Tuesday Nov 12, 2024

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Union: Correa Filomeno should not be kept on as NMEAD chief

By THE STAR STAFF

Authentic Union of Emergency Managers (SAME by its acronym in Spanish) President Liz M. Colón Alicea agreed on Monday with governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón’s remarks in which she said she was not inclined to keep Nino Correa Filomeno on as commissioner of the Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD).

The union leader stated that NMEAD is in operational and administrative chaos. She said that since 2021, the union has been exposing numerous situations that have adversely affected the bureau’s operations, such as the health and safety of NMEAD employees. Yet nothing has happened, she said, since Correa has described these complaints as attacks against him, ignoring the problems and deficiencies currently existing in the administrative processes at NMEAD.

cesses, and deficiencies in the management of the UKG assistance system.

The union leader noted further that ventilation problems continue in several offices because the air conditioning systems are damaged, forcing employees to be in work areas for months without any natural ventilation in a sealed building. Employees with health conditions suffer from the high temperatures, she said, adding that the same thing happens in the regional offices since those need more basic and essential services due to the lack of equipment and facilities maintenance.

Colón Alicea specified the Ceiba Regional Office, which she said is currently operating with an electrical generator and is facing problems that make this and other NMEAD offices inoperative.

Colón Alicea listed examples that demonstrate what she called “the crisis and poor administration in the Bureau,” as she denounced the shortage of personnel needed in all NMEAD offices to respond to an emergency and maintain 24/7 operations.

She also complained of the dislocation of the chain of command in the event of an emergency, mismatched instructions to employees, bureaucracy in recruitment pro-

Likewise, the union leader confirmed the absence of maintenance employees because their contracts are not renewed on time. Colón Alicea added that the same thing happens with security guard services in NMEAD facilities, since contracts are not renewed on time.

She stressed the need for more equipment, emergency vehicles, and uniforms for employees. Emergency Performance Grant funds are lost, Colón Alicea said, due to the lack of administration and ignorance of the bureau’s leadership, leaving NMEAD thousands of dollars in debt to suppliers and with no one wanting to provide services to it.

Accused ‘suitcase killer’ admitted to prison

Preliminary hearing set for Nov. 21

By THE STAR STAFF

Omar Vega Ayala, a 25-year-old resident of Guánica, was admitted to prison Monday after not being able to post bail that had been imposed on charges of murder in the form of femicide in connection with an incident reported last Friday.

According to the police report, on Friday at around 1 p.m., citizens showed up at the Guánica police station to report the discovery of a black suitcase-type parcel in front of Aurea Quiles School in the southwestern coastal town.

When the officers arrived at the scene, they found the lifeless body of Annette Gaya Concepción, 37, inside the suitcase-type container.

Judge Shakira Lebrón of the Ponce Court found cause for arrest against Vega Ayala and set bail at $800,000, which he did not post.

The accused man was admitted to the Las Cucharas Correctional Complex in Ponce.

The preliminary hearing was scheduled for Nov. 21.

According to official police figures, as of Sunday, a total of 48 women had been murdered on the island so far this year. Of those, 22 have been classified as direct or collateral femicide.

Omar Vega Ayala, 25, has been charged in the killing in the form of femicide of 37-year-old Annette Gaya Concepción (Facebook via Puerto Rico Police Bureau)

Some picks for transition committee suggest a nonpartisan approach

By THE STAR STAFF

Governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón appointed the members of her Transition Committee on Monday, naming individuals from all political ideologies.

Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz will preside over the committee. Four years ago, he chaired the transition committee of outgoing Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia.

“Each of my actions, both as governor-elect and once I am sworn in on January 2, are focused on ensuring that my administration is a government for everyone in Puerto Rico,” González Colón said. “The period of partisan politics has passed. The members of my Incoming Transition Committee represent varied political ideologies and have experience in the public and private sectors, academia, justice, finance, management, and others who will transparently analyze the current state of the government of Puerto Rico and provide an x-ray of it. In this way, we can responsibly begin to implement and comply with our government program, AcciónPR, endorsed by the people at the polls on November 5.”

She thanked each of the selected members for accepting the challenge of carrying out the task with the highest sense of responsibility and professionalism.

Composing the Incoming Transition Committee chaired by Rivera Cruz, a former senator, will be Oriol Campos, who served as finance director of González Colón’s campaign committee. Campos, a member of the New Progressive Party (NPP) Platform Committee, is a lawyer, accountant, former administrator of the House of Representatives, and adviser on public, legal, administrative and financial policy.

González Colón also appointed Marcos Rodríguez Ema, a former La Fortaleza chief of staff under then-governor Luis Fortuño; an adviser on financial, corporate, governmental

and banking policy; and a former president of the now defunct Government Development Bank.

Other members include:

1. Zayira Jordán Conde, a member of the NPP Platform Committee and president of Atlantic University, has been a professor and researcher for the engineering and computing faculties. In 2020, she was a candidate for resident commissioner under the Citizen Victory Movement.

2. Jorge Colberg Toro, former at-large representative for the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), is a former secretary of public affairs and spokesperson for La Fortaleza, a former secretary general of the Popular Democratic Party, and is a political analyst and university professor.

3. Veronica Ferraiuoli Hornedo, director of the Luis A. Ferré Public Policy Institute in charge of preparing the González Colón #AcciónPR government program, is a state and federal litigator, former president of the Federal Bar Association Puerto Rico Chapter and deputy director

of the Resident Commissioner’s Office.

4. Juan Zaragoza Gómez, a current at-large senator for the PDP, chairs the Senate Finance, Federal Affairs and Fiscal Control Board Committee, and is former island Treasury secretary.

5. César A. Alvarado Torres is the associate dean of academic affairs at Interamerican University School of Law, where he directs the Continuing Legal Education program, and served as public policy adviser and as the last executive director of the Permanent Joint Commission for the Review and Reform of the Civil Code (1998-2009).

6. Tere Riera Carrión, winner of the Truman Democracy 2023 scholarship program, is a member of boards of directors of cultural entities, a public financing analyst, an adviser to the Office of Management and Budget.

7. Janet Parra, a member of the NPP Platform Committee, is a lawyer in private practice, former prosecutor and former head of the Organized Crime Division of the Department of Justice.

The incoming transition committee will be holding its internal meetings this week. It will later provide details on when the transition hearings, which will be held with the transition committee appointed by Pierluisi, will begin.

After the transition committee announcement, PDP President Jesús Manuel Ortíz González, who finished third in the voting for governor last week, acknowledged that the PDP primaries did not leave him on the best of terms with Zaragoza Gómez, his opponent in the primaries.

“Look, now I understand the ‘irreconcilable gaps,’” Ortíz González wrote on his X account.

After the June primary event, there was no communication between Ortíz González and Zaragoza Gómez, but the latter had stated that there were “irreconcilable gaps” between the two men.

PDP official responds to allegations in electoral operations complaint

By THE STAR STAFF

Popular Democratic Party Electoral Commissioner Karla Angleró González confirmed earlier this week that an incident between officials that took place at the electoral operations center of the State Elections Commission (SEC) is being investigated by the appropriate authorities.

An agent from the Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC) was assigned to the case and after a conversation with Angleró, he stated that there was no cause for concern for the PDP official, Emmanuel Gómez, involved in the situation.

“In the area where Gómez was working there were about 100 people on balance doing their work, none of them working alone,” Angleró said in a press conference late on Sunday. “The white envelopes with ballots are not opened, only the yellow envelope is opened and the ID is taken out. If there are no ballots there, how can they charge that he took a ballot to the bathroom? Also, in this area and in the hallways there are cameras and in none of the cameras is Gómez identified with any ballot.”

The PDP official said that according to what they told her, it was the chairperson of the SEC who took the ballot out of the trash and they also indicated that the ballot was marked with a vote for a PDP candidate.

“Someone in their right mind can think that a PDP candidate is going to tear up a PDP ballot,” Angleró said.

“I wonder about these inconsistencies that clearly seek to point out an official of ours without foundation.”

Angleró noted that the events began between the two officials on Election Day, Nov. 5, when Gómez, the PDP official, allegedly filed a complaint against an individual from the New Progressive Party (NPP) for violating the Electoral Code in a voting center.

“The investigation must include the previous events between the two officials since everything points to an unfounded complaint with the sole purpose of diluting the previous one,” Angleró said. “The account given by the NPP official is what we call in law a stereotyped testimony, which is one that is limited to establishing the basic elements of a crime, but omits essential details.”

Juan Zaragoza Gómez (Facebook via Juan Zaragoza)

Popular Democratic Party Electoral Commissioner Karla Angleró González

Canóvanas mayor offers progress report on veterans’ services center project

By THE STAR STAFF

Canóvanas Mayor Lornna Soto Villanueva announced on Monday that significant progress is being made toward the construction of the new headquarters of the Casa del Veterano Municipal, an initiative designed to expand and improve the services offered to the municipality’s veterans. The project has taken an important step with the awarding of the architectural design to ABACUS CMT, LLC, a leading company in the management of customized solutions and facilities management services.

“In the framework of the commemoration of Veterans Day, we pay tribute to all veterans of Puerto Rico, recognizing their bravery, sacrifice and service to the nation of all Puerto Ricans,” Soto said. “Today we celebrate those men and women who, with courage and dedication, risked their lives to defend our freedom and security. Our gratitude is eternal; in each veteran lies a legacy of honor that inspires our community.”

As part of the tribute, Soto announced an important step forward in her commitment to improving and expanding services for the municipality’s veterans: the creation of the new Casa del Veterano Municipal in Canóvanas.

“The new Casa del Veterano, which has been made possible thanks to CDBG-DR [Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery] City Revitalization funds, will not only represent a center of attention, but also a space of recognition and dignity for veterans and their families,” the mayor said. “The headquarters will include specialized assistants who will offer guidance on various procedures in both the public

and private sectors. In addition, it will have a Counseling and Rights Program, where our lawyers will provide information on the veteran’s bill of rights, housing subsidy options, Casa del Veterano services, tax incentives and discounts at the University of Puerto Rico.”

“The [program] will work closely with the Veterans’ Advocate’s Office of Puerto Rico to manage cases and protect the rights of veterans,” Soto added. “Likewise, in front of the headquarters there will be a plaza and a monument in honor of the Canóvanas veterans, as a reminder of their commitment and sacrifice.”

The mayor added that the facility will offer quarterly conservatories to learn about the current needs of veterans, as well as to strengthen community and interagency ties.

“This project is much more than a physical work, it is a promise kept to those who have given everything for our country and our freedom,” Soto said. “Every corner of the Casa del Veterano was conceived with our heroes in mind and how we can give back to them for all they have given. This space is designed to be a refuge of support and respect, where they can find guidance, services and the assurance that they are not alone.”

Carolina mayor: Shift in retaining wall on Baldorioty de Castro poses danger

By THE STAR STAFF

Carolina Mayor José Aponte Dalmau said Monday that a retaining wall on the Plaza Carolina exit ramp of the Baldorioty de Castro Avenue is shifting, putting drivers at risk.

Aponte said that the island Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP by its acronym in Spanish) was alerted, but there had been no response as of Monday morning.

“The DTOP had already been notified previously about the displacement of the retaining wall and the danger that this represents,” the mayor said in a written statement. “They have not addressed

this issue and today, the constant rains that we have received have aggravated the problem.”

The Municipal Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration temporarily closed access to the state highway, since, Aponte said, “water can be seen pouring out copiously from between the slabs of the wall and the displacement is around 3 to 4 inches.”

Aponte added that he tried to contact engineer Ana Feliciano, who is responsible for the DTOP Carolina region, but received no immediate response. Engineers from the contractor CSA Group subsequently showed up at the site to inspect the wall, he said.

Describing the deteriorating condition of the retaining wall along the Plaza Carolina exit, Carolina Mayor José Aponte Dalmau said “water can be seen pouring out copiously from between the slabs of the wall and the displacement is around 3 to 4 inches.”

Comptroller’s office to train elected officials on use of public funds & property

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office (OCPR by its initials in Spanish) announced on Monday the dates of the required courses on the use of public property and public funds that elected senators, representatives, mayors and municipal

legislators must take before assuming office.

“The purpose of the training is to educate elected officials on topics related to the principles of government accounting, administration of public assets, compliance with regulatory entities, and budgetary process and control, among others,” Comptroller Yesmín Valdivieso said in a written statement.

Training for senators and representatives will be offered on Wednesday, Dec. 4, while for mayors the sessions will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 10. The courses will be taught in person and will last 7.5 hours. The sessions for municipal legislators will be held in virtual format on Thursday, Dec.

