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DDEC promotes reshoring of manufacturing at national summit
By THE STAR STAFF
Economic Development and Commerce Secretary
Sebastián Negrón Reichard is participating this week in the SelectUSA Investment Summit, the premier investment promotion event in the United States. He is part of the official Puerto Rican delegation led by Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, which aims to position the island as a strategic destination for the reshoring of manufacturing companies.
The event in Maryland, organized by the federal Commerce Department, brings together investors from around the world with state and territorial leaders, federal agencies and representatives of strategic economic zones to promote foreign direct investment in the United States. Puerto Rico is being highlighted as one of the top locations for establishing and expanding operations in key sectors such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, technology, advanced manufacturing and business services.
“The relocation of critical industries is a national priority, and Puerto Rico has the infrastructure, talent, and experience to be an essential part of this effort,” González Colón said. “SelectUSA provides us with an opportunity to showcase our potential to investors worldwide. Our participation in SelectUSA reaffirms my administration’s commitment to innovation and economic growth. We aim to remain a key jurisdiction for manufacturing, technology, and business services in the United States.”
Negrón Reichard emphasized that “Puerto Rico’s participation in SelectUSA underscores our determination to position the island as one of the most competitive jurisdictions for investment and operational expansion in the U.S.”
“Our presence is especially relevant in light of the current national debate on manufacturing security, the reshoring of critical industries, and the opportunities presented by proposals like the Medical Manufacturing, Economic Development, and Sustainability (MMEDS) Act.”
The MMEDS Act, recently reintroduced in the U.S. Congress, proposes tax incentives for companies that establish operations in economically disadvantaged areas of the country. The legislation represents a significant opportunity for Puerto Rico due to its integral role in the national supply chain for medical and pharmaceutical products. The island boasts over 50 FDA-certified facilities, 70 years of industrial experience, and a highly qualified workforce.
“Puerto Rico offers a competitive and strategic alternative within the United States for companies seeking global market access, stability, and operational efficiency,” said Ella Woger-Nieves, CEO of InvestPR. “Our participation in SelectUSA for the sixth consecutive year demonstrates our
The official Puerto Rican delegation to the SelectUSA Investment Summit aims to position the island as a strategic destination for the reshoring of manufacturing companies.
ongoing commitment to positioning the island as a hub of innovation and advanced manufacturing. With a proven legacy in life sciences, world-class logistics capabilities, and a highly skilled workforce, Puerto Rico is prepared to play a leading role in this new phase of industrial relocation.”
Moreover, Puerto Rico’s involvement in this forum coincides with recent statements from President Donald Trump, who reiterated his commitment to bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing back to U.S. soil as a national security priority. In this context, Puerto Rico -- due to its established capacity, federal jurisdiction, and extensive experience -- represents the most immediate, scalable, and strategic option to realize this vision, island officials emphasized.
“Reshoring is no longer just an aspiration; it is a necessity and a public policy priority at both national and local levels,” Negrón Reichard said. “The island is not only ready, it already has the infrastructure, human capital, and a robust framework of incentives to play a crucial role in this economic repositioning proposed by the president.”
During the event, the Puerto Rican delegation, which also includes Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration Executive Director Gabriella Boffelli, will hold more than 100 meetings with international companies interested in expanding operations in the U.S. and will showcase priority industrial development projects that are part of the current administration’s economic agenda.
Governor pulls Garffer nomination for secretary of state
Rivera Schatz touts Bayamón first lady as worthy replacement
By THE STAR STAFF
Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz suggested on social media on Tuesday that Narel Waleska Colón, the first lady of Bayamón, should be considered for the position of secretary of state.
The statement followed his warning on Monday to then-secretary of state nominee Arturo Garffer, emphasizing that while he acknowledges Garffer’s career and professional qualifications, he would not be confirmed if he does not meet the constitutional requirements.
Candidates for secretary of state must have lived in Puerto Rico for five years prior to their nomination.
The State Elections Commission revealed this week that Garffer has not voted in Puerto Rico since 2012, although he has participated in elections in Florida.
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón later on Tuesday withdrew Garffer’s nomination.
Rivera Schatz stated that “Ramón Luis Rivera Jr., our mayor of Bayamón, is a person who is loved, admired, and respected throughout Puerto Rico, particularly within the ranks of the New Progressive Party (NPP). He is a leader whom our people truly and unquestionably love!”
“The first lady of Bayamón, in addition to being the mayor’s wife, possesses exceptional merits, professional attributes, and credentials!” the Senate president added in his post.
The governor in a statement said “I promised
the people of Puerto Rico a government with the best talent available and I have done so. With that mission, I have tried to have at my side a group of professionals I trust to help me in the agenda that we promised to the People of Puerto Rico and for which I asked for a full vote for my party.”
“For this reason, I appointed General Arthur Garffer to the position of Secretary of State with the firm conviction that he meets all the requirements of the position and that he could contribute to Puerto Rico with his relations with Congress and the White House,” the governor said. “Everyone knows my position of respect and admiration for all Puerto Ricans who have dedicated their lives to the defense of our
American Nation around the world.”
“However, the president of the Senate has publicly reported that the General does not meet the residency requirements,” González Colón said. “This, despite being in the same position as Captain Elmer Román who was confirmed to that position in 2020. However, and although I disagree, I respect the constitutional power of the Senate not to endorse my appointments. It would not be fair to expose a nominee of Garffer’s caliber to a Senate confirmation process again with no real chance. In the face of this difficult situation, I have decided to withdraw the appointment of General Garffer and keep him in his position as Secretary of the Department of Public Safety. Let our people be assured that I will not take a step back in my commitment to continue working without losing focus and being distracted by unnecessary fights.”
Rivera Schatz, in a statement issued subsequently to the governor’s, said he supported her decision to withdraw the Garffer’s nomination and agreed that insisting on an appointment without constitutional requirements would be an “unnecessary fight.”
“I fully agree with our Governor Jenniffer González; insisting on appointments that do not meet constitutional criteria or the expectations of the Puerto Rican people for faithful compliance with the law would be a totally unnecessary fight,” the Senate leader said. “She is right to withdraw it. We learn from every experience and grow!”
Rivera Schatz emphasized his willingness to continue collaborating with the government for the benefit of the people. “Congratulations, Governor!” he added. “In the Senate to serve the Puerto Rican people.”
Lawmaker proposes 35% discount on traffic fines
By THE STAR STAFF
To assist in collecting administrative traffic fines, including those related to lacking a current inspection sticker, José “Cheito” Hernández Concepción, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has introduced a bill that offers a 35% discount on the principal amount owed, along with a 100% discount on interest, surcharges and penalties.
House Bill 602 also provides a 50% discount for drivers who enroll in a payment plan for traffic fines and a 35% discount for those associated with the Autoexpreso system.
“Many drivers have outstanding traffic debts, some of which date back years. This measure aims to facilitate the collection of these debts by creating a viable incentive plan for both drivers and the Financial Oversight and Management Board,” the San Juan District 3 lawmaker said. “As a
result, the government will receive funds it previously did not expect. While we help drivers update their accounts, we also make it easier for them to obtain their license plates and the necessary insurance, which is essential.”
It has been nine years since the last incentive program was implemented.
