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By THE STAR STAFF
Designated Justice Secretary Janet Parra Mercado on Thursday condemned the slaying of two minors in Río Grande and gave assurances that the agency is working closely with the Puerto Rico Police Bureau and other entities to solve the crime and prosecute those responsible.
“I categorically reject all acts of violence such as the one that occurred in Río Grande, where unfortunately two children lost their lives and another minor was injured,” Parra Mercado said in a written statement. “I reaffirm the commitment of the Department of Justice and the Prosecutor’s Office is already working to solve this case and bring those responsible for this vile crime to justice.”
The official added that the Office of Compensation for Victims and Witnesses of Crime will provide support to the affected family at this difficult time.
The double slaying occurred on Wednesday night on highway PR-955 in Río Grande’s Villa Realidad community when a shooting left a 13-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy dead, while another 12-year-old girl was wounded by a bullet.
In the incident, Miguel Colón Rodríguez, 66, and Rocelyn Colón Marín, 51, were also hit by gunfire and transported to a hospital in stable condition. Likewise, a man identified as Cristian Lafont Feliciano, 27, arrived at another hospital in the area with gunshot wounds.
The circumstances of the shooting were still under investigation at press time by agents of the Fajardo Criminal Investigation Corps, in conjunction with the island Prosecutor’s Office, but according to initial findings, Naovis Cepeda Salgado, 32 years old, had left her home in Villa Hugo, in Canóvanas, accompanied by her children to bring food to her boyfriend Luis Daniel Encarnación Colón, 28 years old, who is out on bail for a murder that occurred in 2022, and who has an electronic monitoring bracelet. Police were interviewing Encarnación Colón on Thursday, according to reports.
Puerto Rico Police Commissioner Joseph González expressed his regrets Thursday for the death of the two minors in the armed attack.
“It is with great sadness that I mourn the loss of two children in Rio Grande and the injuries suffered by another minor and three adults,” González said. “My thoughts are with their families at this difficult time.”
He emphasized that the Police Bureau will use all its resources to find those responsible and bring them to justice.
“This type of violence has no place in our society,” González said. He added that the case is in the hands of specialized personnel and that the investigation will be conducted in an exhaustive manner.
“We have trained personnel assigned to this case and you can expect a complete, professional investigation without unnecessary delays,” González said. “We will not rest until justice is done.”
The Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA by its initials in Spanish), meanwhile, activated its emotional support team on Thursday to provide assistance to the affected families and communities.
Interim ASSMCA Administrator Rosa Figueroa Morales said the agency had mobilized its personnel to the impacted communities in Río Grande, Loíza and Canóvanas with specialized mental health resources to offer support to those who need it.
“We know that events of this magnitude generate a deep emotional impact on families and the entire community,” Figueroa Morales said. “Our team of professionals will be available to offer psychological support and emotional management tools to those affected by this unfortunate tragedy.”
The official also reminded citizens that the ASSMCA has the PAS Line available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, offering confidential and free help through 1-800-981-0023, 9-8-8 and VRS 787-615-4112. The agency also has a chat http:// lineapas.assmca.pr.gov/ that allows people to connect with mental health professionals at any time.
“Our commitment is to the emotional well-being of our people,” Figueroa Morales said. “We urge anyone who feels affected by this event to seek help and not face this process alone.”
The ASSMCA will continue to monitor the situation and expand its intervention efforts as needed to ensure that communities receive the assistance required, the official added.
Police were interviewing Luis Daniel Encarnación Colón, the presumed target of the fatal attack. (WAPA Digital)
PDP refers La Fortaleza chief of staff to federal, local authorities
Alleges conflict of interest in hiring of financial advisers to represent PREPA in bankruptcy proceedings; Domenech, governor reject accusations
By THE STAR STAFF
Leaders of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) have referred La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech to federal and local officials due to potential conflicts of interest regarding the hiring of financial advisers to represent the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) in its bankruptcy process.
On Thursday, PDP Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago, PDP Sen. Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, and PDP Secretary General Manuel Calderón Cerame announced that they had sent letters to the federal prosecutor’s office in Puerto Rico, the island Department of Justice, and the federal bankruptcy court. The letters request investigations into possible conflicts of interest related to the hiring of financial advisers to represent PREPA in its bankruptcy proceedings who previously represented the utility’s creditors.
The documents highlight the selection of the firm Houlihan Lokey by the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by its initials in Spanish), even though it previously represented PREPA’s creditors. In 2017, Houlihan Lokey advised bondholders in PREPA’s case. Houlihan Lokey’s Stephen Spencer testified in a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Puerto Rico.
The letters also question Domenech’s appointment as AAFAF director and La Fortaleza chief of staff, noting that he previously led the lobbying firm Politank, which represented bondholders in Puerto Rico during the bankruptcy process.
“Puerto Rico is facing an unprecedented bankruptcy process, and it is unacceptable that those advising the government in this situation are the same individuals who recently advocated for the interests of PREPA bondholders,” Ferrer Santiago said in a written statement.
He emphasized the importance of investigating whether the contract violates ethical standards, conflicts of interest, or even legal provisions. Hernández Ortiz stated that the letter to the federal prosecutor’s office calls for an investigation under
corruption and conflict-of-interest laws, expressing concern over the possible influence of private interests on government decisions.
Calderón Cerame noted that the letter sent to the local Department of Justice requests an evaluation of whether the actions of AAFAF and its leadership violate Puerto Rico’s Anti-Corruption Code, the Government Ethics Law, and the Penal Code.
“It is essential for the Department of Justice to investigate whether the hiring of this firm and the role of Francisco Domenech comply with anti-corruption and government ethics laws. The people of Puerto Rico deserve a transparent government free from conflicts of interest,” Calderón Cerame said.
Additionally, a letter sent to Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who is presiding over the PREPA bankruptcy case, requests an evaluation of potential conflicts of interest affecting AAFAF’s representation and its impact on the integrity of the judicial process.
“If the same advisers who previously defended the bondholders are now advising AAFAF, it is crucial to assess whether this influences the fairness of the process,” Ferrer Santiago said.
The PDP leaders emphasized that the requests for investigations aim to ensure that decisions regarding the future of Puerto Rico’s electrical system are made transparently and without undue influence from private actors with economic interests in PREPA’s bankruptcy.
Domenech rejected the complaints and referrals later on Thursday and defended the hiring of the financial advisors in question.
“Puerto Rico deserves to have the best advisers on its side,”
he said in a written statement. “There is simply no conflict of interest. This is pure demagogy on the part of the representatives of the Popular Democratic Party who were precisely the ones who led Puerto Rico to bankruptcy.”
The official denied that there is a conflict with the hiring of the Houlihan Lokey firm, stressing that it is one of the main financial advisory firms globally, with experience in restructurings such as that of the city of Detroit, and other electrical systems.
Regarding the accusations that there may have been a conflict of interest due to his ties to Politank, Domenech stated that he sold the firm before assuming his position and that Houlihan Lokey has never been a client of the company.
“The Popular Democratic Party is trying to misinform the people with unfounded allegations,” he said. “Houlihan Lokey’s only representation of PREPA bondholders occurred more than five years ago [with] a group completely different from the current creditors.”
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón later echoed Domenech’s rejection of the accusations and statements issued by the PDP, stating that they are attempts to tarnish reputations without foundation and a recurring political strategy of the opposition party.
“They asked for me to be investigated, for the secretary of Natural Resources to be investigated; the Popular Party has nothing to do,” she said at a press conference. “They are asking for investigations every day. [...] That is politicking.”
Energy Bureau to start rate review process
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has issued an order that establishes the requirements and procedures for reviewing the rates of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) that will go into effect for the three-year period beginning on July 1 of this year.
LUMA Energy, the private operator of PREPA’s transmission and distribution system, is contractually responsible for preparing the rate filings and submitting them to the PREB. The PREB in turn is authorized to review and approve PREPA’s rates to
ensure they are fair and reasonable, and consistent with sound fiscal and operational practices that provide reliable service at the lowest possible cost, as stated in the order dated Feb. 12. The rate case will encompass all revenues, income and costs associated with providing electricity service in Puerto Rico. It will include revenue from customers, businesses that utilize the electrical infrastructure, state and federal government agencies, and any other sources. Additionally, it will cover all operational costs, as well as expenses related to storm resilience, restoration, repair, and modernization of PREPA-owned infrastructure.
The comprehensive approach is essential for current and future customers, government entities, industry stakeholders, and lenders to understand the true cost of electricity service. The order emphasizes that only with this full understanding can Puerto Rico prepare for a time when ongoing costs persist, but government assistance decreases.
According to PREPA bondholders, the funding necessary to maintain the grid, strengthen it against natural disasters, prevent blackouts, and meet financing obligations should dictate the rates -- not the reverse.
The new rates will apply to fiscal years 2026, 2027, and 2028.
Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago
La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech (Facebook via Francisco Domenech)
UPR sectors protest selection process for interim president
By THE STAR STAFF
Various sectors of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) on Thursday announced protests to denounce “political interference” in the selection process for the interim president of the institution.
The UPR governing board was slated to meet Thursday at press time to elect a new interim president. The names of former UPR President Miguel Muñoz and Walter Alomar, a former UPR governing board chairman, both of whom, the union said, are closely aligned with the governing New Progressive Party party, have been repeatedly mentioned in discussions over the past few days. Orestes Quesada is currently acting as interim president.
“Both candidates have a history of controversies and mistakes from their previous terms as president of the UPR and president of the Board of Governors, respectively,” Association of University Professors (APPU by its initials in Spanish) President María del Mar Rosa said in a written statement. “Their actions demonstrated a lack of participatory and effective governance, indicating a failure to commit to the best interests of the University.”
