea pigs have flooded the city’s animal shelter system — 600 so far this year, more than double pre-pandemic numbers — that the City Council is considering a bill that would ban their sale in pet shops. Most are under 3 years old, indicating they were pandemic purchases, said Katy Hansen, a spokesperson for the city’s shelter system, Animal Care Centers of New York City. The population spike has forced the shelters to invest in a new
$20,000 guinea pig tower, where the ani mals live stacked in sliding trays.
On Wednesday, a box containing 22 guinea pigs of all ages was found abandoned in the lobby of a Staten Island apartment building, Hansen said. “This situation has become untenable,” she said. “We are at our wits end.”
There are other, less quantifiable warn ings: Some city pet store owners say that cus tomers who at the height of the pandemic scooped up creatures such as hamsters and bearded dragon lizards as playmates for cooped-up children have brought them back.
People who foster guinea pigs in New York say they are overrun. In Central Park, rescues of domestic red-eared slider turtles nearly tripled to 29 this year so far — though the parks department cautioned that the numbers could mean more sightings of dis tressed turtles, not more animals. Rabbits and guinea pigs have also been found. It is illegal to release animals in city parks.
A constellation of factors is apparently driving the surge. Christa Chadwick, vice president of shelter services at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals, suggested that part of the uptick may be because many shelters were not taking in animals over the course of the pandemic. And, she noted, shelters are glutted with small animals in part because adoptions overall have slowed.
“It’s important for the public to come back in droves to shelters,” she said. “Whether it is for cats or dogs or chickens or hamsters.”
Rising rents, inflation and housing insecurity have also forced people to make difficult decisions about keeping even beloved pets, said Hilary Hager, vice president of outreach, en gagement and training at the Humane Society of the United States. “I would never want to suggest to anyone that people don’t care,” Hager said. “There are just a lot of other factors that are coming into play.”
Jade Perez’s family acquired a dog and two kittens to stave off the loneliness of lockdown, she said. But when rising rents forced her family to downsize to a smaller Staten Island apart ment, she put Honey, the guinea pig she had bought just before the
pandemic, up for adoption on Craigslist.
“We have a lot of animals, and we just can’t take care of the guinea pig now,” said Jade, who is 17, citing inflation’s toll on the prices of food and supplies. “He’s not living the best life he can.”
Petqua, a pet store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, is now the temporary home of two guinea pigs, three turtles and a tiny school of betta fish, all recently relinquished by their owners. Some are castaways from the flurry of pet purchases at the start of the pandemic, according to Sam Laroche, who operates the shop. He accepts surrenders — even those not purchased from his shop — and finds them new homes.
He is expecting a leopard gecko soon, from a man who said he was moving and couldn’t take his lizard with him. “He’s very sad,” Laroche said.
The phenomenon is also international. In England, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals re ported a 24% increase in reports of abandoned animals from January to July over the same time period last year. That in cluded 3,363 abandoned exotic pets, among them 1,455 fish and 685 snakes.
In September, during the society’s “Guinea Pig Aware ness Week,” it announced it had seen a 90% increase in guinea pig abandonments, on top of a 49% increase in rab bits.
Why families are holding onto cats and dogs but relin quishing smaller animals may have to do with human attach ment, several experts said. On Staten Island, Jade said she was able to bear parting with her guinea pig because Honey was less interactive than her dog and cats.
“They look adorable, but I think people have this mis guided conception they are going to be able to provide this companionship and fill a void that the are looking for,” said Allie Taylor, president of Voters for Animal Rights, a nonprofit organization that pushed for New York City’s guinea pig bill. “And when they don’t, the animal ends up paying an ultimate price.”
At Safe Haven farm, where the aviaries are filled with 98 res cued fowl, Bill Crain and his wife Ellen, 78, have taken to urging callers to give their birds a second chance.
They’ve had at least one success: When a man from Man hattan called to surrender pan demic ducklings because his fam ily was summering in Nantucket, the Crains played on his con science to reconsider: “We said look, it would be a good model for your kids,” Crain said.
The man took the ducks with him on vacation.
Liliana Bravo, an adoption supervisor at a New York City animal shelter, with one of the many guinea pigs to be surrendered in recent weeks, Sept. 20, 2022.UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)
Plaintiff v.
JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding,
Defendants
CIVIL NO. 22-01331. ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Esperanza Inn, Corp.). SUM MONS BY PUBLICATION.
TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE
Unknown holders of a pro missory note of $342,000.00 executed on July 8, 2008, by Esperanza Inn. Corp., as ack nowledged by affidavit number 3,631 sworn before Miguel B. Hernández Vivoni, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mort gage Deed No. 54 executed on July 8, 2008, before Notary Public Miguel B. Hernández Vi voni, over the following proper ties, described in the Spanish language as: RÚSTICA: Parce la marcada con el número 103 en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Esperan za del Barrio Puerto Real, del término municipal de Vieques, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.2951 cuerdas, equivalentes a 1,159.99 me tros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número 102 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela 104 de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 165 de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número 1 de la Co munidad. Contiene una casa de vivienda construida de bloques en concreto y torta de hormi gón que mide 18x18 y consta de sala, cocina, 2 cuartos dor mitorios y servicios sanitarios. The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is duly recorded in the Registry Property of Fajardo, at page 116, volume 83 of Vie ques, property number 1,649, eleventh inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Pu blication entered on August 11, 2022 by the Honorable Aida M. Delgado-Colon, United States District Judge (Docket No. 4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no
later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime López Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the Dis trict of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 510, Pla za 273, San Juan, PR 009171930, telephone numbers (787) 766-5269T.h is Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of ge neral circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Sum mons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint.
BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 15th day of August, 2022. MA RIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ., CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Viviana Diaz, De puty Clerk.
IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO. LIME HOMES. LTD.
