Tuesday Nov 1, 2022

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Morovis mayor takes complaint against PRASA to Congress

By THE STAR STAFF

Morovis

Mayor Carmen Maldonado González an

nounced Monday that the municipal administration she leads is taking to the U.S. Congress the claim of its citizens to have the right to drinking water for which they pay every month to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), a public corporation that the mayor said has been highly negligent in assuming its responsibility and for which it is the subject of a lawsuit at the federal level.

“[On Monday, I sent] a letter to Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, as well as to Joe Manchin III, his counterpart on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, informing them of the situation and requesting their help,” Maldonado González said. “Last February we had already asked Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia to declare a state of emergency in Morovis in order to have access to government resources to address this situation, but to this day the request has been ignored.”

“We have 11 neighborhoods without drinking water service. This situation has been going on for years and that is why the lawsuit we filed against PRASA in the federal court on behalf of all moroveños is still ongoing,” the mayor said.

The letter is also copied to Puerto Rican congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.).

The letter details that the administration of the Munici pality of Morovis requests the prompt intervention of the U.S. Congress in the face of a vital situation that affects citizens on a daily basis, endangering the lives of young children, the elderly and bedridden patients, among others.

It is also noted that the population has been suffering

for years due to the scarcity of the vital drinking water service and that PRASA continues to fail to comply with its duties and responsibilities with respect to the Municipality of Morovis, as well as other municipalities in Puerto Rico. It is added that PRASA has failed to comply with its legal duty as established in Article 4 of Act No. 40 of May 1, 1945.

The request for a declaration of emergency made to the governor last February sought from the president of the United States all types of federal aid available under current federal legislation, called on the governor to accept such aid and send it to the Municipality of Morovis and on PRASA to address the crisis. It also requested the coordination, implementation and administration of a plan and program for emergency management, in coordination with PRASA and the municipal administration, to make the allocation of funds, resources and personnel, as allowed by the American Recovery Plan Act and the State and Local Recovery and Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds program, available for water, sewer and infrastructure; to improve access to potable water; to support water and storm water infrastructure; and to expand access to water services in the municipality

The letter further states that the Municipality of Morovis has approved several declarations of emergency to address the water service crisis. However, municipal resources are not sufficient, added to the fact that it is not the entity with the legal responsibility to supply water through the PRASA system.

“Among other issues, we have created programs to help our population. We also help the schools and their students,” the mayor said. “We are constantly delivering water, in tanker trucks, to practically the entire population of Morovis. Certainly, there are sectors of Morovis that are so far away that it is very difficult to transport water to them daily in tanker trucks.”

The letter further states that the current government ad ministration has not taken any significant steps to improve the situation and that the residents of the municipality are victims whose rights are being violated.

Maldonado González also pointed out that the situation is unsustainable and that all socioeconomic sectors are affected by PRASA’s negligence.

“It is causing the suffering of approximately 32,000 residents, including more than 3,200 public school students, more than 200 bedridden patients and our elderly population,” she said. “Other municipalities near Morovis, such as Ciales, Vega Baja, Vega Alta, Manatí and Orocovis, also suffer from this situation. That is why in the letter we respectfully request the prompt intervention of the U.S. Senate and House natural resources committees to investigate this situation and help us. We also want the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to approve a declaration of emergency in Morovis and other municipalities, due to the lack of vital drinking water service and the crisis in the infrastructure of the PRASA system.”

Maldonado González

Ex-senator: Senate VP’s remarks during Natural Resources confirmation hearing smack of illegality

By THE STAR STAFF

Formersenator Nelson Cruz Santiago lashed out against Senate Vice President Mariallys González Huertas on Monday for conditioning her vote to confirm interim Natural and Environmental Resources Secretary Anaís Ro dríguez Vega on the granting of permits to a Jayuya company where a close relative works.

González Huertas made her remarks conditioning her vote last week at a public hearing, Cruz Santiago said. The former NPP senator said González Huertas’ remarks border on what may be deemed illegal.

“The mayor of Jayuya, who is her father, and who in fact is already on his way out, has interests in an asphalt company and that is why the senator is seeking the approval of the corresponding permits,” the former legislator said in a radio interview (Red Informativa). “The audio is available if it has not been deleted by the Senate.”

Cruz Santiago, a natural resources watchdog, called on the interim head of the DNER to file an ethics complaint in the event that she felt “threatened or intimidated by the public request.”

Also, Cruz Santiago asked Rodríguez Vega to confirm or deny whether last Wednesday night she received a call from

the senator on her personal cell phone asking her what she was going to do with the controversial permit.

Rodríguez Vega acknowledged last week in the middle of a public hearing that she faced an avalanche of requests from different senators during the public hearing of the Senate Appointments Committee, which is evaluating her appointment to the position. But she was not categorical in confirming if the request of the current vice president of the

Senate was one of them.

González Huertas rejected the allegations later on Monday, stating that it was “very unfortunate and shameful that in the desperation of some political aspirants they resort to lies or that their ignorance does not allow them to even see the truth.”

“The personal attacks of the defeated former senator Nelson Cruz are unfounded and lack truth,” she said. “In addition, they denote total ignorance of the projects and the needs of the district of Ponce and the south.”

González Huertas said that during Rodríguez Vega’s confirmation hearing she asked a series of questions about the status of various projects in several municipalities in the district, including: Lajas, Ponce, Sabana Grande and Jayuya, and about the payment of guards for extra hours worked in the aftermath of the 2019-2020 earthquakes.

“I have to tell Mr. Cruz that I represent my 13 mu nicipalities with dignity and that Jayuya will not be the exception,” she said. “The Jayuyan constituents trusted this [public] servant to serve as their senator in these four years. The municipal project of which he shows total ignorance is extremely necessary to improve the quality of life of our people. And I can’t have people like [him] walking around spinning yarns.”

PR Supreme Court upholds gun law

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court on Monday overturned a Court of Appeals ruling in a case seeking to declare unconstitutional Article 5.04 of the Puerto Rico Weap ons Law of 2000 on the carrying, transportation or use of firearms without a license.

The ruling upholds a law restricting gun owners from carrying weapons whose license is expired.

“Accordingly, we conclude that the article under consid eration herein is constitutional under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, supra. The Court of Appeals therefore erred in ruling otherwise,” read the ruling signed by Associate Justice Ángel Colón Pérez. “For the reasons set forth above, we revoke the determination of the Court of Appeals that declared unconditional Article 5.04 of the Puerto Rico Weapons Law of 2000, supra.”

The case originated when in the months of December 2015 and January 2016, the commonwealth prosecutor filed complaints against Luis Rivera Carballo, Alvin Rodrí guez Rodríguez and Roberto Rodríguez López for violation of Articles 5.01 (manufacture, import, and distribution of

arms), 5.04 (carrying and use of firearms without a license) and 6.01 (manufacture, distribution, possession and use of ammunition) of the Puerto Rico Weapons Law of 2000.

After the hearing, the Superior Court determined prob able cause for their arrest for the offenses charged in the complaints.

Rodríguez López presented before the primary forum an urgent motion involving the fundamental right of all citizens to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and the right to the due process of law outlined in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and requesting that the Puerto Rico Weapons Law be declared unconstitutional.

The Weapons Law declared constitutional said that in the case of a person who is transporting or carrying a firearm that is registered in his name that is expired, is not charged with the commission of any felony involving the use of violence, is not charged with the commission of a less serious offense involving the use of violence and the firearm transported or carried is not altered or mutilated, such person, at the discretion of the court, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000 or imprisonment not exceeding six months.

Interim Natural and Environmental Resources Secretary Anaís Rodríguez Vega

Digital tool finds ‘red flags’ in over 69,000 gov’t contracts

By THE STAR STAFF

Anewversion of the “Contratos En Ley” digital tool that evaluates government contracting in Puerto Rico found that there are more than 69,000 public contracts with “red flags” that could represent a possible risk of corruption or inefficiencies.

The three red flags detected by the tool are political donor contractors, corporations with less than 24 months of incorporation contracted for more than $250,000, and contracts whose amendments increase the original amount by more than 30%.

Although each red flag in itself does not necessarily point to corruption, it does raise potential red flags in a preventive manner. From 2015 to August of this year, in estimat ed figures, the tool detected, among others, 29,887 contracts to political donors in excess of $3.1 billion. It also found 558 contracts over $250,000 awarded to corporations less than 24 months incorporated. Those are primarily LLCs and have contracts for $6.7 billion, representing 14.7% of the total funds awarded to corporate

contractors.

“Contratos en Ley” also found 43,326 contracts with a high number of amendments. These contracts represent 48% of the contracts with amendments, totaling more than $48 billion (sum of contracts and amendments).

“The red flags tool is part of Contratos En Ley and is available for entities, journalists, and citizens who wish to know about and moni

tor the use of public funds to achieve greater transparency of transactions in government and avoid corruption,” said Issel Masses, director of the nonprofit organization Sembrando Sentido, which developed the platform.

Masses said Contratos En Ley’s red flag system was inspired by the methodology de veloped by the international Open Contracting Partnership, which draws on studies on patterns of corruption and suspicious behavior in gov ernment contracting.

Identifying a “red flag” does not mean a risk of corruption, but rather invites a more indepth evaluation of the highlighted process and the related context to confirm that there is no real risk. In cases where it is determined that a real risk exists, Masses pointed out, by raising the flag in a preventive manner the contract in question can be addressed promptly to prevent the risk from becoming a reality and public funds from being diverted or lost.

Although the three flags raised only apply to 12% of all contracts, “these represent a few flags out of 90 [recognized] internationally,” Masses said. “Increased government trans

parency allows more risks to be monitored in a preventive manner, protecting the people’s resources in real time.”

The Sembrando Sentido director stated that “the government often contracts with third parties to provide essential products and services, from electricity to transportation. This represents 30% to 50% of the public budget.”

“Contracting processes are complex and contain contradictions and gaps,” she said. “Strengthening these contracting processes could generate large savings, improvements in the quality of services, and greater competition. Our organization’s mission is to contribute to transparency and prevent corruption. We urge citizens, in general, to be vigilant in their oversight and be part of the solution.”

Sembrando Sentido presented this year the first “Evaluation of Public Contracting Processes in Puerto Rico,” a study that revealed numerous weaknesses in current contracting processes that expose the island Treasury to losses of up to $3.1 billion annually and the people to poor results in essential services. The study is available at contratosenley.org.

By THE STAR STAFF

Agriculture

Secretary Ramón González Beiró an

nounced Monday that the application period for the Emergency Program and the Regional Incentives and Investments Program has been extended through the eight agricultural regions in an effort to mitigate agricultural damages and promote continued production.

The deadline will be Nov. 18, and $2 million has been allocated to date.

“For the first time, the Department offers an Emergency Program as comprehensive as this and that includes small farmers,” González Beiró said. “The aid is there, we just need them to apply.”

The official also emphasized that he is working to obtain

even more aid with the goal of increasing production and that all components of the agricultural sector will receive the same aid, from the smallest to the largest.

The Emergency Programs, which provide up to a maximum of $10,000 per farmer, are for the leasing of agricultural machinery, so that they can restore access to farms, conduct activities such as cleaning of debris, plow ing, drainage, and construction and reconstruction of speed bumps, among others.

The Incentive Program is for agroecological and/or organic farmers, hydroponic and landscaping industry and nursery farmers, and for those who do not have an insurance policy with the Agricultural Insurance Corp., whose subsidy is up to $5,000 per farmer.

Also available is the Emergency Program to Promote Bee Production, which is initially distributing 600 boxes to existing farmers and vouchers so that they can purchase supplements and sugar.

The Agriculture secretary emphasized that the availabil ity of the Emergency Loan Financing Program, which will be granted through the Agricultural Development Innovation Fund (FIDA by its Spanish initials), was recently announced. This financing is aimed at individual farmers, agribusinesses, agricultural cooperatives and value-added companies.

The loan is from $5,000 to $300,000, at an interest rate of four percent. It can be used for items covered by the

Emergency Program for Investments, Equipment, Works and Permanent Improvements and other emergency assistance granted by the agricultural regions.

It can also be used for operating capital, purchase of inputs, rehabilitation of structures, non-incentivized equip ment and inventory of seeds and animals.

To apply for the loan assistance, farmers must go to one of the eight agricultural regions: Utuado, Lares, Mayagüez, San Germán, Caguas, Naranjito, Ponce or Arecibo. Office hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Issel Masses, director of the nonprofit organization Sembrando Sentido.

Ramón González

Igartúa: Getting island certified as an incorporated territory would be step toward statehood

By THE STAR STAFF

Becauseof congressional inaction in approving status legislation for Puerto Rico, pro-statehood lawyer Gregorio Igartúa has asked the island government to drop the idea of a status vote and asked Congress to certify the island as an incor porated territory.

Igartúa in an interview with the STAR said he made the suggestion in a letter to La Fortaleza adviser Isaías Sánchez. The letter states that incorporation is a step closer to statehood.

An incorporated state is one in which a portion of the domain of the U.S. that does not constitute and is not a part of any state but that is considered a part of the U.S. proper and is entitled to all the benefits of the Constitution that are not specifically reserved to the states.

The pro-statehood lawyer noted certain historical facts, including that there is no support in Congress for a status plebiscite and that the legislation does not guarantee an electoral majority.

In May, a group of U.S. lawmakers un veiled the Puerto Rico Status Act discussion

draft legislation, a consensus bill between Democrats and Republicans on how to deal with the U.S. commonwealth status.

If eventually passed in the U.S. House and Senate, the Puerto Rico Status Act would create and fund a process for Puerto Ricans to participate in a binding vote to

determine the island’s political relationship with the U.S.

The ballot would not include the current commonwealth status, according to the draft. Voters would instead choose between three options: statehood, sover eignty in free association with the U.S.,

and independence.

Under the legislation, Puerto Ricans would maintain their U.S. citizenship un der all options for at least one generation. Those born after Puerto Rico becomes in dependent or a freely associated state will not be U.S. citizens. If Puerto Rico chooses statehood, the U.S. will begin the process of admitting it as the nation’s 51st state, the draft says. If the island chooses free asso ciation, it will be independent but share some agreed-upon functions with the U.S. government. If it chooses independence, it will be a sovereign nation.

The chances of territorial incorporation for Puerto Rico are higher than statehood, Igartúa said. He noted that federal judge Gustavo Gelpí in the Consejo de Salud ruled that Puerto Rico was an incorporated territory, which Congress can’t deny be cause all of the elements for incorporation are present.

Igartúa also noted that recently the Supreme Court declined to hear a case that sought to reverse the precedent set by the insular cases, a series of cases from the early 20th century that justify treating Puerto Rico differently from the states.

Top cop: You’d have to be inside a murderer’s head to prevent stalking killings

By THE STAR STAFF

Six of the eight homicides that occurred over the past weekend were committed by perpetrators who stalked their victim and were related to drug trafficking, a sit uation that is impossible for police to prevent, Police Com missioner Antonio López Figueroa said Monday.

“Those are stalking deaths. You have to be in a person’s psyche to know if he or she is going to commit the crime of murder or not,” López Figueroa said at a press conference. “They are people who expect the victim to be vulnerable because he has been hired to be able to kill that individual.”

of Special Operations and the Assistant Superintendence of Criminal Investigations,” the police commissioner added.

“These teams join to work together to solve [the killings] and go after those individuals that we know firsthand were involved in that incident, either by drugs or by firearms.”

López Figueroa said that both for Halloween and the previous weekend, the interventions by the Highway Patrol Division, the investigative branch, have increased with the establishment of 12-hour shifts, and operations conducted in conjunction with the Department of Treasury and directed toward preventing violent activities.

Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa

“These murders are linked to drug trafficking. As soon as the murder occurs, we make investigative groups with all the units of the new division of Assistant Superintendence

The police chief’s comments came at the end of a meeting at La Fortaleza with Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and the sec retaries of Public Safety, Alexis Torres, and Justice, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández.

Pro-statehood attorney Gregorio Igartúa

Senate control hinges on neck-and-neck races, Times/Siena poll finds

By LISA LERER and RUTH IGIELNIK

Controlof the Senate rests on a knife’s edge, accor ding to new polls by The New York Times and Siena College, with Republican challengers in Nevada and Georgia neck-and-neck with Democratic incumbents, and the Democratic candidate in Pennsylvania clinging to what appears to be a tenuous advantage.

The bright spot for Democrats in the four key states polled was in Arizona, where Sen. Mark Kelly is holding a small but steady lead over his Republican challenger, Blake Masters.

The results indicate a deeply volatile and unpredicta ble Senate contest: More people across three of the states surveyed said they wanted Republicans to gain control of the Senate, but they preferred the individual Democratic candidates in their states — a sign that Republicans may be hampered by the shortcomings of their nominees.

Midterm elections are typically referendums on the party in power, and Democrats must defy decades of that political history to win control of the Senate, an outcome that has not completely slipped out of the party’s grasp according to the findings of the Times/Siena surveys. Democrats control the 50-50 Senate with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaking vote. To gain the majority, Republicans need to gain just one seat.

The polls surveyed likely voters across four key Se nate races: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Kelly, the Democratic incumbent in Arizona, holds the biggest lead, ahead of Masters by a 51% to 45% margin. Nevada is the tightest of the races, with the Democratic incumbent, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, and her Repu blican challenger, Adam Laxalt, locked in a dead-heat at 47%. In Georgia, Sen. Raphael Warnock leads narrowly in a tight race over his Republican opponent, Herschel Walker, at 49% to 46%.

In Pennsylvania, voters were about evenly divided on which party they wanted to control the Senate. But Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a Democrat, is up slightly against Mehmet Oz, the former television host, by a 49% to 44% margin for an open seat held by a retiring Republican.

Fetterman’s performance last week, however, in the race’s sole debate — the first opportunity for many voters to see and hear the candidate after he had a stroke five months ago — may have affected his support.

The Pennsylvania poll was largely conducted be fore the debate, with only one night of interviews made afterward. In calls made Wednesday, the night after the matchup, a plurality of voters said Fetterman was not healthy enough to do the job — though Fetterman still maintained a slight lead over Oz among all Wednesday respondents. That was a shift from the previous two eve nings, when majorities rated him as sufficiently well to serve in the Senate.

Overall, a little over one-third say he is not healthy enough to perform the duties of the job. Among Repu

Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz speaks at a rally held by former President Donald Trump in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. on Sept. 3, 2022. The contests are close in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Many voters want Republicans to flip the Senate, but prefer the Democrat in their state.

mocrats’ reach, a central question for the party is whether the extraordinary environment can help it maintain some hold on congressional control. The president’s party has lost seats in every midterm since the Bush administration in 2002.

For Democrats, much of their success will depend on whether their Senate candidates can continue to rise above President Joe Biden’s low approval ratings and the national environment. Biden’s standing is at or below his national average in the four states, with the president at 36% in Arizona, 38% in Nevada, 39% in Georgia and 42% in Pennsylvania.

