Wednesday May 21, 2025

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New Fortress Energy files protest over exclusion from tender

By THE STAR STAFF

New Fortress Energy (NFE) CEO Wesley Edens fired off a letter this week to Gov. Jenniffer González Colón which, among other things, asked her to reveal who is behind the lobbying for the emergency power generation contract.

The island government excluded NFE from the competition for not meeting the tender’s requirements. The government is seeking about 850 megawatts (MW) of temporary energy generation for the peak summer months.

Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced “Emergency Actions to Provide Overdue Relief to Puerto Rico Power Grid” and promised to provide funds for temporary emergency power generation. That same day, NFE submitted a formal request to the Public-Private Partnership Authority to reconsider its decision to exclude NFE’s bid for a temporary power generation contract from consideration with the stated reason that the bid is “non-conforming.”

“I urge you to review our position and ensure that NFE’s offer to provide temporary power is considered on equal footing with other bidders,” Edens said in a letter dated May 19. “Our offer was for 225mw of gas fired generation. These are turbines that we own and are currently in Puerto Rico.”

“Our offer was a flat rate of 25 cents per kw [kilowatt]. The bid stipulated that there was to be no government guarantees of minimum use of the units, which we accepted,” he wrote. “We believe NFE’s offer to provide temporary power is superior to any other bids.”

Edens said NFE’s offer is the fastest to deploy as the firm has nine turbines on-island that are ready to be immediately deployed.

“Backed by substantive experience,” he noted. “NFE deployed identical turbines in San Juan and Palo Seco in record time, and as result has experience deploying temporary power units on-island that no other bidder can claim.”

“We believe we were the only bidder to propose gaspowered energy rather than dirtier and more expensive diesel,” he added.

The NFE’s offer was also the cheapest, the firm’s CEO said.

“At a flat rate of 25 cents/kw we believe our bid offers the best value to the people of Puerto Rico,” Edens wrote.

He complained that not once did the government say his offer was non-conforming. He said the two firms that are finalists have no experience.

“NFE’s offer and experience stand in stark contrast to those vendors identified for contract negotiation,” Edens wrote. “Our understanding is that two firms were selected as finalists: Javelin Global Commodities is a commodities firm which seems to have little or no direct power expertise or experience. Power Expectations has seemingly no prior relevant experience whatsoever in providing large scale power solutions.”

“Based on the information we have seen, we do not believe that either offer is lower cost, faster, or more capable than NFE’s and as a result have filed a formal protest as we believe we are the lowest cost and most capable respondent,” the CEO wrote. “But, of course, we do not have clear information on the bids or process as there has been no communication with us.”

“We also request that all business relationships both currently and in the past between any lobbying firms the selected bidders employed and senior government officials be fully disclosed,” Edens added. “A level playing field and a clear, transparent, and fair bid process is all that we want.”

that are ready to be immediately deployed. (newfortressenergy.com)

Governor signs order to evaluate license plates for ATVs

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón signed Executive Order 29 on Tuesday to create a task force that will evaluate the feasibility of authorizing license plates for all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and certain motorcycles.

“We want to guarantee safety on the streets, enjoyment of them, and order,” the governor said in a written statement. “... In that context, I am creating this advisory committee to make recommendations on possible courses of action to address this issue.”

The task force will be responsible for studying and formulating recommendations to establish a regulatory framework that allows limited traffic of the “offroad” vehicles on certain public

roads. The governor emphasized that the initiative will take into account safety criteria, technical feasibility, experiences from other jurisdictions, and current legislation.

The governor was accompanied by Associate Police Commissioner Col. Diana Crispín and Traffic Safety Commission Executive Director José “Memo” González, among other officials, industry representatives and prominent activist Misael González Trinidad, “King Charlie,” who will be part of the task force.

The task force will be chaired by the Traffic Safety Commission chief and will comprise agency heads, representatives of mayors affiliated with major municipal organizations, and additional members appointed by the governor, including individuals with experience in security, community, and the ATV industry.

Proposed new definition for maritime-terrestrial zone evaluated at House hearing

By THE STAR STAFF

The

Natural Resources Committee in

the island House of Representatives is evaluating changes to the definition of the maritime terrestrial zone, but found itself on Tuesday trying to pin down suitable parameters.

The committee, chaired by Rep. Elinette González Aguayo, began reviewing House Bill 25 this week, which proposes amending the “Puerto Rico Docks and Ports Law” of 1968 and the “Natural and Environmental Resources Watchdogs of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources [DNER] Law” of 1977, to moderate the definition of the maritime terrestrial zone (MTZ) using the location of the tidal range as a reference framework.

During the hearing, government surveyor Marcos Colón Mercado expressed his support for the bill, authored by House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Núñez, as it defines the maritime-terrestrial zone as “the coastal area bordered by the sea up to the greatest tidal movement during the equinoxes, where tides are sensitive, and the greatest waves during ordinary non-cyclonic storms, where tides are not sensitive.”

The surveying professor said “the bill seeks to establish the average of the highest tide as a reference, since it is not specified in the current law.” He also recommended

Commerce’s Assistant Secretariat for Permit Management. “It is included in Regulation 4860, used by the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, which covers all aspects of mangroves, estuaries, dunes, and seashores.”

Colón Mercado noted that the issue of the maritime-terrestrial zone is addressed on two pages of this regulation, and the DNER has developed a set of guidelines to comply with the law.

He also suggested amendments to define the term easement, which, according to the law, is the right to use land owned by another for a specific purpose. Specifically, what is addressed is a salvage easement, which is used when a vessel or fishing boat is run aground to protect itself during a storm.

The maritime-terrestrial zone is an area from where the rising sea level ends up to 20 meters inland, according to current law and the proposed bill.

language to make the definition of “highest tide” more specific.

The surveyor also recommended amendments to the bill’s language to determine the extent of the tide, taking into account mean sea level as a reference point or surface. He also suggested that regulations be drafted for these specific purposes.

“Currently, there is no regulation that specifically covers the issue of tides,” said Colón Mercado, who is assigned to the Department of Economic Development and

“Properly defining what constitutes the maritime-terrestrial zone is essential when guiding the executive branch -- especially the DNER -- when conducting a scientific and technical analysis of the topographical, geological, and geophysical conditions that support the maritime-terrestrial demarcation,” the surveyor stated.

Colón Mercado asserted that “we all want the government administration to streamline the permit evaluation processes, but the factor that most affects it is overregulation.”

“This bill provides for this as long as the DNER adopts it as is and does not dilute it within its Regulation 4860,” he said. “This amendment is very good, but as has been done so far, the DNER will go beyond what is established here, believing that it is doing its best. It will establish that the MTZ extends to vegetation and not the tide, as established by law in the bill.”

For her part, Ivelisse Espinosa, the assistant secretary of permits at the DNER, also agreed with the measure, but suggested amendments to clarify which equinox will be used in the law to define the tide level.

“However, it is worth clarifying that, at the summer equinox, the water covers less land, and at the winter equinox, the water covers more land, so it is recommended to establish which one we will be using in the definition,” the DNER official stated. Espinosa also recommended including, after referring to the equinoxes, language “that excludes the movement of water once the wave breaks and moves up the gradient.”

In response to the committee chairman’s question regarding the number of pending boundary demarcation cases in the MTZ, Espinosa replied that the agency has accumulated 177 cases since 2017. Due to the lack of professional surveyors on staff, she added, the DNER has had to hire professional services.

Manatí mayor honors municipal police, signs new public order code

By THE STAR STAFF

As part of the commemoration of Municipal Police Week, Manatí Mayor José Sánchez González led a meeting with the entire municipal police component on Tuesday to recognize their essential work in protecting the security and well-being of citizens.

Besides giving recognition to the municipal police for work that “goes above and beyond the call of duty, and represents the very heart of order and security for our people,” Manatí Mayor José Sánchez González also officially signed the new public order code, which will enter into force in 90 days.

The event highlighted the dedication, discipline and commitment of the agents, often made with personal and family sacrifices.

“Today we proudly celebrate the vocation of our municipal police officers,” the mayor said. “Their work goes above and beyond the call of duty, and represents the very heart of order and security for our people. This is a recognition of their dedication, but also a reaffirmation that this municipal government values them, listens to them and supports them.”

During the activity, the official delivery of the “Values of the Year” awards was held, where several officers were honored and received an incentive of $1,000 as

a sign of gratitude for their exemplary service.

In a significant step toward citizen coexistence and the strengthening of order, the mayor also officially signed the new public order code, which will enter into force in 90 days. As part of the educational process, a copy of the document will be delivered to each household in the northern coastal town, in order to ensure that the entire population is duly informed about the new provisions.

Likewise, the municipality announced that the payment of accumulated overtime for municipal police personnel has already been completed, in recognition of their availability and extended commitment.

House Natural Resources Committee Chairwoman Rep. Elinette González Aguayo

Renovation of Fajardo vocational school gets underway

By THE STAR STAFF

Speaker of the House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez announced Tuesday the beginning of renovation work at Ana Delia Flores Santana Vocational High School in the Quebrada Vueltas neighborhood of Fajardo, with the goal of having it ready for the start of the new academic year in August.

Starting Tuesday morning, Public Buildings Authority (PBA) personnel set about cleaning air conditioning units, improving the electrical system, weeding and pruning green areas, repairing bathrooms, replacing lighting in hallways and classrooms, refurbishing acoustic panels in ceilings, and replacing window latches and door locks, among other work.

“This school has been very important in the development of generations of students,” said the House speaker, who also

represents District 36 (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra). “Today, it continues to be one of the most important educational centers in the eastern part of the island. That’s why, for several months now, we’ve been working hand in hand with the Department of Education, Fajardo Mayor José Anibal ‘Joey’ Meléndez, and PBA Director Félix Lassalle, with the goal of expediting the impact of summer renovations. We didn’t want to wait until July to act. We started in May. Today, we were working on the renovation of the school, and if necessary, the PBA team will come on Thursday as well.”

The PBA launched the “Back to School 2025” program on March 18, the earliest that the agency has begun the school maintenance process.

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives

Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez

Ana Delia Flores Vocational School, with an enrollment of around 700 students, was one of the first schools in Puerto Rico to offer in-person classes in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This school represents a school community committed to the academic development of its students,” Méndez Nuñez added. “Recently, the House of Representatives approved Bill 31, at the request of Ana Delia Flores students, which implements history courses, including U.S. history, in our schools.”

Convicted individuals seeking jobs may be able to have criminal record expunged

By THE STAR STAFF

The Municipal Integrated Services Alliance Inc. (AMSI by its initials in Spanish) has launched an initiative that seeks to facilitate the expungement of criminal records for job seekers.

The initiative is part of AMSI’s commitment to supporting job reintegration and promoting economic development. Most workers who have been convicted of crimes are often unable to find jobs once they are released from prison.

With a grant of $11,650 from the Access to Justice Fund Foundation Inc., AMSI will provide free, comprehensive legal services to 15 participants until March 31, 2026. The goal of

the project is to help individuals with criminal records overcome legal barriers that limit their employment opportunities, reduce recidivism, and encourage economic self-sufficiency. AMSI will also offer legal guidance, representation by attorneys, psychosocial support, and mentoring throughout the expungement process.

The main activities of the program include:

* Conducting legal and psychosocial needs assessments

* Hosting orientation sessions on the expungement process

* Appointing attorneys for each case

* Preparing legal files and providing representation in court as needed

* Offering ongoing support until the updated certificate

is issued

* Handling appeals, if applicable, and conducting closing activities to assist with reintegration into the labor market

“This project represents a second chance for many individuals who want to change their lives, positively contribute to society, and earn an income through employment,” AMSI Executive Administrator Joaquín Santiago Santos said. “We are dedicated to equipping them with the necessary tools to eliminate barriers and enhance their access to job opportunities.”

Those interested in participating in the program can contact AMSI at (787) 744-5329, visit the organization’s social media channels, or go to www.amsipr.com.

Towns submitting data for another financial bailout

In announcing a $35 million bailout for cash-strapped island towns, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said mayors will provide data “to demonstrate the situation, a snapshot of the financial situation of those municipalities,” to be shared with the Financial Oversight and Management Board and on which to base the distribution of funds. (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced earlier this week a new $35 million financial bailout for municipalities.

“In order for us to achieve this financial bailout, we have requested that the municipalities provide an overview of their finances, some of which they have already submitted,” the governor said at the conclusion of a Monday afternoon meeting with 70 of the island’s 78 mayors and agency heads. “We are talking about the entire financial analysis, the cost control measures that some of these municipalities have taken. Measures such as reduced working hours or how they have reduced their payroll, others have cut contracts and taken fiscal measures to demonstrate that they have indeed been responsible and that the debts often reflect onerous expenses for government services.”

“So we have asked all municipalities to submit this data to the Office of Management and Budget by this Friday, because we, in communication with the fiscal board, need to demonstrate the situation, a snapshot of the financial

situation of those municipalities, so we can base this distribution on that.”

