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San Juan sets aside nearly $18 million to rebuild deteriorated homes
By THE STAR STAFF
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced on Thursday a new housing rehabilitation program to rebuild or improve deteriorated homes, with the purpose of allowing San Juan families to improve their quality of life.
In the comprehensive project, the family selects a contractor qualified to perform reconstruction work on their homes from the Housing Department’s Registry of Eligible Contractors.
Romero unveiled the first houses to be rebuilt under the program. They will be the homes of three low-income residents who earn less than $12,000 a year: Nilda Cordero Angueira, from Parcelas Falú, and Norma I. Díaz Malavé and Orlando Cabral Valdéz, both from Parcelas Hill Brothers, with a municipal investment amounting to $686,673. The houses will be completely demolished to make way for the construction of new homes in compliance with codes. They will have two bedrooms, one bathroom, living room, dining room, laundry room and carport.
“This new project means a lot to me, because it will forever transform the quality of life of these families, giving them the opportunity to live in the dignified conditions they deserve,” the mayor said at Thursday’s press conference. “This program is designed to give that relief and a helping hand to residents who, with the high cost of living, find it impossible to make improvements considering that the costs of materials and labor have increased significantly.”
San Juan’s Housing Rehabilitation Subsidy Program arises due to the increased cost of housing in the market,
making it increasingly difficult for a low-income family to acquire affordable housing. Given the situation, the municipal government decided to change its housing strategy to address the rehabilitation of existing housing by the owners, so the decision was made to reprogram all funds from 2017 to 2023 and allocate them to rehabilitation by the owner. The amount of the amendment and the budget assigned by Romero amounted to $17.8 million approved as of Sept. 25 of this year.
To participate in the program, the interested family or individual must comply with the income limits established by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and other requirements established by the program. The property to be rebuilt or improved must be the primary residence, made of concrete and located in the San Juan area.
More information on the program can be obtained by calling (787) 480-5462 or accessing sanjuan.pr.
During the press conference, Romero also announced an innovative platform for managing and acquiring abandoned structures.
“This new public nuisance platform integrates, for the first time in the history of the Municipality of San Juan, the citizen directly into the complete process of public nuisances in a digital manner and seeks to facilitate and speed up the process of identification, declaration and rehabilitation of public nuisances in the Capital City,” the mayor said.
Citizens can use the link estorbos.sanjuan.pr to submit a request for a public nuisance complaint and may be guided on the steps of the procedure for declaring and acquiring properties in this category. They may also provide the physical address, sector, neighborhood, and the 16-digit cadastral number assigned by the Municipal Revenues Collection Center, and they also may attach photos of the property.
The new program also digitizes the request for an administrative hearing for those citizens who wish to have their day in court to appear before an administrative judge. Citizens may enter their complaint number and view and examine the photos and information contained in the complaint to ensure that the property is theirs. Likewise, the citizen may state the reason for requesting the hearing and any evidence they consider pertinent to help their case.
Citizens interested in any property available in the inventory of properties declared as public nuisances may fill out a letter of intent for the acquisition of the given property.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to a production glitch, a story on Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate that appeared in the Mainland section of Thursday’s print edition of the STAR was incomplete. The complete version can be found in the Oct. 3, 2024 online edition of the STAR at sanjuandailystar. com. We apologize to our readers for the inconvenience.
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo
Mujica: PR health system at risk with looming downturn in Medicaid funding
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico’s health system is at risk of becoming unstable starting in 2028, when federal funding allocations for the Medicaid program return to levels prior to the Federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, Financial Oversight and Management Board Executive Director Robert Mujica said Thursday.
“This reduction in funding represents a major risk to the long-term stability of health care financing for nearly half of the population [of Puerto Rico] and, furthermore, could destabilize the health care system in Puerto Rico,” Mujica said.
Mujica noted that between 2023 and 2027 Puerto Rico will receive more than $19 billion in Medicaid funds under the Consolidated Appropriations statute. However, as of September 2027, Medicaid allocations will return to the levels established by law, unless the United States Congress approves legislation extending the validity of the statute, or approves new legislation on the matter.
The oversight board director said his vision for the health system in Puerto Rico is “a simple one” and consists of “each resident receiving the care they need.” However, he acknowledged that achieving that objective is more difficult than merely stating it, and identified financing and a lack of information as major challenges.
“We need information to define the transformation and the necessary actions to be taken,” Mujica said. “On the financing side, the board has approved increases in payments to Medicaid administration organizations, increased access to medical services and increases to health service providers.
The official stressed that those actions represent $35 million invested this year, and over $100 million in the next three years.
He also stated that the oversight board increased the eligibility levels for the Medicaid program in Puerto Rico based on the federal poverty rate.
While he acknowledged that these and other allocations are “important funding efforts,” he added that each year there are areas to which the oversight board “must say no.”
Financial Oversight and Management Board Executive Director Robert Mujica
By THE STAR STAFF
The Municipality of Cataño will celebrate the 17th National Goat Festival this weekend on the San Juan Bay waterfront, with an agro-cultural and tourist fair
The National Goat Festival on the bayfront in Cataño will feature goat fricassee tastings, a farmers’ market, goat and sheep displays, contests and musical performances on Saturday and Sunday.
focused on the Puerto Rican goat industry.
“You are invited to the National Goat Festival so that you can have an experience that your palate will never forget,” Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo said in a written statement.
The event will feature goat fricassee tastings, a farmers’ market, goat and sheep displays, contests and musical performances on Saturday and Sunday.
Carlos Díaz, founder of the festival, said “it is a spectacular event that we have been putting on with great care since 2008, where people have a good time and enjoy themselves in a family atmosphere.”
Rehabilitation of Caguas water park proposed Goat Festival tops the cultural menu in Cataño this weekend
By THE STAR STAFF
Rep. José Aponte Hernández, along with Senate candidate Leyda Cruz and Caguas mayoral candidate Roberto López Román, proposed on Thursday identifying a private operator to rehabilitate and manage the old “Moisty Skate” water park on Garrido Avenue in Caguas.
“Caguas is in a unique geographical position in Puerto Rico for recreational development,” Aponte said. “The water park,‘Del Turabo,’ as it was once known, has been abandoned since 2013. Regrettably, 11 years of neglect have left what was one of the best aquatic facilities in the Caribbean in a state of total deterioration. That is why we support the initiative to open a detailed evaluation process so that companies that have the interest and resources can rehabilitate the facility for everyone to enjoy.”
López Román said he has plans “to rehabilitate this park for the enjoyment of all the people of Caguas.”
“A private operator that can maintain and give life to the place is one of the options that have been considered,” he said.
Aponte added that “[p]laces like San Germán, Aguadilla and Salinas, among others, have successful water parks where citizens come to enjoy themselves. They are even a hub for tourist activity, not only for us, but also for tourists from abroad. Caguas can be part of this.”
Cruz, the Senate candidate, noted that the park “was built in the 1980s and provided a lot of entertainment for families in Caguas.”
“Unfortunately, in 2013, it closed operations, leaving a gap that has not been filled,” she said. “Leaving it as it is, in disrepair, costs the municipal administration of Caguas around $15,000 a month without any benefit. That is why we insist that a process be opened so that private operators can manage this facility and rebuild it so that it can be used again.”
The water park facilities, also known as Parque del Turabo, are located on about 40 acres of land and have two pools
with slides and several passive recreation areas, as well as an amphitheater and a cable car.
The water park in Caguas known as Parque del Turabo has been shut down since 2013.
Fiscal board files its first amendment to PREPA’s debt adjustment plan
By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, as the representative of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) in its bankruptcy case, has presented an amendment to the utility’s debt adjustment plan, in what appears to be a sign that stakeholders are close to an agreement.
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain earlier this year declared a moratorium on the case and required the parties to negotiate to break a stalemate after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston declared that bondholders had a secured interest in the utility’s payment of its obligations.
The “First Amendment” submitted to the court on Tuesday is with each of BlackRock Financial Management Inc., Black Rock Advisors LLC, Whitebox Advisors LLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Franklin Advisers Inc., and Taconic Capital Advisors LP, and their respective accounts.
The First Amendment amends the amended plan support agreement (PSA) to extend the deadline for the effective date from Oct. 1, 2024, to Oct.
1, 2025, provides for an updated “most favored nation” clause, and includes the parties’ agreement in PREPA’s Master Trust Agreement.
The oversight board said “the First Amendment Parties hold greater than 50% in amount or voting power of the Bond claims held by the Supporting Bond Parties.”
The Financial Oversight and Management Board said in its filing this week that “the First Amendment Parties hold greater than 50% in amount or voting power of the Bond claims held by the Supporting Bond Parties. ... The First Amendment is therefore a valid amendment to the amended [plan support agreement], binding on all supporting bond parties.”
“The First Amendment is therefore a valid amendment to the amended PSA, binding on all supporting bond parties,” the entity said.
The so-called Amendment 1 changes the dates for about $1.3 billion in bonds that are slated to be issued, extending their maturity to 30 years. Blackrock, Whitebox and Taconic will receive their pro-rata share of 3% of the principal amount of the Series B bond in cash.
The most favored nations clause was modified to say that if the oversight board proposes a plan of adjustment that treats any PREPA bondholder or insurer’s PREPA bond claim differently than the supporting bondholders’ PREPA bond claims, each supporting bondholder will have the right to choose to receive such different treatment on account of its PREPA bond claim in lieu of the terms set forth in the agreement. This is in lieu of the right to the RSA (restructuring support agreement) fee, the structuring fee and the $30 million reimbursement costs.
Mujica is willing to talk productively about cancellation of LUMA contract
By THE STAR STAFF
Financial Oversight and Management Board Executive
Director Robert Mújica said Thursday he is willing to “talk” with anyone interested in promoting the cancellation of the LUMA Energy operator’s contract, but warned that the purpose of the conversation should be to determine “how we continue forward” in the process of starting work to guarantee repairs and improvements to Puerto Rico’s energy system.
“If someone wants to have that conversation, we are willing to entertain that conversation … but the reality is that we have to define how we move forward,” Mujica said upon leaving the Hospital Association Convention. “How do we convert that $17 billion into workers, and trucks, and operations on the streets? And there are many obstacles in
the way, including government officials.”
Mújica stressed that it should also be remembered how the island came to be in the energy situation it is currently facing.
“It was decades of mismanagement of the energy system, decades of poor financing … but now we want to move forward,” he said. “There are no easy solutions on how to do that.”
“Now we have to figure out what needs to be done to invest the money more quickly,” he said about the federal funds allocated for the recovery of the island’s electrical system. “We have $17 billion and we have only spent a billion,” “Changing the contractor is not necessarily going to achieve that,” Mujica added. “We can talk about that and what that means … the implications of canceling the con-
tract and understanding what the future is going to be after [that happens].”
Despite identifying “many government officials” as obstacles, Mújica gave assurances that the oversight board is willing to collaborate with the next government administration because the goals of both entities coincide.
“We are going to work with whoever the next governor is …” he said. “The board will continue here, but I think we all have the same goal in mind: to improve the lives and opportunities of the people of Puerto Rico. This is our role, and if that is the role of the next governor, I see no reason not to cooperate to achieve the same goal.”
“We may disagree at times, but we can resolve those disagreements and move forward,” the oversight board official added. “That will be the best thing for Puerto Rico.”
A lion’s share of Puerto Rico’s budget is spent on private contractors
By THE STAR STAFF
About 60% of Puerto Rico’s budget, which is close to $14 billion, is spent on private contracting, Issel Masses Ferrer, the executive director of Sembrando Sentido, said Thursday.
“The reality is that in the last fiscal year, if we compare it with total public spending, it already exceeds 60% of what the money represents,” Masses said in a radio interview. “That
is very important because we are seeing a [public] payroll that continues to go down, limited resources in the oversight bodies, less and less capacity within the government, and at the same time, a critical delegation of essential services to third parties.”
The nonprofit organization has scheduled the launch of its new page, Contracts in Law, for Saturday, where it will promote transparency, monitoring and evaluation of government contracting in Puerto Rico.
Masses pointed out that the increase in private contracting correlates with the rise in former government employees who return to work for the government as contractors.
“They cost us more. We don’t know the quality of the services, and the results are what we are experiencing every day; things are not improving,” she said. “It is clear, when we look at the data, when we look at our environment, that things are not improving even though contracting was the supposed solution to our problems.”
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Aid is slow to reach some Latino areas in storm-hit North Carolina
By EDGAR SANDOVAL
As soon as Maria Salgado spotted a pickup truck loaded with supplies pulling into the North Carolina mobile home park where she lives, she sprang into action. She waved it down and began translating for the group of Spanish speakers gathering behind her.
