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PDP: Governor’s refusal to work jointly is hurting the people
By THE STAR STAFF
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Secretary General Manuel Calderón Cerame, along with PDP Vice President Migdalia González Arroyo and Reps. Gretchen Hau Irizarry and Ángel “Tito” Fourquet Cordero, criticized Gov. Jenniffer González Colón on Sunday for what they said was her failure to collaborate on important problems facing Puerto Rico.
The remarks were made at a press conference at PDP headquarters.
“The governor has demonstrated that she is not prepared to tackle the challenges facing Puerto Rico,” Calderón Cerame said. “Last Thursday, Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández sent her a letter requesting joint efforts on three significant issues; however, the governor has yet to respond. One of the topics included in the letter is a new manufacturing incentive through H.R. [U.S. House Resolution] 1328, authored by Congresswoman [Nicole] Malliotakis and Hernández. This is the most important manufacturing incentive measure from Washington in the past 16 years.”
Additionally, González Arroyo noted that “the resident commissioner filed H.R. 1697 to extend the Child Tax Credit to Puerto Ricans. This is a crucial measure for social justice and particularly for supporting the Puerto Rican middle class, yet the governor has not commented on it.”
“My appeal to the governor is to join this effort with our [resident] commissioner,” the former senator said. “The Child Tax Credit is an essential tool for providing relief to working households. The governor’s failure to respond to the resident commissioner’s letter highlights her lack of commitment to the most vulnerable sectors of society.”
“It is unacceptable that, due to partisan differences, the door is closed to a measure that would benefit thousands of families,” González Arroyo said. “This is not leadership; it is negligence. It is increasingly clear that the priority is not the people, but political interests.”
Hau Irizarry, who represents the 29th District (Cayey and Cidra), addressed the closure of the LUMA Energy customer service office in Cayey, indicating that the La Fortaleza chief of staff claimed to have intervened to prevent its closure.
“The central government’s lack of
willingness and teamwork was evident in LUMA’s final decision to close the customer service office in Cayey,” the legislator said. “If they had consulted the mayor of Cayey or me, I am convinced the outcome would have been different.”
On March 13, La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech announced in the press that following a meeting with LUMA officials, it was decided to postpone the closure of seven commercial offices.
“It will be postponed until further notice,” he stated.
However, during a public hearing on Wednesday, LUMA’s vice president of customer experience, Noriette Figueroa Meléndez, stated that “the closure of the offices is final and firm,” although she did not provide specific dates.
Fourquet Cordero, meanwhile, noted that the island House of Representatives has filed important measures and is willing to meet with the governor to negotiate reasonable amendments. “Our delegation has proposed measures to cancel the LUMA contract in Concurrent Resolution 13 and to repeal the DSP [Public Safety Department by its initials in Spanish] umbrella in House Bill 261. Both measures are vital -- one aims to terminate a company that has not served our people well, and the other seeks to maximize resources and enhance effectiveness in the fight against crime,” the District 24 (Ponce) lawmaker said.
The PDP leaders urged the governor to prioritize the interests of the people of Puerto Rico above all else.
“There will be time to campaign in 2028,” Calderón Cerame said. “Right now, it’s our responsibility to work for the general public, and the resident commissioner and the Popular Democratic Party are ready to support that agenda.”
“The governor has demonstrated that she is not prepared to tackle the challenges facing Puerto Rico,” said Popular Democratic Party Secretary General Manuel Calderón Cerame, at lectern.
Inaugural ‘I Can Do It’ adaptive festival held in Cataño
By THE STAR STAFF
In commemoration of World Down Syndrome Awareness Day, the Municipality of Cataño on Saturday held the First “I Can Do It” Adaptive Festival, an initiative led by the municipality’s first lady, Bethzaida Rodríguez Torres, which brought together dozens of families on the waterfront to promote inclusion, equity and empowerment of people with the condition.
The event marked a milestone in the municipal agenda aimed toward a more accessible community that is responsive to the needs of all its citizens. Children, youth and adults participated in a variety of recreational, sports and cultural activities, all designed to highlight the abilities, talents and rights of people with Down syndrome.
Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo emphasized that the festival represents the beginning of a sustained effort by the municipality to provide equal opportunities for its entire population.
“Today we demonstrate that inclusion is not an abstract concept, but a practice that begins in our communities,” he said. “We are proud of this first step.”
Senate to investigate floods in Carolina
By THE STAR STAFF
Senate Vice President Marissa “Marissita” Jiménez Santoni has announced the filing of a resolution to investigate the causes of the massive flooding in Carolina over the weekend, which resulted in substantial losses for many families.
The measure, set to be introduced today, aims to examine the operations of the Carolina municipal administration regarding the drainage system, and the island Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA by its initials in Spanish).
The city of Carolina did not answer requests for comment.
“What happened on Saturday in our municipality of Carolina is completely unacceptable,” the Carolina District senator said. “While many areas experienced significant rainfall, the levels were not high enough to account for the reported damage. We’re talking about locations such as Roberto Clemente Av-
enue, Jesús M. Fragoso Avenue in front of the Plaza Carolina shopping center, and sections of state highway PR-860, all of which suffered major flooding.”
“Something went wrong, leading to flooded homes and businesses,” Jiménez said. “We believe that part of the storm drain network may have been obstructed by solid waste, vegetation, and debris, preventing proper water flow.”
Residents on 67th Street in the Villas de Carolina neighborhood experienced extensive damage, with vehicles and homes inundated by several feet of water.
“This must not happen again,” the senator added. “We will investigate the situation thoroughly, including the sewer cleaning program, to determine whether it was performed correctly and according to a predetermined schedule. Additionally, we will review the pumping system, as the events in areas like Villa Carolina were devastating.”
During the event, Recreation and Sports (DRD by its initials in Spanish) Secretary Héctor Vázquez Muñi joined the celebration and reaffirmed his agency’s commitment to creating accessible spaces.
“At the DRD, we reiterate our support for initiatives like this one, which promote a more inclusive Puerto Rico through recreation and sports,” he said.
Throughout the day, attendees enjoyed adaptive game stations, sports exhibitions, musical performances and educational activities, with the participation of community organizations, government agencies and volunteers committed to inclusion. The atmosphere was marked by excitement, solidarity and enthusiasm among participants and their families.
Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by the presence of an extra copy of chromosome 21. In Puerto Rico, it is estimated that between 40 and 50 babies are born with this condition each year, and many families still face challenges related to accessing therapies, educational services and specialized medical care.
Jiménez also announced plans to schedule a meeting with the municipal administration and the PRASA board this week.
On Saturday, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the entire municipality of Carolina, which ended at 5 p.m.
With wagering proceeds down, bill filed to investigate horse racing agencies
By THE STAR STAFF
Rep. José Aponte Hernández announced the filing of House Resolution 209, which orders the Tourism Committee in the lower chamber to look into the operation of horse racing agencies on the island, including the licensing process for operating them, among other matters.
“It’s no secret that betting on horse racing, a central pillar of the horse racing industry in Puerto Rico, has declined in recent years. In fact, the steepest decline is estimated to have begun in 2023 and is continuing,” Aponte said in a
written statement. “An essential part of this structure of local horse racing are the horse racing agencies, which handle the largest volume of transactions associated with racing at the only racetrack on the island, Camarero Racetrack. What we seek with this resolution is to develop a detailed overview of the operations of these agencies with the goal of evaluating any potential legislation that may need to be adopted.”
“The industry should be concerned that race betting transactions had their worst year since 2021 in 2024, with just $120.3 million. In 2021, the figure was $157 million,”
added the chairman of the House Committee on Federal and Veterans Affairs. “There’s no doubt something is happening, and what we’re looking for is to see what’s happening and how we can help.”
According to data from the Puerto Rico government’s Gaming Commission, there are currently 367 horse racing agencies operating.
Pursuant to Act No. 83 of July 2, 1987, better known as the Puerto Rico Equestrian Industry and Sports Act, the Gaming Commission is authorized to issue, suspend, or permanently cancel horse racing agency licenses.
Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo and first lady Bethzaida Rodríguez Torres
Senate Vice President Marissa Jiménez Santoni
Judge partially lifts litigation stay to settle PREPA debt
By THE STAR STAFF
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain
has ordered a partial lifting of the litigation stay and set new deadlines to settle the main disputes that have prevented the resolution of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) bankruptcy, filed in 2017.
The judge agreed to lift PREPA’s litigation stay to litigate the debt adjustment plan, which must be turned in by this Friday. Bondholders who have refused to settle their debt dispute (non-settling bondholders) will also be able to litigate their administrative expense motion, in which they also claim that PREPA has used billions of dollars of their collateral during the pendency of the bankruptcy. The claims are entitled to the highest priority in distribution of the assets of the estate.
“The stay of PREPA plan confirmation and bond-related litigation in PREPA’s Title III Case is extended sine die except as specifically provided herein,” the judge said.
The order was filed after last week’s omnibus hearing.
Swain lifted the litigation stay to permit the Financial
Mayagüez mayor launches programs to increase number of doctors in region
By THE STAR STAFF
Mayagüez Mayor Jorge Ramos Ruíz announced on Sunday the launching of two programs aimed at ensuring the availability of medical specialists in the city and across the western region.
The first proposal involves the establishment of a medical scholarship program that would outline the terms and conditions under which the Municipality of Mayagüez may award scholarships to medical students. The initiative aims to provide essential funding to support talented young individuals who wish to pursue training in the healthcare field, thereby contributing to the development of future medical professionals for the community. Additionally, an economic incentive program has been introduced to promote the practice of specialized areas of medicine within the jurisdiction of Mayagüez. The program is to be formalized through a municipal ordinance that states in its opening section: “Create an Economic Incentive Program to encourage the practice of the following specialized medical fields within the municipality: Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery,
Oversight and Management Board, which represents PREPA in its bankruptcy, to file an amended proposed plan of adjustment and amended proposed disclosure statement for PREPA. The judge said those materials must be filed by March 28.
She also lifted the litigation stay to permit litigation concerning a motion for allowance of an administrative expense claim against the utility. The Non-Settling Bondholders are directed to file their administrative expense motion on April 7. The oversight must file its objection to the administrative expense motion on April 28.
Joinders to the oversight board’s objection must be filed by May 2 of this year while the Non-Settling Bondholders’ reply in support of the administrative expense motion must be filed by May 16, 2025.
Following completion of briefing, Swain said the court will take the administrative expense motion under advisement and the parties are directed to meet and confer and file a joint status report on May 30.
“The joint status report must provide a proposed discovery plan and order approving such plan setting forth
Mayagüez Mayor Jorge Ramos Ruíz, right, said “Our priority is to ensure that the residents of Mayagüez and western Puerto Rico have access to the necessary specialists to address medical emergencies promptly.”
Otolaryngology (ENT), Intensive Care Medicine, Ophthalmology, and Maxillofacial Surgery.”
With the latter initiative, the Municipality of Mayagüez seeks to attract and retain more specialists in the region, ensuring that residents have better access to essential medical services without needing to travel to other areas for specialized care.
“Our priority is to ensure that the residents of Mayagüez and western Puerto Rico have access to the necessary specialists to address medical emergencies promptly,” Ramos Ruíz said. “With these initiatives, we reaffirm our commitment to improving healthcare access and the well-being of our community.”
the timetable and deadlines for targeted limited discovery necessary for the resolution of the Administrative Expense Motion,” she said.
The oversight board has argued that the primary concern in the administrative expense motion is whether the claim is recourse, as non-recourse claims can only be paid from net revenues like the main claim. The recently released fiscal plan indicates that PREPA will not generate sufficient net revenues, raising questions about the bondholders’ constitutional right to collateral, which they assert as a basis for their claims.
The oversight board’s position highlights the importance of distinguishing between recourse and non-recourse claims, as the latter are only payable from the same source as the main claim, in this case, net revenues.
The judge also allowed the lifting of the stay to permit the oversight board to file a motion concerning the proper classification of the PREPA Bond Trustee’s claim. The board was directed to file the classification motion on April 7. Parties in interest supporting the classification motion must file non-duplicative supplemental briefs on April 11.
The PREPA Bond Trustee and/or the Non-Settling Bondholders must file their objection to the classification motion on April 28. Joinders to the objection must be filed by May 2. Replies must be filed on May 16.
The court will thereafter take the classification motion on submission, unless it determines that a hearing is necessary, the judge said.
Ponce School of Medicine places 96% in residencies
By THE STAR STAFF
The Ponce Health Science University School of Medicine announced late last week that 96% of its students have been accepted into medical residency programs in Puerto Rico and the mainland United States.
“This achievement reaffirms the academic level of the institution and its capacity to prepare highly qualified health professionals,” said Olga Rodríguez de Arzola, the medical school’s vice president of professional medical affairs, in a written statement.
A total of 108 medical students were accepted in specialties such as orthopedic surgery, pediatric medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, anesthesiology, neurologic pediatric gynecology and others after completing the National Residency Matching Program.
The “Match Day,” held at midday Friday, marked the culmination of the process in which students learned the programs where they would be continuing their medical formation.
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain
Academia confronts a watershed moment at Columbia, and the right revels
By TROY CLOSSON, ALAN BLINDER and KATHERINE ROSMAN
Many professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration’s heavy hand. Conservative critics of academia celebrated it as an overdue, righteous reset by an Ivy League university.
Columbia University’s concession late last week to a roster of government demands as it sought to restore about $400 million in federal funding is being widely viewed as a watershed in Washington’s relationships with the nation’s colleges.
By design, the consequences will be felt immediately on Columbia’s campus, where, for example, some security personnel will soon have arrest powers and an academic department that had drawn conservative scrutiny is expected to face stringent oversight. But they also stand to shape colleges far from Manhattan.
Students on the campus of Columbia University in upper Manhattan on March 10, 2025. Columbia was accused by the Trump administration of a systemic failure to protect students and faculty members “from antisemitic violence and harassment.”
“Columbia is folding and the other universities will follow suit,” Christopher Rufo, an activist and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, wrote on social media after the university’s announcement Friday.
