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Health raises alarm over carfentanil presence
By THE STAR STAFF
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Health Secretary Víctor Ramos Otero has revealed the alarming discovery of carfentanil in Puerto Rico—a synthetic substance so potent that its effects dwarf those of any other known opioid. Originally developed as a powerful analgesic for large animals like elephants, carfentanil poses a grave risk to humans, as even the smallest dosage can lead to life-threatening situations.
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This critical finding emerged from the toxicological surveillance efforts of the Institute of Forensic Sciences (ICF) and has received validation from experts at both local and national levels, underscoring the seriousness of the threat.
“We are sounding the alarm as a proactive measure,” Ramos Otero stated. “While we haven’t seen any reported fatalities yet, the danger is all too real and potentially catastrophic. We’re faced with a substance that can cause almost instantaneous death, even in minuscule amounts.”
The emergence of carfentanil on the streets poses a significant risk not only to drug users but also to emergency responders and healthcare professionals, who might unintentionally come into contact with it.
The smallest dosage of carfentanil can lead to lifethreatening situations (Photo via Drug Enforcement Administration)
already in motion. Community channels are being activated to enhance educational outreach and to distribute life-saving naloxone—a critical tool in combating opioid overdoses. Initiatives will also seek to involve medical professionals and community leaders in these efforts.
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“This finding signifies a critical shift in the overdose landscape on our island,” the Health Secretary added, stressing the urgent need for heightened prevention, education, and collaborative efforts across agencies to tackle this emerging crisis.
María Conte, the executive director of the ICF, highlighted the gravity of the situation: “The scientific analyses confirm, without a shadow of a doubt, the presence of carfentanil. This elevates the risk level in our communities, making coordinated and proactive action essential.”
Catherine Oliver, administrator of ASSMCA, assured the public that a robust network for prevention and treatment is
Eduardo Zavala, director of the Overdose Prevention Division, announced plans for intensified monitoring of overdose incidents. They will promote prevention through education and harm reduction strategies by distributing free naloxone kits and fentanyl detection test strips, alongside providing essential training for first responders and community organizations.
It’s vital to stay safe: avoid touching unknown substances, wash exposed skin thoroughly with soap and water, refrain from touching your face after contact with suspicious materials, and if you suspect an overdose, administer naloxone and call 911 without delay. Having naloxone readily available can truly save lives.
“Knowledge is power. It can mean the difference between effectively handling an emergency and letting it escalate into tragedy,” Ramos Otero emphasized, urging everyone to stay informed and vigilant.
National Guard boosts water delivery
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico National Guard has activated personnel and specialized equipment to assist the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) in distributing potable water to several municipalities affected by service interruptions.
“The Puerto Rico National Guard is providing direct support to PRASA, with a distribution capacity of approximately 48,000 gallons per day using six Hippo-type vehicles,” said Colonel Carlos Rivera Román, Puerto Rico’s Adjutant General, in a written statement.
Efforts are concentrated in Canóvanas, Carolina, Corozal, Guaynabo, Loíza, Naranjito, Trujillo Alto, Vega Alta, and areas of San Juan, where access to drinking water has been compromised.
“All our tanks have been certified by PRASA and the Department of Health, ensuring the water we deliver to our communities is safe and of high quality. I remain in constant communication with PRASA President Luis González to ensure our efforts align with
The Puerto Rico National Guard is providing direct support to PRASA.
the Authority’s priorities,” Rivera Román added.
The activation follows Executive Order OE-2025-044 issued Wednesday by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, as part of emergency measures to address the ongoing water crisis affecting thousands of residents across the island.
Pesquera says he is not looking at a permanent role in the government
By THE STAR STAFF
Carlos Ignacio Pesquera, the newly appointed special coordinator of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA), announced that he will not charge for his professional services but will seek reimbursement from the government for the external resources needed to propose improvements to the water system.
Appointed by the governor to tackle the recent water crisis affecting many areas of the US commonwealth, Pesquera is ready to take action.
Carlos Ignacio Pesquera is the newly appointed special coordinator of PRASA.
“I won’t charge for my professional services. I’ll ensure I have the resources necessary to conduct a thorough examination of the system, including engineer Liliana Maldonado, a Mayagüez graduate and expert in water systems. She has previously worked on the Washington water system, and I plan to reach out to our diaspora to help identify what I see as the core issues, which we’ll compile into a useful document. While I will compensate for those external resources, you can rest
assured that the total contract amount will be very reasonable,” Pesquera stated in an interview on NotiUno radio.
He highlighted the need to involve individuals with a deep understanding of the system’s history. “It’s often crucial to know who has been involved in the past and understands how to operate various components to stabilize the system. I’ll rely on those valuable insights,” he added.
Pesquera made it clear that he’s not looking for a permanent position or intending to take on a continuous role. “My intentions are straightforward—I don’t aim to lead the authority, nor am I pursuing government positions. However, I want to share my experience through targeted interventions. If necessary, I could extend my involvement, but that’s not my main goal,” he remarked.
He also pointed out that his focus will not be on evaluating management. “The governor has communicated her expecta-
Puerto Rico’s new Police Law celebrated
By THE STAR STAFF
House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez, along with Public Safety Committee
Chairman Félix Pacheco, celebrated the separation of the Puerto Rico Police from the Department of Public Safety (DSP), asserting that the police force will now be able to operate with greater flexibility.
“This was a commitment we presented to the people of Puerto Rico during last year’s campaign, and now it’s a reality. In fact, during the last four-year term (2021-2024), our delegation made efforts to separate the Police from the DSP. Our Governor yesterday fulfilled that
promise to the men and women who proudly wear the Puerto Rico Police uniform,” said the Speaker.
“The greatest concern of the men and women of Puerto Rico’s blue blood was that they lacked the decision-making power to address the internal affairs of the Puerto Rico Police. It’s great that our Governor showed the will, commitment, and enthusiasm to make this measure a reality. I want to thank the chairman of the Security Commission, a police officer like yourselves, comrade Félix Pacheco, for his work on this bill,” the legislative leader added.
Méndez’s remarks came yesterday at the Criminal Justice University College theater
in Gurabo, during the signing of House Bill 406, which creates the Puerto Rico Police as a separate entity from the DSP.
“With the entry into force of Law 83-2025, which was House Bill 406, we do justice to the more than 11,000 men and women who wear the blue uniform of our Police with great honor. When this measure was presented to the Public Safety Commission in March of this year, we worked on it, together with the Government Commission, expeditiously in a transparent process, holding two public hearings and receiving multiple explanatory memoranda. The work we did today is a reality, providing the Police with the platform it
tions to her team, and she made that clear to me. I intend to concentrate on the technical aspects, which encompass a variety of components. I won’t shy away from sharing my thoughts with the governor,” he explained.
Addressing rumors of sabotage concerning the water crisis, Pesquera commented, “I don’t believe sabotage was involved. Mistakes can occur during construction, and those responsible shouldn’t be blamed if there’s no negligence. However, I want to ensure that once we address the immediate water issues affecting citizens, we also tackle the underlying problems to prevent them from resurfacing,” he asserted.
“I informed the governor last night that I anticipate one or two weeks of intensive work to produce something beneficial. My goal is to be contracted for 31 days in August, during which I will present a report to the governor, gather feedback, finalize it, and contribute,” he concluded.
At Criminal Justice University College theater in Gurabo, the governor signed House Bill 406, which creates the Puerto Rico Police as a separate entity from the DSP.
needs to continue serving the people well,” said Pacheco, who also represents District 9 of Toa Alta and Bayamón.
Santini warns PDP’s housing halt proposal could trigger mass exodus
By THE STAR STAFF
New Progressive Party (NPP) Secretary General Jorge Santini warned that the Popular Democratic Party’s (PDP) proposal to halt new housing construction could force over 500,000 Puerto Ricans to leave the island.
“The Popular Party told the working class, women heads of households, and young people that their dream of owning a home in Puerto Rico will never materialize,” Santini said in a written statement.
His remarks come after Coamo Mayor Juan Carlos García Padilla called for a moratorium on new residential projects along the Coamo-Santa Isabel border, citing overloaded water and energy systems. Santini criticized the proposal, saying it contradicts the urgent need to increase housing supply, as only about 60 new units are built per month. “Now Pablo José’s PPD wants to end all new construction,” he stated. Santini also warned that halting construction would spike housing prices and stall municipal economic development.
“The average price of a new home is $367,717. With this freeze, it could exceed $1 million in days,” he claimed. He also questioned why the proposal doesn’t start in Coamo itself but targets Santa Isabel instead.
Meanwhile, Mayor García Padilla urged the Water and Sewer Authority, Planning Board, and Permit Management Office to stop endorsing new housing projects in the affected area. He said these developments are worsening existing issues without corresponding upgrades to infrastructure.
“The water crisis is spreading due to
a lack of planning,” the mayor said, explaining that developments in Santa Isabel strain the same water and power systems serving Coamo communities like Cuyón and Santa Ana, already plagued by service interruptions.
García Padilla highlighted the lack of urban planning, noting that many vacant lots and abandoned properties in urban centers go unused while new developments stretch strained resources. “There’s not enough water, and the infrastructure is failing,” he added.
Appeals Court paralyzes X gender market
By THE STAR STAFF
In a blow to LGBTQ+ rights, Attorney General Omar Andino Figueroa announced that the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals made an important ruling on the contentious birth certificate gender marker issue this week.
In his statement, Andino Figueroa expressed optimism, stating, “The First Circuit Court of Appeals has granted our request to put a temporary hold on the Federal District Court of Puerto Rico’s order, which mandated including the ‘X’ gender marker on birth certificates issued in Puerto Rico. This ruling allows our appeals process to move forward without disrupting the established legal framework. For now, birth certificates will continue to reflect the traditional male or female designations.”
He emphasized the court’s decision to prioritize legal merits over immediate changes, which aligns with Governor Jennifer González Colón’s public policy of respecting the rule of law amidst ongoing debates.
However, the ruling has sparked disappointment in the LGBTQ+ community. Pedro Julio Serrano Burgos, president of the LGBTQ+ Federation of Puerto Rico, did not hold back in his criticism of Governor González Colón’s choice to appeal the previous ruling by Judge María Antongiorgi Jordán. “Instead of championing equality as mandated by the court, and rather than ‘governing for all Puerto Ricans’ as she promised in her inauguration, the governor is directing resources to deny rights to non-binary individuals during a time of pressing issues in basic services,” he remarked.
The roots of this case trace back to 2017 when Daniela
Arroyo González and fellow co-plaintiffs challenged the Government of Puerto Rico to amend the Gender Change Request form to include an ‘X’ option for non-binary identities.
In a landmark 2018 ruling, a federal court enabled transgender individuals to update the sex marker on their birth certificates (M or F) to reflect their gender identity, bypassing invasive medical requirements. Fast forward to 2024, a new request was filed to clarify and expand this ruling to explicitly include the ‘X’ gender marker on Puerto Rican birth certificates—but the recent court ruling has placed that promise on hold for now.
This ongoing legal battle showcases the vital struggle for equality and recognition in Puerto Rico, highlighting the need for continued advocacy and a commitment to inclusivity in the territory’s legal framework.
Lawsuit challenges natural gas monopoly in Puerto Rico
By THE STAR STAFF
Former Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority board head Luis Aníbal Avilés Pagán has filed a mandamus petition in the Court of First Instance in San Juan to compel the government to halt the consolidation of a monopoly over natural gas in the U.S. territory.
