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Senators ask nonprofits for help with elderly abandoned in hospitals

By THE STAR STAFF

Sens. Marissa Jiménez Santoni and Keren Riquelme Cabrera on Thursday called upon nonprofit groups to help address the historic number, some 494 in 2023, of older adults abandoned in medical and hospital facilities in Puerto Rico.

At a summit meeting of leaders of nonprofit organizations in Carolina, the New Progressive Party senators requested the creation of a registry of older adults in each community as a mechanism to provide help services to each person in the social sector, which exceeds 770,000 inhabitants, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau in 2022.

them from being left alone, abandoned in a hospital. This is an area that we have been working on since mid-2022,” Riquelme added. “Although I recognize that the problem is complex, I believe that the third sector can contribute enormously to reducing this historic figure of almost 500 abandoned seniors. With the registry and census of needs to establish a help plan, we will know those people aged 60 or over who need special help or a support network. Together with the Family Department and other agencies, we will provide tools and training to entities and churches so that they can be that resource in case an older adult does not have a support group and ends up in a hospital.”

“Doing things as we have is not the solution; we have to think ‘outside the box.’ The number of nearly 4,000 older adults abandoned in hospitals since 2017, with about 494 last year alone, tells us that we must look for alternatives to address this situation,” Jiménez said. “Nonprofit groups, the faith-based sector, play a central role in many activities that the government cannot enter. Today, we are calling on you, the leaders of that sector in the various communities of the Carolina Senatorial District, to carry out a census of the needs of older adults in our communities to satisfy them in the best way possible.”

“Taking a census of the needs of older adults in the communities where they are served by churches and entities, and identifying their support network, is very important to prevent

The meeting, which lasted several hours, was the initiative of Family Secretary Ciení Rodríguez Troche and included the participation of Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development of Puerto Rico Executive Director Thais Reyes Serrano; Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia’s adviser on faith-based issues, Pastor Luis Roig; and staff from the departments of Justice, Housing and the Office of the Women’s Advocate, as well as the American Association of Retired Persons, among others.

Jiménez said the summit was the first of a series of similar meetings to, in addition to the registry, identify other alternatives for avoiding the abandonment of the island’s senior citizens.

“Those men and women who built modern Puerto Rico deserve no less,” she said.

By THE STAR STAFF

The Telecommunications Bureau of the Public Service Regulatory Board confirmed on Thursday that a largescale nationwide breakdown was reported in the systems of multiple cellular service companies.

The specific cause of the failure, which according to the Associated Press struck AT&T, the United States’ largest carrier, with some 73,000 reported outages Thursday morning, was still unknown at press time.

Local companies in Puerto Rico indicated that their systems were working normally.

They reported that FirstNet (a priority service for first responders) customers that use AT&T’s infrastructure, as well as some Liberty customers who have not yet migrated to the new system, were affected.

Local companies in Puerto Rico indicated that their systems were working normally following widespread cellular phone outages experienced mainly by AT&T customers in the mainland U.S. on Thursday, according to reports.

Sen. Marissa Jiménez Santoni

UPR workers approve strike vote to force talks

By THE STAR STAFF

Members of the Brotherhood of Exempt Non-Teaching Employees at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) approved a strike vote on Thursday.

The workers are demanding compliance with the

collective bargaining agreement and a wage increase, and are giving the Financial Oversight and Management Board and the UPR administration two weeks to talk or they will start a work stoppage.

“We are looking for agreements to avoid a strike that no one wants,” UPR President Luis Ferrao Delgado said in a written statement.

Nonprofit: Abandoned schools put communities at risk

By THE STAR STAFF

Center for the Reconstruction of Habitat Executive Director Luis Gallardo Rivera said Thursday that the government’s management protocol for the disposal of closed and abandoned schools has been ineffective and today is a health and safety problem for the communities that surround those buildings.

“It’s worrisome, because someone at some point mistakenly multiplied the number of closed schools by the millions that the government was supposed to collect in the midst of the fiscal crisis and in the end there were neither savings nor collections,” Gallardo Rivera said in a written statement. “Currently, the priority when it comes to having a school is to sell it at the highest possible price, which is why the vast majority are still in a state of abandonment.”

Gallardo Rivera was emphatic in saying that the responsibility for the current state of the schools does not lie with the Education Department, but with the Committee for the Evaluation and Disposition of Real Estate (CEDBI by its Spanish initials), which is composed of the heads of the Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, Department of Economic Development and Commerce, and Office of Management and Budget.

The speed and efficiency of the committee has improved over the past few years, but they are still tied

to a public policy that emphasizes revenue maximization, Gallardo Rivera noted. Although Article 5.07 of Law No. 26-2017, known as the Law for Compliance with the Fiscal Plan, indicates that “fair market value” will be used as a basis when disposing of a property, it also says that the executive branch will “always safeguard the public interest and welfare.”

In addition, Article 13(d) of the CEDBI regulations states that a price equal to the fair market value will not be required as an indispensable condition for the approval of a direct sale, “but in practice priority is given to the financial issue and not to matters of importance such as public safety and quality of life,” he said.

Gallardo Rivera stressed that Senate Bill 1084 is currently under consideration by the House of Representatives, which seeks to prioritize activities such as affordable housing and community uses when evaluating the repurposing of a school. In addition, the bill requires the identification of a new use before closing future schools.

“I can give you as an example the Horace Mann school in Cataño, where we submitted a formal request in 2022 to use it as an office, in addition to a service center. However, the CEDBI decided to sell the school by auction with a minimum bid of $500,000,” Gallardo Rivera said. “The problem is that community and nonprofit groups like ours will never be able to compete with big developers or millionaire investors. After a request for access to information and an examination of the files, the CEDBI had to discard the auction twice due to a lack of eligible bidders. To this day, the school is in total abandonment and we know very well that if you leave a school abandoned for years, it lends itself to vandalism, accumulation of debris and health problems for the community.”

Salinas residents denounce illegal tree cutting

By THE STAR STAFF

Residents of the La Margarita and Villa Cofresí communities in Salinas on Thursday denounced the indiscriminate cutting of trees, which they say violated Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) laws.

The tree-cutting is to pave the way for the proposed Salmar resort and residential center at the Paseo Ladí farm, whose owner is developing the project through a company called Clasioferta, according to a radio report.

Residents who form the Environmental Dialogue Committee have reportedly said the developer and owner of the farm, Luis Caballero González, is selling the development despite not having the required permits.

According to reports, neighbors have filed complaints against Caballero González, none of which have been successful. However, they said they have seen machinery moving and trees falling on the property over the past few weeks.

A spokesperson for the DNER stated that in previous complaints, officials only found “collection of debris and

garbage on site,” but not “cutting of trees or violation of laws and regulations.” But, the spokesperson added, “technical assistance was requested.”

Caballero González denied having done anything illegal and indicated that he is only clearing the property because he wants to build his house on the farm, pointing out that “according to the law, I have the right to clear my farm, to cut trees less than five feet tall and to collect debris.”

Wanda Ríos Colorado, leader of the residents of La Margarita, provided the newspaper with a video, taken on Saturday, Feb. 3, in which a machine is seen apparently felling trees. Meanwhile, Waldemar López de la Cruz, who lives right in front of the farm in Villa Cofresí, signed an affidavit in which he alleges that he saw multiple trees being cut down.

Luis Gallardo Rivera, executive director of the Center for the Reconstruction of Habitat

University of Puerto Rico non-teaching employees are demanding compliance with the collective bargaining agreement and a wage increase.

Hispanic group urges regulation of short-term rentals as numbers soar

By THE STAR STAFF

In less than a decade the number of short-term rentals (STRs) in Puerto Rico has risen from about 1,000 in 2014 to more than 25,000 in 2023, according to a report released this week by the Hispanic Federation, a Latino nonprofit membership organization.

The report, entitled “Proposals for Reducing the Impact of Short-Term Rentals (STRs) on Community Displacement,” highlights the dramatic increase in STRs combined with the lack of robust regulation, which has led to significant community challenges across the archipelago such as limited housing access, displacement, and quality of life concerns. It also proposes community-driven solutions to mitigate those problems through fair and balanced regulations of this fast-growing tourism business.

Mariana Reyes, director of Taller Comunitaria la Goyco, a community-based nonprofit on Loíza Street in San Juan that participated in the report, noted that: “In the sector of Loíza Street, housing options have reduced significantly; however, there are 622 short-term rental units available. It is necessary to regulate that use to protect communities.”

Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia, however, has expressed misgivings about regulating the industry. In February 2023, the STAR reported that while short-term rentals such as Airbnb rentals are a popular investment in Puerto Rico, the industry is tightly controlled by a few short-term rental firms, one of which belongs to the governor’s son, a situation that has resulted in increasing rental and property prices that are displacing the middle class and the poor. Since then, there has been talk about regulating the industry.

The community-driven recommendations from the Hispanic Federation include classifying certain short-term rentals as businesses and applying the licenses, permits, and other applicable commercial activity requirements; distinguishing between owners of multiple short-term rental units from those with primary residences they occasionally rent out to supplement their income; increasing the room tax from its current 7% to a range of 9-11% to support oversight and public services; and community participation in decision-making, among

from diverse impacted communities including Aguadilla, Rincón, Cabo Rojo, San Juan and Culebra, among others, as well as experts in planning, law and real estate and other key stakeholders such as the Condominium Titleholders Association, owners of other hospitality businesses, and the Hotels and Tourism Association. The report also included an analysis of STR regulations implemented in U.S. and international cities.

“The report seeks to articulate and present the point of view and recommendations of communities with a high density of short-term rentals, focusing on the impacts on housing and community life,” said Alejandro Cotté Morales, cofounder of El Enjambre and coauthor of the report, along with Lyvia N. Rodríguez del Valle, Mikael Rosa Rosa, and Raúl Santiago Bartolomei.

other specific regulatory changes. None of the report’s participants recommended a ban on STRs, noting that the commercial activity has its benefits. However, they pointed out the urgency of regulating them to achieve a fair balance between the benefits and the negative impacts they may have on the community in which they are located.

The report was commissioned by the Hispanic Federation to El Enjambre and was produced through interviews with diverse, affected communities, STR sector representatives and experts, and other key stakeholders. With the report, Hispanic Federation is hoping to elevate community voices to inform and strengthen regulation of the STR industry in a way that will protect communities from displacement and promote longterm housing access.

“With so much to offer visitors, tourism will always be an important part of Puerto Rico’s economy,” said Frankie Miranda, president and CEO of Hispanic Federation. “However, it cannot come at the expense of Puerto Rico’s residents and communities. Lawmakers in Puerto Rico are responsible for balancing the opportunities created by short-term rentals with their primary duty to protect

the rights and needs of communities. Ultimately, we hope this report will promote productive dialogue among the government and other stakeholders and present the urgency to pass strong and fair regulation now.”

According to the report, the aforementioned sharp increase in STRs has already led to several challenging changes in community dynamics and housing access on the island. The changes have also had an impact on residents’ quality of life and raised concerns about displacement, gentrification, and fair business competition.

Gloria Cuevas, a displaced community resident from Rincón now living in Mayagüez who shared her experiences in the report, said: “As a person who has been displaced multiple times by owners who preferred to convert their properties into short-term rentals, I understand that this phenomenon revealed the gap that exists between social classes and that every day is more present on our archipelago, as it is in many places of the world.”

“The ones with the most resources continue acquiring while those of us with less resources keep losing,” she said.

Between September and December 2022, El Enjambre met with residents

To continue the discussion started by the report and identify potential policy recommendations, the Hispanic Federation, in collaboration with the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Planning, and El Enjambre Colectivo, will hold a one-day summit in San Juan entitled “Nos Quedamos: Alternativas Justas Para Regular Los Arrendamientos a Corto Plazo en Puerto Rico” on Thursday March 7. The summit will feature multisector local, state and international voices with experience on the topic of STRs and housing, and includes a keynote by Leilani Farha, current global director of The Shift and former United Nations special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. It will be attended by community leaders, hotel & tourism industry and government representatives, and experts on housing and planning, among others.

With respect to elevating the dialogue on the impacts of short-term rentals, Dulce del Río Piñeda, organizational coordinator for Mujeres de Islas, a community-based nonprofit in Culebra that also participated in the report, stated: “It’s up to each one of us to elevate the voices of the residents who inhabit Culebra, walking together toward collective solutions to ensure the permanence of this and future generations, the tenancy of vulnerable communities, and the right to return of those who could not stay.”

“If we don’t have a place to live, all the rest will go away; the essence of Culebra will vanish.”

Luis Daniel Lugo Orsini works at his food truck, Chicken Shack BBQ, which accepts six forms of cryptocurrency as payment, in Rincón, Puerto Rico, Jan. 13, 2022. Many Puerto Ricans say they can no longer afford to remain in their homes with outside investors buying up properties and driving up prices. (Erika P. Rodríguez/ The New York Times)

Disasters forced 2.5 million Americans from their homes last year

By AIDAN GARDINER

An estimated 2.5 million people were forced from their homes in the United States by weather-related disasters in 2023, according to new data from the Census Bureau.

The numbers, issued Thursday, paint a more complete picture than ever before of the lives of these people in the aftermath of disasters. More than one-third said they had experienced at least some food shortage in the first month after being displaced. More than half reported that they had interacted with someone who seemed to be trying to defraud them. And more than one-third said they had been displaced for longer than a month.

The United States experienced 28 disasters last year that each cost at least $1 billion. But until recently, the number of Americans displaced by those disasters has been hard to estimate because of the nation’s patchwork response system.

Understanding the human toll of disasters, not just the financial costs, is increasingly urgent as climate change supercharges extreme weather, experts say.

“A lot of people’s lives are disrupted by these events in small and large ways,” said Andrew Rumbach, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit group that focuses on advancing upward mobility and equity. “It has a really big cumulative cost that’s hard to capture. This, at least, gives us a snapshot of that.”

The displacement data were gathered

(Emily Kask/The New York Times)

in the bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, which aims to measure how emerging social and economic challenges are affecting Americans. The survey added questions about disasters in December 2022.

Those first results, issued in January 2023, showed that about 3.3 million people had been displaced in the year before. According to the latest batch of responses, collected in January and early February, 2.5 million said they had been displaced at some point last year.

The change from year to year is very likely a normal fluctuation, experts said, and may also reflect some limitations of the survey.

Different versions of the survey are sent periodically by text message and email to more than 1 million households at a time. The survey is self-reported and takes about 20 minutes. The number of people who respond can vary from about 40,000 to 80,000. The Census Bureau then assigns weights to the responses to make them representative of the broader population.

The Census Bureau notes that “sample sizes may be small and the standard errors may be large.” But experts say the results still provide some of the best available numbers on displacement.

“It’s a bit of a grain-of-salt number,” said Rumbach, who holds a doctorate in city and regional planning. “But at the same time, it’s a data set in a world where we don’t have a lot of good data sets.”

Hurricanes remained the most commonly cited cause of displacement, followed by floods and fires. Florida, Texas, California and Louisiana all had hundreds of thousands flee their homes.

A precise count of those displaced by disasters has been elusive because re-

sponding agencies and nonprofit groups only know how many people they serve, which leaves out displaced people who do not ask for help and communities that do not receive help at all. For example, the Federal Emergency Management Agency only responds to events that get a federal emergency declaration.

“That’s only a small portion of overall disasters,” Rumbach said. As an example, he pointed to floods that wreck a handful of homes and other so-called “low-attention disasters” that often affect more rural communities. “There’s no incentive for people to add up all of those,” he said.

But the Pulse survey tries to do that, Rumbach said, even though some researchers are wary about drawing very broad conclusions.

“The concepts themselves — What is a disaster? What is displacement? — are really left open to the interpretation of the survey respondent,” said Elizabeth Fussell, a professor of population studies at Brown University.

The survey lists fire among the “natural disasters” that could lead to a displacement, for example, and some experts say it is not hard to imagine someone selecting that after a house fire. Fussell also noted that while earlier federal surveys counted those who had permanently moved from their homes after a disaster, “displacement” in the pulse survey could refer to a daylong departure.

While respondents can opt to say they “never returned” to their homes, experts cautioned that the short-term nature of the survey might make the true number of permanently displaced people hard to discern.

