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GOOD MORNING
By THE STAR STAFF
President Trump has signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., the first such designation in the country’s history.
The order, which Trump signed on Saturday, rescinds a policy issued by former President Bill Clinton requiring agencies to provide assistance programs for people with limited English proficiency, according to a White House fact sheet. The order allows agencies to voluntarily keep those support systems in place.
“Nothing in this order, however, requires or directs any change in the services provided by any agency. Agency heads should make decisions as they deem necessary to fulfill their respective agencies’ mission and efficiently provide Government services to the American people. Agency heads are not required to amend, remove, or otherwise stop production of documents, products, or other services prepared or offered in languages other than English,” the order reads.
“A nationally designated language is at the core of a unified and cohesive society, and the United States is strengthened by a citizenry that can freely exchange ideas in one shared language,” the order said.
English is one of the two official languages of Puerto Rico. However, according to the Census, less than 20% of the people speak it.
English is already the official language in more than 30 states, but Trump’s executive order comes at a time when the number of people in the United States who speak languages other than English continues to grow
Trump’s order echoes a longtime campaign pledge and is a move the White House said will “promotes unity, cultivate a shared American culture for all citizens, ensure consistency in government operations, and create a pathway to civic engagement.”
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Washington Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting member of Congress, said in a statement that the order “reflects a vision of American identity that conflicts with our Puerto Rican identity.”
“There will be no statehood without assimilation, and Puerto Ricans will never surrender our identity. For those of us who seek a union with the U.S. without assimilation,” Hernández said, “there is only one alternative: maintaining and strengthening the current Commonwealth relationship.”
Hernández is the president of the island’s Popular Democratic Party, which supports the current territorial status, but in Congress he caucuses with Democrats.
Statehood supporter and former Senate President Charlie Rodríguez told NBC News that “statehood does not represent the loss of our identity, nor does it represent cultural changes.”
“The statehood movement has always been clear. Turning Puerto Rico into a state is not about ceasing to be who we are,” said Rodríguez, who’s also the chairman of the Puerto Rico Democratic Party.
Some advocacy organizations say the order will hurt immigrant communities and those looking for assistance learning English.
Roman Palomares, who heads the League of United Latin American Citizens, criticized the Trump administration’s move in a statement issued ahead of the order’s official signing, according to NBC.
“Our Founding Fathers enshrined freedom of speech in the First Amendment without limiting it to one language. They envisioned a nation where diversity of thought, culture, and expression would be its greatest strength,” said Palomares.
“Declaring English as the only official language directly contradicts that vision,” he added. “America thrives when we embrace inclusivity, not when we silence the voices of millions who contribute to its success.”
Pla raises alarm about crisis in emergency centers
By THE STAR STAFF
ollowing the closure of the Cossma emergency room in Las Piedras, Hospital Association President Jaime Pla addressed the ongoing health crisis affecting various municipalities.
Despite previous agreements to keep other emergency centers operational, Pla made it clear that no agreement was reached to maintain Cossma’s operations at least until 7 p.m. This gap in service is unacceptable, especially when post-evening patient volume plummets, leading to significant financial challenges.
“This is a critical issue impacting numerous emergency rooms in specific areas. While daytime activity exists, the lack of post-sunset patient volume does not warrant keeping the facilities open,” Pla asserted in a radio interview. He specifically pointed out the emergency room managed by the municipality in Las Piedras, which faces a similar troubling situation with a minimal patient count.
Furthermore, Pla highlighted that patients are increasingly choosing to seek care at three emergency rooms located just 10 minutes away, exacerbating the problem. It is imperative for the Department of Health and community stakeholders to take decisive action, and to establish a strategic plan to effectively structure health services in light of economic constraints and health service needs. “We need to make firm decisions about which emergency rooms remain open,” he declared.
Pla also raised a critical alarm about the consequences for patients facing serious emergencies. Time is of the essence, and lives depend on immediate access to appropriate hospital facilities, he said. “For individuals exhibiting stroke symptoms, there’s a three-hour window to reverse the condition. The only hospital currently equipped to handle such cases in Puerto Rico is Caguas de Menonita. It is crucial that patients do not waste valuable time at intermediate facilities that can delay necessary treatment,” he emphasized.
House speaker & Culebra mayor join forces to revive ex-pharmaceutical factory
By THE STAR STAF
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Carlos ‘Johnny’ Méndez, is seeking to facilitate the transfer of the former Baxter factory to the municipal administration of Culebra, which plans to create a warehouse area for products that travel to and from the Virgin Islands, as well as a large parking area to alleviate traffic congestion in the urban area of the island municipality.
“The Mayor of Culebra, Ediberto ‘Junito’ Romero, has a pressing need to obtain ownership of the old Baxter factory in order to promote a project to rebuild and develop a warehouse area that will allow Culebra to generate income by storing products that are then shipped to the Virgin Islands. This proposal would create a recurring source of income for the Municipality and has our full support; that is why we want the transfer to be completed without delay,” said the President of the Lower House.
To this end, last Friday, the legislative
Legislative leader Johnny Méndez and Culebra mayor, Ediberto ‘Junito’ Romero, took to the site the secretary of DDEC, Sebastián Negrón, the executive director of the PA, Norberto Negrón, the executive director of the Public Buildings Authority, Félix Lasalle, and the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Public Works, Edwin González.
leader took to Culebra the Secretary of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC), Sebastián Negrón, the Executive Director of the Port Authority, Norberto Negrón, the Executive Director of the Public Buildings Authority, Félix Lasalle, and the Secretary of the Department
of Transportation and Public Works, Edwin González.
Senator for District VIII (Carolina), Hector J. Sanchez, was also present.
The former Baxter pharmaceutical factory, which is located in the Playa Sandina sector, has been closed for about two de-
cades. In September 2023, the Mayor signed an agreement with the Industrial Development Company, PRIDCO, attached to the DDEC, to lease the land for the purpose of developing it.
Méndez, Romero, the Senator and government officials toured the grounds of this factory to determine additional needs that can be incorporated into the development plan that the Municipality already has.
“I want to thank the President of the Chamber, friend ‘Johnny’ Méndez, who has always been attentive to the needs of our island municipality. For Culebra, the development of the land of the old Baxter factory is very important. The structure, once rehabilitated, will serve as a large warehouse area that will allow the Municipality to generate income. Likewise, we seek to create an area of new businesses and a parking area, since there is no longer space available in the traditional urban center. This dramatic lack of spaces is impacting economic activity, hence the urgency,” said
Oversight Board to submit new PREPA debt deal no later than March 17
By THE STAR STAFF
After filing on February 6 the energy utility’s fiscal plan, the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) says it expects to submit an amended plan of debt adjustment for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority by no later than March 17.
PREPA has been in Title III bankruptcy since 2017 to restructure about $9 billion in debt.
In a motion last week, the FOMB said the new debt adjustment plan will be consistent with PREPA’s fiscal plan.
The FOMB has clarified that the proposed amended plan will fully cover the non-settling bondholders’ secured claim, provided that the amount is determined to be allowable. Additionally, all administrative claims will be paid, as long as the Court establishes that these claims are valid and can be paid using assets not connected to the bondholders’ collateral.
“The proposed amended plan will pay in full the non-settling bondholders’ secured claim in the amount it is determined to be finally allowable and all their administrative
claims to the extent the Court determines they have allowable, recourse administrative claims payable from assets other than their collateral. In its response to be filed next week, the Oversight Board will briefly explain why it believes such claims are not meritorious for legal reasons determinable prior to any legitimate need for discovery and evidentiary hearings,” the FOMB said.
In a response set to be filed next week, the FOMB will explain why it believes that these claims have no legal basis for receiving
additional payments beyond what the proposed plan offers. This viewpoint is based on legal reasons that can be determined without requiring extensive discovery and evidentiary hearings.
The Oversight Board also said that in a response to the bondholders’ motion dated February 24 for an order terminating the litigation stay, it will address the bondholders’ comments about the February 2025 PREPA Fiscal Plan.
A group of Puerto Rico Electric Power Au-
thority bondholders want Judge Laura Taylor Swain to lift the litigation stay, arguing that the energy utility refuses to accept their latest settlement offer in the bankruptcy process that began in July 2017.
Assured Guaranty Inc., the PREPA Ad Hoc Group, National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation, GoldenTree Asset Management LP, Syncora Guarantee, Inc., and U.S. Bank National Association as trustee under the Trust Agreement moved to terminate the PREPA litigation stay and used statements against the fiscal plan made by La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech and by the governor in support of their claims.
They argued the FOMB, which represents PREPA in its $9 billion bankruptcy, eliminated any reasonable basis for maintaining a stay.
The bondholders noted that even the Commonwealth recognizes that the Board is acting in bad faith, as the executive director of AAFAF, Francisco Domenech, on behalf of the new administration, stated that the Board’s actions are “unacceptable,” and that the fiscal plan is based on projections that are neither “real nor reasonable.”
FOMB executive director Robert F. Mujica Jr.
Governor celebrates 108 year of statehood
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Department of State today celebrated the 108th anniversary of the Advent of American Citizenship in Puerto Rico with an official ceremony at the Old City Hall Building in Old San Juan.
The event was attended by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, Secretary of State Veronica Ferraiuoli Hornedo, as well as agency heads, mayors, legislators and representatives of pro-statehood organizations.
During the ceremony, Governor González Colón presented an official proclamation highlighting the importance of this anniversary in the history of Puerto Rico and reaffirming her administration’s commitment to equal rights for American citizens residing on the island.
“We are American citizens with 108 years of loyalty to our nation. We have served in every war, we have contributed to the economy, we have built a historical and cultural
Governor González Colón presented an official proclamation highlighting the importance of this anniversary in the history of Puerto Rico.
legacy. There is no more room for constitutional tests or legal excuses. Being citizens on equal terms - which only statehood guarantees - is the great challenge of our generation. And we will achieve it, as the United States has always done: with determination, with perseverance, without deviating from the goal despite the detractors. ...and we chose this path not because it is easy, but because it is the right
one, because it is fair, because it is what we deserve. Because after 108 years, it is time,” said the governor.
For her part, Secretary of State Veronica Ferraiuoli Hornedo presented a proclamation to various organizations that have contributed to strengthening democratic and civic values in Puerto Rico.
“American citizenship has been a fundamental pillar in the development and growth of Puerto Rico. This anniversary reminds us of the importance of continuing to work for full equality and the strengthening of our relationship with the United States, thereby guaranteeing greater opportunities for all Puerto Ricans,” said Ferraiuoli Hornedo.
The commemoration of this anniversary reaffirms this administration’s commitment to equal rights and opportunities for all American citizens on the island.
Additionally, the event marks the beginning of the Equality and Statehood Summit
that, by Executive Order (OE-2025-007) of the Governor, the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA) will hold in Washington, DC as the main event of the Government of Puerto Rico for the advocacy and defense of statehood in the federal capital. The OE declares as public policy that all agencies will defend and implement the mandate in favor of statehood, as expressed by the majority and consistently of Puerto Rico’s voters in the 2012, 2017, 2020 and 2024 plebiscites.
“Each plebiscite has represented progress. Each vote has reflected greater and more forceful support than the previous one. Our voice has been raised with each generation, with each election, saying with more strength and clarity: we want statehood! This growing support is the result of our perseverance. It is the result of explaining, educating and, above all, working for a Puerto Rico with equal rights. Let’s keep working, let’s keep fighting. Towards full equality!” said the governor.
Coast Guard suspends permit of Puerto Nuevo Terminals
By THE STAR STAFF
In a decisive move, the U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the permit of Puerto Nuevo Terminals (PNT) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following the discovery of unauthorized handling of ammonium nitrate—the same chemical responsible for the catastrophic 2020 Beirut explosion.
Acting swiftly, Captain Robert Stiles, Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Juan, issued a Captain of the Port (COTP) Order last week after a routine inspection uncovered PNT’s violation of previous regulatory and safety orders. This action comes amidst longstanding concerns about the terminal’s inadequate firefighting capabilities.
Emphasizing the gravity of the situation, Stiles highlighted PNT’s proximity to a liquefied natural gas facility and the danger that unauthorized handling of ammonium nitrate
could pose to critical port infrastructure in San Juan Harbor.
The Coast Guard’s decision follows a series of attempts to bring PNT into compliance, including issuing a final notice letter with a compliance deadline of October 8, 2024. When PNT failed to meet this deadline, their general permit for handling dangerous cargo was suspended on October 9, 2024.
Despite some progress toward compliance, PNT’s violation of temporary firefighting measures led to this latest enforcement action, which impacts all hazardous cargo operations at the facility. The terminal, however, can continue handling non-hazardous general cargo under the provisions of 33 CFR § 126.31.
Given ammonium nitrate’s potential explosive properties, maritime safety experts stress the importance of adhering to strict safety protocols during handling. This chemical
has been implicated in numerous catastrophic industrial accidents around the world, most notably the 2020 Beirut port explosion that claimed over 200 lives.
The Coast Guard’s concerns specifically focus on PNT’s failure to maintain legally-required firefighting equipment. According to regulations, waterfront facilities handling dangerous cargo must provide fire extinguishing equipment compliant with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 307 standards, including hydrants located at least every 300 feet with sufficient water supply capabilities.
Non-compliance with the COTP Order carries potentially significant penalties, including civil fines up to $117,608 for each occurrence and day of violation. More seriously, willful and knowing violations constitute a class D felony, punishable by up to six years in prison and fines up to $250,000 for individuals or $500,000 for organizations.
Groups convene Women’s International Day Demonstration
By THE STAR STAFF
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arious feminist, social, union, professional, political organizations, and individuals grouped under the March 8 Coalition (C8M) are calling for a demonstration on Saturday, March 8, 2025, to mark International Working Women’s Day. The event will take place at 1:00 p.m. in Plaza Antonio R. Barceló in Barrio Obrero, Santurce.
Liza Gallardo, the executive director of Amnesty International Puerto Rico, stated that “some of the demands in the 2025 Manifesto include our solidarity with the immigrant
population that faces racist and xenophobic persecution. From the March 8 Coalition, we support the immigrant community’s call for fair immigration reform that guarantees fundamental rights such as health care, education, and decent work, while also ending the criminalization of migrants. The fight for social justice is international, and our responsibility is collective.”
In relation to the commemoration of the event in Barrio Obrero, Romelinda Grullón, Founder and Director of the Dominican Women’s Center, expressed her rejection of the interventions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“We also denounce the unfair working conditions that expose the migrant community to exploitation and marginalization. We demand basic labor rights for immigrant workers, including fair wages, safe working conditions, and access to essential services,” she said.
“On this March 8, we raise our voices and demand structural changes to create a more just, equitable, and supportive society for all. Once again, we call for the development of safe and humane immigration policies that align with national and international legal obligations,” Gallardo concluded.
In Pittsburgh, many sentiments about Pope’s health reflect concern, not closeness
By BILLY WITZ
Congregants escaping the winter morning’s chill trickled into Immaculate Heart of Mary Church for Sunday Mass last weekend. There was a time when the massive brick church, which stands like a beacon atop Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill neighborhood, would have been packed with parishioners who lived in the surrounding blocks.
Mark Dobies and his wife, Kim, remember those days. Their grandfathers were among the Polish immigrants who built the church, whose interior is bathed in an ethereal light by the stained-glass windows. The couple, who live two blocks away, were married under the church’s dome, as were their parents.
