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1,516 public school students recognized for academic excellence
By THE STAR STAFF
The Department of Education recognized 1,516 students from public schools, partnerships, and Sustainable Student Support Centers who completed high school with a perfect 4.00 GPA during the 2025 Academic Excellence ceremony on Wednesday.
Each distinguished student received a $1,000 scholarship. The school with the largest number of award winners was Dr. Carlos González School in Aguada, with 51 students. Also recognized was University Gardens School in San Juan, which had the largest number of students with the highest College Board scores.
“Once again, I am involved in an activity that fills me with pride and hope,” Education Secretary Eliezer Ramos Parés said in a written statement. “You are stories of success and commitment.”
Some 1,516 students from public schools, partnerships, and Sustainable Student Support Centers completed
school with a perfect 4.00 GPA.
During the ceremony, scholarships were awarded to 14 students with the highest results on the College Admission Tests, and a special recognition of $3,000 was awarded to student Erick Ramos Vargas for achieving outstanding scores in English and Spanish.
Fourteen young people from alternative education programs were also recognized for completing their high school education with a perfect average, despite having faced risks of dropping out of school.
Democratic leader Jeffries tours San Juan Municipal Hospital, medical center
By THE STAR STAFF
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo received the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries earlier this week to show him first-hand the transformations in the Municipal Hospital of San Juan and other key projects financed with federal funds.
The visit, Romero said, strengthens the ties between the municipal government of San Juan municipal government and congressional leaders in favor of the well-being of San Juan residents.
“Having the support of leaders like Congressman Jeffries strengthens our management and helps us continue to push key initiatives in health, infrastructure and energy,” the mayor said after a tour of the hospital. “His visit reaffirms that San Juan is on the right track by prioritizing projects that transform the quality of life of our people, especially in vital areas such as health and the issue of energy resilience.”
The agenda of the visit included a detailed presentation of the 29 improvement projects to the Municipal Hospital, with a total investment of $96 million, including the renovation of the surgery and emergency rooms, as well as initiatives to ensure uninterrupted electricity service with microgrids. Jeffries also learned about progress on the $250 million Puerto Rico Medical Center project.
“I appreciate Mayor Romero Lugo’s leadership, and it was an honor to tour the Medical Center and learn about renovation projects that will improve the quality of health care in San Juan and beyond,” Jeffries said. “Democrats in the House will always put the health, safety and economic well-being of American citizens on the island at the center, because when Puerto Rico prospers, the United States prospers.”
“As we return to Washington, we will continue our effort to address the Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition assistance funding issues that have long plagued the people of Puerto Rico,” he added.
NPP mayors support nomination of one of their own for state secretary
By THE STAR STAFF
Mayors Federation President Gabriel Hernández Rodríguez announced on Wednesday that all 36 mayors from the New Progressive Party (NPP) are united in their support for the appointment of Gurabo Mayor Rosachely Rivera Santana as the new secretary of state.
The role is second in command to the governor in the executive branch.
“Rosachely has demonstrated her capabilities as a committed administrator with an exceptional dedication to public service,” said Hernández Rodríguez, who is also the mayor of Camuy. “Her experience as the mayor of Gurabo and her position as vice president of the New Progressive Party qualify her to take on this important role in government with strength and vision.”
Rivera Santana has a solid background in public administration and politics. She is regarded in Gurabo as an effective leader and was re-elected with nearly 80% of the vote in the most recent election. Her leadership is praised for its emphasis on economic development, administrative efficiency, and engagement with the community.
“The overwhelming support Rosachely has received from her constituents reflects the trust she inspires and the quality of her administration,” added the president of the NPP mayors’ organization. “I am confident she will bring the same capability to serve all of Puerto Rico as secretary of state.”
Hernández Rodríguez also highlighted Rivera Santana’s commitment to her roles and noted her ability to work collaboratively, her willingness to engage in dialogue, and her focus on achieving results.
“At the Mayors Federation, we fully support her appointment,” he said. “Puerto Rico needs dedicated and well-prepared public servants, and Rosachely Rivera Santana exemplifies this. We are confident that her tenure as secretary of state will bring
achievement and stability to our government.”
On Tuesday, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced the appointment of Rivera Santana as secretary of state and Lourdes Lynnette Gómez Torres as secretary of the Department of Justice.
“I wanted women in these fields, in these areas,” the governor said at a press conference. “I believe it imparts a sense of dynamism and commitment, and that’s what I am grateful to both of them for, that willingness.”
Of Rivera Santana’s appointment, González Colón stressed “that commitment to working for our people and being on the ground, which is important for the government of Puerto Rico to adapt to the realities of our people.”
Rivera Santana will remain as mayor of Gurabo until the Senate confirms her appointment as secretary of state, according to the executive branch.
The two appointments came after the governor’s original nominees to the posts encountered resistance in the Senate, eventually causing González Colón to withdraw them.
The new appointees will be subject to the legislative confirmation process, Rivera Santana in the Senate and the House of Representatives, and Gómez Torres in the upper chamber. Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz reacted to the appointments through his official account on the social media platform X: “The appointment of Rosachely Rivera as Secretary of State is excellent news. Lourdes Gómez as Secretary of Justice is also very good. Both nominees fully comply with all the rigors and have my full support. …”
House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez likewise praised the selection of Rivera Santana.
“I know the nominee and recognize her record, both academically and in public service,” he said. “When we receive the official notification, we will summon the nominee to a meeting at the House of Representatives to provide her with the necessary documents for evaluation. We will address this appointment with the urgency and transparency required.”
Morovis Mayor Carmen Maldonado González and Loíza Mayor Julia Nazario Fuentes, both of the Popular Democratic Party, were among the first to issue statements of support for Rivera Santana’s appointment.
“She is a proven professional, and her knowledge and experience are her best letter of introduction,” Maldonado González said of the Gurabo mayor. “My congratulations and enthusiastic endorsement. I hope the Senate approves this appointment without delay.”
Nazario Fuentes said Rivera Santana’s selection “is, in my opinion, a good decision.”
“She is a professional who has dedicated her life to public service and teaching,” the Loíza mayor said. “She has a deep understanding of the reality of the municipalities and has demonstrated integrity in her role as mayor.”
Senate evaluates executive branch appointments for prosecutors & municipal judges
By THE STAR STAFF
The Senate Innovation, Reform, and Appointments Committee, chaired by Thomas Rivera Schatz, evaluated a dozen executive branch appointments for municipal judges and prosecutors in the Department of Justice on Wednesday.
“Today we heard 10 nominations, three women and seven men,” Rivera Schatz said during the public hearing. “They all spoke about their families. That criterion is fundamental to me.”
The appointments of Sylvia Beatriz Saldaña-Villafañe and Lorraine Acevedo Franqui as municipal judges were evaluated. Both emphasized the importance of character, temperament, and fair judgment to responsibly serve in the positions to which they were nominated.
Also considered were the appointments of José I. Carrasquillo Santana, Carlos J. Ojeda Marini, Andrés A. Pérez Correa
and Guillermo A. Figueroa Vázquez as assistant prosecutors. The nominees expressed their commitment to justice, respect for the constitutional rights of defendants, and the representation of victims of crime.
“The responsibility with which this position must be carried out is dual,” Carrasquillo Santana said.
Figueroa Vázquez added that “the role of the prosecutor does not include accumulating personal achievements, but rather serving the people of Puerto Rico.”
Likewise, the nominations of Orlandy Cabrera Valentín, Grace M. Vélez Acevedo, Félix J. Rivera Birriel and Alex López Millán for Assistant Prosecutor I were also considered.
“Being a prosecutor is not easy; you will live with a 50 percent disapproval rating,” Rivera Schatz said.
The nominees highlighted their commitment to justice, impartiality, the fight against crime, and serving victims. The appointments will be addressed at the regular session next Monday.
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, center, with secretary of state appointee Rosachely Rivera Santana, at left, and Justice secretary appointee Lourdes Lynnette Gómez Torres, at right.
Rivera Schatz insists there is no animosity with governor
By THE STAR STAFF
Following a meeting with Gov. Jenniffer González Colón on Wednesday, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, described it as very productive and assured there was no animosity between the two.
Rivera Schatz also expressed support for the appointments of Gurabo Mayor Rosachely Rivera Santana as secretary of state, whom he praised as an exceptional individual, and attorney Lourdes Lynnette Gómez Torres as justice secretary.
“Everything related to their personal authority, finances, etc., has been monitored by the Government Ethics Office for many years,” he said. “They are both highly competent professionals.”
The mayor has been a longstanding resident of the municipality she leads, while Gómez, during her time as a judge, spent considerable time in the southern region of Puerto Rico,” Rivera Schatz noted. Thus,
they meet all constitutional requirements, and in terms of financial and personnel matters, they have submitted Ethics reports for years, so there should be no surprises, he said.
When asked about the differences of opinion between him and the governor, the Senate president responded that “I’ve always publicly expressed my support for the governor as both the governor and as president of the NPP [New Progressive Party], and I’ve said it every time.”
“Again, I don’t think I need to reiterate it; today’s meeting was very good and productive,” he said. “We covered many topics, reviewed pending administrative legislation in both the House and the Senate, and discussed the appointments. In Rosachely’s case, we need to allow her time for a smooth transition within the municipal government. I’m pleased with the outcome of the meeting.”
Regarding resuming dialogue with the governor after the recent communication issues, Rivera Schatz clarified, “Yes, while we hadn’t physically met until today, we’ve maintained communication throughout this period.”
“Attorney Gómez, who manages appointments, has communicated with us,” he said. “In fact, I have a public hearing today regarding 10 appointments of judges and prosecutors. Recently, we approved 17, and I hope by Monday we’ll have a number close to that for confirmation.”
When asked about his exit from a chat room he had with the governor to discuss legislative topics, he stated, “The chat room issue seems trivial to me.”
“If someone can call me, talk to me on the phone, or meet me in my office -- whether it’s a mayor, a governor, a representative, or a senator -- then I’m all for it,” Rivera Schatz said.
Health chief orders removal of 6 from residential home following incident
By THE STAR STAFF
Health Secretary Dr. Víctor Ramos Otero ordered the immediate removal of the six resident participants from the community home called “Brother Home in Bayamón,” a home subsidized by the agency, after officials identified an incident related to one of the inhabitants.
Brother Home serves adults with severe intellectual disabilities and operates under the supervision of the Health Department as part of the Subsidized Home Program. The incident in question, which is being evaluated by the agency’s technical and legal staff, raised serious concerns about compliance with the minimum safety and care protocols established by law and regulations.
“The well-being, dignity, and safety of every participant in our programs is our priority,” Ramos Otero said. “As soon
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) union leader Iván Vargas Muñiz described the statements made Wednesday by José “Cheito” Maldonado, the executive president of the Authentic Independent Union of Employees (UIA by its initials in Spanish), regarding a potential strike as “completely out of touch.”
of the UIA would imply that the membership is willing to go on strike,” Vargas Muñiz, a former president of the Mayagüez Chapter of the UIA, said in a written statement. “The truth is that these statements are poorly timed.”
Vargas Muñiz suggested that the statements come just as a nomination assembly is approaching to select new union leadership, and that they might be an attempt to gain popularity.
as we were notified of the situation, response mechanisms were activated, and the preventive and urgent removal of the six participants was ordered. They were relocated to safe and appropriate environments until the investigation is completed. Department of Health officials activated the protocol and filed a complaint with the police and other relevant authorities.”
“The Department of Health has already initiated an administrative investigation and referred the case to the relevant authorities, including the Department of Family Affairs and other agencies with jurisdiction,” the official added. “The team from the ‘Services for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Section,’ led by Danniel Soto Rodríguez, is currently on site and is leading the intervention. Meanwhile, the community home will remain under review and in compliance with the due process evaluation process, in accordance with current laws and regulations.”
He acknowledged that while the Classification and Compensation Plan submitted to the Financial Oversight and Management Board does not meet the expectations of the union membership, it is equally true that the UIA has made no efforts to meet with the board to negotiate a fair classification and compensation plan that benefits the workers.