“The shift from the vehicle license fee payment system (marbete) to a digital one has created challenges in processing fines, which must be addressed promptly, given the burdens faced by Puerto Ricans,” Hernández Concepción noted. “By approving this law, we recognize that the last similar incentive offered by the Legislative Assembly was in 2016, and it was both justified and successful at that time. We are confident that by 2025, this new mechanism will also prove to be effective.”
The incentive program would last for 90 calendar days. During this period, all drivers would be able to renew their licenses without any restrictions.
Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz (Facebook via Thomas Rivera Schatz)
Rep. José Hernández Concepción
House passes bill to mandate teaching of US history in vocational schools
By THE STAR STAFF
The island House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a measure facilitated by Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez that mandates the Department of Education to design and integrate into the general curriculum of vocational schools the academic requirement for history classes, including U.S. history courses.
House Bill 31 was filed through a direct petition mechanism by students enrolled at Ana Delia Flores Santana Vocational School in Fajardo, as well as by social studies teacher Iliana Díaz.
“The Social Studies-History Program in the Magnet School curriculum has much room for improvement. In particular, we must ensure that the program includes elective courses in United States History, Sociology, Economics, Labor Relations, Electoral Processes, and other courses approved by qualified Department of Education personnel for the benefit of participating students,” the students stated in the measure’s preamble.
“Social studies education, both for high school students and those attending vocational schools, must be broad and
encompass as many topics as possible,” they added. “An education limited to the participant’s socioeconomic background has the serious effect of limiting their vision within a modern, globalized world that requires highly specialized knowledge. This is particularly crucial in historical times when a country’s economic growth depends largely on having a working class with the skills, abilities, and experience necessary to perform jobs that require specific and sophisticated skills.”
The 2018 Education Reform (Law 85-2018) establishes a new teaching model for vocational schools known as “magnet schools,” a platform that seeks to implement an educational system in which each vocational school provides academic and occupational offerings through diverse study programs.
The Social Studies-History Program courses currently available to students participating in Puerto Rican public vocational school programs are very limited, the sponsors of the bill noted. This is because, pursuant to Administrative Memo No. 12-2014-2015, the current curriculum in vocational schools only includes Puerto Rican history as a graduation requirement at the higher education level.
That reality limits the knowledge that students in vo-
cational schools can acquire, the bill’s proponents said, particularly compared to other young people in the island’s public education system who benefit from more comprehensive courses.
The measure now goes to the Senate for consideration.
By THE STAR STAFF
The family of María Milagros Díaz Rosario, a 66-year-old patient who underwent a kidney transplant at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in Hato Rey, is urgently requesting blood donations due to post-surgical complications.
Díaz Rosario has been hospitalized for more than a month and has undergone surgery three times, which has generated a critical need for blood.
Lorena Sánchez Vargas, Díaz Rosario’s granddaughter, shared her anguish on social networks and appealed to the heart of the community: “She is my grandmother, a dialysis patient. We have been in the hospital for a month after the transplant. She has already undergone three operations.
By THE STAR STAFF
Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo announced on Tuesday the completion of the restoration of the La Puntilla Sector Pumping Station, with an investment of $430,906 to reinforce the rainwater system and reduce the risk of flooding. “With this delivery we reinforce the commitment to provide our people of La Puntilla, and surrounding areas, with a modern and reliable pumping system,” Alicea Vasallo said in a written statement.
For years, the community of La Puntilla has faced recurrent flooding after heavy rains and storm surges, affecting homes, businesses and road infrastructure, especially during hurricane season.
The blood bank continues to ask us for donors. Anyone who can donate or share this information, my family and I will thank you.”
Pablo Adán Díaz Cosme, the producer and host of the podcast “Discútelo con Pablito,” who is a nephew of Díaz Rosario, also called for solidarity: “My aunt is fighting for her life. Today she needs something that many of us can give without losing anything: blood. Every drop can make a difference.”
The Blood Donor Center, located in front of Auxilio Mutuo Hospital, is coordinating the necessary donations. Those interested in donating can contact Ms. Irizarry at (787) 467-8919, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and should mention the patient’s name.
Blood donations sought for kidney transplant patient with post-surgery complications Restoration
The project included the installation of three vertical-type axial flow pumps, automated to activate when critical water levels are detected, the manufacture of stainless steel electrical panels, structural improvements and vandal-proof equipment.
“We continue to transform our town with priority works that really make a difference and raise the quality of life of our people,” the mayor said.
Alicea Vasallo stressed that the work is part of a sustainable development strategy based on planning and the efficient execution of municipal, state and federal funds. According to the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience, better known as COR3, the municipal administration has reached 100% execution of federal funds.
House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez
Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo
María Milagros Díaz Rosario
Trump’s plan to accept luxury jet from Qatar strains bounds of propriety
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
During President Donald Trump’s first term, the idea that special interests and governments were buying meals and booking rooms at his hotels set off legal and ethical alarms about the potential for corruption.
Trump’s second term is making those concerns look trivial.
The administration’s plan to accept a $400 million luxury jet from the Qatari royal family is only the latest example of an increasingly no-holds-barred atmosphere in Washington under Trump 2.0. Not only would the famously transactional chief executive be able to use the plane while in office, but he is also expected to transfer it to his presidential foundation once he leaves the White House.
The second Trump administration is showing striking disdain for onetime norms of propriety and for traditional legal and political guardrails around public service. It is clearly emboldened, in part because of the Supreme Court’s ruling last year that granted immunity to presidents for their official actions and because of the political reality that Trump’s hold on the Republican Party means he need not fear impeachment.
He has also found other ways to extract money from tech companies. Amazon reportedly paid $40 million for the rights to stream a future documentary about the first lady, Melania Trump.
Meta agreed to pay $25 million to the nonprofit that will build and run Trump’s future presidential museum, settling a lawsuit over Facebook’s suspension of his account after his lies about the 2020 election culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Corporate owners of news media organizations are also settling lawsuits with Trump that many media lawyers had considered winnable. ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to the Trump museum foundation.
Paramount, which needs Trump administration approval for a sale to a Hollywood studio, is considering a similar settlement with Trump in a lawsuit he brought against one of its subsidiaries, CBS News, over how “60 Minutes” edited an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris last year.
Trump’s inaugural committee raked in $239 million from wealthy business interests hoping to curry his favor or at least avoid his wrath, more than doubling the previous record, $107 million, set by his inaugural committee in 2017. There is no way to spend a quarter of a billion dollars on dinners and events, and the committee has not said what will happen to leftover funds.
Before returning to office, Trump also started a meme cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, which allows crypto investors around the world to enrich him. His family has already made millions on transaction fees, and its own reserve of the digital coin is worth billions on paper.
This month, Trump went further by auctioning off faceto-face access to him through sales of the coin, announcing that top buyers would get a private dinner at one of his golf courses and that the largest holders would get a tour of the White House. The contest injected new interest in the coin, even though it has no intrinsic value.
The removal of such constraints extends to law enforcement.
In April, the Trump administration disbanded a Justice Department unit dedicated to investigating cryptocurrency crimes.
Earlier, Trump had also ordered the department to suspend enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it a crime for companies that operate in the United States to bribe foreign officials.
