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Fiscal board rejects request by Congress members seeking Act 10 approval
By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico has rejected attempts by a group of congressional lawmakers to reverse its decision against implementing Act 10 of 2024, which prohibits the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) from modifying the net metering program until at least 2031.
In a recent letter, the oversight board expressed appreciation for the commitment to supporting the island’s critical transition to renewable and reliable electricity. The board highlighted the significance of the rooftop solar program under Puerto Rico Act 114-2007 in making renewable energy economically accessible to thousands of citizens. Achieving the goal of 100% renewable energy by 2050, as outlined in Act 17-2019, remains a top priority, with cleaner energy being a key aspect of Puerto Rico’s energy transformation, the board said.
Addressing concerns regarding Act 10, the oversight board noted that invalidating the act would not terminate net metering or alter terms for existing rooftop solar installations.
“Instead, it would enable the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau to continue its role as an independent energy regulator, as assigned by the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly through Act 17,” the oversight board said.
Under Act 17, the PREB conducted a study on net metering, titled “Draft Study on Net Metering and Distributed Energy.” Released in June 2024, the study analyzed the costs and benefits of the current net metering program for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and Puerto Rico, examining the implications for both solar rooftop users and those without access to the program.
The oversight board emphasized that the PREB should be allowed to draw conclusions independently from the draft study report and make decisions in the best interests of the Puerto Rican people.
In contrast to Act 17, which included public comment, the island Legislature did not hold any public hearings on Act 10, and it did not benefit from any study or report examining its effects, the oversight board pointed out. The board argued that an effective energy sector is contingent upon a politically independent regulator, stressing that “only an independent regulator is an effective regulator.”
By THE STAR STAFF
Convinced that sports are an essential tool for combating crime and promoting the common good, the Canóvanas Mayor Lornna Soto Villanueva announced Sunday the signing of an agreement with the island Department of Recreation and Sports (DRD by its initials in Spanish) for the development of the “Loíza Valley Vía Verde Circuit” project, an initiative of some $4 million that seeks to transform the existing recreation, sports and mobility in the area.
The agreement, signed with DRD Secretary Héctor Vázquez Muñiz, establishes a contribution of $1.6 million from the DRD, through funds from the “Land and Water Conservation Fund” program and municipal resources.
The investment will allow the construction of a two-mile loop that will expand and improve safety and accessibility for cyclists, runners and pedestrians on Reina de las Flores, Astromelia and Caliopsis streets.
“This project is a commitment to the quality of life of our citizens,” Soto said. “We believe in the power of sport and recreation to transform communities, promote safety and create spaces for healthy coexistence. With this investment, we are taking a firm step toward a more accessible, active and healthy Canóvanas.”
The “Loíza Valley Vía Verde Circuit” will include designated lanes, outdoor exercise stations, rest areas and recreational spaces. It will also ensure accessibility for people with disabilities and promote the concept of “Complete Streets,” safely integrating pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles.
“We are pleased to support initiatives like this one, which reflect the DRD’s commitment to the development of recreational and sports infrastructure that benefits our communities,” Vázquez Muñiz said.
Canóvanas Mayor Lornna Soto Villanueva
PDP keeps pressure on Domenech to release his financial report, Politank sales contract
By THE STAR STAFF
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Secretary General Manuel Calderón Cerame demanded on Sunday that Francisco Domenech, the La Fortaleza chief of staff who also heads the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (AAFAF by initials in Spanish), publicly release his financial report as well as the sale contract of his former lobbying firm, Politank.
In a press conference held by the PDP, Calderón Cerame emphasized the importance of transparency and urged Domenech to make his financial report public. He stated that such transparency is essential to ensure there are no conflicts of interest related to how Domenech acquired his assets and the clients he represented in the past.
Politank in the past represented creditors in the island’s bankruptcy. The PDP previously asked local and federal authorities to investigate Domenech for hiring the firm Houlihan Lokey to work for AAFAF even though it previously represented Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority creditors.
“This is a government rife with conflicts of interest and inaction,” Calderón Cerame said. “We have not only denounced the clear conflicts of interest associated with Francisco Domenech’s initial contracts at AAFAF, but we also find it unacceptable that his financial report has not yet been published on the Government Ethics Office portal. The chief of staff must disclose it to guarantee transparency and good governance.”
Calderón Cerame stressed that it is unacceptable for the Government Ethics Office to have removed the requirement for public officials to disclose the amount generated by or cost of each transaction, merely stating totals of liabilities and assets. “The elimination of this disclosure requirement, which was enacted last November, raises suspicions and does not contribute to the transparency of the process,” he said.
During the press conference, the PDP official pointed out that given that elimination, Domenech should publish the purchase and sale contract for the firm Politank to Manuel Torres, who served as secretary of the upper chamber under former Senate President Kenneth McClintock, while Domenech was the director of the Office of Legislative Services.
Calderón Cerame reiterated the importance of clarity and transparency regarding the finances of public officials to prevent conflicts that could ultimately harm the people of Puerto Rico. “With each passing day, Francisco Domenech has more questions to answer for the country; therefore, it is essential to understand his financial dealings, particularly regarding the buying and selling of Politank.”
USACE to assist with PREPA water asset projects
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has signed a contract worth $47 million with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) that encompasses engineering, construction and management services for PREPA’s water asset projects.
Patillas Dam (jacasierra.com)
The contract, which was approved by the Financial Oversight and Management Board last week, includes several key projects: the seismic retrofit of the Patillas Dam, maintenance of 28 hydroelectric units, and work on Río Blanco, Toro Negro, Guayabal Dam, and the Caonillas plant in Utuado. Additionally, it covers three district irrigation canals and the dredging of 11 reservoirs.
USACE will provide technical and management support, which includes organizing project meetings with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other
stakeholders, developing environmental compliance documentation, ensuring projects align with the Permanent Repairs and Mitigation Work policies, assisting in contract documentation, managing existing task orders, and coordinating with PREPA on all projects identified in the 10-year plan related to permanent repairs of the hydroelectric system and water infrastructure.
Funding for the contract will come from FEMA funds, as well as funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Puerto Rico Department of Housing. The Financial Oversight and Management Board has instructed PREPA to ensure that its budgets cover all costs
associated with the proposed contract. Simultaneously, PREPA has submitted an application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to renew the operational license for the Río Blanco Hydroelectric Project, located on the southern border of the El Yunque National Forest in the Municipality of Naguabo, near the community of Florida. The project occupies 2.2 acres of U.S. land administered by the U.S. Forest Service. With the application, PREPA has begun informal consultations with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, and the Puerto Rico state historic preservation officer.
alleged recovery finds
By THE STAR STAFF
The Municipality of Cataño has reached 99.25 percent in the execution of the funds allocated for recovery projects according to the Recovery and Execution Index published by the Central Office of Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resilience of Puerto Rico (COR3) transparency portal for the first quarter of 2024, the agency said last week. The index ranks Cataño as the Top Performer, or the number one position among all municipalities, in project execution.
“In Cataño, we have put all our efforts, knowledge and expert personnel to manage the efficient execution of federally funded projects,” Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo said in a written statement. “This achievement demonstrates our work and commitment to the full recovery of our people in these past 25 months of our administration.”
The municipality has received a total of $25.1 million for permanent recovery projects. Of this amount, $9.8 million is in the bidding stage, $9.4 million in the construction stage, and $5.0 million in the design stage. In addition, a total of $636,097 in projects has been completed, and $219,919
remains in the planning stage.
“Among the upcoming projects financed with federal funds from the recovery from Hurricane Maria are: improvements to the CDT Job Andújar and different sports facilities. In addition, we hope to advance in the construction of: La Esperanza Park, improvements to different municipal buildings and repairs and improvements to Cosme Beitía Coliseum for this year,” the mayor said. “These projects are only funded by Hurricane Maria recovery, but the municipality is also in the process of other important works and initiatives financed with other funds, including federal and state.”
Popular Democratic Party Secretary General Manuel Calderón Cerame
Senate set to vote on nominations to courts today
By THE STAR STAFF
During Senate hearings on Saturday to evaluate his nomination for another term, Superior Court Judge Anthony Cuevas Ramos stated that he would be willing to preside over the State Elections Commission (SEC) if appointed by Gov. Jenniffer González Colón.
When Sen. Juan Oscar Morales Rodríguez asked him if he would accept the role, Cuevas Ramos replied, “I have never in my life run away from a challenge.”
Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz announced that the nominations of both Cuevas Ramos and other candidates evaluated in the hearings would be presented during today’s session.
The Committee on Innovation, Reform, and Appointments, chaired by Rivera Schatz, conducted a public hearing reviewing the appointments of two nominees for judgeships in the Superior Court of First Instance, two prosecutors, and three property registrars. The nominees discussed their professional experiences and their commitment to the pursuit of truth and justice.
“There is no doubt that managing the extraordinary appeals room and addressing its complex controversies are extremely interesting and invaluable,” Cuevas Ramos said. “Some of these cases have allowed me to make significant contributions to jurisprudence in both electoral matters and extraordinary
“I have never in my life run away from a challenge,” Superior Court Judge Anthony Cuevas Ramos, right, said when asked if he would be willing to preside over the State Elections Commission.
appeals. I hope to continue on this journey.”
Luis R. Vega Rosario, the newly appointed superior judge of the Court of First Instance, shared his professional background.
“In my four years at the Arecibo Prosecutor’s Office, I have developed skills in both litigation and mediation,” he said. “Furthermore, I have had the opportunity to investigate sensitive cases of sexual crimes involving both minors and adults, which has provided me with unique experiences.”
Sen. Héctor Joaquín Sánchez Álvarez inquired about the biggest challenges facing the judicial system in electoral cases
and whether processes are abused. Cuevas Ramos answered, “In electoral matters, the biggest challenge for the judiciary is to address cases promptly.”
“The electoral law designates specific time frames for the court’s actions,” the judge said. “As the election approaches, the pace quickens significantly -- so that is one of the challenges.”
Regarding the potential abuse of processes, Cuevas Ramos said, “I hesitate to use the term ‘abuse,’ but between the 2020 experience and prior situations, the outcomes are influenced by who leads the State Elections Commission.”
“When decisions are left to the commissioners -- strictly administrative decisions -- there is a clear difference depending on whether these decisions are made by the Commission president,” he said.
Sen. Migdalia Padilla Alvelo asked Vega Rosario how he would interpret the law in cases of gaps or ambiguities. He responded that it is essential to review the legislative history to understand the intention of the lawmakers and see if there are any gaps within the law.
In response to Padilla’s questions about allowing cameras in judicial hearings, both nominees expressed their support for the practice.
“Cameras are being implemented when requested, and I believe this should continue,” Vega Rosario said. “The public deserves to see what is happening in the courts, and this should not be limited.”
La Fortaleza: PDP has an ‘obsessive fixation’ with Domenech
By THE STAR STAFF
La Fortaleza Public Affairs Secretary Hiram Torres Montalvo reacted on Sunday to the request by Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Secretary General Manuel Calderón Cerrame regarding the La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech.
“I believe that the Secretary General of the Popular Party, as well as the other members who have been launching these attacks against our chief of staff, have an obsessive fixation with his figure,” Torres Montalvo said at a press conference to talk about the results of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s
“He completely disassociated himself from what was his business, this company called Politank, in which he sold his share,” the La Fortaleza official added. “That is to say, he has no involvement with this entity, since he is now dedicated to working hand in hand with our governor to do the work that we committed to during the campaign to transform Puerto Rico. So I think he completely disassociated himself. These attacks are, I would say, more political in nature.”
Ethics with his financial details during the first 90 days of this year,” Torres Montalvo said. “And as the law dictates, once he files it, a summary of that report will be available to the media for whoever wants to see it, because that is what the Government Ethics law provides. So the chief of staff has nothing to hide.”
visit to Washington, D.C. “I believe that these attacks will come to nothing like they did to us last week, when they … brought a letter and brought complaints to different forums.”
“And in the specific case of the summons made to him regarding the Government Ethics [Office] reports, as a public official he is required to file a report to Government
Calderón Cerame demanded that Domenech, who is also the director of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, make public his financial report, as well as the purchase and sale contract of his former lobbying firm, Politank (see related story on page 3).
Citizens rescue woman swept offshore by currents in Loíza
By THE STAR STAFF
Authorities responded to an incident on Sunday afternoon in which people were swept away by sea currents at Playa Vacía Talega in Loíza.
According to reports, a call through the 9-1-1 Emergency System alerted the police about the situation. A woman was swept away by sea currents. Three men then entered the water to rescue the injured woman and managed to get her to the shore of the beach.
The injured woman and two of the men were reported to be in stable condition later on Sunday.
A 62-year-old man, meanwhile, was transported by ambulance by paramedics to a hospital. His health condition was unknown at press time.
La Fortaleza Public Affairs Secretary Hiram
Torres Montalvo
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Musk says government workers must detail their workweek or lose their jobs
By KATE CONGER, EILEEN SULLIVAN and CHRISTINA JEWETT
Elon Musk deepened the confusion and alarm of workers across the federal government Saturday by ordering them to summarize their accomplishments for the week, warning that a failure to do so would be taken as a resignation.
Shortly after Musk’s demand, which he posted on his social platform X, civil servants across the government received an email from the Office of Personnel Management with the subject line, “What did you do last week?”
The missive simultaneously hit inboxes across multiple agencies, rattling workers who had been rocked by layoffs in recent weeks and were unsure about whether to respond to Musk’s demand. Officials at some agencies, including the FBI and the State Department, told their employees to pause responses to the email.
Musk’s mounting pressure on the federal workforce came at the encouragement of President Donald Trump, who has been trumpeting how the billionaire has upended the bureaucracy and Saturday urged him to be even “more aggressive.”
In his post on X, Musk said employees who failed to answer the message would lose their jobs. However, that threat was not stated in the email itself.
“Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished this week and cc your manager,” said the Office of Personnel Management message that went out to federal employees Saturday afternoon. The email told employees to respond by midnight Monday and not to include classified information.
The email was received by workers across the government, including at the FBI, the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Personnel Management, the Food and Drug Administration, the Veterans Affairs Department, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to copies seen by The New York Times.
Some agency leaders welcomed Musk’s move. “DOGE and Elon are doing great work! Historic. We are happy to participate,” Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., whom Trump has nominated to run the office on a permanent basis, wrote in a message to his staff.
But in a sign of the upheaval and the potential legal and security issues caused by the demand, officials at some federal agencies told their staff to hold off on responding and await further guidance.
federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week,” Musk wrote in a social media post Saturday, saying his actions were “consistent” with the president’s demands. “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” he added.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the email to federal workers, and whether workers would be fired if they did not reply.
The Office of Personnel Management, which sent Musk’s deferred resignation offer to employees with the subject line “Fork in the Road” last month, sidestepped the question.
“As part of the Trump administration’s commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce, OPM is asking employees to provide a brief summary of what they did last week by the end of Monday, cc’ing their manager,” McLaurine Pinover, a spokesperson for the agency, said in a statement Saturday. “Agencies will determine any next steps.”
Among them was Kash Patel, the new FBI director. “The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures,” Patel wrote in an email to staff obtained by the Times. “When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses.”
