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Multi-million-dollar investment to improve services at university hospitals
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia announced Monday a multi-million-dollar investment in the University Pediatric Hospital and the University Hospital for Adults, both in San Juan, focused on infrastructure and service improvements to optimize medical care in Puerto Rico.
“The health of our people is one of my highest priorities. These investments are essential to modernize our facilities and guarantee quality hospital care,” Pierluisi Urrutia said in a written statement.
The University Hospital for Adults at the Medical
Center in Río Piedras has received over $22 million in the past four years for improvements in mechanical systems, air conditioning, elevators, roofs, and fire and infant protection systems. In addition, new offices, a restored amphitheater for medical training, and a multi-story parking lot with 380 spaces are being built.
At the University Pediatric Hospital on the Medical Sciences Campus at the University of Puerto Rico, the investment exceeds $35 million, highlighting the creation of a new pediatric renal unit with an investment of $4 million, remodeled bathrooms with $2.5 million and an oncology unit in design that will cost $4.6 million. The operating rooms are also being modernized and a new emergency power generation system is being installed.
Suiza finalizes agreements with union following shutdown of Aguadilla plant
By THE STAR STAFF
Suiza Dairy Corp. announced Monday that it reached final agreements with the General Confederation of Workers (CGT by its initials in Spanish) on labor commitments related to the closure of operations at its VIDA Plant in Aguadilla, including payments of benefits and compensation.
“In this difficult situation, we are proud to announce that we will be granting benefits that go beyond what is established by law and the agreement,” said Pablo Vallejo, general manager of Suiza Dairy, in a written statement.
The agreement, reached in a meeting with the CGT and plant representatives, includes payments of Christmas
Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López emphasized that the improvements are aimed at strengthening the work environment for health professionals and guaranteeing quality in-patient care.
“These investments reflect our commitment to those who are on the front line of medical care,” he said.
Pierluisi also announced a $2 million information campaign to promote specialized hospital services and facilitate access to information on medical care at both hospitals through websites and social networks.
The agreement includes payments of Christmas bonuses, final pay, vacations, illness, medical plan and severance compensation, benefiting 79 unionized and other non-unionized employees.
bonuses, final pay, vacations, illness, medical plan and severance compensation, benefiting 79 unionized and other non-unionized employees.
The company expressed its gratitude to the Puerto Rican people and reiterated its commitment to the families who have supported the Suiza brand for more than 80 years.
Transition Committee member: Agencies should stress risks, not achievements
By THE STAR STAFF
Attorney Verónica Ferraiuoli Hornedo, a member of the incoming government Transition Committee, on Monday told agencies that have yet to depose before the committee to prioritize in their reports the essential needs of the agencies, if there is a risk of losing federal funds, and other concerns that must be addressed instead of listing their achievements.
Ferraiuoli Hornedo expressed discomfort in the middle of the morning hearing with the Department of Labor and Human Resources (DTRH by its initials in Spanish), saying that it was a “personal request.”
“Maybe it’s because I’m a neophyte in these things, but I thought that the transition meetings were going to be a little different,” she said. “We are from the same [political] party and there have been some differences in how to execute things. … I thought that what we were going to hear here from the different agencies was not necessarily the achievements. …”
“I also thought that what we were going to discuss were the agencies’ concerns, especially about federal programs that are ending or changes to the law,” Ferraiuoli Hornedo added. “We have a golden opportunity, a majority in the House and Senate, to make some changes. …”
Ferraiuoli Hornedo took the DTRH’s presentations as an example because agency officials left out of their report important issues that needed to be discussed, such as the shortage of personnel.
“I do not believe that I saw anywhere that concern from you that more people are needed [in the agency] to carry out the changes we have in force and those we want to make,” she said. “I did not see that in the presentation, and I do not believe that I have seen it in other presentations.”
“I honestly didn’t think it had to be done, but we will have to request that the agencies inform us if there is any program with funds that will run out,” she added. “We have to have a real picture of what programs we have and we will make that request in writing. So, for the agencies that are preparing their reports, it would help us a lot if they [take us up on] our position without having to ask them. …”
Also on Monday, Caridad Pierluisi, the sister of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi and director of the Office of the Governor, stated on Magic 97.3 FM that she does not understand why the incoming Transition Committee should complain about agencies’ performance under the Pierluisi administration.
Governor, governor-elect discussed extra session bills, island’s challenges at meeting
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, in remarks to reporters on Monday, said his meeting last week with governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón was focused on the government transition, “the challenges that Puerto Rico has in its future” and “a possible extraordinary session of the Legislative Assembly.”
“We talked about all those issues,” Pierluisi said. “As for the challenges, well, what I indicated to the governor-elect is that the greatest challenge that Puerto Rico has is the stability and transformation of our electrical system. That is obvious; that is the greatest challenge. And the [resident] commissioner has some programmatic commitments that I am sure she will make an effort to fulfill.”
Regarding the ongoing challenges posed by the island’s fragile power grid, the governor said “I mentioned to her that we are requesting an extension for two additional years of the use of the additional generators that we have that burn natural gas and that provide us with 350 megawatts.”
“And that process is already underway,” he said. “I mentioned it to the governor-elect and days later it came to light that FEMA is already considering that extension request. That is very important because we obviously know
that the biggest problem that our electrical system has at the moment is the lack of generation. This is very finite; that is, we can barely … supply all the demand that we have. And if we lose those 350 megawatts from one year to the next, well, it would cause greater interruptions than we have had in recent times and we do not want that.”
Pierluisi added that “I also mentioned that we continue to insist that we want an adjustment for the extraordinary inflation experienced in the United States, including Puerto Rico in the funds that FEMA has assigned us for the entire reconstruction.”
“I informed the governor-elect that if [those requests] do not bear fruit now, then we must resume them in January,” he said.
Regarding the extraordinary session, the governor said “we merely spoke in general terms about the bills that could be included in the extraordinary session.”
“The governor-elect asked me for a copy of all the bills that I mentioned in the meeting and that could be included and that is being processed …” Pierluisi said. “What I am looking for is a consensus, since both the legislative leadership and the governor-elect are in agreement […], on the scope of the extraordinary session. If that is so, then it will happen. Otherwise it will not happen because
I will not be generating unnecessary controversies. But I insist that there are some areas that can be addressed and it makes sense that they be addressed now, before the four-year term ends.”
Government Transition Committee member Verónica Ferraiuoli Hornedo
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi
Seminar on gender perspective in justice system opens
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite Oronoz
Rodríguez, along with Dominican Republic Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry Molina, inaugurated on Monday the 2nd International Seminar on Justice with a Gender Perspective as part of the events commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
“Exactly 10 years ago, the Ibero-American Judicial Summit took an important step by creating the Permanent Commission on Gender and Access to Justice,” Oronoz Rodríguez said in a written statement. “I feel deeply committed to this mission.”
The event brings together judges and experts from Latin America, including representatives from Puerto Rico, Spain,
Cuba, Colombia, Argentina and other countries, to reflect on the right to equality and non-discrimination in the administration of justice, as well as to analyze issues related to gender violence and technology, access to justice and human rights.
Molina emphasized that the gender approach in justice is an ethical necessity and a fundamental pillar for guaranteeing equality and dignity. He also pointed out that gender-based violence affects not only women, but also their families and communities.
The seminar, which runs during the international campaign “16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence,” includes panels on access to justice in contexts of inequality, symbolic and political violence, and judicial stereotyping. The broadcast is available on YouTube.
Dignity Project starts reorganization, César Vázquez takes over as president
By THE STAR STAFF
The conservative political party Dignity Project (Proyecto Dignidad) has begun reorganizing toward the 2028 election following a meeting of its governing council over the weekend.
During the meeting on Saturday, Javier Jiménez Pérez, the party’s 2024 gubernatorial candidate, officially transferred the organization’s presidency to César A. Vázquez Muñiz, as provided by the party regulations. Jiménez obtained 76,260 votes, or 6.7% of the vote, on Election Day.
Vázquez, founder of Proyecto Dignidad, will lead the reorganization efforts until the next general assembly, scheduled for mid-next year. In his speech, he thanked Jiménez for his commitment and courage in taking on the challenges that come with being a candidate for governor for an emerging party.
“Javier Jiménez not only firmly defended the principles and proposals of Proyecto Dignidad but also tirelessly trav-
eled around Puerto Rico, facing adversity with courage and discipline,” Vázquez said. “Thanks to his leadership, we
Javier Jiménez Pérez, pictured above, officially transferred the Dignity Project presidency to the party’s founder, César Vázquez Muñiz.
Genera PR’s parent company, New Fortress, sells LNG facility
By THE STAR STAFF
New Fortress Energy Inc. (NFE), the parent company of Genera PR, the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s legacy power plants, has closed the sale of its liquefaction and storage facility in Miami to a U.S. middle market infrastructure fund, one in a series of actions to gain liquidity.
The sale to Pennybacker Capital Management was completed this week but it had been announced during the summer.
The facility features one liquefaction train producing up to 8,300 MMBtu (Metric Million British thermal units) per day of liquefied natural gas (LNG), serving hospitality, industrial, transportation, aerospace, and marine bunkering sectors in Florida and the Caribbean. The business offers 15-40% cost
advantages over traditional fuels.
Daniel McLaughlin has been appointed as president and chief commercial officer to lead the Miami LNG business, bringing over 10 years of energy sector experience. The acquisition aims to support energy transition in underserved markets and expand LNG solutions across the Southeast and Caribbean regions.
The facility has three LNG storage tanks with a total capacity of approximately 1,000 cubic meters as well as two separate LNG transfer areas capable of serving both truck and rail. The facility is authorized to export up to 60,000 metric tons per annum of LNG to Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and Non-FTA countries for a 20-year term that began on Feb. 5, 2016.
“The Miami Facility is the inaugural asset of NFE and we are proud to have built this best-in-class infrastructure,”
could consolidate our base, maintain the party’s registration, retain legislative seats, and expand our organizational structure, including greater representation in municipal legislatures.”
The party leader also thanked the candidates, municipal presidents, and volunteers who contributed to the party’s success in the elections on Nov. 5.
“Almost all emerging parties disappear in their second election, but we managed to overcome that challenge thanks to the collective effort of our people,” he added.
In a call for unity, Vázquez emphasized: “There is still much to do. Proyecto Dignidad will continue to be the true and only home for those who fearlessly defend the principles, values, and causes that matter to Puerto Rico’s people. It is time to unite, putting aside differences, to build a better Puerto Rico, one that is for everyone.”
In addition, the council reinstated Nilda Pérez Martínez as the party’s general secretary, a position she has held for the past three years.
The Miami facility has three liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks with a total capacity of some 1,000 cubic meters as well as two separate LNG transfer areas capable of serving both truck and rail. (lngprime.com via New Fortress Energy)
said Wes Edens, chairman and CEO of New Fortress Energy, according to a statement. “Today’s sale highlights our commitment to and execution of our asset sale program, allowing us to reduce debt and recycle proceeds into high return downstream projects.”
Puerto Rico Supreme Court Chief Justice Maite Oronoz Rodríguez
Immigrants across US rush to prepare for Trump crackdown
By MIRIAM JORDAN
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to slash immigration — both legal and illegal — and ramp up deportations on Day 1.
Immigrants are racing to get ahead of the crackdown.
Foreign-born residents have been jamming the phone lines of immigration lawyers. They’re packing information meetings organized by nonprofits. And they’re taking whatever steps they can to inoculate themselves from the sweeping measures Trump has promised to undertake after he is inaugurated on Jan. 20.
“People that should be scared are coming in, and people that are fine with a green card are rushing in,” said Inna Simakovsky, an immigration lawyer in Columbus, Ohio, who added that her team has been overwhelmed with consultations. “Everyone is scared,” she said.
People with green cards want to become citizens as soon as possible. People who have a tenuous legal status or who entered the country illegally are scrambling to file for asylum, because even if the claim is thin, having a pending case would — under current protocols — protect them from deportation. People in relationships with U.S. citizens are fast-tracking marriage, which makes them eligible to apply for a green card.
In total there are about 13 million who have legal permanent residency. And there were an estimated 11.3 million people in the country without legal permission in 2022, the latest figure available.