Plaintiff, v. AURIEL RIVERA VAZQUEZ, SARAI TORRES ALVELO AND THE CONYUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THE TWO Defendants
CIVIL NO: 18-1447 (SCC). RE: Mortgage Foreclosure and Co llection of Monies. AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: AURIEL RIVERA VAZQUEZ, SARAI TORRES ALVELO and the Conjugal Partnership composed by them, and all parties that may have an interest in the property
WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $126,500.00 of principal balance of the mortga ge note, plus interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum since April 1st, 2017, over said balance. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenants of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amounting to 5.000%
of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the ins tallment is due. The defendant also owes Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. Advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortga ge deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the origi nal principal balance as liquida ted amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be exa mined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by in ternet accessing https://ecf.prd. uscourts.gov. WHEREAS: Pur suant to the terms of the afo rementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendants will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trece (13) del proyecto de renovación urbana conocido como Vista Alegre, localizado en el Barrio Pájaros de la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatrocientos seis punto treinta y seis (406.36) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar treinta y siete (37), en quince punto cuarenta y siete (15.47) metros y terrenos de Juan Toro Pérez, en dieciocho punto trein ta y seis (18.36) metros; por el SUR, con la calle A, en dis tancia curvilínea en seis punto treinta y siete (6.37) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número doce (12), en dieciocho punto noventa y tres (18.93) metros; y por el OESTE, el solar número catorce (14), en treinta y uno punto noventa y dos (31.92) metros. The property is iden tified as land number 14,919, recorded at page number 126 of volume number 331 of Ba yamón, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Bayamón I. Physical Address: Colinas de Vista Alegre, 13X Calle A, Bayamón, PR 00956. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be unders tood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior
and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, inclu ding but not limited to any pro perty tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood fur ther that the successful bidder accepts then and is subroga ted in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward their cance llation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. NOW THEREFO RE, public notice is hereby gi ven that the appointed Special Master on the will celebrate the judicial sale in the dates and time set forth below, in front of Federico Degetau Federal Buil ding and Clemente Ruiz Naza rio United States Courthouse gates, at 150 Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1st, Floor in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein. The proceeds of said sale will be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. WHEREAS: For the purpose of the FIRST public sale shall be held on October 12th, 2022, at 3:00 pm. The mi nimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $127,784.98 and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public sale shall be held on the October 19th, 2022, at 3:00 pm and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,189.99. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the pro perty, a THIRD public sale shall be held on the October 26th 2022, at 3:00 pm and the mini mum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $63,892.49. WHE
REAS: The sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 17th of August of 2022. Beatriz Váz quez Solís, Special Master.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMA CAO
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC.
Demandante Vs. SUCESION OLIMPIO
RIVERA SANTIAGO T/C/C OLIMPIO RIVERA COMPUESTA POR OLIMPIO RIVERA TORRES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION NILDA ISABEL TORRES CRUZ T/C/C NILDA TORRES CRUZ T/C/C NILDA TORRES DE RIVERA T/C/C NILDA I. TORRES CRUZ T/C/C NILDA ISABEL CRUZ COMPUESTA POR OLIMPIO RIVERA TORRES; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2021CV01086. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Amé RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, ss. A: La Parte Demandada, al (a la) Secretario(a) de Hacienda de Puerto Rico y al Público General: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de Humacao, 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 Certifica do, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cual quiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el numero diecisiete (17) del bloque DD de la Urbanización Jardines de Humacao, localiza da en el barrio Mabu y/o Anto nio Roig del término municipal de Humacao, con une cabida superficial de trescientos no venta y cinco metros con seis centímetros (395.06) cuadra dos. En lindes por el Norte,
en trece (13.00) metros, con la calle C; por el Sur, en trece (13.00) metros, con la calle marginal; por el Este en trein ta metros con cuarenta y cua tro centímetros (30.44), con el solar numero dieciséis (16); y por el Oeste, en treinta metros treinta y tres (30.33) centíme tros, con el solar numero die ciocho (18). Enclava una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 112 del tomo 235 de Humacao, finca 8,528, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Propiedad locali zada en: URB. JARDINES DE HUMACAO, DD-17 CALLE C, HUMACAO, PR 00791. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Ti tular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certi ficación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gra vada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivien da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $195,000.00. Fe cha de Vencimiento: 19 de di ciembre de 2086. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la pro piedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutan te antes descritos, si los hubie re, continuarán subsistentes.
El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anterio res, 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 $130,000.00, 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 ofi cina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Hu macao, el 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda su basta la suma de $86,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda su basta, se establece como míni ma para la TERCERA SUBAS
TA, la suma de $65,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha
subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $115,531.90 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $20,402.86 en intereses acu mulados al 1 de marzo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumu lándose a razón de 3.85% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $4,986.97 en seguro hipotecario; $5,530.00 tarifas de servicio; $1,653.00 en seguro; $425.00 de tasacio nes; $480.00 de inspecciones; $615.00 de adelantos pendien tes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $13,000.00, para gastos, cos tas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fe cha, desde este mismo día has ta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencio nada finca, a cuyo efecto se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA,
SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU
BASTA, 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 intere sados 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) in teresados (as). Y para su publi cación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un dia rio de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios pú blicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de agosto de 2022. JOSÉ
L. RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁN DEZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #796.
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IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
CIELO VIVIENDA LLC
Plaintiff, vs. LUIS CORTES -ALEJANDRO, HIS WIFE, IRMA IRIS ANDINO-ORTIZ
UNITED STATES OF AME RICA PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMON WEALTH OF PUERTO RICO. SS, Judgment in favor of plain tiff was entered for the sum of $161,937.16, plus accrued interest at a rate of four-point five percent (4.5%) per annum from may 17,2019 until the debt is paid full, accrued late char ges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursement made by plaintiff on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, plus cost and attorney’s fees; Pursuant to the judgment, the undersig ned Special Master was or dered to sell at public auction for United States currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of re demption to the highest bidder and at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federico Degetau Fede ral Building, Chardón Street, Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico or any other place desig nated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following pro perty: URBANA: Solar numero catorce (14) de la manzana DD de la Urbanización Santiago Iglesias Pantín, Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo, con un área de quinientos doce punto diez (512.10) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle catorce (14), en dieci séis punto diez (16.10) metros; por el SUR, con solar numero quince (15), en veintiséis punto cincuenta y seis (26.56) me tros; por el ESTE, con la calle número catorce guion A (14-A), en Veintiuno punto cincuenta y ocho (21.58) metros; OESTE, con el solar numero trece (13), en treinta y siete punto treinta y siete (37.37) metros. Consta inscrita al folio 7 del tomo 94 de Guaynabo, finca número 8,925, Registro de la Propiedad Sec ción de Guaynabo. Physical ad dress: 14 DD Santiago Pantín Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966.
The property is subject to the following junior lien: LIS PEN DENS: Issued on May 8, 2013 by the Court of First Instance for the Commonwealth of Puer to Rico, Guaynabo Section, under civil case # DCD-20131257, followed by Doral Bank versus Luis Cortes Alejandro y Irma Andino Ortiz, for the sum of $148,480.54 and other ex penses. Recorded at page 112 of volume 1529 of Guaynabo, Property 8925, Annotation A on July 24, 2015. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of any preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder ac cepts as sufficient the title and that prior or preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal), or ho meowner associations dues, to the extent specified under the applicable Condominium Law, shall continue in effect. It being understood that the successful bidder accepts them and is su brogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid pri ce shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. THEREFORE, the first public sale shall be held on the NOV EMBER 4th ,2022, at the 10:45 a.m., and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $148,702.70. In the event said first public auction does not produce a bidder and the pro perties is not adjudicated, a second public auction shall be held on the NOVEMBER 14th, 2022, at the 10:45 a.m. and the minimum bid that will be accep ted is the sum of $99,135.13, 2/3 parts of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. If said se cond auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a third auction will be held on the NOVEMBER 21st, 2022, at the 10:45 a.m. and the minimum bid that will be accep ted is the sum of $74,351.35, ½ of the minimum bid for the 1st public sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, referen ce is made to the judgment en tered by the Court in this case, which, along with all documents related to the instance case, can be examined in the Office of the Clerk of the United Sta tes District Court, Federal Buil ding, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico during regular business hours. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 26, 2022. Aguedo de la Torre, Special Master.