“At a time when we have not seen any collective bargaining efforts between Triple A [PRASA] and the UIA, nor have any concerted actions been taken that would indicate a stalemate in negotiations, it is especially concerning that the president
“It is regrettable that the president of the Water and Sewer Authority, Engineer Luis González, mentioned he received a letter from the union today requesting a meeting,” Vargas Muñiz said. “This clearly indicates that there is not a blockage in communication, but rather a lack of diligence on the part of the union in seeking meetings with the employer.” The San Juan Daily
“I believe the statements published in the press today reflect the fact that the UIA leadership knows they lack the support of union members and are trying to use distractions to attract followers,” the union leader added.
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How a generation’s struggle led to a record surge in homelessness
By JASON DePARLE
When his mother moved to a nursing home in 2009, Anthony Forrest was a struggle-laden man of willed cheer with rising health problems, declining job prospects, and no place to go. She paid the rent on the Washington, D.C., apartment they shared. He slept on the couch.
Only a niece’s warning that she was turning in the keys forced him hurriedly to pack. He stuffed his clothes into two trash bags, caught a ride to the gentrifying neighborhood of his youth, and slept in a parking lot.
Forrest’s displacement in late middle age began a homelessness spell that has lasted more than 15 years, and it epitomizes an overlooked force that has helped push homelessness among elderly Americans to a record high: the loss of parental aid. Without it, “I hit the skids,” said Forrest, now 70. “That’s when I became homeless.”
Throughout their lives, late baby boomers like Forrest — people born from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s — have suffered homelessness at uniquely high rates, for reasons many and varied. Their sheer numbers ensured they came of age facing fierce competition for housing and jobs. They entered the workforce amid bruising recessions and a shift to a postindustrial economy that pummeled low-skilled workers.
Rents soared. Housing aid faltered. Crack, especially in poor neighborhoods, left many in their prime grappling with addiction and criminal records.
Now the death of parents in their 80s or beyond is extending the tale of generational woe, leaving thousands of people newly homeless as they reach old age themselves. In four years, the number of homeless people 65 or older has grown by half to more than 70,000.
“You have a generation of adult children who depend on their parents because they can’t afford housing on their own,” said Dennis Culhane, a social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. “When their parents die, they have no place to live. We’re seeing more and more of them on the streets and in the shelters.”
While homelessness is brutal at any age, Culhane called its surge among the elderly especially troubling. “If you go back to the creation of the American safety net, public destitution among old people is the very condition it was meant to prevent,” he said.
A worn figure whose life has been sculpted by twin forces — economic inequality and inner-city distress — Forrest personifies his generation’s struggle.
He has been a dishwasher, a janitor and what his mother called a “prodigal son,” whose drinking and drug use have been hard to overcome. A drunken driver nearly killed him two decades ago and left him too weak for steady work. Through a lifetime of rising rents, he has never had his own housing.
But in health or hardship, one safety net caught him: his mother’s apartment.
Since losing her, he has returned to his childhood neighborhood to sleep in shelters and abandoned buildings, rustle odd jobs and commandeer friends’ couches. Most days he sits on a stoop, drinking beer with an affable presence so enduring he calls himself “the mayor of Ninth Street.”
just of shelter but also emotional ballast.
Though her life was as straight as his was wayward, she made sure her son, however prodigal, had a key to the apartment. She worked until 79 and had a heart attack two years later. Forrest was 55 when she moved to a nursing home.
While Forrest’s story is unique in detail, the elevated risk of homelessness stalks millions of people his age. They have consistently been homeless at rates much higher than people born before or after.
The existence of a generation uniquely vulnerable to homelessness was first identified in 2013 in a study led by Culhane. A co-author, Thomas Byrne of Boston University, working with others, recently updated the findings. Analyzing census data at 10-year intervals, he found that throughout their lives late baby boomers had been at least 1.5 times as likely to become homeless as people born roughly a decade later.
That was true in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. It was true whether the economy was weak or strong. It was true in every geographic region.
With Social Security meant as a safety net, it was not clear if the trend would persist in old age. But in an analysis for The New York Times, Byrne found that late baby boomers in their early 60s were 1.4 times as likely to be homeless as people who had reached that age a decade earlier and twice as likely as those two decades ahead.
Forrest sees himself less a victim of the outsize forces that left his generation prone to homelessness than a man with the strength to survive them. “I been through hell and high water,” he said. “But I’m still here. Good Lord willing, I always make a way.”
Graduating from high school in 1974, Forrest joined the workforce during the worst recession since the Great Depression. Recessions have scarring effects on young workers, reducing their long-term earnings and employment on average and elevating problems such as disease, divorce and increased mortality well into middle age, with disadvantaged groups harmed the most.
Forrest found work but not advancement. He buffed the floors of federal buildings for cleaning contractors. He washed dishes in a museum and a nursing home. He worked long enough to qualify for Social Security.
But the jobs were low paid, nonunion and often less than full time. While his parents had unionized government jobs in an age of rising blue-collar pay, Forrest’s generation faced union retreat and falling wages. He made do, in part, by living with his parents.
As his earnings prospects declined, so did the neighborhood, Shaw. Once a showcase of Black achievement a mile or so from the White House, Shaw had already gone through decades of decline when crack arrived in the 1980s and hit it with special force. Forrest pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor drug charges in his 30s. Another misdemeanor cocaine conviction in his 50s suggests addiction was hard to escape.
Misfortune mounted when a drunken driver sped through a Shaw intersection as Forrest crossed the street. The blow broke his ribs, an arm and an ankle. He spent months in a wheelchair. One safeguard remained. His mother was a source not
As with Forrest, many aging people say they became homeless after the loss of a parent. In a survey of people age 50 or older when they first became homeless, more than 1 in 8 cited the death of a friend or relative as a reason.
In seeking places to sleep, Forrest proved inventive.
One story he likes to tell sounds like a caper in a buddy movie — and produced a buddy. A street acquaintance had the keys to an empty building awaiting conversion to condominiums. The two men moved in and rented out rooms. The scheme got them through the winter and established a contentious friendship.
Though younger than Forrest, Jason Vass was another late baby boomer rendered homeless in part by the death of a parent, his father, with whom he often had stayed.
The District of Columbia has an extensive network of outreach workers to serve the homeless. Last year, two of them introduced themselves to Forrest and Vass.
Forrest said he did not need help. Overcoming his wariness, they helped him replace his lost ID and claim a range of benefits he said he had not known he could receive. With Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, disability aid and food stamps, he now has health insurance and $1,300 a month in cash and food assistance.
Housing aid is in shorter supply, and neither man proved an easy client. After the caseworkers secured Vass a rare spot in assisted living through Medicaid, he showed up drunk and berated the staff, who rescinded the offer.
For a few weeks no one saw him. Then on the coldest night in February, the fire department responded to a report of flames in an abandoned camper. When they extinguished the fire, they found Vass inside, dead.
Forrest was stunned.
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Anthony Forrest, left, who is currently experiencing housing insecurity, looks at a yearbook showing him on the junior varsity basketball team, in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington on March 11, 2025. Late baby boomers have endured challenges that have left many economically vulnerable and dependent on parents for help. With their parents dying, they are ending up on the streets in growing numbers. (Lawren Simmons/The New York Times)
Marshals’ data show spike in threats against federal judges
By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ
Threats against federal judges have risen drastically since President Donald Trump took office, according to internal data compiled by the U.S. Marshals Service.
In the five-month period leading up to March 1 of this year, 80 individual judges had received threats, the data show.
Then, over the next six weeks, an additional 162 judges received threats, a dramatic increase. That spike in threats coincided with a flood of harsh rhetoric — often from Trump — criticizing judges who have ruled against the administration and, in some cases, calling on Congress to impeach them.
Many judges have already spoken out, worrying about the possibility of violence and urging political leaders to tone things down.
Since mid-April, the pace of the threats has slowed slightly, the data show. Between April 14 and May 27, it shows 35 additional individual judges received threats. Still, the total number of judges threatened this fiscal year — 277 — represents roughly a third of the judiciary.
The threat data was not released publicly but was provided to The New York Times by Judge Esther Salas of U.S. District Court for New Jersey, who said she obtained it from the Marshals Service, which is tasked by law with overseeing security for the judiciary.
In 2020, Salas’ son, Daniel Anderl, was shot and killed at the entrance of her home by a self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer, and since then she has advocated judicial safety.
“This has nothing to do with hysteria or hyperbole,” she said in an interview. “These numbers tell a dramatic story. They show a spike that ought to be alarming and concerning to everyone.”
Spokespeople for the White House and the marshals did not immediately respond to requests
for comment. The marshals define a threat as “any action or communication, whether explicit or implied, of intent to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate or interfere” with any mar shals-protected person, including federal judges, according to an internal document reviewed by the Times. That language mirrors a federal statute that treats as criminals those who interfere with federal officials performing their duties.
Threats against judges have been rising in recent years, including before Trump took office.
Marshals Service data show there were threats against more than 400 individual judges in 2023, the year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion. In June 2022, after the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe leaked, an armed man tried to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home.
A series of judges have blocked Trump’s sweeping executive actions, including his efforts to deliver on his campaign promise of mass deportations.
Last week, a federal judge in Boston ordered the United States to maintain custody of a group of deportees whom the administration is trying to send to South Sudan, and to bring back another deportee now in hiding in Guatemala.
In a statement, the White House called the judge, Brian E. Murphy, a “far-left activist.” Trump broadened the attack Monday, condemning “USA hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick, and very dangerous for our country,” in a social media post rendered in all capital letters.
Some judges who have ruled against the administration have received unwelcome pizza deliveries at their homes, and at the homes of their family members. Authorities are investigating the matter. Salas said she had learned from the marshals that 103 pizzas had been sent anonymously, including 20 in the name of her dead son.
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Last year, the caseworkers put Forrest on the list for permanent supportive housing. The program provides chronically homeless people with subsidized apartments and offers voluntary treatment for problems such as substance abuse and mental illness. But the aid is limited, and waits are often lengthy.
After a year’s wait, Forrest was tentatively offered an apart ment. It is a mile and a half from Ninth Street, outside his comfort zone. At first he said no. Then Voss died, and he agreed to the move.
Final approval is pending. But seven decades after being born into the most homelessness-prone generation in modern history, Forrest may soon have a home.
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Inside United’s command center at Newark Airport
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI
It was less than two hours before United Airlines Flight 110 was scheduled to depart for London from Newark, New Jersey, when Nikki Brooks got word that something was wrong.
A team delivering blankets and pillows for the overnight long-haul flight reported damage on a rear plane door around 4 p.m. Thursday. A photograph showed what appeared to be a scratch that maintenance needed to inspect. So Brooks, a manager at the airline’s Station Operations Center at Newark Liberty International Airport, delayed the flight.
From a fifth-floor perch with views of Terminal C and the runways, Brooks and her colleagues make hundreds of decisions a day, about mechanical and medical issues or gate assignments — all to keep United’s operations smooth and ensure planes aren’t delayed.
If they do their jobs right, no one hears about the more than 600 flights a day that United operates at Newark, one of its hubs. Lately, keeping those planes on time has been harder to do.
A series of air traffic control technology outages and staffing shortages, along with runway construction, has created a sense of crisis at Newark among travelers. Delays and safety concerns early in the month drove away some flyers and prompted federal officials to fast-track desperately needed improvements. Now, to stem the disruption, the Federal Aviation Administration has limited the number of flights at Newark through most of the rest of the year.
On Thursday, Brooks and her colleagues were overseeing an early wave of Memorial Day travel, which kicks off the busy summer season nationwide.
The fortunes of the airport and United are tightly intertwined. The airline operates the vast majority of flights at Newark.
Inside United Airlines’ operations center with a view of the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., May 22, 2025. Amid dire conditions at the airport, an airline operations crew has had to figure out how to get more than 600 flights a day to take off and land without incident. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
And roughly 9% of seats that United fills on all its planes start or end their journeys here.
