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New JetBlue crew base opens at LMM Airport
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced Thursday the opening of a new JetBlue crew base at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, with the expectation of generating around 400 jobs in the first year of operations.
“This base in San Juan is a crucial step toward expanding our airline offer with new and improved access to new destinations,” the governor said in a written statement. “JetBlue has been consistent in increasing destinations and frequency to and from Puerto Rico.”
The base will employ members of the support team, up to 120 pilots and between 60 and 70 technical positions and in first class.
The establishment of the crew base strengthens the strategic position of Puerto Rico as a key focus in JetBlue operations in the Caribbean, officials said.
The new JetBlue crew base at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport will employ members of the support team, up to 120 pilots and between 60 and 70 technical positions, as well as positions in first class.
Pending bill would impose jail time for posting
‘deepfake’ pornographic images of individuals
By THE STAR STAFF
As part of his agenda for the next Legislative Assembly that begins in January 2025, Rep. José Aponte Hernández announced Thursday that he will file a bill that will impose fines and jail time on those who use artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to create adulterated images of individuals with sexual content, better known as pornographic “deepfake.”
“This week, it was reported in national media that over 30 congressmen, 25 of them women, have been victims of pornographic deepfakes during the past six months. This means that criminal elements have adulterated their photographs and/or videos using artificial intelligence algorithms to create explicitly pornographic content on platforms on the internet, including social networks,” the veteran New Progressive Party lawmaker said. “This should raise a flag in Puerto Rico, which is why one of the bills that we will be submitting in the new Legislature is focused on combating this nefarious practice that is causing so much damage.”
A report by the American Sunlight Project found that more than 35,000 deepfake mentions of congressmen, many of which contain explicit sexual material, have been found on websites and social media platforms over the
past six months.
Deepfake is the manipulation of images, video and even audio of people in order to convey false messages and content, including explicit sexual content, among others.
“Our team is currently developing the parameters of this bill, which will include, among other articles, a provision ordering platforms to remove pornographic deepfake content once the victim notifies them,” Aponte said. “Likewise, we are evaluating a range of fines and even prison sentences for those individuals who commit this deplorable act. In addition, we are studying mechanisms that will facilitate, in an agile and safe manner, civil lawsuits for damages suffered as a direct consequence of these photographic alterations.”
The at-large legislator emphasized that AI applications such as Mimic, FaceSwap and DaVinci, among many others, are regularly available for download on cell phones with Apple and Android operating systems, and that those apps are, on some occasions, used to make deepfakes.
Last year, pop music superstar Taylor Swift was the target of deepfake attacks as the social network X (formerly Twitter) was flooded with AI-created photos of the singer in pornographic positions and acts. There was so much search traffic -- more than 45 million users saw the photos -- that X disabled the search engines for the singer.
New record set for ferry passenger travel in PR
By THE STAR STAFF
Private operator HMS Ferries announced a new annual passenger record in Puerto Rico’s maritime transit system, as the total number of users surpassed the record set in 2023, with 1.501 million passengers.
Through November, the ferry system successfully transported nearly 1,494,000 passengers across all of its routes, representing an increase of more than 8% compared to the same period last year. With continued growth in ridership on both the Metro (Cataño to Old San Juan) and islands (Vieques & Culebra) routes, the system has already surpassed 2023 totals, setting a new annual record just weeks before the end of the year.
Across the maritime transport system, HMS Ferries has maintained an average on-time performance of 97% across more than 20,000 sailings completed in 2024.
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Service to the offshore island municipalities, which includes trips to Culebra and Vieques, saw an increase of more than 5% to date this year, carrying a combined total of 1.12 million passengers and nearly 104,000 vehicles. Trips to and from Culebra increased by more than 41,000 passengers from January to November of this year, while an additional 19,000 people traveled to and from Vieques in the same period.
The Metro service between San Juan and Cataño also maintained significant growth compared to previous years, transporting more than 376,000 passengers as of November. This represents an increase of almost 67,000 users compared to the same period last year.
“Our sustained record of ridership is a testament to the growth and continued improvement of the system under our partnership with the Government of Puerto Rico,” said Matthew Miller, president of HMS
Court to bid farewell to exiting Associate Justice Rivera García
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Supreme Court is preparing an activity to say goodbye to Associate Justice Edgardo Rivera García who turns 70 on Jan. 3, the age the island Constitution mandates he must leave office.
The special session to say goodbye to Rivera García, who was appointed in 2010 by former Governor Luis Fortuño, is slated for Friday, Dec. 13.
The mandatory resignation comes as a new government starts in January under Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón, who now has the opportunity to appoint Rivera García’s successor.
presided over by Thomas Rivera Schatz, who will occupy that position again in January.
In 1994, Gov. Pedro Rosselló nominated Rivera Pérez as assistant district attorney of the District Court. He was later promoted to district attorney II of the Department of Justice, functions that he performed in the District Attorney’s Office of Carolina, in which he also held the position of interim district attorney and director of the Criminal Investigations Unit.
Through November, the ferry system in Puerto Rico successfully transported nearly 1,494,000 passengers across all of its routes, representing an increase of more than 8% compared to the same period last year.
Ferries-Puerto Rico. “We look forward to closing out 2024 strong as we prepare to build on our success in the coming year.”
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GPuerto Rico adopts Apple Wallet for storage of driver’s license
ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced on Thursday that Puerto Rico residents can now receive their driver’s license or official identifications with Apple Wallet, making Puerto Rico the 10th jurisdiction to adopt the tool.
There are rumors that Rivera García may become the next secretary of Justice, but the STAR could not confirm the information.
Rivera García was nominated as an associate justice on Aug. 3, 2010. He succeeded Associate Justice Efraín Rivera Pérez. Less than a month later, on Sept. 1, 2010, he was confirmed by the Senate
In 1997, Senate President Charlie Rodríguez appointed Rivera Pérez to head the Office of Legislative Advisors. In 2000, he was nominated and confirmed as a Superior Court judge, a position he held for nine years in the judicial region of Arecibo, Caguas, and in special appointments in the judicial region of Utuado.
Rivera Pérez was appointed as an Appeals Court judge in April 2009, before being named to the Supreme Court as an associate judge the following year.
“It pleases us to announce that after months of arduous work, Puerto Rico has become the 10th jurisdiction to offer the Apple Wallet and the 13th whose driver’s license is accepted by the United States Transportation Security Administration [TSA],” the governor said at a press conference. “This is another opportunity to guarantee that everyone can now add and store their official government ID in their Apple Wallet to validate their identity.
The Puerto Rico Innovation & Technology Service (PRITS) led the effort with the collaboration of the island Department of Transportation and Public Works.
“This is an additional alternative that we offer citizens to validate their identity in a secure way, since the information is protected and and requires approval from the citizen before being shared with the reader, such as the CESCO Digital and TSA,” PRITS Executive Director Antonio Ramos Guardiola said.
Puerto Rico Supreme Court Associate Justice Edgardo Rivera García
Governor takes wait-and-see approach with appointments sent to Senate
Says he is ‘fully satisfied’ with his performance over the past 4 years
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia said Thursday in regard to the appointments he sent to the island Senate for consideration in an extraordinary session: “We will see, that is, we have to wait to see what appointments are evaluated.”
“They are all people who have the credentials. When we are talking about judges, they have already gone through the rigorous judicial evaluation, their performance is free of accusation.” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “In the case of the few new appointments, well, they are people again that in the great majority also went through the evaluation process; there is an evaluation committee that interviews and reviews the credentials of candidates for the judiciary, [and] the great majority went through that process. So what I do feel is that I have appointed people who have the necessary credentials to receive that advice and consent, but I respect the role of the Senate. It will be the Senate that has the last word in that matter.”
Regarding the decision of Speaker of the House of Representatives Rafael “Tatito” Hernández Montañez to close the special session in the lower chamber due to the lack of votes from the New Progressive Party (NPP) delegation to address the
measures, Pierluisi said “I am not going to talk about treason or anything like that.”
“We have a republican system of government, [...] there is the Legislative Assembly, there is the executive branch,” he said. “The delegation, the caucus of the NPP delegation did decide to abstain, but the caucus of the NPP delegation is not
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the majority in the House. So it was really the speaker of the House who apparently had the feeling that he was not going to have the majority necessary to approve those bills. I am not going to judge others, I really did my duty.”