For rank-and-file workers, the latest move by Musk underscored a climate of instability and fear inside the government. One staff member at the National Institutes of Health, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, said she was shocked by the message, which she said left her with a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach. When she found out more of the context, she said, she messaged a colleague: “They’re terrorizing us.”
As confusion and alarm spread Saturday evening among workers over Musk’s demand, he said on X that there was a “low bar” to meet it.
“An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable!” he said. “Should take less than 5 mins to write.”
In response to his threat of dismissal if workers did not comply, the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, said it would challenge any “unlawful” terminations.
Everett Kelley, the union’s president, accused Musk and Trump of showing “utter disdain” for federal employees.
“It is cruel and disrespectful,” he said in a statement, “to hundreds of thousands of veterans who are wearing their second uniform in the civil service to be forced to justify their job
duties to this out-of-touch, privileged, unelected billionaire who has never performed one single hour of honest public service in his life.”
The union told workers that it “strongly believes” the Office of Personnel Management did not have the authority to direct employees in the manner of its emailed request and advised them to seek guidance from a supervisor.
The demands raised significant legal issues, experts said.
“There is zero basis in the civil service system for this,” said Sam Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a former general counsel to the Office of Management and Budget. “This is obviously designed to intimidate employees. Musk and DOGE and the Trump administration are persistently acting in a way that disregards civil service rules and they are just counting on the courts not being able to catch up and clean up after them.
“They are counting on employees saying, ‘This is too much, I can’t keep doing this,’” he added.
The message questioning workers’ output repeated a tactic Musk used to cull the workforce at his social media company. He has repeatedly drawn inspiration from his 2022 takeover of X, then known as Twitter, as he works to overhaul the federal government with his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. With the support of the Trump administration, Musk has ordered layoffs across the federal government and effectively shuttered several agencies.
“Elon is doing a great job, but I would like to see him be more aggressive,” Trump said in a post Saturday on his social media site.
Musk quickly accepted the challenge. “All
The demand left many workers reeling. Most of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s workforce had recently been placed on leave as Musk gutted the agency, and have been instructed not to work — leaving them with no accomplishments to report, a worker there said.
Musk’s allies in government have suggested using artificial intelligence to identify budget cuts, and workers at several agencies worried their responses would be assessed by AI.
The approach echoed one Musk took with executives and employees at Twitter. In April 2022, Musk was set to join the board at the social media company, but bickered with Parag Agrawal, its CEO at the time, over his public criticism of the company. When Agrawal asked Musk not to post detrimental things about Twitter, Musk responded in a text, “What did you get done this week?” and then told Agrawal he would buy Twitter outright.
The exchange led to Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the company, which he completed in October 2022. Musk claimed he fired Agrawal immediately, although Agrawal contested the circumstances of his departure and sued Musk for withholding severance payments.
Shortly after the acquisition, Musk told employees to print out code they had written recently — an exercise intended to prove how hard they worked. When executives at the company raised privacy concerns, Musk instructed employees to shred the code they had printed.
On Saturday, Musk acknowledged the similarities. “Parag got nothing done. Parag was fired,” he wrote in an X post about the message he intended to send to federal workers.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk tout the efforts of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, at the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. Civil servants across the federal government received an email on Saturday from the Office of Personnel Management with the subject line, “What did you do last week?” (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
Officer killed responding to hostage-taking at a Pennsylvania hospital, officials say
By SIMON J. LEVIEN and LAUREN McCARTHY
APennsylvania police officer was killed while responding to a shooting on Saturday at a hospital in York County, Pennsylvania, in which the gunman, who held hospital staff members as hostages and restrained one with a zip tie, was killed by police, authorities said.
The officer, Andrew Duarte, who served in the West Borough Police Department, had responded to a call to the hospital, UPMC Memorial, the borough said on Facebook.
“Our hearts break at the innocent loss of life,” the statement said, adding that the West Borough Police Department had “lost a comrade and friend.”
Duarte was one of three police officers struck by the gunman, who officials later identified as Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz, 49. The other two officers were in stable condition.
Three hospital staff members — a doctor, a nurse and custodian — were wounded and were in stable condition, officials said. Another staff member was hurt in a fall. No patients were injured.
York County District Attorney Tim Barker said at an afternoon news conference that Archangel-Ortiz targeted the intensive care unit of the hospital, which is in West Manchester Township. His motive was unknown.
Barker added that the gunman had recently contacted the hospital unit regarding a “medical purpose of another individual,” but Barker declined to provide further details. He also declined to provide additional background information about Archangel-Ortiz.
Around 10:35 a.m., the gunman entered the hospital with a handgun and zip ties, and soon took several staff members as hostages. The gunman opened fire at about 11 a.m., Susan Manko, a vice president of public relations for
the hospital, said in a statement.
Archangel-Ortiz held a staff member at gunpoint as police officers readied to breach the ICU. He restrained one staff member’s hands with a zip tie. The officers tried to talk with the gunman.
When he came out into the hallway threatening the hostage, police officers opened fire, Barker said. The gunman also opened fire, striking the officers before being killed.
Those who were wounded were evaluated in the emergency department at WellSpan York Hospital in York, less than five miles from UPMC Memorial, according to a spokesperson for WellSpan.
Duarte was a member of the West York Police Department for nearly three years, according to his LinkedIn profile. Before that, he served as an officer in the Denver Police Department in Colorado for more than five years. He graduated from Pennsylvania Western
Nearly 1 in 10 US adults identifies as LGBTQ+, survey finds
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and FRANCESCA PARIS
Nearly 1 in 10 adults in the United States identifies as LGBTQ+, according to a large analysis from Gallup released late last week — almost triple the share since Gallup began counting in 2012, and up by two-thirds since 2020.
The increases have been driven by young people, and by bisexual women.
Nearly one-quarter of adults in Generation Z, defined by Gallup as those 18 to 27, identify as LGBTQ+, according to the analysis, which included 14,000 adults across all of Gallup’s telephone surveys last year. More than half of these LGBTQ+ young adults identify as bisexual.
Among all respondents, 1.3% identified as transgender, up from 0.6% in 2020. That is higher than other large surveys have found in recent years.
Members of Gen Z were most likely to be transgender, Gallup found — 4.1% were, compared with 1.7% of millennials and less than 1% in each older generation. Various groups have tried to count this population, and Gallup’s survey is considered one of the most complete.
Respondents were asked if they considered themselves straight or heterosexual, lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, and could choose more than one identity or volunteer another. About 86% of respondents said they were straight, according to Gallup.
President Donald Trump’s administration has recently reversed a variety of initiatives aimed at supporting LGBTQ+ people, particularly those who are transgender.
Based on an executive order declaring that there are only two sexes and that they cannot be changed, the Trump administration has threatened to end federal funding for hospitals that provide gender-transition health care to people younger than 19; ban transgender girls and women from competing on female sports teams; and ban transgender people from serving in the military.
The president has announced plans to revoke federal funding from schools that teach about “gender
University, California, in California, Pennsylvania, in 2016.
At the afternoon news conference, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said that he had been in contact with the White House about the shooting and thanked the Trump administration for its concern but said that the state did not need help from the federal government.
“Here in York County today, we saw the very best and the very worst of humanity,” Shapiro said, thanking law enforcement officers and hospital staff members for their bravery.
Michael Muldrow, the commissioner of the York City Police Department, said in a statement that he believed the shooting exemplified how officers respond to threats to public safety.
“Today is a sobering and humbling reminder of how much potential danger truly exists in the world (at any given time) and just how quickly situations can go bad,” Muldrow said.
ideology,” and dismantled a policy protecting transgender students from discrimination. Government agencies have removed resources related to terms like LGBTQ+ and gender from their websites. (Some have been restored under a court order.)
Increasing LGBTQ+ identification has been “largely driven by the many decades of gradual increasing societal acceptance,” said Dr. Mitchell R. Lunn, who co-directs the Pride Study, a research project at Stanford University on the health of LGBTQ+ people. Now, he said, “I think we may lose a lot of the really positive momentum that we’ve built over the past decades.”
Lunn said he thinks the Gallup numbers are probably an underestimate, mostly because people might not feel comfortable sharing the information in a telephone survey. (Five percent of respondents declined to answer Gallup’s question.) He said he wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers declined next year, if social acceptance decreases under the Trump administration: “I worry that it will push some people to go back into the closet and not be out about their identity anymore.”
In the surveys, there were large differences in LGBTQ+ identification by political ideology. Twenty-one percent of liberals identified this way, compared with 3% of conservatives. There were also significant gender differences: Women were almost twice as likely as men to identify as LGBTQ+. In Gen Z, 31% did, compared with 12% of men.
Though LGBTQ+ identification has increased in recent years for all but the oldest generations, it has grown fastest among young people. An average of 23% of Gen Z adults have identified this way over the past two years, up from 19% from 2020 to 2022.
Most of them identify as bisexual. Of Gen Z women, 23% are bisexual, compared with 12% of millennial women. While men have generally been less likely to identify as bisexual, that is changing for those in their teens and 20s. Eight percent of Gen Z men identify as bisexual, compared with 2% of millennial men, and Gen Z is the only age group in which men are likelier to say they’re bisexual than gay.
Bisexual men have faced additional stigma, studies have found, but researchers have said that might be changing for young men as the definition of masculinity has broadened, and as young people increasingly think about sexuality on a spectrum. Jessie Ford, a sociologist at Columbia University, said that in her interviews with young people, they talk about wanting to be open in their sexuality and avoid rigid identities like straight or gay.
Young people have come of age during a period of unusually rapid social change in this area since the 2010s. It’s been driven by the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015, and by pop culture and social media. It’s now common for middle and high schools to have LGBTQ+ affinity groups, which researchers have said are important for adolescent mental health at a time when they are exploring their identity. Schools have been especially welcoming in the West and Northeast, according to GLSEN, a nonprofit that researches LGBTQ+ students.
For fearful immigrants, it’s the card they all want right now
By MIRIAM JORDAN
It is the size of a credit card, comes in 19 languages and is in the pockets and purses of millions of immigrants.
The red card, as it is known by its bearers, lists a collection of practical tips and legal rights for immigrants who might find themselves targeted by federal agents.
Though the card has been around for almost two decades, interest in it has exploded over the past month amid a wave of anti-immigrant edicts from President Donald Trump during his first days back in the White House. The nonprofit Immigrant Legal Resource Center has received orders from across the country for several million cards, a demand its printing contractor has rushed to meet.
Eliseo, a carpet installer in Northern California, keeps one in his wallet and another in his truck’s glove compartment. His wife, Maria, stores hers in the sleeve on the back of her cellphone. Their 13-year-old son, a U.S. citizen, has distributed them to classmates.
“You show agents the card,” said Eliseo, a father of three who has been in the United States for decades. “It does the talking.”
Like other immigrants in the country illegally interviewed for this article, he spoke on the condition that he be identified by only his first name.
Every person in the United States, regardless of immigration status, is guaranteed certain protections under the Constitution. The card highlights some that are particularly relevant to immigrants in the country without legal permission, including the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and the Fourth Amendment right to refuse entry to the home unless an agent has a warrant signed by a judge.
But as fundamental as those rights are, they have created friction in the fight over how the country should address illegal immigration and how authorities should treat the millions of people in the country illegally who live and work in the United States.
For many of those immigrants, asserting the rights outlined on the red card could be the difference between being deported and staying in the country. For Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies trying to deliver on the president’s pledge to carry out mass deportations, those same rights are a roadblock.
“They call it ‘Know Your Rights,’” the president’s so-called border czar, Tom Homan, said last month on CNN. “I call it, ‘How to escape arrest.’”
From left: Maria, her husband Eliseo and their daughter Selma, who all carry red cards in case they are approached by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in San Jose, Calif., Feb. 14, 2025. The card, available in multiple languages, has been around for almost two decades — but interest in the handy list of practical tips and legal rights for immigrants has surged since President Donald Trump returned to office. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times)
Immigration was a defining issue for Trump’s presidential campaign, and he returned to the White House promising a crackdown. In the administration’s early days, ICE highlighted immigration raids and deportation flights, but federal agents have struggled to meet the president’s expectations. Homan and others have blamed local officials, immigrant-rights groups and the news media for hindering enforcement efforts.
Though deportation actions have yielded fewer arrests than promised, they have nonetheless stirred widespread fear and spurred efforts to ensure immigrants, especially those who are in the U.S. illegally, understand their legal protections. Organizations have been holding “know-your-rights” sessions to teach immigrants that they can withhold personal information and refuse to sign any documents. The proliferation of the red cards underscores the growing anxiety, and the expanding efforts to counter it.
Since the election, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, which is headquartered in San Francisco, has received orders for about 9 million cards, more than in the previous 17 years combined. Most of the orders are from nonprofits that provide them to schools, churches, clinics and food banks, which then distribute them to immigrants.
Caryn Shapiro, a high school teacher in Columbus, Ohio, said that she had handed out cards in nine languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Pashto and Ukrainian. “The kids, no matter what their status, are terrified of ICE,” she said.
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event last month, a construction worker in the country illegally said he was stopped by agents en route to church Feb. 2.
When the worker, Luiz, 40, was asked if he had “papers,” he handed the agents the red card and said nothing, he recalled. After he was ordered out of his car, agents pressured him to disclose his immigration status, Luiz said. He said he remained silent and shook his head when asked if he had been in trouble with the law.
Luiz said that after they reviewed his Mexican identification card from his wallet, agents checked his record and let him go. “The red card saved me,” he said. “I tell all my friends, just show the card and shut up.”
Mark Silverman was a lawyer with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center when he hatched the idea of the card in 2006, after a spate of immigration raids at workplaces fueled fear among immigrants.
contracted to produce the cards was churning them out by the hundreds of thousands. “Our whole staff is working on red cards,” said Troy Jones, who co-owns the company, Printed Union, in San Jose, California.
In one room, a printer was spitting out 12,000 sheets per hour, each with 84 cards in Chinese. In another room, boxes of cards labeled “Ukrainian” and “Russian” sat side by side on a rack. Stacks in Arabic, Farsi, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Punjabi and Tigrinya were ready to be packed, and the first batches in Amharic, Khmer and Portuguese would soon be shipped.
A computer generated labels for orders — to both red and blue states. “It’s literally every single state you can imagine we are shipping to,” said Jones, after taking a call from a nun in Minnesota requesting 250 in Spanish. “People need these as fast as possible.”
Immigrants from Alabama to Alaska have been packing information sessions. TODEC, a legal-aid organization in Southern California, has distributed about 500,000 cards and held a training class this past week titled, “The Power of the Red Card,” which drew 300 participants.
“The red card is a very, very powerful tool,” Sandra Reyes, an educational coordinator at TODEC, said at the session.
“You might get nervous if an agent stops you,” she said. “Just take the card out and read it, or hand it over without uttering a word.”
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The goal was to make the card small enough to slip into a wallet or a pocket. It was intentionally red, a color associated with “Stop” and that calls to mind the card that soccer referees use to eject players.
“I never predicted that the card would have such a long life,” said Silverman, who retired in 2018, “or ever be in such great demand.”
In California’s Central Valley, a fieldworker named Felipe was driving three co-workers to harvest lettuce on a recent Sunday before sunrise. When agents pulled them over, Felipe, a 49-year-old immigrant and father of three children born in the United States, grabbed the card from his dashboard.
The agent scrutinized it and looked annoyed, Felipe said.
