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Five bidders participate in tender for Aguadilla airport expansion

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Ports Authority has received five bids for the tender seeking to build and expand the passenger terminal at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla.

Ports Executive Director Joel A. Pizá Batiz pro vided the information Monday.

The tender calls for installing jet bridges to protect passengers from inclement weather.

Pizá Batiz described receiving the five propos als as good participation in the tender and expressed satisfaction with the project’s progress.

The project intends to maximize the potential of the Aguadilla airport. Pizá Batiz noted that in 2021, Ports invested $300,000 for architect Manuel Goico chea to create the design.

“The receipt of these five proposals leads us to new phases of this project, which is a priority for this administration,” the Ports chief said. “Now we enter other processes consisting of the analysis of the proposals, the selection of a preferred bidder, the ad judication of the process and the subsequent signing of the contract. Our goal is to achieve this by the first quarter of 2023. At this time, we continue to progress in reaching our goal of maximizing the potential of Aguadilla airport.”

Pizá Batiz said the project would add about 40,400 square feet to the terminal to bring it to a to

tal of 152,000 square feet from the current 111,600 square feet.

“This is a project with multiple benefits, among which an unprecedented action at that airport stands out, to provide boarding bridges,” he said. “As a result, circulation and passenger flow and the general experi ence of the traveler passing through this airport will improve. In addition, more space and comfort will be provided for the operations of federal agencies and the airport community in general.”

The proposed terminal expansion includes the construction of a mezzanine with a larger boarding room to connect bridges to the terminal building. It will also develop areas to accommodate more food, convenience concessions, and new baggage claim belt systems (conveyors) for multiple flights.

There will be a canopy to provide shelter in the exterior areas of the terminal, improvements in areas for dropping off and picking up passengers, and new bathrooms, signage and furniture to improve passenger comfort.

Financing for the project includes $12 million from a restricted account and $14 million from the Federal Aviation Administration as part of the pack age approved by Congress last year under the new infrastructure law.

Pizá Batiz also noted that Ports continues to seek additional funds for the project, but said that effort would not affect its start date.

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By THE STAR STAFF

SanJuan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo on Monday an nounced the establishment of an agreement with the Department of Education (DE) that certifies San Juan as the first municipality on the island as an administrator of alliance schools.

The certification will allow San Juan to expand the educational services of its education system and its three specialized schools, the School of San Juan, the Sports School and the Specialized School of Mathematics, Sciences and Technology, under the Public School Alliances model, per the provisions of the Puerto Rico Education Reform Act of March 29, 2018, as amended.

The agreement between the city council and the DE is effective until June 30, 2027.

“With this certification, more students in San Juan can benefit from our educational model; in the Sports School and in the specialized School of Mathematics, Science and Technology we have expanded the academic offerings by adding the sixth grade,” Romero Lugo said. “We also managed to raise economic resources that allow us to fairly compen sate the teaching staff and educational support personnel.”

As established by law, the purpose of the Public School Alliances is to allow parents, guardians, caregivers and com munities -- as well as other nonprofit entities -- to become involved in the education of their children, addressing their special needs to strengthen and enrich the education of students in Puerto Rico.

The mayor highlighted the importance of the step for the specialized education of students in San Juan and the personnel at the aforementioned institutions.

“With this alliance, the Department of Education is taking a critically important step in the work plan we have outlined to continue improving the quality of education in our schools and the expansion of services for our students, while allowing us to access new funds for the benefit of our entire school community, including increasing and making more competitive the salaries of teachers, support and administrative personnel who are essential to fulfill the mission of educating and training human beings,” Romero Lugo said.

Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés said “we have achieved an important alliance with the Municipality of San Juan, after having complied with the requirements to obtain the charter that empowers them to manage a public

alliance school.

“I emphasize the commitment and interest of Mayor Miguel Romero to improve the education of San Juan chil dren through this model, which is under the Puerto Rico Education Reform Law,” the Education chief said. “We are confident that it will benefit the entire school community that attends the Specialized School in Mathematics, Science and Technology.”

A raise for teachers and support personnel

In addition to delegating operational decisions to the capital city administration, the Municipality of San Juan will have access to federal and local funds, preliminarily amounting to some $3.5 million, destined to improve the education of students and the working conditions of education and support personnel.

For that reason, the San Juan mayor also announced that, as of Dec. 1, the teaching, support and administra tive staff of the Sports School, The School of San Juan and the Specialized School of Mathematics, Sciences and Technology would receive a monthly salary increase of $600 for teachers, assistant teachers, librarians and sports coaches in the system. For support staff the raise in salary will be $500 monthly

San Juan is the first municipality certified as an alliance school administrator Education chief confirms extension of school year due to hurricane disruptions

By THE STAR STAFF

EducationSecretary Eliezer Ramos Parés reiterated Monday that although the date to which the academic semester will be extended is not final and firm, he will have to extend it because of the school days that were lost as a result of Hurricane Fiona.

“I believe that in the situation we are in today, we cannot stop thinking about extending the school calendar,” Ramos Parés said at a press conference. “Undoubtedly, it is necessary; the evidence indicates it.”

He said Education officials will meet with the Puerto Rico Teachers Association to reach some understanding about the end of classes and make up for the days that were lost due to the Category 1 storm.

Ramos Parés said the agency is open to any creative idea that the teachers may offer to fulfill the required school hours.

He said the schools are divided into those that started

classes six days after the hurricane, which would make up their school days on the dates set aside for administrative and professional development activities. Three days will be added to the calendar for those schools, which will culminate on June 9, 2023.

The second group, of more than 200 schools, which went without classes for up to 15 days, have the alternative of extending the calendar beyond June 9 or completing the teaching process with special work from home or extended hours at the schools.

Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés, at lectern

Ramos Parés’ statements were made at the end of a meeting with Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia in which they discussed, among other issues, the process of repair and/or construction of new schools that have the so-called short column or that were impacted by the earthquakes of 2020.

Court orders striking RUM workers to cease blockades

By THE STAR STAFF

The Mayagüez Superior Court approved an injunction appeal by the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (RUM by its Spanish acronym) Campus and consequently ordered the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus Employees Labor Federation (FLEURUM by its Spanish initials) to cease and desist from closing or blocking in any way any of the eight entrance

and exit gates of the RUM campus.

RUM Chancellor Dr. Augustín Rullán Toro stated that “it is clear that the University has to be open and at the service of those who wish to study and work.”

“Freedom of expression must be able to coexist with the right to education,” he said in a written statement.

The court’s opinion states that “FLEURUM and each of its members, under any circum

stances, are prohibited from preventing the entry of students, professors, employees, contractors and visitors from the community in general during the performance of any activity they organize.”

The court’s ruling recognized the right to free expression without hindering access to the RUM and its educational mission.

“The members of the FLEURUM have the right to associate, raise protests and express themselves freely, and this has not been in ques

tion here; however, their demonstrations cannot prevent the free access of students, professors and employees of the university campus, much less exercise control over the [the campus] entrance and exit gates,” the court ruling said, noting that “the action of FLEURUM in this case goes beyond the boundaries of the right to free expression.”

The ruling went on to say that the blocking of the gates undermines the mission and public function of the RUM.

Emergency official warns of rains in coming days

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com

Emergency

Management and Disaster Ad ministration Bureau Commissioner Nino Correa Filomeno warned Monday that the National Weather Service (NWS) reported that a lot of rain is expected this week due to the passage of a low-pressure trough in com bination with a tropical wave through Puerto Rico, so he called on the public to be aware of the weather bulletins and flood warnings that may be issued.

Maritime conditions could also deterio rate, he added.

“We call on all people who live in flood zones or who are still in vulnerable places that suffered landslides from Hurricane Fiona to look for safe places to spend the coming days, since the forecast of the NWS is that It will rain for the rest of the week, especially between Tuesday and Thursday,” Correa Filomeno said in a written statement. “The concern is that we know that there are places prone to flooding where the land is still saturated from the downpours of

Emergency Management and Disaster Administration Bureau Commissioner Nino Correa Filomeno

recent weeks and we do not want there to be misfortunes due to this trough.”

The commissioner also asked people

not to go into rivers, lakes or the ocean during the week while the weather conditions are deteriorating.

Separately, the Highways and Transpor tation Authority (ACT by its Spanish initials) announced on Monday the reopening of bridge 121 on highway PR-3 in Naguabo, which was taken out by Hurricane Fiona.

ACT Executive Director Edwin González Montalvo said the project was carried out at a cost of $102,780.60 and financed with federal emergency funds.

“We are working tirelessly to address all incidents where road infrastructure was affected by the hurricane and we continue working on 14 other roads in towns such as Bayamón, Ciales, Las Marias, Mayaguez, Morovis, Oro civis, Salinas, Toa Alta, Utuado and Yabucoa,” González Montalvo said.

The restored bridge provides access for hundreds of drivers from different communities in the direction of Naguabo.

With funding from the Federal Highway Administration, the ACT has worked on more than 290 projects related to Hurricane Fiona, including landslides and damage to pavement and bridges, among others. Total estimated damage is around $150 million.

Guayama mayor urges registration of COVID home test results

By THE STAR STAFF

Guayama

Mayor O’brain Vázquez Molina called on citizens Monday to remember the need to be tested to identify positive cases of COVID-19 in the southern coastal town.

“COVID is still latent, and to fight it, we have to unite in a common effort,” the mayor said.

He noted that the vast majority of Guayama families have home tests; however, recent data validated by the

Department of Health show a decrease in the number of reported cases. For that reason, municipal staff are ready to receive citizens and assist them in reporting home test results.

“As of today, personnel from the Monitoring and Tracking Program are ready to work with people to register the result of the home tests in the Health Department’s bioportal,” Vázquez Molina announced. “This has multiple benefits, including knowing with certainty the number of positive cases in the town, which allows for concerted prevention efforts.”

Among the benefits of registering the results in the bioportal is receiving the necessary attention and fol low-up by central and municipal government personnel. Also, people receive an official government certification which they can use as evidence for employers and others. In addition, they can receive a doctor’s order for testing at the citizen’s laboratory of choice.

“If you tested positive in a home test, you can contact the municipal monitoring program, and they will help you validate the result and register it. If positive, they issue the official certificate issued by the government or give you a doctor’s order,” Vázquez Molina said. “The most important thing in the process is to know if you do indeed have the virus to help you fight it.”

Vázquez Molina made the call after recognizing a decrease in the number of people being tested at the

municipality’s testing center.

“Fewer and fewer people are being tested for COVID, and this is a threat to the lives of citizens,” he said.

Vázquez Molina also acknowledged that in view of the relaxation of guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), many people stopped using masks.

“Few people are now using masks, and since social and mass activities have resumed, there is a high possibility of new infections,” he said. “That is why I call on people to get tested periodically.”

Guayama Mayor O’brain Vázquez Molina

By THE STAR STAFF

The leaders of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has expelled five of its members, including Puerto Rican-born Elsie Valdés Ramos, the national vice president for women, following the discovery of misconduct.

The LULAC leaders released a statement following a two-day national board meeting in which they said members, corporate part ners and community allies had committed themselves to staying focused on the orga nization’s mission of serving the 66 million Latinos in the United States and Puerto Rico.

“We want to report that we have come out united, committed and stronger than ever with a single voice that includes elected representatives of LULAC from all corners of the country,” said Domingo García, the national president of LULAC.

The LULAC statement charged that a “rogue spoofed group is waging a disinforma tion campaign, including saying that former

LULAC National President Roger Rocha is the president of the LULAC National Insti tute (LNI).”

García said in the statement that the false claims are being led by a group of five officers from the LULAC national board who have been removed and charged, with one of the officers expelled from the organization.

The action was taken after considering a series of violations of the organization’s constitution. The decision means that the individuals who were appointed cease to be members of the national board.

Besides Valdés Ramos, the other mem bers who were expelled were Ralina Cardona, national vice president for the northeast;

Yvonne Quiñones, national vice president for the southeast; Andrés Rodríguez, national vice president of young adults; and Pablo Martínez, the national treasurer, who was dismissed and expelled.

In a separate related action, the board removed Linda Chávez, southwest national vice president, as ineligible to serve in that capacity in accordance with constitutional requirements following the expulsion. On Friday, the LULAC national board voted to terminate Sindy Benavides’ contract as CEO.

“Our eyes are on our work ahead and we are committed to working together on the urgent needs facing our people,” Gar cía said. “We will not be distracted by the false claims of a small impromptu group of people falsely claiming the LULAC shield and banner. These people were removed from office and charged for violating the LULAC constitution, which has guided our organization for 93 years. They do not represent LULAC, now or in the future.”

LULAC leaders expel 5 senior members for misconduct DNER asks for help finding owner of lemur captured in Dorado

By THE STAR STAFF

Naturaland Environmental Resources (DNER) Sec retary Anaís Rodríguez Vega said Monday that the agency has initiated an investigation to determine if anyone has a special permit from the DNER to own a lemur and if the animal captured in Dorado was lost and not reported.

On Sunday, a lemur attacked a minor in the northcoast town.

Dorado emergency management personnel captured the primate and delivered it to DNER guards.

“The importation and possession of exotic species

is illegal in Puerto Rico for reasons of public health and safety for people and their pets,” the DNER chief said in a written statement. “The introduction and possession of exotic animals generates an adverse impact on endemic flora and fauna.”

In 2015, the DNER levied a $2,000 fine on a person who illegally possessed two lemurs in violation of the Puerto Rico Wildlife Act (Law 241 of 1999). Officials seized the animals.

Rodríguez Vega urged citizens to call the DNER at (787) 724-5700 or (787) 230-5550 if they see an exotic, threatened or endangered animal. DNER personnel are trained to identify and handle such animals.

Lares mayor: LUMA has stalled opening of cemetery

By THE STAR STAFF

Lares has been without a cemetery since Hurricane Maria struck the island in September 2017.

Lares

Mayor Fabián Arroyo Rodriguez charged on Monday that LUMA Energy has stalled the opening of the town’s tran sitional cemetery for two months because the company alleges that the construction violates the easement passage and refuses to provide the required endorsement.

“They haven’t just signed the endorsement

and it’s unfortunate,” the mayor said in a radio interview. “I don’t need electricity to bury a person there. There are people suffering, rela tives suffering because they have nowhere to bury their loved ones.”

Lares has been without a cemetery since Hurricane Maria passed through the island on Sept. 20, 2017 and destroyed the cemetery of that municipality.

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia signed Ex

ecutive Order 2017-057 last year declaring a state of emergency at the destroyed municipal cemetery.

As recently as last April, the governor and the Arroyo mayor broke ground on the transitional cemetery, which will provide 480 burial plots. The investment in the design and construction of the temporary municipal cemetery, which is located near Féliz Méndez Acevedo Coliseum, is $2.3 million.

A lemur reportedly attacked a minor in Dorado on Sunday.

Domingo García, national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens

By MICHAEL H. KELLER and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

WhenRep. Troy Nehls of Texas voted last year to reject Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, many of his constituents back home in Fort Bend County were thrilled.

Like the former president, they have been unhappy with the changes unfolding around them. Crime and sprawl from Houston, the big city next door, have been spilling over into their once bucolic towns. (“Build a wall,” Nehls likes to say, and make Houston pay.) The county in recent years has become one of the nation’s most diverse, where the former white majority has fallen to just 30% of the population.

Don Demel, a 61-year-old salesman who turned out last month to pick up a signed copy of a book by Nehls about the supposedly stolen election, said his parents had raised him “colorblind.” But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.”

A shrinking white share of the population is a hallmark of the congressional districts held by the House Republicans who voted to challenge Trump’s defeat, a New York Times analysis found — a pattern political scientists say shows how white fear of losing status shaped the movement to keep him in power.

The portion of white residents dropped about 35% more over the past three decades in those districts than in territory represented by other Republicans, the analysis found, and constituents also lagged behind in income and education. Rates of so-called deaths of despair, such as suicide, drug overdose and alcohol-related liver failure, were notably higher as well.

Although overshadowed by the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the House vote that day was the most con sequential of Trump’s ploys to overturn the election. It cast doubt on the central ritual of American democracy, galvanized the party’s grassroots around the myth of a stolen victory and set a precedent that legal experts — and some Republican lawmakers — warn could perpetually embroil Congress in choosing a president.

To understand the social forces converging in that his toric vote — objecting to the Electoral College count — the Times examined the constituencies of the lawmakers who joined the effort, analyzing census and other data from con gressional districts and interviewing scores of residents and local officials. The Times previously revealed the back-room maneuvers inside the House, including convincing lawmakers that they could reject the results without explicitly endorsing Trump’s outlandish fraud claims.

Many of the 139 objectors, including Nehls, said they were driven in part by the demands of their voters. “You sent me to Congress to fight for President Trump and election in tegrity,” Nehls wrote in a tweet on Jan. 5, 2021, “and that’s exactly what I am doing.” At a Republican caucus meeting a few days later, Rep. Bill Johnson, from an Ohio district stret ching into Appalachia, told colleagues that his constituents would “go ballistic” with “raging fire” if he broke with Trump,

according to a recording.

Certain districts primarily reflect either the racial or socioeconomic characteristics. But the typical objector dis trict shows both — a fact demographers said was striking.

Because they are more vulnerable, disadvantaged or less educated white voters can feel especially endangered by the trend toward a minority majority, said Ashley Jardina, a political scientist at George Mason University who studies the attitudes of those voters.

“A lot of white Americans who are really threatened are willing to reject democratic norms,” she said, “because they see it as a way to protect their status.”

That may help explain why the dispute over Trump’s defeat has emerged at this moment in history, with economic inequality reaching new heights and the white population of the United States expected within about two decades to lose its majority.