In Georgia, where Warnock is up against Walker by a narrow 3-point lead, Walker has faced accusations from two ex-girlfriends that he pressured them to get abortions. The former football star denies the claims.

On the question of character, voters side with War nock, bolstering the Democrat’s strength in a politically divided state.

blicans, a majority — 71% — have concerns about his health while a majority of Democrats — 83% — say he is healthy enough to do the job.

Teresa Harry, an independent voter from York, Penn sylvania, said she was planning to support Fetterman, but said the debate had raised some questions for her.

“Because he had a stroke he really couldn’t get his answers completely out the way he wanted to, so it makes me a little bit concerned to see if he’s going to be able to do the job,” she said.

But Harry, who is disabled and lives with her 80-yearold mother, is worried that Oz could cut Medicare and Social Security benefits: “It’s just scary out there, and I think Oz would be against us.”

Gregory Wagner, 65, a Republican project engineer from Quakertown, Pennsylvania, said he was crossing partisan lines to support Fetterman because he dislikes Oz. He disagrees with the Republican candidate’s stance on abortion rights and his support for former President Donald Trump. And he said he was not concerned about Fetterman’s health.

“My best friend had a stroke and is now perfectly fine,” Wagner said. “Everybody needs a chance to heal, and him just having it during his campaign, he’s come back pretty quick.”

The midterms are unfolding in an unprecedented political climate, representing the first national assessment since the pandemic subsided, after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and in a post-Roe environment. While Republicans benefit from a host of factors — a jittery eco nomy, high inflation, worries about crime — the debate over abortion rights and concerns about gun violence have allowed Democrats to cling to some advantage in the Senate race.

With the House appearing to be slipping out of De

Nearly half of all Georgia voters view Warnock as more honest and trustworthy, while 37% of voters rate Walker the same. About a quarter of Mr. Walker’s voters view his opponent as more trustworthy or are not sure which candidate is more trustworthy, yet still plan to support him. Roughly 1 in 10 Georgia voters view both candidates unfavorably. Walker is winning among that group.

Peter Strangis, 41, an independent voter from Atlanta, said he did not really trust either candidate, but added that he was planning to vote for Walker.

“Herschel is a former college football player and I don’t know if he’s ever read a book before, and Raphael Warnock doesn’t have any of his own original thoughts — I don’t know what to say,” said Strangis, who works in sales. “Voting for them is like choosing between broccoli and cauliflower.”

As surveys have shown for several weeks, voters remain more focused on problems like inflation and jobs than social issues. In three of the four states, about half of voters said economic issues were more important to deciding their vote for Congress, compared with about one-third who pointed to social issues. Voters who are more focused on the economy are flocking toward Repu blicans, while Democrats take a majority of voters who are mainly voting on social issues.

Yared Assefa, a trucker from Las Vegas, voted for Biden two years ago, largely because he disliked Trump. This year, he plans to cast his ballot for Laxalt, the Re publican Senate candidate and a former state attorney general, citing economic concerns and gas prices.

“I voted for him because of the behaviors and actions of the previous president — since then, everything is going up,” Assefa, a Democrat, said of Biden. “The fuel price is at a position where it’s about to run us out of business. It has gone up so high, and that needs to stop. I believe it’s only the Republicans that can help do that.”

Pelosi, vilified by Republicans for years, is a top target of threats

rates across the country that the party has made a centerpiece of its campaign message before the midterm elections that are just days away.

“You can’t say people saying, ‘Let’s fire Pelosi’ or ‘Let’s take back the House’ is saying, ‘Go do violence.’ It’s just un fair,” Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “And I think we all need to recognize violence is up across the board.”

punishable by death, is what treason is.” She liked a Facebook post that advocated “a bullet to the head” for Pelosi, according to posts unearthed by CNN.

(When it surfaced, Greene claimed that not all of her Facebook likes had been by her or reflected her views.)

By ANNIE KARNI, CATIE EDMONDSON and CARL HULSE

In 2006, as Nancy Pelosi was poised to become the first female speaker of the House, Republicans made a film spoof that portrayed an evil Democratic empire led by “Darth Nancy.”

In 2009, the Republican National Committee ran an advertisement featuring Pelosi’s face framed by the barrel of a gun — complete with the sound of a bullet firing as red bled down the screen — a takeoff on the James Bond film “Gold finger” in which the woman second in line to the presidency was cast as Pussy Galore.

This year, a Republican running in the primary for Senate in Arizona aired an ad showing him in a spaghetti western-style duel with Democrats, in which he shoots at a knife-wielding, mask-wearing, bug-eyed woman labeled “Crazyface Pelosi.”

The name echoed former President Donald Trump’s many derisive monikers for Pelosi, including “Crazy Nancy.”

The attack on Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, on Friday, which left him with a fractured skull and appeared to be part of a planned attack on the speaker herself, came after a yearslong campaign by Republicans to demonize and dehumanize Nancy Pelosi in increasingly ugly ways.

For the better part of two decades, Republicans have targeted Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American poli tics, as the most sinister Democratic villain of all, making her the evil star of their advertisements and fundraising appeals in hopes of animating their core supporters. The language and images have helped to fuel the flames of anger at Pelosi on the right, fanned increasingly in recent years by a toxic stew of conspiracy theories and misinformation that has thrived on the internet and social media, with little pushback from elected Republicans.

Pelosi is now one of the most threatened members of Congress in the country.

After the grisly assault on Paul Pelosi, 82, many Republican lawmakers and leaders denounced the violence, but hardly any spoke out against the brutal political discourse that has given rise to an unprecedented wave of threats against elected officials. Most instead tried to link the incident to rising crime

Yet it is clear that the targeting of Nancy Pelosi, who was not at home during the attack, was not random violence. The suspect, David DePape, 42, who is accused of yelling “Where is Nancy?” after entering the couple’s home, had zip ties with him when he entered the home, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. He appears to have been obsessed with right-wing conspiracy theories, including false claims about the 2020 election being stolen and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, as well as concerns about pedophilia, anti-white racism and “elite” control of the internet. Pelosi in recent years has been a leading character in such viral falsehoods about Democratic misdeeds, including QAnon, and Republican lead ers have blamed her groundlessly for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

“How did he get to that point?” said Mona Lena Krook, a professor of political science at Rutgers University who began studying violence against women in politics in 2014, referring to the suspect. “This has to do with things that he sees in the media, things he sees on social media, the people he socializes with that he felt like it was necessary and justified to attack her.”

As a wealthy woman from the progressive bastion of San Francisco, and her party’s leader in the House for 20 years, Pelosi has long represented a singular target for her political opponents.

“It is gender. It is class. The whole idea of a wealthy San Francisco liberal woman. The whole package is there,” said David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist and former top adviser to President Barack Obama. “The difference is what began as a way to raise money and gin up turnout has now become a much more deadly game.”

Even in 2012, when Pelosi served as minority leader, wielding less power than Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Demo cratic majority leader at the time, Republican television ads were six times more likely to mention Pelosi than to mention Reid, according to the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising.

As she has risen in prominence, Pelosi has become a more frequent target. Since 2018, Republicans have spent more than $227 million on advertisements featuring her, according to data provided by AdImpact, an organization that tracks po litical advertisements. They aired nearly 530,000 times. This year alone, Republicans poured more than $61 million into advertisements featuring Pelosi that aired about 143,000 times.

The efforts to vilify Pelosi have yielded mixed political results; Democrats managed to win the House majority twice as attacks against her surged over the past 16 years.

But they have persisted, even as Pelosi has become a reviled figure in the far-right reaches of the internet and social media platforms. Before taking office, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who at the time openly embraced QAnon, claimed that Pelosi was “guilty of treason,” adding, “it’s a crime

Such statements have brought no consequences from Republican leaders. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the minor ity leader, rebuked Greene for the comments but declined to punish her, instead elevating her within his conference.

When asked to address it in an interview on Breitbart radio on Friday, McCarthy called it “wrong” and condemned political violence, noting that he had reached out to Pelosi with a text message.

For those close to Pelosi, the attack at her home was something they have long dreaded. Few lawmakers have been targeted and threatened as routinely as Pelosi, according to a review by The New York Times of people charged with threaten ing lawmakers since 2016, which found the speaker was the target of more than 1 in 10. Threats that were serious enough to result in criminal charges appeared to spike after the 2020 presidential election and through January 2021, around the time of the attack on the Capitol and President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

But Republicans have been taking aim at Pelosi for far longer. In 2010, John Dennis, who challenged Pelosi in her reelection race, circulated a campaign advertisement in which an actor playing Pelosi was presiding over an animal sacrifice, and another that depicted her as a wicked witch from “The Wizard of Oz.” In the ad, Dennis threw a bucket of water labeled “freedom” to melt her away.

The vilification of Pelosi increased in recent years, when she emerged as the Democrats’ most potent foil to Trump. Where the left turned her into a sunglasses-wearing icon, Trump branded her “crazy as a bedbug,” and circulated a photograph of her telling him off at the White House, branding her “Nervous Nancy” and accusing her of having an “unhinged meltdown.”

Pelosi for years has shrugged off the attacks, character izing them as a badge of honor.

“If I weren’t effective, I wouldn’t be a target,” Pelosi told Time magazine in 2018.

“She would flick at her shoulder and say, ‘It is just dust on my jacket,’” said Brendan Daly, a former spokesperson. “I think she would always take it as a point of pride.”

But in a letter to her colleagues Saturday, the speaker said she and her family were “heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack” on her husband.

Pelosi has usually taken the vitriol aimed at her in stride. She understood when Democratic candidates had to distance themselves from her to win elections and has internalized the attacks as part of her political identity, people close to her said.

When Biden addressed House Democrats in March at their retreat in Philadelphia, he lamented the abuse he receives across the country, including signs that address him with an expletive. “Little kids giving me the finger,” Biden said. “You guys probably don’t get that kind of response when you go out some places.”

Pelosi interjected, “I do.”

The crowd chuckled.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) walks to a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 8, 2021.

Legal abortions fell around 6% in two months after end of Roe

By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

In the first two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, legal abortions nationwide declined by more than 10,000, a drop of about 6%, according to the first attempt at a nationwide count of abortions since the decision.

Thirteen states banned or severely res tricted abortion during those months, mostly in the South, and legal abortions in those states fell to close to zero, according to detailed es timates made by a consortium of academics and abortion providers. Nine more states added major abortion restrictions, and legal abortions in those states fell by one-third. In states with bans and restrictions, there were about 22,000 fewer abortions in July and August, compared with the baseline of April, before the decision.

In states where abortion remained legal, the number of abortions increased by roughly 12,000, or 11%. That suggests that around half of women who were unable to get abortions in states with bans traveled to another state to get one.

But even with those increases, thousands of abortions appear to have been prevented by the new state laws.

Dr. Alison Norris, a professor of epi demiology at Ohio State and a co-author of the report, called the decline “a shock to the system.”

The data comes from a new organization called WeCount, which is led by the Society of Family Planning, a group that supports abor tion rights. It is collecting abortion data from clinics, hospitals and telemedicine providers across the United States. It obtained detailed abortion counts from 79% of the nation’s abortion providers, which were responsible for 82% of all abortions before the court’s Dobbs decision. Researchers used adjustments based on state data and time trends to estimate the missing data.

The total decrease in abortions is likely to be lower than the cited estimate because the data does not include abortions outside the regulated U.S. health system, including so-called self-managed abortions that do not involve a medical provider. A growing number of women have been ordering abortion pills online from overseas providers or obtaining them from Mexico, where a pill that can end a pregnancy early in gestation is available over the counter as an ulcer medicine. Some wo

men might also have turned to herbs or other methods to end pregnancies.

“We are celebrating the fact that at least 10,000 babies have a chance at life,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of the anti-abortion group Students for Life.

“It’s a sign of course correction and of ordinary Americans finally having a say in how many lives are tragically lost to the tragedy of abortion,” she said.

Detailed information about how many abortions are performed in the United States has typically taken years to collect and publish. WeCount was created to provide more realtime data from a more comprehensive group of providers.

Because the WeCount data is new, it cannot compare abortion numbers from this past summer to those from the summer of 2021. Studies suggest that abortion typically follows a seasonal pattern, peaking in February and March before declining in summer months. Some of the measured decline may also reflect such trends.

The changes were calculated by compa ring the number of legal abortions in the months after the decision with the number of abortions provided in April. At that time, Texas had already imposed a major abortion restriction, and an abortion was difficult to get in other states, but it was still legal in all 50 states.

WeCount also found that abortions na tionwide increased in the two-month period after the draft of the Supreme Court decision was leaked but before Roe was overturned, perhaps indicating that some women were seeking abortions earlier in pregnancy than they might have otherwise, or that clinics were expanding capacity in preparation for bans.

Studies of previous abortion restrictions have shown that although some women without access to a nearby clinic travel long distances to obtain abortions, many do not. The typical abortion patient is poor, unmarried and a mother. And the women who are most affected by bans are those who struggle with the cost and logistical challenges of interstate travel, including transportation, lodging, child care and time off work.

“Some of these states where abortion was banned — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, for example — are some of the poorest states in our country, and people would have to cross multiple state lines to get to another state where abortion remains legal,” said Kari White, who studies reproductive health at the University of

Texas at Austin and is on WeCount’s research committee. “Even for the people who make it to another state, this is a hardship.”

Since the Supreme Court ruling, a growing network of nonprofit groups has raised money to help women seeking abortion with travel and logistical costs. The WeCount data suggests that, even with these efforts, many women who might have had abortions if they were available nearby did not obtain them in other states.

The state with the largest decline in legal abortions was Texas — there were 2,770 abor tions in April, and by August, there were fewer than a dozen. Texas, the second-most populous

state, moved quickly to ban abortion after the court ruling. Abortions in the state had already been limited by an earlier state law prohibiting them after around six weeks, when fetal cardiac activity can be first detected.

Before the decision overturning Roe, many Texas women found another way to ob tain an abortion, either through travel — nearly half went to Oklahoma — or by ordering pills from another country online. But since June, Oklahoma and other neighboring states have also banned abortions. The nearest states for Texans seeking abortions are New Mexico, Kansas and Colorado — in many cases requiring drives of 10 hours or more.

A volunteer with Midwest Access Coalition driving from St. Louis over the state border to Illinois this summer. Abortion is now banned in Missouri, but volunteers help drive women across the Mississippi River to Illinois, where it remains legal.

Can Elon Musk make the math work on owning Twitter? It’s dicey.

By LAUREN HIRSCH

Nowthat Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion deal for Twitter, let’s walk through the math of owning the social media company.

It’s not just an academic exercise. Musk’s ability to make the numbers work will have a direct impact on the health of a servi ce called the world’s town square, determi ning what direction he takes the business and the platform. If the financial case is grim, any plans to invest in Twitter may have to take a back seat to simply paying the bills.

The numbers are already daunting. The $44 billion acquisition was the largest levera ged buyout of a technology company in his tory. To do the deal, Musk, the world’s richest man, loaded about $13 billion in debt on the company, which had not turned a profit for eight of the past 10 years. The deal was inked before the global economy looked to be headed toward a recession as interest rates surged higher. And digital advertising, which makes up 90% of Twitter’s revenue, has been falling at social media companies.

“Technology companies should be left with enough flexibility to pay for new re search and development and new levels of innovation,” said Drew Pascarella, a senior lecturer of finance at Cornell University who previously worked as a banker advising on acquisitions. This buyout “completely elimi nates flexibility.”

Twitter and a representative for Musk did not respond to requests for comment.

Last year, Twitter’s interest expense was about $50 million. With the new debt taken on in the deal, that will now balloon to about $1 billion a year. Yet the company’s opera tions last year generated about $630 million in cash flow to meet its financial obligations.

That means that Twitter is generating less money per year than what it owes its lenders. The company also does not appear to have a lot of extra cash on hand. While it had about $6 billion in cash before Musk’s buyout, a large portion of that probably went into the cost of closing the acquisition.

That gives Musk little wiggle room, Pascarella said. “They are essentially going to take all the financial resources of the com pany and just pour it into servicing the debt,” he said.

To make ends meet, Musk probably has to slash costs — by a lot. Over the weekend,

he was said to be already moving to do so by ordering job cuts across Twitter. One investor who put less than $1 million in the buyout of the company said he was told by the head of Musk’s family office to expect that around 50% of Twitter’s 7,500 employees would be laid off.

Musk could target many areas of Twitter for layoffs. The company has about $1.2 bi llion in annual sales and marketing expenses, a large portion of which goes to employees’ salaries, benefits and other compensation. But by cutting those costs, he risks getting rid of employees who have relationships with ad vertisers that would be hard to replace.

Then there is the $1.2 billion that Twit ter spends annually on research and develo pment, which also goes mainly to employee compensation. Musk could cut jobs there, too. But he has said he has grand plans for the site, like combating fake accounts and creating new ways to manage content, which require people to develop those tools. The kinds of engineers Musk has said he wants to hire are expensive.

There are other paths to slashing costs — like money spent on rent, data centers and additional expenses, which collectively cost the company more than $1 billion a year but may be harder to quickly shed. Unlike tradi tional targets of leveraged buyouts, Twitter does not clearly have specific businesses to shed or downsize, like a struggling division.

“This has always been the biggest cha llenge of this particular acquisition,” said Eric Talley, a professor of corporate law at Colum bia Law School. “The last thing you want to

do is sell off some integral part of what you need to run Twitter on a profitable basis. And then you’ve essentially tied your hands be hind your back.”

If even cost cuts do not help, Musk may need to raise more money from outside inves tors within a year, Talley said.

Musk already has about $13 billion in debt from lenders, while other investors, like venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and An dreessen Horowitz, chipped in about $7.1 bi llion in cash. Musk was personally responsible for the buyout’s remaining roughly $25 billion, and it remains unclear whether he gathered more investors to help lighten that load.

If Twitter needs more money in a year, finding new investors could be a lot to ask given the economics of the company. Even Musk has conceded that his initial investors in the deal valuing Twitter at $44 billion were “obviously overpaying.” The stocks of many social media companies have tumbled this year as they navigate the same problems as the rest of the economy.

Given his net worth of more than $200 billion, Musk himself could theoretically help cover Twitter’s extra cash needs. He could also try to buy out some of Twitter’s lenders and reduce its debt load.

But most of his wealth is tied up in sha res of his electric vehicle company, Tesla, and its stock has plunged about 40% this year. At one point, Musk tried backing away from buying Twitter, and he may opt not to funnel more money into what would be at least his fifth company.

Putting more money into a leveraged, slow-growth company like Twitter is also not the same as investing in a rapidly growing venture-backed startup like his rocket-making company, SpaceX. The risks are greater at Twitter because the banks doing the lending care only about getting paid their interest on the day it is owed. Unlike, say, a real esta te company, Twitter does not have a large amount of assets to offer lenders as collateral to keep them at bay.

Still, billionaires have sought to prop up beleaguered deals before. Hedge fund mana ger Eddie Lampert sought to rethink the retail industry and spent billions of his own fortune keeping Sears alive after its failed merger with Kmart in the 2000s. Sears filed for bankruptcy in 2018.

