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Fiscal board presents budget to Legislature
By THE STAR STAFF
ith a warning regarding the uncertain future of federal funding, the Financial Oversight and Management Board has submitted the proposed General Fund budget for fiscal year 2026, developed in collaboration with Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, to the Puerto Rico Legislature for prompt consideration.
Robert F. Mujica Jr., the oversight board’s executive director, unequivocally stated that the budget “reflects our current understanding of Puerto Rico’s fiscal reality.”
“It demonstrates that the fiscal responsibility established in previous years enables the Commonwealth to effectively respond to the evolving federal funding landscape,” he said.
Mujica emphasized the need for vigilance, stressing that the overall effects of recent and upcoming changes in federal government policies and funding on Puerto Rico’s finances and economy are still uncertain.
“Like many states, municipalities, and territories across the U.S., we are prepared to revisit the budget with the governor and Legislature if federal funding levels fluctuate,” he said.
Earlier this week the oversight board approved the proposed General Fund budget, affirming its compliance with the Fiscal Plan for Puerto Rico. Set at $13.1 billion, the budget represents a 1.5% increase over the certified budget for fiscal year 2025 and includes strategic reclassifications of general fund revenues as special revenue, developed with the assistance of the Office of Management and Budget.
González Colón commended the close collaboration between her fiscal team and the oversight board in crafting a budget that prioritizes public spending while targeting critical areas. She underscored her unwavering commitment to justice for retirees, the safety of residents, and ensuring robust access to healthcare.
The governor acknowledged a significant methodological change in developing this budget, reinforcing a strong resolve that it sets a positive course for the fiscal year 2027 budget process.
“We will continue to work hand-in-hand with the Oversight Board and the Legislative Assembly to ensure that this budget is effectively implemented for the benefit of all Puerto Ricans,” González Colón said.
Over 64% of the General Fund, or $661 million, was allocated to education, public safety, healthcare, and pension payments. The increase in spending is strategically focused on targeted, one-time investments that foster fiscal responsibility and long-term sustainability, rather than creating new ongoing expenses, officials said.
Recognizing potential risks to Puerto Rico’s fiscal sta-
bility, especially regarding reductions in federal support, the budget includes robust safeguards to protect essential services. Those measures consist of budgetary reserves, increased holdbacks, and mechanisms for repurposing funds in response to federal policy shifts.
To ensure the continuity of critical services, the release of specific funds tied to service expansions will be postponed until there is enhanced clarity on potential federal funding reductions. If federal funds decrease and cannot be offset, the funds originally designated for expansion will be redirected to cover essential services previously supported by federal funding.
The General Fund budget deliberately excludes special revenue funds, which are generated from fees and services designated for specific purposes, as well as federal funds. When accounting for special revenue and federal funding, the consolidated commonwealth budget for fiscal year 2026 totals $32.6 billion.
In direct response to a request from González Colón, the oversight board has authorized the reallocation of the collected excise tax on rum producers (rum cover-over) from the General Fund to the special revenue fund. This strategic shift reduces the General Fund budget from $13.3 billion to $13.1 billion, while correspondingly increasing the special revenue fund budget.
The oversight board and the governor said they will engage proactively with the Legislature up until June 3, when the Legislature will submit its proposed budget for the oversight board’s thorough consideration. The members of the oversight board will certify the finalized budget by June 30, with the aim of establishing a strong foundation ahead of the new fiscal year, which commences on July 1.
Robert F. Mujica Jr., executive director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico
Ombudsman records alarming rate of abuse toward senior citizens
House bill would give law enforcement more resources to investigate & prosecute cases
By THE STAR STAFF
The Office of the Ombudsman for the Elderly (OPPEA by its initials in Spanish) has recently received an alarming 952 complaints regarding mistreatment and other crimes against older adults from October 2024 through February of this year.
The concern deepens when considering that, during fiscal year 2023-2024, there were 2,246 complaints filed by elderly individuals living in long-term care facilities. In total, the OPPEA recorded some 8,138 complaints, in-
cluding those from various care centers, with 109 complaints coming from service providers.
The information was shared during a public hearing of the House of Representatives Public Safety Committee, chaired by Rep. Félix Pacheco Burgos, held Wednesday to discuss House Bill 487. The measure seeks to amend Act 20 of 2017, known as the “Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety Act,” by adding provisions that would allow the Bureau of Special Investigations (NIE) to take concurrent jurisdiction in cases of financial exploitation involving personnel from residential facilities, foster homes,
“The goal of this bill is to provide our law enforcement agencies with more resources to investigate and ultimately prosecute those who mistreat our elderly,” Pacheco Burgos said. “It’s
Education Dept. concludes 2025 School Sports Festival
By THE STAR STAFF
The island Education Department on Wednesday held the closing event of the 2025 School Sports Festival, an initiative designed to foster healthy competition, sportsmanship and teamwork among students throughout the public system.
The ceremony took place starting at 9 a.m. at the Puerto Rico Convention Center and was attended by student-athletes from the seven educational regions, covering the elementary, intermediate and higher levels.
The event marked the culmination of the National School Sports Phase of the Physical Education Program, in which competition in basketball, baseball5 (a five-on-five version of the sport) and table tennis were staged in both the girls’ and boys’ divisions. In addition, exhibitions of four additional sports were presented, integrating an environment of inclusion and sports diversity. The activity was conducted in collaboration with the Department of
Recreation and Sports (DRD by its initials in Spanish).
“School sports not only strengthen the body, they also form character,” Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés said. “Through these competencies, our students develop self-discipline, resilience, a team sense, and motivation to excel in and out of the classroom. This festival celebrates precisely that: the commitment to their integrated growth.”
The stated purpose of the School Sports Festival was to promote the physical, mental and social development of students through the practice of sports. Through the competitive experience, values such as companionship, respect and self-improvement were promoted, while families and school communities were integrated into a healthy and motivating environment.
essential to ensure the safety and dignity of our older population.”
Yolanda Varela Rosa, the ombudsman for the elderly, said “House Bill 487 is a vital step toward protecting vulnerable older adults from financial exploitation in institutional settings.”
“Approving this measure will strengthen our ability to investigate and prosecute those who commit these crimes,” she said.
Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes expressed her support for the bill in an explanatory memorandum, as did the Department of Justice.
According to 2023 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, one in five people in Puerto Rico is 60 years of age or older. This translates to around 785,016 individuals aged 65 or older, or 23.2% of the island’s population.
Recreation and Sports Secretary Héctor Vázquez Muñiz stressed that “at the DRD we will always support initiatives like this, which honor the rights of our student-athletes to develop their sports skills in inclusive, safe and appropriate environments for their age and level.”
