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By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón has signed into law four Senate bills, enacting measures that strengthen navigation safety laws, clarify forensic investigation procedures, protect religious activities, and recognize human trafficking victims.
The new laws, all sponsored by Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz and co-authored by various legislators, amend existing statutes to close legal gaps and align Puerto Rico’s legal framework with contemporary standards.
Senate Bill 37, now Law 140-2025, updates the “Navigation and Water Safety Law of Puerto Rico” (Law 430-2000) to reflect the fixed sentencing system established by the 2012 Penal Code.
The amendments impose a three-year prison term for causing bodily injury while operating a vessel and clarify that deaths resulting from such incidents will be prosecuted under the Penal Code. Legislators said the changes eliminate inconsistencies that hinder rehabilitation and reintegration goals.
Senate Bill 45, enacted as Law 141-2025, ensures that individuals exploited through human trafficking are treated as victims rather than criminals. The law excludes criminal liability for offenses committed as a direct consequence of victimization, aiming to reduce fear of prosecution and encourage victims to seek protection and justice.
“This measure reflects Puerto Rico’s commitment to combating modern slavery,” the bill’s authors stated.
Senate Bill 48, now Act 142-2025, amends the law that created the Puerto Rico Institute of Forensic Sciences. It removes investigative powers previously granted to judges, reaffirming that prosecutors hold sole authority to direct investigations and authorize the removal of corpses. The change seeks to eliminate confusion and streamline forensic procedures.
Senate Bill 503, signed as Law 143-2025, adds Article 179(A) to the Penal Code, making it a misdemeanor to obstruct or interrupt religious activities through force, intimidation, or violence. Repeat offenders will face imprisonment. Lawmakers emphasized that the measure safeguards constitutional rights to worship without interference.
The four laws reflect a broad legislative effort to enhance public safety, uphold victims’ rights, and ensure clarity in Puerto Rico’s legal system, legislators said.
By THE STAR STAFF
Arecibo District Sen. Héctor “Gaby” González López announced on Sunday that a Health and Services Fair will be held this Thursday in Arecibo.
The event, organized in coordination with the Arecibo Municipal Administration, aims to bring government services and direct assistance closer to the residents of the district.
The fair will be held on María de Hostos Street (in front of the Arecibo Cathedral), from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
González emphasized the importance of the event.
“This is a great opportunity for people who have any pending paperwork with a government agency, as we will be centralizing services,” he said. “We urge everyone in our district to take advantage of this great opportunity and concentration of resources.”
In addition to receiving services from multiple agencies,
attendees will enjoy several benefits. Hot meals will be offered to the first 200 people who arrive at the event, and food boxes will also be distributed to the first 300 people. To liven up the day, which marks the beginning of the Christmas season, the event will feature live music and the participation of local artisans.
The fair will feature the presence of more than 20 island government agencies, in addition to that of the municipal administration.
Confirmed agencies include the Department of Labor and Human Resources, the Community Socio-Economic Institute, Conexión Laboral Norte Central, the Office of the Ombudsman for the Elderly, and the State Insurance Fund Corp. Also participating will be Legal Services of Puerto Rico, the departments of Economic Development and Commerce, Agriculture, and Health, and the Puerto Rico Police, among numerous other agencies and public corporations, including LUMA Energy, the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority and the Citizen’s Ombudsman’s Office.
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Omnibus hearing expected to spotlight friction between gov’t, PREPA bondholders
By THE STAR STAFF
An omnibus hearing scheduled for this Wednesday is expected to spotlight growing friction between Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondholders and the island’s Financial Oversight and Management Board over the handling of discovery tied to a $3.7 billion administrative expense claim.
The dispute came to a head in a joint status report filed on Nov. 24, when the bondholders accused the oversight board of using the report to “approximate a motion for a protective order” rather than comply with court instructions. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who oversees Puerto Rico’s Title III bankruptcy proceedings, had directed both sides to propose a timeline for limited and targeted discovery into the bondholders’ claim.
Bondholders argue they are entitled to an administrative expense claim on net revenues PREPA spent during its years-long
bankruptcy, a position that could significantly impact creditor recoveries. In their filing, they criticized the oversight board for failing to provide “the specific information actual-
U.S. District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain
ly requested by this court,” noting that the oversight board did not outline a discovery schedule and instead asserted that document production was largely complete.
The oversight board countered that it had already been responsive to document requests and said there was little left to produce. It also argued that it could not “discuss or assist” with discovery until after its rate review proceeding before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, a process that could influence PREPA’s future revenue structure, concludes on Dec. 19.
Complicating matters is the current state of the oversight board itself. The case remains stayed while the board undergoes reconstitution following President Donald Trump’s decision in August to remove most of its members. Although some members were reinstated by court order, the board still lacks a five-member quorum, leaving key decisions in limbo.
Swain has emphasized that any discovery process should be “limited and targeted,”
but the lack of consensus between the parties -- and the oversight board’s internal uncertainty -- has slowed progress. Bondholders maintain that the oversight board’s approach effectively seeks to shield it from further obligations, while the board insists it has already fulfilled its responsibilities.
The administrative expense claim represents one of the most contentious issues in PREPA’s restructuring. If granted, it could give bondholders priority over other creditors, reshaping the financial landscape of the utility’s bankruptcy. PREPA, which has been under Title III protection since 2017, is the largest public power utility in the U.S. and a critical component of Puerto Rico’s economic recovery.
Wednesday’s omnibus hearing is expected to address the procedural disputes and set the tone for how discovery -- and potentially the broader claim -- will move forward once the oversight board regains full functionality.
