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he Puerto Rico Planning Board (JP by its Spanish initials) revealed on Wednesday that more than half a million employees in Puerto Rico earn more than the established minimum wage, injecting an additional $116.6 million into the economy.

“The increase in the minimum wage had a positive impact on the Puerto Rican economy,” planner Julio Lassús Ruiz, the JP chairman, said in a written statement. “The majority of employees in Puerto Rico earn more than the minimum wage threshold, benefiting the population.”

The JP studied the economic impact of the wage increase, updating, reevaluating and issuing recommendations on increasing the minimum wage in Puerto Rico to $9.50 per hour.

In total, 553,924 employees in Puerto Rico earn above the legal minimum wage. It is estimated that 756,270 employees are covered by this law, impacting 202,474 workers who earned less than $9.50 per hour in 2023.

“To be competitive in hiring, employers have improved salaries and benefits,” the JP chairman said.

“The decision to increase the minimum wage requires considering multiple factors, including budget constraints and market dynamics,” the report states. “The increase was rigorously evaluated and is considered reasonable and sustainable.”

Based on a calculation of 36.3 hours per week and 52 weeks per year, this translates to an additional payroll of

$220,006,575 per year, or $116,554 per hour.

The sectors most affected by the change include administrative services at 27.2%, retail trade at 19.3%, and lodging and restaurants at 15.7%. The least affected are utilities, finance and insurance, and arts and entertainment.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia promoted Law No. 47-2021, known as the Minimum Wage Law. The legislation affects the majority of workers, excluding certain categories such as farmers, municipal employees, and others.

The law has staggered the wage increase and has established a “Minimum Wage Evaluation Commission” to review the minimum wage every two years. In 2022, the salary was increased to $8.50 per hour and this year to $9.50.

“The wage increase improves compensation and benefits for employees, reduces income inequalities and improves quality of life,” Lassús Ruiz said. “It reflects the government’s commitment to fair practices and committed workers.”

The full study can be found on the jp.pr.gov website.

Puerto Rico Planning Board Chairman Julio Lassús Ruiz

Criticism of toll roads PPP is a problem of communication, governor says

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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia acknowledged on Wednesday that he faces a communication challenge following criticism of the announcement of a public-private partnership with Metropistas to manage the island’s remaining toll roads for 40 years, and criticism over increases in toll costs in particular.

“It’s a shame that’s what’s being projected. Because that’s not what just happened. It’s the opposite,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “There has been no change here in the form and manner in which tolls are adjusted from time to time. There may be an adjustment in a toll for the cost of inflation, for an increase in inflation. That has always been the case and the Highway Authority’s certified fiscal plan envisions that yes, from time to time tolls will be adjusted for inflation costs.”

“It’s a communication challenge,” Pierluisi added. “... [I] f anything has changed, it is that now we’re going to have,

again, all those highways in the state that we want them to be in for road safety.”

The governor said the same thing is happening with the negative perception of his government, as reflected in a survey conducted by the digital news outlet Noticel.

“What I’m committed to doing is to keep communicating whenever we can communicate what we’re doing,” Pierluisi said. “Sometimes we have to advertise in the media to communicate what is being done on other occasions; because we hold press conferences and so on, we all have to communicate in the government on what is being done, which is a lot by the way, and we have made great progress in everything. In other words, there are achievements in all agencies. The challenge we have is to communicate it. I say this with humility.”

“In other words, if we don’t communicate, the people don’t perceive it and it’s important that the people perceive these achievements,” he added. “There’s room for improvement, there’s no doubt; there’s a lot of work to be done, so that’s what I can tell you.”

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Inspector general: Most of PR’s examining boards operate in violation of the law

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he Office of the Inspector General of Puerto Rico (OIG by its Spanish initials) has found that most of the 23 examining and licensing boards in the island’s Department of State have not been complying with applicable laws.

The licensing boards provide licenses and monitor a host of professions ranging from plumbing to nursing.

An OIG study found that only 19 of the 23 boards were active and four were inoperative, leading to a lack of oversight and regulation of certain professions over the past three years. Many boards have not updated their rules for an extended period, some for over 60 years.

The study revealed that 43% of the examining boards evaluated were inoperative or had vacant positions because the government has yet to appoint its members. Regarding communication and compliance with duties, only 5% pro-

vided annual reports consecutively in the past three years.

Likewise, the boards need updated information on certifications, exams and licenses, as they depend on private entities to obtain this data.

Of the 23 examination boards evaluated, 52% could provide updated information directly. In contrast, 48% had to obtain data from private entities contracted by the Department of State to manage the examination and certification processes.

OIG auditors also identified that 37% of the boards could not provide copies of minutes validating compliance with the minimum number of meetings required annually, and 83% claimed to have had regular meetings.

The analysis included all examination boards, considering the historical availability of information from the Department of State, including for inoperative boards.

The evaluation covers the period from Jan. 1, 2020 to

Dec. 31, 2022.

The OIG issued recommendations to the Department of State to address the deficiencies in the boards, including managing their vacancies, reviewing their regulations, properly fulfilling their duties, correctly documenting their activities, and ensuring the holding of meetings.

Additionally, the OIG noted that it is essential to maintain up-to-date records on exams, licenses and certifications. The OIG urged submitting annual activity reports and implementing proactive measures to ensure regulatory compliance.

The OIG noted that it is essential to address the identified deficiencies to ensure that the regulation of professions is carried out effectively, to protect the population’s interests, and to provide opportunities for professionals to practice their vocations in Puerto Rico, and emphasized the importance of maintaining active and functional boards of examiners to achieve those fundamental objectives.

Settlement reached to create new PREPA Ad Hoc Group to litigate in bankruptcy

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ertain Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) creditors and the Financial Oversight and Management Board have reached a settlement to allow a new PREPA bondholder group to intervene in a recourse challenge related to the amount of the bonded debt.

The new PREPA Ad Hoc Group of bondholders will not be allowed to relitigate any issues already decided.

The group also will not be able to take a position inconsistent with positions already taken by various defendants, including the indenture trustee.

“For the avoidance of doubt, without violating the foregoing, may proceed on appeal in accordance with

applicable rules of appellate procedure regarding briefing and other aspects of the appeal,” according to an Oct. 13 stipulation.

The new PREPA ad hoc group including Assured Guaranty, GoldenTree Asset Management and bond insurer Syncora Guarantee was formed to pursue litigation after original members decided to accept a new PREPA debt deal. The new bondholder group was formed when the prior ad hoc group of PREPA bondholders dissolved after several members -- including Blackrock Financial U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Management, Nuveen Asset Management, Swain

Franklin Advisers, Taconic Capital Advisors, and Whitebox -- formed the Majority Member PREPA Ad Hoc Group.

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled in March that bondholders’ $8.4 billion bonded debt only had an unsecured claim, and later ruled that the unsecured claim was only $2.4 billion.

Bondholders have indicated that they plan to appeal the ruling once it is finalized. Swain still has to rule on a challenge involving the security of a trio of funds that contain a minimal amount of money.

Guánica residents affected by quakes urged to attend recovery orientation

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uánica Mayor Ismael “Titi” Rodríguez Ramos called on all residents of the southern municipality who have been impacted by the series of earthquakes that have been recorded since the beginning of 2020 to attend an orientation talk being offered today by the Southern Consortium for the Administration of Reconstruction and Repair Funds (CONSUR by its Spanish initials).

“This Thursday, October 19 at 3:00 p.m. at the facilities of the Puerto Rican Club of Ensenada [Club Puertorriqueño de Ensenada], we are going to receive you all to share valuable information about recovery efforts,” the mayor

Guánica Mayor Ismael Rodríguez Ramos, at right

said. “The funds managed by CONSUR are allocated by the federal Department of Housing [and Urban Development, HUD] and Congress, not by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as reported by Mr. Carlos A. Jirau Vélez, executive director of the Consortium.”

CONSUR, which is overseen by both Congress and HUD, will last until 2025, when it is expected to have completed the evaluation and allocation of money for the recovery work applying to those affected.

“We are extremely committed to reconstruction and it is important that this event on Thursday is attended by as many residents as possible, so that together we can continue with the work,” Rodríguez Ramos said.

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WIPR launches campaign to raise awareness around people with disabilities

By RICHARD GUTIÉRREZ richardsanjuanstar@gmail.com

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isability is a complex and often emotional topic filled with various and specific situations. However, one thing is certain: many members of the disabled community don’t feel included in society.

That’s why the multi-platform project Unknown Reality launched its new ad campaign with the slogan “We Are All Able,” with the purpose of showing off everything disabled people can achieve. The campaign was made possible thanks to the support of CG Strategic Brand Activation. On top of that, the first online reference center was also presented with a live directory of entities that offer services to the disabled population. The entire kickoff was presented via a press conference at WIPR and was televised as well.

In December 2020, Unknown Reality began as a radio show on WIPR 940 AM, as a way of expanding the existing vision of disability in a positive way. The We Are All Able campaign supports this mission, showing comparisons of people with and without disabilities engaging in the same activities in different ways or using different tools.

“The world is more interested in inclusion, but to achieve it we need to really know people with disabilities, their abilities and ways of doing things, even if it is in different ways,” said Shalmarie Arroyo, founder of the Unknown Reality project.

The creators of the campaign seek to have entities and media outlets share the executions through their networks and channels to expand awareness efforts. The campaign exposes two initial stories: the first presents the athlete Yaimillie Díaz,

The creators of the “We Are All Able” visual media campaign seek to have entities and media outlets share, through their networks and channels, depictions of people with and without disabilities engaging in the same activities to expand awareness efforts. a young woman who uses a prosthesis on one of her legs. In the second execution we see the case of a communicator, Arroyo, who is blind and uses tools such as a talking screen reader on her computer to read her notes and work.

Arroyo also pointed out that “the reference center was developed as a meeting point for people to learn about disability.”

The website will have a directory of resources that work in favor of the disabled community.

Throughout the press conference, Arroyo shared her story and experiences as a person with disabilities. She was not

born blind, but in fact lost her sight as a little girl when she was in a car accident. However, she was able to overcome the hardships of her new reality and become a professional over time after attending Boston University. She is also happily married and the mother of a five-year-old.

“The turning point in my life happened in 2019, when I was officially integrated into Advocacy for People with Disabilities of Puerto Rico,” Arroyo said. “I was president of the council and I was able to learn many things. The people there taught me something very important, that it doesn’t matter how many differences we may have -- we all shared many challenges in common.”

“In Puerto Rico, 21% of the population has some sort of disability,” she continued. “That is a lot of people -- nearly one-fourth of the population. That is very important, because even if one of us doesn’t have a disability, we most certainly know someone who does.”

“Life isn’t over just because you have a disability. You will still be able to enjoy life and have plenty of adventures,” Arroyo said. “However, even after you’ve become successful, there are a plethora of barriers placed by society.

“Our purpose with this campaign is to widen the perspective of people with disabilities from a positive standpoint. The platform is not just for people with disabilities, it’s for everyone who wants to learn more about people with disabilities and help them understand who we really are.”

Participating in the event were prominent island figures such as Advocate for People with Disabilities Juan J. Troche Villeneuve and Dr. Maribel Ortiz, executive director of the Office of Protection and Defense of People with Disabilities.

San Germán launches volunteer cleanup campaign

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an Germán Mayor Virgilio Olivera Olivera on Wednesday officially announced the start of a cleanup campaign called “With Boots On inYour Neighborhood,” to which he invites “all residents and sectors to participate and lend a hand” in the southwestern town’s various communities.

“Our initiative will come to life on Saturdays, in the neighborhoods and fields, where there are many different situations with green areas,” he said.

“Throughout this hurricane season, the reality is that we’ve had a surprising amount of rainfall. … More than usual in previous years,” the mayor said. “And this is what we have to do. Responsibly we must add that temperatures have been extremely high, so extreme heat has been the order of the day. This has caused weeds to grow, more than usual, on the sides of many of our roads.”

Despite the fact that the Municipal Public Works Department and cleaning brigades work daily and tirelessly in the various parts of San Germán, “honestly our employees can no longer cope because they also have to attend to all the demanding situations in our urban area,” the mayor said.

“In fact, this Saturday, October 21, 2023, we will begin,

at 7:00 in the morning, in Rosario Alto, Rosario Peñón and Poblado Rosario, where all our directors of the different municipal agencies will also be present,” Olivera said.

He invited community leaders, merchants, nonprofit organizations and churches, among other entities, to join the initiative.

Every Saturday, all the cleaning and beautification teams “will be part of our hurricane of cleanliness, meaning diggers and garbage trucks, among many others,” the mayor said.

“We want the community to join in and, if it comes from the heart, to bring us water, coffee and even some kind of food,” Olivera said. “We hope you will join us and support this great initiative. San Germán belongs to everyone!”

“We will be cutting down

the weeds and collecting garbage, among many other things,” the mayor said, inviting people to “meet, this Saturday, in the vicinity of the Flor de Loto business, in the Rosario Village. … Then, we’ll go to the different places.”

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Menéndez held a tropical fundraiser. Donors were scarce. So was he.

By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ

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t Puerto Rico’s most exclusive beachfront resort, where shoulder season rooms go for $1,500 a night, deep-pocketed donors have reliably lined up to pay tribute to Sen. Bob Menéndez in the form of a $5,000 check to his political action committee.

But this year’s retreat imploded, as donors quickly distanced themselves from Menéndez after he was indicted on federal bribery charges, turning the once powerful Democrat from New Jersey into a pariah at his own fundraiser this past weekend.

The opening reception on Friday evening was pared down to three small tables overlooking the beach. There were still open seats: Only about a dozen people showed up to the subdued affair and roughly half of them were the senator’s aides. Trays of sushi and shrimp cocktail were left uneaten.

The shunned senator never showed, absent at his own ill-timed and ill-fated fundraiser.

More than half of the 50-or-so donors and their guests canceled attendance after the senator was charged three weeks ago. A defiant Menéndez refused to cancel the retreat despite the defections. Then, as he landed in San Juan last Thursday, he was buffeted with more untimely news: Prosecutors filed additional charges and asked a judge to seize his home.

The fundraiser would normally have given donors a prime opportunity to get access to the senator and his team, lobbying for various causes in a relaxed setting.

The retreat was supposed to include a round of golf with Menéndez and a poolside lunch with his chief of staff.

But the awkward prospect of mingling with a scandal-ridden senator caused many of the remaining donors to pull out just a day before the retreat. In the end, only a handful of guests and their partners made the trip to Puerto Rico, but even some who stayed at the resort did not turn up to the scheduled receptions.

Neither did Menéndez.

The annual retreat’s collapse was a stark reflection of the senator’s sudden isolation and diminished stature, abandoned by droves of one-time allies as he fights for political survival. It also underscored the uphill climb he could face to raise money to pay for an expected reelection campaign and for lawyers to fight corruption accusations he has vehemently denied.

About 1,500 miles away in New Jersey, an air of inevitability of Menéndez’s imminent political demise has settled in, after the senator was accused of using his elected office to benefit the Egyptian government and three businesspeople in return for bribes that included wads of cash, a Mercedes-Benz convertible and gold bullion bars.

Donors said they turned down requests from Menéndez’s finance director to contribute to his defense fund. A 41-year-old New Jersey member of Congress, Andy Kim, announced he would challenge the senator in a Democratic primary. And other potential candidates began to work back channels as they assessed whether to make a run for Menéndez’s seat, including the wife of Gov. Phil Murphy, Tammy Murphy, who has never held elective office.

The political pall surrounding the senator extended

Empty tables at the Ritz-Carlton Reserve at Dorado Beach Hotel in Dorado, on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. An event in Puerto Rico to benefit Sen. Robert Menéndez’s political action committee suffered numerous cancellations after the senator’s indictment. (Luis Ferré-Sadurní/The New York Times)

to Puerto Rico, where he and his wife kept a low profile at the hotel, the Ritz-Carlton Reserve at Dorado Beach, a high-end resort about a 30-minute drive west of San Juan that is lined with 2.5 miles of beach and dotted with golf courses and massive villas.

The senator skipped both the welcome and farewell receptions. It is unclear if he played golf with donors as he was scheduled to do so on Saturday morning; an employee at the golf course said Menéndez did not appear to have a tee time. But he did emerge from hiding to have a solitary dinner with his wife, Nadine Menéndez, who has also been charged in the bribery scandal.

In many ways, the 1,900-acre natural reserve is an ideal hideaway for a politician looking to escape controversy or to mingle, away from prying eyes: It is only open to residents, local members and guests willing to pay as much as $4,500-a-night for an oceanside suite during hurricane season.

For the past few years, it has served as the go-to venue for Menéndez to host scores of lobbyists from blue-chip corporations and to raise money for New Millennium PAC, which Menéndez, known as a prolific fundraiser, has long used to steer generous contributions to other lawmakers and candidates to increase his clout among colleagues on Capitol Hill.

Samantha Maltzman, a spokesperson for the New Millennium PAC, denied that the retreat had been a failure and did not say how much was raised.

The PAC had just over $600,000 in the bank at the end of June, while his campaign account, which he could also tap to finance his legal fees, has roughly $8.6 million, according to the most recent filings.

Among the few supporters who did attend the retreat this year was Michael Hutton, a lobbyist who served as Menéndez’s chief of staff in the House of Representatives in the 1990s and early 2000s. Hutton, who runs his own lobbying firm on K Street, has appeared to keep close ties to Menéndez since he switched to the private sector.

After Menéndez was first sworn in to the Senate in 2007, Hutton reportedly threw him a private party in Washington, D.C., that was funded by corporate donors.

