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A ‘Downto-Earth Alternative’ PDP President Ortiz González Will Run for Governor P3

González Colón Says Pierluisi Campaign Sounds ‘Terrified’ of Her Yet to Be Named Running Mate

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Protesters Demand End to AES Contract, Urge Denial of Amendments Request P5

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opular Democratic Party (PDP) President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González announced Monday through social media that he will seek the PDP candidacy for governor and lead his party to victory in November 2024.

“Today, I take a step forward for my country, convinced that those who govern came to power by making promises to the people knowing that they were not going to keep them,” Ortiz González said. “While this happens, the people suffer the most serious consequences -- recovery funds are not used effectively, and anguish from waiting months for a doctor’s appointment, the daily battle with a crumbling electrical system, lack of employment opportunities, the deterioration of essential services, and so many other problems. Those who govern do not understand the urgency of addressing these problems because they have never experienced them. I do not come to make promises, I come to commit to honesty, a commitment to work hard for a better country and never to forget where I come from.”

Ortiz González will compete in the primaries against Sen. Juan Zaragoza Gómez, a former Treasury secretary, who invited Ortiz González on Monday to debates in the island’s 78 municipalities so each could present their government platform.

During his announcement speech, the current atlarge representative presented his story and highlighted how the PDP has since its creation fought to promote opportunities for middle-class residents of Puerto Rico.

“I come from a middle-class family, educated in public schools and local universities all my life. I know first-hand, because I lived it, what it is like to have three jobs to support my home and my family from a very young age,” Ortiz González said. “That effort that thousands of Puerto Ricans have to make every day to get ahead is the effort that has allowed me to be here and present myself to the country as a sensitive and down-to-earth alternative.”

Ortiz González has a bachelor’s degree in communications, was a radio journalist, and is a professional relations specialist and lawyer. His experience includes working in the private sector in the media, in public service in the executive branch, and in elective positions in the Legislature and in the PDP. “Today, I offer the country my life experience, my sensitivity, my youth, and my strength to become the next governor of all of us who live on this island,” he said.

Ortiz González announced that his candidacy will be filed on Dec. 16, 2023 at Ernesto Ramos Antonini Convention Center in Barceloneta.

Later on Monday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, the president of the New Progressive Party (NPP), said in response to Ortiz González’s announcement, “I wel-

come you to the ring.”

“Next year will be a campaign year and the race is already being defined,” the governor said in response to questions from the press.

Pierluisi added that the important thing in the campaign will be for all candidates to communicate their ideas for the benefit of voters.

Senate candidate Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz and resident commissioner candidate Pablo José Hernández Rivera, both of the PDP, published messages on their social networks supporting Ortiz González.

“For me, it will be an honor to accompany Jesús Manuel and Pablo José Hernández Rivera in this great challenge of taking our land forward, and from the Senate, I will be part of this great team that will rescue Puerto Rico,” Hernández Ortiz said.

San Juan City Assemblyman Manuel Calderón Cerame, who is running for a seat in the island House of Representatives under the PDP banner, said he identifies with Ortiz González in that both are young parents and wish to leave their children something better.

Meanwhile, Edwin Mundo Ríos, who is working in Pierluisi’s re-election campaign, said the NPP is not losing sleep over Zaragoza or Ortiz.

He said it is a race between a candidate who did not pay tax returns and another who has no support.

Popular Democratic Party President Jesús Manuel Ortiz González

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González Colón: Pierluisi campaign sounds ‘terrified’ of her unnamed ticketmate

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lthough the announcement has yet to be made of the candidate for resident commissioner who will be the running mate of current Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón in her quest to become the New Progressive Party’s (NPP) candidate for governor, González Colón said Monday that Edwin Mundo Ríos, the campaign director of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, is “panicked” about the soon-to-be announced candidate’s identity.

“First I have to laugh, because the governor’s campaign manager is more interested in my campaign than his,” González Colón told reporters. “And I would urge you to start looking for your candidate for resident commissioner; I have had mine for a month, and every Monday or Sunday, they attack me with things.” “I think Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón they are terrified of the person I have selected for resident “When I announce my candidate, they will answer commissioner, because instead of talking about looking all the questions there,” she said. “Those are allegations. for a candidate for themselves, they are focused on attacking mine without knowing who he is,” she added. I am not going to answer the allegations or speculations.

When asked if her candidate for the island’s non-vot- Much less, people throwing stones without knowing ing delegate to the U.S. Congress would be the former who the candidate is.”

Regarding the issue of oversight of the LUMA Enersecretary of state under the administration of former Gov. Ricky Rosselló Nevares, of Elmer Román, under gy contract, González Colón attacked Pierluisi, stating the context that he gave his support to the LUMA Energy that: “And someone who has been a lawyer for LUMA contract at that time, González Colón responded: “Those is the governor, and I believe that in that sense the big difference that you will see with me, I am going to suare the allegations.”

pervise this contract; I am going to supervise LUMA so that it provides efficient service, economical service and service that the people of Puerto Rico provide -- those are going to be my functions.”

On Sunday, Mundo Ríos called on the resident commissioner “to explain how she has used the issue of LUMA’s hiring as a political balloon to attack the NPP administration since 2021 and will now announce as her running mate the person who, as Secretary of State, evaluated the contract with LUMA and authorized it on June 22, 2020.”

He stated that on Dec. 3, González Colón will present Elmer Román as her candidate for the position of resident commissioner.

“Everyone already knows her candidate because she has offered it to several people who have declined to run with her as a candidate for governor,” said the former NPP electoral commissioner. “The former secretary of the Department of State under Wanda Vázquez, Elmer Román, was the only person who agreed to run with the resident commissioner.”

Mundo Ríos pointed out that “Elmer Román also has a lot to explain because he has never joined the NPP nor has he helped the party move the statehood agenda. In fact, in 2020, while he lived in Puerto Rico and served as secretary of state, he did not even join in the primaries nor did he go to vote for statehood in the general elections.”

Meléndez Ortiz urges passage of social media curbs for minors

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t-large lawmaker and resident commissioner hopeful José Enrique “Quiquito” Meléndez Ortiz, asked the island Senate on Monday to urgently attend to House Bill (HB)

262, which establishes 16 years as the minimum age for a person to activate an account on any social media platform.

HB 262 was approved by the House of Representatives on Nov. 9, 2022 with 37 votes in favor. The measure has been under evaluation

by the Senate Judiciary Committee since Nov. 11 of last year.

The New Progressive Party legislator’s measure also seeks, among other things, parental approval for minors up to the age of 18 to open accounts on social media platforms with all available security filters, something that currently happens only rarely.

“The use of social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, among others, is a matter of responsibility for parents and their children,” Meléndez Ortiz said. “We believe that there must be a minimum age for these young people to enter the networks, and that age is 16 years old with parental supervision. This issue is one that the U.S. Congress is working on. In May, a group of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, filed a bill to set the minimum age that a minor can enter social networks at 13.

This happens as a direct consequence of the adult content that minors are exposed to, even with the available filters. The famous ‘challenges’ and the crudeness of much graphic material has made Congress act, as they have determined that it is a matter of the mental health of our

children. Here in Puerto Rico we have the tool to confront this, HB 262.”

Meléndez Ortiz visited Congress on multiple occasions this year to, among other issues, discuss greater controls on minors for access to social networks, including guidance to parents and/or guardians on the risks posed by social media platforms.

“This bill in no way intends for the government to intervene in the personal affairs of any person, but rather seeks to create a framework for parents and/or guardians to act to prevent minors from being targeted by materials aimed at adults,” the lawmaker said.

“The state of Montana, which earlier this year passed legislation to ban the use of Tik Tok on all devices, the first jurisdiction nationwide to do so, is now evaluating raising the minimum age for young people to have their social media accounts from 13 to 18,” Meléndez Ortiz added.

“This is something that is happening in Europe, Asia and the United States; the protection of the mental health of young people is imperative, which is why we reiterate our request to the Senate to approve this bill now.”

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Protesters demand end to AES contract, urge denial of requested amendments

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rotesters from various environmental groups and other citizens attended a Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) public hearing Monday to reject proposed amendments to the power purchase operating agreement (PPOA) of AES Puerto Rico, which they say will lead to higher rates, and to demand the company’s exit from the island.

Myrna Conti, an environmental activist, complained that the PREB held a hasty hearing without giving the public enough time to conduct an analysis. She said she was outraged by the fact that the proposed amendments were partially redacted and criticized the possible use of public funds to try to save the financially ailing company.

“I am concerned that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority [PREPA] is seeking approval of these amendments by December 1,” she said, adding that the contract with AES PR should be canceled because the company has only contributed to pollution.

AES PR has a coal-fired plant in Guayama that provides a significant portion of the island’s energy. The amendments to the 1994 power and operating agreement, which are contained in 23 pages, were discussed with AES lawyers at a meeting

AES Puerto Rico’s coal-fired plant in Guayama provides a significant portion of the island’s electric power. last week.

The amendments seek to replace the existing coal-fired facility in Guayama with a renewable energy facility because AES PR must stop using coal after Jan. 1, 2028 under a new energy policy.

AES also defaulted in the payment of its bonds per a 2000 trust agreement with the Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority (AFICA by its Spanish acronym), the Bankers Trust Company, which was the bond trustee.

The goal of the PPOA is to maintain the “economic stability and environmental compliance” of the facility pending its retirement and expedite the removal of combustion waste byproducts and accelerate Puerto Rico’s transition to renewables.

However, parts of the proposed amendments were redacted, and protesters expressed concern that the amendments will lead to higher utility rates. According to the amendments, the certified fiscal plan contains baseline rate

projections for PREPA. The baseline rate projections may be impacted by, among other things, PREPA’s ability to identify sources of funding to satisfy its cost share funding obligations and AES PR’s liquidity challenges.

“If PREPA cannot identify sources of funding to satisfy its cost share funding obligations relating to the cost of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s federal funding programs, PREPA may have to raise its rates to satisfy its obligations,” the partially redacted document said. “Pursuant to a power purchase and operating agreement with AES Puerto Rico, PREPA receives a portion of its energy supply from AES Puerto Rico’s coal generation facility.

AES Puerto Rico is currently experiencing liquidity challenges. If AES Puerto Rico is not able to cover its operating expenses, PREPA may have to accept amendments to this PPOA to ensure the continued production of energy from the AES coal facility, which is necessary for PREPA to meet all demands for power, and might need to raise rates to cover costs related to any such amendment.”

Eva Prados, a lawyer and member of a committee that is seeking an audit of Puerto Rico’s debt, criticized the fact that the amendments were partially redacted and chided the PREB for not ensuring Puerto Rico had energy rates at a reasonable cost.

Over $11.9 million in incentives assigned for job creation & retention

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n order to continue strengthening the island’s labor market and economy, the Department of Labor and Human Resources announced on Monday the allocation of $11.9 million in incentives to promote the creation and retention of some 770 jobs through various private employers, representatives of several economic sectors, and nonprofit entities.

The incentives come from the Fund for the Promotion of Work Opportunities created by Law No. 52-1991 and mainly support small and midsize enterprises so that they can hire and retain more young people, people with functional diversity, older adults, and citizens with criminal records, and offer first employment experiences, among other purposes.

“For the current fiscal year, 261 employers from the private sector and nonprofit organizations met the requirements for orientation and submission of proposals and were selected to receive incentives aimed at job creation and retention, which

this time exceed $11 million,” Labor and Human Resources Secretary Gabriel Maldonado González said. “Although we have the lowest unemployment rate in our history at 5.8% and the highest levels of labor participation and employment in over a decade, these incentives are one of the tools our agency has to continue to support job creation in small and midsize businesses, the insertion of more people into the workforce through diversity, equity and inclusion, the historic reduction in the unemployment rate and, in the case of nonprofit entities, it is also possible to ensure the delivery of essential services to the population segments that need them most, in accordance with the public policy of Governor Pedro R. Pierluisi.”

In the case of the 51 nonprofit entities, total funds to be received amounts to $2,153,525, with which 126 jobs will be supported that involve the work of providing community impact services, education, health and financial education, among others, aimed at the island’s most disadvantaged populations.

Meanwhile, the funds allocated to the 210 employers of the

private sector total $9,751,080, for the creation and retention of 644 jobs in the sectors of manufacturing, services, agriculture, tourism, education and food, among others.

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COR3: $44.9 million disbursed to faith-based groups to date

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entral Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience of Puerto Rico (COR3) Executive Director Manuel A. Laboy Rivera said over the weekend that $44.9 million has been disbursed to faithbased groups to rebuild projects damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017 and other natural disasters.

The money came from the Working Capital Advance (WCA) program. The groups also have been recipients of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding obligations.

“Faith-based entities represent an essential component for the social strengthening of Puerto Rico, and through the WCA pilot program, they have managed to direct important permanent works that have not started due to lack of money and that are of benefit to our people,” Laboy Rivera said.

“COR3, complying with the public policy of Governor Pedro Pierluisi to provide the necessary tools to advance reconstruction, has disbursed over $96.8 million in advances and reimbursements for this sector. These disbursements go hand in hand with the increase in reconstruction projects.”

An example of the projects underway is the Disciples of Christ Church in Amelia, Cataño. The church facility, which the COR3 executive director recently visited, was destroyed by Hurricane Maria, and FEMA

Manuel A. Laboy Rivera, executive director of the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience of Puerto Rico allocated about $2.6 million to rebuild.

At the request of the church leadership, COR3 advanced $661,217 through the WCA. Currently, reconstruction work is evident throughout the facility. Repair work on the roof, acoustics, electrical system, air conditioning, and parking lot paving, as well as the surrounding fences, has been completed on almost all buildings. Reconstruction of the altar and replacement of the slabs, among other works, are in progress.

Between November and October 2023,

COR3 disbursed $11.9 million in funds from the WCA pilot program. Some of the entities that have recently received this advance of 25% of the FEMA allocation to promote the development of their projects include the San Benito School in Humacao, $2.3 million; San José Marianist School Corp. in San Juan, $1.2 million; Marist Association in Guaynabo, $1.5 million; Adventist University of the Antilles Inc. in Mayagüez, $205,393; First Baptist Church in Trujillo Alto, $273,041; Disciples of Christ Christian Church in P.R. Inc., $914,317; and

Restoration in Christ Church in Bayamón, $332,133.

Laboy Rivera also visited the Iglesia Cristiana Discípulos de Cristo Bella Vista Caná de Bayamón, which has a FEMA obligation of $694,526 and received a WCA advance of $170,063. This allocation was used for various works that included removing and replacing roof sealing, painting, metal roof installation, and replacing acoustics and doors, among other improvements.

“We urge nonprofit organizations, like the rest of the subrecipients, to take advantage of the benefits of Working Capital Advance,” Laboy Rivera said. “The program is one of our main instruments for promoting the reconstruction and resilience of Puerto Rico.”

According to the Quarterly Progress Report (QPR), which measured the progress of reconstruction from July to September of this year, in the faith-based sector there are 625 permanent works in the design acquisition stages, design, permitting, construction procurement, and construction, which have FEMA funding allocations exceeding $371.4 million. Meanwhile, 110 reconstruction projects, valued at some $12.2 million, were completed.

The data reflect an increase of 149 more works in execution than those in the quarter from April to June 2023 in the design acquisition phases through construction. Faith-based subrecipients also reported 22 completed projects in addition to those existing in the previous quarter.

FEMA assigns over $40 million to PRASA to repair infrastructure, replace equipment

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he Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded more than $40 million to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) to repair infrastructure and replace equipment damaged by Hurricane Maria that is intended to provide water management and services for several communities on the island.

“These renovations will greatly improve the quality of life and health of many communities,” Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero said in a press release. “Municipalities will be able to prevent or reduce sewage overflows along their roads and PRASA will have the resources to ensure that drinking water meets local and federal standards.”

FEMA allocated more than $37 million to repair a trunk sewer that originates in Isabela, passes through Aguadilla, Moca and Aguada, and extends to Rincón. The Isabela-Aguada sanitary trunk sewer, which provides wastewater services to more than 18,000 residents, is some 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) long, with pipes ranging from 21 to 54 inches in diameter.

The project will be carried out with a non-invasive tech- tions,” Pagán Crespo said. nology known as cured-in-place pipe (CIPP), which consists The equipment to be replaced includes an incubator, of covering the inside of the pipe with a polyester or fiberglass laboratory freezers, centrifuges and environmental chambers, lining. among others.

“It is a method that does not require excavation, which minimizes the possible impact on traffic due to these works and extends [a pipe’s] useful life for about 50 years,” PRASA Executive President Doriel Pagán Crespo said.

To date, PRASA has successfully used CIPP technology to repair other sanitary pipes in areas such as Guayama, Ponce, Carolina and Loíza.

Meanwhile, PRASA’s Caguas Central Laboratory also received an allocation of more than $3 million to replace various analysis and testing equipment. The facility is the main water testing plant on the island and performs more than 200,000 sampling tests on both drinking water and sanitary sewage each year for the benefit of PRASA’s 1.4 million customers.

“Continuous sampling allows us to calibrate the plant’s operation and thus be able to confirm compliance with all Doriel Pagán Crespo, executive president of the Puerto applicable federal and state drinking water laws and regula- Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority

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Members of Congress head for the exits, many citing dysfunction

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leven are running for the Senate.

Five for state or local office. One for president of the United States.

Another is resigning to become a university president. And more and more say they are hanging up their hats in public office altogether.

More than three dozen members of Congress have announced they will not seek reelection next year, some to pursue other offices and many others simply to get out of Washington. Twelve have announced their plans just this month.

The wave of lawmakers across chambers and parties announcing they intend to leave Congress comes at a time of breathtaking dysfunction on Capitol Hill, primarily instigated by House Republicans. The House GOP majority spent the past few months deposing its leader, waging a weekslong internal war to select a new speaker and struggling to keep federal funding flowing. Right-wing members have rejected any spending legislation that could become law and railed against their new leader for turning to Democrats, as his predecessor did, to avert a government shutdown.