600 high school seniors receive guidance at educational fair in Fajardo
By THE STAR STAFF
Some 600 public school seniors received guidance on the offerings of universities and other educational institutions in Puerto Rico during a new fair focused on opportunities for young people after graduating from high school.
The initiative came from the Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, and involved the participation of some 25 post-secondary educational institutions.
“During the past few years we have observed a renewed interest among our young people in entering institutions that provide university education, and we must support this with concrete actions,” the House speaker said. “That is why we developed this concept of ‘Uniferia,’ focused on providing these fourth-year students, months away from graduating, with all the guidance they need to make one of the most important decisions in their lives.”
The event, held last week at the Maestro Tomás Dones Hernández Coliseum in Fajardo, attracted students from several municipalities in the northeast region of the island.
“With this initiative, we aim to broaden
the range of postgraduate options,” added Méndez Nuñez, who is also the representative for House District 36 (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques, and Culebra). “We want students to have accurate and clear information about what each university or institution offers and how these programs can help them reach their full academic and professional potential.”
Among the exhibitors were the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras and Humacao campuses; Inter-American University; Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (Sacred Heart University); Central University of the Caribbean; ICPR Junior College; San Juan Hotel School; Columbia University; EDP University; Mech Tech; AutoMeca; Art and Technology High School; Humacao University; Professional Institute; Modern HairStyling Institute; ADTEC College; Dewey University; and the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, as well as the U.S. Coast Guard, Army and Marine Corps, among others.
The fair was supported by the island Department of Health, Traffic Safety Commission, Department of Economic Development and Commerce, Department of Labor and Human Resources, Puerto Rico Tourism Company, Department of Recreation and
Sports, Puerto Rico Police Bureau and Driver Service Centers (CESCO), among other central government agencies, as well as the Municipality of Fajardo.
Also present at the event were private sector entities such as Econo Supermarkets, as
According to data from the UPR Río Piedras Campus, enrollment for 2025 is 12,076, an increase compared to the past five years.
were Fajardo Mayor José Anibal “Joey” Méndez and Carolina District Sens. Marissa “Marissita” Jiménez and Héctor Joaquín Sánchez.
NFE gas supply contract to raise customer rates, critics say
By THE STAR STAFF
Aseven-year natural gas supply contract with New Fortress Energy (NFE) that the island government signed last week is expected to significantly increase electricity bills, leading to estimated consumer overpayments of between $1.2 billion and $2 billion, according to unnamed sources.
As previously reported by the STAR, the government claims that the approved contract will yield savings of over $54 million annually, amounting to more than $375 million over the contract’s lifespan, which should directly influence generation costs. The new agreement includes a base term of seven years with an option to extend for three additional years, in contrast to the previously proposed 15-year term. The estimated cost of the contract is $4 billion, which represents a reduction of some $16 billion compared to the initial proposal. The agreement also features decreases in
supply charges, including a 22% reduction for temporary units (from $10.29 to $7.95) and a fixed price of $6.50 for the San Juan 5 and 6 units.
However, a closer examination of the signed terms reveals rigid purchase volumes, inflated prices, and rates tied to the Henry Hub index with substantial premiums. Under the new contract, Puerto Rico is obligated to purchase 40 to 50 TBtu of gas annually, regardless of actual demand. Prices are set at $3 to $4.50 per MMBtu higher than what similar U.S. utilities pay.
That premium -- approximately $3.90 per MMBtu -- translates to an extra cost of about 1.3 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). For a household consuming 500 kWh per month, this results in an additional $6.50 on their bill; for those using 1,000 kWh, the increase is about $13. This calculation only accounts for the structural fuel overcharge and does not include conversion costs, future fees, or the risk of paying for unused gas, as analyzed by the STAR.
A closer examination of the signed terms of a new liquefied natural gas supply agreement between the Puerto Rico government and New Fortress Energy reveals rigid purchase volumes, inflated prices, and rates tied to the Henry Hub index with substantial premiums, critics of the deal say. (newfortressenergy.com)
Overall, Puerto Rico will incur an additional cost of 1.5 to 2 cents per kWh for seven years, effectively creating an energy tax without a vote or public discussion, the sources said. Annual overcharges are projected to range between $155 million and $195 million, totaling between $1.1 billion and $1.4 billion over the duration of the contract.
Closing event for anti-gender-based violence campaign slated for Wednesday
By THE STAR STAFF
Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez on Sunday invited citizens from across the island to participate in Wednesday’s closing activity of the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign.
“I invite everyone to participate in the activities we have prepared,” the advocate said in a written statement. “Every action counts and every voice is important in our fight for equality and respect.”
The closing event, which will take place at the Levittown Track in Toa Baja at 9 a.m. Wednesday, will include a march and various activities with students, serving as a clear call for the prevention and eradication of gender-based violence.
Pro-statehood activist calls out OAS for delay in resolving issue on equal voting rights for Puerto Ricans
By THE STAR STAFF
Gregorio Igartúa, a longtime pro-statehood activist and attorney, is calling out the Organization of American States (OAS) for what he describes as an “unjustifiable and discriminatory” delay in resolving a petition he filed nearly two decades ago seeking equal voting rights for Puerto Rico’s residents.
The case, Igartua et al. v. United States (#13.154-Pet. 776-06), was first submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in 2006. It challenges the denial of the right to vote in U.S. presidential elections and the lack of congressional representation for Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million U.S. citizens — a situation Igartúa argues has persisted since the island became a U.S. territory in 1898.
