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Aguada mayor tapped to lead PDP rebuild
By THE STAR STAFF
opular Democratic Party (PDP) President Pablo José Hernández Rivera has appointed Aguada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano as “Engineer of the Structural Refoundation of the PDP,” the party announced Sunday.
“Christian Cortés is an exemplary public servant, with the ideal combination of experience in municipal administration and knowledge in law and engineering,” Hernández Rivera said in a written statement. “His leadership will be key to re-establishing the structure of the PDP and ensuring that the party is
aligned with the needs of the people and the challenges of the future.”
PDP vice presidents Sen. Migdalia González Arroyo and Carlos “Charlie” Delgado Altieri supported the appointment.
“I accept this task with a great sense of responsibility and commitment,” Cortés said. “We will consult with the base, with the expert sectors and with all the ‘populares’ who want a more agile and effective party. The refoundation of the PDP is a project for everyone.”
As part of the undertaking, Cortés must draft a new regulation that reflects the structural refoundation of the PDP before Sept. 30 of this year.
Governor says decision on AES will wait until legislative process ends
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón plans to wait for the legislative process to end to determine the future of the Applied Energy Systems (AES) coal-fired power plant in Guayama.
The island Legislature is evaluating a bill that would amend energy policies to postpone, to 2035 from 2028, the ban on the use of coal to draw energy and would eliminate previously established intermediate renewable-=energy goals. For instance, the bill would eliminate the requirement for Puerto Rico to draw 40% of its energy from renewable sources by 2025 and 60% by 2040. Instead, the bill establishes the goal of 100% in the use of renewables by 2050.
“We need to change the legislation,” the governor said. “The proposed change eliminates intermediate renewable energy goals. Why? Because Puerto Rico should not be bound to the Energy Bureau, which only approves projects that meet renewable energy criteria. We are unlikely to meet these goals, leaving the final renewable energy target set for 2050. While we all aspire to achieve emission-free energy, the reality is that we may face blackouts by summer due to insufficient energy generation. This is why we have eliminated the intermediate goals and retained only the final goal.”
“Once we have that change,” González Colón continued, “we can negotiate with the operator and any other operators to explore ways to modify energy production. They already hold a permit for energy generation, so our aim is to allow them to transition to a combined-cycle, natural gas system. However, we cannot reach that point without altering the intermediate goals, enabling the Energy Bureau to make informed decisions about availability and business opportunities.”
Speaker of the House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, along with legislators from the Popular Democratic Party, opposes extending the operations of the coal-fired generator until 2035. The municipality of Guayama, where the AES facilities are located, also wishes to avoid extending the generator’s operations.
Josué Colón Ortiz, the island’s energy czar, said in public hearings that AES should continue operating until 2035 to allow for the development of a substitute source for the 500 megawatts produced by the plant.
“I, along with the energy czar, am meeting with various generation groups,” the governor said, “as we will not rest until we secure the necessary tools and generation options for Puerto Rico.”
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)
Aguada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano
Puerto Rico far from eradicating gender violence
2
women slain early Sunday in separate incidents
By THE STAR STAFF
The two femicides that occurred on Valentine’s Day weekend serve as a painful reminder that the fight to eradicate gender violence is far from over in Puerto Rico, several active advocates for stronger protections for women said Sunday.
As shelters for female victims of domestic violence face the threat of federal funding cuts, shelter directors are calling on the government to provide financial support for the organizations and develop violence prevention initiatives.
“Given the terrible news of two femicides committed on the same day, and three in a week that is supposed to celebrate love, we urge that prevention initiatives and services for victims and survivors be prioritized,” said Coraly León, president of the National Network of Gender Violence Shelters. “Domestic violence and femicides are not isolated incidents; they are forms of violence that have become normalized in our country, and we share the responsibility to address this issue. This normalization of violence is costing women their lives in Puerto Rico.”
Early Sunday morning, two women were slain in separate incidents in Guayama and Villalba, according to police reports.
In Guayama, Lisalee Escalante Espada, 28, a mother of three children aged 7, 9 and 11, was killed by her partner after an argument on 16th Street in the Jardines de Guamaní residential area.
Authorities encountered Escalante Espada’s body in the front seat of a Nissan, which was driven by a friend who took the woman to a hospital emergency room.
Authorities were questioning the suspect early Sunday.
Meanwhile, a man arrived at Police Bureau district headquarters in Juana Díaz in the early hours of Sunday and said he had killed his wife.
The police arrived at the subject’s residence, in the Romero
lem of domestic violence, we need more than speeches and occasional expressions of sympathy each time a woman is murdered by her partner.”
“In 2024 alone, there were 24 intimate femicides, and already this year, we have had four, two of which occurred this Valentine’s Day weekend,” she said. “Despite the frequent incidents of femicide, the state’s response remains insufficient; we need concrete and sustained measures over time.”
She added that prevention “must be a priority, and this requires education starting in childhood to dismantle the foundations of sexist violence.”
neighborhood in Villalba, where they found the body of Mildred Beatriz Colón Bonilla lying on the bed covered with a sheet.
“We must prioritize, as we have been demanding for years, education and prevention initiatives,” León said. “It is also critical that service centers, including shelters for domestic violence survivors, have the necessary resources to continue their life-saving services. We are currently facing uncertainty due to potential cuts in federal funds, and an immediate response from the local government is imperative to maintain essential services that save lives every day. The emergency situation due to domestic violence, femicides and sexual violence continues. We call for the approval of Joint Resolution #11, which would allocate $1 million to the shelters that are part of the network, ensuring the continuity of the only service that guarantees the safety of survivors and their children 100% of the time.”
Lisdel Flores Barger, executive director of the Hogar Ruth shelter, stressed that “[t]o effectively address the prob-
“We cannot continue addressing this problem solely through emergency responses; we need policies that ensure the sustainability and strengthening of services for victims and survivors,” Flores Barger said. “Additionally, domestic violence is not only a problem for those who experience it directly; it affects society as a whole. Making this issue visible, recognizing it as a human rights crisis, and demanding strong actions are responsibilities we all share. We cannot allow these numbers to continue to rise in silence.”
Deborah Maldonado, president of Kilometers of Change, an event featuring 50 female athletes in a three-day relay race across Puerto Rico to raise funds for shelters, also shared her recommendations against gender-based violence.
“It is crucial to ensure the continuity of shelters and emergency hotlines for women in danger,” she said. “At this critical moment, with federal funds frozen, the work of these organizations is threatened, putting the lives of many women who seek protection and support at risk. We cannot allow a lack of resources to limit the assistance so many victims need. We must not react only in times of tragedy; prevention is key. This begins with emotional education, access to help before violence manifests, and the strengthening of protection services.”
Maldonado also emphasized the need for prevention campaigns and services aimed at men, offering them tools to manage their emotions without resorting to violence.
House to pay homage to Luis A. Ferré
By THE STAR STAFF
The island House of Representatives will hold a discussion today on the life and career of Luis A. Ferré as part of the activities commemorating the birth of the Puerto Rican political icon led by House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez and former House Speaker José Aponte Hernández.
The event is scheduled for 5 p.m. in the Salón de los Proceres on the second floor of the Capitol. Prominent historians Antonio Quiñones and Mario Ramos will be the main speakers at the gathering.
“Don Luis was a tireless fighter for the
achievement of equal rights with American citizens in the states. He did not settle for the bare minimum; on the contrary, he sought the best for Puerto Rico,” said Aponte, who also chairs the House Committee on Federal and Veterans Affairs. “We have made great progress in recent years to meet the goal that Don Luis set. Together we can give our Puerto Rico the future it deserves, one of progress, sustained economic development and social justice for all.
Don Luis’ legacy lives on in all of us; it is time to redouble our efforts to achieve that equality.”
Don Luis, as he was known, was born on Feb. 17, 1904 in Ponce. Among his vast legacy of work is the founding of the New Progressive
Party, the only political movement on the Island that aims to achieve statehood. It was under the banner of the palm in 1969 that Ferré was sworn in as the island’s third governor democratically elected by the people.
“Luis A. Ferré was one of those people who distinguished himself by always fighting to improve the quality of life of Puerto Ricans, leaving the political arena to become a patron of the arts,” Aponte added. “His tireless search for benefits for our people never ceased, because even after his term as governor ended, Don Luis worked to impact the lives of so many. His legacy is indisputable and deserves recognition, as the hero that he is.”
From left, Coraly León, president of the National Network of Gender Violence Shelters, and Deborah Maldonado, president of Kilometers of Change
Former Gov. Luis A. Ferré (Wikipedia)
Head of Casa Pueblo: Popular insurrection over energy may be necessary
By THE STAR STAFF
Arturo Massol Deyá, associate director of the community-based environmental organization Casa Pueblo, warned that changes in energy policy in the United States and Puerto Rico could lead to mass outmigration.
“With energy, we must reach a consensus point where we all agree, and then we may need to take to the streets or take action,” Massol said over the weekend. “At Casa Pueblo, we will continue to set an example; we have documented what works. However, the threats we face are significant, and the implications of the current developments are overwhelming. The energy model being proposed could make it impossible to live in this country, forcing people to leave.”
Massol made the statements during the presentation of his book, “Democracy and Energy: Challenging the Economy of Fossil Fuels for a Country of Our Own,” at Taller Comunidad La Goyco in Santurce on Saturday.
Massol criticized plans for a new gas plant and a gas pipeline circuit, questioning their efficacy in solving the country’s energy problems. He was talking about a planned 478-megawatt (MW) generation plant, initially running on liquefied natural gas and with the capacity to operate on hydrogen in the future, that will be built by the consortium Energiza. He also rejected a proposed underwater cable
that will provide energy between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
“Now they say they will build a cable to receive electricity from the Dominican Republic, instead of establishing plants in Salinas, as if this will solve our issues, while trying to keep us reliant on gas,” Massol said.
He strongly opposed the establishment of new generation plants using methane gas, the continuation of coal
burning beyond 2027, and the proposed connection to receive electricity from the Dominican Republic. Furthermore, he criticized the spending on a battery storage system for Genera PR plants, stating that such measures unjustifiably delay the transition to renewable energy and do not support the social and economic development of residents.
