Rivera Schatz Tapped to Again Lead Senate, Méndez Expected to Return as House Speaker
Outside of San Juan, Mayoral Races in Cities, Larger Towns Weren’t Competitive Genera Receives Nearly $460 Million Federal Injection to Bolster Power Plants
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By THE STAR STAFF
Presumptive governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón met with New Progressive Party (NPP) lawmakers on Thursday to announce who will preside over the legislative branch in January.
“We have a new president-elect of the Senate of Puerto Rico in Senator Thomas Rivera Schatz,” González Colón said at a press conference.
It will be Rivera Schatz’s third stint as Senate president.
Former House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez was on track at press time to become speaker again.
Regarding the Senate, Sen. Carmelo Ríos Santiago of Bayamón will be one vice president along with a female senator who has yet to be elected. The caucus chose Sen. Gregorio Matías Rosario as majority leader.
Rivera Schatz said he will be appointing the heads of committees later.
“The people of Puerto Rico know the legislation that we are going to present because the people of Puerto Rico voted for the government platform that the NPP presented,” the veteran senator added.
González Colón said the decision to appoint another vice president later is because there are still some seats that are pending to be selected as there are still early ballot votes that need to be counted. She said that “all” women are being considered to occupy the position of vice president alongside Ríos Santiago.
Senate majority, it broke records for the most measures approved in the first 60 days.
Matías Rosario asserted that the new Legislature “will legislate for everyone because in this Legislature, there are people from all sectors of our island.”
Morales, who will serve as alternate spokesman, said the new Senate was going to “make a difference starting in the first 100 days.”
“The appointments will not be in a drawer as they were this four-year term,” he said. “They are going to be worked on immediately.”
Rivera Schatz said the moral balance of appointees to the Supreme Court and Office of the Women’s Advocate will be taken into consideration.
Elected Sen. Roxanna Soto Aguilú had said she would not vote for Rivera Schatz to preside over the Senate because she aspired to the position.
“The governor and the new president of the Senate have indicated that the president has already been elected. The answer was no if the question was directed at whether I changed my mind,” she said. “The new president knew it as well as the rest of my colleagues. But democracy was what prevailed.”
Along with Matías Rosario as majority leader, San Juan Sen. Juan Oscar Morales, will serve as alternate spokesman in the new Senate, González Colón said.
Ríos Santiago said the last time the NPP had a
By THE STAR STAFF
Genera PR announced on Thursday the awarding of $459 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the purchase and installation of equipment that will increase the reliability and stability of the island’s electric power plants.
Genera, the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s fleet of plants, also reaffirmed its commitment to work with the incoming government of Jenniffer González Colón to ensure an efficient use of the funds to guarantee a robust energy system for the island. The allocation of funds was achieved in a record time of 60 days, thanks to a cooperative effort between FEMA and the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3), and the performance guarantees offered by Genera PR.
The new units, destined for the facilities at Costa Sur (Guayanilla), Daguao (Ceiba), Yabucoa and Jobos (Guyama), will provide some 244 megawatts of energy, strengthening electrical availability during high demand peaks, and are part
The new units, destined for the power plants Costa Sur (Guayanilla), Daguao (Ceiba) and Jobos (Guyama), as well as a generation facility in Yabucoa, will provide some 244 megawatts of energy, strengthening electrical availability during high demand peaks.
of an ambitious islandwide generation project, with a total investment exceeding $2 billion in federal funds.
Iván Báez, vice president of public and government affairs at Genera PR, highlighted: “The granting of these funds marks a significant advance in our strategic projects and in our commitment to provide reliable and accessible energy to the people of Puerto Rico.”
“This progress is especially relevant due to the urgent need to improve our energy facilities,” he said, noting that Genera PR has worked hand in hand with FEMA and COR3 to expedite the project and obtain the source of funds for the necessary investment, whose rapid approval will allow the start of manufacturing and installation work on new, more efficient backup units with the capacity to use multiple fuels.
“Our projects will greatly benefit all of Puerto Rico; our goal is to unify efforts with the state and federal government to demonstrate effective execution and ensure the proper use of the allocated funds,” Báez said. “We trust that we will have the support of elected officials because we share the same goal: to improve the quality of life of the Puerto Rican people.”
By THE STAR STAFF
Following Pablo José Hernández Rivera’s victory in the race for resident commissioner, former Ponce Mayor Francisco “Ico” Zayas Seijo said Thursday that the leadership of the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) should certify him as the new PDP president.
With 91.35% of the polling stations reported, Hernández had 472,292 votes, taking the victory with 44.55%. His running mate, Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz González, the PDP president, came in third in the race for governor.
“That doesn’t need to be said,” Zayas Seijo said when asked during a radio interview if Hernández Rivera should become the new president of the party. “I think it’s already done. I think it’s already done.” Hernández Rivera has said he will focus on his job as
resident commissioner and is not interested in a future gubernatorial race.
Zayas Seijo also stressed that Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago and Villalba Mayor Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz – who won an at-large seat in the island Senate – should occupy leadership positions in the legislative bodies.
“The mayor of Villalba should become the spokesman for the minority in the Senate and Héctor Ferrer the spokesman for the minority in the House [of Representatives],” the former mayor said.
Regarding the results of the governor’s race, Zayas Seijo, who was mayor of Ponce from 2005 to 2009, stressed that the fear of independence caused many PDP members to vote for the New Progressive Party candidate for governor, Jenniffer González Colón.
“There is a fear of independence and that fear led them to vote for Jenniffer,” he said.
By THE STAR STAFF
At-large Rep. José Aponte Hernández this week celebrated the triumph of the statehood option in the Election Day status consultation, which with 91.35% of the vote counted had won 56.82% (528,379 votes). The veteran pro-statehood lawmaker also insisted that Pablo José Hernández Rivera, who is on track to become Puerto Rico’s next resident commissioner, work in Congress in favor of statehood, as mandated by island voters.
“My career in public service has been focused on achieving the equality of rights for the U.S. citizens who reside in Puerto Rico,” said the former speaker of the island House of Representatives in a written statement. “This can only be achieved through statehood. Yesterday (Tuesday), the People, the sovereign in the democratic system that we have, spoke loud and clear. With the expression of yesterday, the mandates of 2012, 2017 and 2020 were repeated so that the colonial problem is resolved in Congress.”
According to State Elections Commission data, the option of independence achieved 30.85% of the vote while free association received 12.3%.
“These numbers reflect an unquestionable reality, that support for statehood is the majority and in a democracy the majority prevails,” Aponte said. “It corresponds to all the elected officials, including the Resident Commissioner in Washington, to execute the mandate that the People of Puerto Rico expressed yesterday in the polls.”
By THE STAR STAFF
Jenniffer González Colón, the presumptive governor-elect of Puerto Rico, said Thursday that she will not give the Financial Oversight and Management Board any influence in certain matters.
“There are two things. The first is that I will not allow the Board to interfere in matters that are the responsibility of the state,” González Colón said at a press conference. “The second is those [matters] that obviously merit the expenditure of public funds that are part of the Fiscal Plan, which obviously do have to [include the oversight board], but those things will be coordinated and done so that the legislation that is presented does not have any obstacles from the Board and if there were any, I would say it up front and we would go to the final consequences to represent that legislation.”
“I must have a meeting with the Board in the next few weeks,” she added. “I have not called it yet; we are still in a process where the vote is open and I am organizing other things. But that meeting will take place and I am sure that we
Jenniffer González Colón, the presumptive governor-elect, said she would not allow the Financial Oversight and Management Board “to interfere in matters that are the responsibility of the state.” (Facebook via New Progressive Party)
will be able to establish the work plan.”
When asked about the points in which the oversight board does not have any influence, González Colón replied: “You will see, you will see when we file the legislation.”
The presumptive governor-elect’s statements were made at a press conference in which the Senate leadership was chosen after the vote count, which is yet to be certified by the State
Elections Commission, showed the New Progressive Party regaining a majority in the upper chamber (see related story on page 3). Thomas Rivera Schatz was chosen as president. Sen. Carmelo Ríos Santiago was named as one vice president, and a female vice president will be chosen as soon as the electoral counting process is completed.
The majority spokesman will be Sen. Gregorio Matías Rosario and the alternate spokesman will be Sen. Juan Oscar Morales.
The committees and their chairs have yet to be defined.
“I would like to announce the votes that we have for a new president-elect of the Senate of Puerto Rico, Senator Thomas Rivera Schatz,” González Colón said. “I congratulate him for this victory and his willingness to serve the people of Puerto Rico. The Senate caucus has also decided by vote to establish two vice presidencies, one for a man and one for a woman. Since there are still some seats pending with the 10 percent that remains to be counted and from the early vote, the female vice presidency has been left unelected at this time. Since there are already several female colleagues who could be entering the Legislature, this decision can be made.”
By THE STAR STAFF
In the race for mayor of San Juan, incumbent Miguel Romero Lugo of the New Progressive Party (NPP) outpolled Manuel Natal Albelo of the Citizen Victory Movement, 51,108 votes to 45,836. The Popular Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, former Tourism Company director Terestella González Denton, was third with 11,502 votes. Maidalys Irizarry Viegas of the Dignity Project had 2,327 votes, and independent candidate José Vargas brought up the rear with 285 votes.
Other outcomes in mayoral elections in the island’s major urban centers and larger towns amounted to blowouts.
In Bayamón, six-term mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz of the NPP was the runaway winner over PDP challenger Morgan Alejandro Cordero Calderón, 45,523 to 7,354.