(Bing Guan/The New York Times)
“They must restore the pursuit of truth, rather than ideological activism, as their highest mission,” said Rufo, who is close to the Trump administration and has helped make battles against diversity and equity into a conservative rallying cry.
He added: “This is only the beginning.”
The end is not clear. Columbia’s moves Friday — revealed in a letter to the campus from the interim president, Dr. Katrina A. Armstrong — were essentially an opening bid in negotiations with the federal government to let the $400 million flow again. But the Trump administration has not publicly said what other concessions it might seek from Columbia or the dozens of other universities, from Hawaii to Harvard, that it has started to scrutinize since taking power Jan. 20.
In a letter Friday, Columbia’s board of trustees said it had used talks with the government to “present Columbia-driven” plans for change. The board also insisted that it
was “dedicated to protecting Columbia University’s bedrock principles of academic excellence, open inquiry and the deeply held value of free expression.”
Republicans have spent decades warring with the elite realms of higher education. But the Trump administration, despite being led by a president who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, has adopted an especially vitriolic and punitive approach.
Vice President JD Vance, who holds a degree from Yale University’s law school, has branded universities as “the enemy.” Rufo said recently that it was his mission to master using federal financial support to make colleges feel “an existential terror.”
Rufo’s comments came in a New York Times interview published the same day that the Trump administration struck at Columbia’s checkbook because, the administration said, the university had not protected students and faculty “from antisemitic violence and harassment.” The government later sent a letter of demands that leaders at other universities privately likened to a ransom note, especially because it effectively threatened a sustained funding freeze regardless of the school’s initial response.
Academia braced for a pressure campaign from President Donald Trump soon after he was elected in November. But Washington’s tactics against Columbia during the past month have shaken university leaders from coast to coast.
Many worry that the administration’s pursuit of Columbia was a test drive — a way to gauge public reaction, assess the prospects of legal pushback and develop a precedent. On Wednesday, the administration seemed to bring another test case, saying it would withhold about $175 million from Penn because the university had allowed an openly transgender woman on its women’s swim team in 2022.
In response to the administration’s demands, Columbia, a private university with a storied history of campus activism, pledged to adopt a formal definition of antisemitism, hire an internal security force that will be empowered to make arrests, and place the university’s Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department under the oversight of a senior vice provost. The fallout among students, faculty and liberal leaders was swift and severe.
A former Democratic candidate for New York governor, Cynthia Nixon, said Columbia had abandoned the Constitution. Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, a national faculty rights group, described the move as the greatest incursion into academic freedom and free speech since Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s crusade against communism in the 1950s.
Yet it was still not clear Saturday whether the university’s acquiescence would be sufficient.
Leo Terrell, a senior Justice Department lawyer and member of a federal task force to combat antisemitism, said in a radio interview Thursday that the Trump administration was “hellbent on eradicating antisemitism” on campuses. Many colleges, including Columbia, saw rancorous pro-Palestinian protests last spring over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and grappled with subsequent debates about what is considered the meaning of antisemitism.
“I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
A spokesperson for the Education Department, one of three federal agencies named in the ultimatum to Columbia, did not respond Saturday to a request for comment, including to questions about the potential restoration of funding.
But the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce crowed on social media: “Columbia FOLDS.”
Brent R. Stockwell, the chair of Columbia’s department of biological sciences, said that many people “simply do not understand that a modern research institution cannot exist without federal funding.” He pointed to the importance of research in the sciences and its potential to produce medical breakthroughs and improvements to the lives of everyday Americans.
“There is no scenario in which Columbia can exist in any way in its current form if the government funding is completely withdrawn,” he said. “Is having a dialogue a capitulation? I would say it is not.”
Stockwell added: “It is frustrating to me that people at other academic institutions who are not subject to these pressures are saying, ‘Columbia should fight the good fight.’
Trump administration moved to end program for migrants from 4 Caribbean and Latin American nations
By TIM BALK and MIRIAM JORDAN
The Trump administration said late last week that it was ending a Biden-era program that allowed hundreds of thousands of people from four troubled countries to enter the United States lawfully and work for up to two years.
The program offered applicants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela the opportunity to fly to the United States and quickly secure work authorization, provided they passed security checks and had a financial sponsor. They were allowed to stay for up to two years, which could be renewed.
Billed “legal pathways” by the Biden administration, the program was first introduced for Venezuelans in 2022 and was expanded to nationals of the other three countries the next year.
By the end of 2024, more than 500,000 migrants had entered the United States through the initiative, known as the CHNV program, an abbreviation of the four countries.
The work permits and protection from deportation conferred under the program’s authority, called parole, would expire April 24.
The program’s termination had been expected. On President Donald Trump’s first day back in office, he ordered the Homeland Security Department to take steps to end it.
But the formal notice Friday announcing its elimination throws into doubt the ability to remain in the United States
for hundreds of thousands of people who could face grave danger or economic duress if they are forced to return to their home countries.
“It’s taking the livelihood away from thousands and thousands of people who are here legally, rendering them undocumented and putting their lives at risk,” said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, an advocacy organization.
Tricia McLaughlin, a Department Homeland Security spokesperson, said in a statement that the “termination of the CHNV parole programs, and the termination of parole for those who exploited it, is a return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America First.”
Employers, including Amazon and Honda, that have struggled with worker shortages have hired many beneficiaries of the program since its inception.
“These people came here lawfully, and they have been contributing to the economy,” said Jozef.
A notice from Homeland Security, scheduled to be published in the federal register Tuesday, said the termination of the program would take effect 30 days later.
“These programs do not serve a significant public benefit, are not necessary to reduce levels of illegal immigration, did not sufficiently mitigate the domestic effects of illegal immigration, are not serving their intended purposes, and are inconsistent with the Administration’s foreign policy goals,” said the notice.
Migrants without another legal basis to remain in the United States would be required to leave the country before their parole termination date, the notice said. If they do not leave, they could be targeted for deportation by immigration authorities.
President Joe Biden’s administration had cast the program, which survived legal challenges, as a way to bring order to the Mexican border by creating an alternative that allowed people from the four countries to enter the country legally, if they met certain conditions.
Under pressure on the issue of immigration in an election year, the Biden administration said last fall that it was allowing the program to lapse.
A separate but similar parole program created by the Biden administration has allowed about 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the war with Russia to legally enter and temporarily stay in the United States. Trump said this month that he would decide soon whether to end that program.
The end of the CHNV program comes as the Trump administration has broadened its crackdown on immigrants.
Setareh Ghandehari, an advocacy director at the rights group Detention Watch Network, said the development was “in line with the Trump administration’s multipronged strategy of wreaking havoc on immigrant communities and expanding the deportation and detention system.”
Más allá de los límites nuevos profesionales a bordo
Comprometidos con los servicios de salud que proveemos, deseamos anunciar los nuevos miembros de nuestro equipo de trabajo en el área médica.
María Cristina Dans, MD
Chief Medical Advisor (CMA)
La Dra. Dans se graduó de la Escuela de Medicina de la Universidad de Washington en 1999 y completó su residencia en Medicina Interna y subespecialidad en Medicina de Hospicio y Paliativa y Medicina de Cuidados Críticos en la Universidad de Stanford en California. La Dra. Dans está certificada por la Junta en Medicina Interna, Medicina de Cuidados Críticos y Medicina de Hospicio y Paliativa. Antes de trabajar en la Universidad de Washington y en el Hospital Barnes-Jewish, la Dra. Dans trabajó como médico de Cuidados Intensivos Quirúrgicos en el Washington Hospital Center en Washington, DC. y dedicó parte de su tiempo como directora del Servicio de Cuidados Paliativos del Hospital Barnes-Jewish y como Directora de la residencia de Medicina de Hospicio y Paliativa de la Universidad de Washington. También sirve como editora asociada de ética del Colegio Americano de Cirujanos, como miembro de la Red Nacional Integral del Cáncer (NCCN) y es presidenta del Panel de Revisión de Directrices de NCCN en Cuidados Paliativos.
Dra. Karina Vilá, MD
Chief Medical Officer (CMO)
La Dra. Vilá es graduada de medicina la Escuela de Medicina Central del Caribe, y completó su residencia en reumatología en el Recinto de Ciencias Médicas. La Dra. Vilá tiene múltiples publicaciones científicas de investigaciones realizadas. Desde el 2014 ha laborado en GCM Medical Group donde fungió como principal investigadora científica, y actualmente se desempeña como profesora asistente de la Escuela de Medicina Central del Caribe. La Dra. Vilá está certificada por la American Board of Internal Medicine, y la Amercian Board of Reumatology.
Dr. Israel Nieves, MD, MPHE, BHE
Director Médico del Centro Médico Correccional
El Dr. Nieves es médico graduado de la Universidad Iberoamericana en 2011, posee licencia como educador en salud y una maestría en salud pública del Reciento de Ciencias Médicas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. El Dr. Nieves posee una amplia experiencia en la provisión de servicios médicos en el sector privado y gobierno, como coordinador de cuidados de salud, servicios clínicos, educación en salud y manejo de expedientes médicos. El Dr. Nieves supervisará el equipo médico que provee servicios directos al paciente.
Dr. Luis Rosas, PharmD
Director Corporativo de Farmacia
El Dr. Rosas tiene un bachillerato en química de la Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Mayagüez, un doctorado en farmacia del Recinto de Ciencias Médicas de la UPR. El Dr. Rosas posee experiencia en la administración de servicios de farmacia a nivel hospitalario y clínico. El Dr. Rosas ha colaborado en investigación científica a nivel molecular. Con su experiencia en el ámbito farmacéutico, el Dr. Rosas liderará la gestión y optimización de los servicios farmacéuticos dentro de la organización.
At least 3 dead and 15 injured in shooting at New Mexico park, officials say
By PAUL RATJE, JONATHAN WOLFE and SIMON J. LEVIEN
Afight between two rival groups at an unsanctioned car show late Friday led to a huge shootout that killed three people and injured at least 15 others in Las Cruces, New Mexico, police said.
About 200 people were at the show at Young Park when gunfire erupted around 10:10 p.m., police said at a news conference Saturday. The shooting involved handguns and resulted in the discharge of as many as 60 rounds, officials said.
No arrests had been made as of Saturday afternoon. Police said the shooting began between two groups that had ill will toward each other, though the nature of the dispute was unknown.
Among those killed were three males, two 19-year-olds and a 16-year-old, police said. The people who were injured were 16 to 36 years old. At the news conference, officials revised the total number of injured from earlier reports.
Of those wounded, seven patients were sent to the University Medical Center of El Paso in Texas. Four others were treated and discharged from hospitals, and the conditions of four others receiving treatment were unclear, Michael Daniels, the Las Cruces fire chief, said at the news conference.
“Today we mourn a tragic, a senseless, a horrible event that happened in our city last night,” the city’s mayor, Eric Enriquez, said at the news conference. “Our heartfelt condolences to all. This is a sad day for our community.”
Witnesses said that the shooting took place at a monthly gathering where drivers of modified sports cars show them off. They described a scene of pandemonium as gunshots were heard and attendees began to flee.
“They just started shooting, and they just started running around everybody,” said Angel Legaspy, 20, whose parked car was hit by bullets. The shooting was indiscriminate, “like all over the place,” he said.
Manuel Urbina, who was visiting from Wyoming, went to the park to check out the city’s car scene. He said things were calm, aside from the occasional squeal of a skidding car or the roar of its engine. Then he heard shots.
“People were running everywhere,” he said. “We all started to run, and then I saw a young man laid out on the ground.”
Police said they had not identified any suspects.
Police asked anyone who has video or images of the events, particularly any that show the shooting or people with firearms, to submit them as evidence.
While the circumstances of the shooting in Las Cruces remain unclear, New Mexico has struggled in recent years with violent crime.
The violent crime rate there was twice the national average in 2023, according to the Council of State Governments Justice Center. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, has made combating crime a priority.
“There will come a time to talk about the failures that led to this tragedy and so many others in New Mexico, but now is not that time,” Jeremy Story, the Las Cruces police chief, said at the news conference.
Las Cruces became a flashpoint in the state’s debate over crime in February 2024, when a police officer, Jonah Hernandez, was stabbed to death after responding to a trespassing call.
By August 2024, violent crime in the city was up 46% compared with the same period in 2023.
Two law enforcement officers guard the scene of a shooting in Las Cruces, N.M., on March 22, 2025. Three people were killed and at least 14 people injured during a shooting at a park Friday night in Las Cruces, N.M., according to the police. (Paul Ratje/The New York Times)
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Wind and solar firms have a pitch for Trump:
By BRAD PLUMER
As President Donald Trump works to blunt the growth of wind and solar power and expand fossil fuel production in the United States, the renewable energy industry is making a new pitch: You need us.
Wind and solar developers are increasingly pointing out that America’s demand for electricity is soaring, driven by a boom in data centers, and it’s proving difficult to build enough new gas plants to supply all the extra power that the nation needs.
Wind, solar and battery storage are relatively quick and cheap to construct. That could help avert energy shortages and keep prices low, an argument that renewable energy firms are making to policymakers.
“Our message to the administration is, let’s be realistic about this,” John Ketchum, the CEO of NextEra Energy, one of the country’s largest power producers, said in an interview. “If you take renewables and storage off the table, we’re going to force electricity prices to the moon.”
These are tough times, politically, for the renewable energy industry. Trump has been a blistering critic of wind turbines for years and openly promotes fossil fuels like oil and gas, riding into office on a promise to “drill, baby, drill.” He has halted federal approvals for wind farms, placed a moratorium on large solar arrays on public lands and frozen billions of dollars in spending for battery factories and electric grid upgrades.
At the same time, Republican leaders in Congress are talking about ending federal subsidies in the form of tax credits for lowcarbon electricity, which have been expected to supercharge the growth of wind and solar power. Uncertainty around those credits has paralyzed the renewable energy industry, with companies delaying projects and laying off workers.
The chaos could make it harder for the United States to slash its planet-warming emissions, even as scientists warn the risks from climate change are escalating.
But an environmental argument won’t get far with a president who dismisses global warming. So, many wind and solar companies are now casting their industries as essential to achieving U.S. energy abundance.