Pierluisi went on to express satisfaction with his management during his term as governor.
“If you had me evaluate the entire four-year term, we would be talking for a long time, but I have to say and I am going to say it here: I feel fully satisfied with my performance as governor, with the performance of my administration,” he said. “We had four years of stability and credibility in the government, we had four years of continuous growth in our economy, we have the lowest unemployment in our history, we have 120,000 more jobs in our economy, we increased the salary of more than 70 percent of public servants with the approval of the [Financial Oversight and Management] Board. Three increases to the minimum wage. The data I give are irrefutable. And in this four-year period we had the lowest number of murders since the ’90s in the last century. All of these data are irrefutable, which is why I am very satisfied with the performance of my administration.”
“Having said that, I respect democracy; politics is what it is,” the governor added. “That [New Progressive Party] primary happened that prevented me from running for reelection and achieving reelection. Now we all have to wish success to the next administration, because the success of the elected governor and her team will be the success of Puerto Rico.”
NPP flips mayor’s seat in Cidra after vote scrutiny
By THE STAR STAFF
The New Progressive Party candidate for mayor in Cidra, Delvis Pagán Clavijo, won election following the scrutiny process, defeating the Popular Democratic Party incumbent.
Pagán Clavijo, who has extensive experience in public
management after occupying leadership positions as a municipal assembly member and having worked in the legislative assembly and in the executive branch, was pleased with the result and thanked his electoral team, who counted the votes.
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“First, I want to thank God for giving me direction and strength throughout this process in which we made ourselves available to take the reins of our beloved town; to my family, who have been of great support in this important moment; and no less important to each of the constituents who honored me with their vote and entrusted the future of our town in my hands,” Pagán Clavijo said Thursday in a written statement. “I assure you that I will fully fulfill my responsibility to make the City of Eternal Spring shine and give order, direction, and stability to it.”
Pagán Clavijo said he communicated Tuesday afternoon with the outgoing first-term mayor, Ángel David Concepción, who agreed to hold transition hearings in five days.
“I appreciate the willingness of the outgoing mayor, who was cooperative at all times, to carry out the transition in the next few days, recognizing the short time we have to begin the process,” the mayor-elect said. “For our part, we are prepared to assume this responsibility and implement our Government Program.”
“Our commitment is to the well-being of all the people of Cidra and transparency in every step we take in this new administration that we promised our people,” Pagán Clavijo
added. “We will focus on carrying out infrastructure, economic development and security projects to transform Cidra into a prosperous and safe place for all families.”
The outgoing mayor congratulated Pagán Clavijo in a statement released Thursday.
“Today we leave all politics behind and recognize the victory of Mr. Delvis Pagán,” Concepción said. “I congratulate him and wish him success in his new duties in charge of our people.”
Concepción also expressed gratitude to his administrative team for their work “during these past four years.”
“Together with all the municipal employees, we managed to raise our Cidra and take it to another level,” he said. “We completed great projects and left many others on track. We put the people’s money in the people’s hands. Time is wise, and I have no doubt that even those who still do not recognize everything we achieved will understand it one day.”
Delvis Pagán Clavijo, mayor-elect of Cidra (Facebook via Delvis J. Pagán Clavijo)
Biden commutes the sentences of 1,500 Americans, a record for one day
By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and MARK LANDLER
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 convicted of nonviolent crimes, the largest grant of clemency by an American president in a single day, the White House announced in a statement on Thursday.
The commutations affect mostly those who had been released from prison and placed in home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic. The people who received pardons were convicted of nonviolent crimes, including possession of marijuana.
The announcement came two weeks after Biden issued a pardon for his son, Hunter, who had been convicted of gun possession and income tax evasion. That decision was harshly criticized by both Republicans and Democrats because Biden had long ruled out clemency for his son.
The White House said that the clemency announced on Thursday represented Biden’s commitment to “help reunite families, strengthen communities, and reintegrate individuals back into society.”
Biden, the statement said, is the first president to issue categorical pardons to people convicted of simple use and possession of marijuana, as well as to former service members convicted of violating the military’s former laws against homosexual conduct.
For months, activists have been pushing Biden to use his clemency power for inmates who were moved to home confinement during the pandemic, when COVID was spreading rapidly through jails and prisons. Some Republicans, who are set to take control of Congress next month, have tried to push legislation that would have forced those people to return to prison.
In his statement on Thursday, Biden said that many of those people would have
integrated into their families and communities and have shown that they deserve a second chance,” he said.
Biden said that he would take more steps in the weeks ahead and would continue to review clemency petitions. His staff has been debating whether he should issue blanket pardons for a number of President-elect Donald Trump’s perceived enemies to protect them from the “retribution” Trump has threatened, people familiar with the discussion have said.
received lower sentences if they had been charged under current laws.
“These commutation recipients, who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic, have successfully re-
White House officials do not believe the potential recipients have actually committed crimes, but they have grown increasingly worried that Trump’s selections for top Justice Department positions indicate that he will follow through on his repeated vows to seek revenge. The idea would be to preemptively extend executive clemency to a list of current and former government officials, effectively short-circuiting the next president’s promised campaign of reprisals.
The announcement came two weeks after President Joe Biden issued a pardon for his son, Hunter, who had been convicted of gun possession and income tax evasion. (Eric Lee/ The New York Times)
Trump says his first acts will include deportations and Jan. 6 pardons
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
President-elect Donald Trump said in a new interview that he will use the opening hours of his presidency to pardon people convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault, begin deportations of immigrants lacking permanent legal status and increase oil production.
He also said during the interview, which Time magazine published Thursday, that he might support getting rid of some childhood vaccines if data shows links to autism. He declined to answer a question about whether he had talked with President Vladimir Putin of Russia since the November election but said Ukraine should not have been allowed to fire U.S.-made missiles into Russia.
Speaking of pardons in Jan. 6 cases, he said: “We’re going to do it very quickly, and it’s going to start in the first hour that I get into office.” He said the pardons would go to “nonviolent” people who were at the Capitol, which was overrun by Trump supporters after he lost the 2020 election. “A vast majority should not be in jail, and they’ve suffered gravely,” he said.
The president-elect’s comments came during a wide-ranging interview conducted Nov. 25 as part of the magazine’s choice of Trump to be its person of the year. In the interview, which the magazine said lasted more than an hour, the president-elect bragged that he had run a “flawless” campaign and that Democrats were out of touch with Americans.
He also said he planned a “virtual closure of Department of Education in Washington,” though he did not explain what that meant. And he said that he might reverse President Joe Biden’s expansion of Title IX
President-elect Donald Trump speaks before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan on Thursday morning, Dec. 12, 2024. In a wide-ranging Time magazine interview, Trump said he might supporting getting rid of some childhood vaccines if data shows links to autism. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
protections, which includes prohibitions against harassment of transgender students.
Americans “don’t want to see, you know, men playing in women’s sports. They don’t,” Trump said. “They don’t want to see all of this transgender, which is, it’s just taken over.”
On foreign policy, the president-elect lashed out against Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-made missiles against some targets in Russia, calling it an escalation of the fighting that began with Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022. He hinted that efforts to reach an end to the war might gain
momentum once he is back in office.
“But I would imagine people are waiting until I get in before anything happens. I would imagine,” he told Time. “I think that would be very smart to do that.”
Trump declined to say whether he had received assurances from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel that he would end the war in the Gaza Strip. But the president-elect dismissed concerns about a protracted war that could further destabilize the Middle East.
He said “some very productive things” were happening in the Middle East, but re-
fused to say what they were.
“I think that the Middle East is an easier problem to handle than what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine. OK, I just want to say that up front. The Middle East is going to get solved,” he said, adding: “I think it’s more complicated than the Russia-Ukraine, but I think it’s, it’s, it’s easier to solve.”
In the interview, Trump spent a significant amount of time on immigration. He repeatedly said that he would begin a crackdown on people who are in the United States illegally. He said federal law does not prohibit the use of the military in that effort.
“Well, it doesn’t, it doesn’t stop the military if it’s an invasion of our country, and I consider it an invasion of our country,” the president-elect said. “I’ll only do what the law allows, but I will go up to the maximum level of what the law allows.”
On vaccines, Trump said he plans to listen to the arguments made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic who is Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Both men have promoted the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism.
“We’re going to have a big discussion. The autism rate is at a level that nobody ever believed possible. If you look at things that are happening, there’s something causing it,” Trump said in the interview.