“The election result put me in a state of panic that propelled me to immediately find a permanent solution,” said Yaneth Campuzano, 30, a software engineer in Houston.
Brought to the United States from Mexico when she was 2 months old, she was eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the Obama-era program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered the country as children to remain in the country with work permits.
But DACA was a target of Trump’s during his first term and is being challenged in a lawsuit that could help him end it. Given the program’s precarious state, Campuzano and her fiance, an American neuroscientist,
have expedited plans to marry. They will wed next month — before Trump takes office. “Only after my status is secure will I be able to breathe again,” she said.
Voters of both parties were frustrated by chaos at the border under President Joe Biden. Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportations, and last week said that he intended to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military to accomplish his goal. His top immigration policy adviser, Stephen Miller, has said that “vast holding facilities” would serve as “staging centers” for the operation. This past week, the state land commissioner in Texas offered the federal government more than 1,000 acres near the border to erect detention centers.
Deportations are not uncommon. Trump deported about 1.5 million people during his first term, according to analysis by the Migration Policy Institute. Biden has removed about as many. President Barack Obama removed 3 million in his first term.
But not since the 1950s has the United States sought to deport people en masse, and it has not previously created a vast detention apparatus to facilitate expulsions.
In addition to Miller, the president-elect has tapped other immigration hawks for key roles, including Thomas
Homan, a veteran of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to be “border czar.”
Homan has said that the administration will prioritize the removal of criminals and people with outstanding deportation orders. But he has also said that workplace raids and other tools will be deployed to round up immigrants in the country without legal permission, many of whom have lived in the country for decades.
Even in California, whose leaders restricted cooperation with immigration authorities during Trump’s first term and have pledged to do so again, immigrants are worried about enforcement going into overdrive.
“This time we are more afraid, because of everything Trump says that he will do when he regains power,” said Silvia Campos, a Mexican farmworker lacking permanent legal status who lives with her husband and three children, two of them U.S. citizens, in Riverside County.
Everywhere she turns, on Spanish-language radio, TV and social media, she said she is slammed with information about his intentions.
“It’s all everyone talks about,” said Campos, 42, who crossed the border with her husband 18 years ago. “We have to prepare for the worst.”
That is why she asked her manager for the day off from harvesting vegetables to attend a “know-your-rights” session last Tuesday at a nonprofit.
Among the tips: You have the right to remain silent. Only open the door to immigration agents who produce a search warrant from a judge. Do not sign anything without a lawyer. Make a family plan, in case you are detained and separated from your children.
After the session, Campos completed an affidavit authorizing her children to receive medical attention, if necessary, and to be cared for by her sister, a U.S. citizen, in her absence. She had three copies notarized, and on her return home, she sat down her children, 11, 14 and 17.
“We don’t want to create more fear, but we want them to be ready for anything,” said Luz Gallegos, executive director of TODEC Legal Center, which began holding the sessions, many of them standing room only, after its hotline was clogged with calls following the election.
The organization has been sending teams to brief workers on farms in Southern California’s agriculture-rich corridor that relies on immigrant labor, much of it undocumented. On Thursday morning, all 30 laborers at a farm in Lakeview took a break from picking and packing leafy greens to go to a presentation, the fourth held that day.
In Dallas, Vinchenzo Marinero, 30, a DACA beneficiary, has been frantically exploring avenues to remain in the country lawfully.
Stripped of DACA, he would lose his job, his driver’s license and, perhaps, his three-bedroom house. He has started a family with a fellow DACA beneficiary, and they have a 7-month-old baby.
“Without DACA, I wouldn’t be able to provide for my family,” said Marinero, who works for a faith-based broadcaster as a systems engineer.
He hopes the company will sponsor him for a skilled-worker visa, but that could not occur until next year. In the meantime, his lawyer advised him to renew his DACA for another two years, even though it expires in June 2025.
“By the time Trump takes office, I hope mine gets renewed so I have two more years,” Marinero said. “That gives me more time to plan.”
Seven-month-old Caterina Marinero and her parents Wendy Machado and Vinchenzo Marinero, who is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beneficiary, at their home in Forney, Texas, Nov. 22, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations is driving fearful immigrants to seek protections and advice. (Desiree Ríos/The New York Times)
Trump’s Cabinet: Many ideologies behind the veil of ‘America First’
By DAVID E. SANGER
President-elect Donald Trump’s final flurry of Cabinet picks and other appointments rounded out what his aides described as a unified, loyal, MAGA-driven administration. But scratch the surface and there are at least three distinct factions and a range of ideologies, barely suppressed to get through the rigors of the confirmation process.
There is a revenge team, led by prospective nominees with instructions to rip apart the Justice Department, the intelligence agencies and the Defense Department, hunting down the so-called deep state and anyone who participated in the prosecutions of Trump.
There is a calm-the-markets team, which Trump hopes will be led by Scott Bessent, the Wall Street billionaire who Trump chose for Treasury secretary. Bessent can recite the MAGA lines about deregulation and lower taxes but would likely try to make sure Trump’s most extreme solutions, like inflation-inducing tariffs on foreign goods, do not end the postelection stock market surge.
And then there is a government shrinkage team, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whose goals are wildly ambitious, to put it mildly. They want to carve what Musk says will be “at least” $2 trillion from the annual federal budget, a figure that exceeds the annual cost of salaries for every federal employee. (For the record, the total federal budget in the 2024 fiscal year was $6.75 trillion.)
How these missions will mesh and where they will collide is one of the biggest unknowns of the incoming administration.
Diversity of ideology and opinion is usually seen as a strength, not a defect, of presidential Cabinets. But if there is a surprise about Trump’s choices in recent days, it is the range of experiences and worldviews that in some cases lie just beneath a veneer of recently declared Make America Great Again loyalty — and loyalty to Trump himself. It is hard to imagine a few of his picks sitting comfortably at a Trump rally.
“There is more ideological diversity here than I expected,” Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian, noted Saturday. “And if you look at this group in the context of history, there is some potential here for arguments and debates. If those debates are allowed to unfold in a civilized and open manner, history shows that such conflict has sometimes led to policies that worked.”
Even as the Republican Party has adopted the MAGA philosophy, it may have been unreasonable to expect that members of a Trump
administration would all be cut from the same cloth.
“Consistency of ideology or anything else is the last thing we should expect in Trump’s nominees,” Chris Whipple, the author of “The Gatekeepers,” a book about White House chiefs of staff, said on Saturday. “That’s because there is no process in place to make these choices — it’s all according to the whim of the boss.”
Bessent made a late conversion to MAGA ideology. He seems to embrace Trump’s enthusiasm for tariffs, though in recent weeks he has noted that imposing them gradually — a nuance Trump has not discussed — is critical to avoiding economic shocks.
His identity as a gay, married father certainly clashes with the beliefs held by some of Trump’s evangelical and far-right-wing supporters. He told Yale’s alumni magazine in 2015 that “in a certain geographic region at a certain economic level, being gay is not an issue.” He added: “If you had told me in 1984, when we graduated, and people were dying of AIDS, that 30 years later I’d be legally married and we would have two children via surrogacy, I wouldn’t have believed you.”
But more jarring to some of the MAGA faithful may be the fact that Bessent raised money for the presidential run of a Democrat, Al Gore, in 2000. Or that a dozen years ago he was chief investment officer for Soros Fund Management, the $30 billion instrument of George Soros, the subject of scores of right-wing conspiracy theories. When listing Bessent’s many
qualifications for the job, Trump left off the fact that he is considered among Soros’ most successful protégés.
The newly named pick for labor secretary, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, also seems likely to straddle two camps. Chavez-DeRemer, an Oregon Republican who lost her seat in the House this month, often spoke of her father’s membership in the Teamsters and won the support of about 20 labor unions during her unsuccessful reelection bid.
As the GOP moved quickly to solidify around Trump and promised to kill off government regulation, Chavez-DeRemer moved the other way. She was one of three Republicans who sponsored a 2023 bill that would have shielded workers seeking to organize union representation from retribution or firing, while giving new powers to the federal government to punish employers who violate workers’ rights.
The news Friday that she was named to head the Labor Department was hailed by the Teamsters and their president, Sean O’Brien. The AFL-CIO expressed wariness of Trump’s “antiworker agenda” in a statement posted on social media, but conceded that “Lori Chavez-DeRemer has built a pro-labor record in Congress.”
One who does fit neatly into the mold of a Trump aide is Brooke Rollins, whom Trump named on Saturday as his choice for agriculture secretary. She served as domestic policy adviser in the first Trump administration, then became head of the America First Policy Institute, a sort of Trump government in waiting staffed with
other former members of his administration. Rollins’ organization has called for getting rid of civil-service protection for many federal employees, speeding gas and oil drilling on federal lands, and doing away with red-flag laws meant to keep guns from people who are deemed by a judge to be a danger to themselves or to others.
Then there is the national security team. Michael Waltz, the designee for national security adviser, was a strong advocate of sending more aid to Ukraine and doing whatever was necessary to push back the Russian invasion, until he voted against the $95 billion in additional aid to Ukraine in the spring.
His new deputy, Alex Wong, worked for Mitt Romney in 2012, part of a wing of the Republican Party that has never reconciled itself to Trump. But Wong worked at senior levels of the State Department on North Korea, helping to set up Trump’s two meetings with Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader.
That leaves Musk, the world’s richest man and newest denizen of Mar-a-Lago, and Ramaswamy. They are supposed to head the “Department of Government Efficiency,” writing in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that “the entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic.” The department, or “DOGE” as Musk calls it in a nod to the cryptocurrency dogecoin, is not actually a department at all, but a group of volunteers. But the two men insist their future department will have a direct pipeline to the White House Office of Management and Budget that will look to cut regulations, cut head counts and cut budgets.
They promised to focus first on “$500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended,” including grants to international organizations or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
(For perspective, the $535 million in federal funds to the public broadcasting group, which Trump’s supporters believe pays for liberally biased programming, would be a 0.026% down payment on Musk’s promised $2 trillion in cuts. Even eliminating the entire defense budget of the United States would not get him halfway to the goal.)
It remains to be seen how they will work with the Office of Management and Budget’s proposed head, Russell Vought. He was a major figure in Project 2025, which laid out a plan to rework the U.S. government to enhance presidential power by tearing down and rebuilding executive branch institutions.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at an America First Policy Institute gala at his residence, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 14, 2024. If there is a surprise about President-elect Donald Trump’s choices to staff his administration in recent days, it is the range of experiences and worldviews among the picks. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
How Southwest Airlines lost its groove
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
Three years ago, Southwest Airlines started flying out of Bellingham, Washington, a growing city near the Canadian border, aiming to do what it had done in dozens of smaller airports — sell lots of tickets to people who have few other travel options.
Officials and residents in Bellingham, which sits between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, were thrilled as the airline added new nonstop service to cities on the West Coast at affordable prices.
“The community embraced them, and we loved having them,” said Rob Fix, the executive director of the Port of Bellingham, which oversees the airport.
But the expansion didn’t work as planned. This year, facing unexpected costs and challenges, Southwest left Bellingham and a handful of other cities it had started serving during an ambitious period of growth early in the recovery from the pandemic — markets that it said were underperforming.
The retreat was a telling reversal for Southwest. The airline’s simple strategy of providing cheap flights and good service, often at smaller airports near large metropolitan areas, was tremendously successful for a half-century, earning consistent profits as many other airlines stumbled. But its playbook is showing signs of wear, raising questions about whether it can regain its momentum.
“Southwest experienced great success adhering to one business model for a bunch of years, and then the world around them changed and they didn’t really adapt,” said David Neeleman, an airline entrepreneur who sold his first company to Southwest in 1993 before starting JetBlue and, most recently, Breeze Airways.
Some analysts say Southwest was so successful for so long that it grew complacent, resisting strategies that other airlines have used effectively to increase profits and win over travelers, like offering more premium seats and services.
For years, airlines have carved their plane cabins into various tiers of service and fares. They have appealed to cost-conscious customers by offering restrictive basic economy fares while offering bigger seats and other creature comforts to affluent travelers. Southwest made some adjustments, like selling priority boarding to appeal to business travelers, but it largely stuck to how it had always done business.