Defendants
Civil No.: 3:17-cv-01383. (GLS). COLLECTION OF MO NIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND OTHER CO LLATERAL. NOTICE OF SALE. To: DEFENDANTS AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
On January 21, 2022, this Ho norable Court issued Judgment in favor Bautista Cayman Asset Company, now PNH Capital, LLC, and against defendants, Fountainebleu Plaza, S.E., Se dcorp, Inc., and Edwin Loubriel Ortiz (“Defendants”). Defen dants were ordered to pay plain tiff as of November 19, 2021, the amount of $1,531,182.92 in connection with the Loan Agreement itemized as follows: Principal: $851,109.26. Inter est: $454,997.44. Late Fees: $19,301.72. Legal Expenses: $200,000.00. Environmental: $550.00. Insurance: $342.00. Valuation Expenses: $4,882.50. Pursuant to said judgment and the Order of Execution of Judg ment, the undersigned appoin ted Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Fe deral Building, Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designa ted by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Mamey de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de ochenta y seis mil doscientos treinta y dos metros cuadrados con mil cuatrocientos ochenta y cuatro diez-milésima de otro (86,232.1484), equivalentes a veintiuna cuerdas con nueve mil trescientos noventa y ocho diez-milésimas (21.9398); en lindes por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 377.708 metros lineales con el Sr. Tito Con cepción, Fountainebleu Plaza, S.E. antes Salveg, Inc., Sr. Andino Cancel y el Sr. Andrés Salazar; por el SUR, en varias alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 138.7535 metros lineales con solar número 9 que proviene de esta finca y cuyo dueño es el Sr. Oriel Ra mírez Rodríguez, con camino municipal y el Sr. Andrés Sa lazar; por el ESTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 294.9143 metros lineales con el Sr. Felipe Baer ga, Sr. Félix Urbina García y el
Sr. José María Martínez; por el OESTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 569,1409 metros lineales con el Sr. Loreto Meléndez, servidum bre de paso segregada de esta finca y camino municipal. Es remanente esta finca luego de segregado solar con cabida de 5,120.2426 metros cuadrados. Equivalentes a l.3028 cuerdas, inscrito al folio 133 del tomo 1,428 de Guaynabo. Property Number 16,778 is recorded at page 191 of volume 301 of Guaynabo, Registry of Proper ty of Puerto Rico, Section of Guaynabo. Physical Address: Avelino Cancel Road, North of Kilometer 1.6, Road 835, Ma mey Ward, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The property is subject to the following liens: By its origin: Free of liens. By itself: EASEMENT: In favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, according to the Resolution issued in the Court of First Ins tance, Court of San Juan, dated June 29, 1983, Civil #E83-22 1 to E83-223, recorded at page 192 of volume 301 of Guayna bo, 3rd inscription. TRANSFER OF EASEMENT: In favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewage Authority, as stated in the Resolution dated April 6, 1994 issued by the Supe rior Court of Puerto Rico, San Juan, recorded at page 192 of volume 301 of Guaynabo, 4th inscription. EASEMENT: In favor of Puerto Rico Power Authority, for the value of $1.00. According to the Certification dated January 15, 2003, sworn under affidavit 4406 and signed before the Notary Public Os valdo Pérez Marrero, recorded at page 140 of volume 1425 of Guaynabo, inscription 8ª.
MORTGAGE: In guarantee of a mortgage note in favor of Bea rer, or to its order, for the sum of $950,000.00, with interest at the rate of 2% per year on the preferential interest (Prime Rate), as established from time to time by Citibank, N.A in the City of NY, whose interest will never be less than 6.25%, and due upon presentation, as per deed #6, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 31, 2003, before Notary Public Ma nuel Correa Calzada, recorded at page 140vto of volume 1425 of Guaynabo, 10th inscription.
MORTGAGE MODIFICATION:
To modify the Mortgage of $950,000.00 to the amount of $2,000,000.00, which arises from the 10th inscription, as per deed #77, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Decem ber 29, 2003, before the Notary Public Manuel Correa Calzada, recorded at page 140 of volume 1425 of Guaynabo, Marginal Note inscription of February 11, 2010. COMPLAINT: The object of this entry is the Mortgage in favor of Bearer, for the sum
of $950,000.00, which arises from inscription #10. Plaintiff: Doral Bank; Defendant: Holder, Amount Owed $860,219.00, for principal plus interest, Complaint, Bayamón Court in civil case #DCD2014-0264 on January 28, 2014, recorded at page 218 of volume 1480, Annotation A of date of May 21, 2014. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the hol ders thereof. It shall be unders tood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, ta cit, implied or legal), shall con tinue in effect. It being unders tood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is su brogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The amount of $2,000,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to pro duce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementio ned amount or $1,333,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the se cond public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third pu blic sale shall be $1,000,000.00. Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confir mation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, pu blic notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before re ferred to, will, on the NOVEM BER 14, 2022, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property des cribed herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set herei nabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the NO VEMBER 21, 2022, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be
unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDI
CIAL SALE of the property des cribed in this Notice will be held on the NOVEMBER 28, 2022, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Federal Building, 350 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 29th day of September, 2022. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V.
LUIS ANGEL RAMIREZ WALKER
Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV00647. 401. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDNARIA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LUIS ÁNGEL RAMÍREZ WALKER.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de septiembre de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 2022. MARILYN APONTE RO DRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEI LA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. ORLANDO RUBÉN RODRÍGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ
Demandado(a)
Civil: CA2022CV00649. 402.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO
POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NO
TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: ORLANDO RUBEN RODRIGUEZ HERNÁNDEZ.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de septiembre de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 2022. MARILYN APONTE RO DRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEI LA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETA RIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Civil: CA2022CV02550. Sala: 403. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGA RÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS QUE SE DESIGNAN CON ESTOS NOMBRES FICTICIOS, QUE PUEDAN SER TENEDOR
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de septiembre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de septiembre de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puer to Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. MARILYN APON TE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETA RIA. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN
COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02436.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación respon siva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic tar 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 discre ción, lo entiende procedente. Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622
TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Baya món, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de septiembre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELIBETH TORRES ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V. WILLIAM EMILO PHILIPPI DE LA PEÑA Y JULIE ANN SODERLUND VILANOVA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, SANTANDER MORTGAGE
CORPORATION, JOHN DOE, CANCELACION DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VIA JUDICIAL Demandadas
Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08245. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLA ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER
DESCONOCIDOS DEL
PAGARÉ a favor de Santander Mortgage Corp. por la suma $257,000.00, con intereses al 5.875% anual y vencimiento
1 de octubre de 2017. Constituida mediante la escritura 342 otorgada en San Juan el 30 de septiembre de 2002 ante el notario José Aparicio
Maldonado, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 14,651 de Río Piedras Norte, finca 19,323, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Segunda Sección de San Juan.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publica ción del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se repre sente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y no tificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP
Suite 209
500 Calle De La Tanca
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664
rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi fir ma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 28 de septiembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ CO
LLADO, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAGUAS
ROSARIO, MARIA DEL CARMEN LÓPEZ
ROSARIO, NIDZA LUZ
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03134.
