Thursday Dec 26, 2024

The San Juan Star

Permits Office to Begin Full Review of Construction Codes

González Colón: Plan to Contract for LNG Plant Was Not Made Known to Her Team

Duty-Bound to ‘Open Doors’

Governor-Elect Says She Feels ‘a Responsibility’ to Show That Young People, Girls in Particular, Can Accomplish ‘Whatever They Want’

Miranda on ‘Mufasa’ & the Secret to a Disney

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Governor-elect: Pierluisi team didn’t mention contract for LNG plant

By THE STAR STAFF

Even though Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has discussed the project publicly, governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón has said she was unaware of his plans to sign the contract for the construction of a liquefied natural gas-based power generation plant in San Juan. The plant contemplated in the contract with the consortium Energiza would generate 478 megawatts of energy.

“A contract less than a week before there is a change in governing administration for millions of dollars raises a flag to me,” González Colón reportedly said.

“It seems to me that they gave us incorrect information in the Transition Committee, since it was said that it was being evaluated, but not that there was a contract that was going to be signed,” she said. “And, in fact, in

my meeting with the governor he never told me that there was going to be a contract of this magnitude.”

The New Progressive Party president stressed that in fact she is in favor of new generation through gas plants, but that she is suspicious of the procedure followed by the outgoing administration.

“I want to reserve the right to review these contracts in January, because if this contract was drafted by the same person who drafted the LUMA contract, it means that he has no guarantee of defense of the people of Puerto Rico,” González Colón said in reference to the Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A).

Pierluisi, along with P3A Interim Executive Director Gerardo Lorán Butrón, announced on Sunday the selection of the company Energiza for the design, development, financing, construction, installation, operation and maintenance of a new power plant in San Juan.

The start-up date for the new plant is expected to be June 30, 2028. Energiza is made up of the Puerto Rican companies Tropigas de Puerto Rico Inc. and Cratos Project Services PR LLC, along with Mitsubishi Américas Power Inc. and NAES Corp. as part of its team.

The agreement, which is in the form of an energy purchase and operation contract signed between Energiza and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, is valid for 30 years, with the possibility of two 10-year extensions.

Child run over by Christmas float is in stable condition

By THE STAR STAFF

Nicole Báez Ortiz, the head of the Families and Children Administration, said earlier this week that the 3-year-old boy who was run over on Monday night by a Christmas float in Juana Díaz’s Vista Hermosa urbanization remained stable and under medical observation at the Medical Center in Río Piedras.

“Our social work team is in direct contact with the medical staff and the minor’s family to ensure his well-being and that of his family unit,” Báez Ortiz said in a written statement on Tuesday.

The official also confirmed that, as a protective measure and in compliance with the agency’s protocols, the minor’s siblings were temporarily relocated with a family resource while the social investigation is completed.

“This action aims to ensure the safety and well-being of the minors involved,” she stressed.

The incident occurred around 7:41 pm on Monday, when the driver of the float, a 42-year-old man, stopped to hand out candy and toys. The minor approached and was run over by the vehicle’s tire. The child was seriously injured and was initially taken to the San Lucas Hospital in Ponce, then referred to the Medical Center in critical condition.

The administrator reiterated that if anyone suspects or knows of a case of negligence or abuse, they can call, 24 hours a day, at (787) 749-1333.

Officer Miguel Almodóvar, of the Highway Patrol Division, and prosecutor Juan Molina Pérez were investigating the events.

The plant contemplated in the contract with the consortium Energiza would generate 478 megawatts of energy.

Permits Management Office to begin review of construction codes

By THE STAR STAFF

Asteering committee composed of experts from the construction industry that is under the direction of the Permits Management Office (OGPe by its acronym in Spanish) will start a review in January of Puerto Rico’s construction codes.

The codes review is part of a regular three-year cycle.

The process, established by Act 161-2009, seeks to update the existing family of codes by incorporating two new standards to continue innovating in construction practices and thus ensure that buildings are safer, resilient, sustainable and adapted to the specific needs and challenges of the island. The process is participatory, so the Construction Codes Committee invites all interested parties to subscribe through the following Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC) email address: codigosdeconstruccion@ ddec.pr.gov

“Continuing to streamline permits and construction projects on the island is essential for the development of Puerto Rico’s infrastructure, which, above all, must be safe and follow the proper construction codes,” DDEC Secretary Manuel Cidre Miranda said. “That is why the DDEC has spared no effort or resources to strengthen this important area, updating codes according to climate change and innovation in construction methods and materials.”

Félix Rivera, DDEC assistant secretary of OGPe, underscored the importance of continuously reviewing the island’s construction codes.

“Our codes are governed by the global construction standards of the International Code Council (ICC) and are adapted to the geography and atmospheric conditions of a Caribbean island,” Rivera said. “For us at OGPe, it is vital that construction and permits follow due process to guarantee safe and resistant structures built under current requirements.”

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Melina León to headline colossal Christmas party in Isabela this Sunday

By THE STAR STAFF

Isabela Mayor Miguel “Ricky” Méndez Pérez announced earlier this week that as part of the traditional End of Year Race, this Sunday, Dec. 29, starting at 2 p.m., a huge Christmas party will be held in the Corchado Juarbe public square, featuring Melina León and the group Jóvenes del Areyto.

“In Isabela, Christmas is celebrated in a big way and we want to share next Sunday with all Isabelinos and visitors, so I invite you to schedule for this event,” the mayor said.

That same day, the 60th edition of the traditional Luis Abraham Abreu Mendoza End of Year Race is to be held, which this year is dedicated to Agenol González Cubero. The

race will start at 4:30 p.m. from the Coto neighborhood and conclude at the public square. Those interested in the event can access micarrerapr.com or 939-484-7143 or 787-710-4716 or carrerafindeano.org.

Also in Isabela, the Christmas Impact will be held on Monday, Dec. 30, leaving from highway PR-113 in front of the Coto Community at 4 p.m.

“From there, we will travel through several communities in a dynamic caravan, as we have done this season,” Méndez Pérez said. “We want to bring Christmas joy to every corner of our town of Isabela, particularly to the elderly who are at home, those who live alone, and everyone who appreciates sharing in the community. Felicidades to everyone.”

and assistant executive director of construction codes and technology at OGPe, added that the codes “are a valuable tool to ensure that structures in Puerto Rico are safe and sustainable for all.”

“Our commitment during each review stage is to incorporate the most recent lessons learned and technological advances to protect the lives and property of Puerto Ricans,” she said. “We invite the community to be part of the process, in order to generate construction standards that respond to local needs.”

The update seeks to facilitate structures that are more resistant to atmospheric events such as floods, earthquakes and strong winds; energy efficiency and sustainability; innovation in construction methods and materials capable of reducing insurance and maintenance costs in the long term; simplified implementation and compliance processes; and increased durability and value of properties for greater investment value.

The magic of Christmas to return to Pueblito del Carmen

By THE STAR STAFF

The community of Pueblito del Carmen in Guayama is extending an invitation to all families in Guayama and nearby towns to enjoy the Second Great Family Christmas Event.

The event will be held Saturday, Dec. 28, starting at 6 p.m. at Cándido Lebrón Baseball Stadium, better known as El Pueblito del Carmen.

For the second consecutive year, the celebration promises to fill the night with the essence of Christmas, full of joy, traditions and special moments to share with the family. From traditional cuisine, to an exhibition of local crafts, visitors will find much to inspire the authentic Christmas spirit, organizers said.

Children will be able to enjoy an interactive mini farm, where they can meet and learn about animals. There will be other entertainment for the young ones as well.

Throughout the night, live music will fill the air, creating an atmosphere full of magic and excitement for all ages. El Pueblito del Carmen will be transformed

into a place resplendent with festive lights, the warm embrace of the community and the Christmas spirit.

The completely free event is designed to strengthen islanders’ roots, celebrate local traditions and bring everyone together on a night to remember.

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Corchado Juarbe public square in Isabela (Israel Morales)

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December 26, 2024

Governor-elect: ‘Opening doors’ for island’s youth is the mission

Fixing the shaky, underpowered energy grid, bringing about statehood remain as top priorities

By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul1@gmail.com

Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón has a tone of vindication in her voice when she talks about her successful run for governor.

“People blasted me saying I couldn’t deliver kids while running for governor, and I did it. It wasn’t me, it was God, it was my family, it was my husband,” she said in an interview with the STAR. “I’m not different from any other woman who has to work, and at the same time raise a family and be an agent of change.”

She said she feels a special responsibility to the younger generation.

“I know that I do have a responsibility to open doors for kids and young women so that they can enter politics or any area of their interest,” she said. “I do have a responsibility to showcase that girls can do whatever they want.”

The governor-elect said the reason she got into politics is statehood.

She said her father was very involved in politics and took a very young Jenniffer to defend the position of statehood for Puerto Rico at the United Nations.

Since then, bringing statehood to the island has been her focus.

González Colón said statehood is in a sense the law of the land following the outcome of the Nov. 5 plebiscite, which statehood won with 57% of the vote.

She said having a resident commissioner from the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party, Resident Commissioner-elect Pablo José Hernández Rivera, in Congress will not deter her from making pursuing statehood as a priority.

“I think the people of Puerto Rico spoke loud and clear in support of statehood in the referendum,” the gov-

ernor-elect said. “... The same people who voted for him voted for statehood, the same people who voted for him voted for me. You cannot call on the people in the States to support statehood. If he is not interested in status change, I am, and I will promote it.”

She said her number one priority other than statehood is fixing Puerto Rico’s broken electric power generation system.

Energy generation was the focus of the second meeting of the Committee for Energy Transformation, which took place Monday, she said.

“How can local manufacturing operate without power?” González Colón said. “You cannot have economic development when you don’t have power.”

“My first bill will be regarding permits, so we can transcend, so you can move [quickly], like Florida does -- you apply for the permit, you receive the permit immediately, then you have several days to provide the rest of the information,” she said. “We can have that in Puerto Rico so you can move the projects that have been stuck.”

The second bill, she said, will be the appointment of an energy czar who will conduct overnight with the operators about power generation on the island and will be able to use the $18 billion allocated for energy that is not being used.

For her next priority, the governor-elect earlier this week named a tax reform committee that will review the inventory tax and advise on lowering the tax rate for corporations, individuals and capital gains.

“The next item is to create savings accounts for individuals with major disabilities on the island -- we don’t have that,” González Colón said.

Another priority is to provide vouchers for families with kids, not just those for kids in Head Start.