Concerns regarding the candidates’ past tenures include the loss of federal funds, questionable financial transactions, the elimination of tuition exemptions, and increases in the costs of credits and services. Students at UPR emphasize the need for decision-making to be in the hands of the university community.
“Decisions about the institution are the responsibility of the university community and are protected by current regulations that support participatory deliberation,” Higher Education Student Network of Puerto Rico (HEEND) President Carlos J. de León said. “We request that the rights of the university community to choose those they believe are best suited to lead the University be respected.”
The groups are also calling for attention to grievances expressed in various university forums over recent months.
“While it is true that Serial R-2425-17 was repealed, which had aimed to place 64 academic programs on moratorium, the Guide for the Moratorium on Academic Programs still needs to be revoked,” de León said. “Muñoz and Alomar have already betrayed the University by allowing economic interests to compromise the institution’s future.”
In light of recent developments, university sectors said they are determined to make their voices heard.
“The meetings of the Governing Board are public and broadcast online,” said Astrid Lugo, president of the General Council of Students, UPR-RP. “Therefore, we urge the entire university community to attend the meeting at 6 p.m. and show the Governing Board that the community is vigilant about its actions.”
“We will share the link on our social media to facilitate access, and there will be activities organized on each campus and by each sector in the coming days,” she added. “Multi-sector assemblies will continue, and further actions are still being considered.”
The representatives of the university community said they are awaiting upcoming events to decide on the next steps to take in UPR’s defense.
Edward Maldonado, the student representative from the UPR Río Piedras Campus, expressed confidence in Dr. Mayra Chárriez, the vice president for student affairs, being appointed as interim president.
PREPA bondholders object to Mckinsey & Co. advisory fees
By THE STAR STAFF
The holders of the lion’s share of the $8.26 billion in Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bonds, filed on Thursday a memorandum of law opposing the advisory fees that McKinsey & Company intend to charge to the Financial Oversight and Management Board.
The oversight board has spent $2 billion already in professional and legal fees for all of the bankruptcy processes, including the commonwealth’s.
GoldenTree Asset Management LP, Assured Guaranty Inc., Syncora Guarantee Inc., National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. and the PREPA Ad Hoc Group, which are holders and insurers of some 61% of the approximately $8.26 billion principal amount of outstanding bonds, want an extension of the time to object
to McKinsey & Company Puerto Rico Consulting Inc. fees.
PREPA has incurred over $400 million just in professional fees during the nearly eight years its bankruptcy case has been pending.
“And yet, almost nothing constructive or of value to PREPA and its stakeholders has been achieved,” the PREPA bondholders said. “A consensual resolution is nowhere in sight, PREPA’s electricity generating, transmission and distribution system is less reliable than it was on the petition date, PREPA does not have access to the capital markets all utilities require to maintain and upgrade their operations, and the people of Puerto Rico continue to suffer.”
McKinsey & Company Puerto Rico Consulting Inc. seeks an interim allowance of $3.7 million for fees purportedly incurred from Jan. 1, 2024 through June
30, 2024.
By all indications, the bondholders said, the oversight board “seems content to extend that state of affairs as it pursues its myopic quest to avoid repaying the Revenue Bonds that funded the construction and maintenance of the Island’s power system.”
“It would rather continue picking fights with the holders of the Revenue Bonds -- fights that, if history is any teacher, will take years to resolve and with outcomes that will reveal that the Oversight Board’s positions are baseless -- than work constructively with the Bondholders to promptly end this case and put PREPA on a path to recovery,” the bondholders added.
The bondholders asserted that the oversight board will continue to generate adviser fees that improperly drain and waste PREPA’s funds, funds that could and should be put to better use.
“The Bondholders reserve their right to challenge the propriety of such fees,” they said. “By this motion, the Bondholders seek an order protecting their right to object.”
“Yesterday, multiple student councils sent their letters of endorsement to Vice President Dr. Mayra Chárriez Cordero, because over the past two and a half years of working with her, we have found her to be diligent, representing the interests of both the student and university community,” he stated. “Above all, she does not have the historical baggage of the other candidates being considered by the Board of Governors, who have already demonstrated that they lack the characteristics we are seeking in an interim president at this time.” Members
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Walter Alomar (X via Prof. Walter O. Alomar-Jiménez)
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How Trump uses language to attack the idea of transgender identity
By AMY HARMON
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring that there are only two sexes, male and female, that a person’s sex is established at conception and that it cannot be changed.
Then, through a series of executive orders, he issued a raft of policies targeted at transgender Americans, a population of roughly 1.6 million. The orders cover many areas of life — schools, medical care, prisons, housing and passports — and pull the government back from accepting trans people in the military, allowing them to participate in sports and protecting them under anti-discrimination laws based on sex.
Lawsuits have already been filed. More are on the way. But the sheer volume of orders, and their language and tone, suggest to both transgender advocates and Trump’s supporters that the overarching intention is about more than policy — it’s about undermining the very idea that transgender identities are legitimate and should be recognized.
Using words like “maiming” and “junk science,” Trump’s executive orders try to portray trans people as lacking honesty and integrity, and thus unworthy of legal rights. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
The transgender debate is divisive, with polls showing that many Americans want to protect trans people from discrimination, but also think that society has gone too far in accommodating them. A Gallup poll conducted last month found that a majority of Americans support allowing transgender men and women to serve openly in the military, though that percentage has declined since 2019. And nearly 80% do not believe transgender female athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports, according to a recent poll from The New York Times and Ipsos.
But the executive orders are notable for the way they try to frame the debate in moral terms, portraying trans people as lacking honesty and integrity, and thus unworthy of consideration when it comes to legal rights.
For instance, the orders use the term “biological reality” to imply a deliberate deception on the part of trans people, a trope that has historically been used to rationalize violence against them. In the first directive alone, that term appears six times.
The executive order on the military states that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.”
And the executive order on sports asserts that the participation of trans girls and women in women’s sports must be prohibited not just as a matter of safety and fairness but one of “dignity and truth.”
“This is on the worse end of the range of outcomes that I had anticipated,” said Alex Chen, director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy clinic at Harvard Law School. “They’re frontally attacking the validity of transgender existence, right? I don’t think there’s any other way to put it.”
For many supporters of trans rights, gender identity — how people think of themselves in terms of male, fe-
male or something else — is more malleable and more of a spectrum than traditional notions of sex allow. They also argue that gender identity is itself a critical determinant of a person’s sex, and likely has a biological factor.
Defining sex as only physical and fixed at conception “ignores the complexity of all of our bodies and experiences,” said Raquel Willis, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement, a trans advocacy group.
But many supporters of Trump’s trans policies, across the political spectrum, have chafed at what they see as pressure to replace sex with gender identity. The insistence on pushing gender identity to the forefront of how society organizes itself, they say, conflicts with what they believe are fundamental biological differences between men and women.
The language in Trump’s orders is channeling the anger over that cultural clash, whether it is about pronoun usage or trans athletes in women’s sports.
The president’s directives came packaged in five executive orders, adding up to more than 10,000 words. To “eradicate the biological reality of sex,” his first order says, deprives women “of their dignity, safety and well-being” and ultimately has a corrosive impact “not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system.”
The order goes on to define women as “belonging to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” Men, on the other hand, produce the small reproductive cell.
Even some critics of the transgender rights movement see the language as excessively strident.
Doriane Coleman, a Duke University law professor and an expert in gender and sports, has advocated that federal law return to the definition of “sex” that Trump has adopted. But she objects to the tone of the executive orders.
“Instead of just saying, ‘Trans movement strategy has
gone too far,’ they’re also saying, ‘Trans people are false and defective and not worthy of being seen,’” she said. “And that’s both wrong on the substance and understandably scary for trans people.”
One of the executive orders takes aim at medical treatments for transgender children, a hotly disputed issue. Two dozen states have barred doctors from treating minors with puberty blockers, hormones or surgeries. Several European countries have limited the treatments and are conducting research to gauge their efficacy.
On the other side, the American Academy of Pediatrics has so far continued to endorse the treatments as effective in relieving the psychological distress many transgender youths experience as a result of the incongruence between their sex and their gender identity.
The Trump administration’s order calls the practice of medical transition for youths “a stain on our nation’s history” and the medical guidelines “junk science.” It directs federal agencies to withhold funding for hospitals and medical schools that carry out transgender medical care for patients younger than 19, referring to it as “maiming.”
In a lawsuit filed last week challenging the order’s constitutionality, the attorneys general of Washington, Oregon and Minnesota noted the title, “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” saying it was “false and repugnant.”
Trump’s executive order on transgender troops is widely seen as particularly demeaning.
It declares that a transgender identity “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.”
And it lumps transgender identity with mental health conditions that are disqualifying for military service, including bipolar disorder and prior psychiatric hospitalization.
Last week, at a hearing challenging the order, Ana Reyes, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., told a government lawyer to be prepared to answer whether Trump’s language reflected a type of animus, which could factor into the arguments over its constitutionality.
“Isn’t this the type of infused animus that the Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down?” Reyes asked.
Trans activists say the debate unleashed by Trump’s orders further endangers a population that already feels vulnerable. And courts have stepped in. A temporary restraining order has blocked the Bureau of Prisons from housing transgender women with male inmates and from stopping transgender medical treatment.
But a few trans activists also see an opportunity.
Since the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015, “transgender issues have been seen under the umbrella of LGBTQ,” Chen said. “That may have obscured the fact that we never really have had a full debate about transgender identity the way we did about gay identity.”