The recent disruptions peaked in early May, when air traffic control problems led United to cancel more than 12% of its flights at Newark, according to Cirium. But that has improved significantly in recent days. The airline canceled only 10 flights at Newark from Sunday through Thursday, less than 1% of its schedule.
Limiting delays, cancellations and other disruptions requires a high degree of vigilance, and calm, from United operations managers like Brooks.
After delaying the flight to London, she instructed gate agents to proceed with boarding anyway. It was a small gamble that the scratch was not a sign of something more serious, and that the problem could be resolved quickly. (It was.)
The London flight departed just after 6 p.m., a delay of less than 45 minutes. After that, Brooks turned her attention to the flights departing from the dozen or so other gates she was monitoring during her 10-hour shift.
“The party never stops,” she said, adding, “No day is the same.”
frequent touch — by phone or online chat — with workers on the ground and in the air, counterparts at United’s nerve center in Chicago, and one another.
Some people helped pilots and mechanics troubleshoot basic problems, referring to flight deck diagrams or aircraft maintenance manuals. Some managed gate assignments, weighing a range of considerations, including how connecting crews and passengers may be affected by a decision to swap one gate for another farther away. And others oversaw a series of gates at once, troubleshooting problems as they arose.
By the end of the day, United had to cancel only two of its almost 300 departing flights, Cirium data showed.
Many travelers started avoiding Newark, or at least are trying to, after a tech outage last month created a cascade of issues at the airport.
In late April, air traffic controllers and pilots flying to and from the airport lost contact for about 30 seconds. While brief, the outage was traumatic for controllers, some of whom took extended leaves of absence. Over the ensuing three weeks, when there were further tech outages and controller staffing shortages, about 9% of flights were canceled at Newark, according to Cirium.
In the first half of May, Newark saw a slight decline in passenger volume from a year earlier, while New York’s two other major airports saw a slight increase, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
United CEO Scott Kirby acknowledged in an interview with CBS News this month that the airline would take a financial hit, though he said he was focused on other issues.
“The financial issues are not even on the priority list for us,” Kirby said. “It’s about safety and customers.”
To ease the disruption, United voluntarily cut about 35 daily round-trip flights in May. The FAA on Tuesday imposed limits on the hourly number of flights at the airport, which would reduce scheduled flying as much as 20% during peak hours on many summer days. United has welcomed the limits, saying it prefers the greater reliability with fewer flights to the risk of chaos with more.
The reopening of the closed runway June 15 will bring further relief to a stressed system, said Jon Gooda, the vice president for United’s Newark operations, who oversees almost 14,000 employees.
Thursday was projected to be the busiest day of the holiday weekend nationwide, the unofficial beginning of what could be one of the busiest summers for air travel in years, according to the FAA.
But conditions on the ground put a damper on Thursday’s travel at Newark. It rained nonstop. One runway has been under construction since April 15 and was out of commission. High winds prevented the use of another.
Arriving and departing planes were left to weave in and out of a single runway, creating long taxi lines. That meant dozens of flights were delayed.
Each employee inside United’s operations center regularly monitored weather, radar, airport video feeds, flights and other data on multiple screens. The employees were also in
While some construction will continue this year, mainly on weekends, the runway’s reopening is likely to ease the burden on air traffic controllers, who have been so understaffed that recently three people were scheduled to do the jobs of what 14 controllers normally should. The reopening should also cut down on taxi times and help United reduce delays in both directions, Gooda said.
Whiteboards in his office and in a conference room where his team holds daily briefings track how soon the runway will be back. (There were 24 days remaining as of Thursday.)
“A huge percentage of our schedule is driven by us getting that trip out of here on time in the morning,” Gooda said from his office overlooking the lobby of Terminal C, which United uses exclusively. “If we do that, we have goodness for the whole rest of the day.”
With Trump tariff jitters, S&P 500 to finish year nearly even with 2024
The S&P 500 will finish the year near current levels, according to a Reuters poll, after many strategists in recent months cut their 2025 forecast for the index over uncertainty surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Based on the median forecast of 51 equity strategists, analysts, brokers and portfolio managers collected May 1528, the year-end target for the benchmark S&P 500 is 5,900, down from 6,500 in a February poll by Reuters. The S&P 500 ended Tuesday at 5,921.54.
The market will remain choppy, strategists said, while seven out of 14 respondents who answered a question on profit growth said S&P 500 earnings will be marginally higher in 2025 than in 2024 and two said significantly higher. Five said they would be marginally lower.
Sameer Samana, head of global equities and real assets at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, said the firm lowered its year-end target to 6,000 recently from 6,500 set at the start of the year.
“Clearly earnings will be impacted by what’s going on with tariffs,” he said.
“Our belief is tariffs are a tax and some combination of U.S. consumers, U.S. companies along with international producers and companies will pay the taxes. In essence, that kind of wealth transfer comes out of earnings to a certain extent,” he added.
According to LSEG, S&P 500 earnings are expected to increase 8.4% in 2025 compared with 12.1% in 2024. But the 2025 estimate is down sharply from 14% growth estimated on January 1.
Trade developments have whipsawed the stock market this year, especially after Trump’s April 2 announcement of sweeping tariffs on imports globally.
In his latest move, Trump on Sunday backed down from his threat of a 50% tariff against the European Union, delaying its implementation until July 9 to allow for negotiations between the White House and the 27-nation bloc. The move prompted Brussels to fast track preparations for trade talks.
Following a Tuesday rally, the S&P 500 is up just 0.7% for the year. But strategists say the back-and-forth nature of tariff negotiations has made predicting what the index will do tough.
“It’s very difficult to forecast given the tariff uncertainty and the changing dynamics that seem to happen daily,” said Anthony Saglimbene, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial in Troy, Michigan.
“There’s just a higher risk premium that has to be put on stocks, and that’s going to be with us through the rest of this year.”
He said his firm’s “base” target is 5,600 for the S&P 500 for this year, but a “6,000 to 5,600 range seems very reasonable based on the tariff environment not really causing a recession or deteriorating corporate profits too much.”
Some strategists have raised their S&P 500 forecasts recently.
Last week, David Lefkowitz, head of U.S. equities at UBS
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Concerns over the U.S. debt load have added to recent jitters and a “sell America” view by some investors. Moody’s downgraded its U.S. credit rating on May 16, and the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill last week. The bill goes to the U.S. Senate next for review where investors worry spending cuts could be whittled down, growing the deficit.
The S&P 500 posted gains exceeding 20% in both 2024 and 2023, helped by mega
cap technology stocks and optimism over the business potential of artificial intelligence. While the S&P 500 technology sector remains down 1.7% so far for 2025, it has been bouncing back, and some investors still see it as a good bet going forward.
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May 29, 2025
Germany says it will step up weapons support for Ukraine
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE and MARC SANTORA
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday that Germany would step up its support for Ukraine, increasing funding for the production of weapons — including long-range ones — and sending more military equipment to Kyiv.
The announcement, made at a joint news conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, comes as the United States is stepping away from the conflict and as Europe has been forced to move unto the breach.
Merz, without providing specifics, said Germany would supply Ukraine with more funding to step up domestic production of weapons, including those with long-range capabilities, and also increase shipments of military equipment from Germany.
The German Defense Ministry later provided more detail about the aid, saying it included cooperation in weapons construction, air-defense systems, hand-held and other weapons and financing of satellite communications. The value was roughly 5 billion euros (about $5.7 billion), it said.
Zelenskyy was visiting Berlin in a bid to secure more assistance from Europe’s industrial powerhouse and holding his third meeting with Merz since the German leader took office this month. His trip came as both Moscow and Ukraine race to expand their arsenals to fight a war that is set to drag into a fourth straight summer.
The meetings between Merz and Zelenskyy underscore the chancellor’s efforts to reestablish German leadership among European allies in the face of weakening U.S. commitments to NATO and the importance his country will play in sustaining the Ukrainian war effort.
Germans themselves have been generally divided on whether the country should keep supporting Ukraine. While some feel the defense of Ukraine is important for European security, many in the east and many far-right voters support Russia or fear provoking it.
The German economy is also in crisis, which has put pressure on German governments. But a move in March to loosen borrowing limits on the government — freeing it to spend more on defense and infrastructure — could bolster Merz’s efforts to send more aid to Ukraine without forcing him to make budget cuts elsewhere.
At the news briefing, Zelenskyy said he felt that Ukraine should be invited to a NATO
Soldiers with the 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade at an air defense position, where they monitor for, and shoot down armed Russian Shahed drones in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, May 19, 2025. In the latest sign of a warming relationship, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in Berlin with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who said Germany would increase funding for arms production and supplies.(Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
summit that is set to take place in The Hague this summer.
“If Ukraine is not present at the NATO summit,” he said, “it will be a victory not over Ukraine, but over NATO — a victory for Putin.” He did not say if he and Merz had discussed the issue, and said it was up to NATO to make that decision.
Before traveling to Germany, Zelenskyy said that securing financing to expand Ukraine’s domestic arms production will be a central goal.
“We need financial support,” Zelenskyy told reporters Tuesday at a briefing in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. “That’s the biggest issue — not technology limits or lack of long-range weapons. It’s about money.”
In his Tuesday evening address to the nation, Zelenskyy listed the equipment his country needed: “Attack drones, interceptors, cruise missiles, Ukrainian ballistic systems — these are the key elements. We must manufacture all of them.”
After years traveling the world in search of weapons to help his nation battle a far larger enemy, Zelenskyy said at the briefing Tuesday that Kyiv now needed some $30 billion in annual financing to fund its domestic arms production at full capacity.
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, on Wednesday lashed out at Merz’s promise of more military aid to Ukraine. “Germany is sliding down the same slope that it has already been moving down a couple of times in the last century, toward its collapse,” Lavrov said
in an interview with Russian state television. “I hope that responsible politicians in this country will finally draw the right conclusions and stop this madness,” he added.
With neither side able to achieve major breakthroughs on the front for more than two years and Russia once again on the offensive, the arms race takes on ever greater importance, said Seth G. Jones, a former Defense Department official who closely tracks the war.
“In wars of attrition, victory has frequently gone to the side with the more productive defense industrial base,” he said.
With the Trump administration so far unwilling to approve new military assistance for Ukraine and European allies struggling to fill the void, expanding sanctions, Zelenskyy said Tuesday, is “a crucial step” in slowing Russian forces down.
Still, he insisted that Moscow cannot afford to wage war indefinitely.
“Multiple intelligence analyses agree: We all hope that by June 2026, the war will be over,” he said. “But even now, sanctions are affecting the Russian economy.”
Zelenskyy arrived at the chancellery in a motorcade of black limousines, escorted by police officers on motorcycles. Wearing a black suit and a button-down shirt, he was greeted by Merz, and then a German military band played the national anthems of both countries.
Merz has supported expanded sanctions to force President Vladimir Putin of Russia to agree to a ceasefire.
At the moment, Russia’s military industrial complex continues to expand, and the Kremlin is able to replenish its forces at a far faster rate than Ukraine.
In recent months, Zelenskyy said at the briefing Tuesday, Russia has been able to recruit 40,000 to 50,000 new soldiers, while Ukraine is mobilizing 25,000 to 27,000.
The White House has so far resisted taking any steps to pressure Moscow, maintaining that it would undermine diplomacy. After Russia’s most recent bombardments — some of the largest of the war — President Donald Trump lashed out at Putin, saying he had gone “crazy.”
Trump expressed renewed frustration with the Russian leader Tuesday, writing on social media that “if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia.”
Still, Trump gave no indication of what steps he was willing to take to pressure the Kremlin and has made it clear that he expects Europe to take the lead in supporting Ukraine.
And again on Wednesday, Trump said he was “not happy” with Moscow’s continued attacks on Ukraine, adding that he would find out soon whether Putin was stringing him along in U.S.-facilitated ceasefire talks.