12 and Friday, Dec. 13 and will last 8 hours. Candidates certified as elected by the State Elections Commission will receive notification of the compulsory training by letter and email. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the OCPR’s Office of Prevention and External Guidance at (787) 754-3030, extensions 5500 to 5508.

Rendering of Casa del Veterano Municipal in Canóvanas

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Trump’s gains among Latinos push a civil rights group to reflect on its past

By JAZMINE ULLOA

On a cold and rainy Sunday in February 1929, a group of Latino men in dapper suits and boater hats gathered in a convention hall in Corpus Christi, Texas, to forge a new Latino civil rights group.

Most of the men, about 175 in total, were Mexican American veterans of World War I. They had returned home a decade earlier to a small but thriving Hispanic middle class in South Texas, where they had helped form three of the most prominent civil rights organizations in the region.

Now the men were merging their groups to form the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, in hopes of better leveraging their resources to combat racism and to elect political leaders who represented their families and interests.

These were radical notions. At the time, Jim Crow laws were in effect, poll taxes kept many Black and Mexican American voters from the ballot box and some restaurants hung signs outside their doors barring the entrance of dogs and Mexicans.

Nearly a century later, as President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House, LULAC is preparing to stand on the front lines of clashes with the incoming administration over proposed mass deportations, voting access and issues involving education and the social safety net.

The group’s CEO, Juan Proaño, said in an interview that its mission — protecting the rights of Latinos — was more crucial than ever. But he said LULAC was also contending with election results in which many Latino voters, especially Latino men, gravitated toward Trump, suggesting they might no longer see themselves as part of the group’s fight.

“We’re going to have to decide where to build bridges,” Proaño said, calling Republicans’ potential capture of all three branches of government “worse than my worst-case scenario.” He acknowledged that Trump had outperformed past Republican presidents with Latino voters: “I will give Trump credit where credit is due,” he said.

Over the coming weeks, Proaño said, his group will sift through voter data to understand what led working-class Latinos to shift to the right. Their march toward Trump came despite his organization’s political action committee throwing its support behind Vice President Kamala Harris in August, the first formal endorsement of a presidential ticket it had ever made.

Although the PAC’s leadership voted unanimously to endorse Harris, the group’s broader membership of nearly 325,000 people across 535 councils runs the spectrum of party affiliations and ideological beliefs. One of the councils, in the Houston area, objected to the endorsement. Now, the group’s bipartisan board will need to weigh how to engage the next administration in a way that reflects not only the broader Latino electorate, but also its own diverse membership.

Proaño said the stakes were higher than ever: Trump and his allies have drawn more support from Latino voters, while at the same time, he said, Republicans have tried to restrain Latino voting power in recent years, in part by spreading conspiracy theories about noncitizens illegally casting ballots. Those falsehoods, Proaño said, laid the groundwork for an investigation into voter fraud by Texas Attorney General Ken

An image provided by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) from 1929, the year of its founding. LULAC has encouraged Hispanic people to embrace American identity even as it fought discrimination. President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral gains among Latinos is pushing the civil rights group to reflect on its past. (Lulac via The New York Times)

Paxton that led to raids of some LULAC volunteers’ homes in the state over the summer.

Seeing the sweeps as part of far-reaching efforts by Republicans to limit activities of voting rights activists across the country, Proaño began cultivating relationships with leaders of Black and Latino civil rights organizations months before the election. LULAC said this month that it was teaming up with a pro-democracy group to challenge the conspiracy theories about voter fraud and Paxton’s inquiry.

“LULAC cannot go at this alone,” Proaño said.

An American promise

Proaño’s forceful stance in the face of conflicting dynamics is in keeping with his organization’s nearly century-long history. It has often been cast as one of the most conservative Latino civil rights groups, even as it has been part of some of the fiercest legal battles waged by liberals to desegregate schools and expand voting rights for Mexican Americans and other Latinos.

Some of its former presidents and lifetime members said they could not help but note the irony of the position it now finds itself in.

Ruben Bonilla, 78, who led the organization as president from 1979-81, lamented that the raids in August were meant to attack the group as “being un-American,” though it was founded on the ideal of American virtue.

“It is absolutely hideous and demonstrates the ignorance of public officials who do not understand our history,” he said of the voter fraud investigation.

When the three civil rights groups — the Order of the Sons of America, the Knights of America and the League of Latin American Citizens — united to form LULAC in 1929, the migration of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans after the Mexican Revolution was stirring fears among the Anglo American population of South Texas. To build political power and counter racism, the group encouraged Texans of Mexican

descent to adopt an American way of life, become naturalized citizens and learn English.

With time, its members came to be seen as more interested in reforming rather than remaking American society, according to interviews with historians and some of its former leaders.

Benjamin Márquez, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who wrote a book tracing the group’s history, said that while its members had never rejected their Mexican or Latino heritage, they had remained consistent in their American loyalty, regardless of whether the group’s president was a Republican or a Democrat.

“They were out to remove racist bias in American society, and beyond that to get out the vote, serve in the military, participate in elections and run for election themselves,” he said.

An unwritten past

Some historians argue that the group’s work has been incorrectly characterized as conservative as it has been compared to that of Chicano organizations that emerged during the civil rights movements decades later and were more left-wing and confrontational.

“The history of LULAC is mostly unwritten, and people are not familiar with its liberal strengths,” said Cynthia E. Orozco, a historian and author of “No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.”

Bonilla and his brothers, William and Tony, recalled that the group became more aggressively political as Mexican Americans joined “Viva Kennedy” clubs to boost John F. Kennedy in 1960, and as the Civil Rights Movement heated up. William Bonilla, 94, who served as president in 1964, remembers the earliest registration efforts focused on persuading Latino voters to pay their poll taxes. LULAC members drove through neighborhoods with loudspeakers to remind people to vote and to take them to the polls.

“It was from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., all day long during Election Day,” said William Bonilla, who drove a blue Lincoln convertible for such missions.

Proaño is now looking to draw from LULAC’s grassroots strengths and confront the uglier parts of its past. Through the 1950s, fierce wage competition and divisions between Mexican migrants and Mexican American laborers initially led the group to support President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s mass deportations. (That stance was reversed after Mexican American neighborhoods and border regions were devastated.) Tensions sometimes arose between Black and Latino civil rights groups as they competed for limited resources.

Ruben Bonilla said in an interview that the 2024 election left him with mixed emotions as he recalled the group’s struggles. He understood that Republicans made a persuasive argument on the economy, but he said he was disappointed that so many people had voted for Trump, who made bigotry a central feature of his campaign and promised to revive Eisenhower’s mass deportations.

Bonilla also saw the reflection of another flaw in LULAC’s history: its failure to integrate women into its ranks from the start.

“Hispanic men were reluctant to vote for a woman — it is almost a throwback,” he said.

As wildfire burns in New Jersey and New York, rain offers little relief

By NICOLE HONG and HILARY HOWARD

Firefighters in New Jersey and New York were working on Sunday to contain the latest of several recent wildfires in the region, where the first forecast rainfall in weeks was expected to bring little relief to areas experiencing drought conditions.

Propelled by winds, the fire has blazed across 3,000 acres in Passaic County, New Jersey, and Orange County, New York — about an hour northwest of New York City. As of Sunday evening, it was only 10% contained, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.

“We’ve been running our folks ragged,” Bill Donnelly, chief of the Forest Fire Service, said at a news conference Sunday.

The unseasonably dry conditions in New Jersey and the rough terrain were making the wildfire difficult to extinguish, Donnelly said, adding that the fire was spreading both aboveground and through decaying root systems.

He said the expected rain would not be sufficient to put out the blaze, which was reported Saturday after it spread from a forested area in New York state into a remote area near West Milford. But he said firefighters hoped to contain it by the end of the coming week.

An 18-year-old employee of the New York state parks system died Saturday while fighting the fire. The employee, Dariel Vasquez, was helping to clear a wooded area when a tree fell and hit him, officials said.

Since early October, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service has responded to 537 wildfires in the state, about 500 more than

A wildfire burns on the border of New York and New Jersey in Greenwood Lake, N.Y., Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024. Firefighters in New Jersey and New York were working on Sunday to contain the latest of several recent wildfires in the region, where the first forecast rainfall in weeks was expected to bring little relief to areas experiencing drought conditions.

(Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)

in the same period last year, Donnelly said.

Several of the fires have been burning since this summer, he said.

Hundreds of fires have burned across the region this fall during an unusually warm and dry season. A brush fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Friday night blanketed New

York City in a smoky smell over the weekend that permeated the streets and seeped into apartment buildings.

By Sunday morning, the air quality in the New York metropolitan region had improved, as winds blew the smoke from New Jersey’s wildfires more toward upstate New York instead of the city, according to the National Weather Service.

But an air quality advisory was still in effect for the New York City area and the lower and upper Hudson Valley — meaning certain groups, including children and older adults, were advised to spend less time outdoors or avoid strenuous outdoor activities.

On Sunday evening, the region is expected to have its first measurable rainfall since late September, according to the weather service.

Still, only a quarter- to a half-inch of rain is expected by Monday morning, an amount unlikely to make a significant impact on drought conditions, meteorologists said. October was the driest month in New York City history.

“That type of rain is not really going

to make a huge difference, but given that we haven’t had rain at all, any little bit will help,” said David Stark, a meteorologist at the weather service.

New York City is under its first drought watch in more than 20 years — a level that could escalate to a warning, and then to an emergency, if the city’s reservoirs do not fill up to normal levels. A drought emergency could lead the city to impose mandatory restrictions on water use.

The city has been experiencing an unusually high number of smaller brush fires, officials said, with 120 fires in a recent 10-day span.

Investigators were still examining the cause of the fire in Prospect Park, which burned about 2 acres and was extinguished by firefighters after three hours. The fire had been reported to the authorities by a bystander.

In central New Jersey, a man was charged with arson on Friday after he was accused of firing an illegal type of ammunition at a shooting range that set off a wildfire in Jackson Township. The fire, which broke out Wednesday and took about two days to contain, burned through 350 acres and forced the evacuation of 15 homes, authorities said.

The National Park Service has previously said that nearly 85% of wildfires in the United States are caused by humans, including by unattended campfires, discarded cigarettes and intentional arson.

A study published this year found that the frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires have more than doubled in the past two decades, driven by a hotter and drier climate.

“Extreme weather has become the new normal,” said Zach Iscol, New York City’s commissioner of emergency management. “When people think about climate change, they think about rising sea levels or catastrophic amounts of rain, but it manifests in a lot of ways.”

On Saturday, Mayor Eric Adams of New York announced a new ban on grilling in the city’s parks and urged residents to conserve water voluntarily, including by taking shorter showers, flushing the toilet only when necessary and fixing leaky faucets.

In Connecticut, officials responded to 12 new fires this weekend, and the fire danger level Sunday was “extreme,” according to a spokesperson for the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Some state parks were closed as a result of the fires.

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Unions bet big on Harris. Now they’re bracing for consequences.

By JONATHAN WEISMAN and BENJAMIN ORESKES

Besides the Harris campaign and its affiliated political action committees, few economic or political sectors placed larger bets than organized labor on Vice President Kamala Harris winning the presidency.

And few might reap more consequences from the incoming Trump administration. For public-sector unions that represent government workers, the threat is institutional and existential: Top advisers to President-elect Donald Trump want to eliminate them outright.

For service industry unions that represent hotel and restaurant workers, the threats may be to the members themselves: vulnerable and low-paid workers, often immigrants, who could be swept up in Trump’s promised mass deportations.

And for the leadership of the oldline industrial unions, the threat is from their members, many of whom ignored the pleadings of their leadership and voted for Trump.

“We do understand we have issues that are confronting us, major issues,” said Lee Saunders, chair of the AFL-CIO’s political committee and president of the 1.6-million-strong American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. “This is going to impact the entire labor movement.”

Unions poured nearly $43 million into the Harris campaign, according to Open Secrets, but that understates the resources they put into phone banks, canvassing operations, education and persuasion efforts with their members and outreach to nonunion working-class households.

Union leaders insisted in the wake of Trump’s victory that they had done their job: Initial exit polls showed that Harris had won union households by 55% to Trump’s 43%, about the same as President Joe Biden’s margin in 2020. In narrow Democratic Senate victories in Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada, and in the still-uncalled Senate race in Arizona, union households might prove to be the difference makers.

But with unions representing less than 10% of the private-sector workforce, their true failure was their inability to extend their influence on Harris’ behalf beyond their memberships to the far larger numbers of working-class Americans who do not belong to any union at all, who came out in force and voted overwhelmingly for the for-

mer president.

“Working Americans elected President Trump because they trust him,” said Karoline Leavitt, a Trump-Vance transition spokesperson.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said voters who felt they had control over their lives — through higher education or union representation — had sided with Democrats.

