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Women’s advocate works on strategies to address violence cases
By THE STAR STAFF
Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez met on Tuesday with Justice Department officials to establish strategies to ensure a swift, sensitive and structured response to cases of violence.
“Attention to the issue of violence must be coordinated and with clear plans to ensure sensitive handling,” Piñeiro Vázquez said in a written statement.
During the meeting, the importance of strengthening interagency coordination from the initial intervention through the judicial process was discussed in order to guarantee effective protection for surviving victims.
Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez and Justice Department officials discussed the importance of strengthening interagency coordination from the initial intervention through the judicial process in violence cases.
Recommendations for diversion programs, the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation’s Diversion Board, and judicial processes of the Office of Court Administration were also discussed.
Piñeiro Vázquez urged people to seek help in cases
of violence during their days off, noting that the Office of the Women’s Advocate’s confidential line operates 24 hours a day and is available to offer guidance and referrals to victims.
Physician Correctional denies responsibility in case of released inmate who killed woman
By THE STAR STAFF
hysician Correctional (PC) Director of Administration and Operations
Bárbara Méndez expressed surprise at the inclusion of the company in a $41 million lawsuit filed by the family of Ivette Joan Meléndez Vega, who was slain by an inmate, Hermes Ávila Vázquez, who had been granted conditional release on medical grounds.
“We are surprised to have been included in the lawsuit, considering that no forum that has investigated the case has identified any fault on the part of our company,” Méndez said in a written statement.
She said investigations conducted by the island Senate, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Correc-
tion and Rehabilitation (DCR) have not established negligence on the part of PC, and have confirmed that the company complied with its contract.
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Méndez said Ávila Vázquez’s diagnosis of paraplegia was confirmed by 52 doctors, including professionals from PC, the State Insurance Fund Corp. and the company Correctional Health Services. The diagnosis was what motivated the consideration of the extended pass by the DCR.
The official stressed that PC does not have the authority to release inmates and that its role is limited to clinical evaluations required under contract. She added that PC and its lawyers will engage with the judicial process while reaffirming its commitment to legality and the health of the correctional population.
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Lajas may charge other towns for use of its landfill
By THE STAR STAFF
As Puerto Rico continues to face fiscal challenges, the southwestern municipality of Lajas is feeling the impact and may charge other towns for dumping waste in its landfill.
With dwindling federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and equalization programs, Mayor Jayson Martínez Maldonado has noted that his municipality is operating on a tight budget. In a radio interview, the mayor emphasized his determination to explore alternative revenue sources, including charging other municipalities for garbage disposal at Lajas’ landfill.
A key part of the plan is the con-
struction of a super cell at the landfill site. Martínez confirmed that the necessary permits for the project have already been secured. The situation in Lajas has developed against the backdrop of Puerto Rico’s ongoing financial crisis, which has forced many municipalities to struggle to maintain public services and infrastructure.
The proposed super cell initiative is expected to generate much-needed funds for Lajas while addressing regional waste management concerns. As the island’s fiscal crisis continues, innovative approaches to revenue generation have become essential for towns in Puerto Rico. With the mayor’s focus on exploring alternative funding sources, Lajas serves as an example of local governments adapting to financial hardship
to maintain services for their communities.
In 2024, island towns faced a continuing fiscal crisis, marked by debt restructuring efforts, challenges in debt repayment and efforts to improve municipal finances. While some municipalities showed progress in improving property tax collection, others faced challenges in managing their budgets.
Lajas Mayor Jayson Martínez Maldonado said he is focused on exploring alternative revenue sources, including charging other municipalities for garbage disposal at the southwestern town’s landfill. (Facebook via Oficina Municipal para el Manejo de Emergencias de Lajas)
PRIDCO to install solar panels on its buildings
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co.
(PRIDCO) Executive Director Eric Santiago
Justiniano announced on Tuesday a project to install solar panels on the roofs of industrial buildings owned by the public corporation.
The head of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. said an initiative to install solar panels on the roofs of industrial properties owned by the public corporation is to ensure that the companies operating in the buildings “are not disrupted by power outages while also allowing them to benefit from reduced energy costs at standard rates.”
The announcement was made during the Cogeneration Day event at the Sheraton Hotel in San Juan’s Convention District.
“This initiative aims to provide an energy solution for companies operating on PRIDCO properties. Our goal is to ensure that these companies’ operations are not disrupted by power outages while also allowing them to benefit from reduced energy costs at standard rates,” Santiago said. “This initiative encapsulates PRIDCO’s value proposition to companies in Puerto Rico, offering the lowest rental rates in the United States alongside lower energy costs. It aligns with Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s
public policy to implement sustainable green energy projects, fulfilling the long-term objectives of Act 17 of 2019.”
PRIDCO has already implemented the project in three buildings. Additionally, a new company relocating to Puerto Rico requires a building that can provide the solar energy service. PRIDCO is in the process of recruiting and contracting a company to install a solar panel system on 28,000 square feet of roof space in Cabo Rojo.
PRIDCO manages 22 million square feet of rooftops and plans to contract for the installation of green and sustainable energy systems on those structures.
Mining exploration flights on island, lack of gov’t transparency denounced
By THE STAR STAFF
Since 2023, the United States Geological Survey has been conducting mining exploration studies in Puerto Rico, without the island government or the federal agency providing public information about them, former Rep. Mariana Nogales Molinelli charged Tuesday.
“We demand that the federal agency in charge of the geological survey and the government of Puerto Rico clearly report on
these investigations,” Nogales said in a written statement.
The former Citizen Victory Movement lawmaker said the studies include aeromagnetic and aeroradioactive flights over regions such as Utuado, Adjuntas and Lares, with the goal of identifying deposits of minerals, metals and rare earths. The information was obtained through a request under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
The study, commissioned by the Federal Geological Survey, is called Earth MRI and was
carried out by the companies Terraquest and Fugro USA Land. Nogales said the data analysis will be completed this month.
Environmental scientist Neftalí García and ecologist Ariel Lugo warned that some of the areas studied have been the target of previous mining attempts, and there are fears that interest in them could be revived. García pointed out that communities managed to halt open-pit mining in Adjuntas, Lares and Utuado decades ago.
Nogales questioned the fact that, although
the Geological Survey stated in March that it no longer has active studies or contracted flights, similar flights continue to be detected, which could indicate independent activities by private companies interested in mineral resources. The study has also covered other areas of the island, she said, such as the Sierra Bermeja, Monte La Tiza, the northern valleys, and sectors of the southwest, where potential for gold, nickel, cobalt, aluminum, platinum and other rare minerals considered key to the technological and military industries has been identified.
Puerto Rican victim of Santo Domingo roof collapse is transferred to island
By THE STAR STAFF
The Dominican National Health Service has reported that a resident of Puerto Rico who was hospitalized as a result of the roof collapse at the JetSet nightclub in Santo Domingo, was transferred back to the U.S. territory at the request of his family.
Currently, two patients injured in the roof collapse have been discharged, while 12 remain hospitalized in Santo Domingo within the neighboring Caribbean nation’s public health system. Among those hospitalized, three have a reserved prognosis following the collapse of the roof at the iconic nightspot last week that claimed the lives of 221 people.
The 35-year-old Puerto Rican, who had been receiving care at Marcelino Vélez
A volunteer rescue crew led by members of the Puerto Rico Firefighters Bureau surveys the damage at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where a roof collapse claimed more than 220 lives last week. (Facebook via Cuerpo de Bomberos de PR)
Santana Hospital, was transferred in stable condition, although he had previously been in critical condition. Another patient, a 40-year-old man, remains hospitalized and stable, although he is on continuous dialysis.
At the Ney Arias Lora Traumatology Unit, two patients, a 48-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, have been discharged. Seven patients aged between 26 and 40 are still hospitalized, with two of them in the ICU with a reserved prognosis.
At Salvador B. Gautier Hospital, a 24-yearold woman with severe injuries to a lower limb is currently receiving care in the ICU and is showing signs of improvement. A 55-year-old man, who worked as a waiter at the nightclub and suffered blunt thoracoabdominal trauma, is in very critical condition.
Meanwhile, at the Darío Contreras Traumatology Unit, a 46-year-old man remains in the ICU on mechanical ventilation but is showing slight improvement. A 33-year-old Colombian woman has also been receiving care at the same health center since last Saturday.
Dr. Mario Lama, representing the National Health Service, expressed his respect for the efforts of the medical teams involved in treating patients injured in last Tuesday’s roof collapse. That includes doctors Julio Landrón from Ney Arias Lora Hospital, César Roque from Darío Contreras Hospital, Willy Victoria from Marcelino Vélez Santana Hospital, and Armando Holguín from Salvador B. Gautier Hospital, who lead the main centers providing care to the patients.
Bill would require info on parental controls in device sales
By THE STAR STAFF
Rep. José Aponte Hernández announced on Tuesday the filing of House Bill 425, which implements, for the first time, guidelines for the use of parental controls on social media.
“Our goal is to protect minors from the use of social media platforms by criminals to harm these children,” the veteran lawmaker said. “With this legislation, we make it mandatory for sellers of digital devices with internet access to inform consumers about the use of parental controls when a minor uses them and how to implement those controls. This is a security measure against the alarming use by criminals of social media to commit their crimes.”
The measure would assign responsibility to the Department of Consumer Affairs, Office
of Innovation and Technology Services, and Public Service Regulatory Board to actively guide and promote the use of parental controls on electronic devices among citizens and to protect minors who browse the internet and use social media.
According to the measure’s provisions, device sellers can include parental control information on the purchase receipt, using a quick response code (QR Code) that the buyer can access and be directed to a landing page with parental control information. It can also be done through a link sent to the buyer’s email and/or via text message, or on paper when neither of those methods is available.
In addition, upon request, the purchaser will be assisted and provided with information on how to configure the security measures on the device and a description of its parental control
functions, including how parents, guardians or those responsible for minors can restrict or filter their children’s access to certain websites, applications and content, and restrict the amount of time spent in front of the device’s screen.
In total, some 35 states have implemented similar legislation to protect minors.
In 2024, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ‘s CyberTipline received 34.5 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation.
A 2024 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center on 1,391 American teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that the vast majority of them use social media and own a smartphone. Nearly half of them said they are constantly online. The platform the teens reported using most is YouTube, followed by TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.
The measure would assign responsibility to several island government entities to actively guide and promote the use of parental controls on electronic devices among citizens and to protect minors who browse the internet and use social media.
House panel to examine accessibility of public beaches in PR
By THE STAR STAFF
District 2 (San Juan) Rep. Ricardo “Chino” Ocasio Ramos, who chairs the Committee on Seniors and Social Welfare in the lower chamber, on Tuesday filed House Resolution 193, which orders the committee to investigate the feasibility of adapting all public beaches in Puerto Rico with facilities for the enjoyment of people with disabilities.
“Our commitment to equity and inclusion is unwavering,” Ocasio Ramos said. “All people,
regardless of their physical abilities, must have the right to safely enjoy our beaches.”
The measure stems from the recognition of an alarming reality: according to the 2022 American Community Survey, 24.6% of the population in Puerto Rico lives with some type of functional disability, and of those, 49% live below the poverty line. This population faces not only physical obstacles but also social and economic barriers that prevent them from fully accessing public recreational spaces.
The resolution’s preamble highlights how
countries such as Germany, Canada, Japan and Spain have successfully implemented inclusive and adaptive tourism systems, ensuring accessibility and generating economic growth by attracting visitors with disabilities and their families.
“Our beaches are one of Puerto Rico’s greatest natural and tourist treasures. However, very few have adequate access for people with disabilities,” the legislator said. “In addition to providing social justice to this population, this is a great opportunity to position Puerto
Rico as a leader in inclusive tourism in the Caribbean.”
Ocasio Ramos emphasized that the legislation not only seeks to identify existing barriers, but also to propose viable and sustainable solutions that allow all people to enjoy the natural environment equitably.
The measure will be evaluated in the coming weeks by the aforementioned committee, with the participation of accessibility experts, community leaders and representatives from relevant agencies.
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Columbia vows to reject any Trump deal that threatens its independence
By TROY CLOSSON
Columbia University, which has faced criticism for not striking a more defiant stand against efforts by the Trump administration to set its agenda, showed signs late Monday of adopting a tougher tone. In a note sent to the campus, the acting president pledged that the school would not allow the federal government to “require us to relinquish our independence and autonomy.”
The message came less than 12 hours after Harvard became the first university to refuse to comply with the administration’s demands, prompting federal officials to freeze $2.2 billion in multiyear grants to the school. The letter was sent to students and faculty members as Columbia has endured intense fire for what critics regard as White House appeasement.