Merz’s warm embrace of Zelenskyy stands in stark contrast to the initially cool relationship that Olaf Scholz, the previous German chancellor, had with the Ukrainian leader. Scholz did not visit Ukraine until a year after Russia invaded. But just three days after being sworn in this month, Merz traveled to Ukraine.
While both Russian and Ukraine are ramping up arms production, they are also locked in a ferocious campaign to degrade each other’s military industrial complex through both overt and covert actions.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported Wednesday that it had shot down nearly 300 Ukrainian drones in an overnight attack aimed at military-industrial targets. The Ukrainian air force said the latest Russian bombardment before dawn Wednesday featured 88 drones, five ballistic missiles and a cruise missile.
Zelenskyy said that even as Kyiv stands ready to continue negotiations in almost any format, the only way to achieve peace is to raise the cost of war for the Kremlin.
Zelenskyy told the reporters Tuesday that he remained ready for a direct meeting with Putin, or a meeting with both Putin and Trump. “If Putin only wants a tri-party format, that’s fine too. I see no problem with formats; the key is substance.”
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A desperate Haiti turns to Erik Prince, Trump ally, in fight against gangs
By DAVID C. ADAMS, FRANCES ROBLES and MARK MAZZETTI
Erik Prince, a private military contractor and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, is working with Haiti’s government to conduct lethal operations against gangs that are terrorizing the nation and threatening to take over its capital.
Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, signed a contract to take on the criminal groups that have been killing civilians and seizing control of vast areas of territory, according to senior Haitian and U.S. government officials and several other security experts familiar with Prince’s work in Haiti.
Haiti’s government has hired American contractors, including Prince, in recent months to work on a secret task force to deploy drones meant to kill gang members, security experts said. Prince’s team has been operating the drones since March, but the authorities have yet to announce the death or capture of a single high-value target.
Security experts said Prince has also been scouting Haitian American military veterans to hire to send to Port-au-Prince and is expected to send up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti over the summer. He recently shipped a large cache of weapons to the country, two experts said.
The Haitian government is awaiting the arrival of arms shipments and more personnel to step up its fight against the gangs.
U.S. officials said they were aware of Prince’s work with Haiti’s government. But the full terms of the Haitian government’s arrangement with Prince, including how much it is paying him, are unknown.
This article is based on interviews with a dozen people who follow Haiti closely. All but one spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss sensitive security matters publicly.
The State Department, which has provided millions of dollars in funding to equip and train Haiti’s National Police, said it is not paying Prince or his company for any work in Haiti.
Prince declined to comment for this article. Blackwater no longer exists, but Prince owns other private military entities.
The involvement of civilian contractors like Prince, a Trump donor who has a long and checkered history in the private security industry, marks a pivotal moment in Haiti. Its crisis has deepened since its last president was assassinated in 2021, and the government now appears willing to take desperate measures to secure control.
Armed groups escalated the violence last year by uniting and taking over prisons, burning down police stations and attacking hospitals. About 1 million people have been forced to flee their homes and hundreds of thousands are living in shelters.
Gangs have captured so much territory in recent months that United Nations officials have warned that the capital is in danger of falling under complete criminal control.
The situation is dire enough that officials and civilians alike say they are eager for any overseas help, particularly after a $600 million international police mission started by the Biden administration and largely staffed by Kenyan police offi-
cers failed to receive adequate international personnel and money.
With Haiti’s undermanned and underequipped police force struggling to contain the gangs, the government is turning to private military contractors equipped with high-powered weapons, helicopters and sophisticated surveillance and attack drones to take on the well-armed gangs. At least one other American security company is working in Haiti, though details of its role are secret.
Since drone attacks targeting gangs started in March, they have killed more than 200 people, according to Pierre Esperance, who runs a leading human rights organization in Port-au-Prince.
After the U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq ended, security firms like those owned by Prince started seeing big streams of revenues dry up. Private military contractors are looking for new opportunities, and they see possibilities in Latin America.
Before presidential elections in Ecuador this year, Prince toured the country with local police and promised to help security forces. The country has faced a wave of violence unleashed by gangs.
Ecuadorian officials denied that they had signed any security deal with Prince.
A person close to Prince said he hopes to expand the scope of his work in Haiti to include help with customs, transport, revenue collection and other government services that need to be restored for the country to stabilize. Rampant government corruption is a key reason Haiti’s finances are in shambles.
The Haitian prime minister’s office and a presidential council, which was formed to run the country until presidential elections can be held, did not respond to several requests for comment.
Prince, whose sister Betsy DeVos was secretary of education during Trump’s first term, donated more than $250,000 to help elect Trump in 2016, according to campaign finance
People at Lycée Marie Jeanne, a school in the Lavaud neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that was turned into a camp for people escaping violence, Sept. 23, 2024. Erik Prince, a private military contractor and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, is working with Haiti’s government to conduct lethal operations against gangs that are terrorizing the nation and threatening to take over its capital. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
records. He was often cited as an informal “adviser” to Trump’s first transition to office, a description he denied.
Haiti’s experience with private military contractors goes back decades. When U.S. forces returned former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in 1994 after he was ousted in a bloody military coup, he was accompanied by a private security team from the San Francisco-based Steele Foundation.
In recent years, military contractors in Haiti have had a more tainted record. Colombian mercenaries hired by an American security firm were accused of taking part in the 2021 assassination of the last elected president, Jovenel Moïse.
Rod Joseph, a Haitian American U.S. Army veteran who owns a Florida-based security officer training company, said he had been in talks with Prince to help supply personnel for his contract since late last year.
Joseph, who trained Haitian police on the use of surveillance drones, said Prince gave him the impression that his plans were under the auspices of the U.S. government but then shifted to be directly under the purview of the Haitian government.
He said Prince told him that he planned to send private soldiers from El Salvador to Haiti along with three helicopters to engage in attacks against the gangs.
Prince texted him a few days ago, Joseph said, seeking a list of Haitian American veterans to send to Haiti, but he declined to provide names unless Prince could provide more precise details of their mission and would allow Joseph to lead them.
U.S. military contractors doing defense work overseas are required to obtain a license from the State Department, but those licenses are not public record.
Prince has been trying to expand his portfolio and has traveled overseas in search of new business, said Sean McFate, a professor at the National Defense University and author of “The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order.”
Prince is viewed skeptically by other members of the private military industry, McFate said, because of his showy nature and the negative publicity he generates for a security industry that prides itself on a “sense of professionalism.”
“It’s always worth noting where Prince is going, because it’s sort of a barometer of where he thinks Trump world might end up, and he wants to make a buck from it,” McFate said.
But experts stress that Haitians are desperate for solutions — regardless of where they come from.
“The doors are open. All possibilities must be on the table,” Haiti’s minister of economy and finance, Alfred Métellus, told Le Nouvelliste, a Haitian newspaper, last month. “We are looking for all Haitians, all foreigners who have expertise in this field and who want to support us, want to support the police and the army to unblock the situation.”
Joseph said he worried that outsourcing the work of fighting gangs to private military contractors would not do anything to improve the skills of the Haitian police and military.
“When you do it this way, it’s trouble,” he said. “Every time you parachute knowledge in and parachute out, the locals will always be in need of that knowledge. If you don’t have knowledge of security, you will just have a bunch of dead people.”
Two friends fought for Mideast peace. Their dream has dimmed.
By FARAH STOCKMAN
It’s hard to remember now, as people in the Gaza Strip eat grass to try to survive a siege, and as Israelis emboldened by the trauma of Oct. 7, 2023, seem poised to annex the West Bank, but there was a time when peace in the Middle East felt possible.
In 2003, I moved to Washington to cover foreign policy and fell in with a group of friends — human rights lawyers, policy wonks and aides on Capitol Hill — who were pushing for a twostate solution. It had been 10 years since Israelis and Palestinians started down that path with an interim peace deal in Oslo, Norway. Palestinian frustrations had boiled over into the second intifada. But there was still a sense that a deal was possible. Two of our friends seemed to be living proof of that.
Daniel Levy, the gregarious son of a British lord, and Ghaith al-Omari, a quiet Jordanian lawyer, were well known around town for having sat on opposite sides of a round of peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians in Taba, Egypt, in 2001. They had forged a friendship that became a symbol in Washington of the potential for peace. I once attended a dinner party where the host introduced them by announcing: “If there is ever peace in the Middle East, it will be because of these two.”
Recently, I wondered what those two old friends thought now about their attempt to help broker a deal. Had peace really been possible? Or had we been dreaming? Most of all, I wondered if they were still friends. So I called them up. I learned that their relationship had waxed and waned over the years, like the peace process itself. Then it took an unexpected turn.
During the talks in Taba, Levy was an adviser to Yossi Beilin, the most dovish member of the Israeli negotiating team. Omari was an adviser to Yasir Abed Rabbo, the most dovish member of the Palestinian team. They got closer to a permanent deal than any previously but stopped because of Israeli elections and did not resume. Still, Levy and Omari did not give up.
Levy helped arrange for Omari and other peace negotiators to go together to South Africa and learn from the negotiators who had reached the deal that ended apartheid. Omari was impressed by Levy’s generosity, and how he “seemed to know everyone on earth.”
“He approached every disagreement as a challenge to overcome,” he told me during a recent interview.
The admiration was mutual. Omari was “whip-smart” and fun, Levy told me. He had the ability to look at the conflict dispassionately, perhaps because he was from Jordan, one step removed. They started meeting up for drinks at Omari’s home in Jerusalem. They began to think of each other as friends.
Then, in 2002, at the behest of their bosses, they holed up in an empty chalet in Switzerland and hammered out an unofficial blueprint for a permanent peace. That effort, known
as the Geneva Initiative, aimed to preserve the progress that had been made at Taba. To get the support of Israelis, they proposed that Israel keep a small military presence in the newly created Palestinian state for a limited period of time. To get Palestinian backing, they detailed a formula for compensating Palestinian refugees who had been displaced in 1948, when Israel was established.
In the end, they produced a hefty document that had the support of senior Palestine Liberation Organization officials, some Israeli opposition leaders, mayors and retired members of Israel’s security establishment. Even a couple of leaders of an ultra-Orthodox party attended a ceremony marking the document’s completion.
The plan made such a splash that Ariel Sharon, who had been elected prime minister of Israel in 2001, reportedly cited it as one reason he felt compelled to propose an initiative of his own: withdrawal from Gaza. Sharon struck a deal with Washington, agreeing to pull out of Gaza in exchange for a promise that Israel could keep some large settlement blocs in the West Bank, his top aide Dov Weissglas told the newspaper Haaretz. The aim, he said, was to stop the peace process and “prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
Still, Levy and Omari pressed on. They brought the Geneva Initiative to the attention of the highest echelons of the U.S. government and to ordinary Americans alike. Eventually they both moved to Washington, living a few doors down from each other.
“What was unique about them was that they were willing to challenge their own side,” recalled Rebecca Abou-Chedid, who then worked on staff at the Arab American Institute and once took the two men to Iowa to talk to American voters. Levy never shied away from acknowledging the failures of the Israelis, and Omari did not mince words about the Palestinian Authority’s missteps.
But the very traits that made them good peace negotiators — the ability to admit fault and see things from the other’s point of view — made them outliers in their own communities. As the years went by, Hamas took over Gaza and the far right came to power in Israel. The peace camp shrank and splintered. Levy and Omari dealt with the failure of their life’s work differently. And in a sense, they switched sides.
“We learned very different lessons,” Omari said.
From the vantage point of middle age, Levy, now the London-based president of the U.S./Middle East Project, a think tank, has come to believe that Israel was never going to allow a Palestinian state. The Oslo Accords front-loaded the things that Israel wanted — greater international recognition and the creation of a Palestinian Authority that was obliged to do Israel’s bidding and crack down on militants, he said. But the things Palestinians wanted — statehood, an end to the occupation and a halt to the confiscation of their land — were postponed indefinitely, contingent on a final deal that never came.