Despite a hearing held on Oct. 6, 2018, in Boulder, Colorado, the petition remains unresolved. In a letter addressed to OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro, Igartúa expressed frustration over what he calls a “20-year overdue” decision.
“After 17 years of filing, the OAS has not decided the complaint,” Igartúa wrote in a letter dated Dec. 5. “Ap-
parently, there is a lack of knowledge of what due process of the law is, or someone is deliberately withholding its disposition.”
Igartúa contends that the OAS’s inaction effectively contributes to the denial of democratic rights for Puerto Ricans, who cannot vote for the U.S. president and lack voting representation in Congress. The petition seeks to secure equality in federal elections for island residents, whom Igartúa describes as “4th, 5th, and 6th generation American citizens by birth.”
The activist also criticized the OAS for failing to comply with its own charter and complaint regulations, noting that the delay has been denounced before the United Nations. He urged the secretary general to “take affirmative action and order final disposition.”
Puerto Rico’s political status -- and its residents’ limited voting rights -- has long been a contentious issue in U.S. and international forums. While several plebiscites have shown majority support for statehood in recent years, Congress has yet to act on the matter.
As of now, the OAS has not publicly commented on Igartúa’s latest demand for resolution.
Gregorio Igartúa, an attorney and longtime advocate for Puerto Rico statehood (Instagram via julioroldanpr)
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Second strike scrutiny obscures larger question about Trump’s boat attacks
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and JULIAN E. BARNES
As Congress parses the details of a follow-on strike that killed initial survivors of President Donald Trump’s first boat attack on Sept. 2, a much larger issue risks getting lost: whether Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have caused the military to commit crimes in a score of attacks.
Adm. Frank M. Bradley, who commanded the Sept. 2 operation, on Thursday showed lawmakers a video of the attack. The briefing was part of a congressional effort to understand his decision to order a second strike and determine whether the survivors of the first one remained “in the fight” or were technically shipwrecked, making it a war crime to kill them.
There have been shifting narratives emerging from the Pentagon, and the video showing the minutes before the second strike has been interpreted several ways. But each interpretation entails analogizing the actions of suspected drug runners to actual combat activities. The comparisons are strained at best, legal experts say, because the laws of war were not written for and do not fit a drug smuggling situation.
U.S. Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, left, and U.S. Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrive for a closed door classified meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Thursday came away with starkly different conclusions after top military officers showed them video of an attack on a boat suspected of carrying drugs, including a follow-up strike that killed two survivors of the first missile. (Tierney L. Cross/ The New York Times)
“Debate over when a shipwrecked crew member loses protection from attack misses the point,” said Geoffrey S. Corn, who was formerly the Army’s senior adviser for law-of-war issues. “The real problem here is the dubious and legally overbroad assertion that the United States is justified in using wartime authority against a criminal problem.”
As a matter of plain reality, an unarmed speedboat, even if it is carrying cocaine, is not a warship. And none of the 11 people aboard — not merely the two initial survivors, but also the nine people the U.S. military killed in its first strike — were fighting anyone.
The Sept. 2 boat attack was the first in Trump’s policy of directing the military to summarily kill people who are suspected of smuggling drugs at sea as if they are enemy soldiers on a battlefield. The military has gone on to attack 21 more such boats, killing 87 people in all, according to the administration.
The conversation about whether that campaign amounts to murder has largely taken place among experts in laws governing the use of armed force.
The United States has long handled the problem of maritime drug smuggling by using the Coast Guard to intercept boats and to arrest people. That echoes how it works on land: Police officers who believe people are dealing drugs arrest them, and if they are convicted, they serve time in prison. They are not executed.
It would be a crime if officers instead simply gunned down suspected drug dealers in the street. Similarly, a military force is not allowed to target civilians, and being a suspected criminal does not make someone lose civilian status. In peacetime, targeting a civilian is murder. In an armed conflict, targeting a civilian is a war crime.
To justify the killings, Trump has declared that the United States is in a formal armed conflict against drug cartels, and that smuggling boat crews are “combatants” — all because he has “determined” so.
While Congress has not authorized an armed conflict, a memo by the president’s appointees at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel accepts his claim that there is one. Based on that premise, it says the drugs suspected of being aboard the boats are lawful military targets because cartels could use the profits to finance their purported war efforts, according to people who have seen the memo.
It is difficult to find people knowledgeable about the relevant body of law and not working for Trump who think the United States is really in an armed conflict. The essential problem is that trafficking illegal drugs, while a serious crime, is different from an armed attack.
And to the extent the administration has tried to offer substantive justifications for Trump’s purported determination, they appear to collapse under scrutiny.
The White House has highlighted the deaths of tens of thousands of American drug users a year from overdoses. But even if those deaths somehow amounted to an armed attack, the surge in overdoses over the past decade was mostly caused by fentanyl that comes from labs in Mexico, which use Chinese chemicals. The dramatic increase has not been fueled by cocaine that comes on boats from South America.
The Trump administration has also suggested that it can use armed force against suspected drug runners as a matter of the collective self-defense of other countries whose
security forces sometimes clash with well-armed cartel goons, such as Colombia and Mexico. But the presidents of both those countries have condemned the boat attacks.
Against that backdrop, a broad range of experts in the laws governing the use of lethal force have called the administration’s armed conflict theory nonsensical. Trump and Hegseth, they argue, have been giving illegal orders to the troops under their command to commit crimes.
With the notable exception of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., most lawmakers who have been arguing that the boat attacks are murders have been Democrats, who do not control Congress.
