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La Fortaleza: Gov’t shared data on illegal migrants with ICE
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico government provided information on drivers with undefined immigration status to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal agency within the Department of Homeland Security, in response to a federal request and in line with legal obligations, La Fortaleza Secretary of Public Affairs Hiram Torres Montalvo confirmed Thursday.
During a press conference, Torres Montalvo said that when a federal request, such as a subpoena, is issued, it is directed to the relevant agency’s secretary -- specifically in this case, the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP by its acronym in Spanish). He emphasized the importance of treating such requests with the seriousness they warrant.
The Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) had urged the government not to share such information with federal authorities. However, according to a federal official, the information was indeed provided.
Torres Montalvo clarified that there is no existing collaboration agreement between DTOP and federal authorities regarding the sharing of information on undocumented immigrants. Nevertheless, the agency is legally obligated to respond to requests from competent federal courts. He emphasized that compliance with the law is essential, stating that failing to respond to such requests could constitute a crime.
Torres Montalvo noted further that communication regarding such sensitive matters is directly channeled through the governor’s office, ensuring that the information remains confidential and is not handled by him or anyone at La Fortaleza.
He refrained from discussing the involvement of other government agencies or their responses to similar requests, noting that many of the requests come with a stipulation that prevents disclosure of whether the request or the information sought was received.
Torres Montalvo’s confirmation of the data sharing was met with criticism by both the PIP and the Puerto Rico Bar Association.
The PIP delegations in the island Legislature introduced a resolution on Thursday to investigate how DTOP disclosed information on 6,000 foreign residents with provisional driver’s licenses to ICE.
unlawfully by disclosing information when it was prohibited by law.”
Santiago Negrón asserted that the disclosure of the information is part of a policy of collaboration with federal agencies to persecute vulnerable communities.
“What the Trump and González Colón regimes are pursuing is not to completely eradicate the population with irregular immigration status, but rather to generate a wave of continuous persecution that forces communities like [those from] the Dominican Republic to work in completely clandestine and abusive conditions for fear of arrest,” she stated.
The resolution requests that the Senate expand the investigation to document any other collaboration between the Puerto Rican government and federal agencies that impacts the rights of migrant residents on the island.
Puerto Rico Bar Association President Vivian Godineaux Villaronga, meanwhile, described the release of information on drivers with undefined immigration status to the federal government as an “affront” and a “violation of the universal right to privacy.”
Godineaux noted that Law 97 of 2013, passed during the administration of then-Gov. Alejandro García Padilla, allows people without official immigration status to obtain driver’s licenses on the island.
The measure was announced by the PIP spokespersons in the Senate, María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón and Adrián González Costa, who noted that the disclosure of the information violates Law 97-2013, which protects the confidentiality of data on people with irregular immigration status in Puerto Rico.
“The government of Puerto Rico has very limited powers when it comes to disclosing information in its custody,” González Costa said. “These powers are further restricted when there is a law, such as Law 97-2013, that expressly protects people’s information. Clearly, the government acted
“This law is in force and establishes in its Statement of Motives that the contributions to the country of foreigners without official immigration status and respect for human dignity make them entitled to fundamental protections from the state,” Godineaux said in a written statement.
She reiterated that the organization has firmly opposed local government collaboration with federal executive orders that threaten the immigrant community.
“State agencies are under no obligation to collaborate with federal agencies regarding these orders promoted by the Donald Trump administration,” Godineaux said. “Evidence of this is the numerous legal proceedings active in U.S. courts by states, as well as by entities and institutions challenging these orders.”
La Fortaleza Public Affairs Secretary Hiram Torres Montalvo
Lodging revenues reach $819 million due to hike in short-term rentals
By THE STAR STAFF
Lodging revenues for the first four months of the year reached $819 million, marking the highest amount recorded during this period, according to recent data from STR and AirDNA. The increase can be attributed to a notable rise in the performance of short-term rentals.
The data indicates that the hotel industry experienced a 7% increase in revenue. However, vacation rentals outperformed hotels with a notable 21% revenue increase, rising from $240 million between January and April 2024 to $291 million during the same period in 2025.
Other important metrics within the sector also showed improvement. Passenger arrivals at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina increased by 11%, the demand for accommodations rose by 9%, and tax revenues from room rentals saw an 8% boost.
The growth occurs in the context of a challenging travel market. A report from Tourism Economics highlighted that the ongoing international tariff war and anticipated economic slowdown are beginning to impact the tourism industry’s performance. Data from the U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office pointed out a decline in international visitors to U.S. jurisdictions during February and March.
In response to these changes, Fernando Rodríguez, chief financial officer and interim CEO at Discover Puerto Rico, the island’s destination marketing organization, expressed optimism in a recent industry update, stating, “The year got off to a good start in Puerto Rico, and we are confident that if we continue working together, we can continue reaping the benefits during these times of great change
and challenges.”
“Our industry is experiencing a moment of great strength, and at Discover Puerto Rico, we are prepared to continue unleashing the demand and popularity of our destination,” he said.
Looking ahead, the short-term rental sector appears poised for further growth. Although hotels saw a minor decrease in occupancy rates from May to July, there was a significant rebound in August and September, with yearover-year growth rates of 44% and 29%, respectively.
Laressa Morales, director of research and analysis at Discover Puerto Rico, noted the dynamics of hotel bookings: “We see hotel bookings for June and July down 7% and 4% compared to last year, respectively. This decline can largely be attributed to the impacts of international political and economic uncertainty on group and business travel segments. However, we anticipate a positive trend moving forward, especially for August and September, with booking rates exceeding those of last year due in part to the concert series that has been integrated into Puerto Rico’s tourism offerings.”
Airbnb: Aguadilla, Carolina & Río Grande are island’s most hospitable destinations
Separately, the municipalities of Aguadilla, Carolina and Río Grande stood out as the most hospitable destinations in Puerto Rico in 2024, according to an Airbnb report released this week. Five-star guest ratings placed those destinations at the top of the list.
In Aguadilla, the community of hosts under 30 grew by nearly 70% over the past year, highlighting youthful hospitality and natural attractions such as Crash Boat Beach
and tours of the island’s western region.
Carolina, with nearly 15% growth in hosts, stands out for its participation of older adults, who represent more than 20% of its host community. The Isla Verde area offers easy access to beaches, culinary and cultural experiences, and historical monuments.
In Río Grande, more than 50% of the hosts who share their spaces through the platform are women. The northeastern coastal destination is known for the El Yunque National Forest and its waterfalls, ideal for hiking and ecotourism.
In addition, Airbnb recognized Irma, from Isabela, as the island’s most hospitable host. The
Lodging revenues of $819 million for the first four months of the year were the highest recorded during this period, an increase that can be attributed to a notable rise in the performance of short-term rentals.
Special emergency loan program opens for farmers
By THE STAR STAFF
In response to the flooding caused by the severe rains recorded during April and May, the island Department of Agriculture announced Thursday the start of a special emergency loan program for affected farmers.
The measure is part of the agricultural recovery plan promoted by Executive Order OE-2025-022 issued by Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, in which a state of emergency was declared in the most impacted municipalities.
Agriculture Secretary Josué E. Rivera said the program will be administered by the Innovation Fund for Agricultural Development (FIDA by its acronym in Spanish), and will be available to individual farmers, agribusinesses, cooperatives, value-added industries and other entities impacted by the rains.
“Our commitment to farmer welfare and the food security of our island is unwavering,” Rivera said. “We know that these rains caused significant damage in numerous agricultural regions and that is why we are acting swiftly to provide the necessary financial relief. This program represents a vital tool
Emergency loans now available to qualifying agricultural entities in response to flooding experienced on the island during April and May “will be available for operational capital, purchase of inputs, cleaning of roads, new plantings, rehabilitation of structures, and other uses directly related to the recovery of the farm,” an official said.
for our farms to return to productive prosperity.”
FIDA Executive Director Dr. Ruth L. Pagán Alvarado detailed the terms of the program. Loans range from $5,000 to $100,000, with fixed interest rates of 3.75% per year and a three-month moratorium on principal and interest payments, she noted.
“They will be available for operational capital, purchase of inputs, cleaning of roads, new plantings, rehabilitation of structures, and other uses directly related to the recovery of the farm,” Pagán Alvarado said.
The period for filing applications will be extended until June 30. To be eligible, applicants must submit a proposal, evidence of ownership of the property, tax returns, corporate documents, and complete the official FIDA form. The claimed losses must be directly linked to the weather event.
The program will be available through the Department of Agriculture’s regional offices in Arecibo, Caguas, Lares, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Ponce, San Germán and Utuado.
For more information and guidance, interested parties can contact the Agriculture Department’s regional offices, or 787723-9090 ext. 2416, 2406, or visit www.agricultura.pr.gov.
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Capitol to hold cybersecurity forum next week
By THE STAR STAFF
Rep. José Aponte Hernández on Thursday announced a cybersecurity forum to be held at the Capitol next week.
The purpose of the forum slated for Wednesday is to evaluate the measures implemented by the three branches of government -- the legislative, executive and judicial -- to mitigate the impact of cyberattacks on government information systems.
Among those invited to attend are staff from the Office of Innovation and Technology Services (PRITS), representatives from the FBI, cybercrime units from the island Department of Justice and Police Bureau, as well as IT executives from the local House of Representatives, Senate, and Courts Administration Office.
“This is an issue we’ve been addressing since 2011. Data security on government digital platforms is crucial for the functioning of the system and for maintaining public trust,” Aponte said. “The recent cyberattack on the Department of Justice’s networks highlights the need to take proactive measures to prevent such attacks.
Rep. José Aponte Hernández
That is why we are convening executives from various agencies and branches of government to assess the current state of our systems and explore how we can strengthen their security.”
According to data from the University of Michigan’s Center for Cybersecurity, there were 32,211 recorded cyberattacks on federal government networks in 2023, which represents an increase of 1,552 from the previous year, when there were
30,659 attacks.
Additionally, PRITS reported that in 2023, there were a total of 82,089,132 attempted cyberattacks in Puerto Rico, affecting both the public and private sectors.
“In recent years, we have witnessed how these attacks have become more sophisticated and have penetrated our systems more deeply,” noted Aponte, a former House speaker who currently chairs the Committee on Federal Relations and Veterans’ Affairs in the lower chamber. “For instance, in 2020, criminals successfully accessed the data systems of the Industrial Development Company [PRIDCO] and the Retirement System Administration. In 2022, similar breaches occurred in the Senate and the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, among other entities.”
The forum will address measures to enhance network security and will evaluate potential legislation related to that topic, among other discussions.
“Advances in digital communication platforms and other related systems have made it imperative to secure the data that the government holds,” Aponte said. “Government cyber systems store a vast array of data, including individuals’ and businesses’
names, Social Security numbers, bank accounts, addresses, birth certificates, and more.”
The island Justice Department’’s information system was restored Thursday after unauthorized access was detected in the Criminal Justice Information System (SIJC-PR), triggering security protocols and initiating an investigation by state and federal authorities.
According to the government, the work included the implementation of additional security measures and monitoring of the database to prevent future incidents. The system reengineering incorporated more rigorous controls to protect public information.
Poincaré Díaz Peña, the island government’s chief cybersecurity officer, said in a written statement that the new measures ensure data protection and system reliability.
“What we are doing at the infrastructure level is extremely secure and has additional layers of security to guarantee safe and reliable services,” he said.
Although the system had been restored and was available to the public, authorities confirmed that the investigation into the breach was continuing.
Organizations ask Congress to reject paying PREPA bondholders
By THE STAR STAFF
More than 35 organizations from various sectors in Puerto Rico called on Congress on Thursday to reject the full $8.3 billion payment to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondholders and to support a debt restructuring plan that does not hike electricity rates.
“Imposing an unpayable debt burden, as a group of PREPA bondholders insists, will mean that Puerto Rico remains tied to a dysfunctional and unaffordable electricity system for decades,” stated The Rev. Dr. Lizette Gabriel Montalvo, bishop of the Methodist Church of Puerto Rico, in a written statement.
The letter was addressed to U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wisc.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Administrative State, Regulatory, and Antitrust Reform. Edna Díaz, vice president of the United Retailers Center, noted that the petition seeks to halt a payment plan deemed unviable for the island’s economy.
PREPA Retirees Association President Johnny Rodríguez emphasized that the priority must be to pay the pensions of more than 12,000 beneficiaries who could be left without funds beyond June.
“It is unacceptable to prioritize the demands of bondholders over the families who rely on their pensions as their sole source of income,” he said.
The signatories warned that Puerto Rico’s electricity system is significantly less reliable than that of any state in the United States and that an increase in electricity rates would worsen the economic crisis. The letter advocates for a realistic restructuring that would allow for the rehabilitation of the electrical system without hindering the island’s recovery.