The chaos has Republicans increasingly worried that they could lose their slim House majority next year, a concern that typically prompts a rash of retirements from the party in control.

But it is not only GOP lawmakers who are opting to leave; Democrats, too, are rushing for the exits, with retirements across parties this year outpacing those of the past three election cycles.

And while most of the departures announced so far do not involve competitive seats, given the slim margins of control in both chambers, the handful that provide pickup opportunities for Republicans or Democrats could help determine who controls Congress come 2025.

“I like the work, but the politics just no longer made it worth it,” Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said in an interview. He announced his retirement last month after more than a quarter-century in the House.

“I think I can have more impact on a number of things I care about if I’m not going to be bogged down for re-election,” Blumenauer said.

As lawmakers consider their futures

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. in Congress, they are weighing the personal sacrifice required to be away from loved ones for much of the year against the potential to legislate and advance their political and policy agendas. In this chaotic and bitter environment, many are deciding the trade-off is unappealing.

This session, said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., has been the “most unsatisfying period in my time in Congress because of the absolute chaos and the lack of any serious commitment to effective governance.”

Kildee, who has served in Congress for a decade, said he decided not to seek re-election after recovering from a cancerous tumor he had removed earlier this year. It made him re-evaluate the time he was willing to spend in Washington, away from his family.

The dysfunction in the House majority only made the calculation easier.

“That has contributed to the sense of frustration,” he said, “and this feeling that the sacrifice we’re all making in order to be in Washington, to be witness to this chaos, is pretty difficult to make.”

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, D-Calif., also announced she would end her threedecade career in Congress at the close of her current term. One of her closest friends in Congress, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, another California Democrat, told her

hometown news site, San Jose Spotlight, that there was speculation that Eshoo was leaving “because the majority we have now is nuts — and they are.” But Lofgren added that “that’s not the reason; she felt it was her time to do this.”

Some House Republicans have reached the limits of their frustration with their own party.

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., announced he would not seek reelection after his dissatisfaction and sense of disconnect with the GOP had grown too great. Buck, who voted to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California from the speakership, has denounced his party’s election denialism and many members’ refusal to condemn the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

“We lost our way,” Buck told The New York Times this month. “We have an identity crisis in the Republican Party.

If we can’t address the election denier issue and we continue down that path, we won’t have credibility with the American people that we are going to solve problems.”

Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., said in a statement during the speaker fight last month that she would not run again.

“Right now, Washington, D.C., is broken; it is hard to get anything done,” she said.

The trend extends even to the most

influential members of Congress; Rep. Kay Granger, the 80-year-old Texas Republican who chairs the powerful Appropriations Committee, announced she would retire at the end of her 14th term. Even if her party manages to keep control of the House, Granger, the longest-serving GOP congresswoman, faced term limits that would have forced her from the helm of the spending panel.

Few of the retirements thus far appear likely to alter the balance of power in Congress, where the vast majority of House seats are gerrymandered to be safe for one party or the other. Prime exceptions include Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., whose retirement will almost certainly mean that Republicans can claim the state’s Senate seat and get a leg up to win control of that chamber.

The decision of Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, to leave her seat in a competitive Virginia district to seek the governorship also gives Republicans a prime pickup opportunity.

And Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., announced he would not seek re-election after a House Ethics Committee report found “substantial evidence” that he had violated federal law. His exit will give Democrats a chance to reclaim the suburban Long Island seat he flipped to the GOP last year.

Some members not seeking reelection have determined they can affect more change from outside Congress, where they do not have to contend with the same infighting, gridlock and attention-seeking that now frequently drive the place.

“I think I will have as much or more impact as a civilian as I would as a member of Congress, especially having to be involved in a pretty toxic political environment,” Blumenauer said.

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Suspect in Vermont shootings arraigned on charges of attempted murder

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48-year-old Vermont man was charged on Monday with three counts of attempted seconddegree murder in the weekend shootings of three young men of Palestinian descent on a Burlington street, a violent episode that stunned the small city. He pleaded not guilty.

The suspect, Jason J. Eaton, was held without bail pending a bail hearing. He appeared in court through a remote video link from jail, wearing a red prison shirt.

He did not speak during the brief hearing, except to thank the judge.

Prosecutors did not offer details of their investigation at the hearing Monday.

According to an affidavit of probable cause filed by the Burlington police, Eaton encountered the three young men, all students, just before 6:30 p.m. on Saturday outside the apartment building where he lives on North Prospect Street, near the University of Vermont campus.

The affidavit said that the students were approaching a house when the gunman walked up, pulled out a handgun and started shooting at them from about two yards away.

According to the court documents, Hisham Awartani, a student at Brown University, was shot in the spine; Tahseen Ahmed, a student at Trinity College, was struck in the chest, and Kinnan Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford College, was struck in the backside. All three men are 20 years old.

They were walking to the house of Awartani’s grandmother for dinner, ac-

Medics attended to the victims as police officers secured the scene of the shooting in Burlington. The police were investigating the attack as a possible hate crime. cording to Marwan Awartani, a greatuncle and a former education minister of the Palestinian Authority.

The young men told family members they were speaking a hybrid of English and Arabic before the man shot at them four times without saying anything, according to a family spokesperson. Two of the victims were wearing Palestinian kaffiyehs, a traditional headdress.

The police searched Eaton’s apartment, the affidavit said, and found a pistol and a loaded magazine containing five rounds of ammunition in a drawer in his bedroom.

The rounds were the same brand as some

that were found at the scene of the shooting, according to the affidavit.

It also noted that when an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “made contact” with Eaton on Sunday, the suspect “made a statement to the effect of, ‘I’ve been waiting for you.’”

A public defender assigned as cocounsel for Eaton, Margaret Jansch, declined to comment on the details of the case. “First of all, we hope that the victims who were shot recover quickly and completely,” she said.

The suspect’s mother, Mary Reed,

told the Daily Beast that her son had suffered from depression but seemed to be in a good mood when she saw him on Thanksgiving. Reed, who lives in Salisbury, Vermont, about 45 miles south of Burlington, described him as “kind and loving” as well as a “very religious person.”

A website that appeared to be registered to the same Jason Eaton included references to his past enrollment in forestry and outdoor science programs at the University of Idaho.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said in Manhattan on Monday that the FBI and the ATF were investigating the shooting of the three students, including the question of whether it was a hate crime.

“No person and no community in this country should have to live with the fear of hate-fueled violence,” Garland said.

The shootings came at a time of rising violence and growing concern about crime in Vermont, a sparsely populated state once known for its safety. The state has seen more than 20 homicides this year; the 25 homicides reported there in 2022 were the most Vermont had seen in nearly three decades.

Will Downey, 31, a Burlington resident who was walking his dog on Monday near the scene of the shooting, said the episode had left him uneasy.

“We walk every day, which makes it disturbing,” he said.

Matt Sasaki, 30, a resident of the same apartment building as the suspect, said the experience had been unnerving.

“It’s a quiet house for the most part,” he said. “The whole thing has been pretty surreal.”

To beat Trump, Nikki Haley is trying to speak to all sides of a fractured GOP

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o beat former President Donald Trump in the coming months, Nikki Haley, his former ambassador to the United Nations, must stitch together a coalition of Republicans: Trump’s most faithful supporters, voters who like his policies but who have grown weary of him personally, and the smaller but still vocal contingent who abhor him entirely.

It’s a challenge that will test what political strategists and those who have observed

Haley’s ascent from her first underdog win in South Carolina have said is among her greatest skills as a candidate: an ability to calibrate her message to the moment.

Since announcing her bid in February, she has campaigned much like an old guard Republican: hawkish on foreign policy, supportive of legal immigration reform and staunchly in favor of the international alliances that Trump questioned during his administration. She has also sounded a lot like the former president, whose “America First” rhetoric she

echoed while serving as one of his diplomats, with aggressive calls to send the U.S. military into Mexico and remarks about the need to rid schools and the military of perceived leftwing influences on hot-button cultural issues such as race and transgender rights.

Other than how she has navigated Trump himself, perhaps no issue best exemplifies Haley’s approach than abortion. She backed harsh restrictions on the procedure as governor of South Carolina and has called herself “unapologetically pro-life” on the trail, but

she has struck a flexible tone as her party has flailed in countering the electoral backlash the conservative majority on the Supreme Court triggered when it overturned Roe v. Wade. Her appeals for “consensus” have been among the most common reasons cited for her upward climb in the polls in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist and a former aide to Mitt Romney who has known Haley since she was a state lawmaker first running for governor, said she “has always been

The San Juan Daily Star a pragmatic conservative.” “She is comfortable in her own skin, and she is going to win or lose based on her own values and beliefs,” he said. Still, the difficulty for her, as for all the candidates attempting to emerge as a Trump alternative, is that “what a conservative is has been redefined by Trump himself,” he said.

Trump’s lead over the field is dominant nationally and in every early state polled, and it remains uncertain that Haley could peel away enough of his faithful, no matter her approach, to come out on top. And what has so far propelled her could also become a liability, should she alienate one or more faction. Her rivals, including Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, have sought to portray her as insufficiently conservative and as someone who panders to Democrats.

Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, labeled her a “snake oil salesman” who “will say whatever she needs to say to get power.”

Her campaign officials and surrogates argue her politics have stayed the same, with the country and the world changing around her. “Nikki has always been a tough, anti-establishment conservative,” said Olivia Perez-Cubas, a spokesperson for Haley.

Haley’s attempt to thread the needle on abortion is already being tested, as she has faced skepticism from Iowa’s evangelical community, a critical voting bloc. Addressing a conservative Christian audience in Iowa, Haley said she would have signed a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy as governor.

Democrats seized on Haley’s remarks as proof that, despite her tone, she is no moderate on the issue. Influential evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, who previously indicated that clear-cut abortion opposition would be the driving factor for his support, went on to endorse DeSantis. But just days earlier, Haley had received a seemingly impromptu endorsement from Marlys Popma, the former head of the state Republican Party and one of Iowa’s most prominent anti-abortion activists — who indicated she was comfortable with Haley’s stance.

Here are four other issues on which Haley has shifted, evolved or otherwise tempered her positions.

Immigration and refugees Haley first rose in politics on the deep red wave of the Tea Party — and its anti-immigrant sentiment. As governor, she signed some of the harshest immigration laws in the country in 2011, requiring law enforcement officers to ask certain people’s immigration status and businesses to verify that their workers were in the country legally.

But Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants, largely refrained from using dehumanizing language against immigrants and stuck to the consistent message that immigration was critical to the nation, as long as it was done legally. Still, two pivotal events prompted her to take a sharp turn on the issue: the deadly terror attack in Paris in 2015 and the rise of Trump.

After the attack, Haley, who was then governor, went from supporting the efforts of faith groups to resettle refugees in South Carolina to aggressively fighting the Obama administration on the admission of Syrians fleeing violence, citing concerns over the vetting process.

Before Trump’s election in 2016, she called his proposal to bar Muslims from traveling to the United States “absolutely un-American.” As Trump’s U.N. ambassador, she defended his order to temporarily block all refugees and people from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. as well as his decision to cut U.S. funding to Palestinian refugees.

On the trail, she has expressed support for expediting legal immigration avenues, for aiding escape from persecution and

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Nikki Haley has sought to calibrate her message to appeal to the former president’s base as well as Republicans seeking an alternative. for improving the ways people can migrate, calling for a system based on merit and business needs, rather than quotas.

But with a higher and more consistent frequency, she echoes Trump. She has promised to build a wall, send immigrants back and reinstitute some of Trump’s harshest immigration and asylum policies.

Tough talk on China Haley seizes every opportunity to flex her foreign policy credentials and has stood out among her rivals for her steadfast support of Israel and Ukraine.

A trickier spot has been her hawkish stance on China.

Haley’s stump speeches are laden with warnings that China is outpacing the United States in shipbuilding, hacking American infrastructure and developing “neuro-strike weapons,” which she says can be used to “disrupt brain activity” of military commanders and civilians.

But as governor of South Carolina, she lauded and welcomed Chinese companies that wanted to contribute to the state’s economy, helping those entities expand or open new operations. Those moves have opened her to attacks from DeSantis and other opponents, and she and DeSantis have lobbed false or misleading claims involving China at each other in recent weeks as the race for second place has tightened.

Explaining her position on the campaign trail, Haley has argued that her administration’s investments in Chinese companies accounted for a fraction of the jobs and projects spurred during her tenure and that she had not been aware of the dangers China posed until she became U.N. ambassador.

The threat of China has also evolved, she adds.

“There is not another governor in this race that hasn’t worked to recruit Chinese companies,” she said last month at a chapel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Every governor has done the same thing, just like every one of you has Chinese products in your home.”

Identity politics Few moments have defined Haley more in the public view than when she signed legislation to take down the Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina Statehouse, after a white supremacist shot and killed nine Black parishioners in Charleston in 2015, including a state senator. On the trail, she powerfully recalls the experience, casting herself as a new generational leader capable of bridging divides.

But the feat also captures her calibration: As she ran for election in 2010 and then reelection in 2014, she rejected talk of removing the flag, a thorny issue in a state where Confederate heritage groups were a major political force.

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both sides of the aisle.

Haley has also wielded her own identity to significant effect. Much as she invokes her high heels to point out that she is the only woman in the race, she has used her family background to call for staunch immigration measures and her election as the first woman of color to lead South Carolina to argue that America is neither “rotten” nor “racist.”

Fighting the conservative cultural battles that have animated the GOP base in recent years has not been central to her presidential campaign, but Haley has echoed DeSantis and Trump in some of her language criticizing gender and racial diversity initiatives in boardrooms and classrooms.

But as new polling has shown that the battle against “wokeness” has lost some of its political potency, her more recent remarks about education have tended to focus on support for school choice programs, which allow public money to be directed to private and religious schools, and tackling children’s low test scores in core subjects such as reading and math.

Donald Trump In the 2024 race, perhaps Haley’s most careful approach has been toward Trump, whose support among Republicans remains significant.

Not long after the assault on the U.S. Capitol, Haley said Trump had “lost any sort of political viability.” But she later went on to say that the party needed the former president and suggested that she would not jump into the 2024 presidential race if Trump decided to run. She then became the first to challenge him for the nomination — a move the Trump campaign highlighted in an email to supporters as one of her “flip flops” in the 2024 race.

In a January interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, Haley explained her change of heart, saying conditions at the border, inflation and crime, and the country’s approach to foreign policy had worsened since she initially indicated she would stay out of the running. “I think we need a young generation to come in to step up and really start fixing things,” she said.

On the trail, she has alternated between criticism and praise of Trump. On the one hand, she has lauded him for his border policies. At the first presidential debates in August, she was among six candidates who raised their hands to indicate they would support the former president as their party’s nominee, even if he were convicted of a felony. But she also has called Trump “thin-skinned and easily distracted” — among her sharpest critiques — and more recently has been describing him as a force of “drama and chaos” that the country cannot afford.

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Cryptocurrency prices surge, driven by a potential bitcoin fund

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n a Manhattan courtroom this month, the cryptocurrency industry faced a reckoning as its onetime star, Sam Bankman-Fried, was convicted of fraud in a trial that put the industry’s excesses on vivid display.

But the ever-volatile crypto markets were already moving on.

Shortly before Bankman-Fried’s verdict landed on Nov. 2, the price of bitcoin surpassed $35,000, its highest level since an industry meltdown in 2022. On Nov. 9, ether, the second-most popular digital currency, surged 10% to around $2,100, its best performance in months.

Some investors rushed to declare the end of the so-called crypto winter of falling prices and financial scandals that have plagued the industry for the last 18 months.

Driving the renewed euphoria? A potential new fund.

Crypto investors are growing optimistic that the Securities and Exchange Commission will approve an exchange traded fund, or ETF, that tracks the price of bitcoin, analysts said. The fund would trade on traditional stock exchanges and offer an easy way for people to invest in cryptocurrencies, potentially bringing a wave of money into the industry.

Some proponents have hailed the possibility of this new investment vehicle, known as a spot bitcoin ETF, as crypto’s “salvation.” In August, Grayscale Investments, a crypto asset manager, scored a legal victory over the SEC that seemed to pave the way for it to offer the bitcoin product. And this month, BlackRock, a giant money manager, filed paperwork to establish a similar ETF to track the price

more than a decade. In 2017, the SEC denied an ETF application by crypto entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who had been working on the project for years.

The industry kept battling.

In 2021, the SEC approved ETFs that bet on the future prices of bitcoin without holding the currency itself. But the agency rejected an effort by Grayscale to introduce the first ETF linked directly to bitcoin, arguing that the crypto markets were subject to manipulation and other consumer risks.

Grayscale challenged the SEC in federal court in June 2022. The legal battle ended this August, when a panel of judges ruled in favor of the company, deeming the SEC’s actions “arbiMichael Sonnenshein, the chief executive of Grayscale, which is aiming to trary and capricious.” introduce a Bitcoin exchange traded fund.

Since that ruling, two key offices within the SEC that overof ether, another cryptocurrency. see the ETF application process These new funds “could represent a watershed,” have worked with companies that want to create bitcoin said Michael Sonnenshein, Grayscale’s CEO. “We’re al- ETFs, three people familiar with the matter said. The ready starting to see quite a few signs of the crypto winter agency’s posture has fueled optimism, two of them said, melting.” because the regulators are asking detailed, technical quesThe crypto industry has yearned for good news since tions that suggest the process has reached an advanced last year’s market collapse, which erased billions of dollars stage. (Some aspects of the talks were previously reported in savings practically overnight. But approval of a bitcoin by CoinDesk.)