More than 400 students competed in the different sports disciplines and the general attendance exceeded 2,000 people, including coaches, teachers, educational staff and the general public.
‘Roadmap to Success’ to be theme at Manufacturers Assn. convention
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association (PRMA) will present its annual convention “Roadmap to Success PRMA Convention 2025” from May 23 to May 25, a strategic event that seeks to position the island as a center of advanced manufacturing in the Caribbean, promoting alliances between industry, government and academia.
“We need to move forward with intention, with clear and measurable plans that accelerate the economic development of the country,” PRMA President Rafael Vélez Domínguez said in
a written statement. “This event is a platform to align wills and chart a strategic route that positions Puerto Rico as a regional leader in industrial development.”
The convention will include conferences on manufacturing, innovation, automation, artificial intelligence, energy sustainability and strategies to attract new investments. Featured speakers include Johan Norberg, historian and author on economic issues; Mónica Flores, president of Manpower Group Latin America; and executives from companies such as Amgen, CooperVision and Medtronic.
Participating in the event will be Gov. Jenniffer González
Colón and Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera, who will answer questions about the island’s economic priorities.
In addition, a meeting of buyers and suppliers will be held, with the participation of 59 local, multinational and government companies, along with the presentation of the “Excellence Awards”, in recognition of outstanding figures in the manufacturing industry.
The PRMA stressed that access to the exhibitors area and educational talks will be free of charge for the general public on Friday and Saturday. More information can be obtained by calling 787-641-4455 or visiting www.industrialespr.org.
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The objective of the School Sports Festival was to promote the physical, mental and social development of students through the practice of sports.
Yolanda Varela Rosa, ombudsman for the elderly (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)
LUMA: Rate review process will cover all of PREPA’s expenses
By THE STAR STAFF
LUMA Energy, the private operator of the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system, said the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has been conducting a rate review process since March with the goal of covering all of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) expenses.
The changes to the basic rate are the first review since 2017. The STAR reported on the process, which is being carried out by attorney Scott Hempling, who said the rate review will include the payment of pensions. PREPA is currently in bankruptcy with the goal of restructuring more than $9 billion in debt. Any adjustments to the debt must be paid through the rates.
The information on the rate review was shared Wednesday during a public hearing of the House Government Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Víctor Parés Otero, focusing on evaluating the breakdown of electricity service bills, including the charges applied and the justifications for each.
Joseline Estrada Rivera, director of load research forecasting at LUMA, said “The Energy Bureau has already opened a budget review process, referred to as a ‘rate review,’ which encompasses the entire bill.”
Rebeca Maldonado Morales, LUMA’s director of stakeholders affairs, added that the “process is just beginning, and we cannot predict at this time what determination the PREB will make.”
“Our responsibility is to present information to the Bureau, and they will analyze it and make their determination,” she said.
When questioned by Parés Otero, LUMA officials said the rate review procedure was initiated by the PREB, and it is that body that will decide on any changes to the billing.
about the monthly bills sent to customers, particularly those under residential rates. Lawmakers pointed out that the complexity of the bill, due to the numerous lines included, makes it difficult to understand.
“The bill is complicated and hard to grasp,” Parés Otero said. “I empathize with the many older adults who struggle with it. My goal is to seek an invoice that has important information for transparency but is also accessible for people.”
The committee chairman suggested requesting an amendment to simplify the bill before the PREB, and said he is preparing to summon PREB components to explain the reasons behind the current design of the customer invoice, questioning whether they consulted with the public or conducted surveys, or if the design was made by someone merely following a law or regulation from a desk.
“This issue needs to be communicated to the people,” he said. “While it may be transparent, not everyone has the ability to understand it.”
During discussions, it was pointed out that the base rate was revised in 1989 and again in 2017. However, the current review has just begun -- a topic that has been under discussion since last year, with even the Financial Oversight and Management Board requesting an evaluation.
If there is a rate increase, it would cover the operating expenses of the electrical system, including both transmission and generation, as well as the operation of PREPA. The revision would affect some 1.5 million customers in the system, encompassing residential, commercial and industrial users who are billed around $360 million monthly.
LUMA officials were also questioned at the hearing
Nilka Guevara, billing manager, noted that out of the total number of customers receiving bills, only 1,500 lodge objections each month, a figure described by the legislator as “minimal.” Still, Parés Otero contended that “[s]omething is wrong, because regardless of the claims that there are mechanisms to challenge the bills over the phone, the reality is that half of the population lacks internet access or doesn’t know how to use online pages.”
“Alternatively, the process for challenging bills may be so onerous that many choose not to contest and simply pay,” he added.
Reps. Wanda del Valle Correa and Luis Pérez Ortiz urged LUMA to take a more proactive stance in assisting customers with their payment options and in reporting billing disputes or outages. They suggested using their district offices to distribute educational materials that can help subscribers meet their payment obligations.
House to take up 5 bills filed by Teachers Association
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico Teachers Association (AMPR by its initials in Spanish) President Víctor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez announced Wednesday that the Speaker of the House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez formally accepted five legislative bills filed at the request of the organization, as part of the agenda to improve the conditions of teachers and strengthen public education.
“Our organization has proposed concrete solutions to meet the real needs of those who have dedicated and continue to dedicate their lives to education,” Bonilla Sánchez said in a written statement. “These bills are an act of justice toward our active and retired educators. We thank the president of the chamber, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez, for his openness from the first moment we presented our proposals and his support so that their viability can be analyzed.”
Among the measures filed is House Bill (HB) 616, which
seeks to repeal the Teaching Career Law and establish a salary scale system based on academic preparation, eliminating bureaucracy and subjective evaluations. HB 619 was also presented, which proposes a salary scale for years of service, guaranteeing equity in the remuneration of teachers in the public system.
For retired teachers, HB 617 was filed, which grants a Christmas bonus of $600. HB 618 increases pensions by $500 a month and includes a 3% increase every three years. HB 620 reestablishes the employer’s contribution to the health plan and a contribution-free drug bonus.
The AMPR president said the filing of the measures is only the beginning of the fight to achieve their legislative approval. The organization is arranging meetings with representatives of all delegations, senators, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón and the Financial Oversight and Management Board to identify the necessary funds, he added.
LUMA Energy officials told the House Government Committee that the rate review procedure was initiated by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, and it is that body that will decide on any changes to the billing of power customers.
Puerto Rico Teachers Association President Víctor Manuel Bonilla Sánchez
20 states sue Trump over immigration demands and threats to cut funding
By DAVID W. CHEN
Acoalition of 20 states, most led by Democrats, filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration earlier this week after it threatened to withhold billions in funding unless the states followed its demands on immigration enforcement.