The organizations signing the letter include the PREPA Retirees Association, the United Retailers Center, the Puerto Rico Bar Association, the League of Puerto Rico Cities, Open Spaces, Sierra Club Puerto Rico, and various religious, community, educational and professional organizations.
While the Financial Oversight and Management Board has said Puerto Rico cannot raise rates to pay off its debt, the oversight board proposed a plan in March to restructure PREPA’s legacy debts that would open the door for rate increases to pay the debt.
PREPA has some $8.5 billion in legacy bond debt and has been in federal bankruptcy court since 2017. It also has a pension system that currently is only kept afloat by periodic injections of cash from the commonwealth government. Under the oversight board’s plan, the total pension liability is estimated at $3.5 billion.
The board’s proposed plan includes the issuance of as many as three series of new bonds, totaling as much as $2.54 billion to pay off the legacy bond debt.
Johnny Rodríguez, president of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Retirees Association
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Trump restricts Harvard’s international students from entering US
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President Donald Trump said earlier this week that he would prevent Harvard University’s international students from entering the country, an aggressive move the school called “illegal.”
Trump, in the same proclamation, also urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to consider revoking current visas for Harvard students.
The extraordinary action marks the first time Trump has tried to directly use the power of the presidency against Harvard, an indication of how personal the effort to
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inflict distress on the Ivy League university has become for him.
The school, which is all but certain to challenge the legality of Trump’s action, has become a focal point of the administration’s effort to align higher education with Trump’s political agenda. That effort began as one focused on addressing allegations of antisemitism on college campuses, but has moved beyond that issue to include targeting universities over diversity, equity and inclusion programs and support of transgender athletes.
Trump has repeatedly threatened Harvard on social media and in remarks to reporters. But until now, the punishments for resistance — spending cuts and investigations — have come from federal agencies.
“I have determined that the entry of the class of foreign nationals described above is detrimental to the interests of the United States because, in my judgment, Harvard’s conduct has rendered it an unsuitable destination for foreign students and researchers,” Trump wrote in the proclamation.
Jason Newton, a spokesperson for Harvard, said Trump’s proclamation was “yet another illegal retaliatory step taken by the administration in violation of Harvard’s First Amendment rights.”
“Harvard will continue to protect its international students,” Newton said.
It was unclear how exactly Trump’s directive, announced late Wednesday, would be put in place to stop Harvard students with valid visas from entering the United States. The law that Trump invoked to block Harvard students from entering the country has more typically been used to target people from foreign countries with ties to human rights abuses or corruption, according to the American Immigration Council, an advocacy group for immigrants.
A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But the administration’s action showed Trump’s unrelenting commitment to the fight, even when it comes to battles it appeared he had lost.
Trump’s order appeared to be a direct rejoinder to Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the District of Massachusetts, who said last month that she would block an effort by the Department of Homeland Security to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students. She has not yet formally issued her injunction.
If the federal government can’t disqual-
ify Harvard students from receiving visas, Trump seemed to suggest with his order, then he will try to stop them from entering the country.
David Super, an administrative law expert at Georgetown University, said Trump probably would not be able to sidestep Burroughs so easily.
“The president, for whatever reason, is clearly on a vendetta against Harvard for reasons having nothing to do with national security,” Super said. “Given past statements by him and members of his administration of hostility toward Harvard’s exercise of its First Amendment rights, I doubt the courts will take the allegations in this order very seriously.”
Kirsten Weld, a history professor at Harvard and president of a faculty association branch, said Trump’s action “wreaks havoc on the lives of thousands of young people.”
“If the Trump administration is so committed to improving U.S. higher education, it should stop undermining campus free speech and quit slashing the federal contracts that fund Harvard researchers’ lifesaving work on Alzheimer’s disease and pediatric cancer,” Weld said.
The administration has recently been focused on options for keeping international
students out of the country. Trump has talked about capping the number of student visas for Harvard, and Rubio has said that his agency would begin revoking visas for some Chinese students.
International students at Harvard on Wednesday night said they were anxious and confused about Trump’s order, unsure about whether enrolled students already in the United States would be affected.
Some called a hotline set up by the Harvard International Office in an attempt to learn more, but found that the staffers were equally bewildered by the news. Others commiserated in WhatsApp group chats of international students.
Leo Gerdén, an international student from Sweden who graduated from Harvard last week, called Trump’s action “absolutely outrageous.”
“He is trying to use every disposable tool to harass international students,” Gerdén said. “It is dehumanizing.”
Karl Molden, a rising junior from Vienna, wrote in a statement that Trump’s order Wednesday made him “tremble.”
“This puts our future, thousands of international students at risk,” he wrote. “I feel exhausted, scared and discouraged. We must hope that the courts will defend us.”
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., May 30, 2025. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, June 4, 2024, that he would prevent Harvard University’s international students from entering the country, announcing an aggressive move six days after a federal judge said she would halt the administration’s efforts to disqualify those students from receiving visas. (Sophie Park/The New York Times)
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‘We don’t
By HAMED ALEAZIZ
Pwant them’: Trump signs travel ban on citizens from 12 countries
resident Donald Trump earlier this week signed a travel ban on 12 countries, primarily in Africa and the Middle East, reviving an effort from his first term to prevent large numbers of immigrants and visitors from entering the United States.
The ban, which goes into effect Monday, bars travel to the United States by citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Trump also imposed restrictions — but stopped short of a full ban — on travel from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela. People from those countries cannot come to the United States permanently or get tourist or student visas.
The decision resurrects a policy from Trump’s first term, which caused chaos at airports and led to legal challenges. It is the latest move in Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigration, after he blocked asylum at the southern border, barred international students from Harvard University and ordered immigration raids across the country.
The decision came days after an Egyptian man in Colorado was arrested and charged with carrying out an attack on a group honoring hostages being held in the Gaza Strip. Trump administration officials had warned that there would be a crackdown after that attack.
“The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted, as well as those who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas,” Trump said in a video message announcing the travel ban. “We don’t want them.”
Egypt was not on the list of banned countries.
The current version of the travel ban is more likely to withstand legal scrutiny than Trump’s initial efforts during his first term, legal experts said.
“They seem to have learned some lessons from the three different rounds of litigation we went through during the first Trump administration,” said Stephen Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. “But a lot will depend upon how it’s actually enforced — and whether it’s applied in ways that are themselves unlawful or even unconstitutional.”
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Vladeck said that the several-month lead-up to the ban — including the analysis done by the secretary of state — and the range of countries involved made it less vulnerable than the ban issued during the first Trump administration.
George Fishman, who was an attorney in the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump administration, said that courts should follow Supreme Court precedent. He said that “any lower courts that enjoin the proclamation will do so knowing that their injunctions will be overturned. They would be engaged in virtue signaling, pure and simple.”
People with existing visas would be exempted from the ban. Other exemptions include green card holders, athletes traveling to the United States for the World Cup or the Olympics, and Afghans eligible for the Special Immigrant Visa program, which is for those who helped the U.S. government during the war in Afghanistan.
Trump has long railed against migration from Muslim-majority countries. During his first presidential campaign, he proposed a full ban on Muslims entering the country. In his video message Wednesday, Trump alluded to increased migration into Europe in the past decade, which was driven by migrants fleeing Syria and other Muslim-majority countries. He claimed his first term’s travel ban helped protect the country from terror attacks.
“We will not let what happened in Europe happen to America,” he said.
During Trump’s first term, he tried to enforce two versions of a travel ban, but courts blocked them. The Supreme Court eventually permitted a rewritten ban — one that affected citizens from eight nations, six of them predominantly Muslim — to take effect.
The list later evolved. His first travel ban inspired mass protests and chaos at airports across the United States. At one point, the homeland security secretary had to clarify that green card holders from the banned countries could enter the United States.
President Joe Biden revoked Trump’s travel bans soon after he took office in 2021, calling them “a stain on our national conscience” and “inconsistent with our long history of welcoming people of all faiths and no faith at all.”
Trump signaled his intent to usher in a new version in a Day 1 executive order in January, ordering the secretary of state, alongside other top government leaders, to review the screening capabilities of countries and to recommend whether migration from
those areas should be blocked.
The latest travel ban cites issues with security vetting in certain countries and says immigrants from those countries frequently overstay their visas.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said in a statement that the policy is “discriminatory” and “not only flies in the face of what our country is supposed to stand for — it will be harmful to our economy and our communities that rely on the contributions of people who come to America from this wide range of countries.”
Trump justified the travel ban as necessary for national security, but critics say it discriminates against people based on their ethnicity alone.
“The proclamation is another example of the president making a mockery out of immigration and national security laws in order to punish races, religions and ideas he doesn’t like,” said Becca Heller, head of the International Refugee Assistance Project. The group led a lawsuit against the first travel ban in 2017.
President Donald Trump signed a travel ban on 12 countries. (Eric Lee/The New
US brings back Guatemalan wrongly deported to Mexico
By ALAN FEUER and MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ
The Trump administration has brought back to the United States a Guatemalan man who was wrongfully deported to Mexico, albeit to an uncertain future, his lawyers said earlier this week.
Trina Realmuto, a lawyer for the man, known only by his initials, O.C.G., said that she expected him to remain in federal custody as the administration determined how to handle his case.
Last week, the Justice Department said it would comply with a federal judge’s order to “facilitate” the return of O.C.G., a gay man who was sent to Mexico this year despite having told American authorities that he had experienced violence there and was afraid to go back.
That administration officials obeyed the instructions of Judge Brian E. Murphy of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts was a significant departure from the defiant stance that the White House has staked out in other immigration matters.
That includes the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man living in Maryland who remains in El Salvador after being deported in March, despite a previous court order forbidding him from being sent there.
When Murphy ordered the government last month to bring O.C.G. back to the United States, he criticized officials for having claimed that the man was not afraid of being sent to Mexico, before they admitted that they were “unable to identify” any officials to whom he had supposedly made that statement.
Murphy also found that the administration had violated an order he issued in April that barred officials from deporting immigrants to countries not their own without first giving them a “meaningful opportunity” to contest their removal.
In a sworn statement filed to Murphy by his lawyers while he was in hiding, O.C.G. said that he was in Guatemala after being sent there from Mexico, living “in constant panic and constant fear.”
“I can’t be gay here,” he wrote, “which means I cannot be myself.”
The case of O.C.G. was a rare victory on the part of immigration lawyers who have been contesting the Trump administration’s effort to aggressively ramp up deportations.
Still, Realmuto, his lawyer, said she was unsure what would ultimately happen to O.C.G.
She said she expected that he would be taken back into federal custody, adding that he was “nervous
and afraid.”
“But he’s thankful that he’s returning to the United States,” she said.
Realmuto added that O.C.G. would now have the chance to claim he was at risk of being persecuted or tortured if he were deported to a third country.
The Department of Justice in Washington, March 18, 2025. The Trump administration has brought back to the United States a Guatemalan man who was wrongfully deported to Mexico, albeit to an uncertain future, his lawyers said on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
Electricity prices are surging. The GOP megabill could push them higher.
By BRAD PLUMER and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT
The cost of electricity is rising across the country, forcing Americans to pay more on their monthly bills and squeezing manufacturers and small businesses that rely on cheap power.
And some of President Donald Trump’s policies risk making things worse, despite his promises to slash energy prices, companies and researchers say.
This week, the Senate is taking up Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill, which has already passed the House. In its current form, that bill would abruptly end most of the Biden-era federal tax credits for low-carbon sources of electricity like wind, solar, batteries and geothermal power.
Repealing those credits could increase the average family’s energy bill by as much as $400 per year within a decade, according to several studies published this year.
The studies rely on similar reasoning: Electricity demand is surging for the first time in decades, partly because of data centers needed for artificial intelligence, and power companies are already struggling to keep up. Ending tax breaks for solar panels, wind turbines and batteries would make them more expensive and less plentiful, increasing demand for energy from power plants that burn natural gas.
That could push up the price of gas, which currently generates 43% of America’s electricity.
On top of that, the Trump administration’s efforts to sell more gas overseas could further hike prices, while Trump’s new tariffs on steel, aluminum and other materials would raise the cost of transmission lines and other electrical equipment.
These cascading events could lead to further painful increases in electric bills.
“There’s a lot of concern about some pretty big price spikes,” said Rich Powell, CEO of the Clean Energy Buyers Association, which represents companies that have committed to buying renewable energy, including General Motors, Honda, Intel and Microsoft.
A study commissioned by the association found that repealing the clean electricity credits could cause power prices to surge more than 13% in states like Arizona, Kansas, New Jersey and North Carolina and lead to thousands of job losses nationwide by 2032.