In Guaynabo, NPP incumbent mayor Edward A. O’Neill
Rosa handily defeated PDP challenger Ernesto Cabrera Fuentes, 19,882 to 6,364.
In Caguas, incumbent mayor William Miranda Torres of the PDP easily turned back a challenge by Roberto López Román of the NPP, 22,657 to 13,480.
In Carolina, PDP incumbent mayor José Carlos Aponte Dalmau was the clear-cut winner over NPP candidate Humberto Cobo Estrella, 26,873 to 10,867.
In Arecibo, PDP incumbent mayor Carlos Rubén “Tito” Ramírez Irizarry turned back a challenge from former lawmaker José “Memo” González Mercado of the NPP, 17,241 to 10,188.
In Ponce, interim mayor Marlese Sifre Rodríguez of the PDP trounced NPP challenger Pablo Colón Santiago, 29,799 to 8,913.
In Mayagüez, PDP candidate Jorge Luis Márquez Pérez was a lopsided winner over former senator Evelyn Vázquez
Nieves of the NPP, 13,344 to 4,253.
It was not clear at press time whether any of the aforementioned vote counts posted by the State Elections Commission were complete.
By THE STAR STAFF
The American Civil Liberties Union, Puerto Rico Chapter (ACLU-PR), and the Puerto Rico Bar Association released on Thursday the preliminary findings of their electoral observation during Tuesday’s general elections.
The organizations, which participated as independent observers, pointed out a series of irregularities and limitations that they said negatively affected the transparency and reliability of the Puerto Rican electoral system. In their preliminary report, the entities denounced impediments to the function of
electoral observers. In at least two cases, coordinators and officials did not allow the entry of duly identified and accredited observers to the polling stations. In another incident, an observer was prevented from taking photographs, contrary to what is established in the protocol of the State Elections Commission (SEC).
The organizations also highlighted numerous limitations at the easy access polling places, which they said hampered the participation of people with functional diversity. Among the deficiencies identified were the absence of adequate parking, inadequate or non-existent ramps, unadapted portable toilets and a lack of Braille ballots or magnifying glasses for
people with limited vision. In addition, they noted that in some voting centers, voting by telephone was not available.
According to the entities, the report reveals problems with counting machines and faulty computers in several polling stations. Cases were documented in which the machines did not work correctly, lacked sufficient batteries or did not accept ballots. In some places, the machines did not properly read the marks made with an “X”, which impacted the correct allocation of votes.
The entities also reported delays in the delivery of electoral materials and an insufficient number of officials. In many schools,
the materials arrived after 7 a.m., delaying the opening of the polling stations, which were supposed to be at 9 a.m. There were also reports of a lack of accredited officials from all parties and difficulties for officials to register and vote.
Another finding was the violation of the right to a secret vote. It was observed that the voting booths arrived without curtains and that the lines of voters were very close to the booths, which allowed them to see the ballot while it was being used. In some cases, elderly people or people with reduced mobility had to vote at tables without protection, thus exposing their vote.
By SHAWN McCREESH
The forces that propelled President-elect Donald Trump to victory will be endlessly analyzed. Many Americans woke up Wednesday morning shocked that he could win again. But there is no doubt about one thing: Trump was a ferociously effective campaigner.
To watch him up close on this third run for president was to see him blend comedy, fury, optimism, darkness and cynicism like never before. He was an expert communicator, able to transmute legal and mortal peril to build upon his self mythology. He won new supporters and kept old ones in thrall.
At dozens of events, I watched as he connected with all sorts of people in all sorts of places. Suburban mothers in Washington, D.C. Military personnel in Detroit. Evangelicals in South Florida. Bitcoiners in Nashville, Tennessee. College football fans in Alabama. Firefighters in lower Manhattan. At rallies in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta and Bozeman, Montana, and Virginia Beach, Virginia, and the Bronx and beyond, I had countless conversations with people who were quick to dismiss or rationalize whatever controversy happened to be swirling around him at any moment. People saw in him whatever they wanted to see. And they believed that, after so many years, they knew him, and that he knew them, too.
“He gets us,” a hay and beef cattle farmer told me one afternoon in September in Smithton, Pennsylvania. It seemed a head-spinning assessment, but one I heard constantly and in the most unlikely of places. How could the man with the silver spoon and the golden triplex above Fifth Avenue understand anything about this woman’s life? “He just knows where we’re coming from,” she shrugged.
We were standing inside a barn when she said this. Trump was a few yards away, sitting at a big wooden table. Behind him were stacked bales of hay and a John Deere tractor. He
led a discussion about seed cost and fertilizer and shale and animal feed. Farmers nodded along as he reminded them how expensive everything had become because of inflation. “I feel very comfortable with the farmers,” he said. And they felt very comfortable with him.
The bond with Trump deepened for many people after the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder of Facebook, said that the way Trump had popped back up and yelled “Fight!” was “one of the most badass things” he had ever seen — and many people seemed to agree. It was an interesting inversion: Before that point, Trump had only ever played a tough guy on television, palling around with wrestlers and practicing his Clint Eastwood squint. Now he had behaved in an undeniably tough way on TV. People across the country began to regard him as a cross between Rambo and John Gotti. They posted memes and wore T-shirts that showed his mug shot or his bloodied face. Americans love their antiheroes and action movies. The campaign embraced the “badass” aesthetic. When Trump returned to Butler in early October, there were military veterans jumping out of airplanes, parachuting into the rally while AC/DC blasted from the speakers.
But beyond the merchandise and the high-octane stunts, the shooting provided Trump a new way to connect with certain people on a spiritual level. Until that point, some religious types had embraced Trump with reluctance, seeing him as an imperfect vessel at best. Now there were some who saw evidence of the divine in his survival — the way he had just happened to turn his head at the last moment, dodging a literal bullet. A school bus driver told me in Butler that she was now “1,000%” sure that Trump had been chosen by God to vanquish evil and that his victory was preordained. It was an idea I heard over and over in the crowd. Again, Trump leaned in. He began communicating in new ways. On social media, he posted images of St. Michael the Archangel battling demons. He talked a lot about blood, and made curiously pious gestures, like when he slowly bent his head onstage at the Republican convention to kiss the helmet of a volunteer firefighter who had been killed in Butler. Religious scholars and experts in Christian martyrdom told me they were surprised at the newly sophisticated ways in which Trump was deploying Christian iconography. He had come a long way from writing “HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL!” on social media in 2020 and talking about “Two Corinthians” a few years before that.
Trump’s ‘hateful’ ways
In July, Trump attended a religious conference at the same convention center in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he made his victory speech on Tuesday night. Young evangelicals from around the country were there. Several confessed they were not entirely thrilled that Trump had become the Republican nominee. One young man from Minneapolis said he had trouble grappling with the former president’s “hateful” ways.
There were a lot of people like that. People who wished he were different. Older voters at a rally in Wisconsin told me it was painful to hear Trump ridicule President Joe Biden’s age and frailty. Suburban mothers in Washington winced at the misogynistic things Trump posted on the internet about Vice President Kamala Harris (one woman called his posts “tacky”). But, by and large, people were a lot more concerned with what they believed he could do for them, and less worried about how
the words coming out of his mouth might sound. Many voted for him despite the “hateful” and “tacky” things he says, not because he says those things.
But hatred, and fear, are powerful forces, too, and Trump’s scaremongering tactics reached new levels in this campaign. By the end, he was using imagery generated by artificial intelligence depicting brown-skinned people marching on hospitals and preying on women. His messaging had become so dehumanizing, he wasn’t even showing actual humans anymore. Even some of his supporters found this to be overly “provocative,” as one young woman said to me in Atlanta in October.
Fear kept people hooked, though. In July, at a rundown little arena in Charlotte, I spun my chair around so that my back was to Trump and the stage. I watched the entire rally this way, studying the faces in the crowd as his rhetoric washed over them. You could see eyes bulge and expressions contort when Trump began shouting about “child rapists” and “bloodthirsty predators.” Nobody was distracted or looking at their phone when he described in gory detail young women whose bodies he said had been defiled by migrants.
And yet, for all the dark language, there was often a sunny optimism for those who wanted to hear it. In the Bronx, in May, residents of the poorest congressional district in the country found it inspiring when he talked about all the success he had achieved, and they believed him when he said he wanted some of it to rub off on them, too.
“Think to the future, not to the past, but learn from the past,” he told them. “Wherever I go, I know that if I could build a skyscraper in Manhattan, I could do anything.” Hispanic and Black people cheered when he said that “it doesn’t matter whether you’re Black or brown or white, or whatever the hell color you are, it doesn’t matter. We are all Americans, and we’re going to pull together as Americans. We all want better opportunity.”
How to square that with all the racist commentary spewed months later at Madison Square Garden? Many speculated that rally would torch his inroads with Black and Hispanic voters. In reality, he put up bigger numbers across the city than ever before. The rightward shift was especially notable in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and KATIE ROGERS
Vice President Kamala Harris, conceding defeat to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, sought to allay her supporters’ deep fears about the future of American democracy, vowing that the fight for pluralism and equality would continue. “It’s going to be OK,” she assured them.
“For everyone who is watching, do not despair,” she told a cheering crowd at her alma mater, Howard University, a historically Black institution in Washington. “This is not a time to throw up our hands. This is a time to roll up our sleeves.”