And Musk has gone into businesses before that naysayers had said were doomed and proved them wrong, like manufacturing electric cars. Twitter has suffered years of mismanagement, and it may benefit from fi xing its business out of the glare of the public markets. Musk could bring new product ideas and hire engineering experts who might not have wanted to work for Twitter before.

Musk is “a phenomenal capital alloca tor, and I think he’ll make a lot of money in Twitter,” said Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist who was an early Facebook execu tive. “It doesn’t fit my risk profile. But I think he’s going to be very successful.”

Others caution against the ebullience that initially drove investors to Musk’s deal, warning that the lure of tech visionaries can fade with market fortunes, especially as glo bal economic fears have mushroomed in re cent months.

“At the height of a market boom, those appeals work more easily than they do in ti mes like we are presently entering,” said Ro bert Bruner, a professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and author of the book “Deals From Hell.”

Bruner said the worst deals are typica lly struck at the peak of a market — as with Musk’s purchase of Twitter. He offered what he thought could be a worst-case scenario for the company. In that future, Musk would not be able to “get the expenses down to the le vel necessary to cover the debt burden.” That would “slowly erode the company’s equity, and he’s unable to find more equity investors.”

The final outcome? “Slowly, Twitter im plodes,” Bruner said.

Elon Musk’s ability to make the numbers work will have a direct impact on the social media company’s health.

Wall St drops as megacaps weigh amid Fed rate debate

WallStreet’s main indexes fell on Monday, with shares of Apple and other megacaps falling, while investors prepared this week for a massive rate hike from the Federal Reserve and the path to future interest rates. assessed.

The US Fed is set to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, where policymakers are expected to deliver a fourth straight 75-basis point interest rate hike to stave off decades of high inflation.

Communications from Fed officials following the deci sion this week, as well as non-farm payroll data, will pro vide further clues on whether the central bank may ease its aggressive stance on interest rates in the future.

Apple Inc fell 2.1 percent in early trade. A Reuters re port said production of its iPhones could drop by as much as 30% next month due to the tightening of COVID-19 re strictions in China.

Shares of other megacaps including Amazon.com, Google’s owner Alphabet, and Microsoft and Meta Plat forms were down between 0.8% and 3%.

Among the sectors, information technology and com munication services were the major losers with a decline of 1.6% and 1.9%, respectively.

A less hawkish Fed as well as better-than-expected earnings expectations from companies outside the technol ogy sector propelled the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to their sec ond straight week of gains on Friday.

After two consecutive months of decline, both the indi ces are set to register gains in October. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones could see its biggest monthly increase in four decades based on the day’s movement.

“You have a simultaneous convergence of the labor market and the Fed, and so that should make it a very ques tionable market week in terms of direction,” said Peter Car dillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York.

“We’ll hear from Fed Chair Powell on Wednesday and his words probably mean more than his actions. If his tone, if his language starts to moderate somewhat, it will remain positive for stocks.”

Traders are almost equally divided on expectations of the Fed’s short interest rate hike at its next policy meeting, a 50 basis point rate increase from 47.9% in December, ac cording to CME Group’s FedWatch tool.

Along with the Fed, the US midterm elections will also set the tone for the markets in November.

At 10:14 a.m., the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 184.99 points, or 0.56%, at 32,676.81, the S&P 500 was down 33.15 points, or 0.85%, at 3,867.91, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 145.57 points, or 1.31. %, at 10,956.88.

The number of issues declined to a 1.65-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.56-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

The S&P index recorded 10 new 52-week highs and five new lows, while the Nasdaq recorded 63 new highs and 47 new lows.

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Among singles stocks, TuSimple Holdings fell 45% after the trucking firm terminated its chief executive officer.

The US Fed is due to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, where policymakers are expected to secure a fourth straight 75-point interest rate hike to curb decade-high inflation.

Communications from Fed officials after the decision, as well as this week’s nonfarm payrolls data, will offer fur ther clues as to whether the central bank might ease its ag gressive stance on interest rates going forward.

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: ) fell 2.1% in early trading. A Re uters report said production of its iPhones could drop by as much as 30% next month due to tightening of COVID-19 restrictions in China.

Shares of other megacaps including Amazon.com (NASDAQ: ), Google owner Alphabet (NASDAQ: ) and Mi crosoft (NASDAQ: ) and Meta Platforms fell between 0.8% and 3%.

Among the sectors that decreased the most, informa tion technology and communication services decreased by 1.6% and 1.9%, respectively.

Hopes for a less hawkish Fed, as well as better-thanexpected earnings from companies outside the technology sector, led to a second straight week of gains on the stock market and the Nasdaq on Friday.

Russian missile barrage targets Kyiv and other cities

By MARC SANTORA and MATT STEVENS

Russia launched dozens of cruise mis siles at critical infrastructure and oth er targets across Ukraine on Monday, temporarily cutting off water to most of the capital in Moscow’s latest barrage aimed at civilian targets.

Residents of Kyiv, the capital city of more than 2 million people, were directed to wells and emergency water distribution sites, and many lined up with plastic jugs to carry water home as utility crews raced to make repairs. Officials said Monday morn ing that 80% of the capital was without wa ter and that power was also knocked out in parts of Kyiv and other cities.

By Monday evening, water service had been partially restored. Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, said 40% of the city’s resi dents were still without water as of 6 p.m. local time and that work was still under way to restore their supply. Some 270,000 homes remained without power, he added.

Moscow in recent weeks has repeat edly launched strikes aimed at crippling Ukraine’s energy grid. On Monday, an of ficial at Ukraine’s national energy utility, Ukrenergo, said that power stations ap

Local residents return to their work after filling jugs and bottles at a public water well in Kyiv after a Russian missile attack left 80 percent of the city without water on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.

peared again to be a primary target.

Ukraine’s air force said it had shot down 44 out of the more than 50 missiles fired from the Caspian Sea and the Rostov region of western Russia. The claim could not be immediately verified. Strikes hit 10 regions across Ukraine, damaging 18 “ob jects of civilian critical infrastructure,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Thir teen civilians were injured, the Ukrinform

news agency reported.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement that it had taken aim at “the military control and energy systems of Ukraine.”

Local officials in the cities of Zapor izhzhia in the south and Kharkiv in the northeast, and the Cherkasy region in central Ukraine, all reported that Russian strikes had hit critical infrastructure.

It was the third Monday this month that Ukrainians awoke to an aerial assault across many parts of the nation. On Oct. 10, Russian missile and drone attacks de stroyed 30% of Ukraine’s energy infrastruc ture. A week later, a series of drone strikes hit in the heart of the capital and other cit ies around the country.

While Ukraine said it had shot down the vast majority of Russian missiles Mon day, the strikes still managed to inflict dam age on the battered electricity grid — an other sign that, amid setbacks on the front lines, Russia would continue to try to inflict pain on civilians as temperatures drop.

“Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure are terrorism and an attempt to freeze millions of civilians,” Anton Ger ashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, tweeted. “They want to leave people with no light, water and sewage — in winter, in the cold.”

“Instead of fighting on the battlefield, Russia fights civilians,” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on Twitter. “Don’t justify these attacks by calling them a ‘response’. Russia does this because it still has the missiles and the will to kill Ukrai nians.”

At least 140 killed in India as suspension bridge collapses

By SAMEER YASIR

At least 140 people were killed after a century-old pedestrian bridge collapsed in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Sunday eve ning, sending hundreds plunging into the Machchhu River, officials said.

About 350 people were on and around the bridge, a major tourist at traction, at the time of the collapse, said Brijesh Merja, a minister in the Gujarat government. A large number of those who died were children, women and older people, according to officials.

The bridge collapsed four days after it was reopened to the public and about seven months after the start of renova tion work. Built in 1880, during the Vic torian era, it is about 755 feet long.

Video broadcast by local television channels showed people swimming to a portion of the bridge suspended in the water, with more than a dozen strug

gling to cling to the edge as they waited to be rescued. Children and women could be heard crying for help.

Rescue workers scrambled to pull victims from the river. Video footage released by the Gujarat government showed small boats working through the night to help with the search and rescue, and pulling bodies out of the water. The office of the district collector in Morbi, the district where the bridge collapsed, said 170 people had been rescued so far.

The collector’s office said that in ad dition to the national disaster response force, teams from the Indian army, navy and air force were on the way to help with the rescue, which was complicat ed as night had fallen and the river was dark.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is from Gujarat and was in the state for a three-day visit, announced cash com pensation for the families of those killed or injured.

“My heart is with the victims in Mor bi,” Modi said at a public event Monday. “I have rarely felt this kind of pain in my life.”

The bridge was particularly busy over the weekend, as the Hindu festival season drew a larger number of tourists and families to the recently reopened at traction. Local media reports suggested that the bridge was over capacity when it snapped. The Morbi district is home to thousands of factories that make ce ramic tiles, bathroom products and wall clocks, and dozens of migrant factory workers were on the bridge when it fell.

Attention has shifted to whether the private company that runs the bridge and sells tickets for passages across it reopened the span to the public before the holiday season without the proper safety checks. Municipality officials told local news media that the bridge might have been opened without a “fitness certificate.”

State officials said they would inves tigate the matter. Harsh Sanghavi, Gu jarat’s junior minister for home affairs, said criminal cases had been filed in re lation to the collapse, without clarifying who was being booked.

India’s infrastructure has long been marred by safety concerns. Allegations of corruption have also swirled around the huge amounts of money channeled to construction and maintenance, de priving Indians of quality roads and bridges and leading to frequent masscasualty episodes.

Gujarat, which has a population of about 60 million people, is in the mid dle of a harshly fought election season, with a vote for the local government expected in the coming months. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has been at the helm of the state for the past two de cades, and his 12 years as chief minister in Gujarat cemented Modi’s rise to na tional office.

By JACK NICAS

Brazilon Monday woke up to a mo ment that it had long been bracing for.

President Jair Bolsonaro narrowly lost the presidential election to his leftist challenger, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but 12 hours later, he had yet to say anything publicly.

His silence was becoming increas ingly worrying because Bolsonaro, a farright leader often compared to former President Donald Trump, has been warn ing for months that he might not accept defeat, raising concerns about the stabil ity of Latin America’s largest country and one of the world’s biggest democracies.

Bolsonaro has consistently claimed, without evidence, that Brazil’s electronic voting system is rife with fraud and that the left was planning to rig the vote. As a result, millions of his supporters have lost faith in the integrity of their nation’s elec tions, according to polls, and many said publicly that they were prepared to take to the streets at his command.

But in the hours after Bolsonaro’s election loss, Brazil remained relatively calm, aside from the dancing in the streets among da Silva’s joyful supporters.

As of 9 a.m. local time Monday (8 a.m. Eastern time), 13 hours after the race was called, Bolsonaro and his three poli tician sons, who are prolific users of so cial media, had not commented publicly since election results were announced.

Just after 10 p.m. Sunday, the lights were already out at the presidential pal ace and Bolsonaro’s closest aides had left.

Yet in the meantime, some of Bolso naro’s top allies were accepting da Silva’s victory, albeit begrudgingly.

“The dream of freedom of more than 51 million Brazilians lives on,” Carla Zambelli, a far-right member of Congress who has warned of rigged elections for years, posted on Twitter on Sunday night.

“And I PROMISE you, I will be the tough est opposition Lula has ever imagined,” she added, referring to da Silva.

Zambelli is one of Bolsonaro’s most prominent allies in Congress, with mil lions of followers on social media, as well as one of Brazil’s most combative politi cians. A day before the election, she made

headlines for pulling a gun on a supporter of da Silva in São Paulo in a scene cap tured on video. She was not charged.

Many of Bolsonaro’s supporters ap peared less ready to throw in the towel.

Misinformation about potential voter fraud spread rapidly in conserva tive corners of the Brazilian internet in the hours after the election, including unattributed videos that purported to show voting machines malfunctioning and speculation that patterns in the vote returns suggested something was amiss. Brazil’s election officials said there was no evidence of fraud Sunday.

On the streets of some of Brazil’s biggest cities Sunday night, many of Bolsonaro’s supporters also shouted that the election was stolen — and then said they were returning home, dejected, to wait for word from the president.

“I don’t know if my vote was counted nor the votes of the people here,” said Marcelo Costa Andrade, 45, a government worker scrolling through his phone at what he hoped would be a victory party in Bolsonaro’s wealthy beachside neighborhood in Rio de Ja neiro. “I feel robbed.”

But, despite his suspicion that the election might have been stolen, he was preparing to leave. “Now I’ll go home, talk to my family, lean on God and wait for Bolsonaro to say something,” he said.

There were signs, however, that some of Bolsonaro’s supporters were not going to wait for him to speak be fore publicly rejecting the results. In Mato Grosso, the heart of Brazil’s farm ing region, near the center of the coun try, truckers started fires and tried to block parts of a main highway that is a vital link for shipping agricultural goods in the hours after the results were an nounced, according to videos posted on social media and local news reports.

Brazil’s truckers broadly support Bolsonaro and, a year ago, some had

attempted to stop working and block roads in protest of the Brazilian Su preme Court’s efforts to counter some of Bolsonaro’s policies.

And on Monday morning, thou sands of supporters of Bolsonaro joined more than a dozen groups on the mes saging app Telegram that called for “paralyzing” the country to show they would not accept da Silva’s victory.

In a group focused on Rio de Ja neiro, they circulated plans to create a blockade outside one of the nation’s largest oil refineries, just north of the city, on Monday morning. In another group centered on Brasília, the nation’s capital, people posted calls for a mili tary intervention and massive protests in the afternoon.

Adding to some officials’ concerns Monday was that Bolsonaro lost in the narrowest presidential election in the 34 years of Brazil’s modern democracy. Da Silva won by 2.1 million votes, or 1.8 percentage points, in an election where more than 118 million Brazilians voted.

In his acceptance speech Sunday night, da Silva recognized the country’s deep division and said he would seek to unite the nation. “I will govern for 215 million Brazilians, and not just for those who voted for me,” he said. “There are not two Brazils. We are one country, one people, one great nation.”

Da Silva is set to take office Jan. 1.

Young dreams extinguished in the crush of a Halloween crowd in Seoul

By SU-HYUN LEE, JOHN YOON, LUKE VANDER PLOEG and VICTORIA KIM

suburb south of Seoul.

“We were looking for a long time,” her father said. “Too long.”

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girl, three days shy of turning 20, who dreamed of stu dying fashion design. A newlyminted college graduate, just settling into her first real-world job as a consultant. A budding polyglot with a passion for in ternational business, two months into a semester abroad that had been delayed by the pandemic.

As portraits emerged of the 154 people who died in a crowd surge Satur day in the South Korean capital, Seoul, the losses cut deeper because so many were young people on the cusp of a new chapter.

More than 100 of those killed were in their 20s, many excitedly decked out in costume for the first Halloween in full swing since before the pandemic. Five people were high school students, ac cording to the South Korean Education Ministry. One, the ministry said, was in middle school.

The young have always been drawn to Itaewon, Seoul’s most foreign-influen ced neighborhood with a rich fabric of kebab shops, gay bars, taquerias and a mosque — all of which had come to be synonymous with the diversity of the community. The neighborhood’s world wide draw was evident in just how far the tragedy reverberated: among the dead were citizens of Australia, Austria, China, France, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Their lives would come to an end in a narrow, steep alleyway leading from a palm-tree-lined Hawaiian-theme bar past a Japanese izakaya and hip-hop club to the main street.

Adding to the tragedy, many of the victims were contemporaries of the 250 high school sophomores killed in 2014’s Sewol Ferry disaster, the last tragedy of this magnitude in South Korea. They would have been in their early 20s by now.

“My sweet boy, with a full life ahead of him,” Jeong Ae-ja said between wails Sunday afternoon, her knees buckling outside a hospital. An agonizing daylong wait had ended with the unthinkable news that her grandson, Kim Dong-gyu, was among the victims.

In his second year at a technical

high school in Seoul, Kim, 18, had ho pes of landing a coveted job at Samsung Electronics next year, and had promised his grandmother that he would give her pocket money when he did. Even as a student, he would squirrel away cash from part-time jobs and use some of it to lavish his mother and grandmother with clothes.

He was normally a homebody, but had recently shed some of his baby weight after putting in hours at the gym and was set on spending Halloween weekend in Itaewon, his family said. His grandmother, worried about the crowds, tried to dissuade him, but he told her not to worry, she recalled.

“I told him then to immediately head home if there were too many people,” Jeong said.

Park Ga-young, 19, had also been working part time to save up for her dream of studying fashion design in Ca nada.

For Park, a college student who grew up in the rural seaside town of Hong seong in the western part of South Korea, the trip to Seoul was a thrilling getaway to the big city.

She’d last spoken to her mother about her preparations for an even bigger adventure: studying abroad.

“How can I explain it in words?” said her mother, Choi Seon-mi, alternating between blank, numb stares, sobbing over the loss and moments of outrage at the authorities who let such a tragedy

happen.

“She was a beautiful child,” she said, gently cradling a photograph of her daughter in her hands. “She was so very pretty.”

In the same doomed alleyway, Shin Ae-jin, 24, was less than two months into her first job out of college.

Driven and ambitious, she had known what she wanted early on and had joined the business club in college at Korea University. After graduating with a double major in life sciences and busi ness administration, she joined McKinsey & Co.’s Seoul offices as a consultant, fo llowing in the footsteps of her father, a venture capitalist, her family said.

Shin was cheerful and gregarious and was always surrounded by a lot of friends, as well as being a lover of pho tography and travel, her father said. On Saturday, just hours after she had met her parents for coffee, she went out with her new colleagues.

Her father, Shin Jung-seob, had flown to Jeju Island on a business trip, then got a frantic call at 3 a.m. from a co-worker of his daughter’s saying that she was mis sing. In a daze, he got on the first flight back to Seoul, and began going from hospital to hospital with his wife.

The torturous inklings of hope per sisted as they did not initially find her among the list of the dead at each hospi tal. After about a half-dozen stops, howe ver, their search ended tragically when they found her at a hospital in Anyang, a

Noh Eun-seo, a bright 25-year-old college student majoring in tourism ma nagement and business administration, had been just two days away from a big interview.

Monday was her second round with Apple — but the Silicon Valley company would just have been a steppingstone. Her uncle, Noh Joon-tae, said that, be cause she had been the firstborn among her siblings and cousins, her father had wanted her to eventually run his dental technology business. As a backup plan in case she didn’t get the Apple job, her father had taken steps so that his talen ted daughter could go abroad to study English, the uncle said.

As her parents received photograph after photograph from her of the revelry in Itaewon on Saturday night, they did not think to worry about their responsible daughter who was always able to look af ter herself, Noh said.

Then around 10 p.m., the photogra phs stopped, and they could no longer reach her.

Like Noh Eun-seo, Steven Blesi had big designs for his future.

Blesi, a 20-year-old student at Ken nesaw State University in Georgia, finally got his chance this fall to go on a longawaited opportunity to study abroad in Asia, the first building block to a future career in international business. An Ea gle Scout and basketball fan who loved to travel, he had been studying Korean, along with Spanish.