Trump administration officials, along with many in the gas industry, disagree. They
in 2022, gas prices spiked and so did electricity bills. While gas prices fell to record lows last year, they are expected to nearly double this year and climb further in 2026, as demand rises at home and the U.S. sells more of its gas abroad.
The United States already exports roughly 11% of its gas in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, much of it to European and Asian countries willing to pay a premium. U.S. export capacity is set to nearly double by 2028 while tech companies are demanding ever more gas power for data centers.
“LNG was already a tidal wave of demand and now you’ve just got on top of it these other forces,” said Gordon Huddleston, president and partner of Dallas-based Aethon Energy, one of the largest privately-held gas producers in the country. “Every real estate guy in Dallas is running around developing a data center.”
argue that Trump’s efforts to make it easier and cheaper to drill and to build pipelines will lower electricity prices over the long term. They also say wind and solar power technologies have already received subsidies for decades and that expanding them too rapidly risks making the electric grid less reliable.
“President Trump’s agenda is to lower the cost of oil production in the United States, lower the cost of natural gas production in the United States — that ultimately will lead to lower average prices and at the same time profitability for businesses,” said Ben Dietderich, an Energy Department spokesperson.
He added that “prices are going to move up and down in the short term,” but that the administration was focused on policies “that will deliver long-lasting prosperity.”
While government forecasters expect electricity prices to rise quickly over the next two years, they predict gasoline prices for cars will fall, offsetting some household costs. Oil prices have already declined nearly 20% since Trump took office, partly because of concerns that his tariffs could slow global economic growth.
Still, the threat of rising electricity bills has made some lawmakers nervous about scrapping federal support for clean energy.
“Given rising energy demand, it is imperative that any modifications to the tax
code avoid worsening the economic pressures that American households and businesses already face,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, wrote in a letter with three fellow Republicans in April. Repealing some tax breaks “would translate into immediate utility bill increases, placing additional strain on hardworking Americans,” they wrote.
Why Electricity Prices Have Been Rising
Since 2022, U.S. residential electricity prices have risen 13% on average, outpacing inflation, according to the Energy Information Administration. In New England, the mid-Atlantic and the West Coast, prices are increasing even faster.
The shocks are also being felt in places like Ohio, where this month rates are rising 26%, on average — hundreds of dollars more per year for many families — as energy-hungry data centers flood the state.
The causes of rising rates are complex. In California, utilities face soaring costs from worsening wildfires. Elsewhere, power companies are spending tens of billions of dollars to upgrade aging electric grids and prepare for weather disasters, electric vehicles and growing amounts of renewable energy. Transmission and distribution costs have been soaring and now make up nearly 40% of power bills.
One big driver has been fluctuating natural gas prices. After Russia invaded Ukraine
On top of that, the cost of building gas power plants has nearly tripled since 2022, and power companies now face wait times of five years or more for new gas turbines. Tariffs are also making it more expensive to drill for natural gas by raising the cost of equipment such as steel pipe.
The crunch comes as the Trump administration wants to end the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, a $4 billion federal fund that helps 6.2 million people from Texas to Maine pay for high heating and cooling bills. The White House called the program “unnecessary,” and said families would be helped by policies that lowered energy prices.
“We’ve got millions of families that are already struggling to pay their bills,” said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association. “Now you bring in extreme temperatures, record heat, and it’s a very bad situation.”
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Power infrastructure under construction for Meta’s Eagle Mountain Data Center in Utah, Nov. 19, 2024. Electricity demand is surging for the first time in decades, partly because of data centers needed for A.I., and power companies are already struggling to keep up. (Christie Hemm Klok/The New York Times)
How higher tariffs on steel and aluminum will affect companies
By MADELEINE NGO, NEAL E. BOUDETTE and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT
President Donald Trump has raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%, less than three months after imposing a 25% tariff on them. He said the move, made Wednesday, would help support U.S. steel companies, but many domestic businesses say that the latest increase would hurt them and raise prices for all Americans.
U.S. homebuilders, car manufacturers, oil producers and can makers will be among the most affected. Many companies in those and other industries will likely pass on cost increases to their customers.
“It means higher costs for consumers,” said Mary E. Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a research organization in Washington that tends to favor lower trade barriers.
These are some of the industries that could feel the biggest effects from Trump’s latest tariffs.
American steelmakers
Slabs of steel leave the casting machine and are cut to length at ArcelorMittal’s steel plant in Zelzate, Belgium, on March 5, 2021. President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum imports on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, lifting levies on foreign metals to 50 percent. (Kevin Faingnaert/The New York Times)
Industry groups representing domestic steel producers praised the steeper levies, which they said could spur investment and create jobs in the United States.
Kevin Dempsey, the president and chief executive at the American Iron and Steel Institute, said the latest increase would help U.S. steel producers compete with China and other countries that have flooded the global market with metal. Dempsey said the industry had worried that the 25% tariff on steel imports alone was not sufficient.
“The increase to 50% is well justified and will help prevent a new surge in imports of steel,” Dempsey said.
He added that higher tariffs would eventually help create new jobs.
“Over time, increased production will lead to increased employment,” Dempsey said.
Foreign steel producers
Suppliers in Britain will continue to face a 25% tariff on the steel and aluminum they sell to the United States for now, under a reprieve the country negotiated with the Trump administration last month. But other metal exporters like Canada will be hit hard.
Canada is the largest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the United States. The Canadian Steel Producers Association condemned the Trump administration’s latest increase and said in a statement that it “essentially closes the U.S. market to our domestic industry.”
Mexico, Brazil, South Korea and Germany are also big suppliers of steel. The European Steel Association warned that the administration’s latest increase could result in a flood of cheap foreign steel being dumped into Europe as countries look for other markets.
Aluminum producers
Industry groups representing aluminum makers have voiced support for the Trump administration’s attempts to strengthen the industry. But officials have also said that U.S. aluminum companies need a reliable source of that metal from Canada to turn into more specialized products. That kind of manufacturing supports U.S. jobs and investments, industry officials said.
“We urge the administration to take a tailored approach that reserves high tariffs for bad actors — such as China — that flood the market and includes carve outs for proven partners — such as Canada,” Matt Meenan, a spokesperson for the Aluminum Association, said in a statement.
The association said that steeper tariffs alone would not be enough to increase domestic production, and that the industry needed “consistent, predictable trade and tariff policy to plan for current and future investment.”
Automakers
Higher steel tariffs are likely to raise the cost of new cars and trucks. That will be bad for consumers, who are already facing near-record
prices for new vehicles, and car companies that are contending with higher costs stemming from previous tariff increases on imported vehicles and engines and other components.
“These tariff increases will further raise the cost of both imported and domestic steel and aluminum, thereby increasing the cost of assembling a car in the United States,” said Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council, which lobbies on behalf of General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis. “This action places U.S. industry and U.S. workers at a disadvantage in the global marketplace.”
Steel and aluminum once accounted for most of the cost of a new car or truck. Computer chips and other electronics now tend to cost a lot more per car than those metals.
It is unclear how much the increased steel and aluminum tariffs alone will result in higher new-car prices. Analyst estimates range from a few hundred dollars to $1,000 or more per vehicle. It is also unclear how soon the effect will be felt.
Homebuilders
Trump’s tariffs could drive up housing costs and deter new development as homebuilders pay higher prices for steel and aluminum products.
Buddy Hughes, chair of the National Association of Home Builders, said that before the administration’s latest increase Wednesday, builders had already estimated that new tariffs would add $10,900 to the average cost of a new home.
“President Trump’s move to double steel and aluminum tariffs will have a negative impact on housing affordability by further disrupting building material supply chains and fueling business uncertainty,” Hughes said in a statement.
Can manufacturers
Can makers have warned that consumers will see higher prices at the grocery store because of the steeper metal tariffs.
The Can Manufacturers Institute, which represents the domestic metal can industry, said that significant cuts by tin mill steel producers over the past eight years have decreased U.S. output of the specialized steel by 75%. Because of the drop, domestic can makers and canned food producers import nearly 80% of tin mill steel from foreign allies, according to the institute.
Oil and gas producers
Higher steel tariffs will also squeeze U.S. oil companies, which need steel to build pipelines and produce oil and natural gas. Steel can make up 10% to 20% of the cost of a new well, executives have said.
Metal costs have risen even as oil prices have fallen nearly 20% since Trump took office, an unpalatable combination for producers. Smaller companies, which generally do not order as much material in advance, have been particularly hard-hit.
Wall Street stocks end down as Trump-Musk feud weighs on Tesla
Wall Street’s stock indexes ended lower on Thursday in choppy trade as a slump in Tesla shares offset news of progress in tariff talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Electric car-maker Tesla slumped in heavy trading as the public feud between CEO Elon Musk and Trump intensified. The stock has fallen four out of the last five sessions.
Musk has stepped up criticism of the president’s massive tax legislation in recent days, while Trump alleged Musk was upset because the bill takes away tax benefits for electric vehicle purchases.
“The fallout for Tesla stock is self-evident,” said Mark
Spiegel, portfolio manager at Stanphyl Capital.
“I see no meaningful fallout from this for the rest of the market, other than its slight effect on the indexes and index funds. The overall stock market has plenty of problems, but Tesla isn’t one of them.”
Investors focused earlier on news that Trump and the Chinese leader had invited each other to their respective countries for future visits as shown in U.S. and Chinese summaries of their phone call on Thursday.
A recent dispute over critical minerals had threatened to tear up a fragile trade truce between the two biggest economies.
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 lost 31.30 points, or 0.52%, to end at 5,939.51 points, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 159.65 points, or 0.82%, to 19,300.84. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 104.93 points, or 0.25%, to 42,322.81.
Weaker-than-expected U.S. private payrolls and services sector data on Wednesday raised concerns about an economic slowdown caused by trade uncertainties, with investors focusing squarely on Friday’s nonfarm payrolls report.
Initial jobless claims data on Thursday showed Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits last week rose for a second straight week.
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Jeff Schmid on Thursday expressed concern that tariffs could rekindle inflation, saying upward price pressure could be apparent in coming months but not fully known for much longer.
The comments show Schmid is likely inclined to hold the Fed policy rate steady at its June 17-18 meeting as is widely expected, but also beyond that.
Despite calls from Trump to slash rates, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has opted to stand pat so far, awaiting further data to guide the policy decision as tariff volatility prevails.
U.S. equities rallied sharply in May, with the S&P 500 index and the tech-heavy Nasdaq scoring their biggest monthly percentage gains since November 2023, thanks to a softening of Trump’s harsh trade stance and upbeat earnings reports.
Brown-Forman fell sharply after the Jack Daniel’s maker forecast a decline in annual revenue and profit.
Procter & Gamble said it will cut 7,000 jobs, or about 6% of its workforce, over the next two years in a restructuring. Shares of the consumer goods bellwether fell.
After Trump and Xi speak, US and China agree to revive trade talks
By ANA SWANSON and DAVID PIERSON
China and the United States agreed Thursday to hold more trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals that has begun to threaten the global economy.
The promise of fresh discussions followed a phone conversation between the leaders of the two superpowers that President Donald Trump described as “very positive.”
Trump said in a post on Truth Social that his call with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, had focused entirely on the trade relationship between the nations, which has soured in recent months in a dispute over the export of critical minerals used in an array of industries.
The president implied that the two leaders had resolved issues surrounding mineral exports, which China had recently halted to the United States, though he did not provide details. He said his trade team would meet again soon with Chinese officials, in a yet-to-be-determined location. Trump added that he and Xi had invited each other and their spouses to visit their respective countries.
“I just concluded a very good phone call with President Xi, of China, discussing some of the intricacies of our recently made, and agreed to, Trade Deal,” Trump said. The call lasted around an hour and a half, he added, and “resulted in a very positive conclusion for both Countries.”
Chinese state media said Thursday that Xi had called for greater cooperation, consultation and respect between the countries, and that the exchange had happened at Trump’s request.
Xi welcomed Trump to visit China, state media reported, and said the United States should withdraw negative measures against his country. He added that both countries should enhance their exchanges in diplomacy, economics, military and other fields.
The two leaders were last known to have spoken to each other on Jan. 17, days before
President Donald Trump meets with President Xi Jinping of China at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. China and the United States on June 5, 2025 agreed to hold more trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals, a move that came after Trump and Xi spoke by phone.
(Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
Trump was inaugurated as president. Trump said Thursday’s discussion had not touched on matters beyond trade, including the RussianUkrainian war and the nuclear negotiations with Iran.
The call signaled a potential thaw in the U.S.-Chinese relationship, after several weeks of escalating tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
The countries had reached a tentative truce last month in a meeting in Geneva, where they agreed to roll back tariffs they had placed this year on each other’s imports, as well as to remove other trade barriers.