The data also show that the people facing the worst disaster outcomes tend to be from communities with less political power and who are subject to discrimination. Black people and Latinos tend to be displaced most often, and poorer people tend to be displaced for longer, experts said. That is amplified for people in those groups who also identify as LGBTQ, according to one analysis.

“There are many federal agencies that are very well aware that climate change is happening and that it will manifest as weather-related disasters,” Fussell said. “There’s a need to understand the scale of those.”

The remains of a home after Hurricane Idalia, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., on Aug. 31, 2023. An estimated 2.5 million people were forced from their homes in the United States by weather-related disasters in 2023, according to new data from the Census Bureau.

Here’s where Biden’s climate law is working, and where it’s falling short

By BRAD PLUMER

Ayear and a half after President Joe Biden signed into law a sweeping bill to tackle climate change, sales of electric vehicles have largely boomed in line with expectations, according to a new analysis by three groups tracking the impact of the law.

But problems with supply chains, obtaining permits and overcoming local opposition have bogged down one of the climate law’s other big goals: generating vastly more electricity from wind, solar and other nonpolluting sources. Even though the United States added record amounts of renewable power and batteries last year, that rapid growth fell short of the levels needed to meet the country’s goals for slashing the emissions that are rapidly heating the planet, the analysis said.

When the law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, was approved in 2022, analysts predicted that it would help cut America’s greenhouse gas emissions roughly 40% below 2005 levels by 2030. The measure contains hundreds of billions of dollars in tax credits and spending for clean energy technologies like wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles and hydrogen fuels.

The law is meeting expectations in some areas and falling short in others, according

to the new assessment by researchers from the Princeton-led REPEAT project, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, the research firm Rhodium Group, and Energy Innovation, a nonprofit organization.

Electric vehicle sales are largely on track to help fulfill the law’s projected emissions reductions after increasing more than 50% over the past year. A record 9.2% of all new cars sold in the United States in 2023 were either fully electric or plug-in hybrid models, which was on the high end of what analysts had predicted would happen after the law passed.

It is less certain that automakers will repeat that torrid sales growth this year. Many of the most enthusiastic early adopters have already bought plug-in vehicles, while potential buyers are put off by high sticker prices and the relative scarcity of charging stations. Companies like Tesla are already warning that sales growth will probably slow in the near term.

Still, if electric vehicle sales only rise 30% to 40% in 2024, a noticeable slowdown from last year, that would be in line with the law’s emissions targets, the analysis found.

The picture for renewable power is mixed, however. Last year, the United States added a record 32.3 gigawatts of electric

capacity to the grid from solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. In many parts of the country, the tax credits provided by the law are making renewable sources of electricity cheaper to build than more polluting sources like coal or natural gas.

But when the Inflation Reduction Act passed, analysts had projected that the United States would add an average of 46 to 79 gigawatts of carbon-free electricity to the grid annually in 2023 and 2024. There are projects pending this year that would deliver about 60 gigawatts, but not all of them are expected to be completed on time, the analysis said. That means the country will be behind schedule in deploying new clean electricity sources.

The biggest obstacles facing renewable electricity are logistical, the report said. Wind and solar projects are facing lengthy waits to connect to the nation’s clogged electric grids, and it can take a decade or more to get permits for new high-voltage transmission lines and build them. In many parts of the country, new wind or solar farms are facing opposition from local residents. Plans for offshore wind farms have been bogged down by snarled supply chains and shipping restrictions.

These obstacles could pose an even bigger challenge over time. To meet the law’s

expected emissions reductions, the nation would need to add roughly 70 to 126 gigawatts of renewable electricity capacity each year between 2025 and 2030 — a staggering increase from today’s levels, the analysis found. Without major changes to permitting and transmission, neither of which were addressed by the Inflation Reduction Act, those numbers could prove unattainable.

“Tackling these non-cost barriers will be critical,” the analysis says, for the law “to achieve its full clean energy deployment and emissions reduction potential.”

Separately, the Inflation Reduction Act also provided hefty tax credits to companies that manufacture batteries, solar panels, wind turbines and other technologies in the United States rather than abroad. That provision has proved popular: Companies invested $44 billion last year in domestic clean energy manufacturing, with more planned in the years ahead.

Other aspects of the law will take longer to have an impact. There are tax credits for businesses that build advanced nuclear reactors or create hydrogen fuels using renewable electricity or add devices to factories that capture carbon dioxide emissions and bury them underground. While multiple companies are developing such projects in the United States, none have been built yet.

Aaron Rhodes, a technician with Solar Power of Oklahoma, secures a solar panel to a ground mount installation on a home in Norman, Okla. on June 29, 2023. The United States added a record amount of renewable energy and batteries last year, but more clean energy is needed to meet the country’s climate goals. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)

Biden mulling plan that could restrict asylum claims at the border

Asylum seekers and migrants board a Border Patrol vehicle in Boulevard, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2024. President Biden is considering executive action that could prevent people who cross illegally into the United States from claiming asylum, several people with knowledge of the proposal said Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (Guillermo Arias/The New York Times)

By HAMED ALEAZIZ, CHARLIE SAVAGE, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS

President Joe Biden is considering executive action that could prevent people who cross illegally into the United States from claiming asylum, several people with knowledge of the proposal said earlier this week. The move would suspend longtime guarantees that give anyone who steps onto U.S. soil the right to ask for safe haven.

The order would put into effect a key policy in a bipartisan bill that Republicans thwarted earlier this month, even though it had some of the most significant border security restrictions Congress has contemplated in years.

The bill would have essentially shut down the border to new entrants if more than an average of 5,000 migrants per day tried to cross unlawfully in the course of a week, or more than 8,500 tried to cross in a given day.

The action under consideration by the White House would

have a similar trigger for blocking asylum to new entrants, the people with knowledge of the proposal say. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

The move, if enacted, would echo a 2018 effort by President Donald Trump to block migration, which was assailed by Democrats and blocked by federal courts.

Although such an action would undoubtedly face legal challenges, the fact that Biden is considering it shows just how far he has shifted on immigration since he came into office, promising a more humane system after the Trump years.

Biden has taken a much harder line as the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has reached record levels and the chronically underfunded and understaffed asylum system reaches a breaking point.

Still, even if Biden tried to take unilateral action to cut down on the number of people claiming asylum, a lack of resources would still be an enormous obstacle to any major changes at the border. U.S. officials have said that they needed a massive infusion of cash to hire Border Patrol agents and asylum officers and to expand detention facilities.

A White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk about plans under discussion, said no decisions had been made.

But the people with knowledge of the proposal said Biden could cite his authority to act under Section 212(f) of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the president to suspend immigration for anyone determined to be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” Trump used the same authority to impose a ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries during his presidency.

Lee Gelernt, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who helped argue against the Trump effort, said his group would most likely challenge such a policy, depending on its details.

“The courts were emphatic that the Trump administration could not deny asylum based simply on how one entered the country,” Gelernt said. “Hopefully the Biden administration is not considering recycling this patently unlawful and unworkable policy.”

But a legal fight, regardless of the outcome, could allow

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Biden to try to neutralize one of his biggest political vulnerabilities — the chaos at the southern border. Republicans have repeatedly used the border crisis to portray Biden as weak on enforcement. A legal battle would allow him to spotlight Republicans’ refusal to provide him the power to crack down at the border through legislation.

The Biden administration has spent several years trying to curb migration, in part by limiting asylum for those who crossed through Mexico on their way to the United States. That policy made it more difficult for migrants to obtain asylum if they crossed through a third country on the way to the United States and did not apply for protections there.

But while the policy restriction raised the bar for migrants to gain asylum, U.S. officials cannot carry it out properly without the kind of resources Biden had hoped that Congress would approve. The failed bill would have provided billions in funding, including the hiring of thousands of asylum officers to process claims.

Some of the circumstances at the southern border are well beyond the president’s control, including historic migration across the hemisphere from Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras and other countries facing instability, violence and natural disasters.

But Biden is under pressure from both parties, not just from the usual Republican critics, to do something. And the crisis does not stop at the border itself: Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has sent busloads of migrants to Democratic cities far to the north, saying he wanted to “take the border to President Biden.”

Cities found themselves overwhelmed as migrants — often without coats, or family members in the United States — arrived. Leaders in the president’s own party started issuing cries for help.

That pressure has scrambled the politics of immigration in an election year, giving Biden much more room to support border measures once denounced by Democrats and championed by Trump. Biden has directly blamed Trump for using his influence over the GOP to kill the same bipartisan immigration deal that Republicans had been demanding for years.

Biden predicted in a speech earlier this month that Republicans would move to block the bill. “Why? A simple reason,” he said. “Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks this is bad for him politically.”

Anti-trans policies draw scrutiny after 16-year-old’s death in Oklahoma

By J. DAVID GOODMAN and EDGAR SANDOVAL

A16-year-old student in a small Oklahoma town outside Tulsa died after what police said was a “physical altercation” in a high school bathroom, drawing outrage from gay and transgender rights groups who said the student was attacked because of their gender identity.

The student, Nex Benedict, who often used the pronouns they and them, told relatives that they did not see themselves as strictly male or female. Under an Oklahoma law passed in 2022, students must use the bathrooms that align with their birth gender.

As of Wednesday afternoon, no arrests had been made in connection with the altercation, which occurred Feb. 7 in a girls’ bathroom at Owasso High School. Police said the case was still under investigation.

The apparent severity of the altercation, and the death of the student a day later, has focused national attention on how it is being handled by school officials and law enforcement.

The Owasso Police Department said in a statement Tuesday that no report had been made about the incident until after the injured student was taken to a hospital by relatives later the same day. At that point, a school resource officer went to the hospital, police said in their statement. The student was discharged and went home, but was rushed back to the hospital by Owasso fire department medics the next day, and died there, police said.

“It is not known at this time if the death is related to the incident at the school or not,” the statement said.

On Wednesday, police said in a new statement that preliminary information from the medical examiner, based on a complete autopsy, “indicated that the decedent did not die as a result of trauma.” The statement did not suggest a cause of death, citing further pending tests including toxicology.

No other student was deemed to be in need of outside medical attention after the incident, the school said in a statement.

The school district issued a statement Tuesday suggesting there had been “speculation and misinformation” about the circumstances surrounding the altercation, which it said lasted less than two minutes before being broken up by other students “along with a staff member who was supervising outside of the restroom.” The school said that all the

students involved “walked under their own power to the assistant principal’s office and nurse’s office.”

The school district said that parents and guardians of the students were given the option to file a police report after they were notified about the altercation, and added that any student who is found to have been involved “will receive disciplinary consequences.”

The district did not say what discipline was imposed.

A spokesperson for the school district, Jordan Korphage, said more detail could not be provided because of privacy laws, nor could the district provide information about any past reports of bullying against Nex.

“Nex did not see themselves as male or female,” Sue Benedict, a grandmother of Nex, told The Independent. “Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”

At a modest home in Owasso, a man who identified himself as Nex’s father said the family remained in mourning and declined to comment on the school’s handling of the incident. “We are grieving parents,” he said.

An online death notice described Nex, using their birth name, as a young person who loved nature, drawing and playing the video games Ark and Minecraft.

Melanie Atwood, 51, a neighbor two doors down from the family, said she remembered Nex as a young child who made Atwood cookies and liked to stop by to visit her cats. “It’s just terrible,” Atwood said.

Benedict said that after the altercation at the school, she was told that Nex had been suspended for two weeks. After coming home from the initial visit to the hospital, she said, Nex complained of a sore head. The next day, Nex collapsed at home and was rushed to the hospital, she said.

The family’s lawyers released a statement Wednesday saying Nex had been “attacked and assaulted in a bathroom by a group of other students,” and added that the Benedicts were praying for “meaningful change wherein bullying is taken seriously and no family has to deal with another preventable tragedy.”

The death renewed scrutiny of antitransgender laws passed in the state and rhetoric by Oklahoma officials, including the state superintendent for education, Ryan Walters, whose agency has been forceful in trying to bar what it calls “radical gender theory” in schools.

“It’s dangerous,” Walters said in a video

made by the agency last year. “It puts our girls in jeopardy.”

The video highlighted a fight in a bathroom the previous year in which, according to a lawsuit, a female student was “severely” injured in a fight with a transgender student.

Advocates for nonbinary and transgender students said that the state’s policy on gender and bathrooms had led to more reports of confrontations in schools.

“That policy and the messaging around it has led to a lot more policing of bathrooms by students,” said Nicole McAfee, the executive director of Freedom Oklahoma, which advocates for transgender and gay rights. Students who do not present themselves as obviously male or female find themselves questioned by other students, they said. “There is a sense of, ‘do you belong in here?’”

In addition to the bathroom law, Oklahoma passed a ban on gender transition care for minors last year. And in 2022, the state was among the first in the nation to explicitly prohibit residents from using gender-neutral markers on their birth certificates.

Last month, the state education agency drew outrage from transgender rights groups after it named Chaya Raichik, who runs Libs of TikTok, an account on X that has posted anti-gay and anti-transgender content, to

serve on the agency’s Library Media Advisory Committee, which reviews the appropriateness of school library content.

In 2022, Raichik reposted a video from a teacher in the Owasso school district who expressed support for gay and transgender students. The teacher was later fired.

“Chaya is on the front lines, showing the world exactly what the radical left is all about — lowering standards, porn in schools, and pushing woke indoctrination on our kids,” Walters told The Oklahoman last month.

Korphage, the spokesperson for the Owasso schools, said that students who identified as transgender or nonbinary would be treated “with dignity and respect, just like all students.”

He added: “Our goal is to be inclusive of all students regardless of race, gender, religion or background.”

Outside Owasso High School on Wednesday, students said the school had offered counseling to those who needed it, but that their classroom teachers had not addressed the national attention to the death of their classmate.

“There’s a feeling that something happened, but nobody is talking about it,” said Chris Turner, 18, a senior. “A lot of people have been acting different, and upset.”

Youths arrive to the campus of Owasso High School in Owasso, Okla. on Feb. 21, 2024, where a student died two weeks ago following what police called a “physical altercation” in a bathroom. The manner in which police and school officials’ have handled the death of Nex Benedict, who often used they/them pronouns, has drawn national attention and outrage. As of Wednesday afternoon, no arrests had been made. (Michael Noble Jr./The New York Times)

New freighters could ease Red Sea cargo disruptions

By PETER EAVIS

After the Houthi militia started attacking container ships in the Red Sea last year, the cost of shipping goods from Asia soared by over 300%, prompting fears that supply chain disruptions might once again roil the global economy.

The Houthis, who are backed by Iran and control northern Yemen, continue to threaten ships, forcing many to take a much longer route around Africa’s southern tip. But there are signs that the world will probably avoid a drawn-out shipping crisis.

One reason for the optimism is that a huge number of container ships, ordered two to three years ago, are entering service. Those extra vessels are expected to help shipping companies maintain regular service as their ships travel longer distances. The companies ordered the ships when the extraordinary surge in world trade that occurred during the pandemic created enormous demand for their services.

“There’s a lot of available capacity out there, in ports and ships and containers,” said Brian Whitlock, a senior director and analyst at Gartner, a research firm that specializes in logistics.

Shipping costs remain elevated, but some analysts expect the robust supply of new ships to push down rates later this year.

Before the attacks, ships from Asia would traverse the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, which typically handles an estimated 30% of global container traffic, to reach European ports. Now, most go around the Cape of Good Hope, making those trips 20% to 30% longer, increasing fuel use and crew costs.

The Houthis say they are attacking ships in retaliation for Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip. The U.S., Britain and their allies have been striking back against Houthi positions.

Some analysts have worried that the longer journeys could push up costs for consumers. But shipping executives now say they expect their operations to adapt to the Red Sea disruption before the third quarter — their busiest season, when many retailers in Europe and the U.S. are stocking up for the winter holidays.

The new ships account for more than

Lyndsay Hogg, a director at Hogg Global Logistics, a business in Hartlepool on the northeastern coast of England that arranges shipping for small and mid-size companies, said many of her customers were unnerved by the surge in shipping costs and some were delaying shipments.

“We do feel like people are nervous,” she said. “We have seen a downturn in bookings.”

Shipping a 40-foot container from Asia to Northern Europe, one of the routes hit hardest by the Red Sea attacks, cost $4,587 per container last week, 350% more than at the end of September, according to spot market data from Freightos, a digital shipping marketplace. (The average for 2021, when shipping lines were extremely strained, was $11,322.)

