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Flooding reported in Lares, Las Marías, San Sebastián, Naguabo and Maunabo

By THE STAR STAFF

The National Weather Service (NWS) in San Juan reported flooding in the municipalities of Lares, Las Marías and San Sebastián on Thursday, issuing a flood alert in effect until late afternoon to early evening.

The NWS also reported flash floods in Río Blanco in Naguabo and Río Maunabo in Maunabo, with dangerous flood levels in some areas.

The NWS said the two rivers were at extremely high levels and there was a risk of Río Blanco flooding PR-191 and PR-3.

According to the NWS, urban and small stream flooding caused by heavy rains was expected in the aforementioned areas. In particular, low-lying and poorly drained areas would be the most affected. Increases in small streams and overflows were expected in areas that are usually dry, in addition to the accumulation of water on roads.

At 2:46 p.m., Doppler radar signaled heavy rain due to thunderstorms. The rainfall caused urban flooding in small streams. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain was recorded.

The NWS warned that additional amounts of rain between 1 and 3 inches were expected over the area, which could result in minor flooding.

The NWS urged the public not to attempt to cross flooded roads. “Turn around, don’t drown when you find flooded roads,” the agency said. “Most flood deaths

occur in vehicles.”

In addition, it was recommended to be aware of the surroundings and avoid flooded roads altogether. If flooding is observed, it is vital to report it to local authorities or law enforcement, the agency said, and if it is safe to do so, communicate the information to the NWS.

The combination of saturated soils and additional rains that had been predicted for Thursday as a result of the recent passage of Tropical Storm Philippe increased the potential for flooding to elevated areas, mainly for the eastern and southern half of Puerto Rico, and for all of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Fiscal board approves several amended LUMA service contracts with 6 firms

By THE STAR STAFF

The Financial Oversight and Management Board has approved with observations a series of contracts to increase to $71.6 million the total amount of service contracts between LUMA Energy and six companies, according to an Oct. 2 letter.

The contracts are between LUMA Energy and Integra Design Group PSC, CSA Architects and Engineers LLC, Continental Lord LLC, Ray-Seco Engineers PSC, Sargent & Lundy Puerto Rico LLC and Stantec Engineering PSC.

The observations seek to ensure the proposed contracts promote market competition and are not inconsistent with approved fiscal plans.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the review performed by

the Oversight Board does not constitute a legal review of the contractual documentation or the contracting process, including without limitation: (i) compliance with contracting requirements under applicable laws, rules, and regulations, both federal and local; and (ii) compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations governing procurement activities, both federal and local,” the oversight board said.

The contracts all have three-year terms from their respective dates of execution, with two allowable one-year extensions. They range from $18 million to $24.7 million.

According to the information submitted by LUMA, the proposed amendments will be fully federally funded with Federal Emergency Management Agency funds.

combination of saturated soils and additional rains that had been expected as a result of the recent passage of Tropical Storm Philippe increased the potential for flooding to elevated areas, mainly for the eastern and southern half of Puerto Rico, and for all of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Energy Bureau urges broad participation in survey on energy use

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) wants Puerto Rico energy consumers to participate in a study on energy use on the island.

“Everyone’s participation will be essential in order to develop programs that help reduce costs of energy and create a more sustainable and secure energy future,” the energy regulator said.

Residential consumers can participate by taking a digital survey designed to gather information about home energy use, from lighting to the appliances they use daily. As part of the residential effort, those who complete the survey can participate in a home visit, where the program’s research staff can gather additional information to better understand energy use and needs.

Commercial consumers such as offices, doctors’ offices and small businesses also need to participate by providing tours of their facilities to program researchers so they can evaluate loads and energy use. All data collected in surveys and visits will be confidential, and the information will never be attributed to specific people, households or businesses.

“The participation of residential and commercial consumers in Puerto Rico is essential to ensure the success of this study,” said Edgardo Contreras Aponte, director of the PREB’s Engineering Office. “We invite you to participate in this important effort for our island, including Vieques and Culebra. By helping us collect information about how energy is used, we will be able to create a more efficient and energy-secure future.”

The results of thE effort will benefit “both to the residential and commercial sectors, aimed at saving energy costs for Puerto Rican consumers, as well as mitigating damage to the environment,” he added.

To ensure the quality and confidentiality of the data, the study will be administered by the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), a nonprofit organization with local offices based in San Juan. IBTS has been working for and in Puerto Rico for 10 years, with a focus on providing renewable energy services. Following hurricanes Irma and Maria, it has collaborated with municipalities, community groups, and the central government in their recovery efforts.

According to IBTS project manager Gabby Geraci, participating in the survey will be easy.

“The online survey takes just a few minutes to complete, and home visits will take approximately one hour, and 90 minutes for a business.”

The PREB, an arm of the Public Service Regulatory Board, is responsible for regulating, supervising and enforcing the public energy policy of the Puerto Rico government. Its mission is to achieve a reliable, efficient and transparent electrical system that provides reasonably priced energy services.

FEMA awards over $39 million to repair island medical facilities

By THE STAR STAFF

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded over $37.6 million to repair the Ryder Memorial Hospital in Humacao, one of the largest medical facilities in eastern Puerto Rico, and more than $1.8 million for its Critical Healthcare Services Center (CDT by its Spanish initials) in San Lorenzo.

Federal funding will allow infrastructure restoration and contents replacement at Ryder Memorial’s Humacao medical complex, as well as rebuilding from the ground up its nursing home, a senior living facility that was nearly devastated by Hurricane Maria. Obligations are also earmarked for permanent work at its CDT in San Lorenzo, one of the few primary care facilities available to the more than 37,000 people who live in that municipality.

“This award significantly changes how the Municipality of Humacao serves its most vulnerable population -- the elderly, people who need prolonged nursing care and those who are sick and require immediate medical attention,” Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero said. “Also, to lessen the impact of future disasters, obligations include

nearly $13.4 million for mitigation measures to ensure continuity of services.”

Carmen Colón, the executive director of Ryder Memorial Hospital and affiliated corporations, said the repairs “will guarantee better patient care because we can get more accurate diagnoses in less time, allowing for faster and more effective decision-making in the required treatment.”

Established in 1914, Ryder Memorial Hospital receives more than 6,000 patients per month and has some 500 employees. Proposed repairs include interior and exterior infrastructure work and replacing safety and climate control equipment, including fire alarms, smoke detectors, air conditioner and condensing units, and water tanks, and repairs throughout the hospital’s electrical infrastructure.

FEMA funding will also be used to replace damaged medical equipment at Ryder Memorial – from stretchers, surgical tables, computers and medical carts to high-tech machines such as MRI, X-ray and infant protection machines.

Meanwhile, Ryder Memorial nursing home, established in 1995 as a long-term care facility for elderly citizens and Alzheimer patients, will be constructed using

current building standards and codes related to healthcare facilities. Colón said they will begin the process of evaluating the new facility with proposals for construction and design, as well as the possibility of adding new and diverse services.

Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency (COR3) Executive Director Manuel A. Laboy Rivera said “Ryder Memorial Hospital has already begun developing some of the permanent works that give resilience to its facilities.”

“Meanwhile, other works are in the planning stage, as well as the reconstruction of the San Lorenzo CDT, which is led by the Department of Health,” he said. “I urge everyone to apply for the funding available through the Working Capital Advance pilot program, so their projects can continue to advance.”

To date, FEMA has awarded over $42 million for permanent work projects at Ryder Memorial Hospital and affiliated corporations, and nearly $6.4 million for emergency protective measures related to Hurricane Maria.

A federal funding injection will allow infrastructure restoration and contents replacement at Ryder Memorial Hospital in Humacao, as well as the complete rebuilding of its nursing home.

Fiscal management paying off?

Treasury chief: General Fund income for first month of FY 2024 outpaced oversight board projections, year-ago figures

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

The financial situation on the island is a commonly discussed topic because of its importance and the ongoing controversy surrounding it. Puerto Rico has been facing an economic crisis for many years, but that doesn’t stop most residents from paying their taxes. Naturally this begs the question: Where is the government’s money going and how much money is the government generating, considering the financial crisis?

The answers to these questions could be seen as rather surprising and unexpected. On Thursday, the central government’s chief financial officer (CFO), Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea, reported that the net income of the General Fund for July, which was the first month of fiscal year 2024, reached $810.8 million, which represented $120.4 million, or 17.4%, more than was projected by the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico ($690.4 million) for that month.

“The income for the month of July exceeds the projection established by the Fiscal Supervision Board (FOB) [Financial Oversight and Management Board], by approximately $120.4 million,” Parés Alicea said during a press conference at the Treasury Department in San Juan. “In addition, the total collections figure for the month of July 2023 exceeds what was collected during the month of July of the previous year by $112.9 million, or 16.2%. These results are positive indicators for the beginning of Fiscal Year 2024.”

Parés Alicea highlighted that, when analyzing the preliminary numbers for August and September, collections for the first quarter of this fiscal year amount to $2.689.3 billion. Those revenues exceed the revenues of the previous fiscal year during this same period by $316.5 million, or 13.3%. In addition, the level of collections achieved in the quarter exceeded the estimate of the oversight board by $441.7 million or 19.7%.

“Definitely, revenues continue to be greater than expenditures and we anticipate that the government’s finances will continue to be stable with a healthy cash flow to meet the government’s obligations,” Parés Alicea said. “We continue to bring our finances up to date, developing a responsible, transparent and effective government in the management of public funds.”

The oversight board, in its fiscal plan presented on April 3, certified net income to the General Fund for fiscal year (FY) 2023-2024 of over $11.621 billion. That revenue base is comparable to the revenue components considered in recent historical periods. The Treasury chief said it is worth mentioning that for FY 2024 the income base will consider new income items that will be explained later.

In FY 2022-2023, revenues totaled nearly $12.598 billion. The projection presented by the oversight board estimates that, for the current fiscal year, collections will present a decrease of $976.2 million, or a reduction of 7.7%. For the fiscal periods from 2025 to 2028, the fiscal entity projects a negative average growth of -0.4%. This downward trend in its forecast’s rests mainly on the gross product growth projections incorporated by the oversight board.

Meanwhile, the Puerto Rico Planning Board recently presented its long-term economic projections. The growth expectations for the economy between the planning board and the oversight board vary considerably.

The main tax lines in which the oversight board estimates a lower performance than the previous fiscal year are individuals ($280 million less, or -10%), motor vehicle taxes ($159 million less, or -24%), sales & use tax (IVU by its Spanish acronym) ($87 million less, or -3%) and corporations ($47 million less, or -2%). The latter corresponds to the part of “Other” corporations, not related to the income received by entities under the new regime of Law 52-22, from foreign entities, previously under Law 154-2010.

On the other hand, the income components projected by the oversight board with a higher performance than that experienced in FY 2023 were: Law 52 corporations ($330 million more, or 98%), withholding from non-residents Law 52 ($262 million more, or 133%), and taxes on rum shipments ($39 million more, or 23%). It should be noted that the growth offered on the lines related to Law 52-2022 is largely explained by the fact that the law was implemented in February of FY 2023, which is why the income related to the regime only covers five months.

The oversight board, then, estimates a reduction compared to the FY 2023 base of $1.243 billion and an increase of $655 million, this for a net balance between periods of negative $246 million.

Overall, net revenues to the General Fund for July of FY 2024 represented $112.9 million, or 16.2%, more,

compared to the same month of FY 2023. The income contribution component increased more than others, presenting a growth of $100.6 million, or 27.1% more, compared to July of the previous fiscal year. In particular, corporate income was $59.6 million, or 36.1%, higher than the figures from July of the previous year. In the foreign tax sector, the withheld contribution to non-residents experienced a growth of $39.2 million more compared to last July. Meanwhile, collections from the IVU showed an increase of $13.2 million, or 11.2% more, compared to July of the previous fiscal year. The most relevant sectors in this growth were prepared food services (9.2%) and professional services (7.4%).

The business-to-business (B2B) component for July showed a growth of 20%.

On a positive note for public health, cigarettes suffered a significant drop of -65.8%, or $11.8 million less, when compared to FY 2023 collections.

In terms of individual taxpayers, the individual income tax line for July of FY 2024 amounts to $169.3 million, which represents $4.8 million more than the projection (2.9%). When compared to July of the previous fiscal year, collections show $4.5 million, or 2.7%, more.

The Treasury chief noted that for the purposes of financing the Work Credit programs (local contribution) and the bonus for people over 65 years of age, the “Senior Bonus,” the income of individuals this year compared to FY 2023 is adjusted by $28 million more monthly. The components of the employer’s association and the withholdings from services provided experienced growth of $21.5 million and $6.1 million, respectively. Meanwhile, corporate income tax collections for July of FY 2024 totaled $224.6 million, reflecting an increase compared to the projected figure for that month of $59.3 million, or 35.8%, more. When compared to July of fiscal year 2023, collections reflected $59.6 million, or 36.1%, more. Of this growth, payments from taxpayers under Law 52 represented $57.4 million. Payments from other types of taxpayers showed a growth of 1.3%.

Treasury Secretary Francisco Parés Alicea

Tourism influencer forum will look at extending destination marketing’s reach

By THE STAR STAFF

Aforum will be held later this month with Puerto Rican influencers with pages on social networks related to promoting tourist attractions, at-large Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera announced Thursday.

The event will take place on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 10 a.m. at the Department of Economic Development and Commerce’s Entrepreneurship Center at 159 Carlos Chardón St. in Hato Rey.

“Like everything, the promotion of our tourism charms has been evolving for several years. The boom in the content with which many pages on the Facebook, Instagram and X social networks, among others, promote destinations, restaurants and even tourist attractions in Puerto Rico is unique in histo- ry,” the New Progressive Party senator said.

