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Buyers of used cars won’t have to pay previous fines

By THE STAR STAFF

Senator Héctor “Gaby” González has introduced a bill that would protect buyers of used vehicles from being penalized for fines or violations incurred by the previous owner of the car.

“Buying a vehicle should be a safe and transparent process, not a source of uncertainty and risk,” stated Senator González on Sunday. “Citizens who purchase a car in good faith should not face legal consequences for actions beyond their control. It’s time for the system to acknowledge this injustice.”

The issue becomes apparent when new owners are confronted with administrative fines and freezes that predate their purchase, often without their knowledge. “The automatic imposition of penalties without verifying ownership is a serious violation that erodes trust in our institutions,” González added. “With this law, we are reaffirming citizens’ right to fair and equitable treatment.”

The bill’s explanatory statement highlights that many citizens, after acquiring a used vehicle—whether through financing, direct purchase, or legally formalized transfers—find months or even years later that the vehicle has outstanding administrative fines,

traffic violations, charges for improper use of the AutoExpreso system, or administrative freezes. In most cases, these charges relate to incidents that occurred before the new owner became the registered owner of the vehicle.

As a result, no driver or owner can be held liable for events that took place outside the period during which they actually owned the vehicle. This will not only alleviate the burden on current owners but also promote a culture of responsibility and fairness in the used vehicle market.

The senator emphasized that the State has the necessary tools to implement this measure. “Technology is available to us. Through the Department of Transportation and Public Works’ systems, we can verify who owned a vehicle at a specific time. This capability is crucial for fairly assigning liability,” he explained.

Moreover, the legislation includes an automatic review mechanism to rectify improperly issued fines, making it easier for citizens to assert their rights. “It’s not just about avoiding unfair penalties; it’s about creating a system where citizens have a voice and can defend their rights without unnecessary obstacles,” González concluded.

New manual consolidates crisis protocols across public schools

By THE STAR STAFF

Secretary of Education Eliezer Ramos Parés announced the release of the agency’s first-ever consolidated manual, unifying 43 official protocols into a single, practical, and accessible guide for the entire school community. The new School Crisis Management Protocol Manual is led by the Department’s socioemotional component.

The document brings together all official procedures to guide schools in prevention, response, and intervention during emergencies and incidents that affect student safety and well-being

“When we set out to create this manual, we envisioned a single guide that unified all of the agency’s protocols. With more than 200,000 students and thousands of employees, it was common to have multiple guides for different scenarios. From now on, schools will have a single document that outlines the fundamental principles for crisis prevention and response, while emphasizing the shared responsibility between government agencies, school staff, students, and families,” Ramos Parés explained.

The key topics in the manual are: priority response to child abuse cases, prohibition of violence, substance use, and weapons on school grounds, central role of the socioemotional interdisciplinary team, mandatory reporting of risk situations, continuity of educational services during disciplinary processes and rights and responsibilities of students and parents in matters of conduct, attendance, and nondiscrimination

The school principal, together with the Socioemotional Interdis-

ciplinary Team — composed of professionals such as social workers, psychologists, nurses, and counselors — will be responsible for activating the protocols in the event of an emergency, ensuring a swift and coordinated response.

The manual also includes a quick reference guide to support immediate action, a glossary of key terms and abbreviations to promote a common language among school personnel, and a dedicated section on indicators of abuse and neglect, enabling staff to identify warning signs and act promptly.

The School Crisis Management Protocol Manual will be available on the official Department of Education website at: https:// de.pr.gov/oficina-de-seguridad/.

FOMB to present report today to bankruptcy court on the removal of most of its members

By THE STAR STAFF

The Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) is required to present a report today to the bankruptcy court regarding the impact of the recent removal of most of its board members.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who oversees the Title III bankruptcy proceedings, ordered the filing of this report earlier this month in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to fire six out of seven FOMB members.

These firings could signify a new strategy concerning the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) in its Title III case. Judge Swain

has also paused discussions on a motion from PREPA bondholders seeking a $3.7 billion administrative expense claim.

The FOMB was instructed to submit the report

today, detailing “the status of its membership and the effects, if any, that these recent events will have on its participation in matters currently before the court,” according to Swain.

Earlier this month, the White House dismissed six of the seven members of the FOMB, which oversees Puerto Rico’s finances and represents the territory in its bankruptcy proceedings. Initially, five members were fired, followed by the dismissal of a sixth member a few days later.

The removed members include Board Chairman Arthur Gonzalez, Cameron McKenzie, Betty Rosa, Juan Sabater, Luis Ubiñas, and Andrew Biggs. This decision comes amid pressure from certain bondholders of the Puerto Rico Electric

Power Authority, who are urging the public utility to pay its $8.5 billion bonded debt, which has hindered a debt adjustment plan for the utility. These bondholders have reportedly influenced the removal of the FOMB.

The White House has not announced replacements for the dismissed board members. Although this action does not dissolve the FOMB, it significantly incapacitates it in terms of decision-making since only one member remains.

These firings occurred after MAGA activist Laura Loomer, who allegedly has influence over President Trump, criticized the Board for spending $2 billion over the past decade in the bankruptcy case.

By THE STAR STAFF

The preliminary hearing for Elvia Cabrera Rivera, 40, and her 17-year-old daughter, Anthonieshka Avilés Cabrera, accused of the shocking stabbing death of 16-year-old Gabriela Nicole Pratts Rosario in Aibonito on August 11, is scheduled to unfold today.

This gripping case, poised to captivate audiences on television and social media, may face delays as the newly appointed lawyers for the accused may seek more time to prepare their defenses.

In Puerto Rico, the preliminary hearing serves as a critical juncture in the criminal process for those facing felony charges. It’s a critical moment where the prosecution must present enough evidence to determine whether the case should proceed to trial—not a full trial itself.

Last week, during a status hearing before Judge Marielem Padilla, it was confirmed that Jesús Roberto Ramos Puca will defend Cabrera Rivera. Avilés Cabrera will be represented by lawyers from the Puerto Rico Legal Aid Society (SALPR).

As the hearing is set to be broadcast live, witnesses have expressed deep concerns for their safety and have requested the court to protect their identities. On August 20, the Supreme Court authorized the transmission of the proceedings following an appeal by Jagual Media, LLC and Jay Fonseca.

Both women face serious charges: first-degree murder and violations of the Weapons Law, with bail set at a staggering $1 million each. In a shocking twist, the minor, Avilés Cabrera, will be tried as an adult, meaning both defendants could face up to 99 years in prison if convicted.

Aibonito Prosecutor Ernesto Quesada confirmed that a police officer will testify in the investigation, bolstering the case against the defendants. Initially, six suspects were identified—four minors and two adults—with the victim’s mother, Lisandra Rosario, stepping forward as the key witness to these tragic events.

Prosecutor Quesada has emphasized that this was not a spontaneous fight, but a premeditated act stemming from a broader dispute—a chilling perspective on what led to such a horrific crime. While the initial reports pointed to multiple suspects, only Elvia and Anthonieshka have been arrested, leaving many questions unanswered.

The incident shook the community to its core, occurring in the early hours of August 11 near the Roberto Colón intersection on the PR14 highway. Adding to the heartbreak, both the

victim and the defendants were classmates at Bonifacio Sánchez Jiménez High School, marking a tragic end to youthful ties in a community grappling with the consequences of violence.

Preliminary hearing in Aibonito teen’s death is slated for today Parking issues at LMM airport spark legislative investigation

By THE STAR STAFF

The House of Representatives is preparing to investigate the constant complaints from citizens about the lack of parking at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, and in some cases, delays of more than an hour in ground transportation to the parking facility located at the Mall of San Juan.

Today, Monday, the House will approve Resolution 347, authored by former House Speaker José Aponte, which orders the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure to conduct a thorough investigation into the operations,

conditions, infrastructure, safety, protocols, and rates of the parking facilities at the airport.

“In recent weeks, significant concerns have continued to arise regarding various operational aspects, particularly with respect to the infrastructure and functioning of the airport’s parking facilities. In recent months, numerous complaints have been received from airport users who, after traveling from different parts of the island, arrive at the parking area only to find that no spaces are available—without prior notice or viable alternatives. Likewise, they report that shuttle buses to the Mall of San Juan are delayed, in some cases for over an hour,”

said Aponte, who also chairs the Committee on Federal and Veterans Affairs.

“This situation has negatively impacted the experience of many users and the efficiency of airport operations. Reports highlight not only the lack of available spaces but also deficiencies in signage, the absence of updated real-time systems for space availability, inadequate maintenance, poor lighting, and a limited presence of orientation staff,” Aponte added.

“Likewise, there has been discussion about the possible prioritization of parking spaces for airport employees to the detriment of the general public, which worsens the shortage of parking

for passengers. If confirmed, this practice—while understandable from an operational standpoint—should be reviewed and reorganized through more efficient policies that guarantee a balance between employee needs and adequate public access,” the legislator stressed.

On July 14, Aerostar Holdings announced the creation of the SJU Park & Ride program, under which travelers may park on levels 2 through 5 of the Mall of San Juan for a flat rate of $60.00 for the first day and $9.50 for each additional day. This service is provided through shuttle buses running between the airport terminals and the mall every 30 minutes.

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Evia Cabrera Rivera, 40, and her 17-year-old daughter, Anthonieshka Avilés Cabrera, are accused of stabbing death of 16-year-old Gabriela Nicole Pratts Rosario in Aibonito.

Research project at UPRM documents the state of fishing villages in PR

By THE STAR STAFF

Anew project titled The Dilemma of Fishing Villages in Puerto Rico: Abandonment, Displacement, and Resilience seeks to shed light on the historical and contemporary challenges faced by the fishing communities of the Puerto Rican archipelago.

This research effort, funded by the Puerto Rico Sea Grant program and based at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), will examine the impacts of changing coastal land use, conflicts over coastal access, the effects of climate change, and the ways in which commercial fishers have resisted and adapted to new realities. Through fieldwork, interviews, historical archives, and community collaboration, the study aims to document these experiences of resilience and collective struggle in the

face of dispossession.

“For decades, fishing villages in Puerto Rico have been key spaces for artisanal fishing and the local coastal economy. However, many of them now face institutional neglect, displacement pressures from development and coastal tourism projects, as well as serious climate threats. The proposal recognizes them not only as physical infrastructures but also as sociocultural spaces fundamental to coastal life in Puerto Rico,” stated Dr. Manuel Valdés Pizzini, principal investigator and professor emeritus at UPRM.