The stress in the Middle East has helped raise the cost of shipping even on faraway routes. The cost of going from Asia to West Coast ports in the United States is up 190% since September, according to Freightos.

one-third of the industry’s capacity before the order boom began, Whitlock said, and most will be delivered by the end of this year.

New vessels will increase the shipping capacity of the Danish shipping giant Maersk by 9%, according to Gartner, and some of its competitors are planning much bigger additions. MSC, the largest ocean carrier, is adding 132 ships, bolstering its fleet’s capacity by 39%. And CMA CGM of France, the world’s third-largest shipping company, will raise its capacity by 24%, according to Whitlock.

“It is, therefore, just a matter of time,” Vincent Clerc, Maersk’s CEO, told investors this month, “until the capacity issue is fully resolved.”

That relatively quick adjustment reflects the fact that the global supply chains are in much better shape than they were in 2021 and 2022. Back then, the supply of goods such as appliances and gardening equipment was constrained while demand from stuck-at-home consumers was strong. Ports, shipping companies and others were also struggling with shortages of workers, containers and ships.

Shipping analysts and executives also note that not every ship is taking the long route around Africa to avoid the Red Sea and

the Suez Canal. So far this year, an average of 30 cargo ships a day have gone through the canal, compared with 48 in 2023, according to data collected by the International Monetary Fund and Oxford University.

That said, the spike in shipping rates is causing real pain for smaller businesses that lack long-term contracts with shipping companies, leaving them more vulnerable to a sudden surge in rates for transporting containers.

They rely on what is called the spot market, where rates are well above where they were for most of last year. In 2023, shipping rates had fallen to pre-pandemic levels.

LSM Consumer & Office Products, a company based in central England, imports office supplies from China and India. Marcel Landau, its managing director, said his cost of shipping one container had jumped to $3,000 from about $1,000 before the Red Sea attacks. He can’t easily pass on the costs to his customers, he said, because his prices are set in contracts. As a result, he expects the higher shipping costs to eat up around half his profits.

“Last year, it was wonderful. It was just like business ought to be,” he said. “And then it began to go wrong when the Middle East situation began to blow up.”

The Red Sea disruption comes as far fewer vessels have been able to pass through the Panama Canal, which has been suffering from low water levels. That canal’s problems have also caused delays and detours.

Maritime experts say the detour around Africa is the main cause of the spike in shipping costs.

Container ships traveling from Asia to Europe are at sea around 20% to 30% longer than they would be if they went through the Suez Canal. This has in effect reduced shipping capacity. And with less capacity trying to meet stable demand, prices rose, analysts say.

Regulators are watching the situation.

They want shipping companies to make enough money to keep supply chains running smoothly. But regulators also say they want to protect the customers of shipping companies from price gouging.

Daniel Maffei, chair of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission, said he was concerned about fees and surcharges that shipping companies had added because of the Red Sea attacks and the drop in overall shipping capacity right now. But he added, “In the medium run, I’m less worried because of all these ships that are going to come online that will then increase the capacity.”

Ships under construction, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Oct. 27, 2022. Analysts and shipping executives say they expect costs to fall later this year as companies receive vessels they ordered two to three years ago. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times)

AI darling Nvidia’s bumper results send S&P 500, Dow to record highs

Both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial average hit record highs on Thursday after artificial intelligence darling Nvidia forecast bumper revenue, stoking investor confidence that also boosted other growth stocks.

Nvidia’s (NVDA.O), opens new tab shares surged 15.2% after the chip designer forecast a roughly three-fold surge in first-quarter revenue on strong demand for its AI chips and beat expectations for fourth-quarter revenue.

The benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab rose 2.04% at 2:02 p.m. ET, to an all-time high of 5,083.28 points.

Nvidia’s earnings were a major test for the AI-fueled rally on Wall Street that first pushed the S&P 500 (.SPX), opens new tab above the 5,000 point mark earlier this month. Some analysts had cautioned that disappointing results could spark a steep selloff among technology stocks.

“The whole package of Nvidia’s reporting lends a bedrock of credibility for other AI and technology companies as it clearly appears that Nvidia and AI are here to stay,” said Andre Bakhos, president at Ingenium Analytics.

The Dow Jones industrials (.DJI), opens new tab also breached 39,000 points for the first time in early-afternoon trading, as the positive momentum spread widely. It was up last up 425.67 points, or 1.1%, at 39,037.91. The Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC), opens new tab was up 452.29 points, or 2.9%, at 16,033.16, above the 16,000 mark for the first time since Feb. 12.

Nvidia was set to add over $250 billion to its market capitalization if gains held, beating Meta Platform’s $196 billion surge earlier this month in the biggest one-day gain by any company in Wall Street history.

The benchmark index will finish this year above the 5,000 mark, according to strategists in a Reuters poll.

Ten of the 11 major S&P 500 sectors rose, with technology stocks (.SPLRCT), opens new tab leading gains with a 4.2% jump. Utilities (.SPLRCU), opens new tab was the outlier, slipping 0.5%.

The S&P 500 growth index (.IGX), opens new tab rose 3.16%, headed for its biggest daily percentage gain since November 2022.

Shares of other companies, seen as beneficiaries of the AI boost, also got a shot in the arm. Nvidia’s rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O), opens new tab, server component supplier Super Micro Computer (SMCI.O), opens new tab and Arm Holdings jumped between 9.2% and 33.2%.

Synopsys (SNPS.O), opens new tab hit a record high earlier in the day after the software maker for chip designers after reporting estimate-beating earnings and outlook. Despite giving up some gains, it was still 7% higher in mid-afternoon trade.

The Philadelphia Semiconductor index (.SOX), opens new tab also hit a record high, jumping 5.2%.

Big Tech and growth stocks such as Alphabet

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(GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab and Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab rose between 0.8% and 4.4%.

Meanwhile, investors’ bets are tilted towards June as the starting point for the first rate cut from the Federal Reserve.

Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said on Thursday he would be looking at the totality of incoming economic

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data in assessing the time for the U.S. central bank to begin cutting its benchmark policy rate.

Data showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting a tight labor market.

Elsewhere, vaccine maker Moderna (MRNA.O), opens new tab jumped 15.7% after surprising investors with a fourth-quarter profit. The stock’s technicals also pointed to a bullish outlook.

However, Rivian (RIVN.O), opens new tab fell 26.3% and Lucid (LCID.O), opens new tab tumbled 16.1%, after the electric vehicle startups forecast 2024 production well below analyst estimates on slowdown in demand.

As Gaza death toll mounts, Israel’s isolation grows

demnation by international public opinion, which is unprecedented in breadth and depth, and which has spread to the United States,” Indyk said. “The Democratic Party’s progressive, youth and Arab American constituencies have all become angry and harshly critical of Biden for his support of Israel.”

Until now, President Joe Biden has not allowed international or domestic pressure to sway him. On Tuesday, the United States defaulted to a familiar role, invoking its veto in the Security Council to block a resolution, sponsored by Algeria, calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. It was the third time during the Israel-Hamas war that the United States vetoed a resolution putting pressure on Israel.

annexation” of Palestinian territories, including the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Most have been scathingly critical of Israel.

South Africa likened Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to an “extreme form of apartheid.” The South African government has brought a separate case at the court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.

On Wednesday, the United States once again came to Israel’s defense, imploring the court not to issue a ruling that Israel must withdraw unconditionally from these territories. A State Department lawyer, Richard C. Visek, argued that this would make a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians even more elusive because it would not take Israel’s security into account.

By MARK LANDLER

When David Ben-Gurion, one of Israel’s founding fathers, was warned in 1955 that his plan to seize the Gaza Strip from Egypt would provoke a backlash in the United Nations, he famously derided the U.N., playing off its Hebrew acronym, as “Um-Shmum.”

The phrase came to symbolize Israel’s willingness to defy international organizations when it believes its core interests are at stake.

Nearly 70 years later, Israel faces another wave of condemnation in the U.N., the International Court of Justice, and from

dozens of countries over its military operation in Gaza, which has killed an estimated 29,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children, and left much of the territory in ruins.

The huge swell in global pressure has left the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deeply isolated, if not yet bowed, largely because it still has the support of its staunchest ally, the United States.

This time, though, Israel faces a rare break with Washington. The Biden administration is circulating a draft resolution in the U.N. Security Council that would warn the Israeli military not to carry out a ground offensive in Rafah, near Egypt, where more than 1 million Palestinian refugees are sheltering. It would also call for a temporary ceasefire as soon as practical.

“It’s a big problem for the Israeli government because it has previously been able to hide behind the protection of the United States,” said Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel. “But now Biden is signaling that Netanyahu can no longer take that protection for granted.”

“There is a broader context of con-

Since the United Nations was established in 1945, three years before the state of Israel, the United States has used its veto more than 40 times to shield Israel from the Security Council. In the U.N. General Assembly, where the Americans are just another vote, resolutions against Israel are commonplace. Last December, the assembly voted 153-10, with 23 abstentions, for an immediate ceasefire.

“As far as Israelis are concerned, these organizations are stacked against us,” Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, said of the U.N., the International Court of Justice, and other bodies. “What they do doesn’t impact us strategically, tactically or operationally.”

But Oren acknowledged that any break with the United States, its largest supplier of weapons, powerful political ally, and principal international defender, would be a “a whole different kettle of fish.”

While Israel has been under heavy pressure since the opening days of its offensive in Gaza, the chorus of voices from foreign capitals has grown thunderous in recent days. In London, the opposition Labour Party called for an immediate cease-fire Tuesday, shifting its position from that of the governing Conservative Party, under pressure from its members and from other opposition parties.

Perhaps the most striking display of Israel’s isolation is at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where representatives of 52 countries are lining up to this week offer arguments in a case examining the legality of Israel’s “occupation, settlement and

But America’s was a lonely voice, with only Britain offering a similar argument.

“The truth is the very opposite,” said Philippe Sands, a human rights lawyer who spoke on behalf of the Palestinians. Noting that the court had already confirmed the Palestinian right to self-determination, he said, “The function of this court — of these judges, of you — is to state the law: to spell out the legal rights and obligations that will allow a just solution in the future.”

A ruling by the International Court of Justice would be advisory only, and Israel has declined to attend these proceedings. But Israel’s defiance of international bodies does not mean it completely ignores them.

The Israeli government initially dismissed South Africa’s genocide claim as “despicable and contemptuous.” There were reports that Netanyahu wanted to send Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer who defended former President Donald Trump and financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to present Israel’s case — a choice that some said would have turned the hearing into a circus. In the end, it sent a high-powered legal team, led by a respected Australian-Israeli lawyer, Tal Becker, who argued that South Africa had presented “a sweeping counterfactual description” of the conflict.

In an interim ruling in early February, the court ordered Israel to prevent and punish public statements that constitute incitements to genocide and to ensure humanitarian aid gets into Gaza. But it did not grant a key South African request: that Israel suspend its military campaign.

Israeli soldiers during an escorted tour by the military for international journalists in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. A worsening humanitarian crisis has brought a wave of condemnation against Israel’s ongoing military operation and is testing the support of even its staunchest ally, the United States. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)

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Did climate change worsen Chile’s wildfires? Not this time, researchers say.

By DELGER ERDENESANAA

Climate change probably did not make the deadly wildfires that swept across part of Chile this month any more likely, according to a group of climate scientists and meteorologists who specialize in the rapid analysis of weather-related disasters.

Central Chile has been in the grip of a prolonged drought for more than a decade. On top of these dry conditions, the region experienced an intense heat wave at the beginning of February that raised the risk of wildfires.

According to the new analysis by the group, World Weather Attribution, the probability of these conditions, specifically for the coastal region of Chile where the fires occurred, is now about 3% in any given year. That risk is not significantly higher than it was before humancaused climate change.

The fires hit the area around the coastal city of Viña del Mar. More than 130 people died in the fires, which destroyed more than 7,000 homes and burned more than 70,000 acres. People living in poorer, informal settlements suffered the most damage.

The researchers also did not detect a significant influence from El Nino, the natural climate pattern that warms the Eastern Pacific on a cyclical basis, sometimes for several months and sometimes for a few years at a time. The Pacific Ocean has been in El Nino formation since June.

“In this particular region, for these particular fire conditions, we found that neither climate change nor El Nino played a significant role,” Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London and an author of the study, said at a briefing for reporters Wednesday.

The study noted, however, that if the planet were to warm more than 2 degrees Celsius above its average preindustrial temperature, the likelihood of similar fire conditions would rise. The planet has currently warmed by about 1.2 degrees Celsius.

Other recent research has found that, across central Chile more broadly, both El Nino and climate change have contributed to increasingly intense wildfires in recent years. According to a separate study published this year, six of the country’s seven most destructive fire seasons have happened within the past 10 years, with nearly three times as much land burned during

2014-23 than in 1981-2010.

Raúl R. Cordero, the lead author of this study, said in an interview that he disagreed with World Weather Attribution’s finding that El Nino did not play a significant role.

“El Nino is occurring a few thousand kilometers away from this particular location,” a short distance on a planetary scale, he noted.

The Chilean authorities know that they should expect hotter temperatures and higher wildfire risks during El Nino summers, and officials dedicated additional firefighting resources to the central part of the country months in advance. The extreme conditions in early February, however, made the fires “unstoppable,” said Cordero, a climate scientist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and at the University of Santiago in Chile.

The complication when studying the area around Viña del Mar is that it’s meteorologically unique: Temperatures on Chile’s coast are influenced by global warming and also by El Nino and by a separate cooling effect from the Pacific. Climate change has led to stronger winds there, paradoxically causing more cold water from deeper in the ocean to churn up to the surface

and cool the coast.

World Weather Attribution uses climate models to compare the likelihood and intensity of extreme weather now with similar events on a simulated Earth before climate change. Because of this region’s complexity, only five climate models were able to represent the local weather well. Typically, the group’s studies would involve anywhere from 20 to 70 models, Otto said.

Climate change is affecting this region, the researchers explained, and is producing multiple competing effects.

“At 1.2 degrees Celsius of warming, this complex pattern of trends results in neither decrease nor increase in the surface weather conditions that drive wildfires,” Tomás CarrascoEscaff, a climate researcher at the University of Chile and another author of the study, said at the briefing Wednesday.

Factors other than weather, such as land use and management, also play a major role and could push the probability of similar wildfires higher, the researchers said. Single-species plantations of flammable pine and eucalyptus trees have replaced native, more fire-resistant ecosystems in many parts of Chile, including around Viña del Mar.

In Latin America, guards don’t control prisons, gangs do

By MARIA ABI-HABIB, ANNIE CORREAL and JACK NICAS

Ecuador’s military was sent in to seize control of the country’s prisons last month after two major gang leaders escaped and criminal groups quickly set off a nationwide revolt that paralyzed the country.

In Brazil last week, two inmates with connections to a major gang became the first to escape from one of the nation’s five maximum-security federal prisons, officials said.

Officials in Colombia have declared an emergency in its prisons after two guards were killed and several more targeted in what the government said was retaliation for its crackdown on major criminal groups.

Inside prisons across Latin America, criminal groups exercise unchallenged authority over prisoners, extracting money from them to buy protection or basic necessities including food.

The prisons also act as a safe haven of sorts for incarcerated criminal leaders to remotely run their criminal enterprises on the outside, ordering killings, orchestrating the smuggling of drugs to the United States and Europe and directing kidnappings and extortion of local businesses.

When officials attempt to curtail the power criminal groups exercise from behind bars, their leaders often deploy members on the outside to push back.

“The principal center of gravity, the nexus of control of organized crime, lies within the prison compounds,” said Mario Pazmiño, a retired colonel and former director of intelligence for Ecuador’s army, and an analyst on security matters.

“That’s where let’s say the management positions are, the command positions,” he added. “It is where they give the orders and dispensations for gangs to terrorize the country.”

Latin America’s prison population has exploded over the past two decades, driven by stricter crime measures including pretrial detentions, but governments across the region have not spent enough to handle the surge and instead have often relinquished control to inmates, experts on penal systems say.

Those sent to prison are often left with one choice: Join a gang or face their wrath.