And he has made at least $70,000 in contributions to Menéndez’s campaigns and PAC over two decades.

Hutton did not reply to a request for comment on Monday.

Also present at the receptions was Javier Ortiz, a partner at an investment firm, Falcon Cyber Investments, who has donated mostly to Republican politicians, including former President Donald Trump, according to filings. He has also given $37,000 since 2017 to Menéndez’s campaign and PAC. Reached for comment after the retreat, Ortiz would not say if he had met with Menéndez and pointed to the senator’s presumption of innocence under the U.S. legal system.

“I’m an American that supports Americans,” he said repeatedly during a brief phone interview when asked about his attendance.

After so many donors dropped out this year, the retreat was relegated to more of a weekend getaway for Menéndez and his staffers.

On Saturday evening, the senator’s chief of staff, his press aides and a hired fundraiser gathered with a handful of guests for the retreat’s farewell reception and mingled by the beach over plantain chips and seafood appetizers.

Down the beach, Menéndez donned dark pants and a blue tucked-in polo shirt as he strode into the hotel’s pricey restaurant with his wife. They appeared to sit alone for a quick dinner, then disappeared again.

Under the terms of their indictment, Bob Menéndez may continue to travel for official business; his wife, who surrendered her passport, is required to obtain permission from a federal judge or prosecutors if she wants to travel outside of New Jersey, New York, Washington, D.C., or Florida.

The couple’s stealth presence in Puerto Rico was noted by hotel guests, with one discussing the sighting with a friend at the hotel bar, where guests sipped $25 cocktails over live bossa nova music.

“It seems like the best way to get out of the spotlight for bribery is to go to the most expensive resort in America,” the guest quipped.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who is facing corruption charges, leaves his office for a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept., 28, 2023. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

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Jordan loses 2nd vote for speaker as House scrambles for path forward changed their votes and supported him.

— Many of the holdouts to Jordan’s candiep. Jim Jordan, the hard-line Republican from dacy were skeptical of his history as a right-wing Ohio, lost a second bid for speaker Wednesday rabble-rouser and furious with the way he and after running headlong into opposition from a his backers refused to line up behind Rep. Steve bloc of mainstream GOP holdouts.

Scalise of Louisiana, the party’s No. 2, who first After he failed to win a majority Tuesday, Jordan won the party’s speaker nomination last week was defeated again when the number of Republicans only to withdraw because he lacked the hardrefusing to back him grew by two. The result left the liners’ support. Some represented districts that House in turmoil, still leaderless after two weeks of President Joe Biden won in 2020 who have tried Republican infighting. to establish more moderate credentials. Others are “I think it gets more and more difficult for him veteran members of the powerful Appropriations every day,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, one of Committee, who are deeply distrustful of Jordan’s the holdouts, predicted before the vote. approach to spending and the types of cuts he Republicans were expected to turn later to the has endorsed. question of whether to empower Rep. Patrick McHenry — Jordan’s allies unleashed a pressure camof North Carolina — the temporary speaker whose paign over the weekend on lawmakers who refused role is primarily to hold an election for a speaker — to back the Ohio Republican or were publicly undeto carry out the chamber’s work until the deadlock Representative Jim Jordan, center, again fell short of the votes needed to become cided. It won him a few votes but appeared to have could be broken, perhaps through Jan. 3. Jordan told speaker. The House went into recess after the vote. mostly backfired, instead infuriating the holdouts. reporters Wednesday morning that he supported hol— The combative co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus and a close ally of former President ding a vote on whether Republicans wanted to do so, As the feuding drags on, the House remains without an Donald Trump, Jordan fell 17 votes short Tuesday and 18 short saying he had told leaders, “Call the question. Let’s find out.” elected speaker with wars raging in the Middle East and Ukrai- Wednesday. But the fact that 199 Republicans — including many Jordan’s second defeat was a rare instance of the party’s more ne, while Congress faces a mid-November deadline to avert a of those more mainstream members — voted to give him the mainstream wing — normally those who seek compromise and government shutdown. job second in line to the presidency showed how far the GOP conciliation — flexing its muscles and breaking with Republican The House is in recess while Republicans regroup. Here’s has lurched to the right. colleagues in defiance of the ultraconservative faction led by — Jordan, 59, helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 elecJordan. It also underscored the seemingly intractable divisions what else to know: — Jordan won 199 votes, and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New tion and has used his power in Congress to defend the former among Republicans, as well as the near-impossible political math that led to the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker two York, the Democratic leader, won 212 votes. Four Republicans president. He has a long track record of opposing compromise weeks ago and which has so far thwarted the party’s attempts who had voted for Jordan on the first ballot rose to oppose him. that prompted a previous Republican speaker to brand him a Two Republicans who had voted against Jordan on the first ballot “legislative terrorist.” to choose a successor.

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Joran van der Sloot admits to killing Natalee Holloway, judge says

By CLAIRE MOSES and CHRISTINE HAUSER

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he man who has long been linked to the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway described in court documents released Wednesday brutally attacking her on a beach in Aruba after she rejected his advances.

It was the first time that details of Holloway’s disappearance have been made public, and it came after Joran van der Sloot, a 36-year-old Dutchman, agreed to provide “full, complete, accurate and truthful information” about it in exchange for a 20-year sentence on extortion and wire fraud charges.

As part of a plea agreement, van der Sloot pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in Birmingham to charges that he had tried to extort Holloway’s mother, prosecutors said. He

was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

In court, Judge Anna M. Manasco said that as part of the sentencing decision, van der Sloot had confessed to killing Holloway and disposing of her remains, The Associated Press reported.

Van der Sloot has been serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian student, Stephany Flores. He will have to return to Peru to finish his sentence for that crime as well as another for a drug-smuggling charge.

“You have brutally murdered, in separate instances years apart, two young women who refused your sexual advances,” Manasco said, according to the AP. Among the court documents released with the plea agreement were excerpts from an account that van der Sloot gave to his lawyer, Kevin Butler, on Oct. 3.

In the transcript, van der Sloot described wanting to be dropped off with Holloway a distance from her hotel so he “might still get a chance to, to be with her.”

He said they began kissing while lying on the beach, but she refused further sexual advances. When he persisted, he said, she kneed him in the crotch, and he kicked her “extremely hard” in the face. At that point, he said, she was “possibly even, uh, even dead but definitely unconscious.”

He picked up a large cinder block and used it to “smash her head in with it completely,” he said.

He brought her to the ocean’s edge in a “half pull, half walk,” wading in up to his knees. “I push her off” into the water, he said, and then he walked home.

Van der Sloot has never been charged in Holloway’s death or her disappearance while on

a trip with her high school class in Aruba, the Caribbean island nation and former Dutch colony where van der Sloot was living at the time.

“Today marks the end of 18 years of wondering what happened to Natalee Holloway,” Prim Escalona, the interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, told reporters after the hearing.

Beth Holloway, Natalee’s mother, said at a news conference after the hearing that van der Sloot had “finally confessed” and that more details would be made public.

“He is the killer,” she said, adding, “He described when and how he killed her.”

“As far as I am concerned it’s over. It’s over,” she said. “I’m satisfied knowing that he did it, he did it alone, and he disposed of her alone.”

She said his confession “means we’ve finally reached the end of our never-ending nightmare.”

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Biden walks a tightrope on Israel-Gaza as Democratic tensions smolder

President Joe Biden arrives to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Biden traveled overnight to Israel. Polls show that Americans are more confident in Mr. Biden’s ability to lead the country through the Israel conflict than on domestic issues.

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s President Joe Biden visited Tel Aviv on Wednesday to demonstrate American solidarity with Israel amid escalating violence after the deadliest attack it has faced in 50 years, Democratic rifts over the conflict are beginning to tear open, leaving him presiding over a party struggling to resolve where it stands.

The president’s trip, and his broader handling of the war, have presented him with both political risks and a chance to pump energy into a reelection bid that Democratic voters have been slow to embrace.

Biden’s steadfast support for Israel after

the Hamas attack, by far the dominant position in Washington, has won him plaudits from some Republicans as well as Democrats.

An international crisis, even with its grave geopolitical dangers, is relatively comfortable political terrain for a president with deep foreign policy experience.

While international issues rarely drive American elections, Biden and his allies will see playing the role of statesman abroad — especially if he can help calm the soaring tensions — as a welcome change from a wide range of domestic challenges dragging down his approval ratings.

But at the same time, creeping anger within his party’s left is threatening to grow as Israel pummels Gaza with airstrikes and moves toward a potential ground invasion, with progressive Democrats accusing Biden of abetting a war that has already killed thousands of Palestinians.

Those emotions flared Tuesday after a deadly explosion at a Gaza City hospital, with Israeli and Gazan officials blaming each other for the blast. Protests erupted across the Middle East, a planned stop by Biden in Jordan was canceled and American politicians rushed to criticize the president even before the fog of war had settled.

The anger and confusion made clear just how precarious of a tightrope Biden is

walking.

“This is delicate for him,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, a progressive Democrat who visited Israel with a congressional delegation this summer. “It’s a very fine line to walk, and it’s one that a lot of us as members, especially progressive members, find ourselves having to try to balance.”

While Republicans who have offered surprising praise for Biden’s response to the Hamas attack have largely cast the conflict as a black-and-white issue, things are more complicated among the progressive base of the Democratic Party.

Large segments of Democratic voters, especially younger ones, are skeptical if not hostile to Israeli policy toward the Palestinians and are disinclined to support a war, even in response to a Hamas attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis.

The discontent has been evident in two documents in recent days. The first, a letter signed by 55 progressive members of Congress on Friday, called for the restoration of food, water, fuel and other supplies Israel had cut off to Gaza. Another, a House resolution with just 13 Democrats as co-authors, demanded “an immediate de-escalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.”

Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, who signed the letter but not the cease-fire resolution, said he had received more calls from constituents in his Madison-based district who were worried about Israel’s expected military response to the Hamas attack than about the initial assault itself.

Pocan said he had explained to people that Biden and his top aides, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, were privately pressing Israel to do more to spare Palestinian lives than they were expressing in public.

“We ask people to kind of trust some of us who are saying and doing the right thing,” Pocan said in an interview Tuesday. “I know how Joe Biden operates. He’s probably saying some things privately that are important and respectful of civilians. He may not broadcast everything on his sleeve. People just have to understand that that’s Joe Biden. He’s not encouraging the indiscriminate bombing.”

But some Democrats warned that if Biden tethers himself too closely to Israel, he will get blamed if many of the party’s voters come to believe that Israel responded to Hamas with too much force.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the

only Palestinian American in Congress, who was one of the 13 Democrats who signed the cease-fire resolution, was among the first in her party to blame Biden directly for war deaths after the Gaza hospital explosion.

“This is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire & help de-escalate,” she wrote on social media Tuesday. “Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many Palestinian Americans and Muslims Americans like me. We will remember where you stood.”

Mark Mellman, the founder and president of Democratic Majority for Israel, dismissed the idea that Biden was risking a crackup in his electoral coalition. If anything, Mellman said, Biden was demonstrating his dynamism to voters who have questioned his age and ability to serve in office.

“It shows a level of vigor, it shows a level of engagement,” he said. “It demonstrates unparalleled diplomatic competence.”

While Biden’s reelection campaign has not yet sent fundraising appeals based on his actions in response to the Israel conflict, the pageantry of his trip won’t be lost on officials at the operation’s headquarters in Delaware. After Biden visited Ukraine, his campaign produced a gauzy advertisement titled “War Zone.”

The White House believes Biden is acting with broad support from the American people in defending Israel. Officials think that those protesting Biden’s position are not representative of much of the electorate — and that Democrats are hardly likely to abandon Biden if it means helping former President Donald Trump.

Polls show Americans are more confident in Biden’s ability to lead the country through the Israel conflict than on domestic issues.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday found that 76% of voters thought supporting Israel was in the U.S. national interest. The survey found that 42% approved of Biden’s handling of the Israel conflict, compared with 37% who disapproved — an improvement on his overall approval rating, which the poll found was 38%.

Younger and more activist progressive Democrats seem less inclined to give Biden the benefit of the doubt. Quinnipiac found that a majority of voters 18 to 34 years old were opposed to sending weapons and military equipment to Israel.

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Lowriders, long banned from cruising, can roam free in California

By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA

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line of cars glittered in the sun as they crawled just inches above the ground, gliding past a “NO CRUISING” sign at a popular park near downtown Los Angeles this month.

Bass thumped from some of their speakers. Other cars hopped up and down, their drivers smiling as they passed taco and ice cream vendors and waved at spectators.

This largely Latino community of car lovers had gathered to spend a Sunday with friends and family. But to show off their cars, known as lowriders, some were technically breaking the law.

Lowriding — the practice of modifying classic vehicles by dropping their suspension and sometimes by adding hydraulics — has been part of California’s car culture since the 1940s. But in the decades that followed, bans were imposed on cruising by cities and counties that stereotyped lowriders as being associated with crime and gangs. The laws, which lowriders describe as discriminatory, have long prevented them from parading their cars without the fear of being cited or towed.

On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a bill into law repealing those bans and lifting a state prohibition on modifying a vehicle to significantly reduce its clearance from the roadway.

“We’re not gangsters. We’re not looking for trouble,” said René Castellon, president of the Elegants Los Angeles Car Club, who drives a red 1965 Chevy Impala with a windshield sticker that reads “CRUISING IS NOT A CRIME.” For months, he and thousands of other lowriders across the state have been advocating for the bill, which was introduced in February and passed both the state Assembly and Senate with strong bipartisan support.

The new law goes into effect Jan. 1.

Some cities, including Sacramento, San Jose and National City, had already lifted their bans. In other parts of California, cruising — often defined as driving multiple times past the same spot within a set time period — remained illegal. In Los Angeles County, the penalty is a fine of up to $250.

Although the rules are not always enforced, some lowriders described being told to move on by the police, being ticketed or having their cars impounded, as well as being treated like criminals just for enjoying a beloved hobby.

“I lost my license a couple times,” said Alejandro Vega, a custom car builder based in the San Fernando Valley, whose work has won numerous awards and has been displayed at the Louvre.

“They were stereotyping lowriders,” Vega, who is known as Chino, said of the police, who he said also impounded his car. “You could have passed 20 times in a regular car; they will never stop you.”

Vega, 51, moved to the United States from Mexico as a teenager and said he was immediately drawn to lowriders for the way they stood out. Anybody “can drive a Bentley; not anybody with money can drive a ’59 convertible,” he said. “It’s in our blood.”

By most accounts, lowriding began in California among young Mexican Americans, who took a middle-class American symbol — the automobile — and turned it on its head. They began restyling older, more affordable cars with elegant upholstery, chrome and gold detailing; powerful sound systems; and, in some cases, hydraulic suspension systems that could raise the car off the ground. These flashy creations, made to be paraded “low and slow,” also became symbols of defiance that later spread to other marginalized communities across the United States and eventually as far as Japan.

In the postwar economic boom of the 1950s, the movement continued to grow with a surplus of older, more affordable cars, said John Ulloa an expert in lowrider culture and history lecturer at San Francisco State University. “Necessity is the mother of all invention,” he said, describing the ingenuity of those who created “something beautiful out of something that was somebody else’s trash.”

Over the years, however, lowriding became a target of politicians who linked it to urban crime, and in 1988, state lawmakers passed a bill allowing local governments in California to enforce bans on cruising.

Assembly member David Alvarez, the San Diego Democrat who introduced the bill to end the bans, said they unfairly targeted a marginalized community and gave the police “another tool to intervene, to stop and to question individuals.”

Lori Maldonado, who identifies as a second-generation Chicana, said that for as long as she can remember, her lowrider community has been playing a “cat-andmouse” game with authorities, moving from one parking lot to another to avoid

law enforcement.

“We’ve been hassled by the police ever since I was little,” Maldonado, 48, said, recalling how her family would place sandbags and heavy house speakers in the back of cars to weigh them down, dropping them closer to the ground.

She said that while it was true that some lowriders have past gang affiliations, many have reformed and see the hobby as an opportunity to express themselves and to spend time with friends and family — especially as lowriding becomes increasingly popular among women. “The lowriding community brings us together,” said Maldonado, who drives a 1963 Impala that she has named Shady ’63. “We keep the peace.”

Vallerrie Martinez, a car builder and welder from South Central Los Angeles, said that she had been issued at least five tickets while lowriding, once while cruising along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, and had signed a petition in support of the bill.

“We can defend ourselves with the law now a little bit,” she said.

On a recent Sunday, Martinez, 32, watched at a hop competition in Ventura County as one of the cars she had worked on lurched up on its back wheels, its nose tipping toward the sky.

“The cars are beautiful,” she said, describing the hard work and passion that people put into their vehicles, regardless of their background or income.

She added, “It’s like their Mona Lisa.”

A refurbished red classic car cruises down a Los Angeles street fringed by palm trees on Oct. 9, 2023. Before a ban on cruising in Los Angeles County was repealed, violations were punished with a fine of up to $250.

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United Airlines to change its boarding process, a win for window seats

By AMANDA HOLPUCH

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nited Airlines plans to speed up its boarding process by having passengers in economy class who have purchased window seats get on the plane before people in the middle and aisle seats.

The change, which is set to take effect Oct. 26, could cut up to two minutes from boarding time on each flight, according to an internal memo shared with The New York Times. It will affect domestic flights and some international ones.

Airlines, which have recovered from a drop in travel during the coronavirus pandemic, regularly tinker with boarding processes to try to save time and boost profits.

