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ubernatorial candidate and vice president of the New Progressive Party (NPP) Jenniffer González Colón presented on Thursday her proposal for the transformation to a government that is accessible and that sensitively addresses the realities of Puerto Rico’s elderly, where the important sector of the population can maintain their autonomy, have a better quality of life and integrate into both the private and third sectors. “We need to adapt to the reality that Puerto Rico continues to age and that is why it is necessary to refocus our vision of the elderly as contributors to the socioeconomic development of Puerto Rico,” González Colón said. “We need a government that understands and addresses the needs of older adults, that is accessible, sensitive, and that takes into consideration the capacities and limitations that this population may have. We have to put an end to bureaucracy in public management.” As a result of the increase in people’s average life expectancy, the world’s population is aging and virtually all countries are experiencing growth in the number and proportion of older people in their population. Between 2010 and 2020, the life expectancy of Puerto Ricans increased by two years, from 79 years to 81 years. Not only has Puerto Rico experienced this global trend, but other demographic factors have exacerbated the situation. The precipitous decline in the birth rate, combined with the migration of people of productive age to the continental United States are exacerbating factors on the island, the resident commissioner noted. Puerto Rico is the American jurisdiction with the second-highest percentage of people over 60 years of age (27.61%). It is estimated that this proportion will continue to increase in the coming years. The resident commissioner pointed out that 40% of older adults in Puerto Rico live below the poverty level, meanwhile, with 88.1% of this population out of the workforce, with their main sources of income being Social Security (80.8%), the Nutrition Assistance Program (PAN) (40.7%) and retirement pensions (30.5%). A full 39.9% of older adults have not graduated from high school, and only 18% have attained a bachelor’s degree or higher. Meanwhile, study after study shows a correlation between a sedentary or inactive lifestyle and various physical illnesses and mental health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression and anxiety. Mental health has also been shown to be the most influential factor in physical health changes. However,
55% of older adults in Puerto Rico do not engage in activities inside or outside their home. González Colón noted that “since I started my campaign I have always said that my priority would be the people, the people and the people.” “I’m going to give power back to the people; I’m going to work for the 95% and not for the 5% of the population,” she said. “I’m here to serve, [but] not only to serve, I’m here to make sure that the money that’s coming in is in your pocket. The growing population of our seniors deserves, after a lifetime of contributing to our society and families, all the attention and sensitivity of their government. That is why I propose for this sector some actions and transformations with a real sense of addressing the problems that afflict them in their day-to-day lives.” To achieve a better quality of life for older adults, a González Colón administration would be focusing on the areas of health and wellness, safety, fraud and financial exploitation prevention, quality of life and social connection initiatives, and social development as well as economic development, dramatically changing public policy and the way the government provides them support and services to this population, the candidate said. “I thank the public servants who donated their time to prepare a platform for older adults that will result in real change for this population,” the resident commissioner said. “It’s unfortunate that I can’t recognize them by name and surname because they fear the reprisals that the current administration may take against them for supporting my campaign.”
Resident commissioner and candidate for governor Jenniffer González Colón said: “We need to adapt to the reality that Puerto Rico continues to age and that is why it is necessary to refocus our vision of the elderly as contributors to the socioeconomic development of Puerto Rico.”
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Pierluisi raises over $5 million for campaign war chest By THE STAR STAFF
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he reelection campaign of Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has raised over $5 million total, campaign finance director Andrés Guillemard said Thursday. The fundraising gap between the governor’s campaign and those of Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González Colón and Popular Democratic Party candidates is wide, and “unequivocally” is due “to the people’s conviction” that the governor is the only one who can guarantee progress and stability for Puerto Rico, Guillemard said. González Colón said in a radio report that the high numbers are no guarantee that Pierluisi can get things done, as has happened over the past three years. The incumbent’s campaign finance director begged to differ. “The people want stability and con- Gov. Pedro Pierluisi tinuity of the work and our progress in these three years,” Guillemard said. “And our governor is the one who guarantees accelerated. All of Puerto Rico knows them. We are in transformative moments that it cannot and does not want to stop in which the reconstruction and rescue and Pierluisi is the guarantee of security of public finances has been dramatically and progress.”
The attorney highlighted that the revenues reported to the Office of the Electoral Comptroller of Puerto Rico as collected for January add up to $1
million in addition to the $4.4 million in cash, reflecting total cash on hand of $5.3 million to date. He insisted that González Colón has had problems not only raising funds for her campaign, but also managing them, since the report she submitted says she raised $148,881.86 in January, but spent $220,717.51. “The people love [Pierluisi], see him and feel him as the sure winner,” Guillemard said. “Hence the financial debacle of others. Nobody bets on a lost cause where defeat is palpable and anticipated.” Guillemard also noted that Pierluisi’s income and expense reports have been filed without any complications, in full compliance with the regulations and applicable laws. “As I have always said, Pierluisi’s record and personality make fundraising easier, more agile, and generous,” he said. “Without a doubt, people believe in him, in his work style and in the respect and seriousness that he conveys. Public support is evident and the base of our party is committed to ensuring his victory.”
FEMA provides new alternatives for Orocovis, Yabucoa By THE STAR STAFF
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ommunities evolve and their needs change. Faced with this, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides the options of alternate or improved projects to meet their new realities. Two projects in the municipalities of Orocovis and Yabucoa demonstrate these alternatives with a total obligation of nearly $5.2 million. In Orocovis, an alternate project was approved with an obligation of nearly $953,200 to demolish a former Head Start center to turn it into a batting cage. The project is located at the Arnaldo Hernández Sports Complex, named after a beloved athlete from the Saltos neighborhood. The new concept will benefit nearly 150 families and aims to continue promoting different types of sports, especially among the youth. “The complex has several areas, and it will now have a batting cage, an alternative for improving the batting skills of our children and youth,” said Marlon Meléndez Ayala, the municipality’s planning director. Under FEMA’s Public Assistance program,
an alternate project is one where the applicant decides not to restore the pre-disaster function of the damaged facility and chooses to change it, as long as it is permanent work that benefits the same community. Meanwhile, an improved project restores the pre-disaster function and adds improvements or changes to its pre-disaster design. “These projects show that our agency is focused and committed to achieving the most practical solutions for the particular situations of the municipalities and their communities,” said FEMA Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero. “Likewise, we emphasize the importance of these works complying with established requirements and standards to withstand future disasters.” The Orocovis project, which is in the design and bid planning stage, includes demolishing the center, clearing vegetation, preparing the site and applying asphalt. Additional work also entails the installation of a multi-lane batting cage netting system and automatic batting machines, air conditioners, lighting fixtures and metal fencing. An award of nearly $19,200 was allocated for mitigation measures such as anchoring systems for air conditioning units.
Miguel A. Pérez Rivera, the Saltos neighborhood recreational leader, noted that the facility where the batting cage will be constructed is already used by softball, baseball and soccer teams. “It is widely used by the community and people use it for exercise and health wellness,” he said. “For example, Alexander Torres, the first Puerto Rican to win the San Blas Half Marathon, trains at this facility every morning.” In Yabucoa, meanwhile, FEMA awarded over $4.2 million for an improved project at the diagnostic and treatment center (CDT by its Spanish initials) located in the Pueblo
neighborhood. The center’s administrator, Mariángela Alvarado Soto, said the improvements and compliance with current building codes ensure quality, excellence and safety for patients, staff and medical faculty. She also noted that having a facility in optimal condition generates an efficient, productive work environment and better service. “In addition, it provides the opportunity that, should an atmospheric or other event arise, it can serve as a shelter, operation center and ensure that patients continue to receive their treatments,” Alvarado Soto said.
FEMA Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator José G. Baquero
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Convicted gunmen in Bayamón pizzeria massacre get 198 years in prison By THE STAR STAFF
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he Justice Secretary Domingo Emanuelli Hernández announced Thursday that Richard López Torres (“Colorao”), José Jiménez Echevarría (“Cuba”), Luis Pastrana Benejam (“Capestrano”) and José Luis Cintrón Aponte (Bebo Segueta), who were responsible for the massacre that occurred at the Palacio de las Pizzas in Bayamón in 2017, were sentenced to a total of 198 years and 219 days in prison. “With this sentence, which is the maximum penalty for the crimes charged, the Department of Justice and the Police Bureau do justice to the victims and we ensure that these criminal actors pay for their actions and do not return to the streets to disturb the citizens,” the Justice chief said. “I appreciate the commendable work carried out by the prosecutors and police officers in charge of the process,” he added. “The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to make these individuals pay for their criminal acts.” After a trial that lasted a little more than a year, Judge
Carmen Otero Ferreira handed down the sentence in Room 706 in the Court of First Instance of Bayamón, on Dec. 19, after a jury unanimously found the accused guilty. A special penalty of $1,500 was also imposed on three of the convicts, with the exception of Pastrana Benejam. Among the victims who died were three people identified as Giovanny Berríos Rojas, who had a criminal history, José Dones Rosario and Miguel Ángel Torres Pantojas, two innocent victims who were visiting the business at the time of the events. In addition, the shooters injured a baby, a teenager and another person. Prosecutors Yarelly Sánchez Courtney, Gretchen Pérez Catinchi, Iván Rivera Labrador and Linda Sepúlveda Irizarry proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the four individuals sentenced Thursday were the co-authors of the crime, the Justice secretary said. Several others involved, identified as Kelvin Rivera Ortíz, William Rivera Ortíz and Enoc Yamil Díaz Alicea, pleaded guilty, and one remains wanted by the police.
Four men were sentenced for a massacre that occurred at the Palacio de las Pizzas in Bayamón in 2017.
Treasury begins disbursing tax refunds early in cycle By THE STAR STAFF
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ov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia and Acting Treasury Secretary Nelson Pérez Méndez announced the approval of some $67 million in tax refunds on Thursday, just 48 hours into the 2024 Tax Cycle. “On Monday, February 12, 2024, the Department of the Treasury made available the Income Tax Return forms for the 2023 tax year, and reaffirming our commitment to begin disbursing tax refunds as soon as possible, we have approved $67.4 million in refunds for 29,933 tax forms out of a total of 75,207 tax forms that have been filed,” the governor said. The digitalization of the tax system and the willingness of taxpayers to comply with their tax responsibilities allow for the efficient management of the processes, Pierluisi added.
“In my administration, we are committed to responding in an agile way to ensure that the money that belongs to citizens reaches their pockets as soon as possible,” the governor said. Pérez Méndez said the payments will be reflected in taxpayers’ bank accounts in the coming days. “As I told you, we are giving continuity to all the work in the department and especially to the tax cycle that has just begun,” the acting treasury chief said. “The commitment is to send recurring payrolls to comply with the payment of refunds from citizens who paid excess contributions.” To complete and file the Individual Income Tax Return for tax year 2023, taxpayers will have several alternatives. They can use their personal SURI account, free of charge; file their tax forms through providers certified by the Trea-
sury available on the website www.hacienda.pr.gov subject to the cost determined by each provider; or use the Return Specialists, certified by the Treasury and available on the SURI website https:/ /suri.hacienda.pr.gov/, search section. The latter service is also subject to the specialist’s cost. All required evidence must be submitted electronically with the income returns through SURI. Additionally, before filing, taxpayers must verify their personal information, especially their name, Social Security number, bank account number, and name on the bank, to avoid delays and inconveniences with the direct deposit of refunds. Like in previous years, the Treasury Department will soon announce the opening of several Centers for the Preparation and Filing of Electronic Tax Returns to assist salaried taxpayers and pensioners who need it.
PDP begins processes for early, absentee voting in primary By THE STAR STAFF
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ooking ahead to the primaries to be held Sunday, June 2, Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Electoral Commissioner Karla Angleró and PDP Secretary General Gerardo “Toñito” Cruz announced Thursday the start of the early voting and absentee voting. “After the process of submitting endorsements has closed, the PDP is ready to begin working on early voting and absentee voting requests for the June 2 primary,” Angleró said. “Those interested will be able to access the form through our website www.ppdpr.net or through the page of the State
Elections Commission [SEC].” Officials added that the deadline to request participation in the early or advanced vote is April 13, while April 18 is the deadline to request an absentee ballot. On April 13, the electoral registry and voting requests for those in prison also closes. “To be eligible for one of these modalities, the applicant must meet these requirements to exercise their vote,” Cruz Maldonado added. “The active members of the armed forces, Merchant Marine members, students in any educational institution, spouse or dependent of the voter in the categories mentioned above or athletes and or technical personnel
participating in sports competitions representing PR abroad, are the people who qualify for absentee voting.” Meanwhile, those eligible for early voting are employees of the SEC, voters 60 years of age or older, voters who are the only person available in the family nucleus of their home to care for minors under 14 years of age, people with impediments or obvious limitation of mobility or being bedridden that prevents them from attending their polling station, voters with a restriction or obvious limitation of mobility or being bedridden and voters in accommodation houses, which are those voters with special conditions who are residents of homes, even if it is not their address reported in your electoral registry.
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Poetry Out Loud English recitation semifinals begin Friday By THE STAR STAFF
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he Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) on Thursday announced the start of the semifinal phase of the student poetry English recitation competition Poetry Out Loud (POL) Puerto Rico 2024. The first semifinal will take place Friday from noon to 4 p.m. at the Antonio Paoli Theater on the Ponce campus of Inter-American University of Puerto Rico. The second semifinal will be held on Friday, Feb. 23 at the José A. Monrouzeau Municipal Theater in Hatillo, starting at noon. Competing in the first semifinal are Academia Bilingüe Visión Educativa of Las Piedras, Alberto Meléndez Torres High School of Orocovis, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Montessori School of Lajas, Benjamin Harrison Vocational High School of Cayey, Rehma Presbyterian School of
Hormigueros, CROEM of Mayagüez, CROEV of Villalba, Rafael Pont Flores Specialized Language School of Aibonito, San Germán InterAmerican School, Leonides Morales Rodríguez High School of Lajas, San Juan Sports School, San Juan Specialized School in Mathematics, Sciences and Technology, School of San Juan, Missionary Christian Academy of Sabana Grande and Washburn School of Ponce. Competing in the second semifinal on Feb. 23 are American Military Academy of Bayamón, Congregation Mita School of San Juan, San Ignacio School of San Juan, Dorado Academy, Padre Rufo Specialized Language School of San Juan, Lorenzo Coballes Gandía High School of Hatillo, Manuel Ramos Hernández High School of Quebradillas. Nicolás Sevilla Guemárez High School of Toa Alta, St. John’s School of San Juan, TASIS Dorado, Tomás C. Ongay High School of Bayamón, University Gardens High School
of San Juan and UHS of San Juan. POL is an arts education program conducted in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. The program encourages the study of poetry, offering free educational materials for teachers and students. POL is a dynamic declamation contest aimed at 9th to 12th grade students in public and private schools. This year, 28 schools from Puerto Rico are participating in the regional competitions. As part of the dynamics in the competition, contestants must recite from memory works from an anthology of classic and contemporary poems in English. The semifinals and finals of the competition are free and open to the public. Each year, students receive mentorship from Puerto Rican poets and artists. The competition has different stages until a representa-
tive is selected at the state level. The person who wins in Puerto Rico competes nationally against winners from all over the United States and its territories. Since the program’s inception in 2005, more than 4.1 million students and 68,000 teachers from across the United States have participated. The winner of the POL Puerto Rico final will receive $200, and their school will receive a $500 stipend to purchase poetry materials. The first runner-up will receive $100, with $200 for the represented school to purchase poetry materials. The Puerto Rican champion will be able to compete in the Poetry Out Loud national final in Washington, D.C., in May and will travel with all expenses paid. POL activities are open to the general public and free of charge. The POL Puerto Rico final will be held on Friday, March 8, at Francisco Arriví Theater in San Juan, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Victims of 1978 school bus accident in Aguas Buenas remembered By THE STAR STAFF
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n a moving and solemn ceremony, family, friends and neighbors of the Juan Asencio neighborhood in Aguas Buenas recalled the tragic accident that caused the death of 11 children on the morning of Feb. 15, 1978, when a school bus that was transporting them to school, lost its brakes and went over a cliff on highway PR-790 in the mountain town south of San Juan. “Years have passed, but the memories and feelings of an entire community remain,” Mayor Karina Nieves Serrano said. “This date will always be important for our people of Aguas
Buenas; we keep that moment alive, but we support each other as Aguasbonenses and we feel more and more strengthened in our Christian faith by those 11 children who died.” On the site there remains a monument in memory of the deceased that includes a plaque that reads “Eleven very happy children went to heaven one day, to visit the Virgin and the Father who gives us life.” The monument also has a space for anyone who wishes to perform an act of remembrance and spiritual peace. A total of 65 minors were traveling on the school bus when the tragic accident oc-
curred, leaving a deep wound that everyone still remembers with great pain. In the ceremony in which Sens. Juan Oscar Morales and Nitza Moran and Rep. Jorge Navarro participated, a wreath was placed next to the monument that marks the site of the accident, and where the names of the deceased are engraved: Maritza Rivera García, Gladys Esther Vázquez, Minerva Iris Santiago, Carmen M. Morales Cruz, María
del Carmen Morales, María L. Negrón Cotto, Pedro Negrón Cotto, José A. Negrón Cotto, Rubén Cruz Aponte, Carlos Rivera Rivera and Daniel Rivera. During the ceremony, Deacon Ramón Rosa of the parish of Los Tres Santos Reyes shared words of encouragement while the Danzores of the Aliento de Vida church performed a dance to provide comfort to family and friends.
The names of the 11 young people who died in a tragic school bus accident in Aguas Buenas in 1978 are engraved on a monument at the site: Maritza Rivera García, Gladys Esther Vázquez, Minerva Iris Santiago, Carmen M. Morales Cruz, María del Carmen Morales, María L. Negrón Cotto, Pedro Negrón Cotto, José A. Negrón Cotto, Rubén Cruz Aponte, Carlos Rivera Rivera and Daniel Rivera.