“They mention an investment of $800 million in batteries for all the thermoelectric plants of Genera Puerto Rico,” Massol said. “People think it’s great that batteries will help cushion blackouts, but the truth is these batteries are not intended to integrate renewable energy or move us to a sustainable future. They are meant to cover up the failures of Genera Puerto Rico, which has proven ineffective in operating and maintaining the plants it promised to fix. Because of their frequent failures, they need a backup, and they want the country to pay for it. This is a bizarre situation.”
“In a colonized country like this, the energy transformation must lead us toward our first independence -- energy independence,” Massol said. “Among those who aspire to statehood and those who wish to confront colonial realities or advocate for the Republic of Puerto Rico, there is a consensus on the need to produce our own energy. This is essential for enhancing our productivity and improving daily life, as well as preparing for challenges posed by LUMA, Genera, earthquakes, climate change, and everything else affecting our country.”
Governor appoints members to OPM Advisory Council, Land Management Board
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón on Sunday announced several appointments to advisory boards and councils.
The governor appointed Ileana Valcourt Rodríguez as a member of the Office of the Women’s Advocate (OPM by its initials in Spanish) Advisory Council.
Valcourt has worked in private firms as an auditor and controller, and has been a legal adviser in the Department of Agriculture, the College of Criminal Justice and the OPM. In the OPM’s Caguas Region she served as a legal intercessor and psycho-legal specialist. Since 2017 she has worked in the
Women’s Office of the Municipality of Gurabo as a coordinator and legal intercessor.
Valcourt holds a Juris Doctor degree from Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in human resources from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
The OPM Advisory Council was created within the agency’s organic law. Its function is to advise the OPM “on all matters related to women in all spheres of social, political, economic and cultural life, as well as on the situation of discrimination, oppression or marginalization of women.”
It must also make proposals aimed at ensuring the full enjoyment of women’s human rights, and evaluate public policy in relation to women in various areas to promote actions that contribute to ensuring the participation of women in all spheres of social, political, economic and cultural life.
The governor also appointed planner Joel O. Olmedo as a member of the Land Management Board, a position that requires the consent of the Senate.
Olmedo has served as city revitalization manager under the federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program in the Municipality of Canóvanas; as a geographic information system programmer for the Department of Health; as a specialist in the Planning and Economic Development Office of the Municipality of Toa Baja; and as a planning analyst for both the municipalities of Fajardo and the Puerto Rico Planning Board, among other positions. He holds a master’s degree in planning and a bachelor’s degree in geography, both from the University of Puerto Rico.
The purpose of the Land Management Board, which is part of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, is to promote the economic, social and urban development of Puerto Rico and to collaborate with various agencies to make their projects a reality and effectively implement their public policies and work plans through the orderly acquisition and development of land.
Arturo Massol Deyá, associate director of Casa Pueblo
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An unchecked Trump rapidly remakes US government and foreign policy
By LUKE BROADWATER
The last time President Donald Trump held office, he tried to make deep cuts to foreign aid but was blocked by Congress. He is finding little resistance from fellow Republicans this time to his move to freeze such funding.
During a special counsel’s inquiry in his first term, Trump expressed a desire to fire the investigator, but White House lawyers stopped him. This term, Trump has swiftly forced out a slew of federal officials who had oversight roles over his administration.
In the final days of his first presidency, Trump tried to hire a loyalist to help run the FBI, until Attorney General Bill Barr objected, Barr said in his book after he left office. Now that same loyalist, Kash Patel, is poised to lead the bureau.
At every step in his second term, Trump is demonstrating how unbound he is from prior restraints, dramatically remaking domestic and foreign policy at a scale that has little parallel. His swift moves in his first month back in office underscore the confidence of an administration with a much firmer grip on the levers of government than during Trump’s last stint in the White House.
Long gone are the veterans of the Bush and Reagan administrations who pushed him to hew to more traditional conservative policies. In their place are a group of mostly America First Republicans helping Trump radically reset the country’s policies — as well as billionaire Elon Musk, whom the president has unleashed to barrel through the bureaucracy.
“We’ve never seen anything on the scale of what Donald Trump’s new administration is doing,” said Jeffrey A. Engel, who leads the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. “It’s not just a reversal of previous administration policies — which we always expect to see a little bit of — but a reversal of the fundamentals of American foreign policy since 1945.”
Consider Trump’s actions in the past week alone:
— He ended efforts to isolate Russia diplomatically after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago, speaking at length with President Vladimir Putin. Trump characterized the conversation as the opening of talks to end the war — with no clear role for President Volodymyr Zel-
appear to be few checks on Trump. Congress, under Republican control, has cast off its traditional oversight and budgetary roles in deference to his agenda.
Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he is all too happy to cede the power of the purse to Musk’s team in the executive branch. He indicated he has no objection to Trump canceling or clawing back funds approved by Congress.
“I’ve been asked so many times, ‘Aren’t you uncomfortable with this?’” Johnson told reporters. “No, I’m not.” He added, “We the people are applauding what’s happening in the new administration.”
One of the few Republicans in Congress who has not moved in lockstep with Trump has been Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has declined to vote for some of the president’s more polarizing Cabinet nominees. But the former party leader’s “no” votes have not held back the confirmations of figures such as Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary.
enskyy of Ukraine.
— His administration began widespread layoffs across the government, targeting most of an estimated 200,000 federal workers on probation, a sharp escalation in the president’s drive to shrink the workforce.
— Top Trump officials plunged the Justice Department deeper into chaos with its move to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, triggering a cascade of resignations from prosecutors.
— Trump proposed an aggressive global reworking of tariffs — devising what he calls “reciprocal tariffs” that could shatter the commitments the United States has made internationally through the World Trade Organization and potentially usher in a new era of trade wars.
Amid it all, the president continued to sign executive orders at a breakneck speed, taking moves to weaken the job protections of career diplomats and expand Musk’s power over the federal workforce.
Trump’s allies say his actions show how fast he is moving to fulfill the promises he made to voters.
“It’s been at a rapid pace,” said Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 Republican in the House. “If you compare Donald Trump’s first month in office in 2017 to what you’re seeing today, you’re watching a much
more focused and aggressive president.”
He added, “He’s taking the lessons from his first term and delivering bigger results, faster results for the American people.”
So far, the upheaval caused by Trump’s early moves has not appeared to have brought a large shift in public opinion against him, though it remains to be seen how the spending freezes and cuts to the federal workforce will resonate among his key constituencies once the impacts are clear.
“Most of the people that voted for him wanted change,” Engel said. “I would argue most of the people that voted for him were not really into the weeds of Page 632 of federal law. So the headlines are, ‘Trump did something,’ and they sense action.’”
The blitz of policy changes Trump has undertaken during his first month in office have little precedent, historians say.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a similar flurry of activity during his first 100 days in office, but those measures aimed to build up American institutions, not tear them down.
“In Roosevelt’s case, that was a revolution to create institutions,” Engel said. “This is not a construction site. It’s a wrecking ball.”
Unlike with other presidents, there
Where Trump had encountered resistance, it has been in the courts. Some federal judges have stepped in to temporarily block some of Trump’s actions — including his attempted repeal of birthright citizenship, his freeze on foreign aid and some of Musk’s intrusions into the federal government.
That has drawn Trump’s ire.
“Billions of Dollars of FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE, has already been found in the investigation of our incompetently run Government,” the president posted on Truth Social, without providing evidence of specific misspending. “Now certain activists and highly political judges want us to slow down, or stop. Losing this momentum will be very detrimental to finding the TRUTH, which is turning out to be a disaster for those involved in running our Government. Much left to find. No Excuses!!!”
Federal officials who have been pushed out in Trump’s rapid purges say he is systematically eroding any checks on his administration. He pushed out 19 inspectors general; the chair of the Federal Election Commission; the head of the Office of Special Counsel, a government watchdog agency; and the chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which protects civil servants from unjustified disciplinary action. Many of those terminations are now being challenged in court.
President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. At every step in his second term, Trump is demonstrating how unbound he is from prior restraints, dramatically remaking both domestic and foreign policy at a scale that has little parallel. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
Trump suggests no laws are broken if he’s ‘saving his country’
By MAGGIE HABERMAN, CHARLIE SAVAGE and JONATHAN SWAN
President Donald Trump on Saturday posted on social media a single sentence that appears to encapsulate his attitude as he tests the nation’s legal and constitutional boundaries in the process of upending the federal government and punishing his perceived enemies.
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump wrote, first on his social media platform Truth Social, then on social platform X.
By late afternoon, Trump had pinned the statement to the top of his Truth Social feed, making it clear it was not a passing thought but one he wanted people to absorb. The official White House account on X posted his message in the evening.
The quote is a variation of one sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, although its origin is unclear.
Nonetheless, the sentiment was familiar: Trump, through his words and actions, has repeatedly suggested that surviving two assassination attempts is evidence that he has divine backing to enforce his will.
He has brought a far more aggressive attitude toward his use of power to the White House in his second term than he did at the start of his first. The powers of the presidency that he returned to were bolstered by last year’s Supreme Court ruling that he is presumptively immune from prosecution for any crimes he may commit using his official powers.
During his first weeks in office, Trump has signed numerous executive orders that pushed at the generally understood limits of
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While not using the phrase “unitary executive theory,” Harris’ letter echoed its ideological tenet that the Constitution does not allow Congress to enact a law “which prevents the president from adequately supervising principal officers in the executive branch who execute the laws on the president’s behalf” and said the Trump administration will try to get the Supreme Court to overturn a 1935 precedent to the contrary.
That, at least, is a theory under which at least some of what Trump has been doing is lawful: It is not illegal to disregard an unconstitutional statute.
But, taken at face value, Trump’s statement Saturday went much further, suggesting that even if what he is doing unambiguously breaks an otherwise valid law, that would not matter if he says his motive is to save the country. There are a handful of instances of other presidents claiming the power to override legal limits, but those have usually been limited to national security.
presidential power, fired numerous officials and dismantled an agency in clear violation of statutory limits, and frozen spending authorized by Congress without clear authority. Many of his policy moves have been at least temporarily frozen by judges.
Such moves include trying to unilaterally rewrite the definition of birthright citizenship — a right enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment — to exclude babies born to mothers living in the country without legal permission, and mass firings of public servants, ignoring civil service
protection laws. He has all but shuttered the agency responsible for foreign aid, dismissed prosecutors who investigated him, and fired Senate-confirmed watchdogs without giving proper notice to Congress or justification.
Trump’s team has embraced an expansive version of the so-called unitary executive theory, a legal ideology that says that the Constitution should be understood as forbidding Congress from placing any limits on the president’s control of the executive branch, including by creating independent agencies or restricting the president’s ability to summarily fire any government official at will.