“Quién ocupa agua?” Salgado called out. “Pañales para los bebés?” (“Who needs water? Diapers for the babies?”)
Inside the truck were a family from Georgia who had raced to North Carolina as soon as they learned of the devastation left by Hurricane Helene. They took their cues from Salgado and tried to communicate with the residents in broken Spanish. “Agua, aquí,” one man said, handing out bottled water to eager families.
A close-knit group of immigrants from Mexico and Central America live at the mobile home park, known as Alan Campos. Many residents of the park, on a side road between the hard-hit towns of Black Mountain and Swannanoa, North Carolina, barely escaped with their lives after torrents of water came rushing into their trailers.
A large group of families, many with young children, remain without flushing water or reliable cellphone service Thursday, and electricity remains spotty. Those whose homes are still intact have taken other families in, with one three-bedroom trailer now housing about 12 people.
“We don’t have a lot right now,” Salgado said, “but we have each other.”
Aid has begun to flow into some of the most ravaged parts of western North Carolina, nearly a week after the region was inundated by Helene. But the challenges of getting assistance to non-English-speaking communities like the one at Alan Campos remain steep.
Margarita Ramirez, the executive director of Centro Unido, a Latino advocacy group in Marion, North Carolina, said that organizations like hers were rushing into immigrant communities to help bridge language and other barriers.
Many Latino residents are not receiving information in Spanish about where to go to obtain aid from FEMA and other government agencies. And those who lack legal documents to live and work in the United States tend to avoid the authorities in general, for fear of deportation.
Hundreds of Spanish speakers are showing up at Centro Unido’s offices to report missing loved ones or get help filling out FEMA paperwork, Ramirez said.
“More than a 1,000 people have come by, and we are not done yet,” she said Wednesday. “We are printing flyers in Spanish, telling them where they can go to ask for help. The need is great.”
Outreach to the region’s Latino population has never been more important, advocates said. The population of Latinos has exploded in North Carolina; they are the fastest-growing demographic group in the state, numbering about 1.1 million, or 11.4% of the population, according to the census.
Ramirez believes the actual figure is much larger. “Many in our community are still afraid of filling out the census forms,” she said.
In the hard-hit western region, Henderson County’s population is slightly more than 10% Hispanic, according to census figures; in Buncombe County, which includes Asheville and the Alan Campos park, the figure is just over 7%.
Migrants from countries like Mexico, El Salvador and Honduras are coming to western North Carolina for jobs on apple and peach farms, in tomato fields and
supermarket warehouses. Living expenses in the area are affordable, advocates for the migrants said, compared with those in migrant magnets like Florida, Texas and California.
Salgado, 44, a Mexican immigrant, said she had seen the Latino community in the Alan Campos park grow over the last two decades, from a small group she could count on her hands to more than 100 households.
Salgado, who used to live in Miami, followed her husband in the early 2000s to North Carolina, where he had found employment in tobacco fields. She landed a job of her own as a cleaner.
They purchased a three-bedroom mobile home for $19,000. Every morning since then, she said, she woke up to breathtaking views of green mountains and flowing rivers.
“It was a good, quiet life here,” she said. “There are plenty of jobs and cheaper houses.”
Isabel Lobo, 47, and her longtime partner, Isaias Chicas, 50, moved to the park from El Salvador seven years ago. Lobo found work as a forklift operator at a warehouse for the local grocery chain, Ingles, and Chicas took a job as a dishwasher at a local senior center. They recently finished paying off their $35,000 mountainside
mobile home.
“We thought we had found our perfect home here,” Lobo said. “Our home was paid. Now we were going to enjoy our lives.”
That hope was shattered last Friday when the ferocious storm caused flooding that devoured countless vulnerable structures in its path. Families like the Salgados and Lobos are unsure now of how or when they will be able to return to work, because their places of employment were overwhelmed by the gushing floodwaters as well and were badly damaged.
Like most trailer owners in the area, they did not have property insurance. A new trailer now would cost about $80,000, they estimate.
For the foreseeable future, Salgado is staying with a brother who lives in a trailer nearby, where they must haul water from a nearby river to flush the toilets. Lobos and Chicas are staying with friends in the same park.
Earlier this week, Salgado stood outside her trailer and surveyed the damage. She pointed at a new white sofa she had recently purchased for $1,000 and a table that cost $300.
“All gone,” she said in Spanish. “I can’t believe we are going to have to start all over again.”
Ana Cordova, 30, a newer immigrant from El Salvador with two children, ages 13 and 3, said she felt welcomed by longtime residents like Salgado, who introduced her to the larger Spanish-speaking community.
On the day that the volunteers from Georgia arrived, Cordova marveled that “Americanos” would go out of their way to help people like her, who often feel maligned in the heated political debate over immigration.
“Thank you,” Cordova mustered in English as she collected water and canned food.
She then turned to some of the immigrants around her and said in Spanish, “Isn’t it nice for the Americanos to help us? It does not matter to them that we are migrants.”
Cheryl Dupont, one of the volunteers, said that police officers at a nearby service station had pointed them toward the mobile home park when they asked for places where they could help. “They told us that if we were to come up here that there was a lot of need, because nobody’s been here yet,” she said over the sounds of people yelling, “Agua! Agua!” as they surrounded the truck.
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Volunteers from Blue Ridge, Ga., deliver supplies at a mobile home park in Swannanoa, N.C., on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. Language and other barriers are hobbling the flow of assistance to hard-hit communities where affordable housing drew growing numbers of Hispanic migrants. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
Judge unseals new evidence in federal election case against Trump
By ALAN FEUER and CHARLIE SAVAGE
When told by an aide that Vice President Mike Pence was in peril as the rioting on Capitol Hill escalated on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump replied, “So what?”
When one of his lawyers told him that his false claims that the election had been marred by widespread fraud would not hold up in court, Trump responded, “The details don’t matter.”
On a flight with Trump and his family after the election, an Oval Office assistant heard Trump say: “It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. You still have to fight like hell.”
Those accounts were among new evidence disclosed in a court filing made public Wednesday in which the special counsel investigating Trump made his case for why the former president is not immune from prosecution on federal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.
Made public by Judge Tanya Chutkan of U.S. District Court in Washington, the 165page brief was partly redacted but expansive, adding details to the already extensive record of how Trump lost the race but attempted nonetheless to cling to power.
The brief from the prosecution team led by special counsel Jack Smith asserts that there is ample evidence that Trump’s efforts to remain in office were those of a desperate losing candidate rather than official acts of a president that would be considered immune from prosecution under a landmark Supreme Court ruling this summer.
“The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct,” prosecutors wrote. “Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one.”
The brief was unsealed three months after the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, less than five weeks from Election Day and one day after Trump’s current running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, declined during the vice presidential debate to say that Trump had lost in 2020.
Smith’s brief was initially filed under seal last week. It was designed to help Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, determine how much of the indictment can survive the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in July
granting Trump a broad form of immunity against prosecution for many official acts while in office.
The prosecution has essentially been on hold since late last year, when Trump began making the legal argument that he should be immune. Chutkan is now determining how much, if any, of a revised indictment filed by Smith can go forward under the complex standards set by the Supreme Court.
Trump criticized the brief and its release, portraying it as a political act. “They should have never allowed the information to be — to come before the public,” he said in an interview on NewsNation on Wednesday.
The filing described a familiar web of intersecting plots by Trump and his allies. They included efforts to strong-arm state officials to overturn the election results, create false slates of electors claiming that Trump had won key states he actually lost and wage a pressure campaign against his own vice president to throw the election his way during a proceeding to certify its final outcome on Jan. 6.
But the special counsel’s filing also added new details to the portrait of Trump as he scrambled to remain in the White House after losing the election to Joe Biden, culminating in the mob attack on the Capitol.
Part of the brief focuses, for example, on a social media post that Trump sent on the afternoon of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, telling supporters that Pence had let them all
down. Smith laid out extensive arguments for why that post on Twitter should merit Trump’s prosecution.
After Trump’s Twitter post focused the enraged mob’s attention on harming Pence and the Secret Service took the vice president to a secure location, an aide rushed into the dining room off the Oval Office where Trump was watching television. The aide alerted him to the developing situation, in the hope that Trump would then take action to ensure Pence’s safety.
Instead, Trump looked at the aide and said only, “So what?” according to the brief.
In insisting that this post was an unofficial act, Smith noted that Trump’s advisers had been urging him to issue a message to quell the violence, but he had refused and instead tweeted about Pence.
“The content of the 2:24 p.m. tweet was not a message sent to address a matter of public concern and ease unrest; it was the message of an angry candidate upon the realization that he would lose power,” Smith wrote.
In the minutes before the tweet, Smith noted, Fox News had shown an interview with a protester marching toward the Capitol and expressing disappointment in Pence. It then reported that a police officer might have been injured and that protesters had broken into the Capitol.
That evidence “shows what social media and news the defendant privately reviewed
in service of issuing a private tweet,” prosecutors wrote. “The government will not elicit testimony from the defendant’s staffers about his official deliberations, reactions to social media or television, or official actions taken in response.”
Several times, prosecutors drew a direct line between Trump and his supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. The brief describes how one of the attackers went to Washington that day because Trump “told us we had something big to look forward to” and how others wore clothes and carried flags pledging allegiance to him as they broke into the Capitol.
Smith, for the first time, implicated a podcaster and former Trump aide — who is identified in the brief as Person 1 and who resembles Steve Bannon — in the alleged plot to keep Trump in power.
The brief says that Person 1, who has not been charged in the case, played an integral role in the pressure campaign that Trump waged against Pence. Bannon is serving a four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify to the House select committee that investigated Trump’s attempts to retain power.
One of the themes that Smith hit upon repeatedly was that top officials close to Trump tried over and over to persuade him to simply concede.
During a private lunch in mid-November 2020, the brief says, Pence suggested to Trump that he should accept defeat and run again in the next presidential race.
But Trump did not want to hear about it.
“I don’t know,” the brief quotes him as saying, “2024 is so far-off.
Supporters of President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Judge Tanya Chutkan made public portions of a filing by prosecutors setting out their argument for why the case should go forward despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.(Jason Andrew/The New York Times)
Lahaina inferno emerged from smoldering remnants of quelled fire
By MIKE BAKER and GLENN THRUSH
The inferno that consumed the Hawaii town of Lahaina last year emerged from the remnants of a brush fire that firefighters had believed they had contained and extinguished, federal investigators concluded in a report released earlier this week.
That determination confirms what has long been suspected about the fire that killed more than 100 people on the island of Maui. Residents have previously described how the flames emerged in the same area where firefighters had spent the morning battling a blaze triggered by downed power lines. Heavy winds rapidly stoked the renewed flames into residential streets, leaving many with little chance to escape.
But until now, local authorities had left open the possibility that there could have been something else that triggered the blaze that swept through Lahaina. Now, in a report released jointly with the Maui County Department of Fire and Public Safety, investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded along with local investigators that the initial fire had never been fully extinguished — and was able to reignite and spread.
Brad Ventura, Maui’s fire chief, said at a news conference Wednesday that a rekindled fire is something that nobody wants to see happen. But he said the department was confident in the actions of the firefighters who were on scene that day and had made the decision to depart.
“We stand behind them on their decision,” he said. “It is hard. We will be working with them, but we will be standing by them.”
The new report traces the origin of the initial fire to power lines that broke in high winds on the morning of the fire, Aug. 8, and were then reenergized. Fire crews arrived around 6:40 a.m. and raced to contain that blaze.
Local fire officials said Wednesday that the crews went beyond due diligence, suppressing the fire and remaining on scene for more than five hours after it appeared to have been extinguished. With heavy machinery, crews built fire breaks to help ensure that the area was safe. By afternoon, there were no flames or smoke or glowing materials on scene, officials said.
The last fire crews departed around 2:18 p.m., returning to their station to eat and recharge.
Within minutes, the fire was spreading again and soon began consuming homes.
Jeff Giesea, the county’s assistant fire chief, said there were several theories about how embers could have smoldered but gone undetected. He said a piece of burning material might have been buried under dirt and ash until wind uncovered it again. Heavy machinery used to create the fire break could have pushed some smoldering material into an area where it eventually found new fuel to grow, he said.
Jonathan Blais, the special agent in charge of the ATF division overseeing the investigation, said the fire crews had spent substantial time and resources on scene.
“I believe the Maui Fire Department did everything possible to extinguish the morning phase of that fire,” he said.