ETF is not guaranteed, and some analysts have cast doubt An official approval could arrive as early as January, on whether it would draw much new investment to the analysts at Bloomberg have predicted. Sonnenshein of crypto world.

Grayscale said he had observed a high “level of undersThe fixation on the new fund also underscores how tanding and engagement” from the SEC. far crypto has drifted from its anti-establishment roots.

“For us, it really continues to be a matter of when, Bitcoin was created 15 years ago as an alternative to not a matter of if,” he said. the traditional financial system and a tool to undermine A spokesperson for the SEC declined to comment. powerful Wall Street interests. Now some bitcoin enthuGrayscale is one of several firms seeking to offer siasts are celebrating giant financial firms like BlackRock crypto ETFs. Fidelity, the asset manager, has a pending as the industry’s saviors. application for a bitcoin fund. BlackRock has applied to “The hypocrisy is just maddening,” said John Reed create its own bitcoin ETF, as well as the one linked to Stark, a former SEC official and outspoken critic of the ether. Crypto investors are hoping that the approval of crypto industry. “It’s anathema to why bitcoin was created bitcoin and ether ETFs will bring billions of dollars of new in the first place.” money into the industry.

An exchange traded fund is essentially a bundle Skeptics abound. JPMorgan analysts published a reof assets split up into shares that investors can buy and port this month that called crypto’s recent surge “oversell on the open market. Rather than buy bitcoin directly done” and argued that an ETF approval would simply through a crypto exchange like Coinbase, investors in a redistribute the capital that traders have already put into bitcoin ETF would own shares in a fund that contains the the industry, rather than attracting new investment. Crypto cryptocurrency, eliminating the need to worry about sto- ETFs that trade in Canada and Europe “have gained little ring any bitcoin in a digital wallet. interest from investors since their inception,” the report Crypto proponents have pursued a bitcoin ETF for said.

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Marketmind: Rates Buzz Sustained Before Fed Loan Data

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look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan After its best week of 2023 on optimism about peaking interest rates, Wall Street’s S&P500 looks set to record its longest winning streak since June as a key Federal Reserve loan report may well sustain the rates buzz.

A below-forecast national payroll gain last month, a tick higher in the unemployment rate and moderating wage growth all catapulted stocks and bonds higher on Friday after a week brimming with hope the rate hiking campaign of the major central banks is over at last and a relatively soft landing beckons.

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan After its best week of 2023 on optimism about peaking interest rates, Wall Street’s S&P500 looks set to record its longest winning streak since June as a key Federal Reserve loan report may well sustain the rates buzz.

A below-forecast national payroll gain last month, a tick higher in the unemployment rate and moderating wage growth all catapulted stocks and bonds higher on Friday after a week brimming with hope the rate hiking campaign of the major central banks is over at last and a relatively soft landing beckons.

The VIX volatility gauge, which on Friday fell below 15 for the first since September, tried to get a toehold back above that level today.

Undermined by the retreat in Treasury yields, the dollar slipped back to the lowest since Sept 20.

The backdrop of an easier dollar and Treasury yields provides significant relief for emerging markets, with MSCI’s emerging market stock index hitting its highest since Sept 20 too.

Ahead of a full slate of Chinese economic updates later in the week, the offshore yuan also hit its highest in more than six weeks.

However, China recorded its first-ever quarterly deficit in foreign direct investment, according to balance of payments data out on Monday, underscoring Beijing’s challenge in wooing overseas firms amid “de-risking” moves by Western governments.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in San Francisco this week to try to deepen a fledgling economic dialogue between the world’s two largest economies ahead of a summit of Pacific Rim leaders.

But it was South Korean shares that outperformed all Asia markets. Seoul’s Kospi index surged 5.6% after

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a weekend decision by regulators to re-impose a ban on short-selling shares at least until June - ostensibly to promote a “level playing field” for retail and institutional investors.

In Europe, stock indexes gave back a little of last week’s rally - but Ryanair soared 6% after Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers forecast a record annual profit and promised a regular dividend payout.

Key developments that should provide more direction to U.S. markets later on Monday: * Federal Reserve’s Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on bank lending (SLOOS), U.S. Oct employment trends * U.S. corporate earnings: TripAdvisor, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Vimeo, Aspen, Telesat, Realty Income, Conterra Energy, Constellation Energy, Diamondback Energy, Celanese, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, NXP Semiconductors, International Flavors & Fragrances, etc * Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook speaks; Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill speaks.

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Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce, Qatar says since Friday through separate negotiations.

Qatar previously indicated that one potential challenge in extending the agreesrael and Hamas agreed Monday to extend ment could be whether Hamas can locate their fragile truce for two more days, an act more of the hostages, some of whom are of continued cooperation that could allow for being held in different parts of Gaza by other armed groups, including the Palestinian additional aid to flow into the Gaza Strip and the Islamic Jihad. release of more hostages, prisoners and detainees The cease-fire deal initially included than initially expected. the release of 50 women and children The extension comes as a four-day truce, because that was the number Hamas had which had been set to expire Tuesday, has proved been able to locate, the prime minister of largely successful at the stated goal of bringing people home. Israeli officials signaled that a Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, told the Financial Times in fourth exchange of hostages and prisoners, the an interview published Sunday. final round of the initial agreement, would go forward Monday.

More than 40 women and children are And the renewed agreement would prolong being held hostage by groups other than a pause in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Hamas, al-Thani said, adding that Israel was Strip that has killed at least 13,000 people and willing to extend the cease-fire if “there’s Under the initial deal, Hamas agreed to release 50 women and children taken created a humanitarian disaster for its 2.2 million hostage during the Oct. 7 attack, and Israel agreed to free 150 women and minors proof” that Hamas has more women and residents. children to release. held in Israeli jails, among other terms.

Majed Al-Ansari, a spokesperson for the forIsraeli officials had expressed concerns eign ministry of Qatar, which has helped mediate to Qatar that some children were being announcement of the additional two-day pause, said John the talks that led to the initial pause in fighting, confirmed F. Kirby, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, released without their mothers who had also been taken the agreement but did not elaborate on the terms. noting that the four-day cease-fire had already resulted in a captive, according to an official briefed on the talks. The The announcement came shortly after the Israeli prime surge in humanitarian assistance. official said Hamas had responded that in those cases, the minister’s office said it had begun contacting the families of “We’re grateful that we’ve got an extra two days to mothers were being held by different groups, and it would hostages to be released Monday, signaling the resolution of work with here,” Kirby said. He added that the United take time to get them. a disagreement over those to be freed.

The pause has marked the longest break in fighting in States would like to “see that extended further until all the Hamas, the armed group that controls the Gaza Strip hostages are released.” the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, when gunmen from Hamas and and set off the fighting with a cross-border assault on southDiaa Rashwan, head of the State Information Service in other militant groups launched a deadly attack on southern ern Israel last month, said the two-day extension would Egypt, which is also mediating in the talks between Israel Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 240 othcarry the same terms as the initial pause. There was no im- and Hamas, had said earlier Monday that a two-day exten- ers hostage, according to Israeli officials. Israel responded mediate comment from the Israeli government, which had sion would include the release each day of 10 women and with airstrikes, a siege and a ground invasion that has enoffered to extend the pause by one day for every additional children being held hostage in Gaza in exchange for 30 circled Gaza City.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had ex10 hostages released.

Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. pressed openness to an extension of the truce but made Under the initial deal, Hamas agreed to release 50 Other terms of the current cease-fire, including the enwomen and children taken hostage during the Oct. 7 at- try of more medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza and clear that he intended for Israel to resume fighting after it tack, and Israel agreed to free 150 women and minors held restrictions on Israeli flights over the territory, would con- ends in order to “eliminate” Hamas. in Israeli jails, among other terms. tinue during the extension, Rashwan said.

Israel and Hamas had each signaled a willingness over Monday’s exchange was expected to inthe weekend to prolong their truce if it allowed for more clude 11 Israeli hostages in Gaza for 33 Pal20% hostages and Palestinian detainees to be freed. The shaky estinians held in Israel, Rashwan said. The DE DESCUENTO AL PRESENTAR CORTINAS EN ALUMINIO truce appeared to hit a snag Monday as both sides took statement from the Israeli prime minister’s ofAprobado por DACO ANUNCIO. issue with the names presented by the other for the fourth fice did not specify the number of hostages it day of exchanges under the deal, according to a person expected to be released Monday. familiar with the negotiations.

So far, Hamas has released 39 Israeli hosBut by Monday evening, the Israeli prime minister’s of- tages under the deal, and Israel has freed 117 fice said it had begun notifying the families of hostages who Palestinian prisoners. Another 19 hostages in would be released.

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US Navy rescues ship from pirate attack in Gulf of Aden

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he U.S. Navy intervened to stop the hijacking of a commercial cargo ship by pirates in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia on Sunday, after which two ballistic missiles were fired from Yemen toward the Navy destroyer that responded to the incident, the U.S. military said.

The ballistic missiles were fired from the part of Yemen controlled by Iranianbacked Houthi rebels, according to a statement released by U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the region. If the missiles were meant to hit the USS Mason, a Navy destroyer, they fell well short of the mark: They landed in the Gulf of Aden 10 nautical miles from the American ship.

The USS Mason, and other ships from the U.S.-led counter-piracy task force that operates off the coast of Somalia, responded after the crew of the commercial ship, the Central Park, called for help. The Central Park crew reported they were un-

The M/V Central Park in an undated photo released by Zodiac Maritime. der attack from an unknown entity, U.S. Central Command said.

When the coalition vessels arrived at the Central Park, they demanded the release of the ship. Five armed people fled from the ship and attempted to flee in the small boat they had used to attack the

cargo ship. The USS Mason pursued the attackers and forced them to surrender, the news release said. Fox News reported the rescue earlier.

Later, about 1:41 a.m. local time Monday, more than 16 hours after the initial attack, two ballistic missiles were fired toward the USS Mason, which was “concluding its response” to the attack at the time.

U.S. officials would not say who was responsible for the attack and if the fiveperson group was acting under the orders of a state or group. But officials said that they are investigating whether Iran was involved, or if it was an attack unrelated to the regional tensions that have intensified since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which prompted Israel to launch a war against the militant group in the Gaza Strip.

Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran in the war in Yemen, attacked several commercial vessels last week in the Red Sea — a body of water next to the Gulf of

Aden — including the Central Park. The Houthis and other groups backed by Iran, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, have increased attacks on Israel since Oct. 7.

Officials said it is not clear if the attackers were the same group that attempted to take the ship earlier. While the Houthi rebels struck in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden where the Central Park was attacked is far from their area of operations.

One U.S. official and one former Pentagon official said Iranian involvement in the operation is being investigated.

Zodiac Maritime, the London-based company that manages the vessel, said that the ship and crew are now safe and unharmed but provided few further details. The ship’s crew had issued a distress call Sunday reporting they were under attack by pirates, as they passed through the Gulf of Aden, about 54 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia, according to Zodiac Maritime. Zodiac Maritime is led by Eyal Ofer, an Israeli-born shipping magnate.

Cockroaches and mountains of trash plague Acapulco after hurricane

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elow the shattered windows of the high-rise hotels in downtown Acapulco, people walk alongside towering hills of garbage bags filled with rotting food and debris, from mattresses to Christmas decorations. Volunteer firefighters from distant states clear the waste, wiping away swarms of cockroaches from their arms.

Miles from the coastal beachside resorts, Elizabeth Del Valle, 43, listened as her teenage daughter Constanza Sotelo described the “mountains of trash” still blocking many streets surrounding their home.

“We have no way to find face masks to keep ourselves healthy,” said Del Valle.

“We expect that we’re going to get an infection from the smell, from the garbage.”

Weeks after Hurricane Otis shocked forecasters and government officials by intensifying rapidly into the strongest storm to hit Mexico’s Pacific Coast and devastate much of Acapulco, residents say they now face an unfolding public health disaster.

Many locals, public health officials and emergency responders say they believe that the uncollected garbage is linked to stomach infections, diarrhea and skin rashes and other ailments that people have complained about since the storm.

Local business groups this past week called on federal and state officials to declare a sanitary emergency citing “the accumulation of garbage, construction material, lack of potable water, and the presence of insects and harmful fauna,” including human remains.

As thousands of troops descended on Acapulco after Otis made landfall, authorities first prioritized clearing debris and restoring power to the tourist resort areas, according to city officials, local business leaders and residents. Some hotels in that area have since reopened.

But people who live outside the city’s beachfront tourist neighborhoods say they must navigate so many piles of trash and debris that in some places it is hard to reach hospitals and health centers.

Even as authorities respond to Acapulco’s many needs — providing water to residents, restoring power and finding

missing people — federal and local officials are sounding alarms over the hurricane’s longer-term health consequences and say that clearing trash needs to be priority.

The city’s mayor estimates that 666,000 tons of garbage are piled across Acapulco. Under normal conditions, local officials said, 700 to 800 tons of waste are picked up every day.

Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has promised a quick recovery, saying that families in Acapulco will be “content by Christmas.”

The mayor, Abelina López Rodríguez, believes the timeline will be far longer.

“To say that in one month or five months we will rebuild Acapulco would be a lie,” she said.

The president’s support is vital, López Rodríguez said, “because garbage does not forgive.” The situation could soon become “a health crisis,” she added.

Since Otis ravaged Acapulco — killing at least 50 people and leaving 30 missing — health brigades made up of federal workers have cleaned and disinfected a little more than one-third of the city’s 507

neighborhoods, disposing of hundreds of pounds of rotting food, Mexican officials said.

Natural disasters can often result in an outbreak of infectious diseases, public health experts said. Piles of garbage left outside can attract mosquitoes and rats, which can then spread infectious diseases. A lack of power can also lead to contaminated food, raising the risk of stomach infections and illnesses.

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported skin lesions, diarrhea and pneumonia among evacuees.

Health problems linked to uncollected trash are “more common than we anticipate,” said Amber Mehmood, an associate professor of public health at the University of South Florida who focuses on global health and disaster management.

Debris and waste, she said, can become a “breeding ground for mosquitoes that can carry malaria and Zika virus.”

“There are plenty of reasons to be worried,” Mehmood added.

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From page 13 Leslye Solís Mireles, 31, a firefighter and paramedic leading a team of more than 50 firefighters from another Mexican state, said her crew in Acapulco had helped treat people with various illnesses that she believes stem from the accumulating garbage.

“It is literally a source of infection,” she said, adding that she and many of her own firefighters were now suffering stomach infections and skin rashes.

Craig Fugate, an administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Barack Obama, said that clearing debris from the streets was also vital to allow access to vehicles carrying supplies.

Beyond the health threat, Acapulco also needs to ensure that it is ready to welcome tourists, he said. “The last thing I want if I’m able to get anything open,” Fugate said, “is the smell of rotten garbage in my street. It’s a nuisance, potentially a public health risk, but it’s also an

eyesore.”

But some residents in rural areas of Acapulco say they have waited long enough.

On a recent afternoon, Maricruz Balboa rushed down from her hillside neighborhood when she heard that businessmen from another state were giving away supplies from a box truck parked on the side of the street.

A crowd of desperate residents reached for soap, hand sanitizer, food and sneakers.

“We’ve had almost no help here so far,” said Balboa, 48, showing the treasured items she had been given: a couple of water bottles, fruit, vegetables, shampoo and sanitary pads.

Del Valle made sure to get hand sanitizer from the same truck when it parked near her neighborhood. She said it was the first time someone had come to deliver food and supplies to her community.

“The government is giving as much as it can,” she said. “But it’s not enough.”

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A resident walking past debris in Acapulco, Mexico, this month. The city’s mayor estimates that 666,000 tons of garbage are piled across Acapulco.

Ukrainian attack cuts power to some Russian-occupied areas

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Ukrainian strike on a power station in Russianheld territory in eastern Ukraine overnight cut power to towns and cities, pro-Russian authorities there said Sunday, less than a day after Moscow launched a record number of attack drones toward Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.

The overnight attack was another sign of Kyiv’s determination to inflict damage on its adversary’s electricity infrastructure before what many in Ukraine expect will be a renewed wintertime assault by Russia on Ukraine’s power grid.

Denis Pushilin, the pro-Moscow leader in the Russian-held part of the Donetsk region, said that most of the drones launched by Ukraine at the area overnight had been intercepted, but “due to the massiveness of the strikes, not everything was shot down.”

“The situation is not easy,” he said on the Telegram messaging app, adding that some towns and districts had been left without light. He did not say whether the attack had involved drones or missiles or a combination of the two.

The attack hit the thermal power plant in Starobesheve, a town at least 25 miles east of the front line in the region, according to Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency. It said that power had been cut in half of the regional capital, Donetsk, and in half of the port city of Mariupol about 60 miles to the south.

Power infrastructure has become a significant theater in the war, in addition to the front-line battles in southern and eastern Ukraine and a struggle for control of the Black Sea. In the absence of a major military breakthrough by either side this year, Ukraine’s ability to survive a second winter of attacks has been a focus of concern for many people.

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a concerted campaign to starve Ukraine of energy, since October on at least three electricity substations apparently seeking to disrupt the country’s fighting and an oil refinery in the Krasnodar region of Ruscapability and sap the will of Ukrainians to continue sia, according to Ukrainian authorities, who maintain that they attack only power facilities directly linked to the war.

Ukrainian authorities say the barrage of missile and Russia’s military campaign.

Five people were injured in Russia’s attack on Kyiv exploding-drone strikes would have put the country’s electricity grid out of action were it not for the efforts overnight into Saturday, an assault that Ukraine said inof utility workers and support from the country’s Wes- volved about 75 drones and that President Volodymyr tern partners. Even so, the assault left many Ukrainians Zelenskyy described as “deliberate terror.” Russian forces in the dark and cold and hurt the country’s economy. then followed up overnight into Sunday with further droUkraine’s energy sector has prepared extensively ne attacks.