Until recently, however, most of Trump’s fellow Republicans have shied away from exercising oversight. A Nov. 28 Washington Post article that renewed attention to the Sept. 2 attack — focused on the follow-up strike — has made some Republicans in Congress willing to ask harder questions.
The video, described by people who saw it, shows a strike destroy the boat and kill nine people. When the smoke cleared, two survivors clung to the overturned hull. They tried to flip it, climbed on and waved — possibly at a military aircraft. A follow-up strike left only water.
People debating whether the second strike was a war crime have strained to fit such details into armed-conflict concepts.
To be protected as “shipwrecked,” naval combatants can’t take hostile actions. Could the attempt to flip the hull be interpreted as combat activity, on the theory they might have been trying to reach cocaine, which the administration has portrayed as a weapon? Soldiers on a battlefield can’t be killed if they “surrender.” Could their wave be seen as an offer to do so?
Such parsing of the details of the second strike could end up being a favor to the Trump administration. The idea that something was bad about that particular strike implicitly suggests the first one on that boat — and all the other attacks on other boats — was fine. And the exercise reinforces the premise that the situation should be thought about through the lens of an armed conflict.
The larger question now is whether the belated bipartisan interest in that particular strike will generate momentum for a broader look at the entire killing spree that Trump and Hegseth have led the U.S. military to perform, said Rebecca Ingber, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law and a former State Department expert in the law of war.
“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop,” she said.
She added: “The administration’s evolving justification for the second strike only lays bare the absurdity of their legal claims for the campaign as a whole — that transporting drugs is somehow the equivalent of wartime hostilities.”
Judge halts Justice Dept. effort to seek new Comey indictment
By ALAN FEUER
Afederal judge on Saturday night threw up a roadblock to the Justice Department’s plans to seek another indictment against former FBI Director
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James Comey as early as this upcoming week.
The decision by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of U.S. District Court in Washington temporarily blocked the department from using a crucial trove of evidence in its efforts to bring new charges against Comey. But it was unclear whether the ruling would permanently stop prosecutors from trying to reindict him.
SOBRE INTENCIÓN DE RENOVAR UN PERMISO PARA OPERAR UNA INSTALACIÓN DE PROCESAMIENTO DE NEUMÁTICOS DESECHADOS
\ El Sr. Samuel Morales Vega, representante autorizado de Crist & John Recycling, Inc., sometió ante el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (en adelante, DRNA) una solicitud de permiso para operar una instalación de recibo, pesaje, almacenaje, embalaje y exportación de neumáticos desechados en contenedores marítimos. Esta instalación esta ubicada en la Carr. 441 Km. 0.7, Bo. Piedras Blancas, Aguada PR 00602
El Reglamento para el Manejo Adecuado de los Neumáticos, establece en el Capítulo VI el requisito de solicitar un permiso coma condición previa a la operación de una instalación de procesamiento, reciclaje, uso final o exportación de neumáticos desechados, el cual es aplicable a dueños u operadores.
Luego de evaluar los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene intención de conceder el permiso de operación.
Copia de la solicitud de permiso, al igual que el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes al caso, están a la disposición del publico para ser examinados en el Área de Contaminación de Terrenos del DRNA, ubicado en la Carr. 8838 Km. 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, de 8:00 a.m. a 4:30 p.m., de lunes a viernes.
Cualquier persona interesada podrá someter comentarios por escrito sobre el borrador del permiso y podrá solicitar una vista pública. Toda solicitud de vista pública deberá hacerse por escrito y deberá ser debidamente fundamentada y exponer la naturaleza de los planteamientos que se levantarán en la vista. El DRNA podrá celebrar una vista pública de forma discrecional. Toda solicitud deberá ser dirigida al Área Contaminación de Terrenos, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan PR 00926, no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Aviso.
Este anuncio se publica conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Núm. 38-2017, conocida como la “Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo Uniforme del Gobierno de Puerto Rico”, la Ley Núm. 416-2004, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental”, los reglamentos aprobados a su amparo; y las leyes y reglamentos federales aplicables.
Kollar-Kotelly’s four-page decision barred the government until at least next Friday from having access to much of the evidence it employed to secure its original indictment against Comey in late September. The move effectively prevents the Trump administration from using the same proof to seek new charges in the coming days.
The initial indictment of Comey charged him with lying to and obstructing Congress about testimony he gave five years ago denying that he had leaked information to the media concerning sensitive investigations that were conducted when he ran the FBI.
The bulk of the evidence came from communications between Comey and one of his close confidants, Daniel C. Richman, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches at Columbia University’s law school.
The Justice Department has claimed that Richman’s emails and text messages show that Comey lied about using him as a conduit to convey information to reporters about the sensitive investigations. But in an emergency filing to Kollar-Kotelly on Friday night, Richman argued that the Justice Department had obtained his files in violation of his constitutional rights, and that it should not be permitted to use them in any new attempt to reindict Comey.
Another judge who has worked on Comey’s case echoed Kollar-Kotelly’s findings last month, ruling that the way the government gained access to Richman’s messages likely violated the Constitution.
Kollar-Kotelly’s decision granting Richman’s request was only the latest setback in the prosecution of Comey, a longtime political foe of President Donald Trump’s. The prosecution has been plagued by a litany of problems almost from the moment that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia first secured an indictment against the former FBI chief in late September.
The case is now technically dead after a separate judicial ruling determined that Trump’s handpicked choice to run the office, Lindsey Halligan, had been put into her job illegally. The same ruling invalidated a second case Halligan had filed against another one of Trump’s political opponents, Letitia James, New York’s attorney general.