The airline’s longtime strategy of flying a
single airplane model — the Boeing 737 — to reduce costs and maintain flexibility also became a liability. A quality crisis and a debilitating strike at Boeing this year have severely limited production of 737 jets. Southwest now expects to receive 20 new planes in 2024, not even a fourth of what it had expected as recently as a year ago.
Southwest’s struggles have been laid bare in its recent financial performance. In the first nine months of this year, the company reported a profit of $204 million, far behind Delta Air Lines’ $2.6 billion and United Airlines’ $2.2 billion.
The airline’s shortcomings made it the target of hedge fund Elliott Management, which revealed this summer that it had amassed a 10% stake in the company.
Elliott criticized Southwest for failing to control costs, eroding its once-enviable profit margins, and demanded big changes, including the firing of the company’s CEO, Bob Jordan. The airline’s stock was sagging, and a meltdown two years ago when it canceled thousands of flights exposed weakness in its leadership and operations, the investment firm said.
In response, Southwest accelerated a number of changes.
In September, Jordan laid out a threeyear plan that included switching to assigned seats to speed up boarding and appease customers frustrated with the current seat-yourself policy. Southwest also said it would add seats with extra legroom, which it will charge more for, and red-eye flights that let it use planes for more hours every day.
The airline also added board members picked by the investment firm, and Elliott dropped its demand for Jordan’s departure.
Southwest declined requests for an interview with Jordan for this article, but he told investors last month that he and the company were aware that they needed to make big changes. “It’s all eyes forward here as we work to set up Southwest for success for generations to come,” he said.
Even before Elliott came along, Southwest had started making some upgrades. In 2022, it unveiled plans to install power outlets in every seat, faster internet service and larger overhead bins. This year, it finally allowed flights to be listed on third-party search engines like Google Flights and Kayak.
An airline’s evolution
While its recent profits have lagged, the airline had an unrivaled 47-year streak of an-
Bellingham International Airport, in Bellingham, Wash., on Nov. 14, 2024. For decades, Southwest made money even as other airlines stumbled and went bankrupt. (Miles Fortune/The New York Times)
nual profits until the pandemic brought travel to a standstill. It lost money in 2020, like the rest of the industry, but has reported profits each year since.
Southwest is the only one of the four largest U.S. airlines to have never filed for bankruptcy protection.
Today, Southwest carries more passengers than any other U.S. airline and operates more flights than any airline in the world except for American Airlines. Travelers have ranked its economy class above any other in North America for three years running, according to J.D. Power.
For decades, Southwest thrived by adhering to a simple model of low fares and good service, with a healthy dose of irreverence.
The airline started flying in 1971 out of Dallas Love Field, where Southwest has remained for decades despite the opening of the much-larger Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport just a few years after the company’s founding. Early on, the airline connected Dallas to Houston and San Antonio, pitching itself as an alternative to driving. But it quickly grew into a disruptive force.
Braniff International, which also flew from Dallas, tried to undercut Southwest in its early days by offering $13 fares. Southwest matched those prices at a loss, but also offered a giveaway to customers who paid the full $26
fare: a bottle of liquor. That appealed to many business travelers on company expense accounts and helped Southwest stay viable. Over the years, the airline would often start flying to small airports overlooked or poorly served by other airlines. In what became known as the “Southwest effect,” the airline’s entry would stimulate demand and pressure other companies to reduce fares. In the 1990s, it became one of the first U.S. airlines to sell tickets directly to customers online.
Southwest’s success inspired imitators, and low-fare airlines began sprouting up around the world.
But its model has been under pressure for years. As it grew, it started operating at airports where maintaining low costs and frequent flights was more difficult.
Southwest now flies to Hawaii, for example, which has required it to put pilots through extra training and its planes through additional certification to fly over the ocean. It started flying international routes. And it moved into congested airports like LaGuardia in New York City.
“One of the things that made it magical also limited its potential growth,” said David Vernon, an analyst at Bernstein, an investment firm. “That ability to move with high frequency, there’s only so many places you can run that model.”
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Wall Street’s main indexes climbed on Monday, with the small-cap Russell 2000 index hitting an all-time high after Scott Bessent’s nomination as Treasury secretary boosted sentiment and focus turned to ongoing discussions for a Middle East ceasefire.
President-elect Donald Trump ended weeks of speculation when he named his choice late on Friday, with some investment strategists saying Bessent could take measures to restrain further government borrowing, even as he follows through on fiscal and trade campaign pledges.
Markets also focused on talks of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon. Oil prices slid, dragging the Energy index lower 1.5%.
At 12:12 p.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 319.86 points, or 0.72%, to 44,616.37, the S&P 500 gained 12.27 points, or 0.21%, to 5,981.61 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 40.07 points, or 0.21%, to 19,043.72.
The small-cap index hit an all-time high of 2,466.48 and was last up 2%, eclipsing the high it touched three years ago, as Treasury yields declined sharply, with the 30-year bond leading losses across the board.
“We’re definitely seeing a broadening out of leadership in the market,” said Adam Sarhan, chief executive of 50 Park Investments in New York.
“Areas that were lagging for most of this year are beginning to outperform, such as the small-cap and the mid-cap stocks, not just due to Trump, but also due to the Federal Reserve cutting rates.
Expectations that Trump, along with a Republican Congress, can make good on his promise of business-friendly policies have been the latest tailwinds for small-cap companies. They have been in the spotlight since the U.S. Federal Reserve commenced its monetary policy easing cycle in September.
Lower yields helped the rate-sensitive Real Estate sector rise 1.1%, while the Housing index advanced 4.8%, trading near a record high.
The Dow and the S&P 500 touched intraday record high levels on the day. The benchmark index has jumped more than 4% since Nov. 4, while the Russell 2000 index surged more than 8% in the same period.
Barclays raised its full-year 2025 forecast for the S&P 500, while Deutsche Bank set its target at 7,000 points by 2025end.
However, concerns remain that inflationary pressures could spike and slow the pace of the Fed’s policy easing.
Investors have recently swung between expectations of a pause versus a further cut in interest rates at the Fed’s December meeting. The CME Group’s FedWatch Tool shows a 56.2% probability the central bank will deliver another 25 basis point cut.
Consumer Discretionary stocks led sectoral gains, aided by Amazon.com’s 1.8% rise.
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The Personal Consumption Expenditure report, the central bank’s preferred inflation gauge, will be on investors’ radar later this Thanksgiving week.
Macy’s fell 3% after the department-store operator delayed the publication of its third-quarter results due to an accounting issue.
Bath & Body Works raised its forecast for full-year adjusted profit, sending the retailer’s shares up 15.5%.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 3.23-to-1 ratio on the NYSE, and by a 2.8-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P 500 posted 100 new 52-week highs and no new
lows, while the Nasdaq Composite recorded 328 new highs and 44 new lows.
Companies have pledged to invest more than $1 trillion in U.S. industries such as semiconductors and clean energy during the Biden administration, the White House said on Monday, citing the passage of three critical laws in recent years.
U.S. President Joe Biden has cited the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act as helping to push his sweeping infrastructure agenda and create more jobs nationwide.
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In Haiti, a grim barometer: Even United Nations workers are fleeing
By FRANCES ROBLES and DAVID C. ADAMS
AUnited Nations helicopter has been buzzing nonstop for days over Haiti, as the U.N. starts to draw down its personnel in Port-au-Prince, evacuating 14 people at a time in chopper rides. Many embassies and international aid organizations — including Doctors Without Borders, which runs some of the few functioning hospitals in Port-au-Prince — are suspending operations in Haiti, where gangs have stormed into more parts of the capital, sowing panic among humanitarian groups.
Port-au-Prince’s international airport remains closed to commercial traffic after gangs shot at U.S. airliners this month.
Many Haitians are particularly alarmed and dismayed by the departure of personnel from the United Nations, the international agency people are relying on to help resolve a crippling gang crisis that has forced many civilians to flee their homes.
“Every Haitian thinks that we are being abandoned by the whole world,” said Dr. Wesner Junior Jacotin, a critical care physician in Haiti. “If I was in a foreign country and I believed at any moment my life could be at risk, I would leave, too.”
But, he wondered: “What about the ones who can’t leave?”
Nations around the world are looking to the U.N. as the only viable solution for a troubled country that has been unraveling since its last president was assassinated more than three years ago.
The U.N. Security Council met for several hours last week to debate whether to start an official peacekeeping operation, despite a history of failed U.N. interventions in the Caribbean nation
The Biden administration has pushed hard for the move. Most people in Haiti, including its government, are desperate and want to see the U.N. soldiers return to Haiti, as do most countries in the region. But Russia and China, which have veto power, have balked, arguing that there is no peace to keep.
The United Nations, which before the capital’s airport closed had about 300 employees working for 18 different agencies, including the World Food Program, UNICEF and the International Agency for Migration, said it would move workers to its offices in safer parts of the country
ing evacuating its staff to other provinces this week.
“Seems like everyone that can is relocating to somewhere outside of Port-auPrince,” said David Lloyd, an American missionary whose son and daughter-inlaw were killed in a gang attack earlier this year. “My question is, after Port-auPrince is burned, where is next? Will the gangs go to Cap Haitien then? Someone needs to make a stand and say enough is enough.”
With the airport closed, Lloyd recently fled the country by taking an arduous journey through the mountains and by sea. He is now in Oklahoma.
The departure of aid workers and diplomats follows intensifying gang violence in recent weeks that gang leaders said was meant to force a transitional presidential council governing Haiti to step down.
Two weeks ago, gangs shot at three American commercial airliners, which led the Federal Aviation Administration to shut down air travel to Port-au-Prince.
rity situation amid an apparent surge in gang activities,” the mission said Sunday night on the social platform X, referring to its acronym.
The Kenyan-led force said it does not publicize much of its work, though it did acknowledge conducting an operation in a gang stronghold in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince on Sunday. The mission’s statement on X was an apparent reference to media reports that the authorities had attacked the stronghold of a notorious gang leader, Jimmy Cherizier, who is known as Barbecue. He remains at large.
Ulrika Richardson, the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator, said the attack in Petionville where the international agency has offices sent a strong message that the organization had to reevaluate its staffing.
outside of Port-au-Prince.
But dozens more staff members assigned to the U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti — the political mission known as BINUH — were evacuated from the country.
Those employees, who are involved in police, human rights, justice and other programs, were flown to the northern city of Cap Haitien by helicopter, where they departed the country because there were no other offices outside the capital where they could work, U.N. officials said.
Police officers from Kenya take part in a Multinational Security Support Mission after a visit by President William Ruto of Kenya in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 21, 2024. A surge in gang violence over the past two weeks has led international aid organizations to rethink their staff levels in Haiti. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times) CLINICA
In addition, a U.S. Air Force C-130 landed in Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince this weekend to transport American diplomats who were evacuating from the U.S. embassy, the U.S. Southern Command said. The embassy has largely been reduced to a skeleton staff with limited operations.
The move came days after Doctors Without Borders — the French medical organization long accustomed to working in hostile environments — announced that it would no longer accept new patients at its five clinics in the Portau-Prince region.
On Sunday, another humanitarian group, Mercy Corps said it was consider-
About a week ago, gang members tried raiding Petionville, a neighborhood where many aid organizations and their employees are based. Police officers and local residents fought back and killed many gang members, the police said.
The U.N. estimates that at least 220 people, including 115 gang members, were killed in more than a dozen coordinated gang attacks from Nov. 11 to Nov. 19.
The U.N.’s migration agency said Monday that 41,000 people had fled their homes in the past two weeks.
A Multinational Security Support mission, an international police force financed by the Biden administration and largely staffed by Kenyan police officers, was sent to Haiti in June. But the mission has had to face heavily armed gangs that vastly outnumber the international force.
Even the mission admits that many people have criticized its response.
“Recent developments in Haiti have left many Haitians questioning the role of MSS and its handling of the current secu-
In Haiti, the United Nations needed to pare its presence to a level where in a major emergency, all its workers could be evacuated within 24 hours, an agency spokesperson said. The U.N. has one helicopter that seats 14 people and can make five trips to the northern city of Cap Haitien in a day.
