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Mayors seek information on federal funds amid freeze imposed by Trump

By THE STAR STAFF

Coamo Mayor Juan Carlos García Padilla, the interim president of the Puerto Rico Mayors Association, expressed concern Tuesday about the continuity of federal programs following President Donald Trump’s orders freezing loans and subsidies.

A memo from the White House budget office called for a spending freeze on federal assistance by 5 p.m. Tuesday, affecting everything from aid to nonprofits, universities, small business loans and state and local government grants.

The freeze could have wide-ranging implications, with the White House noting that $3 trillion was spent in 2024 on federal assistance programs.

“This memorandum requires Federal agencies to identify and review all Federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President’s policies and requirements,” the memo says.

As of press time the White House had not yet commented on the memo, which was leaked Monday night, with several mainland media outlets saying it is authentic.

García Padilla communicated in writing to Eduardo Soria Rivera, the designated director of the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3), with a copy sent to Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, who at press time was holding conversations with federal officials aimed at keeping federal funds flowing to the island. In the letter, García Padilla expressed the mayors’ concerns regarding Memorandum 25-13 and the continuity of federal programs.

“In Memorandum 25-13, issued on January 27, 2025, a pause is ordered in the disbursement of federal programs that may contradict the policies established by President Donald J. Trump, as outlined in the document,” García Padilla said in the letter.

García Padilla emphasized the importance of aligning federal programs with the provisions of the memorandum.

“However, as the primary recipients of funds designated for disaster recovery in Puerto Rico, we are worried about the potential impact that this directive may have on ongoing projects and commitments made to affected communities,” he added.

palities and COR3 to address any issues related to the implementation of the memorandum.

“It is widely acknowledged throughout Puerto Rico and in the United States that the municipalities of Puerto Rico have been, and continue to be, a vital pillar in responding to natural disasters and in rebuilding our communities,” García Padilla said. “Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that our ongoing efforts are not compromised, as this would adversely affect those who rely on these resources the most.”

The federal document establishes new priorities, such as reducing burdens on taxpayers, promoting energy and manufacturing, ending programs considered “radical” or “wasteful” and promoting efficiency in government. It also requests ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and reevaluating foreign aid under “America-first” initiatives.

The governor, who on Tuesday afternoon met with a range of local and U.S. officials, including from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, urged local agencies to review federal programs to identify possible impacts and make revisions or requests to the White House budget office as necessary. González Colón stressed that ensuring the proper use of federal funds allocated to Puerto Rico has been a priority in recent years.

Specifically, García Padilla requested an official statement from Soria Rivera clarifying whether the current federal recovery programs in Puerto Rico will continue to operate as planned, without interruptions in disbursements, and if any programs are affected by Memorandum 25-13, what specific instructions will be provided for concluding those projects, managing unused funds. He also asked for an expedited communication mechanism between commonwealth agencies, munici-

The STAR tried to get a response from the University of Puerto Rico on the funding matter, but at press time had not obtained a response. However, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reportedly canceled all of its grant review panels this week, as the organization works to align its grantmaking process with new executive orders from the Trump administration. The NSF funds a wide range of scientific research through grants to universities and research institutions. It convenes panels of experts to weigh the merits of those proposals, ultimately determining which receive federal funding. It has a budget of around $9 billion.

Coamo Mayor Juan Carlos García Padilla, the interim president of the Puerto Rico Mayors Association

Feds to use discretion in some places when intervening with undocumented immigrants

By THE STAR STAFF

Rebecca González Ramos, special agent in charge of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in San Juan, said Tuesday that the agency will use discretion when intervening with undocumented immigrants in some locations.

“We here, all the members, it is not our mission to enter any school, or any senior care facility, or any church,” González Ramos said in a radio interview (NotiUno).

“When we find ourselves in that situation, we will work with the local government to avoid having to carry out an operation in those areas,” she added.

The official insisted that people who legalized their residency in Puerto Rico have their documents available at all times, in case they find themselves in the middle of an intervention.

On Monday night, the governor met with several federal

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officials following operations to arrest people with undefined immigration status who are also presumed to have criminal records.

Present at the meeting were designated Secretary of State Veronica Ferraiuoli, La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco J. Domenech, designated Justice Secretary Janet Parra Mercado and, by virtual means, designated Public Safety Secretary Brig. Gen. Arturo Garffer.

Attending on behalf of the federal government, besides González Ramos, were U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico W. Stephen Muldrow; Joseph González, special agent in charge of the San Juan Office of the FBI; Michael Miranda, special agent in charge of the Caribbean Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration; Wilmer Ocasio-Ibarra, U.S. marshal for the District of Puerto Rico; Roberto Vaquero, director of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office in San Juan

and director of the Caribbean Border Interagency Group; Capt. Luis J. Rodríguez, commander of the San Juan Sector of the U.S. Coast Guard; Christopher Hunter, director of air and marine operations agents of Customs and Border Protection; Gabriel Bravo, director of government affairs of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration; Reggie Johnson, Ramey Sector Border Patrol acting chief patrol agent; and Carmen Figueroa, deputy director for enforcement and removal operations, Immigration & Customs Enforcement Miami Field Office.

board: Hernández Rivera was ahead of the curve on immigration sweep

By THE STAR STAFF

Claribel Martínez Marmolejos, a chemist by profession and a Dominican national who has lived for decades in Puerto Rico and is the representative of the immigrant community on the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) governing board, spoke out Tuesday against the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Santurce over the past weekend.

targeting illegal migrants in San Juan’s Barrio Obrero, a section of Santurce with a historically large Dominican population.

The PDP board member said that while Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera, who is the incoming president of PDP, warned the immigrant community last week about possible raids and informed them about their rights, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón told them that they did not have to worry.

that the ICE raids were going to be carried out against people who were residing illegally in the United States, and who had a criminal record, or who were under federal criminal investigation.

On Sunday, more than 12 individuals were taken into custody as part of an ICE sweep

“We in the PDP are an integral part of the Puerto Rican people who reject the way in which the new federal regulations are being applied,” Martínez Marmolejos said in a statement. “Dominicans are part of the Puerto Rican community, and it is an abuse to want to generalize regarding the commission of crimes or irregular immigration status. In light of what has happened, we have observed and analyzed the situation and it must be said that the contrast is clear and evident: an absent governor in the face of this reality, versus a present resident commissioner.”

“Yesterday we saw who was right. While Pablo José showed his face after the raids, Jenniffer was still traveling and sent her secretary of state to say that they were only arresting criminals. Puerto Rico has to be clear about the prevailing reality.”

Martínez Marmolejos was referring specifically to the fact that the La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech said on television

“The opposite has happened; those who were arrested were people with their documentation in order,” Martínez Marmolejos said. “They went specifically to Barrio Obrero, which obviously promotes a stigmatization against our community. We all know that crime has no nationality.”

She added that in the face of the situation with ICE, the New Progressive Party government of Jenniffer González continues to show disorganization.

“Certainly being a leader requires vision, preparation and compassion,” Martínez Marmolejos said.

House begins investigations into roads, public plants & rural development

By THE STAR STAFF

The island House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a group of resolutions to investigate issues such as the state of roads, socioeconomic development in the northeast of the island and the operation of water and compost plants in Arecibo.

House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez stressed that the measures seek to address “the most pressing concerns of our constituents” and mark the beginning of the legislative investigations of the recently convened ordinary session.

Among the resolutions, number 7 stands out, which will examine integrated development in the northeast region, and number 10, focused on the conditions of the roads in Canóvanas,

Carolina and Trujillo Alto. In addition, Resolution 29 will investigate the operations of the sewage and wastewater treatment plant in Arecibo, as well as the compost management operations of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources.

House Resolutions 38, 40 and 60, meanwhile, filed by different legislators, were approved. Resolution 38, authored by the House speaker, seeks to examine the impact of tourism on communities, identifying opportunities to promote sustainable economic development. Resolution 40, also filed by Méndez Núñez, will investigate the conditions and services directed to seniors and marginalized communities on the island. Resolution 60, introduced by Rep. Eddie Charbonier Chinea, will focus on analyzing the fiscal situation of the government, including the

use of public funds, and identifying possible areas of improvement in fiscal administration.

Popular Democratic Party Minority Leader Héctor Ferrer Santiago filed two measures related to immigration and a federal executive order that eliminates the right to birthright citizenship. House Joint Resolution 38 requests that the island Justice secretary join as a plaintiff in a coalition of states seeking to block the executive order, alleging that it violates the principles of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Ferrer Santiago also proposed House Concurrent Resolution 3, which strongly rejects the executive

order. Both measures faced objections to the discharge, so they will remain in the regular legislative process.

The House recessed until next Monday at 1 p.m.

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Popular Democratic Party governing board member Claribel Martínez Marmolejos

Rebecca González Ramos, special agent in charge of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in San Juan (X via HSI San Juan)

Agencies repeal rules on single-use plastics

By THE STAR STAFF

The Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO by its acronym in Spanish) and the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DRNA by its initials in Spanish) have repealed the rules related to the ban on single-use plastics. The agencies announced on Tuesday the issuance of Joint Order 2025-002, which immediately repeals Official Interpretation 2024-01 related to the ban. The decision aims to address pending legal issues in the case Asociación de Restaurantes de Puerto Rico Inc. v. DACO, DRNA, KLRA202400674.

With the action, the administration of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón reaffirms its commitment to sustainable development and environmental protection while ensuring responsible and fair management of public policies, the agencies said.

Joint Order 2025-002 repeals the previous interpretation, which sought to clarify the procedures for supervising and inspecting commercial establishments regarding the prohibition on the use and sale of single-use plastics in Puerto Rico. It also aimed to promote the implementation and full compliance with Law 51.

Law 51-2022, known as the “Law to Prohibit the Sale and Use of Single-Use Plastics,” remains in effect, along with Joint Regulation Number 9570, issued on June 29, 2024. However, DACO has implemented a moratorium on commercial inspection efforts related to the law until July 1 of this year, through its Administrative Order 2024-019. During this period, both agencies will focus their resources on educating and guiding relevant sectors on compliance with the law.

“We have made this decision together to prevent ongoing litigation before the Court of Appeals,” designated DACO Secretary Natalia D. Catoni said. “By issuing Joint Order 2025-002, we have repealed the previous official interpretation, paving the way for more effective and fair management of Law 51-2022. Our priority is to provide the necessary support to merchants and consumers to ensure they understand and adhere to the provisions of the law.”

“Our goal is for both consumers and merchants to fully understand all the protocols of Law 51-2022 and to effectively transition to comply with its requirements,” DRNA Secretary Waldemar Quiles Pérez said. “We have been in discussions with the secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs over the past week to address the concerns of citizens. We believe

this administrative order is a useful mechanism for the effective implementation of the law.”

Catoni encouraged consumers to play a vital role in protecting their rights. For more information, they can contact (787) 722-7555 Extension services 14008, 14004, and 14009. For confidential inquiries, they can email confidencia@daco. pr.gov. To file a complaint, please visit www.daco.pr.gov.

PDP plans to sell headquarters in Puerta de Tierra

Hernández Rivera assails entrenched ‘laziness’ in party leadership

By THE STAR STAFF

The incoming president of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera, confirmed on Tuesday that the party intends to sell its headquarters in Puerta de Tierra. “I have already identified a person who will carry out the appraisal project, to identify possible buyers,” Hernández Rivera said in a radio interview (Radio Isla 1320). “The reason why I think we need to look for new headquarters is because that headquarters, in addition to being in such a marked state of deterioration that it is almost impossible to save it without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, is also the fact that it is not an appropriate headquarters for the times. You do not need

five floors for a political party that competes every four years. The fifth floor was a printing press, the fifth floor is already abandoned, but it does not need a printing press today either. The fourth floor is used every four years for the gubernatorial campaign, the third floor is an activity room and the second floor is an office room, and the first floor also has an activity room, but the first and third floors are almost never used at the same time; you could have just one. So I think we need a much more modern headquarters.”

Hernández Rivera added that there had been “laziness” in the leadership of the party for the past 20 years.