The only hope Levy sees now is in the new generation of
activists who see Oslo for the expired, failed agreement that it is. They must find a new way to struggle against inequality inside a one-state reality, he said, adding that Palestinians must be allowed to choose their own structures to replace the discredited Palestinian Authority.
Omari sees things differently. “We were a bit naïve,” he told me recently in his office at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, another think tank. “But I don’t think we were completely naïve.” Oslo could have worked, he said. Geneva could have worked. He hasn’t given up on a two-state solution. But he acknowledges that after the Oct. 7 attacks and Israel’s relentless reprisals, it will take time before Israelis and Palestinians can sit down to talk peace, and even longer to process the damage that has been done.
The last time Omari met Levy, several years ago, they embraced as old friends. They chatted about their wives and kids. Then the conversation turned to politics. Levy voiced his frustration about Omari’s continued willingness to cooperate with people who advance Israel’s agenda.
They haven’t spoken since, but their mutual affection remains.
“For all the disagreements on policy, I would still be super happy to see him,” Omari said. Levy told me, “I never want to have cross words with him.”
Their unwillingness to disparage each other struck me. That remnant of friendship and shared humanity is all that’s left of our dreams of peace. That’s what I’m going to hold on to.
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EL CAPITOLIO – Los senadores José Santiago y Héctor González instaron el miércoles a la gobernadora Jenniffer Aidyn González Colón a considerar en su Mensaje de Situación de Estado el Proyecto del Senado 566, que propone la creación del Fondo de Servicios Esenciales y Responsabilidad Fiscal Municipal.
“Es totalmente razonable tomar una porción de los fondos sobrantes del presupuesto general para solventar los servicios esenciales que estamos llamados a garantizar a los residentes de los municipios con mayor pobreza”, sostuvo Santiago, al citar un informe de la Oficina de Presupuesto de la Asamblea Legislativa que reveló sobrantes de 875.2 millones de dólares en 2020, 649.4 millones en 2021 y 519.2 millones en 2022.
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SAN JUAN – La postemporada 2025 del Béisbol Superior Doble A entra en su primera fase este jueves y viernes con el inicio de las series semifinales de sección, que enfrentarán a los 32 equipos clasificados tras la etapa regular del torneo.
“El torneo comenzó con 45 equipos y ahora quedan 32 en contienda. Las series semifinales definirán los 16 equipos que pasarán a las finales de sección”, informó la Federación de Béisbol de Puerto Rico.
Entre los choques destacados figura el enfrentamiento entre los campeones defensores Titanes de Florida y los Tigres de Hatillo, líderes de la sección Norte. En el clásico norteño, los Montañeses de Utuado se medirán a sus rivales Arenosos de Camuy.
González López recordó que los municipios enfrentan recortes por la eliminación del Fondo de Equiparación, a la vez que deben cubrir gastos como PAYGO, seguros y aportaciones a ASES, por lo que considera indispensable crear un fondo especial que garantice equidad en la asignación de recursos. “Este proyecto establece controles estrictos sobre el uso de esos fondos, prohibiendo su uso en fiestas, servicios profesionales, aumentos de confianza o viajes oficiales”, explicó.
Según indicaron, la medida ya fue discutida en vistas públicas y con la Junta Fiscal, que emitió recomendaciones. “La propuesta está alineada con el Plan Fiscal y requiere rendición de cuentas con métricas medibles para garantizar que los fondos solo se usen en operaciones esenciales”, añadió Santiago. Ambos senadores solicitarán reuniones con la Junta Fiscal y los presidentes de las comisiones de
En la sección Sureste, los subcampeones Azucareros de Yabucoa enfrentarán a los Grises de Humacao, mientras que los Samaritanos de San Lorenzo se medirán a los Leones de Patillas. En el Este, los Guerrilleros de Río Grande, líderes de sección por primera vez desde 1979, jugarán ante los Artesanos de Las Piedras.
Los Peces Voladores de Salinas, campeones del Sur por cuatro años consecutivos, chocarán con los Bravos de Cidra, mientras que los Maratonistas de Coamo se enfrentarán a los Potros de Santa Isabel. En la región Central, los Pescadores del Plata de Comerío, el mejor equipo de la temporada regular con marca de 17-3, se medirán a los Polluelos de Aibonito. En la misma sección, los Toritos de Cayey se enfrentarán a los Criollos de Caguas.
La sección Metro contará con un duelo entre los
Hacienda para impulsar la aprobación del proyecto antes del cierre de la sesión legislativa.
Mets de Guaynabo, dirigidos por Juan “Igor” González, y los Guardianes de Dorado, franquicia del exjugador Yadier Molina. En la otra serie, los Lancheros de Cataño jugarán contra el Melao Melao de Vega Baja, equipo que regresa a la postemporada tras 13 años.
El calendario del primer fin de semana contempla tres juegos por serie, que continuarán el próximo fin de semana, si es necesario. Las reglas de postemporada eliminan el uso del “tie breaker” y el “curfew” en juegos nocturnos. Juegos suspendidos por lluvia se reanudarán al día siguiente y deberán completarse antes de iniciar el siguiente partido de la serie.
El itinerario arranca este jueves 29 de mayo con el primer choque entre Florida y Hatillo en Camuy a las 7:30 de la noche. El resto de los juegos se llevará a cabo entre viernes, sábado y domingo.
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The best movies of 2025, so far
By STEPHANIE GOODMAN
“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” and the live-action “Lilo & Stitch” are flooding theaters this Memorial Day weekend. But if you don’t want to follow the crowd, it’s also a good time to catch up on some terrific films you may have missed earlier in the year. I asked New York Times chief film critic Manohla Dargis and movie critic Alissa Wilkinson to recommend releases worth your time. All are in theaters or available online.
‘Sinners’
In theaters.
The story: The twins Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return from Al Capone’s Chicago to open a juke joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi. That’s when the devil, or rather, an Irish vampire, shows up in this talker of a film.
Manohla Dargis’ take: Directed by Ryan Coogler, this “is a big-screen exultation — a passionate, effusive praise song about life and love, including the love of movies. Set in Jim Crow Mississippi, it is a genre-defying, mind-bending fantasia overflowing with great performances, dancing vampires and a lot of ideas about love and history.”
‘I’m Still Here’
Stream it on Netflix or rent it on most major platforms.
The story: Set in Brazil beginning in 1970, when a military dictatorship ruled the country, this drama follows the efforts of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) to keep her family to-
gether and still work as an activist after her congressman husband, Rubens Paiva, is arrested and disappeared by the authorities. Based on a true story, the film, directed by Walter Salles, won the Oscar for best international feature.
“The Last Showgirl”
Alissa Wilkinson’s take: “In her performance — which won a Golden Globe and [earned] an Oscar nomination — Torres stuns. Protecting her children means leaning into joy within the fear, hope in the midst of pain. Torres double-layers her performance with all of those emotions, and her searching eyes are magnetic.”
‘Black Bag’
Stream it on Peacock or rent it on most major platforms.
The story: Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play married British intelligence agents who are each tasked with ferreting out a mole, who may possibly be their spouse in this Steven Soderbergh thriller.
Dargis’ take: The film is “sleek, witty and lean to the bone, a fizzy, engaging puzzler about beautiful spies doing the sort of extraordinary things that the rest of us only read about in novels and — if we’re lucky — watch onscreen. It’s nonsense, but the kind of glorious grown-up nonsense that critics like to say they (as in Hollywood) no longer make.”
‘Friendship’
In theaters.
The story: Tim Robinson plays Craig, a nice-enough guy with a wife and a house in the suburbs but no friends, until the cool new neighbor (Paul Rudd) moves in. Since this is a cringe comedy, all will not go well.
Wilkinson’s take: The film is “is often funny and always distressing. ... Robinson’s performance, which sometimes feels dropped in from a parallel dimension that’s about 3% different from our own, injects Craig with a quality most similar to an erratically ticking time bomb.”
‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Stream it on Netflix.
The story: In the latest stop-motion adventure of the inventor Wallace and his trusty beagle, Gromit, the two must contend with the evil mute penguin Feathers McGraw and a garden-gnome robot gone awry.
Dargis’ take: The movie is “a diverting low-key thriller with Bond-like flourishes.” It moves with “smooth efficiency from its amusing, shadowy start to gently slapstick finish, propelled by its characters and [co-director and co-writer Nick] Park’s customary sweet-and-silly humor.”
‘Eephus’ Rent it on most major platforms.
The story: In small-town Douglas, Massachusetts, two recreational baseball teams gather to play one last game on a field that’s going to be razed to make way for a school.
Wilkinson’s take: The movie “exists outside sports movie tropes altogether, though it’s most certainly a baseball movie. It dwells in some languid liminal space between hangout movie and elegy, a tribute to the community institutions that hold us together.”
‘The Annihilation of Fish’ Stream it on Kanopy.
The story: In this gentle comedy, a Jamaican immigrant who goes by the name Fish (James Earl Jones) has been battling an invisible demon when he heads to Los Angeles. There he meets a woman (Lynn Redgrave) with her own invisible companion. The film, by Charles Burnett, wasn’t released for 26 years.
Dargis’ take: Calling it a “deeply humane, singular view from the margins,” she wrote, “Jones, who holds the movie throughout, imbues Fish with delicate charisma that becomes more pronounced as the story unfolds and emotions deepen.”
‘Caught by the Tides’ In theaters.
The story: Mixing footage shot for previous movies with new scenes, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke follows Qiaoqiao and her lover, Bin, a low-level criminal, over 20 years.
Dargis’ take: The film is “a tour de force that is at once an affecting portrait of a people in flux and a soulful, generoushearted autobiographic testament from one of our greatest living filmmakers.”
‘Presence’
Rent it on most major platforms.
The story: The second Steven Soderbergh film on this list is a ghost story set in the seemingly normal suburban home of a family that includes a star-athlete son and a daughter who’s clearly been traumatized.
Dargis’ take: The girl’s “past, her parents’ marriage and the ghost’s restricted point of view together create palpable unease that the filmmakers build on until everyone is vibrating with tension and things have gotten weird. Although there are a few haunted-house shocks, the cumulative effect is more unsettling than scary.”
‘The Last Showgirl’
Rent it on most major platforms.
The story: When the long-running Vegas show she is in closes, an aging dancer (played by Pamela Anderson) struggles to find work and to connect with her grown daughter even as she finds community with friends (including one played by Jamie Lee Curtis).
Dargis’ take: Directed by Gia Coppola, the drama “tells a familiar story of bad luck and outwardly questionable choices with gentleness, a great deal of love for its characters and an obvious appreciation for the affirming highs and bitter lows that age and beauty afford. Modestly scaled and loosely plotted, it is an unusually tender movie.”
“I’m Still Here”
The San Juan Daily Star Thursday, May 29, 2025 15
A ministroke can have major consequences
By PAULA SPAN
Kristin Kramer woke up early on a Tuesday morning 10 years ago because one of her dogs needed to go out. Then, a couple of odd things happened.
When she tried to call her other dog, “I couldn’t speak,” she said. As she walked downstairs to let them into the yard, “I noticed that my right hand wasn’t working.”
But she went back to bed, “which was totally stupid,” said Kramer, now 54, an office manager in Muncie, Indiana. “It didn’t register that something major was happening,” especially because, reawakening an hour later, “I was perfectly fine.”
So she “just kind of blew it off” and went to work.
It’s a common response to the neurological symptoms that signal a TIA, a transient ischemic attack or ministroke. At least 240,000 Americans experience one each year, with the incidence increasing sharply with age.
Because the symptoms disappear quickly, usually within minutes, people don’t seek immediate treatment, putting them at high risk for a bigger stroke.
Kramer felt some arm tingling over the next couple of days and saw her doctor, who found nothing alarming on a CT scan. But then she started “jumbling” her words and finally had a relative drive her to an emergency room.
By then, she could not sign her name. After an MRI, she recalled, “my doctor came in and said, ‘You’ve had a small stroke.’”