In the early days of the Civil War, for example, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus rights, called up troops and otherwise spent money that Congress, which was not in session, had not appropriated.
When Congress reconvened, Lincoln sent a letter telling lawmakers what he had done and famously asking, “Are all the laws but one to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?” He also said that what he had done, “whether strictly legal or not,” had been necessary, and Congress retroactively ratified his actions.
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The Trump administration at first did not offer a public legal rationale for blowing through the statutes that provide various kinds of job protections to the officials that Trump has summarily fired, including members of independent agencies like the National Labor Relations Board.
But last week, the administration offered something of an explanation. Sarah M. Harris, the acting solicitor general at the Justice Department, sent a letter to Congress saying the department would not defend the constitutionality of statutes that limit firing members of independent agencies before their terms were up. Such laws say the president cannot remove such an official at will, but only for a specific cause like misconduct.
Trump’s moves so far have largely not been in the realm of national security. Rather, he has been attempting to stamp out pockets of independence that Congress created within the executive branch in order to centralize greater power in the White House over issues that are largely ones of domestic policy.
Trump and some of his allies have pushed the political argument that the nation has been under siege from what they characterize as leftist policies and values and has fallen into a spiral of decline that must be reversed by any means necessary. Among them, Trump’s budget chief, Russell Vought, wrote an essay in 2022 declaring that the United States was already in a “post-Constitutional moment” and that to push back against liberals, it was necessary to be “radical in discarding or rethinking the legal paradigms that have confined our ability to return to the original Constitution.”
President Donald Trump speaks to reporter before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. President Trump shared a quotation on social media, making it clear it was one he wanted people to absorb: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” (Al Drago/The New York Times)
Does uncertainty harm the economy? Business leaders are about to find out.
The lack of clarity about tariffs and other policies could hurt hiring and investing. (Lars Leetaru/The New York Times)
By BEN CASSELMAN
It is an axiom heard countless times in business school lecture halls and on corporate earnings calls: Uncertainty is bad for business.
The U.S. economy is about to test that proposition like never before.
The first weeks of the second Trump administration have been a dizzying whirlwind of economic policy moves: A spending freeze was declared, then rescinded. Federal programs, and even entire agencies, have been suspended or shut down. Tariffs have been threatened, announced, canceled, delayed or enacted — sometimes in a matter of days or even hours. Measures of economic policy uncertainty have soared to levels normally associated with recessions and global crises.
Business leaders — many of whom cheered President Donald Trump’s election victory, expecting lower taxes and reduced regulation — have been left shaking their heads.
“Your guess is as good as mine what’s happening in Washington,” said Nicholas Pinchuk, CEO of the automotive toolmaker Snap-on.
“So far, what we’re seeing is a lot of costs and a lot of chaos,” Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor, told investors at a conference in New York this week.
“It’s like your head is spinning with what’s coming down; you just never know,” said Chad Coulter, founder and CEO of Biscuit Belly, a chain of breakfast restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky.
Yet for all their concerns, the three CEOs say that they are pushing ahead with planned investments and that they feel good about their prospects. So do many of their peers: Measures of business confidence soared after the election, and while there are hints that gleam has dulled to some degree, business leaders, as a group, remain upbeat.
A gauge of small-business sentiment from the National Federation of Independent Business ticked down in January but remained higher than in any month in the Biden administration.
“You’ve really got a battle between greater business optimism and greater business uncertainty, and they’re kind of opposing forces,” said Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University professor who has studied how uncertainty affects the economy.
The costs of uncertainty
Economists in recent years have tried to study the effect of uncertainty with academic rigor, developing measures to assess the phenomenon over time and across countries. Their research has consistently found that uncertainty makes businesses more reluctant to hire and invest, and leads to lower sales — beyond the policies’ own impact.
“Uncertainty itself is harmful to business activity,” said Steven J. Davis, a Stanford economist who has studied the issue. When rules change, even in harmful ways, businesses can typically adapt, he said. But when it isn’t clear what the rules will be, businesses can find themselves in limbo.
Economic policy uncertainty has risen sharply since the election, according to an index developed by Davis, Bloom and Scott Baker, an economist at Northwestern University. The recent rise has been unusual: Past spikes have been associated with recessions, financial crises or other global developments.
“Traditional uncertainty shocks happened after negative world events,” Bloom said. “In this case, it’s almost like a deliberate move to surge uncertainty.”
That makes it hard to predict how businesses will respond. It is possible, Bloom said, that they will bet on an easing of uncertainty and will focus on the potential benefits of a Trump presidency. He noted that investors appeared mostly unconcerned by the torrent of news out of Washington: Measures of financial market volatility have generally been docile since Trump took office.
But executives are likely to be cautious about making long-term investments, Bloom said — particularly those that are hard to reverse, like moving a factory, or that take a long time to pay off, like investments in research and development.
Pulling back
Pinchuk, of Snap-on, said he already saw signs of caution among customers, which include both auto repair shops and individual mechanics. They are less interested in buying big-ticket items like tool storage boxes and diagnostic computers that cost thousands of dollars and can take years to pay off. Instead, they are buying less expensive items that they can pay off quickly.
“When we talked to them, we could tell that they weren’t going to want to embroil themselves in a three- or four-year payment scheme,” he said. “They prefer to use whatever resources they have
to buy stuff where they say, ‘OK, I’ll pay it off in 15 weeks, and then after 15 weeks, I’ll do it again if things are still good.’”
In response, Snap-on has shifted to making more lower-cost items, Pinchuk said, and it has adapted to uncertainty in other ways, like moving materials and inventory into place as a hedge against potential tariffs.
“We try to prepare ourselves so that we’re not completely caught with our pants down,” he said.
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Wall Street ends mixed; Nvidia lifts Nasdaq
Wall Street stocks ended mixed on Friday, with Nvidia (NVDA.O), climbing and Microsoft (MSFT.O), dipping, while Treasury yields declined a day after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled reciprocal tariff plans but stopped short of imposing new ones.
Yields across government bonds slipped for a second straight day after data showed U.S. retail sales fell more than expected in January, dropping 0.9% last month after an upwardly revised 0.7% increase in December.
The yield on the 10-year note fell about 7 basis points, last at 4.44%.
The Nasdaq 100 (.NDX) , which is made up of the Nasdaq exchange’s most valuable companies, rose 0.4% and notched a record-high close.
Nvidia added 2.6%, while Apple (AAPL.O), moved 1.3% higher. Microsoft (MSFT.O), dipped about 0.5% and Amazon (AMZN.O), slid 0.7%.
Trump tasked his economics team on Thursday to devise plans for reciprocal tariffs on every country taxing U.S. imports, although the directive stopped short of imposing fresh tariffs.
Howard Lutnick, Trump’s pick for commerce secretary, said the administration would address affected countries individually and said studies of the issue would be completed by April 1.
The imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, a bigger-than-expected rise in January’s consumer prices and hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell added to market volatility last week.
“It’s all about Trump right now. All the other stuff is just noise,” said Dennis Dick, a trader at Triple D Trading in Ontario, Canada. “What everyone is focused on is, ‘What is Trump going to do next, and where are his tariff wars going?’”
Stocks received a boost earlier last week after data showed U.S. producer prices increased in January, while key elements in the core Personal Consumption Expenditures index, a measure closely tracked by the Fed, were benign or lower.
Traders are pricing in at least one 25 basis-point interest rate cut by the end of the year, with a roughly 50% chance of an additional cut, according to LSEG data.
The S&P 500 edged down 0.01% to end the session at 6,114.63 points.
The Nasdaq gained 0.41% to 20,026.77 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.37% to 44,546.08 points.
Of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, seven declined, led lower by consumer staples (.SPLRCS), down 1.16%, followed by a 1.11% loss in healthcare (.SPXHC).
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Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively light, with 14.4 billion shares traded, compared with an average of 15.0 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.
For the week, the S&P 500 rose 1.5%, while the Nasdaq gained 2.6% and the Dow added 0.5%.
Airbnb (ABNB.O), jumped 14% after the vacation home rentals company posted higher quarterly revenue.
DaVita (DVA.N), dropped 11% after the dialysis firm projected annual profit below estimates. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N), also sold some of its shares in the company.
Applied Materials (AMAT.O), fell 8% after the chipmaking equipment maker forecast second-quarter revenue below estimates.
U.S. markets will be closed on Monday for the Presidents Day holiday.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones within the S&P 500 (.AD.SPX), by a 1.3-to-one ratio.
The S&P 500 posted 37 new highs and 7 new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 131 new highs and 83 new lows.
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Trump’s proposal to expel Palestinians from Gaza hangs over Rubio’s Israel trip
By EDWARD WONG and ISABEL KERSHNER
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Jerusalem on Sunday, where they discussed President Donald Trump’s insistent proposals for the United States to seize the devastated Gaza Strip and force out its Palestinian residents, among other matters.
The trip is Rubio’s first to the region as secretary of state, and comes as uncertainty is rising over whether Israel and Hamas can or are willing to turn a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza into a permanent end to their war.
But Trump’s controversial vision for transforming Gaza into an American-owned “Riviera of the Middle East” has overshadowed those high-stakes negotiations, and Rubio is sure to be pressed for more clarity about the proposal during his visits in the coming days to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Trump has “been very bold about what the future for Gaza should be, not the same tired ideas of the past,” Rubio said in prepared remarks delivered alongside Netanyahu on Sunday after the two met privately. “It may have shocked and surprised many, but what cannot continue is the same cycle where we repeat over and over again and wind up in the exact same place.”
Rubio also talked about the need to watch for any security threats arising from the new government in Syria, and the imperative to disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon. And he asserted Iran is the “common theme in all of these challenges,” using more aggressive language to describe that nation than Trump typically does in calling it “the single greatest source of instability in the region.”
Netanyahu said he had thanked Rubio for “America’s unequivocal backing for Israel’s policy in Gaza in moving forward.” However, Netanyahu’s government has yet to present a long-term strategy for Gaza to the Israeli or American public.
“I want to assure everyone who’s now listening to us, President Trump and I are working in full cooperation and coordination between us,” said Netanyahu, who met with the president in the White House on Feb. 4.
Trump surprised the world with his Gaza plan during a news conference that day with Netanyahu, who has since called it “a revolutionary, creative approach” that should be studied.