“The focus is, what do we need to ensure that we have enough energy to retain our dominance in manufacturing, in electri-
‘You’re going to need us’
fication, in artificial intelligence?” said Sandhya Ganapathy, CEO of EDP Renewables North America, a leading wind and solar developer.
Over the next 15 years, U.S. electricity demand could increase by up to 50% as tech companies build massive data centers for AI, factories expand and millions of people plug in electric cars, according to a new study by S&P Global Commodity Insights.
Renewable companies say they are well positioned to help meet that growth in the near future. This year, wind, solar and batteries are projected to make up 93% of new electric capacity added to U.S. grids — with the rest coming from power plants that burn natural gas. In many places, building new wind turbines or installing solar panels are often the cheapest ways to generate additional electrons.
But data centers need power around the clock, something wind and solar power alone can’t provide. That’s why, at the nation’s biggest annual gathering of the energy industry in Houston last week, many executives insisted that demand would have to be largely supplied by natural gas plants today and perhaps in the future by advanced nuclear reactors or enhanced geothermal plants, which can generate electricity at all hours.
“The AI revolution is coming, it’s going
to be big, it’s going to take a lot of power,” said Ryan Lance, CEO of the oil giant ConocoPhillips. “And gas is going to be right at the forefront of driving that power demand.”
Ketchum had a different view. NextEra already owns a fleet of 19 gas-fired power plants, one of the nation’s largest, and plans to build even more gas units as the need for electricity grows. But Ketchum said that wind, solar and batteries will be just as important for meeting rising demand over the next few years.
A big reason, he explained, is that power companies now have to wait up to five years to order new gas turbines as manufacturers struggle to keep up with global demand. Any new gas projects that aren’t already under development are unlikely to come online before 2030, he said. Other nascent technologies like advanced nuclear power are even further off.
By contrast, many wind and solar projects can be built within 12 to 18 months.
The cost of building new gas power plants has also nearly tripled since the inflation shock of 2022, Ketchum said, while wind and solar prices have increased only modestly.
Ketchum added that the intermittent nature of renewables isn’t always a problem, since wind and solar are just one compo-
nent of a larger electric system. Some regions might have gas turbines that don’t currently run much at night, so ramping those up and then adding solar and batteries for the daytime could help provide additional roundthe-clock power.
“Look, nobody’s built more gas-fired generation in the last 20 years than we have, and we agree we’re going to need more gas,” Ketchum said. “But there’s a time problem and there’s a cost problem. So our message is, don’t pull away from renewables, because they’re the only thing we have as a country that we can build to meet the demand that’s here right now and that’s really low cost.”
That message is starting to catch on with some conservative lawmakers. As Republican leaders search for trillions of dollars in offsets to pay for tax cuts, at least 21 GOP House members signed a letter this month urging the preservation of incentives for lowcarbon power sources — including wind, solar, hydropower, nuclear and geothermal — that were part of a 2022 climate law signed by President Joe Biden.
For now, many Trump administration officials remain deeply skeptical of renewables. In Houston last week, Chris Wright, the new U.S. energy secretary, said that wind and solar power weren’t nearly as useful as natural gas, and often trigger local opposition.
“Wind has been singled out because it’s had a singularly poor record of driving up prices and getting increasing citizen outrage, whether you’re a farm or you’re in a coastal community,” Wright said.
“Everywhere wind and solar penetration have increased significantly, prices went up,” Wright said. (That isn’t always true: While California’s electricity rates have jumped as rooftop solar panels have proliferated, Texas has seen its prices decline even as wind and solar now provide one-quarter of the state’s power.)
The Rancho Seco Solar II facility in a field near the decomissioned Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station near Herald, Calif., on May 21, 2024. Wind and solar companies are casting their industries as essential to achieving U.S. energy abundance, betting that argument will do better with a president who dismisses global warming. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times)
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Egg prices have dropped, though you may not have noticed
By DANIELLE KAYE
The wholesale price of eggs has dropped sharply since the beginning of March after soaring for months, but it may take a few weeks for grocery shoppers to see the decline.
Wholesale egg prices, which are what retailers pay to procure eggs, have fallen to a national average of just over $4 for a dozen large white eggs, down from a peak of more than $8 at the end of February, according to data from the Agriculture Department released earlier this month.
But because eggs typically have a fourweek shelf life, it may be the end of March before retail prices start to drop, said Jeremy Horpedahl, an associate professor of economics at the University of Central Arkansas. Some stores, he added, may not reduce prices until their current inventory sells out.
Economists said the decline in wholesale prices, which are still above long-term
Eggs at a grocery store in Arlington, Va., Feb. 13, 2025. The wholesale price of eggs has dropped sharply since the beginning of March after soaring for months, but it may take a few weeks for grocery shoppers to see the decline. (Erin Schaff/The
New York Times)
averages, was very likely fueled by a combination of factors: bird flu coming under control, weaker consumer demand, ramped-up supply and producer pricing decisions. The Agriculture Department noted that there had been no significant outbreaks of avian flu in March, but economists say any new outbreaks could push up prices again. The virus has forced egg producers to cull tens of millions of hens since late last year.
In February, the retail price of eggs rose 10.4% from the previous month, continuing a monthslong climb, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released last week.
Economists noted that prices might not come down evenly across the country. Areas with competing grocery stores might see
egg prices fall more quickly, Horpedahl said, while those dominated by a single chain — with the power to keep prices high for longer — may not. Retail prices may also depend on grocery chains’ strategies, with some opting to keep prices lower to entice customers into stores.
“They can pass the savings of wholesale prices onto us entirely, or not at all, or somewhere in between,” said David Anderson, a professor of economics and business at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. High demand for eggs leading up to Easter may keep prices elevated through then, he said.
President Donald Trump, who made lowering grocery prices a key part of his campaign, has jumped on the wholesale price trend, citing the drop in his speech at the Justice Department last week. At the same time, his sweeping tariffs have stoked concern about an uptick in prices for a host of products, including grocery staples.
The price of eggs and other groceries created angst during the Biden administration, becoming a top concern among voters in the 2024 election. An outbreak of bird flu in 2022, along with increasing fuel, feed and packaging costs linked to the coronavirus pandemic, pushed wholesale egg prices up to nearly $5 a dozen at their peak. Although the spike in egg prices was smaller than the recent surge, overall inflation was higher, piling pressure onto household budgets.
Egg producers have blamed the spread of avian flu for tighter supplies. United Egg Producers, the industry’s trade association, noted that the industry had lost more than 40 million egg-laying hens in 2024 and 31 million in just the first two months of this year as the virus accelerated.
Anderson said the bird flu had hit supply in “dramatic ways.” But at the same time, he added, “the industry may see the bird flu epidemic as a cover for additional price hikes that aren’t necessarily needed.”
“Part of it is they’re really dealing with a crisis,” he said. “Part of it might be, ‘Do we have some cover to keep our prices artificially high?’”
The Justice Department is in the early stages of an antitrust investigation looking into whether major egg producers have shared information about pricing and supply that contributed to a spike in prices. Some lawmakers and advocacy groups had previously called for federal regulators to investigate the industry’s pricing practices.
US equity funds’ weekly outflows surge
U.S. equity funds saw the largest net outflows in three months in the week through March 19 on worries about the impact of U.S. tariff policies and caution ahead of a monetary policy decision from the Federal Reserve.
According to LSEG Lipper data, investors pulled $33.53 billion from U.S. equity funds during the week in their largest weekly net withdrawal since December 18, contrasting with $4.84 billion in net purchases the week before.
The Fed kept its benchmark overnight interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, and indicated that two quarterpoint cuts were likely later this year, while also forecasting slower economic growth and higher inflation.
U.S. large-cap funds saw $27.38 billion of net selling as investors ended a three-week buying streak.
Small-cap, multi-cap and mid-cap funds also saw outflows of $3.48 billion, $1.42 billion and $1.09 billion, respectively.
Selling pressure in sectoral funds, however, eased to the lowest in three weeks as investors pulled out a net $1.35 billion, compared with combined net sales of $7.54 billion in the prior two weeks.
Tech, communication services and healthcare funds led sectoral outflows, with net sales of $451 million, $230 million and $227 million, respectively.
U.S. bond funds, meanwhile, saw their first weekly outflow in 11 weeks, amounting to $513 million.
Investors divested general domestic taxable fixed income funds and loan participation funds worth $1.56 billion and $1.62 billion, respectively.
In contrast, short-to-intermediate government and treasury funds attracted a net $2.89 billion, the 13th weekly inflow in a row.
U.S. investors, meanwhile, ditched $28.83 billion worth of money market funds after $13.43 billion in net sales a week ago.
StubHub’s 2024 revenue surged 29.5%, it reported on Friday in its U.S. initial public offering paperwork, as the online ticketing marketplace moves ahead with its longsought New York flotation.
A handful of companies are moving ahead with stock market listings despite volatility arising from uncertainty around U.S. trade policy.
Nvidia-backed startup CoreWeave and Swedish fintech Klarna are among the companies gearing up to go public in New York.
StubHub, one of the biggest secondary ticketing marketplaces for live events, will sell new shares in the proposed offering, it said.
Its revenue jumped to $1.77 billion in 2024, compared with $1.37 billion a year earlier, thanks to higher ticket sales.
New York-based StubHub swung to a loss of $2.8 million in 2024, compared with a profit of $405.2 million in 2023.
Canada’s leader calls snap federal elections amid Trump threats
By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday called for a federal election to take place April 28, cementing on the calendar another major event as the country experiences one of its most tumultuous and unpredictable periods.
President Donald Trump has imposed painful tariffs on Canada and said more are coming, while also threatening its sovereignty, turning on the United States’ closest ally and trading partner and upending decades of close cooperation in every sphere.
“We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty,” Carney told news media in Ottawa on Sunday.
“President Trump claims that Canada isn’t a real country. He wants to break us so America can own us,” he added. “We will not let that happen. We’re over the shock of the betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons.”
Carney, 60, a political novice with a long career in central banking and finance, was only elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party on March 9, and was sworn in as prime minister March 14. He replaced Justin Trudeau, who had led the Liberals for 13 years and the country for nearly a decade, but had grown deeply unpopular.
Carney had been widely expected to call for a quick election. He does not have a seat in Canada’s parliament, and the Liberals do not command a majority, meaning that their government was likely to fall in a vote of no-
Mark Carney speaks during the Liberal Party’s gathering to announce its new leader in Ottawa, Canada, March 9, 2025. Carney, who has been prime minister for only 10 days, has called for a general election to be held on April 28. (Cole Burston/ The New York Times)
confidence as early as Monday had he not called for the election.
The Liberals’ main opponents are the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre.
Trump’s aggressive stance toward Canada has been a boon for the Liberals and Carney. Before Trump took office, the Conservatives had been ahead by double digits in polls and a victory for Poilievre seemed a foregone conclusion.
But voters have grown concerned that Poilievre is too ideologically similar to Trump to stand up to him, and many are drawn to Carney’s economics experience and long career on the international stage.
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have eliminated a 25-percentage-point lead held by the Conservatives, and the two enter the election period neck and neck.
Speaking just before Carney called for the election Sunday morning, Poilievre tried to distance himself from the perception that he’s aligned with Trump.
“What we need to do is put Canada first for a change,” Poilievre said, echoing his campaign’s core slogan. “When I say I want to cut taxes, unleash our resources, bring back jobs, that’s bad news for President Trump.”
Who’s running?
Carney and the Liberals will square off against the Conservatives and Poilievre, 45, a career politician who made his name as an aggressive orator unafraid to adopt some of Trump’s style.
Poilievre is a mainstream conservative, who has long supported deregulation, tax cuts and an abandonment of Trudeau-era environmental policies in order to enable Canada to ratchet up the exploitation of its vast natural resources, predominantly oil and gas.
Poilievre has also waded into culture war topics and borrowed language from Trump: He attacks practices and politicians as “woke,” has called for the defunding of the Canadian national broadcaster and has said he believes there are only two genders.
He has also said he wants to make Canada the world’s cryptocurrency capital, showing the same affinity for the alternative financial asset as Trump.
Carney, by contrast, has been in the public eye for decades but not in a political capacity. He was governor of the Bank of Canada during the global financial crisis of 2008, and the Bank of England during Brexit.
Since then, he has been working in senior roles in the private sector and has, in recent years, become a prominent advocate for sustainable investment, taking on a role as a United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance.
In the few days that he has been in office, Carney has come across as fluent in economics and comfortable on the global stage, but less accustomed to the close scrutiny of his personal affairs, which is not unusual for people running for high public office.
He has shown himself to be more centrist than Trudeau. On Sunday, as he announced the snap elections, Carney also pledged
tax cuts for the lowest income bracket. In the past few days, he has adopted some of Poilievre’s more centrist positions, including scrapping a household- and small-business tax on carbon emissions and canceling a planned tax hike on capital gains.
The third party in the House of Commons, the Bloc Quebecois, is led by YvesFrançois Blanchet and is dedicated to Quebec nationalism.
Canada’s fourth-largest party, the New Democratic Party, led by Jagmeet Singh, is to the left of the Liberals.
How do Canada’s elections work?
Canada has a first-past-the-post electoral system, which means that candidates who get the most votes in their district win, regardless of whether they secure a majority. Voters elect local members of the House of Commons, not individual party leaders as they would in a presidential system. Parties select their leaders, who then can become prime minister.
The country is divided into 343 electoral districts, known in Canada as ridings, each one corresponding to a seat in the House of Commons.
To form a majority government, a party needs to win 172 seats. If the party with the most seats has fewer than 172, it can still form a minority government, but would need the support of another party to pass legislation.
What happens next?
In the run-up to the election, Carney will remain prime minister and will technically continue to lead the country together with his Cabinet. But they will be in “caretaker” mode and, under Canada’s conventions, can only focus on necessary business, such as dealing with routine or urgent matters. They cannot make new major or controversial decisions.
The parties and their leaders will hit the campaign trail immediately. For Carney, this will be a critical time since he is not an experienced campaigner, unlike Poilievre, who is seasoned in retail politics.
Both men will travel the vast country to try to secure support. Carney’s campaign will be open to journalists paying their own way to travel with him on the trail.
