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A power outage in San Juan on June 10, 2021. Tuesday’s New Year’s Eve blackout, described by LUMA Energy as “systemwide,” appeared to be significantly bigger than outages that occurred this past summer.
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By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ, VICTOR MATHER, EDUARDO MEDINA and CHRISTINA MORALES
Asweeping blackout hit Puerto Rico early Tuesday morning, plunging most of the island into darkness on New Year’s Eve.
Across the island, which has long been plagued with widespread power outages, residents woke up with a familiar feeling of resignation and deep frustration, as officials warned that the power outage could persist through New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Only about 13% of Puerto Rico’s 1.4 million utility customers had power Tuesday morning in what was described as a “systemwide” blackout, according to LUMA Energy, which operates the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system. The private consortium said it had restored service to about 44,700 customers — about 3% of those affected — by 1 p.m., but did not specify how many remained without power.
LUMA said on social media that “preliminary findings point to a fault on an underground line.” It said that it planned to restore power in phases and that “the entire process will take between 24-48 hours, conditions permitting.” The company said in a separate statement that service had been restored to the San Juan Medical Center and Municipal Hospital.
Josué Colón Ortiz, the executive director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, told Telemundo that he believed restoration would take several days.
Puerto Rico has faced a series of blackouts since 2017, when Hurricane Maria severely damaged the
island, including its power grid.
The blackout appeared to be significantly bigger than more recent outages this past summer. A blackout in June left about 350,000 customers without power. In August, 700,000 lost power in the wake of Hurricane Ernesto.
“We are demanding answers,” the territory’s governor, Pedro Pierluisi, said on social media. Power companies, he added, “must expedite the restart of the generating units outside the fault area and keep the people duly informed about the measures they are taking to restore service throughout the island.”
Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón, who is scheduled to be sworn in today, reacted angrily at the latest blackout in Puerto Rico.
“We can not continue with an energy system that fails our people so much,” González Colón said, focusing her ire not only on the “massive” blackout, but also on “the uncertainty as to when power will be restored.”
The governor-elect has vowed to create the Office of the Energy Czar to monitor the private operators of the energy system. She also has promised to find ways to cancel the contract with embattled LUMA Energy.
Both LUMA and Genera PR, the private operator of the island’s legacy power plants, have faced criticism in recent years for Puerto Rico’s often-faulty grid.
Emailed requests for comment on Tuesday morning generated automated replies from representatives for both companies saying they would be unavailable until January.
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, the busiest in Puerto Rico, said in a statement Tuesday that it was “operating normally thanks to electric generators.” A person at the administrator’s office of the Hospital Caribbean Medical Center in Fajardo said the facility was operating normally, relying on four generators.
The blackout threatened to put a damper on the New Year’s holiday, which Puerto Ricans typically celebrate by gathering in town squares and family homes — to drink, eat traditional holiday dishes and set off fireworks.
Ilia Quiñones said her morning appointment at a beauty salon was canceled because Plaza Las Américas, the largest mall on the island, had largely shut down. She was supposed to do her hair for an annual New Year’s celebration her sister hosts for about 50 relatives at a ranch in Gurabo, a mountain town just south of San Juan.
Her sister had been planning the party for more than a month, but the celebrations were now in limbo because the ranch does not have a generator. The family was now considering whether to still hold the party under the night sky using battery-powered lanterns.
“Bring your own lantern,” Quiñones quipped, adding: “People are so used to this already that we’ve gotten used to mediocrity.”
Inauguration demonstrators to demand immediate action on environment
By THE STAR STAFF
Various environmental and civil society organizations announced earlier this week that they will demonstrate today at 10 a.m. during the inauguration of Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón, demanding immediate action to address the environmental crisis in Puerto Rico.
“The elected governor is assuming power without a concrete plan to confront the environmental challenges that threaten the country,” said Vanessa Uriarte, co-director of Amigxs del MAR, in a press release. “We cannot remain silent while the destruction of our ecosystems continues.”
The demonstration, under the slogan “Nature Has Those Who Defend It,” will take place at the Dos Hermanos Bridge. Among the concerns to be raised are the expansion of methane gas plants, the burning of coal, and development in protected areas, which according to the protesters put biodiversity and community resilience at risk in the face of climate change.
Hernaliz Vázquez Torres, director of the Sierra Club Puerto Rico Chapter, stressed the need for a transition to renewable energy.
“It is unacceptable that methane gas is being promoted instead of policies that protect agricultural and ecological areas,” she said. “We invite all citizens to join our fight for the environment.”
DACO postpones fines for non-compliance with Single-Use Plastics Law until July
Interim Consumer Affairs Secretary Francisco González de la Matta said “we understand that adaptation requires time.”
By THE STAR STAFF
The imposition of fines for non-compliance with the Single-Use Plastics Law had been postponed until July 1 of this year in order to prioritize an educational approach, it was announced recently.
“The Single-Use Plastics Law is an essential step to protect our environment, but we understand that adaptation requires time,” Interim Consumer Affairs (DACO by its acronym in Spanish) Secretary Francisco González de la Matta said in a written statement late last week.
During the period of postponement,
DACO will intensify its efforts to educate consumers and merchants.
The regulation, which prohibits the use of disposable plastics in commercial establishments, seeks to promote sustainable practices. Fines for non-compliance will start at $500 and may reach $5,000 starting in July.
DACO gave assurances that inspectors will reinforce guidance and supervision programs, with the aim of supporting businesses in their transition toward more sustainable practices, thereby helping to ensure compliance with the law and protection of the environment in Puerto Rico.
Dignity Project sues SEC over dismissals, closing of offices
By THE STAR STAFF
The conservative political party
Dignity Project has sued the State Elections Commission (SEC) for closing down its offices.
Effective Tuesday, the SEC terminated 11 workers and party representatives and ordered the office to shut down effective Jan. 13.
Article 3.10 of Puerto Rico’s electoral law states that appointments made by political parties end on June 30 of the year after an election as long as the party
retains its electoral franchise.
The Dignity Project maintained its electoral franchise as a result of its candidates’ performance in the November general elections.
“We filed a suit on December 30 to defend our rights and seek a temporary and permanent injunction to defend the rights of the thousands of voters who voted for us,” Dignity Project Vice President Juan Frontera Suau said.
The party contends that the SEC is singling out and treating the Dignity Project differently from other parties.
Hernaliz Vázquez Torres, director of the Puerto Rico Chapter of the Sierra Club (Madres de la Tierra)
Dignity Project Vice President Juan Frontera Suau (Facebook)
Local team nets prize to develop hydroelectric microgrids for rural PR communities
By THE STAR STAFF
The Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña, in collaboration with Green Power Technologies Puerto Rico, has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as one of the 10 prize winners of the second phase of the Solutions for Lasting, Viable Energy Infrastructure Technologies (SOLVE IT) prize.
The award includes a $150,000 prize, which will be used to advance the development of hydroelectric microgrids for rural communities in Puerto Rico.
The SOLVE IT award aims to empower communities to identify and implement clean energy solutions that respond to their specific needs. During the second phase, the Puerto Rico Hydro Microgrid Partners team worked in collaboration with community leaders and strategic partners to develop an innovative plan focused on strengthening energy resilience in low-income rural communities.
The project presented by the team focuses on the implementation of modular hydroelectric microgrids that diversify the available energy
sources, thus ensuring a reliable supply even in emergency situations.
“Hydroelectric power has a historic and critical role in Puerto Rico, serving as the original source of electricity, especially in the mountains,” said Sam Talman, director of energy services at Green Power Technologies Puerto Rico. “With our innovative distributed and scalable turbine technology, and with the support of the DOE, we can continue to take advantage of the natural resources in Puerto Rico to provide resilient, cost-effective, and
clean energy to our communities.”
“These microgrids will not only reduce electricity costs, but also reduce electricity costs as well as foster economic development in the communities served with this solution,” Talman added. “This solution can serve as a model for other regions of Puerto Rico and the United States. We are proud to be part of the continuation of the history of hydroelectricity in Puerto Rico.”
Ana María Ruiz Montero, Renewable Energy Program manager at Cooperativa Hi-
droeléctrica de la Montaña, said the SOLVE IT award “represents a significant advance for energy resilience in our rural communities.”
“We are pleased to demonstrate how hydroelectric energy, combined with community work, can offer concrete solutions that improves quality of life, strengthens energy independence and generates economic development in the most vulnerable regions of Puerto Rico,” she said.
The Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña and Green Power Technologies Puerto Rico will now advance to Phase 3 of the SOLVE IT award, where they will develop detailed plans and formalize strategic alliances to bring the project to its final implementation. In this next stage, the team will compete for one of the $500,000 jackpots, which will be awarded in July of this year.
The Phase 2 recognition, Ruiz Montero added, reinforces the Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña’s commitment to fulfill its mission to lead the transition to a more sustainable and resilient energy future, driving energy self-sufficiency and economic development in underserved communities.
Court ruling on law regulating distributors & manufacturers favors plaintiffs
By THE STAR STAFF
Plaintiffs claiming tortious interference with contracts protected by Puerto Rico’s Dealer’s Contracts Act, or Law 75, have an advantage in establishing their case, according to a National Law Review (NLR) report. Law 75 regulates relationships between distributors and manufacturers in Puerto Rico.
In a recent lawsuit, Ballester Hermanos Inc. (Ballester) sued Edrington Group USA LLC (Edrington) for tortious interference with its exclusive distribution agreement with Brugal & Co. SA (Brugal), which was never documented in writing but fell under Law 75 due to the parties’ longstanding relationship.
In this case, Ballester had been Brugal’s exclusive rum distributor in Puerto Rico since 1990. Edrington acquired a majority interest in Brugal in 2008 and later terminated Ballester’s distribution agreement in favor of CC1 Beer Distributors Inc. (CC1). Ballester alleged that Edrington tortiously interfered with its distribution contract. Edrington moved to dismiss the case, arguing that Ballester failed to join CC1 as a necessary party and that the claim was not plausible.
The court rejected Edrington’s claim that
CC1 was an indispensable party, stating that CC1 was only a potential joint tortfeasor. The court then addressed the tortious interference claim and its relation to Law 75. Tortious interference requires a third party’s interference with a protected relationship, which Edrington argued did not apply since it had replaced Brugal through novation and controlled Brugal through majority ownership. The court disagreed, stating that Edrington failed to rebut the presumption against novation and the assumption that a parent and subsidiary are separate entities. Consequently, Ballester adequately demonstrated that Edrington was a third party to the agreement.
Another critical element of tortious interference is the existence of a valid contract. Contracts with no fixed term or terminable at will are not subject to tortious interference in Puerto Rico. However, the court ruled that since Law 75 applied, the oral dealer contract was terminable only for just cause, not at will, even though it had no fixed term. As such, Ballester could sue for tortious interference.
In Puerto Rico, tortious interference claims require knowledge of an established contract, regardless of intent. Edrington’s claim that it did not intend to interfere was thus irrelevant.
The case highlights the importance of
considering Law 75 when working with Puerto Rican distributors, the NLR report noted. As unwritten agreements may be protected by Law
75, suppliers and controlling entities must take precautions and be aware of their obligations to avoid potential tortious interference claims.
Fire in parking lot of Sheraton Hotel in Convention District extinguished without need for evacuation
By THE STAR STAFF
Afire was reported at around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of the Sheraton Hotel in San Juan’s Convention District.
Firefighters extinguished the fire and reported that it was not necessary to evacuate the hotel.