And Attorney General Pam Bondi, herself a former highly paid lobbyist for Qatar, narrowed enforcement of a
law requiring lobbyists for foreign governments to register such relationships and disclose what they are paid.
The administration has not made public its legal analysis concerning the agreement with Qatar.
A person familiar with the matter said that Bondi had personally signed a Justice Department memo blessing the plan as lawful, although the person added that it had been drafted and cleared by lawyers in the department’s Office of Legal Counsel.
To be sure, aspects of the cultural shift predate Trump. In 2016, the Supreme Court unanimously made it harder to prosecute public officials for corruption by narrowing what counts as an “official act” for federal bribery laws, vacating the graft conviction of a former Virginia governor.
And Washington has always been a place where money and politics can mix in unseemly ways, with no party having a monopoly on people eager to exploit public office for private gain.
But the current moment, coming as Trump’s crypto gambit merges into his intended acquisition of a Qatari plane, is particularly remarkable for the openness with which the president, his immediate family and entities in his orbit are unabashedly leveraging his position to accrue personal benefits or to otherwise advance his personal agenda separate from governmental policymaking.
Trump has pressured several major law firms to donate tens of millions of dollars in free legal services toward his favored causes, using the threat of official actions, like prohibitions on them and their clients from government business, as a cudgel. (Other law firms have fought his directives in court, with growing success.)
Trump’s plan for the Qatari plane appears to be to use it as Air Force One until the end of his presidency, while Boeing finishes building a new generation of presidential aircraft. The Pentagon would then transfer it to his museum foundation. (He called it his “library,” but presidential libraries are research facilities run by the National Archives. They often adjoin museums run by private foundations that are dedicated to former presidents.)
Trump compared that plan to one by Ronald Reagan’s museum in Simi Valley, California, where a presidential Boeing 707 is now a star attraction. But that plane was at the end of its life span — it had been used as Air Force One from 1973 to 2001 before being decommissioned. It also remains the property of the Air Force and is merely on permanent loan.
The Qatari plane will still be nearly new in 2029, raising the question of whether Trump’s museum foundation, which is run by his allies, would allow Trump to keep using the plane after he leaves office. On Monday, Trump denied that this was his intent.
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A Qatari luxury jet which President Donald Trump toured, at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 15, 2025. The second Trump administration is blowing through limits on the mixing of public office and personal benefits. (Al Drago/ The New York Times)
Republicans target federal anti-hunger program as they prepare Trump tax package
By TONY ROMM
House Republicans earlier this week proposed a series of sharp restrictions on the federal anti-hunger program known as food stamps, seeking to limit its funding and benefits as part of a sprawling package to advance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts.
The proposal, included in a draft measure to be considered by the House Agriculture Committee this week, would require states to supply some of the funding for food stamps while forcing more of its beneficiaries to obtain employment in exchange for federal aid.
The moves could result in potentially millions of low-income families losing access to the safety net program. But GOP leaders insist that their approach would improve the provision of food stamp benefits while helping to defray the cost of Trump’s expensive legislative ambitions.
House Republicans said in a statement Monday that their proposal emphasized “reinforcing work, rooting out waste, and instituting long-overdue accountability incentives to control costs and end executive and state overreach.”
reduce federal spending, Republicans proposed expanding the existing work requirements to cover food stamp recipients up to age 64, including those with children who are at least age 7.
That amounts to a significant expansion of existing law, which currently only requires beneficiaries up to age 54 to work in exchange for SNAP, and excludes those with dependents. Studying similar Republican proposals in recent years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that work requirements and other rules could result in millions of enrollees losing access to the program. (The budget watchdog has not yet released an analysis on the party’s newest proposal.)
sprawling package to advance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times)
The Republican overhaul specifically targets the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP. With a roughly $110 billion annual budget, it is the federal government’s largest nutrition assistance initiative, providing monthly allotments to an average of 42 million people in the 2025 fiscal year, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which manages the program.
Proponents of the food stamp program say that it has long served as a critical lifeline for low-income families by ensuring that they do not experience hunger in a nation where about 1 in 7 reported food insecurity at some point
during 2023, according to federal data released in September. Republicans long have decried elements of SNAP, arguing that states have mishandled federal money in ways that have allowed people who should not qualify for the benefits to receive aid. Those concerns prompted Republicans to tighten eligibility for food stamps in 2023, primarily by requiring more adults to obtain employment in order to collect federal assistance.
Unsatisfied with the early results of those strictures, House Republicans on Monday took the first steps toward tightening them further.
As part of their forthcoming package to cut taxes and
Republicans also proposed limiting nutrition aid to only U.S. citizens and green card holders. States would be required for the first time to contribute funding to the federal food stamp program beginning in 2028. And the Republican proposal would try to limit future administrations from boosting the benefits that low-income Americans receive in nutrition aid.
The Republican proposals are likely to anger congressional Democrats and anti-poverty groups, many of whom have pushed for more generous federal nutrition aid. Some states have also signaled in recent days that they may struggle to cover a share of the program’s costs, potentially further cutting into the availability of benefits.
“Slashing billions from SNAP would deepen hunger, increase poverty, and weaken communities,” said Crystal FitzSimons, interim president of the Food Research & Action Center, an advocacy group. “Instead of shifting costs to states — knowing that states cannot take these added costs on — and cutting SNAP, we must ensure access to the nutrition that everyone needs to thrive.”
RFK Jr. swims in Washington creek that flows with sewage and bacteria
By CHRIS CAMERON
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted photos Sunday of himself and his grandchildren swimming in a contaminated Washington creek where swimming is not allowed because it is used for sewer runoff.
Rock Creek, which flows through much of northwest Washington, is used to drain excess sewage and stormwater during rainfall. The creek has widespread fecal contamination and high levels of bacteria, including E. coli. The city has banned swimming in all of its waterways for more than 50 years because of the widespread contamination of Rock Creek and other nearby rivers.
“Rock Creek has high levels of bacteria and other infectious pathogens that make swimming, wading, and
other contact with the water a hazard to human (and pet) health,” the National Park Service wrote in an advisory on its website, adding “All District waterways are subject to a swim ban — this means wading, too!”
But Kennedy over the weekend shared photos of himself swimming in Rock Creek, with one image showing him completely submerged in the water. Kennedy said in the social media post that he had gone for the swim in Rock Creek during a Mother’s Day hike in Dumbarton Oaks Park with his family — including his grandchildren, who are also seen in the photos swimming in the contaminated water.
Dumbarton Oaks Park is downstream from Piney Branch, a tributary of Rock Creek that receives about 40 million gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater
overflow each year, according to the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority. City authorities are planning to build a tunnel that will reduce the amount of sewage that flows into Piney Branch and Rock Creek.
A spokesperson for Kennedy did not respond to a request for comment.
It was the latest in a series of peculiar incidents related to Kennedy’s outdoorsman persona.
As a teen in the 1970s, Kennedy earned a reputation as a reckless adventurer, eating bushmeat and enduring disease on trips to South America and on African safaris. He later earned notoriety for his handling of the carcasses of dead animals — including a whale and a baby bear.
Kennedy has also said that a parasitic worm had “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.”