“Of course, no, no, you have to sacrifice selfishness, complacency, this attitude of doing things because that is how they have always been done,” he said. “Well, I think that what has always been done has stopped working, and you have to have a lot of work discipline, because it is not blind Party discipline. Party discipline comes when people feel inspired to collaborate with the same goal, when people feel listened to, but what we need is a strong work ethic. I mean, there are things here that really, really were not done due to a lack of work ethic, this thing about

the Popular Party not having revenue, or having difficulty paying for water and electricity. I have heard many excuses, all of them seem unacceptable to me.”

“There is a large component of laziness in the trajectory of the Popular Party over the last 20 years,” continued Hernández Rivera,

who will assume the presidency of the PDP this Sunday at an event in Humacao. “It is all-encompassing, … it is a problem that has become institutionalized and that not a single person has been able to resolve, but that I am focused on solving. There has been laziness in the Popular Party, of course there has been.”

Resident Commissioner and incoming Popular Democratic Party President Pablo José Hernández Rivera

Consumer Affairs Secretary Natalia D. Catoni

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States will sue Trump to stop federal grant freeze

By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ and BENJAMIN ORESKES

Acoalition of state attorneys general plans to file suit Tuesday afternoon to block an order from the White House budget office that would freeze all federal grant programs by 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The move was announced by Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, at a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday morning. Among the states joining the suit are New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware.

“My office will be taking imminent legal action against this administration’s unconstitutional pause on federal funding,” the New York attorney general, Letitia James, wrote on social media Tuesday. “We won’t sit idly by while this administration harms our families.”

The freeze order, a two-page memo from Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, directs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance,” specifically citing “DEI, woke gender ideology and the Green New Deal.” The meaning of the directive was unclear and has plunged state agencies, city governments and nonprofit organizations into confusion.

The lawsuit opens up another front in what will be a long legal fight led by Democrat-led states and progressive activists to stop President Donald Trump’s aggressive second-term agenda in the federal courts. Trump’s efforts

to make it easier to fire federal employees, accelerate deportations and reverse the 14th Amendment’s guarantee to birthright citizenship are all already facing court challenges.

Since 1974, a federal law passed to rein in what Congress saw as abuses of power by Richard Nixon has required the executive branch to spend money allocated by Congress and signed by the president. Democrats contend that money approved by President Joe Biden through the infrastructure law, routine congressional appropriations and other measures cannot be summarily

blocked without an act of Congress. To do so, they say would be an unconstitutional usurpation of the legislative branch’s power of the purse.

The budget office’s memo said that “assistance received directly by individuals,” as well as Medicare and Social Security benefits, would not be impacted by the pause. But it remains unclear whether that carve-out would include Medicaid, a federally funded program where the money flows first to states, and care is then provided to low-income residents.

For example, New York state is expected to receive about $90 billion in federal funding this year, according to the state’s budget office. Of that, about $60 billion would be directed to Medicaid, which provides care to about 7 million New Yorkers. The State Budget Office also expects to receive about $4.7 billion in education funding and nearly $3 billion for transportation infrastructure investments. All of that money could now be vulnerable.

“In the event of a substantial hit to Medicaid funding, millions of people, including many who voted for President Trump, would lose health insurance,” said Nathan Gusdorf, the director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization in New York.

On Tuesday morning, state officials and organizations that receive federal funding were grappling with the scale and consequences of this memo. Many had learned about the freeze the night before, when the memo was posted on social media.

“This order is a potential five-alarm fire for nonprofit organizations and the people and communities they serve,” Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Council of Nonprofits, said in a statement.

Homeland Security begins immigration enforcement operation in New York

By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ

President Donald Trump’s newly installed Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, announced Tuesday morning that federal immigration agents had begun an enforcement action in New York City.

Noem, who oversees the federal agency that runs the nation’s immigration system, posted a video on the social media platform X that she said showed an “enforcement operation” in New York that had led to the arrest of an unauthorized immigrant with kidnapping, assault and burglary charges.

The video, which seemed to have been taken before dawn, shows two officers outside an apartment building in the Bronx guiding a man in handcuffs to an SUV with flashing lights. A spokesperson for the Immigration Customs and Enforcement field office in New York City declined to provide any additional details of the arrest or say whether other operations were in progress.

Noem wrote on X that “dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets.” She arrived in New York to accompany the enforcement effort; in her first predawn post on the social media platform, she said she was “live this AM from NYC. I’m on it.”

It was not immediately clear how many arrests ICE was conducting in the city or where, but a spokesperson for Noem

said there were “multiple” enforcement operations in New York on Tuesday.

Pictures posted on social media by two Justice Department agencies involved in the operations — the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — appeared to show multiple people being taken into custody.

A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams of New York, a Democrat who has said he wants to collaborate with Trump to deport criminals, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Noem’s arrival in New York City, and the accompanying publicity blitz, came two days after a multiagency immigration crackdown in Chicago on Sunday. The Trump administration is heavily publicizing such arrests across the nation, from Colorado and the Atlanta suburbs to Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

ICE, which has started posting daily tallies of arrests on social media, has reported more than 3,500 arrests nationwide since Trump took office, and a total of 1,179 in a single day Monday. That daily count is larger than the average 310 arrests a day during former President Joe Biden’s final year in office.

Federal officials did not say how many people they had arrested in Chicago, but Thomas Homan, the president’s border czar, told The New York Times on Sunday that ICE had targeted those with criminal backgrounds. He also confirmed that there

had been “collateral arrests” of immigrants who were near the targets of the operations.

Trump officials have indicated they are focused on people who threaten the public before casting a wider net.

“My goal is to arrest as many public safety and national security threats as possible and move on to the other priorities,” Homan, the face of the crackdown, told CNN on Sunday.

ICE has a field office in lower Manhattan with a staff of nearly 400 people in charge of conducting arrests of noncitizens in New York City, Long Island and parts of the Hudson Valley.

Under Biden, the agency arrested 4,667 people in the 2024 fiscal year in the region, or an average of about 12 a day. That was down from 9,229 people in 2023, or about 25 a day.

The Senate confirmed Noem, a former South Dakota governor and longtime ally of Trump, as Homeland Security secretary Saturday by a vote of 59-34. Most Democrats opposed her, but she received scattered support from some Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Noem is tasked with leading counterterrorism efforts, as well as Trump’s immigration crackdown. As governor of South Dakota, she sent members of her state’s National Guard to Texas to address the immigration crisis. She has described the high levels of illegal immigration in the United States as an “invasion.”

President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One as he arrives in Miami, Fla., Jan. 25, 2025. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

Republican lawmakers in Florida rebel against DeSantis in rare power move

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

For six years, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida could count on Republican state lawmakers bending to his will, giving swift approval to his ambitious legislative priorities with hardly a whiff of protest.

Those days appear to be over.

On Monday, in a remarkable sequence of events at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Republican legislative leaders asserted their independence. They rejected DeSantis’ call for a special session on illegal immigration, called one of their own instead and, in an exceedingly rare move, overrode one of his budget vetoes.

They even aimed some public disdain his way.

“I believe special sessions should be used sparingly and should not be stunts used to generate headlines,” Daniel Perez, the new House speaker, said from the chamber floor.

Perez and Ben Albritton, the new Senate president, introduced their own immigration bill, characterizing it as a way to back President Donald Trump on illegal immigration — much like DeSantis did when he made his own proposals.

The use of such blunt language against DeSantis or his priorities had been highly unusual among Florida Republicans, who hold supermajorities in the House and Senate. Only in private did they grumble in recent years about DeSantis’ stifling approach.

But on Monday, the House and Senate unanimously overrode some of his budget vetoes, reinstating about $57 million for legislative operating expenses. The last time the Legislature overrode a Florida governor appears to have been in 2010.

In response to Monday’s developments, DeSantis wrote on the social platform X that he was glad that lawmakers had “finally agreed to come in and do their job,” two weeks after he called for a special session. But he called their proposed bill “substantially weaker” than what he had wanted.

“The Legislature’s bill is a bait-and-switch tactic trying to create the illusion of an illegal immigration crack down, when it does anything but,” DeSantis wrote. “It is an insult to name such a weak bill after President Trump, who has been so strong on this issue.”

But the legislators’ reproach of DeSantis was not really about immigration policy. The incoming leaders, speaking simultaneously to their respective chambers, were staging a dramatic break with a governor who, from the time he took office in 2019, had methodically expanded his executive powers — often, it seemed, at the expense of a pliant Legislature.

“Sometimes leadership isn’t about being out front on an issue,” Albritton said on the Senate floor. “It’s actually about following the leader you trust. I trust President Trump. And I trust Florida law enforcement.”

Perez and Albritton said they would not impose criminal penalties on local police officers who did not help with federal immigration enforcement, as DeSantis had wanted. They also did not agree to expand a DeSantis program that in 2022 paid to recruit and fly several dozen immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts.

The leaders said that they would set aside $500 million for local agencies to assist with immigration enforcement (as DeSantis had requested), increase certain criminal penalties (though not as many as DeSantis wanted) and create a new state office to coordinate enforcement efforts (but not under DeSantis’ power).

Leaders of DeSantis’ own party had not dared to defy

him so directly since his actions at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 turned the governor into a national Republican hero. DeSantis leveraged his new standing to push far-reaching proposals that turned Florida into a laboratory of right-wing policy, and won reelection in a rout in 2022. He announced he was running for president.

But early last year, DeSantis’ campaign fizzled as Trump’s barreled forward. DeSantis did not loom as large over the spring legislative session. His once-close relationship with Trump was strained.

The governor successfully defeated a pair of state ballot initiatives in November that would have guaranteed abortion rights and legalized marijuana in Florida. But he is term-limited after 2026, and the jockeying to succeed him has begun.

On Monday, the new legislative leaders, who will preside over their chambers through the end of DeSantis’ term, seemed to be declaring their independence from a governor’s office that has wielded so much power that legislative sessions have become largely predictable rubber stamps.

Lawmakers will still focus on illegal immigration this week, as DeSantis had wanted. But Republican leaders dismissed many of the governor’s proposed policies — and outright rejected, at least for now, other changes that DeSantis was seeking, such as making it more difficult for citizens to get constitutional amendments on the ballot.

Soon after DeSantis called the special session, Republican leaders said the move was premature, the first inkling that they intended to push back at the governor. DeSantis then devoted several public appearances across the state to shaming lawmakers, suggesting that they were typical politicians who campaigned on difficult issues but then preferred not to legislate on them.

“You can view me as, like, a dog that’s got you on the ankle on immigration,” DeSantis told reporters last week, adding that he would not just let the issue go.

Perez said the immigration issue became relevant for the Legislature once Trump took office and signed a slew of executive orders on federal immigration policy. The bill that state representatives will consider between Monday and Tuesday is titled “Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy Act” — that is, the TRUMP Act.

The bill would identify and fund new detention spaces for immigrants with uncertain or contested legal status and name the Florida agricultural commissioner, Wilton Simpson, as the state’s chief immigration officer. Giving that title to Simpson, who is not close with DeSantis, was seen as another challenge to the governor. On X, DeSantis called the proposal unconstitutional.

DeSantis and Republican legislative leaders all want to stop allowing in-state tuition rates for students who were brought to Florida illegally as children. That policy has been in place since 2014, when it was championed by Jeanette M. Núñez, who was then a state representative from Miami. She is now DeSantis’ lieutenant governor.

Núñez said on X over the weekend that “our country looks very different today than it did then.”

Proposals like that can wait until the regular session in March, said Perez, the House speaker. The special session is expected to conclude by Tuesday evening, he added.

Among other things, Perez called several of the governor’s immigration proposals “bureaucratic.”

“Florida will not incentivize illegal immigration through this law or any other,” she wrote.

State Rep. Fentrice Driskell of Tampa, the House Democratic minority leader, told reporters that DeSantis and Republican leaders did not disagree much on policy.

But, she added, she favors a stronger separation of powers: “It’s healthy, that they rebuffed the governor.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida speaks on the second night of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis., July 16, 2024. Legislative leaders rejected DeSantis’ call for a special session on illegal immigration on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, and called one of their own instead. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)

EV owners don’t pay gas taxes. So, many states are charging them fees.

By JACK EWING

Owners of electric cars in Vermont recently got a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles with some bad news. Starting Jan. 1 they would have to pay $178 a year to register their cars, twice as much as owners of vehicles with internal combustion engines.