Trying to sound upbeat in a 12-minute address that ended a failed, 107-day presidential campaign, Harris seemed to tap into the anxieties of much of the nation — albeit not a majority — that the United States was entering dark times, with a president at the helm who has expressed authoritarian ambitions to punish his enemies, exert his authority ruthlessly and be a “dictator,” if only on Day 1.
She called accepting defeat “a fundamental principle of American democracy,” her meaning clear even as she made no mention that her opponent had done no such thing four years earlier. And to her most worried supporters, she offered a proverb: “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
Trump is the first former president in more than 120 years to win a second term after a reelection defeat. His big gains across the country helped deliver Senate control to his party. Control of the House has not yet been declared, but Republicans may well hold on to their slender majority — now with the undis-
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and Gwen Walz are seen before Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is delivered a concession speech at Howard University, in Washington, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
puted leader of the party in the White House exerting control over the unruly House crew.
The Republican majority in the Senate was secured with the defeats of Democratic incumbents Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Jon Tester of Montana, as well as the capture of the West Virginia seat of the retiring Sen. Joe Manchin.
But the Republican majority will not be the historically large margin that it appeared it could be. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., eked out a victory over her Trump-backed opponent, Eric Hovde. And Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., won her race to replace retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow, keeping the seat in Democratic hands. Swing-state Senate contests in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona remained uncalled Wednesday.
Even so, the former president’s victory
left no doubt Republican power was surging. Voters chose Trump as the stronger leader for uncertain times and as one they saw as a proven economic champion. He rode a wave of anxiety over inflation and illegal immigration by promising to bring his strongman-style of politics to the White House. They looked past his 34 felony convictions, his role inspiring an assault on the Capitol, and his indictments on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election and to hold on to classified documents.
Trump’s victory in one of the most tumultuous campaigns in recent memory — including two failed assassination attempts — makes him, at 78, the oldest man to be elected president.
World leaders congratulated the president-elect, in some cases setting aside long-standing concerns over his proposed taxes on imported goods and his foreign policy
views — particularly whether he would roll back U.S. support for Ukraine as it attempted to fight off the Russian invasion.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, whose relationship with President Joe Biden has become strained over the war in the Gaza Strip, said Trump’s win offered a “powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.” And Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said he looked forward to working with Trump.
For Harris, who sought to make history not only as the first woman but as the first Black and Asian American woman to be elected president, the hard-fought contest was a 3 1/2-month sprint that began after Biden abandoned his reelection campaign under pressure.
In the end, the headwinds of post-pandemic inflation, soaring housing prices and economic uncertainty were too much for her to overcome, even though the Biden administration’s sprawling economic agenda helped to stimulate the nation’s recovery from recession and make America’s economic growth the envy of the world.
Trump centered his campaign on sealing the U.S.-Mexican border and deporting immigrants without legal status by the millions. He promised to impose sweeping tariffs to strengthen domestic industries. And in the final weeks of the campaign, he made a flurry of expensive financial promises to different sectors of the electorate, promising to abolish taxes on tips, overtime pay and Social Security benefits. His closing message focused on blaming Harris for all the perceived failures of the unpopular Biden administration, under the slogan “Kamala Broke It. Trump Will Fix It.”
The crypto industry spent more than $130 million on the election. It paid off.
By DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY
Locked in a tight race for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, Republican candidate Bernie Moreno got a major boost in the weeks before the election: $40 million from the cryptocurrency industry.
The money, which funded ads that aired across Ohio, was the most ambitious effort in an audacious multistate campaign by crypto firms to influence dozens of crucial congressional races. On Tuesday, that push was rewarded as Moreno, a longtime crypto enthusiast, defeated Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat who chairs the influential Senate Banking Committee and has called for strict oversight of crypto companies.
“The crypto army is striking,” Tyler Winklevoss, a crypto executive, cheered on social media. A spokesperson for the leading crypto super political action committee blasted out the Ohio results in an email with the subject line: “Crypto’s big bet pays off.”
The crypto industry treated this year’s election as a pivotal moment, spending tens of millions of dollars to support candidates who favored softer regulations for the sector. A super PAC called Fairshake and two related organizations, Protect Progress and Defend American Jobs, spent a total of about $135 million, financed by donations from the crypto companies Coinbase and Ripple and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed more than 100 crypto startups.
The effort amounted to one of the most aggressive corporate spending sprees in modern political history, experts said. And it appears to have paid off handsomely.
A tracker run by Stand With Crypto, an industry group that vets politicians, said that 253 pro-crypto candidates had been elected to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, compared with 115 anti-crypto candidates. In the Senate, 16 pro-crypto candidates and 12 anti-crypto candidates were elected, the tracker said.
Fairshake and its related organizations poured money into more than 50 congressional races that were decided Tuesday. In addition to Moreno, pro-crypto congressional candidates backed by the PACs won elections in Arizona, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri and other states. As results trickled in Tuesday night, the price of Bitcoin surged to a
record of more than $75,000.
“The most important message from last night is that crypto wins,” said Paul Grewal, chief legal officer for Coinbase. “We now have the most pro-crypto Congress in history.”
None of the crypto PACs contributed to a presidential candidate. But their spending turned a niche set of issues into a major talking point in the campaign, elevating an industry with a long track record of fraud, scams and consumer harm.
The Biden administration spent years pursuing crypto companies for violations of securities law. Presidentelect Donald Trump has vowed to end that crackdown and make the United States “the crypto capital of the planet.” Once an outspoken crypto skeptic, he appeared at a Bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, this summer and even started his own crypto business.
The arrival of new pro-crypto voices in Congress could offer the industry a path to pass legislation that would defang the Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency that has most aggressively pursued crypto companies in court. Even lawmakers who were not on the ballot this year might be less willing to oppose the industry’s interests after it showed its fundraising muscle.
The spending has alarmed groups that fight the influence of money in politics. In a report this summer, the nonprofit consumer group Public Citizen said that the crypto industry’s outlay was “corrupting our political process.”
“Crypto has become this huge issue in the 2024 elections, solely because crypto corporations have spent a ton of money,” said Rick Claypool, a research director for Public Citizen. “Other sectors are going to try to duplicate this strategy.”
The crypto industry’s last attempt to influence an election ended in disaster. Before the 2022 midterms, Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the crypto exchange FTX, served as the industry’s chief representative in Washington, meeting with lawmakers and donating millions to candidates on both sides of the aisle. Then FTX imploded, and Bankman-Fried was indicted on charges that included campaign finance fraud. He is serving a 25-year prison sentence.
After FTX failed, the U.S. government embarked on a wide-ranging crackdown, suing some of the largest crypto companies, including Coinbase, for violations of federal securities laws. Lawmakers who had once been enthusiastic about meeting with pro-crypto groups suddenly backed off.
But the industry kept pushing its agenda in Washington, trying to advance legislation that would strip power from the SEC and create a more favorable regulatory framework for crypto companies.
A central pillar of that strategy: Fairshake.
Early this year, the super PAC spent $10 million on attack ads against Katie Porter, a Democratic candidate for the Senate in California who was allied with Sen. Eliza-
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.), a candidate in the Democratic primary election for a California Senate seat, waves to supporters in Long Beach, Calif., on March 5, 2024. Early this year, a crypto-related super PAC spent $10 million on attack ads against Porter. (Ariana Drehsler/The New York Times)
beth Warren, D-Mass., an outspoken crypto skeptic. Porter lost the primary in March. The winner of that race was Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who has “demonstrated support for crypto and digital assets,” according to Stand With Crypto.
As Election Day approached, Fairshake unleashed a spending blitz in Senate and House races nationwide, supporting Democrats and Republicans. Throughout the campaign, crypto executives fielded complaints from leaders in both parties who were irritated that the super PAC was backing candidates on the other side, two people with knowledge of the conversations said.
The industry’s most ambitious aim was to unseat Brown. In many ways, Moreno was the perfect pro-crypto candidate: He had founded a crypto company, Ownum, and received an A rating from Stand With Crypto.
By contrast, Brown was a vocal crypto opponent who said that digital currencies helped fund terrorists, and argued that the industry was plagued by “scams and spectacular blowups.”
Defend American Jobs, a crypto PAC, spent $40,134,927 to support Moreno in a race that drew hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions from outside groups, according to OpenSecrets, a group that tracks political spending. When Moreno won Tuesday, crypto executives celebrated and claimed credit.
“Sherrod Brown was a top opponent of cryptocurrency and thanks to our efforts, he will be leaving the Senate,” Vlasto, the Fairshake spokesperson, said in a statement. “Senator-elect Moreno’s come-from-behind win shows that Ohio voters want a leader who prioritizes innovation.”
The banking industry is expected to win big as former President Donald Trump returns to the White House, ushering in Republican regulators who are expected to ease capital rules and merger approvals, industry experts and analysts said.
The President-elect’s picks are likely to further dilute the contentious Basel III endgame proposal aimed at requiring big lenders to hold more capital to safeguard against soured loans.
While banks have already won major concessions on that proposal which they say will crimp lending and hurt the economy, the latest draft would still increase capital requirements by around 9% for the largest lenders, according to a top Fed official.
“The Basel endgame rule could be completely dead,” said Gene Ludwig, a former top bank regulator who advises financial institutions as CEO of Ludwig Advisors.
The regulatory shift could bring some relief to investors after a year in which some bank stocks were weighed down by concerns over deteriorating loans.
First unveiled months after the collapse of three regional lenders last year, the Basel proposal faced intense pushback and an unprecedented lobbying campaign from big banks, which argued the rules would erode their competitive edge.