Ukraine’s air force said on Telegram that it had shot for the likelihood of another winter assault, repairing and shielding electricity substations and installing down eight of the nine drones that Russia launched. It additional power production capacity. Air defen- did not say where the drone that got through its defenses ses including Patriot missile systems supplied by the had struck. country’s NATO allies have also made the country less vulnerable.

At the same time, Ukraine has ramped up its attacks on Russian-occupied territory and Russia itself.

RIA Novosti reported that the country’s air defenses had shot down 11 Ukrainian drones in western Russia overnight and nine others Sunday.

Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said that some of the drones had been flying toward his city. Drones were also intercepted in the Bryansk, Kaluga and Tula regions of western Russia, according to RIA. Ukraine has targeted energy infrastructure specifically, Local residents work to clean up damage from a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine launching at least five attacks on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023.

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‘La Alianza’: An illegal electoral scheme under state & federal law

By GREGORIO IGARTÚA

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he recently announced agreement between the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP by its Spanish acronym) and Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC) to support each other’s candidates, by switching their votes from the candidate of one party to that of the other, is a conspiracy in the eyes of federal and state governments to defraud the electoral laws through false representation.

The scheme is not limited to the top electoral positions, but also includes candidates at various lower political levels.

Consider the MVC voting for the PIP’s Juan Dalmau for governor in exchange for his party voting for the MVC’s candidate for resident commissioner, Sen. Ana I. Rivera Lassén.

The leaders of both parties alleged that this is legally constitutional under the veil of First Amendment Rights (U.S. Const. Amend. I). It is not a case of mere free expression by candidates. It is a violation of the equal protection of the laws and due process rights under the U.S. Constitution (Amend XIV), and under the Puerto Rico Constitution (Art. II-7). In considering the political damage to the candidates of other parties not conspiring, the equal protection of the laws and due process rights are affected in the outcome of the election by the illegal agreement of the PIP and MVC leaders.

Moreover, there is a violation with respect to the public

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funds assigned to the parties involved, another scheme to defraud the Election Law by their interest to retain the franchise, each as an independent recipient of state funds, and by false representation of the electoral conspiracy with a quid pro quo agreement.

In short, it constitutes a political-financial advantage over the other parties.

Manuel Natal, the MVC’s general coordinator, confirmed publicly that the MVC had agreed with PIP leaders to vote across party lines in the 2024 elections. Dalmau said it was an agreement to end more than 50 years of bipartisan politics in Puerto Rico. He forgot to say that in our system, either you do it under the law, or you don’t do it.

The conspiracy attempts to defraud our democratic system by manipulating the votes of the electorate, by including voting under a Manuel Natal, left, and Juan Dalmau scheme where the support of some candidates in one party is exchanged for support for candidates from the other, and vice versa, a federal violation.

Citizens are legally allowed to vote by what is known as mixed voting, whereby an elector votes for candidates of different parties on the same ballot in the same election.

Notwithstanding, an agreement between leaders of two parties to induce their members to exercise mixed voting on the same ballots for a candidate for one position in exchange for the vote for a candidate of the other party is illegal. It is an agreement to attempt to gain advantage for each other’s party candidates by defrauding the electoral process, and it becomes worse if each receives public funds.

Consider as illegal the exchange of the MVC voting for Dalmau, the PIP’s president, for governor, and of the PIP voting for the MVC resident commissioner candidate, or the MVC not registering candidates for some Sen. Ana Irma Rivera Lassén positions to support the PIP’s candidates in those races, and vice versa. Moreover, it is prohibited under New Progressive Party, Popular Democratic Party and Dignity federal voting laws, which forbid and prevent systemic Project candidates for governor are affected with damages by the conspiracy of the PIP and MVC to vote for Dalmau, as well electoral manipulation to create political duopoly.

Under federal law, damages are provided for cases where as candidates at other levels. The evidence of the conspiracy two or more persons have conspired to deprive any person can be found, and is supported, by the public announcements of the equal protection of the law, or of the equal privileges that the leaders of both parties have communicated, and as and immunities of the law. In the “Alianza,” the PIP and reported in the press.

MVC conspirators defraud the electoral process and provoke damages to the candidates of the other parties that are not part of the conspiracy or the political scheme. In this context, the Gregorio Igartúa is an attorney with a practice in Aguadilla.

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Anuncian reconstrucción y rehabilitación del Albergue de Protección a Víctimas y Testigos de Delito POR CYBERNEWS

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A FORTALEZA – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, junto al secretario del Departamento de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli, y el director ejecutivo de la Oficina Central de Recuperación-Reconstrucción y Resiliencia (COR3), Manuel Laboy, anunció el lunes el comienzo de la reconstrucción y rehabilitación del Albergue de Protección a Víctimas de Delito con una inversión de 13.5 millones de dólares de fondos federales.

“En el día de hoy podemos anunciar el comienzo de la construcción de las mejoras estructurales al Albergue de Testigos, una facilidad de gran importancia para nuestra sociedad. Como pasado secretario de Justicia, reconozco el valor de tener un lugar seguro, digno y hábil para refugiar a víctimas y testigos de crímenes, que se encuentran cooperando con las autoridades para garantizar que se haga justicia”, dijo Pierluisi Urrutia en conferencia de prensa.

A principios de su Administración, se destinó 9.6 millones de dólares del Plan de Rescate Americano (ARPA, por sus siglas en inglés). La Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA, por sus siglas en inglés), había aprobado 3.9 millones de dólares, de los cuales la mitad son para obras de mitigación, pero no eran suficientes. Para la aprobación y desembolso de las partidas presupuestarias, así como la coordinación de los trabajos, el Departamento de Jus-

ticia contó con el apoyo de COR3, y de la Autoridad de Asesoría Financiera y Agencia Fiscal (AAFAF) y su director ejecutivo, Omar Marrero.

“Tener esta facilidad en buenas condiciones evita que tengamos que trasladar personas a hoteles o alojamientos alternos, lo que conlleva un gasto sustancial para el Departamento. Más aún, tenemos la responsabilidad de proveer un lugar seguro y adecuado para personas que han sido víctimas de un crimen o testigos que están dispuestos a cooperar con las autoridades de ley y orden. Una vez culminados los trabajos, que esperamos terminen a finales del año próximo, vamos a contar con un Albergue totalmente renovado que no tengo duda permitirá que más personas den un paso al frente como testigos para lograr la justicia que nuestro pueblo merece”, añadió Pierluisi Urrutia.

Explicó que los trabajos principales incluyen reemplazo de pisos, puertas y ventanas, y acondicionadores de aire, mejoras a luminarias y a las áreas recreativas, así como a los sistemas de seguridad y acceso. Las medidas de mitigación incluyen la instalación de cristales de mayor espesor en puertas y ventanas, anclajes al equipo de aire acondicionado, al igual que la eliminación de aperturas en los edificios y un mejor sistema de impermeabilización de techos resistente a vientos.

Además, se remodelarán las áreas interiores, el mobiliario y otros equipos necesarios para proveer un albergue adecuado para las víctimas y testigos que

requieren la protección del estado. El Departamento de Justicia también aumentará el personal adscrito al Albergue y comenzó a reclutar agentes de seguridad adicionales con una partida de 1.6 millones de dólares.

Por su parte, el secretario del Departamento de Justicia expresó que “nos hemos dado a la tarea de lograr un proyecto completo, en beneficio de las víctimas y testigos, que impacte significativamente todas las necesidades físicas del Albergue, cuyas instalaciones se habían afectado severamente tras el paso de los huracanes Irma y María, así como terremotos y hasta el paso del tiempo”.

Procuraduría de las Mujeres llega a Supermercados Econo para orientar sobre los servicios a las víctimas de violencia de género POR CYBERNEWS

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AN JUAN – Desde el pasado viernes, 24 de noviembre, hasta el 13 de diciembre de 2023, la Oficina de la Procurador de las Mujeres (OPM) en alianza con Supermercados Econo, comenzarán una campaña educativa en las 62 tiendas en todo Puerto Rico para erradicar la violencia de género y promover el que más mujeres salgan del ciclo del maltrato en cualquiera de sus manifestaciones.

Se entregará material informativo a la clientela a través de sus empleados, cajeras, “shoppers’, redes sociales, Radio Econo y promociones con el propósito de que conozcan qué es la violencia de género, las señales de la violencia, los servicios que ofrece la OPM, cómo preparar un plan de Escape, dónde buscar ayuda, contactos para la línea de orientación de OPM, entre otros aspectos importantes para erradicar la violencia dentro de la cultura.

“Estas visitas coinciden con la campaña internacional de los 16 Días de Activismo Contra la Violencia de Gé-

nero, que promueve cambios de conductas sociales para prevenir y erradicar la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas, y que las personas entiendan que la violencia es un problema social y de salud pública. También, elegimos esta fecha porque la incidencia de casos de violencia doméstica lamentablemente aumenta durante la época navideña”, explicó la procuradora interina de la OPM, Madeline Bermúdez Sanabria en declaraciones escritas.

Por su parte, la presidenta de la Junta de Directores de Econo, Awilda Quiñones Ramos, expresó que esta campaña también incluye charlas educativas a empleados a nivel central y que “estamos muy entusiasmados en formar parte de esta vital iniciativa. Nuestras tiendas siempre estarán en la mejor disposición de colaborar con todas las causas que beneficien la calidad de vida de las mujeres puertorriqueñas y todos nuestros ciudadanos.

Confiamos en que impactaremos a muchas personas positivamente”.

La procuradora de OPM añadió las fechas de visitas presenciales a los distintos supermercados (adjunto calendario detallado):

Lunes, 27 de noviembre, Econo Coamo y Juana Díaz Martes, 28 de noviembre, Econo Saint Just, Trujillo Alto y Los Maestros, Río Piedras Miércoles, 29 de noviembre, Econo Humacao y Fajardo Jueves, 30 de noviembre, Econo Cataño y Campanilla, Toa Baja Viernes, 1 de diciembre, Econo Florida y Jayuya Lunes, 4 de diciembre, Econo Cabo Rojo y Rincón Martes, 5 de diciembre, Econo San Germán y Yauco Miércoles, 6 de diciembre, Econo San Sebastián y Hatillo Jueves, 7 de diciembre, Econo Manatí y Arecibo Viernes, 8 de diciembre, Econo Sierra Bayamón y Santa Juanita Bayamón Lunes, 11 de diciembre, Econo Bucaré San Juan y Bo. Obrero Martes, 12 de diciembre, Econo Las Piedras y San Lorenzo Miércoles, 13 de diciembre, Econo Cayey y Barranquitas.

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Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ film: 4 takeaways from the premiere

By KYLE BUCHANAN

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ear the end of her new concert documentary, “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” Beyoncé states that she’s tired of being a “serial people-pleaser.” Since she was a child, she says, she has been striving for stardom, but now that she’s on top of the world and two years into her revelatory 40s, it’s time to recalibrate.

“I have nothing to prove to anyone at this point,” she says.

Maybe that’s why Beyoncé decided to skip the red carpet entirely at the Los Angeles premiere of her movie Saturday night, leaving that task to a starry list of invitees that included Tyler Perry, Ava DuVernay, Lizzo and Issa Rae. Though Beyoncé made a posed appearance at the Oct. 11 premiere of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” — like that concert documentary, “Renaissance” will be distributed by AMC Theaters — she entered her own premiere only after the lights had been turned off and the movie was seconds away from beginning.

Unlike Swift, who shares plenty about her life and is currently in a high-profile, well-documented romance with the Kansas City Chiefs player player Travis Kelce, Beyoncé is one of our most private superstars.

She has given virtually no interviews over the past decade, and any insight into her life or work mostly has to be inferred from brief statements released on social media or her website. “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” which chronicles the most recent world tour in support of her seventh studio album, offers fans something new to interpret, pulling back Beyoncé’s curtain ever so slightly.

Here are four takeaways from the premiere of the movie, which will be in theaters Friday.

This is more than just a filmed concert Swift’s AMC film was a straightforward concert documentary that never left the stage: It was meant to feel as if you had the best seat on her tour stop, but it included no behindthe-scenes frills.

“Renaissance” does things a little differently. Like Beyoncé’s film “Homecoming,” which chronicled the assemblage of her 2018 Coachella performance, the new movie often takes us behind the steel girders to see just how the mammoth tour was put together.

“I’m excited for people to see the show,” Beyoncé says in the film, “but I’m really excited for everyone to see the process.”

That process comes in bits and pieces as we watch Beyoncé call the shots on every-

Beyoncé during her opening show for the North American leg of her tour, at the Rogers Center in Toronto, July 8, 2023. Beyoncé decided to skip the red carpet entirely at the Los Angeles premiere of her new concert documentary, “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” and entered only after the lights had been turned off and the movie was seconds away from beginning. thing from lighting to set decoration to orchestration, sometimes getting frustrated that her notes aren’t heard. “Communicating as a Black woman,” she says, “everything is a fight.”

Still, people come around to Beyoncé’s will sooner or later, she says: “Eventually, they realize this bitch will not give up.”

Beyoncé also devotes behind-the-scenes segments to her recovery from a knee injury, a hometown visit in Houston, and her late, treasured Uncle Johnny, whose love of house music helped inspire the dance bangers on “Renaissance.” And there’s plenty of fan footage, too: The film often cuts away to shots of audience members in various states of ecstatic crying or frozen, religious awe.

Only a little bit got left out Though the ballad-heavy prelude that opened Beyoncé’s Renaissance set list is trimmed, nearly every other song from the tour is included in the film. She even found room for “Thique” and “All Up in Your Mind,” a “Renaissance” doubleheader excised from many of her tour stops.

The only egregious omission in this two-hour48-minute movie is a behind-the-scenes bit that goes by way too quickly: Beyoncé convenes a Destiny’s Child reunion in Houston that includes not

just Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams but also two of the girl group’s first members, LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson, who were contentiously pushed out. “It was like a new birth for us, and a lot of healing,” Beyoncé says in her narration, though we only see the five of them together for a second and don’t hear a single thing they discussed. I would have watched three more hours of that summit alone!

The missing ‘visuals’ remain a mystery The “Renaissance” album was released in July 2022 without any sort of music-video accompaniment, a surprise given Beyoncé’s recent run of game-changing visual albums for “Lemonade” and her self-titled 2013 record. A subsequent teaser video for the first “Renaissance” album track “I’m That Girl” seemed to promise more to come, but none did.

At a Louisville, Kentucky, stop on the Renaissance tour, a fan held up a sign asking

where the visuals were, prompting Beyoncé to grandly tell the crowd, “You are the visuals.” (The crowd didn’t love that.) The “Renaissance” movie is cheeky enough to include that moment, but otherwise, there’s no mention of the missing visuals, nor an explanation of why they’ve seemingly been scuttled.

Blue Ivy fought for her tour spot By and large, the Renaissance tour eschewed celebrity cameos and surprise dropins, preferring to keep the focus on the queen bee herself. Big names joined Beyoncé onstage at only two tour stops: Houston, where Megan Thee Stallion performed “Savage,” and Los Angeles, where Diana Ross and Kendrick Lamar came out for the concert held on Beyoncé’s 42nd birthday.

Those appearances made it into the movie, but the special guest the movie is most interested in is Beyoncé’s 11-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, who often participated as one of the dancers on her mother’s songs “My Power” and “Black Parade.” I caught one of Blue Ivy’s first tour appearances last May in London, where she was still getting the hang of her choreography, but by the end of the Renaissance tour, she had everything — the moves, the attitude — down pat.

Turns out, Blue Ivy’s performance was supposed to be a one-off, and even that took some negotiating. “She told me she was ready to perform, and I told her no,” Beyoncé says in the film. Though she finally relented, Beyoncé was dismayed when Blue Ivy read comments on social media that criticized her lackluster moves. But it thrilled her mother that instead of quitting, she decided to put in the work and train even harder for future stops.

Blue Ivy also pops up in much of the behind-the-scenes footage, offering her often unsugarcoated opinion on stage design, song choices and more. In a film where everyone else treats Beyoncé as a boss or a goddess, Blue Ivy is an amusingly irreverent presence: To this 11-year-old, Beyoncé is just a mom.

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Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize for ‘Prophet Song’

By ALEX MARSHALL

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hen Paul Lynch, an Irish writer, started work on his fifth novel, he was thinking about the long civil war in Syria and the West’s apparent indifference to the people who fled the conflict.

So, he crafted a book that could bring that plight home.

That novel, “Prophet Song,” which imagines a near-future Ireland descending into totalitarianism, then a civil war that leads to families’ fleeing the country, has won the Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award.

On Sunday, Esi Edugyan, a novelist and the chair of this year’s judging panel, said “Prophet Song” resonated with contemporary crises including the Israel-Hamas war, but that the novel had won solely on its literary merits. “This is a triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave,” Edugyan said in a news conference before the announcement.

The judges weren’t unanimous in their decision, even after six hours of debate, Edugyan said. Still, she added, the panel felt that “Prophet Song” was a worthy winner that “captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment.”

“Prophet Song,” which Grove Atlantic is set to publish in North America on Dec. 5, a week earlier than originally planned, beat five other shortlisted titles including Paul Murray’s “The Bee Sting,” Chetna Maroo’s “Western Lane” and Paul Harding’s “This Other Eden.” The other shortlisted novels were Jonathan Escoffery’s “If I Survive You,” and Sarah Bernstein’s “Study for Obedience.”

Founded in 1969, the Booker comes with a cash prize of 50,000 pounds, or roughly $63,000, and is awarded annually to the best novel written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. Previous winners include such literary giants as Hilary Mantel, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood, although the prize is also known for helping create stars. Last year, Shehan Karunatilaka, a Sri Lankan novelist, won for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” a novel examining the trauma of his country’s civil war.

Lynch, 46, a former movie critic, made his literary debut in 2013 with “Red Sky in Morning,” set in the 19th century, about an Irishman who flees to America after killing a man.