In imposing the higher fee, Vermont became the latest state to make people pay a premium for driving electric. At least 39 states charge such annual fees, including $50 in Hawaii and $200 in Texas, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. That’s up from no states a few years ago.

Now, as President Donald Trump rolls back Biden administration measures to promote electric vehicles, Republicans in Congress are considering imposing a national fee to bolster the fund used to finance roads and bridges, a fund that is in dire shape.

The fees are an attempt to make up for declining revenue from gasoline taxes that electric cars, for obvious reasons, don’t pay. They’re an example of how governments are struggling to adjust to technological upheaval in the auto industry.

Environmentalists and consumer groups agree that electric vehicle owners should help pay for road maintenance and construction. But they worry that Republicans, who control Congress, would set the fee at extremely high levels to punish electric vehicle owners, who tend to be liberals.

That has already happened in Texas and other states, said Chris Harto, a senior policy analyst at Consumer Reports who focuses on transportation and energy.

“EV owners should contribute to paying for the roads that they use,” he said. But, he added, “in some cases, states are implementing fees that are pretty punitive to EV drivers, significantly more than what the owner of a gas vehicle would pay.”

Flat fees are also unfair to low-income drivers or people who don’t drive very much, making it even harder for them to buy cars that pollute less, Harto and others said. Federal and state gasoline and diesel taxes are levied per gallon, so that people who drive more — or own gas guzzlers — automatically pay more.

The main reason that revenue from fuel taxes has declined is that internal combustion engines have become much more efficient, while political leaders have been reluctant to raise fuel taxes to keep up with inflation.

The federal gasoline tax of 18.4 cents per gallon has not been increased since 1993. The Highway Trust Fund, which finances transportation projects from proceeds of that tax, could become insolvent by 2027 without new sources of funding, analysts say. A list of tax and spending policies that Republicans in Congress are considering includes imposing fees on electric vehicles to help replenish the Highway Trust Fund.

There are 5.4 million electric vehicles on U.S. roads, according to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an in-

dustry group. But that is roughly 2% of the total and not the main cause of revenue gaps.

“Lawmakers are finding a convenient scapegoat, and penalizing the cleanest vehicles on the road while ignoring the real cause of the shortfall,” said Max Baumhefner, director for electric vehicle infrastructure at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Some of the highest electric vehicle fees are in states that usually elect Republicans, like Texas, Wyoming and Ohio, all of which charge $200 a year on top of the regular registration fee.

Robert Nichols, a Republican state senator in Texas who sponsored legislation in 2023 establishing a fee, said that the amount was determined by analyzing how much the average owner of a gasoline vehicle pays.

“It’s not an anti-EV thing. We’ve got Tesla right here in Texas and we’re very proud,” he said, referring to the electric car maker, which has its headquarters and a factory in Austin. “But everybody needs to pay for the road.”

Texas is among the states singled out by Consumer Reports for overcharging electric vehicle drivers. The organization cites Texas’ relatively low gas tax of 20 cents a gallon, well below the national average of about 50 cents.

Nichols acknowledged that lawmakers were reluctant to raise taxes on drivers of gasoline cars. “Nobody wants that on their tombstone: ‘Raised the gas tax,’” he said.

But increasingly, electric vehicle fees are not just a red state phenomenon. New Jersey, where the gasoline tax is more than twice as high as in Texas, began charging electric vehicle owners a $250 fee last year. Washington, which charges $150 and an additional $75 “transportation electrification fee,” is as progressive as any blue state.

In Vermont, lawmakers passed a fee law last year because they were concerned that growing numbers of electric vehicles posed a risk to state finances, said Patrick Murphy, state policy director at the Vermont Agency of Transportation. “Legislators recognized that we are nearing the tipping point where EV adoption has become mainstream in Vermont,” he said.

Electric vehicles accounted for 12% of new car sales in Vermont last year, above the national average of 8%. Murphy noted that fees collected from electric vehicle owners are earmarked for infrastructure like chargers. At $89 a year above the standard registration fee, Vermont’s fee is also at the low end of what states charge.

People on both sides of the debate agree that a fairer system would charge electric vehicle owners per mile driven. But doing that is complicated. Some states are experimenting with technology that tracks mileage and bills owners accordingly. But the systems are expensive and raise privacy issues.

A flat fee is “not perfect,” Nichols acknowledged. “But it makes a big step forward. It’s fair without setting up a huge bureaucracy.”

Some states, including Iowa, Georgia and Kentucky, tax electric vehicle chargers. But that system misses a lot of cars. Most people charge at home, using public chargers only occasionally.

States that don’t charge electric cars higher fees include Alaska, Arizona, New York and Massachusetts, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In 2026, Vermont plans to be among the first states to try to charge electric vehicle owners based on how much they drive.

That will be relatively easy in Vermont, Murphy said, because officials already collect odometer readings when owners bring their cars in for annual safety checks. That’s not the case in many states.

Even a system that tracks mileage has flaws. It taxes owners for trips in other states, and does not collect revenue from out-of-state visitors.

“The whole approach we have had is to keep things as simple as possible in the beginning, to get something in place where all vehicles are paying something for our infrastructure,” Murphy said, “and then to evolve over time to continually make it a fairer system.”

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An electric vehicle charging station in London, Ohio, Dec. 11, 2023. States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say.

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US bond investors seek safety amid uncertainty about Trump policies, Fed outlook

.S. bond investors are gearing up for increased volatility and staying defensive in their portfolios amid uncertainty about the impact of the Trump administration’s policies and signs that the Federal Reserve’s interest rate cuts may be on a lengthy pause.

Portfolio managers continued to shy away from the long end of the U.S. Treasuries curve - from 10-year notes to 30year bonds - ahead of a Fed policy decision this week. Many investors have also remained neutral relative to their benchmarks because of the cloudier interest rate path in 2025.

The U.S. central bank’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee is widely anticipated to keep its benchmark overnight interest rate in the 4.25%-4.50% range at the end of its two-day policy meeting on Wednesday. Fed Chair Jerome Powell will likely strike a cautious tone in his post-meeting press conference and keep the central bank’s options open to allow policymakers time to assess how President Donald Trump’s administration will reshape the fiscal landscape.

There is little urgency for the Fed to ease policy given the relative strength of the U.S. economy and the labor market. There is a risk that inflation, while showing signs of slowing, could reaccelerate due to broad tariffs that could be slapped on a slew of imported products along with deportations of undocumented aliens that could cause a spike in wage pressures.

“I would think that adding duration into the unknown is probably a bad idea, especially as we have no clue what’s going to happen over the next year,” said Byron Anderson, head of fixed income at Laffer Tengler Investments in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Investors were quick to extend duration, or buy longerdated assets, last year when they thought the Fed had embarked on a deeper rate-cutting cycle. Longer-dated notes and bonds have historically outperformed shorter-duration assets like cash and Treasury bills in easing periods.

But in the last quarter of 2024, there was a retreat from long-duration positioning, analysts said.

This month, however, as the 10-year yield hit a 14-month high of 4.809%, active investors have added duration, according to the latest JP Morgan’s Treasury Client Survey,

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which showed the most net long positions since Dec. 2.

The survey also showed that the number of bond investors with neutral positioning relative to their benchmark has also increased by three percentage points since the first week of January. Overall, the survey showed more neutral positioning than long.

“We are pretty close to neutral duration. A lot of our overweights are in that three- to five-year part of the curve, less in 10s,” said Mike Sanders, portfolio manager and head of fixed income at Madison Investments in Madison, Wisconsin.

“I don’t see the Fed being able to aggressively cut more

than twice this year ... unless there is a pretty bad slowdown, which we don’t think is the case right now.”

A selloff in technology stocks on Monday rattled the bond market, leading to a multi-week decline in Treasury yields and caused the U.S. rate futures market to price in two rate cuts of 25 basis points (bps) this year. The market had factored in just one rate reduction all month until Monday.

The Fed’s own rate forecast, which was released in December, called for two quarter-percentage-point cuts next year, with the benchmark lending rate ending 2025 in the 3.75%-4.00% range.

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By ISABEL KERSHNER

Eight of the 26 hostages that Hamas is expected to release in the coming few weeks are dead, according to Israeli officials.

Late Sunday, Hamas provided Israel with long-awaited information about the status of the hostages listed for release during the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in the war in the Gaza Strip. The move followed intense negotiations over the weekend to resolve a dispute that had threatened to derail the deal.

Under the ceasefire deal, 33 hostages were to be released in the first phase in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Seven have already returned home, after more than 15 months in captivity in Gaza. Three civilian women were freed Jan. 19, the day the provisional ceasefire came into effect, and four female soldiers were released Jan. 25.

An Israeli government spokesperson, David Mencer, said Monday that Hamas had provided a list indicating that 25 of the 33 hostages were alive and that eight had been killed.

“The list from Hamas matches Israel’s intelligence,” Mencer added.

The list did not specify who was alive and who was dead by name, but it provided numbers that accorded with more detailed information already in Israel’s hands, according to two Israeli officials.

Families and their supporters take part in a demonstration on Saturday calling for the release of all hostages, in Tel Aviv, Israel on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. Eight of the 26 hostages that Hamas is expected to release in the coming few weeks are no longer alive, according to Israeli officials. (Amit

Israeli authorities have spoken with the families of the 26 hostages set to be released in the coming weeks after Hamas provided its account, according to the government, though confirmation of the deaths in the form of bodies or DNA evidence is still pending. As a result, eight families of hostages have been told so far only that there is a high probability that their relatives will not return alive.

Speaking at the Israeli parliament Tuesday, Dani Elgarat, brother of the hostage Itzik Elgarat, said that the family was probably going to receive his body based on

what they had been told so far. Had a ceasefire deal been reached earlier, Dani Elgarat told lawmakers, he believed that his brother’s life could have been saved.

Israel has said that 87 hostages remain in Gaza out of a total of about 250 captured during the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which prompted the war. Another three have been held by Hamas since 2014, and two of them are believed to be alive. Israeli officials have said they believe that at least 35 of the total 90 remaining captives are dead.

Israel had demanded the release of what it considered the most urgent cases in the first phase of the deal: civilian women, followed by female soldiers, then men older than 50 and several younger men who were sick or injured, with priority given to those still alive.

The dispute over the weekend was caused by Hamas’ failure to release a civilian woman, Arbel Yehud, on Saturday. Israel accused Hamas of violating the terms of the ceasefire by releasing four female soldiers first and responded by delaying the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza.

Under a new understanding reached via mediators late Sunday, Hamas agreed to release Yehud before Friday, along with the last female soldier held in Gaza, Agam Berger, and a third hostage who has not yet been named by Israel. Three more hostages are expected to be released Saturday.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller armed group that says it has been holding Yehud, released a video of her Monday as proof of life.

Yehud is the last female civilian hostage believed to be still alive.

Another civilian woman, Shiri Bibas, remains in Gaza after she was abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz with her two young sons, Ariel, who was 4 at the time, and Kfir, who was 9 months. The Israeli military has expressed grave concern for the lives of Bibas and her children, though their deaths have not been confirmed.

Israel says 8 of the 26 hostages listed for imminent release are dead US envoy to meet Netanyahu in Israel, and perhaps visit Gaza

By ADAM RASGON

President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel today, according to a spokesperson for Netanyahu.

The visit by the envoy, Steven Witkoff, was set to take place as Israeli and Hamas officials prepared for a new round of negotiations aimed at cementing the current ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and allowing more exchanges of hostages and Palestinian prisoners.

Witkoff played an important role in brokering the initial ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, teaming with officials from the Biden administration, Qatar and Egypt in the days before Trump’s inauguration.

The ceasefire, now in its 10th day, has remained mostly intact, though Hamas and Israel hit some hurdles last weekend.

On Saturday, Israel said it would prevent the movement of

Palestinians to the north of Gaza until Hamas set plans for the release of Arbel Yehud, one of the last civilian female hostages held in Gaza. Israeli officials said the agreement had required Yehud to be released Saturday.

A day later, the issue was resolved when Hamas confirmed Yehud and other hostages would be freed this week, and Israel agreed to allow displaced Palestinians to return to the north starting Monday.

Netanyahu’s office said Trump had invited the Israeli leader to visit the White House on Feb. 4.