The initiative, developed by the Interdisciplinary Coastal Studies Center (CIEL) of the UPRM Department of Social Sciences, also includes the collaboration of Jannette Ramos García and Emmanuel Maldonado González, who have extensive experience in Puerto Rico’s fishing sector. Fishers, community leaders, grassroots organizations,

The lead researchers of the proposal, from left, Dr. Manuel Valdés Pizzini and Dr. Ariam L. Torres

and other subject experts such as Dr. Edwin Asencio, director of the Department of Social Sciences at UPRM, will also participate.

“This project seeks to honor the living memory of fishing villages, recognizing their cultural and economic value. Documenting their struggles and hopes is an essential step toward promoting fairer public policies for our fishers and their communities,” said Dr. Ariam L. Torres Cordero, assistant professor at the Graduate School of Planning at UPRRío Piedras, researcher of the proposal, and CIEL collaborator.

In addition to academic research, the team will develop educational, visual, and narrative materials to highlight the stories and demands of fishing communities. Among the products are a community digital map, a traveling exhibition, and a report with public policy recommendations for the protection and revitalization of fishing villages. The San Juan

Supreme Court to evaluate DACO’s suit seeking damages for customer broken appliances

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court will review a petition from the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO) to overturn a liability waiver granted by the energy regulator, which exempts LUMA Energy from compensating customers for damages to their appliances.

LUMA Energy President Juan Saca expressed concerns on Saturday that if the Supreme Court revokes the consortium’s immunity from liability for damaged appliances, it will lead to an increase in power rates.

“We appreciate the opportunity to demonstrate to the Supreme Court that the proposal from the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO) could significantly affect our customers. If liability limits are reversed, customers will face higher electricity rates. This could be due to increased exposure to claims or because the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) may establish a fund to compensate for property damages. Both scenarios will inevitably result in higher costs for customers. Courts in the United States have upheld the inclusion of liability limits for electric companies, affirming that regulatory agencies like the PREB have the authority to extend these liability limits,” Saca stated in a written statement.

The case was filed by DACO in July

against LUMA Energy, the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB), and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA).

“The Supreme Court has approved our appeal, meaning this case, which is of significant public interest, will be heard on its merits. At DACO, we are committed to fighting for and protecting consumer rights. This administration is dedicated to upholding a fundamental right that has existed for decades: the right to file a claim when harm occurs,” stated DACO Secretary Valerie Rodríguez Erazo in a written statement.

Rodríguez emphasized that allowing consumers to suffer losses without any recourse will not be tolerated. “We are prepared to present our legal arguments and clearly demonstrate that the privilege granted to LUMA to avoid liability for the damages it causes has no place in our legal system. This attempt to circumvent civil liability and place a private company above the people will not be allowed,” she added.

The Supreme Court has granted DACO 15 days to submit its brief, with the respondents receiving a similar timeframe to file their initial briefs. Additionally, the court approved LUMA’s requests for permission to exceed the page limit in its briefs, to submit supplementary appendices in digital format, and to file requests for judicial review.

DACO stressed that this case seeks not only to resolve a specific controversy but also to uphold the principle that every person has the right to claim and receive compensation when they suffer harm from those providing essential services. The suit cited a recent LUMA statement at a public hearing, indicating that the company has rejected 1,828 claims. “It’s time for LUMA to be fully accountable to Puerto Rican consumers,” the statement read.

The action against LUMA was filed as a whole in July because the law exempts LUMA’s employees and contractors from claims filed by customers under a partial liability immunity granted by Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau in 2021.

In 2021, then LUMA’s Vice President for Regulatory Affairs, Mario Hurtado, testified before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, stating that proposed terms of service with limited economic liability were part of the LUMA Energy operation and management agreement.

Hurtado asserted at that time that the Proposed Liability Waiver protects ratepayers from higher rates, serves the public interest, and is essential for remediating the transmission and distribution (T&D) system. He claimed that the liability waiver would help prevent a rate hike and reduce the utility’s insurance premiums. However, the Puerto Rico Energy

Bureau (PREB) rejected LUMA Energy’s petition for a full liability waiver and instead amended the T&D contract to provide for a partial liability waiver.

PREB determined that without any liability for PREPA and/or LUMA, these entities would still have the right to disconnect or otherwise curtail, interrupt, or reduce service to customers whenever they reasonably determine it is necessary for the construction, installation, maintenance, repairs, replacement, or inspection of any of PREPA’s facilities. This includes circumstances attributable to third parties or related to hazardous situations, such as emergencies, forced outages, potential overloading of PREPA’s transmission and/or distribution system, sabotage, strikes, unauthorized acts by employees, or force majeure events.

PREB’s decision also exempted PREPA, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and contractors, including LUMA Energy, LLC, and LUMA Energy Servco, LLC, as well as their directors, officers, employees, agents, and contractors, from liability arising in connection with the operation of the T&D system and the provision of electric power, including interruptions, irregularities, or defects in electric service due to force majeure events or pre-existing deteriorated conditions, as well as other causes beyond the control of the released parties.

Cordero, at the El Docky fishing village in Mayagüez.

A muted homecoming for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

By JAZMINE ULLOA

When Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned home late Friday, he was greeted with flowers, metallic streamers and cheers. In videos circulated by immigrant rights groups, he shared long, tearful embraces with his wife, children and other family members. He expressed his gratitude to the people who had not abandoned him.

“Thank you for everything,” Abrego Garcia told his older brother, Cesar, as he wept in his arms.

But the celebration of his homecoming has been muted. For Abrego Garcia, 30, an immigrant who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March and returned to the United States in June, the odyssey is not over: The federal government has threatened to deport him to Uganda, his lawyers said. So for now, he and his family are keeping a low profile, with Abrego Garcia required to use an ankle monitor and largely staying out of the limelight.

Abrego Garcia, who was in the United States without permission, became a defining face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration when he was deported, prompting outrage from immigrant rights advocates and heightening fear and anxiety among other immigrants in the country.

A sheet-metal worker, Abrego Garcia had been living for years in Prince George’s County in Maryland when he was sent to El Salvador, alongside more than 260 detainees, with no due process. He was sent back in June to face human smuggling charges in Tennessee, where he was held in jail until Friday. His lawyers said the Trump administration’s threat to deport him to Uganda was an attempt to “coerce” him into a guilty plea in the smuggling case.

It was not immediately clear exactly why the Trump administration chose Uganda as the place to potentially send Abrego Garcia. Initially, federal prosecutors had said that if Abrego Garcia pleaded guilty to his charges and agreed to stay in custody until Monday, they would send him to Costa Rica, where they said he could live safely, after whatever sentence he is given in that case. But after his lawyers did not agree to keeping him in jail beyond Friday, the administration said if he does not accept their plea deal by Monday, they would start the process to deport him to Uganda.

In a statement on his release, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, called him a “monster” — rhetoric the Trump administration has been pushing as it continues to accuse him of being a member of the MS-13 gang. “We will not stop fighting till this Salvadoran man faces justice and is out of our country,” she said.

On Saturday afternoon, his relatives declined multiple interview requests from reporters who arrived at their door in Prince George’s County. Inside, some of them were huddled with members of his legal team, as Abrego Garcia is expected at an early check-in with immigration authorities Monday.

Speaking from their front yard later, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, one of the lawyers, said federal officials were targeting his client because he had spoken out against his unlawful deportation and had said he had been tortured

at the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in El Salvador.

“The government has decided to use the immigration system to punish him,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said, adding, “He and his family have suffered enough.”

Abrego Garcia’s deportation and dramatic legal fight with the Trump administration has been closely followed in Prince George’s County, which has a big Latino immigrant population.

Since his release, local elected officials, union leaders and immigrant rights activists have continued to rally behind his case, saying Abrego Garcia’s plight has been but one example of the Trump administration’s constitutional overreach.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was in the United States without permission, became a defining face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration when he was deported (PBS)

“This is a matter that’s greater than just this one case or one man,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. “If one person’s rights are denied, then the rights of all of us are at risk.” Van Hollen helped provide the first public glimpses of Abrego Garcia since his detainment

when he met with him in San Salvador in April.

The case has resonated with Latino residents in the area. Some said Saturday that their anxiety has grown in recent weeks as National Guard troops and agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies combed the streets of Washington, where many of them work.

Near Abrego Garcia’s home, Ana Ventura, 64, an El Salvador native and naturalized U.S. citizen who has lived in the area for 30 years, said she was shocked when he was picked up in March because he had appeared to work hard and keep to himself. She said that even if the criminal charges against him were serious, he should have been given a chance to defend himself before he was sent away.

Her eyes widened when she learned he might now be deported to Uganda. “That does not seem just to me,” she said.

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Texas Legislature gives final approval to redistricting map

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The Texas Legislature gave final approval Saturday to an aggressively redrawn congressional map that kicked off a redistricting race between the parties that is likely to affect the fight for Congress long before any ballots are cast in the 2026 midterm elections.

Gov. Greg Abbott has said he would sign the map into law once it reaches his desk.

The state Senate passed the map in a party-line vote just days after it was approved by the Texas House on Wednesday. The new lines on Texas’ congressional districts were drawn to deliver Republi-

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cans up to five U.S. House seats and help preserve the party’s thin majority.

“I’m convinced that if Texas does not take this action, that there is an extreme risk that that Republican majority will be lost,” said state Sen. Phil King during the floor debate Friday. He said at several points that he did not “look at any racial data.”

“This map is legal in all respects,” King said.

Democrats, who temporarily blocked the passage of the map with a walkout in the state House, said the newly drawn lines illegally diminished the voting strength of Black and Hispanic Texans. They have vowed to file suit against the map after it is adopted.

After more than eight hours of debate Friday, the adoption of a procedural motion by the Republicans denied the Democrats a chance to filibuster, moving the chamber to the final vote. The motion argued that a Democratic state senator who had planned to filibuster, Carol Alvarado, had promoted it as a campaign fundraising event.

The bill passed on a vote of 18-11 just after 12:30 a.m. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called for people in the gallery — who were shouting “shame” and “fascist” — to be removed. The Senate adjourned until Tuesday at 3 p.m.

