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By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Thursday threw his support behind Physician Correctional, the prison health care services management company contracted by the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (DCR) that has been blamed for the release of a convict who later killed a woman.

Pierluisi pointed out that the company has been awarded and recognized for its work.

“Well, I have to say that in that area they have received awards, prizes, the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation and that entity in particular, for their performance,” he said.

Is the fact that they are donors to your campaign being taken into consideration? a reporter asked the governor.

“That has absolutely nothing to do with it,” the governor replied.

“They donated to your campaign just as recently as February,” a journalist stressed.

“That has absolutely nothing to do with it,” Pierluisi said again.

Another reporter asked the governor if he is in a position to cancel the contract if necessary, even if Physician Correctional is a contributor to his campaign.

“One thing has nothing to do with it,” Pierluisi reiterated. “In other words, political donations are a [type of] freedom of expression; people can donate to their preferred candidates.”

“But it can’t be a letter of protection either,” a journalist said.

“It can’t be, nor will it be because it won’t,” the governor said. “In reality, that decision was made a long time ago, to extend that contract. It has absolutely nothing to do with donations, and in any event, the secretary makes that decision.”

The governor acknowledged that the case was not an easy one because a woman had died.

“Well, exactly,” Pierluisi said.

Separately on Thursday, Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández confirmed his agency will investigate the circumstances that allowed convicted murderer Hermes Ávila Vázquez, who is

accused of killing Ivette Joan Meléndez Vega in Manatí last Sunday, to be released when in 2005 he was tried and convicted for killing another woman.

However, the agency will conduct the probe responsibly and without haste, the Justice chief said.

“Since the circumstances surrounding the release of Hermes Ávila Vázquez emerged, we announced that the Department of Justice will investigate whether any crime was committed in the execution of that process, since the people deserve to know the truth and whoever has failed must assume the consequences,” Emanuelli Hernández said.

“Investigations are developed strategically based on the discovery of the truth and the best interest of citizens,” he added. “Everyone’s priority at this time should be saving lives and preventing this kind of situation from happening again, not trying to make headlines. At the Department of Justice, we are going to act with the responsibility that characterizes us, without giving in to pressure or agendas of any kind.”

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The matter is a grave one, Emanuelli Hernández said, and the primary objective of an investigation at this stage should be for the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation to promptly identify the failures that led to the release of a convict who in one year ended the life of another victim, and to take immediate actions to prevent a situation like this from recurring.

“At the appropriate time, we will intervene without needing to affect the administrative process,” he said. “To do this, we are informing [DCR] Secretary Ana Escobar that we will require all the material collected and any other documentation that we believe the DCR, and any other agency or company, can produce to carry out a comprehensive, rigorous and transparent investigation.”

Ávila Vázquez was serving a 122-year sentence because the Justice Department prosecuted and convicted him on several occasions during the years 1991, 2004 and 2005.

“Likewise, we filed new charges against him and are prepared to do justice to Ivette Joan Meléndez Vega and her family,” Emanuelli Hernández said.

Ivette Joan Meléndez Vega

A journey to Pentagon’s top ranks began in island public education system

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul1@gmail.com

Maj. Gen. Dr. Lester Martínez has a message for the young people of Puerto Rico: If he did, so can they.

“People see me and say that they can do the same thing,” Martínez told the STAR in a telephone interview this week. “Not to celebrate me. But I do my best and I never forgot where I came from. I’m a product of public education on the island.”

The Maricao native, who is the second-highest-ranking Latino in the Pentagon, is a graduate of the Residential Center of Educational Opportunities of Mayagüez, the celebrated public school commonly known by its Spanish acronym CROEM, graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez (RUM) and obtained his medical education at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.

“The UPR system doesn’t have to envy anyone,” Martínez said.

After graduation, he went into the Army and worked his way up to commanding gen-

eral of the military base Ft. Detrick before retiring with the rank of major general in 2005. In 2020, he got a call from the White House asking the 68-year-old career officer to head the U.S. military’s health system, which serves the 160,000 to 180,000 men and women in uniform.

As the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, Martínez manages the five branches of the military, a job he said he performs with the support of talented professionals.

Among the institutions in his charge are Medical Logistics, Medical Research and public health systems.

“You need a village of great Americans,” he said.

Martínez noted that doing the job is a question of trust.

“It’s not about us. We ask mothers and fathers to entrust us with the health of their sons and daughters and we owe them the best health care in the world,” he said. “It’s a very humbling experience to be in charge of that.”

“We manage health care from Guam, to

Germany, to Poland to Puerto Rico,” Martínez said, adding that it is especially gratifying “to be making a difference.”

“It’s a journey. You just keep marching in the right direction,” he said. “It’s what you make with the resources that you have. You work your butt off and wait to see the results.”

Martínez said he got a head start at CROEM, where he was in just the second class to graduate from the school.

“In my years it was an experimental school,” he said. “I was the guinea pig.”

Martínez gave the school credit for instilling the self-discipline necessary to succeed in a demanding military career.

It was a live-in coed school and the future general had 140 people in his class.

“We learned to live together. We became very close. To this day we keep track of each other on Facebook,” he said. “You develop very close friendships that won’t go away.”

The school’s campus is on an old U.S. Air Force satellite tracking base, which the Air Force gave to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It now belongs to Puerto Rico’s

Department of Education.

Martínez, who still sports a slight Spanish accent, said challenges still exist for Latinos moving up the ranks in the U.S. military.

“I’m not going to say that there aren’t still problems, but things are getting better,” he said.

Lawmaker: Crippling cyberattack shows port cargo merger was ill-advised

By THE STAR STAFF

Rep. José Aponte Hernández said Thursday that the consortium Puerto Nuevo Terminals (Luis Ayala Colón-Tote Maritime), the main cargo company in the

port of San Juan, suffered a cyberattack last Saturday that has resulted in a near-historic blockage in the dispatch of goods.

“We have been consistent from day one, Luis Ayala Colón-Tote Maritime’s monopoly on cargo operations at the port of San Juan terminals in Puerto Nuevo is a bad deal for Puerto Rico, and this week it was proven again,” the veteran lawmaker said in a written statement. “On Saturday, the company’s systems suffered a cyberattack that rendered them inoperable. Since then, all work related to unloading barges and placing cargo containers on trucks has been done by hand, delaying the process for all other companies and resulting in an almost historic stoppage of cargo vehicles on Kennedy Avenue.”

In April 2020, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice raised serious reservations about the merger agreement between two companies to provide cargo services in the port of San Juan, a veteran lawmaker said.

“This cyberattack once again exposed how vulnerable our cargo infrastructure is at the Puerto Nuevo terminal with a single company dominating the entire market, as is the case with Puerto Nuevo Terminals,” added the at-large legislator and former speaker of the island House of Representatives. “Yesterday [Wednesday] it was obvious to any driver on Kennedy Avenue the massive traffic jam and the almost endless line of cargo trucks waiting to enter the port facilities. This delay, caused by the monopoly, affects the distribution chain and causes a dislocation

in trade and our people.”

In April 2020, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice raised serious reservations about the merger agreement between the aforementioned companies to provide services in the port of San Juan. According to the federal agency, the agreement is “made to provide a competitive advantage” to the new entity.

In the previous four-year legislative term (2017-2020), Aponte led the investigation into the aforementioned merger, under the auspices of House Resolution 1523, which ordered the House Federal, International and Status Relations committees, along with the government entities in charge of economic development, planning, telecommunications, public-private partnerships and energy, to conduct an exhaustive investigation into the processes leading to the approval of the proposed merger of maritime cargo companies Luis A. Ayala Colón and Tote Maritime.

The probe determined that the merger was not in the best interests of the people of Puerto Rico.

Maj. Gen. Dr. Lester Martínez

Groups appeal to PR Supreme Court to stop use of farmlands for solar projects

By THE STAR STAFF

Six organizations have appealed to the Puerto Rico Supreme Court seeking to reverse lower court rulings that prevent access to justice for those seeking to safeguard food security against what the petitioners contend is the indiscriminate development of solar projects on farmland in Puerto Rico.

The request, filed through an appeal for “certiorari,” seeks to revoke a determination of the Court of Appeals upholding, in turn, a San Juan court ruling that rejected an appeal for “mandamus” filed by the organizations so that their arguments could be heard.

They stated that the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) must enforce the Special Agricultural Reserve and the Land Use Plan, and that the Department of Economic Development and Commerce should help it fulfill that duty.

In the appeal the groups asserted that “there is a direct conflict between both [previous judicial] decisions and that, in practice, it leaves the petitioners here without a forum.”

“Access to justice is only possible with the issuance re-

quested here,” they said.

The petitioning organizations said the previous decisions of both lower-level forums leave the people without a legal remedy when the PREB, which is the island’s energy regulator, fails to fulfill its duty. Both forums recognize the exclusive jurisdiction of the PREB and urge organizations to go before it through an administrative process, ignoring that they had already done so in a similar case, where the PREB denied having jurisdiction over the location of the projects. In that earlier case, the Court of Appeals confirmed that the PREB did not have jurisdiction over the siting of the projects.