“I always did think,” he added, “ultimately we would have to wage the battle on the merits with the public.”
President Donald Trump is surrounded by young female athletes as he signs an executive order aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports, at the White House in Washington on Feb. 5, 2025.
Justice Department accuses New York of favoring ‘illegal aliens’ over US citizens
By DEVLIN BARRETT
The Trump administration sued New York on Wednesday over its migrant policies and accused state officials of prioritizing “illegal aliens over American citizens,” escalating its political and legal battles with states over deportations.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, in her first news conference, specifically cited New York’s “green light” law, which allows people in the state to get a driver’s license regardless of citizenship or legal status.
Bondi, flanked by federal agents in raid jackets, vowed to put an end to those practices.
“It stops,” Bondi said. “It stops today.”
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Albany, said New York state law was the most egregious in that it requires state authorities “to promptly tip off any illegal alien when a federal immigration agency has requested his or her information.”
That, the lawsuit said, was “a frontal assault on the federal immigration laws, and
the federal authorities that administer them.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office made clear that it supported “deporting violent criminals who break our laws,” issuing a statement that noted that the governor did not believe law-abiding people should be targets.
“Our current laws allow federal immigration officials to access any DMV database with a judicial warrant,” the governor said in a statement. “That’s a common-sense approach that most New Yorkers support.”
The governor added that she expected the “publicity-driven” lawsuit would fail.
Molly Biklen, the interim legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, also questioned the merits of the case. The filing, she said, was “a gross intrusion into New York’s constitutional right to legislate in areas traditionally within its concern.”
Hochul was scheduled to head to Washington on Thursday for a hastily arranged lunch at the White House with President Donald Trump, according to a
discuss the situation. But she canceled the trip once Bondi announced her intention to sue Hochul and the state, the person said.
The lawsuit was a fresh salvo in efforts by the federal government to force more cooperation in carrying out Trump’s immigration agenda. The administration had already filed a similar challenge against Democratic officials in Illinois. Cities in California, Oregon and Connecticut, in
turn, sued the administration over its efforts to deny funding to localities that do not provide all the assistance it demands in apprehending and deporting immigrants in the country illegally.
The dispute revolves around the difference between state and federal laws. Immigration and deportation is a federal responsibility; states and cities often pass laws intended to assure their residents that cooperation with police and local authorities will not tip off immigration authorities.
A similar effort in Trump’s first term to strip funding from local jurisdictions failed in the courts. Bondi predicted this one would be successful because the Supreme Court would ultimately rule in the administration’s favor.
The announcement served as a warning shot not just at New York and Illinois, but at other unspecified states that Bondi suggested would also be sued.
“If you are a state not complying with federal law, you’re next; get ready,” Bondi said. “This is a new DOJ, and we are taking steps to protect American citizens.”
Shirts hang in a window at the Roosevelt Hotel, converted to house migrant families
How Elon Musk and the right are trying to recast reporting as ‘doxxing’
By KEN BENSINGER
For years, journalists have written about the social media posts of government employees to help reveal the positions, motivations and actions of public officials.
But when a journalist recently trained that same lens on Elon Musk’s new government efficiency program, the billionaire suggested that the reporting might be illegal, joining other powerful figures connected to the Trump administration who have made similar claims in recent weeks.
The offense, they argue, is doxxing: publishing private information about someone with malicious intent. The term refers to a revenge tactic, originally used by hackers, to bully, harass or intimidate people online, and can incite third parties to commit acts of violence.
Musk and others have expanded the definition this month, applying it to journalists and others seeking to hold the government accountable by reporting on public information. One Justice Department official appointed by President Donald Trump stated early last week that he had found evidence of lawbreaking from people who were “targeting” employees of Musk’s government efficiency program.
Although the official did not name names, civil liberty and free speech groups said his comments appeared to refer to several journalists who had recently uncovered new details about Musk’s efforts, including identifying some of the people working for him. Those advocates say that the First Amendment explicitly protects the kind of work reporters do and that government employees are by definition not protected from critical inquiry. Instead, they say, Musk and others are trying to intimidate and chill the media at a crucial moment.
“The term ‘doxxing’ has become unmoored from its origins to mean that someone posted something on the internet that I would rather not see,” said Will Creeley, legal director for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a free speech group best known as FIRE. “But if living in the U.S. in 2025 means you can expect a criminal investigation for criticizing the government, we’re all in a whole lot of trouble.”
The political right has increasingly ramped up an assault on mainstream journalists in recent weeks. Since his inauguration, Trump has amplified false claims that the government secretly funded news outlets including Politico, calling it “the biggest scandal of them all,” while taking time to name specific journalists and calling for them to be fired.
The Federal Communications Commission also opened an investigation into PBS and NPR and is investigating CBS News’ handling of a “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris last fall, which is the subject of a lawsuit filed by Trump. The Trump administration also recently gave space in the Pentagon dedicated to several large media organizations, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, to rightleaning outlets like Breitbart News and One America News Network.
Creeley’s group and almost three dozen other organizations are now asking Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who issued the public threats to prosecute those who interfere with Musk’s work, to explain what laws he believes were violated and whom he is investigating. In a letter
Bill Ackman, a hedge fund investor and backer of President Donald Trump, at a conference in New York, Nov. 4, 2024. Ackman called Katherine Long, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, an “evil, unethical liar” in a post that included her contact information. Elon Musk and the right are trying to recast news reporting as ‘doxxing’ and right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
last week, the organizations said any attempts to charge reporters or media outlets in that context would be unethical and illegal and violate the Constitution.
Harrison Fields, a White House spokesperson, said that the administration and DOGE had both been highly transparent. Fields also said that there had been no internal discussions about arresting members of the press but that “no one is above the law, including members of the media.”
Musk did not respond to an email seeking comment.
There is no federal anti-doxxing law, but more than a dozen states have enacted statutes to protect people from being doxxed. Some of those laws are tailored to apply only to certain public officials, such as police officers, public health officials or judges.
Martin’s statements followed new reporting on the socalled Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the group headed by Musk that is charged with reforming the federal government.
The first of those reports, published Feb. 2 by Wired, named six of the department’s recent hires, whose identities had previously not been public.
The next day, Musk took to X, his social media platform, to reply to an anonymous account that shared the names of those employees.
“You have committed a crime,” Musk wrote. The account was subsequently suspended, causing the post to disappear from the platform.
Charlie Kirk, a co-founder of the right-wing activist group Turning Point, soon after directly accused Wired of “doxxing DOGE employees” in a post to his 4.6 million followers on X. Hours after that, Martin posted a letter on Justice Department letterhead, tagging Musk and stating, “We will not tolerate threats against DOGE workers or lawbreaking by the disgruntled.”
Days later, Katherine Long, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, wrote an article stating that Marko Elez, 25, a DOGE employee who had been granted access to the Treasury Depart-
ment’s payments system, had in the past posted racist comments on a social media account. In response to Long’s inquiries with the White House, Elez resigned.
That prompted a series of attacks by Musk on X, who claimed that the reporter was a “disgusting and cruel person” who “should be fired immediately,” adding that her actions were “certainly improper, possibly criminal.”
Several hours later, Martin posted a second letter to Musk on X, thanking him for “the referral of several individuals and networks who appear to be stealing government property and/or threatening government employees.”
Wired said the Justice Department had not contacted it regarding the matter. Katie Drummond, the outlet’s global editorial director, said in a statement that “our coverage speaks for itself,” adding, “It is rigorously reported and fact-checked.”
A spokesperson at The Wall Street Journal said in a statement, “We stand by our reporter and our fair and accurate reporting.”
Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Virginia who specializes in issues around online privacy, said it was ironic that Long had been subjected to online harassment by the same people who cried foul over her reporting.
“This is a case of ‘privacy for me, but not for thee,’” Citron said.
She and others also said that despite their recent outrage over what they termed doxxing, Musk and others aligned with the Trump administration had a long history of publicly outing people they disagree with.
In October, for example, a group funded by the Heritage Foundation, the Trump-aligned nonprofit behind Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint for a Republican administration, published the names of 10 little-known employees of the Department of Homeland Security, calling them “America’s most subversive immigration bureaucrats.” Last week, it published the names of more than 50 other low-profile federal employees as part of what it calls a “DEI Watchlist.”
And in late November, Musk amplified posts on X that named four federal employees working on climate change issues, leading at least one of them to delete her social media accounts.
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Peace and prices – inflation vies with Ukraine talks
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Talks to end the Ukraine war have partly cut across the hot U.S. inflation report for world markets, reining in both oil prices and capping aggravated U.S. borrowing rates - while also lifting the euro and European shares.
Long-flagged by U.S. President Donald Trump as a priority, Wednesday’s news that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on talks to end the war dragged crude oil lower.
With Russia still the world’s third-largest oil producer, the prospect of some future lifting of sanctions on its crude exports saw U.S. oil prices fall back to $70 per barrel and close to the year’s lows - down some 4% from Tuesday’s close.
Helped by data showing a surprising build in crude stocks last week, that’s left year-on-year oil prices down almost 10% - tracking the biggest annual decline in two and a half months.
The Ukraine initiative emerged after January’s biggest monthly gain in U.S. consumer prices in 17 months had catapulted U.S. Treasury yields higher and all but removed futures pricing for a second Federal Reserve interest rate cut this year.
As it stands, barely one additional Fed cut is now priced for 2025 and not before October.
Even though market-based U.S. inflation expectations over two years hit their highest since shortly after the Ukraine invasion in 2022, the oil retreat helped drag 10-year yields back down about 6 basis points from three week highs hit after the CPI report. They hovered about 4.6% on Thursday.