“If we can do those tax reforms in the first session of the year, that would put in place all the new regulations to get things running on the island and block the economic distress that we are experiencing,” she said.

If you drive around the island you’ll find clutches of idle young people hanging out in gas stations and the like, a manifestation of the island’s poverty. How does the governor-elect intend to address that issue?

“First, I believe we can change the focus of education to STEM [the acronym for science, technology, engineering and math] and provide better education in science and math and technology,” González Colón said. “We’re talking about reforms to the University of Puerto Rico to change the curriculum in many other programs and the funds are there for that.”

The other problem, she said, is the environments of many of the island’s schools.

“If we don’t try to maintain a better environment, then how do you keep a kid in school?” the governor-elect said. “The other thing is giving kids who aren’t ready for high school the experience [of working]. I believe we put everybody to work, and sometimes they don’t want to work because they may lose their benefits.”

In the mainland United States, the income limits tied to public assistance are higher so people can work and still receive their benefits, González Colón said.

“If we were a state we wouldn’t be talking about this,” she said.

removal

By THE STAR STAFF

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced that Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and 32 states would share in more than $420 million in awards to remove lead hazards from homes and HUD-assisted properties.

The funds include $2 million to remove other housing-related hazards from homes in conjunction with weatherization efforts, and nearly $10 million to facilitate research on better identifying and controlling lead and other housing-related hazards.

According to HUD, research has proven that lead exposure can result in permanent health implications, with young children being especially vulnerable due to potential impacts on the development of the central nervous system. Expectant mothers who are exposed to lead can experience reduced fetal growth and preterm birth, and for adults generally, exposure can increase the risk of high blood pressure, cardiovascular problems and kidney damage.

“Some 3.6 million American households have children under 6 years of age who live in homes with lead exposure hazards, warns HUD,” said Harry Peña, president of Zimmetry Environmental, in a statement this week. “This includes homes

right here in Puerto Rico. This new funding announcement is great news for local children and parents because lead poisoning is entirely preventable.”

The building science and indoor environmental quality professionals at Zimmetry provide consulting, testing, and inspection services to identify and mitigate exposure risks to lead and other hazardous substances. They have been offering such resources for over two decades to protect families, building occupants and workers. The services also help to keep businesses, organizations, and institutions in compliance with lead and other environmental, health, and safety regulations.

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Takeaways from the House Ethics Committee’s investigation on Matt Gaetz

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

After a yearslong investigation, the House Ethics Committee released a 37-page report earlier this week into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and allegations that he engaged in an array of illegal and untoward conduct, including having sex with a 17-year-old girl.

Gaetz, who had been President-elect Donald Trump’s first choice to be attorney general before Gaetz withdrew from consideration, has repeatedly denied he did anything wrong.

Here are takeaways from the report.

The report says the evidence shows Gaetz engaged in a range of questionable conduct, some of it illegal.

The committee concluded that Gaetz regularly paid women to have sex with him from 2017 to 2020 and had sex with an underage girl in 2017, during his first term in the House, and that the girl was paid.

The report says that Gaetz used illegal drugs — including cocaine and ecstasy — on multiple occasions between 2017 and 2019. It also says that he accepted gifts of transportation and lodging, in excess of dollar limits on what members of Congress are allowed to accept, as part of a trip he took to the Bahamas where he had sex with women whom he paid.

The report adds that he used his position to falsely claim to the State Department that a woman he had sex with was really a constituent who needed help obtaining a passport.

Gaetz also obstructed the committee’s investigation, the report said.

The report concluded that “there was substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules, state and federal laws, and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, acceptance of impermissible gifts, the provision of special favors and privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”

It is not clear that Gaetz will face further prosecution.

The Justice Department has already investigated Gaetz for the same matters examined by the House panel. Prosecutors informed Gaetz’s legal team in February 2023 that they would not bring charges. The prosecutors had concluded that they could not make a strong enough case in court, people familiar

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with the matter said at the time.

There is no indication that the committee’s report has any evidence that would not have been available to federal prosecutors. And in less than a month, the Justice Department will be under the control of Trump, who just weeks ago wanted Gaetz to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.

The House Ethics Committee report does not include a criminal referral, but concludes that Gaetz broke state prostitution laws in Florida.

But the bar to say someone broke the law is lower than having to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

The panel did not find sufficient evidence to accuse Gaetz of sex trafficking.

The committee said it “did not obtain substantial evidence” that Gaetz had violated federal sex-trafficking laws, one focus of the Justice Department inquiry, although it concluded that he had sex with a girl when she was 17 and that the girl was paid.

The committee said it had no evidence that Gaetz was aware the girl was a minor at the time. At the time she had sex with Gaetz, the report said, the girl had just completed her junior year in high school.

Evidence uncovered by the committee showed that Gaetz paid for women to travel to New York and Washington to have sex with him. But, the committee said, the women were over 18 at the time.

“While Representative Gaetz’s relationship with these women involved an exploitative power imbalance, the committee does not have reason to believe that he used force, fraud or coercion as those terms apply under the applicable laws,” the report said.

But, the report said, the committee found that by having sex with the 17-year-old, he violated Florida’s statutory rape law.

“The committee received evidence that Representative Gaetz did not learn that Victim A was 17 years old until more than a month after their first sexual encounters,” the report said.

“However, statutory rape is a strict liability crime. After he learned that Victim A was a minor, he maintained contact and less than six months after she turned 18, he met up with her again for commercial sex.”

Some of the women Gaetz had sex with for money felt impaired by drug or alcohol use.

The women whom committee investigators questioned said that their sexual interactions with Gaetz were “consensual.” But one woman said that she “felt that the use of drugs at the parties and events they attended” may have impaired her “ability to really know what was going on or fully consent.”

The committee said that “nearly every woman that the committee spoke with could not remember the details of at least one or more of the events they attended with Representative Gaetz and attributed that to drug or alcohol consumption.”

Some of the women expressed regret at what they had engaged in. One woman said that when she looks “back on certain moments, I feel violated.” Another woman said, “I think about it all the time,” adding, “I still see him when I turn on the TV and there’s nothing anyone can do. It’s frustrating to know I lived a reality that he denies.”

The committee believed the Justice Department was unhelpful in its investigation.

Initially, after it was revealed in 2021 that Gaetz was under federal investigation, the Justice Department told the panel to stand down as it completed its inquiry — a request the committee complied with.

In 2023, Gaetz announced that the department had decided not to charge him, leading the committee to restart its inquiry.

But, at that point, the Justice Department refused to respond to the committee, according to the committee.

The committee said that “after three months without a response despite repeated follow up,” it filed Freedom of Information Act requests with Justice Department offices, “which to date have not been adequately processed.”

“The committee continued to reach out to D.O.J. throughout 2023, having still not received a substantive response to its request for information,” the committee said.

The committee said it received its first correspondence from the Justice Department in January 2024.

“At that time, D.O.J. provided no substantive response or explanation for its delay,” the report said.

But the department told the committee it does not give nonpublic information about investigations that do not result in anyone being charged.

The committee said this stance by the Justice Department is “inconsistent with D.O.J.’s historical conduct with respect to the Committee and its unique role in upholding the integrity of the House.”

“D.O.J.’s initial deferral request and subsequent lack of cooperation with the committee’s review caused significant delays in the investigation,” the report said.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) speaks during a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, in Coachella, Calif., Oct. 12, 2024. A 37-page report detailed the findings from a yearslong investigation into allegations that Gaetz engaged in a range of illegal conduct. He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. (Jordan Gale/The New York Times)

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The three death row prisoners Biden chose not to spare

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

The number of prisoners on federal death row shrank from 40 to just three on Monday after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men who had been facing the death penalty.

Leaving three men on death row, Biden said in a statement, is in line with his opposition to carrying out the death penalty “in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.”

It also leaves the possibility that Presidentelect Donald Trump, who carried out 13 executions during his first term, will have the remaining three men executed when he returns to office. And the Justice Department under Biden is also pursuing the death penalty against the assailant who carried out a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, in 2022, seeking to add him to the small group of people that remain on federal death row.

Here are the men whom Biden chose not to spare.

Dylann Roof, 30, was convicted of hate crimes in the killing of nine Black parishioners in a racist attack on a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015.

A federal jury sentenced Roof to death in 2017. He had admitted his guilt and offered to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison.

The Justice Department sought the death penalty over the objection of survivors of the attack and many relatives of the victims.

Lawyers for Roof have challenged his conviction over concerns about his mental competency and his dealings with his lawyers, but those appeals have been rejected.

Roof is imprisoned at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where the federal death row and the death chamber are housed.

Robert Bowers, 52, was convicted of hate crimes in the killing of 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.

A federal jury decided last year that Bowers would be sentenced to death for what is considered the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. His death sentence was the first to be handed down during the Biden administration. Bowers had offered to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison, but the government declined to make the deal.

Bowers had been armed with an AR-15 and three handguns when he stormed the synagogue and went after members of three congregations — Tree of Life, New Light and Dor Hadash — that had gathered in parts of the building for morning worship.

His lawyers had argued in court that he had schizophrenia and other mental problems and focused on his troubled childhood. But prosecu tors disputed those arguments and focused on the planning he had done in the months before the attack and the antisemitic writings he had left online.

Most family members of the victims sup ported the government’s decision to seek the death penalty, although some disagreed. Like Roof, Bowers is imprisoned at the federal prison in Terre Haute.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 31, was convicted of helping to carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three spectators and wounded hundreds more.

Tsarnaev, who planted the pressure-cooker bombs used in the attack with his brother, Tamerlan, in retaliation for American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was sentenced to death by a federal jury in 2015.

In 2020, a federal court overturned his death sentence, but the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated it in 2022.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a shootout with police during which he was also accidentally run over by his brother.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held at a federal prison in Florence, Colorado.

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Deal makers see a rebound in 2025 as Trump returns to power

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

By most measures, 2024 was a year of fits and starts for mergers and acquisitions, especially compared with a year ago. And initial public offerings were a flat-out dud.

For deal-makers, there are plenty of reasons to hope that 2025 will be better, including a potentially more business-friendly White House and Congress, investor ebullience and a relatively strong American economy. But there are also factors that may keep corporate deal-makers on edge.

The year was mixed for deal-making. Heading into 2024, bankers and lawyers said that the overall mood in corporate boardrooms was cautious, given geopolitical uncertainties and questions about the vitality of the global economy.

Deal activity ultimately reflected that. Although the dollar volume of deals announced in 2024 as of Friday rose 9% year-onyear, to $3 trillion, the number of transactions fell 18%, to 46,534, according to data from the London Stock Exchange Group. That’s the lowest level since 2015 and worse than 2020, which was afflicted by the coronavirus pandemic.