The governor added that as part of the financial assistance, towns will sign several agreements to carry out traditional central government work such as school and road maintenance.

“For next year, we know we will have other municipalities in this situation,” González Colón said. “We have identified some remaining funds from previous budget balances that were not used and that we want to reallocate, but obviously the [Financial Oversight and Management] Board requires other measures, such as, in this case, the administrative measure we had filed to freeze the inventory tax for five years, which would free up those $66 million for the next fiscal year.”

When asked how many towns would receive the funds, González Colón said the names of qualifying towns will not be released until the requested information is submitted. Of the 78 municipalities, 21 have not submitted data, 31 submitted incomplete information, and 26 completed their data.

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Democrats pause their anger at Biden over 2024 but have new questions

By REID J. EPSTEIN and LISA LERER

Former President Joe Biden’s announcement that he has aggressive prostate cancer has derailed Democrats’ nascent effort to acknowledge where they went wrong on his presidency and 2024 candidacy, as the party wrestles with a complicated mix of sympathy and unsettling new questions about his health.

In recent days, prominent Democrats had begun to self-examine their role championing Biden’s reelection bid despite his signs of aging and voters’ clear preference for a younger candidate. Some accused him and his top aides of concealing his mental and physical decline, setting up a last-minute candidate switch that culminated in Democrats’ defeat.

Now, top Democrats’ conversation about Biden has shifted to well wishes and statements of concern for the former president, whose office said Sunday that he had a serious form of cancer that has spread to his bones. The grim development has made recriminations about his role in his party’s calamitous 2024 loss appear disrespectful, pausing efforts by younger leaders to treat the subject with new honesty.

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) talks to the media outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. The former president’s cancer diagnosis prompted an outpouring of well wishes and sympathy, as well as some whispered uncertainties that reflected a lack of trust in what he says about his health. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

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On Monday morning, Biden expressed gratitude for the outpouring of sympathy, sharing a photo on social media of him smiling next to his wife, Jill, and their cat, Willow.

“Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places,” he wrote, evoking Ernest Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.” He thanked supporters for “lifting us up with love and support.”

Yet the reaction to Biden’s disclosure also demonstrated how his legacy has been altered by his decision to run for reelection as the oldest president in history.

Mixed in with the prayers were a few whispered uncertainties that reflected a lingering lack of trust in what he and those closest to him say about his health. Text chains among Democrats who worked on the 2024 campaign lit up with questions: When did he learn he had prostate cancer? What if he had stayed in last year’s race and won?

Former Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who ran a long-shot bid challenging Biden for the Democratic nomination last year, suggested that the former president had timed the announcement of his diagnosis to deflect the growing wave of criticism from within the party.

“I don’t think it’s coincidental that this was announced this week,” Phillips said in an interview. “It’s hard to comport otherwise.”

He went so far as to equate efforts by Biden and his aides to hide signs of his decline to the actions of the Republican president.

“Donald Trump isn’t shy about his corruption,” Phillips said. “What’s so troubling is that what the people around Joe Biden clearly were doing was in some ways more egregious.”

Biden’s spokesperson, Chris Meagher, declined to

President Donald Trump initially set aside his frequent attacks on Biden to “wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.” But he later sounded a more conspiratorial note.

“I’m surprised that the public wasn’t notified a long time ago,” Trump told reporters. “That test is standard to pretty much anybody getting a physical.”

Other Republicans, including Donald Trump Jr., quickly concluded — despite a lack of immediate evidence — that Democrats had covered up Biden’s cancer while he occupied the White House.

Still, it wasn’t just conservatives who had questions.

In interviews with the news media, some physicians raised the idea that Biden could have known about his condition while in office, saying it was surprising that the president — who has access to some of the best health care in the country — would not have learned about his cancer earlier.

“He did not develop it in the last 100 to 200 days,” Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, an oncologist who served as an adviser on the coronavirus pandemic for the Biden administration, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021.

“I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that,” added Emanuel, who noted that both Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush had reported being tested for prostate cancer.

But Obama was 55 years old and Bush was 62 when they left office. Biden is 82, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention do not recommend regular prostate cancer screenings for men over 70 because of the potential harms involved. Some cancer doctors said that it was quite

possible to carry prostate cancer for years and not know it.

Some Democratic lawmakers and strategists have argued that the party’s record-low approval ratings stem in part from a widespread belief that top leaders concealed Biden’s age-related decline. They have urged elected Democrats to publicly reckon with their long-running support of him.

The cancer revelation came after a difficult few days for Biden, who has largely shied away from the public eye since leaving office. Last week began with the first excerpts from a new book, “Original Sin,” that details his forgetfulness as president and efforts by his aides to hide his limitations.

The week ended with the release Saturday of the full five-hour, 10-minute audio recording of a special counsel’s interview with Biden in October 2023. That recording, published by Axios, prompted fresh scrutiny of the former president’s jumbled thoughts and his struggle to recall details, including what year he left the vice presidency and the year that his son Beau died.

In a few interviews since his defeat, Biden and his aides have blamed party leaders and donors for pushing him out of the 2024 race and have suggested that he would have won reelection. The former president insisted on ABC’s “The View” this month that voters did not want him to drop out.

And as recently as hours before his Sunday announcement, some of Biden’s closest allies had suggested that he would have been fit to serve a second term.

“I never saw anything that would allow me to think that Joe Biden was not able to do that job,” Rep. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina told CNN host Jake Tapper, one of the authors of “Original Sin,” which is set for release Tuesday. “None of us thought that there was anything here that created any suspicions of any prolonged condition.”

Phillips argued that this kind of commitment to an individual candidate, rather than what is best for the nation, was destroying trust in American politics — for both parties.

“If there’s one word that just comes out of this whole episode as it relates to Trump world and Biden world, it’s the poison of loyalty in democracy,” he said. “Loyalty to a person rather than a Constitution.”

Mexican ship in fatal crash accelerated before hitting Brooklyn Bridge

By ED SHANAHAN and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

AMexican naval ship in the East River accelerated suddenly in the wrong direction before slamming its masts into the Brooklyn Bridge in a crash that killed two crew members, federal transportation officials said Monday.

The ship, the Cuauhtémoc, was moving at a speed of about 2.3 knots after shoving off from a lower Manhattan pier Saturday night with a tugboat’s help, Brian Young of the National Transportation Safety Board said at a news conference.

The 300-foot long ship, which had 277 people on board, maintained that pace for “a bit of time” before “the speed began to increase,” said Young, the investigator leading the safety board’s inquiry into the crash. The Cuauhtémoc’s speed had risen to 6 knots when it hit the bridge less than five minutes after leaving shore, he said.

It was unclear what caused the sudden acceleration, Young said. But it will be among the issues investigators focus on in the course of an examination that is in its earliest stages and that could take up to two years to complete.

“This is a start of a long process,” Michael Graham, an NTSB board member, said at the news conference, noting that the agency expected to issue a preliminary report of its findings within 30 days. “We will not be drawing any conclusions. We will not speculate.”

Graham said agency officials were working with their Mexican counterparts to gain access to the ship so that investigators could inspect the engine, interview crew members still on board and recover any data recorders the vessel may have. The damaged vessel is now docked at Pier 36 in Manhattan.

“We are optimistic that we will have that access very soon,” Graham said.

The Cuauhtémoc left Acapulco on April 6 on a goodwill tour with stops that included New York, Jamaica, Cuba, Barbados, Scotland, Spain and London, according to the Mexican navy. After leaving Manhattan, its next scheduled stop was to be Reykjavík, Iceland.

Young offered the following timeline of the events surrounding the crash:

At 8:20 p.m. Saturday, the Cuauhtémoc, with the tugboat’s assistance, backed away from Pier 17, where it had been docked since arriving in New York on May 13. The plan was to sail south down the East River and out of New York

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Harbor, with a stop along the Brooklyn waterfront to refuel before heading out to sea.

A preliminary weather report indicated dusk conditions, westerly winds of about 10 knots and a current of about 0.3 knots in the direction of the bridge.

But rather than sailing south after leaving the pier, Young said, “the vessel’s astern motion and speed increased” as it headed backward toward the bridge. At around 8:24 p.m., a radio call went out seeking assistance from other tugboats in the area.

Two other requests for help soon followed, and at 8:24 and 45 seconds, the Cuauhtémoc’s masts struck the underside of the bridge. At 8:27, the ship came to a stop. Three minutes later, emergency workers reached the scene.

Among those whom investigators plan to talk to are the harbor pilot, whose role was to help the Cuauhtémoc navigate New York Harbor’s tricky tides and currents and commercial ship traffic, and representatives of the tugboat company.

“We haven’t had a chance to do any interviews at this point,” Graham said.

A video obtained by The New York Times shows the tugboat, operated by McAllister Towing, alongside the Cuauhtémoc as the ship backs into the river. The tug appears to stay near the ship and to help it into position with the bow aimed south, its intended direction.

Before long, though, the ship begins moving in the wrong direction, The tug races along next to it, perhaps trying to cut it off before its roughly 160-foot masts hit the bridge, which has a navigational clearance of 127 feet.

McAllister Towing said in a statement Sunday that it was “fully cooperating with the relevant authorities.”

Salvatore R. Mercogliano, an adjunct professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, told the Times that his review of video of the Cuauhtémoc’s movements before the crash appeared to show the ship giving off a wake. That could suggest the propellers might have been running in reverse and pushing the ship toward the bridge faster.

Mexican officials identified the two crew members who died as América Yamileth Sánchez Hernández, a 20-yearold cadet, and Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos, a 23-year-old sailor. At least 22 other people aboard the ship were injured, officials said.

Graham said at the news conference that 179 crew members had returned to Mexico and that 94 remained with the ship. Two crew members were still hospitalized in New York, officials said.

Safety board inspectors, working with the city’s Department of Transportation, had determined that the crash had not caused “significant structural damage” to the bridge, Graham said.

The Mexican Navy sailing ship ARM Cuauhtémoc docked on the East River in Manhattan, a day after it drifted into the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge, damaging its masts and killing two people, May 18, 2025. As a federal investigation began, officials said the Cuauhtémoc backed into the bridge, killing two, less than five minutes after leaving a Manhattan pier. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)

‘Sesame Street,’ facing crisis, signs new deal with Netflix

By JOHN KOBLIN

After many difficult months, “Sesame Street” has a moment to celebrate.

“Sesame Street,” the 56-year-old institution of children’s television, has signed a new distribution deal with Netflix, as well as a separate deal with PBS, the show announced earlier this week.

That means new episodes of “Sesame Street” will now be available to the more than 300 million subscribers of Netflix, giving the program significantly more reach than in the past. New episodes will also be available on PBS the day they are released on Netflix, the first time in roughly a decade that the public broadcaster will have access to brand-new “Sesame Street” content. The new agreements will go into effect later this year.

The deal is a much-needed shot in the arm for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces “Sesame Street” and has been in the throes of a financial crisis. Sesame Workshop laid off about 20% of its staff this year after several grants dried up, and, more significantly, it confronted a significant loss in revenue with the expiration of its current distribution deal, a lucrative contract with HBO.

Since 2015, HBO has paid Sesame Workshop $30 million to $35 million a year for new episodes of “Sesame Street,” The New York Times reported. But Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO’s parent company, let that deal expire as it turns away from children’s content and faces financial challenges of its own.

It was not immediately clear how much Netflix paid to distribute the show. But Sesame Workshop executives have warned employees for months that any new distribution agreements would bring in less revenue than the old HBO deal.

In a note to staff, Sherrie Westin, CEO of Sesame Workshop, said it was “certainly worth celebrating” that the show would be available in many more households.

But, she added, “the economics of these agreements are vastly different than those of the past, given the drastic market and media landscape shifts in recent years.”

The Netflix and PBS pact ends an extended odyssey. About a year ago, Sesame Workshop executives had anticipated finding a new distribution partner within a few months, and they entered discussions with all of the biggest players, including Netflix, YouTube, Disney, Amazon and NBCUniversal.

But it quickly became apparent that a deal would be much harder to come by. A big part of the problem was the sudden death of “Peak TV,” when media companies drastically increased their spending on programming to draw streaming subscribers. Many media companies have now reduced their investments in producing or licensing new shows as they try to wring out

profits from their streaming services.

Warner Bros. Discovery dropped the $30 million to $35 million deal that it made with Sesame Workshop at the height of Peak TV and instead signed a $6 million-a-year deal for back library episodes to the show last year.

Between the reduced revenue and the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of some grants, Sesame Workshop found itself in a deep financial crisis. As the organization made cuts, its administrative staff successfully unionized.

“Sesame Street” also confronts a more competitive children’s television landscape than when it reached the HBO deal. According to an internal Sesame Workshop study reviewed by the Times, “Sesame Street” ranks below many other children’s shows in overall engagement, including “Bluey,” “PAW Patrol,” “Peppa Pig,” “Baby Shark,” “Cocomelon” and “Blippi.”