The Federal Reserve agreed to water down the proposal in September, when Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said the regulator would overhaul and re-issue the rules later.
Other planned rules requiring banks to hold more debt, as well as changes to liquidity regulations, may also be in doubt.
“The outlook for the banking sector is more encouraging under Trump,” said Dan Coatsworth, investment analyst at AJ Bell. “Banks would have fewer constraints and be able to use more cash for lending or share buybacks.”
The U.S. central bank declined comment.
The KBW Banks Index, which tracks large-cap banks, fell 2% after closing almost 11% higher on Wednesday, while an index tracking regional lenders dipped 1.8% a day after a 13.5% surge.
As Trump installs new regulators at key agencies, his picks could have an immediate and seismic effect on a banking industry more used to a slower pace of change, according to a financial technology executive who declined to be identified discussing the personnel changes.
“This is like an earthquake for bank M&A and bank regulatory policy,” said Ed Mills, an analyst at Raymond James, who expected bank deals to be announced within weeks.
The aggressive financial regulators of the Biden era, including Gary Gensler at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Lina Khan of the Federal Trade Commission and Rohit Chopra at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, are also likely to be replaced by more business-friendly agency heads.
But Meg Tahyar, head of the financial institutions group at law firm Davis Polk, tempered expectations for a radical change.
“There will be changes of personnel at the top level and there will be more M&A, but the intensity of supervision and the focus on junk fees is unlikely to change much,” she said.
On Wednesday, midsize bank stocks were buoyed by expectations that their capital requirements would be eased, said Lazard chief market strategist Ronald Temple.
The potential for less-stringent antitrust policy also bolstered shares of Discover Financial and Capital One Financial, he said. Both are awaiting the green light for their $35.3 billion deal.
“The M&A landscape for banks may benefit with shorter approval timeframes,” Morningstar DBRS wrote in a note.
Many top industry executives have called for some consolidation among banks in the U.S., which is home to more than 4,600 lenders. Dealmaking would allow smaller banks to compete more effectively against their
larger peers.
“We can at least put M&A back into the discussion; whereas it has been largely nonexistent over the past few years on a punitive regulatory backdrop,” Scott Siefers, a banking analyst at Piper Sandler, wrote in a report.
Fifth Third Bancorp, Huntington Bancshares and PNC Financial may be more interested in pursuing M&As, Siefers said.
By LIAM STACK and MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG
The Israeli military said Thursday that it had struck dozens of sites overnight in the north and south of Lebanon, part of its widening offensive against Hezbollah, a bombardment that Lebanese officials said had killed dozens of people.
Israel’s campaign initially focused on southern Lebanon, where it said it sought to cripple Hezbollah’s ability to fire rockets across the border into Israel. But the military operations have expanded in recent weeks to include cities and towns across the country, including some far from that border.
The Israeli military said Hezbollah had launched more than 40 “projectiles” across the border Thursday. It said one Israeli soldier was killed in a battle in northern Lebanon, where Israel has ramped up military operations over the last week.
Israeli strikes in and around the ancient city of Baalbek, in northeastern Lebanon, and in other parts of the country, killed 52 people Wednesday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. It was not clear how many were affiliated with Hezbollah.
Israel’s military said it had struck 20 sites in the area of Baalbek. It did not mention Sidon, a city on the southern coast where Lebanon’s Health Ministry said a strike Thursday had killed at least three people. The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, also said that five of its peacekeepers were “lightly injured” by a drone strike near Sidon on Thursday.
Baalbek, famed for its Roman ruins, was home to around 80,000 people before Israel stepped up its aerial assault in
late September and launched a ground invasion aimed at crippling Hezbollah.
The governor of Baalbek, Bachir Khodr, said Wednesday that the Israeli attacks had come closer to the town’s ancient ruins than previous strikes, with a missile falling in the parking lot and causing damage to the historic neighborhood. He noted that the ruins had not yet been inspected for damage. On Thursday, Khodr posted an image showing the damaged lot adjacent to the ruins.
The ruins were designated a protected World Heritage Site in 1984 by the United Nations. Last week, the U.N. agency that designates cultural landmarks said it was “monitoring the impact of the ongoing conflict on Lebanese cultural sites” and working with Lebanon’s antiquities authority on preservation efforts.
city, near the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley, was largely spared during the early weeks of the campaign, Israeli military warnings in late October prompted much of its population to flee. Since then, Israel’s military has repeatedly struck Baalbek.
The Israeli military also said it had struck Hezbollah “command centers and terrorist infrastructure sites” near Beirut overnight. Residents reported hearing at least four large airstrikes near the Lebanese capital, with smoke rising over the Dahiya, an area south of Beirut where Hezbollah holds sway.
renewed offensive against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip. It said Thursday that it was expanding ground operations there to include Beit Lahia, an agricultural area on the Israeli border that has been targeted by repeated airstrikes.
Ground operations were also continuing in Jabalia, a large town that has been the focus of the northern offensive.
The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis that threatens hundreds of thousands of people trapped by the fighting in the north. The Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency rescue organization, said Thursday that it had been unable to operate in the north for the last 16 days due to the fighting.
The Gaza Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli military operations had killed at least 78 people in Gaza over the last two days.
Here’s what else is happening in the Middle East:
— Polio vaccinations: The United Nations said it completed the second round of its polio vaccination campaign in Gaza on Wednesday. The second dose of the vaccine was given to more than 556,774 children younger than 10, about 94% of the campaign’s goal, according to the United Nations. It called the vaccination rate “a remarkable achievement given the extremely difficult circumstances” created by the war.
— Medical evacuations: The World Health Organization said Thursday that it had carried out the largest medical evacuation from Gaza since the war began, with 229 patients and their escorts traveling from the enclave to Romania and the United Arab Emirates for treatment. The patients, who left Gaza on Wednesday, included 38 children and 52 adults, including 37 people with cancer.
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One hit so close to Beirut’s international airport that stones fell on a runway, according to local news reports. Lebanon’s transport minister, Ali Hamieh, said Thursday that the airport was operating normally.
More than 3,100 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 2023, most in the weeks since Israel ramped up its campaign against Hezbollah. More than 1.2 million people — a fifth of the country’s population — have fled their homes, according to the Lebanese government.
As the fighting in Lebanon has intensified, Israel’s military has been pressing a
— Israeli deportations: Israel’s parliament passed a law Wednesday allowing the deportation of parents, children, and spouses of convicted terrorists if they are believed to have known about an attack in advance without informing the authorities. The law authorizes the interior minister to deport those relatives to Gaza or another “specified destination.” Widely seen as targeting Israel’s Palestinian minority, the law was condemned as discriminatory by Rawhi Fattouh, a Palestinian leader in the West Bank.
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister Wednesday, effectively ending his three-party ruling coalition and destabilizing his center-left government just as the election of Donald Trump in the United States presented Europe with new economic and security challenges.
“I would have liked to have spared you this difficult decision,” Scholz said during an impromptu news conference in the chancellery Wednesday evening, after several days of talks aimed at salvaging the coalition. “Especially in times like these, when uncertainty is growing,” he added.
Scholz vowed to keep governing until the end of the year and then demand a confidence vote in parliament in January, a test he may fail. That would open the way to early elections, a rarity in Germany since World War II, possibly in March.
The extraordinary trouble in Berlin leaves the European Union ever more rudderless at a particularly difficult time. France’s govern-
ment is in a crisis after elections there this year yielded a deadlocked parliament, and Russia has made important advances on the battlefield in Ukraine and continues to threaten Europe broadly.
Now Europe faces the possibility of a trade war with the United States and a weakening of the NATO alliance — both of which Trump has threatened — as Germany, its most populous country, becomes mired in political instability as well.
The collapse of the coalition in Germany came after the leaders of the three parties — Scholz’s Social Democrats, the left-leaning Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats — had mostly stopped talking to one another in recent weeks over widening disputes in negotiations for a new federal budget.
On Wednesday night, the resentment between Scholz and Christian Lindner, the leader of the Free Democrats and his finance minister, who spoke with reporters 30 minutes after the chancellor, was on clear display.
“Olaf Scholz has sadly shown that he does not have the strength to give our country
Olaf
of Germany during a gathering with international leaders at the Chancellery in Berlin, Oct. 18, 2024. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
a new start,” said Lindner, who called Scholz’s suggestions to promote economic growth “dull and unambitious.”
Scholz told reporters Lindner had acted irresponsibly for not being willing to compromise.
The coalition, which has governed Germany since the former chancellor, Angela Merkel, left office in 2021, was an uneasy set of political bedfellows from the start. It was the first three-party coalition since the early 1960s, one of the reasons, many in the government say, for its instability, frequent leaks and paralysis.
The coalition’s collapse is stunning for a country long known for plodding and predictable consensus that avoided the political gyrations of some of its more volatile European partners. It may signal a new era of political instability for Germany, as populist parties on the far right and far left gain more popularity on a fracturing political landscape.
Speculation about a collapse of the coalition had grown since last week after Lindner wrote a position paper, leaked to the news media, that challenged the progressive fiscal policies of his two left-of-center coalition partners.
Many of his proposals, like the end to national climate policies or cuts to social services, appeared designed to antagonize them. Experts saw the paper as Lindner’s attempt to get himself pushed out of the coalition without having to leave it himself. The opposition, which has been calling for an end to the coalition, called it the “divorce document.”
