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LUMA strengthens electrical system for Bad Bunny concerts
By THE STAR STAFF
LUMA has implemented a preventive work plan over the past two months in the San Juan metropolitan area as part of its support for the electrical infrastructure for Bad Bunny’s concert residency, Key Accounts Director Melissa Pueyo announced Thursday.
“Our commitment is clear: to proactively address the failures of a fragile system and respond quickly in the event of interruptions,” Pueyo said in a written statement.
The completed work included inspections of substations in Condado, Isla Verde, Hato Rey and Santurce, repairs to underground systems and hot spots, and the removal of vegetation near power lines in San Juan.
Since 2024, LUMA has made improvements to transformers, switches, and components at the Hato Rey TC, Llorens Torres, Viaducto, and
Villamar substations, according to the company. Pueyo added that they are also collaborating with the Integrated Transportation Authority to support the restoration of the Urban Train system, which relies on a private substation currently out of service.
Completed work included inspections of substations in Condado, Isla Verde, Hato Rey and Santurce, repairs to underground systems and hot spots, and the removal of vegetation near power lines in San Juan.
Old police station in Cabo Rojo’s Barrio Boquerón ceded to town to tap economic potential
By THE STAR STAFF
District 20 (Cabo Rojo, San Germán and Hormigueros) Rep. Emilio Carlo Acosta announced this week the approval of House Joint Resolution No. 77, which authorizes the transfer ownership of the former
commonwealth police headquarters, which is located in the Boquerón neighborhood Cabo Rojo, to the Municipality of Cabo Rojo.
“Our legislative management seeks to give the Municipality of Cabo Rojo the necessary tools to transform this structure, which is in disuse, into an asset for the people,” Carlo Acosta said. “The official transfer of the property … will allow the mayor, Jorge Morales Wiscovitch, to establish, at the site, economic development, educational, community, tourism and sports projects in order to continue promoting the well-being of citizens and the orderly growth of the municipality. Boquerón is a vital tourist axis and having this property opens the door to multiple development opportunities.”
Cabo Rojo, with more than 47,000 inhabitants, ranks 15th in population and seventh in territorial extension on the island. Its continuous growth in areas such as tourism, commerce, sports and culture reaffirms the need for public policies that strengthen its infrastructure and services, the legislator noted.
The transfer is being carried out in accordance with Law 26-2017, which allows the disposition of public properties in disuse through the Committee for the Evaluation and Disposition of Real Estate, as long as the benefit to the public interest is guaranteed.
Puerto Rico to focus on fiscal board’s exit at congressional hearing
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico will seek the exit of the Financial Oversight and Management Board at a congressional hearing next week, an official said Thursday.
The oversight board has yet to leave because it is representing the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) in its bankruptcy case, which remains in limbo, and has said the government has failed to approve four consecutive balanced budgets.
Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA) Executive Director Gabriella Boffelli discussed the government’s position regarding the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) and the island’s aim to eventually see the exit of the oversight board. Boffelli emphasized the government’s commitment to collaborating with the House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee to ensure a smooth transition.
Boffelli highlighted the importance of reviewing the oversight board’s performance and compliance, as well as assessing the impact of recent changes to the PREPA litigation on Puerto Rico’s infrastructure projects. She acknowledged that Puerto Rico has achieved significant milestones under the current
administration, including the approval of its first certified budget.
The PRFAA executive director stated that the government’s focus on working closely with federal partners and securing necessary resources for vital sectors such as security, education, energy and housing demonstrates its dedication to promoting the island’s long-term growth and stability.
While neither Boffelli nor Gov. Jenniffer González Colón has confirmed their attendance at the upcoming public hearing scheduled for next Wednesday at 10 a.m., their administration’s stance remains firm: Puerto Rico’s ultimate goal is to exit the fiscal oversight board and regain its financial autonomy.
The Committee on Natural Resources will hold the hearing, which was convened by the Subcommittee on Indigenous and Territorial Affairs to investigate Puerto Rico’s recovery under the oversight board.
Speakers will be invited, it was announced.
Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera confirmed his participation earlier this week and revealed that the hearing will feature official appearances by members of the oversight board, “an agency that has
exercised extraordinary powers over Puerto Rico’s public finances since 2016,” he said.
“The hearing offers a much-needed opportunity to scrutinize the Board,” Hernández Rivera said in a written statement. “Nine years after the approval of Promesa, the people of Puerto Rico deserve to know why they [the board’s members] haven’t ceased their work and why they insist on measures that increase the cost of living.”
18-year-old arrested for slaying of Natalia Ailleen Santiago Rivera during carjacking in Santa Isabel
By THE STAR STAFF
Agents from the Puerto Rico Police Bureau arrested 18-year-old Johnnuel Rodríguez Márquez early Thursday morning, who is accused of his alleged involvement in a carjacking that resulted in the slaying of Natalia Ailleen Santiago Rivera on Saturday, July 5, in Santa Isabel.
Rodríquez Márquez faces three federal charges for attempted carjacking resulting in death, completed carjacking, and weapons law violations, according to a press conference Thursday where the charges were announced by Chief U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow, Chief of the FBI in Puerto Rico Devin Kowalski, Justice Secretary Lourdes Gómez Torres and Police Commissioner Joseph González.
“The investigation remains active. This arrest represents an important step, but not the end,” Kowalski said. “We continue to track other individuals linked to the case.”
Rodríguez Márquez confessed to the crimes after
his arrest.
“After being arrested and advised of his legal rights, the
U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow said that “after being arrested and advised of his legal rights,” 18-year-old Johnnuel Rodríguez Márquez “decided to admit his participation in the crimes.”
defendant decided to admit his participation in the crimes,” Muldrow said at a press conference.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the young man is linked to three incidents: the first carjacking occurred on July 2 in Juncos, where he managed to steal a Nissan Versa. That same vehicle was used on July 5 in an unsuccessful carjacking attempt in Juana Díaz, and was later seen in the area where Santiago Rivera 25 was slain.
Rodríguez Márquez faces a possible death penalty for the charge of attempted carjacking resulting in death. He also faces up to life in prison for the remaining charges, Muldrow said.
The police commissioner emphasized the agency’s commitment to justice.
“We will not rest until all those responsible for this tragedy are found,” González said. “This crime has shaken all of Puerto Rico.”
Gómez Torres, the justice secretary, highlighted the coordination between state and federal agencies, noting that the joint action led to a swift arrest.
“When we combine intelligence, will, and resources, results are achieved,” she said. “There is no room for impunity.”
The initial hearing against Rodríguez Márquez was held Thursday afternoon before Federal Magistrate Marshal Morgan. Authorities urged anyone with information about the case or related individuals to contact the FBI confidentially at 787-987-6500.
Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration Executive Director Gabriella Boffelli emphasized the island government’s commitment to collaborating with the Natural Resources Committee in the House of Representatives to ensure a smooth transition out of federal oversight.
Bridge restoration in Aguas Buenas begins design phase
By THE STAR STAFF
Aguas Buenas Mayor Karina Nieves Serrano announced Thursday that the La Charca Bridge reconstruction project has begun its first phase, with the awarding and signing of the contract to begin design and planning work for the project.
“This is great news. After identifying and announcing the funds allocated with support from state and federal agencies a few months ago, today we can announce another step forward, as part of the commitment we made to our people for such an important project,” Nieves Serrano said. “The design project for the reconstruction of the La Charca Bridge has already been awarded. Every project we promote aims to meet the needs of all Aguabonenses.”
The firm G. Burgos Professional CSP was selected
through a public bidding process, while the investment for the first phase of the project is $466,034. The initial phase will include the technical studies and planning that will lead to the construction of a modern, resilient bridge that will strengthen road safety and protect the community during heavy rains, given that the rising river impacts the mobility of thousands of families who are left isolated.
The mayor said the bridge renovation is part of her administration’s efforts to transform the infrastructure in the eastern-central mountain town for the benefit of its citizens.
“Beginning the design of this permanent project, which the people of Aguas Buenas have been waiting for for decades, is a major step forward,” she said.
Once the design process is complete, the next stages of construction will begin in the restoration of an essential route for residents who rely on it for their daily activities.
Construction progresses at new diagnostic & treatment center in Maunabo
Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience Executive Director Eduardo Soria Rivera with Gov. Jenniffer González Colón in January (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)
By THE STAR STAFF
Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience (COR3) Executive Director Eduardo Soria Rivera and Health Secretary Dr. Víctor Ramos Otero announced on Thursday significant progress in the construction of a new diagnostic and treatment center (CDT by its initials in Spanish) in Maunabo, through a $29 million allocation from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance Program.
The CDT project is a priority for the administration of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, who as resident commissioner secured FEMA funds, followed up on the work and as governor reiterated her commitment to expediting the construction of the new CDT, which will integrate services
from the Health Department, such as the Demographic Registry, and the WIC and Medicaid programs, and will have a heliport.
“The Maunabo CDT is a priority project because of the direct impact it will have on the health and well-being of the residents of the southeast region,” Soria Rivera said. “This work is a great example of how we align federal resources with the true needs of our communities.”
The original structure of the health facility suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Maria, when strong winds blew off its roof and heavy rains caused severe flooding. The affected structure was demolished and all the required technical studies, including soil, lead and asbestos assessments, have already been conducted for the new project in order to guarantee the safety of personnel and patients.
Gov’t focusing on international exports to help boost economy
By THE STAR STAFF
As the central government actively works to enhance the island’s economic development by focusing on international exports, Public Affairs Secretary Hiram Torres Montalvo and Economic Development and Commerce (DDEC by its acronym in Spanish) Secretary Sebastián Negrón Reichard on Thursday provided an update on the initiatives.
Negrón Reichard announced that the DDEC is developing a project aimed at establishing an international agenda to promote Puerto Rico’s products and services in key global markets. Over the next few quarters, the DDEC will lead several important initiatives, including participation in high-impact trade fairs and business missions in regions such as North America, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Economic Development and Commerce
Secretary Sebastián Negrón Reichard
The activities are intended to increase access to new markets, cultivate distribution networks, and enhance the global visibility of local companies. The agenda will focus on participation in prominent events in priority sectors, including food, pharmaceutical technology, advanced manufacturing, and consumer goods, in line with global trends and emerging business opportunities.
Additionally, Puerto Rico will work to strengthen its position as a commercial hub by conducting local promotional activities to attract international buyers, thereby reinforcing the island’s status as an export center.