“I’ve watched it evolve,” Mark Dobies said after Sunday’s service, which resembled a pandemic Mass with far more pews empty than occupied. “People migrated out of the city.”
This arc of a storied church in what was once a deeply Catholic city has in many ways mirrored what has taken place around the country, as ethnic congregations in working-class neighborhoods shriveled when manufacturing jobs disappeared. The church’s long-running sexual abuse scandal only exacerbated the decline.
A parishioner prays below a Maxo Vanka mural at St. Nicholas Church, in Pittsburgh, on Feb. 26, 2025. On a recent weekend in this once deeply Catholic city, many expressed worry about Pope Francis, but there was also an air of ambivalence. (Jeff Swensen/The New York Times)
Now, that distancing from the church might be seen here in another way: the relative ambivalence toward Pope Francis, whose health is increasingly frail. There might be an occasional candle lit in Pittsburgh for Francis, the 88-year-old pontiff, but there are no massive public vigils or signs of a community on edge.
“I’m praying, but I don’t know a lot about him,” Carol Novak said after a Monday morning Mass at St. Anthony Chapel, a quaint church in the Troy Hill neighborhood that boasts of housing more relics than anywhere outside of Rome.
Almost from the start of his papacy in 2013, Francis signaled that he was more open to change than his predecessors — the charismatic John Paul II and the scholarly Benedict.
He has spoken out for the poor, preached tolerance for gay people and encouraged more opportunities for women in
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He did this notably when he responded to a reporter’s question about the presence of gay people in the clergy by saying, “Who am I to judge?”
Recently, though, he has not been so equivocal.
Francis criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration policy as inhumane in a letter to bishops, scolding Vice President JD Vance, who is Catholic, for suggesting that Americans were right to take care of their own before aiding others. “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” the pontiff wrote.
In Pittsburgh, over the last decade or so, churches have closed and consolidated, creating new parishes that reflected not just a decline in churchgoers but also a shortage of clergy members.
Six century-old Catholic churches, including Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Anthony, have been branded under the banner Shrines of Pittsburgh, an effort to leverage their history and architectural splendor to regain relevance. St. Nicholas Church in the Millvale neighborhood houses murals by renowned Croatian artist Maxo
Vanka, whose 1930s paintings depict the immigrant experience with still-current themes like income inequality.
This revitalization effort seems to have worked best at St. Stanislaus Church in the city’s Strip District, a popular stretch of ethnic food shops that has retained its soul despite soaring neighborhood housing prices.
The modestly sized St. Stanislaus was recently packed for two Sunday morning services, where a portrait of Francis, flanked by a pair of burning candles, was propped up near the altar. Later, a cardboard cutout of the pope was affixed to the church’s front door.
“The marketing and image that America sells — that everybody is equal — is false,” said Liliana Perilla Rojas, originally from Colombia, who recently moved to Pittsburgh from Florida, where she worked as a dental hygienist. Perilla had stepped inside St. Stanislaus on a recent afternoon to say a prayer for the Argentine pope, who she said was far more revered in Latin America than in the United States.
“If the next pope is not going to be progressive, we’re done,” she said, fearing that the Catholic church would continue to lose relevance.
One block south of St. Stanislaus, Carlo Dozzi and Joe Sabino Mistick landed on different sides of the divide as they sipped coffee drinks at La Prima Espresso Co.
The liturgical odd couple have known each other for years, crossing paths when Dozzi, in the construction business, would question Mistick, a mayoral adviser in the 1990s, about city land policy. Dozzi studied to enter the priesthood as a young man, and Mistick had considered it.
From one side of a high-top table, Dozzi, 82, said he respected the institution of the pope. “And I believe he’s a good man,” he said. “But I don’t like his views on same-sex marriage.”
Dozzi considers himself a traditionalist who says his prayers in Latin. “The church is the center of my existence,” he said. “My whole life revolves around the church.” But he also acknowledges that this pope’s messages resonate with younger people whom the church desperately needs. “Kids flock to him,” he said.
From the other side of the table, Mistick, 75, who teaches at Duquesne law school, described himself as a wandering Catholic who never lost his appreciation for rituals.
“I like Francis because he lived his life before the church and he remains a regular guy,” Mistick said, noting that the pope had once worked as a bouncer. “None of our leaders are viewed with the same reverence as they used to be. But if the pope has a clear and strong voice, he can be a leader who can tell you what the right path is. I think he’s a moral guide. He’s the pope for everyone.”
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Wildfires break out in the Carolinas, prompting evacuations
By AMY GRAFF and SIMON J. LEVIEN
Brush fires fueled by gusty winds and dry conditions broke out Saturday in North and South Carolina, prompting authorities to order evacuations in several communities.
The fires ignited while a large portion of the southeastern United States was under a red flag warning, an alert from the National Weather Service indicating a high risk of fires. Most of those warnings expired late Saturday night, and the fire risk was expected to decrease overnight as winds eased.
On Saturday afternoon, a brush fire in the mountains was threatening Tryon and Saluda, small communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 40 miles south of
Asheville, North Carolina.
Polk County officials said multiple fire departments were responding to a blaze threatening Meadowlark Drive in Tryon, which was evacuated. Tryon’s population is about 1,500, and Saluda’s less than 1,000.
The county said on social media that the Tryon brush fire was spreading rapidly.
A brush fire along the South Carolina coast was threatening Carolina Forest, South Carolina, just west of Myrtle Beach. That fire was 75% contained as of early Saturday night, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission.
“Crews are continuing to work toward the containment of this fire,” Horry County Fire Rescue, which is leading efforts to fight the fire, said on social media Saturday
evening. Several neighborhoods in Carolina Forest were under an evacuation order.
Another fire broke out near Six Mile, South Carolina, a rural town about 30 miles west of Greenville. County officials there had recommended evacuations along several streets but, as of Saturday evening, no evacuations had been ordered.
Gusty winds, dry air and afternoon high temperatures in the low 70s helped fuel the rapid spread of the fires.
Another factor: South Carolina had unusually low rainfall in February, and the vegetation is dry. For instance, Myrtle Beach has recorded 2.30 inches of rain since Jan. 1, compared with 6.30 inches of rain that is considered normal for this time of year. North Carolina was a bit wetter last month, though it also received below-average rainfall.
Keep an invasive species in check: Eat a big rat-like rodent, U.S. says
By SIMON J. LEVIEN
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.
The invasive species, nutria, is a large, semiaquatic rodent increasingly found in marshes in the United States.
As a part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ended Friday, the federal agency released a list of invasive species that Americans can hunt, catch and cook to help control the unwanted pests.
Topping the list: the nutria, whose population is increasing and disrupting marshland ecosystems. The agency noted in its public advisory that hunting nutrias is not a total solution but is a start.
“OK, so how can we help?” the Feb. 20 advisory said. “Nutria gumbo. Their meat is lean, mild and tastes like rabbit.”
Nutrias, which weigh 15 to 20 pounds, are increasingly found along the Gulf Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and in the Southeastern United States. Their exact population is unknown.
They are native to South America but were introduced to North America in the 19th century during the heyday of the fur trade, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A group of nutrias, called a colony, can disrupt ecosystems and farming operations by burrowing extensively and uprooting flora. The animal’s feeding habits can cause widespread erosion in wetland areas — like “something out of a disaster movie,” the Fish and Wildlife Service said on social media.
“Save a Swamp, Saute a Nutria,” the agency added.
Nutrias can serve as a flavorful base for all sorts of dishes, according to Philippe Parola, a chef based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the author of “Can’t Beat ’Em, Eat ’Em,” a cookbook with recipes for 40 invasive species, including nutrias.
“It was crockpot nutria,” Parola said. “You get the hind and you put it in a crockpot — vegetable, beef broth, tomato paste. And you get the perfect stew.”
As long as the meat is cleaned after hunting, cooking nutria is like preparing any wild game, he said.
The community of Venice, Louisiana, situated at the end of the Mississippi River, hosts the annual Louisiana Nutria Rodeo. It is a competition to hunt and cook nutria, taking them out of the wild in a mission to conserve the bayou.
The rodeo, held in early February, attracted about 500 participants this year.
According to Robbie Carter, the event organizer, some hunters show up with “truckloads” of the dead animal for the nutria toss (in which carcasses are flung for distance), nutria cornhole and, best of all, the nutria cook-off.
“You have about six or seven teams,” Carter said. “They made tacos, they made gumbo, they made sloppy joes using fresh nutria meat.”
“Tastes like chicken,” he added.
Parola said he was skeptical that any public advisory could effectively encourage more people to hunt nutria. But he hoped that nutria dishes could be commercialized and prepared more often, rather than just as a novelty.
He said he once cooked a 20-gallon nutria gumbo at the rodeo for attendees to sample.
“It was gone in no time,” he said.
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In a photo provided by @lanutriarodeo shows, participants at the annual Louisiana Nutria Rodeo arrive with truckloads of the dead rodents. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Americans should hunt and cook nutrias, an invasive species found in marshy areas, to help curb their population. (@lanutriarodeo via The New York Times)
What can House Republicans cut instead of Medicaid? Not much.
By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ and ALICIA PARLAPIANO
The House passed a budget resolution Tuesday night after the speaker, Mike Johnson, persuaded several Republican lawmakers, including those who have expressed reservations about possible Medicaid cuts, to support the bill.
In theory, the budget, which kicks off the process of passing an extension of tax cuts passed in 2017 and up to $2 trillion in cuts meant to partly offset them, could become law without significant cuts to Medicaid. But it won’t be easy.
That process has a few more steps: For one, the Senate has to adopt this budget resolution. Then both houses of Congress will also need to write and pass legislation that follows its instructions.
The budget resolution itself is silent on whether Congress cuts Medicaid, which provides health coverage to 72 million poor and disabled Americans. But it instructs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the program, to cut spending by $880 billion over the next decade. If the committee can’t save at least that much, the entire effort could be imperiled because of the special process Congress is using to avoid a Senate filibuster.
It’s not so simple as finding the cuts elsewhere. The special process, known as budget reconciliation, means Republicans will have to find all $880 billion from within the committee’s jurisdiction. That leaves them with fewer options than one might think.
Below is a list of those options. (These numbers are not exact; they are informal or outdated estimates. Before a reconciliation bill passes, they would all get an official evaluation from the Congressional Budget Office, Congress’ scorekeeper.)
Option 1: Cut Medicare instead.
If Republicans want to avoid major cuts to Medicaid, the largest pot of available money is in the other big government health insurance program: Medicare.
But Republicans face an even tighter political bind when it comes to Medicare than they do with Medicaid. President Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he does not wish to cut Medicare. And most House Republicans have made a similar pledge. “Social Security and Medicare is off the books now,” President Joe Biden said during last year’s State of the Union address, drawing a standing ovation from nearly every Republican present.
Trump said last week in a Fox News interview that Medicaid wouldn’t be “touched” either. But his record shows he has been much more open to Medicaid cuts than to Medicare reductions.
Option 2: Cut everything else the committee oversees.
Even if the committee cuts everything that’s not health care to $0, it will still be more than $600 billion short.
The committee could also save around $200 billion by eliminating the Children’s Health Insurance Program, but that option has not been raised by the budget committee or anyone in House leadership.
The
budget resolution itself is silent on whether Congress cuts Medicaid, which provides health coverage to 72 million poor and disabled Americans. (Freepik)
Option 3: Consider options that aren’t exactly cuts, even if they don’t add up to $880 billion.
There are some creative options that would allow the committee to find budget savings without having to cut spending it oversees. A document circulated earlier this year by the budget committee included a few such ideas.
— Overturn regulations that require carmakers to raise fuel efficiency standards and reduce automobile emissions (~$110 billion). Repealing this rule would save the government money without making direct budget cuts by reducing spending on tax credits for people who buy electric cars and increasing gas tax revenue.
— Auction portions of the airwaves to telecommunications companies (~$70 billion). The committee periodically passes legislation to sell the rights to transmit signals over specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, but the Defense Department tends to object to selling too much.
— Speed up permitting for energy extraction (~$7 billion). Some of these options might run afoul of the special budget process rules. A staff member for the Senate, known as the parliamentarian, would have to rule on their suitability if the final legislation comes up for a vote there.
Option 4: Cut Medicaid after all.
Even if all of these cuts, revenues and rule cancellations from outside health care can pass muster, the committee will still be left with hundreds of billions of dollars to cut to hit its goal. Mathematically, the budget committee’s instructions mean the committee would need to make major cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or both.
Congressional leadership has been signaling that Medicaid has been the main focus.
“$880 billion is a lot of money, and even if only $600 billion is coming from health care, you have to go beyond tiny tinkering on the margins,” said Marc Goldwein, a senior policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a group that supports deficit reduction.
And several experts advising the committee say Medicaid policy changes are wise. “There’s more than enough in wasteful, inappropriate spending to get meaningful savings from the program,” said Brian Blase, the president of the right-leaning Paragon Health Institute, who was a White
House economics official in the first Trump administration. Some leading options for Medicaid cuts are below. The first few may be less politically fraught for vulnerable lawmakers but would save less money. The last two would save more but would have a much larger impact on the program as a result.
(Because of the way various Medicaid policies intersect with one another, it’s best not to add them together. Adopting all of them will reduce spending by less than the sum of each pursued alone.)
— Establish a national work requirement for adults without disabilities and without young children (~$100 billion). Many Republicans, even the ones who are worried about the politics of Medicaid cuts, are comfortable with this approach. But that change is estimated to save only around $100 billion.
— Reverse a Biden-era policy that limits how often states can check the eligibility of beneficiaries (~$160 billion). The change would allow states to check people’s incomes more often and require them to fill out more paperwork to stay enrolled.
— Limit the ability of states to tax hospitals to help pay their share of Medicaid bills (~$175 billion). This would squeeze state budgets and has been often described as reducing abuse of the program. Because of the formulas used to fund Medicaid, these taxes result in higher medical bills to the state — and thus more funding from the federal government.
— Squeeze the share of government spending on working-class adults who were part of the program’s expansion under the Affordable Care Act (~$560 billion). This would save hundreds of billions by paying less in the 41 states that have expanded Medicaid under Obamacare but would do so by abruptly reducing federal funding for the program. Some states would probably immediately eliminate their Medicaid expansions, leading to large increases in the number of working-class adults who lack health insurance. Other states would have to find funding by other means — like cutting education or raising taxes.
— Fundamentally change the structure of Medicaid (~$900 billion) from one in which the federal government pays a percentage of beneficiaries’ medical bills to one where it gives states a flat fee per person each year.
Conclusion: Health care is where the dollars are.
The committee just doesn’t have enough other places to find the money. If the budget resolution is going to become public policy, it will require legislation that cuts health programs. Almost $1 trillion is a lot of money, even in federal budget terms, and health care is where the money is.
If the committee can’t find $880 billion, the entire reconciliation process — including the extension of tax cuts — will collapse.
“The instructions they have given necessitate huge cuts to health care — full stop,” said Bobby Kogan, a senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress and a former Senate and White House budget official. “There is a mathematical requirement.”
Trump returns to a favorite issue: Health care price transparency
By MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
In a new executive order, President Donald Trump reaffirmed his commitment to one of his favorite health care policies of his first term: His push to make the prices paid for medical services more public and transparent.