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Police say argument likely led to shooting at Kansas City Super Bowl celebration has been redeveloped into a destination with shops, restaurants and a science center. Around 2 p.m., shots were fired on the west side of Union Station. “I know one of the suspects was immediately pursued on foot,” Graves said at a news conference Wednesday. Children’s Mercy Hospital said Wednesday that it was treating 12 people who were injured in the shooting, including the 11 children and one mother who would not leave her child. None of the children were in critical condition, and all were expected to recover. Other victims were taken to University Health, formerly Truman Medical Center, where eight were being treated for gunshot wounds, including two in critical condition, Keith King, a hospital spokesperson, said Wednesday. And
Debris left by fans near the scene where shots were earlier fired near the Kansas City Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 14, 2024. A celebration of the Kansas City football team’s Super Bowl victory was marred when several people were shot near the city’s Union Station on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least one, the police said. (Dominick Williams/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS, KEVIN DRAPER, JACEY FORTIN and COLBI EDMONDS
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he authorities in Kansas City, Missouri, said Thursday that a shooting that tore through the city’s Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and wounding nearly two dozen others, appeared to have stemmed from an argument between several people. Stacey Graves, the city’s police chief, said there was no indication that the shooting was connected to terrorism. At least 21 people were wounded, in addition to the woman who died, and they ranged in age from 8 to 47 years old, Graves said. At least half of the wounded were younger than 16. The woman who died was identified as Elizabeth Galvan, 43. Authorities have said that three people were detained in connection to the shooting Wednesday afternoon. Two of them, police said, were younger than 18. No charges have been filed. “I’m angered about what occurred in our city yesterday,” Graves said. The shooting, which erupted as thousands of football fans had crowded into downtown Kansas City after the Chiefs’ Super Bowl win, suddenly turned a day of revelry into one of chaos and confusion. As shots rang out, people
ran for cover. Graves praised the response of her department’s officers and firefighters, and also noted that civilians themselves had sprung into action.Videos had captured one parade attendee tackling a person as others ran from the gunshots. “Those in attendance also responded,” Graves said. “They helped one another and even physically stopped a person who was believed to be involved in the incident.” The shooting took place near the city’s Union Station, a hub that draws tourists to the city each year. The shock of gun violence pierced an otherwise idyllic winter afternoon, with bright sunshine and temperatures in the 60s greeting a city ready to rejoice in what had become close to an annual rite of February as Kansas City’s team has become the dominant force in the NFL. Columns of fans, many wearing red, had lined the 2-mile parade route, celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs’ second consecutive Super Bowl victory and third in five seasons, waving at players, coaches and team officials riding past in open-top red buses. The parade — planned “with the safety and security of fans in mind,” according to the Kansas City Sports Commission — officially began at 11 a.m. and ended with a rally at Union Station, the century-old rail depot that
one victim with a gunshot wound was in critical condition at Saint Luke’s Hospital, said Laurel Gifford, a hospital spokesperson. University Health and Saint Luke’s were also treating people with other injuries. Jacob Gooch Sr. said he was standing near the southwest side of Union Station when, like others in the area, he heard noises that sounded like fireworks. When his ankle felt hot, he thought a spark had burned him. He said he tried to run, and then fell, crawling to get away. In the chaos, Gooch lost his group, which included his girlfriend and son, who he said were both also shot. His son, he said, now has a bullet lodged in the bottom of his foot. “I can’t believe my family got hit,” Gooch Continues on page 8
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Senate looks to quickly reject Mayorkas impeachment charges in speedy trial By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN
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enate leaders plan to move quickly this month to reject the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, setting up a speedy trial in hopes of preventing House Republicans from turning the chamber into a political spectacle. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the majority leader, has not yet determined exactly how to go about truncating the proceedings, according to people familiar with the continuing discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe plans that were still under development. But he is aiming for quick action, beginning Feb. 28, the day the House is expected to deliver the charges, that could be over in just a couple of days. Schumer still has almost two weeks before House managers plan to formally present senators with the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, which the House narrowly approved Tuesday on a second try after they were defeated the week before. They accuse the secretary of refusing to enforce immigration laws and breaching the public trust regarding the state of the U.S. border with Mexico, effectively declaring President Joe Biden’s immigration policies a constitutional crime. Senate leaders are betting that there is enough Democratic anger and Republican exasperation at the precedent-breaking nature of the charges — and with the way Mayorkas’ impeachment was handled — to swiftly exonerate him, either by throwing out the charges entirely or by moving to bring the proceedings to an early close. And they have no doubt that they would have the votes to acquit him. A conviction would require a two-thirds majority, meaning that at least 18 senators on the Democratic side would have to join Republicans in finding Mayorkas guilty. “These charges are a total sham — really shameful — and they deserve absolutely no dignity,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a member of the Judiciary Committee. “They’re purely a political stunt by the far-right fringe of the MAGA movement and, I think, should be dismissed summarily.” Under the Constitution, the Senate must consider impeachment charges approved by the House, meaning that a trial of some sort, with senators sworn in as jurors, is unavoidable once the articles are delivered. But from that point on, there are many options for how to proceed. House Republicans have clamored for a full trial. “If they ignore this and just throw it in the trash can without taking it as seriously as the American people do, then there will
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Nov. 3, 2023. The first attempt to impeach the homeland security secretary fell short by one vote, when he was not at the Capitol. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) be accountability and consequences,” Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the majority leader, said of the Senate on Wednesday morning. “They have to do their job.” The Senate has held a handful of high-profile impeachment trials, most recently the 2020 and 2021 trials of former President Donald Trump, both of which ended in his acquittal. The only other Cabinet secretary to have been impeached, William Belknap, who resigned before the House approved the charges against him in 1876, was also acquitted. But a full trial is not a requirement, and Senate leaders can lay out their own rules for how to conduct the proceedings. In most modern impeachments, that has included a chance for any senator to move to dismiss the charges, and a simple-majority threshold for doing so. “There is substantial precedent for considering motions to dismiss at various stages of impeachment trials,” said Joshua Matz, a constitutional lawyer and an expert on impeachment who worked on the House teams that impeached Trump. During former President Bill Clinton’s 1999 impeachment trial, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., filed such a motion right after the prosecutors and the defense presented their evidence. It was defeated mostly along party lines, and the trial lasted a total of
Police say argument likely led to shooting at Kansas City Super Bowl celebration From page 7 said. “It’s crazy to think someone had a gun pointed at you and pulled the trigger.” Moments after she heard gunshots, Chasitty Logsdon, 39, a nurse from Louisville, Kentucky, said she ran over to a man on the ground nearby, blood pooling around him. A woman beside the man told Logsdon that he had been shot in the head, so
Logsdon took his pulse and started doing compressions. Once medics arrived, Logsdon said, they took over. She said she knew she had to do what she could to try to save the man. “If that was my someone,” Logsdon said she remembered thinking, “I would want the same thing.” The governors of Kansas and Missouri were both at the rally. Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas had to be evacuated, and she posted on social media that she had been taken “out of harm’s
about five weeks before Clinton was acquitted. During Trump’s second trial, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., sought to cut short the proceedings with an objection, arguing that it was unconstitutional to try a former president. That, too, failed when five Republicans crossed party lines to join Democrats in voting to allow the trial to continue. In Mayorkas’ case, such a motion would be all but certain to succeed, given that Democrats would be highly likely to hold together to push it through. Senate Democrats are outraged about the impeachment of Mayorkas, and even some Republicans have been cool to the idea, reluctant to plunge into a lengthy political spectacle that has no chance of succeeding. Some share the concerns aired by former homeland security secretaries and many constitutional law experts — including conservatives — who have said the charges do not rise to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor, the constitutional standard for a conviction. They are especially leery of spending time on the matter at a time when Congress will be staring down another pair of government shutdown deadlines, with federal funding for some agencies scheduled to lapse on March 1 and others on March 8. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told reporters last week that he wanted to “get rid of” the charges against Mayorkas “as quickly as possible,” and that he believed there would be enough support in the chamber to dismiss them early on. Some Republicans have described the exercise as futile. “It’ll be dead on arrival when it comes over,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said of the charges last week, adding that getting rid of Mayorkas would not fix the problems at the border. “It’ll still be the same policy, even if Mayorkas left,” Lankford said. “We’re going to have the same result, because we’ve got the same president who’s driving the policy.” Should the Senate succeed in dismissing the charges against Mayorkas, it would spare Republicans a potentially uncomfortable vote in which some would have to choose between a guilty verdict on charges they consider lacking and a not-guilty vote that would exonerate a Biden administration official, angering their right-wing base. For Mayorkas, there would be no practical difference between being acquitted and having the charges dismissed. “If you are charged criminally and the court dismisses the indictment on the grounds that the charges that you were charged with failed as a matter of law, you’ve been acquitted” in a practical sense, Matz said, explaining that dismissing the impeachment charges would constitute a definitive ruling.
way.” Gov. Mike Parson of Missouri and his wife were both “safe and secure,” the governor’s office said on social media. Quinton Lucas, the mayor of Kansas City, said he was at the parade with his wife and mother, and was in Union Station when he heard gunfire. “When you have people who decide to bring guns to events, when you have people who are deciding to try to mar events — celebratory ones, like this one — all of us start to become members of this club that none of us want to be a part of,” Lucas said.
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Maui’s economy is still reeling, 6 months after wildfire By KURTIS LEE
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wisted and charred aluminum mixed with shards of glass still lines the floor of the industrial warehouse where Victoria Martocci once operated her scuba diving business. After a wildfire tore through West Maui, all that remained of her 36-foot boat, the Extended Horizons II, were a pair of engines. That was six months ago, but Martocci and her husband, Erik Stein, who are weighing whether to rebuild the business, which he started in 1983, said the same questions filled their thoughts. “What will this island look like?” Martocci asked. “Will things ever be close to being the same?” In early August, what began as a brush fire burst into the town of Lahaina, a popular tourist destination, all but leveling it, destroying large swaths of West Maui and killing at least 100 people in the nation’s deadliest wildfire in more than a century. The local economy remains in crisis. Rebuilding the town, according to some estimates, will cost more than $5 billion and take several years. And tense divisions still remain over whether Lahaina, whose economy long relied almost entirely on tourism, should consider a new way forward. Debates about the ethics of traveling to decimated tourist destinations played out on social media after an earthquake in Morocco and wildfires in Greece last year. But the situation is particularly dire for Maui. State and federal officials scrambled last summer to find shelter for thousands of residents who had lost their homes, relocating people to local hotels and short-term rentals where many still live, often sharing a wall with vacationing families whose realities feel far from their own. Other displaced residents live in tents on the beach, and some restaurant owners pivoted to working out of food trucks. About 600 small businesses — half the number registered in Lahaina before the fires — are still not operational, according to the Hawaii Small Business Development Center. A recent report from the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization predicted that statewide visitor spending this year would decline about 5%, or $1 billion, from 2023. The decline in tourism is almost completely confined to Maui, according to the report. Carl Bonham, the organization’s executive director, said the scope and speed of Maui’s recovery remained an open question. It depends, Bonham said, on several factors, including how fast “displaced residents can be moved from hotels to more permanent housing, the speed of ongoing cleanup work, the extent and duration of support programs.” In the weeks after the fires, politicians, Hollywood movie stars, local activists and even the state’s tourism authority urged travelers to avoid portions of the devastated island. “Maui is not the place to have your vacation right now,” actor Jason Momoa, a native of Hawaii, wrote on Instagram. “Do not convince yourself that your presence is needed on an island that is suffering this deeply.” Those messages, some here believe, have had a lingering effect on tourism.
Victoria Martocci looks over the charred remains of her scuba diving business, burned in last year’s wildfire on Maui, in Lahaina, Hawaii on Jan. 15, 2024. Six months after the Maui wildfire, hundreds of businesses remain closed, and questions linger about how much a local economy should rely on tourism. (Brendan George Ko/The New York Times) A month after the fires, Gov. Josh Green, a Democrat, announced that West Maui communities around Lahaina would officially reopen in October. It was an attempt, he said in an interview, to save the local economy. “If we weren’t clear and very direct about when we were going to reopen, then the lingering effects of uncertainty would destroy the entire economy on Maui,” Green said. “People were not coming back.” Despite the proclamation, the return has been slow. Many business owners have recently received approval for reconstruction loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The agency has approved roughly $290 million in loans — about $101 million for businesses and nearly $189 million for homes. The state and several nonprofit groups have also rolled out grant money to help small-business owners. But life in Lahaina still feels like limbo. Tanna Swanson, a close friend of Martocci and Stein, spends a lot of time at the couple’s house north of Lahaina, doing 2,000-piece puzzles to help pass time and distract herself. She owned the Maui Guest House, a five-bedroom bed-andbreakfast that burned in the fires. It was her home as well. She has stayed, since then, in a stream of hotels and couch-surfed at friends’ homes, moving eight times. In December, Swanson, 66, received a Small Business Administration loan for $270,000. She wouldn’t have received it — the mountains of paperwork and emotional toll of the process had long deterred her, she said — if she had not met in person with an SBA representative who came to Maui to meet with business owners. She hopes to see more such direct outreach, she said, to reduce bureaucratic delays. On a recent afternoon, Swanson used her visitor’s pass to get into her neighborhood, which local authorities
have blocked off to prevent looting of burned properties. The desolate swimming pool and a few melted steel address numbers on a concrete wall are all that remain of the bed-and-breakfast, where, since 1988, she had welcomed guests from around the world, who took in ocean views from the top deck. She looked at the scorched palm trees and thought about her former employees — five at the time of the fires — and how, like her, they had lost their livelihoods overnight. “My everything — gone in a matter of moments,” she said. “It’s not just me. It’s the whole community, the whole island.” An hour away, along two-lane roads where a few tourists still pull over to glimpse humpback whales in the waters below, Britney Alejo-Fishell owns Haku Maui. Her shop in Makawao, a rural stretch of Maui far from Lahaina, sells traditional Hawaiian leis and holds workshops to create them. Much of her business comes from celebrations among tourists, who in the past flocked to the island. That has all but dried up, said Alejo-Fishell, who said her profits dropped 80% last fall after the fires. Since then, she has seen a slight uptick. Before teaching a lei-making class on a recent morning, she discussed the troubles her family-owned business had faced in recent years. She was forced to shutter her business for a year during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then, only a few months after business began to pick up to pre-pandemic levels, the fires engulfed West Maui. She has been living off a reduced income and is hesitant to take on government loans. “The phone started ringing with cancellations of orders, and it’s been ongoing,” she said. “We had survived COVID, but now this is like a second COVID situation all over again.” A Native Hawaiian, Alejo-Fishell said the wildfires had affected many acquaintances, including friends who lost loved ones and their homes. “They are grieving and will be for some time,” she said. But, she added, “tourism is our economy, and we need it to survive.”
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US agencies open inquiry into generic drug shortages By CHRISTINA JEWETT
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he Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services said earlier this week that they would examine the causes of generic drug shortages and the practices of “powerful middlemen” that are involved in the supply chain. The federal agencies’ inquiry is aimed at the group purchasing organizations and drug distributors that have been in the spotlight in recent months as drug shortages reached a 10-year peak. The agencies want to examine the companies’ influence on how the drugs are sold to hospitals and other health facilities, assessing whether the middlemen put pressure on pricing and manufacturing that led to breakdowns. During congressional hearings in the past year, oncology experts have testified about the effects of the shortages, describing difficult decisions that forced them to ration key chemotherapy drugs. They detailed month-to-month, sometimes week-to-week, gaps in supplies that were posing deadly risks for some patients. “For years Americans have faced acute shortages of critical drugs, from chemotherapy to antibiotics, endangering patients,” Lina Khan, the FTC chair, said in a statement. “Our inquiry requests information on the factors driving these shortages and scrutinizes the practices of opaque drug middlemen.” In earlier interviews with The New York Times, generic drug industry executives had expressed deepening concerns about their reliance on three major group purchasing organizations for contracts to sell medicines
to hospitals and health center customers. The generic executives complained that their companies sometimes offered below-market prices to get big contracts, a strategy that had eroded stability in the industry, especially among makers of sterile injectable products often used in surgical and cancer care. Lawmakers have echoed the concerns. Late last year, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chair of the Senate Finance Committee, criticized “very powerful health care middlemen” in the generic drug industry. Last month, he and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, outlined ways to limit drug shortages, focusing in part on proposed changes to Medicare payments for sterile injectable drugs. Dr. Robert Califf, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, testified in Congress last year about the limits to the agency’s ability to manage drug shortages, pointing to market dynamics — such as low and falling prices — in the generic drug industry. Chemotherapy drug shortages have become headlines for lawmakers and the drug industry. Cancer specialists have been forced to draft treatment guidelines that recommended giving scarce doses to those patients who had a chance at a cure — and denying them to patients with metastatic disease who wanted to live longer. The key chemotherapy drugs that have been in shortage, cisplatin and carboplatin, are crucial for treating lung, breast, testicular, ovarian and head and neck cancers. In recent years, prices of both drugs fell to about $15 to $20 a dose, even as Intas Pharmaceuticals, a drugmaker headquartered in India, gained
A box of CARBOplatin Injection is pulled from a bin of drug boxes on a shelf at The Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders: Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday, June 16, 2023. The F.T.C. and H.H.S. are examining the tactics of group purchasing organizations that generic industry executives say have led to scarce supplies for treatments such as chemotherapy. (Emil T. Lippe/The New York Times) market share. Intas paused making the drugs amid quality concerns raised by a surprise FDA inspection late in 2022. That resulted in the wider shortages, which generic drug industry executives pointed to as an example of how falling prices and winner-take-all contracts increased reliance on fewer drugmakers. The FTC inquiry announced Wednesday is focused on whether concentration among the drug industry intermediaries “has disincentivized suppliers from competing in generic drug markets.” The agency is accepting public comments as part of its inquiry into the shortages.
The Association for Accessible Medicines, a trade group for the generic drug industry, commended the FTC for trying to address the issue. David Gaugh, the group’s interim president, said in a statement that it was important for the agency to look at lower generic drug prices, concentration among intermediary companies and the decline in manufacturing sites. “As a result of all of this, the risk of drug shortages will only increase without action to bolster the long-term sustainability of generic manufacturing,” Gaugh said in a statement. The federal inquiry is expected to look into the three main group-purchasing organizations that contract with generic-drug makers to supply drugs to hundreds of customers. Todd Ebert, president of the Healthcare Supply Chain Association, which represents group purchasers, said the companies provide competitive prices to hospitals and other health care providers — as well as a reliable drug supply. “GPOs help stabilize the market for generic drugs by working with manufacturers on contracts that provide the certainty and predictable demand they need to remain in the market,” Ebert said in a statement. He added that the organization looks “forward to sharing more with the FTC about the critical role of GPOs in addressing the ongoing drug shortage crisis.” The Healthcare Distributors Alliance, which represents major companies such as McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen that assess fees to generic-drug makers to transport their drugs, also did not respond to requests for comment.
