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FBI arrests 18-year-old from Adjuntas for threats related to last year’s school shooting in Texas

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he FBI has arrested an 18-year-old woman, Victoria Gabriela Rodríguez Morales, from Adjuntas, accusing her of issuing threats related to the May 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two adults. According to federal authorities and stateside media, the threats made by Rodríguez Morales targeted public institutions, officials, and private citizens in Texas. Consequently, she stands in violation of federal laws regarding the use of interstate communications. The threats, which commenced as early as 2020, continued even after the massacre and into the early months of 2023, authorities said. Rodríguez Morales allegedly used various means to convey her threats, including her mother’s phone. In a twisted tale of association, Rodríguez Morales claimed to be the ex-girlfriend of Salvador Ramos, the identified shooter in the Uvalde massacre. Her messages, laden with threats, also suggested she might have been

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involved in planning the bloodbath. The FBI launched a thorough investigation into the matter, which included executing search warrants on social media accounts, emails, and phone records. The meticulous scrutiny led to the conclusion that Rodríguez Morales was indeed responsible for the threatening messages. Furthermore, surveillance confirmed that she is a student at a university in Puerto Rico. Upon her arrest, federal prosecutors have requested Rodríguez Morales be held without bail until trial. They have emphasized her extreme hostility toward public functions and officials, making it necessary to keep her in custody for public safety. The case of Rodríguez Morales underscores the grave dangers of online threats and the pivotal role of federal agencies in identifying and apprehending individuals who pose a threat to public safety. The outcome of the case could potentially serve as a deterrent to similar acts in the future, authorities said, reminding the public of the serious repercussions of threatening violence.

Governor to extend gender violence state of emergency By THE STAR STAFF

ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Wednesday he will extend the executive order declaring a state of emergency due to gender violence that was slated to expire in December. “What happens is that I am inclined to extend it, because I don’t want to send the wrong message,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “The message I would like to send is that we still have a serious problem of gender violence to address and if I come and basically put an end to the emergency declaration, it may be that the message I am sending is that we have already done everything we had to do, and no, it’s not like that.” “I am inclined to extend it because we continue to see shocking cases,” Pierluisi added. “A significant number of cases of gender violence. So it’s not like this issue has any less priority now. It has the same or greater priority that it had when I declared the emergency in the first place.” Executive Order 2023-020 declared the continuation of the state of emergency that had been decreed

in Administrative Bulletin No. OE-2021-013 due to the high volume of cases of gender violence and orders the government to establish and continue working on measures aimed at Gender Violence Prevention, Support, Rescue and Education. The order is effective from July 1, 2022 to Dec. 31, 2023.

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Nine PDP lawmakers throw their support behind Ortiz González for governor By THE STAR STAFF

opular Democratic Party (PDP) Reps. Héctor Ferrer Santiago, Sol Higgins Cuadrado, Estrella Martínez Soto, Domingo Torres García, Jorge Alfredo Rivera Segarra, Eladio “Layito” Cardona Quiles, Ángel “Tito” Fourquet Cordero, José “Cheito” Rivera Madera and Deborah Soto Arroyo on Wednesday threw their support behind the candidacy of Jesús Manuel Ortiz González to be the PDP candidate for governor in 2024. “Jesús Manuel is part of the new leadership of our party, which has a lot to contribute to the country,” the lawmakers said in a written statement. “He is a leader Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz González is also the president of the Popular Democratic Party. who knows the reality of all Puerto Ricans because he has lived it. A leader with the sentatives, including laws on a dignified the quality of life of Puerto Ricans.” ability to listen. We have no doubt that retirement, minimum wage, university “We have no doubt that if he has done with his discipline and hard work he will competencies, domestic violence, employ- so as a legislator, as governor of Puerto Rico, build a better Puerto Rico for everyone.” ment protection for medicinal cannabis he will seek opportunities to improve the The legislators went on to list the patients, collective bargaining guarantees, quality of life of all of us who live here,” “various initiatives from the Legislature” au- labor reform and government transparency, the lawmakers said. thored or co-authored by Ortiz González, and cybersecurity, among others, which They also emphasized that “Jesús their colleague in the House of Repre- they said “have an impact on improving Manuel has work experience in both the

Legislative and Executive Branches, as for four years he served as Public Affairs Secretary at La Fortaleza.” “Then, he decided to venture into partisan politics and has excelled for the past seven years, working in both legislative minorities and majorities,” they added. “He is an official who is committed, disciplined and sensitive to the country’s problems.” The group also highlighted Ortiz González’s political work as PDP president ahead of next year’s general election. “For the past few months, we have seen Jesús Manuel focused on putting the PDP in a position to win,” they said. “It is based on that work, on his discipline and on his leadership that we are sure that the PDP will win the next elections and that, in the near future, Puerto Ricans will have a better quality of life here in our land. In six months, he has visited 80% of the towns and promoted their reorganization processes. In addition, he has promoted all the projects and work plans for the party that he promised during his campaign for the presidency.”

Senator proposes making Puerto Rico a haven for vets By THE STAR STAFF

ith the purpose of making Puerto Rico the ideal place for the nation’s veterans to retire, at-large Sen. Karen Riquelme Cabrera has announced the creation of a Volunteer Veterans Advisory Committee.

The group will work alongside the senator on the creation of proposals for public policy, education and services for veterans residing on the island. “This is an effort to turn our island into the nation’s veterans’ retirement center, thereby improving the services our veterans receive, while at the same time injecting new revenue

streams that will result in the creation of new small and midsize businesses, as well as jobs,” Riquelme Cabrera said Wednesday. The group will compriseVeterans Advocate Agustin Montañez, retired Brigadier General Víctor Pérez, retired Maj. Sigfredo Pérez, retired Chief Warrant Officer Nixon Rosado, former Sen. Lucy Arce, American Legion District 3 Commander Will LaFontaine, retired Sgt. Abraham “Capacete” García, retired Sgt. Héctor Ramos, Luis Ponce, José M. González and William Lourido, president of the Puerto Rican Veterans and Soldiers Council. The committee will be expanded according to the need posed by issues to be worked on, and according to advice sought from entities of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on the island. “Among the short-term issues will be establishing educational programs among the new generation and combat veterans so that they share their stories of bravery in war, as well as instilling in young people a culture of respect and appreciation for our veterans,” the New Progressive Party senator said. “One of the committee’s first tasks will be to evaluate

other jurisdictions in terms of their public policy for veterans and see which of those policies can be adopted on the island.” States such as Florida, with a retired veteran population of 1.4 million, have benefited from the work of similar councils, with new and improved medical-hospital facilities and increased services for veterans.

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Méndez Nuñez: PREPA pension system allocation is just a band-aid By THE STAR STAFF

ew Progressive Party Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez said a measure that Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia enacted into law to help extend the life of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) pension system is not enough. Pierluisi signed House Joint Resolution 485 to allocate $900 million to the pension system, but Méndez said it would only put a band-aid on the debt situation of PREPA retirees. “What this merely does is put the finger in the dike for a period of time, and if we do not take a step to recognize that we have to pay a debt that the government has with the retirement system, then we would simply continue applying band-aids, and we would not solve the problem,” the veteran lawmaker said in a radio interview. Méndez insisted that the $900 million in the resolution should be put in a trust, due to the contribution of active PREPA employees who were transferred to government agencies. PREPA Retirees Association President Johnny Rodríguez said retired PREPA employees are uncertain if they will continue to receive their pensions after the funds promised in the measure run out at the end of the fiscal year in June. “We are not certain that we will continue enjoying

Rep. Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez our pensions, as we were promised when we meet all the requirements, which we met when it came time to retire. Those who are failing are the administrators,” Rodríguez said. “What is missing is will. Nothing else is missing.” The PREPA Employee Retirement System (SREAEE by its Spanish initials) informed its members in February

that it may not have sufficient liquidity to pay retirement benefits starting as early as May of this year. At the time, PREPA sought authorization from the Financial Oversight and Management Board to amend its budget to make an additional employer contribution from operating cash on hand. It is also seeking budget allocations to pay employer contributions to the SREAEE for former PREPA workers who were transferred to other agencies. José R. Rivera Rivera, chairman of the SREAEE board of trustees, said in a statement in February that the system’s actuarial deficit as of June 2021 was over $3 billion. While in 2022 PREPA was supposed to contribute 166.38% of the total payroll, or $23.8 million per month, it has not made payments to the pension system. As of December 2022, PREPA owed the SREAEE $895 million in delinquent pension payments. Agencies that took former PREPA employees following the LUMA Energy takeover of the utility’s electricity transmission and distribution system owed the system over $8 million.

Governor denies amendments to AES contract will increase energy rates By THE STAR STAFF

ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia denied Wednesday that the proposed amendments to the power purchase and operating agreement (PPOA) contract between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) and AES Puerto Rico constitute a financial rescue of the firm or will lead to a hike in utility rates. However, language contained in the 23-page amendment appears to contradict the governor’s remarks. As reported by the STAR, the amendments note that the certified fiscal plan contains baseline rate projections for PREPA. Those projections may be impacted by, among other things, PREPA’s ability to identify sources of funding to satisfy its cost share funding obligations and AES PR’s liquidity challenges. “If PREPA cannot identify sources of funding to satisfy its cost share funding obligations relating to the cost of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s federal funding programs, PREPA may have to raise its rates to satisfy its obligations,” the partially redacted document said. “Pursuant to a power purchase and operating agreement with AES Puerto Rico, PREPA receives a portion of its energy supply from AES Puerto Rico’s coal generation facility. AES Puerto Rico is currently experiencing liquidity challenges. If

AES Puerto Rico is not able to cover its operating expenses, PREPA may have to accept amendments to this PPOA to ensure the continued production of energy from the AES coal facility, which is necessary for PREPA to meet all demands for power, and might need to raise rates to cover costs related to any such amendment.” The amendments seek to replace the existing coalfired facility in Guayama with a renewable energy facility because AES PR must stop using coal after Jan. 1, 2028 under a new energy policy. AES also defaulted on paying its bonds per a 2000 trust agreement with the Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority. The governor insisted there is no such bailout. The amendments are under the review of the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, which held a public hearing Monday on the subject. “What is being done here is what was envisioned in Law 17 of 2019, which is the law that establishes the Public Energy Policy of Puerto Rico. That law requires that the AES plant cease operating, that is, be turned off, by the end of 2027. But that law also encourages AES to convert at least part of its generation to renewable energy,” the governor said. “In other words, stop burning coal by

2027 and use renewable energy instead of burning coal. The amendment is aimed at accelerating this process, for this transition to occur, this conversion of energy source, in the hands of AES. [...] It does not lead to an increase in the electricity bill. But the last word at this given moment belongs to the Energy Bureau.” The goal of the PPOA is to maintain the “economic stability and environmental compliance” of the facility pending its retirement and expedite the removal of combustion waste byproducts, as well as accelerate Puerto Rico’s transition to renewables, the amendment notes.

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Police Members Assn. leader lauds seizure of fireworks By THE STAR STAFF

uerto Rico Police Members Association President José J. Taboada de Jesús publicly congratulated Puerto Rico Police Bureau Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa for the recent seizures of illegal fireworks material made by the commonwealth police and at the same time requested that the investigations be accelerated as a result of tips given to police involving a group of people who sell and distribute pyrotechnic materials. “We are happy with the work that has been done this year 2023, specifically with the confiscations of pyrotechnic material that are planned to be sold for use indiscriminately

during the Christmas period, [a practice that] mostly harms the elderly population, children and pets,” Taboada de Jesús said. “In recent years, this country has experienced intense and dangerous episodes with the indiscriminate use of pyrotechnics… The island has practically become a battlefield at Christmas time, and especially on New Year’s Eve, when millions of explosive devices are thrown into the air that hurt the hearing abilities of our population.” The law enforcement leader added that the illegal entry of fireworks into Puerto Rico is a serious problem of “criminal logistics.” It is estimated that last year Puerto Ricans invested about $20 to $25 million in explosive devices

that were set off inside 15 days, mostly in the minutes before the end of the year. The illegal merchandise enters through the docks managed by the Ports Authority in containers that come from as far away as Singapore, China, Japan and Taiwan, as well as India. “We are already in the Christmas period and it is up to us to put in place all strategies and resources to minimize the negative effect of this criminal tradition,” Taboada de Jesús said, while calling on citizens or entities that know the location of warehouses, merchants or individuals who are distributing dangerous pyrotechnic material to immediately report the information to the police on the confidential phone line 787-343-2020.

Puerto Rico Police Members Association President José J. Taboada de Jesús

Chamber of Commerce to host energy-water-telecom forum today By THE STAR STAFF

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ne year after the creation of a team to modernize and recover the island’s electrical grid by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (CCPR) will discuss the state of the energy, water and telecommunications infrastructure, as well as its economic implications. The event will take place today at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, in conjunction with the Association of General Contractors of America, Puerto Rico chapter. “Issues related to energy, telecommunications and water infrastructure have traditionally been discussed separately. However, each of them is of vital importance for the private sector and economic development,” CCPR President Ramón Pérez Blanco said in a written statement. “Discussing them together allows us to analyze the problems that hinder each sector and promote serious discussion of potential solutions.”

The infrastructure forum’s agenda covers topics such as the 2024 and 2030 goals for the energy system and their impact on competitiveness, water infrastructure challenges, and an update on the use of funds from the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program. The latter has allocated $42 billion to expand high-speed internet access through planning and building telecommunications infrastructure, and adopting it in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Keynote speaker Agustín Carbó Lugo, director of the federal Energy Department’s Modernization and Recovery Team, will offer an update on the allocation of $1 billion by Congress a year ago to improve the resilience of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, with a focus on disadvantaged and vulnerable communities, one of the projects led by the team. Those interested in learning more about the forum can contact (787) 721-6060. To register to attend today’s event, go to the CCPR website www.camarapr.org.

Guaynabo students at all levels earn scholarships for performance By THE STAR STAFF

few weeks before the end of the current school semester, Guaynabo Mayor Edward O’Neill recognized the academic performance of 228 students who attend the municipality’s public schools. The students from the elementary, intermediate and high school levels were awarded for their dedication and academic excellence throughout the year. The largest group of recipients of the “Mayor’s Scholarship” were from the elementary level, with 79 students, followed by 78 students at the high school level and 71 students at the intermediate level. The recognition, which has become a symbol of encouragement for academic effort, consists

of significant financial aid: $70 for the elementary group, $90 for intermediate level students and $120 for those in high school. “The Guaynabo administration is proud to reward these students who put in the effort in their schoolwork during the 2022-2023 academic year,” O’Neill said. “They are being placed on the honor roll of the best public school averages within the jurisdiction of Guaynabo.” As part of the mayor’s commitment to education and equity, the requirement to consider parents’ income for obtaining this scholarship was eliminated. The change reflects the recognition of the student’s individual effort and dedication to academic performance.