But in recent weeks, each government had each accused the other of violating their Geneva agreement. China continued to clamp down on exports of rare earth minerals that are essential for U.S. makers of cars, airplanes and defense goods, while the United States responded by halting exports of American technology and a variety of industrial products to China. The Trump administration also proposed a plan to revoke visas for Chinese students associated with the Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
On Wednesday, Trump wrote on social media that Xi was “VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH.”
The standoff has made companies that depend on trade between the countries increasingly nervous. Shortages of the minerals, which are used to make powerful industrial magnets that are essential components in many electric motors, have threatened to bring some American factories to a standstill, including America’s defense industry. China dominates the global market for the minerals and views it as a choke point for the United States.
Wendy Cutler, the vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and a former trade negotiator, said the disputes since the Geneva meeting underscored how difficult and complicated any upcoming talks would be.
“The likelihood of further misunderstandings, coupled with a fundamental lack of trust, will present enormous challenges for the negotiators as they try to hammer out a deal,” she said.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
The Trump administration has said little publicly about what concessions it hopes to obtain from China, though U.S. officials have expressed concerns for years about Chinese trade practices that have made it difficult for factories in the United States to survive.
Trump has appeared intent on ratcheting
up negotiating pressure on Beijing through tariffs. In early April, he raised levies on Chinese goods to an eye-watering minimum rate of 145%, and China retaliated by increasing duties on American imports to 125%. The titfor-tat moves effectively cut off trade between the countries and raised concerns about a global economic slowdown.
During their meeting in Geneva, officials from both countries agreed to reduce the punishing tariffs they imposed on each other for 90 days while seeking a longer-term resolution. China also pledged to suspend or remove what it called “nontariff countermeasures” it had issued since April, though it did not disclose details. Trump administration officials said they had expected China to lift its restrictions on rare earth exports, but many of those curbs continue.
China has said the rare earth export controls apply to all countries, meaning it can argue that the controls should not be regarded as a countermeasure against the United States.
“The Chinese are reluctant to give up their leverage so easily,” said Yun Sun, the director of the China program at the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank. She added that “they want to wait and see how things go” with trade negotiations.
Trump has suggested on several occasions since returning to the White House that a call or a meeting with Xi was imminent. While Trump would rather speak directly with Xi, Chinese officials generally favor negotiating details in advance of any such call or meeting. And Beijing had been concerned about the possibility that Trump would embarrass Xi during talks, analysts said.
Later Thursday in the Oval Office, Trump said he and Xi had had a “good conversation,” adding, “It’s very complex stuff, and we straightened it out.” On the issue of barring Chinese students, he said the United States wanted foreign students but needed to monitor them.
Chinese state media said Thursday that Xi had called for correcting the course of “the big ship” of Chinese-U.S. relations, which would require leaders to remove all kinds of “interference and even sabotage.”
Chinese state media reported that Xi on Thursday also drew a hard line on Taiwan, the island democracy that China claims as its territory and that counts the United States as a top backer. He essentially warned Trump that Washington should not let what he called Taiwan separatists drag the countries into “a dangerous situation of conflict and confrontation,” according to state media.
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Israeli military recovers bodies of 2 victims of Oct. 7 attack
By ADAM RASGON and ERIKA SOLOMON
Israeli security forces in the southern Gaza Strip recovered the bodies of two Israeli Americans who were killed in the Hamasled October 2023 attack on Israel, the military said in a statement earlier this week.
The two victims, Judi Weinstein Haggai and Gadi Haggai, were in their 70s when they were killed by members of the Mujahedeen Brigades, a small Palestinian militant group, according to the Israeli military. Before their retrieval, their remains were among the four bodies of Israeli American citizens still in Gaza.
Their bodies were recovered from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, the military statement said.
The couple had left their kibbutz for a walk early on Oct. 7, 2023, and were caught up in the attack. Weinstein Haggai contacted emergency services for help, according to a recording published by the Israeli news website Ynet. In the call, she said she believed her husband was dead and that she had been struck in the face. She pleaded for rescuers to “save me” and said “everything is covered in blood.”
Israeli authorities say that about 1,200 people were killed in the Oct. 7 attacks, with another about 250, most of whom were civilians, taken to Gaza as hostages.
The retrieval of the bodies of Weinstein Haggai and of Haggai brings the number of remaining hostages to 56. The Israeli government has said that 23 are believed to be still alive.
“We will continue to do everything in our
power to bring our sisters and brothers back from hell,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in a statement. “The living, for healing and rehabilitation, and the fallen, to be laid to rest in dignity. Every last one of them.”
The Hostages Families Forum, an Israeli group representing relatives of those taken, urged Israeli officials to immediately negotiate an end to the war to bring other captives back.
“Decision-makers must do everything necessary to reach an agreement that will return all 56 remaining hostages,” the group said in a statement. “This is what the majority of the Israeli people want,” it added.
A ceasefire is seen as necessary to bringing the remaining hostages home.
The Trump administration and other mediators have tried to broker a new pause in fighting after Israel ended the last truce in March. Under the latest U.S. proposal, Israel and Hamas would stop fighting for 60 days and some hostages would be exchanged in return for Palestinians jailed by Israel. The United States said it would also back further negotiations on a permanent end to the war.
Israel wants a temporary deal so it can eventually turn back to trying to defeat Hamas. But Hamas wants stronger guarantees that the ceasefire will lead to a permanent deal and has said it is willing to free the Israeli and foreign captives in Gaza as part of a broader agreement. The United States denounced Hamas’ response to the latest proposal as “unacceptable,” saying it “only takes us backward.”
A survey published in April by the Israeli Democracy Institute showed that more than 68% of Israelis believed that freeing the hos-
A woman runs to her concrete shelter moments after rocket sirens sounded in Ashkelon, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023. Israeli security forces in the southern Gaza Strip recovered the bodies of two Israeli Americans who were killed in the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the military said Thursday. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
tages was more important than removing Hamas from power.
Israel has continued its military offensive against Hamas in Gaza, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy the militant group.
More than 54,000 people have been killed in the enclave in the military campaign following Oct. 7, according to Gaza’s Health
Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Hunger is now widespread after Israel imposed a roughly 80day aid blockade that was lifted in mid-May. But supplies are still meager, and the start of a new Israeli-backed aid distribution system has been marred by chaos, with Palestinians who were trying to obtain food supplies having been killed in recent days.
Jury in El Salvador convicts 3 ex-officers in 1982 killings of Dutch journalists
By CLAIRE MOSES
Ajury in El Salvador convicted three former senior military officers of murder in the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists earlier this week, according to the Comunicándonos Foundation, a nonprofit group that has long pursued justice in the case.
The three officers — Gen. José Guillermo García, 91, a former defense minister; Col. Francisco Morán, 93, a former police director; and Col. Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, 85 — each received 15-year prison sentences Tuesday after a trial that took about 10 hours.
The jury also condemned the government of El Salvador for delaying a resolution of the case for more than four decades. García and Morán are in detention in El Salvador after
being arrested in 2022, and Reyes Mena is in Virginia awaiting extradition, according to the Dutch government.
The four young Dutch journalists — Koos Koster, Jan Kuiper, Joop Willemsen and Hans ter Laag — were working for a now-defunct Dutch broadcaster, covering a brutal civil war that killed tens of thousands of people.
In Chalatenango, El Salvador, on March 17, 1982, they were traveling behind rebel lines with three guerrilla fighters. Soldiers from the Salvadoran army were waiting to ambush them and shot and killed the men, according to the Dutch government.
At the time, the Salvadoran army told the news media that the four journalists had died when guerrillas accompanying them opened fire on an army patrol. But a 1993 report by the
United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that the army had set up the ambush. The report also found that the killings were ordered by Reyes Mena, who had since moved to the United States.
“Reporters who went to the scene in Chalatenango Province north of the capital found bloody clothing and 30 spent M16 shells near the spot where associates of the four men said they had been dropped off at 5 p.m.,” The New York Times reported in 1982, adding that residents of nearby villages had said they heard 20 minutes of gunfire.
The Dutch journalists had been shot repeatedly at short range, the Times report said.
The killings were a major story in the Netherlands, fueling widespread outrage. In the decades since, the Dutch government and organi-
zations in El Salvador have continued to push for justice in the case.
In a blog post before the trial on a Dutch government website, Arjen van den Berg, the country’s ambassador to Costa Rica and El Salvador, said he remembered the atmosphere in the Netherlands at the time. People were angry, he said, “partly because these men were just doing their jobs, but partly also because it was unimaginable for Dutch people that a government would kill journalists in cold blood.”
Dutch officials expressed relief and gratitude for the sentence. “This is an important moment in the fight against impunity and in the pursuit of justice for the four Dutch journalists and their next of kin,” Caspar Veldkamp, the outgoing Dutch minister of foreign affairs, wrote on social media.
New Zealand’s Parliament suspends Maori lawmakers over haka protest
By YAN ZHUANG
New Zealand’s Parliament on Thursday suspended three opposition lawmakers over their performance of the haka, a traditional Maori dance, as a protest while the body was considering a contentious bill last year.
In a party-line vote, lawmakers voted to suspend Rawiri Waititi and Debbie NgarewaPacker, the co-leaders of the Te Pati Maori party, without pay for 21 days. Another member of the party, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, was suspended for seven days.
The penalties were the harshest ever handed down to New Zealand lawmakers and came as the country has been retreating from a decades-long push to support the rights of Maori, its Indigenous people. It has also in recent years been engaging in an increasingly fraught debate about the place of Maori culture in public life.
The bill that drew the lawmakers’ protest was put forward by a member of the governing coalition, the most conservative government in a generation. While it was destined to fail in Parliament, it became symbolic of what opponents characterized as the government’s anti-Maorii agenda.
During a reading of the proposed legislation in November, when the speaker asked MaipiClarke how her party would vote on it, she stood up, began to perform the haka and tore up what appeared to be her copy of the bill.
She moved onto the floor of the chamber and continued the performance, joined by Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer, as well as Peeni Henare, a Labour Party lawmaker who is Maori. The speaker, Gerry Brownlee, temporarily stopped the session, and Maipi-Clarke was suspended for a day over the protest, which Brownlee described as disrespectful.
The bill they were protesting sought to re-
interpret the Treaty of Waitangi, which was signed by Maori chiefs and the British Crown in 1840 and is considered New Zealand’s founding document. It forms the basis of the laws and policies aimed at redressing historical wrongs against Maori by colonizers. The bill, Maoriactivists argued, would wind back many of the gains made in Maori rights over recent decades.
The bill was defeated in April, with 112 of 123 lawmakers — all parties except for the one, Act, that proposed it — voting against it.
The four lawmakers were later referred to
a committee for potential breaches of Parliament’s rules. The nine-person committee, five of whom belong to the governing coalition, found the three Te Pati Maori lawmakers had acted in contempt of Parliament and in such a way that “could have the effect of intimidating” other lawmakers. Henare was not found in contempt.
The punishment was not related to the act of performing the haka, the committee said, but rather for the Maori lawmakers directing it at members of Act, and Ngarewa-Packer appear-
ing to simulate firing a gun at another lawmaker. “This was a very serious incident, the likes of which I have never before seen in my 23 years in this debating chamber,” said Judith Collins, the chair of the committee.
The Maori lawmakers rejected the accusations, arguing that the suspensions were disproportionate as past unruly lawmakers had not been subject to such harsh penalties, and reflected a political agenda that demonized Maori culture.
“This was not about disorder; this was just about us standing our truth,” Ngarewa-Packer said during a three-hour parliamentary debate on Thursday, adding, “We’ve got a government that treats Maori defiance as disorder.”
“Since when did being proud of our culture make you racist?” Maipi-Clarke said. “Are our voices too loud for this House? Is that the reason why we are being silenced?”
Parliamentarians from the governing conservative coalition voiced support for the suspensions, arguing that the Maori lawmakers had flouted the rules of Parliament and had not sought permission to perform the haka.
“This is not about the haka; it’s about process,” said Nicole McKee, a government minister. “It’s about grandstanding at the expense of this House and how it operates. It’s about just being arrogant and ignorant about how we do laws in New Zealand.”
During the heated debate, acting Prime Minister Winston Peters, who is of Maori heritage, was ordered to apologize to Waititi for calling his sacred tribal facial tattoo “scribbles on his face.”
The longest prior suspension that a lawmaker had received was for three days, a punishment handed down in 1987 when a former prime minister, Robert Muldoon, had criticized the speaker in a statement, according to local news media.
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL
We are being governed by the Trump Organization Inc.
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Wall Street analysts recently began joking that the best way to predict the behavior of President Donald Trump — and make money in the process — was by practicing the “TACO trade,” which stands for “Trump always chickens out.” You can always bet on Trump rolling back a reckless tariff. This mocking of Trump’s inconsistency, which drives him nuts — “Don’t ever say what you said,” he told a reporter who asked him about it — not only is accurate but also deserves to be more widely applied.
