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NPP Complaint Alleges Illegal Use of Electoral Registry Data by MVC, Mayoral Candidate Natal
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By THE STAR STAFF
The island Family Department, through the Special Investigations Unit of the Families and Children Administration (ADFAN by its acronym in Spanish), has for three weeks been investigating the death of a baby in Las Piedras, which occurred in September. Attorney Nicole Báez Ortiz, administrator of ADFAN, confirmed on Tuesday that the agency is working closely with the authorities to solve the tragic case.
“Our priority at ADFAN is to ensure an exhaustive investigation,” Báez Ortiz said in a written statement. “Each life deserves all our effort, and we are committed to collaborating so that justice is done.”
Family Secretary Ciení Rodríguez Troche also expressed her frustration at the increase in cases of child abuse on the island. “Seeing what is happening to our babies breaks my heart and frustrates me,” she said. “I urge people in difficult situations to consider voluntary surrender or adoption as responsible alternatives.”
The Family Department urges citizens to report cases of abuse or neglect through the Abuse Line at 787-749-1333, which is confidential.
The Puerto Rico Police Bureau, meanwhile, is investigating as a homicide the death of a five-month-old infant, identified as Leah Coral Cuevas Hernández, which occurred on Sept. 24 at a residence on Luis Muñoz Rivera Street in the urban Cerrito sector of Las Piedras.
According to reports, a call to the 9-1-1 Emergency System alerted authorities about a medical case. When police
agents arrived, the family had already transferred the infant to the local diagnostic and treatment center, where the doctor on duty declared that the girl had arrived without vital signs. There were no visible signs of violence, and it was unknown if the infant suffered from any health condition.
The Institute of Forensic Sciences later certified that the cause of death was severe head trauma.
Officer Joel de Jesús, supervised by Sergeant Orlando Torres, along with prosecutors Miguel Hornero and Paola García, are continuing the investigation.
The police urge the public to provide information related to the case by calling 787-343-2020 or through social media at @PRPDNoticias on X and at www.facebook/prpdgov.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Brotherhood of Non-Teaching Exempt Employees
(HEEND by its acronym in Spanish) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) announced on Tuesday that it will hold a 24-hour strike starting on Thursday to demand compliance with the collective bargaining agreement negotiated with the university administration.
“We will demand that the administration guarantee the validity of the collective agreement, which was negotiated with great effort and responsibility,” said Carlos de León, president of HEEND, in a written statement.
“If there is no immediate solution, we have declared a 24-hour strike that will begin this Thursday, October 24,” he added. “We demand that the administration immediately resolve the controversy.”
HEEND has been summoned to the Department of Labor and Human Resources’ Conciliation and Arbitration Office today, where the union will request the intervention of the UPR governing board and its chairman, Ricardo Dalmau, to
ensure compliance with the ratified agreements.
According to the union, since the culmination of the negotiation last December, it has faced difficulties in the implementation of the collective agreement that went into force on July 1 of this year.
HEEND reaffirmed its commitment to the defense of labor rights and the search for fair solutions for all its members.
“If there is no immediate solution, we have declared a 24-hour strike that will begin this Thursday,” said Carlos de León, president of the Brotherhood of NonTeaching Exempt Employees at the University of Puerto Rico.
Nicole Báez Ortiz, head of the Families and Children Administration (Facebook via Family Department)
NPP files complaint alleging illegal use of electoral registry information by MVC & candidate Natal
By THE STAR STAFF
New Progressive Party (NPP) officials announced Tuesday the filing of a complaint against the Citizen Victory Movement (MVC by its initials in Spanish, its electoral commissioner, Lilian Aponte Dones, the MVC candidate for mayor of San Juan, Manuel Natal Albelo, and the company Gauss Research Laboratory Inc. and its president, Oscar Moreno de Ayala, for various violations of the Electoral Code of Puerto Rico, Law 58-2020.
The complaint, which was presented at a press conference by Francisco Domenech, the campaign director for the NPP candidate for governor Jenniffer González Colón, along with NPP Electoral Commissioner Aníbal Vega Borges, refers to the creation and management of a website by the MVC and Aponte Dones to collect personal information from voters. The website’s domain (victoriaenlacomision.pr) belongs to a company owned by Natal, according to the complaint, which alleges, among other violations by the MVC, Natal and the other defendants, “interference, manipulation, alteration, disclosure or unauthorized access or attack on electronic systems,” as well as illegal use of information from the electoral registry.
The document also indicates that Aponte Dones and Natal violated articles 12.8 and 12.9 of the 2020 Electoral Code.
“The Electoral Commissioner of the MVC, Lilian Aponte Dones, accessed the Electoral Registry data, obtaining information corresponding to all voters (active and inactive), including confidential data, which she disclosed or shared with unauthorized third parties. This act constituted a disclosure and/or publication of information not authorized by the
Electoral Code,” the complaint states. “After the information of all voters (active and inactive) was illegally accessed from the Electoral Registry, it was placed in custody and/or shared with unauthorized third parties for the purpose of developing a tool within the website victoriaenlacomision.pr.”
The complaint adds that “[o]nce the information for the ‘Voter Consultation’ tool was illegally disseminated on the website victoriaenlacomision.pr, Aponte Dones facilitated and/or authorized the use of a system that compromised the security of the electoral information of the voters.”
The document goes on to say that Natal, “as the registrant of the domain “victoriaenlacomision.pr”, had control and access over it.”
Also on Tuesday, Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Electoral Commissioner Karla Angleró González and the PDP alternate commissioner, Gerardo “Toñito” Cruz, said they would be requesting an immediate investigation by the State Elections Commission (SEC), to address a complaint from a voter in Loíza who reported receiving political propaganda in favor of statehood inside an early voting envelope by mail.
“It is unacceptable that voting mechanisms are used to promote ideological agendas,” Angleró said. “This is illegal and undermines the neutrality and transparency that the SEC is supposed to guarantee. We demand that the SEC thoroughly investigate this situation and identify the officials responsible for allowing partisan propaganda to be included in official voting material.”
According to the sworn statement of Lydia Esther Osorio Velázquez, a PDP voter in Loíza, she received the early voting envelope on Oct. 16 as requested. The voter stated that the
The complaint filed by the New Progressive Party against Citizen Victory Movement officials alleges, among other violations, “interference, manipulation, alteration, disclosure or unauthorized access or attack on electronic systems,” as well as illegal use of information from the electoral registry. (Facebook via the New Progressive Party)
envelope contained propaganda in favor of statehood.
“I request that this irregular matter be investigated by the State Election Commission, since I consider it an irregular act to use the envelopes with ballots for voters to carry out ideological campaigns in favor of one of the alternatives on the plebiscite ballot,” Osorio said in the sworn statement.
EPA orders DTOP to resolve Clean Water Act violations
By THE STAR STAFF
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an administrative order requiring the Puerto Rico Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP by its acronym in Spanish) to resolve Clean Water Act violations associated with separate storm sewer systems (MS4) and the stormwater management program in Ponce.
DTOP owns and operates several storm sewer systems in Puerto Rico, including those located along highways PR-123 and PR-585 in Ponce’s Playa ward, according to a recent statement.
“Stormwater management is crucial for safeguarding people’s health and the environment. It also helps prevent flooding, especially in coastal communities like Barrio Playa,” said Lisa F. Garcia, the EPA Region 2 administrator. “EPA’s enforcement of the Clean Water Act is addressing past issues such as poor management and flooding, and it is also ensuring a safer, healthier future for the residents of Barrio Playa.”
EPA has received complaints from the local community about flooding events in the aforementioned areas of Ponce. The federal agency has been inspecting the system since 2022, and found that DTOP had not implemented a storm water
management plan that would detect illegal discharges into their storm sewer systems at Ponce Playa. Illegal dumping and connections can result in serious pollutants such as motor oil and sewage getting into storm sewer systems.
The most recent EPA investigation was conducted in August 2024. The EPA was joined by officials from DTOP, the Municipality of Ponce, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), and Ponce Playa community leaders. The inspection revealed that DTOP’s storm sewer systems lack required operation and maintenance, and unpermitted pollutants are being discharged into the system, to the detriment of the community.
The order requires DTOP to take a number of actions, including:
1. Develop and submit to the EPA a storm sewer map depicting DTOP’s MS4s at specified segments in Ponce Playa.
2. Investigate its storm sewer systems for any connection to PRASA’s sanitary sewer systems that may cause sanitary sewer overflows and notify PRASA of the results of such investigations.
3. Develop an inventory of DTOP’s storm sewer systems discharge outfalls and interconnections in Ponce Playa.
4. Prepare a work plan to perform assessments and make improvements. The plan must focus on identifying illegal discharges into the system; inspecting and cleaning storm sewer systems; and replacing or constructing infrastructure, if needed. Perform outfall monitoring for specific pollutants including enterococci, fecal coliform, ammonia, surfactants, boron, pH, and total phosphorus.
The EPA order includes a detailed schedule for the performance of compliance measures that will result in the elimination of illicit discharges into the Caribbean Sea.
Act 22 beneficiaries said trying to influence elections
By THE STAR STAFF
A2024 analysis published by the civic organization
Popular Democracy shows politicians in the highest offices receiving donations from Act 22 beneficiaries this year, which the group says is an attempt to influence elections.
One of those receiving funds, according to the analysis, is Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, who is not running in the election but received over $90,000.
Also appearing in the report are Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón, the New Progressive Party (NPP) candidate for governor, leaders in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, and mayors in towns with the highest number of Act 22 beneficiaries -- such as San Juan and Dorado, according to a statement.