Scholz and Robert Habeck, Germany’s economy minister and member of the Greens party, had initially tried to hold the coalition together. Calling for “pragmatism” in a post on social media Monday, Scholz continued: “Coalition governments can sometimes be challenging. But the government is elected, and
there are issues that need to be resolved.”
At the heart of the dispute was a roughly 10 billion-euro, or $10.7 billion, hole in the 2025 budget.
On Monday, Habeck sought to keep Lindner in the government by offering him several billion euros earmarked as a subsidy for a planned Intel factory to help balance the budget. “This is the worst time for the government to fail,” he told reporters then.
On Wednesday, Habeck called the firing “as logical as it is unnecessary,” saying that many offers were on the table to meet Lindner’s economic demands.
Also Wednesday, Scholz announced that his Social Democrats would govern with the Green Party as a minority government until at least the end of the year. They will need to secure parliamentary majorities on a case-bycase to pass any laws.
On some issues — notably aid to Ukraine, rebuilding the military and cracking down on immigration — they might be able to count on the support of the opposition Christian Democrats, who have similar views on them.
“Germany is Europe’s biggest economy and the biggest contributor to the EU budget; they need to have certainty,” said Sudha DavidWilp, the Berlin-based regional director of the German Marshall Fund, a think tank. “And a minority government means instability for the country and its partners in Europe,” she added.
Ultimately such an arrangement can only work with the tacit support of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, the biggest opposition party that is leading opinion polls to win the next election.
“We cannot afford this unstable government a single day longer,” Carsten Linnemann, the party’s secretary-general, told the German tabloid Bild earlier this week.
The Scholz coalition had billed itself as a restart from the sleepy Merkel years. The partners successfully managed pressing problems early in its term after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and Germany stopped importing Russian gas.
But a ruling by the country’s highest court in 2023 forced the government to make drastic cuts in the budget, leading to strife among the partners over the limit on borrowing that is anchored into the constitution.
The final break comes against the backdrop of a stagnant German economy, which is expected to contract by 0.2% in 2024, the second year in a row that Germany has stagnated. The country is the weakest member of the Group of 7 and among nations using the euro currency.
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
American voters have made the choice to return Donald Trump to the White House, setting the nation on a precarious course that no one can fully foresee.
The founders of this country recognized the possibility that voters might someday elect an authoritarian leader and wrote safeguards into the Constitution, including powers granted to two other branches of government designed to be a check on a president who would bend and break laws to serve his own ends. And they enacted a set of rights — most crucially the First Amendment — for citizens to assemble, speak and protest against the words and actions of their leader.
Over the next four years, Americans must be cleareyed about the threat to the nation and its laws that will come from its 47th president and be prepared to exercise their rights in defense of the country and the people, laws, institutions and values that have kept it strong.
It can’t be ignored that millions of Americans voted for a candidate even some of his closest supporters acknowledge to be deeply flawed — convinced that he was more likely to change and fix what they regarded as the nation’s urgent problems: high prices, an infusion of immigrants, a porous southern border and economic policies that have flowed unequally through society. Some cast their votes out of a profound dissatisfaction with the status quo, politics or the state of American institutions more broadly.
Whatever drove this decision among these voters, however, all Americans should now be wary of an incoming Trump administration that is likely to put a top priority on amassing unchecked power and punishing its perceived enemies, both of which Trump has repeatedly vowed to do. All Americans, regardless of their party or politics, should insist that the fundamental pillars of the nation’s democracy — including constitutional checks and balances, fair-minded federal prosecutors and judges, an impartial election system and basic civil rights — be preserved against an assault that he has already begun and has said he would continue.
At this point, there can be no illusions about who Donald Trump is and how he intends to govern. He showed us in his first term and in the years after he left office that he has no respect for the law, let alone the values, norms and traditions of democracy. As he takes charge of the world’s most powerful state, he is transparently motivated only by the pursuit of power and the preservation of the cult of personality he has built around himself. These stark assessments are striking in part because they are held not just by his critics but also by those who served most closely with him.
We are a nation that has always emerged from a crucible with its ideals intact and often toughened and sharpened. The institutions of our government, hardened by nearly 250 years of disputation, turmoil, assassinations and wars, held firm when Trump assailed them four years ago. And Americans
know how to counter Trump’s worst instincts — actions that were unjust, immoral or illegal — because they did so, over and over, during his first administration. Civil servants, members of Congress, members of his own party and people he appointed to high office often stood in the way of the former president’s plans, and other institutions of our society, including the free press and independent law enforcement agencies, held him accountable to the public.
Trump and his movement have all but taken over the Republican Party. Yet it is also important to remember that Trump can’t run for another term. From the day he enters the White House, he will be, in effect, a lame-duck president. The Constitution limits him to two terms. Congress has the power — and for some ambitious Republicans, perhaps the political incentive — to set a course away from Trump’s antidemocratic agenda, if it chooses to pursue it.
Governors and legislatures across the nation have spent months shoring up their state laws and Constitutions to protect civil rights and liberties, including access to reproductive and gender-affirming health care. Even states that voted overwhelmingly for Trump, including Kentucky, Ohio and Kansas, have rejected the most extreme positions on abortion. Other institutions of American civil society will play a crucial role in challenging the Trump administration in the courts, in our communities and in the protests that are sure to return.
The rest of the world, too, has no illusions about the leader who will soon again represent the United States on the world stage. The countries of the NATO alliance were shocked, during the first Trump administration, by his willingness to undermine that long and valuable partnership. But European nations, defying Trump’s predictions, not only came together with the United States in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but also expanded their ranks right up to Russia’s border.
Perhaps the most important responsibility lies with all of those who will serve in a second Trump administration. Those he appoints as attorney general, as secretary of defense and to other top leadership roles should expect that he may ask them to carry out illegal acts or violate their oaths to the Constitution on his behalf, as he did in his first term. We urge them to recognize that whatever pledge of loyalty he may demand, their first loyalty is to their country. Standing up to Trump is possible, and it is the duty of every American public servant when appropriate.
But the final responsibility for ensuring the continuity of America’s enduring values lies with its voters. Those who supported Trump in this election should closely observe his conduct in office to see if it matches their hopes and expectations, and if it does not, they should make their disappointment known and cast votes in the 2026 midterms and in 2028 to put the country back on course. Those who opposed him should not hesitate to raise alarms when he
abuses his power, and if he attempts to use government power to retaliate against critics, the world will be watching. Benjamin Franklin famously admonished the American people that the nation was “a republic, if you can keep it.” Trump’s election poses a grave threat to that republic, but he will not determine the long-term fate of American democracy. That outcome remains in the hands of the American people. It is the work of the next four years.
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POR CYBERNEWS
afirma que habría tenido mejor desempeño que Javier Jiménez al frente de Proyecto Dignidad
SAN JUAN – La exaspirante a la gobernación por Proyecto Dignidad (PD), Ada Norah Henríquez, expresó la mañana del jueves que, de haber sido la candidata oficial del partido, habría obtenido un mejor resultado que Javier Jiménez, quien ocupó el cuarto lugar en las elecciones del martes.
“Ahí están los resultados, yo creo que no tengo que realmente abonar”, manifestó Henríquez en una entrevista radial con Radio Isla 1320.
Al ser cuestionada sobre si ella hubiese logrado un mejor desempeño, respondió: “Bueno, tuve un mejor desempeño al principio y, de acuerdo al momento en que expresé mi interés por poder correr en esa posición, yo creo que con el trabajo hecho hubiésemos tenido un mejor desempeño”.
Henríquez descartó la posibilidad de reingresar al partido para intentar reformarlo tras los resultados electorales. “No, para nada. Esa decisión fue producto de una reflexión profunda, no fue producto de un ánimo, un impulso, una emoción, y entendemos que fue lo correcto y todavía hoy día nos reiteramos”, afirmó.
Al ser preguntada si el partido se equivocó en su proceso interno, Henríquez señaló: “La realidad es que eso es un
asunto procesal, que sabe que de su base fue mal ejecutado”. Sobre el bajo porcentaje obtenido por Javier Jiménez, comentó: “Realmente, como no terminaban, dije, bueno, pues esto parece que va a ser igual que lo que tuvimos en el 2020 y se supone que hubiera un crecimiento, sobre todo cuando la promoción o lo que se decía en los medios era que el partido había crecido, que su base era más grande, que estaban sólidos, que iban a ganar. Pues eso contrastaba con toda esa promoción y esa propaganda”. La exaspirante reveló que, tras no poder obtener los endosos necesarios para su candidatura, se dedicó a educar sobre el proceso electoral y a movilizar a los ciudadanos. “Ya para el mes de mayo, estamos hablando de cuatro meses después, me entero por un comunicado de prensa que se había conceptuado un comité de pueblo. Ellos empezaron a promover mi candidatura y, según pasaron los meses, los vi creciendo”, relató.
Henríquez mencionó que el mes pasado fue contactada por la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones para preguntarle si autorizaba asumir la posición en caso de salir favorecida. “Dije, Dios mío, esto de verdad está… ellos lo están haciendo en serio, así que si lo promovieron y sé que llegaron a votar por mí, no sé cuántas personas hayan sido, pero me pareció interesante que se pudiera conceptuar un
movimiento directamente de ciudadanos y que ellos se dieran a la tarea de elegir a alguien que no estaba dentro de la papeleta porque entendían que podía hacer el trabajo”, expresó.
Al preguntarle si autorizó las candidaturas por nominación directa (write-in), Henríquez confirmó: “Bueno, en ese momento dije sí, porque la realidad es que yo siempre estuve dispuesta a trabajar”.
