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By THE STAR STAFF
Public-Private Partnerships Authority (P3A) Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz said Wednesday that his agency is evaluating the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and hydrogen plant for southern Puerto Rico.
The project was proposed by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to the P3A and is currently under evaluation, Colón Ortiz said.
The P3A chief and island energy czar’s comments were in response to remarks made by PREPA Executive Director Mary Carmen Zapata to another media outlet, where she emphasized the need for an additional fossil fuel-based power generation facility, ideally in the southern region. The government has already approved the construction of an LNG plant by a consortium called Energiza in northern Puerto Rico.
Zapata noted last week that historical models for ensuring the future stability of the electrical grid have consistently included at least one combined cycle plant in the south, one in the north, and an additional one in the south.
Public-Private Partnerships Authority Executive Director Josué Colón Ortiz
It was also mentioned that the Energiza plant, which will have the capacity to produce some 478 megawatts by burning natural gas, is set to be constructed next to the San Juan plant, in front of the capital’s dock. The San Juan Daily Star, the only paper with News Service in English in Puerto Rico, publishes 7 days a week, with a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday edition, along with a Weekend Edition to cover Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office (OCPR) revealed on Wednesday deficiencies in the supervision and monitoring of funds allocated to the Committee for the Prevention, Support, Rescue and Education of Gender Violence (PARE) by the island Department of Justice, which the OCPR said puts the correct administration of the resources at risk.
According to the report, Justice Department analysts did not adequately verify the recipient entities’ compliance with established guidelines, allowing irregularities in the use of funds. In a sample of the $2 million allocated to nonprofit organizations, the files were found to be incomplete, the hiring of four professionals without formalized documents was confirmed, and assistance reports were accepted without signature or certification from the entity.
The audit also revealed that Justice Department analysts accepted improper payments for services already covered by other grants, double billing for psychological services, and duplicate payments to employees, including the case of a cook who received two payments for the same work. It was also found that one of the beneficiary entities did not have an exclusive bank account for PARE funds, which
makes it difficult to monitor their use and increases the risk of money being misappropriated.
Another finding was that the Forfeiture Board, which is attached to the Department of Justice, continues to operate under regulations that are up to 30 years old and have not been updated, and does not have an electronic system to manage the inventory of confiscated property, which creates uncertainty in the administration of seized assets.
The report also notes that the Justice Department submitted 140 contracts totaling $18.5 million in federal funds to the Comptroller’s Office’s Contract Registry up to four months late, preventing those documents from being available to the public, as required by current regulations. In addition, the agency did not submit certifications of compliance with Law 273-2003 for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, which affects transparency in government audits.
The report recommends that the Justice secretary review and update the regulations of the Forfeiture Board, implement an electronic system for the management of seized property, and strengthen controls in the supervision of PARE funds.
The Justice Department’s budget for fiscal years 2020 through 2024 totaled $804.6 million, with reported outlays of $596.5 million.
PR’s only case of bird flu, in Culebra, is contained
By THE STAR STAFF
The island Agriculture Department announced Wednes-
day that the only case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) detected in Puerto Rico has been identified and contained in the offshore island municipality of Culebra, preventing its spread to the main island.
Agriculture Secretary Josué Rivera Castro stressed that the rapid action of the government and citizen cooperation were key to stopping the advance of the virus.
“The case of bird flu identified in Culebra was an isolated case and was contained without affecting other regions of the country,” Rivera Castro said in a written statement.
“The immediate response of local and federal agencies, including the Department of Health and the USDA [U.S. Department of Agriculture], following the instructions of Governor Jenniffer González, were fundamental to this result,” he added.
On Dec. 30, 2024, the Department of Agriculture’s
Veterinary Services Laboratory received a suspicious sample from a bird on a farm in the Frailes neighborhood of Culebra. On Jan. 8, the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) confirmed the presence of the H5N1 virus, leading to the issuance of an administrative order on Jan. 9 temporarily prohibiting the movement of poultry between Culebra and the main island.
Tests carried out on backyard birds inside and outside the control zone did not detect any additional cases, allowing the restriction to be officially lifted last Saturday, Feb. 1, once international eradication and epidemiological surveillance protocols were completed.
During the process, the island Agriculture Department received multiple reports of suspected cases in other municipalities, all of which were handled by USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service teams and local staff, with no new infections found.
Puerto Rico’s agriculture chief emphasized that a state of constant vigilance is being maintained to protect local ag-
By THE STAR STAFF
The Permanent Board of Labor Organizations of the State Insurance Fund Corp. (CFSE by its initials in Spanish), made up of unions and bona fide organizations of employees of the public corporation, requested on Wednesday the dismissal of administrator Noé Marcano Rivera, alleging a leadership crisis and lack of communication with workers.
“This lack of dialogue and openness not only contradicts the basic principles of collaboration and transparency that must govern our institution, but has also fostered a hostile and harmful environment toward the workers we represent,” states the letter sent to Gov. Jenniffer González Colón and the CFSE governing board.
The union leaders asserted that since April 2024, communication between the administrator and the
After a suspicious sample from a bird on a farm in Culebra tested positive on Jan. 8 for the presence of the H5N1 virus, an administrative order was issued the next day temporarily prohibiting the movement of poultry between Culebra and the main island. The restriction was officially lifted last Saturday after tests carried out on backyard birds inside and outside the control zone did not detect any additional cases.
riculture and urged poultry farmers and citizens to report any unusual activity in domestic or wild birds to 1-866-536-7593.
State insurance fund unions call for dismissal of administrator
Union of CFSE Employees (UECFSE) has been completely interrupted, while other organizations have only managed to hold meetings without concrete answers. In addition, they accused Marcano Rivera of making decisions that harm the rights of employees and the future of the corporation.
The request for dismissal was signed by the presidents of the numerous main unions and bonafide organizations of the CFSE. The labor leaders emphasized that a change in the administrative direction is indispensable in guaranteeing a fair, transparent work environment committed to the progress of the corporation and the well-being of its employees.
The unions said they are still waiting for a response from the governor and the CFSE governing board to what they consider to be an unsustainable situation within the corporation. The San
Irregularities at NMEAD regional offices identified by OIG
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Inspector General’s Office (OIG) identified irregularities in the use of official vehicles, attendance records and management of personnel files in the regional offices of the Bureau for Emergency Management and Disaster Administration (NMEAD by its acronym in Spanish), according to an investigation published Wednesday. The findings include unauthorized use of official
vehicles outside of work hours, resulting in questionable expenditure of public funds. There were also inconsistencies in vehicle logs and evidence that some employees did not return cars to official premises at the end of their shift.
In addition, the OIG reported deficiencies in personnel records management, such as the absence of updated performance evaluations and job descriptions. Official documents were also found to be stored in a disorganized manner and in conditions that
jeopardized the confidentiality of the information. Other allegations include the practice of the NMEAD director in the Mayagüez Zone of sharing his access password to the “Kronos” assistance system and his email account with unauthorized employees.
As a result of the investigation, the OIG filed an administrative complaint and issued recommendations to strengthen control and oversight of public resources at NMEAD.
State Insurance Fund Corp. Administrator Noé Marcano
GEO accepts complaint against DNER secretary
By THE STAR STAFF
Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes confirmed Wednesday that the Government Ethics Office (GEO) accepted the complaint she filed against designated Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Waldemar Quiles Pérez for alleged improper intervention in municipal matters related to coastal erosion.
She made the statements after attending a swearing-in ceremony in San Juan for new members of the governing board of the Municipal Revenue Collection Center.
“Yes, today I received the reply that they accepted the complaint we filed in Ethics against the DNER secretary, so from today on I will not make any more comments on this matter,” the mayor said. “That is how it is.”
Nazario said last week that she filed the complaint against Quiles “for improper-
ly intervening in municipal work, trying to promote the hiring of a specific company for the management of coastal erosion in the area.”
She said the company in question “even visited the town to recommend a specific treatment for coastal erosion.”
The mayor described the situation as “unusual” and said it was something that “I had never experienced in all my years in public service.”
Nazario said the complaint filed with the GEO contains the details of the situation, which she hopes will be addressed “urgently.”
“In addition to the concern we have with coastal erosion, we also have to deal with this attempt at undue intervention, which of course, I did not accept,” she said.
Nazario’s communication reviewed incidents that have been recorded in Loíza’s seaside Parcelas Suárez sector since Jan.
11, when a strong wave event worsened coastal erosion, “drastically reducing the stability of the terrain and affecting sanitary
New CRIM board members sworn in
By THE STAR STAFF
The mayors of Manatí, José Sánchez González; San Lorenzo, Jaime Alverio Ramos; Coamo, Juan Carlos García Padilla; Ponce, Marlese Sifre Rodríguez; and Río Grande, Ángel “Bori” González, were sworn in Wednesday as new mem-
bers of the Municipal Revenue Collection Center (CRIM by its acronym in Spanish) governing board.
They joined Orocovis Mayor Jesús Colón Berlingeri, Naranjito Mayor Orlando Ortiz, Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz and Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes, who will remain for another term as part
of the group of nine mayors who make up the CRIM board.
The swearing-in took place Wednesday morning in a ceremony at the Puerto Rico State Department and was overseen by Secretary of State Verónica Ferraiuoli.
The group of mayors was joined by Pedro de Jesús Román, who represented Puerto
systems, power lines and roads, which further compromised the safety of the families in the area.”
That day, the mayor ordered the closure of streets 3 and 10 in Parcelas Suárez, and contacted the designated DNER secretary to request that he visit the site, but Quiles replied that he could not come to inspect the area, because it was too far away from where he was, in Utuado, and instead he would send personnel from the agency.
Nazario said the DNER personnel “did not arrive either” and it was not until two days later, on Jan. 13, that Quiles visited the affected area, where the mayor let him know of her intention to “carry out a mitigation measure such as a ‘riprap’ [stone wall],” for which she needed authorization from the DNER, which had already been requested in December 2024 and had not been addressed.
Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority Executive Director Francisco Domenech on behalf of the central government.