With the first set of midterms done, he had headed to Itaewon, the heart of the city’s Halloween celebrations. His father, an ocean away in suburban Atlan ta, texted him midway through the eve ning: “I know you’re out and about. Be safe.”

As the initial reports emerged, he, like many parents in South Korea and around the world, waited for hours for word of his loved one. He and his wife got a call from an official at the U.S. Em bassy in South Korea, asking first if they were sitting down.

“He was an adventurous spirit and a loving spirit,” his father, Steve Blesi, said. “That’s the only way I know how to des cribe him. And the loss is just unbeara ble.”

A memorial in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul on Monday in honor of the victims of the Halloween disaster.

By DAVID BROOKS

TaylorSwift was quite the romantic when she burst on the scene in 2006. She sang about the ecstasies of young love and the heartbreak of it. But her mood has hardened as her star has risen. Her excellent new album, “Midnights,” plays upon a string of negative emotions — anxiety, restlessness, exhaustion and occasionally anger.

“I don’t dress for women,” she sings at one point, “I don’t dress for men/ Lately I’ve been dressing for revenge.”

It turns out Swift is part of a larger trend. Researchers Charlotte Brand, Alberto Acerbi and Alex Mesoudi analyzed more than 150,000 pop songs released between 1965 and 2015. Over that time, the appearance of the word “love” in top-100 hits roughly halved. Meanwhile, the number of times such songs contained negative emotion words, like “hate” rose sharply.

Pop music isn’t the only thing that has gotten a lot harsher. David Rozado, Ruth Hughes and Jamin Halberstadt analyzed 23 million headlines published between 2000 and 2019 by 47 news outlets popular in the United States. The headlines, too, grew significantly

tide of global sadness

more negative, with a greater proportion of headlines denoting anger, fear, disgust and sadness. Headlines in left-leaning media got a lot more negative, but headlines in right-leaning publications got even more negative than that.

The negativity in the culture reflects the negativity in real life. The General Social Survey asks people to rate their happiness levels. Between 1990 and 2018, the share of Americans who put themselves in the lowest happiness category increased by more than 50%. And that was before the pandemic.

The really bad news is abroad. Each year, Gallup surveys roughly 150,000 people in more than 140 countries about their emotional lives. Experiences of negative emotions — related to stress, sadness, anger, worry and physical pain — hit a record high last year.

Gallup asks people in this survey to rate their lives on a scale from zero to 10, with zero meaning you’re living your worst possible life and 10 meaning you’re living your best. Sixteen years ago, 1.6% of people worldwide rated their life as a zero. As of last year, the share of people reporting the worst possible lives has more than quadrupled. The unhappiest people are even unhappier. In 2006, the bottom fifth of the population gave themselves an average score of 2.5. Fifteen years later, that average score in the bottom quintile had dropped to 1.2.

In an interview, Jon Clifton, the CEO of Gallup, said that in 2021, 21% of the people in India gave themselves a zero rating. He said negative emotions are rising in India and China, Brazil and Mexico and many other nations. A lot of people are pretty miserable at work. In the most recent survey, Gallup found that 20% of all people are thriving at work, 62% are indifferent on the job and 18% are miserable.

Part of the problem is declining community. The polls imply that almost 2 billion people are so unhappy where they live that they would not recommend their community to a friend. This is especially true in China and India.

Part of the problem is hunger. In 2014, 22.6% of the world faced moderate or severe food insecurity. By 2020, 30.4% of the world did.

Part of the problem is an increase in physical misery. In 2006, 30% of people who rated their lives the worst said they experienced daily pain. Last year, 45% of those people said they live with daily pain. Before the pandemic, the experience of living with pain increased across all age groups.

A lot of those numbers surprised me. Places like China and India have gotten much richer. But development does not necessarily lead to gains in

well-being, in part because development is often accompanied by widening inequality. This is one of the core points Clifton makes in his book “Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It.” We conventionally use gross domestic product and other material measures to evaluate how nations are doing. But these are often deeply flawed measures of how actual people are experiencing their lives.

Misery influences politics. James Carville famously said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” But that’s too narrow. Often it’s human flourishing, stupid, including community cohesion, a sense of being respected, social connection. George Ward of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has argued that subjective measures of well-being are more predictive of some election outcomes than economic measures. Measures of well-being dropped in Tunisia and Egypt before the Arab uprisings. Well-being dropped in Britain before the Brexit vote. Counties in the United States that saw the largest gain in voting Republican for president between the 2012 election and the Donald Trump election in 2016 were also the counties where people rated their lives the worst.

If misery levels keep rising, what can we expect in the future? Well, rising levels of populism for one. And second, greater civil unrest across the board. Clifton noted that according to the Global Peace Index, civic discontent — riots, strikes, anti-government demonstrations — increased by 244% from 2011 to 2019.

We live in a world of widening emotional inequality. The top 20% of the world is experiencing the highest level of happiness and well-being since Gallup began measuring these things. The bottom 20% is experiencing the worst. It’s a fundamentally unjust and unstable situation. The emotional health of the world is shattering.

Gobernador dice no suspenderá clases ante brotes respiratorios

CAROLINA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi

Urrutia dijo el lunes que no suspenderá las clases en el sistema público de enseñanza a raíz del alza en nivel de transmisión de enfermedades respiratorias.

“El Departamento de Salud está desplegado para aten der estas enfermedades como corresponde. Tienen campañas educativas preventivas constantemente en cuanto a temas como COVID, Influenza, Dengue. Los epidemiólogos también están bien pendientes, o sea, que se está haciendo lo que se tiene que hacer. Al fin de cuentas, esto tiene que ser cooperación ciudadana. Todos los que tienen que vacunarse lo deben hacer, buscar el refuerzo, y eso incluye en el caso de influen za, la vacuna que tenemos”, dijo el gobernador a pre guntas de la prensa.

“En las escuelas tenemos enfermeras y enfermeros y has y protocolos que se siguen, el Departamento (de Educación) está vigilante, cuando hay brotes se atien den. Afortunadamente las escuelas no se han estado cerrando, lo que queremos es educación presencial. Ya sabemos el impacto que tienen cuando nuestros niños, niñas y jóvenes no reciben esa educación presencial”, añadió.

El secretario del Departamento de Salud, Carlos Mellado López, alertó el domingo que las enfermeda des respiratorias están en “alto nivel de transmisión de a nivel de brote”, sobre todo, en las escuelas.

“Desde el pasado mes de septiembre, los siste mas de vigilancia epidemiológica para la Influenza, COVID-19 y Virus Respiratorio Sincitial (RSV, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Oficina de Epidemiología e In vestigación han identificado un aumento de casos para estas enfermedades respiratorias. Ante esta situación, queremos recordar la importancia de las medidas de prevención”, señaló Mellado López en declaraciones escritas.

“En estos momentos, COVID-19 se encuentra en alto nivel de transmisión comunitaria y también se ha emitido un aviso de salud por Influenza, ya que la si tuación epidemiológica se ha elevado a nivel brote”, añadió.

De acuerdo a las vigilancias epidemiológicas, el grupo de edad de mayor incidencia para Influenza es 0-9 años, y al menos, se han identificado 5 escuelas con situaciones de brotes. De igual manera, los casos para el RSV han estado en aumento y se ha identificado un brote a nivel de pre-escolar.

El doctor Mellado solicitó la cooperación de to

dos para evitar contagios, “hacemos un llamado a las comunidades escolares a continuar las medidas de prevención para estas enfermedades respiratoria. Es importante el lavado de manos frecuentes con agua y jabón o desinfectantes basados en más de 70 porcien to de alcohol, desinfección de áreas comunes, vacu nación para COVID-19 e Influenza y quedarse en el hogar se están enfermos. Las medidas de prevención apoyan que nuestras comunidades sean más seguras y saludables”.

Anuncian adelanto de bono de Navidad para pensionados del Gobierno Central, Judicatura y Maestros

POR CYBERNEWS

LA FORTALEZA – El director ejecutivo de la Junta de Retiro del Gobierno de Puerto Rico, Luis Co llazo Rodríguez, anunció el lunes, el pago del bono de Navidad para los pensionados elegibles del Go bierno Central, Maestros y Judicatura el próximo el martes,15 de noviembre, igual que todos los servi dores públicos.

En total, se desembolsarán alrededor de 25 millones de dólares por dicho concep to.

Collazo explicó en comunicación escrita que

“como parte de la política pública de nuestra ad ministración y el compromiso del gobernador Pe dro R. Pierluisi con nuestros pensionados, cum pliremos con el pago del bono de Navidad para

quienes dieron los mejores años de su vida para construir el Puerto Rico de hoy. El mismo es muy esperado por nuestros pensionados durante esta época tan especial para todos los puertorrique ños”.

Cualifican para el bono de Navidad de $200, alrededor de 96,118 pensionados y beneficia rios del Gobierno Central y 32,300 pensiona dos del Sistema de Retiro para Maestros. Ade más, 441 pensionados de la Judicatura que se retiraron en o antes del 15 de marzo de 2022 cualifican para recibir el bono de navidad de $600.

Un muerto y 171 hospitalizados en informe preliminar COVID-19

POR CYBERNEWS

S AN JUAN – El informe preliminar de CO VID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) re portó el lunes una muerte y 171 personas hos pitalizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,260. Hay 147 adultos hospitalizados y 24 me nores. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 15 al 29 de octubre de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está a 13.82 por ciento.

When Henry Selick and Jordan Peele team up, things get wild

By CARLOS AGUILAR

Nearly two decades ago, the un canny forces inside Henry Selick’s own home inspired him to sum mon the original concept for “Wendell & Wild,” his first stop-motion animated feature in 13 years, which is streaming on Netflix.

“My two grown sons were once little kids who acted like demons sometimes, so I did a loose drawing of them as demons,” Selick, 69, said by phone. Based on that personal doodle, he wrote a seven-page story about the mishaps of two diaboli cal brothers, Wendell and Wild, trying to escape hell and come to the land of the living to become rich.

To materialize this idea many years later, Selick, an accomplished animation veteran whose credits include “James and the Giant Peach” (1996) and “Coraline” (2009), joined talents with comedianturned-director Jordan Peele, long before “Get Out” positioned Peele as a hit-ma king genre storyteller. Their shared ability for weaving horror and comedy cohesively in their work made for great synergy in their artistic partnership.

“The best thing about Jordan, besides that he’s a genius — as a comic, a writer and now as a horror director — is that he loves stop-motion animation and he knows all about it,” said Selick. “Even the logo for his company, Monkeypaw Productions, is stop-motion animation.”

In 2015, Selick approached Peele and Keegan-Michael Key about collabora ting. A fan of their Comedy Central sketch show “Key & Peele,” Selick thought the duo would make the perfect Wendell and Wild. They were both interested, but Pee le wished to become further involved by helping to shape the narrative. He shares screenplay credit on the film with Selick.

“When Henry reached out, he didn’t know I was already a huge fan of his, ever since ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas,’” said Peele during a recent call. “He is a modern-day Roald Dahl in how he can weave the humor and the horror into a whimsical and perfectly inappropriate pac kage.”

Originally, Sister Helley (voiced in

the film by Angela Bassett), a nun battling supernatural entities at an all-girls boar ding school, served as the protagonist of Selick’s story. But because of Peele’s desire for this creation to look and feel unlike any stop-motion vision he had ever seen befo re, the spotlight shifted to Kat, one of the young pupils at this institution who lost her parents in an accident.

Selick worried that after directing “Coraline,” making another humorously frightful fable centered on a young hero would seem as if he were repeating him self. Ultimately, Peele’s argument to not only make Kat the lead but to make her Black convinced the animator. Kat became the angsty Hell Maiden who ushers Wen dell and Wild into our realm.

Lyric Ross, who voices Kat, unders tood the unique significance of her charac ter.

“I thought her style, her hair, even her mean mug was dope,” said Ross. “I perso nally had never seen a little dark-skinned Black girl being in a stop-motion picture and being the star of it. I loved everything about her, down to her sick boots.”

“I knew that if I had seen a film in Henry’s style featuring someone who looked like her, it would’ve been really life-affirming of my place in the world as a kid,” noted Peele.

But when it came to the look of the

characters Wendell and Wild, at first Peele and Key were hesitant of Selick’s intentions to use their likeness. It wasn’t until Selick showed them the designs by Argentine ar tist Pablo Lobato, who specializes in uni que caricatures of celebrities, that their perspective changed.

“Keegan and I spent so much time dressing up and doing all these characters on ‘Key & Peele’; in a way, becoming the se animated demons felt like the ultimate dress-up,” said Peele.

From the conversations between Pe ele and Selick, another subject also grew in prominence in the film: the prison in dustrial complex as a malevolent force. As with his live-action efforts, Peele never sought to sermonize but only to spark dia logue about important social topics.

“What we owe the younger genera tion is the ability to have the language and references that we didn’t have, so they can discuss all things,” said Peele. “I believe in pushing the boundaries of the art form for the sake of creating a bigger pool of un derstanding.”

Although they didn’t set out to recei ve a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, Selick admits that they hoped for that classification because of the creative freedom it offered them. He recalls facing pushback from executi ves who argued a PG label would enable

them to reach a wider audience. But he disagreed.

“Let’s face it, a 10- or 11-year-old does not necessarily want to watch a PG movie,” said Selick. “They want to watch what their big brothers and sisters watch.”

Kindred devotees of the bizarre, both Selick and Peele credit their mothers for their affinity for offbeat animation. Se lick remembers his mother’s love for Ha lloween and watching “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” and the “Night on Bald Mountain” segment of “Fantasia” with her.

Similarly, Peele holds dearly to the memory of the night his mother took him to see Selick’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” as a teen. “My mother knew that this was going be a special film,” he said. “She even got me the toys for it, even before the movie came out.”

With “Wendell & Wild,” Selick didn’t try to advance stop motion on a technical level but instead went back to basics. In ai ming for a more raw aesthetic that showed how these worlds and characters are phy sically manipulated by the hands of artists, he decided to keep the face seams on the puppets instead of digitally removing them, as they did on “Coraline.”

“I wanted to retreat to what’s at the heart of what we do,” said Selick. “We touch these things and we breathe a per formance into them.” Peele agreed with that sentiment, describing stop motion as a technique that “appeals to something inna te, magical and childlike in all of us.”

“The craftsmanship Henry and his puppeteers perform is something very spe cial that only few people know how to do,” added Peele. “He’s the best in the world at it.”

Selick believes that it was Peele’s success with “Get Out” that allowed them to set up this movie at Netflix — the only company that promised them the resour ces to make it as they had envisioned it.

“We’re cousins in a way,” Selick said. “Jordan is much younger than me, but he has a worldly knowledge of cinema and likes a lot of unusual, weird and fun things.”

For Peele, the foundation of their fruitful bond was the mutual and sincere admiration between them. “We’re each other’s biggest fans,” said Peele.

Kat (voiced by Lyric Ross), center, is one of the lead characters of the ani mated film “Wendell & Wild,” directed by Henry Selick and written by Selick and Jordan Peele.

A ‘nightmare’ for forecasters: Here’s why hurricanes are getting stronger, faster

A number of the past decade’s most intense Atlan tic storms intensified rapidly. Harvey in 2017 was a Cat egory 1 hurricane on the evening of Aug. 24; by the next day, when the storm reached Texas, it was a Category 4 hurricane with 130 mph winds. And later that hurricane season, Maria intensified from a Category 1 to a Cat egory 5 hurricane within just 15 hours.

In 2021, Hurricane Ida strengthened from a Cat egory 1 with 85 mph winds into a near-Category 5 hur ricane with 150 mph winds less than 24 hours later.

Emanuel said Monday that current conditions were “ideal” for Ian to follow a similar path of development.

It’s not just warmer oceans

Several elements other than ocean temperatures affect hurricanes, and scientists are less certain about other climate effects.

One of those elements is vertical wind shear, or a measure of how much the wind changes in speed or direction at increasing heights in the atmosphere. Strong vertical wind shear can inhibit the development of hur ricanes by tilting the structure of a storm and by forcing cool, dry air into its core. “It’s like pouring cold water on a fire,” Emanuel said.

In a 2019 study published in Nature Scientific Re ports, researchers found that warming temperatures may lead to weakening vertical wind shear, allowing hurri canes approaching the East Coast of the United States to intensify more rapidly.

By ELENA SHAO

Earlyon Monday, Sept. 28, Hurricane Ian was a tropical storm with heavy rain and winds of at least 73 mph. But experts say the storm is gaining power rapidly and, if recent history is any guide, it could intensi fy dangerously as it nears Cuba as soon as Monday night.

As Earth’s climate warms, more storms are under going this kind of rapid intensification, growing quickly from relatively weak tropical storms to Category 3 or higher hurricanes in under 24 hours, sometimes stun ning forecasters and giving residents little time to pre pare.

Here are key facts about how climate change can rapidly intensify tropical storms.

Warming oceans fuel higher winds

More than 90% of the excess heat from humancaused global warming over the past 50 years has been absorbed by the oceans. Since 1901, sea surface tem peratures have risen an average of 0.14 degrees Fahr enheit per decade, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

That’s crucial, because storms gather strength over the ocean. And, the warmer the water, the more power

they pick up. Higher surface temperatures allow hur ricanes to reach higher levels of maximum sustained wind, a common metric used to describe the intensity of a storm.

“The occurrence of more intense storms is some thing we are very confident about,” said Suzana J. Ca margo, a hurricane expert and professor at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

A 2020 satellite image analysis showed that the likelihood of a hurricane strengthening into a Category 3 storm or higher, with sustained winds above 110 mph, has increased by about 8% a decade since 1979.

Those winds intensify more rapidly

Not only do warmer oceans make storms stronger, they make the rate of intensification more rapid, said Kerry A. Emanuel, a meteorologist and hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rapid intensification technically refers to an in crease of at least 30 knots, or 35 mph, in the maximum sustained winds over a 24-hour period, according to the National Hurricane Center. Researchers have found that the likelihood of a hurricane undergoing rapid in tensification has increased to 5% from 1% since the 1980s.

However, the study’s findings were localized; dif ferent effects of warming on wind shear could be ob served globally, said Camargo, one of the authors of the study.

Short notice raises the stakes

The increase in the number of hurricanes that in tensify quickly and unpredictably presents a sticky prob lem for forecasters, whose assessments can affect a com munity’s preparedness.

The window of time to make a decision gets small er, Emanuel said. For example, if officials, working with forecasters, issue an evacuation order too early, then they risk unnecessarily sending hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, scrambling, jamming highways and snarling transit systems. In some cases, that could be more dangerous, disruptive and costly than staying in place.

“Then, you’ve cried wolf,” Emanuel said. The next time the warning to evacuate goes out, people might not listen.

Make the call too late, though, and there’s no time for people to escape the impacts of a dangerously strong hurricane.

“It’s a forecaster’s worst nightmare,” Emanuel said, for a relatively weak hurricane to develop into a Cat egory 4 or 5 hurricane overnight.

