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Regulator cancels Tranche 3 RFP due to ‘unreasonably high costs’
By THE STAR STAFF
ThePuerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has opened up a new tender for renewable energy projects after canceling the Tranche 3 tender, arguing that the prices offered were not in the public’s interest.
The new Tranche 4 tender, made public Thursday, seeks 500 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy and 250 MW of battery energy storage. The deadline to submit bids is Nov. 25.
The decision to cancel the Tranche 3 tender was made because of the high prices offered by proponents. The Tranche 3 tender procured about 1,000 MW of energy and at least 500 MW (2,000 MWh) of energy storage.
“Based on the prices for renewable energy and energy storage resources received in the early stages of the Tranche 3 Request for Proposal (RFP), the Energy Bureau concluded that it is not in the public interest to invest further time, money, and resources in conducting studies for projects that will generate unreasonably high costs,” the PREB said in a statement. “Therefore, in the best interest of consumers, it recommended rejecting all proposals and terminating the Tranche 3 RFP.”
The PREB ordered Acción Group, the independent coordinator the entity had hired to manage the tenders, to launch the fourth of a total of six proposed RFPs for new renewable energy and energy storage projects.
“In doing so, Acción Group will implement new strategies within the RFP process to ensure a more accelerated schedule, facilitating the fastest possible implementation of approved projects,” the energy regulator said.
According to an order presented by the PREB, Acción Group submitted a memorandum to the PREB detailing the initial prices per technology received for the Tranche 3 RFP.
The selection committee appointed by the PREB to select project proponents submitted a report to the PREB stating that the initial pricing observed for solar photovoltaic projects in the Tranche 3 RFP, excluding interconnection costs, exceeded the base price levels considered previously reasonable during their evaluation of the Tranche 2 RFP, and that the Tranche 3 RFP was unlikely to result in acceptable pricing, according to a PREB document.
“They advised that the time and resources required to proceed with the interconnection studies may not be justified,” the PREB said. “Essentially, they suggested that the Tranche 3 RFP should not proceed further and, therefore, requested guidance from the Energy Bureau.”
The companies that participated in the Tranche 3 tender included Coqui Power, Pattern Energy, Fonroche Energy America, Energle LLC, Peerless Oil and Chemicals Inc., Infinigen, Helios Alternative Energy, Sunnova Energy Corp. and Sunrun Inc.
Following the approval of several laws ordering the island to draw all of its energy from renewable sources by 2050 and the approval of an Integrated Resource Plan, the Puerto Rico government decided to procure some 3,750 MW of renewable energy and 1,500 MW of energy storage resources over three years in a series of six tranches.
Those tenders have suffered numerous delays.
Tranche 1, which was launched in February 2021, had trouble closing contracts with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) because the selected service providers sought amendments to contract terms to adjust for inflation and pricing changes.
“In the course of amending the contracts under the Tranche 1 RFP, the prices increased by an average of 34% over the original contract prices,” the PREB wrote. “Furthermore, some prices exceeded the higher end of the price ranges shown in industry-standard financial analysis reports on energy pricing.”
The PREB and PREPA approved the selection of three proponents for the Tranche 2 tender earlier this year.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Autonomous Municipality of Caguas and its mayor, William Miranda Torres, invites the community and technology specialists to participate in the “Caguas Energy Hackaton,” an event that seeks to create ideas and alternatives to manage the energy crisis facing Puerto Rico.
The Hackaton will take place this Saturday starting at 9 a.m. at the Criolla Center for Science and Technology of the Caribbean (C3Tec) in Caguas.
Much more than an event for programmers and te-
chnology experts, the Hackaton will be a creative space with forums and discussion panels open to the public, where energy experts, community leaders and government representatives will share how they have faced the energy crisis on the island.
Giancarlo González, Matt Highfill, Adam Newetzki, Mauricio Larrañaga, Ramón Luis Nieves, engineer Juan Alicea, José Oyola Ríos and Carlos Nieves Arroyo, among others, will be present and will serve as panelists. The panels will start at 1 p.m.
Registration for the event can be accomplished at the following link: https://tinyurl.com/registrohackaton
Pavía Hospital in Hato Rey to become mental health facility
By THE STAR STAFF
Pavía Hospital in Hato Rey announced Thursday that it will transform its facilities to offer only specialized mental health services in response to the increase in suicide cases and mental health conditions on the island.
“This restructuring reaffirms the social commitment we have with the health and well-being of Puerto Ricans and seeks to meet that need,” said Carlos Santiago Rosario, executive director of the hospital, in a written statement.
The hospital will have a multidisciplinary team that includes psychiatrists led by Dr. Héctor Cott and internist Andrés Calvo, an addiction expert, Santiago Rosario said. It will also offer electroconvulsive therapy under the direction of psychiatrists José Vigo, Roberto Zayas and Efraín del Valle.
The announcement came after Desireé López Ramírez, the international representative of the United Auto Workers in Puerto Rico (UAW), said the management of Pavía Hospital was planning to close the hospital, a move that would leave hundreds of employees on the street and patients without health services.
She said some 100 employees, including registered and practical nurses, operating room technicians, pharmacists, phar-
macy assistants, laboratory staff and maintenance workers could be impacted. In addition, the consequences of a closure would reach key departments such as radiology, emergency room, operating room, intensive care room, medical laboratory, and respiratory therapy, among others, said the official of the UAW, the union representing hospital employees.
“The announcement of the closure has raised concern among the hospital staff because no details have been provided as to how, when, and why the hospital is closing,” López Ramírez said. “It is unacceptable for a hospital to close its doors without offering a clear explanation to its employees or to the patients who depend on the vital services provided here. We are facing a scenario of uncertainty that affects the stability of more than 100 families and puts at risk the care of between 200 and 250 patients per month, not counting the outpatient surgeries, gastroscopies and colonoscopies that are performed in this institution.”
The union representative added that the situation is getting worse at Pavía because, according to information obtained by UAW, as of Nov. 1 doctors will not be able to perform hospitalizations.
“This leaves patients in limbo, not knowing where they will receive the hospital care they need,” López Ramírez said.
the island.
“The hospital claims that it will be transformed to address mental health, but what they are achieving is impacting the mental health of their own employees with this uncertainty.” It was unclear at press time if the change to the medical facility would result in layoffs.
Construction of new emergency room breaks ground in San Lorenzo
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, along with San Lorenzo Mayor Jaime Alverio Ramos and island Health Secretary Carlos Mellado López, announced on Thursday the beginning of construction on a modern 24-hour emergency room in the municipality.
With an investment of $6 million, the project will transform access to emergency medical services for the nearly 40,000 residents of the eastern central region of the island, providing immediate and quality care, in addition to strengthening the local health infrastructure.
“Health is a fundamental pillar for me and for my administration because it is representative of the well-being and quality
of life of our people,” Pierluisi said in a written statement. “That is why, throughout my career in public service, I have worked so that every Puerto Rican man and woman has access to health services in their town. Today we take another step toward that goal with the beginning of this project that will transform medical services in San Lorenzo. It is a new era for health services in this municipality and will represent vital relief for thousands of citizens who will be able to count on a well-equipped space for emergency care.”
The Health secretary underscored the commitment to the expansion of medical services in municipalities that require greater infrastructure.
“The new emergency room in San Lorenzo is a direct response to the need to improve the conditions in which we serve our citizens,” Mellado López said. “This emergency room will be essential to provide the fast and efficient care that our citizens deserve.”
He added that the business plan developed by the government was approved by the Financial Oversight and Management Board, with a projected cost of $2,858,401 for the first year of operation.
Alverio Ramos offered thanks for the project, which said has been a priority for the municipal administration, emphasizing its positive impact on health and the local economy.
“Today is a historic day for our people,” the mayor said. “This emergency room will not only improve health services in San Lorenzo, but will also have a positive impact on the local economy by generating jobs and strengthening our health infrastructure.”
The new emergency room will have radiology and labora-
tory services, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The project adds to the reconstruction efforts in San Lorenzo, where 99 additional projects are being developed with an investment of more than $22 million, and another 50 have already been completed with an investment of $18.7 million from Federal Emergency Management Agency funds.
Police seize 35 pounds of marijuana in private mail at airport
By THE STAR STAFF
Agents from the Metropolitan Drug Division of the Puerto Rico Police Bureau seized 35 pounds of marijuana and other controlled substances found in private mail at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina earlier this week.
According to the preliminary report, in addition to the marijuana, the agents confiscated four additional bags of cannabis “gummies” and a kilo and a half of cocaine on Wednesday afternoon.
The case is being handled by Metropolitan Drug Division agents, who are investigating the origin and destination of the seized substances.
Pavía Hospital in Hato Rey has announced plans to transform its facilities to offer only specialized mental health services in response to the increase in suicide cases and mental health conditions on
With an investment of $6 million, the project will provide emergency medical services for the nearly 40,000 residents of the eastern central region of the island.
Judicial branch implements special hours for general elections
By THE STAR STAFF
The judicial branch of the island government announced on Thursday the implementation of a special operating schedule in its offices this weekend and next weekend, November 2-3, as well as Tuesday, Nov. 5, the day of the general elections.
The special schedule was announced by the director of the Courts Administration, Sigfrido Steidel Figueroa, in compliance with Administrative Order OAJP-2024-129.
“The Judicial Centers of the 13 Judicial Regions will operate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to attend to electoral matters that arise during those days, ensuring availability in all regions,” Steidel Figueroa said in a written statement.
The offices of the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court will also be available during the same hours to receive any documents related to electoral cases. Criminal complaints
Museo de San Juan exhibiting Picasso’s works
By THE STAR STAFF
The Museo de San Juan has opened an exhibition of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential painters of the 20th century.
The exhibition, titled “Picasso in San Juan: Lithographic Portfolios,” brings together 40 works by the man regarded as the most influential artistic genius of the 20th century. The lithographs on display in the museum’s Sala Oller, which cover the master’s artistic production from 1899 to 1955, offer a unique look at the evolution of Pablo Picasso and reveal the most intimate and lesser-known facets of his legacy.
The exhibition, which went up late last week, is open to the public through Feb. 2, 2025. Visitors will be able to appreciate these iconic pieces that reflect multiple stages in the Spanish artist’s work, from the melancholy of his Blue Period to his bold experiments with cubism and the human figure. In addition, some of the series contain lithographs and drawings that precede several of his most internationally recognized works, giving visitors an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the artistic genius of Picasso up close, officials said.
The portfolios that make up the exhibition stand out for being original lithographic prints of works that the artist created in media, such as drawing, pastel, painting, water-
color, charcoal, and etching, reflecting his great technical versatility. Among the most outstanding are:
“The Blues of Barcelona,” a portfolio composed of 11 pieces and a lithographic poster that captures his Blue Period’s emotional intensity. Meanwhile, the intimate drawings dedicated to Geneviève Laporte, the artist’s muse, allow viewers to witness one of the most personal moments of his life. The tour continues with the preparatory sketches of his work: “The Women of Algiers” and culminates with the series entitled, “Dancers,” which consists of 14 lithographs that highlight Picasso’s unique ability to capture movement and anatomy with the simplicity that only he could achieve.
“It is a privilege to have this exhibition in the museum because, apart from allowing us to admire Pablo Picasso’s talent up close, it is a testimony to the commitment we have in the capital city to art, culture, and everything that allows us to enrich our tourist offer,” said Maritere González, the first lady of San Juan.