On Thursday, Aviles Pagan told the STAR the case is before
Judge Anthony Cuevas.
The lawsuit targets several agencies, including the Ports Authority, the Electric Power Authority, the Energy Bureau, the Authority for Public-Private Partnerships, the AAFAF, and the Department of Justice, which Aviles Pagan expected to subpoena this week. At the center of the dispute is the exclusive contract awarded to New Fortress Energy (NFE) for the operation of Piers A and B at the Port of San Juan. The lawsuit contends that the natural gas supply contracts were signed without effective competition or adequate regulatory review.
“This appeal requests something fundamental: strict compliance with the laws of Puerto Rico. It seeks to prevent the establishment of a vertically integrated private monopoly over natural gas, which would violate the current legal framework. The complacency of these agencies cannot be allowed to transform essential infrastructure into an asset controlled by a single entity,” stated Luis Aníbal Avilés.
Among the agencies mentioned, the inaction of the Ports Authority stands out. The authority granted and has maintained an exclusive use contract for the pier without activating clauses that would allow it to suspend operations in cases of regulatory noncompliance. The NFE regasification plant operated for years without the necessary federal authorization, yet the Ports Authority did not utilize its authority to impose sanctions or ensure open
access to other suppliers.
The lawsuit also addresses concerns raised by the Fiscal Oversight Board, which recently warned that the proposed contracts with NFE could jeopardize the island’s energy security and lead to a monopolistic structure that goes against the public interest.
Governor Jenniffer González Colón asserted on July 18 that “Puerto Rico finds itself in a situation of near defenselessness” against the conditions imposed by the contracting company. “Although it has claimed that this is an inherited contract, the truth is that under the Constitution of the Commonwealth and applicable laws, the executive branch has a duty to ensure the legality of current administrative actions and has the authority to intervene, oversee, and correct contracts entered into in violation of the legal system,” Avilés remarked.
The lawsuit emphasizes that NFE’s unilateral suspension of gas supplies has compelled the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to rely on diesel, resulting in a significantly higher cost and generating monthly overruns between $14 and $21 million. This has a direct impact on the electricity rates paid by consumers.
“Every day that these agencies fail to act, the damage to the public interest increases. This lawsuit is a call to restore legality in the management of the country’s energy infrastructure,” Avilés concluded.
Education launches portal with school data ahead of the start of classes
By THE STAR STAFF
The Secretary of the Department of Education, Eliezer Ramos Parés, announced yesterday, Tuesday, the launch of a digital portal with key data on public schools, as part of preparations for the new school year, which begins in August.
“We want school communities, parents, teachers, and unions to have up-to-date and reliable information on the status of their schools,” Ramos Parés said in a written statement.
The Secretary of the Department of Education, Eliezer Ramos Parés, announced yesterday, Tuesday, the launch of a digital portal with key data on public schools, as part of preparations
for the new school year, which begins in August.
The portal, developed by the Office of Educational Transformation, compiles data on budget allocations, improvement work, staff availability, and other aspects related to each school.
Ramos Parés added that 775 teacher tenures were granted, 835 school nurse tenures were granted, and contracts were extended to more than 3,000 service assistants for the 20252026 school year.
The portal includes information on internet service status, repairs to sports courts, correction of short columns, and the presence of janitors and school security guards. It is available at: https://de.pr.gov/oficina-de-transformacion-educativa/.
Secretary of the Department of Education, Eliezer Ramos Parés
At the center of the dispute is the exclusive contract awarded to New Fortress Energy for the operation of Piers A and B at the Port of San Juan.
‘Anybody but Mamdani’: 5 groups emerge to raise millions in attack funds
By DANA RUBINSTEIN and NICHOLAS FANDOS
In the blood sport of New York City real estate, where comity can be hard to come by, the developers of some of the city’s most prized parcels appeared to be in agreement about one thing when they met in private this week.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor, had to be taken down.
“Our goal is anybody but Mamdani,” Marty Burger, CEO of Infinite Global Real Estate Partners, wrote in one of two emails sent ahead of the meeting that were obtained by The New York Times.
To help, Burger proposed that his peers start by putting in $25,000 each to a new super PAC, New Yorkers for a Better Future, or to seed other groups. He cited potential ad campaigns attacking Mamdani; spending plans to boost specific rivals; and other efforts to register and turn out thousands of voters who typically sit out Election Day.
A month after Mamdani’s primary victory stunned New York’s business elite, its leaders have begun cranking open a powerful gusher of outside spending to try to stop the man whose socialist policies they fear could sour the city’s business climate. But with fewer than 100 days to go, they are still very much searching for a unified plan that could work.
On Monday, the men whose companies run the Seagram Building and Hudson Yards joined the call for one anti-Mamdani super PAC, while leaders of a different super PAC invited donors to a $1,000-per-person fundraiser scheduled for Thursday.
“Fighting Mamdani is expensive,” the organizer, Betsy McCaughey, a former Republican lieutenant governor, wrote on the invitation. “But allowing him to win will cost you more.”
All told, there are already at least five groups jockeying to claim a reservoir of potentially tens of millions of dollars — each with their own leaders and goals. Several more groups are said to be in various stages of formation, including a campaign to register and mobilize anti-Mamdani voters that is likely to be run by Lisa Blau, an investor married to the CEO of Related Cos., the developer of Hudson Yards. Others involve Republican allies of President Donald Trump and a reality TV star who is a friend of Mayor Eric Adams.
Corporate leaders — some of whom already contend that Mamdani’s past support for defunding the police, which he has disavowed, could destabilize the city — may only find more motivation to donate to defeat him after a deadly shooting in midtown Manhattan sent the staff of the NFL, Rudin Management and Blackstone into lockdown.
“This tragedy is not just a moment of mourning; it’s a call to reject policies that would make our city even more vulnerable,” said Jared Epstein, a real estate executive who co-hosted a fundraising call with 200 potential donors for
New Yorkers for a Better Future last week.
It remains far from clear if the anti-Mamdani forces can find a successful path, especially when the opposition is divided among several more moderate candidates: Adams; former Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee; and Jim Walden, a lawyer.
Dora Pekec, a spokesperson for the Mamdani campaign, predicted that the donors, whom she described as “MAGA billionaires who spent millions trying to defeat Zohran in the primary,” would again fail.
“New Yorkers are ready to turn the page on endless corruption and backroom deals,” she said.
Mamdani, 33, has moved to meet his critics face to face. He has scheduled a meeting with Jed Walentas, the Two Trees executive who leads the Real Estate Board of New York, and the board’s president, James Whelan, according to two people involved in the effort. It will follow meetings with other corporate executives whom he has tried to mollify.
A recent poll paid for by the board showed only longshot paths to victory for Cuomo and for Adams, who opted out of the Democratic primary after the Trump administration abandoned his federal corruption indictment.
The poll, which has not been previously reported, showed that more than 60% of New York voters view the mayor negatively, and more than 50% view Cuomo negatively, according to two people briefed on the survey. In a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans 6-to-1, those numbers bode poorly for anyone challenging Mamdani.
Three political consultants who have either started independent expenditure groups or have advised donors looking to fund one said they warned donors that the likelihood of
defeating Mamdani is slim unless either the mayor or former governor drops out.
Some of the city’s wealthiest political donors appear to be holding their powder, at least for now. “I tell everybody, don’t get excited,” said John Catsimatidis, a billionaire Republican businessman, who has hosted events for Adams and Cuomo. “Let’s wait a few weeks.”
Still, many of the city’s business class see Mamdani, who wants to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy to expand social services, as an existential threat and want to start fighting now.
“I’m 100% sure that this is not a moneylighting-on-fire session,” said Jason Haber, a prominent real estate broker and a longtime Democratic activist who led the fundraising call for New Yorkers for a Better Future with Epstein. His real estate listings include a $23 million penthouse near Gramercy Park. “Every single one of his plans will hurt the very people that he thinks it will help.”
Mamdani, for his part, has at least two super PACs supporting him. One has yet to report much fundraising. The other, New Yorkers for Lower Costs, has raised more than $100,000 since the primary. This week, the group is launching a merchandise store. “Freeze the Rent” beer koozies will retail for $6 a pop.
“The only faction that Adams and Cuomo have successfully consolidated are Trump donors, which only deepens their unpopularity with an overwhelmingly Democratic electorate,” said Bill Neidhardt, spokesperson for New Yorkers for Lower Costs.
New Yorkers for a Better Future, which only formed in July, appears to be having the most success with donors so far. Jeff Leb, an operative behind it, said he had already raised millions, though he would not give a precise total. Ricky Sandler, a financier who co-hosted Monday’s event with Burger, has pledged $500,000. (The pledge was first reported by Hell Gate, a local news site.)
“This isn’t just another election fight; it’s a stand against a risky ideology,” Leb said. “Civic, community, and business leaders across the city aren’t about to hand New York’s future over to an extremist.”
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, speaks at a news conference in New York, June 17, 2025. Real estate titans and financiers are forming super PACs to try to defeat Mamdani. Some organizers say that they won’t succeed unless Mayor Eric Adams or former Gov. Andrew Cuomo drops out. (Scott Heins/ The New York Times)
Man arrested in killing of Arkansas couple
By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA
Aman was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the deaths of a couple who were attacked last week while hiking with their two young daughters in a state park in Arkansas.
The man, James Andrew McGann, 28, of Springdale, Arkansas, was taken into custody on Wednesday afternoon and charged with two counts of capital murder, the Arkansas State Police said in a news release.
It was not immediately clear whether McGann had a lawyer.
The maximum punishment for capital murder in Arkansas is life in prison or the death penalty.
Authorities identified the victims as Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, who they said had recently moved to Prairie Grove, Arkansas. The couple were hiking on Saturday with their two daughters at the park in northwest Arkansas when they were attacked, according to the Arkansas State Police. Police did not give further details on how the couple died.
The Brinks’ daughters, who are 7 and 9, had not been injured and were with family members, police said in a statement Sunday.
The state police received reports of “a double homicide at the park” on Saturday afternoon, and shortly afterward found the couple’s bodies on a walking trail. Police recruited local residents and park visitors for help in their search for
the killer, requesting any cellphone videos, photos, security footage or other materials from the day of the killings.
On Tuesday, authorities released a photo of a man facing away from the camera and wearing all black, a backpack and baseball cap, whom they described as a “person of interest.” The photo, police said, was taken by another hiker.
Authorities have not released any further information about the killing or a possible motive. Col. Mike Hagar of the Arkansas State Police said that additional details would be released later.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas said that while no news could heal the harm done to the Brink family, the arrest had brought some comfort to the state.
More than 1,000 troops are withdrawn from LA
By SHAWAN HUBLER
The Pentagon on Wednesday released more than 1,000 troops who had been sent to Los Angeles in June, the latest scaling back of President Donald Trump’s contentious deployment of the National Guard in Southern California.
The withdrawal of roughly 1,350 members of the Guard comes after thousands of other troops were released in recent weeks. Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesperson, said in a statement that about 250 Guard soldiers would remain in Los Angeles “to protect federal personnel and property.”
The demobilization of most of the California National Guard’s 49th Military Police Brigade occurred with only about a week left in what the White House had suggested would be
National Guard troops outside a federal building during a protest of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics in Los Angeles, June 9, 2025 (Sinna Nasseri/ The New York Times)
a 60-day deployment that began June 7.
At the height of the deployment, nearly 5,000 members of the Guard had been federalized and dispatched to Los Angeles with orders to help quell protests that had erupted over immigration raids and to protect federal agents conducting the raids.