“The U.N. is not leaving Haiti; we are committed to staying in Haiti,” Richardson said. “We want to accelerate and intensify humanitarian aid in Haiti. It requires ingenuity and creativity.”
Pierre Espérance, a leading human rights activist in Port-au-Prince, said at most embassies only the ambassadors and senior staff members remained.
“This week we saw a lot of helicopters. Everyone is gone — Canada, Japan, the U.S.” he said.
“The state has completely collapsed.”
The world seeks an end to plastic pollution at talks in South Korea
By HIROKO TABUCH
On the heels of contentious climate talks in Azerbaijan, negotiators from around the world are descending on Busan, South Korea, this week with another formidable goal: to hammer out the world’s first treaty designed to tackle plastic pollution’s explosive growth.
On the table is a proposal that seeks to cut down on the millions of tons of plastic waste discarded each year. And a broad coalition of nations is seeking to go a step further and rein in plastic production, with a focus on restricting single-use plastic.
That notion had gained traction leading up to the final round of talks in Busan, with even the United States, a major plastics producer, tentatively backing the United Nations-led effort.
Then came the election of Donald Trump.
Now, few expect the United States to sign on to an eventual treaty at all. And with deep-seated opposition from oil and gas nations such as Saudi Arabia and Russia — which, like the United States, produce the fossil fuels used to make plastic — some delegates are wondering whether any agreement is possible by the scheduled end of the talks Sunday.
“The U.S. really engaged on this, but if they step back, it’s a big disappointment,” said Ndiaye Cheikh Sella, a delegate for Senegal and chief of staff of the country’s environmental ministry.
There is one consensus among most delegates: The world has a colossal plastic waste problem.
The world produces nearly half a billion tons of plastic each year, more than double the amount from two decades ago, and much of that turns up on coastlines and river banks, as well as in whales, birds and other animals that ingest them. Researchers have estimated that one garbage
truck’s worth of plastic enters the ocean every minute.
Scientists have also sounded the alarm on microplastics in the environment and in the human body, as well as the thousands of chemicals in plastic that can leach into food, water and the environment. Producing and transporting plastic releases planetwarming gases — if plastics comprised a country, it would be the world’s fifth-highest emitter of greenhouse gases. Recycling isn’t keeping up; scientists estimate that only 9% of plastic waste generated globally is recycled.
Some powerful nations, and industries, are opposed.
Stewart Harris, a spokesperson for the International Council of Chemical Associations, which represents the global chemical and plastics companies, said the group did not support measures to restrict plastic production, instead favoring an agreement centered on reuse, recycling and other ways to “give value to plastic at the end of its life.”
Harris, who also directs global plastics policy at the American Chemistry Council, pointed to the unintended consequences of curbing plastic production, including higher prices that could burden low-income households. (Plastic pollution also disproportionately burdens poor people.)
The chemicals industry is likely to find an ally in Trump, who previously tapped an ACC executive to lead the toxic chemical unit at the Environmental Protection Agency. However, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health secretary, supported action on plastic production during his presidential bid. In September 2023, Kennedy posted a 10-point plan on the social platform X to “fix the plastics pollution crisis,” starting with supporting “an ambitious international plastics treaty.”
There has also been heavy pushback from a handful of nations that favor a non-
Adja Seyni Diop, a spokeswoman for Bokk Jom, an association of waste pickers, sorts plastic materials for recycling and resale at a waste dump on the outskirts of Senegal’s capital of Dakar, Dec. 20, 2021. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times)
binding agreement without restrictions on plastic production. Major gas exporters, including Russia, Qatar and Iran, held a meeting this month in preparation for the Busan negotiations, with a focus on “ensuring that the role of natural gas is duly considered.”
Still, consumer giants including Mars and Unilever have thrown their weight behind a stronger agreement, calling on nations to draw up a treaty “that addresses the full life cycle of plastics.” On Saturday, hundreds of people marched in Busan urging nations to agree to a robust plastics treaty.
Scientists say a solution is possible. A recent paper in the journal Science estimated that just four of the policies that have been discussed so far at the plastic treaty talks could reduce mismanaged plastic waste by more than 90%, and plastic-related greenhouse gas emissions by one-third. Those policies include capping new plastic production at 2020 levels and mandating that new products be made with at least 40% recycled plastic.
“It is actually possible to nearly end plastic pollution with this treaty,” Douglas J. McCauley, a professor of ocean science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said in an email. “It was also sobering to see that without a treaty, plastic pollution will double by 2050,” he added.
Some observers headed to the talks said it was time for negotiators to move ahead with a treaty, even without every nation signing on. Many developing countries were angered by the modest deal on climate crisis financing that emerged by consensus from the Azerbaijan talks.
An ambitious treaty with holdouts is better than a watered-down one signed by all, said Jamala Djinn, a policy adviser at Break Free From Plastic, a coalition of organizations working to curb plastic pollution. The United States, she noted, has not been a signatory to a number of global treaties that were nevertheless effective.
“We can’t afford to let a handful of plastic producers hamper the ambition of a vast majority of member states,” she said.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and the sole member of Congress joining the Busan talks, agreed.
“If the U.S. doesn’t sign on, at least we wouldn’t be holding the world back,” he said.
The Biden administration has taken its own steps to tackle plastic waste, including a plan for the federal government to phase out purchases of single-use plastics. But the survival of such policies under the incoming administration is in doubt, along with the prospect of a U.S.-ratified treaty.
Days after the presidential election, White House officials told stakeholders at a meeting that the United States did not see a treaty that curbed plastic production as a viable option, according to two people present who were not authorized to discuss the meeting publicly.
Other points of contention include whether the treaty should include a list of chemicals of concern used in plastics that are targeted for stricter controls; whether it should single out products — such as Styrofoam cups — that need to be phased out; and what financing should be provided for developing nations that lack the technical and financial resources to handle the waste.
Dennis Clare, a legal adviser for Micronesia, said that for many countries, plastic pollution was an equity issue. Small island nations overrun by plastic pollution played little role in generating plastic waste but bore a huge brunt, he said.
“If the countries with the most wealth and most resources take a pass, it’s an inequitable burden shift,” Clare said. “It’s dumping, quite literally and figuratively, on poorer downstream countries.”
Three theories of the Trump Cabinet
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Before Donald Trump’s victory, making detailed predictions about how his second administration would govern seemed like a fool’s errand — there were too many multitudes within the Trumpian tent, too many promiscuous promises to voters, to say for sure what forms of Trumpism would end up expressed in a second four-year whirl.
It did seem, at least, that the appointments to Trump’s Cabinet might help us make plausible statements about the trajectory of his administration. But now, with most of the major names put forward — and retracted and replaced, in one case — I’m still not sure how best to generalize about where this particular cast of characters will take us.
That Trump has picked more loyalists than last time is true, inevitable and not especially useful in terms of figuring out how exactly (apart from never appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the boss!) those loyalists are likely to occupy themselves. That some of his nominees are eccentric or unfitseeming and others are more conventional is likewise to be expected. Neither observation gives us a general theory of Trump 2.0.
Instead, let’s consider three subtheories of how this Cabinet might actually work. First, as climate journalist Matthew Zeitlin suggested, you could see his picks as making up an American version of a European-style coalition government, where small parties join with a bigger party and receive various ministries
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in exchange for their support.
The choices of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, especially, fit this model: Trump’s big anti-progressive tent requires him to make a variety of very different worldviews feel represented, which means giving the health ministry to Kennedy’s Green MAGA Party (I’m swiping that moniker from sociologist Holly Jean Buck) and a foreign policy job to Gabbard’s Anti-War Party, even as other jobs like secretary of commerce and secretary of state go to members of the actual Republican Party.
Likewise with Lori Chavez-Deremer, the pick for labor secretary, an unusually pro-union Republican whose appointment looks like a reward to Trump’s union supporters: You might call her a tacit representative of the Populist Party or the Teamster Tories. You could fit Pete Hegseth, the pick for defense secretary, and Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel, into that frame as well, since their particular style of evangelical Christian hawkishness (I would call it the Christian Nationalist Party if the term “Christian nationalist” were not so much abused) is often a worldview unto itself.
Seen in this light, as a team of ideological rivals contesting for influence and favor, the Trump Cabinet seems to be set up for a lot of internal conflict — Gabbard against the rest of the foreign policy team on whether to expose more national security secrets, the pro-choice and regulation-friendly Kennedy against abortion opponents and free-marketeers, the pro-union Chavez-Deremer against other economic appointees, Hegseth against the more cautious JD Vance, perhaps, on how far to go on behalf of Israel and against Iran.
But another way to look at these picks is that they’re designed to stoke conflict within the different agencies rather than within the Cabinet. As Yuval Levin notes in National Review, the chief qualifications of Hegseth, Gabbard, Kennedy and (before his flameout) Matt Gaetz lie in their roles as fierce external critics of the institutions they’ve been appointed to oversee. Which suggests that what Trump 2.0 is seeking is less the representation of different factions and more just disruption of all kinds — with Elon Musk’s efficiency project looking over the shoulder of each disruptive appointee, taking notes and offering suggestions and encouragement.
“My column last weekend made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the re-election of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era, that the phase of history that began in 1989 terminated somewhere in between the early days of the pandemic and Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, that wherever we are going now, we are definitely going, not just paddling in circles or in place,” Ross Douthat writes. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times)
In which case it’s a mistake to look too closely at either their ideological commitments or their administrative experience. Trump mostly just wants them as charismatic faces who will be public salespeople for whatever he decides to do.
But the actual administration of the Cabinet agencies still needs to happen, and Trump’s policy decisions are still likely to be strongly influenced by the ideas and proposals that are surfaced from below.
In which case the team-of-podcasters dynamic will increase the influence of the many secondary roles still waiting to be filled — Hegseth’s deputies, Kennedy’s deputies, the figures who always have a certain sway but whose powers may be MAGAfied (you see what I did there) under the strange conditions of Trump’s second term.
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Levin, a wise institutionalist, fears this interaction, since “an inclination to destroy something is not evidence of an ability to manage it, or reform it, or improve it — quite the contrary.”
But for precisely that reason, perhaps one should expect the disruption to often remain on the surface, a matter of what the appointees say more than what they manage to accomplish.
Which points to a third interpretation of the Trump Cabinet: That he’s assembling a “team of podcasters,” to use conservative writer Ben Domenech’s formulation, a Cabinet of “communicators, not administrators,” who are picked for their celebrity and their experience as faces and voices — on cable news, on podcasts, on daytime television in the case of Mehmet Oz, the proposed head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or just in the general glare of celebrity that attends any scion of the Kennedy clan.
Nueva vida para escuela en Salinas, albergará Centro 2 GEN con más de $500,000 en inversión
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SALINAS
– La alcaldesa de Salinas, Karilyn Bonilla
Colón recibió el pasado viernes a la secretaria del Departamento de la Familia (DF), Ciení Rodríguez y al titular de la Administración para el Cuidado y Desarrollo de la Niñez Integral (ACUDEN), agencia adscrita al Departamento de la Familia, Roberto Carlos Pagán, para anunciar el inicio a la construcción para establecer un Centro 2 GEN.
“Como parte de la iniciativa Ciudad Amiga de la Niñez, de la que Salinas es parte, este será un espacio para brindar servicios integrados a nuestros niños, niñas y familias salinenses. Este Centro, al igual que diversas iniciativas de organizaciones sin fines de lucro, estarán dando servicios en la centenaria Escuela Luis Muñoz Rivera. Estas instalaciones, cerradas por el Departamento de Educación (DE), fueron adquiridas por el Municipio de Salinas y las remodelamos
para devolverlas al pueblo en apertura, servicios y nuevas opciones de desarrollo”, señaló la alcaldesa.
Los trabajos que se realizan en la Muñoz Rivera, construida en 1925, incluyen mejoras al sistema eléctri-
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co e iluminación, la remodelación de los baños, restauración del teatro y toda la pintura interior y exterior. También se trabaja en las instalaciones y rampas para las personas con impedimentos, acorde con las disposiciones federales y estatales, así como la instalación de nuevas ventanas y puertas, así como jardinería y ornato en toda la zona.