The new CRIM board will hold its first meeting on Feb. 27 at the CRIM Central Office, where the work agenda for this year will be outlined.
The mayors who form part of the board are selected by the Mayors Federation and the Mayors Association, which represent mayors from the New Progressive Party and Popular Democratic Party, respectively.
8 foreign nationals arrested after anchoring in La Parguera
By THE STAR STAFF
Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes confirmed Wednesday that the Government Ethics Office (GEO) accepted the complaint she filed against designated Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Waldemar Quiles Pérez for alleged improper intervention in municipal matters related to coastal erosion.
She made the statements after attending a swearing-in ceremony in San Juan for new members of the governing board of the Municipal Revenue Collection Center.
“Yes, today I received the reply that they accepted the complaint we filed in Ethics
against the DNER secretary, so from today on I will not make any more comments on this matter,” the mayor said. “That is how it is.”
Nazario said last week that she filed the complaint against Quiles “for improperly intervening in municipal work, trying to promote the hiring of a specific company for the management of coastal erosion in the area.”
She said the company in question “even visited the town to recommend a specific treatment for coastal erosion.”
The mayor described the situation as “unusual” and said it was something that “I had never experienced in all my years in public service.”
Nazario said the complaint filed with
the GEO contains the details of the situation, which she hopes will be addressed “urgently.”
“In addition to the concern we have with coastal erosion, we also have to deal with this attempt at undue intervention, which of course, I did not accept,” she said.
Nazario’s communication reviewed incidents that have been recorded in Loíza’s seaside Parcelas Suárez sector since Jan. 11, when a strong wave event worsened coastal erosion, “drastically reducing the stability of the terrain and affecting sanitary systems, power lines and roads, which further compromised the safety of the families in the area.”
That day, the mayor ordered the closure
of streets 3 and 10 in Parcelas Suárez, and contacted the designated DNER secretary to request that he visit the site, but Quiles replied that he could not come to inspect the area, because it was too far away from where he was, in Utuado, and instead he would send personnel from the agency.
Nazario said the DNER personnel “did not arrive either” and it was not until two days later, on Jan. 13, that Quiles visited the affected area, where the mayor let him know of her intention to “carry out a mitigation measure such as a ‘riprap’ [stone wall],” for which she needed authorization from the DNER, which had already been requested in December 2024 and had not been addressed.
Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes
Conditions may have stymied Black Hawk crew before fatal crash
By MARK WALKER, KATE KELLY, ERIC SCHMITT and JOHN ISMAY
Flying helicopters near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport always carries some risk. But the conditions on the moonless night of Jan. 29, when an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet collided, were unusually challenging.
Many of the factors that contributed to the disaster are still being uncovered as investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board try to reconstruct the collision that killed 67 people. The midair crash, which caused wreckage from both aircraft to tumble into the icy Potomac River below, was the nation’s
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deadliest aviation accident since 2009.
Investigators have said the helicopter was flying about 100 feet higher than authorized in its designated portion of the airspace and are trying to determine why.
But interviews with helicopter pilots suggest that the Black Hawk was also dealing with a set of complex flying conditions, some of which are typical for the bustling area around National Airport outside Washington and some of which were unique to the series of events that happened Jan. 29. And the crew was flying an older-model aircraft that lacked certain safety technologies in its cockpit that are commonplace in those of commercial airplanes in the United States.
“Given the complexity of everything going on there, it is a higher-risk place to fly,” said Austin Roth, a former Black Hawk instructor for the Army who says he often flew the helicopter routes near National Airport while in service.
NTSB safety investigators have not assessed any blame on the Black Hawk crew, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described as “fairly experienced.”
The safety agency said Tuesday that there was still information that needed to be collected from the helicopter, a process that is expected to begin this week when its wreckage is lifted from the Potomac. Investigators said the two aircraft collided at 300 feet — a detail that has
raised questions about how the helicopter got off course, given that it was not authorized to fly higher than 200 feet above ground.
The New York Times, through interviews with six current and former military aviators and a civilian helicopter pilot who frequently flies the routes near National Airport, has pieced together some understanding of the conditions that the crew faced the night of the crash.
The crew in the UH-60 Black Hawk left its home base, Fort Belvoir in Virginia, after dark to conduct a training mission to allow the co-pilot, Capt. Rebecca Lobach, to perform a required annual evaluation flight.
It was part of the small group of military and civilian law enforcement helicopters authorized to fly in the highly restricted airspace over Washington and Northern Virginia. Those pilots must fly along designated routes that generally follow the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. The air traffic controllers inside the tower at National Airport manage that airspace for helicopters and planes alike.
These routes specify certain altitude restrictions for helicopters along the water, including Route 4, the one that prohibits flying higher than 200 feet over the stretch of the Potomac where the collision occurred.
That restriction, according to several of the pilots, provides little room to maneuver in case of an emergency. At such a low altitude
over a river, moving up — not down — is the more realistic response.
Roth said there are helicopter routes at Dulles International Airport and Baltimore/ Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport that allow pilots to fly over the commercial jet airspace rather than through it, which gives pilots more options in the event of an emergency.
“I can’t think of anywhere where you can fly next to a major airport at 200 feet,” said Roth, who was in the same unit as the crew of the helicopter that crashed. A combination of dark skies and surrounding city lights — lights that would have been amplified exponentially if the crew members were wearing night-vision goggles — may have distracted them as they searched for nearby air traffic.
“So they’re flying over a black water surface of the Potomac with ground clutter and the buildings behind them,” said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., who flew Black Hawk helicopters during her military career.
Around 8:46 p.m. on Jan. 29, an air traffic controller warned the helicopter crew that a passenger jet was nearby. That plane, American Airlines Flight 5342, had been redirected from Runway 1, which regional jets commonly used, to the lesser-used Runway 33.
Lobach was most likely in the right-hand seat, said a senior Army official who has flown the National Airport helicopter routes repeatedly but requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
This is significant, the official said, because if the instructor pilot was busy or distracted with something, Lobach’s seat on the right side of the aircraft might have put her in poor position to view the descending American Airlines flight on her left.
Still, other experienced military pilots said they were puzzled at the crash, given that military pilots are trained to be ready for such hazards.
The 12th Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir flies two types of Black Hawks: the UH-60L, an old model, and the VH-60M, a newer one. The aircraft involved in the crash was the older model. It does not have the ability to let pilots fly on autopilot but it is not considered insufficient for the job, according to the senior Army official.
Regardless, the official said, the crew flying along the Potomac River would not have found autopilot helpful. Low-level flying, he said, requires constant attention to terrain, obstacles and routes.
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A legal counteroffensive to beat back Trump’s government purges
By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ and CHARLIE SAVAGE
Workers from across the federal government set off a legal counteroffensive against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk earlier this week, challenging the legality of efforts to raze their agencies, single them out publicly or push them out of their jobs.
The raft of lawsuits, filed by FBI agents, public sector unions, representatives of older Americans and liberal-leaning legal groups, hinges on fine points of law that deal with matters ranging from the privacy of taxpayer data to intricacies of federal rulemaking. But together they amount to the opening shots in an emerging legal battle over the constitutional order, checks and balances and the founders’ vision of the separation of powers.
It will be up to the courts to decide whether the president has the power to not only direct the executive branch but also to forcefully recast it in his own image. It may also be up to the judicial branch of government to find a way to ensure that its own decisions are enforced.
In short order Tuesday, three government unions sued the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, or OPM — the federal government’s human resources division — to block an effort to persuade roughly 2 million federal employees to resign from their jobs early.
Two groups of FBI agents and bureau employees sued to block Trump from releasing the names of agents and staff members who participated in the investigations into the Capitol riot Jan. 6, 2021, trying to head off what they fear is a looming purge.
Labor unions and a retirees’ group sued the Treasury Department to restrict access to sensitive Treasury systems that contain the private information of millions of Americans — and that the plaintiffs say may have already been compromised by Musk’s employees through what he has labeled the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
Separately, a group of transgender plaintiffs led by advocacy organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union sued to block Trump’s order to defund gender-transition treatments for people under age 19. Two other pending lawsuits seek to block an executive order that would require the Bureau of Prisons to transfer transgender female inmates to men’s prisons. On Tuesday evening, one of those suits won a temporary restraining order, signed by Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the District of Columbia. It bars the Justice Department from transferring transgender women to men’s facilities or denying them gender-transition treatments, as mandated by one of Trump’s executive orders.
Earlier, two federal employees, using pseudonyms, sued OPM to block the agency’s access to the email address that sent the governmentwide resignation offer, which was similar to one Musk had sent to Twitter’s employees after acquiring the company.
The White House press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Collectively, the legal actions seek to check what the plaintiffs see as an unlawful effort — often helmed by Musk, an unelected billionaire with no formal position — to subvert
long-established civil service protections and to grab from Congress its constitutionally mandated control of federal spending.
But they are being pursued against a darkening backdrop of fear and possible intimidation.
“I would argue that there is the potential for physical harm,” Kelly McClanahan, a lawyer for the two federal workers, argued in a hearing Tuesday, pleading that his clients needed to remain anonymous or risk reprisals from supporters of Trump and Musk. “They have a history of putting people on blast, of tweeting out their names.”
Federal employees and their lawyers say Musk’s staff, some of whom are in their late teens or early 20s, have seized the controls of some of the most sensitive data and information systems at the heart of the federal bureaucracy. These include an official email address that can contact almost all of the government’s 2 million employees and a system at the Treasury that issues many payments from across the federal government.
Both are the focus of two of the lawsuits. According to one suit, Musk’s reach at Treasury means his group can access “names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, birth places, home addresses and telephone numbers, email addresses and bank account information about millions of individuals.”
White House officials have repeatedly said the claim is overblown. In a letter to Congress, the Treasury Department said that the Musk group’s access to payment systems was “read-only.”
Another one of the lawsuits, organized by Democracy Forward, a liberal-leaning legal nonprofit, argued that the push for governmentwide resignations is illegal. In their complaint, the plaintiffs argue that the effort ignores civil service rules and promises to reward employees who resign with money that hasn’t yet been appropriated by Congress for that purpose.