The president-elect said that the discussion could lead to some childhood vaccinations being banned.
“It could if I think it’s dangerous, if I think they are not beneficial, but I don’t think it’s going to be very controversial in the end,” he said.
Macy’s details multimillion-dollar accounting error in downbeat report
By JORDYN HOLMAN
With just two weeks until Christmas, Macy’s has been operating under a cloud.
It lifted, in part, when the retailer on Wednesday gave more details about how an employee had hidden more than $150 million in expenses over the past few years. The company said the effect was not “material,” but it had to revise its previous accounts and lower its forecast for profits this year. That was unwelcome news as it enters the most important selling season.
Macy’s said in a filing that a single employee, who is no longer with the company, “intentionally made erroneous accounting entries and falsified underlying documentation, to understate delivery expenses” from late 2021 through the third quarter of this year. On a call with analysts, Adrian Mitchell, Macy’s finance chief, said the error was not made for personal financial gain.
“This was not theft,” he said. “There was no impact to revenues, and there was no impact to cash or inventories, as all vendors were fully paid.” The company said it was taking measures to improve its financial controls.
But concerns still remain about how the retailer will turn around weak sales and fend off activist investors pushing for major changes.
Macy’s slightly raised its full-year forecast for revenue, but still expected a slight decline in comparable sales. After making adjustments for the accounting error, it also cut its forecast for profitability, hitting its already beleaguered stock, which fell 6%.
Macy’s said its operating income last quarter fell 23% from the previous year. Inventory increased, a sign of adding new merchandise that the company hoped to sell as it prepared for its biggest quarter of the year.
Analysts who have covered Macy’s for years see much bigger challenges than lax accounting.
“The state of the company is generally unhealthy,” said David Swartz, an analyst at Morningstar.
Macy’s, the largest department store chain in the United States, is in the midst of its latest turnaround plan, overseen by its CEO, Tony Spring, a Bloomingdale’s veteran who took the reins in February. Shoppers are being more choosy about their spending, and Macy’s has struggled to attract these more discerning consumers.
Its turnaround plan, announced in February, seeks to draw shoppers to its stores, im-
Black Friday shoppers walk near Macy’s at Crossgates Mall in Albany, N.Y., Nov. 29, 2024. The retailer shocked Wall Street last month when it said that an employee had “intentionally” hidden more than $150 million over the past few years, forcing the company to delay an earnings report that analysts use to gauge its health as it enters the most important selling season. (Dave Sanders for The New York Times)
prove the service and merchandise that customers receive, and shutter the locations that aren’t worth operating anymore. The plan, many analysts say, is not much different from previous attempts to revive the chain: store closures, better in-store experience, wider profit margins.
The retailer said it planned to close about 65 stores this fiscal year, which ends in early 2025.
“Macy’s is constantly downsizing and hoping that the turnaround plans will improve the performance of the remaining stores,” Swartz said. “But in the past, we have not seen that, and so people are not confident today either.”
Department stores are struggling. Fewer people are going to malls, and brands that have historically sold inside Macy’s are opening their own stores and building direct relationships with their customers.
“The consumer shift has taken them elsewhere that isn’t a department store,” said Jessica Ramírez, analyst at Jane Hali & Associates.
In November, Kohl’s said comparable sales dropped 9.3% in its latest quarter. On a call with analysts, Tom Kingsbury, the retailer’s CEO, said the weakness was partly attributable to the economy and “squeezed” consumers, in addition to company-specific factors such as its marketing and product range. “It’s up to us to fix it,” he said. His successor, Ashley Buchanan of Michael’s, will take over as CEO in January.
By contrast, retailers like T.J. Maxx and
Walmart have been recording sales growth in recent quarters, in part because shoppers have said that they like what those stores are stocking. Spring said that Macy’s saw strong sales in fragrances and that demand for women’s handbags had slightly improved. The company
sonal merchandise.
The next few weeks are crucial for Macy’s, which refers to itself as “the ultimate go-to for gifting.” It recorded 35% of its annual sales in the fourth quarter last year. Such a reliance on a single quarter may prove challenging to the company this year, as consumers aren’t splurging on items as in years past, said Oliver Chen, an analyst at T.D. Cowen.
“They still feel inflation, and they’re still being cautious about big-ticket” purchases, Chen said. “They’re just prioritizing the critical gifts.”
Macy’s forecast for the rest of the year assumes the pressures on consumers will persist, and it is looking to attract cost-conscious consumers while also maintaining profitable growth.
“We’re navigating a number of things,” Mitchell, the company’s finance chief, said. “We’re navigating weather. We’re navigating a competitive environment. We’re navigating a variety of promotions.”
Swartz said he saw a “glimmer of hope” in the 50 locations that Macy’s highlighted as its future, based on geography, staffing and other factors. In the third quarter, the company said comparable sales at these stores rose 1.9%.
“We can’t be sure if that will last,” he said. “So people are not confident, which is why Macy’s stock price has gone nowhere.”
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said warmer-than-usual weather had hurt sales in the autumn; it discounted some of its sea-
The company’s stock has fallen about 20% since the start of the year.
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US consumer prices post largest rise in 7 months; rents finally slowing
U.S. consumer prices increased in November by the most in seven months, but the Federal Reserve was still expected to deliver a third consecutive interest rate cut next week to support a labor market that has been cooling.
Progress in lowering inflation toward the U.S. central bank’s 2% target has virtually stalled, with the report from the Labor Department on Wednesday also showing no improvement in the measure of underlying price pressures over the past four months.
Despite persistently high inflation, there was some encouraging news. Rents, one of the stickier components of inflation, rose at the slowest pace in nearly 3-1/2 years. The rise in motor vehicle insurance, another troublesome category, moderated. These factors slowed the increase in services inflation.
A sustained cooling trend would bode well for the inflation outlook, though looming tariffs from the President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration pose a threat.
“Some Fed officials will likely take solace in the improvement in services and housing inflation,” said Scott Anderson, chief U.S. economist at BMO Capital Markets. “With that said, the Fed will need to see more improvement on the inflation front in the months ahead, if its plan for a steady pace of additional rate cuts next year is to be fulfilled.”
The consumer price index rose 0.3% last month, the largest gain since April after advancing 0.2% for four straight months, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
A 0.3% increase in the cost of shelter, mostly hotel and motel rooms, accounted for nearly 40% of the rise in the CPI. Shelter costs rose 0.4% in October. The cost of lodging away from home, including hotels and motels, jumped 3.7%. That was the most since October 2022 and followed a 0.5% rise in October.
Food prices increased 0.4% after rising 0.2% in October. Grocery store food prices surged 0.5%, with the cost of eggs soaring 8.2% amid an avian flu outbreak.
Beef also cost more as did nonalcoholic beverages. But prices of cereals and bakery products fell 1.1%, the most since the government started tracking the series in 1989. Gasoline prices rebounded 0.6% while the cost of piped gas surged 1.0%.
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In the 12 months through November, the CPI climbed 2.7% after increasing 2.6% in October. The rise in the CPI was in line with economists’ expectations.
The annual increase in inflation has slowed considerably from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022. The Fed’s focus has shifted more toward the labor market. Though job growth accelerated in November after being severely restricted by strikes and hurricanes in October, the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% after holding at 4.1% for two consecutive months.
Excluding the volatile food and energy compo-
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nents, the CPI increased 0.3% in November, rising by the same margin for the fourth consecutive month.
Rents increased 0.2%, the smallest gain since July 2021, after rising 0.3% in October. Owners’ equivalent rent, a measure of the amount homeowners would pay to rent or earn from renting their property, rose 0.2%. That was the smallest gain since April 2021 and followed a 0.4% increase in October.
“Residential rental prices as captured in CPI might finally be displaying the slowdown long flagged by real-time rent prices,” said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide. “This is significant.”
Rights groups see a chance to seek justice for Syrian regime’s victims
By MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG
The fall of Syria’s government has breathed new life into a long push for justice over crimes committed by the Assad regime. Now, at last, there is a chance for human rights groups to inspect prison sites, freely interview witnesses and quickly build legal cases for prosecution.
Yet there is also frustration because the ultimate goal of the effort would be to see the deposed president, Bashar Assad, stand trial, according to rights activists who spoke this week about their work on Syria.
With Assad in Russia, according to officials in Moscow, that prospect appears out of reach. Activists, many of whom have devoted years to the effort, remain undeterred.