Until now, Columbia had largely avoided public criticism of the administration and its campaign against universities. In her first public statement, in March, Claire Shipman, Columbia’s new acting president, acknowledged that the university faced “a precarious moment,” but she did not directly mention federal officials or their cancellation of about $400 million in grants and contracts to the school.
And when Shipman’s predecessor, Katrina Armstrong, revealed an agreement regarding major demands from the government — including placing the university’s Middle Eastern studies department under new oversight and creating a security force empowered to make arrests — she did not critique the administration’s interference in higher education.
But on Monday, Shipman — who said that she had read a strongly worded note from Harvard president “with great interest” — appeared to adopt a new tone, the most robust sign of potential pushback from Columbia’s leadership since the government’s cancellation of federal funding to the university.
Shipman wrote that Columbia would “reject heavy-handed orchestration from the government that could potentially damage our institution and undermine useful reforms.” She said that any agreement in which federal officials dictated “what we teach, research or who we hire” would be unacceptable.
Still, Shipman did not go as far as
Claire Shipman, the co-chair of Columbia University’s board, testifies during a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on Columbia University’s response to antisemitism, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 17, 2024. Shipman, Columbia’s acting president, issued a statement late Monday, April 14, 2025, hours after the president of Harvard offered a defiant response to demands from the Trump administration. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The New York Times)
Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, who categorically refused to stand down, writing Monday that the federal government had sought to “invade university freedoms long recognized by the Supreme Court” and that the institution would not concede to “demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration.”
“Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government,” Garber wrote.
A few hours later, Shipman’s 763-word statement hailed what she characterized as “good faith discussions” with a federal antisemitism task force that has been behind much of the effort against universities.
Addressing the prevalent anxiety among international students — hundreds of whom across the United States have been abruptly stripped of their ability to stay in the country — Shipman wrote that she was following the government’s actions “with great concern” and directed foreign students to a new need-based hardship fund.
Columbia’s response came as the Trump administration has discussed seeking a consent decree in which a federal judge would enforce any deal reached with the university. Shipman did not explicitly ad-
dress the possibility of such a measure but said that no agreement had been reached with the federal government and that discussions were ongoing, including over how to address concerns about discrimination and harassment on campus and how to restore a federal partnership that “supports our vital research mission.”
“Some of the government’s requests have aligned with policies and practices that we believe are important to advancing our mission,” said Shipman, who was a cochair of the university’s board of trustees before being appointed acting president last month.
Still, she added: “Other ideas, including overly prescriptive requests about our governance, how we conduct our presidential search process and how specifically to address viewpoint diversity issues are not subject to negotiation.”
A spokesperson for the federal Education Department, whose officials have been involved in negotiations with Columbia, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the past three months, the Trump administration has taken aim at some of the nation’s most prominent schools as it
moves to eradicate what it says is rampant antisemitism on campuses, including Columbia’s, along with what it calls unfair diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across higher education.
Federal agencies have suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in funds for research at several universities, including Columbia, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern. Some Columbia faculty members have argued that the school’s response to the government’s demands has undermined its central principles and academic freedom.
The government demanded an extraordinary set of changes at Harvard in a letter last week, including that the university share all its hiring data with the Trump administration, place certain departments under an external audit and immediately shut down any programming related to DEI.
As Harvard’s president rejected the administration’s ultimatum, Shipman told her campus that “our institution may decide at any point, on its own, to make difficult decisions that are in Columbia’s best interests.”
Joseph Howley, a classics professor at Columbia, said he appreciated that Shipman’s letter seemed to include a “commitment to some principles that I think we are all glad to hear are in fact principles.”
But to him, “the main thing that stood out” was that school leaders were “clearly affirming how much time they’re talking to Donald Trump’s federal government when they don’t seem to be spending very much time talking to their own faculty.”
“That was a problem all of last year,” he said. “And it doesn’t get us anywhere good.”
Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University, where at least $210 million in federal grants and contracts are at risk, acknowledged in a recent interview with The New York Times that some universities might have to concede “in order to protect people.”
But he added that they also needed “to speak up under those circumstances,” even if to express regret over a compromise.
“I do wish I had heard that from Columbia,” Eisgruber said. “You may say, ‘Look, I wish I could take a stand on principle, but given what’s at stake, I can’t.’ But then you need to say that. You need to admit and you need to say to your community and to Americans, ‘Hey, there’s something really fundamental that has been lost here.’”
Court temporarily blocks Trump’s shuttering of migrant entry program
By HAMED ALEAZIZ
Afederal judge in Boston temporarily blocked the Trump administration Monday from ending a signature Biden-era program that allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants from four troubled countries to enter the country and work legally.
The administration moved in late March to shut down the program by April 24, which offered migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti temporary legal status in the United States. Judge Indira Talwani, of U.S. District Court in Boston, said the program’s termination put thousands of immigrants at imminent risk of deportation hearings once their legal status expires in less than two weeks.
Talwani blocked the wholesale shutdown of the program. Otherwise, she wrote in her ruling, the migrants would “be forced to choose between two injurious options: continue following the law and leave the country on their own, or await removal proceedings.”
Immigrant advocates hailed the decision as a win for those worried about the imminent stripping of their status.
President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, April 10, 2025. A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending a Biden-era program that allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants from four countries to enter the United States and work legally. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
“This ruling is a victory not just for our clients and those like them, but anyone who cherishes the freedom to welcome,” said Karen Tumlin, director of the Justice Action Center, an immigrant advocacy group. “Our clients — and our
class members — have done everything the government asked of them, and we’re gratified to see that the court will not allow
the government to fail to uphold its side of the bargain.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The judge’s decision came as the Trump administration has moved to end legal protections for migrants from many countries, including by shutting down a program granting legal status to Afghan and Cameroonian migrants. A separate effort to revoke Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans in the United States was also blocked by a federal judge.
The Biden-era program allowed more migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to fly into the United States and stay temporarily with access to work permits if they had a financial sponsor and passed security checks. They were allowed to stay for up to two years.
More than 500,000 migrants entered the country under the program. Biden officials said it was part of an effort to deter migrants from those countries from crossing into the country illegally, and encourage a legal pathway instead.
Trump officials, announcing the move to end the program last month, said the program added to immigration problems in the United States by granting some protections to “a substantial population of aliens in the interior of the United States without a clear path to a durable status.”
Judge pauses Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans in Colorado
By ALAN FEUER
Afederal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Monday night from using a powerful wartime statute to deport to El Salvador Venezuelan immigrants in Colorado who have been accused of being violent gang members.
The lawsuit, brought in U.S. District Court in Colorado by the American Civil Liberties Union, was the third of its kind filed in recent days, joining similar challenges filed last week in Texas and New York.
Lawyers for the ACLU brought the suit on behalf of two men — known in court papers only by the their initials, D.B.U. and R.M.M. The men claim they have been wrongly accused by the administration of being members of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua.
In a later filing, the ACLU appeared to suggest that the administration might be preparing to deport additional migrants in Colorado, also accused of being affiliated with Tren de Aragua.
Court papers say that D.B.U., 32, was arrested Jan. 26 at a gathering that federal drug and immigration agents have repeatedly described as a Tren de Aragua party. After his arrest, the papers say, he denied being a member of the gang and has not been charged with any crime.
Federal agents arrested R.M.M., 25, last month after they saw him standing with three other Hispanic men near their vehicles outside a residence in Colorado that was under surveillance as part of an investigation into Tren de Aragua, court papers said.
R.M.M. has claimed that he had nothing to do with the gang and had gone to the location with friends “to meet a prospective buyer for his vehicle at a public meeting,” the papers said.
President Donald Trump’s efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport scores of Venezuelan immigrants have set off one of the most contentious legal battles of his second term. It began last month, after the president invoked the act, which has been used only three times since it was passed in 1798, to authorize the deportation of people he claimed were members of Tren de Aragua.
The ACLU immediately began fighting Trump’s use of the act, which the administration has already employed to deport
more than 100 Venezuelan immigrants to the CECOT megaprison in El Salvador, known for its human rights violations.
The initial challenge by the ACLU was brought in Washington, where a federal judge, James Boasberg, issued an order to temporarily stop the deportation flights to El Salvador. Boasberg expressed concern that the immigrants who fell subject to Trump’s proclamation had no way to contest whether they were gang members in the first place.
A federal appeals court in Washington subsequently agreed with him, finding that, at this early stage, it appeared unlikely that the Alien Enemies Act could be applied as Trump was trying to use it.
Then last week, the Supreme Court weighed in, ruling that immigrants subject to deportation under the act needed to be given notice before being removed from the country so that they could challenge the process in court. But those challenges, the justices said, were required to be made in the places where the immigrants were being held.
That prompted the ACLU to scramble to locate any Venezuelans who might be subject to Trump’s proclamation. They have so far located immigrants in Texas, New York and Colorado and the lawsuits filed on their behalf were temporary measures meant to keep them in the country until the underlying legal questions involving the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act were resolved.
Mark Zuckerberg takes stand to defend Meta against antitrust suit
By CECILIA KANG, MIKE ISAAC and DAVID McCABE
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, took the witness stand Monday to defend his social media empire in a landmark antitrust trial that could dismantle a company that has transformed how the world connects online.
In a packed courthouse in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission presented Zuckerberg with a binder full of dated emails and internal communications about his acquisition strategy, pushing him to defend his words. The government has contended that Meta illegally cemented a social media monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp when they were tiny startups, combining them into the same company, which was then known as Facebook.
“I view this all as relatively early thinking,” Zuckerberg said about an email he wrote in February 2012 in which he discussed keeping Instagram going but not adding more features. “In practice, we ended up investing a ton after we acquired it.”
Zuckerberg, who was expected to resume testimony Tuesday, was the first witness in the trial, Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms. Earlier in the day, the FTC opened its first antitrust trial under the Trump administration by arguing that Meta’s acquisitions were part of a “buyor-bury strategy.” Ultimately, the purchases coalesced Meta’s power, depriving consumers of other social-networking options and edging out competition, the government said.
Meta’s lawyers denied the allegations in opening statements, countering that the company faces plenty of competition from TikTok and other social media platforms. The FTC approved the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp more than a decade ago, and trying to unwind the mergers would set a dangerous precedent, the lawyers added.
The trial poses the most consequential threat to the business empire of Zuckerberg, the company’s co-founder. If the government succeeds, the FTC is likely to ask Meta to divest Instagram and WhatsApp, potentially shifting the way Silicon Valley does business and altering a long pattern in which big tech companies have snapped up younger rivals.
Still, legal experts cautioned that it might be challenging for the FTC to win. That’s because the government must prove something unknowable — that Meta wouldn’t have achieved the same success without the acquisitions. It is also extremely rare to try to unwind mergers approved years ago, legal experts said.
“One of the most difficult things for antitrust laws to deal with is when industry leaders purchase small potential competitors,” said Gene Kimmelman, a senior official in the Obama administration’s Department of Justice. Meta “bought many things that either didn’t pan out or were integrated,” he added. “How are Instagram and WhatsApp different?”
The efforts continue a yearslong bipartisan pursuit
to curtail the vast power that a handful of tech companies have over commerce, the exchange of ideas, entertainment and political discourse. Despite attempts by tech executives to court President Donald Trump, his antitrust appointees have signaled that they will continue the course.
“For more than 100 years, American public policy has insisted firms must compete if they want to succeed,” said Daniel Matheson, the FTC’s lead litigator in the case, in his opening remarks. “The reason we are here is that Meta broke the deal.”
“They decided that competition was too hard and it would be easier to buy out their rivals than to compete with them,” he added.
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson was in the courtroom to listen to the government’s opening statement. Meta’s chief legal officer, Jennifer Newstead, and Joel Kaplan, its chief global affairs officer, also attended. Alex Schultz, Meta’s chief marketing officer, sat at the litigators’ table and will serve as the company’s executive at the trial.
Presiding over the case is Judge James Boasberg, 62, the chief judge in the federal court. He is already in the national spotlight for rejecting the Trump administration’s effort to use a powerful wartime statute to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants it deemed to be members of a violent street gang.
The FTC argued that Zuckerberg said in 2006 that Facebook was used to connect “actual friends.” The agency has argued that Meta has had a monopoly in social networking since 2011 and that Snapchat was among the only comparable platforms to Facebook and Instagram.
Zuckerberg described the social media market as much larger than how the government was defining it. Connecting friends and family is “one of the core things” the company does, he said, but Meta is also involved in “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world
and discovering what’s going on.”
Mark Hansen, Meta’s lead litigator and a partner at the law firm Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, said Meta faced competition from TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube and other platforms.
