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Governor rules out withdrawing secretary of state’s nomination
By THE STAR STAFF
ov. Jenniffer González Colón insisted Thursday that she will not withdraw Verónica Ferraiuoli Hornedo’s nomination for secretary of state, despite Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz’s warning that Ferraiuoli does not have enough votes for confirmation.
“I am not going to withdraw the nomination,” the governor said in response to questions from the press. “Nor would I accept her withdrawing it.”
González Colón strongly defended Ferraiuoli after an extensive public hearing held Wednesday before the Senate’s Committee of the Whole, during which omissions in her income tax filings were discussed. It was revealed that Ferraiuoli failed to file tax returns for the 2021, 2022 and 2023 tax years. She submitted them late in November 2024 and then amended them in April 2025, including on April 17, the day of the Holy Week blackout.
“It’s not a crime to request an extension or file a tax return late,” the governor said. “Here we have an official who complied with her obligations, who delegated her responsibilities to a certified public accountant, whom she paid to complete her tax return, and who met all payments, penalties, and interest.”
Rivera Schatz raised serious reservations during the hearing.
“A precedent will be set here where strict compliance doesn’t matter, but rather empathy,” he said. “That’s the problem. … What moral authority would the government of Puerto Rico have if this nomination is confirmed?”
In response, González Colón stated that extensions are provided for by law and that many taxpayers rely on professionals to fulfill their tax obligations.
“If we’re going to say that people who request an extension are committing a crime, I won’t sign that bill,” she asserted. “The goal is for everyone to meet their tax obligations.”
Regarding the claim that Ferraiuoli failed to comply with the extensions and submitted her tax returns late, González Colón clarified that by the time Ferraiuoli was nominated on December 30, 2024, she had already fulfilled her responsibilities.
Concerning the fact that Ferraiuoli is married to La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech, the governor denied any conflict of interest.
“Both of them sold their firms,” she emphasized. “These aren’t trusts or dormant shares. They have no ties to those businesses.”
González Colón also insisted that the nominee has the academic and professional qualifications for the position and stressed the point that Ferraiuoli was instrumental in drafting the New Progressive Party’s governing platform.
“I hope the Senate confirms her,” she said. “If not, let the appointments be voted on so the people can see who is voting for what.”
The remarks came one day after the public hearing, where Ferraiuoli faced questions regarding her failure to file income tax returns for three consecutive years and her relationship with the governor’s chief of staff.
“The information I have is that the CPA filed those amended tax returns, not her,” the governor said. “People deserve to be evaluated based on their character, not perceptions based on the administrative errors of others.”
When questioned about the moral standard for a position that is second in the constitutional line of succession, the governor reiterated that the nominee is not facing charges or accusations of tax evasion.
“If you don’t like Ms. Ferraiuoli’s name, vote against her, but don’t make excuses,” she said.
Ferraiuoli acknowledged the late tax filings and subsequent amendments. Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez said the official requested extensions for the three tax years but did not comply with those terms. Ferraiuoli maintained in the hearing that she paid the corresponding surcharges, interest, and penalties, totaling over $7,000, and that the amendments generated a refund of over $24,000. She stated that she is in compliance with her obligations and presented certifications from the Treasury Department and the Municipal Revenue Collections Center.
The nominee also addressed allegations of a potential conflict of interest arising from her relationship with Domenech, stating, “From day one, I have recused myself from matters related to my husband and the agencies he directs, to uphold the transparency that characterizes me.”
Designated Secretary of State Verónica Ferraiuoli Hornedo
Comptroller urges gov’t contractors to follow the rules
By THE STAR STAFF
Commonwealth Comptroller Yesmín Valdivieso Galib on Thursday called on all government contractors, public agencies and municipalities to follow the rules that govern government contracting, as part of her educational campaign “Avoiding Accusations Is in Your Hands.”
“The regulations on government contracting are very strict and specific since they are public funds,’ Valdivieso said in a written statement. “We recommend that they ensure that the contract complies with all the requirements of the law, the regulations and interpretive jurisprudence to avoid irregularities.”
The official warned that all contracts must be in writ-
ing, signed by all parties, have prospective validity and be registered and sent to the Comptroller’s Office Contracts Registry before the start of the contracted services. The contractor must receive confirmation by email indicating that the contract was registered.
Among the most common findings detected by the office’s audits are payments without a contract, services provided outside the validity period, lack of essential clauses, or the late referral of the contract to the office’s Contracts Registry.
“Public procurement accounts for a significant proportion of the government budget,” Valdivieso said. “Therefore, contractors have the responsibility to ensure compliance with all the legal regulations that apply to avoid being flagged or a recommendation for recovery.”
Road safety campaign encourages drivers to take care around construction zones
By THE STAR STAFF
As part of National Construction Zone Safety Week, the Traffic Safety Commission (CST by its initials in Spanish) continues to reinforce its call to citizens to exercise greater caution when driving in areas where roads are under construction.
The event, which runs through this Friday, aims to educate and raise awareness about the risks faced by workers and drivers on roads under construction or repair.
CST Executive Director José “Memo” González Mercado participated this past Tuesday in the Official Proclamation ceremony held at the Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico, along with the Transportation and Public Works (DTOP) Secretary Edwin González, Police Capt. Elvis Zeno, representatives from the Mayagüez Transfer Center, and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
Under the slogan: “Respect the Zone So We All Get Home,” the campaign emphasizes the need to reduce speed, pay attention to road signs, avoid cell phone use, and yield to personnel and equipment working on the roads.
“The call is clear: expect the unexpected,” González Mercado said. “In work zones, full attention behind the wheel is vital to avoid tragedies. At the CST, we join this national effort because protecting lives, both those of drivers and road workers, is a priority.”
He also emphasized the increasing relevance of the message.
“The large volume of infrastructure projects currently being developed by this administration -- especially through the DTOP, the Highway and Metro Authority -- makes this call for caution even more necessary,” the official said. “Work zones are and will continue to become more common, and with them, the risks increase if there is no awareness of the danger they represent.”
National Work Zone Safety Week was established in 1999 as a joint initiative of the FHWA, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and the American Traffic and Safety Services Association. Its creation responded to the increase in accidents in road construction areas and seeks to encourage responsible driving.
Key messages highlighted throughout the week include:
The campaign, under the slogan “Respect the Zone So We All Get Home,” emphasizes the need to reduce speed, pay attention to road signs, avoid cell phone use, and yield to personnel and equipment working on the roads.
vehicles or equipment may unexpectedly enter lanes, road alignment may change, and cell phone use should be avoided while driving.
Health sector supports banning sales of energy drinks to minors
By THE STAR STAFF
Health sector representatives voiced strong support for House Bill (HB) 233, authored by House Health Committee Chairman Gabriel Rodríguez Aguiló to regulate the sale of energy drinks to individuals under 16 years of age and to establish clear warnings about their health risks.
HB 233 directs the Department of Health to regulate the sale of the beverages, prohibit their sale to minors under 16, and require clear warnings at points of sale regarding potential risks to pregnant women, individuals with heart conditions, and minors.
The measure received endorsements from the Department of Health, the Puerto Rican Cardiology Society, the Family Depart-
ment, and the Puerto Rico Physicians and Surgeons Association, among other organizations at a hearing held earlier this week.
Dr. Luis A. Renta-Rosa, president of the Cardiology Society, presented scientific evidence highlighting the negative impact that consuming the beverages can have on the cardiovascular health of minors.
Dr. Carlos Díaz Vélez, president of the Physicians and Surgeons Association, emphasized that “several countries have already implemented similar measures based on available scientific evidence.”
“In our legislation, we cannot lag behind and must act responsibly to protect the health and development of our children and adolescents,” he said. “We cannot allow misinformation and a lack of regulation to jeopardize their well-being.”
Rodríguez Aguiló added that energy drinks “are high in calories -- even more so than sports drinks -- due to their elevated levels of carbohydrates and sugars, which can lead to obesity, diabetes, and hypertension.”
“Additionally, energy drinks can contain up to 400 milligrams of caffeine per can, which is four times more than a regular cup of coffee,” he said.
“Our main objective is to safeguard the health of future generations through education and prevention, providing clear, evidence-based information for informed decision-making,” the legislator added.
Despite the broad support from the medical community, the United Retail Center expressed its opposition to the bill during Wednesday’s hearing.
Comptroller of Puerto Rico Yesmín Valdivieso
Union shutters UPR president’s office in protest
By THE STAR STAFF
Leaders of the University of Puerto Rico’s Non-Teaching Exempt Employees Brotherhood (HEEND by its acronym Spanish) announced the closure of the university president’s office on Thursday in response to grievances regarding the non-implementation of the collective bargaining agreement.
The union explained its actions in a written statement.
The Central Administration building at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, where the president’s office is located.
“This administration has systematically ignored, disrespected, and blocked our demands,” the HEEND statement said. “We could no longer
remain silent. Today, we closed the president’s office because his administrative incompetence is a symbol of the lack
of commitment to university workers and to the country.”
The HEEND cited the following reasons for the peaceful protest, which include the immediate implementation of the ratified collective bargaining agreement, which it said the administration refuses to acknowledge.
The union also demands wage justice through the implementation of the agreed-upon Classification and Compensation Plan and the restoration of the 9.6% budget allocation to the University of Puerto Rico, as required by law.
It also demanded protection of the university’s 11 campuses in order to preserve the institution’s integrity.
HEEND President Carlos de León said in a radio report that the administration was not allowing the press to enter the Central Administration building, where the president’s office is located.
Dignity Project’s UPR student chapter calls for repeal of inclusive restrooms
By THE STAR STAFF
The student chapter of the Dignity Project (Proyecto Dignidad) at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus announced Thursday that during the Student Assembly, the General Student Council obstructed statements criticizing inclusive restrooms and supporting their elimination.
The affected students cited concerns for student safety and potential risks to the institution’s federal funding as President Trump has vowed to repeal federal funding to colleges that promote diversity and inclusion.
Cristián García Rodríguez, the chapter president, stated that the Council censored student Jan Carlos Tousset during his speech at the Assembly after he questioned the organization’s inaction regarding reports of inappropriate behavior in restrooms used by both genders.
“The inclusive bathroom model has failed,” García Rodríguez said in a written statement. “It has created an environment of insecurity and fear, especially for women.”
Tousset, a business administration student, shared a video on social media showing how he was interrupted by Council members. He claimed that his message aimed to highlight the testimonies of several young women who have reported witnessing or being victims of inappropriate behavior by men
who entered the inclusive restrooms.
Students referenced recent alerts from the campus Security Division, including a reported lewd act on March 27 and another incident on April 2 involving a person walking around campus in underwear.
Dignity Project at-Large Rep. Lisie Burgos Muñiz supported the students’ claims.
“The use of mixed-gender restrooms puts the physical and emotional well-being of students at risk and could jeopardize continued federal funding in light of the federal government’s new policies,” Burgos Muñiz said.