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRA VIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
En este caso la parte deman dante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicial mente el saldo del siguiente pa gare: Pagare a favor de Money House, lnc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de Treinta Mil Dólares ($30,000.00), con inte reses al siete punto ocho seten ta y cinco por ciento (7.875%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de noviembre de dos mil catorce (2014) según consta de la escritura número trescientos cuarenta y ocho (348) otorga da en Cayey, Puerto Rico el treinta (30) de octubre de mil novecientos noventa y nueve (1999) ante el Notario Público Humberto Soto Mainardi, ins crito al sistema Karibe, finca 3904, inscripción 10ma, y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad sita en 107 Calle Baltazar Mendoza Barrio Taita Cayey, Puerto Rico 00736, que se describe como sigue: UR BANA: Barrio Toita de Cayey. Lote: C. Cabida: ciento sesen ta y cinco punto novecientos diecinueve (165.919) metros cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, en catorce punto setecientos noventa y cinco (14.795) me tros, con terrenos del Depar tamento de Salud. SUR, en trece punto ochocientos once (13.811) metros con la Calle Baltazar Mendoza. ESTE, en once punto seiscientos noventa y cuatro (11.694) metros, con terrenos del señor Benjamín Zayas Guzmán, antes Monse rrate Rivera. OESTE, en once punto quinientos setenta y un (11.571) metros, con el Lote B. Inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Cayey, finca número 3,904, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. La parte demandante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extravia do, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. or tratarse de unas obligaciones hipotecarias, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en
un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Ma nejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acce der utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho pro pio, en cuyo caso deberán pre sentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, con copia al abo gado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, de PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra conce diendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edic to por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de septiembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE TARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINO SA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIA NEGRÓN NEGRÓN COMPUESTA POR DIXIE AURORA COLLAZO NEGRÓN; EMÉRITO COLLAZO NEGRÓN; MARÍA DEL CARMEN COLLAZO NEGRÓN T/C/C MARICARMEN COLLAZO NEGRÓN; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Y CRIM Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00105.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.
A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIA NEGRÓN NEGRÓN. FÍSICA: CARRETERA 111, KM. 4.9 BO. VIVÍ ABAJO, UTUADO, PR 00641-0000; POSTAL: HC 01 BOX 3596, UTUADO, PR 00641-
0000. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to 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 Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de septiembre de 2022. Entuad, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2022. DIANA ÁLVAREZ VILLANUE VA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA L. DE JESÚS VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de CAROLINA YOLANDA IVELISSE
Demandante V.
FIRST SECURITY MORTGAGE INC, DORAL BANK HOY BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE
Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV02301. 401. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: FIRST SECURITY MORTGAGE, INC., JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.
(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registra da y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse deta lladamente 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 repre sentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sen tencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 5 días contados a partir de la publica ción por edicto de esta notifica ción, dirijo a usted esta notifica ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2022. En CAROLINA, Puer to Rico, el 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE de 2022. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE RAMON PULLIZA ALMODOVAR COMPUESTA POR GLADYNEL MARIA PULLIZA VELAZQUEZ, AXEL FRANCIS PULLIZA VELAZQUEZ Y ALEXANDER PULLIZA VELAZQUEZ; CARMEN GLADYS VELAZQUEZ GUZMÁN
Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02759. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA DO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: EAXEL FRANCIS PULLIZA VELAZQUEZ, ALEXANDER PULLIZA VELAZQUEZ, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE RAMÓN PULLIZA ALMODÓVAR. 85 ARLINGTON AVE. APTO. 201, BLOOMFIELD, NJ 07003; 211 GAIL
STREET, VIDALIA, GEORGIA 30474; COND. PARQUE SAN ANTONIO II, APT. 3005, BARRIO CAÑABONCITO, CAGUAS PR 00727-5963; COND. PARQUE SAN ANTONIO II, APT. 3002, BARRIO CAÑABONCITO, CAGUAS PR 00727-5963.
Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido
notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligen ciamiento. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pue de acceder utilizando la direc ción 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 dic tar 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 discre ción, lo entiende procedente.
Representa a la parte deman dante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernán dez Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414. DADA en Ca guas, Puerto Rico, a 16 de septiembre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE
TARIA REGIONAL. VIONNET TE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante BAYRON M AYALA SANTIAGO Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2021CV02599.
Salón: 504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: BAYRON M AYALA SANTIAGOURB SANTA TERESITA 5830 CALLE SAN BRUNO, PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00730-4444.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.
Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic
tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de agosto de 2022. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 24 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MA
YRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE DENNISSE LÓPEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA MUNICIPAL DE SANTA ISABEL EN JUANA DÍAZ
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. RAFAEL GARCIA COLON Demandada
Civil Núm.: SI2022CV00016.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIEN TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RAFAEL GARCÍA COLON - URB. VILLA RETIRO SUR CALLE 15 SANTA ISABEL PR 00757.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: httrs://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar 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 re beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la de manda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente.