And with producer price numbers out later today, Fed chair Jerome Powell emphasised on Wednesday that the bad news on CPI would not be taken in isolation and components from the PPI that feed into the Fed’s favoured ‘personal consumption expenditures’ (PCE) inflation gauge would be watched closely.
“You need to know the translation from CPI to PCE, and we get more data on that tomorrow with the Producer Price Index,” Powell told Congress, adding “we’ll know what the PCE reading is late tomorrow.”
Other Fed officials echoed Powell’s broad thrust that the Fed was in no hurry to lower rates again with so many wider
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uncertainties. Atlanta Fed boss Raphael Bostic said he would not be comfortable resuming rate cuts until there was more clarity.
The dollar’s reaction to the whole piece has been different than usual, with its main index slipping despite the hawkish Fed view and elevated Treasury yields.
That’s mainly because the euro got a shot in the arm from the prospect of a Ukraine deal that could boost European sentiment and possibly lift the long-standing energy squeeze in Europe - even with uncertain implications for European security longer term.
Euro zone stocks continued to set new record highs Thursday - gaining another 1% even as Wall Street ended in the red yesterday after the inflation jolt and S&P500 futures remained flat before today’s bell.
Remarkably, given the trends of recent years, the near 10% year-to-date gain in euro stocks in dollar terms is four times that of the S&P500 for 2025 so far.
Earnings season updates have helped the broader European equity complex. Nestle jumped 6% on its annual sales growth beat, boosting the food and beverages index by more than 2%.
Trump says call with Putin is beginning of Ukraine peace negotiations
By MAGGIE HABERMAN, ZOLAN KANNOYOUNGS and ANTON TROIANOVSKI
President Donald Trump said earlier this week that he had a “lengthy and highly productive phone call” with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, characterizing it as the beginning of a negotiation to end the war in Ukraine.
It was the first confirmed conversation between the two men during Trump’s second term, coming as Trump has made clear to advisers that finding a U.S.-backed end to the war that Russia began is a priority for his administration.
“We each talked about the strengths of our respective Nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine.” (An estimated several hundred thousand deaths have occurred in the conflict, not millions.)
For Putin, the call was a major milestone, signifying the collapse of Western efforts to isolate him diplomatically after he invaded Ukraine nearly three years ago. Ever since Trump’s reelection in November, the Russian president has heaped praise on Trump, underlining the Kremlin’s hope that the new American leader could reshape Moscow’s relationship with Washington and back away from supporting Ukraine.
Wednesday’s conversation between the two presidents came a day after Russia agreed to release an imprisoned American teacher in exchange for the United States returning a convicted cybercriminal to Russia.
Trump, for whom fear of a nuclear war dates back decades, has long sought a better relationship with Russia. At a summit with Putin in Helsinki in his first term, Trump accepted Putin’s statement that Russia did not interfere in the election he had won, a view that contradicted the assessment of U.S. intelligence officials.
Trump campaigned last year on a pledge to settle the war in Ukraine in “24 hours,” a hyperbolic description of his own deal-making skills that nonetheless underscored how important achieving a peace agreement was to him.
His announcement of a plan to work with Russia on a ceasefire comes amid fears in Ukraine that Putin and Trump would forge a close relationship that would push Ukraine to the sidelines in any peace talks.
President Donald Trump, right, meets with President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019. Trump said on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025 that he had a “lengthy and highly productive phone call” with Putin, characterizing it as the beginning of a negotiation to end the war in Ukraine. (Erin Schaff/ The New York Times)
After speaking to Trump on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine emphasized that he would be part of the process, writing on social media that he and the U.S. president were “charting our next steps to stop Russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace. As President Trump said, ‘Let’s get it done.’”
Trump said his conversation with Zelenskyy “went very well.”
“He, like President Putin, wants to make PEACE,” Trump wrote in a post, adding that an initial meeting would be held Friday in Munich, with a delegation led by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Trump did not elaborate on how Zelenskyy would factor into the discussions that he and Putin were setting in motion. Trump has long been skeptical of Ukraine and has never warmed to Zelenskyy.
The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that Putin’s call with Trump lasted almost an hour and a half.
He said that the two men agreed to hold a personal meeting and that Putin invited Trump to visit Moscow, something that Trump also alluded to in his social media post. Putin agreed with Trump that “the time has come for our countries to work together,” Peskov said.
On Ukraine, Putin told Trump of “the need to eliminate the root causes of the conflict,” Peskov said. That was a sign that Putin would not accept a simple ceasefire in Ukraine and would seek broader concessions from Ukraine and the West before he stopped fighting.
The Ukrainians appear to be facing an effort in which they have little leverage. The call between Putin and Trump came on the same day that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaking at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, said that it was an “unrealistic”
objective for Ukraine to restore its borders as they were before 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea. Hegseth added that the U.S. did not support Ukraine’s desire to join NATO as part of a realistic peace plan.
Hegseth also suggested that Europe needed to assume a greater role in its own defense, echoing a point that Trump has made for many years.
Trump echoed his defense secretary later Wednesday, telling reporters that “it’s unlikely” that Ukraine would return to its pre-2014 borders. “They took a lot of land and they fought for that land,” he said. The president then added that he thought that “some of it will come back.” Trump also said he thought that future NATO membership for Ukraine was not “practical.”
But Trump also said that he intended to continue sending financial support to Ukraine, adding that he wanted it “secured.” “If we didn’t do that, Putin would say he won,” Trump
said, in the clearest indication he has given that he recognizes that the aid is leverage in acquiring a deal.
Trump said he did not believe that Hegseth’s comments undermined negotiations with Russia. “I’m backing Ukraine,” Trump said from the White House.
After his call Wednesday with Trump, Zelenskyy wrote on social media that they discussed a plan that would secure continued U.S. support in exchange for access to Ukrainian natural resources and the “preparation of a new document on security, economic cooperation, and resource partnership.”
The United Nations said Wednesday that it welcomed any efforts leading to peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
“We would appreciate any efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine that would involve the Russian and Ukrainian sides, so obviously, if both of them are willing to be involved in the process, that would be a welcome development,” said Farhan Haq, a U.N. spokesperson.
After a meeting of European foreign ministers in Paris on Wednesday, the French Foreign Ministry said the participants — France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, Britain, Ukraine and the European Union — were prepared to increase support for Ukraine “in the face of Russia’s war of aggression.”
“We are looking forward to discussing the way ahead together with our American allies,” the ministry said in a statement. “Our shared objectives should be to put Ukraine in a position of strength. Ukraine and Europe must be part of any negotiations. Ukraine should be provided with strong security guarantees. A just and lasting peace in Ukraine is a necessary condition for a strong trans-Atlantic security.”
State Department to designate Latin American cartels as terrorist groups
By EDWARD WONG, MARIA ABI-HABIB, ERIC SCHMITT, HAMED ALEAZIZ and JULIAN E. BARNES
The Trump administration plans to designate more than a half-dozen criminal groups with roots in Latin America as foreign terrorist organizations, said five U.S. officials with knowledge of the imminent action.
The move, to be carried out by the State Department, follows an executive order President Donald Trump signed on Jan. 20 calling for a crackdown on major cartels. The designation is expected to be applied to eight groups, said two of the officials, though the list could change before a public announcement. The officials who spoke for this article did so on the condition of anonymity to talk about an action that has not been made public yet.
The executive order called for the designations, saying the cartels “constitute a
national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime” and that the United States would “ensure the total elimination” of the groups.
Trump gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio two weeks to make the designations in consultation with several other Cabinet members. The criminal groups and their members could be labeled foreign terrorist organizations or specially designated global terrorists, according to the order. The designations mean the U.S. government can impose broad economic sanctions on the groups and on people or entities linked to them.
The executive order referred in general to cartels in Mexico. It also specifically named Tren de Aragua, a group with roots in Venezuela, and Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, a gang founded by Salvadoran immigrants in the United States that plays a lesser role in the transnational drug trade.
Besides those two groups, the State Department plans to designate the Clan del
Golfo, based in Colombia, and five others based in Mexico. The Mexican organizations that will be designated are the Sinaloa cartel, Jalisco New Generation cartel, the Northeast cartel, the Michoacán Family and the United cartels, according to U.S. officials.
The State Department has informed several congressional committees of the upcoming designations, which could be announced by the White House as early as this week. The department did not reply to a request for comment.
Clan del Golfo, or Gulf Clan, has worked for over two decades with Mexican cartels, supplying cocaine for them to smuggle into the United States. After the price of cocaine plunged in 2017, the Colombian cartel moved aggressively into migrant smuggling to make up its financial losses.
A U.S. official with knowledge of the designation list said that the Gulf Clan was likely being added for its involvement in migrant trafficking. The group largely controls the Darién Gap, the narrow land bridge that connects South and North America.
Migrants from around the world — from China to Sudan to Venezuela — often fly to more permissible South American countries before heading to the Darién Gap on their journeys north to the United States. Many of those migrants pay thousands of dollars to operatives working for the Gulf Clan as a protection fee for traversing the land bridge.
The designation list was supposed to be completed last week, but may have been delayed because the State Department expanded it from the groups outlined in the executive order last month, according to a person familiar with the matter. Whether or not to include organized crime groups involved in migrant trafficking was discussed at length, partly causing the delay.
The Mexican cartels included on the list work closely with the Gulf Clan to smuggle migrants across Latin America into the United States.
Rubio completed his first trip as secretary of state this month, visiting five countries in Latin America. He spoke with his counterparts about migration and security issues, though he did not visit Mexico.