In an interview, Skye Perryman, Democracy Forward’s CEO, accused Musk and his group of seeking to undo the merit-based system that has been the foundation of the civil service for more than a century and return the country to a corrupt era when government jobs were handed out as political favors.
“This effort is seeking to revert us back to an unworkable system known as the spoils system,” she said, “one that the country abandoned in the 1800s, because it was not delivering for people.”
A third lawsuit seeks a restraining order to stop the Office of Personnel Management from sending out governmentwide emails from HR@opm.gov until the agency has completed a required privacy assessment. That lawsuit claims that DOGE is planning to conduct mass firings and that it has brought in outside email servers that are potentially vulnerable to foreign hackers.
The individuals in the cases relating to the FBI and transgender care also filed under pseudonyms.
The lawsuits came in response to a demand by Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, that the FBI compile and turn over a list of everyone who worked on the Capitol riot cases. That group, the lawsuits estimated, could include as many as 6,000 agents.
The Trump administration has not said it intends to release the identities of the law enforcement officials. The information the FBI provided Tuesday identified employees by their workplace IDs, their title at the time of the relevant investigation or prosecution and the date of the last action related to the investigation, among other details, but not their names.
But the administration’s demand for names of people who worked on the cases has stoked the belief that it may move to fire them en masse.
Elon Musk arrives at the inauguration of President Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. A raft of lawsuits appeared on Tuesday, Feb. 4, seeking to challenge the legality of efforts by President Donald Trump and Musk to rapidly transform the federal workforce. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
Elon Musk’s X becomes weapon in government cost cutting
By KATE CONGER
As Elon Musk digs into the federal bureaucracy in his crusade to slash government spending, he has a tool that no aspiring cost-cutter has had before: his own giant social media platform to debate, shame and bludgeon anyone who stands in his way.
Since the inauguration, Musk has attacked journalists and X users for posting the names of people working with him, calling it “a crime.” He’s accused Treasury Department officials of “breaking the law every hour of every day.” And Musk has mocked Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as “hysterical.”
On Monday, Musk celebrated his progress, posting he had fed the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government’s lead agency for humanitarian aid, “into the wood chipper.”
And Tuesday, Musk began a poll on X: “Would you like DOGE to audit the IRS?”
The comments show how Musk, who unlike traditional government figures rarely holds news conferences or speaks to reporters, is using his social media site as a powerful tool to promote his goals as part of the Trump administration. Since the inauguration, Musk has unleashed a barrage of posts to his more than 215 million followers, promoting conspiratorial rumors about his adversaries, pressuring senators to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and weighing in on foreign elections.
On top of that, Musk’s account is becoming one of the few sources for information about the billionaire’s secretive stampede to slash the federal budget, an initiative he calls the Department of Government Efficiency.
X has given Musk an unusual avenue to showcase his unapologetically confrontational approach to cost cutting in a way that appeals to Trump’s base, tech policy experts said.
“The performative aspect of this is key. It’s a big part of what populism is,” said Sarah Kreps, director of the Cornell Brooks School Tech Policy Institute. “To be able to have this very visible shake-up really is important to the constituency that rose the administration to power.”
Elon Musk arrives before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president in the Rotunda at the Capitol in Washington on Monday morning, Jan. 20, 2025. As Musk digs into the federal bureaucracy in his crusade to slash government spending, he has a tool that no aspiring cost-cutter has had before: his own giant social media platform to debate, shame and bludgeon anyone who stands in his way. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
Musk and a spokesperson for the cost-cutting initiative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Musk’s transformation of X into his political megaphone began when he bought the social media company in October 2022. The next year, he became the most followed person on the site. Engagement with his posts has since mushroomed, according to X’s metrics, making him the loudest voice on the platform.
Now Musk, who is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has charged into his new role to cut government spending, swiftly moving to transform at least half a dozen government agencies, challenging congressional authority and potentially breaching civil service protections.
His project has worked to shut down USAID. Leaders of the cost-cutting initiative have also pushed out top officials there and at the Treasury Department who objected to the actions of his representatives, and ended leases on government office spaces.
As part of those efforts, Musk has used his X account to critique federal agencies in his crosshairs. USAID is “evil” and “a criminal organization,” Musk wrote in separate posts Sunday.
Lawmakers including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., and Schumer have accused Musk of overreach.
Early Tuesday, Musk reposted a comment by Schumer, who said Congress must stop what amounted to an unauthorized hostile takeover of the government.
“Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that DOGE is doing work that really matters,” Musk said in response to Schumer. “This is the one shot American people have to defeat BUREAUcracy, rule of the bureaucrats, and restore DEMOcracy, rule of the people.”
Musk’s business portfolio, which relies in part on government contracts and subsidies, has raised conflict-of-interest concerns, although Trump has brushed off those fears.
After Ocasio-Cortez criticized Musk’s conflicts of interest, Musk replied, “Do you actually write these or am I replying to your intern?”
Musk also turned to the platform in recent days to defend those working on his initiative. The billionaire has likened identifying those assisting his cost-cutting effort to doxxing, an online harassment tactic that involves posting private information like addresses and phone numbers.
After several workers’ names were published in media reports, X removed some posts on the platform that publicized the employees’ identities and suspended some accounts that had shared the information.
“Don’t mess with @DOGE,” Musk wrote in a post Monday night in response to people attempting to name and shame the workers.
Musk also boasted on X about the removal of the account for 18F, a digital services agency that is part of the General Services Administration. After fans raised concerns about projects the agency had worked on, including one that critiqued racial bias in facial recognition systems, Musk posted that the agency was “deleted.”
While its X account is gone, the agency so far has survived.
Wall Street mixed, Treasury yields slide amid mixed earnings, data
Wall Street struggled for direction and benchmark Treasury yields slid on Wednesday as disappointing earnings and mixed economic data counterbalanced easing jitters of a spreading global trade war.
The S&P 500 joined the tech-heavy Nasdaq in negative territory in the wake of disappointing earnings from Alphabet fueled doubts about the payoff of investment in artificial intelligence.
Simmering in the background are worries of escalating titfor-tat tariff moves.
“We think the leaders of other countries don’t really understand Trump’s art of the deal,” said Jay Hatfield, CEO and portfolio manager at InfraCap in New York. “The threat of 25% was not meant to be the real tariff rate.”
“We think the tariffs are quite bullish for the stock market,” Hatfield added, saying that 5% or 10% tariffs across the board “will fund a major corporate tax decrease.”
Markets appeared to look past President Donald Trump’s eyebrow raising declaration that the United States would take over the Gaza Strip, a move that underscored the likelihood of market volatility under the new administration.
On the economic front, a stronger-than-expected ADP reading was offset by a surprise deceleration in the services sector, while record high imports pushed the U.S. trade deficit sharply wider.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 71.80 points, or 0.16%, to 44,628.41, the S&P 500 fell 0.02 points, or 0.00%, to 6,037.71 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 42.30 points, or 0.21%, to 19,612.17.
European stocks reversed an early selloff and were last higher, powered in part by healthcare stocks as Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster drug Wegovy sales more than doubled in the fourth quarter.
MSCI’s gauge of stocks across the globe rose 2.27 points, or 0.26%, to 869.19.
The STOXX 600 index rose 0.36%, while Europe’s broad FTSEurofirst 300 index rose 7.22 points, or 0.34%Emerging market stocks rose 3.55 points, or 0.32%, to 1,096.53. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan closed higher by 0.45%, to 576.91, while Japan’s Nikkei rose 33.11 points, or 0.09%, to 38,831.48.
U.S. Treasury yields dropped to their lowest level since midDecember in the wake of the disappointing services data, as investors continue to grapple with uncertainties arising from tariff skirmishes.
The yield on benchmark U.S. 10-year notes fell 8.9 basis points to 4.424%, from 4.513% late on Tuesday.The 30-year bond yield fell 9.2 basis points to 4.6556% from 4.748% late on Tuesday.
The 2-year note yield, which typically moves in step with interest rate expectations for the Federal Reserve, fell 4 basis points to 4.174%, from 4.214% late on Tuesday.
The dollar softened as risk of a global trade war appeared to wane.
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The Canadian dollar strengthened 0.21% versus the greenback to C$1.43 per dollar.
In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin gained 1.24% to $97,701.41. Ethereum rose 4.32% to $2,754.13.
Oil prices dropped as rising U.S. supply and worries of a new Sino-U.S. trade war overshadowed President Trump’s renewed effort to eliminate Iranian oil exports.
U.S. crude fell 2.19% to $71.13 a barrel and Brent fell to $74.68 per barrel, down
1.99% on the day.
Gold resumed its rally as trade war jitters continue to attract investors to the safe-haven metal, sending it to fresh record highs. Spot gold rose 0.97% to $2,869.39 an ounce.
U.S. gold futures rose 0.62% to $2,871.10 an ounce.
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Trump officials try to walk back Gaza takeover plan
By LUKE BROADWATER and MICHAEL CROWLEY
Top Trump administration officials directly contradicted the president Wednesday after he proposed that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and drive out the Palestinian population, insisting that he had not committed to using U.S. troops and that any relocation of Palestinians would be temporary.
In a stunning news conference Tuesday alongside the Israeli prime minister, Trump said the United States should seize control of Gaza and permanently displace the entire Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave.
Asked if he would send U.S. troops, Trump said: “We’ll do what is necessary. And if it’s necessary, we’ll do that. We’re going to take over that piece.”
On Wednesday, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters something different.
“The president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza,” Leavitt said. She did not specify how the United States could take control of Gaza without military force, though she said Trump would be meeting with other leaders in the region to discuss next steps.
She also said that any displacement of Palestinians would be temporary. Trump had said that he viewed the United States as taking “a long-term ownership position” in Gaza and that Gaza would become a place “not for a specific group of people but for everybody.”
Leavitt said: “The president has made it clear that
they need to be temporarily relocated out of Gaza for the rebuilding of this effort. Again, it’s a demolition site right now. It’s not a livable place for any human being. And I think it’s actually quite evil to suggest that people should live in such dire conditions.”