One day he is pushing Ukraine away; the next day he is shaking Ukraine down for its minerals; the next day Ukraine is back in the fold. One day Russian President Vladimir Putin is Trump’s friend; the next day he’s “crazy.” One day Canada will be the 51st state; the next day it is the target of tariffs. One day he brags that he hires only “the best” people; the next day more than 100 experts at the National Security Council are pushed out just weeks after many were hired. One day the president hosts a gala at his Virginia golf club for the biggest buyers of his meme coin, who spent a combined $148 million for the chance to hear him give a talk standing behind the presidential seal, and the White House spokesperson suggests it’s not corruption because the president was “attending it in his personal time.”
Trump is governing by unchecked gut impulses, with little or no homework or coordination among agencies. He respects no real lines of authority, has his golfing buddy (Steve Witkoff) act as secretary of state and his secretary of state (Marco Rubio) act as his ambassador to Panama. He compels anyone who wants to
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What is this telling us? We are not being governed anymore by a traditional American administration. We are being governed by the Trump Organization Inc.
In Trump I, the president surrounded himself with some people of weight who could act as buffers. In Trump II, he has surrounded himself only with sycophants who act like amplifiers. In Trump I, he ran a standard, but chaotic, administration. In Trump II, the president is unchained and running the U.S. government exactly the way he ran his private company: out of his hip pocket and with only the markets or the courts able to stop him.
If you think all of this is funny or exaggerated, it’s not. Consider just a few examples of Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip — “fire, ready, aim» — style of governance, where there is zero second-order thinking.
Weeks after taking office, Trump announced a series of global tariffs without any serious consultation with the U.S. auto industry. Along the way, he discovered that only about one-third of the parts of the popular Ford F-150 are made in America and cannot be replaced anytime soon. The tariffs have been such a blow to the whole auto industry that Ford, General Motors and Stellantis announced they could not give earning predictions for the rest of 2025, citing tariff uncertainty and possible supplychain disruptions.
Then China reacted predictably to Trump’s 145% tariffs on all Chinese exports to America. As The New York Times’ Beijing correspondent Keith Bradsher reported Monday, Beijing abruptly halted exports of rare-earth magnets that go into U.S.-made cars, drones, robots and missiles. If Trump doesn’t find a way to strike a deal (“chicken out”) on some of his China tariffs, U.S. car factories may have to cut back production “in the coming days and weeks,” Bradsher reported.
What do you think are the chances that Trump had gamed out in advance these second-order consequences of his tariffs on China? I bet zero. He just shot from the hip.
It gets worse. As I have been arguing since Trump came to office, his ridiculous right-wing woke obsession with destroying the U.S. electric vehicle industry that President Joe Biden was trying to build up undermines U.S. efforts to compete with China in electric batteries. Batteries are the new oil; they will power the new industrial ecosystem of AI-infused self-driving cars, robots, drones and clean tech.
The consequence of this, economics writer Noah Smith observed, is the weakening of America’s capacity to build the kind of cheap, battery-powered drones that Ukraine just used to destroy part of Russia’s air fleet — and that China could use the same way against our aircraft carriers. “Trump and the GOP,” Smith noted, “have decided to think of batteries as a culturewar issue instead of one of national security. They think they’re attacking hippie-dippy green energy, sticking it to the socialist environmentalist kids and standing up for good old red-blooded American oil and gas. Instead, what they’re actually doing is unilaterally disarming America’s future drone force and ceding the key weapon of the modern battlefield to China.”
Do you think Trump connected any of these dots? Not a chance. It was fire, ready, aim.
How about Trump’s education strategy? You cannot put up
a meaningful trade wall against China unless you also have an education strategy to increase our advanced manufacturing.
China’s universities put so much emphasis on STEM education — science, technology, engineering and math — that every year China produces some 3.5 million STEM graduates, just under the number of graduates from associate, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in all disciplines in the United States.
To compete in the AI-driven economy of the future, a country cannot have too many engineers. But we have a glaring shortage. How have we been filling that hole? By admitting tens of thousands of engineering students and engineers from China and India in particular.
So, surely Trump thought this all through in advance?
Fat chance. He started a technology trade war with China — which controls about 30% of global manufacturing, almost double that of the United States — at the same time that he is trying to crush America’s premier research centers like the National Institutes of Health, while having his secretary of state vow to “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students.” On top of it all, he has appointed a former professional wrestling executive who once referred to AI as “A1” — like the steak sauce — as education secretary.
Not just Chinese, but now many other international STEM students, seeing all of this, are deciding to stay away. The United States will not feel the negative effects of that tomorrow while we still reap the benefits of decades of welcoming the most brainy or energetic immigrants. But we will a decade from now.
What has distinguished and enriched the United States for so many years — and kept it the dominant global economic and military power — has been the ability to consistently attract that extra scientist or ambitious immigrant, that extra dollar of investment and that extra dollop of trust from allies. As the biggest economy in the world, we benefited disproportionately from a stable, global free market.
In sum, what you are seeing from this Trump II administration, and its bended-knee Congress, is a dangerous, undisciplined, intellectually inconsistent farce that we will pay dearly for in the future. Major geoeconomic moves are being made by one man who has done no homework, modeling or stress-testing and has fostered little apparent interagency process, with no congressional oversight or apparent reference to history.
If you think this is not dangerous, just keep in mind that the Trump Organization Inc. over the years filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for six different businesses. There was a reason for that: the operating style and values of its boss.
Egresados de Inter Derecho logran mayor porcentaje de aprobación en reválida de derecho
SAN JUAN – Egresados de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico lograron el porcentaje de aprobación más alto en la reválida de derecho ofrecida en marzo de 2025, informó el jueves el presidente de la universidad, doctor Rafael Ramírez Rivera, y el decano de la facultad, doctor Julio Fontanet Maldonado.
De las 11 primeras notas en la reválida, 10 corresponden a egresados de Inter Derecho. La egresada Jodaliz Ramos Quiñones obtuvo la nota más alta de todo Puerto Rico.
Además de Ramos Quiñones, los egresados destacados son Adrián J. Peña Rodríguez, Sofía V. Rico Maldonado, Ángel M. Martínez Aponte, Ignacio J. Qui-
ñones Arill, Valerie I. Vázquez Valencia, Carla J. Figueroa García, Mayra Hernández Félix, Kariany Cruz Rosado y Diego A. Rivera Alfaro.
“Les deseamos a Jodaliz y a todos nuestros egresados muchos más éxitos en su profesión. Son parte del orgullo de la Inter. Exhorto a aquellos interesados en el estudio del derecho a que se unan a la mejor Facultad de Derecho. Serán todas y todos bienvenidos”, expresó Ramírez Rivera en declaraciones escritas. El decano Julio Fontanet Maldonado resaltó que estos resultados demuestran la calidad del estudiantado y del claustro de la facultad. Para más información sobre Inter Derecho, las personas interesadas pueden comunicarse al 787-7511912 o acceder a www.derecho.inter. edu.
Antonio Brown es Novato del Año 2025 de la Doble A
PONCE – Antonio Brown, guardabosque de los Cachorros de Ponce, fue escogido a principios de esta semana Novato del Año 2025 de la Liga de Béisbol Superior Doble A tras recibir el respaldo mayoritario de los periodistas deportivos. “Bien agradecido por todo, por Ponce, por confiar en mí. Yo pensaba en esto antes de la temporada, era algo que quería lograr y gracias a Dios lo logré. Me encantó cada parque en el que jugué; en todos los sitios donde jugábamos, la fanaticada es una cosa increíble, algo diferente a los Estados Unidos”, expresó Brown, de 23 años, quien jugó cuatro temporadas con Mercer University en la División I de la NCAA.
Brown recibió 152 puntos y 48 votos de primer lugar de los 54 participantes en la votación. Luis Pastrana, de Loíza, terminó segundo con 76 puntos y Jaden Guzmán, de Caguas, obtuvo 56 puntos. Otros candidatos sumaron siete puntos.
En su primera temporada con los Cachorros, Brown bateó para .375 con 30 hits en 80 turnos, incluyendo 26 sen-
cillos, dos dobletes, un triple y un cuadrangular. Anotó 16 carreras y remolcó seis. Fue líder nacional y estableció una nueva marca de 28 bases robadas en 20 juegos, además de participar en el Juego de Estrellas.
Brown dedicó el premio el miércoles a su familia y a los Caciques de Mayagüez, equipo con el que brilló en 2024 en la Clase A. Su madre, Karimar Guilloty, es apoderada en la Liga de Voleibol Superior Masculino y su padre, Alex Brown, jugó en la NFL.
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Five international movies to stream now
By DEVIKA GIRISH
This month’s picks include a Chinese martial arts movie, an Indonesian political thriller, a documentary about a Norwegian family that stumbles upon a long-hidden secret and more.
‘Autobiography’
In Makbul Mubarak’s chilling Indonesian thriller, the gaze is always obfuscated. People look at each other through bars and grills and in mirrored reflections. The camera peers through patterned glass and peeks slyly through ajar doors. It’s as if the reality at play is too harsh to look at directly, like a cruelly blazing sun. The 18-year-old Kib (Kevin Ardilova) is the housekeeper for a retired military general (Arswendy Bening Swara), who has returned to his provincial home to run for mayor in the local elections. Multiple generations of Kib’s family have worked for the general’s family; with his father in prison, the general is the closest thing that Kib has to a parent around him. The yearnings of the lost young man and the paternal affection the general carefully administers on him form the central, venomous dynamic of “Autobiography”; Kib revels in this newfound attention, only to realize too late that he may have unwittingly sold his soul in the process. With sinister and evocative cinematography and two stellar lead performances, Mubarak mounts a devastating portrait of a country shaped by ruthless hierarchies and military rule, where the oppressed do the oppressors’ dirty work in exchange for measly scraps of power. (Stream it on Film Movement Plus.)
‘100 Yards’
This swashbuckling martial arts actioner is pure cinema, with luscious production design, gorgeous period costumes, handsome actors who romance and cross each other with equal panache, and intricate kung fu sequences that are hypnotic to watch. Directed by brothers Xu Haofeng and Xu Junfeng, “100 Yards” is set in Tianjin in China in the 1920s, right after the fall of the Qing dynasty and at a time when the city had a thriving French concession. At the city’s prestigious martial arts academy, a battle over power unfolds as the old Master dies, appointing his protégé Qi Quan (Andy On) as his successor, much to the chagrin of his son, Shen An (Jacky Heung). The complicated plot
that ensues involves a series of duels between the two men, who break all rules to assuage hurt egos and claim authority — they brawl in public, beyond the permitted 100-yard perimeter of the academy; they enlist foreigners and street bandits in their games. The story of “100 Yards” often feels overly contrived, but it is besides the point; it serves mostly as an excuse to engineer gasp-inducing twists and stage ever more acrobatic fights, all of which are performed in baroque sets by lithe actors in ultrastylish fusion clothing. (Stream it on Mubi.)
‘Family Therapy’
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s surrealist classic, “Teorema,” about a handsome stranger who introduces disorder and erotic chaos into a middle-class Italian family, is an obvious point of reference for this Slovenian satire. Here, a bougie household is shaken up by the arrival of the patriarch’s son from another relationship. But Sonja Prosenc rejiggers Pasolini’s film for a new and cruder age. “Family Therapy” has not a trace of subtlety or mystery; the movie is absurd and in-your-face, leveling an acrid critique of the pretensions that hold the deluded European upper class together. The family at its center lives in a literal glass house, loftily tuning out the refugee crisis unfolding around them by listening to Slavoj Zizek on the radio; the patriarch dreams of winning a contest to take them all to space. Rather than unravel under the influence of the newly arrived son, the family only exposes its already embedded dysfunction, with the good-looking young man emerging as the sanest of the lot, the witness to the rot that lies under manicured gardens. (Stream it on Tubi.)
‘Sisters’
In this wrenching Latvian coming-of-age drama, an impossible choice faces 13-year-old Anastasija (Emma Skirmante). She and her younger sister live in a crowded foster home, yearning for the care of their mother, who has rarely been present in their lives. One day, they receive news that they are to be adopted by an American family. The kids around them are jealous of their luck, and Anastasija’s little sister is thrilled at the prospect of new parents. But when the adopters arrive, they turn out to be religious and conservative, eager to conscript the kids into their faith. Anastasija can either give in, or stay impoverished and without family, waiting endlessly for a mother who cannot
be relied upon. Directed by Linda Olte and anchored in an exquisitely moving performance by Skirmante, “Sisters” paints a vivid portrait of the institutions that let down young people in need of care, be it the foster system with its limited resources or an adoption industry that encourages savior complexes. (Stream it on Tubi.)