In an interview with podcast host Megyn Kelly on Jan. 30, Rubio talked about the need to dismantle Mexican drug cartels, saying that “there are parts of Mexico, many parts of Mexico, in which the government doesn’t control those areas.”
“They’re controlled by drug cartels,” he continued. “They are the most powerful force on the ground, and they are plowing into the
United States.”
“They’re facilitating illegal migration, but they are also bringing in fentanyl and deadly drugs to our country,” he added. “That’s a national security threat, and that needs to stop.”
In a call with his counterpart in Argentina on Monday, Rubio had discussed “shared security priorities in the region, including combating transnational organizations,” the State Department said.
Mexican officials have been in drawn-out negotiations with the Trump administration to stave off the terror designation for the cartels and organized crime groups that operate in their country, according to people familiar with the talks.
The Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels are the country’s largest and have cornered much of the fentanyl market for the United States, producing the synthetic opioid in Mexico before smuggling it north. A growing amount of fentanyl is being used by Mexican citizens, leading to rising addiction rates in the country.
The designation list includes a smaller cartel, Northeast, and two Mexican groups that American officials say are more akin to organized criminal organizations: the Michoacán Family and United cartels. Those groups tend to act as on-the-ground muscle for Mexico’s cartels to help them spread their territorial control.
An organized crime group is considered a cartel only if it controls enough of the drug trade to allow it to determine the price of any given narcotic in places like New York or London.
The net profits from the international operations of Mexico’s cartels could reach up to $20 billion annually, nearly 2% of Mexico’s gross domestic product, according to an American official. The San Juan
Mexican police officers at a crime scene in Culiacan, Mexico, the home territory of the Sinaloa cartel, on Sept. 27, 2024. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
The pharmaceutical industry heads into Musk’s wood chipper
By ZEYNEP TUFECKCI
In a month of one bombshell after another (and many all at the same time), it can be hard to track the damage that the Trump administration is inflicting. But unlike attacks on predictable issues like diversity, equity and inclusion and foreign aid, the announcement Friday that the National Institutes of Health would slash funding for medical research doesn’t make even cynical political sense. It’s a decision that would endanger Americans’ health, go against decades of bipartisan support and could torch one of the nation’s most astounding, productive and envied industries. On Monday, a U.S. District Court judge temporarily blocked the cuts for the 22 states that have sued to halt them, but don’t count on the administration to just drop the matter.
The NIH’s announcement was made, of course, in the language of “efficiency.” “Can you believe that universities with tens of billions in endowments were siphoning off 60 percent of research award money for ‘overhead’?” Elon Musk wrote. “What a rip-off!” The actual percentage is less than half that, but sure, put it all in the wood chipper.
The problem with doing that is that these grants are a crucial reason that America has the most advanced biomedical research infrastructure — the NIH awards grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 institutions, including the Mayo Clinic and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas — along with some of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Every dollar in NIH grants spurs $2.09 in economic
activity, and every $100 million in investment leads to 78 patents and $598 million in further research, according to NIH calculations. Those “overheads” help cover basic infrastructure that make all this possible.
The grants have been the source of new treatments for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, strokes and HIV; wonder drugs like Ozempic; groundbreaking techniques like IVF and laparoscopies. Cutting them will significantly narrow the pipeline to future cures and drugs.
Some of the biggest victims will be public institutions, especially those in red states. No wonder that, even in this era of Donald Trump’s total dominance of the Republican Party, the junior senator from Alabama, Katie Britt, quickly called for “a smart, targeted approach” that would not “hinder lifesaving, groundbreaking research at high-achieving institutions.”
Her motivation? Maybe it’s because the University of Alabama, Birmingham, one of the largest employers in her state, received more than $1 billion in recent years from the NIH, with an impressive record of results. In fiscal year 2023 alone, NIH grants totaled $1.85 billion across dozens of institutions in Texas, and $914 million in Florida. Tennessee received $770 million and so on. Britt is one of a long line of Republicans who have championed federal research dollars for universities and the NIH’s work with higher education. In 2015, Newt Gingrich argued for doubling the NIH budget because, on top of all the other benefits, good health saves money. In contrast, the severe cuts announced Friday would follow the playbook advocated by Project 2025, which maintained that such payments “cross-subsidize leftist agendas.”
It’s true that those wealthy East Coast universities that Musk called out for ridicule will probably be able to weather the storm. But their red-state cousins may not.
By law, all applicants for NIH grants divide their budgets between “direct costs” — the research itself — and “indirects,” which are more general costs like lab equipment, utility bills, payroll services and so on. Indirects also help cover NIH’s very expensive requirements for tracking dangerous chemicals, hazardous waste disposal, radiation safety, fire security and so on.
It’s hard to calculate that precisely (how much did it cost to have the lights on for 10 hours last Tuesday?) so decades ago, the government decided to do it as a percentage — written into the terms of the grant — of the whole. Which is the actually efficient way to do it.
So that $1 billion that the University of Alabama, Birmingham, received from the NIH in recent years? If the NIH cuts had been in place, the school would have had to come up with about $228 million to keep the lights on and to comply with all the regulations. Since the entire endowment of UAB is about $1 billion, it couldn’t simply have written the check. Instead, it would most likely have had to shut down a good deal of its research.
Now multiply that effect across all the labs across America that are working long hours to come up with better diabetes medications, new drugs to fight childhood cancers, interventions to help with chronic pain and bad backs and
busted knees and all the things that ail Americans. This will make Americans sick again, and move American companies to the back of a fast-moving and very profitable industry.
Make no mistake, the NIH does need change. Reductions in indirect rates may well be justified for certain institutions. It’s reasonable to ask if the NIH has gotten too cozy with some. Maybe other payment methods are better for a portion of these expenses. Maybe the NIH’s auditing can be improved. There is administrative bloat in many parts of higher education, and the NIH award process has gotten increasingly bureaucratic and unwieldy.
Hang on, a few more complaints: Many scientists say the NIH has been playing it too safe, funding surer but less ambitious bets rather than taking some smart chances on big swings, especially from junior scientists. Finally, China, which just upended the artificial intelligence world with DeepSeek, is nipping at the heels of the U.S. in biomedical research, too.
So cost-savings and reforms might be on the agenda for the new NIH direc —
Wait. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s pick to lead the institution, hasn’t even been installed yet. Why this rush to these sweeping changes before his first day on the job?
It’s not as if he was promising to preserve the status quo. Bhattacharya has been a harsh and loud critic of the NIH. I’ve not always agreed with him, but he was right that many pandemic policies deserved criticism and evaluation. The NIH has been sluggish and overly defensive.
But it appears that Bhattacharya won’t even make it to his new position before the NIH undergoes one of the most drastic changes in decades — led not by him, but DOGE, the group named for a dog that was an internet meme that became a satirical cryptocoin. Can’t wait. A blitzkrieg requires speed and surprise to confuse the enemy.
It was nice having the world’s most important, most vital medical research infrastructure. But enough.
Elon Musk makes remarks at the Oval Office, where President Donald Trump signed executive orders, at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
CBP y Royal Caribbean implementan tecnología biométrica para desembarque de pasajeros en Puerto Rico
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SAN JUAN – Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de los Estados Unidos (CBP), en colaboración con Royal Caribbean, implementó por primera vez la tecnología de comparación facial biométrica en el desembarque de pasajeros de cruceros en Puerto Rico. La iniciativa debutó el 2 de febrero con el Rhapsody of the Seas, que atracó en el Muelle 4 del Puerto de San Juan con más de 2,000 pasajeros.
“El lanzamiento exitoso de nuestra herramienta de comparación facial biométrica marca un avance significativo en la seguridad de las fronteras de nuestra nación. Al agilizar el proceso de desembarque, capacitamos a nuestro personal de CBP para que se concentre en la aplicación de la ley y la protección de nuestras comunidades”, expresó Roberto Vaquero, director de
Operaciones de Campo de CBP en San Juan. La tecnología permite que los pasajeros se detengan en un quiosco con una cámara, donde en segundos su imagen se compara biométricamente con los docu-
mentos registrados, agilizando el proceso de despacho hasta en un 30 por ciento. CBP aseguró que la privacidad de los pasajeros está protegida, ya que las líneas de cruceros no conservan ni almacenan las imágenes capturadas.
Los pasajeros que prefieran no utilizar el sistema biométrico pueden solicitar una verificación alternativa con un oficial de CBP. La implementación de esta tecnología en San Juan se logró gracias a la colaboración entre CBP, Royal Caribbean y proveedores tecnológicos.
Esta medida busca modernizar la experiencia de viaje, garantizando un desembarque más rápido y seguro sin comprometer las medidas de seguridad fronteriza. Para más información sobre la tecnología de comparación facial biométrica, se puede acceder a www.cbp.gov.
Tramo de la PR-129 entre Hatillo y Lares sigue cerrado por inestabilidad del terreno
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– Un tramo de la carretera PR-129 entre Hatillo y Lares continúa cerrado mientras la Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación (ACT) evalúa la estabilidad del terreno tras un deslizamiento ocurrido el pasado 5 de febrero, informó el jueves el alcalde Carlos Román Román.
“Reitero mi postura en que para reabrir el tramo de carretera se debe garantizar la seguridad de quienes laboran en el área y de aquellos que discurren por la misma. Ante esto y luego de la visita del especialista en suelos, se entiende necesario y como medida de seguridad mantener la carretera cerrada por algunos días más”, indicó Román Román en declaraciones escritas.