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He had spoken to its executive director, Adam Kincaid, early in the state’s process and as recently as Monday.

“I know he has been involved in some of the early map drawing,” King said at one point while engaging with a Democratic colleague Friday. “Everyone knows, senator, that he has been involved since the beginning.”

Kincaid did not respond to a request for comment.

The results of the nationwide redistricting push might not save Republican control of the U.S. House, where the party currently holds a slender four-seat majority. Off-year elections almost always favor the party out of power in the White House. Even without the states most likely to redistrict — Texas, California, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio — 27 House seats that were decided by fewer than 5 percentage points in 2024 will remain in play; 14 of them are held by Republicans.

districting in Texas have proved dramatic. President Donald Trump first broached the Texas gerrymander months ago to initially skeptical Republicans, hoping to stave off Democratic victories in U.S. House elections that would cost his party control of the chamber in 2027. Since then, mid-decade redistricting — once a rarity in American politics — is threatening to reverse decades of movement toward less partisan political mapmaking.

On Thursday, Democratic lawmakers in California approved a new map of their state designed to swing five Republican seats to Democrats, a numerical counter to Texas that is likely to go before California voters in a November referendum. Trump is also pressing Republican legislators to counter in Missouri, Indiana and Ohio, where more Republican seats could be squeezed out of maps that already favor the GOP. Florida’s Republican House speaker has also vowed to enter his state into the race.

The hours of discussion in the Texas Senate on Friday included some details on how the effort had been organized behind-the-scenes.

King said that the National Republican Redistricting Trust, which helps coordinate the party’s redistricting strategy, had been involved in Texas’ redistricting.

But the spasm of mid-decade redistricting could make the House even more fiercely partisan than it is now, as both parties move to take seats from their rivals.

Regardless, the Texas map’s passage was a major victory for Trump. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California may have numerically nullified the president’s gains in Texas, but he still faces a campaign to get his maps approved by voters who overwhelmingly backed the nonpartisan redistricting commission that the new map would temporarily supplant.

In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul met with state Democratic leaders Thursday, but they still face legal impediments that are likely to stop any redistricting there before 2026. Other Democratic states, such as Maryland and Illinois, are running into similar hurdles.

No such impediments faced Texas, where the Republican-dominated state Legislature completely controls the process around redistricting. The redrawing of congressional districts usually happens only after the decennial U.S. census, in order to account for changes in population over time.

But with encouragement from Trump, state leaders in Texas said they were legally permitted to redraw the lines at any time. And they said that recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent allowed them to do so with the explicit goal of boosting the number of Republicans in the U.S. House.

Ukraine diplomacy reveals how un-American Trump is NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Iam really trying to be fair in analyzing the Trump-PutinZelenskyy-Europe drama that has been playing out the past few weeks. I am trying to balance President Donald Trump’s commendable desire to end the murderous war in Ukraine with the utterly personalized, seat-of-the-pants, often farcical way he is going about it — including the energy that everyone involved has to expend feeding his ego and avoiding his wrath, before they even get to the hellish compromises needed to make peace.

For now, the whole thing leaves me deeply uncomfortable.

I have covered a lot of diplomatic negotiations since becoming a journalist in 1978, but I have never seen one when where one of the leaders — in this case Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy — felt the need to thank our president about 15 times in the roughly 4-1/2 minutes he addressed him with the press in the room. Not to mention the flattery that our other European allies felt they needed to heap on him as well.

When our allies have to devote this much energy just to keep the peace with our president, before they even begin to figure out how to make peace with Vladimir Putin; when they have to constantly look over their shoulder to make sure that Trump is not shooting them in the back with a social media post, before Putin shoots them in the front with a missile; and when our president doesn’t understand that when Putin says to Ukraine, in effect “Marry me or I’ll

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kill you,” that Zelenskyy needs more than just an American marriage counselor, it all leads me to ask: How is this ever going to work?

Especially when every bone in my body tells me that Trump does not get what this Ukraine war is truly about. Trump is unlike any American president in the past 80 years. He feels no gut solidarity with the trans-Atlantic alliance and its shared commitment to democracy, free markets, human rights and the rule of law — an alliance that has produced the greatest period of prosperity and stability for the most people in the history of the world.

I am convinced that Trump looks at NATO as if it’s a U.S.-owned shopping center whose tenants are never paying enough rent. And he looks at the European Union as a shopping center competing with the United States that he’d like to shut down by hammering it with tariffs.

The notion that NATO is the spear that protects Western values and that the European Union is possibly the West’s best modern political creation — a vast center of free people and free markets, stabilizing a continent that was known for tribal and religious wars for millennia — is alien to Trump.

Indeed, I agree with Bill Blain, a British-based bond trader and economic analyst, who wrote on Monday: “However much European leaders pile on their flattery of Trump, it’s clear the fundamental bond of trust that underlay the 80year success of the trans-Atlantic economy, that served the U.S. so favorably for decades, is now ruptured. The end of the trans-Atlantic economy will change the global economy utterly — favoring Asia and new trade relationships.”

So, it is also no wonder to me that Trump doesn’t feel any gut need to bring Ukraine into the West or understand that Putin’s invasion was just his latest march to break up the West as revenge for its breaking up the Soviet Union.

How do I know that Trump is deaf to all that? Just listen to the interview that his special envoy to Putin, Steve Witkoff, gave to Tucker Carlson in March, after Witkoff’s second meeting with Putin in the Kremlin. Here is just an excerpt:

Carlson: “What did you think of him?”

Witkoff: “I liked him. I thought he was straight up with me … By the way, how would we settle a conflict with someone who is the head of a major nuclear power unless we establish trust and good feelings with one another?

his friend. I mean, can you imagine sitting there and listening to these kinds of conversations?

“And I came home and delivered that message to our president and delivered the painting, and he was clearly touched by it. So this is the kind of connection that we’ve been able to reestablish through, by the way, a simple word called communication, which many people would say, you know, I shouldn’t have had, because Putin is a bad guy. I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy. That is a complicated situation, that war and all the ingredients that led up to it. You know, it’s never just one person, right?”

It gets worse. Trump is so deluded as to Putin’s nature that during his summit with European leaders on Monday he was overheard on an open microphone telling President Emmanuel Macron of France about Putin: “I think he wants to make a deal for me. Do you understand that? As crazy as it sounds.”

Can anyone identify a single U.S. diplomat in Moscow or CIA analyst who is advising Witkoff and Trump today? My bet is there are none, because no serious analyst or expert on Russia would tell them: “We have concluded that you are right and all of us have been wrong: Putin is not a bad guy, he just wants a just peace with Ukraine — and when he tells you he went to church and prayed for President Trump, you should believe him.”

So, I end where I began: Trump and Witkoff are not wrong to want to stop the war and all the killing. And it is not wrong to be in regular communication with Putin to do that. I am all for both. But to stop this war in a sustainable way, you have to understand who Putin is and what he is up to. Putin is a bad guy, a cold-blooded murderer. He is not the friend of the president. That is a fantasy that Trump chooses to believe is real.

Once you understand those things, they lead you to only one conclusion: The only sustainable way to stop this war and prevent it from coming back is a massive, consistent, Western commitment to give Ukraine the military resources that will convince Putin that his army will be chewed apart. The United States also must provide the security guarantees that would deter Russia from ever trying this again and encourage our European allies to promise that Ukraine will one day be in the EU — forever anchored in the West.

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“In the second visit that I had, it got personal. President Putin had commissioned a beautiful portrait of President Trump from the leading Russian artist and actually gave it to me and asked me to take it home to President Trump, which I brought home and delivered to him. It’s been reported in the paper, but it was such a gracious moment. And [Putin] told me a story, Tucker, about how when the president was shot, he went to his local church and met with his priest and prayed for the president, not because he was the president of the United States or could become the president of the United States, but because he had a friendship with him and he was praying for

Escuela de Bellas Artes Ivania Zayas de Salinas ofrece nuevo taller de teatro

La alcaldesa de Salinas, Karilyn Bonilla Colón, anunció que la Escuela Municipal de Bellas Artes de Salinas Ivana Zayas Ortiz ofrece un nuevo taller de teatro para niños y jóvenes entre las edades de seis (6) a diez y siete (17) años, por grupos.

“Para nosotros es parte del compromiso educativo ofrecer alternativas para nuestros niños y jóvenes. En el caso del teatro, está demostrado que sus beneficios incluyen mejoras en la memoria, la concentración y la capacidad de tomar decisiones. Además, el teatro fomenta la empatía, la autoestima y la confianza en uno mismo, aspectos esenciales para el desarrollo emocional”, señaló la alcaldesa.

El proyecto se ha estructurado en tres grupos separados por edades. El Grupo Principiante es para participantes de entre seis (6) a nueve (9) años, y se reúnen los jueves de 3:00 a 6:30 pm y viernes de 3:30 a 4:30 pm. El Grupo Intermedio para los de diez (10) a catorce (14) años, se reúne los sábados de 10:00 de la mañana a 12:00 del mediodía y el Grupo Avanzado, para los participantes de entre quince (15) a diez

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Three great documentaries to stream

By BEN KENIGSBERG

The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Here are three nonfiction films that will reward your time.

‘I Didn’t See You There’ (2022)

Before making “Life After” — a haunting documentary, currently in theaters, that takes a critical view of how society approaches the concept of medically assisted suicide for people with disabilities — director Reid Davenport looked squarely at his own life in this deeply personal feature debut.

Until “I Didn’t See You There,” Davenport, who has cerebral palsy, explains in the opening voice-over, he had never been able to shoot his movies himself. This time, he worked with a new camera that he could handle personally. “It allowed me to be more spontaneous and look for shapes and patterns without worrying about meanings and words,” he says.

Some of the material indeed verges on abstraction. The camera gazes skyward as we overhear the voices of unseen passersby. Percussive music plays as the lens looks downward at different street textures and grates while Davenport, in a wheelchair, races over them. He begins the movie with a philosophical observation about movement: When a train running beside him starts accelerating after he does, he notes, “there is a moment when we’re going exactly the same speed.”