A firefighter in Bourg, La., during Hurricane Ida last year. Wind speeds in the storm rose to 150 miles per hour, from 85 m.p.h., in less than 24 hours.

How to boost your immune system during cold and flu season

By HANNAH SEO

Asthe days shorten and people trade their tank tops and shorts for sweat ers and tights, the turn of autumn signals another new beginning: the start of flu and cold season, and COVID winter No. 3.

According to Dr. Helen Chu, a pub lic health researcher and infectious-disease physician at the University of Washington School of Public Health, it’s a myth that simply being cold will make you more like ly to get sick. But viruses do tend to transmit most efficiently in drier, colder conditions, leading to spikes in winter months. So now is the time to get serious about immune health.

Here are four things health experts say you can do to prepare ahead of fall and winter surges.

Get active.

Exercise is a great way to bolster your health and reduce your susceptibility to disease, said David Nieman, a professor of biology at Appalachian State University who researches exercise, nutrition and im munology. In one study published in 2011, Nieman and his colleagues followed more than 1,000 adults living in North Carolina for three months in 2008. They logged their lifestyle habits — including diet, exercise and exposure to stressful events — as well as how often they were sick with upper re spiratory tract infections, such as common colds or laryngitis, and the severity of their symptoms.

“The No. 1 lifestyle factor that emerged was physical activity,” Nieman said. Those who exercised five or more days per week were 43% less likely to be sick with an upper respiratory tract infec tion than those who exercised for less than one day per week. But even those who did a little bit of exercise — at least 20 minutes of moderate exercise (as simple as a brisk walk) at least one day per week — were better off than those who did none.

We see this effect in part because ex ercise stimulates immune cells to “patrol the body” for virus-infected cells so that it can identify and eliminate them, Nieman said. Just a few hours of moderate exercise spread across a week is enough to get your

immune cells circulating optimally, he said. And the exercises don’t have to be intense — just walking, dancing or “vigorous yard work” is enough to experience a boost in your health.

Don’t underestimate the power of rest.

Too much exercise, though, can tax the body and temporarily suppress the im mune system, Nieman said, increasing your risk of infections. There’s no simple formula for what constitutes too much exercise, the experts said, but if you’re suddenly feeling unwell or constantly tired, or if previously easy workouts are feeling hard, it might be a signal that you need to slow down.

Research has also shown that not get ting enough sleep, or sleep of good qual ity, can reduce your body’s capability for fighting off infections, said Kathi Heffner, a professor of nursing, medicine and psychi atry at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. While not everyone re quires the same amount of sleep, the gen eral guidance for adults is six to eight hours each night, Heffner said.

Good sleep can also help regulate your stress, she added. When stress oc curs chronically, it can reduce the body’s response to vaccines and infections and

can increase inflammation, “all of which can increase our susceptibility to infection as well as other kinds of chronic diseases,” she said. Even day-to-day stressors — from your job, your commute or your care-taking responsibilities, for example — can weaken the immune system, she added.

Reducing that kind of stress is often difficult, Heffner said, but if you can find time to do so, whether via practicing mind fulness exercises like meditation or yoga or even just “finding time to do pleasurable activities,” that can reduce your stress and in turn help your immune health.

Follow a healthy diet.

What you choose to eat and drink is one of the most important lifestyle choices that can influence your immune health, Nieman said.

A variety of brightly colored fruits and vegetables — berries, citrus fruits, red cabbage and kale, for instance — are great sources of flavonoids, chemical compounds found in plants that can help the body fight inflammation and illness, he said. Tea, cof fee, dark chocolate and certain grains, like buckwheat, are also good sources of fla vonoids. In Nieman’s 2011 study, his team found that adults who ate at least three servings of fruit per day had fewer upper

respiratory tract infections throughout the year than those who did not eat as much fruit.

Research has also shown that expo sure to cigarette smoke and drinking of al cohol in excess — more than two drinks a day for men or one drink a day for women — can suppress your immune system. Min imizing your alcohol consumption (or at least keeping within the dietary guidelines) or quitting smoking can help reduce your risk of infections, Chu said.

If you’re tempted to try supplements that claim to improve immune health, she added, don’t — especially if you’re already following a healthy and balanced diet. For the most part, she said, “there’s really not much data at all to support the use of most supplements to prevent illness or to boost your immunity.”

Keep up the pandemic precautions.

“Probably the most important thing that people can do right now is to get both their up-to-date COVID booster shots and their flu vaccines as soon as possible,” Chu said, since flu and COVID-19 cases will al most certainly go up this fall and winter.

And while many people have stopped wearing masks in public indoor spaces, continuing to do so will help protect you against all sorts of viruses, not just the coro navirus. This is especially true if you have a weaker immune system. Using rapid CO VID tests before gatherings or when you have symptoms, and asking others to do so as well, can also minimize everyone’s risk of infection, Chu said.

“One of the things we’ve learned through this pandemic is just how important hygiene is,” Heffner said. “Washing hands, keeping your distance when you have a cold — those kinds of things are highly ef fective for keeping people healthy.”

In fact, Chu said, good hygiene in cludes staying home when you have symp toms of any type of infection at all. “People tend to try to power through, even if they’re sick,” she said. “They want to continue to do their job, to continue to go to school, to continue to do what they were doing before.” But that behavior just increases exposure and risk of transmission to other people. Stay home and give yourself time to rest instead, Chu urged.

Immunologists and other health experts say that by staying active, getting enough rest, following a healthy diet and keeping up with pandemic precautions, you can boost your immune system during cold and flu season.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)

Plaintiff v. JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE as those unknown persons who may be the holders of the lost mortgage note or have any interest in this proceeding,

Defendants

CIVIL NO. 22-cv-1244 RAM.

ACTION FOR CANCELLATION OF LOST MORTGAGE NOTE (Gregorio Narvaez Torres d/b/a D’Millenium Dry Cleaners).

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE

Unknown holders of a promis sory note of $280,000.00 exe cuted on November 11, 2005, by Gregorio Narvaez Torres d/b/a D’Millenium Dry Cleaners, as acknowledged by affidavit number 24,259 sworn before Manuel L. Correa Marquez, and secured by a voluntary mortgage in favor of the plaintiff created by Mortgage Deed No. 204 executed on November 11, 2005 before Notary Public Ma nuel L. Correa Marquez, over the following property, descri bed in the Spanish language as: URBANA: Solar radicada en el Barrio Cerro Gordo del termino municipal de Bayamon, con una cabida superficial de 2,035.2925 metros cuadrados, siendo el remanente luego de una expropiaci6n de 137.8723 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 29.86 me tros, con solar propiedad del senor Hector Santiago Vazquez y en 15.89 metros, con terrenos propiedad de la Sucesi6n de Juan Reyes Villanueva; por el SUR, en 75.00 metros y 30.66 metros, respectivamente, con el remanente de la finca princi pal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, en 75.00 metros y 30.66 metros, respectivamente, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega y por el OESTE, en 25.00 me tros, con la Carretera Estatal 167. Es el remanente luego de una expropiaci6n de 137 .8723 metros cuadrados, que se re laciona al margen del folio 250 del tomo hist6rico de Bayamon.

ESTRUCTURA: Estructura dividida en cuatro espacios, los cuales se describen a con tinuaci6n: El espacio No.1 con un area superficial de 36 pies½

de largo por 17 pies 6 pulgadas de ancho, el espacio No. 2, con un area superficial de 23 pies 4 pulgadas de ancho por 36 pies y ½ de largo, el espacio No. 3, con un area superficial de 36 pies y ½ de largo por 23 pfes 4 pulgadas de ancho y el espacio No. 4 con un area superficial de 36 pies y 1/2 de largo por 23 pies 4 pulgadas de ancho, construida dicha estructura mitad en cementa y otra mitad en aluminio, dedicada para fines comerciales, la cual tie ne una cabida total de 90 pies cuadrados de largo por 36 pies cuadrados de ancho. Dicha es tructura consta de dos bafios, conectados a un pozo muro y “rolling doors”, con un valor de $50,000.00, segun consta de la escritura #79, otorgada en San Juan, el 7 de junio de 2006, ante el notario Manuel L. Co rrea Marquez. The aforementio ned Mortgage Deed is duly re corded in the Registry Property of Bayamon, First Section, at page 90, volume 1825 of Baya mon, property number 44,415, sixth inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publi cation entered on 09/07/2022 by the Honorable Raul M. Arias Marxuach,United States District Judge (Docket No. 4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty’ (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime Lopez Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269. T. his Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of ge neral circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Sum mons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY

ORDER OF THE COURT, sum mons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Com monwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 7th day of September, 2022. MA

RIA ANTONGIORGI-JORDAN, ESQ., CLERK - U.S. DISTRICT COURT. By: Ana Duran-Cape lla, Deputy Clerk.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ MWPR, LLC Demandante Vs. EVELYN RODDRIGUEZ MENDEZ, SU ESPOSO, JESUS RAFAEL

ARROYO MORA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; RAFAEL

MARZAN T/C/C RAFAEL MARZAN SANTIAGO Demandado(s)

Caso Núm.: I1CI201200603.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI CA SUBASTA. A: EVELYN RODDRIGUEZ MENDEZ, SU ESPOSO, JESUS RAFAEL ARROYO MORA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; RAFAEL MARZAN T/C/C RAFAEL MARZAN SANTIAGO; Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judi cial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada, y al PUBLI CO EN GENERAL: y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus dere chos sobre el bien hipotecado con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hu biesen pospuesto a la hipote ca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de ins trumentos negociables garan tizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecu tado, 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 crédi to, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados ase gurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante a sa ber: RG MORTGAGE CORPO

RATION: A cuyo favor aparece una anotación de demanda, de fecha 9 junio 2005, en el en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, caso civil # I1CI200500592, seguido por RG MORTGAGE

CORPORATION versus Evelyn Rodriguez Méndez y Jesús Ra fael Arroyo Mora, por la suma de $24,474.82 más intereses etc. Inscrito al folio 5422 del tomo 1536 de Mayagüez, finca #31,863 inscripción 5ta. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia ex pedido el día 7 de septiembre de 2022, 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 con tinuación: Dirección de la Pro piedad: Apt 7 W-19-B Cond. Rio Cristal, 9310 Calle Balbino Trinta, Mayagüez, PR 006801958: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento W guión diecinueve guión B (W19-B) en el segundo piso del Condominio Río Cristal, Grupo número siete (7) localizado en el Proyecto VBC guión ciento ochenta y siete (VBC-187).

Está construido de hormigón armado y bloques de hormigón, teniendo un área superficial de mil diecinueve punto veinticua tro (1,019.24) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a noventa y cua tro punto seiscientos noventa (94.690) metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en diecinueve pies diez pulgadas y media (19’10 ½”), equivalen tes a seis punto cincuenta y ocho (6.058) metros con pared exterior; por el SUR, en die cinueve pies diez pulgadas y media(19’10 ½”), equivalentes a seis punto cincuenta y ocho (6.058) metros con pared exte rior; por el ESTE, en veintisie te pies seis pulgadas (27’6”), equivalentes a ocho punto tres cientos ochenta y dos (8.382) metros con el apartamento sie te W guión diecinueve guión C (7 W-19-C); y por el OESTE, en veintisiete pies seis pulgadas (27’6”), equivalentes a ocho punto trescientos ochenta y dos (8.382) metros con el apar tamento siete W guión veinte guión C (7 W-20-C). Este apar tamento de dos (2) niveles se usará con propósitos residen ciales y consiste de sala, come dor, cocina, lavandería, terraza, pasillo, un cuarto de baño, tres (3) dormitorios con sus respec tivos guardarropas. La puerta principal de entrada queda al Norte. Le corresponde a este apartamento 1.05416% en re lación con los elementos comu nes generales. Consta inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 1053 de Ma yagüez finca número 31,863, Registro de la Propiedad Sec ción de Mayagüez. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 26 de

febrero de 2014 en el presente caso civil, a saber, ascendente a la suma de $46,577.41 a1 18 de abril de 2022, lo cual se desglosa en $23,141.82 de principal, $16,815.76 de intere ses, $1,502.14 de cargos por demora, $894.66 por concep to de seguro de la propiedad (“Hazard Insurance”), $925.78 por concepto de deficiencia en la cuenta de reserva (“es crow”) $549.25 por concepto de impuestos sobre la propie dad (“CRIM”), y $2,475.00 de honorarios de abogados pacta dos, más costas, y gastos. Los intereses se continúan acumu lando a razón de $2.76 al día (“per diem”) hasta el pago total de la deuda, para cubrir el prin cipal adeudado, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanen te luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas del mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaria del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demanda dos previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. La venta de la referi da propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del algua cil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Algua cil, localizada en el Centro Ju dicial de Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí nimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $24,750.00. Que de ser necesaria la cele bración de una SEGUNDA SU BASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $16,500.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $12,375.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca

a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate.

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de octubre de 2022.

JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SU BASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRI MERA INSTANCIA, SALA SU PERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MÚLTIPLES MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ACTUANDO COMO ENTIDAD JURÍDICA SUCESORA DE ALIANZA HIPOTECARIA, INC.

Demandante Vs. BRAUDYS MATOS DE JESÚS

Demandado MARÍA ELENA DE JESÚS GARCÍA

Parte Interesada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00534.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA.

A: BRAUDYS MATOS DE JESÚS; MARÍA ELENA DE JESÚS GARCÍA.

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, hago saber a la parte deman dada, BRAUDYS MATOS DE JESUS; MARÍA ELENA DE JESUS GARCÍA, parte intere sada, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 11 de agosto de 2022, por la Se cretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y a mejor postor la si guiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en el sitio de nominado o conocido con el número 9 de la calle número 9, hoy el número de la casa 656 del plano de la Urbanización de dicha sección Norte, del Barrio Santurce de esta ciudad, mi diendo una superficie de ciento sesenta punto cincuenta me tros cuadrados (160.50 m/c). En lindes por el frente en diez metros (10.0)), con la calle nú mero 9; por la derecha entran do, con veinte metros (20.00), con e solar número 11 de Eu genio Cruz, por la izquierda en una extensión de quince punto noventa metros (15.90), con el solar número siete de Micaela Padilla y por el fondo en una ex tensión de diez metros (10.00), con el solar número diez de la calle 8 de dicho plano de urba nización de Juan Salas. Encla va una casa. Consta inscrita al folio 79 del tomo 203 de San turce Norte, finca número 8204, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerrto Rico, Sección I de San Juan. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al de mandante hasta donde alcance la Sentencia dictada a su favor el da 13 de junio de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma de $99,714.00 de prin cipal, más intereses al 7.50% anual hasta su total y completo

saldo, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudadas y los cuales continuarán au mentando hasta el saldo total de la deuda más la cantidad de $9,971.40 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La venta de la referi da propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen pos teriores que afecte a la mencio na finca, a cuyo efecto, se no tifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA y TERCERA su basta, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha su basta. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su ofer ta en el act mismo de la adju dicación, en efectivo (moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA subasta se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mí nimo de la PRIMERA subasta es de $108,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, la mis ma se llevará a efecto el día 21 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la SEGUNDA subasta será de $71,280.00, equivalente a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipu lado para la PRIMERA subas ta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA, la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina an tes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA subasta será de $54,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Cuando se declara 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 convenien te. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Todas las subastas deberán se acordadas y cele bradas según ordenado por el Tribunal. Para conocimiento de Ia parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas

que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecu tivas, con un intérnalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de cele brarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Co lecturía. 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 continua rán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el remanente Jos acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse é su extinción por el precio de remate. Se les advierte a todos los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipo teca, así como de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, durante las horas laborables, todo esto en virtud del Artículo 102 de la Ley Núm. 210 de 8 de diciembre de 2015, mejor conocida como la “Ley del Registro de la Pro piedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

Expido el presente Edicto en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de octubre de 2022. ERIK F.

OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL SUPE RIOR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBAS TAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CARO LINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. BERT RIVERA

MARCHAND, JENNIFER FERNÁNDEZ BETANCOURT; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2022CV01041.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO EN

GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que sus cribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Man damiento que me ha sido diri gido por la Secretaría del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Horizontal Property: Apartment number four dash twenty (4-20) of irregular shape located on the second (2nd.) floor of Building number four (4), Los Altos del Escorial Con dominium, located in Parque Escorial, in San Anton Ward, in the Municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. This apartment has an approximate area of one thousand seven hundred forty one point eighty two (1,741.82) square feet, equivalent to one hundred sixty one point eighty two (161.82) square meters. Its boundaries are as follows: bye the NORTH, in a distance of twelve point ninety (12.90) meters with apartment number three dash twenty one (3-21); by the SOUTH, in a distance of thirteen point eighty four (13.84) meters with common elements; by the EAST, in a distance of eleven point zero four (11.04) meters with common element; and by the WEST, in a distan ce of eleven point zero four (11.04) meters with common element. The main entrance of this apartment is located on the South boundary and com municates with the hallway and stairwell of the building that lead to the sidewalk. This apartment consist of a living room, a bal cony, a dining room, a family room, a kitchen, a laundry clo set, two (2) bedrooms with a closet each, a bathroom and an additional lavatory in the hallway and a master bedroom with a bathroom, a walk-in clo set and an additional closet.

This apartment has a part and appurtenant to it zero point four five four seven five zero percent (0.454750%) of the common element of the Condominium.

It also has as part and appur tenant as a common element limited to it two (2) parking spa ces, one in front the other, in the parking area identified with the Unit Designation. Dirección Física: 420 Altos de Escorial, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00987. Finca 55,850, inscrita al folio 97 del tomo 1,371 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda

de Carolina. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste riores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguien tes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción:

Hipoteca en garantía de un pa garé a favor de Firstbank Puer to Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $64,702.00, con intereses al 9 1/4% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2037, constituida mediante la escritura número 45, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 1 de marzo de 2006, ante la notario Irmarie Rivera Miran da, e inscrita al folio 163 del tomo 1,407 de Carolina, finca número 55,850, inscripción 4ta.

Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $18,406.99, por concepto de contribuciones sobre ingreso, Certificación de fecha 17 de junio de 2009, presentado y anotado el día 4 de agosto de 2009 al folio 163 del tomo 1407 de Carolina, fin ca número 55,850, anotación A. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Bert Rivera Marchand y Jennifer Fernandez Betancourt, en la suma de $18,406.79, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, seguro social xxx-xx-0909/xxx-xx-1534, se gún Certificación de fecha 17 de junio de 2009, presentado el día 1 de julio de 2009 y anotado al folio 97 del Libro del ELA nú mero 15, Orden 2188. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, contra Bert Rivera Marchand, en la suma de $3,805.08, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 5 de noviembre de 2014, pre sentado y anotado el día 26 de noviembre de 2014 al folio 163 del Libro del ELA número 17, Orden 4041. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico contra Bert Rivera Marchand y Jennifer Fernan dez Betancourt, seguro social seguro social xxx-xx-0909, por la suma de $10,956.14, Em bargo número CAR-18-574, según Certificación de fecha 10 de octubre de 2018, anotado el

día 2 de noviembre de 2018, al Asiento 2018-009558-EST del Sistema Karibe. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico contra Jennifer Fernandez Betancourt, seguro social seguro social xxx-xx-1534, por la suma de $856.76, Embargo número CAR-2019-445, según Certifi cación de fecha 10 de octubre de 2018, anotado el día 25 de octubre de 2018, al Asiento 2018-008953-EST del Sistema Karibe. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $125,222.19, más la suma de $49,519.25, que incluye intereses según pactados, car gos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del prin cipal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de aboga do. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 5 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $174,000.00.