El deslizamiento ocurrió en el kilómetro 11.1 como
consecuencia de un proyecto en ejecución por la ACT. Debido al cierre, cientos de personas han tenido que utilizar rutas alternas por las carreteras PR-134 y PR487, afectando también la actividad comercial en la zona.
Román Román instruyó a su equipo a identificar posibles ayudas para los comercios impactados por el cierre. “Sabemos que esta situación complica el intercambio de bienes y servicios en la zona, por lo cual es necesario colaborar con ellos. Más adelante espero anunciar el resultado de este esfuerzo que se atiende con carácter de urgencia”, expresó.
Aún no se ha determinado cuándo se reabrirá la vía, pero Román Román exhortó a la ciudadanía a estar atenta a las plataformas digitales oficiales del municipio para actualizaciones sobre el progreso de los trabajos.
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Love Valentine’s Day? Hate it? These movies are for you.
By ESTHER ZUCKERMAN
Valentine’s Day can be surprisingly divisive. For some, it’s about hope and romance; for others it’s a slap in the face from a cold, hard world. Here are a few films that speak to the emotional state of each faction.
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‘Mississippi Masala’ (1992)
Stream it on Max.
Mira Nair’s film about star-crossed lovers in the American South is rich with themes. Centering on the daughter of an Indian family from Uganda who left after persecution by Idi Amin’s government, “Mississippi Masala” tackles assimilation and colorism, among other thorny topics. But at the heart of it all is the romance between a young Indian woman, Mina (Sarita Choudhury), and a Black man, Demetrius (Denzel Washington), who first meet when she accidentally rear-ends his van. Choudhury and Washington are electric together, with Washington especially turning on a kind of smolder that stands out even in his storied career. Ultimately, it’s a tale of love thriving in a world governed by racism that doesn’t offer trite reconciliation, but does provide genuine chemistry.
‘Roman Holiday’ (1953)
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Was Rome considered one of the most romantic cities in the world before William Wyler’s film? Probably, but this classic did a lot to bolster the Italian destination’s reputation as a sparkling spot of dreams. Audrey Hepburn, in the role that won her an Oscar, plays Princess Ann, a young royal balking at her professional responsibilities. So she wanders out into the night and into the arms of Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), an American journalist who thinks he’s lucked into the story of his life. Both Ann and Joe are trying to conceal their true identities from one another, but over the course of their tour through the ancient sites, their eyes reveal their true amorous intentions. Yes, the ending is bittersweet, but it’s also beautiful.
‘Saving Face’ (2004)
Rent or buy it on most major platforms.
Alice Wu’s film belongs in the pantheon of great underappreciated rom-coms. This lesbian romance centers on Wil (Michelle Krusiec), an ambitious surgeon in New York who hides her sexuality from her mother (Joan Chen) so as not to rattle the close-knit Chinese community in Queens where she grew up. Wil’s attempts to keep her secrets are complicated when she finds a love interest in her boss’ daughter, Vivian (Lynn Chen). Meanwhile, Wil’s mother develops a scandal of her own: She finds herself unmarried and pregnant. Exiled from her insular world until she finds a husband, Ma moves in with her daughter. Wu’s film balances the love story between Wil and Vivian with a mother-daughter bonding saga that makes this film a treat.
‘Phantom Thread’ (2017)
Stream it on the Criterion Channel. Rent or buy it on most major platforms.
Is poisoning your loved one with toxic mushrooms so that you can care for him on his sick bed romantic? Writerdirector Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama posits that it is — de-
vastatingly so. Anderson’s most sumptuous film casts Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock, a fashion designer in 1950s London whose world is upended by the arrival of Alma (Vicky Krieps), a waitress who becomes his muse and model. Alma and Reynolds are both feisty figures, and their refusal to bend to each other results in a hilarious and twisted conclusion that is somehow also swoon-worthy. “Phantom Thread” is for the lovers with a bit of an edge.
‘Before Sunrise’ (1995)
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The spark of young love has never been more intoxicating than it is in Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise,” the walkand-talk rom-com that spurned so many imitators, along with two sequels. An American, Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and a Frenchwoman, Céline (Julie Delpy), meet on a train and impulsively decide to get off in Vienna, agreeing to spend one glorious day together. Linklater seemingly understands that the sexiest possible way of flirting is through conversation. The whole movie feels like intellectual foreplay, because Jesse and Céline get deep quickly: Before they even disembark they are talking about death. By the time they sleep together it feels as if they understand more about each other’s opinions than most couples do in movies or real life.
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‘Bachelorette’ (2012)
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In the mood for a downright mean film? Turn to Leslye Headland’s caustic “Bachelorette.” There are few warm and fuzzy feelings in this marriage-centric story. Instead, it follows a group of three high school friends who reunite for the nuptials of one of their compatriots, Becky (Rebel Wilson), the girl they always mocked behind her back. Kirsten Dunst gives one of her most underrated performances as Regan, the bitter maid of honor, who is furious she has to pretend to be overjoyed for Becky. Meanwhile, their other pal Katie (Isla Fisher) is thinly concealing addiction issues, and Gena (Lizzy Caplan) is trying to hide from her ex (Adam Scott). The night before the big day
goes quickly awry — a dress is ripped, many drugs are consumed. You’ll cringe and decide to tear up that next invitation.
‘Gone Girl’ (2014)
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“What have we done to each other?” That’s the final question in David Fincher’s juicy take on marriage gone very wrong. Based on the bestselling Gillian Flynn novel, “Gone Girl” is the most fun you’ll have watching two people tear each other apart. The saga begins with the disappearance of Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), aka “Amazing Amy,” a gorgeous blond woman from a wealthy family who moved to Missouri for her husband, Nick (Ben Affleck, in possibly his best role). Nick is immediately the suspect, but the truth of what happened to Amy is so much darker and disturbingly funnier than a simple case of murder. “Gone Girl” is bloody and spiky, and just might turn you off marriage forever.
‘The Invisible Man’ (2020)
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Leigh Whannell’s 2020 reimagining of the classic Universal monster movie “The Invisible Man” has an ingenious and upsetting hook. In Whannell’s take, the title villain is an abusive ex-boyfriend to Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss). An expert in the field of “optics,” this invisible man, Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), fakes his death and then terrorizes Cecilia using a suit that makes him undetectable. Whannell’s direction is eerily unsettling as he weaponizes empty corners for terror, and Moss’ performance conveys the anguish of a woman realizing that her attacker is hidden in plain sight in a way no one will believe. But as disturbing as “The Invisible Man” is, it also plays as a thrill ride with an incredibly satisfying conclusion.
‘Sleep’ (2024)
Stream it on Disney+ or Hulu.
Being newly married with a baby on the way is a stressful time. “Sleep,” the conniving little South Korean horror film from Bong Joon Ho’s protégé Jason Yu, adds a bad case of sleepwalking to the mix. For instance, what’s pregnant Soo-jin (Jung Yumi) to do when her husband, Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun), wakes up with a bloody face? Should she trust her husband around her newborn? (Or their cute little white Pomeranian for that matter?) “Sleep” takes the doubt that any couple might have in the early phases of their marriage and amplifies it with the question of unconscious violence.
‘Before Midnight’ (2013)
Stream it on the Criterion Channel.
“Before Sunrise” will warm your heart. “Before Midnight” will break it. After two movies in which we watch Jesse and Céline fall in love, “Before Midnight” is a bracing dose of reality, and sometimes painful to watch. Nearly 10 years after “Before Sunset,” the middle part of Linklater’s trilogy in which these two reunite in Paris, the director enlisted Hawke and Delpy again to star in and write a conclusion to the story. It should be a depiction of a happy ending. These two — who we always thought were meant to be — are finally together, on a vacation in Greece with their two young children. Alas, instead of bliss they are mired in arguments, questioning all the choices that led them to this moment.
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in a scene from “Before Sunrise” (1995)
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The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico 25th Anniversary Holiday Kickoff
By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS
The Museum of Art of Puerto Rico held a special holiday event to bring the exquisite space to life and celebrate new beginnings in the upcoming year. The impressive event counted with the music of Tuna los Segreles and Grupo Sin Prisa and passed Puerto Rican-inspired delicacies curated by the exceptional Chef Marisol, which also counted with champagne and signature bar areas. To kick off the festivities, Maria C. Gaztambide, Executive Director, MAPR, shared the museum’s goals and Marcos RodríguezEma thanked the new Silver Circle club for their contribution to the 25th Anniversary activities. The event culminated with a delicious chef-inspired buffet and the traditional lechon, and guests in fabulous attire danced the night away.
Frank Lee, Laila Lee Zulma Licha and René de la Cruz
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Puerto Rico
Laura López, Myrna Z. Pérez
Viviana Mercado, Francisco Feliú
Denise Chinea, Aileen Rosso and Amarilis Alejandro
Verónica Viso, VP of the MAPR board and Antoine de Masily
Ignacio Iraola and Marlene de Quesada
Vilma Colón and her husband with Chef Marisoll
Jose Orlando Pabón, Milton Cruz and Rafael Perez
María C. Gaztambide, executive director, MAPR, and Myrna Z. Pérez, director of development and membership
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Why the odds of an asteroid striking Earth in 2032 keep going up (and down)
By ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS
Since December, astronomers have been carefully studying whether an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long will impact the Earth in just under eight years. And the odds, overall, seem to be rising.
On Jan. 29, the chances of this asteroid (named 2024 YR4) striking our planet on Dec. 22, 2032, were 1.3%. Then they rose to 1.7% on Feb. 1, before dropping the next day to 1.4%.
Then on Thursday, they leaped to 2.3%, before slipping slightly to 2.2% on Friday. That’s a 1-in-45 chance of an impact (but also a 44-in-45 chance of a miss).