Democratic leaders in the state accused the Trump administration of provoking the protests by sending masked federal agents to car washes and other workplaces to detain immigrants, and then using the subsequent public outrage over the raids as a pretext for military action.
Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles compared the deployment to an “armed occupation,” and Gov. Gavin Newsom sued federal officials, saying that the deployment was an illegal domestic use of federal troops that had diverted the National Guard from critical functions. Figures released by the governor’s office on Wednesday showed that fentanyl seizures had fallen
significantly after the deployment diverted about one-third of the 450 Guard members on a state counterdrug task force.
Federal officials defended the military presence, stating that it was necessary to stop civil unrest that played out over several days, mostly in downtown Los Angeles outside government buildings. As the weeks passed, however, protests died down, giving the soldiers little to keep them occupied. According to state officials as well as the military’s Northern Command, which is overseeing the president’s military response in California, only a few hundred of the thousands of troops had been sent on assignments away from their Southern California base.
One National Guard contingent faced protesters in a field outside a cannabis farm in Ventura County. Another sat in trucks while immigration agents conducted a show of force in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, marching past soccer fields that had been vacated in part because word had spread that they were coming.
In interviews with The New York Times, members of the California National Guard said the deployment had severely eroded the morale of a force that, during the January wildfires, had been welcomed by many in the city, and Guard officials expressed concerns that the deployment would hurt re-enlistment.
Wednesday’s withdrawal followed the departure earlier this month of 700 active-duty Marines, nearly 2,000 California National Guard soldiers and a smaller contingent of about 150 specialized Guard firefighters. Pentagon officials estimated that the cost of deploying the Marines and National Guard soldiers would run to about $134 million.
In his statement, Parnell expressed appreciation for the support of service members “who mobilized to Los Angeles to defend federal functions against the rampant lawlessness occurring in the city.”
On Wednesday, Newsom called on the administration again to send the last of the troops home, saying in a statement that “the women and men of our military deserve more than to be used as props in the federal government’s propaganda machine.”
No one controls MAGA — not even Trump
By ROSS DOUTHAT
Apart from supplying endless fodder to journalists and Democrats, the White House’s attempts to put a lid on the Jeffrey Epstein affair provide a useful test for a question that will matter more the deeper we travel into Donald Trump’s second term: Namely, to what extent does MAGA populism exist as a political force distinct from the impulses and whims of its red-hatted leader?
The popular answer has always been that it doesn’t, that MAGA is just a cult of personality in which any ideological reversal will be tolerated so long as the Great Man sets the course.
But this confuses the personal bond between Trump and his core supporters, which is unlikely to be severed by any mere policy dispute, with his ability to persuade those supporters to actually change their substantive views, where his powers are more limited.
The president is an especially potent avatar for the broad populist impulse across the West. But he did not create that impulse, and he doesn’t single-handedly decide what it demands or where it ends up. Instead, there is an ongoing negotiation between what the president would like to do and what his voters will accept.
In some cases, what MAGA wants acts as an ideological tether on Trump’s political impulses. You can see this especially on immigration, where the president’s personal restrictionism still leaves room for some kind of wide door
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in his big, beautiful wall.
Depending on which interest group Trump is talking to, that door could be open for farm and hotel workers, or for H-1B visa recipients, or for foreign college students hoping to have a green card stapled to their diplomas.
But what seems clear enough is that left to his own devices, the president would probably end up negotiating an immigration reform that pleases business executives more than Stephen Miller. Trump doesn’t actually do this kind of deal, however, because he knows Miller represents the purest form of anti-immigration sentiment, to which even MAGA’s leader must defer.
In other cases, what MAGA wants is discovered gradually, and the president follows along. You saw this at work during COVID, where Trump was often one step behind the populist impulse. He treated the outbreak as a nothingburger while the online right was freaking out about it. He accepted lockdowns and restrictions just as the populist impulse began evolving toward anti-Faucian libertarianism. And then he took up the libertarian critique himself — but haphazardly, leaving Anthony Fauci in charge of big parts of policy. Similarly, Trump’s desire to celebrate the triumph of Operation Warp Speed was in persistent tension with grassroots vaccine skepticism, and his eventual embrace of “MAHA” and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a case of the grassroots mostly getting its way.
Then you have cases where what MAGA wants is just the perception of success, and so Trump’s ability to lead his base in one ideological direction or another depends on whether he appears to be succeeding.
I think this is what you see in his administration’s Middle East policy. When the White House was considering joining Israel’s war against Iran, you had would-be populist spokesmen like Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon arguing that bombing Iran’s nuclear program would shatter his coalition, while more hawkish pundits insisted that real MAGA voters were Iran hawks.
But it might just be that any MAGA position on military intervention is entirely contingent on whether it seems quick and easy. So MAGA might have adopted the Bannon-Carlson stance if the Iranians had dramatically and successfully struck back — but because they didn’t, Trump was able to play the hawk without losing populist support.
Now back to the Epstein case, where you can see all three of these dynamics at play. The original promise to reveal the Epstein files was a case of MAGA leading Trump, since the president himself was never especially enthusiastic about the issue. His failed attempt to simply make it go away was an example of pulling against the MAGA tether and being yanked back, unusually hard. And the various forays since — unsealing the grand jury transcripts! changing the subject to Russiagate! interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell! — are bids to offer some kind of victory, some success to satisfy MAGA’s demand for a win over the Deep State.
But perhaps the most important dynamic, lurking just below the surface of the Epstein debate, is less about Trump
himself than it is about the shared awareness that MAGA will continue to exist in some form once his presidency is over. And that form, no less than the current version, won’t be imposed by anybody’s fiat; it will be created by interactions between populism’s would-be leaders and the demands and expectations of their voters.
It might be that Trump is fundamentally a moderating influence, tempering the extreme and paranoid demands that under weaker successors will more completely dominate the populist agenda. Or it might be that without Trump as an avatar, part of MAGA will be reabsorbed into a more traditional form of Republicanism, leaving a paranoid rump of podcasters on the outside looking in. Or it might be that some future populist leader will create an unpredictable remix, a new MAGA for a different age.
But all of this remains to be created, invented, found out. And so the crucial action on the right, as the second term winds on, will involve contested explorations of that great undiscovered country: MAGA after Trump.
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Municipio de Caguas intensifica esfuerzos ante la amenaza del ca rfentanilo
Ante la reciente confirmación del Departamento de Salud sobre la presen-
cia de carfentanilo en el municipio de Caguas —una sustancia sintética extremadamente potente y letal incluso con un simple contacto—, el alcalde William Miranda Torres reiteró el compromiso de su administración municipal para enfrentar con seriedad y sensibilidad la situación. Como respuesta directa, el Municipio Autónomo de Caguas impulsa la estrategia Pulso Criollo, una iniciativa integral enfocada en atender las necesidades urgentes de personas sin hogar en estado crónico, especialmente aquellas afectadas por el uso problemático de opioides como el fentanilo y el carfentanilo. Esta droga, considerada 100 veces más potente que el fentanilo, representa una amenaza inminente para la salud pública, por lo que urge una acción inmediata y sostenida.
Pulso Criollo ofrece una intervención multisectorial que integra servicios médi-
cos y psicosociales, distribución de Narcan (naloxona) —un antídoto que revierte los efectos de una sobredosis—, talleres de prevención en escuelas, orientaciones comunitarias y eventos culturales en comunidades en riesgo. Además, el proyecto se trabaja en colaboración con organizaciones aliadas como FUNDESCO, GUARABI, Corporación Milagros del Amor y la Corporación SANOS, esta última responsable principal de los servicios clínicos y psicosociales para esta población.
“Reconocemos que el problema del uso de opioides exige una respuesta sensible, coordinada y con rostro humano. El anuncio de la presencia de carfentanilo en nuestra ciudad es de gran preocupación y confirma lo que hemos venido enfrentando con seriedad: ésta es una crisis de salud pública que requiere acción inmediata y compasiva. Pulso Criollo no es solo una respuesta, es el compromiso de
Bacciones concretas dirigidas al bienestar individual y colectivo de nuestra ciudad”, expresó el alcalde William Miranda Torres.
El Ejecutivo resaltó además que la prevención, la atención directa y la educación forman parte de una estrategia municipal estructurada para defender el bienestar de nuestros ciudadanos, ante la amenaza de los opioides. Pulso Criollo, adscrito a la Secretaría de Desarrollo Humano, cuenta con el apoyo de fondos estatales y federales que permiten ampliar su alcance y efectividad en momentos tan críticos.
Para más información sobre Pulso Criollo y los servicios disponibles para personas con uso -problemático de opioides, puede comunicarse con la Secretaría de Desarrollo Humano al 787-653-8833, extensión 1605; Corporación SANOS 787745-0340, extensión 227.
Grande se une al programa de rastreo para personas con demencia o Alzheimer
uscando ser una herramienta para la población de adultos mayores en Sabana Grande la administración municipal de informó que ya forma parte del programa de rastreo para personas con demencia o Alzheimer, coordinado por el Departamento de Seguridad Pública del Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Esta iniciativa busca salvaguardar la seguridad de personas vulnerables mediante tecnología de localización. Como parte del programa, varias familias sabaneñas ya han recibido un reloj equipado con un dispositivo de localización, que permite identificar la ubicación de un ser querido en caso de desorientación
o extravío.
“Nuestra prioridad es proteger y ofrecer tranquilidad a las familias que cuidan de personas con estas condiciones. Este dispositivo puede marcar la diferencia en una situación crítica”, señaló el alcalde de Sabana Grande, Marcos Valentín Flores.
El programa responde a una necesidad urgente en muchas comunidades de la isla, donde el aumento de casos de demencia y Alzheimer requiere soluciones tecnológicas y humanas que garanticen la seguridad de los pacientes y la tranquilidad de sus cuidadores.
De esta forma, el primer ejecutivo municipal exhor-
tó a las familias interesadas en participar del programa a visitar la Oficina de Servicios al Impedido del municipio, donde recibirán orientación detallada sobre los requisitos y el proceso para obtener el dispositivo.
“Invitamos a la comunidad a informarse y aprovechar esta herramienta que puede salvar vidas. Nuestro compromiso con la salud y el bienestar de nuestros ciudadanos es lo más importante”, afirmó Valentín Flores
Para más información, los ciudadanos pueden comunicarse directamente con la Oficina de Servicios al Impedido en horario regular de oficina.
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William Miranda Torres, alcalde del Municipio de Caguas.
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‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ review: A newborn franchise
By BRANDON YU
Anagging feeling begins to grow early on in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”: that rather than the first film in a shiny new franchise reboot of the superhero quartet, we have actually been plopped into a sequel. That’s both a strength and a drawback of the audacious approach taken by a movie that represents Marvel’s most earnest attempt at something daring in years, bumpy as it may be.
This new “Fantastic Four,” coming a decade after the doomed reboot of the forgettable mid-aughts originals, throws us right into the action, essentially skipping the team’s origin story and opting instead for a highlightreel summary of how cosmic rays gave four astronauts superhuman powers and turned them into protectors of Earth-828, an alternate version of our world. That narrative evasion is no grave sin, and in fact, the immediacy with which the film immerses us into the tactile, fully formed retrofuturism of this world serves as its greatest delight.