Other parts of “I Didn’t See You There” veer closer to social critique. To get access to the world, Davenport says, he has sought to live in urban areas — such as Oakland, California, his home at the time of filming — that have continuous sidewalks and good public transit. Even so, at times we see people blocking his path with a car or a thick electrical cord. A bus driver, instructing him on how to sit on the bus, as if Davenport had never ridden a bus before, is infuriatingly curt. Later, the filmmaker discusses how he became politicized over the years.

He also considers a historical view. A circus tent near his apartment keeps intruding in his shots. “The tent made me think about the legacy of the freak show,” he says. “About

being looked at, but not seen.” He recounts the “complex disenfranchisement” experienced by famous circus performers. By coincidence, his hometown, Bethel, Connecticut, was the birthplace of showman P.T. Barnum. “A cynical part of me wonders if I have joined the show,” Davenport muses at one point. “I’ve made a career out of putting myself in front of the camera.”

But the movie has a sweet side as well. Late in the film, in an endearing family interlude, he gives his young niece a chance to operate the camera. She’s the only other cinematographer listed in the closing credits. (Rent it on Amazon and Apple TV.)

‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ (2022)

Diamonds are apparently not, with apologies to Marilyn Monroe, a girl’s best friend. Instead, in the documentary “Nothing Lasts Forever,” they become a fascinating prism for exploring the concept of value.

This documentary, directed by Jason Kohn (“Manda Bala”), starts as an industry exposé but clearly has bigger questions on its mind. The filmmaker begins by asking one of his subjects, gemologist Dusan Simic, why diamond mining continues if equally flawless diamonds can be made in a lab more cheaply. “Some people want something that really belongs to the earth,” Simic replies. But he adds: “From the gemological point of view, there is really no difference.”

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. To ask whether a diamond is real or fake is, in the film’s schema, to miss the point. Notwithstanding gentle pushback from a DeBeers executive, Kohn and his interviewees persuasively argue that the worth of all diamonds is an illusion: The stones, we’re told, aren’t geologically rare, and their prices are artificially high because the supply is controlled. Although Kohn visits India and China to illustrate processes by which synthetic diamonds can reach the market undetected, fake diamonds might not be as much a concern for sellers as you would think.

“The problem is not the mixing,” says jewelry designer Aja Raden, whose acerbic dismissals of all things diamondrelated are a delight throughout. “The problem is consumers finding out about the mixing.” If a buyer doesn’t know the difference, she says, “The difference doesn’t exist.” And the myth that natural diamonds are valuable, she suggests, gives the synthetic variety a perceived value as well.

Even diamond broker Martin Rapaport, perhaps the movie’s staunchest opponent of lab-grown diamonds, admits, “We don’t really sell diamonds. We sell the idea behind the diamonds” — that is, the symbolism of love and commitment. John Janik, from the tech side, describes the stones in less romantic, more pragmatic terms. In the film he foresees a future in which diamonds end up as transistors in

personal devices. (Stream it on Paramount+.)

‘Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code’ (2018)

Thirty years ago this summer, a heat wave in Chicago led to a staggering 739 deaths, according to one widely accepted estimate. But the mortality rate wasn’t evenly distributed; it was far higher in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. At a striking moment in “Cooked: Survival by ZIP Code,” Steven Whitman, who had been director of research in the city’s public health department in the 1990s, explains that the neighborhoods with the most heat-related deaths could be mapped, almost perfectly, onto areas plagued by other social problems: vacant lots, violent crime, high rates of diabetes and breast cancer, and so on.

The thesis of this documentary, in which director Judith Helfand looks back on that summer, is that while the heat may technically have led to those deaths, it was also a convenient scapegoat. The real disaster — extreme, neglected poverty — arrived long before the temperatures rose and persisted long after. “Had the heat not occurred, they wouldn’t have died that week, that’s for sure,” Whitman says in the film, referring to the deceased. “But they would have died too soon anyway.”

Much of the retrospective material is still enraging. Helfand, in voice-over, reflects on the queue of refrigerated trucks, filled with bodies, that parked outside the county morgue that July. (“They finally got the air conditioning they needed — while awaiting autopsy.”) She questions a comment by then-Mayor Richard Daley on the “number of nonviolent deaths” in the city. (“Being cooked to death behind closed doors seemed to me to be a pretty violent way to die,” she says.)

But Helfand extends her purview beyond Chicago. She argues that the 1995 heat wave was a forerunner of the social disparities seen a decade later during Hurricane Katrina. She looks into the disaster-preparedness industry, in which people spend vast sums of money rehearsing for extremely unlikely cataclysms. In the most surreal and damning moment, she films Chicago firefighters elaborately role-playing a tornado response; what’s absurd isn’t the drill — the Midwest ought to prepare for tornadoes — but the fact that, according to a news clip, the simulation was financed with a $250,000 federal grant and took place in Englewood, a South Side neighborhood that Helfand has, by that point, visited repeatedly in the movie. In this food desert, a $250,000 investment could do immediate, obvious good. (Stream it on Ovid. Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play.)

“I Didn’t See You There” (2022)

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Investors zero in on Nvidia results as US tech stocks waver

Awobble in U.S. technology shares has raised the stakes for Nvidia Corp’s quarterly results on Wednesday, with earnings from the semiconductor giant posing a crucial test for the scorching AI trade.

The heavyweight tech sector slumped 1.6% on the week after a huge run for the group, dragging on key indexes. The sector’s weekly decline moderated on Friday as stocks broadly rallied after comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell appeared to pave the way for imminent interest rate cuts.

Fueled by its dominant artificial intelligence (AI) products, Nvidia’s massive share price gains have buoyed both the tech sector and the overall market in recent years. Last month, Nvidia became the first company to top $4 trillion in market value.

Investors are now more “on edge” heading into Nvidia’s results, said Matthew Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak.

“When the group goes down and the most important stock in the group reports earnings, that is going to have a bigger impact than usual,” Maley said.

Nvidia’s stock has climbed more than 30% so far in 2025, pushing its gain to over 1,400% since October 2022. The California-based company has epitomized the broader AI excitement that has driven up shares of a raft of tech companies and others involved in AI infrastructure such as power generation and cooling systems.

“Nvidia is almost looked at as a proxy to what is happening in artificial intelligence,” said Matt Orton, chief market strategist at Raymond James Investment Management. “There’s definitely a read-through that happens to the broader AI trade, which has really been the main driver of the S&P 500’s return this year.”

Analysts said possible reasons for recent tech stock weakness include cautionary AI industry developments, including comments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that investors may be getting overexcited about AI. Also, a study from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology cast doubt on returns from AI investments.

Nvidia’s results will close out a second-quarter U.S. corporate earnings season that has largely surpassed expectations and helped support equities. S&P 500 company earnings are on track to have climbed 12.9% from the year-earlier period, up from an expected 5.8% rise on July 1, according to LSEG IBES.

Goldman Sachs strategists pointed to particular earnings strength so far for the “Magnificent Seven” -- the group of megacap companies that includes Nvidia as well as Apple and Microsoft. Including estimates for Nvidia, the Magnificent 7 are on

track to have increased earnings by 26% compared with 7% for the remaining 493 stocks in the index, the Goldman strategists said in a note.

Nvidia is expected to post a 48% rise in earnings per share on revenue of $45.9 billion for its second fiscal quarter, according to LSEG data.

Megacap tech companies focusing on AI have recently increased their estimates for capital spending, which should be favorable for Nvidia, said Paul Roach, portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments.

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Investors will also focus on U.S. economic data in the coming week, including on consumer sentiment and inflation.

Despite the latest tech declines, the S&P 500 eked out a gain on the week and is up about 10% this year, around record-high levels. The Dow Jones Industrial Average notched a record high close on Friday.

As tech shares fell this week, some investors rotated into other areas of the market that have not been as strong in recent weeks, such as healthcare and consumer staples.

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Zelensky marks Independence Day with diplomacy in Kyiv and a plea for peace

By MARIA VARENIKOVA

Amid continuing diplomatic efforts to end the long war in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday marked the country’s Independence Day with a speech in Kyiv’s central square, reminding Ukrainians that they are still fighting for freedom.

He later met with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, who arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in a show of diplomatic support. President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, also arrived in Kyiv over the weekend for talks with Zelenskyy. Both Carney and Kellogg attended the Independence Day celebrations.

The Ukrainian leader made his speech in the square known as the Maidan, a place of great symbolic importance to Ukrainians and the site of enormous protests in 2013 that culminated in the ouster of the country’s proRussian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Zelenskyy expressed hope that in the future “on this square, on the Maidan of our independence, under our own flags, on our own land, our children and grandchildren will celebrate Independence Day — in peace.”

Ukrainian soldiers fire a French CAESAR self-propelled howitzer at a Russian target in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, on April 18, 2025. (Tyler Hicks/ The New York Times)

The holiday marks the day in 1991 when Ukraine’s parliament voted to reject Soviet rule. In a referendum later that year, 92% of Ukrainians voted for independence, including a majority of voters in the regions in the east that Russia now claims to have annexed.

This month, Trump met with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Alaska for talks on a peace settlement for Ukraine that hinges on Russian demands that Ukraine retreat from territory it now controls in parts of the country’s east.

It is not clear where the recent diplomatic efforts spearheaded by Trump to end the

deadliest war in Europe since World War II will lead, and experts say that most Ukrainians doubt that Russia is sincere about trying to end the conflict.

The Russian demands for territory have been rejected by Zelenskyy and are widely opposed in Ukraine. Last week, European leaders traveled to Washington with Zelenskyy in a show of support for the Ukrainian leader, and to display unity with each other.

Norway announced Sunday that it and Germany would provide Ukraine with two American-made Patriot air-defense systems, including missiles.

Carney said that in September, Ukraine would receive military aid worth 1 billion Canadian dollars, from CA$2 billion pledged at the Group of 7 summit in June. This will include drones, ammunition and armored vehicles, he said.

“Putin can be stopped,” Carney said. “The Russian economy is weakening. He is becoming increasingly isolated, while our alliance is growing stronger, more determined and more united.”

Italy’s Foreign Ministry said that a virtual meeting of the G7 foreign ministers, convened under Canada’s presidency, would be

held Sunday and that they were to discuss Ukraine.

Mykhailo Samus, the director of the independent New Geopolitics Research Network in Kyiv, said most people in Ukraine did not believe that Putin had any intention of reaching a peace agreement.