Many of the objectors’ districts started with a signi ficantly larger Black minority, or had a rapid increase in the Hispanic population, making the decline in the white population more pronounced.

Of the 12 Republican-held districts that swung to mi nority white — almost all in California and Texas — 10 were represented by objectors. The most significant drops occurred in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs and California desert towns, where the white percentage fell by more than one-third.

Lawmakers who objected were also overrepresented among the 70 Republican-held districts with the lowest per centages of college graduates. In one case — the southeast Kentucky district of Hal Rogers, currently the longest-serving House member — about 14% of residents had four-year de grees, less than half the average in the districts of Republicans who accepted the election results.

While Nehls’ district exemplifies demographic change, Rep. H. Morgan Griffith’s in southwest Virginia is among the poorest in the country. Once dominated by coal, manufac turing and tobacco, the area’s economic base eroded with competition from new energy sources and foreign importers.

Doctors prescribed opioids to injured laborers and an epi demic of addiction soon followed.

Residents, roughly 90% of them white, gripe that the educated elites of the Northern Virginia suburbs think that “the state stops at Roanoke.” They take umbrage at what they consider condescension from outsiders who view their communities as poverty-stricken, and they bemoan “Ph.D pollution” from the big local university, Virginia Tech. After a long history of broken government promises, many said in interviews they had lost faith in the political process and public institutions — in almost everyone but Trump, who they said championed their cause.

In a bustling clinic called the Health Wagon in Griffith’s district, Paula Hill-Collins sees low-income and uninsured patients with maladies from tooth decay to heart conditions and diabetes.

Since the last election, they have often raised another complaint: the false claim that Democrats stole Trump’s victory.

“‘Did you see that box of votes that was thrown away? Did you see they found extra ones?’ This is what we hear from our patients,” said Hill-Collins, a nurse practitioner who grew up in the town of Coeburn, population 1,600.

Residents of the area — former coal towns at the southern end of Appalachia — have felt cheated for generations, she said. “They believe it because look what’s happened to us,” she said, recalling the exploitation of her community first by mining interests and more recently by drugmakers. “That’s fed a culture of suspicion.”

Conditions like diabetes and heart disease overlap so often that health workers feel lucky when their patients can walk in the door, said Teresa Owens Tyson, a nurse practi tioner at the Health Wagon. “Sometimes they collapse in the parking lot,” she said.

Although not all are so hard-pressed, the districts of the House objectors share similar disadvantages. Households there had nearly 10% less annual income in 2020 than those in other Republican areas. Not only were college degrees less common, so were high school diplomas.

The GOP’s hold on those districts reflects its shift away from its former country club image to become the party of those left behind. The residents of Democratic districts, on average, are better educated and earn significantly more.

Some residents said that their reasons for questioning the results should be obvious to anyone: the relatively small size of Biden’s rallies, the overnight disappearance of Trump’s early lead as more votes were tallied, the allegations about stuffed ballot drop boxes.

“It’s not a political thing. It’s a we-love-our-country thing,’” said Alecia Vaught, 46, a homemaker and Republi can organizer in Christiansburg. “You’re either for America or you’re not.”

Griffith, 64, a lawyer and state legislator before joining Congress, built his career fighting for the lost cause of coal. In the Tea Party wave of 2010, he defeated a 14-term Democratic incumbent by slamming him for supporting carbon caps.

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Their America is vanishing. Like Trump, they insist they were cheated.

Jo Anne Price, right, who hosts weekly screenings of a film claiming the 2020 election was stolen, listens to Rep. H. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), in Riner, Va., Oct. 6, 2022.

When Trump lost in 2020, his claims of a stolen elec tion quickly took hold in the district. “I’d be pumping gas and people who didn’t even know me would want to know if I thought the election was stolen,” said Frank Kilgore, 70, a lawyer-lobbyist and local historian who is an independent.

“Morgan heard it more and more from his base,” Kilgore added. Local Republican leaders “said they thought it was stolen, too,” raising the specter of a primary challenge if Griffith voted to accept the results. Constituents circulated a petition demanding that he fight Trump’s loss.

Yet Griffith was not among the vocal chorus of House Republicans echoing Trump. On Jan. 6, 2021, he voted to object citing only changes to election procedures during the pandemic.

The congressman, who declined to comment for this article, wrote to constituents after Biden was inaugurated: “It is time to move forward.”

Texas is one of six states where the white population is now outnumbered by Black, Hispanic and Asian residents. Nehls’ district, which includes most of Fort Bend County, is part of the reason: It swung from nearly 70% to less than 40% white over the past three decades.

But changing demographics in many places may not yet be reflected at the polls, because of a larger white share of the voting-age population and higher turnout levels. Exit polls show that white Texans still made up 60% of the state’s voters in 2020.

The greater Houston area is the center of the state’s trans

formation and also a hub of the “stop the steal” movement. True the Vote, the organization behind some of the loudest accusations of voter fraud, was founded 12 years ago by a Fort Bend resident who claimed that a nonprofit was falsely registering voters in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods in Houston. A cluster of congressmen who actively promoted Trump’s election denial come from the area. Next month, another Republican who calls the election stolen is expected to replace an incumbent who accepted the Biden victory and did not seek reelection.

Many Fort Bend-area Republicans say their doubts about the 2020 results have nothing to do with race.

“I think it has more to do with polarization than it does

with racial or demographic issues,” said Jacey Jetton, 39, a Texas state legislator and former GOP county chairman. “We are so divided now,” he added, that no one can accept that their opponents “believe what they believe.”

Some Fort Bend Democrats said they saw an obvious connection between the declining white share of the popu lation and the refusal by Nehls and his supporters to accept Trump’s defeat.

“It is a power grab by white Republicans,” said K.P. George, a Democrat born in India who was elected in 2018 as the county’s top executive, the first nonwhite person to hold the office.

Nehls, a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, served as the county sheriff for eight years before running for Congress in 2020. His seat appears safe this year because the Republican-controlled state Legislature redrew the boundar ies of his district to include more predominantly white and solidly Republican terrain outside Fort Bend County. Whites now make up a majority of the eligible voters in the district.

Nehls said election fraud was the only thing that could stop “the greatest leader of my lifetime” from returning to the Oval Office in 2024.

“In a fair election, you can’t beat Donald Trump!” Nehls said, posing for photographs in front of a life-size photo of the former president.

He saw no fear of demographic change among his supporters, he said. “These people aren’t against brown or Black people. They just don’t like the way Democrats are running the country.”

Math scores fell in nearly every state, and reading dipped on national exam

By SARAH MERVOSH and ASHLEY WU

American students in most states and across almost all demographic groups have experienced troubling setbacks in both math and reading, according to an authoritative national exam released Monday, offering the most definitive indictment yet of the pandemic’s impact on millions of schoolchildren.

In math, the results were especially devastating, repre senting the steepest declines ever recorded on the exam, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation’s report card, which tests a broad sampling of fourth and eighth graders and dates to the early 1990s.

In the test’s first results since the pandemic began, math scores for eighth graders fell in nearly every state. A meager 26% of eighth graders were proficient, down from 34% in 2019.

Fourth graders fared only slightly better, with declines in 41 states. Just 36% of fourth graders were proficient in math, down from 41%.

Reading scores also declined in more than half the states, continuing a downward trend that had begun even before the pandemic. No state showed sizable improvement in reading. And only about 1 in 3 students met proficiency standards, a designation that means students have demon strated competency and are on track for future success.

And for the country’s most vulnerable students, the pandemic has left them even further behind. The drops in their

test scores were often more pronounced, and their climbs to proficiency are now that much more daunting.

“I want to be very clear: The results in today’s nation’s report card are appalling and unacceptable,” said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. “This is a moment of truth for education. How we respond to this will determine not only our recovery, but our nation’s standing in the world.”

The exam, which is administered by federal officials and is considered more rigorous than many state tests, sampled nearly 450,000 fourth and eighth graders in more than 10,000 schools between January and March. The results are detailed for each state, as well as more than two dozen large school districts.

The findings raise significant questions about where the country goes from here. Last year, the federal government made its largest single investment in American schools — $123 billion, or about $2,400 per student — to help students catch up. School districts were required to spend at least 20% of the money on academic recovery, a threshold some experts believe is inadequate for the magnitude of the problem.

With the funding slated to expire in 2024, research suggests that it could take billions more dollars and several years for students to properly recover.

The test results could be seized as political fodder — just before the midterms — to relitigate the debate over how long schools should have stayed closed, an issue that galvanized many parents and teachers.

The bleak results underscored how closing schools

hurt students, but researchers cautioned against drawing fast conclusions about whether states where schools stayed remote for longer had significantly worse results.

Decisions about how long to keep schools closed often varied even within states, depending on the local school district and virus transmission rates. And other factors, such as poverty levels and a state’s specific education policies, may also influence results.

The math problem

Students today are still performing better than they did 30 years ago in math. For the past decade, math scores had held steady, with small fluctuations here and there.

But this year, that stability was shattered.

In eighth grade math, the average score fell in all but one state. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia experi enced double-digit drops, including higher-performing states such as Massachusetts and New Jersey, and lower-performing states such as Oklahoma and New Mexico. Utah was the only state where the eighth grade math declines were not deemed statistically significant.

Places such as Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia fell by double digits in both fourth and eighth grade math.

The scores for older students were particularly concern ing because “eighth grade is that gateway to more advanced mathematical course taking,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the Department of Education, which administers the

The Pearland Strikers cricket team, a sport that reflects the area’s shifting culture, in Katy, Texas, Sept. 4, 2022.

Among seniors, a declining interest in boosters

By PAULA SPAN

LindaBrantman, a retired membership salesperson at a health club in Chicago, was paying attention last month when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the new bivalent booster that protects against two variants of COVID-19. She went online and reserved an appointment at a Walgreens near her home.

Brantman, 65, who was already vaccinated and boosted twice, has grappled with asthma on and off for years; she keeps an inhaler handy, even for an ordinary cold. If she were sick with COVID, she said, “I would definitely have breathing problems.” Within two weeks of the CDC announcement, she had received the latest booster — and public health officials hope all Americans over age 5 will also roll up their sleeves again.

But many older Americans have responded more like Alan Turner, 65, who lives in New Castle, Delaware, and recently retired from an industrial design firm. He received the initial two doses of the vaccine but stopped updating his immunity after the first recommended booster. “I’ve become such a hermit,” he said. “I have virtually no contact with people, so I haven’t gotten around to it. I don’t see any particular need. I’m biding my time.”

Although Americans over 65 remain the demographic most likely to have received the original series of vaccinations, at 92%, their interest in keeping their vaccinations up to date is steadily declining, data from the CDC shows. To date, about 71% have received the first recommended booster, but only about 44% have received the second.

Younger people have also been less likely to receive boosters than the original vaccinations, and only about onethird of people of all ages have received any booster, The New York Times vaccine tracker indicates. But seniors, who constitute 16% of the population, are more vulnerable to the virus’s effects, accounting for three-quarters of the nation’s 1.1 million deaths.

“From the beginning, older people have felt the virus was more of a threat to their safety and health and have been among the earliest adopters of the vaccine and the first round of boosters,” said Mollyann Brodie, the executive director of public opinion at Kaiser Family Foundation, which has been

tracking vaccination rates and attitudes.

Now Kaiser’s most recent vaccine monitor survey, published last month, has found that only 8% of seniors said they had received the updated bivalent booster, and 37% said they intended to “as soon as possible.” As a group, older adults were better informed than younger respondents, but almost 40% said they had heard little or nothing about the updated bivalent vaccine, and many were unsure whether the CDC had recommended it for them.

(Currently the CDC recommends that individuals over age 5 receive the bivalent vaccine, which is effective against the original strain of COVID-19 and the omicron variant, if two months have passed since their most recent vaccination or booster.)

“The messaging on boosters has been very muddled,” said Anne N. Sosin, a public health researcher at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. Partly as a result, she added, “older people are entering the winter with less protection than at earlier points in the pandemic.”

Sosin and other experts noted that older Americans have several reasons to be on guard. Their immunity from previous vaccinations and boosters may have waned; mitigation policies like mandatory masking and vaccination have largely disappeared; and public testing and vaccination sites have shut down.

Early on, Sosin said, many older adults changed their behavior by staying at home or masking and testing when they went out. Now they face greater exposure because “they’ve resumed their pre-pandemic activities.”

“Many are no longer concerned about COVID,” she said.

Public opinion polls bear that out. Older adults may also reason that improved treatments for COVID infections make the virus less dangerous.

Yet deaths in this age group doubled from April to July, exceeding 11,000 in both July and August, largely because of the increased transmissibility of the omicron variant. Deaths began dipping again last month.

For older people, the danger of COVID is “reduced, but it’s not gone,” said William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “You can’t forget it. You can’t put it in the rearview mirror.”

Math scores fell in nearly every state...

exam. She said students may be missing foundational skills in algebra and geometry, which would be needed in high school and for future careers in math and science.

For example, compared with 2019, fewer eighth graders could measure the length of a diagonal of a rectangle, or convert miles to yards.

Reading was less affected, perhaps, in part, because students received more help from parents during the pandemic.

Sharp drop, wider gap

The pandemic laid bare the deep and troubling inequalities that dominate many aspects of American life — especially in education.

In fourth grade, for both math and reading, students in the bottom 25th percentile lost more ground compared with

students at the top of their class, leaving the low-performing students further behind.

And Black and Hispanic students, who started out behind white and Asian peers, experienced sharper declines than those groups in fourth-grade math.

Black and Hispanic students are more likely to attend schools segregated in poverty, and those schools stayed remote for longer than wealthier schools did during the pandemic, deepening divides.

The impact was especially stark for struggling students. In a survey included in the test, only half of fourth graders who were low-performing in math said they had access to a computer at all times during the 2020-21 school year, compared with 80% of high-performing students.

Saul Pashkoff rolled up his sleeve before receiving his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a senior-care facility on Staten Island, on Jan. 11, 2021.

Studies have shown that vaccination and boosters protect against serious illness, hospitalization and death, although that immunity ebbs over time. “The data are rock-solid,” Schaffner said.

The Department of Health and Human Services estimated this month that among seniors and other Medicare beneficiaries, vaccination and boosters resulted in 650,000 fewer hospitalizations for COVID and had saved 300,000 lives in 2021.

But even in nursing homes, where the early months of the pandemic had a devastating toll, the booster uptake “has been very stagnant,” said Priya Chidambaram, a senior policy analyst at Kaiser Family Foundation and co-author of a survey published this month.

As of September, an average of 74% of nursing home residents had received one or more boosters, but that figure ranged from 59% in Arizona to 92% in Vermont. Rates were far lower among nursing home staff; nationally, only about half had received a booster, and in Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi, only one-third had.

A number of public health experts are now urging a full-scale crusade — including mass-media campaigns; social media and digital communication; pop-up and drive-thru sites; mobile vans; and home visits — to raise the vaccination rate among seniors, and everyone else, before a possible winter surge of the virus.

“We have never seen an all-hands-on-deck approach to booster delivery,” Sosin said. “We should be flooding people with information, to the point where it gets irritating.”

Now what?

Test scores are not the only factors that matter for a child’s future, but research has documented the importance of academic preparedness, starting early.

Much of the nation’s hope for recovery rests on the billions of dollars in pandemic aid. But districts were given wide latitude for spending the money.

Kevin Huffman, a former education commissioner in Tennessee who is now CEO of Accelerate, a nonprofit focused on tutoring, urged leaders to set aside finger pointing about what went wrong during the pandemic, and instead make a “moral commitment” to helping students recover.

“We cannot, as a country, declare that 2019 was the pinnacle of American education,” he said.

US executives are flocking to Saudi Davos in the desert

By KATE KELLY

TheBiden administration’s message to corporate America was clear: Con sider the reputation of the countries you do business with.

The remark came from the Whi te House press secretary at a briefing last week, just as some top American executi ves were preparing to attend a major Saudi business conference, along with thousands of other investors, businesspeople and po liticians.

The three-day gathering — the Future Investment Initiative, nicknamed Davos in the Desert — is set to open today. But U.S. government officials will be notably absent, weeks after an intense and public trading of accusations between the U.S. and Sau di governments over an Oct. 5 production cut by the oil cartel OPEC+, co-led by Saudi Arabia and Russia.

The cut — which benefits Russia fi nancially — incensed U.S. officials whose constituents have been struggling with ri sing energy costs from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. U.S. officials accused the Saudis of siding with Moscow in the war, and Presi dent Joe Biden warned the kingdom there would be “consequences.”

But those consequences have yet to be detailed, and the tensions do not ap pear to be deterring U.S. business leaders — some with substantial interests in Saudi Arabia — from attending the conference.

The CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Gold man Sachs and Wells Fargo all plan to be there, as do influential investors like the Blackstone Group chief Stephen A. Schwarzman and the Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio. Jared Kushner and Steven Mnu chin, former Trump administration officials who received significant commitments from the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund to finance their investment firms, are also expected to go.

So are senior government officials from Singapore, Russia and Nigeria.

But the Treasury, Commerce and State Departments all said their top officials were not planning to attend; the White House declined to say whether they were sending anyone.

“This decision to cut production has

been such a slap in the face of the U.S., and such an alignment with Putin, that I think it’s going to again generate bipartisan outrage,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. and a sponsor of a bill that would temporarily ban U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, said in a recent inter view, referring to President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Saudi officials have denied that the production cut represented an alignment with either side in the Ukraine conflict, saying they were safeguarding their own economic interests, as well as those of the group. They pointed out their ties to Ukrai ne, which include a recent $400 million aid package.