But after the brief introduction to our ensemble and this alt-planet, the film, directed by Matt Shakman, locks quickly into the mode of a superhero family sitcom that partly defined the original comics: Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) and Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) as the signature superhero couple, Ben Grimm (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Johnny Storm (Joseph Quinn) as the playfully antagonistic third and fourth wheels. But the party is quickly broken up when the mysterious Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) arrives and declares that a planet-eating god named Galactus (Ralph Ineson) is on his way to destroy Earth, prompting the four to suddenly go into space to confront this new villain.
It all makes for an introduction whose pacing and tone operate as if on top of the preexisting groundwork of a previous movie. We’re often left wondering who these four heroes are exactly and why we ought to believe in the emotional or comic resonance of them as a family. To help us buy in, the film mostly relies on the polish of this retro universe and its premium cast (who turn in uneven performances, save for Moss-Bachrach), along with one’s faint familiarity with the iconography of the heroes, to do the legwork.
human ones.
In other words, that leaves a lot of individually good material that can’t quite add up to something greater than its parts. These are the first steps for a refreshingly new direction for Marvel, even if they’re imperfect ones.
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But those pieces sometimes are sufficient to keep this a smooth-enough ride that can even be periodically thrilling. Most of all, there’s the accompanying relief that this Marvel movie has an interest in actually building a sensibility, aesthetically and thematically, that is entirely its own, without the invisible hand of an extended universe pulling its strings.
Notably, this is essentially a family drama disguising itself as a superhero film. “First Steps” opens with Sue finding out she’s pregnant and follows the family’s preparations and anxieties over the baby’s arrival. It soon leads to more than they’d bargained for: When the crew are face to face with Galactus, he sees a special power in Reed and Sue’s unborn child and proposes exchanging their baby for Earth’s survival.
That’s when Pascal’s Reed, who at first seems simply to be a cardboard cutout of the world’s most handsome, intelligent and unflappable gentleman, finally takes shape. Reed is indeed a paradigm of perfection, but what happens when the hero who can save all suddenly can’t predict or prevent everything when it comes to the ones he loves most?
“The more I look at you, the less I know. The less I know, the more scared I am,” Rex says at one point to his baby son. Galactus’ proposal — destroy the world or lose your child — is less a bargain than an analogy of parenthood: To have a child is to also suddenly know the fear of unimaginable loss, and what is that fear if not the idea of losing one’s entire world? In this way, “First Steps” is a superhero movie that understands that the gravest stakes are the most intimately
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Equities stall as early enthusiasm ebbs; Amazon, Apple earnings due
U.S. stocks closed well off early highs on Thursday, following the latest round of corporate earnings and economic data, as investors awaited results from megacaps Amazon and Apple due after the closing bell.
Microsoft shares rose after it posted a strong earnings report and briefly surpassed the $4 trillion market cap threshold, becoming only the second publicly traded company to ever touch the milestone after Nvidia.
Figma shares surged nearly 158% in their market debut on Thursday, valuing the design software maker at about $50 billion and setting the stage for a flurry of high-growth tech listings.
The market for U.S. initial public offerings has bounced back from a tariff-driven volatility, which briefly paused listings in April, and is on track to end a nearly three-year dry spell.
Figma’s valuation at debut far exceeds the $20 billion price tag from a now-abandoned buyout deal with industry giant Adobe in December 2023.
“Fast-growing software IPOs have been extremely rare during the past three years, so deals like this tend to get a lot of attention,” said Matt Kennedy, senior strategist at Renaissance Capital, a provider of IPO-focused research and ETFs.
Meta Platforms surged and hit an intraday record high of $784.75 as AI-driven growth in its core ad business powered a bullish revenue forecast.
Still, other AI-related names such as chipmakers Broadcom and Nvidia were weaker on the session, which weighed on the PHLX semiconductor index .
“Looking at the market action today, you have haves and have-nots, and so you have a couple tech companies, like a lot of the semiconductor-related and semi-cap equipment-related stocks are doing pretty poorly,” said Ellen Hazen, chief market strategist at F.L. Putnam Investment Management in Lynnfield, Massachusetts
“But then, of course, Microsoft is doing pretty well, and the same thing with Amazon and Meta, which are doing really well.”
Of the 297 companies in the S&P 500 that have reported earnings through Thursday morning, 80.8% have topped analyst expectations, according to LSEG data, compared with the 76% beat rate over the past four quarters
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 lost 19.33 points, or 0.37%, to end at 6,339.31 points, while the Nasdaq
Composite gained 8.40 points, or 0.04%, to 21,138.08. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 320.83 points, or 0.72%, to 44,140.45.
The S&P 500 had risen as much as 1% and the Nasdaq as much as 1.5% earlier in the session. The Nasdaq has not logged a move of at least 1% in either direction since July 3 while the S&P last recorded a daily 1% move on June 24.
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Investors will now eye Friday’s non-farm payrolls report and a looming tariff deadline, as U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to issue higher final duty rates for countries that have not reached an agreement, although Mexico was granted a 90-day reprieve.
U.S. stocks have rallied after a sharp selloff that began in early April after Trump announced a bevy of sharp tariffs, only to rebound as deals have been struck with many trading partners on duty levels. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq recorded their third straight monthly gain.
Missiles and drones hit Kyiv in deadly wave of Russian strikes
By MARC SANTORA
Russia bombarded Kyiv with missiles and drones before dawn Thursday, killing at least 11 people, Ukrainian officials said, in an assault that came soon after President Donald Trump had warned Moscow of new sanctions if such violence persisted.
Rescuers raced to more than two dozen locations around the Ukrainian capital to extinguish fires and search for survivors in the rubble of blasted apartment buildings.
Emergency services and local officials said more than 130 people had also been wounded in the attacks. Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said in a statement that at least one child had been killed.
The assault came shortly after Trump threatened new sanctions on Moscow if President Vladimir Putin of Russia did not put a halt to the bloodshed in 10 days. Russian officials have dismissed that warning.
The bombardment began around midnight with swarms of drones packed with explosives descending on the city from multiple directions.
Tracer fire from heavy machine guns lit up the sky as air defense crews struggled to keep up with the barrage. Drones exploded over city
Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles on the Ukrainian capital early Thursday, killing several people and injuring dozens.
streets as residents raced to find shelter wherever they could.
At 3:20 a.m., the Ukrainian air force issued an all-clear signal, but the threat resumed about an hour later. This time, missiles slammed into the city center, with one striking a nine-story apartment building.
There were direct hits from five missiles and 21 drones at 12 locations around the capital, the air force said in a statement. Debris from downed targets was also recorded at 19 locations — almost all in the capital.
Outside one devastated apartment building,
a woman still in her pajamas and a young boy were carried away from the smoldering rubble as crews searched for survivors.
Ihor Klymenko, the minister of internal affairs, watched the search-and-rescue operation outside one damaged apartment building as workers struggled to free a man from the rubble.
Klymenko said the rescue crew had to cut a tunnel to free the man, clearing room around his head so he could breathe.
The man was eventually rescued a couple of hours later, officials said. He was taken away for medical care, but the extent of his injuries was not immediately clear.
Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said at least one child, a 6-year-old, was killed and nine others injured.
“This is the highest number of children injured in a single night in Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war,” he said.
Other towns and cities were also attacked. At least one person was killed and 11 more wounded when a residential building in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine was struck by a Russian bomb, local officials said. They warned that people may still be trapped under the rubble.
But the focus of a vast majority of the 309 drone and eight missiles used in the bombard-
ment overnight was Kyiv, officials said.
“Today, the world once again saw Russia’s response to our desire for peace, shared with America and Europe,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said in a statement.
The only way to force Russia to make peace, he said, was for the United States and Europe to deploy the full range of diplomatic and military tools at their disposal.
A headline in RIA Novosti, an official Russian news agency, was shared widely across Ukrainian social media.
“There is no other option: no one should remain alive in Ukraine,” the headline proclaimed only hours before the first Russian drones crossed into Ukrainian airspace.
Trump entered office promising to quickly end the war, but the Kremlin has refused all calls for a halt to the fighting.
Instead, Moscow has increased the pace of its offensive on the front and expanded the scale of its bombardments directed at towns and cities across the country.
It is unclear what specific measures Trump will take to pressure Moscow if it fails to meet his deadline next week. Ukrainians hope that, at a minimum, he will target the Kremlin’s main source of funding for its war effort: oil exports.
As Trump shifts blame to Hamas, his envoy plans to see hunger crisis firsthand
By NATAN ODENHEIMER
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, was holding talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Thursday, his first known visit to the country in months, as global outrage intensifies over the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
Witkoff was set to visit an aid-distribution site in Gaza operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, according to an Israeli official and a person familiar with the details who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the trip publicly.
His visit comes as the Gaza Health Ministry said 111 Palestinians had died in the territory over the past 24 hours, including 91 people who were seeking aid. The circumstances of the deaths was unclear. The ministry, which is managed by Hamas, does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its figures.
Witkoff, the Trump administration’s lead negotiator in ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, met with Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon, hours after the
families of Israeli hostages had protested outside and called for a ceasefire.
Israel and the United States pulled back last week from negotiations to try to agree to another truce and to secure the release of hostages.
On Thursday, Trump called for Hamas to release the captives. “The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!” he wrote on social media. The comments were a shift in tone from remarks earlier in the week, when he implied that Israel bore primary responsibility for improving humanitarian conditions in the territory.
Witkoff’s visit comes as Palestinians in Gaza are facing a hunger crisis, with a U.N.backed food security group warning this week that “famine” was unfolding across the territory. The food crisis has become especially acute after Israel cut off all food supplies to the enclave between March and May. Israel has said without evidence that Hamas was routinely stealing U.N. aid supplies.
The crisis has been exacerbated by Israel’s decision, backed by the Trump administration, to introduce a new aid-distribution system led
by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a private American organization. It has given out food at a only a few sites in Gaza in areas that are controlled by the Israeli military. But amid chaotic scenes at the sites, hundreds of people have been killed while seeking food, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. In many cases, Israeli soldiers have been accused of firing on crowds. The Israeli military said it had fired warning shots into the air.
In recent weeks, dozens of people have died from starvation, including children, according to the Gaza health officials. The worsening conditions in the territory have prompted a growing wave of international outrage toward Israel. Canada said Wednesday that it would recognize a Palestinian state, following similar moves by Britain and France in the past week. All three countries are long-standing allies of Israel.
The war began after a Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and saw roughly 250 people taken as hostages into Gaza. In response, Israel launched a sweeping military campaign that has killed more than 60,000 people, ac-
cording to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Israel pulled out of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in March and resumed its attacks on Gaza after accusing Hamas of refusing to release the hostages. About 50 hostages are believed to be held in Gaza, though Israeli officials say some are presumed to have been killed.
On Thursday, a group of mothers and family members of the hostages held a protest outside the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem to call on Netanyahu to reach a deal to bring the remaining captives home.
In recent weeks, international organizations have become increasingly alarmed about the spread of hunger in Gaza.
Outrage inside Israel over the scale of the crisis has also been growing.
Separately, in a letter sent to the government and military, 16 Israeli law professors warned that the death and suffering of Gaza’s civilian population “amounts to violations of the gravest offenses under international law and constitutes a serious moral stain on the army, the government, and Israeli society as a whole.”
By ASHLEY WU
Most countries in the United Nations — 147 out of 193 — already recognize a Palestinian state, which currently has observer status at the U.N.
Then, in the course of just the past week, three more countries — all major U.S. allies — said they would join their ranks.
First, France said it would recognize a Palestinian state in September, and in the days that followed, Britain and Canada announced that they, too, were prepared to follow suit. Britain said it would move forward if Israel did not agree to a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip by September, while Canada tied a final decision to political changes by the Palestinian Authority.