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US federal reserve releases scenarios for 2024 bank ‘stress tests’ W all Street closed lower on Tuesday after evidence of a cooling economy exacerbated worries that the Federal Reserve’s campaign to rein in decades-high inflation may cause a deep downturn. All three major indexes fell as data showed U.S. job openings in February dropped to the lowest level in nearly two years, suggesting that the labor market was cooling, while factory orders fell for a second straight month. Data on Monday had also pointed to weakening U.S. manufacturing activity. “The number of job openings has decreased, which makes people worry that hiring is going too slow, and that will be bad for the economy. That feeds into recessionary fears,” said Sal Bruno, Chief Investment Officer at IndexIQ in New York. Bank stocks took a hit after JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jaime Dimon warned in a letter to shareholders that the U.S. banking crisis is ongoing and that its impact will be felt for years. Bank of America and Wells Fargo & Co dropped more than 2%, and the S&P 500 banks index fell 1.9%. Of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes, seven declined, led lower by industrials, down 2.25%, followed by a 1.72% loss in energy. The S&P 500 declined 0.58% to end the session at 4,100.68 points, closing lower for the first time in a week. The Nasdaq declined 0.52% to 12,126.33 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.59% to 33,403.04 points. Caterpillar Inc, viewed as bellwether for the industrial sector, fell 5.4%. Heavyweight chipmaker Nvidia lost 1.8%, weighing more than any other stock on the S&P 500’s decline. Healthcare and utilities, which many investors expect to hold up better during an economic slowdown, were among the few S&P 500 sector indexes gaining on Tuesday. Trading in interest rate futures shows bets are now tilted toward a pause by the Fed in May, with odds of a 25-basis point rate hike at 42%, compared with nearly 60% before the data, according to CME Group’s Fedwatch tool. So far in 2023, the S&P 500 has gained nearly 7% and it remains down about 15% from its record high close in January 2022. Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc slumped 23.2% after the satellite launch company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on failing to secure long-term funding. AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc shares tumbled 23.5% after the movie theater chain said it agreed to settle litigation and proceed with converting its preferred stock into common shares. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp fell 8% after the SPAC linked to former U.S. President Donald Trump delayed the filing of its annual financial report.
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Israeli forces raid hospital complex in southern Gaza By VIVIAN YEE
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srael sent troops into the Nasser Medical Complex on Thursday in what it said was a search for Hamas fighters and the bodies of hostages, an incursion that raised alarm over the fate of hundreds of patients and medical workers and the many displaced Palestinians who had sought shelter there from the war. The raid came two days after Israel’s military ordered displaced people to evacuate the hospital, the largest in the southern Gaza Strip and one of the last ones functioning in the enclave, and after warnings by health officials that a military operation there could be catastrophic for civilians. Ashraf al-Qudra, the Gaza Health Ministry’s spokesperson, said the Israeli military had demolished the southern wall of the complex and begun storming it, overrunning the ambulance center and an area where displaced people had been living in tents. The medical charity Doctors Without Borders, which has staff members at the hospital, said shelling on Thursday morning had left “an undetermined number of people killed and injured” and called on Israel to halt the operation. Videos posted to social media Thursday and verified by The New York Times show scenes of confusion, with people carrying backpacks and rolled-up bedding lined up inside the hospital grounds as a voice on a loudspeaker, apparently that of an Israeli soldier, tells them to leave. The Israeli military said that special forces soldiers were “conducting a precise and limited operation inside Nasser” against Hamas, which it accused of hiding in the hospital among wounded civilians. Israel, which has said that Hamas uses hospitals across Gaza as cover for military operations,
An injured person arrives at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 5, 2023. The hospital is one of the last functioning medical facilities in the Gaza Strip. (Yousef Masoud/The New York Times) said it had intelligence, including from released hostages, that Hamas had held captives at the hospital and that their bodies might be there. Neither Israel’s claims nor those of the authorities in Gaza could be independently verified. On Thursday, Israel said that it had detained “a number of suspects” at Nasser, in the city of Khan Younis, and alQudra said Israeli forces had bulldozed graves on the hospital grounds. In past raids on Gaza hospitals during the war, the Israeli military has arrested medical staff members and dug up graves, saying it was searching for hostages’ bodies. Hamas and hospital administrators have denied that Hamas uses medical facilities for military operations. International law experts have said Israel is obligated to protect hospitals and other civilian infrastructure with only narrow exceptions, such as if they are clearly being used for military purposes. The Israeli military has faced rising international condemnation for its actions against hospitals, mosques and
schools in Gaza, and on Thursday it said that it aimed to ensure that Nasser could continue treating patients despite the military operation. Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military’s chief spokesperson, said that at the hospital’s request, the military had arranged to allow international aid groups to deliver medical supplies and equipment to the hospital in recent days, including oxygen tanks and fuel. As anesthesia, fuel, food and medical supplies run low at Nasser, the World Health Organization said Wednesday that Israel had prevented aid deliveries to the hospital twice in recent days. Israel has denied blocking aid, and on Monday said the WHO should avoid “baselessly accusing” it of doing so. Nasser has become a focus of Israel’s ground offensive against Hamas in southern Gaza, and doctors there have described bombings and gunfire killing people inside the complex as Israeli forces edged toward its gates. After the Israeli military ordered displaced people sheltering there to evacuate, hundreds of Palestinians fled the hospital Wednesday, although it was unclear where they would go in a territory pounded by airstrikes and riddled with fighting. Hagari said the Israeli military had opened a “humanitarian corridor” to allow civilians to leave the complex safely. But some Palestinians who left Nasser on Thursday risked drone fire outside, according to Mohammad Salama, a journalist who fled the hospital. On Tuesday, doctors and health officials said that people who had tried to flee the hospital came under fire, and that some were killed. Nir Dinar, a spokesperson for the Israeli military, pushed back on suggestions that Israel had attacked evacuees, saying that he “would be happy to see some evidence.”
In extraordinary move, Venezuela expels UN human rights agency By JULIE TURKEWITZ
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United Nations agency that defends human rights was ordered on Thursday to leave Venezuela by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, an extraordinary move that will further strip the country of foreign oversight at a time when its government has been accused of intensifying repression.
The announcement, by Foreign Minister Yvan Gil, comes just days after the detention and temporary disappearance of Rocío San Miguel, a prominent security expert and human rights advocate. Following her detention, several U.N. entities issued online statements expressing concern about the arrest, some calling it part of a pattern in which the government tries to silence critics through intimidation.
Gil said he was giving the staff of the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 72 hours to “abandon” the country. Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based Venezuela expert for International Crisis Group, said the expulsion of the human rights agency, combined with San Miguel’s arrest, “marks a drastic hardening” by Maduro’s government of its actions against political opponents and critics.
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In Venezuela, you’re a critic one day, and arrested the next By JULIE TURKEWITZ, ISAYEN HERRERA and GENEVIEVE GLATSKY
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f all the government critics, few thought that Rocío San Miguel would be the one to disappear. San Miguel, 57, has long been one of Venezuela’s best-known security experts, a woman who dared investigate her country’s authoritarian government even as others fled. She is also a moderate, has international recognition and appeared to have strong contacts in the secretive world of the Venezuelan military — qualities that her peers thought might protect her. But late last week, San Miguel arrived at the airport outside Caracas with her daughter, bound for what a relative called a short trip to Miami, when she was picked up by counterintelligence agents. Soon after, her family began to disappear, too. The daughter, two brothers and two former romantic partners — gone. For four days, the only public information about San Miguel came from Venezuela’s top prosecutor, who claimed on social media, without providing evidence, that San Miguel had been linked to a plot to kill the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro. Finally, on Tuesday evening, her lawyers said she had surfaced — and was being held in a notoriously brutal detention center. Her family was also in state custody. The arrest of San Miguel, the head of a modest but influential nonprofit organization that monitors the armed forces, has triggered a small earthquake in Venezuela’s human rights circles, where just a few months ago, many watched with guarded anticipation as Maduro signed a deal with the country’s opposition, promising to work toward a free and fair presidential election later this year. Political change, if still a far-off possibility, seemed worth dreaming about. Now the small group of activists, aid workers, critics, analysts, journalists and others who have been able to hang on inside the country — despite years of repression and economic crisis — are watching the space in which they operate narrow even further. And as a result, the path toward democracy looks as difficult as ever. A new law proposed by Maduro’s party seeks to strictly regulate nonprofit organizations, prohibiting them from engaging in actions “that threaten national stability,” leading to concerns that it will be used to criminalize these groups. The country’s leading opposition candidate, María Corina Machado, has been disqualified from running in the presidential election; several of her staff members have been
María Corina Machado, the leading opposition candidate, celebrates with supporters after hearing preliminary results of a primary election in Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 22, 2023. (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times) arrested; and a violent, government-affiliated gang recently interrupted one of her events, bloodying supporters. “If this happened to Rocío San Miguel, then what’s left for everybody else?” said Laura Dib, who directs the Venezuela program at the Washington Office on Latin America. The jailing of people the Maduro government considers a threat is not new. There are 263 political prisoners in Venezuela, according to a watchdog group, Foro Penal, many of whom have been held without trial for years. What distinguishes San Miguel’s case is not just how prominent and well connected she was; it’s that authorities detained her entire family, then kept all of them without communication for days, a tactic known under international law as “forced disappearance.” At the heart of these actions appears to be Maduro’s own fear. Chavismo, the movement he leads, has governed Venezuela since his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, won a presidential election in 1998. Chávez, and then Maduro, oversaw a socialist-inspired revolution that at first lifted many out of poverty. But in recent years, government mismanagement of the oil sector, as well as corruption and U.S. sanctions, have devastated the economy. A humanitarian crisis inside the country has spilled out of its borders, with millions of Venezuelans seeking refuge elsewhere. Maduro wants the U.S. to lift sanctions, which could help improve the country’s financial situation and which Washington has said it will do if Maduro makes moves to support democracy. In October, with cautious praise from the U.S. and its allies, Maduro signed a deal with the opposition to hold a presidential election.
Days later, the main opposition candidate, Machado, won a primary vote with turnout that exceeded expectations and was seen as sign of Maduro’s weakness. The arrests of San Miguel and her family, Dib said, are a “message to civil society that they are not going to get what they want” — meaning, a real election. Maduro, she added, “is not willing to lose power.” San Miguel, a dual Venezuelan-Spanish citizen, is the head of Citizen Control, which has published an investigation on the number of people killed by state security forces and criticized a Venezuelan law allowing the use of deadly force during protests. On the morning of Feb. 9, San Miguel had arrived at the airport outside Caracas with her 26-year-old daughter, according to Minnie Díaz Paruta, an aunt of the daughter. San Miguel was approached by government agents and taken into custody. Terrified, the daughter returned to Caracas. A day later, she returned to the airport to retrieve her luggage, but the young woman soon disappeared, failing to answer messages, said the aunt. San Miguel’s brothers and former partners were detained around this time, according to Díaz and other reports. Two days later, Venezuela’s top prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, announced on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that San Miguel was being held by the state, accused of involvement in an operation that he claimed sought Maduro’s assassination. He assured the public that the detention had taken place in accord with “international standards for the protection of human rights.” (Maduro’s government frequently claims to uncover assassination plots against him.) San Miguel’s lawyers were not permitted
to see her or told where she was. A group of human rights activists toured some of the country’s detention centers, hoping to find her, Dib said, without success. It’s unclear how she was eventually found. The U.S. Embassy to Venezuela, which is in neighboring Colombia, said the arrests followed “a worrying trend of apparently arbitrary detentions of democratic actors.” The United Nations Human Rights Council, which in 2020 said that Maduro had committed “crimes against humanity” in his efforts to silence the opposition, issued a similar statement. On Feb. 13, San Miguel appeared at a hearing the evening before, accused of treason, conspiracy and terrorism, Saab said. Her lawyers said they were not present. Later that day, a member of her defense team announced online that she had been located: She was at the Helicoide, a 1950s-era building built as a shopping center that has since become a well-known detention facility. The United Nations mission examining human rights violations in the country has interviewed Helicoide detainees and says that they have reported torture, including beatings and the use of electric shocks. The mission also reported, in 2022, that the director of the country’s top intelligence agency, who holds significant power in the Helicoide, received direct orders from Maduro. San Miguel’s lawyer said that one of her ex-partners, Alejandro González, would be held in another facility, and both would remain in custody. The four other family members — Miranda Díaz San Miguel, Víctor Díaz Paruta, Miguel San Miguel and Alberto San Miguel — would be released on the condition that they did not leave the country or speak to the media.
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Which version of an ex-general did Indonesia just vote for? Court to broaden the eligibility for vice-presidential candidates, allowing Joko’s son Gindonesia’s defense minister, a feared forbran to run on Prabowo’s ticket. That, critics say, publicly tied Prabowo’s candidacy to mer A strongman apparatchik accused of dynastic aspirations, and continued influenmultiple human rights abuses. A violent nationalist. A pious defender of Muslims. A ce, by Joko. loyal acolyte of a popular president with few “Jokowi clearly dreams that Prabowo will achievements of his own. allow him to be a back-seat driver, which I Prabowo Subianto has been called all of don’t believe will be the case,” Dewi said, these over the years he has sought power using the president’s nickname. “Maybe in Indonesia. Now he is projected to be the Prabowo will defer to Jokowi in the early country’s next president. Unofficial tallies days or weeks, but I don’t think any self-resfrom Wednesday’s election show him winpecting president will allow a former presining a decisive victory, with nearly 60% of dent to give him too much advice.” the vote. Prabowo’s supporters say he has learned During the campaign, Prabowo repeafrom Joko how to appeal to the public. Dutedly promised that he would continue on ring this election campaign, Prabowo has the path and policies charted by Joko Widropped his doggedly nationalist and Isladodo, the popular departing president. That mist-ally personas. would mean doling out billions of dollars on Instead, he tried to cultivate a folksy, welfare programs such as school lunches, grandfather image with awkward dances at health care and housing. Joko, who had rallies and video clips on social media. Many beaten Probowo in previous elections and is Prabowo Subianto, left, and his running mate, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, center, young people — the biggest voting bloc in scheduled to step down in October, seemed the son of the current Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, during a meeting with Indonesia — care little about his past. to offer support to his former rival as well, Sultan of Yogyakarta Hamengkubuwono X, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 22, For some Indonesians, many of whom 2024. (Ulet Ifansasti/The New York Times) through his 36-year-old son, Gibran Rakapinned their hopes on Joko, Prabowo’s rise with the departing president’s support seems buming Raka, who will be Prabowo’s vice the world’s most important “swing states” in the contest for a setback for the country’s hard-won demopresident. But it remains unclear what kind of leader Prabowo, 72, influence with China. cracy. At the turn of the century, Indonesia was in turmoil. Solwill be. In the past he has questioned the need for demo“The 2024 election is a red mark that will be remembecracy, and he is known for his volatile temper and erratic diers shot student activists in the streets, the country’s ethnic red by the public,” said Media Wahyudi Askar, director of behavior. During this campaign, he insisted that he was Chinese minority were the targets of communal violence, public policy at the Center of Economics and Law Studies. and terrorist attacks became more frequent. committed to democracy. “Although in the end both Prabowo and Jokowi emerged Pro-democracy protests led to the fall of Suharto, the “With Prabowo, we don’t trust him, so he will be given as winners, there is a significant segment of society that is much less room to maneuver” by the public, said Dewi For- dictator who ruled Indonesia for more than three decades dissatisfied.” Official election results will not be released for another tuna Anwar, who was a senior adviser to the Indonesian and was once Prabowo’s father-in-law. The military was vice president in the 2000s. “He will probably be eager to mostly sidelined from politics, and elections took on vital month, and Prabowo’s opponents have said that it is too importance. When Joko won the presidency, in 2014, he early to declare a winner. But on Wednesday, when it was show his democratic credentials.” Indonesia’s future is pivotal for the world. With a popu- was an important first: a leader who did not come from clear that Prabowo had a commanding lead, some expreslation of roughly 270 million, it is the world’s fourth-most the political or military elite, and who had campaigned as a sed worry about their futures. populous country and has a big role to play in both geopo- down-to-earth reformer. “Many people are scared,” said Wasisto Raharjo Jati, a Joko embarked on ambitious infrastructure and welfaresearcher from the National Agency for Research and Inlitics and climate change. It is the biggest exporter of coal and has large deposits of nickel, a key component of electric re programs, like building thousands of miles of roads and novation. “I think it’s because we are haunted by the phobia car batteries. Officials in the United States regard it as one of enacting universal health care. He won a second term and of the New Order era,” he said, referring to the reign of beat the same opponent he had the first Suharto, Prabowo’s former father-in-law. time: Prabowo. Then he named Prabowo During that time, Prabowo was the commander of the his defense minister, effectively co-opting feared special forces. He was found to have ordered in 1998 his main rival. the kidnapping of political dissidents, for which he was later About a year ago, Joko attempted dismissed by the army. More than a dozen people remain to put Prabowo and Ganjar Pranowo, missing and are feared dead. That record led to him being the heir-apparent from Joko’s party, on banned from entering the United States for nearly two deEspecialistas: the same ticket, according to Ganjar. cades. Tipos de servicios: Prabowo’s pitch was that he was seeking On Wednesday night, Prabowo sought to portray himthe presidency for only one term, Ganjar self as a unifying figure. .Instalación said, adding: “I didn’t want to. So, there “Now the campaign is over, we are reunited, brothers .Venta Automatizando su Hogar y Negocio was no deal.” and sisters,” he told supporters. “Let’s forget harsh words. In October, Joko’s brother-in-law cast Between siblings, fighting is normal. But quarrels should not the deciding vote in the Constitutional become long-lasting divisions.” By SUI-LEE WEE
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The trauma of the Trump years is being rewritten By CHARLES M. BLOW
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mericans rehabilitate ex-presidents all the time. It was fascinating to see the rebranding of George W. Bush — the man who took us into the disastrous Iraq War and horribly bungled the response to Hurricane Katrina — into a charming amateur artist who played buddies with and passed candy to Michelle Obama. And it didn’t just happen for him. The Monica Lewinsky scandal faded in our consideration of Bill Clinton. Barack Obama’s reliance on drone strikes and his moniker “deporter in chief” rarely receive mention now. This is because our political memories aren’t fixed, but are constantly being adjusted. Politicians’ negatives are often diminished and their positives inflated. As Gallup noted in 2013, “Americans tend to be more charitable in their evaluations of past presidents than they are when the presidents are in office.” Without a doubt, Donald Trump benefits from this phenomenon. The difference is that other presidents’ shortcomings pale in comparison to his and his benefit isn’t passive: He’s seeking the office again and, as part of that, working to rewrite the history of his presidency. His desperate attempts, first to cling to power, then to regain it, include denying the 2020 election results and embracing the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection that his denials helped fuel. His revisionism has worked remarkably well,
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particularly among Republicans. A Washington PostUniversity of Maryland poll conducted in December found that Republicans “are now less likely to believe that Jan. 6 participants were ‘mostly violent,’ less likely to believe Trump bears responsibility for the attack and are slightly less likely to view Joe Biden’s election as legitimate” than they were in 2021. This is one of the truly remarkable aspects of the current presidential cycle: the degree to which our collective memory of Trump’s litany of transgressions have become less of a political problem for him than might otherwise be expected. Even the multiple legal charges he now faces are almost all about things that happened years ago and, to many citizens, involve things that the country should put in the rearview mirror. Indeed, in the same poll, 43% of Americans and 80% of 2020 Trump voters said they believe that the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol was an event that the country needed to move on from. Many Americans experienced the Trump years as traumatic, and one of the most bewildering aspects of this year’s presidential race is the way that so many other Americans are disregarding or downgrading that trauma. In 2021, a study was published about how we remember political events, specifically examining recollections about two watershed moments, one being Trump’s election in 2016. The study’s lead author, Linda J. Levine, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, wrote, “People exaggerated when remembering how angry they had felt about the political events but underestimated their feelings of happiness and fear.” This is part of what she describes as “memory reconstruction,” the updating of our memories of the past to reflect our current feelings and beliefs. And what it says to me is that many of us have a clearer recollection of our indignation from 2016, but have developed a hazier recollection of the sense of foreboding that hung in the air during the years that followed. I’m not sure that people — not just Republicans — are fully remembering what it felt like, just a few years ago, to wake up every morning having to brace themselves before checking the news because they didn’t know what fresh outrage awaited them. I’m not sure that people are fully remembering the constant chaos or the disorienting feeling of the stream of lies flowing from the Trump White House. I’m not sure that people are remembering the family separation policy, the “very fine people” refrain or the tossing of rolls of paper towels in Puerto Rico after a hurricane ravaged the island. Too many people have settled into a hagiographic view of Trump’s presidency, even though you can make a solid case that today’s economy is stronger than the one Trump left behind, and that Trump did — and still does — gush over the world’s dictators and agitate America’s allies.