Another point of tension between the Biden administration and the Saudi leader ship is the 2018 killing by Saudi agents of the Saudi-born dissident and journalist Ja mal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident at the time of his death.

But ultimately, the Biden administra tion has done little so far to dissuade com panies like JPMorgan and Blackstone, which have long-standing business relationships in Saudi Arabia, or smaller companies hoping to attract investments from deep-pocketed funders in the kingdom by attending this week’s forum.

The conference is not only the venue for a parade of business deals, but many investors recognize how important it is to the Saudis to show up in person and shake hands as the kingdom tries to transform itself into a global hub for business and tourism.

U.S. presidents have for decades maintained good relations with Saudi Ara bia despite widespread accusations of hu man rights violations, and the country’s enormous oil wealth has kept U.S. and other Western businesses engaged.

The interest in this year’s conference only underscores how Saudi Arabia’s $620 billion sovereign wealth fund and increasin gly open markets have become powerful sources of global influence. Tycoons and investors are happy to mingle with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de fac to Saudi leader, in light of the enormous opportunities he can offer. Many of them have ignored his escalating crackdown on domestic dissent or say their focus is on his efforts to open up the country’s economy and loosen social restrictions.

Those business relationships will pro bably remain intact barring drastic changes in U.S. policy like severing diplomatic ties or imposing sanctions on the Saudis, which analysts see as unlikely.

Last week, the White House press se cretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, reminded U.S. companies to take into account “reputatio nal concerns that can arise from public po licy choices made by host countries” when making decisions about where to invest.

Still, Richard Attias, the organizer of the Saudi conference, made a point of te lling reporters in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, last week that he had received so many re quests from Americans to attend the event that his team had begun turning them down for lack of space.

At the same time, Biden’s plan for me ting out the threatened consequences aga inst Saudi Arabia has remained vague in the weeks since he delivered the warning.

Since the OPEC+ decision, Khanna and other Congress members have pushed for legislative changes to punish Saudi Ara bia, including a blanket one-year ban on weapons and munitions sales and an initia tive known as “NOPEC” that would allow the Justice Department to sue the cartel over alleged anti-competitive practices.

Negotiations that began during the Trump administration over allowing the kingdom to use U.S. technology to cons truct nuclear power plants are almost cer tain to face objections from some Congress members, who must approve any such agreement.

Some lawmakers have also called for a withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia, where there are currently less than 3,000 troops.

But all of these measures carry down sides.

Saudi Arabia is the single largest im porter of U.S. weapons, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and the loss of that business could hurt U.S. manufacturers like Raytheon Te chnologies and Lockheed Martin, perhaps even spurring layoffs at a time when the economy is fragile.

Even if OPEC lost its current protected status under U.S. law, it is unclear how court judgments on foreign oil production would be enforced. And U.S. troops are in Saudi Arabia in part to safeguard American inter ests abroad, including providing a bulwark against any future Iranian aggression and to defend allies like Israel if needed.

President Joe Biden as he meets Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, second from right, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 15, 2022.

U.S., European shares rise on hopes Fed will slow rate hike pace

The dollar weathered another suspected Japanese inter vention to rise against the yen.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 346.66 points, or 1.12%, to 31,429.22, the S&P 500 gained 33.7 points, or 0.90%, to 3,786.45 and the Nasdaq Composite added 37.59 points, or 0.35%, to 10,897.31 by 12:43 p.m. EDT (1643 GMT).

The tech-heavy Nasdaq recovered after earlier taking a hit by a slide in Tesla Inc and other megacap stocks.

Tesla dropped after it cut starter prices for its Model 3 and Model Y cars by as much as 9% in China, indicating signs of softening demand in the world’s largest auto market.

U.S. business activity contracted for a fourth straight month in October, a survey showed, in the latest evidence of an economy softening in the face of high inflation and rising interest rates.

“Investors are getting more confident that inflation is go ing to come down and that the Fed might be quick to pause. The effects of the first few rate hikes will start to be felt in the next couple of months and markets are trying to get ahead of when the Fed will hit the pause button,” said Edward Moya, senior market analyst at OANDA in New York.

“The flash PMIs showed significant weakness across both the service and manufacturing parts of the economy, which is good news for investors expecting the Fed to pause early next year.”

The dollar advanced to 149.70 yen in early trade before hastily retreating to 145.28 in a matter of minutes in what traders and analysts said appeared to be in response to activity by the Bank of Japan. It was last at 148.840.

Japan likely spent a record 5.4 trillion-5.5 trillion yen ($36.16 billion-$36.83 billion) in its yen-buying intervention last Friday, according to estimates by Tokyo money market brokerage firms. Japanese authorities did not confirm whether or not there had been intervention.

Any action to support the yen runs counter to the BOJ’s commitment to controlling Japanese government borrowing costs and could increase the pressure on it to step back on yield curve control at its policy meeting this week.

Sterling, meanwhile, seesawed in volatile trade on news Boris Johnson had dropped out of the running for British prime minister.

Former finance minister Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s next prime minister after he won the race to lead the Conser vative Party, which could reduce some of the political uncer tainty hanging over the pound.

Sterling was last trading at $1.12620.

“The day-to-day is tricky. My favourite expression on all of it this morning is this is a time to be a poker player, not a chess player. It’s all about positioning and sentiment and understanding who you’re playing against,” Societe Generale strategist Kit Juckes said.

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The continent-wide STOXX 600 index rose 1.14%.

Markets are still priced for a rate rise of 75 basis points next month, but have scaled back bets on a matching move in December. The peak for rates has also edged down to around 4.87%, from above 5% early last week.

Fed officials, including San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly and St Louis chief James Bullard, indicated that the pace of tightening would be at the heart of any policy debate at November’s meeting.

“What this means for the markets is that the rates and FX markets could now become more sensitive to incoming economic data and any evidence of financial market stress,” MUFG head of research Derek Halpenny said.

Chinese blue chips slid almost 3%, while Hong Kong shares fell 6.4%, their biggest one-day drop since the finan cial crisis. The offshore yuan hit another record low against the dollar after Xi Jinping secured a precedent-breaking third leadership term, picking a top governing body stacked with loyalists. Xi is likely to stick to his zero-COVID policy that is damaging growth, analysts say.

Delayed data on gross domestic product (GDP) showed the Chinese economy grew 3.9% in the third quarter, above forecasts for 3.5%, but retail sales disappointed, with a rise of 2.5%.

Top allies warn Russia against using ‘dirty bomb’ accusations to escalate the war

By MATT STEVENS and HELENE COOPER

The top diplomats in France, Brit ain and the United States, three of Ukraine’s strongest allies, is sued a rare joint statement that reject ed Russia’s allegation that Kyiv is pre paring to use a so-called dirty bomb on its own territory, calling it a pretext Moscow has concocted for escalating the war.

In the statement, the three govern ments confirmed that their defense ministers had each spoken with the Russian defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, and rejected “Russia’s trans parently false allegations” about a dirty bomb.

“The world would see through any attempt to use this allegation as a pre text for escalation,” the statement said.

A dirty bomb uses traditional explo sives to spray radioactive material. Rus sia has not publicly offered evidence to back up the accusations, and Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has called the statements “lies.”

In a separate statement, the British defense secretary, Ben Wallace, said Shoigu had accused Ukraine’s allies, including Britain, of planning “to esca late the conflict in Ukraine.” Wallace refuted those claims, the statement said, and “cautioned that such allega tions should not be used as pretext for greater escalation.”

Eight months into the war, Russia finds itself on its back foot, struggling to hold onto territory in its ground war and turning to missile strikes that have damaged and destroyed civilian and infrastructure targets far from the front line. Russian President Vladimir Putin is also facing growing anxiety at home about his military’s handling of the war.

Under that backdrop, Putin has raised the specter of using nuclear weapons — a terrifying prospect that many Ameri cans have not worried much about since

the end of the Cold War — to hold on to his slipping territorial gains in Ukraine. President Joe Biden has warned that the war in Ukraine could devolve into a nuclear “Armageddon,” but the White House has emphasized that the United States has seen no signs that Russia is, in fact, gearing up to use nuclear weapons.

The most senior military command ers for the United States and Russia spoke by telephone Monday.

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke with his Rus sian counterpart, Gen. Valery Gera simov, chief of the Russian General Staff,

according to a readout of the call provid ed by Milley’s spokesperson, Col. Dave Butler.

“The military leaders discussed sev eral security-related issues of concern and agreed to keep the lines of com munication open,” Butler said in the emailed statement.

Butler did not elaborate further, but Russia’s defense ministry said on Tele gram that the discussions included its dirty bomb claims.

The discussion continued a flurry of high-level talks between Moscow and NATO allies after Shoigu’s conver sations in recent days with the top de fense officials in France, Britain and the United States.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with Shoigu on Sunday for the second time in three days, U.S. officials said, in a conversation meant to delin eate the red lines that could potentially provoke Russia to launch a nuclear at tack on Ukraine. That was meant to clarify for the Biden administration why Putin has been increasingly raising the prospect of a nuclear strike in Ukraine, two officials said.

With his forces losing ground, Putin has sought to portray territory in Ukraine he illegally annexed as part of “Moth er Russia.” He has said that any U.S.backed attack inside those areas would be viewed as an attack on the Russian homeland.

Austin and Shoigu also spoke Friday at the request of the Pentagon. Before that, the two last spoke in May.

A gravedigger at work Sunday in a cemetery in the Dnipro region for members of the Ukrainian armed forces killed since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.

Rishi Sunak will become the UK’s next prime minister today

By MARK LANDLER

Here’s what to know about Sunak’s victory:

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Sunak, who will become Britain’s prime minis ter today, after prevailing in a chaotic Conservative Party leadership race, said Monday that his focus would be “stability and unity.”

A former chancellor of the Exchequer who is the son of Indian immigrants, Sunak, 42, won the contest to replace the ousted Liz Truss, who resigned under pres sure Thursday after her economic agenda caused tur moil. Sunak will be Britain’s third leader in seven weeks and the first prime minister of color in its history.

“There is no doubt we face profound economic challenges,” Sunak said in a brief appearance Monday afternoon. “We now need stability and unity, and I will make it my utmost priority to bring my party and country together.”

The BBC reported that Sunak would become prime minister Tuesday morning after meeting with King Charles III.

— It puts him in the pathbreaking category of Mar garetThatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister, and Benjamin Disraeli, its only Jewish prime minister. But it also puts him in office at an acutely difficult moment.

— Britain is suffering the global scourge of inflation, as well as the self-inflicted damage of Truss, whose freemarket economic agenda, featuring sweeping tax cuts, upended markets and sent the pound into a tailspin.

— Sunak still faces steep hurdles in trying to unify a demoralized and divided Conservative Party. Boris John son’s aborted bid and Penny Mordaunt’s unsuccessful challenge will leave many members angry. Some con tinue to view Sunak as his former boss’s political assassin.

— The Conservatives lag behind the opposition Labour Party by more than 30 percentage points in polls. Calls for a general election have started and are likely to intensify as the new prime minister embarks on a belt-tightening economic program during a costof-living crisis.

After landfall, Roslyn moves inland in Mexico as a tropical storm

By AMANDA HOLPUCH

HurricaneRoslyn brought damaging winds and storm surge to west-central Mexico on Sunday and killed at least two people before being downgraded to a tropical storm, officials said. The storm, which had moved inland, was expected to dissipate by Sunday night or early Monday after bringing heavy rains and flash flooding.

There were reports of damage in the state of Nayarit, where the storm made landfall early Sunday. Nearly 100,000 people had lost power across the country, and residents of some affected communities faced road blockages from fa llen trees or mud, as authorities worked to make necessary repairs and survey any further damages.

Jorge Benito Rodríguez Martínez, secretary of security in Nayarit, confirmed the death of a 39-year-old woman, Ana Pimentel Moreno, from the Rosamorada municipality. She was killed when her house collapsed.

He added that there had been rescues of people trapped in homes.

In the municipalities of San Blas and Santiago Ixcuintla, which faced some of the greatest effects, some 90% of resi dents were displaced in shelters or staying with relatives in higher areas, he said.

The mayor of Santiago Ixcuintla, Eduardo Lugo, confir med the death of another person, identified as Gilberto Her nández Rodríguez, a resident of the island of Mexcaltitán. He was 80 years old. A wall in his home had collapsed.

Local officials reported that in the town of Sayulita, in Bahía de Banderas, a bay on the coast of Nayarit, a 35-yearold woman and an 85-year-old woman with mobility pro

blems were rescued and taken to a temporary shelter after the rising river had trapped them. In northern Nayarit, the mayor of Acaponeta, Manuel Salcedo Osuna, reported ex tensive damage to houses and utility poles and fallen trees and other debris. He pleaded with residents on his Facebook page to go to a shelter if their houses were unstable in any way.

Mexico’s federal electricity commission said that some 99,580 people were without electricity as of Sunday after noon.

Roslyn dropped to a Category 3 hurricane, from a Ca tegory 4 before it made landfall, and it was expected to weaken as it moved farther inland, according to the Natio nal Hurricane Center. As of 5 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, the storm was about 75 miles east of the city of Durango, Mexi co, moving northeast and heading inland over northern Na yarit at a speed of about 21 mph. Maximum sustained winds dropped to 45 mph, with higher gusts, the agency said.

Tropical storm conditions were felt through parts of west-central Mexico throughout Sunday. The storm is expec ted to become a tropical depression Sunday evening and dissipate overnight or early Monday.

The government of Mexico discontinued all coastal warnings.

The governor of the state of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, said on Twitter on Sunday that schools would reopen and hold classes and activities Monday. Puerto Vallarta’s airport resu med operations, he added, but beaches would remain clo sed.

In southern Durango, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Nayarit and Zacatecas, rainfall of 1 to 3 inches was expected, with a

maximum rainfall total of 10 inches.

Landslides could be caused by the rain in rugged terrain areas, forecasters warned. Water levels, which rose from the storm surge, were expected to subside Sunday afternoon, forecasters said. Swells generated by Roslyn were likely to affect the southwestern Mexico, west-central Mexico and the southern part of the Baja California peninsula through Sunday night.

These swells were likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip-current conditions.

Hurricane Roslyn flooded streets in Puerto Vallarta, in Jalisco State in Mexico, on Sunday.

The former chancellor of the Exchequer will face a range of dire economic challenges and promised to bring his “party and country together.”

In

Netherlands, balancing energy security against climate concerns

By STANLEY REED and CLIFFORD KRAUSS

Twoenormous vessels tethered to a pier in the Eemshaven harbor in the Netherlands form the centerpiece of this country’s riposte to Russia’s throttling energy supplies to Europe.

On a blustery fall day, the Gaslog Geor getown, at nearly 1,000 feet long, was pum ping liquefied natural gas brought from the U.S. Gulf Coast into a ship designed to re ceive the chilled fuel and send it into pipe lines onshore.

These cargoes of LNG, which started arriving in mid-September, are bringing massive transfusions of natural gas not only to the Netherlands but also farther on to other energy-hungry European countries, in cluding Germany and the Czech Republic.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in Fe bruary, the energy authorities in the Nether lands understood that Europe faced a dire threat — but also that their country, with its central location and extensive pipeline links, could help prevent the continent from shuddering in the cold this winter.

“We realized that the Netherlands is again very important for Europe,” said Ulco Vermeulen, a board member and executi ve at Gasunie, the state-controlled ener gy infrastructure company. “We can load supplies and bring them to destinations in Europe.”

But in a country where environmental concerns are a high priority, the growing re liance on LNG has created unease. Home to one of the world’s largest natural gas fields, the Netherlands is now dotted with clean energy initiatives, testament to the Eu ropean Union’s goal to be a net-zero emit

Windmills in the Eemshaven harbor. The Netherlands, which is highly committed to its clean energy goals, is importing U.S. li quefied natural gas because of the energy crisis in Europe.

ter of greenhouse gases by 2050. A court in The Hague last year ordered Shell, one of the country’s largest companies before it moved to London, to speed up its reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by curbing pro duction and sales of oil and gas.

Dutch environmental groups are skep tical about letting energy companies like Shell, which has contracted to purchase some of the LNG coming into Eemshaven, use new sources of natural gas, even for a few years in an emergency. They say the investment in the infrastructure around the terminals, amounting to billions of euros, may lead to a steady stream of LNG imports well after the energy crisis has passed.

“There is a certain lock-in effect that may be in play,” said Kirsten Sleven, a cam paigner for Milieudefensie, the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth, which brought the

case against Shell.

Countries around the globe are stru ggling with similar issues. There is a danger that governments will “learn the wrong les son” from the crisis, “putting near-term ener gy security first and leaving thinking about climate change for tomorrow,” said Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

Dutch energy executives believed they were facing an emergency as the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, started threate ning to cut off gas supplies to Europe over its opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.

Compressing into months what might normally have been years of negotiations, regulatory approvals and construction, Ver meulen, port officials and other executives cobbled together the pipelines, piers and other infrastructure necessary to import li quefied natural gas to guard against a cutoff from Russia.

The facility has two floating LNG termi nals — leased vessels bristling with equip ment for turning the chilled liquid delivered by oceangoing tankers back into a vapor and sending it into the European grid.

Russia has now severely cut back pipeli ne gas flows to Europe, but Vermeulen says the Netherlands will probably have enough resources to get through the winter, when natural gas consumption usually soars. He worries, though, that pipeline bottlenecks may make it difficult to supply parts of Eu rope.

The Netherlands has also put in pla ce other emergency measures, including allowing coal-fired power plants to ramp up.