From January 2024 to July 2024, Act 22 beneficiaries
donated over $210,000 to politicians from the NPP and the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), according to the report. González Colón obtained $33,900 in donations, San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo $10,400, Dorado Mayor Carlos López Rivera $18,100, and PDP gubernatorial candidate Jesús Manuel Ortiz González appeared with $7,700.
In May of this year, the Puerto Rico No Se Vende coalition, Hedge Clippers, and the Center for Popular Democracy released a report on the outsize access and influence Act 22 beneficiaries have over Puerto Rico’s elected officials.
Between 2013 and 2023, Act 22 beneficiaries made over $1 million in political donations. That money, the report said, went to 21 different elected officials on the island, in addition to direct donations to the PDP and the NPP, the two leading political parties in Puerto Rico.
Act 22 of 2012 -- also known as the Law to Promote the Relocation of Investors to Puerto Rico -- exempts local taxes
Nonprofits join forces to stop the use of fentanyl
By THE STAR STAFF
Dozens of non-profit organizations have joined forces to eradicate the use of fentanyl and other illegal substances in Arecibo.
The initiative is headed by Arecibo mayoral candidate José “Memo” González Mercado, and the senior management of the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA).
A packed Nautical Club served as the stage earlier this week for directors of dozens of non-profit entities to develop a program to address the emerging crisis involving
the use of the aforementioned controlled substance, which has already taken the lives of eight people in Arecibo.
At least 10 individuals islandwide have died from overdoses of drugs that were adulterated with fentanyl in recent weeks.
“It is good to be able to address the requests and concerns of our people. The use of fentanyl in our town has become a health crisis; that is why we need everyone to eradicate this terrible evil,” González Mercado said. “Today [Monday] we observed the commitment of directors of dozens of non-profit organizations, including our churches, to help in this effort. We developed a community impact
Municipalities could face deficits by January
By THE STAR STAFF
By January 2025, a significant number of municipalities in Puerto Rico could be facing a precarious fiscal situation, Municipal Revenue Collections Center (CRIM by its acronym in Spanish) Executive Director Reinaldo Paniagua Látimer warned Tuesday.
Most towns face problems with their budgets after the Equalization Fund for municipalities was eliminated and the government enacted laws that negatively impacted municipal coffers, he said.
The Equalization Fund, which provided $300 million to the 78 municipalities, has already disappeared and officials are discussing the future of the Capital Improvements Fund and the contribution to other funds.
“The Financial Oversight and Management Board … was trying to reinvent the way in which funds are distributed to municipalities and putting in certain restrictions,” Paniagua Látimer said. “In other words, it is not bad that they establish exactly what the funds are going to be used for. What happens is that in a time of economic crisis like this, these funds cannot be used for things other than solving problems. Right? But now, apart from establishing restrictions, the problem is
An aerial view of La Perla and Old San Juan neighborhoods of San Juan, on June 21, 2024. A recent analysis shows politicians in Puerto Rico’s highest offices receiving donations from Act 22 beneficiaries this year, which the group behind the study says is an attempt to influence elections. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times)
on certain passive income generated by individuals that move to Puerto Rico, establish residency and invest on the island.
plan in order to visit these areas, guide their residents, and, above all, provide the necessary tools so that people who use this substance can get out of this dependency. Drug addiction is a disease that must be treated this way.”
The District 14 House lawmaker thanked ASSMCA Administrator, Carmen Bonet and the regional director of the Department of Health, Dr. Isis Rosales, as well as others, “for accompanying me, guiding and training our non-profit organizations and churches on how to provide and administer naloxone (often known by its brand name Narcan) tests for opioid overdose kits.”
“The organizations joined together to, in coordination, deliver these ‘kits,’ so necessary in the fight against this drug,” González Mercado said. “This is one of several steps already taken’ in addition we will continue joining forces, since each person will be worked on individually and through a health approach.”
that the amounts do not add up.”
Besides the Equalization Fund, towns lost about $350 million from the Exemption Fund and other amounts taken away from them, the CRIM director said.
Likewise, Paniagua Látimer stressed that the municipalities are being held responsible for debts or items such as those of the Vital health plan, which is the responsibility of the state.
“Financing the Vital health plan, which is something that costs $162 million annually, should be the total and complete responsibility of the state and not of the municipalities, just as they are also contributing to the state pension fund; that is, when they had to match that payment of the employees, dollar by dollar, because the municipalities already contributed it, but then now they also have to pay the pensions,” he said.
“We have to deal with this early in the year because we are going to start to see complicated situations in the municipalities at an economic level,” he added. “They are going to put the capacity to continue offering the service and paying the payroll to the municipalities in a precarious situation.”
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With Election Day 2 weeks away, 15 million voters have already cast a ballot
By NICK CORASANITI
With two weeks until Election Day, more than 15 million people have already cast their ballots, the clearest sign yet that voting habits were forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic and that early voting has become a permanent feature of the American democratic process.
While many people cast a mail-in ballot or voted early in the 2020 election out of necessity amid a dangerous pandemic, a lot of voters are choosing to vote early in this election, too. Some are taking advantage of new laws that expanded early voting options; others simply favor the process that exploded in popularity four years ago.
Many states have set records for the first day of early voting. On Thursday, more than 353,000 ballots were cast in North Carolina, a record for the swing state still reeling from Hurricane Helene. On Friday, nearly 177,000 voters cast a ballot in Louisiana, a record for the deep-red state.
The shift has been starkest in Georgia, where voters have set a daily record for in-person early voting nearly every day since polls opened last Tuesday. More than 1.5 million voters have already cast an early ballot in the critical battleground state.
The persistent preference of many Americans to vote early — both by mail and in person — comes after the 2020 election prompted a sea change in voting habits for the country. With many fearful of voting in person during the pandemic, 65.6 million people voted by mail that year, and another 35.8 million voted early in person in an attempt to avoid large crowds.
Yet as people flood early voting centers this time around, distilling a partisan advantage or what the early vote presages for overall turnout is difficult.
Here are a few takeaways from this point in the early voting cycle:
2020 changed everything.
The key to parsing early voting trends rests in comparing current turnout with historical trends to try to glean enthusiasm or other advantages for Democrats or Republicans.
This year, that is much more difficult.
The 2020 election — the last presidential contest — was an anomaly. It was held amid a deadly pandemic, which had created widespread fears about the postal service’s ability to handle the exponential growth of mail voting. So millions more voters cast a mail ballot earlier than ever before.
The 2024 election does not have those problems. So the fact that 30 million people had voted by this point in 2020 compared with 15 million this year does not indicate that overall turnout will be half that of 2020.
At the same time, the 2020 election led to a wholesale change in voting habits. The 2016 and 2012 elections did not have the same level of early voting. So trying to glean much from early voting numbers compared with the 2016 or 2012 cycle is also risky.
Some states changed their voting laws in the wake of the
2020 election, a shift that could also be affecting voting behaviors. In Georgia, a law approved in 2021 has added restrictions to voting by mail. Michigan passed laws in 2022 that require nine days of early voting as well as a “permanent absentee list,” which allows voters to receive a mail ballot every election without having to apply.
And while the 2022 midterm elections could give us the clearest picture of a post-2020 voting landscape, such elections generally have a different electorate than presidential elections. Democrats still dominate mail voting. But Republicans are gaining.
In the few states that track mail ballots by party registration, Democrats are continuing their wide embrace of the voting method.
In Pennsylvania, more than 580,000 Democrats have already returned their mail ballots, compared with just 254,000 Republicans. But Republicans are making gains. In 2020, Republican ballots were only about 23% of the total votes cast by mail in the state. So far this year, they are about 27% of the total.
But there are still two weeks to go.
Another state to watch is Nevada, which mailed ballots to every voter in both 2020 and 2024. As of Monday, about 53,000 Democrats had returned mail ballots compared with about 37,000 Republicans. In 2020, roughly 106,000 Democrats and 47,000 Republicans had returned a mail ballot by this point. So while Democrats still have an advantage in mail voting, Republicans have cut into the margins in both Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Whether that will mean greater Republican turnout overall, or that more Democrats are returning to voting in person, remain open questions.
These Republican gains on the margins come amid the Trump campaign’s conflicting messages about voting my mail.
While former President Donald Trump’s rallies are decked
with “vote early” banners and instructions, and he often reads a script encouraging his supporters to cast ballots early, he also regularly calls for single-day voting and disparages mail voting. “The mail ballots didn’t work,” Trump told a crowd in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, referring to the 2020 election.
In some key states, Republicans are shifting to voting early in person.
In the 2020 election, early voting — by mail and in person — was dominated by Democrats.
In the few states that both track party registration and have started in-person early voting, Republicans have changed that pattern.
Take North Carolina.
In the first three days of early voting in 2020, about 370,000 Democratic voters cast a ballot in person in the state, compared with 248,000 Republicans, according to data from Michael McDonald, a professor of politics at the University of Florida who tracks election data.
This year, about 300,000 Democrats have cast a ballot in person, compared with 296,000 Republicans.
What this shows, more than any outright partisan advantage, is that the Trump campaign’s effort to get supporters to vote early is working, at least in North Carolina. This will help the Republicans’ get-out-the-vote operation focus more on encouraging infrequent voters as Election Day nears, an advantage that Democrats enjoyed almost exclusively in 2020.
“Before it was just a blue rush,” McDonald said. “Now, it’s much more purple.”
Women are voting early at higher rates than men.