But, she said, “people who felt like there’s too much change, in the pace of technology, in the cost of living, in the fear of a country being different than they thought it was — they wanted a strongman to fix it,” and that man was Trump.

The explanations for Harris’ defeat are myriad, but union leaders have been among the most outspoken in saying she and other Democrats have failed to center the struggles of workers. Jimmy Williams Jr., president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, a strong Harris ally, complained on social media that Harris had failed to make a strong case for “what immigrant workers bring to our country,” including immigrant workers in his union.

Democrats were too slow to acknowledge the pain of inflation, he said. At the same time, they were ineffective in communicating what the Biden administration had accomplished, in infrastructure jobs, manufacturing and bringing back semiconduc-

tor production from offshore — all accomplishments that are now likely to redound to Trump’s benefit as those projects build out.

“The party did not make a positive case for why workers should vote for them, only that they were not Donald Trump,” Williams said of the Democrats. “That’s not good enough anymore.”

In Trump’s first term, he appointed union foes to the National Labor Relations Board who clamped down on organizing and strongly opposed union-backed rules to make it easier for workers to vote for collective bargaining. His secretaries of labor were no more pro-union.

But in his campaign this time around, he openly courted union workers, if not their bosses. He made expensive promises to end income taxation on tips and overtime. More important, though, were his larger promises that by imposing tariffs on almost all imported goods, he would bring manufacturing jobs back from overseas; that by deporting millions of immigrants in the country illegally, he would free up work for citizens; and that by ending environmental regulations intended to push the U.S. economy toward electric cars and renewable energy, he would bring back a golden age of muscle cars and oil derricks.

It did not help that a scattering of prominent unions declined to endorse Harris, in large part because their rank and file

Now President-elect Donald Trump, right, at headquarters for the Teamsters, the most prominent of a scattering of unions who did not endorse Kamala Harris or Trump, for a roundtable with the union’s leadership during his presidential campaign, in Washington, Jan. 31, 2024. Most unions bet big on Harris’ run, and now face possible repercussions of varying kinds from a Trump administration. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

backed Trump. Most prominent were the Teamsters, whose president, Sean O’Brien, addressed the Republican convention and wanted to preserve a place at Trump’s table if he won. But he was not alone.

The International Association of Fire Fighters, the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United Mine Workers all sat out the election — and if union leadership’s education efforts really did help swing most union households to Harris, those unions’ decision not to endorse might well have helped Trump.

Now, with Trump victorious, leaders like O’Brien have chits to call in.

Leaders like Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, who became outspoken surrogates for Harris, may face the consequences of their decisions.

A defiant Fain said in a statement: “It’s time for Washington, D.C., to put up or shut up, no matter the party, no matter the candidate. Will our government stand with the working class, or keep doing the bidding of the billionaires?”

While leaders like Fain brace for Trump’s famous penchant for retribution, service workers unions are bracing for Trump’s policy promises. In Nevada, the organizing power of unions like the Culinary Workers had propelled Democratic presidential candidates to success in every election since 2004 — until this one.

Union leaders might say they succeeded in significantly helping Harris’ support among their members; in Nevada, they didn’t. Recent polling of Nevadans who are registered voters found that Harris performed only a single point better among union members than Trump, 48% to 47%. The same poll in 2020 found Biden beating Trump by 22 percentage points among union members in Nevada.

Now, Ted Pappageorge, the head of the immigrant-heavy Culinary Workers Local 226, said he was worried about Trump’s draconian promises to deport immigrants in the country illegally en masse and slam closed the U.S.-Mexican border.

Harris’ “messaging was on point,” he said. But what Trump was doing was tantamount to the efforts of a manager to undermine an organizing drive, he suggested, and he had significantly more time to do it.

“She had a couple of months to do that, and Trump has been banging away doing what we call ‘a boss campaign’ for years, introducing a massive amount of fear and division,” Pappageorge said.

November 12, 2024

Stocks

Wall Street hovers at record highs; Trump-linked stocks extend gains

all Street’s main indexes were mixed and near record highs on Monday, with Tesla surging ahead of an upcoming batch of economic data that could influence the Federal Reserve’s pace of interest rate cuts.

Several stocks added to gains they have notched since Republican Donald Trump won the election, as traders expect them to benefit from his return to the White House.

Tesla jumped almost 9% and reached a $1.1 trillion market value, fueled by bets the automaker will benefit from CEO Elon Musk’s close ties to Trump.

Traders had exchanged over $56 billion worth of Tesla shares as of mid-afternoon, accounting for a quarter of all trading in S&P 500 companies, according to LSEG data.

The S&P 500 financial index jumped 1.5%, with banks helping lift the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record high.

The small-cap Russell 2000 jumped 1.5% to its highest level since last November 2021 and was near a record high.

Smaller companies are viewed as potential beneficiaries Trump’s proposed tax cuts and expected looser regulations.

Microsoft , Amazon and Meta Platforms each dipped almost 1%.

The S&P 500 has rallied almost 4% since Trump’s victory last Tuesday, while the Nasdaq has gained almost 5%.

“It’s been a wild four days since the election and the market is taking a breath,” said Jake Dollarhide, chief executive officer of Longbow Asset Management in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “But the trend is moving higher. I would not be surprised if the Trump rally bleeds into a Santa Claus rally.”

The Nasdaq retreated after hitting a record high during the session. The S&P 500 information technology index fell 1.2% and the PHLX chip index lost 3.3%, with AI heavyweight Nvidia dripping nearly 2%.

The S&P 500 was up 0.09% at 6,000.68 points.

The Nasdaq was down 0.06% at 19,274.65 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.76% at 44,322.01 points.

Crypto stocks rallied as bitcoin soared past a record $84,000. Coinbase Global jumped 22% and bitcoin miners MARA Holdings and Riot Platforms gained 29% and 20%, respectively.

Investors are watching consumer price inflation data, due Wednesday, and a raft of other key data this week for signals on the economy and monetary policy outlook.

The U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 25 basis points last week, and interest rate futures imply traders see a 65% chance of another 25 basis point cut at the central bank’s December meeting, according to CME FedWatch.

“With policymakers already so cautious about the risk of renewed price pressures, particularly amid the continued strength of the U.S. economy, the Fed will need to tread a cautious path,” warned Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management.

Advancing issues outnumbered falling ones within the S&P 500 by a 2.1-to-one ratio.

The S&P 500 posted 116 new highs and seven new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 344 new highs and 68 new lows.

MOST ASSERTIVE STOCKS

Investors are increasingly factoring what potential Republican control of government could mean for stocks, bonds and currencies, even as the first feverish market reactions to Donald Trump’s presidential victory begin to settle.

A so-called red sweep scenario, in which Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress, could clear the way for Trump to implement his economic proposals with a freer hand. Many, such as tax cuts, are seen as being growth-friendly but also driving up inflation risks.

Republicans held a narrow edge on Friday as election officials tallied the final votes that will determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives, though Democrats suc-

ceeded in flipping a pair of New York state seats.

“With many of Trump’s policies geared to support stocks, particularly small caps, markets are likely to respond well to a red sweep,” said JJ Kinahan, CEO of IG North America and president of online broker Tastytrade.

Expectations that such policies will be pushed through under Trump to some degree have helped lift corners of the stock market higher, boost the dollar and weigh on Treasuries, as investors recalibrated their portfolios for stronger growth, looser regulations and the possibility that inflation worries could keep the Federal Reserve from cutting rates too deeply next year.

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Israel issues new evacuation warnings in Lebanon

By EUAN WARD and ISABEL KERSHNER

The Israeli military issued new evacuation warnings for more than 20 towns and villages in southern Lebanon on Monday, and Hezbollah unleashed a large rocket barrage into northern Israel, the latest indications that the conflict showed few signs of abating.

The widespread warnings across the country’s south, the first in nearly a month, called on civilians to immediately evacuate their homes and move north of the Awali River, farther from the Israeli border. The river effectively demarcates southern Lebanon, which Israel invaded last month in a bid to destroy Hezbollah’s infrastructure and stop it from firing rockets and missiles into Israel.

As that ground offensive continued Monday, Israel’s new foreign minister, Gideon Saar, signaled that renewed U.S.-brokered diplomatic efforts were now underway to stem the conflict.

“There is progress,” said Saar, speaking at a news conference. “The main challenge eventually will be to enforce what will be agreed.”

Repeated rounds of shuttle diplomacy over the past year, led by the Biden administration, have so far failed to contain the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which began in October 2023 when Hezbollah started its cross-border assaults in support of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The violence has significantly escalated in recent weeks. Officials say 3,200 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than a fifth of the population displaced.

Efforts to reach a temporary cease-fire

A group of Lebanese residents observe the aftermath of a deadly airstrike on Almat, a town in the Jbeil district, Lebanon, on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for more than 20 towns and villages in southern Lebanon on Monday, the latest indication that its conflict with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is deepening, despite what appeared to be intensifying efforts to reach a cease-fire. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)

are complicated by the fact that, even if Hezbollah does agree to demilitarize in southern Lebanon, it is unclear how such an agreement would be enforced — and by whom exactly.

A U.N. resolution that ended the last major conflict in 2006 also called for Hezbollah to disarm along the border but has been widely considered a resounding failure.

Ron Dermer, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs and a close confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visited Russia last week to discuss the possibility of a Russian role in enforcing a truce in Lebanon, according to an official familiar with the mat-

ter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Asked about his visit Monday, Saar indicated that Russia could “contribute” toward efforts to stop Hezbollah rearming via land routes that pass through Syria, where Russia maintains a military presence. It was unclear how exactly Russia was expected to assist.

The seemingly renewed momentum in recent days behind a diplomatic settlement mirrors a growing confidence among Israeli officials that Hezbollah has been significantly weakened. The hope is that such a settle-

ment, on the back of Israeli military victories inside Lebanon, will allow the tens of thousands of Israeli civilians displaced along the border to return home.

Following remarks Sunday by Israel’s new defense minister, Israel Katz, that Hezbollah had been “defeated,” Saar said during his news conference that the group had “lost the majority” of its missile and rocket stockpiles.

Hours later, however, Hezbollah struck back at those claims, unleashing a large rocket barrage near the northern Israeli city of Haifa. At least three people were injured in the attack, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli emergency service.

The barrage served as the latest reminder that Hezbollah still poses a formidable threat despite concerted Israeli efforts to stymie the group’s cross-border fire. The Israeli military said that a total of 90 projectiles had crossed the border, not all of which were intercepted by the country’s air defense system.

The head of Hezbollah’s media office, Mohammed Afif, said Monday that the group had not yet received any proposals on a cease-fire deal in Lebanon, but there had been “contacts between Washington, Moscow, Tehran and other capitals” on the issue since the election of former President Donald Trump last week.

“Nothing official has reached Lebanon or us,” Afif said at a news conference in the Dahiya, the area adjoining Beirut where the armed group holds sway.

Hezbollah, he cautioned, remained “ready for a long war.”

Spirit Airlines plane hit by gunfire in Haiti and forced to divert

By FRANCES ROBLES and DAVID C. ADAMS

ASpirit Airlines flight attempting to land in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was shot at Monday and forced to divert, marking a sharp escalation in the violence that has gripped the nation.

Flight 951, which took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, was struck several times and landed in Santiago, in the Dominican Republic, according to Tommy Fletcher, a spokesperson for the airline.

“An inspection revealed evidence of

damage to the aircraft consistent with gunfire,” Fletcher said in a statement. “One flight attendant on board reported minor injuries and is being evaluated by medical personnel.”

No passengers were hurt, the airline said. Spirit suspended flights to Port-au-Prince and to the northern Haitian city Cap-Haïtien. The plane was taken out of service.

The gunfire appeared to come from the ground, though it was unclear who fired the shots. Gangs that have inflicted a campaign of violence in Haiti are also known to be active in the area around the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital.

Flight monitoring websites showed a JetBlue plane turning around and heading away from Haiti, as the Port-au-Prince airport was quickly shut down. JetBlue and American Airlines canceled flights to and from Haiti until Thursday afternoon. A JetBlue spokesperson said the airline would monitor the situation to determine whether any more flights needed to be called off.

Officials at Haiti’s aviation authority did not return calls seeking more information.

The episode marks the second time in as many months when an aircraft in Haiti has been hit by gunfire. A United Nations helicopter with three crew members and 15 pas-

sengers on board was shot at late last month and hit several times as it flew over a gangcontrolled neighborhood in the capital.

In recent weeks, social media has been filled with photographs of a U.S. armored vehicle sent to Haiti to help quell the violence engulfed in flames, reportedly set ablaze by a gang. Gangs fired on two U.S. Embassy vehicles traveling in Port-au-Prince last month.