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Biden navigates divisions over Gaza inside the White House and beyond By ERICA L. GREEN

war surrounding the creation of Israel 75 years ago. “It’s not as if, from the earliest days, that we didn’t know how this was going to end,” he said of the war in Gaza. “When the dust settles, and the tears dry, what we’re going to have is more dead bodies, more anger and more extremism.”

resident Joe Biden’s guests did not try to hide their anguish. Just weeks after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Biden had invited a small group of prominent Muslim Americans to the White House to discuss Islamophobia in America. The participants were blunt with him, according to four people who were in attendance. They told him that his embrace of Israel after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks was seen by many as permission for Israel’s bombing in the Gaza Strip. They said the president’s statement casting doubt on the death toll among Palestinians was insulting. And they said the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Muslim boy outside Chicago was just one devastating result of the dehumanization of their community. The private meeting, which had been scheduled for 30 minutes, stretched to more than an hour, attendees said. Biden waved off aides who tried to pull him out of the room as he listened to the criticism and shared his own experience with loss and grief. “He recognized there may have been missteps on the rhetoric,” said Wa’el Alzayat, CEO of Emgage, a group that mobilizes Muslim voters, who attended the meeting in the Roosevelt Room on Oct 26. “He listened, he did show empathy and he promised to do better, particularly on humanizing Palestinians.” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who was also at the meeting, said the war had increased risks for Americans, as well. “Muslim community leaders told President Biden that the suffering of innocent Gazans trying to survive in extremely difficult circumstances has actually increased the likelihood of Islamophobic attacks in the United States,” he said. The gathering ended with Biden hugging a woman who had lost her brother in an anti-Muslim hate crime several years ago. But the group left without one thing that it had come for: a promise from Biden to call for a permanent cease-fire. The meeting was a glimpse into a much larger task Biden faces as he tries to navigate deep anger among longtime supporters and even inside the White House, where some younger staff members, particularly those with Arab or Muslim backgrounds, have said they feel disenchanted with the president they serve. Biden administration officials say the president’s support for Israel’s right to defend itself after Hamas’ deadly assault is only part of the story. Increasingly, Biden has paired his words of support with more forceful calls for caution and the protection of Palestinian civilians as the death toll reaches catastrophic levels. They point to his Oval Office address on Oct. 20, when he denounced Islamophobia and the death of Wadea AlFayoume, the 6-year-old who was fatally stabbed in Illinois in what authorities have called a hate crime. Biden said he was “heartbroken” by the loss of Palestinian life in the war. The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe discussions in the White House, also say Biden’s solidarity with Israel has allowed him to wield influence with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on humanitarian aid and opening the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

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DEPARTAMENTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AMBIENTALES President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 2, 2023. To many in the Arab community, President Biden’s words and actions after the Oct. 7 attacks made them — and the Palestinian civilians in Gaza who are dying in the thousands — feel like an afterthought in the war. But to many in the Arab community, Biden’s words and actions after the Oct. 7 attacks made them — and the Palestinian civilians who are dying in the thousands — feel like an afterthought in the war. “There’s this sense that the trauma of one people counts more than the trauma of another,” said James Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, which has been polling the community for 27 years. “It’s like there are two intolerables, and they’ve decided which one they’re going to accept.” That distress was on clear display at the meeting with Biden. Participants said they were aghast that just one day earlier, during a news conference with the Australian prime minister, Biden told reporters that he had “no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth” about the number of their dead. The innocent people who died, Biden said, were the “price of waging war.” The comments inflamed concerns among those who felt Biden’s support for Israel was unconditional, even as the country’s assault on Gaza was killing thousands upon thousands of people, even by the United States’ own estimates. His comments also sparked outrage inside the White House, including by some who felt messages of support for Jewish staff members could be perceived as insensitive to Arabs and Muslims on staff. Biden’s senior aides, led by Jeff Zients, the White House chief of staff, have held multiple meetings with upset officials to hear their complaints. One such meeting was led recently by Zients; Anita Dunn, the president’s senior adviser; Jon Finer, the deputy national security adviser; and Stephen Benjamin, the director of public engagement. The meeting allowed unhappy staff members to air their concerns about the president’s strategy and rhetoric. (Biden has not attended the meetings, other than the one on Oct. 26.) Zogby, who has advised several Democratic campaigns on their Palestinian platforms, including Biden’s in 2020, said he believed the repercussions of the war would span generations. Just as the Hamas attacks evoked the vulnerability and trauma of the Holocaust, Zogby said, Israel’s response evoked what Palestinians call the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” the 1948 displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the

AVISO AMBIENTAL SOBRE INTENCIÓN DE RENOVAR UN PERMISO PARA OPERAR UNA INSTALACIÓN DE DESPERDICIOS SÓLIDOS NO PELIGROSOS El Sr. Luis Raúl Sueiro, representante autorizado de IFCO Recycling, Inc. (Planta de Angora), sometió ante el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (en adelante, DRNA) una solicitud de permiso para operar una instalación de procesamiento de materiales reciclables, tales como: plástico, cartón, papel, documentos confidenciales y desperdicios de styrofoam. Esta instalación está ubicada en el Parque Industrial Angora, Ave. Angora Final, Bo. Bairoa, Caguas PR. El Reglamento para el Manejo de los Desperdicios Sólidos No Peligrosos (en adelante, Reglamento), establece en el Capítulo IX el requisito de solicitar un permiso como condición previa a la operación de una instalación de desperdicios sólidos no peligrosos, el cual es aplicable a dueños u operadores. Luego de evaluar los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de renovar el permiso de operación. Copia de la solicitud de permiso, al igual que el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes al caso, están a la disposición del público para ser examinados en el Área Contaminación de Terrenos del DRNA, ubicado en la Carr. 8838 Km. 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, de 8:00 a.m. a 4:30 p.m., de lunes a viernes. Cualquier persona interesada podrá someter comentarios por escrito sobre el borrador del permiso y podrá solicitar una vista pública. Toda solicitud de vista pública deberá hacerse por escrito y deberá ser debidamente fundamentada y exponer la naturaleza de los planteamientos que se levantarán en la vista. El DRNA podrá celebrar una vista pública de forma discrecional. Toda solicitud deberá ser dirigida al Área Contaminación de Terrenos, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan PR 00926, no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Aviso. Este anuncio se publica conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Núm. 38-2017, conocida como la “Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo Uniforme del Gobierno de Puerto Rico”, la Ley Núm. 416-2004, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental”, los reglamentos aprobados a su amparo; y Ias leyes y reglamentos federales aplicables. 6 NOV 2023

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Memorial celebrates Rosalynn Carter’s life, a ‘public love story’ By PETER BAKER

er journey took her from the smallest of small towns in rural Georgia to the majesty of the White House, from the campaign trails of Iowa and New Hampshire to refugee camps in Asia and impoverished villages in Africa. But in the end, the final chapter of Rosalynn Carter’s story brought her back to Georgia, to a simple but elegant church for a simple but elegant memorial service where presidents and first ladies and governors and senators paid their respects but the only ones who spoke from the pulpit on her behalf were her pastors, her family and friends. That was Rosalynn Carter. She could navigate the currents of big-time American politics and confront foreign dictators, but she never forgot her humble roots and wanted to be remembered not just as a trailblazing first lady but a caregiver for the world’s most vulnerable. What would have meant most to her, relatives agreed, was the presence of former President Jimmy Carter, who emerged from hospice care to bid farewell to his wife of three-quarters of a century. “My grandmother doesn’t need a eulogy,” Jason Carter, one of her grandsons, told the mourners, quoting something he had been told beforehand. “Her life was a sermon. It was a mighty testament to the power of faith and the power of a deep and determined love. And she lived this public love story that we all know of, that has inspired the world including in these last days.” Rosalynn Carter, who was suffering from dementia, died at 96 last week at the family’s modest ranch-style house in Plains, Georgia. It was just four months after she and her husband celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary, making them the longest-lasting presidential couple in American history. The former president, who turned 99 last month and has rarely been seen in public since entering hospice care in February, made the 140-mile journey from Plains to Atlanta to join President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and all five living first ladies for the invitation-only service at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church at Emory University. Carter was brought into the church in a wheelchair as the crowd looked on with anticipation, catching their first glimpse of him in many months. He was dressed in a dark suit and tie with a Plains blanket with images of him and his wife wrapped over his legs. His face was pale, his mouth hung open and he did not make eye contact with many mourners. His daughter, Amy Carter,

From left: Former President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama after the memorial for former first lady Rosalynn Carter at Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta, Nov. 28, 2023. sat next to him holding his hand, flanked by her brothers, Jack, Chip and Jeff. The former president was unable to address the gathering and so left it to others to express his feelings. From the pulpit, family and friends honored Rosalynn Carter as her husband’s alter ego and most important confidant, with a strong will of her own sometimes disguised by a shy exterior. “What a remarkable woman she was — wife, mother, business manager, political strategist, diplomat, advocate, author,” said Kathryn Cade, who served as Rosalynn Carter’s project director in the East Wing of the White House and worked with her for decades to follow. “Yet what I remember most about her was her tireless dedication to taking care of others.” James Earl Carter III, her son who goes by Chip, said his mother got him the help he needed to fight addiction. “She saved my life,” he said. And he added that she had saved many more through her work both in the White House and afterward. “She had met kings and queens, presidents, others in authority, powerful corporate leaders and celebrities,” he added. “She said the people that she felt the most comfortable with and the people she enjoyed being with the most were those that lived in absolute, abject poverty.” Rosalynn Carter was central to her husband’s business and political careers, managing the books of his peanut farm and

crossing the country to campaign for him. She pushed to improve mental health services and brought activism to the role of first lady. After Carter lost reelection, the two returned to the small house in Plains that they had built in 1961 and focused on philanthropic activities for most of the past four decades. “Without Rosalynn Carter, I don’t believe there would have been a President Carter,” Judy Woodruff, the former anchor of “PBS NewsHour” who first covered the Carters during a Georgia state Senate campaign in 1970, told the mourners. Terry McAuliffe, the former governor of Virginia and a fundraiser for Jimmy Carter in 1980, recalled that the first lady hit the campaign trail that year alone while her husband remained at the White House to deal with the Iran hostage crisis. “She was the chief campaigner, chief surrogate for the reelection” campaign, McAuliffe said in an interview. “She was tireless, indefatigable, would go to any event, any time and shake every hand.” But there was another Rosalynn Carter presented Tuesday, the family matriarch who made sure to enclose a $20 bill in every birthday card, even to a 45-year-old grandson, and a cook with few recipes that did not involve mayonnaise. Jason Carter described a family trip when, at the back of a commercial plane, his grandmother suddenly pulled out a Tupperware container with bread and cheese to make everyone

sandwiches — including other passengers. “People were sitting there like, ‘Rosalynn Carter just made me this sandwich!’” he recalled. “They couldn’t believe it. But she loved people. And she was a cool grandma. She was cool — like, she did tai chi with this sword.” She was an adventurer who traveled to 122 countries, learned to ski in her 60s, went trout fishing in Siberia and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. In her final months, she said she was not using a cane. “It’s a trekking pole,” she said. Chip Carter said that not long ago she summoned memories of the family’s time in Hawaii and suddenly rose from the sofa, pushed away her walker and performed a hula dance. “That’s how you do it,” she said. The Carters have outlived so many of their contemporaries that most Americans were not even alive when they were in the White House, so the service was a chance to reintroduce the 39th president and his wife. Rosalynn Carter personally scripted the event, making a point of inviting those she actually knew. “The list is her list,” Paige Alexander, CEO of the Carter Center, said beforehand. The former president was the most determined of the guests. Frail as he is, relatives said they were certain he has hung on through more than nine months of hospice care because he did not want his wife to be left alone. “He’s coming to the end, and he’s very, very physically diminished,” Jason Carter, who is chair of the Carter Center board, said in an interview before the service. “But I think he was proud and happy that he was there for her till the very end, and he wasn’t going to miss this for anything.” The ceremony reflected Rosalynn Carter’s taste for simple elegance over modern glitz. It was that rare event where both Biden and Clinton, two of their generation’s most loquacious politicians, attended without speaking, and sat respectfully in the front row, uncharacteristically silent throughout. They were joined byVice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff; Jill Biden, the current first lady; former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; three other former first ladies, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump; and three presidential daughters, Lynda Johnson Robb, Luci Baines Johnson and Susan Ford Bales. Rosalynn Carter was to be taken back to Plains, where after a private funeral service at Maranatha Baptist Church on Wednesday, she was to be buried at the Carter Home and Garden, part of the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park. Her husband plans to be laid to rest next to her.

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Americans glimpse Jimmy Carter’s frailty and his resolve By RICK ROJAS and JACEY FORTIN

is face was pale and gaunt, his legs were wrapped in a blanket, and his eyes never seemed to make contact with the family members huddled around him. But on Tuesday, Jimmy Carter was there, in the front row of a church in Atlanta, just a few feet from the coffin holding Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 years. Carter, 99, was some 164 miles from his home in Plains, Georgia, where he had been in hospice care since February. He was brought into the church in a wheelchair, as the crowd of mourners at the memorial service looked on, many of them catching their first glimpse of him in nine months. That he would make such a trek in his condition was, to some, shocking — and, to his family, worrisome. And yet, it was also very true to form: a display of the tenacity, bordering on stubbornness, that has been a defining characteristic of Carter, the longest-living president in U.S. history. “Come hell or high water, Jimmy

Former President Jimmy Carter attends the memorial service for his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta, Nov. 28, 2023.

carefully perching on a stool in front of the congregation to offer a simple sermon about being a kind and loving neighbor. Afterward, he and his wife stayed in their seats, as dozens of visitors from around the world lined up for pictures with them. Jimmy Carter has rarely been seen in public since he entered hospice care, and in May, the Carter Center announced that Rosalynn, a longtime advocate for greater access to mental health care, had dementia. She died on Nov. 19, at age 96. Carter’s family expressed concerns that attending Tuesday’s service could be taxing for the former president. But they also recognized the importance of his presence at the church, where he joined some of his successors and every living presidential spouse. “He has been this moral rock for so many people, but she really was that rock for him,” his grandson, Jason Carter, said. “He’s glad he’s not going to miss it, but we’re all worried about him.” The Carters’ daughter, Amy Carter, said at the service that her father was not able to speak to the attendees. So she read a love letter he wrote to his wife while he served in the Navy more than seven decades ago. “My darling, every time I have ever been away from you, I have been thrilled when I returned to discover just how wonderful you are,” Carter wrote in the letter. “While I’m away, I try to convince myself that you really are not, could not be, as sweet and beautiful as I remember. But when I see you, I fall in love with you all over again.” “Does that seem strange to you?” he went on. “It doesn’t to me. Goodbye, darling. Until tomorrow, Jimmy.”

A strain of determination has always been core to Carter’s identity, particularly when it came to Rosalynn, who rebuffed him when he first asked to marry her. But it has also evolved into a quiet intensity that has propelled him — and at times dismayed his family and aides — as he has repeatedly defied illness and infirmity. “He is a man of enormous stamina and strength and will,” author Kai Bird, a Carter biographer, said on CNN, as the memorial service concluded Tuesday. In 2019, after a fall left him with a black eye and stitches, he soon showed up to help build houses in Nashville, Tennessee, for Habitat for Humanity. “I had a No. 1 priority, and that was to come to Nashville to build houses,” Carter said at a gathering of volunteers, according to People magazine. “One of the things Jesus taught was: If you have any talents, try to utilize them for the benefit of others,” Carter, then 95, told the magazine, which reported Effective November 1, 2021, that he had 14 stitches on Allstate Life Insurance Company his head. “That’s what Rosa changed its name to and I have both tried to do.” Everlake Life Insurance Company Not long after that, he and also changed its Statutory Home Office Address fractured his pelvis. He igfrom 3075 Sanders Road, Northbrook, Illinois 60062 nored pleas from his family to and staff and showed up 3100 Sanders Road, Suite 303, Northbrook, Illinois 60062. The coffin of former first lady Rosalynn Carter arrives at her memorial service at to teach Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church, Glenn Memorial Church in Atlanta, Nov. 28, 2023. Carter was going to use his inner resources to be there,” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said, adding that the former president “has the most intense willpower of any person I’ve ever known.”

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he prediction was straightforward: A rapid rise in interest rates orchestrated by the Federal Reserve would confine consumer spending and corporate profits, sharply reducing hiring and cooling a red-hot economy. But it hasn’t worked out quite the way forecasters expected. Inflation has eased, but the biggest companies in the country have avoided the damage of higher interest rates. With earnings picking up again, companies continue to hire, giving the economy and the stock market a boost that few predicted when the Fed began raising interest rates nearly two years ago. There are two key reasons that big business has avoided the hammer of higher rates. In the same way that the average rate on existing household mortgages is still only 3.6% — reflecting the millions of owners who bought or refinanced homes at the low-cost terms that prevailed until early last year — leaders in corporate America locked in cheap funding in the bond market before rates began to rise. Also, as the Fed pushed rates above 5%, from near zero at the start of 2022, chief financial officers at those businesses began to shuffle surplus cash into investments that generated a higher level of interest income. The combination meant that net interest payments — the money owed on debt, less the income from interest-bearing investments — for American companies plunged to $136.8 billion by the end of September. It was a low not seen since the 1980s, data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed. That could soon change. While many small businesses and some risky corporate borrowers have already seen interest costs rise, the biggest companies will face a sharp rise in borrowing costs in the years ahead if interest rates don’t start to decline. That’s because a wave of debt is coming due in the corporate bond and loan markets over the next two years, and firms are likely to have to refinance that borrowing at higher rates. The junk bond market faces a ‘refinancing wall.’ Roughly a third of the $1.3 trillion of debt issued by companies in the so-called junk bond market, where the riskiest borrowers finance their operations, comes due in the next three years, according to research from Bank of America. The average “coupon,” or interest rate, on bonds sold by these borrowers is around 6%. But it would cost companies closer to 9% to borrow today, according to an index run by ICE Data Services. Credit analysts and investors acknowledge that they are uncertain whether the eventual damage will be containable or enough to exacerbate a downturn in the economy. The severity of the impact will largely depend on how long interest rates remain elevated. The good news is that debts coming due by the end of 2024 in the junk bond market constitute only about 8% of the outstanding market, according to data compiled by Bloom-

berg. In essence, less than one-tenth of the collective debt pile needs to be refinanced imminently. But borrowers might feel higher borrowing costs sooner than that: Junk-rated companies typically try to refinance early so they aren’t reliant on investors for financing at the last minute. Either way, the longer rates remain elevated, the more companies will have to absorb higher interest costs. Among the firms most exposed to higher rates are “zombies” — those already unable to generate enough earnings to cover their interest payments. These companies were able to limp along when rates were low, but higher rates could push them into insolvency. Even if the challenge is managed, it can have tangible effects on growth and employment, said Atsi Sheth, managing director of credit strategy at Moody’s. Small businesses have a different set of problems. Some of this potential effect is already evident elsewhere, among the vast majority of companies that do not fund themselves through the machinations of selling bonds or loans to investors in corporate credit markets. These companies — the small, private enterprises that are responsible for roughly half the private-sector employment in the country — are already having to pay much more for debt. They fund their operations using cash from sales, business credit cards and private loans — all of which are generally more expensive options for financing payrolls and operations. Small and medium-size companies with good credit ratings were paying 4% for a line of credit from their bankers a couple of years ago, according to the National Federation of Independent Business, a trade group. Now, they’re paying 10% interest on short-term loans. Corporate buyouts are also being tested. In addition to small businesses, some vulnerable privately held companies that do have access to corporate credit markets are already grappling with higher interest costs. Backed by private-equity investors, who typically buy out businesses and load them with debt to extract financial profits, these companies borrow in the leveraged loan market, where borrowing typically comes with a floating interest rate that rises and falls broadly in line with the Fed’s adjustments. Moody’s maintains a list of companies rated B3 negative and below, a very low credit rating reserved for companies in financial distress. Almost 80% of the companies on this list are private-equity-backed leveraged buyouts. Some of these borrowers have sought creative ways to extend the terms of their debt, or to avoid paying interest until the economic climate brightens. The used-car seller Carvana — backed by the privateequity giant Apollo Global Management — renegotiated its debt this year to do just that, allowing its management to cut losses in the third quarter, not including the mounting interest costs that it is deferring. Leaders of at-risk companies will be hoping that a serene mix of economic news is on the horizon — with inflation fading substantially as overall economic growth holds steady, allowing Fed officials to end the rate-increase cycle or even cut rates slightly. Some recent research provides a bit of that hope. In September, staff economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago published a model forecast indicating that “inflation will return to near the Fed’s target by mid-2024” without a major economic contraction. If that comes to pass, lower interest rates for companies in need of fresh funds could be coming to the rescue much sooner than previously expected.