While a handful of large corporate buyers were willing to take a chance on M&A, would-be acquirers more broadly were feeling cautious. The biggest takeover bids announced in 2024 included:

— Alimentation Couche-Tard’s $58 billion offer for Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese operator of the 7-Eleven chain.

— Capital One’s $35 billion deal to buy Discover Financial Services.

Traders and financial professionals work on the New York Stock Exchange floor after the opening bell in Manhattan on the morning of Aug. 20, 2019. It was another down year for mergers and acquisitions, but Wall Street is optimistic that the lengthy lull is coming to an end. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)

— Mars’ roughly $36 billion acquisition of Kellanova, maker of Pop-Tarts.

(A potential point of comfort is that the biggest transactions covered a broad area of industries, including retail, financial services and technology.)

Among advisers, the usual suspects — Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co. — claimed the biggest share of M&A activity, collectively participating in nearly $2.3 trillion worth of transactions. A resurgence in investment banking helped push shares in all three to record levels this fall. And Evercore, an independent investment bank, beat out bigger rivals such as Barclays and UBS with $266.5 billion worth of advisory assignments.

Despite a bull market for the S&P 500, 2024 was a year to forget for IPOs. Some 1,167 companies went public in the year, raising $110.6 billion. That’s down about 9.5% by number and 1.6% by fundraising volume.

Although some issuers were willing to brave sometimes choppy markets — top-performing IPOs included those of Lineage, a real estate investment trust, and Reddit, a social media company — investor caution prompted many would-be market debutantes to wait.

Things are already looking up for 2025. Interest rates have come down in the United States and other major markets, as central banks take stock of relatively favorable declines in inflation. That has lowered the cost of financing, an especially important consid-

eration for private equity firms.

By far, the most significant reason for hope, deal-makers say, is Donald Trump’s election victory and the likely return of deregulation. The president-elect has managed to reassure corporate leaders and their advisers that he will probably go easier on M&A than the Biden administration, notably with his picks of Gail Slater to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division and Andrew Ferguson to head the Federal Trade Commission.

And for IPOs, there’s a backlog of prominent names that could list in 2025, including Shein, a fast-fashion giant, and Klarna, a payment processor. Private equity and venture capital firms have been closely watching for signs of an IPO comeback as a way to finally cash out on long-held investments.

But there are also areas of concern. Corporate leaders have been anxious about whether Trump will follow through on his threats to impose wide-ranging tariffs, which could drastically raise prices and lead to global trade battles even with close allies.

And then there is the prospect of chaos in Washington, despite Republicans set to regain control of both the White House and Congress. The fierce warfare over federal government funding, and some Republicans’ willingness to buck Trump (and Elon Musk, his influential adviser) on key priorities such as raising the debt ceiling are reintroducing the No. 1 thing that worries the C-suite: uncertainty

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Wall Street mostly upbeat on GM’s decision to pull the plug on Cruise

General Motors needed to exit its Cruise robotaxi business, most Wall Street analysts agreed on Wednesday, but the automaker’s decision to do so was still a disappointing end for an operation that GM had touted as a potential $50 billion revenue generator by 2030.

The largest U.S. automaker on Tuesday pulled the plug on Cruise after evaluating the continued investments needed in a competitive space, executives said, adding they intend to fold some of Cruise’s talent into GM to continue development of driver assistance systems.

“We consider the news a step in the right direction for GM, as we think investors were losing patience with its hefty spending (~$10B) related to robotaxi development with very little to show for its investment,” Garrett Nelson, analyst at CFRA Research wrote.

GM shares jumped 3% after-hours on Tuesday immediately after the announcement, but gave back those gains during Wednesday’s regular session and were down about 1% in late afternoon.

Nelson said the announcement was “a black eye for the credibility of GM management that, as recently as last year, told investors the Cruise business could generate $50 billion in annual revenue by 2030.”

For the year to date, GM has far outpaced its competitors. Its stock is up 45% for 2024, while Ford’s is down 14% and Stellantis is down 37%.

GM CEO Mary Barra was already scheduled to speak with reporters Wednesday evening. She will likely face questions on cost-cutting moves the automaker is taking as it navigates turbulence in EV demand, changing technology and a new presidential administration.

“This is the latest in the series of decisions that GM has announced which underscore our focus on having the right technology for the future of our company and the industry and reflects our commitment to execute with speed and efficiency,” Barra told analysts Tuesday.

GM recently scaled back plans for electric vehicles, sold a stake in one of its joint venture battery plants and recorded a $5 billion loss on its China business as it restructures. GM is now doubling down on its core business: making gasolinepowered pickup trucks and other large vehicles.

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%.

Cruise’s competitors - including Alphabet’s Waymo, Baidu and Tesla - are well funded, and may have better technology,

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analysts said. Waymo, which is expanding its autonomous ride-hailing services, is still losing billions of dollars per year.

Barclays noted Alphabet, which has over $100 billion in earnings annually, can absorb costs associated with Waymo’s development. GM, however, is expected to record earnings of $14 billion to $15 billion for 2024.

“It’s clear from Waymo that an AV robotaxi business is best owned by an entity with deep pockets,” Barclays said.

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A restaurant is more than a workplace for people often shunned by employers

By DANIEL POLITI

Nacho Fernández Suárez winces when he recalls the eight years he spent as an administrative assistant doing odd errands in the Argentine Congress. He was part of an inclusion program for people with disabilities.

“They bullied me, they pushed me, they treated me poorly,” said Fernández Suárez, 34, who has an intellectual disability. He was also bored, he added, barely given any work to do.

Boredom is not much of a problem these days for Fernández Suárez, who is part of the staff at a popular restaurant in Buenos Aires that is believed to be the first eating establishment in Argentina largely operated by neurodivergent individuals.

The restaurant, Alamesa, is seeking to change the paradigm of what inclusion in the workplace means for people who often do not have a clear path to employment after their formal schooling ends.

Even though Fernández Suárez earns about one-third of what he did as an assistant, his mother, Alejandra Ferrari, said he was thrilled because he “feels indispensable.” (The program in the Argentine Congress he was hired through has been dissolved.)

“When you go to work and have a purpose,” she said, “it changes your life.”

That is precisely what inspired Dr. Fernando Polack, a renowned pediatric infectious disease specialist in Argentina,

rodivergent people Polack knew through Julia and word of mouth.

“To see the potential, that’s what we dedicate ourselves to — that is perhaps the heart of the venture,” Polack said, “understanding the potential of each person, the richness of each, what they can contribute.”

Sebastián Wainstein, Alamesa’s executive director who oversees daily operations, says the restaurant benefits from the differences among neurodivergent individuals.

Fernández Suárez, for example, “is super chaotic,” Wainstein said, “but he’s a character.”

“He’s very friendly when it comes to dealing with customers,” Wainstein said.

Among the 40 neurodivergent employees of Alamesa, Fernández Suárez also stands out because he can openly talk about his intellectual disability, which he says is the result of having contracted meningitis as a baby.

tries to accommodate its staff, many of whom are particularly sensitive to loud and unexpected noises, a common trait among those on the autism spectrum.

The restaurant, which serves only lunch, has a state-of-the-art kitchen with no knives because all raw materials come sliced and diced. There are also no open flames — the food is cooked in special ovens that use hot air and steam.

To help employees with reading difficulties, ingredients are color-coded so they can easily be matched to any of the 10 main courses and five desserts on the menu.

The menu, with an emphasis on international cuisine, includes an eclectic mix of dishes, such as a pastrami sandwich, salmon with panko breadcrumbs and Moroccan chicken with couscous.

to open Alamesa this year as part of a deeply personal quest to figure out how his daughter, Julia, 26, who is autistic, could gain independence in a world that seemed hostile to her needs.

“I realized that the way I could take charge of what we’re going to do with Julia was to build something, and that had to be a job,” Polack said. “And to do that, I had to create that job.”

He dipped into his personal and family savings and settled on the idea of a restaurant in part because of childhood memories of feeling safe and secure while sitting around the dinner table with his large extended family during holidays.

Polack, who ran clinical trials for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in Argentina, quickly figured out he could apply his years of scientific, methodical research to build a team made up of people with nontraditional sets of skills.

Julia became the restaurant’s first official employee. The staff then expanded with other neu-

Most are not able to explain their disability, and no one asks them for a diagnosis before they are hired, Wainstein said.

None of the neurodivergent employees have specific jobs at Alamesa because the goal is for everyone to be able to do everything.

Polack says Alamesa’s “real secret” is to harness each individual’s strength to “get out of this narcissistic idea” that a person who is neurotypical “is the superior being.”

“Alamesa breaks with the idea that people with neurodivergence want to be like people without neurodivergence,” Polack said.

In the process, the restaurant, which is the subject of a recent documentary, has created a community.

“We go to the movies, to drink coffee, go bowling,” said Sofía Aguirre, 27, a neurodivergent employee.

Nestled in an upper-middle-class Buenos Aires neighborhood bustling with stores and restaurants, Alamesa is an oasis. Music is played at a low volume, and soundproof material on the walls and ceiling ensures there is no echo from the cacophony of conversations.

It is just one of the ways Alamesa

“A lot of people came at first because of the concept of an inclusive restaurant; the food was secondary,” Wainstein said. “Now, people are also starting to come because ‘Hey, I ate really well.’”

Alamesa employs about a dozen workers without neurological issues, many of whom are psychology students or recent graduates from a local university, who provide support to the other workers as needed.

When it first opened, the restaurant was fully booked for weeks amid widespread attention from the news media and famous personalities, including Pope Francis, who is from Argentina.

“I congratulate you on the work you do,” the pontiff said in a video message addressed to Alamesa’s employees. “Thank you because it is a contribution to society, a unique contribution, a creative contribution from each one of you.”

Although the neurotypical employees continue to play roles such as running the cash register and dealing with suppliers, they do so with a neurodivergent employee by their side so they can learn the ropes.

The goal is to make neurotypical workers superfluous.

“Our idea, and it was never utopian, it was always very concrete,” Wainstein said, “is that one day all neurotypicals will disappear, and they will take charge.”

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Staff take a photo at Alamesa restaurant in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 1, 2024. A popular restaurant in Buenos Aires is staffed almost entirely by workers with neurological challenges, tapping into often-overlooked talent and harnessing their skills. (Anita Pouchard Serra/ The New York Times)

Trump’s wish to control Greenland and Panama Canal: Not a joke this time

By DAVID E. SANGER and LISA FRIEDMAN

Earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump made clear that he has designs for American territorial expansion, declaring that the United States has both security concerns and commercial interests that can best be addressed by bringing the Panama Canal and Greenland under American control or outright ownership.