Hansen said more than half of all engagement on Facebook and Instagram involved videos, which put Meta squarely in competition with TikTok, the fast-growing short-video app. When TikTok was momentarily shut down in January, Meta saw a surge of use on Facebook and Instagram, as did Google’s YouTube, which showed the company has plenty of competition, he said.
“This case is a grab bag of FTC theories at war with fact and at war with the law,” Hansen said. “The facts are going to prove that the FTC’s theories are all wrong.”
“Meta has no monopoly,” he said.
During what is projected to be an eight-week trial, the government and Meta are expected to tell competing versions of the company’s 20-year growth story.
The FTC’s argument hinges on Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which forbids a company to maintain a monopoly through anticompetitive practices.
The FTC accused Meta of struggling to build a mobile app and fearing that Instagram would rapidly outpace it in popularity. The company overpaid when it purchased Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion, the FTC argued.
In 2014, as WhatsApp grew, Meta offered to buy the company for $19 billion — also far above its market value, the government said.
In addition to Zuckerberg, the FTC said, Sheryl Sandberg, Met’s former chief operating officer, and Kevin Systrom, a co-founder of Instagram, will testify this week.
Zuckerberg, who wore a dark suit and light blue tie, spoke slowly on the stand, appearing to grow more comfortable as he explained the mechanics of online social networks and how his company’s products had changed over the years.
The FTC is highlighting a paper trial of emails between Meta executives, alongside other evidence, to argue that the company was a monopoly and bought the startups because they were threats.
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The Meta Store in Burlingame, Calif., Jan. 7, 2025. On Monday, Meta will face off against the federal government in a landmark antitrust trial over claims that it illegally squashed competition by buying Instagram and WhatsApp. (Jason Henry/The New York Times)
Stocks
Bond strategists expect US yields to fall despite tariff turmoil
U.S. Treasury yields will fall, according to bond strategists polled by Reuters who say an economic slowdown in the wake of President Donald Trump’s erratic and sweeping tariffs on trading partners will eventually compel the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates.
Their optimism on Treasury market performance comes as inflation expectations surge, creating hesitancy among Fed policymakers on rate cuts, and as nearly half of survey respondents said they were concerned about the market’s safe-haven status.
A searing sell-off last week driven by hedge funds unwinding large leveraged bets pushed up the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield by more than 70 basis points to a near twomonth high of 4.59%.
While Trump’s surprise 90-day backtrack on reciprocal tariffs, except on China, has since calmed markets, investor sentiment has soured considerably. Some have even speculated a large-scale global exodus away from U.S. assets may already be underway.
Nearly half of strategists polled who answered an extra question, 15 of 32, said they were concerned about the safehaven status of U.S. Treasuries. That compares with slightly more than one-third of FX analysts with similar worries about the dollar in a Reuters poll conducted two weeks ago.
Despite robust demand in a 10-year Treasury auction last week, several major U.S. sell-side banks have sounded similar alarms in their recent market commentary.
“The dramatic swings (last) week revealed cracks in the Treasury market that may remain visible for some time,” Goldman Sachs strategists wrote in a recent note.
Still, more than 50 bond strategists in an April 10-15 Reuters poll predicted the 10-year yield, currently around 4.38%, would decline to a median 4.21% by the end of June before falling to 4.14% in a year. Forecasts for the 12-month horizon ranged from 3.40% to 5.00%.
Treasury market volatility, measured by the widely regarded MOVE index, shot to an 18-month peak last week and is still more than 50% higher than its long-term average.
“This week, it’s my hope, without a lot of confidence, realized volatility comes down a little bit and the intermediate to longer-term themes of disinflation and slowing economic growth in the U.S. start to take hold and pull longer-term yields lower,” said Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.
“That said, I have much more confidence in an intermediate-term view which is towards lower yields than I do in a
short-term view, which seems to be dominated by overextended positioning,” LeBas added.
Fuelled by tariffs, consumer inflation expectations have hit their highest in more than 40 years which has effectively tied the Fed’s hands. Several officials have advocated for a pause in monetary policy moves until the economic outlook becomes clearer.
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Bond market strategists appear a little more cautious60% of those polled, 18 of 30, said risks to their U.S. 10-year yield forecasts were tilted to the upside.
“The tariffs are likely to bring inflation (and) that’s making the Fed reticent to cut rates,” said Robert Tipp, chief investment strategist at PGIM Fixed Income.
“Slower growth makes a bad fiscal situation worse, plus the federal government is possibly going to change the rules on budgets and allow for current policy to be taken as the baseline. And that could allow for a more lenient budgeting process. All said, this would add a bit of an upward bias to rates.”
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By ANDREW E. KRAMER and MARIA VARENIKOVA
Agigantic, roiling cloud of black smoke swirled up from a parking lot of burning cars, as residents milled about on a sidewalk in distress, and police and fire vehicles careened past. Then the scene became more chaotic.
“Shelter! shelter!” a police officer yelled. A thin, buzzing noise, like a chain saw running in the distance, wafted down from the sky. Another Russian exploding drone, like the one that had just hit the parking lot, was flying overhead. People ran for cover.
“It’s like this every day,” said Mayor Artem Kobzar, who had been visiting the site in Sumy, Ukraine, and dashed into the open doorway of an apartment building. “Everybody in Ukraine wants peace,” he said. “But you see, in Sumy, we don’t have a day or night of calm.”
That bombardment came Monday, a day after two ballistic missiles struck a central neighborhood of the city on Palm Sunday shortly after 10 a.m., killing 34 civilians, including two children, and wounding another 117, according to the Sumy City Council. Russia said it had struck a military target; a Ukrainian regional governor said a military awards ceremony had taken place in the city that day.
The Palm Sunday bombardment came more than two months after President Donald Trump started ceasefire talks with a phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin. And in recent days it has become an argument in Ukraine and elsewhere that those talks are failing. In Sumy, the attack has set off preparation for a possible new Russian ground assault in this region.
Last month, Trump briefly halted military and intelligence aid to pressure Ukraine into the ceasefire talks while seeking to bring Russia to an agreement with incentives of renewed economic cooperation. Ukraine has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire while Russia is bargaining for sanctions relief and other concessions.
In remarks in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump blamed the war on former President Joe Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Putin. The war would not have begun, he said, “if Biden were competent, and if Zelenskyy were competent, and I don’t know that he is.”
“We had a rough session with this guy,” he added. “He just kept asking for more and more.”
Of the ceasefire talks, he said, “I want to stop the killing, and I think we’re doing well in that regard.”
European leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron flatly condemned the civilian deaths in the Sumy strike. Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, called the attack a “horrible thing.”
He also said, “I was told they made a mistake.” Zelenskyy has pointed to the loss of life as proof that Russia is not serious about peace negotiations.
“Thirty-four days ago, Ukraine responded positively to the U.S. proposal for a full and unconditional ceasefire,” Zelenskyy said Monday. Russia, he said, “remains focused on continuing the war.”
Ukraine is reporting a rise in drone strikes across the country, and Sumy is particularly on edge — and disillusioned in settlement negotiations. The feeling of living under barrage in this city — a picturesque jumble of hundredsof-years-old churches and apartment blocks along leafy avenues — is of fear, ceaseless tension and frayed nerves. Every week, one building or another is blown to smithereens from a bolt out of the sky.
The city, in northeastern Ukraine, is both near the border and a hub of Ukrainian military activity, and lies under routes flown
by exploding drones heading deeper into Ukraine. The rattle of their engines in the sky is daily and nightly backdrop to life here. Few believe in a ceasefire.
Out on the streets Monday, at the site of the Palm Sunday attack, a backhoe scraped layers of debris from a collapsed building, as rescuers looked for additional victims, stirring clouds of dust. Threats of air attacks repeatedly disrupted the cleanup work in the area, a sprawl of burned cars and splays of brick on the sidewalks. Mourners walked over tinkling shards of broken glass and bloodstains on the pavement to lay flowers on a memorial.
Few here saw the mistake that Trump referred to, given that two ballistic missiles were fired.
The missiles streaked in about three minutes apart, in apparent coordination for a socalled double-tap strike. The tactic of firing two munitions in succession at the same target can be intended to hit emergency medical
workers or people staggering out of rubble, maximizing casualties.
Double taps are horrifying experiences for those caught in them.
On Sunday, amid the dust and shrieking car alarms after the first strike, Viktoria Rudyka, 37, knelt on the sidewalk pressing her hands on a hole in the chest of her 6-year-old daughter, Elina, she said in an interview Tuesday. Like others tending to those wounded, she could not run from the scene. A passing car screeched to a stop, she said, and loaded mother and daughter to take them to the hospital — just on time, as the second tap hit and rained debris over the scene, with rubble bouncing off the car roof. Doctors removed a metallic shard from the girl’s lung.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Sunday’s strike hit a meeting of Ukrainian and Western military officials. The governor of the Sumy region, Volodymyr Artyukh, said he had participated in a ceremony awarding honors to soldiers Sunday. That suggested a possible target for the strike, despite the crowds of civilians nearby. On Tuesday, Zelenskyy’s political party said the government had dismissed Artyukh, but did not clarify why. Ukraine’s general staff headquarters said Tuesday that it had retaliated for the Palm Sunday attack with a strike on the Russian headquarters of the unit it said had launched the missiles. The strike could not be independently confirmed.
On Monday, four employees of a Sumy coffee shop called Be Happy walked together to lay pink and white roses on a pile of bouquets amid the debris of the Palm Sunday strike site, where a cook and a pastry chef had been killed. The group cried and hugged one another.
There are no signs of a ceasefire in Sumy, said Diana Khaitova, 22, a server, who on the day of the strike found the bodies of her dead colleagues lying on a street. People in the city, she said, “are just always afraid.”
A small city that lost big in the Dominican nightclub tragedy
By FRANCES ROBLES
Half the board of directors of a seniors club perished, as did the president of the Lion’s Club, a high school teacher and the owner of a trucking company. Tony Blanco, a retired Major League Baseball player who died in the disaster, was a native son.
So was Rubby Pérez, the merengue singer whose concert drew more than 400 people — many from his hometown.
In the wake of a nightclub roof collapse that killed hundreds of people, the Dominican Republic is brimming in grief. That heartbreak is perhaps most palpable in Haina, an industrial city outside the capital that lost more than two dozen people in the tragedy, including community leaders and cultural heroes.
A gritty municipality best known for its bustling seaport and a legacy of lead pollution that once gave it the unwelcome moniker “the Dominican Chernobyl” now has another undesirable distinction. When the roof of the Jet Set disco came crashing down last Tuesday morning, killing 226 people, it dealt a heavy blow to the small city.
Twenty-five people from there were among those who died.
“God has a way of communicating with us, and sometimes it is difficult to understand,” former Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz, better known as Big Papi, said Sunday. Ortiz used to live in Haina, and traveled there to help bury its dead.
Joined by President Luis Abinader, dozens of residents gathered in a sweltering gym to say goodbye. They clutched white roses and tried through tears to understand how a single town could lose so many people. Some wondered aloud how they would ever manage to laugh and sing again.
A photo slideshow of the victims flashed on two large screens while an evangelical pastor and a Catholic priest offered consoling words.
Singer Joselito Trinidad performed stirring ballad renditions of “Looking For Your Kisses” and “I Will Return,” two of Pérez’s
merengue songs. He sang in the high pitch that Pérez, known as the “highest voice in merengue,” was famous for.
“We are a people who have known how to unite through thick and thin, and this is no exception,” he said before singing. “As a native Hainero, I raise my voice so that we remember that voice that took wings and went to a better place.”
In the gym, many bleacher seats remained empty: People around town were busy attending funerals.
When the service ended, one woman ran after the president’s entourage sobbing and demanding accountability.
“Oh, my beautiful friend, there’s no one like her anymore!” cried Kirsis Bautista, whose friend, Juana Vásquez, died in the disaster. “Mr. President, justice! Let me see Luis Abinader and say: ‘justice!’”
Pérez, 69, was a well-known merengue artist and a member of the Golden Haineros, a private social club for people over 55 to gather and attend educational workshops. The club’s 143 members were also his fans, so 25 of them made the half-hour trip to Santo Domingo to watch him perform at Jet Set.
Only 12 made it out.
The organization’s vice president died, as did the treasurer and event planner.
“The first thing I said when I heard about what happened was that I was going to quit,” said Hectór Rincón, the club’s president. “People told me, ‘no, we have to find the strength to keep this going in honor of those who died.’”
The seniors rent a space above a nightclub called the House of the Drunk, where they play dominoes and throw birthday parties, adhering to strict rules: no talk of politics, religion or sports.