Another agent pressured the men to divulge their immigration status. Felipe produced only his California driver’s license.
“What do you want from us?” he recalled telling them. “We aren’t criminals. We have rights.”
Soon the men were back on their way to work.
Big day for crypto goes south in a hurry after a giant hack
By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY
The good news for cryptocurrency investors arrived just after 8 a.m. Friday: Coinbase, the largest crypto marketplace in the United States, had reached a deal with U.S. regulators to dismiss a lawsuit that had hung over the industry for years.
But within hours, the crypto market descended into a new crisis. At 10:51 a.m., Bybit, another leading crypto exchange, said it had been hacked — with industry analysts estimating the loss at nearly $1.5 billion, the largest theft in crypto history.
The prices of bitcoin, ether and other major cryptocurrencies plunged. Even Coinbase’s share price had dropped 8% by the end of the day.
This split-screen contrast was a telling illustration of the state of crypto in 2025. Even as President Donald Trump embraces the industry, it remains the Wild West of the financial world, prone to scams, thefts and sudden market meltdowns.
A series of policy changes in Washington are poised to encourage millions of investors to dabble in crypto for the first time, despite the industry’s continued struggles to police and prevent criminal activity. The hack was a reminder that, for all its growing influence in politics, crypto remains something of an international free-for-all — a chaotic market in which even the most experienced investors sometimes suffer extreme losses.
“These guys whose whole business is crypto, being smart about these issues, just lost $1.5 billion,” said Corey Frayer, who worked on crypto policy at the Securities and Exchange Commission during the Biden administration. “So, how do we expect regular Americans who just want their debit card to work to safely use the products?”
The news about Coinbase and Bybit came at the end of a roller-coaster few days in the crypto world. A proliferation of new memecoins — digital currencies based on an internet joke or a celebrity mascot, with no practical function — has prompted widespread complaints about scams.
Ben Zhou, chief executive, of Bybit, speaks at a cryptocurrency conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 10, 2024. Bybit, a leading crypto exchange, said it had been hacked on Feb. 11, 2025 — with industry analysts estimating the loss at nearly $1.5 billion, the largest theft in crypto history. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
A memecoin promoted this month by the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, suddenly plummeted in value, setting off a political crisis there and costing investors more than $250 million.
Recently, crypto executives have expressed worry about the spread of these high-risk cryptocurrencies, fretting that they could undo some of the progress the industry has made with lawmakers. Shortly before his inauguration, Trump put his own memecoin on sale — it shot up in value before crashing. More than 800,000 crypto accounts lost money.
lawsuits against many of the industry’s biggest companies.
At the top of that list was Coinbase, a $60 billion company that went public in 2021. Two years ago, the SEC sued Coinbase, arguing that the digital currencies sold on its platform were securities, just like the stocks and bonds traded on Wall Street. The regulators argued that Coinbase should have to register with the SEC and follow strict rules to protect investors from financial harm.
But the government’s posture toward crypto transformed when Trump took office. The president has his own crypto business, World Liberty Financial, giving him a personal stake in the industry’s success. And he has nominated a crypto industry ally, securities lawyer Paul Atkins, to lead the SEC, which has quickly cut down on its enforcement efforts.
In a regulatory filing Friday morning, Coinbase announced that the SEC had agreed to drop its lawsuit without imposing any financial penalty. (The agreement requires approval by the agency’s commissioners, a process that is expected to be a formality.)
In celebratory social media posts, industry executives declared the end of a “siege against crypto” by the federal government.
The euphoria didn’t last long. Bybit, which is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and processes tens of billions of dollars in daily transactions, revealed that thieves had breached its system, stealing huge quantities of ether.
Crypto has a long history of damaging hacks, but the theft from Bybit dwarfed the previous record, when thieves stole $611 million in cryptocurrencies from a platform called PolyNetwork in 2021.
Even outside the crypto world, there is little precedent for a theft so big. “It may even be the largest single theft of all time,” said Tom Robinson, co-founder of Elliptic, a crypto analysis firm.
On social media, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou assured customers that the company was still solvent. “Even if this hack loss is not recovered, all of clients assets are 1 to 1 backed,” he wrote. “We can cover the loss.”
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“Memecoins aren’t just a casino — they’re worse,” Haseeb Qureshi, a crypto venture investor, wrote on social media this past week. “They’re a casino where each slot machine has a different owner, each trying to rip you off as much as they can before you move on to the next one.”
Under the Biden administration, federal regulators oversaw a wide-ranging crackdown on crypto, filing
In a livestream Friday, Zhou, who was swigging Red Bull, said the “affected amount” was 401,000 ether, or about $1.1 billion. Crypto forensics experts estimated the total at closer to $1.5 billion, based on analysis of public transaction records.
Bybit does not offer services to customers in the United States, according to its website. The company’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A crypto research group, Arkham Intelligence, said North Korean hackers were behind the Bybit breach. Attacks by North Korean groups have plagued the industry for years.
The price of bitcoin plunged from about $100,000 early Friday to just more than $95,000 that evening, a 5% drop. Other cryptocurrencies fell even further.
And a day of celebration for Coinbase ended with a stock market plunge: By the time the market closed Friday, its shares were trading at their lowest price since November.
Transport stocks take a hit on Wall Street on economic and tariff fears
Transportation stocks went sharply in reverse on Friday with the economic bellwether Dow Jones Transport average index falling more than 2.6% in its steepest daily loss since December 18 and its third consecutive decline, as investors reacted to weak economic readings and worried about tariffs.
While the transport index pared its losses by the close, most of its stocks fell for the day. Its biggest decliner was Old Dominion, finishing down 8.5%. Car rental company Avis Budget, the second biggest loser, fell 7.2%.
Airlines were among the biggest decliners, with Alaska Air Group falling 6.9%, United Airlines dropping 6.4% and Delta Air Lines ending down 5.9%. Also among the laggards were FedEx, which lost 5.3%, and Kirby Corp, down 3%.
Earlier, S&P Global data showed U.S. business activity nearly stalling in February and tumbling to a nearly 17-month low, with fears over import tariffs and deep federal government spending cuts, erasing soaring sentiment after the November U.S. election.
Also on Friday a University of Michigan survey showed U.S. consumer sentiment dropping more than expected in February to a 15-month low with inflation expectations jumping as households worried about plans for steep, broad-based tariffs.
And the data followed a downbeat forecast on Thursday from the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart as it cited the need for caution in navigating an uncertain geopolitical landscape, sending its shares and the broader market down.
As for the drivers for the transport declines, Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth, pointed to questions about the health of the economy and concerns about factors such as tariffs.
President Donald Trump in his first month in office slapped an additional 10% tariff on Chinese imports. While a 25% levy on imports from Mexico and Canada was suspended until March, this month he raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 25%.
And on Tuesday Trump said he would impose auto tariffs “in the neighborhood of 25%” and similar duties on semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports.
The worry is that threats or implementation of tariffs will boost prices and hurt demand for goods and in turn the carriage of these goods by freight companies and home package deliverers.
“When one is to contemplate the impact of what will be shipped from other countries to the United States if, in fact, the new administration moves forward with tariffs, there might be a decrease of international deliveries and perhaps an increase of domestic delivery,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B Riley Wealth.
The broader market also reflected a risk-off mood on Friday with the three major Wall Street indexes losing more than 1%. The Nasdaq was leading losses with a 2.2% drop.
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Wall Street stocks could be facing a correction because of ructions in the options market, Goldman Sachs specialist Scott Rubner said in a Thursday note seen by Reuters on Friday.
Roughly $2.7 trillion of U.S. stock market derivatives are due to expire on Friday, which if not exercised, will put pressure on stock markets and stoke volatility, the note said.
S&P 500 and European stock markets hit a record highs on Tuesday but have since declined amid Trump’s latest tariff warning on pharmaceuticals, semiconductor chips and wood, which among other threats, has exacerbated fears of a broad trade war and unnerved investors.
Stock buying might be slowing for other reasons, as well. Retail traders in the U.S. are trading less because they’ll have to pay their annual taxes, and average flows from retirement funds into mutual and exchange-traded funds typically taper in March, Rubner said.
About $2.7 trillion of equity options, or derivatives that allow a trader to bet that a stock will reach a certain price, expire Friday, said the Goldman note.
These derivatives include wagers on the S&P 500, as well as U.S. exchange-traded funds and single stocks.
Banks and intermediaries that help put on these bets have over $9 billion of hedges against these trades. These positions have acted as a dampener on volatility, says the Goldman note, “supporting weakness and muting rallies.”
If investors do not return to renew their options bets, then intermediaries also have to unwind their hedges, explains Dan Izzo, founder of the hedge fund BLKBRD Asset Management and a former bank trader.
“That translates as a large momentary pressure. The larger risk is if there’s no one willing to buy that impact, we could see it trigger a larger sell off,” said Izzo.
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Catholics pray for ailing Pope Francis at Sunday Mass
By YAN ZHUANG and CAMILLE ELEMIA
Roman Catholics worldwide prayed on Sunday for Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition, after the Vatican announced that he was “not out of danger.”
Francis, 88, was admitted to a hospital in Rome on Feb. 14 with an infection that developed into pneumonia in both lungs. He had a long “asthmatic respiratory crisis” on Saturday that required “high flows of oxygen” and a blood transfusion, the Vatican said.
Francis has been the spiritual leader of almost 1.4 billion Roman Catholics around the world since 2013. And around the world, there have been prayers for his recovery.
At the Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, Pat Santos, a tourist from the Philippines, described the pope as “the symbol of Christianity.”
The Vatican said Sunday morning that the pope had had a restful night, without providing further details about his condition.
“Pneumonia is a serious illness for his age, that’s why we should be worried,” said Santos, 31, who was visiting South Korea with his family. “May he recover very well so that he can enjoy his retirement.”
Francis has suffered damage to his lungs
in the past, and in recent days, a few cardinals have openly spoken about the possibility of him resigning, as his predecessor, Benedict XVI, did in 2013.
Doctors had said Friday that Francis would remain in the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome for at least another week. They had said he was in critical condition Friday, too, but the announcement Saturday indicated a more complicated situation.
There were prayers for the pope during Sunday services in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia; in the Philippines, where almost 80% of the population is Roman Catholic; and in East Timor, which the pope visited last year and where nearly everyone is Catholic.
“Once more, we continue to keep in our prayers Pope Francis. May the Lord continue to extend to him his love, his mercy and his healing,” Father Vicente Gabriel Bautista said during Sunday Mass at the Manila Cathedral, which also held a special prayer vigil for Francis on Friday.
Aurora Agustin, a candle vendor, said she had been sitting outside the Quiapo Church in Manila, Philippines, and praying since Friday.
“I pray for his speedy recovery because he is our leader and is very well loved,” said Agustin, 54.
Pope Francis arriving for his weekly general audience at the Vatican this month.
Neneth Felix, a church volunteer in Paranaque, south of Manila, said she was praying for Francis to have a longer life.
“When I pray for my family at night, I include Pope Francis in my prayers,” said Felix, 62. “I am touched by his humility — everything about him reflects it.”
Catarina Baros, 16, in Dili, East Timor, said that she had just come from Mass and had lit a candle before a statue of St. Anthony.
“I did not want Papa Francisco to be sick, because he came to visit Timor. As a young girl I was very happy with his presence in Timor last year, because he gave blessings.”
Merz appears poised to be next German chancellor
By JIM TANKERSLEY
The conservative Christian Democrats appeared poised to win Germany’s parliamentary elections Sunday, with the hard-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in second place.
The first wave of exit polls, which are historically highly accurate predictors of Germany’s final vote, showed German voters delivering a rebuke to the nation’s left-leaning government over its handling of the economy and immigration.
The Christian Democrats and their sister party, the Christian Social Union, were leading with a combined 29% of the vote. The AfD had 19.5%, lower than what was predicted, while the governing Social Democrats had 16%, the early exit polls indicated.
That almost certainly means the country’s next chancellor will be Friedrich Merz, a busi-
nessperson who has promised to crack down on migrants and slash taxes and business regulations in a bid to kick-start economic growth.
“We have won it,” Merz told supporters in Berlin after the exit polls were released.
But if those exit polls are correct, Merz will likely not have the option of forming a simple coalition with the second-place finisher. Like other German party leaders he has promised never to partner with the AfD, parts of which are classified as extremist by German intelligence.
The snap election was held earlier than expected, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition splintered last fall. The relatively brief campaign was dominated by two issues: the economy and immigration.
Scholz conceded defeat shortly after the exit polls were released Sunday.
“It is bitter,” he told a crowd of hundreds gathered at his party’s headquarters, congratu-
lating Merz as he vowed that his party would stick together in the days ahead.
The Trump administration became a latearriving issue in the campaign, with candidates warning that the United States is no longer a reliable ally. How Germans voted will now be a critical component of Europe’s response to President Donald Trump’s new world order, and resonate far beyond their borders.
On Sunday, Merz promised swift talks to form a coalition and restore strong German leadership in Europe. “The outside world is not waiting for us,” he told supporters. “And it is also not waiting for lengthy coalition talks and negotiations.”
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— Immigration policy: A series of deadly attacks over the past year committed by immigrants, including asylum-seekers from the Middle East and Afghanistan, have rattled Germans. The AfD has gained support by promis-
ing to deport some immigrants and seal borders, which won the endorsement of Trump adviser Elon Musk and a form of encouragement from Vice President JD Vance. The U.S. meddling in the campaign put off some leftleaning voters Sunday but was welcomed by others supporting the AfD, according to interviews at polling stations.
— Economic crisis: Germany’s economy has not grown in five years and is suffering from an industrial competitiveness crisis. Forecasts show an economy rapidly sliding backward, stunning declines that have emerged as one of the biggest issues in the parliamentary election.
— Elevating the AfD: The AfD, with its anti-immigrant and nationalist platform, has long been a pariah of German politics. A new band of influencers unafraid of confrontation helped push the party to second place in preelection polls.
Six hostages released, then Israel stalls swap
A poster of Shiri Bibas, a hostage held in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Jan. 18, 2025. A body that Hamas turned over to the Red Cross on Friday has been confirmed as that of Bibas, an Israeli mother whose capture with her two young sons during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack became a symbol of the country’s anguish. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)
By ISABEL KERSHNER, AARON BOXERMAN, ADAM RASGON and FATIMA ABDULKARIM
Hamas released six Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, delivering the last living captives set to be freed in the first phase of a fragile ceasefire. That truce was already jolted this past week when the militant group initially returned remains purportedly of an Israeli hostage that testing revealed to be someone else.
Early Sunday, Israel announced that it would continue to delay the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners whom it had pledged to free Saturday, demanding that Hamas first release more captives from Gaza and commit to releasing them without “humiliation ceremonies.” Hamas has been releasing hostages in performative ceremonies aimed at showing that it is still in control of Gaza, which many Israeli officials have condemned.
The announcement, delivered in a statement from the prime minister’s office hours after the prisoner release had already been delayed without explanation, added tension to the shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that is set to expire next week.
On Thursday, Hamas had returned four bodies it said were those of hostages who had died in captivity, among them Shiri Bibas, an Israeli woman who had been abducted with her two young children during the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023, that
began the war. Forensic testing by Israel determined that the body was not Bibas, however.