The rapid spread of the fire turned the situation into the deadliest U.S. wildfire in the past century. Escape routes were blocked by downed power lines. Cell coverage
faltered. Evacuation warnings were delayed. Fire hydrants ran dry.
Wednesday’s report is part of a series of investigations that have identified a range of failures in both preparedness and response. These failures have included inadequate management of parched vegetation, a lack of planning for the dangerous weather conditions and poor coordination among the different officials responding to the crisis.
The state attorney general’s office has said that no criminal charges are expected. The utility company that operates the power lines, Hawaiian Electric, has agreed to pay the largest share of a $4 billion legal settlement.
State officials have pursued new investments in managing vegetation, local agencies are working to improve their wildfire preparedness, and Hawaiian Electric has begun preemptive power shut-offs in areas where storms could pose a particular risk of wildfire.
More than a year after the fire, many of the properties in Lahaina have been cleared of debris, but Maui officials are still formulating a plan for rebuilding. Government leaders have discussed moving some residents to new neighborhoods and rebuilding historic wetlands that are a cherished part of Native Hawaiian history. Officials also face community divisions about how to rebuild the waterfront, where buildings perched over the water drew tourists to shop and dine. Thousands of people are still waiting to rebuild their homes. The
By JUDSON JONES
Tropical Storm Leslie formed Wednesday, becoming the 12th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season and the fifth in the past two weeks. Leslie is one of two storms churning over the open waters of the Atlantic; Hurricane Kirk is the other. Forecasters expect Leslie, too, to become a hurricane by the weekend. Neither is currently a threat to land. Leslie was about 500 miles from the southernmost Cape Verde islands, slowly moving west, the National Hurricane Center said late Wednesday.
Hurricane Kirk intensified into a Category 3 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph Wednesday night, becoming a major hurricane earlier than forecasters previously expected.
The charred remains of Lahaina, a coastal town on the Hawaiian island of Maui, Aug. 11, 2023. Federal investigators have concluded that hidden material remained from a morning fire in the Hawaiian town of Lahaina. It reignited later into a fire that destroyed much of the town. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)
The busiest port on the East Coast comes to a stop
By PETER S. GOODMAN
Every workday, on his early-morning drive to his job overseeing a warehouse in northern New Jersey, Sean Murphy takes in the frenetic scene of the busiest port on the East Coast.
Towering cranes lift shipping containers off vessels newly arrived at Newark from points around the globe. Mile-long freight trains pull cargo to and from the docks. Belching trucks clatter down the highway, hauling containers to distribution centers from Maine to Florida.
Not on Tuesday. As 45,000 dockworkers began a strike, shutting most of Newark and three dozen other shipping terminals along the Gulf and East coasts, Murphy was confronted with the spectacle of a busy industrial hub now largely devoid of activity.
Here was a visual encapsulation of the challenge confronting the global economy: cargo marooned, commerce frozen and no clarity on when normalcy will return.
“It was eerie, like a ghost town,” Murphy said. “It was really creepy, if I can be honest with you. It was dead silent. I’ve never seen that in my entire life.”
Beyond the atmospherics, the effective shutdown of Newark and other major ports threatens the livelihoods of millions of people who work near the affected docks — and businesses that depend on the flow of exports and imports.
Murphy’s employer, Flexport, manages shipping and trucking for major brands in industries like clothing, electronics, furniture and construction materials. Normally, this means receiving containers freshly plucked off ships, sorting the contents across the shiny concrete floor and then sending goods by truck to warehouses and stores.
But the strike has halted the influx of containers at the northern New Jersey port complex, so Murphy found himself wondering how much more freight was on its way.
The previous week, his warehouse received three times its usual volume of freight, as customers raced to complete shipments before the strike. On Tuesday, trucks continued to deliver cargo that had arrived at the port the day before, when the longshore crews were still working.
“Right now, we’re still not seeing the impacts of the strike,” Murphy said. But he had no idea how long that would last.
A truck stop around the corner, normally bustling with vehicles lined up for fuel, was strikingly quiet. Most of the regular customers are
truck drivers who move containers between the docks and nearby warehouses.
“It’s dead,” said Isthian Thomas, who was working the register, estimating that business was down 80%. The shipping terminals were closed, so no vessels were pulling up to unload, he said. No ships spelled no containers, which meant scarce work for truck drivers.
Thomas and a fellow cashier, James Lore, generally supported the aims of the dockworkers. Their jobs are exhausting and dangerous, and the shipping carriers have tallied hundreds of billions of dollars in profits. The workers deserve their piece of the action, the two men said.
They exuded a sense of blue-collar solidarity with the dockworkers, especially after the pandemic, when they all labored together despite the threat of COVID.
“We were suddenly ‘essential workers,’” Lore said. “Before that, we were just dumb gas jockeys.”
He expressed particular sympathy toward the union’s opposition to further automation at the ports — not only because it threatens paychecks, he said, but also because it limits broader economic activity.
“The robots are not paying taxes,” Lore said.
But the few truck drivers who were on hand tended to be critical of the dockworkers, accusing them of jeopardizing paychecks for many in pursuit of raises reaching more than 60% over the next six years.
“It’s not realistic in this economy,” said Joseph Green, a truck driver who was headed to Massachusetts, pulling a container he had
retrieved from the port Monday. After that, he expected to be without work. “I’ll come back empty and wait until those guys finish negotiations,” he said.
As is typical at ports around the country, truck drivers in Newark express resentment toward longshore workers, describing them as veritable aristocrats of the docks. Dockworkers deny access to bathrooms, the drivers complain, even as they are forced to sit in their cabs, sometimes for hours, waiting to pick up containers.
Not lost on the drivers is the reality that they are compensated only per load — meaning the time they sit waiting is effectively unpaid — while the dockworkers earn hourly wages, limiting their incentive to move faster.
“They have that flippant attitude,” Green complained. “They don’t care.”
The traditional tension between truck drivers and dockworkers highlights an odd dynamic to the strike.
The dockworkers union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, has sought to rally public support, and persuade the Biden administration to maintain its position against intervening to shut down the strike, by depicting its movement as a reach for justice.
“CORPORATE GREED VERSUS WORKER RIGHTS,” declared signs wielded by picketing dockworkers outside the marine terminals of Newark. “NO WORK WITHOUT A FAIR CONTRACT.”
But the people feeling the most direct heat are other blue-collar workers who are paid much less than the dockworkers, whose wages — after accounting for overtime — often reach
$200,000 a year. Truck drivers are rarely unionized and frequently operate as independent contractors, with minimal job security.
The dockworkers seek to use the strike to make life uncomfortable for the operators of the ports — foreign-owned international shipping carriers. But the carriers may be uniquely positioned to actually benefit from the strike: They have cut service to some East and Gulf Coast destinations, which has reduced capacity, sending shipping prices higher worldwide.
This, shipping experts say, is a template that the shipping carriers have mastered in recent times — first during the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic, and more recently as Houthi rebels have trained missiles on vessels in the Red Sea, turning the Suez Canal into a virtual no-go zone.
“Recent supply chain disturbances, such as COVID and the Red Sea attacks, reduced ocean freight capacity, and prices rose dramatically in the short run,” said Daniel B. Maffei, the chair of the Federal Maritime Commission, which regulates ocean cargo. “An ILA work stoppage would be no exception. The big ocean freight companies may for a time actually bring in more revenue than they forgo.”
Maffei said he worried that the strike could endure longer than many expected, because neither side had a strong incentive to compromise. The union believes that it enjoys powerful leverage to extract better pay, he said, while employers can use the strike as an opportunity to raise prices.
Most industry experts assume that economic disruptions will be minimal if the strike is resolved within a few days. Businesses that rely on the shipping industry have anticipated the strike for months and have diverted cargo to West Coast ports while stashing extra products in warehouses.
“Our customers generally have two months’ worth of extra inventory in stock,” said Ryan Petersen, Flexport’s CEO.
But if the strike lasts more than a week or two, backup plans are likely to be exhausted. West Coast ports could become congested as they did during the pandemic.
Some cargo may be diverted to ports in Mexico and Canada. But dockworkers are on a three-day strike in Montreal, and Mexico’s ports tend to be smaller operations. Rail and trucking links spanning borders could be quickly strained by a surge of extra cargo.
“There aren’t many good alternatives,” said Judah Levine, head of research at Freightos, an online platform used to book containers.
Dockworkers on strike at the Marine Terminal in Elizabeth, N.J., early Tuesday morning, Oct. 1, 2024. The strike by longshoremen has halted commerce at Newark and other ports on the East and Gulf Coasts, affecting an ecosystem of supply-chain workers. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
Stocks
Stocks edge lower as Middle East conflict pushes oil higher
lobal stocks fell on Thursday, weighed by tepid trading in equity markets across the U.S. and other major regions, while oil prices jumped, buoyed by rising geopolitical tension from the Middle East conflict.
Wall Street’s main indexes finished lower after trading slightly higher early in the session. Data released on Thursday showed rising U.S. jobless claims, indicating labor market softness, but strong service-sector activity. The closely watched nonfarm payrolls report for September is due on Friday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.44% to 42,011.59, the S&P 500 fell 0.17% to 5,699.94 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.04% to 17,918.48.
European stocks finished down 0.93% as investors digested weak business activity survey data from the bloc. MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe fell 0.39% to 842.18.
Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan had earlier shed 1.3% overnight, largely driven by Hong Kong stocks sagging after a sizzling rally, with several markets, including mainland China and South Korea, closed for the day.
Japan’s Nikkei, however, ended up nearly 2% after the country’s newly elected prime minister Shigeru Ishiba said it was not the time to raise interest rates after meeting with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda.
Israel bombed Beirut early on Thursday following a year of clashes with Iran-backed Hezbollah. Asked if he would support Israel striking Iran’s oil facilities, U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters on Thursday “we’re discussing that.” He added: “There is nothing going to happen today.”
Brent crude futures settled up 5.03% at $77.62 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures settled up 5.15% to $73.71.
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“The fact that energy is up where everything else is down pretty significantly is an indication that today’s move is a lot about the escalating conflict in the Middle East,” said James St. Aubin, chief investment officer at Ocean Park Asset Management in Santa Monica, California.
“There’s probably some trepidation or maybe some hesitation about putting money to work ahead of tomorrow’s jobs report.”
Gold prices were flat as the U.S. dollar strengthened against major currencies. Spot gold fell 0.01% to $2,657.24 an ounce, while U.S. gold futures settled 0.4% higher at
$2,679.2.
In currencies, the U.S. dollar index rose to a six-week high, reaching 102.09, the highest since Aug. 19. It last rose 0.33% to 101.98. The euro was slightly down at $1.1026, and not far from Wednesday’s low of $1.10325, a level last seen on Sept. 12.
Sterling weakened 1.1% to $1.3122 after Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey told the Guardian newspaper that the central bank could become a “bit more aggressive” on rate cuts if inflation continued to ease. Against the Japanese yen, the dollar strengthened 0.1% to 146.61.
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After successes, Israel’s military is in a ‘long game’ with no clear outcome
By ISABEL KERSHNER
When thousands of Hamas-led gunmen breached the Gaza Strip border last Oct. 7 and overran Israeli communities, army bases and a music festival, victims of the surprise assault sent desperate messages to loved ones from their hiding places and safe rooms.
“Where is the army?” they asked as they waited long hours to be rescued. For the many hundreds of those killed, the army came too late, if at all.
A year after perhaps the worst military and intelligence debacle in Israel’s history, the military is rehabilitating its image as a formidable regional power. It has penetrated the most secret and secure bastions of its archenemies with intelligence-based precision strikes, eliminated key leaders, pounded away at their assets, and largely thwarted their efforts to mount a response.
In a bombing Friday, Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, with a strike on an underground bunker in a dense urban area near Beirut where the militant group holds sway. The military code name for the operation was New Order, hinting at Israel’s ambitious goals of changing the reality across its borders and undermining Iran’s use of proxies to surround it with a so-called ring of fire.
Now fighting on multiple fronts, Israel’s air defenses, with help from U.S.-led allies, largely blocked a huge retaliatory attack Tuesday when Iran fired a barrage of nearly 200 missiles at Israel.
Israel’s vow to make Iran pay a heavy price for that attack suggests that the Israeli military is becoming less reluctant to engage in a broader regional war.
According to Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli brigadier general who is now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, “The strong and smart Israel from before Oct. 7 is back.”
Nasrallah’s demise sent a message of its own to Israel’s enemies, Orion added: “You understand Israel can get to you.”