Trump often makes comments that go beyond what his aides wish he would say, and sometimes they try to walk them back. But the only statements that really matter are Trump’s.
Around the same time as Leavitt’s briefing, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, also tried to walk back some of Trump’s comments. He suggested that Trump was only proposing to clear out and rebuild Gaza, not claim indefinite possession of it.
“The only thing President Trump has done — very generously, in my view — is offer the United States’ willingness to step in, clear the debris, clean the place up from all the destruction,” including unexploded munitions “so that then people can move back in,” Rubio said.
And, Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy to the Middle East, told Republican senators at a closeddoor luncheon in the Capitol that Trump “doesn’t want to put any U.S. troops on the ground, and he doesn’t want to spend any U.S. dollars at all” on Gaza, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said.
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the White House in Washington, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. Top Trump administration officials directly contradicted the president on Wednesday after he proposed that the United States “take over” Gaza and drive out the Palestinian population. “The president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza,” Leavitt said. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
A Republican senator asked Witkoff if Trump’s comments Tuesday night were made in the spur of the moment, and Witkoff replied that the administration had been “gestating on this plan for some time,” Hawley added.
Leavitt also said there was no written plan concerning Trump’s idea to take over Gaza before Tuesday night. “The plan was written in the president’s remarks last night as he revealed it to the world,” she said.
Migrants are deported to India on US military plane
By SUHASINI RAJ
AU.S. military plane with at least 100 migrants aboard landed in India on Wednesday, officials said, the longest such deportation flight since President
Donald Trump took office and a sign that countries with leaders he favors will not be spared his immigration crackdown.
It appeared to be the first use of a U.S. military aircraft to deport people to India, which is one of the top sources of unauthorized immigration to the United States. More than 1,000 Indians were sent back to the country last year on commercial flights.
The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on Wednesday that an Air Force C-17 plane landed around 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time in Amritsar, India.
Officials in the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who enjoys a close relationship with Trump, have expressed confidence that India is better positioned than most countries to deal with the Trump administration, and they have
publicly expressed a willingness to accept deportees.
But Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, a minister in the state government of Punjab, where the plane landed on Wednesday, criticized Trump’s tough stance on illegal immigration and suggested that Modi’s government should do more to resist him.
“The Indian federal government must take this very seriously,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “After all, there are people from many Indian states who have been deported. And what is their crime? They may have gone illegally, but it was for their livelihoods. I am greatly disheartened. President Trump must give these people another chance and, on humanitarian grounds, do a rethink of his decision.”
Dhaliwal said that he would be at the airport to receive the deportees and en-
sure that they were not treated as criminals.
The Pew Research Center estimated in 2022 that more than 700,000 Indian immigrants were living illegally in the United States, more than from any country but Mexico and El Salvador. Recent reports in Indian news media said that just under 20,000 migrants were scheduled for imminent deportation.
Indians are among the migrants from around the world who have illegally entered the United States through Mexico in growing numbers in recent years. Last year, more than 25,000 Indians were arrested while trying to cross the southern border illegally, according to U.S. government data. Indian migrants also contributed to rising numbers of arrests at the northern border with Canada last year.
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China counters Trump’s tariffs as talks remain in limbo
By ANA SWANSON and CHRIS BUCKLEY
Beijing responded swiftly earlier this week to the tariffs President Donald Trump had promised, announcing a fusillade of countermeasures targeting American companies and imports of critical products.
Trump’s 10% tariff on all Chinese products went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, the result of an executive order issued over the weekend aimed at pressuring Beijing to crack down on fentanyl shipments into the United States.
The Chinese government came back with a series of retaliatory steps, including additional tariffs on liquefied natural gas, coal, farm machinery and other products from the United States, which will take effect Monday. It also immediately implemented restrictions on the export of certain critical minerals, many of which are used in the production of high-tech products.
In addition, Chinese market regulators said they had launched an anti-monopoly investigation into Google. Google is blocked from China’s internet, but the move may disrupt the company’s dealings with Chinese companies.
Wendy Cutler, a former U.S. trade negotiator, said the various measures were a signal from China of the range of options it has to respond to Trump’s trade actions. “This menu approach is not surprising,” she said. “Beijing has been building its toolbox for some time.”
The U.S. tariffs, which Trump said Monday were an “opening salvo,” come on top of levies that the president imposed during his first term. Many Chinese products already faced a 10% or 25% tariff, and the move adds a 10% tariff to more than $400 billion of goods that Americans purchase from China each year, particularly impacting computers and electronics, electrical equipment, and clothing.
Trump had been planning to hit America’s three largest trading partners, Canada, Mexico and China, with tariffs of varying degrees. But after days of frantic negotiations, Trump agreed to pause the tariffs on Mexico and Canada for 30 days after the Canadian and Mexican governments promised to step up their oversight of fentanyl and the border.
The president has not yet had similar conversations with China’s top leaders. Trump said Tuesday afternoon that he would speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at “the appropriate time” and that he was “in no rush.”
China’s counterpunches suggested an effort to hurt American businesses and send a warning to the Trump administration, while holding in reserve measures that could do even more serious damage to trade between the world’s two biggest economies. But some trade experts said China had reserved the
app store, Google Play, in the country. Still, its operating system, Android, is used by some Chinese phone-makers, including Xiaomi, Lenovo and Vivo. Regulators around the world, including ones in the United States, Canada, Europe and South Korea, have probed Google on antitrust grounds or brought related cases.
Christine McDaniel, a research fellow with the Mercatus Center, said a 10% tariff was not huge and could likely be absorbed by importers and exporters without extreme pain. U.S. agriculture is vulnerable to retaliation though, she said, and the tariffs “put everyone on notice” that they could escalate.
Besides imposing his new tariffs, Trump’s executive order, signed Saturday, ended a popular workaround that many Chinese companies had used to send goods to the United States without paying the tariffs that the president imposed in 2018. The provision, known as de minimis, allowed popular e-commerce companies like Shein and Temu to send billions of dollars of products from Chinese factories directly to American consumers without tariffs.
right to grant exemptions to its tariffs and the measures were calibrated to send the Trump administration a message without causing too much damage.
Researchers at Capital Economics calculated that the Chinese tariffs would hit about $20 billion of U.S. exports — about 12% of what the United States sends to China each year — far less than the more than $450 billion worth of Chinese imports taxed by the United States. They also said it was notable that no strategic items China imports from the United States — like high-end chips, pharmaceuticals or aerospace equipment — were targeted.
“As far as I can see so far, it’s a relatively limited response, affecting no more than 30% of U.S. exports to China,” said Bert Hofman, a former World Bank official and now an adjunct professor at the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. “They’re probably trying to keep their powder dry, because this could still be only the first step from the Trump administration.”
The Trump administration’s tariffs “seriously undermine the rules-based multilateral trading system, damage the foundation of economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States, and disrupt the stability of global industry supply chains,” China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.
The commerce ministry and China’s customs agency announced new restrictions on exports of tungsten, tellurium, molybdenum and other metals important for industry and new technologies, citing “national security and
interests.”
Stephen Orlins, president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, said the Chinese response was “measured” but that the decision to extend curbs on critical minerals was “unwise.”
“It reminds Americans that the supply chain is not reliable,” he said.
China’s measures included an additional 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural equipment, larger cars and pickup trucks, as well as an additional 15% tariff on coal and natural gas, Chinese tax authorities announced. Those tariffs will go into effect Monday.
China also said it had added two American companies to its “unreliable entities” list. One of the companies, PVH — the American retailer that owns the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands — had already been placed under investigation by Chinese regulators in September. China said PVH had taken “discriminatory measures” against goods from the Xinjiang region in China’s far west.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the announcement of the antitrust investigation.
While Google dominates the world in digital advertising and internet search, restrictions in China mean it cannot operate its search engine, its YouTube video platform or its
The deals that Trump made with Canada and Mexico on Monday brought the United States back from the brink of a potentially devastating trade war with two of its closest allies. But it did not preclude the threat of similar conflicts happening later.
On Monday, Trump made clear that he would deploy tariffs liberally to get other governments to give him what he wants.
Trump has accused China of failing to do enough to stop the export of fentanyl and the chemicals that are used to make it. In the executive order he issued Saturday, Trump said that shipments of synthetic opioids had ravaged U.S. communities, put a severe strain on the health care system and were the leading cause of death for people ages 18 to 45 in the United States.
It’s not clear what steps the Chinese government has recently taken, if any, to restrict the fentanyl trade, beyond its previous law enforcement collaboration with the United States. Trump discussed fentanyl with Xi in a phone call during his first week in office.
New cars for export await loading onto cargo ships at the port of Tianjin, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. Moments after President Donald Trump’s 10 percent tariff on all Chinese products took effect on Tuesday, Beijing struck back with tariffs on U.S. coal, gas and other goods, restrictions on exports of some minerals and an antimonopoly investigation into Google. (The New York Times)
Is this the end of Pax Americana?
By BRET STEPHENS
Back in the 1990s, it was fashionable to complain about what Hubert Vedrine, then the French foreign minister, called American hyperpuissance, or “hyperpower.” The left-leaning diplomat believed the “question at the center of the world’s current powers” was the United States’ “domination of attitudes, concepts, language and modes of life.” What was needed, he argued, was a “balanced multipolarism,” which might counteract American “unilateralism,” “unipolarism” and “uniformity.”
With President Donald Trump, Vedrine has finally gotten his wish, though probably not in the way he would have imagined, much less liked.
It isn’t exactly easy to make sense of the Trump administration’s foreign policy after its first bombastic weeks in office. Does it have a governing concept, beyond a taste for drama and the assertion, based on scant evidence, that this or that neighbor or ally has treated us “very unfairly”?
In an intriguing guest essay in The New York Times this week, Rutgers University historian Jennifer Mittelstadt made the case that Trump was a “sovereigntist,” a tradition she dated to 1919 and the Republican rejection, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, of U.S. membership in the League of Nations. Sovereigntists, she noted, also looked askance at U.S. membership in NATO, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and especially the Carter administration’s decision to relinquish the Panama Canal.