As a result, prisons have become crucial recruitment centers for Latin America’s largest and most violent cartels and gangs, strengthening their grip on society instead of weakening it.

Prison officials, who are underfunded, outnumbered, overwhelmed and frequently paid off, have largely given in to gang leaders in many prisons in exchange for a fragile peace.

Criminal groups fully or partly control well more than half of Mexico’s 285 prisons, according to experts, while in Brazil the government often divides up penitentiaries based on gang affiliation in a bid to avoid unrest. In Ecuador, experts say most of the country’s 36 prisons are under some degree of gang control.

“The gang is solving a problem for the government,’’ said Benjamin Lessing, a University of Chicago political science professor who studies Latin American gangs and prisons. “This gives the gang a kind of power that’s really hard to measure, but is also hard to overestimate.”

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across the country’s jails, with dozens of inmates escaping, including the head of another powerful gang.

Gangs also ordered members to attack on the outside, experts said. They kidnapped police officers, burned cars, set off explosives and briefly seized a major television station.

Noboa responded by declaring an internal armed conflict, authorizing the military to target gangs on the streets and storm prisons. Inmates in at least one prison were stripped to their underwear and had their possessions confiscated and burned, according to the military and videos on social media.

The scenes were reminiscent of some in El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency in 2022 to tackle gang violence. About 75,000 people have been jailed, many without due process, according to human rights groups.

2010 to 2020, according to the Inter-American Development Bank, far exceeding the region’s 10% population increase during the same period.

Many countries have imposed tougher law and order policies, including longer sentences and more convictions for low-level drug offenses, pushing most of the region’s penitentiaries beyond maximum capacity.

At the same time, governments have prioritized investing in their security forces as a way to clamp down on crime and flex their muscles to the public, rather than spend on prisons, which are less visible.

Brazil and Mexico, Latin America’s largest countries with the region’s biggest inmate populations, invest little on prisons: Brazil’s government spends roughly $14 per prisoner per day, while Mexico spends about $20. The United States spent about $117 per prisoner per day in 2022. Prison guards in Latin America also earn meager salaries, making them susceptible to bribes from gangs to smuggle in contraband or help high-profile detainees escape.

Federal officials in Brazil and Ecuador did not respond to requests for comment, while federal officials in Mexico declined. In general, Mexico and Brazil’s federal prisons have better financing and conditions than their state prisons.

Ecuador’s prisons are a textbook example, experts say, of the problems afflicting penal systems in Latin America and how difficult they can be to address.

The riots in January erupted after Ecuador’s recently elected president moved to tighten security in the prisons after an investigation by the attorney general showed how an imprisoned gang leader, enriched by cocaine trafficking, had corrupted judges, police officers, prison guards and even the former head of the prison system.

President Daniel Noboa planned to transfer several gang leaders to a maximum-security facility, making it harder for them to operate their illicit businesses.

But those plans were leaked to gang leaders and one of them went missing from a prison compound.

A search for the leader inside the prison set off riots

The frequent use of pretrial detentions across the region to combat crime has left many people languishing in jail for months and even years waiting to be tried, human rights groups say. The practice has fallen particularly hard on the poorest, who cannot afford lawyers and face a tortoise-like judicial system with cases backed up for years.

In the first seven months of El Salvador’s state of emergency, 84% of all those arrested were in pretrial detention, and nearly half of Mexico’s prison population is still awaiting trial.

“Prisons can be defined as exploitation centers for poor people,” said Elena Azaola, a scholar in Mexico who has studied the country’s prison system for 30 years.

“Some have been imprisoned for 10 or 20 years without trial,’’ she added. “Many go out worse than when they came in.”

In fact, prisons in some Latin American countries are to some extent a revolving door.

About 40% of prisoners in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Chile are released only to be incarcerated again. While the recidivism rate is much higher in the United States, in Latin America many people locked up for minor, sometimes nonviolent offenses go on to commit more serious crimes, experts say, largely because petty criminals share prison cells with more serious offenders.

Both of Brazil’s largest gangs — the Red Command and the First Capital Command — actually began in prisons, which remain their centers of power.

Jefferson Quirino, a former gang member who completed five separate detentions in Rio’s prisons, said gangs controlled every prison he was in. In some, inmates often focused on running gang business outside the prison using the numerous cellphones they sneaked in, often with the help of guards who were bought off.

The gangs have such sway in Brazil’s prisons, where the authorities themselves often divide prisons by gang affiliation, that officials force new prisoners to pick a side, to limit violence.

“The first question they ask you is: ‘What gang do you belong to?’” said Quirino, who runs a program that helps keep poor children out of gangs. “In other words, they need to understand where to place you within the system, because otherwise you’ll die.”

Gang members at a prison in Sonsonate, El Salvador Feb. 23, 2012. Inside prisons across Latin America, criminal groups exercise unchallenged authority over prisoners, extracting money from them to buy protection or basic necessities, like food. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)

What the Ukraine aid debate is really about

By ROSS DOUTHAT

Over the weekend Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio went to the Munich Security Conference to play an unpopular part — a spokesperson, at a gathering of the Western foreign policy establishment, for the populist critique of American support for Ukraine’s war effort.

If you were to pluck a key phrase from his comments, it would be “world of scarcity,” which Vance used five times to describe the American strategic situation: stretched by our global commitments, unable to support Ukraine while simultaneously maintaining our position in the Middle East and preparing for a war in East Asia and therefore forced to husband our resources and expect our allies in Europe to counter Russia’s armaments and ambitions.

In my Saturday column I wrote about the tensions in the hawkish case for U.S. spending on Ukraine, the tendency for the argument to veer from boosterism (“We’ve got Putin on the ropes!”) to doomsaying (“Putin’s getting stronger every day!”) while describing the same strategic landscape.

The case Vance pressed in Munich is more consistent, and its premises — not isolationist but Asia-first, more concerned about the Taiwan Strait than the Donbas — have supplied the common ground for Republican critics of our Ukraine policy since early in the war. But consistency is not the same as correctness, and it’s worth looking for a mo -

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ment at why this kind of argument makes Ukraine hawks so frustrated.

In part, there’s a suspicion that some of the people making an Asia-first case don’t fully believe it, that it’s just a more respectable way of sloughing off American obligations and that if the conservative base or Donald Trump decided it wasn’t worth fighting for Taiwan, many Chinahawk Republicans would come up with some excuse to justify inaction.

But assuming good faith — and whatever the calculations of Republican politicians, many China hawks are entirely on the level — there’s also the problem that this argument privileges hypothetical aggression over real aggression, a potential war over a current one, “contingencies in East Asia” (to quote Vance, again) over an actuality in Eastern Europe. We can’t do everything to stop Vladimir Putin today because of something Beijing might conceivably do tomorrow is the fundamental claim, and you can see why people chafe at it.

Indeed, despite agreeing with the overall Asia-first assessment, I chafe at it myself — enough to think that the Biden administration made the right call backing Ukraine initially and that a sharp cutoff in aid would be a mistake even if we should be seeking an armistice.

But weighing contingencies against actuality is always part of what statesmen have to do. And the weighing that prioritizes Taiwan over Ukraine, danger in East Asia over actual war in Europe, depends on two presumptions that are worth making explicit and discussing.

The first is that China is serious not just about taking Taiwan but also about doing it soon. If you think China’s military buildup and bellicosity are signaling potential annexation in some distant future, then there’s no immediate trade-off between Europe and the Pacific. Instead, in that case it becomes reasonable to think that defeating Putin in the 2020s will give Beijing pause in the 2030s and that the long-term commitment to military production required to arm Ukraine for victory will also help deter China 10 years hence.

But suppose that the peril is much closer, that Beijing’s awareness of its long-term challenges makes it more likely to gamble while America is tied down by other crises, internally divided and potentially headed for four years of limited presidential capacity under either party’s nominee. In that case our potential strengths in 10 years are irrelevant, and the fact that we’re currently building anti-tank and antiaircraft missiles only to burn through them, adding more than $7 in new spending on Ukraine for every $1 dollar in spending related to our Asian and Australian allies and tethering military and diplomatic attention to a trench war in Eastern Europe, means that we’re basically inviting the Chinese to make their move, and soon.

Which in turn brings us to the second presumption: that Taiwan falling to its imperial neighbor would change the world for the worse on a greater scale than Ukraine

ceding territory or even facing outright defeat.

If you see the two countries as essentially equivalent, both American clients but not formal NATO-style allies, both democracies vulnerable to authoritarian great-power neighbors, then there’s a stronger case for doing everything for Ukraine when it’s immediately threatened, regardless of the consequences for Taiwan.

But they are not equivalent. The American commitment to Taiwan goes back almost 70 years, and for all that we’ve cultivated ambiguity since the Nixon era, the island is still understood to be under the American umbrella in a way that’s never been true of Ukraine. Taiwan is also a mature democracy in a way that Ukraine is not, which means its conquest would represent a much more stark form of rollback for the liberal democratic world. And Taiwan’s semiconductor industry makes it a much greater economic prize than Ukraine, more likely to hurl the world into recession if the industry is destroyed in a war or grant Beijing newfound power if it’s simply absorbed into China’s industrial infrastructure.

Just as important, China is not equivalent to Russia. The latter is a menace but one that — as Vance argues — should theoretically be containable and deterrable, even without American involvement, by a Europe whose gross domestic product absolutely dwarfs Russia’s.

By contrast, China’s wealth and potential hard power dwarf all its Asian neighbors, and its conquest of Taiwan would enable a breakout for its naval strength, a much wider projection of authoritarian influence and a reshuffling of economic relationships in Asia and around the world.

For an in-depth argument about these kinds of consequences, I recommend “The Taiwan Catastrophe” by Andrew S. Erickson, Gabriel B. Collins and Matt Pottinger in Foreign Affairs. You don’t have to be convinced by every piece of their analysis to grasp the potential stakes. If a Russian victory in Ukraine would feed authoritarian ambitions, a Chinese victory would supercharge them. If Ukraine’s defeat would hurt American interests, Taiwan’s fall would devastate them.

Which makes the first presumption the dispositive one. If you’re seeking full victory in Ukraine, signing up for years of struggle in which Taiwan will be a secondary priority, your choice basically requires betting on China’s aggressive intentions being a problem for much later — tomorrow’s threat, not today’s.

Unlike the Ukraine hawks, I would not take that bet. Unlike the doves, I would not simply cut off the Ukrainians. There is a plausible path between those options, in which aid keeps flowing while the United States pursues a settlement and pivot. But a great deal hangs on whether that narrow way can be traversed: not just for Ukraine or for Taiwan but also for the American imperium as we have known it, the world-bestriding power that we’ve taken for granted for too long.

Gobernador dice jefes de agencia están listos para comenzar evaluación del presupuesto para el próximo año fiscal

HUMACAO – El gobernador Pedro Rafael Pierluisi

Urrutia dijo esta semana que instruyó a los jefes de agencia comenzar la discusión del presupuesto ante la Comisión de Hacienda de la Cámara de Representantes, en lo que la Junta de Control Fiscal culmina su proceso evaluativo.

“En cuanto al proceso presupuestario, es que hay dos cosas corriendo de forma paralela, está la elaboración de un plan fiscal y la elaboración del próximo presupuesto. El plan fiscal usualmente va primero, porque el plan fiscal es el que establece los montos que se espera que el gobierno va a estar desembolsando en un término de como 5 años y estima los ingresos que va a tener el gobierno por ese mismo término de tiempo. Así que eso es lo que está sucediendo. La Junta está enfocada ahora mismo en el plan fiscal. Tan pronto culmine eso, se enfocará en el presupuesto. Pero veo con buenos ojos que la Asamblea Legislativa, particularmente la Cámara, va a estar llevando a cabo vistas públicas, porque mi directriz a los jefes de agencia es que a base de la información que tenemos disponible que acudan esas vistas públicas y le provean a la Cámara su visión en cuanto a los recursos necesarios para operar”,

dijo el gobernador a preguntas de la prensa.

“O sea que nosotros vamos a seguir haciendo el trabajo junto a la Cámara en lo que la Junta elabora el presupuesto que se le someterá a la Asamblea Legislativa en su día. Yo estimo que la Junta debe estar sometiendo ese presupuesto, esto lo tendremos que verificar, pero si mal no recuerdo, estamos hablando de como hacia finales de abril, es que se estaría sometiendo ese presupuesto a la Asamblea Legislativa. Sí, la fecha no es correcta, la corregimos”, añadió.

Pierluisi Urrutia entiende que no debe haber cambios mayores en la cantidad de fondos en el presupuesto para el año fiscal 2024-2025.

“Coincido con las expresiones del liderato legislativo, que he visto de que debe ser similar al del año fiscal en curso, esa es mi expectativa. Puede haber un alza, pero no, no creo que sea extraordinaria”, comentó el mandatario.

De otra parte, el gobernador le pidió a la Junta de

Ley Contra la Venganza Pornográfica de Puerto Rico es enmendada

POR CYBERNEWS

EL CAPITOLIO – La senadora del Distrito de Ponce, Marially González Huertas anunció en comunicado de prensa que el gobernador convirtió en la ley 43 de 2024, una de sus iniciativas que busca tipificar como delito menos grave la conducta de amenazar con difundir, divulgar, revelar o ceder a un tercero o terceros material explícito de la víctima, mediante cualquier tipo de comunicación, incluyendo comunicaciones electrónicas o utilizando medios de comunicación electrónica o cibernética; incluir la temeridad como elemento subjetivo del delito; aclarar las circunstancias agravantes y atenuantes aplicables al delito.

“Comprometida con buscar más y mejores herramientas para evitar la violencia, entendimos meritorio cobijar claramente a las víctimas que son amenazadas con que se difundirá, divulgará, revelará o cederá a un tercero o terceros material explícito de la víctima, mediante cualquier tipo de comunicación, incluyendo comunicaciones electrónicas o utilizando medios de comunicación electrónica o cibernética. Tras revisar el Artículo 4 de la Ley 21-2021, nos hemos percatado que

Control Fiscal que atienda la asignación de fondos solicitados por la Administración de Servicios Médicos (ASEM) para atender los acuerdos alcanzados con la Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT).

“Yo tengo una reunión semanal, ya sea los miembros de la Junta o el director ejecutivo de la Junta. En la última levanté el asunto del Centro Médico y mi equipo, tanto Omar Marrero (director de la Autoridad de Asesoría Financiera y Agencia Fiscal) como Juan Carlos Blanco (director de la Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto) han estado llevando el mensaje de que es crucial, es urgente que la Junta le conceda un aumento significativo al personal que labora en el Centro Médico, es decir, la Junta todavía no ha respondido. Yo lo que exhortó a la Junta es que acabe de responder porque el Centro Médico es una facilidad crítica, no queremos que se entorpezca su labor, se interrumpa su labor. Sé que tenemos un plan para atender un paro si es que surge, pero mi esperanza es que la Junta responda con algo concreto, con algo positivo”, expresó.

por iniciativa de la senadora Marially González

se omitió tipificar la conducta de quien amenaza a la víctima, pero que aún no ha tomado una acción afirmativa para difundir, divulgar, revelar o ceder a un tercero o terceros el material explícito de la víctima” mencionó la vicepresidenta del senado.

“Toda persona que, sin autorización de la víctima, a propósito, con conocimiento o temerariamente menoscabe la intimidad de esta, difunda, divulgue, revele o ceda a un tercero o terceros material explícito de

la víctima, mediante cualquier tipo de comunicación, incluyendo comunicaciones electrónicas o utilizando medios de comunicación electrónica o cibernética, incurrirá en delito grave y será sancionado con pena de reclusión por un término fijo de tres (3) años. De mediar alguna de las circunstancias agravantes establecidas en el Código Penal de Puerto Rico o en las Reglas de Procedimiento Criminal, la pena podrá ser aumentada hasta cinco (5) años de reclusión”, lee parte de la pieza legislativa.

“La protección de la dignidad del ser humano es un derecho cobijado por la Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. En vías de ser preventivos y desalentar cualquier práctica dirigida a la exposición de una “venganza pornográfica”, esta Asamblea Legislativa por nuestra iniciativa entiende meritorio tipificar como delito menos grave amenazar con realizar un acto afirmativo que pueda culminar en que se difunda, divulgue, revele o ceda material explícito de una víctima a terceros”, sentenció la líder de la región sur. La medida fue aprobada en el senado con 22 votos a favor, en la cámara con 45 votos a favor y firmada por el Gobernador el pasado 16 de febrero.