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) speaks at a news conference with fellow Democratic members of Congress and recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to advocate for the program outside the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. House Republicans are targeting SNAP, seeking to limit its funding and benefits as part of a
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S&P 500, Nasdaq end higher on soft inflation data, trade optimism
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed higher on Tuesday for a second straight day after softer-than-expected inflation numbers added to investor optimism from Monday when the U.S. and China announced a trade truce.
The Dow fell, however, with its biggest drag a 17.8% slide in shares of UnitedHealth after the insurance bellwether suspended its annual forecast and its CEO stepped down.
The S&P 500 closed with a year-to-date gain for the first time since late February after data showed that U.S. consumer prices rebounded moderately in April, with headline inflation increasing 0.2% last month compared with economist estimates for a 0.3% increase and a 0.1% drop in March.
The CPI climbed 2.3% in the 12 months through April, after advancing 2.4% in the 12-month period until March.
“The sustainability of the carry-through from yesterday is positive. There was nothing in CPI to throw it off,” said Carol Schleif, chief market strategist at BMO Private Wealth in Minneapolis.
Schleif described Monday’s improvement in U.S. and China trade relations as going “from iceberg to 80 degrees spring day overnight” and said the 90-day pause on tariffs came in time for retailers to import goods to build up stocks for back-to-school and year-end holiday shopping.
Monday’s relief rally followed Washington and Beijing’s agreement to dial back stringent reciprocal tariffs, signaling a joint effort to stave off a global economic downturn.
The U.S. will temporarily lower the extra tariffs it imposed on Chinese imports to 30% from 145% for three months, while Chinese duties on U.S. imports will fall to 10% from 125% in the same period.
After the tariff truce, multiple brokerages lowered their odds of a U.S. recession.
Traders leaned in to bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve would hold off on lowering interest rates until September, while still anticipating two 25-basis-point cuts by year-end.
After Tuesday’s inflation reading and Monday’s U.S.-China trade detente, R. Burns McKinney, portfolio manager at NFJ Investment Group in Dallas, said, “It does give the Fed the ability to focus on the labor side of this dual mandate in the coming meetings.”
“If we don’t see resurgent inflation and we get a little bit of certainty in trade policy between now and the end of the year, central bankers will resume their cutting cycle,” said McKinney, “not because of economic weakness but because slowing inflation means the inflation-adjusted Fed fund rate is still restrictive, and there’s room to lower.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 269.67 points, or 0.64%, to 42,140.43, the S&P 500 gained 42.36 points, or 0.72%, to 5,886.55 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 301.74 points, or 1.61%, to 19,010.09.
Among the S&P 500’s 11 major industry sectors, six advanced, with technology the biggest gainer, ending up 2.25% while healthcare was the biggest loser, down 2.97%.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have recovered losses since April 2 - or “Liberation Day” - when U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping reciprocal tariffs.
A 90-day pause announced on April 9 for countries other than China, along with solid earnings reports and a limited U.S.-UK trade agreement last week, helped the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq regain lost ground.
Shares of crypto exchange operator Coinbase Global surged almost 24% after an announcement that it is slated to join the S&P 500 on May 19.
With more than 90% of S&P 500 companies having reported earnings, numbers from retail giant Walmart will be on the radar later this week.
Also, a number of Fed officials are scheduled to speak this
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Trump says US will lift sanctions on Syria after rebel takeover
By JONATHAN SWAN and BEN HUBBARD
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would lift sanctions on Syria, throwing an economic lifeline to a country devastated by nearly 14 years of civil war and decades of dictatorship under the Assad family.
Trump was expected to meet for the first time with Syria’s new president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, where he is making the first major state visit of his second term. AlSharaa led the rebel alliance that ousted President Bashar Assad in December.
The U.S. president announced the end of sanctions on Syria as he addressed a business forum in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where the crowd erupted in cheers and gave him a standing ovation.
The decision marks a sea change for Syria, breaking the economic stranglehold on a country seen as critical to the stability of the Middle East.
“There is a new government that will hopefully succeed in stabilizing the country and keeping peace,” Trump said. “That’s what we want to see in Syria.”
He said he came to the decision after speaking with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who backed the anti-Assad insurgency, and Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. The crown prince said this week he would work to increase Riyadh’s total pledged investment in the United States during the Trump presidency from $600 billion to the $1 trillion, as Trump has requested.
“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions on Syria,” Trump said, speaking from in front of giant projections of the U.S. and Saudi flags, to an audience seated beneath a massive chandelier. “Oh, what I do for the crown prince,” he added, drawing laughter from the enthusiastic crowd.
A White House official said Trump agreed to “say hello” to the Syrian president while both are in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, according to the press pool traveling with the U.S. president.
Syria’s foreign minister, Asaad Hassan alShaibani, in a statement hailed the move as “a victory for justice and a reaffirmation of Arab unity,” and as “a new beginning on the path to reconstruction.” In the Syrian capital, Damascus, drivers honked their horns in celebration as the news spread.
People poured into the streets of Syria’s major cities, honking car horns to celebrate news they hope will alleviate the crushing poverty many in the country have been fac-
Ahmad al-Sharaa, Syria’s new president, the former rebel leader in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. At a summit in Riyadh on May 13, President Donald Trump said that he would lift sanctions on Syria, a day before he was expected to meet for the first time with al-Sharaa. (Daniel Berehulak /The New York Times)
ing.
“It’s a huge sense of happiness,” said Mohammed Masri, a 53-year-old resident of Damascus who had come to the capital’s central Umayyad Square to celebrate. Addressing the U.S. and Saudi governments, he said, “We thank them for their efforts and their love for Syria. Long live Syria, free and independent.”
stunning turnaround for the man who once led a branch of al-Qaida but broke ties with the jihadi group, seeking to moderate his image in the hope of gaining broader traction.
In the months since a rebel coalition seized control of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and toppled Assad, the United States has kept in place a multilayered sanctions regime that, with the war, has pushed the country to
President Donald Trump is welcomed to the Royal Palace in Riyadh by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, right, and other officials on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Trump began a four-day tour of the Persian Gulf on Tuesday. (Doug Mills/ The New York Times)
A face-to-face meeting with Trump offers al-Sharaa a unique opportunity to make his case to a world leader with the power to dramatically shape Syria’s future. It also marks a
the brink of economic collapse.
Al-Sharaa and other Syrian officials have argued that the fall of the regime should trigger an end to sanctions, many of which were
put in place in response to the Assad dictatorship’s brutal crackdown on an uprising that began in 2011 and morphed into a civil war.
“The sanctions were implemented as a response to crimes committed by the previous regime against the people,” al-Sharaa told The New York Times in an interview last month.
Supporters and critics of al-Sharaa’s government alike have argued that lifting sanctions is critical to allowing a flow of international aid and investment that could help the country recover from the war.
Several Arab countries had called for sanctions on Syria to be lifted so that they can provide aid and reconstruction assistance, and European countries have lifted some of their sanctions.
But the Trump administration for months kept its distance from al-Sharaa’s fledgling administration. Some U.S. officials have expressed deep skepticism of al-Sharaa’s motives and his promises to protect religious minorities, pointing to his Islamist orientation and history with al-Qaida.
The U.S. administration had avoided highlevel engagements with al-Sharaa’s government and issued demands related to counterterrorism and other issues that it says must be met for sanctions relief to be considered.