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.P. Morgan equity strategists on Wednesday issued a dour outlook for U.S. stocks for the year ahead, pointing to weak expected earnings growth, expensive valuations and high geopolitical risks. The bank projected a 2024 price target for the benchmark S&P 500 of 4,200, or about 8% below current levels. Absent rapid easing of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve, “we expect a more challenging macro backdrop for stocks next year,” J.P. Morgan’s Dubravko Lakos-Bujas and his team said in an outlook report on Wednesday. The firm expects S&P 500 earnings growth of 2% to 3% in 2024 -- a rate that’s well below the consensus analyst estimate of 11.4% growth next year, according to LSEG data. Consensus earnings-per-share estimates are in sync with assumptions of a “Goldilocks” environment that sees inflation cool without a significant hit to demand and pricing power, the firm said in its report. “In contrast to this robust outlook, we expect lower sequential revenue growth, no margin expansion, and lower buyback executions,” the strategists wrote. Current valuations are “rich,” J.P. Morgan said, “especially in light of the aging business cycle, restrictive monetary policy, and geopolitical risks.” Those risks include two major wars and 40 countries holding national elections including the U.S., which the strategists expect will drive equity volatility to be generally higher in 2024 than in 2023. Several policymakers this week have pushed back against rate cut expectations, with some stressing on a data-dependent approach to monetary policy. Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin on Thursday said that while there’s been “real progress” on inflation, it is yet unclear if the U.S. central bank will need to push its policy rate higher to finish the job “We have had rates roll over here a little bit and I think that’s one of the reasons we have seen this rally over the last couple of weeks,” said Chuck Carlson, chief executive officer at Horizon Investment Services in Hammond, Indiana. “If you think this rally has legs, yesterday gave you an opportunity to go buy some stocks today.” Friday Moody’s lowered its outlook on the U.S. credit rating to “negative” from “stable”, citing large fiscal deficits and a decline in debt affordability. This added to investor reluctance to make big decisions ahead of a weekend deadline that could result in a U.S. government shutdown, O’Rourke said. U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican stopgap spending measure on Saturday aimed at averting a shutdown, but the measure quickly met opposition from lawmakers from both

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parties in Congress. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 52.18 points, or 0.15%, to 34,335.28, the S&P 500 lost 0.82 points, or 0.02%, to 4,414.42 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 12.31 points, or 0.09%, to 13,785.80. The major U.S. stock indexes had rebounded so far this month, fueled by a stronger-than-expected earnings season and hopes that U.S. interest rates are near their peak.

Traders have priced in a nearly 86% chance that the Fed will hold interest rates in December, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool. Among the S&P 500’s 11 major sectors energy was the biggest gainer, up 0.7%, while utilities was the biggest loser, down more than 1%. Medtech companies were rising with Dexcom adding 5%, Insulet climbing more than 6% and Abbott rising 2% as analysts commented on data about the cardiovascular benefits for Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy. Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a 1.08-to-1 ratio; on Nasdaq, a 1.02-to-1 ratio favored decliners.

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These are the factors at play in Gaza as the pause in fighting continues By ALAN YUHAS

nder pressure from allies to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip as it welcomes Israeli hostages home under the terms of a fragile cease-fire, Israel faces an increasingly difficult set of decisions about the future of its war against Hamas. Israeli leaders have vowed to eliminate Hamas, the group that has controlled Gaza since 2007 and that led devastating attacks on Israel on Oct. 7. They have also promised to recover all of the roughly 240 people who were kidnapped by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups that day. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cited the recovery of hostages in justifying his support for the pause in Israel’s ground invasion — and has also said that Israel’s military is ready to resume fighting once the cease-fire arrangement ends. But the deal also gives Hamas time to regroup and retrench, making Israel’s objective of rooting it out more difficult. And Israel’s release of Palestinians from imprisonment or detention under the arrangement has been accompanied by growing support for Hamas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The extended cease-fire has also allowed aid to reach more of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents, most of whom have been displaced by the fighting and face dire shortages of food, medicine and fuel. Where does the cease-fire agreement stand? Israel and Hamas have extended their brief truce from four to six days, according to Qatar, which has been mediating their talks. The agreement has so far held, despite accusations by each side that the other had violated it. Since Friday, Hamas has released at least 60 Israeli hostages and Israel has freed 180 imprisoned Palestinians. Nineteen other hostages in Gaza — 17 Thais, one Filipino and one Russian-Israeli dual citizen — have been released since Friday through separate negotiations. Where does Israel’s military campaign stand? Before the cease-fire agreement took hold Friday, Israel’s military had bombarded Gaza for weeks, saying it had struck over 15,000 targets. The bombardment included the use of very large weapons in dense ur-

Israeli soldiers doing repairs near the border with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. ban areas, and Palestinian health authorities in the Hamas government have said that more than 13,000 people have been killed, including thousands of children. The bombardment, the large number of deaths and the displacement of the majority of Gaza’s 2.2 million people have fueled international outcry over the scope of Israel’s campaign. Israel has said it is targeting Hamas all over Gaza, including in places where its members are embedded among civilians, such as hospitals and shelters, and in an ex-

tensive tunnel network underground. Early in the war, the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of northern Gaza, before a ground invasion. More than 1 million people fled south, and the invasion began in late October. Israeli troops have captured a swath of northern Gaza roughly in the shape of a C: the northern edge of the strip, a sliver along the Mediterranean coast, and the central strip below Gaza City. The forces largely encircled Gaza City and split the strip in

Israeli soldiers near the border with the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.

two halves, seeking to disrupt Hamas’ grip over the enclave and begin ousting it from its biggest city. But there appear to be parts of northern Gaza that the Israeli military does not control. Israeli forces have also closed in on Gaza’s hospitals, seizing Shifa, Gaza’s largest and most modern. Israel said Hamas used tunnels beneath the hospital as a command center, accusations the group and hospital staff denied. The Israeli military has since sought to show evidence of its assertions, releasing videos that show parts of a tunnel shaft on the grounds of the Shifa complex, and rooms within the tunnel. But Israeli troops have moved slowly, wary of explosives and traps. The military has said it has destroyed some Hamas tunnels, but has not said that its troops have been fighting inside them. Ron Dermer, a member of Israel’s war Cabinet, told Sky News on Nov. 7 that the Israeli military had killed “several thousand” Hamas fighters since the war began. He said that the total at that point was greater than 3,000 and “probably close to 4,000 already.” Israeli officials estimate that Hamas had numbered about 25,000 members before the war began. More than 70 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ground invasion began, according to the Israeli military. What about Hamas’ leadership? Hamas has acknowledged the deaths of several commanders in the war, including at least one senior figure. A number of other Hamas officials and commanders are believed to have been killed. Yahya Sinwar, the hard-line leader of Hamas in Gaza, remains a top target of Israeli forces. Israeli leaders have said they do not want to reoccupy Gaza after the war, and it remains unclear how or whether they can eliminate Hamas completely from the strip. And in the West Bank, which the Israeli military occupies, support for Hamas has grown amid the recent releases of Palestinians and mounting frustration with the Palestinian Authority, which oversees the West Bank. The political leadership of Hamas is not within Israel’s reach. Qatar hosts Hamas’ political leaders in its capital, Doha, where Qatari officials have been mediating the talks between Israel and Hamas alongside Egypt and the United States.

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They fled climate chaos. Asylum law made decades ago might not help. By MIRIAM JORDAN

left behind, was staying at a squalid encampment on a spit of dirt along the river that separates Mexico and Texas. Hundreds of other Miskito were alongside him in tiny tents, all hoping to claim asylum. The story of the Miskito who have left their ancestral home to come 2,500 miles to the U.S.-Mexico border is in many ways familiar. Like others coming from Central and South America, they are fleeing failed states and street violence. But their lawyers also hope to test a novel idea: Extreme weather wrought by climate change can be grounds for asylum, a protection established more than seven decades ago in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. “Our asylum law was crafted when climate change wasn’t even being contemplated, and we are now very aware

irst came the hurricanes — two storms, two weeks apart in 2020 — that devastated Honduras and left the country’s most vulnerable in dire need. In distant villages inhabited by Indigenous people known as the Miskito, homes were leveled and growing fields were ravaged. Then came the drug cartels, who stepped into the vacuum left by the Honduran government, ill-equipped to respond to the catastrophe. Violence soon followed. “Everything changed after the hurricanes, and we need protection,” said Cosmi, 36, a father of two, adding that his uncle was killed after being ordered to abandon the family plot. Cosmi, who asked to be identified only by his first name out of concern for his family’s safety and that of relatives

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14 From page 13 this is going to be one of the biggest issues of the century,” said Ann Garcia, a lawyer at the National Immigration Project. It is working with the nonprofit Together and Free to assist the Miskito. Asylum-seekers must demonstrate that they are unable to live in their home country as a result of past persecution or a well-founded fear of being persecuted in the future on the basis of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership of a targeted group (for instance, women who are subject to genital mutilation). The Miskito face an uphill climb to win asylum on the basis of climate change, and their lawyers may seek to incorporate other factors to bolster the case. They could argue for asylum based on the Miskitos’ membership in a social group, if they were neglected by the government or suffered discrimination on account of their ethnicity. The Miskito might also assert inherent vulnerabilities, such as a reliance on natural resources that could be undermined by a catastrophic climate event if it were to lead to criminal violence that cut off their food supply. However the Miskitos’ asylum claims take shape, resolving their cases could take several years, given the yearslong backlog. While they await the outcome of their cases, asylum-seekers are allowed to remain in the United States, and they become eligible for employment authorization after six months. This has created an incentive for people, particularly economic migrants, to submit asylum applications with weak claims — and has provoked a backlash against the long-standing practice of allowing anyone seeking asylum to enter the United States. “The general public is becoming less accepting of asylum as a remedy because there are so many people being creative in applying for it,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School. The number of asylum cases pending in U.S. immigration courts has surpassed 1 million, up from about 750,000 in 2022, and from barely 110,000 a decade ago. Another 1 million cases being assessed by asylum officers are also pending, more than double the number two years ago. As the number of claims swell, so do questions about the very meaning of asylum in the 21st century, for the United States and for the millions of people around the world seeking safe haven, increasingly because of the effects of extreme weather and climate change. If almost any migrant can claim asylum, what will asylum come to mean? And how will an already dysfunctional U.S. immigration system decide who deserves sanctuary? Recent polls have found that most Americans still support asylum. But only 1 in 6 Republicans and just 48% of Democrats said they believed that those seeking protection had actually fled persecution in their home countries, according to one survey. “When people think of asylum, they imagine a government official pointing a gun

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at someone’s head,” Yale-Loehr said. “They don’t think of crop failures or sea levels rising because of climate change.” No one tallies how many migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are fleeing the effects of extreme weather, but that number is likely to grow, according to experts. Climate change will displace up to 143 million people in Central and South America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by 2050, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As humans continue to burn fossil fuels, pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and warming the planet, ocean temperatures are increasing. Over time, they have made Atlantic hurricanes stronger, wetter and slower-moving, making them greatly destructive once they touch land. The plight of the Miskito underscores the climatic conditions driving migration around the globe, particularly to the United States. For as long as he could remember, Cosmi had trudged up a mountain to help his Uncle Ilario farm beans, rice, maize, malanga and watermelon on the plot of land that had been passed down through generations. Cosmi married and had two children, now 14 and 8. They subsisted on what the land produced, and they raised some livestock. “There was the season for everything, and it was plentiful,” he recalled, until the 2020 hurricanes. The earth was drenched. Then the soil dried, but drought followed, Cosmi recalled. Corn stalks withered. During the harvest, he filled half as many sacks of rice as usual. “We had worked that land for generations,” Cosmi said, “and we just kept trying.” He borrowed a canoe and began shrimping in the estuaries. He traded some malanga, a root vegetable, for some catch from fishermen who went out to sea. Then came the cartels. Cosmi’s uncle was killed. Soon, Cosmi and his family began receiving threats. He pulled his son and daughter out of school. Finally, they fled. Doing odd jobs along the way, Cosmi and his wife were able to cobble together money for food and buses to the doorstep of the United States. They arrived in Matamoros in May, four months after they left their homeland. Using the U.S. government app that has become one of the few ways to secure an asylum appointment, they scheduled an entry at the crossing in Brownsville, Texas. On Aug. 3, U.S. border officers processed and released the family. They traveled by bus to Waukegan, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, where they stayed with a friend. A team led by Garcia, the lawyer, plans to represent the family and other arriving Miskito in their asylum cases. In late 2021, the White House issued a report recognizing that global warming was causing large-scale displacement. But, two years later, the administration has yet to adopt its own recommendation to establish an interagency working group to coordinate the U.S. response to climate-change migration.

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How to kill a Palestinian state By BRET STEPHENS

o the people chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” have any idea of the irreparable harm they’re doing to any hope of Palestinian sovereignty? For decades, the question of a Palestinian state has come down to two dates: 1948 and 1967. Most Western supporters of Palestinian statehood have argued that the key date is the Six-Day War of June 1967, when Israel, faced with open threats of annihilation, took possession of the Golan Heights, the West Bank, east Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. According to this line of thinking, the way to peace rested on Arab diplomatic recognition of Israel in exchange for the return of these so-called occupied territories. That’s what happened between Egypt and Israel at Camp David in 1978, and what might have happened at Camp David in 2000 if Yasser Arafat had only accepted the offer of full statehood made to him by Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel. Yet there has always been a second narrative, which dates “the occupation” not to 1967 but to 1948, when Israel came into being as a sovereign state. By this argument, it isn’t just east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Golan

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Heights that are occupied by Israel: It’s Haifa, Tel Aviv, Eilat and west Jerusalem, too. For Palestine to be “liberated,” Israel itself must end. Starting in the 1970s, the 1948ers were known as the “rejectionist front.” More recently, they have become the “axis of resistance.” Membership includes Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Assad regime in Syria and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard — a who’s who of designated terrorist groups and their state sponsors. On Oct. 7, the axis of resistance became the face of the Palestinian movement. On Oct. 8, demonstrators around the world chose to embrace that axis. Sometimes they did so unwittingly, believing there was no contradiction between being pro-Palestinian and supporting Israel’s right to exist, or not understanding the implications of the slogans they were chanting. But just as often they have done so wittingly. When Mohamed Khairullah, the mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, said “75 years of occupation is too long” at an October rally, he was embracing the 1948 narrative. When Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., posted that “75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day” and declined to accept Israel as a Jewish state, she was embracing it. When Judith Butler, a Berkeley professor, told an interviewer that “the roots of the problem are in a state formation that depended on expulsions and land theft to establish its own ‘legitimacy’” and supported a binational state, she was embracing it. When the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter responded to the Oct. 7 massacres with a Facebook post claiming, “When a people have been subject to decades of apartheid and unimaginable violence, their resistance must not be condemned, but understood as a desperate act of self-defense,” it was embracing it. When the BBC Arabic service repeatedly described ordinary Israelis as “settlers,” it was embracing it. Such embraces have consequences. For one, they put a growing fraction of the progressive left objectively on the side of some of the worst people on Earth — and in radical contradiction with their selfprofessed values. “A left that, rightly, demands absolute condemnation of white-nationalist supremacy refuses to dissociate itself from Islamist supremacy,” Susie Linfield, a professor of journalism at New York University, wrote in an important recent essay in the online journal Quillette. “A left that lauds intersectionality hasn’t noticed that Hamas’ axis of support consists of Iran, famous most recently for killing hundreds of protesters demanding women’s freedom.” For another, they reinforce the central convictions and deepest fears of the Israeli right: that Palestinians have never reconciled themselves to the existence of Israel

A protester waves a Palestinian flag during a demonstration in San Francisco calling for a cease fire in Gaza, on Nov. 14, 2023. For decades, the question of a Palestinian state has come down to two dates, in 1948 and 1967, Bret Stephens writes. in any borders; that every Israeli territorial or diplomatic concession is seen by Palestinians as evidence of weakness; that a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would only serve as a launchpad for an intensified assault on Israel; that every criticism of Israeli policies in the occupied territories veils a deep-seated hatred of the Jewish state. When the left embraces the zero-sum politics of Palestinian resistance, it merely encourages the zero-sum politics of hard-core Israeli settlers and their supporters. A third consequence is that it abandons the Palestinian people to their worst leaders. It’s bad enough that the West has long accepted, and funded, Mahmoud Abbas’ repressive kleptocracy based in the West Bank city of Ramallah. But what Hamas has given the people over whom it rules is infinitely worse: theocratic despotism, soaked in the blood of Palestinian “martyrs,” most of whom never signed themselves or their families up to serve as human shields in an endless — and in the long run, hopeless — battle with Israel. It’s fine for Israel’s harshest critics to ask hard questions of Israel’s leaders. But when those same critics stop asking equally hard questions of Palestinian leaders, they are not advocating a cause. They are merely submitting to a regime. The world, including Israel, has a common interest in an eventual Palestinian state that cares more about building itself up than tearing its neighbors down; that invests its energy in future prosperity, not past glory; that accepts compromise and rejects fanaticism. Since Oct. 7, the loudest self-professed champions of the Palestinian cause have advocated the precise opposite. It may be a recipe for smug self-satisfaction, but it’s also how to kill a Palestinian state.