Therefore, he said, the country is expecting more violence in coming months. “Of course, Russian offensives and strikes will go on,” Samus said. “Trump thought the red carpet would impress Putin,” he added, “but Putin just wants to grab Ukraine and is not interested either in money or in red carpets.”

Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said he believed that reaching peace this year “is absolutely impossible.” He added that “negotiations for Russia are a tool for war.”

Both sides have kept up relentless attacks on each other even as the diplomatic efforts to end the war have continued.

Russian media reported Sunday that at least 150 Ukrainian drones were shot down over 10 regions of Russia. And Ukraine said that Russia had launched 72 drones and one ballistic missile overnight on Ukrainian cities.

As South Korea’s leader meets with Trump, China looms large

By ISABEL KERSHNER and AARON BOXERMAN

During the South Korean election campaign this year, Lee Jae Myung said he would crawl between President Donald Trump’s legs, if necessary, to protect his country’s national interests. But he also said, “I am not a pushover, either.”

Lee, who is now South Korea’s president, will put that balancing act to the test Monday when he and Trump meet for the first time in Washington.

The two leaders have a lot in common. Both survived assassination attempts before taking office. Both share an interest in meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un. But their priorities diverge when it comes to the 7-decade-old alliance between their two countries — especially over a potential conflict between China and Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own.

Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have

long been stationed in South Korea to deter North Korea, which has nuclear arms. But the Trump administration is demanding that Seoul take greater responsibility for its own defense, as Washington expands the role of its troops based in South Korea to help contain China. South Korea fears that this “strategic flexibility,” as the United States calls it, could leave it more vulnerable to the North and increase the chances of the South getting sucked into a war over Taiwan.

Seoul and Washington should ensure that strategic flexibility “will not undermine South Korea’s security” and the allies’ combined abilities to deter North Korea, Lee’s national security adviser, Wi Sung-lac, told reporters Friday.

The allies have found some common ground over that principle, Wi said. But officials were also wary of Trump’s unpredictability.

“If the president somehow feels that he needs to elicit some more public statements

from Lee Jae Myung as a partner in countering the Chinese economic and military threat, that might put President Lee in a position that would take him beyond his current talking points,” Sydney Seiler, a Korea expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said during an online panel discussion last week.

Officials in Seoul are also concerned that if China invades Taiwan and the United States uses its forces in South Korea to defend Taiwan, China and North Korea could open another military conflict on the Korean Peninsula.

Similar concerns were behind a 2006 joint statement in which the United States agreed to respect South Korea’s position that “it shall not be involved in a regional conflict in Northeast Asia against the will of the Korean people.” Only then did South Korea agree to respect “the necessity for strategic flexibility” of the U.S. forces in South Korea.

But that was before the United States saw

China as its biggest security threat and made defending Taiwan from Chinese aggression a priority. In recent weeks, some policy analysts in Washington have suggested that the U.S. military should drastically reduce its presence in South Korea because it cannot freely use its bases there to fight a war elsewhere.

If South Korea resists Washington’s demand on strategic flexibility, “the United States can simply relocate key components of its forces in South Korea to another region where it will face less constraint in sending them into a Taiwan contingency,” said Chun Yung-woo, a former South Korean presidential adviser for diplomacy and national security.

This month, Gen. Xavier Brunson, the top U.S. military commander in Korea, said it should not be considered a foregone conclusion that the United States would want South Korea to join in a conflict between Taiwan and China.

Ultra-Orthodox confront an unfamiliar call to Israel’s army

By ELISABETH BUMILLER, NATAN ODENHEIMER and JOHNATAN REISS

It was 11 p.m. in Jerusalem, and one of the city’s most insular ultra-Orthodox communities was in a furor.

Hundreds of men in black suits and black hats of the Edah Haredit sect grew agitated as a top rabbi, shouting in Yiddish from a balcony, denounced the Israeli government for drafting the ultra-Orthodox. They had been exempt from military service to focus on religious study since the founding of Israel, but now they were needed for the war in the Gaza Strip.

A large fire blazed in the street, set by ultra-Orthodox protesters who had ignited a dumpster. Police officers on horseback tried to keep order as water cannons on trucks sprayed “skunk water,” a vile-smelling liquid, to disperse the crowd.

Outside the nearby Mir Yeshiva, one of the largest and most prestigious religious schools in the country, Haim Bamberger, 23, said he was studying the Torah, as, he said, God wanted. It was Bamberger’s way of defending Israel, rather than through military service. “When we do what he wants, he protects us,” he said.

The Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that killed nearly 1,200 people and led to the taking of roughly 250 hostages, Bamberger said, “was partly because many people in this country are not doing what God wants.”

Bamberger said he had been drafted but was ignoring his notice and risking jail. He grew more animated as he spoke. “In this country I’m considered a criminal,” he said, “because I want to study Torah.”

Days later, Israeli military police began arresting ultraOrthodox draft dodgers. Only a few have been detained so far, according to multiple Israeli news reports, but on Aug. 14, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protested and clashed with police outside a prison where the Ynet Hebrew news site reported that seven were held.

For now, at a time of rage among the ultra-Orthodox and building tension between the military and the government over Gaza, the military is holding off on mass arrests.

A Political Crisis

Military service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis, both men and women. The exemption for the ultra-Orthodox, known in Hebrew as Haredim, has long been resented by the rest of the Jewish population. But the nearly two-year war in Gaza has turned an irritant into a political crisis that is deepening divisions in Israeli society and imperiling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile coalition.

Last month, two ultra-Orthodox parties crucial to Netanyahu’s majority in parliament withdrew from the government after it did not pass legislation exempting the ultra-Orthodox from the draft. Their move could lead to the collapse of the prime minister’s coalition and early elections, although Netanyahu has survived far worse political threats.

“The war has pushed everything to an extreme,” said

Nechumi Yaffe, a professor of public policy at Tel Aviv University who is ultra-Orthodox. Secular Israelis are asking, she said, “Why should our children die and your children are just sitting drinking coffee and learning?”

The policy dates to Israel’s beginnings in 1948, when David Ben-Gurion, the nation’s founding prime minister, granted the exemption to the 400 yeshiva students in the country at the time. Ben-Gurion envisioned their Torah study, which they believed would safeguard Israel from its enemies, as part of a revitalization of Jewish religious scholarship lost in the Holocaust.

But as the ultra-Orthodox population grew, the policy was extended, sparking backlash and legal challenges over many years. It did not help that the most extreme ultra-Orthodox sects were anti-Zionists who do not recognize the state of Israel because, they say, it was founded by secular Jews and not for a divine purpose.

In June 2024, the Israeli Supreme Court finally ruled in a landmark decision that without a formal law there was no legal basis for the exemption, and ordered the military to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men.

The military says it urgently needs 12,000 new recruits for a force exhausted by the war in Gaza. More than 450 Israeli soldiers have died in the enclave; suicides are on the rise; and fewer Israeli reservists, the bulk of the fighters, are reporting for duty. Many have spent more than 400 days in service since the war began.

The ultra-Orthodox are unmoved.

“It may be that the circumstances have changed and the times have changed,” Motti Babchik, the powerful political adviser to one of the ultra-Orthodox parties that left the government, said in an interview. “But the basic agreement between the Haredis and the state of Israel remains the same.”

‘Is Their Blood More Red?’

Rabbi Tamir Granot’s son Capt. Amitai Granot, 24, was killed by a Hezbollah missile on the border with Lebanon in October 2023, eight days after the Hamas-led attack on Israel. The following March, the rabbi delivered an impassioned speech, widely shared on YouTube, calling on the ultra-Orthodox to serve and share in the pain.

“Was Amitai wrong?” his father asked. “Is it for naught that he now lies under clumps of earth beneath Mount Herzl, he and all his comrades who lie there with him, and other cemeteries around Israel? Should they have stayed in yeshiva and left the army and self-sacrifice to secularists only?”

Granot is part of a different stream of Orthodox Judaism, religious Zionism, which is an integral part of Israeli society and sends large numbers of its yeshiva students to the military. In an interview at his Tel Aviv yeshiva, Granot recounted how he went to the homes of ultra-Orthodox religious leaders after his son’s death and tried to reason with them. He told them, he said, that he had students in his yeshiva — he called them his children — and, like his son, they knew they had to serve.

He posed a question to the Haredi leaders: “So why are

your children better than them? Is their blood more red than our blood?”

Some leaders agreed that the ultra-Orthodox should serve, he said, but none would say so publicly. “One of the biggest told me, ‘I can’t do it.’ I asked him why. He told me, ‘If I will do it, I will not exist.’”

In other words, Granot said, “he will lose his status in society and everyone else from the leadership would say he’s not a rabbi.”

The issue has only intensified since then. Last month, in a video made public of an emergency meeting about the Haredi draft, Hillel Hirsch, a leading ultra-Orthodox rabbi, unequivocally told a small group of colleagues that most Haredi yeshiva students do not want to serve. “They never dreamed of it; they don’t dream of it now,” he said.

‘Brother, We’re the Same People’

Rabbi Arie Amit, a member of the Chabad Lubavitch sect, which is more inclined than other ultra-Orthodox groups to engage with the outside world, was among the first Haredim in Israel to enlist. It was 2001, he was soon to be 18, and the second intifada, a mass uprising of Palestinians against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, had started the year before.

“I saw in the newspapers that people were blowing up in the streets, and I didn’t see myself studying Torah all day,” he said in an interview in a cafe in the city of Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv. “So I thought I could contribute to my people much better in the military.”

He now handles logistics at a temporary base just inside the Gaza border, and said he understood why so many Israelis were upset with the ultra-Orthodox.

“People are being killed, or people are serving many, many months,” he said. “It’s like: Brother, we’re the same people. Why aren’t you contributing to the burden that we’re carrying?”

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against a Supreme Court order for them to begin enlisting for military service, in Jerusalem on June 30, 2024. Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)

The race to rescue PBS and NPR stations

By BENJAMIN MULLIN

In June, on the eve of a House vote to strip $500 million in federal funding from public radio and TV stations, a group of philanthropists gathered in Philadelphia to brace for the worst.

They listened as Tim Isgitt, the head of a public media consulting firm, laid out the potential for what he called a doom loop — a catastrophic situation caused by the sudden elimination of federal funding. The closure of roughly 115 local radio and TV stations, he said, could result in fewer dollars in the public media system to pay for programming. And that, in turn, could eventually cause other local stations to close.