Across crucial battleground states, more women than men are voting early.
In Georgia, 55% of the early vote has been cast by women. In North Carolina it’s 52%, and in Michigan it’s 56%, according to data from McDonald.
This is similar to 2020. In Georgia, for example, turnout for women in early voting was about 55% as well.
In most presidential elections, women have voted at slightly higher rates than men; in 2020, about 68% of eligible women cast a ballot compared with 65% of eligible men.
But in a race with a growing gender divide, turnout by gender will be closely watched during early voting.
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Voters line up on the first day of early voting at the public library in Black Mountain, N.C., Oct. 17, 2024. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
Events that led to close call on Trump’s life were preventable, committee finds
Secret Service agents cover former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, after he was fired on by a gunman during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. The House task force on the attempted assassinations of Trump released its first preliminary report on Monday, chastising the Secret Service for poor planning and a communications breakdown that resulted in a fatal shooting at Trump’s rally. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
By LUKE BROADWATER
The House task force on the attempted assassinations of former President Donald Trump released its first preliminary report earlier this week, chastising the Secret Service for poor planning and a communications breakdown that resulted in a fatal shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Put simply, the evidence obtained by the
task force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened,” the report said.
The 53-page bipartisan report is based on 23 interviews with local law enforcement officials who assisted with security at the rally, thousands of pages of documents from local, state and federal authorities, and testimony from the task force’s public hearing on Sept. 26.
Its findings largely hew to the conclusions
of three other recent investigations. A Senate inquiry found that no one was in charge of planning and security decisions for the July 13 campaign rally where Trump was shot; an independent panel reviewing the failures that led to the attempted assassination called on the Secret Service to replace its leadership with people from the private sector and focus almost exclusively on its protective mission; and the Secret Service’s own internal investigation found that complacency had set in among some of the agents charged with securing the rally site.
The Secret Service has said it accepts responsibility for those mistakes and has pledged changes, including better training, improved technology and proper accountability for the agents who failed in their duty.
The new House report includes excerpts from testimony from Butler, Pennsylvania, law enforcement officials to the task force. It provides a glimpse into the Secret Service’s inadequate preparation and communication with local law enforcement before and during the July 13 rally at which a gunman opened fire, injuring Trump’s ear and killing an attendee.
One officer, a local sniper who was stationed in a warehouse adjacent to the one that the would-be assassin eventually used as a perch, told the panel that the gunman, Thomas Crooks, kept looking up at the building — at the very window where he was.
“He went up against the building to where I couldn’t look down on him,” said the sniper, whose name was not revealed in the report. “I found that to be very suspicious.”
Another local law enforcement officer stationed in the warehouse said Crooks stood out because he had “absolutely zero interest”
in anything happening inside the fence where Trump’s fans were congregating.
Federal, state and local law enforcement officers “could have engaged Thomas Matthew Crooks at several pivotal moments,” as his behavior “became increasingly suspicious,” the report concluded.
The report also included a firsthand account from a Butler police officer who was boosted up by a colleague to peer over the edge of the warehouse closest to Trump’s stage after rally attendees pointed out that someone was on the roof.
The officer immediately spied Crooks.
“I see Crooks facing downrange towards the stage, but his eyes are back at me as I’m coming up,” the officer is quoted as saying. “And I would say, like, his facial expressions was surprised. His eyes were very big, like, what are you doing up here?
“And from there, he just slowly turned on his waist, like — he was proned out like this, and he kind of slowly turned around. And as I came up, that’s when he pointed his firearm in my face.”
The officer, who said that he had been hanging by his fingertips, slipped and fell to the ground. He immediately began yelling into his radio.
“I just kept repeating, ‘He’s got a gun. He’s got a long gun,’” the officer said.
The task force said that to date it had not received any evidence to suggest that the officer’s message about a gun reached the Secret Service security detail surrounding Trump before Crooks began firing.
The task force said it was continuing to investigate and was in the process of conducting 20 more interviews.
Republican official in Arizona pleads guilty in election certification case
By CHARLES HOMANS
ARepublican county official in Arizona who delayed certification of the 2022 election pleaded guilty earlier this week to a misdemeanor charge of failing or refusing to perform her duty as an election officer.
The official, Peggy Judd, had cited concerns about voting machines in delaying the certification of ballots in Cochise County. Her case captured national attention as a high-profile example of the politicization of the election system following former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss.
A more serious felony charge, of conspiracy, was dismissed. Prosecutors are seeking
a penalty of 90 days’ probation, a period that would include the certification of this year’s presidential election.
Kris Mayes, the state’s attorney general, said in a statement that the case’s resolution “should serve as a strong reminder that I will not hesitate to use every tool available to uphold the rule of law and protect the integrity of Arizona’s elections.”
In an interview Monday, Judd said she was “fine with what happened today.”
“I needed it to be over,” she said. “I have a life again.” But she maintained that “I shouldn’t have been in that courtroom,” and said she worried about the effect her prosecution would have on other officials tasked with certifying
voting results.
“People will say, ‘I’d better certify the election no matter what,’ and that’s a problem,” she said. “We have to vote for things we don’t know or understand or believe.”
Judd and Tom Crosby, both Republican supervisors in Cochise County, were indicted last November over an effort to delay the certification of the 2022 election results in their heavily Republican county. (The county’s third supervisor, a Democrat, opposed the effort and was not charged.) They cited a range of claims raised by right-wing conspiracy theorists and called for a hand count of the ballots cast.
In a 2022 interview with The New York Times, Judd acknowledged she did not think
the election results in her county were in doubt and described her efforts as a protest against the certification of results in the state’s large urban precincts, which lean Democratic. Judd eventually did vote to certify the election, following a Superior Court judge’s order to do so, but Crosby did not.
The indictments were the nation’s only criminal charges filed over a refusal to certify an election, which Republican officials in several counties across the country have considered or pursued since Trump’s attempts to discredit his 2020 election loss.
Charges are still pending against Crosby, who also pleaded not guilty. He could not be reached for comment.
Trump took a turn at the fryer. McDonald’s workers have thoughts.
By STEFANOS CHEN
Inside a McDonald’s in Lower Manhattan, David Ye, who has worked at the fast-food outpost for three years, knew in just a few seconds that something was off.
As he watched a video of former President Donald Trump taking a turn at the fryer on Sunday at a McDonald’s in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Ye spotted a clear sign that Trump was out of his element.
“The box is, like, backwards,” Ye said with some bewilderment, as Trump shoveled a scoopful of fries the wrong way into the iconic red carton. “He doesn’t seem to know how to do it.”
The former president has far more experience as a customer at McDonald’s, which he says is one of his favorite restaurants. But as he visited Pennsylvania, one of the country’s tightest battleground states for the presidential election, Trump found himself donning a McDonald’s apron, its golden straps flanking his ketchup-red tie.
He served french fries to hand-chosen patrons, held court for the cameras and threw around enough salt that he seemed more a disciple of Salt Bae than Ronald McDonald.
But his performance behind the counter this past weekend — a half-hour stop at a franchise that closed for the occasion in Feasterville, Pennsylvania — has earned mixed reviews from workers and patrons alike.
For a veteran of a reality TV show about business savvy, he committed what appeared to be a number of health code violations, several workers said. Trump did not opt for a hairnet or gloves. As he filled a box of fries cautiously, he quipped that the food “never touched the human hand.”
“Supposing we want some extra salt, can I do it like that?” Trump asked a worker. Without waiting for an answer, he added several vigorous shakes over a fresh batch of fries. Then, he tossed a handful of salt over his left shoulder, because, he said, he’s superstitious.
That did not go over well with some of the half-dozen workers who watched the video.
“You don’t throw salt like that,” said Kishia, a McDonald’s manager in Flatbush, Brooklyn, who asked that her full name not be used because she was on the clock. “Somebody could have been behind him, you know?”
A cashier at a McDonald’s in Astoria, Queens, said the campaign stop minimized the hard work that she and her colleagues put into the job.
With the election just more than two weeks away, both major candidates are seeking to broaden their appeal among several groups, and McDonald’s represents a wide cross-section of the electorate. The company says that 1 in 8 Americans have worked at one of its franchises, and it recently reported that about a fifth of its workers are Black and more than a third are Hispanic.
Trump is far from the first candidate to tap into the “just like us” trope, said Adam Galinsky, a professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School. Hillary Clinton took a shot of whiskey at an Indiana restaurant during a campaign event in 2008, and her husband, Bill Clinton, also has a long-
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, makes French fries during a campaign visit to a McDonald’s in Feasterville, Pa., Oct. 20, 2024. In Pennsylvania, a critical swing state, supporters of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, some in weird costumes, gathered along a roadside and screamed at one another as Trump visited the restaurant. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
time affection for McDonald’s, for which he was lampooned on “Saturday Night Live.”
For Trump, “it was a very shrewd and smart political move,” Galinsky said, in part because the former president has used it to attack his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has invoked her own experience working at McDonald’s for one summer in college.
Trump has claimed, without evidence, that Harris lied about the job at McDonald’s, and repeated that claim while handing out food through a drive-thru window to his supporters on Sunday. Harris’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
McDonald’s also did not respond to requests for comment. Derek Giacomantonio, the owner of the franchise that Trump visited, said in a statement that he welcomed the former president as a way to showcase the jobs created by franchise businesses.
It is unclear whether any voters who had not already made up their minds were swayed by Trump’s demonstration, but it did get McDonald’s patrons talking on Monday.