The killing of Nasrallah gave an immediate lift to Israeli morale and to the military’s reputation before the bleak anniversary of the October fiasco. After the military confirmed the death Saturday, videos circulated of lifeguards announcing the news and sunbathers cheering on Israeli beaches.
A survey conducted this week by the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University showed that 87% of Israel’s Jewish population had high or very high confidence in the military. Only 37% expressed such levels of trust in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Initial Israeli euphoria aside, Orion said the military actions were a “long game” with no clear outcome. After a string of successes for Israel in Lebanon in recent days, he said, the question is, “Then what?”
Over the past year, after recovering from the initial shock of the Hamas-led assault, the Israeli military has conducted a grinding and deadly counteroffensive in
A United Nations peacekeeper in the south Lebanon village of Yarine, on July 13, 2024. A year after perhaps the worst military and intelligence debacle in the country’s history, its armed forces have regained the momentum. The question facing Israel, experts said, is how to translate military victories into long-term diplomatic settlements. (Diego Ibarra Sánchez/The New York Times)
Gaza. Israel said recently that it had largely dismantled Hamas’ military infrastructure, reducing the militants’ capabilities to that of a guerrilla force.
That has come at a heavy price. More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to local health authorities, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
The toll has brought Israel international opprobrium. And despite Netanyahu’s insistence on “absolute victory,” even the military’s chief spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, says it is not possible to eliminate Hamas as an ideology and a movement.
Israel’s bombing has included campaigns in neighboring Lebanon, where Hezbollah began firing at Israeli positions on Oct. 8 last year in solidarity with Hamas, and in Yemen, more than 1,000 miles away, after the Iran-backed Houthis fired missiles and drones at Israel.
A strike in April on an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus, Syria, killed senior Iranian military and intelligence officials and prompted Iran to attack Israel directly for the first time in April with hundreds of missiles and drones. Then, too, Israel intercepted most of them with the help of the United States and other allies. In July, Israel killed a top Hezbollah military commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ political leader while he was visiting Tehran, Iran. In September, thousands of Hezbollah operatives were killed or maimed when their pagers and walkie-talkies simultaneously exploded, and Israeli warplanes bombarded thousands of targets in Lebanon.
Since the attack that killed Nasrallah, Israel has continued striking to try to degrade as many Hezbollah assets as
possible, along with some other targets in Lebanon where it began ground operations this week.
John Kirby, a White House national security spokesperson, told ABC last weekend that Israel had nearly eradicated Hezbollah’s command structure and destroyed thousands of its missiles and drones. “There is no question that the Hezbollah today is not the Hezbollah” of even a week ago, he said.
Israel’s display of military and technological prowess has also most likely helped to reestablish it as an “anchor of strength” in the region and as a balance against Iran and its proxies, according to Yaakov Amidror, an Israeli former major general and former national security adviser.
Whereas Hamas caught Israel off guard last October, the country’s forces were prepared for the Lebanon campaign. Nearly a decade ago, the military warned about Hezbollah’s embedding military infrastructure in southern Lebanese villages close to the border with Israel.
And unlike Israel’s stated aim of destroying Hamas’ military and governing capabilities in Gaza, the government set a more modest goal for the campaign in Lebanon: to allow the roughly 60,000 residents of Israeli border areas evacuated last October to return to their homes.
Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, has said that the war against Hezbollah will proceed in stages, giving the group a chance to back down at each point and move its forces from the border. On Tuesday, Israel’s military said it had carried out dozens of secret raids in Lebanese territory near the border in recent months and had embarked on the ground operation in southern Lebanon.
After that, experts said, Israel’s end game is unclear.
The question facing Israel, experts said, is how to translate military victories into long-term diplomatic settlements.
The trick, said Orion, “is to find an exit before the inflection point when things can start going wrong.”
For now, he said, “We are still in the middle of the movie.”
Studying at an English-speaking university? In Quebec, that may cost extra.
By VJOSA ISAI
Quebec is working hard to fortify its official language — much to the displeasure of some who don’t speak it.
Battling what many describe as the incursion of English has become a resounding political message in the province, North America’s largest French enclave. And Quebec’s government is finding more ways to lift the supremacy of French, the province’s lingua franca.
Provincial laws mandate that English text on storefront signs be half the size of French words and that employers reveal what percentage of their staff cannot work in French. New immigrants are given a six-month grace period before French becomes the only language in which they receive government services, such as taking a driver’s test.
Now, students from outside Quebec who are enrolled at
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one of the province’s two main English-language public universities will have to pay higher tuition than their counterparts from Quebec.
The tuition increase is taking direct aim at what Quebec’s government claims is one of the biggest challenges in preserving the French language: students who study at McGill University or Concordia University in Montreal but do not speak French.
“When I look at the number of English-speaking students in Quebec, it threatens the survival of French,” the province’s premier, François Legault, told reporters last year, days after the new tuition policy was announced. “I am very determined to reverse the trend.” Legault’s office did not respond to an interview request for this article.
The extra tuition collected is being redistributed to help French-language universities in Quebec.
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Critics accuse Legault of targeting English speakers, or “Anglophones” as they are known in Canada, to score political points and to pit English- and French-language speakers against each other.
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“It’s an artificial division that was created for political reasons,” said Eva Ludvig, the president of the Quebec Community Groups Network, a nonprofit that supports English-speaking organizations. “English speakers helped build this province and feel that we’re part and parcel of Quebec society.”
Some analysts say that Legault is acting out of political expediency after his party lost a special election last year to a party that promotes the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country.
Appealing to French speakers helps shore up Legault’s base, said Jeffery Vacante, an expert in Quebec nationalism and history professor at Western University in London, Ontario.
Besides the tuition increase, which starts this fall, next year Quebec will require that 80% of outof-province students at McGill and Concordia reach intermediate French proficiency by the time they graduate.
Michel Leblanc, the president of Montreal’s Chamber of Commerce, believes the two universities need to do a better job of integrating their Englishspeaking and international students into Quebec society as a way to help maintain its distinct French identity.
“What’s happening in Quebec is something quite unique on the planet and it’s a social experiment,” Leblanc said.
McGill University is considered a crown jewel in Canada’s higher education system and viewed by many American students as an alternative to far more expensive Ivy League institutions in the United States. One of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Canada, it is internationally known for pioneering advances in artificial intelligence and health care research.
Not far away in Montreal is Concordia University, which has a highly regarded cinema studies program and is also a destination for design and communication students.
McGill University students on the campus in Montreal, on Aug. 28, 2024. The Quebec government has increased tuition for out-of-province English-speaking students and has set some French-language proficiency benchmarks, a move that English universities say will punish their students and coffers. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)
Under the new tuition policy, students bound for McGill or Concordia from outside Quebec will pay roughly 12,000 Canadian dollars a year (about $8,900). International students, who have always paid a premium, will pay a minimum annual tuition of CA$20,000 (about $15,000). Quebec residents pay about CA$3,500 per year (about $2,600), the lowest undergrad tuition in the country.
The universities have offered grants to nonresident students to help offset the cost of tuition, but the number of outof-province and international students nevertheless fell at the start of the academic year, according to McGill and Concordia.
“This will degrade our universities and will degrade Montreal; not only its economy, but its reputation as a student city and as a city open for business,” said Daanish Khan, a political science student at McGill who has led a group opposing the policy.
The tuition policy was a shock to the two universities, which have filed separate lawsuits asking a Quebec superior court judge to toss out the changes, arguing that the government had not made a strong enough case for why the plan was necessary.
The universities’ administrations accuse Quebec’s government of arbitrarily punishing their students and imposing a financial burden on them after years of chronic provincial underfunding.
The number of English-speaking students attending Quebec universities has barely increased in the past decade, rising by roughly 2%, to about 103,000 last year, according to the province’s higher-education ministry. By comparison, there were 208,000 French-language students studying in Quebec last year.
“One of the disappointing things about this is that in many ways, Quebec has always been a leader and an innovator in higher education,” said Graham Carr, the president of Concordia.
Israel expands evacuation warnings in southern Lebanon
By LIAM STACK, LAUREN LEATHERBY, EUAN WARD and VICTORIA KIM
The Israeli military issued evacuation warnings Thursday for a further swath of towns and villages in southern Lebanon where its troops are fighting Hezbollah militants, as Lebanese health officials raised the death toll from an Israeli strike near the heart of Beirut to at least nine people.
No apparent warning preceded the overnight strike, which hit the Bachoura neighborhood of Beirut, the Lebanese capital, several hundred yards from parliament and Western embassies. Other large explosions were heard in or near the city early Thursday as Israel continued its campaign against Hezbollah, including in the Dahiya, a cluster of neighborhoods on the southern outskirts of Beirut where Hezbollah holds sway.
Avichay Adraee, a spokesperson for the Israeli military, warned residents of more than 20 additional towns and cities in southern Lebanon to leave their homes immediately and not to move south toward the Israeli border, a possible sign that the ground invasion that Israeli forces began this week could be expanding.
The areas are farther north than those mentioned in previous Israeli evacuation warnings and include Nabatieh, one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon. All lie above the Litani River, the upper boundary of a buffer area established by the United Nations after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The wreckage of apartment buildings after a week of Israeli airstrikes in Dahieh, Lebanon, a suburb south of Beirut, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (Diego Ibarra Sánchez/ The New York Times)
The attack on Beirut followed a day of clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, in what appeared to be the first direct confrontations between the two sides since the invasion began. Israel said eight of its soldiers had been killed, including five members of an elite unit, as its forces engaged in close-range combat with the Iran-backed militant group.
Israeli leaders were continuing to weigh a military response to Iran, which on Tuesday
launched nearly 200 missiles at targets across Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who has vowed retribution for the missile attack, said Wednesday that his country was engaged in “a tough war against Iran’s axis of evil.”
President Joe Biden, in an apparent attempt to stem the escalation and broadening of conflicts in the Middle East, said Wednesday that he would not support Israel striking Iran’s nuclear sites.
Here is what else to know:
— Continuing strikes: The Israeli military said it had struck about 200 sites in Lebanon overnight, including local government offices in Bint Jbeil, a large town near the border with Israel, where it killed 15 people it described as Hezbollah fighters.
— Iran sanctions: Biden told reporters that leaders of the Group of 7 nations had agreed in a call Wednesday to impose new sanctions on Iran for the missile strike. He said the other leaders on the call — of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — agreed that Israel has the right to respond but that it must be proportional.
— Gaza attacks: The Israeli military kept up its attacks on Iranian-backed Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying Thursday that it had killed three top Hamas officials in a previously undisclosed airstrike three months ago, including Rawhi Mushtaha, one of the closest confidants of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader. Hamas did not immediately comment on Israel’s claim, but it has generally not confirmed or denied the deaths of its officials in the conflict.
— Tel Aviv attack: The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, the Gaza-based militant group, took responsibility for the shooting attack Tuesday evening in Tel Aviv, Israel, in which seven people were killed. — Strike in Syria: An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Damascus, the Syrian capital, killed three people Wednesday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the state news media.
Tropical Storm Krathon slams Taiwan, bringing flooding and landslides
By YAN ZHUANG and JOHN LIU
Tropical Storm Krathon slammed into Taiwan’s populous southwestern coast Thursday, authorities said, bringing torrential rain and heavy winds that have caused landslides, floods and power outages. Two people had been killed, and over 200 have been injured.
The storm made landfall as a typhoon at 12:40 p.m. in Kaohsiung, a major port city home to 2.7 million people, Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration said. It was downgraded to a tropical storm Thursday evening, and the weather administration predicted it would weaken into a tropical depression Friday as it moved north over land.
Krathon had lingered near Taiwan’s southern coast for two days, weakening as it
approached the island. Still, its slow pace has allowed it to wreak havoc, lashing some areas with relentless rain. Taitung County, in the southeast, has received up to 4.2 feet of rain since Tuesday, while nearby Pingtung County has received about 3.9 feet in the same period.
Heavy rain triggered multiple landslides in Taitung, Pingtung and the northeastern port city of Keelung. Flooding has also swept Keelung and Kaohsiung. Power outages affected more than 240,00 homes across the country, the Central News Agency reported, and more than 12,000 households were without water. The storm’s winds also overturned shipping containers, damaged buildings and toppled trees.
With more rain on the way, Taiwanese officials warned people to stay on guard for
more landslides. Low-lying areas were at risk of flooding, Chen Chi-Mai, mayor of Kaohsiung, said on social media.
As Krathon continued to weaken and restoration efforts were underway, local governments said offices and schools would reopen across the country Friday, except in the hardhit regions of Kaohsiung and Pingtung counties, and parts of Hualien County and New Taipei, according to the Central News Agency.