Víctor M. Rivera Flores, director of the Municipality of San Juan’s Department of Art and Culture, added that “we are very proud to be part of an effort that allows us to bring this important graphic collection of the master Pablo Picasso, especially within the framework of the designation of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico as the Ibero-American Capital of Cultures 2024.”
may be filed through the Unified Case Management and Administration System, or SUMAC as it is known by its acronym in Spanish.
In addition, lawyers must file civil cases through the electronic platform, while persons appearing in their own right may do so at the corresponding judicial center during the special hours established.
For cases in which a vote is challenged or appeals against the State Elections Commission are filed, those will be filed at the San Juan Judicial Center, in accordance with the Electoral Code.
More information can be obtained by consulting Administrative Order OAJP-2024-129 or by using the judicial branch’s information line at 787-641-6263.
“Picasso in San Juan: Lithographic Portfolios” is the result of a collaboration between the San Juan Department of Art and Culture, the Ibero-American University Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, and the Consulate General of Spain in Puerto Rico.
“We are excited and grateful for this exhibition, given that many communities do not have the opportunity to see works by great masters such as Picasso,” said Luis Moisés Pérez Torres, director of the museum. “With this collaboration, access to art is democratized so that a broader public can benefit from this experience on their own soil and free of charge.”
In addition to the exhibition, the Museo de San Juan has prepared a series of lectures, guided tours, and educational workshops around the exhibition, which will offer the public a comprehensive experience that delves into Picasso’s great contribution to the history of universal art.
Admission to the Museo de San Juan, located on Norzagaray Street in Old San Juan, is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
Social Security office reopens in San Juan at new location
By THE STAR STAFF
The Social Security office in San Juan reopened earlier this week at a new location at 654 Luis Muñoz Rivera Avenue.
Hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and citizens can contact the staff by phone at
(866) 270-0406.
“We remind citizens that they can access most Social Security services online, without having to visit the office,” the agency said in a written statement. “This saves time and avoids long waits.”
Services such as updating direct deposit information, requesting a replacement SSA-1099 form or a
benefit verification letter are available through the my Social Security online account. Members of the public can create their account at www.socialsecurity. gov/myaccount.
The agency urged people to schedule appointments in advance or use online services at www.socialsecurity. gov to avoid long waits at the office.
The exhibition, which went up late last week, is open to the public through Feb. 2, 2025.
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This election is also a choice between two visions of the federal courts
By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ and JUNE KIM
Federal judges have always wielded great influence. But as Congress has failed to pass major legislation in recent years on issues like abortion, immigration and gun ownership, the courts have assumed a more pronounced role, setting the agenda on some of the country’s most divisive questions.
When voters pick the next president, they will also be choosing between two visions of the federal judiciary. Federal judges are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, and almost all will serve for life, shaping U.S. law for generations.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both understood the judiciary’s powerful sway over American life. Trump succeeded in naming more federal judges in a single term than any president had since Jimmy Carter, and Biden is close behind.
Today, around half of all federal judges were nominated by one of the two most recent presidents. A New York Times analysis of their choices found stark differences among them in ideology, demographics and prior experience.
The next president will probably take office with roughly 40 vacancies to fill. Many more openings can be expected over the next four years because of deaths, retirements and resignations. And successfully filling those vacancies will largely depend on control of the Senate.
Biden’s and Trump’s outsize success hinged on the fact that each man’s party had majority control of the Senate throughout their term in the White House. Democrats narrowly control the chamber now, but recent polling data suggests that Republicans could win enough seats to take over in January.
If that happens and Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency, she would very likely face an uphill battle in getting her judicial nominees confirmed. If Trump wins, he could see even more success with a Republican Senate.
A more polarized judiciary
The federal judiciary system has three levels: At the bottom are the nation’s 94 district courts, where a total of 677 judges handle the bulk of the nearly 400,000 cases that pass through the court system each year. Challenges to district court rulings are heard by the 13 circuit courts of appeals, with a total of 179 judges. Only a tiny sliver of those cases find their way to the Supreme Court.
Most everyone in the legal world believes that the way judges rule on politically consequential cases tends to align with the party of the president who nominated them. Everyone, that is, except for the judges themselves.
“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Chief Justice John Roberts once said. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best.”
But a Times analysis of data collected by Stanford University shows that judges’ ideologies, as determined by campaign contributions they made before being confirmed, are closely linked to the party of their nominating president. And the data shows that a 2013 change to Senate filibuster rules, led by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., who was the majority leader, may have
The Supreme Court building in Washington, July 2, 2024. Judges have vast influence over the biggest political questions — an analysis of both President Biden and Donald Trump’s nominees found stark differences that could emerge again after November.
(Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
contributed to a more polarized judiciary.
Biden’s judges, on average, were somewhat more liberal than those nominated by his Democratic predecessors. Trump’s judges were, on average, ideologically similar to those nominated by previous Republican presidents.
The scores are derived from Stanford’s Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections, also known as DIME. The database, created by political scientists Adam Bonica and Maya Sen, has tracked half a billion political contributions made in local, state and federal elections over the last 45 years.
The database calculates a score for judges’ ideologies using records of campaign contributions they made before they were confirmed to the bench and became barred from making such contributions.
The score does not account for the judges’ actual rulings. Those are harder to track ideologically, because very few cases in the lower courts have a direct impact on political questions. Even so, the creators of the database say the scores have proved to be reliable indicators of judges’ ideological leanings after taking the bench.
“Today, it’s almost always the case that Republican presidents appoint conservative judges and Democratic presidents appoint liberal judges,” said Bonica, who manages the database. “In the 1970s and 1980s, there was a lot more overlap, but it’s gradually changed over time.”
Differences in race, gender and experience
Harris once said she envisioned a judiciary that “looks like America.” As vice president, she pushed Biden to choose Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, making Jackson the first Black woman to serve on the high court.
A Times analysis shows that nearly two-thirds of the judges nominated by Biden were female, and the group as a whole was far more racially diverse than Trump’s nominees. Biden nominated 38 Black women to the bench who were then confirmed by the Senate — more than the Trump, Obama, and George W. Bush administrations combined.
Trump’s judges, by contrast, were largely white and male.
He has not directly addressed the race or gender makeup of his nominees, but a senior campaign adviser, Brian Hughes, said in a statement that a second Trump term would bring more “constitutionalist judges who interpret the law as written.”
The differences went beyond race and gender. The data shows that Trump favored judicial nominees who had served in the military. Biden sought out jurists with experience defending clients who could not afford counsel, nominating nearly eight times as many such jurists as Trump did.
Control of the courts
If judges’ ideologies are linked to the party of the president, then which party’s judges have greater control now? For the Supreme Court, it is clear: Trump’s three nominees have given Republicans a 6-3 majority. Richard Nixon was the last president to get so many nominees onto the nation’s highest court in a single term.
At the lower levels, party control varies by geography. The White House will generally consult with the senators of a nominee’s home state before sending that nominee’s name to the Senate for approval. The process places extra value on the home-state senators’ opinions, which means that lawmakers from larger states where more judges sit, like California and Texas, have outsize influence over the judiciary as a whole.
Trump’s success at placing judges on the 5th Circuit, which oversees nine district courts in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, is especially notable. The circuit has a large number of “single-judge divisions,” where one district judge hears all or most of the cases brought in that geographic area, giving plaintiffs a good idea of who might hear their case.
These single-judge divisions have produced some of the most consequential rulings in recent years. In Texas, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, a Trump nominee who hears every federal case brought in 26 Texas counties, issued a preliminary ruling last year that would have limited access to the abortion drug mifepristone; the ruling was overturned by the Supreme Court in June.
Over the past few decades, some of the nation’s more liberal rulings have come out of the 9th Circuit, which covers California and eight other Western states. It was a district judge in Hawaii, Derrick K. Watson, who blocked Trump’s travel ban against travelers from predominantly Muslim countries in 2017, a decision that was later affirmed by the 9th Circuit.
A legacy that lasts generations
Current and known future judicial vacancies are spread across the country, with the greatest numbers in California (five), Texas (five), Missouri and Louisiana (four each).
If elected, Harris would have a disproportionate number of vacancies to fill in states with Republican senators, including a few seats that have gone unfilled for years and were among the toughest for Biden to fill.
Deaths, resignations, retirements and judges choosing to shift to senior status, a form of semiretirement, will yield many more vacancies for the next president. Exactly how many is hard to predict: Some judges retire relatively young, while others keep their seats into their 80s and 90s.
New judicial appointments shape the legal landscape not only through their rulings but also because lower-court judgeships
Harris calls Trump a fascist: 6 takeaways from her CNN town hall
By REID J. EPSTEIN and LISA LERER
Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a fascist on Wednesday evening, elevating what until recently had been an argument made only in the lower ranks of a Democratic Party that has spent years attacking him as anti-democratic, unfit to serve and a criminal.
Early in a CNN town hall in Pennsylvania, she readily agreed with the host, Anderson Cooper, when he asked whether she believed Trump met the definition of a fascist. “Yes, I do,” she quickly shot back. “Yes, I do.”
Later, when asked about the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, she jumped into a loaded critique of her rival.
“For many people who care about this issue, they also care about bringing down the price of groceries,” she said. “They also care about our democracy and not having a president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.”
Her comments — which went a step beyond her previous agreement that Trump was a fascist — were intended to amplify the news this week that John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, said he thought the former president met the definition of the word and worried deeply about the threat a second Trump administration posed to democratic institutions.
Harris’ attacks Wednesday evening went largely unanswered: Trump declined both a second debate and an invitation from CNN to participate in a similar forum.
Here are six takeaways from the town hall in Chester Township, Pennsylvania.
Her default answer: Trump is far worse.
Over the course of the 80-minute town hall, Harris was asked about a wide range of policy issues. Her answers often stuck to the same theme.
Would she expand the Supreme Court? Would people who make $500,000 see their taxes increase? Would Americans pay for benefits for migrants crossing the border? How would she codify Roe v. Wade into federal law? And what about Gaza?
Her answers boiled down to: Donald Trump would be worse.
It was a strategy aimed at traditional Democrats who might be wavering on her, such as progressives who are unhappy with U.S. support for Israel or Jewish voters worried that Harris wouldn’t be supportive enough.
Her goal was to refocus Democrats on something they can all agree on: the dangers they see in Trump and his divisive, at times anti-democratic language.
Voters asked direct questions. Harris gave circular answers.
Harris got one fairly straightforward question from a selfdescribed Jewish independent voter about how she would deal with antisemitism on college campuses.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during a CNN Town Hall moderated by journalist Anderson Cooper at Sun Center studios in Aston, Pa., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
In an answer that stretched for more than five minutes, she briefly touched on hate crimes but then jumped into a discursive tangent that addressed Trump’s reported invocations of Hitler, his relationships with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his actions during the coronavirus pandemic.
It was illustrative of a pivot Harris made throughout the night from the short, sharp and pointed questions that were asked of her to the long, winding answers she preferred to give.
She got a moment she wanted by showing up.
Harris’ campaign wanted voters to hear her strongest case against Trump early in the town hall, before they flipped the channel back to “Survivor.” Her aides got their wish when she quickly agreed that Trump was a fascist.
Trump was content to gripe on social media from the sidelines. Unlike the former president, who has largely stuck to conservative safe spaces and friendly podcast interviews, Harris has sat for a series of big-audience interviews with independent and — last week on Fox News — combative news outlets.
She has managed to drive news cycles in most of her appearances, and probably did so again Wednesday night. Whether voters give her credit for her willingness to be questioned remains to be seen, but there’s little question that she has answered the
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are often a rung on the ladder to a Supreme Court nomination, as they were for eight of the nine sitting justices.