“The Judgment unfairly and arbitrarily refers the appearing parties to a forum that denies having jurisdiction to consider and apply the Special Agricultural Reserve and the Land Use Plan,” reads the filed appeal. “It directly requires those appearing here to resort to an administrative and judicial review process that has already been exhausted. The parties don’t need to appear again before the Bureau through a complaint and judicial review for the Bureau to consider and apply the Special Agricultural Reserve and the Land Use Plan.”

Pierluisi says local status vote

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Thursday that while he is exploring the possibility of enabling a status vote on the same day as the general elections, he is also worried that it may send mixed signals to Congress.

“I still see that it is possible, if not probable, that I will call this consultation, but it will be at some point in the summer,” the governor said. “If I do it, the reason is that right now, as I said, I will be in Washington next week for a couple of days, [advocating] in favor of holding a public

The organizations indicated that the PREB intends to continue evaluating industrial energy projects without identifying suitable sites, “such as non-operational landfill systems and previously contaminated land,” as the Energy Public Policy Law provided.

Furthermore, the majority of the disputed industrial projects are proposed to be located on Rural Protected Agricultural Soils, in the Special Agricultural Reserve, which is incompatible and detrimental to the public interest because it threatens food security, the petitioners contend.

The petitioning organizations contend that the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau intends to continue evaluating industrial energy projects without identifying suitable sites.

may send mixed signals

hearing on the bill in the Senate. I think it is a somewhat inconsistent message if, on the one hand, I am asking that they take action in Congress; on the other, I am saying that we are going to take action here.”

He was talking about the Puerto Rico Status Act, which seeks to resolve Puerto Rico’s status and its relationship to the U.S. through a federally binding plebiscite. The House of Representatives passed the bill in December 2022, but the Senate never voted on it, effectively restarting the process of getting the proposed law approved under a new Congress.

to Congress

“I don’t rule out taking action here,” Pierluisi told reporters. “If I decide to do it, it will be in the summer, mid-summer. It makes sense that if a consultation is going to be held, it should be held on Election Day because that is when we have the most electoral participation.”

The government has held different status votes over the years since 1967.

In the 2020 election, the government held a non-binding, straight yes-or-no referendum on statehood. Based on the completed certified election night count, the option to pursue statehood won the referendum 52.52% to 47.48%.

FEMA allocates $4 million for restoration work at Caguas botanical garden

By THE STAR STAFF

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has allocated some $4 million to the William Miranda Marín Botanical Garden in Caguas, directed at the recovery and strengthening of the site due to damage caused by Hurricane Maria.

The funds will support the restoration of infrastructure and provide tools for risk mitigation in the important natural and cultural resource, Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero said.

“This allocation will restore an invaluable natural resource, strengthen the fabric of the community, and protect an important habitat where even pre-Columbian archaeological sites are preserved,” the FEMA official said. “Projects like these go beyond minimal repair and reaffirm our commitment to current and future generations.”

The Botanical Garden is located on the grounds of the former San José sugar mill, an important agricultural stronghold founded by the Spanish in the Turabo Valley between the 19th and mid-20th centuries.

Gil Calderón, executive director of the Botanical Garden, said it is the only place in Puerto Rico where evidence of the combination of the three main ethnic groups that make up the Creole (European, African and Taíno) has been found.

“For this reason, the site is divided into four main zones representing each of these ethnicities and one dedicated to the Creole, where one can find flora and fauna representative of these peoples and cultures,” he said. “Our vision is to be a world-class ethnobotanical garden, a leader in tourism, culture, nature, and agritourism attractions in Puerto Rico. To be the best alternative for sustainable tourism in the Caribbean.”

Calderón added that at the same time, “our mission is to be internationally recognized as a premier center in terms of research, education, and interpretation of natural, cultural resources, and sustainability strategies.”

Part of the work already completed with the funds assigned by FEMA includes the repair and replacement of various elements, from lamps and posts to security and communication systems that operate through monitors to provide information to visitors. Likewise, water pipes, lighting systems and roof panels were replaced.

Other repairs will be carried out in the administrative offices, concession stands, the butterfly garden, the Casa Jíbara, the visitor center and recreational areas. Funds will also be allocated to repair bridges and the artificial lake, and for improvements to the garden’s security area.

William Miranda Marín Botanical Garden in Caguas

Emory in Atlanta is latest university to crack down on protests

By ALAN BLINDER, ANNA BETTS and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

Police officers swept onto the ordinarily serene campus of Emory University in Atlanta after demonstrators erected tents Thursday morning, leading to the latest clash in a pro-Palestinian protest movement that has cascaded across American campuses this week.

As the demonstrators at Emory screamed, officers wrestled with protesters on the ground and escorted others away. From a few dozen yards away, onlookers stared and recorded the scene with their cellphones.

Authorities did not immediately say how many people had been arrested in Atlanta, but across the country, more than 400 protesters have been taken into police custody since April 18, when the arrests of more than 100 protesters at Columbia University in New York set off a wave of student activism nationwide.

University administrators and law enforcement officials have responded by arresting students, removing encampments and threatening academic consequences as some Jewish students have expressed concern for their safety, and some politicians have demanded a crackdown on the growing demonstrations.

Boston police arrested 108 protesters at Emerson College late Wednesday, just hours after Los Angeles police arrested 93 people on the University of Southern California campus who had refused to disperse. Earlier on Wednesday, dozens of police officers, many of them in riot gear and some on horseback, arrested 57 people at the University of Texas at Austin.

In each case, it was unclear how many of the arrested demonstrators were students.

Still, new protests continue to erupt, spreading far beyond a handful of prominent universities.

At Emory, demonstrators accused police of using pepper spray or tear gas to break up the protests. The university did not immediately comment on the claims, but a spokesperson, Laura Diamond, said protesters were “activists attempting to disrupt our university as our students finish classes and prepare for finals.”

The university, Diamond added, “does not tolerate vanwdalism or other criminal activity on our campus.”

As universities struggled to quell the unrest, some lawmakers have called for stronger measures, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, who on a visit to Columbia on Wednesday asked the White House to take action and said it should eventually consider using military force.

Universities have deployed police and suspended students, under pressure from such lawmakers, as well as donors and alumni, who have called the demonstrations antisemitic.

Many student activists say they are galvanized by the clampdowns on largely peaceful protests on other campuses and the universities’ financial ties to companies that protesters say are making weapons being used on Palestinians.

There was little sign that the movement was losing steam: About 100 demonstrators set up tents at Harvard University on Wednesday night, even after the university warned that students could face discipline.

A pro-Palestinian encampment at the City College of New York, on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)

Supreme Court appears sharply divided in emergency abortion case

Health care workers from George Washington University Hospital gather with abortion rights protesters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, on Wednesday morning, April 24, 2024. The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided earlier this week over whether federal law should allow doctors to perform emergency abortions in states with near-total bans on the procedure. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

By ABBIE VANSICKLE

The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided earlier this week over whether federal law should allow doctors to perform emergency abortions in states with near-total bans on the procedure, in a case that could determine access to abortion in emergency rooms across the country.

The lively, two-hour argument focused on a clash between Idaho, whose law limits access to abortion unless the life of the pregnant woman is in danger, and federal law. Questioning by the justices suggested a divide along ideological — and possibly gender — lines.

“What Idaho is doing is waiting for women to wait and deteriorate and suffer the lifelong health consequences with no possible upside for the fetus,” said Solicitor General Elizabeth

2022 that the issue would return to elected representatives, it continues to make its way back to the court. In late March, the justices considered the availability of abortion pill mifepristone.

The federal law at issue, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, enacted by Congress in 1986, mandates that hospitals receiving federal funds provide patients with stabilizing care.

Under Idaho’s near-total ban on abortion, the procedure is illegal except in cases of incest, rape, some instances of nonviable pregnancies or when it is “necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.” Doctors who perform abortions could face criminal penalties, prison time and loss of their licenses to practice medicine.

The Biden administration maintains that the federal law conflicts with — and should override — Idaho’s. Lawyers for the state contend that the administration has improperly interpreted the federal law in a way that would bypass state bans.

Opponents of abortion assert that the Biden administration is trying to use the federal law to turn hospitals into legal abortion sites in states where the procedure is mostly banned.

Barrett asked what would happen if a local prosecutor did not agree with a doctor’s judgment that an abortion was necessary.

When Turner answered that “it is very case by case,” Barrett joined in: “I’m kind of shocked actually because I thought your own expert had said below that these kinds of cases were covered,” she said.

Even as Turner responded that such cases would be covered if a doctor acted in good faith, Barrett continued to probe.

“What if the prosecutor thought differently?” she asked. “What if the prosecutor thought, ‘Well, I don’t think any good-faith doctor could draw that conclusion.’”

“That, your honor, is the nature of prosecutorial discretion, and it may result in a case,” Turner said.

The federal law specifies that a hospital must provide care to a person with an “emergency medical condition.” For pregnant women, the law states, that means when “the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected” to jeopardize “the health of the woman or her unborn child.”