“Many citizens find out about attractions, events and places of interest through pages such as ‘Meet PR’, among dozens of others. The goal of this forum is to outline how these platforms are incorporated into a central marketing strategy for the benefit of Puerto Rican visitors and businesses.”

“Places like the Traffic Safety Commission’s Transit Park, located in the municipality of Arecibo, have registered large increases in the number of visitors due to the promotion they receive through these pages on social networks,” the senator added. “Similarly, many restaurants in the mountain region have experienced marked increases in visitors due to these pages. The meeting will serve to hear how these people set up their platforms, how we can support them and how we incorporate them into the marketing strategies of the central gov-

ernment, as well as of the municipalities.”

Riquelme said the forum is composed of those who maintain the pages and portals, as well as staff from the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, the Mayors Federation and Mayors Association, the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, the island’s destination marketing organization and the Puerto Rico Corporation for Public Broadcasting (WIPR). among other guests.

“This forum, in addition to having local tourism influencers, will have all the support apparatus for outlining ideas and concepts that allow greater integration and visibility outside the island,” Riquelme said. “These portals could be part of the marketing strategy for countries in Europe, Asia and even Africa; because there is no doubt that they have been a success in boosting local tourism.”

PR GOP to hold state convention this weekend

By THE STAR STAFF

The Republican Party of Puerto Rico will conclude for the first time its four-year reorganization, holding a state convention that will feature party officials at the local, national and congressional levels.

The event will take place over three days, from Friday to Sunday, at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, the party’s state president Ángel Cintrón García announced Thursday.

The convention will begin on Friday with the registration of delegates, the ribbon-cutting ceremony and a welcome cocktail to conclude the evening.

Saturday’s work will begin with more delegate registration, followed by the Young Republica]ns State Assembly. Party officials at the national level (RNC) who will come from

Washington, D.C. for the event will provide training and form a statehood accountability panel. The day will end with a dinner and party.

“We will conclude on Sunday at 10 a.m. with the 30th State Assembly closing the islandwide reorganization process and the election of our state leadership for the 2023-2027 term before delegates from across the island,” Cintrón García said. “I am sure that with this great event we will emerge strengthened as a community with our clear priorities to defend our American citizenship and fight for statehood for Puerto Rico.”

The convention will be attended by RNC President Drew McKissick, national delegates Zoraida Fonalledas and former governor Luis Fortuño, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón and several U.S. congressmen, among other special guests.

Insurers & agents team up for consumer education campaign

By THE STAR STAFF

As part of a collaborative agreement, the Insurance Companies Association of Puerto Rico (ACODESE by its Spanish initials) and the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA by its Spanish initials) joined forces to educate and guide consumers about their rights and alternatives in the insurance world through the Aseguratepr.org campaign, the insurers said earlier this week.

The purpose of the initiative is to educate the consumer to insure themselves properly.

“If you are a policyholder or if you plan to purchase health, contingency, life and property insurance, this campaign is for you,”

ACODESE Executive Director Iraelia Pernas said in a written statement.

Roberto López, president of the Property and Contingency Committee of ACODESE, added that what is sought with the campaign is to make known that there is a united industry with the intention of educating “so that you as a consumer have valuable information when buying insurance.”

“What we want is that the claim runs well …” he said. “Also that you know how to choose your broker and your agent and that at the time you buy insurance and have a claim, you know what covers you.”

Manuel Font, president of PIA of Puerto Rico & the Caribbean, noted that “we agreed to educate our consumers and members

together. We are very excited.”

This campaign is something that is needed since the insurance industry is very important to the country,” he said. “Many times people buy a policy and do not know their coverage until the day they have a claim, and what we do not want is surprises.”

ACODESE groups 20 major insurers in Puerto Rico, including the property and contingency, health and life sectors. PIA is a national organization with more than 90 years in the insurance industry that is responsible for educating, protecting and professionalizing all independent insurance agents in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

Sen. Keren Riquelme Cabrera

Ángel Cintrón García, president of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico

Iraelia Pernas, executive director of the Insurance Companies Association of Puerto Rico

Scalise and Jordan announce bids for speaker as vacancy paralyzes the House

By CARL HULSE and LUKE BROADWATER

The second-ranking House Republican and the chair of the Judiciary Committee both announced their campaigns for speaker earlier this week, setting the stage for a bruising struggle pitting some of the most conservative GOP leaders against one another.

One day after the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as the House’s leader threw the chamber into a state of paralysis, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, said he would try to become speaker. Jordan’s bid sets up a challenge with Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, currently the No. 2 House Republican, who also announced he would run, and potentially others.

The contenders were all sounding out potential supporters, but no real deliberations were to occur before Tuesday.

The vacancy at the top of the House was creating mounting concerns at the Capitol and the White House about the fate of spending legislation — including hoped-for funding for Ukraine — due in 40 days.

At the White House, President Joe Biden began an announcement on student loan debt relief Wednesday by addressing chaos in the House and calling on lawmakers to change the “poisonous atmosphere in Washington.”

“We cannot and should not again be faced with an eleventh-hour decision or brinkmanship that threatens to shut down the government,” he said. “And we know what we have to do, and we gotta — we have to get it done in a timely fashion.”

On Capitol Hill, lawmakers also raised alarm about the predicament Congress found itself in

“I want my country to be at work,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Appropriations Committee. “We have a job to do.”

After a historic vote to remove McCarthy from the speakership Tuesday, lawmakers quickly departed Washington and scattered to their districts around the country, abandoning the Capitol as Republicans remained deeply divided over who could lead their fractious majority.

The sudden departure and the stasis in the House meant that little could be done in Washington even as Congress faced a mid-November deadline to keep the government funded.

Even if the House were able to select its new speaker sometime next week, it would take time for that person to get up to speed.

“It is going to take a while to get the train back on the tracks,” said Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., a former House member who has close ties to his GOP colleagues in that chamber.

The comments underscored the chaos now gripping the chamber, without the ability to conduct legislative business, until a successor to McCarthy is chosen. The decision by McCarthy to not seek the post again after being unceremoniously deposed at the hands of the far right touched off a competitive race to succeed him.

Discussions on the future of the conference were being led by Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina. McCarthy, RCalif., had named McHenry first on a list of potential interim speakers in the event of a calamity or vacancy, but his primary task is to preside over the election of a new speaker. McHenry has long dismissed the prospect of seeking the top post himself,

although he could face a push to draft him if the party is unable to coalesce around another choice.

Other names that have surfaced as potential contenders include Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., the Rules Committee chair; as well as the No. 3 House Republican, Tom Emmer of Minnesota, who, according to people who have talked with him, is backing Scalise and angling to take over the No. 2 post of majority leader.

If it does come down to Scalise versus Jordan, the race will be a contest of two men further to the right than McCarthy. Both men voted to object to the certification of Biden’s 2020 victory as former President Donald Trump peddled lies about widespread election fraud, and both have been chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee. Jordan is also the co-founder of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, which has antagonized a succession of House speakers.

Both men also have faced scrutiny of their past. Scalise apologized in 2014 for having spoken in 2002 at a gathering of white nationalists, and a political journalist said that he had once described himself to her as “David Duke without the baggage,” an apparent reference to the former Ku Klux Klan leader. Jordan has denied accusations

that he turned a blind eye to complaints of sexual abuse committed by a doctor at Ohio State University decades ago when he was an assistant wrestling coach there.

Under the current tentative schedule, Republicans intend to hold a party meeting Tuesday at which the contenders will be able to make their case before their colleagues, with the possibility of picking their choice for speaker for a possible floor vote Wednesday.

The nominee would have to win a majority of the House, a tall order given Republicans’ slim majority and the rift among them that made it so difficult for McCarthy to win the post and do the job for the nine months that he held it. Right-wing Republicans have made clear that they will not support a speaker without assurances that they will see their priorities, including enacting deep spending cuts and severe immigration restrictions, met.

That is nearly impossible to promise given that Democrats control the Senate and the White House. And the situation could be a recipe for further dysfunction on Capitol Hill, most immediately in negotiations on federal spending. The House and Senate must agree by mid-November on the 12 annual appropriations bills to fund the government in the fiscal year that began Sunday, something that cannot be done without a speaker in place.

Should a new Republican speaker be chosen, the pressure would be immense for that person to push for spending levels far below what McCarthy had agreed to in a debt deal with Biden in the spring. Changing the terms of that deal would prompt a clash with the Senate, which is adhering to the agreement.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaking to journalists in the Rayburn room after being ousted as Speaker of the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 3, 2023.

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Book bans are rising sharply in public libraries

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS and ALEXANDRA ALTER

More than two years into a sharp rise in book challenges across the United States, restrictions are increasingly targeting public libraries, where they could affect not only the children’s section but also the books available to everyone in a community.

The shift comes amid a dramatic increase in efforts to remove books from libraries, according to a pair of new reports released this week from the American Library Association and PEN America, a free speech organization.

The ALA found that nearly half the book challenges it tracked between January and August of this year took place in public libraries, up from 16% during the same period the year before. The association reported nearly 700 attempts to censor library materials, which targeted more than 1,900 individual titles — more than during the same period in 2022, a year that saw the most titles challenged since the organization began tracking the data.

Most of the challenged books were by or about

people of color or LGBTQ people.

“A year, a year and a half ago, we were told that these books didn’t belong in school libraries, and if people wanted to read them, they could go to a public library,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “Now, we’re seeing those same groups come to public libraries and come after the same books, essentially depriving everyone of the ability to make the choice to read them.”

The new figures underscore a stark new reality for librarians and libraries, which have increasingly found themselves at the center of a vicious new front in the culture wars.

Some libraries have received bomb threats; others are at risk of having their funding slashed or even face closure over disputes about book removals. In some instances, librarians have been harassed, threatened, and called groomers and pedophiles.

The ALA has come under attack for its policies regulating library collections. In recent months, libraries in a handful of states, including Texas, Montana and Missouri, have cut ties with the ALA.

The movement to restrict access to books is likely broader than the numbers indicate. PEN’s numbers are compiled from public reports, school district data and local organizations that track book bans, but many removals are likely going unreported.

The PEN report, which counted book removals in school and classroom libraries during the 2022-2023 school year, found

3,362 cases of books being removed, a 33% increase over the previous school year. More than 1,550 individual titles were targeted. Many of the same books are challenged around the country, including classics by Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood, and contemporary young adult fiction by popular authors like John Green.

The most dramatic spike in book bans took place in Florida, which removed more than 1,400 books and surpassed Texas as the state with the highest number of removals, according to PEN. Florida emerged as a hot spot for book challenges after the state passed several laws aimed in part at restricting educational and reading material on certain subjects. As school districts scrambled to comply with the new regulations earlier this year, some teachers and librarians removed entire shelves of books.

Brooke Stephens, education director at Utah Parents United, runs a website that rates what it describes as sexually explicit books. She said that calling these books “banned” is wrong; they are available in bookstores, for example, and online. Her work, she said, focuses on keeping them out of school libraries where children can stumble upon them and encounter subject matter for which they’re unprepared.

Books should have a rating system, she said, the way movies and video games do.

“There’s something about the privacy of the written word that makes people think it’s different than a movie in a classroom,” Stephens said. “But I don’t believe they’d read these books out loud in a classroom because they’re inappropriate.”

While restrictions on books are rising, efforts to combat them are as well. Lawsuits challenging new state laws have been filed in states including Arkansas and Florida, and a judge in Texas recently issued a preliminary injunction against a law that would require bookstores to evaluate and rate every title they sell to schools and every book they’ve sold to schools in the past.

Free speech advocates say that they see no sign that efforts to ban books are slowing down and warn that the next phase of the movement may be harder to quantify and counteract, as some school districts suspend new book purchases or avoid stocking books on topics that might be viewed as controversial.

“The way it’s going to begin to manifest may look different,” said Kasey Meehan, lead author of PEN’s report. “We’ll begin to see this chilled atmosphere play out in different ways, either through quietly removing books or not bringing books in in the first place.”

Books that are among a ban list at a rally in Tallahassee, Fla., March 21, 2023. (Agnes López/The New York Times)

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A ransom note and a fingerprint: How a missing 9-year-old was found

By JESSE McKINLEY

It was 4:20 a.m., long before dawn Monday, when a driver approached the house of a missing girl in upstate New York, placing a note in the black mailbox before darting off through a dark spider web of country roads.

It might have been a note of condolence, or sympathy or even a tip. Instead, it was a ransom note, State Police said, one that led to the dramatic rescue later that day of the 9-year-old girl, found hidden in a cupboard in a rundown camper, just 14 miles from her home.

The story of how state troopers, SWAT teams, and other law enforcement officials came to find the child, Charlotte Sena, began with a lucky break and a possible missed opportunity, followed by old-fashioned shoe leather police work. A fingerprint found on the ransom note led investigators to the suspect, who apparently dropped off the note himself — and left without being apprehended, though a trooper had been stationed at the house.

The suspect, Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 46, was arrested at his mother’s home Monday night and charged with first-degree kidnapping Tuesday. He pleaded not guilty; additional charges are expected, according to the State Police.

Charlotte was said to be in good health and reunited with her parents for the first time since Saturday night, when a weekend camping trip was shattered by the little girl’s disappearance, a sudden vanishing that encapsulated the worst fears of parents everywhere.

“Everybody thinks, ‘If it was my child, I would want everybody under the sun looking for them,’” Gov. Kathy Hochul said at a Monday night news conference. “And that’s what this team did.”

Still, praise for the rescue was mixed with some question as to whether the trooper on site that night could have given chase, a theory discounted by the State Police. At the same time, investigators were still also looking into Ross’ motivations and connections with the girl.