Trump signed the order last week afternoon. After years of halfhearted compliance from hospitals and insurance companies with the previous policies, Trump is signaling a more aggressive approach to enforcing the rules and making pricing data accessible to patients, a White House official said.
Health care prices have historically been shrouded in secrecy, negotiated in private between doctors, hospitals, drug companies and the insurance companies that pay their bills. The parties in those negotiations have fought hard to keep those numbers out of public view, saying that confidentiality is key to their bargaining process. Economics literature — which relied heavily on a study of Danish concrete prices in the 1990s — has suggested that making them public could actually backfire, by increasing health care prices.
But with two major rules issued jointly by the departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Labor during his first
President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order halting federal funding for schools and universities with COVID-19 vaccination mandates, at the White House in Washington on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. Trump plans to sign an executive order in another push to make the prices of medical services more transparent. Efforts to do so in his first term were largely ignored. (Haiyun Jiang/ The New York Times)
term, Trump tried to force the industry to become more transparent. One rule required hospitals to publish the prices they charged to various insurers for a set of common ser-
vices. Another required insurance companies to publish a more comprehensive listing of the prices they had negotiated with various health care providers.
Industry compliance has been grudging, slow and marked by extensive litigation. After the rules became final in 2021, many hospitals simply declined to publish the required lists. Others tried to make their price information hard to find. The Wall Street Journal reported that several had inserted code into their webpages listing prices that made the pages impossible to find using an internet search engine.
Nevertheless, the requirement did provide new information to researchers, employers and some patients about the nature of health care prices — and their wide and often inexplicable variation. The policy has so far not delivered on one of Trump’s key promises from his last term, that price transparency would significantly drive down health care costs. Health care prices have continued to rise.
The new executive order tasks HHS, Treasury and Labor with considering new ways to expand the reach of current initiatives, but it does not call for much in the way of specific new policy. Any meaningful new transparency initiative would require regulatory action or legislation, or both. But the signing of the new order does suggest that Trump has not forgotten about this priority, which he often referred to in his first term as “bigger than health care itself.”
Government workers who have lost their jobs worry about their housing
By MATT YAN
After losing his job at the U.S. Forest Service, Cameron McKenzie was worried about finding a new job. But first, he had a more immediate concern: How was he going to pay the mortgage?
He’s done the math — finding another job in the environmental sector could take months — and keeping up with the nearly $2,700 monthly payment on his three-bedroom home in Blairstown, New Jersey, will be a challenge, if not impossible. “Even on unemployment,” said McKenzie, 27, who worked as a community engagement specialist, “I’m not going to be able to make my mortgage payment.”
McKenzie’s termination was among thousands of federal job cuts, part of a purge of the workforce under an executive
order signed by President Donald Trump.
The abrupt firings have left federal workers and contractors throughout the country in flux, with many distressed over their housing.
The effect of the layoffs has been palpable, especially in the Washington area, where there are more than 300,000 federal government employees. Rumors have swirled that the firings are causing the area’s housing market to crash after videos began circulating on social media.
Lisa Sturtevant, the chief economist at Bright MLS, a multiple listing service, said that it is too soon to tell if the D.C. market has been shaken by the layoffs because “it hasn’t had enough time to filter into the housing market,” she said. In the first two weeks of February, there were 2,829 new listings in the D.C. area, which is “virtually
unchanged” from the same time period last year, with 2,820 listings, according to a report by Bright MLS. During the week that ended Feb. 23, the number of new listings was up 12.9% over the same period last year, according to another report by Bright MLS.
Workers like McKenzie are already rethinking their futures in terms of their careers and where they will live.
“I’m going to have to sell my house,” he said.
As a presidential management fellow who started his job in February 2024, McKenzie was still on probation, and Trump’s order has been carried out by targeting the most recent hires who do not receive the same protections as more veteran federal employees. An estimated 200,000 workers are considered probationary employees,
which typically means they had worked in a position for the federal government for less than a year. As of Feb. 20, at least 19,340 probationary employees had been cut, according to a tally by The New York Times.
Landing a government job has long been viewed as a path to job security, economic stability and upward mobility. As of March 2024, around half of federal workers made between $50,000 and $109,999, according to the Pew Research Center, which relied on data from the Office of Personnel Management. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the median weekly earnings for fulltime wage and salary workers in the United States was $1,192, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Shernice Mundell, who was recently fired from the Office of Personnel Management, said her monthly mortgage on her town house in Edgewood, Maryland, is $1,200 and took up about one-third of her biweekly paycheck, she said.
But she thought she had a secure future ahead of her. She was first hired in August 2024 in the disputed claims department and became a health insurance specialist in November 2024, after that position opened up and her supervisor referred her to that job.
“I was on the track to do what I set out to do,” said Mundell, 47, who is a Local 32 union member of the American Federation of Government Employees. “But now everything is all upside down.”
Her mortgage for this month is already paid, but she’s still unsure about how to
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“It meant a lot for us to have accomplished something that not many people in our age group had accomplished by such an early point in our lives,” he said. “And then now, it kind of feels like we’re walking that accomplishment back a little bit.”
Though they used to split the mortgage payments, McKenzie took on the task when his husband started law school. He estimated that around half of his $87,000 salary was going toward the payments and a construction loan the couple took out to cover renovations.
They now plan to rent for a year and then figure something out. McKenzie said he and his husband have enough savings for about two months, but most of it is being put toward getting the house ready to sell. He said his brother-in-law recently moved in with them and pays them rent. Having that help, he said, is “like the only reason I wouldn’t be out on the street.”
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pay it for March. She has filed for unemployment assistance, which she said would cover her mortgage but not other expenses like utilities, her phone bill and HOA fees.
While she waits to hear if her unemployment benefits are granted, she has some funds in savings, as well as friends and family who are willing to help her. “I’m not completely afraid that I’m going to be homeless,” she said.
Still, it’s a jarring turn of events.
She bought her home as a single mother with three children in 2013 for $103,000, which she called “a huge accomplishment.”
She’s currently applying for new jobs and hopes something will pop up soon. She still wants to move. “It’s still my dream,” she said. “This is like the first chapter of my life. The way I see it, I still have another chapter to live.”
Nathan Barrera-Bunch, who was a management analyst at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, worries that he is now further away from not only renting a nicer apartment, but also owning a home.
He said he and his fiance currently live in a small basement apartment in northwest D.C., moving there in 2020 because it was larger than their last place, and the rent was around the same, $2,000 a month, which the two split equally. Buying a home wasn’t an immediate priority, but he was still putting money away to hopefully start a family and buy a home one day.
But Barrera-Bunch, 36, said losing his
job will eat into their savings. “There’s sort of all these dominoes that are starting to fall in an already expensive place to live in,” he said. “And so, this has upended our plans for housing and home and buying and all of that.”
He recalled visiting the nation’s capital for the first time at 18, and hoping to live there one day. He’s lived in Washington full time for just over 10 years now. “This is home now,” he said.
But staying in Washington might not be feasible. It all depends, he said, on whether his fiance, who still works for the federal government, can keep his job and if Barrera-Bunch can find a new one. If they move, they could move to Puerto Rico or Florida, where his fiance has family.
For now, like many others, the uncertainty lingers, and he will just have to wait and see what happens. Barrera-Bunch said that he believes he will be OK and will hopefully find a job somewhere, but he is more concerned about people who don’t have other means of support.
“I’m fearful for the stability of the community here in D.C.,” he said. “There’s so many different communities that people are connected to in D.C., and so many of those are just about to be very, very disrupted.”
McKenzie said he and his husband are planning to list their New Jersey home — which his husband first purchased in 2022 for $215,000 — in May, when there’s more greenery to make it more attractive to po-
As a presidential management fellow at the U.S. Forest Service, McKenzie was on a two-year probation. He thought he was in the clear with his prestigious position — the agency only hires 12 to 15 fellows per year.
His one-year work anniversary was Feb. 10. He was fired a week later.
a recently laid off management
at the office for Veterans’ Affairs at his Washington home, Feb. 21, 2025. Abrupt firings have left federal workers and contractors throughout the country in flux, with many distressed over how they will pay the mortgage or rent. (Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times)
Shernice Mundell, a recently laid off insurance specialist, at her home in Edgewood, Md., Feb. 21, 2025. Abrupt firings have left federal workers and contractors throughout the country in flux, with many distressed over how they will pay the mortgage or rent. (Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times)
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Wall Street shakes off Trump-Zelenskiy clash after dip
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is leaving the White House early on Friday after a contentious Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, a White House official said.
Zelenskiy is “not ready for Peace if America is involved,” U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Friday, following a contentious meeting between the leaders in the Oval Office.
“I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace,” Trump said.
The S&P 500 briefly dipped then rallied back to close 1.5% higher at 5,954.50. The euro extended a slight loss and was off 0.24% at 1.0372. In European stock futures, the Dax and CAC40 futures fell 0.6% and the Eurostoxx 50 futures dropped as much as 1.4% and were last down 0.8%.
“Twice today we saw traders come in and defend the pivotal 5840 level on the S&P, a figure that corresponds to a 5% drawdown from the peak. The first time was after monthly consumer spending posted its sharpest month-overmonth decline in four years, then the index bounced back. The heated exchange between Trump and Zelenskiy took it down even further, to about 5837, at which point traders stepped in. People are seeing any broad-based drawdown as a reason to come in and buy the dips. Also, right now, the bar is pretty high when it comes to trying to startle markets. We’ve had wild swings on a number of fronts, including geopolitical incidents like this one. So folks are braced for these intraday swings. Ultimately, the market is hoping for peace between Ukraine and Russia, but how that gets done will be pivotal. Anything too one-sided favoring Moscow would be a market negative.”
“Markets will continue to be more focused on tariff policy – how much, who, when – and what it implies for business activity and consumers spending and confidence. Most U.S. investors (and voters) pay attention to what hits the pocket book closer to home and Russia/Ukraine has been just one of many global considerations on the edges for a very long time.”
“On the other hand, European markets could be more impacted given it would seem increasingly clear that Ukraine’s defense and/or dealing with Russia will be left to them”
“The market initially sold off because it was a heated and contentious conversation, which is not usually a good thing between two leaders of the world, especially when it has to do with a war. The news, if you watched it live, it was pretty worrisome. It got heated, and Zelenskiy is considered an ally of the U.S... That’s why the market sold off, but then cooler
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No. Nothing has really changed... But the market is under a lot of pressure. All of the post-election gains have been erased. That’s a big sign. And the growth stocks that were leading the market higher over the last several months have now turned lower, and there’s a big concern as we go into the weekend that there’s going to be the tariffs coming back for Canada and Mexico.”
Israel halts aid to Gaza and proposes new framework for an end to the war
By ISABEL KERSNER
Israel announced Sunday that it was immediately halting the entry of all goods and humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip, trying to force Hamas into accepting a temporary extension of the ceasefire in the war.
The move disrupts the existing, agreedupon framework for negotiating a permanent end to the war and puts the fate of the hostages into uncharted territory. The draconian halt on goods and aid, including fuel, is also likely to worsen conditions for the roughly 2 million inhabitants of Gaza, after the 15-month war left much of the coastal enclave in ruins.
The initial, six-week phase of the original deal between Israel and Hamas expired Saturday. Though it was punctured by setbacks and mutual accusations of violations, it ultimately saw at least a temporary cessation in the fighting and the exchange of 25 living Israeli hostages and the remains of eight dead ones for about 1,500 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. That deal also allowed for a significant increase of aid into Gaza.
The next phase of the agreement called for
a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and a commitment to a permanent ceasefire in return for the release of all the remaining living hostages in Gaza, who are being held in inhumane conditions, according to reports from hostages who have been freed.
Instead, hours before its announcement about the halt of aid, Israel proposed a sevenweek extension of the temporary ceasefire, during which Hamas must release half the remaining living hostages as well as the remains of half the deceased ones. Upon conclusion of that extension, if agreement were reached on a permanent ceasefire, then all the remaining hostages would have to be released, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
“Israel will not allow a ceasefire without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement Sunday.
“If Hamas continues its refusal, there will be further consequences,” it added.
Hamas immediately rejected the Israeli gambit, issuing a statement Sunday describing the halt in aid as “cheap blackmail” and “a blatant upending of the agreement.”
Israel attributed the new proposal to the work of the U.S. envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff. The existing deal was negotiated between Israel and Hamas through third-country mediators including the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
Last year, the United Nations and aid organizations repeatedly warned about a looming famine in Gaza amid widespread hunger during the war, which was sparked by the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. While goods are more available now, many Palestinians say they cannot afford to buy them, and many depend on humanitarian assistance.
Palestinians in Gaza were already struggling to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, which began this weekend, and is normally a joyous time in the Muslim calendar.
Two Israeli officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said the government believed that with the aid and goods that entered the enclave in recent months and during the temporary ceasefire, there were enough supplies in Gaza to suffice for several more months. They did not offer further details.
The officials added that the new restrictions would not apply to the entry of water.
Under the existing ceasefire deal, Israel was by now supposed to have begun removing its troops from the Philadelphi Corridor, a strategic strip of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt. By Sunday, there had been no such movement.
Netanyahu said the proposed temporary ceasefire should extend over the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and through the Jewish holiday of Passover, which ends April 20.
In broadcast remarks at the start of his weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday, Netanyahu said, “Steve Witkoff proposed the framework for extending the ceasefire after gaining the impression that there is no possibility, at present, of bridging between the two positions, Israel’s and Hamas’, regarding the second stage” of the existing deal.
Netanyahu added that according to Witkoff, additional time for talks was needed to achieve a possible agreement. “He even defined his proposal as a corridor for negotiations on the second stage,” Netanyahu said. “Israel is ready for this.”
Europe is left with hard choices as Trump sours on Ukraine
By JEANNA SMIALEK
European leaders have dealt with President Donald Trump’s return to office by trying to keep him cooperating on Ukraine while pushing to ramp up their own defense spending so they are less reliant on an increasingly fickle America.
But Friday’s meeting in the Oval Office, in which Trump berated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, underscored for European leaders that they might need to come up
with more concrete plans — and fast.
Following the heated exchange, a visibly annoyed Trump canceled a news conference with the Ukrainian leader and posted on social media that Zelenskyy was “not ready for peace” so long as he has American backing.
His anger — and his threat that the United States could stop supporting Ukraine if it did not accept any U.S.-brokered peace deal — was just the latest sign that Trump was pivoting U.S. foreign policy away from traditional allies in Europe and toward Russia.
ing greater self-reliance more urgent than ever, even if the European leaders face the same daunting challenges as before.
It would take years to build the weapons systems and capabilities that Europe would need to be truly independent militarily. And supporting Ukraine while building homegrown defenses could take the type of rapid action and united political will that the European Union often struggles to achieve.
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“The scene at the White House yesterday took my breath away,” Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, told DPA, a German news agency, on Saturday. “I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States.”
The stark shift in American strategy has left the continent’s leaders reeling. Many worry that if the war ends with a weak deal for Ukraine, it would embolden Russia, making it a greater threat to the rest of Europe. And the change in tone makes achiev-
“Everything relies on Europe today: The question is, how do they step up?” said Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, acting president of the German Marshall Fund. “They have no alternative.” European leaders had been debating how they could help to guarantee security in Ukraine if a peace deal were struck, what terms they would find acceptable, and what they might give Ukraine in their next aid package.