European energy officials like Vermeu len insist that regressing on climate goals is not their aim. For instance, Vermeulen said that in negotiations for the floating facilities, he had demanded that the leases be limited to five years, even as some parties wanted 10. He figures that by the end of those lea ses, plenty of other gas-importing capacity will be ready in Europe and hydrogen will start becoming available in commercial quantities.

Others argue that the energy crisis cau sed by the war in Ukraine could wind up accelerating the shift to cleaner fuels, as na tural gas prices have soared. Though ben chmark European futures prices have fallen in recent days, they are still about eight ti mes the levels of two years ago, before the crunch began.

In the Netherlands, the current ener gy crisis is colored by a long and complex

history. In 1959, one of the world’s largest natural gas fields was discovered under a roughly 350-square-mile expanse of far mland and picturesque villages in the pro vince of Groningen, which includes Eem shaven. The find spurred the construction of extensive pipeline networks, and provided the Netherlands and neighboring countries with cheap energy, cleaner than coal, for decades.

Over the last decade, those benefits have been overshadowed by earthquakes caused by the gas extraction that damaged homes and made life miserable for residents. “It changed your whole life, the earthquake thing,” said Jaap Pastoor, who with his wife, Nienke, runs a dairy farm, where barns and houses suffered damage from the tremors.

After shrugging off complaints for years, the Dutch government, which reaped huge revenues from the gas, in 2019 ordered Shell and Exxon Mobil, which run the Gro ningen field through a joint venture known as NAM, to wind down gas production to a bare minimum. Reserves worth hundreds of billions of euros are to be left in the ground.

Now, despite having a reserve of gas that could make a major contribution to bolstering European energy supplies, the go vernment is wary of reopening the throttle at Groningen for fear of a backlash, especially from residents.

“We have a strong opinion that they should never reopen the gas field,” said Jeanette Ubels, who is rebuilding her ear thquake-damaged home in the village of Westeremden and is installing electric hea ting so as not to depend on gas.

Some say keeping Groningen’s gas taps largely closed during an emergency makes little sense.

“The decision is just appalling,” said Wybren van Haga, a right-leaning member of the Dutch parliament. “It is technica lly flawed, it is politically motivated, and it costs an awful lot of money.”

But few observers think the government will allow Groningen to ramp up again ex cept in an extreme situation. The govern ment sees the gas field “as a real, real lender of last resort,” Vermeulen said.

And in the area around the giant gas field, the focus is on shifting to cleaner forms of energy.

“Because of the geopolitical situation we have now with Russia, I feel that every body sees the urgency” is greater now, said Melissa van Hoorn, the regional minister for climate and energy transition.

Finally,

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

Midway through the enthralling new film “Tár,” the heroine, a brilliant and imperious classical music conductor named Lydia Tár, is talking about the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer with her elderly former mentor.

“Schopenhauer measured a man’s intelligence against his sensitivity to noise,” her mentor says.

“Didn’t he once also throw a woman down a flight of stairs?” asks Tár.

“Yes,” he responds. “It was unclear that this private and personal failing was at all relevant to his work.”

This question — how to weigh a genius’ private and personal failings against her work — is at the center of “Tár.” It’s a movie about a woman, played by Cate Blanchett, who has built herself in the image of the great, arrogant male cultural titans of the 20th century, only to be undone by the less indulgent mores of the 21st century. In other words, it’s a film about cancel culture, making it the rare piece of art that looks squarely at this social phenomenon that has roiled so many of America’s meaning-making institutions.

There’s something odd about this rarity, given how dramatically juicy struggles over sex, race and power can be. Sure, there are films like “She Said,” the Hollywood version of The New York Times investigation of Harvey

movie about cancel culture

Weinstein’s abuse, which recently debuted at the New York Film Festival and opens next month. But that movie, while a captivating procedural, is morally simple. What we’ve been lacking are narratives that draw human complexity out of our combustible political debates.

Perhaps that’s because it’s really hard to do well. Reports of absurdly overzealous sensitivity reads suggest that publishers and producers fear backlash. There have been a couple of comedies that have taken on the idea of cancellation, but they’ve stacked the deck by making the person who gets canceled either totally innocent, as in the 2021 TV series “The Chair,” or absurdly guilty, as in the satire “Not Okay.” Stand-up comedians, for whom attempted cancellation is monetizable, have been less cautious. But a dramatic work that asks you to empathize — if not sympathize — with a tragic figure who has done a lot of harm is more difficult to pull off. (Apparently there was a clunky attempt in “The Morning Show,” which I haven’t seen.)

“Tár” itself stacks the deck in one important way — by making its protagonist a woman. A swaggering, magnetic figure in bespoke suits who worships high culture and seems to delight in tweaking social justice assumptions, she’d be insufferable as a man. (She might be insufferable as anyone not played by the wildly charismatic Blanchett.)

Early on, a young conducting student tells her that “as a BIPOC pangender person,” they are not into Bach because of his misogyny. Tár, a self-described “U-Haul lesbian,” humiliates the student before making an impassioned case for artistic universalism. “You want to dance the masque, you must service the composer,” she says fiercely. “You’ve got to sublimate yourself, your ego. And yes, your identity.”

The New Yorker critic Richard Brody, who dissented from the largely rapturous reception “Tár” has received, mentioned this scene while arguing that the film is bitter and reactionary. I saw it differently. Though a misleadingly edited version of the exchange appears later in the film, it has little to do with Tár’s downfall; this is not a movie complaining that you can’t say anything anymore.

Rather — stop reading here if you’re avoiding spoilers — Tár is destroyed because of the lives and careers she has ruined. The film unfolds like a thriller, but what is pursuing the protagonist are her own sins.

These sins reveal themselves slowly and obliquely. We learn that a former protégée, Krista, with whom Tár had some sort of romantic relationship, killed herself, and see evidence, which Tár tries to hide, that Tár had blackballed her. Speaking to her current assistant — with whom there’s also a hint of sexual impropriety — Tár is coldly dismissive of Krista: “She wasn’t one of us.” Later, we see Tár trying to groom a young cellist; in the service of her attempted seduction, she denies another musician a solo that should have been hers.

Tár, then, isn’t a victim, except perhaps of the once-

common assumption that profound talent licenses rapacious appetites. It’s true that the movie seems to ask if something is lost when a culture no longer makes room for its sacred monsters. The man who replaces Tár on the conductor’s podium is a mediocrity, and the final scene is an indelible image of artistic abasement. But while the film forces the viewer to identify with Tár, it doesn’t exonerate her. Her unraveling is gutting to witness, not because it’s undeserved but because she’s human.

In my experience, most people, especially those who are middle-aged and older, have complicated and contradictory feelings about the rapid changes in values, manners and allowances that fall under the rubric of cancel culture. They’re glad to see challenges to elite impunity, and uncomfortable about what can seem like mob justice. The notion of separating the art from the artist has gone out of fashion, but a progressive version of old-fashioned morality clauses isn’t a satisfying replacement.

“Tár” demonstrates that all this flux and uncertainty is very fertile territory for art. Hopefully its success — many are predicting it will win a best picture Oscar — will encourage others to take on similarly thorny and unsettled issues. Hysteria about cancel culture can encourage artistic timidity by overstating the cost of probing taboos. In truth, there’s a hunger out there for work that takes the strangeness of this time and turns it into something that transcends polemic.

Senado aprueba salario base de $2,250 mensuales para Agentes de Rentas Internas del Departamento de Hacienda

POR EL STAR STAFF

EL CAPITOLIO – Durante los trabajos de la Sesión Ordinaria, el Senado aprobó un proyecto de ley para otorgarle un aumento salarial de $2,250 mensuales a los agentes de Rentas Internas del Depar tamento de Hacienda.

“Actualmente su salario base fluctúa en los $1,300 mensuales…Este asunto, además de hacer les justicia salarial y mejorar la calidad de vida de nuestros empleados públicos, per mite el reclutamiento y retención de perso nal competente y eficaz, necesarios para la continuidad de los servicios que se ofrecen y la fiscalización, aspectos que operan en beneficio de nuestro sistema de gobierno”, cita el Proyecto del Senado 468, el cual crearía la “Ley de Justicia Salarial para los Agentes de Rentas Internas del Departa mento de Hacienda”.

Además, la pieza legislativa, presentada por los senadores del Partido Popular de mocrático Ramón Ruíz Nieves, Rubén Soto Rivera, Juan Zaragoza Gómez y el sena dor del Partido Nuevo Progresista, William Villafañe Ramos, detalla que los agentes de Rentas Internas del Departamento de Hacienda están adscritos a la Secretaría Auxiliar del Área de Rentas Internas del Departamento de Hacienda y son los res

ponsables de velar el cumplimiento de las disposicio nes en el Código de Rentas Internas a los efectos de fiscalizar comercios, imponer multas a comerciantes, incautar propiedades e incluso hasta cerrar negocios que no se encuentren en cumplimiento con la Ley.

Igualmente, se le dio paso al Proyecto del Senado 930 de la senadora por el distrito Mayagüez- Aguadi lla, Migdalia González Arroyo, para crear la “Ley del

Internado Velda González de Modestti”, adscrito a la Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres. “Muchas veces las experiencias de trabajo surgen en las uni versidades y se presentan a través de los internados… la crisis en la que vivimos hace necesario fortalecer los mecanismos del estado de esta política de igual dad social, equidad de género…este internado tiene el propósito para el marco de acción a favor de los dere chos de las mujeres en Puerto Rico… promoverá y destacará la política pú blica de la Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres”, destacó la autora de la medida.

En iguales términos se expresó la senadora del Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana, Ana Irma Rivera Lassén. “Destacada senadora y actriz, tam bién hizo historias haciendo aporta ciones en la equidad de género a fa vor de que no existiera discrimen en términos de equidad…es la mujer que más términos estuvo en la legislatu ra…fue una figura clave en la aproba ción de la Ley 54…también en la ley que prohíbe el hostigamiento sexual en el empleo...su innegable legado de justicia y equidad le hace merecedo ra de llevar su nombre este internado en la Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres”, expresó la senadora.

Arrestan sujeto por supuestamente amenazar al alcalde de Aguadilla

POR CYBERNEWS

AGUADILLA – La Policía informó el lunes, que investigan una supuesta amenaza, repor tada en la tarde, en el Barrio Pueblo de Aguadi lla.

Según la Uniformada, el querellante, Julio Rol dan Concepción, de 50 años, residente de Aguadi

lla, alegó que una persona a quien puede identificar supuestamente utilizó un objeto contundente (cu chillo) y lo amenazó de muerte. Además, le manifes tó palabras soeces.

En el lugar se arrestó a Richard García Me dina, mayor de edad, a quien en medio de la intervención se le ocupó el arma blan ca, 10 “decks” de heroína, 2 bolsas de cocaí

na y 2 bolsas de cocaína en su modalidad de crack.

El agente Rubén Hernández y el policía mu nicipal William Cruz, supervisados por el teniente Julio Lorenzo, en unión al fiscal José Acevedo, se hicieron a cargo de la investigación y consultan con el juez de turno para la posible radicación de cargos.

Un muerto y 142 hospitalizados en informe preliminar COVID-19

POR CYBERNEWS

S AN JUAN – El informe preliminar de CO VID-19 del Departamento de Salud (DS) re portó el lunes una muerte y 142 personas hos pitalizadas.

El total de muertes atribuidas es de 5,207.

Hay 133 adultos hospitalizados y 9 meno res. El monitoreo cubre el periodo del 4 al 17 de octubre de 2022.

La tasa de positividad está a 15.77 por cien to.

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How George Clooney and Julia Roberts quietly became the Tracy-Hepburn of our time

By JASON BAILEY

They don’t share the screen until 49 minu tes into their first film together, and it’s not an amicable conversation. She’s expecting her boyfriend, but the hand on her shoulder be longs to her ex-husband, and her first words to him (“What are you doing here?”) are loaded with a mixture of shock and residual anger. The irritation quickly takes over; there’s fire in her eyes, enough to dampen the twinkle in his. “You’re not wearing your ring,” he notes.

“I sold it,” she fires back. “I don’t have a husband, or didn’t you get the papers?”

“My last day inside,” he replies.

“I told you I’d write.”

Julia Roberts and George Clooney’s first scene together, in Steven Soderbergh’s 2001 remake of “Ocean’s Eleven,” runs less than five minutes total, but they’re packed with barbs and pronouncements, insults and callbacks, relitiga tions of ancient arguments and (for him at least) flashes of longing. Tess (Roberts) is the reason Danny Ocean (Clooney) has assembled the ti tular crew to rob three high-profile Las Vegas casinos — all of which happen to be owned by Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), Tess’ current beau. (When Danny meets Terry, he fidgets with his wedding ring absent-mindedly. Or perhaps deliberately.) The payday is huge, but it’s inci dental to Danny; as he tells her during that strai ned first conversation, “I came here for you.” So Danny and Tess, and thus Clooney and Roberts, have to generate enough heat and chemistry un derneath the snippy surface to justify everything else in the movie. It’s a tall order. They pull it off without breaking a sweat.

“Our scenes are really fun,” Clooney ex plained at the time, “because they’re like an old Howard Hawks film where they’re both going at each other and nobody wins. Which is the way it should be.” Roberts concurred: “The dialogue is so sharp and exacting, it’s like a 1940s movie.”

Such callbacks to old Hollywood were no accident. For years now, Clooney has been des cribed as one of the last movie stars of the oldschool mold. As GQ’s Tom Carson put it in 2007, “He’s shrewd, he’s virile, he’s merry, and the ca mera loves him with the devotion of a headwai ter rushing over to light a billionaire’s cigar.”

Roberts, with her million-dollar smile, ginsoaked voice and flowing mane of auburn hair, carries similar connotations of the do-it-all stars of the studio system. Writer-director Richard Curtis told Vanity Fair that he based her role in “Notting Hill” on Grace Kelly and Audrey He

pburn, “neither of whom were available.” That Roberts could fill those very large shoes speaks to the potency of her throwback charm.

In their traditional movie-star qualities, the way their periodic collaborations complement their stellar solo careers, and their affectionate offscreen relationship, it’s become abundantly clear that Clooney and Roberts have quietly become the Spencer Tracy and Katharine He pburn of our time. And the distinctive mixture of stifled sexual attraction and surface exaspe ration that Hepburn and Tracy explored in the likes of “Pat and Mike” (1952) and “Woman of the Year” (1942), and that makes Clooney and Roberts’ “Ocean’s Eleven” scenes so electric, is back in full force in their new vehicle, “Ticket to Paradise.”

They again play a divorced couple, though not nearly as freshly parted as Danny and Tess. David (Clooney) and Georgia (Roberts) split af ter five years of marriage, but have maintained contact to co-parent their now adult daughter, Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), giving them plenty of time to sharpen their grievances and fine-tune their double act of passive-aggression. For example: David, expressing hesitation over his daughter’s post-grad travel plans, pleads with Lily, “For once, you could back me up.” She doesn’t skip a beat before responding, “I could, but then I’d be wrong too.”

Of course, this is a big-studio romantic comedy, so the ice between them will eventua lly crack and then melt away. The joy of “Ticket to Paradise” comes not from its predictable plot ting or razor-thin screenplay; it’s from watching them together, from observing how the sparks

still fly, and (when the former flames get drunk and let their guards down, or during the endcredit outtakes) watching them crack each other up. The pleasure they take in each other’s com pany, both in and out of character, is infectious.

That playfulness is also present in their offscreen relationship. Though not as romantic as Hepburn and Tracy’s, it has similarly cap tured and tickled the moviegoing public and press. They both praise and roast each other, in interviews and at public events, a tradition that goes back to even before the release of their first film: At a dinner honoring her in March 2001, Clooney called Roberts “a confidant — someone you could call up day or night, and

she’d have her assistant call me back.” In return, Roberts could smoothly deflate his Gable-esque persona, calling him “this great, wonderful, kind of goof of a guy. And the fact that he can make it go away when the camera’s rolling is a pretty funny trick that he does. He becomes very char ming and suave when that’s just not the way he is at all.”

They would work together again, and quickly — the year after “Ocean’s Eleven,” Ro berts would co-star in Clooney’s directorial de but, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” though they would share no scenes. And yet, by casting Roberts against her “America’s Sweetheart” type as a coldblooded femme fatale, Clooney coa ched her to one of her darkest and trickiest turns to date.

The genuine tenderness between them, undergirding even their tensest interactions, is ultimately what makes their co-starring turns so memorable. When the inevitable moment arri ves to cross the romantic Rubicon in “Ticket to Paradise,” the machinery of the screenplay and the far-fetched nature of the moment don’t mat ter — they can just look at each other and sell it. It’s not just that these two great-looking people are gazing into each other’s eyes. It’s that we, as longtime viewers, are bringing our own affectio nate memories and pop culture connotations to the interaction.

The entire film is informed by the mere idea of George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and of all they represent: the glamour, the beauty, the mischievousness and the shared, undimming delight.

George Clooney and Julia Roberts as parents long divorced in “Ticket to Paradise.”

Danny Ocean (Clooney) fiddling with his ring during a run-in with his ex (Roberts) and her new love (Andy Garcia).

An Iranian exile channels her trauma into film

By ROGER COHEN

that fear; I know that humiliation,” Zar Amir Ebrahimi, winner of the best actress award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, said in a recent inter view. “I know how men in Iran use their power to keep you quiet.”

Ebrahimi is an Iranian exile who in 2008 decided she had to flee after being subjected to a smear campaign based on her love life. Now that experience and her role in the film “Holy Spider,” which opens in theaters in the United States on Oct. 28, have intersected with disarming intensity as women in Iran burn their headscarves to protest the op pression of the Islamic Republic.