Hochul said Monday that it was not known if Ross knew the Senas or had been watching Charlotte. Saratoga County property records, however, show that Ross owns a house less than 1 mile from the Sena home, two quick turns away by car, an address also listed on his arraignment documents. But, on Tuesday, a family living at that address shouted that it wasn’t his home, warning away a reporter.

Whether random or planned, the abduction and rescue of Charlotte riveted a nation too accustomed to tragic endings in stories of endangered children.

It began at a little past 6 p.m. Saturday, on a pleasant night after a rainy week. Charlotte had been riding with friends on a small loop road inside Moreau Lake State Park, a popular getaway about 45 miles north of Albany.

She decided to take one last trip around the loop, alone. It was perhaps a five-minute cruise, on a road ringed with campsites.

She never came back.

Her parents headed out to search. They soon found Charlotte’s bike. But their daughter was nowhere to be

found. They called 911, even as other campers began shouting “Charlotte!” into the dense woods. State Police arrived soon after. Rangers and others fanned out to search in the gathering dusk. They feared the young girl had gotten lost, or found her way into the waters of Moreau Lake.

Investigators, however, almost immediately suspected a more sinister scenario: a child abduction by a stranger, a rare occurrence, though a terrifying staple of parental imagination.

The search continued overnight, even as police began to empty the park, inspecting every car as they left. They rolled down windows and opened trunks. They didn’t find Charlotte.

By Sunday morning, police had issued an Amber Alert saying the 9-year-old had been abducted. That led to phone alerts and highway signs asking for help.

Hours after that, Hochul appeared at a news conference at the park’s front gate, pleading for help and making a vow to bring Charlotte home.

“I promised her parents we’ll find their daughter,” said Hochul, who has two children, including a daughter. “She’s all of our daughters.”

That promise, however, could have seemed foolhardy: The location of Moreau Park lent itself to quick escapes, with an interstate — lacking toll cameras — just minutes away. Upstate New York’s rolling, forested terrain and rural character harbors a thousand different routes and an endless variety of off-the-grid homes and littletraveled locations.

Ross, a longtime resident of Saratoga County, had at least one prior brush with the law: a 1999 arrest for driving while intoxicated, which resulted in his fingerprints being taken.

His mother, Joan, lived in the town of Milton, New York, about 20 minutes from the Senas’ home, in a worn prefabricated home. The pine-fronted lot is dotted with sheds and outbuildings, and there is a beat-up camper at the rear. On Tuesday, that property, and the ragged camper behind, were being meticulously examined by a forensic

team, armed with cameras and other equipment.

A neighbor who has lived next to the Ross family for years said the family — with an absentee father and four children — was often chaotic. The neighbor, who did not want his name used because of the sensitivity of the situation, recalled a hungry young Craig sometimes coming to their house for meals.

By Sunday night, hundreds of searchers and investigators, from local sheriff’s deputies to the FBI, were on the ground at Moreau. Bloodhounds, boats and aerial units searched the woods and the water. Exhausted family members asked for help on social media.

“As each hour went on,” the governor said, “hope faded, because we all know the stories: The first 24 hours there’s hope. But when you hit 48 hours, hope starts to wane.”

The family continued to stay at the park Sunday night as the search continued, rather than their home in Corinth, New York, about 15 miles away, the governor said. And it was there, police said, that Ross made a crucial mistake.

It was a calm, warm night for early October; the American flag in front of the Senas’ house would have been slack. Reporters had been told by police to stay away from the family home. But at 4:20 a.m. a car approached. A note was left.

State police had been guarding the two-story house, which sits on the intersection of a speedy country highway — Route 9N — and an interconnected triangle of local roads, all offering getaways.

Citing unnamed sources, the Times Union of Albany reported Tuesday that the State Police were looking into whether Ross “should have been arrested at that moment.”

State Police had no comment on that report, but Deanna Cohen, a spokesperson, defended the trooper’s decision, saying that the family home had seen a steady flow of well-wishers “throughout the night,” including people dropping off food and cards. But, she added, Ross drew the trooper’s attention.

“For some reason this particular vehicle that stopped looked suspicious to the trooper,” she said. “And that is when he checked the mailbox, and found the note.”

Then, at 2:30 p.m. Monday, after an initial failed attempt to find a fingerprint match, the state police got a hit in their database: Ross’ fingerprints from the 1999 DWI.

They also had determined that Ross had been “in the area of the Moreau Lake State Park around the time Charlotte went missing.”

By 4 p.m., even as State Police were putting out a news release asking for tips, special tactical teams from around the state were being flown into the area to prepare for a possible rescue, along with an FBI SWAT team. They had several possible locations where Ross was known to reside, but at 6:32 p.m., with helicopters overhead, those teams descended on Ross’ mother’s house — and the camper behind — in what they called a “dynamic entry.”

Ross struggled, receiving minor injuries, before officers were able to enter the camper. And there, inside a cabinet, was Charlotte.

New York State Park Police monitor the park entrance at Moreau Lake State Park in Gansevoort, N.Y., Oct. 2, 2023. The rescue of Charlotte Sena began with a lucky break — and a possible missed opportunity — followed by old-fashioned police work.

trial opens

By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY, MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN and J. EDWARD MORENO

Federal prosecutors opened the criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, earlier this week with a simple message: He deliberately “lied to the world,” leading to one of the biggest financial frauds of a generation.

Bankman-Fried’s lawyer advanced a far different narrative. The former crypto mogul, the lawyer said, was simply a well-intentioned entrepreneur who acted “in good faith” to make his firm successful, with no intention to defraud anyone.

The dueling arguments are at the crux of Bankman-Fried’s trial, which has become the highest-profile reckoning for a business executive since Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud early last year.

A onetime crypto wunderkind, Bankman-Fried, 31, became a tousle-haired billionaire virtually overnight, only to see his company collapse last year and his fortune evaporate. He has been charged with orchestrating a conspiracy to use $10 billion that FTX’s customers had entrusted to him for all manner of personal projects, including venture capital investments, political donations and luxury real estate purchases.

“It looked like Sam Bankman-Fried was on top of the world,” Thane Rehn, a lead prosecutor, told a packed room at the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Wednesday. “All of it was built on lies.”

Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, Mark Cohen, soon hit back. “It’s not a crime to run a business in good faith that ends up going through a storm,” he said. He called the prosecution’s portrayal of his client a “cartoon of a villain” that distorted the facts.

Bankman-Fried, who has spent the last seven weeks in jail, appeared in court with close-cropped hair that had been cut recently by a fellow detainee. He wore a suit and tie and watched the proceedings flanked by his other lawyers, while his parents, Stanford law professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, sat a few rows behind him.

Bankman-Fried, who in private writings has called himself “one of the most

hated people in the world,” has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of fraud and money laundering. If convicted, he could face what amounts to a life sentence in prison.

The FTX founder faces an uphill battle in the trial. Three of his top executives have pleaded guilty to fraud and agreed to cooperate against him — including his on-and-off girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, who ran Alameda Research, a hedge fund that Bankman-Fried started.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers said in court that they had not held any negotiations over a plea agreement, and that no deal had ever been offered to BankmanFried.

On Wednesday, Rehn accused Bankman-Fried of “fraud on a massive scale,” casting him as a schemer who was “not what he appeared to be.” He said Bankman-Fried had moved funds that customers deposited with FTX to Alameda, which then funneled the money into investments and donations.

Rehn repeatedly invoked the cooperating witnesses, stressing that people who say they participated with Bankman-Fried in the scheme would testify against him. He also pointed to Bankman-Fried’s posts on X, the social media service formerly known as Twitter, and commercials used

to promote FTX, calling them lies intended to deceive customers.

“He was taking these customer deposits, and spending them for himself,” Rehn said. “The defendant was keeping his customers in the dark.”

Prosecutors have marshaled millions of pages of digital evidence, including text and email logs, as well as snippets of computer code that showed how FTX moved customer money to Alameda. They have an audio recording from the week of FTX’s collapse in which Ellison appears to admit that she and Bankman-Fried worked together to steal customer deposits. And they have won a series of pretrial disputes, allowing them to present evidence that Bankman-Fried has contested and prevent his legal team from mounting certain defenses.

Cohen pushed back against the public narrative that Bankman-Fried was a con artist intent on stealing customer money.

“Sam didn’t defraud anyone,” he said. “Sam acted in good faith.”

Casting his client as “a math nerd who didn’t drink or party,” Cohen walked the jurors through FTX’s history, arguing that Bankman-Fried had acted in his customers’ interests, even if he didn’t always

make the right decisions.

“No one person, no CEO, certainly not Sam, could be everywhere and doing everything,” he said.

Cohen also attacked the credibility of Ellison and the other cooperating witnesses, pointing out that they were trying to avoid long prison sentences. He said Bankman-Fried had urged Ellison to put hedges on Alameda’s trading activity, but she had ignored him, leading to some of the problems that caused the business empire to implode.

“You must consider what Sam did and said in real time,” he said. “He made business decisions that he thought were right when he made them.”

After the opening statements, prosecutors called their first witness, Marc-Antoine Julliard, an investor in London who lost more than $100,000 in cash and bitcoin in FTX’s collapse. Julliard said he had thought FTX would keep his money safe.

Another witness, Adam Yedidia, a college friend of Bankman-Fried’s who worked at Alameda and FTX, said he had quit just before FTX filed for bankruptcy when he learned that its customer money had been siphoned off to Alameda. Testifying under immunity, Yedidia also discussed the lavish apartments in the Bahamas that prosecutors have said were bought with FTX customer money.

The opening statements and witness testimony began shortly after the judge overseeing the case, Lewis Kaplan, swore in a jury of nine women and three men. During the selection process, one prospective juror said he and his twin brother had lost money in the crypto market, while another said she worked for a financial firm that had lost funds with FTX and Alameda. Both were excused.

A third candidate repeatedly said he didn’t know if he could be impartial because he didn’t understand how cryptocurrencies worked.

“You probably have a lot of company in this courtroom,” Kaplan responded.

The prospective juror, who was excused, said the whole concept of crypto rubbed him the wrong way, reminding him of the Ponzi scheme carried out by disgraced financier Bernie Madoff.

‘Lied to the world’ or acted in ‘good faith’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s

Mark Cohen, left, one of the lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried, arrives at federal district court for the first full day of Bankman-Fried’s trial in Manhattan, on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.

Analysis-When, Not If, Europe Copies Wall Street Share Trading Reform

The European Union, Britain and Switzerland have little choice but to copy Wall Street in speeding up share trading, though it will come too late to avoid a transatlantic mismatch in market practice, industry officials said.

EU securities watchdog ESMA on Thursday called for industry views on cutting the time it takes to complete a share trade, a step regulators say removes risk and cost from trading, particularly when markets are volatile.

A shorter settlement time might increase efficiency, cut collateral needs, and “increase the competitiveness and the attractiveness of EU financial markets”, ESMA said.

Moving from the current system known as T+2, or settling a trade within two days of the transaction, to T+1 or one day, cuts the time cash is tied up to back trades.

Wall Street, representing around 46% of the global equity market, is due to make the change in May 2024, piling pressure on the EU, Britain and Switzerland to follow suit given the global nature of financial markets, while adapting to the U.S. switch at the same time.

International investors own about 40% of U.S. corporate value, with foreign purchases of U.S. shares totalling $30.6 trillion in 2021, the Federal Reserve has said.

ESMA is seeking views for a cost/benefit analysis of moving to at least T+1, though few believe it will not go ahead given advances in technology, regulatory pressure, and gravitational pull of Wall Street. It will report back by the fourth quarter of next year.

“Moving to T+1 should not only be a question of ‘when’, but also ‘why’ and ‘how’,” said Pete Tomlinson, director for post-trade at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), an industry body representing banks and asset managers.

Bankers says that moving to T+1 in Europe will be more complex than in the United States given the significantly greater number of exchanges, clearers, and settlement houses in Europe.

EFAMA, a European funds industry body, says the move on Wall Street will require changes to existing IT systems for European firms and U.S. investors who trade European shares.

“European concerns are that some operations and even some trading activity will move to the U.S. or Canada given that wealth and fund managers cannot simply ignore the U.S. market,” a paper for the SWIFT Institute in May said.

CLS, which settles forex transactions used to pay for share purchases, is exploring how to accommodate fund managers outside the United States, whose systems operate under T+2 and now are faced with less time to line up money to finalise U.S. trades.

Britain has set up an Accelerated Settlement Taskforce.

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Haiti, desperate for peace, turns to police notorious for violence

By FRANCES ROBLES and ABDI LATIF DAHIR

The Kenyan force tasked with leading a mission to take back Haiti’s streets from violent gangs that have overtaken much of the country’s capital will be made up of police officers who have a checkered history of their own at home, accused of killing more than 100 people this year and lobbing tear-gas into a school during antigovernment demonstrations.

“Kenyan police are rogue,” said a 38-year-old taxi driver, Joseph Abanja, recounting how officers stormed into his home in western Kenya several years ago and beat his infant daughter to death.

As lawlessness in Haiti spirals out of control, Kenya has stepped forward to lead a multinational security force aimed at loosening the grip of gangs in the Caribbean nation. But while Kenyan police have experience in international missions, they have also been accused of using excessive force to combat political protests and enforce COVID lockdowns.

Kenyan police officers have shot and beaten hundreds of protesters this year, human rights groups said, raising concerns about what level of force will be used to combat organized criminal groups in Haiti, and whether that will put civilians in harm’s way.

Abanja said his family was attacked in 2017, when demonstrations broke out in the city of Kisumu following a tense election period. Police officers barged into homes, including Abanja’s, bludgeoning his family with batons and fracturing the skull of his 6-month-old daughter, Samantha Pendo, who died.