In fact, top officials are poised to meet this coming week to discuss defense, first in London on Sunday at a gathering organized by Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, then in Brussels on Thursday at a special summit of the European Council, which brings together EU leaders.
Representatives from the bloc’s 27 member countries met Friday afternoon to come up with a draft of ideas for the meeting in Brussels. The plan included calls to beef up EU defenses faster than previously expected, and to more clearly define possible security guarantees for Ukraine, according to an EU official briefed on the matter.
And that was before Friday’s exchange between Trump and Zelenskyy.
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The flare-up spurred an immediate outpouring of public support for Ukraine from many European officials.
“You will never be alone, dear President,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the EU’s executive arm, wrote in Ukrainian on social platform X on Friday night, in a joint post with other European leaders.
It also prompted calls for fast action, with some European diplomats and leaders hoping that even countries that have been reluctant to increase spending on defense and support for Ukraine will now get on board with a more ambitious approach.
“A powerful Europe, we need it more than ever,” President Emmanuel Macron of France posted on social media. “The surge is now.”
tary equipment that would be near impossible to replace quickly.
“We still do need the U.S.,” said Jeromin Zettelmeyer, director of the Brussels-based research group Bruegel.
European officials had been discussing a future aid package for Ukraine, one that could total tens of billions of euros. By Friday night, countries that have been pushing for more ambitious sums were hoping that Trump’s tone during the Zelenskyy meeting would help to prod European laggards to open their pocketbooks, according to one diplomat familiar with discussions.
Family and friends attend the funeral of Ruslan Stasyuk at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (Nicole Tung/The New York Times) From page 12
Yet for all of the bracing pronouncements, speeding up Europe’s transition to greater autonomy on defense will be no easy task.
For starters, shouldering a greater part of the financial burden for aiding Ukraine is likely to be expensive. The United States alone has spent about $114 billion on military, financial and humanitarian aid for Ukraine over the past three years, according to one frequently used tracker, compared with Europe’s $132 billion.
Plus, when it comes to European defense more broadly, America provides critical weapons systems and other mili-
But Hungary is expected to oppose the new aid package for Ukraine, which could force the EU into a time-consuming effort of cobbling together contributions from member states, rather than passing a package at the level of the bloc, since the latter would require unanimity.
In a clear sign of the disunity, Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, stood apart from many other European leaders, thanking Trump for his exchange with Zelenskyy. He wrote on social media that the U.S. leader “stood bravely for peace” even if “it was difficult for many to digest.”
European officials have also been considering whether, when and how to put European peacekeeping forces on the ground in Ukraine if a deal is reached to stop the war. Britain has expressed a willingness to send troops to Ukraine, as
has France. Discussions on that are expected to continue this coming week.
But in light of Friday’s exchange, some say the time for slow-moving deliberation may be over. While officials had just begun to talk about what security guarantees for Ukraine might look like, they may need to begin to quickly think about how to implement them, de Hoop Scheffer said. “This is a time for Europe to very, very seriously step up,” she said.
Canada curbed illegal migration to the U.S. now people are heading to Canada
By MARTINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF
The predawn call by U.S. border agents to their Canadian counterparts was shocking: A group of nine people, most of them children, were about to enter Canada on foot.
On Feb. 3 at 6:16 a.m., when the group was spotted, the border between Alberta and Montana was brutally uninviting, covered in snow, dark with a temperature of minus 17 degrees Fahrenheit.
Grainy night-vision images captured by Canadian border cameras showed two little girls in pink winterwear holding a woman’s hand as they trudged through the snow. More children followed in a line. Another adult dragged two suitcases.
The quick intervention by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police crew that found the group was the result of a newly beefedup border presence across the vast frontier between the United States and Canada. At 5,525 miles, the border is the world’s longest.
Until recently, the border had been described by both nations as “unguarded,” a testament to their close friendship.
But with the return of President Donald Trump to the White House, it has become a flashpoint in the relationship between the
two neighbors.
Even before his inauguration, Trump accused Canada of allowing large numbers of migrants to enter the United States without legal permission. He has made stopping that movement a key demand as he threatens to impose crippling tariffs on Canadian exports to the United States.
After a one-month reprieve, Trump said those tariffs will now go into effect Tuesday.
Canada has mobilized. It has deployed more staff and equipment along the border and tightened visa rules that critics say made Canada a steppingstone to enter the United States illegally.
The number of illegal crossings into the United States from Canada was relatively low to begin with and has now plummeted, indicating that Canada’s response to Trump’s pressure is working.
But now a new dynamic is emerging at the border: Asylum-seekers are fleeing north to Canada as Trump has embarked on his plan for sweeping deportations.
Border in Focus
On any given day, the Coutts-Sweetgrass border crossing in Alberta is an orderly hum of trucks, trains and civilian vehicles.
The communities on either side are close in every sense. Hit a ball hard enough on one of the two baseball diamonds in Coutts,
Alberta, and chances are it will land in Sweetgrass, Montana.
The two countries’ border authorities even share a building.
“There is close day-to-day communication,” Ryan Harrison, an RCMP staff sergeant, who heads an integrated border enforcement team, said on a bitterly cold February morning as he drove along Border Road, a gravel lane snaking through plains that marks the border for several miles.
“These are people we go for dinner with and attend their retirement parties.”
But Trump’s criticisms have upended the business-as-usual atmosphere at the border.
Trump has been particularly alarmed by a jump in the number of migrants entering the United States without legal permission over the past three years.
The number of people apprehended last year crossing from Canada into the United States illegally was nearly 24,000. (That pales in comparison to crossings from Mexico: Last year, more than 1.5 million people were apprehended at the U.S. southern border, U.S. government data shows.)
Lawsuit against Panama challenges detention of Trump deportees
A hotel in Panama City, Panama, where deportees were detained after arriving from the United States, Feb. 23, 2025. More than 100 asylum seekers from around the world sent to Panama from the United States have no sense how long they will be held or where they might eventually be sent. (Federico Rios Escobar/The New York Times)
By FARNAZ FASSIHI and JULIE TURKEWITZ
Agroup of high-profile lawyers on Saturday filed a lawsuit against Panama over its detention of migrants deported from the United States, threatening to disrupt President Donald Trump’s new policy of exporting migrants from around the world to Central American countries.
The lawsuit, filed against the government of Panama before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, names 10 Iranian Christian converts and 102 migrants detained at a camp near a jungle in Panama as plaintiffs, according to a copy seen by The New York Times.
The suit argues that the United States violated the Iranian group’s right to asylum on account of religious persecution and that Panama has violated domestic and international laws, such as the American Convention on Human Rights, in its detention of the migrants.
The lawsuit was filed only against Panama, although one of the lawyers involved said he planned to file a separate complaint against the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security in the coming week.
Responding to a request for a comment on the lawsuit, a spokesperson for President Raúl Mulino of Panama, Astrid Salazar, said the migrants “are not detained” by the Panamanian government. “They are not in our command but rather that of IOM and UNHCR.”
The migrants are being held at a fenced camp guarded by armed Panamanian police officers, and Panama’s Security Ministry controls all access to the facility. The International Organization for Migration and the U.N. Refugee Agency do not have regular presence at the camp, and have said that they are not in charge of the migrants, but rather are offering some humanitarian support, like providing funds for food.
The suit filed Saturday requests that the commission issue emergency orders saying that none of the detained migrants at the jungle camp should be deported to their countries of origin.
“Panama’s government has no domestic or international authority to detain people under these circumstances,” said Ian Kysel, associate clinical professor of law at Cornell Law School and the plaintiffs’ lead counsel.
around the world to Central America. About 300 people were flown to Panama and held at a hotel in Panama City, including the 10 Iranian converts, several children among them.
More than 100 people who did not agree to return to their countries of origin were later transferred to a detention camp near the Darién jungle, where they remain.
The Trump administration has since thanked Panama for its assistance in tackling migration challenges. But the arrival of the deportees and their detentions have created problems for Mulino’s government, which agreed to take the migrants but has received criticism from the United Nations, human rights activists and lawyers for holding them without criminal charges.
The human rights commission is a seven-member body whose decisions apply to members of the Organization of American States, including Panama. It is meant to be used when individuals feel their domestic legal options have been exhausted or in cases where irreparable harm is imminent and plaintiffs say they need rapid legal protections.
The commission cannot impose sanctions, but ignoring its decisions could come with political risks.
José Miguel Vivanco, an expert on Latin American human rights issues and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that if the commission ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor, he thought Panama would comply.
Were the commission to rule in favor of the plaintiffs, halting their deportations, it could make it more difficult for Trump to persuade leaders in Panama and elsewhere to take in migrants the United States does not want to deal with.
ulates that converting from Islam is a crime punishable by death.
“I am afraid of what will happen to me at the hands of the government of Panama,” one of the Iranians, Artemis Ghasemzadeh, said in a sworn declaration filed in the lawsuit. “I still want to seek asylum in the United States and pursue a free life as a Christian there.”
Ghasemzadeh, 27, who fled Iran in December and made her way from Mexico across the southern U.S. border, has been publicizing their ordeal in media interviews. She first attracted global attention when a video in which she recounted being shackled and deported to Panama spread widely online.
The commission typically issues decisions in such cases within days, Vivanco said.
The bar for the commission to issue protections to plaintiffs is very high, he said. But given Iran’s policy toward converted Christians, he thought the case had a chance. “I think this is going to get the attention of everyone involved,” he said.
Kysel said he hoped the lawsuit deterred other countries from participating in Trump’s deportation plans.
“Panama and any other country in the region face legal liability if they receive, detain and deport asylum-seekers summarily expelled from the United States,” Kysel said.
The lawsuit is a result of collaboration among lawyers and legal groups in multiple countries.
In midFebruary the Trump administration opened a new front in its efforts to deport millions of people by sending recently arrived migrants from
After sending the migrants to Panama, the Trump administration sent 200 migrants from Central Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe to Costa Rica, including dozens of children. As in Panama, the migrants are being held at a remote facility several hours’ drive from the capital.
Kysel said similar legal actions are expected against other countries in Latin America, including Costa Rica, that are cooperating with Trump and accepting deportees.
In both cases, the Central American governments said they planned to deport people quickly to their home countries. In the lawsuit, lawyers argue that for the Iranian Christians deportation would carry “irrefutable harm,” because Iran’s law stip-
One of the lawyers, Ali Herischi, who is representing the Iranians pro bono, said he plans on filing a separate lawsuit in the coming week against the Department of Homeland Security. The lawsuit would be on behalf of Ghasemzadeh and the nine Iranian Christian converts, three of them children, in Panama and three Iranians deported to Costa Rica.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security has previously said that none of the migrants had “asserted fear of returning to their home country at any point during processing or custody.”
Ghasemzadeh contends she repeatedly asked to fill out paperwork for asylum but immigration officials at the camp in California where she was held kept telling her this was not the time.
Herischi said the motion would challenge the legality of their deportation and requests as a remedy that the group be allowed to apply for asylum in the United States.
Is Putin playing Trump or is Trump playing us?
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The drama going on between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine raises one of the most disturbing questions I’ve ever had to ask about my own country: Are we being led by a dupe for Vladimir Putin — by someone ready to swallow whole the Russian president’s warped view of who started the war in Ukraine and how it must end? Or are we being led by a Mafia godfather, looking to carve up territory with Russia the way the heads of crime families operate? “I’ll take Greenland, and you can take Crimea. I’ll take Panama, and you can have the oil in the Arctic. And we’ll split the rare earths of Ukraine. It’s only fair.”
Either way, my fellow Americans and our friends abroad, for the next four years at least, the America you knew is over. The bedrock values, allies and truths America could always be counted upon to defend are now all in doubt — or for sale. Trump is not just thinking out of the box. He is thinking without a box, without any fidelity to truth or norms that animated America in the past.
I can’t blame our traditional friends for being disoriented. Read the sorrowful essay last week by heroic Soviet dissident and freedom fighter Natan Sharansky: “When I first heard President Donald Trump’s words on the tarmac — when he blamed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for starting the war that Russia launched against Ukraine — I was absolutely shocked,” Sharansky wrote for The Free Press. “Trump seems to have adopted the rhetoric of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. He repeated a line from the Kremlin that sounded like Sovietstyle propaganda: that Zelenskyy is not a legitimate leader. When Putin, the seemingly eternal leader of Russia, says it, it is laughable. When the president of the United States says it, it’s alarming, tragic, and does not comply with common sense.”
That’s a benign interpretation of Trump — that he is just besotted with Putin, Russia’s Christian nationalist, antiwoke crusader, and not applying the common sense that he promised. But then there is also another explanation: Trump does not see American power as the cavalry coming to rescue the weak seeking freedom from those out to quash them; he sees America as coming to shake down the weak. He’s running a protection racket.
Consider this stunning paragraph from a Wall Street Journal article about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s recent meeting in Kyiv with Zelenskyy. Bessent presented Zelenskyy with an offer he couldn’t refuse — to sign over Ukrainian mineral rights to America, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, to compensate for U.S. aid.
It was a scene right out of “The Godfather”: “Bessent pushed
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the paper across the table, demanding that Zelenskyy sign it … Zelenskyy took a quick look and said he would discuss it with his team. Bessent then pushed the paper closer to Zelenskyy. ‘You really need to sign this,’ the Treasury secretary said. Zelenskyy said he was told ‘people back in Washington’ would be very upset if he didn’t. The Ukrainian leader said he took the document but didn’t commit to signing.”
This whole story shows you again what happens when Trump is no longer surrounded by buffers but only by amplifiers. Bessent, a savvy investor, surely knew that the president of Ukraine could not just sign a piece of paper turning over hundreds of billions in mineral rights without checking with his lawyers, his parliament or his people. But the Treasury secretary felt he had to do Trump’s bidding, no matter how foul or absurd. If the president wants to empty the Gaza Strip and make it a casino, then that’s what you sell. Extort Ukraine in the middle of war? That’s what you do.
A serious U.S. president would recognize that Putin is playing a very weak hand that we should exploit. As The Economist noted last week, most of Russia’s “gains were in the first weeks of the war. In April 2022, following Russia’s retreat from the north of Ukraine, it controlled 19.6% of Ukrainian territory; its casualties (dead and wounded) were perhaps 20,000. Today Russia occupies 19.2% and its casualties are 800,000, reckon British sources. … More than half of the 7,300 tanks [Russia] had in storage are gone. Of those that remain, only 500 can be reconditioned quickly. By April, Russia may run out of its T-80 tanks. Last year it lost twice as many artillery systems as in the preceding two years. … The reallocation of resources from productive sectors to the military complex has fueled double-digit inflation. Interest rates are 21%.”
If this were poker, Putin is holding a pair of twos and bluffing by going all in. Trump, instead of calling Putin’s bluff, is saying, “I think I’ll fold.”
Instead of rallying all our European allies, doubling down on the military pressure on Putin and making the Russian leader “an offer he can’t refuse,” Trump did just the opposite. He divided us from our allies at the U.N. by refusing to join them in a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine — voting with the likes of North Korea — and began a lie-filled campaign to delegitimize Zelenskyy, not Putin.
