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Fajardo mayor laments death of 7-year-old struck and killed while playing in yard on Christmas Day
By THE STAR STAFF
Fajardo Mayor José Aníbal “Joey” Meléndez Méndez expressed his solidarity with the family of a 7-year-old boy who was run over and killed on Wednesday while he was outside a residence on Medusa Street in the Las Croabas neighborhood of the northeastern coastal municipality’s La Roca sector.
The mayor described the incident as regrettable and made himself available to the family for any help the municipality could provide them in this challenging moment.
“The people of Fajardo and all of Puerto Rico are in mourning, with the sad and lamentable departure of Diego José Aponte, the seven-year-old boy who lost his life [Wednesday], and in a very sad incident, and at this moment I can only ask for a lot of strength from […] God, to have that family in our prayers, which I know are those of Fajardo and of all of Puerto Rico,” Meléndez said. “I tell you it is a regrettable incident; there are no words to describe it.”
“But in this moment of intense sadness, I tell you that love, that the memories of that child fill the hearts of that family, are my most sincere wishes, my words of strength for them, and I hope at some point in the day, together with the emergency management personnel and the municipal police, to stop by, visit them, put at their disposal, all our work team, psychological help that we have, social workers, pastors,” the
mayor continued. “It is sad, I tell you, this is about them, it is their family that is suffering, it is that child, but to see it as an incident close to them and to that family, two days ago, his grandfather, Diego José’s grandfather, who works in a public housing project in Fajardo, with the housing administrators who work and who administer that housing project, and we were at a toy distribution, on December 23, and he was helping us in the line with the other children.”
“I tell you, the things that go through one’s mind now, like this very sad news, that I even imagined, playing with those toys that we sent them, and that happens now,” Meléndez said.
On Christmas Day, a driver reported as being in his 80s lost control of his car and hit the child while he was in the yard of a residence.
The child was taken to a hospital, where the doctor on duty certified his death. The driver stopped at the scene and is cooperating with authorities, the police said.
The boy’s mother, in tears, recounted the distressing moments.
“We were at a relative’s house, cleaning up the yard, and Santa Claus brought him one of those yard blowers,” the young woman said. “When I told him: ‘Diego, I’ll be right back,’ I went out and saw [an SUV] coming up, it seemed like it was going to visit the people who were there too. But instead of braking, it accelerated, and Diego was stuck between a Tacoma and the car. Everyone tried to get him out quickly … we were able to get him out, I gave him CPR, but he couldn’t hold on.”
Agents from the Fajardo Region Highway Patrol Division, along with the prosecutor on duty, on Thursday were investigating the events to determine the complete circumstances of the accident.
Man struck and killed on Christmas night in Canóvanas
Also on Wednesday, a man died after being run over at about 11:45 p.m. on highway PR-3 in front of the Villas de Loíza urbanization in Canóvanas.
According to the police report, a call was received through the 9-1-1 Emergency System about a collision involving a vehicle. The driver of a gray 2012 Toyota Corolla was traveling in the direction of Río Grande from Canóvanas when, upon reaching the entrance of the development, he hit Edwin Meléndez Santana, 66 years old, a resident of Río Grande.
Meléndez Santana died at the scene. The driver of the vehicle stopped at the scene and was given an alcohol test with a negative result.
Personnel from the Carolina Region Highway Patrol Division were investigating the incident on Thursday.
Governor-elect provides details of inauguration activities
By THE STAR STAFF
Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón has organized a town party in Old San Juan to celebrate her inauguration, featuring performances by local and international artists, including Natti Natasha.
The party, which is slated to start at 2 p.m., will not be funded with public money and will take place at the Plaza del Quinto Centenario, also known as Totem Plaza. Other performers include Algarete, DJ Playero, Joseph Fonseca, Bri La Pelúa, DJ Nelson, Alberto Stylee, Rey Pirin, Ranking Stone and Grupo Manía.
The inauguration ceremonies will take place on Thursday, Jan, 2. They will begin at 8 a.m. with a Mass at Santa Teresita Church on Loíza Street in Santurce, which will be open to the general public.
Early in the morning, several activities will be held at the Capitol, such as the swearing-in of the members of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the governor’s Cabinet. After that the cancellation of the pictorial stamp by the United States Postal Service will take place.
Outside the Capitol, on the north side (facing the sea), the swearing-in ceremony for the governor will take place at 10:30 a.m. It is also open to the public.
The governor will then walk from El Capitolio to La Fortaleza, and later join the town party.
A group of musical artists including Ana Isabel, Gisselle, Manny Manuel, Celinés, Lourdes Robles, Juan Vélez, Adeán Cabán Butter, Luna and Hilda Ramos will be part of
the morning protocol event, directed by maestro Cuco Peña. Parking for the general public will be available at La Puntilla, Doña Fela, and Paseo Portuario. There will be transportation from the Tren Urbano station at stop 26 in Santurce.
On Wednesday, Jan. 1 at 6 a.m. the police assigned to the Capitol will make the initial closure of Avenida Constitución, diverting traffic to Paseo Covadonga at the exit of the Treasury Department. Likewise, Luis Muñoz Rivera Avenue will be closed at the intersection of Rev. Gerardo Dávila, diverting traffic to Avenida Constitución and Paseo Covadonga. At 4 p.m., the Field Operations Superintendency will extend Avenida Constitución’s closure at the height of Plaza Colón, diverting traffic to the Tapia Theater. Luis Muñoz Rivera Avenue will also be closed at the Esteves (Guardia Nacional) intersection. Police will divert traffic to Avenida Constitución.
On Thursday, Jan. 2, starting at 4 a.m., Highway Patrol will close Luis Muñoz Rivera Avenue at Paseo Caribe, diverting traffic to Manuel Fernández Juncos Avenue. In addition, Fortaleza Street will be closed, diverting traffic to Tetuán Street. Cross-street closures will be made from San Francisco Street to Fortaleza Street.
Motorized personnel will be in charge of local traffic on Paseo Caribe and the Caribe Hilton Hotel; Traffic will be diverted on San Agustín Street. Traffic on Paseo Covadonga will be restricted starting at 4 a.m.
The Puerto Rico Police Bureau said residents will be informed about the traffic control plan for vehicle access to Old San Juan on a continuing basis through official social media.
Business group opposes inclusion of Walgreens in Vital pharmacy network
By THE STAR STAFF
Entrepreneurs for Puerto Rico (EPPR by its initials in Spanish), a nonprofit organization representing business leaders committed to the economic and social development of the island, opposed the possible inclusion of Walgreens in the pharmacy network Plan Vital, the government-sponsored health plan, and warned of “the contractual, regulatory, and public policy risks.”
EPPR President Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp noted that in the public hearings held as part of the of the government transition process during the first weeks of December, Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López and Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration (ASES) Executive Director Roxanna Rosario Serrano confirmed that the current pharmacy network, which is made up of 943 pharmacies distributed throughout the island, adequately meets the needs of the Plan Vital beneficiaries.
“There is no documentation or justification required by contract that establishes that the pharmacy network is poorly served,” Pacheco Beauchamp said. “This network has been designed under strict local and federal standards, guaranteeing adequate and continuous access to health services for vulnerable beneficiaries of the Vital Plan.”
The businessman also shared EPPR’s main concerns regarding the possible inclusion of Walgreens as a pharmacy provider within the Vital Plan network.
He said the inclusion of Walgreens could violate current contracts because it would alter the contractual terms between ASES and the pharmacy benefits manager (PBM), Abarca Health, which would put the stability of the network at risk.
Elliot Pacheco Beauchamp, president of Entrepreneurs for Puerto Rico
The Vital Plan network, Pacheco Beauchamp said, was designed to guarantee adequate and sustainable access, principles that could be compromised if providers are added without adequate
justification and documentation, as stipulated in the current contract.
He also charged that Walgreens has faced multiple accusations of fraud, including a fine this past September for $106.8 million for violations to the False Claims Act in the Medicaid and Medicare programs. He said such a history of fraud and abuse represents a significant risk to the integrity of the health system in Puerto Rico and the continuity of federal funds that are scheduled to expire in 2027.
“Contracting with fraudulent entities or those accused of fraud puts the Medicaid program at risk and [makes it] precarious,” Pacheco Beauchamp said.
The EPPR, through its president, urged the Transition Committee to “… strongly reject and denounce any external pressure that seeks to distort a network that adequately complies with local and federal laws and regulations.”
“The history of fraud allegations [involving] Medicaid and Medicare programs that federal authorities have made against Walgreens raises doubts about its commitment to public health,” Pacheco Beauchamp said. “… The government’s public policy must focus on eradicating fraud, using and protecting federal funds, and promoting transparent administration.”
Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón
LMM Airport sets record, surpassing 13 million passengers
By THE STAR STAFF
For the third consecutive time, Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) broke the record for travelers in one year by welcoming the 13 millionth passenger with a celebration on Thursday by airport management company Aerostar Puerto Rico, the airport community and island tourism authorities.
The airport will close 2024 with a new record, after a record-setting year in 2023. The passenger who raised the number to 13 million users this year was 41-year-old Andrea Krimmel, who arrived on the island with her family on Delta Air Lines flight 1883 from Atlanta.
“We are celebrating an important moment for Aerostar, for the airport community, and for the entire tourism industry on the island,” Aerostar President Jorge Hernández said in a written statement. “Reaching the historic mark of 13 million passengers in one year is the result of sustained growth over the past few years. It is a reflection of the work of our team, of the thousands of employees who make up the airport community, and of the different members and sectors of an industry that drives the development of Puerto
The record-setting passenger was greeted by officials who presented her with various gifts, to the sound of Christmas rhythms played by a group of pleneros.
Rico on a daily basis.”
Puerto Rico Tourism Company Executive Director Carlos
Mercado Santiago added that the sustained growth in air access gives the agency the confidence to continue adding new routes and increasing frequencies, ensuring that the trend continues in the coming years.
“This new record demonstrates the positive impact of commercial relations with airlines that continue to see our island as an ideal destination to continue growing their operations,” he said.
The flight was greeted at around 11:35 a.m. with a welcome ceremony, known in the aviation industry as a “water salute,” which consists of the formation of an arch with jets of water launched from two fire trucks toward the plane. The ceremony, which is performed on special occasions, was conducted by Aerostar’s Aircraft Rescue Firefighters team, and could be witnessed by the public through the windows of Terminal B overlooking the taxiway, adjacent to the runway.