“The DDEC is committed to maintaining a flexible agenda that responds to the evolving international markets,” Negrón Reichard said at a press conference. “This adaptability in adjusting destinations, sectors, and tactical approaches ensures the maximum return on investment for our Puerto Rican companies.”
Aguas Buenas Mayor Karina Nieves Serrano
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Discovery of victims slows nearly a week after the Texas floods
By TALYA MINSBERG and POOJA SALHOTRA
Daily updates on devastating floods in the Texas Hill Country have usually come with a grim tally — the rising death toll. But on Thursday, a police officer said that number hadn’t changed overnight.
That sent a grim message in its own way. With no new victims found, officials suggested that the difficult search for the missing and agonizing wait for those who lost a loved one could stretch even longer.
The number of missing in Kerr County, the region hit hardest by the catastrophic floods that swept away cabins, RV parks and homes on July 4, remains at 161 for a third straight day, Officer Jonathan Lamb with the police department in Kerrville said at a Thursday news conference. The death toll remains at 96 there and 120 across the state.
The slowing pace of discovery comes despite the efforts of more than 2,100 emergency workers, including 10 specially trained teams from different states. They have brought hundreds of thousands of pounds of equipment, dogs trained to locate victims or detect human remains, and horses to help reach areas that are unreachable by car.
But still, the response effort continues to expand, Lamb said, “as the mission becomes more technical.”
Lamb also said that a disaster recovery center had been set up in Kerrville by the state of Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration. Some FEMA officials had previously expressed surprise that the agency had not dispatched a larger team to Texas sooner.
Search and rescue crews searching piles of debris in Kerrville, Texas, on Sunday, July 6, 2025. Catastrophic floods struck Central Texas over the July 4 holiday weekend, killing at least 120 people, including at least 36 children. Officials said more than 170 people were unaccounted for. (Carter Johnston/The New York Times)
The floods are among the deadliest U.S. disasters for children in decades. In just Kerr County, 36 children were killed, many from Camp Mystic, a century-old Christian summer camp for girls. There are still five girls and one counselor from the camp who are unaccounted for, Lamb said at the news conference. Outside of Kerr County, at least seven people were killed in Travis County, eight in Kendall County, five in Burnet County, three in Williamson County and one in Tom Green County. It
is unclear how many people are missing statewide. Gov. Greg Abbott last provided a statewide update Tuesday, when he said 173 people remained unaccounted for.
State and local officials have faced an onslaught of questions about the lack of warning sirens along the banks of the Guadalupe River, an area known as “Flash Flood Alley,” and whether more could have been done to prepare for the floods. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said flood-warning signs might have saved lives and needed to be in place by next summer.
Many officials have declined to go into specifics about the warning systems and preparations.
On Thursday, Lamb was asked if the inability of police radios to communicate directly with county radios might have hampered rescue or recovery efforts, a question he could not answer at the time.
Local officials have said they would conduct an extensive review of their preparations and response to the flood. “If improvements need to be made, improvements will be made,” Sheriff Larry Leitha of Kerr County said during a Wednesday news conference.
Abbott has called on state lawmakers to improve how the state prepares for and responds to the floods in the upcoming special session this month. He asked lawmakers to consider policies that would improve early warning systems and strengthen emergency communications in flood-prone areas.
But lawmakers also plan to address a range of other issues, such as regulating intoxicating hemp products and cutting property taxes. Abbott has also called on lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional maps at President Donald Trump’s request.
Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order in class-action challenge
By ZACH MONTAGUE and PAT GROSSMITH
Afederal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a contentious executive order ending birthright citizenship after certifying a lawsuit as a class action, effectively the only way he could impose such a far-reaching limit after a Supreme Court ruling last month.
Ruling from the bench, Judge Joseph N. Laplante of U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire said his decision applied nationwide to babies who would have been subject to the executive order, which included the children of parents lacking permanent legal status and those born to academics in the United States on student visas, on or after Feb. 20.
The Trump administration has fought to challenge the long-standing law, laid out in the Constitution, that people born in the United States are automatically citizens, regardless of their parents’ immigration status. Laplante’s order reignites a legal standoff that has been underway since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The judge, an appointee of President George W. Bush, issued a written order formalizing the ruling Thursday morning. He also paused his order for seven days, allowing time for an appeal.
The lawsuit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, was filed hours after the Supreme Court’s ruling last month limiting the ability of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions. The case tested the new landscape after the Supreme Court decision and made use of what appeared to be the only remaining practical and efficient way for district court judges to freeze the implementation of policies they found unlawful.
Class actions, which involve a population of similarly situated people, were seen as the workaround. Before the Supreme Court’s decision, nationwide or “universal” injunctions were the main tool judges could use to halt executive-branch policies.
The Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship did not address the core dispute surrounding the constitutionality of Trump’s executive action, but it paved the way for a majority of states to begin enforcing it. However, the court’s majority said the executive order could not be carried out until July 27, allowing time for lawsuits to be filed.
The ACLU’s lawsuit had proposed that all children born in the United States after Feb. 20 and their parents constituted a class. It warned that under the terms of Trump’s order, people born to parents in the country unlawfully risked being rendered “effectively stateless.”
“For families across America today, birthright citizenship represents the promise that their children can achieve their full potential as Americans,” the lawsuit said. “It means children born here can dream of becoming doctors, lawyers, teachers, entrepreneurs or even president — dreams that would be foreclosed if their citizenship were stripped away based on their parents’ status.”
Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, said Thursday that the judge ultimately limited the class to newborns, not their parents.
But the judge indicated that he had few reservations about blocking the policy as it applied to children who would end up in limbo, saying his decision was “not a close call.”
Trump got the green light to fire federal workers. Now, they wait.
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and CHRIS CAMERON
For weeks, thousands of federal employees have been waiting for the Supreme Court to make a decision about their continued employment with the government. On Tuesday, they got their answer: The Trump administration could move ahead with mass layoffs.
The question of whether the layoffs are legal remains unanswered. For now, workers remain in limbo, this time waiting for their agencies to decide who stays, who goes and when.
President Donald Trump in February issued an executive order calling for mass layoffs at nearly every government agency, but the directive invited some legal challenges that led to federal workers staying in their jobs temporarily, or at least collecting paychecks and health benefits.
Many government employees have described the protracted uncertainty as a stressful, nightmarish slog.
And many knew that any relief was likely temporary. For months, a number of them have described being scared to open their government emails, anticipating that they would learn they had been fired. Many feared that speaking out would put a target on their backs.
One employee at the Environmental Protection Agency, which has not announced a detailed plan for layoffs, said that she and her colleagues were waiting to hear about what the Supreme Court’s move meant for them. Like others still employed by the government, she spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday stemmed from a lawsuit brought by labor unions, advocacy groups and local governments. The Office of Personnel Management and the White House had directed agencies this year to submit plans for large-scale layoffs, or so-called reductions in force. The Department of Health and Human Services laid off 10,000 employees on April 1, and other agencies had been expected to follow suit.
The groups that sued argued that the president could not make such sweeping changes to federal agencies without congressional approval. Judge Susan Illston of U.S. District Court
for the Northern District of California found that the executive branch had likely overstepped, and paused the government’s plans for layoffs at more than 20 agencies.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled her.
The coalition behind the court challenge said it would continue to fight the case, arguing that the layoffs would threaten crucial public services.
“This decision does not change the simple and clear fact that reorganizing government functions and laying off federal workers en masse haphazardly without any congressional approval is not allowed by our Constitution,” the groups and local governments said in a statement.
Illston’s pause, ordered in May, covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of their layoff plans.
In some cases, federal employees had been notified by their agencies that they were part of future layoffs, but were put on paid leave, with departure dates that fell after Illston’s decision. Those employees, including dozens of workers at the State and Labor departments, are now waiting to learn when they will be formally terminated, and whether they will have to return what
they have been paid while on leave.
About 2,000 employees at the State Department are waiting for official notification that they will be laid off. The agency notified Congress about the positions that would be included in layoffs, so most of the employees are aware of their fates. But the formal notices have been held up by the court order.
Most federal employees expect their agencies to announce layoffs, but do not know whether they will be among those cut.
If courts ultimately find that the layoffs are illegal, federal workers would receive a minimum of back pay for the period when they had been illegally terminated, according to Nick Bednar, an administrative law expert at the University of Minnesota.
In these situations, employees may be entitled to get their jobs back. But the cases could drag on for so long that the government would be reorganized by the time a decision comes. There may not be jobs for the fired employees to go back to.
Since Trump called for widespread layoffs in an executive order, thousands of federal workers have decided to leave the government, accepting early retirement incentives to avoid the stress of waiting to learn their fates. This, too, has changed the calculations for layoffs across agencies.
On Monday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins said that his agency would not need to conduct widespread layoffs because 17,000 employees had resigned since January. Collins added that the agency expected another 12,000 people to resign or retire by the end of September.
Tom Yazdgerdi, president of the American Foreign Service Association, said he was concerned that the State Department would announce more layoffs beyond the 1,900 it had previously disclosed to Congress.
“With this Supreme Court decision, the administration now has a green light to hobble the diplomatic workforce in real time,” he said. “While we don’t know the exact numbers as yet, this shortsighted move will inflict lasting damage on America’s diplomatic capacity and our foreign service workforce, which is already stretched thin.”
The Department of State’s Harry S. Truman building in Washington, June 27, 2025. About 2,000 employees at the State Department are waiting for official notification that they will be laid off. (Kent Nishimura/The New York Times)
Trump tariffs aim to settle scores with countries, no matter their size
By ANA SWANSON
President Donald Trump added earlier this week to his growing list of countries that would face steep tariffs in the coming weeks if they fail to reach trade agreements with the United States, as he threatens to drag nations large and small into his trade war.
On his social media account, the president posted form letters informing countries — including the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Moldova, Brunei, Libya, Iraq and Algeria — that they should prepare for double-digit tariff rates. Except for the name of the country and the tariff rate, the letters were identical to those he posted Monday, which targeted 14 nations.
Later Wednesday afternoon, Trump issued another threat to impose a 50% tariff on products from Brazil. His letter implied that the higher rate was partly in response to what Trump described as a “witch hunt” against former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is facing trial for attempting a coup.