Late Friday, Hamas transferred another body, which Israeli officials confirmed early Saturday as Bibas. Her kidnapping and death with her children have become a symbol of Israeli grief.
The delivery of the wrong remains set off an uproar in Israel. Additionally, Israeli authorities, rejecting Hamas’ assertions that Bibas’ children were killed in Israeli airstrikes, said that their captors had killed them “with their bare hands.” Neither claim could be independently verified. The episode raised doubts about the next steps of the ceasefire agreement, including whether Saturday’s exchange would proceed as planned.
In return for the release of the six living hostages and the bodies of four dead captives, Israel was expected on Saturday to release 620 Palestinian prisoners, the largest group of detainees to be released since the ceasefire in Gaza began last month. That did not occur.
The hostage transfer from Hamas had initially seemed set to keep the deal between the two sides on track after a turbulent week. Among Israelis, emotions have swung between joy and grief as the families of the hostages being released offered their condolences to the Bibas family and other relatives whose loved ones were killed.
Palestinian families waiting for their relatives to be freed also expressed a welter of conflicting emotions. “These final hours are
the hardest,” said Adeeb Saifi, the father of a Palestinian prisoner who was set to be released. “They bring together all contradictions — hardship and relief, hope and pain, love and hatred.”
But the long-term future of the agreement remains unclear. The six-week truce, which began in late January, is set to expire in early March unless Israel and Hamas agree to an extension. The two sides have yet to reach an agreement on the next stage of the ceasefire, raising fears that the fighting could soon begin anew.
Hamas returned the six hostages Saturday in two highly orchestrated public ceremonies and a third transfer that was not televised. The first two people to be freed, Avera Mengistu and Tal Shoham, were turned over to Red Cross officials in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The Israeli military said the two men had crossed into Israel and would receive medical assessments.
Mengistu, 38, had been the longest-held living Israeli hostage in Gaza. An Israeli of Ethiopian descent, he crossed into Gaza in 2014 and was taken hostage by Hamas, which accused him of being a soldier though he had never served in the military.
Shoham, along with several family members, including his wife and two children, was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri, where more people were killed in the Oct. 7 attack than in any other Israeli community. His wife, son and daughter were freed during a ceasefire in November 2023, and in a statement after his release, his family said that “all emotions are rapidly mixing together.”
Three other hostages were handed over in Nuseirat, in central Gaza, and delivered to the Israeli military: Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert and Eliya Cohen. All were kidnapped while trying to flee a music festival near the border with Gaza and are said to suffer from illnesses that allowed them to be prioritized for release.
During the handover ceremony, the hostages appeared thin and pale. They were dressed in khaki uniforms, though none were in military service when they were taken hostage.
In a video released by the Israeli government, Shem Tov, who was 20 when he was abducted, can be seen reuniting with his parents and telling them, “You have no idea how much I dreamed about you.”
In both ceremonies, masked gunmen escorted hostages onto stages and displayed release certificates — theatrical handovers
that have become typical of Hamas’ hostage releases in this ceasefire, as the militant group aims to demonstrate that it is still in control of Gaza.
The sixth hostage, Hisham al-Sayed, 37, was turned over in Gaza City in a more private transfer. An Israeli citizen from a Bedouin town in the southern Negev desert, al-Sayed crossed into Gaza of his own accord in April 2015 and was taken hostage by Hamas.
Al Jazeera, the Qatari-funded TV channel, broadcast video of a man who appeared to be al-Sayed walking toward a Red Cross vehicle, and the Israeli military later released footage of him being transferred into the hands of Israeli forces in Gaza.
His family said in a statement they were “moved by Hisham’s return home,” adding, “the long-awaited moment has arrived.”
Late Saturday, Hamas published a propaganda video on social media that appeared designed to instill fear for the safety of the hostages still alive in Gaza. The video shows that the militant group brought two additional captives to a transfer ceremony Saturday, where they were forced to watch from a van and beg for their own release.
Rights groups and international law experts say that a hostage video is, by definition, made under duress, and the statements in it are usually coerced. Israeli officials have called past Hamas videos a form of “psychological warfare,” and experts say their production can constitute a war crime.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Hamas committed to freeing at least 25 living Israeli hostages and the remains of eight more in exchange for more than 1,500 Palestinians jailed by Israel.
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza had eagerly awaited the return of their loved ones. Of those who were set to be freed on Saturday, 445 men, 23 minors and one woman were all arrested after the Hamasled October 2023 attack on southern Israel, according to lists distributed by Palestinian officials. In addition, 151 Palestinians who have been imprisoned for years, including some convicted of participating in deadly attacks against Israelis, were scheduled to be released.
Whether the ceasefire extends into a second phase is still uncertain: The two sides were set to start talks over details on the next stage more than two weeks ago, but it is not clear if serious negotiations have started.
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US pressing tough demands in revised deal for Ukraine’s minerals
By CONSTANT MÉHEUT and ANDREW E. KRAMER
Ukraine on Saturday was seriously considering a revised U.S. proposal for its vast natural resources that contains virtually the same provisions that Kyiv previously rejected as too onerous, according to Ukrainian officials and a draft of the deal.
In fact, some of the terms appear even tougher than in a previous draft. The latest proposal comes after a week in which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine resisted signing the earlier version in a public dispute with President Donald Trump.
The proposed agreement would significantly shift onto a mercantile footing the United States’ 3-year alliance with Ukraine in the largest war in Europe since World War II. The conflict to date has largely been seen as a struggle to secure Ukraine and the Continent from an authoritarian threat from Russia.
The Trump administration’s terms could also strip Ukraine of some funds that are now mostly invested in the country’s military and defense industry, and that could help rebuild the country once the war is over.
The terms of the new proposal, which is dated Feb. 21 and was reviewed by The New York Times, call for Ukraine to relinquish to the United States half of its revenue from natural resources, including minerals, gas and oil, as well as earnings from ports and other infrastructure. A similar demand was made in a previous version of the deal, dated Feb. 14 and reviewed by the Times.
Ukraine had been floating the prospect of a partnership with the United States on its valuable natural resources as a way to persuade Trump to provide additional support for the war effort. Zelenskyy had also been seeking security guarantees for Ukraine, a condition that was absent in the first draft agreement presented to him last week, prompting him to decline to sign the deal.
But while the new document calls for a series of commitments from Ukraine, it still does not provide specific security commitments in return from the United States. It says, however, that the United States intends to provide longterm financial support to help Ukraine develop economically.
The new document states that the revenue from Ukraine’s resources would be directed to a fund in which the United States would hold 100% financial interest and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 bil-
A truck carrying partially-refined titanium ore to a factory for further refining at a mine east of Kyiv, June 12, 2024. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
lion — the amount Trump has demanded from the war-torn country in exchange for U.S. aid.
That figure far exceeds the country’s actual revenue from resources, which were $1.1 billion last year, and more than four times the value of U.S. aid committed to Ukraine so far.
The $500 billion sum was not mentioned in the previous version of the deal, though Trump had said publicly that was what he wanted.
It is unclear whether Trump wants the funds in exchange for past U.S. military and financial assistance, or whether it would also apply to future support.
Officials in Ukraine were studying the proposal Saturday and deciding how to respond. Ukraine has not said whether it would agree to the deal under the proposed terms. Ruslan Stefanchuk, speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, told local media Saturday that a government-level group would begin working on the agreement Monday and that Ukraine wanted to receive specific security guarantees in exchange for access to its resources. It was not clear whether he meant that work would come before or after a deal is signed.
Ukraine has tried to resist bending to U.S. demands on natural resources, but has faced intense pressure from Trump, who views access to Ukraine’s vast mineral wealth as necessary repayment for the billions the United States has provided for the war against Russia.
The document suggests the United States may send more aid to Ukraine in the future — but at a high price. It states that Ukraine will be required to contribute to the fund a sum equal to twice the amount the United States might give to Ukraine after the deal is signed.
The revised proposal states that the Unit-
ed States could reinvest a portion of the revenue into Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction, including by investing in the development of the country’s subsoil assets and infrastructure.
The new draft agreement also includes provisions for revenue from territories currently occupied by Russia, in the event they were freed: The share of resource revenue contributed to the fund from liberated areas would be 66%. Russia currently occupies about one-fifth of Ukraine’s territory, including significant portions of the resource-rich Donbas region.
The document reviewed by the Times outlines the establishment of a fund to receive revenue from resource extraction and other sources. It lists as signatories Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s foreign affairs minister.
A second agreement, described as the fund agreement, would be concluded later to work out specific details.
Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, visited Kyiv from Wednesday to Friday and discussed the new proposal with Zelenskyy. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent first met with Zelenskyy recently to discuss the deal, and more recently Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick became involved in the negotiations, according to three people familiar with the discussion.
A senior White House official said in a statement that a number of senior administration officials were “involved in the effort to end this brutal war” at the request of Trump.
A potential deal for Ukraine’s resources has been a major point of dispute in a rapidly deteriorating relationship between Zelenskyy and Trump. Their interactions became acri-
monious in the past week as Trump assailed Zelenskyy in highly personal terms, calling him “an unelected dictator.”
Zelenskyy, in turn, said Trump was living in a “disinformation web” after Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine had started the war against Russia.
Zelenskyy’s initial hesitancy, and comments that were perceived by Trump and Cabinet officials as public criticism of the president, prompted a fierce backlash from the administration. That possibly led to the addition of further demands written into the agreement, according to drafts and people familiar with the discussions of the deal on the Ukrainian side.
Two of the people who had the new proposal described to them said that one of the few changes made by the United States that could satisfy Ukraine was the removal of a clause placing the deal under the jurisdiction of a New York court. The provision had raised concerns on the Ukrainian side because it could weaken Ukraine’s legal standing in case of a dispute.
Whether Ukraine can meet the terms requested by the administration is unclear.
Ukraine is not a major natural resource exporting country, as the most dynamic spheres of its economy have been agriculture, steel and other metal smelting, and outsourced programming work for Silicon Valley companies. Revenue from natural resources comprised 2.5% of budget revenue last year.
Ukrainian officials and energy experts also say that any new fields would likely take years and significant investment to develop. Much exploration remains to be done to assess the true value of the country’s critical minerals, they say, and administrative and legislative obstacles still hinder foreign investment in the sector.
The Trump administration has suggested that the mere presence of U.S. economic interests in Ukraine would be a security guarantee for Kyiv.
Top U.S. Cabinet members have pressed Zelenskyy to sign the deal in recent days.
“President Zelenskyy is going to sign that deal, and you will see that in the very short term,” the U.S. national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said Friday. “And that is good for Ukraine. What better could you have for Ukraine than to be in an economic partnership with the United States?”
Speaking in the Oval Office later Friday, Trump said, “We’re going to either sign a deal, or there’s going to be a lot of problems with them.” The
Headstrong Francis put the church above his health, Vatican observers say
Pope Francis drives past a crowd during a Mass at the Esplanade of Tasitolu in Dili, East Timor, on Sept. 10, 2024. Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially worked himself into the hospital. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times)
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
In the days after the Vatican announced Feb. 6 that Pope Francis had bronchitis and would be restricting his activities to his residence, he proceeded to hold multiple private audiences a day with groups of nuns, pilgrims and leaders of foundations.
On Feb. 9, he presided over an outdoor Mass in St. Peter’s Square, where the wind was so strong that it blew his white zucchetto off his head. He could not finish his homily, passing it to an aide and saying, “I have trouble breathing.”
Three days later, at his weekly Wednesday audience, the ailing pope had an aide read his speech. But then he shook hands with dozens of prelates, many leaning over to whisper greetings, and took photos with Spanish faithful, Milanese military recruits and nuns from Mother Teresa’s order.
Two days after that, Francis was rushed to the hospital, with what doctors said was a complex medical condition that evolved into pneumonia in his lungs.
In an update Saturday night, the Vatican said the pope was in critical condition after having a long “asthmatic respiratory crisis” earlier in the day.
Many who know him said in interviews
that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially worked himself into the hospital.
He is now bedridden after weeks of ceremonies and audiences — both private and public — that only intensified with the start in December of the 2025 Jubilee, a year of faith, penance and forgiveness of sins that takes place only every 25 years.
But the pope’s grueling schedule — which would exhaust anyone, let alone an 88-year-old with a series of health issues — is in keeping with Francis’ personality and with his vision of the papacy, say doctors, biographers and Vatican observers.
“The pope cares a lot about the Church, so it’s clear he put the Church first,” Dr. Luigi Carbone, the pope’s personal physician at the Vatican, told reporters at a briefing at the hospital Friday.
Dr. Sergio Alfieri, another one of the pope’s doctors, added that Francis “doesn’t hold back because he is enormously generous, so he tired himself out.”
Francis became pope late in life — he was 76 — and was determined to make the most of it because he suspected that, relatively speaking, he would not hold the position for long. A year into his papacy, he told reporters that he thought he would be pope for two or three years, then “off to the house of the Father.”
That prediction was clearly wrong. Instead, he established a schedule — waking up before 5 a.m. and at his desk by 6 a.m. to tackle a full day of work — that Nelson Castro, author of the book “The Health of Popes,” called “crazy.” Just last September, Francis took the longest and most complicated trip of his tenure: an 11-day, four-country tour in the Asia-Pacific region.
“For Francis, it’s all or nothing,” said Austen Ivereigh, a Catholic commentator and papal biographer. In Francis’ view, it was “an essential dimension of the papacy” that people had constant access to him, and there was no time to be inaccessible for health reasons.
“His primary concern isn’t to extend his life, his primary concern is to exercise the papal ministry in the way that he believes it must be exercised, which is all in, 100%,” Ivereigh said.
“He has a crazy agenda,” said another biographer, Argentine journalist Elisabetta Piqué. Alongside his official morning schedule, he has a parallel, equally full agenda for the afternoon. “He always says: I’ll have time to
rest in the next world,” she said.
Francis had a deep-seated sense of duty that was instilled in him by the boarding school he attended as a child, run by the Salesian religious congregation, and later by the Jesuit order, which he joined in 1958, said Fabio Marchese Ragona, another biographer.
He said that Francis had told him that he had joined the Jesuits “above all for the discipline,” and that keeping commitments was drilled into him — as was arriving early for appointments.
Carlo Musso, who worked with Francis on “Hope,” an autobiography that was published last month, noted: “The word he used most, the exhortation I remember best, is ‘forward.’ Even when he was looking back, it was so he could move forward.”
People who know Francis say he is resistant to taking a break, even when he should because of sciatica, a bad knee or recurrent bronchial woes. As a young man, he had the upper lobe of his right lung removed, and he has suffered bouts of influenza and bronchitis during the winter months.
“He’s so obstinate; he’s a testardo,” said Castro, using the Italian word for stubborn. And the pope has admitted to being “a very difficult patient,” he added.
The pope once told him that he liked to keep his distance from doctors, Castro said, “meaning that he wants to make the decisions” about what he can and cannot do.
Ivereigh said Francis had admitted that one of his “big faults” was obstinacy. “He’s very strong willed and doesn’t readily listen to suggestions that he cut things back,” he said.
Musso pointed out that a few hours before he was taken to hospital, Francis held audiences with the prime minister of the Slovak Republic, the president of CNN and representatives of a charity that works in Puerto Rico. “He has an enormous capacity for work,” he said.