Upon leaving, Krimmel was greeted by officials who presented her with various gifts, to the sound of Christmas rhythms played by a group of pleneros. Among the gifts was a check for $1,300 from Aerostar, Puerto Rican liquor and crafts from airport concessionaires, and a Global Lounge membership.
By THE STAR STAFF
Thirty-eight Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) employees who were denied early retirement have sued the water utility for emotional distress and lost income in federal court.
According to a civil lawsuit filed recently, each employee is seeking $1 million for emotional distress and between $59,144 and $251,797 in actual loss of retirement income when they were denied early retirement after the Financial Oversight and
Management Board ordered PRASA to modify its early retirement program.
Puerto Rico enacted Act 80, which allowed employees to take early retirement. The lawsuit states that the program allowed employees to retire with 50% of their current pay as retirement benefits instead of 38% when they turned 65.
The oversight board blocked it, arguing that the commonwealth hadn’t budgeted for the cost.
On Dec. 20, 2021, the board filed an adversary proceeding against Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and others within the Title
III bankruptcy process of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to stop the implementation of Act 80. After several procedural matters, the employees were eventually declared essential and were not allowed to access the benefits and retire.
“Plaintiffs had and have a property interest in the early retirement process,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants conspired with each other and decided not to allow plaintiffs to take early retirement.”
The name of the case is Velez v PRASA, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico on Dec. 18.
PRASA employees sue for denial of early retirement Resolution to study hydrogen vehicles to be filed in House
By THE STAR STAFF
Rep. José Aponte Hernández announced Thursday that as part of the upcoming legislative agenda, he will be filing a resolution to study the viability of promoting the sale of hydrogen vehicles in Puerto Rico.
“The sale of vehicles run on hydrogen has gained a type of peak during recent years,” the veteran legislator said in a written statement. “Our aim is to investigate the feasibility of promoting the sale of these vehicles in Puerto Rico. For this we have to study the market, the infrastructure that exists to support these vehicles compared to electric vehicles, and the availability to the consumer, among other aspects.”
Hydrogen vehicles are run by an electric motor that uses a hydrogen battery. They have a marked advantage
over electric vehicles, including a range of 600 miles on one charge.
Recharging the battery in a hydrogen vehicle takes five minutes, in comparison with the average 35-minute charging time for electric vehicles.
“The market for hydrogen vehicles is singular,” Aponte said. “In the continental United States sales have been going down since there are only two factories and only two models. Also, the lack of infrastructure for recharging is another factor. But in Europe and Japan in the second quarter of 2024, sales increased by 18 and 55 percent, respectively. What we are looking for is to see if we can sell these vehicles on the island in good numbers.”
According to available data, 18,740 hydrogen vehicles had been sold in the United States during 2024 as of Nov. 20.
A person fuels their Toyota Mirai at a hydrogen fuel pump in Torrance, Calif., Oct. 22, 2020. The lack of refueling infrastructure for hydrogen vehicles, along with the cars’ high prices, has held them back in the mainland U.S. An island lawmaker said he will file a resolution to study the viability of promoting the sale of the vehicles in Puerto Rico. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
Assist or resist: Local officials debate Trump’s mass deportation threat
By TIM ARANGO and HAMED ALEAZIZ
The San Diego region, like many communities that hug the southern border, saw a sharp drop in migrants entering the United States after the Biden administration made it harder to apply for asylum.
But thousands of newcomers who had crossed the border haven’t been forgotten, and even as many of them made their way to other corners of the country, some remain in and around San Diego, still undocumented.
Now, with President-elect Donald Trump pledging to carry out mass deportations, leaders in San Diego have been weighing how far to go in trying to protect people vulnerable to deportation and how much local law enforcement should cooperate with federal agents.
Such discussions are unfolding around the country after Trump won back the White House promising to curb immigration and tighten up border security.
But few places have been seeing the debate play out as dramatically as San Diego County, which sits on California’s border with Mexico, and where for a few weeks this year, the number of crossings was higher than in Texas and Arizona.
After Trump’s victory, the Board of Supervisors for San Diego County moved to bolster protections for migrants by requiring federal agents to obtain a judicial warrant for any immigrants in the country illegally that they want to pick up from a local jail, banning any investigative interviews by immigration officials inside jails and prohibiting the use of county resources for immigration enforcement.
But even in a state with some of the strongest shields for immigrants lacking permanent legal status, San Diego County was ratcheting up the fight over immigration enforcement, and the new protections drew swift and pointed criticism.
And it wasn’t just the Trump administration’s designated border czar who denounced the warrant mandate. San Diego’s own sheriff, who oversees the county jails, said she wouldn’t enforce the requirement.
The pushback by the county’s top law enforcement officer, who, like a majority of the county supervisors, is a Democrat, underscored emerging tensions over immigration even among officials who not long ago might have seemed more closely allied.
In what appears to be another sign of the friction in San Diego, the chair of the Board of Supervisors, Nora Vargas, said on Friday that
It’s easier and safer for ICE to arrest people at jails than on the streets, and the agency can round up far more people that way than it can by arresting people in homes and workplaces or on the street.
Arulanantham said requiring a judicial warrant is consistent with due process and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
And in the case of detainees whose sentences had been completed, a warrant would be the only lawful way to hold them until ICE could pick them up, Arulanantham said. “I definitely think that a detainer or transfer of somebody without a warrant after their sentence is over violates the Fourth Amendment.”
It is unclear how the conflict between the sheriff and the Board of Supervisors will play out. Local immigration advocates argue that the state’s law, known as the California Values Act, requires law enforcement to also abide by local policies on immigration.
she was stepping down, just weeks after being reelected. “Due to personal safety and security reasons, I will not take the oath of office for a second term,” Vargas said on social media.
The issue of how much local jails cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement has long been top of mind for federal officials. The cooperation, however, will be key for the Trump administration’s efforts to increase deportations.
When an immigrant is arrested and fingerprinted, the information is transmitted to ICE. Once ICE learns that an immigrant is in custody, federal officials often send requests — known as detainers — for the local jail to notify them well before an immigrant is to be released, so federal agents can take them.
In four of the last six fiscal years, ICE officials have issued more than 100,000 such requests (the numbers plunged for two years during the pandemic). Through the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years, during the Trump administration, ICE sent out more than 300,000 such requests.
Deportations have been carried out under every modern president, and it was under Barack Obama, a Democrat, that the debate over so-called sanctuary cities really took off.
But it is Trump’s pledge to carry out mass deportations that has plunged local
governments ever deeper into the debate over immigration enforcement, said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law. “I think people feel the weight of it more because most people think Trump can’t accomplish quote unquote mass deportation without extensive cooperation with state and local governments.”
In saying she would not enforce San Diego’s new requirement, the county sheriff, Kelly Martinez, said in a statement that, “While protecting the rights of undocumented immigrants is crucial, it is equally important to ensure that victims of crimes are not overlooked or neglected in the process.”
Martinez said she does support the state law that limits cooperation with federal immigration authorities. It allows for the transfer of prisoners being held in connection with certain crimes from ICE once they are eligible for release.
Under the Biden administration, the number of people transferred from San Diego jails to ICE custody has declined sharply. Last year, 25 people were transferred to ICE after serving time for crimes such as grand theft, murder and drug trafficking. By comparison, in 2017 San Diego transferred 1,143 people, according to the sheriff’s department.
In a letter to the sheriff, Ian M. Seruelo, chair of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium, said, “We hope that your statement was a mere misunderstanding on your part of the full scope of the California Values Act, and not a flagrant disregard for state law, our democratic processes and our constitutional rights.”
In an interview, Seruelo, who is also a practicing immigration lawyer, said that any coordination between local law enforcement and immigration agents harms public safety because it makes immigrants less likely to report crimes or cooperate as witnesses. “A lot of families here in San Diego have an undocumented member,” he said. “If that level of trust is diminished toward local law enforcement, it will discourage many San Diegans from reporting crime or from accessing county resources or services.”
The lone dissenting vote on San Diego’s Board of Supervisors came from Jim Desmond, a Republican, who said there already are protections for immigrants reporting crimes or dealing with the local police, who are barred from asking about immigration status.
“So we’re talking about people that have already committed the crime, they’ve already been tried for the crime and convicted and sentenced and they are in our jails,” he said. “And so this has nothing to do with reporting, doesn’t put anyone in jeopardy for reporting. All this does is allow our sheriffs to let ICE know that these people are in our custody and when they are going to get out.”
Migrants at a transit station in San Diego, May 23, 2024. With the incoming administration promising to tighten up the border and carry out a wave of mass deportations, there are growing divisions among local and state officials about how far to go in cooperating with federal immigration agents to round up those living in the United States illegally. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times).
Subway burning highlights difficulty of identifying homeless victims
By MIHIR ZAVERI
More than three days after a woman was fatally burned by another passenger inside a subway train on Coney Island, officials have not yet been able to confirm her identity.
Police have charged a man, Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, with murder in the Sunday morning attack. They believe he set the woman’s clothing on fire while she was sleeping on the train and she died from the burns and smoke inhalation, in a gruesome incident caught on cellphone video.
The struggle to identify the woman, whom authorities believe was homeless, underscores how difficult it can be to gather information about people who may not have permanent addresses or personal
documents. But in this case, there is an added complication: The horrific way the woman was attacked may be making her identification even harder.
“It just adds another level to a tragedy,” said David Giffen, executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless. “At this point, we still don’t even know who she was and she can’t be mourned.”
The medical examiner’s office confirmed Wednesday that the woman had not yet been identified and that the investigation was continuing. The Brooklyn district attorney’s office, which is investigating the case, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
Joseph Giacalone, a retired New York police sergeant and an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
said burns can make simple methods of identification — using facial features, or fingerprints — difficult or impossible. That means investigators have to rely on dental and DNA analysis, or see if the victim had any surgeries that match known medical records.
People who are homeless might not carry wallets, pocketbooks or documents with clear identifying information, Giacalone said. Even if there was some documentation available, investigators would need to try to verify that it was accurate, he said.
People without steady homes may also be transient and have lived in other states. Even if the woman was a local, she could be from anywhere in the city: The train she was found on — the F train — runs from Coney Island, at the southern tip of Brooklyn, up through Manhattan and then east into outer Queens.
Finding people in the homeless community who might have known her would be difficult across such a vast geography, he said. They might have had negative interactions with authorities in the past, and they could be reluctant to help with the investigation, he added.
Finally, Giacalone said, even after authorities think they have confirmed the woman’s identity, they would need to find
a way to contact relatives to notify them of her death before publicly identifying her.