Did those early-morning aberrations constitute a TIA? Might a 911 call and an earlier start on anticlotting drugs have prevented her stroke? “We don’t know,” Kramer said. She’s doing well now, but faced with such symptoms again, “I would seek medical attention.”
Now, a large epidemiological study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, published in JAMA Neurology, points to another reason to take TIAs seriously: Over five years, study participants’ performance on cognitive tests after a TIA drops as steeply as it does among victims of a full-on stroke.
“If you have one stroke or one TIA, with no other event over time and no other change in your medical status, the rate of cognitive decline is the same,” said Victor Del Bene, a neuropsychologist and lead author of the study.
An accompanying editorial by Dr. Eric Smith, a neurologist at the University of Calgary, was pointedly headlined “Transient Ischemic Attack — Not So Transient After All!”
The study showed that even if the symptoms resolve — typically within 15 minutes to an hour — TIAs set people on a different cognitive slope later in life, Smith said in an interview: “a long-lasting change in people’s cognitive ability, possibly leading to dementia.”
The study, analyzing findings from data on more than 30,000 participants, followed three groups of adults over age 45 with no history of stroke or TIA. “It’s been a hard group to study because you lack the baseline data of how they were functioning prior to the TIA or stroke,” Del Bene said.
With this longitudinal study, however, researchers could separate those who went on to have a TIA from a group that went on to suffer a stroke and also from an asymptomatic control group. The team adjusted their findings for a host of demographic variables and health conditions.
Immediately after a TIA, “we don’t see an abrupt change in cognition,” as measured by cognitive tests administered every other year, Del Bene said. The stroke group showed a steep decline, but the TIA and control group participants “were more or less neck and neck.”
Five years later, the picture was different. People who had experienced TIAs were cognitively better off than those who had suffered strokes. But both groups were experiencing cognitive decline, and at equally steep rates.
Of course, most older adults do have other illnesses and risk factors, like heart disease, diabetes or smoking. “These things together work synergistically to increase the risk for cognitive decline and dementia over time,” Del Bene said.
The findings reinforce long-standing concerns that people experiencing TIAs don’t respond quickly enough. “These events are serious, acute and dangerous,” said Dr. Claiborne Johnston, a neurologist and chief medical officer of Harbor Health in Austin, Texas.
After a TIA, neurologists put the risk of a subsequent stroke within 90 days at 5% to 20%, with half that risk occurring in the first 48 hours.
“Feeling back to normal doesn’t mean you can ignore this, or delay and discuss it with your primary care doctor at your next visit,” Johnston said. The symptoms should
prompt a 911 call and an ER evaluation.
How to recognize a TIA? Dr. Tracy Madsen, a public health researcher and emergency medicine specialist at the University of Vermont, promotes the BE FAST acronym: balance loss, eyesight changes, facial drooping, arm weakness, speech problems. The T is for time, as in don’t waste any.
Unlike other urgent conditions, a TIA may not look dramatic or even be visible; patients themselves have to figure out how to respond.
Karen Howze, 74, a retired lawyer and a journalist in Reno, Nevada, didn’t realize that she’d had several TIAs until after a doctor noticed weakness on her right side and ordered an MRI. Years later, she still notices some effect on “my ability to recall words.”
Perhaps “transient ischemic attack” is too reassuring a label, Johnston and a co-author argued in a 2022 editorial in JAMA. They suggested that giving a TIA a scarier name, like “minor ischemic stroke,” would more likely prompt a 911 call.
The experts interviewed for this column all endorsed the idea of a name that includes the word “stroke.”
Changing medical practice is “frustratingly slow,” Johnston acknowledged. But whatever the nomenclature, keeping BE FAST in mind could lead to more examples like
Wanda Mercer.
In 2018, she donated at the bloodmobile outside her office in Austin, where she was a systems administrator for the University of Texas, then walked two blocks to a restaurant for lunch. “Waiting in line, I remember feeling a little lightheaded,” she said. “I woke up on the floor.”
Reviving, she assured the worried manager that she had merely fainted after giving blood. But the manager had called an ambulance — this was smart move No. 1.
The ER doctors ran tests, saw no problems, gave Mercer intravenous fluids and discharged her. “I began to tell my colleagues, ‘Guess what happened to me at lunch!’” she recalled. But, she said, she had lost her words: “I couldn’t articulate what I wanted to say.”
Smart move No. 2: Co-workers, suspecting a stroke, called the EMTs for the second time. “I was reluctant to go,” Mercer said. “But they were right.” This time, ER doctors diagnosed a minor stroke.
Mercer has had no recurrences. She takes a statin and a baby aspirin daily and sees her primary care doctor annually. Otherwise, at 73, she has retired to an active life of travel, pickleball, running, weightlifting and book groups.
“I’m very grateful,” she said, “that I have a happy story to tell.”
So-called transient ischemic attacks can eventually lead to cognitive declines as steep as those following a full-on stroke, new research finds. (Luisa Jung/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT
CORPORATION COMO
AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY FSB, SINDICO DEL FIDEICOMISO BOSCO CREDIT II TRUST SERIES 2017-1
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE REYNALDO GONZALEZ MOORE, COMPUESTA POR YOLANDA
MARIA GARCIA
FONSECA, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA CUOTA VIUDAL
USUFRUCTUARIA, SUS HEREDEROS MARITZA
GONZALEZ, CRISTINA GONZALEZ, CORALMARI GONZALEZ GARCIA Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA; DEPARTAMENTO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM), ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2019CV01140. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia,
Sala de Carolina, el 23 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Urbanización Villa Carolina, situada en el Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización con el número 1 de la manzana 195, con un área de 765.271 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en una distancia de 3.87 metros, en dos distancias en arco, una de 21.348 metros y otra de 9.425 metros, con “Switching Unit Right of Way” y la carretera principal de Campo Rico; por el Sur, en dos distancias, una de 24.00 metros y otra de 18.720 metros y colindan con los lotes número 82 y con el – del mismo bloque; por el Este; en una distancia de 17.421 metros, con la calle 535 y por el Oeste con tres alineaciones de 0.500 metros, 12.923 metros y 3.61 metros, con Switching Unit Right of Way. Inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 952 de Carolina II, finca 38,766, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. La Hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo 1405 folio 142 de Carolina Sur, finca 38,766, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección II, Inscripción 6ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VILLA CAROLINA, 1-195 CALLE 535, CAROLINA PR 00985. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: EMBARGO
ESTATAL: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Suma de la Carga: $12,176.44. Fecha: 26 de febrero de 2010. EMBARGO
ESTATAL: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Suma de la Carga: $30,626.59. Fecha: 13 de mayo de 2012. EMBARGO
ESTATAL: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Suma de la Carga: $28,024.08. Fecha: 8 de junio de 2015. EMBARGO
FEDERAL: Internal Revenue Service. Suma de la Carga: $24,671.20. Fecha: 8 de mayo de 2019. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubie-
re, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $153,750.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 30 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $102,500.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $76,875.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 8 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $145,081.74 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $99,864.58 en intereses acumulados al 1 de noviembre de 2021 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 7.00% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $13,320.90 en pagos de “Escrow”; $6,806.73 en cargos por demora; $5,848.48 en adelantos de gastos legales; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $15,375.00, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, los recargos pactados desde la fecha antes indicada, acumulándose mensualmente, y todas estas sumas son liquidas y exigibles. 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 Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 28 de abril de 2025. JOSÉ R. CRISTÓBAL, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #282. ***
LEGAL
NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO.
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante v. STEVE VILLAFAÑE QUIÑONES
Demandados
CIVIL NUM. FA2024CV00870. SOBRE: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESION EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO ENMENDADO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: STEVE VILLAFAÑE QUIÑONES
H1 CALLE G URB MONTE BRISAS 2
FAJARDO PR 00738 DE: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su contestación a la demanda a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar el original de su contestación a la demanda en la secretaría del tribunal correspondiente. 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. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar al 19
de julio de 2024, la cantidad de $20,126.37 de principal, más $3,082.70 de intereses acumulados a razón del 17.95% y los que se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda, $391.20 de cargos por demora y los que se acumulen hasta su total y completo pago de la deuda; más una suma equivalente al 5% 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.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos, Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 360786, San Juan PR 00936 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500, Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 22 de mayo de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, Secretario(a). LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, Sub-Secretario(a).
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN LA SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL MARTÍN
SIERRA SÁNCHEZ, COMPUESTA POR DIANA SIERRA BURGOS, T/C/C DIANNE SIERRA BURGOS, MANUEL SIERRA BURGOS, ERIKA SIERRA, T/C/C ERIKA SIERRA GONZÁLEZ, T/C/C ERICA SIERRA GONZÁLEZ, GLORIA ESTHER SIERRA OTERO Y JAIME; ANDRÉS
SIERRA OTERO; LA SUCESIÓN DE NICOLASA
CLAUDIO CLAUDIO
T/C/C APOLONIA
CLAUDIO CLAUDIO T/C/C
APOLONIA CLAUDIO
DE SIERRA Y JULIO
CÉSAR VIDAL CLAUDIO
COMPUESTA POR JULIO
CÉSAR VIDAL MORALES, LYZBETH VIDAL
MORALES Y NORILEEN
VIDAL VEGA
Demandantes V. CARMEN SIERRA CORDERO, EMILIA
SIERRA CORDERO, ANTHONY SIERRA CORDERO, REYNALDO
SIERRA CORDERO, EDUARDO SIERRA GONZÁLEZ Y ÁNGEL
SIERRA SOTO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV03948. Salón de Sesiones: 803. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: CARMEN SIERRA CORDERO, EMILIA
SIERRA CORDERO, ANTHONY SIERRA CORDERO, REYNALDO
SIERRA CORDERO, EDUARDO SIERRA GONZÁLEZ, ÁNGEL
SIERRA SOTODIRECCIONES DESCONOCIDAS.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y se notifica a la parte Demandada, que la parte Demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal la Demanda del caso de epígrafe en su contra. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite a usted por Edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. La representación legal de la parte Demandante es: Lcda. Patricia M. Morris Sánchez (RUA 23023) 911 Ave. De Diego Reparto Metropolitano, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00921 (787) 466-6233 | lcdamorris@gmail.com
Deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://unired.ramajudicialpr/sumac/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que, si no comparece usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días de la publicación de este Edicto, podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 14 de mayo de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IRIS OLIVO NÚÑEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SURIEL QUIÑONES RODRIGUEZ
Demandante V. DORAL MORTGAGE
CORPORATION Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV01800. (Salón: 803 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. IAN ALEJANDRO LEBRÓN WARDIANLEBRONWARD@GMAIL.COM. A: DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. (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 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 16 de mayo de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 16 de mayo de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. KAROLYN RIVERA NAVARRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR FEDERICO TORRES MARTÍNEZ
Demandantes V. SUCESION DE FELIPA BARRETO SOTO, COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ GREGORIO TORRES LÓPEZ, ELSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ, GREGSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ, PRIMITIVA REYES
TORRES, JAIME FERRER REYES, JULES TOWER MUÑIZ, EDELMIRO
TORRES ESPINOSA, RICHARD ROE
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2025CV00673. Sobre: PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA (USUCAPIÓN). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: RICHARD ROE. El Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Arecibo, Sala Superior, dictó la siguiente Orden: Vista la solicitud para la orden de notificación por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal autoriza y ordena que se le notifique por edicto la Demanda al Codemandado Richard Roe. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 (a) (c) de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6(a) (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo se continuará se le anotará la Rebeldía, el caso seguirá su trámite pudiéndose dictar Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del notificado, por no ser conocida. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente edicto. Dada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2025. F/JORGE F. RAÍCES ROMÁN, JUEZ SUPERIOR. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 15 de mayo de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR FEDERICO TORRES MARTÍNEZ Demandantes V. SUCESION DE FELIPA BARRETO SOTO, COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ GREGORIO TORRES LÓPEZ, ELSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ, GREGSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ, PRIMITIVA REYES TORRES, JAIME FERRER REYES, JULES TOWER MUÑIZ, EDELMIRO
TORRES ESPINOSA, RICHARD ROE
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AR2025CV00673. Sobre: PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA (USUCAPIÓN). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.