She introduced a measure on Jan. 9 to prohibit inclusive restrooms in public facilities. Gov. Jennifer González Colón has expressed her intention to sign the bill if it is approved by the Legislature.
During Tuesday’s Assembly, the Council approved a motion to declare Tousset and García Rodríguez “personas non grata” for allegedly engaging in inappropriate conduct. Both students rejected that characterization, describing it as an attempt to silence dissenting voices.
“The problem here is not only security, but also the lack of space to discuss these issues without facing retaliation,” Tousset said. “The university cannot become a place where those who have different opinions are punished.”
Dignity Project President César Vázquez Muñiz also weighed in on the situation, demanding that the Council rescind the motion and address the students’ safety concerns.
“The UPR must prioritize the protection and privacy of its students, rather than impose social experiments that jeopardize their well-being,” Vázquez Muñiz said.
The group has also called on university authorities to investigate the harassment allegations and to reinstate gender-specific bathrooms as a safety measure.
University of Puerto Rico students who say they were not allowed to finish speaking, at a Student Assembly, about their opposition to mixed gender bathrooms, cited concerns for student safety and potential risks to the institution’s federal funding as President Trump has vowed to repeal funding to colleges that promote diversity and inclusion.
Federal funds allocated for energy systems research at UPR
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced on Thursday the allocation of $380,701 from the National Science Foundation to the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus to develop a scientific research project.
“This strategic investment reaffirms the potential of our universities to lead in key STEM areas,” the governor said in a written statement. “Projects like this help drive innovation and promote education about energy resources and technology.”
The project, titled “Advancing Trivalent Indium-Based
Battery Systems: From Plating Behavior to Ion Insertion Chemistry,” began on March 1, 2025, and seeks to develop new energy technologies based on trivalent indium battery systems.
The National Science Foundation, a federal agency that promotes scientific advancement, supports research in key areas for the development of advanced technology, including energy and materials.
Project details are available in the NSF database: https:// www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=2434152.
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)
Trump challenges migrants’ due process rights, undercutting bedrock principle
By LUKE BROADWATER
While the Justice Department argues in court that it is working to comply with judges’ orders to provide migrants with due process before deporting them, President Donald Trump and his top advisers are increasingly making a different argument altogether: Why should we?
In their rapid, maximalist campaign to apprehend and deport as many migrants as possible as quickly as possible, Trump and top members of his administration have abandoned any pretense of being bound by the constitutional limits that have constrained presidents of both parties in the past on immigration. Instead, they are asserting that when it comes to people who entered the United States illegally, the president has unchecked power to expel them without recourse, and that he has neither the time nor the obligation to do otherwise.
“We’re getting them out, and a judge can’t say, ‘No, you have to have a trial,’” Trump said Tuesday in the Oval Office. “The trial is going to take two years. We’re going to have a very dangerous country if we’re not allowed to do what we’re entitled to do.”
He made similar remarks on social media Monday, writing: “We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years.”
Such statements are alarming to legal experts who note that in the United States, civil rights are for everyone — not just citizens.
“It’s enormously disturbing,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. “It is so troubling to hear the president and top executive officials give so little regard to the Constitution. It’s important to emphasize that the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment says no person can be ‘deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law.’ It doesn’t say ‘citizen.’”
In recent days, Trump and his top advisers
Tom Homan, the Trump administration ‘border czar,’ speaks to reporters after a TV interview with FOX News, outside the White House in Washington on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. White House officials are eschewing normal legal processes as they rush to ramp up deportations, saying there is no time to afford unauthorized immigrants any rights — and that they don’t deserve them anyway. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
have railed against judges who have blocked their quick deportation efforts; declared there should be no trials for those accused of violating immigration laws; and mocked calls for those arrested to receive due process.
“I find it incredible that there’s all this push for more and more and more due process, more process for these designated terror groups, when, in fact, no one asked for due process when they crossed the border,” Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar,” said Wednesday. “No one asked for a vetting when they crossed the border. Where was all the media?”
The Supreme Court has held that immigrants present in the United States, regardless of legal status, are guaranteed due process rights, but what qualifies as due process varies depending on the person’s legal status and circumstances. Congress has created an expedited process for removing migrants who are newly arrived to the country without legal permission, with limited opportunities for judicial review.
But the Trump administration is trying to go beyond that process by invoking wartime powers that erode fundamental principles of American society, said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union who is the lead counsel in the challenges to the administration’s use of the law, the Alien Enemies Act.
“The right to due process is not a luxury,
but one of our nation’s foundational principles, separating us from authoritarian regimes where someone can be picked up off the streets and never heard from again,” he said.
Chemerinsky said due process was particularly important because law enforcement often makes mistakes.
Some of the men the Trump administration deported had been identified as gang members based on their tattoos or certain articles of clothing, including a basketball jersey featuring the Chicago Bulls or the team’s former star Michael Jordan.
“Governments make mistakes, and due process is a way of making sure that if somebody’s going to be deported, they’re being deported lawfully,” Chemerinsky said.
Entering his second term, Trump pledged to carry out rapid deportations. While some of those arrested can be legally deported quickly without a hearing under immigration law — because they had been caught at the border, had resided in the country less than two years, or had already been under a deportation order — many must go through a formal process, which includes a hearing before an immigration judge. And immigration cases nationwide face a huge backlog.
In an attempt to get around the normal process, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act as a way to deport immigrants he accused of being members of Tren de Aragua, a violent
Venezuelan street gang that the administration said had invaded the United States. The law, which passed in 1798, had been used only three times before in U.S. history, all during periods of declared war.
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, wrote on social media this month: “Friendly reminder: If you illegally invaded our country the only ‘process’ you are entitled to is deportation.”
Trump has even suggested he might send U.S. citizens to serve sentences abroad. “Homegrowns are next,” he told El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who is holding Venezuelan migrants in a notorious prison, during a recent White House visit.
But at every turn, the Trump administration has found lawyers and judges standing in its way.
At one hearing, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge Patricia Millett pointed out that the last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, against suspected Nazis during World War II, those accused were provided a 30-day notice to contest the accusation, and a hearing.
“Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than what has happened here,” Millett said last month.
Early on Saturday, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the administration from deporting a group of Venezuelan migrants it accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of the rarely invoked wartime law.
The Supreme Court has also ruled that those subject to the statute needed to be given the opportunity to challenge their removal.
“I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because we have thousands of people that are ready to go out, and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,” Trump said Tuesday. “It wasn’t meant. The system wasn’t meant. And we don’t think there’s anything that says that.”
The Trump administration has also been dogged by the case of a Salvadoran immigrant living in Maryland who was deported to El Salvador because of an “administrative error.” The Supreme Court instructed the administration nearly two weeks ago to “facilitate” his return so he could go through the legal system in the United States, but the White House has so far not fulfilled that order.
The White House posted on social media that the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was “never coming back.”
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Wildfire burns 12,500 acres of bone-dry New Jersey forest
By ED SHANAHAN, TRACEY TULLY and HILARY HOWARD
Afast-moving wildfire in the Pine Barrens section of southern New Jersey had spread to 12,500 acres of the heavily forested area by Wednesday afternoon, and was among the biggest fires in the state in almost 20 years, authorities said.
The smoky blaze, known as the Jones Road Wildfire, originated in Ocean County and was first spotted on Tuesday from atop a remote fire tower. It has threatened as many as 1,320 structures, forced the evacuation of 5,000 residents of Ocean and Lacey Townships and caused a 17-mile stretch of the Garden State Parkway — one of the state’s busiest highways — to be shut down overnight, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
By 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, the parkway had reopened. By late afternoon, the fire was 40% contained but still threatened about 18 structures, according to the fire service. No injuries have been reported. An estimated 100 firefighters continued to battle the flames, according to fire officials.
Residents could return to their homes Wednesday morning, but they were urged to remain cautious because heavy smoke still lingered, the Lacey Township Police Department said on social media.
Embers from the fire jumped over the parkway on Tuesday night, sparking several small blazes near a defunct nuclear power plant known as Oyster Creek, according to state officials. The plant, owned by Holtec International, shut down in 2018 and is being decommissioned.
Patrick O’Brien, a Holtec spokesperson, said the fires closest to the facility had been “completely and safely extinguished.”
Even if a blaze were to reach an area where spent nuclear material is stored in secure casks, it would pose no risk, he said in a statement. All the buildings at the Oyster Creek site are “designed and constructed to withstand fires,” O’Brien said.
The blaze was first spotted Tuesday at 9:45 a.m. by an official in a fire tower in Cedar Bridge. At the time, the fire was between 10 and 20 acres, said Trevor Raynor, a warden with the fire service. The flames spread rapidly because of the dry vegetation in the area, he added.
Images posted on social media showed a thick haze of smoke shrouding the parkway near the Waretown exit and flames rising just beyond a guardrail on one side of the highway.
Many more acres are expected to burn as containment operations continue, said Bill Donnelly, chief of the fire service. But the fire should be brought under control by the weekend, when some rain is expected in the
area, he added. The cause was under investigation, officials said, as firefighters, aided by other state, local and county agencies, battled the flames using fire engines, bulldozers and ground crews.
A helicopter able to drop 300 gallons of water and a contract air tanker able to drop double that amount were also being deployed, The Asbury Park Press reported.
About 25,000 Jersey Central Power & Light customers in the area were without power as of Wednesday morning, according to Chris Hoenig, a company spokesperson. He said that fire and emergency management officials asked the company around 6 p.m. Tuesday to shut off power into and out of a nearby substation as a safety measure, and that power would be restored “as safety allows.”
At 1.1 million acres, the Pine Barrens, also known as the Pinelands, is the largest forested area on the Eastern Seaboard between Maine and the Florida Everglades and is a frequent setting for wildfires.
Parts of the region are also heavily populated, especially near the coast. “We find ourselves with this fire at the wildland-urban interface,” said Shawn LaTourette, New Jersey’s commissioner of environmental protection, using a term that describes where human development abuts nature. “It’s a highly risky place.”
12 states sue Trump over his tariffs
By DAVID W. CHEN
Adozen states, most of them led by Democrats, sued President Donald Trump over his tariffs earlier this week, arguing that he has no power to “arbitrarily impose tariffs as he has done here.”
Contending that only Congress has the power to legislate tariffs, the states are asking the court to block the Trump administration from enforcing what they said were unlawful tariffs.
“These edicts reflect a national trade policy that now hinges on the president’s whims rather than the sound exercise of his lawful authority,” said the lawsuit, filed by the states’ attorneys general in the U.S. Court of International Trade.
The states, including New York, Illinois and Oregon, are the latest parties to take the Trump administration to court over the tariffs. Their case comes after California filed its own
lawsuit last week, in which Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state attorney general accused the administration of escalating a trade war that has caused “immediate and irreparable harm” to that state’s economy.