Trump’s tone has had none of the trolling jocularity that surrounded his repeated suggestions in recent weeks that Canada should become America’s “51st state,” including his social media references to the country’s beleaguered prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau.”

Instead, while naming a new ambassador to Denmark — which controls Greenland’s foreign and defense affairs — Trump made clear on Sunday that his first-term offer to buy the landmass could, in the coming term, become a deal the Danes cannot refuse.

He appears to covet Greenland both for its strategic location at a time when the melting of Arctic ice is opening new commercial and naval competition and for its reserves of rare earth minerals needed for advanced technology.

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World,” Trump wrote on social media, “the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.”

On Saturday evening, he had accused Panama of price-gouging American ships traversing the canal, and suggested that unless that changed, he would abandon the Jimmy Carter-era treaty that returned all control of the canal zone to Panama.

“The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous,” he wrote, just before an increase in the charges scheduled for Jan. 1. “This complete ‘rip-off’ of our country will immediately stop.”

He went on to express worry that the canal could fall into the “wrong hands,” an apparent reference to China, the secondlargest user of the canal. A Hong Kongbased firm controls two ports near the canal, but China has no control over the canal itself.

Not surprisingly, the government of

Vladimir Putin’s move was an act of “genius.”

Even now, as Trump seeks a deal to end the war in Ukraine, he has never said that the country’s borders must be restored, a key demand of the United States and NATO — he has only promised a “deal” to end the fighting.

Arctic experts did not dismiss Trump’s Greenland bid as a joke.

“Not that many people are laughing about it now,” said Marc Jacobsen, an associate professor at the Royal Danish Defense College in Denmark who focuses on Arctic security.

their own fate.

“We want to have all those territories proximate to our own mainland territory to protect us and also to prevent an adversary from using it to our strategic disadvantage,” Goodman said. “On the other hand, there is international law and international order and sovereignty, and Greenland is still a part of Denmark.”

When it comes to Panama, Trump may also hold a distant personal grudge.

Greenland immediately rejected Trump’s demands, as it did in 2019, when he first floated the idea. “Greenland is ours,” Prime Minister Mute B. Egede said in a statement. “We are not for sale and will never be for sale. We must not lose our long struggle for freedom.”

The Danish prime minister’s office was more circumspect, writing in a statement that the government was “looking forward to working with the new administration” and offering no further comment on Trump’s remarks.

After Trump brought up the Panama Canal again in a speech on Sunday, Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, said in a video that “every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zones is part of Panama, and it will continue to be.” He added: “Our country’s sovereignty and independence are not negotiable.”

But the president-elect’s statements — and the not-so-subtle threats behind them — were another reminder that his version of “America First” is not an isolationist creed.

His aggressive interpretation of the phrase evokes the expansionism, or colonialism, of President Theodore Roosevelt, who cemented control of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. And it reflects the instincts of a real estate developer who suddenly has the power of the world’s largest military to back up his negotiating strategy.

Trump has often suggested that he does not always see the sovereignty of other nations’ borders as sacrosanct. When Russia invaded Ukraine, his first response was not a condemnation of the blatant land grab, but rather the observation that President

Jacobsen noted that the reaction in Denmark to Trump’s latest bid had been one of fury (one Danish politician called it “an unusually strange way to be an ally”). But, he said, Greenlanders — who have long sought independence — may seek to use Trump’s interest as an opportunity to further strengthen economic ties with the United States.

Since 2009, Greenland has had the right to declare its independence, but the vast territory of about 56,000 people is still heavily dependent on Denmark and has never chosen to pursue that path. Trump’s interest could give Greenland an opening for more U.S. investments, including in tourism or rare earth mining, he said.

“Was it crazy when the U.S. acquired Alaska? Was it crazy when the U.S. built the Panama Canal?” asked Sherri Goodman, a former Pentagon official and a senior fellow with the Wilson Center Polar Institute, a Washington-based think tank.

Goodman, whose book “Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security” centers in part on the Arctic, said the United States did have a strong interest in ensuring that China in particular does not develop a strong presence in Greenland.

China’s ambitions in the Arctic have grown, and in 2018 it laid out plans to build infrastructure and develop shipping lanes opened by climate change. Goodman said the United States should continue to prevent China from gaining a foothold in the doorstep to North America, but said Greenlanders must decide

In 2018, Panamanian police officers ousted the Trump Organization from the Trump International Hotel in Panama City after a protracted legal battle between the president-elect’s family and the majority owner of the property. The Trump name subsequently came down. The company had held a contract to manage the property.

David L. Goldwyn, who served at the State Department under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, noted that Greenland has tremendous undeveloped natural resources, including more than 43 of the 50 so-called critical rare earth elements used to make electric vehicles, wind turbines and other clean technology.

“Certainly if Greenland chose to develop these resources, it would provide a significant alternative to China, although it is China’s capacity to process those minerals which gives it its current advantage,” he said.

But Goldwyn said that in addition to Denmark’s sovereignty, Trump might find that Greenland’s Indigenous communities do not want mining and resource extraction as much as he does.

“It is highly unlikely resource extraction could be forced on an unwilling population,” he said. “A more fruitful path might be to collaborate with the Danish government and Greenland’s population on ways to safely and sustainably develop those resources.”

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An iceberg in Narsaq, Greenland, Aug. 27, 2021. (Carsten Snejbjerg/The New York Times)

How to make the drone panic so very much worse

out “what the heck is going on.”

A former Maryland governor, Larry Hogan, shared a video of what he said “appeared to be dozens of large drones in the sky above my residence,” and denounced the “lack of transparency and the dismissive attitude of the federal government.” Donald Trump, canceling a trip to his New Jersey golf course, said the “government knows what is happening.” It sounded ominous.

All this speculation and innuendo is particularly infuriating because many of the facts of this mystery aren’t mysterious at all.

We don’t yet know what prompted the initial reports of drone sightings. Many were near a military base, raising the possibility that the unidentified objects belonged to the U.S. — or to someone else, even a hostile nation, that was trying to get an unauthorized look. That’s a very important distinction, to be sure. But the supposedly numberless swarms of drones that have since been spotted everywhere anyone looks are a different story.

The authorities could compile a quick database with dozens — maybe even hundreds — of these incidents, and make it available to the public, along with the refutations that they check and verify. That would be a big start.

Federal authorities — Homeland Security, the FBI, the White House, intelligence agencies — should have quickly responded with clarity, starting with reaching out to panicked politicians. Finally, on Tuesday, members of the House Intelligence Committee got a classified briefing on the topic. At this point, the public should also be told at least some of the details. Apart from all this, unauthorized drones are a problem, and there does need to be better regulation and technology to deal with them. Let’s hear about that, then, rather than this mindless dangerous panic.

Politicians from both parties — House Intelligence Committee, looking at you — should hold a news conference and transparently discuss the details of what’s known, and to admit to whatever real issues there may be, preferably today, before a real tragedy occurs.

By ZEYNEP TUFEKCI

In 1954, a few people in the town of Bellingham, Washington, reported seeing pits and dings on their windshields — perhaps the work of vandals. Roadblocks were quickly set up. This became front-page news in nearby Seattle, prompting people to rush to check their own windshields. Thousands then reported that they, too, had mysterious dings, in an everwidening area from Seattle to Vancouver, British Columbia. Panic quickly spread. People speculated that the cause might be cosmic rays, a radio transmitter in a nearby naval base, fallout from H-bomb tests or sand-flea eggs hatching in windshields. The mayor of Seattle begged for help from the governor and the White House. Motorists began stopping police cars to add their name to the list of the affected. Scientists were called in, Geiger counters whipped out.

The mysterious windshield pits of 1954 turned out not to be the result of vandals, aliens, radioactivity or sand fleas, but were instead the domain of mass human psychology. Examinations revealed that these were mundane, long-present imperfections, everyday wear and tear. It’s just that no one had bothered to notice them before, because who studies his windshield that closely?

A similar dynamic is playing out right now under the New Jersey sky. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of drone sightings have sent people in the area and far beyond into a state of high alarm.

The weak and ineffective response of government authorities should serve as a lesson in exactly how not to handle such incidents in the digital age.

Frustrated by a lack of clear information, citizen sleuths have been pointing lasers at unidentified objects in the sky, something the FBI has taken to begging people not to do. Joe Rogan amplified a theory that it all had something to do with a radioactive leak. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said new technology was needed to help local law enforcement find

Experts have been pulling their hair out trying to explain that they aren’t a cause for alarm, they’re the result of it. Because those unidentified objects are planes. Airplanes. Landing and taking off at Newark, one of the busiest airports in the country. Or they’re hobby drones that other amateur sleuths have sent up to get a glimpse of the phenomenon. Or they’re celestial bodies. Atmospheric scientists took a look at the lights that Hogan had spotted and quickly identified them as stars in the Orion constellation.

People find the simple explanation hard to believe for the same reason that people in Seattle did in 1954: because they had never before bothered to look that closely.

It’s fun to scare yourself sometimes, or to be a part of a massive multiplayer puzzle-solving effort evolving in real time. But things get un-fun very fast in this arena. Recklessly using lasers may well cause a real tragedy, including potentially downing an airplane with hundreds of people aboard. But why leave it to chance? Some politicians are already pushing for authority to preemptively shoot these objects out of the sky. How long before civilians decide to take a shot at some lights above that they misidentify as a drone?

Mass public panic requires an early and robust response from the authorities. Anything vague or mealy-mouthed just stokes the fire, and weakens people’s already thin trust in the government. The more our leaders panic, the more that people tune them out and become cynical, and the harder it becomes to get the public’s attention about the things that truly are alarming. Just look at what happened with COVID-19.

And though that’s always been true, it is especially so in the digital age. In the Seattle windshield panic, mainstream media outlets amplified people’s panic. In the internet age, ordinary people can perform that service, whether because they believe they have some crucial information to share or just because they want attention or engagement.

So what should the authorities have done? Aviation enthusiasts and atmospheric scientists have already been mapping reported sightings to existing planes or constellations.

Until then, we have people like state Sen. Doug Mastriano of Pennsylvania claiming that “it is inconceivable that the federal government has no answers nor has taken any action to get to the bottom of the unidentified drones.” Accompanying that statement, he posted a photo of a “crashed drone” being taken to “an undisclosed location for further investigation.” The item in question was a clearly recognizable TIE fighter from the movie “Star Wars.” He later said it was a joke.