Former President Donald Trump at Hotel Fort Des Moines, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. “Americans rehabilitate ex-presidents all the time,” Charles M. Blow writes. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times). D. Stephen Voss, a political scientist at the University of Kentucky, told me this week that “voters are usually only responding to fairly recent memories and fairly recent messaging.” As he put it, “Candidates can fairly easily put their past behind them.” This electoral quirk is an outgrowth of human nature. Staying in moments of apprehension is so emotionally expensive and consumes so much energy that we often allow ourselves to grow numb to them or diminish them. But the threat that Trump poses to our country hasn’t diminished. It has increased. He keeps saying things — he won’t be a dictator “except for Day 1” — that demonstrate he is not only a danger to the country, but also to the world order. And in the end, that is the most important issue in this election, not Biden’s memory, or disagreements over his foreign policy, or migrants at the border or economic anxiety. You can’t make the country better without saving it first. Those fighting to save our democracy can never lose sight of that, particularly since many of those supporting Trump now see his multifarious sins through rose-tinted glasses.
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Federales arrestan y procesan a once personas por tráfico de drogas mediante el servicio postal POR CYBERNEWS
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AN JUAN – Un gran jurado federal emitió una acusación formal de nueve cargos acusando a 11 personas por tráfico de drogas, anunció el jueves, W. Stephen Muldrow, fiscal federal para el Distrito de Puerto Rico. “El tráfico de drogas representa una amenaza significativa para la salud y la seguridad públicas”, dijo Muldrow en declaraciones escritas. “Esta organización criminal distribuyó cocaína en
comunidades de la costa este de diversas formas, incluido el correo. La Fiscalía Federal y sus socios seguirán persiguiendo a los narcotraficantes y buscando justicia para nuestras comunidades”, añadió. El Servicio de Inspección Postal de los Estados Unidos, la Oficina del Inspector General del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos y el Negociado de la Policía de Puerto Rico investigan el caso. Según documentos judiciales, desde abril de 2019 y hasta septiembre de 2022, los siguientes acusados, a sabiendas e intencionalmente, se combinaron, conspiraron y acordaron con otros, para poseer, a sabiendas e intencionalmente, con la intención de distribuir y distribuir cocaína utilizando el Servicio Postal de Estados Unidos: Emmanuel A. Fernández García; Edwin Orlando Carrasquillo; Efraín Guillermo Vila Serrano; Marymar Marrero Torres; Pedro Benjamín Marrero Torres; Arajulia Ramírez Del Valle; Sebastián Restrepo Cano; Luis Dejesús III; Gadelys Rosario Alvarado; Tyrone José Beltrán Lugo; y David Custodio Hernández. Los arrestados enfrentan una acusación de decomiso de narcóticos por valor de 6,930,000 dólares. “Los arrestos realizados hoy en Massachusetts, Florida y Puerto Rico resaltan el amplio alcance del Servicio de Inspección Postal de los Estados Unidos cuando se trata de desmantelar organizaciones criminales de
tráfico de drogas que representan una grave amenaza para la seguridad pública”, dijo Ketty Larco-Ward, inspectora a cargo. del Servicio de Inspección Postal de Estados Unidos, División de Boston. “Los inspectores postales buscan agresivamente eliminar el correo de narcóticos ilícitos, preservar la integridad del correo y, lo más importante, brindar un ambiente seguro para los empleados postales y los clientes del Servicio Postal. Me gustaría elogiar el arduo trabajo y las innumerables horas invertidas por todos los organismos encargados de hacer cumplir la ley en este caso. Juntos evitaremos que estas drogas peligrosas y adictivas lleguen a nuestras calles y garantizaremos que los perpetradores comparezcan ante la justicia”, añadió. Los acusados arrestados en Puerto Rico tienen programada su comparecencia inicial ante el juez federal Héctor Ramos Vega del Tribunal de Distrito de los Estados Unidos para el Distrito de Puerto Rico. Si son declarados culpables, los acusados enfrentan una pena mínima obligatoria de 10 años de prisión por la conspiración imputada en el primer cargo de la acusación. Un juez de un tribunal de distrito federal determinará cualquier sentencia después de considerar las Pautas de Sentencia de Estados Unidos y otros factores legales. El fiscal federal adjunto R. Vance Eaton está a cargo del caso.
Victoria judicial para Cayey frente a prohibición concha acústica en honor a Frade POR EL STAR STAFF
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AYEY – El alcalde de Cayey, Rolando Ortiz Velázquez, hizo pública la determinación del juez superior Raúl Candelario López emitida ayer miércoles, con relación al uso de un logo municipal basado en la concha acústica inspirada en la obra del pintor cayeyano Ramón Frade León. Ante la veda electoral impuesta por ley, la Oficina del Contralor Electoral (OCE) prohibió al Municipio el uso pictórico de dicha estructura. Ante dicha determinación, Cayey acudió al tribunal, que le concedió la razón al Municipio. Según el documento judicial, “un análisis ponderado del derecho aplicable y de la prueba presentada nos lleva a concluir que el mural inspirado en las obras de Ramón Frade no representan un logro de la administración del Municipio. Según definido por el Reglamento, un logro es una meta, éxito alcanzado o ejecutoria cumplida o realizada por una entidad de gobierno. En este caso, no hay duda de que Ramón Frade es un prócer cayeyano que no representa a un solo partido político, sino que representa una identidad cultural del municipio”. De hecho, el juez Candelaria señaló específicamente que “no vemos cómo la pintura de un mural con obras relacionadas a este pintor pueda adelantar o ser una ventaja para los intereses del partido de la administración
del Municipio de Cayey. Además, el acto de pintar la concha acústica ubicada en la plaza pública constituye una restauración de esta estructura dentro de los deberes del alcalde de mantener en óptimas condiciones los lugares frecuentados por los cayeyanos”. Particularmente la determinación señala que “es imposible concluir que el deber de remozar la concha acústica sea parte de los logros o éxitos del alcalde. Somos del criterio, que la Oficina del Contralor Electoral se extralimitó al determinar que el logo de la concha acústica con el mural sea algún tipo de mensaje político partidista que le confiera ventaja a la actual administración municipal”. Por su parte, el alcalde Ortiz Velázquez señaló que “quienes pretendían que no utilizáramos la imagen de la concha como logo del Municipio es porque no entienden el orgullo de los cayeyanos por nuestra plaza. Ciertamente las victorias ciudadanas no se pueden abstraer del valor que tienen las obras que llenan de orgullo los pueblos y nuestra plaza es uno de esos logros como lo es también la música. Adora. Nadie va a impedir que nuestro pueblo se reúna y se recree en su plaza, en la Casa Histórica de la Música, máxime si lo que pretenden es adelantar causas que son ajenas a la victorias ciudadanas, como la que el Tribunal determinó ayer”.
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ob Marley was an enigma, a fascinatingly flawed idealist as most interesting figures are. Born into poverty in Nine Mile, Jamaica, the young Marley had weak singing pipes but a stubborn drive to be heard. He forged himself into the voice of his island and beyond, belting reggae anthems that have become hymnals to the world’s downtrodden, as well as anyone who likes a good groove. He died in 1981 at the age of 36 before he had to witness his legacy undergo a tough cross-examination. Did Marley’s generosity to strangers balance out his dismissal of women? Did his own painful childhood pardon him for being a distant father? Did his sincere proclamations of peace and unity accomplish anything — and is it fair of us to expect that they should? Such grappling is justified, although it wouldn’t be pleasant for anyone. Reinaldo Marcus Green’s patchy and unsatisfying biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” doesn’t even try. It lauds the Marley of dormitory posters, a snapshot of a lifestyle hero who is always the coolest guy in the room. At most, the movie takes his image from flat to lenticular. If you never got to see Marley move, Kingsley Ben-Adir is a fine simulacrum. The problem is the script, credited to Terence Winter, Frank E. Flowers, Zach Baylin and Green. Smartly, the writers avoid the standard birth-to-grave template to focus on two years in London, where Marley, a pacifist, survived
a surge in election-year violence, even when gunmen shot up his house, injuring him and three others. But the film doesn’t have much to say about his time in exile. Was Marley feeling betrayed by his country? Was he homesick? How was he handling his ascension to international superstardom? When Marley and his buddies from the Wailers (who are presented as a doting throng, not as individuals) check out the Clash, we can’t even tell if they’re having fun. (For the curious, the real Marley vibed with punk rock, saying, “Punks are outcasts from society. So are the Rastas.”) Occasionally, we see random flashbacks. The best involve Marley’s relationship with Rita, his wife and backup singer, who is played as a teen by Nia Ashi and in adulthood by a compelling Lashana Lynch, before their outside dalliances reroute their marriage into what’s portrayed on-screen as a chaste, tender loyalty. The rest are missed opportunities for insight into the man. According to personal accounts in Roger Steffen’s first-rate biography “So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley,” the singer’s mother was uncomfortable that her son was half-white and, when she remarried, made the boy sleep underneath the house apart from her new family; here, she’s merely a blurry figure cradling young Marley to her bosom. Instead, confoundingly, we’re given scenes about how Marley was totally right to insist on a minimalist album cover for “Exodus.” We Continues on page 18
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For Paul McCartney, the past becomes present
Pentax camera when the Beatles hit it big. “It was the most sophisticated hand-held camera of the era; it would be like having the latest iPhone today,” Darius Himes, Christie’s international head of photography, said, adding: “We were all quite surprised by Paul’s sophisticated eye and his awareness of trends in the visual arts. The yellow bikini shot is like a striking mix of Stephen Shore, William Eggleston and William Klein.” The Beatles traveled with a flock of cameramen and were not shy about gleaning tips. McCartney admitted some of his earliest shots in the exhibition are a little fuzzily focused. ‘‘I console myself that one of my favorite photographers, Julia Margaret Cameron, also liked soft focus,’’ he said. “His photos get better as he practices,” Broadley noted. The exhibition and its accompanying book take visitors on a whirlwind trip through six cities beginning in Liverpool and London, and ending in Miami. The images from the British leg are exhibited in small ‘‘austerity’’ walnut frames, to indicate Britain was still in the throes of
a postwar recession. The Fab Four might look nervous in these photos, but they had already reached stardom on their home turf, having bagged three No. 1 singles and met the queen. After a brief stint performing at the Olympia in Paris, alongside Sylvie Vartan, they heard that “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was No. 1 on the American charts and sped to New York. The crowning moment in America was their live television debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, 1964, singing five propulsive pop hits, an event watched by 73 million people. In Miami, McCartney’s photos burst into Kodachrome color and the newly minted celebrities seem to bloom in glamorous new surroundings: lounging poolside, sipping scotch and riding around in motorboats. By April, the Beatles’ songs held the top five spots on the U.S. Billboard charts. Musing on the images, he said, “There is an innocence to them,” adding, “I think it was a lot more fun than it was. We worked probably 360 days out of the year.” It was an all-too-brief halcyon period. Two and a half years later, the Beatles stopped touring. The logistics, the screams and the armored cars had become a nightmare. Like most successful artists thriving past retirement age, McCartney has projectitis. He’s working on a new album with producer Andrew Watt (“Hackney Diamonds”), and just released the 50th anniversary remaster of the Paul McCartney & Wings classic “Band on the Run.” “His live shows continue to be of such high voltage one half expects him to burst into flames,” Irish poet Paul Muldoon wrote in McCartney’s recent book, “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present.” His next project is organizing a gallery sale of some of his photographs. “It’s a process I like,” he said, describing the joy of curating. “I’ve done it a few times with Linda’s work” — a reference to his first wife, photographer Linda Eastman. His current homes, shared with his wife Nancy Shevell, are adorned with images by Linda and Mary, though, curiously, none of his own. But that may change. “The sale,” he said, “will probably encourage me to get some for myself.”
Freddie Mercury and Mick Jagger who seduced the crowd below. Marley makes the crowd yearn to force a connection with him, to be inside that self-sufficient bliss. If the movie succeeds at anything, it’s in capturing Marley’s lingering spell on fans. The wall-to-wall music makes you want to crank him up even louder on the way home. As “Get Up, Stand Up” blares, Green unspools a montage of Marley’s average day: morning jogs with his mates, afternoons noodling on the guitar, a soccer break, nearly always with a joint somewhere in the shot. It’s a teenager’s dream life. Who wouldn’t revere the adult who pulled it off? What we don’t see are his failings, particularly the extramarital relationships. The former Miss World Cindy Breakspeare (Umi Myers), the most public of Marley’s other women and the mother of one of his children, sits in his studio unspeaking, unacknowledged and quite literally out of focus. Only through
Lynch’s spine-deep performance as Rita do we see the complexity of loving a man who was harder to like the more you knew (or needed) him. Rita is the only character who pokes at Marley’s beatific image, forcing him to acknowledge the magical thinking that would ultimately lead to his early death. After one brutal fight, Marley dances behind Rita onstage during “No Woman, No Cry” and puts a hand on her shoulder as if to nudge her forgiveness in front of the audience. The stoicism on Lynch’s face as she sings — and obeys — her husband’s plea to shed no tears is a staggering mix of irony, cruelty and acceptance. If “One Love” had a dozen more scenes with that power, it would be a worthy tribute to the icon and the man. ‘Bob Marley: One Love’: Rated PG-13 for brief language and violence and cumulus clouds of ganja. Running time: 1 hour 44 minutes. In theaters.