Under United’s new seating plan, known as WILMA, a loose acronym for window-middle-aisle, people in economy class with window seats will board first, followed by people in middle seats and then those in aisle seats. Families traveling on the same flight will board together.

The boarding process will not change for passengers in first class and business class, and the preboarding group will still include people with disabilities, unaccom-

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panied minors, active-duty military and families traveling with children 2 years old and under.

United has tested the WILMA method, which it first tried in 2017, at five airports and found it to be effective at reducing boarding times, according to the internal memo.

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Airlines have tinkered with the boarding process for decades, trying to save time and money.

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aisle, as well as the time it takes for people to get out of their seats to make room for someone else in their row, according to John Milne, an associate professor of engineering and management at Clarkson University. He called United’s change “a step forward.”

It could go even further, though, he said, based on his research. The boarding groups for each type of seat could also be divided for the front and back halves of the plane, so that people who were in window seats in the back half of the plane would board first. This is known as the “reverse pyramid” method.

Or, airlines could treat each passenger or family traveling together as its own boarding group. In that model, the first person to board would be in a window seat in the back of the airplane, and the next person to board would be in the window seat two rows in front of that person.

United’s goal of saving up to two minutes per flight might not sound like a lot, Milne said, but if enough flights board quickly, the benefit adds up.

“Over the days, weeks, months and years, potentially where they can really make money is if they save enough boarding time that they can actually have an extra flight during the day,” he said.

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Layoffs Lurk on Wall Street as Macroeconomic Outlook Remains Murky T op U.S. banks could cut jobs further to keep their expenses in check, especially if lingering economic weakness derails a fledgling recovery in investment banking, according to comments made at their recent earnings.

The cautious remarks came even as all six big U.S. banks earned more in the third quarter than analysts had expected, suggesting that they are not totally out of the woods.

An economic environment made murky by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes and geopolitical tensions has only increased risks further, some of the lenders said after results.

JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank that has so far managed to avoid mass layoffs, could adjust its headcount depending on the investment banking environment, its CFO Jeremy Barnum said on Friday.

“We regularly review our business needs and adjust our staffing accordingly – creating new roles where we see the need or reducing positions when appropriate,” a spokesperson said on Wednesday, adding that the bank currently has more than 10,000 open positions.

PNC Financial also said the same day it is cutting about 4% of its workforce. Wells Fargo, which has reduced headcount for every quarter since the third quarter of 2020, still sees more opportunities for layoffs, its CEO Charlie Scharf said last Friday.

Citigroup said on Friday it will eliminate jobs from the two upper layers of management as part of its reorganization.

Bank of America, which has cut over 4,300 jobs since the end of the first quarter, said this week it expects headcount to be flat from third quarter levels.

Investment banking powerhouse Morgan Stanley also disclosed a near 2% drop in its total headcount on Wednesday, compared to the prior quarter. The bank did not elaborate on the reduction in its post-earnings call with analysts.

Lenders, which typically thrive in times of stable economic growth, are also grappling with the possibility of a recession that might lead to troubled customers finding themselves burdened under debt and pressure loan growth.

The harsh operating environment has also weighed on stock prices and hurt valuations. The S&P 500 Banks Index which tracks a basket of large-cap bank stocks has underperformed the benchmark S&P 500 index year-to-date.

In the third quarter, expenses at JPMorgan and BofA were up roughly 13% and 3% respectively, while Citi, the third largest U.S. bank, reported a 6% rise from a year earlier, earnings statements from the lenders showed. In contrast, Wells Fargo posted a 8% decline in non-interest expense.

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Citi, BofA, Morgan Stanley and PNC declined to comment. A spokesperson for Wells Fargo did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.

Even those dealmakers who end up keeping their jobs could see less lucrative pay. A report published by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli last week estimated that Wall Street bonuses could fall 16% this year,

as interest rates possibly staying higher for longer threatens the performance of financial companies.

Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs is in a position to “make more selective investments” in headcount, its CFO Denis Coleman said.

“We did a headcount reduction earlier in this year.

That’s not our current expectation to repeat that,” Coleman said.

The bank in January dismissed 3,200 employees, its biggest round of layoffs since the 2008 financial crisis.

However, the bank has resumed an annual performance review, which could lead to some cuts, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters last month.

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Biden pledged solidarity in his visit to Israel. He also urged caution.

By PETER BAKER

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s President Joe Biden slowly made his way around a hotel conference room, each of the survivors or relatives of victims of the devastating Hamas attacks in Israel told him their story of tragedy or defiance. One by one, he gave each of them a hug and talked about his own experiences with loss.

In a way, Biden flew to Israel on Wednesday to give the whole country a hug, to say how much America grieves with Israel and stands by Israel and has Israel’s back. But with the hug came a whisper in the ear as well, a gentle warning not to give into the “primal feeling,” not to let overwhelming grief or overpowering anger drive the country to go too far as he believes America did after Sept. 11, 2001.

“Shock, pain, rage — an all-consuming rage,” Biden said later in a speech to the Israeli nation. “I understand and many Americans understand. You can’t look at what has happened here to your mothers, your fathers, your grandparents, sons, daughters, children, even babies and not scream out for justice. Justice must be done. But I caution this — while you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it. After 9/11, we were enraged in the United States. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.”

Biden did not elaborate, but he presumably was referring to the invasion of Iraq, which he voted for as a senator and later came to regret. Nor did he explain what he meant in Israel’s case, but the meaning was clear enough. As Israel seeks to destroy Hamas, which killed more than 1,400 people and took nearly 200 hostages, his message was that it should not give into excesses that cause unnecessary loss of innocent life — and in the process, squander the world’s sympathy the way the United States eventually did two decades ago.

The president announced $100 million in aid to help civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, but it is not clear how much he got through to Israel’s leaders as they pound Gaza with punishing airstrikes and prepare for a possible treacherous ground invasion. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel clearly heard and welcomed the notes of solidarity; he made no mention of the recommendations of restraint.

President Joe Biden during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023.

No American president has ever visited Israel during a war, and Biden came to its defense on Wednesday not just by offering his symbolically potent presence but by backing its denial of responsibility for the catastrophic explosion that struck a hospital in Gaza. The health ministry there said hundreds of people were killed.

With the region convulsing with anger and protests after the blast, the president rejected Palestinian claims that the hospital was hit by an Israeli airstrike and instead endorsed the government’s insistence that it was an errant rocket fired

by Islamic Jihad, an extremist group aligned with Hamas.

“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you,” Biden said unprompted as he sat in a Tel Aviv hotel next to Netanyahu.

“But there’s a lot of people out there not sure,” he said, referring to skepticism in the Arab world. “So we’ve got a lot, we’ve got to overcome a lot of things.”

American officials later said they had multiple strands of intelligence — including infrared satellite data — indicating that the deadly blast was caused by Palestinian armed groups.

The timing of the president’s audacious visit to a nation at war could hardly have been more precarious politically.

After an all-night flight from Washington, Biden arrived in a country traumatized by terrorism and girding for a protracted war against Hamas and put himself at the center of a volatile conflict as rockets and recriminations volleyed back and forth with no end in sight. Air Force One landed at Ben-Gurion International Airport, within range of Hamas rockets from Gaza and abandoned by many international carriers fearful for their security.

Biden’s meetings with Netanyahu and the Israeli war Cabinet came as broken bodies were being pulled from the rubble of the hospital in Gaza City. It was unclear whether an American endorsement of Israel’s denial of responsibility would convince many in the Arab world, where protests have broken out in capitals around the region.

Lebanese authorities used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters near the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, and the Israeli-occupied West Bank was on high alert Wednesday after protests erupted within hours of the blast. In Bahrain, protesters took to the streets in unusually large demonstrations, chanting “death to Israel” and carrying images of Biden’s face labeled with the word “war criminal,” according to videos shared by Bahraini activists.

Biden was determined to allow no daylight between him and Israel. “I want you to know you’re not alone,” the president said with the cameras on. “You’re not alone. As I emphasized earlier, we will continue to have Israel’s back.”

He also said he had asked Israel to agree to the delivery of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.

“Based on the understanding that there will be inspections and that the aid should go to civilians, not to Hamas, Israel agreed that humanitarian assistance can begin to move from Egypt to Gaza,” he said.

“The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas,” Biden said in his remarks. “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.

Netanyahu, who had been at odds with Biden for much of the year until the Hamas attack, appeared delighted to highlight the president’s visit. “From the moment Israel was attacked, you have rightly drawn a clear line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism,” Netanyahu told Biden.

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For Hezbollah and Israel, the stakes in any broader war are high

By BEN HUBBARD and AARON BOXERMAN

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he sounds of battle echo on both sides of Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Sirens blare in Israeli towns, warning of incoming rockets fired by Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group. Lebanese civilians have fled their villages, fearing Israeli shelling and the possibility of a new war.

Since Hamas launched its deadly attack in southern Israel, tensions have surged along Israel’s northern border, increasing fears of a new conflagration between Israel and Hamas’ Iranian-backed ally Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon.

Such a war poses great risks to everyone involved, experts say. Israel, which appears poised to launch a ground invasion in the Gaza Strip, could struggle to fight on two fronts and defend itself against Hezbollah’s skilled guerrillas. Lebanon, already reeling from a deep economic crisis, could face intense Israeli airstrikes that destroy infrastructure and could kill large numbers of people.

The potential for international involvement raises the stakes even further. The United States has dispatched two aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean in support of Israel that could strike targets on land. And other groups in the so-called axis of resistance, the network of Iranian-backed forces across the Middle East, could be drawn into a new war.

“The calculations in great wars are not calculations about states,” Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, Lebanon’s former security chief, said in an interview Monday. “This is a war of existence: Either Israel remains, or this axis remains.”

Leaders on both sides of the divide have issued stark warnings, emphasizing the stakes.

On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told Hezbollah not to get involved. “I have a message for Iran and Hezbollah: Don’t test us in the north,” he told Israeli lawmakers. “Don’t repeat the same mistake, because today, the price you’ll pay will be much heavier.”

Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, warned in an interview on Iranian state television late Monday that Iran’s allied regional militias could attack Israel if it continued its attacks on Gaza.

“Time is running out very fast,” he said.

“If the war crimes against the Palestinians are not immediately stopped, other multiple fronts will open, and this is inevitable.”

One motivation for the Biden administration’s bringing the aircraft carriers closer to

As Israel prepares for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, tension is also flaring on its northern border with Lebanon.

Israel is to try to persuade Hezbollah to stay out of the fighting to avoid any possible intervention by the United States.

Changes in the Middle East in recent years have made it more likely that violence in one place could ignite violence elsewhere.

That’s because Iran has worked to knit antiIsrael forces in different countries into an increasingly tight web.

Armed groups in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen that once largely fought separately now see themselves as being on the same team. Many of their commanders have received similar training from Iran or Hezbollah, and their members share knowledge on how to increase the firepower of rockets and to surveil their enemies with drones.

Iran may lead the network, but Hezbollah, which was formed in Lebanon by the Islamic Republic more than three decades ago, is the primary enforcer. Its members played a key role in helping Syria turn the tide against anti-government rebels during the country’s civil war, which began in 2011. And its operatives have increased the fighting abilities of pro-Iranian militias in Iraq and the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Israel, the United States and other countries have designated Hezbollah and some of its regional partners, including Hamas in Gaza, as terrorist organizations.

Israel has viewed Hezbollah as its most formidable foe since they fought to a standstill in a monthlong war in 2006 that killed more than 1,000 Lebanese and 165 Israelis.

Hezbollah’s members are highly trained, have an arsenal of tens of thousands of rockets and possess precision-guided missiles that can pummel targets deep in Israeli territory.

high tensions in the region, both Israel and Hezbollah want to avoid an all-out war at this point because each has a lot to lose, according to analysts and former Israeli and Lebanese officials.

Israel, suffering deep trauma from the Hamas attack Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 and saw nearly 200 abducted to Gaza, wants to focus on what Netanyahu has called Israel’s effort to destroy Hamas.

Hezbollah’s leaders frequently call for the destruction of Israel, but the group has avoided war with the Israelis for more than a decade, suggesting that it prefers to invest its efforts elsewhere.

“I see Hezbollah as more interested in showing layers of power and deterrence against Israel and having a seat at the table at the regional level than in engaging in an all-out conflict,” said Mohanad Hage Ali, the deputy director for research at the Carnegie Middle East Center. “They are more interested in a long-term strategy that brings them more power and influence.”

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Electric grids are a hidden weak spot in world’s climate plans, report warns

By BRAD PLUMER

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ven as clean energy technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles spread rapidly across the globe, most countries are falling perilously behind in building the power lines and electric grids needed to support them, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday in an extensive analysis.

The report estimated that nations around the world will need to build or upgrade roughly 50 million miles of power lines

by 2040 if they want to meet the goals they have set for adding vast amounts of renewable power, switching from gasoline-powered cars to plug-in vehicles and replacing gas furnaces with electric heat pumps.

That’s a staggering task, equivalent to nearly doubling the size of the world’s existing electric grids in just two decades. Countries would need to double their investment in transmission lines and other infrastructure, to $600 billion per year by 2030, the report said. Yet with the notable exception of China, investments in grids have been declining

in many countries.

“Electric grids are really a blind spot for clean electricity everywhere,” Fatih Birol, director of the International Energy Agency, said in an interview earlier this year. “Policymakers are all thinking about building new renewable power plants but they haven’t paid the same attention to building grids. It’s like being focused on building the fastest, most beautiful car you possibly can, but then you forget to build the roads for it.”

Wind and solar power often require long-distance transmission lines to connect breezy and sunny regions in remote rural areas with population centers. Both of those sources are projected to account for 80% of new electric capacity between now and 2040, as countries seek cleaner sources of electricity to cut emissions and tackle climate change.

But a lack of grid infrastructure is holding back wind and solar power. Globally, there are at least 3,000 gigawatts of renewable energy waiting for permission to connect to power lines — equivalent to five times the amount of solar and wind installed last year.

In the United States, wait times to connect new power plants to the grid can reach five years or more. That logjam is caused partly by grid operators who are overwhelmed with a flood of requests for new wind and solar projects and partly by a lack of transmission capacity.

Many countries are struggling to build new power lines, which can face opposition from communities along their path. Consider the fate of the Südlink transmission project in Germany, originally proposed in 2014 to bring wind power from the gusty North to help replace power from nuclear reactors in the South that were set to close. That line won’t be finished until 2026 at the earliest, in part because of public opposition that forced developers to bury the lines underground, causing delays and tripling the cost.

In the United States, it took 17 years for developers to win approval for the SunZia project, a 550-mile transmission line to deliver electricity from an enormous wind farm in New Mexico to consumers in Arizona and California, after years of legal battles and route changes.

Utilities also need to upgrade local infrastructure in cities, such as transformers and distribution lines, to handle an influx of power demand from electric vehicle charging stations. That can take time: In the

Power lines in Cathedral City, Calif., Sept. 6, 2022.

Netherlands, some 3,000 neighborhoods will have to wait until 2025 before they can install car charging ports.

At the same time, extreme weather events made worse by global warming, such as heat waves and wildfires, are increasing the risk of blackouts, which means countries will need to spend additional money to fortify their electric grids.

Each country faces different challenges in upgrading their grids, the report said. In India, Indonesia and South Korea, the financial health of local utilities has been a challenge.

In much of sub-Saharan Africa, where hundreds of millions of people still lack access to electricity, the high cost of borrowing money is a major problem. In the United States, European Union and Japan, regulators may need to streamline permitting and planning processes.

Technology can also help. One recent report by the Brattle Group estimated that utilities in the United States could save $35 billion per year if they used existing grid infrastructure more efficiently — such as staggering the times when people charge their electric cars, or using home batteries and rooftop solar power to juggle the flow of power or even paying businesses to use less electricity when demand is peaking.

If countries can’t expand their grids rapidly, it could have major consequences for climate change.

The report examines a “grid delay” scenario in which countries are slow to add new power lines over the next few decades.

In that case, nations would emit 58 billion more tons of carbon dioxide between 2030 and 2050 than is expected under current policies, because additions of wind and solar would slow and demand for coal and natural gas would rise. That’s equivalent to the emissions from all the world’s power plants over the past four years.

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President Biden’s finest hour

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his column doesn’t always abound with praise for President Joe Biden and his administration.

This week’s is an exception.

On Oct. 8, the day after the greatest atrocity in Jewish history since Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, Jews in Israel and the diaspora woke up without a leader. The prime minister of Israel has never been, in a formal sense, the leader of the Jews — even when the office was held by people far worthier than Benjamin Netanyahu.

But the prime minister does have the most important job in the Jewish world, which is to ensure that Israel be a safe haven for Jewish life. The Jewish people have long memories; whatever happens next, Netanyahu will be remembered, irrevocably, as the man who failed — not tragically, much less heroically, but selfishly, arrogantly, despicably. He maintains political authority but is devoid of moral authority. I cannot imagine a future for him or his Cabinet of blowhards and toadies except in exile, walled compounds or prison cells.

Biden stepped into the vacuum. I have read, probably a half-dozen times now, his Oct. 10 speech about the massacres. For its moral clarity, emotional

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force and political directness it deserves a place in any anthology of great American rhetoric. Without equivocation, without the mealy-mouthed clichés and evasions that typified so many institutional statements about the assault, the president said what Jews desperately needed to hear.

That the massacres were “pure, unadulterated evil.”

That there is “no excuse” for what Hamas did. That Israel has an affirmative “duty” to defend itself, not simply a passive “right.” That the United States will make good on its commitment to a Jewish state not with feeble statements of solidarity but with the surge of military force. A few days later, in an interview with “60 Minutes,” he called the assault “barbarism that is as consequential as the Holocaust.”