Construction work is being carried out at the site.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire in the rooftop parking lot without necessitating the evacuation of the Sheraton Hotel in the Convention District. (social media)
Dos Bocas hydroelectric dam in Utuado (X via Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority 2022)
‘Hanging out with Jimmy Carter,’ Biden faces the echoes of history
By PETER BAKER
When President Joe Biden appeared on camera to pay tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, he sounded almost as if he were thinking of himself in these final days in office.
“In today’s world, some look at Jimmy Carter and see a man of a bygone era — with honesty and character, faith and humility,” Biden said in breaking away from his Caribbean vacation Sunday after Carter’s death. “It mattered. But I don’t believe it’s a bygone era.”
Biden, too, has been dismissed as a man of a bygone era, an old-school politician in a new-school world, an octogenarian president playing by rules he learned in the 1970s when he served in the Senate and Carter was in the White House, rules that did not help him in today’s fast-paced, smash-mouth political arena. He is, in this view, a man out of time — Carter’s time.
As he said, Biden does not accept that and believes that “the fundamental human values” his generation brought to the table still apply. Yet, when he spoke of Carter’s “honesty and character,” he left no doubt that he meant that in contrast to his predecessor and soon-to-be successor, Donald Trump, the first former president ever convicted of felony crimes and found liable for sexual abuse and business fraud.
That Carter would depart the scene at this particular stage of Biden’s presidency, however, evokes a certain sense of deja vu: another one-term Democratic president whose aspirations for another term were damaged by inflation and struggles to win the release of hostages held in the Middle East before he leaves office.
And once again, the players in the region who could effectuate the release of the hostages may be watching the clock in Washington and waiting for the departing president’s time to run out, delaying any deal until the next president takes the oath, just as happened on the day in 1981 that Carter turned over the reins to Ronald Reagan.
“The parallels are uncanny,” Richard Moe, who served as chief of staff to Carter’s vice president, Walter Mondale, said Monday. “And I believe there is something to it.”
Biden and Carter, of course, are different in many respects, too, and the circumstances of their departures from the White
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House vary in important ways, not least that Carter was just 56 when he left office while Biden, at 82, is departing trailed by doubts about his capacity to have served another four years.
But they had a long history together. “I’ve been hanging out with Jimmy Carter for over 50 years,” Biden noted Sunday night.
Biden was the first Democratic senator to endorse Carter’s long-shot 1976 bid for the presidency, and 45 years later, he became the first sitting president to honor Carter by visiting him at his home in Plains, Georgia, in 2021. They both saw themselves as straight shooters in a world of spinners, and both of them made their mark early on as more moderate Democrats only to shift to the left over the course of their lives.
“They had a real affinity for each other,” said Gerald Rafshoon, who was Carter’s White House communications director.
Still, the nostalgia of today has a way of obscuring the messier reality of the past. As much as Biden came to admire Carter, there were tensions between them back in the day. In his 2007 memoir, “Promises to Keep,” Biden recalled coming to rue his support for Carter.
“Jimmy Carter was a man of decency and a man of principle, but it wasn’t enough,” he wrote. Recalling a flap between Carter and European allies, Biden wrote, “That’s the first time I realized that on-the-job training for a president can be a dangerous thing.”
After Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts kicked off a Democratic primary campaign against Carter, Biden recalled, a group of political consultants urged him to join the race, too. “They said I could be the compromise candidate,” he recounted. But he was just 37 at the time and opted against it.
In many ways, Biden and Carter were a study in contrasts. Unlike Carter, a quintessential outsider from Georgia who never served in political office in Washington until becoming president, Biden has been a creature of the capital for more than a half-century.
Still, it was clear that Biden had learned some lessons from Carter.
On the hostages, for instance, Carter elevated the importance of his standoff with Iran, where 52 Americans were held captive for 444 days — so much so that he refused to hit the campaign trail for reelection at first and made the crisis the all-consuming priority of his administration.
Biden, by contrast, has labored to secure the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, but only a few of them are American and he has not let it dominate his presidency.
Even so, former Carter aides such as Stuart E. Eizenstat recognize the echoes of history. Eizenstat, who served as White House domestic policy adviser and later wrote a well-regarded account of the Carter presidency, said three factors doomed Carter in 1980, what he called “the three I’s”: intraparty warfare, inflation and the Iran hostage crisis.
Although both presidents presided over robust job growth, inflation was a singular albatross. It was far worse in Carter’s day, topping 14% in the election year of 1980, compared with 2.7% last month. “We would have died to have 3% inflation,” Eizenstat said.
But it had spiked to 9% earlier on Biden’s watch, shocking Americans with little or no memory of the Carter and early Reagan eras. The lingering effects eroded Biden’s support since the price of groceries has not fallen even though the rate of increase has dropped back down to normal levels.
And then there was Iran. Although the hostage crisis that stretched on from November 1979 until after the 1980 election was far more debilitating politically for Carter, the broader chaos of today’s war in the Middle East and the tumult it has fomented in the United States similarly chipped away at the perception of Biden’s leadership.
The hopeful news for Biden comes from the other lesson that Carter’s experience offers. Although Carter was once seen as a failed president, his reputation among both historians and everyday Americans has improved dramatically since, with, 57% of Americans now approving of how he did in office, according to a Gallup poll last year.
The more daunting news for Biden is that it took Carter more than four decades to get to that point. Leaving office in middle age, Carter had another lifetime to rebuild public respect, a process enhanced by his extensive humanitarian work and freelance diplomacy, which earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Biden, at this stage the oldest man to have occupied the office, by definition has a shorter window to burnish his legacy.
“His long postpresidency gave him the opportunity to do that, which Joe unfortunately will not have,” Eizenstat said of his former boss. “But having said that, I genuinely believe history will be much kinder to Biden, as it is to Carter, because he accomplished so much.”
So in that sense, when Biden says, as he did Sunday night, that “we’d all do well to try and be a little more like Jimmy Carter,” his admirers hope that applies to the current president as well.
Rosalynn Carter stands on the front porch of her home as she watches President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden leave after a visit with her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, in Plains, Ga., April, 29, 2021. Biden is yet another one-term Democrat hurt by inflation and struggling to free hostages before leaving office — but Jimmy Carter’s enhanced reputation offers hope that he too may be remembered more favorably. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Carter funeral service to be held at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9
By PETER BAKER
Former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral at Washington National Cathedral will be held Jan. 9, featuring a eulogy by President Joe Biden and culminating more than a week of ceremonies and tributes, organizers said earlier this week.
Biden ordered the federal government to close Jan. 9 and declared it a national day of mourning. The New York Stock Exchange will also close on that day out of respect for the 39th president.
Because of the New Year’s holiday, the eight-day plan that organizers had long envisioned for Carter’s memorial services will not begin until later this week. The former president’s body will be taken by motorcade on Saturday through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, to his boyhood home for a brief pause in front of his family’s farm. A historic farm bell will ring 39 times.
The former president’s body will then be taken to Atlanta to the Georgia State Capitol for a moment of silence by Gov. Brian Kemp and other officials, and then transported to the Carter Center, the home of Carter’s post-presidential humanitarian work. It will lie in repose at the center for mourners to visit Saturday night, Sunday and Monday, according to a detailed schedule released by the U.S. military task force that organizes presidential funerals.
The body of Carter, who died at his home in Plains at 100 on Sunday, will be flown by presidential plane on Tuesday, Jan. 7, to Washington, where it will be taken to the U.S. Navy Memorial in honor of Carter’s service as a submariner. It will then be taken by horse-drawn caisson up to the Capitol, where the body will lie in state through Jan. 8, as have the bodies of several presidents going back to Abraham Lincoln. Thousands of people are expected to file through the Rotunda to pay their respects, including lawmakers, diplomats and everyday Americans.
The service at the cathedral, which traditionally hosts state funerals for presidents as well as other major American figures, will be the highlight of the remembrances. Other former presidents are expected to attend, but it was not clear whether President-elect Donald Trump, who has regularly denigrated Carter, would be invited or attend.
The military task force statement did not include a program for the cathedral ceremony, but others close to the planning said that in addition to Biden, Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson and chair of the board of the Carter Center, will speak, as will Stuart E. Eizenstat, who was
the former president’s domestic policy adviser. Eulogies will also be read from two people who were close to Carter but who have already died: former President Gerald Ford, the Republican who was defeated by Carter in 1976 but went on to become a friend, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, Carter’s running mate. Ford died in 2006 and Mondale in 2021. The eulogies are set to be read by their sons, Steven Ford and Ted Mondale.
After the cathedral service, Carter’s body will be taken back to Georgia for burial. Initial plans once called for it to be transported by train, but Carter objected. “If you take my cold, dead body across the U.S. by train, I’ll haunt you until the day you die,” he told a staff member. So instead, his body will return to Georgia on a military flight.
A private funeral service will be held that afternoon at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where Carter taught Sunday school well into his 90s. After a missing-man formation flyover by U.S. Navy jets, his body will be interred next to that of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, his wife of 77 years who died at 96 in November 2023, in a family plot next to a willow tree at the edge of a pond in the town where both grew up and spent most of their lives.
The events will be the first presidential funeral since George H.W. Bush died in 2018 and come at a contentious time in U.S. politics, as a president of one party prepares to turn over the White House to a president from the other. In accordance with federal law, Biden ordered flags lowered to half-staff for the next 30 days, meaning they will still be lowered on Jan. 20, when Trump is inaugurated.
That the services will occur on Biden’s watch during his final days in office spares at least some awkward moments and decisions, since he and not Trump will be the sitting president at the time of the service.
Biden in some ways had the closest relationship with Carter among the other members of the rarefied presidents’ club. He was the first Democratic senator to endorse Carter’s long-shot bid for the White House in 1976, and in 2021 he became the first sitting president to honor Carter by visiting him at his home in Plains.
“His compassion and moral clarity lifted people up and changed lives and saved lives all over the globe,” Biden said in televised remarks Sunday night from his vacation in St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. “Jimmy Carter is an example of simple decency.”
AVISO DE VISTA PÚBLICA
Para conocimiento del público general y de conformidad con las disposiciones del Reglamento Conjunto para la Evaluación y Expedición de Permisos Relacionados al Desarrollo, Uso de Terrenos y Operación de Negocios, vigente al 16 de junio de 2023, conocido como: “Reglamento Conjunto”, la Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, conocida como: “Código Municipal de Puerto Rico” y cualquier otra disposición de ley aplicable, se informa que la Oficina de Permisos (ODP) del Municipio Autónomo de Caguas celebrará Vista Pública para evaluar la solicitud que se describe a continuación:
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La Vista Pública se celebrará el 21 de enero de 2025, a la 1:00 p.m., en el Tribunal Administrativo, localizado en el primer piso, lobby, de la nueva Alcaldia Municipal, en la calle Padial en Caguas.
La propiedad propuesta para el proyecto ubica dentro de un Distrito de Calificación C-L, Comercial liviano, según el Mapa de Calificación de Suelo de Caguas. La solicitud se evaluará a tenor con las reglas 6.1.3, 6.3.1, 2.1.10 y las secciones aplicables del Capítulo 8.5 del Reglamento Conjunto.
Se invita a vecinos del proyecto y a los propietarios de terrenos que radiquen dentro de los límites territoriales circundantes, a las agencias gubernamentales y al público en general a comparecer y participar en dicha Vista. Es mandatorio que el Peticionario o dueño de la propiedad o su representante autorizado asista a la Vista Pública. De no asistir se procederá con el archivo de la solicitud. Se advierte que las partes podrán comparecer asistidas por abogados, pero no estarán obligadas a estar así representadas, la cual incluye corporaciones y sociedades.