Taiwan’s National Fire Agency on Thursday afternoon said two people had died and 219 had been injured during the storm. In Hualien County in the east, a 70-year-old died from falling off a ladder when attempting to prune tree branches. In Taitung, a 66-year-old truck driver died after crashing into a large rock that fell onto the road.
The storm complicated rescue efforts af-
ter a fire broke out at Antai Hospital in Pingtung County and killed nine people Thursday, including an employee of the hospital, according to Taiwan’s Central News Agency. The remaining 324 patients at the hospital were rescued, the county’s mayor said on social media. The fire was put out in the afternoon. Taiwanese authorities shut down the island Wednesday and Thursday, closing schools and workplaces and the national stock exchange. All domestic flights have been grounded, and many international flights were canceled Thursday. More than 10,000 people had been evacuated in multiple counties as of Thursday afternoon.
Although typhoons are common in Taiwan, they usually hit the island’s mountainous, sparsely populated east coast, and rarely make landfall on the more populated west coast.
‘If
Germany can do it, why can’t we?’
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
When Angela Merkel declined to shut Germany’s doors in 2015 to asylum-seekers coming into Europe, the center-right chancellor garnered bouquets from liberals but also hoots from the far right and grumbling from European neighbors miffed that Germany was unilaterally taking the high ground without taking their interests into account.
Nine years later, the tables have turned. In September, the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a center-left Social Democrat, ordered border controls along Germany’s wideopen western and northern borders to catch immigrants trying to enter without authorization. The controls were already in force along the eastern and southern borders with Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland, but as of Sept. 16 they were extended to the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark and France.
Again, the neighbors fumed. Here was Germany once again breaking European solidarity — this time along the low road — when the whole of the European Union was feeling overwhelmed by a rising tide of immigrants from the Middle East, Africa and, most recently, Ukraine.
Germany was the country that had declared they should all be let in. “Wir schaffen das” — we’ll manage this — was Merkel’s grand promise in 2015. But now that immigration had become an acute political problem for Berlin, the Germans were pushing unwanted refugees back into neighboring countries that had just as little interest, and no greater responsibility, for taking them in.
The mass migration of people seeking refuge from war and poverty in prosperous democracies has become a major challenge of the 21st century. While it has posed differing and often real problems in different parts of North America and Europe, a common repercussion has been the rise of farright movements, which feed popular — and often misguided — fears of invading alien tribes stealing jobs and benefits, spreading terrorism and crime, and diluting national cultures and identities. The far right recently scored big in elections to the European Parliament and in France, and immigration is a primary weapon in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse and a country with generous social services, has been a prime destination for refugees. Their number reached a record 3.48 million refugees and others fleeing conflict, including Ukrainians, as of the end of June, by far the most of any European state. The public has reacted accordingly. A recent poll in Germany found that 44% of respondents said the country’s most pressing problem is migration and refugees, and about 77% said Germany needed a change in its policies.
One consequence has been the rapid rise, after Merkel flung open the borders, of Alternative for Germany, a farright party known as AfD that has morphed into a rabidly anti-immigration and anti-Muslim party that the German intelligence service has classified as “suspected extremist.” Once a marginal political player, AfD came in first and second, respectively, in elections in the eastern states of Thuringia and Saxony. Those elections came in the wake of popular fury over a horrific knife attack in the western city of Solingen, allegedly by a Syrian whose asylum claim had been denied.
The Social Democratic Party did well in recent elections in Brandenburg, but the victory was tenuous. It’s estimated the AfD came in second by a scant percentage point or two, and exit polls indicated that three-quarters of those who voted for the Social Democrats did so only to block the AfD.
Announcing the extended border controls, the German interior minister, Nancy Faeser, explained that the measure was necessary to protect against “acute dangers posed by Islamist terrorism and serious crime.” EU rules allow controls for six months, but only “as a last resort measure, in exceptional situations.”
Germany’s neighbors saw nothing of the sort. What they saw was a shaky government in dire political straits trying to co-opt some of the right’s political thunder.
There were few initial indications of how well the border measures were working, but the effect was probably not great. Germany’s western borders have been open for decades in the Schengen border-free zone in western Europe, and countless highways and byways freely crisscross state boundaries.
Even if it is largely symbolic, the images of German police searching cars aroused acrimonies old and new — and some schadenfreude on the far right. Austria has already angrily declared that it will not accept anyone rejected by Germany, while Geert Wilders, whose AfD-like anti-immigration party won the largest share of seats in Dutch elections last year, asked: “If Germany can do it, why can’t we?”
What happens in Germany invariably takes on a special significance, in part because it is the most populous country in Europe, but also because of its Nazi past. When a provincial leader of a far-right party in Germany spouts banned Nazi rhetoric, as Björn Höcke, who led the AfD to victory in Thuringia was found guilty of doing, that generates greater concern than it would elsewhere in Europe or the United States.
But what bugs Germany’s neighbors more these days is
An Alternative for Germany rally in Mannheim, June 7, 2024. The AfD has been emboldened by the fact that its hard-line stance on asylum seekers is being taken up even by some of its opponents. (Ingmar Nolting/The New York Times)
what they see as a big, powerful and overbearing neighbor paying ever less heed to the high-minded principles of European solidarity, especially on an issue as intractable and Europe-wide as migration.
Acting in its own interest, however, and irritating its neighbors in the process, will not solve Germany’s — or Europe’s — immigrant problem. The problem across Europe is that while uncontrolled migration creates political headaches, there is an acute need for skilled labor. That requires Europewide action, and despite various plans and proposals, the goal of reducing numbers remains elusive, and is likely to remain so as long as wealthy democracies like Germany remain a beacon of hope for suffering people.
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First Medical Health Plan, Inc., líder en el mercado de planes médicos en Puerto Rico, y el Sistema de Salud Wilma N. Vázquez, anunciaron su nueva alianza estratégica, “Juntos por Tu Salud”, diseñada para ofrecer a sus suscriptores y beneficiarios una cobertura más amplia y acceso inmediato a una variedad de servicios de salud de alta calidad en la región de Vega Baja y municipios aledaños. Este anuncio refuerza el compromiso de ambas empresas familiares, netamente puertorriqueñas, con el bienestar y la salud de sus comunidades.
Los principales ejecutivos de ambas empresas ofrecieron detalles de la alianza que hace posible el acceso a una mayor variedad de servicios para todos los suscriptores de First Medical en la región, incluyendo $0 copago en: Hospitalización, Sonografía, Densitometría Ósea, Rayos X, CT Scan, Mamografías y Laboratorio.
Este esfuerzo impactará de manera directa a más de 15,000 suscriptores de First Medical que residen en el Municipio de Vega Baja, tanto del sector comercial, como beneficiarios
del Plan Vital y suscriptores de pueblos limítrofes. Además, la alianza se extiende a las cerca de 600,000 vidas que han seleccionado a First Medical como su plan médico de confianza. En consonancia con el espíritu de esta colaboración, First Medical y el Sistema de Salud Wilma N. Vázquez llevarán este anuncio directamente a los residentes de Vega Baja con un evento especial abierto a toda la comunidad durante el mes de octubre.
La actividad incluirá una feria de salud y bienestar para todos, con exámenes médicos, orientaciones de prevención y actividades recreativas para toda la familia. El evento contará con la colaboración del Honorable alcalde de Vega Baja, Marcos Cruz Molina, quien ha aceptado ser el anfitrión de esta importante celebración de la salud y el bienestar comunitario. En respaldo de la alianza, este evento será acogido también por el Honorable alcalde Carlos López Rivera para el Municipio de Dorado durante el mismo mes y posteriormente se extenderá a otros pueblos limítrofes.
“Esta alianza representa un paso
importante en nuestra misión de proveer a nuestros suscriptores el mejor acceso a servicios de salud, al menor costo posible. En First Medical, con 47 años de trayectoria, nos sentimos orgullosos de ser una empresa puertorriqueña comprometida con el bienestar de cerca de 600,000 vidas en todo Puerto Rico”, afirmó Francisco Javier Artau, presidente de First Medical.
“Con esta alianza, reforzamos nuestros valores de calidad, accesibilidad y servicio a nuestras comunidades, facilitando un acceso sin barreras a una atención médica excepcional.”
Por su parte, el Primer Ejecutivo del Sistema de Salud Wilma N. Vázquez, el Licenciado José Orlando Pabón Quiñones, destacó que “con más 39 años de servicio, nuestro sistema de salud se ha destacado por su excelencia y compromiso con la salud de nuestra gente. Esta alianza con First Medical nos permite extender esos beneficios a un mayor número de pacientes, ofreciendo un acceso rápido y eficaz a servicios especializados, lo que nos convierte en un referente de salud en la región”.
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Continúa en crecimiento Cooperativa Las Piedras, Inaugura Nueva Sucursal en Guaynabo
En un significativo paso hacia la expansión de sus servicios, la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Las Piedras inauguró recientemente su nueva sucursal en el Mezanine del edificio Triple S Plaza, ubicado en el 1580 de la avenida Roosevelt. Esta nueva sede, llamada Sucursal Caparra, marca un hito importante en el compromiso de la cooperativa por fortalecer su presencia en el área metropolitana y mejorar la atención a sus socios.
Anteriormente, la Sucursal Caparra estaba localizada en el sótano del Centro Comercial San Patricio, pero en un esfuerzo por mejorar sus facilidades y ofre-
cer una experiencia más cómoda a sus clientes, la cooperativa tomó la decisión de reubicar la sucursal en una nueva y moder-
na instalación. Entre las mejoras se incluyen servicios ampliados como el Autobanco y un cajero automático (ATM), así como mo-
derna área de cajeros y servicios, diseñados para agilizar las transacciones y ofrecer mayor comodidad a los socios.
La nueva sucursal es el resultado de la fusión voluntaria entre la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Caparra y la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Las Piedras, fusión que fue aprobada por la Corporación Pública para la Supervisión y Seguro de Cooperativas de Puerto Rico (COSSEC). Esta unión ha permitido que la Cooperativa Las Piedras crezca en número de socios, activos, sucursales y servicios, consolidando su posición como una de las instituciones cooperativas más sólidas del país.
Durante la ceremonia de apertura, estuvieron presentes destacadas personalidades del ámbito cooperativo. Entre ellas, el presidente de la Junta de Directores de la Cooperativa Las Piedras, Luis A. Díaz Algarín, así como miembros de la Junta y Comités.
También participaron el presidente ejecutivo, Edgar A. López Román, la presidenta ejecutiva de COSSEC, Mabel Jiménez, la Directora y Presidente de Junta de la Asociación de Ejecutivos y el alcalde de Guaynabo, Edward O’Neill Rosa, quien le dio la bienvenida a Coop Las Piedras a su municipio.
En su discurso, López Román agradeció a la Junta de Directores y a la presidenta de COSSEC por su apoyo en la materialización de este importante proyecto. Luego del tradicional corte de cinta, los asistentes disfrutaron de un brindis y un recorrido por las nuevas instalaciones, culminando la misma en un ambiente de confraternización.
Con esta apertura, la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Las Piedras reafirma su compromiso con las comunidades que sirve, brindando soluciones financieras innovadoras y accesibles a cada vez más personas en Puerto Rico.
‘The Wild Robot’ review: Wonder and whimsy that does compute
By NATALIA WINKELMAN
Have you ever thought about the many ways animals show emotion? Consider an inquisitive snout wriggling in the air, tails coiled protectively around cubs and ears perky or drooping depending on mood. For creatures who didn’t evolve to walk upright, wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve is a considerably more anatomical business.
Among the achievements of “The Wild Robot” is a painstaking regard for details like these. Written and directed by Chris Sanders (“How to Train Your Dragon”) and adapted from Peter Brown’s novel, the movie is a dazzling triumph of animation in which you feel the filmmakers’ attention on every frame. In a revivifying turn away from the gag-a-minute, computer-generated extravaganzas clogging up the animated zoological canon, this is a work that cares most about two things: big feelings and great beauty.
That’s not to say that its machine is built entirely of new parts. In some ways, this kid-friendly affair about an interspecies found family even leans into its derivative elements. Roz, the bionic hero of “The Wild Robot,” seems designed to evoke the title character in “The Iron Giant,” sharing that monster’s studying eyes and lanky stature. But rather than outer space, she hails from today’s sinister science-fiction analog: the conglomerate Universal Dynamics, which specializes in robotic digital assistants. Think Alexa in hulking metal form.