We need political leaders who maintain the capacity to call out barbarism by name and who commit themselves to its defeat. We need it especially on the political left, certain corners of which waited only a few days before returning to their usual program of denouncing Israel for its alleged or anticipated war crimes. These are the same people who sometimes pretend to believe in Israel’s right to self-defense but offer no plausible strategy for how Israel can exercise it against a terrorist enemy that hides behind civilians.

We also need Biden’s leadership given the moral void on the right. I spent the years of Donald Trump’s presidency being hectored by a certain type of Jewish conservative who insisted that Israel had never had a better friend in the White House. Today, Trump takes a dimmer view of Netanyahu — less because of his failed performance than because he can’t forgive the prime minister for calling Biden in 2020 to congratulate him on his victory. Four days after the Hamas attacks, Trump also called Hezbollah, without reprobation, “very smart.” About Vladimir Putin, he said, “I got along with him very good.”

Very good. Very smart. The Republican frontrunner.

Now Biden is going to Israel. It’s a brave trip, even for a president with his vast security apparatus, given that Hamas’ rockets continue to fall indiscriminately on Israel and a second front with Hezbollah could open at any time. He is going, almost surely, to do what he does best: console the bereaved and bereft, give courage to those in fear. This is statesmanship in the teeth of far-left opposition and incessant right-wing criticism. It’s the president’s finest hour.

I have seen some criticism that the hidden purpose of the trip is for Biden to hug Israel close so that he can stay its hand, or at least slow it. I doubt it, since he could hardly have been clearer in his “60 Minutes” interview

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Hamas incursions into Israel, from the State Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023.

“This column doesn’t always abound with praise for President Biden and his administration. This week’s is an exception,” writes New York Times columnist Bret Stephens. that Hamas would have to be eliminated entirely, even as there needed to be a path to a Palestinian state. That path is a long one, but Biden gets the big thing right — the former is the basic precondition for the latter.

No Israeli leader can ever allow a Palestinian state to exist if a group like Hamas has even the whisper of a chance of gaining power.

I expect Biden to caution Israel’s war Cabinet that a military campaign that concludes with a long-term Israeli occupation of Gaza would be a Pyrrhic victory.

I expect the Israelis to reply that they cannot be asked to eliminate Hamas as Gaza’s dominant military and political actor without the cooperation of the United States and moderate Arab regimes, particularly Egypt.

This is not a confrontation; it’s a potentially fruitful dialogue that will work much better once Netanyahu is out of office and cannot put his personal needs ahead of the national interest.

I also hope that Biden’s leadership can remind the decent left — and what’s left of a decent right — of what American moral leadership looks like. To stand with our allies and hold our friends. To see our enemies for what they are and treat them accordingly.

To remind ourselves that as others see us, so should we see ourselves: as the last best hope of Earth.

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Anuncio de Gobernador responde a reclamos del Senado, dice José Luis Dalmau POR CYBERNEWS

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L CAPITOLIO – El presidente del Senado, José Luis Dalmau Santiago, afirmó el miércoles que el anuncio del gobernador Pedro Pierluisi sobre el maltrato infantil responde a exigencias del Senado, aunque aún existen asuntos pendientes como el uso de fondos federales.

“El Gobernador en lugar de atender los problemas que afectan de manera directa a los ciudadanos, está concentrado en una campaña publicitaria anunciando obras que no existen”, señaló Dalmau Santiago en declaraciones es-

critas.

Dalmau Santiago precisó que aún hay áreas importantes pendientes tras los reclamos de los senadores a las Secretarias de ambas agencias.

El presidente del Senado adelantó que, previo a considerar estos nombramientos, aguardan respuestas detalladas a requerimientos hechos en las vistas públicas.

“En el Senado estamos atendiendo con seriedad y responsabilidad todos los nombramientos. La fiscalización es efectiva para que el Ejecutivo actúe ante problemas que afectan a nuestra gente”, concluyó Dalmau Santiago.

Arremeten contra el Gobierno del PNP por la posible pérdida de fondos en Educación POR EL STAR STAFF

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AN JUAN – Los representantes por el Partido Popular Democrático, Héctor Ferrer, Deborah Soto y Estrella Martínez condenaron enérgicamente la posible pérdida de $13.8 millones en Educación para la compra e instalación de 300 vagones en 121 escuelas bajo la categoría de fondos de emergencia.

“Una vez más mientras se ponen en peligro los fondos destinados para resolverle los problemas a la gente, Pedro Pierluisi y Jennifer González están dejando que estas cosas pasen”, expresó Ferrer Santiago.

Según los datos publicados, el Departamento de Educación solicitó fondos para la compra e instalación de 300 vagones en 121 escuelas bajo la categoría de fondos de emergencia. A pesar de que FEMA aprobó $13.8 millones para este propósito hace dos años, la

agencia federal aún no ha recibido la información requerida sobre el alcance del trabajo del proyecto, incluyendo el número de unidades temporales necesarias en cada escuela y el calendario para su finalización.

“Es alarmante y totalmente inaceptable que esta escandalosa negligencia afecte directamente a los estudiantes. Esto se sigue sumando a otros hechos donde donde se ha revelado la pérdida de fondos federales y recursos comprados con fondos públicos. En agosto pasado el Departamento de Educación perdió más de $400,000 en alimentos congelados que tuvieron que ser decomisados y que debían formar parte de la oferta de comedores escolares de la región de Ponce en agosto y septiembre”, indicó Déborah Soto, presidenta de la Comisión de Educación.

“No hay duda que este patrón del Gobierno del PNP lacera la confianza y cuestiona la integridad del go-

bierno para administrar los recursos públicos de manera eficiente ante los entes federales y ante los ciudadanos”, indicó Estrella Martínez, representante del distrito 27.

Además, Ferrer Santiago subrayó que “la falta de controles adecuados por parte del Departamento de Educación para proporcionar la información requerida por FEMA durante un largo período de tiempo es un claro indicador de negligencia. Este incidente destaca un patrón recurrente de incompetencia en la gestión de recursos públicos”.

Los representantes también hicieron hincapié en el papel bochornoso de las agencias locales encargadas de supervisar el uso de fondos estatales y federales, y concluyeron que esta lamentable situación refuerza la necesidad de un cambio en la dirección del Gobierno y la restauración de la confianza en sus líderes.

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ALINAS – La alcaldesa de Salinas, Karilyn Bonilla Colón, informó que como parte de los trabajos relacionados a la iniciativa municipal Salinas 2030, el pasado viernes salió a subasta el proyecto de reconstrucción de las facilidades del parque de pelota y cancha de baloncesto de la Comunidad Playa. “Ya nuestra Junta de Subastas está recibiendo las propuestas en las facilidades de la Secretaría Municipal, ubicada en el segundo piso de la Casa Alcaldía”.

La pre subasta está señalada para el jueves 26 de octubre a las 10:00 de la mañana en el salón de la Legislatura Municipal. La entrega de propuesta es el

martes, 14 de noviembre de 8:00 de la mañana a 4:00 de la tarde en la Secretaría Municipal y el acto de apertura el miércoles, 15 de noviembre a la misma hora, en

el mismo lugar. La fecha límite para someter preguntas está fijada para el viernes, 3 de noviembre de 2023.

Salinas 2030 es un concepto municipal que compone de tres sectores que funcionan en conjunto: (1) 127 proyectos de FEMA para reparar 231 áreas afectadas,(2) una inversión millonaria en proyectos de mitigación para el control de inundaciones y (3) los proyectos de revitalización de la zona urbana”, añadió la alcaldesa.

“Como es de rigor, el Municipio de Salinas exhorta a las empresas minoristas (MBE por sus siglas en inglés) y las empresas dirigidas por mujeres (WBE por sus siglas en inglés), a participar de esta subasta. Los licitadores deben cumplir escrupulosamente con todas las reglamentaciones vigentes”, señaló la Alcaldesa.

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Madonna celebrates four decades of hits with career-spanning spectacle

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hey wore pearls with crucifixes, lace gloves, tulle skirts and body-sculpting corsets. Some even crimped their hair and drew on fake beauty moles, while others wore simple white T-shirts with only the letter M on the back. Spanning generations, the concertgoers arriving at the O2 Arena in London used Saturday night as an opportunity to dress in their favorite Madonna era, even if that was decades before they were born.

Madonna, 65, is on the road for the first time since 2020 with her global Celebration Tour, a stage spectacle touching on more than 40 of her hits across four decades.

The show opened at the O2, a 20,000-capacity arena, three months after its planned first date, following a health scare for the pop icon. In June, Madonna was hospitalized shortly before the tour’s scheduled debut in Canada. At the time, her manager said she had a “serious bacterial infection” that resulted in the singer staying in an intensive care unit for several days.

Madonna swore that the tour — her

first devoted to her full catalog of hits, rather than to a specific album release — would go on. In recent weeks, she has filled her Instagram account with tantalizing, and very on-brand, images from rehearsals, showing her dressed in a lacy black bustier, practicing onstage steps and resting her fishnetclad knees.

Fans waited out a 30-minute delay before Madonna arrived onstage in London, opening with a medley of hits before acknowledging the challenges that had led to the moment. “How did I make it this far?

Because of you,” she said, adding, “But I will take a bit of credit, too.”

It was clear from the beginning that this concert would be as much a journey through Madonna’s career as it would a bona fide dance party. Set on an elaborate stage that jutted out into the audience, several hanging retractable screens showed images of the singer. At other times, they displayed powerful portraits, as when she launched into “Live To Tell” and the screens displayed images of Freddie Mercury, Arthur Ashe and more people who died from AIDS. Continues on page 18

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18 From page 17 For more than two hours, with the help of her dancers and some of her six children, Madonna blazed through her catalog of songs, singing several hits like “Holiday,” “Like a Prayer,” “Hung Up,” “Ray of Light” and “Bad Girl.” Her costumes were sexy, religious and futuristic.

The 24 performers onstage notably did not include a live band: Stuart Price, the tour’s musical director, told the BBC that “the original recordings are our stars.” The stage, which encompasses 4,400 square feet, was designed to echo Manhattan neighborhoods, as well as the wedding cake from Madonna’s 1984 MTV Video Music Awards performance of “Like a Virgin.” During the show, she is swept across the venue in a square-framed box 30 feet off the ground.

Carla Nobre, 38, of Nottingham said that seeing Madonna in concert had been on her bucket list, but that she had been disappointed with the performance. “There was too much talking,” she said.

Jenni Purple, 54, from the southern coast of England said the concert, which was her first time seeing Madonna live, had been “absolutely incredible.” “I loved all the medleys, I loved the costumes, I loved

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all the dances,” she said with a broad smile. a performance of the “Queens Remix” of an interracial kiss and the singer dancing “Everything was just mind-blowing.” her song “Break My Soul,” which blends in in front of burning crosses — was finally In the past, Madonna’s tours have Madonna’s 1990 smash “Vogue” — another aired again during the MTV Video Music been news-making events tied as much to hit that mined, and honored, gay dance cul- Awards. her latest music as to her cycle of stylistic ture of that period.

Madonna, who had been paid $5 mireinventions. But Celebration is essentiaMadonna returned the acknowledg- llion for the promotion — and kept the molly the pop superstar’s Eras Tour, as Taylor ment Saturday, playing a bit of the same re- ney — said on social media: “So began my Swift has styled her latest outing: a staged mix during an interstitial moment. illustrious career as an artist refusing to comromp through decades of hit songs and sigLegacy has clearly been on Madonna’s promise my artistic integrity.” She added, nature looks, giving fans a chance to relive mind lately. Last month, the 1989 Pepsi “Thank you @pepsi for finally realizing the her career as a stages-of-life experience. commercial that introduced her song “Like genius of our collaboration. Artists are here (Seventeen of Madonna’s previous costumes a Prayer” — before it was pulled amid ou- to disturb the peace.”

It was clearly on fans’ minds as well. were re-created for the tour, and some of the trage over its music video, which featured Aisha and Maia Letamendia Moomerchandise for sale includes replicas from past treks.) re, 17-year-old twins from southern England, near Brighton, wore looks For Madonna, the 78-date Cethat drew on the Vogue and Like a lebration Tour is a chance to assert Virgin eras. “I think she’s such an inher star power in a year when live music has been dominated by Swift fluence,” Maia said. “She did so many and Beyoncé — women who, like things that were so controversial. She Madonna before them, have used wasn’t scared to do it, she wasn’t scatalent and deep media savvy to rered what people would say.”

Others mentioned rumors that make pop stardom in their own imaCelebration could be Madonna’s last ge. In July, Beyoncé acknowledged tour. Helen Dawson, 47, who said she the debt, when Madonna, making first saw Madonna during the Who’s one of her first public appearances That Girl Tour in 1987, would abide no after her hospitalization, attended such thought. “Never, she won’t give Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour Fans of the pop star Madonna taking pictures up,” Dawson said. “This is just a new in New Jersey. “Big shout out to the in front of her posters outside the O2 Arena celebration, a new era.” queen,” Beyoncé called out during in London on Oct. 14, 2023.

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Scientists offer a new explanation for long COVID

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team of scientists is proposing a new explanation for some cases of long COVID, based on their findings that serotonin levels were lower in people with the complex condition.

In their study, published Monday in the journal Cell, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that serotonin reduction is triggered by remnants of the virus lingering in the gut. Depleted serotonin could especially explain memory problems and some neurological and cognitive symptoms of long COVID, they say.

Why it matters: New ways to diagnose and treat long COVID This is one of several new studies documenting distinct biological changes in the bodies of people with long COVID — offering important discoveries for a condition that takes many forms and often does not register on standard diagnostic tools such as X-rays.

The research could point the way toward possible treatments, including medications that boost serotonin. And the authors said the biological pathway that their research outlines could unite many of the major theories of what causes long COVID: lingering remnants of the virus, inflammation, increased blood clotting and dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system.

“All these different hypotheses might be connected through the serotonin pathway,” said Christoph Thaiss, a lead author of the study and an assistant professor of microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

“Second of all, even if not everybody experiences difficulties in the serotonin pathway, at least a subset might respond to therapies that activate this pathway,” he said.

“This is an excellent study that identifies lower levels of circulating serotonin as a mechanism for long COVID,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University. Her team and colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently published a study that identified other biological changes linked to some cases of long COVID, including levels of the hormone cortisol. These studies could point to specific subtypes of long COVID or different biological indicators at different points in

A colored transmission electron micrograph showing an intestinal endocrine cell, with granules containing serotonin in green. the condition.

The backstory: A series of disruptions set off by bits of virus in the gut Researchers analyzed the blood of 58 patients who had been experiencing long COVID for between three months and 22 months since their infection. Those results were compared to blood analysis of 30 people with no post-COVID symptoms and 60 patients who were in the early, acute stage of coronavirus infection.

Maayan Levy, a lead author and assistant professor of microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, said levels of serotonin and other metabolites were altered right after a coronavirus infection, something that also happens immediately after other viral infections.

But in people with long COVID, serotonin was the only significant molecule that did not recover to pre-infection levels, she said.

The team analyzed stool samples from some of the long COVID patients and found that they contained remaining viral particles. Putting the findings in patients together with research on mice and miniature models of the human gut, where most serotonin is produced, the team identified a pathway that could underlie some cases of long COVID. Here’s the idea: Viral remnants prompt the immune system to produce in-

fection-fighting proteins called interferons.

Interferons cause inflammation that reduces the body’s ability to absorb tryptophan, an amino acid that helps produce serotonin in the gut. Blood clots that can form after a coronavirus infection may impair the body’s ability to circulate serotonin.

Depleted serotonin disrupts the vagus nerve system, which transmits signals between the body and the brain, the researchers said. Serotonin plays a role in short-term memory, and the researchers proposed that depleted serotonin could lead to memory problems and other cognitive issues that

many people with long COVID experience.

“They showed that one-two-three punch to the serotonin pathway then leads to vagal nerve dysfunction and memory impairment,” Iwasaki said.

There are caveats. The study was not large, so the findings need to be confirmed with other research. Participants in some other long COVID studies, in which some patients had milder symptoms, did not always show depleted serotonin, a result that Levy said might indicate that depletion happened only in people whose long COVID involves multiple serious symptoms.

What’s next: A clinical trial of Prozac Scientists want to find biomarkers for long COVID — biological changes that can be measured to help diagnose the condition.

Thaiss said the new study suggested three: the presence of viral remnants in stool, low serotonin and high levels of interferons.

Most experts believe that there will not be a single biomarker for the condition, but that several indicators will emerge and might vary, based on the type of symptoms and other factors.

There is tremendous need for effective ways to treat long COVID, and clinical trials of several treatments are underway.

Levy and Thaiss said they would be starting a clinical trial to test fluoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor often marketed as Prozac, and possibly also tryptophan.

“If we supplement serotonin or prevent the degradation of serotonin, maybe we can restore some of the vagal signals and improve memory and cognition and so on,” Levy said.

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The easiest brownies are mixed and baked in the same pan

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still-warm brownie — chewy on the inside with a shiny, crackly top — and a glass of milk is the kind of after-school snack fantasy that never fades

away.

But how many times have I acted this out? Not nearly enough, despite my adult baking skills and the freedom to whip up a pan of the fudgy treats anytime the craving strikes.

Maybe that’s because by the time I’ve measured and mixed the batter, poured it into a parchment-lined pan and baked it, that childhood longing has been tamped down by more sensible and mature inclinations.