Poilievre’s campaign said it would not allow the news media to join him on trips, stressing that its decision was for logistical reasons and that news coverage was welcomed.
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Venezuela says it will resume accepting US deportation flights
By SHAWN McCREESH
Venezuela announced Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the Trump administration to resume accepting deportation flights carrying migrants who were in the United States illegally, with the first one landing as soon as Sunday.
Part of Venezuela’s willingness to accept the flights appeared related to the plight of Venezuelan migrants whom the Trump administration recently sent to notorious prisons in El Salvador with little to no due process. In a statement Saturday, a representative for the Venezuelan government said, “Migration isn’t a crime, and we will not rest until we achieve the return of all of those in need and rescue our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment Saturday, though one of the president’s close allies, Richard Grenell, said earlier this month that the Venezuelans had agreed to accept the flights.
Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, suspended the deportation cooperation after the Trump administration revoked a Biden-era policy that allowed more oil to be produced in Venezuela and exported.
Since the suspension of the flights, Maduro has come under intense pressure from the Trump administration, which has been pressing various Latin American nations to take in more deportees. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on social media that Venezuela would face new “severe and escalating” sanctions if it refused to accept its repatriated citizens.
Venezuelans have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in record numbers in recent years, in response to the economic and social crisis consuming the nation, which Maduro blames on U.S. sanctions against his regime.
The agreement to resume the deportation flights comes after the Trump administration invoked an obscure wartime authority from 1798 called the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, whose strongman leader agreed to accept the migrants, putting them in prisons where conditions are so nightmarish that many experts say they constitute human rights abuses.
The use of the wartime authority has emerged as a flashpoint in a broader struggle between federal judges across the country, who have sought to curb many of President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions, and an administration that has come close to openly refusing to comply with judicial orders.
Last week, a federal judge in Washington issued a temporary order blocking the gov-
ernment from deporting any immigrants under the wartime authority, saying he did not believe the law offered grounds for the deportation flights.
The Trump administration had claimed that the Venezuelan migrants who had been sent to El Salvador were all criminal gang members, but the families of some of those men, as well as immigration lawyers, argued that this was not the case for all the deportees sent to El Salvadoran prisons. And the administration provided little detail as to whom the individuals it sent there actually were. There seemed to be little to no due process at play.
Trump has appeared captivated by the ability to send people to the prison complexes in El Salvador, threatening Friday that those caught vandalizing Teslas could be banished there for 20 years.
The president and his allies, including Elon Musk, went to war with the judge over his order restricting deportations, calling for the judge’s impeachment. The rapidly escalating spat caused Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court to weigh in with a rare statement admonishing the calls for the judge’s impeachment. This spurred concerns of a constitutional crisis.
The Trump administration has continued to stonewall the judge’s questions about the deportations to El Salvador. “The government
is not being terribly cooperative at this point,” said the judge, James E. Boasberg, at a hearing Friday. “But I will get to the bottom of whether they violated my order and who was responsible.”
Saturday’s agreement could help Trump accelerate his plans for mass deportations, one of the central promises of his campaign. He has already enlisted military planes, sent people to third countries far from their homes and invoked the wartime law to achieve that
goal. Arrests inside the country are up sharply relative to those in the Biden administration, but they are well below the levels Trump and his immigration advisers want.
The agreement to resume the deportation flights to Venezuela also comes a day after the Trump administration said that it would end a Biden-era program that allowed hundreds of thousands of people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the United States lawfully and work for up to two years.
Venezuelan National Guard officers watch over the first flight transporting deportees from the United States to Venezuela in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Feb. 11, 2025. Venezuela announced Saturday, March 22, that it had reached an agreement with the Trump administration to resume accepting deportation flights carrying migrants who were in the United States illegally, with the first one landing as soon as Sunday.(Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times)
Keir Starmer on Putin, Trump and Europe’s challenge: ‘We’ve known this moment was coming’
By MARK LANDLER
With a staccato burst, a horn sounded in the control room of the HMS Vanguard, sending the crew of the nuclear-armed Royal Navy submarine to battle stations. The voice of the commanding officer crackled over the intercom. “Set condition 1SQ,” he said, ordering its battery of ballistic missiles to be readied for launch.
It was just a drill, conducted last Monday for a visiting VIP, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But Starmer had reason to pay close attention when he was shown where the submarine’s launch key is stored: The prime minister is the only person in the United Kingdom authorized to order a nuclear strike.
“You’re looking for the ideal conditions?” Starmer asked softly, as the captain explained how the Vanguard must be maneuvered to the right depth to launch its Trident missiles. Starmer leaned forward in the captain’s chair, the blue glow from a bank of screens reflected in his eyeglasses.
Later, after he had climbed a 32-foot ladder to the submarine’s deck, Starmer reflected on its nearly seven-month-long mission. Prowling silently in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, it is designed to deter a nuclear conflict with Russia (at least one of the four Vanguard-class submarines is always on patrol). At a time when Europe’s capacity to defend itself has come under criticism, not least from President Donald Trump, Starmer said these mighty boats were an ironclad symbol of Britain’s commitment to NATO.
“Twenty-four hours, 365 days, year after year after year, for 55 years,” Starmer told me after we had cast off and the Vanguard steamed toward its home port in Scotland. “It has kept the peace for a very long time.”
Back on a tugboat, taking us to shore in the Firth of Clyde, Starmer sat alone, staring out a window at the gathering clouds. It has been a defining, if sobering, few weeks for the 62-year-old leader: Swept into power eight
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives President Donald Trump an invitation from King Charles III for a state visit in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, Feb. 27, 2025. “On a person-to-person basis, I think we have a good relationship,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said of President Trump. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
months ago on a tide of discontent about the cost of living, he now finds himself fighting to avert a rupture of the post-World War II alliance between Europe and the United States.
“In our heart of hearts, we’ve known this moment was coming from just over three years ago, when Russian tanks rolled across the border” of Ukraine, Starmer said of Europe’s heightened vulnerability and the strains in the NATO alliance. “We have to treat this as a galvanizing moment and seize the initiative.”
first postwar Labour prime minister, as he described Britain’s singular role in a more fractured West.
“Many people are urging us to choose between the U.S. and Europe,” he said in one of three conversations last week. “Churchill didn’t do it. Attlee didn’t do it. It’d be a big mistake, in my view, to choose now.”
has rejected the idea of a NATO peacekeeping force. Trump has yet to offer security guarantees, which Starmer says are crucial before countries will commit troops. Aside from Britain and France, no other European country has done so, even as Starmer led the first military planning meeting for the coalition Thursday.
Senior British military and defense officials said they expected that ultimately, multiple countries would contribute planes, ships or troops to the effort. But regardless of the political and diplomatic uncertainties, Starmer said he felt he had little choice but to get ahead of the pack.
“If we only move at the pace of the most cautious,” he said, “then we’re going to move very slowly and we’re not going to be in the position we need to be in.”
Three days after the submarine visit, Starmer took part in a keel-laying ceremony for a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines, being built at a shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, in northwest England. Four Dreadnought-class vessels, each almost the length of St. Paul’s Cathedral, are scheduled to go into service in the early 2030s, at an estimated cost of 41 billion pounds ($53 billion).
Standing in the cavernous factory, with the aft section of a submarine towering above him, Starmer expressed pride in this statement of British might. But it was also a reminder of the stretched state of its military.
The crisis has transformed Starmer, turning a methodical, unflashy human rights lawyer and Labour Party politician into something akin to a wartime leader. With debates over welfare reform and the economy largely eclipsed for now by fears about Britain’s national security, Starmer invoked Winston Churchill and, in a nod to his party, Clement Attlee, the
Pausing for a moment, Starmer added, “I do think that President Trump has a point when he says there needs to be a greater burden borne by European countries for the collective self-defense of Europe.”
The immediate question is whether Britain and Europe will play a meaningful role in Trump’s negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. To ensure that they do, Starmer is trying to assemble a multinational military force that he calls a coalition of the willing. The goal, he says, is to keep Ukraine’s skies, ports and borders secure after any peace settlement.
“I don’t trust Putin,” Starmer said. “I’m sure Putin would try to insist that Ukraine should be defenseless after a deal because that gives him what he wants, which is the opportunity to go in again.”
Britain faces hurdles on every front: Russia
The Vanguard-class submarines being replaced by the Dreadnoughts are nearly 30 years old — “pretty old kit,” in Starmer’s words — which necessitates prolonged maintenance periods. That has extended the patrols for the other vessels in the fleet and put acute pressure on their roughly 130-person crews.
The strain was on display during Starmer’s visit to the Vanguard, which set a Royal Navy record for longest patrol. Sailors said the food, excellent at first, deteriorated as the submarine’s provisions dwindled. Four were returning to spouses who had had babies while they were away. Others lost family members, only learning the news from the captain on the eve of their return.
“It is with huge respect to the team” that they survived seven months at sea, Starmer said after stepping gingerly off the submarine’s weathered deck. “But we shouldn’t be celebrating it.”
“This has doubled my resolve to ensure we go further and faster in our capabilities,” he said, “to make sure they are not put in that position again.”
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Who will defend the defenders of the Constitution?
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Domino’s pizzas arrived at the homes of federal judges without explanation. The message was clear: We know where you live.
The mysterious pizza deliveries are happening at the same time that President Donald Trump, his aides and their allies have started an intimidation campaign against the legal system — through executive orders, social media posts, public comments and even articles of impeachment. The evident goal is to spread anxiety and fear among judges and keep them from fulfilling their constitutional duty to insist that the Trump administration follow the law. The campaign extends to private-sector lawyers, with Trump trying to damage the business of several firms he does not like. The scope of these tactics can sometimes get lost amid the pace of news, and we want to pause to connect the dots and explain the seriousness of what’s happening.
We also want to honor the people who are taking a public stand against this campaign, including Chief Justice John Roberts, and urge more lawyers to do so in the days ahead. Every time a judge or lawyer steps forward, it becomes easier for others to speak out and harder for Trump to isolate any one person standing up for the law. He is straining the American system of checks and balances in ways it has not been tested in many decades. The most effective way to protect that system starts with courage from more people who believe in it.
The primary targets for intimidation have been federal judges, the latest being Judge James Boasberg. On March 15, he ruled that the Trump administration could not send 261 migrants to a prison in El Salvador without first holding a hearing. The administration continued deportation flights nonetheless, and its lawyers have since dissembled about the timeline. In response, Trump described Boasberg, who was appointed to the bench by George W. Bush and elevated by Barack Obama, as a “troublemaker,” “agitator” and “Radical Left Lunatic” who should be impeached. A Republican House member filed articles of impeachment hours later, and Elon Musk announced he had made the maximum campaign contribution to several House members who supported the articles.
Trump’s allies outside government echo these attacks in even harsher ways. Media allies of Trump have published biographical details about judges’ children. Federal marshals recently warned judges about an increase in personal threats. After Judge John Coughenour temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, he was the subject of a bomb threat hoax. No wonder that judges feel “mounting alarm over their physical security,” according to interviews by Reuters.
We want to emphasize that criticizing a judge’s decision can be entirely reasonable. Joe Biden, Obama, Bush and other presidents inveighed against rulings. The Constitution establishes the judiciary as equal to the executive and legislative branches, not dominant over them. And Republicans are not the only ones who have crossed a line when unhappy with judges. Liberal critics of the Supreme Court have harassed justices at their homes, and in one extreme case, a man unhappy with the court’s approach to abortion planned to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Yet Trump’s efforts at judicial intimidation are of a different scale. As president, he is encouraging a campaign of menace. In case after case, he argues that the only reasonable result is a victory for his side — and that he alone can determine what is legal and what is not. His allies then try to dehumanize the judges with whom they disagree and make them fear for their safety.
Trump’s efforts to subdue law firms may seem separate, but they are connected. He has issued three executive orders removing the security clearances of lawyers at three large firms: Covington & Burling, Perkins Coie and Paul, Weiss. In each case, the motivation is political. The firms have employed lawyers who represented Democrats, investigated Trump and sued Jan. 6 rioters.
The orders against Perkins Coie and Paul, Weiss were broad, barring their lawyers from entering federal buildings and discouraging federal employees from interacting with them. In doing so, the administration tried to devastate the firms: They cannot represent clients if their lawyers cannot speak with federal regulators, investigators and prosecutors.
These orders are not merely revenge, though. They are attempts to undermine the legal system and freedom of speech. If it becomes onerous for anybody who dares question Trump to hire a lawyer, fewer people will challenge him. Those who do will find themselves at a severe disadvantage in court. “An informed, independent judiciary presumes an informed, independent bar,” as Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a 2001 decision. On March 12, Judge Beryl Howell temporarily blocked part of the order against Perkins Coie, calling it “retaliatory animus” that “sends little chills down my spine.”
The initial response from many law firms has been a disappointing mixture of silence and capitulation. The clearest example is Paul, Weiss. During Trump’s first term, it helped sue the Trump administration for its separation of migrant children from their parents, and the firm’s chair, Brad Karp, boasted that the firm fought “to protect the liberties and freedoms of the most vulnerable among us.” In the past few days, he reversed course. He traveled to the White House and agreed that the firm would donate $40 million in legal services to causes Trump favors. In exchange, Trump said he would drop the executive order against Paul, Weiss.
By caving, Paul, Weiss has increased the chances that Trump will attack other firms.
More than 600 associates at top firms have signed an open letter that captures the larger dynamic: Trump is trying to create a chilling effect among law firms. The letter — signed by lawyers at stalwart firms like Cravath, Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps, along with Paul, Weiss — criticizes their own firms’ partners for not speaking up. “These tactics only work if the majority does not speak up,” the letter says.
There are some signs of bravery. Williams & Connolly, a firm where Kavanaugh and Justice Elena Kagan previously worked, has sued the Trump administration on behalf of Perkins Coie. We hope that more large firms display such courage.
The response from judges has been stronger, despite the threats that they face. During court hearings, they have tried to ascertain the facts of cases and confronted Trump’s lawyers about their dubious assertions. Roberts, for his part, released an
President Donald Trump, right, speaks with Chief Justice John Roberts as he arrives to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
admirable statement the same day that the president called for Boasberg’s impeachment, saying that impeachment was “not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.” Even though the chief justice did not name Trump, the speed and directness of the response were highly unusual.
As Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University, said, “The courts’ behavior to this point has been spot on.” Trump’s testing of America’s legal system has probably only begun, and it will require a more vigilant response in coming months. If he continues to defy court orders, judges may need to begin holding his lawyers and aides in contempt. Roberts, as well as his Supreme Court colleagues, may have to become bolder about protecting the legal system they oversee. Law firm leaders would do well to summon more patriotism and courage. Members of Congress can do the same by asserting their own constitutional powers.
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Bajan los casos de Influenza, pero aumentan los de COVID-19 según informe DS
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – El designado secretario del Departamento de Salud (DS), Víctor Ramos Otero, anunció el sábado que continua la reducción en los casos de influenza en Puerto Rico.
“Este logro demuestra que cuando unimos esfuerzos, educamos a la población y garantizamos el acceso a la vacunación, podemos reducir significativamente el impacto de enfermedades respiratorias como la influenza. Continuamos trabajando de la mano con nuestros aliados para fortalecer la vigilancia epidemiológica y la respuesta rápida ante cualquier brote”, dijo Ramos Otero en declaraciones escritas.
El plan de acción, ejecutado entre las semanas epidemiológicas 01-10, integró la participación de proveedores de servicios de salud, Colegio de Profesionales de la Enfermería, Colegio de Administradores de Servicios de Salud, Colegio de Tecnólogos Médicos, Alianza de
Centros de Salud Primaria 330 (Alianza 330), Asociación de Farmacias de la Comunidad, Asociación de Centros de Cuidado Infantil (ASOCUIDA), así como aseguradoras que forman parte del Plan Vital.
La principal oficial de Epidemiología, Miriam Ramos Colón, expresó que para la semana epidemiológica 10 se reportaron 10 brotes de influenza, lo que representa cinco menos que la semana anterior, con un total de 28 casos asociados. Desde el inicio del año epidemiológico, se han registrado 178 brotes en instituciones educativas, lo que ha permitido implementar acciones preventivas efectivas.
Ramos Colón explicó, además, que los municipios con mayor incidencia de casos acumulados en 2025 incluyen a San Juan con 122 casos. Le sigue Caguas con 57 casos , Toa Baja con 55 casos y Carolina con 51 casos (5.0%).
En cuanto al COVID-19, se observó un leve aumento en la semana epidemiológica 10, con 510 casos
reportados y un nivel de transmisión moderado. Respecto al virus respiratorio sincitial (RSV, por sus siglas en inglés), se han acumulado 884 casos en 2025, con una disminución constante en las últimas semanas. En cuanto a las enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos y agua (ETAA), se han registrado 146 casos acumulados, con un mayor número de caos asociados a Salmonella.
Secretario del Departamento de Hacienda participará en Facebook Live del CCPA
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – Como parte de sus esfuerzos para orientar a los contribuyentes durante la temporada contributiva, el Colegio de Contadores Públicos Autorizados de
Puerto Rico (CCPA), anunció que estarán realizando una serie de Facebook Live, comenzando el martes, 25 de marzo a las 6:00 pm.
“Durante el período contributivo, en el CCPA siempre nos hemos caracterizado por ofrecer a los contribuyentes información actualizada y relevante sobre la radicación de la Planilla de Contribución sobre Ingresos de Individuos, que vence el 15 de abril. Estaremos reforzando estas orientaciones con una serie de Facebook Live que comienzan el martes, 25 de marzo. En la primera transmisión contaremos con la participación especial del Hon. Ángel Pantoja, secretario del Departamento de Hacienda, quien estará ofreciendo una actualización de este ciclo
contributivo”, expresó la CPA Cynthia J. Rijo Sánchez, presidenta del CCPA.
La segunda transmisión será el 1 de abril cuando se hablará sobre la radicación de la Planilla Federal; y culminarán el 8 de abril orientando sobre las Cuentas de Retiro Individual (IRA, por sus siglas en inglés). Además, en su página web (www.colegiocpa.com), el CCPA cuenta con una sección informativa donde se incluyen el Manual del Contribuyente, el Manual de la IRA, entrevistas y artículos de interés. Asimismo, en sus cuentas en las redes sociales de Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube y Tik Tok (colegiocpapr) pueden encontrar material de referencia.
Viktor Pollo abre en Cayey
Luego de más de 30 años de servir pollo asado en múltiples establecimientos en la Isla y Florida Central, Viktor Pollo celebra la apertura de su décima localidad, en el pueblo de Cayey. Con un menú que incluye, además de pollo asado, costillas a la BBQ y longaniza de pollo, y acompañantes como yuca, batata, guineos, arroz con gandules y más, Viktor Pollo continúa conquistando los paladares de los puertorriqueños que buscan el sazón hogareño que por años les ha caracterizado.
“Estamos sumamente emocionados de seguir llevando nuestro sabroso pollo a más rincones de la Isla, y Cayey nos esperaba con ansias,” expresó Arturo Norat, propietario y fundador del negocio familiar. “Fueron muchos los meses de trabajo y planificación para llegar hasta aquí, y Cayey nos ha recibido con los brazos abiertos. Hace 30 años jamás pensamos abrir 10 establecimientos, pero el apoyo de nuestros clientes a través de los años ha sido increíble y
estamos agradecidos del patrocinio donde quiera que plantamos bandera”, puntualizó el empresario.
Los dueños de la empresa se han encargado de mantener la consistencia y calidad de sus productos en cada una de las localidades que operan, y Cayey no será la excepción. El nuevo establecimiento está ubicado en la Carr. #1, Km. 56.7 en el Barrio Beatriz de Cayey. El mismo abrirá todos los días desde las 8:00AM hasta las 7:00PM. Viktor Pollo es una empresa establecida en el 1992 en Coamo, y que mantiene localidades en Coamo, Santa Isabel, Guayama, Ponce, Caguas, Yauco, Kissimmee, y ahora Cayey. Se especializan en un menú de pollo asado, costillas, longaniza, arroz con gandules y viandas como yuca, batata, guineo, plátano maduro y más. Para más información, puede comunicarse al 787-402-0322. También pueden visitar su página de Internet www.viktorpollo.com o en Facebook, Viktor Pollo Oficial.
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In Wes Anderson’s world, it’s all about the details
By ALEX MARSHALL
When Wes Anderson was just starting out and wanted to reshoot some scenes for his 1996 debut “Bottle Rocket,” the rookie director got a shock. Columbia Pictures had sent all the movie’s props off to a store, which had then sold them for next to nothing.
So when he made his next movie, “Rushmore” (1998), Anderson decided the same thing would never happen again. He put everything into an SUV when the shoot was over, then drove the hoard away to look after it himself.
That decision ended up helping not just Anderson. Over the past 2 1/2 years, curators at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and the Design Museum in London trawled Anderson’s storage facility in Kent, England — which contains thousands of items from his movies — to compile a museum retrospective of the director’s work.
The show opened at the Cinémathèque Française last week, where it runs through July 27. It will transfer, expanded, to the Design Museum in the fall.
The Paris show includes more than 500 exhibits, many of them well known to Anderson fans, including the candy pink hotel model that opens “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” several sardine-blue explorer outfits from “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” and a luxurious fur coat worn by Gwyneth Paltrow in “The Royal
Puppets from the movie “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” part of an exhibition celebrating the film career of the director Wes Anderson at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, March 14, 2025. A museum exhibition shows how thousands of small decisions add up to make the director’s signature style. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
Tenenbaums.”
Items like these are key to Anderson’s signature style — heavy on retro fashion, symmetry and pastel colors — as popularized by Instagram and TikTok accounts and documented in books and magazine spreads. But Johanna Agerman Ross, a curator at the Design Museum, said it was a “misunderstanding” to think of Anderson as a director defined by a few stylistic tropes.
He also had “an extreme interest in the creative process,” Agerman Ross said, and he believed that because even the smallest items help create a world on screen, they needed to be “fully formed pieces of art and design.”
Some of Anderson’s best-known props took weeks or months to conceive and make, including a faux-Renaissance painting, “Boy With Apple,” that appears in “The Grand Budapest Hotel”; a vending machine that mixes and dispenses martinis from “Asteroid City”; and painted Louis Vuitton luggage that appears in “The Darjeeling Limited.”
Agerman Ross said that while developing the exhibition, she had spoken with craftspeople who told her that they had lengthy email correspondences with Anderson to discuss every detail of the props they were making, right down to tweaking fonts and colors for magazine covers that appear for milliseconds in “The French Dispatch.”
Matthieu Orléan, a curator at the Cinémathèque Française, said that Anderson’s attention to detail shaped his projects from their be-
A puppet with real animal fibers for the movie “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” part of an exhibition celebrating the film career of the director Wes Anderson at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, March 14, 2025.
(Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
ginnings. The exhibition includes a vitrine filled with yellow spiral-bound notebooks in which the director jotted down his ideas. They contain notes for scripts, in careful capital letters, and minute storyboards for scenes.
The exhibition also includes a screen showing an animatic: a black-and-white animated storyboard that Anderson uses to show actors and crew how he wants scenes to appear on
screen. Orléan said that Anderson had produced these for all his movies since “Fantastic Mr. Fox” in 2008, adding that the director then records himself reading the script over it so that the actors know how he wants the lines to be delivered.
“Fantastic Mr. Fox,” Anderson’s first stopmotion animation movie, was a turning point in his almost 30-year career.
On a tour of the show earlier this week, Andy Gent, a model maker who has worked on seven Anderson movies, said that the director had “totally changed the look” of stop-motion films by insisting the puppets in that movie have real animal fibers, even though they were hard to control and could move between shots, creating a screen effect known as “boiling,” where the puppet’s fur appears to be constantly moving.
Gent and his fellow puppet makers would “slave over the tiniest whisker” to ensure the figures looked exactly as Anderson wanted, he said, though he added that the director gave his craftspeople freedom, despite his reputation for perfectionism.
While making “Isle of Dogs,” for instance, Gent recalled that Anderson’s opening instruction was simple: “Sculpt some dogs!” So Gent and his team spent months making hundreds of mongrels, with Anderson choosing bits he liked from individual models and asking the puppet makers to bring them together. “It was amazing fun,” Gent recalled.
At the opening of the Paris exhibition Monday, one item drew more attention than any other: the model of the Grand Budapest Hotel. Before giving a brief speech, Anderson, who declined to be interviewed for this article, posed in front of its pink walls for photos, including with a French pop star in a cutesy outfit, like a character in an Anderson movie.
Simon Weisse, who oversaw the making of the prop, said that six craftspeople spent three months building the model, which includes glass windows and sheer curtains. The color choice, though, was all Anderson’s, he said.
Weisse said that when the color samples had first arrived at the studio, he couldn’t believe it. “I said, ‘Pink? Bright pink and dark pink? No!’” he recalled. “I asked the art department to check there wasn’t a mistake, but they said, ‘It’s right. Wes has chosen these colors.’”
It was only when Weisse finished the job, he said, that he appreciated Anderson’s decision. The colors were quirky, but they echoed real central European buildings, and fitted perfectly with the movie’s eccentricities.
Anderson might sweat the smallest details, Weisse said, but “in the end, he’s always right.”
Sam’s scout uniform from the movie “Moonrise Kingdom,” part of an exhibition celebrating the film career of the director Wes Anderson at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, March 14, 2025. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
Trump administration aims to eliminate EPA’s scientific research arm
By LISA FRIEDMAN
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
The strategy is part of large-scale layoffs, known as a “reduction in force,” being planned by the Trump administration, which is intent on shrinking the federal workforce. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has said he wants to eliminate 65% of the agency’s budget. That would be a drastic reduction — one that experts said could hamper clean water and wastewater improvements, air quality monitoring, the cleanup of toxic industrial sites and other parts of the agency’s mission.
The EPA’s plan, which was presented to White House officials March 14 for review, calls for dissolving the agency’s largest department, the Office of Research and Development, and purging up to 75% of the people who work there.
The remaining staff members would be placed elsewhere within the EPA “to provide increased oversight and align with administration priorities,” according to the language shared with The New York Times by staff members who work for Democrats on the House science committee.
Molly Vaseliou, a spokesperson for the EPA, said in a statement that the agency “is taking exciting steps as we enter the next phase of organizational improvements” and stressed that changes had not been finalized.
“We are committed to enhancing our ability to deliver clean air, water and land for all Americans,” she said. “While no decisions have been made yet, we are actively listening to employees at all levels to gather ideas on how to increase efficiency and ensure the EPA is as up to date and effective as ever.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the science committee, said that without the Office of Research and Development, the EPA would not be able to meet its legal obligation to use the “best available science” when writing regulations and considering policy. She also said that the office was created by congressional statute and that dissolving it would be illegal.
“Every decision EPA makes must be in furtherance of protecting human health and the environment, and that just can’t happen if you gut EPA science,” Lofgren said in a statement. She said that the first Trump administration had weakened the agency’s scientific research in order to relax regulations against polluting industries. “Now this is their
attempt to kill it for good,” she said.
The EPA’s science office provides the independent research that undergirds virtually all of the agency’s environmental policies, from analyzing the risks of “forever chemicals” in drinking water to determining the best way to reduce fine particle pollution in the atmosphere. It has researched synthetic playground material made from discarded tires; found that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, can contaminate drinking water; and measured the impact of wildfire smoke on public health. The office also helps state environmental agencies figure out how to address algae blooms, treat drinking water and more.
Its findings tend to support stronger regulations to protect against exposure to air pollution, hazardous chemicals and climate change. And that has made it a target of many industries. Eliminating the office would serve the Trump administration’s dual goals of reducing the size of government while potentially easing regulation of the chemical and fossil fuel industries.
The science office was also criticized by Project 2025, a blueprint for overhauling the federal government that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written by many who are serving in the Trump administration.
The chapter on the EPA accuses the science office of being “precautionary, bloated, unaccountable, closed, outcome-driven, hostile to public and legislative input, and inclined to pursue political rather than purely scientific goals.”