De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $116,000.00. De decla rarse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $87,000.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, ex pido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 18 de octubre de 2022 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. SAMUEL GONZÁ LEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.

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Demandante V. AMALIA PIMENTEL BENÍTEZ

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2019CV02522. (408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SU

BASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons tar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tri bunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en mone da de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte De mandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Apartamento dos C (2-C). Apartamento de dos dormitorios, un baño, cocinalaundry, sala-comedor y balcón localizado en la esquina Su roeste y en la segunda planta del Condominio Rosa María del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Colinda por el NORES TE, a su lado derecho, con el apartamento dos D (2-D) y en trada principal, en treinta y tres punto noventa y dos (33.92) pies, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y cuatro (10.34) metros; por el SURESTE, colinda con el apartamento dos B (2-B), en veintitrés punto cuarenta y dos (23.42) pies, equivalentes a siete punto catorce (7.14) metros; por el SUROESTE, con patio común y balcón, en treinta y tres punto noventa y dos (33.92) pies, equivalentes a diez punto treinta y cuatro (10.34) metros. El balcón tie ne un área de cuarenta y seis punto treinta y dos (46.32) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cua tro punto treinta (4.30) metros cuadrados; por el NOROES TE, colinda con patio común, en veintitrés punto cuarenta y dos (23.42) pies, equivalentes a siete punto catorce (7.14) metros. El apartamento tiene un área privada de ochocientos sesenta y nueve punto sesenta y tres (869.63) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ochenta punto ochenta y dos (80.82) metros cuadrados. Le corresponde una participación en los elemen tos comunes de punto ciento diecisiete por ciento (117%).

Dirección Física: Cond. Rosa María, Apto. 2-C, Carolina, PR 00985. Finca 52154, inscrita al folio 224 del tomo 1215 de Carolina, Registro de la Pro piedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Carolina. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto

en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso.

C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes pos teriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $83,639.97, más la suma de $14,561.47, que incluye intere ses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Dichas sumas están vencidas, son lí quidas y exigibles. La PRIME RA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $83,675.36. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar an tes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $55,783.57. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencio nado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $41,837.68. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, ex pido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 18 de octubre de 2022 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. SAMUEL GONZÁ LEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. GILBERTO

RAMOS VAN-RHYN

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV02347.

Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Algua cil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 30 de junio de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sen tencia del 24 de agosto de 2022 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 2 de septiembre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 22 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, lo calizada en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Es quina Coll y Toste, Parada 37, San Juan, 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 Al guacil del Tribunal; todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar ra dicado en el Barrio Cupey de Río Piedras, término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, mar cado con el Número Diez (10) del Bloque E de la Urbanización Cupey Gardens, con una cabi da superficial de 762.32 metros cuadrados. En linderos por el NORTE, con el solar número once (11) del bloque E, en una distancia de 34.13 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número trece (13) del bloque A, en una distancia de 25.145 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número nueve (9) del bloque E, en una distancia de 26.77 metros y con la Calle Número siete guión A (7-A), en una distancia de 13.35 metros; y por el OESTE, con el Asilo de Ancianos, en una distancia de 12.96 metros. Enclava una casa de cemento y bloques para fines residencia les. Inscrita al folio 111 del tomo 238 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca Número 7758, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sec ción IV. La escritura de hipote ca consta inscrita al folio 117 vuelto del tomo 808 de Río Pie dras Sur, Finca Número 7758, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Inscrip ción sexta. La primera escritura de modificación consta inscri ta al folio 59 del tomo 856 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca Número 7758, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Ins cripción octava. La segunda escritura de modificación cons ta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Río Piedras Sur, Finca Número 7758, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección IV. Ins cripción décima. Dirección Fí sica: URB. CUPEY GARDENS,

E10 CALLE 7, SAN JUAN, PR 00926-7310. Número de Ca tastro: 79-115-043-827-35-000. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $188,586.34. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MA ÑANA, 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, $125,724.22. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda su basta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $94,293.17. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad 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 par te demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $187,833.07 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.125% anual desde el 1 de octubre de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $170.76 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $13,950.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del présta mo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta pro piedad pesa el siguiente gra vamen posterior que afecta la propiedad que se pretende eje cutar: Aviso de Demanda: Plei to seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Gilberto Ra mos Van-Rhyn, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil Número SJ2022CV02347, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $187,833.07 y otras cantidades, según De manda de fecha 28 de marzo de 2022. Anotada al Tomo Ka ribe de Río Piedras Sur. Ano tación C. Se notifica al acree dor 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 relacio nados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examina dos, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que

obra en los archivos de la Se cretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos sema nas 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, conti nuarán subsistentes; enten diéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mis mos, sin destinarse a su extin ción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gra vámenes 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 luga res públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en San Juan, Puer to Rico, hoy 18 de octubre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁ

LEZ, ALGUACIL, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPE RIOR.

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FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION T/C/C

FANNIE MAE Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE WARREN

ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN H. ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN HAISY

ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN H. ALMODOVAR COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS WARREN

ALMODOVAR FIGUEROA

Y KARLA E. ALMODOVAR TORRES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O

PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV08432.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE

CA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO

PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TER

CERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del

Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en gene ral que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 1ro de junio de 2022 y según Orden y Mandamiento del 15 de julio de 2022, librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque cer tificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PRO PIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apar tamento número ochocientos uno (801) localizado en la oc tava planta del Condominio Co lumbia Plaza que radica en la Calle Columbia número cuatro cientos uno de la Urbanización University Gardens de Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de quinientos se tenticuatro punto setenticinco pies cuadrados, equivalentes a cincuentitrés punto cuarenti dós metros cuadrados y consta de sala-comedor-habitación, cocina, baño, closet y balcón. Colinda por el NORTE, con el patio posterior; por el SUR, con la pared que lo separa del apar tamento número ochocientos dos; y por el OESTE, con el pa tio lateral; por el ESTE, por don de tiene su acceso de entrada y salida, con un pasillo que lo comunica con el resto del edi ficio. Le corresponde una parti cipación de 2.780% en los ele mentos comunes generales. Le pertenece el estacionamiento #27. FINCA NÚMERO: 30,942, inscrita al folio 121 del tomo 1074 de Río Piedras Norte, sección II de San Juan. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección II de San Juan, la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la Escritura número 34, otorgada el 23 de agosto de 2002, se omitió hacer mención del estacionamiento número 27, perteneciente al apartamento objeto de ejecu ción, según dicho registro de la propiedad. Dirección Física: Condominio Columbia Plaza Calle Columbia, University Gar dens, Apt. 801, San Juan, PR 00927. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $85,000.00. De no haber

remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes seña lado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $56,666.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el pá rrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mis mo lugar antes señalado el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $42,500.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo esti ma conveniente. Se abona rá dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Tribunal dictó Sentencia en Rebeldía, condenando a la parte demandada SUCESIÓN DE WARREN ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN H. ALMODOVAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN HAISY ALMODO VAR BONILLA T/C/C WARREN H. ALMODOVAR COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CO NOCIDOS WARREN ALMO DOVAR FIGUEROA Y KARLA E. ALMODOVAR TORRES; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PAR TES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN, a pagar a la parte demandante las siguientes su mas: $54,672.43 de principal, más los intereses al 6.125% anual hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y los cuales continuarán en au mento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipu lada de $8,500.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honora rios de abogados. Se dispo ne que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nue vos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá or denar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamien to del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del de mandado/deudor la ocupen.

El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los

ocupantes de ser necesario. Además, se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen poste rior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fue ra necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan com parecer a la celebración de di cha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titularidad y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante conti nuarán subsistentes. Se enten derá que el rematante los acep ta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas la borables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el pre sente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) sema nas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTI MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 18 de octubre de 2022.

ERIK F. OSUNA ACEVEDO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUA CIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ENRIQUE APONTE DE JESÚS COMPUESTA

POR DANNET APONTE OLIVERAS TCC DANNETTE APONTE OLIVERAS, HÉCTOR E. APONTE OLIVERAS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, CENTRO DE

RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); JOHN DOE, MARY DOE

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV02064. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ENRIQUE APONTE DE JESÚS, DANNET APONTE OLIVERAS TCC DANNETTE APONTE OLIVERAS, HÉCTOR E. APONTE OLIVERAS, JOHN DOE, MARY DOE. LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 7 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Senten cia 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 repre sentando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los tér minos de la Sentencia, Senten cia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recur so de revisión o apelación den tro del término de 30 días con tados 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 notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022. GRISEL DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CABRERA, SECRETARIA AU XILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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SOLER IRIZARRY

Peticionario

Caso Núm.: PO2022CV02705. 504. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. Catastro de Propie dad #366-033-007-09-003. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES INTERESADOS INCLUYENDO

PASADOS DUEÑOS, SUS HEREDEROS, COLINDANTES DESCONOCIDOS Y CUALQUIER OTRA PERSONA INTERESADA EN LA PROPIEDAD LOCALIZADA EN RUSTICA: PREDIO DE TERRENO DE LOCALIZADO EN EL BARRIO COTO LAUREL CALLE JOBO NÚMERO 42 DEL TÉRMINO MUNICIPAL DE PONCE, PUERTO RICO. CONSTA CON ÁREA DE OCHOCIENTOS TREINTA Y DOS PUNTO SIETE MIL SETECIENTOS SESENTA (832.7760) METROS CUADRADOS. COLINDA POR EL NORTE CON CALLE JOBOS (CALLE MUNICIPAL) POR EL SUR CON PROPIEDAD DE SUCESIÓN MANFREDY Y CON ESCUELA JUAN SERRALLES, EN LINDES POR EL OESTE, CON PROPIEDAD DE LA SUCESIÓN IRIZARRY LUGO Y EN LINDES POR EL OESTE CON PROPIEDAD DE LUIS ROSADO VÉLEZ. EN DICHA PROPIEDAD SE ENCUENTRAN 3 ESTRUCTURAS EN RUINAS Y UNA EDIFICACIÓN QUE SE UTILIZA COMO RESIDENCIA. Por la presente quedan no tificados que Don Robert A. Soler Irizarry, han radicado en este Tribunal una Petición de Expediente de Dominio sobre la propiedad antes descrita, alegando que siendo dueños y ha poseído tanto por sus anteriores dueños como por él como dueños dicha propiedad por más de 30 años y por ello solicitan Resolución para que Ordene al Registrador de la Propiedad de Ponce I que ins criba dicha finca a nombre del Peticionario. Se apercibe que si transcurrido Treinta (30) días desde la publicación de este Edicto, no ha habido reparos u oposición contra la demanda interpuesta, este Tribunal dicta rá Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la misma. Copia de la contestación deberá ser notificada al Licenciado Rubén Román Toro a su dirección en: Apartado Postal número 1831, Yauco, Puerto Rico 00698. En cumplimiento de una orden dic tada por este Tribunal expido el presente bajo mi firma y se llo de este Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 12 de octubre de

2022. LUZ MAYRA CARABA LLO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL, SECRETARIA

DEL TRIBUNAL, CENTRO JUDICIAL, PONCE, PUERTO RICO. KATHERINE D. LÓPEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAYEY ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.

Demandante Vs. IRIS J. JIMENEZ ROSARIO

Demandada Civil Núm.: CY2022CV00235.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIEN

TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: IRIS J. JIMENEZ ROSARIO - ALTS DE MONTELLANO 2011 AVE

A R BARCELO APT 63, CAYEY PR 00736-4213.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presen tar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en re beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la de manda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la par te demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas di recciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, edwin.serrano@ orf-law.com y a la dirección no tificaciones@orf-law.com. EX

TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de sep tiembre de 2022. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiem bre de 2022. LISILDA MARTÍ

NEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV02165. (506). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SU BASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESIÓN DE RAÚL HERNÁNDEZ SAAVEDRA COMPUESTA POR ROSA MARINA ÓLIVER DELGADO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; ROSA MARINA ÓLIVER DELGADO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULE RO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Su perior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, procederé a ven der en Pública Subasta, al me jor postor, la propiedad inmue ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en públi ca subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 27 de junio de 2022. Los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al

procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se cele brará una SEGUNDA SUBAS TA para la venta de la susodi cha propiedad, el 7 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 12 de septiembre de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: UR BANA: Solar marcado con el número dieciséis (16) del Blo que “G” del Plano de Inscrip ción de la Urbanización El Re manso, situada en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, Mu nicipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos veintisiete punto veintinueve metros cuadrados (527.29 m/c). En lindes por el NORTE,en dos distancias, una de cuatro punto sesenta y ocho metros (4.68 m) y la otra de quince punto cincuenta metros (15.50 m) con terrenos propie dad de Rexach Mendoza Deve lopment Corporation; por el SUR, en dieciséis metros (16.00 m) con la calle número diez (10); por el ESTE, en trein ta y dos punto cuarenta y ocho metros (32.48 m) con el solar G diecisiete (G-17); y por el OES TE, en veintisiete punto cero cinco metros (27.05 m) con el solar G quince (G-15). Enclava una casa. Finca número 4,312, inscrita al folio 196 del tomo 140 de Monacillos Este y el Cin co. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. Dirección de la Propie dad: 16 G Canada St. Urb El Remanso, San Juan PR 00926. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde al cance, el importe de las canti dades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sen tencia dictada a su favor, a sa ber: de $264,114.01, con inte rés al 3.535% anual, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo el cual incluye in tereses y otros gastos acumula dos al 10 de noviembre de 2021, y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honora

rios de abogado en caso de re clamación judicial y que corres pondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $45,450.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, esti pulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deu da; más cualquiera suma de di nero por concepto de contribu ciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pac tadas en la escritura de hipote ca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epí grafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 4 y 43 otor gada el día 9 de enero de 2009 y 28 de enero de 2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Nota rio Público Hector L. Torres Vilá y consta inscrita al folio 127 del tomo 297 de Monacillos Este y el Cinco, finca número 4,312, Registro de la Propiedad de Monacillos Este y el Cinco, Sección Vde San Juan. Por la presente se notifica a los acree dores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a fa vor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $454,500.00, con interés inicial de 2.37%, vencedero el día 20 de enero de 2090, constituida mediante las escrituras número 5 y 43, otorgadas en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de enero de 2009 y 28 de enero de 2009, ante el notario Héctor L. Torres Vilá, respectivamente, e inscrita al folio 127 del tomo 297 de Mo nacillos Este y el Cinco, finca número 4,312, inscripción 15ta., y última. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la pri mera subasta del inmueble an tes descrito será la suma de $454,500.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta

do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $303,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $227,250.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se

publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 24 de octubre de 2022. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MU LERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA RE GIÓN JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante Vs. RAUL LIMA SAUCEDO Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01217. Salón: 906. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: RAUL LIMA SAUCEDO. 272 CALLE RAMOS RAMOS URB. ROOSEVELT, SAN JUAN PR 00918.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo

entiende procedente. El siste ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte deman dante, el Lcdo. Kenmuel J. Ruiz López cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.riuz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribu nal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de septiembre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA RE GIONAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYA MÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. JORGE ANTONIO BORGOS BERRÍOS

T/C/C JORGE A.

BORGOS BERRÍOS; LYS EVETTE MELÉNDEZ

DELGADO T/C/C LYS E. MELÉNDEZ DELGADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02286. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ES TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRI CA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Algua cil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 24 de agosto de 2022, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 12 de octubre de 2022 y el Manda miento de Ejecución del 13 de octubre de 2022 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el Cuarto Piso de la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, localiza da en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Superior, ubica do en la Carretera Número Dos (#2), Kilómetro 10.4, Esquina Esteban Padilla, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de Amé rica, 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: PROPIEDAD HORI ZONTAL: Condominio Brisas II de Toa Alta. Apartamento: 103. Cabida: 120.17 metros cuadra

dos. Apartamento construido en hormigón armado y bloques, localizado en la primera planta del Condominio Brisas II radi cado en el Barrio Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. En lindes por el NORTE: en una distancia de 36’ 8” o su equivalencia a 11.18 metros con pared medianera que lo separa del Apartamento Número Ciento Cuatro (104); por el SUR: en una distancia de 39’ 0” o su equivalencia a 11.89 metros con pared medianera que lo separa del Apartamento Número Ciento Dos (102); por el ESTE: en una distancia de 36’ 3” o equivalencia a 11.05 metros con el exterior; y por el OESTE: en una distancia de 23’ 11” o su equivalencia a 7.29 metros con el exterior y en una distancia de 12’ 1” equivalentes a 3.68 metros con corredor co mún. Consta de sala-comedor, comedor, cocina, laundry, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, un (1) closet en cada cuarto dormito rio, dos (2) baños, un (1) balcón y un (1) closet en pasillo. Este apartamento tiene una puerta principal que conecta con el corredor común donde se tiene acceso al exterior del edificio y al estacionamiento. Le co rresponde a este apartamento como anejo los usos exclusi vos y particulares de dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento identificados con los números veintitrés (23) y veinticuatro (24) ubicado en las áreas de estacionamiento del Condo minio según ilustrado en los planos de este Condominio. Área del apartamento: 1,293.00 pies cuadrados equivalente a 120.17 metros cuadrados. Área de estacionamiento: 278.15 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 25.85 metros cuadrados. El área total del apartamento y sus anejos: 1,571.15 pies cua drados, equivalentes a 146.02 metros cuadrados. A este apartamento además le corres ponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condo minio de 4.94%. La propiedad, la escritura de hipoteca y su modificación constan inscritas al tomo Karibe de Toa Alta, Fin ca 28391. Registro de la Pro piedad de Bayamón, Sección III. Inscripción primera y quinta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $144,401.96. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebra rá una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MA ÑANA, 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, $96,267.97. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el

mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $72,200.98. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la deman dante el importe de la Senten cia por la suma de $132,982.17 de principal, intereses sobre di cha suma al 7.25% anual desde el 1 de marzo de 2021 hasta su completo pago, más $525.40 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $14,450.00 para costas, gas tos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hi poteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Bitacora: AL ASIENTO 2022-067769BY03, el 24 de mayo de 2022, Demanda de fecha 4 de mayo de 2022, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Bayamón, en el caso Civil Número BY2022CV02286, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Jorge Antonio Borgos Berrios también co nocido como Jorge A. Borgos Berrios y su esposa, Lys Evette Meléndez Delgado también co nocida como Lys E. Meléndez Delgado, sobre Cobro de Di nero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $132,982.17 y otras canti dades, o la venta en Pública Subasta de la propiedad. Pen diente de anotación. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacio nados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examina dos, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Se cretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos sema nas 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, conti nuarán subsistentes; enten diéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en

la responsabilidad de los mis mos, sin destinarse a su extin ción 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. 210-2015. Y para el conoci miento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes inte resadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon dientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de octubre de 2022. EDGARDO ELÍAS

VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUA CIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CEN TRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE AGUADILLA

Parte Demandante Vs MODESTO PACHECO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2022CV00237. (603). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO. EDICTO.