This brownie recipe is the antidote to all that grown-up moderation. I created it for my new YouTube show, “Shortcut vs. Showstopper.” The goal was to come up with the best easy brownie recipe imaginable, and compare it with my very sophisticated recipe for olive oil brownies with sea salt.

And it is so easy. Mixed and baked in one skillet, you don’t have time for second thoughts. And leaving the brownie in that skillet for serving, instead of cooling and cutting it into neat bars, is an invitation to dig right in, preferably while its belly is warm, gooey and a little wobbly. And while you’re at it, adding a scoop of ice cream never hurts, especially since it melts into a custardy puddle, soaking into the fudgy confection.

The only potential sticking point in this recipe concerns exactly that — finding the right skillet to use so the batter doesn’t irretrievably glue itself to the pan after baking. I swear by my ceramic nonstick skillet, but other options will work, including a very well-seasoned cast-iron or carbon-steel pan, or a regular, oven-safe nonstick skillet. (Many nonstick skillets are oven-safe to 350 degrees, which is the temperature called for here.)

Word of warning: Don’t try this in your stainlesssteel skillet. If you do, the underside of the brownie will adhere to the pan until you chisel or soak it off. I can tell you this from sad past experience.

If you lack the right skillet for this, don’t fret. Just mix the batter in a saucepan, pour it into a greased 9-inch square pan and bake as directed.

But don’t overbake. For this recipe, err on the side of under rather than overdone. As soon as the top of the brownie looks dry, press your finger lightly in the center; it should feel like Jell-O under the surface. Skip inserting a toothpick, which would emerge covered in chocolate and won’t help you anyway.

Then, find a spoon and a glass of milk. Snack time has arrived.

Easy skillet brownies These simple brownies are mixed and baked in the same skillet. Chewy and fudgy, they’re everything you want in a brownie but faster and with less mess to clean up. If you don’t have an ovenproof nonstick skillet (preferably ceramic, or you could try this in a very wellseasoned cast-iron pan), pour the batter into a greased 9-inch square pan for baking. You can let the brownies cool and cut them into wedges or squares. Or, serve them warm from the oven and straight from the pan, preferably with a scoop of ice cream plopped on top.

Yield: 8 to 12 brownies Total time: 40 minutes, plus cooling Ingredients: 3/4 cup/185 grams unsalted butter 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped

(about 1 cup) 1/2 teaspoon fine sea or table salt 1 1/2 cups/300 grams sugar 3 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3/4 cup/95 grams all-purpose flour 3/4 cup/110 grams walnut or pecan pieces (optional) Flaky sea salt (optional) Ice cream, for serving (optional) Preparation: 1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In an ovenproof 10or 11-inch nonstick skillet (preferably ceramic nonstick) set over medium-low heat, combine the butter, chocolate and salt. Let butter and chocolate melt, stirring occasionally. Turn off the heat.

2. Carefully whisk in sugar until smooth, then whisk in eggs and vanilla. Finally, whisk in flour until no streaks remain. Using a spatula, fold in the nuts, if using. Smooth top and sprinkle lightly with flaky sea salt if you like.

3. Bake until the top is set, the center is soft and the edges are firm and start to pull away from the pan, 20 to 27 minutes. (A toothpick inserted into the center will come out gooey.) Transfer to a wire rack to cool. You can serve these still a little warm and straight from the pan, with ice cream on top if you like. Or, let cool completely before slicing into wedges or bars.

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nistracion, ganancias y derechos y en los elementos comunes generates del Condominio, un porcentaje de veinticinco punto siete por ciento (25.07%).

Estacionamientos: Bordeando el edificio antes descrito en su colindancia Este, que es el frente y en las colindancias Norte y Sur se encuentran los espacios de estacionamientos de uso comun. En la parte Este, cada uno de los cuatro locales (naves) ubicados en el edificio, tienen facilidades para carga y descarga. Elementos comunes generales, areas y facilidades comunes generales: Las areas y facilidades comunes generates que pertenecen en comun proindiviso a los titulares de los locales en proporcion que se indica son los siguientes: El terreno donde enclava el edificio segun descrito y las verjas.

Los estacionamientos sobre el terreno, asi como tambien las vias de accesos o “drive way” existentes alrededor del edificio. Los cimientos de techo, paredes maestras, columnas, vigas, paredes de carga y que sostienen y/o dividen las areas y facilidades comunes del edificio. Las escaleras que dan acceso al edificio. Las tubenas de aguas potable. Las tubenas de desague pluvial de los techos.

Las tubenas de descarga sanitaria. Las tubenas y cables de alimentacion electrica primaria y secundaria y dos subestaciones electricas. Las tubenas y sistemas de alarmas de fuego.

Las tubenas y gabinetes con manguera para apagar incendios. El pasillo posterior, los servicios sanitarios comunes y el area de almacenaje para efectos de limpieza y mantenimiento. Las aceras. Las areas verdes. Las verjas alrededor de la propiedad. En el elemento comun denominado “techo” no se pueden instalar equipos que excedan una carga de quince libras par pie cuadrado, de igual manera en el “Mezzanine” de cada local no se puede instalar equipos que representen una carga en exceso de las cien libras par pie cuadrado.

The aforementioned Mortgage Deed is duly recorded at the Karibe System ofCaguas, property number 63,170, fourth inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on 08/23/2023 by the Honorable Jay A. GarciaGrecjon/, United States District Judge (Docket No._4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court

Thursday, October 19, 2023 for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime Lopez Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de Lean Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269:his Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 24th day of August, 2023. ADA I. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ., Clerk Of The Court. By: Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk.

LEGAL NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN. ST – 2022 – CV – 00242 ACTION FOR DEBT AND FORECLOSURE OF REAL PROPERTY MORTGAGE.

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, Plaintiff, v.

AMERICO CORREA and THE TOWERS CONDOMINIUM HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION,

Defendants.

SUMMONS.

To: Americo Correa Jard De Country Club CN7 Calle 151 Carolina, Puerto Rico 00983

JUDGE DENISE M. FRANCOIS ON August 18th, 2023.

Witness my hand and the Seal of this Court this 18th day of August, 2023.

TAMARA CHARLES Clerk of the Court By: /s/ Donna D. Donovan, Deputy Clerk Richard H. Dollison, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff, FirstBank Puerto Rico Law Offices of Richard H. Dollison, P.C. 5143 Palm Passage, Ste. B28/29 P.O. Box 6135 St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. 00804 NOTE: This defendant, if served personally, is required to file his/her answer or other defenses with the Clerk of this Court, and to serve a copy thereof upon the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty one (21) days after service of this summons, excluding the date of service.

The defendant, if served by publication or by personal service outside of the jurisdiction, is required to file his/her answer or other defense with the Clerk of this Court within thirty (30) days after the completion of the period of publication or personal service outside of the jurisdiction, and to serve a copy thereof upon the attorney for the plaintiff, and in the case of any form of mailing requiring a signed receipt, within 30 days from the date of receipt as indicated by the signed receipt.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS MANUEL LEÓN DE JESÚS; SUCESIÓN DE Within the time limited by law IRMA MARÍA NEGRÓN (see note below) you are heSANTIAGO; JOHN DOE reby required to appear before this Court and answer to a Y RICHARD ROE” COMO complaint filed against you in POSIBLES HEREDEROS this action and in case of your DESCONOCIDOS DE LA failure to appear or answer, judSUCESIÓN DE CARLOS gment by default will be taken MANUEL LEÓN DE against you as demanded in the JESÚS; JOHN DOE Y Complaint, for RICHARD ROE” COMO DEBT AND POSIBLES HEREDEROS FORECLOSURE OF REAL DESCONOCIDOS DE PROPERTY MORTGAGE. LA SUCESIÓN DE PURSUANT TO COURT ORDER FOR SERVICE BY IRMA MARÍA NEGRÓN SANTIAGO; CENTRO DE PUBLICATION RECAUDACIONES DE ENTERED BY HON. INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com

(787) 743-3346

21 (C.R.I.M.)

Demandados Ciivl Núm.: PO2023CV00411.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, 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 8 de septiembre 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: Solar marcado con el número seis (6) de la Manzana P del plano preparado para la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para su proyecto de solares denominado Villa Retiro, radicado en el Barrio Velázquez del término municipal de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cincuenta y tres punto sesenta y nueve (253.69) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Solar cinco (5) del Bloque P, distancia de veintidós punto treinta y un (22.31) metros; por el SUR, con Solar siete (7) del Bloque P distancia de veintidós (22.00) metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle quince (15) distancia de once punto quinientos cinco (11.505) metros; y por el OESTE, con los Solares dieciséis (16) y diecisiete (17) del Bloque P, distancia de once punto cincuenta (11.50) metros. Sobre el solar se ha construido una estructura dedicada a vivienda que se describe como sigue: Casa de una sola planta, sencilla, compuesta por las siguientes partes, todos los cimientos, pisos, tres paredes de carga en hormigón reforzado, paredes del baño en bloques de hormigón; instalación sanitario, sin incluir accesorios, instalación eléctrica sin incluir alambrado ni accesorios, instalación de agua fría y caliente sin incluir plumas ni accesorios, con un área total deconstrucción de 675.00 pies cuadrados. Inscrita en la finca número 2,404, al folio 245 del tomo 65 de Santa Isabel. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. La propiedad está ubicada, según pagaré, en: 6 P 15 St. Villa Retiro, Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta

donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 6 de julio de 2023, archivada en autos y notificada el 13 de julio de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $50,264.66 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 5% desde el 1ro de julio de 2022; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $6,272.10 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente (“Sentencia”). 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 2 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $62,721.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 9 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $41,814.00, 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 16 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, en la oficina del referido Alguacil, localizada en el Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $31,360.50, 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de septiembre de 2023.

ADELLE MORALES, ALGUACIL PLACA #254, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs.

CARLOS ANTONIO DÍAZ ROJAS

Demandado Civil Núm.: DCD2016-1761.

Salón Núm.: (702). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: CARLOS ANTONIO DÍAZ ROJAS: Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América.

Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número mil tres (1003) del Condominio Portal de Sofía, localizado en el Edificio diez (10) de apartamentos, segundo nivel situado en la Avenida San Ignacio de los Frailes y Río del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Este apartamento está construido en hormigón reforzado. Tiene un (1) nivel con su puerta de entrada por el lindero Norte, y por ella se sale al pasillo y a la escalera que conduce al estacionamiento frente a este edificio de apartamentos.

Este apartamento tiene un área total aproximada de mil doscientos ochenta y cinco punto cero setecientos cincuenta y un (1,285.0751) pies cuadrados, equivalente a ciento diecinueve punto tres mil ochocientos setenta y tres (119.3873) metros cuadrados. Linderos: por el NORTE, en treinta y cinco pies y nueve pulgadas (35’9”), equivalentes a diez punto noventa metro (10.90 m.), con pared medianera que lo separa del pasillo que conduce a la escalera que es área común y con pared exterior que lo separa del área exterior común; por el SUR, en treinta y cinco pies y nueve pulgadas (35’9”), equivalentes a diez punto noventa metro (10.90 m.), con pared exterior que lo separa del área exterior común; por el ESTE, en cuarenta y dos pies y once pulgadas (42’11”), equivalente a trece punto cero ocho metros (13.08 m.), con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento mil cuatro (1004); y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y un pies

22 nueve pulgadas (41’9”), equivalente a doce punto setenta y tres metros (12.73 m.), con pared exterior que lo separa del área exterior común. Este apartamento consta de entrada, pasillo de entrada, cocina, salacomedor, balcón, baño, closet en pasillo, dos dormitorios con closet, closet de lavandería, dormitorio master con área de lavamanos, closet vestidor y baño. A este apartamento le corresponde el estacionamiento doble número ciento noventa y tres (193) frente a este edificio de apartamentos. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de cero punto siete mil doscientos setenta y uno por ciento (0.7271%) en los elementos comunes del condominio. Consta inscrito al Folio 11 del tomo 1449 de Guaynabo, finca #46,627 del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guaynabo. La propiedad está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Condominio Portal de Sofía, Apto. 1003, Calle Cecilio Urbina, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior.

(Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $162,444.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #238, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de marzo de 2014, ante el notario Angel L. Rolón Prado, inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 1449 de Guaynabo, finca #46,627, inscripción 4ta y última. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 1 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $162,444.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $108,296.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $81,222.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para

con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma principal de $159,051.49, más los intereses correspondientes a razón de 6% anual, desde el 1ro de enero de 2016 y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente 5% de cualquier pago que esté en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento. Más una suma estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de $16,224.40, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen.

Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 03 de octubre de 2023.

EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193.

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607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante V.

MILDRED EUGENIA PACINI DE LA ROSA, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL

The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, October 19, 2023 DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00775.

(903). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO 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 en Rebeldía dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 10 de mayo de 2022, notificada el 11 de mayo de 2022, y publicada el 13 de mayo de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 1 de mayo de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 5 de mayo de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, 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 subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023; A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #706. Colinda por el OESTE, en 27’ 2”, con la pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #705; por el ESTE, en igual medida, con la pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #707; por el NORTE, en 15’ 4”, con pared interior que lo separa del pasillo común; y por el SUR, en igual medida, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”. Comprende un área de 423 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Norte, por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. La oficina descrita se separa del quinto piso del edificio denominado Condominio Condado.

Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes equivalente a un porcentaje del 0.016%. FINCA NÚMERO: 4905, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 706, San Juan PR 00907. 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 la suma de $10,046.40 de principal adeudado, más los intereses a razón de $89.62 mensuales, penalidades por retrasos al 10% mensual, intereses legales al 4.25% desde la fecha de la sentencia y aquellos intereses que se continúen acumulando desde el día 31 de noviembre de 2021, a razón de $13.23 diarios; costas, gastos, penalidades, recargos y $1,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogados. Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. 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 San Juan, 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 libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 5 de octubre de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante V.

LA SOCIEDAD INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGADORES PROFESIONALES, INC.

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV01381.

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

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

El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 13 de septiembre de 2022, notificada

el 14 de septiembre de 2022 y publicada el 23 de septiembre de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 15 de marzo de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 17 de marzo de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, 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 subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 8 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023; A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Oficina #505. Colinda por el OESTE, en 28’ 6”, con pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #504; por el ESTE, en igual medida, con pared interior que lo separa de la oficina #506; por el NORTE, en 15’ 5”, con pared que lo separa de parte de la oficina #504 y con el pasillo común; y por el SUR, en igual medida, con la pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”.

Comprende un área de 443 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Norte, por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. La oficina descrita se separa del quinto piso del edificio denominado Condominio Condado. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes equivalente a un porcentaje del 0.017%. FINCA NÚMERO: 4921, inscrita al folio 60 del tomo 153 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Oficina 505, San Juan PR 00907.

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 la siguiente suma: $9,573.72 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento vencidas y no pagadas; más la suma de $4,189.28 por concepto de intereses, más la suma de $947.99 por concepto de penalidad, para un total de $14,710.99, más las costas, gastos penalidades, recargos y una suma razonable por honorarios de abogado. Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tra-

tarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. 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 San Juan, 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 libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 6 de octubre de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.

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

607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante V.

LUIS ÁNGEL LÓPEZ OLMEDO Y LA SUCESIÓN DE SILVIA MATOS DE LÓPEZ, COMPUESTA POR LUIS ÁNGEL LÓPEZ OLMEDO, SYLVIA LIZZETTE LÓPEZ MATOS Y SYLVIA BEATRIZ LÓPEZ MATOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV00774.

(807). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO 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 12 de octubre de 2022, notificada el 18 de octubre de 2022 y publicada el 25 de octubre de 2022, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 18 de mayo de 2023 y un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Embargo emitido el día 26 de mayo de 2023, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de con-

tado y por moneda de curso destinarse a su extinción el prelegal de los Estados Unidos de cio del remate. La propiedad a América, y/o giro postal, dinero ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre en efectivo, cheque de gerente de cargas y gravámenes posteo cheque certificado a nombre riores. En testimonio de lo cual, del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra expido el presente aviso, el cual bancaria, con similar garantía firmo y sello, hoy 5 de octubre de todo título, derecho o interés de 2023, en San Juan, Puerto de los demandados de epígrafe Rico. EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MUsobre el inmueble que adelante LERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, se describe. Se anuncia por la TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSpresente que la subasta ha- TANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN. brá de celebrarse el día 8 DE LEGAL NOTICE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO oficina localizada en el Tribunal DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUde Primera Instancia, Sala Su- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA perior de San Juan, sobre el in- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAmueble que se describe a con- GÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR tinuación: URBANA: Propiedad BANCO POPULAR DE Horizontal: Oficina #204. CoPUERTO RICO linda por el OESTE, en 35’ 8”, Demandante Vs. con la pared exterior del edificio HECTOR hacia la Avenida Condado; por RAMOS IRIZARRY el ESTE, en igual medida, con Demandados la pared interior que lo separa d la oficina #205 y con pasillo Civil Núm.: MZ2022CV00856. común; por el NORTE, en 20’, Sala: 207. Sobre: COBRO DE con la pared que lo separa d la DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE oficina #203; y por el SUR, en HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA).