The attack on the Spirit plane came a day after Haiti’s interim prime minister was fired by the country’s transition presidential council — a board of nine people that is ruling Haiti until elections can be held to select a president (see related story on page 10).

Haitian prime minister is fired, adding to the nation’s turmoil

By FRANCES ROBLES

The former United Nations official tapped to lead Haiti through a gangfueled crisis has been fired by the country’s ruling council, following a political power struggle that unfolded amid a wave of kidnappings and killings.

The official, Garry Conille, 58, a medical doctor who previously ran UNICEF’s Latin America regional office, was hired in late May to serve as interim prime minister of Haiti. He and the country’s ruling council are supposed to pave the way for elections next year to choose a new president.

Haiti’s transitional council named Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, the owner of a chain of dry cleaners and a former candidate for the Haitian Senate, as his replacement, according to an executive order published Sunday afternoon in the country’s official gazette, Le Moniteur. The former president of the Haiti’s Chamber of Commerce, he studied at Boston University and describes himself on LinkedIn as “an entrepreneur” and “engaged citizen.”

Haiti’s last president was murdered in July 2021 and no elections have been held since. The prior prime minister was forced from office earlier this year by a coalition of gangs that had taken over the capital, Portau-Prince, waging attacks on a range of targets, from police stations to prisons to hospitals.

Unable to even return home from an overseas trip, the previous prime minister, Ariel Henry, stepped down in April as killings soared and thousands of people were

to Washington without letting the council know in advance.

As prime minister, Conille is the head of government, and the seven voting members of the council rotate the title of “president,” — head of state.

But Conille traveled to the United Nations with full diplomatic security, while a council member who held the title of “president” was initially refused official security from the U.S. government, and another council member was shut out of an important bilateral meeting.

The council had recently asked Conille to reshuffle his Cabinet, and he refused, according to a spokesperson for one presidential council member. The last straw appeared to be Conille’s efforts to have three council members who are accused of corruption removed from office.

As a member of the executive branch, it was inappropriate for Conille to meddle in matters that the judiciary must resolve, said Jean Junior Joseph, a spokesperson for Edgar Leblanc Fils, a transitional council member who did not vote on the resolution to dismiss the prime minister or sign the order naming a replacement.

forced from their homes because of gang violence.

Conille, who speaks fluent English and was seen as someone removed from traditional party politics because he hadn’t lived in Haiti for more than a decade, was considered a favorite of the international community, who are key financial donors and have

considerable weight in Haitian affairs.

The decision to oust him was likenedby some analysts as a politically-motivated coup, and they questioned whether the presidential council had the legal authority to do it. The authority to fire a prime minister belongs to the parliament, but because there have been no elections, Haiti currently does not have one.

The dismissal is another setback for the country because power vacuums and a lack of political stability are often cited as among the key reasons that Haiti has been unable to beat back gangs that have taken control of many neighborhoods.

Conille had helped oversee an international force of police officers, most of them Kenyan, who arrived in Haiti in June to try to restore order.

But Conille’s relationship with a transitional presidential council, a nine-member board ruling Haiti until presidential elections could be held, was contentious from the start. In a country known for party factions and political infighting, Conille rankled the council by doing things like traveling

“That really upset his bosses at the Council of Transition,” Joseph said. “We all need full security and harmony among the leaders.’’

Conille’s spokesperson did not return repeated requests for comment. It is the second time that Conille has held the prime minister role. He resigned in 2012 after just four months following increasing tensions with the president at the time.

The council voted to dismiss him Friday, the same day that the U.N. announced that some areas of Haiti were reaching faminelike conditions.

Nearly 4,900 people were killed between January and September, said Stephanie Tremblay, a U.N. spokesperson. That toll has already surpassed the 4,789 people who were killed during all of last year. A massacre last month led to the killing of more than 100 people in Pont-Sondé, in the Artibonite region.

More than 700,000 people have fled their homes nationwide.

“We are seeing pockets of famine-like conditions in some areas where displaced people are living,” Tremblay said.

Prime Minister Garry Conille of Haiti arrives to meet with members of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

The Democratic blind spot that wrecked 2024

By EZRA KLEIN

The 2022 election went better than Democrats could have hoped. The party picked up governor’s mansions and state legislatures and expanded their Senate majority. It held down losses in the House. The promised “red wave” never crashed ashore. Perhaps it would have been better if it had.

Looking back, the seeds of Democrats’ 2024 wipeout were planted in the quasi-victory of 2022. Three things happened in the aftermath. The pressure on President Joe Biden not to run for reelection, and the possibility of a serious primary challenge if he did run, evaporated. Democrats convinced themselves of a theory of the electorate that proved mistaken. And as a result, the Biden-Harris administration avoided the kind of hard, postdefeat pivot that both the Clinton and Obama administrations were forced to make after the midterm defeats of 1994 and 2010.

In 2020, Democrats had worried over Biden’s age, but were comforted, in part, by the soft signals he sent that he would serve only one term. “Look, I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else,” he said in 2020. By mid-2022, as Biden signaled his intention to run again, the party was growing alarmed. In June of that year, The New York Times interviewed nearly 50 Democratic officials and found that among “nearly all the Democrats interviewed, the president’s age — 79 now, 82 by the time the winner of the 2024 election is inaugurated — is a deep concern about his political viability.”

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administration was delivering. In October 2022, amid widespread anger over inflation, a Times-Siena College poll found Biden with a 38% job approval rating and trailing Trump in a hypothetical rematch.

If Democrats had been wiped out in the midterms, the pressure on Biden to be the transitional figure he’d promised to be would have been immense. If he’d run again despite that pressure, he might have faced serious challengers. But Democrats fared far better than they had expected. The president’s saggy approval rating and the widespread anger at inflation were nowhere to be found in the election results. In their first referendum under Biden, Democrats did much better than they had under Clinton or Obama. Any pressure on Biden to step aside — and any possibility of a real primary challenge — ended.

In its place, a new theory of the electorate emerged, based on the way Democrats over-performed in contested states, like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and underperformed in safe states, like New York and California. There were two coalitions: the Make America Great Again coalition and the anti-MAGA coalition. The anti-MAGA coalition was bigger, but it needed to be activated by the threat of Donald Trump or the Dobbs abortion ruling. A slew of special election victories in 2023 seemed to confirm the theory. Democrats were winning elections they had no business winning, given Biden’s low approval rating and public anger over inflation. But the anti-MAGA coalition’s hatred of Trump had changed the electoral math.

There was a less comforting explanation: Democrats were winning more politically engaged voters by huge margins, Republicans were winning voters with less day-to-day interest in politics. The Democrats’ new coalition was the kind that turned out reliably in midterm and special elections. Perhaps that — not an anti-MAGA calvary — was behind Democrats’ strong showing. If this theory was right, a high-turnout presidential election might prove dangerous for Democrats because the electorate would fill with the voters who cared little about Trump or Jan. 6, 2021, but loathed high prices.

But Democrats largely came to believe the first theory. When I talked to some of Biden’s top political advisers after the midterms, they told me that the president’s approval rating was no longer an electoral indicator worth obsessing over. In a nation this sharply polarized, any president would be unpopular. But that wasn’t a harbinger of electoral doom, so long as the alternative was even more unpopular. Democrats didn’t need to change voters’ minds about Biden so much as they needed to keep reminding them of the chaos and consequences of Trump. The 2024 election, they said, would be about Dobbs and democracy.

This permitted the Biden administration — or what would later be called “the Biden-Harris administration” — to avoid the pivot previous Democratic presidencies have followed after the midterms. In 1994 and 2010, Democrats suffered a “shellacking,” to use Barack Obama’s memorable term. In both cases, the administration took the beating as a signal and refocused itself on the voters it had lost. This led, in Bill Clinton’s case, to “triangulation” and welfare reform; it led, in

Obama’s case, to a sequence of bipartisan budget negotiations and a reelection campaign laser-focused on economics.

But the Biden administration wasn’t forced into that kind of pivot. It wasn’t blind to voter anger over inflation or the border, but it wasn’t stung by the kind of electoral rejection that forces administrations to alienate their core supporters by swinging to the center. There were no bipartisan negotiations over an antiinflation or deficit reduction package and few highly public and painful efforts to change course. Biden remained preoccupied, understandably, by Ukraine and then Oct. 7, 2023, and the war between Israel and Hamas.

The most visible bid for moderation after the midterms was the administration’s endorsement of the Murphy-Lankford border bill. But the Biden administration didn’t engage in that process until the end of 2023, and Biden didn’t endorse the bill until January 2024. Even when the bill failed, Biden didn’t issue his executive actions constricting the asylum process until June of 2024.

Compare that with the Obama administration, which spent years working through splashy bipartisan negotiations — through the Simpson-Bowles Committee, with House Speaker John Boehner, then through the so-called “supercommittee.” These largely failed — in the end, deficit reduction was largely driven by the dumb cuts of the “sequestration” process — but the Obama administration let itself get caught trying again and again and again.

I think this dynamic helps explain a political blindness that Democrats developed around Biden. There was always a huge gap between the near reverence for Biden among Washington Democrats and Biden’s weak approval rating. One reason Biden was so beloved among congressional liberals was that, unlike previous Democratic presidencies, his administration didn’t reorient its politics in a way that alienated its base in order to win back disaffected voters. There’s a reason Biden’s staunchest defenders, even after the disastrous presidential debate, were Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

Instead of focusing on the voters they were losing, Biden and the Democrats kept focusing on the voters they were winning. Biden’s reelection campaign launched at Valley Forge with a speech on the threat Trump posed to democracy; Harris’ campaign made its closing argument at the Ellipse, in Washington, where Trump whipped up the mob that stormed the Capitol.

Campaign signs on the side of a road on Election Day in Eau Claire, Wis., Nov. 5, 2024. (Eric Ruby/The New York Times)

Agradecida Karilyn Bonilla, ganó con el 66% de los votos en Salinas

POR EL STAR STAFF

SALINAS – La alcaldesa de Salinas, Karilyn Bonilla Colón, prevaleció ampliamente en la contienda electoral del pasado martes, acumulando 5,725 votos, con el 66.06% de los votos, según los datos más recientes de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE), publicados en su página web. Con todos los 43 colegios reportados, la alcaldesa del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) prevaleció con 5,725 votos, para un 66.06%z

“Agradezco profundamente a todos los electores que ejercieron su derecho al voto. Los resultados indican que la población ha visto con buenos ojos la

labor que hemos estado realizando, y en ese sentido, continuaremos trabajando con todos los sectores. La cam-

paña política terminó el pasado martes y ahora la misión es trabajar, trabajar y trabajar”, señaló la alcaldesa, quien agradeció además la labor de los funcionarios electorales de todos los partidos.

“La democracia se fortalece cuando participamos, de ahí que también yo reconozca a los cientos de personas que aún siendo de otros partidos a nivel estatal, favorecieron a esta servidora”, añadió Bonilla Colón. El candidato del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), Joshua Rivera acumula 2,110 votos (24.3%), seguido por la candidata del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP), Litzy Alvarado no supera los 500 al momento. El Proyecto Dignidad

(PD) postuló a Edwin Santiago, que registra 166 votos.

Bajo la dirección de Bonilla Colón, el Municipio ha sido muy efectivo con la iniciativa Salinas 2030, una estrategia de desarrollo que consta de tres sectores que funcionan en conjunto: 127 proyectos de FEMA para reparar 231 áreas afectadas, una inversión millonaria en proyectos de mitigación para el control de inundaciones y finalmente, los proyectos de revitalización de la zona urbana. “A todas las comunidades la cooperación durante la realización de los proyectos y la atención y cuidado que ponen en estas instalaciones, que son del pueblo salinense”, finalizó la alcaldesa.

Agradecido el alcalde de Cayey ante resultados electorales, continúa proyectos para nuevo cuatrienio

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CAYEY – El alcalde de Cayey, Rolando Ortiz Velázquez agradeció, “primero a Dios Padre Por la oportunidad de seguir sirviendo al pueblo en el que nací. Gracias también a todos mis compañeros de trabajo que son los que dan los servicios al pueblo”, ante los resultados del proceso electoral del pasado martes.