Later that evening, Trump escalated his tariff plans further, saying he would begin imposing a 50% tariff on imported copper as of Aug. 1. The president said he was taking action because copper — which the United States imports from Chile, Canada and other countries — is crucial for national defense.
The price of U.S. copper futures has soared since Trump mentioned he was planning a 50% tariff during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
Brazil and the other trading partners that Trump targeted Wednesday join a growing list of countries that will face additional tariffs Aug. 1, including Japan and South Korea. The president’s renewed threats against both large and small trading partners suggests that he is hewing to a global tariff strategy he announced in early April that punishes countries broadly for a variety of trading practices and policies he has deemed unfair.
In issuing his threat to Brazil, which was more sharply worded than the previous form letters, Trump cited the country’s “insidious attacks on Free Elections, and the fundamental Free Speech Rights of Americans (as lately illustrated by the Brazilian Supreme Court, which has issued hundreds of SECRET and UNLAWFUL
Censorship Orders to U.S. Social Media platforms, threatening them with Millions of Dollars in Fines and Eviction from the Brazilian Social Media market).”
As part of his attack, Trump also directed his trade representative, Jamieson Greer, to begin investigating Brazil’s digital trade policies, which could result in further tariffs.
This week’s threats essentially seek to replace steep tariffs the president announced in April, when he singled out roughly 60 countries that sell more goods to the United States than they buy from it. He said that those trade imbalances were evidence that foreign countries had long mistreated the United States, an assertion economists have criticized.
The president had originally set July 8 as the last day for countries to sign trade deals with the United States to avoid those tariffs. At the urging of some of his advisers, on Monday he pushed the deadline back to Aug. 1.
Many countries are racing to try to sign trade deals, including major trading partners like the European Union and India. In April, Peter Navarro, the president’s top trade adviser, promised to sign 90 trade deals in 90 days. But it remains impractical for the United States to negotiate simultaneously with all of the countries
the president has threatened with tariffs, something he acknowledged at the White House on Tuesday.
“We can’t meet with 200 countries,” he said.
Though some investors have doubted whether Trump would follow through with his threats, the president insists that the Aug. 1 deadline will not be delayed further. If that is the case, stiff tariffs will go into effect on imports from dozens of additional countries.
The president has also been weighing further tariffs on a variety of critical industries, including copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and lumber. The administration appears to be finalizing these actions, and some of those tariffs could come as early as the next few weeks.
In a meeting Wednesday with a group of African leaders at the White House, Trump said that tariffs would be “a great thing for our country.”
“We’ve taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, hundreds of billions, and we haven’t even started yet,” he said. He added that the United States “really haven’t had too many complaints because I’m keeping them at a very low number. Very conservative.”
Trump’s letters repeatedly mentioned the bilateral trade deficits that the United
States runs with other countries, calling them “unsustainable” and “a major threat” to the nation’s economic security.
Some economists believe that the overall U.S. trade deficit with the world is problematic, because it means that fewer factories in the U.S. employ Americans. But many economists have criticized the president’s focus on the trade deficits with individual countries as a measure for U.S. trading relationships.
Economists argue that bilateral deficits with various countries occur for all kinds of reasons. The most important is simply that foreign countries may specialize in producing certain products that Americans prefer to buy — cars, gold, chocolate — which is not something a foreign government can or would want to control.
It also seems unlikely that the United States could eliminate these trade deficits by encouraging foreign countries to buy American products. While such sales could help to partly balance trade and benefit U.S. exporters, there’s little reason to think other countries would buy the same amount of products that the United States, often the wealthier country, demands from the rest of the world.
For example, the president has said that a trade deal between the United States and Vietnam would open Vietnamese markets and lead to sales of American vehicles. “It is my opinion that the SUV or, as it is sometimes referred to, Large Engine Vehicle, which does so well in the United States, will be a wonderful addition to the various product lines within Vietnam,” Trump wrote on Truth Social last week. But analysts have pointed out that Vietnamese streets are much tinier than American ones, and the per capita annual income in Vietnam is only $4,000, about a tenth of the cost of a midsize SUV.
Cargo containers at PortMiami in Miami, Fla., June 26, 2025. The first Trump administration did take years to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, but this time around, officials appear to have little patience for lengthy talks. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
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Wall Street stocks close higher, Delta forecast boosts sentiment
Wall Street indexes rose on Thursday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite marking closing record highs, as investors shrugged off President Donald Trump’s latest tariff moves, while investors were encouraged by an upbeat forecast from Delta Air Lines.
Delta (DAL.N), shares rallied after the carrier forecast third-quarter and full-year profits above Wall Street estimates.
Investors celebrated across the sector with United Airlines (UAL.O), and American Airlines (AAL.O), also rallying. The Dow Transportation Index (.DJT), widely considered an economic barometer, hit its highest since late February.
I suspect it won’t be that generous because the US is putting higher tariffs on what it considers to be critical goods like autos in particular, which will be relevant for Europe.
Nvidia’s (NVDA.O), return to its $4 trillion valuation milestone for a second straight day was also a boost.
Initial jobless claims for the week of July 5 came in at 227,000, below consensus of 235,000, as per a Reuters poll. The number marked a seven-week low although data around holidays such as last week’s July Fourth break can often be volatile.
The Delta update and the “pretty tame” jobless claims reassured investors, said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia. “Collectively that helped to re-insert the risk-on mode that was in full bloom yesterday and carried over to today,” the strategist said, adding that investors are “increasingly desensitized” to the potential threat to inflation and unemployment from tariffs.
“At the moment, investors are looking through or not accounting for that threat and won’t likely until hard evidence presents itself,” said Luschini.
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 (.SPX), gained 16.44 points, or 0.26%, to end at 6,279.70 points, while the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC), gained 20.03 points, or 0.10%, to 20,631.37. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI), rose 189.27 points, or 0.43%, to 44,647.57.
Last week’s robust labor market report had sent Wall Street’s major indexes to record highs, a rebound from April’s sharp sell-off following “Liberation Day” tariff announcements.
“You’re checking off the uncertainty boxes. You had the big bill that was passed last week. That was a big uncertainty that has been checked off. You’re starting to get more clarity on tariffs. It’s not done yet but you’re starting to get a little more clarity,” said Chris Haverland, Global Equity Strategist, Wells Fargo Investment Institute as he noted the market’s record levels.
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Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s June meeting, released on Wednesday, revealed that most policymakers anticipate rate cuts this year, viewing the inflationary impact of tariffs as likely to be “temporary or modest.”
“You’ll have second quarter earnings season just getting started next week and you’ll see how companies are managing through the tariffs.”
Trump’s latest announcements included a new 50% tariff on copper to start on August 1 and a threat of 50% tariff on exports of goods from Brazil to the U.S. He also issued tariff notices to other trading partners.
Yet, several countries are still waiting for official word from the White House, with investors closely monitoring the evolving trade negotiations.
While most investors believe a July rate cut is off the table, the odds of a September cut of 25 basis points have climbed to 64%, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool.
It may take until late this year - or even into 2026before the true impact of rising import tariffs on inflation comes into focus, St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem said, highlighting why Fed officials are cautious about rate cuts.
Among other stocks, WK Kellogg (KLG.N), rallied sharply following reports that Italian candy maker Ferrero was nearing a deal to buy the cereal maker.
But Conagra Brands (CAG.N), shares sank after it forecast annual profit below Wall Street expectations, citing higher tariff-related costs for products, including its Hunt’s ketchup, due to levies on imports from China and on metals.
Israel will allow more aid into Gaza, officials say
By NATAN ODENHEIMER, JEANNA SMIALEK and ISABEL KERSHNER
Israel has agreed to increase the flow of desperately needed humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip in coming days as part of discussions with the European Union, Israeli and EU officials said Thursday.
The EU has pressured Israel in recent months to allow more food and other essential supplies to reach Palestinians in Gaza, where hunger is rampant and most are displaced by the devastating war that began almost two years ago.
A new aid distribution system, backed by Israel and the United States, began operations in late May after Israel blockaded all aid to Gaza for 80 days. The handouts have fallen far short of Gaza’s needs, and have been plagued by violence and chaos.
The decision to increase aid in the coming days was first announced by Kaja Kallas, the top EU diplomat, in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
People wait in a long line as sacks of flour provided by the United Nations World Food Program are distributed in Gaza City on Thursday, June 26, 2025. Israel has agreed to increase the flow of desperately needed humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Israeli and E.U. officials announced on July 10, 2025. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)
“We have achieved an agreement on very concrete terms: how many trucks will get in, how many crossings will be opened, distribution points so that people would receive help, water distribution,” she said.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, gave additional details at a news conference Thursday in Brussels.
“Significant steps have been agreed by Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip,” said Anouar El Anouni, a spokesperson for the commission. The decision was made through Israeli Cabinet resolutions and a “constructive dialogue between the EU and Israel,” he added.
The goal is to ramp up aid in the coming days, El Anouni said, adding that the plan includes provisions to protect aid workers and repair vital infrastructure. He said Israel would allow the opening of additional crossing points into northern and southern Gaza, the reopening of humanitarian aid routes from Egypt and Jordan, and food distribution through bakeries and public kitchens.
Kallas told Bloomberg that there were already improvements, such as getting fuel to hospitals.
An Israeli official said there was no formal agreement with the EU, but Israel decided independently to increase aid to Gaza during a Cabinet meeting Saturday night. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
The Israeli military agency responsible for coordinating civilian affairs with Gaza said Monday that it had reopened an access route into the northern part of the territory following a government directive.
The Israeli official described the decision to increa-
se aid as part of an ongoing dialogue between Israel and the EU, and confirmed that Kallas’ account of expanding access routes for humanitarian operations was broadly accurate. The official said the decision had not been made in response to EU pressure.
A recent review by the EU found that there are “indications that Israel would be in breach” of human right standards and its obligations under an EU treaty, citing issues including food and critical goods restrictions on Gaza.
Aid has been a central sticking point in ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. The two sides have been engaged in intensive discussions this week, through mediators, on a new U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal for Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Thursday that a ceasefire depended on the release of people held captive in Gaza who were abducted during the Hamas-led assault on Israel that touched off the war, on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Right now, we are trying to secure the release of half of the living and deceased hostages, in exchange for a temporary, 60-day ceasefire,” he said in a video statement from Washington, D.C., where he met Wednesday with the families of hostages. “At the beginning of that ceasefire, we will commence negotiations on a permanent end to the war.”