Besides falsely claiming that Ukraine started the war, Trump declared that Zelenskyy’s popularity rating is 4% (his popularity rating is 57%, 13 points higher than Trump’s) and that Zelenskyy is a “dictator” and should submit to an election. Meanwhile, he gave Putin — who sentenced his biggest rival for the presidency, Alexei Navalny, to a total of 28 years in an Arctic hellhole, where he mysteriously died — a total free pass.
Zelenskyy apparently feels he has no choice but to sign some kind of cockamamie minerals deal, even though Trump is demanding three times or four times the roughly $120 billion the United States has given Ukraine in military, humanitarian and other financial aid — aid Ukrainians used to fight to protect the West from the Russian aggressor.
The whole thing is just shameful. Trump, in effect, is looking to make a profit off Ukrainians as a result of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine while making no demand on Putin for reparations or promising any future U.S. protection for Kyiv. As the White
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House made clear, “This economic agreement with Ukraine will not be a guarantee of future aid for war, nor will it include any commitment of U.S. personnel in the region.”
I have no problem with America asking for preferred access for our companies to investments in Ukraine’s natural resources after the war, as a thank-you for our aid. But doing it now, and with no security guarantees in return? Don Corleone would be embarrassed to ask for that. But not Don Trump.
A Russian international affairs scholar, who can speak only privately, remarked to me from Moscow that Putin’s team sees Trump’s team as a clown car, full of amateurs — easy pickings for the savvy and cynical Putin’s ultimate goal: “MRGA — Make Russia Great Again (and Make America Less Great Again).” Putin’s long-term goal, he added, is to manage the decline of U.S. hegemony so that America is “just one of the peer great powers,” focused on the Western Hemisphere and withdrawn militarily from Europe and Asia. Putin sees Trump as his blunt instrument “to manage that inevitable decline.”
Will Trump and his GOP bobbleheads ever wake up to that? Maybe — when it’s too late.
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Poder Judicial y Recinto de Ciencias Médicas colaboran para integrar asesoría psiquiátrica en casos de menores y relaciones de familia
POR CYBERNEWS
El Poder Judicial y el Recinto de Ciencias Médicas (RCM) de la Universidad de Puerto Rico anunciaron un acuerdo que permitirá la implementación de un programa de Práctica Supervisada de Psiquiatría en los tribunales. A través de esta iniciativa, médicos residentes en psiquiatría ofrecerán asesoramiento pericial en casos de Relaciones de Familia y Asuntos de Menores.
“Esta iniciativa entre el Poder Judicial y el Recinto de Ciencias Médicas tiene como objetivo proporcionar al tribunal y a todos sus componentes recursos adicionales de asesoría, permitiéndoles comprender adecuadamente el contexto clínico de las partes involucradas en los casos de Relaciones de Familia, especialmente en aquellos que afectan a menores de edad”, explicó el director administrativo de los
Tribunales, Sigfrido Steidel Figueroa en declaraciones escritas. Añadió que este apoyo garantizará que las decisiones judiciales consideren las necesidades emocionales y psicológicas de los menores involucrados en estos procesos.
Por su parte, la rectora del RCM, Myrna Quiñones Feliciano, destacó la importancia del acuerdo tanto para la comunidad como para la formación académica de los futuros psiquiatras.
“La colaboración con el Poder Judicial no solo representa un avance significativo en el acceso a servicios especializados en el ámbito de la psiquiatría forense, sino que también es crucial para la formación integral de nuestros futuros psiquiatras”, expresó Quiñones Feliciano.
A través del programa, los médicos residentes, bajo la supervisión de facultativos clínicos del RCM, realizarán evaluaciones psiquiátricas a menores y
adultos en los tribunales y prepararán informes periciales cuando sean requeridos por orden judicial. Además, junto a especialistas en la materia, ofrecerán capacitaciones a jueces y personal judicial que interviene en estos casos.
Este esfuerzo conjunto busca fortalecer la administración de la justicia y garantizar que los menores de edad cuenten con el apoyo profesional necesario en los procesos judiciales en los que estén involucrados.
Gobierno analiza simplificar renovación del Permiso Único para comerciantes
POR CYBERNEWS
lDepartamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio (DDEC) y la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (OGPe) anunciaron la implementación de un análisis dirigido a flexibilizar la renovación del Permiso Único, con el fin
de agilizar procesos y reducir la burocracia para el sector comercial en Puerto Rico.
El secretario del DDEC, Sebastián Negrón Reichard, informó que la medida responde a la política pública de la gobernadora Jenniffer González Colón de fomentar un entorno empresarial más eficiente. “Estamos evaluando alternativas para minimizar cargas innecesarias sin comprometer la seguridad y el cumplimiento regulatorio”, indicó Negrón Reichard en declaraciones escritas.
El estudio se enfocará en 65 subusos comerciales considerados de bajo riesgo, lo que podría beneficiar a unos 15,000 comerciantes en la isla. Se analizará la posibilidad de extender los términos de renovación o incluso eliminar la
renovación en algunos casos, permitiendo que los recursos gubernamentales se enfoquen en sectores de mayor impacto en la seguridad y la salud pública.
“El objetivo principal es determinar si la renovación puede ser eliminada o simplificada para ciertos comercios, sin afectar la fiscalización de las normas vigentes”, señaló el secretario auxiliar de la OGPe, Norberto Almodóvar Vélez. Aclaró que las agencias reguladoras continuarán con inspecciones aleatorias para garantizar el cumplimiento de las regulaciones.
El Departamento de Salud, el Negociado del Cuerpo de Bomberos y OGPe realizarán un análisis en los próximos 30 días y presentarán recomendaciones. En un plazo de 60 días, se establecerán ajustes en los sistemas de permisos, incluyendo la modernización del Single Business Portal para garantizar una transición eficiente.
Las disposiciones de la Carta Circular Núm. 2025003 entraron en vigor de inmediato. Para más información, los interesados pueden acceder a www.desarrollo. pr.gov o escribir a reformapermisos@ddec.pr.gov.
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Roberta Flack’s 11 essential songs
By BEN SISARIO
At a New York concert in 1997, Roberta Flack referred to her voice as a “blessed instrument.” For generations of listeners it was just that, a spellbinding force that could be cool, or luxurious, or swell with suggestive power, often in the same song.
Flack, who died Monday at 88, began her career as a schoolteacher with a solid grounding in both classical music and Black church singing. She ended up one of the supreme voices of the 1970s, scoring multiple No. 1 hits that established her as a star of interpretive pop-soul, capable of stunning radio listeners and critics alike.
She was a master of the revelatory reinvention. Her first hit, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” was originally a folk ballad by Ewan MacColl. Peggy Seeger’s 1957 recording of it is a brisk, warbling take with arpeggiated acoustic guitar — a classic example of the kind of carefree-songbird tunes from the early folk revival. In Flack’s hands it is slow, stirring eroticism, with a controlled range of vocal dynamics that moves from whisper-delicate to a kind of power that feels like a carnal memory.
She did it again in 1973 with “Killing Me Softly With His Song” — originally by Lori Lieberman, another folkie — which Flack transformed into a hypnotic meditation. Two decades later, Lauryn Hill and the Fugees shifted its shape again with their own remake.
With those tracks, Flack became the first artist to take record of the year at the Grammy Awards two consecutive times, with “The First Time” winning in 1973 and “Killing Me Softly” in 1974.
Those are just two of Flack’s most familiar recordings, in a career that also included hit collaborations with singers such as Donny Hathaway and Peabo Bryson, and later explorations into jazz standards. Here are 11 of her essential tracks.
‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ (1969)
Though it would take nearly three years for this track from Flack’s debut album to become a hit — a placement in Clint Eastwood’s movie “Play Misty for Me” was the catalyst — it introduced all the elements of Flack’s greatness as a vocalist and an interpreter. Turning a folk ballad by MacColl into a rich, amorous incantation, Flack controls
Roberta Flack, who died last Monday at 88, began her career as a schoolteacher with a solid grounding in both classical music and Black church singing. (Wikipedia)
her voice with delicate restraint, letting it swell from a near-whisper to just enough of a cry to reveal a deep passion within. It went to No. 1 and became the top song of 1972.
‘Compared to What’ (1969)
Her first single was a protest song. Written by Gene McDaniels, and earlier recorded by Les McCann — the jazz pianist who discovered Flack and brought her to Atlantic Records — “Compared to What” has a right-on soul-jazz groove and lyrics like “The president, he’s got his war/ Folks don’t know just what it’s for.” Flack’s rhapsodic vocal flights offered a sign of her potential.
‘Let It Be Me’ (1970)
Another stunning example of Flack’s interpretive power, and of her role in curating a new pop songbook in the 1970s. She paints this modern standard — made famous with lachrymose sweetness by the Everly Brothers — with soft blue notes and an expertly calibrated range of vocal dynamics.
‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ (1971)
By the time Flack released her cover of this Shirelles’ classic, in late 1971, Carole King (who wrote the song with Gerry Goffin) had already done her own sloweddown version on her megaselling LP “Tapestry.” But Flack’s performance is still striking, a haunting showcase for her voice as
well as her delicate and entrancing piano arrangement.
‘Freedom Song’ (1971)
In 1971, Flack performed at an Independence Day festival in Ghana, along with Ike and Tina Turner, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett and Santana. Her a cappella version of the spiritual “Oh Freedom” is a heart stopper, both a moaning prayer and a taste of rapture. The soundtrack has long since fallen into obscurity; it was never released on CD in the United States and is unavailable on streaming services.
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, ‘Where Is the Love’ (1972)
Hathaway, a gifted and troubled singer and songwriter, was one of Flack’s most important collaborators, writing early tracks and arranging the songs on her second album. In 1972 they collaborated on a joint LP, “Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway,” that became a blueprint for ’70s romantic soul. “Where Is the Love,” a No. 1 R&B hit that remains in constant radio rotation, is a perfect duet, a tale of romance lost that still feels like a bonbon.
‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’ (1973)
Another surprising song choice that Flack fully remade into a giant, signature hit. She encountered Lieberman’s folky original while on a plane, then reworked the chord structure and added a soaring interlude, transforming the tune into a soulful odyssey. She tried it out at a concert with Quincy Jones, who told her, “Ro, don’t sing that daggone song no more until you record it,” as Flack once recalled. The recording became
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her second No. 1 hit, and got another boost when the Fugees remade the track in 1996.
‘Feel Like Makin’ Love’ (1974)
Flack produced her sixth studio album herself, under the name Rubina Flake, with a smooth touch that comes through clearly on this sensuous title track, her third No. 1 hit. The album was delayed by months of strained recording sessions, and was a relative flop upon its eventual release in early 1975.
Roberta Flack With Donny Hathaway, ‘The Closer I Get to You’ (1977)
Not written as a duet, this song nonetheless reunited Flack and Hathaway for another gauzy crossover hit, which went No. 1 R&B and No. 2 on the Hot 100. Before Hathaway’s death in 1979, the two had begun recording another duets LP, which was released the following year as “Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway.”
Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack, ‘Tonight, I Celebrate My Love’ (1983)
Flack found a new partner for romantic duets in Bryson, whose smooth baritone was radio gold but struck many critics as a bit too squeaky-clean, especially in his appearances on Disney soundtracks. “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love,” written by Goffin and Michael Masser, was the lead single from their joint album “Born to Love,” and reached the Top 20.
‘Angel Eyes’ (1994)
On “Roberta,” an album of jazz and soul standards, Flack delivered this unorthodox but captivating take on “Angel Eyes,” a boozy tale of lost love that’s long been associated with Ella Fitzgerald. The song drips with pungent blue notes, but Flack — singing over a jazz combo at a ponderous tempo — finds a way to luxuriate in the melody, bending the lyrics enough to make any fan perk up.
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Are eggs safe to eat as bird flu spreads?
By DANI BLUM
Bird flu is striking chickens across the country, causing shortages and pushing up prices at retailers and restaurants. Late last month, one of the nation’s largest egg producers said that hens at one of its Indiana farms had tested positive for avian influenza.
Researchers have emphasized that bird flu still poses a minimal risk to the general public, though that may
change as the virus continues to circulate and potentially mutate. But the many empty shelves in stores and higher prices on the eggs that people can find have raised concerns among consumers about the safety of the egg supply.
At this point, experts say it’s unlikely that an egg contaminated with bird flu would make it to grocery stores. Federal regulations require that commercially packaged eggs be washed and sanitized, which helps remove virus particles from the outside of the shell.
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“Dead birds don’t lay eggs,” said Dr. Gail Hansen, a veterinary public health expert and consultant in Washington. When the virus does affect a flock, its eggs are typically removed from the food supply.
Scientists are still trying to figure out whether humans can contract bird flu by eating or drinking products contaminated with the virus. Most of the at least 66 people infected in the United States since 2024 contracted the virus through contact with sick animals.
Still, it seems likely that the virus can be transmitted through certain foods: Monkeys have fallen ill after drinking raw milk that contained the virus. Cats have died after consuming tainted milk and uncooked pet food.
Researchers have emphasized that bird flu still poses a minimal risk to the general public, though that may change as the virus continues to circulate and potentially mutate. But the many empty shelves in stores and higher prices on the eggs that people can find have raised concerns among consumers about the safety of the egg supply. (Freepik)
their eggs as recommended, then the risk is extremely low,” said Dr. Meghan Davis, a veterinarian and environmental epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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The virus is especially prevalent in the udders of cows, which means that unpasteurized milk can contain high concentrations of the virus, said Stacey L. Schultz-Cherry, a virologist and influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Less of the virus may end up in eggs, although it’s hard to say for certain without comparative studies, said Matthew Moore, an associate professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. But “even provided that you somehow did a ‘Rocky’ type thing and just ate it raw,” the probability of contracting bird flu from an egg “is still pretty low,” he said.
If you want to be extra cautious, pasteurized egg products — like liquid egg whites that come in cartons — are considered safe, since pasteurization inactivates the virus.
And cooking eggs thoroughly kills the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends cooking eggs to an internal temperature of 165 degrees, meaning that yolks should be firm, and that scrambled eggs should not be runny.
“The bottom line is that if people are using good food-handling practices and fully cooking
Experts also recommend common-sense food safety measures: If you’re handling raw eggs, thoroughly wash your hands and clean any cooking surfaces or pans with soap and water after use.
And resist the temptation to grab a spoonful of raw cookie dough or cake batter — not just to minimize any potential risk of bird flu, but to avoid far more common pathogens, such as salmonella, that can cause food poisoning. These infections can be especially serious for young children, older adults, pregnant women and people who are immunocompromised, but they can make anyone feel miserable for a few days.
“Those are really strong reasons to still remind people to handle eggs properly,” Moore said. “Especially if you’re going to spend a lot of money for them — don’t get diarrhea from it.”
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‘The White Lotus’ is coming to Thailand. So are the tourists.
By SIMON ELEGANT
When the third season of the hit HBO series “The White Lotus” debuted Sunday, viewers were transported to the tropical island of Koh Samui, Thailand. And if previous seasons are any indication, many of them will soon be booking vacations there, too.
The show, which takes place at a different fictional White Lotus luxury resort each season, centers on a group of wealthy tourists, their interpersonal dramas and the inevitable tension with staff and locals, all against a backdrop of paradise skewed.
The travel industry has been anticipating the new season almost as much as fans have. Partly thanks to the socalled “White Lotus” effect, Koh Samui and Thailand have already emerged as top destinations. Koh Samui was one of The New York Times’ 52 Places to Go in 2025, and Thailand was Travel+Leisure’s 2025 destination of the year.