“This could go on for quite a while,” he said.
The attack, which seemed to contribute to fears among some New Yorkers that the transit system is not safe, took place while the subway train was stationary at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station.
Authorities said Zapeta-Calil, who has been charged with first-degree murder and arson, is expected to plead not guilty in the coming weeks. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
The woman did not seem to know Zapeta-Calil, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Giffen said both the woman’s death and the trouble in identifying her reflected how people who are homeless often “fall through the cracks.” He said the situation also underscored people’s broader lack of interaction with, and empathy toward, those who are homeless.
“It’s OK to ask somebody their name,” he said, adding that “we can’t forget our humanity as a city.”
“The fact that nobody knows who this woman is,” he said, “is the saddest story I can imagine during the holidays.”
Investigators at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in Brooklyn, Dec. 22, 2024, More than three days after a woman was fatally burned by another passenger inside a subway train on Coney Island, officials have not yet been able to confirm her identity. (Dakota Santiago/The New York Times)
Delays grow after American Airlines grounds US flights over technical issue
By LYNSEY CHUTEL, CHRISTINE CHUNG and HANK SANDERS
Thousands of travelers trying to make it to their loved ones for the holidays were stuck at airports through much of Tuesday after American Airlines briefly grounded all its flights in the United States because of a technical issue and bad weather made those delays worse.
The worst of the troubles were centered at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, which is American Airlines’ largest hub and is one of the country’s busiest airports.
The travel problems began Tuesday morning when systems that are needed to release flights malfunctioned because of what American said in a statement was a vendor technology issue. Then came the weather: A system of storms that prompted a flood warning moved into the Dallas area and hundreds of flights were delayed even after the technical issue was resolved about an hour later.
By Tuesday night, only 15% of American Airlines flights at Dallas Fort Worth had departed on time, according to Cirium, an aviation data company. And earlier, the airline requested a ground stop for flights headed to the airport. That stop lasted for over four hours, until about 8:30 p.m.
The thunderstorms caused average departure delays of more than two hours at Dallas Fort Worth for most of the day but began to decrease to just over an hour Tuesday night, according to FlightAware, an aviation tracker. For many, the wait was much longer.
“The 7-hour — and counting — adventure of rescheduled and delayed flights has resulted in me spending more of Christmas Eve
at the DFW Pizza Hut Bar than with my wife, waiting for me in Tucson,” said Desmond Zantua, 35, of Queens, New York, who had a layover in Dallas.
The customer service line, Zantua added, went on “forever.” Later, the pilot on his flight “timed out,” and then his flight to Tucson was canceled, stretching his travel to 18 hours — and counting.
For those planning to travel on Christmas Day through the airport, the Dallas-Fort Worth region was expected to have cloudy but otherwise calm weather. On Thursday, travelers passing through the airport after the holiday face the
possibility of more thunderstorms, according to the National Weather Service’s forecast.
It was not immediately clear Tuesday night when the airline and the airport expected to clear all delayed flights.
It was also not known what exactly caused the original technical issue. In a statement, the airline said that it had experienced an issue with vendor technology that affected the systems needed to release flights.
The ground stop caused by the technical delay lasted only for an hour, but it came on what was expected to be a record period for holiday travel. Tens of millions of people
Passengers near an American Airlines check-in counter at Newark Airport in Newark, N.J., on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. Flights were grounded for about an hour on Christmas Eve, one of the busiest travel days of the year, before the airline restored its systems. But heavy delays are expected. (Dakota Santiago/The New York Times)
fly during the period from mid-December to shortly after New Year’s Day. The FAA had said it expected more than 31,000 flights on Christmas Eve.
American is the largest carrier in the United States by number of seats, according to OAG, an aviation data provider. It had more than 3,300 domestic flights scheduled Tuesday and 581 international departures, according to Cirium.
Some passengers took the problem in stride. Mary Hardy, 64, was waiting at Dallas Fort Worth for her flight to Newark when the delay was announced. She said she was disappointed, but acknowledged that mishaps were to be expected during holiday travel.
“We should have known flying out Christmas Eve that something could happen,” she said. “You just have to be prepared.”
The disruption also came during a rocky year for the aviation industry. In July, a flawed software update issued by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike led to a global technology outage, affecting many businesses, including airlines. At least five U.S. airlines — Allegiant, American, Delta, Spirit and United — grounded all flights for a time, according to the FAA.
In December 2022, bad weather forced several airlines to cancel many flights on Christmas, but Southwest Airlines struggled for much longer than its competitors. It took days for Southwest to restore operations as it grappled with technical and other problems, including an inability to efficiently get crews to where they were needed. The meltdown stranded an estimated two million passengers and cost Southwest more than $1 billion, including lost revenue, refunds and reimbursements.
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Dealmakers see return of more, bigger megadeals in 2025
Top Wall Street CEOs and dealmakers are anticipating an uptick in larger mergers and acquisitions under the incoming Trump administration, after such megadeals evaporated this year due to a harsher regulatory environment.
On Tuesday, Trump named Andrew Ferguson to replace Lina Khan as the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, appointing a current Republican member of the agency who has promised to ease up on the policing of large tie-ups.
“There hasn’t been a single deal over $40 billion in 2024 and if you go back in history, there are usually a handful of them that are above $40 billion. The era of the large deal is certainly not dead - and we would expect to see some of those transactions come back in 2025,” said Tom Miles, global head of M&A at Morgan Stanley, in a panel at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York.
Wall Street executives have so far cheered the prospect of business-friendly regulations and are anticipating a burst of deals next year, as Donald Trump’s return to the White House is likely to significantly ease some regulatory pressures that dealmakers faced under the Biden administration. On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said dealmaking in equities and M&A could exceed 10year averages next year.
In an early sign of increased optimism, more than $40 billion worth of M&A transactions were announced in the U.S. on Monday, including the $13 billion tie-up between Madison Avenue advertising giants Omnicom and InterPublic Group.
“There is an expectation that Trump is going to perhaps follow the Reagan era of the 1980s and he’s going to go first on (reducing) taxes, which will be a boost to corporate earnings. The next step would be around tariffs, immigration policy, as well as deregulation. So all of that really does provide tailwinds to an economy that’s already very strong,” said Michal Katz, Mizuho’s Americas head of investment and corporate banking.
While the near-term outlook for M&A activity has brightened significantly, investment bankers and deals lawyers flagged the impact of policy uncertainty, protec-
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tionism, and inflationary pressures under Trump as potential headwinds for the business of corporate dealmaking.
Further cuts in U.S. interest rates are expected to benefit buyout firms, after a spike in financing costs during the last two years made financing leveraged buyouts more expensive and big deals hard to clinch.
The private equity industry is sitting on roughly $4 trillion of capital that is yet to be deployed and dealmakers anticipate a surge in buyout volumes
next year.
“What we saw happening in the second part of the year is the return of private equity transactions. The third quarter had the highest volume of PE-backed transactions since the second quarter of 2022,” said Katz.
Global M&A volumes stood at $3.2 trillion during the first 11 months of 2024, up from $2.76 trillion during the same period last year, according to data provider Dealogic.
Dealmaking activity in also expected to get a nearterm boost from inbound acquisition interest from foreign buyers for high-growth U.S. companies.
Mpox is spreading in Congo’s capital, threatening global efforts to contain the virus
By STEPHANIE NOLEN
Mireille Efonge got sick a few months ago, with a fever and painful blisters on her groin. She became too weak to move, so neighbors carried her to a health center with walls of plastic sheeting in Pakadjuma, a crowded, poor community in Kinshasa, Congo’s capital.
There, a nurse called an ambulance to take her to a hospital. Soon lesions broke out on her head and the rest of her body, each one a hard nub of throbbing pain.
Finally she was given a diagnosis: Mpox. “I’d never heard of it,” Efonge said.
This was back in August, when the mpox virus — closely related to smallpox — was still almost unknown in Kinshasa, a city of 17 million people.
Some researchers now recall that time almost wistfully, because it might still have been possible then to fence in the mpox virus, to fend off disaster.
That window has probably closed, they say.
The detection of a new, fast-spreading strain of the virus in a remote mining town in eastern Congo led the World Health Organization to declare mpox a global public health emergency in August. Since then, its spread has only accelerated.
The virus is taking hold in crowded camps home to millions of displaced Congolese, who live crammed into rough shelters with limited access to water. And it has reached Congo’s cities, including its enormous, congested capital.
Belated efforts to control mpox in Kinshasa — by isolating patients and vaccinating their contacts — have been halting and haphazard, far outpaced by the speed of the virus’s spread and change.
Congo’s response to the emergency has been choked by bureaucracy; clinicians and others involved say privately that their leaders are locked in fights over access to an influx of international funds. The effort has been complicated by the country’s vast size and feeble infrastructure, and by the weakness of its health care system, whose workers are poorly and rarely paid.
A much-hyped vaccination campaign is unfolding at a glacial pace. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sit in freezers,
A 7-month-old in Mugunga camp, eastern Congo, Nov. 16, 2024. (Victoire Douniama/The New York Times)
unused. Half of those infected are children, but not a single child has been vaccinated.
Only a fraction of mpox cases are confirmed with laboratory analysis. Few contacts of sick people are traced. And nowhere is the effort less effective than in Kinshasa, where two strains of the virus are now mingling within a particularly vulnerable population.
Mpox has historically been a rural disease in Congo, causing sporadic small outbreaks, mostly infecting children in isolated communities in the thick forest in the center and west of the country.
The current health crisis began a year ago, when researchers identified a mysterious new strain of the mpox virus that seemed to be spreading through heterosexual sex in a mining town in the far east of the country. They named it Clade Ib to distinguish it from the version that had been known and studied in Congo since 1970, Clade Ia.
Since then, Clade Ib has spread to six more African countries and turned up in travelers in the United States, Canada, Thailand, Sweden and other nations.
In Congo, it has helped drive mpox cases to a record high of 53,000 this year, more than triple the number in 2023. About 1,250 people have died of the virus this year.
In Kinshasa, Clade Ib, which is thought to be more contagious, has taken root in Pakadjuma, where many women make a living by selling sex to customers from all
over the city.
The virus’s spread in Pakadjuma’s narrow alleyways has drawn a response far less robust than that for mpox outbreaks in other parts of Congo. Yet it poses a significant threat to the people who live there, to the rest of the country and to the world beyond.
Pakadjuma, just 6 miles from the gleaming offices of the National Institute for Public Health, sits behind high walls built to shield a railway line. The walls hide ditches of open sewage, scrap-metal shanties and children playing barefoot in muddy lanes.