He said Israel’s conditions for ending the war had not changed, including completely disarming Hamas and removing it from a role in governing the territory.
Two people familiar with the negotiations said Israel and Hamas appear close to agreeing on a framework for humanitarian aid. They said that most of the relief during
the 60-day ceasefire would flow through the United Nations and other international aid organizations.
The Israeli-backed aid system, run by the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, would continue to operate in parts of southern Gaza still under Israeli military control. Israel supported the creation of the new system, saying a new approach was needed to prevent Hamas from commandeering, diverting and profiting from the humanitarian assistance.
But the United Nations and has said that the new system was woefully insufficient to meet the basic needs for the survival of Gaza’s more than 2 million people, after Israel’s total blockade brought the territory to the brink of famine.
Adding to the humanitarian crisis, accessing aid has become chaotic and dangerous.
Israeli authorities have allowed hundreds of truckloads of U.N. aid to cross into Gaza since the blockade was lifted in May. But much of the aid has remained on the Gaza side of the crossings because of the lack of safe routes for distribution inside the territory.
Desperate crowds have been ransacking trucks carrying flour and other goods minutes after they enter the enclave.
Deadly violence has also erupted frequently around the approaches to the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, which are mostly in southern Gaza. Witnesses have reported on a number of occasions that Israeli troops opened fire on people at the approaches to the aid hubs.
The Israeli military has said repeatedly that its forces have fired “warning shots” when people approached its forces in what it described as a threatening manner. The foundation denies that there has been any violence within its compounds.
U.N. representatives said they welcomed Thursday’s announcement about scaling up aid but said they had not been involved in the discussions or informed of the details.
“We are awaiting clarification,” said Tamara Alrifai, a spokesperson for the U.N. agency that deals with Palestinian refugees and has traditionally handled most humanitarian assistance in Gaza.
Only the U.N. has the capacity, infrastructure and experience necessary to address the humanitarian crisis in the enclave, she said, describing the situation as “catastrophic.”
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation also said it welcomed any steps to expand access and aid delivery in Gaza, adding that it was “working with the government of Israel to honor its commitment and open additional sites in northern Gaza.”
How El Salvador is reaping rewards from Trump’s deportation agenda
By ANNIE CORREAL and PRANAV BASKAR
For the U.S. government, sending deportees accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador fits with President Donald Trump’s promise to aggressively deport migrants without legal status and to crack down on crime.
For El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, the rewards appear to have included, among other things, a White House visit and a travel-safety rating for his country that is higher than France’s.
While the exact terms of the agreement have not been made public, other leaders around the world may be watching, experts and immigration lawyers say, especially as the Trump administration searches for other countries willing to take expelled migrants of other nationalities.
President
Nayib Bukele of El Salvador meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. In exchange for jailing more than 200 deportees from America, Bukele has become a favorite of the Trump administration. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
“Other leaders and countries are trying to emulate the Bukele arrangement,” said Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, a director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, a Boston-based group that has represented immigrants in lawsuits against the Trump administration. Countries are increasingly “raising their hand to volunteer their incarceration facilities and to facilitate the deportation of people,” he added.
A White House spokesperson has said the administration is “grateful for President Bukele’s partnership” and for the use of his maximum-security prison, adding, “There is no better place for these sick, illegal criminals.”
MS-13 gang leaders returned
An investigation by The New York Times found the U.S. government not only paid Bukele’s government around $5 million to incarcerate more than 200 Venezuelan deportees, but added a bonus at his request: the return to El Salvador of several top MS-13 leaders in U.S. custody,
some thought to have knowledge of Bukele’s ties to the gang.
U.S. authorities have found substantial evidence of secret negotiations between Bukele’s government and MS13 leaders, and some experts say Bukele may want to bury that evidence. He has denied having any pact with the gang; his administration did not respond to a request for comment.
A boost for tourism
In April, the State Department upgraded El Salvador’s travel advisory to its highest rating, citing a “drop in violent crimes and murders.”
The improved rating — higher than France’s — reflects a dramatic turnaround for a country that once had a soaring homicide rate and “significant human rights issues,” according to the State Department in 2023.
The upgrade came soon after El Salvador received the U.S. deportees, and after Bukele met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Ahilan Arulanantham, of the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy, said there was “no question” that Bukele would want the upgrade. Any government, he said, would “prefer a rating saying it’s safe to travel to.”
Bukele, who hopes tourism will boost the economy, trumpeted the news and promoted a new surfing destination.
“Just got the U.S. State Department’s travel gold star: Level 1: safest it gets,” he said.
Temporary protected status
The Trump administration recently ended deportation protections for immigrants from countries including Haiti, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Honduras and Nicaragua.
But Salvadoran immigrants still have Temporary Protected Status, which shields some 200,000 people from deportation and allows them to legally work in the United States. The privileges last until early September.
Experts say that status earns Bukele political points at home, where remittances from U.S.-based relatives are vital to the economy.
Muted criticism
In recent months, Bukele’s government has cracked down further on civil liberties, targeting civil society groups, arresting critics and pushing some prominent journalists to flee.
And while the European Union condemned a new law giving his government broad powers to silence dissidents, the U.S. government stayed quiet.
Instead, the State Department certified in April that El Salvador was protecting press freedom and strengthening the rule of law.
Attention and access
After the deportees arrived in El Salvador, Trump hosted Bukele in the Oval Office, flattering him as “President B.”
Bukele’s cooperation — and his highly-stylized images of shackled deportees entering a prison built for terrorists — also generated buzz, which the Salvadoran president has exploited.
Recently, he sparred online with a fashion designer whose Paris show featured models in outfits resembling those worn by the deportees.
Bukele has also emerged as an example for other governments, generating at least one agreement, between El Salvador and Costa Rica, to replicate his high-security prison there.
International scrutiny
The agreement to jail deportees from the United States has invited scrutiny of Bukele, according to Douglas Farah, an El Salvador expert who advised a Justice Department task force targeting MS-13.
Family members have called for the release of many of the Venezuelan deportees, saying their relatives have no criminal records. Democratic lawmakers have demanded answers about the deal. One returned deportee has said he was mistreated in Salvadoran custody.
Bukele has denied those allegations. “I don’t care if they call me a dictator,” he said recently. “I would rather be called ‘dictator’ than watch them kill Salvadorans in the streets.”
Farah said the deal has created tension. “Bukele hadn’t thought about what this would look like to the outside world and to his own people,” he said. For the first time, he added, Bukele’s image as his nation’s savior is facing “counterpressure.”
It isn’t freedom if it’s not for everyone
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Every year I choose a university student to accompany me on my win-a-trip journey, which is meant to highlight issues that deserve more attention. My 2025 winner is Sofia Barnett, a recent Brown University graduate and a budding journalist. Her first essay was about girls in West Africa challenging the tradition of female genital mutilation. Here’s her second, arguing that Western feminism should show more concern for global women’s issues.
By Sofia Barnett
MAKENI, Sierra Leone — In Makeni, Sierra Leone, girls walk home from school with notebooks tucked under their arms and dust clinging to their socks. Their uniforms are clean but faded. Their routes are long. I met girls who walk 5 miles through washed-out roads to reach a classroom. Their futures depend on a fragile calculation — not just of effort, but of what they’re willing to trade to keep learning.
Here, there are girls who drop out because they can’t afford a sanitary pad. Girls who sell their
bodies for the cost of a notebook. Some are proud of what they earn at night — $7, maybe — because it helps them stay enrolled. But that’s not opportunity. That’s extortion under the veil of agency.
Another young woman, Tity Sannoh, said menstruation is often where the trade begins. In the coastal town of Tombo, girls rely on boyfriends just to manage their period, she said. “If you give them something, they will give you something in return.”
Safieyatu Kiadii, a 16-year-old girl from the village of Vonzua in Liberia, said she dropped out of school after her father died. She now takes care of her mentally ill mother alone and lives with her in a one-room house. She isn’t ready to bear a child, she said, lifting her sleeve to show the birth control implant in her arm. She wants to become a nurse.
When I asked how girls learn about their bodies, most said they don’t. Mabinty Thoronka, a 19-year-old from Freetown, said her mother explained menstruation by saying only, “If you allow a boy to touch you, you are going to get pregnant.”
This is what systemic neglect looks like. Not just from governments, but from donors and the global feminist movement.
I came to West Africa to report on girls education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too comfortable fighting for itself. In America, we talk about Title IX, boardroom parity, the price of tampons — real fights, yes. But we rarely ask what rights look like in a place where school itself is conditional — on sex, on silence, on survival.
American feminism excels at diagnosing inequality where it lives: in wage gaps, courtroom bias, the absence of paid leave. But the need for gender equity is global, and it’s meaningless in practice if it excludes the millions of girls for whom empowerment is not a buzzword but a daily act of survival.
With the U.S. Agency for International Development gutted, crucial support has already pulled
back from countries like Sierra Leone and Liberia. The girls I met know exactly what that means: fewer clinics, fewer supplies, fewer safe spaces to understand how their own bodies work.
They aren’t asking for pity. They’re asking for a chance.
Western feminism has matured legally, rhetorically and electorally. But it has failed to mature politically — in the sense Hannah Arendt described when she wrote of acting “in concert” across boundaries. A feminism content with national progress but indifferent to global inequality can’t consider itself a politics of freedom.
There is no liberation in a movement that refuses to ask whom it leaves behind. If some girls must bleed, beg or barter for the chance to learn, then feminism remains unfinished.
Dabah M. Varpilah, chair of the Health Committee in Liberia’s Senate, said that when you give a girl access to education, “allowing her to grow, make her own decisions, participate in leadership, then mindsets start changing.”
That belief runs deep in the communities I visited. Families pool coins to help teachers buy chalk. Some classrooms serve lunch twice a week — if a vendor shows up. Girls want better. Parents want more. But belief cannot patch the crumbling scaffolding of international commitment.
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Young women listen to a reproductive health rights discussion in the village of Mobonkani, Sierra Leone, on June 6, 2025. (Saidu Bah/The New York Times)
Lanza Discover Puerto Rico plataforma interactiva junto a Cucco Peña
POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – Discover Puerto Rico anunció el lanzamiento de “The Beat of Puerto Rico”, una plataforma digital interactiva desarrollada junto al maestro Ángel “Cucco” Peña para destacar los géneros musicales que distinguen a la Isla.