El Oficial Examinador que presida la Vista no podrá suspenderla una vez señalada, salvo que se solicite por escrito con expresión de las causas que justifiquen la suspensión, con no menos de cinco (5) días de antelación a la fecha de celebración de la misma. La parte que solicite la suspensión tendrá que expresar las razones que justifican la suspensión o posposición. La Solicitud o Petición de Suspensión de la Vista tendrá un costo de cien dólares ($100.00). Este pago será realizado en el Departamento de Finanzas del Municipio Autónomo de Caguas en las formas de pago aceptadas por dicho Departamento. La Petición de Suspensión o transferencia deberá ser radicada ante la Secretaría de la Oficina de Permisos del Municipio Autónomo de Caguas y no se entenderá radicada correctamente hasta tanto se evidencie el pago de los cien dólares ($100.00) y la notificación de la Solicitud de Suspensión a las otras partes e interventores en el procedimiento, que tendrá que ser con no menos de cinco (5) días previos a la celebración de la Vista.
El expediente de Vista estará disponible para inspección de las partes en la Oficina de Permisos, ubicada en la Oficina 201 del Centro de Gobierno Municipal Ángel Rivera Rodríguez, al frente de la nueva Alcaldía en la calle Padial final, en Caguas. Para más información o someter comentarios sobre esta solicitud, puede contactarnos a nuestra dirección postal: Oficina de Permisos, PO Box 907, Caguas, PR 00726-0907, o a nuestro correo electrónico: permisos.mac@caguas. gov.pr.
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From inflation to bitcoin, charts that explain 2024
By CHRISTINE ZHANG
Despite a tumultuous U.S. presidential campaign and intensifying global conflicts, the economy is poised to end 2024 in a stable position. Inflation has come down substantially and economic growth remains relatively robust, particularly for the United States. But the outlook for 2025 is murky, as President-elect Donald Trump’s policy changes could affect the economy in unpredictable ways.
Banner year for stock market
At the end of 2023, the S&P 500 was surging toward a new high. In January, it finally reached it, driven in part by the “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla.
As the bull market continued to run, stock market highs became commonplace.
The S&P 500 closed at record highs 57 times this year, with some especially large surges after the election, although the rally has slowed in recent weeks (more on that later).
Anticipation high for cuts
A global cooldown in inflation and, with it, anticipation of an easing of monetary policy have also helped fuel the blockbuster stock market.
For the past couple of years, monetary tightening was the policy in nearly all major economies, as central bankers raised rates to tame surging inflation. This past summer and fall, many advanced economies began to cut rates for the first time since the pandemic.
In September, the Fed followed suit with a half-point rate reduction, an unusually large move and a clear signal that it was turning its attention from combating inflation to protecting the job market.
A rise in uncertainty
The Fed’s recent moves, however, have made clear that inflation risks are back. On Dec. 18, the Fed announced its third rate cut of the year, a quarter-point reduction as expected. But Fed policymakers dialed down expectations for cuts next year, suggesting that they would make just two rate cuts by the end of 2025.
The announcement, along with the range of uncertainty in the Fed’s forecasts (one Fed official expects no cuts at all next year, while another expects five), sent markets tumbling.
A less-optimistic story
On the heels of the Fed news, the yield on a 10-year Treasury note jumped to its highest level since May.
Treasury yields also spiked in Septem-
ber and early November, even after the Fed first started cutting rates and stocks were soaring after Trump’s victory. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage, which tends to trend in the same direction, also went up. This may seem paradoxical, given the Fed’s rate cuts.
But investors in assets such as 10-year Treasurys are thinking about what’s going to happen to growth and inflation over months or years. Higher yields could indicate that investors are anticipating higher inflation in the future for longer-term investments.
Some of the same factors that have fueled a Trump rally in stocks — enthusiasm for his policies of tax cuts, deregulation, stimulative government spending and tariffs — could be cause for concern among bond investors. Such investors may worry that Trump’s economic plans would increase the federal deficit and, with it, inflation.
Trump’s tariff threats
During the U.S. presidential campaign season, both candidates expressed support for tariffs as an essential tool for protecting American manufacturers from Chinese and other global competitors.
A few weeks after winning the election,
Trump announced that on his first day in office he would impose tariffs on all products coming into the United States from Canada, Mexico and China. During his first term, Trump imposed tariffs on some imports, particularly those coming from China, causing China’s share of imports to fall.
Sweeping tariffs could start a trade war if countries retaliated with tariffs of their own. Studies have shown that the cost of tariffs are often passed on to American consumers, leading to higher inflation.
A divided economic outlook
Democrats and Republicans see the potential effects of Trump’s policies differently. Consumer sentiment among Republicans soared after Election Day, according to the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment survey. For Democrats, it plummeted.
“Throughout this month’s interviews, Democrats voiced concerns that anticipated policy changes, particularly tariff hikes, would lead to a resurgence in inflation,” Joanne W. Hsu, who runs the University of Michigan Survey, said in a statement.
“Republicans disagreed; they expect the next president will usher in an immense slowdown in inflation,” she said.
A crypto resurgence
The cryptocurrency boom has highly correlated with Trump’s victory. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet”; the day after he won, bitcoin surged to a record.
Then, this past month, the price of a single bitcoin rose to $100,000 for the first time, an astonishing turnaround after its price dropped below $17,000 in 2022 after the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange.
But, like the stock market, bitcoin is volatile, perhaps making it more of a speculative asset than a currency. After hitting a high above $108,000 last week, its price has dropped below $100,000.
“It’s not a competitor for the dollar,” Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said this past month. “It’s really a competitor for gold.”
AI fueled astronomical growth Nvidia, which this year briefly overtook Apple and Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company, also stands to gain from the crypto boom. Its chips, used in video games and to train artificial intelligence models, are also used for mining cryptocurrency.
Of the “Magnificent Seven” stocks, Nvidia has grown the most, with shares soaring more than 800% since the start of 2023. In another indicator of the AI surge, Broadcom, another chipmaker, hit $1 trillion in market value this past month.
Nvidia’s shares have fallen in recent weeks after Chinese regulators opened an antitrust investigation into the chipmaker.
The future of mergers
In 2023, global Mergers & Acquisitions fell to a 10-year low, reflecting concerns about the global economy and geopolitical tensions, as well as uncertainty before elections in several countries. This year, deal-making made a modest comeback.
In the United States, corporate dealmakers are hopeful that a second Trump administration will be good for M&A, especially as Trump’s pick for Federal Trade Commission head, Andrew Ferguson, is expected to go easier on mergers than the agency’s current chief, Lina Khan.
But Ferguson, like Khan, has vowed to crack down on Big Tech. And interest rates could stay high, as uncertainty over Trump’s economic proposals persists.
Is the era of megamergers over? Or will deal-making come back with a vengeance? That might be the data point Wall Street is most eager to watch in the year ahead.
Wall St ends 2024 on high note as AI boom, rate cuts power bull run
Wall Street’s main indexes slipped in the last trading session of 2024 as Treasury yields rose, but the benchmark S&P 500 remained on course to notch its biggest two-year rally in more than two decades.
The index has surged more than 50% in the past two years and is trading near record highs, while the Dow and the Nasdaq are also set for their second consecutive year in gains.
A nearly 100-basis point cut in interest rates in 2024 by the Federal Reserve and a rally in technology stocks in anticipation of boost to corporate profits from artificial intelligence have catapulted equities to record highs in 2024.
The tech (.SPLRCT), opens new tab, communications services (.SPLRCL), opens new tab and consumer discretionary stocks (.SPLRCD), opens new tab have advanced more than 30% this year.
Although AI poster-child Nvidia’s (NVDA.O), opens new tab more than 170% surge this year was smaller compared with last year, the rally helped the company notch $3 trillion in market value, while Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab reclaimed $1 trillion level.
Tech stocks, however, led sectoral declines on Tuesday, while energy stocks (.SPNY), opens new tab added more than 1%, tracking higher crude prices.
At 11:58 a.m., the Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI), opens new tab fell 62.96 points, or 0.15%, to 42,510.29, the S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab lost 13.16 points, or 0.22%, to 5,893.78 and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC), opens new tab lost 63.85 points, or 0.33%, to 19,422.94.
Nvidia was down 1.2%, while the Elon Musk-led automaker slipped 0.3%. Moves are expected to be influenced by thin volumes ahead of New Year’s holiday on Wednesday.
Toward the end of the year, risk-taking improved as Donald Trump’s presidential win boosted bets that he would deliver on his promises to ease regulations, cut taxes and raise tariffs to help domestic businesses.
His win also powered small-cap stocks. The Russell 2000 (.RUT), opens new tab clinched a record high and was set for a second straight year of gains with a 10% increase. Bank shares (.SPXBK), opens new tab are up about 34% this year.
However, equities hit a rough patch in December, putting the S&P 500 on course for its biggest monthly decline since April as Treasury yields rose at a time when equity valuations are stretched and the Fed is concerned about likely inflationary pressures from Trump’s policies. Traders expect the first rate cut of 2025 in either March or May.
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I believe the market is pricey. We could see additional profit taking in 2025,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist with CFRA Research.
“Investors will end up with another positive year at the end, but it’ll be a pretty bumpy ride.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s win has invigorated crypto stocks, with Bitcoin hitting $100,000.
MicroStrategy (MSTR.O), opens new tab shares have jumped over 300% this year as it continues buying and holding bitcoin. The stock dropped 1.9% on Tuesday, while Coinbase (COIN.O), opens new tab and MARA Holdings (MARA.O), opens new tab lost 1.3% and 1%, respectively.
Other areas of the market, however, have witnessed annual declines, with materials stocks (.SPLRCM), opens new tab down about 2%, hurt by the economic woes in top metals consumer China.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 1.75-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 1.04-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The San
“Market will experience greater volatility in 2025 as
The S&P 500 posted two new 52-week highs and no new lows while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 35 new highs and 42 new lows.
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He didn’t know his father was on the doomed flight until it crashed
By JOHN YOON
Days before setting off on a vacation from which he would never return, Oh Jaejin’s father had been overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a grandfather after Oh told him that his wife was pregnant.
“He said he was about to cry,” said Oh, 37, tears welling as he recalled his father’s response to the news earlier this month. On Sunday, Oh’s father was killed along with 178 other people when the plane they were on, Jeju Air Flight 7C2216, left Bangkok and crash-landed at an airport in southwestern South Korea.
The accident, the world’s deadliest plane crash in recent years, turned the airport in Muan County into a place of colossal grief and shock for the hundreds of victims’ relatives who had rushed there. On Tuesday, that sadness swelled as officials slowly led families to a temporary morgue set up at the airport hangar, outside the terminal, to identify bodies that had been recovered from the charred and mangled wreckage.
The work of piecing together hundreds of body parts has been painstaking, but authorities said that by Tuesday morning 170 bodies had been identified, and four were turned over to their families. The crash was so devastating that only two people onboard survived — crew members who have since been hospitalized in Seoul. At the Muan airport, a memorial altar was being set up on the first floor on Tuesday for relatives and visitors to lay flowers.
The victims included toddlers and grandparents, entire families, groups of friends and couples. To those who waited anxiously at the airport this week, they were their sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers and children.
Many of the relatives lived close by. People in the coastal region have traditionally fished or farmed rice, though many
have also worked in petrochemical, steel and shipbuilding plants since the country modernized in the 1960s.
South Jeolla province — which is home to the airport, the only international airport in the region — has the oldest population in the country, with many young people moving to Seoul for better job opportunities.