Paul Lynch, the author of “Prophet Song,” won the Booker Prize on Sunday.

His other novels include “Beyond the Sea,” about two men stranded offshore, and “Grace,” set during an Irish famine.

Katherine Grant, reviewing that book in The New York Times, joked that “it’s not difficult to tell the difference between Paul Lynch’s writing and a ray of sunshine.” Lynch had “an undiminished appetite for the depiction of suffering,” she added.

“Prophet Song” is set in a near future and centers on Eilish Stack, a scientist and mother of four, whose trade unionist husband is taken by the security forces, an early sign of growing authoritarian rule that eventually sees Ireland in the midst of a civil war.

The novel has received mixed reviews in Britain and Ireland. Lucy Popescu in The Financial Times said it was “a compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the

reader to imagine — what if this was me?” Aimée Walsh, in The Observer, called it “a crucial book for our current times,” and Laura Hackett, in The Times of London, labeled it “an exercise in totalitarianism-by-numbers.”

Anthony Cummins said in The Guardian that there was “something almost obscenely decadent” about the book’s recasting of sea-crossing refugees as middle-class Europeans.

But “whatever else it is, ‘Prophet Song’ is a novel to argue about.” This year’s Booker judges, in their six hours of deliberations, perhaps proved that point. “There was a different way that things could have gone,” Edugyan said in the news conference. Ultimately, she added, the judges all “felt that this was the book that we wanted to present to the world — that this was truly a masterful work of fiction.”

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Health risks linked to climate change are getting worse, experts warn

By DELGER ERDENESANAA

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limate change continues to have a worsening effect on health and mortality around the world, according to an exhaustive report published Tuesday by an international team of 114 researchers.

One of the starkest findings is that heat-related deaths of people older than 65 have increased by 85% since the 1990s, according to modeling that incorporates both changing temperatures and demographics. People in this age group, along with babies, are especially vulnerable to health risks such as heat stroke. As global temperatures have risen, older people and infants now are exposed to twice the number of heat-wave days annually as they were from 1986-2005.

The report, published in medical journal The Lancet, also tracked estimated lost income and food insecurity. Globally, exposure to extreme heat, and resulting losses in productivity or inability to work, may have led to income losses as high as $863 billion in 2022. And, in 2021, an estimated 127 million more people experienced moderate or severe food insecurity linked to heat waves and droughts, compared with 1981-2010.

“We’ve lost very precious years of climate action and that has come at an enormous health cost,” said Marina Romanello, a researcher at University College London and the executive director of the report, known as The Lancet Countdown. “The loss of life, the impact that people experience, is irreversible.”

The indicators of public health tracked in the report have generally declined over the nine years the researchers have produced editions of the assessment.

The analysis also examined health outcomes for individual countries, including the United States. Heat-related deaths of adults 65 and older increased by 88% from 2018-22, compared with 2000-04.

An estimated 23,200 older Americans died in 2022 because of exposure to extreme heat.

For health practitioners, the statistics are not abstract or faceless.

“These numbers remind me of the

Emergency service workers attended to a person with heat stroke symptoms while awaiting a vigil with Pope Francis in Lisbon in August. elderly patients I see in my own hospital with heatstroke,” said Dr. Renee Salas, an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Salas is one of the report’s co-authors and said she viewed the project like tracking vital signs in a patient, but on a national and international scale.

The data can help fill a gap for federal policymakers.

“We have a limited set of indicators for climate change and health that are routinely collected in the United States,” said Dr. John Balbus, director of the office of climate change and health equity in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He did not contribute to this report and is not currently involved with The Lancet Countdown, but previously served as a scientific adviser to the project’s funder.

Balbus cautioned that this report mostly measures people’s exposure to climate-related risks rather than actual health outcomes, such as rates of disease. In order to get from exposures to real health outcomes, he said more investment in re-

search was needed.

For the first time, this year’s Lancet Countdown included projections for the future. If the global average temperature rises by 2 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial temperatures, an increasingly likely scenario unless society significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions, the number of heat-related deaths each year will increase by 370% by the middle of this century, the report found.

At the same time, researchers point out that reducing fossil fuel pollution is proving beneficial for global health.

Deaths from air pollution related to fossil fuels have decreased by 15% since 2005, with most of that improvement a result of less coal-related pollution entering the atmosphere.

The value of The Lancet Countdown is its ongoing monitoring of climate change’s effects on global health, said Sharon Friel, director of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse at the Australian National University.

Friel was not involved in the report, but read it and wrote an accompanying

commentary.

Howard Frumkin, a former special assistant to the director for climate change and health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the report was a valuable dashboard but that the climate impacts he most worried about were not the obvious ones highlighted. Researchers and policymakers need to pay attention to the health effects of people being displaced by climate change and migrating, Frumkin said.

“If you’re on cancer chemotherapy or if you are getting kidney dialysis or if you’re getting addiction treatment and you have to move suddenly, that’s terribly disruptive and threatening,” he said. Frumkin was not involved in the new report but was a co-author on previous editions.

Over the years, health experts involved in this project have included more research about the continued use of fossil fuels being the root cause of health issues.

“The diagnosis in this report is very clear,” Salas said. “Further expansion of fossil fuels is reckless and the data clearly shows that it threatens the health and wellbeing of every person.”

The researchers point out that health care systems, and other societal infrastructure health care depends on, haven’t adapted quickly enough to our current level of global warming.

“If we haven’t been able to cope today, chances are we won’t be able to cope in the future,” Romanello said.

The report is likely to be discussed at the annual United Nations climate summit in the United Arab Emirates that starts in a few weeks. This year the summit will include a greater focus on human health.

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SpaceX makes progress in 2nd launch of giant moon and Mars rocket

By KENNETH CHANG

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paceX, Elon Musk’s spaceflight company, launched its Starship rocket from the coast of South Texas earlier this month, a mammoth vehicle that could alter the future of space transportation and help NASA return astronauts to the moon.

The Nov. 18 flight of Starship, a powerful vehicle designed to carry NASA astronauts to the moon, was not a complete success. SpaceX did not achieve the test launch’s ultimate objective — a partial trip around the world ending in a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

But the test flight, the vehicle’s second, did show that the company had fixed key issues that arose during the earlier test operation in April. All 33 engines in the vehicle’s lower booster stage fired, and the rocket made it through stage separation — when the booster falls away and the six engines of the upper stage light up to carry the vehicle to space.

“Just beautiful,” John Insprucker, a SpaceX engineer and live launch commentator, said on the SpaceX webcast.

By contrast, the first Starship launch badly damaged the launch site; several engines on the booster failed, fires knocked out the steering of the rocket and the flight termination system took too long to explode.

According to SpaceX’s “fail fast, learn faster” approach toward rocket design, successfully avoiding a repeat of past failures counts as major progress.

However, the second flight revealed new challenges that Musk’s engineers must overcome.

Soon after stage separation, the booster exploded — a “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” in the jargon of rocket engineers. The upper-stage Starship spacecraft continued heading toward orbit for several more minutes, reaching an altitude of more than 90 miles, but then SpaceX lost contact with it after the flight termination system detonated.

In a statement, the Federal Aviation Administration said no injuries or property damage had been reported.

It will conduct a mishap investigation, which is standard anytime something goes wrong with a commercial rocket.

Engineers will now have to decipher what went wrong on both the booster and the upper-stage spacecraft, make fixes and then try again.

Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever to fly. SpaceX aims to make both parts of the vehicle fully and rapidly reusable. That gives it the potential to launch bigger and heavier payloads to space and to significantly drive down the cost of lofting satellites, space telescopes, people and the things they need to live into space.

The test journey’s outcome was the latest split-screen moment in the career of Musk, a serial entrepreneur who previously transformed electronic payments with PayPal

SpaceX’s Starship rocket lifted off from Boca Chica, Texas, Nov. 18 on the vehicle’s second test flight. and electric cars with Tesla. As SpaceX prepared for the flight the day before launch, Disney and Apple paused their ad spending with another one of his companies, the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, after Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic post on Nov. 15.

Many outside observers are optimistic that SpaceX will get Starship to work fully.

“They have fixed issues identified in their first flight and got further than ever before with this type of vehicle,” said Phil Larson, who served as a White House space adviser during President Barack Obama’s administration and later worked on communication efforts at SpaceX. “The magic of engineering is that it is all about learning, iterating the design and reflying again soon.”

Daniel L. Dumbacher, executive director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, agreed. “This is a large launch system,” he said. “It’s going to take some work to get it to where it needs to go.

I have no doubt that the SpaceX team will be able to figure out how to get the launch vehicle working.”

A couple of hours before sunrise on Nov. 18, liquid oxygen and liquid methane started flowing into the Starship. There was some fog near the ground, but the skies above were clear, save for a few wisps of cirrus clouds.

The countdown proceeded smoothly, stopping at a planned hold with 40 seconds left on the countdown clock. Then the hold was lifted, the final seconds ticked away and, shortly after 7 a.m. Central time, the 400-foottall rocket slowly rose into the sky. A new water deluge system appears to have protected the launchpad, avoiding the cloud of dust and debris that rose up in April.

A few seconds later, the percussive roar buffeted

spectators watching on South Padre Island, about 5 miles north of the launch site.

At 2 minutes, 48 seconds after liftoff, there was a flash as Starship successfully performed what had been expected to be the trickiest part of the flight — “hot staging,” when the six engines of the upper stage ignited before the booster dropped away. Loud cheers resonated from the SpaceX webcast, which was streaming from the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

Thirty seconds later, there was a bigger flash when the booster — which was to splash in the Gulf of Mexico and sink — exploded. The upper stage continued onward unscathed. But then a few minutes later, the webcast fell into an uncomfortable silence when contact was lost with the Starship vehicle.

Many of the thousands of people who woke up early to take in the launch on South Padre Island said they had enjoyed the spectacle. By 4:30 a.m., a long line of people in cars were waiting in darkness to enter Isla Blanca Park at the south end of the South Padre. Others walked from their hotels to avoid the traffic. Boats packed with watchers floated just to the south, outside the exclusion zone to the east.

The launch was experienced not just by those watching along the coast but also those farther afield.

Emma Guevara, a resident of Brownsville, the city in South Texas that is west of the SpaceX launch site, said the event had made her house shake.

“It was way earlier than we all expected, so it woke everyone up,” said Guevara, who is a Sierra Club organizer and has protested operations at the company’s base.

Top NASA officials offered congratulations to SpaceX. “Each test represents a step closer to putting the first woman on the Moon with the #Artemis III Starship human landing system,” Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration systems development, wrote on X. “Looking forward to seeing what can be learned from this test that moves us closer to the next milestone.”

How quickly SpaceX solves the Starship issues could determine how soon NASA astronauts return to the moon.

The space agency has hired SpaceX to adapt Starship as a lunar lander to take two astronauts to the moon’s south polar regions. Even before the latest Starship test flight, the first landing, scheduled for late 2025, had already been considered likely to slip to 2026. SpaceX is also under contract to provide a Starship lander for the second crewed landing, scheduled for 2028.

For the moon landing, SpaceX would need not just one Starship but nearly 20 launches of the spacecraft, because a Starship headed to the moon would have to refill its propellant tanks before leaving Earth’s orbit.

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22 LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MANATÍ SALA SUPERIOR

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

VÍCTOR MANUEL RIVERA CANTRE T/C/C VÍCTOR RIVERA CANTRE; SUCESIÓN DE CELINÉS RAMÍREZ ROSARIO, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS UNIVERSALES: VÍCTOR DAVID RIVERA RAMÍREZ Y CARLOS ABDIEL RIVERA RAMÍREZ; Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.)

Demandado Civil Núm.: MT2019CV00930.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Manatí, Manatí, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 6 de octubre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial identificado B-104, localizado con el primer piso del Edificio B del Complejo conocido como Condominio Florida Garden Apartament, ubicado en el Barrio Florida Afuera del término municipal de Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, tiene un área superficial de 1,228.8750 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 114.2247 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en 24’ 9 pulgadas, con patio; por el SUR, 30’ 3pulgadas, con pasillo que le da acceso; por el ESTE, en 46’ 6 pulgadas, con el apartamento B-101; y por el OESTE, en 46’ 6 pulgadas, con patio. Su puerta principal de acceso se encuentra localizada en su lado Sur, la cual se comunica con el pasillo del primer piso. Contiene tres cuartos dormitorios, dos baños, un walk in closet, dos closets y un closet

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de pasillo (linen), sala-comedor, cocina, laundry y un balcón. Le pertenece el uso y disfrute exclusivo de dos espacios para estacionamiento identificados B-104 y B-104-2 en el Plano.

Le pertenece además, el uso y disfrute exclusivo de un área de patio de 57.6375 metros cuadrados, localizado en su lado Norte y Oeste que se describe como sigue: por el NORTE, en 41 pies 9 pulgadas, con área de parking; por el SUR, en 7 pies 2 pulgadas, con área común y en 24 pies 9 pulgadas, con apartamento B-104; por el ESTE, en 12 pies 2 pulgadas, con patio apartamento B-101 y en 31 pies con 6 pulgadas, con apartamento B-104; y por el OESTE, en 33 pies 4 pulgadas, con área de parking y área común. Le corresponde en los elementos comunes generales una participación de 2.024%.

Inscrita al folio móvil del tomo 233, finca 12,437 de Barceloneta. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 18 de agosto de 2023 y notificada en este caso el 21 de agosto de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $104,314.26 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 5.375% desde el 1ro de marzo de 2018; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $10,793.07 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente.

La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Manatí, Manatí Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $107,930.78. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $71,953.85, 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 25 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $53,965.39, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

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

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en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de octubre de 2023. WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ CARRIÓN, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #135, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ.

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ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC Parte Demandante Vs.

RAMONITA SANCHEZ GARCIA, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO RAMONITA SANCHEZ GARZIA, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE ORVIN MONTES ANDUJAR

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2018CV01455.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en el Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala 410, Cuarto Piso, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $141,367.77 de balance principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $138,892.32 de primer principal y la suma de $2,475.45 de balance diferido, más los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 6.125% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado, pactada en la escritura de hipoteca; y cuales quiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto le-

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023 gal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Solar número dieciocho (18). Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Cibuco del término municipal de Corozal, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de punto dos mil setenta y seis (.2076) cuerdas, equivalentes a ochocientos quince punto novecientos sesenta y uno (815.961) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con el solar número diecisiete (17) del proyecto Estancias de Cibuco; por el SUR, con el solar número diecinueve (19) del proyecto Estancias de Cibuco; por el ESTE, con la calle de acceso al proyecto Estancias de Cibuco; y por el OESTE, con Sucesión Crespo.

Enclava edificación para fines residenciales. Inscrita al folio ochenta y uno (81) del tomo doscientos setenta y dos (272) de Corozal, finca numero trece mil novecientos cuarenta y seis (13,946). Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Dirección Física: B 18 Estancias de Cibuco, Corozal, PR 00783. Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito a favor de EMI Equity Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $26,200.00, según escritura numero 423, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 22 de julio de 2005, ante el Notario David Cardona Dingui, según inscripción quinta (5ta).

La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 10 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $104,800.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $69,866.66. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $52,400.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se de-

clarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos corres-

The San Juan Daily Star pondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 2102015). Expedido el presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 30 de octubre de 2023. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

DOMINGO ROBLES CHICO; MARÍA DELIA SERRANO ROSA; LA SUCESIÓN DE AURELIA MORÁN DE ROBLES COMPUESTA POR SUS MIEMBROS FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, MENGANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL Y DOMINGO ROBLES CHICO EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN ROSA SERRANO COMPUESTA POR MARIA DELIA SERRANO ROSA; LA SUCESIÓN DE HÉCTOR ROBERTO SERRANO RIVERA COMPUESTA POR MARIA DELIA SERRANO ROSA

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2018CV00514.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 10 de octubre de 2019, notificada el 17 de octubre de 2019 y publicada el 22 de octubre de 2019; y de un Mandamiento de Ejecución emitido el día 10 de enero de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y

por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Radicado en la Urbanización Baralt, situada en el barrio Quebrada de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, que lleva el #36 de la manzana “A”, con un área de 231.44 metros cuadrados, resultando del plano, con un área de 334.67 metros; en lindes: Por el NORTE, con el solar #37, distancia de 22.79 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 35, distancia 24.39 metros; por el ESTE, con los solares 13 y 14, distancia de 14.11 metros y por el OESTE, con la calle marginal, distancia de 14.00 metros. ENCLAVA: Una casa de concreto reforzado, diseñada para una familia.

FINCA: Número 3617, inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 114 de Fajardo, inscripción 1ra. (Sección de Fajardo). Dirección física: A36 Calle Marginal, Urb. Baralt, Fajardo PR 00738. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $58,000.00, con intereses al 9.95% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, que vence el 1 de julio de 2017. Según escritura #360, otorgada en San Juan, el 7 de junio de 2002, ante Eric Hernández Batalla, inscrita al folio móvil de Fajardo, inscripción 9na. MODIFICACION DE HIPOTECA: Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 9na., por la suma principal de $58,000.00, en cuanto a lo siguiente: La cantidad principal será de $68,042.45, el interés será de 9.95% anual y los pagos mensuales serán de $594.61, comenzando el 1ro de febrero de 2005 y terminando el 1ro de enero de 2035. Según escritura #136, otorgada en San Juan, el 21 de diciembre de 2004, ante Claribel Toro Hernández, inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 483 de Fajardo, inscripción 10ma. con fecha de 18 de febrero de 2010.

La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito.

Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuen-

The San Juan Daily Star tra afecta a lo siguiente: AVISO DE DEMANDA: De fecha 18 de febrero de 2010, dictada en el Caso Civil NSCI2004-00152, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca; seguido por Doral Financial Corporation (demandante) versus Domingo Robles Chico, su esposa Aurelia Morán de Robles t/c/c Aurelia Morán Ocasio y la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por ambos (demandados). Se reclama la suma de $60,308.45 y otras sumas. Según Sentencia antes mencionada, inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 483 de Fajardo, anotación A, con fecha de 18 de febrero de 2010. AVISO DE DEMANDA: Dictada en el Caso Civil #FA2018CV00514, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo; seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico (demandante) versus Domingo Robles Chico, su esposa Aurelia Morán de Robles y la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por ambos (demandados). Se reclama el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca de la inscripción 9na. (modificada por la inscripción 10ma.), reducida a $57,249.40, más intereses y otras sumas, o la venta de esta finca en pública subasta. Anotada al tomo Karibe de la Sección de Fajardo, finca #3617 de Fajardo, anotación B y última, con fecha de 13 de enero de 2021.

La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $57,249.40 por concepto de principal, más recargos por atraso, más intereses al 9.95% anual, más 5% de todo pago en atraso, más $6,804.20 como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Fajardo, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá Li-

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bre de Cargas y Gravámenes posteriores. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de CINCUENTA Y OCHO MIL DÓLARES ($58,000.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de TREINTA Y OCHO MIL SEISCIENTOS SESENTA Y SEIS DÓLARES CON SESENTA Y SEIS CENTAVOS ($38,666.66) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de VEINTINUEVE MIL DÓLARES ($29,000.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 1 de noviembre de 2023, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #737, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.

general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por los peticionarios para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno situado en el Barrio Macaná del término municipal de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida según mensura de Mil Trescientos Setenta y Uno punto Mil Quinientos Veintitrés Metros Cuadrados (1371.1523 mc) equivalentes a cero punto tres mil cuatrocientos ochenta y nueve cuerda. Colindando por el Noreste con camino vecinal, por el Noroeste con Carretera Estatal PR-3 131 Km 1.2, por el Sureste con Rosa Rivera antes hoy Steven Arroyo Arroyo y por el Suroeste con Primitivo Torres antes hoy Sucesión Primitivo Torres. Contiene una estructura destinada a vivienda. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal de los promoventes, Lcdo.

Joseph Brocco Santiago, P.O. Box 608., Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 00624-0608, Teléfono 787-836-3020. En Guayanilla en Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, a 9 de noviembre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ADELAIDA LUGO PACHECO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. ***

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DARRYL DAVIS RIVERA Y MADELINE TORRES NIEVES PO BOX 560434 GUAYANILLA PR 00656 TEL: (787)836-0239 Peticionarios Vs.

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Civil Núm.: GY2023CV00217.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, a todo el que tenga derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Expediente de Dominio, a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en

Peticionarios Civil Núm.: AR2023CV01918.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: TODO AQUÉL QUE TENGA ALGÚN DERECHO REAL O INTERÉS SOBRE EL INMUEBLE DESCRITO EN LA PETICIÓN DE DOMINIO QUE MUESTRA EL EPÍGRAFE; A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN, Y EN GENERAL, A TODA

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RODRIGUEZ FLECHA cumplimiento del Mandamien- tres (A-103). Este Apartamento to de Ejecución de Sentencia tiene una participación de cero – URB. LOMAS DE expedido el día 19 de octubre punto siete cero cero cuatro Por la presente se le notifica CAROLINA, C-23 CALLE de 2023, por la Secretaría del por ciento (0.7004%) en los A: WARDIEZAER DIAZ para que comparezcan si creCERRO PIO, CAROLINA, Tribunal, procederé a vender y elementos comunes generales yeren que les conviene, ante ADORNO. BO LA GLORIA PR 00987-8007. venderé en pública subasta y al del Condominio Palacios de este Honorable Tribunal denSECTOR PANEL CARR POR LA PRESENTE se le mejor postor la propiedad que Versalles y una participación de tro de los VEINTE (20) DIAS 851 KM 4, TRUJILLO emplaza y requiere para que ubica y se describe a continua- uno punto tres ocho uno cero a partir de la publicación de ALTO PR 00976; RES LAS conteste la demanda dentro de ción: URBANA: PROPIEDAD por ciento (1.3810%) en los este edicto y exponer lo que CASAS EDF 34 APT 403, los treinta (30) días siguientes HORIZONTAL: Apartamento elementos comunes limitados a sus derechos convenga en SAN JUAN PR 00915; HC a la publicación de este Edicto. número #A guión tres cero tres del Condominio Palacios de el expediente promovido por Usted deberá presentar su ale- (A-303), localizado en el ter- Versalles. Inscrita en sistema el peticionario para adquirir 61 BOX 4562, TRUJILLO gación responsiva a través del cer (3er) piso del Edificio A del Karibe, finca 28,700 de Toa el dominio sobre la siguiente ALTO PR 00976.

Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Condominio Palacios de Ver- Alta, Registro de la Propiedad PERSONA QUE DESEE OPONERSE:

DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno marcada con la letra “E” del plano de inscripción en el caso 77-06-D005-APL, con una cabida de mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y cuatro punto mil trescientos diez (1,454.1310 m.c.) metros cuadrados y en lindes por el Norte, en diez y nueve punto cinco mil cuatrocientos treinta y nueve metros (19.5439) con el solar “A” del Plano de Inscripción antes, ahora, Jorge Luis Ruiz Rivera; por el Sur, en veintitrés punto siete mil novecientos ochenta y dos metros (23.7982) con terrenos de Rosa María Jiménez antes, ahora, Raúl García Román; por el Este, en setenta y cuatro punto tres mil quinientos diez (74.3510) con terrenos de Marcial Maldonado antes, ahora, Luz Marisol Maldonado Román; por el Oeste, en dos alineaciones de veintidós punto tres mil doscientos diez y ocho (22.3218) y cuarenta y dos punto cinco mil quinientos cuarenta y dos (42.5542) respectivamente con terrenos del solar marcado con la letra “C”, ahora, América Román Álvarez, con Raúl García Román y con servidumbre de paso. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad.

Catastro número 013-035-52483-000. Deben notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal de los peticionarios: Lcdo. Fernando H. Padrón Jiménez, PO Box 2833, Arecibo, PR 00613-2833. Tel. (787) 816-6732. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico a 24 de octubre de 2023. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TRUJILLO ALTO EN CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Edwin Serrano cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2023.

En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

WARDIEZAER DIAZ ADORNO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TJ2023CV00328.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA

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

LUIS D. RODRIGUEZ FLECHA

Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2023CV01903.

Salón: 1. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LUIS D.

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Demandante V.

RODOLFO CARLOS FARRO ARROYO, T/C/C RODOLFO FARRO ARROYO

Demandado Civil Núm.: DCD2016-0159.

(701). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en

salles, cuyo condominio está de Puerto Rico, Tercera Seclocalizado en los Barrios Ortiz y ción de Bayamón. El producto Piñas de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. de la subasta se destinará a Consiste de una vivienda resi- satisfacer al demandante hasta dencial de un piso, con un área donde alcance, la SENTENCIA superficial de mil quinientos dictada el 6 de abril de 2023 y ochenta y nueve punto treinta notificada en este caso el 14 y seis pies cuadrados (1,589.36 de abril de 2023, en el presenp.c.), equivalentes a ciento te caso civil, a saber la suma cuarenta y siete punto setenta de $185,144.25 por concepto y un metros cuadrados (147.71 de principal; $1,069.97 por m.c.). colinda por el NORTE, en concepto de intereses acumuelemento común general exte- lados; $584.61 por concepto rior, las escaleras del Edificio A de cargos por demora; los y Terraza que es un elemento cuales al igual que los interecomún limitado del Apartamen- ses continúan acumulándose to número A guión tres cero hasta el saldo total de la deutres (A-303) y del Apartamento da reclamada en este pleito, número A guión uno cero tres y la suma de $19,931.50 para (A-103), en una distancia de costas, gastos y honorarios quince punto cuarenta y dos de abogado; y demás créditos metros (15.42 m.) ; por el SUR, accesorios garantizados hipocon elemento común general tecariamente. La adjudicación exterior, en una distancia de se hará al mejor postor, quien quince punto cuarenta y dos deberá consignar el importe metros (15.42 m.); por el ESTE, de su oferta en el acto mismo con elemento común general de la adjudicación, en efectivo exterior, en una distancia de (moneda del curso legal de los once punto sesenta y seis s Estados Unidos de América), metros (11.66m.); y por el OES- giro postal o cheque certificado TE, con el Apartamento número a nombre del alguacil del TriA guión cuatro cero tres (A-403) bunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA y las escaleras y vestíbulo del se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE Edificio A, en una distancia de ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 once punto sesenta y seis me- DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto tros (11.66 m.). El Apartamento piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de número A guión tres cero tres Subastas de Centro Judicial (A-303) está compuesto de de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto recibidor, sala, área familiar Rico. Que el precio mínimo fija(family-room), cocina, come- do para la PRIMERA SUBASTA dor , balcón, pasillo interior, es de $199,315.00. Que de ser un baño en el área del pasillo necesaria la celebración de una interior, closet para calentado SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma (wáter heater closet), closet de se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE lavandería (laundry), closet de ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:45 pasillo interior, dos (2) dormi- DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina torios con un closet cada uno y antes mencionada del Alguacil un dormitorio principal (master que suscribe. El precio mínimo bedroom) con closet, closet con para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA pasillo (walk-in closet), baño y será de $132,876.66, equivaárea de tocador (power room). lentes a dos terceras (2/3) parLa entrada principal de este tes del tipo mínimo estipulado Apartamento está localizada en para la PRIMERA subasta. Que su lindero Oeste, la cual conec- de ser necesaria la celebración ta el Apartamento con el ves- de una TERCERA SUBASTA tíbulo del tercer (3er) piso del la misma se llevará a efecto el Edificio A del Condominio Pa- día 25 DE ENERO DE 2024, A lacios de Versalles, el cual es LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en un elemento común general del la oficina antes mencionada del Condominio Palacios de Versa- Alguacil que suscribe. El prelles. Le corresponde como ele- cio mínimo para la TERCERA mento común limitado del Con- SUBASTA será de $99,657.50, dominio Palacios de Versalles equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) dos (2) estacionamientos sen- del tipo mínimo estipulado para cillos identificados con los nú- la PRIMERA subasta. Si se meros diecinueve (19) y veinte declarase desierta la tercera (20) y Terraza Adyacentes al subasta, se adjudicará la finca Apartamento número A guión a favor del acreedor por la totatres cero tres (A-303) y Aparta- lidad de la cantidad adeudada mento número A guión uno cero si ésta es igual o menor que

24 el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

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

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de noviembre de 2023.

EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.

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ALEXIS MANUEL CABRAL PERALTA Demandante V.

MIGUELINA REYES GONZALEZ

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandado(a) NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Caso Núm.: SJ2023RF01043.

SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA ROJO IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACOOPERATIVA DE CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR AHORRO Y CREDITO EDICTO ENMENDADA. MARIA D PAGAN HERNANDEZ DE RINCÓN MARILUPAHE@YAHOO.COM Parte Demandante Vs.

ROBERT O. CINTRÓN

REYES GONZALEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le Parte Demandada notifican la sentencia por edicto) Civil Núm.: CB2023CV00413.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el EDICTO. 06 de noviembre de 2023, este A: ROBERT O. Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, CINTRÓN TORO, SU Sentencia Parcial o Resolución ESPOSA SHEILA M. en este caso, que ha sido debiRIVERA VALENTÍN Y damente registrada y archivada LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de DE GANANCIALES los términos de la misma. Esta COMPUESTA POR notificación se publicará una AMBOS. sola vez en un periódico de Se le apercibe que la parte de- circulación general en la Isla mandante por mediación del de Puerto Rico, dentro de los Lcdo. José F. Giraud MejIas, 10 días siguientes a su notificaP.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puer- ción. Y, siendo o representando to Rico 00681, Tel. 787-265- usted una parte en el procedi0334, ha radicado la acción de miento sujeta a los términos epígrafe en su contra. Copia de de la Sentencia, Sentencia la demanda, emplazamientos y Parcial o Resolución, de la cual del presente edicto le ha sido puede establecerse recurso enviado por correo a la última de revisión o apelación dentro dirección conocida. Pueden us- del término de 30 días contatedes obtener mayor informa- dos a partir de la publicación ción sobre el asunto revisando por edicto de esta notificación, los autos en el Tribunal. Se le dirijo a usted esta notificación apercibe que tiene usted un tér- que se considerará hecha en la mino de treinta (30) días para fecha de la publicación de este radicar contestación a dicha edicto. Copia de esta notificademanda de cobro de dinero ción ha sido archivada en los y/o cualquier escrito que estime autos de este caso, con fecha usted conveniente a través del 17 de noviembre de 2023. En Sistema Unificado de Manejo y San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de Administración de Casos SU- noviembre de 2023. GRISELMAC), al cual puede acceder DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, utilizando la siguiente direc- SECRETARIA. ENID TORRES ción electrónica: https://unired. RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR ramajudicial.pr salvo que se DEL TRIBUNAL. represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar LEGAL NOTICE su alegación responsiva en la ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Secretaría del Tribunal de epí- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUgrafe, pero que de no radicarse NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA escrito alguno ante el Tribunal CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAdentro de dicho término el Tri- MÓN SALA SUPERIOR bunal procederá a ventilar el IGLESIA DE DIOS procedimiento sin más citarle PENTECOSTAL ni oírle. Dada en Cabo Rojo, M.I. (MOVIMIENTO Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de noviembre de 2023. LIC. NORMA G. INTERNACIONAL) SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECREDemandante V. TARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL BANCO DE SAN JUAN; DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, JOHN DOE SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO Demandados ROJO. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BO- Civl Núm.: BY2023CV06408.

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ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.

A: JOHN DOE.

El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón dictó la siguiente providencia: Vista la solicitud para la orden de notificación por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal autoriza y ordena que se le notifique por edicto la Demanda de epígrafe a JOHN DOE. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 (c) de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la De-

manda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo se continuará con los procedimientos sin más citarle ni oírle.

Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del notificado, por no ser conocida. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente edicto. Dada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 14 de noviembre de 2023. HON. VANESSA J. PINTADO RODRÍGUEZ, (FIRMADO) JUEZA SUPERIOR”. Se le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en el presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a la abogada del Demandante, la Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, PO Box 5272 Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel. (787) 945-5233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 15 de noviembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SUBSECRETARIA.

AMBOS; “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLE PERSONA CON INTERÉS SOBRE EL INMUEBLE SITO EN BARRIO CELADA, PARCELA #7, GURABO; FINCA NÚMERO (6,321) CATASTRO: 200-026-00116-000.

Por medio del presente edicto se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda de epígrafe dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal, Sala de Caguas y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, LEGAL NOTICE si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO su sana discreción, lo entiende DE PUERTO RICO EN EL TRI- procedente.

Abogada de la Parte Demandante: BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANLcda. Beatriz Cay Vázquez CIA SALA DE CAGUAS RUA 18,234 P.O. Box 1809, Caguas, Puerto Rico MYRNA VIOLETA 00726-1809 LÓPEZ PIZARRO Tel. (787) 731-0526; Email: Demandante Vs beatrizcayvazquez@gmail.com VÍCTOR MANUEL POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, PIZARRO; MARÍA DE expido el presente Edicto en Caguas, Puerto Rico hoy 17 JESÚS RIVERA; LA de noviembre de 2023. LISILSOCIEDAD LEGAL DA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SEDE GANANCIALES CRETARIA GENERAL. ANA H. COMPUESTA POR LUGO MUÑOZ, SECRETARIA AMBOS; “JOHN DOE”, DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

COMO POSIBLE PERSONA CON INTERÉS SOBRE EL INMUEBLE SITO EN BARRIO CELADA, PARCELA #7, GURABO; FINCA NÚMERO (6,321) CATASTRO: 200-026-00116-000

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV01664.

Sobre: PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA (USUCAPIÓN).

Sala: 802. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.

A: VÍCTOR MANUEL PIZARRO; MARÍA DE JESÚS RIVERA; LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

MARIANA RODRÍGUEZ PEDROZA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: VB2023CV00227.

(201). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en

cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 26 de mayo de 2023 y notificada el 26 de mayo de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 3 de noviembre de 2023 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 6 de noviembre de 2023 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, Sala Superior, Carretera Número Dos (2) Kilómetro 38.3 (al lado del Centro Gubernamental) Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Condominio Patio de Vega Baja. Apartamento: C guion ocho (C-8). Cabida: 479.97 pies cuadrados. Su descripción legal es como sigue: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento Residencial Número C guion ocho (C-8) de una planta y de forma irregular localizado en la segunda planta del Condominio Patio situado en la calle José Julián Acosta del Municipio de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, teniendo un área aproximada de 44.59 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 479.97 pies cuadrados. El apartamento colinda por el NORTE, distancia de 18’ 4”, equivalentes a 5.59 metros lineales con el apartamento C guion siete (C-7); por el SUR, en distancia de 19’ 4” equivalentes a 5.89 metros lineales con espacio exterior; por el ESTE, en distancia de 33’ 9”, equivalentes a 10.29 metros, con espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en distancia de 33’ 9”, equivalentes a 10.29 metros lineales con pasillo y Apartamento C guion cinco (C-5). La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero OESTE, a través de la cual se llega al exterior del edificio. El área de vivienda consta de sala, comedor, cocina, un cuarto de dormitorio, con closet, un baño y lavandería. Tiene una participación de 12.3821% en los elementos comunes del condominio.

La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, Finca 33877, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. Inscripción segunda (2da).

Dirección Física: Cond. Patio, 95 Calle José Julián Acosta, Apt. C-8, Vega Baja, PR 00693.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $21,120.00.