The states called the threats, which would cut federal money for transportation, counterterrorism and emergency preparedness, “blatantly illegal” and a “hostage scheme.” They argued that the administration was usurping Congress’ authority over spending and using the power of the purse to force states to adopt its policies.
“By hanging a halt in this critical funding over states like a sword of Damocles, defendants impose immense harm on states,” they argued in one of the suits, “forcing them to choose between readiness for disasters and emergencies, on the one hand, and their judgment about how best to investigate and prosecute crimes, on the other.”
Rob Bonta, the attorney general of California, who is spearheading the litigation, added in a statement that President Donald Trump was treating vital funding as a “bargaining chip.”
The White House announced two executive orders last month threatening to cut off funding to so-called sanctuary jurisdictions if they didn’t fully cooperate with immigration authorities.
Asked about the lawsuits, Kush Desai, a
White House spokesperson, said: “Americans would all be better off if these Democrat attorneys general focused on prosecuting criminals and working with the Trump administration to address the toll of gangster illegal aliens on their communities instead of playing political games.”
The states’ attorneys general filed both lawsuits — one naming the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security and the other the Transportation Department — in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island.
California, Illinois, New Jersey and Rhode Island are leading both lawsuits. Maryland is also listed as a lead state in the transportation lawsuit.
Joining them on both suits are Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. All of the states have Democratic attorneys general and governors, except for Nevada and Vermont, which have Republican governors.
A similar lawsuit was filed a few weeks ago by a coalition of 19 states over the administration’s threat to withhold federal funding from states and school districts that have certain diversity programs in their public schools.
State attorneys general have also sued over tariffs, and mass firings at agencies such as the Education and Health and Human Services Departments.
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There are two Chinas, and America must understand both
By LI YUAN
Two Chinas inhabit the American imagination: One is a technology and manufacturing superpower poised to lead the world. The other is an economy that’s on the verge of collapse.
Each reflects a real aspect of China.
One China — let’s call it hopeful China — is defined by companies like artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, electric vehicle giant BYD and tech powerhouse Huawei. All are innovation leaders.
Jensen Huang, the CEO of Silicon Valley chip giant Nvidia, said China was “not behind” the United States in AI development. Quite a few pundits have declared that China would dominate the 21st century.
The other China — gloomy China — tells a different story: sluggish consumer spending, rising unemployment, a chronic housing crisis and a business community bracing for the impact of the trade war.
President Donald Trump, as he tries to negotiate a resolution of a trade war, must reckon with both versions of its arch geopolitical rival.
The stakes have never been higher to understand China. It’s not enough to fear its successes, or take solace in its economic hardships. To know America’s biggest rival requires seeing how the two Chinas are able to coexist.
“Americans have too many imagined notions about China,” said Dong Jielin, a former Silicon Valley executive who recently moved back to San Francisco after spending 14 years in China teaching and researching the country’s science and technology policies. “Some of them hope to solve American problems using Chinese methods, but that clearly won’t work. They don’t realize that China’s solutions come with a lot of pain.”
Just like the United States, China is a giant country full of disparities: coastal vs. inland, north vs. south, urban vs. rural, rich vs.
poor, state-owned vs. private sector, Gen X vs. Gen Z. The ruling Communist Party itself is full of contradictions. It avows socialism, but recoils from giving its citizens a strong social safety net.
Chinese people, too, grapple with these contradictions.
Despite the trade war, the Chinese tech entrepreneurs and investors I talked to over the past few weeks were more upbeat than any time in the past three years. Their hope started with DeepSeek’s breakthrough in January. Two venture capitalists told me that they planned to come out of a period of hibernation they started after Beijing’s crackdown on the tech sector in 2021. Both said they were looking to invest in Chinese AI applications and robotics.
But they are much less optimistic about the economy — the gloomy China.
The 10 executives, investors and economists I interviewed said they believed that China’s advances in tech would not be enough to pull the country out of its economic slump. Advanced manufacturing makes up about only 6% of China’s output, much smaller than real estate, which contributes about 17% of gross domestic product even after a sharp slowdown.
When I asked them whether China could beat the United States in the trade war,
nobody said yes. But they all agreed that China’s pain threshold was much higher.
It’s not hard to understand the anxiety felt by Americans frustrated with their country’s struggles to build and manufacture. China has constructed more high-speed rail lines than the rest of the world, deployed more industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers than any country except South Korea and Singapore and now leads globally in electric vehicles, solar panels, drones and several other advanced industries.
Many of China’s most successful companies have gained resilience from the economic downturn and are better prepared for the bad days ahead. “They’ve been DOGE-ing for a long time,” said Eric Wong, the founder of New York hedge fund Stillpoint who visits China every quarter, referring to the Trump administration’s cost-cutting effort known as the Department of Government Efficiency. “By comparison, the U.S. has been living in excess for a long time.”
But as we marvel at China’s so-called miracles, it is necessary to ask: At what cost? Not just financial, but human.
China’s top-down innovation model, heavily reliant on government subsidies and investment, has proved to be both inefficient and wasteful. Much like the overbuilding in the real estate sector that triggered a crisis and
erased much of Chinese household wealth, excessive industrial capacity has deepened imbalances in the economy and raised questions about the model’s sustainability, particularly if broader conditions worsen.
The Chinese leadership’s obsession with technological self-reliance and industrial capacity is not helping its biggest challenges: unemployment, weak consumption and a reliance on exports, not to mention the housing crisis.
Officially, China’s urban unemployment rate stands at 5%, excluding jobless migrant workers. Youth unemployment is 17%. The real numbers are believed to be much higher. This summer alone, China’s colleges will graduate more than 12 million new job seekers.
Trump was not wrong in saying factories are closing and people are losing their jobs in China.
In 2020 Li Keqiang, then the premier, said the foreign trade sector, directly or indirectly, accounted for the employment of 180 million Chinese. “A downturn in foreign trade will almost certainly hit the job market hard,” he said at the onset of the pandemic. Tariffs could be much more devastating.
Beijing is playing down the effect of the trade war, but as negotiators held talks last weekend with their U.S. counterparts, its impact was obvious. In April, Chinese factories experienced the sharpest monthly slowdown in more than a year while shipments to the United States plunged 21% from a year earlier.
All of the economic fallout will be shouldered by people like a man I spoke to, with the surname Chen, a former university librarian in a megacity in southern China. He asked that I not use his full name and where he lived to shield his identity from authorities.
Chen lives in the gloomy China. He stopped taking the vaunted high-speed trains because they cost five times as much as a bus. Flying is often cheaper, too.
He lost his job last year because the university, one of the top ones in the country, was facing a budget shortfall. Many state-run institutions have had to let people go because many local governments, even in the wealthiest cities, are deeply in debt.