Officials and businesses from Oregon, the lead plaintiff in the suit filed Wednesday, have also expressed concerns about the vulnerability of the state’s trade-dependent economy, as well as its sportswear industry, as a result of the tariffs.
“When a president pushes an unlawful policy that drives up prices at the grocery store and spikes utility bills, we don’t have the luxury of standing by,” Dan Rayfield, Oregon’s attorney general, said in a statement. “These tariffs hit every corner of our lives — from the checkout line to the doctor’s office — and we have a responsibility to push back.”
Asked about the latest lawsuit, Kush Desai, a White House spokesperson, called it a “witch hunt” by Democrats against Trump.
“The Trump administration remains committed to using its full legal authority to confront the distinct national emergencies our country is currently facing,” he said, “both the scourge of illegal migration and fentanyl flows across our border and the exploding annual U.S. goods trade deficit.”
The other states in the suit are Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and Vermont. All of the states have Democratic attorneys general, though Nevada and Vermont have Republican governors.
Trump’s tariffs have shocked and upended the global trade industry. He set a 145% tariff on goods from China, 25% on Canada, and 10% on almost all imports from most other countries.
The moves have drawn legal challenges from other entities as well, including two members of the Blackfeet Nation, who filed a federal lawsuit in Montana over the tariffs
Last year was particularly bad for wildfires in New Jersey. From early October through Nov. 20, the forest fire service responded to more than 10 times as many fires as it did in the same period in 2023.
Five months later, conditions remain dire, Donnelly said on Wednesday morning at a news conference in Chatsworth, New Jersey. The number of wildfires has more than doubled, from 310 to 662, with over 16,500 acres burned so far this year, compared with the same period in 2024, he said.
The growing number of fires this winter and spring has prevented firefighters from performing some important prevention work, like controlled burns, Donnelly said in March.
The last major blaze to rival the Jones Road Wildfire struck the same region in 2007 and grew to 17,000 acres.
The area where this week’s fire began is in a part of New Jersey that emerged from an extreme drought a few months ago and still faces abnormally dry to severe drought conditions, according to data from the U.S. Drought Monitor. The fire risk across South Jersey was high as of Tuesday, according to the forest fire service. April 20 is the peak of the spring fire season, officials said, so this blaze happened as expected.
“It’s incredibly dry,” LaTourette said. “We still have a lot of work to do.”
on Canada, saying they violated tribal treaty rights. Legal groups like the Liberty Justice Center and the New Civil Liberties Alliance have also sued.
“I’m happy that Oregon and the other states are joining us in this fight,” said Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University, who is working on the Liberty Justice Center’s lawsuit.
Dan Rayfield, the Oregon attorney general, speaks at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore., on Feb. 5, 2024. Rayfield was among the dozen state leaders who filed suit against President Donald Trump over his tariffs. (Jordan Gale/The New York Times)
A subdued Musk backs away from Washington, but his project remains
By JONATHAN SWAN, MAGGIE HABERMAN, NICHOLAS NEHAMAS, THEODORE SCHLEIFER and DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD
As Elon Musk sought to reassure Wall Street analysts earlier this week that he would soon scale back his work with the federal government, the strain of his situation was audible in his voice.
The world’s richest man said that he would continue arguing that the Trump administration should lower tariffs it has imposed on countries across the world. But he acknowledged in a subdued voice that whether President Donald Trump “will listen to my advice is up to him.”
He was not quite chastened, but it was a different Musk than a couple of months ago, when the billionaire, at the peak of his power, brandished a chain saw onstage at a pro-Trump conference to dramatize his role as a government slasher.
Back then, Musk was inarguably a force in Washington, driving radical change across the government. To the president, he was a genius; to Democrats, he was Trump’s “unelected co-president”; to several Cabinet secretaries, he was a menace; and to GOP lawmakers, he was the source of anguished calls from constituents whose services and jobs were threatened by cuts from his Department of Government Efficiency.
As Musk moves to spend less time in Washington, it is unclear whether his audacious plan to overhaul the federal bureaucracy will have lasting power. The endeavor has left an immense imprint on the government, and Musk has told associates that he believes he has put in place the structure to make DOGE a success. But he has still not come close to cutting the $1 trillion he vowed to find in waste, fraud and abuse.
Trump has constrained some of Musk’s influence over the past two months, telling Cabinet secretaries that they were in charge of their own agencies. But the president also told the secretaries to work with Musk and DOGE to cut spending. At the same time, Musk has fought publicly and privately against the president’s steep tariffs that have threatened the manufacturing and profits of Tesla, his car company.
Musk has told friends that he has been frus-
Elon Musk departs the Capitol in Washington after attending a Senate Republican luncheon, March 5, 2025. The Department of Government Efficiency has already made an immense imprint on the government, but it has not come close to Musk’s pledge of cutting $1 trillion. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
trated by the encounters he has had with Trump’s trade advisers, according to a person briefed on the conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions. The billionaire has tried to work behind the scenes to persuade Trump to abandon his draconian protectionist posture, according to two people with knowledge of their conversations.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment, and a spokesperson for Musk declined to comment. On Wednesday, Trump said the billionaire “was a tremendous help, both in the campaign and in what he’s done with DOGE.”
“He was always at this time going to ease out,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office.
Musk has placed DOGE allies across the federal government, seeking to dismantle some agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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The New York Times has identified more than 60 employees hired to work for Musk’s effort, although some have since left the federal government. Many have worked with the billionaire in the private sector, including at least 20 who have ties to Musk’s companies.
DOGE is led by Steve Davis, Musk’s top adviser and enforcer.
Although Musk’s aides have pushed for staff reductions and have canceled contracts, some of the group’s most contentious work has been harnessing the federal government’s vast trove of personal data, in part to help drive Trump’s deportation policies.
DOGE staff members have overridden the objections of career civil servants at the Social Security Administration and the IRS to access closely held data about immigrants. Inside a Social Security database, Musk’s team put into place a system to list living immigrants they claimed were criminals as dead, in an effort to cut them off from financial services and to force them to leave the country.
All told, DOGE has tried to gain entry to more than 80 data systems across at least 10 federal agencies, the Times found. Those data sets include personal information about federal workers; detailed financial data about federal procurement and spending; and intimate personal details about the American public.
Some of Trump’s advisers have watched anxiously as Musk has taken risky political swings at agencies that tens of millions of Americans rely on.
At the Social Security Administration, rushed policy changes have led to panicked beneficiaries overwhelming field offices. And a return-to-office policy and layoffs of probationary employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs have imperiled the agency’s mental health care program and threatened its ability to conduct medical research.
Musk came into the Trump administration claiming he would find governmental cost savings so large that they sounded impossible to budget experts.
In February, the group posted an online “wall of receipts” that detailed the savings from thousands of canceled grants, contracts and office leases. But that site included claims that confused “billion” with “million,” double- or triple-counted the same cancellations and even took credit for canceling programs that ended when George W. Bush was president.
This month, at a Cabinet meeting, Musk said he had so far cut $150 billion from next year’s federal budget — far less than the $1 trillion he claimed he would extract.
DOGE has triggered sharp cuts to the federal workforce and to the budgets of some agencies. But it is difficult to gauge exactly how much it has saved, because DOGE’s public claims have been riddled with errors and guesswork that inflated its success.
Musk’s slashing of the government has been politically costly, but he remains in good standing with the president, according to people familiar
with Trump’s views.
While some of Trump’s close aides and advisers have argued with Musk, the president still praises him at nearly every opportunity, and still invites him to hang out at his clubs and to bring along his children.
Trump has told advisers that Musk put it all on the line for him. And he feels bad about what he calls left-wing “lunatics” attacking Tesla dealerships to protest Musk’s role in the Trump administration. Trump also respects the power of Musk’s social media platform, X, even as the president retains a commercial interest in Truth Social, his own platform.
In private, Trump has occasionally indicated to associates that it might be time for Musk to move on and spend more time with his companies. But the president is unlikely to ever pressure Musk to leave, or do anything deliberate to alienate him. He remains grateful for the hundreds of millions of dollars that Musk spent to elect him in 2024, and mindful of the additional $100 million that Musk has pledged to Trump’s political operation, the associates note.
Musk is now a financial cornerstone of the Republican Party and will keep immense influence as long as he wants to stay involved in politics.
Still, Trump has recognized problems that Musk has caused, such as a plan for him to get briefed at the Pentagon on sensitive national security matters related to China — something even the president described privately as a conflict of interest and a meeting he was not told about in advance, according to people familiar with what took place. When Trump learned of that potential session from news reports, it was the first time people close to the president could remember him expressing displeasure with Musk.
Trump has also acknowledged to advisers that Musk has stumbled as a political force — most notably with his costly long-shot effort to flip a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. Trump, a student of public opinion, has paid attention to the billionaire’s standing in opinion polls, watchful for any signs that Musk’s deep unpopularity might transfer.
But people close to Trump have also said that Musk has been helpful as a “heat shield,” absorbing unrelenting attacks that would otherwise be aimed at the president.
On Tuesday, Musk told analysts that he planned to dial back his government work to “a day or two per week” to turn his attention back to his companies. Administration officials with knowledge of Musk’s schedule said that they have already noticed he has reduced the amount of time he spends in Washington.
By dialing back the number of days he spends working for the White House, Musk can also potentially stretch out the 130 days he is allotted as a “special government employee.”
On major economic decisions, Trump blinks, and then blinks again
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after scouting a location for a flagpole for an American flag on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Trump’s encounter with reality after weeks of bluster and escalation amounted to a vivid case study in the political and economic costs of striking the hardest of hard lines. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
By DAVID E. SANGER
After weeks of bluster and escalation, President Donald Trump blinked. Then he blinked again. And again. He backed off his threat to fire the Federal Reserve chair. His treasury secretary, acutely aware that the S&P 500 was down 10% since Trump was inaugurated, signaled he was looking for an offramp to avoid an intensifying trade war with China.
And now Trump has acknowledged that the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods that he announced just two weeks ago are not sustainable. He was prompted in part by the warnings of senior executives from Target, Walmart and other large American retailers that consumers would see price surges and empty shelves for some imported goods within a few weeks.
Trump’s encounter with reality amounted to a vivid case study in the political and economic costs of striking the hardest of hard lines. He entered this trade war imagining a simpler era in which imposing punishing tariffs would force companies around the world to build factories in the United States.
He ends the month discovering that the world of modern supply chains is far more complex than he bargained for, and that it is far from clear his “beautiful” tariffs will have the effects he predicted.
This is not, of course, the explanation of the events of the past few days that the White House is putting out. Trump’s aides insist that his maximalist demands have been an act of
strategic brilliance, forcing 90 countries to line up to deal with the president. It may take months, they acknowledge, to see the concessions that will result. But bending the global trade system to American will, they say, takes time.
“Have some patience and you will see,” the president’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters Wednesday.
Trump insisted to reporters at the White House that everything was going according to plan.