With a wave of tourists set to wash ashore, the roughly 68,000 residents of Koh Samui are about to get a lot more familiar with the “White Lotus” effect.
On the pristine white sand of Chaweng Beach one recent evening, Tey, 46, a local carpenter who declined to give his last name, said he didn’t really know much about the series. But then came a flash of recognition.
“Yes, yes. Lisa’s show was filmed here,” he said. Lisa, or Lalisa Manobal, is a Thai member of the K-pop band Blackpink who makes her acting debut in this season of “The White Lotus.”
Had he heard anything else about it? Tey shook his head.
Selling a taste of luxury
Koh Samui, an 88-square-mile gem in the Gulf of Thailand about 470 miles south of Bangkok, has long charmed visitors with its miles of beaches, tranquil waters, jungle-covered hills, restaurants and nightlife.
Bookings at the $2,000-a-night Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, where a large part of Season 3 was shot, have already jumped 40%. And once the new season begins streaming, Marc Speichert, the executive vice president and chief commercial officer of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, said he expected demand to increase “exponentially.”
“We saw a 10x increase in the properties in Maui and Taormina,” Speichert said, referring to the Four Seasons resorts in Hawaii and Sicily where much of Seasons 1 and 2 were shot. The high-end travel network Virtuoso said its data showed a 424% spike in sales to Sicily after Season 2.
For visitors to Koh Samui who want a taste of the sweet “White Lotus” life but don’t have the bank balances to match, the Four Seasons offers day passes allowing use of the beach and access to restaurants and bars if you spend at least 5,000 baht (about $150), said Jasjit Assi, the resort’s general manager.
Other businesses, local as well as global, are also banking on a boom. American Express is offering a White Lotus Thailand Experience package to certain card members. It includes three days at the Four Seasons resort and a full-moon party.
Even about 200 miles west on the popular island of Phuket, where some parts of the Season 3 were shot, hotels are trying to cash in on “The White Lotus.” The Anantara Mai
Khao Phuket Villas, for example, boasts that it offers a level of luxury similar to that of the Four Seasons, and unlike Koh Samui, Phuket is home to a Michelin-starred restaurant, Pru. Phuket, Bangkok and Koh Samui are all stops on the seven-night White Lotus Thailand trip offered by Unforgettable Travel Co., a luxury tour operator, for just under $8,000 per person. It includes private tours of Bangkok and sunset cruises in Bangkok and Koh Samui.
“I think it is going to be huge for Samui,” said Michael Brasier, the owner-manager of Nahm, a casual, airy fusion restaurant perched over the water near Koh Samui’s airport. Brasier already benefited from a “White Lotus” boon of his own: A group of actors including Walton Goggins, who plays one of the resort guests, visited Nahm several times a week while filming, he said, and he had the photos to prove it.
‘Gorgeous, layered, complex’
The idea of “set-jetting,” or visiting the filming sites of favorite shows and movies, stretches back at least as far as the early 2000s, when the “Lord of the Rings” franchise flooded New Zealand with J.R.R. Tolkien-obsessed visitors.
But the trend has taken off in recent years, with events like “Bridgerton”-style balls and “Emily in Paris”-inspired girls’ trips to the French Riviera. In 2023, the high-end travel provider Black Tomato began offering experiences like James Bondthemed private tours, including a speedboat race on the River Thames, for $18,500 and up.
But in the past, set-jetters mostly visited places they had already seen in their favorite movies or shows. With Season 3 of “The White Lotus,” they’re not waiting.
British actor Jason Isaacs, one of the stars of the new season, said he was surprised to hear that set-jetters were already traveling to Koh Samui.
“I didn’t realize that was a thing already,” he said.
The beautiful beaches and lush forests of Koh Samui, Thailand, Dec. 26, 2024, which provide the backdrop for Season 3 of HBO’s “The White Lotus.” Viewers of the series’ new season will be transported to the tropical island in Thailand, and if previous seasons are any indication, many of them will soon book vacations there, too. (David Rama Terrazas Morales/The New York Times)
Isaacs, who spoke by phone as he was en route to the season premiere in Los Angeles, said he managed to do a little exploration of his own during the more than two months he was on Koh Samui for filming. He cited temple visits, water- fall hikes, massages and training in Thai boxing as some of the highlights. “Samui is a gorgeous, layered, complex place, full of incredible beauty,” he said.
A resort pool by Silver Beach on the island of Koh Samui, which provides the backdrop for Season 3 of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” In Thailand, Dec. 2, 2024. Viewers of the series’ new season will be transported to the tropical island in Thailand, and if previous seasons are any indication, many of them will soon book vacations there, too. (Tanveer Badal/The New York Times)
But he cautioned that the expected influx of visitors and the accompanying development will have downsides, too, echoing the haves-and-have-nots theme woven into the show. Despite the beautiful setting, there is “poverty and deprivation,” he said. “Visitors will see a lot if they are curious and keep their eyes open.”
Tey, the carpenter from Chaweng Beach, knows all too well what change has brought to the island. He remembers when he was a child, the sight of a foreigner was a big event. Back then the hills weren’t covered with expat-owned villas and the roads weren’t lined with shops selling marijuana, which was decriminalized in Thailand in 2022.
But at the same time, Tey, who learned English working for a British developer building those same villas, was pragmatic about the changes.
Those tourists and expats bring money to the island, he said, expressing a sentiment that wouldn’t be out of place in a “White Lotus” episode: “They can do what they want.”
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CIDRA
FÉLIX CABRERA
BERRÍOS, ANA DOLORES
RIVERA NEGRÓN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: CD2025CV00018. Sala: 602. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A las personas desconocidas y/o ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción de dominio solicitada del inmueble que se describe más adelante por la presente se le requiere comparezcan ante este Tribunal dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación de este Edicto y expongan lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente propiedad: “RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno compuesto de una cuerda equivalente a tres mil novecientos TREINTA PUNTO TRES MIL NOVECIENTOS CINCUENTA Y OCHO METROS CUADROS (3,930.3958 m.c.) en lindes por el Norte con área dedicada a uso público, por el Sur con remanente de la finca principal, por el Este con remanente de la finca principal y con terrenos de Luis Rivera y por el Oeste, con remanente de la finca principal.” Se le advierte que, de no hacer oposición dentro del término antes expresado, presentado el original del escrito en el Tribunal y notificada copia de ello al representante legal del promovente, éste podrá obtener que se aprueba el expediente de dominio y se orden inscribir a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas, el dominio de la finca antes descrita. Es la representante legal del promovente la Licenciada Anayra L. Santiago Torres cuya dirección es P.O. Box 1726, Cidra, P. R. 00739 y 9 Calle Práxedes Santiago, Primer Nivel, Cidra, PR 00739, teléfono (787) 739-3110 / (787) 504-4169, lcda.anayra.santiago@gmail.com. DADA EN CAGUAS, PUERTO RiCO, a 6 de febrero de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETA-
RIA GENERAL. DHARMA TORRES BRUNO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR BASILISA CALERO TORRES Y OTROS
Partes Peticionarias EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: AG2024CV00762. Salón: 601. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIC A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de las Veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el BARRIO GUERRERO del término municipal de ISABELA, Puerto Rico con
una cabida superficial de doscientos siete puntos cero novecientos ochenta y siete metros cuadrados (207.0987 mc); en lindes al NORTE con: José Miguel Ponce Calero; SUR con: camino vecinal y Andrea Paola Burgos, por el ESTE, José M. Ponce Calero, y por OESTE con Luz E. Barreto Calero. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Libre de Cargas y Gravámenes. Catastro Núm. 007-075-527-23-000. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. DAVID VILLANUEVA MATIAS, PO BOX 43, AGUADILLA, PR, 00605; Tel. 787882-0404. Se le informa, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para 13 de junio de 2025, a las 9:00 de la mañana, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 24 de enero de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN. EDGAR MAYO MELÉNDEZ, MARÍA DEL LORETO GARCÍA
MERINO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS PETICIONARIOS EX PARTE
CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024CV00159 (906). SOBRE: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO (USUCAPIÓN/ PRESCRIPCIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA). CITACION POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDEN-
TE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS A: JOHN DOE y JANE ROE, personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción solicitada.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica que los peticionarios de epígrafe han presentado una Petición para que se declare justificado el dominio a su favor sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización La Sierra del Río, localizado en Barrio Monacillos Este y el Cinco de Río Piedras del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de trescientos cuarenta y cuatro punto tres mil ochocientos veintinueve metros cuadrados (344.3829 m.c.) . En lindes, por el Norte, en dos distintas alineaciones que suman diecisiete punto ochocientos seis metros lineales (17.86 m.l.), con terrenos reservados para el futuro desarrollo “Debris Basin”; por el Sur, en diecisiete punto quinientos metros lineales (17.500 m.l.), con solar 4-F de la Urbanización La Sierra del Río; por el Este, en diecinueve punto ochocientos cincuenta y nueve metros lineales (19.859 ml.), con terrenos reservados para el futuro desarrollo “Debris Basin”; y por el Oeste, en dieciocho punto ciento trece metros lineales (18.113 m.1.), con terrenos reservados para el futuro desarrollo “Debris Basin”. Los fundamentos en apoyo a la solicitud de la parte peticionaria se encuentran extensamente relacionados en la petición presentada, la cual obra en los autos del caso. En síntesis, la parte peticionaria alega que ha poseído la propiedad antes descrita en concepto de dueño de manera pública, pacífica e ininterrumpidamente or un periodo mayor a veinte (20) años de manera que opera la prescripción adquisitiva extraordinaria. En vista de lo anterior, el tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión de la peticionaria tres (3) veces dentro del término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria en la Isla de Puerto Rico, a fin que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho, advirtiéndose que deberán comparecer al Tribunal a alegar su derecho dentro del plazo improrrogable de veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de dicho edicto, después de lo cual se resolverá lo procedente en derecho. Por ser personas desconocidas o ignoradas, se exime
a la peticionaria del requisito notificar copia de la citación por correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida al tiempo de hacerse la primera publicación del edicto. DADO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por orden del mismo, en San Juan, Puerto Rico hoy 3 de febrero de 2024. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Maria Serrano Soto, SubSecretaria.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. AMPARO TORRES CRUZ Y LUIS NAVARRO PÉREZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2024CV00090. (205). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia en Rebeldía dictada el 18 de noviembre de 2024, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia Enmendada del 10 de enero de 2025 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 15 de enero del 2025 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 18 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial de Humacao, Sala Superior, en la Avenida Nicanor Vázquez, Humacao, Puerto Rico (frente al Centro de Bellas Artes), al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América cheque de gerente o giro postal todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #12 del bloque X de la Urbanización Ciudad Cristiana localizado en el Barrio Rio Abajo del término municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico, con área de 256.33 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar 13-X, distancia de 25.18 metros; por el SUR, con el solar 11-X, distancia de 25.18 metros; por el ESTE, con propiedad de Juan M. Beltrán, distancia de 10.18 metros; y por el OESTE, la Avenida #4, distancia de 10.18 metros. Enclava una casa
aprobada según plano aquí archivado. Inscrita al folio 30 del tomo 374 de Humacao, Finca 16337. Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 90 de tomo 554 de Humacao, Finca 16337. Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Inscripción novena. DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: CIUDAD CRISTIANA X12 AVENIDA 4, HUMACAO, PR 00792. Número de Catastro: (51) 305035-549-15-001. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $80,750.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 25 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $53,833.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 1RO DE ABRIL DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $40,375.00. 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 ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $60,796.29 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7.125% anual desde el 1 de julio de 2023 hasta su completo pago, más $136.00 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,075.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesa el siguiente gravamen posterior a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar: a. Aviso de Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico Vs. Amparo Torres Cruz y Luis Navarro Pérez ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el Caso Civil Número HU2024CV00090, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía Ordinaria en
la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca, con un balance de $60,796.29 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha del 25 de enero de 2024, Anotación B. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por espacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 2102015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de enero de 2025. RAQUEL QUIÑONES SOTO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESION JOSE ANTONIO PAEZ QUILES COMPUESTA POR ERICK ANTHONY PAEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS;
SUCESION AMELIA CHACON GUZMAN COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados
Civil Núm.: AG2024CV00488. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, el 12 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Solar marcado con el número 11 del plano de inscripción ubicado en el Barrio Río Grande del término municipal de Rincón, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1304.917 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con solar número 10; por el SUR, con terrenos de Sixto Sánchez; por el ESTE, con Solar número 12. OESTE, con terrenos de Juan Medina. Contiene edificación fabricada de cemento armado y bloque dedicado a vivienda, que mide la parte baja de 22 pies 8 pulgadas de ancho por 43 pies de largo, que consta la parte alta de recibidor, sala, salón familiar, comedor, cocina, dos dormitorios y 1 ½ baño, la parte baja un cuarto dormitorio, un cuarto dormitorio, un baño y marquesina doble y lavandería.” Inscrita al folio 169 del tomo 108 de Rincón, finca 5219, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La Hipoteca Re-
Bayamón, Cuarto Piso, Oficina de Alguaciles de Subastas, el 27 DE MARZO DE 2025, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $143,591.99 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $66,395.98 en intereses acumulados al 25 de agosto de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 7.125% anual hasta su total y completo pago; $7,779.28 de seguro hipotecario; $5,100.00 de cargos por servicio; $3,181.11 de seguro contra riesgo; $975.00 de tasaciones; $275.00 de inspecciones; $425.00 de mantenimiento; $1,110.00 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $15,600.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de enero de 2025. FRANCES TORRES CONTRERAS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193. ****
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO
Demandante V. KAREN SOTO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: MZ2023CV00481. (Salón: 207). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FERNANDO L. SEPÚLVEDA SILVAOFICINAFLSS@YAHOO.COM. JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍASJGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM. A: SUCESIÓN JUAN RADAMÉS
SOTO JUSTINIANO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de febrero de 2025. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 20 de febrero de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
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LONGBRIDGE FINANCIAL LLC
Demandante V. ROSA ORTIZ RIOS T/T/C ROSA ORTIZ PEREZ
T/C/C ROSA ORTIZ T/C/C ROSA RIOS Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2024CV01957. (Salón: 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE
HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM.
A: ROSA ORTIZ RIOS
T/C/C ROSA ORTIZ
PEREZ T/C/C ROSA ORTIZ T/C/C ROSA RIOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de febrero 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 21 de febrero de 2025. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE LAURA
ESTELA MUÑOZ PONCE T/C/C LAURA E. MUÑOZ
PONCE T/C/C LAURA ESTELA MUÑOZ T/C/C LAURA MUÑOZ PONCE
T/C/C LAURA MUÑOZ
COMPUESTA POR Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV10418. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre:
EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA:
PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN-
CIA POR EDICTO.
EDDIE A. OLIVERA ROBLESEOLIVERA@AARP.ORG.
FERNANDO J. GIERBOLINI
GONZÁLEZ - FGIERBOLINI@ MSGLAWPR.COM. JOSÉ JAVIER DÍAZ ALONSO -
JDIAZ@MSGLAWPR.COM.
RAMÓN H. BANUCHI EURITEBANUCHIBANUCHI@GMAIL.COM.