During his trip, Witkoff was also expected to visit the Gaza Strip. Last week, he told Fox News that he would go to Gaza to be a part of an inspection team visiting two parts of the coastal enclave.

“We have to make sure the implementation goes well,” he said.

It was still unclear whether Witkoff would meet with of-

ficials in Ramallah from the Palestinian Authority, which has limited autonomy over parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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Steven Witkoff, President-elect Trump’s pick for Middle East envoy, during a rally in Capitol One Arena, Washington, the day before Trump’s inauguration, Jan. 19, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

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Inside Colombia’s crisis over Trump’s deportations

By ANNIE CORREAL, JULIE TURKEWITZ and GENEVIEVE GLATSKY

Colombia’s president, early on Sunday, announced that he had turned back two American military planes carrying deportees from the United States, setting off an extraordinary crisis inside and outside his country as he infuriated President Donald Trump and caught even his own inner circle off guard.

President Gustavo Petro’s friends — and even his most powerful political adversary, former President Álvaro Uribe — quickly jumped in, working contacts in Washington to help defuse a crisis that threatened to devastate Colombia’s economy and upend relations in the region.

Late on Sunday, after moments when the tense discussions between the two countries appeared on the verge of breaking down, the White House announced that the Colombian government had agreed to receive all deportation flights, including military planes. The Colombian Foreign Ministry soon said “the impasse” had been overcome.

“Despite the difficulties we had, it’s proof that diplomatic channels continue to be the best way to sort out differences,” said Colombia’s ambassador to the United States, Daniel García-Peña, who was in Bogotá, the capital, on Sunday.

He was part of a small group that for several hours managed Petro on one line and the Trump administration, through its special envoy to Latin America, Mauricio Claver-Carone, on another.

On Monday, García-Peña said he hoped the “U.S.-Colombia relationship cannot only continue throughout this new administration” but flourish. But on Sunday, that prospect seemed far off.

For many of those involved, the day began around 4 a.m. with their phones ringing constantly. Petro had just posted a message on social media.

“The U.S. cannot treat Colombian migrants like criminals,” he said, announcing that he was withdrawing authorization for U.S. military planes to land in Colombia.

At 9:30 a.m., Petro said he had turned military planes back. (The Trump administration said two military flights had been forced to return to the United States.)

The tensions built over the day.

Trump retaliated by saying he would hit Colombia with 25% tariffs, rising to 50% within days, as well as a raft of financial and banking sanctions. He also suspended visas for all government officials and their associ-

El Dorado airport, where planes were arriving from the United States with deportees, in Bogota, Colombia, Jan. 28, 2025. (Federico Rios/The New York Times)

ates. “These measures are just the beginning,” Trump wrote.

Petro responded by saying he would impose sanctions on the United States, too. “You will never dominate us,” he declared.

Colombia’s recently appointed foreign minister, Laura Sarabia, called for “calm.”

Gustavo Bolívar, who directs social services programs for the Petro administration, said the president reached out to him after Trump’s retaliatory moves. Bolívar shared his concerns that economic sanctions would harm Colombian businesses, he said.

At least three former presidents, including Uribe, a right-wing leader who has long been at odds with Petro, also offered to help navigate the storm. One official with knowledge of the events said that Uribe had called Sarabia and said, essentially: We have differences with Petro. He made a mistake. But we need to resolve this. How can I help?

Sarabia urged Uribe to call his friends in Washington, including the new secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

The accounts of some of the discussions within the Petro government and with the Trump administration are based in part on interviews with an official in Petro’s government and with a departing high-ranking official. The two officials requested anonymity to describe sensitive discussions.

Republican senators in the United States also weighed in, urging the Trump administra-

tion to show restraint, according to the two officials.

In Colombia, members of Petro’s inner circle warned that American sanctions could cause widespread damage to the country. The United States is Colombia’s largest trading partner, with key industries such as oil, coffee and flowers reliant on the U.S. market.

Petro, a former rebel and avowed leftist, is already facing significant challenges, including an eruption of violence near the Venezuelan border involving a rebel group. The unrest is threatening to unravel his promise of bringing lasting peace to a country that has known decades of conflict.

Petro’s confrontation with the Trump administration, and the prompt backlash from the newly sworn-in president, came as Latin American governments are struggling to respond to American pressure to cooperate with measures to curb migration, including steppedup deportations. At the same time, they are trying to assure their citizens that they will protect their rights.

Petro announced that he was barring military deportation flights after reports from Brazil over the weekend that 88 people on a flight from the United States, including some families, had endured conditions that the Brazilian government described as “unacceptable” and “degrading.” The deportees had arrived on a nonmilitary plane that malfunctioned and made an emergency landing in Manaus, a city in the Amazon rainforest.

Luis Gilberto Murillo, Colombia’s outgoing foreign minister, who was closely involved in the negotiations with the U.S. government on Sunday, said in an interview that Petro had two reasons for blocking the U.S. flights. “The first and most important,” he said, “was the dignified treatment of Colombians. He does not agree with people being in handcuffs on those flights.”

The other issue was the use of military planes, he said.

Petro was not fully aware of a recent change under the Trump administration that allows military aircraft to be used for deportations, Murillo said. Generally, migrants being deported have been transported on planes that resemble commercial craft and are operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

García-Peña said Colombian officials relented on Sunday when U.S. officials assured them that Colombians aboard deportation flights would not be placed in handcuffs after they were returned and would be escorted by Department of Homeland Security officials, not military personnel.

They were also told Colombian citizens would not be photographed aboard the flights, he said.

The use of military planes to transport people expelled from the United States, which Trump authorized through an executive order, has emerged as a key part of fulfilling a campaign promise to carry out sweeping deportations. But the Trump administration has also made clear that it would not dispatch military planes without the approval of the receiving country.

The acting defense secretary, Robert Salesses, said military planes would be used to transport more than 5,000 people in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Two military planes arrived on Friday in Guatemala, carrying 160 migrants who had been apprehended after crossing the border, including women and children.

Several Latin American governments have expressed concern over the treatment of migrants being deported now. “What happened on this flight was a violation of rights,” said Macaé Evaristo, Brazil’s minister of human rights, hours before Petro spoke out.

Honduras has also invoked the need to protect its citizens and Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said: “What do we ask for? Respect for human rights.”

For now, Colombia seems intent on avoiding another fight with the United States.

“We will have clear protocols, so that this doesn’t happen again,” said Murillo, the outgoing foreign minister.

The Trump administration was clearly satisfied with the outcome of its brief if intense feud with Colombia. “America is respected again,” it said.

While Colombia stood to lose more than the United States if tariffs had been imposed by both countries, experts say that alienating Colombia, an important asset for American business, could push it closer to China, its second-largest trading partner, which is making inroads across Latin America.

As Trump and Petro’s feud escalated on Sunday, China’s ambassador to Colombia said on social media that the two countries “are in the best moment of our diplomatic relations.”

Caught in the middle were the Colombian deportees who had been in the air on their way to Colombia when Petro turned the military planes back. Some were said to be arriving in Colombia as early as Monday night on a Colombian government plane.

Petro was still posting his opinions.

“The solution to illegal migration,” he wrote, “is not simply to deport people and criminalize them.”

Trump’s plan to crush the academic left

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

Last year, Chris Rufo, the influential right-wing strategist who spearheaded the campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives, told me about his ambitions for a second Trump presidency. He hoped, he said, to see Donald Trump’s administration aggressively investigate Ivy League institutions that, according to Rufo, practice “rampant” discrimination against white, Jewish and Asian students and faculty members, particularly through DEI programs, which aim to boost the representation of groups deemed underprivileged. If they were found to have violated the law, he wanted the schools put under a federal consent decree, “so that the federal government can get them into compliance by force.”

More broadly, he imagined a complete transformation of American academia. “If you have the full weight of the White House, the full weight of the Department of Education and a platoon of right-wing lawyers trying to use all of the statutory and executive authority that they have to reshape higher education, I think it could be a thing of tremendous beauty,” he told me.

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Now Rufo, who met with Trump’s education team on Inauguration Day, is seeing his vision start to become reality. With one of his first executive orders, Trump set up sweeping investigations into DEI in the private sector, instructing federal agencies to identify up to nine investigative targets among major institutions, including colleges and universities “with endowments over $1 billion,” a category that includes all the Ivies.

Another executive order lays the groundwork for deporting foreign students and professors who engage in anti-Israel activism, something Trump promised during his campaign. It calls for ensuring that “aliens otherwise already present in the United States” aren’t hostile to its citizens, culture, government or institutions, and “do not advocate for, aid or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.”

These are two of the opening salvos in a campaign to crush the academic left. “There’s kind of a multifront threat right now as to whether or not you can express views that are unpopular with the folks in the White House and executive agencies and continue to enjoy the protections of the First Amendment on academic freedom,” said Will Creeley, legal director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which fights both left- and rightwing infringements on free speech.

Many Americans, including plenty of people who didn’t vote for Trump, won’t mourn the end of tedious corporate DEI trainings and have little sympathy for radical student protesters. “I’ve been talking with executives in Silicon Valley, investors on Wall Street and administrators within the universities,” Rufo told me on Thursday. “They’re all telling me the same thing: The resistance to Trump’s agenda is at an all-time low.”

But this climate of liberal resignation only makes the administration’s plans more ominous. Under the cover of rolling back unpopular left-wing excesses, Trump’s team is trying to assert political control over American higher education, and it seems to be pushing on an open door.

Some of the coming crackdown will be couched as a reaction to campus antisemitism. Rufo described critical race theory, post-colonial studies and DEI as “intimately related ideologies,” of which left-wing antisemitism is but one expression. “They’re nesting dolls. Antisemitism, anti-white hatred and the desire to overthrow the West are all built on the same foundation.” It is that foundation that the administration seems bent on attacking.

Creeley, at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, predicts that many state legislatures, local officials and university trustees are going to enlist, either out of enthusiasm or expediency, in the crusade to bring

the academic left to heel. “I think you’ll see professors investigated and terminated. I think you’re going to see students punished, and I think you’re going to see a preemptive action on those fronts,” he said.

Just look at what’s happened at Harvard this week. On Tuesday, it announced that, as part of a lawsuit settlement, it would adopt a definition of antisemitism that includes some harsh criticisms of Israel and Zionism, such as holding Israel to a “double standard” and likening its policies to Nazism. Though Harvard claims that it still adheres to the First Amendment, under this definition a student or professor who accuses Israel of genocidal action in the Gaza Strip — as the Israeli American Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov has — might be subject to disciplinary action.

In a further act of capitulation, the Harvard Medical School canceled a lecture and panel on wartime health care that was to feature patients from Gaza because of objections that it was one-sided, The Harvard Crimson reported.

“I think that Harvard likely read the room, so to speak, from a political perspective, and decided to cut their losses,” Creeley said. In this period of capitulation, it probably won’t be the last school to fall in line.

Classroom seats at Yale, in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 3, 2024. (Jarod Lew/The New York Times)

Copa Unión Antillana de Béisbol en Aguadilla es pospuesta por impacto de operativos federales

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AGUADILLA – El alcalde de Aguadilla, Julio Roldán Concepción, anunció este martes la posposición de la Copa Unión Antillana de Béisbol, originalmente pautada para celebrarse del 21 al 23 de febrero de 2025, debido a los recientes operativos federales en comunidades de inmigrantes en Puerto Rico.

El evento, que contaría con la participación de equipos de Cuba, República Dominicana y Puerto Rico, se vio afectado luego de que las delegaciones de Cuba y República Dominicana manifestaran dificultades y preocupaciones relacionadas con la situación migratoria.

“Recibimos una comunicación de la Federación Cubana de Béisbol indicando que, debido a las exigencias para la tramitación de visados a Puerto Rico, no podrán participar en la Copa. Agradecieron nuestro interés y nos desearon éxito en futuras ediciones del evento”, explicó el alcalde Roldán Concepción en declaraciones escritas.

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por parte de la delegación dominicana, el alcalde señaló que existe temor entre la comunidad inmigrante en Puerto Rico, lo que ha impactado el entusiasmo del público para asistir al evento.