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The movie opens as Roz (short for Rozzum Unit 7134) accidentally washes off a cargo ship and ashore a wildlife island, where she swiftly begins scouting for a task that satisfies her serve-at-all-costs programming. After wreaking havoc on some fauna, the robotic assistant (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) stumbles upon a purpose: raising an orphaned, newborn gosling whose kin she accidentally squashed.
Brightbill, as she names him, is on the runty side, and although Roz grows more sociable — at first, she can speak only in a Robotese, which is so stilted, it might as well be Middle English — her ward (voiced by Kit Connor, of the Netflix series “Heartstopper”) struggles to master the basics of his pond and sky habitats. Tagging along for the childrearing is a rascally fox named Fink (Pedro Pascal), who alternates between parenting advice and snide remarks. The impending winter imposes a ticking clock on Brightbill’s training: Should he fail to become airborne before migration time, he will perish in the cold, assuming he’s not eaten first.
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bill’s seasonal countdown, his world contains a pecking order of predators and prey, from worms to woodchucks to bears. All of them are struggling to survive, as proved during the blizzard that Roz and Fink battle to rescue hibernating neighbors. Trudging into the storm, the pair manage to save a small Noah’s Ark-worth of nearby dwellers but come upon at least one burrow where they were too late. Climate change is also a specter, especially once the story expands to observe a sterile hydroponics production system far from the flourishing ecosystems of the verdant (and notably unnamed) island. We spend most of our time in this Eden, and Sanders seems chiefly concerned with notes of optimism and a message of goodwill throughout the food chain. But darker moments speak to the tightrope his movie walks between quixotic amity and unsparing truths.
The visuals — not just good, but spectacular — take an anti-verisimilitude approach and are more evocative for it. Envision a craggy cave engulfed in waves, meadows speckled with Monet-inspired wildflowers and a tree trunk blanketed with fluttering monarchs. These impressionistic landscapes are hardly based on actual environments. Their function is to imbue Roz’s surroundings with wonder and whimsy, eschewing the lifelike in favor of the exquisite.
Beholding all this loveliness, one longs for a version of “The Wild Robot” with less prattling dialogue — not to mention nondescript pop melodies — where the scenery does the singing and the characters inspire swells of uplifting feeling all on their own. Indeed, in the moments where Brightbill and his gander wordlessly soar among feathery clouds, the movie hits its highest peaks.
‘The Wild Robot’
Rated PG. Running time: 1 hour, 41 minutes. In theaters.
In praise of the chicken braise
By MELISSA CLARK
Recipe naming conventions come and go. For the baroque excess of every Beany Leeky Greens with Greeky Rampy Beans, there’s a minimalist roast chicken or tomato salad to remind us that less is often very much enough. Even techniques have aliases. One cook’s chicken fricassee is another’s braise, and yet another’s chicken stew. But all refer to the same bird browned in a pan and simmered in liquid with vegetables, until the meat is supple and soft, the vegetables succulent and the liquid fragrant.
I call my latest recipe Skillet-Braised Chicken with Greens and Olives because it’s direct, and to me the name evokes the poetry of the technique itself. The word “braise” always conjures a bubbling pot on a crisp evening, with a brawny, oniony cloud cloistering the kitchen from the chill nip outside. Actual cold weather may be weeks in the future, but my appetite is ready.
The rule of almost every chicken braise is to sear the meat first. This allows the skin to crisp and the fat to render, leaving behind those all-important brown bits at the bottom of the pan that provide the foundation of the sauce.
Liquid is added next, and that should be flavorful, too. The great James Beard suggested spiking plain water with a veal knuckle or pig’s foot, but he conceded that a good stock also works. I opt for stock because it’s easy and gives the right
flavor to the greens, which get exquisitely silky after simmering for the half-hour or so it takes the chicken to cook.
Bone-in thighs and legs work best here because they’re forgiving: Cook them a little less, and the meat is taut and pleasingly springy; cook them longer, and it falls off the bone. You can use bone-in breasts instead, but watch carefully and take them off the heat as soon as they’re done. Their window of perfection is narrower, and you don’t want to overcook them.
Then to finish the dish, I top the rich chicken and soft greens with olives and lemon for contrasting brightness and tang.
I suppose you could call this a one-pan meal or skillet dish, since it’s cooked in a skillet. Name it whatever you like — everybody wins when dinner is served.
Skillet-braised chicken with greens and olives
Braising chicken and greens together in a skillet does wonderful things to both bird and vegetables. As the chicken cooks, the skin browns, crisps and renders savory fat, which suffuses the greens with flavor. The greens, in turn, make a soft, moist bed on which to cook the chicken, keeping the
meat supremely tender. In the end, the silky greens make a rich, mineral contrast to the juicy meat, while lemon juice and olives add brightness and acidity to the mix, giving it a needed jolt. Serve this with crusty bread or mashed potatoes to catch all the juices.
Yield: 4 servings
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients:
2 1/4 to 2 1/2 pounds bone-in chicken thighs and drumsticks
Fine sea salt or table salt and freshly ground black pepper 1/4 teaspoon hot smoked paprika, plus more for serving (or use red-pepper flakes)
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, more for serving 1 cup sliced shallots, about 2 to 3 (or use red onion)
3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 to 2 bunches sturdy greens, such as escarole, Swiss chard or kale, coarsely chopped (1 pound; about 10 to 12 cups)
1 cup coarsely chopped cilantro or parsley
1 1/4 cups chicken stock, plus more as needed 1/2 cup pitted coarsely chopped Castelvetrano olives
1 lemon, halved
Flaky salt, for serving (optional)
Preparation:
1. Season chicken all over with 1/2 teaspoon salt, several grinds of black pepper and the paprika.
2. In a large, heavy-bottomed skillet, heat oil over medium-high. Add shallots and a pinch of salt, and cook until pale golden brown all over, 5 to 7 minutes.
3. Add chicken to the skillet and let sear until it browns lightly on both sides and the onions turn a shade or two darker, 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer chicken to a plate, leaving the shallots in the pan.
4. Add garlic to the pan and cook until fragrant, 1 minute more. Add chopped greens, cilantro and another 1/4 teaspoon salt to the pan, and stir, tossing to coat in the residual chicken fat. It may seem like a lot of greens, but they will cook down. Cook until they have just started to wilt, about 2 minutes.
5. Add the chicken and any juices on the plate to the skillet with the greens. Pour in enough of the chicken stock to come halfway up the chicken. Bring liquid to a gentle simmer. Partly cover and allow the chicken to finish cooking through, 25 to 35 minutes. Add more stock as needed to keep the greens tender and moist.
6. Stir in olives and cook uncovered until they are warmed through, about 1 minute more. Squeeze one lemon half over everything, then taste greens, and add more salt or lemon juice if needed. Serve topped with flaky salt, a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil and more smoked paprika.
Skillet braised chicken with greens and olives. A skillet filled with braising chicken is perfect for the coming crisp days. Food styled by Barrett Washburne. (Bryan Gardner/The New York Times)
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Yo, MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 22 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmue-
ble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 27 de junio de 2024. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 29 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 12 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 22 de agosto de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número DIECIOCHO (18) del bloque H en el plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACION
PARQUE SAN MIGUEL, localizado en el Barrio Pájaros del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, tiene un área superficial de CUATROCIENTOS
DIECISEIS (416) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a CERO punto CIENTO SEIS (0.106) cuerdas. Sus colindancias son las siguientes, por el NORTE, colinda en una distancia de TREINTA y DOS (32) metros lineales, con el solar número DIECISIETE (17) del bloque H; por el SUR, colinda en una distancia con un largo de TREINTA y DOS (32) metros lineales, con el solar número DIECINUEVE (19) del bloque H, por el ESTE, colinda en una distancia de TRECE (13) metros lineales, con la calle número SEIS (6); y por el OESTE, colinda en una distancia de TRECE (13) metros lineales, con el solar número OCHO (8) del bloque H. Afecto este solar a una servidumbre a CINCO (5) pies lineales, que discurre a todo lo largo de su colindancia Este, a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Enclava una casa de concreto de una sola planta, diseñada para fines residenciales para una familia. Finca número 66,466, inscrita al folio 197 del tomo 1508 de Bayamón. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón.
Dirección de la Propiedad: #H18 6 Street, Parque San Miguel Development, Bayamón, PR 00959; H18 Calle 6 Parq San Miguel, Bayamón, PR 00959. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $193,872.90 en concepto de principal con interés al 3.488% anual, a la fecha de 13 de junio de 2024 los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $26,250.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 274 otorgada el día 18 de noviembre de 2009, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público David E. Viera Umpierre y consta inscrita al folio 198 vuelto del tomo 1,508 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 66,466, como asiento abreviado extendida las líneas el día 8 de abril de 2011, en virtud de la Ley 2016 del 27 de diciembre de 2010. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I de Bayamón. 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 cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y
Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $262,500.00, con intereses al 3.488% anual, vencedero el 19 de septiembre de 2093, constituida mediante la escritura número 275, otorgada en (no expresa), el día 18 de noviembre de 2009, ante el notario David E. Vera Umpierre, e inscrita al folio 198 vuelto del tomo 1,508 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 66,466, inscripción 4ta., como asiento abreviado extendida las líneas el día 8 de abril de 2011, en virtud de la Ley 216 del 27 de diciembre de 2010. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $262,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $175,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $131,250.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudica-
tarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 29 de agosto de 2024. MARIBEL LANZAR VELÁZQUEZ, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN. ***
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A. ÁLVAREZ GRILLET
Demandado Civil Núm.: AG2024CV00655. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: MIGUEL A. ÁLVAREZ GRILLET.
POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar
su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, P.O. Box 1010, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 00605-1010 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 y (845) 345-3985, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 27 de agosto de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. MARÍA VALENTÍN RAMÍREZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SAMARY E RIVERA CASTRO
Demandados Civil Núm.: TA2024CV00870. 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: SAMARY E. RIVERA CASTRO - CARR. 2KM 24 PARC 28, BO. ESPINOSA SEXT, ABAYARDE, DORADO PR 00646; HC 03 BOX 8718, DORADO PR 00646.
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 deman-
dado a pagar al 18 de julio de 2024 la cantidad de $23,004.89 de principal, más intereses acumulados a razón del 18.45% los cuales se acumulan hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda, más cargos por demora y los que se acumulen hasta su total y completo pago, más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS EMILIA
CALDERON ROSARIO
Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIERA PERSONA
DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV03262. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una
Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de (1) pagaré hipotecario pagaré a favor de DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, o a su orden, por la suma de $22,511.00, interés al 9.95%, vencedero el 1 de febrero de 2011, según consta de la escritura #56 otorgada en San Juan el día 10 de febrero de 1999 ante el notario Ivonne Gonzalez Medrano. Inscrita al folio 79vto del tomo838 de Caguas, finca 27,802, inscripción 4ta., sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: Rústica: Barrio Turabo de Caguas. Solar: Cabida: 1,000.00 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: NORTE, en 50.00 metros con la finca principal de la cual se segrega. SUR, en 50.00 metros con terrenos propiedad de la señora Pascuala Hernández. ESTE, en 20.00 metros con la carretera estatal número 7784. OESTE, en 20.00 metros con terrenos propiedad de la señora Pascuala Hernández. Finca número 27,802 inscrita al folio 78 del tomo 838 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Caguas I. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante a la Lcda. Alyssa Rivera Rivera, a la dirección P.O. Box 19815, San Juan, P.R. 00910. Teléfono 787-7826500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle, ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy a 13 de septiembre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SUB- SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO SEC-
Demandante V. IVAN G. ROMERO SANCHEZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10235. (Salón: 903 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM.
NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: IVAN G. ROMERO SANCHEZ. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 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 27 de septiembre de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MILDRED J. FRANCO REVENTOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS DIANA LIZ COTTO VILLEGAS Y OTROS
Demandante V. CAGUAS FEDERAL
SAVINGS BANK Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2024CV02417. (Salón: 703). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BEATRIZ CAY VÁZQUEZBEATRIZCAYVAZQUEZ@GMAIL. COM.
A: CAGUAS FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK; BANCO SANTANDER PUERTO RICO; DEMANDADOS
DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOS”, COMO POSIBLES
TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de 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 25 de septiembre de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 25 de septiembre de 2024. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR. GILBERTO MENDOZA RUIZ Parte Demandante Vs. CARIBBEAN 12 STEP, INC.; UNIVERSAL INSURANCE COMPANY; CARCEGLO, CORP.; ASEGURADORAS 1-10; CORPORACIONES 1-10; DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS 1-10. Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024CV02721.