On Sunday morning before the service, the club was still decorated in balloons and birthday banners from the last celebration, but a large black ribbon on the front door gave away
that something terrible had happened. The mood was grim among a handful of members, gathered before yet another funeral.
Now instead of organizing jewelry-making workshops, Rincón is looking for psychologists to help survivors. “This is like a war,” he said. “When you come back from war, you are not the same.”
Rincón grew up with Pérez, and they sang in a choir together as teenagers.
“Haina was his everything,” Rincón said.
He tried to share more fond memories of his friend. Tears got in the way, so he talked instead about the town’s industrial history.
Haina’s official name, which nobody uses, is Bajos de Haina, or the Haina Lowlands. Home to about 158,000 people, it is about 8 miles west of Santo Domingo.
The country’s only oil refinery is here, and its port moves more than one-third of the country’s maritime cargo.
Rincón recalled its heyday, when a sugar mill and other factories churned out engineers, mechanics and workers in other skilled trades. Those businesses are gone now.
“This was a town of migrants — mostly miners and agricultural workers,” said Jesús Ramírez, a member of the Lions Club, which lost three members. “And it turned out some of the country’s best sports players and artists.”
The Lion’s Club will particularly miss its president, Luis Emilio Guillén, who was also vice president of the seniors’ club. A former soccer player who owned a trophy company, he was known for attending every cultural and sports event.
“We are going to continue the work he was doing in sports and culture,” said Margarita Tejeda, who represents Haina in Congress and is a Lion’s Club member. “This is a collective pain. Everyone is in a lot of pain.”
Héctor Rincón, president of Haineros Dorados, a social club for seniors, in Haina, Dominican Republic, on Sunday, April 13, 2025. Haina, a city just outside the Dominican capital, lost 25 people in the Jet Set disaster, including community leaders and cultural icons. (Frances Robles/The New York Times)
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Harvard’s decision was the only decision
By M. GESSEN
The world’s most famous university has done the right thing, and this is major news. It shouldn’t be. But less than three months into the second Trump administration, we are surprised by simple dignity. Capitulation would have garnered smaller headlines.
On Friday, the Trump administration sent a five-page letter to Harvard accusing the university of failing “to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment.” The letter demanded that the university change its governance structure; overhaul its admissions policies; submit to an external audit of the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Divinity School and several other programs that the letter claimed have “egregious records of antisemitism or other bias”; revamp student-discipline procedures; “end support” and withdraw university recognition of several pro-Palestinian student groups and the National Lawyers Guild; and commit to a process of reform running “at least until the end of 2028,” during which the university would submit quarterly reports on its compliance with the government’s demands. In the manner of a racketeer, the letter implied, without quite spelling it out, that if the university failed to comply, it would lose its federal funding.
The letter came from the Education Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration. These are all agencies that can have a role in overseeing the university. Laws and rules exist for such
oversight. They involve negotiations, investigations and, when it comes to federal funding, congressional procedures, complete with periods of public notice. This process is complicated by design — a design intended to protect universities from capricious, politically motivated meddling and to make the withdrawal of federal funding an option of last resort.
But the Trump administration pulls funds first and negotiates second, dispensing with the rest of the process. Its first target was Columbia University. When that school acceded to the administration’s demands, it didn’t get its funding back. Instead, the administration is reportedly considering demanding that Columbia agree to direct government oversight — effectively, a takeover of the university.
Harvard chose a different response from Columbia’s. On Monday, its lawyers sent a letter to the administration pointing out that the administration was in violation of the law. “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” the letter said. “Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms.”
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of the law — or the logic of academic freedom or the logic of democracy. And yet, the Harvard lawyers’ letter sent waves of excitement through academic circles. This is a measure of how low, and how fast, our expectations have fallen.
One of the people who seemed surprised was Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican and the self-appointed gendarme of higher education who issued a statement declaring Harvard the “epitome of the moral and academic rot in higher education.”
Trump administration officials, on Monday evening, promptly announced what they had suggested: that they will freeze $2.2 billion in multiyear grants.
Still, one hopes that other universities that find themselves in the administration’s crosshairs — and there are many of them now — follow Harvard’s example and make self-respect, and respect for the law, unsurprising again.
A coda on Syria’s chemical weapons
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t’s been nearly 12 years since Barack Obama made what was arguably the most consequential foreign policy decision of his presidency: Rather than order airstrikes on Syria after Bashar Assad killed hundreds of people with sarin gas, which the president had said would be a “red line,” Obama agreed to a Russian plan to arrange for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW, to remove and dispose of those weapons.
Critics of the decision, including me, charged that Obama (and the isolationist Republicans who implicitly agreed with him) had shown America was a paper tiger whose threats would not be taken seriously by other dictators — including Vladimir Putin, who seized Crimea a few months later. But supporters crowed that diplomacy had achieved what military force could not.
“We struck a deal where we got 100% of the chemical weapons out,” John Kerry, the then-secretary of state, boasted on NBC the following summer.
Or not. Long before Assad was overthrown, there was extensive reporting that, true to the habit of most dictators, he had lied to the inspectors and surrendered only a fraction of his chemical weapons — a point demonstrated when Assad kept using them. Yet, aside from a limited U.S. strike ordered by Donald Trump in 2017, there were no consequences to the dictator for his cheating. Indeed,
shortly before his unexpected ouster late last year, part of the world was moving toward renormalizing ties with his regime.
Now comes news of just how extensive Assad’s cheating seems to have been. Reporting from Damascus, The New York Times’ Megha Rajagopalan found that, according to the OPCW, “more than 100 chemical weapons sites are suspected to remain in Syria,” information that’s especially terrifying given the possibility that some of stockpiles could fall into terrorist hands. To its credit, the new government, whose leaders were once linked to al-Qaida, promised the OPCW that it would destroy the remaining chemical stocks. Whether they make good on the promise remains to be seen.
The world is now approaching a similar crisis when it comes to Iran’s growing stockpiles of a different kind of dangerous substance: enriched uranium. Trump has warned Tehran that he’s prepared to use military force to end the regime’s nuclear bids, while also saying he prefers a deal. So far, the administration is demanding direct talks, while Iran prefers indirect talks of the sort it conducted, to no effect, with the Biden administration.
However it turns out, the Trump administration should bear in mind the costs of the diplomacy that yielded the Obama team its fake victory back in 2013: years of additional depredations by the Syrian regime and an American president who looked, to America’s enemies, like a pushover and a sucker. Whatever else Trump might want, surely that wouldn’t be a reputation he’d relish for himself.
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SAN JUAN – La Asociación de Alcaldes de Puerto Rico informó el martes de los actos fúnebres del exalcalde de Guayanilla, Prof. Edgardo Arlequín Vélez, quien falleció el domingo. La familia confió a la Funeraria Báez Memorial los actos, iniciando hoy miércoles, 16 de abril de 2025, a partir de las 4:00 de la tarde.
Este jueves, 17 de abril, sus restos serán expuestos en la Escuela del Deporte de Guayanilla, a las 3:00 de la tarde, con responso a las 3:30. Para las 4:40 de
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la tarde, se ha programado un homenaje por parte de la Orquesta Son de Salsa, toda vez que el fenecido líder político además fue un destacado maestro de música.
A las 6:00 de la tarde habrá una guardia de honor con los mensajes oficiales y de los exalumnos de la Banda Escolarizado de Guayanilla. Finalmente, este viernes, 18 de abril, a las 10:00 de la mañana saldrá la comitiva fúnebre desde Báez Memorial hasta Cementerio Los Pinos. En el camposanto estará la Banda Escolar de Guayanilla para presentar sus respetos a Arlequín Vélez, familia y amigos.
de 280 mil dólares en ayudas de renta por COVID
claraciones escritas.
SAN JUAN – El administrador de la Administración de Vivienda Pública, Juan Rosario Hernández, informó el lunes el desembolso de más de 280 mil dólares en ayudas del programa Covid Renta a residentes de vivienda pública y ciudadanos con deudas por servicios esenciales.
“Nos mantenemos dando seguimiento al programa de Covid Renta para que cada beneficiario reciba los fondos que le corresponden”, señaló Rosario Hernández en de-
Del total, 248,041 dólares con 12 centavos se distribuyeron entre 334 residentes de vivienda pública para cubrir deudas de arrendamiento. Además, se desembolsaron 18,664 dólares para ciudadanos con renta privada pendiente, y 9,181 dólares con 41 centavos para deudas con la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados.
Otros 5,323 dólares con 40 centavos fueron destinados al pago de deudas con la empresa Luma Energy, según detalló la AVP.
Clínicas Externas del Centro Médico cerrarán jueves y viernes
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SAN JUAN – La Administración de Servicios Médicos (ASEM) informó a principios de esta semana que las Clínicas Externas del Centro Médico operarán en horario regular hasta el miércoles y permanecerán cerradas el jueves y viernes de Semana Santa. “Estos días, en los que muchas per-
sonas tienen algo más de tiempo libre, se convierten en una oportunidad para donar sangre y ayudar a quienes más lo necesitan y sin necesidad de cita previa”, dijo el director ejecutivo de ASEM, Regino Colón Alsina, en declaraciones escritas.
El Banco de Sangre cerrará únicamente el viernes. El resto de la semana atenderá en horario de 8:00 de la mañana a 2:00 de la tarde, de lunes a sábado. Para más información, las personas pueden comunicarse al 787-7773844 o escribir al correo infobancosangre@asem.pr.gov.
La Sala de Emergencias del Centro Médico operará de manera ininterrumpida durante toda la Semana Santa, con servicios disponibles las 24 horas del día, los siete días de la semana.
El director de Servicios Médicos, Israel Ayala Oliveras, exhortó a la ciu-
dadanía a tomar precauciones si visitan playas, ríos o piscinas, y al utilizar gas
propano durante actividades familiares para evitar accidentes.
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Alex Garland pairs with a veteran to engage in realistic ‘Warfare’
By MARC TRACY
The climactic sequence in last year’s “Civil War,” a movie about an imagined military conflict in the United States, was unusual — and not only because it depicted insurgents storming the White House, breaching the Oval Office and assassinating the president.
It was also action shown in a way that films do not often depict. The gun-toting fighters communicate constantly about needing to reload. They awkwardly trade off shooting down hallways. Their rhythm is observably different from what moviegoers are used to.
The movie’s writer and director, Alex Garland, whose previous work includes “Ex Machina” and “Annihilation,” had given the scene’s reins to Ray Mendoza, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Iraq War turned Hollywood military consultant. Mendoza had used combat veterans as extras.
“When you saw veterans, in effect, directed by a veteran, something came out of it, which was something that I hadn’t really seen in cinema,” Garland said in a recent interview.
It gave Garland an idea. What if, he proposed to Mendoza late into the postproduction of “Civil War,” the two men made a film together, this one entirely depicting combat without typical cinematic trappings like compressed time, character study or traditional plot structure? What if the movie were just 90 minutes of war?
“Warfare” (in theaters), written and directed by Garland and Mendoza, is the realization of Garland’s ascetic thought experiment. It depicts a real incident that took place in November 2006 in Ramadi, Iraq, a little west of Baghdad, the day after Mendoza’s platoon of SEALs had taken over a private house in the night to surveil the area. Fighters from the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida shot at them, tossed a grenade into the house and detonated a roadside bomb as the SEALs attempted to evacuate
urinate into empty water bottles. They accidentally leave things behind. They run out of dip.
When the violence comes, there is no warning — no camera angles, edits or soundtrack that might cue the viewer. After a large explosion, there is an eerie silence that reflects the experience of its victims.
“It’s memory-based, and it’s subjective,” Garland said.
“I don’t think we can say everything you see is true,” he added, “but what we can say is everything here is honest.”
To play the SEALs, Garland and Mendoza cast several of this moment’s most buzzedabout young actors: Cosmo Jarvis (FX’s “Shogun”), Charles Melton (The CW’s “Riverdale,” Todd Haynes’ “May December”), Kit Connor (Netflix’s “Heartstopper”), Will Poulter (FX’s “The Bear,” Hulu’s “Dopesick”), Noah Centineo (Netflix’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”) and Michael Gandolfini (who plays Tony Soprano, the role immortalized by his father, James, in “The Many Saints of Newark”). Mendoza is played by D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, nominated for an Emmy for his lead role on FX’s “Reservation Dogs.”
The actors underwent an abbreviated Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL course and weapons training. They spoke to people who knew the men they were playing and, in some cases, the men themselves.
Jarvis, who plays wounded sniper Elliott Miller — to whom the film is dedicated — spoke to Miller’s father before meeting Miller on the set, a Ramadi streetscape re-created on a former airfield outside London.