“We are targeting the system,” said Fadel Abdul Ghany, director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights. “The Assad regime is not just the man himself. We need to target the security forces and the army and the tools Assad used to commit those crimes.”
The war in Syria has been a watershed for human rights work, in part because of the scale of the abuses committed. In addition to the more than 200,000 civilians reported to have been killed in the war, at least 15,000 people are believed to have died from torture or to have been killed in the regime’s prison system, and some 130,000 are still missing, according to Abdul Ghany’s group.
Organizations including the Commission for International Justice and Accountability and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have worked to document abuses and crimes to lay the groundwork for future prosecutions.
That drive received a major boost in its early years when a former Syrian police photographer, code-named Caesar, defected in 2013 with gruesome photographs of thousands of prisoners who had been killed in detention.
Rights groups said that they had benefited from the regime’s practice of documenting what happened in the prison system for bureaucratic purposes. The groups have made use of digital tools that were not available in previous conflicts to
catalog abuses.
Assad has said that anyone in prison in Syria committed a crime, and cast doubt on testimony about abuses. But activists said the records enabled them to trace links between perpetrators, such as prison guards and policymakers, in a crucial step toward any prosecutions of senior officials.
“Even before he fell from power, we already had enough documents to show beyond reasonable doubt his real power over the machinery of death that the Syrian state was,” said Nerma Jelacic of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability.
Augmenting those efforts, other groups are cataloging the Assad government’s crimes, including a U.N. Syria Commission, which has issued detailed reports, and a group established by the U.N. General Assembly. All that work has borne fruit in several prosecutions of Syrian officials abroad.
The most prominent of them began in The Hague last year at the International Court of Justice, which held a hearing after a complaint by Canada and the Netherlands saying that violations in Syria had been committed on a “massive scale.”
The year before, a German court sentenced a former Syrian intelligence officer to life in prison after he was convicted of crimes against humanity.
French judges last year issued an international arrest warrant for Assad for complicity in both crimes against human-
ity and war crimes, following an investigation into chemical attacks in 2013. And just this week, the U.S. Justice Department charged two top Syrian military officials with war crimes committed against Americans and others at a prison in Damascus.
But several factors have inhibited the push for accountability. For one, defections stopped around 2015, when Assad’s regime appeared to have stabilized, cutting off one source of testimony about abuses. More significantly, Syria is not a member of the International Criminal Court, so the court does not have jurisdiction over crimes committed on its soil.
Russia and China vetoed a resolution in the U.N. Security Council to refer Syria to the court, blocking that avenue.
With Assad gone, one option would be for the rebels now in power to accept the international court’s jurisdiction over Syria, giving the court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, the authority to open investigations retroactively, several experts said. In doing so it would follow Ukraine, which has granted the court jurisdiction over its territory even though it is not a member.
Ghany, who is Syrian, said the country should also become a member of the court as part of the process of reestablishing the rule of law.
A second option would be for national courts to file charges under the concept of universal jurisdiction, under which any national court may prosecute individuals accused of heinous offenses.
While prosecutions in venues outside Syria matter, it is far more important to restore the country’s own judicial system and start the process of holding officials accountable in national courts, the experts said.
Such prosecutions have had a powerful impact in other post-conflict countries, enabling citizens to witness justice at work, according to Stephen J. Rapp, a former international prosecutor and former U.S. ambassador at large for global justice who has been involved with Syria for more than a decade.
“Even where we have had a successful international justice process, the national cases were more helpful in allowing reconciliation,” Rapp said.
The leader of the alliance that toppled the government, Ahmad al-Sharaa, also known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, said Tuesday that the new administration would hold “criminals, murderers and military and security officials” who committed torture accountable — suggesting at least the possibility that starting a domestic legal process against them was a high priority.
To assist with that effort, one of the most prominent Syrian human rights leaders, Mouaz Moustafa, head of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, said Monday that he was immediately returning to the country.
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People celebrate the fall of the Assad regime in the center of Damascus, Syria, Dec. 9, 2024. The Assad family ruled the country brutally for more than 50 years. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
In Milei’s Argentina, economic albatross is tamed but life is much harder
By DANIEL POLITI, LUCÍA CHOLAKIAN HERRERA and ANA IONOVA
At home and abroad, Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, is a man with plenty of fans. And not just any fans.
Milei, a right-wing libertarian, may not have been an obvious choice as the first world leader to meet President-elect Donald Trump after his election victory. Yet there he was, at Mar-a-Lago in Florida last month, being showered with praise by Trump.
“The job you’ve done is incredible,” Trump told Milei at a gala for a right-wing research institute. “You’ve done a fantastic job in a very short period of time.”
Many Argentines seem to agree. A year after taking office, Milei is viewed favorably by about 56% of Argentines, according to a recent poll, making him one of the most popular presidents in the country’s recent history.
“This is the president that God brought for the Argentines,” said Marcelo Capobianco, 54, a butcher in Buenos Aires. “He brought back hope.”
While a cascade of brutal cuts to everything from soup kitchens to bus fare subsidies have pushed more than 5 million Argentines into poverty, they have also helped Milei make remarkable progress on a daunting task: reining in the world’s highest inflation rate.
Before Milei was sworn in, monthly inflation was 12.8%; now it is 2.4%, the lowest in four years.
Milei has followed through on bold promises to bring Argentina’s budget under control, firing more than 30,000 government workers and applying deep cuts to spending
on health, welfare and education.
Before he took office, Milei’s critics questioned whether a former television pundit, who describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist, could lift Argentina out of its decade-long crisis.
In some ways, their concerns have been borne out. Milei’s unorthodox governing approach has plunged Argentina into a chaotic new chapter, as poverty rates have jumped and people have taken to the streets in protest.
“Every day, we have more people who come to eat,” said Margarita Barrientos, 63, who runs a soup kitchen in a working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
But there are also signs that Milei’s strategy is working. In addition to plunging inflation, government revenue exceeds spending for the first time in 16 years and preliminary data suggest that the economy, after contracting for three consecutive quarters, is stabilizing and may be on track to slowly start growing.
“Happy times are coming in Argentina,” Milei said this week during an address commemorating his first year in office. He promised “sustained growth” in 2025, vowing that the country’s sacrifice “will not be in vain.”
Global investors have cheered Milei’s actions, with Bank of America declaring in a financial report that his “stabilization plan is working better than expected.”
The International Monetary Fund predicted that Argentina’s yearly inflation would fall to a more manageable 45% in 2025 from a record peak of 211% in 2023 and commended Milei on his “impressive progress.”
Argentina’s inflation figures have sometimes been questioned after past administrations were caught fudging the numbers. But the national statistics agency was overhauled in 2015, so today the figures are widely seen as credible and hew to independent estimates.
For many ordinary Argentines, however, Milei’s economic triage has been painful. His government has cut state spending by about a third, eliminating price controls and subsidies that made public transit, heating bills and groceries cheaper,
President Javier Milei of Argentina greets attendees after his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 4, 2024. A year after taking office, Milei is viewed favorably by about 56% of Argentines, according to a recent poll. (Magali Druscovich/ The New York Times)
leaving more people struggling to make ends meet.
Still, many see a silver lining to the government’s austerity measures.
Miguel Valderrama, who owns a small market in Buenos Aires, said he’s relieved to no longer have to endure the unchecked inflation that defined daily life before Milei’s presidency.
“There was a price in the morning, and at noon everything increased again — and again two days later,” said Valderrama, 40, who voted for Milei.
Now, with greater stability, he is able to plan his inventory without worrying about sudden price shocks. “Before,” he said, “we didn’t know how much money we would spend, how much things would cost.”
Milei’s rise to power followed decades of boom-and-bust cycles. Argentina was among the world’s wealthiest countries, but years of government mismanagement emptied its public coffers, led to multiple defaults on tens of billions of dollars in international loans and left the economy limping.
“Argentina stopped growing in 2012,” said Marina Dal Poggetto, executive director of EcoGo, a consultancy based in Argentina. Milei, casting himself as an outsider, blamed Argentina’s economic travails on cor-
rupt politicians who spent recklessly, describing political opponents as “thieves” who live like “monarchs.”
He warned that if he were elected president things would most likely get worse before they got better. Still, his promises appealed to many Argentines hungry for change.