POR CYBERNEWS
– La alcaldesa de Ponce, Marlese Sifre Rodríguez, firmó el jueves un acuerdo con la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AAA) que asigna 800 mil dólares de fondos ARPA para la construcción de un sistema de agua potable para más de 30 familias en el sector La Cotorra, Barrio Canas.
“La firma de este proyecto es un paso importante para cumplir con más de 30 familias que llevan generaciones en espera de un sistema de agua potable para su comunidad”, expresó en comunicación escrita Sifre Rodríguez, quien detalló que los trabajos
incluyen la instalación de 625 metros de tubería y 40 acometidas.
El proyecto estará bajo la supervisión de la Oficina de Ordenación Territorial y la Oficina del Administrador de la Ciudad, con el propósito de garantizar el cumplimiento de las guías de ARPA y asegurar la eficiencia en el uso de fondos. “No vamos a claudicar en el objetivo de brindar una mejor calidad de vida a sectores dejados en el olvido”, añadió la alcaldesa.
Además, la administración de Ponce anunció recientemente 27 millones de dólares aprobados para mejorar el sistema pluvial en las comunidades de Puerto Viejo y El Salistral, en La Playa.
– El equipo Piratas de Quebradillas celebra su primer juego local este jueves en la Liga Puertorriqueña de Baloncesto, a las 6 de la tarde en el Coliseo Raymond Dalmau, anunció el alcalde Heriberto Vélez Vélez.
“Iniciamos nuestra temporada con el primer jue-
go como local. Estamos convencidos de que los Piratas de Quebradillas tendrán una excelente temporada y esperamos disfrutar junto a ellos en las finales”, expresó Vélez, quien señaló que la administración municipal es el auspiciador de la franquicia.
La temporada se dedica a René Román, líder comunitario reconocido por sus contribuciones a la población con Síndrome Down y su rol como
maestro de educación física. Román dirige un campamento mensual para personas con esta condición en Quebradillas.
Vélez invitó a la comunidad y a la fanaticada a apoyar a los Piratas en el juego de hoy contra los Santeros de Aguada. El próximo martes, 12 de noviembre, se enfrentarán a los Peregrinos de Hormigueros.
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By RICHARD BIENSTOCK
On Oct. 4, 2015, Van Halen performed at the Hollywood Bowl in what proved to be its last show, capping a decadeslong run as one of rock’s most successful and influential acts. The amphitheater is about 30 minutes from the 800-square-foot house in Pasadena, California, where the Van Halen brothers — drummer Alex and guitarist Eddie — grew up. But the journey between those spots took the group all over the world, through the highest highs and lowest lows of rock ’n’ roll glory, excess and tragedy.
Alex, 71, has learned to be grateful for every moment of it. During a video call one morning in September from his home in the Los Angeles area, he cited an old saying: “‘In the effort lies the reward.’” He was dressed casually in a blue button-down check shirt underneath a leather jacket, sunglasses on and dark hair brushed back. On an otherwise bare wall behind him hung a gold record for Van Halen’s 1978 self-titled debut album.
“That’s exactly how Ed and I felt,” he said.
“The ride was the reward. And it’s been a hell of a ride.”
That trek — the first 30 or so years of it, at least — is chronicled in “Brothers,” a book that was published last month, which Alex was moved to write after losing Eddie, his younger sibling by roughly 20 months, to cancer in October 2020. He characterized the project, told with New Yorker writer Ariel Levy, as “a painful experience.” But, he said, “you’ve got to go through the pain to get to the other part.”
Alex was a commanding presence onstage, especially in Van Halen’s early years (recall him bare chested, furiously bashing away behind a massive drum kit in the 1981 video for “Unchained”), but he was always more reserved with the press. He ceded the role of mouthpiece to the band’s exhibitionist singer, David Lee Roth, and his brother, who was routinely hailed as one of the greatest guitarists of his generation.
Despite Eddie’s yearslong battle with various cancers, his death at 65 was not necessarily expected. “We were getting ready to make another record,” Alex said of the period after the Hollywood Bowl show. The news elicited an outpouring of emotion from fans, family, friends, bandmates and some of the biggest names in the music world. But Alex issued only a brief public statement.
“Brothers” breaks his silence. Why did he write it? “To add a little more depth to the understanding of what Ed was all about,” he said. Addressing the intensity of the attention heaped on his brother, whether for his transformative guitar playing or, later in his life, his addiction and health struggles, he added, “When you’re in the spotlight, people tend to speak for you. I wanted to remind people that Ed was not a commodity. He was a complex human being.”
Alex, more than anyone, would know; even for siblings, they were very close. “Every day, the first thing I’d do is call him,” he said. “We would talk, we would yell and scream at each other. But we were always supportive.”
Donn Landee, the engineer and producer who worked beside the brothers on Van Halen’s first eight albums, said Alex and Eddie were “a unit,” who were “either fighting or defending each other from everybody else. But absolutely locked together.”
Early on, it was for survival. The family, headed by their Dutch jazz musician father, Jan Van Halen, and Indonesian mother, Eugenia (“tiny but tough,” Alex writes), emigrated to America in 1962. Alex was 8, Ed, 6; they
Alex Van Halen in Los Angeles on Oct. 9, 2024. Van Halen’s new book, “Brothers,” recounts the story of his personal and musical life with his brother, Eddie. (Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times)
rode for many days on a boat from Holland to New York, impressing the crew and fellow passengers by performing classical pieces on a Rippen piano that was one of a few possessions the family brought across the ocean. Today, the instrument sits in the hallway of Alex’s home.
“It’s representative of the whole trip of us coming here,” he said, turning his camera to display the weathered upright. What did he learn on it? “I learned to dislike it,” he answered with a laugh.
The family made its way to Southern California, where Eugenia had relatives, and the brothers were entranced — by the blazing SoCal sun; by the stream of “Felix the Cat” cartoons on TV; eventually, Alex writes, by the “wildness and rebellion” of rock ’n’ roll. But they were also outcasts. Neither spoke English, and the family was often in turmoil; their parents argued, and Jan struggled to find steady work and music gigs, developing a worsening drinking habit along the way.
Alex was the tough one, at times coming to physical blows with his father; Eddie, in his view, was “more sensitive.” In the book, he recalls his mother hearing Eddie practice guitar in his room and referring to his soloing — something that would come to evoke joy and awe in millions of listeners — as “that high crying noise.” “If our mother didn’t like the sound of that wail, can you blame her?” he writes. “It’s hard to hear your kid suffer.”
When the brothers hooked up with Roth,
a Midwest transplant from a well-off family, they recognized a shared experience despite their very different upbringings. “He was basically the same as us,” Alex said. “He felt himself an outcast.” Together, the three (along with bassist Michael Anthony) manifested a flamboyant, virtuosic band that made music filled with high-voltage riffs, earworm melodies and lead-guitar heroics.
“All that intensity from the stuff that happened to them in their childhood came out in the music,” Lukather said.
“Brothers” effectively ends in 1984, around the time of Van Halen’s initial split with Roth. As Alex explained, this period, from when the band formed through Roth leaving, defined “the real, vibrant spirit of the band.” He addresses his own struggles that followed — with alcohol until the mid’80s; with benzodiazepines after an old neck injury flared up a decade later — but allocates more space, both on the page and emotionally, to his brother’s battles.
Eddie, he writes, had “flashes of genuine ingenuity” — the brain-scrambling tapping licks in “Eruption”; the indelible keyboard salvo that opens the chart-topping “Jump.” These moments, which made him so beloved by so many, Alex posits in the book, also haunted him. “You can spend your whole life trying to make what happened before happen again,” he writes. “I honestly believe that’s what cost my brother his life.”
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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 7 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Las Delicias, radicada en el Barrio Magueyes del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 375.70 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en arco de 2.565 metros y 11.60 metros con la Calle Número 11; por el SUR, en 17.22 metros con el solar número 1; por el ESTE, en arco de 2.565 y 20.61 metros, con la Calle Número 11; por el OESTE, en 23.63 metros con el solar número 23. Existe en este solar una casa residencial, para una familia, de bloques y concreto. Consta inscrita al folio 139 del tomo 509 de Ponce Sur, finca número 22332,
Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda de Ponce. Propiedad localizada en: Las Delicias, 3443 Calle Josefina Moll, Ponce PR 00731 t/c/c Urb. Extensión Las Delicias, BM 24 Calle 11, Ponce 000731. La propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas preferentes a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Según figura en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante que se describe a continuación: EMBARGO a favor de Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico contra Carmen A. Cintrón Morales por la suma de $6.760.45, expedido mediante certificación del 29 de mayo de 2010 por el Departamento de Hacienda, caso PON-10-0432, por concepto de Contribuciones sobre Ingresos. Anotado el 9 de junio de 2010 al folio 76, orden 302, del Libro 1 de Embargos Ley 12 de Ponce II. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $84,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 14 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $56,000.00 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $42,000.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce el 22 DE ENERO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $64,925.22 de principal; intereses al 8.49900% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; gastos por mora, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago
total de la deuda; más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados por el diez por ciento (10%) del principal del Pagaré; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca., todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2024. MIGUEL
A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #560, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE, SALA SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA PHALANX CAPITAL
SERIES 15 REAL ESTATE, LLC
Demandante Vs. KAREN MARIE GONZÁLEZ BUCHACA, ET AL.