A Virginia federal grand jury failed Thursday to return a new indictment against James, in yet another blow to Trump’s attempts to seek retribution against his perceived
Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in during a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2017. A federal judge on Saturday night threw up a roadblock to the Justice Department’s plans to seek another indictment against Comey as early as this week. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
lated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches when prosecutors used his communications with Comey to bring the initial indictment.
The emails and texts messages that prosecutors used to secure that indictment were originally obtained in 2019 and 2020, when investigators in Washington were conducting a different inquiry into whether Comey had leaked information to the media through Richman about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
In his emergency request to Kollar-Kotelly, Richman claimed that the prosecutors in the first investigation had scrutinized more of his messages than the original search warrants permitted, then failed to destroy the evidence after the inquiry ended without charges.
More important, Richman claimed that when prosecutors in Virginia renewed the investigation into Comey just two months ago, they failed to obtain search warrants to look at the messages again — a move that KollarKotelly suggested was in violation of basic constitutional protections.
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Despite its mounting losses, the Justice Department has signaled that it is still considering returning to a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia as early as this upcoming week to seek a new indictment of Comey.
But Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling could give pause to any such decision. She determined that Richman was likely to succeed in his claims that the Justice Department vio-
In her order, the judge told the Justice Department that it was not allowed to view Richman’s messages or disclose them in any way without first seeking her permission. That proscription would almost certainly bar prosecutors from using the information to make a new presentation to a grand jury in an effort to seek a second indictment of Comey.
Kollar-Kotelly instructed the Justice Department to certify that it would follow her order by Monday at noon. She also told the government to file its opposition to Richman’s request by Tuesday morning.
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL
The Supreme Court is failing at its most important job
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
In early November, a conservative Supreme Court justice showed a clear-eyed understanding of the threat that President Donald Trump poses to the constitutional order. During an oral argument in a case involving tariffs that Trump unilaterally imposed by claiming emergency powers, Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested that the move could weaken Congress in an enduring way. “What president’s ever going to give that power back?” he asked.
Gorsuch’s realism in a case involving a signature policy of Trump’s second term raises the so-far-elusive prospect that the court may constrain his worst abuses of power. But it’s not clear whether a majority of justices share Gorsuch’s view, since the court has yet to rule in the case. And the comment was noteworthy because it was a rare sign of independence from the conservative wing of the court, highlighting how little the majority has done to rein in a president who has challenged the nation’s laws, norms and balance of powers.
A key test will come Monday when the court hears a challenge to Trump’s power to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission — an action that flew in the face of a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent. The court announced Friday that it would also hear a challenge, likely in the next few months, to Trump’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, which the 14th Amendment explicitly protects.
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ill-founded efforts to centralize power and weaken democracy. Judges on the district courts and courts of appeal have blocked his policies hundreds of times since he retook office in January. The judges stepped in to prevent the president from cutting off spending that Congress appropriated, dismantling departments it created, firing the heads of federal agencies and deporting people without due process.
In many of those instances, however, the Supreme Court later overruled the lower courts, allowing Trump’s power grabs. It did so almost entirely on its emergency docket, issuing rulings that are preliminary but often last for at least a year or two, with little or no explanation. The justices have wholly denied only one of Trump’s 32 emergency petitions in his second term (and even then, they effectively reversed themselves later).
Still, we continue to hope that the Supreme Court will yet restrain Trump’s unlawful actions. In addition to Gorsuch, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett conveyed some skepticism of Trump’s power to impose sweeping tariffs during oral argument. And during his first term, the Supreme Court regularly ruled against him. During his second term, however, the six Republican-appointed justices have smoothed the path for Trump’s dangerous campaign to undermine the Constitution and our system of government.
One explanation is that these justices believe that American presidents in general, and not just Trump, should be more powerful than they historically have been. Several of the justices, including Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh, have previously promoted an idea known as the unitary executive theory. Taken to its limit, it holds that Congress is powerless to impose any conditions on how the president controls executive branch agencies.
There are reasonable arguments about whether the federal government — which often is not effective enough, frustrating liberal as well as conservative goals — would improve if agency heads were more accountable to the president who is in office. But the Supreme Court is flirting with a maximalist version of executive power that facilitates an unaccountable White House — one that, for instance, blows up boats without due process. The court’s approach downplays the primary role that the founders assigned to Congress, making it the subject of Article 1 of the Constitution.
The justices also seem friendlier to claims of executive power under Trump than they were under President Joe Biden. They blocked Biden’s efforts to use his authority to forgive student loans and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, they are enabling a Republican president as he goes much further while relying on weaker rationales.
Just as important, the justices are ignoring the evidence that Trump is not acting in good faith. In the past, the government has enjoyed what legal scholars call the “presumption of regularity.” Judges assume they can rely on government officials to present facts accurately and give true reasons for their actions — and can defer to those officials at times as a result. The Trump administration does not deserve this presumption. As lower court judges appointed by presidents of both parties have noted, the administration’s actions have been “egregious,” “capricious,”
“nonsensical,” “unconscionable,” “baseless,” “cringeworthy,” “Kafkaesque,” “blatantly unconstitutional” and “a sham.” Judge Karin Immergut, whom Trump appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, wrote that his professed reasons for deploying the National Guard in Portland were “untethered to the facts.”