Because he’s in his late 30s, Chen is considered too old for most jobs. He and his wife had given up on buying a home. Now with the trade war, he expects that the economy will weaken further and that his job prospects will be dimmer.
“I’ve become even more cautious with spending,” he said. “I weigh every penny.”
Solar panels in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China, April 9, 2024. The technological success that has captured the attention of many in the United States is one aspect of the Chinese economy. There’s another, gloomy one. (Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times)
Trump meets militant who now leads Syria
By MOTOKO RICH and PATRICIA MAZZEI
President Donald Trump met the leader of Syria on Wednesday, one day after announcing a plan to lift sanctions on that country — a move that could ease the economic stranglehold on a nation battered by civil war and sectarian strife.
It was the first time in 25 years that the two countries’ leaders had met, and another milestone in Syria’s bid to reintegrate itself into the international community after decades of isolation. The two men spoke for about half an hour just before a summit of Persian Gulf leaders in Saudi Arabia, a White House official said.
Trump told President Ahmad al-Sharaa of Syria that “he has a tremendous opportunity to do something historic in his country,” according to a summary of the meeting from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. The president also urged al-Sharaa to take steps to normalize Syria’s relations with Israel, which have long been hostile, and to tell “all foreign terrorists to leave” the country, the summary said.
Trump met al-Sharaa at the invitation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, who took part in the meeting.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, which backed the insurgency that brought al-Sharaa to power, joined by phone. Crown Prince Mohammed and Erdogan had both urged Trump to lift the sanctions on Syria, and they praised the move in the
President Donald Trump arrives at Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Trump arrived in Qatar on the second stop of a glitzy Middle East tour that has emphasized business deals and highlighted his political and commercial interests in the wealthy Persian Gulf states. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
meeting Wednesday, with the crown prince describing it as “courageous,” according to the White House summary.
The encounter was also a stunning turnaround for al-Sharaa, an ex-militant who led the rebel alliance that ousted dictator Bashar Assad in December, and who once led a branch of al-Qaida before he broke ties with the jihadi group and sought
to moderate his image. The United States designated al-Sharaa’s militant group as a terrorist organization, and it dropped its offer of a reward of up to $10 million for information on him just five months ago.
A statement from the Syrian Foreign Ministry described the meeting as “historic” and said Trump had “affirmed that the administration in Washington is committed to playing a positive and constructive role during this sensitive period.”
Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi foreign minister, said at a news conference later Wednesday that Syria’s “many opportunities, capabilities, and resources” were “one of the most important points of discussion” at the meeting. “It has resources, and more importantly, it has a capable people: an educated, knowledgeable population that is eager to move Syria into a new phase,” he said.
The meeting took place on the second day of Trump’s fourday Middle East tour, the first major overseas trip of his second term. The first day focused in large part on business deals, including for defense equipment and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Trump has cultivated close diplomatic and business relationships with Saudi Arabia, and the cozy relations offered Persian Gulf leaders an opportunity to push for the lifting of sanctions on Syria, which many of them see as critical to stemming economic collapse and preventing fresh conflict that could spread beyond the country’s borders.
Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in northern Gaza overnight, health officials say
By AARON BOXERMAN and ABU BAKR BASHIR
Israeli strikes killed dozens of Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip overnight, Palestinian health officials said Wednesday, as Israel threatens to ramp up its military campaign in the enclave despite mounting international pressure.
The bodies of more than 50 people killed overnight had arrived at the Indonesian Hospital by noon Wednesday, according to Marwan Sultan, director of the medical facility in the town of Beit Lahia. He said children were among the dead and that dozens more people had been injured.
Gaza’s Health Ministry also said about 70 people had been killed Wednesday, without specifying where. Gaza health officials do not distinguish between combatants and civilians when reporting death tolls.
Israel has been threatening a massive escalation across Gaza in an attempt to force Hamas to surrender and release the remaining hostages it has held for more than 18 months. The plan, as described by Israeli leaders, would displace many Palestinians in Gaza who, in some cases, have been forced from their homes or temporary shelters several times since the start of the war.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military said in a statement that its forces had struck Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in northern Gaza, adding that it had sought to mitigate harm to civilians. An Israeli military spokesperson warned Palestinians in parts of the enclave’s north to flee in the face of an impending
attack after rockets were fired at Israeli territory.
Odai Daama, 23, from Jabalia — within the evacuation zone — said he had not seen the Israeli announcement because he did not have an internet connection. Around midnight, the strikes began, “hitting houses around us,” he said.
Later that afternoon, the Israeli military ordered Palestinians to flee parts of Gaza City, warning of impending Israeli attacks. The military also published a graphic that appeared to threaten the Shifa Hospital, saying Hamas was using it for “terrorist activity.” Hospital officials later said Israel informed them they did not need to leave for now.
Montaser Bahja, a teacher sheltering in an apartment just south of the evacuation zone, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his neighborhood might be spared — at least for now. Like many Palestinians, he has been displaced multiple times during the war. His home in the northern city of Jabalia, he said, is a heap of rubble.
“We can’t flee again. We just can’t. We’ve fled from house to house and now we’re here. It’s enough,” Bahja said. “We can only hope that our neighborhood stays safe.”
The Trump administration has been seeking to broker an end to the 18-month war, which Palestinian health officials say has killed more than 50,000 people and brought the enclave to the brink of starvation.
After Israel ended a two-month ceasefire with Hamas in March, Israeli forces resumed bombarding Gaza. Ground forces have also advanced deeper into the enclave, recapturing
areas they had withdrawn from during the ceasefire.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has more recently threatened an “intensive” escalation in Gaza unless Hamas lays down its weapons and turns over the hostages it still holds. The Israeli military has called up thousands of additional soldiers to bolster the war effort, and the government has vowed to seize additional territory there until Hamas complies.
The leaders of Hamas have refused to disarm and have said they will not free the remaining hostages unless Israel ends the war and withdraws from Gaza.
On Tuesday night, Israeli fighter jets bombarded the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in an effort to kill Mohammed Sinwar, one of the group’s top remaining military commanders. The Israeli military said it had targeted a Hamas complex underneath the European Hospital near Khan Younis.
Neither Israel nor Hamas have publicly commented on whether Sinwar was killed in the bombardment.
Israeli officials said they hoped eliminating Sinwar, one of Hamas’ most intransigent negotiators, would make the group more flexible on the demands for a truce. But Israel has assassinated numerous Hamas leaders since the beginning of the war, without compelling the group to accept its terms.
Sinwar’s older brother, Yahya Sinwar, led Hamas in Gaza and was one of the main planners of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel that ignited the war. After Yahya Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces last year, Mohammed Sinwar assumed a more prominent role in the group.