El alcalde lamentó cómo las medidas federales afectan incluso eventos deportivos, considerando el deporte como un elemento que une a los pueblos. “Es lamen-

table ver cómo estas decisiones afectan nuestro diario vivir, nuestras comunidades de inmigrantes y ahora el deporte. Hemos tomado la difícil decisión de posponer el evento, pero confiamos en retomarlo más adelante”, expresó.

Por su parte, el organizador del evento, Israel Roldán, expresó su decepción por el impacto negativo en un torneo que prometía ser una oportunidad de estrechar lazos con los países del Caribe. “Estábamos organizando un evento de béisbol de alto calibre. Esto es un recordatorio del alcance de estas decisiones adversas”, expresó Roldán.

El alcalde concluyó reiterando su compromiso con la celebración de este evento en una fecha futura: “El deporte es un ente unificador. Esperamos poder retomar la Copa Unión Antillana durante este año y que todos disfruten de este importante evento deportivo”.

Se espera que se anuncie una nueva fecha una vez las condiciones permitan retomar la planificación del torneo.

Contraloría señala deficiencias en la Administración de Rehabilitación Vocacional

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SAN JUAN – La Oficina del Contralor de Puerto Rico (OCPR) emitió una opinión cualificada sobre las operaciones fiscales de la Administración de Rehabilitación Vocacional (ARV), adscrita al Departamento del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos, señalando incumplimientos significativos en el manejo de sus recursos entre 2021 y 2023. El informe revela que la ARV no retuvo el 1.5% de la aportación especial en el 47% de los comprobantes examinados, incumpliendo la ley que aplica a contratos

de servicios mayores a 300,000 dólares, salvo excepciones con declaración jurada. Como resultado, dejó de recaudar 2,366 dólares que pudieron haberse destinado a otros gastos operacionales.

Además, la División de Finanzas carece de un registro interno de firmas autorizadas para certificar facturas, una deficiencia que aumenta el riesgo de irregularidades. El informe también destaca demoras significativas en la prestación de servicios a los consumidores. De una muestra de 306 servicios evaluados, dos contratistas brindaron 17 servicios hasta 105 días tarde. Aunque el

LUMA cobró como $18 millones en facturas estimadas, según NEPR

SAN JUAN – El Negociado de Energía determinó a principios de esta semana que LUMA Energy tiene que ajustar las guías y parámetros para los miles de clientes comerciales e industriales que reciben una factura estimada.

“Las prácticas de facturación deben ser claras, justas y ajustarse a los parámetros establecidos por la ley, siempre priorizando el bienestar de los consumidores”, dijo el presidente del Negociado de Energía, Edison Avilés Deliz el lunes en declaraciones escritas.

Avilés Deliz mencionó que entre los principales hallazgos de la investigación:

* Impacto de las facturas estimadas: Durante el período de enero a noviembre de 2023, un promedio de

17,254 clientes comerciales e industriales recibió facturas estimadas cada mes, representando aproximadamente el 9% de todos los clientes no residenciales.

* Limitaciones en la facturación retroactiva: A partir del 18 de enero de 2024, la Ley Núm. 36-2024 establece un plazo de 120 días para realizar ajustes en las facturas estimadas, ofreciendo así mayor certeza y protección a los consumidores.

periodo de evaluación fue extendido de 20 a 30 días en 2023, se identificaron retrasos de hasta 216 días en la prestación de 16 servicios. Estas demoras afectaron la entrega oportuna de servicios esenciales para las personas con impedimentos.

El presupuesto total de la ARV entre 2021 y 2024 fue de 295 millones de dólares, de los cuales desembolsó 217 millones. La auditoría recomienda al Departamento de Hacienda considerar los hallazgos sobre la falta de retención de la aportación especial del 1.5% y tomar las medidas correspondientes.

* Ingresos asociados a facturación estimada: Se estimó que el monto mensual de las cuentas comerciales e industriales facturadas en base a estimaciones asciende a aproximadamente 18 millones de dólares. Toda vez que las facturas son estimadas, no se tiene visibilidad ni certeza de si dichas facturas subestiman o sobreestiman la cuantía real del consumo energético, potencialmente afectando negativamente las finanzas de LUMA o de algunos comerciantes.

* Recomendaciones para LUMA: Se ordenó a LUMA adoptar medidas concretas para mejorar la precisión en sus procesos de lectura y facturación, incluyendo la implementación de medidores inteligentes y la elaboración de guías claras para la reconciliación de facturas, para así minimizar el número de facturas estimadas.

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‘SNL’: Call the musical guest by the guest host’s name

By DAVE ITZKOFF

If you’re “Saturday Night Live” and you need someone to play Alexander Hamilton in an opening sketch about the Founding Fathers, there’s only one person you can turn to: Lin-Manuel Miranda.

And then you make him stand there in silence for most of the sketch.

This weekend’s “SNL” (which featured Timothée Chalamet as both its host and musical guest) seemed like it was going to begin with a sketch about the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Most of the cast was onstage in waistcoats and wigs, with Mikey Day playing John Hancock and Andrew Dismukes as Benjamin Franklin.

“What say you, Alexander Hamilton?” asked Michael Longfellow. And there, in his “Hamilton” garb, was Miranda, the decorated creator and star of that Broadway musical.

“What do I say?” Miranda answered. “I say our lives matter not if we lose them in the cause of liberty. What matters is the nation we build.”

And sure enough, he began to rap. “’Cause in America, all men are created equal, America not England; we’re doing the sequel, And we will have leaders, but know one thing:

In America, we will never have a king.”

But then he and the cast members froze in place as James Austin Johnson strode onstage in his recurring role as Donald Trump.

Weekend update jokes of the week

Over at the Weekend Update desk, anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che continued to riff on Trump’s second inauguration and his first week back in office.

Jost began:

Well, guys, I was never really doing dry January, but this week I stopped even pretending. President Trump was sworn back into office on Monday. But he appeared to not place his hand on the Bible. Well, he tried to, but the Bible screamed. The Bible Trump used was the same one Abraham Lincoln used at his inauguration. And man, I wish those two could talk to each other. Lincoln could teach Trump a lot about the importance of preserving our Union. And Trump could teach Lincoln how to turn your head at the exact right moment.

“Never say never,” Johnson said. “Kidding, of course, though in many ways I’m not. I’m in my king era.” And like the Founding Fathers, Johnson said, “I am creating a new country as well. And just like them, we’re doing it very whitely.” He declared that “DEI is over,” adding: “Workplaces must go back to looking like the TV show ‘The Office.’ Mostly white people with one funny Black guy who’s having a really bad time.”

Having returned to the White House, Johnson said that things were largely the same as before except “my new favorite son is Barron.”

“And he is smacking his head on every door frame,” he said. “Oh, it’s bad. It’s like when Gandalf goes to Bilbo’s house.”

He also praised Elon Musk: “We love Elon,” Johnson said. “But to quote some of his own children, I do not want him in my life.”

“They say he did the Nazi salute,” Johnson continued. “Not true, OK? He simply was creating a new greeting. A cross between hi and hello. We’re calling it a ‘heil.’”

While they were frozen in place, Johnson took potshots at the rest of the “SNL” cast. “Who’s going to play Hegseth?” he asked. “I mean look at these guys back here. None of them got the build. Nobody has the jaw. Got plenty of Zuckerberg options though; that’s going to be a fight.”

He also teased Miranda, who he said “wrote a whole rap and he doesn’t get to do it — oh, the audience would have eaten that right up.”

As he concluded, Johnson said thank you for the “generous anonymous $1 million donation to my campaign,” and, turning to Miranda, he said, “I know that was you, Lin.”

Miranda finally came unstuck: “No it was not!” he said.

“Your word against mine,” Johnson replied.

The freewheelin’ Timothée Chalamet of the week Alas, Chalamet — a newly minted Oscar nominee for his role as Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” — did not get the real Dylan to make a cameo on “SNL” this weekend. (If Dylan didn’t turn up in Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize, it was unlikely that Dylan was going to come to New York to watch Day and Chalamet sniff each other’s rear ends while dressed as dogs.)

But as the show’s musical guest, Chalamet did perform a few Dylan covers with some help from British pop singer James Blake. In his first segment, Chalamet sang “Outlaw Blues” and “Three Angels.” (He was also introduced by “SNL” alum Adam Sandler, which isn’t too shabby.) In his second musical segment, Chalamet performed “Tomorrow Is a Long Time.” And we’ll just assume that dog sketch was an homage to Dylan’s “If Dogs Run Free.”

During his address, President Trump said he was changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. [Reacting to an audience member’s laughter:] Like you, Hillary Clinton could be seen in the background laughing while he said it. While Kamala could be seen silently begging her edible to kick in.

Che continued:

President Trump pardoned Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who was serving 18 years for his role in the Jan. 6 attack. And ladies, just like his eye, he’s single. President Trump defended his pardon of the Jan. 6 attackers, saying that these are just people that love their country. You know, like how O.J. loved Nicole.

Best of the rest of the week

There was no return appearance from $mokeCheddaThaAssGetta, the unusual hip-hop star that Chalamet has played in his two previous hosting gigs on “SNL.” (You’re telling us Lin-Manuel Miranda wouldn’t have wanted to collaborate with him?)

But as always, Chalamet was game for several other sketches that took full advantage of his versatility (and eccentricity). For our cheddar, the best efforts were the sketch that cast him as the volatile instructor of a bungee-cord exercise class, and a later segment in which he played a barista-intraining who aspires to be a standup comedian. In a different era, you’d have killed on “Def Comedy Jam,” Timmy.

Above, Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, and below, James Austin Johnson as President Donald Trump, in last Saturday’s cold open on “Saturday Night Live.” (YouTube via Saturday Night Live)

Keeping eyes on bird flu outbreak that could quickly escalate

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it might affect a few isolated herds and disappear as quickly as it had appeared. Instead, the virus has infected more than 900 herds and dozens of people, killing one, and the outbreak shows no signs of abating.

A pandemic is not inevitable even now, more than a dozen experts said in interviews. But a series of developments over the past few weeks indicates that the possibility is no longer remote.

Toothless guidelines, inadequate testing and long delays in releasing data — echoes of the missteps during the COVID-19 pandemic — have squandered opportunities for containing the outbreak, the experts said.

In one example emblematic of the disarray, a few dairy herds in Idaho that were infected in the spring displayed mild symptoms for a second time in the late fall, The New York Times has learned. In mid-January, the Department of Agriculture said that no new infections in Idaho herds had been identified since October. But state officials publicly discussed milder cases in November.

That a second bout of infections would produce milder symptoms in cattle is unsurprising, experts said, and could be welcome news to farmers. But reinfections suggest that the virus, called H5N1, could circulate on farms indefinitely, creating opportunities for it to evolve into a more dangerous form — a “high-risk” scenario, said Louise Moncla, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

“You could easily end up with endemically circulating H5 in dairy herds without symptoms, obscuring rapid or easy detection,” Moncla said.

It’s impossible to predict whether the virus will evolve the ability to spread among people, let alone when, she and others said. But the worry is that if bird flu finds the right combination of genetic mutations, the outbreak could quickly escalate.

“I’m still not pack-my-bags-and-head-to-the-hills worried, but there’s been more signals over the past four to six weeks that this virus has the capacity” to set off a pandemic, said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Federal officials, too, have subtly altered their tone in discussing the outbreak, now emphasizing how quickly the situation might change.

For the general public, H5N1 is “a low risk, relative to the other risks they face today,” said Dr. Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But “100%, that could change,” he said. “This is a dangerous virus.”

Health experts emphasize that there are precautions Americans can take: Do not touch sick or dead birds or other animals; get tested if you have flulike symptoms; do not consume raw milk or meat, or feed them to your pets.

If a larger outbreak were to erupt, the federal vaccine stockpile holds a few million doses, although that vaccine might first need updating to match the evolved form of the virus. In either case, officials would have to scramble to produce enough for the population.

The CDC recommends treatment with the antiviral Tamiflu, but studies have shown that the drug does very little to ease

Ducks at Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, N.Y., April 25, 2020. A bird flu pandemic is not inevitable even now, but a series of developments over the past few weeks indicates that the possibility is no longer remote. (Johnny Milano/The New York Times)

illness.

Underlining concerns among many experts is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who would lead the federal health department if confirmed, was a vocal critic of COVID vaccines and has said the bird flu vaccines “appear to be dangerous.”