14’, con pared exterior del edi- EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alficio hacia su colindancia con guacil que suscribe por la prela calle denominada “Rolan”. sente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y Comprende un área de 546 hace CONSTAR: Que en cumpies cuadrados, aproximada- plimiento de un Mandamiento mente y tiene su entrada y sa- de Ejecución de Sentencia que lida hacia el Este por el pasillo le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil común con el cual colinda en que suscribe por la Secretaría ese lado. La oficina descrita for- del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA ma parte del segundo piso del INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDIedificio denominado “Condo- CIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA minio Condado”. Porcentaje en SUPERIOR, en el caso de los elementos comunes del edi- epígrafe procederá a vender ficio de 0.021%. FINCA NÚME- en pública subasta al mejor RO: 4899, inscrita al folio 180 postor en efectivo, cheque cerdel tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, tificado en moneda legal de los Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Estados Unidos de América el Metropolitana, sección primera 28 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, de San Juan. Dirección física: A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, 609 Condado St., Suite 204, en su oficina sita en el local que San Juan PR 00907. La subas- ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUta se llevará a cabo para con su NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA producto satisfacer al deman- CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAdante, total o parcialmente, se- YAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR, gún sea el caso, de la referida todo derecho, título e interés sentencia que fue dictada por que tenga la parte demandala suma de $18,132.48, más da de epígrafe en el inmueble las costas, gastos, penalida- de su propiedad que ubica en: ALTURAS des, recargos y honorarios de URBANIZACION abogado. Esta subasta no tiene DE MAYAGÜEZ, LOT 2 SECfijación de tipo mínimo por tra- TOR PITILLO, MAYAGÜEZ, tarse de una ejecución de sen- PUERTO RICO 00680 y que tencia por embargo. Y PARA se describe a continuación: CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS RÚSTICA: Solar identificado PARTES INTERESADAS y del con el Número Dos en el Plano público en general, se advierte De Parcelación, radicado en la que los autos de este caso y Urbanización Alturas de Mayademás instancias están dispo- güez en los Barrios Algarrobo y nibles para ser inspeccionadas Miradero de Mayagüez, Puerto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Rico, con una cabida superficial Primera Instancia Sala Superior de 630.378 Metros Cuadrados, de San Juan, durante las horas equivalentes a .160 cuerdas. laborables. Se entenderá que Colinda por el Norte, en 20.914 todo licitador acepta como bas- metros lineales, con terrenos tante la titularidad del inmueble de Luis Hernández; por el y que las cargas y gravámenes Sur, en 23.189 metros lineales anteriores y los preferentes al (21.720, según Escritura de crédito del ejecutante, incluyen- Hipoteca), con solar marcado do el gravamen por las contri- como Uso Público; por el Oesbuciones sobre la propiedad te, en 25.474 metros lineales inmueble adeudadas, si los (25.946, según Escritura de hubiere, continuarán subsis- Hipoteca), con solar número tentes, entendiéndose que el Uno; y por el Este, 33.314 merematante los acepta y queda tros lineales, con la finca prinresponsable de los mismos sin cipal de la cual se segrega. La

The San Juan Daily Star propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio móvil del Tomo 1,457 de Mayagüez, finca número 40,346, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez.

El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $115,900.00.

Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $77,266.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $57,950.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 67 otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de marzo de 2007, ante el Notario Félix Oscar Rivera Borges, y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca número 10,117, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez, inscripción Quinta (5ta).

Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $92,729.85 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de junio de 2018, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación.

Además, la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $11,590.00.

Además, la parte demandada se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $11,590.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $11,590.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y

exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble 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 de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial.

Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de octubre de 2023.

ALG. IVELISSE FIGUEROA VARGAS, ALGUACIL PLACA #924, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDI-

Thursday, October 19, 2023 CIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ, SALA miento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por SUPERIOR. el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal *** de Primera Instancia, Sala SuLEGAL NOTICE perior de Bayamón, en el caso ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de epígrafe, venderé en pública DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUsubasta y al mejor postor, por NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA separado, de contado y por SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAmoneda de curso legal de los MÓN Estados Unidos de América y/o WILMINGTON SAVINGS Giro Postal y Cheque CertificaFUND SOCIETY, FSB, do, en mi oficina ubicada en el NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT Tribunal de Primera Instancia, SOLELY AS TRUSTEE Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de SuFOR FINANCE OF bastas, el 13 DE NOVIEMBRE AMERICA STRUCTURED DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA SECURITIES MAÑANA, todo derecho título, ACQUISITION TRUST participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman2018-HB1 dada o cualquiera de ellos en Demandante Vs. el inmueble hipotecado objeto SUCESION RAFAEL de ejecución que se descriGENARO GARCIA be a continuación: RÚSTICA: ORTEGA T/C/C RAFAEL ”Solar localizado en la CarreG. GARCÍA ORTEGA tera Estatal Número 686, Km T/C/C RAFAEL GARCIA 12.5, del Barrio Puerto Nuevo ORTEGA T/C/C RAFAEL del término municipal de Vega GENARO GARCIA T/C/C Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 469.87 meRAFAEL G. GARCIA tros cuadrados., equivalente a T/C/C RAFAEL GARCIA 0.1195 cuerdas. En lindes por COMPUESTA POR el NORTE, con la Calle vega RAFAEL GARCIA PAGAN, Mar, en una distancia de 20.75 metros; por el SUR, con José RICARDO GARCIA Rodríguez, en una disPAGAN, EDMEE GARCIA Enrique tancia de 20.00 metros; por el PAGAN, ARTURO ESTE, con la Carretera Estatal GARCIA PAGAN; JOHN Número 686, en una distanDOE Y JANE DOE COMO cia de 24.31 metros; y por el POSIBLES HEREDEROS OESTE, con María Cordero, en una distancia de 21.91 metros.

DESCONOCIDOS; Enclava una casa construida SUCESION ANA DELIA de concreto armado de dos PAGAN NAZARIO T/C/C plantas, la superior consta de ANA D. PAGAN NAZARIO sala-comedor-cocina, tres dormitorios, dos baños y balcón T/C/C ANA PAGAN en forma de L; la primera planta NAZARIO T/C/C ANA sala-cocina y baño, DELIA PAGAN T/C/C ANA contiene con un área de estacionamienD. PAGAN T/C/C ANA to.” Inscrita al folio 191 del tomo PAGAN COMPUESTA 443 de Vega Baja, finca 32282, POR RAFAEL GARCIA Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección IV. La HipoPAGAN, RICARDO GARCIA PAGAN, EDMEE teca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 443 de Vega GARCIA PAGAN, ARTURO Baja, finca 32282, Registro de GARCIA PAGAN; JOHN la Propiedad de Bayamón, SecROE Y JANE ROE COMO ción IV, inscripción 2ª. PropiePOSIBLES HEREDEROS dad localizada en: PR 686 KM 12.5 BO. PUERTO NUEVO, DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE VEGA BAJA, PR 00694. Según figuran en la certificación AMERICA; CENTRO registral, la propiedad objeto DE RECAUDACION DE de ejecución está gravada por INGRESOS MUNICIPALES las siguientes cargas anterioDemandados res o preferentes: Nombre del Civil Núm.: BY2022CV04477. Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. N/A. Según figuran en la certiESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- ficación registral, la propiedad RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE objeto de ejecución está graLOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL vada por las siguientes cargas ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO posteriores a la inscripción del DE PUERTO RICO, SS. crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la VivienA: LA PARTE da y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma DEMANDADA, AL (A la Carga: $288,000.00. FeLA) SECRETARIO(A) DE de cha de Vencimiento: 9 de julio HACIENDA DE PUERTO de 2088. Se entenderá que RICO Y AL PÚBLICO todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la proGENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que piedad y que todas las cargas en cumplimiento con el Manda- y gravámenes anteriores y los

preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes.

El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $288,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $192,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $144,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de 219,904.75 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $41,412.35 en intereses acumulados al 25 de noviembre de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $14,070.37 en seguro hipotecario; $4,200.00 en tarifas de servicio; $680.00 de inspecciones; $4,976.30 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $28,800.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las

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actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de septiembre de 2023. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #735.

que se presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 27 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SUBSECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

LA SUCESION DE FRANCISCO CRUZ CINTRÓN COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, CARMEN M. SUÁREZ GUZMÁN EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA MUNICIPAL DE CANOVANAS

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE LA INDUSTRIA BIOFARMACEUTICA DEMANDANTE VS.

JOSE DE LEON NAVARRO

DEMANDADO(A) CIVIL NÚM.: CN2023CV00250.

SALA: 408. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60).

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

A: JOSE DE LEON NAVARRO. DIRECCIÓN: SUITE 376, PO BOX 1000, CANÓVANAS, PUERTO RICO 00729-0011.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se le notifica que una Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere para que conteste la misma dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección: BUFETE APONTE & CORTES LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 Email: emarengo @apontecortes.com Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar Ia demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará Ia rebeldIa y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oIrle.

Por Ia presente el Tribunal do Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), le ordena quo en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando Ia herencia de LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO CRUZ CINTRÓN. Se le apercibe que do no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar Ia herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, Ia herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de Ia parte demandante son: Lcdo.

Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 00936-6603. Tel. (787) 9190073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo ml firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 02 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IDA FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandado NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA Civil Núm.: CA2019CV01401. TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSSobre: COBRO DE DINERO TANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - SUPERIOR LIMITADO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMBOSCO CREDIT X, LLC PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. Vs ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRUIZ RUIZ, RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS MILAGROS SUCN ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER- Caso: I1CI201800481. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. TO RICO, S.S. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENA: FULANO DE TAL, CIA POR EDICTO.

COMO POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO CRUZ CINTRON; MENGANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCISCO CRUZ CINTRÓN Y CARMEN M. SUAREZ GUZMAN EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA.

Por Ia presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar Ia demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación del presente edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), a! cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia

SUCESION DE MILAGROS RUIZ RUIZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en

24 la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 10 de octubre de 2023.

Lic. Asencio Guido, Frances L. frances.asencio@gmlaw.com.

En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 10 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

SUCESIÓN DE HECTOR OLIVERAS CUMMINGS Y SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN ROSA DELGADO MENA AMBAS COMPUESTAS POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ROSA MAGDALENA OLIVERAS DELGADO, MAYRA IVONNE OLIVERAS LEGAL NOTICE DELGADO Y HECTOR ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO FRANCISCO OLIVERAS DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDELGADO; FULANO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANDE TAL Y SUTANO DE CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO SALÓN DE SEDESCONOCIDOS Y/O SIONES SALÓN 404 - CIVIL PARTES CON INTERÉS SUPERIOR DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BANCO POPULAR DE HECTOR OLIVERAS PUERTO RICO CUMMINGS; JOHN Demandante V. DOE Y RICHARD DOE LUIS O SOTO MADURO COMO MIEMBROS Demandado(a) DESCONOCIDOS Y/O Caso Núm.: AR2023CV00584.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO PARTES CON INTERÉS ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DE CARMEN ROSA GINA H FERRER MEDINA DELGADO MENA; LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL.COM ESTADOS UNIDOS DE A: LUIS O AMÉRICA; CENTRO SOTO MADURO. DE RECAUDACIÓN DE (Nombre de las partes que se le INGRESOS MUNICIPALES notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- (CRIM); DEPARTAMENTO cribe le notifica a usted que el DE HACIENDA 10 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 10 de octubre de 2023. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 10 de octubre de 2023. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Brunilda Hernández Méndez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV06142.

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, EDWIN E. LÓPEZ MULERO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, al público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 10 de julio 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 título, 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: Solar marcado con el número 63 del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización La Campiña, radicado en el Barrio Caimito del término municipal de Río Piedras, Puerto LEGAL NOTICE Rico, con un área de 624.80 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO metros cuadrados. En lindes DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- por el Norte, en 15.62, con serNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA vidumbre de paso de la calle 2 SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN de dicha urbanización; por el JUAN Sur, en igual distancia con el BANCO POPULAR DE solar 80-A; por el Este, en

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40.00 metros, con el solar 64-A de la mencionada urbanización; y por el Oeste, en igual distancia con el solar número 62-A de la mencionada Urbanización. Consta inscrita al folio 11 del tomo 138 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 4,803 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan.

Dirección física: Urb. La Campiña #63, Calle 2, San Juan Puerto Rico 00926-9639. La finca 4,803 está gravada con la siguiente hipoteca cuya ejecución se solicita en la subasta objeto de este edicto: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage lnc; o a su orden, por la suma principal de $295,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 240, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de junio de 2003, ante la notario Luz E. Vela Gutierrez, e inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 864 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca 4,803, inscripción 9na. 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 $295,000.00, con intereses al 7% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 241, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de junio de 2003 ante la notario Luz E. Vela Gutierrez, e inscrita al folio 201 del tomo 864 de Rio Piedras Sur, finca número 4,803 inscripción 10ma. B. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 22 de septiembre de 2021 , expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ2021CV06142, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; versus Hector Oliveras Cummings, por la suma de $605,928.73, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 17 de febrero de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Rio Piedras Sur, finca número 4,803, Anotación “A”.

La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a SunWest Mortgage Company lnc; por la hipoteca de $295,000.00 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 23 de enero de 2023, notificada y archivada en autos el mismo día. El importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, asciende a las siguientes cantidades: $605,928.73 de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7% anual a partir del 30 de septiembre de 2021, los cuales continúan acumulándo-

se hasta el pago total de la deuda, más una suma de $29,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más la cantidad de $29,500.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $29,500.00 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 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:0 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $295.000.00. SEGUNDA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:0 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $196,666.66. TERCERA SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023 A LAS 10:0 DE LA MAÑANA. PRECIO MÍNIMO: $147,500.00. 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 San Juan, 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 procedi-

miento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas, 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 tolerancia 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 San Juan. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 11 de octubre de 2023.

Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De San Juan.

RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ puntos nueve mil quinientos by the Court in this case, which AND THE CONYUGAL cuarenta y cuatro (727.9544) can be examined in the Office metros cuadrados. En lindes of the Clerk of the United StaPARTNERSHIP por el Norte, con la calle Jun- tes District Court. In San Juan, COMPOSED BY AMERICO cal, en una distancia de vein- Puerto Rico, this 11th of OctoMARTINEZ AND MARIA titrés punto doscientos treinta ber 2023. BEATRIZ VAZQUEZ y nueve (23.239) metros; por SOLIS, SPECIAL MASTER. INES RODRIGUEZ el Sur, con terreno de Acisclo JIMENEZ LEGAL NOTICE

Defendants Civil No.: 15-2723. JAG. Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: AMERICO MARTINEZ ROMERO, MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ, AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THE TWO, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $663,971.78 of principal balance, plus interest at a rate of 6.25% per annum since December 1st, 2008. Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges in the amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant owes Plaintiff all of the advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% ($68,900.00) of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees. The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of the United States district Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Federal Building Office 150, 1st, Floor, 150 Carlos Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 the following property belonging, describe in Spanish as follows: URBANA: LEGAL NOTICE Solar Marcado con el número IN THE UNITED STATES DIS- cuarenta y cuatro (44) de la TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS- Urbanización Campos de MonTRICT OF PUERTO RICO tehiedra, localizada en el Barrio Caimito de Rio Piedras, termino LIME HOMES, LTD. municipal de San Juan, Puerto Plaintiff V. AMERICO MARTINEZ Rico, con una cabida superficial de setecientos veintisiete

ROMERO, MARIA INES

González, en una distancia de veintitrés punto novecientos dos (23.902) metros; por Este, con el lote número cuarenta y tres (43), en una distancia de treinta y uno punto cero treinticuatro (31.034) metros; por el Oeste, con los lotes cuarenta y cinco (45) y cuarenta y seis (46) en una distancia de treinta y uno punto ochocientos veintinueve (31.829) metros. Enclava en este solar una estructura de concreto reforzado y bloques de hormigón, para fines residenciales. Property number 21335, recorded at page 53 of volume 756 of Rio Piedra Sur, Registry of the Property of San Juan, Section IV. Physical Address: 744 Juncal St. Los Campos I, De Montehiedra, Barrio Caimito, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior lien. THEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH , 2023, AT 2:15 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $689,000.00. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public sale shall be held on the DECEMBER 13T, 2023 AT 2:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $459,333.33. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:15 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $344,500.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens that are attached to the property referred to above. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 901 CIVIL

LUISA ESPAILLAT HERNÁNDEZ Demandante V.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION ( FDIC) Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV05568.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LISDAIRA SERRANO MARTINEZ LISDAIRASERRANO@GMAIL.COM

A: FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC), JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 de octubre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 13 de octubre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 13 de octubre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Virgen Y. Del Valle Díaz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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LIME HOMES. LTD. Plaintiff V.

AURIEL RIVERA VAZQUEZ, SARAI TORRES ALVELO AND THE CONYUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THE TWO

Defendants Civil No.: 18-1447. (SCC). Re: MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE AND COLLECTION OF MONIES. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: AURIEL RIVERA VAZQUEZ, SARAI TORRES ALVELO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BY THEM, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS: Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $126,500.00 of principal balance of the mortgage note, plus interest at a rate of 6.00% per annum since April 1st, 2017, over said balance.

Interest will continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full in accordance with the tenants of 28 U.S.C. sec 1691. In addition, the defendant owes Plaintiff late charges amounting to 5.000% of any and any payments or installments in arrears over fifteen (15) days since the installment is due. The defendant also owes Plaintiff pursuant to the provisions or dispositions of all of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. Advances made by Plaintiff pursuant to the provision or dispositions of the mortgage note and mortgage deed. The defendant also owes the Plaintiff an amount equivalent to 10% of the original principal balance as liquidated amount to cover the costs, expenses and attorney fees.