Netanyahu said Sunday that he and Rubio had discussed Trump’s “bold vision for Gaza, for Gaza’s future — how we can work together to ensure that that future becomes a reality.”
Netanyahu said later Sunday that “it did not come as a surprise” when Trump presented his vision for Gaza to the world Feb. 4 in Washington. “We knew about it, and we spoke about it beforehand,” the prime minister told his Cabinet in videotaped remarks distributed by his office.
Some Israeli officials consider the idea impractical, and experts say it would be a severe violation of international law.
After Arab officials in the region immediately denounced the proposal, Rubio had suggested that Trump was merely trying to “get a reaction” and “stir” other nations into providing more assistance for postwar Gaza.
Since then, however, Trump has doubled down, telling reporters in the Oval Office on two other occasions and in a Fox News interview that he intends to move forward with the plan. On Friday, Mahmoud Abbas, who governs the West Bank as the president of the Palestinian Authority, said the Palestinian people “must remain” on their land.
The forced expulsion of Palestinians would be ethnic cleansing and a war crime, international law scholars say. More than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israe-
li military retaliation in Gaza for a Hamasled assault in October 2023 that killed 1,200 people. Most of the dead on both sides have been civilians.
Trump has said Jordan and Egypt should allow the Palestinian residents of Gaza to move to their countries. The idea has long been promoted by the Israeli right but flatly rejected by Arab and Palestinian leaders as well as past U.S. presidents of both parties.
King Abdullah II of Jordan publicly rejected Trump’s proposal after a Wednesday meeting at the White House that Rubio also attended.
Rubio said in a radio interview Thursday that any Arab proposal for a postwar Gaza should address the mammoth task of reconstructing the territory and deploying a multinational security force to fight remnants of Hamas.
But that would only be possible once the war in Gaza comes to an end — which is dependent on extending a ceasefire agreement that revolves around hostage and prisoner exchanges. The first phase of the current ceasefire agreement is set to end in March.
Neither Rubio nor Netanyahu made any reference in their public remarks Sunday to the status of negotiations for the next phase of the deal. Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday that talks on phase two of the ceasefire deal would take place
this week.
Later Sunday, Netanyahu’s office said that the Israeli leader had spoken with Witkoff and informed him that he would convene Israel’s security Cabinet on Monday to discuss the second phase of the agreement.
Indirect negotiations for a permanent cessation of hostilities and the release of all remaining living hostages from Hamas captivity were supposed to have begun two weeks ago and were meant to be finalized by the end of this week. Netanyahu’s spokesperson has denied that any such talks are underway.
Israel and Hamas have both asserted that the other party has violated the terms of the ceasefire. On Sunday, Hamas accused Israel of violating and showing a lack of commitment to the ceasefire deal by preventing the entry of trailers into Gaza to house displaced Palestinians and delaying talks for the next phase of the agreement.
Israeli officials acknowledged holding up the entry of housing trailers into Gaza, saying over the weekend that the issue would be discussed in the coming days and without elaborating on reasons for the delay.
Trump, meanwhile, appears to have given Netanyahu some leeway for changing the terms of the deal or for resuming fighting in Gaza, should he choose to do so, saying in a social media post Saturday that the United States would back any decision made by the Israeli government.
Both Netanyahu and Rubio spoke Sunday of the need to eliminate Hamas’ military and governing capabilities. Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced that a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs, which had been held up by President Joe Biden’s administration, had arrived in Israel overnight. U.S. military officials have said that such bombs are unsuitable for urban combat, though the Israeli military has dropped them in Gaza.
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The Tel al-Zaatar area east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Feb. 13, 2025. Scholars of international law say President Donald Trump’s proposal for American control of a Gaza without Palestinians would be ethnic cleansing and a war crime. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)
Argentine leader draws fire after cratering of crypto coin he promoted
By NATALIE ALCOBA, LUCIA CHOLOKIAN HERRERA and YAN ZHUANG
Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, has caused a political firestorm by promoting an unknown cryptocurrency token that shot up in value after his endorsement — then swiftly cratered.
In a post on social media Friday night, Milei said that the coin, called $LIBRA, would stimulate the economy and help small businesses grow. While the sudden attention gave the token an initial boost, the huge gains were erased as fear quickly spread that the coin was a scam.
Milei deleted the post, which was on his personal account, five hours later and attempted to distance himself from the venture. “I was not familiar with the details of the project,” he wrote on social platform X, “and after having informed myself I decided not to continue disseminating it (that is why I deleted the tweet).”
On Saturday night, in another post on X from the official presidential account, his initial endorsement of the coin was described as a routine promotion of a business. It also said the president had opened investigations into whether anyone in his government, including himself, had acted inappropriately, and whether anyone involved with the coin had broken the law.
Milei had come under fire for appa-
seeking to create a commission in Congress to investigate what occurred.
Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Milei’s main political opponent, said that thousands who had trusted him lost millions of dollars in all, “while many made fortunes due to privileged information.”
Milei’s promotion of $LIBRA was only the latest in a series of moves he has made in parallel with Trump. Milei withdrew Argentina from the World Health Organization earlier this month, and his staff has said that the government is examining whether to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
The coin promoted by Milei was presented as an investment tool that would be good for the country.
refers to scam offerings by developers who create a crypto token, attract investors and then suddenly disappear, withdrawing all their money.
Shortly after midnight, Milei deleted his post. He later said that he had no personal ties to the crypto token. He lashed out at his critics, who he said were trying to score political points.
“I want to say that every day they confirm how lowly politicians are,” he said.
rently pushing people toward a risky investment. His initial post also prompted comparisons with President Donald Trump, who launched a memecoin, $Trump, last month. That token surged for a while and then crashed.
A center-left coalition that opposes Milei’s libertarian government called his crypto foray “a scandal without precedent.” Another political bloc said it was
In his initial post on X, he said that $LIBRA — a name that carries echoes of his political party, La Libertad Avanza — would “incentivize the growth of the Argentine economy, funding small companies and Argentine ventures.”
“Liberal Argentina is growing!!!” Milei added, saying that “the world wants to invest in Argentina.”
Not long after, a community note on X warned users to be cautious with $LIBRA. It urged people to “verify before interacting with the project” because of behavior consistent “with a rug pull.” That term
In the post on Saturday night, Milei characterized his promotion of the coin as routine, likening it to announcements he makes “daily” about entrepreneurs who want to launch projects in Argentina that create jobs. He added that he had had two meetings about the coin, one in October last year and the other in January, but had no involvement in its development.
Agustín Pantano, a 28-year-old lawyer and Milei supporter, said he had jumped on $LIBRA because of the president’s initial post on X. He said he wagered that Milei’s involvement could make him some quick money.
At 1 a.m., he checked his phone and saw that he had lost about 90% of the $150 he had put in.
“There were several red flags, and that’s why I only invested a little money,” Pantano said.
15 Hindu pilgrims reported dead in stampede at New Delhi rail station
By EVE SAMPSON
Fifteen people died in a stampede Saturday at New Delhi’s main railway station as a crush of pilgrims were trying to make their way to a huge Hindu festival in northern India, an official said.
The caretaker chief minister of the Delhi region, Atishi, who uses one name, told reporters outside a hospital in the capital that 15 people had been injured in the stampede, in addition to the 15 killed, according to Indian media reports.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences for the dead in a statement on social media, adding that authorities were “assisting all those who have been affected by this stampede.” Ashwini Vaishnaw, the country’s minister for railroads, said that an investigation had been ordered.
Before the stampede, crowds at the railway station had swelled because trains bound for the festival, the Kumbh Mela, had been delayed, according to local media reports. The Ministry of Railways said it later ran extra trains to alleviate the crush.
The Kumbh Mela, which began in mid-January and will end late this month, is the world’s largest religious gathering. It is expected to draw more than 400 million people over six weeks, according to government estimates.
The festival takes place every three years in one of four cities in India. This year’s event is being held in Prayagraj, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where the Ganges and Yamuna rivers meet. Hindus believe that a third, mythical river called the Saraswati joins the other two there in a sacred confluence. Devotees take baths in the holy wa-
ters in the belief that they wash away sins.
The event this year, which is being called a Maha Kumbh, or Great Kumbh, is larger than usual because it coincides with a celestial alignment that takes place once every 144 years.
Managing the huge crowds that attend the festival is a major challenge for the Indian government.
Last month, 30 pilgrims died in a stampede as they rushed to take their baths. In 2013, the last time that Prayagraj hosted the event, 42 people were killed in a stampede at the train station there. Ten years before that, in the western city of Nasik, 39 devotees were crushed in an alley.
In 1954, during the first Kumbh Mela since India’s independence seven years earlier, hundreds of pilgrims died in a stampede.
President Javier Milei of Argentina speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 4, 2024. (Magali Druscovich/The New York Times)
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Trump dares the courts to stop him
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The U.S. Constitution established three branches of government, designed to balance power — and serve as checks on one another. That constitutional order suddenly appears more vulnerable than it has in generations. President Donald Trump is trying to expand his authority beyond the bounds of the law while reducing the ability of the other branches to check his excesses. It’s worth remembering why undoing this system of governance would be so dangerous to American democracy and why it’s vital that Congress, the courts and the public resist such an outcome.
Among legal scholars, the term “constitutional crisis” usually refers to a conflict among the branches of government that cannot be resolved through the rules set out in the Constitution and the system of checks and balances at its heart.
Say, a president who openly disregards the 22nd Amendment’s two-term limit and asserts a right to remain in office indefinitely.
But there’s no need to get ahead of ourselves. Right now, in February 2025, only weeks into Trump’s second term, he and his top associates are stress-testing the Constitution, and the nation, to a degree not seen since the Civil War.
A partial list would include flouting the express requirements of multiple federal laws, as though Congress were an advisory board and not a coequal branch of government. It would include feeding entire agencies into the “wood chipper” (their
words), an intentionally gory metaphor for the firing of thousands of civil servants without legally mandated congressional approval. It would include giving an unelected “special government employee” access to the private financial information of millions of Americans, in violation of the law. And it would include issuing an executive order that purports to erase one of the foundational provisions of the Constitution on Trump’s say-so.
There is also reason to fear that powers that solely rest with the president, and therefore don’t raise direct constitutional concerns, are being abused in ways that weaken the constitutional order. His mass pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, for instance, is technically legal, but it both celebrates and gives license to anyone who wishes to engage in violence to keep Trump in power.
chooses not to follow the ones he doesn’t like. That ensures that every law passed has the support of a majority of members elected to represent this diverse, divided country.