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Comisionada residente anuncia fondos para esfuerzos de conservación de costas, corales y hábitats en Puerto Rico POR CYBERNEWS

ASHINGTON, D.C. – La comisionada residente Jenniffer González Colón anunció el miércoles la asignación de más de 1,463,300 dólares en subvenciones federales para proyectos de conservación en Puerto Rico. “Estas subvenciones son fundamentales para la conservación de nuestras costas y hábitats. Confío en que contribuirán significativamente al desarrollo y la resiliencia de nuestras comunidades costeras”, expresó González Colón en una carta dirigida al director ejecutivo de la Fundación Nacional de Pesca y Vida Silvestre. Ahora, Inc. recibirá más de 671,100 dólares para el proyecto de resiliencia en el bosque húmedo de Puerto Rico, beneficiando especies en peligro y fomentando la participación comunitaria en Guayama. El Centro para la Reconstrucción del Hábitat obtendrá 292,200 dólares para mejorar la mitigación y restauración de hábitats en las comunidades aledañas al Caño Martín Peña en San Juan. Sail for Reefs, Inc. será beneficiado con medio millón de dólares para la evaluación y restauración de arrecifes de coral, incrementando la resiliencia comunitaria en áreas costeras como Loíza, Carolina y San Juan. Los fondos provienen del National Coastal Resilience Fund, un programa de la NOAA y el NFWF, que desde 2018 ha invertido más de siete millones cuatrocientos mil dólares en proyectos costeros en Puerto Rico. Estos esfuerzos incluyen la restauración de corales, manglares, yerbas marinas y sistemas de dunas, todos vitales para la conservación del ambiente marino y la protección de las costas.

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This season, holiday movies are falling for Europe By CLAIRE MOSES

hristmas is magical. Christmas is inescapable. And, according to an increasing number of holiday movies, it’s in Europe. Browse Hallmark and Lifetime’s channels, and you will find a Christmas in Rome. In Vienna. In Switzerland. In Scotland. In Notting Hill. We’re having a Belgian Chocolate Christmas. A jolly good Christmas. A merry Scottish Christmas and even a merry Swissmas. You can enjoy a Heidelberg holiday and a Joyeux Noel (that one’s in France). Europe, with its cobblestoned streets (a nightmare in heels), old buildings (no central heating) and Christmas markets (those can be as good as they look onscreen), provides the perfect setting for a magical holiday adventure. “Hallmark fans get to experience these incredible destinations through the eyes of our character,” said Ali Liebert, the director of one of the network’s 2023 offerings, “Christmas in Notting Hill.” In many of these films, an American girl is undervalued at her big city job. She leaves the city and finds a rugged local, who embodies all the wholesome values of a small town. Sometimes her love interest is a widower. Sometimes he has an adorable child, or he may have a dog. (If he lives in Scotland, the dog’s name may be Hamish.) Certain European spots have been deemed more appropriately Christmassy than others. (We’re yet to see “My Barcelona Christmas,” despite the December temperatures there being pretty similar to London.) In these films, Europe is awash with eligible princes from royal families presiding over countries with names such as Aldovia or Cordinia, which you would be hard pressed to find on a map. And for those holiday movie fans expecting a white Christmas in England, it’s more likely you’ll get a drizzly one. The last time Britain saw a festive blanketing of snow for the holiday, the way Charles Dickens intended, was in 2010. But none of that matters. Christmas movies let you vicariously live your best European Christmas, which may be significantly better than the holidays experi-

In “A Heidelberg Holiday,” Heidi (Ginna Claire Mason) heads to Germany to sell her handmade ornaments at a market, where she falls for a local hunk (Frédéric Brossier). enced by actual Europeans. And as far as snow goes — there are visual effects for that. Hallmark is releasing 42 new holiday movies this year, with a catalog of many more, and shooting some in European locations “gives us more cultural traditions to dig into,” said Lisa Hamilton Daly, the head of programming at Hallmark Media. “Our audiences love to travel with us.” Daly is already looking ahead to next year’s Christmas, she said, adding that Hallmark crews will probably be returning to Europe for the network’s 2024 holiday movie slate. And for viewers, getting to Europe — whether it’s because of pandemic delays, high ticket prices or general travel stress during the holidays — has not gotten any easier. “U.S. audiences may not always be able to go to these exotic foreign lands,” said Dustin Rikert, the director of the new Hallmark film “A Merry Scottish Christmas,” which centers on estranged siblings in a castle in Scotland. American audiences seem to enjoy watching stories set in the beautiful Scottish countryside. In Netflix’s 2021 film “A Castle for Christmas,” a bestselling author (Brooke Shields) ends up in a Scottish village and falls in love with a local duke.

In Lifetime’s 2020 film “Christmas at the Castle,” a big city girl is sent to the Scottish Highlands to find a rare fragrance. She, too, falls in love with a local. These stories and settings are pure escapism, according to David Lumsden and Toby Trueman, the director and an executive producer of “Christmas in Scotland,” a 2023 movie streaming on Plex and Xumo. “We never have white Christmases, it’s always a gray Christmas,” said Trueman, who lives in Edinburgh. “This is not a realist film.”

Lumsden has also directed other genres, including horror, and he has enjoyed the switch to holiday content. “My family rarely gets to see the stuff I do,” he said, because it’s “too scary for my niece or nephew.” Christmas movies, he added, can be watched by everyone. Movies set around the holidays have long been popular, and in the 2000s, festive romance films including “Love Actually” and “The Holiday” made big money at the box office, before joining films such as “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Home Alone” in the rotation of classic holiday movies. Over the past few years, Hallmark and Lifetime have bet big on cheesy, formulaic Christmas movies with a guaranteed happy ending, releasing dozens of new titles every year. These movies’ predictable and cozy nature fuels their popularity. “The formula exists for a very good reason,” Daly said. “It makes people happy.” At the end of a Christmas movie, you know that the beautiful Scotsman (or Germanic prince or English soccer star) will end up with the ambitious American blonde (or brunette). They will kiss — and nothing else! Hands where I can see them! — at the exact moment soft snowflakes start falling. Our American heroine may even make a permanent move to that drafty old castle without modern amenities. But I digress. What happens after the credits roll is not important.

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‘Maestro’ review: Leonard Bernstein’s life of ecstasy and agony By MANOHLA DARGIS

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aestro,” Bradley Cooper’s intimate portrait of Leonard Bernstein, takes flight with a terrific whoosh of exuberance. The young Bernstein (played by Cooper) has just gotten the phone call that will change his life. He’s been asked to step in for an ailing guest conductor and lead the New York Philharmonic; it will be his conducting debut. Overjoyed, Lenny, as he’s often called, jumps up, throws open a curtain and then sprints out of his apartment to race, bathrobe flapping, into his dazzling, very public future as an American genius. The real Bernstein was 25 and an assistant conductor with the Philharmonic when he took the Carnegie Hall stage on Nov. 14, 1943, to polite applause. The program opened with Robert Schumann, ended with Richard Wagner, and by the time it was over, the house, as Bernstein’s brother, Burton, put it, “roared like one giant animal in a zoo.” The next day, The New York Times ran a story about the concert on the front page. A few days later, the Times followed up on the concert with a small item that likened Bernstein’s debut to a young corporal taking charge of a platoon when the officers are down: “It’s a good American success story.” In “Maestro,” Cooper explores the definition — and brutal toll — of that kind of success with deep sympathy, lushly beautiful wall-to-wall music and great narrative velocity. In outline, it’s a familiar story of a classic American striver. Bernstein was the son of Jewish Russian immigrants who escaped a dire fate in the family business (the Samuel J. Bernstein Hair Co.) to become a 20th-century cultural force. He conducted and composed, wrote for the ballet, the opera and Broadway, and was a fixture on TV. He had gold and platinum albums, was on the cover of Time and Newsweek, and won slews of Grammys and Emmys. It was a big juicy life, one that Cooper — who wrote the script with Josh Singer — has condensed into two eventful, visually expressive hours. “Maestro” is as ambitious as Cooper’s fine directorial debut, “A Star Is Born,” but the new movie is more self-consciously cinematic. Some of the choices — different aspect ratios as well as the use of both black-and-white and color film — nod at the look of movies from earlier eras. The visuals also convey interiority, swells of mood and feeling, as does Lenny’s explosive, at times ecstatic physicality, the full-bodied intensity of his conducting style and the orgasmic rivers of sweat that pour off him. “Maestro” is a fast-paced chronicle of towering highs, crushing lows and artistic milestones, most delivered in a personal key. Cooper packs a lot in without overexplaining the era or its titans (Brian Klugman plays composer Aaron Copland, one of Bernstein’s closest friends); years pass in an eyeblink, events slip by obliquely or go unmentioned. Cooper is more interested in feelings than happenings, though part of what makes the movie pop and gives it currency is how he complicates the familiar Great Man of History template. Bernstein is rightly the main event in “Maestro,” but crucial to the film’s meaning is his relationship with his fam-

Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein and Carey Mulligan as his wife, Felicia Montealegre, in “Maestro.” ily, especially his wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein (a brittle Carey Mulligan). Theirs was a fraught, decadeslong relationship that begins in the 1940s when they meet at one of those fabulously glamorous New York parties that mostly exist in old Hollywood films or in biographies of very important dead people. There, amid a boisterous crowd of revelers wreathed in cigarette smoke and bobbing together on an ocean of booze, Lenny and his pals Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Mallory Portnoy and Nick Blaemire) are lighting up the room. Lenny and Felicia make their introductions, tuck into a quiet corner to flirt and laugh, their heads and bodies soon listing toward each other. By the time the night is over, they’re walking side by side, seemingly destined for a happily ever after. It didn’t turn out exactly that way for assorted reasons, including Bernstein’s overshadowing brilliance. He was also gay, though maybe bisexual; the movie nimbly avoids labeling him. (In her memoir “Famous Father Girl,” his daughter Jamie refers to him as both.) Instead, with roundelays of teasing and desiring looks as well as in asides and conversations (including a faithful restaging of an Edward R. Murrow interview), “Maestro” expresses the complexities of Lenny’s private and public selves. After Lenny receives that call to conduct the Philharmonic, for one, he playfully taps drumlike on the discreetly covered rear of his lover, David Oppenheim (Matt Bomer). And then Lenny rushes out the door alone. The opener introduces the idea of Lenny’s life as a performance, which becomes the film’s controlling metaphor. Cooper underscores this idea repeatedly, including when Felicia takes Lenny to the empty theater where she’s an understudy and where they playfully act out a love scene they seal with a Hollywood kiss. Sometime later, in an energetic swerve into surrealism, Felicia grabs his hand, and they sprint from an outdoor meal with friends and into another theater where three dancers in white sailor uniforms are

waiting onstage. As with Lenny’s dash out of his bedroom and into Carnegie Hall, Cooper stages this sprint with the camera pointing down at the characters, as if it were running on an overhead catwalk. As Felicia and Lenny race into the theater, they look like performers hitting their marks and a bit like dollhouse runaways. The dancers start performing “Fancy Free” — Bernstein and Jerome Robbins’ ballet about sailors on shore leave in New York — then move into its musical adaptation, “On the Town.” With Felicia and Lenny watching, the sailors begin moving to the infectiously alive, jazzy music, their snaky hips and tight uniforms emphasizing the choreography’s muscular eroticism; and then a sailor beckons Lenny to join in the fun. Here and elsewhere, Cooper makes a point of showing Felicia watching Lenny first with what seems to be admiration, then love and later something darker, sadder and despairing. He’s already a name when they meet and already taking up a lot of room; soon, he is the star around which everything and everyone orbits, including Felicia and the three children they have together. He’s a bigger-than-big personality (flamboyance is a favorite adjective of Bernstein biographers), with a buzzing, heady vitality that feels like a life force or a painfully addictive high. It’s easy to see why she’s pulled in, but the exhilaration that initially lifts the film is a harder sell once Felicia and Lenny begin to fall in love. The movie makes the case that Lenny’s and Felicia’s love was genuine, even if Cooper and Mulligan never convincingly sync up. This disconnect doesn’t seem intentional, but it also serves the story and characters, including early on when Lenny’s and Felicia’s heightened emotions and smiles can feel forced, like an act of mutual will. Even so, you believe they love each other, however differently; and because Cooper spends a lot of time on Felicia, you grow to understand that she knows she’ll never be enough for Lenny. Yet in focusing so much on Felicia, whose light dims the brighter his blazes, stressing what it costs her to play a role in this performance of happy heterosexuality, Cooper also inadvertently shortchanges Lenny. Although Cooper makes Felicia the linchpin of his Great Man revisionism, the film’s most deeply felt scenes involve Lenny with his children and his close male friends. One centers on an anguished encounter he has with David. The other unfolds at Lenny and Felicia’s country home after the birth of one of their children and finds him walking across the lawn, the newborn in his arms. Lenny drifts over to Aaron Copland, who’s sitting under a tree on a swing with a smile. Lenny joins him and gently holds the baby so that Aaron can see the baby’s face. Lenny nuzzles the infant, and the two men just sit quietly as the tenderness of the moment — and the overwhelming cruelty of this world and all its terrible lies — knocks you flat. — ‘Maestro’ Rated R for some discreet nudity and a whole lot of cigarettes and booze. Running time: 2 hours 9 minutes. In theaters.

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Unvaccinated and vulnerable: Children drive surge in deadly outbreaks By STEPHANIE NOLEN

arge outbreaks of diseases that primarily kill children are spreading around the world, a grim legacy of disruptions to health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic that have left more than 60 million children without a single dose of standard childhood vaccines. By midway through this year, 47 countries were reporting serious measles outbreaks, compared with 16 countries in June 2020. Nigeria is currently facing the largest diphtheria outbreak in its history, with more than 17,000 suspected cases and nearly 600 deaths so far. Twelve countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, are reporting circulating polio virus. Many of the children who missed their shots have now aged out of routine immunization programs. So-called “zero-dose children” account for nearly half of all child deaths from vaccine-preventable illnesses, according to Gavi, the organization that helps fund vaccination in low- and middleincome countries. An additional 85 million children are underimmunized as a result of the pandemic — that is, they received only part of the standard course of several shots required to be fully protected from a particular disease. The cost of the failure to reach those children is swiftly becoming clear. Deaths from measles rose 43% (to 136,200) in 2022, compared with the previous year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The figures for 2023 indicate that the total could be twice as high again. “The decline in vaccination coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic led us directly to this situation of rising diseases and child deaths,” said Ephrem Lemango, associate director of immunization for UNICEF, which supports delivery of vaccines to almost half the world’s children every year. “With each new outbreak, the toll on vulnerable communities rises. We need to move fast now and make the investment needed to catch up the children that were missed during the pandemic.” One of the biggest challenges is that the children who missed their first shots between 2020 and 2022 are now older than the age group typically seen routinely at primary health care centers and in normal vaccination programs. Reaching and protecting

Deborah Sebi carrying immunizations in a refrigerated box on her way to set up the mobile clinic in Teshie, a fishing village near Accra, Ghana, on July 19, 2023. About 60 million “zero-dose children” have not received any vaccines and have aged out of routine immunization programs. Protecting them will require a costly vaccination blitz. them from diseases that can easily turn fatal in countries with the most fragile health systems will require an extra push and new investment. “If you were born within a certain period of time, you were missed, full stop, and you’re not going to get caught just by restoring normal services,” said Lily Caprani, UNICEF’s chief of global advocacy. UNICEF is asking Gavi for $350 million to purchase vaccines to try to reach those children. Gavi’s governing board will consider the request next month. UNICEF is urging countries to implement a catch-up vaccination blitz, an exceptional, one-time program to reach all the children between the ages of 1 and 4 who were missed. Many developing countries have some experience of carrying out catch-up campaigns for measles, targeting children between 1 and 5 or even 1 and 15 in response to outbreaks. But now those countries also need to deliver the other vaccines and train personnel — typically, community health workers who are only accustomed to vaccinating babies — and to procure and distribute the actual vaccines. Lemango said that despite the urgency of the situation, it had been a struggle to get plans for such campaigns in place and that he hoped most could come together in 2024.