The announcements reflect the deep frustrations with Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, analysts say, which has killed
tens of thousands of Palestinians and left a population of about 2 million in a state of extreme privation and hunger.
Several other European states, including Spain, Ireland and Norway, recognized a Palestinian state last year.
Among the 32 NATO countries, 14 have recognized a Palestinian state.
Among the Group of 20 industrialized nations, 10 already recognize a Palestinian state. Britain, Canada and France would bring that total to 13.
There are five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States. The moves by France and Britain would leave the United States as the only permanent member that does not recognize a Palestinian state.
Last year, the United States blocked the Security Council from moving forward on a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a full member state at the United Nations. The vote was 12 in favor of the resolution and
The changing map of Palestinian recognition Judge bars Trump administration from punishing 2 law professors for ICC work
By ZACH MONTAGE
Afederal judge on Wednesday permanently barred the Trump administration from imposing penalties on two law professors over their involvement with the International Criminal Court, finding that the threat violated their First Amendment rights.
In a 22-page opinion, Judge Jesse M. Furman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York concluded that the president had used the threat of legal penalties to force Gabor Rona and Lisa Davis, both law professors in New
York, to abandon their association with the international court in The Hague, which prosecutes cases of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The judge definitively barred the government from taking any action to follow through on the threat.
Rona and Davis had each advised the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, or supported his office’s work through its investigations and prosecutions, and have written and spoken extensively about international law.
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The United States is not among the 125 countries that are party to the Rome Statute, which created the International Criminal Court, but has supported a number of its investigations, including in cases involving Ukraine, Sudan and Myanmar.
Under an executive order President Donald Trump signed in February, the professors faced the possibility of criminal and
civil penalties because of their association with the court. The ICC has investigated the United States and Israel, and last year issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his former defense minister related to their handling of the war in the Gaza Strip.
Trump’s order carried the possibility of jail terms of up to 20 years for anyone supporting the International Criminal Court in its work.
Furman’s ruling mirrored the conclusions of another judge during Trump’s first term, who found in January 2021 that a similar executive order Trump had signed likely forced Rona and three other professors to abandon or reconsider speech and legal advocacy out of fear that the order could be enforced against them.
At the time, Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the U.S. District Court for the for the Southern District of New York found that the group, who had mounted a legal challenge, were likely to succeed.
Upon taking office, former President
Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s original order, but when Trump returned to office this year, he revived much of its substance — and some identical language — in the order he signed in February. The order cited presidential powers under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act — the same act he has used to justify many tariffs — and accused the ICC of abusing its power.
In his opinion on Wednesday, Furman, an Obama appointee, stated that the concerns Failla raised in the original lawsuit remained relevant.
“In law, as in life, two wrongs do not make a right,” he wrote.
Furman concluded by noting the chilling effect the president’s February order had on Rona and Davis, prompting them to pare back their work in support of the court and in writing about international law.
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Maine found that Trump’s February order encroached on the First Amendment rights of two human rights activists who had also worked with the court.
one — the United States — opposed, with abstentions from Britain and Switzerland.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
Unified on Trump and tariffs, Canada’s premiers differ on next steps
By IAN AUSTEN
The leaders of Canada’s provinces and territories spoke as one during a three-day meeting when it came to condemning President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war against the country.
But when it came to how Canada should respond and deal with the resulting economic turmoil, their patriotic unity swiftly dissipated into the regional rifts that have long divided the country.
Even after meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday, the 13 premiers still had conflicting views about further trade retaliation against the United States if Trump goes ahead on Aug. 1 and imposes 35% tariffs on Canadian exports.
Even without a single project being announced, divisions have formed among provinces around Carney’s plan to offset economic losses from reduced trade with the United States by rapidly building major infrastructure projects like oil pipelines.
Still, as the meeting wrapped up Wednesday, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario and the host, boasted about the unity among the political leaders in the face of Trump’s potentially devastating tariffs. He called it “a united team Canada approach.”
Ford repeatedly pushed for retaliation if Trump follows through on his threat or if Canada is unable to reach a deal with the United States by Aug. 1 to eliminate the tariffs the United States has already applied on Canada.
“There’s one thing President Trump understands is strength,” Ford told reporters Tuesday. “He will roll over us like a cement roller if you show an ounce of weakness.”
Two industries hardest hit by Trump’s current tariffs, automaking and steel production, are wholly or largely based in Ford’s province of Ontario, which perhaps fuels his desire to strike back.
But several other premiers said that they did not share Ford’s enthusiasm for escalating the trade battle.
Scott Moe, the premier of Saskatchewan, complained
Organizers remove the flags of Canada’s provinces and territories at the conclusion of a three-day meeting of the premiers in Huntsville, Canada on Wednesday, July 18, 2025. A three-day meeting in response to President Donald Trump’s looming tariff threat underscored differences between the leaders of Canada’s provinces and territories. (Ian Austen/The New York Times)
that current Canadian tariffs on U.S. steel, imposed in response to Trump’s actions, were already raising the cost of equipment used by his province’s grain farmers.
“If tariffs imposed by the president of the United States have a financial impact on American families and American businesses, by extension countertariffs would have the same negative impact on Saskatchewan families,” he said Wednesday.
He stressed that all Canadians would feel the pain of any retaliatory tariffs.
Much of the meeting focused on Carney’s promises to make Canada an “energy superpower” and to quickly build large infrastructure projects. These could include oil and gas pipelines, nuclear power plants, mines, expanded power grids, ports, roads and railways as part of a plan to strengthen Canada’s domestic economy and diversify
trade away from the United States.
With unusual speed and the support of the Conservative Party, Carney, the Liberal Party leader, passed a law to fast-track approvals of large projects. Ford passed a similar law in Ontario. Indigenous groups have gone to court challenging both laws as a violation of their land rights.
Environmentalists have also raised concerns about rushing major development.
But on the second day of the premiers’ meeting, Ford, Moe and Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, signed an accord that they said would bring new oil pipelines to the Pacific coast of Canada and to Ontario.
The potential value of their agreement, however, was unclear given that neither British Columbia, the province on the Pacific, nor Manitoba, which sits between Saskatchewan and Ontario, is party to the deal.
David Eby, the premier of British Columbia, noted that the federal government under Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister, had purchased and expanded an oil pipeline from Alberta to a port near Vancouver.
Now, he said, it is struggling to find a private buyer for it. Eby also said that no pipeline or energy company had shown any interest in building another oil pipeline to the coast.
“For the pipeline project that Premier Smith is a great enthusiast of, a heavy oil pipeline project, there is no project, no proponent, there’s no private-sector money,” Eby said during a news conference. “When Premier Smith crosses those obvious hurdles to get a project done, then let’s have those conversations.”
Wab Kinew, the premier of Manitoba, said Wednesday that it was too early to be announcing large projects, all of which would inevitably cross Indigenous peoples’ territories.
“The approach that we’re taking is we want the Indigenous nations onside first,” he said. “We’re doing all the legwork and consent building at the head of the process, and then we’ll take the covers off and do the press release.”
Something like feathers grew on a 247-million-year-old reptile
By CARL ZIMMER
German paleontologists have discovered a 247-millionyear-old fossil of a reptile with a bizarre row of plumes sprouting from its back. The elaborate display is a paradox of evolution. The plumes bear some similarities to feathers, even though the newly discovered reptile was not closely related to birds.
Stephan Spiekman, a paleontologist at the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History in Germany and an author of the new study, said that the discovery could change how scientists think about the origin of feathers. In birds, a complex network of genes is enlisted to sprout feathers from their skin. Part of the network might have already evolved in early reptiles more than 300 million years ago.
If that’s true, Spiekman said, it would mean that other ancient reptiles might have sprouted strange ornaments of their own that are waiting to be discovered.
“I hope this will broaden our perspective,” Spiekman said. “And then who knows what we’ll find?”
In their study, which was published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Spiekman and his colleagues named the reptile Mirasaura grauvogeli. In Latin, Mirasaura means “wonderful reptile.” And grauvogeli honors Louis Grauvogel, the French paleontologist who dug up the fossil in 1939.
Grauvogel was a wealthy factory owner with training in biology. He spent much of his free time looking for fossils in
the quarries of northeastern France, and by the time he died in 1987, he had built up a huge private collection of animal and plant remains. His daughter, Lea Grauvogel-Stamm, herself an accomplished paleontologist, donated the fossils to the Stuttgart Museum in 2019.
In an undated image provided by Tobias Wilhelm/State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, an artist’s reconstruction of Mirasaura, which means “wonderful reptile” in Latin. German paleontologists have discovered a 247-million-year-old fossil of a reptile with a bizarre row of plumes sprouting from its back. (Tobias Wilhelm/State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart via The New York Times)
That view eventually fell out of favor, as paleontologists subsequently discovered many dinosaurs with feathers dating to 160 million years ago. Some of these structures were almost as complex as bird feathers; others were simple wires. It is now clear that birds are living dinosaurs.
Longisquama drifted into a scientific limbo: No one could say what kind of reptile it was, and the nature of its plumes remained anyone’s guess. “The consensus became, ‘We really don’t know what Longisquama is — it’s a weird reptile,’” Spiekman said.
With the discovery of Mirasaura, Longisquama gains a cousin. And even though Mirasaura lived almost 30 million years earlier than Longisquama, its fossils were in far better shape. Spiekman and his colleagues could study its crest in microscopic detail and inspect its exquisitely preserved skull. Their analysis shows that Mirasaura and Longisquama belonged to an extinct lineage of reptiles that specialized in living in trees. That lineage is only distantly related to birds and dinosaurs, having split off on its own more than 300 million years ago.
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When Grauvogel first uncovered Mirasaura in 1939, he could see only the animal’s crest exposed in a rock. He speculated that he had found the fin of a fish.
Eighty years later, when the Stuttgart scientists began inspecting Grauvogel’s collection, they noticed that his supposed fish fin was actually connected to a reptile bone at one end. The rest of the bone was hidden in the rock.
The researchers picked away at the rock and discovered the rest of Mirasaura’s skeleton. A further inspection of Grauvogel’s fossil collection revealed more crests, along with a second skeleton.
Looking at Mirasaura, Spiekman was immediately reminded of one of the most mysterious reptile fossils ever found, a 220-million-year-old creature called Longisquama insignis.
Discovered in Central Asia in 1969, Longisquama’s fossil preserved impressions of long, flat projections extending from its back. Its discoverers speculated that these were elongated scales that had fanned out to either side of Longisquama’s body. The reptile used them like parachutes, they claimed, slowing its fall as it jumped from trees.
In 2000, a team of American researchers offered a controversial new theory: Longisquama’s parachute scales were actually feathers, and Longisquama might be an ancient relative to today’s birds.
Based on that finding, the scientists argue that the plumes of Mirasaura and Longisquama evolved from ordinary reptile skin. Birdlike dinosaurs independently evolved feathers.
A close inspection of Mirasaura’s crest supported that conclusion, revealing some fundamental differences from feathers. Feathers are made of branching fibers, for example, while Mirasaura sported stiff sheets that grew from a central ridge.
But Spiekman and his colleagues also concluded that Mirasaura’s crest bore some important similarities to feathers. Feathers gain some of their color from microscopic sacs of pigment called melanosomes. Mirasaura’s crest also contains melanosomes, and they have the same shape as feather melanosomes.
The shape of Mirasaura’s plumes also suggests to Spiekman that they grew in a featherlike way, developing from a ring of cells that rose up from the skin before fanning out.