Demandados Civil Núm.: TJ2024CV00067. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ENRIQUE VERGÉ HERNÁNDEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, 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 9 de octubre de 2024, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 5 de agosto de 2024, notificada el 22 de agosto de 2024, procederé a vender el día 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, 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: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número doscientos ocho (208). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la segunda (2da) planta del Edificio “A” del Condominio Parque de Arcoíris, ubicado en la Carretera número ochocientos cuarenta y ocho (848), kilómetro veintiuno (21) Interior, Barrio Las Cuevas, Sector Sant Just, del término de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, el cual describe en la Escritura Matriz de Dedicación al Régimen de la Propiedad Horizontal con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Apartamento número doscientos ocho (208), con un área de noventa y dos punto dos mil diez (92.2010) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en seis punto sesenta y cinco metros (6.65 m), con espacio abierto; por el SUR, en cinco punto veintiún metros (5.21 m.), con espacio abierto; por el ESTE, en dieciséis punto veintisiete metros (16.27 m), con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento identificado con el número doscientos nueve (209); y por el OESTE, en diez punto cincuenta y nueve metros (10.59 m.), con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento identificado con el número doscientos siete (207). Tiene su puerta de entrada y salida por su lado Oeste que da al área del pasillo que conduce a las escaleras, que le brindan acceso al edificio. Consta de balcón, sala-comedor, una habitación dormitorio con su closet, un pasillo que brinda acceso a las siguientes áreas: cocina, área de lavandería, un baño completo de uso general, una habitación dormitorio con closet, y una habitación-dormitorio principal (master room) en la cual ubican un área de walk-in-closet y un baño completo. Le corresponden dos (2) estacionamientos identificados con el número doscientos ocho (208) y doscientos ocho A (208-A). Porcentaje: punto cero cero cuatro siete cinco cinco por ciento (.004755%) en los elementos comunes generales. Consta inscrita al Folio Uno (1) del Tomo Seiscientos Cincuenta y Uno (651) de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta (IV) de San Juan, Finca Número Treinta Mil Doscientos Diecisiete (30,217). Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $94,247.00 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 Carolina. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 2 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $114,300.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 9 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, 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 $76,200.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 16 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, 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 $57,150.00. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Oriental Bank and Trust, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $114,300.00, con intereses al 6.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2038, constituida mediante la escritura número 19, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de enero de 2008, ante el notario Javier A. Rivera Meléndez, e inscrita al folio 189 del tomo 786 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 30,217, inscripción 3ra. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Aviso de Demanda, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Carolina, en el Caso Civil TJ2024CV00067, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la suma de $95,842.81, anotado el día 17 de abril de 2024, finca número 30,217, Anotación “A”. 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) deudor (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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 25 de octubre de 2024. ENRIQUE VERGÉ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #960. **
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESION DE PEDRO J. ORTEGA MATOS COMPUESTA POR ANELISIE ORTEGA FUENTES Y JENNIFER ANN ORTEGA FUENTES, ELSIE FUENTES CORTÉS, PUERTO RICO FINANCIAL CORPORATION
Demandadas Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV07766. 506. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
PUERTO RICO FINANCIAL CORPORATION, JENNIFER ANN ORTEGA FUENTES Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Puerto Rico Finandal Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $39,800.00 con intereses a razón del 13.50% anual y con vencimiento el 1 de julio de 2011, según surge de la Escritura número 149, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 10 de junio de 1981, ante el Notario Angel Juan M. Rivera González, inscrita a la finca 26,687 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Quinta Sección de San Juan.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar 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. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DIAZ LLP
Suite 209
500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670
Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 23 de octubre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NELLY MARTE MARCANO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante vs. LA SUCESION DE LA FINADA ALBA RAQUEL GARCIA MERCADO TAMBIEN CONOCIDA COMO ALBA GARCIA MERCADO, COMPUESTA POR YOMAR ALEXIS VAZQUEZ GARCIA (MENOR); YERIEL ORTIZ COTTO EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; OMAR ALEXIS VAZQUEZ FERRER POR SI Y COMO PADRE CON PATRIA POTESTAD DE YOMAR ALEXIS
VAZQUEZ GARCIA (MENOR); ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. GB2022CV00258 (201). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO (Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: Público en General A: LA SUCESION DE LA FINADA ALBA RAQUEL GARCIA MERCADO TAMBIEN CONOCIDA COMO ALBA GARCIA MERCADO, COMPUESTA POR YOMAR ALEXIS VAZQUEZ GARCIA (MENOR); YERIEL ORTIZ COTTO EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; OMAR ALEXIS VAZQUEZ FERRER POR SI Y COMO PADRE CON PATRIA POTESTAD DE YOMAR ALEXIS VAZQUEZ GARCIA (MENOR); ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Yo, ALGUACIL HUGO BASCO MEDINA, PLACA 807, Alguacil de este, Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 3 de diciembre de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, Guaynabo, Puerto
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 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de septiembre de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 11 de septiembre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. TAMARA SOSA ROMÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. NATALIE RODRIGUEZ OTERO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV00511. Salón: 105. 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: NATALIE RODRIGUEZ OTERO - SAN FCO VILLAGE 676 CARR 312 KM 0.8, CABO ROJO PR 00623; COLINAS DEL OESTE F38 CALLE 8, HORMIGUEROS 00660. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan,
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en MAYAGÜEZ, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN J. RODRÍGUEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. NOEL M. CAMACHO RAMOS
Demandado Civil Núm.: AR2024CV00751. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: NOEL M.
CAMACHO RAMOS. POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, P.O. Box 6005, Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00613-6005 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 10 de septiembre de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JOHANNA GONZÁLEZ VILELLA, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P.
Parte Demandante Vs. ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: CA2024CV03589. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, 451ST 7TH STREET S.W., WASHINGTON, DC 20410. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.
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, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787-8434168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré que consta del testimonio número siete mil trescientos cincuenta y tres (7,353) de la escritura trescientos sesenta y siete (367), otorgada en Río Grande, Puerto Rico, el día doce (12) de agosto de dos mil seis (2006), se constituyó hipoteca en garantía de pagaré suscrito ante el notario público Félix R. Figueroa Cabán, a favor de Associates International Holdings Corporation, haciendo negocios como, Citifinancial o a su orden, por la suma principal de cincuenta y cinco mil dólares ($55,000.00), con intereses al once punto cinco dos tres por ciento (11.523%), vencedero el
diecisiete (17) de agosto de dos mil veintiséis (2026) y cuya obligación hipotecaria se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe, finca número once mil quinientos treinta y nueve (11,539) de Río Grande, inscripción octava (8va). Inscrita en virtud de la Ley doscientos dieciséis (216) de asiento abreviado. El pagaré hipotecario que se pretende cancelar grava la propiedad que se describe continuación: RÚSTICA: COMUNIDAD BELLA VISTA, de Río grande. Lote: catorce (14), cabida trescientos cincuenta y tres punto treinta y uno (353.31) metros cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, con la parcela número trece (13) de la comunidad, SUR, con la parcela número quince (15) de la comunidad. ESTE, con la parcela número once (11) de la comunidad. OESTE, con la calle número dos (2) B de la comunidad. Estructura de cemento y bloques de tres (3) cuartos dormitorios, baño, sala, cocina y marquesina. Inscrita al folio ciento ochenta y dos (182) del tomo doscientos cuarenta y cuatro (244) de Rio Brande, finca número once mil quinientos treinta y nueve 11,539). Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sección Tercera (3ra). 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 24 de octubre de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. ANTONIO ENRIQUE
FIGUEROA RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CA2024CV02910. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y 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: ANTONIO ENRIQUE
FIGUEROA RODRÍGUEZ - ENCANTADA, 87 PG PACIFICA, TRUJILLO ALTO, PUERTO RICO, 00976.
Por Ia presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar Ia demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta
(30) días a partir de Ia publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado do Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-eIectronico, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de Ia misma al (a Ia) abogado(a) de Ia parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe quo, en los casos al amparo de Ia Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para Ia Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de Ia Unidad Familiar y para Ia Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen Ia ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, eI inicio de procesos para Ia privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de Ia) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de Ia Ley Núm. 57-2023).
Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Los abogados de Ia parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP 500 Calle De La Tanca, Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA
y Sello del Tribunal, hoy, 25 de octubre de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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MANAGEMENT, LLC.
Demandante V. AIDA OQUENDO
BARBOSA TC/C AIDA
OQUENDO BARBOSA
T/C/C AIDA LUZ
OQUENDO BARBOSA
T/C/C AIDA L. OQUENDO BARBOSA T/C/C AIDA
OQUENDO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: DO2022CV00152. (Salón: 702). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. ANDRÉS SÁEZ MARREROPRSERVICE@TMPPLLC.COM.
A: SUCESION DE AIDA OQUENDO BARBOSA, TAMBIEN CONOCIDA COMO AIDA OQUENDO BARBOSA Y COMO AIDA LUZ OQUENDO BARBOSA COMPUESTA POR GAMALIER
ALVAREZ OQUENDO, ANA RUTH ALVAREZ OQUENDO, EDWIN ALVAREZ OQUENDO, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION. (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 octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 31 de octubre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 31 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V.