“Coming out of the pandemic, there was this hangover; no one wanted to do campaigns,” he said. “Everyone wants to return to normalcy and do regular strengthening of immunization. But we already had unfinished business.” In some countries, such as Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia, health systems have recovered from severe COVID disruption and have regained or even surpassed the levels of vaccination coverage they had reached before the pandemic. But others — mostly countries where vaccination rates were already considerably lower than the targets set by UNICEF — have not caught up to their previously lower levels. The countries with the most zero-dose children include Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, Congo and Pakistan. Many with the lowest levels of coverage are facing compounding challenges, such as the civil conflicts in Syria, Ethiopia and Yemen; the growing population of climate refugees in Chad; and both of those problems in Sudan. Ghana’s experience is representative of the challenges of many lower-income countries. Parents couldn’t take their children for routine shots when communities were locked down to protect against COVID, and when those restrictions were lifted, many parents still stayed away because of fear of infection, said Priscilla Obiri, a community health nurse in charge of vaccina-

tions in low-income fishing communities on the edge of the capital, Accra. Of the children Obiri sees these days at a typical pop-up vaccination clinic, where she sets up a table and a few chairs in the shade at a crossroads, as many as one-third will have incomplete vaccinations or sometimes none at all, she said. She agrees on a plan with their mothers to make up the gap. But some parents don’t or can’t bring their children to a clinic. “We must go out to the community and hunt for them,” she said. As Obiri and her colleagues attempt to regain that lost ground, they face another challenge: Disinformation campaigns and hesitation about COVID vaccines have spilled over and eroded some of the traditional eagerness that parents had to get their children routine immunizations, according to the Vaccine Confidence Project, a longrunning research initiative at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “In 55 countries, there was a precipitous drop between 2015 and 2022 in the number of people who said that routine immunization is important for children,” said the project’s director, Heidi Larson, whose team collected what she described as “robust global polling data” in more than 100 nationally representative surveys. Even as people around the world were seeking information about vaccines, there was a surge in misinformation and disinformation, she said, and people with low trust in officials and official guidance were particularly vulnerable to believing alternative sources of information. In 2015, 95% of Ghanaian parents said they believed vaccines were safe. That figure plunged to 67% of parents in 2022. It had climbed back to 83% by October of this year. Dr. Kwame Amponsah-Achiano, who oversees the childhood immunization program in Ghana, said he did not believe that confidence had fallen during the COVID pandemic. Demand remains high and has outstripped the program’s ability to supply in some areas, he said. Caprani said UNICEF had found that both problems were occurring in parallel. “You can have demand outstripping not just physical supply but also outstripping access — convenient, affordable, reachable access — and simultaneously see some declining confidence,” she said. “It’s not necessarily the same people.”

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Scientists find first evidence that groups of apes cooperate By CARL ZIMMER

f a troop of baboons encounters another troop on the savanna, they may keep a respectful distance or they may get into a fight. But human groups often do something else: They cooperate. Tribes of hunter-gatherers regularly come together for communal hunts or to form large-scale alliances. Villages and towns give rise to nations. Networks of trade span the planet. Human cooperation is so striking that anthropologists have long considered it a hallmark of our species. They have speculated that it emerged thanks to the evolution of our powerful brains, which enable us to use language, establish cultural traditions and perform other complex behaviors. But a new study, published in Science on Nov. 16, throws that uniqueness into doubt. It turns out that two groups of apes in Africa have regularly mingled and cooperated with each other for years. “To have extended, friendly, cooperative relationships between members of other groups who have no kinship ties is really quite extraordinary,” said Joan Silk, a primatologist at Arizona State University who was not involved in the study. The new research comes from longterm observations of bonobos, an ape species that lives in the forests of Congo. A century ago, primatologists thought bonobos were a slender subspecies of chimpanzee. But the two species are genetically distinct and behave in some remarkably different ways. Among chimpanzees, males hold a dominant place in society. They can be extremely violent, even killing babies. In bonobo groups, however, females dominate, and males have never been observed to commit infanticide. Bonobos often defuse conflict with sex, a strategy that primatologists have not observed among chimpanzees. Scientists made most of their early observations of bonobos in zoos. But in recent years, they’ve conducted long-term studies of the apes in the wild. Martin Surbeck, a behavioral ecologist at Harvard, in 2016 set up a new observational site in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in Congo. Working with the Mongandu people who live in neighboring villages, he set out on hikes through the forests in search of bonobos.

In a photo provided by Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project, a female adult bonobo grooms an adolescent male from a neighboring group in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some bonobos are challenging the notion that humans are the only primates capable of groupto-group alliances. On their first scouting trip, Surbeck was shocked to see what happened when the bonobo group they were following encountered another one. After some excited hooting, the apes settled down into a friendly gathering. The encounter couldn’t have been more different from what happens between chimpanzee groups. Male chimpanzees typically patrol the boundaries

of their ranges, ready to battle males from other groups. They will even climb hilltops to scan the horizon for other groups. “I just felt very privileged to witness this encounter,” Surbeck recalled. After that, Surbeck and his colleagues came to know the two groups of bonobos very well. They called one group, with 11 adults, Ekalakala. The other group, with 20 adults, came to be known as Kokoalongo.

In a photo provided by Liran Samuni/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project, a peaceful encounter among bonobo groups in the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve.

He and his colleagues observed 95 encounters between the two groups over the course of two years. Some lasted less than an hour, but others lasted days. Once, the Ekalakala and Kokoalongo groups lingered for two weeks before parting ways. During these mixers, the bonobos behaved much as they would in a single group. They groomed one another, shared food and cooperated to chase away snakes. Yet, the two groups remained distinct. The scientists found no evidence of any offspring from Ekalakala and Kokoalongo apes. The two groups even maintained their own cultures. Although their ranges overlapped, they hunted for different kinds of game. Ekalakala bonobos went after small deerlike mammals called duikers. Kokoalongo bonobos caught squirrels. Liran Samuni, an expert on chimpanzees at the German Primate Center in Göttingen who joined the Kokolopori research, said the cooperation between the groups was not just the result of bonobos being friendly in general. “It’s not just random,” she said. Samuni and her colleagues found that individual apes from the different groups gradually formed bonds as they offered favors and gifts back and forth. In some cases, two apes from the different groups even formed an alliance to harass a third bonobo. Silk hoped that the new research would encourage similar studies elsewhere to see just how widespread this cooperation really is among bonobos. “You always want to see things happening over and over in different populations before you’re really convinced of how important this feature is,” she said. Those observations may not come anytime soon. It’s hard to establish bonobo research sites, and not only because the apes live deep in rainforests. Scientists also have to contend with the internal conflicts in Congo. And bonobos, which may number only 15,000, are threatened by logging and poaching. Samuni noted that chimpanzees, with their hostile encounters, are just as closely related to us as bonobos are. Our species resembles both lineages, in different respects. While human groups can cooperate in remarkable ways, they can also organize themselves to fight. “I wouldn’t say it’s either/or,” Samuni said. “They are jointly teaching us about our past.”

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New book explores Black cocktail history By CLAIRE MOSES

hile many in the world of cocktails are familiar with Tom Bullock, renowned for his juleps and long considered the first African American bartender to publish a cocktail manual, fewer know the work of Atholene Peyton, a home economics teacher whose 1906 “Peytonia Cook Book” predated Bullock’s by a decade. Peyton’s story is just one told in Toni Tipton-Martin’s new book, “Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs and Juice: Cocktails From Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks,” a chronicle of the ways Black people contributed to American cocktail culture. “This is really a work of investigative journalism. It’s not just a book of cocktails,” said Tipton-Martin, a James Beard award-winning author of several cookbooks and the editor of Cook’s Country magazine, who pored through centuries’ worth of published recipes for her new work. The book is a continuation of her 2015 book, “The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks,” which credited Black women for much of the country’s culinary history, and her 2019 follow-up, “Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking.” “What Toni has done here is essentially create a mixologist’s parallel to what she did in ‘Jubilee,’” said Jessica B. Harris, the author of “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America,” which has been adapted as a Netflix series. “The two books become a diptych of the food of African Americans, as revealed through their cookbooks.” Tipton-Martin owns a vast collection of old cookbooks by Black authors from as early as 1827, and has used that foundation to propel the research and historical context her books are famous for. For her new book, she relied on cookbooks published by early Black bartenders like Bullock in 1917 and Julian Anderson in 1919. But she also uncovered the contributions of Peyton, a teacher born in Louisville, Kentucky, whose “Peytonia Cook Book” included a chapter on drinks, with recipes for juleps, gin fizzes, eggnog,

Gin and juice. Many people know of gin and juice because of Snoop Dogg’s hit from his debut album in 1993 — Toni Tipton-Martin’s recipe has extra depth from the use of vermouth and bitters. Food styled by Simon Andrews. a whiskey sour and a manhattan. (TiptonMartin discusses Peyton’s Champagne punch in her new book.) “I can hear the voice of the cook or bar master claiming their intellectual property,” Tipton-Martin said. “Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs and Juice” is organized chronologically by craft, which gave Tipton-Martin the space to write about “all of that Black drink history.” She starts with teaching readers how to brew beer and ferment wine. Enslaved and free Black women made those drinks and built beverage enterprises during the antebellum era. Punchbowl drinks tell the stories of Black caterers and food entrepreneurs. Other chapters are dedicated to the Black bartenders who made layered drinks at taverns in the late 18th century. She ends the book with a section on how some Black people today refer to liquor as a form of empowerment, especially in rap lyrics. Beverages like gin and juice — which Snoop Dogg immortalized in song in the 1990s — have deep roots. Similar concoctions appeared in the 1930s in books like “Burke’s Complete Cocktail and Drinking Recipes,” published in 1934. The drink’s origins begin in Africa, Tipton-Martin said, where people macerated oranges and allowed them to ferment. The book goes far beyond cocktails in exploring African American history. Places

like juke joints, strategically located near agricultural communities, served as sites where African Americans could escape the daily indignities of segregation. But their clientele were often stereotyped as lazy gamblers, unlike white Americans, whose drinking was portrayed more favorably. This double standard led to a notable absence of writing about drinks by African American authors from the mid-20th century until the 1970s, Tipton-Martin said. “It was surprising and fascinating to me to learn that as part of my ancestors’ desire to be respected, appreciated and valued by the larger society, they just stopped discussing alcohol consumption,” Tipton-Martin said, likening those stereotypes to the way Black female cooks were mocked with the mammy character. She dug just as deep for her recipe research, combining elements from various books and testing the adapted recipes before completing them for publication. She explains how people served these drinks decades ago, which offers readers ideas for customizing the recipes. Tipton-Martin came to her work with little cocktail experience, so she relied on two consultants: her son Brandon Tipton, a formally trained bartender, and Tiffanie Barriere, a master mixologist and educator in Atlanta. Barriere said she taught

Tipton-Martin essentials such as knowing how long to shake a drink. She also offered some modern alternatives to older methods like shaping ice with a pick and mallet (use pebbled ice cubes or an ice mold instead). “The beverage community has been waiting for a book like this,” Barriere said, adding that Black people have long known that their ancestors made an impact on cocktails. “It’s just another ‘aha’ moment.” —RECIPE: Gin and juice Recipe from Toni Tipton-Martin Adapted by Christina Morales Toni Tipton-Martin spent three years writing her latest cookbook, “Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs and Juice: Cocktails From Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks” (Clarkson Potter, 2023), which gives Black people credit for their contributions to the American cocktail canon. But through her research, she found that Black people were disparaged for their drinking, which led to a large gap in published recipes. Alcoholic beverages like gin and juice were referenced in rap lyrics, namely Snoop Dogg’s hit from his debut album. Though gin and juice needs only two ingredients, this one gains extra depth from the use of vermouth and bitters. Similar combinations of gin, orange juice, vermouth and bitters were traced back to several cookbooks, including some that were published more than a century ago. Yield: 1 drink Total time: 10 minutes Ingredients: Ice cubes 1 1/2 ounces gin (preferably Tanqueray) 1 ounce fresh orange juice 1/4 ounce sweet (red) vermouth 1/4 ounce dry (white) vermouth 1/4 ounce Cointreau (optional) 2 dashes Angostura or blood orange bitters 1 mandarin, tangerine or orange wheel Preparation: 1. Fill a cocktail mixer halfway with ice and add all liquids. Stir for 20 seconds, until cold. 2. Rub the rim of a rocks glass or lowball with the citrus wheel. Strain the cocktail into the glass, garnish with the citrus wheel and serve right away.

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46073, Registro de Mayagüez. queda subrogado en la res- AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE de Evangelino Zayas, por el Caguas, el 23 DE ENERO DE REMANSO DE SUCESION DAVID Dirección Física: Urbanización ponsabilidad de los mismos, DE LOS EE.UU. ESTADO LIESTE, en treinta y ocho punto 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MABOQUERON, S.E. CARRASQUILLO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIANDO Balcones de Sonsire, Lote 4, sin destinarse su extinción al BRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.. setenta y nueve (38.79) metros, ÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevaParte Demandada SANTANA COMPUESTA con camino dedicado a uso pú- rá a cabo para, con su producto DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUBarrio Rio Cañas Abajo, Ma- precio rematante. Todos los A: MAY MICHELLY Civil Núm.: ISCI201500931. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA POR ANGEL DAVID yagüez, Puerto Rico. Dicha nombres de los acreedores que blico y con parcela numero dos satisfacer a la parte demandanLÓPEZ COLÓN Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOSALA DE GUAYANILLA EN SApropiedad se encuentra afecta tengan inscritos o anotados (2) a segregarse y por el OES- te, el importe de la Sentencia CARRASQUILLO TECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA 358 RIDGE LAND CT APT BANA GRANDE al siguiente gravamen poste- sus derechos sobre los bienes TE, en treinta y cinco (35.00) dictada a su favor ascendente SANTIAGO, JOSE Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUN#7, HOLLAND, rior: Hipoteca en garantía de hipotecados con posterioridad FERNANDO VELAZQUEZ metros, con terrenos, ahora a la suma de $87,293.72 por LUIS CARRASQUILLO CIO DE SUBASTA. El suscriMICHIGAN 49423 pagaré suscrito a favor del Por- a la inscripción del crédito del propiedad de Patricio Serrano. concepto de principal, más la MALDONADO biente, Alguacil del Tribunal de SANTIAGO, tador, o a su orden, por la suma ejecutante, o de los acreedores o sea la parte demandada Finca número 14,303, inscrita suma de $20,584.41 en inHC 02 BOX 6228 CARMEN MILAGROS al folio 115 del tomo 283 de San tereses acumulados al 3 de Primera Instancia de Puerto de CINCUENTA Y CINCO MIL de cargas o derechos reales arriba mencionada. Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, a los PEÑUELAS, PR 00624 DOLARES ($55,000.00), según que los hubiesen pospuesto CARRASQUILLO Lorenzo, Registro de la Propie- enero de 2023 y los cuales SS. demandados de epígrafe y al TEL. (787)241-0258 SANTIAGO, YOLANDA dad de Caguas, Sección II. La continúan acumulándose a público en general hace saber escritura numero 300, otorgada a la hipoteca ejecutada y las POR LA PRESENTE: Se le Peticionario Vs. en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el personas interesadas en, o con Hipoteca Revertida consta ins- razón de 3.568% anual hasta CARRASQUILLO notifica a usted, Sra. May Mique venderá en pública subasEX-PARTE 30 de agosto de 2008, ante el derecho a exigir el cumplimiencrita al folio 105 del tomo 468 su total y completo pago; más ta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, chelly López Colón, que la MALAVE; JOHN DOE Civil Núm.: GY2023CV00196. Notario Jaime F. Sepulveda Ri- to de instrumentos negociables de San Lorenzo, Finca 14,303, la sumas de $4,634.35 en sesita en el Tribunal de Primera parte demandante de epígrafe Y JANE DOE COMO Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOvera, según inscripción tercera garantizados hipotecariamenRegistro de la Propiedad de guro hipotecario; $5,740.00 Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, ha radicado en esta SecretaMINIO. El Estado Libre Aso- POSIBLES HEREDEROS Caguas, Sección II, inscripción en tarifas de servicio; $854.00 (3era). La PRIMERA SUBASTA te con posterioridad al crédito ría una Demanda de Custodia al mejor postor, en moneda ciado de Puerto Rico, a todo el ejecutado, siempre que surgen se llevará a cabo el día 11 DE 5ª. Propiedad localizada en: en seguro; $475.00 de tasaDESCONOCIDOS; y Privación de Patria Potestad de curso legal de los Estados que tenga derecho real sobre ESTADOS UNIDOS DE SOLAR 3, PR-916 KM. 3.9, ciones; $580.00 de inspeccio- Unidos de América en efectivo, ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 de la certificación registral, que aquí se menciona. POR el inmueble descrito en la PeDE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de para que puedan concurrir a BO. CERRO GORDO, SAN nes; $5,690.50 de adelantos LA PRESENTE se le emplaza cheque certificado, o giro posAMERICA; CENTRO tición de Expediente de Domitipo mínimo para la misma la la subasta si les convenga o LORENZO, P.R. 00754. Se- pendientes; más la cantidad tal a nombre del Alguacil del y requiere para que conteste la DE RECAUDACION DE nio, a las personas ignoradas suma de $152,929.36 sin admi- satisfacer antes del remate el gún figuran en la certificación de 10% del pagare original en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, demanda dentro de los treinta a quienes pueda perjudicar la INGRESOS MUNICIPALES registral, la propiedad objeto la suma de $17,400.00, para tirse oferta inferior. En el caso importe del crédito, de sus in-