El también expresidente de la Asociación de Alcaldes de Puerto Rico extendió su agradecimiento al equipo de funcionarios y compañeros “que trabajaron en todo el proceso electoral desde la planificación de la campaña hasta el conteo de los votos. A todos los cayeyanos, familia, amigos y los que no siéndolo viven en este paraíso de ciudad mi gratitud eterna sin ustedes nada sería posible. El premio por un buen trabajo es más trabajo” Ortiz Velázquez informó que ya desde ayer miérco-

les comenzaron las reuniones en el Municipio de Cayey para dar continuidad a todos los proyectos encaminados. “Los servicios no se detienen, seguimos juntos con Dios por delante”. Según los resultados publicados en el portal cibernético de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE), el alcalde Rolando Ortiz Velázquez, con 65 de los 68 colegios reportados, el alcalde acumula 9,839 votos, 67.43%

En el caso de Héctor de Jesús del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), acumula 2,343 votos y 16.06%. En una distante tercera posición está José C. Rivera, candidato del Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), con 1,085 votos para 7.46%. Finalmente, el candidato del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP), Irving X. Santiago acumula al momento 944 votos, para 6.49%. En la ciudad de Cayey, al igual que en muchos otros municipios, no hubo alianza independentista. Sí se presentó el ciuda-

dano William Aguilú Santiago por el Proyecto Dignidad, que al momento acumula con 381 votos y 2.61%.

El alcalde estuvo ya reunido con la representante del distrito Cidra Cayey, Gretchen Hau, quien al inicio del cuatrienio fungió como senadora por el distrito de Guayama y determinó aspirar al escaño cameral 29 (CidraCayey). Al momento, los números de la CEE indican que Hau revalidó con 12,510 votos y 49.11%, con los candidatos de los demás partidos disputándose las demás posiciones.

Hau señaló que la labor legislativa de este cuatrienio “ha sido la carta de presentación de esta servidora, tanto para las comunidades de Cidra, como las de Cayey. Los temas de agua potable, así como los de carreteras, han sido prioridad. Agradezco a todos los que ejercieron su voto, como a los que trabajaron en el proceso electoral. Juntos seguiremos trabajando”, finalizó.

Incendio en la escuela Juan A. Corretjer de Ciales; no hubo personas afectadas

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CIALES– El comisionado de Seguridad del Departamento de Educación de Puerto Rico, César González Cordero, informó que durante la tarde de hoy se reportó un incendio en un salón de clases de la escuela Juan A. Corretjer de Ciales. Afortunadamente, no hubo personas afectadas.

Al detectarse el incendio, se activó de inmediato el apoyo del Negociado de Bomberos de la zona, quienes respondieron con rapidez y lograron controlar el fuego, evitando daños mayores. “La activación y respuesta fue rápida, lo cual evitó que los daños fueran mayores,” destacó González Cordero. El comisionado también activó el apoyo de Servicios Auxiliares para docu-

mentar los daños y comenzar la limpieza desde mañana. Además, la Oficina para el Mejoramiento de Escuelas Públicas (OMEP) realizará una evaluación para determinar el alcance de los daños y los costos de reparación. Por recomendación del comisionado, la Superintendencia Regional de Arecibo determinó que mañana no se ofrecerán clases presenciales en la escuela, de-

bido al olor residual del incendio. Esto permitirá al personal de mantenimiento llevar a cabo la limpieza y la mitigación necesarias para garantizar un ambiente seguro.

El personal del Negociado de Bomberos realizó una inspección del lugar certificando oficialmente que la causa del incendio se atribuye a un corto circuito.

5 international movies to stream now

By DEVIKA GIRISH

‘In Her Place’

CThis period drama from Finnish director Antti Jokinen is the rare film that luxuriates in the craft of a female artist. The story follows painter Helene Schjerfbeck and her fraught relationship with art critic Einar Reuter in the 1910s, but the real narrative and visual engine of the film is the long, luscious scenes of Helene at work. She gazes intensely at everyday objects, paints them with her signature smudged brushstrokes and produces sculptural visions of people and places that reach for emotional truth rather than realism. Laura Birn plays Helene with a serene poise, her face a deep, still ocean that breaks into a storm when Einar provokes the unrequited yearnings within her. Around her centrifugal presence, Jokinen crafts a patient film, hued in beige and brown and gray, as attuned as Schjerfbeck was to the currents that roil under the deceptive surfaces of faces and landscapes. (Stream it on Tubi.) The

hile’s submission for this year’s Academy Award for best international feature film is a historical psychodrama centered on a true story: In 1955, writer María Carolina Geel shot and killed her lover in the crowded dining room of an upscale hotel in Santiago. Geel went to prison in a case that shook the country, and wrote a bestselling book about life behind bars. The president later pardoned her after Nobel Prizewinning poet Gabriela Mistral appealed on her behalf.

But Maite Alberdi’s “In Her Place” isn’t about Geel’s spectacular life — it’s about the effect this case has on a fictional secretary working for the trial judge. Mercedes (Elisa Zulueta) lives in a humble home with her husband and two teenage sons, and spends all her time either working at the court or cooking and cleaning at home. Geel’s scintillating crime of passion, and the brazen, glamorous woman at its center, captures Mercedes, who uses the keys confiscated by the court to let herself into Geel’s apartment. Reading the accused writer’s books, wearing her designer clothes, Mercedes starts to imagine — and vicariously live out — a different life that’s both seductive and frightening. An extraordinary tale of crime and redemption becomes the backdrop for a delicate portrait of an ordinary woman trapped not just by patriarchy, but by something that seems almost worse: mediocrity. (Stream it on Netflix.)

‘Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’

The teen coming-of-age genre is turned on its head in this delightful film from French Canadian director Ariane LouisSeize. In Quebec, two vampires are raising a sensitive daughter, Sasha (Sara Montpetit), who refuses to kill humans, instead

relying on the baggies of blood her loving but worried parents stock in the fridge for her. One day, they decide things have to change (“I won’t be hunting for all of us for the next 200 years!” her mother exclaims), and Sasha is sent to live with her cousin, an eager predator of lecherous men, in the hopes that she’ll pick up some skills.

Sasha continues to flail until she meets Paul, a bullied and lonely teenager eager to end his life. These misfit souls — the human who doesn’t want to live and the vampire who doesn’t want to kill — make an arrangement. As the two traipse about in the lonely dark of nighttime in the suburbs, LouisSeize and her actors (Montpetit in particular is rapturous) conjure an alluring mix of deadpan comedy, sweet romance and existential angst, playing with the conventions of high school dramas while probing profound questions about what it means to go against the grain of your very being. (Stream it on Mubi.)

‘Parking’

A two-hour film about a disagreement over a parking space might seem like a strange concept. But anyone who’s ever clashed with a neighbor or roommate will know that life’s greatest and most pervasive dramas sometimes arise from the smallest slights. In “Parking,” a Tamil-language drama by Ramkumar Balakrishnan, it all begins when Eshwar (Harish Kalyan) moves with his new, pregnant wife into an apartment in Chennai, India. The unit below has been occupied for a decade by Ilamparithi (M.S. Bhaskar) and his wife and daughter. Despite the differences between the young, modern couple and the old man with his rigid ways, the families get along.

Until Eshwar buys a car, that is, and the building’s small parking space — where Ilamparithi keeps his bike — becomes fraught terrain. Minor arguments snowball; harsh words are exchanged; egos are wounded. The men are soon engaged in a full-blown war, each leaving work earlier and earlier to race home for the spot. They begin executing elaborate schemes to avenge hurt pride, and the pathetic fragility of masculinity comes to the fore: The women in both men’s lives become pawns in the spurious, increasingly violent dispute. Scripted expertly, “Parking” is hilarious, suspenseful and discomfitingly relatable — an excoriation of the ways material possessions bring out our worst impulses. (Rent it on Amazon Prime.)

‘Plastic’

Endearingly lo-fi and unabashedly nerdy, Daisuke Miyazaki’s film captures a simultaneously cosmic and banal teenage experience: falling for someone over a shared love of obscure pop culture. In “Plastic,” two teenagers in Nagoya, Japan, meet when Ibuki overhears Jun playing a song on the guitar by her favorite band, an erstwhile garage rock act. Structured in brief chapters, the film follows Jun (Takuma Fujie) and Ibuki (An Ogawa) as they fall in love, break up, move apart and continue to cross paths over five years, including an interlude that occurs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Miyazaki unfussily portrays the predictable fizzle-out of young romance and the inexorable passage of time, giving the film an unforced realism, even as it maintains a twinkling sense of magic and possibility. The music that brought Jun and Ibuki together remains in their lives, weighted with that feeling of being seen by someone for the first time, making sure they are always connected, whether they know it or not. (Stream it on Metrograph at Home.)

‘Helene’

Sorry, mom. I’m skipping your turkey dinner for a solo vacation.

By JULIE WEED

Last Thanksgiving, Dennis Friedrichsen, a 43-year-old tech worker from Minnesota, found himself dining on the banks of the Nile, sharing a feast of kebabs and chickpea stew with 11 strangers from three continents. Then he spent Christmas in Tanzania. Like a growing number of travelers, Friedrichsen saw the holidays as the perfect time for a solo adventure.

Spending the holidays away from friends or family has long carried a stigma of loneliness. But that is changing as more people replace the pressures of gift giving and holiday traditions with self-care and the chance to make up for travel opportunities they missed during the COVID pandemic, often making new friends along the way.

Flash Pack, a company that connects almost entirely solo travelers in their 30s and 40s for group adventures, said its bookings had doubled during the holidays in the last two years. Friedrichsen was among those customers.

Other tour organizers and lodging companies are seeing the increased interest, too. The low-cost European lodging chain a&o Hostels has experienced “a massive influx of solo travelers booking during the holidays,” with single-person Christmas reservations soaring 51% from 2019 to 2023, said the company’s CEO, Oliver Winter. “December weekends used to be absolutely offseason and we would think about closing,” he said. “Now it’s a high-occupancy time.”

A mix of factors is fueling the growing popularity of solo trips in general, Winter said. Traveling alone is safer than ever, thanks to online destination and transportation information, widespread cellphone coverage and location-sharing tools, he said. It is also easier than ever to find social activities online, on apps or through a lodging provider — visits to popular Christmas markets and ice skating outings, for example. Winter added that he sees people still making up for the trips they skipped during the COVID years.

The pandemic brought self-care to the fore, with some people now opting to swap pressure-filled family holiday gatherings for a solo escape, said Seattle-based

son, according data from Expedia. But of course, trips are as varied as the travelers. Specialists putting together itineraries in Africa, Indian Ocean islands and remote Asian locales have also seen a notable increase in people traveling alone.

Some solo travelers see the end of the year as a time to rest, renew and restart. Lenner Garrido, general manager at the Punta Islita, a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, attributes a 20% jump in solo travel bookings from the previous year to guests seeking “rejuvenation in a peaceful environment surrounded by nature.”

Friedrichsen said a variety of reasons spurred his decision to go it alone, twice, during the holidays last year. His sister had recently started her own family, and his parents were reveling in celebrating Christmas as first-time grandparents, so he was giving them some space. “I don’t live too far away, so I could see them a different week,” he said. Also, traveling over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays allowed him to take a longer trip while using fewer vacation days, something he said he valued more than material gifts. And the clincher: With his own birthday near Christmas, he wanted to celebrate by “doing amazing things in other parts of the world.”

psychotherapist Stephanie Brownell. “Holidays come with expectations,” Brownell said, and people are realizing they have options. “They are feeling more flexible and not bound by preconceived ideas of what a holiday means,” she said, adding that they are “attending to their emotions.”

Social media is contributing to the trend as well, with influencers celebrating solo trips as a mark of independence and adventurousness. Instagram accounts like SarahWoodwardTravels and SunnRayy, each with more than 100,000 followers, offer inspiration and encouragement to those thinking of traveling alone, with photo posts that have captions like “You’ve never been married but have taken yourself on more honeymoons than you can count.” Taking a trip on your own now,

Brownell said, “offers a sense of agency as an alternative to tradition.”

For some, going solo over the holidays can end up being a gift to their family, Brownell said. An older parent taking a solo trip, for example, could reduce the pressure on grown children, who may be establishing their own traditions, planning their own vacations or spending time with in-laws. Telling them, “‘Go have fun. I’m going to have a great time, too,’ takes a big weight off the kids,” Brownell said. “You are modeling self-care and letting your children know they don’t have to worry about you.”

Big cities are popular with independent travelers. Tokyo, London, New York and Las Vegas are among the top destinations for solo travelers this holiday sea-

Amber Laree, 58, a New York-based travel planner at Mountain Travel Sobek, a company that puts together outdoor and cultural journeys, found herself drawn to solo trips when her children grew up and she divorced her husband. “I spent most of my adult life curating magical experiences for others at the holidays,” she said. “For decades, I put great effort into ensuring the surprise and delight of my family.” Now, she said, she travels over the holidays as a present to herself, this year planning to go to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in November and December.

“No turkeys to roast, no decorations to put up and take down, no endless gift shopping,” Laree said.

There was an escapist element to her travel plans as well, Laree said. “Loneliness and loss can be overwhelming at the holidays,” and it can be a relief, she said, to be “in the company of strangers who have no knowledge of, or investment in, my past.”