Cases of the endemic strain were reported in the neighborhood for the first time last year. Many residents come and go from Équateur province to the northeast, where the virus has long circulated. And now the new strain is in Pakadjuma, too.
“When we analyze the genomes, we can see that Pakadjuma is a hot spot. It’s where you see both clades circulating,” said Dr. Placide Mbala, who heads the epidemiology division of Congo’s National Institute of Biomedical Research and runs its pathogen genomics laboratory.
The community is a crowded, unplanned science experiment.
“We don’t know, but I can speculate and say this can lead to a virus capable of more sustained human-to-human transmission,” Mbala said. He added that it’s a “matter of time” until a patient ends up infected with both strains.
And those patients will be people like Efonge, who supports her children by selling sex. She and her neighbors are among the most marginalized in the country, with the least access to medical care. “If the virus seeds in this population it would be difficult to get rid of it,” Mbala said.
Vaccination against mpox finally began in Pakadjuma in early December, four months after the United States offered Congo
a first donation of 50,000 vaccines. Vaccinators conducted two of a planned 10 days of immunizations; as of Friday, they had offered the shots to only a few hundred sex workers and health workers.
More than 385,000 donated mpox vaccines have arrived in Congo and at least 700,000 more are awaiting shipment. But the country had administered just 53,000 shots as of last week.
“Are we satisfied? Not at all,” said Dr. Ngashi Ngongo, who oversees the mpox response for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which is coordinating vaccine distribution throughout the continent. Congo will need to use the shots it has before the country can be allotted more doses, he said.
Six months into the epidemic in Kinshasa, the mpox response center in Pakadjuma offers just two services to people who think they may have the virus. A nurse can swab their lesions and send the sample away for testing, or call an ambulance to take the very ill to one of two treatment centers.
At Vijana hospital, patients are crammed five or six to a room in a small two-story brick building. Infection control practices are imperfect, with masks, gloves and gowns changed haphazardly. A doctor caught the virus from a patient and spent weeks hospitalized, needing supplemental oxygen.
On a recent morning, a woman came to the Pakadjuma center for testing. She moved slowly with a distinctive walk that’s familiar in the neighborhood — her thighs held wide apart to try to keep any of the skin in her groin from touching. When she lay down in the tent, a nurse, Bébé Bola, dabbed at lesions on her
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vulva with a testing swab; the woman let out a ragged, high-pitched scream.
Bola tried to convince the woman to go to the hospital, but she was unwilling to leave the community — a response Bola encounters every day.
“This is their village, where their family can come — somewhere else, they will be alone,” she said. Patients fear they will face judgment and scorn as residents of Pakadjuma. So they refuse the hospital transport.
“We can’t force them,” Bola said. “If we could keep people here we might control the epidemic — but for
now, we let them leave and the disease circulates.”
Sex workers in Pakadjuma normally see about five customers in a typical night, when music thumps out of speakers with heavy bass. Colored lights guide the way to busy houses. But business has fallen off as word has spread about the virus.
Increasingly, the patients are children infected by their mothers (the virus can spread through touch and shared blankets).
Bureaucratic wrangling continues to stall a first shipment of 50,000 doses of a Japanese-made vaccine called LC16, the only immunization for this virus approved for use in children. Japan offered Congo 3 million doses
of the vaccine in August. It may arrive in the next few weeks.
Getting children protected will take more than the vaccines: Unlike the shot used for adults, LC16 must be delivered with a special two-pronged needle that punctures the top layer of the skin. Japan is donating an initial supply of the needles, but Congo’s health workers must be trained in using them; this method has not been used in decades.
The vaccine comes in a 250-dose vial that must be discarded six hours after opening; Congo’s vaccination programs have not shown the ability to administer the doses in that time frame.
Syria’s new leaders try to unite rebel factions under a single government
By ADAM RASGON
Syria’s new leadership has taken steps to try to unite disparate rebel factions under a single government, the latest move to try to assert authority over the country in the wake of Bashar Assad’s ouster.
A number of rebel factions have agreed to dissolve themselves and be integrated under the Defense Ministry, according to SANA, the Syrian state-run news service.
Beyond dissolving rebel factions, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the offensive that overthrew the Assad dictatorship, has taken other actions recently aimed at building a new state. His administration has appointed a caretaker prime minister to lead a transitional government until March and has promised that a legal committee would draft a new constitution.
Disbanding the country’s armed factions was a logical step for a leadership trying to establish a single national military.
“They are trying to build a state,” said Dareen Khalifa, a senior adviser at the In-
ternational Crisis Group, which researches global crises. “You can’t build a state while you have a million and one militias running around doing their own things.”
Khalifa, who met al-Sharaa this week, said she was under the impression that dissolving the rebel factions was a top priority for Syria’s new leaders because “wayward factions” were acting outside their command in parts of rural Syria.
Amid the efforts to disband rebel factions, there were scattered clashes and outbursts of violence.
The Syrian Military Operations Command said it was conducting a security operation in the city of Homs against forces with the former regime that had fired on civilians.
A curfew was imposed on Homs; Tartus, a major Syrian port city on the Mediterranean coast; and Latakia from 8 p.m. Wednesday to 8 a.m. Thursday.
The agreement to unite the rebels was reported Tuesday. Pictures posted on social media the same day showed al-Sharaa meeting with dozens of rebel faction leaders, many of them clad in military uniforms.
Al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has participated in official meetings recently wearing a business suit rather than a military uniform. Since his faction, Hayat Tahrir alSham, routed Assad, he has presented himself as more of a statesman and less of a rebel leader, and has espoused relatively moderate political positions despite past links to Islamist extremists.
On Sunday, he said at a news conference that the
Members of the Christian Scouts of the St. George’s Syriac Orthodox church march through the streets in the Bab Touma neighborhood under the watchful eye of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham fighters in Damascus, on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2024. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
“logic of a state is different from the logic of a revolution.” He spoke standing alongside Turkey’s foreign minister, Hakan Fidan.
“We absolutely will not allow for weapons outside the framework of the state,” alSharaa said, adding that he was referring both to rebel groups and to a Kurdish-led militia, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, who are separate from the rebels.
The Syrian Democratic Forces control an autonomous region dominated by Kurds in northeastern Syria, while the rebel groups hold sway in other parts of the country. A rebel alliance with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the lead helped topple the Assad dictatorship.
The SANA report said all rebel factions signed on to Tuesday’s unity agreement. But The New York Times was not able to independently verify that. The Syrian Democratic Forces did not appear to have signed on.
Farhad Shami, a new media official with the Syrian Democratic Forces, said his group
wasn’t opposed in principle to being integrated into a new Syrian military, but the matter required discussions with the new leaders in Damascus, the Syrian capital, without the intervention of regional powers.
He said the Syrian Democratic Forces would like to speak with their counterparts in Damascus about fighting the Islamic State group, writing a new constitution that guarantees the rights of all Syrians, holding elections and forming an inclusive government.
The Kurdish-led force has been battling the Islamic State in Syria for years with U.S. military backing. Neighboring Turkey is hostile to the Kurdish force, viewing it as an extension of a Kurdish group in Turkey that has been fighting the Turkish state for decades.
On Wednesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said Kurdish forces in Syria must either put down their weapons or “be buried.”
Blake Lively turns the shame around
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Actor Blake Lively worked with me on a 2015 PBS documentary exploring sex trafficking in the United States. She was shaken by what we found, deeply compassionate toward survivors and willing to look unflinchingly at an ugliness that many avert their eyes from.
The villains then were easy to spot: brutes who raped, sold and enslaved underage girls. In the real world, it’s more complicated. Predators can hold glamorous jobs, present themselves as feminists and be celebrated for their roles empowering women.
That’s the situation Lively describes in an explosive legal complaint that she filed Friday against Wayfarer Studios, maker of her recent film “It Ends With Us.” She alleges that after she protested sexual harassment by Justin Baldoni, her co-star and the film’s director, the studio retaliated with a PR smear campaign against her. Lively also names Baldoni and several public relations experts in the suit.
Ironies abound. The film is in part about how men get away with mistreating women around them. As my New York Times colleagues noted in a must-read article, Baldoni was honored this month at an event heralding men who “elevate women” and “promote gender equality.” And he reportedly has described himself as a feminist and has said things like, “Let’s just shut up and finally listen to the women in our lives.”
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Lively alleges that Baldoni added sexual content and gratuitous nude scenes to the film and treated women disrespectfully. During a childbirth scene, the filing says, the studio allowed “nonessential crew to pass through while Ms. Lively was mostly nude with her legs spread wide in stirrups and only a small piece of fabric covering her genitalia.” Among the nonessential people who showed up, she says, was a Wayfarer co-chair.
“Ms. Lively became even more alarmed when Mr. Baldoni introduced his ‘best friend’ to play the role of the OB-GYN,” the complaint states. It adds that “the selection of Mr. Baldoni’s friend for this intimate role, in which the actor’s face and hands were in close proximity to her nearly nude genitalia for a birth scene, was invasive and humiliating.”
Lively’s complaint says that executives entered her trailer uninvited when she was undressed, ogled her when she was topless, asked intimate questions and commented inappropriately on various women involved in the film.
Text messages and emails obtained by Lively’s lawyers through a subpoena suggest that Wayfarer organized a social media campaign to preemptively discredit her, for fear that she would speak up about her claims. “We can bury anyone,” boasted a crisis management expert hired by the studio, in an exchange about her.
Wayfarer and Baldoni strongly deny the allegations. “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations,” a lawyer for the studio said in a statement to the Times. After she raised initial concerns, Wayfarer agreed to provide an intimacy coordinator and added other safeguards.
What is clear is that Lively faced a surge of online negativity last summer, with The Daily Mail asking if she was about to be canceled and suggesting that her star might be forever tarnished. Sales of her hair care products fell.
Even in an age when wild lies and deepfakes catch fire on social media, it’s a little scary to think that a few PR professionals could manage to undercut one of America’s best-known celebrities so successfully, swiftly and effortlessly. If “social manipulation,” as the internal messages referred to the apparent campaign, can damage a famous person like Lively, is anyone safe? As one of the people hired by Wayfarer put it, “People really want to hate on women.”
I suspect that the last thing Lively wants is for us to be discussing people leering at her while she was naked. This suit prolongs the humiliation. But the only way to end impunity is to speak up.