SOBRE: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR . SS. A: CARCEGLO, CORP.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado una Demanda de Daños y Perjuicios en su contra donde se solícita el pago de la suma de $60,000.00 dólares por concepto de daños. Por el presente Edicto, se les emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de un término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del mismo y presente el original de dicha contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo
que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia do la misma dentro del mismo término al Lcdo. Luís Domínguez Fuertes a la siguiente dirección: PO BOX 364566, SAN JUAN, PR 009364566, Tel. 787296-0000, ldominguezfuertes@gmail. com, abogado de la parte demandante. Por la presento se les apercibe que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, a 23 de septiembre de 2024. Griselda Rodriguez Collado, Secretaria. Brenda Rodriguez, Sec Serv a Sala.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADA
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DE RINCON Demandante V. EDGARDO MEJÍAS CORDERO Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AU2024CV00294. (Salón: 00001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. JOSÉ F. GIRD MEJÍAS - JGIRAUD@ MCMLAWPR.COM.
A: EDGARDO MEJÍAS
CORDERO, SOC LEGAL GANAN MEJIASCAMACHO, MARÍA E. CAMACHO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de agosto de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de
septiembre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: POR ORDEN DE LA JUEZ. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 30 de septiembre de 2024. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ERIKA CRUZ PÉREZ, 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. ALEJANDRA M RIVERA MELENDEZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CZ2023CV00075. (Salón: 401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. ALEJANDRA M. RIVERA MELENDEZ - HC 3 BOX 17348, COROZAL, PUERTO RICO, 00783-9298.
A: ALEJANDRA M RIVERA MELENDEZ.
(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 27 de septiembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de septiembre de 2024. LAURA I.
SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
LONGBRIDGE
FINANCIAL, LLC
Demandante V.
MIGUEL ANGEL
SANCHEZ REYES T/C/C
MICHAEL AT/C/C MIKE
A. SANCHEZ T/C/C A SANCHEZ MICHAEL
T/C/C SANCHEZ
A MICHAEL T/C/C
MICHAELA SANCHEZ
T/C/C MICHAEL A SANCHEZ REYES Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2024CV00433. (Salón: 202). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM.
A: MIGUEL ANGEL SANCHEZ REYES T/C/C
MICHAEL A. SANCHEZ T/C/C MIKE A. SANCHEZ
T/C/C A SANCHEZ
MICHAEL T/C/C SANCHEZ
A MICHAEL T/C/C
MICHAELA SANCHEZ
T/C/C SANCHEZ A MICHAEL T/C/C MICHAEL
A SANCHEZ REYES.
(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 26 de septiembre de 2024. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 26 de septiembre de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE
BIENES GANANCIALES Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2019CV06080. (Salón: 508 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. GUILLERMO A. SOMOZA COLOMBANI - BILLYSOMOZA@ YAHOO.COM. A: RENE POLANCO HERNANDEZ COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE MOISES MARTINEZ LEBRON Y DE LA SUCESION DE JOSEFINA PAULINO HERNANDEZ; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE MOISES MARTINEZ LEBRON Y DE LA SUCESION DE JOSEFINA PAULINO HERNANDEZ. (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 agoto de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de septiembre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 30 de septiembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARTHA ALMODOVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V.
SUCN RAYMOND ESTAY COTTO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: GB2022CV00320. (Salón: 201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GUILLERMO A. SOMOZA COLOMBANI - BILLYSOMOZA@ YAHOO.COM.
A: RAYMOND ESTAY, JESSICA L ESTAY, MENGANO DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE RAYMOND ESTAY COTTO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de abril de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de septiembre de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A LOS FINES DE NOTIFICAR NUEVAMENTE LA NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO SEGÚN SOLICITADO POR EL ABOGADO DE RÉCORD. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de septiembre de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. MARIO RUBEN DUARTE RIVERA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TA2019CV00796. (Salón: 402 SUPERIOR CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GUILLERMO A. SOMOZA COLOMBANI - BILLYSOMOZA@
YAHOO.COM. A: MARIO RUBEN DUARTE RIVERA Y GLORIANNA RODRIGUEZ LEBRÓN T/C/C GLORIANNA RODRIGUEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de noviembre de 2019, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de octubre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 01 de octubre de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IXIA CÓRDOVA CHINEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA ALTA ESMERALDA MORENO Demandante V. DANIEL ENRIQUE; MORENO CEPEDA Demandado Civil Núm.: VA2024RF00005. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: DANIEL ENRIQUE MORENO CEPEDA , 5514 NORTHSTREAM DRIVE #9, CHARLOTTE, N.C. E.E. U.U. 28208. De: LCDA. DELIA CABAN DAVILAP. O. BOX 361578 SAN JUAN, P.R.00936-1578 / TEL. 787- 627-1247. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada sobre DIVORCIO POR RUPTURA IRREPARABLE: SE LE REQUIERE que en el plazo DE TREINTA (30) días a contar de la fecha de la publicación del edicto, podrá comparecer ante el tribunal contestando la demanda a fin de alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Usted
deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) el cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electrónico/, 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 abogado de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Se le apercibe que de no hacerlo, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de junio de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL.
MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
BLANCA I. RAMOS
FIGUEROA Y OTROS Demandante V. REYBERTO COLON DE JESUS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2023CV01291. (Salón: 205). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAVIER RIVERA LONGCHAMPSJRIVERA@LVPRLAW.COM.
A: REYBERTO COLON DE JESUS, A SU ULTIMA DIRECCION CONOCIDA: 5020 CROMWELL DR. APT. 222, KYLE TEXAS 78640.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 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 02 de octubre de 2024. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 02 de octubre de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
AMAURY ROMÁN
SASTRE POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN JESÚS GERMÁN ROMÁN SASTRE Demandante V. SUCESIÓN JESÚS GERMÁN ROMÁN SASTRE Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV03423. (Salón: 502). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ERIKA F. MORALES MARENGOEMARENGO16@YAHOO.COM. A: SUCESIÓN JESÚS GERMÁN ROMÁN
SASTRE COMPUESTA POR PEDRO TOMÁS ROMÁN SASTRE, ESTHER VIOLETA ROMÁN SASTRE, GILBERTO ROMÁN SASTRE, HERNÁN ROMÁN SASTRE, JOSÉ GUILLERMO ROMÁN SASTRE, HARRY ARNALDO ROMÁN SASTRE, FRANCISGINA ROMÁN OTERO, LILYBEL ROMÁN OTERO, CELIS MARIE ROMÁN OTERO, RUBELISSE ROMÁN OTERO, JESÚS RAINALDO ROMÁN ALVERIO, CARLOS FRANCISCO ROMÁN ALVERIO, JOSÉ ALBERTO ROMÁN ALVERIO, EZEQUIEL ROMÁN COLÓN, EDDIE REINALDO ROMÁN IBÁÑEZ, LOURDES
PETRITA ROMÁN IBÁÑEZ, REINA MICHELLE
ROMÁN IBÁÑEZ, ÁNGEL RAFAEL ROMÁN ORTIZ
B. SUCESIÓN JUSTINA
TORRES MELÉNDEZ, COMPUESTA POR MIGUEL TORRES
MELÉNDEZ, VIDALINA
TORRES LLAUGER, RAQUEL TORRES
LLAUGER, MIRIAM
MARRERO TORRES, ARNALDO NICOLÁS
MARRERO TORRES, CARMEN LYDIA TORRES
TRINIDAD, LUIS OSCAR
TORRES RODRÍGUEZ, PETRA IBÁÑEZ TORRES, OSCAR ENRIQUE
IBÁÑEZ TORRES, JOSÉ
RAFAEL IBÁÑEZ TORRES
Y ANÍBAL ENRIQUE
ELOSEGUI MARRERO C.
RICHARD DOE Y JOHN DOE, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 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 24 de septiembre de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 24 de septiembre de 2024. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. MARVIN SAMUEL
LIEBERMAN, KATHRYN FUHRER LIEBERMAN
T/C/C KATHRYN F. LIEBERMAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00662. 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: MARVIN SAMUEL
LIEBERMAN, KATHRYN FUHRER LIEBERMAN
T/C/C KATHRYN F. LIEBERMAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 7313
MINUTEMAN LN, SOMERSET, NJ 088736107.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Marvin Samuel Lieberman, Kathryn Fuhrer Lieberman y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com), Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@ mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 12 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA
BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V.
MARVIN SAMUEL LIEBERMAN, KATHRYN FUHRER LIEBERMAN
T/C/C KATHRYN F. LIEBERMAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00662. 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: MARVIN SAMUEL LIEBERMAN, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES - 7313 MINUTEMAN LN, SOMERSET, NJ 088736107.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Marvin Samuel Lieberman, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr. com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 12 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. MARVIN SAMUEL LIEBERMAN, KATHRYN FUHRER LIEBERMAN
T/C/C KATHRYN F. LIEBERMAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00662. 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: KATHRYN FUHRER LIEBERMAN
T/C/C KATHRYN F. LIEBERMAN POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES - 7313 MINUTEMAN LN, SOMERSET, NJ 088736107.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Kathryn Fuhrer Lieberman, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr. com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte
demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 12 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. PETER MICHAEL MULLER, LYNN MARY MULLER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00643. 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: PETER MICHAEL MULLER, LYNN MARY MULLER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 5710 PENNY CREEK DR., AUSTIN, TX 78759-4815.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Peter Michael Muller, Lynn Mary Muller y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr. com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 11 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. PETER MICHAEL MULLER, LYNN MARY MULLER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00643. 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: PETER MICHAEL MULLER, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES5710 PENNY CREEK DR., AUSTIN, TX 78759-4815. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Peter Michael Muller, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@ mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 11 de septiembre 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. PETER MICHAEL MULLER, LYNN MARY MULLER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00643. 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: LYNN MARY MULLER, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES5710 PENNY CREEK DR., AUSTIN, TX 78759-4815. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Lynn Mary Muller, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@
mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 11 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. JOHN ANTHONY FALGIA ; HELENA FALGI t/c/c/ HELENE FALGIA; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00537. 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: John Anthony Falgia, Helena Falgia t/c/c/ Helene Falgia y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, 67 South Windsor Ave. Brightwaters, New York 11718-1516
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a John Anthony Falgia, su esposa Helena Falgia t/c/c/ Helene Falgia y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIA-
TION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 13 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA.
LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL.
POR: MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. JOHN ANTHONY FALGIA ; HELENA FALGI t/c/c/ HELENE FALGIA; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00537. 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: John Anthony Falgia, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales 67 South Windsor Ave. Brightwaters, New York 11718-1516
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a John Anthony Falgia, su esposa Helena Falgia t/c/c/ He-
lene Falgia y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 13 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL. POR: MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. JOHN ANTHONY FALGIA ; HELENA FALGI t/c/c/ HELENE FALGIA; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00537. 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: Helena Falgia t/c/c/ Helene Falgia, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes
Gananciales 67 South Windsor Ave. Brightwaters, New York 11718-1516
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a John Anthony Falgia, su esposa Helena Falgia t/c/c/ Helene Falgia y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 13 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL. POR: MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. LIZZIE ODETTE HERNANDEZ; JOSEPH JAMES WILKS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00704. 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: Lizzie Odette Hernández, Joseph James Wilks y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos 12626 Magic Springs Way., Bristow, VA 20136-2107
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Lizzie Odette Hernández, Joseph James Wilks y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 10 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL.
POR: MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR
OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. LIZZIE ODETTE HERNANDEZ; JOSEPH JAMES WILKS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES,
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00704. 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: Lizzie Odette Hernández por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales 12626 Magic Springs Way., Bristow, VA 201362107
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Lizzie Odette Hernández, Joseph James Wilks y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 10 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL.
POR: MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. LIZZIE ODETTE HERNANDEZ; JOSEPH JAMES WILKS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00704. 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: Joseph James Wilks, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales 12626 Magic Springs Way., Bristow, VA 201362107
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Lizzie Odette Hernández, Joseph James Wilks y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@ mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 10 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL. POR: MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. JOHN RICHMOND OTT; SARAH ELIZABETH SCHNAUTZ t/c/c/ SARAH OTT; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00640. 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: John Richmond Ott, Sarah Elizabeth Schnautz t/c/c Sarah Ott y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos
422 Ridgewood Rd West Lake Hills, Austin, Texas, EE. UU. 78746-5522
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a John Richmond Ott, Sarah Elizabeth Schnautz t/c/c Sarah Ott y a la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 11
de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL.