Milei’s more radical plans as a candidate included closing Argentina’s central bank and abandoning the peso in favor of the U.S. dollar. But once in power, he did neither, and his policies have been far less drastic than many expected.
“The initial outlines of Milei’s program were much more reasonable than his campaign rhetoric,” Dal Poggetto said. “They were pragmatic, very pragmatic.”
But Milei’s work to tackle the country’s long-running financial challenges has angered many Argentines, sparking large demonstrations over pension cuts, rising prices and slashed university budgets.
Roberto Bejerano, 68, a retired taxi driver, said he could afford only the bare essentials on his monthly pension payments and had to give up small pleasures like dining out and buying books.
“They’re laughing in our faces when they say we’re better off” because of the government’s tough economic medicine, Bejerano said. “You don’t see it in your wallet.”
He said it troubled him that Milei “is so popular when there are so many of us who are suffering.”
Some analysts cautioned that Milei’s financial policies, including controls on foreign exchange rates, have helped prop up the peso but were making Argentina’s exports, like metals, soy and beef, less competitive.
Critics also warned that Milei’s aggressive cuts could ultimately stifle growth. Less investment in universities, research centers and hospitals could “weaken Argentina’s social and economic foundation in the long run,” said Martín Kalos, director of EPyCA Consultores, an economic consultancy.
Still, experts say Milei has succeeded in achieving the most pressing task: averting a deeper inflation spiral. And, for now, many Argentines appear to be willing to give Milei time to continue his sweeping economic overhaul.
“People feel there are certain things that had to be done,” said Mariel Fornoni a political analyst who runs Management and Fit, a polling firm. “Then, there’s the question of how much their wallets can take.”
The Syria opportunity
By BRET STEPHENS
How can the United States take advantage of the great but tricky strategic opportunity that the fall of Bashar Assad’s tyranny in Damascus offers us? Mainly through a combination of meaningful incentives for, and credible threats against, our enemies, frenemies, allies and would-be friends. Let’s go down the list.
— Syria: The large question hanging over our Syria policy is whether the rebel group chiefly responsible for toppling the Assad regime, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, is sincere in its renunciation of terrorism and Taliban-style Islamism. The Biden administration can offer an immediate gesture of good will by lifting the State Department’s $10 million reward for Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the HTS leader.
But U.S. sanctions on Syria, and HTS’ status as a designated terrorist organization, should be lifted only on conditional bases. Will Syria’s new rulers allow freedom of worship for religious minorities and freedom of dress for women? Will they accept the de facto autonomy of Syria’s Kurds? Will they cooperate with international efforts to destroy the Islamic State group? If HTS really wants to cement a different relationship with Washington, it can also demand Russia’s military withdrawal from Syria, much as Egypt’s Anwar Sadat did in the 1970s.
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have Hezbollah.” That prediction about the terrorist militia came from Soheil Karimi, a hardline Iranian commentator. Already decimated by Israel, Hezbollah will struggle to survive as Lebanon’s dominant political entity if it doesn’t have an easy way to rearm itself. It’s in the interests of Israel, the United States and the Lebanese people that Hezbollah’s 40-plus-year reign of ruin end.
Residents climb on a tank in Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times)
How? The legal basis is full application of the U.N. Security Council’s Resolution 1701, which insists “there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state.” Hezbollah has brazenly flouted the demand for 18 years. Donald Trump can help enforce it by declaring in one of his social media posts that he will not consider Israel bound to honor its ceasefire deal with Hezbollah until the group fully disarms.
Ultimately, Hezbollah should be put to a fundamental choice: Participate in Lebanese politics as a normal political party that plays by the rules or face further military humiliation at the hands of the Zionist enemy.
— Iran: The Islamic republic is now enriching uranium to nearly weapons grade. As with President Joe Biden’s warnings to Hezbollah after Oct. 7, his message to Iran should be simple: Don’t.
As for the next Trump administration, it should present Iran with a choice — and a dare. The choice, to put it in the colloquial Trumpese, would go something like this: “IF IRAN’S EVIL LEADERS GO FOR NUKES, WE WILL GO AFTER THEM!” That is, the regime will put its own existence at risk if it attempts to dash toward a bomb. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, fresh from his many losses, will get the point.
The dare is also straightforward: Trump should propose what I’ve called “normalization for normalization” as a basis for improved ties with Iran. That is, America offers Iran full normalization of relations, including the lifting of economic sanctions and the reopening of embassies, in exchange for the normalization of Iranian foreign policy: a complete cessation of support for regional terror proxies like the Houthis and Hamas, and an irreversible and verifiable end to Iran’s nuclear program. Khamenei may reject the deal out of hand, since hostility to America lies at the core of the Islamic republic’s ideology, but it will give Iran’s people a standard to aspire to as they take heart from last week’s revolution in Damascus.
— The Gaza Strip: In early September, I wrote a column opposing a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Part of my reasoning is that Israel could not afford to emerge from the war being perceived, at least by its enemies, as a loser. Since
the killings of Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, the devastating pager attacks, the destruction of most of Hezbollah’s arsenal and the toppling of Assad, things have changed.
Now that Israel is the war’s clear victor, it needs to bring its hostages home. Let Hamas try to rule from the ruins it made.
That doesn’t mean that Israel should cut a weak deal. Above all, it would be a mistake for Israel to agree to bring back the hostages in stages, since it would give Hamas an incentive to raise the price for every additional hostage. Trump can be especially helpful here by informing Hamas’ patrons in Qatar that the United States would revoke Qatar’s status as a major non-NATO ally and move the Al-Udeid air base — forward headquarters of the U.S. Central Command — to the United Arab Emirates if all of the hostages aren’t released by Jan. 20. Let the conniving Qataris figure out the rest.
Other players? The Turks will have to be deterred by Washington from trying to use Syria’s revolution as an opportunity to settle scores against the Kurds. That means, especially, maintaining our detachment of forces in eastern Syria. The Saudis will also need to demonstrate regional leadership by helping rebuild Syria and resuming negotiations for diplomatic normalization with Israel.
None of this will be simple or straightforward. But the end of Assad’s wretched regime unlocks many doors.
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CATAÑO – El alcalde de Cataño, Julio Alicea Vasallo, informó el jueves que auditores de la Oficina del Contralor visitaron el ayuntamiento nuevamente para solicitar información adicional relacionada con una querella recibida en la agencia durante el periodo eleccionario.
“Hoy en la mañana se recibió otra visita de auditores de la Oficina del Contralor relacionado a información adicional que necesitan para completar el trámite por una querella recibida en su agencia en el periodo elecciona-
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rio”, señaló el alcalde en declaraciones escritas.
Alicea Vasallo reiteró que su administración no tolera la corrupción y que siempre estará dispuesta a cooperar con cualquier proceso investigativo. “Reitero al pueblo de Cataño y al de Puerto Rico: en mi administración no hay cabida para la corrupción y siempre estaremos disponibles para apoyar cualquier proceso investigativo”, afirmó.
El alcalde explicó que, según lo solicitado por los auditores, se infiere que están validando los procesos de licencia de empleados y el modo en que se brinda ayuda a los ciudadanos. Además, desmintió que se hayan retirado
computadoras o intervenido en su oficina directa. “Aclaro que de la alcaldía no se llevaron computadoras ni intervinieron en la oficina propia del alcalde, como trascendió en algunos medios”, puntualizó.
Finalmente, Alicea Vasallo destacó su compromiso con el cumplimiento de todas las leyes y reglamentos que rigen la administración pública. “Estamos y estaremos siempre del lado del cumplimiento de todas las leyes y reglamentos que apliquen para una sana administración. Ese ha sido, es y será mi norte en la administración pública y en mi gestión como alcalde”, concluyó.
“doblemente” a agente vinculado a organización criminal
SAN JUAN – El comisionado de la Policía, Antonio López Figueroa, confirmó el jueves que el agente Fernando Luis Torres Galarza fue expulsado “doblemente” de la Uniformada debido a una investigación interna y la radicación de cargos federales en su contra.
“Como policías, somos los primeros en sacar a quienes no cumplan con el juramento de proteger la vida de otros. No permitiremos que unos pocos mancillen el uniforme que llevamos todos”, afirmó López Figueroa en declaraciones escritas.