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hey are now a collector’s trove — Paul McCartney’s own photos, shot 60 years ago, when the Beatles took Europe and America by storm: images of screaming fans (one carrying a live monkey); a girl in a yellow bikini; airport workers playing air guitar; and unguarded moments grabbed from trains, planes and automobiles. McCartney, now 81, doesn’t like to sit still and reminisce about the past, so he chatted while driving home from his recording studio in Sussex, England. “My American friends call these small, one-way lanes ‘gun barrels,’” he said, warning his interviewer that at any moment the signal might die (it did). It took two days to complete a coherent conversation about the breakthrough period when the Beatles went viral, captured in the traveling exhibition “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-1964: Eyes of the Storm,” which features 250 of his shots. It is currently at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and comes to the Brooklyn Museum in New York from May 3 to Aug. 18. (Don’t be surprised if the artist shows up for the opening.) It was McCartney’s archivist, Sarah Brown, who found 1,000 photographs the musician had taken over 12 weeks — from Dec. 7, 1963, to Feb. 21, 1964 — in the artist’s library. “I thought the photos were lost,” McCartney said. “In the ’60s it was pretty easy. Often doors were left open. We’d invite fans in.” Even the recording studio wasn’t a safe space. “I was taking my daughter Mary to the British Library to show her where to research for her exams, and in one display case I saw the lyric sheet for ‘Yesterday,’” he said. A sticky-fingered biographer had swiped the original from their studio. Rosie Broadley, a senior curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, where the show was inaugurated, said, “His photographs show us what it was like to look through his eyes while the Beatles conquered the world.” McCartney won an art prize at school and practiced photography with his brother, Mike (who later became a professional photographer). He graduated to a 35 mm SLR From page 17 also see the title track come together with Marley improvising lyrics while the other Wailers pound bongos and clank spoons against teacups. It’s a neat party trick, but there’s no enlightenment into his songcraft. Yet, Ben-Adir, who was excellent as Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami,” taps into Marley’s essence. His first close-up comes as Marley is assaulted by flashbulbs. A reporter asks, “Do you really believe music can unify?” Eyes downcast, face filling the screen, Ben-Adir barely moves. He’s showing us an artist grounded by his quiet certainty of purpose, a man fueled by his resolute sense of self. In his concert scenes, Ben-Adir shuts his eyes just as Marley used to do, bouncing to his own beat with one hand held high like a charismatic preacher. His magnetism is the inverse of his contemporaries David Bowie,
Paul McCartney plays at Desert Trip, the boomer-friendly festival, at the Coachella site in Indio, Calif., Oct. 8, 2016. (Carlos Gonzalez/The New York Times)
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US is a global outlier in urging that children get COVID booster shots By DAVID LEONHARDT
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uch of the world has decided that most young children do not need to receive COVID booster shots. It’s true in Britain, France, Japan and Australia. Some countries, including India, have gone further. They say that otherwise healthy children do not need even an initial COVID vaccination. In Germany, public health experts don’t recommend vaccines for any children, including teenagers, unless they have a medical condition. Scientists in these countries understand that COVID vaccines are highly effective. But the experts have concluded that the benefits for children often fail to outweigh the costs. The benefits are modest because children are extremely unlikely to become seriously ill from COVID and are less likely to transmit the virus than an adult is. The costs include the financial price of mass vaccination, the possibility that a shot’s side effects will make a child sick enough to miss school, the tiny chance of more serious side effects and the inherent uncertainty about long-term effects. The U.S. is a global outlier. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges booster shots for all children six months and older. Yet the recommendation has failed to accomplish much. Instead, most American parents have chosen to overrule the CDC. Only about 40% of children under 12 have been vaccinated against COVID, and only about 5% are up to date on their boosters. This situation makes for a case study of the shortcomings in U.S. COVID policy: A strict approach to a nuanced issue has backfired, fostering skepticism of scientific expertise while doing little to improve public health. Dr. Francis Collins, the retired head of the National Institutes of Health, acknowledged the larger problem last year when he said that experts erred during the pandemic by taking a “very narrow view of what the right decision is.” Monthslong school closures that harmed student learning were one example. Extended mask mandates that many people ignored were another. A continuing
A dose of coronavirus vaccine is prepared at a vaccination site in Manhattan on Nov. 2, 2021. Much of the world has decided that most young children do not need to receive COVID booster shots. (James Estrin/The New York Times) CDC recommendation that conflicts with international practice — and that most Americans have dismissed — has become yet another. What’s reasonable? Dr. Sandro Galea, the dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, recently published a book, “Within Reason,” making a detailed version of this argument. During the pandemic, Galea said, health experts sometimes adopted “an illiberal ideology.” This ideology imagined people as robots who existed merely to minimize the chances of contracting a virus. In reality, as Galea pointed out, society regularly decides that some amount of additional safety isn’t worth it. Car drivers and passengers would be safer if they wore helmets, for instance, but who wears a helmet in a car? In the case of COVID, there are indeed benefits to giving booster shots to children. Some of the benefits are probably greater for American children, too. They are more likely to be obese or lack health insurance than children elsewhere. “Even though kids are at a lower risk, they are not at zero risk,” Dr. Nirav Shah, the CDC’s principal deputy director, told me when defending the booster recommendation.
But there are also downsides to urging health measures that most people oppose, Galea said. Only when the benefits of doing so are large (as was the case with perceptions of smoking in the 20th century) should experts try to change people’s minds. The scientific data — and the expert consensus in other countries — make it hard to argue that the benefits of boosting children are large. “I don’t think in the USA they have got the risk-benefit equation correct for children,” Dr. Peter Collignon of
the Australian National University told me. (CDC data shows that the children at highest COVID risk are newborns, who aren’t eligible for vaccines even in the U.S. They can instead benefit from a mother’s prenatal vaccination.) The value of candor Galea said he believes that the biggest drawback to the U.S. booster policy may be its effect on the CDC’s credibility. When people who are already skeptical of expert advice, as many Americans are, see the CDC insisting on a vaccine with a marginal benefit, they have more reason to question other CDC guidance — such as the urgent importance of childhood vaccines against measles and diphtheria. “There is a real cost to our not being honest,” Galea said. When I’ve asked public health experts off the record what they are doing with their own children, they tend to be honest. Almost all have vaccinated their children, for the sake of both those children and other people. At the same time, some experts told me that they had not boosted their children. Why? The benefits seem small, for everybody. The costs — like a child’s fear of needles or a missed day of school from side effects — also seem small. With such a close call, reasonable parents will make different decisions, and that’s OK. Maybe the CDC would have a bigger impact if it conveyed a similarly candid message.
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Overnight French toast By SAMANTHA SENEVIRATNE
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Lemon ricotta pancakes. For the lightest, fluffiest pancakes, Genevieve Ko incorporates ricotta, buttermilk and beaten eggs into her batter. A small gesture — rubbing the lemon zest into the sugar — ensures bright citrus flavor in every bite. (Ryan Liebe/The New York Times)
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his quick batter cooks into the most tender pancakes for the most comforting breakfast. Milky ricotta and butter, along with tangy buttermilk, lend a soft, sweet creaminess, and well-beaten eggs keep them fluffy and light. Lemonand vanilla-scented sugar makes the pancakes sweet enough to eat on their own, but they’re fun to serve with blueberry syrup or your favorite toppings. If you prefer soufflélike pancakes, separate the whites from the yolks and beat them to stiff peaks. Mix the yolks in with the wet ingredients, fold the whipped whites in after the dry ingredients are incorporated and cook as directed below. Yield: 8 to 10 small pancakes Total time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 3/4 cup/102 grams all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon fine salt 1/4 cup/50 grams sugar 1 lemon 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 3 large eggs 3/4 cup/170 grams whole-milk ricotta 1/4 cup/61 grams buttermilk, preferably whole milk
2 tablespoons/28 grams unsalted butter, melted, plus room-temperature butter for cooking and serving Blueberry syrup or other toppings, for serving (optional) Preparation: 1. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Heat a griddle or large nonstick pan or well-seasoned castiron skillet over medium-low. 2. Add the sugar to a large bowl, then finely grate the zest of the lemon directly over the sugar. Using your fingers, gently rub the zest into the sugar. Add the vanilla and whisk to evenly moisten. Add the eggs and whisk until foamy on top, then add the ricotta, buttermilk and butter, and whisk until well-blended. Add the flour mixture and gently stir until no traces of flour remain. 3. Generously butter the griddle, then drop a scant 1/4 cup batter onto it. Repeat, spacing the rounds at least an inch apart. Cook until the bottoms are golden brown and the tops are bubbling, 2 to 3 minutes. Flip and cook until the other sides are golden brown, about 2 minutes more. Repeat with more butter and the remaining batter. Serve warm, slathered with butter and blueberry syrup or other toppings if you’d like.
f you have a crowd for breakfast, overnight French toast is a winning idea. Instead of standing over the stove, cooking slice after slice, it bakes in the oven and emerges puffed and golden and ready for a big glug of maple syrup. Try making it with a stale loaf that you forgot to eat. A fat brioche, fruit-filled panettone or a braided challah all work well. Stay away from croissants, though: Their chewy interiors are best enjoyed fresh. Yield: 6 to 8 servings Total time: 1 hour, plus chilling Ingredients: 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, plus more for baking dish 1 pound enriched bread, such as brioche, challah or panettone, sliced 3/4inch thick 1/4 cup golden raisins (optional) 6 large eggs 2 1/2 cups whole milk 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/3 cup light brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon Pinch of freshly ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1/3 cup pecans, chopped (optional) Powdered sugar for dusting (optional) Maple syrup, for serving Preparation: 1. Butter a 2-quart baking dish. Butter the front sides of the slices of bread and shingle the slices upright in the dish, overlapping as necessary. Nestle the raisins, if using, evenly between the slices of bread but not on top. 2. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, cream, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla and salt until well combined. Pour the milk mixture over the bread and press the bread gently to absorb. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. 3. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Remove the plastic wrap. Sprinkle the pecans evenly over the top. Bake until puffed, golden and set in the center, 50 to 60 minutes. While baking, if the top begins to get too dark, tent with foil. Let stand 10 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar and serve with maple syrup.
Overnight French toast. You can sleep in and have a glorious breakfast on the table at a very reasonable, still breakfast-appropriate hour with this overnight French toast from Samantha Seneviratne. (Craig Lee/The New York Times)
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Odysseus, a private lunar lander, launches toward the moon By KENNETH CHANG
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nother month, another try at the moon. A robotic lunar lander launched into space early Thursday morning. If all goes well, in nine days, it will become the first American spacecraft to gently set down on the moon’s surface since the Apollo 17 moon landing in 1972. It would also become the first private effort to reach the surface of the moon in one piece. Three earlier attempts, by an American company, a Japanese company and an Israeli nonprofit, failed. The company in charge of this mission, Intuitive Machines of Houston, is optimistic. “I feel fairly confident that we’re going to be successful softly touching down on the moon,” Stephen Altemus, the president and CEO of Intuitive Machines, said in an interview. “We’ve done the tests. We tested and tested and tested. As much testing as we could do.” If private companies can pull off this feat, at a cost much lower than a traditional NASA mission, that will open the door to wider exploration of the moon by NASA and commercial endeavors. “We’re trying to create a marketplace in a place where it didn’t exist,” Joel Kearns, an official in NASA’s science mission directorate, said during a news conference Tuesday. “But to do that, we have to do it in a cost-conscious manner.” NASA is the primary customer for this mission, paying Intuitive Machines $118 million to take its payloads, which include a stereo camera to observe the plume of dust kicked up during landing and a radio receiver to measure the effects of charged particles on radio signals, to the moon’s surface. There is also cargo from customers other than NASA, like a camera built by students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, and an art project by Jeff Koons. But if these private efforts continue to crash, then NASA will not be getting its money’s worth. The mission got off to a smooth, auspicious start. At 1:05 a.m. Eastern time, a SpaceX
After landing, Odysseus is to operate for seven days until the sun sets. Falcon 9 rocket carrying the lander lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending the lander on a direct trajectory toward the moon. Intuitive Machines reported less than hour later that the spacecraft separated from the rocket’s second stage and successfully turned itself on with its systems operating as expected. Intuitive Machines calls its spacecraft design Nova-C. It is a hexagonal cylinder with six landing legs, about 14 feet tall and 5 feet wide. Intuitive Machines notes that the body of the lander is roughly the size of an old British phone booth — that is, like the Tardis in the “Doctor Who” science fiction television show. At launch, with a full load of propellant, the lander weighed about 4,200 pounds. This particular spacecraft was named Odysseus after a contest among Intuitive Machines employees. Mario Romero, the engineer who proposed the name, said the travels of the hero of the “Odyssey,” the ancient Greek epic poem, provided an apt analogy for the lunar mission. “This journey takes much longer due to the many challenges, setbacks and delays,” Romero said in Intuitive Machine’s press kit for the mission. “Traveling the daunting, wine-dark sea repeatedly tests his mettle, yet ultimately, Odysseus proves worthy and sticks the landing back home after 10 years.”
After a week traveling away from Earth, Odysseus is to enter orbit around the moon about 62 miles above the surface. Then, 24 hours later, it will fire its engine to begin its final descent. An hour later, it is set down near a crater named Malapert A, about 185 miles from the south pole. The landing site is relatively flat, a location that is easier for a spacecraft to land. The south polar region, especially craters that remain in perpetual shadow, has become an area of interest because of the presence of water ice there. Previous U.S. moon missions have landed in the equatorial regions. After landing, Odysseus is to operate for seven days until the sun sets. The solarpowered lander is not designed to survive the frigid cold of lunar night. The launch of the Intuitive Machines mission comes just one month after another U.S. company, Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh, attempted to send Peregrine, its lander, to the moon. But a malfunction with its propulsion system shortly after launch prevented any possibility of landing. Ten days later, as Peregrine swung back toward Earth, it burned up in the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean. Both Odysseus and Peregrine are part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS. The object of the program is to use commercial companies to send experiments to the moon rather than NASA building and operating
its own moon landers. The space agency hopes this approach will be much cheaper, allowing it to send more missions more frequently as it prepares to send astronauts back to the moon as part of its Artemis program. Thomas Zurbuchen, the former associate administrator for science at NASA who started the CLPS program in 2018, said the space agency expected half of the CLPS missions to fail and that he repeatedly told Congress, scientists and the companies to expect that. “That is how it was sold,” he said in an interview. But even if half of these commercial missions fail, NASA would still come out ahead because a traditional mission costs $500 million to $1 billion, Zurbuchen said, while on a CLPS mission, NASA is paying a company about $100 million to fly its payloads. Even a 50% success rate might be too optimistic. “Even if you’re an advocate for that, you have to see if that strategy is working,” Zurbuchen said. Altemus, who worked six years as the director of engineering at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, said the drive to reduce costs has spurred a much quicker pace of innovation than was possible at NASA. “Innovation that would not have occurred if we had more money and more time,” he said. “If you look at all the milestones leading up to landing on the moon, for all the technical accomplishments that we’ve been able to do for that little bit of money, it’s just amazing.” The most difficult portion of the mission — landing — still lies ahead. Altemus conceded that they needed to make decisions that reduced costs but raised risks. “Now, have we gone too cheap?” Altemus said. “Possibly.” If so, the CLPS companies may need to raise the prices for future missions, though they would still be cheaper than what NASA traditionally undertook. Altemus said that if Intuitive Machines fails this time, NASA and Congress should not give up on the moon-on-a-budget idea. “It’s the only way to really go forward,” Altemus said.
22 LEGAL NOTICE ‘\ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC. Demandante V.
LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL EMILIO CALCAÑO DE JESÚS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO RAFAEL CALCAÑO DE JESÚS Y COMO RAFAEL E. CALCAÑO DE JESÚS, COMPUESTA POR RAFAEL ÁNGEL CALCAÑO LÓPEZ, JAVIER EMILIO CALCAÑO LÓPEZ, ERIC RENÉ CALCAÑO LÓPEZ, RAÚL ENRIQUE CALCAÑO LÓPEZ, MARIA DE LOS SANTOS CALCAÑO MALDONADO, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados CIVIL NUM. LO2023CV00029 SOBRE: EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. 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 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 procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 1ro de abril de 2024 a las 9:45 de la mañana, todo derecho titulo, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Rústica: BARRIO MEDIANÍA BAJA de Loíza. Solar: 28. Cabida: 614.355 Metros Cuadrados.
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Linderos: Norte, En Diez Punto Cuatro Veintinueve Metros (10.429), con Camino para Uso Público. Sur, En Treinta y Seis Punto Seis Cincuenta y Cinco Metros (36.655), con Villa Vaca. Este, En Treinta y Cuatro Punto Nueve Ochenta y Tres Metros(34.983) con el Solar Número Veinte y Nueve (29) de dicho plano, y en Dos Punto Nueve Cuarenta y Dos Metros (2,942) con Sector El Jobo, Oeste, En Veinticuatro Punto Cuatro Sesenta (24.460) Metros con el Solar Número Veintisiete (27) de dicho plano. Se segrega de la finca 7527 de Lolza. Inscrita al tomo Karibe de Loiza, finca número 18477, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Carolina. La hipoteca revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Lolza, finca número 18477, inscripción 4ta. Propiedad localizada en: SR 187 KM 9.0 lnt., #28 Medianía Baja Wd, Loíza, PR 00772, t/c/c Carr. 187 Km. 9.0 Parcela B, Mediania Sector El Jobo, Loíza, PR 00772. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Reverse Mortgage securing a note in favor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or its order, in the original principal amount of $271,500.00 due on July 8, 2089, pursuant to deed number 433, executed in Guaynabo Puerto Rico, on July 26, 2010, before notary Maria G. Chévere Mouriño, and recordad, at Karibe Volume of Loíza, property number 18477, 5th inscription. 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 mínimo de subasta la suma de $271,500.00, 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 8 de abril de 2024 a las 9:45 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $181,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mí-
nima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $135,750.00, 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 15 de abril de 2024 a las 9:45 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 $112,980.66 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $125,209.15 en intereses acumulados al 17 de octubre de 2023 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.56000% anual hasta su total y completo pago; y otros gastos acumulados; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $27,150.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado y costas autorizadas por el Tribunal, más las cantidades que se adeudan mensualmente por concepto de seguro hipotecario, cargos por demora, y otros adeudados que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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 29 de enero de 2024. HECTOR PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA.
ORIENTAL BANK Demandante v.
JOSÉ ANTONIO
staredictos@thesanjuandailystar.com
ARCHEVAL RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado CIVIL NÚM. CA2023CV00470. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, hago saber a la parte demandada JOSÉ ANTONIO ARCHEVAL RODRÍGUEZ y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 28 de diciembre de 2023, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $123,000.00 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: Cond. Sabana Abajo Apartments, Apt. 141, Edif 1 385 Carr 190, Carolina, PR 00982, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento #141 para fines residenciales localizado en la cuarta planta del edificio #1 del Condominio Sabana Abaja Apartments, situado en el Barrio Sabana Abaja, del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área de aproximadamente 786.75 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 73.13 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el Norte, en 36.5 pies lineales, equivalentes a 11.13 metros lineales, con el apartamento #142; por el Sur, en 36.5 pies lineales, equivalentes a 11.13 metros lineales, con el área exterior del edificio; por el Este, en 23.04 pies lineales, equivalentes a 7.02 metros lineales, con el pasillo comunal del edificio y por el Oeste, en 23.04 pies lineales, equivalentes a 7.02 metros lineales, con el área exterior del edificio. Consta de salacomedor, cocina, recibidor, tres dormitorios, un baño. Su puerta de acceso comunica al pasillo comunal del edificio, que comunica con la escalera comunal del edificio, la cual da acceso al pasillo comunal del edificio que llega hasta el exterior. Le corresponde una participación equivalente a 3.1153% en los elementos comunes generales. Le corresponde para su única y exclusivo uso coma elemento comuún limitado, el estacionamiento #141. Finca 41347 inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 991 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguien-
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Friday, February 16, 2024 tes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituída por José Antonio Archeval Rodríguez, soltero, en garantía de un pagaré, a favor de Oriental Bank & Trust, o a su orden, por $123,000.00, al 6.625%, vencedero el 1 de noviembre de 2037, según Esc. #424, en San Juan, a 10 de octubre de 2007, ante Javier A. Rivera Meléndez, inscrita al folio 48 del tomo 991 de Carolina, finca #41347, inscripción 3ra, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 2 de noviembre de 2023, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $90,570.70 de principal, más $2,933.48 de intereses al 6.625%, computados desde el 1 de agosto de 2022 hasta el 27 de enero de 2023, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total a razón de $16.6675247 diarios, más $196.90 de cargos por demora, $12.00 de otros cargos, y $12,300.00 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 4 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 AM, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $123,000.00, sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 AM, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $82,000.00. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE MARZO DE 2024 A LAS 10:00 AM, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $61,500.00. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado esta-
rán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de enero de 2024. Hector Peña Rodriguez, Alguacil, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Carolina.