The Syrian government has said that some of the demands, such as a ban on foreign fighters in Syria’s government and armed forces, need to be negotiated. But at the same time, it has made moves toward meeting other demands.
Syria recently brought a team of forensic experts from Qatar to search for the remains of Americans killed by the Islamic State group.
And Syrian officials have told American intermediaries that they sought to avoid conflict with all neighboring countries, including Israel, and welcomed U.S. investment.
For months, Syrians and some of their Gulf Arab backers had struggled to get attention from the Trump administration on the sanctions issue. European leaders, eager to foster stability and prevent new waves of migration, have also pushed for more economic engagement.
Last week, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, offered a diplomatic boost to alSharaa, being the first European leader to host the Syrian president in his capital and vowing to push to gradually lift European Union sanctions on Syria, provided that the country’s new leaders maintain their path toward stability. He promised to press the Trump administration to consider a similar approach.
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AI as valuable tool in comparing candidates’ plans for UPR
By JEAN GARCÍA ROSA Special to The STAR
For the first time in recent history, the evaluation of presidential candidates at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) has been supported by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. This approach provides an objective, structured, and fair analysis of the candidates’ work plans. While this technology does not replace human judgment, it complements it, facilitating informed decisions in complex processes.
Certification 91 (2024–2025) from the UPR governing board outlines a rubric composed of 39 criteria, covering areas such as Academic-Administrative Leadership, Interpersonal Skills and Conflict Management, Financial Administration, and Student Affairs. Systematically applying this rubric requires a rigorous evaluation, which AI can significantly streamline.
An analysis of the work plans from the eight finalists, using platforms such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Copilot (Microsoft), and DeepSeek, revealed marked differences in candidates’ compliance with the criteria. Candidates Mayra Olavarría Cruz and Héctor Ríos Maury received the highest scores, showcasing solid, structured proposals fully aligned with the institution’s objectives. Notably, Ríos Maury achieved 100% compliance, presenting a plan with 32 strategic vectors, timelines, and performance indicators. Olavarría Cruz followed closely, achieving 96.52% due to her humanistic and practical approach that addressed
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multiple aspects of the rubric.
In contrast, candidates Edwin Barea Rodríguez, Angélica Varela Llavona, Zayira Jordán Conde and Wilma Santiago earned scores of 78.24%, 75.32%, 68.53% and 62.49%, respectively. Walleska de Jesús Bonilla and Dr. Agustín Rullán Toro scored 61.34% and 60.57%, respectively. While diversity of perspectives is valuable, the lower quality of some proposals may indicate a lack of knowledge about the university environment or an underestimation of the presidential role. Furthermore, the brevity of certain proposals limits their operational viability and complicates evaluation against the established criteria.
Analysis methodology
The evaluation was based on the official rubric, employing a scoring scale from 0 to 4 points per criterion. These scores were then transformed into compliance percentages, allowing for a standardized comparison of each plan’s response. To enhance validity, the results across several AI platforms were compared. The consistency between ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and DeepSeek bolstered the reliability of the analysis, identifying the proposals of Ríos Maury and Olavarría Cruz as superior.
This exercise demonstrates that by applying clear criteria and advanced technology, more objective decisions can be made. Given the significant fiscal, demographic and academic challenges facing UPR, there is no room for improvisation. The university needs leadership that combines strategic
Glamour shots in a gulag
By M. GESSEN
The image of Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, posing in front of a cage filled with men shocked me. In late March, Noem traveled to El Salvador to visit the maximum-security prison to which more than 200 men had been sent by the United States. In the video of the visit, the men had shaved heads. Most are shirtless and wearing identical white shorts. Some of them stood facing the iron bars through which they were being filmed; others sat on bunks arranged in three levels.
Every aspect of this visual — the bunks, the bars, the men visually stripped of their identities — harks back to images of 20th-century concentration camps. Noem, a member of the presidential administration, was there to brag that “this facility is one of the tools in our tool kit.”
And then there is the look she chose: beachy curls, athleisure, what appeared to be diamond rings, a baseball cap with an ICE logo, and, of course, the $50,000 Rolex. Polished, female, in control: in every way the opposite of the people in cages. As though she were in a different category of human.
The history of modern-day concentration camps is often traced to South Africa at the turn of the 20th century, during the Second Boer War, when the British interned more than 100,000
Artificial intelligence may be an essential tool in helping select the leader best equipped to guide the University of Puerto Rico forward at a critical point in its history. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times)
vision, executive capacity, and a deep understanding of the system. If artificial intelligence can help illuminate that path, then its use is not only beneficial but essential.
Jean García Rosa, CPA, CFE, CICA, MBA, is a professor at Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, with prior experience as a professor at the University of Puerto Rico.
people. But the practice of rounding people up and confining them in subhuman conditions on the basis of belonging to a group and not for any individual action has roots in this country.
Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, tens of thousands of Native Americans were rounded up, imprisoned in camps, marched west and dumped in another place where they had no connection to the land; up to 25% died. British colonizers in Australia, Spanish colonizers in Cuba and, once again, Americans in the Philippines employed such practices in the next decades. Then came the camps in the USSR and Nazi Germany.
If you don’t know much of this history, that’s because countries are generally ashamed of it. Twentieth-century dictators tried to keep the reality of their camps secret in real time. In Hitler’s Germany, one could be punished for “atrocity propaganda” for speaking publicly about the camps. In Soviet Russia, famous writers and filmmakers were taken on carefully staged visits to the camps so they could portray these places as happy educational experiences for citizens in need of reform. Even President Andrew Jackson claimed that the deportation of Native tribes was driven by a concern for their well-being.
The Trump administration has chosen to flaunt its concentration camps — to brag about them. The display is meant to terrify, to be sure, but secret concentration camps can scare people just as much. The message here is that neither laws nor shame will stop the terror, for this administration has no regard for the former and, apparently, no capacity for the latter.
Gérard Depardieu convicted of sexual assault
By CATHERINE PORTER and SÉGOLÈNE LE STRADIC
French movie star Gérard Depardieu was convicted by a Paris court Tuesday on charges of sexually assaulting two women working on the set of a film in which he was starring in 2021. He received a suspended sentence of 18 months, and his name will be added to the national sex offender registry.
The judge also ruled that Depardieu, 76, pay damages of 15,000 euros (about $17,000) to one of the two victims and 14,040 euros, including her medical fees, to the other.
Depardieu was not in court for the ruling. His lawyer, Jérémie Assous, said he would appeal.
The verdict was welcomed by the victims’ lawyers as a landmark win for French women in the post #MeToo world.
“For me, it’s a victory, truly,” said one of the two victims, who has agreed to be identified only by her first name, Amélie. “We are moving forward.”
Her lawyer, Carine Durrieu Diebolt, said she hoped the ruling would mean the “end of impunity for artists in the film industry.”
“I’ve heard some actors recently still supporting Depardieu. Now with this verdict, no one can say Gérard Depardieu is not a sexual predator, and that’s very important,” she said.
The two victims both worked on “Les Volets Verts,” a 2021 French film starring Depardieu — Amélie, as a set decorator, and the other plaintiff, who has not agreed to be identified publicly, as an assistant director.