Torres Galarza enfrentaba un proceso de expulsión previo por una querella en su rol como agente de tránsito. Ade-
más, se le imputó colaborar con una organización criminal vinculada al asesinato del sargento Eliezer Ramos Vélez. El comisionado destacó que desde 2021 todos los arrestos y procesamientos de policías por corrupción han iniciado con investigaciones internas realizadas por la Policía de Puerto Rico, cumpliendo con los procesos legales establecidos para asegurar la validez de las expulsiones.
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‘Maria’ review: A diva in decline
By ALISSA WILKINSON
There is a moment, a little way into “Maria,” when you realize it shares a cinematic universe with another of director Pablo Larraín’s recent films. This movie’s main character is celebrated opera singer Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie). In a flashback rendered in monochrome, we see the night she met the absurdly wealthy business magnate Aristotle Onassis (Haluk Bilginer) — and he’s the future husband, we know, of Jackie Kennedy, who was the subject of Larraín’s 2016 film “Jackie.” Onassis, still married to his previous wife, claims he’s fallen in love with Callas through his opera glasses and invites her and her husband aboard his yacht; she seems lightly amused and a little irritated. “There’s a point where self-confidence becomes a kind of insanity,” she tells him.
Obviously that “cinematic universe” is just reality: Famous people know other famous people and go to the same parties and fall in love with one another. Callas and
Onassis spent nine years together before he left her for the widowed Jackie Kennedy. But in this case, the link reminds the viewer that Larraín has made a better movie in his so-called diva trilogy — two better ones, actually. In “Jackie,” Natalie Portman played the bereaved first lady as she carefully crafted a legend out of her assassinated husband’s legacy. “Spencer,” which came out in 2021, was not good — but it was interesting, starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in the throes of a Christmastime existential crisis.
Yet “Maria” is a bit of a slog, even for an opera lover (like me). Callas here is at the end of her life, and she is not well. She lives in Paris with her long-suffering butler (Pierfrancesco Favino) and housemaid (Alba Rohrwacher), lies to them about how many pills she’s taking, and hallucinates enough of her day that she qualifies as an unreliable narrator. Her longing for Onassis, or perhaps her visions of him, is one narrative thread in “Maria.” Here are some others: her need for adulation; her fading voice; her addiction to
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This is, in other words, about the sun setting over a once-shining prima donna, a woman who wowed the world with her voice and then faded from view. The movie skips over most of her scandals, flashing back to performances on the world’s great stages and, even earlier, in her youth (Aggelina Papadopoulou plays the young Callas). Those performances are sumptuously staged, as are several dreamlike sequences involving choruses and orchestras on the streets of Paris, in one case performing “Madama Butterfly” in the pouring rain. There’s no lack of effort here. Jolie trained for seven months to sing some of the music, and while she is lip-syncing to some of Callas’ famous performances, she is completely immersed in all of it.
Oddly, though, Callas remains almost wholly opaque. Dim flashes of the past suggest some trauma, but it all feels disjointed, and not on purpose. True, each movie in Larraín’s trilogy concerns itself far more with psychological portraiture than with filling in the facts. These are not biopics in any meaningful sense, and in general, that’s good. The point isn’t to learn about the women, but to inhabit them at their most vulnerable moments.
Yet “Spencer” and “Jackie” both used their subjects to explore something else: the way myths are crafted, or the way privilege becomes a prison. Their casting was part of it — Portman’s own careful image-making
But “Maria,” from a screenplay by “Spencer” writer Steven Knight, cannot find the story inside either its subject or its star. Jolie is committed, but the camera spends almost all its time observing her unendingly desperate expression at close range. Callas, meanwhile, is mournful and imperious, ordering people around, refusing to do anything she doesn’t want to do. That is not insight; it’s just mood. She fantasizes near-constantly about the world shaping itself around her, bending to her whims, whole crowds falling at her feet, which eventually provokes the same exhaustion that her loyal staff pretends not to feel. A documentary filmmaker (Kodi SmitMcPhee) named Mandrax (a name he shares, suspiciously, with her sedative of choice) shows up repeatedly, presumably to provide her a reason to remember and talk about her past. But nothing of note is revealed.
The effect is that “Maria” feels like a portrait of the artist as narcissist, someone who insists on martyring herself on a pyre nobody asked her to climb. It’s hard to imagine this was the filmmakers’ intention. They know Callas lived a fascinating life, was a fascinating woman. There’s plenty to work with here. Perhaps the larger-than-life diva refused ultimately to be carefully read. But what we get here isn’t interesting, and it’s not told in an interesting way. Maybe Callas’ warning to Onassis explains the problem: There’s a point at which self-confidence becomes a kind of insanity.
‘Maria’: Rated R for drug and alcohol use and some bad behavior. Running time: 2 hours 4 minutes. Watch on Netflix.
This movie’s main character is celebrated opera singer Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie). (Netflix)
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A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 12 de diciembre de 2023, notificada el mismo día y publicada el 21 de diciembre de 2023, una Orden de Ejecución de Embargo emitida el 13 de noviembre de 2024 y Mandamiento emitido el 18 de noviembre de 2024, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, procederá a vender en subasta, y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, y/o giro postal, dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra bancaria, con similar garantía de todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 15 DE ENERO DE 2025; A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: Propiedad Horizontal: Urbana: Apartamento residencial A-1202, ubicado en el Condominio Bahía (VBC56), localizado en la Calle Las Palmas, Esquina Cerra, barrio Tras Talleres, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área privada de 823.90 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 76.54 metros cuadrados, el cual contiene sala, comedor, cocina, baño, 3 dormitorios y balcón, colinda por el NORTE, con parte del solar donde enclava el edificio que da frente a la Calle Las Palmas; por el SUR, con el pa-
sillo exterior del edificio y con el pozo de ventilación y servicio y con el apartamento A-1201 (pared medianera); por el ESTE, con el pozo de ventilación y servicio, y con el apartamento A-1203 (pared medianera); y por el OESTE, con el pozo de ventilación y servicio, y con el apartamento A-1201 (pared medianera). Corresponde a este apartamento en los gastos, ganancias y derechos en relación y sobre los elementos comunes generales una participación de 0.43929%, o sea, un 43.929% de un 1%. FINCA NÚMERO: 7123, inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 228 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: Cond Bahía A, 1048 Ave. Las Palmas Suite A-1202, San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la suma de $26,762.45 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento vencidas y no pagadas de la propiedad, más intereses, penalidades y recargos que se continúen acumulando, así como las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Según la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil vigente, esta sentencia acumulará intereses legales sobre la cantidad total, a computarse desde la fecha en que se expide hasta su saldo total. Esta subasta no tiene fijación de tipo mínimo por tratarse de una ejecución de sentencia por embargo. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de San Juan, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable de los mismos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 25 de noviembre de 2024, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. PEDRO HIEYE
GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN-
CIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ANTONIO J. CABRERO MUÑIZ
Demandante V. FRANCISCO ZAYAS
SEIJO, ET AL Demandado
Civil Núm.: DDP98-1258. (506). Sobre: DIFAMACIÓN, DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
A: FRANCISCO
ZAYAS SEIJO, NANCY COLON NUÑEZ, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA ENTRE
AMBOS, BANCO COOPERATIVO, y aL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:
El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, hago constar que, en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada con fecha de 19 de enero de 2018 por el Tribunal de Apelaciones y notificada el 12 de febrero de 2018 el NO HA LUGAR a la Moción de Reconsideración de los demandados, debidamente notificada, de la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia emitida el 16 de octubre de 2024 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 21 de octubre de 2024, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: URBANIZACION JARDINES FAGOT de Ponce Norte. Solar: 42-N. Cabida 390.65 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Noroeste, con paso de peatones, por donde mide veinticuatro punto novecientos veintisiete metros (24.927m). Sureste, con el solar número cuarenta y uno (41) del Bloque N, por donde mide veinticuatro punto novecientos veintitrés metros (24.923). Noreste, con el solar número cuarenta (40) del Bloque N, por donde mide quince punto setecientos cincuenta metros (15.750m). Suroeste, con la calle marginal por donde mide quince punto seiscientos veintiséis metros (15.626m). Finca número 2784 de Ponce Norte. Dirección física: Calle Marginal N-42, Urb. Jardines de Fagot, Ponce, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, el balance pendiente de la sentencia original de $375,000.00, reducido el 18 de julio de 2024 a $151,367.00, que compone la deuda del prin-
cipal actual, más el interés legal anual sobre el balance del principal hasta el pago de la deuda en su totalidad. Los intereses continuarán devengándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda. El Honorable Tribunal emitió orden de embargo a favor del demandante sobre dicha propiedad presentada al asiento 2018-082147- PO01. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen POSTERIOR que afecte la mencionada finca. La subasta se llevará a efecto el día 9 de enero de 2025 a la 10:30 de la mañana, en la sala del referido Alguacil, del edificio que ocupa el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce. No hay precio mínimo fijado en este caso debido a que la Ley Hipotecaria, Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del 2015, no aplica al presente caso por ser una ejecución de una propiedad de los demandados para satisfacer la suma de dinero conferida al demandante por sus daños personales y no una ejecución de garantía hipotecaria. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistente. Entendiéndose que el rematante lo acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Consta en el Registro de la Propiedad que el Banco Cooperativo tiene derecho hipotecario inscrito sobre el bien inmueble, anterior a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante. Se les advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará el mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en moneda curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, entiéndase en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Tome conocimiento la parte demandada y toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando; y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, se publicará dos (2) veces en un periódico de circulación diaria en la Isla de Puerto Rico y se fijará, además, en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a poner al licitador victorioso en posesión física de la propiedad dentro del plazo de veinte (20) días contados a partir de la venta en pública Subasta. Además, el Alguacil procederá