In a very different context, in France, Gisèle Pelicot spoke out after her husband arranged for dozens of men to rape her while she was drugged. “The shame must change sides,” she said, and of course, she was right: The shame lies with the rapists, not with their targets. And while what Lively faced is not the same, it’s also true that on a movie set or anywhere else, the stigma and humiliation should fall on the abusers, not the abused. That’s the only way forward, and it happens when people step forward and file suits with painful details.
Justin Baldoni receives an award for being an ally to women in New York, Dec. 9, 2024. A legal filing has since accused him of harassment and retaliation against the actress Blake Lively. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
We don’t know all that happened on the set of “It Ends With Us,” and Baldoni and the studio executives have a right to be heard. More will emerge as this case proceeds.
The online campaign against Lively suggested that she was a diva and difficult to work with. All I know is that during the collaboration with Lively on the documentary, “A Path Appears,” by Show of Force, I found her authentic, delightful and committed. She wanted to use her stardom to help others who needed the attention more, such as survivors of human trafficking. She wanted to use her celebrity to help chip away at misogyny and oppression.
She was particularly moved by the courage of women who shared harrowing accounts of being trafficked. “I just have so much admiration and respect for these women, for opening up and telling their stories,” Lively said at the time. “Because it makes me think, if that happened to me, would I have the courage?”
Then she said something that shapes how I see her in this moment. Speaking of the trafficking survivors we met, Lively said: “They don’t want to hear, ‘You’re so inspirational,’ because that implies you’re a victim. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to be an inspiration. I just want to be a woman. I just want to be an equal.’”
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Los Reyes llegarán primero a Morovis
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– La alcaldesa de Morovis, Carmen Maldonado González informó que la tan esperada Fiesta de Reyes para los niños residentes en Morovis y sus familias se celebrará el sábado, 4 de enero de 2024 en la plaza pública Juan Evangelista Rivera desde las 2:00 de tarde.
“Como ya es tradición en nuestro pueblo, los Reyes Magos recibirán a todos los niños residentes en Morovis y sus familias para juntos conmemorar la Epifanía.
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VIEQUES – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, junto al secretario del Departamento de Salud, Carlos Mellado, realizaron el jueves una visita de inspección a las instalaciones del nuevo Hospital de Vieques, donde anunciaron importantes avances en la construcción de este centro médico vital para la comunidad, así como la firma del contrato para el desarrollo del proyecto de hospedaje para el personal médico.
“El Hospital de Vieques ha sido siempre uno de nuestros más importantes proyectos prioritarios, al cual le hemos destinado recursos, tiempo y esfuerzo para asegurar su culminación. Sin duda, ha sido un camino largo, pues todas las cosas que valen la pena toman tiempo y dan trabajo. A todos los viequenses les digo, aquí está su hospital; ya está casi listo. Lo pueden ver, pues ya no es un sueño,
Tendremos música durante toda la tarde de ese sábado y el Show de Super Mario, los personajes de los videojuegos que son bien populares entre los niños con sus historias y acrobacias”, señaló la alcaldesa.
La actividad contará con dulces, popcorn, algodón de azúcar y la presencia de los Reyes que distribuirán sorpresas entre los asistentes. Aunque esta antigua tradición, se celebra en todo el mundo, sobre todo en los países hispanos, en Puerto Rico, tiene un significado cultural que trasciende sus raíces religiosas. El Día de Reyes es considerado como una de las principales ce-
es una realidad. Mi compromiso con Vieques ha sido firme desde el primer día. Hemos trabajado de la mano con el alcalde para crear un Plan de Desarrollo Económico a largo plazo, le hemos apoyado con fondos ARPA, se concretaron acuerdos con el Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas para la pavimentación de carreteras y mejoramos significativamente la transportación marítima”, expresó el primer ejecutivo en declaraciones escritas.
Durante la actividad, el mandatario estuvo acompañado del director ejecutivo de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Infraestructura, Eduardo Rivera y el director ejecutivo del Cor3, Manuel Laboy.
El gobernador explicó que el proyecto del hospital se desarrolla en tres fases. La primera fase, que incluye la Unidad de Diálisis junto con su estacionamiento y el Cuarto de Mecánica y Electricidad, está próxima a completarse. La segunda fase, que abarca la sala de emergen-
lebraciones durante la temporada navideña.
“Todos guardamos recuerdos de nuestra niñez, en ese día previo cuando de coloca la caja llena de hierba para los camellos y con gran expectativa para recibir los regalos en la mañana del 6 de enero. Y, como la mayoría de las tradiciones puertorriqueñas, la celebración se completa con una gran reunión familiar. Para todos los puertorriqueños y especialmente los moroveños, mis saludos navideños y deseos de que sea una temporada de celebración familiar”, finalizó Maldonado González.
cias, el centro de imágenes, la farmacia, el laboratorio y el helipuerto, se proyecta esté lista para abril de 2025. Finalmente, la tercera fase, que incluirá las clínicas externas y el estacionamiento completo, tiene fecha de culminación para diciembre de 2025.
“Hoy celebramos el inicio de una transformación histórica para Vieques con la próxima apertura de la clínica de diálisis, la cual formará parte del futuro Centro de Salud de la isla. Este logro elimina la necesidad de depender de una unidad temporera y asegura que los pacientes de diálisis reciban un servicio de primera calidad. Este Centro de Salud es un compromiso cumplido con nuestra gente y un sueño largamente esperado que, tras décadas de ser pospuesto, finalmente se hace realidad. Agradezco profundamente a todos los que han trabajado incansablemente para hacer esto posible”, expresó Carlos Mellado López.
Jóvenes profesionales de la oftalmología lideran en el diagnóstico y tratamiento de condiciones de la retina
Puerto Rico Eye Institute, una institución que ofrece un enfoque integral en la atención oftalmológica, brinda servicios avanzados en oftalmología general, retinología, glaucoma, córnea, cataratas y ojo seco. Además de tratar diversas condiciones oculares, educan a sus pacientes sobre el diagnóstico y el cuidado preventivo. Esta expansión de servicios demuestra su compromiso continuo de proporcionar atención integral a la comunidad, abordando una amplia gama de necesidades oftalmológicas con la misma calidad excepcional que ha caracterizado a la práctica a lo largo de los años. El instituto se enorgullece en destacar la excepcional trayectoria de dos de sus principales oftalmólogos, el Dr. Carlos Fernández Santos y la Dra. Stephanie Vale Dykyj. Con más de una década de experiencia, ambos profesionales se han destacado como líderes en el campo de la oftalmología, especializándose en el cuidado avanzado de la retina. Además, el Dr. Fernández Santos y la Dra. Vale Dykyj han sido pioneros en el uso de tecnologías de vanguardia para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de condiciones de retina, asegurando que sus pacientes tengan acceso a los tratamientos y procedimientos más innovadores disponibles. Su compromiso no solo se enfoca en tratar las condiciones de retina, sino también en concienciar sobre la importancia crítica de preservar la salud visual. En un mundo cada vez más visual, mantener la salud de la retina es esencial para garantizar una calidad de vida óptima. Los resultados positivos de aquellos que confían en sus habilidades reflejan su dedicación a la excelencia clínica. Además de estos destacados especialistas en retina, Puerto Rico Eye Institute cuenta con un equipo de profesionales altamente calificados en otras áreas clave de la oftalmología.
La Dra. María Velázquez, especialista en glaucoma, ofrece un enfoque integral para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de esta condición crónica que afecta el nervio óptico. Su experiencia y dedicación garantizan un manejo efectivo y personalizado de los pacientes con glaucoma. La Dra. Frances Marrero, especialista en cirugía refractiva y córnea, se destaca por su habilidad en realizar procedimientos avanzados para corregir problemas de visión, como miopía, hipermetropía y astigmatismo, utilizando las últimas tecnologías en cirugía ocular.
La Lcda. Clara M. Rivera Beede, administradora de Puerto Rico Eye Institute, destacó en un comunicado de prensa que, según las estadísticas más actualizadas del Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico, aproximadamente uno de cada seis adultos vive con diabetes, una de las enfermedades crónicas que más afecta la retina y causa condiciones asociadas como la retinopatía diabética, degeneración macular y desprendimiento de retina. El Dr. Fernández Santos y la Dra. Vale Dykyj explicaron que la degeneración macular senil, que ocurre en personas de 50 años o más, es muchas veces irreversible. También hicieron énfasis en la alta presión sanguínea, otra de las enfermedades crónicas que afecta la salud visual, provocando infartos venosos en la retina y retinopatía diabética debido al daño causado en los vasos sanguíneos.
“Toda persona mayor de 60 años y aquellas con diabetes o degeneración macular deben visitar un oftalmólogo. La prevalencia de diabetes en la población es alta, representando el 19% de la población, y se espera que se chequeen anualmente, lo cual no siempre ocurre. Pacientes de edad avanzada con cataratas tienen riesgo de caídas debido a la pérdida de visión,” indicaron. A pesar del temor de los pacientes a la cirugía de cataratas, los especialistas destacaron que este procedimiento es “mucho más sencillo y menos riesgoso que una endoscopía”.
En cuanto a las tecnologías utilizadas en el instituto, los
expertos mencionaron que Puerto Rico Eye Institute cuenta con un avanzado láser para tratamientos de retina, catalogado como único en el Caribe y uno de menos de 60 en Estados Unidos. Además, disponen de otro láser especializado en el tratamiento del glaucoma. Este equipo médico de última tecnología permite realizar procedimientos indoloros y precisos, garantizando comodidad y seguridad para el paciente. También proporcionan acceso a inyectables anti-VEGF y administran esteroides para reducir la inflamación asociada con la retinopatía diabética.
Sin embargo, más allá de contar con equipos de alta calidad, los médicos subrayan la importancia de dedicar tiempo a discutir la condición de cada paciente mediante un examen comprensivo, asegurando que el diagnóstico se brinde el mismo día. Esto refleja el enfoque centrado en el paciente y el com-
promiso de ofrecer atención de la más alta calidad.
A partir de enero de 2025, el Dr. Frank Abella, oftalmólogo general, se unirá a Puerto Rico Eye Institute para seguir ampliando los servicios ofrecidos. El Dr. Abella aportará su experiencia y conocimiento a la clínica, ofreciendo atención oftalmológica integral a todos los pacientes.
Puerto Rico Eye Institute sigue siendo la opción preferida por aquellos que buscan atención oftalmológica accesible y de vanguardia. El instituto acepta la mayoría de los planes médicos, incluyendo los planes vitales. Todos los servicios mencionados también están disponibles para personas con impedimentos. ¡Llámanos al 787-641-3030 para más información o para agendar tu cita!