If the researchers are right, then the common ancestor of Mirasaura and birds must have already carried some of the genetic instructions for building featherlike growths. Only some reptiles went on to use those instructions to that end.
As for how Mirasaura used its crest, Spiekman discounts the idea of parachuting from the trees. The new fossils clearly show that the crest stood straight up on the animal’s back — a position not conducive to slowing a fall.
“And that, for us, only really leaves some sort of display as a potential option,” Spiekman said. One possibility is that Mirasaura used its crest to show off, akin to how male anole lizards attract mates with a colorful flap of skin under their jaw.
The San Juan Daily Star
US quietly drafts plan to end program that saved millions from AIDS
By STEPANIE NOLEN
The federal program to combat HIV in developing nations earned a reprieve last week when Congress voted to restore $400 million in funding. But that may be shortlived: Officials at the State Department have been mapping out a plan to shut it down in the coming years.
Planning documents for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, obtained by The New York Times, call for the organization to set a new course that focuses on “transitioning” countries away from U.S. assistance, some in as little as two years.
PEPFAR, as the program is called, would cease to exist as an initiative to provide medicines and services needed to treat and prevent the spread of HIV in low-income countries.
It would be replaced by “bilateral relationships” with low-income countries focused on the detection of outbreaks that could threaten the United States and the creation of new markets for American drugs and technologies, according to the documents.
“With targeted investment, PEPFAR’s HIV control capabilities in these countries could be transformed into a platform for rapid detection and outbreak response to protect Americans from disease threats like Ebola,” the plan says.
A State Department spokesperson said the document had not been finalized. “The referenced document is not reflective of the State Department’s policy on PEPFAR and was never cleared by Department leadership,” she said.
She declined to be identified and did not provide additional details.
The proposed plan has been under review for weeks, and word of it already has reached PEPFAR’s partners and governments in other countries. The draft obtained by the Times contains comments and edits from many senior staff members at the program.
PEPFAR was crippled during the chaotic first few months of the Trump administration, as Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative, the Department of Government Efficiency, slashed existing contracts, funding arrangements and government structures.
Created during the George W. Bush administration, the HIV treatment and prevention program has long enjoyed broad bipartisan support. It is often cited as the single most effective public health campaign ever, saving an estimated 26 million lives in low-income countries over 22 years.
The draft plan for shutting it down in com-
ing years underscores ongoing tension between Congress, which has repeatedly indicated support for PEPFAR, and Trump administration officials who wish to sharply curtail or end it.
Previously, the organization’s guiding ambition was to end HIV as a public health threat by 2030. But the Trump administration has targeted PEPFAR for sharp reductions, part of a broad move to cut foreign aid, which federal officials believe is wasteful and a misuse of taxpayers’ money.
The abrupt termination of congressionally approved funding for the nonprofit organizations that partnered with PEPFAR has already hobbled the program and crippled the global HIV response.
Conservative critics say that PEPFARsupported countries have for more than two decades relied on the United States to fund the bulk of their HIV programs while spending too little themselves, and that PEPFAR has fostered a culture of dependence.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the cuts are justified because of what he says is fraud and waste in the program. Even on its sharply reduced budget, all essential lifesaving work will continue, he has said.
Last week, Congress cut $7.9 billion in foreign aid funding but rejected proposed cuts to PEPFAR, restoring a planned $400 million clawback for the 2025 financial year. Since the aid cuts began, Republicans such as Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have said that PEPFAR should be maintained.
“Congress has shown that they want PEPFAR’s work to continue, it has broad support, and yet the administration is determined to plow ahead and shut it down regardless,” said Asia Russell, executive director of HealthGap,
which lobbies for funding for global health.
“This proposal is a death warrant, and countless people will die if it is allowed to go forward,” she added.
The documents assume a 42% reduction in PEPFAR’s current budget of $4.7 billion, which Rubio has said is his goal.
Phasing out PEPFAR has been under discussion as a long-term goal for about a decade. But accomplishing a handover within a few years is a drastically accelerated timeline.
“It is entirely not feasible to phase out that quickly,” said Robert Black, a professor of international health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who oversaw an evaluation of PEPFAR ordered by Congress.
“There will be some countries that can manage where the PEPFAR investment is not as heavy or as large a proportion of their total effort,” he added.
“But some of the African countries with enormous HIV problems and national financial problems, debt and other development issues — I cannot see that they are going to be able to pick up all or even a large proportion of the costs in that kind of time frame.”
Since the early months of the Trump administration, prevention and treatment programs in PEPFAR-supported countries have fired staff and lost access to years’ worth of operational data.
Many partner organizations that PEPFAR relied on have shut down, after five months in which they did not receive support. Funding through the United States Agency for International Development was canceled, or grants that were nominally permitted to continue by the State Department never actually delivered funds.
In countries that delivered on their pledges, the documents say, PEPFAR would continue to fund the purchase of some medications and pay some health worker salaries at a declining rate over three to five years.
Countries that are close to controlling their epidemics, including Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Vietnam, would see a shutdown within two years.
Nations that have high rates of HIV infection and that now receive significant support, including Kenya, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola, would be on a three- to four-year timeline.
Countries with conflict, very low income levels or fragile states would have five to eight years. They include Congo, Haiti, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Ukraine.
“Three years, it’s really a very short period for a heavy program like the HIV program in Zambia — it’s impossible,” said Dr. Mwanza wa Mwanza, who has worked in senior roles in the HIV program in Zambia for nearly a decade.
“New infections and deaths from HIV disease are still too high,” he added. “If the transition is too fast, all our gains could be reversed.” Countries need to be involved in establishing how much time they will need, he said.
The plan says little about one of the few clear shifts in policy on HIV response under the Trump administration: an abrupt termination of funding for most efforts to prevent new infections.
Since early February, PEPFAR has funded HIV prevention only for pregnant and breastfeeding women — cutting off sex workers, men who have sex with men and people in so-called discordant couples in which one person has the virus and the other doesn’t.
These key groups were receiving targeted services — such as free condoms or daily HIVblocking medication — in an effort to control the epidemic.
But there is a hint that this policy could change. The draft plan says PEPFAR will “make catalytic, market-shaping investments in biomedical tools, such as the new twice-a-year HIV prevention injection that will curb new HIV infections.”
African governments had hoped to start rolling out that new shot, called lenacapavir, by the end of this year. Officials and health care workers are excited about its promise: The drug protected 100% of participants from infections in a major clinical trial.
PEPFAR was expected to fund about half of an initial purchase of lenacapavir for 2 million people over the next three years — doses that are already in production by the drug’s manufacturer, Gilead Sciences.
Without U.S. funding, the future of this potentially transformative intervention has been in doubt.
The plan says PEPFAR should make commitments to generic producers that would allow them to make lenacapavir at $40 per patient per year by the end of 2028, and distribute the drug in eight to 12 priority countries in the meantime — implying PEPFAR might honor its original commitment to buy the Gilead product.
The planning documents do not explain how the shots would be distributed. Such medicines were provided in recent years through supply chains now crippled by the upheaval of recent months. The HIV prevention programs are mostly gone.
Demonstrators stack mock coffins outside the State Department in Washington on April 17, 2025, to protest the Trump administration’s disruption of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program. (Allison Robbert/ The New York Times)
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SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MCLP ASSET COMPANY, INC.
Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE VALENTÍN MEDINA
SANTOS COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; LA SUCESIÓN DE MARÍA PANTOJA GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS
MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: TB2022CV00348.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL: Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón 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 Bayamón, el 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025
A LAS 9:45 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: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 290 en el plano de inscripción
de la Comunidad Rural Sabana Seca del Barrio Sabana
Seca del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 501.58 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Calle Sur de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número 338 de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número 290A de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la parcela número 291-A de la Comunidad. Consta inscrita al folio 165 del tomo 402 de Toa Baja, finca número 23213, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección
Segunda de Bayamón. Propiedad localizada en: Bo. Sabana
Seca, Lote 290-D, Toa Baja PR 00949. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por cargas preferentes a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante que se describe a continuación:
MANDAMIENTO expedido el 18 de junio de 1991 por el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, en el caso civil número 91-3362, sobre cobro de dinero; Caribbean Seafood, Inc, demandante v. Valentín Medina Santos, su esposa María Pantoja González y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por ambos, h/n/c Vale Seafood, Inc., demandados. Por el mismo se ordena Anotación e Embargo sobre esta finca para que la misma responda por la suma de $30,486.52, con prestación de fianza por la suma de $61,000.00. Anotado el 5 de octubre de 2001 al folio 165 vuelto del tomo 402 de Toa Baja, finca 23213, anotación “A”. Según figura en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución NO está gravada por cargas posteriores 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 $128,749.99, 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 Bayamón, el 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece
como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $85,833.33 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 $64,374.99 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón el 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 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 las siguientes cantidades: $61,980.45 de principal; intereses al 2.00400%, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; un balance adicional diferido en la cantidad de $65,493.46 que no genera intereses; recargos a razón del 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de los quince (15) días después de la fecha de vencimiento; más las primas por seguro hipotecario y riesgo; recargos por demora; los créditos accesorios; adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca y cualquiera otras cantidades pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, desde la fecha antes mencionada y hasta la fecha de total pago de las mismas, más el 20% del principal, o sea, $25,749.99 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactado así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. 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 Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de julio de 2025. EDGARDO ELÍAS
VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN, SALA SUPERIOR. ***
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Caso Núm.: BY2023CV04225. (Salón: 502). Sobre: DAÑOS Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CLAUDETTE MARIE ESPARRA RAMOSCLAUDETTEESPARRALAW@GMAIL. COM. LUIS G. ESTATES RODRÍGUEZLUISESTADES@HOTMAIL.COM. NOELIA PÉREZ GARCÍA - NOELIA. PEREZGARCIA@POPULAR.COM.
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OQUENDO.