Prelogar, arguing on behalf of the federal government. “It just stacks tragedy upon tragedy.”

Justice Elena Kagan interjected that the current situation seemed untenable: “It can’t be the right standard of care to force somebody onto a helicopter.”

Although the collision between the two laws affects only those women who face dire medical complications during pregnancy, a broad decision could have implications for more than a dozen states that have enacted near-total bans on abortion since the court overturned a constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022.

The dispute was the second time in less than a month that the Supreme Court has grappled with abortion. It is a potent reminder that even after Justice Samuel Alito vowed in

Several of the conservative justices appeared skeptical of the federal government’s argument that the decades-old law aimed at preventing “patient dumping” — hospitals refusing to treat the poor and uninsured — should override Idaho’s abortion restrictions.

“How can you impose restrictions on what Idaho can criminalize simply because hospitals in Idaho have chosen to participate in Medicare?” Alito asked.

The three liberal justices pushed back strongly on the lawyer arguing for Idaho, Joshua Turner, broaching several examples of pregnant women facing severe complications that could leave them unable to have children or with debilitating injuries. They also cited recent reports that, since Idaho’s ban went into effect, hospitals have flown several women to other states to receive emergency abortion care. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative, joined the tough questioning.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared skeptical of Turner’s argument that the state’s law allows for doctors to make a good-faith determination about whether a patient’s life is in danger, describing a patient whose water broke early and required a hysterectomy and abortion.

“She can no longer have children,” Sotomayor said. “All right? You’re telling me the doctor there couldn’t have done the abortion earlier?”

“Again, it goes back to whether a doctor can in good-faith medical judgment —” Turner began.

“That’s a lot for the doctor to risk,” Sotomayor replied.

If a hospital breaks the federal law, it can be sued and potentially lose Medicare funding. The federal law also includes a provision that it will not preempt a state or local law unless “the requirement directly conflicts with” it.

But the state law imposes a prison sentence of up to five years if it is violated and can lead to the loss of a doctor’s medical license.

A federal trial judge temporarily blocked the state’s ban. Last fall, a three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put the ruling on hold and reinstated the ban. But that decision was ultimately overridden by an 11-member panel of the appeals court, which temporarily blocked Idaho’s law as the appeal continued.

Outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, demonstrators gathered at competing rallies.

Mylissa Farmer, 43, who said she was denied an abortion in Missouri and Kansas after her water broke at 17 weeks, spoke in support of the federal law’s protections.

“I just don’t want anyone else to go through what I did,” Farmer said. “That’s why I’m speaking out, because it’s so wrong, and I don’t see any kind of light.”

Just steps away, about a dozen antiabortion demonstrators raised signs that read “Abortion betrays women” and “Emergency rooms are not abortion clinics.”

“What this law would do is it essentially make our hospitals and emergency rooms abortion clinics,” Bethany Janzen, 30, the founder of an anti-abortion group, said of the federal law. “And that’s a problem.”

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look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan

Megacap Meta revived Big Tech jitters on Wall St overnight as its pumped-up stock balked at an ostensibly decent earnings update late Wednesday - but the mining sector was abuzz about BHP’s possible $39 billion mega bid for Anglo American.

In a reverse of the positive way markets treated Tesla’s beaten-down shares after a revenue miss the prior day, Meta’s headline beat triggered an out-of-hours 13% plunge in its shares as investors appeared to focus on the scale of its outsize spending on artificial intelligence projects.

The respective market reactions may have much to do with investor positioning in advance - with Tesla down more than 40% for the year before it reported and Meta up more than 40%.

Either way, the Meta retreat has dragged Wall St stock futures back down about 0.5-1.0% ahead of Thursday’s bell and ups the ante as the ‘Magnificent 7’ reports keep rolling in. Microsoft and Alphabet are under the microscope later in the heaviest day of the earnings season so far.

With almost a third of the S&P500 reported already, nearly 80% have beaten estimates and reported earnings growth has picked up close to 7% - back to where consensus forecasts for the first quarter were at the start of the year. And blended first-quarter earnings estimates, which combine what’s come in with forecasts for those yet to report, have also climbed back above 3% after a swoon earlier in the month.

Wary of the slightly jaundiced view of tech stocks this month and mounting currency volatility in Asia, Japan’s Nikkei, South Korea’s Kospi and Taiwan’s benchmark all lost 1-2% overnight.

Tech shivered in Europe on Thursday too, with STMicro dropping 3% after the chipmaker cut full-year sales guidance. European banks also topped the diary there but their stocks largely batted away a series of beats.

The big corporate news was in mining and BHP’s $39 billion bid for London-listed Anglo American - a deal that would create the world’s biggest copper miner and which sent Anglo’s shares surging 13% on Thursday. Copper prices have risen more than 10% this year.

With buoyant world growth and a likely geopolitical scramble to secure scarce resources spurring commodity markets of late, deal activity in the sector appears to have gone up a gear and Britain’s cheaply-valued, resource heavy FTSE 100 stock index outperformed again to hit another record high.

Sterling was also higher.

So much for the micro - the macro view of the first three months also hoves into view later on Thursday with the first official cut of Q1 U.S. gross domestic product and related inflation measures.

Consensus forecasts are for growth to have slowed to

2.4% from 3.4% in the final quarter of last year - with core PCE inflation estimates jumping to 3.4% from 2.0%.

However, the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow model has growth running as high as 2.7% and Friday’s March reading of the Fed’s favoured PCE inflation gauge will likely dominate for anxious rates markets.

In a heavy week for U.S. Treasury debt sales, two-year yields continued to hover just under 5%.

US to withdraw troops from Chad, dealing another blow to Africa policy

By ERIC SCHMITT

The Pentagon will withdraw dozens of Special Operations forces from Chad in the next few days, the second major blow in a week to U.S. security and counterterrorism policy in a volatile swath of West and Central Africa, U.S. officials said Thursday.

The decision to pull out about 75 Army Special Forces personnel working in Ndjamena, Chad’s capital, comes days after the Biden administration said it would withdraw more than 1,000 U.S. military personnel from Niger in the coming months.

The Pentagon is being forced to draw down troops in response to the African governments’ demands to renegotiate the rules and conditions under which U.S. military personnel can operate. Both countries want terms that better favor their interests, analysts say. The decision to withdraw from Niger is final, but U.S. officials said they hoped to resume talks on security cooperation after elections in Chad on May 6.

The departure of U.S. military advisers in both countries comes as Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are turning away from years of cooperation with the United States and forming partnerships with Russia — or at least exploring closer security ties with Moscow.

The Kremlin uses persuasion — and other times, coercion — to achieve its aims. The United States warned Chad’s president last year that Russian mercenaries were plotting to kill him and three senior aides and that Moscow was backing Chadian rebels massing in the Central African Republic, to the south. At the same time, the Kremlin was courting sympathizers within Chad’s ruling elite, including Cabinet ministers and a half brother of the president.

The impending departure of the U.S. military advisers from Chad, a desert nation at the crossroads of the continent, was prompted by a letter from the Chadian government this month that the United States saw as threatening to end an important security agreement with Washington.

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(Bryan Denton/The New York Times)

was reported earlier by CNN, could be a negotiating tactic by some members of the military and the government to pressure Washington into a more favorable deal before the elections in May.

U.S. officials said that unlike the U.S. troop departure from Niger, the withdrawal from Chad could be only temporary while diplomats determined whether a new so-called status of forces agreement could be reached, and if so, whether U.S. military advisers would return to Chad. Barring last-minute diplomatic developments, the U.S. troops are scheduled to begin leaving this weekend and complete their departure to Germany by May 1, two U.S. officials said.

“As talks continue with Chadian officials, U.S. Africa Command is currently planning to reposition some U.S. military forces from Chad, a portion of which was already scheduled to depart,” Maj. Pete Nguyen, a Pentagon spokesperson, said Thursday.

“This temporary step is part of an ongoing review of our security cooperation, which will resume after the May 6 presidential election,” Nguyen said.

While France, a former colonial power in the region, has a much larger military presence in Chad, the United States has also relied on the country as a trusted security partner.

About 75 Green Berets from the 20th Special Forces Group, a National Guard unit from Alabama, serve in the task force. A handful of other U.S. military personnel work in the embassy or in different advisory jobs and are not affected by the decision to withdraw, officials said.

The letter blindsided and puzzled U.S. diplomats and military officers. It was sent from Chad’s chief of air staff, Idriss Amine; typed in French, one of Chad’s official languages; and written on Amine’s official letterhead, two U.S. officials said. It was not sent through official diplomatic channels, they said, which would be the typical method of handling such issues.

Current and former U.S. officials said the letter, which

The letter was sent to the American defense attache and did not directly order the U.S. military to leave Chad, but it did single out a Special Operations task force that operates from a Chadian military base in the capital and serves as an important hub for coordinating U.S. military training and advising missions in the region.

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Chad’s presidential guard is one of the best trained and equipped in the semiarid belt of Africa known as the Sahel. The country has played host to military exercises conducted by the United States. Officials at the Pentagon’s Africa Command say Chad has been a major partner in an effort involving several countries in the Lake Chad basin to fight Boko Haram.