A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD
ROE; MARY DOE Y JANE
DOE COMO MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PERSONAS CON INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÖN DE LAURA
ESTELA MUÑOZ PONCE
T/C/C LAURA E. MUÑOZ
PONCE T/C/C LAURA
ESTELA MUÑOZ T/C/C LAURA MUÑOZ PONCE
T/C/C LAURA MUÑOZ; FULANO DE TAL, SUTANO DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LAURA
ESTELA MUÑOZ PONCE
TICC LAURA E. MUÑOZ
PONCE TIC/C LAURA
ESTELA MUÑOZ TIC/C
LAURA MUÑOZ PONCE
T/C/C LAURA MUÑOZ; BALDO BITTMAN
DIAZ COMO MIEMBRO DE IA SUCESIÓN DE ZULMA MALDONADO
MUÑOZ T/C/C ZULMA
MALDONADO; SUTANITO DE TAL; MENGANITO DE TAL; COMO
POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE ZULMA MALDONADO
MUNOZ T/C/C ZULMA MALDONADO
(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 febrero 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 20 de febrero de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 20 de febrero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARILY LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ,
SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO
Demandante V. LYDIA NIEVES SALAS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MO2024CV00096. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ F GIRAUD MEJÍASJGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM. LYDIA NIEVES SALAS - 540 CALLE GABRIEL CARDONA MOCA, PUERTO RICO 00676.
A: LYDIA NIEVES SALAS
- 540 CALLE GABRIEL CARDONA, MOCA, PR 00676. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de febrero de 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 21 de febrero de 2025. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. SARAHIÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA.
MARIELA CARDONA PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR
OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. ROGER WILLIAM
GOODWIN Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00636.
(Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR).
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BIRRIELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM. A: ROGER WILLIAM GOODWIN, MAUREEN THERESE GOODWIN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de febrero 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 21 de febrero de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. JOHN C. ESPOSITO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00639. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BIRRIELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM.
A: JOHN C. ESPOSITO, BARBARA DENISE
ESPOSITO T/C/C
BARBARA DENISE
BURNS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de febrero 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 21 de febrero de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. SHAUN ARTHUR REGAN Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00634.
(Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BIRRIELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM. A: SHAUN ARTHUR REGAN, KIMBERLE SUE WOHLFEIL, T/C/C KIMBERLE SUE REGAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de febrero 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 21 de febrero de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN JOSE MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ MERCADO Y OTROS Demandante V. SUCESION DE JOSE MANUEL RODRIGUEZ LOZADA COMPUESTA POR: Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV03752. (Salón: 506 CIVIL). Sobre: ACEPTACIÓN, RENUNCIA, REMOCIÓN O SUSTITUCIÓN DEL ALBACEA Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. IAN ALEJANDRO LEBRÓN WARDIANLEBRONWARD@GMAIL.COM. KRYSTAL MARIE HERNÁNDEZ MARTÍNEZ - KRISTAL. HERNANDEZ@LEX.INTER.EDU. A: NUVIA DAMIRA RODRIGUEZ PEREZ, BRENDA LIZ RODRIGUEZ PIÑERO, JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ PIÑEIRO, JOSE ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ PIÑEIRO, JOSELINE MARIE RODRIGUEZ FLORES, NASHALI RODRIGUEZ FLORES, NESTOR JOSE RODRIGUEZ FLORES, CHRISTEL MARIE GALINDEZ GARCIA, DANIEL PEGUERO FERNANDEZ, SLG COMPUESTA POR CHRISTEL GALINDEZ Y
DANIEL PEGUE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de febrero de 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 21 de febrero de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. GREISHKA CARTAGENA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. LUIS J.
OQUENDO RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV04488. (Salón: 505). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM.
A: LUIS J.
OQUENDO RIVERA. (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 febrero 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 21 de febrero de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MILITZA MERCADO RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C
LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
Demandante Vs. JOSÉ RAMIRO HERNÁNDEZ PEREA Y SU ESPOSA DENISE IRIZARRY RUIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2025CV00010. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: JOSÉ RAMIRO HERNÁNDEZ PEREA, SU ESPOSA DENISE IRIZARRY RUIZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS - URB. ALTURAS DE MONTE BRISAS, 14-4L CALLE 7, FAJARDO PR 00738-3922. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente
físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL:
ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 21 de febrero de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES Demandante Vs. PEDRO MATOS PAGÁN, SU ESPOSA MABEL SILVA CASIANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: PO2024CV03526. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCLADO DE P.R., SS. A: PEDRO MATOS PAGÁN, SU ESPOSA MABEL SILVA CASIANO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS - URB. ESTANCIAS DE MARIA ANTONIA, CALLE 3, C-591, GUANICA PR 00653; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: 3862 W 42ND ST, CLEVELAND OH 44109-2644.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte
demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma sello del Tribunal, hoy 21 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MARIELY FÉLIX RIVERA, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. CARMEN J. SANTIAGO ORTIZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: JD2024CV00427. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOSJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM. A: SEA. CARMEN J. SANTIAGO ORTIZ; P/C LCDO. JOSÉ A.
LAMAS BURGOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de 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 24 de febrero de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA EN CUMPLIMIENTO DE LA ORDEN DEL 21 DE FEBRERO DE 2025 DONDE SE ORDENA A SECRETARÍA EMITIR NUE-
VA NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO PARA QUE LA MISMA PUEDA SER PUBLICADA DENTRO DEL TÉRMINO ESTABLECIDO POR LAS REGLAS DE PROCEDIMIENTO CIVIL. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 24 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. VANESSA RODRÍGUEZ MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SALINAS
POPULAR AUTO LLC
Demandante V. GABRIEL J. RIVERA ROMÁN
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SA2024CV00348. 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: GABRIEL J. RIVERA ROMÁN.
Por la presente se le 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 le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Salinas, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Bo. Quebrada Yegua, Carr. 712
Km. 2 Hm 5, Salinas, Puerto Rico 00751 y P.O. Box 2124, Salinas, Puerto Rico 00751. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Salinas, Puerto Rico, a 26 de febrero de 2025. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. BRENDA L. RAMOS POMALES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL II.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR KRYSTIAN
FIGUEROA ORTEGA
Parte Demandante VS. FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP; BRUCE CRUZ Y FULANA DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; DUEñO X Y FULANA DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ASEGURADORAS 1-10; CORPORACIONES 1-10; DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS 1-10; ENTERPRISE RENTAL CAR.
Parte Demandada Civil Num.: AR2025CV00049. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-
TO. EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: BRUCE CRUZ POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SLG.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado una Demanda de Daños y Perjuicios en su contra donde se solicita el pago por concepto de daños. Por el presente Edicto, se les emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de un término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del mismo y presente el original de dicha contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma dentro del mismo término al Lcdo. Luis Domínguez Fuertes a la siguiente dirección:
PO BOX 364566, SAN JUAN, PR 00936-4566, Tel. 787-2960000, ldominguezfuertes@ gmail.com, abogado de la parte demandante. Por la presente se les apercibe que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, a 12 de febrero de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. YOLANDA VEGA LOPEZ Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2024CV03511. (Salón: 804). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM. A: SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL LUIS VEGA HERNÁNDEZ Y SUCESIÓN DE RAMONA LÓPEZ COTTO; SUCESIÓN DE YOLANDA VEGA LÓPEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de febrero de 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 24 de febrero de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 24 de febrero de 2025.
IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARIEL CRUZ
RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO LUNA
COMMERCIAL II LLC
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE DEBORAH GRISSELLE LLOP RAMÍREZ, COMPUESTA
POR SUS DOS (2) HIJOS, NÉMESIS ARLEENE Y JOSEAN ENRIQUE, AMBOS DE APELLIDOS
HERNÁNDEZ LLOP, Y SU VIUDO, JOSÉ
AGUSTÍN HERNÁNDEZ ROMÁN, COMO ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS; JOSÉ
AGUSTÍN HERNÁNDEZ ROMÁN, POR SÍ Demandados
Civil Núm.: CCD2015-0706. (402). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE PRENDA Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR , SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS ROMERO LÓPEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 22 de enero de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 28 de marzo de 2016, notificada el 29 de marzo de 2016, procederé a vender el día 1 DE ABRIL DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: Pagaré Hipotecario por la suma principal de $450,000.00 a favor de Banco Santander Puerto Rico, o a su orden, con intereses a razón del 6.90% anual fijo y vencimiento a la presentación,
garantizado mediante hipoteca constituida en primer rango en virtud de la Escritura #163, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 10 de noviembre de 2005, ante la Notario Público Mari Nilda Aparicio Laspina, sobre la Finca #51,169 de Arecibo, la cual consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Arecibo, Sección Primera (I) de Arecibo del Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Simultáneamente con la venta del Pagaré Hipotecario anteriormente descrito se procederá a vender el siguiente bien inmueble que lo garantiza: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Hato Abajo, término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, identificado con el número dos (2) del Plano de Inscripción con una cabida superficial de seis punto tres mil ochocientos setenta y seis (6.3876) cuerdas, equivalentes a veinticinco mil ciento cinco punto sesenta y cuatro noventa y seis (25,105.6496) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Carlos Pérez, Víctor Román y solar identificado con el número uno (1) en el Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, con servidumbre de paso, solar segregado en caso número noventa y ocho guion cero seis guion D setecientos treinta y cuatro guion APF, propiedad de José Hernández y solar identificado con el número tres (3) en el Plano de Inscripción; por el ESTE, con el solar identificado con el número uno (1) en el Plano de Inscripción y la Sucesión Román Vélez; y por el OESTE, con carretera municipal. Consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Arecibo, Sección Primera (I) de Arecibo del Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Finca Número Cincuenta y Un Mil Ciento Sesenta y Nueve (51,169). Dirección Física: Carr. 493 Km. 1.3 Interior, Barrio Hato Abajo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $320,051.25 más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Arecibo. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 1 DE ABRIL DE 2025, A LA 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $450,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 8 DE ABRIL DE 2025, A LA 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $300,000.00. De
no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 15 DE ABRIL DE 2025, A LA 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $225,000.00. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Banco Santander de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $450,000.00, con intereses al 6.90% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 163, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de noviembre de 2005, ante la notario Mari Nilda Aparicio Laspina, e inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Arecibo, finca número 51,169, inscripción 2da. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes posteriores. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al
crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 21 de febrero de 2025. LUIS ROMERO LÓPEZ, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #916.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO POPULAR AUTO LLC
Demandante V. JAVIER FELICIANO RAMOS
Demandado
Civil Núm.: FA2024CV01101. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JAVIER FELICIANO RAMOS.
Por la presente se le 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 le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Fajardo, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de
este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Urb. Brisas del Mar, ER-5 Calle Nelson L Mills Benabe, Luquillo, PR 00773; y 350 Covenant Blvd #8112, Murfreesboro, TN 37128. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 26 de febrero de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. ANA CELÍS MÁRQUEZ APONTE, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
POPULAR AUTO LLC
Demandante V. MELIZA J. ROSARIO
ANDERSON Y FRANCELIS CRUZ CASTILLO
Demandadas Civil Núm.: HU2024CV01652. (206). 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: FRANCELIS CRUZ CASTILLO. Por la presente se le 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 le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Humacao, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le
notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Bo. Olivares, 173 Calle Trinitarias, Lajas, Puerto Rico 00667; HC-02 Box 11055, Lajas, Puerto Rico 00667; y 5 Clifton St., Wallingford, CT 06492. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 26 de febrero de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. ARSENIA MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS CERTIFICATE TRUSTEE OF BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1
Demandante V. ADELAIDA SUÁREZ MOLINA Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VA2024CV00054. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. SALICHSJSALICHS@SPLAWPR.COM. SHEILLA E. SANTOS CAMACHOSSANTOS@SPLAWPR.COM. A: HECTOR LUIS LÓPEZ SUÁREZ Y MELISA LÓPEZ SUÁREZ; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de febrero 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 21 de
febrero de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ
POPULAR AUTO LLC
Demandante V. RAMÓN J. FIGUEROA RIVERA
Demandado
Civil Núm.: JD2024CV00796. 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: RAMÓN J. FIGUEROA RIVERA. Por la presente se le 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 le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Juana Díaz, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Urb. Lago Horizonte, 2009 Calle Zafiro, Juana Díaz, PR 00795; y Urb. Lago Horizonte, 2009 Calle Safiro, Coto Laurel, PR 00780. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, a 24 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUI-
ÑONES, SECRETARIA. HILDA J. ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN MUNICIPIO DE SAN SEBASTIAN Demandante V. FRANCISCO GONZALEZ RIVERA Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SS2023CV00874. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. NOEL A. ARCE BOSQUESNOELARCE@GMAIL.COM. A: FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, MANUEL ALEJANDRO MALAVÉ HERNÁNDEZ, DUEÑOS DESCONOCIDOS Y DUEÑAS DESCONOCIDAS JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, NOEL A. ARCE BOSQUES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto). EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de diciembre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de febrero de 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMENDADO LA NOTIFICACIÓN DE LA SENTENCIA A LOS FINES DE INCLUIR A VILMA AURORA CESAN RODRÍGUEZ. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 21 de febrero de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. MARIELA CARDONA PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. EMMANUEL
ARROYO PACHECO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CZ2024CV00105. 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: EMMANUEL ARROYO PACHECO - KM 1 HM 5 CARR 803 INT BO PALMAREJO, COROZAL PR 00783; HC 4 BOX 6393, COROZAL PR 00783-9653.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ELENA OCASIO ORTIZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CZ2024CV00042. Sala: 500 A. 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: ELENA OCASIO ORTIZ - BO PALOS BLANCOS SEC HONDURAS CARR 807 KM 4.4, COROZAL PR 00783; HC 6 BOX 13838, COROZAL PR 00783. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:/// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. EDWIN COTTO MARTINEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: JU2024CV00192. 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: EDWIN COTTO MARTINEZ - URB TOMAS DE CASTRO / JOSE MERC U-144 CALLE HERVER HOOVER, CAGUAS PR 00726; PO BOX 6581, CAGUAS PR 00726; PO BOX 2074, JUNCOS PR 00777. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de diciembre de 2024.
IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN L. SOTO PLANAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
COMPU-LINK CORPORATION, D/B/A CELINK
Demandante Vs. WILFREDO CUEBAS
CARLO; CARMEN
CORDERO VELAZQUEZ
T/C/C CARMEN ELVIRA
CORDERO VELAZQUEZ
T/C/C CARMEN E. CORDERO T/C/C
CARMEN J. CORDERO
VELAZQUEZ Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV02141. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS
UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: WILFREDO CUEBAS
CARLO; CARMEN
CORDERO VELAZQUEZ
T/C/C CARMEN ELVIRA
CORDERO VELAZQUEZ
T/C/C CARMEN E. CORDERO T/C/C
CARMEN J. CORDERO VELAZQUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Greenspoon Marder, LLP
Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido R.U.A. 15,622
TRADE CENTRE SOUTH, SUITE 700 100 WEST CYPRESS CREEK ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33309
Telephone: (954) 343 6273
Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com
Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de enero de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. JOSSIE D. BOBE RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE POPULAR AUTO LLC. Demandante Vs. LUIS VÉLEZ MARTÍNEZ, ZORAIMA ARROYO DÍAZ
Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2024CV02802. Salón: 602. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: LUIS VÉLEZ MARTÍNEZ, ZORAIMA ARROYO DÍAZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, P.O. Box 7185, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00732-7185 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620 Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 30 de enero de 2025. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. LOYDA TORRES IRIZARRY, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs. MARIA ISABEL PÉREZ PLANELLAS Y ADA DEL CARMEN PÉREZ
PLANELLAS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CD2024CV00362. 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: MARIA ISABEL PÉREZ PLANELLAS Y ADA DEL CARMEN PÉREZ PLANELLAS.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva 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 de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se les advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 3 de febrero de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN L. SOTO PLANAS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. KARLA M. RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ
Demandada
Civil Núm.: JD2024CV00655. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: KARLA M. RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ. POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la de-
manda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Bo. Collores, Carr. 512 Km 8.5, Juana Díaz, PR 00795; PO box 420, Villalba, PR 00766-0420. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de enero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANTA MELÉNDEZ RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PEÑUELAS
SAMUEL TORRES MERCADO Y LUISA CRUZ SANTOS Demandante Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERES DE BANCO Y AGENCIA DE FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE Demandado Civil Núm.: PE2025CV00002. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ DE EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADOS DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE. Por la presente se emplaza y se les notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la demanda del caso de epígrafe solicitando la cancelación del Pagaré suscrito a favor de Banco y Agencia de Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $63,050.00, con vencimiento el 01 de marzo de 2029, y habiéndose constituido por la escritura número 42 otorgada en San Juan, el 23 de febrero de 1999, ante el Notario Público Irma J Planadeball Moreno, inscrita al folio 233 del tomo 131 de Peñuelas, finca número 4945, inscripción 3ra. Representa a la parte demandante la abogada cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
ENEL M. PEREZ MONTE
RUA 9019
Reina Isabel 175, La Villa de Torrimar
Guaynabo PR 00969
Tel.: (787) 646-9168
Lcdaenelperez@gmail.com
Se le apercibe que si no comparecieran ustedes a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación
responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, advirtiéndosele que de no hacerlo se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Dado en Ponce, a 7 de febrero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ
QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ADELAIDA LUGO PACHECO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. DAVID LUGO
RODRIGUEZ, FULANA DE TAL, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: JD2024CV00653. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: DAVID LUGO
RODRIGUEZ, FULANA DE TAL, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al
cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Mansiones de Paseo de Reyes, 59 Calle Rey Fernando, Juana Díaz, PR 00795-4006; 761 Ballon Ter SE, Palm Bay, Florida 32909-6612. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de enero de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANTA MELÉNDEZ RIVERA, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA BAJA
VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante Vs. BELZAIDA RODRIGUEZ CORREA
Demandada
Civil Núm.: TB2025CV00012. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: BETZAIDA RODRIGUEZ CORREA. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero, en la que se alega adeuda la suma de $22,288.68 de principal, más $392.12 de intereses al 9.95% anual acumulados, más cargos por demora $44.25, al 12 de diciembre de 2024, y de esa fecha en adelante acumu-
la intereses a razón de $6.76 diarios, hasta su completo pago, más un 30% del principal del Pagaré estipulado para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado y recargos acumulados todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. 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: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedies que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte que de no comparecer en autos dentro del término de las treinta (30) días siguientes a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle, debiendo radicar el original de su contestación en este Tribunal, enviando copia a la abogada de la parte demandante: Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez, Bufete Collazo & Surillo, LLC, P.O. Box 11550, San Juan, PR 00922-1550; Teléfono: (787) 625-9999. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de febrero de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. M. BONILLA,
SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. DESMOND
ALLEN CLARKE
Demandado Civil Núm.: VB2024CV01082. 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: DESMOND ALLEN CLARKE - 8 DE MAYO #812, COAPINOLE PUERTO VALLARTA, JALISCO, MÉXICO 48290. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica a Desmond Allen Clarke, que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. POR LO TANTO, se le emplaza por edicto y se le requiere que notifique a MARINI PIETRANTONI MUÑIZ LLC., Lcdo. Luis C. Marini Biaggi (lmarini@mpmlawpr. com), la Lcda. Ashley Anne Clemente Serrano (aclemente@mpmlawpr.com) y la Lcda. Getzemarie Lugo Rodríguez (glugo@mpmlawpr.com), 250 Ponce de León Ave., Suite 900 San Juan, PR 00918, Tel. 787705-2171, copia de su contestación a la Demanda dentro de los (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja. SE LE ADVIERTE que, de no proceder conforme con lo antes indicado, se le anotará la rebeldía y podrá dictarse Sentencia en su contra, concediendo a la parte demandante los remedios solicitados en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 17 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA
AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSA-
RIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. KAREN JOHAN PAGÁN OCASIO; SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO
URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV07526. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: KAREN JOHAN PAGAN
OCASIO - HERMANAS DÁVILAS DEV., 0 15 8 ST., BAYAMÓN, PR 00956; HERMANAS DÁVILAS DEV., 0 15 CALLE 8, BAYAMÓN, PR 00956.
Queda emplazada y notificada, que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca de la que surge lo siguiente: Que se ha incumplido con las cláusulas de la escritura de hipoteca objeto de ejecución por haberse dejado de pagar las mensualidades vencidas desde el día 1ro de julio de 2024, adeudándosele a la parte demandante la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a $90,539.13 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 2.50% anual desde el 1ro de junio de 2024; 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 $9,818.80 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La propiedad hipotecada cuya ejecución se solicita tiene la siguiente descripción y localización: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Pájaros de la municipalidad de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de lnscripción de la Urbanización Hermanas Dávila, con el número quince del Bloque O de la Sección Séptima de la Urbanización, con un área de cuatrocientos veinte metros cuadrados, colindando por el frente, o sea el SURESTE, en catorce metros con la calle número ocho de la Sección Séptima de la Urbanización, fondo, o sea el NOROESTE, en catorce
metros con el solar treinta y dos del Bloque O de la Sección Séptima de la Urbanización, derecha entrando o sea el NORESTE, en treinta metros con el solar dieciséis del Bloque O, en la Sección Séptima de la Urbanización, izquierda entrando, o sea el SUROESTE, en treinta metros con el solar catorce del Bloque O, separados por una distancia de tres metros, Sección séptima de la Urbanización. Enclava casa. Inscrita en la finca número 8,555, inscrita al folio 64 del tomo 183 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index.ph/ tribunal-electronico, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393
BERMUDEZ & DÍAZ LLP 500 Calle De La Tanca, Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664
rdiaz@bdprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy, 11 de
febrero de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria Regional. Vivian J. Sanabria, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. TONY SANTIAGO BERRIOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: JD2024CV00666. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: TONY SANTIAGO BERRIOSD12 CALLE 4, VILLA EL ENCANTO, JUANA DIAZ, PR 00795.
De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato, Cobro de Dinero y reposesión en el que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar al 6 de septiembre de 2024, un balance vencido por la cantidad de $66,266.11 de principal; más intereses acumulados a razón del 7.25% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una suma equivalente al 30% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados según pactado. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882
Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919
Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 19 de febrero de 2025. Carmen Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. Loyda Torres Irizarry, Sub-Secretaria. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. JORGE RUIZ DE JESUS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV03094. 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: JORGE RUIZ DE JESUS - URB MAY FAIR E2-29 CALLE 16A, BAYAMON PR 009573982; 2324 TYBEE RD, SAINT CLOUD FL 34769. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de diciembre de 2024. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
March 3, 2025
Given the right conditions, could a woman run a four-minute mile?
By JERÉ LONGMAN
Nearly three-quarters of a century after Roger Bannister of Britain, in 1954, became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, an achievement that many at the time thought unattainable, scientists are saying they believe a woman could now also break the barrier and further expand the limits of human possibility.
A study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Tuesday evening theorizes that Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, who in 2023 set the women’s world record of 4 minutes 7.64 seconds, could feasibly run a time of 3:59.37 as soon as this year by sufficiently reducing aerodynamic drag with improved drafting off pacesetters.
Critics might dismiss a woman’s bid for a four-minute mile as unlikely, a publicity stunt or a mere lab experiment. But the study’s authors believe a successful try would erase a mental barrier, inspire other women and become a symbolic achievement in a race where running four laps of a track, in just under one minute per lap, still holds a kind of mythical allure.
“A lot of people said it was physiologically impossible for Bannister or anybody to break four minutes, and I’m sure lots of bros are going to say, ‘No way a woman is ever going to run four minutes; it’s seven seconds away,’” said Rodger Kram, a biomechanist and emeritus professor at the University of Colorado and one of the authors of the study. “But people have said women can’t do a lot of things, and then they have.”
What is not yet known is whether Kipyegon would be interested in the challenge. Kram said he was sending a copy of the study to her and her coach.
In a statement early Wednesday, Kipyegon said from Kenya that she found the study to be “interesting,” and added, “I appreciate people taking my world record performance as an inspiration to imagine what could be possible in the future.”
The study posits that the best chance for Kipyegon to break four minutes would be via drafting, or the use of pacesetters to help reduce wind resistance, with one pacesetter in front of her and another in back for the first half of the race. Those pacers would be substituted with two different escorts for the final two laps.
It may also be possible, researchers say, that Kipyegon could run a sub-four-minute mile without subbing out her pacesetters, if they were also some of the world’s top female middle-distance runners. That method, if successful, would qualify as an official world record.
Drafting in a formation of other runners allows a recordseeking athlete to run faster while using the same amount of energy.
The tactic of switching out pacesetters was used by Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya in breaking the two-hour barrier in the marathon in 2019. Kipchoge’s time of 1 hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in Vienna did not qualify as a world record because the rotation of pacers is not permitted under the rules of World Athletics, track and field’s global governing body.
“If we did have to do some orchestrated track race, where we put in fresh pacers halfway through, I think it would be fine in showing that it was physiologically possible,” said Shalaya Kipp, another author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in exercise physiology at the Mayo Clinic.
Still, the study is sure to be greeted by skeptics. Ray Flynn, a two-time Olympian from Ireland who ran 89 sub-four-minute miles and is now a prominent agent and meet director, called Kipyegon “magnificent and brilliant” but said he didn’t think it was physiologically possible for her or another woman to break four minutes without additional advances in shoe technology. He noted that Kipyegon would have to essentially run two seconds faster per lap to go under four minutes.
“It’s romantic to think about it, but let’s be real,” Flynn said in an interview Tuesday.
More than 2,000 elite-level men have run a mile under four minutes, as have more than two dozen American high school runners.
The advent of so-called super spikes, with enhanced foam cushioning and springy carbon-fiber plates, along with advances in the construction of tracks have helped make subfour miles more common. And the ingestion of baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, a legal technique that helps buffer acidity and neutralize interference with muscle contractions, is also widely used for short, intense races like the mile.
The authors of the study concede that a sub-four mile
would have to be achieved in ideal conditions, among them a lack of wind. And it may not be easy to find pacemakers who could keep up with Kipyegon.
No woman has come within four seconds of her mile record of 4:07.64. When she set the record in Monaco in 2023, she ran her fourth lap alone, which nullified any potential help from drafting.
Ideally, the study says, one female pacer would run 1.3 meters ahead of Kipyegon, helping to deflect what would essentially be a 15-mile-an-hour wind at that racing speed. A second pacer would run 1.3 meters behind, pushing air molecules toward Kipyegon’s back and providing an additional reduction of aerodynamic drag.
It would also be possible to attempt to break the four-minute mark using two elite male athletes to pace Kipyegon the entire way, the study says, but that would not conform to an official record for a women-only race.
An all-female team of pacers would have “a lot of benefits psychologically and sociologically,” Kram said. “I think it would be really cool to see women alone do it.”
The San Juan Daily Star
Faith Kipyegon celebrating after setting the women’s world record for the mile of 4 minutes 7.64 seconds in Monaco in 2023.
Sudoku
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Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
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Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
There could be a great deal of friction in your world today, Aries, as stubborn minds aggressively come into conflict with each other. Be careful how you treat others, because feelings are likely to be hurt if you’re insensitive. Others may look tough, but deep down they’re just as soft as you are. Think twice about using your aggressive nature at the expense of others.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
Things should go nicely for you today, Taurus. You will find that the brighter you shine, the more prosperity will come your way. Things should flow smoothly, and your mind will be clear and strong. There is a marked aggressiveness to your nature that is powerful and effective. Use this to your advantage and try to bring others up to your level instead of making them feel like they’re beneath you.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
You may need to make some mental adjustments in order to get on the same wavelength as other people today, Gemini. You may not see what all the fuss is about. Don’t take things too seriously and don’t feel like you need to make sense of every detail that presents itself. Some things are best left unknown. Enjoy the diversity in your world and respect the differences in other people’s approaches.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
There may be important lessons about balance that come up today, Cancer. Make sure you’re ready to handle the fire, because it will be coming at you. Egos are large, and everyone is going to have an opinion on everything. Tension may exist, but this doesn’t mean you should back down from your position. Be flexible and understanding, but don’t necessarily assume that you’re wrong.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
The events of the day might leave you feeling a bit confused and bewildered, Leo. Perhaps you’re feeling like you aren’t getting the attention you feel you deserve. You may wonder why the one thing you want the most may be the one thing you can’t have. You have more than you think you do. No one wants to be with someone who’s moping and depressed. Let your internal light shine brightly.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
This is a terrific day for you, Virgo. You will find that your mind and your urge for action are on the same page. The fire within you is raging hot. Use this aggressive internal urge to tackle projects that require courage, strength, and a flair for the dramatic. You will find that you’re more than able to accomplish everything you want to accomplish today.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
Feel free to be a bit more selfish than usual, Libra. You might find yourself turning inside out in order to get your point across. Attend to your dreams and ambitions and let your voice be heard by the crowd. Don’t be surprised if you meet opposition, but don’t take this as a sign that you should back down. Stand up for your needs!
Scorpio
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
You might find that your desire to conquer is active today, Scorpio, and that your mind is right in line with the urge to take action. Listen to this and stoke the internal fire. You will find that you can increase your circle of influence by a great deal as long as you’re willing to take a decisive risk in how you approach every situation. Be bold and courageous in your actions.
Sagittarius
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
You might find it necessary to give yourself a bit of self-healing, Sagittarius. Other people may want your attention, looking for advice and help with their own sob stories, when in reality you have your own matters to take care of. Attend to these today. Be a bit selfish if you have to. Make sure you attend to your own needs.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
This is a terrific day for you, Capricorn. You can accomplish a great deal when you set your mind in motion. There’s a strong, warlike instinct within you that’s fired up and ready to fight. Leave your worries at the doorstep, because there’s no need to hesitate on a day like this. Your kingdom is ready for you. Be strong and remember that the best way to lead people is to walk behind them.
Aquarius
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
Being of service to others is important, Aquarius, but make sure that you’re taking care of yourself, too. Turn up the heat and let yourself expand into other worlds today. There may be an extra amount of dramatic flair that goes along with the events of the day, so participate in the absurd. This may be exactly the break from reality that you were hoping to find.
Pisces
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
If there is an imbalance in your relationship with someone close, it’s important to take a stand now, Pisces. Make sure you speak your mind with conviction. The stakes are higher when people’s egos are involved, as they will be today. You’re the air that fuels the fire, so be careful of which way you direct your energy.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
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