a darle posesión del material al adjudicatario, en los casos que fuere necesario, proceda el lanzamiento del demandado o terceras personas de la propiedad subastada y forzar puertas o ventanas, romper cerraduras, candados, cortar cadenas y tomar cualquier otra medida propia. De igual forma, el Alguacil sacará cualquier propiedad mueble o personal de los demandados o de terceras personas que se encuentren en la mencionada propiedad. Además, los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 15 de noviembre de 2024. Manuel Maldonado, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Ponce.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO RÍOS SÁNCHEZ COMPUESTA POR: TERESITA RÍOS CONDE; NELLY MILAGROS RÍOS CONDE; RICARDO RÍOS CONDE; OLGA
JOSEFINA VICENTE SANTIAGO, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CRIM
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CB2023CV00814. Salón Núm.: (207). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO RÍOS SÁNCHEZ COMPUESTA POR: TERESITA RÍOS CONDE; NELLY MILAGROS RÍOS CONDE; RICARDO RÍOS CONDE; OLGA JOSEFINA VICENTE SANTIAGO, POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM): Y AL PÚBLICO EN
GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en
cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número ciento uno (101) para fines residenciales localizado en la primera (1ra) planta del edificio número uno (1) del Condominio Boquerón Bay Villas, situado en el Barrio Boquerón, del término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área privada de vivienda de aproximadamente mil doscientos cuarenta y cinco (1,245.00) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ciento quince punto setenta y un (115.71) metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE, con el pasillo y las escaleras del edificio número uno (1); por el SUR, con el patio posterior de uso común limitado para este apartamento; por el ESTE, con el patio lateral del edificio número uno (1); y por el OESTE, con el apartamento número ciento dos (102) del edificio número uno (1). Consta de sala-comedor, cocina, tres (3) dormitorios, dos (2) baños y terraza. Su puerta de entrada y salida comunica al vestíbulo o pasillo comunal del edificio que a su vez tiene acceso a la calle principal a este apartamento le corresponde para su único y exclusivo uso, como element común limitado, un área de patio con una cabida aproximada de trescientos veintiséis punto ochenta y nueve (326.89) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a treinta punto treinta y ocho (30.38) metros cuadrados. Le corresponde uno punto treinta y cuatro (1.34) porciento de participación en los elementos comunes generales. Le corresponde el uso de los estacionamientos ciento treinta y tres (133) y ciento cuarenta y siete (147) en el Plano de Inscripción. Consta inscrita al folio 211 del tomo 804 de Cabo Rojo, Finca Número# 27,107. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Germán. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Condominio Boquerón Bay Villas, Apartamento
101, Cabo Rojo, P.R. 00623. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 2102015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de de $76,400.00, según consta de la escritura número 14, otorgada en Guánica, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de enero de 2012, ante el notario Mario Enrique Vázquez Vera, e inscrita al folio 212 del tomo 804 de Cabo Rojo, finca número 27,107, inscripción 4ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $76,400.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA
SUBASTA el día 14 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $50,933.33. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA
SUBASTA el día 21 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 1:30 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $38,200.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $59,734.19, con intereses a 5.75% anual, desde el 1ro de junio de 2023, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $7,640.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y
todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 14 de noviembre de 2024. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL PLACA #283. ***
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. AIDA
FELICIANO AGOSTINI Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01097. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en
efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio de la Salud del Municipio de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ciento trece metros cuadrados (113.00 m.c.), equivalente a veintiocho milésimas de cuerda (.028 cdas), colindando por el NORTE, con solar número veintiocho propiedad de Luis Vilella Vélez; por el SUR, con solar número veintidós propiedad de Luis Vilella Vélez; por el ESTE, con la calle de la cantera y por el OESTE, con propiedad de Luis Vilella. Contiene una casa dedicada a vivienda. Inscrita al folio 135 del tomo 198 de Mayagüez, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez, finca número 7066. Dirección Física: 330 CANTERA BO SALUD MAYAGÜEZ, Puerto Rico, 00680. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $25,079.85, la suma de $27,973.01, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrará el día 8 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Mayagüez, por el tipo mínimo de $41,052.99. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 15 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo será 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $27,368.66. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 22 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar an-
tes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo será 1/2 del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $20,526.50. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 25 de noviembre de 2024, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTY, ALGUACIL #283.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. JUAN C. KARILEN GARCIA
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2024CV00883. (Salón: 401 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: JUAN C.
KARILEN GARCIA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de diciembre 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 de 04 de diciembre de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 04 de diciembre de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE BARRANQUITAS
ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. LUIS A. RIVERA COLON
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BQ2024CV00061.
(Salón: 1). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: LUIS A. RIVERA COLON.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de noviembre 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 de 04 de diciembre de 2024. En Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, el 04 de diciembre de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. CARMEN APONTE FLORES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO LAIKA
RODRIGUEZ COLON
Demandante V. JON DOE Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AI2024CV00438. (Salón: 002). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARIE L. QUIÑONES TAÑOMARIEQUINONES@LBRGLAW.COM.
A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD
ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) aEL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de diciembre 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 de 06 de diciembre de 2024. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 06 de diciembre de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. KRYSTAL NICOLE SÁNCHEZ DE JESÚS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV01317. (Salón: 901 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERAJRG@GONZALEZMORALES.COM. JUAN ÁNGEL SANTOS BERRÍOS SANTOSBERRIOSLAW@GMAIL. COM.
RICARDO ANDRES ACEVEDO BIANCHI - ACEVEDOBIANCHI@ GMAIL.COM.
A: KRYSTAL NICOLE SÁNCHEZ DE JESÚS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de diciembre 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 de 06 de diciembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 06 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. VIRGEN Y. DEL VALLE DÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SB2024CV00101. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JORGE GARCÍA RONDÓNJAFGRONDON@OUTLOOK.COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE; P/C LCDO. JORGE GARCÍA RONDÓN. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de noviembre 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
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
este caso, con fecha de 06 de diciembre de 2024. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 06de diciembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. VICTOR M. ROSADO SANTIAGO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AI2024CV00236. (Salón: 002). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: VICTOR M ROSADO SANTIAGOBO ASOMANTE CARR 162 KM 1 HM 0 LAS ABEJAS, AIBONITO PR 00705; 2500 E JAMES ST APT L3, BAYTOWN, TX 77520-7861. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de octubre 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 de 06 de diciembre de 2024. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 06 de diciembre de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. JULIO A VEGA MIRAY
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TJ2024CV00286. (Salón: 603). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: JULIO A VEGA MIRAY. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de diciembre 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 de 06 de diciembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 06 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUCRECIA PAGÁN MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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BANCO COOPERATIVO DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT
INSURANCE CORPORATION Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2024CV02738. (Salón: 601 CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JULIÁN A. PARRILLA BORIAPARRILLAJULIAN@GMAIL.COM. A: BENEFICIAL
MORTGAGE CORPORATION, FULANO DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de noviembre 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 de 05 de diciembre de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 05 de diciembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. JOAN ROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO CORPORACIÓN DE SERVICIOS EDUCATIVOS DE YABUCOA Demandante V. R & G PREMIER BANK OF PR Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: YB2024CV00149. (Salón: 206). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CARLOS R. GARRIGA BLANCOGARRIGA@RAGFLAW.COM. A: R & G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO Y JOHN DOE COMO POSIBLE TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO - DIRECCIÓN: DESCONOCIDA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de diciembre 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
HERRERA; FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE ADALBERTO AQUINO HERRERA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de diciembre 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 de 05 de diciembre de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 05 de diciembre de 2024. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Ida L. Fernández Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V.