“If you want to protect someone, you have to protect your own people,” Abanja said. “Let them put their house in order first before going to put someone else’s house in order.”

The Kenyan-led mission, which was

approved by the U.N. Security Council this week, comes less than a decade after a 13year U.N. peacekeeping operation in Haiti that was marred by a deadly cholera outbreak and sexual exploitation.

But as Haiti’s security situation deteriorated, it became clear that it would fall to a Black nation to help as international leaders hesitated to propose what might look like a Western occupation of a developing country, especially one with a long history of outside intervention.

“We consider them to be our brothers and sisters,” Kenya’s foreign minister, Alfred Mutua, said in an interview. “We are doing it as we would for another African country.”

With not a single elected leader in Haiti currently in office and a police department crippled by mass defections, thousands of Haitians have been forced to flee their communities as gangs kill and kidnap, seemingly at will. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in a six-month period this year, according to the U.N., and illegal roadblocks have left important thoroughfares impassable.

For a time, the rampant gang violence gave rise to a vigilante movement that targeted people believed to be criminals. But the grassroots vengeance was short-lived, and met with more killings.

The U.S. State Department has urged Americans to leave the country and sent some employees home.

Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, who is widely regarded as an illegitimate leader, has been calling for international intervention for nearly a year, a plea that went largely unheeded.

But on Monday, the Security Council authorized the Kenyan-led operation, though it is technically not a U.N. peacekeeping mission. Many details, such as the rules of engagement and what other countries will join Kenya in Haiti, have not yet been resolved. Several Caribbean countries have pledged support, but there have been no specifics.

Mutua said Kenya was planning to deploy about 1,000 or more police officers to Haiti, including SWAT-like teams, with “boots on the ground” expected by early next year.

A recent assessment by Kenyan officials estimated that the project would take three years and require from 10,000 to 20,000 personnel, Mutua said. The U.N. resolution approved a one-year term with nine-month renewals. The foreign minister also envisions some 50 more countries each pledging from 500 to 1,000 officers, so they can achieve the 20,000 or more needed. Spain, Senegal, Jamaica, Bahamas and Antigua have said they are “ready,” he said.

Mutua acknowledged that Kenyan officers were likely to engage in gunfights with Haiti’s notoriously violent and heavily armed street gangs. “We are prepared for a bit of a fight between us and the thugs,” he said.

But he stressed that the larger mission

is to bring stability to Haiti, which means retaking schools and hospitals currently controlled by gangs and setting the stage for elections.

Rosy Auguste Ducéna, a program manager at Haiti’s National Network for the Defense of Human Rights, said the Kenyans face a tough assignment, particularly because gangs often operate in conjunction with government officials.

“We think it’s going to be very hard for them,” Auguste Ducéna said. “The state authorities are implicated in this situation we have here in Haiti.”

Kenya and the United Nations should be leery of a short-term endeavor that improves the situation for a brief time and then collapses when the officers depart, Auguste Ducéna said.

“We cannot keep this country in this cycle of crisis, mission, election, crisis, mission, election,” she said.

Kenya has a strong economic incentive to send forces to Haiti. A Defense Ministry website made note of the money soldiers deployed abroad send home and the funds the U.N. offers Kenya for salaries and equipment.

But the mission could also face a domestic stumbling block because the Kenyans committed to the plan without first seeking the endorsement of Kenya’s National Security Council or parliament. If lawmakers balk, “it could create a significant moment of diplomatic embarrassment,” said Waikwa Wanyoike, a Kenyan constitutional lawyer.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said there had been “intense discussions” with the Kenyans regarding holding officers accountable should they be implicated in wrongdoing.

A senior U.N. official said the idea to have the multinational force be made up mostly of police officers was prompted by the nature of the challenge in Haiti. They did not want to send an army to do urban policing, the official said, and because of the U.N.’s troubled history in Haiti, deploying peacekeepers was not a viable option.

Asked about the Kenya police’s record of human rights abuses, U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said few countries in the world have not had issues with police violence.

Mutua said Kenya goes to Haiti with “clean hands” and a “clean heart.”

“We are gaining nothing by going into Haiti,” he said. “We are doing God’s work, and we are doing what needs to be done.”

Kenyan riot police officers during a protest against tax increases in Nairobi in July.

Francis issues urgent call to save a planet near ‘the breaking point’

By JASON HOROWITZ and ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

Pope Francis this week once again implored the world to protect the suffering planet, lamenting in a major new document that scant progress had been made in the eight years since he refocused the Catholic Church more fully on environmental issues in a landmark treatise that catapulted him to the forefront of climate activism.

“With the passage of time, I have realized that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point,” Francis wrote in an update to his groundbreaking 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si.’” The newly urgent appeal was made public as a major assembly of global bishops and laypeople began in the Vatican to discuss key issues for the future of the church, including its role in safeguarding the environment.

In the near decade since global fanfare, plaudits from leaders and talk of a game-changing shift for the church greeted Francis’ first call to confront climate change, things have only gotten worse. The United Nations’ first official report card last month on the global climate treaty showed that countries have made only limited progress in staving off the most dangerous effects of global warming.

Extreme weather linked to climate change set records for average global temperatures this summer. Wildfires in Canada, Greece and Hawaii proved deadly and destructive. Torrential rains flooded various parts of Europe, North Africa and the United States.

While Francis’ message — against corporate interests, Western irresponsibility and toothless international organizations — remained the same, his voice has faded. Wednesday’s document, an apostolic exhortation called “Laudate Deum,” or Praise God,

amounted to a tacit acknowledgment that

In the ensuing years, the Vatican hosted conferences with dozens of mayors from around the world pledging to combat global warming and help the poor deal with its effects, hosted religious leaders, and gathered money managers and titans of the world’s biggest oil companies to call on them to adjust their business practices.

“More than saving the old multilateralism, it appears that the current challenge is to reconfigure and recreate it,” he wrote.

How Francis would do that, or what such a body would look like, is unclear, but what comes across clearly is the pope’s disdain for climate change deniers.

Pope Francis, who has tried to use his profile to put a focus on environmental issues, leading a Mass on Wednesday, the opening day of the Synod on Synodality, at the Vatican.

Francis’ initial appeal to save the planet has gone largely unheeded. His influence on the world stage, which seemed so significant at the beginning of his pontificate, has been buffeted by the prevailing winds of international politics, macroeconomic pressures and recalcitrant human behavior.

Addressed to “all people of good will on the climate crisis,” Francis’ 13-page document is a mix of status report, advocacy agenda, anti-corporate lament, spiritual meditation and appeal for a new multilateral world order with more power to protect the environment.

The effect of “Laudato Si’” resonated well beyond the Catholic world, intensified by lobbying efforts from Francis and the Vatican to persuade governments — both at a national and local level — to put in place effective climate policies.

In 2015, at the United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference, often referred to as COP21, at least 10 world leaders made specific references to the papal encyclical during their addresses, and the meeting ended with a landmark agreement to fight climate change.

Francis has pleaded his case to Congress and to other U.N. gatherings, made papal trips to countries that are especially vulnerable to climate issues, and often spoke about the issue during audiences to the faithful who came to the Vatican.

But as Wednesday’s document made clear, Francis feels his message had not been heard.

As in “Laudato Si,’” Francis, the first pope from the global south who has a clearly jaundiced eye toward American corporate and colonial interests, describes big business and the “elites of power” in his updated document as a corrupting, and environmentally devastating, force.

“The ethical decadence of real power is disguised, thanks to marketing and false information, useful tools in the hands of those with greater resources to employ them to shape public opinion,” Francis wrote.

He noted that “emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China, and about seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries.” He also asserted that a “broad change in the irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model would have a significant long-term impact.”

He expressed frustration that large multinational organizations had failed to make enough of a dent in the problem, and he envisioned new institutions more susceptible to pressure from grassroots activists to act on the climate crisis.

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He scorned those who “have chosen to deride” facts and who instead “bring up allegedly solid scientific data.” He showed no patience for “dismissive and scarcely reasonable opinions that I encounter, even within the Catholic Church.”

Some of those climate change skeptics among the hierarchy met in the Vatican assembly, called the Synod on Synodality, on Wednesday. Despite Francis’ efforts to add his voice to matters of global importance, his power is most felt within his own church. Organizers of the assembly said they would make a “contribution to the conservation of creation by choices that will offset the residual CO2 emissions produced” during the event.

The pope’s document landed before the next round of United Nations-sponsored climate talks — known as COP28 — which will take place in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, amid a backdrop of resurgent fossil fuel investments.

“People are not responding at the level of urgency that is needed,” including the church itself, said Tomás Insua, co-founder and executive director of the Laudato Si’ Movement, which includes hundreds of organizations inspired by the 2015 encyclical to bring its teachings to life. “‘Laudate Deum,’” he said, is “yet another boost.”

In his new document, Francis clearly hopes so.

“What is being asked of us is nothing other than a certain responsibility for the legacy we will leave behind,” Francis wrote, “once we pass from this world.”

Where’s all the Antarctic sea ice? Annual peak is lowest ever recorded.

By DELGER ERDENESANAA and LEANNE ABRAHAM

Winter is over in the Southern Hemisphere, and sea ice around Antarctica has likely grown as much as it’s going to for 2023, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest peak by a wide margin for any year since 1979, when the continuous satellite record began.

“The ice this year is so far out of the range of all the other years that it’s a really exceptional year,” said Ariaan Purich, a climate scientist at Monash University in Australia.

By Sept. 10, sea ice had grown to cover 6.5 million square miles around the continent, or just under 17 million square kilometers. The difference this year from the 1981 to 2010 average is an area roughly the size of Alaska.

Why it matters: Sea ice protects the continent’s ice shelf and wildlife.

Antarctica has ice both on land, in the form of its massive continental ice sheet, and in the waters around it, in the form of seasonal sea

ice. The ice in the water helps protect the land ice from the warming ocean. Less sea ice could mean that the continental ice sheet melts and breaks faster, contributing to faster sea-level rise around the world.

That sea ice supports a whole ecosystem of wildlife, including both Adélie and emperor penguins. Last year, several emperor penguin colonies suffered a widespread loss of their chicks when the ice broke up early.

Background: This year’s record low follows several years of decline.

Antarctic sea ice has been growing sluggishly and staying at record lows for each month since April.

“Things got really strange,” said Walt Meier, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. “It started diverging from anything we’d seen before.”

Satellite data from 1966 showed a similarly low sea ice extent, but Meier cautioned that this earlier data is less reliable and should not be used as a direct comparison to today’s observations.

The departure from previous years is particularly significant right now but follows several years of declining sea ice. Until 2016, the sea ice around Antarctica had remained relatively stable, unlike ice in the Arctic Ocean, even as the global temperature rose. But in the past seven years, Antarctic sea ice has reached record lows numerous times.

What’s next: A potential new, unstable era for Antarctic sea ice.

A complicated mix of atmospheric and oceanic factors influence how much sea ice forms around Antarctica each year, and scien-

tists still debate the relative importance of each factor. But ocean warming from global climate change seems to be a growing influence, said Purich, who published a study in September on trends for this year’s Antarctic sea ice, suggesting that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean may be tipping into a new state with persistently low sea ice.

This year’s trends might continue into 2024 thanks to the potential of what’s known as a negative feedback loop. White ice reflects sunlight, while dark ocean water absorbs it. So the less sea ice there is, the more local sea-surface temperatures are likely to rise and melt the ice further, said Marilyn Raphael, a geography professor and director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at University of California, Los Angeles.

She recently helped reconstruct a longer record of Antarctic sea ice that includes seasonal averages stretching back to 1905 using historical weather observations. The average sea-ice cover from June through August this year was far outside any other winter average even in this longer record.

Iran’s captive minds

By BRET STEPHENS

In June 2014, Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai wrote an article in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, making the case that Iran had “genuine and reasonable concerns” about its nuclear fuel supplies and that it would need many more centrifuges to become energy independent. There had to be “a mechanism to guarantee Iranian supply,” they wrote, a position plainly sympathetic to the country’s interests.

The bulletin identified Esfandiary as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and Tabatabai as a political scientist at the RAND Corp. What it did not say was that both women belonged to the Iran Experts Initiative. According to blockbuster reporting in Semafor and Iran International, it was a high-level informal influence operation, involving a handful of scholars of Iranian descent, that was conceived and manipulated by the Iranian regime.

Another well-known participant in IEI was Ali Vaez, now the Iran Project director at the International Crisis Group. Over several years, the trio wrote guest essays (including in The New York Times) and gave scores of interviews to major Western media outlets, making them unusually influential in the debates about Iran.

Vaez is also close to Robert Malley, who helped lead the Obama administration’s negotiations over the nuclear deal. Malley returned to government as the Biden administration’s special envoy to Iran. Tabatabai joined his team at the State Department and later moved to the Pentagon, where she is

now chief of staff to Christopher Maier, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations.

Then things got interesting. In April, Malley’s security clearance was suspended by the State Department on suspicion of mishandling information. In June, he was put on leave. In July, Semafor reported that he is under FBI investigation. (Maier told a House committee last week that Tabatabai’s security clearance was being investigated.)

Around the same time, Iran International, a Londonbased, Persian-language opposition news channel, obtained a trove of Iranian government emails. Many center on Mostafa Zahrani, a top Iranian diplomat.

The messages are not the smoking-gun evidence of some sort of treasonous Iranian spy ring, as they have been described in some quarters. But they do paint a picture of the subtle ways the Iranian regime was able to use a group of influential intellectuals, hungry to maintain access to highlevel Iranian officials, that quickly turned into opportunities for Iranian manipulation.