One man said that he had lost his nephew who had traveled to Thailand with his whole family, including his wife, two children and mother-in-law. Another said that he had lost both of his parents.
Oh’s father, who was 64, had been on vacation in Bangkok with seven childhood friends from Mokpo, a nearby city. In recent years, he often played golf with them in their free time, Oh said.
Oh had last seen his father, who owned a small store near Mokpo, on Christmas when he and his wife brought him some kimchi. He had told his father just this month that his wife was expecting, and that the baby would be a girl.
Oh’s father was last in touch with his family when Oh’s mother messaged him to check on him on Saturday night. He had responded that it was too loud where he was and couldn’t speak on the phone.
Oh, a bank teller also in Mokpo, said that his father had not even told him that he was going to Thailand, because he had not wanted his children to worry. He learned that his father was on the doomed flight only after the crash, when his father’s friends called to tell him. Oh jumped in his car with his wife and drove to the airport. As he got close, he could see the tail of the aircraft sticking out in the horizon.
His mother, who arrived separately, was initially in denial. “Is this real?” he recalled her saying. “I can’t believe what’s happening.” But the reality slowly sank in, and it shattered her.
Officials confirmed on Sunday night that Oh’s father was among the dead.
But confusion followed, Oh said. Transportation officials arranged shuttles to take the families of the victims whose identities had been confirmed from the terminal to the temporary morgue in the hangar. Oh arrived around midnight, anxious to see his father’s body, and was told to wait for his turn.
Hours later, officials turned him away, saying they had made a mistake: The bod-
ies were not ready for viewing. He returned home around 6 a.m.
On his second drive to the airport, after an hour of sleep, he noticed bodies scattered on the tarmac near the aircraft’s tail. Officials finally allowed him to return to the morgue later that day.
“I was very worried — I heard that a lot of the bodies were charred,” he said. “When I finally saw him, I was able to recognize his upper body, and he was fine.”
He asked the officials about the rest of his body. They told him that it was elsewhere but recoverable. He said that gave him some measure of relief.
“It looked like it was probably an instant death,” he said.
Later that day, Oh was told that it could take up to 10 days for all of the victims’ bodies to be ready to be returned to their families. That clarity helped, he said. “It felt better to know how much longer things might take rather than having to wait endlessly,” he said.
As he waited, Oh tried to handle his father’s affairs. He would have to close his father’s store. He was examining his assets and debts. He said he wondered how he would cremate his father when there were so many victims but so few crematories.
He was also planning out his father’s funeral, which has been delayed. In South Korea, funerals typically take place right after the person’s death and last three days. He had to try to inform all of his father’s friends and acquaintances ahead of time, but he didn’t have access to his father’s cellphone contacts. He was taking time off from his job as a bank teller at a local agricultural cooperative.
“I’m not sure how I’ll keep smiling at the customers at my job when everything’s over and I get back to work,” he said. “People are going to ask if I’m OK, and I’m going to have to say I’m fine.”
Oh also said that Thursday was the annual memorial for his grandfather’s death and his mother’s birthday was this weekend. His wife was expected to give birth in July.
“Only good things were coming,” he said. “But my dad is gone.”
Oh said he planned to drive every day to the airport from his home in Mokpo, as if it were his daily commute, until he had his father’s remains.
“I want my father back as soon as he’s ready,” he said.
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Families gather at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. The plane carrying 181 people crashed while landing on Sunday, killing most on board. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
Cyclone on French archipelago exposes resentments over immigrants
By JOHN ELIGON and JULIE BOURDIN
After a vicious cyclone last month razed slums housing many immigrants on the French island territory of Mayotte, Safina Soula did not shed a tear.
As the leader of an advocacy organization representing people from Mayotte, Soula staunchly supported an operation that French authorities started last year to destroy the slums and deport immigrants in the country illegally, most of whom come from the nearby Comoros islands.
She hailed the cyclone as “a divine Wuambushu” — using the name of the slum clearance operation, and added, “Now the state must react quickly and forbid the reconstruction of these shantytowns.”
Cyclone Chido, which struck on Dec. 14 and killed at least 39 people, is inflaming already dangerous tensions over immigration on Mayotte, an archipelago off Africa’s eastern coast. After the disaster, France’s Interior Ministry said that nearly a third of Mayotte’s 320,000 residents were immigrants in the country illegally. Locals are calling for the government to ramp up efforts to deport them.
Many Mahorais, as locals are known, have long blamed immigrants for committing crimes and straining resources. Mayotte, where nearly 80% of the residents live in poverty, is the poorest place in France.
The people of Mayotte and Comoros share a common ancestry. However, in a decisive referendum in 1974, Mayotte was the only part of the Comoros archipelago that voted to remain part of France.
In recent years, people on Mayotte have attacked the homes of immigrants and stood in front of hospitals and immigration offices to block immigrants from entering. Mahorais have voted in large numbers for far-right, nationalist politicians, who have lobbied for tougher immigration laws specific to Mayotte. Among their demands is ending birthright citizenship for children born to non-French parents on the islands.
After the cyclone hit, France’s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, gave a television interview saying France needed to take a more aggressive stance against illegal immigration as part of the reconstruction efforts. He suggested using drones to monitor and stop the boats bringing mi-
An aerial view of the destroyed Passmainty slum in the suburbs of Mamoudzou, the capital of the French territory of Mayotte island, Dec. 19, 2024. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
grants illegally from Comoros, accusing its government of “pushing populations toward Mayotte to create a kind of illegal occupation.”
Last week, the French government announced that it was restoring boat service between Mayotte and Comoros — and that Comorians could use it to return home, free of charge.
France’s prime minister, François Bayrou, said Tuesday that he expected the final death toll from the cyclone to remain in the dozens. While surveying the demolished shantytowns, the top French official in Mayotte at first announced that hundreds, if not thousands, had likely perished.
Immigrants in Mayotte have described living a precarious existence long before the cyclone hit. They say they are constantly stopped by the police. Many have been deported multiple times. After each deportation, they take a dangerous 43-mile journey on a rickety boat from Comoros to reunite with their families in Mayotte.
Residents, and even a senior government leader, said they feared that fighting could break out between migrants and Mayotte natives over the island chain’s depleted resources after the cyclone ravaged some communities.
Sylvie Zein, 37, a doctor from mainland France, said that a few days after the storm, she was near the mosque in the village where she had been living — Mtsamboro, in the northern part of the country — when residents became alarmed at the sight of about 20 immigrants standing near the beach with machetes. The village
director announced over a loudspeaker, “Go to your homes because they are coming,” Zein recalled.
“You have people with nothing and you have people with everything,” she said. “These people, in the beginning, didn’t like each other. So now the tensions, it’s much worse.”
In the decades since the 1974 referendum, Mayotte and Comoros have taken divergent paths. Despite Mayotte’s poverty, French support has meant it is better off economically than Comoros. Many Mahorais express resentment that Comorians, who rejected France, now seek refuge and economic opportunities in a French territory.
“Comorians chose to be independent, and Mayotte decided to continue its adventure with France,” said Ambdilwahedou Soumaila, mayor of Mamoudzou, the capital of Mayotte. “Now each must take responsibility for their choice. We believe that Comorians should stay there.”
In a visit to Mayotte two weeks ago, President Emmanuel Macron of France caused an uproar with a profanity-laced defense of his government’s assistance to Mayotte, saying that it was better off than other islands in the Indian Ocean.
“You are happy to be in France, because if it wasn’t France, let me tell you, you’d be 10,000 times” worse off, Macron told a crowd of locals, using an expletive. “There is no other place in the Indian Ocean where we help people this much.”
Some aid organizations have criticized France’s treatment of migrants on Mayotte, where citizenship and residency rules for foreign nationals are stricter than in the rest of France.
The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, said French officials routinely placed children on Mayotte in immigration detention with their families, despite condemnation of the practice by the European Court of Human Rights. Of the 3,211 children placed in detention in France in 2021, all but 76 of them were on Mayotte, UNICEF said.
When the government has demolished shantytowns, citizens have been relocated, but immigrants
in the country illegally have not, UNICEF said. And some of the immigrant children are refused enrollment in schools.
Still, many Mahorais believe the government is too accommodating of immigrants and have fought for stricter laws.
Soula’s group, the Collective of Citizens of Mayotte, has blocked the entrance to the office of the prefect, France’s top official in the territory, since October to prevent immigrants from going there to acquire legal documents. They believed government officials were granting residency permits to foreigners too freely, she said.
But the migrants say that the opposite is true, and that they live in fear, facing police stops so aggressive that they have sometimes led to Mahorais accidentally being deported.
Two days before the cyclone arrived, a 34-year-old woman from Comoros, who is not being identified to protect her identity, was deported to Comoros, leaving behind her five children, all of whom were born on Mayotte. It was the third time she had been deported since she moved to Mayotte in 2009.
She cried day and night, she said, worried that her children would not survive the vicious 120-mph winds in the tin shack where they lived on a steep hillside. But the day after the storm passed, her 14-yearold daughter, her eldest child, called her in tears and said they had all survived.
Four days later, the woman said she paid 300 euros, about $312, to cram into a kwassa-kwassa, a wooden boat, for the treacherous 11-hour journey to return to Mayotte illegally. She arrived at 3 a.m. Friday, happy to be reunited with her children.
“They’re always sending me back to Comoros like it’s a game,” she said. “There’s a day that I will die at sea.”
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL
The 2024 high school yearbook of American politics
President-elect Donald Trump, center in front row, with Elon Musk sitting to his left at UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 16, 2024. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, has become so close to Trump that some people have begun referring to Musk as “co-president.” (Al Drago/The New York Times)
By MICHELLE COTTLE
The 2024 political scene is ending where it began, with Donald Trump at center stage. No presidential contender has ever had a year like his: $350 million in court-ordered payments in a civil fraud case, $83.3 million in a defamation case, 34 felony convictions in a hush-money case, two assassination attempts and the biggie — 312 electoral votes. As usual, Trump was operating according to a different set of rules than everyone else.
That said, he was not the only standout in politics this year. Men, women, pets, memes, vibes — so much specialness to celebrate. No doubt you have your own list of bests, worsts and weirdests. Let’s see how they overlap with mine.
Most Vexing Dropout: Joe Biden
So much of the 2024 presidential contest was bound up in Biden’s decision to run for reelection and then drop out too late to help anyone. There is much blame to go around, but the bottom line is that Biden overstayed, poorly serving the nation and tarnishing his legacy — which included big wins such as digging America out of the pandemic, making infrastructure week real and getting 235 federal judges confirmed. Just something to ponder for other elected leaders who insist on clinging to office. Sometimes, age is more than a number.
Hottest King Maker: Joe Rogan
Betcha no Democratic candidate skips his bro-cast next election.
Most Ill-Fated Bromance: Donald Trump and Elon Musk
Which do we prefer: Elonald? Donelon? Whatevs. The world’s richest man is understandably giddy after buying himself a presidential BFF. But Musk is a richer, weirder, more entitled media magnet than even the president-elect. Place your bets on when Trump wearies of sharing the spotlight. Nobody puts Donnie in a corner.
Most Ill-Prepared: Kamala Harris
She wasn’t ready to lead Team Blue — a harsh reality
that had little to do with having only a few months to adjust to being at the top of the ticket. Sorry, but doing your best doesn’t cut it in this job interview.