“I think it was awesome,” said Destaja Wilson, 30, a home health aide and registered Republican who was picking up breakfast at McDonald’s in Astoria, Queens. “He did the job with gratitude, and he was proud about it,” she said.
But there are also risks in political theater. When asked by
an attendee how much he was getting paid, Trump joked, “Not enough,” but then demurred on questions about raising the minimum wage. Fast food workers in Pennsylvania were paid about $13 an hour last year, according to federal labor data.
Venus Rodriguez, 55, the general manager of a McDonald’s in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said she could overlook Trump’s bad form, because of his willingness to learn and to walk in her shoes for a day.
But the appearance did raise an unwelcome specter that the Trump campaign has been trying to play down: his age. For safety reasons, no 78-year-old should be working the fryer, she said.
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Global markets may be underestimating geopolitical risks, IMF says
Near-term global financial risks are contained, but monetary policy easing could fuel asset price bubbles and markets might be underestimating risks posed by military conflicts and impending elections, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.
In its semi-annual Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF warned that a “widening disconnect” between escalated geopolitical uncertainty and low market volatility increases the chance of a market shock similar to the gyrations seen in August when a Bank of Japan interest rate hike sparked massive de-leveraging.
Buoyant credit and equity markets also seem undeterred by a slowdown in earnings growth and the continued deterioration in more fragile segments of the corporate and commercial real estate sectors, the Washington-based multilateral lender said.
“There’s a kind of wedge between the financial market implied volatility and the assessment of political or economic uncertainty,” said Tobias Adrian, director of the IMF’s monetary and capital markets department. “This tension worries us, as it gives rise to the potential for sharp readjustment of financial conditions.”
The report also flagged that while monetary easing by most other major central banks was creating “accommodative” financial conditions, interest rate cuts could stoke lofty asset valuations, a global rise in private and government debt, and non-bank leverage.
“These mounting vulnerabilities could amplify adverse shocks, which have become more probable due to elevated economic and geopolitical uncertainty amid ongoing military conflicts and the uncertain future policies of newly elected governments,” it wrote.
The report was released as global finance chiefs gather in Washington for the IMF and World Bank annual meetings during one of the most geopolitically and economically uncertain periods for the world in decades.
In addition to the war in Ukraine and an escalating conflict in the Middle East, half of the world’s population has elected or will elect new governments in 2024, including the U.S., the IMF noted. In many cases those new leaders’ policy plans are unclear, but will carry significant economic consequences.
U.S. Treasuries are starting to balk at post-election fiscal prospects and the resulting spike in benchmark borrowing rates has knocked stock markets off their perch and lifted the dollar to its best level since early August.
Ten-year Treasury yields zoomed higher again on Tuesday, topping 4.2% for the first time in three months.
On one level, there’s been some further dialling back of Federal Reserve easing expectations - with an implied ‘terminal rate’ for the whole Fed easing cycle backing up close to 3.5% next year and less than 150 basis points from the current policy rate.
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The robust performance of the economy is mainly responsible for that, as is the steady stream of Fed officials speaking of only ‘modest’ rate cuts ahead. Trepidation about market-based long-term inflation expectations troughing as high as 2.3%2.5% is also starting to shift the horizon somewhat.
But investors are mostly focussed now on next month’s election and the absence of any plan from either party to rein in budget deficits already well north of 6% of GDP. What’s more, betting markets now lean toward the candidate - Donald Trump - most likely to aggravate that fiscal position and bookmaker bets on a Republican clean sweep of Congress are
rising too.
Reflecting some of those concerns, the New York Fed’s estimate of the 10-year Treasury ‘term premium’ - a key measure of the compensation investors demand to hold long-term government debt securities - has risen to its highest level of the year, at more than 14 bps. It’s been negative for most of the year.
In particular, economists and Wall Street executives have raised concerns that U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s planned import tariff hikes could reignite inflation, while his promised tax cuts could widen the U.S. deficit.
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By HWAIDA SAAD and EUAN WARD
The air was thick with dust. The wreckage beneath, mangled and smoldering. The overnight Israeli strike had come without warning, leaving no time to evacuate.
By morning, search teams were still pulling bodies from the ruins of the residential buildings across from Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the largest public health facility in Lebanon. Locals gathered Tuesday at the site, just south of Beirut, listening for the ringtones of their loved ones’ phones emanating from under the debris.
“We’re hearing his phone ringing. It keeps ringing under the rubble,” said Mpsati Mi, 30, an Ethiopian national who was searching for her friend, Aamal.
“He’s not only a neighbor, but a brother to me,” she said.
“I tried to call,” said another local resident, Ahmad Kalash, a Syrian national who had visited nearby hospitals to see if he could find his friend, Hussein.
“I’m waiting to hear anything from the rescuers,” he said.
At least 18 people, including four children, were killed in the strike, and 60 others were wounded, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The attack, which was not preceded by an evacuation notice from the Israeli military, also damaged the nearby hospital, which in recent weeks has been swamped by patients evacuated from other health facilities.
The Israeli military said that it had not targeted the hospital and had instead aimed at a “Hezbollah terror target” in the area. The military said that the hospital
A woman injured by an Israeli airstrike near Rafik Hariri University Hospital, outside Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. The death toll from the overnight airstrike, which came without warning, is at least 13, with 57 people wounded, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)
had not been affected, but damage was seen during a visit to the facility by a New York Times reporter and photographer Tuesday.
The powerful blast had shattered the hospital’s windows and the solar panels affixed atop the building, a lifeline amid Lebanon’s chronic power shortages. Rows of sandbags now lined the underground parking lot as hospital workers made preparations for further strikes.
Many of them were in an uproar, saying they did not have the staff numbers and supplies they needed.
“The hospital was subjected to severe damage,” said Dr. Jihad Saadeh, the hospital’s director, recounting how two missiles had flattened at least three buildings opposite the main gate.
Israel began an intensified military campaign against Hezbollah last month, nearly a year after the Lebanese militant group began firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli offensive has set off a humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, displacing about one-fifth of the population and buckling the country’s health sector.
The conflict has killed more than 2,400 Lebanese over the past year, most of them in recent weeks, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Hundreds of women and children are among the dead.
At the scene of the strike, one man said he had lost 11 of his relatives — among them women and children. Other local residents described panic and terror when the overnight strike hit, and said that people who had been displaced from other parts of the country by Israel’s offensive were among the dead.
“The shock wave pushed us. I felt I was flying,” said Ahmad al-Hassan, 48, who was at home with his wife and children when the blast struck. His home survived the explosion but was badly damaged. He was one of the lucky ones.
Hassan Hakim stood waiting at the site for news about his friend, Mohamed, who was still trapped under the rubble along with his two children.
“I saw a hand,” Hakim said. “I don’t know whether it’s Mohamed or not.”
After a deadly strike near Beirut, ringtones sound from under rubble Blinken urges Netanyahu to seek truces in Gaza and Lebanon
By MICHAEL CROWLEY, AARON BOXERMAN and GABBY SOBELMAN
Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday “to capitalize on” the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and end the war in the Gaza Strip, a State Department spokesperson said.
On his 11th trip to the Middle East since the conflict began a little more than a year ago, Blinken met with Netanyahu for 2 1/2 hours, making the case that with the death of Sinwar, Israel should seize the opportunity “by securing the release of all hostages and ending the conflict in Gaza in a way that provides lasting security for Israelis and Palestinians alike,” the spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said in a statement.
Netanyahu agreed that the killing of Sinwar “may
positively impact the release of the hostages, the achievement of all of the war’s goals, and the day after the war,” his office said in a statement about the meeting. But the statement also said Netanyahu had emphasized the need to fight Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran, and did not mention a truce.
President Joe Biden and his administration have repeatedly tried to calm the widening conflict in the Middle East, where Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iran, which backs both armed groups. But Netanyahu and the militant groups have repeatedly rebuffed entreaties to show more restraint and reach a cease-fire.
Netanyahu and Blinken, according to both statements, discussed one of the biggest unanswered questions about the conflict: how Gaza will be governed after the war.
Miller said Blinken also “emphasized the need for Israel to take additional steps to increase and sustain the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza and ensure that assistance reaches civilians throughout Gaza,” Miller said. The Biden administration has warned that the United States could curtail military aid to Israel if it does not allow more aid to reach the territory.
Blinken arrived in Israel on Tuesday hours after Hezbollah launched a missile attack at an Israeli military base near Tel Aviv that sent residents fleeing into shelters but caused no casualties or significant damage. A Hezbollah drone attack Saturday did minor damage to Netanyahu’s coastal house, which his office called an attempt to assassinate the prime minister.
The Israeli military has continued its attacks in Lebanon despite a U.S. envoy warning Monday that the conflict there had “escalated out of control.”
A nationwide blackout, now a hurricane. How much can Cuba endure?
By ED AUGUSTIN and FRANCES ROBLES
The lights came back on Sunday night in Lidia Núñez Gómez’s Havana neighborhood — the first time since Friday morning — so she rushed to use her electric cooker to save the frozen chicken legs and pork her son had sent her from the United States.
Meat is scarce, the power was sure to go out again soon, and Núñez, 81, needed to keep food from rotting.
Her daughter, Nilza Valdés Núñez, 61, fury in her voice and tears in her eyes, took stock of months of power outages, plus food and gas shortages.
With a hurricane slamming the eastern coast of the country and a four-day blackout that plunged the entire country into darkness, she summed up the past few days like this: “super bad.”
“The lack of electricity, of gas, and all the other problems we have here,” Valdés said, pausing to weep, “make you feel bad.”