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Parade, at Capitol One Arena in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. Law professors have long debated what constitutes a constitutional crisis, but now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Donald Trump tests the boundaries of executive power. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
Any one of these acts sets off major alarms. Taken as a whole, they are a frontal assault on the laws and norms that underpin American government — by the very people who are meant to execute the law.
So are we in a constitutional crisis yet?
The U.S. Agency for International Development, for example, is funded through the congressional appropriations process. Would the current Congress vote to cut that funding? Perhaps. But at the very least, the House speaker and Senate majority leader should be putting the question up for a vote.
And Congress plays another important role: When the president or his administration is believed to have broken the law, it’s up to Congress to investigate and, when appropriate, use its censure powers. There is no sign that lawmakers plan to hold Trump accountable in this manner.
The willingness of Republican congressional leadership to watch passively as its own rights and responsibilities as a coequal branch of government are undermined leaves only one other branch actively checking the excesses of this overreaching presidency: the federal courts, where nearly all intragovernmental disputes eventually wind up.
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The most useful way to answer that question is to focus less on discrete events and more on the process, in which one branch pushes the limits of its authority and then the others push back. When those in power understand that their first obligation is to the Constitution and the American people, this process can be normal, even healthy.
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When they don’t — well, that’s what we are watching play out.
Voters gave Trump a Republican-controlled Congress, and those lawmakers are within their right to try to pass the president’s agenda through the legislative process. That doesn’t relieve either chamber of its constitutional responsibility to the American people to serve as a check on the power of the president.
With virtually no exception, Republican leaders in Congress have made clear through their inaction that as long as they and Trump hold power — until January 2027, at least — they will stay out of his way. One reason, however, that Trump is using executive orders so often is that many of his plans would find resistance from Congress because of Republicans’ slim majorities and the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold.
The courts exist to define the bounds of the Constitution and the laws and to tell the other branches when they have strayed past those bounds. They also tend to slow everything down — frustrating perhaps for those who are impatient to wield their power or who wish to see justice done quickly — but that deliberation is essential to the rule of law and due process. So far, the federal courts have done their job, blocking several of Trump’s more brazenly illegal moves, including his executive order ending the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship. He has already refused to comply at least once: A Rhode Island judge ruled Monday that the president has defied a federal court order to release billions of dollars in federal grants. This is a dangerous trial balloon that Trump is daring someone to pop.
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While it may seem that the Republican leaders in Congress are free to abdicate their power to the president if they choose, that is not the case. As members of the sole branch granted lawmaking authority, they can repeal a law only by passing another one — not by failing to complain when a president
However it may play out, the refusal to obey a Supreme Court ruling — from which there is no appeal — would be the moment that America’s constitutional order completely fails. That is a clear red line separating countries that operate under the rule of law from those that do not. If he crosses it, Trump will have created the precise scenario the nation’s founders fought a war and established an entirely new government to avoid. And if that happens, no part of society can remain silent. There is disagreement among even legal scholars about whether the country is all the way to a constitutional crisis yet. Regardless, the statements from the White House and the unwillingness of Republican leaders in Congress to even consider acting as a check should be taken as a flashing warning sign. If we have learned anything from the past decade of living with Donald Trump, it’s that when he tells you about what he will do with power, believe him.
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Adriana Gutiérrez pide celeridad en nombramiento y confirmación de la Procuradora
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SAN JUAN – En medio de la creciente ola de violencia de género y feminicidios en el país la representante del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP), Adriana Gutiérrez Colón, exigió a la gobernadora mayor celeridad en la designación de una persona capacitada para dirigir la Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres (OPM).
“Es inaceptable que ante el incremento alarmante de feminicidios y violencia de género la posición de Procuradora de las Mujeres permanezca vacante. La ausencia de un liderazgo sólido en la OPM compromete la implementación efectiva de políticas públicas y la protección de los derechos de las mujeres puertorriqueñas”, declaró la legisladora.
Gutiérrez Colón, quien además es abogada, recordó que organizaciones como el Observatorio de Equidad de Género de Puerto Rico denunció que
en el 2024 se registró un feminicidio cada 4.5 días en Puerto Rico.
“La OPM ha estado bajo dirección interina desde marzo de 2023 lo que nos ha generado preocupaciones sobre la continuidad y la eficacia de sus programas y las políticas para garantizar la equidad de género y velar por los derechos de nosotras las mujeres. Hay que actuar ya e iniciar de inmediato el proceso de nombramiento y confirmación de una persona apta y capacitada para dirigir la OPM”, agregó la portavoz alterna del PIP en la Cámara.
Según ha trascendido públicamente, la laxitud para realizar el nombramiento en la OPM se debe a que la gobernadora y el presidente del Senado están en negociaciones para
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nombrar a la exsenadora Evelyn Vázquez, aliada política de Thomas Rivera Schatz, como procuradora de las Mujeres, a cambio de que el Senado apruebe a la designada de la gobernadora para dirigir el Departamento de Justicia, Janet Parra. Preguntada sobre dicha controversia, Gutiérrez Colón dijo que no le sorprendería que la información sea cierta pues es una dinámica común en tiempos de nombramientos pero catalogó la situación como “una imprudencia e irresponsabilidad que una pugna interna entre la gobernadora y el presidente del Senado continúen retrasando este nombramiento crucial para la protección de derechos y vidas”.
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SAN GERMÁN – El alcalde del Gobierno Municipal y Autónomo de la Ciudad de San Germán, Virgilio Olivera Olivera, informó el domingo que los trabajos de ‘bacheo’ siguen sin pausa a lo largo y ancho de la municipalidad.
“Nuestro personal de Obras Públicas culminó, exitosamente, los trabajos de ‘bacheo’ en el Camino Dolores Santiago, en el Barrio Minillas”, manifestó en declaraciones escritas.
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– La carretera PR-129 de Hatillo a Lares reabrió en la tarde del sábado, informaron la gobernadora Jenniffer Aidyn González Colón y el secretario del Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas (DTOP) y director de Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación (ACT) doctor Edwin González Montalvo.
“Vecinos y visitantes de la PR-129 en Hatillo ya pueden transitar de manera segura por dicha vía. Una vez sucedió el deslizamiento y bajo el mandato de la Orden Ejecutiva que emitimos, DTOP se movilizó para trabajar con carácter de urgencia la situación y ya hoy podemos anunciar su apertura”, expresó la gobernadora en declaraciones escritas.
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“En San Germán, seguimos sumamente comprometidos con el mantenimiento y mejoramiento de nuestras vías públicas, asegurando así caminos más seguros y mejores condiciones para nuestra gente”, hizo hincapié.
“La seguridad de nuestros conductores es primordial para nuestra Administración Municipal”, terminó diciendo.
Desde enero de 2021, Virgilio Olivera Olivera ha destinado la cantidad de $1 millón, anuales, para la reparación de carreteras y caminos municipales.
geniero geotécnico y un geólogo, se utilizaron excavadoras y equipo especializado para remover material y estabilizar el talud. Tal como se había previsto, y gracias a las condiciones del tiempo favorables, logramos reabrir la carretera en el tiempo estipulado para beneficio de los conductores”, añadió González Montalvo.
“El proyecto continúa sin embargo, el personal de la ACT me informó que el resto de las labores se pueden realizar sin que las mismas representen un problema de seguridad para quienes transitan por la zona por lo cual reabrirán el tránsito”, expresó el alcalde de Hatillo, Carlos Román Román.
El tramo de la carretera se cerró como consecuencia de un deslizamiento el pasado miércoles por labores que realizaba la compañía contratada por la ACT como parte de un proyecto.
Demi Moore, naked and liberated
By MELENA RYZIK
Demi Moore is the star of one of the goriest, most audacious films ever nominated for an Oscar, the feminist body-horror satire “The Substance.” Onscreen, Moore, 62, dissolves and mutates in often grisly ways — nude, and in extreme close-up. And she could not be more self-actualized about it.
The role required “wrestling with the flashes of my own insecurity and ego,” Moore explained. “I was being asked to share those things that I don’t necessarily want people to see.”
She was speaking in a video interview last week, dressed in casual black and big glasses, twisting and tucking her legs under her, on her office couch, with every thought. Filming through that discomfort was a “gift — silver lining, blessing, whatever you want to call it,” she continued. “Once you put it all out there, what else is there? There’s nothing to hide. Being able to let go was another layer of liberation for me.” The next night, she won the Critics Choice prize for best actress.
Her career and cultural resurgence is overdue, said Ryan Murphy, the showrunner and a friend who at long last persuaded her to work with him in last year’s “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.” She had the beauty and aura of an old-school movie star, he said, with the professional discipline to match, but the flexibility of a seeker: “Game to do anything,” he said. “She’s a pathfinder. We all talk about what she’s done for the business and for other women.”
And, he added, “she is one of the most emotionally intelligent people that you’ll ever meet. Whenever I have an emotional dilemma or I need advice, I do not go to my shrink — I go to her.”
With “The Substance,” Moore is the Oscars’ best actress front-runner, too, for playing Elisabeth Sparkle, a onetime A-lister turned TV fitness instructor who is unscrupulously put out to pasture for the Hollywood sin of existing past 50. Her desperate solution is to inject herself with the mysterious concoction of the movie’s title, and birth — through a gaping wound in her spine — a more youthful self, named Sue (Margaret Qualley). They’re supposed to switch weekly, while the other vegetates. But in the battle for nubile flesh — and thus popularity — Elisabeth loses, grotesquely so.
“The Substance” is a bit of a genre-buster: Moore has described the project as a cross between Oscar Wilde’s classic, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”; the 1992 black comedy “Death Becomes Her”; and a Jane Fonda workout video. It’s vying for best picture as well, and French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat was nominated for directing and for her script.
It’s mostly sparked conversation for its none-too-subtle message. But Moore’s singular performance — which also draws on her real-life past as a sex symbol whose form was both worshipped and castigated — is not just metaphor. It is enthrallingly physical, a feat of wordless emotional range: She has comparatively little dialogue; is hardly onscreen with a co-star (at least when both are conscious); and communicates mostly through tight shots, often gazing at her own reflection — “which is really not the most comfortable place to be,” Moore said. “We look for what’s wrong.”
rageously live in the present,” she said. She learned something every day; their collaboration was “one of the great gifts of my life,” Qualley added.