“We have a lot of action going on,” he said, repeating his now-familiar line that “we’re not going to be a laughingstock that got taken advantage of by virtually every country in the world.” He suggested again that the United States needed to return to the halcyon era from 1870 to 1913 — the year the country began to impose income taxes — when tariffs funded the government and “we had more money than anybody.”
And he repeated his prediction that “now we’re going to be making money with everyone, and everyone’s going to be happy.”
But happy did not seem to be the vibe around the White House in recent days.
It started with Trump’s declaration that the “termination” of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, whom he appointed in 2017, “cannot come fast enough.” His most senior economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, went further, saying the administration was looking at the legal options to remove him.
Trump’s complaint is that Powell will not cut interest rates, for fear of stoking inflation. But the president was clearly concerned about the warnings from economists that the country could be headed to recession — one of his own making, one that his critics are trying to label the Trump Slump even before it happens.
The tone of his comments seemed to suggest that if recession does come, the blame will fall on Powell.
But once Trump declared “if I want him out, he’ll be out of there real fast, believe me,” another market sell-off began. It made little difference that he doesn’t have the power to dismiss the Fed chair, as Powell has noted in recent days. The mere threat of it seemed to accelerate the sense that the United States has become the biggest source of market instability in the world.
Then, on Tuesday, Trump changed his tune. “I have no intention of firing him,” Trump said of Powell. That didn’t stop him from continuing his critique of Powell as “Mr. Late” with rate cuts, but it was enough to reverse the market sell-off.
The next walk-back came with China.
The White House kept hinting that the Chinese were beginning to negotiate, seeking a way to end the tariffs. In fact, the strategy that Beijing appeared to be following was to wait for Trump to feel the pain of his own actions. The expected phone call from President Xi Jinping never came. And Trump didn’t want to be the first to call, either — a sign of desperation.
In private, some Trump officials concede that they did not accurately predict China’s reaction. Trump seemed to expect China to be among the first to come begging for relief, given the size of its exports to the United States.
“Back in 2017, the first time Trump imposed tariffs on
China, Beijing was caught by relative surprise,” Nicholas Mulder, an economic historian at Cornell University, said Wednesday. “But they have been preparing for further escalation for many years,” he said. Now, “they have much more tolerance for economic pain, and a greater ability to weather this ratcheting up.”
By late Tuesday, Trump was publicly mulling lowering the Chinese tariffs, saying “145% is very high, and it won’t be that high, not going to be that high.” He added, “It got up to there,” as if the number had floated to that height by itself.
On Wednesday, Leavitt said Trump would not lower the tariffs until the United States and China negotiated a new trade agreement — another mixed message out of the White House on the state of negotiations.
“Let me be clear: There will be no unilateral reduction in tariffs against China,” Leavitt said on Fox News.
Other powers are clearly watching the Chinese approach and taking notes. Xi’s closest ally, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, is engaged in his own high-stakes negotiation with the United States, over Ukraine. Iran is in the midst of talks about its nuclear program. They are looking for signs of weakness, or little indications of what could test Trump’s nerves.
Elizabeth Economy, who has written extensively about Chinese trade policy and served in the Commerce Department during the Biden administration, said the Trump team appeared to have ignored three fundamentals about China: the depth of the Chinese retaliatory tool kit; the extent of China’s economic leverage over the United States; and the ability of Xi to make the United States the scapegoat for China’s economic ills.
“This game of chicken has done nothing but enable Xi Jinping to boost his standing in and outside China, while the United States appears uninformed and unmoored,” she said.
Stocks
Leveraged equity ETFs popular as investors bet on market recovery
Leveraged equity exchange-traded funds have seen a surge in inflows this month as some investors seek to position for amplified gains when markets recover from a selloff induced by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs.
According to LSEG Lipper data, leveraged equity funds have received inflows of $10.95 billion so far this month, already surpassing a 5-year high of $9.2 billion recorded last month. The previous peak was in March 2020, when markets were pummelled by the COVID crisis.
Leveraged equity funds are designed to deliver multiples of the daily returns of an underlying index such as S&P 500 or Nasdaq 100. They are especially popular among retail investors who want to avoid futures markets, where volatility can trigger margin calls or forced selling if prices fall.
Since Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on April 2, the MSCI World Index is down more than 3%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq indexes are down 5% each.
Losses were steeper initially but there has been a recovery in markets after his decision to pause those tariffs by 90 days.
Rob Kane, director of alternative investments at Commonwealth Financial Network, said inflows into leveraged ETFs were largely driven by expectations of imminent Federal Reserve rate cuts and the view that tariffs were being used as leverage in broader trade negotiations.
“Initial over-reactions driven by investor sentiment have often reversed quickly, and the short-term performance nature of leveraged ETFs, combined with the substantial gains they can generate, makes them a tactical tool for capitalizing on heightened price dislocations,” he said.
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These funds have gained popularity, thanks to the rise of trading platforms such as Robinhood, which offer ease of access to these types of ETFs for retail investors.
Revenue from Nasdaq’s financial technology business climbed 10% from a year ago to $432 million, while revenue at the company’s solutions business rose nearly 9% to $947 million.
“The current macro environment, recent policy shifts and ongoing talks about potential tariffs have created significant short-term volatility, and that uncertainty is at this point weighing on global GDP growth expectations,” Nasdaq Chair and CEO Adena Friedman said in an analyst call.
“Entering the second quarter, this is creating modest impact on the timing of corporate decision-making, although without a meaningful change in overall demand across all economic cycles,” she said.
Net revenue in the quarter came in at $1.24 billion, above analysts’ expectation of $1.23 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.
Net profit attributable to the company on an adjusted basis was $456 million, or 79 cents per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with $367 million, or 63 cents per share, a year earlier.
Analysts on average had expected a profit of 77 cents.
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Russia pummels Kyiv, prompting rare rebuke from Trump
A group of people watch as rescue workers search for those who are unaccounted for and are presumably buried beneath the rubble of an apartment building that was destroyed by a Russian missile strike earlier that morning in Kyiv, Ukraine on Thursday, April 24, 2025. Russia launched a huge attack on Kyiv early Thursday, with missiles and drones killing at least eight and injuring more than 60 others in the deadliest on the Ukrainian capital since last summer. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times) The San Juan Daily Star April 25-27, 2025 11
By KIM BARKER and MARIA VARENIKOVA
Russia killed at least 12 people and injured 90 others in a huge attack on the Ukrainian capital early Thursday, prompting President Donald Trump to issue a rare public critique of Moscow just hours after he lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
The assault was the deadliest on the capital, Kyiv, since the summer. Explosions shook buildings and sent more than 16,000 people into the subway system to take shelter; clouds of smoke rose over the city as the sun came up.
One missile hit a two-story building with 12 apartments where emergency workers hunted for survivors. A five-story building next door lost all its windows. People stood outside, staring at the damage and talking on their phones, telling loved ones that they were alive. No military target was visible nearby.
Zelenskyy said nearly 70 missiles, including ballistic ones, and about 150 attack drones had targeted cities across the country — although Kyiv was hit the hardest.
About the same time, Trump lashed out at President Vladimir Putin of Russia about the attack, showing how his administration’s positions can seem to flip-flop without warning.
“Vladimir, STOP!” Trump posted on Truth Social, saying that he was “not happy” with the Russian strikes. “Not necessary, and very bad timing,” the post added.
The attack came hours after Trump and his top aides demanded that Kyiv accept a U.S.-designed plan that would seemingly grant Russia all of the territory it has gained in the war, which started with Russia’s fullscale invasion in February 2022. The plan also offers Ukraine only vague assurances about future security. So far, Zelenskyy has said Ukraine cannot accept such a deal.
Before cutting short a trip to South Africa, which currently holds the presidency of the Group of 20, Zelenskyy said at a news conference in Pretoria that he saw no indication Russia was being pressured to agree to a ceasefire. He said with more pressure brought on Moscow, “we will be able to get closer to a complete, unconditional ceasefire.” To him, Zelenskyy added, the attack on Kyiv instead appeared intended to pressure the United States.
“We were attacked, we were occupied, many children and adults were buried alive,” he said. “This is a big compromise that we are ready to sit at the negotiating table with terrorists.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, who was at the same news conference, threw his weight behind Ukraine, criticizing
what he called preconditions before negotiations began. He reaffirmed that “the only path to peace is through diplomacy, inclusive dialogue and a commitment to the principles of the United Nations Charter.”
Since Trump took office in January, his administration has echoed Kremlin talking points in the war, a reversal of previous U.S. policy under the Biden administration. Over the past week, the Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to walk away from the peace process, claiming that the two sides were both intransigent. On Wednesday, planned peace talks in London were downgraded, largely because the United States decided not to attend.
Trump later called Zelenskyy “inflammatory” in a post on social media and said the Ukrainian president would only “prolong the ‘killing field.’”
In his Truth Social post Thursday, Trump said he wanted to “get the Peace Deal DONE!” He also said in the Oval Office on Thursday while sitting beside Norway’s prime minister, “I have my own deadline” for when Russia and Ukraine need to strike a peace deal. “We want it to be fast,” he added.
Trump said he had “no allegiance” to either side in the Russia-Ukraine war and that his only goal was to stop the war and save lives. He said Russia has made a “pretty big concession” to end the war. Later, when pressed about what concessions Russia has offered, Trump replied, “Stopping taking the whole country.”
Zelenskyy earlier pointed out that in March, Ukraine accepted a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire but that Putin has refused to agree to that plan. While Putin did announce a temporary truce for Easter Sunday, it seemed more of a public relations stunt than a ceasefire along the front line. Ukrainian cities, at least, were largely spared for the truce’s 30 hours.
But that was not the case early Thursday. Shortly after midnight, the first air alarms sounded.
Yevhenii Plakhotnikov, 40, lives just across the street from the two-story apartment building struck by a missile. He said he had awakened to the alarm, heard the buzzing sound of drones and then started getting dressed. A message on Telegram — the messaging platform that many Ukrainians rely on for missile alerts — said a ballistic missile had been launched.
Plakhotnikov said he went to the hallway to put on his shoes.
“While I was putting on the second sneaker, I heard the first explosion,” he recalled in an interview. “Then I heard something heavy fall. All my interior doors were torn in half. I opened the door and saw shrapnel flying.”
He said he helped get other people out of his building. There, one man was standing, covered in blood.
Tetyana Hrynenko, 58, stood on the street, covering her mouth with her hands and looking up at her ruined apartment next to the flattened building.
“The most important thing is that we are alive,” said Hrynenko, adding that she had heard two explosions, seen clouds of dust and smelled burning. She added: “People were shouting and asking for help. I looked out into the stairwell, and there were no stairs. And I live on the fifth floor.”
Residents managed to clear the stairwell of debris, allowing Hrynenko and others to make it outside.