Biggest Flash in the Pan: Tim Walz
As Harris’s surprise vice presidential pick, the Minnesota governor’s happy Midwest-warrior shtick made the race fresh and fun for about 15 minutes. His contribution to the political lexicon — “weird!” — was spot on. And his piglet snuggling was next level. But did anyone seriously see him as a major player in the Democratic Party going forward?
Low-Key MVP: Susie Wiles
Trump’s campaign manager kept the ship on course through all kinds of insanity. The billion-dollar question now is: Can she work that magic as White House chief of staff?
Most Likely to Crash Prom Night: Matt Gaetz
I didn’t need a House ethics report to tell me that the guy is pure Florida swamp slime. That said, no way I’d miss the opportunity to note that the committee found “substantial evidence” that the ex-congressman “regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him,” got busy with “a 17-year-old girl” in 2017 and possessed cocaine and other illegal substances on several occasions. (He has denied any wrongdoing.)
Most Likely to Have a Crummy New Year: Mike Johnson
Such a skinny House majority. Such a fractious Republican conference. Such a heavy-handed president with such a meddling sidekick. Before even taking power, the Trump-Musk administration turned the speaker’s bipartisan approach to government funding into a circus, with dozens of Republicans defying the MAGA king’s call to suspend the debt ceiling. Assuming Johnson keeps the gavel, the coming months promise to be even more … invigorating for him.
Wickedest Meme: JD Vance’s grandmother’s couch
If you know, you know. If you don’t, you can Google, because I cannot bring myself to explain.
Grossest-Yet-Catchiest Smear: “They’re eating the pets”
Like so much that comes out of Trump’s mouth, this lie about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, was appalling. But it also resonated with some voters and kept the topic of migration front and center.
Most Tone-Deaf Campaign Mantra: “The politics of joy”
C’mon, folks, read the room.
Creepiest Election Metaphor: Tucker Carlson
His ranting about how a second Trump term would be like “Dad” coming home “pissed” and ready to spank a “bad girl” — no. Just, no.
Smoothest Communicator: Pete Buttigieg
The transportation secretary remained unmatched in his ability to genially explain complex policy concepts and ideological positions to hostile audiences, while dismembering misinformation and partisan attacks. #FoxWhisperer.
Most Unnerving Communicator: Katie Britt
Part Stepford wife, part Marilyn Monroe, part panicked hostage, the Alabama senator’s rebuttal to the 2024 State of the Union address was like a scene from the horror flick “Smile.”
Most Prophetic: Dean Phillips
The Minnesota congressman’s challenge to Biden for the Democratic nomination was beyond quixotic, but he wasn’t wrong about the urgency of the problem.
Best Positioned to Jump on the MAGA Train: Eric Adams
New York’s mayor has so many legal problems and has wrapped himself in such a thick, self-righteous cloak of political victimhood, it sure seems like he is gunning for a job with Team Trump. Game recognizes game.
Breakout Stars: Childless Cat Ladies
They launched a million memes and recruited Taylor Swift to the cause, even if they wound up being more hiss than claws.
Cringiest Wardrobe Malfunction: Hulk Hogan
Amid all the hoopla at the Republican National Convention, the wrestling legend ripping off his shirt was the mix of spectacle, kitsch, nostalgia and cheeseball machismo that perfectly captured the Trumpian vibes.
Most Likely to Be in Charge of Trump Fraternity Hazing: Pete Hegseth
Beware of men who casually mistreat women.
Most Likely to Be Hazed: Vivek Ramaswamy DOGE or no DOGE, this guy is just so annoying. Let’s end it there. Congratulations to all our 2024 winners. To the rest, best get an early start on distinguishing yourself in the coming year. It promises to be a humdinger.
Dr. Ricardo Angulo Founder
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – La secretaria del Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas (DTOP), ingeniera Eileen M. Vélez Vega, anunció a principios de esta semana la extensión de la vigencia de los marbetes que vencen el 31 de diciembre de 2024, que otorga a los ciudadanos hasta el 15 de enero de 2025 para renovar sin penalidades.
“Toda persona cuyo marbete venza el 31 de diciembre de 2024 tendrá hasta el 15 de enero de 2025 para realizar el trámite de inspección y renovación sin expo-
nerse a ninguna penalidad”, indicó Vélez Vega el martes tras la firma de la resolución 2024-31, que entra en vigor de manera inmediata.
La secretaria explicó que la medida responde a los días festivos y a la interrupción del servicio eléctrico reciente, y destacó que la extensión incluye la cobertura de la ACAA y el Seguro Compulsorio. Esto asegura que, en caso de accidente, las personas afectadas continúen recibiendo los servicios correspondientes.
La resolución busca garantizar que los ciudadanos puedan cumplir con sus renovaciones sin inconvenientes, preservando la seguridad y cobertura vial en la isla.
No van a certificar por ahora la posición 11 de Senado por Acumulación ante posibilidad de que entre Eliezer Molina
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SAN JUAN – La presidenta de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE), Jessika Padilla Rivera dijo a principios de esta semana que, una vez culminado el escrutinio, no se va a emitir certificación por la undécima posición de Senador por Acumulación ante la posibilidad de que el influencer Eliezer Molina Pérez consiga los votos necesarios.
“No podemos emitir certificaciones con relación a esta posición porque evidentemente se emiten con relación a los resultados. Estaríamos emitiendo las primeras diez. Evidentemente requiere esperar a que los comisionados se expresen con relación a estas nuevas variantes que tienen ante su consideración, y luego entonces emitir una resolución”, dijo Padilla Rivera el martes en entrevista radial (Noti Uno).
Según Padilla Rivera, Molina Pérez está bien cerca de tener los votos necesarios con 5 variantes del nombre aceptadas por unanimidad por los comisionados electorales.
“Está bien cerca, tenemos que reconocerlo, está bien cerca de entrar únicamente por (las variantes aceptadas por) unanimidad, la posición número once tiene sesenta y ocho mil y tantos votos, él unánimemente recoge sesenta y siete mil y tantos votos, así que sí, verdaderamente habría que hacer el cálculo final el día de hoy, evaluar si hay algunas nuevas variantes de nombres que alcancen esa unanimidad, y habría una alta probabilidad que pueda entrar simplemente por la unanimidad de los nombres seleccionados por la comisión. Evidentemente, si por la unanimidad o no unanimidad no alcanza el número de votos para condicionarse en esa en esas once, en esos once espacios, pues, nos correspondería a nosotros re-
solver”, expresó.
Hay otras cientos de variantes que no fueron aceptadas por unanimidad a favor de Molina Pérez. Al momento, Keren Riquelme ocupa la posición numero 11.
El comisionado electoral del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), Aníbal Vega Borges anticipó que iría al Tribunal si Molina Pérez desplaza a Riquelme.
Domingo Emanuelli se despide como secretario de Justicia
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – El secretario de Justicia de Puerto Rico, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, se despidió a principios de esta semana de su cargo mediante una carta dirigida al personal del Departamento de Justicia, destacando los retos y logros alcanzados durante su gestión iniciada el 2 de enero de 2021.
“Mi compromiso ha sido luchar por los valores de igualdad, justicia y transparencia que este Departamento encarna. Cada logro alcanzado fue posible gracias al esfuerzo conjunto de fiscales, procurado-
res, registradores y empleados administrativos”, expresó Emanuelli Hernández en su mensaje.
Entre los avances de su administración, destacó el aumento salarial a fiscales, procuradores y registradores, el cual no se revisaba en más de dos décadas, así como la rehabilitación de instalaciones como el Albergue de Protección a Víctimas y Testigos y la Fiscalía de Caguas. También mencionó la creación de un nuevo estacionamiento con capacidad para 150 vehículos en la sede central.
El secretario subrayó su lucha contra el crimen y la corrupción, además de su defensa de derechos
esenciales, incluyendo la protección de mujeres maltratadas, menores, adultos mayores y poblaciones vulnerables frente a prácticas abusivas. “Estos no fueron logros individuales, sino el resultado del esfuerzo conjunto”, afirmó.
Emanuelli Hernández agradeció al personal del Departamento de Justicia por su dedicación y se mostró confiado en que continuarán cumpliendo con la misión de justicia y seguridad para Puerto Rico. “El camino hacia la justicia no termina aquí; lo forjamos día a día con esfuerzo y compromiso”, concluyó.
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With ‘Nosferatu,’ Robert Eggers raises the stakes
By ALISSA WILKINSON
“Idon’t know how you’re supposed to behave if you’re being chased by a vampire, or experiencing demonic possession,” said Robert Eggers, smiling a little but deadly serious.
Not that he hasn’t thought about it for a very long time. The writer and director’s first brush with “Nosferatu,” F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film with a story ripped straight from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” was in a book. As a child in New Hampshire, he saw an image of Max Schreck as the vampire and it obsessed him; as a teenager, he directed a stage version in, improbably, black and white. (The actors were painted in monochrome.)
This anecdote is not very surprising if you know Eggers’ work. At 41, he’s made three acclaimed feature films — “The Witch,” “The Lighthouse” and “The Northman” — that are united in sensibility: They’re historical, deeply researched and, let’s be honest, pretty strange. Obsessed with detail, Eggers excels at not just evoking some setting from the past but drawing the audience, with a kind of uncanniness, into the head space of his characters. The lazy tendency of many historical films is to put people with modern frameworks and preoccupations into period garb, telling stories that make sense to contemporary audiences. But Eggers refuses to pander.
“Nosferatu” continued to preoccupy him, even as he directed other films. Now, he’s finally pulled it off, and the result, which opened on Christmas Day, is peak Eggers. His vampire, Count Orlok, is not the sleek and seductive type; he’s a folk vampire, the animated
Robert Eggers, who directed “Nosferatu,” a distinctly wretched take on vampire folklore, in New York on Dec. 17, 2024. The filmmaker discusses his adaptation of this vampire tale, stories of female desire and why putting maggots on Bill Skarsgard was a beautiful idea. (Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times)
but rotting corpse of a centuries-old Transylvanian nobleman, played in a counterintuitive twist by 34-year-old Bill Skarsgard. Across many miles, Orlok has forged a psychic and blatantly erotic connection with Ellen (LilyRose Depp). Luckily for him, her solicitor husband (Nicholas Hoult) is sent to Orlok’s castle to deliver papers that will make Orlok the owner and inhabitant of a home near Ellen.
In town from London, where he lives,
Eggers met with me over lunch at the coincidentally named Whitby Hotel in midtown Manhattan. (The English town of Whitby is where Stoker was inspired to write “Dracula.”) He was thoughtful, a little reluctant to funnel his creative intuitions into words. This movie obviously took root deep inside his subconscious.
These are edited excepts from our conversation.
Q: All of your films are about female desire upending the world. The usual modern spin on any movie that’s about woman and desire is rah, rah, feminism, burn the patriarchy down. But you come at it differently.
A: Ellen doesn’t put on her husband’s trousers and jump on the horse and kill the vampire with the stake. Yet to say that she is a female character with a ton of agency is a fact. To say that she’s a victim is also a fact. But she’s as much a victim of 19th-century society as she is a victim of the vampire.
People talk a lot about Lily-Rose Depp’s character’s sexual desire, which is a massive part of the character, of what she experiences — being shut down, and corseted up, and tied to the bed, and quieted with ether. Misunderstood, misdiagnosed. But it’s more than that. She has an innate understanding about the shadow side of the world that we live in that she doesn’t have language for. This gift and power that she has isn’t in an environment where it’s being cultivated, to put it mildly. It’s pretty tragic. Then she makes the ultimate sacrifice, and she’s able to reclaim this power through death.