A: MODESTO PACHECO. Se le apercibe que la parte de mandante por mediación del Lcdo. Rafael Fabre Colón, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265-0334, ha radicado la acción de epí grafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Pueden us tedes obtener mayor informa ción sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un tér mino de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epí grafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tri bunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Aguadilla, Puer to Rico, hoy 21 de octubre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS

TANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA. NATHALIE I. ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC. Parte

SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL

PELATI MALDONADO T/C/C MANUEL PELATI COMPUESTA POR AILEEN PELATI MORALES, ISABEL PELATI MORALES, MANOLO PELATI MORALES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE EVA

AMALIA MORALES EMERIC T/C/C EVA

MORALES EMERIC COMPUESTA POR AILEEN PELATI MORALES, ISABEL PELATI MORALES, MANOLO PELATI MORALES: JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV04767. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL PELATI MALDONADO T/C/C MANUEL PELATI COMPUESTA POR AILEEN PELATI MORALES, ISABEL PELATI MORALES, MANOLO PELATI MORALES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE EVA

AMALIA MORALES EMERIC T/C/C EVA MORALES EMERIC COMPUESTA POR

AILEEN PELATI MORALES, ISABEL PELATI MORALES, MANOLO PELATI MORALES: JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.

LA SECRETARIA que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Senten cia 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 ge neral 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, Sen tencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 60 días contados a partir de la publica ción por edicto de esta notifica ción, dirijo a usted esta notifica ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta no tificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fe cha 24 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. ELSA MAGALY CANDELARIO CA BRERA, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Demandante V. CARLOS E MERCED FERRER Demandado(a) Civil: CA2022CV00494. Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO ORDINARIO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARLOS E. MERCED FERRER JARDINES DE CAROLINA, J33 CALLE J, CAROLINA

PR 00987-7135.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen

tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de octubre de 2022. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2022.

LCDA. MARILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante (a) Vs. DORAL BANK AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03044.

Sala: 803. Sobre: CANCELA CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIA DO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted 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 notifica ción. 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍ GUEZ COLLADO, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. KAROLYN

RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2021CV02484. (703). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA. AVISO DE SUBAS TA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace cons tar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 11 de enero de 2022 por la Secreta ría del Tribunal de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, quien pagará el importe de la venta en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil suscribiente, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Améri ca, el día 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Baya món, todo título, derecho o inte rés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número A-2 de la Urbanización Forest Hills ra dicado en los Barrios Pájaros y Cerro Gordo del término muni cipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 393.96 metros cuadrados. Colindando por el Noreste, en 27.18 metros con el solar número A-3 de la Urbani zación; por el Sureste, en 14.50 metros con la Calle Marginal de la Urbanización; por el No roeste, en 14.50 metros con el Solar A-17 de la Urbanización; y por el Suroeste, en 27.16 me tros con el Solar A-1 y el Solar número A-19 de la Urbaniza ción. Enclava una casa. Finca número 8,320, inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 176 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Direc ción Física: 2-A Urbanización Forest Hills, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales; Autori dad de Acueductos y Alcanta

rillados; Puerto Rico Telephone Company; Condiciones Res trictivas de Edificación; Go bierno Municipal de Bayamón. Por sí afecta a: HIPOTECA: En garantía de un pagaré a favor de First Security Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $225,000.00, con interés al 7½%, y vencedero el 1 de agosto de 2025, según consta de la escritura #518, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de julio de 2005, ante la Notario Público María Isabel García Mantilla, inscrita al folio 53 del tomo 1855 de Bayamón Sur, finca #8320 inscripción 4ta. MODIFICACIÓN DE HI

POTECA: Es objeto de esta modificación la Hipoteca por $225,000.00, que surge de la inscripción 4ta, según consta de la escritura #38, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2014, ante el Notario Público Gadiel O. Rosario Rivera, inscrito al mar gen del folio 53 del tomo 1855 de Bayamón Sur, finca #8320, inscripción Nota Marginal.

ANOTACIÓN DE DEMANDA: Es objeto de esta anotación la Hipoteca a favor de First Security Mortgage, Inc., por la suma de $225,000.00 que surge de la inscripción #4ta.

Demandante: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Demandado: Titulares, Cantidad Adeuda da$348,733.49, por concepto de principal más intereses, se gún DEMANDA EXPEDIDA por el Tribunal de San Juan, en el caso Civil #BY2021CV02484 el día 28 de junio de 2021, inscrito al tomo Karibe, Anota ción Bayamón Sur, finca 8320, Anotación A, de fecha 6 de julio de 2021. Según pactado en la Escritura Número 518, otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de julio de 2005, ante la Notario Público María Isabel García Mantilla, que es objeto de este procedimiento, servirá de tipo mínimo para la primera subasta de la propiedad des crita la suma de $225,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propie dad en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Baya món, el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la segunda subasta será dos terceras partes (2/3) del tipo mínimo de la primera subas ta, o sea, $150,000.00. De no adjudicarse la propiedad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Bayamón, el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $112,500.00. Esta subasta se

hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde al cance, el importe adeudado a BAUTISTA REO PR CORP. las siguientes sumas adeudadas al 17 de septiembre de 2021: i. Bajo el Pagaré Operacional I, el Pagaré Operacional II y los de más documentos de préstamo mencionados, la Parte Deman dada adeuda a Bautista REO una suma de: (i) $205,735.10 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $91,317.83 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pa gados, los cuales incrementan diariamente a razón de $34.29 hasta su total y completo pago; más (iii) $3,985.70 por con cepto de cargos por demora; más (iv) $2,739.50 por con cepto de otros gastos; menos (v) $200.00 por concepto de fondos pendientes por aplicar a la deuda; ii. Bajo el Pagaré Operacional III y los demás documentos de préstamo, la suma agregada de $25,886.00. iii. Además, adeuda la suma de $22,500.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado expresamente pactados por las partes, según se desprende del Pagaré Hi potecario y la Hipoteca, según modificados; más los gastos que se continúen acumulando conforme a los términos y con diciones estipuladas entre las partes en los documentos de préstamo objeto de esta acción. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anterior mente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se en tiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferen te, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, con tinuará subsistente, entendién dose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los do cumentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en po sesión física del inmueble, de conformidad con las disposicio nes de Ley. POR LA PRESEN TE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas regis trales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio ante riormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecu

tante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efec tuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPE DIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 13 de octubre de 2022.

EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXI LIAR PLACA #193, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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Demandante (a) Vs. JOSÉ ELÍ TOLEDO VICENS

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04472. Sala: 908. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO VÍA ORDINARIA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOSÉ ELÍ TOLEDO VICENS.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted 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 notifica ción. 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 conta dos 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 notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2022. GRISEL

DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL IN TERINA. ANGELA M. RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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GARCÍA MARTE, MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES ANDÚJAR IRIZARRY, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado(a)

Civil: TB2022CV00306. Sala: 504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: AGUSTIN RAFAEL

GARCIA MARTE, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES ANDUJAR IRIZARRY AMBOS POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted 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 notifica ción. 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2022. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. AMALYN FIGUEROA NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO

SUPERIOR

POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante

SUCESIÓN DE HARRY

TORRES ROCHE, COMPUESTA POR SUS

HIJOS: MAITE SUZETTE

TORRES IRIZARRY T/C/C

MAITE SUZETTE SANTOS

TORRES; HARRY

GABRIEL TORRES

IRIZARRY; y ALEJANDRO

JOSÉ TORRES

IRIZARRY; DEBRAH SUZETTE IRIZARRY

RIVERA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

C.R.I.M., ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandado(a)

Civil: HU2022CV00484. Sobre:

COBRO DE DINERO Y EJE CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA

POR EDICTO.

A: MAITE SUZETTE TORRES IRIZARRY T/C/C

MAITE SUZETTE SANTOS TORRES, HARRY GABRIEL TORRES

IRIZARRY, ALEJANDRO

JOSÉ TORRES IRIZARRY

COMO HEREDEROS DE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE HARRY TORRES ROCHE; DIRECCION; MARDEN RIDGW LOOP APT 214 APOPKA, FL 32703-6950; PALMANOVA PLAZA, PALMAS DEL MAR, APART. #212 MOD. TIPO A 2NDO PISO, EDIF. COND. PALMANOVA PLAZA PALMASINN / ROAD PALMAS DEL MAR, BO. CANDELERO ABAJO, HUMACAO, PR 00791; PO BOX 1402 YABUCOA, PR 00767, 251 BURGOYNE

LOOP DAVENPORT, FL33897-6698, 2554 LAKE DEBRA DR APT. 25113 ORLANDO, FL 328358711, P/C LCDO; REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de OCTUBRE de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y,

siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de OCTUBRE de 2022. En HUMACAO, Puer to Rico, el 26 de OCTUBRE De 2022. IVELISSE FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRE TARIA AUXILIAR.

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DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC. Demandante V. CMFC, INC, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD REO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: UT2022CV00192. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CMFC, INC. US DEPARTMENTE OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 451 TH STREET S.W., WASHINGTON DC 20410. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican fa sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted 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 notifica ción. 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de

este caso, con fecha de 25 de octubre de 2022. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 25 de octubre de 2022. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. GLORIA I. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MINERVA OSORIO MOLINA COMPUESTA POR CARLOS LUIS MONTES OSORIO, LIZAIDA MONTES OSORIO, WILMA MONTES OSORIO; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; JOSÉ ANTONIO SANTIAGO CARABALLO, POR SÍ Y COMO CONYUGE SUPERSTITE; LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL YADEL OSORIO MONTES COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; CRIM Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00776.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA Y COBRO DE DINE RO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: CARLOS LUIS MONTES OSORIO; LIZAIDA MONTES OSORIO; WILMA MONTES OSORIO; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MINERVA OSORIO MOLINA Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLE HEREDERO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL YADEL MONTES OSORIO.

POR LA PRESENTE se les em plaza y requiere para que con teste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Us ted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original

de su contestación ante el Tri bunal correspondiente y notifi que con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marie L. Quiñones Tañón, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número men cionado en el epígrafe. Se ale ga en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los me ses de marzo de 2022, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte de mandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hi potecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $73,351.21, más intereses a razón del 5.50% anual, desde el 1 de febrero de 2022, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha an teriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su ven cimiento, más adelantos para el pago de seguros y contribu ciones, entre otros; más una suma equivalente a ($9,384.00) por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte De mandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PEN DIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Parcela de terreno localizada en la Urbani zación Villa del Pilar del térmi no municipal de Ceiba, Puerto Rico, localizada en la manzana D, solar número cuatro, con un área superficial de trescientos quince metros con sesenta centímetros. En lindes por el NORTE, en veinticuatro metros con el solar número cinco de la manzana D; por el SUR, en veinticuatro metros con el solar número tres de la manzana D; por el ESTE, en trece metros quince centímetros con la Calle San Rafael; y por el OESTE, en catorce metros ochenta y cin co centímetros con lo solares quince y catorce de la manzana D. En este solar se construyó una casa de hormigón de tres dormitorios, dos baños, sala, comedor-cocina, balcón y mar quesina para un automóvil. Se

segrega de la finca número 1,027, inscrita al folio 106 vuel to del tomo 34 de Ceiba. Cons ta inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 55 de Ceiba, Finca número# 2,599. Registro de la Propie dad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del tér mino legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corres ponda en la herencia de la DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MINERVA

OSORIO MOLINA Y LA SU CESIÓN DE ÁNGEL MONTES

OSORIO De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará senten cia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribu nal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. A 27 de octubre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. LINDA I. ME DINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL L.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERO RICO

Demandante Vs PEDRO JOARIS LEBRON QUIÑONES; XIOMARA ENID ALBERTY RUIZ Y LA SOCIEDD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SS2022CV00264.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA - IN REM. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

A: PEDRO JOARIS LEBRON QUIÑONES

XIOMARA ENID ALBERTY RUIZ Y LA SOCIEDD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de agosto de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted 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 notifica ción. 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de octubre de 2022. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 25 de octubre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRE TARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ROBERTO MENDOZA HORTA COMPUESTA POR ERIC RAFAEL MENDOZA, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE MARICARMEN MENDOZA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandado (a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05192. Sala: 508. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: SUCESIÓN DE ROBERTO MENDOZA HORTA COMPUESTA POR ERIC RAFAEL MENDOZA, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE MARICARMEN MENDOZA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO. EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,

Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted 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 notifica ción. 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 conta dos 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 notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de octubre de 2022. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 28 de octubre de 2022. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL. MAR THA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Estado Libre Asociado de Puer to Rico TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia Sala Superior de TOA ALTA.

GERALD

KLEIS PASARELL

Demandante V. ALAN BRAM GOLDMAN

Demandado(a) Civil: BY2021CV05162. Sobre: COBRO DINERO. NOTIFICA CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de octubre de 2022. En TOA ALTA , Puerto Rico, el 21 de octu bre de 2022. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretaria. Maritza Bonilla Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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MTGLQ INVESTORS L.P. Demandante V.S. SUCESIÓN DE ORLANDO

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que 20 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted 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 notifica ción. 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 edic

MOYENO ACEVEDO COMPUESTA POR: JOEL MOYENO VAZQUEZ, ORLANDO MOYENO VAZQUEZ, ROLANDO MOYENO DE LA TORRE Y NECTAR ILIA MOYENO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; HONORABLE SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06597. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVI SO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil de la Di visión de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, a la demandada y al público en general, les no tifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha libra do en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 12 de octubre de 2022 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $41,856.55 de principal, dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 13 de junio de 2022, notificada y archivada en autos el 21 de junio de 2022; procederé a vender en públi ca subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo dere cho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se des cribe a continuación: 223 Cani llas St., Río Piedras, PR 00923.

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 23 de la calle Canillas

A: ALAN BRAM GOLDMAN T/C/C ALAN GOLDMAN, 190 NORTHWOOD DRIVE, E. MONTPELIER, VERMONT 05667

en el plano de inscripción del proyecto denominado ARF-19

El Plebiscito II, radicado en la zona urbana del término mu nicipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 176.48 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle Canillas, distancia de 10.15 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 411, distancia de 10.30 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 21, distan cia de 16.87 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 25, distancia de 17.75 metros.

Finca 8976 Inscrita al Folio 281 del Tomo 722 de Sabana Lla na, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta.

Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la par te demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígra fe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $41,856.55 de principal; in tereses al 6.996%, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; un balance diferido de $6,973.70, recargos a razón del 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de los quince (15) días después de la fecha de venci miento; más el 10% del princi pal o $4,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abo gados pactado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $45,000.00 según la escritura de hipoteca para la propiedad antes descrita. De declararse la subasta desierta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y ser virá de tipo mínimo de 2/3 del precio mínimo antes mencio nado; $30,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera su basta, en la cual regirá como tipo mínimo ésta la 1/2 del precio mínimo antes mencio nado; $22,500.00. Art. 104 de la Ley Hipotecaria, 30 L.P.R.A. sec. 2721. Para el lote descri to, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 5 DE DICIEM

BRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no compare cer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MA

ÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. De Estudio de Titulo rea lizado, no surgen gravámenes preferentes y/o posteriores. 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 Nortea mérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimien to 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 eje cutando, 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 publica ciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del munici pio 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 certifica do con acuse de recibo a la úl tima dirección conocida: Se les advierte a todos los interesa dos que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipote ca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas tante la titulación y que las car gas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continua rán subsiguientes entendiéndo se que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad 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 ju dicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cance lación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la de mandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspon dientes. Librado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 20 de octubre de 2022. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁ LEZ, ALGUACIL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. DANIEL COLÓN LEBRÓN

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV03605. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE

GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SU BASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons tar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Uni dos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se descri be a continuación: URBANA: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY.

La providencia Condominium, apartment 1102. Rectangular shaped three (3) bedroom unit with a total construction área of 914.93 square feet, equivalent to 85.00 square meters distribu ted in 798.06 square feet, equi valent to 74.14 square meters of enclosed area and 116.87 square feet, equivalent to 10.86 square meters of porch. The main entrance is located on the South side. This apartment oc cupies part of the eleventh floor of the building. The máximum lenght of this unit is twenty five feet five inches (25’5’”) and the maximum width is forty four feet four inches (44’4”). Its bounda ries are: by the NORTHEAST, in a distance of forty four feet four inches (44’4’), equivalent to thirteen point fifty two (13.52) meters with the common wall that separates it from apartment number one thousand one hundred one (1101) and the common interior areas; by the SOUTHWEST, in a distance of forty four feet four inches (44’4”) equivalent to thirteen point fifty two (13.52) meters with exterior common areas; by the SOUTHEAST, in a distance of twenty five feet three inches (25’3”), equivalent to seven point seventy (7.70) meters with the exterior common areas; and by the NORTHWEST, in a dis tance of twenty four feet one inch (24’1”) equivalent to seven point thirty four (7.34) meters with the common wall that se parates it from apartment num ber one thousand one hundred three (1103) and interior and exterior common areas. This unit contains a kitchen, a living room, a dinning room, three (3) bedrooms, with closet, two (2) bathrooms and covered porch. Se le asigna a este apartamen

to el estacionamiento numero treinta y ocho (38) como ele mento común limitado. Este apartamento tiene una partici pación de dos punto seis uno tres porciento (2.613%), en los elementos comunes del Condo minio. Dirección Física: Cond. La Providencia, Apartamento 1102, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Finca 26,222., inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 32 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de San Juan. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso.

C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la respon sabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el pre cio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes poste riores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguien tes gravámenes posteriores:

1. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Corporación para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $25,482.00, sin intereses y vencedero en 20 años, cons tituida mediante la escritura número 417, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de julio de 2000, ante el notario Mi guel A. García Rivera, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 32 A de Mo nacillos, finca número 26,222, inscripción 2da. 2. Subordina da la hipoteca que surge de la inscripción 2da., por la suma de $25,482.00, para que la hipote ca que surge de la inscripción 1ra., por $62,500.00, modifica da según inscripción 4ta., tenga rango preferente, mediante la escritura número 95, otorga da en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de febrero de 2013, ante la notario Ileana Quintero Aguiló, e inscrita al folio 198 del tomo 967 de Monacillos, finca número 26,222, inscrip ción 5ta. 3. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 6 de febrero de 2020, expedido en el Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ2019CV00324, so bre cobro de dinero, seguido por Asociación de Condominio La Providencia, contra Daniel Colón Lebrón, por la suma de $15,718.50, más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 22 de septiembre de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Monacillos, finca nú mero 26,222, Anotación A. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo

para satisfacer a la parte de mandante el importe de la sen tencia que ha obtenido ascen dente a la suma principal de la suma principal de $62,766.65, más los intereses a razón del 5.6% anual, acumulados des de el 1ro. de octubre de 2020, hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y pri mas de seguro adeudados y los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $6,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se cele brará el día 29 DE NOVIEM BRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Prime ra Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $62,500.00.