The production, which stretched over 5 1/2 months in France, was also among the most strenuous of Moore’s 40-yearcareer, she said. “G.I. Jane,” the 1997 Ridley Scott action drama in which she buffed up to play a Navy SEAL-esque recruit, “was physically very challenging,” Moore said, “but it was very straightforward. This was emotionally and physically draining every day — every day. Even the simplest scenes.”
And yet it was the leap she sought, after stepping back from acting intermittently over the years: first, soon after her ’90s heyday, to raise the three daughters she shares with Bruce Willis, her ex-husband; and then to take stock of herself.
One thing that emerged from this period, alongside a renewed focus on sobriety, was her unflinching, bestselling 2019 memoir, “Inside Out.” In it, among many other traumas, she details the disordered eating and overexercising she engaged in for years — she once put a lock on her refrigerator — and how she emerged with a far less fractured sense of self.
The “Substance” role was not handed to Moore; Fargeat considered other actresses and it took a half-dozen meetings between the two to finalize the casting. In one of those encounters, Moore shared a copy of her book (written with Ariel Levy, of The New Yorker). It was a plain-on-the-page vehicle, Moore said, to show how much Fargeat’s story resonated with her — and, she added, “not from a place of the wound, but from the place that actually had healing.”
Moore was not interested in litigating blame. “Look, women being marginalized at a certain age, particularly in the entertainment industry, is the least-new information of the entire movie,” she said.
The prosthetics that turn her into a wizened creature “were their own mixed bag of tricks,” she added, and “figuring out the logic and the rules, because it’s also a world that doesn’t exist. Like, OK, I’m in this totally aged, degraded body, but I can haul ass down a hallway.”
Until its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, she added, she wasn’t even sure the movie would work (it wound up winning best screenplay). And she was immediately indelible, in unexpected ways: Moore’s husky voice is one of her trademarks. “I was astonished at how powerful she was in silence,” Murphy said.
In an email, Qualley gushed about her co-star. “Demi is the magic blend of deep consideration and the ability to cou-
Neither was she only highlighting what she called “that painful state that I think we’ve all experienced, because we’re human, which is of compare and despair.” What drew her to the screenplay was the way those impulses were turned inward, violently. “Because I can look and say there is nothing that anyone else has done to me, that is worse than what I have done to myself.”
There were vast gulfs between her and the lonesome, career-obsessed Elisabeth, she said. But, she added: “Emotionally, it wasn’t that big of a reach. I really did understand her.”
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Demi Moore in Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 4, 2025. As she prepares for her first Oscars as a nominee, the star of “The Substance” talks about the daring role that revitalized her career. (Ryan Pfluger/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
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 PROPIEDAD INMUEBLE EN LA CALLE AMPARO 253, DEL TÉRMINO MUNICIPAL DE FAJARDO; LUIS ARMANDO MEDINA RODRIGUEZ, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES (CRIM), JOHN DOE Y DUEÑOS(S) DESCONOCIDO(S) Partes con Interés
Civil Núm.: FA2024CV00844. Sobre: PROCEDIMIENTO SUMARIO DE EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA DE ESTORBO PÚBLICO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: LUIS ARMANDO MEDINA RODRIGUEZ, JOHN DOE, DUEÑOS(S) DESCONOCIDO(S) Y/O
CUALQUIER PERSONA CON ALGÚN POSIBLE INTERÉS.
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: ES-
TRUCTURA, compuesta de piso, paredes y techo de lo que aparentemente era una residencia unifamiliar de un nivel, con área neta, en concreto, de 684 pies cuadrados, sin puertas, sin ventanas, sin equipos de cocinas, ni baños, ni closets, pisos de losetas nativas en malas condiciones, laundry de 113 pies cuadrados, rejas y verja parcial. Enclava en SOLAR MUNICIPAL marcado con el número 253 ubicado en la Calle Amparo del término municipal de Fajardo. USO PÚBLICO: ELIMINACIÓN DE ESTORBO PÚBLICO. CATASTRO NÚM.: 150-046-043-09-001. JUSTA COMPENSACIÓN: $13,200, a ser consignados 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 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 21 de enero de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYANILLA
ROBERTO ROSARIO LÓPEZ Peticionario
EX PARTE
Caso Número: GY2024CV00240. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. POR LA PRESENTE se notifica que el peticionario de epígrafe ha presentado una Petición para que se declare a su favor el dominio de la siguiente finca:
RURAL: Solar A cabida Dos Mil ciento cuarenta y uno puntos quinientos noventa y dos metros cuadrados (2,141.592 m/c), en el Bo Macana, Sector Los López, del término municipal de Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. Linderos: Norte, con calle municipal existente, por el Sur, terrenos propiedad de Sucesión Caraballo, por el Este, con Gloria Rosario, y por el Oeste, con Nemesio Cales Morales. Enclava una estructura de cemento y bloques de tres habitaciones, sala, cocina, un baño y balcón. Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión de tres (3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria para los que tenga algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descritos, las personas ignoradas quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse dentro del término de veinte (20) días de la última publicación del presente edicto. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal de los promoventes, Lcdo. Luis M. Barnecet Vélez, Urb. Paraíso de Coamo, 608 Calle Paz, Coamo, PR 00769, tel. 787-603-2396; email: barnecet@hotmail.com. “Usted deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo (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.”
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 12 de diciembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE JUANA DIAZ. Compu-link (COMPU-LINK CORPORATION DBA CELINK)
DEMANDANTE VS. Sucesión de Agustín
Meléndez Rentas t/c/c Agustín Meléndez Renta t/c/c Agustín Meléndez compuesta por Agustín
Meléndez Torres, Brenda Meléndez Torres, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos, Sucesión de Margarita Torres Rivera t/c/c Margarita Torres compuesta por Agustín Meléndez Torres, Brenda Meléndez Torres, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como posibles herederos de nombres desconocidos; Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales; y los Estados Unidos de América
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM.: JD2023CV00391.
SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.
Al: Público en General A: SUCESIÓN DE AGUSTÍN MELÉNDEZ
RENTAS t/c/c AGUSTÍN
MELÉNDEZ RENTA t/c/c AGUSTÍN MELÉNDEZ COMPUESTA POR AGUSTÍN MELÉNDEZ
TORRES, BRENDA
MELÉNDEZ TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS, SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA
TORRES RIVERA t/c/c
MARGARITA TORRES
COMPUESTA POR AGUSTÍN MELÉNDEZ TORRES, BRENDA
MELÉNDEZ TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE NOMBRES
DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Yo, MANUEL MALDONADO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente
CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 11 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 11:30 AM, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico, procederé
a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 31 de octubre de 2024. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 18 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 11:30 AM, ; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 25 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 11:30 AM, en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 15 de enero de 2025, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Parcela de Terreno que radica en el Barrio Amuelas del término municipal Juana Diaz, con una cabida superficial de mil ciento ochenta y cuatro punto dos mil cuatrocientos dieciocho (1,184.2418 m.c) metros cuadrados, equivalente a cero punto tres mil trece (0.3013 c.) cuerdas. En lindes por el Norte, con parcela dedicada a uso público; por el Sur, con terrenos de Roque uso público; por el Sur, con terrenos de Roque Uriel Rivera Sosa; por el Este, con el remanente de la finca principal; y por el Oeste, con terrenos de la Sucesión de María Ciuro. Enclava una casa. Finca número 13,867, inscrita al folio 34 del tomo 353 de Juana Diaz. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Ponce. Dirección de la Propiedad: 510 RD KM 1.8 Bo. Amuelas, Juana Diaz, PR 00795; 510 RD KM 7 Bo Amuelas, Juana Díaz, PR 00795. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $166,148.71 en concepto de principal con interés al 3.495% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de re-
clamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $19,800.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 638 otorgada el día 23 de octubre de 2009, en Cayey, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Laura Mia González Bonilla y consta inscrita al folio 213 del tomo 536 de Juana Díaz, finca número 13,867, Registro de la Propiedad de Juana Díaz, Sección I de Ponce. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $198,000.00, con intereses al 3.495% inicial, la tasa de interés podría cambiar el primer día de diciembre de 2009 y cada mes hasta que se pague por completo, no será mayor al 13.494%, vencedero el día 9 de junio de 2089, constituida mediante la escritura número 639, otorgada en Cayey, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de octubre de 2009, ante la notario Laura Mia González Bonilla, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Juana Díaz, finca número 13,867, inscripción 3ra. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $198,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de
que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $132,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $99,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte de-
mandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 21 de ENERO de 2025. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE PONCE.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC.
Parte Demandante Vs. ROSA MARIA AGUIAR SANTANA, REINA MARIA AGUIAR SANTANA POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ROSA MARÍA SANTANA MARCANO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE ROSA MARÍA SANTANA MARCANO, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES, Y ADMINISTRACIÓN PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02520. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $76,919.99, de balance principal, los intereses vencidos sobre el principal computados al 5.50% anual desde el día primero de agosto de 2021, hasta su total pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad por concepto de cargos por demora hasta su total pago; más la suma de $6,000.00 garantizada de la hipoteca para
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL
DEVELOPMENT A/C/C
LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
Demandante Vs.