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In private, some Israeli officers admit that Gaza is on the brink of starvation
By NATAN ODENHEIMER and RONAN BERGMAN
Some Israeli military officials have privately concluded that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip face widespread starvation unless aid deliveries are restored within weeks, according to three Israeli defense officials familiar with conditions in the enclave.
For months, Israel has maintained that its blockade on food and fuel to Gaza did not pose a major threat to civilian life in the territory, even as the United Nations and other aid agencies have said a famine was looming.
But Israeli military officers who monitor humanitarian conditions in Gaza have warned their commanders in recent days that unless the blockade is lifted quickly, many areas of the enclave will likely run out of enough food to meet minimum daily nutritional needs, according to the defense officials. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details. Because it takes time to scale up humanitarian deliveries, the officers said that immediate steps were needed to ensure that the system to supply aid could be reinstated fast enough to prevent starvation.
The growing acknowledgment within part of the Israeli security establishment of a hunger crisis in Gaza comes as Israel has vowed to dramatically expand the war in Gaza to destroy Hamas and bring back the remaining hostages — twin aims that more than 19 months of war have yet to achieve. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was defiant, and said the military would resume fighting in the coming days “in full force to finish the job” and “eliminate Hamas.”
Netanyahu’s statement came on the same day that President Donald Trump landed in Saudi Arabia, as part of his first major foreign trip since his reelection. Trump, however, is not visiting Israel, underscoring a growing divide between two leaders who increasingly disagree on some of the most critical security issues facing Israel.
The military officials’ analysis has exposed a gulf between Israel’s public stance on the aid blockade and its private deliberations. It reveals that parts of the Israeli security establishment have reached the same conclusions as leading aid groups. They have warned for months of the dangers posed by the blockade.
The analysis also highlights the urgency of the humanitarian situation in Gaza: Most bakeries have shut, charity kitchens are closing and the United Nations’ World Food Program, which distributes aid and coordinates shipments, says it has run out of food stocks.
On Monday, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a U.N.-backed initiative that monitors malnutrition, warned that famine was imminent in Gaza. If Israel proceeds with a planned military escalation in Gaza, the initiative said in a summary report, “The vast majority of people in the Gaza Strip would not have access to food, water, shelter, and medicine.”
The Israeli military and the Israeli Ministry of Defense declined to comment on the Israeli officers’ predictions that Gaza is nearing a food crisis. Oren Marmorstein, a spokesperson for Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said he was unable to share details from internal discussions but that the ministry was in contact
with “all the relevant agencies on an ongoing daily basis” and closely monitors the situation in Gaza.
Israeli restrictions on aid to Gaza have been one of the most contentious issues of the war. Israel cut off supplies to Gaza in March, shortly before breaking a ceasefire with Hamas, which remains entrenched in Gaza despite losing thousands of fighters and control over much of the territory during the war.
Israel said the aim of the blockade was to reduce the Palestinian armed group’s ability to access and profit from food and fuel meant for civilians. In the process, a senior Israeli defense official said, Hamas would be more likely to collapse or at least release more of the hostages that the group captured during its attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 that ignited the war.
The blockade was discussed at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, called by Britain, France and other European nations. Tom Fletcher, the U.N.’s humanitarian chief, told the council that Israel was “deliberately and unashamedly” imposing inhumane conditions on civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.
“What more evidence do you need now?” Fletcher asked. “Will you act — decisively — to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law? Or will you say instead that ‘we did all we could?’” All of the council’s 15 members except the United States, which has staunchly supported Israel throughout the war, called on Israel to immediately let aid into Gaza.
The Israeli government has repeatedly said that the blockade had caused “no shortage” of support for civilians, partly because so much aid had entered the territory during the truncated ceasefire.
But aid groups swiftly warned that civilians would be the main victims, adding that the restrictions were illegal under international law. Those warnings increased as civilians said they were eating as little as one meal a day as food prices spiraled. Palestinians interviewed by The New York Times said the cost of flour has risen 60-fold since late February, leading to a rise
Palestinians wait to receive a cooked meal in Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza Strip, April 24, 2025. Israel’s blockade on aid deliveries means Gaza is running out of access to basic foods. More than 80 percent of Palestinians now rely on free meals provided by charities. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)
in looting.
Specialist officers in COGAT, the Israeli government agency that oversees policy in Gaza and the West Bank, have reached the same conclusion as the aid agencies. The officers continuously assess the humanitarian situation in Gaza by speaking with Palestinians there, scrutinizing updates from aid organizations about their warehouse stockpiles, and analyzing the volume and contents of aid trucks that entered Gaza before the blockade.
The officers then privately briefed senior commanders on the worsening situation, warning with increasing urgency that many in the territory were just a few weeks away from starvation. An Israeli general briefed the Cabinet on the humanitarian situation in Gaza last week, saying that supplies in the territory would run out within a few weeks, according to an Israeli defense official and a senior government official. The Cabinet briefing was first reported by Israel’s channel 13.
According to three of the defense officials, the military leadership has acknowledged the severity of the situation and is exploring ways to restart aid deliveries while circumventing Hamas.
Last week, the Trump administration said it was working with Israel on such a plan. Israeli officials and aid groups said it would involve private organizations distributing food from a handful of sites in Gaza, which would each serve several hundred thousand civilians. The Israeli military would be posted at the sites’ perimeters, while private security firms would patrol inside them.
The plan was dismissed by aid agencies, including the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which said it would not join the initiative because it would place civilians at greater risk. The agency said the proposal would force vulnerable people to walk longer distances to get to the few distribution hubs, making it harder to get food to those who need it most. Under the current system, the U.N. said, there are 400 distribution points. The new one, it said, “drastically reduces this operational reach.”
The U.N. also warned that the plan would force civilians to regularly pass through Israeli military lines, putting them at greater risk of detention and interrogation. It added that the plan would accelerate the displacement of civilians from northern Gaza, since the distribution centers were expected to be located far away in the south of the territory.
Israeli officials confirmed that the plan, if enacted, would help the military to intercept Hamas militants and help to move civilians from northern to southern Gaza. But they said the aim was not to increase civilian hardship but to separate civilians from fighters.
Experts on the laws of international conflict say it is illegal for a country to limit aid deliveries if it knows that doing so will cause starvation.
“Enforcing a military blockade with the knowledge that it will starve the civilian population is a violation of international law,” said Janina Dill, co-director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford. Dill said that even if there is some debate over Israel’s obligations toward Palestinians, “when Israeli decision-makers state that the purpose is to extract political and military concessions, it clearly constitutes a war crime.”
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Karma comes for Kennedy
By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Like the divine intelligence of the universe, the list of reasons that wellness influencer Casey Means should not be surgeon general is vast.
For one thing, she never completed her medical residency. She’s said that she dropped out of her program after a revelation about the corruption of the health care field, but the former chair of the department that oversaw her training told the Los Angeles Times that she left because of anxiety.