The pope does not go away for summer vacations, Musso added. That habit, said Piqué, is a source of chagrin for many Vatican employees. His last real vacation was in 1975, Francis himself said in “Hope.”
John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI summered at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, although the former also opted for mountain stays in northern Italy.
Francesco Antonio Grana, a Vatican reporter for the Rome daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, said it did not help that Francis
surrounded himself with “yes-men” who indulged the pope.
“This hospitalization could have been avoided” had someone put the brakes on the pope’s schedule, Grana said.
“I prefer a live pope than a pope who died because he kept one more commitment on his agenda,” he added. “With Donald Trump in the White House, the world needs a live and combative pope.”
The same week that he went into the hospital, Francis wrote an open letter to bishops in the United States criticizing Trump’s policy of mass deportations of immigrants, and he has stood up to Trump on issues such as climate change.
Francis’ workload was not only arduous but also brought him into contact with hundreds of people who could potentially transmit diseases, said Massimo Andreoni, professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. “So perhaps he should be more careful when he has a cold or bronchitis and maybe slow down a little and look after himself a little more,” he added.
There are a few signs that the pope may be ready to slow down.
Francis was visited in the hospital Wednesday by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Reporting on the meeting, the Milan daily newspaper Corriere della Sera wrote that Francis complained to the prime minister: “The doctors said I have to take some time off” and that “I have to be careful with my health, otherwise I go straight to heaven.”
At a news briefing Friday, Francis’ doctors made clear they would keep him at the hospital as long as he needed treatment that he could only receive there, rather than bring him home to his residence in Casa Santa Marta.
“We think it’s prudent,” said Alfieri. “If we brought him to Santa Marta, he’d start working like before — we know this.”
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL
Trump’s actions are a victory for Putin
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
On the face of it, President Donald Trump is right to try to end a destructive war in Ukraine that is now approaching the three-year mark, and to open talks with Russia. This war has to end, and at this stage, it can end expediently only through negotiations.
Yet the way the president is going about this vital task is misguided, counterproductive and unfair to Ukraine.
In quick order, Trump has sent his lieutenants to negotiate with Russia without the participation of either Ukraine or the NATO allies who are most directly threatened by a resurgent Russia; he has cruelly suggested that Ukraine — not Russia — is responsible for the war by not making some unspecified “deal” at the outset; he has demanded access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth as the price of continuing military support; and he has baselessly called Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, a “dictator without elections.”
In effect, Trump and his administration are pivoting U.S. foreign policy 180 degrees, pointing the way to a peace that would run counter to the American and Western mission of securing a sovereign, independent, democratic and prosperous Ukraine. It is a reversal of the past three years — since Russia invaded its neighboring nation, strong majorities of Americans of every party and persuasion have supported Ukraine — but also a repudiation of a nearly eight-decade core belief that the United States was safer in a world where it stood against aggression and authoritarianism and for freedom.
Trump has long displayed an open admiration for the bullies of the world and a particular affinity for Vladimir Putin, and he long ago developed an antipathy for Zelenskyy, who was the reason for Trump’s first impeachment in his first term. But the facts are that Zelenskyy is not a dictator, and Putin is. And that is with whom Trump has now aligned our country.
These actions run counter to America’s ideals, interests and security — and to the values of Trump’s own party.
The volume of misinformation and betrayal here is breathtaking. The very act of discussing an end to the war without the presence of Ukraine or any other ally at the table violates the fundamental principle the United States has proclaimed from the outset of its support for Ukraine: “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” That alone is a huge victory for Putin, who portrays his war as a struggle for spheres of influence among great powers rather than the brutal land grab that it is.
Republican members of Congress must see that. They surely realize how crucial America’s close alliances with Ukraine and Europe have been to promoting stability, maintaining national security, fostering economic growth and containing the spread of anti-democratic forces since
World War II. Most of them have been outspoken supporters of Ukraine since the February 2022 invasion, sometimes assailing the Biden administration for doing too little. They know this is no time to abandon Ukraine, and they know who the villain is in this story.
Secretary of State Mario Rubio, leading the negotiations with Russia, was a full-throated critic of Putin during his time in the Senate, calling the Russian president a “killer.” The Senate majority leader, John Thune of South Dakota, was among 22 Republicans who voted a year ago to send $60 billion in aid to Ukraine against Trump’s wishes; before that, the senator had declared that “the only thing Putin responds to is strength, so the United States must send a strong and unified message that this aggression will not be tolerated.”
Yet today, while some Republicans have voiced dismay over Trump’s actions, there has been no concerted effort to challenge him. “Right now, you have to give him some space,” Thune said at a news conference after a closeddoor Senate lunch with Vice President JD Vance. On Trump calling Zelenskyy a dictator, he said only, “The president speaks for himself.”
No, he does not. He speaks for America and for the Republican Party he leads. When he is wrong, it is the duty of his lieutenants and allies to tell him so.
Trump may be right that NATO allies have long underinvested in defense and could have done more for Ukraine had they not. The Biden administration spent an estimated $185 billion on military support for Ukraine and all but exhausted U.S. military stocks but never really articulated a strategy for ending the war. Trade imbalances do need to be addressed, and illegal migration is a major problem.
In short, there are, and always have been, challenges that the president must address, which, as the leader of the world’s most powerful and richest democracy, he is called upon to manage wisely and humanely, through diplomacy where possible and through judicious application of pressure or even force when necessary.
Trump, by contrast, has taken an unstudied, bullying and petulant approach to foreign policy, allowing consequential decisions to be determined not by the best interests of the nation but by his ego and grudges.
And as Trump has waged a concerted and wellchoreographed assault on the institutions of U.S. government and the long-standing principles of its foreign policy over the past few weeks, Republican lawmakers and many other Americans who profoundly disagree with the president’s approach and worldview have done little but tried to stay out of the line of fire, even sometimes backing away from long-standing positions.
They are consoling themselves by saying that the new president needs time or “some space,” or that his petulant posts are not policy, or that the means are justified by some
President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. Trump’s post describing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine as a “Dictator without Elections” echoes the Kremlin’s messaging. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
aspect of the administration’s blitzkrieg that they agree with. Or they have simply been cowed by Trump’s certain retaliation against any who defy him.
But for the president of the United States to dismiss the appalling sacrifices of the Ukrainians as their own fault, to belittle Ukraine’s president, to make deals without Ukrainian or NATO involvement, and to indulge in his admiration of the tyrant in the Kremlin goes far beyond any behavior that Americans should tolerate.
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Fernando Ojeda y Bárbara Quiles dominan la Quinta Edición el 10k Llanero en La Ruta
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TOA BAJA – Fernando Ojeda dominó el domingo la quinta edición de la carrera 10K-5k Llanero, que recorre la denominada Ruta del Encanto en Toa Baja.
Ojeda cruzó la meta al frente de una matrícula de 2,300 corredores en tiempo de 31:37. Mientras, Bárbara Quiles ganó en la rama femenina con un registro de 37:49. Esta edición de la ca-
rrera, que tuvo su disparo de salida a las 6:30 de la mañana, también contó con un 5k y discurrió por la carretera PR-165 hasta la entrada de Palo Seco antes de regresar al Balneario Punta Salinas.
El evento fue dedicado al fondista dominicano radicado en Puerto Rico, Álvaro Abreu, ganador de la reciente primera edición del Toa Baja Maratón y de la pasada edición del 10k Llanero.
Los resultados de la carrera están disponibles en la página web www.10kllaneropr.com
Del Encanto
Policías adscritos al cuartel del Capitolio reciben nuevos uniformes
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SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes, Carlos ‘Johnny’ Méndez, junto al presidente de la Comisión de Seguridad Pública, Félix Pacheco, rindieron homenaje a los hombres y mujeres, miembros
del Negociado de la Policía, que están destacados en el Cuartel de El Capitolio.
Como parte del reconocimiento, el líder cameral junto a Pacheco hicieron entrega de nuevos uniformes a los 27 agentes adscritos al cuartel de El Capitolio, el cual se ubica en el primer piso del histórico edificio de la Antigua Escuela Medicina Tropical, dentro de los predios del Distrito Capitolino.
“Gracias, gracias por la labor que realizan. Ustedes son la primera línea de acción cuando sucede cualquier incidente en el Capitolio. Siempre están ahí para proteger la vida y propiedad de todos los que trabajan y visitan el Capitolio. Esta Cámara de Representantes tiene un compromiso con ustedes, con los hombres y mujeres de la Policía de Puerto Rico. Las puertas de la Comision de Seguridad Pública están siempre abiertas para atenderlos en cualquier situación”, comentó el Presidente de la Cámara en la sencilla, pero emotiva actividad celebrada en el Teatro Protocolar.
En el Capitolio laboran alrededor de unos 3,100 em-
pleados, entre la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado, al igual que las dependencias del Distrito Capitolino.
“Como dijo nuestro Presidente, las puertas de la Comisión de Seguridad Pública están abiertas. Soy policia, asi que conozco de primera mano las necesidades de ustedes, y les digo que estamos aquí para apoyarlos en todo lo que necesiten”, expresó Pacheco, quien también representa el Distrito #9 de Toa Alta y Bayamón.
Entre los homenajeados se encontraban el teniente Pablo Rosado, el sargento Jorge Rivera, los agentes Juan Serrano, Rigoberto Feliciano, Félix Miranda, Alfonso Márquez, María Del Carmen Ares, Fernando Ojeda, Omar Ortiz, Angel Navedo, Ezequiel Ríos, Elizabeth Ortiz y Angel Valentín.
También se reconoció la gesta de los inspectores Angel Rivera y Francisco Santiago, así como los agentes Leónides Rodríguez, Daniel Ortiz, Javier Figueroa, Ana Laboy, Andrew Ortiz, Melvin Rosa, Rafael Suárez, Carlos Nieves, Roberto Cruz, Enrique Bones, Frederick Claudio y Alwing Cabchani.
Cinco personas detenidas por estatus migratorio durante intervención en negocio en Río Piedras
SAN JUAN – Cinco personas con estatus migratorio no definido fueron detenidas en la mañana del pasado viernes durante la ejecución de una orden de allanamiento en las facilidades de Music Wave en Río Piedras. “En estos momentos todavía. Estamos auscultando, las personas que estamos interviniendo esta mañana, estamos entrevistando, estamos verificando estatus migratorio de las personas que trabajan en la compañía, y en estos momentos hay unas personas detenidas, pero no están arrestadas. Están detenidas en lo que confirmamos su estatus migratorio”, dijo la agente especial a cargo de la agencia federal de Seguridad Nacional (HSI), Rebecca González Ramos a preguntas de la prensa.
“En este momento tengo una persona detenida en lo que confirma su estatus migratorio. Y es de la empresa, porque ahorita tuvimos cuatro que no eran relacionados, ahora sí este uno es de la empresa. Esta persona es de la empresa, sí”, dijo.
El allanamiento se realizó por sospechas de explotación laboral a personas de estatus migratorio no definido.
“Desde que empezamos, después de la orden ejecutiva, se han arrestado 105 personas. De esas 105, 25 de ellos han sido procesados criminalmente por reingreso. Ha habido personas que han sido procesadas por reingreso, han habido personas que han sido procesadas por estar importando cocaína a los Estados Unidos, han habido personas que han sido procesadas por estar en posesión de armas de fuego”, expresó más temprano.
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Isabella Rossellini: Model, actress, ethologist, Oscar nominee
of domestication. She hopes that subject will be a follow-up to her hit “Green Porno” series, in which she dressed up as various animals to describe their mating rituals (scientifically accurate but also totally wild, and hilarious).
Stanley Tucci, a co-star in “Conclave” and a close friend since they met on his beloved 1996 restaurant comedy, “Big Night,” said he was amazed from the start by the “brilliantly funny” Rossellini.
(One of his daughters is named after her.)
“Hers is a complex and curious mind,” he wrote in an email.
With a lifetime as a second-generation celebrity, and a long stint as the face of cosmetics giant Lancôme, “she’s just very, very self-aware,” said John Lithgow, another friend and frequent co-star, including in “Conclave.”
Her impact has not diminished. “Everybody is kind of stunned when they meet Isabella Rossellini,” Lithgow said. “I’ve seen it over and over.” But, he continued, “she just is so disarming.”
He added: “She turns everybody into old friends, the instant they meet her. It’s a kind of magic act she does.”
le, floating on the fridge. Lynch, her partner from “Blue Velvet” (1986) to “Wild at Heart” (1990), designed the blue-andwhite dishware stacked neatly in the kitchen. (Lynch died in January. She helped present him with an honorary Oscar in 2019.)
In “A Season With Isabella Rossellini,” a documentary streaming on the Criterion Channel, and in her memoir, she also spills good-naturedly about Scorsese.
When she started modeling, in the early ’80s, he was very jealous. “He kept saying, ‘This is my wife, how can you be a sex symbol?’’” she recalls, laughing, in the documentary. His producer offered her money to stop appearing on magazine covers. It wouldn’t have been much: She wrote in the book that she was paid $150 for her first Vogue covers (less than $500 in today’s dollars). But she didn’t mind the sum because the exposure brought her the lucrative contract for Lancôme, for whom she was a global spokesmodel for about 15 years.
By MELENA RYZIK
“Her name is Georgia
O’Keeffe,” Isabella Rossellini said, as she dove her hands into the outrageously fluffy and dense coat of a Lincoln Longwool sheep, a rare English breed. Next up, weaving around the patio furniture, was Toto, a fleecy Finn. “Toto always wags his tail,” she said, giving him a pat. Animals in Rossellini’s heritage flock had eagerly come trotting over as soon as they spotted her: The matriarch and founder of Mama Farm was home.
Besides being a caretaker and trove of animal facts, Rossellini is also, at 72, a first-time Oscar nominee, as a supporting actress, for her small but pivotal role in “Conclave.” As Sister Agnes, an alert Mother Superior who holds her tongue until her morals lead her otherwise, Rossellini has some of the best lines in the movie. The Vatican-set dramatic thriller, about choosing a new pope, is also up for seven other awards, including best picture.
For Rossellini, who imagined that notable acting jobs were in her rearview, it was an unexpected, and overwhelming, recognition. She is now in the record books, as one of the few mother-daughter pairs to be nominated: Her mother, Ingrid Bergman, was up for seven Oscars and won three, starting in 1944. If Rossellini goes home with the prize, it would make them the first winning mother-daughter twosome in history. Rossellini’s father, neorealist filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, also landed one nomination, in 1950.
Red carpets, she said, are much more intense since she made the rounds with Martin Scorsese, her first husband, circa “Raging Bull,” or attended the Oscars with her former partner David Lynch, who directed her career-making performance in “Blue Velvet.” These days, she doesn’t mind begging off some events so she won’t miss her ornithology classes.
“I have a wonderful life here,” she said, and lit up telling me about Mama Farm’s plans to make rugs (patchwork wool, “so with your feet, you can learn about different heritage breeds!”) and the science
Edward Berger, director of “Conclave,” said he needed someone formidable to play Sister Agnes, whose quietude encompasses power and the weight of truth, and offered the part to Rossellini. “She brings such history and such natural authority with her,” he said.
“The movie is very much also about the crack of femininity in a very patriarchal world, and Isabella represents that,” he added. “When you stand next to her, it’s almost like you’re in a beam of light.”