Seeking self-care and a respite from the pressures of the season, more Americans are viewing the holidays as a perfect time to take a trip on their own. (Michelle Rohn/The New York Times)

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Why sitting all day may shorten your life

Experts often say sitting is the new smoking, linking long periods of it to obesity, high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol — even if you meet physical activity guidelines. Spending too much time in a chair can unravel your fitness goals and make you feel older. (Thea Traff/The New York Times)

By JEN MURPHY

We’ve all heard that sitting too long is bad for you. We’re not evolved to do it, it can undermine our exercise gains, it causes dead butt syndrome. Sitting might not quite be “the new smoking,” but too much of it can still shorten your life.

“Sitting is actually aging you faster,” said Katy Bowman, a biomechanist and author of “My Perfect Movement Plan.” Whether it’s bone or joint health, muscle mass or energy level, she added, “a lot of what you

perceive as aging is going to be heavily influenced by your sitting time.”

And we spend a lot of time sitting. Numbers vary around how much average Americans sit per day, but it may be as long as 9 1/2 hours. Studies suggest women sit less than men do, but most agree we all sit more than previous generations did.

The consequences can be serious. A study published at the beginning of the year followed 480,000 people in Taiwan older than 13 and found those who sit most of the work day had a 34% higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than those with

less sedentary jobs did — and a 16% higher risk of mortality overall.

One way to lower the risk, the authors wrote, was to add 15 to 30 minutes of physical activity per day to your existing routine. Other studies go further, suggesting sedentary people need to double the standard weekly exercise recommendations.

“The bottom line is that too much sitting is a big new health risk,” said Neville Owen, a senior scientist at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

Here’s what you need to know and how to mitigate your time in the chair.

Why is sitting so bad?

Put simply, uninterrupted sitting is bad for your heart, joints, muscles, metabolism and mental health.

The American Heart Association notes that prolonged sitting raises the risk of developing heart disease or stroke, even for those who exercise regularly. It can take as little as 30 minutes of uninterrupted sitting to affect how blood vessels function. And the longer you sit, the higher the cardiovascular risks, especially if you are sitting for more than 10 hours.

Sitting for extended periods has also been linked to lower back pain. Small studies suggest the height of your lumbar disc might be compressed after sitting more than four hours without interruption.

Furthermore, your large leg and gluteal muscles can stop activating after just 30 minutes of sitting, Owen said. Over time, they can weaken and cause back or knee pain.

Sitting also doesn’t burn much energy. Over time, a sedentary lifestyle can affect your ability to regulate blood sugar and break down fat, potentially leading to weight gain and Type 2 diabetes. American workers today burn about 100 fewer calories per day than they did 50 years ago. That’s roughly equal to 30 minutes of walking, said Thom Rieck, an exercise specialist at the Mayo Healthy Living Program in Rochester, Minnesota.

Lastly, sitting affects mood and cognition, increasing the odds of depression and anxiety.

How to get off your butt

If you sit for work, you have to be more

active.

The fact is that if you sit a lot, the recommended 150 weekly minutes of moderate aerobic activity and strength training may not cut it, said Geoffrey Whitfield, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The more you sit, the more exercise you need. Some evidence suggests tripling that amount, to about 60 minutes per day, Whitfield added.

Set a timer at work.

If you can’t add that much movement to your day, try adding small bouts, spread throughout the day. Brian Cleven, a clinical exercise physiologist in Marinette, Wisconsin, recommends working some exercises into your day at your desk. Try 10 to 15 repetitions of pointing and flexing each foot, seated calf raises and marching in place. Or try a quick exercise snack.

He suggests doing something every hour or perhaps exercising the lower body one hour and the upper body the next. Even better, he said, try to elevate your heart rate by taking a two- to five-minute walk every hour or walking up and down a set of stairs.

Standing desks aren’t a cure-all. Working at a standing desk expends more energy than sitting but can cause pain as well. The key is regular movement whether seated or standing, said Bethany Barone Gibbs, an epidemiologist based in Pittsburgh with the American Heart Association.

If nothing else, try fidgeting.

If you can’t get up — say, during a long car drive — at the very least you should change your body position, ideally every 15 to 30 minutes, Dr. Barone Gibbs said. You can do this with small, subtle movements, like fidgeting by tapping or jiggling your feet every few minutes.

Try adjusting your leg, pelvis and spine positions, Bowman said. “Read your email with your arms stretching overhead or while twisting your shoulders to the right and left,” she suggested. Or alternate between doing 30 minutes of work standing and 30 minutes seated.

But you can’t fidget your way to good health. To avoid the adverse effects of a sitting-heavy lifestyle, add more movement breaks and more exercise to your daily routine, Whitfield said.

LEGAL NOTICE

SUMMONS {Family Law) ON AMENDED PETITION NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name): Robert Louis De Requesens Morales

AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre): Robert Louis De Requesens Morales FL-110

CITACION (Derecho familiar) FOR COURT USE ONLY (SOLO PARA USO DE LA CORTE)

2024 JUL 16 A 11:38 CASE NUMER (NUMERO DE CASO) 24FL007418S

You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court, may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children.You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.orq), or by contacting your.local county bar association.

NOTICE-RESTRAINING

ORDERS-ARE ON PAGE 2:

These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment Is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. FEE WAIVER: lf you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

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Tiene 30 días de calendario después de haber recibido la entrega legal de es/a Citación y Petición para presenta una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefónica o una audiencia de la co rte no bas/a para protegerlo. Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar ordenes que afecten su matrimonio

o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar que pague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales. Para asesoramiento legal, póngase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte,ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpca. org) poniédose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado. AVISO - LAS ORDENES DERESTRICCION SE ENCUENTRAN EN LA PA GINA

2: Las ordenes de restricción están en vigencia en cuanto a ambos cónyuges o miembros de la pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte dé otras órdenes. Cualquiera agencia del orden público que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas órdenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California. EXENCION DE CUOTAS: Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentos a petición de usted o de la otra parte.

1. The name and address of the court are (Ei nombre y dirección de la corte son): Superior Court of California 500 Third Avenue Chula Vista, CA 91910

2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección y numero de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son):

Gilda Marisol

Maldonado Cordero P.O. Box 211346

Chula Vista, CA 91921

Date (Fecha): 16 JUL 2024

Clerk, by (Secretario, por) L.IBARRA, Deputy (Asistente) SUMMONS (Family Law)

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

JUAN ANTONIO LÓPEZ

DÍAZ, MARTA LÓPEZ

DÍAZ, MARIA MILAGROS

LÓPEZ DÍAZ, GLADYS

ESTHER LÓPEZ DÍAZ Y GUILLERMINA LÓPEZ

DÍAZ

Peticionaria EX-PARTE

Caso: BY2024CV05988. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.

UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: A LAS PERSONAS

IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA

PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE

OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo 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 en la secretaría del Tribunal, Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 009695650, Teléfono 787-720-9553. La propiedad objeto de la petición se describe del siguiente modo: Según sus títulos: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular, radicada en el barrio Camarones del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 300.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes

por el NORTE: en 2 alineaciones que suman 8.68 metros con carretera estatal #169; por el SUR: en 9.36 metros con calle municipal; por el ESTE: en 4 alineaciones que suman 31.079 metros con solar de la Sucesión de Isabelino Figueroa y por el OESTE: en 3 alineaciones que suman 37.37 metros con Sucesión de Patricio del Valle, Enclava una estructura.” Según Mensura reciente efectuada por Ingeniero Juan Rodríguez Claudio, licencia número 5903: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno de forma irregular, radicada en el barrio Camarones del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 315.468 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.0803 de cuerda según mensura. En lindes por el NORTE: en 2 alineaciones que suman 8,68 metros con carretera estatal #169; por el SUR: en 9.36 metros con calle municipal; por el ESTE: en 4 alineaciones que suman 31.079 metros con solar de la Sucesión de Isabelino Figueroa y por el OESTE: en 3 alineaciones que suman 37.37 metros con Sucesión de Patricio del Valle. Enclava una estructura.” Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 21 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. MARIA L. MALDONADO MOQUETE

Demandado Civil Núm.: NG2024CV00053. Salón: 408. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - R.60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARIA L. MALDONADO MOQUETE - VILLA JUSTICIA G 10 CALLE DELGADO, CAROLINA, PR 00985; 7602 EATON AVE JACKSONVILLE, FL, 32211.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de septiembre de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 13 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. FRANDY S. ROSARIO TORRES

Part Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2024CV00132. 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: FRANDY S. ROSARIO TORRES - 388 CALLE OSVALDO MOLINA, FAJARDO PR 00738; 580 STANLEY AVE BROOKLYN NY 112077839.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O . Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de septiembre de 2024. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. IDALIA PIÑERO REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC. Demandante Vs. ELVIN L. NIEVES PEREZ Demandado Civil Núm.: UT2024CV00136. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (PROCEDIMIENTO ORDINARIO). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A. ELVIN L. NIEVES PEREZ - URB CABRERA D-31, UTUADO, PR, 00641.

El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Utuado, dictó la siguiente providencia: “Vista la Demanda y la solicitud de que se autorice el emplazamiento por edicto al amparo de la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil, de las cuales surge que Elvin L Nieves Perez es parte necesaria y legítima en el pleito, y que existe contra este una reclamación que justifica la concesión de un remedio, se ordena su emplazamiento mediante la publicación de edicto. Dicho edicto se publicará una (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Se dispone que se le envíe a la parte demandada previamente mencionada copia de esta orden, el emplazamiento y la demanda presentada, dentro de los diez (10) días de la fecha de la publicación del edicto, a su última dirección conocida mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo. Se ordena a la Secretaría del Tribunal expedir el emplazamiento por edicto correspondiente.” Se le emplaza y se le requiere que presente su alegación responsiva a la Demanda presentada, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación general del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por Orden del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Utuado, Puerto Rico, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la Parte Demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación

responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, ello sin más citarle ni oírle. La Parte Demandante está siendo representada por el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez, cuya dirección es la siguiente: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518. Número de teléfono: (787) 993-3731. Direcciones de correo electrónico: jan.otero@ orf-law.com y notificaciones@ orf-law.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal para su publicación, en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de septiembre de 2024. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIA I. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. CARLOS L. RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ Demandado Civil Núm.: CN2024CV00166. Salón: 406. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CARLOS L. RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ - 1 RES JESUS T PINERO, EDIF 8 APT 33, CANOVANAS, PR 007293001. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro

del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 de septiembre de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 12 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO LLACG COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND

Demandante Vs. SUCESION ISMAEL MALDONADO

MALDONADO T/C/C

ISMAEL MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR ISMAEL MALDONADO ALVAREZ, LUISA MARISOL MALDONADO

ALVAREZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: AR2024CV01884. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION

ISMAEL MALDONADO

MALDONADO T/C/C

ISMAEL MALDONADO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del

Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria 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. Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622 TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com

Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. LINETTE ROMÁN SERRANO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. RAYMOND

JIMENEZ VAZQUEZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV02924. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RAYMOND JIMENEZ VAZQUEZ - EXT VILLA BLANCA 3, CALLE AMBAR, CAGUAS PR 000725-2051. De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO. Se le emplaza y requiere 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), 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. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte de-

mandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar Al 16 de julio de 2024 la cantidad de $10,954.60 de principal, más intereses acumulados al 17.95% y los que se acumulen hasta su total y completo pago, más cargos por demora y los que se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda, más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados según pactado. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882

Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919

Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA

y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de octubre de 2024. IRASEMIS

DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. RIVERA RIVERA, GLORIMAR, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LUIS A. RODRIGUEZ DIAZ Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2024CV02449. Sala: 402. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS A RODRIGUEZ DIAZ - CF34 CALLE 141, JARDINES DE COUNTRY

CLUN, CAROLINA PR 00983.