A top Oscar nominee, uneasy in the spotlight

By THOMAS ROGERS

After Sandra Hüller learned that two movies she stars in — “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest” — had been selected for the competition at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, she was a little apprehensive about what it might mean for her anonymity. The German actress has always had a prickly relationship with fame: Aside from her role in the bittersweet 2016 feature “Toni Erdmann,” she has mainly kept a low profile, working in German theater.

But what happened next outstripped even her boldest expectations. “Anatomy of a Fall,” a French drama in which Hüller plays a woman accused of murdering her husband, went on to win the Palme d’Or, the festival’s top honor, and “The Zone of Interest,” a Holocaust film, took the Grand Prix, or runnerup prize. The Los Angeles Times crowned her the “queen of Cannes,” and, in a few weeks, she will travel from her home in Leipzig, Germany, to Hollywood for the Oscars, where she is nominated for best actress, for “Anatomy.”

This attention has been challenging for Hüller — at times overwhelmingly so — and now she is grappling with what the nomination, and its accompanying scrutiny, means for her and her career. “It means being accepted into a circle of people I wasn’t in before,” she said, in a recent interview in Leipzig. “But I don’t know if it means success, or it will make anything easier.”

Sitting in a cafe with her black Weimaraner lying under the table, she was warm but a little guarded as she spoke about her newfound global fame. “I like my life. I like my apartment. I like my everyday routine. There’s no lack of anything that I had to fill. I wasn’t waiting for this to happen,” said Hüller, 45. “But it means that people now believe I can do things that perhaps they didn’t believe I could do before.”

It was also surprising, she noted, because “Anatomy of a Fall” is not a typical Oscars movie. An ambiguous exploration of language, gender dynamics and toxic relationships, it centers on the question of whether Hüller’s character, a German writer also named Sandra, pushed her husband out a window to his death. The movie culminates in a series of courtroom scenes in which a judge — and the audience — must weigh her potential guilt.

In an email, the director of “Anatomy of a Fall,” Justine Triet, said that Hüller was distinguished by “the absence of any kind of seduction both on and off the set,” adding that she “says what she thinks and is very direct.” This honesty, she said, “is probably what gives her such power on set: She’s real.”

“The Zone of Interest” offers a vastly different showcase for Hüller’s talents. In the movie, she portrays Hedwig Höss, the wife of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss, a woman luxuriating in domestic bliss right next to the extermination camp. In an email, Jonathan Glazer, the movie’s British director, said that Hüller was able to “extinguish her inner life” to “portray the basic lousiness of someone who has fully normalized the suffering of others.”

Hüller had broken her long-standing rule about not playing Nazis for the film, in part, she said, because she sensed that Glazer had deeply grappled with the sensitivities around portraying the Holocaust. She pushed back against criticism

that the film was overly stylized or too focused on the Höss family. “This film is exclusively about the victims,” she said. “I think viewers connect it with the suffering, not the perpetrators.”

Filmed in a set built next to the real camp, in Poland, Glazer shot with several static cameras simultaneously, sometimes not telling actors when they were rolling. (Hüller’s own Weimaraner plays the family’s on-screen dog.) The approach, Hüller said, was well suited to her stage background, because Glazer, who has also directed theater, “is not interested in the directionality of the camera, so we don’t act in a single direction.”

In a phone interview, Johan Simons — the artistic director of the Schauspielhaus Bochum theater, in western Germany, and a frequent collaborator of Hüller’s — pointed to a sign of her maturity as an actress in a scene from “The Zone of Interest” where her character preens in a fur coat taken from a Jewish victim. “I think every other actor would try to move the audience, so they have an understanding of this person,” he said. “But Sandra plays her as a woman without any depth or real feelings — because she is not trying for a second to be vain.”

“She is always aware that what she is doing is in service of something bigger,” Simons added. “She knows where she comes from.”

In the past two decades, Hüller has built a reputation as one of Germany’s most inventive stage actors. The country’s state-funded system, in which theaters hire performers as permanent employees, allowed her a steady income and, she said, taught her the importance of humility and teamwork.

“It’s a community,” she said. “If you see your dresser every day for years, you can’t just throw things in front of her.” She has applied a similar philosophy to choosing her film roles,

explaining that she only worked with directors who allowed for a collaborative approach, and “don’t turn actors into objects or test subjects.”

This philosophy explains her ambivalent view of her current situation. Hüller said she was horrified that reporters had tried contacting her family and school classmates to talk about her. “People believe you belong to everyone, or you have a duty to the public,” she said. “I can’t control it.”

Nevertheless, she was considering how best to take advantage of the attention, she said. She planned to make her stage directing debut this coming year in the city of Halle, eastern Germany, and was also “reading lots of scripts,” for new acting projects. She noted tartly that many of those centered on “marital conflict” in which she would play a “darker figure,” similar to her role in “Anatomy of a Fall.” She predicted “more interesting things will come.”

That could include something farther afield, she said — maybe even an action movie. Alongside her opposition to Nazi films, she said she was averse to any project that would “eroticize the gun,” but added, mischievously, that she was a “great shot” with air pistols as a child.

Whatever she did, expectations would be bigger than before. “I have realized what I love the most about my job is quietly working on something, then showing it, and then it being over,” she said. “That’s no longer possible. I’ve understood that.”

A best actress nomination changes everything — Hüller knows that. She just isn’t sure that’s a good thing. (Mustafah Abdulaziz/The New York Times)

Sandra Hüller in Berlin on Feb. 8, 2024. (Mustafah Abdulaziz/The New York Times)

5 science fiction movies to stream now

By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

Mad scientists, demanding aliens and paranoid androids make up this month’s science fiction streaming picks.

‘Badland Hunters’

A commando trying to retrieve someone from behind enemy lines is a common enough plotline. But Heo Myeong-haeng’s bananas postapocalyptic caper embraces B values — fast, furious, funny — so wholeheartedly that it is easy to overlook the standard-issue premise. A beefy hunter (Don Lee), his young sidekick (Lee Joonyoung) and their special-ops ally (Ahn Jihye) set out to rescue a friend (No Jeongee) from the clutches of a mad scientist (Lee Hee-jun) who has created invincible humans in order to save humanity.

Set three years after an earthquake laid to waste to Seoul, South Korea, “Badland Hunters” shares the same dystopian universe as Um Tae-hwa’s grim fable, “Concrete Utopia,” from last year. But the two movies stand alone, and “Badland Hunters” has traded the earlier one’s biting social critique for a broader humor and pure action — the spaghetti Westernstyle score by Kim Dong-wook sets the tone. Once again, a Korean film schools American producers and directors in how to make an effective, entertaining movie on a small budget. (Stream it on Netflix.)

‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’

Teenagers Adam (Asante Blackk) and Chloe (Kylie Rogers) meet at school and fall in love. That’s a pretty standard setup. Then they decide to launch a “courtship broadcast” of their romance to make money. OK, still with it.

Except that the audience paying to view is the Vuvv, an alien race that has claimed Earth as its possession. The Vuvv might be technologically advanced but they are fascinated by love — a concept completely foreign to a materialistic, fundamentally practical race that deals with reproduction the way it deals with food: mechanically.

This setup is rich enough to fuel an entire movie, but it’s only the start of Cory Finley’s surrealistically funny “Landscape With Invisible Hand.” The film, which takes place in the mid-2030s, feeds on

the mutually bewildering relationship between the defeated Earthlings and the Vuvv, an unlikely master race someone compares to a “gooey coffee table” — they communicate by flapping two of their paddle-like limbs. The film goes through a series of plot turns that all left me gasping in delight, and were boosted by a fantastic cast that also includes a particularly good Tiffany Haddish as Adam’s mother, and Josh Hamilton and Michael Gandolfini as Chloe’s no-goodnik father and brother. (Stream it on Amazon.)

‘Restore Point’

This might be projection on my part, but it makes sense that a movie about free will and whether or not the state or a private entity should make life-or-death decisions would come from a formerly communist country, namely the Czech Republic. Set in 2041, this techno-noir centers on a lone-wolf detective, Em (the icy-cool Andrea Mohylova), who tracks down a couple’s killer. She receives assistance from the murdered husband, David (Matej Hadek), who has been “restored” — a new technology that reboots people after death. How this all works, practically speaking, is a little fuzzy; best not to linger.

The main suspect in the case appears to be a terrorist group called the River of Life, which believes that death is a natural end point and should not be messed

with — David worked as a researcher for the Restoration Institute, which oversees the reboots. Director Robert Hloz works in a moodily bleak color palette — the sun never shines here, just like rain always falls in “Blade Runner” — and creates a believable near-future of soaring buildings, fancy screens, self-driving cars and, you know, resurrection. “Restore Point” is more interested in ideas than in world-building, most specifically in the ethical implications of technological advances. At one point, David tells Em that it’s now possible to insert new abilities (labeled “gifts”) into restored people, so you can come back to life knowing how to, say, speak Chinese or play the piano. Which sounds great, until you remember that historically, humans playing God tends to not end well. (Rent or buy it on most major platforms.)

‘T.I.M.’

The thriving AI-gone-wild subgenre grows yet bigger with this British movie in which a robotics engineer, Abby (Georgina Campbell, from “Barbarian”), lands a new job that comes with perks: a fancy smart home and a “technologically integrated manservant” who goes by T.I.M. (Eamon Farren). The unctuously subservient android immediately syncs with the house, then asks Abby for her passwords so he can assist her more efficiently. Because she works for the company that manufactures

the T.I.M. machines and she embraces tech, no matter how invasive, Abby readily agrees. Her husband, Paul (Mark Rowley), is less keen. Naturally, he will prove to be right (this counts as a spoiler only as if you have never seen a movie dealing with artificial intelligence, or blindly trust ominous synthetic humanoids).

Directed by Spencer Brown, “T.I.M.” breaks no new ground — many viewers will be reminded of last year’s “M3gan,” among others — but it is a satisfying thriller doubling as a cautionary tale about our trusting reliance on increasingly sophisticated devices. As Abby battles deepfakes, identify theft and the nightmare scenario of a superior processing power run amok, it’s hard not to take in her naivete and laziness, and shudder at the realization that many of us would have acted the same way. (Rent or buy it on most major platforms.)

‘Maboroshi’

If you think anime is a perfect place to find bright teen romances, you’re right. At least often enough: Mari Okada’s new feature casts an almost existential, unmistakably unsettling dark vibe on adolescent turmoil. The movie kicks off when the small town of Mifuse becomes isolated from the rest of the world — and from the normal flow of time, which has stopped — after an explosion at the local steel factory. A woman will be forever pregnant. The teenage Masamune (voiced by Junya Enoki) realizes that he will always be 14. Stasis sets in, until Masamune’s classmate Mutsumi (Reina Ueda) takes him to the factory, where he meets a feral little girl, Itsumi (Misaki Kuno) — her identity is the center of the final plot twist.

Okada, who also wrote the film, is mainly concerned with an angst simultaneously magnified and dampened by the impossibility to move on. “It was always winter,” Masamune says, “but we never felt the cold.” The people of Mifuse start doubting reality, and thus their very existence. Add references to gods and diverging realities, and it’s a lot to take in — I cannot pretend that I made sense of it all. But “Maboroshi” is oddly gripping in its own tormented, super-emotional way, like a song by your favorite eyeliner-wearing Goth band. (Stream it on Netflix.)

Don Lee in “Badland Hunters.” (Cha Min-jung/Netflix)

The twilight of the American sommelier

managers handling wine in addition to their other duties.

Sometimes, consultants manage lists and train servers to at least have a perfunctory idea of what they are now tasked with selling. The training job might even be farmed out to distributors who sell wine to restaurants. As a result, many wine lists seem not only more expensive but shorter, simpler and less inventive.

“Not so many wine lists are curated, and wine-by-the-glass lists have less precision,” said Étienne Guérin, a former wine director at M. Wells and Gage & Tollner in New York, who is now retail manager at Sotheby’s Wine on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Cedric Nicaise, a sommelier who is now an owner of the Noortwyck in New York, said wine lists were less creative and more “generic-looking.”

by raising wages. In many parts of the country, minimum wages rose, too, further increasing costs. Some restaurants even sold off parts or all of their wine inventory.

In addition, supply chain issues and inflation raised the prices of everything, from real estate to ingredients, goods and equipment. And wine itself has risen in price, beginning with the tariffs former President Donald Trump imposed on certain European foods and drinks in 2019. The tariffs were removed by President Joe Biden, but prices have continued to rise. The cost of real estate has raised the price of wine storage, and many restaurants have cut back on inventory.

By ERIC ASIMOV

Restaurants are bustling and dining rooms are buzzing. If you want a reservation at the newest and hottest places, you are out of luck unless you know somebody.

On the surface it seems that restaurants have safely emerged from the despairing depths of the COVID pandemic and the throbbing hangover that followed. Yet one key element that seemed essential in any serious restaurant before 2020 is often missing: the sommelier.

Wine is still poured at many tables. But the dedicated wine professional responsible for selecting and procuring bottles, assembling an intriguing list, training the staff, assessing a table and telling stories that turn otherwise unknown bottles into delicious adventures — those people are rarely strolling the dining room.

For many restaurants, the sommelier is now a luxury, nice to have but expendable in the blunt calculations of the postpandemic restaurant model. The highestend restaurants seem unaffected — diners at Le Bernardin in New York will still be greeted by a smiling Aldo Sohm and his team of ace sommeliers in their black

aprons with silver tastevins.

But underneath dining’s stratospheric level, many serious, wine-oriented restaurants are doing without. Instead, those positions once dedicated to wine are now often hybrids with servers, bartenders or

What’s made the sommelier expendable? The pandemic changed the economics of the restaurant business. Most obvious was a severe labor shortage. Many restaurant professionals, both in kitchens and in dining rooms, chose not to return, having found alternatives to the grueling hours and lack of benefits in restaurant work. Restaurants had to attract workers

While wine consumption has leveled off in the United States and other parts of the world, the fact that wine is enjoyed globally rather than in just a few countries means demand for good wine remains strong.

“There’s been a new awareness on the part of winemakers of what wine is worth, and you’ve seen price escalation across the board,” Nicaise said. “A dedicated sommelier is a luxury you don’t always need.”

For nearly 40 years, the trajectory of the American sommelier pointed to the sky. Before the early 1980s, only formal French restaurants offered such a thing as a sommelier. In that hard-drinking era, sommeliers were considered snobbish, condescending types who cajoled diners into overspending.

But pioneering American sommeliers like Kevin Zraly, Daniel Johnnes and Larry Stone presented a friendlier, disarming face. Diners came not only to trust their expertise but to rely on sommeliers to introduce them to new and different wines.

The presence of sommeliers became more common, even typical in the 1990s. By the early 2000s, restaurants like Veritas and Cru in New York were opening, where wine was so much the focus that diners knew the names of the sommeliers who served them, if not the chefs.

The 2008 financial meltdown was a gut-punch for the food and wine industries. But they recovered, and the 2010s

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Etienne Guerin, a former sommelier who is now retail manager at Sotheby’s Wine, in New York, Feb. 12, 2024. The sommelier, a job once regarded as essential in restaurants serious about wine, now seems like a luxury in the post-pandemic economy. (Liz Clayman/The New York Times)

Yumilka Ortiz, a sommelier at Cucina Alba, who said that the emphasis in restaurants has changed from hospitality to sales, in New York, Feb. 12, 2024. (Liz Clayman/The New York Times)

turned into a heyday for sommeliers. Social media won them recognition and movies like the “Somm” series, with its realityshow focus on passionate young wine lovers competing to earn certification from the rigorous Court of Master Sommeliers, made them into celebrities. They even became a flashpoint in wine culture wars as sommeliers were praised, or blamed, for championing little-known grapes and styles.

But then came the pandemic and all the difficulties that trailed in its wake.

“The pandemic was a tipping point,” said Eduardo Porto Carreiro, vice president for beverages at Rocket Farm Restaurants in Atlanta, which operates 23 restaurants in the Southeast. “It was taken for granted in many restaurants that there would be a dedicated wine person and thoughtful lists. Now, it’s a cherry on top.”