“U.S. Africa Command remains dedicated to building enduring partnerships with Chad and other African nations in the Sahel to address mutual security concerns and to help promote a peaceful and prosperous future in the region,” Gen. Michael Langley, the head of the command, said during a visit to Chad in January, according to a statement from the command.

During the trip, the statement said, Langley met with Gen. Abakar Abdelkerim Daoud, Chad’s military chief of staff, and other leaders. Discussions focused on regional security challenges and Chadian efforts to counter violent extremism in the Sahel.

U.S. Special Forces trainer leads Chadian soldiers during an exercise in Ndjamena, Chad, on March 15, 2017.

Blinken tours China to promote some ties, while the US severs others

By ANA SWANSON

Secretary of State Antony Blinken cheered on the sidelines at a basketball game in Shanghai on Wednesday night, and spent Thursday chatting with students at New York University’s Shanghai campus and meeting American business owners. It all went to emphasize the kind of economic, educational and cultural ties that the United States is pointedly holding up as beneficial for both countries.

But hanging over those pleasantries during his visit to China this week are several steps the U.S. is taking to sever economic ties in areas where the Biden administration says they threaten American interests. And those will be the focus of greater attention from Chinese officials, as well.

Even as the Biden administration tries to stabilize the relationship with China, it is advancing several economic measures that would curb China’s access to the U.S. economy and technology. It is poised to raise tariffs on Chinese steel, solar panels and other crucial products to try to protect American factories from cheap imports. It is weighing further restrictions on China’s access to advanced semiconductors to try to keep Beijing from developing sophisticated artificial intelligence that could be used on the battlefield.

This week, Congress also passed legislation that would force ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to sell its stake in the app within nine to 12 months or leave the United States altogether. President Joe Biden signed it Wednesday, though the measure is likely to be challenged in court.

Blinken’s visit, which was expected to take him to Beijing on Friday for high-level government meetings, had a much more cordial tone than the trip he made to China last year. That trip was the first after a Chinese spy balloon traveled across the U.S., tipping the American public into an uproar.

In a meeting with the Shanghai Communist Party secretary Thursday morning, Blinken said direct engagement between the U.S. and China was both valuable and necessary.

“We have an obligation for our people — indeed an obligation to the world — to manage the relationship between our two countries responsibly,” he said.

Speaking to students at the NYU’s Shanghai campus later that morning, he said the educational exchanges the students were engaged in provided a “ballast” for a complicated and confrontational relationship.

Since Biden met with Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, in California in November, the U.S.China relationship has seemed more stable, with nothing like the dramatic ups and downs of the trade spats under former President Donald Trump.

But the Biden administration has still been

marching toward a more restrictive economic relationship with China, while Xi has strongly signaled that business interests come second to national security concerns.

That includes controls on semiconductor technology, which are being raised by both sides as a more prominent issue than ever before. The Biden administration has been weighing further export controls, particularly on factories that have been helping produce advanced semiconductors for the Chinese tech giant Huawei.

“By explicitly trying to degrade Chinese tech capabilities, especially on advanced AI, the United States has moved export controls to the forefront of the U.S.-China agenda,” said Emily Benson, a trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

In a call between Biden and Xi this month, both leaders raised the technology controls as matters of central importance.

Biden emphasized that the United States would continue to take necessary actions to prevent advanced American technologies from being used to undermine its own national security, without unduly limiting trade and investment, according to the White House.

Xi said that putting new sanctions on China was not “de-risking,” but creating risks. If the United States was bent on “containing China’s hi-tech development and depriving China of its legitimate right to development, China is not going to sit back and watch,” he said, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

U.S. officials say their restrictions are necessary given China’s authoritarian government and statist economic model. But the moves have rankled Chinese leaders and pushed tensions over economic measures to their highest point in years.

The measures are not just emanating from the U.S. government: Susan Shirk, the author of “Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise,” said that China had pivoted toward a more self-sufficient industrial policy, and has been seeking to supplant the United States as a hightech superpower under Xi.

China, too, has allowed security concerns to affect a greater proportion of its economy, even as Xi and other Chinese leaders have tried to reassure foreign businesses that their investment is welcome. A new national security law has extended Beijing’s reach into Hong Kong, threatening the city’s status as a financial hub. American executives have been alarmed by China’s investigations of foreign firms, as well as the country’s broader rules against sharing data and information with foreigners.

Despite China’s complaints about the U.S. government’s efforts to crack down on TikTok, China itself has for decades banned other Western social media services. Apple said last week that Beijing had ordered it to remove WhatsApp and Threads from app stores in China.

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By BRET STEPHENS

Netanel Crispe, from Danby, Vermont, is a 21-yearold junior studying American history at Yale. He is also, to his knowledge, the university’s only Hasidic undergraduate. When he chose Yale, he told me this week, he was “looking for an institution that asserted its position in terms of maintaining and protecting free expression while not backing down on its principal values.”

It hasn’t worked out that way.

On Saturday evening he and his friend Sahar Tartak, a Yale sophomore and an Orthodox Jew, paid a visit to the university’s Beinecke Plaza, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators had set up an encampment.

“I was wearing my black hat; I was very identifiably Jewish,” Crispe said. “I was yelled at, harassed, pushed and shoved numerous times. Every time I tried to take a step someone confronted me inches from my face, telling me not to move.” Tartak said she was hit in the left eye by a Palestinian flag held by a demonstrator. She ended up in the hospital, luckily without permanent injury. “Thank God, there was a small sphere at the end of the pole,” she told me.

Yale and other universities have been sites of almost continual demonstrations since Hamas massacred and kidnapped Israelis on Oct. 7. That’s just fine, insofar as students have a right to express their views about the war in the Gaza Strip — whatever one thinks about those views. It’s

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fine, too, to be willing to defy campus rules they believe are unjust — provided they are willing to accept the price of their civil disobedience, including arrest, jail time or suspension.

But as the experiences of scores of other Jewish students on American campuses testify, we are well past the fine stage.

At the University of California, Berkeley, students were spat on and grabbed by the neck by anti-Israel demonstrators. When a small group of students held Israeli flags in front of the Columbia protest, a young demonstrator, her face mostly masked by a kaffiyeh, stood in front of them with a sign that read, “Al-Qasam’s Next Targets,” a reference to the wing of Hamas that led the Oct. 7 attacks. At Yale, according to a video shared by Crispe, a demonstrator read a “poem” threatening those who “finance, encourage and facilitate this mass killing against us: May death follow you, wherever you go, and when it does I hope you will not be prepared.”

What do such acts mean for Jews on campus?

There’s a certain eagerness in some media stories to highlight Jewish students who have joined the protests as a way of acquitting anti-Israel groups of charges of antisemitism. But as Jonathan Chait astutely noted in New York magazine, “this does not settle the question of their relation to antisemitism any more than ‘Blacks for Trump’ puts to rest concerns about Republican racism.”

Others have suggested that some of the more aggressive expressions of antisemitism have come from outside agitators rather than from students themselves. Maybe, though there’s plenty of evidence of atrocious student behavior. But that still leaves open the question of why these students regularly chant slogans like “There is only one solution, intifada revolution,”

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at a street intersection at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Monday, April 22, 2024. Behavior that would be scandalous if aimed at other minorities is treated as understandable or even commendable when directed at Jews, writes Bret Stephens. (Adrian Martinez Chavez/The New York Times)

which (if they didn’t know it before) they know now is an incendiary call to violent action against Jews.

The sad fact of campus life today is that speech and behavior that would be considered scandalous if aimed at other minorities are treated as understandable or even commendable when directed at Jews. The calling card of antisemitism has always been the double standard. How would the Yale administration have reacted if Crispe and Tartak had been Black students who said they were taunted, harassed and assaulted (whatever the ostensible political motive) by a mob of their white peers?

What goes for the student demonstrators is true of faculties, too. At Columbia, nearly 170 professors put their names on a statement suggesting that “one could regard” Oct. 7 as “an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation.” Leaving aside the lawyerly language, there’s little question as to where the sympathies of the signatories lie. What are Jewish students — including the Israelis enrolled at Columbia — supposed to do when faced with such militant hostility not only from their peers but also from their professors?

I asked Crispe and Tartak if they had given thought to leaving Yale. “I have to stay,” Tartak told me. Crispe felt similarly. “I’m going to stay around Yale to support my peers as long as I need to,” he said. But he also had regrets.

“I entered Yale extremely proud to be one of the first Hasidic Jews to go as an undergraduate,” Crispe said. “I looked forward to sharing experiences with students from diverse backgrounds while living proudly in my own skin. What I find now, walking around campus, is people flipping me off, yelling at me. There’s no escaping it.”

Crispe’s and Tartak’s defiance commends them. As for the student bigots who have put them through these ordeals — and the university administrators who have dallied and equivocated in the face of that bigotry — history will eventually render a verdict. Donors, alumni and prospective students should reach their own verdicts sooner.