Cuba, a communist country long accustomed to shortages of all kinds and spotty electrical service, is in the throes of a crisis so severe that experts say it threatens to explode into social unrest.
Smatterings of street protests have already broken out and the president has warned of severe punishment against those who promote disorder.
For months, millions of people experiencing food shortages at local stores have also been enduring electricity cuts that last hours. But a power cut for a whole day was not typical until late last week.
On Friday, just after officials announced the cancellation of cultural events and weekend university classes to save energy, the power went out nationwide.
That also shut off the water supply, infuriating many Cubans who viewed the latest disruption as the last, intolerable straw.
Authorities in Cuba are struggling to turn the lights back on to stave off widespread discontent, a potential threat to the government’s grip on power.
Not since the particularly painful years after the collapse of the Soviet Union — Cuba’s longtime patron — has the country seen such a constellation of hardships all at once.
The number of people who have emigrated in recent years is without precedent in Cuba’s history. So, arguably, is
A street at night in Baracoa, Cuba, in January 2016. Cuba, long accustomed to shortages of all kinds and spotty electrical service, is in the throes of a crisis so severe that experts say it threatens to explode into social unrest. (The New York Times)
people’s lack of hope. The threat of upheaval is real, experts said, which would likely lead to a harsh crackdown on human rights.
Nearly 2 million people — almost 20% of the population — have left the country in the past two years, sapping the nation of its workforce, according to analysts and estimates.
“It’s chaos. Really, the word you would use is ‘chaos,’” said Omar Everleny, a Cuban economist in Havana. “Anyone who was thinking of leaving is now accelerating those plans. Now you’re hearing ‘I am going to sell my house and go.’”
Power was restored to much of Havana, the capital, on Monday, but the authorities canceled school nationwide through Wednesday to try to save electricity. The power grid is being split up into smaller systems in the effort to keep one failure from knocking out power to the entire country.
The Cuban government blames the power crisis on the U.S. trade embargo, and sanctions that were ramped up by the Trump administration, which severely restricts the Cuban government’s cash flow. The U.S. Treasury Department blocks tankers that have delivered oil to Cuba, which drives up the island’s fuel costs, because Cuba has a limited pool of suppliers available to it.
In addition, Cuban power plants are nearly a half-century old and the govern-
ment has put off important maintenance and upgrades, leaving the power grid to rely on decrepit, aging and unreliable infrastructure, analysts say. A fuel shortage exacerbated the problem, officials said.
“The country is experiencing an exceptional situation, marked by two fundamental and complex events: the energy emergency and, on the other hand, the cyclone alarm phase for the eastern provinces,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said.
He acknowledged the dire situation, but after some people in Havana publicly protested, he also issued a clear threat that they would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
“We will not accept or allow anyone to act by provoking acts of vandalism, and much less disturbing the civil tranquility of our people,’’ the president said. “And that is a conviction, and that is a principle of our revolution.”
Blackouts and challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic set off major protests in 2021, with thousands of people taking to the streets. Hundreds were sent to prison.
Many discontented younger people have left the country since then, which could actually wind up being a lifeline for the Cuban government. Not only are millions of unhappy people gone, but they tend to send money back home, which prevents a total collapse of the economy.
In addition, many dissidents, activists and independent journalists who openly criticized the government were forced into exile.
Most Cubans would rather leave than collectively protest, said Ted Henken, a Cuba scholar at Baruch College in New York, “especially when the government has clearly demonstrated its willingness to violently repress protesters and imprison even those who protest peacefully or those who post about such protests on social media.”
Every time Lázaro Manuel Alonso, a journalist for a state news outlet, posted an optimistic update about the progress to restore electricity this weekend, Cubans from all over the country responded, letting him know they were still in darkness.
“It’s already been 80 hours in Pinar, and it’s hopeless,” one user posted.
It had been 72 hours in Santo Suárez, another user said, “and not to mention that there’s no water either.”
“We are stranded in Alamar,” still another Facebook user posted.
In eastern Cuba, areas that were never before known to have flooded were under 3 feet of water after the passage of Hurricane Oscar, which made landfall on Sunday, the Cuban government reported. About 15,000 people had been evacuated from Imías and another nearby city.
In Baracoa and Maisí, both in the province of Guantánamo, more than 1,700 homes sustained roof damage, and dozens of others partially collapsed.
Coffee crops were also damaged.
Sebastián A. Arcos, the interim director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University in Miami, said it would be unwise to speculate about whether the cascading problems threaten the future of the Cuban revolution. He remembers being convinced that the Cuban government would collapse after the fall of the Soviet Union. That was over 30 years ago.
Díaz-Canel assumed office in 2019, but former President Raúl Castro, a committed Marxist who along with his brother Fidel led the revolution that took power in 1959, still holds outsized influence, Arcos said.
“It’s a critical and dramatic moment,” said Arcos, who left Cuba in 1992 after spending a year in prison for trying to escape from the island. “It shows in a very dramatic way the collapse of the Cuban economy after 65 years of mismanagement by this regime.”
What Lincoln can tell us about MAGA
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Something is clearly happening with Donald Trump. Even a year ago, I don’t think he would have begun a rally with 12 minutes of rambling remarks about late golfer Arnold Palmer, concluding with a discussion of the size of Palmer’s penis.
And while you may wish you hadn’t heard about this, it matters. Trump may once again control America’s nuclear arsenal, and aside from that, his erratic behavior should be a warning to businesspeople who downplay his destructive economic agenda, believing that if elected he will listen to reason and back off the worst of his proposals.
But in a fundamental sense, Trump’s most disturbing remark over the past few days may have been his unprompted comment about Abraham Lincoln during an appearance on Fox News: “Lincoln was probably a great president. Although I’ve always said, why wasn’t that settled, you know? I’m a guy that — it doesn’t make sense we had a civil war.”
What in the world is he talking about here? Is he implying that Lincoln should have let the South maintain slavery in some form, keeping some number of Black people enslaved, just deal points in some sort of run-of-the-mill public policy negotiation? If so, once upon a time Trump would have had enough self-control not to suggest anything like that so openly.
And if he is, here’s the thing: The Civil War couldn’t have been “settled” by moderating Northern demands that the South give up its slaves, because there was no such demand.
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Yes, Northern states had banned slavery within their own borders and many Northerners considered slavery abhorrent. But outspoken abolitionists who sought to end slavery everywhere were a small minority. If the South hadn’t seceded, slavery might well have continued unimpeded for decades.
As Abraham Lincoln explained in his landmark 1860 Cooper Union address, which set him on the path to the Republican nomination and eventually the presidency, the reason the Union was facing an existential crisis was a demand by the South — namely, that the North not only let slavery continue unimpeded but also protect the practice from criticism.
Lincoln argued that slave owners’ quarrel with the free states wasn’t that Northerners were hurting their material interests — they weren’t to any significant degree — but the mere fact that they dared to call slavery evil.
“What will satisfy them?” Lincoln asked. His answer: This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly — done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated — we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas’ new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our free-state Constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.
Not much room for settling there.
What does this have to do with America today? To a large extent, Trump’s campaign is being kept afloat financially by a handful of aggrieved billionaires, Elon Musk in particular. Why are these (mostly) men so disgruntled? I don’t think it’s mainly financial self-interest — the ultrawealthy will pay lower taxes if Trump wins, but Musk has essentially set fire to millions, even billions, of dollars in pursuit of his political agenda. No, if you listen to them, what really seems to infuriate them is what Musk calls the “woke mind virus.”
I think most of these billionaires would struggle to actually define wokeness, but what’s so terrible about it? Whatever it is, wokeness hasn’t gotten in the way of soaring profits and stock prices. But one consistent theme is its criticism of abuses by people with power — and some people with power just can’t abide the notion that people are allowed to talk about its possible abuse, let alone the notion that government should do anything about it.
What this means to me is that many people, including and especially some rich and powerful people, who imagine that their lives will go on as before if Trump wins — because they themselves aren’t undocumented immigrants, or part of the “fake news media,” or federal employees who might be suspected of disloyalty, or anyone else whom Trump casts as the “enemy within” — are deluding themselves. Trump and many of those around him are hypersensitive to criticism, and if he wins, you can expect them to punish critics, whoever they are, and demand affirmations of loyalty across the board.
And that prospect alarms me as much as the idea of putting a man who uncontrollably blurts out vulgarities in charge of our nukes.
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Gobernador anuncia
expansión
de Stryker Puerto Rico con inversión
de 58.6
millones de dólares y creación de más de 200 empleos
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ARROYO – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia, acompañado por el secretario del Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio (DDEC), Manuel Cidre, y el director sénior de planta de Stryker Puerto Rico, Joy Maldonado, anunció el martes la expansión de la empresa Stryker con una inversión de 58.6 millones de dólares. Este proyecto incluye la construcción de un nuevo Centro de Innovación y la creación de más de 200 empleos directos bien remunerados.
“Esta expansión es una muestra de la confianza que
Stryker tiene en el talento de nuestro pueblo y en el futuro económico de Puerto Rico”, expresó Pierluisi Urrutia en declaraciones escritas.
“Este crecimiento fortalece nuestra posición como destino líder en la industria de dispositivos médicos y reafirma el atractivo de Puerto Rico para la inversión en el Caribe”, añadió.
La inversión permitirá a Stryker expandir su infraestructura, adquirir maquinaria avanzada y apoyar el lanzamiento de 12 nuevos productos. Además, la empresa completó la construcción de una planta cogeneradora, lo que le permite autoabastecerse de energía y generar ahorros significativos en costos energéticos.