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Ocean County Sheriff officers scan the night sky for drones at Island Beach State Park, in Lanoka Harbor, N.J., Dec. 13, 2024. No matter how many official voices declare there is no drone emergency, conspiracy theories continue to flourish. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)

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Buscan empresarios que quieren innovar sus negocios con enfoque en la sustentabilidad

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RÍOGRANDE – Empresarios y empresarias que quieran elevar e innovar sus negocios tendrán la oportunidad de participar a partir del 4 de febrero en el cuarto ciclo del programa de aceleración empresarial El Yunque Emprende de la organización sin fines de lucro, Vitrina Solidaria, informó su directora ejecutiva Raquel Skerrett Escalera.

La portavoz indicó que concretamente buscan empresarios y empresarias de los sectores de la gastronomía, el turismo sostenible, la producción local y la economía circular (reutilización de productos) porque son cónsonos con su filosofía de aportar a la economía solidaria y la sustentabilidad.

“Esta es una oportunidad única para comerciantes con deseos de mejorar sus negocios y crecer. Contamos con recursos expertos y un programa bien completo que es libre de costo. También tenemos el beneficio de horarios muy convenientes porque las personas interesadas pueden participar tomando la capacitación los sábados o los martes”, explicó la directora

ejecutiva.

Dijo que el programa consta de 64 horas de capacitación requeridas (primeras 8 semanas del programa) y 32 horas de prácticas complementarias opcionales. En el proceso se vincula la teoría y la práctica con resultados concretos que los y las empresarias autodefinirán durante los módulos. Los participantes desarrollarán un Canvas de Negocio Solidario y un Plan de Acción Anual. Tendrán acceso a mentoría, mentoría, coaching y experiencias empresariales para exponer sus productos y servicios, así como la oportunidad de usar las instalaciones que opera Vitrina Solidaria en Bosque.

Los módulos se ofrecerán en modalidad híbrida (asistencia virtual o presencial en La Sede Solidaria en El Portal del Bosque Nacional El Yunque, en Río Grande. Todos los participantes comenzarán la capacitación el martes, 4 de febrero en una sesión colectiva introductoria y a partir del sábado, 8 de febrero se dividirán en dos grupos para tomar las sesiones martes o sábados de acuerdo con el día de preferencia establecido. El horario será de 9:00 am a 5:00 pm en ambos días.

Los interesados deben tener 18 años o más, ser residentes activos en Puerto Rico y tener un negocio en cualquiera de sus municipios. Los participantes deben tener una idea de negocio completamente definida y lista para salir al mercado. Para solicitar, es necesario que las personas interesadas llenen un formulario en línea que se encuentra en el portal de la organización en el siguiente enlace www.vitrinasolidaria.org sobre El Yunque Emprende Programa de Aceleración Ciclo 4 2025. La fecha límite para solicitar es el viernes, 24 de enero de 2025.

En Guánica la primera Academia de Emprendimiento sin costo para sus ciudadanos

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Ramos anunció que el Municipio, en colaboración con las entidades PathStone, LISC y Rural LISC, han generado la primera Academia de Emprendimiento de Guánica, disponible sin costo alguno para los participantes.

“Este programa piloto forma parte de una iniciativa que tenemos nosotros en el Municipio como parte del programa de asistencia técnica de HUD y la Red de Socios Rurales (RPN) del USDA. Como ya hemos declarado previamente, este es el cuatrienio del desarrollo económico para Guánica”, señaló el

alcalde.

El objetivo principal de la primera Academia de Emprendimiento de Guánica es proporcionar las herramientas y los recursos necesarios a los residentes interesados en convertirse en pequeños empresarios y eventualmente lanzar exitosamente sus negocios en las comunidades guaniqueñas.

Las inscripciones cierran el viernes, 10 de enero de 2025. Los participantes que se registren serán evaluados por LISC y HUD.

“Los interesados deben acceder y registrarse en: https://app. smartsheet.com/b/form/f3846e971ce949169e501f1345f173b6. Estamos comprometidos en trabajar juntos para el desarrollo comunitario”, finalizó el alcalde Rodríguez Ramos.

Policía Municipal de San Juan activa plan de seguridad para la temporada navideña

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SAN JUAN – La Policía Municipal de San Juan ha puesto en marcha su plan de seguridad para la temporada navideña con el objetivo de reforzar la vigilancia y proteger a los residentes y visitantes de la Ciudad Capital. Como parte de esta iniciativa, se ha conformado un task force que agrupa diversas unidades especializadas para garantizar el orden y prevenir incidentes durante este periodo festivo.

“El compromiso de nuestra policía es proteger la vida y la propiedad de todos los ciudadanos. Queremos asegurar que las festividades transcurran en paz y que todos puedan

disfrutar de la Navidad con tranquilidad,” expresó el comisionado de la Policía Municipal, capitán Juan Jackson. Jackson añadió que el alcalde de San Juan, Miguel Romero, les solicitó una ampliación del plan para incluir tecnología de avanzada y reforzar la seguridad en puntos clave de la ciudad.

“El plan contempla el monitoreo de los lectores de tablillas para identificar vehículos hurtados. Utilizamos inteligencia artificial para capturar los datos y analizarlos en segundos. Los sensores están instalados en diferentes zonas del Municipio; 10 pertenecen al Municipio de San Juan y 7 al Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DSP), bajo

un acuerdo de colaboración. Nuestros patrulleros tienen acceso a esta tecnología a través de una aplicación móvil que emite alertas en tiempo real, o directamente desde el centro de mando de la Policía Municipal,” explicó Jackson.

Como parte de las medidas adicionales, se mantendrán servicios de vigilancia preventiva en La Placita de Santurce, donde la administración municipal ha instalado cerca de 30 cámaras de seguridad y 4 “call boxes” que permiten a los ciudadanos alertar de inmediato a la policía en caso de emergencia.

“Estamos reforzando el patrullaje preventivo en la zona turística de Condado y Calle Loíza, áreas de alta concurrencia durante esta época del año,” señaló Jackson.

Lin-Manuel Miranda on ‘Mufasa’ and the secret to a Disney hit

By SARAH BAHR

When director Barry Jenkins approached Lin-Manuel Miranda about writing the songs for “Mufasa,” Disney’s new photorealistic prequel to the 2019 remake of “The Lion King,” he was, to say the least, a little busy.

It was the summer of 2021, and Miranda had just finished writing the soundtrack for “Encanto,” also from Disney. He was editing his feature directorial debut, the Jonathan Larson biopic “Tick, Tick … Boom!” He was doing press — or about to — for those two movies, along with two more: “In the Heights” (the adaptation of his Tony Award-winning musical) and “Vivo.”

But Miranda, a longtime “Lion King” fan, knew that if he turned down Jenkins on “Mufasa,” he would regret it.

“I basically said to him, ‘I am in serious need of a nap, and I need to finish this movie. And if you can wait like six months for me, I think I can help you,’” said Miranda, 44.

Lin-Manuel Miranda on the carpet at opening night of Suffs at the Magic Box Theatre in New York, April 18, 2024. The “Hamilton” creator, who crafted the soundtrack for the new prequel to “The Lion King,” reflects on writing songs that have a universal appeal. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)

Jenkins could wait, it turned out. The resultant film (in theaters) includes seven songs written by Miranda, who is best known as the creator of the musical “Hamilton.” The movie tells the story of how Mufasa grew up and came to power before Simba was born.

Miranda wrote a romantic ballad, the Mufasa/Sarabi duet “Tell Me It’s You”; he crafted a villain song for Mads Mikkelsen’s white lion (“Bye Bye”); and dreamed up a rollicking number for Mufasa and his surrogate brother Taka that was inspired by the relationship between his own young sons (“I Always Wanted a Brother”).

In a video call last week from Austin, where Miranda — shorn of his famous goatee — was filming a cameo for a friend’s upcoming indie film, he discussed why he didn’t return for “Moana 2” and shared a peek into his songwriting process, including the life hack he learned from longtime Disney lyricist Howard Ashman. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q: Take me back to the moment in 2014 when you learned you’d landed the gig for your first Disney film, “Moana.”

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A: I had to audition for it — this was pre-“Hamilton.” I met with the directors, Ron (Clements) and John (Musker), who directed “The Little Mermaid,” and I said, “You guys are the reason I’m even sitting here talking to you, because Sebastian the crab sang a Caribbean calypso number, and it blew my tiny 9-year-old mind.” The day I got the gig was also the same day I found out I was going to be a father — I will never forget that Wednesday.

Q: Had you written for film before?

A: No. But Alan Menken and Howard Ashman were my heroes.

Q: Were you intimidated?

A: The first thing I did when I went to Disney Animation Studios in Burbank was to ask for any footage of Howard Ashman talking to the animators, because he taught them how Broadway songwriting works. They gave me a great DVD of him holding this master class, and explaining what each song in “The Little Mermaid” did and the purposes it served. That was incredibly humanizing and helpful.

Q: What was the process like?

A: Disney has these famous meetings where they’ll do a screening of the storyboards, and then they have this square table with all the people who are working on anything in the pipeline. Before my first meeting started, someone there said to me, “Everyone here is an animator. You’re the only composer here, so stand up for what songwriting can do.” And that was very empowering.

Q: What did you learn?

A: The first draft I wrote for “How Far I’ll Go” was a song called “More,” and it was just not specific enough. The thing Howard Ashman was so good at was writing lyrics that were so

specific that they became universal. The song “Part of Your World” works because Ariel’s looking for the human words the whole time. That’s the goal we’re chasing — the actual feeling of a train of thought.

So when I figured out “How Far I’ll Go,” any time she sings about the island, any time she spaces out for even a second, she’s back on the shore. She cannot help it; it’s like a compulsion. It’s not that she hates it and she has to leave; it’s that she loves it and still she leaves, which was just a little more nuanced.

Q: What is your songwriting setup like?

A: I write at home. I have a pretty opendoor policy. My kids wander in and out while I’m writing; they hear Daddy singing to himself or yelling at himself as Taka. My boys were a great source of inspiration for “I Always Wanted a Brother.” They’re constantly bouncing off the walls and driving each other crazy, but also would beat up anybody who ever threatened either of them. So that song was very easy to write.

Q: Do you test songs out on your family?

A: They’re the first audience for everything. So when I heard my 6-year-old singing, “I always wanted a brother,” I was like, “Great, we’re good.”