The San Juan Daily Star LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
LIME RESIDENTIAL, LTD Demandante, Vs.
LAURA GONZALEZRAMOS; YOC CONTRACTORS, INC.
Demandados CIVIL NÚM. CD2011-511 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. 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 Vega Baja, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor enefectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja, el 4 de abril de 2024 a las 9:30 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: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL. Apartamento residencial número E-4 de una planta y forma irregular localizado en la segunda planta del edificio Zaguan, situado en la calle José Julián Acosta número 14 del Barrio Pueblo del término municipal de Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, teniendo una área total aproximada de 48.2 metros cuadrados, equivalente a 519 pies cuadrados. El apartamento colinda por el NORTE, en una distancia de 21’ 3”, equivalente a 6.47 metros lineales con espacio exterior; por el SUR, en una distancia de 21’ 3”, equivalente a 6.47 metros lineales con apartamento E-2; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 31’ 6”, equivalente a 9.60 metros lineales con pasillo de entrada; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 31’ 6”, equivalente a 9.60 metros lineales con espacio exterior. La puerta de entrada de este
apartamento está situada en su lindero Este a través de la cual se llega al pasillo y escalera que dan acceso a la calle. El área de vivienda consta de salacomedor, cocina, dos cuartos dormitorios con closet, un baño y closet-lavandería. Tiene una participación de 28.05% en los elementos comunes generales del edificio. Consta inscrita al tomo digital Karibe, finca número 34424, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de Bayamón. Propiedad localizada en: Apt. 4-E #14 José Julián Acosta, Vega Baja, PR 00693, t/c/c Calle José Julián Acosta #104, Vega Baja, PR 00693, t/c/c 14 José Julián Acosta Street, Apt. 4-E, Vega Baja, PR 00693. Según figuran en la certificación registra!, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Al asiento 1359 del Diario 260 se presentó el 7 de julio de 2008 la Escritura 239 de Hipoteca otorgada en Bayamón el 24 de junio de 2008 ante el notario Luis Oscar Cintrón Fonalledas por la cual se constituye/n sobre esta finca HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por la suma de $10,500.00 sin intereses anual y vencimiento en 8 años. Al asiento 1360 del Diario 260 se presentó el 7 de julio de 2008 la Escritura 261 de Hipoteca otorgada en Bayamón el 24 de junio de 2008 ante el notario Vanessa López Ortiz por la cual se constituye/n sobre esta finca HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico por la suma de $40,000.00 sin interés anual y vencimiento en 10 años. 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 mínimo de subasta la suma de $37,260.00, 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 Vega Baja, el 11 de abril de 2024 a las 9:30 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $24,840.00 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estable-
The San Juan Daily Star cido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $18,630.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Vega Baja, el 18 de abril de 2024 a las 9:30 de la mañana. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $36,317.24 por concepto de principal adeudado, más los intereses acumulados desde el 1ro. de febrero de 2011 hasta su total y completo saldo, más una cantidad equivalente al 10% del balance del principal del pagaré para el pago de las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más cualquiera otros adelantos que se han en virtud del pagaré y la escritura de hipoteca. 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 Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de febrero 2024. Luis Ortiz Rosa #888 ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
GUILLERMO HERNANDEZ
Petitioner/Husband And
GLORIBEL GARZA
Respondent/Wife CASE NO.: 2023-DR-9228-O. DIVISION: 31.
TO: GLORIBEL GARZAJ. HC 91, VEGA AL TA, PR 00692-9802 AND ANY PARTIES UNKNOWN to
Friday, February 16, 2024 Petitioner,
which parties may be interested as heirs, devisees, grantees, assignees, lienors, creditors, trustees, or other claimants, by, through under or against GLORIBEL GARZA, whose whereabouts is unknown. NOTICE OF ACTION YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for Petition of Dissolution of Marriage has been filed against you and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses to it, if any, on ROBERT SAUERHEBER, ESQ. 1650 Sandlake Road, #$255, Orlando, FL 32809 on or before 3/14/2024 , 2024 and file the original with the clerk of this Court at 425 N. Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801, before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the petition. Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Designation of Current Mailing and E-Mail Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed or e-mailed to the addresses on record at the clerk’s office. Dated: 1/26/ 2024 TIFFANY MOORE RUSSELl, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT. By: /S/ JUAN VAZQUEZ, Deputy Clerk. ***
New York, NY 10029 DE: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $35,151.64, más cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más los intereses acumulados al 7.50% desde el 1 de junio de 2023, hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 PO Box 194089, San Juan, PR 00917 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 14 de febrero de 2024. LCDA. LEGAL NOTICE LAURA I. SANTA SANCHEZ, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Secretario(a). NELIDA OCASIO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- ORTEGA, Sub-Secretario(a). NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA LEGAL NOTICE SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MÓN. PUERTO RICO TRIBUBANCO POPULAR DE DE NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA PUERTO RICO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBODemandante v. NITO SALA SUPERIOR DE ROSA FELICIANO COMERÍO.
COUVERTIER T/C/C ROSA FELICIANO; Y EDWARD MARTINEZ RODRÍGUEZ COMO DUEÑO REGISTRAL
Demandados CIVIL NÚM: BY2024CV00347. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: ROSA FELICIANO COUVERTIER T/C/C ROSA FELICIANO Urb. Levittown HE-30 Antonio Paoli, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 327 E 112th St. Apt. 7B,
YOLANDA GILLIAM Y OTROS Demandante v.
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO LA COMERIEÑA Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CR2023CV00290 (SALÓN 001). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SANTOS M RIVERA ESTRELLA SANTOS MANUELRIVERAESTRELLA@ GMAIL.COM
A: TODA PERSONA CON INTERES, IGNORADA Y/O TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DE PAGARE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de FEBRERO de 2024. En COMERÍO, Puerto Rico, el 08 de FEBRERO de 2024. ELIZABETH GONZALEZ RIVERA, Secretario(a). f/MARIA I. CRUZ ORTIZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBl NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGUEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGUEZ.
MILANNIE ZACHARY RODRIGUEZ SEDA Demandante
LESLIE JOSÉ RODRIGUEZ LÓPLL
Demandado( a) Caso Num.: MZ2023RF00727 (SALON 303). SOBRE: PATRIA POTESTAD - PRIVACIÓN. SUSPENSION O RESTRICCION. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LOURDES M. ORTÍZ PAGÁN LOURDESM _ ORTIZPAGA@ HOTMAIL.COM
A: LESLIE JOSE RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso. que ha sido debidamente registrada) archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicara una sola ve7 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 09 de FEBRERO de 2024. En MAYAGÜEZ , Puerto Rico, el 09 de FEBRERO de 2024. NORMA G. SANT/\ NA IRIZARRY, Secretario(a). f/ NILDA L. IRIZARRY RODRIGUEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 13 de FEBRERO de 2024. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 13 de FEBRERO de 2024. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario(a). f/ MARILY LOPEZ MARTINEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante Vs. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO GABRIEL ANTONIO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUFARIA JIMENEZ NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Demandado CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE CIVIL NÚM.: BY2024CV00058 (503) SOBRE: COBRO DE SAN JUAN. SUN WEST MORTGAGE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. COMPANY, INC. Y OTROS LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Demandante v. AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE TODD WILLIAM RUEHS DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL ESTADO LIY OTROS BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV07833 RICO. SS (SALÓN 504 CIVIL). Sobre: A: GABRIEL ANTONIO CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUFARIA JIMENEZ CIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIA- POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO, DO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN- se le notifica que se ha radiTENCIA POR EDICTO. cado en esta Secretaría por la ARSENIO COMAS RODON parte demandante, Demanda ACOMAS@COMASREVUELTA.COM sobre Cobro de Dinero, en la A: TODD WILLIAM que se alega adeuda la suma RUEHS, SU ESPOSA de $15,869.17, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogaKATHRYN CARR DEVRIES RUEHS Y LA do, todas cuyas sumas están y exigibles. Se le adSOCIEDAD LEGAL DE líquidas vierte que de no comparecer BIENES COMPUESTA en autos dentro del término de POR ELLOS, CÓMO los treinta (30) días siguientes ÚLTIMOS TENEDORES a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la CONOCIDOS DE UN Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO concediendo el remedio soliEXTRAVIADO Y LOS citado, sin más citarle ni oírle, debiendo radicar el original de CO -DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS JOHN su contestación en este Tribuenviando copia a la aboDOE Y RICHARD DOE nal, gada de la parte demandante: (Nombre de las partes que se le Lcda. Adela Surillo Gutiérrez, notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- Bufete Collazo & Surillo, LLC, cribe le notifica a usted que el P.O. Box 11550, San Juan, PR 13 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, 00922-1550; Teléfono: (787) este Tribunal ha dictado Sen- 625-9999. Para publicarse contencia, Sentencia Parcial o forme a la Orden dictada por Resolución en este caso, que el Tribunal en un periódico de ha sido debidamente registra- circulación general. EN TESTIda y archivada en autos donde MONIO DE LO CUAL, expido podrá usted enterarse deta- el presente Edicto que firmo y lladamente de los términos de sello en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, la misma. Esta notificación se hoy 29 de ENERO de 2024. publicará una sola vez en un LCDA. LAURA I. SANTA SANperiódico de circulación general CHEZ, Secretaria. IVETTE M. en la Isla de Puerto Rico, den- MARRERO BRACERO, Secretro de los 10 días siguientes a taria Auxiliar. 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
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607-609 CONDADO ST., LLC. Demandante, V.
MILDRED EUGENIA PACINI DE LA ROSA, FULANO DE TAL Y LA
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
gún sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por la suma de $10,046.40 de principal adeudado, más los intereses a razón de $89.62 mensuaDemandada. les, penalidades por retrasos al CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2022CV00775 10% mensual, intereses legales (903) SOBRE: COBRO DE al 4.25% desde la fecha de la DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDI- sentencia y aquellos intereses NARIA. AVISO DE PÚBLICA que se continúen acumulando SUBASTA. desde el día 31 de noviembre A: LOS CODEMANDADOS de 2021, a razón de $13.23 diarios; costas, gastos, penalidaDE EPIGRAFE Y AL des, recargos y $1,000.00 por PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: concepto de honorarios de aboEl Alguacil que suscribe por la gados. Esta subasta no tiene presente anuncia y hace consfijación de tipo mínimo por tratar que en cumplimiento de una tarse de una ejecución de senSentencia en Rebeldía dictada tencia por embargo. Y PARA en el caso de epígrafe el 10 de CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS mayo de 2022, notificada el 11 PARTES INTERESADAS y del de mayo de 2022, y publicada público en general, se advierte el 13 de mayo de 2022, una Orque los autos de este caso y den de Ejecución de Embargo demás instancias están dispoemitida el 1 de mayo de 2023 y nibles para ser inspeccionadas un Mandamiento de Ejecución en la Secretaría del Tribunal de de Embargo emitido el día 5 de Primera Instancia Sala Superior mayo de 2023, que le ha sido de San Juan, durante las horas dirigido por la Secretaria del laborables. Se entenderá que Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo licitador acepta como basSala de San Juan, procederá tante la titularidad del inmueble a vender en subasta, y al mejor y que las cargas y gravámenes postor, por separado, de conanteriores y los preferentes al tado y por moneda de curso crédito del ejecutante, incluyenlegal de los Estados Unidos de do el gravamen por las contriAmérica, y/o giro postal, dinero buciones sobre la propiedad en efectivo, cheque de gerente inmueble adeudadas, si los o cheque certificado a nombre hubiere, continuarán subsisdel Alguacil del Tribunal, o letra tentes, entendiéndose que el bancaria, con similar garantía rematante los acepta y queda de todo título, derecho o interés responsable de los mismos sin de los demandados de epígrafe destinarse a su extinción el presobre el inmueble que adelante cio del remate. La propiedad a se describe. Se anuncia por ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre la presente que la subasta hade cargas y gravámenes postebrá de celebrarse el día 18 de riores.En testimonio de lo cual, marzo de 2024; a las 11:30 de expido el presente aviso, el cual la mañana, en mi oficina localifirmo y sello, hoy 14 de febrero zada en el Tribunal de Primera de 2024, en San Juan, Puerto Instancia, Sala Superior de San Rico. Edwin E. López Mulero, Juan, sobre el inmueble que se ALGUACIL TRIBUNAL DE PRIdescribe a continuación: URMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BANA: Propiedad Horizontal: SAN JUAN. Oficina #706. Colinda por el OESTE, en 27’ 2”, con la paLEGAL NOTICE red interior que lo separa de ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO la oficina #705; por el ESTE, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUen igual medida, con la pared NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA interior que lo separa de la ofiCENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAcina #707; por el NORTE, en GUEZ SALA SUPERIOR 15’ 4”, con pared interior que lo ALICE CRIMILDA separa del pasillo común; y por ZAPATA RODRIGUEZ el SUR, en igual medida, con la Demandante V. pared exterior del edificio hacia su colindancia con la calle denominada “Rolan”. Comprende un área de 423 pies cuadrados, aproximadamente, y tiene su entrada y salida hacia el Norte, por el pasillo común con el cual colinda por ese lado. La oficina descrita se separa del quinto piso del edificio denominado Condominio Condado. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes equivalente a un porcentaje del 0.016%. FINCA NÚMERO: 4905, inscrita al folio 215 del tomo 151 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad, Sede Metropolitana, sección primera de San Juan. Dirección física: 609 Condado St., Suite 706, San Juan PR 00907. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente, se-
VIVIAN RAMIREZ ZAPATA, JOEL RAMIREZ ZAPATA, ELVIN RAMIREZ ZAPATA, VANESSA RAMIREZ ZAPATA
Demandados CIVIL NÚM: MZ2023CV01424 SALA 206 SOBRE: LIQUIDACION DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: VIVIAN RAMIREZ ZAPATA / VANESSA RAMIREZ ZAPATA
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva
24 dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través de 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. 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. LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS RUA: 15441 2510 carretera 100, kilómetro 3.5 de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623 787-851-3582 clsegarra@yahoo.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 5 de febrero de 2024. LCDA. NORMA G SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. JOSSIE D. BOBE RODRIGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
una parte en el procedimiento LINA sujeta a los términos de la SenDEUTSCHE BANK tencia, Sentencia Parcial o ReNATIONAL TRUST solución, de la cual puede estaCOMPANY, FKA blecerse recurso de revisión o BANKERS TRUST apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la COMPANY OF publicación por edicto de esta CALIFORNIA, N.A., AS notificación, dirijo a usted esta TRUSTEE FOR THE notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publi- CERTIFICATEHOLDERS cación de este edicto. Copia de OF THE VENDEE esta notificación ha sido archiMORTGAGE TRUST vada en los autos de este caso, 1996-3, UNITED STATES con fecha de 7 de febrero de DEPARTMENT OF 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, VETERANS AFFAIRS, el 7 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. F/ GUARANTEED REMIC Eneida Arroyo Vélez, SecretaPASS-THROUGH ria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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CERTIFICATES Demandante V.
LA SUCESION DE MARGARET ROSARIO TORRENS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS ORIENTAL BANK DESCONOCIDOS Demandante V. CON INTERES EN WILFREDO LA SUCESION; LA NIEVES MARCANO Demandado (a) SUCESION DE OSVALDO JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑA RIVERA MELÉNDEZ LEGAL@JRSLA WPR.COM COMPUESTA POR Caso Núm.: CA2023CV03107 (CIVIL 402) Sobre: COBRO MENGANO DE TAL Y LEGAL NOTICE DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. MENGANA DE TAL COMO ESTADO LIBRE ASOClADO NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENPOSIBLES HEREDEROS DE PUERTO RICO TRJBU- CIA POR EDICTO. DESCONOCIDOS NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA A: WILFREDO CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CACON INTERES EN NIEVES MARCANO. GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE LA SUCESION; (Nombre de las partes que se Je CAGUAS notifican la sentencia por edicto) DEPARTAMENTO DE TRUST MORTGAGE EL SECRETARIO(A) que susHACIENDA Y CENTRO cribe le notifica a usted que el CORP DE RECAUDACION DE 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Demandante V. INGRESOS JOHN DOE Y OTROS Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Demandado(a) JORGE GARCIA RON DON JAFGRONDON@GMAIL.COM Caso Núm.: CG2023CV03973 (Salón 701) Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRA VTADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENClA POR EDICTO
A: CITI MORTGAGE INC - POR BOX 6243 SIOUX FALLS SD 57117-6243 MR COOPER - 8950 CYPREESS WATERS BLVD DALLAS TDX 75019 JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE - PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERES)
(Nombre de las partes que se le nocifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
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 9 de febrero de 2024. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 9 de febrero de 2024. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. F/Lourdes T. Díaz Medina, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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Friday, February 16, 2024
MUNICIPALES Demandados CIVIL NUM. FCD2015-0137 (406) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE HIPOTECA POR LA VIA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA. 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 procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, el 2 de abril de 2024 a las 9:45 de la mañana, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte deman-
dada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a Continuación: URBANA: Solar número 2 del bloque “WR” en la Urbanización Villa Fontana localizada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo en la municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 289.28 metros cuadrados, colindando por el Norte, con el solar número 1 distancia de 21.75 metros; por el Sur, con el solar número 3 distancia de 21.75 metros; por el Este, con la calle número 34 distancia de 13.30 metros; y por el Oeste, con los solares número 20 y 21 distancia de 13.30 metros. Enclava una casa de concreto. Consta inscrita al folio 96 del tomo 219 de Carolina, finca número 8201, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Villa Fontana WR2 Vía Donatela, Carolina, PR 00983. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas posteriores o preferentes a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. 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 mínimo de subasta la suma de $36,100.00, 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 9 de abril de 2024 a las 9:45 de la mañana, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $24,066.67 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la tercera subasta, la suma de $18,050.00 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 16 de abril de 2024 a las 9:45 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 $24,269.04 de principal; más intereses al tipo pactado de 12.50000% anual desde el 1ro. de febrero de 2005, hasta el saldo total de la deuda; cargos por mora los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta la notificación de la sentencia, los
créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; más la suma de $3,610.00 por concepto de honorarios de abogado, posterior a la notificación de la sentencia acumulará el interés legal. Además de cualesquiera sumas de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca. 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 día 8 de febrero de 2024. HECTOR PEÑA RODRIGUEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR
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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO DEMANDANTE V.