El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la par te demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@ orf-law.com, a la dirección no tificaciones@orf-law.com. EX TENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de agosto de 2022. En Jua na Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 2 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SE CRETARIA. MELISA TORRES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE AMPARO HERNÁNDEZ MERCADO T/C/C AMPARO HERNÁNDEZ AVILÉS T/C/C AMARO CONFESORA HERNÁNDEZ AVILÉS
COMPUESTA POR NYDIA MERCADO HERNÁNDEZ; LA SUCESIÓN DE ENRIQUE MERCADO HERNÁNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR TANIA MERCADO MUÑOZ, AYNEX MERCADO MUÑOZ, FULANO(A) DE TAL, SUTANO(A) DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; JOHN DOE EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2020CV02190.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ
RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUA
CIL PLACA #278, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, al públi
co HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Manda miento de Ejecución de Senten cia que se me libró con fecha de 6 de septiembre de 2022 por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra ban caria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte deman dada, la cual se describe a con tinuación: “URBANA: Residen tial Apartment 5-J of irregular shape, located in Laguna Gar dens Condominium IV, 5th floor, which is located at km.8, hm.2 of State Road number 26 in the Ward of Cangrejo Arriba, muni cipality of Carolina, with a total private area of 1409.89 square feet, (gross), equivalent to 131.03 square meters, being its lineal measurements 35’8” long by 52’3” wide and its bounda ries, access and description as follows: by the NORTH, with exterior yard (park area) in a distance of 35’8”; by the EAST, with exterior yard (facing buil ding III) in a distance of 52’3”; by the SOUTH, with exterior yard (parking area) in a distan ce of 20’11” and common stair in a distance of 3’8”; and by the WEST, with exterior yard, in a distance of 25’1”, with a com mon corridor in a distance of 8’3” with the common stairs in a distance of 14’11” and with fa mily unit 5-I in a distance of 4’2”. Its main door in the West boun dary has access to the corridor of the floor. This family unit con sists of the following rooms, li ving-dining, terrace facing South, master bedroom with one (1) closet and bathroom, which includes bathtub, lava tory and water closet, kitchen with double bowl sink laundry facilities and space for refrige rator. Corresponds to this apartment .006722% in the ge neral common elements of the building. Le corresponde un (1) estacionamiento con el mismo número del apartamento.”
Consta inscrito al Folio Dos cientos Cuatro (204) del Tomo Quinientos Sesenta y Uno (561) de Carolina, Finca Núme ro Veintiocho Mil Setenta y Dos (28,072), Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de Carolina. La finca 28,072 está gravada con la si guiente hipoteca cuya ejecu ción se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a fa vor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma prin cipal de $185,000.00, con inte reses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida me diante la escritura número 89, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de marzo de
2008, ante la notario Ana V. Pi ñero Parés, e inscrita al folio
168 del tomo 991 de Carolina, finca número 28,072, inscrip ción 9na. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravá menes: A. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secre tario del Departamento de Vi vienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $185,000.00, con intereses
al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida me diante la escritura número 90, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de marzo de 2008, ante la notario Ana V. Pi ñero Parés, e inscrita al folio 168 del tomo 991 de Carolina, finca número 28,072, inscrip ción 10ma. B. Aviso de Deman da de fecha 3 de noviembre de 2014, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil nú mero FCD2014-1363, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra La Sucesión de Amparo Hérnandez Mercado, compuesta por Enrique Merca do Hernández y posibles here deros desconocidos, y Estados Unidos de América, por la suma de $208,026.41 y otras, anota do al tomo Karibe de Carolina, finca número 28,072, Anotación A. C. Aviso de Demanda de fe cha 19 de octubre de 2020, ex pedido en el Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número CA2020CV02190, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipote ca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, contra Amparo Hernández Mercado, también conocida como Amparo Her nández Avilés y como Amaro Confesora Hernández Avilés, por la suma de $359,896.37, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 27 de octubre de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Caroli na Norte, finca número 28,072, Anotación B. La venta se lleva rá a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Popular Mortgage, Inc., total o parcialmente el im porte de la Sentencia emitida el 21 de julio de 2022. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su pro ducto satisfacer a Banco Popu lar de Puerto Rico total o par cialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 21 de julio de 2022. El importe de la Sen tencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe asciende a las siguien tes cantidades: $368,649.10 al 31 de enero de 2021. Dicha cantidad continuará acumulán dose a razón del 7% hasta el completo pago de la deuda. La demandada adeuda, además, una cantidad equivalente a $18,500.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, $18,500.00 para cu brir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y $18,500.00 para cubrir intereses adicionales a
los garantizados por ley, según pactado. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 27 DE OCTU BRE DE 2022, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $185,000.00, suma pactada entre los contratantes en la es critura de constitución de hipo teca. Si no se produce remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará la SE
GUNDA SUBASTA el día 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TARDE. TIPO MÍNI MO: $123,333.33 dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado entre los contratantes en la es critura de constitución de hipo teca. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 10 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 2:30 DE LA TAR DE. TIPO MÍNIMO: $92,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pacta do entre los contratantes en la escritura de constitución de hi poteca. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, ad virtiéndose que el que obtuvie re la buena pro de dicha propie dad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cual quier momento luego de haber se comenzado el acto de la su basta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le eviden cien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Del producto ob tenido en dicha venta, el Algua cil pagará en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas, gastos y ho norarios de abogado hasta la suma convenida, en tercer tér mino los intereses devengados hasta la fecha de la subasta, en cuarto término las sumas esta blecidas en la Sentencia para el pago de recargos por demora, contribuciones, seguros y en quinto término la suma principal adeudada conforme con la sen tencia dictada. Disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanen te luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada, previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gra vámenes anteriores y los prefe rentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán sub sistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. Se le apercibe a
los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquie ra derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán compare cer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancela ción de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posterio res. Si se declara desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeu dada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abo nará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedi miento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secre taría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina durante horas labora bles. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés ins crito con posterioridad a la ins cripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitado res y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fija rá además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspa so al licitador victorioso, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanza miento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta y para ello procederé a romper candados de ser necesario. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin ne cesidad de ulterior procedi miento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocu pante o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocu pen. El Registrador de la Pro
piedad cancelará, libre de dere chos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y proce derá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en su basta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta ac ción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 13 de septiembre de 2022. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RO DRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN CIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CA ROLINA.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)
Plaintiff v. JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding,
Defendants CIVIL NO. 22-cv-1244 RAM. ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Gregorio Narvaez Torres d/b/a D’Millenium Dry Cleaners). SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.
TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE Unknown holders of a promis sory note of $280,000.00 exe cuted on November 11, 2005, by Gregorio Narvaez Torres d/b/a D’Millenium Dry Cleaners, as acknowledged by affidavit number 24,259 sworn before Manuel L. Correa Marquez, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 204 executed on November 11, 2005 before Notary Public Ma nuel L. Correa Marquez, over the following property, descri bed in the Spanish language as: URBANA: Solar radicada en el Barrio Cerro Gordo del termino municipal de Bayamon, con una cabida superficial de 2,035.2925 metros cuadrados, siendo el remanente luego de una expropiaci6n de 137.8723 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 29.86 me tros, con solar propiedad del senor Hector Santiago Vazquez y en 15.89 metros, con terrenos propiedad de la Sucesi6n de Juan Reyes Villanueva; por el SUR, en 75.00 metros y 30.66 metros, respectivamente, con el remanente de la finca princi
pal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, en 75.00 metros y 30.66 metros, respectivamente, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega y por el OESTE, en 25.00 me tros, con la Carretera Estatal 167. Es el remanente luego de una expropiaci6n de 137 .8723 metros cuadrados, que se re laciona al margen del folio 250 del tomo hist6rico de Bayamon.