“Conclave” was filmed at Cinecittà, a storied Italian studio, where Rossellini spent time as a child, knocking around Federico Fellini’s sets and watching him coach his cast of nonactors. “I remember Fellini showing them what to do,” Rossellini said of the filmmaker, a close friend of her father’s. Instead of having the amateurs try any dialogue, “they made them count, and then they dubbed them.”
Rossellini’s illustrious cinematic history is always within reach. Mama Farm is filled with mementos of her family, including a bedroom decorated with the banged-up helmets her father wore when he raced Ferraris, and a “Casablanca” magnet, with her mother’s famous profi-
After Lancôme rejected her when she was in her 40s, for being too old, and movie work seemed scarce, she reinvented her focus, toward farm life and education. She earned a master’s degree from Hunter College in 2019, in animal behavior and conservation. Her thesis was her one-woman and one-dog performance piece, “Link Link Circus,” about communication among other species.
What Rossellini didn’t anticipate, in this busy chapter, is a career revival. Lancôme rehired her, as a brand ambassador, when she was in her 60s. Acting jobs materialized: She is currently filming a Ryan Murphy series, in which her foulmouthed character is the opposite of a nun. Murphy gushed to her about how memorable she was in “Death Becomes Her,” a 1992 black comedy (now a Broadway musical). “She’s like, ‘I’m just starting to realize that people thought I was good! I never knew!’” he recalled.
Acting, Rossellini has said, still feeds her brain. And that’s what propels her. Lately she has been thinking about earning her Ph.D. “I went back to school at 55,” she said. “I thought I was too late, and it wasn’t too late. It’s useless to say, ‘Now it’s too late.’ Well, you know, you live until you die.”
Isabella Rossellini in New York on Feb. 7, 2025. A scene-stealing role in “Conclave” brought her unexpected acclaim, and tears, at age 72. But she has built more than a life onscreen. (Thea Traff/The New York Times)
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Overbooked flight? What you can do if an airline bumps you.
By CHRISTINE CHUNG
By checking in early and getting to the gate with plenty of time, you’ve done everything right. But then the airline throws a curveball, announcing an overbooked flight. Instead of boarding passengers, gate agents ask for volunteers to give up their seats. Then they stop asking and start bumping passengers off the flight. And they may call your name.
This situation, which can be deeply inconvenient, is entirely legal. Airlines are allowed to oversell flights, a practice relied on to account for no-shows and to maximize revenue. Another reason they bump passengers? To swap aircraft for a smaller one with fewer seats because of factors such as weight restrictions or maintenance issues.
The good news from this bad situation? Passengers can generally expect to get compensated when they’re bumped, either voluntarily or involuntarily — and in amounts that could be quite attractive.
First, know what you are entitled to.
In an airline’s contract of carriage, the document usually found online outlining what an airline expects from and owes passengers, carriers say they will rebook bumped passengers — whether voluntarily or involuntarily — on later flights. The rebooked flight may be on another carrier, and there are no requirements as to when the second flight must depart. In its contract of carriage, Delta Air Lines, for instance, says the passenger will be placed “on its next flight on which space is available.”
The Transportation Department does mandate compensation for this inconvenience, but it is up to airlines to decide how much to offer and in what form. Cash, flight credits or vouchers are most frequently offered.
Generally, passengers will not be bumped after they have boarded the plane. (There are some exceptions, the DOT said, such as onboard unruly behavior.)
Volunteers should negotiate the compensation — the payouts may not be the same for all travelers.
There is no limit to the amount of compensation that can be offered to volunteers, and gate agents will often raise amounts to entice passengers, who can then negotiate for more. Sometimes compensation can rise to the thousands of dollars, according
When
to passenger reports, and exceed the original ticket fare.
Agents will ask for volunteers over the airport intercom, or passengers will see an offer on the airline’s app, or through the app’s text messages.
Airlines typically like a private approach where some passengers may accept lower offers than they might in a public negotiation, said Robert Mann, an aviation analyst and a former American Airlines executive. Less frequent customers tend to be contacted first, he added.
Airlines are not required to grant all volunteers the same compensation, said Katy Nastro, an expert at the Going travel app.
Compensation needs to be given at the airport or sent within 24 hours, according to the Transportation Department: Checks may be sent via the mail, or a flight voucher may be deposited in a passenger’s airline account.
Compensation may be more than money or flight vouchers.
In particularly desperate scenarios, Nastro added, airlines may be willing to negotiate further perks beyond a flight, which may include business class seats, a direct route, food, accommodation and lounge access.
“There is no limit, per DOT regulation, for voluntary amounts,” she said. “The sky is the limit there.”
Not enough volunteers? The carrier will then involuntarily bump passengers.
The first passengers to get bumped tend to be those who were the last to check in, said Sally French, a travel expert for the personal finance company NerdWallet.
In their contracts of carriages, airlines provide more details about their approach to denied boarding. Carriers usually give the following passengers priority on flights with overbooked seats: unaccompanied minors, those with elite frequent flyer status or flying in premium cabins, and passengers who require special assistance.
There are minimum compensation amounts for involuntarily bumping.
In most cases, involuntarily bumped passengers will receive compensation. This can be a check if that’s your preference, per DOT rules.
For flights within the United States or departing from the United States out of the country, the amount passengers receive, according to the DOT, depends on factors including the ticket price, the length of their delay, and whether their flights were domestic or international.
The DOT lays out the minimum owed amounts on its website, although airlines may pay more. In one example, if a rebooked traveler on a domestic flight arrives between one and two hours after they
should have on their original itinerary, the airline must pay 200% of the passenger’s one-way fare, or $775, whichever is lower.
If a bumped traveler on a rebooked domestic flight arrives at their destination more than two hours later than they would have on their original itinerary, airlines could pay as much as 400% of the passenger’s one-way fare, or $1,550, whichever is lowest.
Situations may arise when no compensation will be offered.
Passengers who are involuntarily denied boarding should not expect compensation if they missed the flight’s check-in deadline or if, on their replacement flight after being bumped, they arrive within an hour of their original scheduled time.
Additionally, passengers who are bumped because the carrier changed the flight to a smaller aircraft should not expect compensation.
If passengers were denied boarding because of weight and safety constraints that arose on a plane with between 30 and 60 seats, according to the DOT, they will not receive compensation.
Charter flights and flights on planes with fewer than 30 seats are also exempt from the DOT’s compensation rules. You should receive compensation if you are involuntarily bumped while flying to, within or out of the European Union on certain carriers.
According to European Union regulations, passengers rights and compensation for voluntary bumping work similarly to those in the United States.
The compensation for involuntary bumping depend on distance: Passengers should receive 250 euros (around $258) for flights up to 1,500 kilometers (932 miles); 400 euros for flights between 1,500 kilometers and 3,500 kilometers, and for flights of more than 1,500 kilometers within Europe; and 600 euros for flights more than 3,500 kilometers.
Know how to protect yourself from being involuntarily bumped.
Experts emphasize that checking in early online, or through the carrier’s app, could help you avoid a denied boarding. They also suggest attaching frequent flyer information, if you have it, to your booking.
Finally, it never hurts to get to the airport early.
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airlines sell more tickets than available seats, passengers can get kicked off their flights — whether they want to or not. (Weston Wei/The New York Times)
A 10-minute Pilates routine you can do at home
By EMMA YASINSKI
Pilates is a popular and effective way to improve flexibility and strengthen your core. But it’s a commitment and expensive, especially if you have never tried the workouts. However, you can get a sense of what it feels like at home with nothing more than a mat.
Pilates exercises can ease low back pain, improve posture and strength, lower blood pressure and reduce arthritis pain. But it isn’t considered a cardiovascular workout and is best combined with other workouts such as weightlifting, running or walking, said Benjamin Gordon, a professor of applied physiology and kinesiology at the University of Florida.
Most experts agree that it’s best to start with a certified instructor who can ensure you’re doing the moves correctly and won’t get hurt.
“For beginners, it’s especially important to understand the movements are all about control, versus using momentum,” said Ashley Goodwin, an exercise scientist at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research.
But if you are curious about the basics, it is possible to try Pilates out at home without any equipment. Focus on form, not speed.
Overview
Time: 10 minutes
Intensity: Low
Rounds: Do two rounds all the way
Pilates is a popular and effective way to improve flexibility and strengthen your core. If you don’t have all the equipment, there are a few simple moves you can do to a simple workout. (Theodore Tae/The New York Times)
through with a 30-second rest between. What you’ll need: No gear necessary Adjust for you: Change the number of rounds to fit your ability.
The one-leg circle Targets: Obliques and hips
Repetitions: One minute on each side
This is one of the safer moves you can do at home, according to Allison MacKenzie, an exercise science in-
structor at the University of Connecticut. Start by lying on your back with your arms at your sides, knees bent and feet on the floor. As you exhale, lift one knee toward you so that your shin is parallel to the floor. Keeping your knee bent, start slowly making small circles. If your hip bones feel uncomfortable, make the circles smaller.
Modify it: Increase the challenge by making slightly larger circles or by straightening the lifted leg toward the ceiling. Over time, you can also try straightening the other leg so
it’s flat on the floor.
The Pilates 100
Targets: Deep abdominal muscles, arms and legs
Repetitions: Repeat with each leg 10 times, until you reach 100 pulses
This is a classic Pilates movement, but stop if you feel back or neck pain. Start by lying on your back with your arms at your sides, knees bent and feet on the floor. As you exhale, lift one leg, either with the knee bent or straight. Then pulse your arms up and down a few inches. Inhale for five pulses and exhale for five pulses. Switch legs.
Modify it: If that doesn’t feel doable, simply leave both feet on the floor. Or, make it more challenging by lifting both legs together and holding them there for all 100 arm pulses. Or lift your head and shoulders off the mat and straighten your legs.
The swimming exercise
Targets: Shoulders, glutes, core and lower back
Repetitions: Three sets, 10 on each side
Start on your hands and knees. Your hands should be under your shoulders and your knees under your hips, with your back flat and your core engaged. As you exhale, stretch one arm forward and parallel with the floor, keeping your core stable. Inhale as you place your hand back under your shoulder. Next, exhale as you extend one leg out behind you, parallel to the floor, and inhale as you return your knee to the ground.
Modify it: Make it more challenging by lifting both your arm and your opposite leg at the same time, similar to a bird dog.
Pilates is a popular and effective way to improve flexibility and strengthen your core. If you don’t have all the equipment, there are a few simple moves you can do to a simple workout. (Theodore Tae/The New York Times)
The cat Stretch Targets: Spine mobility Repetitions: 20 repetitions
For this stretch, often used in both Pilates and yoga, start on all fours with your hands under your shoulders and knees under your hips. Slowly tuck your chin toward your chest and inhale as you round your upper back. Untuck your chin and exhale as you look forward while letting your spine ease down toward the floor.
Will that asteroid strike Earth? Risk level rises to highest ever recorded.
By ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS
Astronomers said last week that the asteroid designated 2024 YR4 had become the most likely sizable space rock ever forecast to impact planet Earth. The object, first detected in December, is 130 to 300 feet long and expected to make a very close pass of the planet in 2032. Its odds of impacting Earth on Dec. 22 of that year currently stand at 3.1%.
That exceeds the threat once posed by Apophis, a much larger asteroid that was discovered in 2004. Astronomers initially calculated its chances of hitting Earth in 2029 at 2.7%. Further observations of Apophis reduced the odds of an impact at any time during the next century to zero. But the prospect was, for a time, unsettling.
While 2024 YR4 is far smaller than Apophis, a diminutive asteroid is still capable of causing tremendous devastation. Much depends on where it would enter Earth’s atmosphere.
Although 2024 YR4 would not come close to decimating a country, it could scar or demolish a city with a direct hit. And there is a very slim chance that it might. Much of the object’s estimated track passes over empty ocean, but some possible impact locations are close to large cities like Bogotá, Colombia; Lagos, Nigeria; and Mumbai, India.
The kinetic energy of an asteroid is a proxy for how destructive its impact would be. And as asteroids mostly move at the same speed — about 38,000 mph — the key variable is its mass.
With just a handful of observations to rely on, astronomers only have a range of estimates for the mass of 2024 YR4. “We don’t know how dense or porous it is, so its mass, and therefore the energy it would release if it strikes Earth’s surface or explodes in the atmosphere, is uncertain,” said Mark Boslough, a physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In all cases, though, “the bigger it is, the worse it is,” said Gareth Collins, an asteroid impact expert at Imperial College London. And small increases in size translate to giant leaps in destructive potential. The rule of thumb is that if an asteroid’s radius doubles, it has eight times more kinetic energy; a 300-foot asteroid will do far more damage than a 130-foot
In an image provided by NASA, Circled in green, Asteroid 2024 YR4’s impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1 percent to a 2.3 percent chance on Dec. 22, 2032. Such shifting ‘odds’ are typical when it comes to calculating the trajectories of newly discovered near-Earth asteroids. (NASA Atmospheric Laboratory of Applications and Science via The New York Times)
one.
The composition is also important. An asteroid made mostly of iron, for instance, would plunge deeper into the atmosphere and deliver a more injurious punch to the planet. But 2024 YR4 is statistically likelier to be a stony asteroid, which is more prone to fragment into smaller pieces as it is heated during its atmospheric descent.
But even a midair immolation of an asteroid — an airburst — can be extremely fierce.
If 2024 YR4 is stony and on the smaller end of estimates — 130 feet — the odds of an airburst are high, said Kathryn Kumamoto, the head of the planetary defense program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
“The main comparison point we have for a stony asteroid impact of this magnitude is Tunguska,” Kumamoto said. The Tunguska event of 1908 involved an asteroid similar in size to 2024 YR4 exploding above a sparsely populated part of Siberia. It generated a blast wave of roughly 12 megatons, not unlike that of a nuclear weapon, that de-
stroyed a forest more than twice the size of New York City.
A 130-foot rock exploding above the open ocean, or even nearer shore, would not be particularly concerning, as it “would be unlikely to cause a significant tsunami,” said Lorien Wheeler, an expert at the Asteroid Threat Assessment Project at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.
An airburst above a city would be more unpleasant. Windows would explode inward, producing shotgun sprays of glass, and the damage to buildings would be widespread. Some injuries could be life-threatening.
The angle at which the asteroid enters the atmosphere makes a difference. If it comes in straight down, it may come
closer to the ground before exploding and potentially inflict more destruction. Entry at a more gradual angle may result in an explosion at a much higher altitude.
If 2024 YR4 turns out to be 300-feet long, its impact “could cause more severe damage,” said Michael Aftosmis, an expert at the Asteroid Threat Assessment Project.
Such an asteroid “is more likely to make it through the atmosphere, particularly if we are unlucky and the entry angle is steep,” Kumamoto said. “A portion could make it to Earth’s surface relatively intact.”
An impact in the remote ocean far from land would pose much less risk, said Kumamoto — tall waves that would quickly shrink before reaching land. A splashdown next to a coastline, however, could cause a tsunami capable of inundating nearby land.
Should this larger version of 2024 YR4 hit solid ground, it could carve out a crater perhaps two-thirds of a mile across.