“El Music Mixer de Discover Puerto Rico es una herramienta innovadora y entretenida que usa esos ritmos que nos hacen únicos para invitar al mundo a explorar la riqueza cultural de Puerto Rico”, expresó Peña en declaraciones escritas.
La herramienta, disponible en el portal discoverpuertorico.com, permite a los usuarios crear mezclas personalizadas de siete géneros musicales: salsa, bomba, plena, trova, merengue, jazz latino y reguetón. Los visitantes pueden ajustar el tempo, la tonalidad y el volumen de los instrumentos, mientras conocen la historia de cada ritmo y dónde se puede escuchar en la Isla.
El proyecto incluyó la participación de más de 45
músicos y coristas puertorriqueños que grabaron composiciones originales. El evento de presentación se celebrará el domingo, 13 de julio, en el Distrito T-Mobile desde las 3:00 de la tarde, y contará con Cucco Peña y una banda en vivo interpretando los temas creados para la plataforma.
“Sabemos que los viajeros valoran las experiencias inmersivas, y estamos seguros de que The Beat of Puerto Rico será un éxito”, indicó Dalissa Zeda, directora de mercadeo digital de Discover Puerto Rico.
La organización se convierte así en la primera DMO en integrar este tipo de herramienta en su sitio web como parte de su estrategia de posicionar a Puerto Rico como destino musical global. La experiencia busca conectar con nuevas audiencias que valoran la autenticidad cultural, al tiempo que promueve el turismo cultural y la historia sonora de la Isla.
AFV detiene solicitudes del programa HBA bajo necesidad urgente desde este viernes
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POR CYBERNEWS
SAN JUAN – El director ejecutivo de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda (AFV), Ricardo Álvarez Barreto, anunció el jueves que el Programa de Asistencia Directa al Comprador dejará de recibir nuevas solicitudes bajo la categoría de necesidad urgente a partir del viernes, 11 de julio.
“Las solicitudes sometidas hasta dicha fecha continuarán su curso normal de evaluación y tramitación. No obstante, el bucket de Ingresos Bajos a Moderados continuará abierto y recibiendo nuevas solicitudes”, destacó Álvarez Barreto en declaraciones escritas.
El funcionario indicó que el programa ha permitido que más de 14,400 familias logren comprar su hogar, con desembolsos que superan los 584 millones de dólares en ayudas, según cifras oficiales de la AFV.
Por su parte, la secretaria del Departamento de la Vivienda y presidenta de la Junta de Gobierno de la AFV, Ciary Pérez Peña, informó que se encuentran en espera de la aprobación federal para lanzar un nuevo programa dirigido a compradores, el cual será financiado con fondos CDBG-MIT.
“Para la misma, se han identificado inicialmente 100 millones de dólares y estamos positivos en que próximamente podremos anunciar el nuevo programa a los participantes”, concluyó Pérez Peña.
en condición crítica tras agresión en Barrio Obrero
SAN JUAN – Una mujer sin hogar resultó gravemente herida tras una agresión reportada a las 6:55 de la tarde del miércoles en el Callejón El Nene, en Barrio Obrero.
Según el informe preliminar, una llamada anónima alertó al cuartel de la zona sobre varios hombres que agredían a una mujer en la referida dirección. Los agentes acudieron al lugar, pero no encontraron indicios del incidente. Posteriormente, al verificar en el CDT Dr. José S. Belaval, hallaron a la víctima sentada en la acera, sin recibir atención médica.
La mujer presentaba dos heridas abiertas en la parte posterior de la
cabeza, además de fracturas en ambas manos, posiblemente provocadas con un objeto sólido. Personal de Manejo de Emergencias la transportó a un hospital de la Capital, donde fue atendida por el médico de turno. Su condición fue descrita como crítica, con múltiples traumas y bajo ventilación mecánica.
La víctima vestía una camisilla, pantalón largo negro y estaba descalza. El agente Ángel Bermúdez Figueroa, adscrito a la División de Agresiones del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de San Juan, asumió la investigación.
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‘Superman’ review: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a reboot!
By ALISSA WILKINSON
In one sense I can’t really spoil “Superman.” Even comic book agnostics already know the basic idea: A Kryptonian baby with incredible powers, sent to Earth by his parents ahead of his planet’s destruction, is raised by a pair of American farmers. By day, he’s the bespectacled journalist Clark Kent; by night, he’s — well, you know. That’s been the story since Action Comics No. 1 was published in 1938.
On the other hand, the ubiquity of those bare facts makes it extra easy to spoil this newest movie, a hard reboot for the character and his universe, because you’re probably going to the movies to see what they’ve done to the guy now, and the discovery is the fun part.
“Superman” is the first film for DC Studios, of which Peter Safran and James Gunn are the chief executives. Elaborate histories of the byzantine path that got us here are available to you, should you be interested, but if you’re just a normie like me, the most important thing to recall is this: Gunn is probably best known for directing the three “Guardians of the Galaxy” films for Marvel and the 2021 DC film “The Suicide Squad” (not to be confused with the 2016 movie “Suicide Squad” — you see what I mean about byzantine).
Gunn tends to nail the right tone with superhero material: He mixes big-hearted themes with a dash of real-world allusions and a good-natured understanding that all of this should be treated as if it’s a bit silly because, let’s face it, it is. Guys in capes zooming around, humans with magical powers that let them make big punching fists out of matter and energy, tech billionaires consumed by envy who hang out in shadowy lairs trying to control the universe, I mean, come on.
Well, OK, maybe that last bit. And maybe a little more. Let’s not forget that Superman was created by two Jewish men, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who were keenly aware of rising antisemitism and Nazi oppression, as well as the despair of a people saddled with economic depression, looking for someo -
ne to save them. Superman took on corrupt politicians, unscrupulous businessmen and substandard housing conditions. And he was staunchly antifascist: In a noncanonical 1940 story titled “How Superman Would End the War,” Superman brought Adolf Hitler himself to justice.
So while staying true to Superman requires trotting out certain familiar plot elements — his birth parents, his adoptive parents, his susceptibility to Kryptonite, his big old crush on scrappy lady reporter Lois Lane — it also means tapping into those ideological roots. He’s a metahuman, but he’s also a man who’s almost guilelessly attached to truth, justice and something called “the American way”: protecting the little guy, pummeling the baddies. Set that guy down in the 21st century, and things get complicated.
By all of these measures, Gunn’s charming take on the Superman myth succeeds — it even won over a particular superhero-weary critic. It’s a sincere but also goofy movie, with a few well-timed twists on the mythology and a couple of added characters (I won’t spoil it, I promise) who keep things light at just the right moments. Our new Superman/Clark Kent, David Corenswet, has muscular shoulders, a dimple in his cheek and a curl in the middle of his forehead, and most important, you believe him when he says he just loves people. He’s channeling a touch of the idealism of, say, the character Jimmy Stewart plays in Frank Capra’s 1939 film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” targeted for his rightdoing by self-interested powerful criminals but also unironically tearing up at idealistic displays of patriotism.
“Superman” is less about patriotism than humanism, about Superman’s deep belief that his job is to protect all the people of Earth. I don’t need to tell you that’s not always a popular position. So while he’s doing all the things Superman does — saving individuals, trying to save the world — he starts taking flak for it. Should he meddle in international affairs? What if he’s trying to save innocent lives? What if a particularly evil incar-
nation of Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult, perfectly cast) goes on TV and says blatantly false things about him, and every media outlet picks up the story as if it’s real, and everyone just believes the misinformation?
Perhaps you can see where this is going. “Superman” is carefully constructed, with just enough plausible deniability that it’s not technically about anything in our real world. But it also has masked bad guys with guns dragging random people away to be imprisoned in cages where nobody can find them. It has an authoritarian, invasion-happy leader of a vaguely Cyrillic country who hangs a propagandistic portrait of himself astride a horse on his wall and gives entirely fabricated statements at news conferences. It has Luthor, who believes himself to be a genius and yet is jealous beyond measure of anyone who makes him feel weak. There’s more, but you’ll have to find it out for yourself.
In this way, “Superman” is reminiscent of “Iron Man,” the 2008 film that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s hard to remember this, now that the MCU has resorted to the most bland political feints imaginable. But “Iron Man,” which explicitly set part of its narrative in Afghanistan, felt like it had a few ideas knocking around in its head about the responsibility that someone wealthy and powerful might owe to all humanity, not just to himself and his fortune. Similarly, this film is thinking about the difference between public service and power-mongering, about what freedom actually means and about who the real heroes on Earth are.
Also like “Iron Man,” “Superman” — in the now timehonored tradition of Hollywood franchises — is setting up a series of films that are en route. I’ll be impressed if they manage to keep up with the subtle but pointed digs and maintain a political compass that’s pointed true north. But as both a story on its own and a prequel to a whole bunch of others, this movie must introduce us to a variety of characters we’ll meet later, and it does it without feeling too much like fan service or exposition.
Among the characters are the “Justice Gang,” made up of Guy Gardner aka the Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion, in a truly incredible haircut), Rex Mason aka Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan) and Kendra Saunders aka Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced). They’re a group of metahumans who are backed by a billionaire, which is a weird and interesting thing to explore. Over at The Daily Planet, the paper where Clark Kent works, Perry White (Wendell Pierce) is editor-in-chief, and Clark’s colleagues include Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo), Cat Grant (Mikaela Hoover), Steve Lombard (Beck Bennett) and Ron Troupe (Christopher McDonald).
And most of all there’s Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane, a woman who doesn’t really need saving, who is preternaturally calm in the face of breaking news and knows, contra most female reporters in the movies, how to actually grill a source regardless of her personal feelings about the story. So maybe this “Superman” is set in the real world after all.
‘Superman’
Rated PG-13 for some bad words, scary evil bad guys and one particularly jarring execution-style killing. Running time: 2 hours, 9 minutes. In theaters.
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Ways to enjoy s’mores without a campfire
By SHARON ATTIA
S’mores are the dessert equivalent of fireflies and sleeping bags. There’s something so nostalgic (and messy!) about the combination of toasted marshmallows, melted chocolate, graham crackers. It’s the ooey-gooey holy trinity of summertime flavors, a sweet memory you can hold in your hands — sticky fingers and all. But you don’t need a campfire to satisfy that s’mores craving. Here is a desserts that capture their essence, no outdoor flames necessary. Find more recipes at nytcooking.com.