ORDER OF THE COURT, sum mons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Com monwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 7th day of September, 2022. MA
RIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ., CLERK - U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Ana Duran-Cape lla, Deputy Clerk.
law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en Ponce Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de agosto de 2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GAR CÍA, SECRETARIA. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTRUCTURA: Estructura dividida en cuatro espacios, los cuales se describen a con tinuaci6n: El espacio No.1 con un area superficial de 36 pies½ de largo por 17 pies 6 pulgadas de ancho, el espacio No. 2, con un area superficial de 23 pies 4 pulgadas de ancho por 36 pies y ½ de largo, el espacio No. 3, con un area superficial de 36 pies y ½ de largo por 23 pfes 4 pulgadas de ancho y el espacio No. 4 con un area superficial de 36 pies y 1/2 de largo por 23 pies 4 pulgadas de ancho, construida dicha estructura mitad en cementa y otra mitad en aluminio, dedicada para fines comerciales, la cual tie ne una cabida total de 90 pies cuadrados de largo por 36 pies cuadrados de ancho. Dicha es tructura consta de dos bafios, conectados a un pozo muro y “rolling doors”, con un valor de $50,000.00, segun consta de la escritura #79, otorgada en San Juan, el 7 de junio de 2006, ante el notario Manuel L. Co rrea Marquez. The aforementio ned Mortgage Deed is duly re corded in the Registry Property of Bayamon, First Section, at page 90, volume 1825 of Baya mon, property number 44,415, sixth inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publi cation entered on 09/07/2022 by the Honorable Raul M. Arias Marxuach,United States District Judge (Docket No. 4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty’ (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime Lopez Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269. T. his Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of ge neral circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Sum mons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RE GIÓN JUDICIAL DE PONCE
SALA SUPERIOR MERCHANT ADVANCE, LLC
Demandante, Vs. BENIQUES SERVICES, LLC., Y JOSE M. RODRIGUEZ BENIQUEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: PO2022CV00375.
Salón: 301. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO / INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATRO. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: BENIQUES SERVICES, LLC., Y JOSE M. RODRIGUEZ
BENIQUEZ. B. COTTO LAUREL CARR.14KM 8.8 COTO LAUREL PR 00780; COND. PRADOS DEL MONTE 29 CALLE 8 CATALA APT. 410, GUAYNABO P.R. 009717603; URB. SANTA ELENA A160 CALLE 13, YABUCOA PR 00767.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYA MÓN SALA 502 ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. ANTONIO RIVERA TANON Demandado Civil Núm.: NJ2022CV00068. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO.
A: ANTONIO RIVERA TANON - 115 CALLE GEORGETTI NARANJITO, PUERTO RICO 007193024.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción 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 dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose.aguilar@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de agosto de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 26 de agosto de 2022. LCDA LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
BY
Leonard Fournette, the Tampa Bay Buc caneers running back, remembers pass ing dead bodies while wading through the flooded streets of his native New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
Ten years old at the time, he lived on a bridge with his family for nearly a week af ter the storm, he said, and they looted local grocery stores to survive. When Fournette, now 27, evacuated to the Miami area with his teammates last week ahead of Hurricane Ian — which left a trail of death and destruc tion that is still being assessed — the mo ment evoked memories that he would like to forget.
“I know how serious it is, I know how it can turn for the worse,” Fournette said last week. “I’m just happy we got ourselves out of there, that our families and everyone is safe.”
In those nervous days before the hurri cane hit Florida, it was not even clear where, or when, Sunday’s rematch of Super Bowl LV would be played.
As a precaution, the Buccaneers’ play ers, coaches, staff and their families had fled south last week — out of the storm’s pro jected path. Setting up a temporary camp in Miami Gardens, they practiced at the Dol phins’ facility, which was available because the team played Thursday night on the road. There, the Buccaneers tried to prepare for the biggest game of their early season while wondering whether the hurricane would sweep away their homes.
“It’s a lot different when there are little kids running around the hotel and everyone was dealing with their dogs or their babies,” offensive tackle Tristan Wirfs said of the lead-up to Sunday night’s prime-time game. “It was a lot.”
When Ian’s path altered, sidestepping Tampa and leaving the city essentially un scathed, the team returned and — with city officials urging the NFL to play it as sched uled — the game went ahead. When it did, it was Kansas City — which won the highly anticipated matchup, 41-31 — that looked much more comfortable on the field.
Patrick Mahomes passed for 249 yards and three touchdowns, favoring his tight end Travis Kelce and leading a new-look offense as Kansas City (3-1) turned in a statement performance.
The Buccaneers (2-2), meanwhile, now face questions after another unbalanced out ing in which Tom Brady passed for 385 yards
and three scores but the running game strug gled to gain ground and the defense repeat edly failed to slow down the Chiefs.
The game had nearly kicked off in an other state. The NFL had selected U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis as the contingency site because its home team, the Vikings, played Sunday in London against New Or
leans. But the storm’s path swung south, bat tering Fort Myers and the surrounding areas instead of Tampa. The airport and most other businesses, which closed ahead of the hurri cane, resumed normal operations by Friday.
A league spokesman said Thursday that state and local officials “encouraged” the NFL to keep the game in Raymond James
Stadium. Mayor Jane Castor of Tampa said in a statement that the city could responsibly host the game while deploying aid to other areas in Florida, where the hurricane killed at least 80 people and caused billions of dol lars in damage. Before the game, fans raised their cellphone flashlights in a moment of si lence for the victims, and Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles wore a white shirt emblazoned with the slogan Florida Strong.
Yet even as the game went ahead, the disaster hung over a marquee matchup be tween two of the league’s best teams in the same stadium where they had met in the Su per Bowl in February 2021. The Buccaneers won that day, 31-9, helped immensely by their ability to pressure and sack Mahomes.
Each took the field on Sunday with a very different team. Brady, the 45-year-old quarterback who retired and unretired this offseason, now throws to a receiving corps without Rob Gronkowski and Antonio Brown, who were key weapons during Tam pa Bay’s Super Bowl run. Bowles became head coach in March after Bruce Arians re tired and took a front-office role.
Kansas City has made changes, too, most notably by additions to its offensive line and the loss of receiver Tyreek Hill, who was traded to Miami in the offseason. His absence hardly seemed to matter against Tampa Bay: Kansas City burst to a 21-3 lead early in the second quarter.
Kansas City separated from Brady and Tampa Bay in the second half with two field goals and another touchdown pass by Ma homes. The performance enforced Kansas City’s belief that the offense can win without the speedy Hill: Eight players caught a pass from Mahomes.
“When you have a new group of peo ple, you want to see how everyone battles through adversity,” Mahomes said. “I think guys responded.”
The Buccaneers had been led by their defense the past two games, but the unit struggled against Mahomes. Tampa Bay’s de fense allowed more points than it had in its first three games combined, and its offense rushed for only 3 yards.