Before the pandemic, Zwann Grays had been the wine director at Olmsted, a small jewel of a restaurant in the New York neighborhood of Prospect Heights. When the restaurant reopened after the shutdown, it was a diminished place, serving only outdoors with a much smaller list.

“The necessity for a sommelier dwindled,” Grays said. She started serving tables for tips, a job she thought she had left behind. “It felt like you were going back in time. What you had fought for, your goal, it started to look a little bleak.”

Like Guérin and many other sommeliers, she left restaurants. She had started a wine club during the pandemic, and it was doing well. She did speaking engagements and corporate tastings, and even made a wine.

Just as restaurants faced an economic reckoning, the pandemic gave many som-

June Rodil, a master sommelier who owns June’s All Day restaurant in Austin, Texas, Feb. 14, 2024. (Nitya Jain/The New York Times)

meliers an opportunity to reevaluate their work-life balance. The restaurant life can be punishing. Hours are long and generally include nights and weekends. It’s tough physically, and difficult for families. Many seized the opportunity to change their lives.

“Somebody said sommeliers are like athletes, and there comes a point where you have to turn into a commentator,” said Joe Campanale, a former sommelier who

now owns Fausto and is an owner of LaLou and Bar Vinazo, all in New York. “It seems like something that people in their 20s and 30s do, less so in their 40s.”

Yumilka Ortiz is a sommelier at Cucina Alba in New York. She’s sold wine at retail shops and worked harvests in Italy and Spain, but she loves selling wine in restaurants, which she’s done in New York since 2015.

“The gratification of connecting with a table that learns something meaningful and is grateful, that’s priceless,” she said. “The fact that you can create a whole experience around a bottle of wine.”

Now, she says, the emphasis in many restaurants has shifted away from hospitality toward sales and volume. She spends more time multitasking and has less time to talk to guests and understand their needs and desires.

“I’m still holding on, I’m surviving,” she said. “But all these changes have me feeling uncertain.”

Porto Carreiro says hospitality requires more effort than efficient service. Since the pandemic, many restaurants simply don’t have the staff or time to engage in the work that goes into warm hospitality. They settle for service, and it’s not necessarily efficient. Updating wine lists often falls by the wayside as managers juggle other tasks.

“Sommeliers came under the category of hospitality rather than service,” he said. “It became a luxury.”

June Rodil, a master sommelier who owns June’s All Day, a restaurant in Austin, Texas, and is CEO of Goodnight Hospitality, which operates four restaurants in Houston, sees shortsightedness on the part of both sommeliers and restaurateurs.

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“Ten to 15 years ago, you could be focused on wine and not see the periphery or the bottom line,” she said. “Now you have to be multifaceted. Nobody who has a job does 100% of what they want to do 100% of the time. The ‘Somm’ films made people think it was a sacred job.”

Restaurant operators, she said, were narrow-minded in thinking sommeliers should be the first position to go. Wine and beverages have always contributed strongly to a restaurant’s prestige and bottom line. “They need to understand what that position can actually bring,” she said.

Johnnes, who is now wine director of the Dinex Group, Daniel Boulud’s restaurant organization, said that with so many restaurants suffering after the pandemic, he understood the need to cut back on sommeliers. Still, he believes they have a crucial role navigating through lesser-known wines to find good values.

“You can still find so much good, inexpensive wine,” he said. “That’s why you need a wine professional.”

It’s difficult to determine whether this shift is a long-term, structural change or whether it’s cyclical — one more reaction to an economic shock from which restaurants will soon come roaring back.

Paul Roberts, who once ran wine programs for all of Thomas Keller’s restaurants and served as CEO of Colgin Cellars, one of Napa Valley’s cult wine producers, says he believes restaurants and sommeliers will prosper again. But he is cautious, he says, because the world seems so unstable economically, politically and psychologically.

“We have all this great economic data, but people still think the sky is falling,” he said. “That may have to settle down before things can come back.”

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Demandados

Civil Núm.: FCD2017-0759.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA.

EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE

DEMANDADA, AL (A

LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por

separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 4 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Apartamento número ocho guion M (8M) localizado en el piso ocho (8) del edificio conocido como Mar de Isla Verde, que radica en el Kilómetro 2 Hectómetro 1 de la carretera Estatal Numero 187 en el Barrio Boca de Cangrejo, de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Dicho apartamento tiene un área superficial de total de mil cuatrocientos veintiuno punto veintisiete pies cuadrados (1421.27 pc) S entrada principal de hacia el oeste, y se comunica con pasillo comunal que da al vestíbulo común y tiene salida a los elevadores y escaleras que a su vez dan salida al exterior del edificio. Este apartamento tiene una sala comedor cocina y tres (3) dormitorios, cocina, closets, terraza un baño y área de lavandería. Colinda por el Norte, en veintiún pies seis pulgadas (21’6”) con el apartamento ocho N (8N); por el sur, en veintiséis pies seis pulgadas (26’6”) con patio de dicho edificio; por el Este, sesenta y nueve pies cuatro pulgadas (69’4”) con pasillo comunal; por el Oeste, en sesenta y nueve pies cuatro pulgadas (69’4”) con pasillo comunal. A este apartamento le corresponde un área de estacionamiento numero S guion cincuenta y cinco (S-55). Consta inscrita al folio 288 del tomo 568 de Carolina I, finca número 28,941, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. ESTA FINCA RESPONDE POR LA CANTIDAD DE $297,500.00. La Hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo 88 folio 971, finca 28,941, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I, inscripción 13ª. Propiedad localizada en: COND. MAR DE ISLA VERDE, APT. 8-M, CAROLINA, PR 00979. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre

del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: $ N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $297,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 11 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $198,333.33, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $148,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 18 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma principal $306,132.01 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $154,186.74 en intereses acumulados al 31 de mayo de 2022 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 7.7500% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $8,414.05 en cargos por servicio; $18,561.67 en fondos adeudados; $1,714.30 en adelantos; más la cantidad de 10%, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado en la suma de $35,000.00, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SU-

BASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de enero de 2024. JOSÉ R. CRISTÓBAL ORTIZ, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ENRIQUE VERGÉ HERNÁNDEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #960.

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REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING, LLC DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESIÓN DE HERMINIO

NAZARIO MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR EMILISA NAZARIO CORTÉS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE EMILIA CORTÉS CHÉVERE COMPUESTA POR EMILISA NAZARIO CORTÉS, LIZZETTE ENCARNACIÓN CORTÉS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES MUNICIPALES; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

DEMANDADOS

CIVIL NUM.: AR2019CV02372.

SOBRE: Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria. EDICTO DE SUBASTA.

AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL

A: SUCESIÓN DE HERMINIO NAZARIO MALDONADO

COMPUESTA POR EMILISA NAZARIO CORTÉS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE EMILIA CORTÉS CHÉVERE COMPUESTA POR EMILISA NAZARIO CORTÉS, LIZZETTE ENCARNACIÓN CORTÉS, FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Yo, ANGEL DE JESUS TORRES PEREZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Arecibo, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el 12 de MARZO de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 18 de diciembre de 2023. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 19 de MARZO de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 27 de MARZO de 2024, a las 9:00 de la mañana en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 1 de febrero de 2024, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte de-

mandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicado en el Barrio Hato Viejo del término Municipal de Ciales, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil ciento cuarenta y seis punto seiscientos diez (1,146.610) metros cuadrados y en lindes por el NORTE, en treinta punto novecientos sesenta (30.960) metros con terrenos de Eulalio Cortés Chévere; por el SUR, en treinta punto novecientos seis (30.906) metros con el remanente de la finca principal; por el ESTE, en cuarenta y seis punto setecientos treinta y cinco (46.735) metros con el remanente de la finca principal y por el OESTE, en treinta punto cuatrocientos veintiún (30.421) metros con terrenos del Sr. Roque Pagán. Enclava casa de concreto para fines residenciales de una planta de treinta pies de frente por treinta y cinco de fondo (30; 35”) con marquesina de catorce pies de frente por treinta y cinco de fondo (14 x35), compuesto de tres cuartos dormitorios, sala, comedor, cocina, baño, balcón. Finca Número 8,052, inscrita al folio 50 del tomo 168 de Ciales. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. Dirección de la Propiedad: SR 632 KM 1.0 INT BO. HATO VIEJO, LAS LAJAS, CIALES, PR 00638. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $204,673.10 en concepto de principal con interés al 4.02% anual, los cuales continúan acumulándose, así como la cantidad líquida estipulada en los documentos del préstamo para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en caso de reclamación judicial y que correspondan a intereses y cargos por demora posterior a dicha fecha, y la suma de $23,400.00 equivalente al 10% de la suma principal original pactada, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 207 otorgada el día 19 de mayo de 2009, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Jennifer Cór-

dova Cardona y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Ciales, finca número 8,052, Registro de la Propiedad de Manatí, Sección de Manatí. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos de América, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $234,000.00, con intereses al 4.02% anual, vencedero el día 3 de mayo de 2090, constituida mediante la escritura número 208, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de mayo de 2009, ante la notario Jennifer Córdova Cardona, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Ciales, finca número 8,052, inscripción 7ma. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $234,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $156,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $117,000.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las car-

gas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Si el producto de la venta fuere insuficiente para satisfacer la cantidad reclamada, se procederá a la ejecución de la sentencia en contra de la parte demandada por el remanente de las sumas no satisfechas, mediante embargo y venta en ejecución de cualesquiera otros bienes propiedad de la parte demandada en cantidad suficiente para dejar cubierta y totalmente satisfecha a la parte demandante cualquier deficiencia o parte insoluta de la sentencia dictada a su favor según dispuesto en la sentencia dictada en este caso. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conoci-

dad en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta en las mismas oficinas de este Alguacil, el día 20 de marzo de 2024, a la(s) 1:00 de la tarde. El tipo mínimo para la tercera subasta será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo que se pactara para la primera subasta, o sea, $229,000.00. Esta subasta se hará para satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde alcance, el importe adeudado a PR RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT REO, LLC, que al 19 de julio de 2022 asciende y se desglosa como sigue: (A) bajo el Contrato de Préstamo, según enmendado y el Pagaré Operacional I, una suma no menor de $311,495.17, la cual se desglosa en: (i) $194,984.97 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $116,510.20 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $32.05 diarios; (B) bajo el Contrato de Préstamo, según enmendado y el Pagaré Operacional II, una suma no menor de $266,341.13, la cual se desglosa en: (i) $161,389.13 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $104,951.74 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $26.53 diarios y; (C) bajo el Contrato de Préstamo, según enmendado y el Pagaré Operacional III, una suma no menor de $62,216.41, la cual se desglosa en: (i) $44,174.04 por concepto de principal; más (ii) $18,042.37 por concepto de intereses acumulados y no pagados, cantidad que se continúa acumulando hasta su total y completo pago a razón de $4.84 diarios. Además, la Parte Demandada adeuda la suma de $45,800.00 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado pactados expresamente por las partes, según se desprende del Pagaré Hipotecario y la Hipoteca. La venta en pública subasta de la propiedad descrita anteriormente se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte dicha propiedad. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si lo hubiera, al crédito que da base a esta ejecución, continuará subsistente, entendiéndose además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables. El Alguacil procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble, de

conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica a los titulares de créditos y/o cargas registrales posteriores, si alguno, que se celebrará la SUBASTA en la fecha, hora y sitio anteriormente señalados, y se les invita a que concurran a dicha subasta, si les conviniere, o se les invita a satisfacer, antes del remate, el importe del crédito, sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del Acreedor ejecutante, siempre y cuando reúnan los requisitos y cualificaciones de Ley para que se pueda efectuar tal subrogación. Y PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN en el tablón de edictos de este Tribunal y en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde se celebrará la subasta señalada. Además, en un periódico de circulación general en dos (2) ocasiones y mediante correo certificado a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada. EXPEDIDO el presente EDICTO DE SUBASTA en Vieques, Puerto Rico, a 16 de enero de 2024. Nelimar M. Peterson Vélez, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VIEQUES. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON, BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

DEMANDANTE V. ANGEL LUIS FEBUS RIVERA;

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

DEMANDADOS

Civil Núm. BY2019CV05418.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTE-

CA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.

AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLI-

CA SUBASTA. Yo, EDGARDO

ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil Supervisor de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados 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 27 de noviembre de 2023 y para satisfacer la cantidad adeudada de $118,999.49 de principal mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos el 21 de noviembre de 2019, notificada y archivada en autos el 26 de noviembre de 2019, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, mediante efectivo, giro o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil de

este Tribunal todo derecho, título e interés que hayan tenido tengan o puedan tener los deudores demandados en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el Municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número ochenta y ocho (88) del Bloque “B” según aparece en el Plano de Lotificación de Extensión Forest Hills, radicado en el barrio Cerro Gordo de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que comprende un área de trescientos treinta punto sesenta y tres (330.63) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NOROESTE, con los solares número dieciocho (18) y diecisiete (17), en una distancia de trece punto cero siete (13.07) metros; por el SURESTE, con la calle Atenas en una distancia de trece punto treinta y ocho (13.38) metros. Por el NORESTE, con el solar número ochenta y seis (86) en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros; SUROESTE, con el solar noventa (90) en una distancia de veinticinco (25.00) metros. Contiene una casa de concreto reforzado destinada a residencia. Inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Bayamón Sur, con fecha 6 de marzo de 2017; inscripción 9na; finca 17,468 del Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Bayamón I. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, en el caso de epígrafe, que se desglosan de la siguiente forma: $118,999.49 de principal más intereses sobre dicha cuantía al tipo convenido de 4.25% anual desde el primero de marzo de 2019 hasta su total y completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más cualesquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, recargos por demora, así como de cualesquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca hasta el pago total de las mismas, y la suma de $12,352.20 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $123,522.00 para la propiedad antes descrita. De declarase la subasta desierta y tener que celebrarse una segunda subasta el tipo mínimo serán dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio mínimo antes mencionado: $82,348.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado; $61,761.00. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el 11 de marzo de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una segunda subasta el 18 de marzo de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana. De no comparecer postor alguno se lleva-

rá a cabo una tercera subasta el 25 de marzo de 2024, a las 9:30 de la mañana. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón. Del Estudio de Título realizado surgen los siguientes gravámenes: Se designa esta finca como “Hogar Seguro” en virtud de la Ley #195 del 13 de septiembre de 2011, según Esc. #2 en Mayagüez el 10 de junio de 2015 ante Amelia Del Carmen Pérez Bosques, inscrita al tomo Karibe finca #34109 de Cabo Rojo inscirpción 4ta. Por su procedencia: Servidumbres a favor de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico, servidumbre de la Junta Reglamentadora de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico y de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica y condiciones restrictivas. Se 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 tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, 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 vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en la Secretaría del Tribunal. 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; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de los de-

mandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en la Sala de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 13 de febrero de 2024. EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. IDELIZ

RODRIGUEZ AVILÉS

Demandante v. FIRST EQUITY MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10727 (SALÓN 906 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

GLADYS I IZQUIERDO GARCIA

IZQLAW@YAHOO.COM

A: ZUTANO DE TAL Y FULANO DE TAL

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de FEBRERO de 2024. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 16 de FEBRERO de 2024. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario(a). f/ MYRNA D. VILLEGAS TRINIDAD, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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United States Superior Court of Record

DECLARATION OF FACTS, VERIFIED notice to principal is notice to

agent; notice to agent is notice to principal I, Axel Arnold Seda Rodriguez, am one of the people of the United States, hereinafter “sovereign”, and in this superior court of record declare before God, my Creator, that: I have first hand knowledge of the facts herein declared; I am competent to testify to the facts herein declared if called upon as witness; I am not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; I am not a U.S. citizen/CITIZEN; I am not citizen/CITIZEN of the UNITED STATES nor United States; I am not a citizen; I am not a resident; I reside nowhere; I have no intentions of residing; The people of the United States are sovereign; No court inferior to the sovereign has jurisdiction over the sovereign; “Where there is no jurisdiction over the subject matter, there is, as well, no discretion to ignore that lack of jurisdiction”. [John J. Joyce v. United States of America, 474 F.2d 215, 219] Joyce v. U.S., 474 F.2d 215, 219 (C.A.3 (Pa.), 1973). I object to any matter in which jurisdiction is not proven; “However late this objection has been made, or may be made in any cause, in an inferior or appellate court of the United States, it must be considered and decided, before any court can move one further step in the cause; as any movement is necessarily the exercise of jurisdiction.” Rhode Island v. Massachussetts, 37 U.S. 657, 718, 9 L.Ed. 1233 (1838). “The People of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them.” RCW 42.30.010, RCW 42.56.030. The United States Superior Court of Record, by motion and wish of the sovereign, does hereby grant the motion to ordain, establish, and proclaim throughout the land, by the sovereign’s own authority, sovereign’s cognizance of the law, and sovereign prerogative, that, nunc pro tunc ab initio, in all matters in any/all inferior court concerning the sovereign, the sovereign is always to stand as the Plaintiff, the party who initiates action against the sovereign is always to stand as the Defendant; Or, show cause at law why this DECLARATION OF FACTS is not consistent with law; or forever hold thy peace; VERITY: Declared before God, Creator of all People, in this United States Superior Court of Record, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing is true and correct to the best knowledge of the Sovereign. executed by:

Axel Arnold Seda Rodriguez, on date: nunc pro tunc, ab initio, at: RFD San German, Puerto Rico, United States in care of: Postal Box 5000-191 San German, Puerto Rico, United States 00683

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

IVAN MUNDO

CARRASQUILLO

Demandante V. SUCESION DE ALBERTO

PACHECO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

ROBERTO L. VARELA RIOS

INFO@LICENCIADONOTARIOPR.