The court heard that Depardieu grabbed Amélie by the waist and pulled her toward him one day on set while he was sitting down. Then he locked her between his legs and ran his hands over her buttocks, genitals and breasts while muttering obscenities, she testified.
The assistant director, 34, testified that the actor had touched her breasts and buttocks on three occasions on the set in Paris.
The judge called their version of events coherent, consistent and supported by other evidence. Depardieu, 76, denied the sexual assaults in both cases.
The actor said he was not the “vulgar, rude, trashy person who makes fun of people” that he had been portrayed as in the media. “I respect people. I like to help people,” he told the court in March.
But he also said he was from a different generation and that his flamboyant, bombastic and unapologetic personality was ill suited for the current era.
From the beginning, it was clear the trial was about more than two sexual assaults by one of France’s best-known film stars. What happened in the court, instead, was part of a long overdue reckoning about the country’s obsession with seduction, the uncritical adulation of its artists and the stalling in France of the #MeToo movement.
Depardieu is considered among the greatest actors of his generation, starring in more than 230 films, including “Green Card” and “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
He shot to fame after starring in the 1974 film “Les Valseuses,” in which he played a small-town thug who romps
around France, stealing cars, and sexually harassing and assaulting women. He said the film reflected his hardscrabble upbringing in central France as a member of a gang that stole cars and smuggled whiskey and cigarettes.
In 1978 and 1991, Depardieu told two different American journalists that he had taken part in his first gang rape at age 9, and “there had been many after that.” Later, he said it had been a translation error and part of an American smear campaign against him. He said he had never raped anyone but had been talking about his sexual experiences.
In France, he was well known for his larger-than-life personality, a man who drove his car recklessly and arrived on film sets drunk. Later, he hobnobbed with dictators like Fidel Castro and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, and abandoned France for Belgium and then Russia to avoid a tax on the super rich.
He has been at the center of the debate in France over the #MeToo movement since its arrival in the country in 2017, with accusations of sexual abuse piling up against him. He has denied the accusations and been publicly defended by prominent and powerful people in the country.
More than 20 women have accused him of sexual abuse, mostly by speaking to French news outlets, particularly the investigation website Mediapart. Six of those women filed complaints with the police — two of which were dropped because they were past the statute of limitations.
Among those who have rushed to Depardieu’s defense over the years is President Emmanuel Macron of France, who condemned what he called a “manhunt” against the actor, whom he said, “makes France proud.”
This was the first case against Depardieu to go to trial.
Three other women in film and television testified as witnesses during the proceedings, describing scenes of sexual abuse they had suffered while working with Depardieu.
One of them, Lucile Leider, said the actor assaulted her multiple times when she worked as a costume assistant in 2014. She recounted to the court how he pulled her behind a curtain, pressed himself against her and stroked her breasts and genitals while whispering obscenities.
“I remembered saying no with a low voice, but Gérard Depardieu does not know that word,” she told the court. “This man is dangerous,” she said. “Everyone around him knows it and they don’t do anything.”
Sitting on a cube-like stool during the trial, Depardieu presented a study in confusion and distraction. He mumbled, muddling through semi-responses, and mashed disjointed ideas into run-on sentences. Asked about women, he brought
up the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, hospitals he loved and Victor Hugo.
At one point, he admitted he did not know what a sexual assault was, saying it must be “more serious” than just putting a hand on a woman’s buttocks.
He “probably” announced it was too hot to get an erection on set, as Amélie had described, he said, “but the obscenity was not addressed to her.”
He told the court he came from a different generation — one that found his obscene jokes funny — and that he would use vulgar language on set to irritate people and provoke a reaction.
That era, and his time, he said, was finished.
“I come from the old world, of course, and am not sure if this new world interests me,” he said.
He said the #MeToo movement was likely to “become a terror” and blamed it for depriving him of work for three years, though he has been recently seen filming in Portugal.
Assous, Depardieu’s lawyer, became almost as much a subject of public debate as his client during the trial. Assous’ courtroom tactics and defense strategy were denounced by more than 180 French lawyers in an opinion piece in the newspaper Le Monde as rife with “sexism and misogyny.”
At a hearing before the trial, Assous said the two victims were driven by greed. He also loudly interrupted the court dozens of times, shouting that the plaintiffs’ two female lawyers were “abject,” “stupid” and “hysterical,” and denouncing the trial as “Stalinist.”
He called both of the plaintiffs liars, saying one had never been a “real victim.” “We don’t believe you,” he said as he ended one cross-examination.
The court ruled that the women had suffered “secondary victimization” from Assous’ conduct during the trial, noting that the right to defense did not legitimize “outrageous words and humiliation.” Included in the damages the court awarded them was 1,000 euros for secondary victimization.
French actor Gérard Depardieu at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010 (Wikipedia)
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What makes Korea’s favorite noodle dish so good
By ERIC KIM
If you want to see your Korean friend revert to their childhood self, surprise them with a bowl of homemade jjajangmyeon.
Smothered in a supersavory gravy that’s studded with pork belly, this Korean takeout staple of chewy wheat noodles is universally appealing. Children and babies love it. Adults eat it on their cheat day, birthday, moving day. Korean singles eat it alone on April 14, or Black Day.
A variant of China’s zha jiang mian, jjajangmyeon (pronounced JJA-jahng-MYUN, the double “j” sound existing somewhere between cha and ja) was created in Incheon, South Korea, by Chinese migrant workers around the turn of the 20th century. Over time, its flavor has become sweeter and richer to match Korean palates. Words can feel inadequate to describe what these black bean noodles taste like. Sweet-salty comes to mind, as does the Korean word for umami, gamchil mat.
To achieve this depth of flavor, chef Keechang Kim of Dong Bo Sung in Fort Lee, New Jersey, takes his time browning the onions and rendering the pork fat that make up the sauce’s base, like his father taught him. It extracts a savory sweetness, only amplified by chunjang (pronounced CHOON-jahng), the fermented jet-black soybean paste that’s fried in the fat, then thinned into a gravy for the noodles.
Long in the shadows of its cousins gochujang and doenjang, chunjang — the ingredient that slicks the noodles black — shines in its own way, closer in flavor to Chinese tianmian sauce, or what makes Peking duck taste like Peking duck. Its salty-sweet darkness (the result of black soybeans, salt, wheat flour and caramel) is the stuff of jjajangmyeon dreams.
At the Korean Chinese restaurants that dole out bowls of these black bean noodles around the world, you’ll find even more chunjang served as a condiment, alongside raw onions and pickled yellow radish, often next to a bottle of white vinegar and a shaker of gochugaru.
For Sarah Ahn, an author of “Umma: A Korean Mom’s Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes,” a splash of that vinegar (acid) and a shake of that gochugaru (heat) balance jjajangmyeon, an otherwise mellow brown food. It was a tip from her mother, Nam Soon, that surprised many Koreans when she shared it on social media, she said, because, while it’s on tables, vinegar doesn’t normally end up in the noodles.
Jjajangmyeon is a dish often cooked and eaten in a certain way, with tradition at its essence, so it can be a real “aha!” moment when there’s a change in a recipe, however small.
For me, that moment came from my mother, Jean, who uses grated potato in place of the traditional slurry of powdered starch and water to thicken the sauce without gloopiness. The spud’s earthiness also adds to the dish’s vegetal flavors, layers of charred cabbage, onion and potato, uplifting the aromatic richness of pork belly fat.