MARITZA FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍAS JGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM CASO NÚM.: AG2023CV01252 EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL
A: MARITA FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SU ESPOSO DONATO MORENO VARGAS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN RESIDENCIAL
CONOCIDA ES: RACINE WINSCONSIN 53408, WINSCONSIN 53408 SU ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN POSTAL CONOCIDA ES: PO BOX 81703, RACINE, WISCONSIN 53408
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 7 de febrero de 2024. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 7 de febrero de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Perez, Secretaria. F/Zuheily González Avilés, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC. Demandante V.
MARTA MILAGROS GARCIA GONZALEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA MCOLON@WWCLA W.COM CASO NÚM.: PO2021CV02946 (SALÓN 406- CIVIL SUPERIOR) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: MARTA MILAGROS GARCIA GONZALEZ Y JUAN LUIS MONTERO GUTIERREZ; LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR MARTA MILAGROS GARCIA GONZALEZ Y JUAN LUIS MONTERO GUTIERREZ
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el
30 DE ENERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 6 de febrero de 2024. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 6 de febrero de 2024. Carmen G Tirú Quiñones, Secretaria. F/ Ereina Agront León, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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SONIA PEREZ MARTINEZ Demandante V.
POPULAR MORTGAGE INC. Y OTROS
Demandado(a) ENEL M. PÉREZ MONTES LCDAENELPEREZ@GMAIL.COM CASO NÚM,: AR2023CV01795 (SALÓN 401 - CIVIL SUPERIOR) SOBRE: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 9 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha
de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de febrero de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 9 de febrero de 2024. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. F/Jacqueline González Quintana, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN Demandante V.
HÉCTOR LÓPEZ VILLANUEVA Y OTROS
Demandado (a) JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍAS JGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM CASO NÚM.: AU2023CV00403 (SALÓN 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR) SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
A: JEANNETTE LÓPEZ MIRANDA
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 8 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 9 de febrero de 2024. En AGUADA, Puerto Rico, el 9 de febrero de 2024. Sarahí Reyes Pérez, Secretaria. F/Noemí Del C. Román Bosques, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND LLC Demandante v.
The San Juan Daily Star
ELVIN G MIRANDA SANTIAGO
05 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Demandado(a) Resolución en este caso, que Caso Núm. : CO2022CV00241 ha sido debidamente registra(SALON 1). Sobre: COBRO DE da y archivada en autos donde DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOpodrá usted enterarse detaTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA lladamente de los términos de POR EDICTO. la misma. Esta notificación se EDWIN OMAR SERRANO PEÑA EDWIN.SERRANO@ORF-LAW.COM publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general KEVIN SANCHEZ CAMPANERO KEVIN.SANCHEZ @ORF-LAW.COM en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su A: ELVIN G Y, siendo o repreMIRANDA SANTIAGO notificación. sentando usted una parte en el (Nombre de las partes que se le procedimiento sujeta a los térnotifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRET ARIO(A) que sus- minos de la Sentencia, Sentencribe le notifica a usted que el cia Parcial o Resolución, de la 08 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, cual puede establecerse recureste Tribunal ha dictado Sen- so de revisión o apelación dentencia, Sentencia Parcial o tro del término de 30 días conResolución en este caso, que tados a partir de la publicación ha sido debidamente registra- por edicto de esta notificación, da y archivada en autos donde dirijo a usted esta notificación podrá usted enterarse deta- que se considerará hecha en la lladamente de los términos de fecha de la publicación de este la misma. Esta notificación se edicto. Copia de esta notificapublicará una sola vez en un ción ha sido archivada en los periódico de circulación general autos de este caso, con fecha en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de 08 de FEBRERO de 2024. de los 10 días siguientes a su En YAUCO, Puerto Rico, el 08 notificación. Y, siendo o repre- de FEBRERO de 2024. CARsentando usted una parte en el MEN G. TIRU QUIÑONES, f/ADELAIDA procedimiento sujeta a los tér- Secretario(a). minos de la Sentencia, Senten- LUGO PACHECO, Secretario cia Parcial o Resolución, de la Auxiliar del Tribunal. cual puede establecerse recurLEGAL NOTICE so de revisión o apelación denESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO tro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUpor edicto de esta notificación, NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA dirijo a usted esta notificación CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAque se considerará hecha en la YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE fecha de la publicación de este BAYAMÓN.
Friday, February 16, 2024 lladamente 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 12 de FEBRERO de 2024. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 12 de FEBRERO de 2024. LAURA l. SANTA SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). f/KATHERINE SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ, Secretario Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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JUANA CLICEIDA PIMENTEL VALDEZ Demandante Vs.
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LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE CORPORATION Y OTROS MONSERRATE, SIMONET & cia que me ha sido dirigido por GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal Demandado(a) BIENES GANANCIALES Patricio, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, de Primera Instancia, Sala SuJORGE GARCIA RONDON COMPUESTA CON Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) perior de Ponce, en el caso de JAFGRONDON@GMAIL.COM YOLANDA DAVILA CASO NÚM.: CG2023CV03969 620-5300, abogados de la par- epígrafe, venderé en pública Por la presente se le notifica (Salón 701) SOBRE: CANCE- te demandante, con copia de subasta y al mejor postor, por MOLINA, YOLANDA contestación a la Demanda separado, de contado y por que se ha radicado en este DAVILA MOLINA, POR SI LACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE la Tribunal una acción sobre DiviPAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NO- dentro de los treinta (30) días moneda de curso legal de los sión de Comunidad de Bienes Y EN REPRESENTACION TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA siguientes a la publicación de Estados Unidos de América y/o DE LA SOCIEDAD este edicto, que se publicará Giro Postal y Cheque Certificahereditarios. Por la presente se POR EDICTO. una (1) vez en un periódico de do, en mi oficina ubicada en el le emplaza y requiere para que LEGAL DE BIENES A: M&T BANK circulación diaria general. Se Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conteste la demanda dentro de GANANCIALES BOX 69129 1800 le apercibe que si no contesta Sala de Ponce, el 12 DE MARlos treinta (30) días siguientes COMPUESTA CON WASHINGTON BLVD, la Demanda radicando el ori- ZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE a la publicación de este edicto. CARLOS VARGAS 8TH FLOOR, BALTIMORE ginal de la misma a través del LA MAÑANA, todo derecho títuUsted deberá presentar su aleAROCHO; CELESTE gación responsiva a través del MARYLAND 21230 JOHN Sistema Unificado de Manejo y lo, participación o interés que le Sistema Unificado de Manejo y DEYANIRA RODRIGUEZ DOE Y RICHARD ROE Administración de Casos (SU- corresponda a la parte demanMAC), al cual puede acceder dada o cualquiera de ellos en Administración de Casos (SU(Nombre de las partes que se le ARIAS, POR SI Y EN utilizando la siguiente direc- el inmueble hipotecado objeto MAC), la cual puede acceder notifican la sentencia por edicto) REPRESENTACION DE utilizando la siguiente direcEL SECRETARIO(A) que sus- ción electrónica: https://unired. de ejecución que se describe ción electrónica: https://unired. LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE cribe le notifica a usted que el ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se a continuación: “URBANA: Soramajudicial.pr, salvo que se BIENES GANANCIALES 6 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este represente por derecho propio, lar radicado en la URBANIZArepresente por derecho propio, COMPUESTA CON JUAN Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, en cuyo caso deberá presentar CION VILLA SERENA, localizaen cuyo caso deberá presentar Parcial o Resolución su alegación responsiva en la do en el Barrio Felicia Dos, en AMERICO GONZALEZ Sentencia su alegación responsiva en la en este caso, que ha sido debi- Secretaría del Tribunal Supe- el término municipal de Santa AROCHO. secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted damente registrada y archivada rior dentro del término antes Isabel, Puerto Rico, que se desconocidos con interés en la Sucesión de Concepción Martínez Rodríguez
deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el Tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a la abogada de la parte demandante, la Lcda. Nilza V. Maldonado Roque, cuya dirección es: PO Box 9148, Humacao, PR 00792, teléfono 787 852-8306 a la dirección nilzamaldonado@gmail.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de enero de 2024. Evelyn Felix Vazquez, Secretario (a). Dalias Reyez de Leon, Secretario (a).
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de FEBRERO de 2024. NOTAS DE LA SECRETARÍA: SE ENMIENDA PARA AÑADIR EN LA NOTIFICACION A CELESTE DEYANIRA RODRIGUEZ ARIAS, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JUAN AMERICO GONZALEZ AROCHO. En SAN SEBASTIÁN, Puerto Rico, el 08 de FEBRERO de 2024. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, Secretaria. F/MARITZA LEBRON ROSADO, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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 8 de febrero de 2024. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 8 de febrero de 2024. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. F/ Eneida Arroyo Vélez, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LA SUCESIÓN DE CONCEPCION MARTÍNEZ RODRIGUEZ Compuesta por edicto. Copia de esta notificaLUNA CARMELO MARTINEZ ción ha sido archivada en los RESIDENTIAL III, LLC PRADO, ROSA MARTINEZ autos de este caso, con fecha Demandante v. PRADO, EDITH de 8 de FEBRERO de 2024. CARLOS IVÁN CHINEA MARTINEZ PRADO, JOSE En COAMO, Puerto Rico, el 8 DIAZ POR SI Y EN REP de FEBRERO de 2024. ELIMARTINEZ PRADO, DE LA SLG COMP CON ZABETH GONZALEZ RIVELEGAL NOTICE ALICIA MARTINEZ RA, Secretario(a). f/AIDA LUZ CARMEN MILAGROS PRADO, ANGEL MANUEL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MERLY GARCIA, Secretario(a) PEREZ RIVERA Y OTROS DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUMARTINEZ PRADO, Auxiliar del Tribunal. Demandado(a) ROBERTO MARTINEZ NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Caso Núm. : BY2023CV01654 LEGAL NOTICE CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUAMULERO, CHARLIE O. DILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE (SALON 403). Sobre: EJECULEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO CIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROMARTINEZ PIMENTEL, SAN SEBASTIÁN ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- PIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NONARCY V. MARTINEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTAN- TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA ORIENTAL BANK CIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE POR EDICTO. PIMENTEL, JOHN DOE, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN Demandante v. PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVA RICHARD DOE y JANE JUAN YAUCO. MCOLON@WWCLA W.COM JUAN AMERICO DOE, como posibles MONSERRATE SIMONET ISLAND PORTFOLIO A: CARLOS IVÁN GONZALEZ IRRIZARRY, herederos desconocidos & GIERBOLINI, LLC SERVICES, LLC COMO CHINEA T/C/C CARLOS POR SI Y EN con interés en la Demandante V. AGENTE DE ACE ONE l. CHINEA DIAZ Y Sucesión de Concepción REPRESENTACION DE DOMINIQUE MYATT FUNDING LLC CARLOS CHINEA DIAZ, LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE Martínez Rodríguez Demandado Demandante v. CARMEN MILAGROS BIENES GANANCIALES Demandados CIVIL NÚM: SJ2023-cv-11750 JAMESXEL RIVERA CRUZ PÉREZ RIVERA T/C/C CIVIL NUM: HU2022CV01577. COBRO DE DINERO (REGLA COMPUESTA CON Demandado(a) SOBRE: DIVISION DE COMU60). EMPLAZAMIENTO Y CARMEN M. PEREZ CELESTE DEYANIRA KEVINSÁNCHEZCAMPANERO NIDAD DE BIENES HEREDIMANDAMIENTO POR EDICKEVIN. SANCHEZ@ORF-LAW. COM RIVERA Y CARMEN RODRIGUEZ ARIAS Y TARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NATALIE BONA PARTE SERVERA PEREZ RIVERA Y LA OTROS POR EDICTOS. AMERICA. EL PRESIDENTE NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LA Demandado(a) SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. W.COM A: CARMELO MARTÍNEZ ALBERTO DE DIEGO COLLAR EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIACaso Núm. : YU2023CV00244 BIENES GANANCIALES PRADO, ROSA MARTÍNEZ DEDIEGOLAWOFFICES@GMAIL.COM LEGAL NOTICE DO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. (SALÓN 1 SALA SUPERIOR). COMPUESTA POR ELLOS MANUEL I. ACEVEDO SERRANO PRADO, EDITH ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (Nombre de las partes que se le MANIV_23@YAHOO.COM A: DOMINIQUE MYATT MARTÍNEZ PRADO, DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN notifican la sentencia por edicto) Caso Núm.: SS2023CV00034 • DIRECCIÓN: 62 calle NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EL SECRET ARIO(A) que sus- JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ PRADO, (SALÓN 0002 DISTRITO Y SUMarbella Apt. 4-A, San CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAALICIA MARTÍNEZ PERIOR) Sobre: ACCESIÓN. A: JAMESXEL RIVERA cribe le notifica a usted que el GUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE Juan, PR 00907. 12 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, PRADO, ÁNGEL MANUEL NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTEN- CAGUAS CRUZ P/C LIC. KEVIN Por la presente se les notifica este Tribunal ha dictado SenCIA POR EDICTO ENMENMARTÍNEZ PRADO, SÁNCHEZ CAMPANERO tencia, Sentencia Parcial o que se ha presentado en este TRUST DADA. (Nombre de las partes que se le JOHN DOE, RICHARD Tribunal la Demanda de epíResolución en este caso, que MORTGAGE CORP A: CARLOS VARGAS notifican la sentencia por edicto) grafe. Se le emplaza y requieha sido debidamente registra- DOE y JANE DOE, como Demandante V. EL SECRET ARIO(A) que susAROCHO, POR SI Y EN re para que notifique a: Lcdo. da y archivada en autos donde posibles herederos SUN WEST MORTGAGE cribe le notifica a usted que el REPRESENTACION DE Miguel J. Simonet García; podrá usted enterarse deta-
indicado, y notificando con co- describe en el plano de inscrippia a la parte demandante, se ción de la urbanización y que se le anotará la rebeldía y se le encuentra inscrito en el registro dictará Sentencia en su contra de planos, con número, área y concediendo el remedio solici- colindancias que se relacionan tado a favor de la parte deman- a continuación: Solar número dante sin más citarle ni oírle. ONCE (11) del Bloque “E”. Área EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA del solar de CUATROCIENTOS y el Sello del Tribunal, en San PUNTO TREINTA Y SIETE MEJuan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 TROS CUADRADOS (400.37 de febrero de 2024. GRISEL- M.C.). En lindes por el NORTE, DA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, con el solar número diez del Secretaria Regional. Carmen bloque “E”; por el SUR, con Molina García, Sub- Secretaria la calle número seis y un medio arco; por el ESTE, con la Del Tribunal Con. I. calle número uno y un medio LEGAL NOTICE arco; y por el OESTE, con el ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO solar número doce del bloque DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU- “E” doce.” Enclava edificación NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA para fines residenciales. InsSALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE crita al folio 200 del tomo 184 REVERSE MORTGAGE de Santa Isabel, finca 7,896, Registro de la Propiedad de FUNDING LLC. Guayama. La hipoteca objeto Demandante Vs. de esta ejecución se encuentra SUCESION JULIAN inscrita al Tomo Karibe, finca MARTINEZ YORDAN 7,896 en Santa Isabel, Registro COMPUESTA POR JOHN de la Propiedad de Guayama, DOE Y JANE DOE COMO inscripción 4ª. Propiedad localien: URB. VILLA SERENA, POSIBLES HEREDEROS zada E-11 (98) CALLE GUAJATACA, DESCONOCIDOS; SANTA ISABEL, PR 00757. SeANGELES VIRGENMINA gún figuran en la certificación BELLIDO RUIZ POR SI registral, la propiedad objeto Y EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anterioUSUFRUCTARIA; res o preferentes: Nombre del ESTADOS UNIDOS DE Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE N/A. Según figuran en la certiregistral, la propiedad INGRESOS MUNICIPALES ficación objeto de ejecución está gra(CRIM) vada por las siguientes cargas Demandados posteriores a la inscripción del Civil Núm.: PO2020CV01124. crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPO- Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: TECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉ- N/A. Se entenderá que todo RICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE licitador acepta como bastante LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL la titularidad de la propiedad ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO y que todas las cargas y graDE PUERTO RICO, SS. vámenes anteriores y los preA: LA PARTE ferentes al crédito ejecutante DEMANDADA, AL (A antes descritos, si los hubiere, LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas carHACIENDA DE PUERTO gas y gravámenes anteriores, RICO Y AL PÚBLICO y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que sin destinarse a su extinción el en cumplimiento con el Manda- precio del remate. Se establece miento de Ejecución de Senten- como tipo de mínima subasta la
26 suma de $368,250.00, 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 Ponce, el 19 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $245,500.00, 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 $184,125.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 27 DE MARZO DE 2024, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $196,853.08 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $15,882.05 en intereses acumulados al 30 de septiembre de 2020 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 2.44% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $11,053.82 en seguro hipotecario; $4,790.00 en cargos por servicio; $450.00 en tasaciones; $180.00 en inspecciones; $1,818.30 de adelantos de costas y honorarios; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $36,825.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, esta última habrá de devengar intereses al máximo del tipo legal fijado por la oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras aplicable a esta fecha, desde este mismo día hasta su total y completo saldo. 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA de diciembre de 2023. JAVIER SALA DE AIBONITO SEGARRA MALDONADO, ALISLAND PORTFOLIO GUACIL REGIONAL. MIGUEL SERVICES, LLC, como A. TORRES AYALA, ALGUACIL agente de ACE ONE AUXILIAR PLACA #560.