De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere 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), 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. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar al 5 de julio de 2024 la cantidad de $36,695.96 de principal, más intereses acumulados a razón del 10.95% y los que se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda, más cargos por demora y los que se acumulen hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados según pactado. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 9 de octubre de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOURDES

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Demandante V. JULIO DELFÍN DE JESÚS REYES, EFRAÍN DE JESÚS REYES, MARÍA YELL DE JESÚS REYES, MARILY DE JESÚS REYES, COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ERIDA REYES SÁNCHEZ Y COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DELFÍN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: CO2024CV00286. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO

RICO, SS. EDICTO. A: JULIO DELFÍN DE JESÚS REYES como miembro de la sucesión de Erida Reyes Sánchez y como miembro de la sucesión de Delfín De Jesús Sánchez PO BOX 1706, Coamo, PR 00769; Bo. Las Flores Parcel, Coamo, PR 00769; San Idelfonso 92, Paseo Los Tulipanes 3, Coamo, PR 00769; Bo Las Flores P, Coamo, PR 00769; Parc. Las Flores, Calle 3 No. 92, Coamo, PR 00769; 92 Paseo Los Tulipanes, San Alfonso, Coamo, PR 00769; Bo. Las Flores #92 Paseo Los Tulipanes, Coamo, PR 00769; Parc Las Flores, 92 Calle 3 Coamo, PR 00769; Las Flores 95 Street, Coamo, PR 00769; 92 Calle 3, Paseo Los Tulipanes, Las Flores-San Ildefonso, Coamo, PR 00769.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la mismas al (a la) abogado(a) de Ia 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 rebeidía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2029, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen Ia ubicación permanente de un una) menos fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos

b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a Ia parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA #17,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Coamo, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CECILIA ARZOLA VEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. ANÍBAL JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, DAISY CALUDIO DE JESÚS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado

Civil Núm.: E2CI2013-00582. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 10 de octubre de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno radicada en la Urbanización Haciendas de Florida II, localizada en el Barrio Florida del término municipal de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de dicha urbanización con el número cuatro (4) del Bloque F, con una cabida superficial de 388.924 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una alineación recta de 15.00 metros, con la Calle número 5 de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en una alineación recta de 15.00 metros, con la Urbanización Haciendas de Florida I; por el ESTE, en una alineación recta de 25.91 metros, con el Solar

número 3 del mismo bloque; y por el OESTE, en una alineación recta de 25.91 meros, con el Solar número 5 del mismo bloque. Enclava una casa. Existe talud. Afecto servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company de 1.52 metros de ancho a todo lo largo de su colindancia Norte. Finca Número 22,518 Inscrita al tomo Karibe de San Lorenzo. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada el 27 de febrero de 2015 y notificada en este caso el 6 de marzo de 2015, y publicada en un periódico de circulación general de Puerto Rico (“The San Juan Daily Star”) el 16 de marzo de 2015, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $121,065.79 por concepto de principal, más el 6 % de interés legal mensual desde el 1ro de octubre de 2012 y hasta que sea satisfecha esta sentencia, las costas, más la cantidad de $13,394.10 por concepto de honorario de abogados. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $133,941.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $89,294.00, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024

A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA SUBASTA será de $66,970.50, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo

104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de octubre de 2024. ÁNGEL GÓMEZ GÓMEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #593, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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COMPU-LINK (COMPULINK CORPORATION

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Demandante V. Sucesión de Alberto luis Chaves gorbea T/C/C ALBERTO L. CHAVES GORBEA T/C/C ALBERTO CHAVES GORBEA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV06847. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ILIA CRISTINA RAMÍREZ MARTÍNEZ RAMIREZ@GLSLEGALSERVICES. COM.

A: ALBERTO L. CHAVES LUGO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DEL FINADO ALBERTO LUIS CHAVES GORBEA T/C/C ALBERTO L. CHAVES

GORBEA T/C/C ALBERTO CHAVES GORBEA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de noviembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 04 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. RAQUEL DÍAZ LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. RUBEN ROSA CAPO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2024CV02824. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO

DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RUBEN ROSA CAPO - 140 CADMAN PLAZA WEST, APTO. 24D, BROOKLING NEW YORK 11201; F52 CALLE 9, URB SANTA JUANA III, CAGUAS PR 00725. De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO. Se le emplaza y requiere 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), 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. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar al 7 de junio de 2024 un balance en perdida de $19,599.26 más intereses a razón del 4.95% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una cantidad equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado según pactado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan, PR 00919

Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de octubre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante v. KERMIT M. LUGO GARCIA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: PE2023CV00078 (SALÓN 3 SALA MUNICIPAL EN SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO.. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA

DEMANDADO

NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO

A: KERMIT M. LUGO GARCÍA P/C LCDA.

NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de NOVIEMBRE de 2024. En PEÑUELAS, Puerto Rico, el 04 de NOVIEMBRE de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRU QUIÑONES, Secretario(a). f/ DELIA APONTE VELAZQUEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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DEMANDANTE vs. SUCESIÓN DE DOMINGO PADILLA ECHEVARRIA COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA CRISTINA CASTRO BONDO; SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO DOMINGO PADILLA TORRES, LYMARIS PADILLA TORRES T/C/C LIMARIE LOWTHER Y CARMEN PADILLA NEGRON; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN PADILLA ECHEVARRIA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES

CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2024CV01036. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. A: CRISTINA CASTRO BONDO, DOMINGO PADILLA TORRES; Fulano De Tal y Sutana de tal como herederos desconocidos y/o partes con interés en la sucesión de CARMEN PADILLA ECHEVARRIA BO.

SANTANA, 120 CARR. KM 1.5 LOTE 4, SABANA GRANDE PR 00637

Dirección postal: VILLA ALBA, C12, SABANA GRANDE PR 00637 y PO BOX 239 SABANA GRANDE PR 00637.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL:

ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico a 1 de noviembre de 2024. Lcda. Norma G. Santana lrizarry, SECRETARIO. Evelyn González Hernández, SUB-SECRETARIO.

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DEMANDANTE vs.

FRANCES COLÓN DE JESÚS Y JUAN RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ MAYSONET

DEMANDADOS CIVIL NÚM.: BY2024CV05428. SALA 503. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. ss. A: JUAN RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ MA YSONET -URB. SIERRA BAYAMON, 57-20 CALLE 45, BAYAMON, PR 00961; -URB. SIERRA BAYAMON, 25C-21 CALLE 25, BAYAMON, PR 00961. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos by f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación

legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787- 751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 1 de NOVIEMBRE de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, INTERINA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, Sub-Secretario(a). LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC. Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE OSWALD LOUIS VERONESE SINTAS COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV03056. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB. SANTA JUANITA DB-5 CALLE DAMASCO BAYAMON, PR 00956 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar cinco Bloque “DB” Urbanización Santa Juanita, Barrio Minillas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto

de trescientos un metros treinta centímetros cuadrados. En lindes por el NOROESTE, con solar cuatro; por el SURESTE, con solar seis; por el SUROESTE, con solares treinta y treintiuno; y por el NORDESTE, con Calle Damasco. Contiene una casa de hormigón y bloques para una familia. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 45 del Tomo 597 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 27,482, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $101,343.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $67,562.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil de Subastas, sita en el cuarto piso del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $50,671.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 180 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de febrero de 2023, ante el Notario Norma Enid Santiago Sánchez y consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 27,482, inscripción 9na, en Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Primera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido desde el pasado 22 de agosto de 2024 contra la parte co-demandada La Sucesión de Julio Andino Clemente ascendente a la suma de $100,500.32 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de enero de 2024, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, La Sucesión de Oswald Louis

Veronese Sintas adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $10,134.30. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesa el gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relaciona a continuación: (a) Hipoteca a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $45,000.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 16 de febrero de 2028, constituida mediante la escritura número 181, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de febrero de 2023, ante el notario Norma Enid Santiago Sánchez, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 27,482, inscripción 10ma. Sujeta a condiciones bajo el Programa CDBG-DR por un término de 5 años. (b) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Veronese Sintas Oswald, seguro social xxx-xx-0953, por la suma de $7,623.90, por concepto de Contribución sobre Ingresos, según Caso número BAY-10-1037, Certificación de fecha 22 de julio de 2010, presentado 6 de agosto de 2010, al folio 49, Orden 985 del Libro ELA número 30. (Ley 120 del 30 de octubre de 1994 (enmendada); Ley 12 del 20 de enero de 2010, quedan embargados todos los bienes propiedad del contribuyente para responder al pago de la deuda indicada). Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con

posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 06 de noviembre de 2024. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.

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Demandante Vs. MELVIN GALARZA ROBLES (DEUDOR HIPOTECARIO); ANGEL

LUIS HERNANDEZ RIVERA, IRAIDA

HERNANDEZ CASTRO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; MARTA HERNANDEZ

RIVERA; FRANCISCO

HERNANDEZ RIVERA, BENEDICTA AGOSTO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; PORFIRIO HERNANDEZ RIVERA, HAYDEE FLORES

GARCIA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JUANA RIVERA GONZALEZ (TITULARES REGISTRALES)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2023CV03365. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO

JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en BARRIO LIRIOS SR 9929 KM 4.8 LOT 2-A JUNCOS, PR 00777 y que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar rotulado como Lote 2A en el Plano de Inscripción, sito en el Barrio Lirios del término municipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuarenta y dos puntos cero quinientos setenta y siete metros cuadrados (542.0577 m/c), equivalentes a cero punto mil trescientos setenta y nueve cuerdas (0.1379 cda.). En lindes por el NORTE, con camino público, por el SUR, con el Remanente de la finca principal; por el ESTE, con el remanente de la finca principal y por el OESTE, con el solar perteneciente a Luis González. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Juncos, finca número 19,888, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $88,880.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 9 DE

DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $59,253.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $44,440.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 407 otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de diciembre de 2020, ante el Notario Público Carlos Martínez Olmo, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Juncos, finca número 19,888, inscripción 3ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido desde el 19 de marzo de 2024 ascendente a la suma de $84,298.56 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de junio de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte co-demandada Melvin Galarza Robles (Deudor Hipotecario), adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $8,888.00. Además la parte co-demandada Melvin Galarza Robles (Deudor Hipotecario), se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $8,888.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $8,888.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO

JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA

SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bas-

tante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de noviembre de 2024. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY

MORTGAGE, INC.

Demandante Vs. WILBERT SPENCER

FROTMAN; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV00737. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS. SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en BARRIO CERRO GORDO SR 916 KM 4.0 INT SAN LORENZO, PR 00754 y que se describe a continuación: REMANENTE: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicado en el Barrio Cerro Gordo de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico con una cabida superficial de dos punto novecientos veinticinco cuerdas (2.925 cdas.), iguales a once mil cuatrocientos noventa y cinco punto ochenta y seis metros cuadrados (11,495.86 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con camino vecinal en ciento treinta y un punto diez metros (131.10 m.); por el SUR, con Teresa López, en cien punto sesenta y siete metros (100.67 m.); por el ESTE, con Justina Conde, en ciento once punto cincuenta y tres metros (111.53 m.); y por el OESTE, con Parcela A segregada en noventa y nueve punto veintidós metros (99.22 m.) con Pedro Chay, en seis punto ochenta y seis metros (6.86 m.). Este es el remanente luego de descontadas y segregadas unas parcelas de 1.904 cuerdas y 0.171 cuerdas, mediante la escritura número 215, otorgada en San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de septiembre del 1978, ante el notario Gilberto Cuevas Vélez, inscrito al folio 51 del tomo 148 de San Lorenzo, finca número 7,417, inscripción 3ra. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 50 del Tomo 148 de San Lorenzo, finca número 7,417, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. El tipo míni-

mo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $228,260.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $152,173.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $114,130.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 618 otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, el día 5 de octubre de 2021, ante el Notario Público Carlos Martínez Olmo, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de San Lorenzo, finca número 7,417, inscripción 12da en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido desde el 6 de junio de 2024 ascendente a la suma de $219,368.48 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de octubre de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.25% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte co-demandada Wilbert Spencer Frotman adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $22,826.00. Además la parte co-demandada Wilbert Spencer Frotman se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $22,826.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $22,826.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su

totalidad. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan a continuación. (a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de United States of America acting through Rural Housing Services, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $17,052.93, sin intereses, vencedero el día 1 de octubre de 2051, constituida mediante la escritura número 439, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 20 de septiembre de 2023, ante el notario Jaime E. Dávila Santini, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de San Lorenzo, finca número 7,417, inscripción 13ra. (b) Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Wilbert Frotman, seguro social xxxxx-2061, por la suma de $25,282.74, según Caso número CAR-22-0905, Certificación de fecha 10 de enero de 2022, presentado y anotado 13 de enero de 2022, al Asiento 2022000230-EST del Sistema Karibe. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegu-

rados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de noviembre de 2024. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA ASOCIACIÓN RESIDENTESURBANIZACIÓN SAN AGUSTÍN, INC. Demandante Vs. CARLOS JOSE RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ, MARLIS VAZQUEZ RUIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV04362. Sobre: COBRO DE CUOTAS DE MANTENIMIENTO / VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: A: MARLIS VAZQUEZ RUIZ POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON CARLOS J. RODRIGUEZ JIMENEZ. Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante, Asociación Residentes - Urbanización San Agustín, Inc., ha presentado ante este Tribunal una demanda por la causal de cobro de dinero por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento contra los demandados Carlos Jose Rodriguez Jimenez, Marlis Vazquez Ruiz y la Sociedad

Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Héctor L. Claudio Rosario, 167 Calle Pedro Flores Urb. Monticielo, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725; número de teléfono 787-635-1220 / Telefax: 1-267-392-3959; dirección de correo electrónico, bufetehectorclaudio@gmail.com. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que de no contestar la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de éste Edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal, con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello de éste Tribunal, en Vega Baja. Puerto Rico, a 30 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA INTERINA. MARITZA

ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADA

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. EMANUEL

ECHEVARRIA GARCIA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AU2024CV00061.