“La inversión en este proyecto es de $364,746 en fondos municipales y legislativos. De igual manera, se suma cerca de $200,000 en 2Gen. En total estamos aportando más de medio millón en estas iniciativas. Agradecemos el compromiso e interés de las diversas organizaciones como el DF, y los salinenses como el Caney de la Fama, la Cultura y el Deporte, CUNYABE, Círculo Literario y la Sociedad Protectora del Patrimonio Cultural, así como otras que formarán parte de los diversos proyectos que proyectamos para el futuro de Salinas y sus comunidades”, finalizó la alcaldesa. The San Juan Daily
de Arecibo y empata la final del Béisbol Femenino
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– Las Estrellas del Guamaní de Guayama empataron la serie final de la Liga de Béisbol Femenino este domingo, logrando una victoria 7-1 sobre las Lobas de Arecibo en el segundo juego, rompiendo su histórica racha de 34 victorias consecutivas desde enero de 2023.
En el primer juego, las Lobas dominaron con blanqueada 7-0 gracias a una destacada actuación de su
lanzadora Janiliz Rivera, quien controló a las Estrellas durante todo el encuentro.
En el segundo partido, la lanzadora juvenil Daniela Figueroa lideró la victoria de Guayama, cubriendo toda la ruta y permitiendo solo cuatro hits, demostrando un manejo eficiente del juego para detener la ofensiva de Arecibo.
La serie, al mejor de cinco juegos, continuará el domingo, 1 de diciembre, a las 10:00 a.m., con un doble juego en el Estadio Marcelino Blondet de Guayama.
A reggaeton ode to Colombia
is a hit, but it’s not music
to everyone’s ears
By GENEVIEVE GLATSKY
“Amamacita since she was 14,” the song says in Spanish, with a chorus that repeats: “And even though that little baby has an owner, she goes out whenever she wants.”
These lyrics from a recent reggaeton hit have set off a firestorm after eight of Colombia’s biggest artists banded together and released the song this month. The track, which includes global superstars Karol G, J Balvin and Maluma, is called “+57,” a reference to Colombia’s country telephone code.
Commercially, the song was a hit. It has been streamed more than 35 million times worldwide, and immediately shot up to the top spot on Spotify in Colombia, where it remains.
But it has also drawn outrage over lyrics that many Colombians say sexualize children, setting off a fierce debate between those who say the song reinforces negative stereotypes about Colombia and those who say the genre is being unfairly attacked.
Many music experts say “+57” received more attention than most reggaeton songs because of the collection of prominent artists involved and because it was branded as if it represented Colombian culture.
Over the past two decades, Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, has emerged as a center of reggaeton, a genre with dance-hall and hip-hop elements that was born in Panama and popularized by Puerto Rican artists.
At the same time, Medellín has also become known as a hub for drugs, partying and sex tourism, a reputation that many Colombians say reggaeton lyrics help reinforce.
In the song, “+57,” a woman hides from her boyfriend the fact that she is partying until the early hours of the morning
— not an unusual subject matter for the genre.
But it is the words that refer to the woman as attractive “since she was 14” that have provoked the most indignation. References to drugs and explicit remarks about women’s bodies in the song have also upset many Colombians.
The country’s culture minister, Juan David Correa, in an interview, called the song “banal, childish” and “inconsequential,” and said it perpetuated the idea that Colombia is “a poor, precarious country, where we can treat women as persons of lesser value and sell a city as a big open-air brothel.”
The director of the country’s child welfare agency, in a video on the social platform X, said “the song reveals a pattern of crime” of sex trafficking that puts children at risk. Lawmakers have proposed a bill punishing artists who promote explicit lyrics and have signed a petition asking Karol G to take down the song from digital platforms.
Even President Gustavo Petro weighed in, writing, “In every artistic genre there is art but also ignorance.”
Many criticized Karol G in particular, one of the few prominent female reggaeton artists who through her sex-positive lyrics has become a symbol of women’s empowerment and sexual liberation.
Her smash hit “Bichota” repurposed a Puerto Rican term for a drug kingpin — “bichote” — to mean, according to her reinterpretation, a “boss bitch.”
She has also founded a women’s empowerment organization that provides scholarships to “women in vulnerable situations,” including those who have served time in prison and teenage mothers.
Within days of the release of “+57,” the lyrics were changed, without any explanation given, to “since she was 18,” and Karol G had apologized on Instagram.
She wrote that the lyrics “were taken out of context,” but added: “I take responsibility and I realize that I still have a lot to learn. I feel very affected and I apologize from my heart.”
Other artists on the track, including J Balvin, Blessd and Ryan Castro, however, have stood by the song.
“If you don’t like the song,” said singer-songwriter Blessd in one Instagram video, “don’t listen to it.”
Reggaeton has been a polarizing musical style since it first took off in Puerto Rico in the 1990s, said Christopher Tibble, a Colombian journalist who has researched the genre’s history.
The songs often describe the social conditions of the marginalized communities the genre emerged from, and their political critiques and sexually explicit lyrics have often angered authorities. The Puerto Rican National Guard even raided music stores to seize records for violating obscenity laws in the 1990s, when reggaeton was still largely underground.
The backlash served mostly to make the genre more popular, helping to spread its appeal across Latin America. As it flourished in Medellín, it became “a little whiter, a little softer, a little more pop,” Tibble said, while still paying homage to its “more street, more urban, rougher origins.”
Reggaeton songs have, perhaps not surprisingly, spurred controversy in the past.
But reggaeton’s defenders say a double standard is being applied.
Many more traditional genres, they say, also feature misogynist lyrics but have not come under fire. Diomedes Díaz, known as “the king of vallenato,” a popular Colombian folk music genre, sings in one song about falling in love with a “young girl” and pursuing “females of 20, 15 and 14.”
“But don’t let her be jealous and don’t let her be bold,” he adds, instead favoring a woman “who knows how to iron a shirt.”
Alex Sánchez, who has worked in the reggaeton music industry for 20 years and has produced music videos for several performers on the track, said he listened to the song before it was released and did not think it would generate any controversy.
“I thought it was a normal reggaeton song,” he said. The backlash, he added, reflects a lack of “awareness of what we are giving to the people, to the youth, to the country.”
Nonetheless, he said, the reaction to the song could serve a useful purpose as a “wake-up call” when it comes to writing reggaeton lyrics.
Andrea Sañudo, 36, who works at a logistics company in Medellín, said she had been listening to reggaeton for years. The music, she said, “goes through you” and brings “an enjoyment and relish of my body, of my sensuality.”
“It is part of me,” she added. “All the important moments of my life are marked by a reggaeton song.”
As a Black woman and former social worker in poor neighborhoods, she said she takes issues of exploitation and violence seriously, but is skeptical of the criticism of this song.
“This generalized indignation on the part of certain intellectual sectors is not genuine, it is hypocritical,” she said. “I worked for 12 years in the territory, and I never saw the faces of any of these people in the street with me.”
Reggaeton, she believes, is central to Medellín’s culture.
“Reggaeton is part of our narrative, and we have to be more responsible and ask ourselves what we want reggaeton to say about us,” Sañudo said. “But that cannot go through this moralistic classist bias, of telling the other everything you listen to is bad.”
A view of Medellín, Colombia, Jan. 13, 2024. Lyrics from a recent reggaeton hit have set off a firestorm after eight of Colombia’s biggest artists banded together and released the song this month. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times)
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Wines and ciders for the Thanksgiving feast
By ERIC ASIMOV
Here’s an easy answer to the perennial question of what to drink with Thanksgiving: Anything you want.
It is wine most often, but it doesn’t have to be. Cider is a wonderful choice, both alcoholic and nonalcoholic. So is beer, or iced tea, cider-wine blends or even just water.
On a day with many moving parts, beverages ought to be the least of your worries. Nobody comes to Thanksgiving to train their critical faculties on how wine pairs with whatever you choose to serve. They come to see family and friends, to stuff themselves and to enjoy whatever is in their glasses. It’s a feast, not a test. Beverages are the easy part.
Over 20-plus years, I’ve written annually about what to drink with the Thanksgiving meal. I believe you can’t go wrong, so long as you keep a few guiding principles in mind, based on the idea of a large, unruly party with many different foods that goes over many hours. Among them are these:
— Have something on hand for people who are not drinking wine, maybe beer or cider and certainly nonalcoholic options.
— Serve both white wines and red to accommodate everybody and err on the side of familiar rather than cutting edge. By that, I mean sauvignon blanc or Beaujolais rather than a tannic orange wine.
— Figure a total of one bottle for every drinking guest. Most likely you won’t come close to consuming it all, but
nothing is worse than running out.
— Avoid highly alcoholic wines (go under 14%, preferably) or those that are too tannic, sweet or oaky (ask your merchant if you’re unsure). The wines ought to refresh rather than fatigue.
Many, many wines fit these criteria, especially in the $15 to $25 range, which is a sweet spot for good values. I’ve suggested 12 wines, six white and six red. If you don’t see these exact wines, ask a good wine merchant for recommendations for similar bottles, or consult previous Thanksgiving columns.
Ciders are another wonderful option. They are lower in alcohol than almost all wines and would go great with a Thanksgiving meal. Ciders feel seasonal as well, even if the bottles you buy come from previous harvests. You could also try cider-and-wine blends or nonalcoholic cocktails.
The key is not to stress. With all the complications in organizing the feast, what to drink is the easy part.
Here are my 18 suggestions, listed in order of price within each category.
WHITE WINES
Camp North Coast Chardonnay 2022, 12.2%, $22
Many people say they don’t like California chardonnay because they imagine them as oaky or buttery — outdated stereotypes of the wine. Sure, oaky, buttery chardonnays exist, but serve them this easygoing bottle, and quite a few may be shocked. It’s rich yet limber, refreshing and appetite-whetting,
without oakiness or buttery flavor. It’s made from organically grown grapes, primarily from the Potter Valley in Mendocino County. Camp is an imprint of the Hobo Wine Co., which makes terrific, modestly priced wines and has an admirable statement of values.
Cantalapiedra Castilla y León Lirondo 2023, 13.5%, $23
This is a wonderful Rueda from the Castilla y León region of Spain, except for one thing: The Cantalapiedra family does not use the Rueda appellation. The reason? My guess is they do not want to be identified with mainstream Rueda, which is often dull and tastes more of sauvignon blanc than of the local verdejo grape. This bottle, Cantalapiedra’s entrylevel wine, is made entirely of organically farmed verdejo. It’s bright, tangy, distinctive and delicious. (José Pastor Selections/Llaurador Wines, Fairfax, California.)
Feudo Montoni Sicilia Grillo della Timpa 2022, 13%, $24
Feudo Montoni is one of my favorite producers from central Sicily. Its wines always have a liveliness and purity to them. Does it come from its dedication to organic farming and biodiversity? I don’t know, but that couldn’t hurt. This bottle is made from grillo grapes grown on an ultrasteep slope. It’s dry and floral, and each sip prepares the mouth for the next one. (Wilson Daniels, Napa, California.)
Boundary Breaks Finger Lakes Seneca Lake Dry Riesling No. 239 2022, 13%, $24
Boundary Breaks Vineyard, on the east side of Seneca Lake, specializes in riesling and cabernet franc. While sweet rieslings can be polarizing among Thanksgiving guests, dry rieslings, like this one, are excellent options. This bottle is fresh and lively, with earthy flavors that go well with the meal. The Finger Lakes is the best American source for rieslings. If you don’t see Boundary Breaks, other excellent producers include Ravines, Forge, Hermann J. Wiemer, Nathan K. Margins California Neutral Oak Hotel White Wine 2023, 11.2%, $24
Megan Bell of Margins is a terrific winemaker who seeks out grapes from, as she puts it, “underrepresented regions, vineyards and varieties.” This bottle is an excellent example of her work. It’s a blend of chenin blanc, aligoté and vermentino, all grown organically. The result is easygoing and lovely, gentle rather than aggressive, lightly floral with stony undertones.