It calls for eliminating programs within the science office, in particular the Integrated Risk Information System, which evaluates the human health effects of exposure to toxic chemicals and uses that information to form the basis for restrictions on their use. Industries regulated by the EPA often push back against that research. A bill introduced by Sen.
John Kennedy, R-La., and backed by industry groups seeks to prevent the EPA from using the research.
“It is an assault on science,” said Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, who ran the EPA office under the first Trump administration.
Shuttering the office would cost jobs across the country, particularly in places like North Carolina and Ada, Oklahoma, two of the places where the agency operates major research labs, she said. In addition to chemists and biologists, the science office also employs physicians, nurses, hydrologists and experts who focus on plants, soils and wetlands.
Chris Frey, who led the Office of Research and Development under the Biden administration, said eliminating it would create a vacuum that would allow an administration to impose any policies it wanted to.
“It’s certainly convenient for certain stakeholders to have ORD silenced,” Frey said.
The American Chemistry Council, which represents chemical manufacturers, said in a statement that it supported the EPA’s having the “resources, technical staff and subject matter expertise needed for the agency to meet its statutory requirements.”
More than 40 former EPA officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations plan to send a letter Tuesday to Zeldin warning that steep cuts will render the agency unable to meet its mission.
“Policy changes are to be expected from one administration to the next, but not the dismantling of EPA,” the officials wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Times. “If the administration does not agree with the laws Congress has passed and the programs it has funded, it should work with Congress to seek changes, not unilaterally and recklessly freeze, delay or eliminate funding.”
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC
Plaintiff V. THE ESTATE OF HIPÓLITO GONZÁLEZ TORRES A/K/A HIPÓLITO GONZÁLEZ COMPOSED OF JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendants Civil Action No.: 17-cv-2067-A. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: THE ESTATE OF HIPÓLITO GONZÁLEZ TORRES A/K/A HIPÓLITO GONZÁLEZ COMPOSED OF JANE DOE AND JOHN DOE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; 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 Reverse Mortgage Funding, LLC, 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 $69,750.00 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio
Bajuras de Isabela, Puerto Rico, identificada en el Plano de Segregación como solar número 5, con una cabida superficial de 1,000 metros cuadrados, en lindes al NORTE, en 12.991 metros y 3.894 metros, con G.R. y Asociados, Inc.; al SUR, en 8.19 metros, con calle de uso público; al ESTE, en 57.276 metros, con solar número 6 vendida a Carlos Valverde; y al OESTE, en 56.858 metros, con el solar número 4 vendido a Eduvico Méndez. Property Number Number 23,497, recorded at page 55 of volume 431 of Isabela. Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section of Aguadilla. The mortgage is recorded in the Registry of Property of Puerto Rico, at the Karibe System for Isabela. 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 $697,500.00, due on September 11, 2097, pursuant to deed number 51, issued in Manati, Puerto Rico, on March 22, 2013, before notary José M. Biaggi Junquera, and recorded, at Karibe System of Isabela, ninth 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 9:30 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $697,500.00. 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 9:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum $465,000.00, 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 9:30 AM, and the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $348,750.00, which is one-half 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. Joel Ronda, Special Master, rondajoel@ me.com, 787-565-0515.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ. WEST COAST CAPITAL, LLC; Demandante; v. JUAN RUIZ VALENTÍN Y SU ESPOSA GUMERSINDA RIVERA MONTALVO AMBOS POR SÍ EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES POR ELLOS CONSTITUIDA; ESTADO UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados. CIVIL NÚM.: ISCI2011-01706 (307). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la
presente anuncia y hace constar, que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia, expedido el 4 de abril de 2024 por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Mayagüez, procederé a vender en públicas subastas y al(os) mejor(es) postor(es), quien(es) pagará(n) el(los) importe(s) de las ventas en dinero efectivo o en cheque certificado o de gerente, a la orden del Alguacil del Tribunal, en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, el día 2 de abril de 2025, a la(s) 9:00 de la mañana, para la Finca Número 12,800; para la Finca Número 12,801, a la(s) 9:30 de la mañana; para la Finca Número 12,802, a la(s) 10:00 de la mañana; para la Finca Número 12,803, a la(s) 10:30 de la mañana y para la Finca Número 12,804, a la(s) 11:00 de la mañana, en las oficinas del Alguacil del Tribunal de Mayagüez, todo título, derecho o interés que corresponda a la parte demandada sobre los inmuebles que se describen a continuación: Finca Número 12,800. a. RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Añasco Arriba, Caracol y María del término municipal de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial aproximada de doscientos cincuenta y cuatro cuerdas (254.00 cdas.), en lindes al Norte, con remanente de la finca principal; por el Sur, con carretera estatal número Ciento Nueve (109) y Sucesión Sixto Niego; por el Este, con Miguel Ángel García Méndez, Sucesión Sixto Niego y Sucesión Oscar Bravo; y por el Oeste, con la carretera estatal número dos (2). Finca Número 12,800, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: PR-2, Km 143.5 – 144.7, Caracol y Añasco Arriba Ward, Añasco, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre
Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Por sí: HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $1,200,000.00, con interés a un punto porcentual sobre la tasa de interés preferente (Prime Rate), según publicada en periódicos de circulación general tal como “The Wall Street Journal”, disponiendo, que de publicarse más de una de dichas tasas en la misma fecha, prevalecerá la más alta, según la misma fluctúe de tiempo en tiempo, desde la fecha de este otorgamiento hasta el total y completo pago de dicho pagaré, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #204, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de abril de 2000, ante el Notario Público Roberto M. García Rullán, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca #12800, inscripción 2ª. SENTENCIA DECLARATIVA sobre Cobro de Dinero, Demandante; Banco Popular de Puerto Rico; Demandado: Juan Ruiz Valentín, et al, por $1,200,000.00, expedida por el Centro Judicial de Mayagüez, Sala Superior, caso Civil #ISCI201101706 de fecha 18 de junio de 2012, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca #12800, inscripción 3ª. Finca Número 12,801. b. RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Añasco Abajo del término municipal de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial aproximada de cuarenta y uno punto trescientos noventa y ocho cuerdas (41.398 cdas.), en lindes al Norte, con camino municipal que conduce de la carretera estatal número Dos (2) a la Playa y que la separa de terrenos de la Sucesión de Francisco Lugo Lugo; por el Sur, con el Río Grande de Añasco; por el Este, con la carretera estatal número Dos (2); y por el Oeste, con la Sucesión de Enriqueta Goyco viuda de Arrarás. Finca Número 12,801, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: PR-2, Km 143.5 – 144.7, Caracol y Añasco Arriba Ward, Añasco, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor de Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto. Por sí: HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $81,250.00, con interés a un punto porcentual sobre la tasa de interés preferente (Prime Rate), según publicada en periódicos de circulación general tal como “The Wall Street Journal”, disponiendo, que de publicarse más de una de dichas tasas en la misma fecha, prevalecerá la más alta, según la misma fluctúe de tiempo en tiempo, desde la fecha de este otorgamiento hasta el total y completo pago de dicho pagaré, y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #205, otorgada en Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de abril de 2000, ante el Notario Público Roberto M. García Rullán, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca #12801, inscripción 2ª. Finca Número 12,802 c. RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el Barrio Caracol del término municipal de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial aproximada de treinta y cuatro punto cuatrocientos veintiuna cuerdas (34.421 cdas.), en lindes al Norte, con terrenos de Raquel Fajardo de Ross, otros de la Sucesión Félix Iñigo y otros de las hermanas Barletta Vidal; por el Sur, con una porción de la finca Estala propiedad de Dora Ramírez de Arellano y sus hijos y nietos de los hermanos Alomar Esteve; por el Este, con la carretera estatal número Dos (2) que de Mayagüez conduce a Aguadilla; y por el Oeste, en una porción con la carretera estatal número Ciento Quince (115) que conduce de la carretera estatal número Dos (2) a Rincón. Finca Número 12,802, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de
Mayagüez. Dirección Física: PR-2, Km 143.5 – 144.7, Caracol y Añasco Arriba Ward, Añasco, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, traspasada a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico; Servidumbre por Expropiación Forzosa a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Por sí: HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $179,000.00, con interés a razón de un punto porcentual sobre la tasa de interés preferente (Prime Rate), según publicada en periódicos de circulación general tal como “The Wall Street Journal”; disponiendo, que de publicarse más de una de dichas tasas en la misma fecha, prevalecerá la más alta, según la misma fluctúe de tiempo en tiempo, desde la fecha de este otorgamiento hasta el total y completo pago de dicho pagaré y vencedero a la presentación, según consta escritura #209, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de abril de 2000, ante el Notario Público Roberto M. García Rullán, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca #12802, inscripción 2ª. Finca Número 12,803. d. RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno conocida por Pámpano, radicada en el Barrio Caracol y Añasco Arriba del término municipal de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial aproximada de cincuenta y nueve cuerdas (59.00 cdas.), y en lindes al Norte, con remanente de la finca principal; por el Sur, con la finca Trinidad propiedad de Dora Ramírez de Arellano e hijos y nietos; por el Este, con la finca Trinidad propiedad de Dora Ramírez de Arellano e hijos y nietos; y por el Oeste, con
la carretera estatal número Dos (2). Finca Número 12,803, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: PR-2, Km 143.5 – 144.7, Caracol y Añasco Arriba Ward, Añasco, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales, 2 Servidumbres a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Por sí: HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $275,000.00, con interés a un punto porcentual sobre la tasa de interés preferente (Prime Rate), según publicada en periódicos de circulación general tal como “The Wall Street Journal”, disponiendo, que de publicarse más de una de dichas tasas en la misma fecha, prevalecerá la más alta, según la misma fluctúe de tiempo en tiempo, desde la fecha de este otorgamiento hasta el total y completo pago de dicho pagaré y vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura #206, otorgada en el día 4 de abril de 2000, ante el Notario Público Roberto M. García Rullán, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, finca #12803, inscripción 2ª. Finca Número 12,804. e. RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno conocida por Pámpanos, radicada en el Barrio Caracol del término municipal de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial aproximada de cuarenta y tres punto cero trescientos cincuenta y ocho cuerdas (43.0358 cdas.), y en lindes al Norte, con parcela que es parte de la finca Trinidad propiedad de Dora Ramírez de Arellano, sus hijos y nietos; por el Sur, con la carretera estatal número Ciento Quince (115) que de la carretera estatal Dos (2) conduce a Rincón; por el Este, con la carretera estatal número Dos (2); y por el Oeste, con la carretera estatal número Ciento Quince (115) que de la carretera estatal número dos (2) conduce a Rincón. Finca Número 12,804, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Añasco, Registro de la Propiedad de Mayagüez. Dirección Física: PR-2, Km 143.5 – 144.7, Caracol y Añasco Arriba Ward, Añasco, Puerto Rico. La propiedad descrita anteriormente está afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: Afecta por su procedencia: Autoridad de Fuentes Fluviales, 2 Servidumbres del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Por sí: HIPOTECA en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Popular de
de catorce metros y cincuenta centímetros; por el SUR, con el solar Veintitrés, distancia de catorce metros y cincuenta centímetros; por el ESTE, con el solar trece, distancia de veinticuatro metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar once, distancia de veinticuatro metros. En el descrito solar enclava una casa diseñada para una familia. FINCA NÚMERO: 22,611, inscrita al folio 168 del tomo 561 de Carolina, sección II de Carolina. Dirección Física: BARRIO HOYO MULAS, URB. VILLA CAROLINA, SOLAR 12 MANZANA 98, CALLE 94, CAROLINA PR 00985. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 22 DE ABRIL DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Carolina. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $64,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 29 DE ABRIL DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $42,666.66. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 6 DE MAYO DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $32,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. El Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia In Rem, declarando Con Lugar la demanda al incumplir la parte demandada con los términos del contrato hipotecario y ordenando la venta en pública subasta del inmueble antes descrito. A tenor con la Regla 51.3 (b) de Procedimiento Civil y el Artículo 99 de la Ley 210-2015, conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”, el tribunal ordenó
que el Alguacil de este Tribunal luego de haberse efectuado la correspondiente publicación de edictos en un periódico de circulación general, proceda a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor la propiedad descrita en las Determinaciones de Hechos de la Sentencia y que del producto de dicha venta, proceda a pagar en primer término los gastos del Alguacil, en segundo término las costas y honorarios de abogados según concedidos en esta sentencia, en tercer término los intereses acumulados por esta sentencia, en cuarto término los recargos acumulados, en quinto cualquier suma antes indicada como sobregiro en la cuenta de reserva y en sexto término hasta la suma de $38,115.66, para cubrir el principal pendiente de pago más los intereses acumulados hasta el día de la Venta Judicial, disponiéndose que si quedare algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas antes mencionadas el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría del Tribunal para ser entregado a los demandados previa solicitud y orden del Tribunal. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen poste-
rior 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 10 de marzo de 2025. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
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Demandante V. LUIS BENJAMIN ROSADO GUTIERREZ POR SI Y JUNTO CON MILAGROS DEL CARMEN ROSADO GUTIERREZ COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BENJAMIN ROSADO LOPEZ, Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS GUTIERREZ ESCOBAR; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BENJAMIN ROSADO LOPEZ; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS GUTIERREZ ESCOBAR; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN JESUS CRUZ RAMOS; SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA; SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: RG2025CV00019. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A LA PARTE D EMANDADA: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BENJAMIN ROSADO LOPEZ FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS GUTIERREZ ESCOBAR FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESUS CRUZ RAMOS.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando 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. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia que le corresponda de estas: Sucesion de Benjamin Rosado Lopez, la Sucesión de Milagros Gutierrez Escobar y/o
la Sucesión de Jesus Cruz Ramos. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma esta garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: Descripción: URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Dolores del municipio de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 184.07 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, en una distancia de 11.20 metros, con la Calle Dolores; al Sur, en tres alineaciones descontinuadas de 4.60 metros, 5.00 metros y 1.00 metro, con un solar municipal ocupado por el señor Cecilio Miranda; al Este, en una distancia de 18.80 metros, con otro solar propiedad del señor Cecilio Miranda y al Oeste, en dos alineaciones descontinuadas de 3.60 metros y 1.80 metros, con otro solar propiedad del señor Cecilio Miranda y 12.80 metros, con el solar propiedad de la Iglesia Adventista. Enclava una casa. Finca #3966, inscrita al folio 124 del tomo 80 de Río Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: García-Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 10 de marzo de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMER INSTANCIA SALA DE SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO GOBIERNO MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE FAJARDO, REPRESENTADO POR SU ALCALDE, JOSÉ A. MELÉNDEZ MÉNDEZ
Peticionario V. ADQUISICIÓN DE SOLAR 267 DE LA CALLE GUMERSINDO MANGUAL DEL TÉRMINO MUNICIPAL DE FAJARDO; ETANISLA SÁNCHEZ, SUCN.