That seems about right. Sovereigntism means a country doing what it wants to do within only the limits of what it can do. It means the end of self-restraint within a framework of mutual restraint. It means an indifference to the behavior of other states, however cruel or dangerous, so long as it doesn’t impinge on us. It means a reversion to the notorious claim, uttered (according to Thucydides) by the Athenians before their sacking of the neutral city of Melos, that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Sovereigntism also means an end to something else: Pax Americana.
Though it takes its name from the Pax Romana of the first and second centuries and the Pax Britannica of the 19th, Pax Americana was something different: The application of
American power for the benefit of more than just Americans.
Even as Vedrine was bemoaning U.S. unipolarity — and, by implication, French impotence — the Clinton administration was putting an end to Serbian depredations that European powers lacked the will or means to stop. Previous U.S. presidents had guarded Europe against the Soviet Union, stopped North Korea from swallowing the South and China from swallowing Taiwan, and saved Greece and Turkey from Russian domination.
Did the practitioners of the Pax sometimes blunder? Yes, sometimes spectacularly. Did its beneficiaries take advantage of our largesse? Yes, often outrageously. Did our allies always reflect our values? Not at all.
But the fundamental rationale for the Pax was always sound. The United States had been dragged into two world wars because “sovereigntism” wasn’t adequate to our security challenges. We had a stake in the independence of friendly states against aggressive and subversive dictatorships. We understood that the prosperity of our friends enhanced our own. And we preferred freeloaders to freelancers: allies who might spend less on defense than they ought, but weren’t going to break with us on core strategic concerns.
This is what Trump now seems to be in the process of abandoning. It’s one thing for the administration to cajole a state like Panama to withdraw from China’s insidious “Beltand-Road Initiative,” or strong-arm Mexico into doing more to police its side of the border, or even impose tariffs on Beijing for its brazen violations of U.S. intellectual property and international trade rules.
But the insane trade threats against Canada (reminiscent of the “Blame Canada” song of the original “South Park” movie, minus the laughs), or not ruling out military action in Greenland or the Panama Canal, or the cruel and utterly un-American arrangement with the socialist dictatorship in Caracas to repatriate potentially hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan refugees, represent a more fundamental turn in American policy. We are now behaving not as a Great Power — with “great” entailing moral considerations — but as a Big Power, one that frightens other countries, including our shaken friends.
Can there be short-term gains from all this? Sure. NATO states, fearful that Trump might pull out of the alliance, are now boasting of their readiness to pony up for their security. Iran suddenly seems interested in discussing its nuclear program after treating the Biden administration with ill-disguised contempt. Perhaps U.S. financial pressure can also get the near-bankrupt autocracies in Jordan and Egypt to accept Gaza residents who’ve been locked into the Gaza Strip — not to permanently dispossess them, but simply to take care of them while Gaza is rebuilt.
But there are long-term costs, and not simply in the risk of beggar-thy-neighbor trade policies of the kind that deepened the Great Depression. American leadership depends on more than just power. It also depends on our dependability and on our decency — two virtues the old critics of the Pax Americana
didn’t always appreciate, but many others did. Those things aren’t gone yet, but they are at risk. Is there a Democrat willing to summon the spirit of Harry Truman to show Americans how we can do better?
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An American flag seen through a rainy car window in Rome, Ga., on Nov. 19, 2024. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
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Gobernadora niega haber solicitado salida del presidente de la UPR
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SAN JUAN – La gobernadora Jenniffer Aidyn González Colón negó el miércoles haber intervenido en la renuncia del presidente de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR), Luis A. Ferrao Delgado, y aseguró que no ha habido ningún tipo de gestión desde su administración para propiciar su salida.
“Nosotros no hemos hecho absolutamente ninguna reunión con la Universidad de Puerto Rico o la Junta. Aquí no hay intervención de ningún tipo del gobierno, ni de esta servidora ni del secretario de la Gobernación con la UPR. Ahora, a raíz de esto, sí voy a pedir reuniones, pero eso no es correcto”, expresó González.
La mandataria señaló que la Junta de Síndicos debe evaluar candidatos para la presidencia de la UPR y enfatizó en la necesidad de un cambio en la visión institucional. “Debe haber otra figura en la mesa para esa evaluación, personas que estén ejerciendo en otras universidades y que podamos atraer a la UPR. Tiene que haber un cambio en la visión, darle un nuevo enfoque. La Universidad de Puerto Rico fue un ente de desarrollo económico hace 50 o 60 años y debemos retomar ese papel”, sostuvo.
González también reiteró su propuesta de ampliar la oferta académica de la UPR hacia áreas técnicas y vocacionales para generar nuevos fondos para la institución.
“La Universidad debe ampliar su programa a fase técnica y vocacional, lo que le permitiría acceder a fondos adicionales. Esto es parte de nuestras propuestas y, ante la salida del presidente Ferrao, nos da la oportunidad de discutirlo con quienes tomarán la decisión sobre el futuro de la UPR”, añadió.
El presidente de la UPR, Luis A. Ferrao Delgado, presentó su carta de renuncia el lunes ante el presidente de la Junta de Gobierno de la institución, Ricardo Dalmau. Su dimisión será efectiva el 15 de febrero de 2025.
“Ante los impactos fiscales y las medidas draconianas que se avecinan, me resulta inaceptable continuar en funciones si ello implica negarnos a un proceso de evaluación formativa que atienda la sostenibilidad de la UPR. No estoy dispuesto a comprometer los valores fundamentales de nuestra institución ni liderar una administración que se vea forzada a tomar decisiones que atenten contra su estabilidad y misión educativa”, expresó Ferrao.
El presidente de la Junta de Gobierno, Ricardo Dalmau, indicó que la renuncia fue aceptada y que en los próximos días se anunciará un presidente interino. “Desde este momento, la Junta será un atento facilitador para que se lleve a cabo una transición ordenada. En o antes del 15 de febrero se anunciará a la persona que asumirá interinamente las riendas de la UPR”, concluyó Dalmau.
Inician trabajos de reacondicionamiento en el balneario La Monserrate en Luquillo
SAN JUAN – El Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) comenzó el reacondicionamiento de infraestructuras clave en el balneario La Monserrate de Luquillo, como parte de un plan para mejorar las facilidades recreativas bajo su administración, anunció el secretario designado, Waldemar Quiles.
El funcionario explicó que, ante la importancia del balneario como el único en Puerto Rico que opera los siete días de la semana debido a su alto volumen de visitantes, la agencia priorizó su mantenimiento.
“Desde que asumí el cargo, hemos implementado un programa de atención urgente a la infraestructura de nuestros balnearios. Sabemos que La Monserrate es una de las playas más visitadas y reconoci-
das del mundo, por lo que estamos tomando medidas para mejorar la experiencia de sus usuarios”, expresó Quiles en declaraciones escritas.
Los trabajos comenzaron con la rehabilitación del paseo peatonal, una plataforma de 900 pies utilizada para conectar la playa con los comercios cercanos. Además, se inició un programa de rotulación, comenzando por el área de estacionamiento.
Desde el lunes, brigadas del DRNA trabajan en la reconstrucción del paseo peatonal, utilizando 15 sacos de cemento. Según Quiles, la comunidad comercial cercana colaboró en la iniciativa, aportando materiales como piedra y arena para agilizar la obra.
También se dio inicio a la reparación de las estructuras que albergan los servicios sanitarios, trabajos que continuarán en las próximas semanas.
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Restored anti-fascism mural by Philip Guston unveiled in Mexico
By VICTORIA BURNETT
When Argentine architect Luis Laplace
saw a neglected mural by North American artists Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish at the Regional Museum of Michoacán, in the Mexican city of Morelia, seven years ago, he resolved immediately to try to save it.
“What struck me was the scale of it, the beauty, the history,” he said of the mural, titled “The Struggle Against Terrorism.” It is a kaleidoscope of persecution and resistance made in 1934-1935, when the artists were barely in their 20s.
Painted on a wall in a colonial palace in the heart of Morelia, the pink-stoned capital of Michoacán State, the surreal, Renaissanceinfluenced composition of broken bodies, ominous hooded figures and tools of cruelty was crumbling and faded. Whole sections of the piece were missing. The patio was being used to store chairs.
“I was quite astonished,” said Laplace,
who is based in Paris but at the time was working on a project in Morelia.
On Friday, the 1,000-square-foot mural was unveiled anew in Mexico following a sixmonth restoration that has re-created missing sections and returned its original vibrancy. It is being inaugurated at a moment of heightened tensions between Mexico and the United States over the steep tariffs President Donald Trump is moving to impose.
As well as a team of conservators and contractors, the effort involved the Guston Foundation, which paid around $150,000 for the project; several Mexican cultural institutions; a local grandee; and a lot of diplomacy, Laplace said. He joked that the people of Morelia had never “seen so many people interested in a single mural.”
Guston (who at the time still went by his birth name, Goldstein) and Kadish were commissioned by the museum to paint the fresco at the recommendation of renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, whom they had met in Los Angeles in the early 1930s
In an image provided via The Estate of Philip Guston and Hauser & Wirth, a detail of the Philip Guston-Reuben Kadish mural, “The Struggle Against Terrorism,” 1935, after restoration in Morelia, Mexico, in 2025. In 1934, two young artists drove from Los Angeles in a beat-up car to Mexico, to create a powerful artwork about repression. (via The Estate of Philip Guston and Hauser & Wirth via The New York Times)
while Siqueiros was working there. They are among a handful of American muralists who produced work in Mexico in the 1930s; a mural by Grace Greenwood, a Brooklyn artist, covers a wall in a different area of the Morelia museum.
The Americans drove some 1,700 miles to Morelia from Los Angeles in a beat-up car in the fall of 1934 and spent six months there, working feverishly with help from Jules Langsner, a friend and future art critic. After the piece was unveiled in early 1935, Time magazine described black-clad civil servants and farmers in straw hats gazing at the mural in “open-mouthed wonder.”