The record of the case and of the proceedings may be examined by the interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or by internet accessing https://ecf.prd. uscourts.gov. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned judgment and the order of execution thereof, the following property belonging to Defendants will be sold at a public auction: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trece (13) del proyecto de renovación urbana conocido como Vista Alegre, localizado en el Barrio Pájaros de la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatrocientos seis punto treinta y seis (406.36) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar treinta y siete (37), en quince punto cuarenta y siete (15.47) metros y terrenos de Juan Toro Pérez, en dieciocho punto trein-

ta y seis (18.36) metros; por el SUR, con la calle A, en distancia curvilínea en seis punto treinta y siete (6.37) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número doce (12), en dieciocho punto noventa y tres (18.93) metros; y por el OESTE, el solar número catorce (14), en treinta y uno punto noventa y dos (31.92) metros. The property is identified as land number 14,919, recorded at page number 126 of volume number 331 of Bayamón, in the Registry of the Property, Section of Bayamón I. Physical Address: Colinas de Vista Alegre, 13X Calle A, Bayamón, PR 00956. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with holders thereof. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It is understood that potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The present property will be acquired free and clear of all junior liens. NOW THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master will celebrate the judicial sale in the dates and time set forth below, in the Hallway benches in front of Courtroom # 1 of Federico Degetau Federal Building and Clemente Ruiz Nazario United States Courthouse, at 150 Chardón Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1st, Floor in accordance with 28 U.S.C. § 2001, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, the property described herein. The proceeds of said sale will be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment.

WHEREAS: For the purpose of the FIRST PUBLIC SALE shall be held on DECEMBER 6TH, 2023 AT 2:00 PM. The minimum bid that will be accepted in the first public sale is the sum of $127,784.98 and no lower offers will be accepted. In the event that said first public sale does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC SALE shall be held on the DECEMBER 13TH, 2023 AT 2:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $85,189.99. If said second public sale does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC SALE shall be

Thursday, October 19, 2023 held on the DECEMBER 20TH, 2023 AT 2:00 PM and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $63,892.49. WHEREAS: The sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 12th of October 2023. BEATRIZ VÁZQUEZ SOLÍS, SPECIAL MASTER.

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

FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC Demandante Vs.

SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS LOZADA RAMÍREZ T/C/C ÁNGEL L. LOZADA RAMÍREZ T/C/C ÁNGEL LOZADA RAMÍREZ T/C/C ANGEL LUIS LOZADA T/C/C ÁNGEL L. LOZADA T/C/C ÁNGEL LOZADA COMPUESTA POR ÁNGEL LUIS LOZADA PLUGUES, JUAN CARLOS LOZADA PLUGUES, MARÍA LOZADA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUES PIÑEIRO T/C/C MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUEZ PIÑEIRO T/C/C MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUEZ PINERO T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ DELOZADA T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ DE LOZADA T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ T/C/C MARÍA A. PLUGUEZ PINEIRO T/C/C MARÍA A. PLUGUEZ COMPUESTA POR ÁNGEL LUIS LOZADA PLUGUES, JUAN CARLOS LOZADA PLUGUES, MARÍA LOZADA, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: TB2023CV00045.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM (HIPOTECA

REVERTIDA). MANDAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. Por Cuanto: Se ha dictado en el presente caso la siguiente Orden: “ORDEN: Examinada la demanda radicada por la parte demandante, la solicitud de interpelación contenida en la misma y examinados los autos del caso, el Tribunal le imparte su aprobación y en su virtud acepta la Demanda en el caso de epígrafe, así como la interpelación judicial de la parte demandante a los herederos del codemandado conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec.

2787 y su equivalente el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, edición 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos de los causantes a saber, Ángel Luis Lozada Plugues, Fulano de tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos a que, dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Ángel Luis Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Ángel L. Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Ángel Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Angel Luis Lozada t/c/c Ángel L. Lozada t/c/c Ángel Lozada y María de los Ángeles Plugues Piñeiro t/c/c María de los Ángeles Pluguez Piñeiro t/c/c María de los Ángeles Pluguez Pinero t/c/c María Pluguez Delozada t/c/c María Pluguez de Lozada t/c/c María Pluguez t/c/c María A. Pluguez Pineiro t/c/c María A. Pluguez.

Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados: (a) Que de no expresarse dentro del término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia la misma se tendrá por aceptada; (b) Que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, y por ende, la parte demandante podrá continuar la causa acción, dado por entendido que las partes interpeladas han aceptado la herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 2785 y su equivalente el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil, edición 2020.

Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de los causantes Ángel Luis Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Ángel L. Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Ángel Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Angel Luis Lozada t/c/c Ángel L. Lozada t/c/c Ángel Lozada y María de los Ángeles Plugues Piñeiro t/c/c María de los Ángeles Pluguez Piñeiro t/c/c María de los Ángeles Pluguez Pinero

t/c/c María Pluguez Delozada t/c/c María Pluguez de Lozada t/c/c María Pluguez t/c/c María A. Pluguez Pineiro t/c/c María A. Pluguez, incluyen como herederos a Ángel Luis Lozada Plugues, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, como posibles herederos desconocidos, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de octubre de 2023. (FDO) ANNETTE PRATS PALERM, JUEZA”. Por Cuanto: Se le advierte a que dentro del término legal de 30 días contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes Ángel Luis Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Ángel L. Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Ángel Lozada Ramírez t/c/c Angel Luis Lozada t/c/c Ángel L. Lozada t/c/c Ángel Lozada y María de los Ángeles Plugues Piñeiro t/c/c María de los Ángeles Pluguez Piñeiro t/c/c María de los Ángeles Pluguez Pinero t/c/c María Pluguez Delozada t/c/c María Pluguez de Lozada t/c/c María Pluguez t/c/c María A. Pluguez Pineiro t/c/c María A. Pluguez. Por Orden del Honorable Juez de Primera Instancia de este Tribunal, expido el presente Mandamiento, bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico hoy día 13 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. NEIDA QUILES SANTANA, SUBSECRETARIA.

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PIÑEIRO T/C/C MARÍA DE principal original. Este pagaré CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HULOS ÁNGELES PLUGUEZ fue suscrito bajo el affidávit nú- MACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE mero 5512 ante el notario Rosa HUMACAO SALÓN DE SESIOPINERO T/C/C MARÍA E. Permuy Calderón Lo anterior NES SALÓN 205 PLUGUEZ DELOZADA surge de la hipoteca constituida HR MORTGAGE T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ mediante la escritura número CORPORATION DE LOZADA T/C/C MARÍA 54 otorgada el 14 de marzo Demandante V. PLUGUEZ T/C/C MARÍA de 2014, ante la misma notario POPULAR MORTGAGE, inscrita bajo la ley 216A. PLUGUEZ PINEIRO público, INC Y OTROS 2010, inscrita al folio 158 del T/C/C MARÍA A. PLUGUEZ tomo 730 de Toa Baja, finca núDemandado(a) COMPUESTA POR ÁNGEL mero 8,414, inscripción 10ma. Caso Núm.: HU2023CV00879.

LUIS LOZADA PLUGUES, La hipoteca grava la propiedad Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O que describe que describe a RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ JUAN CARLOS NOTIFICAcontinuación: “URBANA: Solar EXTRAVIADO. LOZADA PLUGUES, número siete del Bloque “CM” CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR MARÍA LOZADA, en el Barrio Sabana Seca de EDICTO. JESUS A LEDESMA AMADOR FULANO DE TAL Y Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con un JALAMADOR@YAHOO.COM SUTANO DE TAL COMO área de trescientos diez metros A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD POSIBLES HEREDEROS cuadrados con cincuenta cenROE, DIRECCION: tímetros cuadrados, en lindes DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDA. por el NORTE, en trece metros DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO cincuenta centímetros, con el (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) DE RECAUDACIÓN solar número diez; por el SUR, DE INGRESOS en trece metros cincuenta cen- EL SECRETARIO(A) que susMUNICIPALES; Y LOS tímetros, con la Calle Doctor cribe le notifica a usted que el 10 de octubre de 2023, este ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Salvador Carbonell (según Pla- Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, no Calle quinientos veinticinco); AMÉRICA Sentencia Parcial o Resolución

Demandados Civil Núm.: TB2023CV00045.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM (HIPOTECA REVERTIDA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

por el ESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número seis; por el OESTE, en veintitrés metros, con el solar número ocho”.

Finca número 8,414, inscrita al folio 227 del tomo 137 de Toa Baja. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Bayamón. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que 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: https://unired.ramajuducial.pr, salvo que se represente por Derechos Propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, GLS LEGAL SERVICES, LLC, Atención: Lcda. Yadira López González Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936-7308, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 13 de octubre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NEIDA QUILES SANTANA, SUB - SECRETARIA.

en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 12 de octubre de 2023. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 12 de octubre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUES PIÑEIRO T/C/C LEGAL NOTICE MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PLUGUEZ PIÑEIRO T/C/C DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PLUGUEZ PINERO SALA DE TOA BAJA T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ FINANCE OF AMERICA DELOZADA T/C/C MARÍA REVERSE, LLC PLUGUEZ DE LOZADA Demandante Vs. T/C/C MARÍA PLUGUEZ SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL T/C/C MARÍA A. PLUGUEZ LUIS LOZADA RAMÍREZ PINEIRO T/C/C MARÍA A. T/C/C ÁNGEL L. LOZADA PLUGUEZ. RAMÍREZ T/C/C ÁNGEL POR LA PRESENTE, se les LEGAL NOTICE LOZADA RAMÍREZ T/C/C emplaza y se les notifica que se ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ANGEL LUIS LOZADA ha presentado en la Secretaria DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA T/C/C ÁNGEL L. LOZADA de este Tribunal la Demanda CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONT/C/C ÁNGEL LOZADA del caso del epígrafe solicitanCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCOMPUESTA POR ÁNGEL do la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado CE SALÓN DE SESIONES LUIS LOZADA PLUGUES, al pagaré suscrito a favor de SALÓN 601 CIVIL SUPERIOR JUAN CARLOS The Money House, Inc., o a RICHARD ROSADO LOZADA PLUGUES, su orden, por la suma principal RAMIREZ Y OTROS de $225,000.00, con intereses MARÍA LOZADA, Demandante V. computados sobre la misma FULANO DE TAL Y FELIX FIGUEROA COLON desde su fecha hasta su total SUTANO DE TAL COMO y completo pago a razón de Y OTROS POSIBLES HEREDEROS la tasa de interés de 5.560% Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2023CV00635.

DE NOMBRE anual, la cual será ajustada Sobre: ACCIÓN DE REANUmensualmente, obligándose DESCONOCIDO; DACIÓN DE TRACTO SUCEademás al pago de costas, gasSUCESIÓN DE MARÍA DE SIVO Y OTROS. NOTIFICAtos y desembolsos del litigio, LEGAL NOTICE LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUES CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR más honorarios de abogados PIÑEIRO T/C/C MARÍA DE en una suma de $22,500.00, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO EDICTO. LOS ÁNGELES PLUGUEZ equivalente al 10% de la suma DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- SALVADOR MARQUEZ COLON NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

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The San Juan Daily Star

Thursday, October 19, 2023

AMBAS SUCESIONES COMPUESTAS POR: ANNETTE FIGUEROA DAVILA, CYNTHIA FIGUEROA DAVILA, ADELENE FIGUEROA A: ORLANDO COLÓN DAVILA, LISA FIGUEROA MALDONADO LEGAL NOTICE DAVILA, ANGELICA COMUNIDAD RfO CAÑAS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO FIGUEROA DAVILA Y LA ABAJO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU(Nombre de las partes que se le SUCESION DE DENISE 8-E CALLE 3 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA notifican la sentencia por edicto) CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUFIGUEROA DAVILA, JUANA DIAZ, EL SECRETARIO(A) que susLEGAL NOTICE MACAO SALA SUPERIOR FULANO DE TAL, PUERTO RICO 00795 cribe le notifica a usted que el ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO BANCO POPULAR DE POR LA PRESENTE se le em03 de octubre de 2023, este FULANA DE TAL, A, B Y DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUplaza, se le notifica que una PUERTO RICO Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, C COMO HEREDEROS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA demanda ha sido presentada Demandante Vs. Sentencia Parcial o Resolución DESCONOCIDOS SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAen su contra y se le requiere en este caso, que ha sido debiSUCESION DE DANIEL DE TODAS LAS MÓN que conteste la misma dentro damente registrada y archivada FIGUEROA SANTIAGO SUCESIONES. CARRINGTON de treinta (30) días siguientes en autos donde podrá usted a la publicación de este Edicto, MORTGAGE SERVICES Y SUCESION DE FELIDA Por la presente se le emplaza enterarse detalladamente de DAVILA BELTRAN T/C/C y notifica que debe contestar la que será publicado una sola los términos de la misma. Esta LLC FELIDA GLORIA DAVILA demanda dentro del término de vez en un periódico de circunotificación se publicará una Demandante Vs. lación diaria general en Puerto sola vez en un periódico de BELTRAN T/C/C FELIDA treinta (30) días a partir de la ANA ROSA RIVERA del presente edicto, Rico, radicando el original de circulación general en la Isla DAVILA DE FIGUEROA, publicación ESTRADA T/C/C ANA R. radicando el original de la concontestación de la misma ante de Puerto Rico, dentro de los AMBAS SUCESIONES testación ante el Tribunal y sala RIVERA ESTRADA T/C/C el Sistema Unificado de Ma10 días siguientes a su notificaLEGAL NOTICE COMPUESTAS POR: que se menciona en el epígrafe ANA RIVERA ESTRADA nejo y Administración de Caso ción. Y, siendo o representando ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ANNETTE FIGUEROA de este edicto con copia a la (SUMAC) presentada debidausted una parte en el procediT/C/C ANA ROSA RIVERA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL parte aquí demandante. Se le DAVILA, CYNTHIA mente mediante https://tribumiento sujeta a los términos T/C/C ANA R. RIVERA; DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REapercibe que, de no contestar nalelectronico.ramajudicial.pr/ de la Sentencia, Sentencia FIGUEROA DAVILA, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE GIÓN JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS la demanda dentro del término sumac2018/ y notificándola con Parcial o Resolución, de la cual ADELENE FIGUEROA AMERICA SALA MUNICIPAL DE GURAaquí estipulado, se le anotará copia de esta a la representanpuede establecerse recurso de DAVILA, LISA FIGUEROA la rebeldía y se dictará senDemandados BO te legal de la parte Demandanrevisión o apelación dentro del Civil Núm.: BY2023CV04367.

DAVILA, ANGELICA tencia sin más citarle ni oírle.

COOPERATIVA DE te: Lcda. Sasha Beatriz Burgos término de 30 días contados a Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI- FIGUEROA DAVILA Y LA Por la presente el Tribunal de Acobe, 2636 Blvd. Luis A Ferre partir de la publicación por edicAHORRO Y CREDITO LEGAL NOTICE POTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO Instancia, conforme al Ponce PR 00717-2107; PO to de esta notificación, dirijo a SAUDO D. RODRIGUEZ POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI- SUCESION DE DENISE Primera ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Box 10533, Ponce PR 00732usted esta notificación que se FIGUEROA DAVILA, (GURACOOP) DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PREArgentaria vs. Latinoamericana 0533, teléfono (939) 456-1931, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUconsiderará hecha en la fecha FULANO DE TAL, Demandante Vs. SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR sashaacobe@gmail.com. Se le NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de la publicación de este edicFULANA DE TAL, A, B Y 689 (2005), le ordena que en UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE KENNETH apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se SALA DE BAYAMÓN to. Copia de esta notificación ha ASOCIADO DE PUERTO C COMO HEREDEROS el término de treinta (30) días, ROSADO CARRILLO ISLAND PORTFOLIO podrá dictar Sentencia en resido archivada en los autos de RICO, SS. haga declaración aceptando Demandado(a) DESCONOCIDOS beldía concediendo el remedio este caso, con fecha 16 de ocSERVICES, LLC, COMO LEGAL NOTICE o repudiando las herencias A: ANA ROSA RIVERA Civil Núm.: GR2023CV00160. solicitado en la demanda, sin tubre de 2023. En Ponce, PuerDE TODAS LAS AGENTE DE ACE ONE de la DE DANIEL FIGUEROA Sala: 704. Sobre: COBRO DE ESTRADA T/C/C ANA R. to Rico, el 16 de octubre de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO mas citarle ni oírle mas. EXSUCESIONES; FUNDING, LLC. SANTIAGO, SUCESION DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EDIC2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUI- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y RIVERA ESTRADA T/C/C Demandante Vs. HONORABLE FELIDA DAVILA BELTRAN Y TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE ÑONES, SECRETARIA. JOAN NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL. En ANA RIVERA ESTRADA MARISELLY PENA CRUZ AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE SECRETARIO DEL SUCESION DE DENISE FIROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETA- SALA SUPERIOR DE PUE- Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de Demandado GUEROA DAVILA. Se le aperDE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, T/C/C ANA ROSA RIVERA DEPARTAMENTO septiembre de 2023. Carmen D RIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. BLO. cibe que de no expresar su JAVIER F. CORDERO Tiro Quiñones, Secretaria Re- Civil Núm.: BY2023CV03052. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- T/C/C ANA R. RIVERA. DE HACIENDA DEL Salón: 401. Sobre: COBRO DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. LEGAL NOTICE POR LA PRESENTE se le intención de aceptar o repudiar gional. Hilda J Rosado RodriDIAZ ; RANDY SILVA ESTADO LIBRE DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENemplaza para que presente al la herencia dentro del término guez, Secretaria Auxiliar.