YouTube is also awash in children’s content, including “Ms. Rachel,” a hit show that Netflix began licensing last year. “Ms. Rachel” has become a standout series on Netflix in just a matter of months.

Given all of the competition, “Sesame Street” will unveil a revamped show later this year, with fewer seg-

ments and more animation.

The new deal will give “Sesame Street” greater reach than it had under the HBO deal. Netflix has more than 300 million subscribers, while Max, soon to be renamed HBO Max, has about 122 million. Netflix will get access to new episodes of the reimagined 56th season, which is in production, as well as 90 hours of library episodes. The company also said it would be able to develop games for “Sesame Street.”

Netflix is doubling down on children’s content, which the company has said accounts for 15% of viewing on the service. On Monday, the streaming company announced the release of a new game dedicated to “Peppa Pig.”

A separate deal with PBS will give the public broadcaster and its digital channels access to episodes the day they are released on Netflix. Under the HBO deal for the past decade, PBS could release new episodes only many months after they first appeared on cable or streaming.

“I want to most sincerely thank every Sesame team member who worked tirelessly for so long to finalize these agreements,” Westin told staff members Monday. She added: “It wasn’t easy.

Production of an episode of “Sesame Street” at the Kaufman Studios in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens on Oct. 12, 2018. “Sesame Street,” the 56-year-old institution of children’s television, has signed a new distribution deal with Netflix, as well as a separate deal with PBS, the show announced on Monday, May 19, 2025. (Jonah Markowitz/The New York Times)

Stocks

Morning bid: an awkward G7

Group of Seven finance chiefs have much to disagree about these days as smouldering tensions on trade and currencies form the backdrop to the their meeting in Canada on Tuesday.

I’ll get into this and all of the rest of the market news below. Plus, in my column today, I discuss why the market’s initial calm over the latest U.S. credit rating downgrade might be misleading.

Today’s Market Minute

* The leaders of Britain, Canada and France threatened “concrete actions” against Israel on Monday if it does not stop a renewed military offensive in Gaza and lift aid restrictions, piling further pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

* Donald Trump said after his call on Monday with President Vladimir Putin that Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations for a ceasefire, but the Kremlin said the process would take time and the U.S. president indicated he was not ready to join Europe with fresh sanctions to pressure Moscow.

* China cut benchmark lending rates for the first time since October on Tuesday, while major state banks lowered deposit rates as authorities work to ease monetary policy to help buffer the economy from the impact of the Sino-U.S. trade war.

* The prospect of U.S. import tariffs on copper has been a bonanza for physical metal traders, but the resulting price turbulence has been a big headache for fund managers. Read the latest piece from Reuters’ columnist Andy Home.

* The current problem with Chinese economic data is that there is something for everybody. Bears point to slowing factory output in April, weak property prices and investment, soft

retail sales and lacklustre growth in electricity generation. But bulls highlight resilient iron ore imports, recovering crude oil arrivals, surging installations of renewable energy and strong electric vehicle production. Find out how to make sense of it all in Clyde Russell’s latest column.

Monday’s wobble in U.S. stocks and bonds on the latest U.S. sovereign credit rating cut seemed to calm quickly, but the dollar remained under pressure and bond markets across the G4 were on edge. Debt worries are beginning to rankle more broadly.

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The auction may be an ominous portent for an equivalent U.S. debt sale on Tuesday, where $16 billion of 20-year Treasuries come under the hammer.

But market attention may now shift to potential currency discussions at this week’s G7 meeting after weeks of speculation that Washington may push Japan and other Asian countries to stop capping their currencies as part of its bilateral trade negotiations.

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Israel’s allies condemn expansion of war in Gaza

By AARON BOXERMAN and STEPHEN CASTLE

Israel’s threats to drastically escalate the war in the Gaza Strip and its blockade of humanitarian aid to a Palestinian population at risk of famine have drawn the sharpest condemnation yet from some powerful Western allies since the conflict began 19 months ago.

On Tuesday, Britain said it was suspending talks with Israel on expanding a free-trade agreement. The day before, Britain, France and Canada had issued a rare public reprimand of Israel, demanding it cease the renewed military offensive.

“We have always supported Israel’s right to defend Israelis against terrorism,” a joint statement by the three countries said. “But this escalation is wholly disproportionate.”

The message made clear that Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, the high Palestinian death toll and the abysmal humanitarian conditions in Gaza were pushing some of the country’s most powerful international supporters to the limits of what they would tolerate.

Israel is threatening to take full control of Gaza in the next stage of the war and hem Palestinians there into even more limited zones. Israel has also been blocking humanitarian aid from Gaza for more than two months, even as the U.N. warns that the population is under threat of famine.

This past weekend, Israel said it would begin allowing some humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza. But the authorities let only five trucks in Monday.

A senior U.N. humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher, told the BBC on Tuesday that 14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours unless truckloads of aid could enter. He said thousands of trucks, some containing baby food, were ready to move in.

Britain, France and Canada called the expanded Israeli campaign against Hamas in Gaza and the withholding of aid “egregious actions” that cannot continue.

People leave their homes in Beit Lahia, Palestine, on May 16, 2025. Britain, France and Canada, all powerful supporters of Israel, called plans for an escalation of the Gaza war “disproportionate” and “egregious.” (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)

“If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response,” the statement said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Britain, France and Canada had handed a “huge prize” to Hamas. He accused them of tacitly encouraging a repeat of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, that killed some 1,200 people in Israel, with 250 taken as hostages to Gaza.

“This is a war of civilization over barbarism,” Netanyahu said on social media.

“Israel will continue to defend itself by just means until total victory is achieved.”

The statements from allied countries were a distinct contrast from the early days after the 2023 attack, when governments rushed to back Israel. But as the death toll in Gaza grows and suffering deepens, diplomatic support is fading.

Israel has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

The United States, Israel’s most powerful patron, has not publicly criticized the

renewed Israeli offensive. But President Donald Trump has increasingly bypassed Netanyahu, cutting a separate deal with Hamas to free the last living American hostage and skipping Israel on his trip to Middle East last week.

On Friday, Trump said “a lot of people are starving” in Gaza under the Israeli blockade and the United States wanted to help alleviate the suffering.

In Britain on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced in Parliament the suspension of free-trade talks with Israel, condemning what he said were Netanyahu’s plans to “drive Gazans from their homes into a corner of the strip to the south and permit them a fraction of the aid that they need.”

European officials have privately expressed “increasing frustration and

even anger with Israeli actions in Gaza,” said Hugh Lovatt, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. The statement Monday by the allies was “a significant change in tone and message,” he added.

In March, Israel ended a two-month ceasefire with Hamas that would have freed the hostages in exchange for an end to the war and a full Israeli withdrawal. Netanyahu has said Israel could not accept anything less than for Hamas to disarm and its leaders to go into exile.

It is far from clear whether a more intense Israeli assault would defeat Hamas. Israeli forces have reduced much of Gaza to rubble while Hamas has recruited thousands of new fighters.

Much of the international criticism has centered on the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, a direct consequence of the two-month Israeli blockade that barred food, medicine and other essential relief from entering. Aid organizations suspended their operations as food stockpiles dwindled. Doctors reported malnutrition among children.

European officials met in Brussels on Tuesday, in part to discuss whether Israel had violated its association agreement with the European Union over human rights violations against the Palestinians.

On Tuesday, Jean-Noël Barrot, the French foreign minister, said the EU could decide to suspend its agreement with Israel unless the Gaza offensive were halted. That would put Israel in the same category as Syria, Liberia and Zimbabwe.

“The blind violence and the humanitarian blockade by the Israeli government have made Gaza into a deathtrap,” Barrot said in a radio interview.

Prominent anti-corruption lawyer is arrested in El Salvador

By ANNIE CORREAL

Aprominent Salvadoran lawyer known for publicly accusing President Nayib

Bukele’s government of corruption and malfeasance was detained by the authorities on Sunday night, according to the lawyer’s employer, a human rights organization.

Ruth López, who leads the anti-corruption and justice unit for the organization called Cristosal, had not been formally charged as of Monday and her location was unknown, according to a statement from the group.

The arrest was confirmed by the country’s attorney general’s office, which in an online post said the “administrative detention” of López was linked to her previous work as the “right hand” of a magistrate and former government official, Eugenio Chicas.

Chicas, a former president of El Salvador’s supreme electoral tribunal who also served as a press secretary to former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, was arrested in February on charges of illicit enrichment.

“Ruth López collaborated in the theft of funds from state coffers,” the attorney general’s office said in its post.

López’s arrest prompted immediate outcry within and outside El Salvador from human rights groups and experts. They said that Bukele, emboldened by his relationship with President Donald Trump since agreeing to imprison

Ruth López, Cristosal’s Anticorruption and Justice Legal Head, in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Sept. 27, 2021. (Fred Ramos/ The New York Times)

migrants deported from the United States, had stepped up attacks on his critics.

“For years, Ruth López has courageously exposed corruption and human rights violations in El Salvador,” Juanita Goebertus, the Americas director for Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “Her arrest is not an isolated incident — it marks a dangerous escalation in President Bukele’s effort to silence dissent.”

Since 2022, Bukele has kept in place a state of emergency that allows authorities to carry out arrests at will, sidestepping due process.

Initially imposed to crack down on gang violence, the state of emergency has led to a dramatic reduction in crime but has also resulted in at least 80,000 people being detained and placed in El Salvador’s notorious prison system.

López’s organization, Cristosal, has emerged as a major force in exposing abuses in the prison system and beyond. The group has repeatedly accused the Bukele administration of holding people in pretrial detention without access to lawyers or their families, in a condition that the group’s director, Noah Bullock, has said amounts to forced disappearance.

Cristosal said that López had now fallen victim to that crime, which it described as “a serious human rights violation under international law.”

López has been at the forefront of investigations into potential corruption or negligence by the Bukele government. One inquiry is related to the misuse of pandemic funds and another is tied to the contamination of the local water supply caused by the construction of the country’s megaprison known as CECOT. Another denounced the use of public funds to pay for Pegasus software used to spy on journalists and human rights groups in El Salvador.

“The link with Chicas in Ruth’s case is fabricated — a dubious pretext to imprison her arbitrarily,” said Napoleón Campos, a Salvadoran political analyst. Campos said the arrest should instead be viewed in the context of “hu-

man rights abuses, the harassment of environmental defenders and the broader attack by the Bukele regime on civil society.”

This month, several journalists with the Salvadoran independent investigative news outlet El Faro fled El Salvador after learning that the government was preparing warrants for their arrests. The outlet said such a move would amount to “the most frontal state assault on press freedom in El Salvador since Bukele came to office in 2019.”

El Faro has for years investigated the Bukele administration and its supposed negotiations with the country’s gang leaders and has said its journalists were placed under surveillance and intimidated as a result.

A spokesperson for the presidency, Wendy Ramos, did not respond to questions about what grounds the government had for seeking the arrest of López or the El Faro journalists.

The Salvadoran government has consistently dismissed critiques of Bukele and his security policies as efforts by members of the political opposition to tarnish the president. Bukele’s approval ratings have consistently remained above 80% in public opinion surveys.

Bullock, Cristosal’s director, has cast doubt on the high ratings, saying that in the face of mass arrests, the Salvadoran public has grown fearful of expressing discontent with the president and his iron-fisted approach.

In Trump call, Putin notches a diplomatic win, with an economic caveat

By ANATOLY KURMANAEV

Since his invasion in 2022, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has wanted to end the war in Ukraine on his terms. And in the complex diplomatic maneuvers of recent weeks, the Russian leader has been able to defend his approach to negotiate a comprehensive peace deal while continuing to wage war in Ukraine, which he believes is going his way. His hard-line position has withstood pressure from Ukraine, from the European Union and, until recently, from the United States for an immediate ceasefire before starting peace talks. After speaking with Putin by phone Monday, President Donald Trump said he welcomed direct talks between Ukraine and Russia toward a ceasefire and a broader deal to end the war, in effect making a final break with his earlier promise to bring a swift end to the conflict.

But Putin’s diplomatic victory could undermine his broader economic goals to normalize relations with the United States.

After speaking with Putin, Trump emphasized that U.S. economic rapprochement with Russia would come after peace in Ukraine, not before. If Trump keeps the two issues intertwined, it could confine Russia to an economic purgatory, with little immediate chance of getting relief from Western sanctions or of bringing the foreign investment dangled by Trump.

“Russia wants to do large scale trade with the United States when this catastrophic ‘bloodbath’ is over, and I agree,” Trump said in a statement Monday after the call.

Vice President JD Vance made the same point in even starker terms.

“Look, there are a lot of economic benefits to thawing relations between Russia and the rest of the world, but you’re not going to get

those benefits if you keep on killing a lot of innocent people,” he told reporters Monday on his way to Washington after meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine in Rome the previous day.

In choosing to pursue Ukraine’s capitulation over economic benefits, Putin is most likely guided by a belief that time is on his side.