SUCESIÓN DE MILDRED
IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ
TORRES COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO
JOSÉ ALEJANDRO
LUCCA RODRÍGUEZ Y YARITZA LUCCA
RODRÍGUEZ; SUCESIÓN DE ALEJANDRO GONTRAN LUCCA
MEDINA COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO
JOSÉ ALEJANDRO
LUCCA RODRÍGUEZ, YARITZA LUCCA
RODRÍGUEZ Y DANIEL ALEJANDRO LUCCA
VARELA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN
Demandados
Civil Núm.: PO2024CV02506.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: DANIEL ALEJANDRO
LUCCA VARELA, COMO HEREDERO CONOCIDO Y/O PARTE CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE ALEJANDRO GONTRAN LUCCA MEDINA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE MILDRED IVETTE RODRÍGUEZ TORRES Y EN LA SUCESIÓN DE ALEJANDRO GONTRAN LUCCA MEDINA - URB. VILLA DE RIO, F-24 CALLE LA REPRESA, GUAYANILLA PR 00656-1112; CALLE AGUA DULCE #A-7, GUAYANILLA PR 00656; URB. VILLA DE RIO, F-24 CALLE 6, GUAYANILLA PR 00656-1112.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva 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 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 las 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 las Menores, entre las 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 las casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se les 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 les 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 6 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
Demandante Vs. MICHAEL COLLAZO DELGADO E IVONNE MARIS PAGÁN COLÓN T/C/C IVONNE M. PAGÁN COLÓN
Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2024CV00534. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: MICHAEL COLLAZO
DELGADO E IVONNE MARIS PAGÁN COLÓN T/C/C IVONNE M. PAGÁN COLÓN - BARRIO SABANA, SECTOR LA TIZA, CARR. 569 KM 5.5 1, OROCOVIS PR 00720; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: 311
LINDA WAY APT. 6, EL CAJON CA, 92020; 528 EMERALD AVE. UNIT 4 EL CAJON CA 92020 Y HC-01 BOX 6731, OROCOVIS PR 00720.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva 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 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 deman-
da, 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. 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 31 de enero de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. BRENDA LEE DÁVILA, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA LNSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO LUIS ENRIQUE LOPEZ ALVARADO
Peticionario EX PARTE
Civil: NG2024CV00133. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA, SUC MELQUIADES GONZÁLEZ
A LOS TENGAN EN LA FINCA DESCRITA MÁS ADELANTE CUALQUIER DERECHO REAL, A LOS ORGANISMOS PÚBLICOS AFECTADOS, Y EN GENERAL, A TODO AQUEL QUE DESEE OPONERSE A LA PETICIÓN.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha radicado una petición sobre expediente de Dominio ante el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico sala Superior de Humacao bajo el numero
del epígrafe que puede afectar sus derechos. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es: Lcdo. Edmundo Ayala Oquendo P.O. Box 1105 Fajardo, 00738 teléfono 787-603-4277 edmundoayala@gmail.com A través de la petición el peticionario de epígrafe solicita a este Tribunal que declare a su favor la Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio sobre el predio de terreno objecto de la misma para ser reconocido coma adquirido y ocupado por el peticionario. Esta notificación se hace a tenor con lo provisto por el Artículo 185 de la ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 (30 LPRA 6221). La descripción de la finca objecto de la presente Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio. RÚSTICA Parcela de terreno sita en el Barrio Rio Blanco del Municipio de Naguabo, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 92181.7731 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 23.4536 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos de la Sucn. Melquiades González de Jesús, por el SUR con terrenos de Enrique Pagan Luyando y Don Juan Hernández, por el ESTE, con Área Verde del Rio Blanco de Naguabo, por el OESTE, con y terrenos de Don Enrique Pagan Luyando Y Sucn. Melquiades Gonzales de Jesús Enrique Pagan Luyando. La descrita propiedad no esta inscrita en el registro de la propiedad su número de catastro es 000-000-00-00-000 y un tiene un valor aproximado de $30,000.00 dólares Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique este edicto en un periódico de circulación general para que aquellos que deseen oponerse así lo hagan ante el Tribunal notificando al abogado del peticionario referido en este Edicto. Los interesados contarán con el término improrrogable de 20 veinte días a partir de la (3) tercera publicación de este edicto para comparecer ante el tribunal para alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Se le advierte que de no comparecer al Tribunal para expresarse, el Tribunal podrá dar curso a los remedios solicitados por el Peticionario. En Humacao, Puerto Rico hoy 9 de octubre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN. EDGAR MAYO MELÉNDEZ, MARÍA DEL LORETO GARCÍA
MERINO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
PETICIONARIOS EX PARTE CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024CV00159 (906). SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO (USUCAPIÓN/ PRESCRIPCIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA). CITACION POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS
A: JOHN DOE y JANE ROE, personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica que los peticionarios de epígrafe han presentado una Petición para que se declare justificado el dominio a su favor sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización La Sierra del Río, localizado en Barrio Monacillos Este y el Cinco de Río Piedras del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos cuarenta y cuatro punto tres mil ochocientos veintinueve metros cuadrados (344.3829 m.c.) . En lindes, por el Norte, en dos distintas alineaciones que suman diecisiete punto ochocientos seis metros lineales (17.86 m.l.), con terrenos reservados para el futuro desarrollo “Debris Basin”; por el Sur, en diecisiete punto quinientos metros lineales (17.500 m.l.), con solar 4-F de la Urbanización La Sierra del Río; por el Este, en diecinueve punto ochocientos cincuenta y nueve metros lineales (19.859 ml.), con terrenos reservados para el futuro desarrollo “Debris Basin”; y por el Oeste, en dieciocho punto ciento trece metros lineales (18.113 m.1.), con terrenos reservados para el futuro desarrollo “Debris Basin”. Los fundamentos en apoyo a la solicitud de la parte peticionaria se encuentran extensamente relacionados en la petición presentada, la cual obra en los autos del caso. En síntesis, la parte peticionaria alega que ha poseído la propiedad antes descrita en concepto de dueño de manera pública, pacífica e ininterrumpidamente or un periodo mayor a veinte (20) años de manera que opera la prescripción adquisitiva extraordinaria. En vista de lo anterior, el tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión de la peticionaria tres (3) veces dentro del término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria en la Isla de Puerto Rico, a fin que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho, advirtiéndose que deberán comparecer al Tribunal a alegar su derecho dentro del plazo improrrogable de veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de dicho edicto, después de lo cual se resolverá lo procedente en derecho. Por ser personas desco-
nocidas o ignoradas, se exime a la peticionaria del requisito notificar copia de la citación por correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida al tiempo de hacerse la primera publicación del edicto. DADO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por orden del mismo, en San Juan, Puerto Rico hoy 3 de febrero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Maria Serrano Soto, SubSecretaria.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. MITCHELLE MARTINEZ PABON
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: JU2024CV00165. (Salón: 802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAN MIGUEL OTERO MARTÍNEZJAN.OTERO@ORF-LAW.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: MITCHELLE MARTINEZ PABON - PO BOX 3346, JUNCOS, PR 00777. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 07 de febrero de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 07 de febrero de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARIEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. FRANCISCO MONTANEZ RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV04674. (Salón: 701). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAN MIGUEL OTERO MARTÍNEZJAN.OTERO@ORF-LAW.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: FRANCISCO MONTAÑEZ RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 10 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. PEDRO A. DEL VALLE RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV04654. (Salón: 504 CIVIL). Sobre:
COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JUAN ANTONIO RUIZ ROBLESJUAN.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: PEDRO A. DEL VALLE RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de febrero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de febrero de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 10 de febrero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA.
MARIELA O. VIZCARRONDO ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. FERNANDO SOTO CORTES
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AU2024CV00065. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: FERNANDO SOTO CORTES.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada
en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de febrero de 2025. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 06 de febrero de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NOEMÍ
DEL C. ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS CARMEN DÍAZ VALDEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO CARMEN DÍAZ VALDÉS
Parte Demandante Vs. AIHC OF PUERTO RICO, INC. COMO SUCCESOR DE ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS
CORPORATION, JOHN DOE
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GR2025CV00021. Sala: 703. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO E HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A LA PARTE
DEMANDADA: JOHN DOE - DIRECCIÓN
DESCONOCIDA.
Se le emplaza y requiere para que, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados, Por la presente se le emplaza para que, presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 contados a partir de la publicación del 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://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 de este 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 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. (Artículo 33, inciso 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.
Lcda. Leslie J. Hernández Crespo Nombre de la abogada de la parte demandante 15,559 Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA)
P.O. Box 10338, San Juan Puerto Rico 00922
Dirección Postal 787-344-2853 Número de Teléfono ljhc_99@yahoo.com Correo electrónico EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Çaguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de febrero de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SUB-SECRETARLA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR SONIA NOEMI
MILAN GONZALEZ
Demandante Vs PRIME INVESTMENTS
S.E. Y OTROS
Demandados Civil Núm.: AG2024CV02026. Sobre: ACCIÓN DECLARATIVA DE DOMINIO POR USUCAPIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, MIKE DOE Y JENNY DOE. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda de Acción Declarativa de Dominio Por Usucapión contra usted, solicitando al Tribunal que declare a la de-
mandante como dueña, poseedora y titular por usucapión ordinaria de la propiedad que se describe a continuación: “SOLAR NUMERO QUINCE (15) del Bloque “B”, de la Urbanización Vistas de Medina, radicado en el Barrio Mora de Isabela, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS DIECINUEVE PUNTO CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA Y CUATRO METROS CUADRADOS (319.474 m.c.), en lindes, por el NORTE, en una distancia de Doce Punto Noventa y Cuatro Metros (12.94 m.), con la Calle Número Uno (1) de la misma Urbanización; por el Sur, en una distancia de Doce Punto Noventa y Cuatro Metros (12.94 m.), con el Solar Número Siete (7) del Bloque E de la misma Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de Veinticuatro Punto Seiscientos Noventa y Ocho Metros (24.698 m.) con el Solar Número Dieciséis (16) del Bloque B de la misma Urbanización; y, por el Oeste, en una distancia de Veinticuatro Punto Seiscientos Ochenta Metros (24.680 m.) con el Solar Número Catorce (14) del Bloque B de la misma Urbanización.” Es segregación de la Finca Número Quince Mil Novecientos Setenta y Siete (15,977) la cual consta inscrita al Folio Ciento Cincuenta (150) del Tomo Trescientos Seis (306) de Isabela, Sección de Aguadilla. Catastro número: 007-027-17715-000. Solicita además que se declare justificado a su favor el título de Dominio de la antes descrita propiedad y se ordene su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuya información se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Moisés Rodríguez TorresR.U.A. Núm. 17201 P.O. Box 1661, Isabela, Puerto Rico, 00662 Tel. / Fax: (787) 872-1277 moisesrod2001@gmail.com Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto 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. Se le apercibe que de usted no presentar su alegación responsiva a la Demanda 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. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 27 de enero de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SE-
CRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
JANNETTE
ARRIETA RIVERA Parte Demandante Vs. DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC. COMO SUCESOR DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2025CV00212. Sala: 702. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO E HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Demandada: JOHN DOE - DIRECCIÓN
DESCONOCIDA.