The court’s overarching mistake has been to allow Trump to grab power in dubious ways. Take the court’s decision in September letting the president withhold $4 billion of foreign aid that Congress had directed to be spent by the end of that month. In a single paragraph of explanation, the majority let the policy stand, citing a president’s authority to conduct foreign policy. That is a far-reaching claim at odds with the country’s long history of respecting Congress’ power of the purse. Trump’s impoundment of appropriated funds is unconstitutional, full stop.
Other rulings have shown a similar dynamic. The conservative majority has let the president begin to dismantle the Department of Education, even though only Congress has the power to abolish an administrative agency. The court gave Trump a green light to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board and other agencies without cause, contravening the vision of independence Congress had when it created those agencies.
What should the Supreme Court do differently? There are still plenty of chances for it to stand up for the American system of checks and balances.
First, the court should show that facts matter. Judges on lower courts, including some appointed by Trump, have upbraided the Trump administration for its falsehoods and bad faith and begun to treat its arguments with the basic skepticism they have earned. The justices should do the same. They will have an opportunity in several upcoming cases, including on immigration roundups and the Federal Reserve Board.
Second, the court should recognize that Trump is taking power that Congress will be hard pressed to take back. At least Gorsuch and the three liberal justices looked ready to do this in the tariffs case. They need a fifth vote. A sixth or seventh would send the president an even stronger signal. It is a shame that neither Alito nor Justice Clarence Thomas seems willing to restrain Trump in any case of significance.
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, Nov. 4, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
El Fideicomiso para Ciencia recibe premio Emmy 2025 y múltiples nominaciones por el documental “Cuando el Mar Nos Alcance”
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LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA – El Fideicomiso para Ciencia, Tecnología e Investigación de Puerto Rico celebra un logro histórico: su documental Cuando el Mar Nos Alcance obtuvo un premio Emmy 2025, además de cinco nominaciones adicionales otorgadas por la National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences – cap. Suncoast. Este reconocimiento reafirma la excelencia, rigor y creatividad con que la institución comunica ciencia para impactar comunidades.
Producido por el Centro Caribeño de Aumento del Nivel del Mar- adscrito al Fideicomiso- en colaboración con el Rising Seas Institute, el documental explora las causas principales del aumento del nivel del mar: el desplazamiento de hielo desde tierra hacia el mar, el flujo de agua derretida sobre tierra y la expansión térmica del océano. Filmado en Groenlandia y Puerto Rico, ofrece un relato visual y humano que conecta los cambios en los glaciares del norte con las realidades de las comunidades costeras del Caribe. Con testimonios, datos científicos e imágenes
impresionantes, la producción busca sensibilizar sobre la urgencia de adaptarse a la crisis climática. Este reconocimiento reafirma que la comunicación científica tiene un espacio legítimo en las artes y puede conmover y educar a través de narrativas accesibles y poderosas.
“Recibimos este premio y las nominaciones con un profundo orgullo. No solo reconocen el extraordinario trabajo de nuestro equipo, sino que validan la importancia de comunicar ciencia para generar cambios. La ciencia sigue siendo un pilar esencial para el progreso de Puerto Rico, y este logro nos impulsa aún más a cumplir nuestra misión de posicionar al país como un referente global en innovación”, expresó la Ing. Lucy Crespo, CEO del Fideicomiso.
El premio fue otorgado en las categoría de Mejor Fotografía Formato Largo. Las nominaciones abarcan Pieza Completa - Tópico, así como Dirección, Guión, Edición y Fotografía.
“Este logro significa que el trabajo creativo y técnico ha sido evaluado por expertos de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias de la Televisión y considerado sobresaliente entre cientos de propuestas. Alcanzar este nivel sitúa al Fideicomiso para Ciencia, Tecnología e Investigación de Puerto Rico entre los más altos estándares de producción audiovisual”, dijo Lupe Vázquez, Principal Oficial de Comunicaciones y Mercadeo del Fideicomiso.
“El documental es un retrato de cómo nuestras costas ya no son las mismas. Hubo un esfuerzo bien intencional de presentar el problema del aumento del nivel del mar integrando la perspectiva de Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Existen muchos materiales educativos sobre el tema, pero pocos presentan nuestra realidad local con
los datos científicos. Este reconocimiento demuestra que la ciencia no pierde relevancia—al contrario, nos permite entender y enfrentar la transformación ambiental que vivimos día a día “, afirmó Marieli Grant, gerente de comunicaciones y mercadeo del Fideicomiso.
Para el Arq. Fernando Pabón Rico, director del Centro Caribeño de Aumento del Nivel del Mar, “Se materializó un sueño de todo un equipo en este premio que reconoce el valor fotográfico de la pieza. Esperamos que sea el primero de muchos”.
“Este proyecto me enseñó a escuchar al mar y a prestar atención a lo que nos dice día a día. Comprendí que ya no basta con observar cómo sube y baja la marea: es una alerta urgente que exige acción. Trabajar en esta producción transformó mi perspectiva, al jugar en el área con mi sobrina de tres años y pensar que la orilla pronto dejará de existir. Proteger y preservar nuestros recursos naturales no es solo una tarea ambiental; tiene que ser un compromiso colectivo con el futuro de nuestras comunidades”, añadió Saraí Dominguez, directora y guionista.
“La felicidad no cabe dentro de mí por lograr este Emmy para Puerto Rico y para el Fideicomiso. Es la celebración de mentes unidas con una gran meta en común: educar a esta y futuras generaciones sobre el aumento del nivel del mar”, dijo Ricky Vázquez, productor, director de Fotografía, editor y narrador del documental. “Agradezco a todo el equipo del Fideicomiso y colegas que creyeron en este proyecto, incluyendo a Jonas en Groenlandia. A mi familia, esposa, hijo y padres por apoyar, inspirar y apoyar mi carrera”, añadió Vázquez.