LEGAL NOTICE
FUNDING, LLC Demandante Vs.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MIGUEL A. RODRÍGUEZ DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUHERNÁNDEZ NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Demandado SALA DE AIBONITO CIVIL NÚM.: OR2023CV00160 ISLAND PORTFOLIO SALÓN: 003 SOBRE: COBRO SERVICES, LLC, como DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. agente de ACE ONE ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉFUNDING, LLC RICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE Demandante Vs. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL REINALDO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO BURGOS COLÓN DE PUERTO RICO. SS. Demandado A: MIGUEL A. CIVIL NÚM.: OR2023CV00158 RODRÍGUEZ SALÓN: 003 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EM- HERNÁNDEZ – Carr 156 K2 H4 Int, Orocovis, PLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉPR 00720 /PO Box 278, RICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE Orocovis, PR 00720-0278. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL POR LA PRESENTE se le ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO emplaza y requiere para que DE PUERTO RICO. SS. conteste la demanda dentro de
A: REINALDO BURGOS COLÓN – Bo. Barros Carr 157 Km 3.0 Orocovis, PR 00720 / HC 2 Box 7933, Orocovis, PR 00720.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demadante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Orocovis Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de noviembre de 2023. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 14 de noviembre de 2023. Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria. Natalia Burgos Maldonado, Sec Auxiliar.
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los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@ orf-law.com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Orocovis, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de noviembre de 2023. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 14 de noviembre de 2023.Elizabeth González Rivera, Secretaria. Natalia Burgos Maldonado, Secretaria Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE
EDGAR LÓPEZ RÍOS
Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: JU2023CV00148 SALÓN: 704 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: EDGAR LÓPEZ RÍOS – Sect. Canales 2510 Calle Victoria Hernández, Juncos, PR 00777-7704.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Kevin Sánchez Campanero cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección kevin.sanchez@orf-law. com, y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Caguas Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de noviembre de 2023. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de noviembre de 2023. Lisilda Martínez Agosto, Secretaria. Ana H. Lugo Muñoz, Secretaria Auxiliar.
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A: BRAYAN O. MILLET PABON – 105 Sect Monroig Arecibo, P.R. 00612.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza por la deuda reclamada de $2,063.56 y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr,, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Edwin Serrano Peña cuyas direcciones son: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección edwin.serrano@ orflaw. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Arecibo Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de noviembre de 2023. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 30 de noviembre de 2023. Vivian Y. Fressr González, Secretaria. Vivian Y. Meléndez Rivera, Sec Auxiliar.
LEGAL NOTICE ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN
MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO JOSE R MADERA DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUParte Demandada NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIVIL NÚM. SJ2023CV04219 SALA DE ARECIBO SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC. COMO TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE EL PRESIDENTE AGENTE GESTOR DE AMÉRICA. DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS. FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIAFUND, LLC. DO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. Demandante Vs. A: JOSE R MADERA •
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO MILLET PABON DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUDemandado NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CIVIL NÚM.: AR2023CV01301 SALA DE CAGUAS SALÓN: 404 SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENISLAND PORTFOLIO TO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS SERVICES, LLC, UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. EL COMO AGENTE DE PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTALEGAL NOTICE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS DOS UNIDOS. EL ESTADO LIESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO FUND, LLC DE PUERTO RICO TRIBURICO. SS. Demandante Vs.
a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Gabriel Antonio Ramos Colón, cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de diciembre de 2023. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. F/Yadira Díaz González, Secretaria Servicios a Sala.
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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Parte Demandante Vs.
VICTOR M CORDERO BONILLA
Parte Demandada CIVIL NÚM. QU2023CV00090 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.
utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de noviembre de 2023. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Isamar Rodríguez González, Sec Auxiliar.
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A: VICTOR M CORDERO BONILLA • BO SAN ANTONIO, CARR 478, QUEBRADILLAS PR 00678 • 41314 (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) SECT. PALMARITO, EL SECRETARIO(A) que susQUEBRADILLAS PR cribe le notifica a usted que el 00678-9485 • 40996 CARR 1 DE FEBRERO DE 2024, este 478, QUEBRADILLAS PR Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución 00678.
COND PLAZA STELLA 1362 AVE MAGDALENA POR LA PRESENTE se le en este caso, que ha sido debiAPT 704, SAN JUAN emplaza y requiere para que damente registrada y archivada PR 00907 • SECT conteste la demanda dentro de en autos donde podrá usted enCANTERA 704 CAALLE los treinta (30) días siguientes terarse detalladamente de los MAGDALENA APT 1, SAN a la publicación de este Edicto. términos de la misma. Esta noUsted deberá presentar su ale- tificación se publicará una sola JUAN PR 00915.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes
gación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder
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 6 de febrero de 2024. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 6 de febrero de 2024. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. F/Anabel Pérez Ríos, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE “Blue Sky Towers III, LLC would like to place on notice the proposed construction of a 185’ (190’ including all appurtenances) monopole tower known as Bayamon Dajaos (1248.36’ ground elevation). If lighting is required the applicant will request the use of dual red/ white, medium intensity lighting (but will ultimately use lighting/marking required by the FAA), located at 18°17’50.60828” north latitude and 66°10’42.84947” west longitude near Road PR-812 Km. 4.8 Int., Dajaos Ward, Sector Los Falcones, Puerto Rico 00956, ASR File #A1224059. The application for this proposed project can be viewed at www.fcc.gov/asr/applications by entering the ASR file number. If you have environmental concerns about the proposed structure, a Request for Environmental Review may be filed with the FCC at www.fcc.gov/ asr/environmentalrequest or by writing to FCC Requests for Environmental Review, ATTN: Ramon Williams, 445 12th St SW, Washington, DC 20554. The FCC strongly encourages interested parties to file Requests for Environmental Review online. Requests for Environmental Review may only raise environmental concerns and must be filed within 30 days of the date that notice of the project is published on the FCC’s website. If you have any concerns regarding historic properties that may be affected by this proposed undertaking, please contact: DeAnna Anglin, Lotis Environmental, LLC, at Legals@TheLotisGroup.com or (417) 840-5008. In your response, please include the proposed undertaking’s location and a list of the historic resources that you believe to be affected along with their respective addresses or approximate locations.”
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San Blas Half Marathon breaks registration record By THE STAR STAFF
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With over two weeks remaining until the deadline, the popular San Blas Half Marathon set a record for registrations on Thursday, surpassing the previous mark by 51 runners.
he Delta Phi Delta Fraternity and its Organizing Committee of the 62nd Edition of the San Blas Half Marathon announced on Thursday that the number of registrations for the sporting event to be held in Coamo on March 3 broke the record established in 2023 of 1,613 runners. San Blas Half Marathon President Einar Ramos López expressed his pleasure with the support of the athletes who will participate this year and emphasized that the mass participation demonstrates the popular road race’s positive effect on the community and its relevance at a national and international level. “We are living in a historic moment; we have the largest number of participants in 62 years and we con-
tinue to increase,” Ramos López said in a written statement. “In 2023 it was emotional to reach the number of 1,613 runners at the close of registration. Today, with 15 days left until registration closes, we announce that we have surpassed that number. At 6 o’clock in the morning on February 15, 2024 there was a record of 1,664 runners -- 555 women and 1,109 men. The growth in participation is a testament to the commitment and passion of the Puerto Rican sports community.” “My thanks to the runners, teams and running clubs from across the island, to the international athletes and to the sponsors who make the race possible,” he added. As indicated, registrations remain open at micarrerapr.com until March 1 at 8 p.m. and the packages with the runner’s kit can be picked up at the Delta Phi Delta Fraternity in Coamo from Feb. 26 to March 2 .
Kansas City players post messages of support on social media By JENNY VRENTAS
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fter several people were shot during a celebration on Wednesday for the Kansas City Chiefs’ latest Super Bowl title, quarterback Patrick Mahomes wrote on social media that he was “praying for Kansas City,” while other players shared similar messages of support to the community that had gathered downtown to honor the team at a victory parade and rally. Guard Trey Smith thanked the emergency personnel “who ran towards the sound of danger,” and linebacker Drue Tranquill recognized the efforts of doctors caring for the people who had been shot. Marquez Valdes-Scantling, a receiver who caught a touchdown in Sunday’s Super Bowl, sought to connect with the children who were being treated at a local children’s hospital for injuries suffered during the incident, to offer them support “any way I can.” Former Kansas City safety Juan Thornhill wrote on social media: “Why turn something so positive into this.” All Chiefs players, coaches, staff and their families are safe and accounted for, the team said in a statement. Team members and their families had been enjoying a celebratory day with fans that started with a parade and ended with a rally at the landmark Union Station. They bused back to the team’s stadium as the
event concluded. “We are truly saddened by the senseless act of violence that occurred outside of Union Station,” the team said. “Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and all of Kansas City.” Staff from the league-owned NFL Network and NFL Films who were on site to cover the event are also safe, according to a league spokesperson. The NFL said in a statement that it was “deeply saddened by the senseless shooting” and thanked law enforcement and emergency personnel for a “quick and thorough response.” The shooting occurred less than a week after the Players Coalition, a nonprofit group founded by former NFL stars Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins, announced before the Super Bowl that it would donate $100,000 each to two groups focused on curbing gun violence. The advocacy organizations, Community Justice and Equal Justice USA, work in communities with survivors, policymakers and public health experts. The Baltimore Ravens, the team that Kansas City defeated in the conference championship last month to reach the Super Bowl, issued a statement of support. “Our hearts are with Chiefs Kingdom following the tragic events and shocking violence that occurred during today’s parade in Kansas City,” the team said. “On
a day meant for uniting people in joy and celebrating love, we send our full support to every citizen of the region and
each member of the Chiefs organization who has been affected by this senseless tragedy.”
An injured person is loaded into an ambulance after shots were fired near the Kansas City Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 14, 2024. A rally to celebrate the Kansas City football team’s Super Bowl victory was marred when one person was shot and killed and more than 20 others were wounded near the city’s Union Station on Wednesday afternoon, the police said. (Christopher Smith/The New York Times)
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Tiger Woods introduces his new brand: Sun Day Red By LAUREN HIRSCH and VANESSA FRIEDMAN
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or even those who have only a passing interest in golf, one of the sport’s most memorable images is of Tiger Woods playing his way to another major tournament victory while wearing a red polo shirt with a white Nike swoosh. That image is officially in the past, however. In January, Woods announced the end of his 27-year deal with Nike, which had made him hundreds of millions of dollars. The partnership was marked by memorable ads and, of course, the red Nike shirts that Woods wore during many final rounds on Sundays. When Woods announced the ending of his partnership with Nike, he said there would “certainly be another chapter.” Earlier this week, he and his new brand sponsor, TaylorMade Golf, made clear that the next chapter would again include a red polo shirt. It will be stitched with a tiger in the center, the logo for his new brand under TaylorMade: Sun Day Red. Sun Day Red is marketed as a “lifestyle brand” for both sports fans and non-athletes and will include apparel — even cashmere sweaters — and shoes, David Abeles, CEO of TaylorMade, said in an interview. (Woods switched to FootJoy shoes from Nike after his car crash in 2021.) How much of a role design will play in that apparel was not entirely clear, but Abeles said that “the design language of the products is completely different” from products Woods wore in his last sponsorship deal. Initial pro-
An undated photo provided by Sun Day Red shows golfer Tiger Woods wearing a shirt of his new brand, Sun Day Red, which will be a stand-alone unit within TaylorMade Golf. Tiger Woods’ Sun Day Red is conceived as a lifestyle brand that will attract even those who don’t play golf. (Sun Day Red via The New York Times. motional images showed a new logo — a tiger with 15 stripes to mark the number of major championships Woods has won; a black, long-sleeve T-shirt with the brand’s name, Sun Day Red, on it; and its version of the red polo, which is on the bloodier end of the red spectrum and includes black buttons, suggesting attention to detail. (To be fair, there’s only so much anyone can do with a polo.) Woods’ affinity for red stems from his mother, who is from Thailand, where the color has significance. “We worked through what he believes is the red that’s most associated
with his color palette,” Abeles said. “The red color he chose is the one that is most prominent and most consistent with what he believes is the red that has inspired him.” As for the space between “Sun” and “Day,” Abeles said it was meant to underline the brand as more than a weekly fit. “Sunday red is the color that Tiger has made, you know, very famous on Sundays,” he said. But Woods “plays golf more than just Sunday,” Abeles added. In ambition, if not design, Sun Day Red reflects a growing trend, one in which athletes see potential in •Venta • Instalación y Servicio long-term the increasing converSU CENTRO DE PIEZAS PARA PUERTAS gence of fashion and sports into one categoY PORTONES ELÉCTRICOS ry known as “lifestyle.” Contamos con la línea más completa de Operadores To that end, many Industriales, Comerciales y Residenciales. APROVECHA are interested less in Ventas al por mayor y al detal. LOS ESPECIALES DE NUESTRO being living advertise30 ANIVERSARIO ments for a sponsor than actual particiAve. Muñoz Marín C-12 • Urb Caguax • Caguas, P.R. • www.lacasadelosportones.com pants, demanding in-
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creased ownership and control over their own brand. In 2019, Roger Federer became both an investor in and a guest designer for On, a Swiss sneaker company, and in 2022 Tom Brady unveiled Brady, a menswear brand developed in conjunction with Jens Grede, the mastermind behind Kim Kardashian’s Skims. Serena Williams also has her own fashion line, S by Serena. Abeles would not confirm whether Woods had equity in the brand. Sun Day Red will exist as a standalone brand within TaylorMade, with its own headquarters and team of designers. The company has appointed Brad Blankinship, who was previously at Quiksilver, to oversee daily operations. Sun Day Red will first make its products available for sale online May 1, with aims to eventually expand internationally. Polos will cost $115 to $175, and cashmere sweaters will be $250 to $350. Woods has had an equipment deal with TaylorMade since 2017, when Nike shuttered its equipment business. The company made its pitch to Woods about an expanded relationship over the past several months, Abeles said. It included a visit to Woods’ boardroom in Jupiter, Florida, where the TaylorMade team showed him a pitch video that “really connected with his legacy, his greatness, his values and his future.” Woods is now entering, in many ways, a new era in his professional life, nearly five years after his last major championship. Last year, he joined the powerful board of the PGA Tour and has been a key player in deliberations as it negotiates its future. Woods announced the TaylorMade deal Monday in Southern California, where he is hosting the Genesis Invitational tournament. “I have learned so much over the years and have a lifetime of experience adjusting my apparel and footwear to help me play better based on the way it was constructed,” Woods said in a statement. “There are things that I could tell you that no one knew I was doing over the years. I’m ready to share those secrets with the world.”
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Today some information might come your way that inspires you to come up with some valuable new ideas, Aries. Your own intuitive faculties are operating at a very high level, and therefore your insights could prove valuable. Make sure you cover every possible contingency. This knowledge could be used to advance your own career and financial interests, so you may want to spend an hour or two writing down your thoughts.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
A business or love partner could bring opportunities for advancement your way today, Libra. You may decide to draft or execute legal papers that could be very important to your future. Travel might somehow be involved. Romance looks promising today. Your confidence and enthusiasm are showing in your face and could make you seem more attractive than usual, both to your partner and strangers. In the evening, plan an intimate celebration!
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Gemini
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Sagittarius
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Cancer
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Capricorn
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Your intuition, physical and intellectual energy, and insight are at an all-time high today, Taurus. You’ll probably want to spend much of the day alone, reflecting on your ideas and deciding how you want to put them to work for you. At some point, you may want to put your thoughts in writing. You could also tune in more strongly than usual to the thoughts and feelings of others.
You could well be bubbling over with physical energy today, Gemini. You might want to spend your day visiting with friends. You could pick up some interesting information from them, which you might be able to put to work for you. You could lay plans for finally attaining a long-term goal; perhaps a lucky break made this possible. Expect to spend most of your day talking and planning!
Visitors in your home, perhaps invited by others in your household, could put a crimp in your desire to be alone and hash out your thoughts today, Cancer. Your mind is sharp and ideas should come thick and fast. Don’t get so irritated with the situation at home that you sabotage your plans. You might want to go off somewhere by yourself, possibly to simply sequester yourself in your own room.
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The hard work and good business sense that you’ve put into your job may finally be paying off, Scorpio. Expect some positive changes to take place at the workplace this week. Today you’re likely to be feeling especially energetic and decide to give your house a thorough cleaning. Don’t try to do this on your own, however. You need to conserve your energy. Get other members of your household to help!
Insights that may come welling up from the past could be put to work for you in a positive way, Sagittarius. You could use them as inspiration for a creative project of some kind, or you could just make them work for you in your day-to-day dealings with others. You should be feeling especially romantic and sexy today, and you might want to go shopping for clothes made of soft, touchable fabrics. Relations with lovers should be close and passionate. Your home might need some work today, Capricorn. You and other members of your household could decide to join forces and get everything done. This might simply involve a thorough cleaning, or it could mean major repairs of some sort, perhaps plumbing or electrical. If the latter, it isn’t a good idea to try to do this yourself. There could be factors involved that are more complicated than they seem.
Aquarius
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You’re very intuitive by nature, Leo, and today you should be feeling especially so. Don’t be surprised if you spontaneously tune in to the ideas and emotions of those around you, or even if you and someone else come up with the same words at the same time. Use your insights to increase your understanding of others. You might also find that they bring artistic inspiration and even advance your worldly ambitions.
Recent days may have kept you busy, with a dynaExpect a lot of letters and phone calls from lovers, close friends, or children today, Aquarius. You might also want to make a few yourself. Some positive and interesting information may have come your way that you’ll want to share with those close to you. You’ll want to make sure that you remember whatever it is you learn today, Aquarius, as it could prove valuable in the future.
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You’re very intuitive by nature, Leo, and today you should be feeling especially so. Don’t be surprised if you spontaneously tune in to the ideas and emotions of those around you, or even if you and someone else come up with the same words at the same time. Use your insights to increase your understanding of others. You might also find that they bring artistic inspiration and even advance your worldly ambitions.
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
Studying some paperwork involving your finances could bring a pleasant surprise. You’re better off than you thought, Pisces! Dividends or benefits of some kind might be forthcoming. You could decide to treat yourself, buy some gifts for your family, or perhaps do some work on your home. Do take care to avoid impulse buying, and don’t go crazy spending. You don’t want your funds to disappear as quickly as they came!
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