The price of oil, the main source of Russia’s budget revenue, has stabilized at around $65 a barrel after plunging in the days after Trump’s announcement of global tariffs in April. Trump’s postponement of those tariffs has saved the Kremlin from having to make substantial cuts to its war spending. Although the Russian economy has been slowing this year, it continues to expand at a pace that makes a financial crisis unlikely. The government expects gross domestic output to increase about 1.5% this year.

Putin has repeatedly indicated that Russia is not afraid of new Western sanctions because the Kremlin has grown adept at adjusting to them. The EU’s latest batch of sanctions has been brushed off by Russian propagandists as weak, while Trump indicated that the United States could hold off on new sanctions, citing a chance of progress in the negotiations.

Russia’s latest budget data shows that the country’s strategy of offering ever-higher signup bonuses and salaries to recruits is working. Analysts estimate that despite Russia’s very high battlefield casualties, the country is recruiting more soldiers than it loses to death and serious injury.

And on the front line in Ukraine, Russia’s pace of advance has picked up this month after anemic gains earlier this year, suggesting that Putin’s military could be ramping up for another large-scale summer offensive.

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The Trump-supporting Christians accusing Jews of antisemitism

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

In The New York Times this weekend, Katie J.M. Baker described a fundraising pitch that the Heritage Foundation, the right-wing think tank that gave us Project 2025, made for a campaign to crush a subversive movement that threatens “America itself.”

The pitch, she wrote, “presented an illustration of a pyramid topped by ‘progressive “elites” leading the way,’ which included Jewish billionaires such as philanthropist George Soros and Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois.” Whether intentionally or not, Heritage was deploying a classic antisemitic trope, the notion of the wealthy Jewish puppet master. In the contemporary version of this conspiracy theory, Soros looms especially large; the Anti-Defamation League has multiple pages on its website about the antisemitic underpinnings of right-wing claims that Soros is working to destabilize society.

I emailed the Anti-Defamation League for its thoughts on the Heritage Foundation’s pyramid illustration but haven’t heard back. I won’t be surprised, however, if the organization stays silent, because the Heritage Foundation was demonizing Soros in the name of defending Israel.

The campaign Baker wrote about is called Project Esther, and it aims to destroy the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States. Heritage defines this movement broadly, in a way that includes virtually all attempts to shift American foreign policy in a less pro-Israel direction, including those

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Here we see the perversity that can come from conflating antisemitism with opposition to an increasingly brutal and authoritarian Israeli state. “Those supporters of Palestine and Hamas who have claimed for decades that criticizing Israel’s policies does not equate to antisemitism are at best insincere,” said a strategic plan for Project Esther published online. In the twisted logic of Project Esther — which is also the logic of Donald Trump’s war on academia — ultra-Zionist gentiles get to lecture Jews about antisemitism even as they lay waste to the liberal culture that has allowed American Jews to thrive.

In its plan, Project Esther describes its opponents as a “Hamas Support Network” that aims to achieve its goals “by taking advantage of our open society, corrupting our education system, leveraging the American media, co-opting the federal government and relying on the American Jewish community’s complacency.” It’s a little unclear who falls under this sinister umbrella; the report targets both radical groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace as well as run-of-the-mill liberals. As Baker reported, most of the Americans who dreamed up Project Esther are Christian, though they worked in concert with Jewish Israeli officials. Several of the Americans singled out by Project Esther, meanwhile, are Jewish.

At one point, Project Esther singles out the majority of Jewish House Democrats who declined to censure their colleague Rashida Tlaib for anti-Israel language, including her defense of the slogan “From the river to the sea.” Their votes, said Project Esther, are “indicative of the strong strain of antisemitism that is running rampant through the progressive left” as well as a “dangerous complacency and indifference across America’s Jewish community.”

It describes the Jewish Rep. Jan Schakowsky as part of a “Hamas caucus” in Congress, one that’s also supported by Jewish Sen. Bernie Sanders. Indeed, one clue that there’s something off about Project Esther’s definition of antisemitism is how often it tags Jews as perpetrators.

The outfit’s distorted definition of antisemitism matters because Trump, since returning to the White House, has put into practice orders that closely reflect Project Esther’s proposals. He’s defunded universities on the pretext of punishing them for antisemitism and attempted to deport pro-Palestinian student activists.

If Project Esther has its way, the crackdown on proPalestinian speech will go even further. It wants to see those it calls “Hamas supporters” removed from university staffs, denied the right to protest and banned from social media. Ultimately it hopes to see them stigmatized the way the KKK and al-Qaida are.

American Jews overwhelmingly detest Hamas, of course, and a recent survey of Jewish voters by the Democratic research firm GBAO Strategies shows that a large majority are worried about antisemitism on college campuses. But most Jews are not onboard with the way Trump is enacting the Project Esther agenda. According to the GBAO poll, 64% of Jewish voters disapprove of Trump’s approach to antisemitism.

Pro-Israeli demonstrators at the University of Southern California for a “United for Israel March,” in Los Angeles, May 8, 2024. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)

Nearly 70% say the word “fascist” describes him. This isn’t surprising. Jews tend to teach their children to be wary of fascism from a very young age, with its nationalist bombast, its cult of masculinity, its contempt for pluralism and its relentless, bludgeoning lies.

Philip Roth, among the greatest of American Jewish writers, captured this deep-rooted fear in his 2004 novel, “The Plot Against America,” which envisions an alternative history in which Charles Lindbergh, an outsider and a celebrity, defeats Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 election and then signs a treaty with Nazi Germany. Paging through the book now, I find some details newly eerie — Lindbergh’s “America first” platform and his warning about “the infiltration of inferior blood” into the country, his big fictional preelection rally at Madison Square Garden and the narrator’s incredulity at a threatened war with Canada.

But even Roth, for all his prescience, couldn’t have foreseen a modern-day Lindbergh who, in transforming America into something out of Jewish nightmares, pretends he’s trying to ensure Jewish safety. Roth was our preeminent chronicler of what he once called “the Indigenous American berserk.” He had no idea how berserk things were going to get.

ASES activa plan correctivo tras señalamientos del Contralor

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SAN JUAN – La directora ejecutiva interina de la Administración de Seguros de Salud de Puerto Rico (ASES), Lymari Colón, activó a principios de esta semana un plan de acción correctivo y preventivo tras la publicación de un informe del Contralor que reveló múltiples fallas en la contratación de servicios profesionales, que incluye pagos por más de 34 millones de dólares por contratos nulos.

“Activamos de inmediato un plan de acción concreto —no solo para corregir lo señalado, sino también para prevenir que situaciones similares vuelvan a repetirse”, dijo Colón el lunes en declaraciones escritas.

Colón aseguró que los hallazgos están vinculados a administraciones anteriores y que la actual, en funciones desde enero, asumió con seriedad el compromiso de

atender las deficiencias y garantizar cumplimiento estricto con las leyes y reglamentos vigentes.

Entre las medidas tomadas se incluye el nombramiento de un nuevo oficial de cumplimiento contractual, adiestramiento obligatorio al personal, la elaboración de informes trimestrales de cumplimiento conforme a la Ley Pública Número 117-328, la creación del Área de Adjudicación de Propuestas y la aprobación de un procedimiento operacional estandarizado para regular procesos competitivos y no competitivos. Estas acciones cuentan con el aval de la Junta de Directores de ASES, presidida por el secretario de Salud, Víctor Ramos.

El informe del Contralor detalla que ASES realizó pagos por más de 34 millones de dólares por contratos de servicios profesionales y consultivos nulos. Del análisis de una muestra de contratos entre 2016 y 2020, el 16 por ciento de las enmiendas se otorgó de forma retroactiva, el

10 por ciento sobre contratos vencidos y el 5 por ciento sin aprobación de la Junta de Directores. Además, no se utilizó un proceso abierto y competitivo de contratación.

La auditoría también reveló que ASES pagó 2.9 millones de dólares en servicios subcontratados sin autorización, 3,213 dólares por servicios sin contrato y 1,751 dólares en exceso de lo contratado. Las deficiencias se atribuyen a la falta de controles internos y reglamentación clara sobre la preintervención de facturas por parte de los empleados.

Colón sostuvo que la revisión del informe por parte del equipo legal y administrativo continúa, y que no se permitirá negligencia en el uso de fondos públicos. Afirmó que la respuesta de ASES está alineada con la política pública de la gobernadora Jenniffer González, centrada en la transparencia, la rendición de cuentas y una sana administración pública.

Confirman falsa alarma en alerta por artefacto explosivo en vuelo de Frontier

CAROLINA – El presidente de Aerostar, Jorge Hernández, confirmó el lunes que la alerta por un supuesto artefacto explosivo en el vuelo 1824 de la aerolínea Frontier resultó ser una falsa alarma, tras completarse las inspecciones por parte de las autoridades.

“No se encontró presencia de artefacto explosivo. Para todo propósito esto se considera una falsa alarma”, expresó Hernández durante una conferencia de prensa en el Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín.

La situación se originó cuando un pasajero, que esperaba abordar ese mismo avión más tarde, recibió una llamada sospechosa y alertó al personal de seguridad. El incidente provocó la activación inmediata

del protocolo de emergencia con la participación de la Policía de Puerto Rico, la Administración de Seguridad en el Transporte, Aerostar y agencias federales.

El pasajero, que no estaba dentro del avión, informó sobre la llamada desde el edificio terminal. La llamada provino del exterior de Puerto Rico y, según Hernández, las autoridades no han identificado indicios de conducta indebida por parte del pasajero que hizo la notificación.

El avión, que aterrizó a la 1:53 de la tarde, fue trasladado a una zona apartada donde se realizaron las inspecciones correspondientes. Tanto la tripulación como los 223 pasajeros fueron movilizados a un área segura.

Aunque el incidente causó el cierre temporal de una pista, las operaciones del aeropuerto continuaron con normalidad. Solo un vuelo fue desviado a Aguadilla, pero por condiciones del tiempo, no relacionadas con esta situación.

Radican cargos por actos lascivos y agresión sexual contra hombre de Hatillo

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ARECIBO – La Policía de Puerto Rico informó el martes que se radicaron cinco cargos por actos lascivos y uno por agresión sexual contra Javier Ignacio López Valentín, de 57 años y residente en Hatillo, por hechos ocurridos entre los años 2000 y 2017 en los municipios de Hatillo, Arecibo y Camuy. Según la investigación realizada por la División de Delitos Sexuales y Maltrato a Menores del área de Arecibo, los delitos fueron cometidos contra dos menores

de edad, quienes para la fecha tenían seis y catorce años, así como contra una joven de 18 años.

La fiscal Loures López Lugo presentó los cargos ante el juez Rafael Lugo Morales, del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Arecibo, quien determinó causa para arresto y fijó una fianza global de 60 mil dólares. El imputado la prestó mediante fiador privado y quedó bajo supervisión electrónica hasta la vista preliminar pautada para el 4 de junio.

El caso fue investigado por los agentes Edwin Marcial Guzmán y Wilnelia Medina López, del Negocia-

do de la Policía de Puerto Rico.

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In ‘Duster,’ the cars are in the driver’s seat

By ALEXIS SOLOSKI

Ted Moser would love to say that no muscle cars were harmed in the making of “Duster,” a new series from J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan, premiering on Max on Thursday. But Moser, the picture car coordinator for the show, knows better.

An homage to 1970s series like ”The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Starsky and Hutch,” “Duster” cruises around with Jim, played by Josh Holloway, a driver for a Phoenix mob boss. The show is set in 1972, when the cars were wide, the engines were big and the seat belts were mostly decorative.

Cars play a role in nearly any period piece set in the past century or so. But in “Duster,” which derives its name from a fastback Plymouth coupe with a logo inspired by the Looney Tunes Tasmanian devil, they are very much the stars. Four different vehicles play the title car and scores of other makes and models are sprinkled throughout the series. Moser and teams of mechanics and scenic artists source these cars, then restore, modify and in many cases wing, ding and faux-rust them until they are period appropriate. A few are subsequently crashed, even totaled.

“Yeah,” Moser said in a recent phone interview, “that always makes me sad.”

Television doesn’t lack for scene-stealing vehicles: the General Lee, KITT, the Batmobile, the Mystery Machine. Sometimes these vehicles are built wholesale or, in the case of cartoons, simply imagined. More often they need to be sourced.

Because most studios no longer maintain dedicated car lots and warehouses, producers hire picture car coordinators to source and supervise a fleet. These men (they are almost always men) are car aficionados with deep networks among retailers, collectors and hobbyists. Like casting directors, they know how to find a star, albeit one with four wheels.

Moser got his start in the industry as a mechanic on “Die Hard 2” and then spent many years as a transportation coor-

dinator, moving cast and crew members on and off sets. But producers realized that he had a vast knowledge of vehicles and parts and began hiring him to find cars for movies.

Over three decades, he has built a cross-country network of car contacts. (When those contacts fail, the internet fills in.)