Both Trump and Biden sought out relatively young judicial nominees who could serve for decades. One of Trump’s choices,
Kathryn Mizelle, was confirmed to the Middle District of Florida at age 33, making her one of the youngest federal judges on record.
Josh Hsu, who served as Harris’ deputy chief of staff in the Senate and then as counsel to the vice president, said her experience as a prosecutor and as California’s attorney general
critique that she was hiding from media scrutiny.
Still, she might have been better off in a debate. Attacking Trump, it turns out, is more effective when he’s standing right there.
Harris’ strong performance in her first — and only — presidential debate against her rival demonstrated her ability to bait him into a misstep. But without him standing nearby, her attacks on him appeared more like dodges of questions about her own plans than crisp responses about what she would do as president.
Trump has repeatedly refused to participate in another debate, unwilling to risk another opportunity for American voters to make a side-by-side comparison. While that decision may not be the best for voters eager to size up the candidates, her performance Wednesday night showed why it might benefit Trump.
She has an answer for her reversals from 2019.
One of Harris’ strongest moments came when she was asked about her policy reversals on issues like fracking — a topic particularly important in Pennsylvania. She has shifted her positions on numerous issues since her 2019 run for president, including funding for the police, her support for a single-payer health care system, and decriminalizing crossing the border illegally.
When asked about her flip-flops, Harris repositioned what has long been considered a weakness for her into a strong character trait and subtle attack on the egoism of her opponent.
“Our country deserves to have a president of the United States who is not afraid of good ideas and does not stand on pride,” she said. “I’m never going to shy away from good ideas. And I’m not going to feel the need to have pride associate with a position that I’ve taken, when the important thing is to build consensus to fix problems.”
Under two weeks out, she’s still defining herself.
With less than two weeks left in the race, and after nearly four years as vice president, it remains striking how Harris is still laying out basic details of her personal history to American voters. She’s from a middle-class family. She prays every day and is close with her pastor. She’s still grieving the death of her mother. Most of her career was spent outside Washington.
The broad unfamiliarity with her biography strikes a sharp contrast with her opponent. Trump’s life is not only the stuff of political lore, it has also played on television screens for decades, been the topic of bestselling books and has dominated American politics for nearly a decade.
A candidate typically explains her or his personal history during a long primary fight, and then again to a broader generalelection audience in the spring and summer. Harris was forced into an unusually short timeline this year — and the fact that she is still telling her story underscores the challenge and how far she still has to go to tell voters who she is.
made her keenly aware of the judiciary’s power.
“With Trump’s nominees, she’d ask questions about reproductive rights and voting rights,” he said about Harris’ time on the Senate Judiciary Committee, “because she knew the impact that a single district court judge can have.”
Boeing workers resoundingly reject new contract and extend strike
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
Boeing’s largest union rejected a tentative labor contract earlier this week by a wide margin, extending a damaging strike and adding to the mounting financial problems facing the company, which hours earlier had reported a $6.1 billion loss.
The contract, the second that workers have voted down, was opposed by 64% of those voting, according to the union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The union represents about 33,000 workers, but it did not disclose how many voted Wednesday.
“There’s much more work to do. We will push to get back to the table, we will push for the members’ demands as quickly as we can,” said Jon Holden, president of District 751 of the union, which represents the vast majority of the workers and has led in the talks. He delivered that message at the union’s Seattle headquarters to a room of members chanting, “Fight, fight.”
Boeing declined to comment on the vote, which was a setback for the company’s new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, who is trying to restore its reputation and business with a strategy he described in detail earlier on Wednesday. In remarks to workers and investors, Ortberg said Boeing needed to undergo “fundamental culture change” to stabilize the business and to improve execution.
“Our leaders, from me on down, need to be closely integrated with our business and the people who are doing the design and production of our products,” he said. “We need to be on the factory floors, in the back shops and in our engineering labs. We need to know what’s going on, not only with our products, but with our people.”
Ortberg delivered that message alongside the company’s quarterly financial results, which included the loss of more than $6.1 billion. This month, Boeing also announced plans to cut its workforce by about 10%, which amounts to 17,000 jobs. The company also recently disclosed plans to raise as much as $25 billion by selling debt or stock over the next three years as it tries to avoid a damaging downgrade to its credit rating. The strike is costing the company tens of millions of dollars each day, according to various estimates.
The negotiations have been contentious. The strike began Sept. 13 after 95% of workers voting rejected an earlier contract offer that had been backed by union leaders and Boeing. Later that month, the company made what it described as its “best and final” offer. The company gave workers just days to approve or reject it, but leaders of the union never put it to a vote. Boeing eventually rescinded the offer, with talks breaking down this month.
The two sides arrived at the now-rejected deal only after the Biden administration got involved. Senior administration officials had been working closely with Boeing and the union in recent months, at President Joe Biden’s direction. Last week,
Julie Su, the acting labor secretary, flew to Seattle to meet with company executives and union officials. On Wednesday, Holden said he planned to ask the White House to continue to try to help the parties find a resolution.
Boeing is important to the United States as an economic engine and as a symbol of manufacturing prowess. It employs almost 150,000 people across the country — nearly half in Washington state — and is one of the nation’s largest exporters. The company also makes military jets, rockets, spacecraft and Air Force One.
Under the contract, workers would have received cumulative raises of nearly 40% over four years, a significant increase over the rejected offer and approaching what the union initially sought. The offer included a $7,000 one-time bonus and additional contributions to retirement plans. It also would have preserved an incentive bonus program that the initial rejected offer would have replaced.
Boeing machinists make about $75,000 in average annual pay. Over the last decade, the workers have seen raises under the union contract of 8% and more than $4 an hour in additional cost-of-living adjustments, according to the company. Consumer prices in the Seattle area have risen more than 40% over the past decade, according to federal data.
But the contract did not revive a defined-benefit pension plan that was frozen a decade ago — an important priority for many union members. Many workers have been furious over that loss for years, and some have said that they felt Boeing had bullied them into agreeing to the freezing of the pension. Workers have also been angry with the leadership of the union’s parent organization, which they say scheduled the vote in a way that supported approval of the offer, prompting a rule
change that limited the authority to schedule votes to local union chapters.
“There’s some deep wounds,” Holden told reporters after announcing the vote results. Holden also said the union may explore what he called hybrid defined-benefit programs in negotiations.
The rejection of the new contract comes as Boeing is trying to recover from a crisis that began when a panel fell off a 737 Max jet during an Alaska Airlines flight in January, reigniting concerns about the quality and safety of Boeing’s planes. Five years earlier, two fatal Max crashes led regulators worldwide to ground the plane for nearly two years.
After the January episode, the Federal Aviation Administration limited production of the Max, Boeing’s bestselling plane. The company has since increased inspections, added training for new hires, started to simplify procedures and limited tasks performed out of sequence.
The contract’s defeat is also bad news for the manufacturer’s many suppliers. Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the body of the 737 Max and has agreed to sell itself to Boeing, recently announced plans to furlough about 700 employees, starting next week, because of the strike.
The contract being negotiated would replace one that was agreed to in 2008 and extended multiple times. That offer came together only after a two-month strike that led to a decline of more than $6 billion in revenue and a delay in delivering more than 100 airplanes that year, Boeing said at the time.
Counting ballots at the IAM 751 Union Hall in Seattle on Oct. 23, 2024. Boeing’s largest union rejected a tentative labor contract on Wednesday by a wide margin, extending a damaging strike and adding to the mounting financial problems facing the company, which hours earlier had reported a $6.1 billion loss. (M. Scott Brauer/The New York Times)
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Global shares were flat in choppy trading on Thursday, while U.S. Treasury yields and strong corporate results allayed worries over upcoming U.S. elections and rate cuts.
Tesla jumped 19% after CEO Elon Musk provided on Wednesday a forecast for robust car sales growth next year that reassured investors.
The benchmark S&P 500 and the Nasdaq traded slightly higher, with gains in consumer discretionary stocks and losses in materials and industrials equities.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.48% to 42,310.36, the S&P 500 rose 0.11% to 5,803.54 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.55% to 18,377.64.
European shares gained 0.03%, ending a streak of three consecutive losses amid positive results from companies including Renault, Unilever and Hermes. MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe eased 0.02% to 844.16.
“Markets have traded lower over the past three or four days as a bit of a pause after a huge surge, with most of the equity indexes still trading rather near their all-time highs.” said Michael Farr, president and chief executive at Farr, Miller & Washington.
“Perhaps the Fed isn’t going to be lowering rates quite as extensively and quickly as (investors) hope. However, the real bottom line is the economy doing OK and earnings season is coming on with reasonable gains,” Farr added.
Traders are pricing in a near-92% chance of a 25-basis-point cut at the Federal Reserve’s November meeting, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch Tool. Benchmark 10-year note yields were last down 4.4 basis points at 4.045% after reaching 4.26% on Wednesday, the highest since July 26.
The U.S. dollar slipped as data supported views for a slower pace of rate cuts by the Fed. The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment aid unexpectedly fell to 227,000 last week, suggesting a more resilient la-
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The greenback weakened 0.62% against the Japanese yen to 151.8. The euro was up 0.2% at $1.0802, while the sterling strengthened 0.27% to $1.2958.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies including the yen and the euro,fell 0.25% to 104.18.
Gold prices rose to near-record highs amid safe-haven demand from persistent geopolitical concerns and as investors sought safety from close U.S. elections on Nov. 5.
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Spot gold rose 0.44% to $2,729.58 an ounce. U.S. gold futures rose 0.54% to $2,729.00 an ounce.
Oil prices fell by about 1% in volatile trade on worries that slow economic growth in Europe could reduce energy demand.
Brent futures fell 0.79% to $74.38 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude slipped 0.88% to $70.16.
“The volatility from things like elections and geopolitical events around the globe tends to add to market volatility, but they don’t tend to be significant over longer periods of time in terms of moving share prices,” Farr said.
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Putin appears to say that North Korean troops are in Russia
By VALERIE HOPKINS
President Vladimir Putin of Russia appeared to acknowledge on Thursday that North Korean troops had been deployed to Russia, commenting for the first time on the assessment of Western officials that the reclusive Asian country had joined Russia’s war effort against Ukraine.
“Images — that is something serious, if there are images they are a reflection of something,” he said, responding to a question about satellite images appearing to show North Korean troops in Russia.
His tongue-in-cheek response, at a conference of emerging-market economies that Russia is hosting, did not explicitly confirm or deny statements made Wednesday by the Pentagon, which said that North Korea had sent troops to Russia.
He was speaking hours after Russia’s lower house of parliament ratified a mutual defense treaty with North Korea that Putin had signed with Kim Jong Un, the North’s leader, when Putin visited Pyongyang in June.
It was a rubber-stamp vote, but Putin used it to reaffirm Moscow’s ties to North Korea and send a signal that he was drawing in allies who would bolster his standoff with the West.
“Today, we ratified our treaty on strategic partnership which contains article four,” Putin continued. He was referring to a clause stipulating that should either nation be “put in a state of war by an armed invasion,” the other will “provide military and other assistance with all means in its possession without delay.”
“We have never doubted the fact that the North Korean leadership is very serious about their commitments to that, but it is up to us to decide what to do about implementing it,” he said.
On Wednesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called the presence of North Korean troops in Russia “very, very serious,” though he said that what the soldiers were doing in Russia was “left to be seen.” He said there was no con-
President Vladimir Putin of Russia after the military parade on Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, on May 9, 2024. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)
clusive evidence that the North Korean troops were moving toward Ukraine.