Now, some of those philanthropists are banding together in hopes of staving off that worst-case scenario by providing an emergency $26.5 million cash injection to stabilize the stations most at risk. The group is aiming to raise additional money for the fund and hopes to reach $50 million this year.

“We believe it’s crucial to have a concerted, coordinated effort to make sure that the stations that most critically need these funds right now have a pathway to get them,” said Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, which is among the major backers of the fund.

The money is not aimed at PBS and NPR, better-funded national organizations that will survive without government support. Instead, the Knight Foundation and others are focused on the scores of public radio and TV stations that have historically received more than 30% of their support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a taxpayer-backed company that announced it would shut down because of the funding cuts. Many of those stations are in rural areas, like remote regions of Alaska and Kansas, where residents don’t have access to alternate sources of news and information.

The Knight Foundation is committing $10 million to the fund, which aims to disburse the money before the end of the year. Together with Knight, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Schmidt Family Foundation, Pivotal Ventures and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have already committed nearly $27 million for the effort, called the Public Media Bridge Fund.

The MacArthur Foundation is also making a $10 million contribution unrelated to the fund to support public media.

Public media executives and advocates quietly drew up contingency plans to salvage public media as the threat of funding cuts edged closer to reality. After President Donald Trump was elected in November, Isgitt worked with Erik Langner, the

are among the only sources of information in their communities. Langner will be the executive director of the fund.

Wadsworth anticipates that many applicants will come from rural areas, where numerous stations have long relied on government funding to operate. One of the stations, KUCB in Unalaska, Alaska, relayed a tsunami warning to listeners even as the Senate was debating federal funding cuts last month, said Mollie Kabler, CEO of CoastAlaska, a nonprofit company that provides services to a consortium of Alaskan public radio stations.

Kabler, who has already had to lay off an employee from her shoestring staff, is also trying to raise a $15 million emergency fund to help stations in Alaska survive the next year.

She likened the funding cuts to a wildfire. “The big trees are going to survive the fire,” Kabler said. “It’s the little trees that are going to be devastated and have to start over.”

The smaller stations are already beginning to get some help from PBS and NPR, which are offering members a discount on dues payments. Kerger and Maher have already begun to brief members on the bridge fund.

CEO of a nonprofit called the Information Equity Initiative, to work on a strategy. Over the next seven months, Isgitt, whose firm is called Public Media Co., briefed the CEO of PBS, Paula Kerger, and the CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, about the plan and began coordinating with foundations.

Time is critical for TV and radio stations, many of which have already begun to lay off staff in anticipation of the funding cuts.

Wadsworth, a former publisher of USA Today, has urged foundations to act with urgency — to “move philanthropy at the speed of news,” she said. On July 20, Wadsworth called Isgitt to discuss the fund and how philanthropy might work together to help stations. She has since held virtual meetings to bring other philanthropists around to the idea.

“I wanted them to understand what was at stake,” she said.

The fund will be administered by Public Media Co., which will solicit applications from stations. Eligibility guidelines are still being worked out, but the fund would prioritize stations that received a large proportion of their budgets from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and those that

Wadsworth said philanthropy could not provide a substitute for the federal funding in the long term. A broad overhaul of the public radio system is needed, Isgitt said, and many stations will need to merge or pool their resources to save costs.

Isgitt said roughly $100 million would be needed over the next two years to avoid widespread closures. He predicted that if those stations did close, other buyers could swoop in to acquire the stations’ valuable broadcast spectrum and eliminate local news and emergency services.

“We’ll do the best we can with the resources available to us to secure as much local service as possible,” Isgitt said. “But if we aren’t able to raise the money, we can’t fill all the gaps.”

Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, the president and chief executive of the Knight Foundation, Aug. 17, 2025. The Knight Foundation and other top organizations are aiming to provide $50 million to stabilize the public radio and TV stations most at risk from the recent federal government funding cuts.

(Moriah Ratner/The New York Times)

Katherine Maher, the chief executive of NPR, and Paula Kerger, the chief executive of PBS, at a congressional hearing about funding for public broadcasting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 26, 2025. The Knight Foundation and other top organizations are aiming to provide $50 million to stabilize the public radio and TV stations most at risk from the recent federal government funding cuts. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times)

A debilitating virus surges globally as mosquitoes move with warming climate

By STEPHANIE NOLEN

Amosquito-borne virus that can leave infected people debilitated for years is spreading to more regions of the world, as climate change creates new habitats for the insects that carry it.

More than 240,000 cases of the virus, chikungunya, have been reported around the world so far this year, including 200,000 cases in Latin America and 8,000 in China, the first cases ever reported there. Chinese authorities have launched an urgent effort to try to stifle the virus with public health measures that evoke the response to COVID-19.

Chikungunya is not circulating in the United States or Canada, but cases have been reported in France and Italy. The disease is endemic in Mexico.

The World Health Organization is warning that current transmission patterns resemble a global outbreak that infected 500,000 people 20 years ago, contributing to a surge of new disabilities.

Although it is rarely fatal, chikungunya causes excruciating and prolonged joint pain and weakness.

“You have people who were working, with no disabilities, and from one day to the next, they cannot even type on a phone, they can’t hold a pen, a woman cannot even hold a knife to be able to cook for her family,” said Dr. Diana Rojas Alvarez, who leads chikungunya work at the WHO. “It really impacts quality of life and also the economy of the country.”

What is chikungunya, and how dangerous is it?

Chikungunya is a virus from the same family as Zika and dengue fever. Two different species of mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, transmit chikungunya. Between four and eight days after a bite, a person can develop symptoms including fever, joint pain and a rash.

Unlike dengue and Zika infections, the majority of which are asymptomatic, chikungunya sickens most people it infects. In rare instances, chikungunya can kill young children and older adults.

“Fatality levels are low, but we really care about chikungunya because it leaves people with months or potentially years of debilitating pain,” said Scott Weaver, an expert and the scientific director of the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas.

He added: “That has not only an individual toll but also a social one, with strain on health care systems, economic impact, the demand on caregivers, a lot of things.”

The World Health Organization is warning that current transmission patterns resemble a global outbreak that infected 500,000 people 20 years ago, contributing to a surge of new disabilities.

Chikungunya is often misdiagnosed as dengue, which causes the same symptoms at first.

Dengue symptoms usually clear up in a week or two; chikungunya symptoms become chronic in as many as 40% of people infected, with debilitating joint pain lasting for months or years.

Between 2005 and 2007, more than two-thirds of all the disabilities — including those caused by cancer, arthritis and diabetes — reported in India were the result of a chikungunya outbreak that was sweeping through the country.

Who is at risk?

By the end of 2024, transmission of the virus had been reported in 199 countries, on every continent except Antarctica.

The WHO estimates that 5.6 billion people live in areas where the mosquitoes that transmit the virus can live. These mosquitoes are daytime biters, feeding on people who are at work, at school or on a bus.

Climate change is driving the spread of chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes in two ways. A warmer, wetter world provides more suitable habitat. And extreme weather events can cause more breeding in floods — or displace people, who cluster in areas with poor water and sanitation supply.

The Aedes albopictus mosquito has markedly expanded its presence in Europe in recent years: The insect has been found in Amsterdam and Geneva. In South America, Aedes aegypti carries the virus and thrives in low-income neighborhoods in rapidly growing cities with patchy water systems.

“In the U.S. I don’t think we’re going to see massive outbreaks of chikungunya” because people in warm areas use air conditioning and spend a lot of time indoors, Weaver said. “But in places like China and the Southern Cone of South America, the warming temperatures are going to have a big impact because people don’t stay inside with air conditioners in their houses or their workplaces. They don’t even like to screen their windows in many parts of Asia and South America.”

People seem to become immune to chikungunya after an infection and so, if it sweeps through an area, it can be a couple of decades before there are enough immunologically vulnerable people to sustain another outbreak. But in places

such as India and Brazil, populations are so large that the virus is circulating constantly.

Many countries in Africa that did not have circulating chikungunya, such as Chad and Mali, have reported cases in the past few years.

Is there a vaccine?

There are two vaccines for chikungunya, but they are produced in limited quantities for use mainly by travelers from industrialized countries. The newest vaccine, made by Bavarian Nordic, sells for about $270 per shot in the United States, a price well beyond the reach of a country such as Paraguay, which has had huge chikungunya outbreaks and would ideally vaccinate much of the population. Brazil’s Butantan Institute is working on making a lower-cost version of another vaccine. Neither vaccine currently has the kind of WHO recommendation that might lead to accelerated development of an affordable product. Doing a clinical trial of the kind the agency requires is difficult: Chikungunya outbreaks happen so fast that they’re over before the research can begin. Rojas said the WHO’s vaccine committee was reviewing chikungunya outbreak data to consider options for a possible recommendation. What else can be done?

The best protection against chikungunya is not to get bitten.

The next step is to reduce mosquito breeding sites. In China, public health officials are going house to house to look for stagnant water.

Surveillance for chikungunya is still weak. Rojas said the WHO was trying to untangle how much of the current surge was new cases and how much was transmission that was already occurring but poorly tracked or reported. There is a molecular diagnostic test that screens for Zika, dengue and chikungunya at the same time, but more countries need to adopt it.

Disease surveillance globally has been weakened by the abrupt cuts in funding from the U.S. government, which was supporting much of this work in low-income countries.

Is this a new virus?

Chikungunya was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, and caused sporadic outbreaks in Africa and Asia in the next decades.

But the virus didn’t attract much attention from public health specialists until 2004. That year, an outbreak in Kenya spread to La Réunion, a French territory in the Indian Ocean. There, chikungunya raged through the population: One-third of the people on the island were infected.

That same strain of the virus made its way to South Asia, and caused huge outbreaks in India from 2005 to 2007. And from there travelers took chikungunya around the world.

By late 2013, the virus had made its way to the Caribbean and once again began to tear through a population that lacked immunity. There were 1.8 million reported infections in the region by the end of 2015. Chikungunya then made its way down through South America — and a new strain from Angola was introduced to Brazil at the same time — and the two have been circulating since then. Chikungunya cases in South America have risen steadily since 2023, alongside a surge in dengue cases.