Another way to make homemade jjajangmyeon especially good? Taking care with the noodles. Delightfully chewy and elastic, fresh jjajang noodles are worth seeking out at your local Asian grocery store, though other wheat-based noodles, such as ramen or udon, are adequate substitutes.
Tora Yi, who owns the Korean Chinese restaurant Shanghai Mong in midtown Manhattan, rinses the boiled noodles under cold water to remove their claggy starch, then dunks them back in the cooking liquid to warm them up for serving. It’s a lesson, much like a beloved jjajangmyeon recipe, to hold onto for a lifetime.
Jjajangmyeon (black bean noodles)
Smothered in a supersavory gravy studded with pork belly, these chewy wheat noodles are South Korea’s cultural equivalent to delivery pizza in the United States. Traditionally a takeout food, this variant of China’s zha jiang mian was created in Incheon, South Korea, by Chinese migrant workers around the turn of the 20th century. Over the years, the dish has become sweeter and richer with pork to match Korean palates. A flavorful broth results in the most flavorful jjajang sauce, which is simmered slowly here to develop the deep comfort of onion and cabbage that scaffolds umami sweetness over the fragrant pork belly. Traditionally, powdered starch thickens the sauce, but here, grated potato achieves the same effect with less gloopiness.
By Eric Kim Yield: 4 servings
Total time: 1 hour
1 tablespoon canola or grapeseed oil, plus more if needed
8 ounces boneless, skinless pork belly, sliced crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick pieces
Salt
1 medium white onion, coarsely chopped 1/2 small green cabbage, cored and coarsely chopped
2 1/2 tablespoons chunjang, sometimes labeled as jjajang (fermented black bean paste; see Tips)
4 cups chicken broth
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 small russet potato
1 1/2 pounds fresh wheat noodles for jjajangmyeon (see Tips)
1 small cucumber, cut into thin matchsticks
1. Heat a large Dutch oven or large, deep skillet over medium. Add the oil and pork belly, season with salt and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned and some fat has rendered, about 10 minutes.
2. Raise the heat to high. Add the onion and cabbage and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened and the bottom of the pot starts to get brown and sticky, 3 to 5 minutes. Add more oil if the bottom is dry.
3. Add the chunjang and cook, stirring constantly, until the pork is slicked with the paste, 30 seconds to 1 minute.
4. Stir in the chicken broth and maple syrup, scraping the bottom of the pot to release any caramelized brown bits. Bring to a
boil and reduce the heat to medium-low. Cover and simmer until the pork is tender, about 20 minutes.
5. Peel and grate the potato, then stir it into the sauce and raise the heat to high to bring to a boil. Cook, stirring occasionally, until thick like gravy, 10 to 15 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Cook the noodles according to package instructions, then transfer with tongs to a colander or sieve in the sink. Rinse under cold water until no longer sticky, then dunk back into the hot water to reheat the noodles. Drain well, then distribute the noodles among bowls.
7. Generously ladle the jjajang sauce over the noodles, top with the cucumbers and eat immediately.
Tips:
Chunjang, the word for the fermented black soybean paste that forms the base of jjajang sauce, isn’t always listed on the label for this product. What you’re looking for is a jetblack paste, often labeled “black bean paste,” with ingredients including black soybeans, salt, wheat flour and caramel.
Jjajangmyeon-specific fresh wheat noodles can be found in the refrigerated and frozen sections of Korean grocery stores and most Asian markets. Delightfully chewy and elastic, they’re worth seeking out. They’re thicker, chewier and more substantial than Italian pasta, but a pound of linguine, thick spaghetti or bucatini can be substituted.
Jjajangmyeon (black bean noodles). Smothered in a supersavory gravy studded with pork belly, these chewy wheat noodles are South Korea’s cultural equivalent to delivery pizza in the United States. Food styled by Simon Andrews. (Armando Rafael/The New York Times)
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Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2022CV02419. Sala: 701. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESION DE GERTRUDIS QUIÑONES
ROJAS COMPUESTA POR LEYDA DELGADO QUIÑONES; CARMEN M. DELGADO QUIÑONES; EDWIN DELGADO QUIÑONES; EDWARD DEGADO QUIÑONES; FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CARMELO DELGADO DELGADO, POR SI Y COMO CONYUGE
SUPERSTITE; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL:
El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me
ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 181 en el Plano de Parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Valenciano del Barrio Valenciano del término municipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de quinientos cuarenta punto noventa y un metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela 182 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con Pedro Borges López; por el ESTE, con Pedro Borges López; y por el OESTE, con Calle 3 de la Comunidad. Se segrega de la finca número 5,300, inscrita al folio 22 del tomo 141 de Juncos. Finca número 8,851, inscrita al folio 192 del tomo 225 de Juncos. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: 181 Calle Magnolia, Barrio Valenciano, Juncos, P.R. 00777. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $91,800.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #43, (no expresa lugar de otorgamiento), el día 28 de enero de 2010, ante el notario Reinaldo Segurola Pérez, e inscrita al folio 1206 del tomo 450 de Juncos, finca número 8,851, inscripción 8va., como Asiento Abreviado extendidas las líneas el día 29 de noviembre de 2017, según la ley número 216 del día 27 de diciembre de 2010. (Fue presentado el día 8 de febrero de 2010 al Asiento 1400 del Diario 649). La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 27 DE MAYO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, el tipo mínimo para
la primera subasta es la suma de $91,800.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 3 DE JUNIO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $61,200.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 10 DE JUNIO DE 2025 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $45,900.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $75,424.05, con intereses a 5.50% anual, desde el 1ro de abril de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 4% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $9,180.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si
transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 24 de abril de 2025. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #282. ***
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
1. NILSA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 2. GLADYS VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 3. MARÍA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 4. LETICIA VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, IVETTE VÁZQUEZ
VELÁZQUEZ Y MARISOL VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, HEREDERAS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN DELIA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 5. VIRGEN VIOLETA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 6. JACINTO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO
REPRESENTADO POR ORLANDO VELÁZQUEZ COLÓN; 7. MARÍA TERESA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 8. SATURNINO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO
Demandante V. 1. ANA MARÍA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 2. ARCADIO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 3. CATALINA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; 4. EUSTAQUIA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; 5. PEDRO JOSÉ VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 6. FULANO DE TAL, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; 7. PERSONAS NATURALES O JURÍDICAS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DENOMINADAS A, B Y C
Demandada Civil Núm.: HU2024CV01748. Sala: 205. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. EDICTO. A: ANA MARÍA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, SUS HEREDEROS, CAUSAHABIENTES O CESIONARIOS.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandan-
te Nilsa Velázquez Santiago; Gladys Velázquez Santiago; María Velázquez Santiago; LETICIA VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, IVETTE VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ Y MARISOL VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, herederas de la Sucesión de Carmen Delia Velázquez Santiago; Virgen Violeta Velázquez Santiago; Jacinto Velázquez Santiago representado por Orlando Velázquez Colón; María Teresa Velázquez Santiago; y Saturnino Velázquez Santiago una Demanda de Usucapión. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas - Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-394-6306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 26 de marzo de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 26 de marzo de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
1. NILSA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 2. GLADYS VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 3. MARÍA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 4. LETICIA VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ,
IVETTE VÁZQUEZ
VELÁZQUEZ Y MARISOL VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, HEREDERAS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN
DELIA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 5. VIRGEN VIOLETA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 6. JACINTO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO REPRESENTADO POR ORLANDO VELÁZQUEZ COLÓN; 7. MARÍA TERESA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 8. SATURNINO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO Demandante V. 1. ANA MARÍA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 2. ARCADIO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 3. CATALINA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; 4. EUSTAQUIA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; 5. PEDRO JOSÉ VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 6. FULANO DE TAL, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; 7. PERSONAS NATURALES O JURÍDICAS DE NOMBRE
DESCONOCIDO DENOMINADAS A, B Y C Demandada
Civil Núm.: HU2024CV01748. Sala: 205. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. EDICTO.