Desde su estreno en diciembre de 2024 -y su emisión por Punto 2 de Telemundo Puerto Rico en abril de 2025-, “Cuando el Mar Nos Alcance” ha sido aclamado por su valor educativo, dirección fotográfica y enfoque innovador sobre cambio climático. El documental está disponible libre de costo en CuandoElMarNosAlcance. org y en YouTube, en el canal de FideicomisoTV.
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Governor to declare a day of mourning for El Gran Combo founder
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced Sunday that as soon as details of the wake for maestro Rafael Ithier Natal, who died Saturday night at the age of 99, are available, a day of mourning will be declared for his passing.
“Latin music is in mourning for the passing of maestro Rafael Ithier, founder of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico,” the governor said in a written statement. “With a career that began at age 15 and lasted more than 80 years, Don Rafael left an immense legacy. He was part of several groups, including Cortijo y Su Combo, before creating El Gran Combo.”
“His music, discipline, and vision, at the helm of ‘Los Mulatos del Sabor’ (or “The University of Salsa”), brought the flavor of Puerto Rico to the world,” González Colón recalled. “I still remember the energy with which we celebrated El Gran Combo’s 50th anniversary in the House of Representatives, an occasion when the chamber vibrated with their live music.
“His legacy transcends borders and lives on in several generations. Thank you for everything, maestro. Your rhythm will endure in the hearts of our people and wherever salsa music is played.”
Once the family determines the date of the wake, the island government will officially announce the day of mourning, the governor said.
“In this moment of profound grief for his wife, children, grandchildren, and the extended family of El Gran Combo de PR, we ask for privacy to process this loss, and we will share details of the funeral services soon, which will be held according to Maestro Ithier’s wishes,” a spokesperson for the family said in a written statement.
Ithier Natal was born on Aug. 29, 1926, in the Puerta de
Tierra area of San Juan. He was the son of Nicolás “Macaco” Ithier and Mérida Natal, both from Mayagüez. He grew up in the Monacillos neighborhood of Río Piedras, in a home with limited resources, and lost his father in childhood. His mother, a seamstress, supported the family while he pursued music: first the guitar from the age of 10, then the tres, the double bass, and finally the piano, the instrument that defined him for the rest of his career.
He joined Fermín Machuca’s Conjunto Hawaiano in 1941 and later was part of Conjunto Taoné and Conjunto del Pueblo. In the 1950s, he served in the United States Army during the Korean War, a period that shaped his personal discipline. After his military service, he worked in New York with the group Borinqueneers Mambo Boys and, upon his return to Puerto Rico, joined Cortijo y su Combo, where he
remained until 1962. After the breakup of that group, Ithier brought together several of those musicians and created what is now known as El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, which debuted in May 1962 and released its first album, “Menéame los mangos,” that same year.
Ithier Natal led El Gran Combo for more than six decades as pianist, arranger, composer, and leader, with more than 70 record productions and performances on five continents, making the orchestra an essential reference point for Puerto Rican salsa. In March 2024, the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, awarded him an honorary doctorate in general studies in recognition of his career.
Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) Rep. Nelie Lebrón Robles expressed condolences on behalf of the party in a written statement Sunday.
“Our homeland will be eternally grateful for the legacy of Don Rafael, who dedicated his life to upholding the highest values of our musical identity, and brought the best of our music to every corner of the world, earning for his group the well-deserved name of The University of Salsa,” Lebrón Robles said.
“Puerto Rico will be eternally grateful for the legacy left by Don Rafael, not only for being an excellent musician, but also for being an exceptional leader, who developed a system of protection for his musicians, ensuring that they had all the benefits that any worker has in any other work environment,” the PIP lawmaker noted. “Thank you for enriching the lives of so many generations of music lovers here and around the world.
“On behalf of the Puerto Rican Independence Party delegation in the House and Senate, we extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Mr. Rafael Ithier, founder and director of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico.
“May Mr. Rafael Ithier rest in peace.”
Additional performance of musical ‘Jesus, Better Than Everything’ set for Thursday
By THE STAR STAFF
The Luz Escénica Ministry has announced a second performance of the Christian musical “Jesus, Better Than Anything,” this Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Church of the Nazarene in Dominguito, Arecibo.
The ministry has received numerous calls from people wanting to see the musical, which speaks directly about the meaning of Jesus’ birth and the plan of salvation God promised from the creation of the world.
The first performance, scheduled for this Friday, Dec. 12, is fully booked. On Nov. 30, at the Church of the Nazarene in Dominguito, Arecibo -- the venue for the musical -- the actors were introduced and some of the songs from the show were performed live.
“We are very happy and, of course, we thank God
because in this first opportunity to perform this artistic piece, we already have a fully booked first performance. But we’re aiming for more; people keep calling, because we don’t want anyone to miss out on the blessing of ‘Jesus, Better Than Anything,’” director Marena González Ortiz said. “In this musical, they will laugh, cry, sing, but above all, it will teach them the meaning of the Creator’s birth and allow them to see Christmas from a different perspective than what people are traditionally used to.” The piece stars Kelianis Molina (Angie) and Oniel Chaparro (Gaby), who portray two angels embarking on a journey through different biblical eras to discover who the promised savior will be. Along their journey, they encounter iconic figures from the Bible, making the work a family-friendly, inspiring and deeply reflective musical experience for the whole family.