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SAN JUAN – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia dijo el jueves, que está seguro que el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), relizará una “debida” investigación por supuestas violaciones ambientales presentadas contra su hijo, Anthony Pierluisi Rojo.

“Lo que dije anteriormente, estoy seguro que el Departamento de Recursos Naturales atenderá debidamente, esa querella”, dijo escuetamente el gobernador, a preguntas de la prensa.

La secretaria del DRNA, Anaís Rodríguez Vega, confirmó que la querella por supuestas violaciones ambientales presentada contra Pierluisi Rojo, es atendida por el Cuerpo de Vigilantes para su investigación del cual indicó que no se trata de una nueva construcción.

“Eso no es lo que dice la querella. No hay un planteamiento sobre construcción reciente o en los pasados días sobre esa estructura. Eso es parte del trámite ordinario de una investigación de una querella, el personal técnico y en conjunto con el Cuerpo de Vigilantes, inspeccionan el área”, dijo Rodríguez Vega en entrevista radial (Radio Isla 1320).

“En la medida en que los pasados días fue que llegó al Cuerpo de Vigilantes, una querella comienza y se activa entonces el proceso de investigación. No es menos cierto como dijiste verdad que esta estructura lleva mucho tiempo construida que el departamento tenía conocimiento desde los años 90

la existencia de este muelle, pero con toda la información y cónsono con la solicitud de esta querella en el proceso de investigación correspondiente ahora sí. Ha comenzado porque en los pasa dos días se recibió una querella. Ahora, me reafirmo, a mí como secretaria del Departamento de Recursos Naturales me toca velar por la integridad de un departamento de corte constitucional así que no voy a permitir bajo ninguna circunstancia que ataques políticos de algunos que ahora piensa, verdad y ahora han visto que el asunto ambiental el pueblo de Puerto Rico está pendiente a ello, afecte la credibilidad del departamento”, agregó.

Asimismo Rodríguez Vega dijo que el área no es zona natural protegida.

“No es correcto que sea un área natural protegida como viene siendo en otros casos reserva. Sí, verdad, está sobre el agua, se necesita ciertos permisos. Eso es parte de la investigación. Son dos agencias, verdad, para poder construir cualquier muelle o cualquier estructura sobre el agua en aguas territoriales en Puerto Rico, necesita permiso del Cuerpo de Ingenieros de los Estados Unidos y algún tipo de permisología para la construcción y concesión del Departamento de Recursos Naturales cónsono con el reglamento 4860 de uso y aprovechamiento de bienes de dominio público. Eso es parte de la investigación. Si te confirmo lo que verdad te he dicho anteriormente, es un muelle que desde los 90 el departamento tiene conocimiento de su existencia”, concluyó Rodríguez Vega.

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Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough investigate a chilling murder

By ALEXIS SOLOSKI

“W

e’ve been teenage girls,” Lily Gladstone said. Which means that Gladstone and her co-star, Riley Keough, know what teenage girls can do.

In “Under the Bridge,” a limited series now streaming on Hulu, Keough and Gladstone play a writer and a cop investigating the 1997 beating and murder of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old Indo-Canadian girl. Six teenage girls and one teenage boy, many of them Virk’s classmates, were eventually convicted.

The case has inspired plays, poems, documentaries and several books, including Rebecca Godfrey’s 2005 literary nonfiction work “Under the Bridge,” which gives the series its shape and name. (The show also relies on a memoir by Virk’s father, Manjit Virk.) Though Godfrey died in 2022, before filming began, she worked closely with the show’s creator, Quinn Shephard, on its development. Keough, who also produced the series, plays a version of Godfrey. Gladstone plays Cam, an invented character, a Native law enforcement officer who was adopted as a child by a white family.

While “Under the Bridge” centers these women as adults, it includes scenes of the same characters as teenagers, drawing lines between the girls they were and the women they are.

This month, Keough, who was filming in London, and Gladstone, who was in Seattle, met for a video call. In an hourlong chat, they discussed girlhood, violence and making a truecrime series that sidesteps sensationalism. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q: What were you like as teenagers?

LILY GLADSTONE: Whenever I meet anybody from high school, “Oh my God, you’re the same person” is pretty much what I hear. That version of Lily really built the foundation for who I am now. She had this sense of where she wanted to go. She cracks me up a little bit. Riley, I get the sense that you had a lot of energy, though I don’t want to say you were ever too much to handle because you don’t really have that vibe.

RILEY KEOUGH: Well, my parents would have said differently.

GLADSTONE: Mine, too. They say there’s a reason I’m an only child. But I feel like if I was your teacher, I would have been like, “She’s going to do some pretty awesome things.”

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KEOUGH: I needed that teacher. I would say that I was always very sensitive and kind. The kids that maybe didn’t have friends, I always wanted to sit with. I had that instinct. But I had a wildness in me, too. I’m an adventurous spirit. I wasn’t a teenager who was a very big problem or anything. I just loved life and I wanted to experience it all.

In my heart, I am the same person. But it’s been a confusing journey. It’s funny that I’m an actor because I never wanted attention. I never wanted to stand out. Over time, I’m just more comfortable being myself.

Q: What drew you to the series?

GLADSTONE: Honestly, the first spark was hearing that Riley was attached. From there, I had conversations with Quinn and Samir (Mehta, the showrunner) into what kind of meaning could be found in a senseless act of violence. Having just come off another “true-crime” piece (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) that self-indicted sensationalism and looked at the people that were affected as well as unearthing some of the systemic issues that create these scenarios, I was really interested in this one because of how it indicts all of us in what was happening around Reena Virk.

It was really clear to me that this was another opportunity

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to have a nuanced conversation about the systemic failures of law enforcement. When you’re making a truecrime story but being self-aware about it, you can go on a journey with your audience and have a conversation about these things in a way that didn’t happen at the time.

Q: Were you surprised that teen girls could be capable of something like this?

KEOUGH: No, no, not at all.

GLADSTONE: We’ve been teen girls. Not that we necessarily have the ability to do something like that. But certainly we were teenagers with other teenagers. Teenage girls are some of the most powerful people on the planet. And anybody that’s got that much power has the capability to be an ungrounded wire with it.

KEOUGH: That can be a really volatile time for the human spirit.

GLADSTONE: Identity formation with a big old shot of hormones.

Q: Why is your version of Rebecca so drawn to this story?

KEOUGH: I don’t think she knows. There’s something that grabs her. She feels like she’s there in that moment for a reason, then she decides to start writing about it. Rebecca inserts herself into a situation that she does not need to be in. There is a massive amount of privilege in being able to do that, and that is hard for Cam to watch. It’s Cam’s duty to be there, whereas with Rebecca, it’s a little confusing what her agenda is.

Q: What attracted you to Cam, Lily?

GLADSTONE: This sense of being a woman in a man’s world and also being an outsider. Cam represents a lot of conversations that are not in the book itself but that were worth including. The murder happened just by tribal land. The bridge connects the municipality to a reserve. So inherently, there’s a First Nations presence in the story. I thought it was a brilliant construction to have a First Nations, adopted cop, who feels compelled to Reena in a way that becomes clearer and clearer to her.

Q: This is a terrible crime, committed by young people. Should anyone be defined by the worst thing they’ve done?

GLADSTONE: Individuals are such a conglomerate of everything that’s happened to them — their environment, circumstances, ability. A lot of conversations now are about restorative justice. I’m really happy that there are several examples in our series.

KEOUGH: There has to be a road to recovery for human beings. Reconciliation has to be an option. We have to try and move toward empathy and understanding and compassion and away from shame and harsh punishment, because I don’t think violence is ever the solution. (But) if people are committing horrific crimes, there should be repercussions.

GLADSTONE: Even if a person’s worst action doesn’t necessarily define them, worst actions do define the world for everyone else.

Q: Do you think that the girls you were would be proud of the women that you are now?

KEOUGH: I’m proud of Lily!

Lily Gladstone, right, and Riley Keough in Los Angeles, April 15, 2024. The actors are co-stars in “Under the Bridge,” a new true-crime series based on a teenager’s brutal killing in British Columbia. (Amy Harrity/The New York Times)

The Jane Stern Dorado Community Library: Celebrating 50 years of transforming lives

By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS

With much fanfare, the Jane Stern Dorado Community Library (JSDCL) celebrated its 50th anniversary with a unique “50 Years Together Gala” at The Watermill in Dorado Beach Resort & Club. Guests also commemorated that over the past 50 years, the library has grown exponentially from a location with just 100 books to a renowned destination for educational and cultural activities for all. The event highlights included sparkly decorations with touches of gold, entertainment with fabulously dressed stilt walkers and music, and a delicious buffet in a casual and elegant atmosphere.

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10 red wines to drink now: Austria edition

By ERIC ASIMOV

Austria is best known for its white wines, grüner veltliners and rieslings primarily. But it also produces brilliant reds, which, because they often seem like afterthoughts, can be great values.

Why do they seem so relatively obscure? Partly, it’s because grapes like blaufränkisch, which has great potential for making complex, contemplative wines, and zweigelt, the most widely planted Austrian red variety, are not well known to Americans, who often gravitate to the familiar. It’s well worth taking the plunge, though, because these wines can be superb, ranging from juicy thirst-quenchers to complex, elegant wines capable of aging and evolving.