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termino municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, compuesto de CUATROCIENTOS SETENTA Y SIETE PUNTO OCHENTA Y SEIS CON CERO SIETE metros cuadrados (477.8607 mts2) y en lindes al NORTE: CON Migdalia Caban Cortes; al SUR con Antonio Pérez Caban; al ESTE con Sucesión Santos Roman ( Luz E. Fernadez Nieta); al OESTE Calle Mirtos ( Municipio Isabela). Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda. Catastro Número: 003098-086-000. El abogado de la parte peticionaria el LCDO. ISMAEL PEREZ NIEVES, PO Box 534, Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662; Tel: (787) 872-1500. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 23 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, de identificar en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 9 de junio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

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A: LOS CODEMANDADOS DE EPIGRAFE Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de una Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 1 de septiembre de 2017, notificada el 5 de octubre de 2017, que le ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, procederá a vender en subasta, por separado, y al mejor postor con dinero en

efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de los demandados de epígrafe sobre el inmueble que adelante se describe. Se anuncia por la presente que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el #237, en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Borinquen Valley, en el término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de 300.00 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el NORTE, en 12.00 metros con el solar #247; por el SUR, en 12.00 metros con la calle Formón; por el ESTE, en 25.00 metros con el solar #238 y por el OESTE, en 25.00 metros con el solar #236. ENCLAVA: Una residencia construida de hormigón armado, de una planta, que consta de tres dormitorios, un baño, sala-comedor y cocina. Este solar está afectado por una servidumbre a favor de la Telefónica de Puerto Rico, en toda su colindancia con la calle Formón, con un ancho de 1.52 metros. También resulta afectado por una servidumbre a favor de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica, en su colindancia con el solar #236 y la acera, con un ancho de 1.50 metros y un largo de 10.00 metros. FINCA: Número 57304, inscrita al folio 75 del tomo 1688 de Caguas (Sección I de Caguas). Dirección física: Formón St. #237, Borinquen Valley, Caguas PR 00725. El siguiente pagaré consta inscrito en la propiedad antes mencionada y es el que se pretende ejecutar: HIPOTECA: Por $69,426.00, con intereses al 7% anual, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de RG Mortgage Corporation, que vence el 1ro de julio de 2031. Según escritura #192, otorgada en San Juan, el 12 de junio de 2001, ante Isabel López Rivera, inscrita al folio 75 del tomo 1688 de Caguas, inscripción 2da y última. La referida hipoteca grava el bien inmueble antes descrito. Que según surge del estudio de título, la propiedad se encuentra afecta a lo siguiente: A. Sujeta a Condiciones de Venta y Subsidio, sin expresarse el término, por lo que se requiere el consentimiento de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico, bajo la Ley #124. B. Gravamen Posterior: AVISO DE DEMANDA: Dictada el 15 de junio de 2017, en el Caso Civil #ECD20170516, Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas; seguido por Banco

Popular de Puerto Rico (demandante) versus Ángel Rosa Villegas, su esposa Gladys González Solís y la sociedad legal de gananciales compuesta por ambos (demandados). Se reclama el pago de la deuda garantizada con hipoteca que grava esta finca, según su inscripción 2da., reducida a $51,064.18, más intereses y otras sumas, o la venta de esta finca en pública subasta. Anotada al tomo Karibe de la Sección I de Caguas, finca #57304 de Caguas, anotación A y última, con fecha de 7 de marzo de 2018. La subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al demandante, total o parcialmente según sea el caso, de la referida sentencia que fue dictada por las siguientes sumas: $50,569.26 por concepto de principal, más intereses al 7% anual a partir del 1 de octubre de 2016 hasta su completo pago, más $1,245.23 por concepto de recargos por atraso, más $58.28 por concepto de escrow, más 4% de todo pago en atraso, más $6,942.60 como cantidad estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato de préstamo, según pactado. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LAS PARTES INTERESADAS y del público en general, se advierte que los autos de este caso y demás instancias están disponibles para ser inspeccionadas en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Caguas, durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, incluyendo el gravamen por las contribuciones sobre la propiedad inmueble adeudadas, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda responsable 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. Los tipos mínimos a utilizarse para la subasta son los siguientes: El inmueble antes descrito ha sido tasado en la suma de SESENTA Y NUEVE MIL CUATROCIENTOS VEINTISEIS DÓLARES ($69,426.00) para que dicha suma sirva de tipo mínimo en la primera subasta a celebrarse. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025

A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo

para dicha segunda subasta, una suma equivalente a las dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de CUARENTA Y SEIS MIL DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CUATRO DÓLARES ($46,284.00) para la finca antes descrita. De no producirse remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta del antedicho inmueble, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado, el día 2 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA, sirviendo como tipo mínimo para dicha tercera subasta, una suma equivalente a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de TREINTA Y CUATRO MIL SETECIENTOS TRECE DÓLARES ($34,713.00) para la finca antes descrita. En testimonio de lo cual, expido el presente aviso, el cual firmo y sello, hoy 17 de julio de 2025, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. FIRMA ILEGIBLE, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE CAGUAS. ***

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Demandante Vs. ALMA IRIS ACEVEDO LÓPEZ Y SAMUEL LÓPEZ CARRASQUILLO Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2024CV07052. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 28 de abril de 2025, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 11 de junio de 2025 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Alturas de Bucarabones, situada en el Barrio

Ortiz, del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, y contiene una casa residencial de concreto armado y bloques diseñada para una familia: Bloque y Número del solar: 3 S-37. Área del solar: 238.05 m.c. En lindes: por el NORTE, en 23.00 metros con el solar 3 S-36; por el SUR, en 23.00 metros, con el solar 3 S-38; por el ESTE, en 10.35 metros, con la calle número 44; y por el OESTE, en 10.35 metros, con el solar 3 S-20. Afecto a una servidumbre de acceso para mantenimiento de 0.91 de ancho que discurre por su colindancia Norte a favor del solar 3 S-36 conforme a las condiciones restrictivas impuestas para mantenimiento de la pared -no medianera- sobre cuya pared no se podrá construir ni intervenir en forma alguna por pertenecer exclusivamente al dueño del solar 3 S-36. Finca Número 14,626, inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 298 de Toa Alta. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. Dirección Física: URB. ALTURAS DE BUCARABONES, SOLAR 3 S-37, CALLE 44, TOA ALTA PR 00953. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la PRIMERA SUBASTA habrá de celebrarse el día 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Toa Alta. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $41,640.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una

SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 22 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $27,760.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 29 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $20,820.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la

sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $25,209.36 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 9.5000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, se notifica e informa a los Estados Unidos de América, por éstos contar con un pagaré por la suma principal de $2,000.00, con intereses al 9.50% anual, vencedero en 33 años, constituida mediante la escritura número 13, otorgada en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de febrero de 1989, ante el notario Juan Santiago Ramírez, e inscrita al folio 101 del tomo 298 de Toa Alta, finca número 14,626, inscripción 2da. Además, se notifica e informa a RG Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, ahora, Oriental Bank por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $21,000.00, con intereses al 14 ½% anual, vencedero el día 12 de noviembre de 2007, constituida mediante la escritura número 871, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el día 12 de noviembre de 1997, ante el notario Fénex Torres Torres, e inscrita al tomo móvil 58 de Toa Alta, finca número 14,626, inscripción 4ta. Adicional, se notifica e informa a Popular Mortgage, Inc., por éstos contar con una hipoteca a su favor por la suma de $16,110.00, con intereses al 11% anual, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2015, constituida mediante la escritura número 392, otorgada en San Juan,

Puerto Rico, el día 7 de abril de 2000, ante el notario Ricardo J. Ramos González, e inscrita al folio 102 vuelto del tomo 298 de Toa Alta, finca número 14,626, inscripción 4ta. También se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 3 de julio de 2025. MIGUEL REYES SARES, ALGUACIL #241, SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA.

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

UNITED STATES SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Plaintiff V. MO KOW CHIU

Defendant Civ. No.: 24-1560. (SCC). NOTICE OF DEFAULT JUDGMENT BY PUBLICATION.

To: MO KOW CHIU.

The Clerk of Court hereby notifies you that on July 21, 2025, this Court entered default judgment in favor of the Plaintiff. Docket No. 16. Said default judgment has been duly registered and the terms of such default judgment are available for review in the Clerk’s office.

Therefore, this notice is hereby given to you that default judgment has been entered against you in the instant proceeding. Notice will be deemed effective and the thirty (30) day term to file the notice of appeal will begin the day this judicial notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation. A copy of the Notice of Judgment by Publication and Default Judgment in this case will be sent by the Plaintiff to the Defendant’s last known address by certified mail, return receipt requested within ten (10) days of the one and only publication of this judicial notice. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 19th day of August 2025. ADA I. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ., CLERK OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. ANA DURAN, DEPUTY CLERK.

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Demandante V. JOHN DOE Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TA2025CV00446. (Salón: 201B). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

ERIKA F. MORALES MARENGOEMARENGO16@YAHOO.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 12 de agosto 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 12 de agosto de 2025. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 12 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NERI AIDA

SANFELIZ RAMOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. ISABEL RODRIGUEZ AVILES

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2025CV01067. (Salón: 703). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: ISABEL RODRIGUEZ AVILES - URB LOS DOMINICOS O275 CALLE SAN PEDRO, BAYAMON PR 00957-5932. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 de agosto 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 19 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 19 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN M. PINTADO NIEVES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. WALTER J HERNANDEZ RIVERA

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2024CV03253. (Salón: 802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

A: A: WALTER J HERNANDEZ RIVERA - RES BAIROA BG1O CALLE 23, CAGUAS PR 00725; 1731 N CENTRAL AVE APT 100 KISSIMMEE FL 34741-3355. (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 19 de agosto de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 19 de agosto de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. EDGARD D. RODRIGUEZ CONCEPCION

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TB2024CV00085. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Osvaldo L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: EDGARD D. RODRIGUEZ

CONCEPCION.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 19 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 19 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. FIRST EQUITY MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC. Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: JD2025CV00390. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

MARITZA DEL CARMEN GUZMÁN MATOS -MGUZMAN@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR. COM. A: CENTRAL LOAN ADMINISTRATION AND REPORTING; JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE - P/C LCDA. MARITZA DEL CARMEN GUZMAN MATOS.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de agosto 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 no-

tificación 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 20 de agosto de 2025. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 20 de agosto de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. GLORIVEE MORALES SÁEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE VEGA BAJA SALA SUPERIOR CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Demandante Vs. FRANKLYN VÁZQUEZ VEGA Demandado Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00236. (201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: FRANKLYN VÁZQUEZ VEGA. Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, Sala Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr. com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edic-

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Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: MT2025CV00381. 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: FULANO DE TAL POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANACIALES - PARC LA LUISA 9 CALLE 4, MANATI PR 00674-7116; URB LOS ROSALES 9 AVE 4 MANATI PR 00674. 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, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-

8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en MANATI, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de junio de 2025. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ANGÉLICA AYALA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TB2025CV00204. 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: MARCO A. TABAR SANTIAGOBO CAMPANILLA 1072 CALLE TRINITARIA, TOA BAJA PR 00949-3689; RR 4 BOX 695 BAYAMON PR 00956.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel. ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. GLORYMAR SALDAÑA QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA

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Parte Demandante Vs. THAIS Y. RODRIGUEZ RIOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TB2025CV00200. 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: THAIS Y. RODRIGUEZ RIOS - URB LEVITTOWN LAKES V10 CALLE LADI, TOA BAJA PR 009494601; URB LAGOS DE PLATA CALLE 3 F 29 TOA BAJA PR 00949. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel. ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. GLORYMAR SALDAÑA QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2025CV00385. 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: ANGEL GARCIA COLLAZO - BO SALDINERA CARR 987 KM 2.3, FAJARDO PR 00738-9469; HC 2 BOX 20038, FAJARDO PR 00738-9469.