‘The Gullspang Miracle’
There’s a reason twins (and doppelgängers) hold such a mystical aura in the movies: They’re like miracles of creation, or glitches in a world that is premised on uniqueness and identity. In this astonishing documentary by director Maria Fredriksson, two Norwegian sisters go to buy a house in Sweden and discover that the seller, Olaug, looks exactly like their older sister, who died by suicide years ago. More and more coincidences arise — names, birth dates, DNA matches — and release a Pandora’s box of revelations and questions about what makes people alike and different. As the family goes through old documents and stories, and even enlists a genealogist, this growing mystery begins to implicate everything from Nazi experiments on twins to a possible murder cover-up. Driving it all is the belief that something intuitive and cosmic ties together family; and then that belief starts to fray, when Olaug realizes that a wide ideological chasm separates her and her newfound kin. Fredriksson employs a cleverly reflexive framework, showing us the making of the documentary as we watch it, and inviting us into the process through which we construct narratives about ourselves and those around us. (Rent or buy it on major platforms.)
“Sisters”
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The
19th edition of ‘La Buena Vida’ Festival celebrates local gastronomy & fine wines for a great cause
By JUDY GORDONCONDE and JENNIFER CONDE-POWERS
The 19th edition of La Buena Vida Festival, held recently, at the Palmas del Mar Country Club, exceeded its fundraising goals, donating $17,500 each to four nonprofit organizations in eastern Puerto Rico: P.E.C.E.S., La Casa de Todos, Casa de la Bondad, and Hogar Cuna San Cristóbal. The event featured top culinary talent, wine tastings, a silent auction, and live music, all supporting charitable causes. Since its founding in 1995 by Friends of the Community of Humacao, the festival has raised nearly one million dollars for local nonprofits.
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Lissa Busquets, Sandro Giulimondi, Ana Rios and Engineer William Carrion
Chef Daniel Lugo and Team from Wyndham Palmas Trova Restaurant
Chef Daniel Vasse, an event sponsor, with his team at Plaza Cellars
Mike Vazquez, Sandrysabel Ortiz, Kenia Velazquez, Fernando Rivera
Rosibel Maldonado y Maypi Rodriguez
Dr. Juan Rivera & Caroll Lopez
Cristina Garcia, Myriam Quiñones & Alexandra Garraton
Carlos Rodriguez & Coral Parrilla
Just don’t
By KEVIN NOBLE MAILLARD
Until a decade ago, California agave plants were more likely to be found in a plush Santa Barbara garden than in a fertile San Joaquin field. But in the past few years, farmers have begun cultivating this drought-resistant plant, which is essential to the traditional production of tequila and mezcal, as a wave of entrepreneurs fuels the rise of the California agave spirits industry.
“I used to say we’re in our infancy,” said Craig Reynolds, founding director of the California Agave Council, who first planted a crop of Blue Weber agave plants in Yolo County in 2014. “But I think we’ve moved to our toddler phase where we’re on our own two feet.”
Under a 2022 state law, certified California agave spirits — similar in taste but distinct from Mexican tequila and mezcal — must be grown, processed and distilled in state, making it attractive to customers who value sustainability and local sourcing. For these growers and distillers, competing with Mexico is neither the future goal nor a current possibility.
Only agave spirits produced under authorized conditions from specific regions in Mexico are entitled to the nomenclature of “tequila” or “mezcal,” which are legal designations protected by denomination of origin, similar to regionally specific restrictions on French Champagne or Italian Parmesan. Tequila and mezcal products that qualify under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement are exempted from tariffs, according to Robert Tobiassen, president of the National Association of Beverage Importers.
While other states like Texas and Arizona have entered the market, they pale in comparison to Mexico’s output. In 2024, Mexico exported almost 300 million bottles of tequila and mezcal globally — enough liquid to fill 160 Olympic size swimming pools — with 251 million bottles going to the United States alone.
That same year, California produced around 3,750 bottles of agave spirits, about the size of a single backyard pool.
Yet California distillers do think they can compete on quality. Dr. Krista Ramonas, a founder of the emerging label La Tintura, an agave spirit marketed to women, likens the movement to the Judgment of Paris, a pivotal blind wine tasting in 1976 when “California defeated all Gaul.”
“Tariffs are teaching us that perhaps we have some of these products already available to us in our own land,” she said. “We can grow it here and blossom a whole new industry the way they said Cabernet could never be grown in Napa.”
But it will take time. Even though agave plants require minimal water resources, they take an average of eight years to reach maturity and even longer for some varieties. The entire plant is harvested, and the cycle starts again. Because of the considerable lag time between planting and distilling, California producers have had to source agave from Mexico because there was not enough supply at home.
Stuart Woolf, the current president of the agave council and the managing partner of California Agave Growers, began planting agave on his family farm in Huron in 2019, eventually expanding his crop to 450 acres, making him the largest agave farmer in the United States. “We’re growing a drought-tolerant, climate-resilient crop as part of adapting to California’s water issues,” he said.
Woolf will plant an additional 100 acres on his property this year, and he believes the California industry will increase to 1,100 total acres planted by the end of the year.
Sharla Ortega, a fourth-generation farmer who now lives in Southern California, initially planted 50 Blue Americanas to stabilize the soil on a steep hill on her 11acre property in Murrieta. The offshoots, known as hijuelos, proliferated quickly to a crop of 5,000, naturally irrigated by the drifting marine layer from the Pacific Ocean, just 12 miles to the west. With her husband, Leo, whose family hails from the tequila-producing region of Jalisco, Mexico, they expanded their crop portfolio to incorporate other plant varieties, allowing them to supply in-state distillers.
The industry’s growth has provided new opportunities for strict locavores trying to reduce their carbon footprint. “For restaurants 100% focused on local products,” said Sean Venus, founder of Venus Spirits in Santa Cruz, “there’s never been an opportunity to serve a margarita.”
Gian Nelson, a native of Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and co-founder of Jano Spirits, remembers the first harvest of 2024, standing around a deep, smoldering pit piled high with gargantuan agave hearts. Although unexpected rain ruined the harvest, it did not dampen the sprit of celebration and purpose.
“There is a rich history in this state of taking something and turning it into something else,” he recalled of the day. “We have the climate and mindset to do anything, and that grit to get it done.”
California agave spirits to try
Currently, shipping is not available outside of California, but check with the distiller to see if the laws change.
El Ladrón Yolo, $90, Venus Spirits, Santa Cruz: The first agave spirit grown and distilled entirely within California.
Tecolotito, $55, Ventura Spirits, Ventura: Blancos
April
Certified California agave spirits — similar in taste but distinct from Mexican tequila and mezcal — must be grown, processed and distilled in-state, making it attractive to customers who value sustainability and local sourcing. (Emma Kruch/The New York Times)
and reposados farmed and harvested at the Georgi Ranch in Goleta, California.
Jano Spirits, Napa: Small-batch distillations traditionally harvested and roasted in farm-to-bottle partnerships with local farmers around California.
Los Hijuelos, $90, Shelter Distilling, Mammoth Lakes: Rare batch made from fully flowered plants.
Gian Nelson, left, and David Ortega, owners of Jano Spirits, hold coas, a traditional tool used in harvesting agave plants, in Napa County, Calif.,
4, 2025.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO PONCE HOSTOS LLC
Plaintiff V. CARLOS MESA TRUCK SUPPLIES PONCE, INC; SIRENO CARLOS MESA PANDO; HIS WIFE NORMA IRIS ANDINO MATOS A/K/A NORMA ANDINO MATOS; THEIR LEGAL CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP; AND SUCESORES DE CARLOS MESA, LLC.
Defendants
Civil No.: 16-1651 (JAG). COLLECTION OF MONIES, FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE AND PLEDGE. NOTICE OF SALE.
To: DEFENDANT AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
On August 9, 2016, this Honorable Court issued Default Judgment against Defendants, Carlos Mesa Truck Supplies Ponce, Inc. (“CMTS”), Sireno Carlos Mesa-Pando (“Mesa-Pando”), his wife Norma Iris Andino-Matos a/k/a Norma Andino-Matos (“Andino-Matos”), the Conjugal Legal Partnership Mesa-Andino (“CLP Mesa-Andino”) and Sucesores de Carlos Mesa, LLC, (“Sucesores”) (collectively the “Defendants”) in favor of Bautista, now Ponce Hostos LLC. (PH). To date, Defendants have not satisfied the Judgment. As of January 31, 2016 they owed PH the following amounts: (a) under the Promissory Note I: (i) the principal amount of $176,644.44, (ii) interests in the amount of $75,942.39, which continue to accrue by the fluctuating rate on a daily basis in the amount of $40.48 per diem, (iii) $4,528.98 in late charges, and (iv) $20,000.00 in contractually agreed-upon attorney’s fees and legal costs; (b) under the Promissory Note II: (i) the principal amount of $190,023.38 (ii) interests in the amount of $56,293.11, which continue to accrue by the fluctuating rate on a daily basis in the amount of $38.27 per diem, (iii) $1,178.00 in late charges, and (iv) $20,000.00 in contractually agreed-upon attorney’s fees and legal costs; (c) Under Promissory Note III: (i) the principal amount of $300,000.00 (ii) interests in the amount of $77,000.00, which continue to accrue by the fluctuating rate on a daily basis in the amount of $41.67 per diem, (iii) $7,473.95 in other fees and late charges, and (iv) $30,000.00 in contractually agreed-upon attorney’s fees and legal costs. Pursuant to said judgment and the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S.
currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property: RURAL: Tract of land located in the Playa Ward of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in front of kilometer 133, hectometer 3 of the Central Road, located in De Hostos Avenue, between the city and the beach in Ponce, Puerto Rico, with a surface area of 5038.8775 square meters, and which property is bounded by: EAST, with the Road which comes from the city and leads to the Ponce Beach, known by De Hostos Avenue, Ponce Beach Section, measuring by that side from a point in the extreme Southeast of the main property it is part of and towards North until reaching a point marked with number 12 in the Plans prepared by Civil Engineer Juan A. Vals, license number 1682, in front of Hostos Avenue, 36.50 meters; from that point and bounded with lands of Emilio Álvarez, West direction, measures 45.799 meters, until reaching a point marked with number 11 in said Plans, from that point and always with the same boundary, North direction, until reaching a point marked number 10, measures 13.218 meters, from that point until reaching a point marked with number 9, North direction, measures 23.742 meters, with the same boundary from that point, Northeast direction and with the same boundary measures 37.371 meters, until reaching point number 8, from that point and in West direction, bounded with a road that separates the lands of Juan Viso, straight line until reaching point number 7, measures 42.16 meters, from that point, South direction, straight line measures 67.65 meters, bounded with the main property from which it segregates; and from there at a 104 degree angle, 30 inches, bounded with the main property from which it segregate, straight line and in East direction, measures 91.75 metros, until reaching the starting point at a 90 degree angle in the Hostos Avenue. Contains two structures. Property number 16, 765, recorded at page 187 of volume 2, 027 of Ponce. Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section I of Ponce. Physical Address: 170 Ave. Hostos, Ponce, Puerto Rico. For reference purposes, the property is described in its original Spanish language as follows: RÚSTICA: Pedazo de terreno radicado en el Barrio
Playa del término municipal de Ponce frente al Kilómetro 133, hectómetro 3 de la Carretera Central, sitio Avenida Hostos, entre la Ciudad y la Playa de Ponce, con un área superficial de CINCO MIL OCHENTA Y TRES METROS CUADRADOS
CON OCHO MIL SETECIENTOS SETENTA Y CINCO MILÉSIMAS DE OTRO, y la cual finca colinda: al Este con la carretera que de la Ciudad conduce a la Playa de Ponce, conocida por la Avenida Hostos, Sección la Playa de Ponce, midiendo por ese lado desde un punto, situado en el extremo Sureste, con la finca principal de que forma parte y en dirección Norte hasta llegar a un punto marcado con el número doce en el plano preparado por el Ingeniero Civil Juan A. Vals, Licencia Número mil seiscientos ochenta y dos, frente a la Avenida Hostos, treinta y seis metros cincuenta centímetros; desde ese punto y en colindancia con terrenos de Emilio Álvarez, dirección Oeste, se mide cuarenta y cinco metros, setecientos noventa y nueve centímetros hasta llegar a un punto marcado con el número once en dicho plano; desde ese punto, y siempre con el mismo colindante, dirección Norte hasta llegar al punto número diez, se miden trece metros doscientos diez y ocho centímetros; desde ese punto hasta llegar a un punto marcado con el número nueve, dirección Norte, se miden veintitrés metros, setecientos cuarenta y dos centímetros, con el mismo colindante desde ese punto Noroeste y con la misma colindancia se miden treinta y siete metros, trescientos setenta y un centímetros hasta llegar al punto número ocho desde ese punto y en dirección Oeste, colindando con camino vecinal que separa los terrenos de Juan Viso, línea recta hasta el punto número siete, se miden cuarenta y dos metros dieciséis centímetros; desde ese punto, dirección Sur, línea recta, se miden sesenta y siete metros sesenta y cinco centímetros en colindancia con la finca principal de que se segrega; y desde ese punto en un ángulo de ciento cuatro grados, treinta pulgadas, colindando con la finca principal de que se segrega, línea recta y en dirección Este se miden noventa y un metros setenta y cinco centímetros, hasta llegar al punto de partida en un ángulo de novena grados, en la Avenida Hostos #224. Contiene dos edificaciones. Consta inscrita como la finca número dieciséis mil setecientos sesenta y cinco (16,765) al folio ciento ochenta y dos (182) del tomo dos mil veintisiete (2,027) de la Sección Primera de Ponce, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico. Dirección Física: 170 Ave. Hostos, Ponce, Puerto Rico. The property is
subject to the following liens: BY ITS ORIGIN: Free of Liens. BY ITSELF: MORTGAGE: As security for a promissory note payable to the Holder, or to its order, for the sum of $600,000.00, with interest at 12%, due upon presentation, as per deed #9, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 23, 1988, before Notary Public Eugenio Otero Selva, registered on page 233 of volume 1566 of Ponce Norte, entry 10. MORTGAGE: As security for a promissory note payable to the Holder, or to its order, for the sum of $345,000.00, with interest at 10%, due upon presentation, as per deed #242, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 31, 1990, before Notary Public Miguel A. Silvestrini Alemany, registered on page 233vto of volume 1566 of Ponce Norte, entry 11. MORTGAGE: As security for a promissory note payable to Navistar Investment Corporation, or to its order, for the sum of $995,498.47, with 12% interest, due, as per deed #28, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 19, 1992, before Notary Public Víctor Raúl Rodríguez Martínez, registered on page 234vto of volume 1566 of Ponce Norte, entry 12. ANNOTATION OF ATTACHMENT: The subject of this annotation is in favor of Carlos Mesa Truck Supplies Ponce, Inc., for the sum of $39,038.44 owed to the State Insurance Fund Corporation for workers’ compensation. Attachment #H, registered on page 187 of volume 2027 of Ponce Norte, registration H. ANNOTATION OF ATTACHMENT:
The subject of this annotation is in favor of Carlos Mesa Truck Supplies Ponce, Inc., for the sum of $23,751.09 owed to the State Insurance Fund Corporation for workers’ compensation. Attachment #I, registered on page 161 of volume 2027 of Ponce Norte, registration I. ANNOTATION OF ATTACHMENT:
The subject of this mortgage is in favor of Doral Bank, for the sum of $300,000.00 of registration #L, Plaintiff: Doral Bank vs. Carlos Mesa Truck Supplies Ponce, Inc.; Sireno Carlos Mesa Pando and his wife Norma Andino Matos and the legal conjugal partnership formed by them, according to the claim of the Court of First Instance, Ponce Division, Civil number JCD20130307, on March 14, 2013, registered on page 193 of volume 2079 of Ponce Norte, registration L. CLAIM ANNOTATION:
The subject of this annotation is the Mortgage in favor of the Holder, for the sums of $600,000.00 and $345,000.00, which arise from registrations #10 and #11. Plaintiff: Bautista Cayman Asset Company; Defendant: Carlos Mesa Truck Supplies Ponce, Inc.; Sireno Carlos Mesa Pando; his wife Norma Iiris Andino Ma-
tos aka Norma Andino Matos; their legal conjugal partnership; and successors of Carlos Mesa, LLC, Amount Owed $366,667.82, for principal plus interest, according to the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in Civil number 3:16-01651, on April 5, 2016, registered in the Karibe volume of Ponce Norte, Annotation M, dated February 4, 2022. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied, or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: a. The amount of $600,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $400,000.00 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $300,000.00. Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 17TH DAY OF JULY, 2025, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 24TH DAY OF JULY, 2025, AT 10:30 A.M., in
the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 31ST DAY OF JULY, 2025, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 21st day of May, 2025. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, APPOINTED SPECIAL MASTER.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO DR. MANUEL ZENO GANDIA Demandante V. LIZETTE
SALAS GONZALEZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2024CV02235.
(Salón: 403 - CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANA M. CAMPOS GAVITOANAMCAMPOS1@YAHOO.COM. A: LIZETTE
SALAS GONZALEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos
de este caso, con fecha de 13 de mayo de 2025. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 13 de mayo de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. RACHEL VÉLEZ PEZZUTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. DANIEL R. ALVAREZ SANCHEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00832. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: DANIEL R. ALVAREZ SANCHEZ - URB MARINA BAHIA II ME 21 CALLE PLAZA 22, CATAÑO PR 00962.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 9 de abril de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO GOBIERNO MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE FAJARDO Demandante V. ETANISLA SÁNCHEZ Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2024CV00837. (Salón: 301). Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS - JOSEPHINE.RODRIGUEZ@GMAIL. COM. A: ETANISLA SÁNCHEZ, A LA SUCESIÓN CORSI, COMPUESTA POR HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, 267 CALLE GUMERSINDO MANGUAL, FAJARDO, PR 00738; JOHN DOE, DUEÑO(S) DESCONOCIDO(S) Y/O CUALQUIER PERSONA CON ALGÚN POSIBLE INTERÉS.
(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 mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de junio de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 02 de junio de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SHEILA ROBLES HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN CARMEN LUZ NIEVES VÁZQUEZ
The San Juan Daily Star
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. MANUEL R.
LOPEZ MALDONADO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03624. (Civil: 409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAIME RUIZ SALDAÑALEGAL@JRSLAWPR.COM.
A: MANUEL R.
LOPEZ MALDONADO. (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 mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29d e mayo de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. INTERNATIONAL CHARTER MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2025CV00537. (Salón: 208). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
MARITZA DEL CARMEN GUZMÁN MATOS - MGUZMAN@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR. COM.
A: CONTINENTAL RESOURCES
CORPORATION PR; INTERNATIONAL CHARTER MORTGAGE CORPORATION; JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE, DIRECCIONES DESCONOCIDAS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de mayo de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ MORTGAGE ASSETS MANAGEMENT, LLC Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL SANTIAGO T/C/C MANUEL DE SANTIAGO LÓPEZ COMPUESTA POR MAGDA AYMEE CINTRÓN ACOSTA T/C/C MAGDA A. CINTRÓN ACOSTA T/C/C MAGDA CINTRÓN POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2018CV00456. Sala: 207. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. POR CUANTO: En el presente caso se ha dictado la siguiente Orden: “ORDEN DE INTERPELACIÓN: Vista la Demanda presentada por la parte
demandante solicitando la interpelación judicial de la sucesión de Manuel Santiago t/c/c Manuel de Santiago López a saber: Magda Aymee Cintrón Acosta t/c/c Magda A. Cintrón Acosta t/c/c Magda Cintrón por sí y como miembro de la Sucesión, Fulano y Sutano de Tal como miembros de nombre desconocido, conforme al Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico edición de 2020. Se Ordena a los herederos de la Sucesión a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la notificación de esta Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes. Se le Apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que: (a) de no expresarse dentro del término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de la herencia; o (b) de no solicitar término adicional para ello dentro del término de treinta (30) días; la herencia se presumirá por aceptada, respondiendo con ello por las obligaciones, por los legados y por las cargas hereditarias hasta el valor de los bienes hereditarios que recibe, según dispone el Artículo 1587 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico de 2020. NOTIFÍQUESE. Dada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 20 de mayo de 2025. MAURA SANTIAGO DUCÓS, JUEZA.” POR TANTO, en vista de la Orden dictada, se libra este Mandamiento de Interpelación a ser diligenciado por la parte demandante sobre los herederos que componen la Sucesión de Manuel Santiago t/c/c Manuel de Santiago López. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 23 de mayo de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMON SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON SALON DE SESIONES SALON 503. MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PR, LLC (COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND FUNDING LLC.)
Demandante V. ALEXANDER RIVERA RESTO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2023CV02067.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
MIGUEL A MAZA PEREZ MMAZA@MAZA.NET PAMELA CRISTAL SANTIAGO OLIVIERI
PSANTIAGO@MAZA.NET A: ALEXANDER RIVERA RESTO
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Re-
solución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. En BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, el 29 de SEPTIEMBRE de 2023. LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIA. F/ LAURA I SANTA SANCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN DRIVEN P.S.C., EN SU CARACTER DE SINDICO DE NODUS INTERNATIONAL BANK, INC.
Demandante V. CRISANTO BELLO PAOLI Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV00293. (Salón: 504 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LUIS G. PARRILLA HERNANDEZLPARRILLA@FERRAIUOLI.COM.
A: CRISANTO BELLO PAOLI.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha
sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de mayo de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARIELA O. VIZCARRONDO ROSADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCN. DE CARMEN LYDIA ROSADO CINTRON T/C/C CARMEN ROSADO CINTRON COMPUESTA POR LUIS PEREZ ROSADO, COMO HEREDERO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: GB2019CV01019. (Salón: 201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN PÉREZ ROSADO - 1501 APT. SAN PATRICIO APARTS GUAYNABO, PR 00968; SAN PATRICIO APARTMENTS 14 AVE. SAN PATRICIO APTO. 1501 GUAYNABO, PR 00968; CALLE TILO EA 64 URB. LOS ALMENDROS, BAYAMÓN, PR 00961. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de marzo de 2023, 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 27 de mayo de 2025. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 27 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SARA
ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. MARIA ISABEL PEREZ PLANELLAS Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CD2024CV00362. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BIRRIELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM. A: MARÍA ISABEL PÉREZ PLANELLAS Y ADA DEL CARMEN PÉREZ PLANELLAS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de mayo de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2025. Irasemis Díaz Sánchez, Secretaria. Marta E. Donate Resto, Secretaria Auxiliar de Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
LLACG COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND
Demandante V. SUCESION MINERVA MARQUEZ QUILES Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03350. (Civil; 407). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MINERVA MARQUEZ QUILES T/C/C MINERVA MARQUEZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION PABLO GONZALEZ SERRANO T/C/C PABLO GONZALEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de mayo de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. DENISSE MINERVA TORRES RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JESENIA TERESA DE JESÚS RÍOS Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2022CV01308. (Salón: 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE TERESA MENDOZA RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-
cribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de mayo de 2025. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE VIRGINIA GONZALEZ RAMIREZ, COMPUESTA POR LAWRENCE JOHN LAGAREJOS, MARK GABRIEL LAGAREJOS Y TAIMANE CRISTINE LAGAREJOS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO TAIMANE CRISTINE LOZADA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandada
Civil Núm.: BY2025CV01028. (507). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: LAWRENCE JOHN LAGAREJOS, MARK GABRIEL LAGAREJOS Y TAIMANE CRISTINE LAGAREJOS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO TAIMANE CRISTINE LOZADA COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE VIRGINIA GONZALEZ RAMIREZ. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda Enmendada sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipote-
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 03 de junio de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 03 de junio de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
Demandante V. ALEXIS OSCAR MATOS CONTES TCC ALEXIS O. MATOS CONTES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR VIVIAN RAQUE RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2025CV00243. (Salón: 402 SUPERIOR CIVIL).
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM.
A: ALEXIS OSCAR MATOS CONTES T/C/C ALEXIS O. MATOS CONTES, SU ESPOSA VIVIAN RAQUEL RODRÍGUEZ
HERNÁNDEZ T/C/C VIVIAN R. RODRÍGUEZ
HERNÁNDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - URB. JARDINES
DE NARANJITO, LOTE D-17, NARANJITO PR 00718; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: HC-71 BOX 2123, JARDINES DE NARANJITO, NARANJITO PR 00718 Y CALLE BEGONIA #76, JARDINES DE NARANJITO, NARANJITO PR 00718. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de mayo de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. IXIA CÓRDOVA CHINEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
Demandante V. GABRIEL GARCÍA GARCÍA, POR SÍ Y COMO COMPONENTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE FORMA CON SU ESPOSA LILIBETH ROSADO JIMENEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CI2025CV00110. (Salón: 101 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM. A: GABRIEL GARCÍA GARCÍA, SU ESPOSA LILIBETH ROSADO
JIMENEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto).