Visítanos en www.preyeinstitute.com, donde puedes solicitar tu cita en línea y conocer a todo el equipo de profesionales que forma parte de nuestro instituto.
Sobre Puerto Rico Eye Institute:
Establecido en 2020, Puerto Rico Eye Institute se ha destacado por ofrecer atención médica excepcional con amabilidad y empatía. Nos comprometemos a proporcionar a nuestros pacientes los servicios de salud visual más avanzados, siguiendo los estándares de calidad más rigurosos. Con nuestro equipo de especialistas, nos enfocamos no solo en el tratamiento de las condiciones existentes, sino también en maximizar las estrategias de prevención, mejorando así la calidad visual de nuestros pacientes.
Dr. Carlos Fernández Santos y la Dra. Stephanie Vale Dykyj, oftalmólogos y pioneros en uso de tecnologías de vanguardia para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de condiciones de retina.
Dra. María Velázquez, especialista en glaucoma y Dra. Frances Marrero, especialista en cirugía refractiva y córnea.
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“Babygirl”, set over what seems like a very long Christmas season, centers on Romy — a transfixing Nicole Kidman — a married woman who enters a dominant-submissive affair that almost consumes her.
growing robotics company that, from its videos, seems to provide warehouse automation. Presumably, the robots moving goods around will eventually make human labor redundant; in the meantime, they serve as a hardworking metaphor for a woman who’s rationalized every aspect of her existence. At her New York apartment, she dresses for another high-flying workday but then slips on a frowzy apron as she packs her children’s lunches with handwritten notes. (The lack of hired help is an off detail.) The apron seems incongruent with her job and the frictionless perfection of her domestic realm that her puzzled husband, Jacob (Antonio Banderas), asks about it.
Writer-director Halina Reijn (“Bodies Bodies Bodies”) is just as scrupulously attentive to detail as Romy. With sensitivity to the gilded surfaces of Romy’s life, and with a series of brisk, narratively condensed scenes, the filmmaker sketches in a woman who presents an aspirational ideal, from her glossy lipstick to her teetering heels. Yet while the ceiling-to-floor windows of Romy’s importantly situated office announce that she’s a contemporary woman with nothing to hide, you know better: By the time Romy first breezes into work, you have already watched her sprint naked from her postcoital bed — where Jacob is sleeping the deep, contented sleep of the satiated
— so she can secretly masturbate to online pornography.
The movie’s opener is a grabber — the first shot in the movie is a close-up of Romy seemingly on the orgasmic verge — and not only because Kidman bares her lovely, apple-cheeked rear as her character bolts down the hall. From the moment that the actress’s backside and coltish legs are gliding through the hushed darkness of Romy’s tastefully luxurious apartment, the movie seems to be invoking Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 erotic drama “Eyes Wide Shut.” In that hallucinatory film, which also opens at Christmastime, Kidman plays a married woman who sends her husband (Tom Cruise) spiraling after she tells him about her unconsummated desire for another man. “I was ready to give up everything,” she says.
In “Babygirl,” female desire opens another Pandora’s box of trouble. As in a lot of romantic comedies, the meet-cute in “Babygirl” has been strategically orchestrated. Romy is rushing to work on a day like any other when she’s stopped in her tracks by the sight of a dog ferociously attacking someone. Visibly shaken, she continues to watch frozen as a tall, dark-haired, young stranger sharply commands the dog, which instantly stops its attack and nuzzles him. Romy is impressed, though not altogether for obvious reasons: In short order, it beco -
mes clear that she too wants to a firm hand, to nuzzle the commanding stranger and be commanded in turn.
In a coincidence that strains credulity, suggesting that this story may also be a kind of fantasy, the dog-wrangling stranger shows up at Romy’s office. One of a gaggle of new interns, Samuel (Harris Dickinson), immediately catches her eye once more, an attraction that — as testy flirting boss-talk gives way to furtive, hungrily submissive embraces — quickly evolves into something far more freighted than an ill-advised workplace liaison. Unlike the character in “Eyes Wide Shut,” Romy takes the leap into annihilating desire, risking everything in an affair that reverses her and Samuel’s work dynamic. As she waits on all fours, he takes lead. Reijn handles the affair discreetly, using evocative choreography, softly beautiful lighting and carefully deployed depth of focus to intimate more than she reveals. Your mileage will vary, of course, but the results are more dreamily sexy-romantic than scorching, which seems to reflect Reijn’s larger concerns. Romy may have certain needs, but the filmmaker is less concerned with the specifics of dominance and submission, in ritualized sexual favors, leashes and all the rest, and more focused on power, women, pleasure and unbounded desire. In several montage sequences, you see Romy and Samuel testing and discovering each other; you also see two people who have briefly slipped off the restraints of everyday life.
It’s an enjoyable liberation story of a kind, even if Romy’s search for existential freedom proves disappointingly limited. Hers isn’t the soul-crushing bummer that, say, Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” is, but Romy’s and the story’s horizons remain narrow. Even so, Reijn and her performers, including Sophie Wilde as Romy’s assistant, Esme, consistently edge this material into deeper waters, which allows you to consider other possibilities for them. For her part, Kidman takes “Babygirl” to its breaking point with a performance that risks your laughter and — as she dismantles her character’s perfection piece by piece — exposes a raw vulnerability that can be shocking. It’s the rawest thing in this movie, and it’s bliss.
‘Babygirl’
Rated R for adult sexuality. Running time: 1 hour, 54 minutes. In theaters.
The San Juan Daily Star
Puerto Rico
December 27-29, 2024 15
Fransglobal Charity Foundation presents 2024 annual stellar gala
By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDEPOWERS
Fransglobal’s Charity Foundation Gala was held at the Salon Royal in the Hilton Garden Inn to showcase their mission to offer economic support for not-forprofit organizations in Puerto Rico that focus on children and youth with health conditions such as diabetes and autism. In addition, the Foundation’s goal is to help organizations that provide services to these minors, including education,
mental health, and other social services.
At the event, the elegantly dressed guests networked in the beautifully decorated salon, and once seated, they were provided with an informative video on the Foundation. Soon after, delicious dishes from the hotel’s Chef José Ochoa were served. The evening was complete with A Son de Guerra’s musical stylings and an after-party with DJ Iván Robles at Azahar restaurant.
Michael Stuart and Yahaira Natal
Ellyan Maestre, Mónica Caratini and Ramón Santiago
Reinaldo Ramón, Mariana Benítez, Rosamar Vega and Alberto Rivas
Luis Ortiz, Deliz Serrano and José Aponte
Manuel Mazo, Gabriela Sánchez, Carmen Morales and Luigi Costante
Patricia Pérez and Efraín Andino
Eugenia Rivera and Jennifer Conde
Raúl Cosculluela and Adriana Piñeda
Carlos Aldahondo, Frances Negrón and Neisha López Cepero
Atty. Antonio Marichal, Ricardo Rivera, Atty. Elvira Bas, Marta Pierantoni, Carlos Budet, Rebecca González Ouslán and Andrés Rodríguez (board of directors and executive director)
The San Juan Daily Star
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE ELIUD FALÚ PÉREZ, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, SUTANA DE TAL, A, B, Y C COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS
DE LA SUCESION, EL HONORABLE
SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandado
Civil Núm.: N3CI2015-00442. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. 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 Fajardo, Fajardo, 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 23 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: RUSTICA: Solar marcado con el #181, en el barrio Guzman Abajo del término municipal de Rio Grande, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con mil cuatrocientos veinte y cinco diezmilésimas de otra, equivalentes a 560.00 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #173 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la calle #12; por el ESTE, con el solar #182; por el OESTE, con el solar #182. Inscrito al folio 62 del tomo 191 de Rio Grande, finca número #9,306 Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Carolina. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y
notificada en este caso el 18 de agosto de 2017, este Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por la suma de $85,065.46 por concepto de principal; $396.82 por concepto de intereses acumulados; $81.96 por concepto de cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $8,836.90 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente 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 16 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Fajardo, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $88,369.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 24 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $58,912.66, 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 31 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $44,184.50, 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de noviembre de 2024. JOSÉ A ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LUIS RIVERA MARTÍNEZ, EVELYN HERNÁNDEZ FEBUS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01987. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. 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 de Bayamón, Bayamón, 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 8 de noviembre 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: RUSTICA: Sita en el Barrio Guaraguao Abajo de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, marcada con el número Uno del Plano de Inscripción de la finca propiedad de la Sucesión Ramos, con una área de punto setenta y ocho sesenta y seis de cuerda (.7866) equivalentes a tres mil noventa y uno metros con ocho mil seiscientos cuarenta y tres centímetros, en lindes: por el NORTE, con camino dedicado a Uso Público; por el SUR, con el Lote número Dos Romano (II); por el ESTE, con el Lote número uno Romano raya A (I-A); por el OESTE, con el Lote número 10; camino dedicado a Uso Público y el Lote número 2 del Plano de Inscripción. Enclava edificación que consta de cuatro cuartos dormitorios, baño y medio, balcón, sala, comedor, cocina y terraza, con un valor de $20,000.00, según consta de la escritura número 29, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de agosto de 1986, ante el notario Américo Cano De Rivera, e inscrita al folio 1577 del tomo 1,295 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 58,267, inscripción 2da. Finca Número 58,267, inscrita al folio 151 del tomo 1,295 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de La Administración de Pequeños Negocios, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $136,700.00,
con intereses al 1.750% anual, vencedero en 30 años, constituida mediante la escritura número 15, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de mayo de 2018, ante el notario Rafael Antonio Linero, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 58,267, inscripción 10ma. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día 25 de septiembre de 2024 y notificada el 26 de septiembre de 2024 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $136,175.16 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.25% desde el 1ro de agosto de 2019; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $15,360.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. 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 16 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $142,775.76. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $95,183.84, 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 30 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $71,387.88, 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 Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de noviembre de 2024.
EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS
SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. IRMA ANDUJAR SANTIAGO POR SI Y COMO HEREDERA; LA SUCESION DE MIGUEL
NEGRON GONZALEZ T/C/C LUIS MIGUEL NEGRON GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR MARILYN NEGRON ANDUJAR; EVELYN NEGRON ANDUJAR; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Y LA SUCESION DE LUIS MIGUEL NEGRON ANDUJAR COMPUESTA POR ARAMARIE NEGRON GUTIERREZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA, DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA
Demandados Civil Núm.: TB2023CV00024. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 15 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: 94B CALLE HORTENSIA, TOA BAJA, PR 00949 y que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 94 B en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Candelaria del Barrio Candelaria del término Municipal de Toa Baja, con una cabida superficial de 867.08 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número 95 D; por el SUR, con la parcela número 92; por el ESTE, con área montañosa; y por el OESTE, con la parcela número 94 C y Calle número 35. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 295 del Tomo 351 de Toa Baja, bajo la finca número 21,181, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón,
Sección Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $100,732.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 22 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $67,154.67. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 29 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $50,366.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 44 otorgada en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de mayo de 2015, ante el Notario Manuel E. Maldonado Pérez, inscrita bajo el Folio 192 del Tomo 750 de Toa Baja, inscripción Séptima (7ma), bajo la finca número 21,181, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido contra la parte demandada, ascendente a la suma de $91,103.45 de principal, desde el 1ro de marzo de 2020, con intereses al 3.50%, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más cargos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá
JIMÉNEZ, SARAH
ELIZABETH SUAREZ LEES, AMANDA AURORA
SUAREZ LEES Y MANUEL
ROBERTO SUAREZ
CORCINO COMO
HEREDEROS DE LA SUCN. MARÍA TERESA JIMÉNEZ MENDEZ Y SUCN. MANUEL SUAREZ DEL RIO COMPUESTA
Demandantes Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y JOHN DOE COMO CUALQUIER TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO
Demandados
Caso Civil: SJ2019CV11096. Sala: 902. Sobre: PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: JOHN DOE Y CUALQUIER
OTRO TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda que podrán examinar en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, alegando el extravío del Pagaré por la suma principal de CINCUENTA MIL DÓLARES ($50,000.00), a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, otorgado bajo juramento #6210 ante el Notario Enrique Rodríguez Negrón, el 23 de febrero del 2024, con intereses al 6% anual, vencedero el 1 de marzo del dos mil trece. Ello según surge de la Escritura 6, otorgada en San Juan. P. R. el 23 de febrero de 1996 ante el Notario Enrique Rodríguez Negrón, inscripción novena. La descripción registrar de la propiedad gravada es la siguiente: Dirección física: Barrio Bairoa, Carretera 795, Km 1.4, Aguas Buenas, P.R. Dirección Registral: RÚSTICA. Late de terreno marcado con la letra “B”, radicada en el Barrio Bairoa de Aguas Buenas, con una cabida superficial de Dos punto Cincuenta Cuerdas (2.50 cdas.). En lindes per el Norte, en dos alineaciones descontinuadas de cuarenta y seis punto seis metros (46.06 m) con la Carretera Setecientos Noventa y Cinco y la otra de veintisiete punto noventa y ocho metros (27.98 m) con terrenos del señor Pérez, hoy, antes del seños Juan López, por el Sur, en setenta metros (70 m.) con la finca principal de la cual se segrega; per el Este, en dos alineaciones descontinuadas, una de treinta y seis punto cincuenta y tres metros (36.53 m.) con terrenos del seños J. Pérez hoy, antes del seños, Juan López, y la otra de ciento treinta y cuatro punto veinticinco metros (134.25 m.) con la finca principal de la cual
se segrega; y por el Oeste, en ciento treinta y cuatro punto veinticinco metros (134.25 m.) con terrenos del señor William López. Finca 4639, Torno 106, folio 166, Sección II de Caguas - Aguas Buenas, del Registro de la Propiedad. Catastro: 198-000-004-88-000. Vista la Moción presentada por la parte demandante solicitando el emplazamiento por edictos de la parte demandada John Doe como cualquier otro tenedor desconocido, el Tribunal accede a lo solicitado y dispone que el emplazamiento se haga por medio de edicto en un diario de circulación general de Puerto Rico, una sola vez, para que tal demandado presente cualquier oposición a la demanda, dentro del término de treinta (30) días después de la publicación del mismo, debiendo igualmente notificar copia del escrito a la Lcda. María Jiménez Vargas, abogada de la parte demandante, al Apartado 10231, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00922, Tels. 787-460-6804 / 787-705-2622 / 787-708-6933 Se le apercibe que de así no hacerlo se dictará sentencia en rebeldía. Se exime a la parte demandante del envío por correo certificado con de copia de la demanda a los demandados, por desconocerse su dirección. EXTENDIDO BAJO mi firma y sello del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico hoy 17 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante V. LERIDA M. HERNÁNDEZ SOTO POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV02071. (Salón: 504 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. ANDREA CAROLINA CHAVES FIGUEROA - ACHAVES@ ESQLEGALPR.COM. A: LERIDA M. HERNÁNDEZ SOTO, JOHN 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 02 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución
en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de diciembre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA NOTIFICACIÓN POR ORDEN DE LA JUEZ CONCEPCIÓN CINTRÓN DEL 16 DE DIC DE 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 17 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ
COLLADO, SECRETARIA.
MARIELA O. VIZCARRONDO
ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JAFET R. RAMOS CRUZ POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE Y FULANA DE TAL Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2024CV00620. (Salón: 306). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
GINA H. FERRER MEDINA - LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL. COM. A: JAFET R. RAMOS CRUZ POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE Y FULANA DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 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 19 de diciembre de 2024. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 19 de diciembre de 2024. NORMA G.
SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. YAHAIRA TORRES MATIÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
RAFAEL ANDRES ROSARIO PEREZ
Parte Demandante Vs. NELSON CESPEDES MELGARES; FULANO DE TAL
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV05213. Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUI-
CIOS INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANO DE TAL; POR SÍ.
SE NOTIFICA a ustedes que la parte demandante, ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una demanda solicitando DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO. Se les emplaza y requiere para que notifiquen al ANGEL M. RIVERA MUNICH CONDOMINIO TORRIMAR PLAZA ALTURAS DE TORRIMAR 40 CALLE 10 APT 3ª GUAYNABO
P.R. 00969-3222 Tel. (787) 6453101 con copia de la contestación a la demanda dentro de los TREINTA (30) DIAS siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, el cual se publicará una sola vez a tenor con la orden dictada por este Honorable Tribunal. Se les apercibe que si dejaran de hacerlo podrá dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA.
VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SUB-
SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIANDO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYANILLA EN SABANA GRANDE
JOSE ANGEL QUIÑONES RODRIGUEZ Y CARMEN
MARIA CASTRO RIVERA
Peticionarios Vs. EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: GY2024CV00249. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, a todo el que tenga derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito en la Petición de Expediente de Dominio, a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada, así como los colindantes, causahabientes o herederos y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezca, si creyera que le conviene, a este Honorable Tribunal, dentro de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, el cual se publicará por tres (3) veces y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por los peticionarios para adquirir el dominio de la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela que radica en el Sector Hoya Llanita, Barrio Quebrada Ceiba, kilómetro dos punto uno (2.1) Carretera Estatal PR guión Ciento Treinta y Dos (PR-132), Ramal Trescientos Ochenta y Siete (387) del término municipal de Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de DOS MIL CUATROCIENTOS TREINTA Y SEIS METROS CUADRADO$ CON OCHOCIENTAS SETENTA Y SIETE MILESIMAS DE OTRO (2,436.877 mc); y en lindes, por el Norte y Este, con terrenos de la Sucesión Quiñones Rodríguez; por el Sur, con terrenos de José A. Rodríguez Gotay antes, hoy su sucesión; y por el Oeste, con un camino privado que le da acceso a vía pública. Contiene una estructura dedicada a vivienda construida en hormigón y bloques de hormigón techada de zinc, con unas medidas de treinta y cinco pies por veinte pies, dividida en tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, sala y comedor unidos, cocina, un baño, medio balcón y marquesina. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal de la parte promovente, Lcdo. Joseph Brocco Santiago, P.O. Box 608, Peñuelas, Puerto Rico 006240608, Teléfono 787-836-3020. En Yauco, PR, a 16 de diciembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. DELIA APONTE VELÁQZUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN-
CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. ANA ROSA IRIZARRY SOBA POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE SANTIAGO FORTUÑO CINTRON Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2023CV00415. (Salón: 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM. A: ANA ROSA IRIZARRY SOBA POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE SANTIAGO FORTUÑO CINTRON; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE SANTIAGO FORTUÑO CINTRON.
(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 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 20 de noviembre de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 20 de noviembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
RAFAELA
RIVERA SEGARRA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2019CV02103. (Salón: 802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM. A: RAFAELA
RIVERA SEGARRA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de febrero de 2020, 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 20 de diciembre de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 20 de diciembre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. S&D TALLER DEL MAESTRO, LLC Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV04291. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ALBERTO DE DIEGO COLLARDEDIEGOLAWOFFICES@GMAIL. COM.
A: S&D TALLER DEL MAESTRO, LLC; VANESSA VÁZQUEZ BÁEZ.
(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
Diana Janet Santiago Acevedo, Gilberto Escudero Aponte, Luis Santiago Alamo, Carol Maldonado t/c/c Carolina Irene Maldonado Ruiz, Joselito Melendez Santos, Carlos Martinez Berrios, Jose Roy Vazquez Maldonado
FAVOR COMUNICARSE CON EL LCDO. PEDRO A. CRESPO CLAUDIO (939) 337-5550 (939) 337-5553
pcrespo@emphatialaw.com
YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA. ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante v. MANUELA
HERNANDEZ SANTOS
Demandado( a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV02903
(SALÓN 201B). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO.
JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑA LEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM
NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A: MANUELA. HERNANDEZ SANTOS (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 19 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. En TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico, el 19 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. ALICIA AYALA
SANJURJO, Secretario(a). f/ LIRIAM HERNANDEZ OTERO, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
JEAN LUIS BURGOS CAMACHO Y NATALIA JAZMIN GARCÍA REYES Peticionarios
EX-PARTE
Civil #: BY2024CV06238.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA
PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA
PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición 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 par derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787-7209553. “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en la carretera Puerto Rico Ochocientos Treinta y Tres (833), Sector Los Romero, barrio Guaraguao, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de TRES MIL NOVECIENTOS TREINTA METROS CUADRADOS CON TRES MIL NOVECIENTOS C!NCUENTA Y SEIS DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (3930.3956 m/c). Colindando por su lado NORTE: en 135.302 metros lineales con terrenos propiedad de la Sucesión Moctezuma; por el SUR: en 142.113 metros lineales con terrenos de Tito Olivera Pérez y Felicita Berríos Ramos, Claribeth Torres, Carmen Rebollo, Sucesión Miguel González y Batista Figueroa, por el OESTE: en 43.702 metros lineales con el Río Bayamón y por el ESTE: en 15.429 metros lineales con la carretera municipal del Sector Los Romero.” Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo,
se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer las interesados y/o partes citadas, a en su defecto las organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 6 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL
INTERINA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
CENTRO MĖDICO DEL TURABO, INC., H/N/C HOSPITAL HIMA • SAN PABLO BAYAMON
Demandante Vs. CARMEN LYDIA RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV03458.