The story of Rahimi, the fictional investigative journal ist at the heart of “Holy Spider,” is one of female defiance in the face of male violence. Based on the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a serial killer who preyed on prostitutes in the Ira nian city of Mashhad, a religious center, the movie traces with unflinching, sometimes harrowing, intimacy Rahimi’s efforts to penetrate the world of men obfuscating Hanaei’s crimes.

“We need to finish this story,” Ebrahimi said, her pale eyes burning, during the 75-minute interview in Paris. “This Islamic Republic has to end. Women today know their rights. They know what life and freedom of expres sion are. It will take time and blood, but there is no other way.”

It took time and flexibility to make “Holy Spider,” which is directed by Ali Abbasi, an Iranian exile based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Filming was impossible in Iran, given the government’s hostility to the project, and months of preparation in Turkey came to nothing when Turkish au thorities, apparently under pressure from Iran, blocked the production. The young Iranian actress who was set to play Rahimi withdrew, abruptly overcome by fear of reprisal, just as filming was about to start in Jordan, according to Ebra himi.

“I got so angry with her,” said Ebrahimi, who was then the casting director for the movie. “And I think that night

The actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi in Paris, Sept. 23, 2022. Ebrahimi, who had to flee Iran after an intimate tape was leaked, has been transfixed by the protests erupting there as her film “Holy Spider” is released in the U.S.

when I got so crazy, I’m pretty sure that Ali saw something in me.”

So, in extremis, Ebrahimi, 41, who found fame in the early 2000s as a star of the Iranian TV soap opera “Narges,” took on the lead role. Given all of these obstacles, it is, Ebrahimi told me, “a miracle that we have it to screen.”

Abbasi said he wanted to challenge the image of “the Islamic Republic and its leaders as some sort of theocratic, dry people who are very conservative.” At a deeper level, he suggested, “these people are obsessed with sexuality.” Iran is a country, he said, where authorities “get some sort of pleasure out of humiliating women.”

For the director, who visited Mashhad as part of his preparations for the movie, “there is a Lynchian undercur rent of fetishized, suppressed sexuality in every aspect of the Islamic Republic.”

His words brought to mind a meeting I had in the holy Iranian city of Qum in 2009. A mullah sat on a raised dais as he explained in measured terms the rationale of the Islamic Republic. Then the subject turned to women. How could any man not lose control, he suddenly frothed, if women’s hair and the curves of their bodies were allowed to be seen in public? This was the gateway to hell, he shouted.

Ebrahimi’s life as an actor in Iran had fallen apart a few years before that meeting, when a video of lovemaking

she said she had made with her boyfriend at the time was leaked by a friend, another actor, who somehow stole it when at their apartment. It became known as the “sex tape case,” and the hounding of Ebrahimi knew no bounds.

“All these people were watching my naked body and just kept copying the video and selling it in the street,” she said. “And I had to lie every day and just say it was not me, and I can’t tell you how painful it all was — not because I was ashamed of what I did, but because of the betrayal from my colleagues and this whole society.”

The government set about finding every man with whom she had shaken hands or been photographed, she said, every man she had ever kissed on the cheek. It was clear her career in Iran was over. She was about to confront her various accusers in court, facing a prison sentence and 97 lashes on the charge of having sexual relationships out side wedlock, when she decided to flee.

Ebrahimi flew to Azerbaijan, she said, and later from there to Paris, where she has since built a life. She has not returned to Iran, where most of her family still lives, and became a French citizen in 2017.

In recent weeks, as anti-government protests have spread across Iran and more than 200 people have been killed, Ebrahimi has been transfixed. Watching a new gen eration resisting arrest and shouting, “I don’t want this hijab; what’s your problem with my hair?” has given her hope.

Ebrahimi, who received threats from the Islamic Re public soon after she won the award at Cannes, includ ing an allusion by the culture ministry to the fate of author Salman Rushdie, said the impact of living in Iran “affects men, too. If they drink or not, if they read something or not — there is this continuous pressure to deceive.”

Hanaei’s crimes were called the “spider killings” by local news media because of how he carried them out. He confessed to killing 16 women, and he was executed in 2002. In “Holy Spider,” the character is played with psy chological intricacy by Mehdi Bajestani. He is desperate to believe that he is doing God’s will, and that of the Islamic Republic, by killing prostitutes. The pressure on him grows. He snaps at his wife. He feels suspicion growing.

“I think he’s kind of a victim of the whole society, of the whole mindset,” Ebrahimi said.

At one point, his wife surprises him at home after a murder. He hurriedly wraps the corpse in a carpet. His wife finds him tense and impenetrable; she coaxes him to have sex. On top of his wife, sweating, thrusting, he sees the foot of the strangled prostitute sticking out from the carpet.

“He has something of what I call Travis Bickle syn drome,” Abbasi said, a reference to the hero of “Taxi Driv er.” “Back from a war, in an existential black hole, missing the violence. And in that scene, sexual pleasure and vio lence juxtapose each other.”

“It’s a movie about a serial killer,” Ebrahimi said, “but also about a serial-killer society. I know, because at some point, I got killed actually by each person in that society, except perhaps 10% who still had my back.”

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A ‘tripledemic’? Flu and other infections return as COVID-19 cases rise

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

For more than two years, shuttered schools and offices, social distanc ing and masks granted Americans a reprieve from flu and most other respira tory infections. This winter is likely to be different.

With few to no restrictions in place and travel and socializing back in full swing, an expected winter rise in CO VID-19 cases appears poised to collide with a resurgent influenza season, caus ing a so-called twindemic” — or even a tripledemic, with a third virus, respira tory syncytial virus, or RSV, in the mix.

Cases of flu have begun to tick up earlier than usual and are expected to soar over the coming weeks. Children infected with RSV (which has symptoms similar to those of flu and COVID-19), rhinoviruses and enteroviruses are al ready straining pediatric hospitals in sev eral states.

“We’re seeing everything come back with a vengeance,” said Dr. Alpana Waghmare, an infectious diseases expert at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and a physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Most cases of COVID-19, flu and RSV are likely to be mild, but together they may sicken millions of Americans and swamp hospitals, public health ex perts warned.

“You’ve got this waning COVID im munity, coinciding with the impact of the flu coming along here, and RSV,” said Andrew Read, an evolutionary microbi ologist at Penn State University. “We’re in uncharted territory here.”

RSV causes about 14,000 deaths among adults 65 and older and up to 300 deaths among children younger than 5 each year. No vaccine is available, but at least two candidates are in late-stage clinical trials and appear to be highly ef fective in older adults. Pfizer is also de veloping an antiviral drug.

Another COVID-19 wave?

Coronavirus cases are low but are beginning to rise in some parts of the country. Several European countries, in cluding France, Germany and Britain, are experiencing an uptick in hospital

izations and deaths, prompting experts to worry that the U.S. will follow suit, as it has with previous waves.

Some of the coronavirus variants that are picking up momentum are adept at dodging immunity and drugs such as Evusheld and Bebtelovimab, which are especially important for protecting im munocompromised people.

People with weakened immune sys tems “remain at risk even despite getting all of the recommended or even addi tional doses of vaccine,” Waghmare said.

Public health experts are particu larly concerned about a constellation of omicron variants that seem to dodge immunity from the vaccines and even from recent infection better than previ ous variants did.

The latest booster vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna were designed for the variants that dominated this past summer but not for these newer variants. Still, they raise antibody levels overall, and should help stave off severe symp toms and abridge the duration of illness, said Aubree Gordon, an public health researcher at the University of Michigan.

The BA.5 variant was the most im mune-evasive variant until recently, but it is rapidly being replaced by others,

including two that show an even greater ability to sidestep immunity.

One of them, known as BQ.1.1, is the leading candidate for causing a winter wave, and it has already sent cases soar ing in Europe. Although it and a closely related variant called BQ.1 together ac count for only about 11% of cases in the United States, their share has grown rap idly from just 3% two weeks ago.

A combination of two omicron sub variants called XBB has been fueling a wave of cases in Singapore, among the most highly vaccinated nations in the world. Its subvariant XBB.1 has just ar rived in the United States. Another vari ant, called BA.2.75.2, is also highly im mune evasive and causes more severe disease, but is so far responsible for less than 2% of cases nationwide.

Sign of a bad flu season

Before the coronavirus walloped the world, flu viruses sickened millions each winter, and killed tens of thousands of Americans. In the 2018-19 season, the flu was responsible for 13 million medi cal visits, 380,000 hospitalizations and 28,000 deaths.

Flu season in the Southern Hemi sphere, typically between May and Oc tober, is highly predictive of winters in

the Northern Hemisphere. This year, flu began weeks earlier than usual in Austra lia and New Zealand, and the numbers of cases and hospitalizations were mark edly higher.

Gordon tracks influenza rates among children in Nicaragua, which has a flu season spanning June and July, and a larger one in the late fall. More than 90% of the population was considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by last January, and many people had also gained immunity from one or more infec tions.

Still, the country saw high rates of both COVID-19 and influenza in the first half of this year. Influenza rates among children were higher than in the 2009 flu pandemic, and the children were sicker on average than in previous years. “We saw a lot of hospitalizations,” Gordon said.

In the United States, flu typically begins to pick up in October and runs through March, peaking sometime be tween December and February. But in some states, the season is already under way.

About 3% of tests nationwide were turning up positive for flu as of Oct. 8, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the rates are higher than 10% in some Southeastern states and higher than 5% in the South Central region. In Texas, the proportion of tests positive for flu jumped to 5.3% in early October from 3.7% the week be fore.

Some communities are at in creased risk of severe illness and hos pitalization for flu. During flu seasons from 2009-22, rates of hospitalization were 80% higher among Black adults, 30% higher among American Indian/ Alaska Native adults and 20% higher among Hispanic adults compared with white adults, according to a CDC report released last week.

Yet, flu vaccination rates were much lower in these groups. Vaccine cover age also declined by about 9 percentage points from the previous year in preg nant women across all racial and ethnic groups.

For more than two years, shuttered schools and offices, social distancing and masks granted Americans a reprieve from flu and most other respiratory infec tions. This winter is likely to be different.

LEGAL NOTICE

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Small Business Administration)

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

Defendants CIVIL NO. 22-cv-1244 RAM.

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

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

TO: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE

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

ESTRUCTURA: Estructura dividida en cuatro espacios, los cuales se describen a con tinuaci6n: El espacio No.1 con un area superficial de 36 pies½ de largo por 17 pies 6 pulgadas

de ancho, el espacio No. 2, con un area superficial de 23 pies 4 pulgadas de ancho por 36 pies y ½ de largo, el espacio No. 3, con un area superficial de 36 pies y ½ de largo por 23 pfes 4 pulgadas de ancho y el espacio No. 4 con un area superficial de 36 pies y 1/2 de largo por 23 pies 4 pulgadas de ancho, construida dicha estructura mitad en cementa y otra mitad en aluminio, dedicada para fines comerciales, la cual tie ne una cabida total de 90 pies cuadrados de largo por 36 pies cuadrados de ancho. Dicha es tructura consta de dos bafios, conectados a un pozo muro y “rolling doors”, con un valor de $50,000.00, segun consta de la escritura #79, otorgada en San Juan, el 7 de junio de 2006, ante el notario Manuel L. Co rrea Marquez. The aforementio ned Mortgage Deed is duly re corded in the Registry Property of Bayamon, First Section, at page 90, volume 1825 of Baya mon, property number 44,415, sixth inscription. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publi cation entered on 09/07/2022 by the Honorable Raul M. Arias Marxuach,United States District Judge (Docket No. 4), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty’ (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff Pedro Jaime Lopez Bergollo, Esq., at SBA District Office for the District of PR & USVI, 273 Ponce de Leon Ave., Suite 510, Plaza 273, San Juan, PR 00917-1930, telephone numbers (787) 7665269. T. his Summons shall be published by edict once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of ge neral circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Should you fail to appear, plead, or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Sum mons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, sum mons is issued pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1655, Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.5 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Com monwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 7th day of September, 2022. MA

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

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD

Plaintiff V.

THE ESTATE OF RAFAEL CABELLO-COLON CONSTITUTED BY A.C.C.M AND RUBI MARIE CABELLO-COLON AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE

Defendants Civil No.: 3:16-cv-03149. PAD.

Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: THE ESTATE OF RAFAEL CABELLOCOLON CONSTITUTED BY A.C.C.M AND RUBI MARIE CABELLO-COLON AS KNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE, GENERAL PUBLIC, AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $243,878.40 plus interest at a rate of 6.000% per annum since February 1, 2015 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also or dered to pay Plaintiff late char ges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly install ment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendant was also ordered to pay Plaintiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to in surance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($24,775.04) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The mortgage was modified on August 25, 2012 by deed number 619 before notary Magda V. Alsina Figue roa for a new principal sum of $247,750.49, and maturity date September 1, 2052; beginning on October 1, 2012 with an interest rate at 6.000%. The modification deed is recorded at page 72 of Carolina Volu me 1499, fifth inscription. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court

records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, 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 and a at the office of the appointed special master at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 1 del bloque GG de la Urbaniza ción Los Colobos Park, ubicado en el Barrio Canovanillas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área super ficial de 389.53 metros cuadra dos. En lindes por el NORTE, con futuro desarrollo, en dis tancia de 13.569 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle Número 102, en una distancia de 11.254 metros y un arco de 2.90 me tros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 2 del bloque GG, en una distancia de 28.00 metros y por el OESTE, con la Calle Número 101, en una distancia de 16.073 metros y 8.168 me tros y un arco de 2.90 metros. En este solar enclava una casa de concreto y bloques para vivienda. TRACTO: Se segre ga de la finca número 48901, inscrita al folio 94 del tomo 1441 de Carolina. The proper ty is identified with the number 59892 and is recorded at page number 94 of volume number 1469 of Carolina, in the Regis try of Property of Carolina, Se cond Section. WHEREAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recor ded at page number 94 of vo lume number 1469 of Carolina, third inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, Second Section, third inscription. Po tential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the proper ty. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as suffi cient the title that prior and pre ferential 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 liens. WHEREFO

RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $247,750.49. In the event said

first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $165,166.99. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on JANUARY 5, 2023 at 9:35 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $123,875.25. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cance ling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforemen tioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26 day of September 2022. JOEL RONDA FELICIANO, SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD

Plaintiff V. CARMINA AMÉRICA BARNES PAGÁN A/K/A CARMIÑA AMÉRICA BARNES PAGÁN A/ KA CARMIÑA BARNES PAGÁN AND THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES

GARRIGA A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA; JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS THE UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ

GARRIGA Defendants Civil No.: 3:16-cv-02980-ADC.

Re: MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE. TO: CARMINA AMÉRICA BARNES PAGÁN A/K/A CARMIÑA AMÉRICA BARNES PAGÁN A/ KA CARMIÑA BARNES PAGÁN AND THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA

A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS THE UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF AUGUSTO QUIÑONES GARRIGA

A/K/A AUGUSTO QUIÑONEZ GARRIGA,

GENERAL PUBLIC, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY, PUERTO RICO INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICES AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS, Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $251,530.05 plus interest at a rate of 4.500% per annum since March 1, 2012 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue un til the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the install ment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plain tiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($30,200.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The re cords of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, 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 and a at the office of the appointed special master at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: URBANA:

PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Condominio Almendro Terra ce de Santurce Norte. Apar tamento número B-2 Tiene una cabida total de 1,867.0 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 569.207 metros cuadrados dividido en dos plantas o nive les comunicados entre sí por una escalera la cual conduce también a una escalera la cual conduce también a una azotea localizada sobre el segundo piso de este apartamento, para el exclusivo de éste como área privada individual. La primera planta consta de una terraza al descubierto, sala, comedor, vestíbulo, cocina, closets, me

dio baño, estacionamiento bajo techo o marquesina doble para uso exclusivo e individualizado de este apartamento con ac ceso directo al patio interior común del condominio. La segunda planta consta de 3 cuartos dormitorios, dos baños y laundry. Pertenece también a este apartamento como área privada para uso individual de este apartamento entre el pe rímetro exterior de la edifica ción y la colindancia del solar en que enclava el edificio. La puerta principal de entrada a este apartamento comunica al patio interior común del condo minio, el cual a su vez comuni ca con la vía pública a través de la vía o camino de acceso. Colinda este apartamento por el Este, con el apartamento C-2; por el Oeste, con el apar tamento A-2; por el Norte, con la colindancia Norte del solar en que enclava el edificio; por el Sur, con el patio interior co mún y la marquesina doble del apartamento C-2. Correspon de al anteriormente descrito apartamento una participación de 16.86% en los elementos comunes del inmueble. The property is identified with the number 32,223 and is recorded at page number 171 of volume number 864 of North Santurce, in the Registry of Property of San Juan, First Section. WHE REAS, the mortgage foreclosed as part of the instant procee ding is recorded at mobile page of volume number 1,098 of North Santurce, fifth inscription in the Registry of Property of San Juan, First Section. WHE REAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: TAX LIEN: Annotated on this pro perty as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga and Carmiña Barnes Pagán, for the sum of $246,255.14, certification dated August 18, 2004, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Anno tated to mobile volume 1107 of Santurce North Seventh ins cription. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property, as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga and Carmiña Barnes Pagán, for the amount of $251,521.68, accor ding to certification dated Sep tember 23, 2008, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Anno tated to mobile volume 1107 of Santurce North. Seventh ins cription. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property as belonging to Augusto Quiñones Garriga, for the sum of $246,255.14, certi fication dated August 18, 2004, issued by Internal Revenue Service ofPuerto Rico. Annota ted on page 3, order number 10 of the Tax Lien Register San turce North, number 110, on September 1, 2004. TAX LIEN: Annotated on this property, as

belonging to Augusto Quiño nes Garriga, for the amount of $251,521.68, according to certification of Tax Lien Regis ter dated September 26, 2008, issued by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Department of Treasury. Annotated on page 16, order number 64 of the Tax Lien Register of Santurce North number 110. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. vs Car mina América Barnes Pagán a/k/a Carmiña América Barnes Pagán a/ka Carmiña Barnes Pagán and the estate of Au gusto Quiñones Garriga a/k/a Augusto Quiñonez Garriga; John Doe and Jane Doe as the unknown members of the esta te of Augusto Quiñones Garriga a/k/a Augusto Quiñonez Ga rriga before the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:16-cv-02980-ADC regarding foreclosure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstan ding balance of $251,530.05, as per complaint dated Nov ember 15, 2016. Recorded at the Karibe system for North Santurce, notation D. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is unders tood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and prefe rential 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 liens. WHEREFO RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $302,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $201,333.33. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on JA NUARY 5, 2023 at 9:30 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $151,000.00. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud

gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 26 day of Sep tember 2022. Joel Ronda Feli ciano, Special Master.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF PUERTO RICO LIME HOMES, LTD Plaintiff V. FERNANDO SIERRA ARCHILLA, SHARON LYNETTE FRANCO MUÑOZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM Defendants

Civil No.: 3:21-cv-01015. RAM.

Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY AND MORTGAGE FORECLO SURE. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: FERNANDO SIERRA ARCHILLA, SHARON LYNETTE FRANCO MUÑOZ AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEM, GENERAL PUBLIC, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO AND ALL PARTIES THAT MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY.

WHEREAS Judgment in favor of Plaintiff was entered for the principal sum of $96,384.84 plus interest at a rate of 7.500% per annum since August 1, 2012 until the debt is paid in full. Such interests continue to accrue un til the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plaintiff late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the install ment was due until the debt is paid in full. Such late charges continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants were also ordered to pay Plain tiff all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($9,250.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The re cords of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Offi ce of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said judgment, the undersig ned SPECIAL MASTER Joel

Ronda Feliciano, 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 and at the office of the SPECIAL MASTER Joel Ronda at 441 Calle E, Frailes Indus trial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698579, -66.1124836) the following property: RUSTICA: Solar radi cado en la Urbanizacion Vista mar III, Vistamar Plaza, situada en el Barrio Sabana Debajo de Carolina, marcado con el número 1212, con un área de 294.25 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la ca lle Gerona, distancia de 9.02 metros y 5.94 metros; por el Sur, con la Avenida Norte, Vis tamar Plaza, distancia de 13.00 metros; por el Este, con el so lar número 1213, distancia de 23.00 metros; por el Oeste, con el solar número 1211, distan cia de 18.72 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. The property is identified with the number 13,114 and is recorded at page number 99 of volume number 346 of Carolina, in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Section. WHEREAS the mort gage foreclosed as part of the instant proceeding is recorded at page number 27 of volume number 955 of Carolina, ninth inscription in the Registry of Property of Carolina, First Sec tion. WHEREAS the mortgage note and deed were modified by the parties on March 7, 2011 via deed number 32 for the Modification and Extension of Mortgage executed before Notary Ileana Quintero Aguiló. The parties established as the new unpaid principal balan ce the amount of $97,700.00, maintained the interest rate as 7.50% and extended the loan’s maturity date to March 1, 2041. The modification deed is recor ded at page number 27 (over leaf) of volume number 955 of Carolina, eleventh entry in the Registry of Property of Caroli na, First Section. WHEREAS the property is subject to the following junior liens: LIS PEN DENS: Civil matter pursued by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Fernando Sierra Archilla and his wife, Sharon Lynette Franco Muñoz, before Puerto Rico Superior Court at Carolina, docket number FCD2007-2150 regarding collection of monies and foreclosure, claiming pay ment of mortgage with an outs tanding balance of $90,568.59, as per complaint dated Nov ember 21, 2007. Recorded at page number 27 (overleaf) of volume 955 of Carolina, entry number A. LIS PENDENS: Civil matter pursued by DLJ Mortga ge Capital, Inc. vs. Fernando Sierra Archilla, Sharon Lynette Franco Muñoz and the conjugal partnership that exists between them, before the United States

District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, docket number 3:21-cv-01015-RAM regarding collection of monies and fore closure, claiming payment of mortgage with an outstanding balance of $96,384.84, as per complaint dated January 11, 2021. Recorded at page num ber 27 (overleaf) of volume 955 of Carolina, entry number A. Recorded at the Karibe system for Carolina, Notation B. STATE TAX LIEN in favor of the Com monwealth of Puerto Rico in the amount of $707.74, certification issued July 2, 2018, recorded at the Karibe system, entry number 2018-005358-EST. Po tential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the proper ty. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as suffi cient the title that prior and pre ferential 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 liens. WHEREFO RE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on DECEMBER 22, 2022 AT 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $92,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PU BLIC AUCTION shall be held on DECEMBER 29, 2022 AT 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $61,666.67. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on JA NUARY 5, 2023 at 9:40 AM and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $46,250.00. Upon confirma tion of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the jud gment entered by the Court in this case, which can be exa mined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 27 day of Sep tember 2022. Joel Ronda Feli ciano, Special Master.

LEGAL NOT ICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE IRENE

SOTO HERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C IRENE SOTO COMPUESTA POR DIANITZA MARTÍNEZ SOTO, JORGE LUIS MARTÍNEZ SOTO, GILBERTO MARTÍNEZ SOTO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES

MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2019CV00725.

Sala: 703. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SU BASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: SUCESIÓN DE IRENE SOTO HERNÁNDEZ, T/C/C IRENE SOTO COMPUESTA POR DIANITZA MARTÍNEZ SOTO, JORGE LUIS MARTÍNEZ SOTO, GILBERTO MARTÍNEZ SOTO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, Al guacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con inte rés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al públi co en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 7 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor pos tor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 4 de agosto de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento in coado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a cele brarse, se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA para la ven ta de la susodicha propiedad, el 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en

caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 4 de octubre de 2022, procede ré a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la par te demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parce la marcada con el número 23 de Urbanización Los Ángeles de Río Cañas, radicada en el Barrio Río Cañas del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de mil ciento noventa metros, ochenta decímetros cuadrados. En lin deros: NORTE, en veinticuatro punto cero cero uno metros li neales (24.001m), con la calle A; por el SUR, en veinticuatro metros lineales (24.00m) con la finca principal; por el ESTE, en cuarenta y nueve punto cuatro cientos noventa y tres metros lineales (49.493m), con el solar número veintidós (22); y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y nueve punto ochocientos veinticuatro metros lineales (49.824m), con la finca principal. Finca número 54,101, inscrita al folio 65 del tomo 1672 de Caguas. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. Dirección de la Propiedad: Urb. Los An geles del Rio Cañas, #23 calle Alonso, Caguas, PR 00725. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcan ce, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte deman dante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $273,810.64 por concepto ba lance de principal, con interés al 3.43% anual, los cuales con tinúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda, así como la cantidad líquida estipu lada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y car gos por demora posterior a di cha fecha, y la suma de $45,000.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para cos tas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumu lados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquie ra suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hi poteca, todas cuyas sumas es tán líquidas y exigibles. La hipo teca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida me diante la escritura número 45 otorgada el día 28 de enero de

2009, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Luis O. Davila Aleman y consta inscrita al folio 65 del tomo 1672 de Ca guas, finca número 54,101, Re gistro de la Propiedad de Ca guas, Sección I de Caguas. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscri tos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o dere chos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipo tecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se cele brarán las subastas en las fe chas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abo gado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. En tiéndase: Hipoteca revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su or den, por la suma principal de $450,000.00, con intereses al 3.43% anual, vencedero el día 4 de abril de 2092, constituida mediante la escritura número 46, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de enero de 2009, ante el notario Luis O. Dávila Alemán, e inscrita al folio 147 del tomo 1731 de Caguas, finca número 54,101, inscrip ción 4ta y ultima. Que la canti dad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $450,000.00 según se estable ce en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subasta do no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $300,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebra ción de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $225,000.00. La pro piedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en mo neda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, y que las car gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis tentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili

dad de los mismos, sin desti narse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes ante riores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procede rá a otorgar la escritura de tras paso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la par te demandante, cuya oferta po drá aplicarse a la extinción par cial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propie dad a ser ejecutada se adquiri rá libre de cargas y graváme nes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad re clamada, se procederá a la eje cución de la sentencia en con tra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cuales quiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en can tidad suficiente para dejar cu bierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la senten cia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sen tencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la su basta y vendido el bien inmue ble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actua les poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuer do con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Aso ciado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me nos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de cele brarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colec turía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía co rreo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección co nocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci miento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 12 de octubre de 2022.

ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, AL GUACIL PLACA #593, ALGUA CIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRI MERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS.

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Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV06713. Sala: 506. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBAS TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚ BLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 18 de julio de 2022, por la Secretaría del Tri bunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continua ción: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número (203). Apartamento de forma irregular localizado en la esquina Suroeste de la segun da planta del Condominio Tei de, situado en el número (158) de la Calle Costa Rica de Hato Rey, Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico. El apartamento tiene un área total aproximada de 1,278.49 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 118.819 me tros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan 45.75 pies, equi valentes a 13.948 metros, con el apartamento 202, la fosa de los elevadores y el recibidor de ese piso; por el SUR, en varias alineaciones que totali zan 45.75 pies, equivalentes a 13.948 metros, con la pared ex terior y el patio sur del edificio; por el ESTE, en varias alinea ciones que totalizan 28.01 pies, equivalentes a 8.54 metros con la fosa de los ascensores y el apartamento 204; y por el OES TE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan 31.96 pies, equivalen tes a 9.744 metros con la pared exterior y el patio Oeste del edificio. Esta unidad residencial consiste de 3 habitaciones con sus guardarropas, 2 baños, re cibidor, sala, comedor, cocinalavandería, y pasillo interior con su guardarropa. La entrada de esta unidad residencial está lo calizada hacia el Norte y da al vestíbulo o pasillo de escaleras y ascensores del piso. A este apartamento le corresponden como uso común limitado los estacionamientos enumera dos con el número 84 y 85 así como los jardines que sirven exclusivamente para esos pro pósitos. Inscrita al folio 161 del tomo 1281, finca # 35,631 de Río Piedras Norte. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. La pro piedad según pagaré ubica en;

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mandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de octubre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NATHALIE I. ACEVEDO QUI ÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXI LIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. ANTONIO FUENTES LÓPEZ; SU ESPOSA LUZ CELENIA FIGUEROA

FERRER, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2021CV03446.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA “IN REM”. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBAS TA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Ins tancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLI CO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamien to de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 31 de agosto de 2012, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propie dad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número D-4 en el plano de ---URBANA: Solar número 47 del Bloque E de la Urbanización Jardines de Ca nóvanas, radicada en el Barrio Canóvanas del término mu nicipal de Loíza, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de tres cientos cincuenta y tres punto ochocientos (353.800) metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de doce punto doscientos (12.200) metros con la calle dos A (2-A); por el SUR, en una distancia de doce punto doscientos (12.200) metros con el solar número 39 del Bloque E; por el ESTE, en una distancia de veintinueve (29.000) metros con el solar número cuarenta y ocho (48) del bloque “E” de la urbaniza ción; y por el OESTE, en una

distancia de veinte y nueve (29.000 ) metros con el solar número cuarenta y seis (46) del bloque “E” de la Urbanización. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa de concreto reforzado con techo del mismo material, con sistente principalmente de sala, comedor, cocina, tres (3) cuar tos dormitorios, dos (2) cuartos de baño, balcón y marquesina. Inscrita al folio 187 del tomo 55 de Canóvanas, finca número 3,236. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina. La propiedad ubica, según pagaré, en: 47 E 2 St. Jardines de Canóvanas, Canó vanas, PR 00729. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 31 de marzo de 2022, notificada el 12 de julio de 2022, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $67,885.03 por concepto de principal, más los intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 7.5%, anual desde el 1ro de octubre de 2019, has ta su completo pago, más las primas de seguro hipotecario, recargos por demora y cuales quiera otras cantidades pacta das en la escritura de primera hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha del pago total de las mismas, más la suma de $9,000.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipo tecariamente. 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 Tri bunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $90,000.00. Que de ser ne cesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $60,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TER CERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 11:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El pre cio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $45,000.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera

subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confir mada la venta judicial por el Ho norable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en pose sión física del inmueble de con formidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está eje cutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecuti vas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documen tos correspondientes al proce dimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas la borables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anterio res y los preferentes, si los hu biere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de octubre de 2022.

HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍ GUEZ, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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Demandante Vs. LUIS J. RIVERA REYES Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2021CV03060. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS J. RIVERA REYES - URB. VALLE ARRIBA HTS BE5 CALLE NOGAL, CAROLINA, PR 009833338.

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

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

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

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

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caro lina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 01 de septiembre de 2022. En Caroli na, Puerto Rico, el 01 de sep tiembre de 2022. LCDA. MA

RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. CARMEN I SOTO VEGA; FULANO DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: IS2022CV00089.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CON TRATO. Sala: 603. EMPLAZA MIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: FULANO DE TAL, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES QUE COMPONE JUNTO A CARMEN I SOTO VEGA - 379 AVE LULIO E SAAVEDRA BLASCO ISABELA PR 00662-7038.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente direc ción electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el reme dio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejerci cio de su sana discreción, lo en tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abo gado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. José F. Aguilar Vélez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jose. aguilar@orf-law.com y a la di rección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de septiembre de 2022. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 7 de septiembre de 2022. SA

RAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL. NATHALIE I. ACEVEDO QUIÑONES, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante V. IRIS TIRADO SOLER

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2022CV02059.

Sala: 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE SIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: IRIS TIRADO SOLER.

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: AGS LEGAL COLLECTIONS, LLC Abogados de la parte demandante Lcdo. Ricardo A. Acevedo Bianchi - RUA 20637 Lcdo. José R. González RiveraRUA 13105 P.O. Box 10242

Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792

Teléfono: (939) 545-4300

Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o jrg@ agslegalpr.com

POR LA PRESENTE se le em plaza para que presente al tri bunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplaza miento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. Usted deberá pre sentar 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 que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2022. LCDA.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARA REGIONAL. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Parte Demandante V.

JUAN MALDONADO RIVERA Y ZORAIDA RABELO MERCED Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2022CV01093.

205. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: JUAN MALDONADO RIVERA Y ZORAIDA RABELO MERCED Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

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Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com abogados de la parte deman dante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Empla zamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entien de procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2022. IVELISSE C. FON SECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRE TARIA REGIONAL AUXILIAR. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Parte Demandante Vs. GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION, TRADITIONAL BANKERS MORTGAGE CORPORATION, GOLDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC H/N/C GOLDEN MORTGAGE BANKERS, H.F. INC. T/C/C DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE DORAL BANK, DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC, JOSÉ RAMÓN PÉREZ NEGRÓN T/C/C JOSÉ

R. PÉREZ NEGRÓN, ISABEL JARQUÍN CALABRIA T/C/C ISABEL J. DE PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2022CV01397. (601). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDIC TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO.

A: TRADITIONAL BANKERS MORTGAGE CORPORATION A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: 15 MENDEZ VIGO ST, ESQ. AURORA, PONCE, PR 00731, PO BOX 7383, PONCE, PR 00732-7383, GOLDEN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC H/N/C GOLDEN MORTGAGE BANKERS A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: URB BELISA, 1534 CALLE BORI, SAN JUAN, PR 00927-6116, PO BOX 8449, SAN JUAN, PR 009100449, JOSÉ RAMÓN PÉREZ NEGRÓN T/C/C JOSÉ R. PÉREZ NEGRÓN, ISABEL JARQUÍN CALABRIA T/C/C ISABEL J. DE PÉREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: URB EL PRADO, C1 CALLE

ISRAEL ROLDAN BLAS, AGUADILLA, PR 00603-5878 Y 6652 HC, GUAYNABO, PR 00971. FULANO Y MENGANO

DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 2 de diciembre de 1994, José Ramón Pérez Negrón t/c/c José R. Pérez Negrón y su esposa Isabel Jar quín Calabria t/c/c Isabel J. de Pérez constituyeron una hipo teca en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 719, autorizada por la notario

Francisco Alonso Rivera en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo el testimonio núm. 32,636 por la suma de $52,550.00 a favor de Great Atlantic Mort gage, o a su orden, con intere ses 7 1/2% anual y vencedero el 1ro de diciembre de 2024, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número C-1 del plano del Proyecto UM-26, denominado El Prado, en Aguadilla, con una cabida superficial de 605.469 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la calle C, distancia de 24.267 metros, por el SUR, con el solar número C-2, distancia de 25.934 me tros, por el ESTE, con la calle número 4, distancia de 21.165 metros; y por el OESTE con área de parque, distancia de 23.276 metros. Contiene una casa residencial en hormigón que mide 42 pies de frente por 51 pies de fondo, con un ane xo dedicado a negocio y una segunda planta construido en madera, techada de zinc dedi cada a vivienda, teniendo la pri mera planta un área de 2.100 pies cuadrados y la segunda planta 840 pies cuadrados; y otra edificación dedicada a ne gocio, con un área superficial de 2,096 pies cuadrados, con 72 pies de fondo, construida de hormigón y techado dedicado a negocio de taller de herrería de una sola planta. Inscrita al folio 262 del tomo 247 de Agua dilla, Finca 10228. Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 264 vuelto del tomo 247 de Aguadilla, Finca 10228. Registro de la Propie dad de Aguadilla. Inscripción sexta. La parte demandada 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 electróni ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la deman da, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contesta ción a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaa lonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publi cación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oír le. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 17 de octubre de 2022, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIO

NAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PA BÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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A: ALEXIS ALERS SOTO.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de octubre de 2022. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022. SARAHÍ REYES PÉ REZ, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. ERIKA I. CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Demandante V.