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inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el Expediente de Dominio promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: “RUSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Macaná del término municipal de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de UNO PUNTO TREINTA Y SIETE CUERDAS (1.37 cdas.) equivalentes a CINCO MIL TRESCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO SESENTA Y CINCO METROS CUADRADOS (5,384.65 mc). Colinda por el Norte con Héctor S. Prieto Velázquez, por el Sur y Este con José A. Velázquez Velázquez y por el Oeste con Carretera Ciento Treinta y Uno (131) y terrenos de Luisa Velázquez Maldonado. Contiene una estructura destinada a vivienda.”. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Lcdo. Joseph Brocco Santiago, PO. Box 608, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 00624-0608, Teléfono 787-836-3020. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Adelaida Lugo Pacheco, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2022CV03360. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO 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 Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, el 8 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, 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 describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela número tres (3) radicado en el Barrio Cerro Gordo de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. Compuesta de mil (1,000) metros cuadrados y e lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia LEGAL NOTICE de veinte punto setenta y dos ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO (20.72) metros; con la Parcela DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- número cinco (5), propiedad NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de Lydia Almeda, por el SUR, SALA SUPERIOR DE CA- en distancia de veinticinco punto cincuenta y tres (25.53) GUAS REVERSE MORTGAGE metros; con camino dedicado a uso público que separa de FUNDING LLC una quebrada y con terrenos Demandante Vs.

de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $174,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 22 de febrero de 2095. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $174,000.00, 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 Caguas, el 16 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $116,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $87,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de

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el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $160,882.99 de balance principal, más la cantidad de $6,144.07 por concepto de atrasos que incluye principal, intereses, cargos por demora y otros cargos, los cuales continuan acumulándose hasta el saldo de la deuda; $13,996.77 por concepto de un “piggyback” obtenido para celebrar y llevar a cabo la modificación; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RÚSTICA: Barrio Rio Cañas Abajo de Mayagüez. Solar denominado con el número cuatro (4) en el plano de inscripción en el Proyecto Balcones de Sonsire sito en el Barrio Río Cañas Abajo del término municipal de Mayagüez, con una cabida superficial de DOS MIL DOSCIENTOS QUINCE PUNTO CUATRO MIL CIENTO NOVENTA Y NUEVE METROS CUADRADOS (2,215,4199). Colinda por el Norte, con el solar número ocho (8) y el solar número siete (7), por el Sur, con carretera número trescientos cincuenta y uno (351) sección tres mil trescientos cincuenta y uno (3351), por el Este, con el solar número cinco (5) y por el Oeste, con el solar número tres (3). Enclava LEGAL NOTICE una estructura edificada de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO hormigón y bloques, dedicada DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUa vivienda para una sola famiNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA lia. Este solar está afectado por SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ servidumbre de la Autoridad de ESTRELLA HOMES III LLC Energía Eléctrica, servidumbre Parte Demandante para teléfono y cable y estación BRENDA MARIE de bomba de agua. Inscrita al sistema Karibe, finca numero STEWART FERIA, gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de noviembre de 2023. CARLOS DELGADO CRUZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL PLACA #593.

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de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $101,952.91. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 25 DE ENERO DE 2024 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $76,464.88. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y

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SUCESIÓN DE ALBERTA los herederos que componen computados sobre la misma desconocidos. Se les APERCI- te dirección: https://unired. PLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC- de este Edicto. Se le apercibe su publicación de este edicto, la Sucesión de Esther Eugenia desde su fecha hasta su total BE que de no expresarse den- ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE que, de no hacerlo así dentro se le anotara la rebeldía en SANTOS MENDOZA, Collazo Santos. En Caguas, y completo pago a razón de la tro de ese término de TREINTA represente por derecho propio, AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE del término indicado, el Tribu- su contra y se le dictara senT/C/C ALBERTA SANTOS- Puerto Rico, a 21 de noviembre tasa de interés de 3.193%anual, (30) días en torno a su acepta- en cuyo caso deberá presentar DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LI- nal podrá anotar su rebeldía y tencia en su contra, conforme MENDOZA COMPUESTA de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ y vencedero el 6 de mayo de ción o repudiación de herencia, su alegación responsiva en la BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO dictar sentencia concediendo se solicita en la Demanda, sin el remedio solicitado en la De- más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GE- 2086. La Hipoteca Revertida se la herencia se tendrá por acep- secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted RICO, SS. POR LA SUCESIÓN manda sin más citarle, ni oírle. BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE A: JUAN Y JUANA DE ESTHER EUGENIA NERAL. ANA H. LUGO MU- encuentra inscrita al folio 198 tada. También se les APERCI- deja de presentar su alegación EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA ESTE TRIBUNAL. En HumaÑOZ, SUB-SECRETARIA. del tomo 573 de Cayey, finca BE que luego del transcurso responsiva dentro del referido DEL PUEBLO. COLLAZO SANTOS número 12,151 inscripción 6ta. del término de TREINTA (30) término, el tribunal podrá dic- Por la presente se le notifica Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en cao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de COMPUESTA POR LUIS LEGAL NOTICE Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy a 17 noviembre de 2023. IVELISSE La hipoteca grava la propiedad días antes señalado contados tar sentencia en rebeldía en su ha sido presentada en OMAR BRUNO COLLAZO, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO que describe que describe a a partir de la fecha de la notifi- contra y conceder el remedio que de noviembre de 2023. LISIL- C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, este Tribunal una Demanda FULANO DE TAL Y DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- continuación: “URBANA: So- cación de la presente Orden, se solicitado en la demanda, o en su contra en el pleito de DA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SE- SECRETARIA. DALISSA RESUTANO DE TAL COMO NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA lar marcado con el número 20 presumirá que han aceptado la cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en epígrafe. En este caso la parte CRETARIA. SHEILA RIVERA YES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA de la Manzana “C” en el Plano herencia de la causante Esther el ejercicio de su sana discre- demandante ha radicado una MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA. DE SERVICIOS A SALA. POSIBLES HEREDEROS SALA DE CAGUAS de Inscripción del Proyecto de Eugenia Collazo Santos, y, por ción, lo entiende procedente. Demanda para que se decrete WILMINGTON SAVINGS DE NOMBRE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Solares UM-6-136 de la CRUV, consiguiente, responden por POR MEDIO del presente edic- judicialmente el saldo de (1) paFUND SOCIETY, FSB, DESCONOCIDO, Y POR ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO denominado Urbanización Jar- las cargas de dicha herencia to se les notifica de la radicaNOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT dines del Torito, radicado en el conforme dispone el Artículo ción de una demanda de can- garé hipotecario: pagaré a favor DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFULANO DE TAL Y SOLELY AS TRUSTEE Barrio Rincón del término Mu- 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto celación de pagaré extraviado BANCO POPULAR DE PUER- NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SUTANO DE TAL COMO TO RICO, por la suma principal SALA DE HUMACAO FOR FINANCE OF nicipal de Cayey, Puerto Rico, Rico de 2020, según enmen- por la suma de $102,000.00 a de $160,000.00 dólares, con in- SALA DE HUMACAO POSIBLES HEREDEROS con una cabida superficial de dado. Se ORDENA a la parte favor de DORAL BANK, o a su tereses al 1% sobre el “Primer APEX BANK JLL PUERTO RICO AMERICA STRUCTURED DE NOMBRE 264.02 metros cuadrados y en demandante a que, en vista de orden, en garantía de una hipo- Rate”, vencedero a la presenDemandante Vs. REALTY & CO., S. EN C.; SECURITIES DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO por el NORTE, con el que la sucesión de Esther Eu- teca constituida sobre el Apar- tación, constituida mediante la PALMIRA EDGE PROPERTIES, LLC; ACQUISITION TRUST lindes DE RECAUDACIÓN DE solar C-21, en una distancia de genia Collazo Santos incluye tamento 7-C del Condominio escritura número 15, otorgada TORRES MENDEZ LOURDES M. 2018-HB1 22.01 metros; por el SUR, con a: Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Cádiz, San Juan, Puerto Rico, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandada Demandante Vs. SOPO ROZAS el solar C-19, en una distancia Tal como miembros de nom- inscrita al folio (210) del tomo 28 de junio de 2005, ante el Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Civil Núm.: HU2023CV01461. Demandantes V. SUCESIÓN DE ALBERTA de 22.01 metros; por el ESTE, bres desconocidos; proceda a (1629) de Rio Piedras Norte, notario Justino Ferrer Muñoz, DE AMÉRICA Sala Núm.: 205. Sobre: EJEcon el solar C-14, en una dis- notificar la presente Orden me- Finca Número (27,527), inscrip- e inscrita al folio 207 del tomo ENCANTO GROUP, LLC, SANTOS MENDOZA, Demandados CUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN tancia de 12.00 metros; y por el diante publicación de un edicto ción (7ma.). Registro de la Pro- 1,697 de Caguas, finca número ET AL. Civil Núm.: CG2021CV03174. T/C/C ALBERTA SANTOSREM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR OESTE, con la Calle número 4, a esos efectos una sola vez en piedad de San Juan, Sección II. 7,593, inscripción 7ma.; sobre Demandados Sala: 802. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN MENDOZA COMPUESTA EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIen una distancia de 12.00 me- un periódico de circulación dia- POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO la propiedad que se describe DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. MANDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRE- Civil Núm.: HU2022CV01731. POR LA SUCESIÓN tros”. Enclava edificación, con ria general de la Isla de Puerto se le emplaza y requiere para URBANA: So- SIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL Sobre: SOLICITUD DE REMEDAMIENTO DE INTERPELADE ESTHER EUGENIA un valor de $13,000.00, según Rico. Expedido bajo mi firma que conteste la Demanda radi- alarcontinuación: de forma rectangular que ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DIO PROVISIONAL; COBRO CIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE escritura número 194, otorgada y sello del Tribunal hoy 21 de cando el original de su contes- mide doce metros de frente, COLLAZO SANTOS DE DINERO; CUMPLIMIENTO AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE P.R., SS. COMPUESTA POR LUIS en Cayey, Puerto Rico, el día noviembre de 2023. LISILDA tación ante el Tribunal Superior por veintiún metros de fondo, DE CONTRATO; QUANTUM DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, A: PALMIRA 15 de diciembre de 1988, ante MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRE- de Puerto Rico, Sala de San marcado con el número treinta MERIUT; DAÑOS POR INCUMEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA- OMAR BRUNO COLLAZO, TORRES MENDEZ. el notario José M. Varela Fer- TARIA. ANA H. LUGO MUÑOZ, Juan, y notificándole con copia y cuatro de la manzana “H” de PLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. DO DE PUERTO RICO. POR FULANO DE TAL Y nández, e inscrita al folio 224 SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS de dicha contestación al aboga- la Urbanización Villa Turabo, Queda emplazado y notificado ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉCUANTO: En el presente caso SUTANO DE TAL COMO del tomo 345 de Cayey, finca A SALA. do de la parte demandante, Lic. propiedad de la Everlasting que en este Tribunal ha radica- RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE se ha dictado la siguiente OrPOSIBLES HEREDEROS José M. Castro Alvarez, 504 Development Corporation, que do Demanda sobre Ejecución LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL número 12,151, inscripción 3ra. den: “ORDEN DE INTERPELEGAL NOTICE Ave. De Diego, San Juan, Puer- radica en el Barrio Turabo de de Hipoteca IN REM. Se le noti- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Dirección física: Urbanización DE NOMBRE LACIÓN: Vista la Segunda Depara que comparezca ante DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMDESCONOCIDO, Y POR El Torito, Calle 4 C-20, Ca- ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO to Rico 00920 Tel: (787) 378- Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un fica manda Enmendada presentada yey, PR 00736. Finca Número DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- 6088; jmca5419@gmail.com área superficial de doscientos el Tribunal dentro del término PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. por la parte demandante soliFULANO DE TAL Y 12,151 inscrita al folio 222 del NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA dentro del término de treinta cincuenta y dos metros cuadra- de treinta (30) días a partir de citando la interpelación judicial SUTANO DE TAL COMO A: MENGANA DE tomo 345 de Cayey, Registro CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN (30) días siguientes a la fecha dos: en lindes por el NORTE, la publicación de este edicto y de la Sucesión de Esther EugeTAL, POR SI Y EN exponer lo que a sus derechos POSIBLES HEREDEROS de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, JUAN SALA SUPERIOR 903. de publicación de este Edicto. SUR, ESTE, y OESTE, con tenia Collazo Santos compuesta REPRESENTACIÓN DE Sección I de Caguas. INTERSi dejaren de así hacerlo, se rrenos propiedad de la Everlas- convenga, en el presente caso. DE NOMBRE ANABEL GONZÁLEZ por Luis Omar Bruno Collazo, PELACIÓN: Se les APERCIBE les anotará la rebeldía y se dic- ting Development Corporation y POR LA PRESENTE se le LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL FIGUEROA T/C/C Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO tará sentencia contra ustedes dando frente al Sur con la calle emplaza para que presente al y advierte a ustedes como perDE GANANCIALES como posibles herederos de DE RECAUDACIÓN DE sonas desconocidas, que no ANABELLE GONZÁLEZ concediendo el remedio solitribunal su alegación responsidenominada Main Street de la COMPUESTA POR nombre desconocido, confor- INGRESOS MUNICIPALES FIGUEROA citado sin más citarle ni oírle. Urbanización. Finca número va a la demanda dentro de los contestar la demanda radicanme al Artículo 1578 del Código ESTA Y SU ESPOSO, EL DEMANDANTE VS. Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS do el original de la contestación EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el 7,593, inscrita al folio 202 del TEINTA (30) días de haber sido Civil de Puerto Rico edición de JOHN DOE Y ante la secretaria del Tribunal sello del Tribunal de San Juan, tomo 263 de Caguas. Registro diligenciado este emplazamien- TERCERO DEMANDADO DE AMÉRICA 2020. Se Ordena a los heredeGABRIEL MÉNDEZ. de Primera Instancia, Sala de Puerto Rico, 29 de noviembre de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, to, excluyéndose el día diligenDemandados RICHARD ROE COMO ros de la Sucesión a que dende 2023. Griselda Rodriguez Sección I de Caguas. La parte ciamiento. Usted deberá preCivil Núm.: CG2021CV03174. Fajardo, y notificar copia de la 27 CALLE GONZÁLEZ DEMANDADOS tro del término legal de treinta Collado, Sec Regional. Melba demandante alega que dicho sentar su alegación cual puede Sala: 802. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN contestación de esta a la parGIUSTI SUITE 101, (30) días contados a partir de DESCONOCIDOS: Y acceder utilizando la siguiente Ortiz Silva, Sub-Secretaria. DE HIPOTECA IN REM. EM- te demandante por conducto pagaré ha sido saldado según la notificación de esta Orden, GUAYNABO PUERTO dirección electrónica: https:// PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO de su abogada, GLS LEGAL POSIBLES TENEDORES más detalladamente consta en acepten o repudien la particiLEGAL NOTICE RICO 00968. tribunalelectronico.ramajudiDE PAGARE E INTERPELACIÓN, ESTA- SERVICES, LLC, Atención: la Demanda radicada que puepación que les corresponda en ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO de examinarse en la Secretaría cial.pr/sumac2018, salvo que Por la presente se le notifica a DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, Lcda. Genevieve López Stipes, EXTRAVIADO la herencia del causante. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que: (a) de no expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia; o (b) de no solicitar término adicional para ello dentro del término de treinta (30) días; la herencia se presumirá por aceptada, respondiendo con ello por las obligaciones, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias hasta el valor de los bienes hereditarios que recibe, según dispone el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020. NOTIFÍQUESE. Dada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 9 de noviembre de 2023. (FDO.) MIGDALI RAMOS RIVERA, JUEZA”. POR TANTO, en vista de la Orden dictada, se libra este Mandamiento de Interpelación a ser diligenciado por la parte demandante sobre