I recently went shopping for Austrian reds in New York retail stores and found 10 bottles that I highly recommend. I opted mostly for more accessible bottles, ranging from roughly $20 to $45, but these are the sort of wines that can fit most any occasion. Stepping up to wines often from single vineyards intended for longer aging might run $50 to $100, but even they tend to be excellent values relative to wines of similar high quality.

In the 25 years or so that I’ve been regularly checking in on Austrian reds, I’ve seen a remarkable evolution. Early on, I saw a lot of stolid, oaky wines that were aiming primarily for power, particularly among blaufränkisches, at the cost of grace and subtlety. That was a sign of the times, when the biggest, loudest wines seemed to be most valued by many critics.

It was also an era when many Austrian producers seemed as if they were trying to make robust wines patterned after cabernet sauvignons rather than exploring the more delicate qualities of blaufränkisch. But, as with much of the winemaking world, the North Star of many producers shifted over time from the stur-

A variety of Austrian red

diness of Bordeaux to the grace of Burgundy. Austrians followed suit, and blaufränkisch has long since found its place in the constellation of lithe, nimble reds.

Zweigelt is another matter. In my experience, the grape, a cross between blaufränkisch and Sankt Laurent, another Austrian red, is light and spicy. Producers rarely get too ambitious with it, opting for juicy, tart, refreshing wines that can be delicious but don’t achieve the complexity of which blaufränkisch is capable. It is often used in blends.

Here are the 10 bottles in order of price.

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Heinrich Burgenland Blaufränkisch 2018, 12%, $20

This is a superb entrylevel blaufränkisch, made from biodynamically farmed grapes on sites around Lake Neusiedl, already with five years of aging. The years have softened whatever tannins were in the wine. It’s now earthy and a touch stony, with flavors of dark red fruits that persist in the mouth. (Winebow, New York)

Meinklang Österreich Blaufränkisch 2021, 12%, $20

Meinklang is a family-run biodynamic farm that, along with cattle, grains, fruits and vegetables, grows grapes and makes excellent wines, whether blends or varietal bottles like this blaufränkisch. The 2021 shows off the grape’s easy-drinking side. It’s pure, bright, lively, spicy and absolutely delicious, and it’s ready to drink right now. (Zev Rovine Selections, New York)

Claus Preisinger Neusiederlersee Puszta Libre! 2022, 11.5%, $20

Claus Preisinger is a longtime biodynamic farmer in the Burgenland region of eastern Austria. This easygoing bottle, from the region east of Lake Neusiedl, is made mostly of zweigelt with 20% Sankt Laurent and 20% pinot noir. It’s a chillable red, juicy and highly refreshing. (Volker Wine Co., Houston)

Rosi Schuster Burgenland Blaufränkisch 2020, 13.5%, $23

This excellent earthy, stony, dark-fruited blaufränkisch, from organically farmed vineyards, is smooth and balanced with well-integrated tannins. Hannes Schuster now manages this estate that was founded by his parents, Rosi and Franz Schuster, in the 1970s. (Winemonger, San Anselmo, California)

Straka Burgenland Blaufränkisch Greenschist 2020, 12.5%, $23

Thomas Straka farms organically in the Eisenberg region in the foothills of the Alps in the southern part of the Burgenland. This blaufränkisch, from green schist soils, is simultaneously bright and earthy, lively and refreshing yet savory and mineral. (Winemonger)

Rosi Schuster Burgenland Sankt Laurent 2021, 11.5%, $24

Sankt Laurent, Saint Laurent in English, is a popular grape in central and Eastern Europe. Schuster produces a particularly good version with spicy flavors of red fruits and impeccable balance. This would be as versatile with food as a pinot noir. (Winemonger)

Koppitsch Weinland Ret 2022, 10%, $25

Alex and Maria Koppitsch make natural wines in eastern Austria. They categorize Ret as a “fun wine,” and that’s exactly what it is, low in alcohol, bright and juicy with just a touch of refreshing bitterness. The wine is made up of 80% Zweigelt and 20% Sankt Laurent, farmed organically and biodynamically in alluvial soils and aged in steel and acacia vats. I’d serve this lightly chilled at casual gatherings, and I’d make sure I had plenty of bottles on hand. (Jenny & François Selections, New York)

Moric Burgenland Blaufränkisch 2021, 13%, $33

No winemaker has done more to elevate blaufränkisch than Roland Velic of Moric (pronounced Moritz). Almost anything he touches is superb, whether whites, blends or varietal wines. This is Moric’s entry-level blaufränkisch, yet it captures all of Velic’s emphasis on grace and elegance. The 2021 is fresh and focused, floral and minerally, the sort of wine that will go with a wide variety of foods. I’d love to have it with a roast chicken. His single-vineyard wines are more expensive but exquisite. (Winemonger)

Christian Tschida Österreich Kapitel I 2022, 12%, $42

Christian Tschida farms organically or biodynamically and makes natural wine, mostly without the addition of sulfur dioxide. Needless to say, the wine is ungefiltert, unfiltered in German, as the label puts it. This is made of cabernet franc. It’s pure, with earthy, spicy flavors of red fruits and just a hint of tannins, balanced and harmonious. (Jenny & François Selections)

wines. There’s more to Austrian wines than grüner veltliner — its reds range from juicy and refreshing to satisfyingly complex. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)

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LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria.

La Sra. Ramona Rolón García, madre de la parte peticionaria, estuvo ocupando el referido bien inmueble hasta el momento de su fallecimiento. La causante Ramona Rolón García obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de ésta fallecer, la Sra. Rolón García le cedió en vida a la peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha sucesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por más de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RUSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0 Interior, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número siete (7) propiedad de María Virginia De Jesús Rolón, con una cabida superficial de 2047.7500 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.5210 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, con el viraje de un camino público que le da acceso y con terrenos de Ismael Rolón García; por el Sur, con terrenos de María Luisa Rolón García; por el Este, con terrenos de Ángel Luis Centeno Rolón; y por el Oeste, con terrenos de la Sucesión Rolón García y terrenos de Josefina Rolón García. Contiene una estructura de madera y zinc dedicada a vivienda. Se le notifica que 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, s lvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal

Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES; con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico dc circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 11 de abril de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. VERÓNICA VÁZQUEZ ROSA, SUB-SECRETARIA. ***

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Parte Demandante Vs. BELLA R JACOBS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2023CV01936. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: BELLA R JACOBSBO JAREALITOS 1234 CALLE F, ARECIBO PR 00612-5123.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá 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, teléfo-

no (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI

FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, hoy día

7 de febrero de 2024. VIVIAN

Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. RACHEL VÉLEZ

PEZZUTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante Vs.

ABDIEL

GARCÍA FELICIANO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: PO2023CV02149.

Salón: 301. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO

LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO

RICO, SS.

A: ABDIEL GARCÍA

FELICIANO - BO.

GUARAGUAO CARR 123

KM 1906, PONCE, PR 00731 / 3 RESIDENCIAL

MIRAMAR HOUSING

CALLE 5 APTO. 38, PONCE 00728.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de febrero de 2024. En Ponce,

Puerto Rico, el 7 de febrero de 2024. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC.

Demandante Vs. ALBA E. RÍOS DÍAZ

Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV07428. Salón: 503. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO

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

A: ALBA E. RÍOS DÍAZ

- URB. HIDE PARK 205 CALLE LAS CAOBAS, SAN JUAN PR 00927.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica:https://www.poderiudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO

MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de febrero de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 8 de febrero de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH AGOSTO NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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

Demandante Vs. JEANNETTE M. CABRERA OSORIO

Demandado

Civil Núm: CN2023CV00422. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JEAZETTE M. CABRERA OSORIOURB. RIVER GARDENS

111 CALLE FLOR DE SOL, CANÓVANAS, PR 00729.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de febrero de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 12 de febrero de febrero de 2024. LCDA.

KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE JANETTE SALGADO TORRES COMPUESTA

POR JANELYS MARY PLUMEY SALGADO;

HÉCTOR EMANUEL PLUMEY SALGADO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON SUSANNE ANAYRA DELGADO; CENTRO DE DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISION DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV02952.

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

A: LA SUCESIÓN DE JANETTE SALGADO TORRES COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR

EMANUEL PLUMEY SALGADO, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON SUSANNE ANAYRA DELGADO - 3919 OAK WAY SW HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA 35805. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicara una vez en un periódico de circulación general. 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/tribunalelectronico/, 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 notificar 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. Ademas, se le apercibe que, en los casos al The

amparo de la Ley Num. 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. (Articulo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Num. 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de abril de 2024. GRISELDA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA

SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ROBERTO RESTO

GUTIERREZ

Demandante Vs. MARCIA ROMERO

GUTIERREZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2024RF00448.

Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA

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

A: MARCIA ROMERO

GUTIERREZ.