In 2004, after finishing a job on “2 Fast 2 Furious,” he founded Picture Car Warehouse, a depot in the San Fernando Valley that houses between 500 and 1,000 vintage cars at any given time. He has since sourced cars for period shows and films like “Argo,” “The Deuce” and “Tales of the City.”

When Moser is presented with a script, he roughs out a budget for autos, labor and various tuneups. Because picture cars are rarely driven when they’re not on set, even those in good shape typically require extensive overhaul.

“The seals dry out; the gas goes bad,” Moser said. “You basically have to restore the car.”

He also has to make them period correct, which often involves trading out tires, hubcaps and windshield wipers. Moser then presents that budget to the producers. Sometimes when he knows that particular cars will be too expensive or too tricky to source, he will suggest alternatives. For example, a “Duster” scene written originally to include Audis now features BMW Bavarians.

Many viewers don’t pay particular attention to a show’s cars. But for others, the wrong car will interrupt the story. The right one, by contrast, will enrich it, in ways that even a casual watcher might appreciate.

In “Duster,” there is an obvious symbiosis between Jim and his vehicle. The Duster and how Jim drives it tells us who Jim is. “It’s his right hand; it’s his best friend; it’s the thing that gets him out of trouble when he needs it,” Morgan said.

An early model Duster was chosen for the series pilot, which was filmed in 2021 in Tucson, Arizona, before Moser was hired on. (Later episodes were filmed in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico.) Morgan was enticed by the relative rarity of the Duster, which Plymouth produced for about seven years starting in 1970, and by its speed and maneuverability.

An homage to 1970s series like ”The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Starsky and Hutch,” “Duster” cruises around with Jim, played by Josh Holloway, a driver for a Phoenix mob boss. (Max)

like squealing around the curve within inches of another car,” he said enthusiastically.

Holloway performed many of his own stunts in “Duster.” Others were achieved by Corey Eubanks, a career stunt driver who got his start as a teenager on “The Dukes of Hazzard.”

“If it was really cool, I did it,” Eubanks joked.

Eubanks appreciated the Duster’s sloppiness, its give, its lack of a speed limiter, of fuel injection, of nonskid tires. “It was reckless,” he said. “It had its own character to it. The only thing it didn’t have was a voice.” Then he thought for a moment. “But the engine’s the voice,” he added.

One Duster was used as what’s called the “hero car,” a picture-ready vehicle beautiful enough, inside and out, to be shot in close-up. The other three were stunt cars, retooled with automatic transmissions and designed to accommodate camera placements. They were joined by more than 250 other vehicles, including a replica of Howard Hughes’ Lincoln “Aero-Mobile,” a vintage Jaguar, a Ford Thunderbird, various trucks and the Plymouth Belvedere driven by Nina, the FBI agent played by Rachel Hilson, the other series lead. (That Jim and Nina both drive Plymouths suggests a potential friendship.)

]When a script required Moser to bang up these classic cars, even wreck them, he found it hard.

“It is really fast, unassumingly fast,” Morgan said. This felt right for Holloway’s Jim. “It has a little bit of a charm, which of course Josh Holloway has in spades, and a lot of swagger,” she said.

Holloway (“Lost”), who learned to drive before he was 10, was drawn immediately to the Duster. “You can make it do things that now computers [in modern vehicles] won’t allow you to do,” he said. “You can spin that sucker, throw it any way you want.”

As soon as he had the role, Holloway enrolled in a stunt driving school. At a California racetrack, he trained on a rusted, lime-green stunt Duster. “I’ve never driven that fast,

]“Well, there’s a finite amount of them,” he said. “Every one you destroy is one less.” For crash cars he goes out of his way to find what he called, “a real rust bucket, something that wouldn’t be restored anyway.”

]It’s easy to imagine a version of “Duster” that cuts corners, or screeches around them, with cars that perhaps aren’t quite of the era or that dare a plastic windshield wiper or a radial tire. Moser won’t stand for it.

“Cars are a form of art,” he said. He intends to honor that. It’s why he worries as much as he does about the interiors, the engine sounds, those wipers.

“It’s about people looking at that show going, ‘Yeah, they got it right,’” he said.

Rachel Hilson and Josh Holloway in a scene from “Duster.” Because most studios no longer maintain dedicated car lots and warehouses, producers hire picture car coordinators to source and supervise a fleet. (Max)

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Jeremy Renner and the science of extraordinary near-death experiences

By MAGGIE ASTOR

Alittle over two years ago, actor Jere-

my Renner was run over by a 7-ton snowplow. In a new memoir, he wrote that as he lay near death, he experienced something extraordinary.

He could see his entire life at once, and felt an “exhilarating peace” and a connection to the world. He also saw family and friends arrayed before him, telling him not to let go.

“What I felt was energy, a constantly connected, beautiful and fantastic energy,” Renner wrote. “There was no time, place or space, and nothing to see, except a kind of electric, two-way vision made from strands of that inconceivable energy, like the whipping lines of cars’ taillights photographed by a time-lapse camera.”

What Renner described is “classic for near-death experiences,” the term researchers use for such events, said Dr. Jeffrey Long, the founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation.

Long’s foundation has collected more than 4,000 accounts similar to Renner’s. Some people who have come close to death have recounted a sense of energy, peace and absence of time, as Renner did. Some have also described watching their body from above, moving through a tunnel toward a light and even meeting God.

The general public may be familiar with these events through a genre of memoirs that present near-death experiences as proof of a Christian afterlife. But they have been reported across countries, demographics and religions, as well as by atheists, and have been a subject of scientific research for decades.

There is no scientific consensus on what causes near-death experiences. But

whatever their cause, they can change people’s lives. Some lose all fear of death; others change careers or leave relationships. The reactions to near-death experiences seem to outstrip what researchers have seen in people who nearly die but don’t have such an experience.

For those people, “usually it’s like, yeah, you almost died, so you become more appreciative of life,” said Marieta Pehlivanova, a research assistant professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Division of Perceptual Studies, which researches near-death experiences.

But, Pehlivanova said, “the changes we see in these people who almost died but didn’t have an NDE are much more subtle and do not continue over such a long period of time.”

Why do these experiences happen?

Near-death experiences are hard to study because the catastrophic injuries and illnesses that can lead to them don’t lend themselves to controlled experiments. But neuroscientists have proposed a range of theories as to what causes them, and many believe the experiences stem from a complex cascade of neurological and physiological processes.

In a paper published in March, seven

researchers proposed an explanation that linked near-death experiences to a burst of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters, and an activation of specific receptors in the brain that produces a sense of calm and vivid imagery. The paper also posits that neardeath experiences might occur when partly conscious people go through aspects of rapid-eye-movement sleep, which is when the most robust and complex dreaming happens.

Other scientists’ theories include one that involves the same neural receptors that facilitate the effects of ketamine.

Another suggests aspects of NDEs might arise from dysfunction in the area of the brain responsible for combining sights, sounds, motion and our innate sense of where we are into a single sensory experience.

That might explain one of the most curious parts of near-death experiences: that some people later say they watched their body from above, and are able to describe details of what was happening around them that it seems as if they shouldn’t be able to know.

Dr. Kevin Nelson, a professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky who was an author of the March study, noted that people might be able to hear even when apparently unresponsive, and that patients’ eyes were often open during resuscitation

efforts.

So they might take in sight and sound in real time but, because their brain is disrupted by a lack of blood flow, recall it as coming from a perspective above their body.

Processing a life-altering experience

Some researchers — and a great number of people who have had near-death experiences — believe that none of the proposed scientific explanations can account for all the elements, and that these experiences are true encounters with an afterlife.

That idea is anathema to many neuroscientists for whom a fundamental precept is that consciousness arises from the brain.

“Faith and science often get confused on this topic, in part because it has such a profound emotional valence,” Nelson said. But, he added, “There is no scientific evidence that we can have human experience outside of the brain.”

But Long, whose medical training and practice are in radiation oncology, believes people’s consciousness does leave their bodies during near-death experiences in a way that neuroscience can’t account for. He is particularly convinced that science cannot explain the accuracy and detail of what patients recall seeing and hearing from outside their body.

Pehlivanova and her colleagues at the University of Virginia institute also believe the experiences could involve a real separation between consciousness and the brain, though they have not dismissed the possibility of neurological or physiological explanations.

Dr. Bruce Greyson, a professor emeritus of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences in that institute, has studied near-death experiences for 50 years. These days, he is mostly focused not on causes but on how medical professionals could best help people who go through these experiences process what they experienced.

Doctors and nurses tend to be the first people to whom patients describe their experiences, hoping to “get some perspective on it,” Greyson said. And sometimes, those professionals respond dismissively.

“For almost all near-death experiencers, they regard this as one of the most important things, if not the most important thing, that’s ever happened in their lives,” he said. “And while it may seem inconsequential to the health care worker, it’s not at all to the experiencer.”

Jeremy Renner in Los Angeles in November 2021. In a new memoir, Renner writes that after he was run over by a snowplow, he could see his entire life at once, and felt an “exhilarating peace.” (Ryan Pfluger/The New York Times)

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Studies of breast cancer and other diseases threatened by new policy

By RONI CARYN RABIN

One of the studies threatened by a new administration policy regarding international research is focused on prolonging the lives of women with the most common kind of breast cancer.

Up to 1 in 5 women with estrogen-fueled breast cancer experiences a life-threatening recurrence after being in remission for 10 years or even longer. If those women could be identified in advance, doctors can treat them before the cancer comes back. The medicines already exist.

But the research project, conducted with scientists in Denmark, may well be shut down. The National Institutes of Health said this month that it will stop awarding grants to scientists if the projects include making a payment, called a sub-award, to a foreign collaborator.

The policy jeopardizes thousands of active international research projects that rely on partnerships with scientists and universities in other countries.

Federal health officials said they had made the change because inconsistencies across internal systems and databases make it difficult to accurately track the sub-award payments, a problem documented in several reports by the Government Accountability Office.

The lack of accountability was unacceptable and necessitated the change in policy, an NIH official said in an email, even though stricter monitoring requirements were put in place in 2023, after a critical GAO report.

The breast cancer research cannot be done without European partners. The work relies on detailed cancer registries that have tracked patients for decades and samples from tumors that have been preserved in wax — resources that the United States does not have, and Denmark does.

“At the time we got the grant to do this, we looked throughout the United States to see if there is a similar resource, and there is not,” said Timothy Lash, professor of epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, who specializes in cancer prevention and predictors of recurrence.

Currently, foreign sub-awards are “nested” within the grant of the U.S.-based grant recipients. The new NIH policy would require international scientists who plan to work with American researchers to independently sub-

mit grant applications for review.

If awarded a grant, the funds would flow directly from NIH, rather than from the U.S. grant recipient.

The NIH initially said it would not “retroactively revise ongoing awards to remove foreign sub-awards at this time.” Yet the new policy will affect ongoing grants, which are typically awarded for periods of five years, and come up for so-called noncompeting renewal every year.

The new policy will be applied at the time of renewal, federal officials said, and so would threaten current research projects, such as the Denmark breast cancer study.

Thousands of international research projects already underway could be affected by the new policy, from studies of infectious diseases like malaria and HIV to research into chronic conditions common in the United States like cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia.

Karestan Koenen, a professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard University and a member of the Broad Institute, a biomedical and genomic research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, receives NIH funding to study the genetics of psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder

But she has already informed colleagues at hospitals in Uganda and Kenya, who have been helping to collect DNA sam-

ples of people with post-traumatic stress disorder, that she can no longer work with them.

She was fortunate, she said, because the researchers have been very efficient and had already gathered enough samples for analysis, so the entire project will not be in vain.

Much of the genomic data so far has come from populations with European roots, she noted.

“What we’ve realized is that if you develop tools based only on European ancestry, they don’t work well on African Americans or East Asians,” Koenen said. “So from a very practical point of view, we need to get more data from more populations.”

Dr. Jeremy Schwartz, an associate professor at Yale University, has been studying self-care relating to heart failure in Uganda. More than half his NIH grant goes to subawards supporting his international collaborators.

Heart failure strikes many Americans, but in sub-Saharan African, 3 in 10 people with the diagnosis die within a year. The study aims to improve the management of a heart failure, decrease hospitalizations and extend life.

“Our collaborators learn a lot from us, but we learn a lot from them, too,” Schwartz said. “We think we can lift all boats at the same time.”

The University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill has 105 federally funded research projects that include foreign sub-awards, including 12 with active clinical trials, according to a university spokesperson.

Areas of focus include eating disorders, disease genetics, cancer, infectious diseases and the improvement of prenatal care. Many of the projects benefit the state of North Carolina itself.

A new technology that couples artificial intelligence algorithms with a portable ultrasound device, thus reducing the need for trained staff to provide pregnancy ultrasounds, was originally created for use in developing nations.

But it can also be used in rural areas of the United States, including those in North Carolina, where one-fifth of the counties are so-called maternity-care deserts.

Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade, an associate professor at Emory’s public health school, studies antibiotics used in the treatment of diarrheal disease caused by Shigella infection in children in developing countries like Tanzania.

The idea is to better administer those antibiotics, and to combat the rise of drugresistant strains of the bacteria. But Shigellosis is also a problem in the United States, and can threaten the lives of the elderly and the immunocompromised.

“When drug resistance develops in Shigella, it can easily be transmitted to other bacteria,” McQuade said, adding that more than half the annual 450,000 Shigella cases in the United States are already drug-resistant.

The NIH policy says that foreign partners may be replaced with a domestic collaborators. If the project is no longer viable without the foreign sub-award, it may be terminated.

These options mean that huge investments already made in ongoing research could go to waste. Some researchers have also questioned why the new restrictions were implemented before a replacement strategy was ready.

Carmen Marsit, executive associate dean for research strategy at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory, said that he understood why the government may want to implement the accounting change.

But, he added, “it’s somewhat irresponsible not to have a system in place that you want to move to before you stop the system that does exist right now, and for the most part is working.”

A crystal sample, part of the research to eradicate malaria at the Vaccine Research Center of the N.I.H. in Bethesda, Md. on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Restrictions on payments to foreign partners may jeopardize studies of cancer and other conditions that would benefit Americans.

(Shuran Huang/The New York Times)

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TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ

HÉCTOR RAÚL ROSARIO MÉNDEZ

Peticionario Vs. EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: GM2025CV00042. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES INTERESADOS EN LA PROPIEDAD QUE

SE DESCRIBE A CONTINUACIÓN:

RÚSTICA: Lote-2: Solar con una cabida de 505.6515 mc que radica en el Barrio Jauca, Sector Canta Sapo de Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. Colindando por el NORTE, con solar 1; por el SUR con solar 3; por el ESTE con carretera municipal y por el OESTE con el lote 1. Dicho solar fue segregado de una finca de mayo r cabida que consta inscrita al folio 200, tomo 24 de Santa Isabel, finca número 687. Los interesados incluyen a colindantes desconocidos, anteriores dueños desconocidos y posibles herederos de dueños anteriores desconocidos de la Propiedad antes mencionada. Por la presente quedan notificados que Héctor Raúl Rosario Méndez, ha radicado en este Tribunal una Petición de Expediente de Dominio sobre la propiedad antes descrita, alegando que adquirió de Fernando Guadalupe Santiago y Georgina Santiago Echevarría mediante la escritura número 195 sobre Segregación, Ratificación y Compraventa otorgada el 30 de septiembre de 2003 ante el notario Efraín Bermúdez Rivera y que el periodo de posesión de la propiedad del peticionario y todos los anteriores dueños sobre pasa un término de 30 años de posesión y por ello solicitan Orden para que Ordene al Registrador de la Propiedad de Guayama que inscriba dicha finca a nombre del Peticionario. Se apercibe que si transcurrido Veinte (20) días desde la publicación de este Edicto, no ha habido reparos u oposición contra la demanda interpuesta, este Tribunal dictará Sentencia de acuerdo a lo solicitado en la misma. 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. Copia de la contestación deberá ser notificada al Licenciado Salvador Márquez Colón a su dirección en: 485 Ave. Tito Castro, Ponce, PR. En cumplimiento de una orden dictada por este Tribunal expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Guayama, Puerto Rico, a 21 de abril de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. GLORIVEE MORALES SÁEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. VÍCTOR MANUEL

AQUINO NIEVES, SU ESPOSA ANA HILDA RIVERA MATOS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV06717. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 22 de septiembre de 2023, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 14 de noviembre de 2023 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide doce metros de frente por veintiún metros de fondo, marcado con el número ocho de la Manzana GF de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo, propiedad de la Everlasting Development Corporation, que radica en el Barrio Monacillos de Río

Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de doscientos cincuenta y dos metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, SUR, ESTE y OESTE, con terrenos propiedad de la Everlasting Development Corporation y dando frente al Este con la calle denominada número cincuentiuno de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de boques de cemento y hormigón reforzado, que consta de dos dormitorios, sala-comedor, cocina y cuarto de baño. Finca Número 7,363, inscrita al folio 45 del tomo 200 de Monacillos. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de San Juan. Dirección Física: BARRIO MONACILLOS, URB. PUERTO NUEVO, 8 GF, RIO PIEDRAS PR 00920. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 11 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de San Juan. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $137,600.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 18 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $91,733.33. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 26 DE JUNIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $68,800.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $118,751.94 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 7.0000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de

lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa al Sr. José Rodríguez Bóveda, por medio del Notario José Castro Alvarez, por éste contar con una hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré por la suma de $52,500.00, sin intereses, vencedero el día 23 de marzo de 2021, según escritura #5, otorgada en San Juan, PR, el día 23 de marzo de 2016 e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Monacillos, finca número 7,363, inscripción 13ra. Además, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y 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 eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio

donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 8 de junio de 2025. IRMA D. CARMONA CLAUDIO, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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PARTNERS I, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. MELISA

BADILLO FELICIANO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2022CV00919. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #737, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 20 de marzo de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 23 de abril de 2024, notificada en igual fecha, procederé a vender el día 1 de julio de 2025, a las 9:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Las Croabas, de Fajardo, Puerto Rico, con cabida de mil ciento cincuenta punto cincuenta metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE, con Luis Malavé; por el SUR, con Pío García Guzmán; por el ESTE, con primer camino municipal a las parcelas de Las Croabas; y por el OESTE, con la Laguna Sorocco. Enclava una casa de bloques y hormigón. Inscrita al Folio 172 del Tomo 190 de Fajardo, Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Sección de

Fajardo, Finca Número 6,558. Dirección Física: Bo. Las Croabas, PR 987 Km 6.3 Int. Fajardo, PR 00736. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $20,941.42 más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 1 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $23,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 9 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $15,333.33. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 16 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $11,500.00. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen preferente: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Financial Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $92,000.00, con intereses al 6.250% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2035, constituida mediante la escritura número 1005, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de agosto de 2005, ante el notario Luis Enrique Mejías Rivera, e inscrita al folio 74 del tomo 446 de Fajardo, finca número 6,558, inscripción 10ma. Nota: Consentimiento previo para vender o transferir la propiedad. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Financial Corporation, haciendo negocios como HF Mortgage Bankers, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $23,000.00, con intereses al 7.250% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2035, constituida mediante la escritura número 1006, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de agosto de 2005, ante el notario Luis Enrique Mejías Rivera, e inscrita al folio 74 del tomo 446 de Fajardo, finca número 6,558, inscripción 11ra. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 13 de septiembre de 2022, expedido en el Centro Judicial de Fajardo, en el Caso Civil nú-

mero FA2022CV00919, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por E.M.I. Equity Mortgage Inc., como Agente de Servicio de Fortaleza Partners I, LLC versus Melissa Badillo Feliciano, por la suma de $20,941.42, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 7 de diciembre de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Fajardo, finca número 6,558, Anotación “D”. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente

Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 7 de mayo de 2025. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL #737. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #622.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

CONSEJO DE TITULARES DEL CONDOMINJO RITZ DEMANDANTE Vs HAYDEE MILAGROS LOPEZ RIVERA DEMANDADA CIVIL NUM. SJ2023CV12037. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: Haydeé Milagros Lopez Rivera FISICA: Condominio Ritz, 14 Calle Marseilles Apt 6-C, San Juan, PR 00907 POSTAL: Condominlo Ritz, 14 Calle Marseilles Apt 6-C, San Juan, PR 00907

PUBLICO EN GENERAL El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por Ia SecretarIa del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epIgrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de America, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del tribunal, todo derecho, tItulo o interés que tenga Ia Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Horizontal Property Apartment Number Six-C (6-C). Residential Apartment of rectangular shape on the sixth florr of The Ritz Condominium, located at the corner of Marseilles St. and Joffre St. in Condado. Said apartment han an area of 775.63 square feet equivalent to 72.08 square meters. Its boundaries area as follows: at the Non in twenty four feet six inches (24’ 6”) with the common corridor, at the South in twenty four feet six inches (24; 6”) wit the subject lot facing Marseilles St.; at the Eastin Thirty two fett seven inches (32’ 7”) with apartment number Six-B (6-B); at the West

in Thirty two feet seven inches (32’ 7”) with apartment Six-D (6-D). This apartment comprises: Living - dining area, one master bedroom with separate closet and a bathroom with lavatory; bathtub with shower, medicine cabinet, water closet, kitchen, a linen closet, a shaft in the living dining area and an exterior terrace. The entrance to the apartment is located on the northern boundary connecting with the common corridor and with access to the elevator and stairs. La participación en los elementos comunes del inmueble es 1.245%. Inscrita al folio 281 del tomo 926 de Santurce Norte, finca número 40,401. Registro de Ia Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 14 Calle Marseilles, 6° piso del Condominio The Ritz, San Juan, Puerto Rico. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en a Secretarla del Tribunal durante las horas laborables baja el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante Ia titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en Ia responsabilidad de los mismos, Sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que el licitador y/o mejor pastor pagará el importe de su oferta en efectivo, cheque certificado a giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. E. Que Ia Propiedad se encuentra afecta al siguiente gravamen: Hipoteca en garantía de pagaré par Ia suma principal de $76,500 Sentencia en el caso civil nUmero KCD2O14-1364 a favor del demandante Embargo a favor del demandante en Ia causa de epígrafe F. Dicha subasta se celebrará para satisfacer a Ia parte demandante Ia suma de $249,642.40 coma principal de Ia sentencia más los intereses a una tasa del 9.5% anual, $4,000 en costas y gastos y $2,000 en honorarios de abogado. La subasta se celebrará el dIa 28 de mayo de 2025, a las 11:30 de Ia mañana, en Ia Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan. Y PARA QUE ASI CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y par un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a Ia ley, expido Ia presente baja ml firma y sello de este tribunal, hay 24 de abril de 2025 en San Juan, Puerto Rico.

PEDRO HIEYE GONZALEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Plaintiff V. MARIA DE LOS ANGELES RAMÍREZ-VARGAS, ELÍ ANTONIO RAMÍREZ - VARGAS, IVETTE ROSARIO RAMÍREZ - VARGAS, OSCAR ALBERTO RAMÍREZVARGAS, JANINE DE LOURDES RAMÍREZVARGAS, JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATES

Defendants

Civil No.: 24-1491. (FAB). NOTICE OF JUDGMENT BY PUBLICATION.

TO: MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES RAMÍREZVARGAS, ELÍ ANTONIO RAMÍREZ - VARGAS, IVETTE ROSARIO RAMÍREZ - VARGAS, OSCAR ALBERTO RAMÍREZ - VARGAS, JANINE DE LOURDES RAMÍREZ - VARGAS AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATE OF ELÍ ANTONIO RAMÍREZVARGAS A/K/A ELIA NATONIO RAMÍREZ MIRANDA AND THE ESTATE OF MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES VARGAS - VALES A/K/A MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES VARGAS; JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE AS UNKNOWN HEIRS OF THE ESTATES.