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A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ESTHER EUGENIA COLLAZO SANTOS.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Segunda Demanda Enmendada del caso del epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de Senior Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $135,000.00, más intereses

Dirección: P.O. Box 367308, San Juan, P.R. 00936, Teléfono: 787-758-6550, dentro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotara la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitando en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Se les ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de TREINTA (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de Esther Eugenia Collazo Santos a saber: Luis Omar Bruno Collazo, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombres

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM: SJ2023CV10491. SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE HIPOTECA EN GARANTÍA DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE y RICHARD ROE

Por la PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguien-

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de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por BARAKAH TWO el remedio solicitado, se le emTHOUSAND DRUGS LLC plaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico Demandante V. de circulación diaria general de BANCO POPULAR Puerto Rico. Usted deberá preDE PUERTO RICO; sentar su alegación responsiva JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y a través del Sistema Unificado JUANA DEL PUEBLO de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede Y CUALESQUIERA acceder utilizando la siguiente PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, POSIBLE INTERÉS EN salvo que se represente por deLA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA recho propio. Debe notificar con CANCELACIÓN POR copia de ella a la abogada de DECRETO JUDICIAL SE la parte demandante a la Lcda. Alyssa Rivera Rivera, a la direcSOLICITA ción P.O. Box 19815, San Juan, Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03210. P.R. 00910. Teléfono 787-400Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE 7269, dentro de los treinta (30) PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EM- días siguientes a la publicación

represente por derecho propio en cuyo caso deberá presentar alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido termino, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda radicando en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación a la parte demandante, Lodo. Francisco Fernández Chiqués a su dirección: FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC PO Box 9749 San Juan, PR 00908, Tel. (787) 722-3040, Fax (787) 722-3317, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de

usted que se ha radicado en su contra en esta Secretaría una demanda de terceros. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda de terceros dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y noti-

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ficar copia de la misma al ( a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a esta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de noviembre de 2023. IVELISSE C. FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA IVELISSE M. MONCLOVA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

va a Ia demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de Ia misma al abogado de a parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte, además, a los herederos que, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 2005 TSPR 50, Op. De 22 de abril de 2005; tienen la opción de aceptar o repudiar Ia herencia del causante, dentro del término de 30 días a partir de su emplazamiento. De no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar dicha herencia dentro del término que se le fijó para contestar a Ia demanda incoada en su contra, Ia herencia se tendrá por aceptada, así como el presente emplazamiento. ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA NUM.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP Attorneys at Law Suite 209 500 Calle de Ia Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 LEGAL NOTICE Fax: (787) 523-2664 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO rdiaz@bdprIaw.com DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRI- y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy 17 BUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- de noviembre de 2023. CARCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SEPONCE SALA SUPERIOR CRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT BANCO POPULAR DE LEÓN, SUB-SECRETARIA.

PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

JESENIA TERESA DE JESUS RIOS; SUCESIÓN DE TERESA MENDOZA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE IA SUCESION DE TERESA MENDOZA RIVERA

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.

Demandado LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. Civil Núm.: AU2023CV00580. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE A: FULANO DE TAL POSIBLE HEREDERO CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMDESCONOCIDO DE PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LA SUCESION DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉÁNGEL RAFAEL RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE FIGUEROA NEGRÓN; LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MENGANO DE TAL, DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE ÁNGEL RAFAEL FIGUEROA NEGRÓN. COND BALCONES DE BONEVILLE, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725; CALLE CIPRE APT 1-4, BALCONES DE BONEVILLE, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725.

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005) le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia de LA SUCESIÓN DE ANGEL RAFAEL FIGUEROA NEGRÓN. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 9 de noviembre de 2023. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA GENERAL.

A: MILTON MEJIAS. BO. ESPINAL, BUZON 1302, AGUADA, PR 00602. De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato, Cobro de Dinero y Reposesión en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar las cantidades adeudadas desde al 16 de agosto de 2023 de $41,339.00 de principal, más $5,834.29 de intereses acumulados a razón del 13.45% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más $421.58 de cargos por mora los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más la cantidad de $200.00 de otros gastos; más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados según pactado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 PO Box 194089 San Juan, PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 29 de septiembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ERIKA I. CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

CIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Demandado(a) BEATRIZ CAR VÁZQUEZ Caso Núm.: QU2023CV00096. BEATRIZCAYVAZQUEZ@GMAIL. COM Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ A: ALEJANDRO EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICAROMÁN BARRIOS. CIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EDICTO. ALYSSA MARIE RIVERA RIVERA EL SECRETARIO(A) que susALYSSARIVERA.LAW@OUTLOOK. cribe le notifica a usted que el COM 21 de noviembre de 2023, este A: THE FEDERAL LAND Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, BANK OF BALTIMORE, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debiJUAN Y JUANA DEL damente registrada y archivada PUEBLO COMO en autos donde podrá usted POSIBLE TENEDORES Y enterarse detalladamente de CUALQUIERA PERSONA los términos de la misma. Esta DESCONOCIDA CON notificación se publicará una POSIBLE INTERÉS EN sola vez en un periódico de LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los CANCELACIÓN POR 10 días siguientes a su notificaDECRETO JUDICIAL SE ción. Y, siendo o representando SOLICITA. usted una parte en el procedi(Nombre de las partes que se le miento sujeta a los términos notifican la sentencia por edicto) de la Sentencia, Sentencia EL SECRETARIO(A) que susParcial o Resolución, de la cual cribe le notifica a usted que el puede establecerse recurso de 17 de noviembre de 2023, este revisión o apelación dentro del Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, término de 30 días contados a Sentencia Parcial o Resolución partir de la publicación por edicen este caso, que ha sido debito de esta notificación, dirijo a damente registrada y archivada usted esta notificación que se en autos donde podrá usted enconsiderará hecha en la fecha terarse detalladamente de los de la publicación de este edictérminos de la misma. Esta noto. Copia de esta notificación ha tificación se publicará una sola sido archivada en los autos de vez en un periódico de circulaeste caso, con fecha 22 de noción general en la Isla de Puerviembre de 2023. En San Juan, to Rico, dentro de los 10 días Puerto Rico, el 22 de noviemsiguientes a su notificación. Y, bre de 2023. GRISELDA ROsiendo o representando usted DRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECREuna parte en el procedimiento TARIA. VIRGEN Y. DEL VALLE sujeta a los términos de la SenDÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR tencia, Sentencia Parcial o ReDEL TRIBUNAL. solución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o LEGAL NOTICE apelación dentro del término de Estado libre asociado de Puerto 30 días contados a partir de la Rico TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA publicación por edicto de esta INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR notificación, dirijo a usted esta DE FAJARDO notificación que se considerará COOPERATIVA de ahorro hecha en la fecha de la publiPADRE SALVADOR cación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi- RUFFOLO (PARROCOOP) Demandante Vs. vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 27 de noviembre de BERENS MORTGAGE 2023. En Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el BANKERS, INC.; 27 de noviembre de 2023. VIPENN MERCHANDISING VIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, CORPORATION; SECRETARIA. SUHAIL SEFULANO DE TAL Y RRANO MOYA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. MENGANO DE TAL

THE FEDERAL LAND BANK OF BALTIMORE Y OTROS

LA SUCESION DE ÁNGEL RAFAEL FIGUEROA NEGRÓN COMPUESTA Demandadas POR ONYX FIGUEROA Civil Núm.: PO2022CV01308. PÉREZ; FULANO DE TAL Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Demandados Y MENGANO DE TAL, LEGAL NOTICE Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECivil Núm.: LU2023CV00083. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE CA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMEDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉDEPARTAMENTO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE DE HACIENDA; JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL DEPARTAMENTO DE LEGAL NOTICE SAN JUAN SALÓN DE SESIO- LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO JUSTICIA; ESTADOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO NES SALÓN 901 CIVIL LEGAL NOTICE DE PUERTO RICO, SS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDE PUERTO RICO. WANDA IVETTE A: “JOHN DOE Y NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANDemandados A: DEMANDADOS: MALDONADO NEGRÓN DE PUERTO RICO TRIBURICHARD ROE” COMO Civil Núm.: CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CG2023CV03081. NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Penn Merchandising Y OTROS POSIBLES HEREDEROS Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR Demandante V. Corporation; Fulana De DESCONOCIDOS DE LA Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUA- DE HATILLO SALÓN DE SEDILLA ALEJANDRO Tal; Fulano De Tal como SIONES SALÓN 101 CIVILSUCESION DE TERESA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMFIRSTBANK CRIMINAL PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ROMÁN BARRIOS Tenedores Desconocidos MENDOZA RIVERA. PUERTO RICO Demandado(a) THE TITLE SECURITY POR LA PRESENTE se le ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉde Pagaré Hipotecario Demandante V. Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV02411. emplaza para que presente al RICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS GROUP, LLC Extraviado Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDAMILTON MEJIAS Tribunal su alegación responsi- ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO Demandante V. como cualquier otra persona

que tenga interés propietario en el Pagaré Hipotecario suscrito el 31 de marzo del 1980, a favor de Berens Mortgage Bankers, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $39,500.00, con intereses al 8½% anual, vencedero en junio del año 2010, constituida mediante la Escritura número (46), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día ante el Notario José J. Cestero, inscripción primera. Esta Hipoteca fue modificada a favor de Penn Merchandising Corporation a los efectos de hacer constar que ha quedado reducida a la suma de $37,611.44, con intereses al 10¼% anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de junio del año 2010, constituida mediante la Escritura número 27, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de agosto del año 1984, ante el Notario Juan M. Bracete Mari, inscripción tercera, la cual quedó inscrita en la siguiente finca: “URBANA: APARTMENT 9-C II. Residential Apartment marked “9-C” Il in the ninth floor of Sandy Hills Building II Condominium at Matienzo Cintron Street and between Esperanza and del Carmen Streets, Luquillo, measuring approximately “25’4” wide, equivalent to “7.72” meters, by “29-4” long, equivalent to “8.94” meters, with a superficial area of “684.77” square feet, equivalent to “63.64” square meters. Bounding on the SOUTH: on a distance of “24’8”, equivalent to “7.52” meters, with Apartment “9-D-II”; on the NORTH: on a distance of “29’4”, equivalent to “8.94” meters, with Apartment “9-BII”; on the EAST: on a distance of “25’4”, equivalent to “7.72” meters, with exterior elements of the building and with the lot on which the building is erected; and on the WEST: on a distance of “25’4”, equivalent to “7.72” meters, with a common corridor. The Apartment consists of living dining room, kitchen, bathroom, one bedroom, bedroom closet and a balcony on its East side. The apartment has a main door connecting with the common corridor on the floor from where Access may be geared to the exterior of the building and to the public Street by the elevator and stairway. The apartment is equipped with a stainless - steel sink, water heater and stone-oven. En los elementos comunes le corresponde una participación equivalente a punto dos seis ocho tres por ciento (2683%). Finca número 8,209, inscrita al folio 290 del tomo 147 de Luquillo, Registro de la Propiedad de Fajardo. Catastro número “23-092-096-014-14197”. Por la presente quedan notificados que los Demandantes; Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Padre Salvador Ruffolo (PARROCOOP), ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda de Pagaré Extraviado en la cual la parte demandante alega que

el Pagaré antes descrito se ha extraviado. Se apercibe que si transcurrido Treinta (30) días desde la publicación de este Edicto, no ha habido reparos u oposición contra la demanda interpuesta, este Tribunal dictará Sentencia de acuerdo a lo solicitado en la misma. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal” En cumplimiento de una orden dictada por este Tribunal expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 4 de octubre de 2023. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL, CENTRO JUDICIAL, FAJARDO, PUERTO RICO. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS SALÓN DE SESIONES SALÓN 802

SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Demandante V.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2022CV00869. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. GENEVIEVE LOPEZ STIPES LCDA.GLOPEZ@GMAIL.COM

A: LUZ IVETTE ARCHIVA LOPEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUCIA LÓPEZ COLÓN T/C/C LUCIA LÓPEZCOLÓN T/C/C LUCIA LOPEZ T/C/C COLÓN LUCIA LOPEZ T/C/C LUCIA LÓPEZ COLON T/C/C LUCIA COLÓN Y JOSÉ LUIS BÁEZ BÁEZ POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN RAFAEL BÁEZ ORTEGA T/C/C RAFAEL BÁEZ-ORTEGA T/C/C ORTEGA RAFAEL BÁEZ T/C/C RAFAEL BÁEZ T/C/C RAFAEL A. BÁEZ T/C/C RAFAEL A. ORTEGA T/C/C MERCEDES BÁEZ ORTEGA Y/O COMO CUALQUIER OTRA PERSONA CON INTERÉS

26 EN ESTE CASO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de noviembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 27 de noviembre de 2023. Notas de la Secretaría: ENMENDADA PARA CORREGIR NOMBRES DE LOS EDICTOS. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 27 de noviembre de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Elizabeth Muñiz Sánchez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

nejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, 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 BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de septiembre de 2023. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

JOSE A ROMAN CRESPO

Demandado Civil Núm.: AG2021CV00590. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. Parte Demandante Vs. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICRAFAEL J COLON AYMAT TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Parte Demandada AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00460. DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINE- EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIARO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS A: JOSE A DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIROMAN CRESPO DENTE DE LOS ESTADOS AVE. LOS ROBLES 33, UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE AGUADILLA, PR ASOCIADO DE PUERTO 00605-1824. RICO, SS. A: RAFAEL J COLON POR LA PRESENTE se le AYMAT. URB PARKVILLE emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de O12 CALLE MCKINLEY, los treinta (30) días siguientes GUAYNABO PR 00969- a la publicación de este Edicto. 3952; 1403 AVE PONCE Usted deberá presentar su aleDE LEON APT 708, SAN gación responsiva a través del JUAN PR 00907-3952; Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU50 AVE LOPATEGUI, MAC), la cual puede acceder GUAYNABO PR 00969- utilizando la siguiente direc4537. ción electrónica: https://unired. POR LA PRESENTE se le ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se emplaza y requiere para que represente por derecho propio, conteste la demanda dentro de en cuyo caso deberá presentar los treinta (30) días siguientes su alegación responsiva en la a la publicación de este Edic- secretaría del tribunal. Si usted to. Usted deberá presentar su deja de presentar su alegación alegación responsiva a través responsiva dentro del referido del Sistema Unificado de Ma- término, el tribunal podrá dic-

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tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, la Lcda. Natalie Bonaparte cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com, edwin.serrano(@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el selo del Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de septiembre de 2023. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 28 de septiembre de 2023. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. YARITZA DÍAZ NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CASITAS BLANCAS LLC. Demandante V.