Por la presente se le notifica a usted, que se ha presentado en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, la demanda de epígrafe, en la que, en síntesis, se alega que usted parte indispensable en la demanda de Divorcio por Ruptura Irreparable sometida por ROBERTO RESTO GUTIERREZ. Es abogado de la parte demandante el Lcdo. Juan José Berríos Colón, cuya dirección es en Vázquez y Asociados 379 Calle César González, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918, Teléfono 787-766-0949 y se notifica a usted que de no comparecer a contestar esta demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes después de haberse publicado el edicto, la parte demandante podrá solicitar la anotación de rebeldía y lograr que se dicte sentencia, concediéndosele el remedio solicitado sin más sin más citarles ni oírles. 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. 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. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de abril de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VIVAN CASTRO SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE COMA

SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE REINALDO LUIS CORREA MORALES COMPUESTA POR LILIAN L. CORREA RODRIGUEZ, LUIS G. CORREA

JUSTINIANO T/C/C LILLIAM LUZ FLECHA, DOMINGO CORREA JUSTINIANO, BLANCA A. CORREA RODRIGUEZ T/C/C WAND ORTIZ, CARMEN L. CORREA RODRIGUEZ, REINALDO JUNIOR CORREA ROMERO; SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA ROMERO IRIZARRY T/C/C MARGARITA CORREA COMPUESTA POR NORMA MARTINEZ CRUZ, “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE MARGARITA CORREA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.) Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: AI2023CV00512. Sala: 001.

UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LILLIAM LUZ CORREA JUSTINIANO T/C/C LILLIAM LUZ FLECHA, DOMINGO CORREA JUSTINIANO,

MACHUCA PEREZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: BY2024RF00348.

Salón: 4003. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE).

EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JANNETTE

MACHUCA PEREZ3602 N LAWRENCE STREET PHILADELPHIA, ESTADOS UNIDOS 19140.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra, la cual obra en el expediente del Honorable Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan en el caso epígrafe, y se le requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá 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.

VAZQUEZ & ASSOCIATES

LAW OFFICES

LCDA. ROSA L. VAZQUEZ LOPEZ RUA 17843 COL 18853

379 Calle Cesar González Hato Rey, San Juan, PR 00918 Tel (787) 766-0949 / Fax (787) 771-2425

Email: vazquezyasociadospr@ gmail.com

Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de marzo de 2024. LCDA. LAURA

I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. NORMARY A. ÁLAMO ARRIAGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

SHAURY ALLISON

MIRANDA HERNANDEZ

Demandante V. SMALL BUSINESS

ADMINISTRATION; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO

Y CUALESQUIER

PERSONA

DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR

DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01854.

Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO

COMO POSIBLES

TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA

DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Small Business Administration, por la suma de $16,500.00. El pagaré por fue suscrito el día 11 de marzo de 1997, ante el notario German Hernandez Garces, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 37, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, inscrita al folio 75 del tomo 456 de Bayamón Sur, inscripción 4ta, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar 9, manzana 41, Santa Rosa, Juan Sánchez de Bayamón, con cabida de 315.00 metros cuadrados. Linda por el NORTE, con calle 23, distancia de 15.00 metros; SUR, con solares 30 y 31, en igual distancia; ESTE, con solar 10, distancia de 21.00 metros y OESTE, con solar 8, en igual distancia. ENCLAVA: Una casa de concreto y bloques para una familia. FINCA: #20,662 inscrita al folio 71 del tomo 456 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https//unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique

con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie Delgado Pieras, 33 Calle Resolución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 782-6500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de abril de 2024. LCDA. LAURA

I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs. SUCESION AURELIA

BRACERO RODRIGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDERO DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV11965.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION AURELIA BRACERO RODRIGUEZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de 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: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de abril de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA

SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO. LOURDES HERNANDEZ

GARCIA Y ANGEL LUIS

VELAZQUEZ DIAZ T.C.C

ÁNGEL L. VELÁZQUEZ, REPRESENTADO POR

LUIS ÁNGEL VELÁZQUEZ

HERNÁNDEZ T.C.C.

LUIS A. VELÁZQUEZ

HERNÁNDEZ

Demandantes Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

Demandados

CIVIL NUM. HU2024CV00449. CANCELACION DE PAGARE HIPOTECARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE

DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal, su alegación responsiva a la DEMANDA dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, 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. 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.

Lcda. Sary Magdalena Brea Falcón Colegiado 19,780, RUA 19,700 Jardines de Humacao A23, Humacao PR 00791

Tel. 787-407-5832

787-719-5585

Fax.: 787-852-4605

lcda.breafalcon@yahoo.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de abril de 2024. EVELYN FELIZ VAZQUEZ, Secretaria. DALISSA REYES DE LEON, SubSecretario(a).

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR DE PONCE. SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC.;

Demandantes V. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE UN PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO

Demandados

CIVIL NUM.: PO2024CV01013. SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO-. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU.. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE: Se emplaza y notifica que se ha presentado una demanda en este caso en la cual en síntesis la PARTE DEMANDANTE alega que se constituyó una hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré con fecha del 9 de mayo de 2019, a favor de SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $206,097.00 con intereses al 4.75% por ciento anual, vencedero el 1° de junio de 2049, suscrito bajo el testimonio número 14,673, ante el Notario José M. Biaggi Landrón. Dicha deuda fue garantizada por una hipoteca constituida por la escritura número 31, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 9 de mayo de 2019, ante el mismo notario, inscrita al folio electrónico del Sistema Karibe,de Ponce Norte, finca número 65855, inscripción segunda (2a). La obligación garantizada por dicha hipoteca fue pagada en su totalidad y está vencida, quedando solamente por cancelar el pagaré que la garantizaba. La PARTE DEMANDANTE manifestó que nunca recibió el pagaré original para su cancelación y desconoce su paradero, por lo que concluyó que el pagaré estaba extraviado. Pueden examinar la demanda en su totalidad en los autos de este Tribunal. El abogado de la parte demandante es:

Lcdo. Joseorlando Mercado Gely; RUA 12257

P.O. Box 270386 San Juan, PR 00927

Tel. 765-3027 Fax: 765-3043 jmercadocomasrevuelta.com

Deberán notificar su contestación dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Deberán 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 debera presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se les apercibe que, de no hacerlo, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda. La PARTE DEMANDADA deberá radicar el original de la contestación de la demanda en este Tribunal, con copia a la PARTE DEMANDANTE. DADO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por orden del mismo, hoy 23 de abril de 2024.

CARMEN G. TIRU QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOYDA TORRES IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

MUNICIPIO DE TOA

ALTA REPRESENTADO

POR SU HONORABLE

ALCALDE CLEMENTE

AGOSTO LUGARDO

PETICIONARIO VS. ADQUISICIÓN

ESTRUCTURA DE HORMIGÓN Y BLOQUES EN EL BARRIO TOA

ALTA PUEBLO; ÁNGEL LUIS CEDEÑO

SANTIAGO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES TOA ALTA, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE

Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01355. Sala: 506. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, A TODA PERSONA IGNORADA, A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LO SOLICITADO, LOS QUE TENGAN CUALQUIER DERECHO REAL SOBRE LA FINCA OBJETO DE ESTE PROCEDIMIENTO. La parte peticionaria ha radicado en este Tribunal una Solicitud para que se declare a su favor, el tíitulo mediante el proceso de expropiación de la siguiente propiedad: Edificio de hormigón de dos plantas de uso mixto de 3,425 pies cuadrados. El primer piso es una unidad comercial que consta de 1,964 pies cuadrados y el segundo piso consta de un apartamento de una y tres habitaciones. Representa a la parte peticionaria, la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono es el siguiente: ISAMAR CORREA RUIZ (RUA 16886)

Edificio San Juan Towers Ave. Ponce de León 1250 - Suite 600

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907

Teléfono: (787) 370-1700

Móvil: (787) 452-0188

Email: icorrea@correapartners.com

Habiéndose dictado Orden por el Honorable Tribunal para que la solicitud de la peticionaria sea publicada por tres (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, comparezcan a alegar sus derechos dentro de los veinte (20) días de la última publicación el edicto, se les apercibe que si no comparecieren a contestar dicha petición dentro del término establecido, se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 11 de abril de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA

JOSE CORCHADO

AROCHO Y ROSA MARIA

NIEVES VARGAS;

LOMA SANTA 21, ISABELA, P.R. 00662

Peticionarios Vs. SUCESION FELICITA

QUILES GUZMAN (SE DESCONOCE LA DIRECCIÓN)

EX - PARTE

Civil Número: AG2024CV00328. Sobre: INFORMATIVO DE DOMINIO CONTRADICTORIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: SUCESION FELICITA

QUILES GUZMAN.