S’mores crispy treats
This smile-inducing mashup of crispy rice treats and s’mores combines the best qualities of both popular sweets. Toasty graham crackers and roasted marshmallows balance the overall sweetness, while melted butter and gooey marshmallows soften the dry graham crackers and brittle chocolate. To make these newfangled sweets, broil the marshmallows until they just start to smoke. Brown the butter to double down on the toastiness, then toss with the marshmallows, graham cereal and chocolate chips, which
melt in streaks. After pressing the mixture into a pan, broil the top to get that toasted-over-the-campfire taste.
By Ali Slagle
Yield:
1 (8- or 9-inch) pan (about 16 pieces)
Total time: 15 minutes, plus cooling
Ingredients:
Nonstick cooking spray (or softened butter), for greasing
1 (10- to 12-ounce/283- to 340-gram) bag marshmallows
1/2 cup/113 grams unsalted butter (1 stick)
1 (10- to 12-ounce/283- to 340-gram) box graham cracker cereal (such as Golden Grahams)
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal)
1/2 cup/85 grams semisweet chocolate chips
Preparation:
1. Heat the broiler to high and set the rack in the upper third of the oven. Grease a broiler-safe 8- or 9-inch square pan, then add the marshmallows. (They won’t fit in an even layer, and that’s OK.) Broil until deeply browned and smoking, about 1 minute. (Watch closely, as broilers vary.) Stir to expose untoasted sides and broil once again until browned and just starting to smoke. Remove from oven, leaving the broiler on.
2. In a large pot, melt the 1/2 cup butter over medium-high. Stir frequently until the hissing subsides and the butter smells toasted and is speckled brown, 3 to 5
minutes. (Keep watch: This happens quickly.) Turn off the heat, then add the marshmallows (the pan may still be hot), and stir vigorously until melted. Working quickly, add the cereal and salt and stir to combine. Add the chocolate and stir to combine.
3. Immediately scrape the mixture into the prepared pan and press firmly into an even layer. Broil until the top is golden and charred in spots, about 1 minute, watching closely. Let cool completely, then cut into squares or bars. Store, covered, at room temperature for up to 3 days.
S’mores crispy treats. This Ali Slagle recipe is a mash-up of two marshmallow-forward desserts: Rice Krispie treats and s’mores. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. (Mark Weinberg/ The New York Times)
A loved one was diagnosed with dementia. Now what?
By MOHANA RAVINDRANATH
About four years ago, Madhavi Phadke, a philanthropy director in Westford, Massachusetts, noticed her mother, Chanda Bhawalkar, was withdrawing. Bhawalkar had been an avid reader and talented cook who walked daily and regularly texted with her friends back home in Maharashtra, India. But in her late 70s, she began spending more time alone in her room and seemed aloof and often bored, Phadke said. She became agitated when visitors dropped by, a surprising response from someone who had always maintained a vibrant social life.
At first, Phadke thought these changes were just normal signs of aging, but as things got worse, she took her mother for a medical evaluation. About two years ago, Bhawalkar was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
It gave Phadke clarity, but also feelings of deep sadness and helplessness, she said. “It’s almost like today’s going to be the best day for the rest of her life,” she remembered thinking. But she also wanted to “make the most of what we can” with her mother’s remaining time.
It’s difficult to know how to proceed when a family member is diagnosed with dementia. Clinicians suggest sorting out logistics early on: appointing a trusted person to make medical decisions on the family member’s behalf, planning future care and writing financial directives. But you also have to prepare for the emotional weight of watching a loved one lose pieces of themselves.
The New York Times asked dementia specialists and seven families who have faced the disease to share advice for moving forward after a diagnosis.
(Anna Parini/The New York Times)
“It’s the mental equivalent of death by a thousand paper cuts,” said Don Siegel, of Silver Spring, Maryland, whose wife, Bette, died in 2024 after several years with Lewy body dementia. Families are “left with someone you can’t recognize, except in very brief moments.”
The New York Times asked dementia specialists and seven families who have faced the disease to share advice for moving forward after a diagnosis.
Adapt to your loved one’s new reality.
Accepting that a family member can no longer think clearly or remember things is among the biggest challenges. Families often try to reason or argue with loved ones because it’s hard to go along with untrue facts and outlandish assertions, or they may be clinging to a false hope that correcting the person will help them recover their cognitive abilities, said Dr. James Noble, a dementia specialist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the author of “Navigating Life with Dementia.”
“Not only does it not work, but it often backfires,” Noble said. Arguing or getting frustrated with a dementia patient can make them anxious or agitated, which can hasten decline and make caregiving more difficult.
It’s “far simpler for you and much better for your loved one if you adapt to their reality” by gently playing along with a delusion or forgiving their confusion, said Dr. Ipsit
Vahia, the chief of geriatric psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, who treats Bhawalkar.
Ask the tough questions early on.
As soon as possible after a diagnosis, families should talk to the dementia patient about how they want to live out their days, including their medical preferences for when the disease progresses, said Dr. Christina Prather, the clinical director of the George Washington University Institute for Brain Health and Dementia, who treated Bette Siegel. Questions can include what parts of their daily routine they’d like to preserve, whether they’d prefer to remain at home or move to an assisted living facility and if they’re comfortable with life support, feeding tubes or prolonged hospital stays.
Be a strong patient advocate.
Several families stressed that finding good medical care to manage dementia requires organization and persistence. Bhawalkar’s original geriatrician had a brusque bedside manner that made her nervous, so Phadke sought out a new doctor. She chose Vahia in part because he spoke her mother’s native Marathi language and addressed her respectfully, which calmed her down.
To make the most of limited time with specialists, families should come to appointments with a list of questions they’d like to address, Prather suggested, and ask for a follow-up call if there’s more to cover.
It’s also important to accept that doctors don’t have all the answers, Prather said. How quickly dementia progresses depends mostly on its cause and the patient’s condition — but its trajectory is not always easy to predict.
Finding good long-term care also requires dogged advocacy. Siegel had always been goodnatured and gentle, but as her dementia progressed she became more angry and often had to be physically restrained. After several years of caring for his wife on his own, Don Siegel placed her in a senior living center that advertised as accommodating all forms of dementia. But it was ultimately unprepared for the violence and mania that came with her Lewy body. “I had to micromanage the facility all the time,” he said. He later moved his wife to a smaller facility, where she had much better care.
Seek out support.
Dementia care typically lasts years after diagnosis, and caregivers have “a long course” ahead of them, Noble said. It also tends to be psychologically stressful, as the caregiver watches their loved one slip away. Seeking emotional support from other dementia caregivers is critical, as is staying on top of your own medical needs, he said.
“No one understands what a caregiver goes through,” Siegel said. To help relieve stress, he eventually found a therapist specializing in caregiving and visited group therapy sessions.
Savor the small, good moments.
Some families described dementia as progressing in steps — plateauing for months or even years before the patient experienced a sudden decline and another plateau. Others said their family members worsened more precipitously and unpredictably.
“Every part of the dementia journey is transient,” Prather said. “What you’re experiencing now is going to change.”
In the face of this uncertainty, families emphasized the importance of celebrating small wins and finding joy and humor wherever possible. Melanie Levy, who runs a fitness business in Sacramento, California, said her father, who lived alone and refused most help for his dementia, still enjoyed playing percussion and listening to records as he declined. Knowing he was “hosting a jazz club in his living room,” even for people who weren’t actually there, gave her “joy and comfort” because it meant he didn’t feel totally alone, she said. He also reconnected with some estranged family members because he’d forgotten his anger, she added.
Siegel remembers his wife teasing family and friends even late into her disease. In one moment of lucidity, she ribbed him for a pie he’d made a decade before, where he’d mistakenly swapped sugar for salt.
“You live for that moment,” Siegel recalled. “In the nightmare, there were, in fact, moments of clarity and humor, and occasionally my wife would reappear.”
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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV03857. (604). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $164,835.65, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $161,722.76 y un principal diferido por la suma de $3,112.89, más intereses sobre la suma de $161,722.76, computados al 5.5% anual desde el día primero noviembre de 2019, hasta su total pago; más el 5% computado sobre cada mensualidad por concepto de cargos por demora hasta su total pago; más la suma de $18,275.00 garantizada de la hipoteca para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del acreedor demandante, más cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquier concepto legal se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de esta sentencia hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Bloque T de la Urbanización University Gardens de Rio Piedras, del termino municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el numero 3 en el plano de inscripción expedido en el caso numero 79-17G-804 SPL, con una cabida de 201.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en 6.70 metros, con la calle Clemson de la Ur-
banización; por el Sur, en 6.70 metros con el bloque T de la Urbanización University Gardens; por el Este, en 30.00 metros, con el solar 4; y por el Oeste, en 30.00 metros, con el solar 2. Enclava una casa “Town House” de hormigón armado y bloques tipo vivienda en hilera de dos plantas. Inscrita al folio cuarenta y uno (41) del tomo mil ciento treinta y tres (1133) e Rio Piedras Norte, finca numero treinta y dos mil doscientos treinta y siete (32237), Registro de San Juan II. Dirección física: 270 University Gardens, Th-3 Clemson St. San Juan, PR 00920. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 31 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $182,750.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $121,833.33. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $91,375.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y
queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en San Juan, Puerto Rico a 25 de junio de 2025. IRMA D. CARMONA CLAUDIO, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE SAN JUAN.
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Castro compuesta por Norma Castro, Pablo Cruz, Evelyn González Irizarry t/c/c Evelyn González t/c/c Evelyn Castro, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como herederos de nombres desconocidos; Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales; y los Estados Unidos de América
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CIVIL NÚM.: SL2023CV00415.