My secret weapon has always been my wife, who’s a lawyer. Her superpower is that she asks the questions that probe at the thing: “Well, why did they say that?” “Why did it end like that?” “Are you trying to say this, because that’s not what I’m getting.” She’s my best first audience because she’s very dispassionate about what she hears.

Q: You’ve said you didn’t return for “Moana 2” because Disney already had songwriters — the TikTok duo Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear — attached to the project, which had originally been developed as a TV series. How do you feel about writing for sequels in general?

A: I don’t know. It would have to be really compelling. I honestly haven’t even thought about it. We haven’t talked about any “Encanto” sequels.

Q: What did you think of the “Moana 2” music?

A: Those girls are so insanely talented, and I was really proud of them. My kids came home singing “Beyond,” like, on loop. It was wonderful to see their work.

Q: What’s next for you?

A: We released the album for “Warriors” in October, and people really like it, but because we’re such a visual culture, everyone said to me and Eisa (Davis, with whom he wrote the music), “OK, when can we see it?” So I think at the top of the year, Eisa and I will just start having conversations about how to adapt that to the stage.

And then I’m going to do “All In,” the new Simon Rich show, on Broadway for five weeks. I have not performed in a very long time. That will be really fun, and I’ll be surrounded by people a lot funnier than me. I’ll learn a lot.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR LILLIAM SORRENTINI

VÉLEZ; Y SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ÁNGEL

MATOS, T/C/C RAFAEL A. MATOS Y COMO RAFAEL MATOS COMPUESTA POR LILLIAM MATOS

SORRENTINI Y RAFAEL ÁNGEL MATOS

SORRENTINI PETICIONARIOS EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV02244. Sala: 207. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: PERSONAS

IGNORADAS / DESCONOCIDAS O QUE PUDIERAN TENER ALGÚN INTERÉS EN LA PROPIEDAD O QUE PUEDAN SER

PERJUDICADOS POR SU INSCRIPCIÓN:

POR CUANTO: La parte peticionaria por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo. Carlos L. Segarra Matos, con oficina en el # 2510 de la Carretera 100 kilómetro 3.5 en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico y dirección postal PO Box 582 Boquerón PR 00622, ha radicado una petición en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, solicitando la inmatriculación y el dominio en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico Sección de San Germán, del inmueble que se describe de la siguiente manera: RÚSTICA: Marcada en el plano de mensura aprobado por ARPE como solar número seis (6), porción de terreno compuesto de mil quinientos sesenta y seis punto cuatro cero uno dos metros cuadrados (1,566.4 4012 mc) equivalente a cero tres mil novecientas ochenta y cinco diezmilésimas de cuerda, localizado en el barrio Llanos Tuna del municipio de Cabo Rojo, colindando por el norte con terrenos propiedad de la sucesión de Francisco Asensio; por el sur con el camino Los Asensio de diez metros de ancho; por el este colinda con el solar número siete (7); y por el oeste con más terrenos de la sucesión de Francisco Asensio. Identificado de acuerdo al plano catastral con el número: tres tres dos guión cero nueve cero guión dos nueve seis guión cero uno guión cero cero cero (332-090296-01-000). POR CUANTO:

El tribunal ordena la citación de las personas arriba nombradas quienes surgen como colindantes, que pudieran tener algún interés en la propiedad o que puedan ser perjudicados por su inscripción para que comparezcan a formular alegaciones si así lo desean, dentro del término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la última publicación de este edicto. A tales fines, el edicto se publicará tres (3) veces en un periódico general de circulación diaria dentro del término de veinte (20) días. Se le advierte que, de no haber oposición, se dictará resolución concediendo lo solicitado. POR CUANTO: Expido el presente edicto en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de noviembre de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR LILLIAM SORRENTINI VÉLEZ; Y SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ÁNGEL

MATOS, T/C/C RAFAEL A. MATOS Y COMO RAFAEL MATOS COMPUESTA POR LILLIAM MATOS SORRENTINI Y RAFAEL ÁNGEL MATOS SORRENTINI PETICIONARIOS EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV02244. Sala: 207. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: EDGAR MATOS VARGAS, FELIBERTO ASENCIO Y/O CUALQUIER PERSONA EN POSESIÓN.

POR CUANTO: La parte peticionaria por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo. Carlos L. Segarra Matos, con oficina en el # 2510 de la Carretera 100 kilómetro 3.5 en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico y dirección postal PO Box 582 Boquerón PR 00622, ha radicado una petición en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, solicitando la inmatriculación y el dominio en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico Sección de San Germán, del inmueble que se describe de la siguiente manera: RÚSTICA: Marcada en el plano de mensura aprobado por ARPE como solar número seis (6), porción de terreno compuesto

de mil quinientos sesenta y seis punto cuatro cero uno dos metros cuadrados (1,566.4 4012 mc) equivalente a cero tres mil novecientas ochenta y cinco diezmilésimas de cuerda, localizado en el barrio Llanos Tuna del municipio de Cabo Rojo, colindando por el norte con terrenos propiedad de la sucesión de Francisco Asensio; por el sur con el camino Los Asensio de diez metros de ancho; por el este colinda con el solar número siete (7); y por el oeste con más terrenos de la sucesión de Francisco Asensio. Identificado de acuerdo al plano catastral con el número: tres tres dos guión cero nueve cero guión dos nueve seis guión cero uno guión cero cero cero (332-090296-01-000). POR CUANTO: El tribunal ordena la citación de las personas arriba nombradas quienes surgen como colindantes, que pudieran tener algún interés en la propiedad o que puedan ser perjudicados por su inscripción para que comparezcan a formular alegaciones si así lo desean, dentro del término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la última publicación de este edicto. A tales fines, el edicto se publicará tres (3) veces en un periódico general de circulación diaria dentro del término de veinte (20) días. Se le advierte que, de no haber oposición, se dictará resolución concediendo lo solicitado. POR CUANTO: Expido el presente edicto en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de noviembre de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G.

SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE ANGEL RAFAEL FIGUEROA NEGRON COMPUESTA POR ONYX FIGUEROA PEREZ; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03081. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE-

CA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 24 de octubre de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 1-4. Unidad de vivienda en el primer piso del Condominio Balcones de Bonneville, ubicado en la calle Ciprés de la Urbanización Bonneville Terrace del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 656.93 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 61.03 metros cuadrados. Colinda al Norte, en dos alineaciones en una distancia total de 36’ 7” con pared medianera que comparte con el apartamento 1-3 y pared medianera que comparte con el área del recibidor y escalera de uso común general; al Sur, en tres alineaciones en una distancia total de 36’ 7” con acera común general y área verde común general; al Este, en dos alineaciones en una distancia total de 21’ 5” con área verde común general y al Oeste, en tres alineaciones en una distancia total de 21’ 5” con área del recibidor y acera común general. La entrada principal del apartamento está localizada en el lado Oeste del apartamento, con acceso a ella desde la vía pública a través de la entrada peatonal al Condominio que está localizada en lado Este del edificio, con frente a la calle Ciprés, desde cuya entrada se discurre a través de una acera de uso común general que conecta al bajar un escalón con el área de recibidor ubicada en el lado Oeste del Edificio, que conduce a la entrada principal del apartamento, ubicada al extremo derecho del área del recibidor del primer piso, así como a través de la entrada vehicular del Condominio, igualmente localizada en lado Este del edificio, con frente la calle Ciprés, la cual da acceso al área de estacionamiento que está localizado por el lado Oeste del apartamento y que, a su vez conecta con la antes referida acera de uso común general y área de recibidor que conduce hasta la entrada del apartamento. Este apartamento está compuesto de un balcón, área de sala-comedor, cocina,

área de lavandería, dos dormitorios provistos de un closet cada uno y un cuarto de baño. A este apartamento se le ha asignado para uso exclusivo el área de estacionamiento identificado con el número 1-4. Esta área de estacionamiento no es privativa, ya que forma parte de un elemento común general. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de 4.167% en los elementos comunes generales del Régimen. Consta inscrita al tomo KARIBE, finca número 65425, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y 2 de mayo de 2024, notificada el 11 de junio de 2024 y publicada en un periódico de circulación general, The San Juan Daily Star el 18 de junio de 2024, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $60,994.28 de principal, 6.25% anual de intereses y $802.52 como segundo principal, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $942.82 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $65,169.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 21 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $43,446.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 28 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $32,584.50, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada

si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de noviembre de 2024.

EDGARDO ALDEBOL, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS. LEGAL NOTICE

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs.

ANA IRIS MEDINA

DIAZ POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

QUE DISPONE LA LEY; SUCESION DE PEDRO JOSE CUEVAS GUZMAN, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS GRISSEL CUEVAS MEDINA, PEDRO JUAN CUEVAS MEDINA E ILIANA CUEVAS MEDINA Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03231. (802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: ANA IRIS MEDINA DIAZ POR SÍ Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA

QUE DISPONE LA LEY; SUCESION DE PEDRO JOSE CUEVAS GUZMAN, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS GRISSEL CUEVAS MEDINA, PEDRO JUAN CUEVAS MEDINA E ILIANA CUEVAS MEDINA ; RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO Y/O SUCESOR EN DERECHO POR TENER HIPOTECA EN GARANTÍA DE PAGARÉS A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $6,500.00. Yo, EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 14 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Caguas durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 22

DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 29 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela radicada en el BARRIO CELADA del término municipal de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de DOS MIL DOSCIENTOS VEINTISEIS (2,226) DIEZMILESIMAS DE CUERDA. En lindes por el NORTE, en cuarenta y seis punto ciento seis (46.106) metros, con la parcela número Tres (3); por el SUR, en cuarenta y siete punto cuatrocientos sesenta y siete (47.467) metros, con la parcela número Uno (1); por el ESTE, en veinte punto quinientos noventa y cuatro (20.594) metros, con la Carretera número Novecientos Cuarenta y Cuatro (944); y por el OESTE, en trece punto seiscientos cincuenta y cuatro (13.654) metros, con terrenos de José de Calazana Rivera y en tres punto cuatrocientos veintidós (3.422) metros, con la parcela número Tres (3). Enclava una casa de hormigón y bloques de hormigón. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 180 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda, finca número 6,835, inscripción cuarta. Modificada la hipoteca por la suma de $78,200.00 relacionada en la inscripción 4ta. en cuanto a que se amplía la suma de $2,230.77, para un nuevo principal de $80,430.77, con intereses al 2.50% anual, por 60 meses, luego al 3.50% por 12 meses, seguido de un 4.50% por 12 meses, seguido de un 5.50%, por 12 meses más, luego al 6.125% hasta su vencimiento, el día 1ro. de marzo de 2053, según la escritura número 94, otorgada en San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, el día 8 de marzo de 2013, ante la Notario Público Laura Cristina Rivera Sorrentini, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda, finca 6,835, inscripción sexta. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es: Barrio Celada, Carretera 944, Gurabo, Puerto Rico. La Subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $73,502.20 de principal, incluyendo la suma de $2,327.14 de principal diferido, intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.125% anual, desde el día 1ro. de junio de 2021, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $7,820.00 estipulada para

a ejecutar y subastar se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes anteriores al que se ejecuta: 1) Según la inscripción 15., sobre la descrita finca se presentó la Escritura Núm. 4 sobre Hipoteca otorgada en Fajardo el 7 de mayo de 2018 ante el Notario Carmen Astacio Caraballo la referida finca se encuentra afecta a una primera hipoteca en la cantidad de $175,000.00 sin interés anual.