Nicolas Réau Vin de France Attention Chenin Méchant 2023, 11.5%, $24
“Attention Chenin Méchant” is French for, as near as I can make out, “Watch out for horrible chenin.” Fear not, this is good chenin blanc, made
from purchased grapes in the Anjou region of the Loire Valley by a producer who practices hands-off winemaking. It’s dry, floral and tangy, with the rich texture typical of chenin blanc. (Bobo Selections/T. Edward Wines, New York)
RED WINES
A Los Viñateros Bravos Itata País Volcanico 2022, 12.5%, $18
Leonardo Erazo, of A Los Viñateros Bravos, seeks out old vineyards (sometimes over a century old) in the Itata region of southern Chile. The país, or mission, grapes for this bottle came from volcanic soils and are fermented and aged in concrete tanks. The wine is pure, fruity, earthy and surprisingly deep, with lingering, complex flavors. (Ripe Wine Imports, New York)
Cirelli Montepulciano d’Abruzzo 2022, 13%, $19
Abruzzo, on the Adriatic coast in central Italy, has been reinvigorated by energetic young producers like Francesco and Michela Cirelli, who grow grapes organically on a mixed farm, with figs, chickpeas, olives and animals. This Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is bright, juicy and full of fruit, yet is refreshingly bitter, preparing you for the next bite of food and the next sip. (Zev Rovine Selections, Brooklyn, New York.)
Lapierre Vin de France Raisins Gaulois 2023, 12.5%, $22
This juicy wine comes from Mathieu and Camille Lapierre, the children of Marcel Lapierre, one of the pioneers of the top-quality Beaujolais we enjoy today. Gamay, the grape of Beaujolais, is always a great Thanksgiving choice. This is your archetypal thirst-quenching, chillable red, bright and uncomplicated, simply delicious after about 30 minutes in the fridge. (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Berkeley, California.)
Domaine des Billards St.-Amour 2021, 13%, $22
Here’s another gamay. It’s from Domaine des Billards, a small producer in St.-Amour, the smallest of the 13 Beaujolais crus, areas in the larger Beaujolais appellation thought to be distinctive enough to put their names on the label. This is a little more hefty than the Lapierre, but it’s typically lively and versatile with food, dry, earthy and refreshing. If you can’t find this bottle, plenty of other producers are making excellent cru Beaujolais, and plenty more are producing terrific Beaujolais-Villages and plain Beaujolais. (Bowler Wine, New York)
Georges Lignier et Fils Bourgogne Passetoutgrain 2022, 13%, $24
Yet another take on gamay, this time mixed with pinot noir in Bourgogne Passetoutgrain. It’s a traditional Burgundian wine, something for the family to drink instead of their more expensive bottles. Yet, these wines are becoming more difficult to find as growers replace less profitable gamay with pinot noir. This blend, from Georges Lignier et Fils, is twothirds pinot noir and one-third gamay. It’s juicy, mildly tannic and floral, and absolutely delicious. (Rosenthal Wine Merchant, New York)
4 Monos Viticultores Sierra de Gredos GR-10 Tinto 2022, 13.5%, $24
A small group of producers, including 4 Monos, is rejuvenating the Sierra de Gredos terroirs, west of Madrid. They seek out old vineyards of garnacha, preferably on granite soils and at high altitude. The wines can be profound, but this one is easygoing and graceful, lightly tannic with flavors of flowers and red fruits. (José Pastor Selections/Llaurador
Wines)
CIDER
Nua Roots Cider No. 2 Portugal 2021, 7.5%, 750 milliliters, $19
This lightly carbonated natural cider, hazy gold, with discernible sediment, is made of many different Portuguese apple species. It’s delicious and refreshing, bone dry, savory and saline. (Louis/Dressner Selections, New York)
Sur la Mer Brut Cider Mendocino County NV, 7.5%, 500 milliliters, $20
Sur la Mer is made by Drew Family Cellars, which makes wine on the Mendocino Coast. Their home vineyard was planted on an old, abandoned orchard, and the family restored part of that orchard. It’s just 3 miles from the ocean, hence the French phrase Sur la Mer for on the sea. It’s fruity, pure and elegant, less austere than some of the others on this list.
Horse & Plow Farmhouse Cider Sonoma County NV, 8%, 750 milliliters, $20
Horse & Plow in Sebastopol, California, makes wines and ciders from Northern California. The Farmhouse Cider is a blend of multiple apples from the region. It’s fresh, tart and floral, with dry, earthy flavors. Horse & Plow also makes an excellent Gravenstein cider, made entirely from Gravenstein apples that have become rarer in Northern California as orchards have ceded land to vineyards.
Aaron Burr Cidery Sullivan County Homestead Locational Cider New York 2021, 7.4%, 500 milliliters, $24
Andy Brennan of Aaron Burr Cidery makes brilliant ciders from apples he forages from old, abandoned apple orchards that he finds in woods and on hillsides in upstate New York. He calls them “locational” ciders, and, if you have an opportunity to taste a few side-by-side, it will confirm the sense of place conveyed by these ciders. The Sullivan County is earthy and herbal with pure apple flavors.
Eve’s Cidery Sparkling Perry New York 2022, 8%,
750 milliliters, $25
Perry is cider made of pears, and this one, from the excellent Eve’s Cidery, is superb. It’s made entirely, Eve’s says, from pears foraged from its home region south of the Finger Lakes. Unlike some pear ciders I’ve had, which have been sweet, this is dry with a lovely, savory pear flavor. If you can find this, lay in a few bottles, because guests will want more.
Sundström Cider Liminal Cider New York NV, 8.5%, 750 milliliters, $25
Leif Sundström makes ciders from multiple regions of New York state. This Liminal, mostly from the Finger Lakes area and from the 2021 and ’22 harvests, is primarily golden russet blended with Newtown Pippin and Geneva Tremlett’s, an old cider variety. Liminal has a funky, almost cheesy flavor blended with fresh apples.
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From chimpan-a to chimpanzee, these apes may have humanlike culture
By SOFIA QUAGLIA
It’s amazing what chimpanzees will do for a snack. In Congolese rainforests, the apes have been known to poke a hole into the ground with a stout stick, then grab a long stem and strip it through their teeth, making a brushlike end. Into the hole that lure goes, helping the chimps fish out a meal of termites.
How did the chimps figure out this sophisticated foraging technique and others?
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A photo provided by Tetsuro Matsuzawa shows Joya, a one-year-old chimpanzee, watching as her mother, Jire, uses a stone hammer and stone anvil to crack nuts in Bossou, Guinea. Researchers describe a link between genetic relatedness and sophisticated tool use in primates in East and Central Africa, suggesting their culture is cumulative.
(Tetsuro Matsuzawa via The New York Times)
“It’s difficult to imagine that it can just have appeared out of the blue,” said Andrew Whiten, a cultural evolution expert from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who has studied tool use and foraging in chimpanzees.
Now Whiten’s team has set out to demonstrate that advanced uses of tools are an example of humanlike cultural transmission that has accumulated over time. Where bands of apes in Central and East Africa exhibit such complex behaviors, they say, there are also signs of genes flowing between groups. They describe this as evidence that such foraging techniques have been passed from generation to generation, and innovated over time across different interconnected communities.
In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, Whiten and colleagues go as far as arguing that chimpanzees have a “tiny degree of cumulative culture,” a capability long thought unique to humans.
From mammals to birds to reptiles and even insects, many animals exhibit some evidence of culture, when individuals can socially learn something from a nearby individual and then start doing it.
But culture becomes cumulative over time when individuals learn from others, each building on the technique so much that a single animal wouldn’t have been able to learn all of it on its own. For instance, some researchers interpret using rocks as a hammer and anvil to open a nut as something chimpanzees would not do spontaneously without learning it socially. Humans excel at this, with individual doctors practicing medicine each day, but medicine is no one single person’s endeavor. Instead, it is an accumulation of knowledge over time.
Cassandra Gunasekaram, a doctoral candidate in evolutionary biology at the University of Zurich, spotted a pattern when she pored over a genetic data set of 35 popu-
lations of chimpanzees in East and Central Africa, and then compared it with information about their use of tools.
Most chimpanzee populations do not use a complex set of tools, in a specific sequence, to extract food.
But some regularly do. And these groups are likely to be genetically related. They are also likely to be related to populations where only preliminary components of sophisticated tool set sequences are used. For instance, groups that just poked a hole into the hard ground with a thick stick to get underground critters, but didn’t go as far as using a lure.
The populations of chimpanzees that use no tools or simple tools to get food aren’t as closely genetically related, the study suggests.
This genetic contrast among tool-using apes suggests that sophisticated foraging tricks “might need some sort of social transmission and social learning, an exchange of ideas between different places,” and improvement and innovation over time, Gunasekaram said.
Sexually mature female chimps may be culture bearers, the researchers posited. They migrate to other groups to reproduce. That has made even distant populations related.
These findings suggest that the “modestly cumulative culture” of chimpanzees depends on migration between local populations, where mingling allows for social learning, said Peter Richerson, an expert in cultural evolution from the University of California, Davis, and an author of a perspective accompanying the study.
The research also helps upend the assumption that only humans have cumulative culture. Chimpanzees do too, just less of it. And this may help explain how humans came to have such a complex cumulative culture in the first place.
While the study uses genetic information to help understand chimpanzee social relationships, Claudio Tennie, an ape culture expert from the University of Tübingen in Germany, questioned whether it offers evidence of humanlike cumulative culture. It’s still uncertain whether the tricks the chimpanzees are using are so sophisticated they couldn’t have been independently invented by individuals in different groups, Tennie said.
He said experiments he and others have worked on suggest chimpanzees could come up with a stick-and-lure technique without learning it from others. And studies suggest orangutans and capuchin monkeys spontaneously use rocks in sequence to crack nuts open without social learning.
Always attributing complex skills to social culture “kind of presupposes that the apes are not clever on their own,” Tennie said. “What I’ve been saying for all these years is ‘You’re underestimating the apes’ cleverness!’”
Whiten counters that his experiments, like the one where he gave chimpanzees complicated straws to drink juice, offer “circumstantial evidence” that these behaviors are “only really achieved” and spread by cultural transmission. While it might be an open question how chimpanzees learned those sophisticated tricks, it’s clear that some go to great lengths to get a snack.
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Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2018CV01071. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR , SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI-
CA SUBASTA. Yo, DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL
AUXILIAR #266, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 12 de noviembre de 2024, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 25 de septiembre de 2020, notificada el 11 de septiembre de 2024 y publicada el 13 de septiembre de 2024, procederé a vender el día 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: Propiedad Horizontal: CONDOMINIO PEÑAMAR
OCEAN CLUB de Fajardo. Apartamento 104 Módulo 1 Edificio A. Cabida: 162.66 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, en 8 pies y 6 pulgadas, Lobby Área, y en 24 pies y 3 pulgadas, con elementos exterior. Sur, 32 pies 9 pulgadas, con elemento exterior. Este, en 17 pies 4 pulgadas con Lobby Área, y en 32 pies 4 pulgadas, con apartamento 103. Oeste, en 50 pies 10 pulgadas, con apartamento 203. Este apartamento está construido en hormigón reforzado y bloque. Consta de un (1) nivel con su puerta de entrada al “Lobby” por el lindero Norte. El área total del Apartamento y sus anejos es de 1,750.89 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 162.66 metros cuadrados, que se distribuyen de la siguiente forma: Área de Apartamento: 1,478.64 pies cuadrados. Área de Patio: 0.0 pies cuadrados. Área de Estacionamiento 272.25 pies cuadrados. Consta de sala-comedor, área de lavandería, alacena, cocina, desayunador, terraza, dos (2) dormitorios con su closet, un pasillo, un baño, un Linen Closet, un “master-bedroom” con su closet, baño master y vanity. Le corresponde a este Apartamento, como anejo el uso exclusivo de los estacionamientos “Double Open “enumerados ocho (8) y nueve (9), ubicados en el área de estacionamientos del nivel “Marian Cluster” frente al edificio “A”. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de Cero punto Cuatro Mil Cuatrocientos Ochenta y Tres por ciento (0.4483%) en
los elementos comunes del Condominio. Este apartamento se separa de la finca 4474, inscrita al folio 91, tomo 445 de Fajardo. Consta inscrita al Folio 178 del Tomo 517 de Fajardo, Registro de la Propiedad de Sección Primera de Fajardo, Finca Número 19,589. Dirección Física: Condominio Peñamar Ocean Club Carr. 892 Km 11.3 Apt. 104 Fajardo, Puerto Rico 00738. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $200,000.00 más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $218,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 10 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $145,333.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $109,000.00. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes gravámenes (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $218,000.00, con intereses al 6 7/8 % anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2009, constituida mediante la escritura número 163, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de marzo de 2006, ante la notario Linda Liz Lozano Ruiz, e inscrita al folio 178 del tomo 517 de Fajardo, finca número 19,589, inscripción 2da. Sujeta a condiciones restrictivas: Se requiere previo consentimiento del acreedor para vender y/o transferir. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 2da, en cuanto al principal que será por la suma de $20,393.00, con intereses al 6 7/8 % anual comenzando el 1 de marzo de 2009, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2036, según consta de la escritura número 39, otorgada en San
Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2009, ante el notario David Toledo David, e inscrita al folio 178 del tomo 517 de Fajardo, finca número 19,589, nota marginal. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Eurobank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $49,607.00, con intereses al 12% anual, vencedero a la presentación, según consta de la escritura número 83, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de marzo de 2009, ante la notario Nay Del Carmen Rodriguez González, e inscrita al folio 178 vuelto del tomo 517 de Fajardo, finca número 19,589, inscripción 3ra. Embargo Federal contra Luis A. Esteves Rivera, seguro social xxx-xx-9587, por la suma de $27,382.52, notificación número 997228314, presentado el día 9 de mayo de 2014, anotado al folio 118, Asiento 1, del libro de Embargos Federales número 4. Fecha límite de Renovación 18 de septiembre de 2023. Embargo Federal contra Luis A. Esteves Rivera, seguro social xxxx-9587, por la suma de $45,381.12, notificación número 137758915, presentado el día 9 de mayo de 2014, anotado al folio 149, Asiento 5, del libro de Embargos Federales número 5. Fecha límite de Renovación 17 de septiembre de 2023. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deu-
dor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 13 de noviembre de 2024. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL INTERINO #622. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR #266.