Even if the second Trump administration embraces vaccine development, as the first one did when COVID bore down, it’s unclear how many Americans would roll up their sleeves for the shots. Influenza typically affects children and older adults, and pandemic influenza has sometimes hit young adults the hardest. But the mistrust engendered during COVID-19 may make Americans eschew precautions, at least initially.

Unlike the coronavirus, which caused havoc with its sudden arrival, influenza viruses typically start off in a specific animal species or in certain geographical regions.

When H5N1 emerged in East Asia nearly three decades ago, it mostly sickened birds. In the years that followed, it infected at least 940 people, nearly all of whom had close, sustained contact with infected birds; roughly half of those people died.

But since January 2022, when the virus was detected in wild aquatic birds in the United States, it has affected more than 136 million commercial, backyard and wild birds, helping to send egg prices soaring. It has also struck dozens of mammalian species, including cats both wild and domesticated, raccoons, bears and sea lions.

For at least a year, H5N1 has been infecting dairy cattle, which were not known to be susceptible to this type of influenza. In some cows, it has had lasting effects, reducing milk production and increasing the odds of spontaneous abortions.

And in 2024, the virus infected 67 Americans, compared with just one in the years before, in 2022. The sources of these infections are not all known; one person may have transmitted the virus to someone in their household.

Many of these developments are classic steps toward a pandemic, said Dr. James Lawler, a director at the University of Nebraska’s Global Center for Health Security.

But, he noted, “where those were really supposed to trigger accelerated and amplified actions at the federal, state and local level, we’ve just kind of shrugged when each milestone has passed.”

Infections in dairy herds, which first emerged in Texas, ap-

peared to be declining last summer. But in late August, California announced its first case. The state’s figures soon rose sharply, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a public health emergency in December.

“That was sort of a flag to me, like, ‘OK, this hasn’t gone away,’” said Dr. Manisha Juthani, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health. “Over the last couple of months, it has felt like the tempo has increased.”

Several other recent events have raised the level of alarm among experts. In early December, scientists reported that in a lab setting, a single mutation helped the virus infect human cells more efficiently.

And late last year two people, a 13-year-old Canadian girl and a Louisiana resident older than 65, became seriously ill; previously, most people infected with H5N1 had not experienced severe symptoms. The Louisiana patient, who had health conditions and cared for sick and dying birds, died in early January.

The girl was placed on life support because of organ failure, but eventually recovered. Scientists still do not know how she became infected; her only risk factor was obesity.

Both patients had contracted a new version of the virus that is distinct from the one in dairy cattle and is now widespread in birds. In both individuals, the virus gained mutations during the course of infection that might allow it to better infect people.

“We are clearly now getting novel viruses forming in the wild bird reservoir,” Moncla said. “It’s become challenging to keep a handle on all of the various threats.”

In the year since the outbreak began, federal officials have announced other measures to prevent or prepare for a pandemic. But each is deeply flawed, experts said.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture was slow to begin testing H5N1 vaccines for cows, leaving interested companies in limbo. Marrazzo said that the department had released genetic information from virus samples but had not said where or when they were collected — details that would help scientists track the virus’s evolution.

It is also unclear how many herds are reinfected or have been battling monthslong infections. In Idaho, some herds infected in the spring seemed to recover but showed milder symptoms again in November.

“From the data we have to date, we do not see evidence of new infections or reinfections in previously affected herds, but rather a lack of clearance of the original infection,” a spokesperson for the USDA said in an emailed response. But outside experts said that the trajectory of symptoms suggested a second round of illness.

The USDA’s program to test bulk milk began in December — nearly a year after the outbreak began — and still does not include Idaho. Engaging private companies may help the program move faster.

Ginkgo Bioworks, a company that worked with federal agencies during the COVID pandemic, assesses roughly half the nation’s commercial milk supply for bacteria, antibiotics and other substances.

N1 to the list would be straightforward, so “why wouldn’t we just add assays into this infrastructure that we already have?” said Matt McKnight, a manager at the company’s biosecurity division.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLAND.

DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN; SBMCOA, LLC, Plaintiff vs. MOISES ESQUENAZI and JACK KEITH, Defendants . Case No. ST-2023CV-00358

SUMMONS

To: Moises Esquenazi. Last known address Parque Bucare 2, Turey B-14, Guaynabo, PR 00969

Within the time limited by law (to wit, within 30 days after the completion of the period of publication or personal service outside of the jurisdiction) you are hereby required to appear before this Court and answer to a Complaint filed against you in this action and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment by default will be taken against you as demanded in the Complaint, to foreclose a lien, to recover a debt, and for appointment of a receiver.

SO ORDERED this 8th day of April, 2024 /s/ HON. CAROL THOMASJACOBS, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS

Attorney for Plaintiffs

Maria Tankenson Hodge Hodge & Hodge 1340 Taarneberg St. Thomas, VI 00802 Tel. 340.774.6845 maria@hodgelawvi.com

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMER INSTANCIA SALA DE SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO GOBIERNO MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE FAJARDO, REPRESENTADO POR SU ALCALDE, JOSÉ A. MELÉNDEZ MÉNDEZ

Peticionario V. ADQUISICIÓN DE SOLAR 261 DE LA CALLE AMPARO, DEL TÉRMINO MUNICIPAL DE FAJARDO; JOSEFINA MATEO ORTIZ, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES (CRIM), JOHN DOE Y DUEÑOS(S) DESCONOCIDO(S)

FORZOSA DE ESTORBO PÚBLICO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: JOSEFINA MATEO ORTIZ, JOHN DOE, DUEÑOS(S) DESCONOCIDO(S) Y/O CUALQUIER PERSONA CON ALGÚN POSIBLE INTERÉS.

paradero, este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le emplace por edicto, el cual se publicará una (1) vez por semana, durante tres (3) semanas consecutivas en un periódico de circulación diaria en Puerto Rico. Se le notifica que, si usted desea presentar objeción o defensa a la incautación de las estructuras descritas, debe presentar su contestación en este Tribunal dentro del término improrrogable de 30 DÍAS, contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, debiendo notificar con copia de la misma a la parte peticionaria, a través de la LCDA.

JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS - RUA 15,736: PO BOX 889 FAJARDO, PR 00728 Email: josephine.rodriguez@gmail.com. De usted no comparecer en el término aquí fijado, el Tribunal le anotará la rebeldía y dictará Sentencia en un término no mayor de 5 días. De usted comparecer o contestar la Petición, el Tribunal citará para juicio, el cual será celebrado en un término no menor de 15 días ni mayor de 30, de haberse contestado la Petición. Expedida por Orden del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico a 24 de diciembre de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA.

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

Demandante V. LUIS DANIEL BURGOS RODRIGUEZ

Partes Con Interés Civil Núm.: FA2024CV00834. Sobre: PROCEDIMIENTO SUMARIO DE EXPROPIACIÓN

Se le emplaza y notifica que, con el fin público de erradicar el abandono y peligrosidad de propiedades declaradas estorbos públicos, el Municipio de Fajardo ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Petición de Expropiación Forzosa al amparo de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada, la Ley Núm. 107 de 14 de agosto de 2020 conocida como el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, en su Artículo 2.018 [21 L.P.R.A. §7183]; la Ordenanza Núm. 26, Serie 2014-2015, aprobada por la Legislatura Municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico el 4 de septiembre de 2014 y firmada por el su Alcalde el día 30 del mismo mes; y, la Ordenanza Número 13, Serie 2021-2022, aprobada por la Legislatura Municipal el 4 de noviembre de 2021 y por su Alcalde el día 28 del mismo mes; bajo el procedimiento sumario de expropiación forzosa de estorbos públicos que establece el Artículo 4.012A del Código Municipal establecido mediante la Ley Núm. 114 del 29 de junio de 2024, para adquirir la siguiente Finca: “Urbana: BARRIO PUEBLO de Fajardo Solar marcado con el 261, ubicado en la Calle Amparo del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 57.52 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto cero uno cuatro seis (0.0146) cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE con el solar número 263 con una distancia de 6.63 metros lineales; en lindes por el SUR con un callejón en una de 7.52 metros lineales; en lindes por el ESTE con el solar 260) con una distancia de 8.18 metros lineales; y en lindes por el OESTE con la Calle Amparo con 3 alineaciones con un total de 8.82 metros lineales. Enclava una estructura de 508 pies cuadrados, con paredes y piso de concreto, sin techo, no habitable. PÚBLICO: ELIMINACIÓN DE ESTORBO PÚBLICO. CATASTRO NÚM.: 150-046-041-03-000. JUSTA COMPENSACIÓN: $3,800.00, ser consignada a tenor con el Art. 4.012A (f) del Código Municipal. No habiéndose podido emplazar personalmente a las partes con interés antes relacionadas, por desconocer su

Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03699. 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 30 de octubre de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número doscientos setenta y uno (271) en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Piedra Aguzá del Barrio Amuelas del término municipal de Juana Díaz, Puer-

to Rico, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos treinta y nueve punto veinte (439.20) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con las Parcelas número doscientos setenta y dos (272) y doscientos setenta y tres (273); por el SUR, con la calle número diecinueve (19) de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con la Parcela número doscientos sesenta y nueve (269) de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la Calle número diecinueve (19) de la Comunidad. Inscrita al folio 41 del tomo 444 de Juana Díaz, finca número 15,560, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ponce. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 28 de agosto de 2024 y notificada en este caso el 29 de agosto de 2024, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $110,761.32 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.25% desde el 1ro de abril de 2020; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $11,076.13 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 19 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $114,010.77. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 26 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $76,007.18, 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 6 DE MARZO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $57,005.38, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se

adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de noviembre de 2024.

ALGUACIL MANUEL MALDONADO, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE MARCO

ANTONIO CANDELARIA

ESTRELLA COMPUESTA

POR: HÉCTOR RAFAEL CANDELARIA PÉREZ, LUISA VIRGINIA

CANDELARIA REYES

Y YARIMER AMALIE

CANDELARIA PÉREZ

T/C/C YARIMER CANDELARIA PÉREZ

TODOS POR SI Y COMO HEREDEROS; REBECA PÉREZ PACHECO

T/C/C REBECCA PÉREZ PACHECO POR SI Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; ÁNGEL DAVID PAGÁN

REYES; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CA2023CV00912. 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 Carolina, Carolina, 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 20 de diciembre 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 radicado en la Urbanización Valle Arriba Heights, marcado con el número dos (2) de la manzana “T”, con un área de 373.75 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, con la calle #38 en 16.25 metros; al Sur, con paseo público en 16.25 metros; al Este, con solar #1 en 23.00 metros y al Oeste, con el solar #3 en 24.00 metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado diseñada para una familia. Inscrita en la finca 16,631, al folio 37 del tomo 434 de Carolina Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Primera Sección de Carolina. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 23 de mayo de 2024 y notificada en este caso el 24 de mayo de 2024, en el presente The San Juan Daily Star Wednesday, January 29, 2025 15

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE

caso civil, a saber la suma de $119,137.00 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 4.00%; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $808.05 de gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose, más gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $119,939.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 18 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $79,959.33, 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 25 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $59,969.50, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá

a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de diciembre de 2024. ALGUACIL HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO RAFAEL MALDONADO LEBRÓN T/C/C PEDRO MALDONADO LEBRÓN COMPUESTA POR CARLOS JUAN MALDONADO ORTIZ, RAFAEL MALDONADO ORTIZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2019CV04236.

PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970

TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL:

ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 21 de enero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX

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SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA

BAJA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE OLINDA CRUZ SANTIAGO; SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL FERRER SANTIAGO Y SUCESIÓN DE ALFONSO FERRER CRUZ COMPUESTAS POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2024CV04276. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESIÓN DE OLINDA CRUZ SANTIAGO; SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL FERRER SANTIAGO Y SUCESIÓN DE ALFONSO FERRER CRUZ COMPUESTAS POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES - BARRIO YEGUADA, EXT. OCEAN FRONT, SOLAR 27, VEGA BAJA PR 00693; 3531 AVE. BERKELEY OCEAN FRONT, VEGA BAJA PR 00693-6119.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de Ios treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por

derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de La Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970

TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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SALA DE MANATÍ APEX BANK

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE JESUS

SANCHEZ CORDERO, COMPUESTA POR MARIA DIAZ SANCHEZ POR SÍ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE (COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS); CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado(s) Civil Núm.: MT2024CV00444. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR

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

EDICTO A: MARIA DIAZ SANCHEZ, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ

CORDERO, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; TODOS MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ CORDERO. INTERPELACIÓN A: MARIA DIAZ SANCHEZ POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ

CORDERO, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; TODOS MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ CORDERO. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/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. La información de los abogados de la parte de-

mandante es la siguiente: Atención: LCDO. FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ CHIQUES RUA 12826

FERNANDEZ CHIQUES, LLC PO Box 9749

San Juan, PR 00908

Tel. (787) 722-3040 ffc@ffclaw.com

POR LA PRESENTE, además, se le interpela judicialmente conforme al Art. 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. § 2787), para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, acepte o renuncie mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante Jesús Sánchez Cordero, apercibiéndosele que, de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia.

B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005). EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DE ESTE TRIBUNAL. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de enero de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN J. ROSARIO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS.

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BARRETO REYES Peticionaria EXPARTE

Civil Núm.: AR2025CV00007. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO; LEY 188 - 2022. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA AFECTAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE

SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE

OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

Por la presente, se le notifica que la parte Peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal una solicitud de Expediente de Dominio, solicitando adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Parcela localizada en el Barrio

Dominguito del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de

4,047.00 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 1.097 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con Digna López; por el SUR, con Camino Municipal; por el ESTE, con Camino Municipal y por el OESTE, con Sheida Esther Barreto. La Parte Peticionaria se encuentra representada por: LCDA. CAROLINA GARRIGA CESANÍ

RUA 15227

Calle Resolución #33, Suite 302 San Juan, PR 00920

Teléfono: 787-782-6500 x. 250 Correo electrónico: cgarriga@ titlesecuritygroup.com

Se le apercibe y notifica para que comparezca, si lo creyere pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro del plazo improrrogable de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, a exponer sus derechos en el expediente de dominio promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca antes descrita. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición o cualquier otro si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende pertinente. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico a 9 de enero de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA DÍAZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. ALEJANDRA O. FELIZ SENCION, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV09771. Sala: 905. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALEJANDRA O. FELIZ SENCION, FULANO DE TAL Y LA

SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónico: 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Villa Palmeras, 1964 Ave. Eduardo Conde Apto. 1, San Juan, PR 00912-3622. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto día 10 de enero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Demandante Vs. MARIA FIGUEROA ROSADO

Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV04656. Salón: 504. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARÍA F IGUEROA ROSADO13 RESIDENCIAL VILLA ESPAÑA, APTO. 130, SAN JUAN PR.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de agosto de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 3 de septiembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSICA SOTO PAGÁN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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CENTRO MĖDICO DEL TURABO, INC., H/N/C

HOSPITAL HIMA•SAN PABLO CAGUAS

Demandante Vs. KEVIN VALENTÍN

GARCÍA, SU ESPOSA

FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01839. (701). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - PROCEDIMIENTO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: LA SLG COMPUESTA POR KEVIN VALENTÍN GARCÍA Y SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL - BO. COCO VIEJO PRINCIPAL 7, SALINAS, PUERTO RICO 00751. Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante Centro Médico del Turabo, Inc., h/n/c Hospital HIMA San Pablo Caguas y h/n/c Red Medica ha presentado ante este Tribunal, demanda contra usted, solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: COBRO DE DINERO. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Rafael E. Díaz-González Apartado 4980 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-4980 Tel. (787) 900-1251 Fax: (787) 653-1792

E-Mail: raediaz@himapr.com Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, HOY 18 DE diciembre DE 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JUAN MIGUEL OLIVO MONTAÑEZ Y OTROS Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV05769. Sala: 502. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. EDICTO A: JUAN AUGUSTO OLIVO ALVELO, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

nica: 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. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15 de enero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NELLY MARTE MARCANO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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Demandante V. BACK OF THE HOUSE KITCHEN SERVICES

CORP.; IVELISSE COTTO

RODRIGUEZ, WANDA

VEGA CARDONA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBAS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV08107. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: IVELISSE COTTO RODRIGUEZ, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON WANDA VEGA CARDONA; WANDA VEGA CARDONA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA CON

IVELISSE COTTO RODRÍGUEZ - FÍSICA: CALLE 14 #B-44, URBANIZACIÓN

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAROLINA, PR 00987; POSTA: PO BOX 79536, CAROLINA, PR 009849536.

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro

de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento , excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al ( a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a esta, de no tener representación legal. 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. Ademas, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Num. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Articulo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Num. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de enero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. BACK OF THE HOUSE KITCHEN SERVICES

CORP.; IVELISSE COTTO RODRIGUEZ, WANDA VEGA CARDONA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBAS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV08107. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: BACK OF THE HOUSE KITCHEN SERVICES CORP. - FISICA: 2434

CALLE LOIZA SAN JUAN, PR 00913-9536; POSTAL: PO BOX 79536

CAROLINA, PR 009849536.

Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento , excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al ( a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a esta, de no tener representación legal. 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. Ademas, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Num. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Articulo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Num. 57-2023).

Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO

MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de enero de 2025.

GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY

ISLAND PORTFOLIO

SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. ZORIMAR

MERCADO CRUZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: QU2024CV00064. (Salón: 102 CIVIL - CRIMINAL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ NOTIFICACIONES@ORF-LAW.COM. A: ZORIMAR MERCADO CRUZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de enero de 2025. En Camuy, Puerto Rico, el 21 de enero de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ABRAMS RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAMILIA Y MENORES DE SAN JUAN ANTONIO RAMIREZ SANDOVAL TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO ANTONIO RAMIREZ

Demandante Vs. LORENZA ACOSTA MORA Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024RF01516. Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LORENZA ACOSTA MORA - 751 N 12TH ST. READING PA 19604-2515. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tri-

bunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: httrs://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. LCDO. EDGAR A. MOLINA JORGE PO Box 733, Sabana Seca PR. 00952 Tel. (787) 472-3444

E-mail: emolinalaw@gmail.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUZ O. RIVERA BENÍTEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO CARMEN LUISA SANFIORENZO SEPÚLVEDA, POR SÍ Y COMO APODERADA DE SAIRA IRIS RIVERA SANFIORENZO, DE BARBARA SANFIORENZO SEPÚLVEDA, DE MIBARI LAURA RIVERA SANFIORENZO Y DE CAMIBI RIVERA SANFIORENZO

Demandantes V. CENTRO HIPOTECARIO DE PUERTO RICO, T/C/C CENTRO HIPOTECARIO DE PUERTO RICO, INC.; DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE UN PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00977. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: CENTRO HIPOTECARIO DE PUERTO RICO, TCC CENTRO HIPOTECARIO

DE PUERTO RICO, INC.; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS.

Se emplaza y notifica que se ha presentado una demanda en este caso en la cual en síntesis la PARTE DEMANDANTE alega que 29 de abril del año 2005 se suscribió un pagaré hipotecario a favor de la parte demandante, CENTRO HIPOTECARIO DE PUERTO RICO, INC., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $157,000.00, con intereses al 7.95% por ciento anual, vencedero el 1ro de mayo de 2010. Este pagaré hipotecario fue garantizado con una hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 229, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de abril de 2005, ante la notario Hilda María Martínez Class. Esta hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 108 del tomo 1893 de Guaynabo, finca número 77,937, inscripción 6ta del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón. El inmueble gravado por la hipoteca antes descrita consta inscrito en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón, de la siguiente manera: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número A guión mil uno (A-1001) ubicado en el primer piso de la sección A guión diez (A-10) del Edificio A del Complejo Torrimar Town Park, situado en el Barrio Juan Sánchez de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil ciento noventa y ocho pies cuadrados con dieciocho centésimas de otro (1,198.18 pc), equivalentes a ciento once metros con tres mil ciento nueve diezmilésimas de otro (111.3109 mc), distribuidos en un master bedroom, dos (2) cuartos, dos (2) baños, una sala-comedor, una cocina, un cuarto de lavar ropa (laundry), dos (2) closets, un walk in closet y un balcón; en lindes por el NOROESTE, en treinta pies con diez pulgadas (30’ 10”), equivalentes a nueve metros con cuarenta centésimas de otro (9.40 m), con la verja de bloques del proyecto y la acera de la Avenida Santa Ana; por el SURESTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan treinta pies con nueve pulgadas (30’ 9“), equivalentes a nueve metros con treinta y ocho centésimas de otro (9.38 m), divididos en veintitrés pies con cinco pulgadas (23’ 5”), equivalentes a siete metros con quince centésimas de otro (7.15 m) y en siete pies cuatro pulgadas (7’ 4”), equivalentes a dos metros con veintitrés centésimas de otro (2.23 m), con el área de estacionamiento A; por el ESTE, en varias alineaciones que totalizan cincuenta y un pies con tres pulgadas (51’ 3”), equivalentes a quince metros con sesenta y tres centésimas de otro (15.63 m), divididas en cuarenta y dos pies con seis

pulgadas (42’ 6”), equivalentes a doce metros con noventa y seis centésimas de otro (12.96 m) y en ocho pies con nueve pulgadas (8’ 9”), equivalentes a dos metros con sesenta y siete centésimas de otro (2.67 m), con el apartamento A guión mil ciento uno (A-1101); por el OESTE, en veintinueve pies con cuatro pulgadas (29’ 4”), equivalentes a ocho metros con noventa y seis centésimas de otro (8.96 m) y siete pies con tres pulgadas (7’ 3”), equivalentes a dos metros con veintiuna centésimas de otro (2.21 m), con el apartamento A guión novecientos uno (A-901) y en un área no determinada con las escaleras que dan acceso al segundo piso. Su puerta de acceso se encuentra ubicada en el área suroeste de la sala comunicando el apartamento con un área común con el apartamento A guión novecientos uno (A-901) y con las escaleras que dan acceso al segundo piso. Posee un patio con una cabida superficial de doscientos cuarenta y un pies cuadrados con cuarenta pulgadas (241.40 pc), equivalentes a veintidós metros cuadrados con cuatro mil doscientos sesenta y una diezmilésima de otro (22.4261 mc), el cual se encuentra ubicado en el área posterior el master room, balcón y la cocina, el cual es un elemento limitado de uso exclusivo del titular del apartamento del primer piso. Le fueron adjudicados, además, dos (2) estacionamientos con numeración de veintiocho (28). Apartamento de concreto para fines residenciales, el cual le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes generales y en la cuota de mantenimiento de cero punto cero un millón setecientos veintiún mil doscientos cinco diez millones de milésimas de por ciento (0.01721205%). Inscrita al folio 68 del tomo 1884 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 77,937, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Bayamón. La obligación garantizada por dicha hipoteca fue pagada en su totalidad y está vencida, quedando solamente por cancelar el pagaré que la garantizaba. La PARTE DEMANDANTE manifestó que nunca recibió el pagaré original para su cancelación y desconoce su paradero, por lo que concluyó que el pagaré estaba extraviado. Pueden examinar la demanda en su totalidad en los autos de este Tribunal. El abogado de la parte demandante es:

Lcdo. Joseorlando Mercado Gely RUA 12257 P.O. Box 270386 San Juan, PR 00927 Tel. 765-3027 Fax: 765-3043 jmercado@comasrevuelta.com

Deberán notificar su contestación dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y

Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se les apercibe que, de no hacerlo, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda. La PARTE DEMANDADA deberá radicar el original de la contestación de la demanda en este Tribunal, con copia a la PARTE DEMANDANTE. DADO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por orden del mismo, hoy 13 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE RAFAEL DEL VALLE LEON POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES CONSTITUIDA CON ZENAIDA VEGA COLON Demandante Vs. PONCE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES, INC; RICARDO JOSE MONTALVO NEGRON; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE Demandados Civil Núm.: PO202500020. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado 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://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. 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. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañando(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda.