A: ELSIE TORRES LÓPEZ - 10423 RAVEN WOOD VIEW LANE, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77075.
El Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Arecibo, Sala Superior, dictó la siguiente Orden: Vista la solicitud para la orden de notificación por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal autoriza y ordena que se le notifique por edicto la Demanda al Codemandado ELSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 (a) (c) de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6(a) (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo se continuará se le anotará la Rebeldía, el caso seguirá su trámite pudiéndose dictar Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del notificado, por no ser conocida. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente edicto. Dada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2025. F/JORGE F. RAÍCES ROMÁN, JUEZ SUPERIOR. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 15 de mayo de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR FEDERICO
TORRES MARTÍNEZ Demandantes V. SUCESION DE FELIPA BARRETO SOTO, COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ GREGORIO
TORRES LÓPEZ, ELSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ, GREGSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ, PRIMITIVA REYES TORRES, JAIME FERRER
REYES, JULES TOWER MUÑIZ, EDELMIRO TORRES ESPINOSA, RICHARD ROE Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2025CV00673. Sobre: PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA (USUCAPIÓN). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: EDELMIRO
TORRES ESPINOSA.
El Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Arecibo, Sala Superior, dictó la siguiente Orden: Vista la solicitud para la orden de notificación por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal autoriza y ordena que se le notifique por edicto la Demanda al Codemandado Edelmiro Torres Espinosa. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 (a) (c) de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6(a) (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo se continuará se le anotará la Rebeldía, el caso seguirá su trámite pudiéndose dictar Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del notificado, por no ser conocida. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente edicto. Dada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2025. F/JORGE F. RAÍCES ROMÁN, JUEZ SUPERIOR. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 15 de mayo de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR FEDERICO TORRES MARTÍNEZ
Demandantes V. SUCESION DE FELIPA BARRETO SOTO, COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ GREGORIO TORRES LÓPEZ, ELSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ, GREGSIE M. TORRES LÓPEZ, PRIMITIVA REYES TORRES, JAIME FERRER REYES, JULES TOWER
MUÑIZ, EDELMIRO TORRES ESPINOSA, RICHARD ROE
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2025CV00673. Sobre: PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA (USUCAPIÓN).
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: JULES TOWER MUÑIZ.
El Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Arecibo, Sala Superior, dictó la siguiente Orden: Vista la solicitud para la orden de notificación por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal autoriza y ordena que se le notifique por edicto la Demanda al Codemandado JULES TOWER MUÑIZ. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 (a) (c) de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6(a) (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo se continuará se le anotará la Rebeldía, el caso seguirá su trámite pudiéndose dictar Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del notificado, por no ser conocida. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente edicto. Dada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2025. F/JORGE F. RAÍCES
ROMÁN, JUEZ SUPERIOR. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 15 de mayo de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR FEDERICO
TORRES MARTÍNEZ
Demandantes V. SUCESION DE FELIPA
BARRETO SOTO, COMPUESTA POR JOSÉ GREGORIO
TORRES LÓPEZ, ELSIE
M. TORRES LÓPEZ, GREGSIE M. TORRES
LÓPEZ, PRIMITIVA REYES
TORRES, JAIME FERRER
REYES, JULES TOWER MUÑIZ, EDELMIRO
TORRES ESPINOSA,
RICHARD ROE
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2025CV00673. Sobre: PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA (USUCAPIÓN). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: PRIMITIVA
REYES TORRES.
El Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Arecibo, Sala Superior, dictó la siguiente Orden: Vista la solicitud para la orden de notificación por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal autoriza y ordena que se le notifique por edicto la Demanda al Codemandado Primitiva Reyes Torres. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 (a) (c) de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6(a) (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo se continuará se le anotará la Rebeldía, el caso seguirá su trámite pudiéndose dictar Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del notificado, por no ser conocida. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente edicto. Dada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2025. F/JORGE F. RAÍCES ROMÁN, JUEZ SUPERIOR. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 15 de mayo de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. KENLLA O. ÁNGELES OZORIA; MANUEL DE JESÚS ÁLVAREZ DEL ROSARIO, PARTE CON INTERÉS
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV00411. (802). 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: KENLLA O. ÁNGELES
OZORIA; MANUEL DE JESÚS ÁLVAREZ DEL ROSARIO, PARTE CON INTERÉS.
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 les advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de San Juan, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante les notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda sus últimas direcciones conocidas: a la codemandada, Kenlla O. Ángeles Ozoria, a: Renaissance Square, 65 Calle Quisqueya Edif. B1 Apt., San Juan, PR 00917; y al codemandado, Manuel De Jesús Álvarez Del Rosario, a: Urb. Caparra Terrace, Calle 18SO #1310, San Juan, PR 00921. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 22 de mayo de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE OMAYRA
MÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDO RODOLFO VÉLEZ LAMBOY, POR SÍ; SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO RODOLFO JOEL VÉLEZ MÉNDEZ, ZULEYKA ÁLVAREZ MÉNDEZ, OMAYRA GONZÁLEZ MÉNDEZ Y JULYANA GONZÁLEZ MÉNDEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN; AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AG2025CV00410. 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: RODOLFO JOEL VÉLEZ MÉNDEZ, ZULEYKA ÁLVAREZ MÉNDEZ, OMAYRA GONZÁLEZ MÉNDEZ Y JULYANA GONZÁLEZ MÉNDEZ, COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE OMAYRA MÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE OMAYRA MÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ - URB. JARDINES DE RINCON, CALLE 2, B-27, RINCON PR 00677.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 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: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, 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. 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, RÚA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico a 22 de mayo de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
GILDA DEL ROSARIO RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ
Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: GB2025CV00242. (Salón: 201). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
CAROL SOSA SANTIAGOC.SOSASANTIAGO@GMAIL.COM. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 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 22 de mayo de 2025. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. LILINET RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ, CARLOS ANDRÉS SÁNCHEZ GONZÁLEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: TA2025CV00029. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN DE VEHÍCULO DE MOTOR (10 L.P.R.A. § 2423). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CARLOS ANDRÉS SÁNCHEZ GONZÁLEZ, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON LILINET RAMOS RODRÍGUEZ. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe, donde se le reclama el pago de una deuda ascendente al 8 de octubre de 2024 a $95,588.74. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Emplazamiento por 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 Bayamón, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Emplazamiento por 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 Emplazamiento por Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias de la Demanda y del Emplazamiento por Edicto a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Urb. Mansiones de Montecasino, H15 Calle Codorniz, Toa Alta, PR 00953; y Urb. Mansiones de Montecasino, 294 Calle Codorniz, Toa Alta, PR 00953. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 22 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA.
VIVÍAN J. SANABRIA, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC, F/K/A KONDAUR CAPITAL, LLC
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN GILBERTO PÉREZ
CRESPO COMPUESTA POR BETHZAIDA PÉREZ
VÁZQUEZ, ABEL PÉREZ VÁZQUEZ, OTONIEL PÉREZ VÁZQUEZ, LOZANIA PÉREZ
VÁZQUEZ, FÉLIX JOEL
PÉREZ ORTIZ, OMAR PÉREZ ORTIZ, DANAIS NICOLE PÉREZ ORTIZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLE HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN Y SU VIUDA, ELSIE VAZQUEZ CARABALLO, CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados
Civil Núm.: LM2018CV00015.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA IN REM. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN GILBERTO PÉREZ
CRESPO COMPUESTA
POR LOZANIA PÉREZ
VÁZQUEZ, FÉLIX JOEL
PÉREZ ORTIZ, OMAR
PÉREZ ORTIZ, DANAIS NICOLE PÉREZ ORTIZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLE HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS ON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN.
Queden emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto y deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), el cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, 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 licenciado Andrés Sáez Marrero, 623 Ponce de León Avenue, Executive Building, Ste. 1100A-2, San Juan, PR 00917, Tel. (561) 338-4101, correo electrónico, asaez@tmpllc.com, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. 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. 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. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 16 de mayo de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL. JOSSIE D. BOBÉ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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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. REBECCA RODRIGUEZ CRUZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2022CV08082. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA:
PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM.
MARINILDA RIVERA VARGASMRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COM.
A: REBECCA RODRÍGUEZ CRUZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de 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 22 de mayo de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ D. HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
CARRINGTON
MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC
Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2023CV03608.
(Salón: 802). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GENEVIEVE LOPEZ STIPESLCDA.GLOPEZ@GMAIL.COM.
A: ROSA CARMINA RAMÍREZ RIVERA,
FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE
DESCONOCIDOS, Y SUCESIÓN DE JANET
CARVALLO SANTOS COMPUESTA POR ROBERTO VELÁZQUEZ CARABALLO, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMELO CARABALLO FUENTES T/C/C CARMELO CARABALLO FU. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 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 22 de mayo de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. EL SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO T/C/C SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF WASHINGTON (HUD) POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2025CV00060. (Salón: 601 CIVIL SUPERIOR).
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM. A: CARLOS RAFAEL MALDONADO RODRÍGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD DE WANDA MENDOZA RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 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 21 de mayo de 2025. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 21 de mayo de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. JOAN ROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LUIS J. SANCHEZ BENJAMIN
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TJ2024CV00601. (Civil: 409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOSJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM. A: LUIS J. SANCHEZ BENJAMIN. (Nombre de las partes que se le
notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de 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 21 de mayo de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 21 de mayo de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. BELITZA GONZALEZ SOLANO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2025CV00126. (Civil: 402). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM.
A: BELINDA GONZALEZ RIVERA, JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ A FAVOR DE EQUITY MORTGAGE
BANKERS INC. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de 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 22 de mayo de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2025.
KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. LOURDES T. DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO GLORIBÍ RODRÍGUEZ FUENTES; LUIS DANIEL SOTO SANTIAGO
EX-PARTE
Peticionarios
Civil Núm.: AI2024CV00467. Salón Núm.: 002. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. RESOLUCIÓN. POR CUANTO:
La parte Peticionaria de epígrafe, Gloribí Rodríguez Fuentes y Luis Daniel Soto Santiago, mayores de edad, casados entre sí, empleados y vecinos de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, al adquirir la propiedad y presentar este caso, por conducto del licenciado Jorge Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, presentaron Petición bajo juramento y por escrito para que se acredite a su favor el exceso de cabida sobre el bien inmueble que a continuación se describe: “RÚSTICA”: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Palo Hincado del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial CERO PUNTO DOS MIL QUINIENTOS CUARENTA Y CUATRO CUERDAS (0.2544 CDAS.), equivalente a MIL PUNTO CERO CIENTO SESENTA Y TRES METROS (1,000.0163 M.C.), en lindes por el NORTE, con Mario Colón Malavé; por el SUR, con camino municipal, por el ESTE, con Mario Colón Malavé y por el OESTE, con Solar número dos. POR CUANTO: Surge de la Certificación reciente del Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Barranquitas, el hecho de que la propiedad objeto de la solicitud del Expediente de Dominio por exceso de cabida consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Barranquitas, al Folio Karibe, Finca 11,327 de Barranquitas. POR CUANTO: La parte Peticionaria adquirió la finca descrita por escritura número 26, del 20 de julio de 2022, otorgada en Barranquitas, Puerto Rico,
ante el Notario Carlos E. Berríos Beauchamp de manos de Johana Enid Colón Rivera, mayor de edad, casada con Víctor Rivera Colón, Yolanda Ivelisse Colón Rivera, mayor de edad, casada con Isabelo Ortiz Ortiz, Ismael y Mario Rafael, ambos de apellidos Colón Rivera, mayores de edad, solteros, todos empleados y vecinos de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. POR CUANTO: La finca objeto de este caso existe por lo menos desde 1983. POR CUANTO: A la finca descrita en el primer POR CUANTO de esta Resolución se le practicó una mensura por parte del Ing. Israel Torres Colón, el cual está admitido a ejercer la agrimensura en Puerto Rico, surgiendo un exceso de cabida, y habiéndose cumplido con todos los trámites legales correspondientes, la misma reflejo la siguiente cabida: “RÚSTICA”: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Palo Hincado del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial UNO PUNTO CERO, CEINTO SESENTA Y NUEVE CUERDAS (1.0169 CDAS.), equivalente a TRES MIL NOVECIENTOS NOVENTA Y SEIS PUNTO OCHO MIL DIEZ METROS (3,996.8010 m.c.), en lindes por el NORTE, con Juana Ortiz Negrón; por el SUR, con camino municipal; por el ESTE, con Luis Santiago Santiago y por el OESTE, con José B. Hernández Padilla. POR CUANTO: La cabida exacta de la propiedad de la parte Peticionaria es la anotada en el “quinto” POR CUANTO de esta Resolución. POR CUANTO: Consta en los autos copia de las notificaciones cursadas a todas las siguientes posibles partes interesadas: a) a los colindantes; b) al Secretario del Departamento de Transportación y Obras Públicas; c) al Fiscal de Distrito, al d) al Alcalde de Barranquitas, e) Luma Energy, f) Autoridad Acueductos y Alcantarillados y g) dueños anteriores y además consta copia de los cuatro emplazamientos a los dueños anteriores, esto por tratarse de un exceso de cabida. Las notificaciones aludidas fueron realizadas mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo y entrega personal en el caso de los emplazamientos. POR CUANTO: Se autorizó la publicación de edictos en los cuales se describió la propiedad objeto de este procedimiento, citándose a cualquier persona ignorada a quien pudiera perjudicar la inscripción solicitada y a los que tuvieran en el inmueble derecho real. POR CUANTO: Tales edictos fueron publicados los días 31 de octubre, 7 y 14 de noviembre de 2024, en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star; periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Así consta de la copia del edicto publicado y de la declaración
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 mayo de 2025. En Coamo, Puerto Rico, el 21 de mayo de 2025. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria. Maria Del C. Mercado Fuentes, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
INGRID
RODRIGUEZ ALVAREZ
Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AR2025CV00583. (Salón: 402 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ
EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JORGE GARCÍA RONDÓNJAFGRONDON@OUTLOOK.COM.