El secretario del DDEC, Manuel Cidre, destacó que “esta expansión contribuye a posicionar a Puerto Rico como un destino innovador y competitivo en la industria de dispositivos médicos”. Además, subrayó que la creación de 200 nuevos empleos beneficiará tanto a Arroyo como a la economía de la Isla.
BACARDÍ y el Municipio de Cataño anuncian la nueva edición de La Feria en Cataño
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– Bacardí y el Municipio de Cataño anunciaron el martes la celebración de la tercera edición de La Feria en Cataño, que tendrá lugar el sábado 7 y domingo 8 de diciembre en el Frente Marítimo del municipio. Este evento marca el inicio de la temporada navideña en Puerto Rico y cuenta con el auspicio de la Compañía de Turismo y Rones de Puerto Rico.
El programa musical incluirá artistas como los Pleneros de Severo, Oscarito, Norberto González, Pink Pablo, Julio César Sanabria y Pirulo y la
Tribu, además de artesanos, trovadores y kioskos de comida típica.
“En Bacardí estamos muy emocionados de formar parte de este evento que abre oficialmente la Navidad en Puerto Rico”, expresó Sofía Montañez, gerente de marca de Bacardí en Puerto Rico en declaraciones escritas.
El alcalde de Cataño, Julio Alicea Vasallo, destacó que se espera una asistencia superior a las 100,000 personas y anunció medidas de seguridad, como la activación de la Policía Municipal y Estatal, puntos de cotejo y transportación en lancha desde San Juan.
Familia ofrece servicios del PAN y el programa Cuna de Talentos en Plaza Las Américas
para progresar”.
SAN JUAN – El Departamento de la Familia (DF), a través de la Administración de Desarrollo Socioeconómico de la Familia (ADSEF), anunció el martes la apertura de un Centro de Servicios del Programa de Asistencia Nutricional (PAN) y del Programa Cuna de Talentos en Plaza Las Américas. El centro estará disponible para atender nuevas solicitudes y revisiones del PAN de lunes a viernes, de 9:00 a.m. a 5:00 p.m.
El gobernador Pedro Pierluisi destacó que “este programa aumenta exponencialmente los servicios para asegurarnos que cada ciudadano beneficiario del PAN pueda desarrollar sus talentos, contando con el apoyo necesario
El Programa Cuna de Talentos está diseñado para ayudar a los participantes del PAN, entre las edades de 18 a 54 años y sin dependientes, a lograr autosuficiencia económica e integrarse exitosamente al mercado laboral, mientras continúan recibiendo el apoyo alimentario. La secretaria de la Familia, Ciení Rodríguez Troche, reafirmó el compromiso del DF en promover la autosuficiencia a través del trabajo y el desarrollo de capacidades.
El administrador de ADSEF, Alberto Fradera Vázquez, estimó que cerca de 220,000 personas en la isla son elegibles para el programa y exhortó a las familias a visitar el nuevo centro o utilizar la plataforma ADSEF Digital para evaluar su elegibilidad para el PAN y otros beneficios.
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Pro-statehood lawyer publishes book on islanders’ right to vote in federal elections
By THE STAR STAFF
In the year 2000, then-U.S. District Judge Jaime Pieras issued a ruling, which later would be overturned, stating that Puerto Rico residents had the constitutional right to vote for the U.S. president. It was one of the cases that pro-statehood lawyer Gregorio Igartúa took to court to show the inferiority of Puerto Rico’s current territorial status.
Igartúa, who has a master’s degree in international law from Georgetown University, has published a book detailing the cases he has taken to court titled “My Struggle for Equality.” His fight against the illegality of the current status quo began in the early 1990s with a suit seeking the presidential vote.
The courts, however, have not been Igartúa’s only forum, as he has also taken his fight to the Organization of American States (OAS). The book focuses on five cases, three seeking the presidential vote and two challenging the federal government’s decision to not apportion Puerto Rico any representatives to the U.S. House of Representatives as unconstitutional.
In an interview with the STAR, Igartúa, who has litigated in federal court for over 30 years, said he wanted to write the book for posterity, to make people aware of the fight for statehood from a legal perspective, all of which he has done ad honorem.
“The purpose of the book is to be a source of constitutional law on our right to vote in federal elections as interpreted by
judges, whose opinions were valuable,” the author said.
As an example, federal Judge Juan Torruellas revoked Pieras in the case on the presidential vote but in another similar case, upheld the ruling “with a precious interpretation of the law.”
Igartúa said he wants to promote solutions to the legal and economic problems of Puerto Rico in a manner that is compatible with the island territory’s relationship with the United States. He has said in the book and in interviews with the STAR that Puerto Rico is a “de facto incorporated territory” and not an unincorporated territory as the courts have established.
Statehood is one of several competing options for the future political status of Puerto Rico, including maintaining its current status, becoming fully independent, or becoming a freely associated state. Igartúa believes it is illegal for Puerto Rico to negotiate to become a freely associated state because that is a negotiation the U.S. territory must do as a sovereign nation.
Puerto Rico has held six referendums on the topic of political status. They have all been non-binding, as the power to grant statehood lies with the U.S. Congress. The most recent referendum was in November 2020, with a majority 52.52% of those who voted opting for statehood.
Although the previous two referendums, one in November 2012 and another in June 2017, also had ostensibly pro-statehood outcomes, critics have said the language in the vote was
biased and marred, with ballot language phrased to favor the party in office, which was the pro-statehood New Progressive Party.
Igartúa believes that Puerto Rico should focus on promoting territorial incorporation in Congress, which would put Puerto Rico on the path to statehood.
The book is available at Libreria Norberto or by contacting Igartúa’s law office in Aguadilla.
A singer’s hotel death, a 911 call and details about what is known
By EMMANUEL MORGAN and LUCÍA CHOLOKIAN HERRERA
Liam Payne, a former singer in the popular British boy band One Direction, died last Wednesday after falling from a third-floor balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Payne’s family released a statement Thursday asking for privacy. “We are heartbroken,” the family said. “Liam will forever live in our hearts and we’ll remember him for his kind, funny and brave soul.”
Here is what we know about the circumstances of his death, which led to an outpouring of grief from fans, and the ensuing investigation.
A 911 call was made moments before his death.
The Buenos Aires police released a recording of a 911 call that was placed minutes before Payne’s death from the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, where he was staying.
A man who identified himself as the hotel desk manager said on the call that a guest who appeared to have excessively consumed drugs and alcohol was “breaking
everything in the room.” The manager requested urgent assistance because the room had a balcony and hotel employees were “afraid he could do something that puts his life at risk.”
A spokesperson for the Buenos Aires police said Thursday that the guest was Payne, 31.
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The local prosecutor’s office, which is investigating the death, said in a statement that it appeared Payne was alone when he fell. It said investigators found broken objects and furniture in his hotel room, as well as what appeared to be narcotics and alcohol. The results of toxicology tests will most likely not be made public for several weeks.
An autopsy said Payne died of ‘multiple trauma.’
In an autopsy performed a few hours after Payne’s death, forensic experts determined that he died from falling out of a window and that there were no signs of anyone else being involved. It is not clear whether Payne intentionally jumped or accidentally fell from the third floor.
The autopsy report was submitted to the prosecutor’s office, which said it indicated that Payne died of “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding” in the skull, chest and
abdomen and limbs.
The prosecutor’s office indicated that, because of the position in which the body was discovered and the 25 injuries he sustained, officials presume that Payne did not try to protect himself from the fall and may have been unconscious.
No defensive wounds were found on the body.
The prosecutor’s office said that it was investigating the death as a matter of protocol because of the circumstances, but that no defensive injuries were found on Payne’s body.
Five people were interviewed at the prosecutor’s office, the authorities said, including two women who had been with Payne earlier Wednesday but had left the hotel before his death. Investigators also interviewed three hotel workers.
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Pro-statehood attorney Gregorio Igartúa
Liam Payne, left, formerly of One Direction, at Republic Records’ MTV Music Video Awards after-party
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
LLACG COMMUNITY
INVESTMENT FUND
Demandante Vs. SUCESION SANTIAGO
GESUALDO MOREL
T/C/C SANTIAGO
GESUALDO MORELL
T/C/C SANTIAGO
GESUALDO MURIELL
T/C/C SANTIAGO
GESUALDO COMPUESTA POR GLADYS
GESUALDO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2023CV03854.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 20 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:
“URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 16 del bloque F del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización San Antonio, radicada en el barrio Canas del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 312.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar número 27 por donde mide 13
metros; por el SUR, con la calle número once por donde mide 13 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 15 por donde mide 24 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 17 por donde mide 24 metros. Existe en este solar una casa residencia de una sola planta construida de hormigón reforzado dividida en sala, comedor, tres cuartos dormitorios, cuatro baños sanitarios, cocina, balcón y marquesina.” Inscrita al folio 28 del tomo 1093 de Ponce Sur, finca número 8555, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 28 del tomo 1093 de Ponce Sur, finca número 8555, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II, inscripción 14ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. SAN ANTONIO, 2215 CALLE DELTA, PONCE, PR 00728. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $184,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 21 de octubre de 2073. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $184,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $123,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $92,250.00, 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 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $201,300.75 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $7,883.17 en intereses acumulados al 30 de abril de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.300% anual hasta su total y completo pago; $4,188.88 en adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $18,450.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo 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 12 de septiembre de 2024. JAVIER N. SEGARRA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL PLACA #820. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITION FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs.