Means believes that the medical industry wants to make people sick to profit from their treatment, so she shows little interest in expanding access to traditional health care. In her bestselling book “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health,” she argues that metabolic disorders caused by unhealthy lifestyles are at the root of virtually every illness, including cancer, infertility, heart disease and depression. Failure to address the fundamental causes of these maladies means that “the more access to health care and medications we provide to patients, the worse the outcomes get.”
Means is obviously correct that the American diet is a disaster, and most people would benefit from better sleep, more exercise and stress-control techniques like meditation. What’s insidious in her philosophy is the notion that good choices and a positive attitude can obviate the need for modern pharmaceuticals. (Health is, alas, never limitless, even with the ENERGYbits algae tablets Means hawks on her website.) She is a vaccine skeptic, suggesting in her newsletter that “the current extreme and growing vaccine schedule is causing health declines in vulnerable children.” She’s also a critic of birth control pills; as she told Tucker Carlson last year, “The things that give life in this world, which are women and soil, we have tried to dominate and shut down the cycles.”
These views, however, are not the reason that some of Donald Trump’s supporters erupted into virtual civil war after he nominated Means to be surgeon general last week. (Trump tapped her after withdrawing his first choice, former Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat, who was found to have exaggerated her credentials.) Means is a close ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the secretary of health and human services. Yet much of Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement has revolted against her nomination. It’s a rift that underscores the instability of a political coalition built on paranoia, distrust and the dogged pursuit of social media clout.
Among the loudest voices railing against Means is Laura Loomer, the conspiracy theorist who has achieved an outsize role in some of Trump’s personnel decisions. In a post on the social platform X, she zeroed in on Means’ new-age spiritual practices, detailed in a 2024 newsletter
article Means wrote about finding love at 35. The surgeon general nominee described working with a medium, doing full-moon ceremonies and “plant medicine experiences,” and asking for help from trees. Loomer called her a crackpot and warned, without a trace of irony, “The inmates are running the asylum!”
At first glance, it might seem that we’ve fallen so far into the upside down that Loomer has emerged as a voice of reason, but that isn’t quite true. Means’ enemies in both MAGA and MAHA circles may think that emphasizing her woo-woo beliefs is the best way to sink her nomination. But in truth, most of them aren’t opposed to Means because she’s outside the medical mainstream. They oppose her because she’s not far outside enough, especially when it comes to vaccines, which she has raised doubts about but not denounced as agents of mass murder.
Even before her nomination, some anti-vax influencers had grown suspicious of Means and her brother, Calley, a wellness entrepreneur now working with HHS. They saw the pair as sketchy parvenus who were diverting their movement’s attention from vaccines to food, perhaps at the behest of shadowy outside forces. After the Means siblings appeared on Carlson’s podcast last year, right-wing radio host Shannon Joy devoted an entire episode of her show to raising red flags about them.
“Medical freedom newcomers Calley and Casey Means have burst onto the scene seemingly overnight, are very highly platformed, and while I appreciate their concerns about food and chronic health, it is slightly bizarre to me that they continually minimize the impact of vaccines,” she said.
Now that Means has been tapped to become surgeon general, such suspicions have led to a very public rift in Kennedy’s world. Nicole Shanahan, his former running mate, wrote online that someone — not Trump — seemed to be secretly controlling Kennedy. “With regards to the siblings, there is something very artificial and aggressive about them, almost like they were bred and raised Manchurian assets,” she said. Naomi Wolf, a liberal feminist turned anti-vax conspiracy theorist, wrote, “It looks to me as if both Casey Means and Calley Means have been sent to us by scarier interests than the CIA,” describing them as a spearhead for Silicon Valley powers hoping to harvest American’s biometric data. Mike Adams, who runs Natural News, an influential right-wing alternative health site, said of Means, “She’s an impostor, she’s a plant.” Kennedy has responded to these attacks by accusing Means’ detractors of being paid shills for big food, which, as you can probably imagine, has made some of them even angrier. For decades, he’s been telling people that monstrous totalitarian powers control the medical system. In the subculture he’s helped build, scientific knowledge is found not in peer-reviewed articles, but down internet rabbit holes, and all appeals to authority are necessarily
Dr. Casey Means, center, with talk show host Megyn Kelly at the confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 29, 2025. President Trump’s selection of Means, a Stanford-educated wellness specialist and book author, as his next surgeon general provoked a vigorous debate over whether someone who is not a practicing physician should serve as the nation’s top doctor. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
suspect. Now the dark energies he’s manifested are coming back to haunt him.
“I am becoming increasingly wary of the forces in the world that tell us to silence our intuition in favor of linear thinking and ‘expert’ advice,” Means once wrote. If MAHA types intuit that there’s something off about her, who can tell them otherwise?
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Ponce celebra natalicio 168 de Juan Morel Campos y la Semana de la Danza
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PONCE – La alcaldesa de Ponce, Marlese Sifre Rodríguez, anunció este miércoles la celebración del natalicio número 168 del compositor ponceño Juan Morel Campos, en el marco de la Semana de la Danza, con una programación especial en la Plaza Las Delicias y espacios emblemáticos del municipio.
Las actividades inician el viernes, 16 de mayo, a las 10:00 de la mañana con actos protocolares, lectura de proclama, presentaciones musicales, ofrenda floral y la dedicatoria a la Coral Municipal de Ponce, bajo la dirección de la profesora Mayte Morales Frau. “Nos honra celebrar el legado de Juan Morel Campos, uno de los más grandes exponentes de la Danza puertorriqueña, y reiteramos nuestra invitación a todos para que se unan a esta fiesta cultural que exalta el alma musical de nuestra ciudad”, expresó Sifre Rodríguez en declaraciones escritas.
El programa incluye la participación
del Instituto de Música Juan Morel Campos, dirigido por Julio Alvarado Ortiz, y la Escuela Libre de Música Juan Morel Campos, dirigida por Javier Van Tull. Como orador invitado estará el profesor Néstor Murray Irizarry, director del Centro de Investigaciones Folklóricas de Puerto Rico, Casa Paoli.
Por primera vez se celebrará la Cantata a Morel, un espacio abierto de 1:00 a 4:00 de la tarde junto a la estatua del compositor, donde el público podrá rendir homenaje con poemas, música, danza y mensajes. Se exhortó a maestros y estudiantes a participar.
Ese mismo día, a las 7:00 de la noche, frente al Museo del Parque de Bombas, se presentará una noche de danzas con la Coral Municipal de Ponce, el Coro de la Ponce High School dirigido por Víctor Quiles y el Grupo Señoría Ponceño.