There’s a lot of literary criticism about Victorian male authors who have strong fe-
male characters with chthonic energy and understanding, who are then punished unconsciously by the male authors by making them die. While there’s certainly validity in that [critique], I’ve also read feminist literary criticism that says how it’s interesting that in this very repressed Victorian society, over and over again, this archetype that was needing to consummate itself in the patriarchal imagination is a woman who understands the darkness and the sexuality and the earth juju, and should be the savior of the culture.
Q: In your movie, Orlok is a folk vampire, a corpse, perhaps not the kind of vampire people are expecting. You and I grew up in the age of sexy pop culture vampires, melding death and desire and also allure. But you’ve separated those — there’s death and there’s sex, but none of the sexiness. I can’t imagine anyone falling for Orlok.
A: I think it depends how much of Depp’s character you have in your own personality. But yeah. There’s not going to be a poster of Orlok pinned next to, you know, Edward Cullen and Justin Bieber.
Q: Is it challenging to create that character for an audience who expects a certain seductiveness from vampires?
A: It’s fun. One of the reasons I love researching these period worlds is to get to the root of these things. These early folk vampires, when they were disinterred, sometimes had erections. This was part of the decomposition process, but it was interpreted by the community participating in this excavation ritual as, OK, this guy’s out to [expletive]. And there are more examples of eroticism in early Balkan folk vampire lore.
I also cast a young, handsome, charming actor, rather than digging up Christopher Lee’s corpse and trying using it as a meat puppet. Because you know that on some level, everybody knows what’s going on under [the Orlok costume]. In theory, that’s something I would be against, because what’s on screen is the only thing that should matter, but I think it is probably helpful psychologically to the audience.
Q: I didn’t even register that Bill [Skarsgard] was playing Orlok until after I had seen the movie. I expected something a little suave, beautiful, even if he’s decayed. But it’s like there’s maggots under his skin.
A: Bill had maggots on him. Real maggots.
Q: Did you think about doing this in black and white?
A: I never wanted to. It’s romanticism, not expressionism — and it’s been done very well in black and white before! Obviously it’s a very desaturated movie, and I think some scenes have a kind of strength in expressing a colorless world, in color. But also, even if I wanted to, that’s too expensive. Budget’s too high. Studio can’t do all its TV deals.
A lot of people talk about my films as stylized. But aside from the fairy tale composition, it’s not intended to be stylized. I overrehearse with the intention of it being in the actors’ muscle memory, so that it doesn’t feel like hitting a mark. If you’re doing expressionist cinema, you are aware of the artifice so much, because it’s stylizing the world in a way that is completely unrealistic. Here, obviously — you know, I’m sick of talking about my research, too, but obviously the verisimilitude of the material world is very important to me.
Q: This is kind of a Christmas movie.
Robert Eggers, who directed “Nosferatu,” a distinctly wretched take on vampire folklore, in New York on Dec. 17, 2024. (Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times)
Not just because of when it’s coming out.
A: It takes place in the Christmas sea son, and there’s a Christmas tree. And there’s a music box that plays “O Tannenbaum,” and there’s snow.
Q: It feels like my favorite Christmas songs, which are about darkness, and the woods, and frightening occurrences.
A: “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” has the devil in it, thank God.
Q: Your films make me think about how myths and archetypes are reinvented across cultures and eras. The Christmas story is about a virgin offering the sacrifice of her own body to bring the Savior into the world. “Nosferatu” is almost exactly the flipped version of that.
A: Ho ho ho.
Q: The characters talk about the “cock crowing,” and about a trial lasting three nights — all of these little things that tap into biblical symbolism. How much do you think about that when you’re writing?
A: I probably think about it a little too much.
Q: Is that possible?
A: I guess it’s a question how self-aware you want to be. Your work’s always going to be interpreted by other people who have different lenses. When you’re searching with a hammer, everything’s a nail, you know.
Q: When you work, do you think about beauty? The last shot is beautiful but also grotesque.
A: I think about the concept of beauty. There’s death in that shot, and there’s lilacs and sun beams, and it’s beautiful.
When we had Bill in the coffin for the big reveal in the crypt, the body, the decay, the blood under the skin and the veins and the whole thing — I went to David [White], the prosthetics designer, and I said, that is beautiful. It’s also a rotten, festering corpse with maggots on it. But it’s a beautiful interpretation of death and power. And even though this vampire is a bastard, Bill brings beauty to the performance — elegance, pathos.
Q: Right. Not in a soft or decorative way.
A: Somebody described Murnau’s work as being like Gothic architecture. I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear this, but I much prefer the aesthetic of the Northern Renaissance to the Italian Renaissance. I honestly think Raphael’s paintings are disgusting. They are so corny. Raphael shade thrown!
Q: You do have that beautiful dawn sky there at the end.
A: I need to have a beautiful sunrise at the end. Murnau’s film is often credited with creating the myth that a vampire can be killed by the sun. But it’s actually in folklore that the vampire must be in their grave by the first cock crow. So it’s not sunlight killing him. It’s the purity of dawn.
Lunes a Viernes: 6:00 a.m. a 7:00 p.m.
• Rayos X
• Sonografía General
• Sonografía Vascular
• CT
• MRI CENTRO DE IMÁGENES RADIOLÓGICAS LABORATORIO
Lunes a Viernes: 6:00 a.m. a 3:00 p.m.
Sábados: 6:00 a.m. a 2:00 p.m.
• Rayos X
• Sonografía General
• Sonografía Vascular
• CT
• MRI
• Mamografía (Sábados alternos)
Sábados: 6:00 a.m. a 2:00 p.m.
10 tips to help you eat healthier in 2025
By ALICE CALLAHAN
As New Year’s Day approaches every year, the first thing I do is ensure I have black-eyed peas on hand — so I can make Hoppin’ John, the traditional “good luck” dish of legumes and rice. Second, I review what I’ve learned over the past 12 months.
As a health reporter, I have scoured the latest research and interviewed some of the world’s leading experts to help readers understand the often confusing landscape of nutrition science.
Here are 10 health- and food-related insights that my colleagues and I have gleaned from our reporting this year.
1. There’s a heart-healthy diet hardly anyone follows.
If you have high blood pressure, cutting back on sodium isn’t the only way to lower it. Following the DASH diet — which prioritizes foods such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, dairy products, poultry and fish, and legumes — can work just as well as taking a blood-pressure-lowering medication, clinical trials have found.
2. Despite what some influencers say, seed oils are not slowly poisoning us.
Some wellness influencers have called seed oils “toxic.” But studies suggest that consumption of these plant-based oils, which include canola, corn, sunflower and grapeseed oils, is linked to reduced risks of cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and earlier death. This seems to be especially true when people use the oils to replace animal fats such as butter or tallow.
3. Magnesium supplements may help with some common ailments, but the evidence is thin.
It seems as if everyone is taking a magnesium supplement these days. Although it’s
Sugar has long provided essential fuel for our bodies. But now that food manufacturers have infused it into so many foods and drinks, we’re getting more than we evolved to handle. The health consequences can extend beyond weight gain and dental cavities, including by affecting your gut, brain, liver, heart, joints and more.
8. Too much alcohol can harm your gut. It’s not clear how or even if the occasional glass of wine or beer will affect your gut. But research suggests that people who drink heavily have an imbalance of “good” and “bad” bacteria in their intestines, which is associated with inflammation and disease. They may also have more permeable (or “leaky”) gut linings, which may contribute to liver inflammation and damage. Even occasional binge drinking — defined as four or more drinks within about two hours for women, or five or more drinks within that time period for men — can cause inflammation and microbiome changes that have been linked with increased alcohol cravings, research suggests.
9. It’s probably not a good idea to eat like Bruce Springsteen.
true that most people in the United States would benefit from consuming more magnesium, the best way to do so is to get it from foods such as nuts, seeds, leafy greens, beans and whole grains. Still, limited research suggests that magnesium supplements may help with certain issues, such as migraine headaches, trouble falling asleep, constipation and blood sugar control.
4. Sweet potatoes may be worth working into your meal rotation.
Potatoes sometimes get a bad rap for being high in carbohydrates, but sweet potatoes are packed with potassium (good for blood pressure), fiber (good for the gut) and antioxidants such as vitamins A and C. Despite their natural sweetness, sweet potatoes won’t spike your blood sugar the way a sugary soda would — that’s because their fiber helps slow digestion.
Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 28 de diciembre de 2024
5. Some types of shellfish are sustainable sources of protein and healthy fats.
Bivalves such as clams, oysters, mussels and scallops are packed with unsaturated fats, protein, vitamins and minerals. Mussels, for example, are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin B12, zinc and iron. Bivalves also come without the environmental baggage of many other seafood options (such as shrimp). But they can contain bacteria that cause food poisoning.
6. Ultraprocessed foods get a bad rap, but some may be less harmful than others.
As a category, ultraprocessed foods and drinks have been linked to weight gain, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and dementia. But some recent research suggests that they may not all be equally bad.
7. Consuming too much sugar may cause more than just cavities and weight gain.
The Boss says he eats one meal a day, an eating pattern sometimes referred to as the OMAD diet. It’s an extreme form of intermittent fasting, which involves eating only during specific windows of time. Some limited research suggests that intermittent fasting can help with weight loss, but consuming just one meal a day will probably leave you hungry and prone to overeating when you have the chance.
10. Uncommon grains such as teff, millet and amaranth offer a boost of fiber, protein and antioxidants.
Most people in the United States don’t consume enough whole grains — and when they do, they tend to eat familiar standbys such as brown rice and oats. In 2025, consider trying a new grain, such as buckwheat, millet, amaranth, sorghum or teff. Each has a unique texture and flavor, and is packed with nutrients such as fiber, protein, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
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CALDERON ALVIRA Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil: FA2024CV00473. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: Las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitado, a los tengan en la finca descrita más adelante cualquier derecho real, a los organismos públicos afectados, y en general, a todo aquel que desee oponerse a la Petición.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha radicado una petición sobre expediente de Dominio ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico sala Superior de Fajardo bajo el número del epígrafe que puede afectar sus derechos. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es:
Lcdo. Edmundo Ayala Oquendo P.O. Box 1105 Fajardo 00738 Teléfono: 787-603-4277 edmundoayala@gmail.com
A través de la petición el peticionario de epígrafe solicita a este Tribunal que declare a su favor la Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio sobre el predio de terreno objecto de la misma para ser reconocido como adquirido y ocupado por el peticionario. Esta notificación se hace a tenor con lo provisto por el Artículo 185 de la ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 (30 LPRA 6221). La descripción de la finca objecto de la presente Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio. RÚSTICA Solar radicado en el Barrio Quebrada
Vueltas de Fajardo de l término Municipal de Fajardo, con cabida superficial de mil coma trescientos cincuenta y nueve punto setenta noventa y cinco (1,359.0795) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto trescientos cuarenta y seis (0.346) cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, con camino vecinal de la comunidad, por el Sur con Doña Iraida Carrillo, por el Este con solar de María Febres Ayala, y Ricardo Falú por el Oeste con Calle vecinal de la comunidad. Catastro es 178-038003-06-000 y un tiene un valor aproximado de $25,000.00 dólares. Este Tribunal ordenó que
se publique este edicto en un periódico de circulación general para que aquellos que deseen oponerse así lo hagan ante el Tribunal notificando al abogado del peticionario referido en este Edicto. Los interesados contarán con el término improrrogable de 20 veinte días a partir de la (3) tercera publicación de este edicto para comparecer ante el tribunal para alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Se le advierte que de no comparecer al Tribunal para expresarse, el Tribunal podrá dar curso a los remedios solicitados por el Peticionario. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico hoy 10 de junio de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KATHIA FERRER FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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Demandante V. JOSE RAFAEL
MELENDEZ QUIÑONES
T/C/C JOSE R. MELENDEZ QUIÑONES
Demandado
Civil Núm.: JCO2016-0316. Sala: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 15 de febrero de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número ciento cincuenta y siete guion “A” (157-A) en el piano de segregación e inscripción, sita en la Urbanización El Monte, localizada en el barrio Coto Laurel de término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,087.8510 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, con la calle “ T” de Ia Urbanización El Monte; al Sur, con el solar#156 de Ia Urbanización El Monte; al Este, con el solar#158 de Ia Urbanización El Monte y al Oeste, con el so-
lar#157 de Ia Urbanización El Monte. Consta inscrito al folio
198 del tomo 2046 de Ponce, finca 53,568, Registro de Ia Propiedad d Ponce, Sección
Primera. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada y notificada en este caso el 15 de agosto de 2023, en el presente caso civil, a saber, la suma $498,323.93 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 6.875% anual, más recargos por todo pago en atraso, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA
SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 28 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $501,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 4 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $334,000.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 11 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $250,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la men-
cionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de noviembre de 2024. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.