For a team that has Super Bowl aspira tions in what — like every year — could be Brady’s final season, that formula will not yield success. And the Buccaneers know it.
“It doesn’t matter what we did last year or the year before that— nobody cares,” Brady said. “When you come up short, obvi ously we didn’t do a good job in any area and we have to do a better job.”
Tom Brady passed for 385 yards against the Chiefs, but his team rushed for only 3. Jody Fortson was one of eight Kansas City receivers to catch a pass from Patrick Mahomes. His only reception was a 10-yard touchdown.In their biggest series of the year, a matchup that would essentially decide the National League East winner in the waning days of the regular season, the New York Mets had two big reasons to be confident: Jacob deGrom and Max Scher zer.
Two of the best pitchers in baseball, deGrom and Scherzer have a combined five Cy Young Awards and 12 All-Star se lections. And even though both have dealt with injuries this season, they have plowed through opposing lineups with relative ease. A sweep of Atlanta in the three-game set would have clinched the Mets’ first di vision title since 2015 and earned them the luxury of a first-round bye in the postsea son, which begins later this week.
Instead, the defending World Series champion Braves have the Mets on the ropes. Powered by home runs by Matt Olson and shortstop Dansby Swanson, Atlanta beat deGrom on Friday night and Scherzer on Saturday night. The latter vic tory moved Atlanta into sole possession of first place in the division for just the sec ond time this season.
“It feels terrible,” Mets outfielder Bran don Nimmo said after his team’s 4-2 loss Saturday. Alluding to deGrom and Scher zer, he added: “Those are our best shots. They stuffed them in our face.”
Then Atlanta shoved another cold reality into the Mets’ faces Sunday night. Swanson and Olson homered again, and Atlanta won 5-3 to complete a three-game sweep. The Mets had broken a 1-1 tie with two runs in the top of the third inning, but Atlanta responded in the bottom half by scoring three runs with two outs and knocking out starter Chris Bassitt.
The Braves (100-59) held a two-game lead over the Mets (98-61) going into Mon day with three games left and own the tiebreaker, which means Atlanta stood to claim the NL East with one more win or a Mets loss.
Over the final three games, Atlanta is facing the lowly Miami Marlins (67-92) on the road, while the Mets are hosting the Washington Nationals (55-104), the worst team in baseball. A division title and an easier path in the playoffs remain at stake, although Atlanta has a much clearer path.
Bryce Elder (2-3, 2.76 ERA) was slated to start for the Braves against Miami’s Jesús Luzardo (3-7, 3.53 ERA) on Monday night, while Carlos Carrasco (15-7, 3.95 ERA) was scheduled to start for the Mets against the Nationals’ Cory Abbott (0-4, 5.11 ERA).
Both teams have clinched at least a wild-card spot in the playoffs, but a division title would cap an impressive turnaround by Atlanta — and a fairly stunning collapse by the Mets. On June 1, Atlanta trailed the Mets by a season-high 10 1/2 games. Since then, the Mets have cooled off, going 6344, while the Braves morphed into one of the best teams in the majors, at 76-32.
“We were not playing good base ball at all,” Swanson said of his team four months ago. “And you’ve kind of seen guys throughout this organization really take ownership of that.”
Added Atlanta manager Brian Snit ker: “I knew we were better than what we were on that day. And it was just a matter of time.”
Atlanta pulled even with the Mets for the first time this season on Sept. 6. It held a half-game lead three days later for just the day. It stayed on the Mets’ heels for the next few weeks and was again tied on Sept. 27. Facing the Mets directly over the weekend, Atlanta has shown it is perhaps
the better team overall and has an intan gible quality gained by playing in so many high-pressure games last season.
“Teams have it, guys have it,” Snitker said. “I’ve had teams over the years all my career and you’re like, ‘God, that team has it.’ You don’t really know what it is. You can’t manufacture it. Some teams have it and some teams don’t. Some guys have it and some don’t. But that is huge in this game.”
In Snitker’s mind, few players have shown that ability more than Swanson, particularly this season. In his final season before free agency, Swanson, 28, has been one of the best shortstops in baseball and produced the finest season of his career. He hit his 25th home run of the season in the first inning Sunday and improved his career-high RBI total to 96. He earned his first All-Star selection earlier this season and has provided stellar defense and team leadership.
“I feel like everyone hates losing, but he hates it more than the average person,” said Atlanta starter Kyle Wright, a team mate of Swanson’s at Vanderbilt Univer sity, who on Saturday picked up his MLBleading 21st win.
In the sixth inning Friday, Swanson smashed a low 98-mph fastball from de
Grom into the stands for a solo shot that gave Atlanta a 3-1 lead. On Saturday, he clobbered a 93-mph fastball over the mid dle of the plate from Scherzer for a goahead, two-run blast in the fifth.
“Sometimes you’ve just got to get out of your own way a little bit,” Swanson said of facing the star pitchers. “It can be chal lenging at times. But there’s no better time to do it than now, kind of saying, ‘To the heck with it, let’s just go compete and lay it all out there.’”
Atlanta’s rise has been fueled, in part, by home runs — a lot of them. Only the New York Yankees (246) have more home runs than the Braves (241) this season. Since June 1, Atlanta has hit a majorleague-leading 179 blasts, two more than the Yankees.
“The ability to change the game with one swing is nice, especially when you’re at home and can fire up the crowd,” said Olson, who has snapped out of a Septem ber skid with five home runs in his past six games, including a solo blast in the sixth inning Sunday.
Once Atlanta started playing better over the summer, Olson said he had an idea the NL East race would come down to the final weekend against the Mets. And it may have.
Atlanta Braves’ Dansby Swanson reacts after hitting a solo home run in the first inning of a Major League Baseball game against the New York Mets, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022, in Atlanta.studied the Ali-Inoki match. Of particular interest was a moment in the sixth round when Ali fell, and Inoki got on top of him before the referee separated the two men.
“If that moment in time was let go for five more seconds, 10 more seconds, Inoki would have wrapped around his neck or his arm or a limb, and the whole face of the combat world would have changed right there and then,” McGregor said.
Kanji Inoki was born on Feb. 20, 1943, in Yoko hama, a Japanese port city. He adopted “Antonio” as a wrestling name. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Brazil. Rikidozan, a professional wrestler in Japan, visited Brazil, met Kanji and became his men tor, guiding him into a career as a popular Japanese wrestler.
Information about Inoki’s survivors was not imme diately available.
The Ali episode did no long-term damage to Ino ki’s popularity in his homeland, where he became a presence in advertising, from Tabasco sauce to pinball parlors.
And he shrewdly curried favor abroad. In Pakistan, he became known as Muhammad Hussain Inoki in the local press; exchanged his red scarf for a green one, reflecting the color of Pakistan’s flag; and cultivated a rivalry with a famous family of Pakistani wrestlers.