CORSI, COMPUESTA POR HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM), JOHN DOE Y DUEÑOS(S) DESCONOCIDO(S)
Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: FA2024CV00837. Sobre: PROCEDIMIENTO SUMARIO DE EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA DE ESTORBO PÚBLICO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: ETANISLA SÁNCHEZ, A LA SUCESIÓN CORSI, COMPUESTA POR HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, JOHN DOE, DUEÑOS(S) DESCONOCIDO(S) Y/O CUALQUIER PERSONA CON ALGÚN POSIBLE INTERÉS.
Se le emplaza y notifica que, con el fin público de erradicar el abandono y peligrosidad de propiedades declaradas estorbos públicos, el Municipio de Fajardo ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Petición de Expropiación Forzosa al amparo de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada, la Ley Núm. 107 de 14 de agosto de 2020 conocida como el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, en su Artículo 2.018 [21 L.P.R.A. § 7183]; la Ordenanza Núm. 26, Serie 2014-2015, aprobada por la Legislatura Municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico el 4 de septiembre de 2014 y firmada por el su Alcalde el día 30 del mismo mes; y, la Ordenanza Número 13, Serie 2021-2022, aprobada por la Legislatura Municipal el 4 de noviembre de 2021 y por su Alcalde el día 28 del mismo mes; bajo el procedimiento sumario de expropiación forzosa de estorbos públicos que establece el Artículo 4.012A del Código Municipal establecido mediante la Ley Núm. 114 del 29 de junio de 2024, para adquirir la siguiente Finca: Urbana: Solar marcado con el número 267, ubicado en la Calle Gumersindo Mangual del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 104.55 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0266 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE con el solar número 269 con una distancia de 11.91 metros lineales; en lindes por el SUR con el solar número 265 con una distancia de 11.33 metros lineales; en lindes por el ESTE con el solar número 262 con una distancia de 9.27 metros lineales; y en lindes por el OESTE con la calle Gumersindo
Mangual con una distancia de 8.74 metros lineales. Enclava una estructura. USO PÚBLICO: ELIMINACIÓN DE ESTORBO PÚBLICO. CATASTRO NÚM.: 150-036-040-22-001. JUSTA COMPENSACIÓN: $6,500, a ser consignados a tenor con el Art. 4.012A(f) del Código Municipal. No habiéndose podido emplazar personalmente a las partes con interés antes relacionadas, por desconocer su paradero, este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le emplace por edicto, el cual se publicará una (1) vez por semana, durante tres (3) semanas consecutivas en un periódico de circulación diaria en Puerto Rico. Se le notifica que, si usted desea presentar objeción o defensa a la incautación de las estructuras descritas, debe presentar su contestación en este Tribunal dentro del término improrrogable de 30 DÍAS, contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, debiendo notificar con copia de la misma a la parte peticionaria, a través de la LCDA. JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS - RUA 15,736: PO BOX 889 FAJARDO, PR 00728 Email: josephine.rodriguez@gmail.com. De usted no comparecer en el término aquí fijado, el Tribunal le anotará la rebeldía y dictará Sentencia en un término no mayor de 5 días. De usted comparecer o contestar la Petición, el Tribunal citará para juicio, el cual será celebrado en un término no menor de 15 días ni mayor de 30, de haberse contestado la Petición. Expedida por Orden del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico a 21 de enero de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE LAS PIEDRAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. BRENDA L. SUAREZ SUAREZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2024CV01089.
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: BRENDA L. SUAREZ SUAREZ - BO CATAÑO II 910 CARR 3 KM 88.4, HUMACAO PR 00791; PO BOX 11011, HUMACAO, PR, 00791.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que
conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en LAS PIEDRAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de febrero de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE GUEVARA DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. CARMEN MARTIR LOPEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV00506. 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: CARMEN MARTIR LOPEZ - BO LEGUISAMO CARR 354 KM 8.1, MAYAGUEZ PR 00680; HC 5 BOX 57820, MAYAGUEZ PR 006809643; 624 LINCOLN ST APT 5, FORT MORGAN CO 80701; 24400 READ AVVE, WORTHINGTON MN 56187. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través
del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI
FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de febrero de 2025.
LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. YAHAIRA TORRES MATÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. PEDRO J. DELGADO SANCHEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GR2024CV00117. 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: PEDRO J. DELGADO SANCHEZ - BO JAGUAL CARR 181 KM 2.9, GURABO PR 00778; HC 04 BOX 17074 GURABO PR 00778.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación
responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de febrero de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE YAUCO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ASTRID CANDELARIO PACHECO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: YU2024CV00520. 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: ASTRID CANDELARIO PACHECO - 5425 GLEN HAVEN DR, ATLANTA GA 30349.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-elctronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo en-
tiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EX-
TENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en YAUCO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ADELAIDA LUGO PACHECO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. BASILIO RIVERA HERNANDEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SS2024CV00357.
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: BASILIO RIVERA HERNANDEZ - BO SALTOS SEC AGAPITO ROSADO CARR 445 KM 6.4 INT, SAN SEBASTIAN PR 00685-9257; HC 2 BOX 22235 SAN SEBASTIAN, PR 00685.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono
(787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de febrero de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MANATí ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS A. MALDONADO ADORNO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MT2023CV0476. Salón: 101. 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: LUIS A. MALDONADO ADORNO - URB LAS GARDENIAS, 9 CALLE CLAVEL MANATI PR 00674.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan. ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Manatí, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de febrero de 2024. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 4 de febrero
de 2024. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ANA CELIZ ARROYO DÍAZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATON, INC
Demandante V. DONALD JOHN DYMER Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00554. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM. A: DONALD JOHN DYMER, SUZANNE KAYE DYMER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 4494 SILVER BERRY COURT, JACKSONVILLE, FL, EE. UU. 32224.
(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 marzo 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 marzo de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 14 de marzo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN
DOMINGO
AQUINO RODRÍGUEZ
Parte Demandante Vs. MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ MOLINA
Parte Demandada Civil Número: SJ2024RF01605. (704). Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SRA. MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ MOLINAURB. SAN AGUSTÍN 1162 CALLE TF BEVERAGGI, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.
Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaria la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. Manuel Izquierdo Encarnación, P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a 12 de marzo de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOIDA GARÍA ROLÓN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC. Demandante Vs SUCESION DE ISMAEL REYES COTTO T/C/C ISMAEL REYES COMPUESTA POR MYRTA ZORAIDA FELIX ORTIZ T/C/C MYRTA Z. FELIX ORTIZ T/C/C MYRTA FELIX ORTIZ T/C/C MYRTA FELIX T/C/C MYRTA Z. FELIX POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION ZORISMAL REYES FELIX, WILMA REYES MEDINA, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS. CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y A LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS
DE AMERICA
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: CG2023CV02908. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: WILMA REYES MEDINA, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, COMO HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESION DE ISMAEL REYES COTTO T/C/C ISMAEL REYES. (Nombre de las partes a las que se les notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de marzo 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 19 de marzo de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 19 de marzo de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. LUIS D. SANTOS MORET
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CY2024CV00267. (Salón: 803 - CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAN MIGUEL OTERO MARTÍNEZJAN.OTERO@ORF-LAW.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: LUIS D. SANTOS MORET. (Nombre de las partes que se le
notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de marzo de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 14 de marzo de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. LUIS J. FELICIANO FIGUEROA Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AU2023CV00474. (Salón: 0001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. JAN MIGUEL OTERO MARTÍNEZJAN.OTERO@ORF-LAW.COM. A: LUIS J. FELICIANO FIGUEROA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 de marzo 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 procedi-
miento 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 marzo de 2025. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 14 de marzo de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ERIKA CRUZ PEREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JOMAR FIGUEROA CAMACHO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CI2024CV00386. (Salón: 101 SALS SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOSJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM. A: JOMAR FIGUEROA CAMACHO.
(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 marzo 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 18 de marzo de 2025. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 18 de marzo de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRUNILDA HERNÁNDEZ MÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante V. VICTOR MANUEL DÍAZ COLÓN Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03194. (Civil: 409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ASHLEY ANNE CLEMENTE SERRANO - ACLEMENTE@ MPMLAWPR.COM. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM. A: VICTOR MANUEL DÍAZ COLÓN, LUZ
DELIA ROMERO LUCCA, SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de marzo 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 18 de marzo de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 18 de marzo de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO
JESUS OBRERO
Parte Demandante V.
JOSE L. MORALES MORALES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2024CV01002. 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: JOSÉ L. MORALES MORALES.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: AGS LEGAL GROUP, LLC
Abogados de la parte demandante Lcdo. Ricardo A Acevedo BianchiRUA 20637
Lcdo. José R. González RiveraRUA 13105
Lcdo. Juan A Santos BerríosRUA 9774
P.O. Box 10242
Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792
Teléfono: (939) 545-4300
Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o jrg@agslegalpr.com
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. 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/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Extendido bajo mi firma y Selle del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de marzo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ORIENTAL BANK
Plaintiff, v. MANFRED PENTZKE LEMUS, ET. AL.
Defendants CIVIL NO.: 24-1550. ACTION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME CONTROL ACT OF1970 (RACKETEERINFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION ACT (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 - 1968); COLLECTION OF MO-
NEY; DAMAGES. JURY TRIAL IS DEMANDED. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: TOMÁS CATALA SUÁREZ
Villas de Mabo Edif 17 110, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969
Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on March 4th, 2025, by the Honorable María Antongiorgi-Jordan, United States District Judge (Docket No. 76), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty 30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Alfredo Fernández Martínez, Pedro A. Hernández Freire, and/or Eduardo L. Hernández Freire, at Delgado & Fernández LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, B7 Tabonuco Street Suite 1000 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, telephone number (787)274-1414. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant Ángel María Martínez Martínez, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to his last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Comt and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Pue1to Rico. In San Juan, Pue1to Rico, this 5th day of March 2025.
ADA l. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ. CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Digitally signed By Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk. Date: 2025.03.05 17:37:22 04’-00’
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ORIENTAL BANK
Plaintiff, v. MANFRED PENTZKE LEMUS, ET. AL.
Defendants CIVIL NO.: 24-1550. ACTION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME CONTROL ACT OF1970 (RACKETEERINFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION ACT (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 - 1968); COLLECTION OF MO-
NEY; DAMAGES. JURY TRIAL IS DEMANDED. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: SOCIAL CLUB LLC PO Box 1637, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00970
Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on March 4th, 2025, by the Honorable María Antongiorgi-Jordan, United States District Judge (Docket No. 76), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty 30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Alfredo Fernández Martínez, Pedro A. Hernández Freire, and/or Eduardo L. Hernández Freire, at Delgado & Fernández LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, B7 Tabonuco Street Suite 1000 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, telephone number (787)274-1414. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant Ángel María Martínez Martínez, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to his last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Comt and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Pue1to Rico. In San Juan, Pue1to Rico, this 5th day of March 2025.
ADA l. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ. CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Digitally signed By Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk. Date: 2025.03.05 17:37:22 04’-00’
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ORIENTAL BANK
Plaintiff, v. MANFRED PENTZKE LEMUS, ET. AL.
Defendants
CIVIL NO.: 24-1550. ACTION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME CONTROL ACT OF1970 (RACKETEERINFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION ACT (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 - 1968); COLLECTION OF MONEY; DAMAGES. JURY TRIAL IS DEMANDED. SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
TO: WANDA MABEL RODRÍGUEZ FELICIANO
Bo. Quemados Carr 181 R788 Km 1 Hm 6, San Lorenzo, Pue1io Rico 00754
Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on March 4th, 2025, by the Honorable María Antongiorgi-Jordan, United States District Judge (Docket No. 76), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty 30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Alfredo Fernández Martínez, Pedro A. Hernández Freire, and/or Eduardo L. Hernández Freire, at Delgado & Fernández LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, B7 Tabonuco Street Suite 1000 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, telephone number (787)274-1414. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant Ángel María Martínez Martínez, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to his last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Comt and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Pue1to Rico. In San Juan, Pue1to Rico, this 5th day of March 2025. ADA l. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ. CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Digitally signed By Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk. Date: 2025.03.05 17:37:22 04’-00’
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ORIENTAL BANK
Plaintiff, v. MANFRED PENTZKE LEMUS, ET. AL.
Defendants
CIVIL NO.: 24-1550. ACTION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME CONTROL ACT OF1970 (RACKETEERINFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION ACT (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 - 1968); COLLECTION OF MONEY; DAMAGES. JURY TRIAL
IS DEMANDED. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: WILFREDO RIVERA SALGADO
Urb. Nueva Comunidad Arenales 273 Calle Joyudas, Dorado, Puerto Rico 00646-6154
Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on March 4th, 2025, by the Honorable María Antongiorgi-Jordan, United States District Judge (Docket No. 76), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty 30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Alfredo Fernández Martínez, Pedro A. Hernández Freire, and/or Eduardo L. Hernández Freire, at Delgado & Fernández LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, B7 Tabonuco Street Suite 1000 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, telephone number (787)274-1414. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant Ángel María Martínez Martínez, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to his last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Comt and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Pue1to Rico. In San Juan, Pue1to Rico, this 5th day of March 2025. ADA l. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ. CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Digitally signed By Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk. Date: 2025.03.05 17:37:22 04’-00’
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ORIENTAL BANK
Plaintiff, v. MANFRED PENTZKE LEMUS, ET. AL.