Ukraine has said that up to 12,000 North Korean soldiers may be mobilized to fight alongside Russian soldiers. South Korea’s intelligence agency estimated that there are 3,000 North Korean soldiers on Russian soil at the moment, and their numbers were expected to swell to 10,000 by December. In a statement Thursday, Ukraine’s intelligence agency said the first North Korean troops had arrived in Russia’s western Kursk region, where Ukraine staged an incursion in August. The claims could not be independently verified.
In remarks earlier on Thursday, Putin claimed Russia could not be defeated on the battlefield.
“Our adversaries make no secret of their goal to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia,” Putin said before the assembled leaders. “I will say directly: These are illusionary calculations, made by those who do not know Russia’s history.”
The Russian president was speaking in Kazan on the final
day of a summit, named BRICS after its members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Putin has sought to build the conference into a global counterweight to a wealthy West. In his comments, Putin called the summit a success for a group committed to building a “more democratic, inclusive and multipolar world order.”
The event has been a relative public relations coup for Putin, whom the West has sought to isolate since the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It was attended by dozens of world leaders, including more than 20 heads of state. Putin said leaders of 30 countries, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey — a NATO member — had expressed interest in joining the bloc.
The war in Ukraine has loomed over the three-day meeting, even though most of the leaders present did not emphasize it in their remarks and there was no progress toward a plan for peace. It barely figured in the official communiqué agreed to by all member states, which was more focused on the escalating crisis in the Middle East, condemning Western sanctions, and on calls to reform the global financial system.
But the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres — on his first trip to Russia since April 2022, when the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was under siege — called for a “just peace” as he addressed a plenary session of BRICS members and aspirants, before a one-on-one with Putin.
“We need peace in Ukraine — a just peace in line with the U.N. Charter, international law and the General Assembly resolution,” Guterres said. Such a peace, he said, should be based on “the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of all states.”
His visit was condemned by Ukraine and by Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
“It was the third year of the war, and the UN SecretaryGeneral was shaking hands with a murderer,” Navalnaya wrote on social platform X, above a photo of Putin greeting Guterres.
Gustavo Gutiérrez, father of liberation theology, dies at 96
By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN
Gustavo Gutiérrez, a Peruvian priest and scholar who was regarded as the father of Latin American liberation theology, a far-reaching school of thought and action born of solidarity with poor and marginalized people, died Tuesday in his apartment in Lima, Peru. He was 96.
The cause was pneumonia, said Leo Guardado, a friend and former assistant who is now a theology professor at Fordham University in New York.
Gutiérrez, a Dominican priest, was best known as the author of “Teología de la Liberación,” a landmark work of social and theological analysis originally published in Spanish in 1971 and first available in English in 1973 as “A Theology of Liberation.” In that book, he asserted that the God of the Jewish and Christian traditions exhibits a preferential commitment to the poor.
The book anticipated movements in the United States to establish housing and health care as basic human rights, and it continues to be taught in seminaries and universities.
Gutiérrez argued that the salvation of the poor was not achievable only in an otherworldly afterlife, as the church had long taught, but could also be realized within history. To know God, he insisted, people must work to eliminate poverty and unjust conditions on Earth. The church must concern itself with life in this world, not the next.
To speak of a preferential option for the poor was not “a question of idealizing poverty,” Gutiérrez wrote, “but rather of taking it on as it is — as evil — to protest against it and to struggle to abolish it.”
Once considered revolutionary, the notion of empathy and advocacy for the poor is now a central tenet of Roman Catholic social teaching.
“We love God by loving our neighbor,” Gutiérrez contended. “Only then will God be with us.”
Like the Jesus of the gospels, who lived with the outcasts of his day, he worked much of his life in the Rímac barrio of Lima, Peru’s capital, where, as a parish priest and director of the Bartolemé de Las Casas Institute, he ministered to the poor.
His experience amid the squalor of Rímac led him to view poverty as a form of evil that has not only an economic dimension but also a spiritual one. To be poor, he said in a 2016 interview with America, a magazine published by the Jesuits, is to be invisible and, all too often, to suffer a premature and unjust death.
“A Theology of Liberation” immediately gained traction among clergy and lay people struggling against oppressive economic and political systems in Gutiérrez’s native Latin America. The book inspired multitudes in Asia and Africa as well.
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His ideas even found resonance outside the church, in the work of global activists such as Paul Farmer, a physician, Harvard University professor and United Nations deputy special envoy for Haiti, who founded the nonprofit organization Partners in Health, which provides health care to poor people throughout the world.
Gutiérrez’s theology was not without its detractors. It was criticized by scholars living in capitalist countries for its use of Marxist social analysis to expose unjust political systems in the third world, many of them supported by first world powers.
His work also came under fire from feminists for not explicitly addressing the sexual oppression of poor women in Latin America. And despite being steeped in the theological populism of the Second Vatican Council, sessions of which Gutiérrez attended in Rome in the early 1960s, his writings fell under the scrutiny of the Vatican for deviating from Catholic orthodoxy.
More recently, his theology found favor with Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, who invited him to a meeting at the Vatican in 2013. In L’Osservatore Romano, the semiofficial newspaper of the Vatican, the pope declared that liberation theology can no longer “remain in the shadows to which it has been relegated for some years, at least in Europe.”
Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, a mestizo of Hispanic and Quechua Indian descent, was born June 8, 1928, in the Montserrat barrio of Lima. He had polio as a child and spent most of his teenage years confined to bed. His infirmity inspired him to pursue a career in medicine — he earned a degree from the National University of Peru in 1950 — before ultimately choosing the priesthood.
Gutiérrez did his graduate work in Europe, where he studied philosophy, psychology and theology at universities in Belgium, France and Italy. Returning to the slums of Lima in the late 1950s, he discovered that the dominant theology of the Northern Hemisphere had little relevance in the context of Latin America.
“The history of humanity has been written ‘with a white hand,’ from the side of the dominators,” he observed, echoing the writings of his friend and fellow Peruvian José María Arguedas, to whom, along with the Brazilian priest Henrique Pereira Neto, “A Theology of Liberation” was dedicated. “History’s losers have another outlook.”
“The theology of liberation,” Gutiérrez insisted, “begins from the questions asked by the poor and plundered of the world, by those ‘without a history.’”
This necessity of reading history from the underside, and of having theology issue from the perspective of oppressed people rather than being imposed from without by the acad-
emy or the church, became a hallmark of liberation theology. Likewise was Gutiérrez’s commitment to grassroots ecclesial communities, as the locus of the struggle for liberation.
The fundamental themes of Latin American liberation theology were first given voice in documents drafted by Gutiérrez and Oscar Romero — a Salvadoran archbishop assassinated in 1980 for speaking out against social injustice — after a historic series of meetings of priests that culminated in a gathering of bishops in Medellín, Colombia, in 1968.
Gutiérrez also wrote much of what emerged from the Latin American Episcopal Council held in Puebla, Mexico, in 1979. But he would not receive his doctorate in theology, from the Catholic University of Lyon in France, until 1985, almost 15 years after the initial publication of “A Theology of Liberation.”
Gutiérrez wrote more than a dozen books and taught at several institutions over the years, including the Pontifical University of Peru and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, where he was the John Cardinal O’Hara professor of theology from 2001 until his retirement in 2018, when he was named professor emeritus. He was made a member of the French Legion of Honor in 1993 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.
Even into his 80s — and long after he was recognized as one of most influential theologians of the 20th century — Gutiérrez spent half of each year away from Notre Dame working in the slums of Lima.
He is survived by an older sister.
Gutiérrez always knew that his vision of human redemption, with its summons to political action in solidarity with the oppressed, would be controversial; he was, after all, calling the basic assumptions of the capitalist-bred churches of the United States and Europe to moral and political account.
“Latin American misery and injustice go too deep to be responsive to palliatives,” he wrote in 1983 in “The Power of the Poor in History.” “Hence we speak of social revolution, not reform; of liberation, not development; of socialism, not the modernization of the prevailing system. ‘Realists’ call these statements romantic and utopian. And they should, for the rationality of these statements is of a kind quite unfamiliar to them.”
Gustavo Gutiérrez in 2007 (Wikipedia)
Here is the missing context in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘The Message’
By PAMELA PAUL
Why did pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University chant “NYPD, KKK” and the Movement for Black Lives demand “an immediate end to Israel’s lethal settler-colonial project”? And how did the tables turn so quickly on Israel — even before its military retaliation — after Hamas attacked it on Oct. 7, 2023?
If the answers to these questions elude you, it’s worth reading two short new books.
You’ve probably heard about one of them, “The Message” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which came out this month and is already a bestseller. Coates, the prizewinning author of “Between the World and Me,” is a writer who, fittingly for someone who has written numerous Black Panther comics, has achieved superhero status on the left.
The other book, “On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice,” by poet and critic Adam Kirsch, has received far less fanfare. While Coates’ book captures the moral conviction behind the pro-Palestinian movement, Kirsch’s explains how its underlying ideology took root in elite circles over two decades only to explode into the public sphere on Oct. 7.
“For many academics and activists, describing Israel as a settler-colonial state was a sufficient justification for the Hamas attack,” Kirsch writes, “because for them the term encapsulates a whole series of ideological convictions — about Israel and Palestine, but also about history and many social and political issues, from the environment to gender to capitalism. Indeed,
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Insofar as college students read at all these days, “The Message” is likely to reach many. But if schools were to assign one book this academic year, I’d recommend Kirsch’s — even if only for context.
Context is precisely what critics of “The Message” have found lacking. The book consists of four essays, including ones about trips to Senegal and to a school district in South Carolina where “Between the World and Me” has been banned. But its longest section, on Israel and Palestine, has attracted the most negative attention, in particular because it leaves out any mention of the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada, Hamas or Oct. 7.
These omissions, as well as the absence of a contemporary pro-Israeli perspective, are a conscious choice on Coates’ part. He has no desire, he writes, to “hear both sides” — “no matter how politely articulated, no matter how elegantly crafted.” As he puts it, “My frame excluded any defense of the patently immoral.”
“On Settler Colonialism” makes the reasons behind this refusal clear. As Kirsch defines it, settler colonialist theory holds that any state that is created against the will of the people previously living there is permanently illegitimate; no argument can counter that basic fact. The through line Coates draws in “The Message” from Senegal to American slavery to Trump’s America to Israel belongs to the same school of thought that ties America’s conquest of its Native American population to imperial efforts to subjugate Indigenous populations worldwide. According to settler colonialist theory, “colonial America” refers not only to the 18th century, but also to Americans living on Indigenous land today.
From here, it’s just a small skip to the Middle East, where Israel is cast in the role of colonial settler and Palestinians are the oppressed. In this reading of history, “occupation” doesn’t refer merely to right-wing settlers in the West Bank, but to Israel’s very existence.
Such an interpretation lends itself to a stark moral divide. In Coates’ rendition, for Israelis, Palestinians are “savage Nazis, third-world barbarians embodying the depraved native in the colonial mind. The Aztec. The Indian. The Zulu. The Arab.” Between a Black American like himself and the Palestinians, Coates sees “the warmth of solidarity, of ‘conquered peoples,’ as one of my comrades put it, finding each other across the chasm of oceans and experience.”
On this side of the ocean, settler colonialist theory easily found purchase amid a curriculum in which dates and events have been de-emphasized in favor of more theoretical approaches to understanding the past. History majors can now specialize in thematic frameworks like Comparative Colonialism or Race and Ethnicity, for example, rather than Early European History or Modern Chinese History. As with the social sciences, this more ideological approach cherry-picks historical facts in the pursuit of an argument.