A: EUSTAQUIA
SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SUS HEREDEROS, CAUSAHABIENTES O CESIONARIOS.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante Nilsa Velázquez Santiago; Gladys Velázquez Santiago; María Velázquez Santiago; LETICIA VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, IVETTE VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ Y MARISOL VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, herederas de la Sucesión de Carmen Delia Velázquez Santiago; Virgen Violeta Velázquez Santiago; Jacinto Velázquez Santiago representado por Orlando Velázquez Colón; María Teresa Velázquez Santiago; y Saturnino Velázquez Santiago una Demanda de Usucapión. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la
secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas - Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-394-6306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 26 de marzo de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 26 de marzo de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
1. NILSA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 2. GLADYS VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 3. MARÍA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 4. LETICIA VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, IVETTE VÁZQUEZ
VELÁZQUEZ Y MARISOL VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, HEREDERAS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN DELIA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 5. VIRGEN VIOLETA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 6. JACINTO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO REPRESENTADO POR ORLANDO VELÁZQUEZ COLÓN; 7. MARÍA TERESA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 8. SATURNINO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO
Demandante V. 1. ANA MARÍA
VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 2. ARCADIO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 3. CATALINA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; 4. EUSTAQUIA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; 5. PEDRO JOSÉ VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 6. FULANO DE TAL, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; 7. PERSONAS NATURALES O JURÍDICAS DE NOMBRE
DESCONOCIDO
DENOMINADAS A, B Y C
Demandada
Civil Núm.: HU2024CV01748. Sala: 205. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN.
EDICTO.
A: CATALINA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ, SUS HEREDEROS, CAUSAHABIENTES O CESIONARIOS.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante Nilsa Velázquez Santiago; Gladys Velázquez Santiago; María Velázquez Santiago; LETICIA VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, IVETTE VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ Y MARISOL VÁZQUEZ
VELÁZQUEZ, herederas de la Sucesión de Carmen Delia Velázquez Santiago; Virgen Violeta Velázquez Santiago; Jacinto Velázquez Santiago representado por Orlando Velázquez Colón; María Teresa Velázquez Santiago; y Saturnino Velázquez Santiago una Demanda de Usucapión. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas - Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-394-6306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 26 de marzo de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 26 de marzo de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX
VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. IVELISSE SERRANO
GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO 1. NILSA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 2. GLADYS VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 3. MARÍA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 4. LETICIA VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, IVETTE VÁZQUEZ
VELÁZQUEZ Y MARISOL VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, HEREDERAS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN DELIA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 5. VIRGEN VIOLETA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 6. JACINTO VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO
REPRESENTADO POR ORLANDO VELÁZQUEZ COLÓN; 7. MARÍA TERESA VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 8. SATURNINO VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO
Demandante V. 1. ANA MARÍA VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO; 2. ARCADIO VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 3. CATALINA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; 4. EUSTAQUIA SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; 5. PEDRO JOSÉ VELÁZQUEZ
SANTIAGO; 6. FULANO DE TAL, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; 7. PERSONAS NATURALES O JURÍDICAS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO
DENOMINADAS A, B Y C
Demandada
Civil Núm.: HU2024CV01748. Sala: 205. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN. EDICTO. A: ARCADIO
VELÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, SUS HEREDEROS, CAUSAHABIENTES O CESIONARIOS.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante Nilsa Velázquez Santiago; Gladys Velázquez Santiago; María Velázquez Santiago; LETICIA VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ, IVETTE VÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ Y MARISOL VÁZQUEZ
VELÁZQUEZ, herederas de la Sucesión de Carmen Delia Velázquez Santiago; Virgen Violeta Velázquez Santiago; Jacinto Velázquez Santiago representado por Orlando Velázquez Colón; María Teresa Velázquez Santiago; y Saturnino Velázquez Santiago una Demanda de Usucapión. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a
través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas - Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-394-6306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 26 de marzo de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 26 de marzo de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. IVELISSE SERRANO GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA LARES NORMA IRIS ORTIZ PEREZ
Demandante V. ODLANIER JAVIER RAMOS LOPEZ
Demandado
Civil Núm.: LR2025CV00013. Sobre: DESAHUCIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ODLANIER JAVIER RAMOS LÓPEZ - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA: PUERTO RICO.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: LCDA. LORRAINE T. MORALES CORREA
Urb. Extensión Reparto Caguax Edificio Ingeprom Suite #103 99 calle 21 Caguas Puerto Rico 00725 Teléfono: (787) 703-1208 nottriblcda.morales@yahoo.com abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda de DESAHUCIO que ha sido presentada por la parte demandante, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto,
por orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de LARES. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se continuará con los procesos y se dictará sentencia y se concederá el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de LARES, a 12 de mayo del 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ESTHERVINA CRUZ VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO PEREIRA RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR NEURIS TERESA CAMPOS DE PEREIRA; RICARDO PEREIRA
NIEVES, JORGE RICARDO PEREIRA
CAMPOS, MARCOS JR. PEREIRA, CARIMEL PEREIRA Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CRIM Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV06902. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO PEREIRA
RODRÍGUEZ COMPUESTA POR NEURIS TERESA CAMPOS DE PEREIRA; RICARDO PEREIRA NIEVES, JORGE RICARDO PEREIRA CAMPOS, MARCOS JR. PEREIRA, CARIMEL PEREIRA Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX
9022512, San Juan, P.R. 009022512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de junio de 2024, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $84,051.34, más intereses a razón del 4.00% anual, desde el 1 de mayo de 2024, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ($10,713.30), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar número 25 del Bloque “J” de Magnolia Gardens Development, localizada en el Barrio Pájaros de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de 358.57 metros cuadrados, pero según el plano 355.81 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número 26; por el SUR, en 23.00 metros, con el solar número 24; por el ESTE, en 15.59 metros, con el solar número 4; y por el OESTE, en 15.59 metros, con la Calle número 11. Enclava una casa de hormigón y bloques para una sola familia. Finca número 11,176, inscrita al folio 56 del tomo 255 de Bayamón Sur. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A 6 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. LUIS DANIEL RUIZ TORRES, YOLMARA PACHECO RAMOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2025CV00105. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: YOLMARA PACHECO RAMOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON LUIS DANIEL RUIZ TORRES. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Látimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 009022512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de agosto de 2024, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Ademáa, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $146,202.28, más intereses a razón del 3.70% anual, desde el 1 de julio de 2024, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la
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