De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes menciona do. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $41,666.67. De decla rarse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TER CERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mis mo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $31,250.00.

Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un pe riódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos con forme a la ley, expido la presen te bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 24 de octubre de 2022 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATÍ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. DENNIS LOZADA CACERES Demandado Civil Núm.: MT2021CV00641. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC TO.

A: DENNIS LOZADA CACERESVILLA EVANGELINA T248 CALLE 15 MANATÍ, PUERTO RICO 006746104.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes

a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo en tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abo gado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose. aguilar@orf-law.com y a la di rección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de septiembre de 2022. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 29 de septiembre de 2022. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secreta ria Regional. Iris M. Miranda Núñez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

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Civil Núm.: TA2022CV01030. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO

TENEDORES Y

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DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario 32,400.00, intereses al 9 1/2% anual, vencedero el 1ero de mayo de 2009. Dicho pagaré fue suscrito el día el día 4 de abril de 1979, ante el notario Raúl J. Vila Se lles, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritu ra número 709, inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 284 de Toa Baja, sobre la propiedad que se des cribe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbaniza ción Lagos de Plata, Primera Sección, situado en el barrio Sabana Seca del término muni cipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número, área y colindan cias que se relacionan a conti nuación: solar número 7-A del bloque H, área del solar 228.75 metros cuadrados. En lides por el NORTE, con el solar número 8, en una distancia de 25.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar número 7 en una distancia de 25.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle número 6 distancia de 9.15 metros; y por el OESTE, con la Avenida del Lago, en una distancia de 9.15 metros. Enclava una casa de concreto armado y bloques para fines residenciales. Finca número 17,062, inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 284 de Toa Baja. Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de B. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que pue de examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódi co de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico y se le requiere para que radique en este Tribu nal su contestación y notifique con copia de ella al abogado de la parte demandante la LCDA.

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que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribu nal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la De manda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Ba yamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2022. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secre taria Regional. Maritza Bonilla Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

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ACEVEDO SANTIAGO Demandado(a) Civil: JD2022CV00116. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFI CACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: IVETTE ACEVEDO SANTIAGO. P/C LCDO. KEVIN SANCHEZ CAMPANERO PARA SER PUBLICADA POR EDICTO.

(Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted 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 notifica ción. 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 edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de octubre de 2022. En Jua na Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 25 de octubre de 2022.

LUZ MAYRA CARABALLO GARCÍA, SE CRETARIA. DORIS A. RODRÍ GUEZ COLÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

A thoroughly modern old-school baseball executive

By DAVID WALDSTEIN

The Fighting Phillies are a plucky group of wild-card upstarts who have shocked the baseball world by playing into November.

Then again, with Dave Dombrowski in charge, is it really so surprising that Phila delphia is in the World Series?

For the last quarter-century, when Dombrowski was at the helm of a baseball team’s front office, it meant a World Series berth during his tenure. The Florida Marlins found that out in 1997, the Detroit Tigers in 2006 and 2012. It came to fruition for the Boston Red Sox in 2018, and this year for the Phillies, who hired Dombrowski to be their president of baseball operations in December 2020.

He is the only head of baseball opera tions to take four franchises to the World Series. Now he has a chance to become the first to win a World Series with three of them. It would be a remarkable achieve ment, and it is not lost on those who see the Phillies as an extension of Dombrowski’s well-honed baseball vision.

“It’s his baby: this moment, this year,” said Bryce Harper, the centerpiece of the Phillies’ roster. “Dombrowski is an unbe lievable president.”

Harper was a member of the Phillies before Dombrowski arrived, having signed a 13-year, $330 million contract with the club in 2019. But since then, Dombrowski and his general manager, Sam Fuld, have added, and kept, key pieces to build yet an other team with a chance at a trophy.

Whether investing in the productive players he inherited from the team’s pre vious general manager, Matt Klentak, or acquiring new faces via free agency and trades, Dombrowski has done what he has always done: add, tweak, spend, commit — and win.

“Just look at his track record,” said John Middleton, the principal owner of the Phil lies. “He’s won everywhere.”

But it is not just that Dombrowski, 66, has constructed four pennant winners and two champions (along with seven division champions). Many people have hits and misses over time. What is most remarkable is that since taking over the expansion Mar lins in 1991, Dombrowski has managed to find this level of success with every team he

has joined.

Both old- and new-school, Dom browski is smart, exacting, aggressive, de cisive and experienced. He was working in the Chicago White Sox’ front office when Dusty Baker, the Houston Astros’ 73-yearold manager, was still in the middle of his playing career. His résumé stretches back to when batting average was considered the most important statistic.

He was once the youngest head of baseball operations, and now he is one of the oldest; working, adapting and succeed ing across more eras of baseball history than double-knit uniforms, cellphones and compact discs.

For many traditionalist fans, who disdain the modern analytical movement, Dom browski is upheld as a kind of savior, prov ing that “baseball people” still know how to build teams based on talent, not math. The archetype of the modern general manager is a young, highly educated computer whiz who relies on complex equations and algo rithms at the expense of visual insight and hard-earned baseball expertise.

But don’t be fooled by stereotypes. Dombrowski uses advanced statistics for both player procurement and in-game tac tics, and has a 20-person analytics staff to prove it. But he blends it with the experi ence he has gained in more than 40 years in professional baseball.

“You learn so many things along the way and you apply them,” he said. “But the key is that you’ve got to get good players and have a good organization, however you want to define that.”

Many of the moves that he made to help construct the current National League champions are familiar to longtime Dom browski watchers. Spend money, trade prospects for established players to go for it all, right now.

He used that formula in Boston in 2018 by adding Chris Sale, David Price and J.D. Martinez to a group that included Mookie Betts, Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers and Christian Vázquez.

Now a member of the Astros, Vázquez personifies why many players and agents appreciate Dombrowski’s approach. Hint: It has something to do with the three-year, $13.55 million extension he signed with Boston in 2018.

“I’ll always be grateful for that,”

Vázquez said. “He does what it takes to win. That’s how we won that year. We got Chris Sale and all those guys. He gave all the prospects away, and we won a World Series.”

The strategy does not always work, of course, and when you make decisions over four decades, there are blemishes. While serving as Montreal’s general manager, Dombrowski traded a prospect named Ran dy Johnson in a package for Mark Langs ton. It was an aggressive, win-now move that failed. But it did not dissuade him, and Dombrowski is almost certainly destined for the Hall of Fame (where he would join Johnson).

Now, Dombrowski may have found his ideal team owner in Middleton, a longtime Phillies fan who yearns for success after years of failure. Middleton believes in Dom browski’s demanding approach to building a top-flight baseball department.

“He cares about people,” the owner said, “but he’s not going to let somebody who he doesn’t think meets his World Se ries caliber standards stay in the organiza tion. He’s going to kind of say: ‘Guys, here’s the standard. We need to hit this standard, and if you can’t meet the standard, you have to leave.’”

In Philadelphia, Dombrowski inher ited many of the team’s current top players, like Harper and J.T. Realmuto, the talented catcher. But when Realmuto became a free agent after the 2020 season, Dombrowski anchored him to Philadelphia with a fiveyear, $115.5 million contract. When he saw the team needed more punch, he signed Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellanos, two significant contributors, especially in the postseason.

To stabilize the outfield defense be tween Schwarber and Castellanos, Dom browski acquired center fielder Brandon Marsh from the Los Angeles Angels in Au gust, along with the nervy relief pitcher Da vid Robertson and the versatile right-hander Noah Syndergaard, who will start Game 3 of the World Series on Monday.

Perhaps the most decisive move was firing Joe Girardi as manager after a disap pointing 22-29 start this season, and replac ing him with his bench coach, Rob Thom son, who had never managed in the big leagues. Many players see it as the turning point.

“During the season, you make adjust ments, you make a manager change, things like that,” Harper said, “and it just kind of goes from there.”

Dave Dombrowski has been working in M.L.B. front offices since 1978. As a president of baseball operations, he has led four different franchises to the World Series.

What we learned from Week 8 in the NFL

By DERRIK KLASSEN

With NFC teams playing disconcertingly average football, only the 6-1 Minnesota Vikings have established a cushion in their division, while the NFC East, led by the unbeaten Philadelphia Eagles has looked like the toughest division in football.

Through Week 8, though, the sample size of perfor mances has given way to some concrete takeaways about which teams can contend and which records look funny when held up to the light.

There’s no good way to counter the Eagles’ offense.

The Eagles do a lot schematically on offense. They rely on two-tight-end sets more than most offenses and often de ploy quarterback Jalen Hurts in a creative run game; Phila delphia dials up effective run-pass options and can still burn opposing secondaries with passes deep down the sideline.

No specific personnel packages or play concepts define the Eagles offense, though. Coach Nick Sirianni’s philosophy is no more complicated than “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Every week, the overwhelming talent of the Eagles (7-0) allows for simple play-calling: Sirianni and staff find the one thing the defense cannot defend and spam it relentlessly.

When they played the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 4, zone read was their play of choice, as they endlessly picked on Jacksonville’s young defensive front.

The next week against the Arizona Cardinals, Sirianni repeatedly called run-pass options with routes into the flat, forcing Arizona’s defenders to decide if they wanted to guard against the run or fly out to the sideline to prevent the quick throws that rack up yards after catch.

On Sunday, in the Eagles’ 35-13 win against the Steel ers (2-6), the game plan followed a similar theme. Though featuring a solid defense overall, Pittsburgh is weak at cor nerback, and the Eagles took advantage. Hurts’ first three touchdowns were all deep shots to A.J. Brown down the right side. The first score featured Brown lining up tighter to the formation before he expanded outside during his verti cal route. The next two were nothing more than simple go balls thrown down the sideline.

As Hurts threw straight down the field to Brown, a speedster who can win balls through contact, Pittsburgh could not stop their connection without dedicating all of the defense’s schematic resources to it.

Going all in to stop one effective Eagles tactic is no an swer, either. Philadelphia has the personnel to simply pivot to the quarterback run game, or the screen game, or RPOs, or whatever has opened up. The Eagles always have some thing, and they know how to find it every week, every drive, every play.

Around the NFL

Bills 27, Packers 17: It was a tale of two halves for Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. In the first half, Allen torched the Green Bay Packers’ secondary, throwing touchdowns on two consecutive drives before leading the charge for an Isa iah McKenzie rushing touchdown on the next drive. But in a 3-point second half, Allen threw two picks, allowing Aar

The Philadelphia Eagles do a lot schematically on offense, including relying on two-tight-end sets more than most offenses and often deploying quarterback Jalen Hurts in a creative run game. They also dial up effective run-pass options and can still burn opposing secondaries with passes deep down the sideline.

on Rodgers and the Packers back into the game, although Green Bay’s second-half push proved too little, too late.

Commanders 17, Colts 16: Indianapolis Colts quarter back Sam Ehlinger almost got away with a win in his first NFL start. The Colts led for nearly all of the fourth quarter, but a miraculous deep ball from Washington Command ers quarterback Taylor Heinicke to wideout Terry McLaurin with less than 30 seconds left gave Washington the ball on the 1-yard line, and Heinicke ran it in on the next play for the lead.

49ers 31, Rams 14: While the play of San Francisco’s front seven is usually the driving force in the team’s victo ries, especially over the Rams, this time it was Christian Mc Caffrey. After a full week of digesting the playbook and get ting familiar with his team, McCaffrey looked unstoppable scoring three touchdowns.

Seahawks 27, Giants 13: It took a minute for the Seattle Seahawks’ offense to get moving, but it came alive in the second half thanks to a few explosive plays. Quarterback Geno Smith found Tyler Lockett on a 33-yard throw with 9:18 to go in the fourth quarter, giving the Seahawks the lead for good.

Titans 17, Texans 10: Tennessee Titans rookie quarter back Malik Willis made his first start in place of an injured Ryan Tannehill, but coach Mike Vrabel did not put the of fense on his shoulders right away. The Titans fully embraced Derrick Henry, giving him 32 carries; Henry’s 219 yards was the highest single-game mark in the league this year.

Patriots 22, Jets 17: Mac Jones got off to a horrific start, throwing an interception early as the Patriots fell behind, 10-3. Zach Wilson got off to a hot start, throwing for 132

yards and a touchdown through his first 13 attempts. But the game quickly turned with 2 minutes left in the first half. Wilson threw three interceptions from that point on, while the Patriots capitalized on the field position and churned out 16 second-half points.

Falcons 37, Panthers 34 (OT ): Nobody wants to win the NFC South. With less than 30 seconds left in regulation, the Falcons surrendered a 6-point lead to the Panthers on P.J. Walker’s 62-yard touchdown pass to D.J. Moore. The extra point should have given the Panthers the win, but Moore took his helmet off after the touchdown, resulting in a pen alty enforced on the attempt. Panthers kicker Eddy Pineiro then missed the kick, sending the game to overtime. Pineiro missed a 32-yard potential game-winning field goal in over time, and Atlanta converted on a 41-yard field goal to put everyone out of their misery. The 4-4 Falcons now lead the NFC South.

Cowboys 49, Bears 29: This game got away from the Bears immediately. Dak Prescott layered passes all over the field, building a 14-0 first-quarter lead by rifling in deep seam throws to CeeDee Lamb just as easily as he found timely checkdowns to keep the sticks moving.

Dolphins 31, Lions 27: The Lions tend to play one good half of football each week. On Sunday, it came in the first half, when Detroit jumped out to a 27-17 lead. The Dolphins’ offense ebbed and flowed depending on how open Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle were 20 yards down the field. Mi ami’s chaotic defense came alive in the second half, though, and goose-egged the Lions the rest of the way, giving Tua Tagovailoa the opportunity to throw the team to a secondhalf comeback.

Vikings 34, Cardinals 26: Kliff Kingsbury can’t help but put DeAndre Hopkins on the left side of the formation and pray for the best. Hopkins still earned his production (12 catches, 159 yards and a touchdown), but the lack of creativ ity and movement limited the rest of the offense despite A.J. Green’s return from injury. The Vikings escaped with anoth er relatively close win, thanks to season highs in rushing (111) and receiving yards (30) from running back Dalvin Cook.

Saints 24, Raiders 0: The Raiders join the Colts and Li ons as the only teams to be shut out this season. Derek Carr and the passing game were horrendous. Not only did Da vante Adams earn just 3 yards on one reception, but Hunter Renfrow gained only 6 yards on one reception as well. Carr was perpetually rattled by the Saints’ pass rush, and there weren’t many receivers open down the field in the few in stances he was able to hang in the pocket. Andy Dalton and the Saints slowly carved up the Las Vegas defense with the occasional explosive play from Alvin Kamara (two receiving touchdowns, one rushing).

Broncos 21, Jaguars 17: All it took was one miracle throw from Russell Wilson to earn the win. After an up-anddown performance for most of the game, Wilson nailed K.J. Hamler down the right sideline for a 47-yard gain with 3:49 left in the fourth quarter. The play immediately put the Bron cos in scoring range, setting them up for the go-ahead touch down six plays later.

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You might take matters more personally that usual. With a focus on intensive Scorpio, many things could seem urgent, and this might cause you to overreact to dramas over coming weeks. Not everyone perceives things as you do, so it may be worth asking a friend for advice. Their optimistic perspective can rub off on you, and before you know matters might not seem so bad.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Don’t put yourself down when you have so much to offer. Bypass any tendency to think you aren’t good enough, and believe that you are. The Moon/Jupiter aspect is one to take advantage of. It can give you enough of a boost to inspire you out of your comfort zone. Mind, if you insist on playing it small and avoid having a go, you’ll end up disappointed that you didn’t try harder.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Your work can engross you, causing you to focus on it to the exclusion of everything else. So, if someone invites you to an event you may refuse, which is most unlike you, being the sociable type that you are. Go anyway Gemini! You need to come up for air and take a break. Let your curiosity open doors for you today. You’ll return to your job refreshed and truly invigorated.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Leisure and pleasure take on a whole new meaning, as you’ll be looking for activities that can change and transform you. A chat with a new friend could turn into a therapy session, or a first date might find you listening to someone’s troubles and woes, and assisting them in putting things into perspective. Art or crafts may be therapeutic too, helping you channel wayward emotions.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Ready for radical change at home or regards a family situation? If sitting tight and hoping for the best has got you nowhere, current influences may bring things to a head. There might be no escaping some of the situations you need to tackle, and the sooner the better, Leo. But once you have made a difficult decision, don’t dwell on it. It’s time to move on to more uplifting matters.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

If your mind is working overtime trying to sort something out, you are on the wrong tracks and could end up frazzled and tired. The focus on your communication zone can highlight intense issues, and cause a mental storm that is more stressful than helpful. Letting go of whatever is bothering you is vital to success. Give yourself space to find answers and they will come, Virgo.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

As the Moon aligns with Jupiter, it puts a positive spin on things and encourages you to explore new possibilities. If an awkward issue is looming over you, don’t brush it under the carpet Libra, deal with it as soon as possible. Once out of the way, you can go back to the many opportunities for enhancing your income and for creative entrepreneurship, that are showing up for you.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

As Mercury, the Sun and Venus continue in your sign, you’ll have big plans on the go. But what are they? Trust your intuition, and let it help you to decide. You may be restless, but having a firm direction and meaningful goals will give you a sense of satisfaction and of being on track. Once you know where you’re heading and start making progress, you can enjoy the journey, Scorpio.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

The coming weeks look to be a process of discovery and illumination. You may find out a lot about yourself that you didn’t know before, and this could be life-changing, Archer. If you feel there are areas that need attention, this is an excellent opportunity to get stuck in. You might need to turn you attention away from the outside to your inner game, but this is where the action is.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

With a focus on group activities and teamwork, the weeks ahead can keep you busy. But there are still opportunities that could lead to a lucrative offer or a side-hustle. And if you give some attention to this, you might benefit greatly. At the same time, becoming a member of club that has some influence may raise your own status. If you’re invited, then give it a go, Capricorn.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

It’s time to make a stand on the stage of life, Aquarius. As key planets move more deeply into a prominent zone, you’ll have the desire and energy to make a big splash. If you feel ambitious, then use this to propel yourself forward. Your instincts can also play a big part in helping you make wise choices about your future. If you get a gut feeling to explore a new idea, go for it!

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

A dynamic focus could be the reason you feel optimistic, and it may not be due to anything particular. It’s more that you know you can handle whatever crops up. Mind, with the Moon aligning with Pluto, a social matter might be a cause for concern. What you say could swing things either way, so use your words to smooth over any difficulties and get the best outcome.