(500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.
UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
A: CARMEN L. RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, POR SI Y EN REP. DE LA SLG COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL - BO. BUENA VISTA SECTOR
SABANA CARR. 829 KM 1 HM 7 CAMINO GOVEO, BAYAMÓN, PR 00956.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., h/n/c Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas y h/n/c Red Medica ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Rafael E. Díaz-Gonzalez
Apartado 4980
Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-4980
Tel. (787) 900-1245
Fax: (787) 653-1792
E-Mail: raediaz@himapr.com
Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía
y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, HOY 15 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
CENTRO MÉDICO DEL TURABO, INC., H/N/C HOSPITAL HIMA • SAN PABLO CAGUAS Y H/N/C RED MÉDICA
Demandante Vs. DOMINGA BONILLA TORRES, SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01333. (702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - PROCEDIMIENTO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
A: LA SLG COMPUESTA POR DOMINGA BONILLA TORRES Y SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL - URB. TURABO GARDENS 5TA. SECCIÓN N-1 CALLE 43, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO, 00725.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., h/n/c Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas y h/n/c Red Medica ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Rafael E. Díaz -Gonzalez Apartado 4980 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-4980 Tel. (787) 900-1245
Fax: (787) 653-1792
E -Mail: raediaz@himapr.com
Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, HOY 4 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
CENTRO MÉDICO DEL TURABO, INC., H/N/C HOSPITAL HIMA • SAN PABLO CAGUAS Y H/N/C RED MÉDICA
Demandante Vs. DOMINGA BONILLA TORRES, SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01333. (702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - PROCEDIMIENTO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: DOMINGA BONILLA TORRES, POR SÍ Y EN REP. DE LA SLG COMPUESTA CON FULANO DE TAL - URB. TURABO GARDENS 5TA. SECCIÓN N-1 CALLE 43, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO, 00725.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., h/n/c Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas y h/n/c Red Medica ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Rafael E. Díaz -Gonzalez Apartado 4980 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-4980
Tel. (787) 900-1245
Fax: (787) 653-1792
E -Mail: raediaz@himapr.com
Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, HOY 4 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SALA DE GUAYANILLA GLENDY IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ JUAN
BAUTISTA DE LEÓN CARABALLO Peticionarios EXPARTE Civil Núm.: GY2024CV00143. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - LEY 188 - 2022. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA AFECTAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE; SUCESIÓN DE PASTOR MANDRY MERCADO, COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE YJANE DOE. Por la presente, se le notifica que la parte Peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal una solicitud de Expediente de Dominio, solicitando adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno ubicado en el Barrio Verdum del municipio de Guayanilla. Con una cabida de seiscientos sesenta y seis punto tres mil ochocientos siete metros cuadrados (666.3807 m.c.). Colinda por el NORTE, con la Calle Cotorra; por el SUR, con el Sr. Ángel L. Sánchez Caraballo por el ESTE, con la Sra. Lidia Pérez García y por el OESTE, con Evelinda Pérez Torres. Parte Peticionaria se encuentra representada por: LCDA. CAROLINA GARRIGA CESANÍ, RUA 15227 Calle Resolución #33, Suite 302 San Juan, PR 00920 Teléfono: 787-782-6500 x. 250 Correo electrónico: cgarriga@ titlesecuritygroup.com
Se le apercibe y notifica para que comparezca, si lo creyere pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro del plazo improrrogable de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, a exponer sus derechos en el expediente de dominio promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca antes descrita. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición o cualquier otro si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción,
lo entiende pertinente. 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. En Guaynanilla, Puerto Rico, a 10 de diciembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITION FUND, LLC. Parte Demandante Vs. MARIA VARGAS MORALES Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: IS2024CV00038. Salón: 0003. 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: MARÍA VARGAS MORALES - URB NUEVO SAN ANTONIO E-40 CALLE 6 AGUADILLA, PR 00603.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de octubre de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 30 de octubre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. TAMARA SOSA ROMÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. GILBERTO PACHECO MORENO Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02655. Salón: 500-A. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: GILBERTO PACHECO MORENO - SUITE 116 RR 11 BOX 6000, BAYAMON, PR 00956-9751. 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/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 24 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NOELIA MATÍAS SALAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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After living the NFL dream, ex-Steeler found a calling in woodworking
By ELISE DEVLIN / THE ATHLETIC
In some ways, John Malecki can thank a cheap coffee table for his 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube.
Had he owned a sturdier table, maybe he wouldn’t have thought twice about his enthusiasm for HGTV’s home improvement show “Fixer Upper,” which he watched on repeat as a fringe offensive lineman in the NFL.
As it turns out, though, Malecki’s table broke right before his final preseason with his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013. And as the “Fixer Upper” fan he was, building a new one sounded way better than just buying a replacement.
At that point, Malecki, an undrafted free agent out of Pitt, was on his fifth team in four years. Football had always been his North Star, guiding him in any decision since elementary school.
Now, in his mid-20s, that North Star was dimming.
In between training camp practices, with the help of some Home Depot two-by-fours, Malecki constructed a homemade coffee table for his South Side Pittsburgh apartment. As he reflected on his appreciation for the work Chip and Joanna Gaines did on “Fixer Upper,” he thought, I kind of want to build my own cool things.
In the weeks that followed, and especially after his NFL career ended when he was cut in September that year, he bought some new woodworking tools — the start of what would be a large collection, and a whole new passion.
Today, Malecki’s YouTube subscribers tune in to his woodworking channel to watch him build everything from cutting boards and end tables to a hidden whiskey cabinet and a door inspired by “The Lord of the Rings.”
Like others who pour themselves into their work, Malecki did not view himself as someone who had many interests out-
Former NFL offensive lineman John Malecki’s YouTube subscribers tune in to his woodworking channel to watch him build everything from cutting boards and end tables to a hidden whiskey cabinet and a door inspired by “The Lord of the Rings.” (johnmalecki.com)
side football. When he started building his coffee table, he had no formal training and didn’t know what he was doing; he was just curious and allowed himself to follow that curiosity.
Two years earlier, Malecki was holed up in an extended stay hotel on Christmas Day, alone except for a bottle of Jack Daniels and a jigsaw puzzle. A member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers practice squad at the time, Malecki was already on his third team that season. The Bucs played the next day, and the bottle and puzzle filled his time away from home.
Back in Pennsylvania, Malecki’s family was crafting its annual lavish spread: filet roast paired with pasta made from scratch, his grandmother’s homemade gnocchi, his mother’s pumpkin pie.
His mother had sent him a care package that week, trying to replicate the experience.
Still, he said, “I was super bummed.”
And yet he was also living out everything he had always wanted. When he was a 10-year-old growing up in Murrysville, 30 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh, he had
placed a piece of paper in a time capsule with his dream written on it: “I’m going to be in the NFL.”
If that meant Christmases alone in a hotel room and away from his family, that was part of the deal.
“At the time I was a firm believer that you have to suffer in order to get what you want in life,” he said.
After that season with the Bucs, he had two more stints with the Steelers sandwiched around a brief stop in Washington. When the Steelers’ head coach, Mike Tomlin, called him into his office in 2013, Malecki’s intuition told him it might be permanent.
“Appreciate your work, John,” Tomlin told him.
His football career was over.
The next spring, Malecki interviewed for a sales job at a metal byproduct company. He hadn’t played in the NFL in months, and what he wanted more than a sales job was another shot in the NFL.
But when the owner of the company told him during the interview, “This is great, John, but you don’t have any experience,” it was like a slap across the face.
“I was useless,” Malecki said. “I had no skills.”
He added: “All my childhood hopes and dreams crumbling. I was just sad. Just lost in multiple facets of life.”
The one thing Malecki continued to do during that time of uncertainty was build new stuff out of wood.
One day, Malecki was hanging out with a former teammate, Baron Batch, who had just bought a house. The lack of furniture was glaring. No table or chairs, just couches.
They were sitting in the empty garage, looking at the workbench in the corner, crowded with random supplies on top of it.
“What if we built stuff?” Malecki asked Batch.
The same excitement Malecki had before he built his apartment coffee table crept in. Soon after, Batch’s house was furnished with homemade tables, cabinets and shelving.
Buying tools off Craigslist, using more Home Depot two-by-fours and an old jointer his father had given him, Malecki started to spend most of his time attempting new builds.
“I was just boozing and hanging out with
my buddies,” Malecki said, laughing. “We were curious a lot, and I was trying to figure out that next thing in life.”
He began posting on Facebook and Instagram, showing what he and Batch were doing. He had no expectations of where this could lead. But comments started to roll in:
I would love one.
Could you make me that?
Batch and Malecki decided to open a studio together, called Studio AM, where they combined Batch’s artistic visions with Malecki’s woodworking skills. As time went on, and his Instagram and Facebook following grew, he decided a YouTube presence could help, so he started posting a few videos.
“They are so bad,” Malecki said. “Just awful.”
Then, in 2016, he posted a video of a crosscut sled, a common woodworking tool. It was a basic YouTube post, and he expected the usual mild response. Except it got a couple hundred thousand views. I don’t know how to capitalize on this, but this feels good, he thought.
As he was finding his way, he kept repeating a mantra he used during his football career: “Just do the reps, John. You go to the gym, you hate it, just do the reps. You don’t like this drill, you don’t like this exercise, the coach said do it, you do it.”
Malecki allowed himself the freedom to explore an area he was curious about, gradually letting go of the idea that his only purpose in life was football. But he did keep his sense of purpose, the things he believed in that translated across fields.
“Effort and attitude — those are two of the controllable things you have,” Malecki said. “I took that from football and applied it dramatically to the next phase of my life. You can’t lose if you don’t quit.”
In 2018, Malecki signed a yearlong sponsorship with a company for $65,000, his big financial breakthrough. It was the first time he realized he could actually make a living woodworking. Now, he makes in one month almost what he did in his best year in the NFL.
“We were just taken aback at how creative he was,” Max Starks, a former Steelers teammate, said of Malecki. “We knew he was creative, we knew he was funny, but to combine both of those things and do it so seamlessly and be genuine about it is something that’s kind of fascinating.”
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