FIRSTBANK. PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV08360. (Salón: 908). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARITZA DEL CARMEN GUZMÁN MATOS - MGUZMAN@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR. COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de noviembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de noviembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 01 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ÁNGELA RIVERA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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A: NOELIA ALVARADO MERCEDES, LERNY CASILLAS MARTINEZ, SLG CASILLASALVARADO.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de mayo 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 01 de noviembre de 2024. LIC. SOMOZA COLOMBINA, GUILLERMO A. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 01 de noviembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. KAROLYN RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ JOSÉ ANTONIO NIEVES TORRES Demandante Vs. ORIENTAL FINANCIAL GROUP, H/N/C ORIENTAL BANK, EN SUSTITUCIÓN DE BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA DE PUERTO RICO; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MÁS CUAL Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV01645. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. A: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO MÁS CUAL Y A TODAS LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS QUE PUEDAN SER TENEDORES O QUE EN SU PODER TENGAN UN PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO QUE SE EXTRAVIÓ. Por el presente Edicto, que se publicará una sola vez, se les notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Demanda alegando lo siguiente: (1) mediante escritura número 24 otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de abril de 2003 ante el notario público Luis E. Pérez Lebrón se constituyó una hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré por la suma principal de $40,000.00 con intereses al “prime rate” a favor de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria de Puerto Rico, y suscrito por José Antonio Nieves Torres, la cual consta inscrita en la finca número 33,104 de Mayagüez como inscripción cuarta. Dicho Pagaré se ha extraviado y la parte demandante desea cancelarlo por haberse pagado la deuda en su totalidad por lo cual, si ustedes no formulan
oposición, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante podrá obtener Sentencia en Rebeldía declarando que la Hipoteca que garantiza el mismo se ha extinguido y se ordenará su cancelación en el Registro de la Propiedad, sin más citarles ni oírlos a ustedes. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal y enviar copia por correo al abogado de la parte demandante cuyo nombre y dirección postal es la siguiente: Lcdo. Santiago Mari Roca, 101 Méndez Vigo Oeste, Suite 601, Mayagüez, P.R. 00680. Su teléfono es el (787) 831-2200, email: smari_roca@yahoo.com. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello de este Tribunal, por orden de un Juez de esta Sala. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico a 30 de octubre de 2024. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional. Jossie D. Bobe Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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Demandante V. EXPARTE
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VI2024CV00026. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARIA EUGENIA VICENS RIVERAMEVICENS@YAHOO.COM. A: LAS PERSONAS
IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA
QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL
QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE
OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de noviembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi-
damente 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 01 de noviembre de 2024. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 01 de noviembre de 2024. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. Consuelo Elaine Rivera Padilla, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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IGLESIA TEMPLO DEL REY, INC.
Demandante V. DORAL BANKY OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AR2024CV01536. (Salón: 402 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
IRIALIZ VÉLEZ QUIÑONESVELEZQUINONESLAW@GMAIL. COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos
de este caso, con fecha de 01 de noviembre de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 01 de noviembre de 2024. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JEANNETTE BATISTA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. CARLOS RAMOS ORTIZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CZ2024CV00019. (Salón: 502). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: CARLOS RAMOS ORTIZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su 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 30 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 30 de octubre de 2024. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Sandra Báez Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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Demandante V.
WILL A. FIGUEROA VIRELLA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: GB2024CV00261. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: WILL A. FIGUEROA VIRELLAHC 3 BOX 8979, GUAYNABO, PR 00971. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de octubre de 2024. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Brenda G. Zamot Salgado, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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Demandante V. JUAN A.
JIMENEZ MEDINA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: GB2024CV00120. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: JUAN A JIMENEZ MEDINA - 10 RES ZENON DIAZ VALCARCEL APT 19, GUAYNABO PR 009654975; 308 SANDY OAK CIR APT 103 LEESBURG, FL 34748-427.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de octubre de 2024. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Brenda G. Zamot Salgado. Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal..
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In an internment camp, all they had was baseball. They’re back to play.
By TIM ARANGO
First, the tumbleweeds were cleared. Then, an archaeological dig found the posts for the backstop and the bases. Finally, old black-and-white photographs unearthed in an archive in Los Angeles were examined to make sure everything was reconstructed exactly as it had been.
All that was left was to play baseball.
For nearly two decades, Dan Kwong had the dream of restoring the baseball field at Manzanar, the sprawling camp in the Mojave Desert where thousands of Japanese and Americans with Japanese ancestry were incarcerated during World War II, among them Kwong’s mother. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, baseball was a source of connection between Japan and the United States.
As many as 120,000 American citizens and residents of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned during the war in 10 camps across the American West. When they were forced from their homes on the West Coast, they brought baseball with them.
“To come to these camps, to be in Manzanar, where you have lost everything, the one thing they could hold on to — the one thing they could keep — was the game of baseball,” said Kwong, a performance artist in Los Angeles.
He continued: “And then on a deeper, symbolic level, it was an expression of Americanness. It was like, this is our game, this is our culture, we are a part of this, and we are going to do it even here.”
To unveil his project, Kwong brought ballplayers from Japanese American amateur teams in California to Manzanar last month to play games, part of what he described as a living exhibition that he hopes will continue and draw attention to the history of the Japanese internment.
A patch of dusty land
On a brisk morning that soon gave way
Two baseball teams of Japanese Americans who played a game on an unearthed and restored baseball field that had not seen a game in 75 years, at the site of a Japanese internment camp in Manzanar, Calif., Oct. 28, 2024. For nearly two decades, Dan Kwong had the dream of restoring the field at the sprawling camp in the Mojave Desert where thousands of Japanese and Americans with Japanese ancestry were incarcerated, including his mother, during World War II. (Hana Asano/The New York Times)
to the searing sun and heat of the desert, the sounds and sights of baseball returned to Manzanar, nearly 80 years after the camp closed at the conclusion of the war: the crack of the bat, the smacking of ball on leather, the chatter of ballplayers. Kwong, 69, was playing first base and batting leadoff for the Li’l Tokio Giants, a team he has played with for 53 years.
“It’s really this beautiful expression of a community of people who wanted to see something happen,” he said of the return of baseball to Manzanar.
Kwong’s dream took a long time to be realized. At first, the National Park Service, which manages Manzanar as a tourist site and museum, said the baseball field was an archaeological site that couldn’t be disturbed. But he persisted, and today the baseball field looks much as it does in those old black-andwhite pictures: a patch of dusty land, all dirt, with a pitcher’s mound, foul lines, a backstop and a small wooden grandstand behind home plate.
“Simple, Zen baseball in the desert” is how Kwong describes it.
Japanese American amateur teams have played in California for more than a century, drawing players ranging from teenagers who star on their high school teams to people in their 60s. In the early days, before Jack-
ie Robinson integrated the major leagues, the teams also fielded Latino and Black players.
Standing on the mound, Michael Furatani, a pitcher for the Lodi JACL Templars, a team from the Central Valley, could see the old guard tower far down the right-field line.
“I pretend I’m picking somebody off, and I look over my shoulder and you can see the guard tower,” said Furatani, 60, whose relatives were imprisoned in a camp in Wyoming during the war. “That really kind of sunk in. Holy smokes, this is where guys tried to forget.”
The games were sandwiched between Games 1 and 2 of the World Series, which was headlined by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Japanese megastar Shohei Ohtani. Many of the amateur ballplayers were Dodgers fans still basking in the heroics of the previous night, when Freddie Freeman, the Dodgers’ first baseman and eventual World Series most valuable player, ended the game with a grand slam in the 10th inning.
“To me, it’s part of this day,” said Jon Kaji, whose father was in Manzanar.
As a City Council member in Torrance, a city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County with a large number of Japanese American residents — about 12% of the city’s population of 147,000 — Kaji has helped secure friendship agreements with the hometowns of Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a Japanese star pitcher for the Dodgers. He plans to bring Little League teams from Japan to Torrance next year to play games and see
the Dodgers.
Restoring the field first required clearing an enormous number of tumbleweeds. The archaeological dig that discovered the original posts for the backstop, and rusty pegs that marked the bases, also unearthed coins and soda bottles left behind by spectators.
Photographs of the baseball field — taken by Ansel Adams, America’s most famous landscape photographer, who took pictures of the camp in 1943, and by Toyo Miyatake, a Japanese photographer who was incarcerated and who surreptitiously documented camp life — were scrutinized so that Kwong, volunteers and Manzanar’s archaeologist were able to restore the field almost exactly as it had been. (One of Kwong’s slogans, as he was promoting the project, was a play on a famous quotation from “Field of Dreams”: “If we build it, they will come. This time willingly.”)
They didn’t take away baseball Long before Ohtani and long before World War II, baseball was an important part of the relationship between Japan and the United States. Horace Wilson, an educator from Maine, introduced baseball to Japan in 1872, and the country fell in love with the sport. Before the war, American big leaguers traveled to Japan for exhibition games, including a team with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig as members.
Roughly 100 baseball teams played in Manzanar between 1942 and 1945, drawing crowds of a thousand people or more to watch games. Some teams, like the San Fernando Aces, who won a camp championship, entered Manzanar together, bringing with them their uniforms and equipment.
“America imprisoned their own Americans only because of their race, but the irony is that they didn’t take away baseball,” said Kerry Yo Nagawa, an author and a historian of Japanese American baseball. “And instead of rejecting it, being bitter, because they took everything else away — Japanese Americans couldn’t speak their native language, many of the faiths you couldn’t practice in the camps initially — baseball was the one thing they gravitated to and embraced.”
For many of the participants — like Furatani and Kaji, who had relatives in the camps — the event was deeply personal, an opportunity to reflect on history and baseball.
“Just thinking about what it was like back in the ’40s when they were stuck here,” Kaji said. “To me, baseball has always been about connection.”
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