How to watch the funeral of Pope Francis
By ISABELLA KWAI
Mourners will bid a final farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday during his funeral Mass, which is expected to draw international leaders as well as cardinals, archbishops and priests from around the world to the Vatican. The rites will be broadcast by news networks around the globe.
Until the funeral, his body, dressed in papal vestments, will lie in state at St. Peter’s Basilica.
Here’s what to know.
Where can I watch the funeral?
The funeral will take place on Saturday at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. Eastern) in St. Peter’s Square, the Vatican announced.
The New York Times will stream the funeral as part of its live coverage Saturday, and many U.S. television networks, including NBC, CBS, CNN and ABC, are planning to broadcast it as well. International broadcasters, such as the BBC in Britain, will also cover the funeral.
The funeral will also air on the Vatican’s news channel on YouTube, which has been streaming much of the rites.
Nuns gather to pray by the body of Pope Francis as he lay in state in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, April 24, 2025. Pope Francis now lies in state for three days to allow the Catholic faithful to pay their final respects ahead of the funeral.
(James Hill/The New York Times)
Where can I watch the funeral internationally?
In Canada, major networks such as CBC Television and CTV across the country are expected to carry the service. In the United Kingdom, news networks including Sky News and the BBC are also expected to broadcast the funeral.
In Brazil, there is Globo News and CNN
Brasil. And in Spain, viewers should be able to catch the service on Televisión Española with its news channel 24 Horas.
What will happen at the funeral?
Francis’ funeral will follow a series of centuries-old rituals.
On Saturday, a public funeral Mass will be held in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re,
dean of the College of Cardinals.
The funeral will be more modest than rites for past pontiffs: Francis last year simplified the rules around papal funerals, with changes that include using only one wooden coffin instead of three.
After the Mass, Francis’ body will be interred in the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, where seven other popes are buried.
Francis wrote in his will that he wanted his “last earthly journey to end at this very ancient Marian shrine.” He requested a simple, undecorated tomb with only the inscription “Franciscus,” the Vatican said.
The churches of Rome will hold special Masses in memory of Francis for nine days after the funeral.
Who is expected to attend?
World leaders and Catholic worshippers from around the world will attend the funeral. Expected attendees include: President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, President Javier Milei of Argentina and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, the world’s largest Catholic country.
Costa Rica tells Trump deportees they can stay and integrate, or leave
By EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA
Costa Rican authorities this week said they would make it possible for dozens of migrants deported from the United States to legally stay in the country — or leave if they so choose to.
Omer Badilla, the head of Costa Rica’s migration authority, said that starting Monday,
officials were returning passports and other personal documents to people who since February had been detained in a remote facility hours from the capital
He also said that a resolution passed by the government Monday would open up a path so that the deportees could stay and integrate into Costa Rican society.
Badilla said in an interview with The New York Times that officials had only retained the passports as a protective measure. “If the person has a well-founded fear of returning to their country, we will never send them back,” he added. “We will protect them.”
The move comes after the country’s own ombudsman, human rights groups and a coalition of international lawyers denounced Costa Rica for what they called the wrongful detainment of deported migrants and said the government had violated their rights in the process.
In February, 200 migrants from countries including China, Iran, Russia and Afghanistan arrived in Costa Rica from the United States as
part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. They were then bused to a detention center, a former pencil factory, near the border with Panama.
The migrants were not allowed to leave the facility unless they were escorted by police officers, Badilla said in a previous interview. And they were held until they agreed to be repatriated to their homelands, which many had fled, or sought asylum by either Costa Rica or another country, according to the lawyers who filed a lawsuit last week against Costa Rica before a United Nations committee.
Dozens of children, the suit alleges, lacked access to schooling, pediatricians or legal counsel while detained.
About 80 migrants remain at the holding center, mostly families with children, Badilla said. The rest have already returned to their countries of origin, he said.
The country “recognized the urgency and need for humanitarian aid that these people have,” said Juan Ignacio Rodríguez Porras, an attorney with the International Institute for So-
cial Responsibility and Human Rights, one of three organizations that filed the lawsuit.
Still, there was more to be done, he said.
The resolution that Costa Rica published Monday grants deportees a special threemonth humanitarian permit to leave the detention center — though it also lets them stay if they need a place to sleep, eat and shower.
But the document does not allow migrants to work in the country, a necessary step to find their footing in a nation they are not familiar with, Rodríguez Porras said.
“So, in practice, what are they offering them?” he said. “What they’re looking for is that people leave as soon as possible.”
Badilla said the government was also working with other countries, including Canada, to see if they would accept some of the migrants. But he added they could all apply for asylum in Costa Rica at any moment — giving them a legal pathway toward employment.
“We want this population to be integrated into our country,” he said. “I know that they can offer us a lot.”
Crisis deepens for India and Pakistan over Kashmir attack
The attack took place in a picturesque valley popular with Indian travelers. It was the worst assault on civilians in the Indian-administered territory in years, the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir said.
By SALMAN MASOOD
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated sharply Thursday, as the Pakistani government said it would consider it “an act of war” if India followed through on a threat to block the flow of crucial rivers as punishment for a deadly militant attack this week in Kashmir.
After a high-level meeting of Pakistan’s National Security Committee, the government announced a series of sweeping retaliatory measures, including the closing of its airspace to Indian carriers, a reduction of India’s diplomatic staff in Islamabad and a suspension of all trade with India.
The Indian government has not officially identified any group as being behind the attack Tuesday in a scenic tourist area of Indian-administered Kashmir. But it announced a flurry of punitive measures against Pakistan on Wednesday, including the suspension of an important water treaty, in response to what it said was Pakistan’s support of terrorist attacks inside India.
On Thursday, Pakistan’s top civilian and military leadership called India’s actions — which included the revocation of visas for Pakistanis and a downgrading of diplomatic ties — “unilateral, politically motivated and legally void.” Pakistan has denied any involvement in Tuesday’s attack.
The Pakistani government reserved its strongest words for India’s actions on the water treaty, saying it would respond decisively if the rivers were blocked or diverted. Pakistan relies on water from the Indus river system, which flows through India, for about 90% of its agriculture.
The treaty, brokered by the World Bank in 1960, had long been seen as a rare pillar of stability in South Asia, a framework that endured even through full-scale wars. Its unraveling now marks a rupture with huge symbolic and strategic weight.
Before the security committee meeting Thursday, the Pakistani government had struck a measured tone after militants killed more than two dozen Indian civilians in Kashmir, insisting that it has no interest in seeing tensions with India escalate.
But across Pakistan, people are watching with growing concern as Indian officials hint at the possibility of military strikes, and the television airwaves have been filled with defense analysts warning of unpredictable consequences if hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbors intensify.
Najm us Saqib, a former Pakistani diplomat, said the fallout
from the militant attack could be lasting.
“The coming weeks and months are likely to witness heightened tensions that might culminate in destabilizing an already fragile and susceptible region,” he said.
The assault in Kashmir, a region both countries claim and have fought wars over, set off a familiar pattern.
The Indian news media, which is largely aligned with the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, quickly pointed a finger at Pakistan. Pakistan accused India of trying to deflect attention from security lapses in the restive region.
Western intelligence officials have said that Pakistani security services allow anti-India militants to operate in Pakistan. India says those militants have crossed into Indian territory to carry out attacks.
Pakistan has pointed a finger at India, too, long accusing it of supporting a separatist insurgency in Baluchistan, a southwestern province. In recent months, attacks have spread across the province, including the deadly hijacking of a passenger train last month. Pakistan has also accused India of playing a role in militant attacks in the country’s northwest.
The last major militant assault in the Indian part of Kashmir took place in 2019, when dozens of Indian security personnel were killed. After that attack, India launched an air battle that stopped just short of all-out war.
Some Pakistani analysts warn that the current confrontation could intensify beyond the 2019 standoff. “Indian escalation already began last night, and it will be at a bigger scale than February 2019,” Syed Muhammad Ali, a security analyst in Islamabad, said Wednesday.
He claimed that India was using the attack to seek solidarity with the United States and defuse tensions over President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs, as well as to reframe the push for independence in Kashmir as a terrorist movement.
As of Wednesday, Pakistani officials said they had seen no evidence of an Indian military mobilization. They said the Pakistani military remained alert along the Line of Control separating the Indian- and Pakistani-administered parts of Kashmir.
A senior Pakistani security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomatic and military matters, said Pakistan would approach any tit-for-tat escalation carefully but would thwart incursions by India if they occurred.
Some military analysts and current and former officials accused India of staging the attack, noting that it had come while Vice President JD Vance was visiting India.
“They’re blaming Pakistan without proof,” Ahmed Saeed Minhas, a retired brigadier general, said on the television channel Geo News.
So far, the Pakistani military has made no public statement about Tuesday’s attack. The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned the loss of life, denied any role by Pakistan and urged India to avoid “premature and irresponsible allegations.”
Officials and analysts warn that while the region avoided catastrophe in 2019, that good fortune may not repeat itself.
“During the last escalation, both India and Pakistan were lucky to step down from the ladder,” said Murtaza Solangi, a former interim information minister for Pakistan.
“This time, we’re in a more dangerous phase,” he said. “A fractured global order and India’s hyperventilating media make it harder for Modi to act rationally. Both countries will be net losers if India doesn’t stop this madness.”
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL
One way to keep Trump’s authoritarian fantasy from becoming our reality
By JAMELLE BOUIE
The American constitutional system is built on the theory that the self-interest of lawmakers can be as much of a defense against tyranny as any given law or institution.
As James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, “The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.” Our Constitution is nothing more than a “parchment barrier” if not backed by the selfinterest and ambition of those tasked with leading the nation.
One of the most striking dynamics in these first months of the second Trump administration was the extent to which so many politicians seemed to lack the ambition to directly challenge the president. There was a sense that the smart path was to embrace the apparent vibe shift of the 2024 presidential election and accommodate oneself to the new order.
But events have moved the vibe in the other direction. Ambition is making a comeback.
Last week, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., traveled to El Salvador, where he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a victim of the Trump administration’s removal program under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
Under its reading of the law, which allows the president to summarily detain or expel foreign nationals from the United States, the Trump administration has sent hundreds of people accused of being gang members, most of Venezuelan origin, to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
Abrego Garcia is one of the men trapped in this black zone. Despite his protected legal status, he was arrested, detained, accused of gang activity and removed from the United States. At no point did the government prove its case against Abrego Garcia, who has been moved to a lower-security prison, nor did he have a chance to defend himself in a court of law or before an immigration judge. As one of his representatives in the U.S. Senate, Van Hollen met with him both to confirm his safety and to highlight the injustice of his removal.
“This case is not just about one man,” Van Hollen said at a news conference after his visit. “It’s about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America. If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights and due process for everyone else in America.”
Later, in an interview with CNN, Van Hollen accused the Trump administration of ignoring the Supreme Court, which this month told the White House to comply with a district court order to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return: “‘Facilitate’ does not mean you do nothing.” As for the president’s claim that Abrego Garcia is a dangerous gang member and so he wasn’t removed in error (as the administration acknowledged in a court filing), “What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject,” Van Hollen said. “The subject at hand is that he and his administration are defying a court order to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights.”