CARMEN DELIA CARBONELL RODRIGUEZ T/C/C CARMEN

DELIA MARGONELL RODRIGUEZ T/C/C

CARMEN D. CARBONELL RODRIGUEZ T/C/C

CARMEN DELIA CARBONELL T/C/C

CARMEN CARBONELL POR SI Y EN LA

CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; SUCESION JOSE ANTONIO RIVERA RODRIGUEZ T/C/C JOSE A. RIVERA RODRIGUEZ T/C/C JOSE RIVERA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado(a) Civil: RG2022CV00167. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: CARMEN DELIA CABBONELL RODRIGUEZ T/C/C CARMEN DELIA MARGONELL RODRIGUEZ T/C/C CARMEN D. CARBONELL RODRIGUEZ T/C/C CARMEN DELIA CARBONELL T/C/C CARMEN CARBONELL POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL

USUFRUCTUARIA; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION JOSE ANTONIO RIVERA RODRIGUEZ T/C/C JOSE A. RIVERA RODRIGUEZ T/C/C JOSE RIVERA: URB. RIO GRANDE ESTATES, 11924 CALLE REINA CATALINA, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días conta dos a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notifica ción ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha

de 17 de octubre de 2022. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. JENIFFER CARRASQUILLO GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUN SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2019 HB1

Demandante V. SUCESION AUREA BASILISA LUGO URRUTIA T/C/C AUREA B LUGO URRUTIA T/C/C AUREA BASILISA LUGO T/C/C AUREA LUGO DE CHRISTIAN T/C/C AUREA L DE CHRISTIAN T/C/C AUREA B LUGO T/C/C AUREA LUGO COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandado(a)

Civil Núm.: AR2022CV00012.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION AUREA BASILISA LUGO URRUTIA T/C/C AUREA B LUGO URRUTIA T/C/C AUREA LUGO URRUTIA T/C/C AUREA BASILISA LUGO T/C/C AUREA LUGO DE CHRISTIAN T/C/C AUREA L DE CHRISTIAN T/C/C

AUREA B. LUGO T/C/C AUREA LUGO. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de

circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de octubre de 2022. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE

GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ANABEL PÉREZ RÍOS, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2022CV02436. (503). Sobre: COBRO DE DI NERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINA RIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDEN TE DE LOS ESTADOS UNI DOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASO CIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE MARIA DEL CARMEN ORTIZ CARABALLO.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radi cado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda Enmendada sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria en la que se alega adeuda la suma prin cipal de $127,803.82 intereses

al 4.00% anual, desde el día 1ro de enero de 2020, hasta su completo pago, más la cantidad de $15,090.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más recargos acu mulados, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: RÚSTICA: BARRIO HATO PUERCO de Canóvanas. Lote: Uno (1). Cabida: OCHOCIEN TOS CUARENTA Y TRES PUNTO OCHO CINCO DOS SEIS (843.8526) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de Eusebio Maldonado, en una distancia de treinta y seis punto seis seis tres (36.663) metros; por el SUR, con remanente de la finca principal, en una distan cia de treinta y tres punto cinco cuatro cero (33.540) metros y un arco de nueve punto tres tres tres (9.333) metros; por el ESTE, con remanente, en una distancia de dieciséis punto cuatro nueve dos (16.492) me tros y con solar dedicado a uso público y un arco de nueve pun to dos seis tres (9.263) metros; y por el OESTE, con carretera municipal, en una distancia de diez punto nueve nueve seis (10.996) metros. La escritu ra de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Canóvanas, Registro de la Pro piedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera, finca número 20,289, inscripción tercera. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su ale gación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamien to, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá pre sentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://unired.rama judicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviar copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuya dirección mas adelante se in dica. Si usted deja de presen tar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y con ceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres Bufete Collazo, Connelly & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550 San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387

E-mail: bcollazo@lawpr.com

Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que conforme el caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria v. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689, 696 (2005) y a tenor con

las disposiciones del Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021), deberá aceptar o repudiar la he rencia de la causante María Del Carmen Ortiz Caraballo, dentro del término de treinta (30) días. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por acep tada. Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte deman dante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Ca rolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de agosto de 2022. LCDA. MA

RILYN APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SE CRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE IVÁN LÓPEZ MERCED, T/C/C IVÁN LÓPEZ, COMPUESTA POR MARÍA LÓPEZ RIVERA, IVONNE LOPEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANTONIO JAMES LOPEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE SANDRA FELICIANO SUÁREZ, T/C/C SANDRA FELICIANO, T/C/C SANDRA FELICIANO S COMPUESTA POR KARLA ANDALUZ FELICIANO, JOSÉ MENDOZA FELICIANO, ANA MENDOZA FELICIANO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN

DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandado(a) Civil: GB2022CV00016. Sala: 201. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA OR DINARIA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: IVONNE LOPEZ RIVERA T/C/C ANTONIO JAMES LOPEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN IVÁN LÓPEZ MERCED, T/C/C IVÁN LÓPEZ; KARLA ANDALUZ FELICIANO, JOSÉ MENDOZA FELICIANO, ANA MENDOZA FELICIANO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN SANDRA FELICIANO SUÁREZ, T/C/C SANDRA FELICIANO, T/C/C SANDRA FELICIANO D. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de octubre de 2022. En Guay nabo, Puerto Rico, el 20 de oc tubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETA RIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, as trustee of FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1

Demandante Vs. Sucesión de Tomás Hernández Marte t/c/c Tomás Hernández compuesta por Edith Lillian Hernández, Carmen Hernández, Omayra Hernández, Madeline Hernández, Juan Carlos Hernández; Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos; Sucesión de Aixa D. Hernández Méndez compuesta por Israel Nieves Vélez, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos; Sucesión de Tomás Hernández compuesta Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres desconocidos; Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales; Estados Unidos de América Demandados

Civil Núm.: CM2018CV00318.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HI POTECA IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESIÓN DE TOMÁS HERNÁNDEZ MARTE T/C/C TOMÁS HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA POR EDITH LILLIAN HERNÁNDEZ, CARMEN HERNÁNDEZ, OMAYRA HERNÁNDEZ, MADELINE HERNÁNDEZ, JUAN CARLOS HERNÁNDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE AIXA D. HERNÁNDEZ

MÉNDEZ COMPUESTA

POR ISRAEL NIEVES VÉLEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE TOMÁS HERNÁNDEZ COMPUESTA FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS;

CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA.

Yo, LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRE RO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Pri mera Instancia, Sala de Camuy, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con in terés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la pre sente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 29 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor pos tor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 27 de abril de 2022. Los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a cele brarse, se celebrará una SE GUNDA SUBASTA para la ven ta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 6 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecu ción de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 3 de junio de 2022, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la par te demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar número nueve localizado en el Barrio Puente del término mu nicipal de Camuy, Puerto Rico, compuesta de cuatrocientos noventiocho punto siete mil quinientos veinticinco metros cuadrados (498.7525). En lin des al NORTE, Solar número diez; SUR y ESTE, finca prin cipal propiedad de Rafael Mal donado; y OESTE, faja de te rreno dedicado a Uso Público. Finca número 7,283 inscrita al folio 240 del tomo 140 de Ca muy. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Arecibo. Dirección de la Pro piedad: Lot 9 PR 119 Km 1.0 Int Puente Ward, Camuy PR 00627. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la

parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $52,471.96, por concepto de balance principal del préstamo con interés al 5.060% anual, cual acumulan a un total de $68,380.09, equiva lente al 10% de la suma princi pal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquie ra otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a eje cutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la es critura número 379 otorgada el día 29 de octubre de 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el No tario Público Alejandro J. Mues Arias y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Camuy, finca número 7,283, Registro de la Propiedad de Camuy, Sección II de Areci bo. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan ins critos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscrip ción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o de rechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del ac tor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endo so o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterio ridad 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 quedan do subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del in mueble antes descrito será la suma de $120,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se orde na la celebración de una segun da subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 par te de aquella, o sea la suma de $80,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la cele bración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pacta do para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $60,000.00.

La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá sa tisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudica ción, entiéndase efectivo, giro

postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes prefe rentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán sub sistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabili dad de los mismos, sin destinar se a su extinción el precio del 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. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandan te, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insu ficiente para satisfacer la canti dad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante em bargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes pro piedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente sa tisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte in soluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso.

Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanza dos del referido inmueble. De ser ello necesario, el Alguacil podrá diligenciar el Acta de Su basta que se expida en horas laborales, de día, los 5 días de la semana y podrá romper cual quier cerradura o candado que dé acceso al inmueble objeto de este desalojo. Y para la con currencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se pu blicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación ge neral en el Estado Libre Asocia do de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publica ciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del munici pio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte de mandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTI

MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y compare cencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Camuy, Puerto Rico, a 18 de octubre de 2022. WILFREDO

OLMO SALAZAR, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, SALA DE CAMUY.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. MARTÍN ANDRÉS ARRIETA IGARTUA, JAQUELINE MARIE ORTIZ MARTORELL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV03321. (407). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS (IN REM). EDIC TO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTA DOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace cons tar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ca rolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Uni dos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribu nal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se descri be a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 15 del Bloque “C” del Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Montebello Es tates, situado en el Barrio Las Cuevas de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 294.50 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 12.30 metros, con la Calle nú mero 4; por el SUR, en 2 dis tancias, una de 9.729 metros, con área industrial y otra de 97 centímetros, con el solar nú mero 1; por el ESTE, en 31.95 metros, con pared medianera que separa esta propiedad del solar y propiedad número 14; y por el OESTE, en 24.42 metros, con Centro Cultural. Dirección Física: C 15 CALLE 4,MONTE BELLO ESTATES C TRUJILLO

ALTO, Puerto Rico, 00976. Fin ca Número: 8,108, inscrita al fo lio 121 del tomo 169 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos corres pondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que la propie dad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes poste riores: 1. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Banco Santander Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $6,350.57, con intereses al 5.00% anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2034, constituida mediante la escritura número 8, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de febrero de 2012, ante el notario Emil J. Rodríguez Escudero, e inscrita al folio 109 vuelto del tomo 859 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 8,108, inscripción 11ra. 2. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 30 de agosto de 2019, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, en el Caso Civil número CA2019CV03321, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecu ción de Hipoteca, seguido por el Banco Popular de Puerto Rico versus Martín Andrés Arrieta Igartúa, Jacqueline Marie Ortiz Martorell y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales com puesta por ambos, por la suma de $167,894.56, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 15 de enero de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Trujillo Alto, finca número 8,108, Anotación “A”. 3. Sen tencia dictada el 31 de octubre de 2012, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Supe rior de Trujillo Alto, en el Caso Civil número FEC12-01200115, seguido por la Asociación de Residentes de Montebello Estates, demandante versus Martín Andrés Arrieta Igartúa; Jackeline Ortiz Martorell, en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, por una suma de $2,021.40, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales, presentada y ano tada el día 24 de octubre de 2013, al folio 44, Orden 129, del libro de Sentencias número 3. E. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la par te demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma princi

pal de $167,894.56, la suma de $5,590.70, por concepto de atrasos acumulados por la mo ratoria debido al paso del Hu racán María, más la suma de $27,622.76, que incluye inte reses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se cele brará el día 11 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Carolina, por el tipo mínimo de $182,750.00. De declarar se desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SU BASTA el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2023 A LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar an tes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $121,833.33. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2023

A LAS 1:15 DE LA TARDE en el mismo lugar antes mencio nado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $91,375.00. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, ex pido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 8 de octubre de 2022 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINIO PARQUE SAN RAMÓN

Demandante V. ZOILO MÉNDEZ MÉNDEZ

Demandado(a) Civil: GB2022CV00768. 402.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN CIA POR EDICTO.

A: ZOILO MÉNDEZ MÉNDEZ.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica

ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ELIBETH M. TORRES ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU NAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINIO PARQUE SAN RAMÓN Demandante V. SYLVIA LÓPEZ DÍAZ, T/C/C SILVIA LÓPEZ DÍAZ Demandado(a) Civil: GB2022CV00769. Sala: 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE RO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN TENCIA POR EDICTO. A: SYLVIA LÓPEZ DÍAZ, T/C/C SILVIA LÓPEZ DÍAZ.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica ción. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic to de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁN DEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

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ELOISA ALVAREZ CRUZ

T/C/P ELOISA ALVAREZ

T/C/P ELOIZA ALVAREZ AS-INTESTATO

JOSE ANGEL MOYA ALVAREZ T/C/P

JOSE ANGEL MOYA. DIRECCIÓN: CALLE SANTA MARÍA BUZÓN 343, BO. JOBOS

ISABELA, P.R. 00662

Peticionario EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: AG2022CV01354.

Sobra: DECLARATORIA DE HEREDEROS. EDICTO. ES TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRI CA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ES TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: PERSONAS QUE SE CREAN CON IGUAL GRADO O MEJOR DERECHO PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS.

Por la presente se notifica que se ha presentado en la Secreta ría de este Tribunal la Petición del caso de epígrafe solicitando sean declarado como únicos y universales herederos de la abintestato ELOISA ALVAREZ CRUZ T/C/P ELOISA ALVA REZ T/C/P ELOIZA ALVAREZ, a sus hijos, CARMEN MARÍA MOLLA ALVAREZ T/C/P CAR MEN MARÍA RÍOS, IRIS DELIA MOYA ALVAREZ T/C/P IRIS MOYA, JOSE ANGEL MOYA ALVAREZ T/C/P JOSE ANGEL MOYA, GLORIA ESPERANZA MOYA ALVAREZ T/C/P GLO RIA MOYA, EVA LYDIA MOYA ALVAREZ T/C/P EVA MOYA y en representación de LUZ CE LENIA MOYA ALVAREZ T/C/P LUZ C. MOYA, sus nietos, JA VIER FUENTES, ANTHONY FUENTES JUNIOR, EDGAR

FUENTES Y KENNY FUEN

TES. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la si guiente 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 y notificando copia de la misma al: LCDO. HECTO J. CARDONA MUÑIZ - 100

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STE 1 ISABELA, PR 00662TELEFONO: (787) 410-9185, CORREO ELECTRONICO: lcdo_cardona@yahoo.com. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas que se crean con igual grado o mejor derecho, de no com parecer, dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días a partir de la

publicación de este edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación dia ria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, se dictará Sentencia, con cediendo el remedio solicitado en la Petición sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 7 de octubre de 2022.

SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SE CRETARIA REGIONAL.

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Por la presente se !e notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda Cobro de Dinero y de Ejecución de Hipoteca, reclamando unas sumas adeu dadas que, al 31 de agosto de 2022, ascienden a un total de $150,670.77, la cual se desglo sa como sigue: (i) $77,580.23 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $51,881.84 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a ra zón de $16.16 diarios; más (iii) $3,896.90 por concepto de car gos por mora, los cuales incre mentan diariamente a la tasa pacta bajo el Préstamo Hipote

cario hasta su total y completo pago, (iv) la suma de $5,471.80 por concepto de otros gastos; más (y) la suma agregada de $11,840.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados. Se le em plaza y requiere para que notifi que a: Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Ferraiuoli LLC

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Usted deberá presentar ale gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.rama judiciaI.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribu nal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conce der el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 19 de octubre de 2022.

GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ CO LLADO, SECRETARIA REGIO NAL. BRENDA BÁEZ ACABA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante V. LUIS ANGEL LOPEZ OLMEDO Y LA SUCN. DE SILVIA MATOS DE LOPEZ, COMUPUESTA POR LUIS ANGEL LOPEZ OLMEDO, SYLVIA LIZZETTE LOPEZ MATOS Y SYLVIA BEATRIZ LOPEZ MATOS Demandado(a)

Civil: SJ2022CV00774. 807.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. NO TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS ANGEL LOPEZ OLMEDO Y LA SUCN. DE SILVIA MATOS DE LOPEZ, COMUPUESTA POR LUIS ANGEL LOPEZ OLMEDO, SYLVIA LIZZETTE LOPEZ MATOS Y SYLVIA BEATRIZ LOPEZ MATOS. (Nombre de las partes a las que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de octubre de 2022. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2022.

Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Virgen Y. Del Valle Díaz, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, FOR THE CSMC 2015-PR

1 TRUST MORTGAGEBACKED NOTES, SERIES 2015-PR1 Demandante V. POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS Demandado(a)

Civil: BY2022CV03806. (401).

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PA GARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus cribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de octubre de 2022, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted en terarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no tificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circula ción general en la Isla de Puer

to Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen tencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re solución, de la cual puede esta blecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de octubre de 2022. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2022.

LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCA SIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs. DENNIS

NARVAEZ SANCHEZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2020CV02741. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTA DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ES TADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUER TO RICO, SS.