SALA: 802. SOBRE: Ejecución de Hipoteca In Rem. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: Público en General A: Evelyn González Irizarry t/c/c Evelyn González t/c/c Evelyn Castro por sí; Sucesión de Natalio Castro Cruz t/c/c Natalio Castro compuesta por Norma Castro, Pablo Cruz, Evelyn González Irizarry t/c/c Evelyn González t/c/c Evelyn Castro, Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal como herederos de nombres desconocidos; Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales; y los Estados Unidos de América
Yo, EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 20 de agosto de 2025, a las 9:30 am en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, Caguas, Puerto Rico, procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 04 de abril de 2025. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una segunda subasta para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 27 de agosto de 2025, a las 9:30 am; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 4 de septiembre de 2025, a las 9:30 am en mi oficina sita en el lugar
antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 13 de mayo de 2025, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Remanente: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Quebrada Arenas de San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de cero punto siete mil quinientos ochentisiete cuerdas (0.7587 cdas), equivalentes a dos mil novecientos ochentiuno punto ocho mil doscientos doce metros cuadrados (2981.8212 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con un punto en que convergen José Adorno, Félix Cáez y el Solar identificado con el número dos en el Plano de Inscripción; por el SUR, con un camino municipal; por el ESTE, con el Solar identificado con el número dos del Plano de Inscripción; y por el OESTE, con Félix Cáez. Es el remanente de esta finca luego de varias segregaciones, según la escritura número 18, otorgada en San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, el día 7 de febrero de 1993, ante el notario Efraín Santiago Cruz, e inscrito al margen del folio 237 del tomo 210 de San Lorenzo, finca número 11,001. Finca número 11,001, inscrita al folio 236 del tomo 210 de San Lorenzo. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Caguas. Dirección de la Propiedad: PR-183 Ramal 916 Km 8.0, Cerro Gordo Ward, San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico 00754 La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $115,725.73, de principal, más intereses acumulados al tipo de 3.154% anual y continúan acumulándose hasta su total y completo pago, más la cantidad de $14,100.00, cantidad pactada para costas, cantidad pactada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 257 otorgada el día 30 de junio de 2014, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante
la Notario Público Lizbeth Avilés Vega y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de San Lorenzo, finca número 11,001, inscripción 10ma. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca Revertida en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $141,000.00, con intereses al 3.154% anual, vencedero el 24 de diciembre de 2096, constituida mediante la escritura número 258, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2014, ante la notario Lizbeth Avilés Vega, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de San Lorenzo, finca número 11,001, inscripción 11ma., y última. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $141,000.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $94,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $70,500.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsis-
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Demandante V. SUCESION DE EDDA MARTINEZ RIOS, ET AL Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2020CV03878. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Yo PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, al público en general. CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia fechado 27 de junio de 2025, el que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso arriba indicado, venderé en la fecha que más adelante se indica, en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal, en mi oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, Puerto Rico, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada, en el inmueble que se describe a continuación, propiedad de la parte demandada Sucesión de Edda Martinez Ríos t/c/c Edda Antonia Zulay Martínez Ríos, Joe Doe, Richard Doe y María Doe, miembros de nombres desconocidos de la Sucesión de Edda Martínez Ríos t/c/c Edda Antonia Zulay Martínez Ríos; y Nancy Pérez Arroyo. Dirección Física: Condominio Unimar, Apartamento 603, 702 Calle Unión, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907. Finca 7,368, inscrita al folio 75 del tomo 240 de Santurce Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de San Juan. URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartmento six zero three (603) of Condominio Unimar, located at Union Street corner to Fernández Juncos Avenue, Miramar, San Juan, Puerto Rico. It consists of a pri-
vate area of approximately seven hundred fifty (750) square feet, equivalent to approximately six nine point seventy (69.70) square meters. The boundaries of this apartment are: By the NORTH, with bearing wall separating this apartment from the hall, stairway and elevator area; and for a distance of three (3) feet, with door opening leading into the hall, which leads to the outside of the building; by the SOUTH, for a distance of thirty three (33) feet, with exterior wall at the extreme Southern limit of the building facing adjacent property; by the EAST, for a distance of approximately twenty five feet three inches (25’3”), with walls, windows and railing facing Union Street; and by the WEST, for a distance of approximately twenty five feet three inches (25’3”), with exterior wall and window openings facing adjacent property. This apartment comprises a living area, a dining area, a kitchen, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a balcony and three closets.
Quota: General common elements: Four point three seven five percent (4.37%) (así surge). Quota: Restricted common elements: twenty seven percent (27%). Le corresponde un área de estacionamiento. Finca 7,368: Por su procedencia está afecta a: a0 Condiciones restrictivas sobre edificación y uso. Por sí está afecta a: a) Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de First Federal Savings Bank, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $49,500.00, con intereses al 9 1/8% anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2018, constituida mediante la escritura número 355, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 4 de mayo de 1988, ante el notario Javier Miranda Casanova, e inscrita al folio 132 vuelto del tomo 301 de Santurce Sur, finca número 7,368, inscripción 8va. b) Hipoteca sobre la participación de un 50% (así surge) de Edda Martínez Ríos, en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Portador, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $12,000.00, con intereses al 7 ½% anual, vencedero el día 19 de marzo de 2002, constituida mediante la escritura número 3, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de marzo de 1993, ante la notario Rosario Morales Señeriz, e inscrita al folio 133 del tomo 301 de Santurce Sur, finca número 7,368, inscripción 9na. c) Embargo de fecha 24 de mayo de 2021, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, en el caso Civil Número SJ2020CV03878, sobre Cobro de Dinero, seguido por el Consejo de Titulares del Condominio Unimar versus Sucesión de Edda Martínez Ríos, también conocida como Edda Antonia Zulay Martínez Rios, Joe Doe, Richard Doe y María Doe, miembros de nombres desco-
nocidos de la Sucesión y Nancy Pérez Arroyo, por la suma de $23,177.39, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales, anotado el día 23 de mayo de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Santurce Sur, finca número 7,368, Anotación “A”, y última. La fecha de la subasta en relación a la Finca 7,368 (embargo descrito en el acápite (c)) antes descrita es el día 5 DE AGOSTO DE 2025 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA.
Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación que se transmite y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y las preferentes, si las hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante las acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de las mismas, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Conforme a la Sentencia dictada el día 24 de mayo de 2021. Enmendada el 8 de junio de y enmendada nuevamente el 14 de junio de 2021 y archivada en los autos en la misma fecha, la anterior venta se hará para satisfacer las sumas adeudadas por concepto por concepto de cuota de mantenimiento y las sumas que se mencionan a continuación: La suma de $17,809.14, cantidad que aumenta cada mes, a razón de $133.50, dado el hecho de que las cuotas por concepto de mantenimiento vencen y son pagaderas el primero de cada mes. Además, los intereses y penalidades que dicha suma habrá de devengar intereses al tipo legal establecido para obligaciones privadas por la Oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras en esta fecha, desde el día de hoy hasta su total y completo saldo. Además, se impone el pago de los intereses, penalidades, costas, gastos, todas aquellas cantidades vencidas, (cuotas, seguros, intereses y penalidades) y no pagadas al momento en que se dicte sentencia. La referida cantidad de $17,809.14, aumenta cada mes, a razón de $133.50, dado el hecho de que las cuotas por concepto de mantenimiento vencen y son pagaderas el primero de cada mes. Además, los intereses y penalidades de la cantidad de $133.50, conforme lo dispuesto por la Oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras (del año 2016 al mes de agosto de 2020), a tenor con el Artículo 1061 §3025, el 1% del total del balance adeudado y el 10% de la mensualidad. Además, se impone el pago de $4,636.25, por concepto de honorarios de abogados. Se notifica por la presente a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los inmuebles a ser subastados con posteriori-
dad a la inscripción del gravamen del ejecutante descrito anteriormente, o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubieren pospuesto al gravamen del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizado hipotecariamente con posterioridad al gravamen del actor para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si así lo interesan o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogado, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y, para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general, y para su publicación de acuerdo con la ley en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico y en tres sitios públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida de la parte demandada, expido el presente edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 2 de julio de 2025. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
LEGAL NOTICE
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ FARLIE VAZQUEZ
ACOSTA Y OTROS
Demandante V. BLANCA FLOR VAZQUEZ HENRIQUEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: MZ2023CV01402. (Salón: 306). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOSCLSEGARRA@YAHOO.COM. JAIME MÁRQUEZ TORRESMARQUEZ-FRANQUI@HOTMAIL. COM.
LAURA LEONOR ALICIA OTERO GONZÁLEZ - LCDA.LAURAOTERO@ GMAIL.COM. A: SUCESIÓN DE CRISTOBALINA
HERNANDEZ ROSADO COMPUESTA POR FULANO DEL TAL.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de junio 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 03 de julio 2025. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA A LOS EFECTO DE CORREGIR A QUIEN SE DIRIGE LA NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 03 de julio de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. YAHAIRA TORRES MATÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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DAVIANA
ESTOLT CEPEDA
Demandantes Vs. SOLINEDMARY ESTOLT MALDONADO; EDGARDO LORENZO ESTOLT CARDONA REPRESENTADO POR SU MADRE MAYRA LIZ CARDONA MERCED
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00778. Sobre: DIVISIÓN Y LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: EDGARDO LORENZO ESTOLT CARDONACARDONA, P.R. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: httrs://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dic-
tar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDO. EDGAR A. MOLINA JORGE PO Box 733, Sabana Seca PR. 00952 Tel. (787) 472-3444
E-mail: emolinalaw@gmail.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA
y el sello del Tribunal en Carolina Puerto Rico hoy día 09 de junio de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
DAVIANA
ESTOLT CEPEDA
Demandantes Vs. SOLINEDMARY
ESTOLT MALDONADO; EDGARDO LORENZO ESTOLT CARDONA REPRESENTADO POR SU MADRE MAYRA LIZ CARDONA MERCED Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00778. Sobre: DIVISIÓN Y LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MAYRA LIZ CARDONA MERCED COMO MADRE CON PATRIA POSTESTAD DEL MENOR EDGARDO LORENZO ESTOLT CARDONA - CARDONA, P.R. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: httrs://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDO. EDGAR A. MOLINA JORGE PO Box 733, Sabana Seca PR. 00952 Tel. (787) 472-3444
E-mail: emolinalaw@gmail.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal en Carolina Puerto Rico hoy día 09 de
junio de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA DAVIANA
ESTOLT CEPEDA
Demandantes Vs. SOLINEDMARY ESTOLT MALDONADO; EDGARDO LORENZO ESTOLT CARDONA REPRESENTADO POR SU MADRE MAYRA LIZ CARDONA MERCED Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00778. Sobre: DIVISIÓN Y LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SOLINEDMARY ESTOLT MALDONADO. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: httrs://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. LCDO. EDGAR A. MOLINA JORGE PO Box 733, Sabana Seca PR. 00952 Tel. (787) 472-3444
E-mail: emolinalaw@gmail.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal en Carolina Puerto Rico hoy día 09 de junio de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS JC AMEZAGA ENTERPRISES, INC. Demandante Vs. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF
PUERTO RICO, HOY FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERES
Demandados
Civil No.: CG2025CV02280.