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de mayo de 2025. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2025. Vivían Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Brunilda Hernández Méndez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES Demandante V. BEATRIZ CALCAÑO ORTIZ Y OTROS Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: FA2025CV00142. (Salón: 303). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM. A: SUCESIÓN DE GONZALO FIGUEROA TOLLENS T/C/C GONZALO FIGUEROA TOYAN COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA BEATRIZ CALCAÑO ORTIZ, POR SÍ; Y SUS HEREDEROS
CONOCIDOS WILFREDO FIGUEROA CALCAÑO, BEATRIZ FIGUEROA
CALCAÑO JEANETTE
FIGUEROA CALCAÑO Y JAQUELINE FIGUEROA CALCAÑO; SUCESION
DE FULANO DE TAL; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES - URB. VILLA RIO GRANDE, CALLE 12, T-25, RIO GRANDE, PR 00745. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de mayo de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de junio de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 02 de junio de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SE-
CRETARIA. NERYSA ALEXANDRINO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADA LUNA
PERFORMANCE II LLC
Demandante V. TOMAS AYBAR RIVERA POR SI Y EN REP DE LA SOC LEGAL DE BIENES
GANACIALES COMP CON LEIDA ESTHER HERRERA GASTON Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AG2022CV00579. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DELIA M. CASTELLANOS GORRITZ DCASTELLANOS@RMMELWA.COM. JERRY JUSTINIANO BERRÍOSLCDOJUSTINIANO@GMAIL.COM. LISA M. APONTE VALDERASLAPONTE@RMMELAW.COM. PIER P. MONTAPERTO RODRÍGUEZ - PIERMONTAPERTO@YAHOO.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal
ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de mayo de 2025. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. NOEMÍ DEL C. ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE AÑASCO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. WILNELIS Y DIAZ FRED POR SI Y EN REP DE LA SOC LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMP CON JAIME L. CARRERO NIEVES Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AÑ2025CV00048. (Salón: 0201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: JAIME L. CARRERO NIEVES. (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 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 junio de 2025. En Añasco, Puerto Rico, el 03 de junio de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. LUZ N. CHICO ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. AUTOMUNDO INC. Y OTROS
Demandado() Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV01279. (Salón: 908). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: AUTOMUNDO INC. Y LUIS F. CABALLERO GONZÁLEZ.
(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 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 junio de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 03 de junio de 2025. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Loraine Rosado Pérez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO POR SI COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS EXPEDIENTES DE DORAL MORTGAGE
CORP (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC) Y EN REP
DE CALROS RUBEN SANTOS VIRELLA Y BRUNILDA GONZALEZ VAZQUEZ
Demandante V. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO COMO CUSTODIO DE LOS RECORDS DE DORAL MORTGAGE CORP (HOY CERRADO POR EL FDIC) Y OTROS Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CI2025CV00117. (Salón: 101 SALA SUPERIOR).
Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANTONIO A. HERNÁNDEZ ALMODÓVAR - AHERNANDEZ@ RMMELAW.COM.
A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 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 junio de 2025. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 03 de junio de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. BRUNILDA HERNÁNDEZ MÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERIO.
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante v. SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ANTONIO COLÓN SANTIAGO compuesta por: NORBERTO LUIS COLÓN GONZÁLEZ; LUIS ANTONIO COLÓN GONZÁLEZ; ANTONIO LUIS COLÓN ORTIZ; LUIS ENRIQUE COLÓN ORTIZ; AYDIL COLÓN ORTIZ y LYDIA ESTHER ORTIZ ORTIZ, por si y en la cuota viudal usufructuaria, DEPARTAMENTO DE
HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO
Demandado CIVIL NÚM: BQ2022CV00039 (402). SOBRE: INTERPELACION; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCION DE GARANTIAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.
A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL
El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Comerio, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Solar B. Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Palo Hincado del término municipal de Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de ochocientos doce punto dos mil setecientos metros cuadrados (812.2700 m.c.) y en lindes por el NORTE, en quince (15.00) metros, con la Carretera Estatal número ciento cincuenta y seis (156); por el SUR, en diez y ocho punto veintisiete (18.27) metros, con terrenos propiedad de la señora Juana Hernández; por el ESTE, en treinta y cinco punto veintitrés (35.23) metros, con el solar “C”; y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y ocho punto diez y nueve (48.19) metros, con el solar “A”. Inscrita al folio 128 del tomo 105 de Barranquitas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Sección de Barranquitas, finca número 6,154. Dirección Física: RD 156, KM 12.4, Bo. Palo Hincado, Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, 00794. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que la propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Firstbank Puerto
Indiana refused to bottom out. The top is near.
By JASON LLOYD / THE ATHLETIC
As an exasperated NBA continues its never-ending quest to stamp out tanking, here come the Indiana Pacers rising from the debris of mediocrity, right on cue.
There is a long-held belief in the NBA that the worst place to be is stuck in the middle: never bad enough to be in a position to draft top talent, but never quite good enough to compete for championships. It’s Interstate 405 in Los Angeles, and it’s rush hour.
The league has increased its efforts in recent years to abolish tanking. It can use the Pacers as proof that it is possible to win big without it. Indiana is returning to the finals for the first time in 25 years after plenty of seasons spent stuck in the middle, but it has never entered a season trying to lose.
Oh, there have been plenty of losses along the way. Indiana won 25 games in Rick Carlisle’s return season, but it was a year derailed by injuries. In this case, intent matters. The Pacers began the 2021-22 season with playoff aspirations but became sellers at the trade deadline, sending Caris LeVert to the Cleveland Cavaliers for picks and acquiring Tyrese Haliburton from the Sacramento Kings in a separate deal that reshaped their future.
At no point did the franchise enter a season with the idea of playing for lottery odds instead of wins. Not when Larry Bird was there as an executive, not when Frank Vogel coached, not when Carlisle was there the first time, and certainly not now.
They have been tempted. The Pacers came close to acquiring Russell Westbrook’s massive expiring contract in 2022 and picking up a first-round pick for the team owner Herb Simon’s willingness to pay him. But such a move would have been a concession that the Pacers were giving up and bottoming out. The deal collapsed when the Lakers refused to add another first-rounder, and Myles Turner remained in Indianapolis. Now they are thrilled to still have him.
Players never compete intending to lose, of course. But front offices can rig rosters so winning is nearly impossible. The Pacers never did that. In fact, throughout the last quartercentury, they have been more of a model for exactly how not
to compete for an NBA championship.
They made the playoffs in nine of the 10 seasons from 2010-11 to 2019-20 but advanced to the conference finals only twice. They were eliminated in the first round five consecutive years — the definition of milquetoast.
That was during the era of superteams and when LeBron James reigned in the East. Now the Pacers are thriving with healthy organizational development. Bennedict Mathurin and Jarace Walker were top 10 selections. The rest of this roster was constructed with midround picks or lower, aggressive trades, economical free-agent signings and a touch of patience.
They resisted the urge to give up on Turner too soon. They gambled on Haliburton when they traded away Domantas Sabonis, who made a pair of All-Star Games while with the Pacers. They gambled on Pascal Siakam, trading three firstround picks for a player who was close to free agency. Siakam was the most valuable player of the conference finals and is still wearing Pacers colors.
The Pacers have not paid the luxury tax since 2006. They have not picked in the top five since 1988.
Yet they played for the NBA Cup and advanced to the conference finals last season, and now they are four wins from an NBA championship. Rarely have teams beaten a pair of 60-win teams to win a title. The Houston Rockets were the last to do it, in 1994.
If the Pacers conquer the Thunder — Game 1 of the NBA Finals was Thursday night in Oklahoma City — Indiana will become the first team in NBA history to beat a pair of 64-win teams on the way to a ring. They eliminated the 64-win Cavaliers in the second round, and the Thunder won 68 games this season.
Similarly, Indiana can eliminate seven All-NBA players in this postseason. It ended the seasons of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley, Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns. Still to come are Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams. Considering Haliburton was a thirdteam All-NBA selection, the Pacers could eliminate half of the remaining All-NBA players this postseason. They might not be the dominant monsters of dynasties past, but this has a chance to become a historic run of success nonetheless.
This is exactly how the league wants teams to build now. What did not seem feasible when stars were teaming up in desirable markets now might be the best path forward: try hard, compete, draft wisely and organically develop talent the hard way. It is how the Denver Nuggets won two years ago. It is how the Pacers are doing it now.
The last two lottery winners cashed in odds of 3% or less to win the No. 1 pick, an indication the current system is working as the league in-
The Pacers began the 2021-22 season with playoff aspirations but became sellers at the trade deadline, sending Caris LeVert to the Cleveland Cavaliers for picks and acquiring Tyrese Haliburton from the Sacramento Kings in a separate deal that reshaped their future. (Wikipedia)
tended since flattening the lottery odds again in 2019.
In the seven lotteries since, a team with the best odds won the first pick four times. The other three winners were long shots. Losing assures nothing.
Tanking will probably never be abolished, but the NBA is much closer to its end goal than it was a decade ago. The Pacers never tried to lose. Now they’re on the cusp, finally, of winning big.
NBA Finals Game 1
Thursday Indiana Pacers at Oklahoma City Thunder, 8:30 p.m. ET Game 2
Sunday Pacers at Thunder, 8 p.m. ET (ABC)
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Aries (Mar 21-April 20)
You’re apt to feel a bit wilder today, Aries. There’s a wave of powerful energy working to strengthen your ego and self-confidence. Use this boost to the best of your ability. You will need it. There is a strong, fact-oriented force working to combat your aims, and you will find that it’s equally powerful and stubborn. Cut through the fantasy and uncover the truth.
Taurus (April 21-May 21)
A good tactic today would be to convert your fears to motivation for positive action. You have a great deal of energy at your disposal, Taurus. Don’t waste it. Be aware that it’s one of those situations when the smallest comment or insult may set off a chain reaction of misinformation. People are emotionally charged, so be careful where you step.
Gemini (May 22-June 21)
You’re likely to be faced with conflicting reports today, Gemini. Information may be tainted with emotion, so be careful about going with the choice that shouts the loudest. You may get pigeonholed into a place you don’t want to be in. Heed the internal warnings you pick up. This is a good day to work and play with passion. Take care of any investigative work that needs to be done.
Cancer (June 22-July 23)
You may be seduced by fantastic promises that offer wonderful rewards. Beware of lots of bells and whistles, Cancer. There may be a great deal of talk but not much to substantiate such wonderful claims. Don’t be surprised if people with intense emotions are stepping up to add their opinions about how you should run your life. Don’t forget who’s boss.
Leo (July 24-Aug 23)
People are apt to be quite emotional when it comes to the image they wish to project today, Leo. Be careful where you step. It’s your job to see through the trendy makeup and fashion that hide the true personalities of the people who insist on wearing these masks. The key is to not be fooled by those who hide behind a facade built by society.
Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)
Virgo, don’t be surprised if some of your fantasies and dreams are put on trial by a harsh force that cuts right to the truth of the matter. People may be extra passionate, and most aren’t going to be impressed with unrealistic plans. You can try your normal approach of simply ramming straight ahead with your plans, but a better approach might be to think first and be more strategic.
Libra
(Sep 24-Oct 23)
You’re at an emotionally climactic point now, Libra, and you might find that harsh opposition is coming at you for no clear reason. There’s a stubborn, strong force surrounding you, and you should be aware that the more rigid your viewpoint, the harder it will be for any resolution. Compromise is an essential element of the day.
Scorpio
(Oct 24-Nov 22)
Be careful to not be too cavalier today, Scorpio. It would be wise to adopt a more serious tone than usual. You might be inclined to say words carelessly, but people are going to take you literally. Make sure you mean what you say. Your attention to fashion and pop culture may conflict with a force that’s asking you to focus on things of deeper spiritual value.
Sagittarius
(Nov 23-Dec 21)
You have the sensitivity to pick up on what’s going on in every situation today, Sagittarius. Powerful emotions may conflict with extremely strong opinions. Welcome to the battle between the head and the heart! On this day you may be more apt to side with the heart. Realize that this arena is heated and that the forces around you are extremely stubborn.
Capricorn
(Dec 22-Jan 20)
The fantasy world that you’ve built for yourself is a pleasure, Capricorn. People frolic in it and have a grand time. Your presence delights people. Today, however, this world may be threatened by harsh realities that are coming in the form of electronic information. This force is powerful and apt to be erratic and spontaneous. Be prepared to stand your ground.
Aquarius
(Jan 21-Feb 19)
It may be difficult to stay grounded today with all the information flying around and all the emotion roiling in your heart. Try not to take things too seriously, Aquarius. This is the key to maintaining a level head today. Approach the day with passion and take care of any investigative work that needs doing. There are important facts coming from unexpected sources.
Pisces
(Feb 20-Mar 20)
You may be pushed around by two very powerful camps today, Pisces. Since you’re the kind, diplomatic, and sensitive type, you make the perfect target for the more abrasive and opinionated. You may want to side with the cold, hard facts presented to you, although there is a great deal of emotional power working to stir up the pot. Things may not be as clear as they seem at first glance.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29
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