After one fight ended ambiguously, Inoki chose to admit defeat, satisfying Pakistani fans’ urge for a home grown victor, according to a 2014 profile in Grantland.
By ALEX TRAUBAntonio Inoki, a Japanese wrestler best known for fighting Muhammad Ali to a draw in a mixed martial arts match and who also used his showmanship to win fame and influence in North Korea, Iraq and Pakistan, died Saturday in Tokyo. He was 79.
New Japan Pro-Wrestling, a wrestling company that Inoki had founded, announced that the cause was amyloidosis, a rare organ disease.
Inoki had the jutting chin of a wartime dicta tor but also wore a red scarf with the panache of a French New Wave filmmaker.
He inhabited varying public roles with success. He developed a one-man foreign policy on trips around the world while a member of the Japanese parliament’s upper house. He built a reputation and a following in Pakistan by presenting himself when wrestling there as a convert to Islam. And he pro jected the image of a jovial jock when slapping fans and fellow celebrities in the face, a signature move intended to transfer some of his fighting spirit.
But it was an anticlimactic stunt match in Tokyo against Muhammad Ali on June 26, 1976, that brought
him attention in the United States and cemented his renown elsewhere.
Ali was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and the fight was touted as a contest not just between two men but between two sports. Anticipa tion built, and Shea Stadium drew more than 30,000 people for a telecast.
Not long after the bell sounded, Inoki flung him self to the mat and proceeded to crawl and kick Ali, a strategy that appeared to stupefy his opponent. Ali danced around the ring, absorbing painful kicks and landing only two punches through the whole fight.
The odd spectacle was ruled a draw and inspired the crowd to hurl garbage at the ring.
“Perhaps last summer I was too serious,” Inoki told The New York Times in a regretful interview the next year. “I was doing my best to win. It wasn’t a fake fight or it would have been more interesting.”
After Ali died in 2016, the Times ran a retrospec tive article about the bout: “Ali’s Least Memorable Fight.”
One expert commentator saw it differently. Conor McGregor, the mixed martial artist who had fought undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2017, said at a news conference before their bout that he had
Inoki’s most impactful foreign intervention oc curred in Iraq. In 1990, months before the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was holding dozens of Japanese cit izens hostage. Inoki, who had recently been elected to Japan’s parliament, brought relatives of the cap tives with him on a trip to Iraq, where he organized a “Sports and Music Peace Festival.”
That style of diplomacy paid off: Inoki was “credited with helping negotiate the release of 41 Japanese citizens,” The New York Times said in a 2017 profile.
From 1995 to 2017, Inoki had also become a fig ure in North Korea, visiting the country 32 times. The relationship originated with “Collision in Korea,” a 1995 event during which Inoki defeated the Amer ican wrestler Ric Flair.
Some in Japan criticized the old wrestling star’s socializing with high-ranking officials of a nucleararmed autocracy as a publicity stunt. He said he had a noble goal: “to establish peace through sports di plomacy,” he told the Times.
“The United Nations, Trump and Japan are all saying we need to apply more pressure,” Inoki con tinued. “But first we need to listen to them and un derstand what the reasons are behind their activity.”
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A desire to keep the peace and sweep any issues under the carpet could override the need to voice frustration, especially around a sensitive issue. Somehow, you will need to find a balance that allows you to discuss your concerns and accounts for others’ feelings. While this may not be your usual style Aries, the Moon’s angle with Chiron encourages you to give it some thought.
The focus on your lifestyle, encourages you to change your routine to one that is perhaps eco-friendly. If this has been on your mind lately, the coming weeks can inspire you to get organized, set your wellness targets and try to eat more healthily. You know it makes sense, it’s just that doing it is harder than thinking about it. Take it one day at a time, and you will see progress.
The Sun and Venus in your leisure zone, encourage you to get out and enjoy life. With a lingering tie to jovial Jupiter still on the cards, don’t hold back if there’s something exciting, creative or romantic on the cards. A cultural exhibition, concert or other event, can hit the sweet spot if you’re ready to indulge your interests. You need something different to keep you occupied.
Don’t ignore a desire to rest and unwind. The emphasis on your home zone, is perfect for making more time for life’s small pleasures. Baking and home cooking may be very therapeutic, as can spending more time with loved ones. And if you’re feeling in a creative mood, you could always add a few special touches to your home, with a splash of paint or beautifully crafted items.
Feeling restless? With key planets rewinding, it’s easy to see why you might feel out of sync with life. Taking a break may be one way to step back and get your bearings, Leo. Whether it’s only for a few hours or a day or more, you could return with a clear understanding of what to do next. Plus, if you’re ready to network and promote yourself, now is the time to go for it.
Feelings can be intense, and coupled with the ongoing Saturn/Uranus link, you could feel irritable. This might result in you snapping at someone, unless you’re careful to stay calm. There may be another reason why staying cool is better, as a dreamier blend of energies suggests you could feel guilty if you do have words. Keeping things sweet can be better for all involved.
Is someone trying to annoy you? It may seem like they are going out of their way to get a reaction.
Adopting a cool, calm and spiritual approach, might flaw them completely though Libra, especially if you can detach from what they’re saying and let it all go.
You likely have far more important matters to be dealing with, so ignoring their remarks could be the best thing you do.
You could sabotage your own best interests, if you lapse into blaming yourself for anything that goes wrong. A relaxed approach may be the better option though, as this can be one of those times when being hard on yourself won’t serve you at all. The Sun in a private zone encourages you to detach, as this will bring the clarity to deal with any mishaps and find solutions, Scorpio.
Speaking without thinking could get you into trouble, and lead to issues that might have been avoided. A pause to gain a true understanding of the situation may allow for a more positive outcome going forward. The focus on the sign of Libra encourages a tactful approach to any dilemmas, and this can be preferable to spur of the moment decisions that won’t help you.
If you need to clear the air, then the best way forward is to do so as nicely as possible. Better still, err on the side of sensitivity and gentleness, as this will encourage greater co-operation. An edgy aspect means this may be easier said than done. You might find it difficult to keep your cool if you know you’re right, but this can be essential to get any kind of resolution at all.
It helps not to get into a verbal tussle that you might not win, Aquarius. Yet this is what can happen if you allow your feelings to run away with you. No matter how much a certain situation or person seems to nettle you, a lunar link to ethereal Neptune, suggests taking the higher perspective. In a few days, you may see why this was important, even if you can’t right now.
You’ll prefer to discuss issues in some depth with a chosen few, rather than talk about nothing much with people you barely know. The Sun and Venus in Libra, are excellent for peeling back the layers and getting to the heart of important issues or dilemmas. Plus, a Moon/Uranus link could coincide with an encounter or conversation that leads you to discover something new.