To many, this feels unsettling. But what appears scary is, in fact, typical when it comes to newly discovered near-Earth asteroids.
“It is true that the probability of impact has doubled recently, but that doesn’t mean that it will keep doing so,” said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California who is involved in overseeing the programs that make these orbital calculations. “What matters is that the probability of impact is very small, and that it is likely to drop to zero as we keep observing 2024 YR4.”
Two key organizations are involved in calculating these impact odds. They are the NASA center Farnocchia works at, and the Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre in Italy, which is part of the European Space Agency. These groups are the cartographers of near-Earth space, looking out for parts of the cosmic map where they can mark “here be dragons” — in this case, potentially hazardous asteroids or comets.
When an asteroid (or a comet) is discovered, both centers use their automated orbital dynamics software (Scout and Sentry for NASA, and Meerkat and Aegis for the European center) to consider the available observations of the object.
When the asteroid’s many possible future orbits are plotted out, some may result in an Earth impact. But many of these orbits will shift away from Earth, so the probability of an impact will be low. It’s as if the asteroid has a wide spotlight that’s beaming out ahead of it. Earth is initially caught in the beam, but so is a lot of the space around it.
Then, more observations come in. The spotlight of those possible orbits shrinks. The outliers are gone. But Earth is still in the spotlight and now takes up proportionally more space in it. “Earth now covers a larger fraction of the uncertainty, and so the probability of impact has gone up,” Farnocchia said.
This can happen for some time as observations continue. “That’s why the impact probability rises,” said Juan Luis Cano, an aerospace engineer with the Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre. “Little by little, it grows.” And it explains what’s been happening with 2024 YR4’s odds. Sometimes, as has been the case for 2024 YR4, the
In an image provided by NASA, Circled in green, Asteroid 2024 YR4’s impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1 percent to a 2.3 percent chance on Dec. 22, 2032. Such shifting ‘odds’ are typical when it comes to calculating the trajectories of newly discovered near-Earth asteroids. (NASA Atmospheric Laboratory of Applications and Science via The New York Times)
odds can fluctuate slightly. This is because the quality of some observations can be better or worse than others, which can move the cluster of anticipated orbits around a bit. “All this is expected,” Farnocchia said.
Normally, additional observations significantly reduce the orbital uncertainty, and Earth falls out of that trajectory — dropping the impact odds to zero. Humanity will have to see whether the same outcome awaits 2024 YR4.
Telescopes can observe 2024 YR4 until April, after which time it will be too distant and faint to see until another Earth flyby in 2028. By April, it’s likely that astronomers will have enough observations of the asteroid, spread across several months, to know its orbit precisely, and they will ultimately determine that no impact will occur in 2032. “People should not be worried at this point,” Cano said.
Nevertheless, 2024 YR4 is being taken seriously by NASA and ESA. “Even though the probability of impact is small, it is larger than we usually find for other asteroids,” Farnocchia said.
If this asteroid were to hit Earth, it would unleash a destructive force similar to a nuclear bomb. And the current uncertainty over its future orbit extends to its possible impact locations, which include a mix of uninhabited, sparsely populated and densely populated areas: the eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, parts of Africa, the Arabian Sea and South Asia. 2024 YR4 is unlikely to be on a collision course. But “we don’t get to choose when the next significant asteroid impact will be,” Farnocchia said. “We just don’t want to take any chances, and so we will keep tracking
2024 YR4.”
And if it does become a problem, it may be time for Earth to rally anti-asteroid defenses.
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DEPARTAMENTO DE DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO Y COMERCIO Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos
AVISO PÚBLICO
SOLICITUD DE PERMISO PARA LA EXTRACCIÓN DE MATERIALES DE LA CORTEZA TERRESTRE
De conformidad con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 132 de 25 de junio de 1968, según enmendada, conocida como Ley para Reglamentar la Extracción de Arena, Grava y Piedra, y el Reglamento Conjunto para la Evaluación y Expedición de Permisos Relacionados al Desarrollo, Uso de Terrenos y Operación de Negocios (Reglamento Conjunto), vigente, Ley Núm. 1612009, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley para la Reforma del Proceso de Permisos de Puerto Rico” y cualquier otra disposición de ley aplicable, la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (“OGPe”) informa que ha sido radicada para su consideración una Solicitud de Permiso para la Extracción de Materiales de Corteza Terrestre, según adelante se detalla:
CASO NÚM.: 2015-064764-PCT-PFO-300247
TIPO: (NUEVO)
PETICIONARIO: WCCC INVESTMENT, INC.
DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: P.O. BOX 977
BARRANQUITAS PUERTO RICO, 00794 LUGAR DE EXTRACCION: CARR. RAMAL 152, KM. 0.3, BO HELECHAL, BARRANQUITAS, P.R, 00794 KM 0.2 DEL MUNICIPIO DE SAN LORENZO MATERIAL PARA EXTRAERSE: CAPA VEGETAL y RELLENO
CANTIDAD DIARIA PARA EXTRAERSE: 200.00 METROS CÚBICOS DIARIOS CANTIDAD TOTAL A EXTRAER
DURANTE LA VIGENCIA DEL PERMISO: 22,000 METROS CÚBICOS
TÉRMINO DE VIGENCIA: CINCO (5) AÑOS NATURALES USO DE EXPLOSIVOS: NO
Con el propósito de recopilación de información o comentarios que pueda ser considerada para la evaluación de la solicitud, por este medio se notifica al público en general, entidades gubernamentales y/o partes interesadas, sobre la acción propuesta. Las personas que tengan información o comentarios que puedan ser útiles en la evaluación de la acción propuesta, o que deseen solicitar la celebración de una vista pública, podrán hacerlo en cualquier fecha dentro de los treinta (30) días calendario siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Aviso.
Todo comentario o solicitud deber presentarse haciendo referencia al número de solicitud, y ser enviados a través de notificaciones_ogpe@ddec.pr.gov o al PO Box 41179, San Juan, PR 00940-1179. En la solicitud o comentarios deberá hacerse constar en detalle los hechos en que funda su derecho a comparecer y ser escuchada y si interesa oponerse a lo solicitado, haciendo constar los motivos o fundamentos por los cuales no debe concederse el permiso solicitado. Transcurrido el término de treinta (30) días, no se considerará ninguna solicitud a estos efectos y la OGPe procederá con la evaluación y trámite del documento presentado.
Cualquier persona podrá requerir examinar el expediente o solicitar copia de este mediante solicitud (SCE) a través del Single Business Portal en la página www.sbp.ogpe.pr.gov o en cualquier oficina de la OGPe.
En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 6 de febrero de 2025.
Autorizado
por la suma de $267,000.00 con intereses al 5.560% anual y vencimiento 1 de octubre de 2083. Constituida por la escritura 55 otorgada en San Juan el 18 de febrero de 2010 ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer. Inscrita el 30 de agosto de 2010, al folio 202 del tomo 690 de Toa Baja, finca 5740, inscripción 12ª. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $267,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, EL 25 DE MARZO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $178,000.00 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $133,500.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón el 1RO DE ABRIL DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $116,161.82 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $152,700.19 en intereses acumulados al 13 de septiembre de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.560% anual hasta su total y completo pago; y otros gastos acumulados. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados al 13 de septiembre de 2024 es de $302,766.17 y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora hasta su pago total; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca., todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. Se notifica
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Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05758. (Salón: 501). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM. A: JOSE ANTONIO VELAZQUEZ
RODRIGUEZ, ABDON VELAZQUEZ
RODRIGUEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION
JOSE ANTONIO VELAZQUEZ RIVERA T/C/C JOSE ANTONIO VELAZQUEZ, T/C/C
JOSE A. VELAZQUEZ
RIVERA T/C/C JOSE A. RORIGUEZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION FLOR
MARIA RODRIGUEZ
MALDONADO T/C/C
FLOR M. RODRIGUEZ DE VELAZQUEZ T/C/C
FLOR M. RODRIGUEZ
MALDONADO T/C/C/
FLOR M. RODRIGUEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-
cribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 04 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA.
NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. FREDDIE A SANTIAGO SANTIAGO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2024CV01232. (Civil: 406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: FREDDIE A. SANTIAGO SANTIAGO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 04 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia
Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de febrero de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 04 de febrero de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. LUIS A
. ECHEVARRIA RIVERA Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PE2024CV00036. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: LUIS A. ECHEVARRÍA RIVERA - P/C LIC. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de febrero de 2025. En Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, el 04 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ
QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. ADELAIDA LUGO PACHECO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. SUCESION PAULA CINTRON VICENTE Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GM2024CV00740. (Sala: 302). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
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A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCN. PAULA CINTRON VICENTE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de febrero de 2025. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 06 de febrero de 2025. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. LUZ MARÍA GUZMÁN SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. WALESSA
DONE MONTERO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03501. (Civil: 409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM.