That doesn’t mean this approach lacks legitimate
An aerial view of an Israeli settler outpost called Eviatar in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 7, 2024. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)
points. In “The Message,” for example, Coates describes the very real tension between the ideals of democracy, which rests on equality among diverse members of society, and the Jewish state of Israel, which privileges adherents of one religion over another.
But while he condemns the status quo, Coates never proposes an alternative. For an ostensibly progressive movement, the pro-Palestinian cause doesn’t specify what might constitute progress. As Kirsch notes, “For the ideology of settler colonialism, the impossibility of concretely imagining a decolonial future ought to serve as a warning sign.”
Herein lies the most dispiriting aspect of settler colonialist theory in practice. Activists and institutions can voice ever louder and longer land acknowledgments, but no one is seriously proposing returning the United States to Native Americans. Similarly, if “From the river to the sea” is taken literally, where does that leave Israeli Jews, many of whom were exiled not only from Europe and Russia, but also from surrounding Muslim states? The ideology of settler colonialism offers little beyond a hopeless impasse, that “history is evil and deserves to be repealed” or what Kirsch calls a “longing for redemptive destruction.”
In their mutual resistance to an end game, an ironic parallel emerges between the “free Palestine” movement and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has declined to offer a viable plan for how the current conflict ends. It may be that neither side can find a realistic solution that can claim pure justice. What remains, in its absence, are vengeance and despair.
El RUM celebra su Casa Abierta con más de tres mil estudiantes de todo Puerto Rico
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– El Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) abrió el jueves sus puertas a más de tres mil estudiantes de cuarto año de escuela superior en su tradicional Casa Abierta, celebrada en las áreas cercanas a los edificios Chardón, Stefani y el Centro de Estudiantes.
El evento informativo, organizado por la Oficina de Admisiones del RUM, brinda a los futuros universitarios la oportunidad de conocer la oferta académica del recinto, que incluye los Colegios de Ciencias Agrícolas, Artes y Ciencias, Ingeniería y Administración de Empresas. A través de orientaciones interactivas, los estudiantes pueden explorar los programas que más se ajustan a sus intereses y aspiraciones profesionales.
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diantes la posibilidad de adentrarse en nuestras áreas de estudio, conocer los servicios disponibles y descubrir las oportunidades de internados e investigaciones que ofrecemos. Todas las oficinas de servicios están aquí para aclarar cualquier duda. Queremos que los visitantes comprendan la importancia de estudiar en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, especialmente en el Colegio de Mayagüez”, expresó Xenia Ramírez Colón, directora de Admisiones del RUM.
Este año, la Casa Abierta contó con la participación de escuelas públicas y privadas de toda la isla, incluyendo estudiantes de pueblos como Caguas, Gurabo, Jayuya, Aibonito, Vega Baja, Toa Baja, San Juan, Hatillo, Aguada, Añasco, Mayagüez y muchos más. De hecho, se desplegó un mapa de Puerto Rico para que los jóvenes marcaran su lugar de procedencia.
Por su parte, el doctor Agustín Rullán Toro, rector del RUM, destacó el valor del evento como una ventana al futuro académico de los estudiantes.
“¿Por qué elegir el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez? Contamos con una facultad de excelencia, lo que garantiza que nuestros estudiantes reciben una educación de primera. Ofrecemos una vasta cantidad de proyectos de investigación, perfectos para quienes buscan innovar, descubrir y desarrollarse profesionalmente. Además, muchas empresas ya están interesadas en nuestros estudiantes, brindándoles oportunidades de empleo incluso antes de graduarse. Pero más allá de lo académico, somos un campus vibrante, con un entorno dinámico que fomenta la participación en actividades sociales, asociaciones estudiantiles y un fuerte sentido de comunidad entre los estudiantes”, expresó el Rector.
“La Casa Abierta no es solo una actividad, es la puerta de entrada a un mundo de posibilidades. Al recibir a miles de jóvenes, les brindamos la oportunidad de conocer nuestro recinto, interactuar con nuestros profesores y descubrir un sinfín de oportunidades académicas y profesionales. Invitamos a todos los visitantes a aprovechar esta experiencia para imaginar el impacto que pueden lograr con una educación en el Colegio de Mayagüez”, agregó.
Además de la orientación académica, los visitantes tuvieron la oportunidad de interactuar con proyectos estudiantiles, conocer las diversas asociaciones universitarias y hasta la mascota Tarzán.
El evento también contó con la participación de las oficinas de Asistencia Económica, Intercambio, Colocaciones y Escuela Graduada, que brindaron orientación sobre becas, intercambios internacionales y más.
Precisamente, Rullán Toro resaltó una de las más recientes iniciativas de apoyo económico para los estudiantes del RUM.
“Con programas como el otorgado por la compañía Lilly del Caribe, que recientemente donó $6.1 millones en becas, seguimos apoyando a nuestros estudiantes para que culminen exitosamente sus carreras académicas”, indicó.
El cierre estuvo a cargo de la Centenaria Banda Colegial y sus Abanderadas, quienes ofrecieron un espectáculo musical.
“Es un honor recibir a tantas mentes jóvenes llenas de potencial. Hoy, cada uno de estos estudiantes representa una promesa para el futuro, y nosotros estamos comprometidos a ofrecerles el mejor ambiente académico, con oportunidades de investigación, innovación y desarrollo personal”, concluyó el Rector.
Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico deniega moción de reconsideración presentada por Carlos Julián Maldonado Dávila
SAN JUAN – El secretario del Departamento de Justicia, Domingo Emanuelli Hernández, informó a principios de esta semana que el Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico denegó la primera moción de reconsideración presentada por Carlos Julián Maldonado Dávila, quien fue convicto por la muerte de Natalia Nicole Ayala Rivera y por causar heridas graves a Carlos Adhil Sosa Bigio.
“El Tribunal Supremo denegó la pe-
tición de reconsideración que presentó Maldonado Dávila, por lo que en este momento prevalece la determinación del Tribunal de Apelaciones, que acogió la petición del Departamento de Justicia, presentada a través de la Oficina del Procurador General, para que se le impusiera una pena de cárcel al convicto”, indicó Emanuelli en declaraciones escritas el martes.
Maldonado Dávila aún tiene la opción de presentar una segunda moción de reconsideración. Si el Tribunal Supremo también la deniega, la deter-
minación del Tribunal de Apelaciones quedará final y firme. Esto implicaría que Maldonado Dávila tendría que cumplir dos años en prisión, seguido de ocho años bajo sentencia suspendida.
El Departamento de Justicia solicitó al Tribunal de Apelaciones en diciembre de 2023 que revisara la decisión del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, la cual había concedido a Maldonado Dávila el privilegio de una sentencia suspendida, tras ser hallado culpable por la muerte de Natalia Ayala Rivera y los daños a Sosa Bigio.
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5 horror movies to stream now
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
Just in time for Halloween are new scary movies about a demon daddy, evil in the woods and ’90s television hell. ‘Mr. Crocket’
If you watch only one new horror film this Halloween, make it this demented but deeply humane meditation on fathers and sins.
If Freddy Krueger and Mister Rogers got together in the 1990s and said “Let’s make a VHS tape,” it would look like “Mr. Crocket’s World,” the song-and-dance singalong children’s show that Summer (Jerrika Hinton) pops into her VCR one day to help calm her young son, Major (Ayden Gavin), who’s struggling to cope with his father’s death.
The show’s host is Mr. Crocket (Elvis Nolasco), a wide-smiling dweeb with furry sidekicks, chirpy kid co-stars and a catchphrase song with echoes of the “Diff’rent Strokes” theme. But Mr. Crocket isn’t a boy’s best friend — he’s a soul-sucking boogeyman who kills parents, kidnaps their kids and transports those kids to the set of his show as part of a twisted quest to make sure despair never skips a generation.
Director Brandon Espy brilliantly upends Generation X children’s television conventions — “Pee-wee’s Playhouse”-like puppetry, “Electric Company”-era animation styles — to tell a fast-moving and crushing story about parenthood and inherited trauma. The protagonist is a strong mother-protector, but Espy and Carl Reid’s probing script — my favorite this year — centers on failed fathers and their failed fathers and the messes these flawed men leave behind. It’s a knockout. (Stream it on Hulu.)
‘Daddy’s Head’
Benjamin Barfoot’s ice-cold supernatural thriller begins as Laura (Julia Brown) and her shy young stepson, Isaac (Rupert Turnbull), mourn the untimely death of James (Charles Aitken), the boy’s father. As much as Laura cares for Isaac, she has her own demons and doesn’t feel ready to become a single mother. To keep the boy out of foster care she agrees, despite feeling that Isaac hates her.
But Isaac has someone else watching over him: The creature who whispers to him at night in a rusty voice and lures him to a massive wooden lair in the woods. (James was an architect.) Are
these conversations in Isaac’s head? Or does his father’s embrace really exist beyond a darkened threshold in the forest?
Barfoot seamlessly blends folk horror, creature feature grotesquerie and science fiction in his sinister but heartfelt examination of unresolved grief. (Cinematographer Miles Ridgway is an equally elegant storyteller.) Barfoot’s taut script calls to mind “The Babadook” but with one very big and startling difference: Mom isn’t sure she wants to be a mom, and the devil knows it. (Stream it on Shudder.)
‘I Saw the TV Glow’
Two years ago, writer-director Jane Schoenbrun knocked my socks off with the disturbing but profoundly poetic foundfootage oddity “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.” Schoenbrun returns with this more polished but equally unnerving supernatural drama that uses nostalgia for the ’90s to drive a story about the perils of looking back.
The film is set in 1996, and centers on two young misfits — Owen (Justice Smith) and Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) — who bond over their affection for “The Pink Opaque,” an “X-Files”-like show about two girls with monster-battling superpowers that aired Saturday nights on a WB-ish channel called the Young Adult Network. For those of us who found our tribe through weird television — for me it was “Tales From the Darkside” — theirs is a comfortingly familiar friendship.
But as fiction and reality blur, otherworldly dangers threaten Owen and Maddy’s kinship, and it’s there — in an uneasy fusion of recollection, sexual and gender awakening and tenderness — that this heartbreaking and visually arresting film bears terrifying fruit. (Stream it on Max.)
‘The Funeral’
It’s a mystery why this devastating zombie drama from Turkish writer-director Orcun Behram hasn’t made more of a splash. Now that it’s streaming, fans of international undead cinema are in for a treat.
The film begins as Cemal (Ahmet Rifat Sungar), a loner hearse driver, gets hired to deliver the body of a young woman, Zeynep (Cansu Turedi), to her funeral. The circumstances surrounding her death are shady, but the money is real. Cemal doesn’t get far before he discovers that Zeynep is actually alive, barely,
“Mr. Crocket”
and has a strange symbol carved into her chest that may have something to do with her thirst for human blood, a hankering that Cemal, sensing in Zeynep a kindred misunderstood spirit, feeds with his own body.
A less confident director might have risked stumbling into comedy territory, going for a gender-swapped “Lisa Frankenstein.” But Behram plays it mostly straight, and the result is an absurdist, ultra-gory and defiantly feminist trip. When the final stretch takes a darkly fantastical turn, it’s no spoiler to say that the funeral of the title doesn’t go as planned. (Stream it on Screambox.)