“When he did show up, it was pretty profound,” Jarvis said on a video call.
a wounded member — an exceptionally intense hour and change.
The script was sourced entirely from Mendoza and others’ memories. They insisted as a rule that, as the film’s tagline has it, “everything is based on memory.”
Mendoza had come to trust Garland for retaining in the final cut of “Civil War” so many of the realistic tics he had installed — things “nobody else had really noticed,” Mendoza said in a joint interview with Garland over Zoom, referring to other filmmakers he has worked with. “And the ones that did notice it, they didn’t choose to put it in the movie.”
“Warfare” is credibly an attempt to depict its titular human activity as it is really experienced. Absent are expository dialogue, discussions about the U.S. military’s aspirations, monologues about life back home. Instead the SEALs jot down notes of what they see outside the house. They
“I find a lot of specialized professions fascinating,” Jarvis added, “but this one is unique, because the stakes can be the ultimate stakes. That’s something that as a civilian it’s hard to get your head around. We just don’t have the understanding these guys have.”
Seeing the incident — much of which Miller is unable to recall — brought to life moved Mendoza to tears. For viewers sitting in comfortable theaters far from the world’s battlefields, Garland hopes the film’s fidelity to the platoon’s testimonies earns it credibility, even when some illustrative and true stories did not make the final cut because they did not occur within the precise time period the film captures.
“You have some faith, which is, if we stick to our rule, we lose this, but something else comes,” Garland said. “What comes is the audience’s trust that what they are seeing is something that does not have an agenda floating around it. It is just a faithful attempt.”
Alex Garland (left) and Ray Mendoza, who worked together on Garland’s latest movie “Warfare” at the A24 office in New York, April 7, 2025. The filmmaker directed his latest picture with Mendoza, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Iraq War. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
In re: THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR PUERTO RICO, as representative of THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, et al. Debtors.
Notice oF SettLeMeNt oFFeR
PROMESA
Title III No. 17 BK 3283-LTS (Jointly Administered)
ThIS NOTICE RElATES TO (I) EACh MEMBER OF A FAMIlY UNIT (EACh INDIVIDUAllY A “ClAIMANT” AND TOGEThER “ClAIMANTS”), WhICh, FOR PURPOSES OF ThE SPECIAl EDUCATION ClAIM PROCEDURES, ShAll INClUDE (A) ChIlDREN WhO WERE STUDENTS ENTITlED TO RECEIVE SPECIAl EDUCATION SERVICES FROM ThE DOE, BUT CONTEND ThEY DID NOT RECEIVE SUCh ADEQUATE SPECIAl EDUCATION SERVICES DURING ThE PERIOD UP TO AND INClUDING OCTOBER 31, 2016 (“ChIlDREN”) AND (B) lEGAl GUARDIANS, INClUDING, BUT NOT lIMITED TO, MOThERS, FAThERS AND CARETAKERS OF SUCh STUDENTS WhO WERE ENTITlED TO RECEIVE SPECIAl EDUCATION SERVICES FROM ThE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DURING ThE PERIOD UP TO AND INClUDING OCTOBER 31, 2016 (“lEGAl GUARDIANS” AND TOGEThER WITh ChIlDREN, A “FAMIlY”), WhO TIMElY AND APPROPRIATElY FIlED PROOFS OF ClAIM IN ThE TITlE III CASE OF ThE COMMONWEAlTh (ThE “COMMONWEAlTh’S TITlE III CASE”), EIThER ThROUGh ClAIMS FIlED ON ThEIR OWN BEhAlF, OR ThROUGh ClAIMS FIlED BY ThEIR RESPECTIVE COUNSEl, WhICh REMAIN PENDING FOR RESOlUTION BEFORE ThE TITlE III COURT, AND (II) ARE A PARTY TO ThE CIVIl lITIGATION CAPTIONED Rosa Lydia VéLez and otheRs V depaRtment of education, CIVIl CASE NO. KPE-1980-1738 (ThE “SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATION”), PENDING BEFORE ThE SUPERIOR COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF SAN JUAN (ThE “COMMONWEAlTh COURT”), OR TO ONE OF SEVERAl lITIGATIONS ThAT WERE CONSOlIDATED WITh ThE SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATION (ThE “CONSOlIDATED SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATIONS”).
ThE DEADlINE TO RESPOND (“RESPONSE”) TO ThIS NOTICE IS JUNE 3, 2025 (ThE “SUBMISSION DEADlINE”). IF YOU FIlED A PROOF OF ClAIM IN CONNECTION WITh ThE SPECIAl EDUCATION lITIGATION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE, YOU ShOUlD READ ThIS NOTICE CAREFUllY AND DISCUSS IT WITh YOUR ATTORNEY. IF YOU DO NOT hAVE AN ATTORNEY, YOU MAY WISh TO CONSUlT ONE.
If you have any questions, please contact Kroll by emailing puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com or by phone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available).
On January 18, 2022, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico entered an order [Docket Entry No. 17639] (the “Confirmation Order”) confirming the Modified Eighth Amended Title III Joint Plan of Adjustment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et. al., dated January 14, 2022 [Docket Entry No. 19784] (as may be amended or modified, the “Plan”).1 The “Effective Date” of the Plan occurred on March 15, 2022.
Pursuant to the Order Granting Motion of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for an Order, Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 105 and Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure Rule 2002, Regarding Notice Procedures in Connection with Proposed Special Education Settlement [Docket Entry No. 28846, the “Order”], dated February 10, 2025, the Court established certain procedures (collectively, the “Special Education Claim Procedures”), for the purpose of disseminating a proposed settlement offer (the “Settlement Offer”) to each Family who timely and appropriately filed a proof of claim in connection with the Special Education Litigation and soliciting responses in furtherance of the Commonwealth claims reconciliation process, as described in further detail below.
IF YOU FAIl TO RESPOND IN ACCORDANCE WITh ThIS NOTICE OR IF YOUR FAMIlY REJECTS ThE SETTlEMENT OFFER, ThE DEBTOR MAY OBJECT TO YOUR PROOF OF ClAIM PURSUANT TO ThE PROCEDURES ESTABlIShED FOR ThE COMMONWEAlTh TITlE III ClAIMS RECONCIlIATION PROCESS.
The Commonwealth offers the following Settlement Offer proposed below to (i) each Family who timely and appropriately filed a proof of claim in the Commonwealth’s Title III Case, either through claims filed on their own behalf, or through claims filed by their respective counsel, which remain pending for resolution before the Title III Court and (ii) are a party to the Special Education Litigation or the Consolidated Special Education Litigations. The Commonwealth is prepared to offer a specific amount to settle such proofs of claim, instead of continuing to litigate such proofs of claim or otherwise seeking to resolve such claims through the Commonwealth’s claims reconciliation process. This Notice includes the Debtor’s settlement offer below.
This Notice does not relate to any and every proof of claim that was filed in the Commonwealth Title III Case relating to liabilities associated with the provision of special education services in Puerto Rico. The group of claimants entitled to the Settlement Offer does not include the additional proofs of claim filed in the Commonwealth’s Title III Case asserting liabilities relating to special education services, filed apart from the Special Education litigation and Consolidated Special Education litigations. If your claim(s) was/were filed asserting liabilities associated with the special education services, but you were not a party to the Special Education litigation or the Consolidated Special Education litigations, your claim will not be affected by this notice, and your claim will be reconciled in accordance with the established procedures for the Commonwealth Title III claims reconciliation process.
A Settlement Offer is included below. Pursuant to the Special Education Claim Procedures, if your counsel filed a proof of claim on your behalf or otherwise appeared on your behalf in the Commonwealth’s Title III Case, the Settlement Offer was distributed to your counsel. To the extent you are represented by counsel, you should review the Settlement Offer with your counsel. Each member of each Family associated with the Special Education Claim must respond to the Settlement Offer by either accepting or rejecting the Settlement Offer. If you do not agree to the option selected by the other members of your Family, you will be deemed to have rejected the Settlement Offer and you will not be entitled to share in any of the recovery from the Settlement Offer for your Family. For the avoidance of doubt, unanimous acceptance of the Settlement Offer by all Claimants in a Family is not required. Each Claimant in a Family who chooses to accept the Settlement Offer will receive their pro rata share of the distribution in connection with the Settlement Offer. Any Claimant in a Family who chooses to reject the Settlement Offer will forgo their ability to share pro rata in the distribution in connection with the Settlement Offer, and instead, will retain their right to pursue their claim in connection with the Commonwealth’s claims reconciliation process.
The Commonwealth has reviewed and identified the proofs of claim entitled to the Settlement Offer and offers the amount(s) set forth below. Please note that the amount of the Settlement Offer and any amount you may agree to may NOT be the amount you will actually receive pursuant to the Plan. It is possible that the amount you will be paid under the Plan on account of your claim may be less than, and may only be a fraction of, the liquidated amount of your claim.
You Must Submit a Response to the Notice. If you do not return a Response with the requested information and a Permitted Response (as defined below) to the Settlement Offer in the manner prescribed in the procedures below, so that it is received by the deadline to respond, your Response will not be counted and your claim will be handled pursuant to the procedures established for the Commonwealth’s Title III claims reconciliation process.
Settlement Offer
Eligible Parties. The Commonwealth offers the following Settlement Offer proposed below to (i) each Family who timely and appropriately filed a proof of claim in the Commonwealth’s Title III Case, either through claims filed on their own behalf, or through claims filed by their respective counsel, which remain pending for resolution before the Title III Court and (ii) are a party to the Special Education Litigation or the Consolidated Special Education Litigations. Settlement Terms. Each Family, who properly and timely filed a proof of claim in the Commonwealth Title III Case on their own behalf, or through claims filed by their respective counsel, asserting liabilities in connection with the Special Education Litigation, shall be granted an allowed claim collectively against the Commonwealth in the amount of $25,000.00, which such allowed claim will be treated in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Plan. Each Family will be granted an allowed claim in the amount of $25,000.00 collectively, with such amount to be distributed pro rata amongst the members of the Family associated with the relevant Special Education Claim and who accept the Settlement Offer. The Settlement Offer amount is not proposed on an individual basis to
each member in the Family associated with the relevant Special Education Claim. Please note that the amount your Family will actually receive may NOT equal $25,000.00, because pursuant to the Plan, each Family will be treated as a holder of an allowed general unsecured claim, held against the Commonwealth, in Class 58 (CW General Unsecured Claims) and be entitled to recover its pro rata share of the CW GUC Recovery up to the GUC Recovery Cap. See Plan §§ 1.181, 1.261, 1.285, 62.1.
Based upon the projected allowed amount of general unsecured claims, the Commonwealth estimates you will receive approximately 20.4% of your allowed general unsecured claim. See Disclosure Statement for the Seventh Amended Title III Joint Plan of Adjustment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, et al. at 474-475 [ECF No. 17628] (the “Commonwealth Disclosure Statement”). The approximate 20.4% estimated recovery of your allowed general unsecured claim is the Commonwealth’s reasonable best estimate of the percentage return that will be paid to you if you accept the Settlement Offer. The amount you will actually receive could vary from the Commonwealth’s 20.4% estimated recovery, either in a higher or lower amount. Over 119,364 claims, representing approximately $33.37 trillion in asserted claim amounts have been filed against the Commonwealth in the Commonwealth’s Title III Case. While the Commonwealth has been working diligently to reconcile such claims as expeditiously as possible, thousands of general unsecured claims remain to be reconciled. The final percentage recovery each general unsecured creditor will receive will not be known until substantially all general unsecured claims have been reconciled. Given this, the reserve necessary to account for certain still-pending claims is very significant and the Commonwealth will be unable to determine the amount you as a creditor will actually recover until the claims reconciliation process has concluded. Thus, the Commonwealth’s reasonable best estimate of approximate recovery of your allowed general unsecured claim is approximately 20.4% of the $25,000.00 offered.
To the extent Claimants may have outstanding monetary obligations with their respective counsel, the Settlement Offer may be subject to reduction by any amounts Claimants may owe to their respective counsel. It is the sole responsibility of the Claimants and their respective counsel to determine the distribution and any amount of attorneys’ fees that may be owed. The Commonwealth distributed the Settlement Offer, but the Commonwealth expresses no opinion on the requirement or accuracy of any amounts required to be paid to Claimant’s counsel. Distributions made in connection with the Settlement Offer will be made in accordance with the Plan and the file stamped Proof of Claim forms that were submitted by the claimants or on behalf of such claimants.
Please note that the Court has approved the distribution of this Notice, but expresses no opinion as to the contents of the Settlement Offer or the accuracy of the Commonwealth’s representation of the approximate estimated recovery you will receive in respect of your allowed general unsecured claim, in the event you choose to accept the Settlement Offer.