MARIA TERESA FIGUEROA FILGUEIRA

Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2021CV02400. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, hago saber a la parte demandada, MARIA TERESA FIGUEROA FILGUEIRA y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 10 de octubre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física: 1272 Calle 56 [SE] Urb. La Rivera, San Juan PR 00921 y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 435 del bloque M68 del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Extensión de Reparto Metropolitano, radicada en el Barrio Monacillos del sitio denominado Rio Piedras del término municipal del Gobierno de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 350 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, en 14.00 metros con la calle denominada M-street del mencionado plano; por el SUR, en 14.00 metros con el solar número M-436 del bloque M -68; por el ESTE, en 25.00 metros, con el solar nú-

mero 437 del bloque M-68 del mencionado plano; por el OESTE en 25.00 metros con el solar número 433 del bloque M-68 del mencionado plano. Enclava una casa. Finca 12448, inscrita al Folio 67 del tomo 706 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad San Juan, Sección Tercera. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida por Maria Teresa Figueroa Figueira, en garantía de un pagaré, aff. #23542, a favor de Master Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por $162,000.00 al 7.375%, vencedero el 1 de octubre de 2036, según Escritura #324 otorgada en Bayamón, el 27 de septiembre de 2006 ante notario Wilfredo R. Picorelli Osorio, inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 1085 finca #12448 inscripción 14ma. (ii) MODIFICADA hipoteca de la inscripción 14ma: se amplía en $14,643.17 para un principal de $176,643.17 y vence el 1 de marzo de 2051 con intereses al 3.850% comenzando el 1 de abril del 2011 hasta el 1 de marzo de 2014; intereses al 7.375% desde el 1 de abril de 2014 hasta su vencimiento el 1 de marzo de 2051. Residual de $19,440.19; según Esc. #22 otorgada en San Juan el 4 de febrero de 2011, ante Luis Yamil Rodriguez San Miguel, inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 1085, finca #12448 inscripción 16ma. MODIFICADA, nuevamente, hipoteca de la inscripción 14ma: modificada par inscripción 16ma ampliándose su principal en $220.17 para un nuevo principal de $176,863.34 al 3.850% desde el 1 de abril de 2014 hasta el 1 de marzo de 2017; intereses al 7.375% desde el 1 de abril de 2017 y venciendo el 1 de marzo de 2051, con Residual de $21,748.87 según Esc.#50 otorgada en San Juan el 20 de febrero de 2014 ante notario Luis Yamil Rodriguez San Miguel, inscrita al folio 42 del tomo 1085 de Monacillos, finca #12448 inscripción 17ma. MODIFICADA la hipoteca de la inscripción 14ta., ya modificada en las inscripciones 16ma y 17ma: se amplía en $2,806.76 para un principal de $179,670.10 al 4.250% desde e1 1 de julio de 2017 hasta el 1 de junio de 2027 al 7.375% desde el 1 de julio de 2027 hasta vencer el 1 de junio de 2057; y con un Residual de $53,861.26 según Esc. #70 otorgada en San Juan a 31 de mayo de 2017 ante notario Luis Yamil Rodriguez San Miguel, inscrita al Sistema Karibe, finca #12448 inscripción 18ma. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 30 de agosto de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada

pagar a la parte demandante la cantidad adeudada y vencida, ascendiente a $121,978.17 de balance principal, más $53,861.00 de segundo balance de principal por moratoria, más los intereses acumulados a razón de 4.25% anual, acumulados desde el 1 de julio de 2020 hasta su total y completo pago, contribuciones, recargos y primas de seguro adeudados y los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $16,200.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 9 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma, la cantidad de $179,670.10 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 17 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $119,780.07. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $89,835.05. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipo-

teca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de noviembre de 2023. Edwin E. López Mulero, Alguacil Auxiliar, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De San Juan.

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 notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 08 de noviembre de 2023. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 08 de noviembre de 2023. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

IVONNE SOTO GARCIA

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Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: PO2023CV02413. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA SOBRE LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTOS. ESLEGAL NOTICE TADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASONAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAA: JUAN VERA GÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ SALÓN DE SE- GONZALEZ, SU ESPOSA MARÍA DE LOURDES SIONES SALÓN 207 Demandante V.

EXPARTE

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2023CV00853. Sobre: PETICIÓN DE DECLARATORIA DE HEREDEROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARGGIE RODRÍGUEZ PÉREZ MRPLAWOFFICES@GMAIL.COM

A: IVETTE SOTO TAMBIEN CONOCIDA COMO IVETTE SOTO MACHUCA.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de julio de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi-

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondien-

te y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Orlando Camacho Padilla, al PO BOX 879 Como, PR; Teléfono: 787-448-1245. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de marzo de 2023, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma $59,670.57, más intereses a razón del 4.25% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo $8,000.00, pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar número siete (7) del Bloque letra “F” del plano de Urbanización Luchetti, radicado en el Barrio Jacanas del término municipal de Yauco, compuesto de trescientos cuarenta y cuatro punto treinta (344.30) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en trece punto setenta y cinco (13.75) metros, con la calle número nueve (9); por el Sur, en trece punto setenta y cinco (13.75) metros, con los solares letra y numero (F-14 y F-15); por el Este, en veinticinco punto cero dos (25.02) metros, con el solar (F-8); y por el Oeste, en veinticinco punto cero seis (25.06) metros, con el solar (F-6). Enclava Casa. Inscrita al folio ciento siete (107) del tomo ciento setenta y cinco (175) de Yauco, finca número cinco mil seiscientos treinta y cuatro (5634), Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico. A 27 de octubre de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Puerto Rico one step away from U23 World Cup after beating Argentina By THE STAR STAFF

he Puerto Rico Under 23 National Baseball Team moved closer to qualifying for the 2024 World Cup, by beating Argentina 10-6 earlier this week in the Pre-World Cup held at Roberto Clemente Stadium in Masaya, Nicaragua. With the victory, Puerto Rico improved its record to 2-1 in the tournament, which grants four places for next year’s U23 World Cup. Argentina, on the other hand, was eliminated after suffering its fourth consecutive defeat. The key to the Puerto Rican victory on Tuesday was a five-run rally in the sixth inning, which began with Argentina leading 6-5. Jankel Ortiz tied the game with a single, followed by a double by Luis González that drove in two runs. John Montes plated the 10th run with another single. Puerto Rico manager Juan “Igor” González commented on the team’s per-

Jankel Ortiz homered in the third inning and singled in the tying run in a five-run sixth to help Puerto Rico eliminate Argentina with a 10-6 victory earlier this week at an Under 23 Pre-World Cup baseball tournament in Nicaragua.

formance: “Playing badly we won, a few mental errors, but the boys were able to recover.” “When we were down we reached base, we had people hit in the clutch and we were able to drive in runs,” González said in a written statement. Puerto Rico took the early lead in the top of the third inning thanks to a home run by Ortiz and an RBI single by Yan Contreras. But Argentina responded with five runs in the bottom half of the inning, taking advantage of errors and lack of control by the Puerto Rican pitchers. The score remained close until the sixth inning, when Puerto Rico sealed the win. Jean Pabón notched the victory after pitching two innings in relief, while Franco Villasinti suffered the loss. Puerto Rico was slated to play the Dominican Republic on Wednesday at 5 p.m. (Puerto Rico time) at Soberanía Stadium in Managua, in what was to be its last game of the tournament’s first round.

Everybody’s ejected after an NHL fight By VICTOR MATHER

ockey is one of the most physical sports, and referees try to keep it in line by assessing penalties when a push or a trip goes too far. But earlier this week in Ottawa, Ontario, officials had enough. After a fight broke out in the third period of a roughly played game between the Florida Panthers and the Ottawa Senators on Monday night, officials threw up their hands and kicked every skater on the ice out of the game. Florida was leading 4-0 when Brady Tkachuk, the Senators captain, came off the bench and got a quick breakaway. His shot was saved, he tried to score on the rebound, and then Dmitry Kulikov of the Panthers drove him into the boards with his stick. Both teams then rushed in, and fights broke out everywhere. The officials at first seemed to get the situation under control, but a punch heated things up again. When the ice had finally settled, Tkachuk got a two-minute penalty for goalie interference and two more minutes for roughing. Kulikov got two minutes for roughing. And then referee Garrett Rank made an unusual additional announcement: “Every player on the ice has a 10-minute misconduct.” There were seven minutes left to play, so the 10-minute penalties were essentially ejections. The miscreants skated to the locker rooms, their games over. Panthers coach Paul Maurice was seen chuckling on the

bench as he surveyed what was left of his team. With both sides undermanned for the rest of the game, there was one more goal, and the final score was 5-0 to the Panthers. It had been a feisty game even before the incident. Earlier in the period, Zack MacEwen of the Senators had been ejected, and shortly afterward Tkachuk and his brother Matthew, who plays for the Panthers, exchanged words. Then Matthew Tkachuk dropped the gloves to fight Jake Sanderson of the Senators. Geraldine Tkachuk, the players’ grandmother, was spotted in the stands looking less than impressed. As remarkable as the 10-man ejection may have been, it barely seemed to faze the participants. “I mean, I don’t think it’s bad to play with emotion,” Brady Tkachuk told The Associated Press. “I think when this group plays with emotion, we’re a tough team to beat, and I think we rely on our emotion and it shows that we care, shows that we care about what we’re doing here and about the guy next to us.” Two more players got misconduct penalties later in the third period, bringing the total penalty minutes in the game to 167. Still, this being hockey, that wasn’t close to a record. In 2004, a series of brawls late in a game between the Senators and the Philadelphia Flyers led to 419 penalty minutes. Sixteen players were ejected from that game, but never more than seven at once.

The Ottawa Senators-Florida Panthers game got physical. “It’s just a hockey game,” Maurice said dismissively to reporters Monday. “Both teams want to win, and you get a little snarly. It was fun, it was good.” Asked where the game ranked in his career for physicality, Maurice said: “That’s mild. We only got to 160-some minutes. It’s got to get into the 250s before it gets too squirrelly.”

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How a North Korean soccer prodigy vanished, and reemerged By MIKE IVES and JOHN YOON

hen the North Korean men’s soccer team took the field for two 2026 World Cup qualifying matches this month, close observers noticed an important roster change. Han Kwang Song, a high-profile striker, was back, more than three years after vanishing from public view for reasons beyond his control: United Nations-imposed sanctions on North Korean nationals over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. Han’s story is a rare case in which sanctions on North Korea have reverberated through professional soccer. It also shows how enforcement of U.N. sanctions against individuals varies by country. The government in Italy did not deport Han, now 25, while he was playing professional soccer there. But when he moved to Qatar, the Qatari government did. “The basic story makes sense; the surprising part is that Qatar complied with the U.N. resolutions,” said Marcus Noland, an expert on North Korean sanctions and executive vice president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. A prodigy with ‘superhero’ status Han’s early success was partly a product of North Korea’s push to cultivate soccer talent. After attending a prestigious soccer school founded by the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, Han trained in Spain before turning pro in Italy. He quickly made an impression in Europe as a speedy forward with an eye for goal. Back home, North Korea’s official news agency praised him after a 2019 Asian Cup qualifier as “the player that experts and enthusiasts paid the most attention to.” “In North Korea, he’s a superhero,” said Kim Heung-Tae, a professor of sports science at Daejin University in South Korea who follows the North’s soccer program. But in 2017, as punishment for the North’s sixth nuclear weapons test, the U.N. Security Council ordered all North Korean nationals working abroad to be repatriated by December 2019 — a strat-

Han Kwang-song of North Korea, center, playing in a 2026 World Cup qualifier in Yangon, Myanmar, this week. egy to prevent financing of the North’s military. Han, one of several North Koreans playing overseas in professional soccer leagues at the time, was among the targets. Sanctions meet reality But the Italian authorities did not repatriate Han by the 2019 deadline, U.N. Security Council reports show. Instead, Juventus, the Italian club where he had been earning more than 500,000 euros a year, struck a deal in early 2020 to send him to Al-Duhail, a soccer team in Qatar, on a five-year contract worth about 4.3 million euros (about $4.7 million). Though a Security Council panel of experts on North Korea contacted Italy and Qatar immediately after that transfer, it was not canceled, and Juventus accepted a transfer fee from the Qatari club, according to the U.N. The panel said in a report that it later “reiterated to Qatar the relevant resolutions concerning the case.” That summer, Han stopped appearing for Al-Duhail. In January 2021, Qatar’s mission to the United Nations said in a

letter to the U.N. panel that Han had left Qatar after his contract was “terminated” by the club — and that Qatar’s actions reflected its commitments to Security Council resolutions about North Korean nationals who earn income abroad. At the time, the coronavirus pandemic was raging, and North Korea’s borders were sealed. Qatar said in its letter, a copy of which was included in a U.N. report, that Han had left the country on Qatar Airways Flight 131 — a nonstop flight to Rome. ‘He’s probably been training all along’ Details of Han’s movements since leaving Qatar, including the timing and circumstances of his return to North Korea, remain scarce. According to Transfermarkt, a website that tracks soccer players and their contracts, he has not played for a professional club since July 2021. Also unclear is whether any of Han’s earnings ever made it back to the North Korean government. Han signed an agreement in 2020 with

a Qatari bank, where he had an account at the time, pledging not to transfer any money to his home country, according to a U.N. report. Still, Kim said, North Korean agents had most likely accompanied Han everywhere he went overseas and restricted the way he spent his earnings. Neither FIFA, the governing body of soccer; nor the Italian or Qatari foreign ministries; nor North Korea’s soccer association; nor the Asian Football Confederation immediately responded to requests for comment. Nor did Al-Duhail, Juventus or Cagliari, another team that Han played for in Italy. Han’s return to competition this month was reported earlier by CNN and the website NK News, among other outlets. Kim said that the pandemic had probably curtailed many athletic events in North Korea, where an extended border closing crippled the nation’s economy. But soccer is the country’s most popular sport, and Kim said that domestic competitions had probably been held regularly in recent months. As for Han, Kim said, “he’s probably been training all along.” Rather than joining another professional league abroad, Han is likely to focus on preparing for the 2026 World Cup, Kim said. He added that North Korea was competitive in its region and had a good chance of qualifying, in part because FIFA has nearly doubled the number of slots for Asian countries at that tournament, which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Max Canzi, who coached Han in Italy for Cagliari’s under-19 team, told CNN that he was “very happy” that the striker had returned to international competition for the World Cup qualifying match against Syria in Saudi Arabia on Nov. 16. As Han resumes his career, Canzi added that he was “very curious about the level of his performance after being out for so much time.” Han was substituted at halftime in the Saudi Arabia match, which North Korea lost 1-0. But five days later in Yangon, Myanmar, he contributed to a 6-1 win over the home country with a signature headed goal.

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GAMES

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Sudoku

How to Play:

Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9. Sudoku Rules: Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9 Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

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3. Type of argument 4. Bread ends

5. Popular accts. 6. Insect egg

7. Type of bypass 8. Under sedation

10. Trawled

12. Blood carriers

15. ____ up (goofed)

22. Month after avril

26. Actor Morales

29. Black, poetically

32. Mishap

35. Christie's Belgian detective

38. Explicit art

41. Slow symphonic movement

13. Ceiling support

2. Infomercial directive

11. Got it down pat

1. Interdicted

9. Singles

25 27

22 24

20. Authentic

45 49

25. Chevy muscle cars of yore 28. Cereal box nos.

31. Hades watchdog 34. Body of beliefs

37. Type of ski lift

Across

42. Fiber source

8. Summer or Reed

46. Bibliography abbr.

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14. Slot machine attribute 16. Requests earnestly 17. Small

18. Accumulated records 19. Bridge supports 21. Kitty cries

22. Sitcom with a horse

23. Suffixes with ballad and mountain 24. Personal ad letters

25. Earth mother goddess

43. Audiologist's concern 47. Art colony in New Mexico 48. Scammer, slangily 50. Top-level warning 52. Hostile intent

53. Salem's state

54. Falls down, as a buiding 56. Toga alternatives 57. Spy for the U.S.

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39. Dorm leaders, for short

44. Words for the audience only 45. Not long ago 47. Keyed up

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Child

Havoc

Power

51. Key's partner

Baked

Crime

Heeled

Scalds

55. Sixty secs.

Bedbug

48. OK with Allah 49. Musical stop

52. They give out PG's and R's

Agitate Basks Bison

58. Stir up

59. Investment firm worker

Blunts

Brackets

26. Money or Murphy 27. Newspaper fillers

Brands

31. Enthusiastic, as an attitude

Brick

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30. Modern mil. concern 33. Lures

Chides

35. Ab neighbor

36. Ceres or Pallas

40. Big aquarium performers

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Heartens Hemming Idled

Kindest Lakes

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(Mar 21-April 20)

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Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

As much as you want to change your financial situation, don’t act rashly. If there are several options to choose from, you’re advised to refrain from making any decision until your thoughts have crystallized. If you feel in a hurry to make progress, you can record your options so you have them to review in the light of a clearer day.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Just because you’re stressed now doesn’t mean that you need to be stressed tomorrow, or the rest of the day for that matter. There are steps you can take to soothe your troubled soul. Stop, close your eyes, and relax into some deep breaths. You’ll be surprised by how refreshing these few moments can be. Why not try it?

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Your tendency is to rush headlong into a new project. Not everyone is caught up in your enthusiasm. Be careful not to steamroll over those you care about most. Your partner, especially, feels a bit miffed and left out at the moment. Do what you can to soothe any ruffled feathers. It might be time to set aside your project in favor of a romantic outing.

Out with the old and in with the new! That seems to be your mantra for the day, especially where your home is concerned. Your energy and motivation are high. If anyone can execute a complete one-day redecoration, you can. But even you can get hurt when trying to move a sofa by yourself.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

It’s time to expand your horizons. No more waiting around for events to change of their own accord. You’ve grown up enough to realize that if change is going to happen, you have to make it happen. As a result, today is busier than most as you begin to execute all those ideas you’ve been thinking about.

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, as the saying goes. You’re likely to receive some good news today. Don’t second-guess it, or worry if you’re worthy of it. Accept it for what it is, though it might be worth taking some time to consider why you feel unworthy in the first place.

Virgo

Pisces

(Aug 24-Sep 23)

Today the paranormal could be on your mind. Books on related subjects may capture your interest, so you’ll probably want to spend the day reading. Some of the concepts might seem strange even to you, but don’t write them off yet. The important thing now is to keep an open mind. Strange things are discovered every day.

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Are you one of those people who thinks that your bank account can’t be overdrawn as long as you still have checks in your checkbook? As bad as you think your financial situation is, your problems are easily reconciled. It’s not that you’re spending more money than you have, but that you’re not keeping track of what you spend.

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