‘Come Home’
Like “The Strings” and “Falcon Lake,” this indie ghost story is slow-burn horror that’s so talky, some people might not even consider it a horror movie. But it is, and it’s an unassuming doozy. It’s set at a cabin in the Adirondacks, where Mel (Caitlin Zoz), whose family owns the property, and her new husband, Ikenna (Chinaza Uche), escape the city with another interracial couple, Arjun (Sathya Sridharan) and Taylor (Paton Ashbrook). The area is said to be haunted by a woman who summons her dead lover by calling out “come home” — a warning, not a folk tale, says Sam (Audrey Hailes), a local who, like Ikenna, is Black. When Ikenna and Arjun go missing, let’s just say it’s not to go on a hike. The film was directed by Zoz and Nicole Pursell and written by seven people, including the actors — usually a sign of a messy, catchall script. But while the film’s racial concerns are too unclearly articulated — too many cooks, too many directions — it still kept me hooked and guessing, using time and silence to ponder ghosts and the evil unseen. (Rent or buy it on Amazon Prime Video.)
The Union of Women of the Americas (UMA), Puerto Rico Chapter, Inter-American Headquarters Inc., celebrates its 69th anniversary
left, Hon. Virginia
Consul of Uruguay District; Hon. César Julio Cedeño, Consul of Dominican Republic; Helen Santos, Esq., president of UMA; Hon. Humberto Zacapa, Consul of El Salvador and Dean of Consular Corps of P.R.; and Yolanda Da Silveira, Honorary Consul of Portugal.
By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS
THon. Angelo P. Sanfilippo, Honorary Consul Emeritus and actual Consular Correspondent of Italy; Hon. Rex Seymour, Honorary Consul of Canada; Helen Santos, Esq., president of UMA; Hon. Marc Passeriu, Ex Consul of France; and Hon. Luis Enrique Santaliz, Consul of Malta.
he Union of Women of the Americas (UMA), Puerto Rico Chapter, Inter-American Headquarters Inc., gathered its members to celebrate its 69th anniversary. The event also provided an opportunity to honor National Heritage Month with the consuls of several countries as special guests. The spectacular celebration was held at the Caparra Country Club in Guaynabo.
After enjoying an exquisite lunch, the special guests explained the structure of the Consular Corps of Puerto Rico, its significance, the services they provide to their citizens, and their contributions to society.
The content of their brief presentations was highly engaging and captivated the audience. The discussion offered an enjoyable way to learn about the consulates and their essential role in each country. One of the main objectives of UMA is the education of women. That is why, in each assembly, the organization presents topics of practical value. This aligns with UMA’s theme of the year: “Knowledge gives confidence, and confidence empowers.”
The San Juan Daily Star
Mrs. Miriam Villanueva Ayón, Consul attached to the General Consulate of México. Behind her, Helen Santos, Esq., president of UMA, and members of the board of directors 2024-2025.
Mr. Waldemar Vives, Honorary Vice Consul of Uruguay; Helen Santos, Esq., president of UMA; and Francisco Millán Rajoy, the General Consulate of Spain’s head of the Economic and Commercial Office of Spain in Puerto Rico.
Mrs. Madeleine Hernández; Mrs. Lilly Rodríguez; Hon. Angelo P. Sanfilippo, Honorary Consul Emeritus and actual Consular Correspondent of Italy; and his wife, Mrs. Milagros M. Rivera.
Hon. Humberto Zacapa, Consul of El Salvador and Dean of Consular Corps of P.R., addressing UMA members.
Hon. Luis Enrique Santaliz, Consul of Malta; Hon. Marc Passeriu, Ex Consul of France; Mrs. Jocelyn Batle; Mr. Waldemar Vives, Honorary Vice Consul of Uruguay; and Mrs. Miriam Loubriel.
From
Scandroglio, Honorary
How back-to-back hurricanes harm mental health
By EMILY SCHMALL
As Hurricane Milton battered Florida’s Gulf Coast this month, Chloe Ottani followed the news with horror from her parents’ Connecticut home. She had just evacuated her apartment at the University of Tampa for the second time in two weeks.
Ottani and other students were evacuated as Milton morphed into a Category 5 storm. The mayor of Tampa, Jane Castor, warned that day that those who remained in evacuation zones were “going to die.”
“I haven’t put my phone down for the last 24 hours,” Ottani, 21, said on Oct. 10. By then, the hurricane had landed as a Category 3 storm, cutting a path of death and destruction as it crossed Central Florida before returning to sea.
For Ottani and other Gulf Coast residents, this and other recent storms have taken a toll on their mental health. In 2022, Hurricane Ian pulverized large swathes of southwestern Florida. Toward the end of September, Hurricane Helene tore through many of the same communities as a Category 4 storm before plowing north through Georgia and into the Blue Ridge Mountains. With wreckage from Helene still piled up on street corners, many Floridians fled or fortified their homes once more as Milton, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever, approached.
Living through a single major hurricane can cause anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress. And experiencing repeated disasters, particularly in a short period of time, can exacerbate those effects, making people more vulnerable to mental health issues and prolonging the time it takes for them to recover emotionally. One study of Florida residents who lived through Hurricanes Irma and Michael in 2017 and 2018 found that experiencing two hurricanes in such close succession compounded their psychological distress.
“It traps people in this cycle of anxiety and trauma,” said Laura Wright, a psychologist and the training director of counseling services at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.
Before Milton hit, Wright, her part-
long they would be kept from campus.
The mental health impacts of backto-back storms can be magnified for people without financial resources to recover damaged homes or vehicles, or to recoup lost income from businesses being closed. It can also lead to paralyzing fear in young people unaccustomed to having to make major decisions, like whether to evacuate, said Melissa Brymer, director of the terrorism and disaster programs at the UCLA and Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.
“Home feels so far away in these moments when you can’t go home. That isolation, and the burden of their choice, causes incredible anxiety,” she said.
ner and her 16-year-old son drove 90 miles to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, leaving behind a 100-year-old home. They had just finished fixing the damage caused by Hurricane Ian two years ago and dreaded the condition they might find it in after Milton passed.
“My family and I are pretty exhausted from the back-to-back storm stress,” she said soon afterward.
In the days before the hurricane, Wright described feeling “anticipatory anxiety” — not knowing what was going to happen and fearing the worst.
“It’s like waiting for the ball to drop. You can’t relax,” said Becky Mossoney, a retiree who lives in Lake Suzy, Florida. Mossoney kept herself busy the day before the hurricane made landfall by filling her bathtub with water and her freezer with ice, and by coordinating with neighbors to fuel up a generator in their community clubhouse. The community was left without power for 12 days after Hurricane Ian, and this storm was predicted to be even more damaging.
Those who evacuated described feeling helpless and fearful for those unable to leave.
“It’s really hard to see and know that
people are not safe, no matter what. It just keeps happening and happening,” said Mia Petrucci, a student at Florida Gulf Coast University who evacuated campus to stay at her parents’ Fort Lauderdale home. Petrucci and another student formed a mental health support group on campus meant to address, in part, students’ trauma from Hurricane Ian. With the advent of Milton, they were hearing from students who felt anxious about how
Ottani said she chose the University of Tampa for its design program and great weather. But her college experience has been marked by fear and grief over the tremendous damage southwestern Florida has sustained from recent storms. In the wake of Hurricane Helene, she helped her neighbors in Tampa clear out their waterlogged homes, tossing their destroyed furniture onto the curb after the storm had passed. Two weeks later, she listened as a county sheriff urged people to write their names in permanent marker on their bodies as another major hurricane approached.
“It has really affected my academics but also my well-being,” she said. “It is extremely hard to worry about school when you are terrified for your life and the city that you love.”
Lori Tennant stands outside of her home that was damaged from Hurricane Milton at the Meadowbrook mobile home community in Lakeland, Fla. on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Research shows that experiencing repeated disasters makes people more vulnerable to mental health issues, and prolongs the time it takes to recover. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA PRIMITIVO CRUZ
CABRERA Y NAOMI CARABALLO CONDE Peticionarios EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: AG2024CV01316. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P. R., SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERAN PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convengan en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA”: Solar marcado con el número dos (2). Radicado en el Barrio Galateo Alto de Isabela, Puerto Rico, compuesto de TRESCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CINCO PUNTO DOS MIL QUINIENTOS CUARENTA Y SEIS 385.2546) METROS CUADRADOS, en lindes
al NORTE con Marilyn Cruz; al SUR con Carretera Municipal; al ESTE con Primitivo Cruz; y al OESTE con Victor Cruz y camino vecinal. Contiene casa de hormigón y bloques de uso residencial. Número de Castrato: 025-080-001-08-001. La abogada de la parte peticionaria es la Lcda. Verónica Muñiz Medina, PO Box 545, Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662, teléfono 787-830-2565, email: bufetemunizmedina@gmail.com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 22 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la Petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte 20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico a 4 de septiembre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
FELIPE DIAZ BAEZ Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE VICTORIO RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ÚRSULA RIVERA, ET ALS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV03227. Sala: 705. Sobre: ACCIÓN CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: CUALQUIER PERSONA CON INTERÉS Y/O PERSONAS IGNORADAS
O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDA
PERJUDICAR LA PRESENTE CAUSA DE ACCIÓN Y A LOS QUE
TENGAN CUALQUIER
DERECHO REAL SOBRE LA FINCA OBJETO DE ESTE PROCEDIMIENTO.