For the avoidance of doubt, unanimous acceptance of the Settlement Offer by all Claimants in a Family is not required.
By agreeing to accept the $25,000.00 allowed claim, you agree to release the Commonwealth, including its agencies, related entities constituting the central government, as listed at ECF No. 2828, and its covered territorial instrumentalities, approved by the Oversight Board at its September 30, 2016 meeting (ECF No. 1299-15 in Case No. 17-3567), together with their respective current or former board members, directors, principals, agents, officers, employees, advisors and professionals, from any claim or cause of action, whether known, unknown, asserted or assertable directly or derivatively, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, in law, equity or otherwise, and whether asserted or unasserted, that arose, in whole or in part, prior to the Plan Effective Date, including, without limitation, claims arising from or relating to the Special Education Litigation.
If you choose to reject the $25,000.00 allowed claim, you forego the right to share pro rata in the recovery for your Family’s allowed general unsecured claim of $25,000.00 against the Commonwealth, and instead, will retain your right to pursue your claim in connection with the Commonwealth’s claims reconciliation process.
The only permitted responses (“Permitted Responses”) to the Settlement Offer are: (a) acceptance of the Settlement Offer, or (b) rejection of the Settlement Offer.
Where and how to Submit Response to Settlement Offer
You must submit your Response in the manner prescribed by the procedures below with a Permitted Response to the Settlement Offer by no later than the Submission Deadline listed above.
Obtaining a Response Form. A Response form to respond to this Notice is available on the Debtor’s restructuring website. Please follow the instructions below to obtain the Response form:
1. Access the Debtor’s restructuring website at https://cases.ra.kroll.com/puertorico
2. Under the section, “Special Education Settlement Offer,” a link is available after the language: “To obtain a copy of the Notice of the Settlement Offer.” The link is titled, “click here.”
3. If you have any questions or are unable to obtain a copy of the Response form, please contact Kroll by emailing puertoricoinfo@ ra.kroll.com or by phone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available) to request a Response form.
Submitting Your Response. Upon completion, every Response to the Settlement Offer should be submitted to Kroll. There are two methods that you can use to submit your Response to the Settlement Offer:
1. Online Portal. To submit a Response electronically, you must complete and submit your Response to the Settlement Offer through Kroll’s dedicated, online portal (the “Online Portal”). To submit a Response through the Online Portal, access the Debtor’s restructuring website at https://cases.ra.kroll.com/puertorico, click on the “Settlement Offer” section of the website on the left-hand navigation panel and follow the instructions to submit your Response. You will need your Unique ID# provided to you in your individualized Notice of Settlement Offer.
To the extent you have not received a Unique ID# from Kroll, please contact Kroll by emailing puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com or by phone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available) to retrieve your Unique ID#.
2. By Mail. To submit a Response by mail, you must complete and mail your Response to the Settlement Offer to Kroll in the return envelope provided or otherwise by regular mail, overnight courier, or hand delivery to the following address: PUERTO RICO SETTlEMENT OFFER PROCESSING C/O KROll RESTRUCTURING ADMINISTRATION llC (F/K/A PRIME ClERK llC) 850 ThIRD AVENUE, SUITE 412 BROOKlYN, NY 11232.
To arrange for hand delivery of a Response, please send an email to puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com (with “Puerto Rico Response to Settlement Offer” in the subject line) at least 24 hours before your arrival at the address above and provide the expected date and time of your delivery.
You must deliver your Response to the Settlement Offer in the manner described above. If you are submitting the Response using the Online Portal you should NOT also submit a paper copy of the Response.
The Online Portal is the sole manner in which Responses will be accepted by electronic or online transmission. Responses submitted by facsimile, email, or other means of electronic transmission will not be counted. Further, as provided for in the Special Education Claims Procedures, counsel representing one hundred (100) or more Claimants have the option to submit a Master Response in lieu of submitting Responses through Kroll’s Online Portal or via mail or hand-delivery in accordance with the Special Education Claims Procedures.
The Response must actually be received by Kroll by no later than the Submission Deadline.
IF YOU FAIl TO RESPOND IN ACCORDANCE WITh ThIS NOTICE OR IF YOUR FAMIlY REJECTS ThE SETTlEMENT OFFER, ThE DEBTOR MAY OBJECT TO YOUR PROOF OF ClAIM PURSUANT TO ThE PROCEDURES ESTABlIShED FOR ThE COMMONWEAlTh TITlE III ClAIMS RECONCIlIATION PROCESS.
If you have any questions, please contact Kroll by emailing puertoricoinfo@ra.kroll.com or by phone at (844) 822-9231 (toll free for U.S. and Puerto Rico) or (646) 486-7944 (for international callers), available 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Atlantic Standard Time) (Spanish available).
1 Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Plan, the Motion of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for an Order, Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 105 and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure Rule 2002, Regarding Notice Procedures in Connection with Proposed Special Education Settlement [ECF No. 28395], and/or the Order Granting Motion of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for an Order, Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 105 and Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure Rule 2002, Regarding Notice Procedures in Connection with Proposed Special Education Settlement [ECF No. 28846].
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNA DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
CARLOS JAVIER
LOPEZ SANTA
Parte Peticionario
EX-PARTE
CIVIL #: JU2025CV00059 SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO Cod:49-006-279-00002-017. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU.
EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA
PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE
OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Píñero, Guaynabo, PR 009695650, Teléfono 787-720- 9553. “RÚSTICA “: PARCELA: Solar marcado con el número I, sito en el barrio Valenciano Abajo de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con
una cabida de 1.00 cuerda, (según mensura aprobada por ARPE tiene 3,315.9540 metros cuadrados). En lindes por el NORTE: Solar II (hoy terrenos de Marcelino Colón Báez), por el SUR: Carretera 183; por el ESTE: Felinde Mulero (hoy terrenos de Ismael Alejandro Rodríguez) y por el OESTE: Acceso Propuesto (hoy camino municipal). Enclava una estructura.” Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto !os organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribuna! podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 21 de marzo de 2025. Isameris Díaz Sánchez, Secretaria Regional. Dharma Torres, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
POPULAR AUTO, LLC
Demandante Vs. ALEJANDRO
CAMINERO TORRES
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM. SJ2022CV04847
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. Yo, Irma D. Carmona Claudio, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 19 de marzo de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 7 de septiembre de 2022, procederé a vender el día 6 de mayo de 2025, comenzando a las 2:00 de la tarde, en la Carr. #1, Km. 26.2, Bo. Quebrada Arenas, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00921, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, cheque
certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre los siguientes dos (2) vehículos de motor: (1) MARCA: BMW; MODELO: X6; AÑO: 2016; NÚM. DE SERIE: 5UXKU0C55G0F93595; TABLILLA: ITI045 (“Unidad #89619”). (2) MARCA: MERCEDES BENZ; MODELO: GLA250; AÑO: 2017; NÚM. DE SERIE: WDCTG4EB7HJ324010; TABLILLA: JAM681 (“Unidad #82119”). Con el importe de dichas ventas se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades aún adeudadas por la parte demandada según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, o sea, $71,241.68 para la “Unidad #89619” y $48,787.36 para la “Unidad #82119”, certificado mediante Declaración Jurada suscrita el 22 de enero de 2025. La subasta de los vehículos de motor mencionados se llevará el día 6 de mayo de 2025, de forma separada, comenzando a las 2:00 de la tarde, con la “Unidad #89619”, y luego, a las 2:05 de la tarde, con la “Unidad #82119”. Una vez celebradas las ventas públicas el adjudicatario será puesto en posesión física y material de los vehículos de motor subastados de inmediato. La venta pública de los referidos vehículos de motor se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecten los mencionados bienes, para lo cual se notifica y se hace saber al público la fecha, hora y sitio de la venta pública, a los efectos de cualquier persona con algún interés pueda comparecer a la celebración. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con
acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción judicial, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 1 de abril de 2025. Irma D. Carmona Claudio, Alguacil.
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NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA ZAYAS MATOS COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDERAS CONOCIDAS COMO
EDNA M. APONTE ZAYAS Y EVELYN APONTE ZAYAS; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV03185. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO
PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Caguas, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 26 de diciembre de 2024, y según
Orden y Mandamiento del 17 de marzo de 2025 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento: C-301. Condominio Chalets De San Martin de Cayey, Puerto Rico. Cabida: 105.39 metros cuadrados. Apartamento residencial identificado con el número C trescientos uno (C-301), ubicado en la primera planta del Edificio C del complejo de apartamentos “Walk-Ups” Chalets De San Martin, sito en la Calle César Concepción del Barrio Toita
del Municipio de Cayey, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de aproximadamente 105.390 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 1,134.00 pies cuadrados. Este apartamento está construido en hormigón reforzado. Este apartamento cuenta con tres (3) cuartos, dos (2) baños, sala, comedor, cocina, laundry y balcón, así como un acceso individual interior a un patio debidamente delimitado, el cual es un área común limitada del apartamento. La puerta de entrada del apartamento conduce al pasillo del edificio que da a las escaleras exteriores que a su vez da a la segunda y tercera planta, así como a la vía pública. Linderos: Colinda por el NORTE en veintinueve pies tres pulgadas (29’-3”), con área de patio; por el SUR, en veintitrés pies tres pulgadas (23’-3”) y seis pies cero pulgadas (6’-0”), con áreas verdes; por el ESTE, en veinte pies con cinco pulgadas (20’-5”), con la pared que lo separa de las escaleras y veinticuatro pies dos pulgadas (24’2”), con la pared que lo separa del apartamento C trescientos dos (C-302); y por el OESTE, en cinco pies cinco pulgadas (5’-5”) y treinta y nueve pies dos pulgadas (39’-2”), con la pared que lo separa del apartamento B-202. A este apartamento le corresponden los estacionamientos marcados con el número treinta y dos (32) y treinta y tres (33) en el Plano del Condominio. A este apartamento le corresponde una participación de 3.97% en los elementos comunes del Condominio. Finca Número 25,978, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Cayey. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas. Nota aclaratoria: En el Registro de la Propiedad la descripción registral consta tal y como fue transcrita anteriormente. En la escritura número 92, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de septiembre de 2006, se indica que los números de estacionamientos son el 36 y el 37. Dirección Física: COND. CHALETS DE SAN MARTIN, 301-C, CAYEY, PR 00736. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 28 DE ABRIL DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $120,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SE-
GUNDA SUBASTA el día 5 DE MAYO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $80,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 12 DE MAYO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $60,000.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $101,500.67 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 7.3750% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/ deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también
se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 4 de abril de 2025. RAMÓN L. HERNÁNDEZ CINTRÓN, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL PLACA #580, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante,Vs. SUCESIÓN DE FRANCES MARRERO GARCIA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Demandados.
CIVIL NUM.: SJ2024CV07633
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE PRENDA E HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ES-
TADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: Sucesión de FRANCES MARRERO GARCIA COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); CORPORACION DE RENOVACION URBANA Y VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO: CONDOMINIO BAHIA PROPERTIES, LLC: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial número A-ochocientos doce (A-812) ubicado en el Condominio Bahía (VBC56), localizado en la Calle Las Palmas, Esquina Cerra, Barrio Tras Talleres, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico con un área privada de ochocientos setenta punto setenticuatro (870.74) pies cuadrados, equivalentes a ochenta punto ochentinueve (80.89) metros cuadrados, el cual contiene sala, comedor, cocina, baño, tres (3) dormitorios y balcón; colindando por el NORTE, con parte del Solar donde enclava el edificio que da frente a la Calle Las Palmas con el pozo de ventilación y servicio y con el apartamento número A ochocientos once (A-811) (pared medianera); por el SUR, con el pasillo exterior del edificio; por el ESTE, con el Ascensor y las escaleras (pared medianera); y por el OESTE, con el pozo de ventilación y servicio y con el apartamento número A ochocientos once (pared medianera). Corresponde a este apartamento en los gastos, ganancias y derechos en relación a y sobre los elementos comunes generales una participación de punto cuarentitres tres treintiseis por
fructuaria, demandados. Por la misma se reclama el pago de $137,921.47, más otras sumas. Anotada el 2 de julio de 2024 al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 11286 de Bayamón Norte, anotación “B”. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $342,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, el 2 DE JUNIO DE 2025
A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $228,000.00 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $171,000.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón el 9 DE JUNIO DE 2025
A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $137,921.47 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $226,833.13 en intereses acumulados al 14 de noviembre de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 6.25000% anual hasta su total y completo pago; y otros gastos acumulados. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados al 14 de noviembre de 2024 es de $410,239.69 y los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora hasta su pago total. Las cantidades antes mencionadas se encuentran determinadas, vencidas, líquidas y exigibles; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este
caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de abril de 2025. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. PETER GARAY
BORRERO t/c/c PEDRO GARAY BORRERO, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA representados por el SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO (HUD)
Parte Demandada
CIVIL NÚM. SJ2025CV00549 (508) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A LA PARTE DEMANDADA: PETER GARAY BORRERO
t/c/c PEDRO GARAY BORRERO a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: CHALETS D’ LA RIVIERA, 344 CALLE 4 APT 106, SAN JUAN PR 009243980 y 1169 HAINES DR., WINTER HAVEN, FL 33881-0719.