Defendants CIVIL NO.: 24-1550. ACTION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME CONTROL ACT OF1970 (RACKETEERINFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION ACT (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961 - 1968); COLLECTION OF MO-
NEY; DAMAGES. JURY TRIAL IS DEMANDED. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: YADISHA MORALES SANTIAGO
Bo. Caimito Chinchana 2, Carr. 742 Km 3.1, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009269440
Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on March 4th, 2025, by the Honorable María Antongiorgi-Jordan, United States District Judge (Docket No. 76), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty 30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Alfredo Fernández Martínez, Pedro A. Hernández Freire, and/or Eduardo L. Hernández Freire, at Delgado & Fernández LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, B7 Tabonuco Street Suite 1000 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, telephone number (787)274-1414. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant Ángel María Martínez Martínez, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to his last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Comt and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Pue1to Rico. In San Juan, Pue1to Rico, this 5th day of March 2025. ADA l. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ. CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Digitally signed By Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk. Date: 2025.03.05 17:37:22 04’-00’
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ORIENTAL BANK Plaintiff, v. MANFRED PENTZKE LEMUS, ET. AL. Defendants CIVIL NO.: 24-1550. ACTION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME CONTROL ACT OF1970 (RACKETEERINFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION ACT (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961
- 1968); COLLECTION OF MONEY; DAMAGES. JURY TRIAL IS DEMANDED. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
TO: YEIMYLIZ DÍAZ PASTRANA
Carr 176 k9 #1 Cupey Alto, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926
Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on March 4th, 2025, by the Honorable María Antongiorgi-Jordan, United States District Judge (Docket No. 76), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty 30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Alfredo Fernández Martínez, Pedro A. Hernández Freire, and/or Eduardo L. Hernández Freire, at Delgado & Fernández LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, B7 Tabonuco Street Suite 1000 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, telephone number (787)274-1414. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant Ángel María Martínez Martínez, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to his last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Comt and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Pue1to Rico. In San Juan, Pue1to Rico, this 5th day of March 2025. ADA l. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ. CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Digitally signed
By Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk.
Date: 2025.03.05 17:37:22 04’-00’
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ORIENTAL BANK
Plaintiff, v. MANFRED PENTZKE LEMUS, ET. AL.
Defendants
CIVIL NO.: 24-1550. ACTION FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME CONTROL ACT OF1970 (RACKETEERINFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATION ACT (RICO), 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961
- 1968); COLLECTION OF MONEY; DAMAGES. JURY TRIAL IS DEMANDED. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO: XAVIER JESÚS SIERRA BLAS
Condominio Baldorioty Gardens 501 Calle Elisa Colberg Apt C6, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907
Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on March 4th, 2025, by the Honorable María Antongiorgi-Jordan, United States District Judge (Docket No. 76), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty 30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Alfredo Fernández Martínez, Pedro A. Hernández Freire, and/or Eduardo L. Hernández Freire, at Delgado & Fernández LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio, B7 Tabonuco Street Suite 1000 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968, telephone number (787)274-1414. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the Island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant Ángel María Martínez Martínez, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to his last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Comt and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Pue1to Rico. In San Juan, Pue1to Rico, this 5th day of March 2025.
ADA l. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ. CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT
Digitally signed By Ana Duran, Deputy Clerk. Date: 2025.03.05 17:37:22 04’-00’
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE J. FUENTES RIVERA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV06915. 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: JOSE J. FUENTES
RIVERA - 1 RES SAN FERNANDO 6 APT 129, SAN JUAN PR 009275834. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kenmuel J. Ruiz Lopez cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kenmuel.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de febrero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. NEISA L. LOPEZ HERRERA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00836. 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: NEISA L LOPEZ HERRERA - URB OASIS GDNS E23 CALLE ARGENTINA, GUAYNABO PR 00969-3450; 4606
BYERLE CIR TAMPA FL 33634-6210.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-eIectrónico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier Otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-Iaw.com ya la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de febrero de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria Interina. Brenda Zamot Salgado, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. BRENDA L. RIVERA CASTRO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV09592. 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: BRENDA L. RIVERA CASTRO - PARCELAS FALU #324 CALLE 37, SAN JUAN PR 009243140.
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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV02327. 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: YARELIS CRUZ SANCHEZURB RIVIERAS DE CUPEY 6 CALLE CLAVEL, SAN JUAN PR 00926-7446. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en
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George Foreman, boxing champion and grilling magnate, dies at 76
By VICTOR MATHER
George Foreman, a heavyweight boxing champion who returned to the sport to regain his title at the improbable age of 45, and who parlayed his fame and his amiable personality into a multimillion-dollar grill business, died Friday night in Houston. He was 76.
His family announced the death, in a hospital, on his Instagram account. Foreman’s brother, Roy, said the cause was not known.
When Foreman returned to the ring after 10 years away, there was skepticism that a fighter of his years could beat anyone younger, much less come back to the top of the game. But in 1994, he shocked the world by beating the undefeated Michael Moorer to reclaim the world title.
Foreman’s career spanned generations: He fought Chuck Wepner in the 1960s, Dwight Muhammad Qawi in the ’80s and Evander Holyfield in the ’90s.
With his fellow heavyweights Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, Foreman embodied a golden era in the 1970s, when boxing was still a cultural force in America. The three great champions thrilled fans with one classic bout after another. Foreman was the last living member of the trio.
His popularity also helped him make millions selling grills after his retirement.
George Edward Foreman was born Jan. 10, 1949, in Marshall, Texas. His father, J.D. Foreman, was a railroad construction worker. His mother was Nancy Ree (Nelson) Foreman. As an adult, he learned that his biological father was a man named Leroy Moorehead.
Foreman was candid about having been a bully and a petty criminal in his youth. After dropping out of school, he joined the Job Corps at 16. At 17, he tried his hand at boxing.
Success came quickly in the amateur ranks; only a year and a half later, he was Olympic heavyweight champion, defeating Ionas Chepulis of the Soviet Union by a second-round knockout in Mexico City in 1968.
After the fight, Foreman, who was Black, waved a small American flag in the ring, days after the track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised clenched fists during the national anthem to protest the country’s treatment of Black people.
“I was just glad to be an American,” Foreman said afterward. “Some people have tried to make something of it, calling me an Uncle Tom, but I’m not. I just believe people should
live together in peace.”
Turning professional, he started a heavy schedule of fights, as many as a dozen in a year. He was 37-0 when he got his first shot at a world heavyweight title against Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973.
Although he was a 3-1 underdog, Foreman dominated the fight, knocking Frazier down six times before the contest was stopped halfway through the second round.
One of those knockdowns led the television announcer Howard Cosell to utter one of boxing’s most famous calls: “Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”
“It was unbelievable,” New York Times sports columnist Arthur Daley wrote. “In little more than 4 1/2 minutes, George Foreman destroyed Joe Frazier tonight, and the man who supposedly couldn’t lose never had even one ghost of a chance for victory. So there is a new heavyweight champion of the world, and he won it with authority in an explosive demonstration of overpowering punching skills.”
Foreman defended the title twice before a match with Ali in Zaire (now Congo) in 1974 that would become known as the Rumble in the Jungle. This time, Foreman was the favorite, but Ali reclaimed the title, dealing Foreman his first career loss.
Ali used his “rope-a-dope” strategy, resting on the top rope and allowing Foreman to punch him but also to tire himself out. Ali finished the fight with a left-right combination knockout in the eighth round.
Foreman had five more victories, including another one over Frazier. But after losing to Jimmy Young in 1977, he elected to hang up his gloves at age 28, citing his religious beliefs and his mother’s wishes.
He turned to religious vocation in his retirement years, by serving as a nondenominational Christian minister in Houston and by starting a youth center.
But the ring lured him back. “I want to be champion again,” he said in 1987. “I’ve got a three-year plan. I want to start at the bottom. Train harder than any man in the world. Fight once a month.”
He admitted that money was a factor as well. “You know that story about how you have four pockets in your pants, and you better save what’s in one pocket so you can live?” he told Dave Anderson of the Times. “I saved one pocket. I’ve got money for steak and potatoes. But the other three pockets I just blew.”
Sure enough, Foreman fought frequently, as many as nine times in a year. He cranked
In the classic heavyweight title fight in Zaire (now Congo) dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, Muhammad Ali employed his “rope-a-dope” strategy to avoid George Foreman’s formidable power and tire his younger opponent out. Ali KO’d Foreman in the eighth round. (Wikipedia)
out 24 straight wins, although most were against boxers of lesser ability. That set him up for a title shot at age 42 against Holyfield, the champion, in 1991. Foreman lost the decision but put forth a creditable performance.
He scored a few more wins and lost to Tommy Morrison, but then he managed to land another title shot in 1994, in Las Vegas against Moorer, 26, who had defeated Holyfield. Some called it undeserved and suggested that Foreman got the chance only because of his fame and the novelty of his age. “It’s not about deserving,” he said with a smile, “because I’ve got it.”
Foreman was trailing on the judges’ score cards when he managed to land the big punch he was looking for and knocked Moorer out in the 10th round. Moorer had thrown 641 punches, to 369 by Foreman. But the last one was the one that counted.
Foreman had stood rather than sit on a stool between rounds, as if to defy his 45 years. He became the oldest heavyweight champion in history.
“Anything you desire, you can make happen,” he said after the fight. “It’s like the song, ‘When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.’ Well, look at me tonight.”
Foreman defended his belt against a German fighter, Axel Schulz. But the governing bodies that awarded the championship began to strip him of his belts as he declined to fight the challengers they mandated. Instead, Foreman faced and defeated a couple of lesser fighters. His final fight was a loss, a
close decision to Shannon Briggs in 1997. He was 48.
He finished with a professional record of 76-5 and is widely regarded as one of the 10 best heavyweight fighters of all time; a Ring magazine survey in 2017 ranked him seventh. He was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003.
Foreman returned to his youth center, did commentary for televised boxing broadcasts and, most lucratively, sold hamburger grills.
Foreman began endorsing the George Foreman Grill in 1994, with a big smile and predictable but still charming lines such as “It’s a knockout.” The grills were electric and portable and could be used inside as an alternative to outdoor charcoal grilling. Foreman helped make the grills an American kitchen mainstay.
In addition to his brother, Foreman is survived by his wife, Mary Joan Martelly, whom he married in 1985. He had previously been married four times.
His survivors also include six daughters — Natalia, Leola, Michi, Georgetta, Isabella and Courtney Foreman — and five sons. A seventh daughter, Freeda Foreman, died in 2019.
All of Foreman’s sons were named George: George Jr., George III, George IV, George V and George VI. In 2005, he collaborated with author Fran Manushkin on a children’s book called “Let George Do It!” about a household full of Georges, like his own.
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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
A letter or call from a relative could result in the prospect of an unexpected houseguest. You might be in a quandary as to what to do about it, Aries. Your schedule could be crammed with other responsibilities. Don’t feel pressured into making any decisions today. Think about it for a day or so and list your options. Consider them all and then make your decision.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Travel plans might have you confused, Taurus. You may have a number of possibilities in mind, and all seem equally attractive. It probably isn’t feasible to go for them all. You may also face decisions regarding your education. You’re probably going to have to make a choice, but today isn’t the day to do it. Confusion is likely to reign. Wait a few days and then consider your options carefully.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
New earning or investment possibilities could have you in a quandary over which one is the best for you, Gemini. There are a number of solutions - technology may be one of them - but this isn’t the time to make any important decisions. Everything may seem equally attractive to you! Professional advice might help, but even so, don’t feel you have to make a decision right away. Wait a few days.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Your life may seem to be at a crossroads, Cancer. A number of different possibilities could be opening up to you. The only thing that seems certain now is that changes are on the horizon. You will be facing some choices, but today isn’t the day to consider them. Confusion reigns supreme. Be like Scarlet O’Hara and think about it tomorrow! You will be more focused and less doubtful by then.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Others’ attitudes toward you may seem to be changing. You may not be sure what this means. The fact is, Leo, you’re changing, and some of your friends may like what you’re becoming and others may feel less comfortable. You can’t stop what’s happening. It’s going to be a very positive process in the long run. It just may be difficult now. Bear with your friends and yourself.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
A number of different and unexpected professional and personal possibilities might have you a bit confused about which way you want to go, Virgo. You may face a choice of some kind, but right now you aren’t really sure about the direction you want to take. Don’t rush it. It isn’t necessary to do it all today. Wait a few days, consider your options and then make your decision.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
Today you might face a choice, Libra. You might be thinking in terms of relocating to advance your career, but you could be confused about your options. You might be grappling with several options. Input from family members isn’t likely to help at this time. Wait a few days and then think seriously about what you want to do.
Scorpio
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
An intellectual problem may prove confusing, Scorpio, and reading and research reveal contradictory information. You might also hear some gossip that doesn’t seem quite right. This isn’t the day to believe everything you read or hear or to try to make sense of anything that has you befuddled. You will be in a better space later. Put it aside for a few days and then tackle it.
Sagittarius
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
Confusion about money might be on your mind today, Sagittarius. This doesn’t necessarily mean that your finances are in chaos. Chances are that you face unfamiliar options concerning your financial future, and so you may be in no position to make any kind of decision. Don’t feel that you have to do it today. It would be best if you waited a few days until you’re a bit more focused to consider your options.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
A relationship that you may have recently formed might have you in a dither today, Capricorn. This could be romantic or some other sort of acquaintance. You might not be sure about which way you want this involvement to develop. This isn’t the day to think much about it, as things probably won’t become clear today. Wait a few days, get to know the person a little better, and then consider your options.
Aquarius
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
You might be feeling somewhat under the weather, Aquarius. You’re probably stressed and in need of rest. Work concerns could also be confusing. You might have a lot of tasks to do and not be certain where to start. Maybe you shouldn’t start today at all. Perhaps you need to take the day off to rest and then tackle it tomorrow when you’re feeling like yourself again. Think about it!
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
Recent successes have you feeling especially pressured to continue on your path, Pisces. You may have to make some choices regarding your activities outside of career and family. You may have a lot of interests that all mean a lot to you, which makes it difficult to make choices. Don’t try to consider it today. Your mind is a bit befuddled. Wait a few days and then consider your options.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
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