A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 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 22 de mayo de 2025. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN
SALVADOR ENRIQUE RAMIREZ ARROYO
Demandante V. CELIA MARIA RIVERA CARDONA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SS2022CV00508. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EDUARDO R. ESTADES RODRIGUEZ - ESTADESER@MICROJURIS.COM. A: MARIA PROVIDENCIA CARDONA FUENTES, ANIBAL ENRIQUE BAEZ RIVERA, NATALIE MARIE
BAEZ RIVERA, ENRIQUE BAEZ ORENGO.
(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 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 23 de mayo de 2025. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 23 de mayo de 2025. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. Laura Lugo Crespo, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
DEUTSCHE BANK
NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR GSAMP TRUST 2007-SEA1, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-SEA1
Demandante V.
BLANCA IRIS ROSA GONZALEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2025CV00505
(Civil: 407). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JUAN C. SALICHSJSALICHS@SPLAWPR.COM.
A: FULANO Y SUTANO 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 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 23 de mayo de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 23 de mayo de 2025. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Denisse Minerva Torres Ruiz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. VICTORIA BURGOS TORRES
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2024CV01521. (Salón: 703). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN ANTONIO RUIZ ROBLESJUAN.RUIZ@ORF-LAW.COM. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: VICTORIA BURGOS TORRESHC 45 BOX 10324 , CAYEY PR 00736-9627.
(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 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 20 de mayo de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 20 de mayo de 2025. Irasemis Díaz Sánchez, Secretaria. Mariel Cruz Rodríguez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
Estado LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. CARLOS J. MORALES PEREZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: NJ2024CV00125. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Osvaldo L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: CARLOS J. MORALES PÉREZ.
(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 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 20 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de mayo de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Sandra Báez Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal. LEGAL NOTICE
Estado LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. RAFAEL A. SERRA COLON
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2024CV00330. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ
FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: RAFAEL A. SERRA COLÓN.
(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 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 20 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO -SUPERIOR
LIME HOMES, LTD Vs FELIX DAVILA, LUIS ANTONIO
Caso: HSCI201400969. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: LUIS ANTONIO FELIX DAVILA - DIRECCIÓN: PO BOX 4956 SUITE 1213 CAGUAS PR 00725 - P/C LCDO WENDELL W COLON MUNOZ A SU DIRECCION DE RECORD. EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 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 23 de mayo de 2025. Lic. Colón Muñoz, Wendell W. colonlawoffice@yahoo.com. Se expide notificación de sentencia por edicto según orden emitida el 16 de mayo de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 23 de mayo de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA INTERINA. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SINDICO DE R&G MORTGAGE
CORPORATION Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TA2025CV00366
(Salón: 501). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NO-
TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARITZA DEL CARMEN GUZMÁN MATOS - MGUZMAN@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR. COM.
A: APEX BANK; JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 15 de 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 23 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 23 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LARES MIGUEL ORLANDO GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ
Demandante Vs ORLANDO TORRES LOPEZ, SU ESPOSA JUANA DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandada
Civil Núm.: LR2025CV00105. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: ORLANDO TORRES LOPEZ, JUANA DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR
ESTOS.
El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Utuado, dictó la siguiente providencia: “El Tribunal ha examinado la
Demanda y la “MOCIÓN SOLICITUD DE (sic) EXPIDA EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y SOLICITANDO SE DEJE SIN EFECTO DE (sic) VISTA”, presentada esta última el 19 de mayo de 2025. De estas surge que Orlando Torres Lopez, Juana Doe y la Sociedad Legal Bienes Gananciales compuesta por estos, son partes necesarias y legítimas en el pleito, y que existe contra ellos una reclamación que justifica la concesión de un remedio, se ordena su emplazamiento mediante la publicación de edicto. Dicho edicto se publicará una (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Se dispone que se les envíe a Orlando Torres Lopez, Juana Doe y la Sociedad Legal Bienes Gananciales compuesta por estos, copia de esta orden, el emplazamiento y la demanda presentada, dentro de los diez (10) días de la fecha de la publicación del edicto, a su última dirección conocida mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo. Se ordena a la Secretaría del Tribunal expedir el emplazamiento por edicto correspondiente.” 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. La representación legal de la Parte Demandante es la Lcda. Nayda N. Velázquez Morales, Calle Muñoz Rivera #10, Lares, P.R. 00669 Tel.: 787-897-3112; 787-236-7848. Correo electrónico: nayda.velazquez@gmail. com. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal para su publicación, en Lares, Puerto Rico, hoy día 19 de mayo de 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YANELLY PÉREZ SOTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Nationals disaster: Soto and Harper are long gone
By KEN ROSENTHAL / THE ATHLETIC
If you are identifying baseball’s perennial bottom feeders, the Colorado Rockies come immediately to mind, with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Chicago White Sox and the Miami Marlins also in the conversation.
The Washington Nationals belong, too.
Since winning the 2019 World Series, the Nationals ranked third in the majors in losses through Monday, behind the topranked (or bottom-ranked) Rockies and the Pirates. They have recorded four consecutive 90-loss campaigns and could easily collect a fifth this season.
A lack of investment is partly to blame. The Nationals opened with a top-10 payroll seven out of eight seasons from 2014 to 2021 but in the past three years have averaged in the bottom 10.
A perhaps even bigger problem is the team’s failures in player development, as well as amateur and international scouting, going back more than a decade — failures that the spectacular return for Juan Soto at the 2022 trade deadline can mask only so much.
Good teams both spend and develop. The Nationals do neither. So while the Nats hold the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft, selecting in the same spot where they landed Stephen Strasburg in 2009 and Bryce Harper in 2010, the end of their rebuild is not necessarily in sight.
Even if the Nationals raise hope of a turnaround by avoiding their seventh straight losing season, their timing might be off. For pitcher MacKenzie Gore and shortstop CJ Abrams, two of the key players acquired from the San Diego Padres by Mike Rizzo, the president of baseball operations, for Soto and first baseman Josh
Bell, free agency is an object closer than it might appear.
Gore, the major league leader in strikeouts, is at the same level of service Soto was when the Nationals traded him — two-plus years away from hitting the open market. Abrams, tied for fifth among shortstops in Baseball Reference’s wins above replacement, is three-plus years away.
Extensions? Not likely for Gore and two other potential building blocks — outfielder James Wood, the most promising player acquired for Soto, and outfielder Dylan Crews, the second overall pick in 2023. All are represented by agent Scott Boras, who generally prefers his clients to establish their values on the open market.
Abrams, represented by Roc Nation, “held substantive discussions” with the Nationals regarding an extension in the spring of 2024, according to The Washington Post. But the Nats’ interest in keeping Abrams long term is unclear after they demoted him for the final nine days of the 2024 regular season over what the team described as an internal matter.
Even if the Nationals want to retain Abrams, their track record of extending core players is not good. Strasburg twice was an exception, signing an extension, then re-signing as a free agent. Harper and third baseman Anthony Rendon left as free agents (in Rendon’s case, it proved to be a blessing for the team). Soto and shortstop Trea Turner were traded — Soto after the Nationals offered him a 15-year, $440 million deal that fell short of his price in free agency by $325 million.
Among current Nationals, the only player signed beyond next season is catcher Keibert Ruiz, whom Rizzo acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers at the 2021 deadline as part of the return for Turner and pitcher Max Scherzer. That deal, along with the trade of Kyle Schwarber and others, marked the start of the Nationals’ rebuild.
Ruiz, in the third year of an eight-year, $50 million deal, was one of the worst catchers in the game in 2023 and 2024. He opened the current season on an offensive tear but has since regressed. According to
Washington Nationals’ Juan Soto hits a homer in the seventh inning of Game Five of the World Series against the Houston Astros in Washington on Oct. 27, 2019. Since winning the 2019 World Series, the Nationals ranked third in the majors in losses through Monday. The spectacular return for Soto at the 2022 trade deadline can mask only so much. (Doug Mills/ The New York Times)
Statcast, he continues to rate poorly as a blocker and a framer, and is only average as a thrower.
The potential exits of Gore, Abrams and others would be of less concern if the Nationals’ farm system regularly spit out potential replacements. But since 2013, the Nationals have drafted and developed only three players with career WAR above 5.0. Those three — Nick Pivetta, Erick Fedde, Jesús Luzardo — made their marks with other teams.
The Nationals recently promoted a fourth player from the Soto-Bell trade, outfielder Robert Hassell III. A fifth, hardthrowing right-hander Jarlin Susana, is on the injured list at Double-A with a mild sprain of his ulnar collateral ligament.
Among the other team’s other prospects, third baseman Brady House, the 11th pick in 2021, is performing well at Triple-A, while right-hander Travis Sykora, the 71st pick in 2023, is dominating HighA.
Yet even if the Nationals hit on all of those players, Wood is perhaps their only young hitter capable of reaching Harper/ Soto/Turner-type stardom. And it’s not as if the ownership group headed by Mark Le -
rner were showing any inclination to spend the way it did for much of the 2010s. That raises the question of how the Nationals will handle the No. 1 pick. Will they go for the highest upside and draft a high school shortstop like Jackson Holliday’s younger brother, Ethan? Or will they go for a college pitcher who might not be worthy of the first overall selection but could get to the majors quicker?
Rizzo, who signed a contract extension of unspecified length in September 2023, does not appear to be under pressure. The Lerner group took control of the team in May 2006. Rizzo has run baseball operations since March 2009. Davey Martinez became the manager in October 2017. If the Nationals give off an insular vibe, it might be because the ownership knows only Rizzo’s way.
In July 2022, Rizzo told “The Sports Junkies” on WFJK 106.7: “This is a reboot year. We don’t call it a rebuild because a rebuild is a five- or six-year process. I think this is a shorter reboot. We’ve shown in the past we know how to do these things.” Alas, the promise of a shorter reboot is gone. And time no longer is on the Nationals’ side.
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