La celebración culminará el domingo, 18 de mayo, a las 6:00 de la tarde con el tradicional Baile de Danza a cargo de la Banda Municipal de Ponce, frente al Parque de Bombas.
Refieren a Ética al general Arthur Garffer Croly por ‘anunciar PAC con recursos públicos’
EL CAPITOLIO – Los representantes del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), Domingo Torres García y Ramón Torres Cruz, refirieron el martes al secretario del Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DSP), general Arthur Garffer Croly, a la Oficina de Ética Gubernamental por uso indebido de su posición y de recursos públicos para anunciar la creación de un Comité de Acción Política (PAC).
“El general Garffer utilizó papel timbrado oficial del DSP, canales institucionales y su cargo como jefe de una agencia de seguridad pública para anunciar públicamente la creación de un PAC. Esto constituye una posible violación de leyes y reglamentos que prohíben expresamente el uso de recursos públicos para estos fines”, dijo Torres García en declaraciones escritas.
Según el portavoz popular en la Comisión de Seguridad, Ramón Torres Cruz, el comunicado oficial del DSP incluyó
no solo un mensaje de agradecimiento a la gobernadora Jenniffer González Colón, sino también el anuncio de la creación del PAC para influenciar la política pública sobre el voto militar y la figura del veterano.
“El uso de un agente pago con fondos públicos para anunciar, divulgar o promover la creación de un PAC en un documento oficial configura una violación al inciso (k) del Artículo 4.2 de la Ley 1-2012, Ley de Ética Gubernamental, que prohíbe a los servidores públicos dirigir o fomentar actividades que promuevan intereses electorales desde sus funciones”, detalló Torres Cruz.
Ambos legisladores enfatizaron que Garffer, como ciudadano, tiene derecho a expresarse y organizarse políticamente, pero no a utilizar recursos del Estado para adelantar intereses políticos. “Si esto se permite, mañana cualquier jefe de agencia puede hacer campaña desde su escritorio, y eso no lo vamos a tolerar”, concluyeron.
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By MICHAEL PAULSON and SARAH KRULWICH
Broadway’s box office has finally surpassed its prepandemic peak, fueled by three starry dramas and one green witch.
The Broadway League, a trade organization representing producers and theater owners, released data earlier this week showing that grosses for the current theater season, which ends later this month, have now reached $1.801 billion. That’s higher than the $1.793 billion grossed at the same point in the record-setting 2018-2019 season, which was the last full season before the coronavirus pandemic shut down Broadway in March 2020.
Jake Gyllenhaal, left, as Iago and Denzel Washington as Othello in the play Othello at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, March 18, 2025. Broadway’s box office has finally surpassed its prepandemic peak, fueled by three starry dramas and one green witch.
(Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
There are caveats. This season is not quite over. The numbers are not adjusted for inflation. Attendance is still down about 3% from its prepandemic peak. And, because the costs of producing shows on Broadway have skyrocketed, the financial failure rate is up and profitability is down.
Still, the box-office news is encouraging to the industry.
“This is a really important benchmark,” Jason Laks, the Broadway League’s president, said in an interview. “We’re creating jobs, and artists’ work is being seen.”
“It shows that people are responding to our productions,” he added. “But our goal is not to make it 2019 again. Our goal is to keep growing, to bring more diverse audiences, and to keep our industry thriving and sustainable. We’re really looking for sustainable growth.”
Broadway, which looms large as an economic engine and an artistic apex, was hit hard by the pandemic. Its 41 theaters were closed for about a year and a half, and cost inflation, hybrid work, and disruptions to tourism and to
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entertainment habits have made rebounding a challenge.
The season about to end has been a strong one. There have been 76 productions onstage, including 42 that were eligible for Tony Awards because they opened since last May. Screen stars flocked to Broadway — George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal among them. And, for the first time in years, over the course of the season there have been shows in every Broadway house; 40 shows are now running.
But two distinct economic factors have fueled this season’s grosses. While Broadway has historically been powered by musicals, which tend to be of greatest appeal to the tourists who make up the bulk of the audience, plays have claimed the leading role this season. And though “Wicked” opened more than two decades ago, there has been an upsurge of interest in the ever-popular musical.
Both developments are, in part, Hollywood related. Three plays featuring film, television and comedy stars — “Good Night, and Good Luck,” starring Clooney; “Othello,” starring Washington and Gyllenhaal; and “Glengarry Glen Ross,” starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk — are accounting for more than 20% of Broadway’s weekly box office this spring, even though they make up just 7% of the shows.
They are doing that without a ton of critical support, and none of them was nominated for best play or best play revival. But each has just become profitable — a rare feat on Broadway. “Glengarry Glen Ross” has recouped its capitalization costs of up to $7.5 million; “Othello,” up to $9 million; and “Good Night, and Good Luck,” $9.5 million.
But those three shows are not the only triumphs in this season of plays. “Oh, Mary!”, an original comedy with a little-known star, was the first show of the season to become profitable, and is still thriving. A revival of “Romeo + Juliet,” starring Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, had a profitable run last winter, as did “All In: Comedy About Love,” which featured well-known actors reading humorous stories by Simon Rich. And both Sarah Snook’s tour-de-force one-woman version of “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” which is now running, and last fall’s “McNeal,” which starred Downey, flourished at the box office, playing to consistently sold-out houses.
Another standout of the season has been “Wicked.” The musical, an imaginary back story for the Wicked Witch of the West, is one of three — “Wicked,” “The Lion King” and “Hamilton” — that have dominated the Broadway box office in recent years. But “Wicked,” which plays at the largest Broadway house, has soared this season, thanks to the popularity, and the huge marketing budget, for its two-part film adaptation; the first film was released last November, and the second is scheduled for next November. The “Wicked” stage musical was, easily, the top-grossing show on Broadway this season, and over Christmas week, with nine performances, it set a record, taking in about $5 million.
The industry still faces serious challenges. Although the average ticket price on Broadway this season has been $129, and about one-third of shows had an average below $100, the best seats at the hottest shows remain quite expensive. Suburbanites have been slow to return, and Trump administration policies on immigration and tariffs are now threatening international tourism, which makes up about one-fifth of the Broadway audience.