POR: LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. JOHN RICHMOND OTT; SARAH ELIZABETH
SCHNAUTZ t/c/c/ SARAH OTT; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00640. 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: John Richmond Ott, Sarah Elizabeth Schnautz t/c/c Sarah Ott y La Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos 422 Ridgewood Rd West Lake Hills, Austin, Texas, EE. UU. 78746-5522
POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a John Richmond Ott, Sarah Elizabeth Schnautz t/c/c Sarah Ott y a la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indica-
do, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 11 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL.
POR: LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. JOHN RICHMOND OTT; SARAH ELIZABETH SCHNAUTZ t/c/c/ SARAH OTT; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00640. 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: John Richmond Ott, por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales que este compone 422 Ridgewood Rd West Lake Hills, Austin, Texas, EE. UU. 78746-5522 POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a John Richmond Ott, Sarah Elizabeth Schnautz t/c/c Sarah Ott y a la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787- 705- 2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (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 si-
guiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 11 de septiembre de 2024. LCDA. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIO GENERAL. POR: LILLIAN MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE DOMINGO ORTIZ HERNÁNDEZ
COMPUESTA POR: FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE TAL, LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y; JOSEFINA NIEVES AGOSTO POR SÍ Y P/C DE JOEL FEBUS NIEVES Y COMO HEREDERA DE DOMINGO ORTIZ HERNÁNDEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA Y DEPARTAMENTO DE JUSTICIA
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2023CV00247. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 9 de septiembre de 2024, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con el número tres (3) en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Buena Vista del barrio Buena Vista del término municipal de Bayamón, con una cabida superficial de
0.0890 cuerdas, equivalentes a 349.95 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, con la calle #2 de la comunidad; al Sur, con carretera Estatal #829; al Este, con solar #2 de la comunidad; y al Oeste, con solar #4 de la comunidad. Consta inscrita al Folio 216 vto. del Tomo 1172 de Bayamón Sur, finca #51,998, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Inscripción Séptima. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los 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, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, 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 entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Municipio de Bayamón: A cuyo favor aparece una Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $17,873.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 13 de junio de 2010, constituida mediante la escritura número 13, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de junio de 2000, ante la notario Awilda María Broco Rodríguez, e inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 1948 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 51,998, inscripción 9na, como Asiento Abreviado extendida las líneas el día 26 de mayo de 2015, en virtud de la Ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 19 de agosto de 2002 al Asiento 262 del Diario 1176). El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada dictada en este caso, el 7 de marzo de 2024, notificada el 8 de marzo de 2024 y publicada en un periódico de circulación general, The San Juan Daily Star el 15 de marzo de 2024 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de dictada en este caso, el 7 de marzo de 2024, notificada el 8 de marzo de 2024 y publicada en un periódico de circulación general, The San Juan Daily Star el 15 de marzo de 2024. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. LA PRIMERA subasta se llevará a efecto el día 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA,
en el cuarto piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas de Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $44,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $29,666.67, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 6 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $22,250.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y
que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de septiembre de 2024. Maribel Lanzar Velázquez, Alguacil Placa #735, División De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala Superior De Bayamón.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.
Demandante Vs. JESUS E. MARRERO RIVERA
Demandado Civil Núm.: RG2024CV00156. Salón: 303. 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: JESUS E. MARRERO RIVERAURB ALT RIO GRANDE Y 1335 CALLE 25, RIO GRANDE, PR 007453262; 64 FOX ST, GLOVERSVILLE, NY, 12078.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.
com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 02 de agosto de 2024. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 02 de agosto de 2024. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria Regional. Sheila Robles Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNALDE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE COMERÍO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC. Demandante Vs. MIRIAM T. ROSADO GREEN Demandado Civil Núm.: BQ2024CV00026. Salón: 1. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MIRIAM T. ROSADO GREEN - HC 3 BOX 9728, BARRANQUITAS, PR 00794. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Jan Miguel Otero Martínez cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección jan.otero@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Comerío-Barranquitas Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de agosto de 2024. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 5 de agosto de 2024. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria Regional. Maria I. Cruz Ortiz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal I.
Ozzie Virgil Sr., first Dominican-born major leaguer, dies at 92
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Ozzie Virgil Sr., who became the first Dominican native in major league baseball when he played third base for the New York Giants in 1956, and who took the field two years later as the Detroit Tigers’ first Black player, died Sunday at his home in Monte Cristi, a city near the Dominican Republic’s border with Haiti. He was 92.
His son Ozzie Virgil Jr., who is also a former major league baseball player, said the cause was pancreatitis. His death was announced by Major League Baseball. The announcement did not say where or when he died or cite a cause.
Playing in the major leagues for all or part of nine seasons, mostly at third base, Virgil was an outstanding fielder, but he was a weak hitter and struggled to get into his teams’ starting lineups. He was later a coach and a scout.
Ozzie Sr. received little notice for his skin color or his ethnicity when he made his major league debut, against the Philadelphia Phillies, on Sept. 23, 1956. The Giants already had the brilliant Willie Mays in center field, and Rubén Gómez, who was from Puerto Rico, was a mainstay of their pitching staff. Players from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other places in Latin America had made other teams’ rosters; some had played in All-Star Games.
But Virgil was in the vanguard of the hundreds of Dominicans who would join the major leagues, including Hall of Fame pitchers Juan Marichal, who was Virgil’s teammate with the Giants, and Pedro Martínez, as well as outfielder Vladimir Guerrero Sr.
Virgil appeared in only three games for the Giants in 1956, at the end of the season, and in 96 games in 1957, their last year at the Polo Grounds before they moved from New York to San Francisco.
The Giants were active in signing players from Latin
America in the late 1950s and the ’60s — among them Marichal and Dominican outfielders Felipe, Jesús and Matty Alou.
But in January 1958, they traded Virgil to Detroit. At the time, the Tigers and the Boston Red Sox were the only major league teams that had never fielded a Black player.
Virgil told Michigan History magazine in 1997: “I knew that the Tigers did not have any Black players, nor had ever invited one to spring training. I wondered what they were going to do with me.”
The Tigers sent Virgil to their minor league system. But facing pressure from Black activists, who threatened to boycott their home games if the team remained all white, they called him up in June 1958.
Virgil, as he recalled, received little encouragement from Tiger fans.
“It was hard being ignored by both the white people and the African Americans, who didn’t always accept us Latinos as Black,” he told the Detroit
Free Press in 1999. Larry Doby, the future Hall of Fame outfielder who became the first Black player in the American League with the Cleveland Indians in 1947, also became the Tigers’ first African American player in 1959.
Virgil batted .244 in 49 games for the 1958 Tigers before being sent back to the minors. He played for the Tigers again in 1960 and split the 1961 season between Detroit and the Kansas City Athletics. He played in one game for the Baltimore Orioles in 1962 and in 39 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1965.
The Giants obtained him in a trade after the 1965 season, sending Matty Alou to Pittsburgh. Virgil saw limited action with the 1966 Giants, then spent 1967 and 1968 with their Phoenix team in the Pacific Coast League. He served as a coach as well.
When Clyde King, Virgil’s manager with Phoenix, became the Giants’ manager in 1969, he hired Virgil as his third-base coach. Virgil also appeared in one game that season, as a pinch-hitter, ending his playing career.
He remained with the Giants as a coach through the 1972 season, while also managing teams in Caribbean winter baseball and scouting for the Giants in Latin America. He returned to the Giants as their third-base coach in 1974 and 1975, then joined the Montreal Expos as a coach in 1976. He was a coach under Dick Williams when Williams managed the Expos from 1977 to 1981 and, later, the San Diego Padres and the Seattle Mariners.
Playing in 324 major league games, Virgil had a career batting average of .231 with 14 home runs.
Osvaldo José Virgil Pichardo was born on May 17, 1932, in Monte Cristi to Henry Virgil, a boat pilot, and Isabel Pichardo.
When Ozzie was a teenager, his parents moved to the New York City borough of the Bronx with him and his brother, Carlos. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School there but didn’t play baseball for the school team, instead joining a predominantly Puerto Rican local team.
While in the Marines from 1960 to 1962, he played for the Marine baseball team at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He was signed by the Giants for a $300 bonus (about $3,500 in today’s currency) in 1953 and played in their minor league system until being called up in 1956.
Virgil was married and divorced twice. In addition to his son Ozzie Jr., a two-time All-Star catcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Atlanta Braves and the Toronto Blue Jays, he is survived by another son, Marcus; four daughters, Linda, Justine, Ruth and Santina Virgil; and nine grandchildren.
Virgil worked for many years as an instructor at the New York Mets’ Dominican baseball academy. The Osvaldo Virgil National Airport opened in the province of Monte Cristi in 2006.
Reflecting on his groundbreaking legacy, Virgil told the website Simonetti Sports in 2015, “I may not have been the most talented, and I may not hold the records or any huge numbers, but I’ll always have a special number: number one.”
The San Juan Daily Star
Ozzie Virgil Sr. in 1983 as a member of the San Diego Padres coaching staff (Wikipedia)
How to Play:
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Crossword
Sudoku Wordsearch
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
Do something for the community today, Aries, and really consider how your talents and skills can best be put to work. Consider volunteering at a school or library. Donate blood or help the elderly. Whatever you do, smile knowing that you’re making direct contact with friends who need your assistance. Instead of just complaining about the way things are going, take a proactive role in leading the way toward a more philanthropic world.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
If you’re having trouble tackling a giant problem, Taurus, don’t get discouraged or overwhelmed. They key for you is to break things down into smaller chunks, analyze them, and figure out their role within the greater whole. You will find that by taking things one step at a time, any problem you encounter will be infinitely easier to overcome than you may have thought at first.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
It may seem like everyone around you is happy and getting what they want while you’re stuck in the trenches, Gemini. Don’t compare yourself to other people and make judgments based on outside appearances. The truth of the matter is that they’re most likely only looking at the immediate future and experiencing short-term pleasures. You, however, have your sights set on the long-term and will probably be much better off.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Imagination and fantasy play a big part in your thinking today, Cancer, and you shouldn’t hesitate to embrace this frame of mind. There’s a great deal of power to be drawn from your sense of freedom to explore and dream. Your thinking is more of a higher consciousness now. You should take advantage of this lofty perspective to see things from a neutral viewpoint.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
Engage more of your rational mind today, Leo. If your mind continues on its track into a fantasy world, you might consider enlisting the help of people who can help you bring some discipline to your situation. For you, the general feeling of the day is likely to be that the mind is willing, but the flesh is weak. Let others help you get inspired to get out of lazy mode.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
v Suppose you were someone else for a day, Virgo. How would it feel to be treated the way you normally treat other people? This is a good time to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and experience life through their eyes. By doing this, you’re apt to become more conscious of your own actions and the effect of those actions on the people around you.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
Today your thoughts may turn to fashion and the different ways in which you can improve your wardrobe. Don’t be afraid to create a look that reflects your true inner spirit. Deck yourself in external splendor to illustrate the many different colors and layers that you carry on the inside. Don’t hesitate to pick up a fashion magazine at the grocery store.
Scorpio
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
The amazing thing about your nature is that, like a good politician, you have just the right tone of voice and catch phrase for every situation. You can put on your smile and charm and talk your way out of just about any pickle you get into. Embrace this incredible gift, but make sure that your overall goals are noble as opposed to self-serving or vengeful.
Sagittarius
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
You’re apt to get the feeling that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence today, Sagittarius. Try not to get too hung up on this. Either make the effort to go where the landscape looks richer and more fruitful or stay where you are. The key to true happiness is to make sure that regardless of where you end up, you enjoy the spot where you are.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
Your mind may wander to a fantasyland full of castles, wizards, and magic dragons today, Capricorn. You could find that you’re putting yourself in the robes of a beautiful or handsome figure in a tall tower who’s waiting for the perfect mate to come along. Observe the fanciful scenario you’ve created and see how the symbols and characters connect with your real life. Your imagination is trying to tell you something.
Aquarius
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
Get on the fast track and use your powerful words and creative mind to make quick decisions that are mindful yet spontaneous. If you get in a pinch today, Aquarius, don’t worry about it. Simply relax, take a deep breath, and let your intuition guide you to the right path. Instead of wasting your energy thrashing helplessly in the water, call for help.
Pisces
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
Start the day with some vigorous yoga and then some meditation to help clear your mind, Pisces. Stretch your body and get the blood flowing through all of your limbs. Once your blood is flowing, your mind will get moving. Before it gets too far into its noisy routine, take the opportunity to maintain a quiet, serene state while you clear out the static and set forth your goals for the day.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
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