“As an Iranian, based on my national and patriotic duty, I have not hesitated to help you in any way,” Vaez unctuously wrote Javad Zarif, who was then the foreign minister, “from proposing to your excellency a public campaign against the notion of breakout” — a fast transition from nuclear energy to nuclear weapons — “to assisting your team in preparing reports on practical needs of Iran.”

Tabatabai also checked with Zahrani about attending a conference in Israel.

essays deserved to know from them about their links to IEI and its masters in Iran. Full transparency was also owed to their think-tank funders, academic deans, newspaper and magazine editors and the government. Without it, honest advocacy becomes malign influence peddling.

The Justice Department defines a foreign agent as one who “engages within the United States in political activities, such as intending to influence any U.S. government official or the American public regarding U.S. domestic or foreign policy or the political or public interests of a foreign government or foreign political party.”

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“I am not interested in going, but then I thought maybe it would be better that I go and talk, rather than an Israeli like Emily Landau who goes and disseminates disinformation,” she wrote, referring to an Israeli nuclear policy analyst who died in 2020. “I would like to ask your opinion too and see if you think I should accept the invitation and go.” Tabatabai may have worried how a visit to Israel might affect her extended family in Iran, but that only underscores Zahrani’s implicit power over her.

The International Crisis Group flatly denies the thrust of the reporting, telling me that they were “replete with inaccuracy and mischaracterization” and noting that ICG is also the subject of criticism from Iran. The Iranian government never “directed the substantive research and conclusions of our staff,” said Richard Atwood, the Crisis Group’s executive vice president.

It’s true that emails and texts can always be quoted selectively and misleadingly. It’s true that these scholars almost surely saw themselves as pursuing an honorable aim that required them to cultivate relationships with all sides. And it’s true that Iranian officials, in their internal communications, may have been exaggerating the extent to which IEI was a tool in their hands.

But what’s damning here wasn’t the scholars’ purpose, which was in line, overall, with U.S. foreign policy. It wasn’t even the appearance of taking direction from a despotic regime.

It’s the lack of transparency. Readers of their opinion

No matter how the investigation into Malley ends, it’s worth asking how the authors of these emails can retain any position, public or private, of trust and responsibility.

Presidente de la Cámara denuncia irregularidades en el referido al FEI de José Humberto “Cheito” Rivera Madera

POR CYBERNEWS

EL CAPITOLIO – El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez, denunció el jueves, “el trámite irregular y contrario la ley” que culminó en el referido a la Oficina del Panel sobre el Fiscal Especial Independiente (OPFEI) del representante del distrito 23, José Humberto “Cheíto” Rivera Madera.

“El Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DSP) realizó una investigación deficiente y permitió que sus empleados y oficiales comparecieran ante el Departamento de Justicia a mentir bajo juramento, conforme a una investigación claramente arbitraria, para proteger a sus propios funcionarios y empleados que, el 10 de mayo de 2023,

día de los hechos imputados, permitieron que la compañía Elite Towers, LLC incurriera en actos ilegales. Esa es la verdad”, sentenció Hernández Montañez en declaraciones escritas.

Explicó que Rivera Madera fue referido por señalar la construcción “en un horario ilegal” de una torre de telecomunicaciones en el municipio de Guayanilla, por la compañía Elite Towers, LLC. El referido a la OPFEI se fundamenta en una supuesta violación al Artículo 200 del Código Penal que sanciona como delito grave “impedir, temporera o permanentemente, cualquier obra de construcción… que cuente con los permisos o autorizaciones o endosos de las agencias concernidas.

“No obstante, el 10 de mayo de 2023, la compañía

Realizan entrega de Medalla de la Juventud 2023

LaAdministración de Vivienda Pública celebró a principios de esta semana la entrega de la Medalla de la Juventud 2023, reconociendo a jóvenes destacados de los 328 residenciales públicos de Puerto Rico.

“Este evento es una de las actividades más significativas durante la Semana de la Vivienda y del Residencial Público que culmina el 7 de octubre”, dijo el secretario de la Vivienda, William Rodríguez.

Alejandro Salgado Colón, administrador de la Administración de Vivienda Pública, señaló: “Me siento

sumamente orgulloso de todos los nominados y seleccionados. Ustedes representan la esperanza de nuestras comunidades”.

El reconocimiento abarca diversas categorías como deportes, académico, baile, ayuda a los necesitados, servicio a la comunidad y valores. Entre los premiados, Ivanelis Hernández Peraza fue reconocida en deportes, Félix Escalera Lozada en trabajo comunitario, Ángel Y. Tapia Rivera en música y José Carlos Rivera Santiago en la categoría académica.

Elite Towers, LLC no tenía ningún permiso, autorización o endoso para realizar trabajos de construcción entre las 10:00 de la noche a 7:00 de la mañana, como lo exige el Reglamento 8019 de 9 de mayo de 2011, conocido como Reglamento para el Control por la Contaminación por Ruidos”, indicó el presidente de la Comisión para el Desarrollo y Fiscalización de Fondos Públicos de la Región Suroeste, Ángel “Tito” Fourquet Cordero.

Por su parte, la presidenta de la Comisión de Transportación, Obras Públicas e Infraestructura de la Cámara, Gretchen Hau, expuso que “la presencia pacífica del representante Rivera Madera únicamente pretendía notificar al Negociado de la Policía sobre el estado de derecho vigente y exigir que, en protección de la salud y el bienestar de sus constituyentes, se hiciera cumplir la ley”.

Los representantes expresaron que el “DSP tiene mucho que explicar, incluyendo por qué nunca citó al representante Rivera Madera a ofrecer su testimonio, a pesar de su disponibilidad irrestricta y la existencia de prueba conflictiva que demostraba que la alta oficialidad del Negociado de la Policía incumplió con la ley”.

El evento tuvo lugar en el Antiguo Casino de San Juan, con una participación artística especial. La directora ejecutiva de la oficina del gobernador, Caridad Pierluisi, estuvo representando al gobernador en la ceremonia.

Mónica Puig, embajadora del IRONMAN 70.3 Puerto Rico 2024

BAYAMÓN – La medallista olímpica Mónica Puig es la nueva embajadora del IRONMAN 70.3 Puerto Rico, evento que se llevará a cabo el domingo 17 de marzo de 2024.

“Estamos muy orgullosos de contar con Mónica”, mencionó Arturo Díaz, presidente de BN Sports en declaraciones escritas.

Puig, recientemente triunfó sobre Venus Williams en un juego amistoso y está entrenando para su nueva carrera como triatleta. Este será su segundo IRONMAN 70.3 y el primero en Puerto Rico, previamente participó en el de Augusta, Georgia. Como embajadora, Mónica destacará los atractivos del evento deportivo a través de su experiencia personal.

Presentado por la Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico, el IRONMAN 70.3 espera alrededor de 1,300 atletas de 45 países. La inscripción concluye el viernes, 8 de marzo.

“Nos sentimos entusiasmados con la oportunidad”, expresó Carlos Mercado Santiago, director ejecutivo de la Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico.

La competencia iniciará a las 6:55 de la mañana en la Laguna del Condado. Los atletas nadarán 1.2 millas, luego 56 millas de ciclismo por la costa norte de San Juan y terminarán con una carrera de 13.1 millas por el Viejo San Juan.

Para más detalles, se puede visitar el enlace: https://www. ironman.com/im703-puerto-rico.

Jon Fosse is awarded Nobel Prize in literature

By ALEX MARSHALL

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

Fosse’s work has long been lauded throughout continental Europe, but he has recently found a growing audience in the English-speaking world. By receiving what is widely seen as the most prestigious prize in literature, he joins a list of laureates including Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro and French writer Annie Ernaux, who last year was awarded the Nobel for books that plumb her personal passions and tragedies.

Critics have long compared Fosse’s sparse plays to the work of two previous Nobel laureates: Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett. And he had long been tipped to win. In 2013, British bookmakers temporarily suspended betting on the prize after a flurry of bets on Fosse’s winning. In the end, the action proved unnecessary, as Alice Munro, the Canadian short story writer, took the award.

Along the prestige and a huge boost

in book sales, Fosse receives 11 million Swedish krona (about $991,000).

In recent years, the Swedish Academy, which organizes the prize, has tried to increase the diversity of considered authors after facing criticism that only 17 Nobel laureates had been women, and that the vast majority were from Europe or North America. The choice of Fosse is likely to be interpreted as step back from those efforts.

Before Thursday’s announcement, at a news conference in Stockholm, Fosse was among the favorites, although Can Xue, a Chinese writer of often surreal and experimental short stories was also tipped, as were Haruki Murakami; Gerald Murnane, a reclusive Australian author; and Laszlo Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian author who Susan Sontag once called a “master of the apocalypse.”

Who is Jon Fosse?

Fosse made his name as a novelist, starting in 1983 with “Red, Black,” and in recent

years there has been surge of interest in his fiction.

His “A New Name: Septology VI-VII,” the last in a seven-novel sequence, explores an older man’s reckoning with God, and was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Awards. Several of his works have recently been published to acclaim by Fitzcarraldo Editions, a trendy British publisher that is home to several Nobel winners including Ernaux.

But Fosse, 64, is perhaps better known in much of Europe for his plays. He turned to theater in his mid-30s and has since produced some 40 works that have been translated into dozens of languages. Several have been performed in New York, including “I Am the Wind” and “Deathvariations” about a couple coming to terms with the death of their daughter.

Anita Gates, in a 2006 review of “Deathvariations” for The New York Times, said it was easy to see Fosse’s work “as Ibsen stripped down to its emotional essentials. But it is much more,” adding that his play had “a fierce

poetic simplicity.”

Although widely staged on the Continent, Fosse’s plays rarely make a dent in London or New York, and Anglo-Saxon audiences can find them obtuse. Ben Brantley, the former chief theater critic for the Times, highlighted that problem in a 2014 review: “Red lights are sure to flash in the minds of certain theatergoers when they hear that the characters in ‘I Am the Wind’ are identified as the One and the Other,” he said.

In 2018, Fosse told The Financial Times that he knew his work was difficult for some. “You don’t read my books for the plots,” he said. “But it’s not because I want to be a difficult writer,” he added. “I’ve never tried to write in a complicated way. I always try to write as simply and, I hope, as deeply as I possibly can.”

When asked what his work was about, he said, “I try to write about the mystery of life,” adding, “I’m not looking for answers in a simple way; I want to celebrate the enigma.”

Fosse is also known as a teacher of creative writing. His former students include Karl Ove Knausgaard, the Norwegian writer, who has also been tipped for the Nobel Prize.

Jon Fosse in Stockholm in 2021

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David Antonio

By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDEPOWERS

The prolific Puerto Rican fashion designer David Antonio, in celebration of his prestigious 40year career, dedicated this year’s runway show to Hogar Cuna San Cristóbal at the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel.

Glamorous attendees enjoyed seeing the beautiful models strutting the catwalk while showcasing David Antonio’s impressive womenswear and menswear styles filled with bursts of color and exquisite shimmer. The runway culminated with a special presentation of 25 iconic, majestic gowns reinstating David Antonio’s authority in exceptional evening wear. Guests also enjoyed mixing and mingling with fashion aficionados during the precocktail hour.

Zulma Durán, Aliana Halais, Natalia Casals

The San Juan Daily Star

Conchita López Lage, Cuqui Gómez, Josefina Ventura

Efrén Pagán, Patricia Eaves

Zulma Licha, Natalia Martínez, Viviana Mata

David Antonio and Carlota Alfaro

Vangie Cabanillas, Sara Echevarría, Annette Tañon, María García

Emmanuelle Bordas, Uva Rodríguez, Edna Chinea

Hulvia Vidal, Felipe Vidal

Carlos Rey, Gloria González, Anaís Sánchez, Ricardo Nieves Waleska Serra, Ruby Lefranc

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CARO-

LINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. JAVIER CÓRDOVA DÍAZ Y SORIMAR RODRÍGUEZ MORALES

PARTE DEMANDADA

CIVIL NÚM.: CA2022CV04044. (403). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 6 de julio de 2023 y notificada el 7 de julio de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 22 de agosto de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 24 de agosto de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Sala Superior, en la Avenida 65 Infantería, Carretera Número Tres (3), Kilómetro 11.7 (Entrada de la Urbanización Mansiones de Carolina) Carolina, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad:

URBANA: Apartamento Número mil novecientos tres (1903).