De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual

el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $14,080.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $10,560.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma $20,204.42 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.375% anual desde el 1 de febrero de 2013 hasta su completo pago, más $772.74 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $2,112.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, , incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores que afectan la propiedad en cuestión: a. Hipoteca: Constituida por Mariana Rodríguez Pedroza (soltera), en garantía de pagaré a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $19,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero en 15 años, según consta de la Escritura #34, otorgada en San Juan, el 23 de diciembre de 2008, ante el notario Ignacio Villamarzo García, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, finca #33877, inscripción segunda (2da). Nota: Sujeta a condiciones bajo el programa La Llave para tu Hogar por 15 años. b. Hipoteca: Constituida por Mariana Rodríguez Pedroza (soltera), en garantía de pagare a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Departamento de la Vivienda, o a su orden, por la suma de $40,000.00, sin intereses y vencedero en 15 años, según consta de la Escritura #39, otorgada en San Juan, el 23 de diciembre de 2008, ante la notario Ruth N. Morillo Limardo, inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, finca #33877, inscripción cuarta (4ta). Nota: Condiciones bajo Home Investment Partnership Act también conocido como Home por 15 años. c. Avi-

so de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs Mariana Rodríguez Pedroza (soltera), ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, en el Caso Civil Número VB2023CV00227, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $20,204.42 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 30 de marzo de 2023. Anotada al Tomo Karibe de Vega Baja. Anotación A. Se les advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de noviembre de 2023. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, ALGUACIL #888, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA

ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V.

JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2023CV03581.

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

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contra y conceder el remedio E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE mento C-1 y pasillo comunal; ABDIEL E. ROBLES; CENTRO DE length at its Western and EasA: JOHN DOE Y ISLAND PORTFOLIO tern wall. Its boundaries are the DE PUERTO por el ESTE, en distancia de solicitado en la demanda, o ASOCIADO GUTIERREZ COLÓN RECAUDACION DE RICHARD ROE, personas SERVICES, LLC, following: by the North, with the 26’ 6” equivalentes a 8.08 mecualquier otro, si el tribunal, en RICO. Demandado INGRESOS MUNICIPALES desconocidas que se COMO AGENTE DE common corridor; EAST, with tros lineales con pasillo y aparel ejercicio de su sana discreA: IVELISSE VÉLEZ Civil Núm.: GM2023CV00620.

(CRIM) designan con estos apartment 1209; by the WEST ción, lo entiende procedente. TORRES T/C/C IVELISSE tamento C-3; por el OESTE, en FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS Salón: 306. Sobre: COBRO Demandados nombres ficticios, que Además, se Ia apercibe que, FUND, LLC and SOUTH, with the exterior. It distancia de 26’ 6” equivalentes DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMFIGUEROA, JOSUÉ Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV04142. consists of a living-dining area, Demandante Vs. en los casos al amparo de la a 8.08 metros lineales, con espuedan ser tenedor o PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. VELEZ Y ALEJANDRO pacio exterior. La puerta de en- ÁNGEL L. CABÁN AYALA (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DI- three bedrooms with closets, tenedores, o puedan tener Ley Núm. 57-2029, titulada Ley ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOone bathroom with toilet, wash para Ia Prevención del Maltra- VÉLEZ HEREDEROS DE trada está situada en su lindero Demandado RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE algún interés en el pagaré to, Preservación de Ia Unidad FLORENTINA TORRES Sur a través de la cual se llega Civil Núm.: AÑ2022CV00221. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA- basin and shower stall, an intehipotecario a que se hace Familiar y para Ia Seguridad, PEÑA A: COND. PATIO al exterior del edificio. Consta Salón: 0001. Sobre: COBRO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO RIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. rior hall with linen closet, and a referencia más adelante Bienestar y Protección de los AL: PÚBLICO EN kitchen with sink, electric range, (VILLA EL NARANJAL), de sala, comedor, cocina, un DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM- DE PUERTO RICO, SS. with oven, refrigerator, hot waen ci presente edicto, que Menores, entre los remedios cuarto dormitorio con closet, un PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. GENERAL. A: ABDIEL E. 95 CALLE JOSE JULIÁN baño y lavandería. Tiene una ter heater and storage closets.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉse publicará una sola vez. que el Tribunal podrá conceder A: SUCESION DE ACOSTA APT. C2, VEGA participación de 9.6326% en RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE GUTIÉRREZ COLÓN – Le corresponde un porcentaje Se les notifica que en la De- se incluyen Ia ubicación permaDIONISIO NIEVES BAJA, PR 00693; URB. los elementos comunes general LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL URB. EL DORADO B-16 en los elementos comunes manda radicada en el caso de nente de un (una) menos fuera RODRIGUEZ Y SUCESION de .57875%. La escritura de CALLE MAGNOLIA, epígrafe se alega que el 16 de de su hogar, ci inicio de proce- SAN VICENTE, 35 CALLE del Condominio. La propiedad ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE IVELISSE ROBLES hipoteca se encuentra inscrioctubre de 1984, se otorgó un sos para Ia privación de patria 9, VEGA BAJA, PR 00693- y la hipoteca constan inscritas DE PUERTO RICO, SS. GUAYAMA, PR 00784.

RIVAS, COMPUESTA ta al folio 87 del tomo 1036 al tomo Karibe de Vega Baja, pagaré a favor de RG Mortga- potestad, y cualquier otra mePOR LA PRESENTE se le A: ÁNGEL L. 3429, 909 AMBOY AVE, Finca 34408. Registro de la POR SUS HIJOS JUAN de Sábana Llana, Registro ge Corporation, o a su orden, dida en el mejor interés del (de emplaza y requiere para que CABÁN AYALA – PERTH AMBOY, NJ 08861- Propiedad de Bayamón, Secde la Propiedad de San Juan, por Ia suma de $32,333.00 de la) menor. (ArtIculo 33, incisos conteste la demanda dentro de CARLOS NIEVES BO. CERRO GORDO 1905; 1606 S WARREN ción IV. Inscripción segunda.

Sección Quinta, finca número principal, con intereses al 10% b y f de Ia Ley Núm. 57-2023). los treinta (30) días siguientes ROBLES Y SANDRA CARR 495 K3 H5 INT, a la publicación de este Edicto.

AVE, LAKELAND FL 23,914, inscripción octava. La La demandante es tenedora anual, con vencimiento el 1 de Se le advierte de su derecho IVETTE NIEVES dirección física de la propiedad MOCA, PR 00676 / PO Usted deberá presentar su alepor endoso, por valor recibido y 33803-2065; URB. noviembre de 2014, ante el no- a comparecer acompañado(a) ROBLES; CENTRO DE antes descrita es: Condominio de buena fe del referido pagaré tario Carlos M. Colón mediante de abogado(a) en los casos BOX 459 MOCA, PR gación responsiva a través del JARDINES DE VEGA RECAUDACION DE Santa María 2, 501 Calle Moafidávit 5259. En garantía del que proceda. Representa a Sistema Unificado de Manejo y 00676-0459.

BAJA, 270 JARDÍN DEL objeto de la presente acción.

Se les interpela para que acep- POR LA PRESENTE se le Administración de Casos (SU- INGRESOS MUNICIPALES desta, Apartamento 1210, San pagaré antes descrito se otorgó Ia parte demandante el Lcdo.

CARIBE, VEGA BAJA, PR ten o renuncien a la herencia Juan, Puerto Rico. La Subasta Ia escritura de hipoteca número Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA (CRIM). emplaza y requiere para que MAC), la cual puede acceder 00693-3975. de los causantes dentro de los conteste la demanda dentro de utilizando la siguiente direc- Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁ- se llevará a efecto para satis#18,682, Delgado Fernández, 259, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, FULANO Y MENGANO 30 días subsiguientes a la fe- los treinta (30) días siguientes ción electrónica: https://unired. LEZ, Alguacil, Alguacil de este facer a la parte demandante la el 16 de octubre de 1984, ante LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernáncha que fuesen emplazados o a la publicación de este Edicto. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se Tribunal, a la parte demandada suma de $32,806.89 de princiDE TAL, POSIBLES el notario H Carios M. Colón, dez Juncos Station, San Juan, requeridos que contesten, en Usted deberá presentar su ale- represente por derecho propio, y a los acreedores y personas pal, intereses al 6.50% anual, inscrito al folio 92 del torno 207 Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. HEREDEROS cumplimiento con el Artículo gación responsiva a través del en cuyo caso deberá presen- con interés sobre la propiedad desde el 1ro. de septiembre de de Canóvanas, finca 9832, ins- [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@ DESCONOCIDOS DE 1578 del nuevo Código Civil Sistema Unificado de Manejo y tar su alegación responsiva que más adelante se describe, 2021, hasta su completo pago, cripción 1, Registro de Ia Pro- delgadofernandez.com. ExpeCARMELO MEDINA de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § piedad de Carolina, Sección III. dido bajo mi firma y sello del en la secretaría del tribunal. al público en general, HAGO $5,200.00 para costas, gastos y PAGÁN T/C/C CARMELO 11021, entendiéndose que, si Administración de Casos (SU- Si usted deja de presentar su ySABER: El inmueble gravado mediante Tribunal, hoy 15 de noviembre Que el día 8 DE ENE- honorarios de abogado; recarMAC), la cual puede acceder MEDINA, SUTANO Y no se expresan dentro de di- utilizando la siguiente direc- alegación responsiva dentro RO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE gos acumulados; más cualquier La hipoteca antes descrita es de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY PERENCEJO DE TAL, cho término, aceptan el caudal ción electrónica: https://unired. del referido término, el tribunal LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita otra suma que se haga en virIa finca 9832 inscrita al folio 92 ZAYAS, SECRETARIA REGIOdel tomo 207 de Canóvanas, NAL. ROSA M. VIERA VELÁZ- POSIBLES HEREDEROS relicto; la renuncia se hará por ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se podrá dictar sentencia en re- en el Tribunal de Primera Ins- tud de la escritura de hipoteca. instrumento público o por escri- represente por derecho propio, beldía en su contra y conceder tancia, Sala Superior de San Dichas sumas están vencidas, Registro de la Propiedad de QUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA. DESCONOCIDOS DE son líquidas y exigibles. Que la to judicial. La parte demandada Carolina, Sección III. La obligaFLORENTINA TORRES deberá presentar su alegación en cuyo caso deberá presen- el remedio solicitado en la de- Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, cantidad mínima de licitación LEGAL NOTICE ción evidenciada por el pagaré manda o cualquier otro sin más venderé en Pública Subasta la tar su alegación responsiva PEÑA. responsiva a través del Sistema en la secretaría del tribunal. citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en propiedad inmueble que más en la primera subasta para el antes descrito fue saldada en ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. RG Mortgage Corporation es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de Ia Propiedad. Litton Loan Servicing LP fue último tenedor conocido del pagaré antes descrito. POR LA PRESENTE se Ic emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de Ia mismas al (a Ia) abogado(a) de Ia parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO MEDINA PAGÁN T/C/C CARMELO MEDINA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE FLORENTINA TORRES PEÑA COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS JULIO VÉLEZ TORRES, IVELISSE VÉLEZ TORRES T/C/C IVELISSE FIGUEROA Y SUS NIETOS JOSUÉ VELEZ Y ALEJANDRO VÉLEZ, SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: VB2023CV00724.

(201). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeudan las siguientes sumas: $23,364.99 de principal, intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.375% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2021 hasta su completo pago, $190.38 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta su saldo total, más la suma estipulada de $2,900.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es: URBANA: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial C-2 de una planta y de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del Condominio Patio situado en la calle José Julián Acosta de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, teniendo un área aproximada de 36.69 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 373.39 pies cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en distancia de 19’ 4” equivalentes a 5.89 metros lineales con espacio exterior; por el SUR, en distancia de 19’ 4” equivalentes a 5.89 metros lineales, con Aparta-

Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, al PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico oficinabelmaalonso@gmail. com, dentro del término de 30 días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy, 16 de noviembre de 2023, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.

Lcda Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Maritza Rosario Rosario, Sub-Secretaria.

Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2023. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs.

el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2023. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA M. COTTO AMARO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs.

SUCESION DE DIONISIO NIEVES RODRIGUEZ Y SUCESION DE IVELISSE ROBLES RIVAS, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS JUAN CARLOS NIEVES ROBLES Y SANDRA IVETTE NIEVES

adelante se describe y cuya inmueble será de $52,000.00 y venta en pública subasta se or- de ser necesaria una segunda denó por la vía ordinaria al me- subasta, la cantidad mínima jor postor quien hará el pago en será equivalente a 2/3 partes dinero en efectivo, giro postal de aquella, o sea, la suma de o cheque certificado a nombre $34,666.67 y de ser necesaria del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de una tercera subasta, la cantiPrimera Instancia. Los autos y dad mínima será la mitad del todos los documentos corres- precio pactado, es decir, la pondientes al procedimiento suma de $26,000.00. De declaincoado, estarán de manifiesto rarse desierta la tercera subasen la Secretaría del Tribunal de ta se adjudicará la finca a favor San Juan durante horas labora- del acreedor por la totalidad de bles. Que en caso de no produ- la cantidad adeudada si esta es cir remate ni adjudicación en la igual o menor que el monto del primera subasta a celebrarse, tipo de la tercera subasta, si el se celebrará una SEGUNDA Tribunal lo estima conveniente.

SUBASTA para la venta de la Se abonará dicho monto a la susodicha propiedad, el día 16 cantidad adeudada si esta es DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS mayor. La propiedad se adju9:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en dicará al mejor postor, quien caso de no producir remate ni deberá satisfacer el importe adjudicación, se celebrará una de su oferta en moneda legal y TERCERA SUBASTA el 23 DE corriente de los Estados Unidos ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 de América en el momento de DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina la adjudicación y que las carsita en el lugar antes indicado. gas y gravámenes preferentes, La propiedad a venderse en si los hubiese, continuarán subpública subasta se describe sistentes, entendiéndose que el como sigue: URBAN: Residen- rematante los acepta y queda tial apartment 1210, located at subrogado en la responsabiliSANTA MARÍA II CONDOMI- dad de los mismos, sin destiNIUM, in Sabana Llana Ward narse a su extinción el precio of the Municipality of San Juan, del remate. La propiedad a ser Puerto Rico, which is regular in vendida en pública subasta se shape, with a superficial area adquirirá libre de cargas y graof SEVEN HUNDRED SE- vámenes posteriores. Podrán VENTY EIGHT (778) SQUA- concurrir como postores a toRE FEET (gross), measuring das las subastas los titulares de (21’) in width at its Northern créditos hipotecarios vigentes y and Southern wall by (37”), in posteriores a la hipoteca que

26 se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 13 de noviembre de 2023. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DE LA DIVISIÓN DE EJECUCIÓN DE SENTENCIAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESION DE CARMEN GARCIA BENITEZ COMPUESTA POR VALERIE MARRERO GARCIA, JESUS MANUEL MARRERO GARCIA, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados Civil Núm.: FBCI201402621.

(404). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 20 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaria de este Tribunal, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente y/o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo titulo,

derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad horizontal: Apartamento residencial marcado con el número cuatrocientos uno D (401 D), ubicado en el piso terrero del edificio D, del Condominio Ciudad Jardín de Canóvanas, gobernado por el régimen de propiedad horizontal y localizado en el Barrio Canóvanas del Municipio de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida de mil trescientos catorce pies cuadrados (1,314 pc), equivalentes a aproximadamente ciento veintidós punto cero setecientos cincuenta y un metros cuadrados (122.0751 mc). El apartamento es de forma irregular y colinda: por el Norte, en distancia de treinta y nueve pies tres pulgadas 39’ 3”) con un área denominada “green area” y con terrenos de la Sucesión de Rafael Calderón Rivera; por el Sur, en dos alineaciones distintas, en una distancia de treinta y cuatro pies (34’ 0”) con la parte de la finca que colinda con Los Flamboyanes Court, y en otra distancia de cinco pies tres pulgadas (5’ 3”) con un área común denominada “lobby”; por el Este, en dos alineaciones distintas, en una distancia de diecinueve pies seis pulgadas (19’ 6”) con el apartamento número cuatrocientos dos D (402 D) y en otra distancia de tres pies seis pulgadas (3’ 6”) con un área común denominada “lobby”; y por el Oeste, en una distancia de veintinueve pies diez pulgada (29’ 10”) con un área denominada “green area” y con el edificio E del referido condominio.

Se compone el apartamento de sala - comedor, cocina, tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, de los cuales el cuarto principal master) está provisto de un baño y de un closet vestidor (“walk-in closet”). Los otros dos (2) dormitorios también tienen un (1) closet en su interior. Además, el apartamento está provisto de otro baño, área de laundry y un closet para ropa linen closet”) localizados en el pasillo y una terraza. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales del edificio igual a cero punto seis mil veintisiete de porciento (0.6027%).

Se le asigna el uso de dos (2) espacios de estacionamiento señalados en los planos con los números cuatrocientos uno 401), localizados uno al lado del otro. Inscrita al folio 148 del tomo 365 de Canóvanas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera (III) de Carolina, finca número 14,712.