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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE LUIS
ANGEL RODRIGUEZ
MELENDEZ, COMPUESTA
POR IVETTE RODRIGUEZ
MATOS, ENRIQUE
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MELÉNDEZ, Y ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: YU2022CV00439. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Ponce, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $50,985.81 de balance principal, los intereses adeudados sobre dicho principal y computados al 5.50% anual hasta su total pago y completo pago desde el primero de diciembre de 2021; cargos por demora devengados, más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el numero A guion dos (A-2) en el plano de inscripción del Proyecto UM guion dos guion treinta y dos (UM-2-32) denominado Residencial Bacó, radicado en el Barrio Montalva del término municipal de Guánica, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de QUINIENTOS TRES METROS CUADRADOS CON VEINTISEIS CENTESIMAS DE METRO CUADRADOS (503.26). En lindes por el Norte con el solar A guion uno (A-1), distancia de veinticinco metros con veinticinco centímetros (25.25) en distancia de cuarenta punto cero seis metros (40.06), por el Sur, con la calle “A”, distancia de veinticinco metros con veinticinco centímetros (25.25), por el Este, con la calle F, distancia de doce metros cuarenta y siete centímetros (12.47), más un arco de cinco metros con cincuenta y cuatro centímetros (5.54) y por el Oes-
te, con terrenos de Juan A. Tió, distancia de dieciséis metros con noventa y nueve centímetros (16.99). Inscrita la hipoteca al folio 133vto del tomo 187 de Guánica, inscripción 7ª de la finca 2991, del Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán e inscrita la modificación al sistema Karibe de Guánica, con fecha 21 de febrero de 2018, inscripción octava. Dirección Física: Urb. Bacó, Bo. Montalva A2, Calle Orquidea Ensenada, Guánica, Puerto Rico 00647. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 28 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $54,119.57 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 4 DE FEBRERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $36,079.71. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 11 DE FEBRERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $27,059.79. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos,
sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 13 de noviembre de 2024. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE PONCE.
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Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA NÉLIDA CRUZ ÁLVAREZ T/C/C ROSA N. CRUZ ÁLVAREZ COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDO EDWIN CASTRO HILERIO, SU HIJO EDWIN CASTRO CRUZ Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO
DESCONOCIDO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2022CV00885. (603). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 19 de septiembre de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 26 de junio de 2024 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 27 de junio de 2024 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 23 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina del Alguacil Regional del Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, área del sótano, al final del pasillo, Calle Progreso Número 70, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar 5 radicado en el Barrio Borinquén de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 623.76 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Antonio Fonseca Solá; por el SUR, con el solar #6, segregado; por el ESTE, con Antonio Fonseca Solá; por el OESTE, con la calle municipal. Inscrita al folio 130 del tomo 375 de Aguadilla, Finca 21276. Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Aguadilla. Finca 21276. Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. Inscripción sexta. Catastro Número: (01) 005-066-457-85-000. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: SR 107 KM 2.8, LOT 146 ANEXOS ST, BORINQUEN WD., AGUADILLA, PR 00603. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $46,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 30 DE ENERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $30,666.66. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $23,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la tota-
lidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $39,106.01 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.875% anual desde el 1 de diciembre de 2020 su completo pago, más $138.46 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $4,600.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar. a. Aviso De Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Rosa Nélida Cruz Alvarez, también conocida como Rosa N. Cruz Álvarez, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, en el caso civil número AG2022CV00885, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $39,106.61 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 14 de junio de 2022. Anotada en el Tomo Karibe de Aguadilla. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como
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lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 14 de noviembre de 2024. CAROL CHALMERS SOTO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.
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HERCILIA
RODRIGUEZ ACEVEDO Peticionaria
EX - PARTE
Civil Número: AG2024CV01559. Sobre: INFORMATIVO DE DOMINIO.
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTED E LOS ESTADOSU NIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su
contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. “RÚSTICA”: Radicada en el Barrio Llanadas del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de CUATROCIENTOS NOVENTA Y CINCO PUNTO QUINCE CUARENTA Y DOS METROS CUADRADOS (495.1542 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con Consuelo Carides; por el SUR, con Luis A. Quiñones Rodríguez; por el ESTE con Calle Inglaterra y por el OESTE con Luis A. Quiñones Rodríguez. LCDO. ADALBERTO RAMOS ORTEGA 40 RUTA 5 BARRIO ARENALES BAJOS ISABELA, PUERTO RICO 00662 TEL. (939) 258-0733 ramos485@gmail.com
Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 14 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 11:15 DE LA MAÑANA, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño diez (10) puntos y negrillas, conforme a los dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico hoy día 25 de noviembre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. ***
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Demandante V. SUCESION DE NORMA IRIS FELTON AYALA COMPUESTA POR REYNALDO (REY”) ACOSTA FELTON, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV10709. (604). Sobre: INTERPELA-
CIÓN; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: SUCESION DE NORMA IRIS FELTON AYALA COMPÜESTA POR REYNALDO (“REY”) ACOSTA FELTON, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL - 21422 SLOAN DR. HARPER WOODS. MI 48225; VILLA OLÍMPICA, 590 PASEO I, SAN JUAN PR 00924; COUNTRY CLUB, 857 ROSENDO VITERBO ST. SAN JUAN PR 00924. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio B7 Tabonuco St. Suite 1000 Guaynabo, PR 00968. Tel. [787] 274-1414. Oriental Bank ha presentado una Demanda en la cual se reclama que la parte demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato Hipotecario al no pagar la mensualidad vencida el día 1 de mayo de 2024 y las que han vencido subsiguientemente, por lo que la parte demandante ha declarado vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $39,936.84 de principal, más $1,447.74 a intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 7,25% de interés anual, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $698.10 a cargos por demora y otros cargos, más $10.37 de escrow, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad
con el Contrato Hipotecario El inmueble entregado como garantía de la hipoteca objeto de ejecución se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #34 del plano de inscripción del Proyecto de Vivienda a bajo costo denominado VBC-7, radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana del término municipal de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un área de 153.32 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con paseo #1, por el SUR, con el solar #45, por el ESTE con servidumbre de paso a peatones, y por el OESTE con el solar #33 (pared medianera). Enclava en dicho solar una casa. Finca 12,110, inscrita al folio 12 del tomo 281, de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Se dicta Orden de conformidad con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, para que expresen si han de aceptar o rechazar formalmente la herencia de la causante NORMA IRIS FELTON AYALA en el término de treinta (30) días, dispuesto en ley. Se advierte a los miembros de la Sucesión de FELICITA CASTILLO AYALA que al haberse presentado el pleito en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la causante antes mencionada, de no recibirse contestación en el término de treinta (30) días a partir de la notificación de esta orden, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada y los herederos responden por las obligaciones del causante, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias exclusivamente hasta el valor de los bienes hereditarios que recibe. (Artículo 158731 LPRA Secc. 11041). DADA en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, a 10 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante v. ROXANIE RIVERA
RIVERA T/C/C ROXANY
RIVERA RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: HU2024CV00395 (SALÓN 208). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ
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RIVERA T/C/C ROXANY RIVERA RIVERA CALLE HUMACAO, PARCELA 374, BARRIO PASTO VIEJO, SECTOR LA GLORIA, HUMACAO PR HC 3 BOX 64745, HUMACAO, PR 00791 (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. En HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, el 27 de DICIEMBRE de 2024.
EVELYN FELIX VAZQUEZ, Secretario(a). f/IVELISSE SERRANO GARCIA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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Demandante v. EDGAR
HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MO2024CV00062 (SALÓN 0001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ
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HERNANDEZ GONZALEZ (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registra-
da 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 27 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. En SAN SEBASTIÁN, Puerto Rico, el 27 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretario(a). f/IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante v. JAN CARLOS MENDEZ IRIZARRY
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AR2024CV00869 (SALÓN 102 CIVIL - CRIMINAL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑA LEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A: JAN CARLOS MENDEZ IRIZARRY (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta
notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. En CAMUY, Puerto Rico, el 26 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZALEZ, Secretario(a). f/ JOHANNA GONZALEZ VILELLA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. JESUS D. RAMOS MALDONADO Demandado Civil Núm.: NG2024CV00088. Salón: 103-B. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - R.60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JESUS D. RAMOS MALDONADO - 168 BO DAGUAO, NAGUABO, PR 00718. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de octubre de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 31 de octubre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRE-
de este Apartamento, existen unas paredes de bloques estructurales y no estructurales, pero que son designadas como elementos comunes generales del Condominio, ya que por las mismas discurrren tuberías sanitarias y otras de ventilación, que sirven a dos o más apartamentos, según estas surgen de los planos de este Condominio. Le corresponde a este Apartamento, como Anejo, para su uso privado, exclusivo y particular, dos espacios de estacionamientos descubiertos, identificados con los mismos #802 y 802 físicamente marcados y ubicados en las área de estacionamientos del Condominio, según ilustrado en el “Plot Plan” del Apartamento que se acompaña a la Escritura Matriz. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del Condominio de 0.671%. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Río Grande, finca número 32,453, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $132,295.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $88,196.66. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $66,147.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 269 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 26 de junio de 2015, ante el Notario Yomara Arvelo López y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Río Grande, finca número 32,453, inscripción Tercera (3ra.), en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Tercera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido condenando a la parte demandada ascendente a la suma de $122,832.69 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de junio de 2019, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta
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el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $13,229.50. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido
el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de diciembre de 2024. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DRIVEN P.S.C., EN SU CARÁCTER DE SÍNDICO DE NODUS INTERNATIONAL BANK, INC.
Demandante V. TRANSANDINA GRUPO CONSULTOR CORP; JOSE ALEJANDRO MELICH BRUZUAL
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV10838. Sala: 905. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: TRANSANDINA GRUPO CONSULTOR CORP.; Y JOSE ALEJANDRO MELICH BRUZUAL - TORRE ADR PISO 7 OFICINA 7B AV. SAMUEL LEWIS OBARRIO PANAMÁ
0820; AV. PRINCIPAL, EDIF. RESIDENCIAS LA LAGUNITA, PISO 6, APT. 6ª1, URB. LA LAGUNITA, CARACAS (EL HATILLO), MIRANDA 1083, VENEZUELA.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda por Cobro de Dinero, reclamando las siguientes sumas adeudadas al 17 de octubre de 2024: una suma no menor de $1,654,589.62, la cual se desglosa como sigue: (i) $1,220,994.74 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $178,511.94 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $508.75 diarios; más (iii) la suma de $10,883.99 por mora, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago según acordado entre las partes; más (iii) la suma de $244,198.95 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados expresamente por las partes, según se desprende del Pagaré. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Ferraiuoli
Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández R.Ú.A. Núm. 16,736 lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com
PO Box 195168
San Juan, PR 00919-5168
Tel.: (787) 766-7000
Fax: (787) 766-7001
Abogado de la Parte Demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta 30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 11 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL / SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO ASOCIACIÓN DE PROPIETARIOS DE LOS ÁRBOLES, INC.