El demandante ha radicado en este Tribunal una Solicitud, caso CG2024CV03227, para que se declare a favor de Felipe Diaz Báez, el dominio de la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Cañaboncito, del término municipal de Caguas, con cabida de Ochocientos Ochenta metros cuadrados y Cinco Mil Quinientos Diez diezmilésimas de otro (880.5510 m.c.), equivalente a Veintidós Mil Doscientos Cuarenta diezmilésimas de una cuerda (0.2240 cdas); en linderos por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones, en Cincuenta y Nueve metros y Quinientos Cuatro milésimas de otro (59.504 m), con Carretera Estatal Setecientos Ochenta y Cuatro (784); por el SUR, en varias alineaciones, en Cuarenta y Ocho metros y Setecientos Dos milésimas de otro (58.702 m) con Don José Vicente Solá Polanco y Doña María Orellano Flores; por el ESTE, en Cinco metros con Seiscientos Cuarenta y Una milésima de otro (5.6141 m), con Camino Municipal; y por el OESTE, en Veinticuatro metros con Trescientos Cuarenta y Una milésima de otro (24.341 m), con Doña Francisca Álamo Rodríguez. El solar contiene una residencia de concreto unifamiliar. Representa al demandante, la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono es el siguiente: Lcda. Ivette Rossana García Cruz PO BOX 373151 Cayey, PR 00737-3151
E-mail: garciacruzlaw@gmail.com
Habiéndose dictado Orden por el Honorable Tribunal para que la solicitud de la peticionaria sea publicada por tres (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, para que cualquier persona con interés y/o las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la presente causa de acción de dominio y a todo ciudadano que tenga algún derecho real en dicho bien, para que comparezcan a alegar sus derechos dentro de los veinte (20) días de la última publicación del edicto. Se les apercibe que, si no comparecieren a contestar dicha petición dentro del término establecido, se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 6 de septiembre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
‘ LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
FELIPE DIAZ BAEZ
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE VICTORIO
RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE ÚRSULA RIVERA, ET ALS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV03227. Sala: 705. Sobre: ACCIÓN
CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SUCESIÓN DE VICTORIO RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ Y LA SUCESIÓN DE URSULA RIVERA
COMPUESTAS POR JUAN RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, PEDRO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA, BASILIO
RODRIGUEZ RIVERA, CARLOS RODRIGUEZ
RIVERA, HIJA #1, HIJA #2, HIJA #3 e HIJA #4
El demandante ha radicado en este Tribunal una Solicitud, caso CG2024CV03227, para que se declare a favor de Felipe Diaz Báez, el dominio de la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Cañaboncito, del término municipal de Caguas, con cabida de Ochocientos Ochenta metros cuadrados y Cinco Mil Quinientos Diez diezmilésimas de otro (880.5510 m.c.), equivalente a Veintidós Mil Doscientos Cuarenta diezmilésimas de una cuerda (0.2240 cdas); en linderos por el NORTE, en varias alineaciones, en Cincuenta y Nueve metros y Quinientos Cuatro milésimas de otro (59.504 m), con Carretera Estatal Setecientos Ochenta y Cuatro (784); por el SUR, en varias alineaciones, en Cuarenta y Ocho metros y Setecientos Dos milésimas de otro (58.702 m) con Don José Vicente Solá Polanco y Doña María Orellano Flores; por el ESTE, en Cinco metros con Seiscientos Cuarenta y Una milésima de otro (5.6141 m), con Camino Municipal; y por el OESTE, en Veinticuatro metros con Trescientos Cuarenta y Una milésima de otro (24.341 m), con Doña Francisca Álamo Rodríguez. El solar contiene una residencia de concreto unifamiliar. Representa al demandante, la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono es el siguiente: Lcda. Ivette Rossana García Cruz PO BOX 373151
Cayey, PR 00737-3151
E-mail: garciacruzlaw@gmail.com
Habiéndose dictado Orden por el Honorable Tribunal para que la solicitud de la peticionaria sea publicada por tres (3) veces en el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, para que cualquier persona con interés y/o las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la presente causa de acción de dominio y a todo ciudadano que tenga algún derecho real en dicho bien, para que comparezcan a alegar sus derechos dentro de los veinte (20) días de la última publicación del edicto. Se les apercibe que, si no comparecieren a contestar dicha petición dentro del término establecido, se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 6 de septiembre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGION JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK
Parte Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JOSE LUIS
MALDONADO MARTÍNEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL Y SUCESIÓN DE LUZ
AMPARO CANDELARIA
MARTINEZ COMPUESTA
POR SUTANO Y SUTANA DE TAL
Parte Demandada CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA
Parte con posible interés Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02098. (401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, hago saber a la parte demandada, SUCESIÓN DE JOSE LUIS
MALDONADO MARTÍNEZ compuesta por FULANO y FULANA DE TAL y SUCESIÓN DE LUZ AMPARO CANDELARIA
MARTINEZ compuesta por SUTANO Y SUTANA DE TAL; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA como posible parte
con interés; y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 12 de septiembre de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, la siguiente propiedad con dirección física [C-18 Calle 5, Urb. Alturas de Flamboyán, Bayamón, PR 00959-8145] y que se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 18 de la manzana C de la Urbanización Flamboyán Gardens, Etapa del Este, en el Barrio Juan Sánchez de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 349.87 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE con el solar C-1 en distancia de 15 metros; por el SUR, con la calle 5 en distancia de 11.50 metros y 52.75 metros en arco; por el ESTE con el solar C-17, en distancia de 23.00 metros y por el OESTE con la calle número 6, en distancia de 20.00 metros y arco de 2.75 metros. Enclava una casa. Finca 32,707, inscrita al Folio 215 vuelto del Tomo 711 de Bayamón, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón Sección 1ra. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) HIPOTECA constituida en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corp., o a su orden, por $126,400.00 al 6%, vencedero el 1 de diciembre de 2037, según Esc. #439 en San Juan, a 9 de noviembre de 2007, ante Magda V. Alsin Figueroa, inscrita al folio 18 vto. del tomo 1811 de Bayamón Sur, finca #32,707, inscripción 8va y última. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dictada el 22 de julio de 2024, mediante la cual se determinó que la cantidad adeudada y vencida, ascendiente a $86,323.33 de principal, más $2,589.72 a intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 6% de interés anual, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $322.56 a cargos por demora y otros cargos, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo
para la misma, la cantidad de $126,400.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 20 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $84,266.67. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $63,200.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad para ejecutar será adquirida libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en
representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de septiembre de 2024. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAMUY BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. JOSE MIGUEL PEREZ JIMENEZ Y SU ESPOSA DAHILA SOTO VAZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Demandados Civil Núm.: CM2022CV00127. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: JOSE MIGUEL PEREZ JIMENEZ Y SU ESPOSA DAHILA SOTO VAZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, POR TENER EMBARGO ANOTADO A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $24,843.53. Yo, LUIS E. ROMÁN CARRERO, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LAJAS. COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO
Parte Demandante vs VICENTE JUNIOR ÁLVAREZ LÓPEZ, SU ESPOSA YESENIA
SABINO JAVIER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. LJ2024CV00075.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A:
YESENIA
SABINO JAVIER
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamiento y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo certificado a la última dirección postal conocida de récord provista por la parte codemandada: Calle San Blass 73, Lajas, Puerto Rico 00667. En dicha demanda se le reclama la suma de $13,721.44 por concepto de préstamo personal concedido el 6 de febrero de 2023 por la Cooperativa. Puede usted obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en San Germán, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de septiembre de 2024. Lcda. Norma G Santana Irizarruy, Sec General. Militza Lorenzo Vega, Sec Auxiliar del Tribunal I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN CESAR RODRIGUEZ RIVERA, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL; MARGARITA VAZQUEZ VAZQUEZ
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV04247. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARGARITA VAZQUEZ VAZQUEZ Y FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CESAR RODRIGUEZ RIVERA.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado una Demanda Enmendada en su contra por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. mediante el Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) solicitando un Cobro de Dinero por la cantidad de $18,173.55, por la vía ordinaria. La abogada de la parte demandante es: Lcda. Jessica D. Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, con copia a la abogada de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto en el periódico de circulación general. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Se les interpela judicialmente, además, para que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del presente edicto, acepten o repudien mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial, la par-
ticipación que les corresponde en la herencia de José Luis Martí Rosa. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, señalados contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden y publicación, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y por consiguiente responden conforme dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. §11021. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 1 de octubre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. REYNALDO COLON RIVERA
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV04474.
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: REYNALDO COLON RIVERA - B9 CALLE
AMAPOLA, URB BAJO COSTO, CATAÑO PR 00962.
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 la cantidad en perdida de $47,178.35 más intereses a razón del 9.25% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una cantidad equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogado según pactado. Además, que ordene el embargo del vehículo descrito en el inciso cuarto, para con el
producto del mismo, satisfacer hasta donde alcance las cantidades adeudadas. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882
Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de septiembre de 2024. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Ivette M. Marrero Bracero, SubSecretaria.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs. ANTONIO RÍOS RIVERA, VICTORIA JIMÉNEZ
RODRÍGUEZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CN2024CV00408. 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: ANTONIO RÍOS RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; VICTORIA JIMÉNEZ RODRÍGUEZ, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado
de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello de! Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 4 de octubre de 2024. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOURDES DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. CHRISTIAN LOUBRIEL RAMIREZ VEGA Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AG2024CV00551. (Salón: 602). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM. A: CHRISTIAN LOUBRIEL RAMIREZ VEGA - DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: PO BOX 5007, VEGA ALTA, PR 00692-5007; BO GUAYABO, CARR 411 KM 1 H 3, AGUADA, PR 00602. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 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 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ZUHEILY GONZÁLEZ AVILÉS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. JAHAIRA MAITE
CALLE CARRERO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: RG2023CV00594. (Salón: 307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM. A: JAHAIRA MAITE
CALLE CARRERO - HC 5 BOX 8069, RÍO GRANDE PR 00745-9308 Y/O COLINAS DEL VERDE, CALLE 3 SOLAR 6, RÍO GRANDE, PR 00745. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de julio 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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2024. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR DE UTUADO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. MYRIAM MOLL BATIZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: UT2023CV00575. (Salón: 10). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BALDOMERO A. COLLAZO TORRES - BCOLLAZO@LAWPR.COM.
A: MYRIAM MOLL BATIZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 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 18 de octubre de 2024. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2024. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. GLORIA I. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL
GENERAL DE JUSTICIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PR, LLC
COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC
Demandante(a)
JOSÉ L. OTERO RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV00381. Sala: 903. Sobre: COBRO DE
DINERO- REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOSÉ L.
OTERO RIVERA. EL SECRETARIO (A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de enero de 2021 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 diez (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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 15 de octubre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTÓS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN LIME HOMES, LTD. Demandante V. ABNER ALBERTO ORTIZ RIVERA Y LA SLG COMPUESTA CON GLENDA LIZ ORTIZ VAZQUEZ Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV00187 (Salón: 506). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ROBERTO CARLOS LÁTIMER VALENTÍN - LATIMERRC@ LBRGLAW.COM. A: GLENDA LIZ ORTIZ VAZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON ABNER A. ORTIZ RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta
notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2024. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Marilyn Colón Carrasquillo, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. PEDRO GONZALEZ FERRER
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: RG2024CV00198. (Salón: 307). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JAN MIGUEL OTERO MARTÍNEZJAN.OTERO@ORF-LAW.COM. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: PEDRO GONZALEZ FERRER - PARC LA DOLORES 306A CALLE
BRAZIL, RIO GRANDE PR 00745; 1503 OAKES ST, MARINETTE, WI, 54143. (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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de octubre de 2024. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. IDALIA PIÑERO REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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. ARMANDO ORTIZ COLON
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: NJ2024CV00016. (Salón: 502). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZKENMUEL.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. A: ARMANDO ORTIZ COLON.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 de marzo de 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 julio de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 17 de julio de 2024.
LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
JESSENIA PEREZ CRUZ Y OTROS
Demandante V. NANCY CUBERO RIVERA
Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2022CV00301. (Salón: 504). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA
IRMA E. CASTRO DIEPPACASTRODIEPPALAW@GMAIL.COM.
RAFAEL AVILES CORDEROAVILES.CORDERO@GMAIL.COM.
SAMUEL M. CORDERO VÉLEZSMCORDERO@SCV-LAW.COM.
A: SR. NESTOR ACEVEDO RIVERA, SR. ALQUÍMIDES ACEVEDO RIVERA. (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 18 de octubre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA PARA NOTIFICAR NUEVAMENTE SEGÚN ORDENADO
EL 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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PUBLIC NOTICE TO GUSTAVO ADOLFO FEBRES a/k/a GUSTAVO ADOLFO FEBRES-DIAS In Re: Adoption of ELIZTZA KYLISSE FEBRES, a minor
A petition has been filed asking the Court to put an end to all rights you have as a parent to your child ELIZTZA KYLISSE FEBRES. A Termination of Parental Rights Hearing has been scheduled for November 6, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. in Court Room No. 7001, Seventh Floor, of the York County Judicial Center, 45 North George Street, York, Pennsylvania 17401, to terminate your parental rights in regards to ELIZTZA KYLISSE FEBRES (dob: 06/01/2010),
whose Mother is Angelina Alicea. You are warned that even if you fail to appear at the scheduled hearing, the hearing will go on without you. You have a right to be represented at the hearing by a lawyer. You should take this paper to your lawyer at once. If you do not have a lawyer or cannot afford one, go to or telephone the one of the offices set forth below to find out where you can get legal help.