F. El remate y/o la subasta es en cobro de dinero en ejecución de la sentencia dictada en el presente caso que asciende a la suma de $183.050.00 por concepto de Principal, costas, gastos y honorarios según la sentencia dictada y se desglosa como sigue: A) Principal adeudado por el Pagaré: $175,000.00. B) Intereses legales pactados (6.5%) desde mayo 1 de 2018: $4,550.00. C) Costas del litigio: $1,500.00. D) Gastos de ejecución Regla 51.2 P.C.: $2,000.00. Total, adeudado a esta fecha: $183,050.00. G. Según la Orden y Mandamiento de Venta Judicial se harán formar parte de la venta judicial los intereses legales que se sigan acumulando desde emitida la sentencia hasta su total pago y solvento en su día. H. Conforme a la Orden y Mandamiento sobre Venta Judicial el remate a efectuarse es en cobro de dinero en ejecución de sentencia y se llevará a cabo a través del procedimiento que proveen las Reglas 51.2, 51.3 y 51.7 de Procedimiento Civil, razón por lo cual no será necesario establecer un precio mínimo (Justiprecio) para la primera y única subasta, según lo resuelto por el Honorable Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico en el caso: Arkel Ramón Sánchez Torres v. Fundación Dr. Manuel de la Pila Iglesias 2012 TSPR 130. La PRIMERA Y ÚNICA SUBASTA publica se celebrará el día 15 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 1:00 DE LA TARDE en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera lnstancia, Sala de VIEQUES. Para obtener más información en relación con la Subasta Pública aquí anunciada pueden comunicarse y/o visitar con cita previa durante horas laborables al Lcdo. Edmundo Ayala Oquendo, con los números telefónicos (787) 603-4277. Y PARA QUE ASí CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por el término de dos (2) semanas en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley. Expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 10 de diciembre de 2024, en Vieques, Puerto Rico. JORGE ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. NELIMAR M. PETERSON VÉLEZ, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #837. *** LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante V. ELIEZER LORENZO LÓPEZ POR SI Y COMO REPRESENTANTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FULANA DE TAL Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AG2024CV00684. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA - LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL. COM. A: ELIEZER LORENZO LÓPEZ, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 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 16 de diciembre de 2024. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 16 de diciembre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. JEFREY VÁZQUEZ

HERNÁNDEZ, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL

DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE Y JANE DOE Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV01526. (Salón: 507). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDREA CAROLINA CHAVES

FIGUEROA - ACHAVES@ ESQLEGALPR.COM. A: JEFREY VAZQUEZ

HERNANDEZ, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 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 16 de diciembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 16 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA

AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

JAIME HUMBERTO GUEITS ORTIZ

Demandante V. HOUSING INVESTMENT

CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: PO2024CV02722. (Salón: 601 CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ

EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVAMCOLON@WWCLAW.COM. A: HOUSING

INVESTMENT CORPORATION, JOHN

DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES DESCONOCIDOS.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de 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 18 de diciembre de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 18 de diciembre de 2024. CAMEN 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 SALA SUPERIOR DE LOÍZA RICHARD

DÍAZ MARRERO

Demandante Vs. DENISSE

SANTIAGO IBAÑEZ

Demandada

Civil Núm.: LO2024CV00150. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.

A: DENISSE SANTIAGO IBAÑEZ - LAKE WALES, FL 33859.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda sobre liquidación de comunidad de bienes. Habiéndose ordenado la publicación de un Emplazamiento por Edicto para emplazarlo a usted, durante el término que establece la Ley, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. POR ESTE MEDIO, se le emplaza por Edicto y requiere a usted, la parte demandada, para que notifique a la LCDA. JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS, RUA 15736 y al LCDO. RICARDO M. PRIETO GARCÍA COLEGIADO NÚM. 13,710, a su dirección PO BOX 889, FA-

JARDO, PR 00738, Tel. (787) 860-0875, y/o a su email: josephine.rodriguez@gmail.com y oficina@prietolawoffice.com, con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Demanda en este caso dentro de los treinta (30) días, contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. 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, sin más escucharle, ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA, y el sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 19 de noviembre de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ

RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA DE FAJARDO WANDA

ROLDAN SALDAÑA

Demandante V. CARLOS DE JESUS ET ALS

Demandado CIVIL: CE2022CV00035. COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: RAFAEL ROLDAN RODRIGUEZ - LA COSTA APARTAMENTO J-B CALLE LAS PALMAS CEIBA P.R.; EDMUNDO AYALA OQUENDO

Nombre del abogado de la parte demandante 8072

Número ante el Tribunal Supremo P.O. BOX 1135, Fajardo PR 00738 Dirección (787) 603-4277 Teléfono edmundoayala129@gmail.com Correo electrónico

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Adminis-

tración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicialpr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal el 11 de diciembre de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ZULMA I. RIVERA VEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO SAMUEL FORES RAMOS

Demandante

ROSITA MERCADO RIVERA

Demandada CIVIL: FA2023RF00282. Sobre: (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: ROSITA MERCADO RIVERA - 169 CALLE

IGUALDAD, FAJARDO

P.R. 00738; EDMUNDO AYALA OQUENDO Nombre del abogado de la parte demandante 8072

Número ante el Tribunal Supremo P.OBOX 1135

Fajardo PR 00738

Dirección (787) 603-4277

Teléfono: edmundoayala129@gmail.com Correo electrónico POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema

Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo

mi firma y sello del tribunal el 1 de mayo de 2024. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NORANGELY RIBOT AGUIAR, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

YOSELIN

CALDERON ALVIRA Peticionaria EX PARTE

Civil: FA2024CV00473. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: Las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitado, a los tengan en la finca descrita más adelante cualquier derecho real, a los organismos públicos afectados, y en general, a todo aquel que desee oponerse a la Petición. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha radicado una petición sobre expediente de Dominio ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico sala Superior de Fajardo bajo el número del epígrafe que puede afectar sus derechos. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es: Lcdo. Edmundo Ayala Oquendo P.O. Box 1105 Fajardo 00738 Teléfono: 787-603-4277 edmundoayala@gmail.com

A través de la petición el peticionario de epígrafe solicita a este Tribunal que declare a su favor la Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio sobre el predio de terreno objecto de la misma para ser reconocido como adquirido y ocupado por el peticionario. Esta notificación se hace a tenor con lo provisto por el Artículo 185 de la ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 (30 LPRA 6221). La descripción de la finca objecto de la presente Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio. RÚSTICA Solar radicado en el Barrio Quebrada

Vueltas de Fajardo de l término Municipal de Fajardo, con cabida superficial de mil coma trescientos cincuenta y nueve punto setenta noventa y cinco (1,359.0795) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto trescientos cuarenta y seis (0.346) cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, con camino vecinal de la comunidad, por el Sur con Doña Iraida Carrillo, por el Este con solar de María Febres Ayala, y Ricardo Falú por el Oeste con Calle vecinal de la comunidad. Catastro es 178-038003-06-000 y un tiene un valor aproximado de $25,000.00 dólares. Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique este edicto en un

periódico de circulación general para que aquellos que deseen oponerse así lo hagan ante el Tribunal notificando al abogado del peticionario referido en este Edicto. Los interesados contarán con el término improrrogable de 20 veinte días a partir de la (3) tercera publicación de este edicto para comparecer ante el tribunal para alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Se le advierte que de no comparecer al Tribunal para expresarse, el Tribunal podrá dar curso a los remedios solicitados por el Peticionario. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico hoy 10 de junio de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHIA FERRER FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYAMA LOURDES SANCHEZ LOPEZ; YOLANDA SANCHEZ LOPEZ; ENRIQUE SANCHEZ LOPEZ; WANDA SANCHEZ LOPEZ Demandantes V. ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ NARVAEZ Y MYRNA IRIS RIVERA ORTIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Y COMO PARTES INDISPENSABLES LOS OTROS MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION ENRIQUE SANCHEZ RECIO COMPUESTA POR ENRIQUE SANCHEZ CAMACHO; IVONNE SANCHEZ MARCHAND, ENRIQUE SANCHEZ MARCHAND Y LA SUCESION DE JEANNETTE SANCHEZ MARCHAND COMPUESTA POR LETTY MARCHAND Demandados Civil Núm.: GM2024CV00752. Sala: 302. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ENRIQUE SÁNCHEZ CAMACHO, IVONNE SÁNCHEZ MARCHAND, ENRIQUE SÁNCHEZ MARCHAND Y LA SUCESIÓN DE JEANNETTE SÁNCHEZ MARCHAND COMPUESTA POR LETTY MARCHAND. El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Guayama, dictó

la siguiente providencia: “ORDEN; Vista la solicitud sobre publicación de edictos y la Demanda Enmendada que fuera debidamente radicada el 30 de septiembre de 2024, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria y Cobro de Dinero y vistas las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal ORDENA que se expida por el Secretario el correspondiente Emplazamiento por Edicto para citar a los demandados, Enrique Sánchez Camacho, Ivonne Sánchez Marchand, Enrique Sánchez Marchand y la Sucesión de Jeannette Sánchez Marchand compuesta por Letty Marchand, por medio de publicación en un periódico de circulación diaria general, publicándose dicho edicto una sola vez. Se exime a la parte demandante de cumplir con el requisito de enviar a la parte demandada una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto par correo certificado con acuse de recibo, debido a que a pesar de las esfuerzos razonables realizados, dirigidos a encontrar una dirección física o postal de la parte demandada, no ha sido posible localizar dirección alguna de la parte demandada.” Los demandados deberán contestar la demanda dentro de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. REGÍSTRESE Y NOTIFÍQUESE. DADA en Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 09 de diciembre de 2024. Se le notifica que, de no contestar, o alegar en contra de la demanda radicada en este caso, previa notificación del demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, contados desde la publicación del edicto se anotará rebeldía, sin más citarle ni oírle, y oída la evidencia del demandante, el Tribunal dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado. El abogado de la parte demandante lo es la Lcda. Anne-Marie Galanes Valldejuli con dirección postal: 528 Chalets de la Playa, Vega Baja, PR 00693-9788. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal para su publicación, hoy 10 de diciembre de 2024. En Guayama, Puerto Rico. MAYRA ALICEA ANAYA, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL INTERINA. LUZ MARÍA GUZMÁN SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

JUANA CLICEIDA

PIMENTEL VALDEZ

Demandante V. CARMELO MARTINEZ PRADO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2022CV01577.