Parte Demandante V. RAFAEL ANTONIUO
MARTÍNEZ ALLENDE; JULIO CÉSAR GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: RG2024CV00438. Sala: 206. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: RAFAEL ANTONIO MARITNEZ ALLENDE Y JULIO CESAR GONZÁLEZ LÓPEZ.
Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda contra usted(es), solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Demanda de COBRO DE DINERO, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimientos vencidas y no pagadas por la suma de $2,285.08 al 20 de agosto de 2024. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: LCDO. MELVYN E. FONTÁN LOZADA
Colegiado Núm. 15768, RUA: 14519 PO Box 124, Bayamón, PR 009600124 Tel. 787-340-6604 Fax 787-261-9168
E-mail: melfonloza@live.com, melvynfontan@gmail.com
Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deje de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 10 de diciembre de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ZULMA I. RIVER VEGA, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1 Demandante Vs. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION H/N/C CITIFINANCIAL; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV09648. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 451, 7 TH STREET S.W. WASHINGTON, DC 20410; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS. POR LA PRESENTE se les
emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, LCDA. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA A su dirección: PO. Box 7970 Ponce, PR. 00732. Tel: 787-843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré hipotecario a favor Associates International Holding Corporation, h/n/c Citifinancial, o a su orden, por la suma principal de cincuenta mil dólares ($50,000.00) y créditos adicionales, con intereses al siete punto cero cero tres por ciento (7.003%) anual, vencedero el veintitrés (23) de mayo de dos mil veintidós (2022), según consta del testimonio siete mil quinientos noventa y seis (7,596) de la escritura número doscientos treinta y seis (236), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el dieciocho (18) de abril de dos mil siete (2007), ante el notario Félix R. Figueroa Caban, y cuya obligación está inscrita folio ciento cuarenta y ocho (148) del tomo mil cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve (1469) de Río Piedras Norte, finca número dieciocho mil doscientos once (18,211). Inscripción undécima (11ma). Que, la propiedad sobre la cual se constituyó dicha hipoteca es la siguiente: URBANA: Parcela de terreno en el barrio Monacillos, en la actualidad en el sitio Buen Consejo, Barrio Pueblo, Río Piedras, Ciudad Capital de San Juan Bautista, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos punto cero cero (200.00) metros cuadrados, o sea, diez punto cero cero (10.00) metros de frente, por veinte punto cero cero (20.00) metros de fondo, en lindes por el ESTE, frente a Lacalle abierta en terrenos de John B. Cobbs, luego el Obispado Católico, antes, con prolongación de la calle Vallejo, hoy por el OESTE, que es su espada, con resto de la finca de que fue segregada; cuyos terrenos pertenencia hoy a Rafael Agustín, María Luis y Dolores Amelia de apellidos García Ubarri; por el NORTE, con el resto de la finca de que fue segregado, cuyos terrenos pertenecen hoy a Rafael Agustín, María Carmen Justa, maría Eloísa, María Luis y Dolores Amelia de apellidos García Ubarri y por el SUR, con
el resto de la finca de que se fue segregada, perteneciente a dicho hermanos García Ubarri. Inscrita al folio ciento cuarenta y ocho (148) del tomo mil cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve (1469) de Río Piedras Norte, finca número dieciocho mil doscientos once (18,211). Registro de la Propiedad Sección Segunda (2da) de San Juan. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a día 12 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
DANIEL DAVID OLIVERAS REYES
Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV06523. (Salón: 701). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANA M. MARÍN CASTROANAMARINCASTRO@YAHOO.COM.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de diciembre de 2024. En Bayamón,
Puerto Rico, el 26 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE LAS PIEDRAS EN HUMACAO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Parte Demandante Vs. DAIYANA M. RAMOS LAUREANO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CZ2024CV00043. Salón: 500-A. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: DAIYANA M. RAMOS LAUREANO - HC 03 BOX 11755 COROZAL, PR 00783 Y BO. DOS BOCAS 1 BLQ B-16 CARR 807 KM 1.1 COROZAL, PR 00783. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de noviembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 4 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. IXIA B. CÓRDOVA CHINEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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As NBA eyes growth, is Mexico City the right fit for a new franchise?
By JOE VARDON / THE ATHLETIC
An Uber driver picked up a rider behind a crowded basketball arena where an NBA game had just ended.
He traversed dark alleys on the outskirts of one of the largest, most congested cities in the world. He drove over curbs, slowed to a crawl to avoid damage from large potholes and, at one point, stopped the car, threw it in reverse and turned a corner backward.
The zigging and zagging ended on a main thoroughfare 2 miles ahead of the massive traffic jam in front of Mexico City Arena. The 6-mile ride to the hotel, situated in the affluent Polanco neighborhood, where the Miami Heat and Washington Wizards were staying for their game, took 46 minutes.
Nick Lagios was not so lucky. Lagios, an American who once worked for the Los Angeles Lakers, is the general manager for one of the two major professional basketball teams based in Mexico City. He hopped in a taxi in the stalled parade of cars after the game. He was also headed to Polanco, where he lives, but it took him three hours to get home.
“Coming and going at this arena, especially if it’s crowded, is an absolute traffic disaster,” Lagios said.
If the NBA eventually puts a team in Mexico City, which the league commissioner, Adam Silver, has said is possible, it would be because of the massive potential of the market, including the ability to draw a crowd. And while postgame traffic is far from unusual after an NBA game, 41 home dates of gridlock like this are only one reason to question whether a league expansion to Mexico is viable.
There are plenty of other factors for the league to take into account: the overcrowding; a complicated geography, which could make building a new arena difficult; and the socioeconomics of the world’s fifth-largest city.
On Nov. 2, the night the Heat and Wizards played in Mexico City, Silver bumped into Ted
Leonsis, owner of the Wizards, at the arena.
“The first thing he said to me was, we should have a team in Mexico City,” Silver said.
In an interview here, Silver acknowledged that American cities like Las Vegas and Seattle would most likely get an NBA team before Mexico City and that potential expansion south of the U.S. border was probably “many years off.” But he also said expanding to Mexico City would be “more additive because we would be flipping a switch” in a massive, receptive market.
The NBA held its first exhibition game in Mexico City in 1992. Since then, there have been 32 more regular-season or exhibition games in the city. In 2022, the Mexico City Capitanes began playing G League home games in Mexico.
The arena where the Heat and Wizards played, and where the Capitanes have home games, was built for $300 million and opened in 2012. Around that time, the Maloof family was looking to move the Sacramento Kings, and Robert Hernreich, who held a minority stake in the Kings, pushed the family and David Stern, the NBA commissioner at the time, to consider Mexico City. Hernreich said he even accompanied league officials on a tour of the arena.
“I didn’t fight for it strong enough, and I should have,” said Hernreich, who remembers Stern telling him, “Bobby, look elsewhere. We’re not going to do Mexico City.’”
Under Silver, that tune has changed.
Mexico City is the largest city in North America, with a population of 22 million. Mexico has a population of 130 million and, according to the league’s own research, 32 million NBA fans, including 13 million fans ages 14 to 30.
The NBA has major offices in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, Brazil. It counts more than 121 million fans across Latin America and the Caribbean, and considers Mexico one of its top-five markets for League Pass subscriptions.
Mexico City Arena is, by any accounting, an NBA-caliber venue. The concourses are spacious, the scoreboards jumbo, the sound system excellent and the locker rooms large enough. It also hosts major concerts.
“I think culturally, just watching the changes that we’ve seen, even over the 30 years that we’ve been play-
Rush-hour traffic on the Circuito Interior, a freeway in Mexico City, where some commutes can last for hours, June 7, 2016. While postgame traffic is far from unusual after an NBA game, 41 home dates of gridlock like that found in Mexico City is only one reason to question whether a league expansion to Mexico is viable. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times).
ing games here, we went from sort of a novelty to a mainstream sport here,” Silver said. “If we were to bring an NBA franchise here, there’s no question it would ignite and accelerate the growth of the game.”
Yes, Mexico City has a traffic problem. According to anthropologist Lachlan Summers, who has studied it, residents of the city lose about 6.5 days per year stuck on the clogged highways and main streets. A separate study of Los Angeles traffic said commuters there lose about 3.5 days per year in traffic jams.
But the traffic issue, as it relates to the NBA’s setting up permanent residence in Mexico City, is more complex than too many cars on the road. It starts with the security of the millionaire players who would live in Mexico City for at least six months of the year.
According to Numbeo, a website that tracks crime rates internationally, Mexico City’s crime rate in mid-2024 of 67.7 crimes per 100,000 residents is the 32nd highest in the world. There were two NBA cities — Detroit and Memphis — with higher crime rates, and Milwaukee and New Orleans are 33rd and 34th on this list.
Mexico City is also poorer than major American cities. According to a 2022 study by the Mexican government, the average sal-
ary for a Mexico City resident fluctuates from $660 to $720 a month.
“When a lot of people think of Mexico, the first thing they think about is safety and things along the border,” said Lagios, who was general manager of the Capitanes for three years before taking a similar job with the Diablos Rojos of Mexico’s top pro basketball league.
“But I think, as time goes on, I’d hear other teams were scared about coming here, and then they get here and they love it.”
That is partly because those visiting teams from the G League stay in Polanco. If an NBA team were to play in Mexico City Arena full time, Polanco would be the most likely option for players to live.
But on game nights, the 6-mile drive from the arena to Polanco can feel like a drive from Dallas to Houston. The arena is surrounded on three sides by a wall, and there are not many parking options other than the attached garage, which has, at most, two exits, which empty onto the same street.
Also, the neighborhood in which the arena is situated is dilapidated. Wealthy basketball players would be unlikely to move closer to the arena for a better commute — an issue that could extend to the paying customers.
“The people who can pay the cost of NBA tickets, they live far from the arena,” said Othon Díaz, CEO of all the Diablos Rojos’ sports teams. “The area is not the best place — like security, the streets are not so nice. You can go to a concert every three or four months, but four to six games a month? That’s a problem.”
It is a risky exercise to compare the Diablos Rojos or the Capitanes to a potential NBA team in Mexico City because they are playing minor league basketball. The two teams have enjoyed success but, for what it’s worth, neither is profitable yet.
The Diablos Rojos play their basketball games in the 5,000-seat arena where the 1968 Olympic tournament was held in Mexico City. Alfredo Harp Helú, who owns the Diablos Rojos and is a part owner of the San Diego Padres, and his son, Santiago, 24, vice president of the Diablos Rojos’ board, want to build a new arena — not only for the Diablos Rojos, but perhaps for an NBA or WNBA team.
The Capitanes practice at the Mexican Olympic Committee’s old facility, which is well below NBA standards. An NBA or WNBA team would need a practice facility too.
“Mexico City needs a new arena,” Santiago Harp said. He added, “I’m really excited to just have a nice arena.”
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