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: EMANUEL

ECHEVARRIA GARCIABO PIEDRAS BLANCAS

CARR 416 KM 0.3, AGUADA PR 00602; HC 03 BOX 30854, AGUADA, PR 00602-9900.

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, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO

MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en AGUADA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de octubre de 2024.

SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NOEMÍ ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I. LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. ARIEL ANTONIO BERRIOS ORTEGA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AI2024CV00309. (Salón: 001). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CMPRLAW.COM.

A: DAISY HERNANDE Z SAEZ POR SI Y COMO REPRESENT ANTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON ARIEL ANTONIO BERRIOS ORTEGA.

(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 octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notifica-

ción. 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 04 de noviembre de 2024. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 04 de noviembre de 2024. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria. Carmen Aponte Flores, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. CARMEN J SANTIAGO ORTIZ

Demandados Civil Núm.: JD2024CV00427. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; 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 J SANTIAGO

ORTIZ - BO. JAUCA CARR 1, KM 99.4 #100, SANTA ISABEL PR 00757; HC2 BOX 6714, SANTA ISABEL PR 00757.

De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere 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), 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. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar al 7 de junio de 2024 la parte demandada adeuda a FirstBank la cantidad en perdida de $47,420.97 más intereses a razón del 10.45% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una

cantidad equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado según pactado. Además, que ordene el embargo del vehículo descrito en el inciso cuarto, para con el producto del mismo, satisfacer hasta donde alcance las cantidades adeudadas. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA

y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 23 de octubre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. GLORIVEE MORALES

SÁEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

GLORIA MYRNA BONILLA NEGRÓN

Demandante V. FIRST BANK DE PUERTO RICO; COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE FIRST FINANCIAL CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE

Demandados Civil Núm. : BY2024CV06233. Sala: 503. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: JOHN DOE / RICHARD DOE. Quedan notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados en la que se solicita la cancelación por la vía judicial de un Pagaré hipotecario extraviado a favor de First Financial Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $73,911.00 e intereses al 7.00% anual y vencimiento el día 1ro de octubre de 2012, mediante la Escritura Número 1955 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante la notario público Gloria Aquino Aponte, inscrita al folio 203 del tomo 1497 de Bayamón, finca número 65447, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón, inscripción 3ra. El descrito Pagaré hipotecario grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintiuno (21) del Bloque “H”

radicado en la Urbanización Riberas del Río en el Barrio Juan Sánchez del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto de ciento sesenta metros cuadrados (160.00 mc). En lindes por el NORTE, en diez metros lineales (10.00 ml), con la calle número seis (6); por el SUR, en diez metros lineales (10.00 ml), con el solar número ocho (8); por el ESTE, en dieciséis metros lineales (16.00 ml), con el solar número veintidós (22) y por el OESTE, en dieciséis metros lineales (16.00 ml), con el solar número veinte (20). Enclava una estructura construida para fines residenciales. Consta inscrita al folio doscientos once (211) del tomo mil cuatrocientos noventa y siete (1497) de Bayamón, finca número sesenta y cinco mil cuatrocientos cuarenta y siete (65,447), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Se les advierte que el presente Edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y se le requiere para que contesten la Demanda de epígrafe dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de su contestación en el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia de la misma a la parte demandante a la siguiente dirección:

BUFETE APONTE & CORTES

LCDA. ERIKA MORALES MARENGO PO Box 195337 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-5337 Tel. (787) 302-0014 / (787) 239-5661 Email: emarengo@apontecortes. com 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 presente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, el tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 24 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. JEANNETTE ACEVEDO MÉNDEZ

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV06995 . Salón: 905. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: JEANNETTE ACEVEDO MENDEZ - 1333 JD MILLERD APTO. H-202, SANTA ROSA BEACH, FL 32459-6858; APT. A4 COND, CONDADO DEL MAR, SAN JUAN PR 00907; PO BOX 6032, SAN JUAN PR 00914. Se le emplaza y requiere 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante: Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar al 7 de junio de 2024 la parte demandada adeuda a FirstBank la cantidad en perdida de $59,695.82 más intereses a razón del 8.95% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una cantidad equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado según pactado. Además, que ordene el embargo del vehículo descrito en el inciso cuarto, para con el producto del mismo, satisfacer hasta donde alcance las cantidades adeudadas. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V.

FELIX A. PENA FERNANDEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: TA2024CV01033. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FELIX A. PENA FERNANDEZ.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que. presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección 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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Paseo Corales I, 655 Calle Mar de Cortes, Dorado, PR 00646. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA

HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. SUCN. DE CARMEN LYDIA ROSADO CINTRON T/C/C CARMEN ROSADO CINTRON COMPUESTA POR LUIS PEREZ ROSADO, COMO HEREDERO Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2019CV01019. (Salón: 201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN PÉREZ ROSADO - 1501 APT. SAN PATRICIO APARTS GUAYNABO, PR 00968; SAN PATRICIO APARTMENTS 14 AVE. SAN PATRICIO APTO. 1501 GUAYNABO, PR 00968; CALLE TILO EA 64 URB. LOS ALMENDROS, BAYAMÓN, PR 00961. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de noviembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de noviembre de 2024. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 04 de noviembre de 2024. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Sara Rosa Villegas, Sec Aux del Tribunal.

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Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

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1. String of prayer beads

2. New Haven Ivy Leaguers

3. Mesmerized

4. Hindu god incarnated as Krishna

5. "Excusez-____!"

6. Alphabet beginning

7. Opened one's eyes

8. Put up a struggle

9. Set of teaching practices introduced in the 1960s

10. "___ du lieber!"

11. 1974 kidnap grp.

12. Easter entree

13. Martians, say

18. Short-term subs

22. Variety of whale

24. 180° turns, slangily

26. Priory in "The Da Vinci Code"

27. Hawkeyes

28. Lifelessly

29. School assignment

30. Mideast dweller

31. Reince Priebus org.

32. Newspaper exclusive

33. Plays and such

34. Duke of video games

38. Celebrity

40. Infant cry

41. Mall unit

44. Friendly

46. Exorbitant interest

49. Cause of some repetitive behavior, in brief

50. Pillage

51. Spain + Portugal

55. "____ a Putty Tat" (Friz Freleng short)

56. Dalai ____

58. Groupies

McGregor of "The Phantom Menace"

72. Like an unswept hearth

59. Design on metal

60. Count on

61. Govt. health org.

62. W.C.

63. Pester

64. Month before juin

66. A Bobbsey twin

Roki Sasaki and MLB: How effective would his pitching arsenal be?

By ENO SARRIS / THE ATHLETIC

Roki Sasaki is a star. Probably. He first attracted stateside attention in the 2023 World Baseball Classic with his 100-mph fastball and authoritative mound presence. And Sasaki, 23, has been putting up some huge numbers in Japan, with a 2.02 career earned run average.

The Chiba Lotte Marines, Sasaki’s club in Nippon Professional Baseball, announced early Saturday that they will post the right-hander, thus making him available to MLB teams in what is expected to be a wide-open sweepstakes for his services. Once Sasaki is posted, he has 45 days to sign.

Every team should be interested in Sasaki. But we don’t know everything there is to know about him as a pitcher.

To some extent, there is always a balance between what a team knows and doesn’t know about a free agent. Even with a midcareer position player who has played in MLB for his entire career, there are things the acquiring team can’t know. That’s why it’s probably true that teams get more production when they re-sign their own players than when they poach a player from another team. The assumption is that they know more about things like a player’s makeup and health if he has already played for them.

When signing a pitcher from another country that balance is skewed toward the unknown. Not only have they been facing a different caliber of competition, but as pitchers they are subject to more season-to-season swings in production. Pitching prospects still end up with worse outcomes than hitting prospects, and even a pitcher as exciting as Sasaki is closer to being a prospect than an established major league pitcher.

That said, Sasaki has pitched in front of pitch-tracking machines, has played at

one of the highest levels in baseball outside of the big leagues, and has given us some insight into where he stands healthwise. We can follow the crumb trail to get a sense of how teams might be thinking of him during a possible posting period. His availability is not etched in stone, but maybe we can understand his talent if we use the modern tools of pitching analysis.

The stuff

Sasaki pitched at the World Baseball Classic in 2023, giving us movement and velocity information that can help us put the physical characteristics of his pitches on the same footing as pitchers from MLB. There, he had an excellent overall rating in Stuff+, a metric that looks only at the physical characteristics of a pitch, which had him in the Top 10 among starters at that tournament and would have put him in the Top 10 among qualified big league starters last season. He was behind Cristian Javier and Sandy Alcantara at the WBC, but ahead of Jesús Luzardo and Pablo López. One thing we know about that tournament is that the players were amped to be there. They threw harder fastballs in shorter outings. The average starter who pitched in the WBC and then again in the big leagues over the past two years lost about

five points of Stuff+ in the transition. Someone like Shota Imanaga, who had a great season for the Chicago Cubs, lost even more because he was used as a reliever.

Sasaki averaged 100 mph on his fastball with great two-plane movement and, by Stuff+, he had the best fastball among starters not named Shohei Ohtani in that tournament. He has lost some of that velocity already in Japan, averaging 98.9 mph in 2023 and then 96.9 last season. That velocity is probably pretty important. Sasaki had 17-plus inches of induced vertical movement and 13 inches of horizontal movement in the WBC.

At 98-plus mph, his fastball compares to relievers like Kansas City Royals closer Lucas Erceg and the New York Mets setup man Ryne Stanek, and maybe to Hunter Greene among starters. At 96-plus, the comps are a little less exciting: Cleveland Guardians starter Gavin Williams and reliever Yimi García have some commonalities with their fastballs. And, according to analyst Lance Brozdowski, Sasaki also lost a couple of inches of ride on the fastball in 2024 in Japan. It’s a really good fastball either way, but there are some indications that it’s moving in the wrong direction.

His slider was an 87 mph gyro slider, meaning it’s a bullet slider without a lot of movement. That WBC slider would compare well to sliders thrown by Seattle Mariners closer Andrés Muñoz and Pittsburgh

Pirates starter Mitch Keller. It was down to 83.6 mph last season, though, and that’s below the 85-mph threshold for great gyro sliders, and now it looks more like the slider of Royals starter Brady Singer. Still an asset, but you may sense a theme here.

Splitters are hard to get a handle on in small samples, but according to a pitch profiler, Sasaki’s splitter got a whiff a whopping 57% of the time batters swung last year (25% of all pitches). Only Cincinnati Reds reliever Fernando Cruz this year had a better whiff percentage in MLB, and Imanaga ended up depending immensely on his splitter, with a 42.9% whiff rate last season.

It’s top-shelf stuff from Sasaki, on par with any pitcher who has come over from Japan, even if it’s down a little.

The results

Two years ago, Sasaki had a season for the ages. In 2022, he sported a 2.02 ERA with 173 strikeouts against only 23 walks in 129 1/3 innings. He followed that up with a season that was even better by rates and strikeouts (1.78 ERA, 135 strikeouts), but shorter on innings (91) because of an oblique injury. Last season, bouts of upper-body fatigue and arm soreness held him to 111 innings with a 2.35 ERA but a reduced K rate — only 129 strikeouts. This follows the trend, where he just had great stuff at age 20 in Japan, and then started to fall off that peak to some degree.

Still, if you use three-year numbers to capture both the peak and what came after, he profiles well in a key statistic. Because Nippon Professional Baseball doesn’t have as many power hitters, it’s tough to compare things like ERA or home run rate. For example, Yoshinobu Yamamoto gave up two homers in 171 innings in Japan in 2023 before coming over and giving up seven in 90 innings against major leaguers this year.

Sasaki has fallen off some. He had a strikeout-minus-walk rate above 30% for two years, and then last year it fell to 21.6%.

The eye of the beholder will have an outsize say in the negotiations. Either Sasaki is an oft-injured pitcher with already declining stuff, or he’s got some of the best stuff we’ve seen from a pitcher coming over even after that decline.

Given the nature of contract negotiations, a team that persuades Sasaki that it can help him get back to 2022 in terms of health and stuff might be the one that seals the deal.

Two baseball teams of Japanese Americans who played a game on an unearthed and restored baseball field

The San Juan Daily Star

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 21