JOSE A.
CHICLANA COTTO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV04037. Salón: 802. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JOSÉ A. CHICLANA COTTO - COND. JARDINES DE VALENCIA, APTO. 1507, SAN JUAN PR Y CALLE MATIENZO CINTRÓN #162, APTO. 2, SAN JUAN PR. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 04 de septiembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. NANCY I. GARCÍA FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS
FUND, LLC.
Demandante Vs. JENNIFER ORTIZ MAYSONET Demandado
Civil Núm.: TB2024CV00175. Salón: 500-A. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - R.60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JENNIFER ORTIZ MAYSONET - RR 5 BOX 8230, TOA ALTA, PR 00953.
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.poderjudiciaI.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. 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@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 04 de septiembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante Vs. XIAMARY ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ Demandado Civil Núm.: TB2024CV00177. Salón: 500-A. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - R.60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: XIAMARY ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ - PO BOX 2500 PMB 205, TOA BAJA, PR 00951. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 04 de septiembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. GELITZA
AYALA MARTINEZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: RG2024CV00069. Salón: 307. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIBNTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: GELITZA
AYALA MARTINEZURB ALTURAS DE RIO GRANDE E-176 CALLE 4, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745; 2551 RAFFIA WAY, KISSIMMEE, FL, 34741. 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.prlindex.phpltribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de agosto de 2024. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de agosto de 2024. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN. ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC., COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante Vs. DOLORES CARMONA
OSORIO, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CN2024CV00260.
Salón: 408. 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: DOLORES CARMONA OSORIO, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS: URB. VILLAS DE LOÍIZA, O-19 CALLE 17, CANÓVANAS P.R.
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://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE POPULAR AUTO LLC. ANTES RELIABLE FINANCIAL SERVICES,
INC.
Demandante Vs. GABRIEL A. RODRÍGUEZ TORRES, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2024CV01215. 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: GABRIEL A. RODRÍGUEZ TORRES, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
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 Ponce, P.O. Box 7185, Ponce, Puerto Rico 007327185 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 9 de septiembre de 2024.
CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. HILDA J. ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V.
GLENN DARWIN
DELIZ PAULINO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00531. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: GLENN DARWIN DELIZ PAULINO.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Golden Gate, 90 Calle Zafiro, Guaynabo, PR 00968-3415. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de septiembre de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
JAIME HUMBERTO GUEITS ORTIZ
Demandante Vs. HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION; JONH DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2024CV02722. 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: HOUSING INVESTMENT
CORPORATION - LAS CUMBRES OFFICE
BUILDING AVE. LAS CUMBRES ESQ.
CAMINO ALEJANDRINO, GUAYNABO, PUERTO RICO; 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 pagaré a favor de Housing Investment Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de de treinta y un mil dólares ($31,000.00), con intereses al ocho por ciento (8%), vencedero el primero (1ro) de abril de dos mil siete (2007). Que mediante la escritura número treinta y dos (32) otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico, el día nueve (9) de marzo de mil novecientos setenta y siete (1977), ante el notario Gustavo A. Rodríguez, y cuya obligación está inscrita al folio sesenta y cuatro (64) del tomo mil cuatrocientos noventa y cinco (1495) de Ponce, cuarenta
y cuatro mil setecientos veinticuatro (44,724), inscripción segunda (2da). La propiedad que garantiza dicho pagaré: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: La Cales Condominio de Ponce Norte. Apartamento: dos guión D (2-D). Cabida: Setenta y tres punto sesenta y dos (73.62) metros cuadrados. Apartment number two D (2-D) on the second floor of Condominio La Calesa at Lolita Tizol Street, Ponce, Puerto Rico, with an approximates area of seven hundred ninety two point twenty five (792.25) square feet, equivalent to seventy three point sixty two (73.62) square meters, bounding on the NORTH, with the apartment two E (2-E) the common storage, the incinerator and the common corridor of the same condominium by thirty five (35.00) feet; on the SOUTH, with the exterior elements of the building and the empty space by thirty five feet (35.00); on the EAST, with the apartment two C (2-C) of the same condominium by twenty six point three (26.3) feet; and on the WEST, with the exterior element of the building and the empty space by twenty six point three (26.3) feet. The apartment consists of a living-dining room, kitchen, one bathroom, two bedrooms, four closets and a balcony on its west side. The apartment has a main door connecting with the common corridor on the floor from where Access may be gained to the exterior of the building and to the public street by the elevator and the stairways. This apartment is equipped with a stainless-Steel sink, range with oven, kitchen cabinets and water heater. Al indicado apartamento le corresponde una participación de uno punto ochocientos treinta y seis por ciento (1.836%) en los elementos comunes y generales del edificio. Inscrita al folio sesenta y tres (63) del tomo mil cuatrocientos noventa y cinco (1495) de Ponce Norte, finca número cuarenta y cuatro mil setecientos veinticuatro (44,724). Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección Primera (1ra). 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 23 de septiembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. JOAN M. ROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SAMMY RAMOS RODRIGUEZ
Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00772. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SAMMY
RAMOS RODRIGUEZCARR 837 KM 1 HM6, BO CANTA GALLO, GUAYNABO PR 00970; PO BOX 608, GUAYNABO PR 00970-0608.
De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar al 22 de julio de 2024 por la tarjeta de crédito xxx-xx-xxx-1043 la cantidad de $8,135.37 más una suma equivalente al 10% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado. Al 22 de julio de 2024 por la tarjeta de crédito xxx-xx-xxx-5407 la cantidad de $4,332.20 más una suma equivalente al 10% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado. Al 22 de julio de 2024 por el préstamo personal a plazos xxx-xx-xxx-3579 la cantidad en perdida de $2,527.75 de principal más intereses acumulados a razón del 13.18% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda, más cargos por demora, más los que se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda más una suma equivalente al 10% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919
Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. YANISLEY CRESPO LAHERA, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: TA2024CV00827. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: YANISLEY CRESPO LAHERA, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva
dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Dorado del Mar, M34 Calle Estrella del Mar, Dorado, PR 00646-2147. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día. 30 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. DEREK
PATRICK BURTON
Demandado
Civil Núm.: TA2024CV00823. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTOP POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: DEREK
PATRICK BURTON. POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema
Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Costa de Oro, 130 Calle D, Dorado, PR 00646; 23242 Community St., West Hills, CA 91304. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE ASOCIACIÓN DEL EMPLEADOS DEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE IRMA ROSA PEREZ GUILLERMETY T/C/C IRMA ROSA PEREZ MEDINA COMPUESTA POR IRMA IVETTE MARTÍNEZ PÉREZ; ALEX GUILLERMETY PÉREZ; ERIC ALBERTO GUILLERMETY PÉREZ; GERALDINE GUILLERMETY PÉREZ; ENRIQUE GUILLERMETY PÉREZ; GABRIEL GUILLERMETY PÉREZ; JANETTE GUILLERMETY PÉREZ Y WANDA GUILLERMETY
conocido con grado de consanguinidad, parentesco o afinidad y con interés en los bienes y pasivos del caudal relicto de la Sucesión de JAIME SANTOS MOLINA, también conocido por JAIME SANTOS o a los que se crean con igual grado o mejor derecho para que comparezcan a reclamar dentro de un plazo de treinta (30) días a contar de la publicación del edicto. El presente edicto se publicará UNA VEZ, en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. Que de no comparecer los REQUERIDOS que se crean con igual grado o mejor derecho a reclamar dentro del plazo de treinta (30) días a contar de la fecha de la publicación del edicto, apreciadas las pruebas, se dictará el auto, según lo previsto por la ley del caso, haciendo declaración de las personas con derecho a la herencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Por haber la peticionaria acreditado las gestiones para conocer la identidad y circunstancias personales de algunos de los herederos, y no conociendo las mismas; se le ha relevado del cumplimiento de notificación en el término reglamentario de diez (10) días contados a partir de la última publicación del edicto para enviarle la copia de la PETICION, ORDEN, EMPLAZAMIENTO Y PUBLICACION DEL EDICTO a FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL y/o Cualquier otra persona de nombre desconocido con grado de consanguinidad, parentesco o afinidad y con interés en los bienes y pasivos del caudal relicto de la Sucesión de Carmen Reyes Ruiz Ortiz o a los que se crean con igual grado o mejor derecho. Se notificará en el término de diez (10) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto copia de la petición, orden, emplazamiento y publicación de edicto a JAIME SANTOS Y JEIMI SANTOS personas sobre quienes se le conoce su última dirección. Deberán comparecer a través del SISTEMA Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual podrán acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su comparecencia en la secretaria del Tribunal. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 09 de octubre de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JOSSIE D. BOBE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. CAROL M PERALES MONTANEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: NG2024CV00045. (Salón: 205). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: CAROL M. PERALES MONTANEZ - URB. RAMON RIVERO U3 CALLE 3, NAGUABO, PR 00718-2300; 92 TOWNSHIP DR, HIRAM, GA 30141.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 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 15 de octubre de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 15 de octubre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. LIZ Y PADILLA NEGRON
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TA2023CV00850. (Salón: 703). Sobre: COBRO
DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN -GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANEROKEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: LIZ Y PADILLA NEGRON.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 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 17 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR SÍ, COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC) Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE SAIID ALI RAJAB Demandante Vs. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS RÉCORDS DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC); ALI AHAD RAJAB; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE Demandado Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00404. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ALI AHAD RAJAB, JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado ante el Notario Público Julian Antonio Parilla Boria, bajo affidávit número 8,393, a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma de $68,000.00, con intereses al 9.00% anual y vencedero el 1ro de septiembre de 2014, suscrito el día 20 de agosto de 1999, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 606, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Julian Antonio Parilla Boria, inscrita al Folio 150 del Tomo 170 de Vega Baja, Finca 9,625, Sección Cuarta (IV) de Bayamón, inscripción 2da. El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble, que se describe como sigue:
“URBANA: Solar marcado con el número diez del Bloque C, en el Plano de Inscripción de Residencial Rosario, radicado en el Barrio Pugnado Afuera de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos veinticinco metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en trece metros con la Calle A; por el SUR, en trece metros con el canal pluvial; por el ESTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar número once del mismo Bloque C; y por el OESTE, en veinticinco metros con el solar número nueve del mismo Bloque C. Afectado en su colindancia Sur por una servidumbre de cinco pies de ancho, a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia construida de acuerdo con los planos y especificaciones aprobados por la Junta de Planificación de Puerto Rico y otras agencias gubernamentales.” Consta inscrita al Folio Ciento Cuarenta y Nueve (149) del Tomo Ciento Setenta (170) de Vega Baja, Finca Número Nueve Mil Seiscientos Veinticinco (9,625), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta (IV) de Bayamón. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lic. Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal
de Vega Baja, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de octubre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. Demandante v. LUIS ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ LEBRÓN; JOHN DOE y RICHARD DOE; como posibles tenedores de los Pagarés Demandados CIVIL NÚM. SJ2024CV06398. SOBRE: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JOHN DOE y RICHARD DOE como posibles tenedores del Pagaré extraviado MAYAGUEZ ST. COND. FRENCH PLAZA, APT.413, SAN JUAN, PR 00917 Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de sustitución de pagaré extraviado de epígrafe en la cual se solicita la sustitución de un pagaré por la suma de $45,685.00, con intereses al 4% anual, suscrito el 30 de julio de 2018, ante la Notario Diana Feliú Díaz, número de affidavit 568. La Escritura Núm. 36, mediante la cual se constituyó una hipoteca voluntaria en garantía del pagaré antes descrito, consta inscrita a la finca número 36263, Rio Piedras Norte, del Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. URBANA: Apartment four hundred thirteen (413), is located at one of the Northeast Section of the Fourth (4th) floor of the building
with a total superficial area of six hundred twenty-three (623.00) square feet Condominio French Plaza Apartments. Its NORTH boundary is with the exterior of the building over the patio of apartment on hundred thirteen (113) and facing apartment four hundred fourteen(414); its SOUTH boundary is North apartment four hundred twelve (412); its WEST boundary is North the interior of the building which communicate through its entrance door; and its EAST boundary is with the exterior of the building over the patio of apartment one hundred thirteen (113) and facing the Condominium East property line. This apartment consists of living- dining room. Kitchen, one (1) bedroom, one (1) bathroom and porch. Le corresponde el estacionamiento marcado con el número treinta y nueve (39); y un porcentaje de cero punto setenta (0.70%) por ciento en los elementos comunes generales y comunes limitados. Observación: Surge aclaración al margen de la descripción, en a la inscripción primera (1ra) indicando que es un apartamento de Propiedad Horizontal del Condominio French Plaza. - Inscrita al folio 171 del tomo 1,307 de Rio Piedras, Finca Número 36,263, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de San Juan. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de octubre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIO(A). MYRIAM RIVERA VILLANUEVA, SUBSECRETARIO(A).
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
MONSERRATE SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, LLC
Demandante V. OSCAR PAGÁN RÍOS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV03407. (Salón: 500-A) Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MIGUEL JUAN SIMONET GARCÍAMJSIMONET@MSGLAWPR.COM.
A: OSCAR PAGÁN RÍOS - DIRECCIÓN: URBANA. SANTA JUANITA, C-18 LOCAL 1, AVE. SANTA JUANITA, BAYAMÓN, PR 00956.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de septiembre 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 09 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 09 de octubre de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IXIA CORDOVA CHINEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. EXPARTE
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2023CV00684. (Salón: 207). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA
POR EDICTO. ERNESTO M. ROVIRA GÁNDARA - EROVIRA@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR. COM. GABRIELA VÁZQUEZ APONTEGVAPONTELAW@GMAIL.COM.
A: SUCESIÓN GENARO PERALES; DENOMINADOS FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, COLINDANTE POR EL NORTE - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. A: SUCESIÓN DE ISMAEL OLMEDA RIVERA Y HILVIA IDALIA RIVERA - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. A: JULIO PERALES COLINDANTE POR EL OESTE - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE- DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. (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 septiembre 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 16 de octubre de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 16 de octubre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Liberty finally give New York City a basketball championship
By DAVID WALDSTEIN
As the final second ticked away, Breanna Stewart turned to her teammate
Jonquel Jones for a long-awaited championship hug, as streamers floated down on the court and thousands of fans screamed, danced and recorded the moment on their phones.
The long wait was over. The New York Liberty, one of the original WNBA teams, won their first championship on Sunday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, beating the Minnesota Lynx, 67-62 in overtime, to capture the best-of-five series, three games to two.
New York City finally had a 21st-century basketball championship to savor.
After more than a quarter century of trying in more than four home arenas, the Liberty finally will have a banner to hang at Barclays, their current home. City buildings will be lit up in the team color, Liberty “sea foam,” and Mayor Eric Adams promised a parade. History has been made.
“To be able to bring a championship to New York, the first ever in franchise history,
it’s an incredible feeling,” said Stewart, who is from North Syracuse, New York. “I literally can’t wait to continue to celebrate with the city, because it’s going to be bonkers.”
Not only is the title a first for the franchise, but the Liberty also broke a long drought for New York metropolitan area professional basketball. Theirs is the first championship for a New York major pro basketball team since the New York Nets of the old American Basketball Association won the last title of that defunct league in 1976, before it merged with the NBA the next season.
The New York Knicks have not won an NBA title since 1973, more than a half-century ago. While they (and, to a lesser degree, the Brooklyn Nets, who also play at Barclays Center) continue to strive toward their own elusive trophy, the Liberty secured theirs with a core of talented and gritty players, who withstood a fierce challenge by Minnesota.
But the game included some controversy. With the Liberty trailing by two points and with only 5.2 seconds left in regulation, Minnesota’s Alanna Smith was called for a questionable foul on Stewart, the Liberty’s super-
star forward.
The Lynx asked for a video review, but the call was upheld, much to the dismay of Cheryl Reeve, Minnesota’s coach, who said after the game that a bad call had decided the outcome.
“All the headlines will be, ‘Reeve cries foul,’” the coach said. “Bring it on. Bring it on. Bring it on because this was stolen from us.”
But Stewart still had to hit the shots, and she had missed two free throws a few minutes earlier. She said that she thought about how pythons seemed to know the right moment to strike.
“At that moment I was thinking about being a python,” Stewart said.
She calmly swished both free throws, and the Liberty controlled the overtime, as nervous fans counted down the seconds.
In the moments after the final buzzer, fans roared and hugged one another, and some danced through the main concourse of the arena, singing Queen’s “We Are the Champions.” On the street, fans were shouting, “Basketball is back in New York, baby.”
Up in the stands, Myrna Morales-Fraser
hugged her wife, Patricia Fraser-Morales, and yelled through the din, “We did it. We did it.”
“We’ve been waiting so long, and it feels so good,” said Fraser-Morales, a seasonticket holder since 1999. “I can’t believe we won.”
Since the formation of the league in 1997, the Liberty have been graced with sensational players like Vickie Johnson, Tina Charles and the Hall of Fame guards Becky Hammon and Teresa Weatherspoon, who was at the game and received a loud ovation. But none of the teams featuring those players could grab the ultimate prize, though coming close several times.
The Liberty reached the finals on five previous occasions, including last year, but lost them all. Until Sunday, the team had the most trips to the finals in league history without having won a title.
With an itinerant past that took them from Madison Square Garden to Newark to White Plains, New York, the club even played some games at Radio City Music Hall. The Liberty finally settled in Brooklyn in 2020 and rapidly built a future champion team, led by Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and Jones, who was named the most valuable player of the finals.
When the Liberty drafted Ionescu out of Oregon in the 2020 WNBA draft, a transformation of the team began. It won only two of 22 games that year. Then before the 2022 season, the Liberty hired Sandy Brondello, a personable former WNBA player who won the 2014 WNBA championship as coach of the Phoenix Mercury.
Bringing in former champions proved a winning formula. In 2023, the Liberty signed Stewart, a two-time MVP Award winner and a two-time champion with the Seattle Storm.
“This is more personal,” Stewart said. “Because I’m from New York. I’m from upstate, and I came here for a reason.”
Before the finals began, Stewart said that last year’s loss to Las Vegas in the finals had fueled the Liberty’s unrelenting pursuit of this year’s title.
“We have that scar, and that hurt from last year,” she said. “This moment feels different, and we’ll be ready.”
Stewart and her teammates backed it up, and they did for New York area basketball what Weatherspoon and Charles, Patrick Ewing and Bernard King, Jason Kidd and Kevin Durant never could.
They made a New York basketball team into champions.
Members of the New York Liberty celebrate with the WNBA championship trophy after defeating the Minnesota Lynx in Game 5 of the finals in New York, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. New York got its first basketball championship in 48 years, as the Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx in front of exuberant fans in Brooklyn. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
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