The Clerk of this court notifies you that on April 28, 2025, this Court entered judgment in favor of plaintiff and against you. The judgment has been duly registered and its terms are available for review in the Clerk’s office. Accordingly, you are notified that judgment has been entered against you in these proceedings. Notice will be deemed effective, and the thirty (30) day-term to file a notice of appeal will begin, the day this judicial notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico. A copy of the Notice of Judgment by Publication and Judgment in this case will be sent by plaintiff to the defendants’ last known addresses by certified mail/ return receipt requested within ten (10) days of the one and only publication of this judicial notice. San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 13th, 2025. ADA I. GARCÍA - RIVERA, ESQ., CLERK OF THE COURT. ANA DURÁN,

DEPUTY CLERK.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN LUIS MEDINA

SANTIAGO T/C/C RAMÓN

L. MEDINA SANTIAGO T/C/C RAMÓN MEDINA

SANTIAGO COMPUESTA POR JACKELINE MEDINA

RODRÍGUEZ, MARÍA DE LOURDES MEDINA

RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES

RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2025CV00533. (601). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE RAMÓN LUIS MEDINA

SANTIAGO T/C/C RAMÓN

L. MEDINA SANTIAGO T/C/C RAMÓN MEDINA SANTIAGO.

Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $57,703.46 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.50% anual desde el 1ro de septiembre de 2024 hasta su completo pago, más $249.38 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,216.30 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: RÚSTICA: solar marcado con el número doscientos

ochenta y ocho (288) del plano preparado por la Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda de Puerto Rico, para su proyecto desolares denominados Urbanización Manuel Corchado Juarbe, radicado en el barrio Guayabos del término municipal de Isabela con una cabida superficial de quinientos sesenta y nueve punto trece ochenta metros cuadrados (569.1380 m.c); equivalente a cero punto catorce cuarenta y ocho cuerdas (0.1448 cuerdas). En lindes por el NORTE, en treinta y cuatro punto trescientos treinta y un metros (34.331 mts) con terrenos de Nereida Mercado y la Sucesión de Mariano Rodriguez; por el SUR, en treinta y cuatro punto setecientos setenta y uno metros (34.771 mts.) con terrenos de Enrique Pratts y Evette Moreno; ESTE, en quince punto doscientos treinta y dos metros (15.232 mts) con calle Dalia y al OESTE, en diecisiete punto setecientos sesenta y un metros (17.761 mts) con Sucesión de Benito Nieves. Inscrita al folio 103 del tomo 222 de Isabela, Finca 9292, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Isabela, Finca 9292, Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. Inscripción octava. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia del causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publi-

cación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 15 de mayo de 2025 en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA

UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES

Demandante Vs. ISMAEL LÓPEZ RIVERA, SU ESPOSA

ALICIA M. GARCÍA

MERCED T/C/C ALICIA

GARCÍA MERCED Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Parte de Interés Civil Núm.: GM2025CV00138. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: ISMAEL LÓPEZ

RIVERA, SU ESPOSA ALICIA M. GARCÍA

MERCED T/C/C ALICIA GARCÍA MERCED Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - URB. EXT. LA MARGARITA, 18-A CALLE 1, SALINAS PR 00751; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: PO BOX 223, SALINAS PR 00751.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por

derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal , hoy 14 de mayo de 2025. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH RIVERA RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE EMMA COLÓN ZAYAS T/C/C ASUNCIÓN COLÓN ZAYAS, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O

PARTES CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION

Demandada Civil Núm.: AI2025CV00010. 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: SUCESION DE EMMA COLÓN ZAYAS T/C/C ASUNCIÓN COLON ZAYAS, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES EN LA SUCESION - BO. CAONILLAS, SOLAR 1, AIBONITO, PR 00609; BOX 1011, AIBONITO, PR 00609, Y; BO. CAONILLAS, CARR. 726 KM 0.9, AIBONITO PR 00705.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de las Menores, entre los remedies que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos by f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a)

en los cases que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en tomo a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290 , FAX: 787-751-6155 E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy Aibonito de 14 de mayo de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ORLANDO SANTIAGO ORTIZ Y MADELINE RODRÍGUEZ CHARRIEZ Peticionarios EX PARTE Civil Núm.: TA2025CV00478. Sala: 500. Asunto: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: REPUBLIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION; URBANIZACIÓN SAN FERNANDO DEVELOPMENT; THACKERAY CORPORATION, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO THACKENAY; LOS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE GELPICIO ORTIZ ESPADA Y LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A

QUIENES PUDIERA

PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.“URBANA: Solar marcado F-Dos (F-2) en el plano de la Urbanización San Fernando (hoy Jardines de San Fernando), sito en el Barrio Contorno del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos diez y siete metros cuadrados con novecientos diez y nueve milésimas de metro cuadrado (317.919 mts. cds.), en lindes por el Norte, con el solar número F-Tres (F3), de la misma Urbanización, en una distancia de veinte y cuatro metros y noventa y nueve centímetros (24.99 mts); por el Sur, con el Solar F-Uno (F-1) del mismo proyecto, en una distancia de veinte y cinco metros setenta y un milímetros (24.071 mts.); por el Este, con la Calle número Ocho (8) del mismo proyecto, en una distancia de doce metros y setecientos un milímetros (12.701); y por el Oeste, con terrenos en la Urbanización San Fernando o San Fernando Development (antes Republic Mortgage Investors), en una distancia de doce metros con setenta centímetros (12.70 mts.).” Número de catastro: 083-060-063-61-001. Alegan los Peticionarios que

poseen la referida propiedad de forma pública, pacífica, ininterrumpida y en concepto de dueños desde el 1984, y que la adquirieron de del tío de uno de los copeticionarios (Gelpicio Ortiz Espada). El abogado de la parte Peticionario lo es:

JAVIER SEVILLANO VICÉNS (RUA 20126); Dirección: P.O. Box 192278, San Juan, P.R. 00919 Teléfono: (787) 9834146 Correo electrónico: solutions@sevillanolegal.org. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, bajo mi firma y sello el 7 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

TINTILLO FRANCHISE AND ASSOCIATES

Parte Demandante V. CLARA DE JESUS SANTOS, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV00541. Salón: 904. Sobre: PROCEDIMIENTO ESPECIAL, ARTÍCULO 14.1 DE LA LEY NÚM. 161 DEL 1 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2009 SEGÚN ENMENDADA. VIOLACIÓN AL ART. 807 DEL CÓDIGO CIVIL DE PUERTO RICO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CLARA DE JESUS SANTOS, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS. POR LA PRESENTE se le NOTIFICA Y EMPLAZA que ante este Tribunal se ha radicado una acción en el caso de epígrafe mediante la cual se solicita que este Honorable Tribunal, declare con lugar demanda sobre Procedimiento Especial, Artículo 14.1 de la Ley Núm. 161 del 1 de diciembre de 2009 según enmendada, Violación al Art. 807 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico; y ordene a la Parte Demandada que, a su costo, demuela las obras construidas ilegalmente; ordene a la Parte Demandada que descontinúe el uso ilegal que da a su propiedad; ordene a la Parte Demandada el pago de las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados a favor de la Parte Demandante y dicte cualquier otro remedio que en derecho proceda. 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 Secretaria del tribunal y notificar con copia de la Contestación a la Demanda a la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del edicto a: Lcdo. Daniel Martínez Oquendo,1111 Ave. Jesus T Piñero San Juan, P.R. 009205605 Tels. (787) 781-7084 / 2222, correo electrónico martinezoquendo@hotmail.com y al Lcdo. Iván Octavio Malavé De Jesús, Urb. Park Gardens P1-9 Calle Chapultepec, San Juan, P.R. 00926-2126, Tel. (787) 767-3293, correo electrónico ivanoctaviomalave@gmail. com. 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 sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 15 de mayo de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. LIZ MARIE RIVERA DÍAZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, acting through the United States Department of Agriculture, Plaintiff, v. JOHN DOE and RICHARD ROE as unknown

members of the Estate of EDNA BELÉN SANTIAGOORTIZ, Defendants. Civil No. 21-1023 (FAB). ORDER AUTHORIZING SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION. Plaintiff United States has not been able to locate defendants JOHN DOE and RICHARD ROE as unknown members of the Estate of EDNA BELÉN SANTIAGO-ORTIZ. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that the defendants be served with process by publication, and that this Order be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication, defendants shall be sent a copy of the summons and of the complaint, by certified mail, with acknowledgment of receipt, to their last known addresses, or through any of the other means expressly indicated in Rule 4.6 of the Puerto Rico Rules of Civil Procedure, P.R. Law Ann. tit. 32, app. V, R. 4.6. The Court also ORDERS defendants to appear and answer the complaint no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Order, by filing the original of their answers in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy on counsel for plaintiff. If defendants fail to do so, this Court will enter default against them and proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this case. It is also ordered that plaintiff send a copy of this Order, the complaint, and all accompanying documents to defendants’ last known addresses. IT IS SO ORDERED. San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 7, 2025. s/ Francisco A. Besosa, SENIOR UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING THROUGH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Plaintiff V. NELIDO ORTIZ DE JESUS, DEANA

LYNNE MARSHALL

ORTIZ A/K/A DEANA

LYANA MARSHALL

ORTIZ A/K/A DEANA

LYNNE MARSHALL

ORTIZ A/K/A DEANA

LLYNE MARSHALL

ORTIZ A/K/A DEANA

L. MARSHALL ORTIZ AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP

Defendants Civil No.: 25-CV-01139 (SCC). SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION. TO: NELIDO ORTIZ DE JESUS, DEANA LYNNE

MARSHALL ORTIZ

A/K/A DEANA LYANA MARSHALL ORTIZ A/K/A DEANA LYNNE MARSHALL ORTIZ A/K/A DEANA LLYNE MARSHALL ORTIZ A/K/A DEANA L. MARSHALL ORTIZ, BOTH IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND AS MEMBERS OF THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BETWEEN THEM - ST. RD. 4758, KM. 4.5, LOS RÍOS WD., PATILLAS, PR 00707; 3844 BATTLEGROUND AVE., APT. 33, GREENSBORO, NC 27410, AND; 276 FAGGE RD, STONEVILLE, NC 27048.

Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on May 13, 2025, see Docket No. 8, you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Attorney Juan C. Fortuño Fas, at PO Box 3908, Guaynabo, PR 00970, telephone number 787-751-5290, email address: dcfilings@fortuno-law.com. This Summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It shall be published by edict once in a newspaper of general circulation in the island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendants NELIDO ORTIZ DE JESUS, DEANA LYNNE MARSHALL ORTIZ a/k/a DEANA LYANA MARSHALL ORTIZ a/k/a DEANA LYNNE MARSHALL ORTIZ a/k/a DEANA LLYNE MARSHALL ORTIZ a/k/a DEANA L. MARSHALL ORTIZ, BOTH IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND AS MEMBERS OF THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED BETWEEN THEM, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to their last known address. Default will be entered against the defendant that fails to appear, plead or answer the Complaint, as ordered and notified by this Summons and the Court may proceed to hear and adjudicate the claims advanced in the Complaint accordingly. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 14th day of May 2025. ADA I. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ., CLERK OF THE UNITED STATES, DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO

RICO. ANA DURAN, DEPUTY CLERK. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JUAN BAUTISTA REYES BONILLA, ET AL

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2024CV07536. 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: JUAN BAUTISTA REYES BONILLA Y MIGUEL RUÍZ SÁNCHEZ. Por la presente se les notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe, donde se les reclama el pago de una deuda ascendente al 6 de noviembre de 2024 a $68,702.33. 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 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / 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 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 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 Emplazamiento por Edicto, la parte demandante les notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias de la Demanda y del Emplazamiento por Edicto a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Juan Bautista Reyes Bonilla: Bo. Nuevos Sec Montellanos, Carr. 167 Ramal 816 Km. 2.7, Bayamón, PR 00956 y Torres del Plata, 101 Carr. 828

Apt. 101, Toa Alta, PR 00953; Miguel Ruíz Sánchez: 100 Villas de Monte Rey, #T215, Bayamón, PR 00957. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 14 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. VIVÍAN J. SANABRIA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. MORENA STUDIO LLC Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: GB2024CV01028. (Salón: 201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: EDITH M. PÉREZ

GRAU, MORENA STUDIO LLC Y DOWNTOWN MEDIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, SAMARA DANIELLE KLEIMAN DEMEL, ARI JACOB KLEIMAN DEMEL Y EITAN JOSEPH KLEIMAN DEMEL, COMO ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JAY KLEIMAN KRESS. (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 15 de mayo de 2025. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 15 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETA-

RIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. HEURIEL A. PEREZ SANCHEZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AI2025CV00083. (Salón: 001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM.

A: HEURIEL A. PEREZ SANCHEZ. (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 15 de mayo de 2025. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 15 de mayo de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MYRTA ENID FIGUEROA APONTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. RAFAEL R. FLORES RODRIGUEZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2024CV04379. (Salón: 803 - CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZ -

JPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM.

A: RAFAEL R.

FLORES RODRIGUEZ.

(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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 16 de mayo de 2025.

IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA MUNICIPAL / SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ASOCIACIÓN PROCONTROL DE ACCESO DE LA CALLE MARACAIBO, INC.

Parte Demandante V. CIDMARIE

GONZÁLEZ CLAUDIO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV01035. (902). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: CIDMARIE

GONZÁLEZ CLAUDIO.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado ante este Tribunal Demanda contra usted(es), solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Demanda de COBRO DE DINERO, por concepto de cuotas de mantenimientos vencidas y no pagadas por la suma de $800.23 al 20 de diciembre de 2024. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

LCDO. MELVYN E. FONTAN LOZADA Colegiado Núm. 15768, RUA: 14519

PO Box 124, Bayamón, PR 00960-0124

Tel. 787-340-6604; Fax 787-261-9168

e-mail: melfonloza@live.com, melvynfontan@gmail.com

Se le apercibe que usted deberá contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deje de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente sin más citarle ni oírle. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 8 de mayo de 2025.

SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARGARITA MUÑIZ MÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA

JANET TORRES GUZMAN Y OTROS

Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: TA2025CV00342. (Salón: 201B). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JORGE GARCÍA RONDÓNJAFGRONDON@OUTLOOK.COM. BANCO POPULAR PUERTO RICO - POPULAR CENTER BUILDING SUITE 913 209 MUÑOZ RIVERA AVENUE SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00918. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION - PO BOX 9022294 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 009022946. JOHN DOE - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. RICHARD ROE - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifica la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 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 13 de mayo de 2025. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 13 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. NOEL ABRIL RIOS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AU2024CV00316. (Salón: 0001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

A: NOEL ABRIL RIOS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de 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 13 de mayo de 2025. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 13 de mayo de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ERIKA CRUZ PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. LOYDA

ROSADO CARRILLO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: GB2024CV00684. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

Osvaldo L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.