COM

Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV07676 (SALÓN 906 CIVIL) Sobre:

COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: SUCN DE ALBERTO

PACHECO MATHEUS, COMPUESTA POR

X, Y Y Z COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA

SUCESION

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de febrero de 2024.

En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Myrna D. Villegas Trinidad, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE EDUARDO

TORRES RODRIGUEZ

Demandante V.

YANITZA MARIE

ALBARRAN BERRIOS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: PO2023RF00272.

(Salón: 302 - RF y Menores). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ELOY F. VERDEJO RODRÍGUEZ, ELOYVERDEJO_1@YAHOO.COM.

YANITZA MARIE ALBARRAN BERRIOS, ELOYVERDEJO_1@YAHOO.COM.

A: SRA. YANITZA MARIE ALBARRAN BERRIOS

PARA SER NOTIFICADO

POR EDICTO. PC. LCDO.

ELOY F. VERDEJO

RODRIGUEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de diciembre de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha 22 de febrero de 2023. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 22 de febrero de 2023. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. F/LIN-

DA A DAMIANI ECHEVARRIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA BAYAMON JOUSSY VARGAS AGOSTO (JOUSSY GAITHER)

Demandante V. MARÍA HERMINIA ORTIZ SOTO, SUCESIÓN DE IRIS MILAGROS ORTIZ SOTO COMPUESTA POR MIAN FERRER Y KIANA M. FERRER SANDRA IVETTE ORTIZ SOTO

Demandados CIVIL NÚM. CT2024CV00002 SOBRE: CONFIRMACIÓN Y RATIFICACIÓN DE COMPRAVENTA Y CONSIGNACIÓN DE FONDOS DE HEREDERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO

DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: SANDRA

IVETTE ORTIZ SOTO •

1128 SOUTH AVE APT

202 NIAGARA FALLS NY 14305

POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado el emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante, cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono, son los que se indican a continuación:

Lcdo. Juan C. Ortiz Arocho RUA 15,352 Urbanización Roosevelt #315 Calle Juan B. Rodríguez San Juan, PR 00918 Tels. (787) 282-8120 / (787) 200-7378

Email: juankortiz@aol.com Si usted dejara de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción lo entiende pertinente. Este caso fue presentado a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC). Deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar cualquier documento relacionado al caso en la secretaria del tribunal; con constancia de haber servido copia de la misma (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a esta si hubiera comparecido por derecho propio. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI

FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 15 de febrero de 2024.

Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Ixia B. Cordova Chinea, Sub-Secretaria.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. LUIS A. ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a)

KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM

CASO NÚM. : CY2022CV00405 (SALÓN 702) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA

POR EDICTO.

A: LUIS A ORTIZ

RODRÍGUEZ -BO.

BEATRIZ CAN 1 KM 49

HM 9 INT, CAYEY, PR 00736 I HC 71 • BOX 7031 CAYEY, PR 00736

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. F/Vionnette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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Demandante V. EDUARDO

VALERA CARO

Demandado(a) KEVIN SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW.COM Caso Núm. : AU2021CV00703 (Salón 0001) Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: EDUARDO

VALERA CARO

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de

circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2024. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. F/Erika Cruz Pérez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

JOAN MARIE

PLACERES JIMENEZ

Demandante V.

DORAL MORTGAGE LLC

Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

LISDAIRA SERRANO MARTINEZ

LISDAIRASERRANO@GMAIL.COM

DORAL MORTGAGE LLC

DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA, PUERTO RICO, 99999

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE

CORPORATION (FDIC)

DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA, PUERTO RICO, 99999

JOHNDOE

DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA, PUERTO RICO, 99999

RICHARD ROE

DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA, PUERTO RICO, 99999

Caso Núm.: CG2023CV02722

(Salón 802) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JOHN DOE

RICHARD ROE

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el

14 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de

30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. F/Liz Wharton Rosa, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN COMPULINK CORPORATION

DBA CELINK

Demandante V. ANA LUISA GARCIA VIERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) GENEVIEVE LOPEZ STIPES LCDA.GLOPEZ@GMAILCOM Caso Núm. : BY2023CV05901 (Salón 502) Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: ANA LUISA GARCÍA

VIERA T/C/C ANA L.

GARCÍA VIERA T/C/C ANA GARCÍA

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de febrero de 2024. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de febrero de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. F/Sandra Baez Hernandez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE

NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

LEGACY MORTGAGE

ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Demandante V. JUAN JOSE LEON SOTO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) ROBERTO CARLOS LATIMER VALENTÍN

LATIMERRC@LBRGLA W.COM

Caso Núm.: CG2022CV02489 (Salón 701) Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: JUAN LEON SOTO

T/C/C JUAN JOSE LEON SOTO, SU ESPOSA, RITA LIZARDI LOPEZ

T/C/C RITA MARIA

LIZARDI LO PEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. F/Eneida Arroyo Vélez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ANGEL EMMANUEL

MIRANDA SANTIAGO Y OTROS

Demandante Vs MARIA ELENA MIRANDA

RIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado

SOBRE: LIQUIDACIÓN COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: MARIA ELENA MIRANDA RIVERA DEMANDADA CON DOMICILIO DESCONOCIDO CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE DESCONOCE.

Se le notifica por este medio que en el caso del epígrafe se solicita la Partición de la finca 22593 inscrito al folio 231 del tomo 405 de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Caguas ya que los demandantes de epígrafe no desean continuar como comuneros y solicitan del Honorable Tribunal que se liquide el mismo mediante su venta y se divida entre los herederos y comuneros luego de restar deudas correspondientes a las partes y que ordene que la parte demandada pague los gastos y costas necesarias para obtener la partición de la herencia. 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. Pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a LCDO. EDUARDO SANCHEZ JAUREGUI-JIMENEZ 366 CALLE ESCORIAL, CAPARRA HEIGHTS

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00920 Tel (787) 603-1178, email: edusjj@gmail.com

Abogado de la Parte Demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que, de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 13 de febrero de 2024 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. LlSILDA Martínez Agosto, Secretaria Regional. Nannette Espinosa Castillo, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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CIVIL NÚM: CG2023CV04277

DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL ANGEL RIVERA RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR ANNIE JANET RIVERA MACEIRA; MARGIE RIVERA MACEIRA; FULANO (A) DE TAL Y SUTANO (A) DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESIÓN DE ANA MARIA MACEIRA T/C/C ANA MARIA MACEIRA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR ANNIE JANET RIVERA MACEIRA; MARGIE RIVERA MACEIRA MENGANO (A) DE TAL Y MENGANITO (A) DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. SA2024CV00019 SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. A: FULANO(A) DE TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE TAL, COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE MANUEL ANGEL RIVERA RODRIGUEZ MENGANITO(A) DE TAL Y MENGANO(A) DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE ANA MARIA MACEIRA T/C/C ANA MARIA MACEIRA RIVERA • BLOQUE B, URB. MONSERRATE BO. PUEBLO LAS MARÍAS, SALINAS PUERTO RICO 00751 • PO BOX 508, SALINAS, PUERTO RICO 00751-0508.

Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epí-

grafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Salinas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de febrero de 2024. Marisol Rosado Rodríguez, Secretaria. Daniella Ramos Cáceres, Sub-Secretaria.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO

DE CABO ROJO

Demandante V. EFIGENIO SANTIAGO GARCÍA

Demandado(a)

RAFAEL FABRE COLÓN

RFABRE@MCMLAWPR.COM

CASO NÚM. : SB2023CV00022

(SALÓN 0100) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO-REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. A: EFIGENIO

SANTIAGO GARCIA

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro

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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 14 de febrero de 2024. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 14 de febrero de 2024. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria. F/ Aurea Lugo Almodovar, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO

DE RINCÓN

Demandante V. GLENDALIZ PÉREZ

RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado(a)

JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍAS JGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM

CASO NÚM. IS2023CV00106 (SALÓN 602) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO.

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

A: GLENDALIZ PÉREZ RODRÍGUEZ • 1008

CALLE MONTERREY

SUITE 1, SECTOR CALIFORNIA ISABELA, PR 00662.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 10 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archi-

vada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de febrero de 2024. Notas de la Secretaría:

SE ENMIENDA PARA PODER SER EMITIDA NUEVAMENTE, SEGUN SOLICITADO POR

EL ABOGADO. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 14 de febrero de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. F/Zuheily González Aviles, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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Demandante V. EDGARDO ACEVEDO BADILLO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍAS JGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM Caso Núm.: AG2023CV01264 (SALÓN 601 CIVIL) Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: EDGARDO ACEVEDO

BADILLO DIRECCIONES:

CARR. #115 KM. 25.9 INT.

BO ASOMANTEAGUADA, PUERTO RICO 00602 • PO BOX 1044 AGUADA

PUERTO. RICO 00602

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de febrero de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 14 de febrero de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. F/Arlene Guzmán Pabón, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN TRUST

MORTGAGE CORP

Demandante V.

JOHN DOE Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

DAVID CARDONA DINGUI

DCARDONA@CM-PRLA W.COM

JORGE GARCIA RONDON

JAFGRONDON@GMAIL. COM

Caso Núm. : BY2023CV07234

(Salón 701) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MRCOOPER JOHN

DOE Y RICHARD

ROE (PERSONAS DECONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERES)

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el

14 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de febrero de 2024. Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 15 de febrero de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. F/Maria Collazo Febus, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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SAHIA LORLANA

SANCHEZ DIAZ

Demandante V. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RLCO COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHOS DE SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

JORGE GARCIA RONDON JAFGRONDON@GMAIL.COM Caso Núm.: CA2023CV03971 (Civil 402) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: FIRST MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC., JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTÉRES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2024. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/Lourdes T. Díaz Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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YANET PANTALEÓN INOA

Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK, ENTIDAD QUE ADQUIRIO

LOS ACTIVOS DE THE BANK & TRUST OF PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZ RDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM

Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV09491 (SALÓN 504 CIVIL) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE

COMO TENEDOR

DESCONOCIDO DEL PAGARE

(Nombre de las partes que se le

notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2024. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Martha Almodovar Cabrera, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO TRUST

MORTGAGE CORP

Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS

Demandado(a) JORGE GARCIA RONDON JAFGRONDON@GMAIL.COM

CASO NÚM. : GB2023CV00970 (SALÓN 201) SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE • CONDADO 3 LLC C/O MIDWEST SERVICING INC 3144 S. WINTON ED. ROCHES TER NY 14623. (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS) (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro

de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2024. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2024. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. F/ Sara Rosa Villegas, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE NAZARIA CRUZ LOPEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEV A MCOLON@WWCLA W.COM

Caso Núm.:. CA2022CV03551 Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO Y OTROS

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN-

CIA POR EDICTO. A: FRANK AYALA

CRUZ, POSIBLES POR SÍ Y COMO POSIBLE HEREDERO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NAZARIA

CRUZ LÓPEZ, JOHN DOE

Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE NAZARIA CRUZ LÓPEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación

Auxiliar del Tribunal.

por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de febrero de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 16 de febrero de 2024. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/Lourdes T. Díaz Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC.

Demandante V. MARTA MILAGROS

GARCIA GONZALEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEV A MCOLON@WWCLAW.COM

Caso Núm.: PO2021CV02946 (SALÓN 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR) Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: MARTA MILAGROS

GARCIA GONZALEZ Y JUAN LUIS MONTERO

GUTIERREZ; LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR MARTA MILAGROS GARCIA

GONZALEZ Y JUAN LUIS

MONTERO GUTIERREZ

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de febrero de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 6 de febrero de 2024. Carmen G. Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. F/ Ereina Agront León, Secretaria

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NAYDA I. RIVERA APONTE, SU ESPOSO REYNALDO ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; DAFNNE ROSADO RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ELLA Y SU ESPOSO MIGUEL ANGEL SEDA; RICARDO I. ROSADO RIVERA

Demandantes V. DR. RAFAEL MORALES SOLIS

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2023CV11764

SOBRE: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS; IMPERICIA PROFESIONAL; RESPONSABILIDAD HOSPITALARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. DE AMERICA. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: DR. RAFAEL

MORALES SOLIS

Queda emplazado y notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre daños y perjuicios; impericia profesional; responsabilidad hospitalaria por la vía ordinaria en la que se solicita se condene a la parte demandada DR. RAFAEL MORALES pagar a la Demandante, una suma total no menor de $1,350,000.00, por concepto de los daños y perjuicios sufridos, más los gastos legales, costas, intereses y una suma razonable por concepto de honorarios de abogado. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo Alejandro Bellver Espinosa y Lcdo Gerardo Ortiz Torres,

cuya dirección física y postal es: Cond. El Centro I, Suite 801, 500 Muñoz Rivera Ave., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 946-5268 y correos electrónicos: alejandro@bellverlaw. com y gerardo@bellverlaw. com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de febrero de 2024.Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria Regional. Yesenia Bey Betancourt, Secretaria Servicios a Sala.

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SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC, COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante Vs. ZORAIDA COLLAZO FERNÁNDEZ

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: BY2022CV05714

SALÓN: 501 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: ZORAIDA COLLAZO FERNÁNDEZ

– 600 BRISAS DE PANORAMA APT. 412, BAYAMÓN, PR 00957.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto.

Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI

FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de noviembre de 2023. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 30 de noviembre de 2023. Lcda. Laura I. Santa Sánchez, Secretaria. Nereida Quiles Santana, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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SALA DE COAMO

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO

AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs.

FIDEL ORTIZ MARTINEZ

Parte Demandada

CIVIL NÚM. CO2023CV00355

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: FIDEL

ORTIZ MARTINEZ • 19 BDA CAMBALACHE, COAMO PR 00769-2808.

• BO LOS LLANOS 284

SECTOR COLINAS

LLANERAS, COAMO PR 00769.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Coamo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de noviembre de 2023. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria Regional. Aida Luz Meryl García, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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Demandante Vs. MARGARITA

NAZARIO COLÓN

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: JA2023CV00049

SALÓN: 6 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: MARGARITA

NAZARIO COLÓN –

URB. LA MONSERRATE

APT. 19 CALLE E, JAYUYA, PR 00664 / PO BOX 722, JAYUYA, PR 00664-0722.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin. sanchez@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de diciembre de 2023. En Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, el 1 de diciembre de 2023. Diane Alvarez Villanueva, Secretaria Regional. Margarita Torres Matos, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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PENTAGON FEDERAL

Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CG2024CV00048. Sala: 802. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. En dicha demanda se reclama la cancelación un pagaré otorgado el 12 de enero de 2009, ante el Notario Osvaldo Toledo Martínez, a favor de PENTAGON FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, por la suma principal de $78,000.00, con intereses al 5.250% anual, vencedero el 1 de febrero de 2024 y otros créditos accesorios. Para garantizar el pago de dicho pagaré se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria mediante la escritura número 5, otorgada el 12 de enero de 2009, ante el Notario Osvaldo Toledo Martínez sobre el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Solar marcado en la dispensa de lotificación como Solar “A”, radicado en el barrio Tomás de Castro de Caguas, con una cabida superficial de 634.10 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 17.00 metros con una calle pública asfaltada; por el SUR, en 17.00 metros, con la señora K. Orcasitas viuda de Blondet; por el ESTE, en 37.30 metros, con el solar número 3 propiedad de Felipe Santos; y por el OESTE, en 37.30 metros, con el solar a segregarse de la finca principal, bajo la letra “B”. El solar antes descrito está afectado en su colindancia Sur, por una faja de terreno de 10.30 metros de ancho, la cual fue reservada para uso público, en el caso número 3-71-0262LS.” Inscrita al folio 25 del tomo 961 de Caguas, finca 32894, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I. La hipoteca antes mencionada consta inscrita al folio 55 del tomo 1727 de Caguas, finca 32894, Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección I, inscripción 8a. 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: http://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé 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 y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.