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PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ALBERTO PÉREZ MARTÍNEZ T/C/C
CARLOS ALBERTO PÉREZ COMPUESTA
POR: ANA LAURA PÉREZ
MONTALVO; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DIANA MONTALVO RIVERA COMO CONYUGE
SUPERSTITE; CRIM Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV01502. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS ALBERTO PÉREZ MARTÍNEZ T/C/C
CARLOS ALBERTO PÉREZ COMPUESTA
POR: ANA LAURA PÉREZ MONTALVO; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DIANA MONTALVO RIVERA COMO CONYUGE SUPERSTITE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM): Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Barrio Lavadero de Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. Solar 7-D, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos punto cero cero (400.00 mc) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 15.024 metros lineales con acera de calle de Uso Público; por el SUR, en una distancia de 15.024 metros lineales, con el solar número tres (3) de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 26.6232 metros lineales con el solar número ocho (8) de la Urbanización; por el OESTE, en una distancia de 26.6232 metros lineales con el solar número seis (6) de la Urbanización. Enclava en el solar una residencia construida en hormigón y bloques de hormigón para una familia. Consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Hormigueros, finca número #7,880, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Mayagüez. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Jardines de la Casona, D-7, Hormigueros, P.R. 00660. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 2102015). En relación a la finca a
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subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $129,234.00, con intereses al 4.00 anual, según consta de la escritura número 358, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de octubre de 2014, ante el notario Wendell W. Colón Muñoz, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Hormiguero, finca número 7,880, Inscripción Segunda. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024
A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $129,234.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $86,156.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una
TERCERA SUBASTA el día
19 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024
A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $64,617.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $115,744.81, con intereses a 4.00% anual, desde el 1ro de abril de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4.00% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $12,923.40, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables.
Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante
la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, 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. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 30 de octubre de 2024. CALIXTO RIVERA GHIGLIOTTY, ALGUACIL PLACA #283.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. OLGA IVETTE DIAZ
ROSA, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE EDWIN RAMIREZ
DIAZ; LA SUCESION DE EDWIN RAMIREZ
DIAZ COMPUESTA POR JOHANNA RAMIREZ
DIAZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2024CV00051. 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 CAROLINA, 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 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en
su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: CASTELLANA GARDENS F-21 CALLE 6 CAROLINA, PR 00983 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número veinte y uno del bloque F de la Urbanización Castellana Gardens del Barrio Sabana Abajo de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos veinte y dos metros cuadrados. Colinda por el NORTE en catorce metros con la calle seis: por el SUR, en catorce metros con los solares uno, dos y tres del Bloque F; por el ESTE, en veinte y tres metros con el solar veinte del bloque F; y por el OESTE, en veintitrés metros con el solar veintidós del bloque F. Contiene una casa de concreto armado y bloques de concreto de una sola planta que consiste de sala-comedor, cocina, tres habitaciones, dos baños, marquesina y balcón. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 192 del Tomo 329 de Carolina, finca número 12,476, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, 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 $76,500.00.
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 10 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 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 $51,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 17 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 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 $38,250.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca número 1011 otorgada en Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, el día 15 de diciembre de 2006, ante el Notario Rafael Bras Benítez y consta inscrita al Folio 69 del Tomo 329 de Carolina, finca número 12,746, inscripción 12da., en el Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, 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 8 de agosto de 2024 contra condenando a Olga Ivette Díaz Rosa y La Sucesión de Edwin Ramírez Díaz, a satisfacer a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $51,758.79 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de agosto de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.375% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, Olga Ivette Díaz Rosa y La Sucesión de Edwin Ramírez Díaz adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% 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 $7,650.00. Además Olga Ivette Díaz Rosa y La Sucesión de Edwin Ramírez Díaz se comprometió a pagar una suma equivalente a $7,650.00 para cubrir cualquier otro adelanto que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y una suma equivalente a $7,650.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley. 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 CAROLINA, 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. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1ro de noviembre de 2024. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Carolina, Sala Superior.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. AGRIPINA IRIZARRY; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV07589. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: AGRIPINA IRIZARRY HERNÁNDEZ. Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA en su contra. Se le notifica que 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 Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante:
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Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 22 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN CONCEPCION
CANDELARIO BATISTA
Demandante V. MARTIN ABAD NUÑEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024RF01225. (Salón: 705). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARIA D. PAGAN HERNANDEZMARILUPAHE@YAHOO.COM. A: MARTIN ABAD NUÑEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 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 15 de noviembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 15 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ORIA IVETTE SANTANA CARO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE CAGUAS
SECRETARIO VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO
URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS DE AMERICA
T/C/C SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Demandante Vs. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV04172. Sala: 802. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, personas desconocidas que se designan con estos nombres ficticios, que pueden ser tenedor o tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez. Se les notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que un pagaré hipotecario fue otorgado el 15 de mayo de 2015, se emitió un pagaré ante el Notario Público Magaly Rodríguez Batista a favor de The Money House, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $240,000.00, con intereses al 3.185% y vencedero el 9 de mayo de 2092, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 102, testimonio numero 10,767 otorgada en Cayey, Puerto Rico, sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: URBANA: Solar número trece (13) radicado en el Barrio Bayamón del término municipal de Cidra, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos treinta y ocho punto cuarenta y siete metros cuadrados; y en lindes por el NORTE, con la calle número dos (2); por el SUR, con carretera municipal existente (hoy cerrada) que conducía al Hotel Treasure Island y que a su vez lo separa de quebrada y Lago de Cidra; por el ESTE, con el solar número catorce (14); y por el OESTE, con el solar número doce (12). Según el plano sus medidas lineales son: por el NORTE, 20.25 metros; por el SUR, 20.65 metros; por el ESTE, 43.43 metros; y por el OESTE, 39.39 metros;
y su colindancia ESTE, es con el solar número catorce (14). El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca 8,051 inscrita al folio 273 del tomo 202 de Cidra, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de Caguas. La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. The Money House, Inc., o a su orden, es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de la Propiedad. El último tenedor conocido del pagaré antes descrito fue Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://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.
Lcda. Pamela Santiago Olivieri RUA NUM. 22028 HMB Law Group, LLC 33 Calle Bolivia, Suite 201 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00917 Tel: 939-759-7668
E-mail: psantiago-olivieri@ hmblawgroup.com psco.law@gmail.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 15 de noviembre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL AUXILIAR. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA CONFIDENCIAL DE TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. PEDRO MERCED LÓPEZ POR SI Y COMO COMPONENTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA VIRGEN COLÓN CASTRO T/C/C MARÍA
VIRGINIA COLÓN CASTRO COMPUESTA POR RONNY MERCED COLÓN, JOEL MERCED COLÓN Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2024CV01140. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: RONNY MERCED COLÓN Y JOEL MERCED COLÓN COMO COMPONENTES DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA VIRGEN COLÓN CASTRO T/C/C MARÍA VIRGINIA COLÓN CASTRO. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar 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/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de febrero de 2024, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $24,269.64, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $22,908.31, más intereses a razón del 7.00% anual, desde el 1 de enero de 2024, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más un balance diferido de principal de
$1,361.33, el cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ($4,280.00), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número H-9 del Proyecto VBC-81 denominado Extensión La Patagonia, radicado en el Barrio Tejas del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 298.02 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle H, en 8.27 metros; por el SUR, con terrenos de la Sucesión Roig, en 19.28 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar H-8, en 20.25 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar H-10 en 26.60 metros. Consta inscrita al folio 255 del tomo 234 de Humacao, finca #8,502, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Humacao. SE LE ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la SUCESIÓN DEMARÍA VIRGEN COLÓN CASTRO t/c/c MARÍA VIRGINIA COLÓN CASTRO. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Humacao, Puerto Rico. A 8 de noviembre 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES
MARRERO GARCIA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV07633. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE PRENDA E HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCIA.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este.. Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), a! cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: hitp://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribuna! correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en e! epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de octubre de 2019, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a !a parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Prenda y Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $29,063.12, más intereses acumulados ascendientes a $10,790.02, calculados al 15 de mayo de 2024, y !os cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de su aplicable tasa de intereses hasta su tota! y completo pago, más la suma de $10,720.87, calculados al 15 de mayo de 2024, relacionada a cargos por financiamientos cargos, más los pagos por demora equivalente al 5.0% sobre cualquier pago mínimo vencido y
que no se haya satisfecho dentro de 15 días luego de la fecha de vencimiento, el diez por ciento (10%) del balance original ($3,500.00), como suma líquida pactada en concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, y cualquier otro cargo o adelanto en cuanto seguros y contribuciones (“escrow”) todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE.(“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial número A-ochocientos doce (A-812) ubicado en el Condominio Bahía (VBC-56), localizado en la Calle Las Palmas, Esquina Cerra, Barrio Tras Talleres, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico con un área privada de ochocientos setenta punto setenticuatro (870.74) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ochenta punto ochentinueve (80.89) metros cuadrados, el cual contiene sala, comedor, cocina, baño, tres (3) dormitorios y balcón; colindando por el NORTE, con parte del Solar donde enclava el edificio que da frente a la Calle Las Palmas con el pozo de ventilación y servicio y con el apartamento número A-ochocientos once (A811) (pared medianera); por el SUR, con el pasillo exterior del edificio; por el ESTE, con el Ascensor y las escaleras (pared medianera); y por el OESTE, con el pozo de ventilación y servicio y con el apartamento número A ochocientos once (pared medianera). Corresponde a este apartamento en los gastos, ganancias y derechos en relación a y sobre los elementos comunes generales una participación de punto cuarentitres tres treintiseis por ciento (.43336%), o sea, un cuarentitres punto tres treintiseis por ciento (43.336%) de un uno por ciento (1%). Finca #6,487, consta inscrita al folio 62 del tomo 211 de Santurce Sur, Sección I de San Juan. SE LE ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la SUCESION DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCIA. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico. A 15 de
noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, LUZ E., SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE DESARROLLO
URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
T.C.C SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandante V. FULANA DE TAL Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV09356. (Salón: 603). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
PAMELA CRISTAL SANTIAGO
OLIVIERI - PCSO.LAW@GMAIL. COM.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 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 20 de noviembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de noviembre de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Lucrecia Pagán Morales, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00665.
(Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ASHLEY ANNE CLEMENTE SERRANO - ACLEMENTE@ MPMLAWPR.COM.
GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM.
A: ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ, MARÍA DEL PILAR GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 345 PACIFIC ST., BROOKLYN, NY 112174696.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de 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 20 de noviembre de 2024. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 20 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. BILLIE RAE HOFKNECHT Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00664. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ASHLEY ANNE CLEMENTE SERRANO - ACLEMENTE@ MPMLAWPR.COM. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM. A: BILLIE RAE HOFKNECHT T/C/C BILLIE RAE WATTS KOWALKOWSKI T/C/C BILLIE RAE WATTS - 101 E GERMANTOWN PIKE, PLYMOUTH MTNG, PA 19462-1506. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de 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 20 de noviembre de 2024. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 20 de noviembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC.
Demandante Vs. MICHAEL J. TIRADO LEBRON
Demandado
Civil Núm.: YB2024CV00081. Salón: 102. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI-
BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: MICHAEL J. TIRADO LEBRÓN - BO PLAYITA PAR VIEJAS, YABUCOA PR 00767.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a ¡os abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de octubre de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 1 de octubre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. ARSENIA MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. NELSON X. RODRIGUEZ SOSA Demandado
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01777. Salón: 703. 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: NELSON X. RODRIGUEZ SOSAHC 8 BOX 39114, CAGUAS, PR 00725. 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 Ml FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de septiembre de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 30 de septiembre de 2024. Irasemis Díaz Sánchez, Secretaria. Liz Wharton Rosa, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02822. Salón: 500-A. 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: GENESIS M. COLLAZO COLON - URB REPARTO VALENCIA AL-7 C-10 CALLE JAZMIN, BAYAMON, PR 00959.
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 Ca-
sos (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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 3 de octubre de 2024. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Noelia Matías Salas, Sec Auxiliar.
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Demandante Vs. MARGARITA Y. CASTRO DE LA CRUZ
Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01757. Salón: 701. 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: MARGARITA Y. CASTRO DE LA CRUZCALLE SEVILLA #5, URB. TERRALINDA, CAGUAS PR Y CALLE SEVILLA N-1, URB. TERRALINDA, CAGUAS PR.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderiudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar
su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de septiembre de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 11 de septiembre de 2024. Irasemis Díaz Sánchez, Secretaria. Eneida Arroyo Vélez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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Demandante Vs. JOSE M. CLAUDIO CARRION
Demandado Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01728. Salón: 703. 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: JOSE M. CLAUDIO CARRION - URB JOSE MERCADO U-55 CALLE WASHINGTON, CAGUAS, PR 00725.
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.poderiudicial.pr/índex. 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 de-
manda 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 j2teroortIaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de octubre de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 2 de octubre de 2024. Irasemis Díaz Sánchez, Secretaria. Liz Wharton Rosa, Secretaria Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO.
REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC.
PARTE DEMANDANTE V. SUCESIÓN MARÍA
MERCEDES QUIÑONES
ORTA T/C/C MERCEDES QUINONES ORTAT/ C/C MERCEDES M. QUIÑONES T/C/C
MERCEDES QUINONES
COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR FLORES
LABRADOR, GIANCARLO FLORES
LABRADOR; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE iNGRESOS MUNICIPALES
EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA
PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: GB2023CV00153.
EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: HÉCTOR FLORES
LABRADORY
GIANCARLO FLORES
LABRADOR COMO
MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN MARIA MERCEDES QUIÑONES
ORTA T/C/C MERCEDES QUINONES ORTA
TIC/C MERCEDES
M. QUIÑONES T/C/C MERCEDES QUINONES
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. La Hipoteca Revertida objeto de la presente reclamación graba la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal Condominio Los Patricios, apartamento doscientos tres (203), localizado en la esquina NORESTE, del segundo piso del edificio y colinda al NORTE, con el exterior del edificio mirando hacia el Jardín Norte; por el ESTE, con el exterior del edificio mirando hacia el área de estacionamiento; por el SUR, con el apartamento doscientos cuatro (204); y por el OESTE, con las áreas comunes del piso especifico. Consiste de las siguientes facilidades: un pasillo de setenta y tres (73) pies cuadrados, incluyendo closets de almacenamiento, una sala de doscientos cuatro (204) pies cuadrados incluyendo closet; un comedor de ciento cuarenta y siete (147) pies cuadrados, una cocina de ciento cuarenta y dos (142) pies cuadrados, que incluye los equipos mencionados en la cláusula quinta de la Escritura Matriz y closet, tres cuartos dormitorios con un total de quinientos tres (503) pies cuadrados, incluyendo sus closets, dos baños con un total de noventa y tres (93) pies cuadrados y un balcón mirando hacia el ESTE, que consiste de ochenta (80) pies cuadrados. Su puerta principal tiene acceso por el corredor respectivo de dicho piso. Pertenece a este apartamento el estacionamiento marcado doscientos tres (203) en el área de estacionamiento. Tiene un derecho en los elementos comunes generales del edificio equivalente a uno punto quinientos sesenta y siete por ciento (1.567%) del valor conjunto y de un veinticinco (25) por ciento en los elementos comunes restringidos. Inscrita al folio 10 del tomo 347 de Guaynabo, fmca 17,660, Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Por concepto del referido préstamo hipotecario garantizado por la Hipoteca Revertida, la parte demandada reclama la suma vencida, liquida y exigible de $116,701.90 por concepto de principal, la cual no incluye in-
tereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 28 de febrero de 2023. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados hasta el 28 de febrero de 2023 es de $196,819.20 y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha. El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de la causante MARIA MERCEDES QUI1JONES ORTA T/C/C MERCEDES QUINONES ORTA T/C/C MERCEDES M. QUINONES T/C/C MERCEDES QU1NONES. Se les apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622
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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy d 30 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. f/SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SEC. DEL TRIB. CONF. I.
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CRESPO T/C/C LIYDIA
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T/C/C LIDIA ESTHER CRESPO MIRANDA COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MT2024CV00804. 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 LYDIA ESTHER CRESPO MIRANDA T/C/C LIYDIA E. CRESPO MIRANDA
T/C/C LYDIA E. CRESPO MIRANDA T/C/C LIDIA CRESPO MIRANDA T/C/C LYDIA E. CRESPO T/C/C LYDIA CRESPO MIRANDA T/C/C LYDIA
CRESPO T/C/C LIYDIA E. CRESPO T/C/C LIYDIA CRESPO MIRANDA T/C/C LIDIA ESTHER CRESPO MIRANDA.
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
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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Ciales, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de noviembre de 2024. Vivian Y. Fresse Gonzáalez, Secretaria. Sandra I. Maldonado Vega, Sub-Secretaria.
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Parte Demandante Vs FERNAND A. ESQUILÍN Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HO2024CV00024. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA 60). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: FERNAND A. ESQUILÍN
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamiento y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo certificado a la última dirección postal conocida de récord provista por la parte demandada: Urb. Verdum II, Calle Hibisco #302, Hormigueros, Puerto Rico 00660. En dicha demanda se le reclama la suma de $3,609.56, por concepto de préstamo para la compra de un auto usado el cual le fue concedido el 17 de marzo de 2022 por la Cooperativa. Puede usted obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de noviembre de 2024. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria General, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Cabo Rojo. María M. Avilés Bonilla, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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Rico Carty, exceptional hitter who was stymied by injuries, dies at 85
By VICTOR MATHER
Rico Carty, a Dominican baseball star whose early exceptional promise was thwarted by untimely injuries, died Saturday. He was 85.
His death was reported by Major League Baseball and the Atlanta Braves, one of his former teams. They did not specify where he died or the cause.
After a blazing hot start in the major leagues that included a dazzling rookie year, his progress was impeded by broken bones, hamstring problems and even tuberculosis. Carty, who was 6 feet, 3 inches tall and called himself the Beeg Boy, nevertheless played until he was 40, amassing 1,677 hits and 204 home runs.
Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty was born on Sept. 1, 1939, in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. His father, Leopoldo, worked in a sugar mill, and his mother, Olivia, was a midwife. He had 15 brothers and sisters.
After dabbling in boxing, he turned his focus to baseball and soon attracted the attention of major league scouts.
“I had no idea how serious those offers really were,” Carty said in a 2008 interview with Baseball Prospectus. “I said yes to everyone that gave me one, just in case the others didn’t work out. In the end I signed with nine major league and three winter ball teams.”
His rights were eventually awarded in 1959 to the Milwaukee Braves. The team, which would move to Atlanta in 1966, converted him to an outfielder from a catcher.
His first full season, in 1964, was one to remember. Playing mostly in left field, he hit .330, second in the majors after only Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, and hit 22 home runs.
But he missed much of the 1965 season with back problems. He returned in 1966, the Braves’ first season in Atlanta, and hit .326. But he slumped in 1967 and then missed all of 1968 after contracting tuberculosis.
Shoulder separation cost him games in 1969, but he was available for Atlanta’s playoff series against the New York Mets. In what would turn out to be his only postseason appearance, he was 3 for 10 and scored four runs, but the Braves were swept by threegames-to-none.
As if he were making up for lost time, he got off to a stunning start in 1970. He was hitting an unfathomable .436 at the end of May.
Yet because the All-Star ballots were final-
ized over the winter, his name was not included. Fans mounted a write-in campaign, and he received more than 500,000 votes, enough to get him the third starting spot in the National League outfield alongside Hank Aaron and Willie Mays.
“I never thought I had a chance,” Carty told The New York Times that July. “I cannot thank the fans enough for going to the trouble of writing in my name.” Steve Garvey, in 1974, is the only other player to be elected as a write-in.
Few would have guessed it at the time, but 1970 wound up being Carty’s only All-Star selection. He could not stay as hot as he was in April and May but did finish with a .366 average to lead the league for the only time in his career. Yet that momentum was snapped in 1971 when he missed the entire season with a broken leg.
In August of that year, Carty got into an altercation with two off-duty police officers in Atlanta after one of them, he said, called him a racial slur. A uniformed officer intervened, and Carty wound up with two black eyes and bruises. Mayor Sam Massell of Atlanta said the officers had used “blatant brutality,” and all three were dismissed. All charges against Carty were dropped.
After missing much of the 1972 season with injuries, he was traded to the Texas Rangers. The timing seemed good. Texas is part of the American League, which that season was introducing the position of designated hitter, a player who bats, usually instead of the pitcher, but does not have to field.
Carty seemed a natural for this role; while an outstanding hitter, he often struggled in the field. Though he said he preferred to play out-
field, he was slotted in as the Rangers’ DH. But he hit poorly, lost the job, was sent to the Chicago Cubs and then finished the year with a third team, the Oakland Athletics. It was the start of an odyssey of bouncing around from team to team: His further major league stops were in Cleveland and Toronto. In Atlanta, he got into scuffles with teammates, Ron Reed in 1970 and Aaron in 1972. The fights were seen as emblematic of an inability to get along with teammates and contributed, along with his inconsistent form and injury issues, to the many trades in the latter part of his career.
“He was an equal-opportunity combatant, engaging in physical and/or verbal conflicts with teammates, managers, umpires, fans, local police and at least one front office,” stated a 2018 biography of Carty by the Society for American Baseball Research.
In his final season in Toronto, in 1979, Carty hit .256 and accidentally stabbed himself with a toothpick when he reached into his carry-on bag. He was released in March 1980, at 40, and his career ended.
In his post-baseball career, he ran the Fundacion Rico Carty, an organization that helps address poverty in the Dominican Republic. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.
Through the injuries and the setbacks, one thing was always true: When he was healthy, Carty could hit a baseball.
Asked by Forbes in 2019 about the faster pitching in the modern game, Carty replied: “You think Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Dick Allen, Roberto Clemente, Orlando Cepeda couldn’t hit this pitching?
“I’d kill it.”
The San Juan Daily Star
Rico Carty in 1970 (Wikipedia)
Rico Carty got off to a stunning start in 1970, hitting an unfathomable .436 at the end of May. (batterypower.com)
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