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: “RÚSTICA”: Solar radicado en el Barrio Mora de Isabela, Puerto Rico; de diez (10) metros de frente por quince (15) metros de fondo, o sea, CIENTO CINCUENTA METROS CUADRADOS (150.000 M.C.). En lindes al NORTE, con Ramon Lopez antes, hoy Bienvenida Duque; al SUR, con Ramon López antes hoy Diego Tirado al ESTE, con Ramón López; y por el Oeste con Carretera Ciento Doce (1/2). Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de

Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado en el expediente promovido, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

LCDO. ADALBERTO RAMOS ORTEGA

RUA: 7,419

40 RUTA 5 BARRIO ARENALES BAJOS

ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662

TEL. (939) 258-0733 ramos485@gmail.com

Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño diez (10) puntos y negrillas, conforme a los dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico hoy día 17 de abril de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. LUIS CARLOS HERNANDEZ REYES

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2023CV03158. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM. A: LUIS CARLOS HERNANDEZ REYES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de abril de 2024, 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 repre-

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sentando 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 17 de abril de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 17 de abril de 2024.

LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA

AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO

JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA

SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. LUIS A. MUÑIZ BONILLA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AR2023CV02247. (Salón: 404 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM.

A: LUIS A. MUÑIZ BONILLA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de abril de 2024, 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 17 de abril de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de abril de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JACQUELYNE GONZÁLEZ QUINTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO

JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ

VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante V. LUIS DANIEL TORRES RIVERA

Demandado(a)

Caso: JD2023CV00519. Núm.: (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR).

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM.

A: LUIS DANIEL TORRES RIVERA PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR CONDUCTO DE LA LCDA. ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉREZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de abril de 2024, 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 17 de abril de 2024. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 17 de abril de 2024. CARMEN

G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. VANESSA RODRÍGUEZ

MALDONADO, SECRETARIA

AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO

JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA

SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. LUIS O. RIVERA RUIZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: YB2023CV00354. (Salón: 208). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA

POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM.

A: LUIS O. RIVERA

RUIZ - BO MATUYAS

BAJOS, CARR 759 K 7, MAUNABO, PR 00707; P/C LIC JAIME RUIZ

SALDAÑA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de abril de 2024, 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 17 de abril de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 17 de abril de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA.

LAURA DE JESÚS GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA

SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V.

ANGEL D DIAZ MORALES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2023CV07038. (Salón: 201B). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM.

ANGEL D. DIAZ MORALESURB. PABELLONES 383 CALLE PABELLÓN DE GUATEMALA, TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO 00949-2265.

A: ANGEL D

DIAZ MORALES.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de abril de 2024, 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

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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 18 de abril de 2024. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 18 de abril de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.

MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR

DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. CARMEN

PEREZ LINARES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: FA2023CV00837. (Salón: 307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM.

A: CARMEN PEREZ

LINARES, COND II APTO 29E, VILLAS DEL RIO MAR, RIO GRANDE PR 00745.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de abril de 2024, 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 18 de abril de 2024. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 18 de abril de 2024. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA.

LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN CEFIRINO SANCHE RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS

Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PR, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERÉS DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CT2024CV00004. (Salón: 401). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ENEL M. PÉREZ MONTES - LCDAENELPEREZ@ GMAIL.COM. BANCO POPULAR DE PR, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERÉS DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION - P.O. BOX 71589, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00936. JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DESCONOCIDA, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO 00000. A: BANCO POPULAR DE PR, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERÉS DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de abril de 2024, 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 18 de abril de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 18 de abril de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE

PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante V. MELZY A MELENDEZ SANCHEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CZ2023CV00128. (Salón: 701). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM.

A: MELZY A. MELENDEZ SANCHEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

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Ken Holtzman, who pitched two no-hitters, is dead at 78

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Ken Holtzman, a left-hander who pitched two no-hitters for the Chicago Cubs and won three World Series with the Oakland A’s in a 15-season career, died April 15 in St. Louis. He was 78.

He had been hospitalized for the past three weeks with heart and respiratory illnesses, his brother, Bob, said in confirming the death.

Holtzman won 174 games, the most for a Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball — nine more than Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, who is considered one of the best pitchers ever and who had a shorter career.

In addition to his win total, Holtzman, who at 6 feet 2 inches and 175 pounds cut a lanky figure, had a career ERA of 3.49 and was chosen for the 1972 and 1973 All-Star teams.

Holtzman, at 23, threw his first no-hitter Aug. 19, 1969, a 3-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves — a performance distinguished by the fact that he didn’t strike out any Braves. It was the first time since 1923 that a no-hitter had been pitched without a strikeout.

“I didn’t have my good curve, and I must have thrown 90% fastballs,” Holtzman told The Atlanta Constitution afterward. “When I saw my curve wasn’t breaking early in the game, I thought it might be a long day.”

His second no-hitter came June 3, 1971, against the Cincinnati Reds at their ballpark, Riverfront Stadium, where he struck out six and walked four.

“The fans in the first row behind our dugout wouldn’t let me forget I had a no-hitter going tonight,” he told The Chicago Tribune. “I guess from the fourth inning on, they would yell at me that I was going to lose my no-hitter.”

But it was a high point in a difficult season, in which his record was 9-15 and his ERA jumped to 4.48 from 3.38 the year before. He also had a fractious relationship

with manager Leo Durocher.

In the offseason, the Cubs traded Holtzman to Oakland for outfielder Rick Monday.

“The air is cleared now,” Holtzman told The Tribune. “I wouldn’t have cared if the Cubs had traded me for two dozen eggs.”

The trade revived his career.

Kenneth Dale Holtzman was born Nov. 3, 1945, in St. Louis. His father, Henry, was a machinery dealer. His mother, Jacqueline (Lapp) Holtzman, managed the home.

Holtzman had a 31-3 record at University City High School, outside St. Louis, and played for the University of Illinois. As a sophomore, he won six games and struck out 72 batters in 57 innings. He was selected by the Cubs in the fourth round of the 1965 amateur draft.

He spent most of the 1965 season in the minor leagues, where he compiled an 8-3 record, before being called up by the Cubs. Holtzman left the Cubs in 1971 with a 74-69 record. He fared substantially better with the A’s, a 1970s dynasty whose players included Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Catfish Hunt-

er and Rollie Fingers. In Oakland’s World Series championship years, from 1972-74, Holtzman had a 59-41 regular season record. In World Series games, he was 4-1.

In early 1976, Holtzman was one of nine A’s players whose unsigned contracts were renewed with 20% salary cuts by Charles O. Finley, the team’s capricious owner.

“The man doesn’t care if I leave or not,” Holtzman, a union activist who was the team’s player representative, told The New York Times during spring training that year.

Soon after, he and Jackson were traded to the Baltimore Orioles. But in late June, Holtzman was sent to the New York Yankees in a 10-player trade. With New York, though, his pitching was not as efficient as it had been in Oakland, and manager Billy Martin declined to use him in the postseason rotation in 1976, when the Yankees were swept by the Reds, and again in 1977, when the Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games.

After the fifth game of the Series, Holtzman was asked if he expected to pitch in the remaining games.

“No, not really, not when I haven’t been used all year,” he told the Times, referring to a regular season in which he had appeared in only 18 games, some of them in relief.

His appearances grew even less frequent in 1978. He pitched only 17 2/3 innings in five games before he was traded back to the

Cubs. At the time of the trade, Holtzman had challenged the Yankees’ decision to put him on the 21-day disabled list for an ailing back.

“I guess they’re just glad to get rid of me,” he told the Times.

He was 6-12 with the Cubs until they released him after the 1979 season.

Holtzman, who was an insurance broker after his playing days, ran the athletic department for several years at the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis after his retirement.

He returned to baseball in 2007 as the manager of a team in the Israel Baseball League. Dan Kurtzer, the commissioner, recalled in a phone interview that Holtzman’s experience in the Major League Baseball Players Association made being a manager difficult for him.

“From the beginning, I impressed upon him that he was part of management, but it never sunk in,” he said. “We had some labor issues, and I needed the managers to be supportive, and Ken had trouble with that because he was labor oriented.”

Holtzman left the team — the Petach Tikva Pioneers, based near Tel Aviv, who finished in last place — with two weeks to go in the season. Two months before his departure, he told an Israeli website that the league’s organizers had rushed into its first, and only, season, without the proper preparation, like adequate fields.

In addition to his brother, Bob, a former minor league pitcher, Holtzman is survived by his daughters, Robyn Schuster, Stacey Steffens and Lauren Fyle; four grandchildren; and a sister, Janice Koertel. His marriage to Michelle Collons ended in divorce.

Holtzman, as a Cub, and Koufax, with the Dodgers, faced each other once, at Wrigley Field in Chicago on Sept. 25, 1966.

It was Holtzman’s first full season and Koufax’s last. In the fifth inning, at which point Holtzman had not given up a hit, Bob Holtzman told their father that he was going to the men’s room. “He said, ‘You’re not going anywhere, he’s pitching a no-hitter,’” the brother recalled in a phone interview. “He wouldn’t let me leave my seat.”

Holtzman carried the no-hitter into the ninth inning, but it was broken up by the first hitter, Dick Schofield, who singled to center field. Holtzman then surrendered the shutout, but won, 2-1, on a two-hitter, with eight strikeouts. Koufax gave up four hits.

“I was satisfied with my performance,” Koufax told The Los Angeles Times, “but Ken was too good for us today.”

Ken Holtzman in 1969 (Wikipedia)

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