York County Bar Association located at 137 East Market Street, York, Pa 17401. Phone (717) 854-8755
York County Clerk of Orphans’ Court, located at the York County Judicial Center, 45 North George Street, 2nd Floor, York, Pa 17401. Telephone (717) 771-9288
Stephanie J. Kogut, Esquire
Solicitor for York County Office of Children, Youth & Families
A prospective adoptive parent of a child may enter into an agreement with a birth relative of the child to permit continuing contact or communication between the child and the birth relative or between the adoptive parent and the birth relative. An agency or anyone representing the parties in an adoption shall provide notification to a prospective adoptive parent, a birth parent and a child who can be reasonably expected to understand that a prospective adoptive parent and a birth relative of a child have the option to enter into a voluntary agreement for the continuing contact or communication. See 23 Pa.C.S.A. Section 2731, et seq.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA. MUNICIPIO DE ISABELA
Demandante v. RAMON MONTANO
MALDONADO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AG2024CV00936 (SALÓN 601 CIVIL). Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. ALICIA DIAZ SANTIAGO ADIAZ@CRHPR.ORG MOISÉS RODRÍGUEZ TORRES MOISESROD2001@GMAIL.COM YANIRA A. LICEAGA SÁNCHEZ YLICEAGA2@HOTMAIL.COM NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A: RAMON MONTANO
MALDONADO
131 CALLE LA MARINA, ISABELA PR. 00662; LARRY DOE,, MARY DOE, MIKE DOE, LUCY DOE
DIRECCION
DESCONOCIDA
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 11 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 18 de OCTUBRE de 2024. En AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, el 18 de OCTUBRE de 2024. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretario(a). f/MARIA DE LOS M. VALENTIN RAMIREZ, Secretario( Auxiliar del Tribunal. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.
JOSE ANGEL
CAMACHO PEREZ
Demandante v. KATHLEEN ANN MCGRATH MUÑIZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AG2024CV00593 (SALÓN 603 CIVIL). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO.
MOISÉS RODRÍGUEZ TORRES MOISESROD2001@GMAIL.COM NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A: KATHLEEN ANN MCGRATH MUÑIZ DIRECCIÓN: 4324 W 20TH ST. APT. Q168 PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA ESTADOS UNIDOS 32405 (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notifica-
ción que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de OCTUBRE de 2024. En AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico, el 18 de OCTUBRE de 2024. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretario(a). f/ARLENE GUZMAN PABON, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ
PERDOMO T/C/C IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ
PERDOMO; SUS
HEREDEROS
CONOCIDOS ANA GLORIA RODRÍGUEZ
PERDOMO, ÁNGEL
ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ
PERDOMO, EDNAN
RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ
PERDOMO, FÉLIX LUIS
RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, ISMAEL RODRÍGUEZ
PERDOMO, WILLIAM
RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, ANABEL RODRÍGUEZ
ROSA T/C/C ANABEL
RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, DIANE RODRÍGUEZ ROSA
T/C/C DIANE RODRÍGUEZ
ROSE, JOSÉ IGNACIO
RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C
JOSÉ IGNACIO
RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, MARÍA ELIZABETH
RODRÍGUEZ ROSA
T/C/C MARÍA ELIZABETH
RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ
ROSA T/C/C MILAGROS
RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, NOEL
ALBERTO RODRÍGUEZ
ROSA T/C/C NOEL
ALBERTO RODRÍGUEZ
ROSE, WILFREDO
RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C
WILFREDO RODRÍGUEZ
ROSE, YOLANDE
RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C
YOLANDE RODRÍGUEZ
ROSE T/C/C YOLANDA
RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C
YOLANDE RODRÍGUEZ
ROSE, BENJAMÍN
MARRERO PERDOMO, CARMEN IVETTE
MARRERO PERDOMO, JOSÉ ENRIQUE
MARRERO PERDOMO, MARÍA ESTHER
MARRERO PERDOMO,
MYRIAM MARRERO PERDOMO, TERESA MARRERO PERDOMO; SUCESION DE AWILDA SOCORRO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV05169. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO T/C/C IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO; SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS, ÁNGEL ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO, ANABEL RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C ANABEL RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, JOSÉ IGNACIO RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C JOSÉ IGNACIO
RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, MARÍA ELIZABETH RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C MARÍA ELIZABETH RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ ROSA T/C/C MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ ROSE, BENJAMÍN MARRERO PERDOMO, CARMEN IVETTE MARRERO PERDOMO, JOSÉ ENRIQUE MARRERO PERDOMO, MARÍA ESTHER MARRERO PERDOMO, MYRIAM MARRERO PERDOMO, TERESA MARRERO PERDOMO; SUCESION DE AWILDA SOCORRO RODRÍGUEZ PERDOMO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN - BARRIO PAJARES, URB. SANTA ELENA, SOLAR 17, BLOQUE N, BAYAMÓN, PR 00957.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del
Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm.: 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria de potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte des derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalad, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYABO, PR 00970 TEL.: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de octubre de 2024. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Nereida Quiles Santana, Sub-Secretaria.
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October 25-27, 2024 22
They don’t play one like this every year
Irv Noren of the New York Yankees is forced out at second base as Pee Wee Reese of the Brooklyn Dodgers turns a double play during Game 6 of the 1952 World Series at Ebbets Field in New York, Oct. 6, 1952. The Yankees and Dodgers, who have met 11 times in the World Series, the most of any two teams, have produced some of baseball’s most memorable moments. Umpire: Bill McKinley. (Patrick A. Burns/The New York Times)
By JAYSON STARK / THE ATHLETIC
They play a World Series every year. But a World Series like this one comes around about as often as Halley’s comet. It’s Yankees versus Dodgers. It’s New York versus Los Angeles. Yet somehow it is even bigger than a duel between the biggest cities in America.
It’s star power. It’s history. And it will reverberate not merely from East Coast to West Coast but also all the way across the Pacific.
It all starts Friday night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. And as the manager of the Dodgers, Dave Roberts, tried his best to grasp the grandeur of it this week, the same word kept coming to mind: epic.
“I’m a baseball fan first,” said Roberts, who will manage in his fourth World Series. “And when you’re talking about the two biggest media markets in the world, and you’re talking about the best and brightest stars in baseball on the same field, on the biggest of stages, what baseball fan, what sports fan, wouldn’t want to lock into this Series?
“So for the Dodgers franchise, for the Yankees franchise, for sports fans, I just think it’s what everyone wanted.”
But even if it is what everyone wanted, it does not automatically make it epic. So what transforms it from unofficially cool to officially epic? Let’s look at the many answers to that question — because it’s as fun to contemplate as it will be to watch.
The two best teams
Let’s start here. The Dodgers won the most games in the National League this season (98). The Yankees won the most games in the American League (94). So logically, it should not be a shock that they both will show up in the World Series. But what does logic have to do with postseason baseball?
October is a time for upsets, not coronations. And we’re not here to complain about that. We’re here to celebrate that.
Playoffs weren’t created to propel the two best teams to the World Series. They were created for craziness and unpredictability. That’s the whole point. Don’t forget that, OK?
But once this sport started adding rounds, adding teams and adding challenges, the biggest casualty was these sorts of World Series — these battles of the titans.
They used to happen every few years. Now, if you do not count the shortened, 60-game 2020 season, this is only the fourth time in the wild-card era (1995 to present) that the World Series will be a meeting between the teams with the most wins in each league. The others were 2013, when 97-win Boston played 97-win St. Louis; 1999, when the 98-win Yankees met 103-win Atlanta; and 1995, when 100-win Cleveland faced 90-win Atlanta.
Just for the record, in the pre-wild-card version of playoff baseball — from 1969 to 1993, when only two teams from each league advanced to the postseason — that was a much more common occurrence. The teams with the best record in each league played each other in the World Series nine times in 25 seasons under that system — including the Yankees versus the Dodgers in 1978.
But these days, in a postseason tournament that drops land mines in the path of the best teams for more than a month, years like this feel like a special occasion.
“There’s a nostalgia around it,” said the Dodgers’ president for baseball operations, Andrew Friedman. “And honestly, it’s a classic Series that my baseball mind hasn’t fully been able to fathom.”
The kings of October
Think about this. The World Series began in 1903. So this will be the 120th. And if you count this year, the Yankees and the Dodgers will have combined to play in 63 of them.
Does that seem like a lot? Maybe it will if we put it this way: It’s as many as the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Guardians have played in put together.
And this will be the 12th time the Dodgers and Yankees have played each other in a World Series. To say that’s more than any other two teams does not capture the magnitude of it. Here’s what does: It’s as many as the next two most common matchups — the San Francisco Giants and the Yankees (seven) and the St. Louis Cardinals and the Yankees (five) — combined.
So there’s a history that hovers over this World Series that is unlike any other. It’s a history that began with Joe DiMaggio and Pee Wee Reese, and black-and-white newsreel footage flickering across a screen down at the local movie theater. Now, here these teams are again, streaming on huge flat screens in your living room and mobile devices around the planet.
There was a time, from 1947 to 1956, when the Dodgers and the Yankees met in six World Series in 10 years. The Yankees were gracious enough to let the Dodgers win one of those.
A couple of decades later, they were at it again, matching up three times in five years — in 1977, ’78 and ’81. But in the four decades since, they haven’t met once — until now. So how much fun is it that the 43-year intermission is over?
Star power
The biggest stars in last year’s World Series — a duel of wild-card teams (Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks) — were, well, who exactly? Corey Seager and Corbin Carroll? Adolis García and Zac Gallen? Or should we just applaud the
nine outs Max Scherzer got?
With all due respect to everyone who participated in the last World Series, it was perfectly acceptable to describe a few of those men as stars. But this year? We’re talking about megastars.
We’re talking about both likely MVPs — Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani — meeting in the same World Series for the first time since 2012 (Miguel Cabrera and Buster Posey). And they’re not just MVPs. They are towering figures in a sport that’s dying to strap itself to their star power.
But it doesn’t stop there. There’s a parade of stars lining up on the red carpet of this World Series that we would argue is unlike any cavalcade of stars in the history of the Series. You think we’re exaggerating? Nope.
Let’s talk MVPs. We’re about to watch five MVPs play in a World Series: Judge, Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Giancarlo Stanton. You think that happens every year? Oh, no, it doesn’t. It has never happened before.
Even if only four of this year’s group played, it would still be the most in more than a half-century, when Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Roberto Clemente and Boog Powell played in 1971.
Let’s talk other awards. We also have two former Cy Young Award winners on these teams: injured Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw and the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole. We have two former rookies of the year: Judge and Ohtani. And we have six Gold Glove winners — Betts, Kershaw, Tommy Edman, Kevin Kiermaier, Anthony Rizzo and Anthony Volpe. It’s Dodgers versus Yankees. It’s Los Angeles versus New York. But really, it’s so much more.
“If you asked me, ‘What’s the most classic World Series you could imagine?’” Friedman said, “I think Dodgers-Yankees would be the answer.”
MLB PLAYOFFS
World Series (Best of 7)
Friday’s Game 1
(All Times Eastern)
New York Yankees at Los Angeles Dodgers, 8:08 p.m. (FOX)
Saturday’s Game 2
Yankees at Dodgers, 8:08 p.m. (FOX)
Monday’s Game 3
Dodgers at Yankees, 8:08 p.m. (FOX)
Tuesday’s Game 4
Dodgers at Yankees, 8:08 p.m. (FOX)
Wednesday’s Game 5 (if needed)
Dodgers at Yankees, 8:08 p.m. (FOX)
Game 6 (if needed)
Friday, Nov. 1
Yankees at Dodgers, 8:08 p.m. (FOX)
Game 7 (if needed)
Saturday, Nov. 2
Yankees at Dodgers, 8:08 p.m. (FOX)
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