The goal of Van Hollen’s journey to El Salvador — during which he was stopped by Salvadoran soldiers and turned away
from the prison — was to bring attention to Abrego Garcia and invite greater scrutiny of the administration’s removal program and its disregard for due process. It was a success. And that success has inspired other Democrats to make the same trip, in hopes of turning more attention to the administration’s removal program and putting more pressure on the White House to obey the law.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is reportedly organizing a trip to El Salvador, and a group of House Democrats led by Rep. Robert Garcia of California arrived Monday. “While Donald Trump continues to defy the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held illegally in El Salvador after being wrongfully deported,” Garcia said in a statement. “That is why we’re here, to remind the American people that kidnapping immigrants and deporting them without due process is not how we do things in America.”
“We are demanding the Trump administration abide by the Supreme Court decision and give Kilmar and the other migrants mistakenly sent to El Salvador due process in the United States,” Garcia added.
All of this negative attention has had an effect. It’s not just that the president’s overall approval rating has dipped into the low 40s — although it has — but that he’s losing his strong advantage on immigration as well. Fifty percent of Americans said they disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration, according to a recent poll from Quinnipiac University, and a new Reuters poll showed Trump slightly underwater on the issue with a 45% approval to 46% disapproval.
Americans were even negative on the specifics of the president’s handling of immigration. Most Americans people responding to a March Reuters/Ipsos poll, 82%, said the president should follow federal court rulings even when he disagrees with them. A smaller but still significant majority said the president should stop deporting people in defiance of court orders. And Americans were broadly opposed to the deportation of immigrants who lack legal status but have lived in America for a long time, or who have children who are U.S. citizens or who are law-abiding except for breaking immigration law.
Americans might have liked to hear the president talk tough on immigration, but when it came to real actions affecting real people, they are much less supportive. And in traveling to El Salvador, dramatizing the plight of Abrego Garcia and attacking Trump on the most unpopular aspect of his immigration policies, Democrats like Van Hollen are creating the kinds of negative attention for Trump that could turn more Americans against the president’s immigration policies.
These Democrats are also highlighting the vital importance of political leadership after months during which it seemed to have vanished from liberal politics in the United States. Despite a narrow victory with one of the smallest popular vote margins on record, there was a real sense — as Trump began his second term — that his vision had won America over. The United States was Trump country, and the best anyone could do was to adjust to the new reality.
Many elites and institutions that took a posture of opposition to Trump in his first term looked to cooperate — and in the case of Silicon Valley, even assisted — in his second. Likewise,
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is stopped at a military checkpoint about a mile away from the notorious Salvadorian prison known as CECOT in El Salvador, on Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times)
powerful Democrats abandoned resistance in favor of a more measured, supposedly realistic approach. “It’s just accepting the reality that Trump won. And us just saying he’s a chaotic guy goes nowhere. That’s just baked into people’s consciousness,” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said in January. “The fact is, people want change. So that means we have to be willing to change as well.” Or, as one unnamed Democratic adviser told Politico just after Trump’s inauguration, “The path to prominence is not in endless resistance headlines.”
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PRUEBAS DE CERNIMIENTO PARA EL CÁNCER DE SENO
Por: Dr. Josué Vázquez Delgado, Director del Departamento de Radiología Hospital Pavia Caguas
El cáncer de seno es uno de alta incidencia y prevalencia en Puerto Rico y en el mundo entero. La tecnología y la ciencia nos han permitido desarrollar e ir perfeccionando estudios que detectan el cáncer de seno en una fase temprana. En muchas ocasiones, el cáncer de seno no presenta síntomas hasta fases tardías. Por ello, es importante realizarse estudios de cernimiento. Estas pruebas permiten detectar la malignidad a tiempo, lo que aumenta la supervivencia. Es importante señalar que cada mujer es diferente y su riesgo para desarrollar cáncer de seno depende de muchos factores. Una de cada ocho mujeres, es decir el (12%) de las mujeres, está en riesgo de desarrollar cáncer de seno, siendo el mayor riesgo ser mujer y la edad.
Entre las pruebas de detección, podemos mencionar la mamografía, que es el estudio más accesible, costo-efectivo y con un alto porcentaje de detección temprana de este cáncer. En mujeres con bajo riesgo de desarrollar cáncer de seno, la mamografía de cernimiento debe comenzar a los 40 años. El cernimiento para pacientes de mayor riesgo es diferente. Además de la mamografía, se deben incluir otros estudios adicionales,
como el ultrasonido y la resonancia magnética (MRI) del seno. El médico de estas pacientes, junto con las recomendaciones de un radiólogo experto en senos, debe ordenar los estudios necesarios, siguiendo una metodología balanceada y acorde al riesgo de cada paciente.
La tomosíntesis, o mamografía tridimensional (3D), es una forma avanzada de mamografía en la que las imágenes del seno se toman en forma tridimensional. Utiliza dosis bajas de rayos X para detectar el cáncer en una etapa temprana, cuando es más tratable. De esta manera, se evitan biopsias innecesarias y, sobre todo, se reduce en un 40% la necesidad de vistas adicionales. Por otro lado, el MRI de seno tiene la capacidad de determinar si la enfermedad está limitada a un solo cuadrante del seno o si hay malignidad en el otro seno, además de establecer el estadio del cáncer. El MRI también se recomienda en pacientes con senos densos. No todo hallazgo sospechoso significa que sea cáncer. El radiólogo puede recomendar una biopsia una vez que se detecta una masa palpable, se realiza una mamografía, y la lesión tiene características particulares que se confirman mediante un estudio secundario. La supervivencia de las pacientes ha ido en aumento, gracias a varios factores como la detección temprana, la tecnología que permite distinguir las masas malignas y los avances en los tratamientos. Por ejemplo, las técnicas quirúrgicas son hoy en día mucho más sofisticadas y la quimioterapia es más específica. Además de las mamografías, es importante que las mujeres realicen autoexámenes mamarios mensuales. Estas prácticas ayudan a mantener una vigilancia activa y promueven la salud mamaria. El Hospital Pavia Caguas cuenta con un Instituto de Imágenes para la Mujer. Para información adicional, pueden comunicarse al 787-653-3434.
Festival del Fricasé regresa a Naranjito con sabor y tradición
POR CYBERNEWS
NARANJITO – El alcalde de Naranjito, Orlando Ortiz Chevres, anunció el jueves que el municipio celebrará el domingo, 4 de mayo, una nueva edición del Festival del Fricasé en la Plaza Pública, a partir del mediodía.
“El fricasé es un plato que une generaciones. Con este festival queremos celebrar nuestras tradiciones culinarias y brindar a las familias una experiencia única en el corazón de nuestro pueblo”, expresó Ortiz Chevres en declaraciones escritas.
Durante el evento se preparará el fricasé de pollo más grande de Puerto Rico, que será confeccionado por empleados municipales del programa CADAL y servido gratuitamente a los asistentes. Además, habrá kioscos con
versiones creativas del plato, como fricasé de pavo, ternera, cabro, conejo y cerdo, así como frituras, bebidas y exhibiciones de productos de empresarios locales.
“Nuestro municipio está comprometido con la cultura, el turismo gastronómico y la promoción de nuestros recursos locales. Este evento es una vitrina para nuestros comerciantes y una celebración del sabor boricua”, añadió el alcalde.
La oferta musical iniciará con niños trovadores y grupos de baile del Centro de Bellas Artes, seguido por presentaciones de Alambre Dulce a la 1:00 de la tarde, Pleneros de Severo a las 3:00, Arnaldo Vallellanes y su orquesta a las 5:00, y el Gran Combo a las 7:00 de la noche, como cierre del evento.
Habrá transporte gratuito en trolleys desde el área del desvío hasta la plaza. Para más información, pueden visi-
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Molecular-UPR celebra jornada educativa
con más de 170 estudiantes
SAN JUAN – El Centro Molecular de la Universidad de Puerto Rico recibió a principios de esta semana, a más de 170 estudiantes y sus maestros en la Casa Abierta 2025, una jornada educativa donde participaron 80 estudiantes-investigadores como voluntarios.
“Recibir a cientos de estudiantes cada semestre en el Molecular es una muestra del compromiso que tenemos con la educación científica en Puerto Rico”, dijo Perla Cruz Tato, gerente de instrumentación científica y portavoz del comité coordinador del evento, el martes en declaraciones escritas.
Cruz Tato explicó que el evento, celebrado bajo el lema Celebrando las Ciencias, permitió a los estudiantes conocer de primera mano los proyectos científicos que se desarrollan en el recinto. Según las evaluaciones recopiladas, el 63 por ciento de los estudiantes indicó que su interés por las ciencias aumentó luego de la experiencia.
Durante la actividad, los jóvenes participaron en dinámicas interactivas como la extracción de ADN, manejo de micropipetas, separación de colores mediante cromatografía, y módulos especiales sobre sensores fluorescentes y tipos de sangre. También realizaron visitas a
laboratorios y facilidades especializadas como el Centro de Biodiversidad Tropical y el Instituto de Diseño Cristalográfico.
“Al abrir nuestras puertas a la próxima generación de estudiantes, sembramos la semilla de una cultura científica que aspira a transformar a Puerto Rico desde el conocimiento, la creatividad y la colaboración”, dijo el doctor Eduardo Nicolau, director ejecutivo del Centro Molecular.
Los estudiantes visitantes provenían de la Escuela Ana Roque Duprey de Humacao, el Colegio San Juan Bosco y Cupeyville School en San Juan. Además del equipo científico, el evento incluyó la presentación “La Magia de la Química” a cargo del capítulo estudiantil de la American Chemical Society de la UPR-Río Piedras, una exhibición de “Neuro Arte” y recorridos guiados por investigadores y técnicos.
POR CYBERNEWS
5 free movies to stream now
By BRANDON YU
Spring, with its blooms and many unfurlings, is a time of awakening. Yet birth and renewal also means being confronted with the cold light of day.
The early seconds of Josephine Decker’s 2018 film “Madeline’s Madeline” opens on a theater exercise that doubles as a kind of transformation for its teenage protagonist. “What you are experiencing is just a metaphor,” she’s assured. But what it represents will prove to be confusing and brutal; growing into the world often is.
Spring, of course, also welcomes the budding of new romance. In the films from this month, you’ll recognize the sudden possibilities of love, in its wonder and its terror, along with the prickly realities of coming of age. For these (mostly) young characters, it’s a season of change. Watching them, one can only hope they make it out the other end intact.
‘Weekend’ (2011)
The fleeting encounter is an age-old archetype kept alive by the most romantic, and perhaps idealized, corners of our imagination. But in this story of a twonight stand by Andrew Haigh (“All of Us Strangers”), a brief connection is rendered achingly deep and real.