The wonder didn’t last, however. By the mid-1940s, the mural, with its inverted crucifixes and naked bodies, was deemed so offensive to clerics that the museum agreed to conceal it behind a huge canvas screen, said Jaime Reyes Monroy, the museum’s director. His predecessor, Eugenio Mercado López, said he had been told angry locals had damaged the mural in some way and that the canvas was intended, in part at least, to protect it.
In exchange for obscuring the mural, the church gave the museum an 18th-century oil painting known as “The Transfer of the Do-
minican Nuns to a New Convent,” which still hangs there.
The mural languished, hidden, until 1973, when it was uncovered during repairs to the patio, Reyes said. Over the next 50 years, there were sporadic efforts to patch up the work, but they were overwhelmed by the strong sun and relentless humidity.
“It had been covered for so long,” said Reyes, “people had honestly forgotten about it.”
It wasn’t only Morelians who overlooked the mural. Ellen G. Landau, an art historian and author of a book about the impact of Mexico on American modernism, said the art world and even Guston and Kadish diminished the importance of the Morelia fresco, which she believes reverberated through their careers.
Mexico gave the artists latitude to explore their preoccupations, Landau said. This was a contrast to the prescriptions of the Works Progress Administration in the United States, for which both artists also produced murals.
“When the WPA wanted a mural for a post office, they wanted a certain topic,” said Sally Radic, executive director of the Guston Foundation. In Mexico, she said, “they just did what they wanted and that’s why it was so universal.”
With that freedom, Guston and Kadish created a work where the horrors of the Inquisition intersected with those of the Ku Klux Klan and the Gestapo, said Landau. The mural includes a swastika and three hooded figures perched on ladders and a scaffold above scenes of torture — images that would recur in Guston’s later work. To the left is a cartoonlike depiction of people being burned alive that Landau identified as a rendition of a 15th-century woodcut showing the slaughter of Jews at Trent.
The references to repression in the mural were personal as well as historical and global, Landau and Radic said. Guston and Kadish had experienced right-wing thuggery in 1933, when members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s so-called Red Squad destroyed portable murals the artists had helped produce for the communist-affiliated John Reed Clubs. Kadish’s family’s apartment was ransacked by the police a few years earlier, according to an essay by Landau, and he witnessed a cross burning on the lawn of a Jewish home.
For Mercado, the mural holds an urgent message for Michoacán, a lush, beautiful state that is plagued by brutal drug-related violence.
“It’s agonizing,” he said. “It’s a call to the local community that we can’t be indifferent to suffering.”
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González Santos
González Alberto
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Heredia Robles Carmen A
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Hernández González Virgenmina
Hernández Sambolin Martha
Hernández Vega Gaspar
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León Romero Maggie
López Torres Angel L
Maestre Junieliz Mary
Magraner Franceschini María C
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Martínez Negrón Jesús
Mercado Torres Luis R
Miranda Rodríguez Egna M
Muñoz Rivera Madeline E
Muriel Cintrón Darell Emanuelle
Nuñez Hernández Efrain
Olivencia Martínez Edil
Ortiz Zaragoza Raquel M
Ortiz Borges Francisco
Ortiz Santiago Sunil J
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Pagán Cruz Carmen M
Pagán Muñoz Kelly M
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Pérez Matos María
Pérez Molina José J
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LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
MARÍA FERNANDA
CRUZ GÓMEZ
Demandante Vs. EDWIN ORLANDO
FIGUEROA DELGADO, DILCIA MARITZA
FIGUEROA DELGADO Y MARÍA FERNANDA
FIGUEROA CRUZ
Demandada
Caso Núm.: CG2022CV04131.
Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD, COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ACREEDORES DE LA SUCESIÓN ORLANDO C.
FIGUEROA BURGOS.
Vista la moción presentada por la parte demandante sobre publicación de edictos en cumplimiento con el Art. 594 del Código de Enjuiciamiento Civil Sec 2542, en el caso de epígrafe se les notifica a los ACREEDORES, si alguno de ORLANDO C. FIGUEROA BURGOS que se notifiquen con el Administrador Judicial / Contador Partidor el Lcdo. Jorge M. Azize Cuadrado a la siguiente dirección en un plazo no mayor de sesenta (60) días. P.O. Box 20083, San Juan, P. R. 009280083. Dada en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 21 de enero de 2025. MYRNA E. AYALA DÍAZ, JUEZA SUPERIOR. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL.DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE. Island Portfolio Services, LLC como agente de Fairway Acquisitions Fund, LLC
PARTE DEMANDANTE vs. JAN M
ACEVEDO DEL VALLE PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. PO2024CV02260.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZ.Al\fIENTO POR EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América El Presidente de los Estados Unidos El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. SS:
A: JAN M
ACEVEDO DEL VALLE
URB HACIENDA LA
MATILDE 5474 CALLE
SURCO, PONCE PR 00728-2440
3308 SE 89TH ST TRLR
362, OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73135-6209
POR LA PRESENTE ~e le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Femández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en PON CE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de diciembre de 2024. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FELIX RIVERA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN. Island Portfolio Services, LLC como agente de Fairway Acquisitions Fund, LLC
PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. FELIX D RIVERA REYES PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2024CV07008. 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: FELIX D RIVERA REYES - 1 RES LAS
MARGARITAS APT 29, SAN JUAN PR 00915 - 8884 N 96TH ST APT 8, MILWAUKEE WI 53224
POR LA PRESENTE se le
emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ
COLLADO, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LAURA C. REYNOSO ESQUILIN, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN. Island Portfolio Services, LLC, como agente de Fairway Acquisition Fund, LLC. PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. CLARIBEL RIVERA ORTIZ PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024CV07006. SALÓN: 1003. 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: Claribel Rivera Ortiz – RR 6 BOX 9350 SAN JUAN PR 00926 y BO CAIMITO SEC LOS ROMEROS,CARR 1 RAMAL 842 KM 19 SAN JUAN PR 00926
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del
Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/ , salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Juan Antonio Ruiz Robles cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección juan.ruiz@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 3 de DICIEMBRE de 2024. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario(a). LAURA C. REYNOSO ESQUILIN, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE EUGENIA CORDERO SUAREZ, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE IMPUESTOS MUNICIPALES Y ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados Civil Num.: PO2024CV02415. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO: EDICTO A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS
COMO HEREDEROS DE EUGENIA CORDERO SUAREZ. POR LA PRESENTE, se les emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaria de este Tribunal la Demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la ejecución de hipoteca y el cobro de dinero relacionado al pagaré suscrito a favor de The Money House, Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $165,000.00, garantizado con una hipoteca revertida (en adelante la “Hipoteca Revertida”), con intereses al 5.060% anual, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial, más una suma equivalente al 10% del valor principal de la hipoteca y vencimiento el 16 de noviembre de 2073, otorgada el día 12 de mayo de 2011, ante el Notario Francisco Ramón Febus Rivera y mediante escritura número 117, inscrita al folio 46 del tomo 1154 de Ponce, finca número 36,881, inscripción 14ta. La hipoteca grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número tres (3) del Bloque H del plano de inscripción de la Urbanización San Antonio, radicado en el Barrio Canas del Municipio de Ponce, Puerto Rico, que según las medidas que aparecen de dicho plano de inscripción tiene un área superficial de trescientos treinta y seis (336) metros cuadrados; en colindancias por el NORTE, con el solar número cuatro (4) por donde mide veinticuatro (24) metros; por el SUR, con el solar número dos (2) por donde mide veinticuatro (24) metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número once (11), por donde mide catorce (14) metros; y por el OESTE, con la Avenida A, por donde mide catorce (14) metros. Existe en este solar una casa residencia de una sola planta, construida de hormigón reforzado, dividida en sala-comedor, tres (3) dormitorios, cuarto sanitario, cocina, balcón, terraza y marquesina. Inscrita al folio 60 del tomo 260 de Ponce, finca número 26,881 (antes 20,547). Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda de Ponce. Se apercibe y advierte a ustedes como personas desconocidas, que deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https:// unired,ramajudicial.pr salvo que se represente por Derechos Propios, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del Tribunal. De no contestar la demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Ins-
tancia, Sala de Ponce y notificar copia de la contestación de esta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogada, HMB Law Group, LLC, Lcda. Pamela C. Santiago Olivieri, Dirección: 33 Calle Bolivia, Suite 20, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00917, Teléfono: 939-759-7668, dentro de los próximos 60 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico; se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictara sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. INTERPELACION: Se les ORDENA a ustedes que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la notificación de esta Orden, acepten o repudien a la participación que le corresponda en la herencia de Eugenia Cordero Suarez a saber: Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como herederos desconocidos. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que: (a) de no expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia; o (b) de no solicitar término adicional para ello dentro del término de treinta (30) días; la herencia se presumirá por aceptada, respondiendo con ello por las obligaciones, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias hasta el valor de los bienes hereditarios que recibe, según dispone el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, según enmendado. Se ORDENA a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la Sucesión de Eugenia Cordero Suarez a saber: Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como herederos desconocidos; proceda a notificar a la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 23 de ENERO de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DRIVEN P.S.C., EN SU CARÁCTER DE SÍNDICO DE NODUS INTERNATIONAL BANK, INC. Demandante V. BANCRECE CORP. Y MICHAEL GOGUIKIAN T/C/C MICHEL JEAN
GOGUIKIAN
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV00336. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: BANCRECE CORP.; MICHAEL GOGUIKIAN T/C/C MICHEL JEAN GOGUIKIAN; REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL BANK, NV - TORRE DELTA, PISO 12, CALLE ELVIRA MÉNDEZ & VÍA ESPAÑA #122, CIUDAD DE PANAMÁ, REPÚBLICA DE PANAMÁ; DELTA TOWER, 12TH FLOOR, ELVIRA MENDEZ ST. & VÍA ESPAÑA #122, PANAMÁ CAS CORAWEG 1, WILLEMSTAD, CURAÇAO.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda por Cobro de Dinero, reclamando las siguientes sumas adeudadas al 17 de octubre de 2024: Una suma no menor de $962,574.99, la cual se desglosa como sigue: (i) $700,000.00 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $79,194.44 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $6,027.77 diario; más (iii) la suma de $43,380.55 por mora, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a la tasa pactada entre las partes; más (iv) la suma agregada de $140,000.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados expresamente por las partes, según se desprende del Pagaré. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Ferraiuoli
Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández R.Ú.A. Núm. 16,736 lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com
PO Box 195168
San Juan, PR 00919-5168
Tel.: (787) 766-7000
Fax: (787)766-7001
Abogado de la Parte Demandante, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término,
el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 23 de enero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LAURA C. REYNOSO ESQUILÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA
ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE ANA ISABEL MERCADO COMPUESTA POR KENNETH LUGO COTTO Y KEVIN ANDRES LUGO COTTO, FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2024CV03791. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA INTERPELACIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: KENNETH LUGO COTTO, FULANO Y FUALAN DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE ANA ISABEL MERCADO724 CALIFORNIA ST. ALBUQUERQUE NM 87108; A6 CALLE 1, ESTANCIAS DE SAN FERNANDO CAROLINA PR 00984; P.O. BOX 3213, CAROLINA PR 009843213. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido notificado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic-
tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcda. Raquel Deseda Belaval, Delgado Fernández, LLC, T Mobile Center at San Patricio B7 Tabonuco St. Suite 1000 Guaynabo, PR 00968. Tel. [787] 274-1414. Oriental Bank ha presentado una Demanda en la cual se reclama que la parte demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato Hipotecario al no pagar la mensualidad vencida el día 1 de julio de 2024 y las que han vencido subsiguientemente, por lo que la parte demandante ha declarado vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $140,370.78 de principal, más $1,754.63 a intereses acumulados, que continuarán acumulándose al 3.000% de interés anual, hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más $163.84 a cargos por demora y otros cargos, más $423.46 de escrow, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, según pactado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario. El inmueble entregado como garantía del préstamo hipotecario es: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #6 del bloque A en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Estancias de San Fernando, radicada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 483.371 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 18.00 metros, con el solar 7 del mismo bloque; por el SUR, en una distancia de 14.50 metros, con la calle #1; por el Suroeste en un área, de 5.498 metros, con la intersección de las calles 1 y 2; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 27.0 metros con el solar 5 del mismo bloque; por el OESTE, en una distancia de 23.50 metros, con la calle #2. Aparece construida una casa de hormigón y bloques de dos plantas. Finca 49268, inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 1135 de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, sección II. Se dicta Orden de conformidad con el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020, para que expresen si han de aceptar o rechazar formalmente la herencia de la causante ANA ISABEL MERCADO en el término de treinta (30) días, dispuesto en ley. Se advierte a los miembros de la Sucesión de ANA ISABEL MERCADO que al haberse presentado el pleito en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en contra de la causante antes mencionada, de no recibirse contestación en el término de treinta (30) días a
partir de la notificación de esta orden, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada y los herederos responden por las obligaciones del causante, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias exclusivamente hasta el valor de los bienes hereditarios que recibe. (Artículo 1587 31 LPRA Secc. 11041). DADA en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, a 24 de enero de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE SAN JUAN SECRETARIO VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO
URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
T/C/C SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Demandante Vs. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV10389. Sala: 503. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, personas desconocidas que se designan con estos nombres ficticios, que pueden ser tenedor o tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez. Se les notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que un pagaré hipotecario fue otorgado el 19 de diciembre de 2014, se emitió un pagaré ante el Notario Público Maria Isabel García Mantilla a favor de First Security Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma de $937,500.00, con intereses al 3.351% y vencedero el 13 de junio de 2091, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 458, testimonio numero 9,899 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: URBANA: Urbanización Villa Aida de Monacillos. Solar: 44. Cabida: 1,032.9262 metros cuadrados. Linderos: por el NORTE, en una distancia de treinta y ocho punto setenta y cuatro metros, con
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
el solar número 46 de la Urbanización Villa Aida; por el SUR, en una distancia de treinta y cinco punto treinta y dos metros, con el solar número 42 de la Urbanización Villa Aida; por el ESTE, en dos alineaciones en una distancia total de veintiséis punto noventa y cuatro metros, con los solares número cuarenta y tres y cuarenta y uno de la Urbanización Villa Aida; y por el OESTE, en alineación y arco con la calle George de la Urbanización Villa Aida en una distancia total de treinta metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para residenciales. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca 21,622 inscrita al folio 190 del tomo 660 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Tercera de San Juan. La obligación evidenciada por el pagaré antes descrito fue saldada en su totalidad. Dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original del pagaré. El original del pagaré antes descrito no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. First Security Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, es el acreedor que consta en el Registro de la Propiedad. El último tenedor conocido del pagaré antes descrito fue Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Lcda. Pamela Santiago Olivieri
RUA NUM. 22028
HMB Law Group, LLC
33 Calle Bolivia, Suite 201 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00917
Tel: 939-759-7668
E-mail: psantiago-olivieri@ hmblawgroup.com psco.law@gmail.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 11 de diciembre de 2024. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH AGOSTO NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
LEGACY MORTGAGE
ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1
Demandante Vs CARMEN RIVERA MARTINEZ, ET ALS Demandado
Civil Núm.: GM2024CV00808. Sala: 302. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA, COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS.
A: (1) ENRIQUE
TORRES TORRES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON CARMEN LYDIA MARTÍNEZ RIVERA
T/C/C CARMEN RIVERA MARTÍNEZ; (2) MINERVA TORRES MARTÍNEZ; (3) JOSÉ RAMÓN
DÍAZ FIGUEROA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON MINERVA TORRES MARTÍNEZ; (4) MANUEL
LEBRÓN VALENTÍN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON CARMEN MILAGROS TORRES MARTÍNEZ; Y (5) LUIS ENRIQUE TORRES MARTÍNEZ.
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 radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificar con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de mayo de 2024, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante
las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $23,341.61, la que se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $12,969.38, más intereses acumulados a razón del 6.996% anual, desde el 4 de abril de 2024, hasta el presente, y los que se continúen acumulando a razón de su tasa de interés aplicable, hasta su total y completo pago, la suma principal de $10,372.23, como balance diferido y el cual no genera intereses, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ($5,724.00), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela B radicada frente a un camino municipal en el Barrio Carite del término municipal de Guayama, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatro mil novecientos treinta y un metros con ochenta y cinco centímetros y en lindes; por el NORTE, en treinta y cinco metros, con parte de la finca del Sr. Félix Cruz; por el SUR, en siete metros con sesenta centímetros con aparte de la finca de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales; por el ESTE, en tres alineaciones descontinuas de cuarenta y un metros con quince centímetros, treinta y tres metros con ochenta centímetros y nueve metros con sesenta y cinco centímetros con parde de la finca de Félix Cruz y la finca de la Autoridad de las Fuentes Fluviales; y por el OESTE, e tres alineaciones descontinuas de setenta y un metros con quince centímetros, diez y seis metros con veinte centímetros y sesenta y tres metros con cinco centímetros, con camino municipal. Consta inscrita al folio 88 del tomo 300 de Guayama, finca 9,834. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. Se le apercibe que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido
bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy día 24 de enero de 2025. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. GILENE TIRADO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. WILBERT BERRÍOS SANTANA, AWILDA ORTIZ COLÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA REPRESENTADOS POR EL SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO
URBANO (HUD)
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AI2024CV00530. (002). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Demandada: WILBERT BERRÍOS SANTANA, POR SÍ Y COMO PARTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON AWILDA ORTIZ COLÓN A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: COMUNIDAD RURAL SAN LUIS, 3 CALLE BETZAIDA (PARCELA 135-A), AIBONITO PR 00705-3223, COMUNIDAD RURAL SAN LUIS, 3 CALLE BETZAIDA, AIBONITO PR 00705-3223 Y 145 W 31ST ST APT 1, BAYONNE, NJ 07002-1826. Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeuda las siguientes cantidades $38,950.95 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 3.75% anual desde el 1 de mayo de 2024 hasta su completo pago, más $70.20 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,044.10 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así
como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 135-A en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural San Luis del Barrio San Luis del Barrio Llanos del término municipal de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 494.19 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela #135 de la comunidad; por el SUR, con Clara Iris López; por el ESTE, con parcela #134-A de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con calle Betsaida de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio 3 del tomo 124 de Aibonito, Finca 5972. Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 124 del tomo móvil 249 de Aibonito, Finca 5972. Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Inscripción octava. La modificación consta inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 279 de Aibonito, Finca 5972. Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. Inscripción décima. La demandante es tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción.La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo 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. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo Puerto Rico 009703922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, (787) 708-0566 correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy, 22 de enero de 2025, en Aibonito Puerto Rico. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE INÉS AMARO LEBRÓN, COMPUESTA POR LA SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS SOTO AQUINO COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO MELLÁN SOTO, BIENVENIDO MELLÁN SOTO Y LUCILO TAVAREZ GUERRERO COMO VIUDO, BIANELA ANTONIA AMARO ROJAS, ÁNGEL IVÁN AMARO CLEMENTE Y RUTH ANGELINE AMARO CLEMENTE; SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS SOTO AQUINO COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO MELLÁN SOTO, BIENVENIDO MELLÁN SOTO Y LUCILO TAVAREZ GUERRERO COMO VIUDO; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE INÉS AMARO LEBRÓN Y MILAGROS SOTO AQUINO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV11081. Sala: 508. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN DIRIGIDOS A: SUCESIÓN DE INÉS AMARO LEBRÓN, COMPUESTA POR LA SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS SOTO AQUINO COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO MELLÁN SOTO, BIENVENIDO MELLÁN SOTO, BIANELA ANTONIA AMARO ROJAS, 10 SUMMER ST., APT. 1, PEABODY, MA 01960 Y ÁNGEL IVÁN AMARO CLEMENTE, 1125C SILVER DR. #201, BARABOO, WISCONSIN 53913; SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS SOTO AQUINO COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO MELLÁN SOTO Y BIENVENIDO MELLÁN SOTO; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE INÉS AMARO LEBRÓN Y MILAGROS SOTO AQUINO - 10 SUMMER ST., APT. 1, PEABODY, MA, 01960; 1125C SILVER DR. #201, BARABOO, WISCONSIN 53913; URB. VILLAS DE LOÍZA, 29C AI 7, LOIZA, PR 00772; URB. VILLA PALMERA, 360 CALLE LAGUNA, SAN JUAN, PR 00915; 360 LAGUNA ST., VILLA PALMERA, SAN JUAN, PR 00915; VILLA PALMERA, 360 CALLE LAGUNA, SAN JUAN, PR 00915.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda enmendada incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos del causante, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia del causante conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787. De no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. También se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalados contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE:
Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández
RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ, LLP
Edificio Ochoa,
500 Calle De La Tanca
Suite 209
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901
Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com
Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 24 de enero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. BRENDA L. BÁEZ ACABÁ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN IRIS RODRÍGUEZ TORRES COMPUESTA POR JAVIER SOTO RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL Demandado Civil Núm.: PO2024CV02767. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y DE INTERPELACIÓN
JUDICIAL. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JAVIER SOTO RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN IRIS RODRÍGUEZ TORRES.