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Demandante Vs. MÓNICA ZORIEL FALCÓN PABÓN
Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00892. (406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: MÓNICA ZORIEL
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LLACG COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND
Demandante V. SUCESION JOSEFINA CUEVAS ROSARIO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AR2025CV00339. (Salón: 402 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD
RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
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EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de julio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de julio de 2025. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 29 de julio de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. LINETTE ROMÁN SERRANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. JOSÉ L. MORALES MORALES
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2024CV01002. (Salón: 201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ R. GONZÁLEZ RIVERAJRG@GONZALEZMORALES.COM. JUAN ÁNGEL SANTOS BERRÍOS - SANTOSBERRIOSLAW@GMAIL. COM. RICARDO ANDRÉS ACEVEDO BIANCHI - ACEVEDOBIANCHI@ GMAIL.COM. A: JOSÉ L. MORALES
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ANTONGIORGI IRIZARRY
Demandante V. FIRST BANK DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03517. (Civil: 403). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ERIKA F. MORALES MARENGOEMARENGO16@YAHOO.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de julio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10
días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de julio de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 22 de julio de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO PUERTO RICO FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Parte Demandante V. FRANCISCO DÍAZ ZAYAS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00065. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN HIPOTECA. SALA: 201. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FRANCISCO DÍAZ ZAYAS - URB SANTA CLARA P14 CALLE EMAJAGUA, GUAYANBO, PR 00969.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una demanda en cobro de dinero contra FRANCISCO DÍAZ ZAYAS. Puede dirigir su contestación al Lcdo. Oscar A. Díaz Cruz a Strategic Legal Group, PSC a PO Box 366220, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6220. Teléfono (787) 250-7824, Fax (787) 2507820. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que de no contestar la Demanda dentro del término de (30) días, a partir de la publicación del edicto, radicando el original de la contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le
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URB. EXTENSIÓN BUZO, A6 CALLE 2, HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO 00791. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: $150,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 14 de mayo de 2085. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $150,000.00, 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 Humacao, el 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $100,000.00, 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 $75,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 23 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 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 $63,381.29 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $61,307.32 en intereses acumulados 26 de marzo de 2025 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.192% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $17,099.35 en seguro hipotecario; $18,240.50 de contribuciones; $525.00 de tasaciones; $920.00 de inspecciones; $6,810.50 de adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $15,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de
abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. 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 Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de julio de 2025. Jennisa García Morales, Alguacil Regional. Raquel Quiñones Soto, Alguacil Placa #023.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN COMPU-LINK CORPORATION, D/B/A CELINK Demandante Vs. GREAT ATLANTIC MORTGAGE CORPORATION P/C OFICINA DEL COMISIONADO DE INSTITUCIONES FINANCIERAS (OCIF); JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV04288. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Sala: 402. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL
PAGARE EXTRAVIADO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. En dicha demanda se reclama la cancelación un pagaré otorgado el 29 de septiembre de 2000, ante el Notario Manuel R. López Caballer, a favor de Great Atlantic Mortgage Corporation, por la suma principal de $71,575.00 de principal, con intereses al 9% anual, vencedero el 1 de octubre de 2030 y otros créditos accesorios. Para garantizar el pago de dicho pagaré se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria mediante la escritura número 942, otorgada el 29 de septiembre de 2000, ante el Notario Manuel R. López Caballer, sobre el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar cuarenta y uno (41) del bloque “R” de la Urbanización Santana Juanita, en el Barrio Minillas de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos catorce punto cincuenta Y uno (314.51) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NOROESTE, con los solares siete y ocho (7 y 8); por el SURESTE, con calle Reno; por el NORESTE, con el solar cuarenta (40); y por el SUROESTE, con el solar cuarenta y dos (42). Contiene una casa de hormigón y bloques para una familia.” Finca número 23,199, inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 511 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: HTTPS://WWW.PODERJUDICIAL.PR/INDEX.PHP/ TRIBUNAL-ELECTRONICO/ [poderjudicial.pr], salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberé presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Greenspoon Marder, LLP
Lcda. Frances L. Asencio-Guido
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Telephone: (954) 343 6273 Frances.Asencio@gmlaw.com
Expedido bajo mi firma, y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de julio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. IXIA
B. CÓRDOVA CHINEA, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. TOMMY RIVERA CABASSA
Demandado
Civil Núm.: CB2025CV00242. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: TOMMY RIVERA CABASSA.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index/php/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, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de
su última dirección conocida: Parcelas Elizabeth, 7 Calle 10, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623-4834; PO Box 225, Cabo Rojo, PR 00623-1225. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, a 8 de julio de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARIA M AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
YUSUF
KELLEY NEGGERS
Parte Demandante Vs. SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION POR CONDUCTO DE SU SUCESOR EN DERECHO FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2025CV01342. (401). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
El 18 de noviembre de 1993, Gladys Crescioni Henry t/c/c Gladys Antonia Crescioni Henry, soltera, constituyó hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo el testimonio núm. 1684 a favor de Santander Mortgage Corporation o a su orden, por la suma de $64,000.00 intereses al 7⅜% anual y vencimiento al 1ro de diciembre de 2008, en virtud de la Escritura núm. 207 autorizada por el notario José Guillermo Barea Fernández, sobre la siguiente propiedad:
URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento No. 9-A de 3 dormitorios localizado en el lado Este del Ala Norte de la 9na. planta residencial del Edificio Este del Condominio Los Pinos, cuyo condominio ubica en un solar de 3.456 cuerdas Equivalentes a 13,584.05 metros cuadrados, cuyo solar colinda por el Norte que es su frente, con el Km. 1.2, de la Carretera Estatal No.187, estando dicho solar localizado en el Barrio Cangrejos Arriba del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico. El apartamento tiene un área superficial de 1,400 pies cuadrados equivalentes a 130.09 metros cuadrados.
Colinda por el NORTE, con el apartamento 9-B Este; por el SUR, con el apartamento 9-L Este; por el ESTE, con el espacio abierto sobre el patio Este del edificio; y por el OESTE, con el pasillo central del piso por donde tiene su entrada al apartamento, cuyo pasillo lo conecta a su vez con los elevadores y las escaleras del edifico a través de los cuales el apartamento tiene acceso al vestíbulo central y a las demás áreas comunes del piso terrero de ambos edificios y a sus patios circundantes y a la calle en la colindancia Norte del solar. Porcentaje: 0.343% en los elementos comunes generales. La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al folio 228 del tomo 559 de Carolina, Finca 27988. Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción sexta. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de julio de 2025 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARY D. CARRASQUILLO BETANCOURT, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS G. SERRANO FLORENCIANI
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV00689.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS G. SERRANO FLORENCIANI - BO SABALOS 55 BDA NADAL, MAYAGÜEZ PR 00680; 4314 W., 49TH. ST., CLEVELAND, OH 44144.
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/ tribunal-electronico, salvo que
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Phoenix Towers International is proposing to construct a 50-foot overall height small cell telecommunications structure located near Av. Industrial Km 0.3, Cataño Ward, Humacao, Puerto Rico (18° 8’ 23.6” N, 65° 49’ 28.1” W). The proposed tower is anticipated to utilize FAA Style E (medium intensity, dual red/white strobes) lighting. Any interested party may also request further environmental review of the proposed action under the FCC’s National Environmental Policy Act rules, 47 CFR §1.1307, by notifying the FCC of the specific reasons that the action may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment. This request must only raise environmental concerns and can be filed online using the FCC pleadings system at www.fcc.gov or mailed to FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554 within 30 days of the date that notice of this proposed action is published on the FCC’s website. Refer to File No. A1317917 when submitting the request and to view the specific information about the proposed action. 25-002788/ETJ
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, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O.
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Phoenix Towers International propone la construcción de una estructura de telecomunicaciones de celdas pequeñas de 15 metros de altura, ubicada cerca de la Av. Industrial, Km. 0.3, Barrio Cataño, Humacao, Puerto Rico (18° 8’ 23.6” N, 65° 49’ 28.1” O). Se prevé que la torre propuesta utilice iluminación Estilo E de la FAA (intensidad media, luces estroboscópicas dobles rojo/blanco).
Cualquier parte interesada también puede solicitar una revisión ambiental adicional de la acción propuesta, de conformidad con las normas de la Ley Nacional de Política Ambiental de la FCC, 47 CFR §1.1307, notificando a la FCC las razones específicas por las que la acción podría tener un impacto significativo en la calidad del medio ambiente. Esta solicitud solo debe plantear preocupaciones ambientales y puede presentarse en línea a través del sistema de alegatos de la FCC en www.fcc.gov o enviarse por correo a la sección de Solicitudes de Revisión Ambiental de la FCC, a la atención de Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554, dentro de los 30 días posteriores a la fecha de publicación del aviso de esta acción propuesta en el sitio web de la FCC. Consulte el expediente n.° A1317917 al presentar la solicitud para ver la información específica sobre la acción propuesta. 25-002788/ETJ
Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, 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 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de junio de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. JOSSIE D. BOBÉ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HORMIGUEROS EN CABO ROJO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. AKBY E. ROLDOS MATOS
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: HO2025CV00026. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: AKBY E. ROLDOS MATOS - BO LAVADERO CARR 345 KM 6.3, HORMIGUEROS PR 00660; CARR 345 KM 6.3 HORMIGUEROS 00660. 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/ tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, 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 HORMIGUEROS
EN CABO ROJO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de junio de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. VERÓNICA MARTÍNEZ ORTIZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL II.
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Parte Demandante Vs. EDNA LOPEZ VELAZQUEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: LP2025CV00079. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: EDNA LOPEZ VELAZQUEZ - URB CAMPO REAL 79 CALLE
REY GUSTAVO, LAS PIEDRAS PR 00771-3446. 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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en HUMACAO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de junio de 2025.
EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE ARECIBO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. NORMA I HERNANDEZ
FIGUEROA ; FULANO DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: AR2025CV00754. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: NORMA I HERNANDEZ
FIGUEROA ; FULANO DE TAL & LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 1 COND TERRA AZUL APT 3, ARECIBO PR 00612-7207.
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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de junio de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA M. GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. NANCY SANTOS ADORNO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV06367. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: NANCY SANTOS
ADORNO - URB BRAULIO DUENO I14 CALLE 7, BAYAMON PR 00959-5404.
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/ tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO
BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MELISSA RIVERA ROMERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. OMAR A. FERRER RIVERA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2025CV01046. (501). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNI-
DOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: OMAR A. FERRER RIVERA - COLINAS DEL SOL I 26 CALLE 4 APT 2621, BAYAMON PR 00957-6972; RR 5 BOX 7830-22, TOA ALTA PR 00953-7723.
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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS M. GUADALUPE SUAREZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV06351. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LUIS M. GUADALUPE SUAREZ - 106 CALLE MANUEL MARTINEZ, BAYAMON PR 00961;
EXT. LA MILAGROSA CALLE EUGENIO DUARTE U-5 BAYAMON PR 00959.
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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MELISSA RIVERA ROMERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HATILLO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. CAROL Y. PEREZ LOPEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CM2025CV00105. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CAROL Y. PEREZ LOPEZ - BO PUENTE CARR 119 K5 H 6, CAMUY PR 00627-9522; HC 4 BOX 17704, CAMUY PR 00627-9522.
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 ale-
gación 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/ tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en HATILLO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de junio de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRENDA LIZ HERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. GREISHALEE PEREZ MONTESINO Parte Demandada Civil Núm. BY2024CV06362. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: GREISHALEE PEREZ MONTESINO - COND SIERRA BAYAMON 200 CALLE 6 APT 28, BAYAMON PR 00961.
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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la
secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MELISSA RIVERA ROMERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. DANIEL MALDONADO LUNA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV06356. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: DANIEL MALDONADO LUNA - URB EXT CAMPO ALEGRE G2 CALLE GERANIO, BAYAMON PR 00956-4426; RES. BELLA VISTA HEIGHTS EDIF D-16 APT 6, BAYAMON PR 00957. 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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejer-
cicio 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@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MELISSA RIVERA ROMERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE COAMO MCLP ASSET COMPANY, INC
Demandante V. RAFAEL CORREA LUYANDO, IRIS QUIÑONES APONTE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CO2025CV00010. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA.