A: WALESSA
DONE MONTERO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de febrero de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 06 de febrero de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. SUCESION SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ TORRES Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05706. (Salón: 702). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION SANTIAGO
RODRIGUEZ TORRES T/C/C SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ T/C/C
SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZTORRES; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ANA CELIA YAMBO GONZALEZ T/C/C ANA CELIA RODRIGUEZ YAMBO T/C/C ANA CELIA RODRIGUEZ T/C/C ANA C. YAMBO-GONZALEZ T/C/C ANA C. YAMBO GONZALEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. ALEXANDER MELENDEZ MALDONADO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: VB2021CV00229. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: ALEXANDER MELENDEZ MADONADO
- PARCELAS AMADEO, 16 CALLE C, VEGA BAJA PR 00693; PARCELAS AMADEO, CALLE 6 BUZON 16, VEGA BAJA PR 00693. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de noviembre de 2021, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de febrero de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: ENMENDADA PARA SER PUBLICADA. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 06 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante V. JULIO A. QUEVEDO SANTOS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV04062. (Salón: 504 CRIMINAL Y TRÁNSITO). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
KENNEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: JULIO A. QUEVEDO SANTOS. (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 debi-
damente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de febrero de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL, SE VENCIÓ EL TÉRMINO PARA LA PUBLICACIÓN DE LA SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 05 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Plaintiff V. MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES RAMÍREZ-VARGAS, ELÍ ANTONIO RAMÍREZVARGAS, IVETTE ROSARIO RAMÍREZVARGAS, OSCAR ALBERTO RAMÍREZVARGAS, JANINE DE LOURDES RAMÍREZVARGAS, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATES
Defendants Civil No.: 24-1491. (FAB). SUMMONS.
TO: JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATES OF ELÍ ANTONIO
RAMÍREZ MIRANDA A/K/A ELIA NATONIO RAMIREZ MIRANDA AND MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES VARGAS VALES A/K/A MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES VARGAS
GUAYNABO, PR 00969. Pursuant to the Order Authorizing Service of Process by Publication entered on February 5, 2025 by the United States District Court, you are SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons, by serving your original pleas or answers in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving copies to counsel for plaintiff: Attorney Juan C. Fortuño-Fas, at PO Box 3908, Guaynabo, PR 00970, telephone number 787751-5290, e-mail address: dcfilings@fortuno-law.com. This Summons shall be published only once in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant parties JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATES OF ELÍ ANTONIO RAMÍREZ MIRANDA A/K/A ELIA NATONIO RAMÍREZ MIRANDA AND MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES
VARGAS VALES A/K/A MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES VARGAS, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to their last known addresses. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer the Complaint as ordered by the Court and notified by this Summons, the Court will enter default against you, and shall proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons are issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civil P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 6th, 2025. ADA I. GARCÍA-RIVERA, CLERK OF THE COURT. ANA DURÁN, DEPUTY CLERK.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. DEREK L. MARTINEZ AYALA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2023CV03460. (Salón: 703). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EDWIN OMAR SERRANO PEÑAEDWIN.SERRANO@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: DEREK L. MARTINEZ AYALA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de septiembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 05 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. ANGEL M. FLECHA CARRION
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CT2024CV00023. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: ANGEL M. FLECHA CARRION. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos
de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 05 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. GENESIS M. COLLAZO COLON
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV02822. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: GENESIS M. COLLAZO COLON.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 05 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. SUZETTE M. CASTILLO MONTANEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV02580. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: SUZETTE M. CASTILLO MONTAÑEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 05 de febrero de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Lureimy Alicea González, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE GUAYAMA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. IRIS N. VILLEGAS DE LEON
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AY2023CV00088. (Salón: 306 SALA MIXTA,
DRUG COURT, CR, TR, VP).
Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. A: IRIS N. VILLEGAS DE LEON. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de enero de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de febrero de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENVÍA NUEVAMENTE LA NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO, SEGÚN ORDENADO POR EL HONORABLE JUEZ. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 06 de febrero de 2025. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIVEE GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
AUSTIN BUSINESS
FINANCE, LLC
Demandante V. JOTA, INC. POR CONDUCTO DE SU PRESIDENTE JEREMIE CRUZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: IS2024CV00134. (Salón: 603 CIVIL). Sobre: EXEQUÁTUR. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSCAR A. DÍAZ CRUZODIAZ@SLG-PR.COM. A: JEREMIE CRUZ - DIRECCIÓN: URB. VISTAS DE MONTE SOL # 527 CALLE NEPTUNO YAUCO, PR 00698; JOTA, INC. - DIRECCIÓN:396 AVE. NOEL ESTRADA, ISABELA PR 00662.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 05 de febrero de 2025. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 05 de febrero de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO
Demandante V. LILINET PABÓN CANCEL
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SG2024CV00423. (Salón: 0100). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. JOSÉ F. GIRD MEJÍASJGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM.
A: LILINET
PABÓN CANCEL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de enero de 2025, 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 07 de febrero de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA PARA ELIMINAR A LA DEMANDADA. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 07 de febrero de 2025. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria. Wanda Rivera Ortiz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
E.M.I. EQUITY
MORTGAGE, INC.
Demandante V. YAJAIRA SOSTRE SANTOS T/C/C YAHAIRA SOSTRE SANTOS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV06071. (Salón: 501). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CMPRLAW.COM. A: YAJAIRA SOSTRE SANTOS T/C/C YAHAIRA
SOSTRE SANTOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de febrero de 2025, 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 07 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 07 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Canóvanas will use $800,000 to host the Carolina Giants in its coliseum
By THE STAR STAFF
The Carolina Giants will play at Carlos Miguel Mangual Coliseum in Canóvanas during the 2025 season of the National Superior Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) league, the team’s manager Héctor Horta confirmed earlier this week.
Horta said the decision was made after all resources were exhausted in the team’s efforts to persuade the municipal administration of Carolina and its mayor, José Carlos Aponte Dalmau, to reconsider their refusal to make Guillermo Angulo Coliseum available.
“We tried everything,” Horta said Tuesday in a written statement. “We exhausted all resources in good faith to be able to talk, but we never received communication from the municipality.”
“This year our family will move to a new home, Canóvanas,’ the manager said in a letter addressed to Giants (Gigantes) fans. “The land of the little giant Angelo Cruz, of the legendary Ramón Ramos, of a Charlie Bermúdez, of a Bernardo Figueroa, among
others.”
“This season the team will bear the name of the Carolina/ Canóvanas Giants,” he added. “We will be the bridge that will unite two towns, the route that will unite a region from the Metro to the entire East. Our most sincere thanks to our fans, season ticket holders and sponsors for their support throughout this process.”
In turn, Horta expressed gratitude for the support of Canóvanas Mayor Lornna Soto Villanueva and all the entities that have supported the transition, as well as district lawmakers in both chambers of the island Legislature.
“We are extremely grateful to the Municipality of Canóvanas and its mayor, Lornna Soto, for opening the doors of Carlos Miguel Mangual Coliseum to us,” he said. “In addition, we extend our gratitude to the BSN Board of Directors and its president Ricardo Dalmau for approving this transfer in record time for the benefit of the League and sports in general.”
Soto, meanwhile, celebrated the arrival of the Giants to her municipality.
Philadelphia will close schools for Super Bowl parade
By JOHN YOON
It was a dream come true for Philadelphia children when the Eagles soared to a Super Bowl victory Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs. Now they’re getting a second wish granted: a day off school to celebrate with the champions at the city’s Super Bowl parade.
The School District of Philadelphia said earlier this week that it would close all of its schools Friday, freeing up nearly 200,000 students to join what is expected to be a million-strong crowd flooding the city’s streets. Nearly 20,000 school staff members will also get the day off.
“We look forward to joyfully celebrating the Eagles’ victory as a community,” the district announced Tuesday, in what might be a formal way of saying, “Go Birds!”
The parade will travel through Center City, starting at 11 a.m.
at Lincoln Financial Field, heading north past City Hall and ending by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, according to the city’s map of the route.
Parents face the decision of whether to bring their children to a parade that could involve, in some sections, standing shoulder to shoulder with strangers in temperatures expected to hover in the 30s. Others might opt to take an impromptu vacation, as Philadelphia schools will also be closed Monday for Presidents Day, giving students a four-day weekend.
Social media was buzzing with opinions and recommendations about the parade, ranging from optimists booking Airbnbs near the stadium to cautious parents advising others to leave their children at home with a sitter.
Philadelphia’s public safety officials issued some precautions for parents who planned to bring children to the parade: Make sure they are wearing bright colors; snap a photo of them before
“It is an honor to receive the Carolina Giants in Canóvanas,” the mayor said. “We will work together to ensure that the team and the fans have the best possible experience in our coliseum.”
As part of the transition plan, the Giants administration and the Municipality of Canóvanas will work together to ensure that the sports venue is in optimal condition for the season that will begin in mid-March.
Among the planned improvements to the coliseum is the installation of new seats in the “courtside” and box areas, bleachers in the general area, installation of an air-conditioning system and lighting. There also was an expansion of administrative offices, a VIP area for subscribers and sponsors, renovation of food booths and installation of an audiovisual system.
The total investment amounts to some $800,000, from private and public funds.
The change of venue was unanimously endorsed by the BSN. In addition, the league’s board of directors approved the freezing of Carolina’s position for an indefinite period as a show of support for Horta.
leaving; and write their phone number on a bracelet, on their wrist or on a piece of paper in their pocket, in case child and parent get separated.
Other educational institutions around Philadelphia jumped on the bandwagon: Temple University and nearby school districts like Gloucester City School District, in South Jersey, and Ridley School District, in Delaware County, all canceled classes.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia Schools, which oversees Catholic schools in the city and its suburbs, also announced that its high schools, parish and regional elementary schools would be closed.
Transit officials said that there would be limited train service starting from early morning and congestion in the roads because of the street closures. City officials also said that government offices, city daytime centers and courts would be shut as well.
The timing of the parade, falling on Valentine’s Day, drew some grumbling from restaurant and flower shop owners in the city, some of whom complained the parade would affect their dinner service and deliveries. Mayor Cherelle Parker of Philadelphia sought to calm those concerns at a news conference Tuesday.