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 Yauco, P.O. Box 3042, Yauco, P.R. 00698-3042 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.
ORDEN DE INTERPELACIÓN
JUDICIAL: Vista la Urgente Moción Informativa Solicitando Expedición de Emplazamiento por Edicto en el caso de epígrafe, y examinado los autos de este caso y la ley aplicable, este Tribunal declara CON LUGAR la solicitud de Interpelación Judicial, y en su consecuencia se ordena a que la parte demandada de Javier Soto Rodríguez, Fulano de Tal y Fulana de Tal, por sí y como miembros de La Sucesión de Carmen Iris Rodríguez Torres y conforme lo dispone el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico 2020, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepte o repudie la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes. Se le apercibe que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los demandados que luego de transcurso del término antes indicado, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante, por consiguiente responden por las cagas de dicha herencia conforme al Artículo 1587 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico 2020. Se Ordena a la parte demandante a que proceda a notificar la presente orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la isla de Puerto Rico. DADA en Yauco, Puerto Rico, hoy 27 de enero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. HILDA J. ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS EMILIA
CALDERON ROSARIO
Demandante V. BANCO POPUALR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2024CV03262.
(Salón: 803 - CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALYSSA MARIE RIVERA RIVERAALYSSARIVERA.LAW @OUTLOOK.COM. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO; JUANA DEL PUEBLO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de enero de 2025, 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 28 de enero de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 28 de enero de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante V. IDALIA GUZMÁN GUZMÁN
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03373. (Civil: 402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ASHLEY ANNE CLEMENTE SERRANO - ACLEMENTE@ MPMLAWPR.COM. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM. A: IDALIA GUZMÁN GUZMÁN. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir
de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de enero de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 29 de enero de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. LOURDES T. DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE BARCELONETA MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE GESTOR DE MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, INC.
Demandante V. KEISHLA M BAEZ GONZALEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MT2023CV00161. (Salón: 105 CIVIL - CRIMINAL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: KEISHLA M BAEZ GONZALEZ, GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de junio 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 28 de enero de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: ENMENDADA A LOS EFECTOS DE INCLUIR AL LCDO. GABRIEL A RAMOS COLÓN. En Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, el 28 de enero de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. IRIS M.
MIRANDA NUÑEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COAMO
FINANCE OF AMERICA
REVERSE LLC
Demandante V. SUCESION PEDRO
ANGEL LEON OCASIO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CO2024CV00224. (Salón: 1). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION PEDRO
ANGEL LEON OCASIO
T/C/C PEDRO A. LEON OCASIO T/C/C PEDRO ANGEL LEON T/C/C PEDRO LEON OCASIO; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION CARMEN ELIS COLLAZO SANTIAGO
T/C/C CARMEN E. COLLAZO SANTIAGO
T/C/C CARMEN E. COLLAZO T/C/C CARMEN ELY COLLAZO; JOHN FOE Y JANE FOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE PEDRO
ANGEL LEON COLLAZO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de enero de 2025, 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 edic-
to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de enero de 2025. En Coamo, Puerto Rico, el 28 de enero de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARÍA DEL C. MERCADO FUENTES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. FIVESTAR ENTERPRISES TA LLC Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV03798. (Salón: 502). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. HERIBERTO SEPÚLVEDA SANTIAGO - HERYSEPULVEDA@ HOTMAIL.COM. JUAN C. SALICHSJSALICHS@SPLAWPR.COM. A: FIVESTAR ENTERPRISES TA LLC, EMILIO JOSE CONCEPCION GARCIA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de enero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de enero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LOS COLOBOS RENTALS. INC. Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03685. (Civil: 403). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LOS COLOBOS RENTALS, INC., JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de enero de 2025, 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 28 de enero de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 28 de enero de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. LILLIAM ORTIZ NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE AMERICO JUSTINIANO SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR FREDDIE JUSTINIANO MERCADO, AMERICO JUSTINIANO MERCADO Y DANIEL JUSTINIANO MERCADO; SUCESION DE MARIA MONSEGUER YTHIER T/C/C MARIA MONSEGUR-YTHIER; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O
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Puerto Rico to host Legends Classic between Real Madrid & Barcelona
By THE STAR STAFF
For the first time, the legends of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona will play a soccer match in Puerto Rico. The event, titled El Clásico de Leyendas (Legends Classic), will be held on Sunday, March 23, 2025 at Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium in Bayamón.
The match will bring together iconic figures from international soccer, including Iker Casillas, Roberto Carlos, Guti Haz and Steve McManaman for Real Madrid, while FC Barcelona will have David Villa, Javier Saviola and RIvaldo, among others.
“The Legends Classic has traveled the world and now we land in Puerto Rico, where there is a growing passion for soccer,” said Isidoro San José, executive of Real Madrid Leyendas. “It will be an honor for our players to give their all in front of the Puerto Rican fans.”
The legends will be on the island for three days, participating in community soccer clinics, VIP experiences with sponsors, protocol events and tourist visits to promote Puerto Rico as a destination.
The company VRDG Entertainment, led by its CEO Julio Cabral, heads the production of the event with an investment of almost $4 million.
“The impact of this event is enormous for our city and for all of Puerto Rico,” Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz said. “Not only does it bring in the main figures of world soccer, but it also boosts tourism and the economy.”
To accommodate ticket demand, VIP suites and additional stands will be added, expanding the stadium’s capacity to 20,000.
Ticket sales will be available beginning this Friday through Ticketerapr.
PR rallies to advance to Caribbean Series semifinals in Mexico
By THE STAR STAFF
Afour-run rally in the eighth inning combined with a home run by Anthony García in the ninth powered the Mayagüez Indians of Puerto Rico to a 10-7 victory over the Dominican Republic Lions on Tuesday night in Mexicali, Mexico.
With the come-from-behind win, Puerto Rico -- which trailed 5-1 in the early going -- advanced to the semifinals of the Caribbean Series at El Nido de los Águilas Stadium in Baja California.
The Indians (Indios), who finished the series’ first stage with a 2-2 record, were to take on top seed Mexico (4-0) in the second of two knockout semifinals on Wednesday. Venezuela -which blanked Japan 10-0 on a no-hitter Tuesday night -- was to play the Dominican Republic (2-2) in the other semifinal.
“It was a game in which they had the best at-bats,” acknowledged former Major League star Albert Pujols, manager of the Lions. “Definitely, in the last two innings they took advantage of the mistakes we made.”
The Indians opened a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Rubén Castro tripled and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Emmanuel Rivera.
The Lions (Leones) struck back in the bottom half of the inning, batting through the order and putting up five runs on a
bases-loaded infield error and a three-run blast by Junior Lake.
In the next inning, the Indians closed the gap to 5-3 on a triple by Isán Díaz and a single by Shed Long Jr. The Dominican Republic again upped the ante in the bottom half, plating two more runs on a sacrifice fly and a steal of home to extend its lead to 7-3.
Puerto Rico’s fourth run came in the fifth inning when Díaz scored on an infield grounder by Castro.
Eddie Rosario’s bases-loaded single to right field in the eighth inning evened the score at 7-7, and the Indians took the lead an out later on a wild pitch by reliever Jimmy Cordero. García’s solo homer in the next inning accounted for the final score.
Carlos Francisco (1-0) earned the win after not allowing runs in a rough inning in which he allowed just two hits. Justin Yeager notched his second save in the series. Joe Corbett took the loss for the Lions, allowing five runs in two-thirds of an inning.
Licensing courses to be offered for coaches, rec leaders, fitness instructors
By THE STAR STAFF
Dr. José B. Morales Claudio
Médico Generalista
The Department of Recreation and Sports (DRD by its initials in Spanish), through the Puerto Rican Institute for the Development of Sports and Recreation (IPDDER), announced on Wednesday the start of courses and workshops aimed at obtaining licenses in various sports and recreational disciplines.
“For us, the education of coaches, instructors, administrators and leaders is essential, since it ensures that our population is adequately served and in tune with the times,” designated DRD Secretary Héctor Vázquez Muñiz said in a written statement. “With a majority of our population over 19 years
of age, it is imperative that sports and recreation professionals have the necessary training to promote health and physical activity.”
The courses, which begin this Saturday, will be available in virtual and in-person modalities. They are aimed at sports coaches, fitness instructors, recreation professionals, camp operators, administrators and officers.
The DRD also announced that virtual orientations on summer camps are now open, with sessions scheduled for Feb. 7, Feb. 21, March 28, April 4 and May 2, at 10 a.m.
Those interested in enrolling in courses, obtaining information about licenses or registering for camp orientations can access ipdderdigital.drd.pr.gov or call (787) 721-2800, extns.
Eddie Rosario sparked an eighth-inning rally with a bases-loaded single to right field. (Anexis Morales)
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