A: KENNETH ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ACOSTA; por si y en TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS Tribunal su alegación respon- ASOCIADO DE PUERTO que se le fijó, las herencias se DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUROSADO CARRILLO. representación del a RICO; HONORABLE UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL LEGAL NOTICE siva a la demanda dentro de tendrán por aceptadas. Usted NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA- DIRECCIÓN: HC 01 BOX los treinta (30) días a partir de SECRETARIO DEL deberá presentar su alegación SALA DE PATILLAS GANANCIALES SILVA- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- DOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI- 5993, GURABO, PUERTO la publicación de este edicto.

DEPARTAMENTO DE responsiva a través del Sistema ISLAND PORTFOLIO Usted deberá presentar su aleRICO 00778-9533.

SEPULVEDA; TOMAS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO JUSTICIA DEL ESTADO Unificado de Manejo y AdminisSERVICES, LLC, COMO RICO, SS. POR LA PRESENTE, se le gación responsiva a través del de Casos (SUMAC), al CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN LIBRE ASOCIADO DE tración AGENTE DE ACE ONE RIVERA VELAZQUEZ; por JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE emplaza y se le notifica que Sistema Unificado de Manejo y cual puede acceder utilizando A: MARISELLY si y en representación de PUERTO RICO; OSCAR la siguiente dirección electróniuna Demanda sobre Cobro Administración de Casos (SUFUNDING, LLC PENA CRUZ SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIOla SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE NES SALÓN 705 BURGOS MORALES, ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. de Dinero ha sido presentada MAC), al cual puede acceder Demandante Vs. URB ROYAL GDNS F35 BIENES GANANCIALES en su contra y se le requiere utilizando la siguiente direcANNETTE FIGUEROA pr. salvo que se represente por EDNA E. AMARO CORA DERISILIS RAMÍREZ CALLE ALICIA BAYAMON para que conteste la misma ción electrónica: http://unired.

RIVERA-FILION Demandado DAVILA Y LA SOCIEDAD derecho propio, en cuyo caso GARCÍA PR 00957. dentro de los treinta (30) días ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se deberá presentar su alegación Demandantes vs.

Civil Núm.: AY2022CV00033.

LEGAL DE BIENES Demandante V. POR LA PRESENTE se le siguientes a la publicación del represente por derecho propio, responsiva en la secretaría del Salón: 202. Sobre: COBRO ORLANDO COLON GANANCIALES POR REYSON JASSEL emplaza y requiere para que edicto, radicando el original de en cuyo caso deberé presentar tribunal. Se le apercibe que DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM- MALDONADO; JANE DOE conteste la demanda dentro de su contestación en el Tribunal su alegación responsiva en la AMBOS COMPUESTA de no contestar la demanda REYNOSO MATEO PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. y la SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE los treinta (30) días siguientes correspondiente y notificando secretaria del tribunal. Si usted Demandados Demandado(a) dentro del término aquí estipuESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉa la publicación de este Edicto. con copia de la misma a la par- deja de presentar su alegación Civil Núm.: HU2023CV00190. lado, se le anotará la rebeldía BIENES GANANCIALES Caso Núm.: SJ2023RF00598.

RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE compuesta por ambos; Sobre: PATRIA POTESTAD - Usted deberá presentar su ale- te demandante a la siguiente responsiva dentro del referido Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. y se dictará sentencia sin más LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL término, el tribunal podrá dic- EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- citarle ni oírle. El abogado de PRIVACIÓN, SUSPENSIÓN gación responsiva a través del dirección: ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO LUIS MONTAÑEZ; Sistema Unificado de Manejo y BUFETE APONTE & CORTES tar sentencia en rebeldía en su TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE la parte demandante es: Lcda.

O RESTRICCIÓN. NOTIFICADE PUERTO RICO, SS. FULANA DE TAL y la CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR Administración de Casos (SU- LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO contra y conceder el remedio AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE Melisa Figueroa Castro, 1225 A: EDNA E. AMARO PO Box 195337 SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE EDICTO. MAC), la cual puede acceder solicitado en la demanda, o LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ES- Ave. Ponce de León, Edif. VIG San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 CORA - URB. EXT BINES GANANCIALES utilizando la siguiente direcTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE Tower, Suite 706, San Juan, Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en VALLES DE ARROYO ción electrónica: https://unired.

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Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal.

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

El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. 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 30 de agosto de 2023. En Patillas, Puerto Rico, el 30 de agosto de 2023. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL I. ILEANA SANTIAGO VEGA, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 11 de octubre de 2023. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 11 de octubre de 2023.

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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@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de septiembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 14 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

se presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle.

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 03 de octubre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. RIVERA RIVERA, GLORIMAR, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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llo del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Mayagüez will host Carolina in winter baseball opener 2023-24 season to be dedicated to Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda

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nder the motto “The Future Is on the Field” with the aim of highlighting new talent in the island’s ballparks and in commemoration of its 85th anniversary, the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League of Puerto Rico (LBPRC by its Spanish initials) will open its 2023-2024 season on Friday, Nov. 3 at Isidoro García Stadium in Mayagüez, where the defending champion Mayagüez Indians will host the runner-up Carolina Giants.

The LBPRC’s main goal is to motivate Puerto Rican baseball lovers to visit the island’s parks to enjoy family entertainment in a healthy environment.

“We have the participation of six teams and 40 games will be played in the regular series, where the best four teams will go to the postseason,” LBPRC President Juan A. Flores Galarza said in a press release. “It will consist of two best-of-seven semifinals for and the grand final for the best of nine games.

We encourage everyone to visit the parks to witness a season that promises to be extremely close.”

Carlos Mercado Santiago, executive director of the Tourism Company, stated that “we value the function of sports tourism as one of the indisputable pillars of the tourism industry, both locally and globally.”

“For this reason, at the Puerto Rico Tourism Company we are proud to contribute to the strengthening of the sector by participating in the celebration of such relevant events, such as the 202324 season of the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League,” he said.

“This has proven to be an effective tool for the growth of sport and the economic development of Puerto Rico.”

Season dedicated to Orlando Cepeda The 2023-24 season will be dedicated to Baseball Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda. Throughout his 13 seasons with the Cangrejeros de Santurce,

Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League President Juan A. Flores Galarza Cepeda forged one of the most outstanding performances in the history of the winter league.

He is one of six players to be named Most Valuable Player twice (1958-1959 and 1961-1962); was the batting champion in 1958-59 (.362); the leader in hits in 1957-58 (72); the home run leader in 1957-58 (13) and 1961-62 (19); the leader in RBIs in 1957-58 (45) and 1961-62 (53); the leader in runs scored in 195758 (49) and 1958-59 (49); the leader in slugging percentage in 1957-58 (.571), 1958-59 (.623) and 1961-62 (.600); and led the league in doubles in 1958-59 (15).

Additionally, Cepeda hit for the cycle (vs. Ponce on Nov. 19, 1957) and is the only Puerto Rican to hit .300+ in his career and .500+ in slugging percentage. He ranks second in career slugging (.544); fifth place in batting (.323) and ninth place in home runs (89).

Cepeda and his father, Pedro “Perucho” Cepeda, form the first father-son duo to win batting championships in Puerto Rican baseball.

Cepeda has been inducted into 17 halls of fame, including the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 1993, he was awarded the Pedrín

Zorrilla Award, and in 2013, he was named one of the 75 greatest players in the history of the Puerto Rico Professional Baseball League.

WAPA Deportes will broadcast winter baseball For the fourth consecutive year, winter baseball will be televised by WAPA Deportes, which will broadcast 12 regular season games beginning with the season opener between Mayagüez and Carolina. Among the dates to be televised, the first weekend will feature the opening game (Nov. 3), the Santurce Crabbers vs. the Carolina Giants (Nov. 4) and the Caguas Criollos vs. the Santurce Crabbers (Nov. 5).

In addition, the channel will broadcast all postseason games including the final series, which will determine the team that will represent Puerto Rico in the 2024 Caribbean Series at LoanDepot Park in Miami.

Two new voices will call the games on WAPA Deportes – Javier Sabath and sports journalist José Encarnación – two young talents who are expected to appeal to the youth audience.

LBPRC modernizes to connect new generations Among the new features is LBPRC’s own mobile application (app) based on the Major League Baseball model

whereby fans can follow their favorite teams, watch all the games with simultaneous updates and check on statistics and news. It is expected that the purchase of tickets for winter league season games can be made via the app at some point during the season.

Likewise, all regular season games will be streamed through the R1Live. com platform and will be free of charge for residents of Puerto Rico. With this technology, all fans of Puerto Rican baseball who live outside the island will now also be able to connect with the winter league.

Children 12 & under continue to enter for free in all parks To continue attracting fans to the stadiums and offer a healthy and entertaining environment, the LBPRC and its teams have scheduled special activities to promote family enjoyment inside and outside of the action on the field.

Children 12 years old or younger will enter all parks free of charge accompanied by an adult with a paid ticket. In turn, every Sunday, children will be able to enjoy running the bases at the end of the games.

Another initiative will be the celebration of “Roberto Clemente Day,” scheduled for Dec. 21, where players will wear the number 21 on their uniforms in honor of the immortal Hall of Famer.

Fifty years after his death, Clemente remains one of the most revered figures in Puerto Rico and a Latin American icon.

More Hall of Fame inductions For the second straight year, the LBPRC will hold inductions to the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame (SFBPP), which was inactive for 26 years and was revived last year with the purpose of preserving the rich and extensive history of the winter league.

A date for a press conference will be announced soon and the event is expected to take place during December.

The SFBPP was established in 1991 by a group of athletes led by Rafael Costas and held four inductions during the period from 1991 to 1996, where 44 baseball figures were inducted.

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From page 27 New names for yearly awards As part of the plan to reposition and renew the league, it was determined to change the names of the six performance awards to recognize and celebrate some of the most dominant players and leaders with the greatest impact in the history of the LBPRC. Jorge Colón-Delgado, who serves as the league’s historian, has worked during the past few months with the investigation to choose with precise data the candidates for said tribute.

The Most Valuable Player honor will now be called the José “Cheo” Cruz award because of Cruz’s impressive winter league record and because he always played in Puerto Rico even though he was a regular in the Major Leagues with the Houston Astros.

The Rookie of the Year will be renamed the Luis “Canena” Márquez award. Márquez was a recipient of this award and had a spectacular career ranking among the best 10 players in all offensive areas, after earning Rookie of the Year honors in 1944-45.

The Import Player of the Year award will be called the Willard Brown award. Brown, a National Baseball Hall of Famer, was the greatest winter league hitter of all time, the only player to win two triple batting crowns, in 1947-48 and 1949-50; and the only one to win three batting championships, in 1946 -47 (.390), 1947-48 (.432) and 1949-50 (.353), among many other achievements.

The Pitcher of the Year will be named the Juan “Terín” Pizarro award, after the winter league’s lifetime leader in strikeouts, ERA, and shutouts who also won the Triple Crown, among many other feats.

The Reliever of the Year award will now be the Luis “Mambo” de León award, after a player who had a consistent commitment to the winter league, excelling as a starting pitcher and reliever in both the island league and the Caribbean Series.

The Manager of the Year will become the Mako Oliveras award, after the winningest manager in the history of the league with eight championships and two Caribbean series titles.

Meanwhile, a new institutional award will be presented for the first time, the “Luis Rodríguez Olmo” Presidential Award, which will be awarded to the player who, at the discretion of the league president with the endorsement of the board of directors, has demonstrated a continuous and faithful commitment to the LBPRC as a worthy ambassador.

Olympic Committee suspends Russian organization over Ukraine move

By TARIQ PANJA

Further details of the IOC’s plans for Russian and Belarusian athletes, who he International Olympic Com- have also been banned because of their mittee (IOC) suspended Russia’s country’s involvement in the war effort, Olympic organization last week might become clearer at a meeting of its — less than a year before the Paris membership later this week in Mumbai, Games — after Russia moved to make India. Global sports organizations have captured Ukrainian regions part of its grappled with how to deal with Russian athletes and sports teams since the national sports program.

The IOC said the Russian Olympic earliest days of the invasion of Ukraine, Committee had moved the previous and the approach has not been consisweek to incorporate sports bodies from tent.

Some sports, including tennis, have four Ukrainian regions that it occupies, a breach of Olympic rules on territorial welcomed athletes provided they do not display Russian insignia or colors integrity.

Although the IOC’s punishment and have not been found to have pubmight look like a major shift in its stance licly supported Russia’s war effort. Othon Russia, the committee stopped short ers, particularly team sports, have mainof an outright ban on Russian athletes at tained blanket bans.

European soccer’s governing body the Paris Olympics. The IOC said it was sticking with recommendations it made last week was forced to abandon a plan in March that appeared to create a path to reinstate Russian junior teams after for Russians not connected to the war to widespread opposition from several member nations. participate in the Games.

When it announced its plans in Last Thursday’s suspension is limited to Russia’s Olympic Committee, the March, the IOC issued recommendaIOC said in a news release announcing tions to its member sports federations its penalties, meaning it is most likely suggesting they allow Russian athletes limited to the organization and officials, to participate in international events — which typically function as qualifying not individual athletes. events for the Games — as “neutrals.”

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The I.O.C. suspended the Russian Olympic Committee last Thursday. prohibition on any Russian presence at the Olympics while the war continues.

The IOC said last Thursday that a week earlier, Russia had brought sports organizations from four regions in eastern Ukraine — Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia — under the auspices of its national Olympic committee.

It said its executive board, which made the decision to suspend Russia, “also reserves the right to take any further decision or measure depending on the development of this situation.”

Designating “neutral” athletes who are free of connections to Russia’s war effort is not an easy task.

Dozens of Russian athletes are part of the country’s military or have been trained by it. Others have been conscripted to its cause since the start of

the invasion. And according to a review

by The Associated Press, the country’s Olympic success is inextricably linked to its military: Of the 71 medals won

by Russian athletes at the last Summer Olympics, in Tokyo in 2021, 45 were collected by athletes affiliated with the Central Sports Club of the Army, the largest of Russia’s military-affiliated clubs.

And those not directly funded by the armed forces have also come under scrutiny, including popular sports stars and medal winners who have been invited to parades celebrating the armed forces. Wrestling’s governing body, which is led by a member of the IOC’s executive board, faced sharp questions after one such group of former champions was cleared to participate in its championships.

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Don’t take anything at face value today. There’s an air of misinformation and misunderstanding, so avoid gossip. This could be easier said than done, as all the social events of the next several days put you in constant contact with known chatterboxes. Be pleasant, smile, and nod, but don’t ask any leading questions. Once you get them started, these people keep talking!

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You and your loved one might find it difficult to connect today. You’re busy with personal issues and obligations. While you have every intention of getting together for dinner, you don’t seem to be able to connect. It’s frustrating, but keep trying. When you finally do get together, the companionship will more than make up for the wait!

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Don’t take anything at face value today. There’s an air of misinformation and misunderstanding, so avoid gossip. This could be easier said than done, as all the social events of the next several days put you in constant contact with known chatterboxes. Be pleasant, smile, and nod, but don’t ask any leading questions. Once you get them started, these people keep talking!

Your energy could be low today, making this an ideal day to stay in and read or get any paperwork finished. It isn’t glamorous, but at least it doesn’t require much energy. Any writing you need to do will be clear and fluid. You have a gift, and today it’s magnified. You should make good use of this auspicious day.

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You may feel frustration and loneliness today. All you want is to spend a quiet evening with your romantic partner, but you can’t find him or her anywhere. Planes are late and rush-hour traffic is especially bad. Cell phones don’t help. Your friend may as well be on the Moon. Take heart and know that you’re missed just as much. When you do reconnect, the reunion will be electric!

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You may feel frustration and loneliness today.

All you want is to spend a quiet evening with your romantic partner, but you can’t find him or her anywhere. Planes are late and rush-hour traffic is especially bad. Cell phones don’t help.

Your friend may as well be on the Moon. Take heart and know that you’re missed just as much.

When you do reconnect, the reunion will be electric!.

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Today could be a strange day as you find it increasingly difficult to concentrate. This is unlike you. You’re usually efficient and levelheaded.

Blame it on the planets. Their configuration is the cause of the lethargy and ennui. Accept the fact that you won’t be moving at your usual pace. You can make up for lost time tomorrow.

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You have a generous spirit, but today you may be worried that you’ve been too generous. If you bought someone a large gift, you might be concerned that you’ve gone overboard. It’s too late to return it. Don’t worry about it too much. Your mate will love your thoughtfulness - and your credit card bill won’t come for another month!

You’ve always been practical when it comes to financial matters, but sometimes consumerism can cause you some stress. Of course you want to show the special person in your life how much you care, but do you need to spend a lot of money to prove it? Find a balance you can both live with. You don’t need to buy a car. A small token of thoughtfulness would be appreciated.

You’re likely to feel pulled in two directions today. You’re at a high point in your career and don’t want to lose the momentum. At the same time, you feel strongly that you’d like to spend extra time with your loved ones. If only you could be in two places at once! Have you considered telecommuting for the next few weeks?

Your family would enjoy having you around.

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The energy is unusually slow, causing you to drag and your productivity to suffer. There isn’t much you can do about it. Prioritize your tasks so you accomplish what absolutely needs to be done. Everything else will have to wait until your “get up and go” returns tomorrow. In the meantime, energize yourself as much as possible with good nutrition and a brisk walk.

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Trips will likely be mired in mechanical difficulties and delays of all types. You’ll get to your destination eventually, but you’re going to have to be patient. If you’re heading to the airport, be sure to bring a book - a long one - to make the wait more bearable. If you’re just heading across town, bring along your favorite music to keep your spirits up.

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