Propiedad Horizontal de forma irregular dedicada a vivienda, localizada en el Segundo piso del Edificio diecinueve (19) del proyecto Chalets de San Fernando, localizado en el Barrio Canovanilla del término Municipal de Carolina, con un área privada de 1,227.73 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 114.10 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE: en 21 pies 8 pulgadas equivalentes a 6.60 metros con pared interior que lo separa de los elementos comunes del edificio donde está localizada la puerta principal de acceso al apartamento; por el SUR: en 33 pies 6 pulgadas equivalentes a 10.21 metros con pared que lo separa del Edificio dieciocho (18); por el ESTE: en cuatro (4) alineaciones que suman 65 pies 0 pulgadas; equivalen-

tes a 19.81 metros con pared exterior que da hacia el patio posterior del Apartamento mil novecientos uno (1901); y por el OESTE: en tres (3) alineaciones que suman 39 pies 0 pulgadas equivalentes a 11.89 metros con pared exterior que lo separa del patio delantero y de las áreas comunes de uso general y estacionamiento. Consta esta unidad de sala-comedor, cocina, laundry, tres (3) habitaciones dormitorio con dos (2) baños y un (1) balcón. Esta unidad tiene acceso al pasillo común a través de su puerta principal y participa de los elementos comunes del condominio tal como aparece en la escritura matriz correspondiendo en un 0.63448% de elementos generales. Se le asigna los estacionamientos marcados con el número doscientos treinta y dos (232) y doscientos treinta y tres (233). La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 49 del tomo 1230 de Carolina, Finca 52773. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 115 del tomo 1386 de Carolina, Finca 52773. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II. Inscripción segunda (2da). Dirección Física: 19 Chalets de San Fernando, Apt 1903, Carolina, PR 00987-8299. Número de Catastro: 20-089-091-303-74-140. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $116,880.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $77,920.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $58,440.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $81,349.21 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.875% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2018 hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados los

cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $11,688.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar:

a) Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Javier Córdova Diaz (soltero) y Sorimar Rodríguez Morales (soltera), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el Caso Civil Número CA2022CV04044, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $81,349.21 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 15 de diciembre de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Carlina. Anotación B. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de septiembre de

2023. GIL RESTO SALGADO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. FELIPE SERRANO

SÁNCHEZ, MARGARITA

LÓPEZ PUMAREJO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

POR ESTOS COMPUESTA

Demandada

CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV00410. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, hago saber a la parte demandada FELIPE SERRANO SÁNCHEZ, MARGARITA LÓPEZ PUMAREJO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES POR ESTOS COMPUESTA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 25 de agosto de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $130,596.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: RD 176 KM 5.2 INT Barrio Cupey Alto, San Juan, PR 00926, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: RUSTICA: Lote de terreno denominado coma Parcela A, en el plano de inscripción, con un área superficial de 217.92 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0554 cuerda, localizada en el Camino Municipal Los González en la Carretera Municipal #176 del Barrio Cupey Alto de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, en lindes por el Norte, con terrenos de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el Sur, con terrenos de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el Este, con franja de terreno dedicada a uso público adyacente al camino municipal Los González y por el Oeste, con terrenos de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Enclava casa de hormigón armada y bloques de hormigón, que mide 20 pies de frente por 36 pies de fondo,

con un área de construcción de 600 pies cuadrados. Consta de sala, comedor-cocina en un sofá pieza, tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños y balcón.

Finca 20326 inscrita al folio 109 del tomo 674 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituída por Felipe Serrano Sánchez casado con Margarita López Pumarejo, en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de RG Premier Bank of P.R., o a su orden, por $115,028.00, al 4.50%, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2039, según Ese. #218, en San Juan, a 1 de mayo de 2009, ante Alexandra M. Serracante Cadilla, inscrita al folio 109 del tomo 674 de Río Piedras Sur, finca #20326, inscripción 4ta, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 28 de junio de 2022, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $83,265.54 de principal, más $2,773.35 de interés al 4.50% anual, al 1 de enero de 2023, que continuarán acumulándose $10.0991 diario hasta el saldo total, $163.17 de cargos por atrasos, $702.00 de otros cargos, $11,502.80 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora.

La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $130,596.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $87,064.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mí-

nimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $65,298.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto

el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de septiembre de 2023. EDWIN E. LOPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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MWPR, LLC

Demandante V. MARISE DEL ROSARIO

ZENGOTITA MAS

T/C/C MARISE DEL R. ZENGOTITA MAS

Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08394. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: MARISE DEL ROSARIO ZENGOTITA MAS

T/C/C MARISE DEL R. ZENGOTITA MAS,; Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada y, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a saber: MMG I

PR LLC: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de demanda, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan caso civil #SJ2022CV08394, por concepto de cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por

MMG I PR, LLC versus Marise Del Rosario Zengotita Mas t/c/c Marise Del R. Zengotita Mas, por la suma de $168,353.73 y otras sumas. Anotado el 22 de diciembre de 2022, en Karibe de Rio Piedras Sur, finca #19,229, Anotación A. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 12 de septiembre de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: Dirección de la Propiedad: Jardines De Montehiedra Apt. 502 San Juan PR 00926. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento residencial de forma angular identificado con el número quinientos dos (502), localizado en la primera planta del Módulo número cinco (5) del Condominio Los Jardines de Montehiedra, situado en el Barrio Caimito de Río Piedras, término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Área neta del apartamento: mil ochocientos noventa y cinco punto cincuenta y ocho (1,895.58 p.c.) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento setenta y seis punto diez (176.10 m.c.) metros cuadrados. El apartamento consta de dos (2) niveles de forma angular. En el primer nivel se encuentran la sala-comedor, medio baño, cocina con despensa, balcón, área de lavadero y escalera con acceso al segundo nivel. En el segundo nivel se encuentran tres (3) dormitorios de los cuales dos (2) dormitorios tienen sus respectivos “closets” y el dormitorio principal con “walk-in closet” y dos (2) baños. En el primer nivel en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y siete pies ocho pulgadas (37’8”) con pared medianera del apartamento quinientos uno (501) y áreas comunes; por el SUR, en una distancia de treinta y siete pies ocho pulgadas (37’8”) con pared medianera de los apartamentos seiscientos dos (602) y seiscientos tres (603); por el ESTE, en una distancia de dieciocho pies ocho pulgadas (18’8”) con áreas comunes; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de diecisiete pies ocho pulgadas (17’8”) con áreas comunes. En el segundo nivel en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y siete pies ocho pulgadas (37’8”) con pared medianera del apartamento quinientos uno (501) y áreas comunes; por el SUR, en una distancia de treinta y siete pies ocho pulgadas (37’8”) con pared medianera del apartamento seiscientos (601) y áreas comunes; por el ESTE, en una distancia de dieciocho pies ocho pulgadas

mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 15 de septiembre de 2023. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA. MARIBEL ARROYO TORRES

t/c/p Maribel Arroyo

Demandante Vs. EDWARD ORTIZ SOTO

t/c/p Edward Ortiz

Demandada

CIVIL NUM. AG2023RF00625.

SOBRE: DIVORCIO, RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLA-

ZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.

UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

SS.

A: EDWAR ORTIZ SOTO

t/c/p Edward Ortix

851B Adour Dr., Kissimmee, Florida 34759

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haberse publicado el edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDA. IVONNE M. GONZALEZ SAMOT

RUA #19153

7130 AVENIDA AGUSTIN RAMOS CALERO

P.O. BOX 613

ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662

TEL.: (787)872-4646/ CEL. (939)642-0432

Email:

ivonnem.glezsamot@gmail.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello

del Tribunal, hoy 29 de septiembre de 2023. Sarahi Reyes Perez, Secretario(a) Regional. Maria Valentin Ramirez, Secretario Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MICHAEL

CHARLES HORN

V. FRANCISCO SOTO

LÓPEZ, FULANA DE TAL

I Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS; ANDRES MORELL, FULANA DE TAL II Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS; METRO TAXI CABS, INC.; COMPAÑÍA ABC; COOPERATIVA DE SEGUROS MÚLTIPLES DE PUERTO RICO; ASEGURADORA XYZ; ASEGURADORA 123

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06761.

Sobre: DAÑOS, LEY DE VEHÍCULOS Y TRÁNSITO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: METRO TAXI CABS INC.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la Demanda en división de comunidad de bienes. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal dentro de un término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dicha Publicación se hará una sola vez. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. También se le requiere que notifique su contestación a:

Lcdo. Carlos G. García Miranda García & Rivera LLC

P.O. Box 9022074

San Juan, PR. 00902-2074 cgarcia@garciariveralaw.com

Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la Contes-

tación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto y radicar el original de dicha contestación en este Tribunal a través de Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), en donde podrán enterarse de su contenido. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 30 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. NELLY MARTE MARCANO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL.

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MICHAEL

CHARLES HORN

V. FRANCISCO SOTO LÓPEZ, FULANA DE TAL I Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS; ANDRES MORELL, FULANA DE TAL II Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS; METRO TAXI CABS, INC.; COMPAÑÍA ABC; COOPERATIVA DE SEGUROS MÚLTIPLES DE PUERTO RICO; ASEGURADORA XYZ; ASEGURADORA 123

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06761.

Sobre: DAÑOS, LEY DE VEHÍCULOS Y TRÁNSITO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: FRANCISCO SOTO LÓPEZ.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la Demanda en división de comunidad de bienes. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal dentro de un término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dicha Publicación se hará una sola vez.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el

remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. También se le requiere que notifique su contestación a: Lcdo. Carlos G. García Miranda García & Rivera LLC

P.O. Box 9022074 San Juan, PR. 00902-2074 cgarcia@garciariveralaw.com

Abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la Contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto y radicar el original de dicha contestación en este Tribunal a través de Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), en donde podrán enterarse de su contenido. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 30 de agosto de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Nelly Marte Marcano, Secretaria Del Tribunal.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA SOCORRO ROBLES ADORNO COMPUESTA POR SU HEREDERO CONOCIDO BENEDICTO DELGADO ROBLES; SUCESIÓN DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS JAZMÍN DELGADO ARZUAGA

T/C/C JAZMÍN DELGADO ARRIAGA Y JULIO DELGADO ARZUAGA

T/C/C JULIO DELGADO ARRIAGA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ A SUSTITUIR Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04903.

Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA SOCORRO

ROBLES ADORNO; JAZMÍN DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JAZMIN DELGADO ARRIAGA; JULIO DELGADO ARZUAGA T/C/C JULIO DELGADO ARRIAGA COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JULIO DELGADO ROBLES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES. BO. SABANA SECA, URB. LEVITTOWN, SOLAR 2420 BLOQUE F, CALLE AMIR 2DA. SECCIÓN, TOA BAJA, PR 00729. DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: URB. LEVITTOWN #2446 CALLE AMIR TOA BAJA, PR 00729. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr , salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le apercibe que conforme al artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021, usted tiene 30 días para aceptar o repudiar la herencia desde la publicación de este edicto. A esos efectos, de no rechazarla, se tendrá la herencia por aceptada. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS

RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970

TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

En Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 2 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE LAS PIEDRAS SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 209 MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Demandante V. EFRAIN SANTANA

VAZQUEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: NG2022CV00102.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDRÉS SÁEZ MARRERO PRSERVICE@TMPPLLC.COM A: EFRAIN SANTANA VAZQUEZ, SUSANA MALDONADO MARTINEZ, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

SANTANA-MALDONADO

P/C DEL LCDO ANDRES SAEZ MARRERO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 29 de septiembre de 2023. En Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiembre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. EDWIN CASTRO CRUZ COMO HEREDERO DE LA SUCESIÓN ROSA NÉLIDA

CRUZ ÁLVAREZ T/C/C

ROSA N. CRUZ ÁLVAREZ Y OTROS Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AG2022CV00885. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

BELMA ALONSO GARCÍA OFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM

MARINILDA RIVERA VARGAS MRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COM

A: EDWIN CASTRO HILERIO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ROSA NÉLIDA CRUZ ÁLVAREZ T/C/C ROSA N. CRUZ ÁLVAREZ. DIRECCIONES: SR

107 KM 2.8, LOT 146, ANEXOS ST, BORINQUEN

WD., AGUADILLA, PR 00603; 146 ANEXOS, AGUADILLA, PR 00603-6047; URB. VILLAALEGRÍA, 210 CALLE PERLA, AGUADILLA, PR 006035649.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 28 de septiembre de 2023. Notas de la Secretaria. SE ENMIENDA NOTIFICACIÓN A FINES DE CORREGIR EL NOMBRE DE LA PARTE DEMANDADA. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 28 de septiembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NATHALIE ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 402 SUPERIOR CIVIL ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.

Demandante V.

JUAN F ROSADO SANTIAGO

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2021CV04967. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60, COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: JUAN F ROSADO SANTIAGO. URB. SANTA JUANITA DE8 CALLE ATENAS, BAYAMON, PR 00956. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 28 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 28 de septiembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V.

YOHMAYRA

MEDINA REYES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2022CV06635. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60, COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO.

KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO

KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: YOHMAYRA

MEDINA REYES.

URB. LOMAS VERDES

R11 CALLE CLAVEL, BAYAMÓN, PR 0095-3217.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 28 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 28 de septiembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 208

PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT JV, LLC

Demandante V. EDWIN OMAR

GONZALEZ ALICEA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: HU2019CV01412.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JOSÉ FRANCISCO AGUILAR VÉLEZ

JOSE.AGUILAR@ORF-LAW.COM

KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZ

KENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: EDWIN OMAR

GONZÁLEZ ALICEA

H/N/N SERENATA FUSION

CUISINE / P/C DEL LCDO

KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ

LÓPEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le

notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 04 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2020, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 28 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA.

KARILIN MORALES FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO YABUCOEÑA

(YABUCOOP) Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: YB2023CV00179.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

BELMA ALONSO GARCÍA OFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM

A: JULIO JOEL DE JESUS DELGADO, JULIO LUIS DE JESUS DELGADO, MIOSOTY DE JESUS DELGADO, WANDA LIZ DE JESUS DELGADO COMO PARTE DE LA SUCN. DE PAULA DELGADO PAGÁN, JULIO DE JESÚS LABOY POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES PARCELAS NUEVA PLAYA, COMUNIDAD

RURAL CALABAZAS, 431 CALLE C, YABUCOA, PR 00767, HC 3 BOX 12205, YABUCOA, PR 007679767, 3010 BURTON POINT CT, WAXHAW, NC 28173-0298.

SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE PAULA DELGADO PAGÁN, FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARE A SUS DIRECCIONES DESCONOCIDAS. P/C LCDA. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍA.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 29 de septiembre de 2023. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiembre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA

RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. SAMMY

MEDINA COUVERTIER

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2022CV06612.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO -

ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

A: SAMMY MEDINA COUVERTIER.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 29 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiembre de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. ARACELIS

MOLINA GUADALUPE

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: CG2022CV02377.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ARACELIS

MOLINA GUADALUPE. (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de septiembre de 2023 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi-

miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de septiembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, 29 de septiembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. JESSENIA PEDRAZA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. MARÍA N. SANTANA DÍAZ

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: CD2023CV00020. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MARÍA N. SANTANA DÍAZ. (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de septiembre de 2023 este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de septiembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, 29 de septiembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTINEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. JESSENIA PEDRAZA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. JESSIE A TORRES ZAYAS Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CO2022CV00331.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ FRANCISCO AGUILAR VÉLEZ JOSE.AGUILAR@ORF-LAW.COM

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A: JESSIE A TORRES ZAYAS. BO CUYON CARR

14 R702 K4 H2 PAR12, COAMO, PUERTO RICO 00769 / PO BOX 443 COAMO, PUERTO RICO 00769. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En COAMO, Puerto Rico, el 29 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARIELA GARCÍA RAMOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandantes Vs. RAQUEL COLON; R.P.C.

REPRESENTADA POR SU MADRE RAQUEL COLÓN; M.P.C. REPRESENTADA

POR SU MADRE RAQUEL

Demandados

Civil Número: SJ2023CV07874. (802). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: RAQUEL COLÓN

POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LAS MENORES M.P.C. Y R.P.C; LA MENOR M.P.C; Y LA MENOR R.P.C.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda de epígrafe dentro de los TREINTA (30) DÍAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto; el cual se publicará en un periódico de circulación general diaria durante una (1) sola vez. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 21 de septiembre de 2023. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 29 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JACKELINE ESQUILÍN LUGO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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BARBERENA AVILA

Demandado(a)

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Caso Núm.: TA2022CV01152. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JESUS J. BARBERENA AVILA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 29 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2018CV10034. Sala: 508. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM” (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de

en treinta pies y diez pulgadas (30’ 10”), equivalentes a nueve punto cuarenta (9.40) metros con un área verde, una calle del proyecto y el estacionamiento A; por el SURESTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan treinta pies y nueve pulgadas (30’ 9”), equivalentes a nueve punto treinta y ocho (9.38) metros, divididos en veintitrés pies y cinco pulgadas (23’ 5”), equivalentes a siete punto qu8ince (7.15) metros y en siete pies y cuatro pulgadas (7’ 4”); equivalentes a dos punto veintitrés (2.23) metros, con el área de estacionamientos B; por el ESTE, en cuarenta y dos pies y seis pulgadas (42’ 6”); equivalentes a doce punto noventa y seis (12.96) metros, con el apartamento B guión quinientos tres (B-503), y por el OESTE, en veintinueve pies y cuatro pulgadas (29’ 4”), equivalentes a ocho punto noventa y seis (8.96) metros, con el apartamento B guión trescientos tres (B-303) y en un área no determinada con las escaleras que dan acceso al Segundo (2do) piso. Su puerta de acceso se encuentra ubicada en el área Suroeste de la sala comunicando el apartamento con un área común con el apartamento B guión trescientos tres (B-303) y con las escaleras que dan acceso al Segundo (2do) piso. Posee una terraza abierta con una cabida superficial de4 mil ciento noventa y ocho punto dieciocho (1,198.18) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento once punto tres mil ciento nueve (111.3109) metros cuadrados, la cual se encuentra en el área superior del apartamento teniendo acceso al mismo por unas escaleras ubicadas en el balcón del apartamento del tercer piso. Le fueron adjudicados además dos (2) estacionamientos con el número cuarenta y cinco (45). Apartamento concreto para fines residenciales al cual le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales y en la cuota de mantenimiento de cero punto cero uno siete dos uno dos cero cinco por ciento (0.01721205%). Inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 1884 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I, finca número 77,966. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma:

$179,352.92 de principal, 6.00% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $303.66 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $438.09 de reserva “escrow”, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $187,600.00 para la

propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado; $125,066.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $93,800.00. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 24 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 31 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 7 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de P.R. y Puerto Rico Railway Light and Power Company. Condiciones Restrictivas de venta por el término de 10 años impuestas por la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por haber concedido la suma de $9,150.00 para sufragar gastos de cierre, según Esc. #11 en San Juan el 12 de agosto de 2012 ante Ricardo Soto Goitía, inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 1884 de Bayamón Sur, finca #77966 inscripción 8va. Embargo Judicial dictado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Bayamón caso civil #DACM2017-0376 sobre Cobro de Dinero (Regla 60) seguido por Consejo de Titulares del Condominio Torrimar Town Park vs. Eduardo José Arredondo Viciedo y su esposa Vanessa Rivera por $6,017.75 según Orden del 3 de febrero de 2020 y Mandamiento del 6 de febrero de 2020, anotado al tomo Karibe el 13 de agosto de 2020 finca #77966 de Bayamón Sur, anotación “A”. Embargo Judicial dictado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala de Bayamón caso civil #DACM20170376 sobre Cobro de Dinero (Regla 60) seguido por Consejo de Titulares del Condominio Torrimar Town Park vs. Eduardo

José Arredondo Viciedo y su esposa Vanessa Rivera por $6,017.75 según Orden del 3 de febrero de 2020 y Mandamiento del 6 de febrero de 2020, anotado al tomo Karibe el 25 de agosto de 2020 finca #77966 de Bayamón Sur, anotación “B”. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para

conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 3 de octubre de 2023. EDGARDO

ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL .

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03618.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANGEL LUIS OYOLA MERCADO, SU ESPOSA, LYMARI COLON MARTINEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 29 de septiembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. JESSENIA PEDRAZA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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TOLENTINO MARRERO

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00470. Salón: 305. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, BAJO EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. “Rústica”: Solar con residencia construida en concreto con techo en zinc en el Barrio Daguao, del término municipal de Ceiba, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 158.874 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte en una alineación de 15.538 con remanente perteneciente a Ricardo Morales Meléndez; por el Sur en una alineación de 18.342 con camino vecinal; por el Este en una alineación de 10.173 con remanente perteneciente a Ricardo Morales Meléndez y por el Oeste en una alineación de 9.476 con terreno perteneciente a María Centeno. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PMB 767, 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, PR 00966; Tel. (787)-758-3277; Email: erovira@partnerslegalservicespr.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el N/A de N/A de 20__, a las N/A, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione

en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, a 29 de agosto de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHIA FERRER FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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MYRNA LUISA

TOLENTINO MARRERO

TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MYRNA

TOLENTINO MARRERO

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: FA2023CV00470.

Salón: 305. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, BAJO EL ART. 13 DE LA LEY 118, PROCEDIMIENTO EXPEDITO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.

A: HEREDEROS DE ISIDRA TOLENTINO OLMEDA, INMEDIATOS ANTERIORES DUEÑOS., HEREDEROS, DENOMINADOS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL., Y A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDE PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA.

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal.

Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. “Rústica”: Solar con residencia construida en concreto con techo en zinc en el Barrio Daguao, del término municipal de Ceiba, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 158.874 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte en una alineación de 15.538 con remanente perteneciente a Ricardo Morales Meléndez; por el Sur en una alineación de 18.342 con camino vecinal; por el Este en una alineación de 10.173 con remanente perteneciente a Ricardo Morales Meléndez y por el Oeste en una alineación de 9.476 con terreno perteneciente a María Centeno. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es la Lcdo. Ernesto Rovira Gándara, PMB 767, 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, Guaynabo, PR 00966; Tel. (787)-758-3277; Email: erovira@partnerslegalservicespr.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el N/A de N/A de 20__, a las N/A, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, a 29 de agosto de 2023. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHIA FERRER FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante v. Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2022CV01937. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LIZANNETTE MORALES CRESPO MORALESCRESPOLAW@GMAIL. COM A: TODOS LOS QUE TENGAN CUALQUIER DERECHO REAL EN IA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SEDESCRIBE, LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS, NATURALES O JURIDICAS, A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICARIA INSCRIPCION DE IA FINCA A FAVOR DE LA PETICIONARIA Y A LAS PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS, NATURALES O JURIDICAS, QUE TUVIEREN DERECHO A OPONERSE O SE CREYERON CON DERECHOA OPONERSE (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia,Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, el 29 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZALEZ, Secretaria. f/ALEXANDRA ALVAREZ NATAL, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

Sucesión de Teófila

Noboa Cerra compuesta por Yennifel Peña

Noboa, Jessenia Antonia Peña Noboa y Jose Benjamín Chevalier

Noboa y la Sucesión de Antonio Gil Peña Frías compuesta por Yennifel

Peña Noboa, Jessenia Antonia Peña Noboa, Raúl Peña Salcedo, Rudi Peña Salcedo y Luis Peña como herederos conocidas y Fulano de Tal, Fulana de Tal, Zutano de Tal, Zutana de Tal, herederos desconocidos

A, B y C de la sucesión; Estados Unidos de América; Honorable Secretario de Justicia del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; Honorable Secretario de Hacienda del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM.: CA2020CV01977.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.

AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HECTOR L

PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 1 de septiembre de 2023 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $106,272.28 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 7 de julio de 2023 y notificada por edicto el 12 de julio de 2023, y publicada el jueves, 20 de julio de 2023, en el periódico “The San Juan Daily Star” y notificada ese mismo día, (procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, los bienes inmuebles se describen a continuación: 137-14 Calle 406, Villa Carolina Dev., Carolina, PR 00985. URBANA: Solar número 14 de la manzana 137 de la Urbanización Villa Carolina, situada en el barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 312.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar 13 distancia de 24.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 15 distancia de 24.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar 11 distancia de 13.00 metros y por el OES-

TE, con la Calle 406 distancia de 13.00 metros. Contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia. Finca #27896 inscrita al folio 258 del tomo 694 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina sur, Sección Segunda. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $106,272.28, de principal, un balance diferido de $8,997.33; para un total principal de $115,269.61 intereses al 4.25%, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; recargos a razón de 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de los (15) días después de la fecha de vencimiento; el 10 % del principal del pagaré equivalente a $12,160.00, para cubrir costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $121,600.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $81,066.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $60,800.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 31 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el día 7 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el día 14 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:45 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina. De Estudio de Título realizado no surgen gravámenes preferentes ni posteriores que deban ser cancelados. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento

de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 2 de OCTOBER de 2023. HECTOR L PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, ALGUACIL.

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Demandante Vs MIGUEL ANTONIO LOPEZ

DIAZ T/C/C MIGUEL

A. LOPEZ DIAZ T/C/C

MIGUEL ANTONIO

LOPEZ T/C/C MIGUEL

LOPEZ DIAZ; SUCESION

MARIA ESTHER DE LA

MATA MELENDEZ T/C/C

MARIA ESTHER MATTA

MELENDEZ T/C/C MARIA

E. MATTA T/C/C MARIA

MATTA MELENDEZ COMPUESTA POR SU

VIUDO MIGUEL ANTONIO

LOPEZ DIAZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV07265.

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

A: MIGUEL ANTONIO

LOPEZ DIAZ T/C/C

MIGUEL A. LOPEZ DIAZ

T/C/C MIGUEL ANTONIO

LOPEZ T/C/C MIGUEL LOPEZ DIAZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN MARIA ESTHER DE LA MATA

MELENDEZ T/C/C

MARIA ESTHER MATTA MELENDEZ T/C/C MARIA

E. MATTA T/C/C MARIA MATTA MELENDEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP

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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 ello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SUB-SECRETARIA.

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2019-HB1

Demandante Vs. ROGELIO WILFREDO RODRIGUEZ TIRADO

T/C/C WILFREDO

RODRIGUEZ TIRADO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV08304. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: ROGELIO WILFREDO

RODRIGUEZ TIRADO

T/C/C WILFREDO

RODRIGUEZ TIRADO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de septiembre de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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COTTO RAMÍREZ DEMANDADA

Civil Núm. ECD2017-0365

(703). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, EDGARDO ALDEBOL

MIRANDA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 24 de mayo de 2019 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $70,629.39 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 27 de julio de 2017, notificada y archivada en autos el 2 de agosto de 2017, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: Calle 52 Padre Quiñones, Barrio Bairoa, Aguas Buenas, PR 00703. URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 188.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, en ocho metros, con terrenos de Jesús Forastieri; al Sur, en ocho metros, con la Calle Padre Quiñones; al Este, en veinticuatro metros, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega y al Oeste, en veintitrés metros con terrenos de René Díaz Flores. Contiene una casa de hormigón y bloques para una familia. Inscrita al folio 35 del tomo 116 de Aguas Buenas, finca número 5,158, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $70,629.39 de principal, 3.75% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $52.56 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, $196.43 de reserva “escrow”, mas costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $70,951.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del

precio mínimo antes mencionado; $47,300.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $35,475.50. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 23 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 30 de octubre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una tercera subasta el 6 de noviembre de 2023, a las 9:30 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico. Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los de-

mandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 5 de octubre de 2023. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL LEGAL NOTICE

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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV05535. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

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POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección Natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de agosto de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2023. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ADELLE RIVERA APONTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

FIFA will host 2030 World Cup on three continents

By TARIQ PANJA

Soccer’s World Cup will be staged in six countries on three continents in its centenary edition in 2030, an unexpected and complex alteration to its traditional format that was approved earlier this week in a meeting of FIFA’s governing council.

In the unusual arrangement, three South American countries — Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay — each will host a single opening match on home soil and then join the rest of the field for the remainder of the tournament, which will take place in Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

The six countries had initially joined forces regionally in separate bids for the hosting rights to the 100th anniversary World Cup, a globe-stopping, monthlong soccer festival that produces billions of dollars in revenue for FIFA every four years.