Greenspoon Marder, LLP Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido

R.U.A. 15,622

TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309 Telephone (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de enero de 2024. LISILDA MARTÍNEZ AGOSTO, SECRETARIA. ZAINA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. ZULEIMA RODRÍGUEZ

SEPÚLVEDA

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. HU2023CV01669

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S.

A: ZULEIMA RODRÍGUEZ SEPÚLVEDA

• 33 CALLE CANARIO, LAS PIEDRAS, PUERTO RICO 00771 • 428

RAMBLEWOOD WAY, WENTZVILLE, MO 63385 • 4140 PALMER PARK, CIR E #108, NEW ALBANY, OH 43054

Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda dentro del término

aquí estipulado, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia sin más citarle ni oírle. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Guillermo A. Somoza Colombani, P.O. Box 366603, San Juan, PR 009366603. Tel. (787) 919-0073, Fax (787) 641-5016. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 7 de febrero de 2024. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, Secretaria General. DALISSA REYES LEÓN, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO JOSEPH HAMILTON

HOFFMAN ANDUJAR

Demandante V. PUERTO RICO FEDERAL CREDIT UNION RICO; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y

JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y

CUALESQUIER PERSONA

DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA

CANCELACIÓN POR

DECRETO JUDICIAL SE

SOLICITA.

Demandados

CIVIL NÚM. RG2024CV00043

SOBRE: CANCELACION DE PAGARE EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES

TENEDORES Y

CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA

CANCELACIÓN POR

DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

radicado en la Urbanización Coco Beach del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar #6 del bloque “L”; área del solar: 356.83 metros cuadrados. En lindes: Por el NORTE, con la calle #5, en una distancia de 16.13; por el SUR, con los lotes #L-10 y L-11, en una distancia de 15.24 metros; por el ESTE, con el lote #L-7, en una distancia de 22.75 metros y por el OESTE, con el lote #L-5, en una distancia de 22.75 metros. Contiene una servidumbre de 1.52 metros, a favor de Puerto Rico Telephone Company, aledaña y a todo lo largo de la colindancia Sur.

ENCLAVA: Una casa para fines residenciales Finca #23697, inscrita al folio 168 del tomo 398 de Río Grande, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección 3 de Carolina. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Lizbet Aviles Vega, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791; Tel (787) 354-0061, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de Febrero de 2024.

WANDA SEGUI REYES, Secretaria. IVELISSE SERRANO

GARCIA, Sub- Secretaria.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ

CRISTINA J. GALARZA AYALA

Demandante Vs ELVIN ALONSO MALAVE

The

San Juan Daily Star

Demandado

CIVIL NUM.: MZ2024RF00030

SOBRE: CUSTODIA, PATRIA POTESTAD. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: ELVIN ALONSO MALAVE • PARCELAS

SOLEDAD 733 CALLE G MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00681 O SEA LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica a usted, Sr. Elvin Alonso Malave que la parte demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Demanda de Custodia y Privación de Patria Potestad que aquí se menciona. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizado 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 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 y conceder el remedio solicitando en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado (a) de abogado (a) en los casos que proceda. Nombre del Abogado:

LOURDES M. ORTIZ PAGAN

RUA: 9103

Dirección: Po Box 593, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623

Tél: (787) 831-1984 / Fax (787)833-5118

Correo electrónico: lourdesm_ ortizpagan@hotmail.com Expedido por orden del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico hoy 16 de febrero de 2024. Lic. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional II. Lourdes García Cuebas, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

Kylian Mbappé, PSG and the dangers of a loveless marriage

By RORY SMITH

This time, Kylian Mbappé means it. The reports late last week of his decision to leave Paris St.-Germain, his hometown team, might have carried with them an unmistakable sense of deja vu.

They might, uniformly, have carried not a single direct quote from anyone involved, ensuring that all sides have precious room to maneuver should the situation change in the weeks ahead. They might have been copied and pasted, almost verbatim, from the last time this happened, and the time before that. But this is different. This is not a negotiating ploy. This is not a power struggle. He’s going. No, really. On the count of five.

Given the background, of course, the cynical response is also the sensible one. Mbappé has form here, after all. It is less than two years since he and PSG last came to the brink, his boxes packed, his desk emptied, his goodbye card signed.

And then, just as Real Madrid was preparing the Bernabéu for a celebratory unveiling, Mbappé stepped back from the brink. Precisely what persuaded him to stay in Paris in 2022 is not clear. Perhaps it was the intervention of Emmanuel Macron, the French president. Perhaps it was the promise of having an unusual influence on the club’s transfer policy. (Mbappé has always strenuously denied this

was the case.)

Either way, there he was, clutching a jersey alongside Nasser al-Khelaifi, PSG’s chair, repeating the catechism that he could never leave his team, his city, his country so often that, by the time the news conference was over, Mbappé probably believed it, too. There is, as yet, no reason to believe that this scenario will not play out again over the course of the next four to six months.

And yet the fact that we are here again — and so soon — is worth assessing. It illustrates, first and foremost, how curiously loveless the union between Mbappé and PSG seems to have been. When he joined the club, back in 2017, it was possible to detect a romance even amid the dizzying swirl of zeros and commas required to describe the figures involved.

He was, after all, the greatest of the boys from the banlieues, the prodigal Parisian son: born and raised in Bondy, in the city’s neglected hinterland, now returning home as a conquering hero, a superstar-in-waiting. He would be the symbol of not only what PSG wanted to be, but of where it was from, too.

The overriding feeling of the last seven years, though, has been distinctly transactional. PSG provided Mbappé with a permanent presence in the Champions League — only until the first knockout round, generally, but still — and also a slew of French champion-

ships and the sort of adulation and branding opportunities that befitted his status.

The presence of Mbappé, meanwhile, acted as proof of PSG’s potency, its virility, its authenticity as the modern super club its Qatari backers had always envisaged it to be. There was something in the relationship for both of them, but it rarely seemed to run any deeper than that. Both sides spoke about an emotional bond. It appeared to exist rather more in theory than in practice.

That might, admittedly, have been different if the deal had fulfilled the hopes invested in it by both parties. In his time in Paris, Mbappé has emerged as one of the most marketable, most recognizable athletes on the planet. He is, without question, among the most talented players of his generation.

Looking back, though, it is hard to say — beyond his array of French championships, and his bank account — quite what he has to show for it. He has scored hundreds of goals, and created hundreds more. He has frequently proved decisive in games, most recently Wednesday, when he swept his stuttering team to victory against Real Sociedad in the Champions League.

But choosing an iconic, defining moment is more elusive. Most of his domestic achievements are asterisked in some way by the fact that, well, PSG’s success is essentially inevitable. Every single one of the club’s previous triumphs in the Champions League has proved no more than a way station on a road to disappointment.

The glorious interludes in Mbappé’s career — the things that, were he to retire tomorrow, he would be remembered for — have, instead, come with the French national team, both en route to victory in the 2018 World Cup and eventual disappointment in Qatar, four years later. There is no shame in this; Pelé is best remembered internationally in the yellow of Brazil, after all, rather than in the bright white of Santos.

Still, it is probably fair to assume it is not quite what Mbappé intended for his career; it is certainly not what PSG had in mind when it made an 18-year-old the second-most expensive player in history in the summer of 2017. Mbappé, alongside first Neymar and then Lionel Messi, too, was supposed to establish the club as a genuine superpower, an equal of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and the giants of the Premier League.

It has not worked out like that. No matter how much money the club has thrown at

the problem, no matter which coach it has appointed — Mbappé is now on his sixth — or what approach it has taken in the transfer market, PSG has failed to gate-crash the elite. It has still never been a champion of Europe. It has, at times, drifted dangerously close to being something of a running joke. That certainly is not what Qatar had in mind when it first embarked on its adventure in soccer.

The temptation, then, is to read the story of Kylian Mbappé and PSG as a cautionary tale. It might, simultaneously, be cast as a parable about mutual benefit not being the same as love, a morality play about the distorting influence of money, and a sporting case study in the limited functionality of stardust as a building material.

Or, maybe, it will turn out to be none of those things. We do not yet know how the story ends. We have, after all, been here before. Mbappé was serious then, too. His mind was made up. He meant it. He was going to fulfill his childhood dream of playing for Real Madrid. He was going in search of another love story.

And then, in the end, he stepped back. Real Madrid’s offer was not compelling enough to convince him, and no other team could come close. Even in the cash-soaked towers of the Premier League, the money required to make a deal for Mbappé work was just too eye-watering to consider. Mbappé wanted a contract that reflected his value.

But value is not a fixed figure. It depends entirely on context. It just so happens that Mbappé is worth more to his hometown club than he is to anyone else. It is that reality, in fact, which lies at the root of their relationship: an agreement, in broad terms, on what he is worth. Maybe, this time, it will be different.

Maybe, in order to burnish his legacy, he will have to sacrifice something else. Or maybe, once again, he will find that no matter how much he wants to leave, his price is just too high. Maybe, for all the lovelessness and the broken promises, arguably the best player of his generation has nowhere else to go.

Diminishing return

It may, of course, have been entirely coincidental, one of those regular quirks that arises from the unexpectedly complicated business of scheduling soccer games: the two strongest contenders to win the Champions League this season were both in action on the opening night of the knockout rounds.

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Kylian Mbappé (10) of France and Ivan Strinic of Croatia (3) battle for the ball during the 2018 soccer World Cup final in Moscow, July 15, 2018. (James Hill/ The New York Times)

Bowing to fan revolt, German soccer rejects $1 billion investment

By RORY SMITH and TARIQ PANJA

Germany’s soccer fans had thrown everything they could at the problem, often in a quite literal sense: At various points over the past few weeks, they protested the specter of a private equity giant’s taking a stake in the country’s domestic league by raining tennis balls, chocolate coins and even marbles onto fields across the country.

The demonstrations forced games to be delayed, embarrassed authorities and may have helped to persuade one of the world’s largest financial firms not to pursue a deal. But it was thanks to an escalation in technology that ultimate victory was secured. Once the remote-controlled cars were deployed, belching smoke and disrupting yet another game, the league caved.

The end came in an emergency board meeting, where the league’s constituent clubs voted to abandon talks with CVC Capital Partners, a private equity firm registered in Luxembourg, over a deal that would have provided teams with a $1 billion cash injection in exchange for a portion of the league’s broadcasting revenues over the next two decades.

“Given current developments, a successful continuation of the process no longer appears possible,” Hans-Joachim Watzke, chair of the league’s supervisory board, said Wednesday.

The vote was a comprehensive — if increasingly rare — victory for the interests of fans at a time when sports has shown itself

unable to resist the overtures of deep-pocketed investors. That supporters of a few dozen German soccer clubs appeared to have won the argument through a mix of fury and wit somehow made their triumph seem even more remarkable.

CVC Partners has in recent years struck deals similar to the German proposal with a number of teams and competitions. The firm already has stakes in La Liga, the elite soccer league in Spain, and Ligue 1, its equivalent in France, as well as the WTA Tour and the prestigious Six Nations rugby competition.

The DFL, the body that oversees the top two divisions of German soccer, had originally voted to follow suit in December, narrowly endorsing a motion that would allow the league to investigate a “strategic partnership” with either CVC or Blackstone, one of the world’s largest private equity funds. Blackstone withdrew from the process this month, leaving CVC as the only contender.

The turning point for the proposed German investment, most agreed, came Sunday, when two remote-controlled cars were let loose during a second-division game between Hansa Rostock and Hamburg. Each had a smoke bomb attached to its back that billowed blue and white fumes into the air. The match was stopped for several minutes while stewards attempted to chase the cars down.

By then the protests and the subsequent furor were calling into question “match-day operations, games themselves and the integrity of the competition,” Watzke said.

The prospect of even indirect private investment into a league where clubs must, by law, be majority-controlled by fans proved a toxic prospect.

Protests broke out almost immediately after news of the league’s intention to seek a deal became public in December, and as fans made it clear that they did not want to follow the path laid down by England’s Premier League, where clubs are bought and sold by oil tycoons, venture capitalists and nation states.

Some games started to a backdrop of eerie silence as fans withheld their cheers. Others saw banners outlining the fans’ position, often in explicit terms, unfurled in the

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Happy accident or not, though, UEFA may well have regarded that first night card as a show of the competition’s enduring strength: Manchester City, reigning champion of everything, on one screen. Real Madrid, the aristocrat’s aristocrat, on the other. If anything, the effect was the opposite.

FC Copenhagen and RB Leipzig toiled assiduously against their illustrious opponents, but the results of both games were never really in doubt. UEFA has fretted for years about the perceived tedium of the tournament’s group stage — that is why it is being changed — but in truth the problem shifted to the round of 16 some time ago.

And it is not one that can be solved by fiddling with the format. The reason so much

of the Champions League now feels like a procession is because it is. Ties are decided, essentially, by raw economics. The imbalances are, until at least the quarterfinals, often too great to generate competitive tension.

Indeed, no game over the next month will be nearly so decisive as the draw for the quarterfinals. There will be an injection of the unexpected only if Real and City are pitted against each other — or Arsenal, or Bayern Munich — rather earlier than UEFA might like. A random draw is the most intriguing aspect of the competition. And that is not exactly an indicator of robust health.

Crisis, redux

Thank goodness, then, for Bayern Munich, which appears to be gearing up for one of its increasingly frequent — and never less than entertaining — bloodlettings. In the

space of four days, Thomas Tuchel’s team lost (convincingly) to Bayer Leverkusen and (narrowly) to Lazio.

There are several ways this ends. Bayern might roar back and snatch a 12th straight Bundesliga title from Leverkusen, or it might not. It will, most likely, squeeze past Lazio and into the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Regardless, the signs are not what you would call encouraging for the longevity of Tuchel’s reign.

The coach should take some responsibility for that; almost a year into his tenure, his team is still spluttering. So, too, must those who have overseen the club’s recruitment: Bayern’s squad is testament to an institutional uncertainty, simultaneously bloated and emaciated, a patchwork of styles and profiles.

stands. A variety of objects were thrown onto fields to halt play.

Thomas Kessen, a spokesperson for Unsere Kurve, an umbrella group that advocates on behalf of fans, described the protests as “comprehensive, creative and peaceful.”

Eventually, the protests proved so frequent and so fervent that the DFL had little choice but to backtrack.

“For all active soccer fans and all members of the clubs, this is a great success that shows that German soccer is member-based and democratic,” Kessen said. “These very members must be involved in such landmark decisions.”

But there is something bigger at play, too. Bayern’s approach for much of this century has been to sweep up the best talent from its domestic rivals and turn itself, in effect, into a Bundesliga all-star side. For the most part, it worked. Until, that is, Germany’s clubs decided they could get more money by selling players to England, with the added benefit that they would not then have to worry about facing them on their annual trip to Munich.

Bayern does not fit easily into the role of victim. It is very hard to have any sympathy for a club that has so coldly and so remorselessly undermined its own league’s competitive balance. That does not change the fact that its place in soccer’s ecosystem has been diminished, like so much else, by the game’s contorted finances.

A match in progress at the FC St. Pauli soccer team’s stadium in Hamburg, Germany, April 4, 2017. (Gordon Welters/The New York Times)

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