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, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie. bonaparte@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de julio de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE

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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: RG2025CV00161. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA-

DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ISMAEL PADRO MEDINA - URB VILLA REALIDAD 86 CALLE ZUMBADOR, RIO GRANDE PR 007459632; PO BOX 2246 RIO GRANDE PR 00745-2239. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de julio de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. NORMA I. GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm. AI2025CV00194. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMTENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: NORMA I. GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ - 103 KINGS RIDGE DR. PEACHTREE CITY, GA 30269. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste Ia demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edic-

to. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), Ia cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a Ia dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en AIBONITO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de julio de 2025. MAYRA LIZ CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA INTERINA. NATALIA BURGOS MALDONADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV09166. (508). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.

A: RUBEN RENE RIVERO LIANTAUD; BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO POR TENER SENTENCIA ANOTADA A SU FAVOR POR LA SUMA DE $75,970.88. Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de San Juan durante horas laborables.

Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 23 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Las propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Siete (7) del plano de inscripción de la URBANIZACIÓN SANTA MARÍA CHALETS, ubicado en el Municipio de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS SETENTA Y UNO PUNTO SETENTA Y SEIS (371.76) METROS CUADRADOS. Colindando por el NORTE, en una distancia de 14.2000 metros, con terrenos de la Administración de Parques Públicos; por el SUR, en una distancia de 16.7902 metros, con la Calle número Uno (1) del mismo plano; por el OESTE, en una distancia de 28.3017 metros, con terrenos del Señor Emilio Hernández; y por el ESTE, en una distancia de 24.6815 metros, con terrenos del solar número 6 de la Urbanización Santa María Chalets. Enclava una residencia de hormigón reforzado y divisiones de bloques y concreto, de dos plantas de aproximadamente 3,500 pies cuadrados en total. Compuesta la primera planta de sala, comedor, cocina, “family room”, medio baño y marquesina doble. La segunda planta consta de cuatro dormitorios, dos baños y balcón. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 23 del tomo 923 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera, finca número 25,205, inscripción quinta. La escritura de hipoteca fue modificada según escritura número 29 de fecha 9 de junio de 2010, ante el Notario Reggie Díaz Hernández, para ampliar el principal a la suma de $398,452.10, modificar la tasa de interés, los pagos mensuales, el vencimiento, así como el tipo mínimo en caso de ejecución. Dicha hipoteca fue modificada nuevamente según consta en escritura número 75 de fecha 30 de marzo de 2012, ante el Notario Antonio R. Pavía Vidal, a los efectos de ampliar la suma de principal a $419,005.72, con intereses variables comenzando el 1ro de mayo de 2012, a razón del 2.50% anual y pagos mensuales para principal e intereses de $1,200.41; comenzando el 1ro de mayo de 2017 al 3.50% anual y pagos mensuales para principal e intereses de $1,387.76; comenzando el 1ro de mayo de 2018 al 4.50% anual y pagos

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Everything you need to know about the 2025 U.S. Open

By JESUS JIMENÉNEZ and DAVID WALDSTEIN

For much of the year, the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens is mostly quiet. But for two weeks late in the summer, the place becomes the center of the tennis world as hundreds of thousands of fans flock to Flushing Meadows for the U.S. Open.

Qualifying matches are already underway, and the main draw of the U.S. Open begins Sunday. The Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon Championships are in the books, so this is the last chance for the world’s top tennis players to win a major title this year.

A few are favored to win this year, but the U.S. Open has been known for upsets and thrilling matches that can sometimes run past midnight.

Here’s what to know about this year’s U.S. Open, including one exciting change before the tournament officially starts, during Fan Week.

All aboard the No. 7 train.

From Manhattan, one of the simplest — and fastest — ways to travel to the U.S. Open is by taking an eastbound No. 7 subway train to the Mets-Willets Point station. Once you’re there, just follow the crowds to the tennis grounds.

Those on Long Island or in Manhattan can also take the Long Island Rail Road to Mets-Willets Point. Trains on the Port Washington Branch depart Manhattan from Penn Station and Grand Central at different times.

Ride-share services like Lyft and Uber are also an option. But unless you’re staying nearby, traffic can make that a lengthy, pricey trip. Ride shares can also charge surge

prices or get caught in congested drop-off zones. And waiting for a vehicle to reach the pickup area after the matches can take time.

Looking for tickets?

For the casual tennis fan, one of the best approaches to the U.S. Open is to buy a grounds pass during the first week. Grounds-pass tickets do not offer access to Arthur Ashe Stadium, but they allow for firstcome-first-served access in the upper deck of the Louis Armstrong Stadium, as well as the grandstand and the outer courts. The first week of the tournament offers plenty of early-round matches on those courts, where fans can bounce from match to match.

The U.S. Open this year is introducing a novel mixed-doubles format, in which the winning team shares $1 million — a fivefold increase over last year. That prize has enticed some of the biggest names in the game, whereas before, unknown doubles specialists usually participated. Ticket prices for the event have soared on the secondary markets.

Once again, the tournament will offer expanded grounds passes for a Fan Fest, which will include watch parties inside Louis Armstrong Stadium during finals weekend.

During the main draw, the biggest names typically play inside Arthur Ashe Stadium or Louis Armstrong Stadium, but be warned that tickets for those courts can be costly, too.

Pro tip: For those who don’t have a ticket for matches inside the main stadiums, plop down by the fountain just south of Arthur Ashe, where fans can watch matches on large screens set up outside.

The main draw begins Sunday, but Fan Week, which started Monday and includes the qualifying matches before the main

draw, is free and open to the public.

Come for the tennis, stay for the food.

Every year, the U.S. Open offers fare from some of New York City’s most popular joints. That means that in addition to the standard food offered at sporting events, like hot dogs and hamburgers, there’s plenty of other options such as ice cream from Van Leeuwen, pizza from San Matteo and Greek favorites from King Souvlaki.

Pro tip: During the tournament’s first week, the food court (adjacent to Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong Stadiums) can become tough to navigate with bustling crowds. For those looking to avoid the lines, consider walking over to the Grandstand, where there are several concession stands that are less crowded.

Another option is to grab a bite on the way to the tournament in a nearby neighborhood. Downtown Flushing, just one train stop away, offers some of the best Chinese and South American food in the city.

Another pro tip: For those new to the U.S. Open, try a Honey Deuce, the signature cocktail of the tournament. The mix of vodka, lemonade, raspberry liqueur, lemon juice and honeydew melon is refreshing on days when the heat rises.

Stay cool (no, really).

New York’s weather during the U.S. Open can range from hot and humid to hotter and more humid. When it’s sweltering outside, the first thing to do before heading to the U.S. Open is to wear light clothing. And bring a hat.

Glass bottles or cans are prohibited, but fans are allowed to bring in metal or plastic reusable water bottles that hold up to 24 ounces. Fans can refill their water bottles at water fountains across the grounds and inside the main stadiums.

For those who need a break from the sun, there’s plenty of shade in the plaza just south of Arthur Ashe.

Keep an eye on these players.

Victoria Mboko, an 18-year-old Canadian who delighted her compatriots by winning the Canadian Open this month, has captivated the tennis world. Fans are eager to see how she follows it up in her first major tournament on hard courts.

Coco Gauff, the 2023 U.S. Open champion, knows all too well. She lost to Mboko in the round of 16 in Canada.

Gauff, a 21-year-old American, won the French Open in June, but then lost three of her next five matches, including in the first round at Wimbledon. She is adored in New York and will look to ride that support to a

possible second U.S. Open title.

Another American, Amanda Anisimova, is coming off a terrific run to the Wimbledon final. Aryna Sabalenka, last year’s champ, is the favorite again.

On the men’s side, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz enter ranked No. 1 and No. 2 and if these rivals meet in the final, it would be their third consecutive major finals encounter (Sinner won Wimbledon, Alcaraz the French Open).

Novak Djokovic, who turned 38 in May, won the last of his record 24 major titles at the 2023 U.S. Open. He reached the semifinal stage in all three majors this year, but has not played competitively since Wimbledon.

Keep an eye on Jakub Mensik from the Czech Republic. He has all the tools and turns 20 on Sept. 1, during the fourth round.

The New York crowd typically rallies behind any Americans, not just Gauff. Behind her, the top-ranked U.S. women are Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys and Anisimova. On the men’s side, it is Taylor Fritz, who lost in the final to Sinner last year, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe.

Save the date(s).

Qualifying matches for the U.S. Open began Monday and run through Friday. The main draw of the tournament begins Sunday, with quarterfinal matches in the singles competition scheduled to start Sept. 2.

The women’s singles final will be played Sept. 6, and the tournament ends Sept. 7 with the men’s singles final.

Fan Week Gets a Makeover.CAPTION: Fans at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, for the mixed doubles match of Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz against Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula. CREDIT: (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)

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