Across a weekend, a hookup slowly
deepens between Russell (Tom Cullen), a soft-spoken lifeguard throbbing with discomfort as he moves through the world, and Glen (Chris New), a confident aspiring artist indignant at an oppressively straight world. Gradually, they tease out each other’s inner lives, hash out gay politics and, as the night gets hazier, interrogate what exactly the other is running away from.
The progression of their connection is wonderfully organic and subtle thanks to Cullen and New’s inspired chemistry. Their performances transform a fling into an affecting sketch of two people — dissatisfied, wounded and defensive in ordinary but tangible ways — itching for comfort and understanding before the sun is forced to rise. (Stream it on PlutoTV.)
‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ (1995) Youth is hell. Forget the blissful innocence we associate with it. For many, it’s an endless torment against which we are powerless, as depicted in Todd Solondz’s hilarious and bleak coming-of-age horror show. The film follows Dawn (Heather Matarazzo), a bespectacled seventh grader who just can’t catch a break. She is bullied by everyone at school, blotted out as the middle child in her family and has her first kiss with the same boy who is violently threatening her.
The terror of growing up is universal, but it’s made memorable here by Solondz’s distinct sensibility of cosmic despair. But the movie also captures a larger picture of a kind of suburban American drabness — not a done-up or stylized one, but one that is simply frumpy, a future that Dawn wouldn’t even want to grow up into.
There is no exact arc here, just as you certainly wouldn’t feel one while living youth in real time. Sometimes it doesn’t get better — at least not by the end of the school year, and maybe not for a long while after that. (Stream it on Tubi.)
‘C’mon C’mon’ (2021)
A chorus of young voices answer big questions throughout Mike Mills’ film: What will the future look like? Will it be better or worse? Their answers are wise and pure, as they try to find the right words that bridge their idealism with their understanding of the world’s colder realities.
Mills, whose past films includes “Beginners” and “20th Century Women,” gravitates toward the space between innocence and the messiness of life, which is another way of saying, between being a child and being a parent.
Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is a radio journalist traversing the country to ask young people these questions for a project. But after his sister (Gabby Hoffman) must travel to assist her unstable husband, Johnny steps in to temporarily watch over his spunky and inquisitive nephew, Jesse (Woody Norman). Naturally, Johnny stumbles through parenting Jesse, who increasingly struggles with the trickiness of the situation.
Their growing bond is seen through Mills’ trademark warmth, offering another tender rendition on the director’s consistent preoccupations: the life cycle of parent and child, the ever-spinning wheel of learning, loving and trying. (Stream it on PlutoTV and Plex.)
‘Madeline’s Madeline’ (2018)
At the center of this film’s experimental haze is Madeline (Helena Howard), the troubled teenage girl whose comingof-age is as freeing as it is precarious. We mostly see her either rehearsing with a theater group whose director (Molly Parker) has deemed her an acting prodigy or at home butting heads with her mother (Miranda July).
Her world is seen through alternatingly intimate and disorienting camerawork that, we realize, comes to personify Madeline’s wavering mental state. Soon,
the chaos of her inner world becomes fodder for the director’s work, a process that becomes increasingly dubious.
Decker’s film can be as challenging as it is audacious; do not expect an entirely straightforward work, in form or narrative, a reflection of the film’s interests in unreliable authors, the unraveling mind and the blurry line between art and personal life. What is plainly brilliant is Howard’s breakout performance (her screen debut, no less!); her feverish emotional complexity brings to mind the great Gena Rowlands and her erratic figure in “A Woman Under the Influence.” (Stream it on Tubi.)
‘Two Lovers’ (2008)
Most romance movies wouldn’t dare to start as bleakly as this one does. That’s perhaps because James Gray’s film, despite its title, is not so much a romance as a melancholy tale about how fractured and desperate the search for love can be among broken people.
Here we see Joaquin Phoenix as a sweet loner named Leonard, grieving his last relationship and living with his parents in Brooklyn. But his life is shaken suddenly by two love interests: Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), the stable daughter of a family friend; and Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow), the chaotic neighbor stuck in an affair with a married man.
They are familiar tropes that become richly human in the performances and in Gray’s assured direction, creating a portrait of how connection can often be about finding solace away from the past and from ourselves. (Stream it on Tubi.)
vera y camino municipal que da a la carretera Estatal Número ciento cuarenta y tres (143). No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. No tiene número de catastro asignado. Los interesados incluyen a colindantes desconocidos, anteriores dueños desconocidos y posibles herederos de dueños anteriores desconocidos de la propiedad antes mencionada. Por la presente quedan notificados que Wilfredo Gaudino Bonilla y Anamarys Rivera Díaz, han radicado en este Tribunal una Petición de Expediente de Dominio sobre la propiedad antes descrita, alegando que adquirieron la propiedad mediante compraventa mediante escritura número setenta y dos (72) del 3 de mayo de 2023 ante el notario público Felix A. Santiago Miranda, de sus anteriores dueños Milagros Olivero Delgado, Carlos Javier Medina Olivero, Jan Carlos Medina Olivero y Crystal Marie Medina Olivero y que el periodo de posesión de la propiedad de los peticionarios y todos los anteriores dueños sobre pasa un término de 30 años de posesión. Se apercibe que si transcurrido veinte (20) días desde la publicación de este Edicto, no ha habido reparos u oposición contra la petición interpuesta, este Tribunal celebrará vista en su fondo y de cumplirse con la Ley 2102015 se Ordenará al Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce II que inscriba dicha finca a nombre de los Peticionarios. Usted deberá presentar su oposición 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 oposición en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Copia de su oposición deberá ser notificada al Licenciado Salvador Márquez Colón a su dirección en: 485 Ave. Tito Castro, Ponce, PR. En cumplimiento de una orden dictada por este Tribunal expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 7 de abril de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL, CENTRO JUDICIAL, PONCE, PUERTO RICO. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: IS2024CV00165. (Salón: 0001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA
POR EDICTO. OSVALD L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. LOURDES MANTILLA RIOS - 186 RUTA 5, ISABELA, PUERTO RICO, 00662.
A: LOURDES MANTILLA RIOS.
(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 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de abril de 2025. En Isabela, Puerto Rico, el 15 de abril de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. OMAYRA LÓPEZ GIRALD, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. NATALIA LOPEZ TORRES
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV04662. (Salón: 504 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: NATALIA LOPEZ TORRES. (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 abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia
Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de abril de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de abril de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARIELA O. VIZCARRONDO ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JOSEFINA CORREA GONZÁLEZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: AR2024CV00715. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 12 de marzo de 2025, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Family Unit number B dash one hundred one (B-101) of North building of La Playa Apartments Condominium of “B” Street, located at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which family unit is located in the first floor, wing “B”, with its balcony facing structure II (Center Building) Boundaries: by the NORTH, columns facing the interior patio and lobby; by the SOUTH, columns and porch facing structure II (Center Building); by the EAST, columns facing the rear yard and property belonging to CRUV; and by the WEST, columns separating it from Unit B one hundred two (B-102) and the lobby. The main entrance door faces the North and leads into the common restricted lobby of the first floor. This Unit has a twenty five percent (25%) in the common limited elements. Finca Número 14,935, inscrita al folio 162 del tomo 373 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Arecibo. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago sa-
ber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Hipoteca a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, por la suma principal de $14,500.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 27 de febrero de 2015, constituida mediante la escritura número 28, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de febrero de 2007, ante el notario Mario Voungh Di Frisco Pérez, e inscrita al folio 195 vuelto del tomo 1256 de Arecibo, finca número 14,935, inscripción 13ra., y última. Sujeta a condiciones bajo el Programa La Llave para tu Hogar por un término de 8 años. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada en este caso, el 31 de enero de 2025, notificada el 3 de febrero de 2025, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $24,586.55 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 7.00% desde el 1ro de octubre de 2023; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $3,550.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 13 DE MAYO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $35,500.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 20 DE MAYO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA
será de $23,666.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 27 DE MAYO DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $17,750.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de abril de 2025. SUHEIL M. SELVÁ SOTO, ALGUACIL
PLACA #413, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO.
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Demandante V. IRIS DELIA
RODRIGUEZ RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV07110. (Salón: 905 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM.
A: IRIS DELIA
RODRIGUEZ RIVERA. (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 abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de abril de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: ENMENDADA A LOS FINES DE NOTIFICAR CORRECTAMENTE. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de abril de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARIBEL RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE YAUCO EN SABANA GRANDE
CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante Vs. NARCISO RODRIGUEZ CORREA, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: YU2025CV00026. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: NARCISO RODRIGUEZ CORREA, JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https.//unired.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Yauco en Sabana Grande, Sala Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Andrea Carolina Chaves Figueroa; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; achaves@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 15 de abril de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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OLGA JIMENEZ LARUY
Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV00257 (SALON 908). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
GABRIEL ALBERTO ROSA CRUZ GABRIELROSA@BMRLAWPR.COM
PATRICIA MICHELLE MORRIS SANCHEZ; PATRICIAMORRIS@ BMRLAWPR.COM
A: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORP (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC);
DORAL BANK; JOHN DOE; JANE DOE (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 abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de abril de 2025. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 16 de abril de 2025. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ
COLLADO, SECRETARIA. F/ ANGELA RIVERA HERNANDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. FIRST SERVICE CORPORATION Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV01206. (Salón: 506 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BEATRIZ CAY VÁZQUEZBEATRIZCAYVAZQUEZ@GMAIL. COM. A: FIRST SERVICE CORPORATION; BANCO SANTANDER PUERTO RICO; DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS: “JOHN DOS”, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de abril de 2025, este
Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 16 de abril de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de abril de 2025.
GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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WING YIP YUEN
Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK, como sucesor en derecho de Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO y cualesquiera persona desconocida con posible interés en la obligación cuya cancelación por decreto judicial se solicita.
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM: FA2025CV00323 SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: JUAN Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de (1) pagaré hipotecario: pagaré a favor pagaré a favor de Scotiabank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $25,000.00, con intereses al 10% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 59, otorgada en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el día 21 de julio de 2005,
ante el notario Nector Robles Abraham, e inscrita al folio 4 del tomo 485 de Fajardo, finca número 2,111, inscripción 15th; sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar en el Barrio Sardinera del término municipal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy dentro de la zona urbana de dicha ciudad, que aparece marcado con el número ciento noventa y ocho del Plano de Urbanización con un área de quinientos treinta y seis puntos noventa y uno metros cuadrados, en colindancias por el OESTE, que es su frente, con la Calle número dos de la Urbanización; por el SUR, con la Calle número seis; y por el NORTE y el ESTE, con Robert P. Byrne. Enclava una casa de concreto de una sola planta dedicada a vivienda. Propiedad número 2,111 inscrita al folio 31 del tomo 64 de Fajardo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante a la Lcda. Alyssa Rivera Rivera, a la dirección P.O. Box 19815, San Juan, P.R. 00910. Teléfono 787-7826500, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle, ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy a 02 de abril de 2025. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria. Linda I. Medina Medina, Sub-Secretaria.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. JEAN ROBERT AUGUSTE SEVER, ET AL. Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV11006. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JEAN ROBERT AUGUSTE SEVER, JANE DOE, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Por la presente se les notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se les advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de San Juan, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante les notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a su última dirección conocida: Cond. La Ceiba, 1483 Ave. Ashford, Apto. 1501, San Juan, PR 00907. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 21 de abril de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. DE LA PAZ ORTIZ, EDITH M., SUB-SECRETARIA.