María E. Vicéns Rivera Abogado de la parte demandante 1218 Ave. Hostos Suite 117 Ponce, PR 00717 Tel. (787) 259-1999 Email: mevicens@yahoo.com

Expedido bajo la firma y sello de este Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico a 15 de enero de 2025. Carmen Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Loyda Torres Irizarry, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. ANTONIO RÍOS RIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CN2024CV00408. (Civil: 402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BARRELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM. A: ANTONIO RÍOS RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN A LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES, VICTORIA JIMÉNEZ RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN A LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta no-

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tificación 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 22 de enero de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 22 de enero de 2025.

KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. LOURDES T. DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC

Demandante V. ANGEL RAFAEL APONTE GUTIERREZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00530. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM.

LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGI - LMARINI@ MPMLAWPR.COM. A: ANGEL RAFAEL APONTE GUTIERREZ, MINERVA APONTE GUTIERREZ - 7910 CITRUS GARDEN DR. APT 106, TAMPA, FLORIDA 33625-2464.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se consi-

derará 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 23 de enero de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 23 de enero de 2025.

ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO,

SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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GOBIERNO DE PUERTO RICO. DEPARTAMENTO DE ESTADO.. NOMBRE COMERCIAL PARA REGISTRAR. AVISO. A QUIEN PUEDA INTERESAR: De acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Ley Núm. 75 del 23 de septiembre de 1992, según enmendada, mejor conocida como la Ley de Nombres Comerciales del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y la Sección 24 del Reglamento promulgado bajo la ley citada anteriormente, el siguiente nombre comercial ha sido presentado en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico para su archivo y registro.

LOTUS SAN JUAN

Número de Expediente: 255245-99-0. Propietario: F 4 0 LLC. Dirección: AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PLAZA 250 MUÑOZ. RIVERA AVENUE, 6TH FLOOR, SAN JUAN, PR 00918. Actividad Empresarial: Car dealership. Renuncia a elementos no registrable: SAN JUAN. NOTIFICACIÓN: Cualquier oposición a este registro deberá presentarse en el Departamento de Estado de Puerto Rico dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este aviso.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. BETHZAIDA GOMEZ DE LEON

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: LP2024CV00054. (Salón: 206). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. JAN MIGUEL OTERO MARTÍNEZJAN.OTERO@ORF-LAW.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: BETHZAIDA GOMEZ DE LEON - DIRECCION: URB VILLAS RETIRO 10 LAS PIEDRAS PR 00771; CARR 198 KM 19.6 BARRIO CEIBA LAS PIEDRAS PR 00771; HC 5

BOX 4750 LAS PIEDRAS PR 00771. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de enero de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 23 de enero de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante V. BRENDA I. CARRERO TORRES Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: YU2024CV00351. (Salón: 3 SALA MUNICIPAL EN SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.

A: BRENDA I. CARRERO TORRES - P/C LIC. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de agosto 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 22 de enero de 2025. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 22 de enero de 2025. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. Adelaida Lugo Pacheco, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR ANTONIO M. MOREDA ALEGRÍA

Peticionario

EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV01050. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: MILAGROS LARACUENTE ORTIZ Y/O CUALQUIER PERSONA EN POSESIÓN. POR CUANTO: La parte peticionaria por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo. Carlos L. Segarra Matos, con oficina en el #2510 de la Carretera 100 kilómetro 3.5 en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico y dirección pos tal PO Box 582 Boquerón PR 00622, ha radicado una petición en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, solicitando la inmatriculación y el dominio en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico Sección de San Germán, del inmueble que se describe de la siguiente manera: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno en forma triangular con cabida de DOS MIL CUATROCIENTOS CUATRO PUNTO NOVENTA METROS CUADRADOS (2,404.90 M.C.) que ubica en el Barrio Sabana Eneas del del término municipal de San Germán, Puerto Rico, Carretera Estatal 102, en lindes, por el NORTE, con las parcelas nuevas del Proyecto de Parcelación Sabana Eneas de San Germán; por el SUR, con una quebrada, por el ESTE con las parcelas nuevas del Proyecto de Parcelación de Sabana Eneas de San Germán y por el OESTE, con un camino vecinal. POR CUANTO: El Tribunal Ordena la citación de las personas arriba nombradas quienes surgen como colindantes, que pudieran tener algún

interés en la propiedad o que puedan ser perjudicados por su inscripción para que comparezcan a formular alegaciones si así lo desean, dentro del término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la última publicación de este edicto. A tales fines, el edicto se publicará tres (3) veces en un periódico general de circulación diaria dentro del término de veinte (20) días. Se le advierte que, de no haber oposición, se dictará Resolución concediendo lo solicitado. POR CUANTO: Expido el presente edicto en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de enero de 2025. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irrizary, Secretaria. Evelyn González Hernández, Sub-Secretaria.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. MARY HOPE HASTINGS

T/C/C/ MARY HASTINGS

Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV01110. 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: MARY HOPE

HASTINGS t/c/c MARY HASTINGS

204 Deer Creek Blvd Cibolo, TX 78108-3199

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Mary Hope Hastings t/c/c/ Mary Hastings, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC , Lcdo Luis C Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indica-

do, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIO GENERAL INT. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante DIANE MENENDEZ T/C/C/ DIANA DELGADO MENENDEZ T/C/C/ DIANE DELGADO MENENDEZ

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV01114. 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: Diane Menendez t/c/c/ Diana Delgado Menendez t/c/c/ Diane Delgado Menendez 1385 N. Biscayne Point Rd., Miami Beach, FL 33141

POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Diane Menendez t/c/c/ Diana Delgado Menendez t/c/c/ Diane Delgado Menendez, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, iNC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder

conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 16 de ENERO de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretario General Int. Maritza Rosario Rosario, Secretario Auxiliar.

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

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. ANGEL L. ACOSTA MONTES Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2024CV00397. (Salón: 103 SALA DE INVESTIGACIONES). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. ANGEL L. ACOSTA MONTES - URB RIO CRISTAL, 8246 BALBINO TRINTA, MAYAGÜEZ, PUERTO RICO, 00682. A: ANGEL L. ACOSTA MONTES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de enero de 2025. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 21 de enero de 2025. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria. Betsy Santiago González, Sec Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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Teams could learn a thing or two from the empire the Dodgers built

By KEN ROSENTHAL / THE ATHLETIC

Deep in the heart of every baseball fan fuming about the spending of the Los Angeles Dodgers, there lies an uncomfortable truth: You’re just mad your owner isn’t doing the same thing.

Sure, under MLB’s current economic system, the game’s financial playing field is tilted. But if you are losing your mind over the Dodgers’ latest spending, know this: The playing field is not entirely to blame, if indeed it should be blamed at all.

Yes, the Dodgers are exploiting the system through a formula of signing bonuses and deferred payments, using money generated from a 25-year, $8.35 billion local television deal and their league-leading attendance every year since 2013. No other team operates from such a financial foundation. Perhaps no other team would be comfortable shelling out effectively more than $35 million per season for left-handed reliever Tanner Scott, including salary and a 110% luxury tax penalty. The tax will be in effect for at least the first two years of Scott’s fouryear deal.

The Dodgers, though, also are schooling opponents with a relentless mindset not enough rival ownerships share. Are they ruining baseball? From a financial perspective, at least, it is the opposite. As rich as the Dodgers are, they are improving the bottom lines of other teams, too.

The Dodgers’ road attendance last season, after the addition of Shohei Ohtani during their $1 billion offseason, was the highest in the majors since 2008, according to Stats Perform. They were the largest contributor to revenue sharing, and half of their record $103 million luxury tax penalty also was redirected to other clubs.

Villains are valued in many forms of entertainment, from films to the WWE. The Dodgers are the latest Evil Empire in baseball, drawing fresh attention to the sport. They are acting this winter as if the San Diego Padres knocked them out of the playoffs instead of the other way around. But all teams should compete with the same zeal. Complacency in baseball spans all market sizes. Small-market teams such as the Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins are not the only ones refusing to compete to the best of their capabilities. So are midmarket teams such as the Seattle Mariners and Minnesota Twins and large-market teams such as the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, just to name a few.

Owners and some fans crave a salary cap and floor, believing it would be a competitive remedy. But superteams exist in cap sports. The NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs just played in their seventh consecutive AFC championship game (and won it). The New England Patriots appeared in eight straight. In the NBA, elite players frequently maneuver to join forces. A cap might produce greater financial fairness, but shrewd front offices like the Dodgers’ would still prevail.

The Dodgers’ spending will only accelerate renewed talk of a cap. As the television landscape shifts, Rob Manfred, the MLB commissioner, wants to create national packages for major streaming companies to bid on in 2028. The Dodgers and other large-market clubs, holding the most valuable rights, are likely to oppose the idea. Manfred could attempt to alleviate those concerns by tying the national TV package to a cap, but then the players will stand in the way.

A push by the league for a cap would almost certainly lead to a work stoppage, one that might cost the sport part or all of the 2027 season at a time when the game is coming off back-to-back increases in attendance for the first time since 2011 and 2012.

Better the sport enhance the current system to give revenue-sharing recipients additional draft picks and other benefits, while enforcing more stringent spending requirements on those clubs. And better some current owners sell to more ambitious ones, to people like the New York Mets’ Steve Cohen and the Philadelphia Phillies’ John Middleton.

Per FanGraphs, the Dodgers’ payroll is $370 million while the entire American League Central is $544 million, spread across five teams. Let’s look at how those five clubs are operating. The Kansas City Royals, playing in the smallest market, are the only ones acting as if they are hellbent on winning.

The Cleveland Guardians reached the American League Championship Series last season. Since then, they have traded their first baseman and second baseman, and are likely to end up with a payroll similar to last season’s. The Minnesota Twins in 2023 won their first postseason series in 21 years, then went into payroll retreat. The Detroit Tigers followed their incredible run to a wild card last season by making only two modest additions, right-hander Alex Cobb and second baseman Gleyber Torres. The Chicago White Sox, rebuilding while playing in the

division’s largest market, are coming off a 121-loss campaign.

The National League Central is not much better. The Cubs have the resources to bully the division, but their current estimated payroll is $48 million below where it was last season. The team’s owner, Tom Ricketts, speaking to 670 The Score at the 2025 Cubs Convention, sounded almost offended by the mere discussion of payrolls.

“I don’t think fans should spend all their time thinking about which team has more money or how much they’re spending,” he said. “It just becomes a big narrative that’s a distraction. I think our fans somehow think we have all these dollars that the Dodgers have or the Mets have or the Yankees have, and we just keep it. It’s not true. We just try to break even every year.”

Ricketts bought the Cubs in 2009 for $845 million. Forbes now estimates the franchise is worth $4.225 billion. If Ricketts does not want fans thinking about money, perhaps he should lower his ticket prices so they are not among the most expensive in baseball. And if he wants to support his claim that he is just trying to break even every year, he is more than welcome to open his books. Only two clubs provide such information, the Atlanta Braves and Toronto Blue Jays, and only because they are part of publicly traded companies.

People forget: The Dodgers, under Frank McCourt, were not nearly the behemoth

they became under Guggenheim Baseball Management, which purchased the club for $2 billion in 2012. Controlling owner Mark Walter, CEO of financial services firm Guggenheim Partners, oversaw this latest renaissance: the $8.35 billion broadcast agreement; the hiring of Andrew Friedman as president of baseball operations; the improvements to Dodger Stadium; the additions of one superstar after another.

No question, the Dodgers operate with massive inherent advantages. But they work them to maximum effect, using signing bonuses and deferrals to help alleviate tax burdens for players who are not California residents. Players want to be in Los Angeles; Scott and Roki Sasaki agreed to their deals even with the wildfires raging. Players also want to join a club with a record of excellence. The Dodgers have made 12 consecutive playoff appearances and won two of the past five World Series.

The beauty of baseball is that it offers no guarantees. Winning the offseason does not mean winning the World Series.

The financial playing field in baseball is not level and perhaps never will be, reflecting a sport in which teams rely more on local than national revenue. The increasing disparity between the game’s haves and have-nots is a legitimate concern. But calls for greater competitive balance have existed since the days of Babe Ruth. They would carry more legitimacy today if more teams were trying.

Watercolors by Gordon Meier, who painted a series of highlights from every Los Angeles Dodgers game last season, at the artist’s home in Los Angeles, Oct. 24, 2024. The Dodgers “are schooling opponents with a relentless mindset not enough rival ownerships share,” columnist Ken Rosenthal writes. (Maggie Shannon/The New York Times)

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