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE
DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO
GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Coamo 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 Coamo, el 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación:
URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Ramón Power del término municipal de Coamo, con un área de 152.88 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 20.80 metros con
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solar ocupado por Luis Ramírez; por el SUR, en 22.60 metros con el solar ocupado por Mercedes Espada; por el ESTE, en 7.32 metros con la Calle Power; y por el OESTE, en 6.77 metros con Urbanización Las Colinas. Enclava una casa de bloques de concreto techada de zinc, de una planta, de vivienda con medio balcón a la parte posterior y la que mide 18 pies por 36 pies, contiene tres dormitorios, salacomedor, coinciden sus linderos con los del solar donde radica. Consta inscrita al folio 173 del tomo 124 de Coamo, finca número 6546, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. Propiedad localizada en: Lote 3 Calle Ramon Power, Coamo Town, Coamo PR 00769 t/c/c 53 Calle Ramon Power, Coamo PR 00769. Según figura en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución NO está gravada por cargas preferentes o cargas posteriores 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 $33,750.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Coamo, el 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $22,500.00 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 $16,875.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Coamo el 9 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 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 las siguientes cantidades: la suma de $18,921.37 de principal, más intereses al tipo convenido de 5% anual acumulados desde el 1ro. de julio de 2024 hasta el completo pago; $180.94 de
balance diferido, y $3,375 por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. 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 Coamo Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de julio de 2025. EDWIN TORRES MORENO, Alguacil #155, Alguacil De Subastas, Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Centro Judicial De Coamo, Sala Superior. Madeline Amee Torres Pagán, Alguacil #857.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE ELBA MILAGROS CRUZ
FELICIANO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO ELBA M. CRUZ FELICIANO, ELBA M. CRUZ Y COMO ELBA CRUZ FELICIANO COMPUESTA POR TERESA DIAZ CRUZ, KATIA DIAZ APONTE, JULIE ANGELIE DIAZ MELÉNDEZ, ANGEL MANUEL DIAZ MELÉNDEZ, GAMALIER DIAZ MELÉNDEZ, JEREMY MANUEL DIAZ MUÑOZ, ANGEL RAFAEL DIAZ MUÑOZ, EDWIN JAVIER DIAZ APONTE, JEAN JAVIER DIAZ MELÉNDEZ, CLARIBEL
DIAZ CRUZ, CRUZ FELIX DIAZ CRUZ, RAFAEL ENRIQUE DIAZ CRUZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Y CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM) Demandados Civil Núm.: CG2024CV01569.
Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO GENERAL:
Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas 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 Caguas, el 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número C-seis del Plano de Inscripción del proyecto de vivienda a bajo costo denominado VBC-tres, radicado en el Barrio Cagüitas del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cinco metros cuadrados con ochenta y tres centésimas de metro cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar C-cinco; por el SUR, con el solar C-siete; por el ESTE, con la Calle C; y por el OESTE, con los solares Cveinte y C-veintiuno. Enclava una casa de concreto y bloques para fines residenciales. Consta inscrita al folio 40 del tomo 536 de Caguas, finca número 17,426, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. Propiedad localizada en: C-6 E9 St., Delgado Dev., Caguas PR 00725. La propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas preferentes a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Según figura en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante que se describe a continuación: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor del Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos, o a su orden, por la suma de 153,000.00 con intereses al 4.156% anual y vencimiento 25 de enero de 2088. Constituida por la escritura 28 otorgada en Caguas el 27 de enero de
2016 ante el notario José M. Biaggi Junquera. Inscrita el 2 de marzo de 2016, al Tomo Digital Karibe de la finca 17426 de Caguas, inscripción 7ª. 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 $153,000.00, 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 Caguas, el 23 DE SEPTIEMBRE 2025 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $102,000.00 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 $76,500.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas el 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE 2025 A LAS 9:15 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: la suma de $65,642.30 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $35,270.20 en intereses acumulados al 13 de noviembre de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 7.57% anual hasta su total y completo pago; y otros gastos acumulados. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados es de $120,158.20 y los cuales continúan acumulándose; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $15,300.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado, según pactados.; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. 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 Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de julio de 2025. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.
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Civil Núm.: BY2025CV03793. Sala: 702. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO MÁS ADELANTE.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado una Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como la hipoteca que garantiza su pago: Pagaré a favor de R & G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $205,500.00 con intereses al 6.75% anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio del 2036, constituida mediante la escritura número 184, el día 8 de mayo del 2006, ante el notario Gilberto Olivier Vázquez e inscrita al folio 119 del tomo 1,853 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 76,109, inscripción 2da. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Maritza Guzmán Matos, PMB 767,
Avenida Luis Vigoreaux #1353, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00966, teléfono (787) 758-3276, abogada de la parte demandante, con copia de vuestra contestación a la demanda radicada en este caso contra ustedes, dentro de un término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://wwwpoderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante a esta, de no tener representación legal.
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Phoenix Towers International is proposing to construct a 50-foot overall height small cell telecommunications structure located near Urb. Los Angeles Calle Tauro, Carolina, Puerto Rico (18° 25’ 52.9” N, 66° 0’ 27.1” W). The proposed tower is anticipated to utilize FAA Style E (medium intensity, dual red/white strobes) lighting. Any interested party may also request further environmental review of the proposed action under the FCC’s National Environmental Policy Act rules, 47 CFR §1.1307, by notifying the FCC of the specific reasons that the action may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment. This request must only raise environmental concerns and can be filed online using the FCC pleadings system at www.fcc.gov or mailed to FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554 within 30 days of the date that notice of this proposed action is published on the FCC’s website. Refer to File No. A1318999 when submitting the request and to view the specific information about the proposed action.
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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. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 18 de julio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SUBSECRETARIA.
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Phoenix Towers International propone construir una estructura de telecomunicaciones de celdas pequeñas de 15 metros de altura, ubicada cerca de la Urb. Los Ángeles, Calle Tauro, Carolina, Puerto Rico (18° 25’ 52.9” N, 66° 0’ 27.1” O). Se prevé que la torre propuesta utilice iluminación Estilo E de la FAA (intensidad media, luces estroboscópicas dobles rojas/blancas). Cualquier parte interesada también puede solicitar una revisión ambiental adicional de la acción propuesta, de conformidad con las normas de la Ley Nacional de Política Ambiental de la FCC, 47 CFR §1.1307, notificando a la FCC las razones específicas por las que la acción podría tener un impacto significativo en la calidad del medio ambiente. Esta solicitud solo debe plantear preocupaciones ambientales y puede presentarse en línea a través del sistema de alegatos de la FCC en www.fcc.gov o enviarse por correo a la sección de Solicitudes de Revisión Ambiental de la FCC, a la atención de Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554, dentro de los 30 días posteriores a la fecha de publicación del aviso de esta acción propuesta en el sitio web de la FCC. Consulte el expediente n.° A1318999 al presentar la solicitud para ver la información específica sobre la acción propuesta. 25-002778/ETJ
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Some Kenyan runners see doping as a path to glory, and to basic sustenance
By TARIQ PANJA
ITEN, Kenya — Thousands of feet above the Great Rift Valley that runs through East Africa, the small city of Iten, Kenya, calls itself the Home of Champions. It has long produced and attracted world-class running talent, its high altitude and red dirt roads a training ground for thousands.
The town also has a far less laudatory reputation. It is a well-documented center of a doping crisis that shows little sign of being tamed.
Runners come here for access to competition, coaching talent and the benefit of training in thin air, all to try to earn riches from running. Many Kenyans who try to join the elite endure cramped and dirty living conditions, little food and separation from their families in service of their ambitions.
In a region where the average annual income is the equivalent of little more than $2,000 and the competition so intense, the potentially life-changing lure of banned substances, referred to locally as “the medicine,” is obvious. A few thousand dollars in prize money or participation in a single overseas race can be the difference between runners and their families eating three meals a day and scratching around for the next bite.
They calculate that doping is worth the risks not only of getting caught, but also of damaging their health and, in some cases, even dying.
In that environment, the doping industry has flourished, with pharmacies in the region’s health care hub city of Eldoret said to serve as a conduit for performance-enhancing substances. The crisis pulls together extreme pov-
erty, moneymaking opportunity, corruption and a region overflowing with running talent that makes getting an edge harder than just about anywhere.
“This economic reality means the high-risk situation is always going to be impossible to completely eradicate,” said Brett Clothier, the head of global track and field’s unit responsible for anti-doping efforts.
Many runners and coaches suspect that their rivals dope, and they point to the roster of athletes barred from international competitive racing. Kenya, which has a smaller population than 25 other countries, has the most names on the list.
Some of Kenya’s most prominent runners have been caught doping and barred from competition. The women’s marathon worldrecord holder, Ruth Chepngetich, who is from the Rift Valley, was suspended this month after testing positive for a prohibited substance. Her agent did not respond to a request for comment.
International officials have made headway. Kenyans are now among the most-tested athletes anywhere, Clothier said, adding that as widespread as the doping is, it was far worse just a few years ago.
Yet, global anti-doping bodies suspect that policing efforts may be touching only the edges of a cheating epidemic. Officials in Kenya responsible for tackling doping have been caught taking bribes. Some have been arrested.
The scale of the problem prompted track and field’s governing body to threaten to ban Kenya from global competition unless its government committed to spending $25 million to fight doping, a staggering amount in the anti-
anti-doping officials said. Pharmacists in and around Iten and Eldoret declined to be interviewed.
“If any dodgy doctor or pharmacist says, ‘Try this,’ people just do it,” said Clothier, the anti-doping official.
The authorities’ crackdown also took aim at drug suppliers. In May, an Indian national was arrested in Iten carrying prohibited drugs, including human growth hormones.
Efforts such as presentations about the risks of doping have backfired, said Joseph Cheromei, a well-regarded local coach known for his hard line against doping. The presentations from anti-doping officials, Cheromei added, instead outlined for runners which substances would increase their speed.
Scrambling to Avoid Capture
Blanket testing is the latest tool that officials have devised to catch cheats in Iten.
doping world.
“We have to teach them a different way of seeing things: that using illegitimate means of doing well is not going to help them in the long run; it damages their health, and they might not be successful,” said Barnabas Korir, an executive committee member of Kenya’s athletics federation who also sits on a multiagency anti-doping body.
“It’s a matter of changing the whole attitude.”
A Better Life
To beat the competition and earn lifechanging income, which could mean as little as $5,000 or $10,000 a year, doping is an attractive proposition.
Over the past decade, Alfred, an athlete who acknowledged using banned drugs, achieved success in modest races. The income, he said, allowed him to provide a home for his immediate family and his mother, who had been living in the mud-and-thatch house where he was raised.
Doping was the only route he saw to a better life, said Alfred, who agreed to be interviewed on the condition his last name not be used.
Getting access to banned substances is straightforward, according to anti-doping officials and athletes. Pharmacies line the streets of Eldoret, a city of about a half million and the region’s principal commercial hub, about a 30-minute drive from Iten. Runners can procure just about anything they need to boost performance. For those who can’t pay, some pharmacists or doctors will strike deals for a percentage of future earnings, athletes and
One morning in November, officials descended on a track where scores of athletes were training, locking the gates behind them. Pandemonium ensued, according to Ben Kipchirchir, a Kenyan runner.
Kipchirchir said he witnessed athletes clamber over walls and vault fences to escape. “They were running this way and that,” he said, smiling ruefully.
Often, Kenyans and others taking drugs show little regard for the physical risks, such as dangerously elevated heart rates, kidney and liver disease, and even death.
In the fall of 2024, at the same Iten track, a 20-year-old man trying out for an American college scholarship collapsed and died after a 3,000-meter trial, news reports said.
He is one of many young Kenyan athletes to die while running, according to news reports about their deaths. The causes of death have been hard for athletics officials to determine because they have been unable to get access to autopsy results.
“If someone drops dead like that, an athlete who is fit, a young one, there has to be a reason,” said Korir, the Kenyan official. “It can’t be someone just drops dead.”
Kipchirchir’s goal to go pro gets harder with each day, as younger rivals join the scramble to get ahead.
Wearily, he watches them speed up, ultimately — thanks to “the medicine,” he said — blitzing past him in the race to change their lives.
“It’s not fair,” he said.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
A statue monument celebrating Kenyan athletes stands in Eldoret, Kenya, May 14, 2025. (Brian Otieno/The New York Times)
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