A: LA PARTE

DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO( A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Man damiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido diri gido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instan cia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 5 DE DI CIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 1:30

DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se des cribe a continuación: URBANA:

PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL:

Apartment number 1508. Effi ciency apartment consisting of one main dependency where

living-dining and sleeping ac tivities are conducted, bath, kitchen, balcony and closets. lt bounds: on the NORTH, on a distance of thirty one point fif ty nine feet, equivalent to nine point sixty four meter with a common wall which separates it from apartment one thousand five hundred seven and the common element of the building and the lot on which it is erec ted; on the SOUTH, on a distan ce of thirty one point forty two feet, equivalent to nine point fifty nine meters with the com mon elements of the building and the lot on which it is erec ted; on the EAST, on a distance of twenty three point seventeen feet, equivalent to seven point zero seven meters with a wall which separates it from a com mon hallway through which ac cess to the public street may be gained; and on the WEST, on a distance of twenty three point seventeen feet, equivalent to seven point zero seven meters with a common elements of the building and the lot on which it is erected. This apartment has an area of six hundred sixty four point seventy two square feet, equivalent to sixty one point seventy five square me ters. A balcony with an area of sixty one point sixty five squa re feet, equivalent to five point seventy three square meters is included. Consta inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 411 de Carolina, finca número 15774, Regis tro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Ca rolina. Propiedad localizada en: Waldorf Towers, Unit #1508, Carolina, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación re gistral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas anteriores o posteriores a la inscripción del crédito eje cutante. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gra vámenes anteriores y los pre ferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas car gas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la res ponsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $240,000.00, 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 Carolina, el 12 DE DICIEM BRE DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha se gunda subasta la suma de $160,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido original mente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable

ce como mínima para la TER CERA SUBASTA, la suma de $120,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubi cada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2022 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE. 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 $230,534.54 de principal, intereses al tipo del 6.00000% anual según ajustado desde el día 1ro. de noviembre de 2009 hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad, más la suma de $24,000.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tri bunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipo tecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hi poteca. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propie dad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada fin ca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUN DA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier per sona o personas con algún in terés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los intere sados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) 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 es pacio de dos semanas conse cutivas 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. Expe dido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de octubre de 2022.

SAMUEL GONZÁLEZ ISAAC, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS TANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPE RIOR.

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Demandante V. MAYA CHE SALAZAR, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2022CV00579.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EM PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LI BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: MAYA CHE SALAZAR, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESA POR AMBOS.

POR MEDIO del presente edic to se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honora rios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sen tencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presen te al tribunal su alegación res ponsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de ha ber sido diligenciado este em plazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electró nica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electro nico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su ale gación responsiva en la Se cretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el. ejercicio de su sana discre ción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abo gado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PMB 450, 400 Calle Calaf, San Juan, PR 00918-1314; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo elec trónico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la de manda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: La Ciudadela, 2 Ave. Las Cum bres Apto. 509, Guaynabo, PR 00969-4812; 7408 Windstream Ct #103, Hanover MD 21076. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Guaynabo, Puerto hoy día 13 de octubre de 2022. LCDA. LAURA I. SAN TA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MAIRENI TRINTA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

‘It’s his time’: Bryce Harper is building his legacy

By TYLER KEPNER

Many years from now, on a summer day at the base of a rolling hillside in Cooperstown, New York, they will remember this moment. It will play on the screen beside a stage full of base ball royalty, where Bryce Harper will sit in the first row, ready for his speech. Maybe he will scan the crowd for old pals from the 2022 Philadelphia Phillies, the team he car ried to the World Series with a home run for the ages.

Legacies are built on hits like Sunday’s, at Citizens Bank Park, when Harper lifted the Phillies to the National League pennant with a blast worthy of notation on a Hall of Fame plaque. In the eighth inning of Game 5 of the NL championship series, Harper lashed a line drive over the left-center field fence, a go-ahead, two-run laser that pro pelled the Phillies past the San Diego Padres 4-3 before 45,485 drenched and delirious fans who never saw this coming.

The Phillies may not be the best team in the NL — they were the last to claim a spot in the expanded postseason field — but they are the champions of it for just the eighth time in their 140-year history.

“We never doubted who we are or our identity as a team,” Harper said. “A guy gets hurt, we’re going. Manager gets fired, we’re going. So on a team level, I think we’re right where we need to be.”

Harper was the MVP of the series, hit ting .400 with two home runs, and when Nick Castellanos caught the final out — a soft fly to right by Padres catcher Austin Nola off surprise closer Ranger Suárez — he knew what to do with the ball. He gave it to Harper.

“It’s his time,” Castellanos said. “I know it, I think everybody knows it. I wanted to make sure that he enjoys it and it’s some thing that he can hold onto.”

Harper can also hold on to the memory, and the satisfaction, of leading his team to the sport’s grandest stage just four years into his 13-year, $330 million contract. The deal was a testament to Harper’s extraordinary talent, of course, but also to his commitment to Philadelphia. There is no opt-out clause, no escape hatch to skip town for even more riches.

Harper was fully invested, then, in a city whose fans demand one thing above all: for

the athletes to care as much as they do. In return for your loyalty, they give their own brand of fanaticism.

“Unless you’re wearing Phillie red or you’re a Phillie, they don’t like you — and I love that,” Harper said after Game 5. “I love every emotion that they have. I did it as an opposing player for a long time, and I wanted that. I wanted that emotion from the fans. They just want you to work hard. They want you to play hard. They want you to be who you are, no excuses.”

Harper caught the ceremonial first pitch Sunday from Jayson Werth, the right fielder for the Phillies’ last championship team, in 2008. Two years later, when he left for the Washington Nationals as a free agent, Werth became the enemy. But he never forgot the feeling of winning in Philadelphia, and told Harper there was nothing like it.

On a trip to Philadelphia in 2017, Werth’s last season, he made a prediction to Harper: “You’re going to be a Philadelphia Phillie, dude.” Harper thought that sounded right, because he loved the hitting condi tions. In time, he appreciated what Werth really meant.

“I loved walking in as an opposing play er knowing that I was going to get absolutely blasted by these fans,” Harper said. “It made me want to come here and play because I knew how much they cared. I knew how much they love their players and how much passion and how much drive they all have.”

If it seemed to be an unlikely union, that was only because folks have often misread Harper. An amateur prodigy from Las Vegas and the first overall draft pick by Washing ton in 2010, Harper’s anointed status and feisty playing style irritated some people, including a prominent Phillie.

On the first pitch he ever threw to Harper, in 2012, left-hander Cole Hamels purposely drilled him in the back with a fastball. Hamels had a pedigree: he was the MVP for the Phillies in the 2008 NLCS and World Series, and wanted to introduce Harper, then just 19, to the salty, hardedge world of the majors.

Undaunted, Harper smacked a sin gle and a double off Hamels later in the game. He went on to win the NL Rookie of the Year Award, just as everyone ex pected, and would later win an MVP for Washington — another fulfillment of a destiny. He helped the Nationals to

four division titles in seven seasons, but they never escaped the first round.

On the day he signed with the Phillies, in 2019, Harper slipped and said he was eager to “bring a title back to D.C.” The Nationals did win a championship that year, but they did it without him. Meanwhile, the Phillies stalled: across Harper’s first three seasons, they lost two more games than they won.

Harper never complained and never looked back. He has a better batting aver age (.282), on-base percentage (.394) and slugging percentage (.546) with the Phillies than he did with the Nationals, and won another MVP, in 2021. Phillies hitting coach Kevin Long, who also coached Harper in Washington, said Harper had grown along the way.

“It was this year — it was putting a team in front of yourself, which is hard to do, I get it,” Long said. “But he’s such a team guy,

and he is really and truly doing it for this or ganization and his teammates. He wants it for them as much as he wants it for himself. And that’s where he’s turned the corner.”

In the eighth inning Sunday, after a leadoff single by J.T. Realmuto, Harper fouled the first pitch from Robert Suarez. After a ball, he fouled three more. Nola patted the dirt with his glove: He wanted a change-up in the dirt, baiting Harper to chase a bad pitch. Harper resisted. Ball two.

Before the at-bat, Harper had told Long: “Let’s give them something to remember.” When he saw Harper take the change-up, Long said he knew Harper would make good on that promise. The next pitch was a 99 mph sinker on the outside corner, and Harper unloaded.

“He took that swing — pandemoni um,” left fielder Kyle Schwarber said.

Bryce Harper was a phenom as a teenager, and signed a $330 million deal with Philadelphia in 2019. He is delivering on all expectations.

Yankees’ season ends with sweep by Astros

By JAMES WAGNER

At one point in early July, halfway through the six-month regular sea son, the New York Yankees were on pace to set a significant record. The two winningest teams in Major League Baseball history are the 1906 Chicago Cubs and the 2001 Seattle Mariners, both of which won 116 regular-season games. The Yankees were headed toward 119.

Then, their charmed season fell apart. Everything that went right in the first half — health, performance, wins — didn’t in the second. The Yankees recovered in September, won the American League East and finished the regular season in early October with 99 wins, but heading into the postseason, they simply weren’t the same.

And in this best-of-seven AL champi onship series between the league’s top two seeds, the gap between the perennially contending Houston Astros and the Yan kees was painfully wide and clear. With a seesawing 6-5 loss in a rain-delayed Game 4 on Sunday that capped a sweep, the Yan kees added the coda to a season that be gan with so much promise but ended the same way as so many others before it.

Despite so much spending and effort, the Yankees have not been to or won a World Series since 2009. For a franchise that prides itself in its history, its tradition and the past glory of its MLB-leading 27 championships, the Yankees’ drought ex tends into another season.

“It’s an awful day, just an awful end ing,” manager Aaron Boone said shortly after the game. “It stings.”

The Astros, on the other hand, ended their sixth consecutive trip to the ALCS with a repeat visit to the World Series. Af ter losing it last year to Atlanta, the Astros get a chance to redeem themselves starting Friday in Houston against the Philadelphia Phillies, who toppled the San Diego Padres in the NL championship series Sunday.

The Astros, winners of the World Series in the since-tainted 2017 season, have now reached the final round four times in six years. And this time they did it by sweep ing Seattle in three games and the Yankees in four games, joining the 2014 Kansas City Royals and the 2007 Colorado Rockies as the only teams to sweep a division series and a league championship series in the same season.

The Astros now have another goal: joining the 1976 Cincinnati Reds as the only teams in the division era to complete a perfect postseason.

Asked how close the Yankees were to being able to get past the Astros, Boone said they were “not close enough” before saying he wished the teams could have met with the Yankees at full strength.

“We need to do better if we want to beat those guys,” Yankees pitcher Luis Sev erino said of the Astros. “We need to play the game the right way. We need to pitch the right way. We need to do everything the right way.”

The Yankees now face a long winter of decisions, but the most important one will involve superstar right fielder Aaron Judge, who is viewed as a leading can didate to win the AL MVP award and is a free agent.

The Yankees, Judge included, were outplayed by the Astros. The Astros pitched better, hit better and defended better. The Yankees blew two leads Sunday, including one in the seventh inning that may

be replayed in Yankees fans’ nightmares all offseason.

Leading 5-4 thanks to a home run by center fielder Harrison Bader, Yankees sec ond baseman Gleyber Torres tossed the ball wide of shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa at second base, allowing José Altuve to ad vance and Jeremy Peña to reach base. So instead of an inning-ending double play, Yankees reliever Jonathan Loáisiga had to keep pitching.

The next batter, Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez, smacked a game-tying single to right field. The following hitter, Astros third baseman Alex Bregman, sent a pitch from right-handed reliever Clay Holmes into right field to give his team the winning dif ference. Torres watched from his position as Yankee Stadium went quiet.

“The thing about this team is that they don’t panic,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said after the game. “They never panic. They try to find a way.”

Torres blamed himself for the play.

“I feel like it’s my mistake,” said Tor res, adding later, “I feel terrible in the mo ment because I know we can make a dou ble play and finish the inning. I made that mistake. I feel like I need to learn to be a little more in control in that situation. It’s a tough loss.”

“Every mistake we made they take ad vantage,” Torres added.

To start Game 4, the Yankees looked better than they had all series. In the first three games against the Astros’ vaunted pitching staff, the Yankees hit .128 and scored four runs. In the first two innings Sunday, the Yankees nearly matched that total.

Bader, the Yankees’ best hitter this postseason, led off the bottom of the first inning with a single off Lance McCullers Jr. Two batters later, McCullers hit first base man Anthony Rizzo with a pitch.

Seeing that McCullers’ command was off, designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton drilled a slider over the plate into right field for a run-scoring single. It was the Yankees’ first run since the fourth inning of Game 2 on Thursday. Torres then dunked a ball into the outfield for a single that gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead.

An inning later, McCullers walked Judge with two outs and surrendered a double to Rizzo. The hit not only gave the Yankees a 3-0 lead but brought energy to a stadium that was bereft of it the day be fore, when the home team produced only three hits and no runs.

That quickly evaporated when the Yankees squandered the lead with one of their stalwarts on the mound. Left-handed starter Néstor Cortés, whose breakout sea son helped boost the Yankees and earned him lots of fans and an All-Star selection, delivered a strong outing on short rest in the winner-takes-all Game 5 of the AL di vision series against the Cleveland Guard ians.

Back on normal rest, Cortés took the mound Sunday and seemed like his usual self. But in the third inning, his command wasn’t the same and his velocity dropped. Never a hard thrower, Cortés’ fastball dropped to 88 mph and his slider down to 74 mph.

After Cortés walked Astros catcher Martín Maldonado and Altuve, Boone and a trainer visited the mound. But after talk ing with Cortés, Boone left him in and let him face Peña. The decision proved fate ful.

On the fifth pitch of the at-bat, Cor tés hung a slider and Peña, who was later named the ALCS MVP, slammed it into the left field seats for a game-tying home run. Boone and a trainer then reappeared from the dugout and took Cortés out of the game this time.

Bader, once again, tried to save the Yankees in the sixth. Facing right-handed reliever Héctor Neris, Bader drilled a solo home run — his fifth of the postseason — that gave the Yankees a 5-4 lead. But the lead, once again, was short-lived.

The Yankees blew it in the seventh in ning. And two innings later, in what could be his final at-bat with the team, Judge grounded out to end the Yankees’ season.

The Houston Astros are the third team to sweep a division series and a league championship series in the same season.

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If recent events have left you wondering why you bother, today’s upbeat lunar links can give a brighter perspective. It’s understandable if someone has let you down, but it’s time to pick yourself up and start again. There are people around who support you wholeheartedly, and it is these you should turn to. A chat could reveal opportunities and ideas that get you going Aries.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

Keep your ears to the ground Taurus, as information you need to know is circulating. Get in on those group chats. And if you get an intuitive nudge to call someone, do it right away. There may be an opportunity that is made for you, or an encounter that could propel you into a new league, and you won’t unearth it by staying at home. Networking in new circles can be golden for you.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

The Libra Moon makes some sterling angles that you should take advantage of today. Links to upbeat Mercury and Mars, can highlight your entrepreneurial and creative ability. It’s time to think out of the box, and see where your curiosity takes you. You may notch up several areas of interest, but don’t spread yourself too thin. Put your attention on something that moves you.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Cut out all distractions, so you can hear yourself think. Resolving a complicated issue could lead to a breakthrough and see you soaring ahead. You usually operate by tuning into situations, but there are times when you are too sensitive for your own good. Logic might cut through any haze or confusion, and allow you to see the potential in something that has frustrated you for a while.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

The encounters you have today could lead you on a journey of discovery, Leo. One conversation can lead to another, and bold ideas emerge as a result. Out of this, there may be new developments that bode well for the future. Don’t take everything at face value though, as some propositions might need a lot of research. Not everyone will be as straightforward as you prefer.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

Who you know could be an asset, if you need help with a goal or career issue. Their advice can set you on the right path, help increase your income, or bring you an opportunity just when you need it. There’s a lot of scope to move forward if you take your time. Don’t take on too much in your bid to impress. If you can do one or two things better than most, you’ll likely get there.

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23)

You’ll be firing on all cylinders and keen to do what you love best, which is being around others. It maybe you that initiates an event or calls people for a chat, meal or outing. If you’re ready to collaborate on an idea, this is a good day to talk things over and find your bearings. Feel a tug at your heartstrings? Go easy Libra, as with Mars rewinding there’s potential for disappointment.

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22)

The upbeat Sun/Venus tie, can boost your mood and bring optimistic strands into the equation. Have an important discussion on the go? Don’t let it slide, as you may stand to gain, and what you agree to, could be long-term and lucrative. If an offer comes your way, don’t leave it until next week. Let your enthusiasm show and it might be yours. Do your part, then be very patient.

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)

The usual methods are all well and good, but the cosmos encourages you to take on board new ideas. Today though, it might not be information that creates a breakthrough, but an intuitive nudge. Trust your gut when it encourages you to try something different that takes you way out of your comfort zone. Once you see the results, you’ll realize it was so worth it, Archer.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)

There are light-hearted influences showing that encourage socializing and liaising with friends, colleagues and close ones. But there are also lunar ties in the picture. These can see you getting a feel for a plan, thinking about any decisions, and preparing to get on with career or business responsibilities. Mind, if you have a result in mind, networking can help it happen, Capricorn.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

With a lively focus on your social sector, the coming weeks and months may be animated, and you’ll find yourself busier than ever in an enjoyable way. As nice as someone can be, don’t take flattery as a positive sign, as they might want something from you. Use your ability to suss out vibes to find who could be a worthy friend or associate, and who should be kept at a distance.

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)

The Libra Moon can entice you to pamper yourself, and enjoy a well-deserved treat. And why not, Pisces? Relish a relaxing massage or spa treatment, and you’ll be ready for almost anything. On a social note, if you’re attending an event, then you may get more out of it than you thought. If a family member makes you an offer that sounds perfect, be sure that it stands up to scrutiny.

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