The offer from the South American nations had long been considered an outsider, however, to the three-nation bid from Spain, Portugal and Morocco, which was officially declared the sole bidder for 2030 on Wednesday. But under the new arrangement to recognize the tournament’s centenary, each nation will get to take a turn as a host.

“In 2030, the FIFA World Cup will unite three continents and six countries, inviting the entire world to join in the celebration of the beautiful game, the centenary and the FIFA World Cup itself,” FIFA said in a statement after Wednesday’s meeting.

“The FIFA Council unanimously agreed that the sole candidacy will be the combined bid of Morocco, Portugal, and Spain, which will host the event in 2030 and qualify automatically.”

In sharing the 2030 tournament among three continents, FIFA also significantly narrowed the field of nations eligible to bid for the 2034 event. That opened the door for Saudi Arabia, a nation that has made no secret of wanting to host, to win the rights when that host is selected next year.

The first World Cup was held in 1930

in Uruguay, when the championship was a compact, 13-team affair held over 2 1/2 weeks in a single city, the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. It has since grown to be one of the most valuable and most watched sporting events in the world, a financial juggernaut that FIFA projects will produce record revenues of at least $11 billion for its current four-year cycle, almost double what it earned in the last one.

The complexity and size of the World Cup has grown steadily in recent decades, with the next edition — in 2026 — expanded by 12 teams to 48 in total, making it the largest in history. That size, and FIFA’s exacting requirements for bidding countries and stadiums, mean that few nations are now capable of staging the event alone.

The 2026 tournament will take place mostly in the United States, but games also will be staged in Mexico and Canada — the first time the tournament will be played in three countries. The complexities of holding that event have yet to be worked out, and officials are still grappling with a wide range of complications, including visa-free travel for spectators and taxation.

Speculation that FIFA was preparing to make a surprise announcement was tipped

by the South American soccer head Alejandro Domínguez, a FIFA vice president, who took to social media as the meeting was taking place to post a video of himself dancing, suggesting in Spanish “something global is coming for all football fans.”

Domínguez then broke the news in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, before FIFA had a chance to make its announcement.

“We believed in big,” Domínguez wrote in Spanish. “The 2030 Centennial World Cup begins where it all began.”

Taking the tournament to all six countries allows FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, to avert some difficult political choices, and could allow Infantino to deliver the next tournament to a reliable ally. In FIFA’s statement announcing the plans for 2030, it said that only teams from Asia and Oceania could bid in 2034 — creating an opportunity for one of his closest backers, Saudi Arabia, to secure a tournament, and a global stage, that it covets.

Within an hour of FIFA’s announcement, the Saudi press agency had published a statement from the kingdom’s powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, expressing his country’s interest in hosting in 2034, and

the president of the Asian soccer confederation had thrown his support behind the effort, declaring “the entire Asian football family will stand united in support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s momentous initiative.”

FIFA said that bidding for the 2034 World Cup would conclude with a vote at a meeting of its 211 member nations next year, short-circuiting a process that had been expected to conclude in 2027 or 2028. The shorter timeline reduces the time for other nations considering bidding for the tournament to put together coherent plans.

Infantino, elected to FIFA’s top position in 2016, will now have the chance to leave his imprint on at least two more World Cups, including the 2034 event, which will take place after his final term in office is supposed to have ended.

His legacy already includes major changes to the World Cup, with 48 teams, resulting in a change in the competition’s format, as well as clearing the way for more than two countries to co-host. Infantino had wanted to stage the World Cup biennially, but that effort ended amid bitter opposition from European soccer officials as well as top clubs and fans.

Fans groups were quick to oppose the plans for the multicontinent 2030 World Cup on Wednesday.

“FIFA continues its cycle of destruction against the greatest tournament on earth,” one umbrella group called Football Supporters Europe posted on X. “Horrendous for supporters, disregards the environment and rolls the red carpet out to a host for 2034 with an appalling human rights record. It’s the end of the World Cup as we know it.”

The 2030 championship will now start with an opening ceremony at the Estadio Centenario in Uruguay, the site of the 1930 final, and stadiums in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Asunción, Paraguay.

The three nations and their opponents would have to travel to Spain, Portugal or Morocco to continue with the rest of the tournament.

If you’re talking about his hair, this NBA star is winning

By SCOTT CACCIOLA

immy Butler, a forward for the Miami Heat, has never been concerned with what anyone expects of him. He blasts

country music in the Heat’s locker room, irritating most of his NBA teammates. He started his own pandemic-era coffee company, initially charging $20 a cup — for small, medium and large. He also is a

ferocious competitor, and he pledged earlier this week that he would lead the Heat back to the NBA finals this season.

“This time we’re going to win it,” he said, “and then y’all are going to say we

got lucky.”

Butler, 34, made this bold declaration as he sat on a dais at the team’s

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South American soccer leaders celebrated FIFA’s decision on Wednesday. From left, Robert Harrison of Paraguay; Ignacio Alonso of Uruguay; Alejandro Domínguez, who leads the South American confederation; and Claudio Tapia of Argentina.

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media day, an annual rite of passage before the start of training camp in which players speak with reporters. But nothing he said on Monday seemed to matter as much as what he wore. He appeared to have pierced his eyebrow, lip and nose, and his hair was in a straightened fringe vaguely reminiscent of André 3000’s “Hey Ya!” hairdo.

Butler, however, seemed to have found inspiration in a different musical genre.

“I’m emo,” Butler said with a faux glower as he brushed his bangs across his forehead. “This is my emotional state. I’m at one with my emotions, so this is what you get.”

To be clear: It was neither Butler’s regular look nor one that anyone expected to stick around once the cameras were off. In fact, before the start of last season, he showed up in dreadlocks, which he claimed at the time were his real hair. (They were not.) Butler typically has his hair in braids or coifed in an Afro taper fade.

In other words, Butler enjoys being

Jimmy Butler said at the Miami Heat’s media day on Monday that his emo look reflected his being “one with my emotions.

a provocateur. And he appeared to acknowledge as much Monday during a photo shoot with his teammate Bam Adebayo, who was flummoxed by Butler’s facial accouterments.

“The whole lip ring is annoying,” Adebayo told him.

“Look,” Butler said, “I’ve got to stay in character.”

Intentional or not, Butler’s appearance helped to distract from questions about the team’s muted offseason. In addition to losing two key players to free

agency — Gabe Vincent and Max Strus

— Miami was unable to swing a deal for Damian Lillard, a superstar point guard the Heat had coveted.

It is probably worth noting that Butler was not pleased with that turn of events. Lillard, after all, had reportedly professed a desire to land in Miami. But after the Portland Trail Blazers traded Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks, Butler suggested on Instagram that the NBA should “look into the Bucks for tampering.” (Tampering refers to improper negotiations between players, coaches or team executives.)

Butler’s self-described emo look could have had something to do with his feelings about the Lillard situation — or not. With Butler, it is impossible to know. Because here’s the thing: Not even his teammates know.

“If this is a phase he’s going through at 34, you have to let him go through his phases,” Adebayo said. “We all go through our emo phases.”

A six-time NBA All-Star, Butler is as talented as he is inscrutable. He values his privacy. He seldom discusses his personal life — in an interview with Rolling Stone he brushed off rumors that he is dating

pop star Shakira — though he does offer glimpses. On Monday, for example, he spoke about his friendship with Irish musician Dermot Kennedy — “That’s my brother through and through,” Butler said — and about how much he enjoyed visiting China this summer as part of a promotion tour for Chinese sneaker brand Li-Ning.

“I got to sing a lot of karaoke, which means the world to me,” he said, “because I don’t get to do that often here.”

He also expressed optimism about the season ahead. Last season, the Heat, who had barely made the playoffs, engineered upset after upset before losing to the Denver Nuggets in the NBA finals.

“It’s always been about a championship for me,” Butler said. “It will always be that for me, nothing else. And it’s just our year. This is the one. And this one is going to feel real good, by the way.”

On Tuesday, Butler arrived for the team’s first official practice of the season with his hair back in braids. But fear not: Butler posed as #EmoJimmy in his official headshot for the season, meaning that glorious hair will soon make an appearance on an arena Jumbotron near you.

Ban on Russian youth teams in world soccer is lifted

By ANDREW DAS and TARIQ PANJA

Soccer’s global governing body voted earlier this week to allow youth teams from Russia to return to its competitions, overturning a blanket ban on the country that was imposed days after it invaded Ukraine last year.

Wednesday’s decision by the governing council of FIFA came a week after leaders of European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, agreed to allow Russian men’s and women’s teams to take part in

qualifying matches for its under-17 championships, which will take place next year. That decision was framed as separating the interests of athletes, particularly teenage ones, from the actions of their governments.

The teams will be permitted to play as the Football Union of Russia, the name of the country’s soccer federation, rather than Russia, and must do so in neutral colors, and without their national flag and anthem.

The ban on Russia’s senior teams remains in place, meaning they are still barred from competing in showcase competitions such as the World Cup and the European Championship. But by opening the door to the return of Russian teams at the youth level, the soccer bodies have previewed a path forward for a variety of sports and federations — including the International Olympic Committee — that are struggling to find a way to include Russian athletes and teams in their competitions before next year’s Paris Olympics.

than a dozen who have said they would refuse to allow their soccer teams to take the field against Russian opponents under any circumstances.

If the countries refuse to play those matches, or refuse to allow Russian teams to enter their borders, it would affect the

MLB PLAYOFFS Division Series

Saturday’s Games (all times EST)

American League

Texas Rangers at Baltimore Orioles (1 p.m., FOX/FS1)

Minnesota Twins at Houston Astros (TBD, FOX/FS1)

National League

Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers (TBD, TBS)

Philadelphia Phillies at Atlanta Braves (TBD, TBS)

Sunday’s Games

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competitive balance of major events and open the federations to punishment. That could lead to a broader fight about the reintegration of Russia at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the Switzerland-based body empowered to resolve disputes in global sports.

National League

Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers (TBD)

Philadelphia Phillies at Atlanta Braves (TBD)

Wild Card Round

Wednesday’s Results

American League Rangers 7, Rays 1 Twins 2, Blue Jays 0

National League Diamondbacks 5, Brewers 2 Phillies 7, Marlins 1

Tuesday’s Results

Russia, in red, facing Germany in a UEFA under-17 qualifier in October 2021. Six months later, Russian teams were banned from European soccer.

The decisions by UEFA, and now FIFA, carry risk. The idea of a possible return to the field for Russia has been met with a furious reaction from the federations in their member countries, including more

Texas Rangers at Baltimore Orioles (TBD, FOX/FS1)

Minnesota Twins at Houston Astros (TBD, FOX/FS1)

American League Rangers 4, Rays 0 Twins 3, Blue Jays 1

National League Diamondbacks 6, Brewers 3 Phillies 4, Marlins 1

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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

There may be some emotional strain and tension in your world, but this can be remedied when you look at things in perspective. Don’t get weighed down by passing moods that cripple your productivity. Focus on the things that are working well in your life and concentrate your energy on those. Your communication skills and humanitarianism will pull you out of your rut today.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

There may be some emotional strain and tension in your world, but this can be remedied when you look at things in perspective. Don’t get weighed down by passing moods that cripple your productivity. Focus on the things that are working well in your life and concentrate your energy on those. Your communication skills and humanitarianism will pull you out of your rut today.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

This is a great day for you. You may feel like you can exercise more of your freedom. Break any shackles that seem to be holding you back. There’s no reason to feel hindered. Your adventuresome attitude is brave, and there’s a great deal of territory to conquer. Get focused and go. You have the green light.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

You’re in a sticky emotional battle in which someone is trying to twist your words to make you look like the bad guy. As soon as you try to get a project started, someone moves counter to your aims. Perhaps this is all due to a misunderstanding. Take the time to clear the air in all your relationships.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

Friendships go surprisingly well for you now, so look to them for the support you seek. Future plans may be uncertain, so don’t worry about them now. It’s important to bask in each moment and give thanks for every breath. You should feel good, so take aggressive action.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Lessons may come in odd shapes and sizes today, so don’t feel like you need to make immediate sense of every little thing. Instead of overanalyzing everything and becoming paralyzed by the emotions you feel, take decisive action and make mistakes. This is where the lessons come in. Let them teach you what you need to know.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

You’re in for some unexpected surprises, but don’t worry, because most of them will be exciting and welcome. Prepare yourself by being open and accepting of other people and the new situations they bring. The path of least resistance will take you exactly where you need to go. Move toward people who radiate loving, positive energy.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

You may feel like you’re driving on a highway and suddenly all the lanes merge. This bottleneck should cause you tension and difficulty. Your first reaction may be to let all the other people go by. Keep in mind that on a day like this, you’ll never get where you need to be unless you’re more aggressive.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

You’ll be at an advantage if you can learn to distance yourself from the emotional crux of the matter. Maintain a neutral viewpoint. It will be important in order for you to conduct yourself in the way you need to in order to be successful. Great flashes of inspiration result as long as you can keep your mental processes running smoothly.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

You may feel like a mouse trying to get the cheese in the middle of the kitchen floor. From your corner, you can see the cheese in the distance. Yet you know a cat lurks nearby. As soon as you step into the open and out of your protected spot, the cat will react quickly and with great force. You might just want to wait until another day before grabbing the cheese.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

You may feel like a mouse trying to get the cheese in the middle of the kitchen floor. From your corner, you can see the cheese in the distance. Yet you know a cat lurks nearby. As soon as you step into the open and out of your protected spot, the cat will react quickly and with great force. You might just want to wait until another day before grabbing the cheese.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

Add a bit of spice in your life by engaging in spontaneous activities. It’s time to get out and enjoy more of the world. Explore those things that are inherently different from what you’d expect to find. Pick the closed door instead of the open one through which you can see to the other side.

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