JOSE LUIS MARTI ROSA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV04074. (Salón: 504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BIRRIELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM.
A: EUFRACIA AGOSTO
RIVERA Y LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSE LUIS MARTI
ROSA, COMPUESTA POR MARTHA IVETTE MARTI
AGOSTO Y JOSE MARTI
JR. T/C/C JOSE MARTI AGOSTO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) aEL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 de noviembre 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 de 06 de diciembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. BRUNO LUIS REYES ILDEFONSO
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2024CV00757. (Salón: 303). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CMPRLAW.COM. A: BRUNO LUIS
REYES ILDEFONSOURB VISTAS DE LUQUILLO, D 17 CALLE V 1, A: LUQUILLO, PR 00773. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de noviembre 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 de 09 de diciembre de 2024. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 09 de diciembre de 2024. Wanda Seguí Reyes, Secretaria. Ana Celís Márquez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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Demandantes Vs. R&G PREMIER BANK; CORPORACIÓN
FEDERAL DE SEGUROS DE DEPÓSITOS (FDIC); DEMANDADOS
DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2024CV04042. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: R&G PREMIER BANK; DEMANDADOS
DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOE”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica la radicación de una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, desconociéndose su paradero, luego de haber sido pagado en su totalidad: Hipoteca a favor de R&G Premier Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de Cincuenta y Cinco Mil Dólares ($55,000.00), con interés al (8-3/4%) anual, vencedero el día 1ro. de abril de (2015), suscrito bajo testimonio número (17,998), constituido mediante la escritura número Trescientos Cuarenta y Siete (347), otorgada el día (8) de marzo de (2000), ante el Notario Armando J. Martínez Vilella. Inscripción (7ma.), Finca (24,070) de Carolina Sur. La referida hipoteca grava el siguiente inmueble: “RÚSTICA: “Parcela de terreno marcada con el número uno (1) en el plano de inscripción, compuesta de tres cuerdas con ciento cuarenta y siete milésimas de otra (3.147 cda.), equivalente a una (1)
hectárea, veintitrés (23) áreas y sesenta y ocho (68) centiáreas. En lindes por el Norte, con Ramón Flores Pagán; por el Sur, con Dolores Rivera Carrión; por el Este, con la Carretera Estatal Número 857, que la separa de la parcela número dos (2) del plano de inscripción de dicha lotificación y por el Oeste, con la Quebrada Negrito.” Inscripción Primera (1ra). Nota marginal inscripción primera: Se aclara que la parcela descrita radica en el Barrio Canovanillas de Carolina”. Inscrita: Finca (24,070) de Carolina Sur; Catastro (146-024-845-22-000).
La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare con lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia ordene al Secretario del Tribunal que expida Mandamiento al Registrador de la Propiedad, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. Por medio del presente edicto se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda de epígrafe dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal, Sala de CAROLINA y notificándole con copia de dicha contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Abogada de la Parte Demandante: Lcda. Beatriz Cay VázquezRUA 18,234 HC 5 Box 57394, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725-9252 Tel. (787) 731-0526; Email: beatrizcayvazquez@gmail.com POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, expido el presente Edicto en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 4 de diciembre de 2024. Lcda. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria General. Maricruz Aponte Alicea, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2024CV01213. (Salón: 602 CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA - LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL.COM. A: OSWALDO PATRICIO CANTUNA MARTÍNEZ, PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR EDICTO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de noviembre 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 de 03 de diciembre de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 03 de diciembre de 2024. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. Loyda Torres Irizarry, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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Demandante V. GRESSEL ACOSTA VÉLEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2024CV00701. (Salón: 0200). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA - LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL.COM. A: GRESSEL ACOSTA VÉLEZ, STEVEN RAFAEL
APONTE ACOSTA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de noviembre 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 de 03 de diciembre de 2024. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 03 de diciembre de 2024. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria. Caroline Hernández Valentín, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal. LEGAL NOTICE
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Parte Demandante Vs. XABIEL BAEZ AYALA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TB2024CV00069.
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Sudoku
How to Play:
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Crossword
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Adult
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Unfolded
A forecast for the player Soto could be by 2039
By TIM BRITTON and WILL SAMMON / THE ATHLETIC
In the open space of the Hilton Anatole here at MLB’s winter meetings, one scout put it succinctly: “Fifteen is a lot.”
Fifteen years is a long time to project the production of a major league player. Juan Soto’s $765 million deal with the New York Mets, which can reach $805 million over the lifetime of the contract, is the longest contract in major league history. So what does history tell us about how he might age over the next 15 years?
To get a sense of this, we looked at the players whose early career production aligned most closely with Soto’s through their age-25 seasons. How did those players perform over the next five seasons (when Soto can trigger an opt-out in his deal) and over the next 15?
Since integration, Soto ranks 10th in wins above replacement through his age25 season, according to Baseball Reference. So our sample includes the nine guys ahead of him and the 10 guys behind him.
Over the next five seasons, through their age-30 seasons, those players averaged 32 WAR — or more than six wins above replacement per season. The best of them was Willie Mays, who averaged a shade under nine WAR over those five years; the worst was outfielder César Cedeño, who averaged three WAR from age 26 to age 30 and then was essentially done as a useful major leaguer.
Washington Nationals’ Juan Soto is congratulated after his home run in the seventh inning of Game Five of the World Series against the Houston Astros in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Over the next 15 years, the sample averaged 58 wins above replacement, or just under four per season. In proportional terms, they contributed 171% more WAR from 26 to 40 than they had accumulated through age 25. In other words, you would expect Soto with his 36 wins above replacement to be worth about 62 WAR between now and the end of his contract in 2039.
In that case, the Mets would end up spending about $12.3 million per win above replacement — hardly much of an overpay based on the current market for free agents.
Again, Mays was the best here, being worth 378% more WAR after age 25 than
before. Barry Bonds came in at 367% more, while Cedeño, Vada Pinson and Andruw Jones experienced the harshest drop-offs. (Mike Trout, Mookie Betts and Manny Machado are still playing, so they are not part of the sample past the age of 30.)
Of course, different players achieve their value in different ways. Cedeño was a speedster capable of bashing 20 homers and stealing 50 bases while playing a Gold Glove center field. Jones was as talented a defender at a premium position as anyone in his generation. Hank Aaron was a corner outfielder who hit .300 and hammered 30-plus homers year after year.
The player on the list who might look the most like Soto is Frank Robinson. Robinson posted 37.3 WAR through age 25 to Soto’s 36.4; his career on-base plus slugging percentage was .946 to Soto’s .953. Soto’s OPS+, a metric that adjusts a player’s on-base plus slugging percentage for league and park factors, is a bit better, 160 to 146, and Robinson’s glove in an outfield corner was stronger; he won a Gold Glove in 1958.
Robinson averaged close to seven wins above replacement from age 26 to age 30, and he averaged more than five wins above replacement from age 26 through age 38. In all, he was worth 70 WAR after the age of 25. The Mets would jump at that sustained production from Soto. (In franchise history, only Tom Seaver has compiled more than 50 wins above replacement as a Met, ending his
career with 76 WAR for New York.)
In general, scouts are bullish on Soto’s bat aging well.
“Offensively, the skill set will always be there,” one said. “Even if there’s a power drop-off, sort of like what happened with Joey Votto, the plate discipline will always be there. The ability to hit will always be there.”
They are less sure about Soto’s defense, noting it is when, and not if, he will make a position change, and wondering if he can make it to anywhere but designated hitter.
“I think he’s a bad defender,” a scout said. “And in right field, that can cost you. In the future, can he play first base?”
36.4; his career on-base plus slugging percentage was .946 to Soto’s .953. (Wikipedia)
The San Juan Daily Star
Frank Robinson with the Cincinnati Reds in 1961 at age 25. Robinson posted 37.3 wins above replacement through age 25 to Juan Soto’s
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