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 $21,969.80 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.25% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2024 hasta su completo pago, más $67.95 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $5,257.70 para costas, gas-
tos 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: URBANA:
PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL:
Apartamento #106. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del edificio Condominio Chalets
D La Riviera, situado en la calle #1, parcela #342, en el plano de parcelación de la comunidad Hill Brothers del Barrio Sabana Llana del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Área Neta del apartamento: 873.00 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, equivalentes a 81.13 metros cuadrados aproximadamente. En lindes por el NORTE, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 107 a través de una distancia de 26’6” y con pasillo y área de acceso a través de una distancia de 11’6”; por el SUR, separado de una pared irregular divisora de colindancia del complejo a una distancia de 11’ aproximadamente a lo largo de 38’; por el ESTE, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento 105 a través de una distancia de 21’ lineales; por el OESTE, con áreas verdes, acera y estacionamiento del condominio a lo largo de 21’ lineales. El apartamento consta de un nivel y está dividido en los siguientes elementos: balcón, sala-comedor, cocina, tres cuartos dormitorios con sus closets unidos por un pasillo central, un baño con acceso al pasillo central. Le corresponde a esta unidad el uso exclusivo de un (1) estacionamiento marcado con el número 12 el cual es elemento común limitado. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales del condominio 4.16%. La propiedad y la hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 82 del tomo 1058 de Sabana Llana, Finca 34340. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Inscripción segunda. La modificación consta inscrita al 38 vuelto del tomo 111 de Sanana Llana, inscripción quinta. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso en blanco, 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 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826 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, 27 de marzo de 2025, en San Juan Puerto Rico. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Glorimar Martínez Rivera-SSS, Sub-Secretaria. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCN. DE EDGARDO ANTONIO MUÑIZ QUIÑONES Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2021CV00891. (Salón: 201). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
FERNANDO J. GIERBOLINI GONZÁLEZ - FGIERBOLINI@ MSGLAWPR.COM. JOSÉ JAVIER DÍAZ ALONSOJDIAZ@MSGLAWPR.COM. A: LEXTER DANIEL REYES RODRIGUEZ COMO HEREDERO CONOCIDO DE LA SUCESION DE BENEDICTA RODRIGUEZ
RODRIGUEZ; FULANO(A) DE TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE EDGARDO ANTONIO MUÑIZ
QUIÑONES - 24 D APT. 1026 LUIS VIGOREAUX COND. SANTA ANA, GUAYNABO, PR 00966; URB. SAN RAFAEL ESTATE II CALLE LIRIO 205 BAYAMÓN PR 09221217.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de marzo 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 07 de abril de 2025. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 07 de abril de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO
LA SAGRADA FAMILIA
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE MERCEDES SANTIAGO HERNÁNDEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: NJ2024CV00164. (Salón: 703). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERAJRG@GONZALEZMORALES.COM. RICARDO ANDRES ACEVEDO BIANCHI - ACEVEDOBIANCHI@ GMAIL.COM.
A: RAFAEL SANTIAGO HERNÁNDEZ, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MERCEDES SANTIAGO HERNÁNDE; FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO PERSONAS CON NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS Y/O FICTICIOS COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE MERCEDES SANTIAGO HERNÁNDEZ Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 de abril 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 09 de abril de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 09 de abril de 2025. ALICIA AYALA
SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. CARMEN ROSARIO CABALLERO
CABALLERO T/C/C CARMEN ROSARIO CABALLERO DE MUÑOZ
T/C/C CARMEN DEL ROSARIO CABALLERO
CABALLERO, POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE ANTONIO MUÑOZ PEREIRA; LA SUCESION DE JOSE ANTONIO MUÑOZ PEREIRA COMPUESTA POR JOSE A., MARTA, Y AZALEA TODOS DE APELLIDOS MUÑOZ
CABALLERO; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2025CV00745. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte CoDemandada: A) JOSE A., Y AZALEA TODOS DE APELLIDOS MUÑOZ CABALLERO COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ANTONIO MUÑOZ PEREIRA,
A LAS SIGUIENTES
DIRECCIONES: (A) CARR. 189 KM 2.3 SECTOR SANTA BARBARA BARRIO RINCON GURABO, PR 00778; (B) HC 02 BOX 15812 SANTA BARBARA GURABO, PR 00778; (C) URB. SANTA CLARA #E-9 A CALLE 4 SAN LORENZO, PR 00754. B) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ ANTONIO MUÑOZ PEREIRA, A LAS SIGUIENTES
DIRECCIONES: (A) CARR. 189 KM 2.3 SECTOR
SANTA BARBARA BARRIO RINCON GURABO, PR 00778; (B) HC 02 BOX 15812 SANTA BARBARA GURABO, PR 00778; (C) URB. SANTA CLARA #E-9 A CALLE 4 SAN LORENZO, PR 00754.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de Carmen del Rosario Caballero Caballero y La Sucesión de José Antonio Muñoz Pereira, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $157,814.58 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2023, más intereses al tipo pactado de 7.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además Carmen del Rosario Caballero Caballero y La Sucesión de José Antonio Muñoz Pereira adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $18,700.00 para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 1054 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de julio de 2001, ante el Notario Público Ricardo J. Ramos González, modificada mediante la escritura número 56 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de marzo de 2014, ante la Notario Público Vianice Cruz De Choudens, de la finca número 3,718, inscrita al Folio 160 del Tomo 91 de Gurabo, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Por
razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de José Antonio Muñoz Pereira. Los co-demandados miembros de la Sucesión de José Antonio Muñoz Pereira se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del termino de 30 días antes señalado 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 el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que la sucesión de José Antonio Muñoz Pereira, se incluye a los herederos conocidos y herederos desconocidos de José Antonio Muñoz Pereira, denominados José A. Muñoz Caballero, Azalea Muñoz Caballero; Fulano y Fulana De Tal, 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. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 6227000, Fax (787) 625-7001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. 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, en cuyo caso deberá presentar
ción. 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 11 de abril de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A LOS FINES DE LA PUBLICACIÓN DEL PERIÓDICO. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 11 de abril de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. YANIRA ECHEVARRÍA MERCADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
PHALANX
CAPITAL SERIES 5 REAL ESTATE LLC.
Plaintiff V. RUBÉN TERRÓN HERNÁNDEZ, SYLVETTE PÉREZ COLLADO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP
CONSTITUTED AMONG THEM AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Defendant Civil No.: 15-01151 JAG. MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE. NOTICE OF JUDGMENT FOR PUBLICATION.
To: RUBÉN TERRÓN HERNÁNDEZ, SYLVETTE PÉREZ COLLADO AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP TO THEIR LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES: PO BOX 835 BAYAMON, PR 00960; HACIENDA DEL CARIBE, 22 CALLE AREYTO, TOA ALTA, PR 00953.
WHEREAS, plaintiff, Phalanx Capital Series 5 Real Estate LLC, has obtained judgment on October 9, 2024. ECF No. 100. WHEREAS, upon Motion filed by Plaintiff, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico has entered an order authorizing that publication of the judgment. ECF No. 100. THEREFORE, publication is ordered on a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico in the next 10 days. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I set my hand and seal in San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 11th day of April, 2025. ADA I. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ., CLERK OF THE COURT. ANA DURAN, DEPUTY CLERK. LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DIS-
TRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
Cielo Vivienda LLC
Plaintiff, v. Rubén Terrón Hernández, Sylvette Pérez Collado and the Conjugal Partnership constituted among them and United States of America, Defendants. CIVIL NO: 15-01151 JAG. RE: Mortgage Foreclosure. AMENDED JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT. The summons and the complaint of the instant case have been served by publication upon defendants Rubén Terrón Hernández, Sylvette Pérez Collado and the Conjugal Partnership constituted among them on August 15th, 2019, pursuant to, and in compliance with the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The United States was served on November 20th, 2019, pursuant to, and in compliance with the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
The defendants and the United States failed to answer or otherwise plead in this case therefore default was entered against them pursuant to F.R.Civ.P. 55 (a). Upon plaintiff’s motion for judgment, having submitted all of the evidence necessary to prove the allegations of the complaint and from the information included in the records on file in this proceeding the Court being fully advised in the premises hereby enters judgment by default pursuant to F.R.Civ.P. 55 against them and ORDERS, ADJUDGES and DECREES:
On February 29, 2008, for value received, a mortgage note payable to Doral Mortgage LLC or order was executed before Notary Public Humberto Soto Mainardi, affidavit number 6582. The note is for the principal sum of $400,000.00 and bears interests on the unpaid principal balance at the rate of 7.750% per annum until the debt is paid in full. The principal and interests due pursuant to the note are payable in monthly installments.
The note provides for the payment of late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment is due and for the payment of 10% of the original principal amount ($40,000.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees in the event the holder of the Note is required to seek judicial collection. A voluntary mortgage was constituted by deed number 69 executed before the notary public Humberto Soto Mainardi on February 29, 2008, to secure the repayment of (a) the indebtedness evidenced by the note, (b) an amount of 10% of the original principal amount ($40,000.00) of the note to cover costs, expenses and attorney’s fees in the event of judicial collection, (c) an amount of 10% of the original principal amount ($40,000.00) of the note
to cover any advances made under the mortgage deed and, (d) an amount of 10% of the original principal amount of the note ($40,000.00) to cover interests in addition to those secured by law. The mortgage deed encumbers the below described property, hereinafter “the property”. URBANA: Solar No. 28 predio de terreno localizado en el BARRIO MUCARABONES del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1,663.40 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con el solar No. 27; por el Sur, con el solar No. 29; por el Este, con camino municipal; y por el Oeste, con el de la finca principal. The property is identified with the number 12,291 and is recorded at page number 248 of volume number 252 of Toa Alta, in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, Third Section. The mortgage deed is recorded at page number 183 of volume number 514 of Toa Alta, entry number ninth in the Registry of Property of Bayamón, Third Section. In accordance with the Registry of Property the defendants are the owners of the property. Cielo Vivienda LLC is the person entitled to enforce the mortgage note pursuant to 19 L.P.R.A. sec.601. It was expressly stipulated in the note and in the mortgage deed that default in the payment of the monthly installments or noncompliance with the covenants or agreements included in the note and/or the mortgage deed would authorize the holder of the note to declare due and payable the total amount of the indebtedness evidenced by the note, and proceed with the execution or foreclosure of the mortgage. The property is encumbered by a junior lien in favor of the United States or one of its agencies which is below described. a. Attachment in favor of the United States of America for the amount of $5,466.67, recorded at Page 132 of Volume 4 of Federal Contributions, Third Section. b. Attachment in favor of the United States of America for the amount of $21,205.90, recorded at Page 212 of Volume 4 of Federal Contributions, Third Section. c. Attachment in favor of the United States of America for the amount of $9,775.41, recorded at Page 10 of Volume 5 of Federal Contributions, Third Section. d. Attachment in favor of the United States of America for the amount of $9,953.08, recorded at Page 192 of Volume 5 of Federal Contributions, Third Section. The United States has a right to participate in the distribution of surplus proceeds is any, generated from the sale of the property after the judgment is satisfied in full. The United States has a right of redemption pursuant to 26 USC § 7235 and/ or 28 USC § 2410 (c). Such lien may be cancelled pursuant to plaintiff’s request upon conclusion of the judicial sale. The last
payment made by the defendants pursuant to the mortgage note was the payment due March 1, 2012. The defendants herein have failed to comply with the terms of the note and the mortgage deed and have breached their duty to pay the monthly installments due since March 1, 2012 and thereafter until the present day. The entire principal sum and accrued interests and expenses have become due and payable pursuant to the acceleration clause of the note and the mortgage deed. Vivienda LLC is owed the principal sum of $390,346.88 plus interest at a rate of 7.750% per annum since March 1, 2012, and which continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full, plus the amount of $84,670.06 (“piggyback”) for a total amount of $475,016.94. The defendants also owe to Cielo Vivienda LLC late charges in the amount of 5.000% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment was due and which continue to accrue until the debt is paid in full. The defendants also owe to Cielo Vivienda LLC all advances made pursuant to the mortgage note including but not limited to insurance premiums, taxes and inspections as well as 10% of the original principal amount ($40,000.00) to cover costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed pursuant to the mortgage obligation. If the amounts owed are not paid within ten (10) days from the date of entry of judgment, the property, pursuant to plaintiff’s request and with the purpose of collecting the moneys due pursuant to the note, the mortgage deed and this judgment shall be sold to its highest bidder by the United States Marshal of this District or the Special Master Appointed by this Court at a public auction or judicial sale. The United States Marshal of this District or the Special Master Appointed by this Court shall conduct the sale of the property hereinabove mentioned in accordance with 28 U.S.C. Section 2001 and Section 2002. The amount of $400,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $200,000.00 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $266,666.67. The United States Marshal of this District or the Special Master Appointed by this Court shall issue the corresponding notice of sale to be published in a newspaper of general circulation. Once the order of confirmation of the sale is ente-
red, the United States Marshal or the Special Master will execute the corresponding deed of judicial sale to the purchaser who shall be entitled to the delivery of the property and its physical possession. The possession of the property may be obtained by the eviction of the occupant of the property without the need of further order of this Court. Plaintiff in these proceeding may apply to this Court for those additional orders as it may deem advisable to its interest in accordance with the terms of this judgment and the Clerk shall proceed to issue all writs necessary to enforce and execute the same.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico this Wednesday, October 9, 2024.