Dirección física: 401 Condominio Ciudad Jardín, Canovanas, PR 00729. La finca 14,712 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita

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en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc; o a su orden, por la suma principal de $175,000,00 con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 16, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 9 de abril de 2008, ante la notario Jelka L. Duchesne Sanabria, e inscrita al folio 148 del tomo 365 de Canovanas, finca 14,712 inscripción 4ta. La propiedad está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: A. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $262,500.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 17, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día el día 9 de abril de 2008, ante la notario Jelka L. Duchesne Sanabria, e inscrita al folio 148 del tomo 365 de Canovanas, finca 14,712 inscripción 5ta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; por la hipoteca de $175,000.00 total o parcialmente. 1. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, total o parcialmente el importe de la Sentencia emitida el 26 de septiembre de 2022, notificada y archivada en autos el mismo día. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, asciende a las siguientes cantidades: 297,775.38 de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7% anual a partir del 31 de agosto de 2022, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, más una suma de $17,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más la cantidad de $17,500.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $17,500.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. El precio mínimo de licitación con relación a la antes descrita propiedad y la fecha y hora de cada subasta es como sigue: PRIMERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 9 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $175.000.00. Segunda Subasta: Se celebrará el día 16 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $116,666.66. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $87,500.00. Las subastas de dicha propiedad se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, advirtiéndose

que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. En cualquier momento luego de haberse comenzado el acto de la subasta, el Alguacil podrá requerir de los licitadores que le evidencien la capacidad de pago de sus posturas. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas o gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se le apercibe a los tenedores de gravámenes posteriores al que se ejecuta que, para proteger cualesquiera derechos que tengan sobre el inmueble, deberán comparecer a la subasta, pues de no hacerlo así y de no igualar el precio de venta del gravamen hipotecario que se ejecuta, el Tribunal ordenará la cancelación de todos los gravámenes posteriores. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si 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 mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina, durante horas laborables. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente edicto se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico una vez por semana por un término de dos (2) semanas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre cada publicación. Se fijará además, en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares serán la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía de dicho Municipio. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a su dirección que obra en autos. Una vez efectuada la correspondiente venta judicial, otorgaré la escritura del traspaso al licitador victorioso, quien

podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la Sentencia. Colocaré al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la Propiedad mediante el lanzamiento de los ocupantes en el término legal de veinte (20) días desde la fecha de la venta en pública subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante o ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o del deudor la ocupen. El Registrador de la Propiedad cancelará, libre de derechos, todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción, y procederá a la inscripción de la venta a favor del comprador en subasta libre de todo gravamen posterior a la fecha en que se otorgó la hipoteca que ha sido ejecutada mediante esta acción. Expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 14 de noviembre de 2023. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, INC. Demandante V.

DIANA GRACE GARCIA LANZOT

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2019CV00971.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PUBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 4 de abril de 2023, por la Secretaria del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Lote once: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Ciénaga Alta del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero pun-

tos dos cero tres cinco cuerda (0.2035 cada), equivalentes a ochocientos metros cuadrados (800.00 m.c). En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle; por el SUR, con la calle; por el ESTE, con el solar número diez; y por el OESTE, con el solar número doce. Inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 460, finca #25,413 de Río Grande. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. La propiedad ubica en: B-11 3 St. Luz Bella, Río Grande, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor, el día 16 de noviembre de 2020 y notificada el 25 de noviembre de 2020, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $99,510.45 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 3.50% desde el 1ro de abril de 2017; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $10,914.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 7 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $109,140.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 14 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $72,760.00, 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 22 DE FEBRERO DE 2024 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $54,570.00, 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 totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima

conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

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

EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de octubre de 2023.

MILDRED I. TORO COLÓN, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #197, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO RINCÓN Parte Demandante Vs

SUCESIÓN JOSÉ

NELSON VÉLEZ MATÍAS COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA LISETTE LAMBERTY AGOSTO T/C/C LISSETTE LAMBERTY AGOSTO T/C/C LIZETTE LAMBERTY T/C/C LISSETTE LAMBERTY Y JOSENELSON CARLO VÉLEZ LAMBERTY Y GUSTAVO JOSÉ VÉLEZ LAMBERTY, JOHN DOE Y DOE JOHN COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV01435.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JOSENELSON CARLO VÉLEZ LAMBERTY Y GUSTAVO JOSÉ VÉLEZ LAMBERTY, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN JOSÉ NELSON VÉLEZ MATÍAS.

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

Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 noviembre de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ. JOSSIE D. BOBÉ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Watching people watch a game. With 100,000 friends.

By RORY SMITH

W

ith the lights adjusted and the cameras rolling, the production team gives Joe Smith his cue.

In five seconds, he will be broadcasting live to a couple thousand people. Smith’s mind, though, is elsewhere. “Slate is definitely the best way to build a roof,” he mutters to his co-host, Jay Mottershead, as the countdown hits three. “All these years on, they haven’t topped it.”

And with that, they are on air. They will remain so for the next four hours, essentially uninterrupted: a broadcasting endurance test staged in a subterranean studio, all exposed brick and industrial lighting, in the middle of Manchester, England’s achingly hip Northern Quarter.

Before they have finished, they will have touched on subjects as diverse as: the slightly alarming frequency with which Mottershead has nightmares; the declining popularity of lemon curd; and the story of a man who attends Smith’s gym exclusively to read vintage copies of “Cars” magazine.

Occasionally, their freewheeling, faintly anarchic conversation to be interrupted by what is supposedly the purpose of the evening’s activity: keeping track of the game between the soccer team they support, Manchester United, and the Danish champion, FC Copenhagen.

That is, after all, what will attract more than 100,000 people to their livestream over the course of those four hours. It is the diversions and the tangents and the stream of consciousness about roofing, though, that will keep them there.

Hard-core community The concept of watching two people watch a soccer game might sound like a distinctly postmodern form of entertainment, a close cousin of the gaming streams that proliferate on Twitch and the unboxing videos that for some reason captivate children on YouTube.

In soccer, though, the form has deep roots. The idea of making most games available to watch on television, after all, is a relatively recent one. In Britain, home to the Premier League, many games continue to be blacked out, in the interest of protecting in-stadium attendances.

The production crew of the watchalong Stretford Paddock, a Manchester United fan group that livestreams themselves watching their team’s matches Barred from showing those games, broadcasters have for years had little choice but to find creative ways to keep viewers up-to-date on what is taking place in them.

Most have settled on the format pioneered

by Sky’s “Soccer Saturday” — launched in the 1990s — in which an array of former players sit in a studio, watching feeds of the games only they can see, and update viewers on key moments in real time. (Think of the NFL’s popular Red Zone channel, only without seeing anyone actually playing football.)

The form of the show that Mottershead and Smith host on Stretford Paddock, the Manchester United fan channel they coown — or its counterparts on outlets like The Redmen TV (Liverpool) and We Are Tottenham TV (self-explanatory) — is essentially the same. The function, though, is distinct.

Most of their viewers, Mottershead said, are also watching the games, either legally or illegally. “They turn the commentary down and listen to us instead,” he said. They do so because they want a much more narrowly focused product: Stretford Paddock’s audience only wants updates on Manchester United, for example, not news about anyone else who is playing at the same time.

And, crucially, they want those updates delivered not by the compromised and biased mouthpieces of the mainstream media — what they see as retirees protecting their friends and business interests, or commentators with the nebulous but definite prejudice against their club — but by dyed-in-the-wool fans like them. “We might disagree on things,” Mottershead said. “But we all want United to do well.”

Still, after more than six years leading watchalongs with Smith, Mottershead has come to believe that what draws in fans is not simply a matter of having their obsessions met and their biases confirmed.

What his viewers are looking for, he thinks, is simple. They want someone to watch the game with them.

Viral empire The part of the soccer industry that is made for fans and by fans is necessarily tribal. Every club essentially exists in its own silo. The biggest names in the Manchester United content universe will be largely alien to those who follow Liverpool, just as celebrated Arsenal podcasters will have little or no resonance to Tottenham supporters.

The crowning exception is Mark Goldbridge, soccer’s 44-year-old livestream

kingpin and the genre’s only real crossover star. It is not just that his fan channel, The United Stand, currently has 1.77 million YouTube subscribers. It is that almost every time Manchester United loses (or draws, or concedes a goal), he is liable to reach many millions more.

Footage from Goldbridge’s streams reliably goes viral: rants that are by turns splenetic, wildly NSFW, and vaguely surreal. He will howl that Manchester United’s defense has “all the resistance of a papadum catching a bowling ball,” say, or that the club is accidentally employing “a team of slow giraffes.”

Quite what it is about Goldbridge that has made him so prominent is difficult to pinpoint, and he offered no clues: He declined through his representation to be interviewed for this article, on the grounds that he is currently exploring opportunities away from “the watchalong space.”

In interviews, Goldbridge has accepted that there is an element of cringe comedy, in the style of David Brent or Alan Partridge, to his delivery. Peter McPartland, a host on Toffee TV, a channel dedicated to Everton, agreed. “There is an awkwardness to him that makes him funny,” he said.

Whatever it is, it is undeniably effective.

“He has built an empire,” said Paul Machin, a founder of The Redmen TV, the Liverpool fan channel. The problem is less his success, other hosts said, and more in the copycats he has inspired.

“People see his videos going viral,” Machin said, “so now there are a lot of Manchester United watchalongs where people you’ve never seen before are kind of performing their anger.”

The economics of the internet, in theory, incentivize virality. In an industry in which there is a direct correlation between clicks and revenue, going viral is held to be both the greatest prize and the ultimate purpose of all online content.

Those who earn their living from fan channels, though, see that kind of attention less as a goal and more as a danger. “We don’t want that virality,” said Ben Daniel, who founded We Are Tottenham TV with his brother, Simon, in 2017.

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From page 27 Clips that break tribal lines tend to do so by attracting a considerable proportion of “hate watches,” he said — views from fans of other clubs relishing another team’s suffering.

But those are not people who might hit the like button, or subscribe. Virality, it turns out, brings the wrong sort of fame.

Parasocial On the surface, the rewards for watchalong fame are thin.

YouTube’s algorithm is weighted toward shorter videos, not hours of broadcast. The platform’s chats, which allow viewers to append payments to their comments or questions, drive only a couple of hundred dollars of revenue.

The benefits are largely second-order ones. They are worth doing, Smith said, because they can drive subscriptions. Mostly, though, they do them because “it would be weird not to: The game is the culmination of everything we talk about.”

He and Mottershead are old hands by the standards of the genre: Stretford Paddock has been doing watchalongs for al-

most a decade. Most of the newer versions trace their origins to the pandemic, when social distancing rules kept fans from attending games in person.

Before then, fan channels focused on giving supporters who could not or did not attend games a digital version of the experience: a taste from outside the stadium, and inside the crowd, before, during and after games.

With the stands empty, that was not possible. All that was left was to offer running commentary on the games that they, like every other fan, were watching on television.

When fans returned to the stands, though, the channels noticed there was still a sizable audience craving that type of in-game coverage. “It was so popular that we couldn’t drop it,” Machin said of The Redmen TV’s experience.

Creators of Premier League watchalongs said they all appeal to roughly the same audience, distinguished only by tribal allegiance: fans generally between 16 and 35, though with a substantial proportion who are just a little older. A slender majority live in Britain, but there are healthy constituencies in Ireland, the United States and Australia, as well as which-

ever country a given team’s stars call home. Tottenham, for example, has a sizable following in South Korea thanks to the club’s beloved captain, Son Heung-min.

They are all watching, too, for much the same reason.

“People want to feel that connection to their clubs,” Machin said, wherever they happen to live.

Watchalongs create a different sort of bond: a form of what psychologists call a parasocial relationship. Viewers want their biases to be reinforced. They want to know how other, like-minded fans are reacting to the games. But they also want the digressions, the asides about roofing and nightmares and cultural appropriation as it relates to hairstyles.

They are, after all, watching from home, all around the world, each of them locked in their own little silo. What they want, more than searing insight or expert analysis or even a cheap laugh, is a connection to people who are doing exactly the same thing.

Mottershead and Smith are not trying to offer them detailed commentary. They are trying to re-create the feeling, Mottershead said, of “watching the game with your mates.”

MLS fans will pay more to see Lionel Messi

By VICTOR MATHER

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holiday deal offered by the New York Red Bulls soccer team features some merchandise, including a travel mug, as well as tickets to two games, including its first home game.

But there is some fine print. The MLS schedule will not be announced until the end of the year, and if it turns out that the home opener is against Inter Miami, fans who buy the package will get tickets for the second home game instead.

The reason is Lionel Messi.

Miami is the team of Messi, the global superstar, and a chance to see him is a lot more appealing than a random game against, say, Toronto FC. Any time he comes to town will be an event, and teams don’t want to just throw such a golden ticket into a package deal.

Some Red Bulls fans who noticed the fine print were annoyed and expressed that on social media — words like “gouge” were common. But at least a few others shrugged it off as a smart business move.

“It’s purely naive to expect the league not to try to capitalize on this at all costs,” said Dan Rodríguez, a Red Bulls fan from Westchester County, New York.

The Red Bulls did not respond to a question about the ticket offer. Even if fans lose the Messi game, the deal still includes a game against the team’s regional rival, NYCFC. And because there are 29 MLS teams, the chance that the first game will actually be against Miami and Messi is

slim.

Around the league, though, teams are seeing a gold mine in Messi. Not every team has set its full pricing yet, especially since the schedule has not been announced. But the Columbus Crew is charging at least $382 for its home game against Miami — and $421 and $679 for better seats. In contrast, tickets for ordinary Crew games this year could be had for as little as $40, or less as part of a season ticket package.

Dynamic pricing is not unusual in MLS or other sports. A big game against a rival might cost slightly more, but not several hundred dollars more.

Miami itself is charging between 46% and 82% more for standard season tickets than it did this year, when Messi joined midseason. Less expensive packages are now about $800 for 17 games, and other season tickets are $4,000, $7,000 or even $10,000 for seats with club access.

That puts Miami as one of the priciest season tickets in the world. The most expensive season ticket to Tottenham, in the Premier League, costs $2,498, and it is $1,021 for La Liga’s Barcelona, World Soccer Talk reported.

Messi signed for Miami in July, when many tickets were already sold. That meant fans already in possession of tickets to his games were able to cash in on a resale, while no extra money flowed to the teams. For next year, teams have time to plan and get some of that markup for themselves.

Lionel Messi in a game against the New York Red Bulls in August.

Buying a season ticket to see another team that is scheduled to play Miami is one way to see Messi. Fans who do so will enjoy seeing Messi when he comes to town, or flip their tickets on the secondary market for a big payday.

Of course that’s assuming Messi plays.

He will turn 37 during the MLS season and missed some games this year with a scar tissue ailment. When he did not play,

many fans, some of whom had forked over top dollar, grumbled.

After he missed a game in Chicago in October, for which 61,000 tickets had been sold, the Chicago Fire offered $250 credit for season ticket holders and $50 to single-game buyers as recompense.

MLS teams around the country will have visions of full houses of fans in expensive seats, and not of refunds, for 2024.

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(Mar 21-April 20)

This is a day to be directed inward rather than outward. It’s a good thing, too, because the outer world isn’t too pleasant. Nothing seems to be going right. Checks aren’t arriving and calls aren’t returned. You’re feeling ineffective at best.

Take heart. It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with the planets. The mood will pass. Meanwhile, do something fun by yourself.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

It’s important to confront your troubles head on, but not at the expense of putting your life on hold. An important person, someone who acted as your touchstone, no longer figures prominently in your life. This is a difficult adjustment for you. Make an extra effort not to turn inward as is your tendency in times of trouble. Force yourself to socialize and you may find a new friend.

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You’ve allowed money issues to become too prominent. It’s true that your financial picture isn’t as rosy as you’d like it to be, but whose is?

Try to put your troubles in perspective. There’s no need to let these worries impact your relationships with friends and family. Ask for help if you feel you need it.

Your body, which usually runs at warp speed, is telling you to slow down. You need to take a break from time to time. Eating a big bowl of caramel popcorn while watching TV won’t send you into a downward spiral from which you’ll never emerge. On the contrary, such an indulgence may leave you feeling refreshed and even giddy. Why not try it?

Today is a day to rest on your laurels, literally.

You’ve achieved a tremendous amount in the last few days. You’ve earned some time off. Call in sick and go see a movie in the middle of the day. Take yourself out to lunch and order a glass of the best champagne. Take this day to reflect on your accomplishments before you set your mind on the next project.

Leo

(July 24-Aug 23)

Flowers and fresh plants can perk up your mood as well as your home. You may feel your abode is looking a bit shabby. Simple tricks to improve its appearance will do wonders for your outlook. Go to a kitchen store and splurge on a few new items. Put a pot of herbs in a window. You’ll be amazed at the change in your mood and in the room!

Virgo

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

It’s important to confront your troubles head on, but not at the expense of putting your life on hold. An important person, someone who acted as your touchstone, no longer figures prominently in your life. This is a difficult adjustment for you. Make an extra effort not to turn inward as is your tendency in times of trouble.

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Looking good is the best revenge. If you’re trying to get over a failed relationship, the best way to pull yourself out of a depression is to look your very best. Get up early and go for a run or an exercise class. Buy some new clothes and take extra care with your grooming. You’ll lift your spirits and attract a new, more fitting partner.

As much as you enjoy being out with people, tonight is a good evening for rest. If you can, try taking the afternoon off. Curl up in your favorite chair with a good book, take a slow walk through a garden, or putter in the kitchen and cook something fabulous. You need some time to refuel your soul. You’ll tackle your projects tomorrow, relaxed and rejuvenated.

You’re especially attuned to the feelings of others. This gift is more blessing than curse, yet there are times when it’s hard not to take on the troubles of others. Today a close friend may unload his or her burdens on you. Listen kindly, offer advice, but don’t offer to do more than is realistic. After all, this isn’t your problem.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Delays seem to rule the day, and there’s no getting around them. Traffic snarls plague the commute and calls don’t get returned. You feel as though you’re spending the day stuck in a revolving door, whirling around but getting nowhere.

Take heart and do your best to get through with some of your humor intact. Chocolate helps. Tomorrow will be better!

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

The bubble you’ve been living in for a long time may burst today. You could face some real disappointments. Try not to let this get you down.

Keep the big picture in mind as best you can.

Remind yourself that trips or meetings or fun days out can always be rescheduled, and then you’ll have the pleasure of looking forward to these events all over again.

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CARTOONS

Herman

Speed Bump

Frank & Ernest

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Scary Gary

Wizard of Id

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