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Demandante V. RIVERAS LED L.L.C. Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2025CV00056.
(Salón: 301). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM.
A: RIVERAS LED L.L.C.; RAMÓN E. RIVERA MELÉNDEZ - BO. QUEBRADA, CARR. 985
KM. 2.8, FAJARDO, PR 00738; P.O. BOX 237, FAJARDO, PR 00738. (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 abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 23 de abril de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 23 de abril de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 15 de abril de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 15 de abril de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA. BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY Demandante v. LAGO ESMERALDA DEVELOPERS, INC. Demandado CIVIL NÚM. FCD2009-1944 (401). SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. A: AL DEMANDADO DE EPÍGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL YO, el(la) Alguacil que suscribe, por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento, expedido el 17 de octubre de 2024 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal, para que proceda a vender en pública subasta las propiedades inmuebles embargadas, para satisfacer las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la Sentencia dictada en el presente caso, a saber: Número de Préstamo: 80-00000281; Balance de Principal: $23,307,580.47; Intereses Acumulados: $4,916,895.46; Per Diem: $5,275.36; Total: $28,656,019.16. Número de Préstamo: 80-00000312; Balance de Principal: $1,905,426.00; Intereses Acumulados: $309,352.89; Per
UAGM defends Luis F. Sambolín Cup lead in Inter-University Athletic League
By THE STAR STAFF
Ana G. Méndez University (UAGM) began its participation in the 2025 Sports Festival, “Las Justas,” of the Interuniversity Athletic League (LAI) on Thursday as the leader in the race for the Luis F. Sambolín Cup, one of the most important awards in intercollegiate sports in Puerto Rico.
“We are really happy. This year we have the opportunity to defend our championship,” said Edgar Díaz, the UAGM athletic director, in a written statement. “We have been off to a good start since the first semester.”
UAGM, with 1,635 accumulated points, competes in beach volleyball and women’s softball. Although it suffered losses in soccer and men’s basketball, where it is now vying for bronze after finishing runner-up in 2024, it maintains its lead over its main rivals.
Inter-American University is in second place with 1,470 points. The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) at Mayagüez is in third
place with 1,440 points, followed by the UPR Río Piedras Campus with 1,415 points.
Díaz noted that competition will be strong in disciplines such as judo, swimming, table tennis, dance, and track and field. In dance, the UAGM expanded its team to 14 participants under coach Luis Jovan, who previously won bronze with the UPR at Ponce.
“We believe that in dance we should be in the top four places with God’s help,” Díaz said.
The Track and Field Games will be held May 1-3 at Mayagüez’s José Antonio Figueroa Freyre Stadium. Díaz invited the public to attend, guaranteeing that “they are going to be very exciting.”
Last year, Díaz kept his promise to shave his head if the UAGM won the cup. This year, amid laughter, he ruled out repeating the challenge and expressed confidence that the athletes would be recognized at the Sports Gala.
The schedule and results are available at laipr.org and on the Torneo Fácil mobile app.
Kenyan runner will try to become first woman to break a 4-minute mile
By JERÉ LONGMAN
Astar runner from Kenya, Faith Kipyegon, is set to try to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes this summer, after a study suggested that she could do so under the right conditions.
Kipyegon, 31, set the world record in the women’s mile, running it in 4 minutes 7.64 seconds in 2023. More than 70 years after Roger Bannister, a British medical student, became the first person to break the four-minute barrier, it remains the next frontier for women’s middle-distance running.
The attempt is scheduled for June 26 in Paris, Nike, which sponsors Kipyegon, said Wednesday.
In February, a study had predicted that Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic champion in 1,500 meters, known as the metric mile, could run a mile as fast as 3:59.37 by reducing drag with better drafting off pacesetters.
Breaking four minutes would require her to run two seconds faster per lap on the four laps around the track, compared with her previous best.
Factors ranging from wind and pacing to shoe technology and mental training will all play a significant role.
The study predicting that Kipyegon could do it, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, posited that her best chance would involve drafting, or the use of pacesetters running in formation around her to help reduce wind resistance. The study suggested that one female pacer
run 1.3 meters ahead of her and another the same distance behind.
Nike did not reveal its plans for pace-setting or the use of racing spikes, whose enhanced foam cushioning and carbon-fiber plates have helped make sub-four-minute miles more common in men’s running.
The company said the attempt would be made in a controlled environment at Stade Charléty, a stadium in the 13th arrondissement. Kipyegon set the 1,500-meter world record of 3:49.04 at a meet there in 2024. (A mile is a little over 1,600 meters.)
Nike created similar experimental conditions on a course in Vienna in 2019, when Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge became the first person to run the 26.2 miles of a marathon in under two hours.
Even if she achieved her goal, Kipyegon might not set an official world record. For World Athletics, the global governing body for track and field, to ratify a sub-four-minute women’s mile, rules about pace-setting have to be followed.
According to the study, Kipyegon would have her best chance at breaking the mark if her pacers were substituted after the first half-mile. That would not conform to pacing rules. Kipchoge’s sub-two-hour marathon was not considered an official record as he used rotating pacers.
An official record, however, might not be her priority.
“I want this attempt to say to women, ‘You can dream and make your dreams valid,’” Kipyegon said in a statement.
The Ana G. Méndez University athletic director says the UAGM has been “off to a good start since the first semester” in its defense of the Luis F. Sambolín Cup.
Faith Kipyegon during the 2017 World Athletic Championships in London. The 31-year-old Kenyan set the world record in the women’s mile, running it in 4 minutes 7.64 seconds in 2023. (Wikipedia/Erik van Leeuwen)
The San Juan Daily Star April 25-27, 2025
Sudoku
How to Play:
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Crossword
1. Word after sotto or viva
2. ____, skip and jump away
3. Rosario, in "Rent"
4. Bursts
5. Considers
6. Indicates that one is in
7. Cyan end
8. Online "ha-ha"
9. Timber bend, on a ship
10. Mother who won a Nobel
11. A Maverick
12. Wise ____ owl
13. Hester Prynne's accessory
18. Casual shoe
21. Tenerife locale (abbr.)
23. Unspecified number
24. Internet add.
25. Impolite look
26. Athenian statesman
27. Ticker on a chain
28. They're no pros
29. Outdoor store
31. Fire starters
32. Fencing needs
33. Sugar ___
38. Skater Lysacek
40. Playwright Ionesco
41. "___ la la..."
44. Printing widths
45. Dir. opposite SSW
46. It doesn't go in circles
49. Frees from one's bonds
50. "____ Married an Axe Murderer" (1993 film)
53. Truckers' rigs
54. Karate or lamb follower
55. Indigenous Japanese people
56. Harmful aerosol chemicals, for short
58. Quaker pronoun
59. Geological periods
60. Some teens with dyed-black hair
61. ____ majeste
63. Baseball's Wigginton and TV's Pennington
64. Relaxed reaction
65. With "wing," informed
Agreeing Arched Armpit Brand Creek Curios Deftly Deposed Diapered Digits Ebonies Erect Force Gallows Grate Harped Hedge Icier Identification Minds Minuscules Mount Pansy Pedantry
Peeks
Piety
Preponderances
Quaint
Recur
Rotate
Scholars
Snapshot
Snide
Snugs
Swerve
Timely
HOROSCOPE
Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
People are hesitant to deal with deep emotional issues today. They’re erecting protective barriers so the things they hear, see, and feel don’t hurt them. Respect these boundaries. Do your best to stay rooted in your inner sanctuary. Try to keep a positive attitude even though the prevailing mood may be somber.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
You’re having a difficult time getting started today. Don’t get discouraged if things don’t seem to be working. Your expectations may be too high, and your perfectionism is making it difficult for anyone to live up to your standards. Don’t get worked up over every little detail. Perfection isn’t demanded of you.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
Be polite and try your best not to impose on other people today. It’s important to behave civilly in all circumstances. People may feel like they’ve been cheated. Although you may not be the source of their discontent, you may feel the consequences.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
You might find your emotions stifled today. You have a great deal to say, but for some reason there’s a bit of hesitation when it comes to saying it. Don’t be surprised if you feel anxious in such a way that makes it difficult to communicate. Much of today’s talk may be filled with fluff and not much substance.
Scorpio
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
You might not feel especially motivated today. Nonetheless, whether you want to or not, it’s important that you attack the mountain of tasks. Understand and respect the constraints of the ticking clock. As long as you’re disciplined about accomplishing one small task at a time, you won’t have a problem reducing the mountain to a small pile.
Sagittarius
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
You may be very busy today. This is a good time to get things done. There’s a feeling of discipline that’s helping you stay focused. Emotions are stifled, which may work to your advantage. Keep everything limited to the facts at hand, and work can proceed much more efficiently than if simple issues become big soap operas.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
Don’t blame everything on others today. It’s important to be adult enough to take responsibility for your actions. Understand that things aren’t always going to happen the way you want. Realize that sometimes you have to take the good with the bad. There’s a somber mood to the day that might overwhelm your normal attitude.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
You might need to adopt a stern attitude today in order to be as effective as you’d like to be. When dealing with others, don’t make assumptions for which you don’t have solid backing. Other people are easily touched off, so keep things limited to the facts. Try not to stir up heavy emotions.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
You may not feel like your engine is working today. For some reason, it seems like you’re using the wrong fuel. Don’t be surprised if it’s a bit harder to get in touch with your emotional state. Your feelings are playing tricks on you.
Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)
You’re having a difficult time connecting with your emotions today. Things will run more smoothly if you don’t try to force yourself to act cheerful if you aren’t. Be honest about your emotions. If you’re feeling restless or negative, keep it to yourself. Go for a walk, preferably near water, and indulge in a good healthy meal.
Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)
Take some emotional time off today if you feel you deserve it. You’re getting so wrapped up in other people’s dramas that you’re feeling drained when it comes to your own concerns. Calm down and relax physically and mentally. Getting too stressed about a certain issue isn’t healthy. You may end up foiling the situation much more than if you left it alone. Come back to it later.
Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)
You may get more emotional than usual when it comes to work. Do your best to keep your emotional life separate from daily responsibilities. If you feel overwhelmed by a certain job to the point where you can no longer do it effectively, it may be a sign that you need to make some changes. This is a time of heightened sensitivity. Do your best to stay afloat.