A: LOYDA

ROSADO CARRILLO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 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 13 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 13 de mayo de 2025.

ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. MARITZA RODRIGUEZ SERRANO

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CZ2024CV00087. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: MARITZA RODRÍGUEZ SERRANO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 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 14 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 14 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs ANGEL RAFAEL FUENTES GARCÍA

Parte Demandada Caso Número: GR2024CV00361. Sala: 0104. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: ÁNGEL RAFAEL FUENTES GARCÍAHC 45 BOX 10303 CAYEY, PR 00736. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tri-

bunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda de epígrafe dentro de los TREINTA (30) DIAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto; el cual se publicará en un periódico de circulación general diaria durante una (1) sola vez. 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/indexphp/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. LCDA. PATRICIA BÁEZ RAMOS (RUA 22896) EMPHATIA NOTARY & LEGAL ADVISORS, PSC Urb. Villa Criollos Calle Corazón A-6 Caguas, Puerto Rico 00725 Tel. (939) 337-5550 / Fax. (939) 337-5553

E-mail: pbaez@emphatialaw.com POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, hoy día 28 de abril de 2025. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día 1 de mayo de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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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. VI-

LLA 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 hubiere, 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 pa-

gos 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.

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Demandante Vs, SUCESION LUIS MISAEL

MARTY RODRIGUEZ

T/C/C LUIS M. MARTY

RODRIGUEZ T/C/C LUIS

MARTY RODRIGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR NOE

MARTY BERENGUER, WALTER MARTY

BERENGUER, LUIS

MARTY BERENGUER; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION ROSA MARIA

BERENGUER SOTILLO

T/C/C ROSA MARIA

BERENGUER T/C/C

ROSA M. BERENGUER

SOTILLO T/C/C ROSA

M. BERENGUER T/C/C ROSA BERENGUER

SOTILLO COMPUESTA POR NOE MARTY BERENGUER, WALTER MARTY BERENGUER, LUIS MARTY

BERENGUER; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV00343. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS ONIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS MARTY

BERENGUER; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION LUIS MISAEL MARTY RODRIGUEZ T/C/C LUIS M. MARTY RODRIGUEZ T/C/C LUIS MARTY RODRIGUEZ. JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION ROSA MARIA BERENGUER SOTILLO

T/C/C ROSA MARIA BERENGUER T/C/C

ROSA M. BERENGUER SOTILLO T/C/C ROSA M. BERENGUER T/C/C ROSA BERENGUER SOTILLO.

POR LA PRESENTE SE le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Greenspoon Marder, LLP

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Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de abril de 2025. LCDA. NORMA SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ALEXANDRA M. LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante Vs. FREDERICK HENRY

BENTZEL JR. Y CAROL JEAN WHITE T/C/C/ CAROL JEAN WERBANEC

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00299. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FREDERICK HENRY BENTZEL JR.; CAROL JEAN WHITE T/C/C/ CAROL JEAN WERBANEC.

Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad,

Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se les advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO

MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 25 de abril de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs. RICHARD LEE

GELLER, JENNIFER LYNN GELLER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00300. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RICHARD LEE GELLER, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; JENNIFER LYNN GELLER, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBAS.

Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Den-

tro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se les advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 25 de abril de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICAL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. KATHIRIA J. OSORIO HENRIQUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: FA2025CV00160. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: KATHIRIA J. OSORIO HENRIQUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR

AMBOS.

POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICIO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, le estará enviando a usted por

correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Monte Brisas 1, L17 Calle H, Fajardo, PR 00738-3313. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de abril de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. JORGE MIGUEL COLÓN FERNÁNDEZ, FULANA DE TAL, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS Demandado Civil Núm.: FA2025CV00050. Sala: 302. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JORGE MIGUEL COLÓN FERNÁNDEZ, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES CON FULANA DE TAL; FULANA DE TAL, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES CON JORGE MIGUEL COLÓN FERNÁNDEZ - VILLA REALIDAD 16 CALLE ZORZAL RÍO GRANDE, P.R. 00745; VILLA REALIDAD 149 CALLE ZORZAL RÍO GRANDE, P.R. 00745. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al licenciado: Alberto De Diego Collar, DE DIEGO LAW OFFICES, PSC, PO BOX 79552, Carolina, PR 00984-9552, Teléfono: (787)622-3939, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la demanda dentro del término antes indicado, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin mas citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de abril de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA,SUB-SECRETARIA.

NOTIFICACION A VECINOS COLINDANTES MEDIANTE METODO ALTERNO

“PUBLICACION DE EDICTO”

NOTIFICACIÓN A VECINOS COLINDANTES MEDIANTE MÉTODO ALTERNO

“PUBLICACIÓN DE EDICTO”

La Sucesión Antero García por conducto del Ing. Henry Contreras, solicita permiso para segregar su terreno y dividirlo en 9 lotes para herencia Los mismos serán utilizados como sus residencias y ya tienen autorización para utilizar el agua vecinal Debido a que las siguientes propiedades que tienen el número de catastro no hay dirección postal en el CRIM y algunas de las propiedades están abandonadas o vacíos, estas propiedades tienen los siguientes, número de catastro:

La Sucesión Antero García por conducto del Ing. Henry Contreras, solicita permiso para segregar su terreno y dividirlo en 9 lotes para herencia. Los mismos serán utilizados como sus residencias y ya tienen autorización para utilizar el agua vecinal. Debido a que las siguientes propiedades que tienen el número de catastro no hay dirección postal en el CRIM y algunas de las propiedades están abandonadas o vacíos, estas propiedades tienen los siguientes, número de catastro: 301-000-005-04, 301-000-005-52, 301-020-291-04, 310-010-291-01, 301-000-005-84, 301-000-005-92, 301000-005-51, 301-000-005-52, 301-010-291-12, 301-000-005-59, 301-020291-10, 301-020-291-11, 301-000-005-50Estamos notificando esta solicitud mediante el método alterno de la publicación de un edicto, cumpliendo con la sección 2.1.9.7,2.1.9.8, 2.2.2.3 y 2.2.2.2 (método Alterno) del Reglamento Conjunto Vigente.

301-000-005-04, 301-000-005-52, 301-020-291-04, 310-010-291-01, 301-000-005-84, 301-000-005-92, 301-000-005-51, 301-000-005-52, 301-010-291-12, 301-000-005-59, 301-020-291-10, 301-020-291-11, 301-000-005-50

Estamos notificando esta solicitud mediante el método alterno de la publicación de un edicto, cumpliendo con la sección 2.1.9.7,2.1.9.8, 2.2.2.3 y 2.2 2 2 (método Alterno) del Reglamento Conjunto Vigente.

Atentamente

Atentamente

Ivette Ortíz García

Ivette Ortíz García

Sudoku

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Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

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Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

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Crossword

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Warriors face choices for keeping Curry-Butler window open wide

By ANTHONY SLATER and MARCUS THOMPSON II / THE ATHLETIC

The frustration was visible on Stephen Curry’s face. The Golden State Warriors had felt pretty good about Curry’s being able to return from his hamstring injury for Game 6 of their second-round NBA playoff series against the Timberwolves. But Minnesota ended it in five games, with a 121-110 victory last Wednesday night.

“The only solace you can really take was that we had a chance,” Curry said. “It’s kind of the ultimate gut punch because of that. Makes it worse. You just don’t want to go out like that.”

Five minutes after the final buzzer, Golden State’s controlling owner, Joe Lacob, was complimentary of the home team but more willing than others in his organization to voice what many believed.

“Disappointing,” he said. “I really hoped we could extend the series and I’m ...”

He paused, understanding his next statement would come off as discrediting the Timberwolves, but he fired it off anyway.

“I am pretty positive that if we had Steph, we’d have won this series,” Lacob said.

Lacob’s sentiment is notable when attempting to get a read on the front office’s planned path forward. The lead decision makers — Lacob; Mike Dunleavy, the general manager; Kirk Lacob, the assistant general manager — do not plan a major shake-up, team sources said. They are plotting a retooled middle of the rotation below Curry, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green, still believing that veteran core can contend.

“It’s in some ways kind of a win to get here, to get the second round,” Lacob said. “Yeah, we lost, four games to one. Not good. But to a team that is playing very well. They took the Lakers out, four to one, also with two of the greatest players in the world on their team. We didn’t have one of ours. So we can all sit here and make what-ifs, judgments, but I can’t be

really upset with what happened, given that we just didn’t have our biggest force.”

The Warriors were 23-7 with Butler and Curry in the lineup and beat the second-seeded Houston Rockets in the first round. They maintain they could have reached the conference finals and possibly beyond.

But the consolation prize of believing they were good enough to compete with any other team only amplifies the urgency to make the necessary adjustments to build on this season.

Ordinarily, when a team feels close, Curry said, major changes do not feel so necessary. But he has been through this enough times to know standing pat is not prudent. Butler’s contract lines up with Curry’s. They have two seasons left.

“On the surface, that’s why he signed for two more years — our belief we can make it work,” Curry said of Butler. “And we’ve proven that the last three months. Just got to figure out what is going to get us to the next level as a whole. One guy can’t win it. Two guys can’t win it. It’s got to be a team.”

As they enter the summer, team sources said, the internal plan and conversations are about how best to reform the role players around Curry and Butler, not to chase another star.

Jonathan Kuminga is the most notable swing piece. The Warriors are expected to extend his $7.9 million qualifying offer, which will make him a restricted free agent in July, giving them leverage.

Kuminga has had a turbulent four seasons with the franchise. Coach Steve Kerr pulled him from the rotation in the Houston series.

After Curry’s injury, Kuminga dropped these point totals in the final four games against Minnesota: 18, 30, 23, 26.

It is nearly impossible to believe Lacob would let Kuminga sign an offer sheet elsewhere and walk away for nothing. A reunion between the sides is still on the table, league sources said.

Stephen Curry after his Golden State Warriors defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 of an NBA Western Conference Semifinal, at the Chase Center in San Francisco, May 4, 2023. After the Minnesota Timberwolves eliminated Golden State in five games in the second round of this season’s playoffs, the Warriors are looking to retool the middle of their rotation below Curry, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green. (Clara Mokri for The New York Times) The San Juan Daily Star

The Warriors’ decision makers believe they need more positional size across the board.

Brandin Podziemski is another critical player. He had his best game of the series Wednesday, going 11 of 19 from the field and finishing with 28 points, 6 reboundsa and 4 assists.

“There were times in this series where he was hesitant to shoot,” Kerr said. “I thought he could have gotten 10 or 11 3s off tonight, and we needed those. I told him that after the game. I said, ‘When we get back here next year, you are not going to turn down a single shot.’”

shooter and offensive creator who can share in the playmaking load with Curry and Butler. The two veterans will require rest and management next season.

But Podziemski is 22, set to make $3.6 million next season and laden with intangibles. That makes him worth keeping, especially if he grows more confident offensively. But it also makes him valuable around the league.

Do they use him as one of the few commodities they possess, or continue his development while he is on a team-friendly deal?

“I would hope our young players take yet another leap,” Lacob said. He added: “Our drafts were not bad at all. These guys are very young. They’ve had to fit into a very difficult situation with experienced players. It’s not like they can just go out and put up numbers. So I think we’ve drafted very well. We’ve got some good young players.”

But both sides are expected to explore sign-and-trade situations, those sources said, which would theoretically give Kuminga the contract and fresh start he would desire while giving Golden State rotation players of immediate value.

Podziemski, the 19th pick in the 2023 draft, played his way into the rotation as a rookie, supplanting Klay Thompson. After a slow start to his second season, he turned it on in a secondary role after the Butler trade. His versatility as a 6-foot-5-inch guard, his basketball IQ and his willingness to grind make him valuable. But the Warriors might need more from him. He looked overwhelmed for most of these playoffs, the first of his career, raising questions about whether he is a potent enough scorer to warrant his role.

“That’s a big part of playoff experience,” Kerr said, “understanding you have to keep firing and stay aggressive.”

Golden State opted to keep him last offseason instead of cashing in his noteworthy value on the trade market. Several teams called with appealing offers, league sources said. They were told no.

But the need for offensive punch was magnified this postseason. Some in the organization who landed on the side of exploring Podziemski’s value see a need for more of a Jordan Poole-type of playmaker: a confident

The backbone of the organization remains what it has been for more than a decade. Kerr and Dunleavy are expected to remain in place. Butler is the new costar. Green is expected to remain. Then the ecosystem still operates around Curry, who will enter his 17th NBA season in October.

“I have a great coach and I have a great GM,” Lacob said. “I have no problems with anything in respect to them. Mike made a fantastic trade. Before we made that trade, we were one game under .500 and it didn’t look like we were going anywhere. We won a first-round series against a very good up-andcoming team with a lot of athleticism and size. I thought it was a hell of a win. Got us pretty tired probably for this series, and maybe that was just too much to overcome.”

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