(Salón: 205). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. NILZA V. MALDONADO ROQUENILZAMALDONADO@GMAIL.COM. A: CARMELO MARTÍNEZ PRADO, ROSA MARTÍNEZ PRADO, EDITH MARTÍNEZ PRADO, JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ PRADO, ALICIA MARTÍNEZ PRADO, ÁNGEL MANUEL MARTÍNEZ PRADO, JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE Y JANE DOE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE CONCEPCIÓN MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ, NARCY V. MARTÍNEZ PIMENTEL, CANDIDO MARTINEZ JR T/C/P CÁNDIDO MARTÍNEZ ALVARADO, MARCO MARTINEZ, T/C/P MARCO MARTÍNEZ ALVARADO; 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 25 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 12 de diciembre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A FINES DE AÑADIR PARTE. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 12 de diciembre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante V. JOSÉ RAFAEL

GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE Y JANE DOE Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AR2024CV00515. (Salón: 402 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ANDREA CAROLINA CHAVES FIGUEROA - ACHAVES@ ESQLEGALPR.COM.

A: JOSÉ RAFAEL

GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 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 18 de diciembre de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 18 de diciembre de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

LUZ DEL CARMEN

MORALES ABADIA

Demandante Vs. DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Y/O RICHARD ROE

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV03681. 804. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

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

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, posibles tenedores del pagaré extraviado. Se le notifica por medio del presente edicto que se ha presentado en este tribunal una demanda en solicitud de cancelación de un pagaré extraviado a favor de DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, o a su orden, por la suma $78,400.00, intereses al 5.95%, vencedero el 1 de marzo de 2035, suscrito ante el Notario Público Julio Francisco Fernández Rodríguez, según surge de la escritura número 331, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 de febrero de 2005, inscrita al folio #134 del tomo #1685 de Juncos, finca #53,651, inscripción 5ta, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera, sobre la siguiente propiedad: APARTAMENTO #E-203 DEL EDIFIClO “CLUSTER A”. URBANA PROPlEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial identificado con el #E-203, localizado en la segunda planta del “Cluster A” del Condominio Turabo Clusters, sito en la Avenida Principal del Barrio Cañabón de Caguas. Puerto Rico, el cual tiene una cabida superficial de mil ochenta y seis punto ocho mil setecientos cincuenta (1,086.8750) pies cuadrados, equivalente a CIEN PUNTO NOVENTA Y SIETE (100.97) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el NORTE, con el elemento exterior, en treinta y un pies y seis pulgadas (31 ‘6”); por el SUR, con el elemento exterior, la pared del pasillo y de la escalera en treinta y un pies y seis pulgadas (31’ 6’’) por el ESTE, con el elemento exterior y la pared medianera del apartamento F-201, en cuarenta pies (40’); y por el OESTE, con el elemento exterior, la pared de la escalera, el pasillo y las escaleras que dan acceso de entrada y salida al apartamento, al edificio, al condominio y vía pública, en cuarenta pies (40’). La puerta principal de entrada de este apartamento se encuentra localizada en su colindancia Oeste. Consta este apartamento de sala-comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios, dos (2) servicios sanitarios y balcón. A este apartamento le corresponde como elemento común limitado dos (2) espacios para estacionamientos separados uno del otro que acomodan un (1) vehículo de motor cada una. Estos espacios para estacionamiento se identifican con la letra del “Cluster” donde se encuentra sito el apartamento y el número de este. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio de 0.4495%. Finca #53,651, al folio #145 del tomo #1737 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Primera. Por la presente se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de 30 días contados

a partir del diligenciamiento del emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Deberá enviar copia de su alegación responsiva a la abogada de la parte demandante, cuya información es la siguiente: Lcda. Lisdaira Serrano Martínez RUA 17356 1250 Ave. Ponce de León San José Tower Ste. 710 San Juan, PR 00907 Iisdairaserrano@gmail.com Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del tribunal, hoy 3 de diciembre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs. JUAN L. APONTE BERMUDEZ Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2024CV01589. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JUAN L. APONTE BERMÚDEZ - URB. EL COMANDANTE, 361 CALLE KELLY, CAROLINA PR.

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

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Luka Doncic wants young players to embrace ‘mess and joy’

By TANIA GANGULI

Luka Doncic was 13 when he moved from his native Slovenia to Spain to play for Real Madrid. He didn’t know English or Spanish, but he could speak basketball fluently, and the expectations of a storied professional organization hung over him.

But it was fun for him, even with that pressure, the same way it is now that he has become one of the NBA’s brightest stars, playing for the Dallas Mavericks.

He has noticed that it’s not like that for many players in youth programs around the world, a number of whom have quit basketball while still in adolescence.

“The kids are, I think, a little bit stressed,” Doncic said in an interview.

So this year, his foundation, which debuts this week with a focus on making sports an enriching part of children’s lives, hired a research organization called Nonfiction to study youth basketball in the Balkans and the United States. Over five months, researchers conducted in-depth interviews with dozens of coaches, players, parents, trainers and other basketball experts. They also surveyed more than 1,200 parents of youth basketball players and immersed themselves in eight basketball camps and training centers. They collected letters from children who wrote about the sport’s importance to them.

The researchers found that youth programs in the Balkans focused on the team more than the individual. They also found that when Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s, much of the government support for basketball in that region disappeared. The corporations that filled the void through sponsorships sometimes put pressure on teams to win, which led some coaches to pay less attention to player development and emphasize winning over everything else.

In the United States, researchers found a basketball culture that was intense and able to produce the biggest stars in the world, but

that encouraged viral highlights on social media over true development. A quarter of the American parents surveyed said youth basketball was more about making money than about teaching children.

“I don’t know very many 25-year-olds who invest in research projects, but that’s how important it was to him,” said Lara Beth Seager, executive director of Doncic’s foundation. She added, “It was really important to him that we do research and find out where can he help, where can we have the biggest impact and make the greatest change.”

With Doncic’s input, researchers created a list of principles they felt youth basketball programs needed to be able to help children develop in healthy ways, physically and emotionally. The principles include “team-first mentality” and “program continuity.” Seager said they added “embracing mess and joy” when Doncic, who is known for his creative playmaking ability, insisted.

Doncic is also convening a group of current and former players to create a youth sports council. The group includes NBA star Stephen Curry and former NBA greats Pau Gasol, who grew up in Spain; Dirk Nowitzki, who is German; Steve Nash, who was born in South Africa and raised in Canada; and Tracy McGrady, who entered the league straight out of high school. Sabrina Ionescu, a WNBA star who plays for the New York Liberty, will join them, as will Bill Duffy, Doncic’s agent, and Igor Kokoskov, an assistant for the Atlanta Hawks, who has coached the Slovenian men’s national team.

Doncic recently spoke with The New York Times about this initiative and how he remains joyful, even in a multibillion-dollar industry. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q: What made you want your foundation to focus on youth basketball?

A: Because basketball meant so much to me. I mean, it still means a lot. I just want to give the kids the same experience I had, be-

Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic warms up during a game against the Washington Wizards at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Jan. 24, 2023. Doncic says he sees “a lot of pressure out there” for young basketball players, “especially with all the social media going on. I think there’s too much based on highlights.” (Jake Dockins/ The New York Times)

cause basketball changed my life for better. I learned so much from it. Courage, experience, passion.

Q: In the letter you wrote at the beginning of the report, you said you had seen how children were losing the joy and the magic of basketball. How did that come across your radar?

A: There was a lot of pressure out there, especially with all the social media going on. I think there’s too much based on highlights. So I think that, at the end of the day, I just want to bring back the joy and fun for the kids. Like I had, you know. After I went to school or after school, I went out to play basketball. And that was the best thing that I ever did. You know, I just had fun. Enjoy it.

Q: Did you ever experience the pressure being a little stressful when you were younger?

A: Specifically for me, going that early to Madrid when I was 13, it was pressure. But I had joy playing basketball. I had joy going to Madrid. It was fun for me. So that’s the main reason I want to do this, because there’s always

going to be people watching. And I just want them to have fun and not think about what other people think, and just enjoy the game.

Q: Does being a professional basketball player make it harder to find the joy in it, since this is your job?

A: No, I wouldn’t say so. It’s even more joy now. Always my dream was to get to the highest level of playing, the highest level of basketball, and just stay focused on the journey. And I do this every day. And as a young kid, it’s all I wanted to do every day.

Q: What is it about the game that brings you joy right now?

A: I don’t see it as a job. I see it as joy having fun out there. Obviously, there’s going to be struggles. When you lose the game, when you play bad. But that’s all part of the process. And it’s fun to be challenged with things.

Q: Even the criticism is part of what makes it fun?

A: For me it is. There’s always going to be, because criticism, especially nowadays, we’ve got a lot of social media going on. But I would just say we use this as motivation.

Q: Does the MVP race give you joy? Is that something that you strive for and that is fun for you?

A: Obviously. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be MVP of the NBA? But for me, the first thing is always championships. You know, last year was so close. So that’s one thing I use as motivation, too, always.

Q: Is there something about learning how to recover from losses that you have found has been valuable for your personal life?

A: I mean, yeah, of course, especially big losses. The first couple of days are kind of tough, and you just think about what could we do differently. And then just forget about it, and then just move on and learn from the things you did wrong, and try to get better. I would say it’s same in basketball as in personal life.

Q: The researchers collected journal entries from children who play basketball. Did you read them?

A: Yes.

Q: What did you think of those letters?

A: I think one conclusion of all of this is how much the game means to them and how they love to play it. And that’s what brought my attention the most. That’s why the whole point of this is just to get the kids to play basketball or have fun and not do anything else the moment they’re on the court, so they can really enjoy and be relaxed in it.

The San Juan Daily Star

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