“The asteroid would create an enormous explosion,” Boslough said. And the blast wave would be astonishingly powerful. Multistory buildings around the crater would buckle and crumple, bridges would fold over, and cars, trees and people would be thrown in all directions. Boslough also noted the potential for a “hot jet of asteroid vapor that would descend to the surface and incinerate everything.”
People close to ground zero would very likely die, he said. And people tens of miles away would still be hit by a thundering, expanding blast wave. “People within the local region would be at risk of serious injury,” Kumamoto said.
Experts said that it’s still unlikely that 2024 YR4 will affect Earth in 2032. But this range of impact outcomes is precisely why planetary defenders are taking this asteroid deadly seriously.
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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 desconocidas 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.
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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 ignora-
das 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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Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL
LUIS MEDINA FONTANEZ, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO ÁNGEL L. MEDINA
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DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV01849. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 18 DE MARZO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 3100 del Bloque C de la Urbanización Levittown, radicada en el Barrio Sabana Seca del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 349.27 metros cuadrados. En linderos: por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número 3,101; por el SUR, en 19.50 metros y arco de 2.75 metros, con la calle Centurión, calle número 409 según plano; por el ESTE, en 11.80 metros, y un arco de 2.75 metros, con Paseo Ciprés, según plano calle número 403; y por el OESTE, en 15.30 metros con paseo público. Enclava una casa de cemento y bloques para una familia. Consta inscrita al folio 95 de tomo 31 de Toa Baja, finca número 5,740, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Bayamón. Propiedad localizada en: 3100 Calle Paseo Cipres, Urb. Levittown, Toa Baja PR 00949. La propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas preferentes a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Según figura en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por cargas posteriores a la inscripción del cré-
dito ejecutante que se describe a continuación: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma de $267,000.00 con intereses al 5.560% anual y vencimiento 1 de octubre de 2083. Constituida por la escritura 55 otorgada en San Juan el 18 de febrero de 2010 ante el notario Jorge Laborde Corretjer. Inscrita el 30 de agosto de 2010, al folio 202 del tomo 690 de Toa Baja, finca 5740, inscripción 12ª. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $267,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, EL 25 DE MARZO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $178,000.00 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $133,500.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón el 1RO DE ABRIL DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $116,161.82 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $152,700.19 en intereses acumulados al 13 de septiembre de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.560% anual hasta su total y completo pago; y otros gastos acumulados. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados al 13 de septiembre de 2024 es de $302,766.17 y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y
que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora hasta su pago total; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca., todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2025. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE RÍO GRANDE EN FAJARDO WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1
Demandante Vs. ROBERTO DIAZ DEL VALLE; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: RG2023CV00535. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por
separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 5 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Solar: 9 Y 16. BARRIO GUZMÁN ARRIBA de Río Grande. Cabida: 39,241.191 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, en dos alineaciones que suman 297.362 metros con terrenos de Luis Casas. Sur, en 216.149 metros con la parcela número 8 segregada. Este, en 84.547 metros con la parcela 15 del mismo plano y en 19.50 metros con la calle A, a construirse, la cual a su vez colinda con la parcela número 15 del mismo plano. Oeste, en 77.046 con el Rio Espíritu Santo y 196.647 metros con terrenos de la Reserva Forestal del Gobierno de Estados Unidos de América.” Inscrita al folio 206 del tomo 178 de Rio Grande, finca 8746, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al tomo digital Karibe, finca 8746 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III, inscripción 8a. Propiedad localizada en: SOLAR 9-16 PR 186 KM 16.9 INT., BO. GUZMAN ARRIBA, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: Westernbank Puerto Rico. Suma de la Carga: $30,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: A la Presentación. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $259,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 7 de octubre de 2090. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $259,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura
de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 12 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $173,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $129,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $113,231.60 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $95,241.33 en intereses acumulados al 8 de mayo de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; $26,988.04 de seguro hipotecario (MIP); $426.92 de contribuciones; $946.08 de seguro; $875.00 de tasaciones; $662.00 de inspecciones; $4,865.00 de adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $25,950.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo me-
incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. 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 cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de enero de 2025. JOSÉ M. CRESPO NAZARIO, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CABO ROJO.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
LLACG COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND
Demandante V. SUCESION RAMON HANCE CORREA Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03289. (Civil: 409). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION RAMON HANCE CORREA T/C/C
RAMON HANCE; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION CARMEN MARIA LOZADA GEIGEL
T/C/C CARMEN M. LOZADA GEIGEL T/C/C CARMEN LOZADA GEIGEL T/C/A CARMEN MARIA LOZADA T/C/C
CARMEN M. LOZADA
T/C/C CARMEN LOZADA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de 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 14 de febrero de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 14 de febrero de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE SAN JUAN CARLOS MANUEL ALVAREZ DE LA CRUZ
Demandante Vs. MARIA LUISA DE JESUS
Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2025RF00166.
Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARIA LUISA DE JESUS - 200 E COTTAGE PL, YORK, PA 17403-3240, o sea la parte demandada arriba mencionada.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal, por la parte demandante, una acción sobre divorcio.Es el abogado de la parte demandante:
LCDO. FELIPE BRAVO GARCIA
RUA #8483
P.O. BOX 21090
SAN JUAN, P. R. 00928
TEL./FAX: (787) 764-2275
Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez, y que sino contesta la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días de haberse publicado el original de esa contestación ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior, Sala de San Juan, con copia a la parte demandante, se podrá dictar Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 7 de febrero de 2025. GRISELDA
RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE-
CRETARIA REGIONAL. DALIA RODRÍGUEZ ESTRADA, SE-
CRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR JUNARYS
RAMOS MIRANDA
Parte Demandante Vs. MULTINATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY; ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ CRUZ Y FULANA DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; DUEÑO X Y FULANA DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ASEGURADORAS 1-10; CORPORACIONES
1-10; DEMANDADOS
DESCONOCIDOS 1-10
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV02135. Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: ARMANDO RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SLG.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado una Demanda de Daños y Perjuicios en su contra donde se solicita el pago por concepto de daños. Por el presente Edicto, se les emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de un término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del mismo y presente el original de dicha contestación 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 se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma dentro del mismo término al Lcdo. Luis Domínguez Fuertes a la siguiente dirección: PO BOX 364566, SAN JUAN, PR 00936-4566, Tel. 787-2960000, ldominguezfuertes@ gmail.com, abogado de la parte demandante. Por la presente se les apercibe que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 07 de febrero de 2025.
LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA
IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JOSSIE D. BOBE RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. NOEL M.
CAMACHO RAMOS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2024CV00751. (Salón: 102 CIVIL - CRIMINAL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA - LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL.
COM.
A: NOEL M. CAMACHO RAMOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de 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 14 de febrero de 2025. En Camuy, Puerto Rico, el 14 de febrero de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JOHANNA GONZÁLEZ VILELLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO
Demandante V. MARILUZ MORALES IRIZARRY
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2024CV00867. (Salón: 306). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
MARILUZ MORALES IRIZARRYJGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM. A: MARILUZ MORALES IRIZARRY. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando
usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de febrero de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE NOTIFICA NUEVAMENTE SEGÚN ORDEN DEL 5 DE FEBRERO DE 2025. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 14 de febrero de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. WANDA I. BRACERO CINTRÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
Demandante Vs. DAVID VÁZQUEZ
CUMBA, SU ESPOSA YARITZA ALVARADO CANALES T/C/C JARITZA ALVARADO CANALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2024CV04127. 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: DAVID VÁZQUEZ
CUMBA, SU ESPOSA YARITZA ALVARADO CANALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS - EXT. JARDINES DE PALMAREJO, S-14, CANOVANAS PR 00729 Y CALLE 16 PARCELA 343, BARRIO SAN ISIDRO, CANOVANAS PR 00729 Y PMB 227 PO BOX 3000, CANOVANAS PR 00729. 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 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 NUM.: 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 12 de febrero de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE
ASSOCIATION T/C/C
FANNIE MAE
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO T/C/C
IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO; SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS ANA GLORIA RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, ÁNGEL ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, EDNAN RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, FÉLIX LUIS RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, ISMAEL RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, WILLIAM RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, ANABEL RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C ANABEL RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, DIANE RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C DIANE RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, JOSÉ IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C JOSÉ IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, MARÍA ELIZABETH RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C MARÍA ELIZABETH RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, NOEL ALBERTO RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C NOEL ALBERTO RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, YOLANDE RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C YOLANDE RODRÍGUEZ ROSE T/C/C YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C YOLANDE RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, BENJAMÍN MARRERO PERDOMO, CARMEN IVETTE MARRERO PERDOMO, JOSÉ ENRIQUE MARRERO PERDOMO, MARÍA ESTHER MARRERO PERDOMO, MYRIAM MARRERO PERDOMO, TERESA MARRERO PERDOMO; SUCESION DE AWILDA SOCORRO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV05169. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia
Ponce Calero, y por OESTE con Luz E. Barreto Calero. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes. Catastro Núm. 007-075-527-23-000. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. DAVID VILLANUEVA MATIAS, PO BOX 43, AGUADILLA, PR, 00605; Tel. 787882-0404. Se le informa, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para 13 de junio de 2025, a las 9:00 de la mañana, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 24 de enero de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO LA COMERIEÑA
Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AI2025CV00065. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO DE EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. Quedan ustedes emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal la parte demandante ha radicado Ia acción de epígrafe alegando, en síntesis, que un Pagaré suscrito a favor de la COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO LA COMERIEÑA, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $55,000.00, bajo Affidávit #8,30, con intereses al 7.5455% anual y vencedero el día 1ro. de mayo de 2021, el cual fue garantizado con hipoteca según consta de la escri-
tura #33, otorgada en Comerío, Puerto Rico el 28 de abril de 1996, ante el Notarios Santos Manuel Rivera Estrella sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Quebradillas de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,339.8838 metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cuaI se segrega y una servidumbre de paso que le sirve de acceso; por el SUR, con José Ortiz; por el ESTE y el Oeste, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Enclava una casa construida en cemento que mide aproximadamente 52 pies de ancho por 50 pies de largo, consta de 3 habitaciones, cocina, comedor, sala, ante-sala, balcón y garaje. Inscrita al Folio 105 del Tomo 225 de Barranquitas, Finca #13,898, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Barranquitas. fue totalmente satisfecho, que el mismo se ha extraviado y que ustedes podrían resultar ser tenedores del mismo, por lo que se les advierte que si no radican su contestación a la demanda dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto a:
LCDO. ORLANDO MALDONADO RIVERA
COND. TORRELINDA
85 CALLE MAYAGÜEZ, APT. 504 SAN JUAN, P.R. 00917
TELEFONO: (787) 450-0077
E-mail: lic.omaldonado@gmail.com se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado por la parte demandante, sin más citarles ni oírles. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal hoy día 13 de febrero de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN J. APONTE MERCADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
OLGA JIMÉNEZ LARUY T/C/C OLGA JIMÉNEZ LAURI
Demandante Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORP (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC); DORAL BANK; JOHN DOE; JANE DOE
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV00257. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.
EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, S.S. A: DORAL BANK,
JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, COMO POSIBLE TENEDORES Y/O
CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS.
Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado una Demanda en su contra en el caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación de un pagaré suscrito a favor de Doral Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $30,000.00, con un interés al 10.95% anual, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2016, otorgada mediante escritura en San Juan Puerto Rico, el día 27 de enero de 2001 ante el notario Miguel A. Rivera Rosendo e inscrita al folio 191 del tomo 516 de Río Piedras Sur, finca número 16549, inscripción 2ª, Sección IV del Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, de la propiedad que se describe a continuación: FINCA 16,549, inscrita al folio 93 del tomo 773 de Río Piedras Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de San Juan. RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 25-A en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Canejas del Bario Tortugo del término municipal de San Juan, con una cabida de 888.93 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número 25 de la comunidad; por el SUR con la calle número 2 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la calle número 3 de la comunidad; por el OESTE, con la parcela número 25 de la comunidad. La parte Demandante alega que el referido pagaré fue saldado en su totalidad y no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse destruido el mismo. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo tener un interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por edicto, el cual se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico y se le requiere para que se presente 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 se represente por derecho propio y notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte Demandante dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto a la siguiente dirección: Lcda. Patricia M. Morris Sánchez (RUA 23023)
409 Ave. Hostos Oficina 2ª San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 patricia.morris@bmrlawpr.com Tel: 787-918-8540 / 787-466-6233
Se le apercibe que de no presentar su contestación a la demanda dentro del término antes indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio
solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del tribunal, hoy 4 de febrero de 2025. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
OLGA JIMENEZ LARUY T/C/C OLGA JJMENEZ LAURI
Demandante Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORP (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC); DORAL BANK; JOHN DOE; JANE DOE
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV00257. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR SÍ Y COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS RÉCORDS DE DORAL BANK (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC) - 208 AVE. LUIS MUÑOZ RIVERA, SAN JUAN, PR 00918.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se notifica a la parte Demandada, que la parte Demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal la Demanda del caso de epígrafe en su contra. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite a usted por Edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. La representación legal de la parte Demandante es: Lcda. Patricia M. Morris Sánchez (RUA 23023) 409 Ave. Hostos Oficina 2ª San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918 patricia.morris@bmrlawpr.com Tel: 787-918-8540 / 787-466-6233
Deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que, si no comparece usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días de la publicación de este Edicto, podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día de 17 de enero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SE-
CRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO POR SI COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL BANK (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC) Y EN REP DE JOSE WILFREDO RUIZ VAZQUEZ Y BRENDA ODALYS ROSADO CARDONA Y LA SLBG
Demandante V. FIRSTBANK DE PUERTO RICO COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS RECORDS DE DORAL BANK (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC) Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VA2024CV00273. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ANTONIO A. HERNÁNDEZ ALMODÓVAR - AHERNANDEZ@ RMMELAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 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 20 de febrero de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 20 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR SÍ Y COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC) Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE ENRIQUE JOSÉ ACEVEDO MONTES
Demandante VS. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE
Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV01025. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado ante el Notario Público Jesús Alejandro Ledesma Amador, bajo affidávit número 1,273, a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $200,000.00, con intereses al 5.95% anual y vencedero el 1ro de enero de 2035, suscrito el día 1 de diciembre de 2004, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 719, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Jesús Alejandro Ledesma Amador, inscrita al Folio 161 del Tomo 1016 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Tercera (III) de San Juan, Finca Número 25,083, inscripción 6ta. El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble, que se describe como sigue: “URBANA: En el Barrio de Monacillos, término municipal de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, solar identificado con el número I-68 de la Urbanización SevillaBiltmore, con cabida superficial de 249.61 m.c., que colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 7.56 metros lineales, con terrenos de la Urbanización Parque Mediterráneo; por el SUR, en un arco de 7.56 metros lineales con la Calle Principal (“Main Street”) de Sevilla-Biltmore; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 33.05 metros lineales con el Solar I-69 de Sevilla-Biltmore; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 32.91 metros lineales con el Solar I-67 de Sevilla-Biltmore. En dicho solar enclava una residencia modelo D, de 2 niveles, del tipo en hilera, de hormigón armado y bloques, de uso residencial, localizada en el Bloque I de la Urbanización Sevilla-
Biltmore. Consta de 3 habitaciones, 2½ baños, sala-comedor, “family”, cocina, “laundry”, terraza y marquesina doble con portones en rejas.” Consta inscrita al Folio Doscientos Veintisiete (227) del Tomo Ochocientos Cuarenta y Ocho (848) de Monacillos, Finca Número Veinticinco Mil Ochenta y Tres (25,083), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera (III) de San Juan. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lic. Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal de San Juan, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, 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 se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de febrero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NELLY MARTE MARCANO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, not in its individual capacity, but solely as trustee of RMF BUYOUT ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-1
Plaintiff v. The Estate of Heriberto Febus Bernardini composed of Roberto Febus Lomba, Lissette Febus Lomba, Heriberto Febus Lomba, and John Doe and Jane Doe; Santia María Lomba Delgado a/k/a Santia Lomba a/k/a Santia Lomba Delgado a/k/a Santia Lomba de Febus a/k/a Santia M. Lomba de Febus a/k/a Santia M. Lomba; Departamento
de Hacienda; Centro de Recaudaciones de Ingresos Municipales United States of America
Defendants
CIVIL ACTION: 3:16-cv-1376ADC. NOTICE OF SALE. TO: THE ESTATE OF HERIBERTO FEBUS BERNARDINI COMPOSED OF ROBERTO FEBUS LOMBA, LISSETTE FEBUS LOMBA, HERIBERTO FEBUS LOMBA, AND JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE; SANTIA MARÍA LOMBA
DELGADO A/K/A SANTIA LOMBA A/K/A SANTIA LOMBA DELGADO A/K/A SANTIA LOMBA DE FEBUS A/K/A SANTIA M. LOMBA DE FEBUS A/K/A SANTIA M. LOMBA; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ASUME, ANY OTHER PARTY WITH INTEREST OVER THE PROPERTY MENTIONED BELOW, AND, GENERAL PUBLIC WHEREAS: Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff to recover from defendants the principal, plus interest per annum until the debt is paid in full. The defendant also owes and ordered to pay WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, not in its individual capacity, but solely as trustee of RMF BUYOUT ACQUISITION TRUST 2018-1 all advances made under the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount of $24,150.00 to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligation. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, money orders, or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico, (18.3698885, -66.1125446) to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: URBANA:
Solar número cuarenta y siete (47) del Bloque “A” del Plano de Urbanización Valle Verde, radicada en el sitio Las Tenerías del Barrio Machuelo Abajo del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, compuesto de cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete punto ochocientos ochenta y ocho (457.88) metros cuadrados. Colindando por el NORTE, en diecisiete punto veintiocho (17.28) metros, con la Calle “B” de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en diecisiete punto cero cinco (17.05) metros, con el solar A-1; por el ESTE, en veintiséis punto veinte (26.20) metros, con el solar número A-46; y por el OESTE, en veintisiete punto doce (27.12) metros, con la Calle “C” de la Urbanización. Contiene una casa de una planta. Property Number Number 25,082, recorded at page 221 of volume 2106 of Ponce.Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Ponce. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, at page 221 of volume 2106 of Ponce, property number 25,082, 4th inscription. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens: Senior Liens: None. Junior Liens: Reverse mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $241,500.00, due on April 7, 2089, pursuant to deed number 222, issued in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on December 20,2010, before notary Alfonso J. Gómez Roubert, and recorded, at page 221, volume 2106 of Ponce Norte, property number 25,082, fifth inscription. Other Liens: None. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on the 28th day of March, 2025, at 9:15 am. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $241,500.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on the 4th day of April, 2025, at 9:15 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $161,000.00, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on the 11th day of April, 2025, at
9:15 am, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $120,750.00, which is onehalf of the minimum bid in the first public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the third public sale, the property may be awarded to the creditor for the entire amount of its debt if it is equal to or less than the amount of the minimum bid of the third public sale, crediting this amount to the amount owed if it is greater. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency, money orders or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 21st day of February, 2025. By: Joel Ronda, Special Master. rondajoel@me.com 787-565-0515
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. TATIANA SUVALIAN
Demandada Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00050. 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: TATIANA SUVALIAN - 1149 KING MARK DR., LEWISVILLE, TX 750565785.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Tatiana Suvalian, 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. TAUSHA CARTER
Demandado Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00060. 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: TAUSHA CARTER102 CHESTERFIELD LN. APT 101, STAFFORD, VA 33556-9006. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Tausha Carter, 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 (aclemen-
te@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. REALTY VENTURES LIMITED, LLC
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00039. 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: REALTY VENTURES
LIMITED, LLC9 TERENCE DR., MANALAPAN NJ 07726. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a REALTY VENTURES LIMITED, LLC, 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. DAVID MORTON WARING; MARY WARING Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00018. 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: DAVID MORTON WARING; POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; MARY WARING; POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 721 BENNETT RD., ANGOLA, NY 140069742.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a David Morton Waring; por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, Mary Waring; por sí y en representación de la Sociedad
Legal de Bienes Gananciales 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 MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705-2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes 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. JOSEPH RAYMOND SPRINGER
Demandado Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00049. 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: JOSEPH RAYMOND SPRINGER - 274 COUNTRY CLUB ROAD, HOPEWELL, NY 12533. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Joseph Raymond Springer, 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. 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. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Parte Demandante V. EDDIE ARMANDO ARROYO FERRER Y ARLENE MARIE ARROYO FERRER
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00829. 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: EDDIE ARMANDO ARROYO FERRER - ADAMS B#19, PARKVILLE, GUAYNABO, PR 00969. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Eddie Armando Arroyo Ferrer 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. 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://uniredramajudicial.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 Guaynabo. 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 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 22 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante V. MARIA VARGAS MORALES Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: IS2024CV00038. (Salón: 603 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: MARIA VARGAS MORALES - DIRECCION: URB. SOL Y MAR 443 PASEO DEL MAR ISABELA, PR 00662; URB. NUEVO SAN ANTONIO E-40 CALLE 6 AGUADILLA PR 00603.
Yankees part with tradition: Beards are now allowed
By VICTOR MATHER
Mariano Rivera and Bernie Williams had to shave. So did Derek Jeter and Alex Rodríguez.
But now Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and the rest of the current New York Yankee roster will be allowed to grow “well-groomed beards” if they so choose, after the club late last week announced a change to its long-standing grooming policy.
The all-clear for beards was announced by Hal Steinbrenner, the team’s managing general partner whose father started the beard ban — and vigorously enforced it for years.
“After great consideration, we will be amending our expectations to allow our players and uniformed personnel to have well-groomed beards moving forward,” Steinbrenner said in a statement Friday. “It is the appropriate time to move beyond the familiar comfort of our former policy.”
Since the 1970s, the Yankees have barred their players, as well as staff members, from having beards or long hair. George Steinbrenner, Hal Steinbrenner’s father and the owner at the time, believed that neater appearance would promote professionalism and discipline among his players.
“I’m trying to instill a certain sense of order and discipline in the ballclub, because I think discipline is important in an athlete,” he said in 1976.
Hal Steinbrenner said at a news conference later Friday that players would still be required to have “a wellgroomed, clean look.”
“It is important to the leaders of our team that we maintain that disciplined look,” he said.
Asked Friday what his father would have said about the change, Hal Steinbrenner said he believed that the chance that some star players might be reluctant to come to the Yankees because of the beard ban might have swayed him. “He might be a little more apt to do the change that I did than people think.
“Winning was the most important thing to my father,” he said.
While some other major North American sports teams have policies regarding dress or appearance, the Yankees’ beard policy was among the strictest, and certainly the most well-known. That notoriety was compounded by the Yankees’ history of success — they have won 27 World Series titles, 16 more than any other team — and the seeming arrogance it brought, at least as perceived by many of its rivals.
Hal Steinbrenner said in the statement that he had consulted with “a large number of former and current Yankees, spanning several eras,” before changing the policy.
The policy has occasionally rankled members of the team. In one of the most famous incidents, Don Mattingly, the team’s best player and captain in 1991, was pulled from the lineup and fined because he declined to cut his hair.
“I’m overwhelmed by the pettiness of it,” Mattingly told reporters then. He relented soon afterward and got a trim.
The incident was parodied in a 1992 episode of “The Simp -
sons.” In the show, Mattingly joined a team owned by the character Mr. Burns, who made unreasonable demands for Mattingly’s grooming and then kicked him off the team. Mattingly, who voiced his own character, walked away saying, “I still like him better than Steinbrenner.”
Not every player had an issue with the beard ban. “The new policy wouldn’t have affected me since I’ve been trying to grow a beard unsuccessfully for 30 years,” Rodríguez, who spent 12 seasons with the Yankees, said in a text message Friday from the Yankees’ training camp, where he is a guest instructor.
But in recent years, there was growing speculation that the policy was hurting the Yankees’ chances of acquiring quality players.
“You’d be surprised how much more attractive the Yankees would be if they got rid of that facial hair rule,” Cameron Maybin, a former Yankee, said in 2023. “You wouldn’t believe how many quality players just think it’s a wack rule to have.”
The Yankee policy had formally stated, “All players, coaches and male executives are forbidden to display any facial hair other than mustaches (except for religious reasons), and scalp hair may not be grown below the collar.”
“Hair policy will remain the same,” Hal Steinbrenner said Friday.
Over the decades, the policy led to awkward conversations
in which Yankee managers had to urge their often well-paid players to get a shave or a trim. Some disagreed with the rule, but George Steinbrenner’s word was law.
The policy also led to often-drastic transformations for bearded players who joined the Yankees from other teams. Among those who shaved away facial hair upon arrival to the Yankees were Gerrit Cole in 2019, Nick Swisher in 2009 and Johnny Damon in 2006. Many other players grew beards back as soon as they were traded away from the team.
In 1981, Yankee pitcher Goose Gossage decided to grow his (permitted) mustache longer, as a way of flouting the ban. The resulting Fu Manchu-style ’stache became his trademark.
As recently as a few days ago, the policy was in the news. Devin Williams, who joined the Yankees this offseason, had shaved his long-standing beard, but it began to grow back and could be seen in his official team photo, causing a minor kerfuffle.
Friday’s announcement ends, or at least modifies, a policy that affected so many generations of players that it developed its own lore.
In one oft-repeated tale, a Yankee player, Lou Piniella, pushed back on the edict, pointing out that Jesus had long hair and a beard.
George Steinbrenner replied, “Walk across that pond, and you can have a beard and long hair.”
The San Juan Daily Star
The New York Yankees take on the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, April 20, 2023. The Yankees are ending the team’s longstanding policy on facial hair and will allow “well-groomed beards moving forward,” Hal Steinbrenner said. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
Sudoku
How to Play:
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Crossword
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1. Meat Loaf's "___ Anything for Love"
2. Pinot ____
3. Prefix meaning "half"
4. Not imit.
5. One played for a fool
6. Skin soothers
7. U.K. record label
8. Ugly, in Spain
9. Roget's entry (abbr.)
10. Previously
11. "Be-Bop-A-____"
12. Oater actor Jack
13. Jones of The Monkees
18. City on the Merrimack River
21. Gave dinner
23. Allen or Burton
24. Ft. Worth school
25. Shred
26. Give some encouragement to
27. Part of LED
28. ___ shape
29. Taoism founder Lao-____
31. Sausalito's county
32. Not happy at all
33. Worries
38. "Look ____ hands!"
40. 1962 John Wayne movie
41. Prefix with duct or raptor
44. Triumph
45. "This ___ better be good!"
46. Way to drone
49. Until now
50. Berlin conjunction
53. Christmas buys
Aquarium pets
66. Subdivision
67. Filming session
68. "___ Fire" (Springsteen hit)
69. Window glass
70. Parts of speech
71. Phobic lead-in
54. Boulder-holder specification
55. Barrett or Jaffe
56. Wife in late 2009 headlines
58. Midsized engine
59. Weary comment
60. Sign gas
61. Come ____ surprise (be expected)
63. Where to watch "Wheel of Fortune" reruns
64. Palindromic cry
65. Singer Rawls
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
The words for today are “romance” and “creativity,” Aries. Romance is enhanced by passion generated by a gratifying love relationship that will probably last for a long time. This same relationship, and its emotions could give rise to artistic inspiration that can produce works of a quality that surprises even you. Don’t exhaust yourself. Know when to stop.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Has a new housemate recently moved in, Taurus? If so, you can expect this person to live with you for a while. This is good, because he or she is likely to be very loving, supportive, and able to bear his or her share of the household responsibilities. You and this person, along with any others who live with you, could become very close and possibly even friends for life.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
A love letter or perhaps a poem or other artistic work dedicated to you could make your day, Gemini. A warm feeling of being cherished and adored could stay with you throughout the day as a result. Hang on to this rosy glow when things get rocky, especially on the job. The feelings expressed in this communication will probably last for a long time, so be prepared.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
A love relationship that’s been around for a long time could be enhanced today by an increased level of sensuality, Cancer. Intense emotion could pervade your being, making it difficult to concentrate on much else. You will probably spend the day looking forward to when you can be alone with your beloved. The passion that pervades your lovemaking now is worthy of a romance novel.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Artistic activities or those involving healing are enhanced today, Leo. Whatever you try is going to be more a part of your very being than it would be at other times. Love, art, psychic or spiritual activities - all should take on a new meaning for you at this time. This condition should last for a long time. Make the most of this energy now and your skills should continue to grow.
Virgo
(Aug 24-Sep 23)
Love takes on an idealized and fairytale aura today, Virgo, as you and a current or potential partner spend time alone, talking or just enjoying being together. The warmth, affection, and high regard you have for each other are apparent to everyone. The nice thing about it is that these feelings are likely to last. Look forward to many such days.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
A meditation circle or other group activity devoted to spiritual pursuits could be on your agenda today, Libra. It’s important that you attend, as you need a little peace and quiet, as well as the support from others in the group. The affection you all feel for one another permeates the evening. Bask in it and write down any revelations that come to you.
Scorpio
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
Career and financial successes might finally come your way after months and perhaps years of striving, Scorpio. The emotional support you receive from those who’ve been working with you can be very gratifying, and it’s likely to last for a long time. If you like what you’re doing, chances are you will be doing it for a while. If you’re committed to your profession, keep up the good work.
Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)
A complex creative project could require some indepth research today, Sagittarius, and you could spend much of the day online or in the library. This is probably a subject you love, so you won’t mind the time you put in. The inspiration that comes your way could well last for a while. You might be able to treat this project as a business enterprise and give it more substance.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
Financial growth adds to a growing sense of selfworth, Capricorn, especially since your current situation should continue. You may have a vivid, emotional dream. Perhaps it involves a long-term love interest, and your relationship is fast approaching the do-or-die stage. The meaning of the symbols should be fairly clear. What do they mean to you and how can you apply them to your situation?
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Romance blossoms for you today, Aquarius, and commitment or marriage may be just over the horizon. You and your beloved may have recently reached a new understanding that has bonded you more tightly. Don’t feel silly if you spend the day together walking around in a romantic haze. That’s perfectly acceptable - it’s part of the joy of love, and it could well last for a while. Make the most of it.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
Service to others might take up a large part of your day, Pisces, perhaps on an artistic level or maybe in the form of sharing psychic or healing energy. Don’t think your efforts are unappreciated. Those you’re helping may be reticent about saying anything, but your efforts aren’t lost on them. Think of it like a bank. Your friends will be there for you when you need them.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