JAY A. GARCIA-GREGORY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE ROBERT JAMES HATTON
GOTAY, SU ESPOSA MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES
RENTAS COSTAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES
COMPUESTA POR ÉSTOS
Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS ALBERTO BERMÚDEZ COSME
T/C/C LUIS BERMÚDEZ, SU ESPOSA LANA
LOUISE HILL T/C/C
LANA L. BERMÚDEZ, LANA BERMÚDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTOS
Parte Demandada Caso Civil Núm.: PO2024CV03448. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS ALBERTO BERMÚDEZ COSME T/C/C LUIS BERMÚDEZ, SU ESPOSA LANA LOUISE HILL T/C/C LANA L. BERMÚDEZ, LANA BERMÚDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTOS.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al
cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7970; Teléfono: 787-843-41668. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento de! Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de octubre de 2015, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora computados al 5%. 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 de la primera hipoteca a la suma de $96,154.82, más intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 7.25% anual, y la segunda hipoteca a la suma de $24,383.72, más intereses sobre dicha suma a razón del 7.25% anual, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo lo pactado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La parte Demandante presentó 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: URBANA: Solar identificado con el número dos (2) en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización Las Flores, sito en el barrio Tijeras del Municipio de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos cincuenta y uno punto tres mil sesenta y siete (351.3367) metros cuadraos en lindes por el NORTE, en catorce punto ciento doce (14.112) metros, con la calle número dos 920 de la urbanización Las Flores; por el SUR, en catorce punto ciento cincuenta y cuatro (14.154) metros, con el solar número once (11); por el ESTE, en veinticuatro punto ochocientos cincuenta y seis (24.856) metros, con el solar número tres (3); y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro punto ochocientos sesenta y dos (24.862) metros, con el solar número uno (1). lnscrita al folio veinticinco (25) del tomo quinientos cuatro (504) de Juana Díaz, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce sección Primera (1ra). SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsiva a la demanda dentro del
término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico. A 7 de febrero de 2025. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria Regional. Mariely Félix Rivera, Sub-Secretaria. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ROBERT ALAN RECK
Demandante V. ADMINISTRACIÓN DE ASUNTOS DEL VETERANO, BANK OF AMERICA N.A., DEUTSCHE BANK, FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00682. (408). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., S.S. A: ADMINISTRACIÓN DE ASUNTOS DEL VETERANO - 810 VERMONT AVENUE NW, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20420; BANK OF AMERICA N.A.100 NORTH TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, 28255; DEUTSCHE BANK - 1 COLUMBUS CIRCLE NEW YORK, NY 10019-8735; FULANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DEL CUAL, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO QUE SE INTENTA CANCELAR. POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la presentación de una Demanda en su contra. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al 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 secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda enmendada, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal,
en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La parte demandante alega que por la Escritura de Hipoteca número 30, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de abril de 1989, ante el Notario Público Walter Perales Reyes, se suscribió un pagaré hipotecario por la suma de $68,500.00 a favor de Administración de Asuntos del Veterano, o a su orden, con intereses al con intereses al 10% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2019, autenticado bajo testimonio 1,362 del Notario Público Walter Perales Reyes, y en garantía del mismo constituyó hipoteca (inscrita al folio 27 del tomo 116 de Río Grande, finca número 5,815, inscripción octava (8va), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Carolina) sobre la finca que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Colinas del Yunque, localizada en el Barrio Mameyes y Zarzal del término Municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, marcada con el número treinta y siete (37) del Manzana “F”, con un área de mil doscientos ochenta y dos metros cuadrados con cincuenta centímetros (1,282.50m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE; con el solar treinta y seis (36), distancia de cuarenta y cinco metros (45m); por el SUR; con el solar treinta y ocho (38), distancia de cuarenta y cinco metros (45m); por el ESTE; con el solar cuarenta (40), distancia de veintiocho metros con cincuenta centímetros (28.50m); y por el OESTE; con Calle quince (15), distancia de veintiocho metros con cincuenta centímetros (28.50m). El inmueble antes descrito contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. La Propiedad consta inscrita al folio 27 del tomo 116 de Río Grande, finca 5,815 Sección III de Carolina. La deuda evidenciada por el pagaré hipotecario fue satisfecha y pagada en su totalidad por la parte demandante, y el mismo se ha extraviado o la posesión la ostentan los demandados y/o los demandados desconocidos de epígrafe, sin que la parte demandante lo haya podido localizar a pesar de las gestiones realizadas, por lo cual no lo tiene para su cancelación. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto notificándole con copia de dicha contestación al Lcdo. Luis G. Parrilla Hernández, PO Box 195168 San Juan, PR 009195168 y/o 250 Avenida Muñoz Rivera, Piso 6, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de abril de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SUB SECRETARIA.
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By DAVID ALDRIDGE / THE ATHLETIC
There are no guarantees to a successful rebuild in the NBA.
Among the myriad dangers of tanking to accelerate a rebuild is this: It may not work. It usually doesn’t work — at least in producing championship-level teams. For every Oklahoma City or Cleveland, which have turned around their fortunes, there are a half-dozen cautionary tales.
Supposed franchise players taken at the top of drafts cannot stay healthy, trades don’t pan out and free agents don’t live up to their contracts. Owners grow impatient. Teams are stuck in the first-round level of the playoffs, which sounds great from the outside but is inordinately frustrating when conference semifinals cannot be reached year after year.
And this is where most NBA teams are: on that seesaw.
Even though it feels as if everyone is tanking, most teams are neither blowing games on purpose nor cutting down nets in June. Most are somewhere in the middle on the ever-moving rebuilding/retooling line. The plot points change from season to season.
“Oh, I’ve seen a tank or two in my day,” Indiana Pacers star guard Tyrese Haliburton said with a chuckle, now that he is safely on a franchise that briefly dipped into extended losing before retooling on the fly. Indiana bet everything on the talents of its 25-year-old star, who was acquired from the Sacramento Kings in 2022.
With Haliburton, a two-time All-Star and an Olympian, as its centerpiece, Indiana has roared back to relevancy, making the Eastern Conference finals last season and looking like a legitimate contender again as this season’s postseason begins.
“We have a passion and a pride in this organization, and what we’re building here, ’cause we felt like we built it,” Haliburton said. “We feel like this is something that has been very player-led. We feel like the front office and our
coaching staff have done a great job of giving us the tools, but they allow us to experiment and be ourselves. So we take pride in this.
“We’re just trying to hold on to this as long as we can. Because I think you see a lot of teams in the NBA, especially with the cap room and all that stuff, and the new CBA, the odds of this keeping our group together forever aren’t very high. We know guys have got to get paid and all of those things. So we’re just cherishing it in the moment while we can.”
Haliburton is correct in noting how difficult sustaining success can be.
Eighteen months ago, the Kings looked aligned from top to bottom with a solid front office, a coach in Mike Brown whose nononsense habit-building was rewarded with an NBA coach of the year award in 2023, and a team that was built around a talented guard in De’Aaron Fox. Sacramento was coming off a 48-win regular season and had just gone 15 rounds with the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the 2023 playoffs. Lighting the Beam was the hottest thing going. The future, finally, was encouraging, with an extended run forthcoming.
Now, you would have to go to San Antonio to ask Fox what he thinks went wrong in Sacramento. After having grown tired of the Kings’ ever-changing front-office dynamics, Fox is with the Spurs. Brown is collecting the $30 million owed him through 2027, having been subject to those same dynamics when he was fired in December, after a five-game losing streak.
The Kings did make it to the play-in tournament in the unforgiving Western Conference.
“This is probably our fifth iteration of this team,” interim coach Doug Christie said recently. “We’ve had multiple guys who have been injured. Some are out, still. They come back, they’re rusty. You have to play through it because of who they are and what they bring to your team.”
He added: “I’m more like trying to make sure that their spirit is right. Because if you
With guard Tyrese Haliburton, a two-time All-Star and an Olympian, as its centerpiece, the Indiana Pacers have roared back to relevancy, making the Eastern Conference finals last season and looking like a legitimate contender again as the NBA postseason begins. (Wikipedia/All-Pro Reels)
come in here with the right spirit, and we play the right way, we can compete against any team.”
He is not exaggerating. The Kings have beaten the Cavaliers twice in the past month and won at Detroit on April 7. But during that same stretch, they also lost by 30 at Orlando and inexplicably lost to the tanking Washington Wizards.
Of all the major team sports, the NBA is the most susceptible to the whims and lure of a superstar. One player has more impact on winning in this league than in every other sport. A great pitcher usually throws only once a week. A great quarterback still needs an offensive line to give him time to throw. A great goal scorer in hockey or soccer can be stymied by defenses designed to stop them. The NBA superstar, one of just five players from his team on the court at any given time, can tilt the floor.
So, for teams such as the Wizards and the Utah Jazz, which do not have anyone like that on their rosters, multiple-season tanking is a no-brainer.
For those in the muddled middle, the path forward is not as clear.
For example, under then-general manager Travis Schlenk, Atlanta built a young, exciting group around Trae Young, reaching the Eastern Conference finals in 2021. But ownership’s patience wavered after the Hawks stumbled the next couple of seasons, culminating in the firing of coach Nate McMillan in February 2023 and a front office housecleaning. Yet, Atlanta did not take it back down to the studs, even as rumors abounded last year that the Hawks would be willing to move Young.
Instead, Atlanta held on to Young and traded his backcourt mate, Dejounte Murray, instead. The Hawks have surrounded Young with a new group of role players: Dyson Daniels, Jalen Johnson and rookie Zaccharie Risacher, the first pick in last year’s draft.
Before Johnson went down with a seasonending torn labrum in late January, the Hawks were messing around with a top-four spot in the East. They had to settle for a play-in berth this season, but their future is again bright.
Similarly, Toronto has already hit on Scottie Barnes, taken fourth in the 2021 draft, and paid him accordingly. Yet, the Raptors have not made the playoffs in the desultory East since 2022, when Philadelphia dispatched them in the first round. Since winning the 2019 NBA title, they have won one playoff series. But they are doubling down on their existing core. They traded for forward Brandon Ingram from New Orleans at this year’s trade deadline and immediately signed him to a three-year, $120 million extension, continuing a recent trend by acquiring players facing rising free agency and extending them before they hit it.
Despite finishing well out of the running this season, Toronto will run it back for 202526 with Ingram, Barnes, RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley and Jakob Poeltl. The Raptors will chalk this season up to growing pains with encouraging signs, such as the development of forward Ochai Agbaji in the second half of the season and Toronto’s yearlong improvement defensively.
The Pacers, meanwhile, stumbled out of the gate this season, but they are 33-13 since New Year’s Day. If anyone can credibly challenge Boston or Cleveland in the East playoffs, it’s Indiana.
But the clock looms. Center Myles Turner, who is shooting a career-best 40% on 3-pointers this season, hits unrestricted free agency this summer. Indiana wants to re-sign him, but the team also wanted to make Paul George a Pacers player for life.
Things happen. Plans are scuttled. It’s the way of things for most NBA teams.
Cherish the moments while you can.
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