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.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ.
Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica de la radicación de una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, que se ha extraviado, luego de haber sido saldado por el deudor hipotecario: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $24,350.00, con intereses al 9% anual, vencedero el 1 de septiembre de 2007, según consta de la escritura número ochocientos quince (815), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 9 de agosto de 1977, ante el Notario Mariano Acevedo Defilló, e inscrita al folio 799 de Caguas, finca número 26,203 inscripción tercera. La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare Con Lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia ordene al Registrador de la Propiedad correspondiente, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebel-
pia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de julio de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 01 de julio de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ
APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. RICARDO D. ALVARADO RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2024CV02975. (Civil: 406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
Natalie BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: RICARDO D.
ALVARADO RIVERA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de 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 01 de julio de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 01 de julio de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ
APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE
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Demandante V. LUIS J. NEGRON VELEZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SS2024CV00847. (Salón: 0001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: LUIS J. NEGRON VELEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 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 03 de julio de 2025. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 03 de julio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. AGDEL AVILES ORTIZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AI2024CV00475. (Salón: 006). Sobre: _________. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: AGDEL AVILES ORTIZ - BO PULGUILLAS CARR 723 KM 5 HM 0, AIBONITO PR 00705-0590; PO BOX 590, AIBONITO PR 007050590.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el
03 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 03 de julio de 2025. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 03 de julio de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ
RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. RAFAEL SANTIAGO NUNEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CO2024CV00496. (Salón: 006). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: RAFAEL SANTIAGO NUNEZ - CALLE SAN JOSE 251 ALTOS, AIBONITO PR 00705; RES LIBORIO ORTIZ EDIF 16 APT 108, AIBONITO PR 00705.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 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 03 de julio de 2025. En Aibonito, Puerto Rico, el 03 de julio de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ
RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. MYRIAM I. RAFFUCCI CINTRON
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: YU2024CV00638. (Salón: 3 SALA MUNICIPAL EN SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: MYRIAM I. RAFFUCCI CINTRON - P/C LCDO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de junio 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 03 de julio de 2025. En Yau-
co, Puerto Rico, el 03 de julio de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
RAFAEL DIAZ ROSARIO
Demandante Vs. DIOSPAGITA
MARTE SANTANA
Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2025RF00765. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: DIOSPAGITA
MARTE SANTANACALLE HAYDEE REXACH 506, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00915. Por la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado una demanda de Divorcio por Ruptura Irreparable, Caso Civil Núm.: SJ2025RF00765 en su contra y usted tiene derecho a examinar la misma y los autos en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. Se le advierte que de no contestar la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia para conceder el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Dentro del término antes dispuesto, 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 presente por derecho propio en cuyo caso deberá presentar su contestación a la demanda en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. Copia de su alegación responsiva deberá enviarla a la representante legal del demandante, Lcda. Liria Irimia Lliteras (Rua 9533) a su dirección de correo electrónico: lcda.irimiagmail.com o a su dirección postal: P.o Box 43002, Suite 164, Río Grande, Puerto Rico, 00745. Tel: (787)860-1100. Expedido bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. Dado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, 10 de julio de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYMARIS LABOY NIEVES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN JOSÉ JOAQUÍN GARCÍA VÉLEZ Y OTROS
Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, CUSTODIO DE LOS ARCHIVOS DORAL BANK Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SS2025CV00254. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, CUSTODIO DE LOS ARCHIVOS DORAL BANK - PO BOX 362708 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00936. JOSÉ JOAQUÍN GARCÍA VÉLEZ - 59 LLOVISA ST. FITCHBURG FITCHBURG, MASSACHUSETTS, ESTADOS UNIDOS 01420. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de junio 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 01 de julio de 2025. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 01 de julio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE MINERVA ALVAREZ CARMONA
Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT
INSURANCE
CORPORATION
COMO SÍNDICO DE
WESTERNBANK OF PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: AG2025CV01012. 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 Y RICHARD ROE, 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: a. un pagaré a favor de Westernbank Puerto Rico por la suma principal de $300,000.00 con intereses al 10.99% anual y vencimiento en 25 años bajo affidávit número 18,554 y constituida en virtud de la escritura número 181 otorgada en Rincón, Puerto Rico el 30 de mayo de 2009 ante el notario José A. Amador López e inscrito al folio 24 del tomo 162 de Rincón, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Aguadilla, finca número 5,197, inscripción 7ª. 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://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante a esta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. 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, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 30 de junio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ERIKA I. CRUZ PÉREZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
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FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Y OTROS Demandante V. WILFREDO BAEZ APONTE Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV04888. (Salón: 504). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVAMCOLON@WWCLAW.COM. A: ANA SANTIAGO BURGOS POR SÍ Y COMO VIUDA DE WILFREDO BAEZ APONTE, SOENITH BAEZ RODRIGUEZ, WILDA BAEZ SANTIAGO COMO HEREDERAS DE WILFREDO BAEZ APONTE Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE WILFREDO BAEZ APONTE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de 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 03 de julio de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 03 de julio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. VIVÍAN J. SANABRIA ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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In Club World Cup, PSG is showing off new trait: Resilience
By FELIPE CARDENAS / THE ATHLETIC
Before the 2025 Champions League final, Paris St.-Germain was a side known for wilting under the pressure of high expectations.
In previous years, even with Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé in the starting lineup, PSG could not get past the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Manchester City in Europe’s top club competition.
Last Saturday in Atlanta, in one of the most anticipated games of this novel Club World Cup, Bayern Munich, the intimidating German champions, pummeled PSG for nearly 80 minutes. PSG striker Désiré Doué ended the match battered and bloodied.
For long stretches, Bayern’s physical and relentless aggression tamed the talented French side. PSG had to dig even deeper after Doué’s 78th-minute goal was followed by red cards for Willian Pacho and Lucas Hernández.
But resilience kept PSG alive.
“We’ve spoken a lot about resilience, and we are a resilient team,” PSG coach Luis Enrique said after the 2-0 win. “We’re prepared to compete in any situation. The result doesn’t matter. We suffered a lot during this past season. But we suffered together.
“We weren’t as efficient as we could’ve been, both during league play and in the Champions League. But we showed our team spirit. We fight together.”
The day before, Luis Enrique reminded the French press in Atlanta that they had often criticized his young team — and particularly PSG’s front line — during the Ligue 1 season. Before its 5-0 thrashing of Inter Milan in the Champions League final, PSG underwhelmed in the group stage and, initially, underachieved in Europe.
Defeats by Atlético Madrid, Arsenal and Bayern led to a 15th-place finish in the table before the Champions League knockout round. Luis Enrique’s side was not as well drilled as they appear today. For a while, it looked as if PSG and its Spanish coach were on the same path as his predecessors Mauricio Pochettino and Thomas Tuchel — big names who fell short.
So after recovering to lift the Champions League trophy, PSG’s next challenge was to sustain its success.
The club embodied the type of European power that could have looked at the Club World Cup as a nuisance after
a tiring season. Instead, as one of the youngest squads at the competition, PSG is rewriting its own history, and after blitzing Real Madrid 4-0 in the semifinals on Wednesday in a match that served as a reunion with former star Mbappé, the French side will face Chelsea in Sunday’s final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey (3 p.m. ET, DAZN).
Leading Bayern by 1-0 but down two men late on Saturday, PSG still pushed for a second goal. A team replete with young players like the 20-year-old Doué, the 22-year-old Bradley Barcola and the 20-year-old João Neves weathered Bayern’s frenzied search for an equalizer in a stadium on the verge of bedlam after each attacking sequence.
After a fantastic individual move by Achraf Hakimi, the second-half substitute Ousmane Dembélé smashed home the decisive second goal from close range six minutes into added time at the end.
It was the culmination of a professional performance that was far from flawless. Bayern was sharper, but PSG’s players had revenge on their minds. In soccer, those emotional motivators are often the difference when tactics and principles of play are so evenly matched.
“Revenge? Maybe a little,” Barcola said before the quarterfinal. “It’s our biggest source of motivation right now.”
Barcola epitomizes the confidence that oozes from PSG’s dressing room. It is not arrogance, although it can be mistaken as such. PSG is a brash outfit of highly skilled international players who do not want to be mentioned in the same breath as the club’s disappointing sides of the past.
A 1-0 loss at Bayern’s Allianz Arena during the Champions League group stage in November was a turning point in PSG’s season, Barcola said. At that point, PSG was on the ropes yet again in Europe.
“It’s really that feeling of revenge because we lost at their
place,” Barcola said. “It was very tough for us, even afterward, but that’s why we really have the desire to win. I think it’s that loss that hurt us. It made us realize that, at that moment, we didn’t have many chances left to continue in the Champions League. And it motivated us even more to push even harder.”
PSG’s win over Inter finally put an end to the notion that the perennial French champions were overqualified domestically but ill-prepared mentally for Europe’s top club competition. Saturday’s win over Bayern reinforced the point.
“We can really learn from this match because it took us out of our comfort zone,” PSG captain Marquinhos said. “We had a few chances that we missed and some dangerous balls that gave them some chances. These little things will help us grow moving forward. And this shows the mentality of our group, because that’s something we talk about a lot.
“Winning is already very difficult — but continuing to win is even harder. That’s the mentality we have.”
When Marquinhos was asked where the newfound attitude comes from, the Brazilian international wasted no time in crediting his manager.
“Our coach — he brought his philosophy, his mindset, and he prepared the team very well from the first day he arrived,” Marquinhos said. “He started from scratch with how he wanted us to play. He worked on improving the team mentally so we’d be ready for anything that could happen during a match.”
It took time for PSG to adopt Luis Enrique’s demands. The talent was there; this team is gifted at nearly every position. It rebuilt and reset after Mbappé left for Real Madrid. And the commitment to the collective over the individual star was a drastic shift from the PSG of old.
Now, can a battle-tested PSG go from conquering Europe to conquering the world?
Paris St.-Germain had to dig even deeper to hold off Bayern Munich after Désiré Doué’s 78th-minute goal was followed by a pair of red cards. (YouTube via FIFA)
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