Most troubling: Capitalization costs have risen so much that almost every new musical to open since the pandemic has lost money; none has broken through like “Hamilton,” “The Book of Mormon” and earlier megahits. Among this season’s 14 new musicals, four (“A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical,” “Tammy Faye,” “Swept Away” and “Redwood”) have already closed or announced closings.
en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 7 de abril de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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Demandante V. KEVIN J. BARBOSA CASTRO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV06113. (Civil: 406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
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A: KEVIN J. BARBOSA CASTRO. (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 mayo 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 06 de mayo de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 06 de mayo de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. CARLOS SERPA ROBLES Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV04502. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MELVYN E. FONTÁN LOZADAMELVYNFONTAN@GMAIL.COM. A: CARLOS SERPA ROBLES, YOLANDA CRUZ MONTAÑEZ, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE 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 02 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 08 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. IXIA CÓRDOVA CHINEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. JERRY BERMUDEZ APONTE
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV02982. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: JERRY BERMÚDEZ APONTE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que
el 30 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. ERIC B. OTANO ACEVEDO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV03082. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: ERIC B. OTANO ACEVEDO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a
partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. MISAEL SANTIAGO CARRASQUILLO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2024CV03099. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: MISAEL SANTIAGO CARRASQUILLO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. LEFTY F. ADORNO RODRIGUEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VA2024CV00165. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: LEFTY F. ADORNO RODRÍGUEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 De Abril De 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. JOCHINSON ARROYO DE JESUS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV03582. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: JOCHINSON ARROYO DE JESÚS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. JOSE G. RAIMUNDI RAMOS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00481. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: . NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: JOSÉ G. RAIMUNDI RAMOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del
término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 06 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. ELIZABETH ORTIZ SANTIAGO
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Caso Núm.: DO2024CV00187. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: ELIZABETH ORTIZ SANTIAGO.
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May 15, 2025
Rose removed from ‘ineligible’ list and may be voted into Hall
By TYLER KEPNER / THE ATHLETIC
Major League Baseball earlier this week removed Pete Rose and other deceased players from its “permanently ineligible” list, an extraordinary twist to a saga that has gone on for more than three decades.
The decision, announced Tuesday by Commissioner Rob Manfred in a letter to the Rose family’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lenkov, makes the sport’s career hits leader eligible for election to the Hall of Fame.
Rose, who died from a heart condition in September at 83, was placed on MLB’s permanently ineligible list in 1989 for gambling on his team, the Cincinnati Reds, while he managed it. Rose, who collected a record 4,256 hits, has never been considered for the Hall of Fame because of a 1991 rule change that barred players on the ineligible list from election.
According to a statement from MLB, in a letter to Lenkov, Manfred wrote:
“In my view, a determination must be made regarding how the phrase ‘permanently ineligible’ should be interpreted in light of the purposes and policies behind Rule 21, which are to: (1) protect the game from individuals who pose a risk to the integrity of the sport by prohibiting the participation of such individuals; and (2) create a deterrent effect that reduces the likelihood of future violations by others. In my view, once an individual has passed away, the purposes of Rule 21 have been served. Obviously, a person no longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity of the game. Moreover, it is hard to conceive of a penalty that has more deterrent effect than one that lasts a lifetime with no reprieve. Therefore, I have concluded that permanent ineligibility
ends upon the passing of the disciplined individual, and Mr. Rose will be removed from the permanently ineligible list.”
Manfred met in December with Lenkov, who represented Rose until his death, and Rose’s daughter, Fawn, to discuss the possibility of reinstatement. Rose’s family on Jan. 8 filed a formal petition for reinstatement, in hopes of a posthumous induction to the Hall of Fame.
Manfred’s ruling Tuesday applies to 16 other individuals, including Shoeless Joe Jackson.
In mid-April, Manfred met at the White House with President Donald Trump, who posted support for Rose’s Hall of Fame case on social media in 2020 and again after his death, writing: “Major League Baseball should have allowed him into the Hall of Fame many years ago. Do it now, before his funeral!”
Trump raised the issue again in March on Truth Social, calling for Rose to be elected to the Hall of Fame and saying that MLB “didn’t have the courage or decency” to allow him in.
“Over the next few weeks I will be signing a complete PARDON of Pete Rose, who shouldn’t have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING,” Trump wrote. “He never betted against himself, or the other team. He had the most hits, by far, in baseball history, and won more games than anyone in sports history.”
Trump did not specify the infraction for which he would pardon Rose. Rose served five months in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges in 1990, but that was unrelated to his ban from baseball.
Rose had long been a presence on induction weekend in Cooperstown, New York, selling his autograph at a memorabilia shop on Main Street for years, including in 2024.
Pete Rose, who collected a major league record 4,256 hits, has never been considered for the Hall of Fame because of a 1991 rule change that barred players on the ineligible list from election. (X via PeteRose_14)
Artifacts of his career are also displayed in the museum, and the library contains voluminous material and documents related to his legacy.
But Rose understood that he would likely never get the glory of the induction ceremony that comes with a spot in the hallowed plaque gallery.
“I’ve come to the conclusion — I hope I’m wrong — that I’ll make the Hall of Fame after I die,’” Rose said 10 days before his death in an interview with John Condit, a sportscaster in Dayton, Ohio. “Which I totally disagree with, because the Hall of Fame is for two reasons: your fans and your family. That’s what the Hall of Fame is for. Your fans and your family. And it’s for your family if you’re here. It’s for your fans if you’re here. Not if you’re 10 feet under.”
Players eligible for the Hall of Fame are initially voted on by a group of about 400 baseball writers, but that window closes 15 years after a player’s final game. Players not elected by the writers are considered by a 16-person committee of Hall of Famers, front-office members and historians on a rotating basis, with candidates grouped from different eras.
Based on the current rules for election, Rose’s case would be forwarded to a committee that will determine the era to which his career belongs. If Rose is determined to have made his greatest contributions before 1980 — which seems logical — he could be eligible for the “classic era” committee, which next meets in December 2027.
If he makes it onto that ballot, Rose would need 12 of 16 votes to be enshrined.
Rose was banned by Commissioner Bart Giamatti after a report by investigator John Dowd confirmed that he had violated Rule 21 (d) (2), which states: “Any player, umpire, or Club or League official or employee, who shall bet any sum whatsoever upon any baseball game in connection with which the bettor has a duty to perform, shall be declared permanently ineligible.”
Giamatti, who implored Rose to “reconfigure” his life as a condition of possible reinstatement, died of a heart attack eight days after the decision. Manfred is the third commissioner since then, following Fay Vincent and Bud Selig, and had rejected Rose’s petitions for reinstatement in 2015 and 2020.
“While it is my preference not to disturb decisions made by prior commissioners, Mr. Rose was not placed on the permanently ineligible list by commissioner action but rather as the result of a 1989 settlement of potential litigation with the commissioner’s office,” Manfred wrote Tuesday. “My decision today is consistent with Commissioner Giamatti’s expectations of that agreement.
“Commissioner Giamatti’s comments were completely reasonable given that, at the time, the Hall of Fame did not have a rule barring people on the permanently ineligible list from Hall of Fame consideration,” Manfred wrote. “In fact, Shoeless Joe Jackson was afforded the opportunity to be voted upon in 1936 and again in 1946.”
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