Se le emplaza y requiere para que, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados. Por la presente se le emplaza para que, presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de las 30 contados a partir de la publicación del 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://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 de este 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 las 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 las Menores, entre las 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. (Artículo 33, inciso b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a
comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en las casos que proceda. Lcda. Leslie J. Hernández Crespo Nombre de la abogada de la parte demandante 15,559
Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA)
P.O. Box 10338, San Juan Puerto Rico 00922
Dirección Postal 787-344-2853
Número de Teléfono ljhc_99@yahoo.com Correo electrónico
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de enero de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ANIA AROCHO MARTÍNEZ
Parte Demandante Vs. DORAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE SANA INVESTMENT
MORTGAGE BANKERS INC., BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2025CV00343. Sala: 502. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO E HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Demandada: JOHN DOE - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA.
Se le emplaza y requiere para que, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados. Por la presente se le emplaza para que, presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 contados a partir de la publicación del edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia 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 de este 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 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. (Artículo 33, inciso 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.
Lcda. Leslie J. Hernández Crespo Nombre de la abogada de la parte demandante 15,559
Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA) P.O. Box 10338, San Juan Puerto Rico 00922 Dirección Postal 787-344-2853 Número de Teléfono ljhc_99@yahoo.com
Correo electrónico
EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE HUMBERTO MARTORELL ALVARADO T/C/C
HUMBERTO MARTOREL ALVARADO T/C/C
HUMBERTO EMILIO
MARTORELL ALVARADO, COMPUESTA POR: HUMBERTO MARTORELL PÉREZ, GLADYS IVETTE MARTORELL PÉREZ, y GLADYS PÉREZ GÓMEZ, POR SÍ Y POR CONCEPTO DE USUFRUCTO VIUDAL; LEVITT HOMES CORP. EL HONORABLE
SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO; EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2019CV02075. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 16 de diciembre de 2024 y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 17 de agosto de 2022, notificada el 19 de agosto de 2022, procederá a vender el día 6 DE MARZO DE 2025 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, 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 todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Horizontal Property; Apartment number C 104 which consists of the following: Residential apartment of irregular shape located on the First (1st) floor of building “C” of the Condominium Puerta Del Parque in Hacienda San José Community, in the Cañabón Ward of the Municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico, with an approximate area of two thousand two hundred sixty-three square feet and thirty-one hundredth of another (2,263.31 sq. ft.), equal to two hundred ten square meters and twenty seven hundredths of another (210.27 sq. mts.). Its boundaries are as follow: NORTH, in a distance of fifty-six feet six inches (56 ft. 6 in), with a common exterior area: South, in a distance of fifty-six feet six inches (56 ft 6 in), with a median wall that separates it from apartment number C 103 and a common area; EAST, in a distance of forty four feet six inches (44 ft 6 in), with a median wall that separates it from apartment number C 101 and a common area; WEST, in a distance of forty four feet six inches (44 ft. 6 in), with a common exterior area. Garage number C 104”: Garage of irregular shape that includes two (2) parking spaces in tandem located on the Ground floor of building “C” with an approximate area of four hundred ten square feet and zero hundredth of another (410.00 sq. ft.) equal to thirty eight square meters and nine hundredth of another (38.09 sq. mts.). Its boundaries are as follow: NORTH, in a distance of ten feet zero inches (10 ft 0 on), with a common exterior
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 28 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA
GENERAL INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA 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 V. LAWRENCE JEROME WEDEKIND; DEBORAH LYNN PYLE WEDEKIND T/C/C/ DEBORAH LYNN WEDEKIND Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00034. 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: LAWRENCE JEROME
WEDEKIND; POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; DEBORAH LYNN PYLE
WEDEKIND T/C/C/ DEBORAH LYNN
WEDEKIND; POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD
LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 121 N. POST OAK LANE., #206, HOUSTON TX 77024. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Lawrence Jerome Wedekind, su esposa Deborah Lynn Pyle Wedekind t/c/c/ Deborah Lynn Wedekind, y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta por ambos, 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 MUNIZ 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 23 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. HARVEY T. COCHIEN
T/C/C/ HARVEY COCHIEN
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00036. 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: HARVEY T. COCHIEN
T/C/C/ HARVEY COCHIEN - 3876 18TH STREET UNIT 105 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94114. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a HARVEY T. COCHIEN
T/C/C/ HARVEY COCHIEN, 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 28 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA 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 V. WALQUIDIA GISELLE GUMBS
Demandada Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00059.
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: WALQUIDIA GISELLE
GUMBS - GINDER ISLAND
DR. APT 8C, ST. MARTIN 97150, SAINT MARTIN (FRENCH).
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Walquidia Giselle Gumbs, 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), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@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 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 28 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA 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 V. CELIA ANA PANTOJA QUIÑONEZ T/C/C/ CELIA
PANTOJA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00019.
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: CELIA ANA PANTOJA
QUIÑONEZ T/C/C/ CELIA PANTOJA - 1001 NE 2ND
ST., WASHINGTON IN 47501. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Celia Ana Pantoja Quiñonez t/c/c/ Celia Pantoja, 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 28 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE LAS PIEDRAS. Island Portfolio Services, LLC como agente de Fairway Acquisitions Fund, LLC
PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. ALEXANDER ORTIZ COLON
PARTE DEMANDADA
CIVIL NÚM. HU2024CV01287.
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: ALEXANDER ORTIZ COLON - URB VILLAS DEL RIO 12 CALLE RIO MANATI, HUMACAO PR 00791-4420 - HC 2 BOX 11645, HUMACAO PR 00791-9342
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 al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en LAS PIEDRAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de diciembre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, Secretario(a). DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, Secretario(a) Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO. Island Portfolio Services, LLC como agente de Ace One Funding, LLC PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. JAILINE GARCIA PEREZ PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. HU2024CV01080. 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: JAILINE GARCIA PEREZ - URB VERDE MAR CALLE 36 CASA 893, PUNTA SANTIAGO PR 00741
- HC 2 BOX 11046, HUMACAO PR 00791 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,
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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 al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de diciembre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, Secretari. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMON. Island Portfolio Services, LLC como agente de Fairway Acquisitions Fund, LLC
PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. BRYAN LIZARDI PEREZ PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. GB2024CV00262.
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: BRYAN LIZARDI PEREZ URB VEREDAS 606 CAMINO DE LOS JAZMINES, GURABO PR 00778-9066 22503 KATY FWY STE 38, KATY TX 77450
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del Referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC
notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de diciembre de 2024. Irasemis Diaz Sanchez, Secretaria. Marta E Donate Resto, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS. Island Portfolio Services, LLC como agente de Fairway Acquisitions Fund, LLC
PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. KAREN S DIAZ LOPEZ PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. CY2024CV00262.
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:
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Finding devoted sports fans in the coldest place on Earth
By TANIA GANGULI
Last summer, as I worked on an article about the global fan base of NBA star LeBron James, I bragged to a friend that I had interviewed a resident of every continent.
“Even Antarctica?” she asked.
Well, no.
But I loved the idea, so I followed the thread, not knowing exactly where it would lead. Surprisingly, it took me to a different sport, and a different fandom entirely, resulting in one of my favorite articles of all I’ve written, about Buffalo Bills fans in the coldest place on Earth.
It was a bit of a departure from what I normally cover.
I came to The New York Times in 2021 to report on the NBA for the sports section and moved to the business section two years later when the Times sports desk was dissolved.
My job is to write about the business of sports, and I focus on the NBA’s global initiatives. I’ve traveled to Dakar, Senegal, to write about Africa’s growing interest in basketball; to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to report on the ethical complications of the NBA’s business there; and to Paris, where I covered the league’s future prospects in Europe, as well as its young star, Victor Wembanyama, the 7-foot-4 French player.
In Senegal, I met many people who said they loved basketball because of James. A few months later, in July, I flew to Las Vegas during a training camp for the U.S. Olympic basketball team; there I interviewed James after a practice while he recovered in a cold tub.
It was 120 degrees that day in Las Vegas, the city’s hottest day on record. But in Antarctica, in the Southern Hemisphere, it was winter, and at the South Pole, the average winter temperature is minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit.
I asked a press representative at the National Science Foundation, a government agency that funds research in Antarctica, if she knew of someone there who loved James’ game. She said it would be easier if I could wait a few
One of the great things about sports is the way they can make a person feel included in a larger community. Sports fandom can become a part of someone’s identity, and that allegiance may not end when a fan moves somewhere new. What better place to test the power of the bond than on a research vessel or base that is hundreds, even thousands, of miles from the nearest continent?
I spoke to researchers and technicians who gave me glimpses of their lives (and endured my bad jokes about “The Thing,” a 1982 movie about researchers in Antarctica who encounter an alien). I couldn’t meet any of them in person, as the NSF had halted press trips for the 2024-25 season, so my conversations unfolded on video calls and in text messages.
Eventually I found Meredith Nolan, a bubbly, 24-yearold Buffalo Bills fan who had spent most of the past four football seasons in Antarctica. Nolan had missed four Christmases, four Thanksgivings and her grandmother’s funeral while studying zooplankton at Palmer Station, an American research base. But she was passionate about the work, and her family understood what a good opportunity it was.
months; the population on the research bases is much larger in the summer, when the weather allows for more types of research.
By the time I connected with Ken Halanych, a scientist, my article on James had already been published. But Halanych, who had taught at Auburn University when it had an excellent football program, told me about how he had tried to keep up with his favorite teams while on research vessels and at bases in Antarctica, especially back when internet access was extremely limited.
As advancements in internet technology have made sports news, highlights and games such a pervasive part of everyday life in most of the world, Antarctica seems to be suspended in time. One has to work a bit harder to access sports content. I wondered what would drive someone to make that effort, so I kept reporting.
She kept tabs on Bills games on social media and through text messages with her father, who grew up in upstate New York. Toward the end of her stay, her YouTube TV account had begun working, and she watched games, or parts of them, when she wasn’t on her research boat.
The Bills faced the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC championship game last month. Nolan watched it from aboard a Ukrainian research vessel that was taking her part of the way back to southeastern Virginia, where she lives.
In some ways, it would have helped my article if, for the first time since 1994, the Bills made it to the Super Bowl. But the Bills lost the championship, and the Chiefs advanced.
But Bills fans are famous for believing in their team despite a long series of crushing disappointments. Nolan texted me from the ship that she was still proud of the season.
Win or lose, the Bills keep her connected to home.
An image provided by Meredith Nolan, left, a Buffalo Bills fan, of herself wearing her Bills sock cap while with a colleague on a research boat in Antarctica, where she has been studying zooplankton. During Bills games, Nolan and her father, Jim, are constantly texting. She inherited her love of the team from him. (Meredith Nolan via The New York Times)
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