Kelianis Molina and Oniel Chaparro portray two angels, Angie and Gaby, in the musical “Jesus, Better Than Anything.” (Facebook via Enfoque Juventud PR)
Rafael Ithier Natal (1926-2025), founded El Gran Combo in 1962.
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Wall St closes with slight gains as data keeps Fed cut expectations on track
U.S. stocks closed out the trading week with slight gains on Friday as the latest flurry of economic data kept elevated expectations for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week intact.
In the wake of the 43-day government shutdown, market participants have been digesting delayed economic data as the backlog slowly dwindles, while also looking to secondary indicators to gauge the health of the economy.
Delayed data from the Commerce Department showed consumer spending, which accounts for more than twothirds of economic activity, rose 0.3% in September to match the estimate of economists polled by Reuters, after a downwardly revised 0.5% gain in August.
In addition, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index increased 0.3% after gaining 0.3% in August, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said. In the 12 months through September, the PCE Price Index advanced 2.8% after rising 2.7% in August. Both were in line with forecasts.
A separate report from the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers showed consumer sentiment improved in early December to 53.3, topping the 52 forecast.
Markets were pricing in an 87.2% chance of a 25-basis-point rate cut at this month’s Fed meeting, according to CME’s FedWatch Tool, although the meeting is expected to have a large number of dissenting voters over concerns about persistent inflation. Expectations for a cut were below 30% two weeks ago until several Fed officials voiced support for a rate reduction.
“Investors are looking ahead to next week. We get a little bit more in the way of economic data ... but all eyes will be on the Fed meeting on Wednesday, and right now there’s a very high likelihood the Fed will cut rates by another quarter point,” said Michael Sheldon, vice president and senior portfolio manager at Washington Trust Wealth Management, in New Haven, Connecticut.
“Then, the question is what they say following the meeting and whether they give any hints about future policy.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 104.05 points, or 0.22%, to 47,954.99, the S&P 500 gained 13.28 points, or 0.19%, to 6,870.40 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 72.99 points, or 0.31%, to 23,578.13.
For the week, the S&P 500 gained 0.31%, the Nasdaq
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Shares of Warner Bros Discovery climbed 6.3% after Netflix agreed to buy its TV, film studios, and streaming division for $72 billion, ending a weeks-long bidding war.
Netflix shares closed 2.9% lower, while Paramount Skydance , one of the other bidders for Warner Bros, tumbled 9.8%.
Communication services was the best-performing of the 11 S&P 500 sectors with a gain of nearly 1% as it set a record closing high.
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The benchmark S&P 500 is about 1% shy of a record high, but small-cap stocks have rallied strongly over the past two weeks with the Russell 2000 up 0.8% this week after a 5.5% jump last week as they are seen as likely to benefit strongly from rate cuts.
“All the low-quality, unprofitable, highly levered businesses have been high beta, high volatility, that’s been the best performing stocks,” said Jed Ellerbroek, portfolio manager at Argent Capital Management in St. Louis.
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A grand social media experiment begins in Australia
By VICTORIA KIM
Darcey Pritchard, 15, deleted Snapchat off her phone about a year ago when she felt sucked in by its algorithm.
Her friend Luca Hagop, also 15, recently spent more than 34 hours on Instagram in one week, sharing pet videos and other reels “so random, they’re funny because they’re so unfunny.”
Amelie Tomlinson, 14, keeps up with her friends on Snapchat, and until recently, had almost no one’s phone number.
Her friend Jasmine Bentley, 15, is not allowed on any social media but dreams of being a content creator.
The two sets of friends, living in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, offer a small window into the wildly different relationships today’s teens have with social media. But they are united on one front: They do not think a new Australian law that bars children under 16 from having social media accounts, which takes effect Wednesday, will change their lives much.
Australia passed the law a year ago, setting itself up to be a test case for what many parents say feels like this generation’s Sisyphean task — shielding children from the risks associated with social media until they are capable of navigating it responsibly.
But these teenagers, born around the same time that Instagram and Snapchat were first released, are digital natives. Most know how to use VPNs, which may help them evade the ban. Many fudged their ages when they first signed up, to get around the minimum age of 13 for many social media services. Others have used their parents’ information to get accounts, or have older siblings whose identities they can co-opt.
More than anything, social media is just too deeply embedded into their lives.
“It’s how we communicate,” Amelie said. Darcey said some of her friends had been talking about migrating to new apps. “You’re not going to stop these people,” she said. Rewire impulses?
In recent years, parents around the world have grappled with increasing alarm about social media’s detriments to mental health, potential to enable online bullying and effects on developing brains.
Australia was one of the first countries to pass a nationwide law to address those
concerns. Last December, it set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts, meaning hundreds of thousands of younger children would lose theirs. Other nations, like Malaysia, have followed suit with similar plans.
Australia is putting the onus is on the social media companies to keep younger children off their platforms and will not penalize parents or children who violate the law.
Officials, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, have tried to tamp down expectations that the law will be an overnight fix.
They say they are supporting parents who feel powerless against the lure of social media and peer pressure among teens. Anika Wells, the minister for communications, described an almost idyllic new reality with children awash in time for sports, baking or learning a new language.
But it will be far from that simple. The lives and friendships of many 13- to 15-yearolds are enmeshed with social media — even if the children are not on it themselves.
For instance, when Darcey and her friends were playing an online guessing
game, many of the clues were memes everyone else had seen on Instagram. When Amelie and a friend got to school 15 minutes before the first bell, they made four TikTok videos. When Jasmine puts on makeup, she will record herself, even though she is not on social media. And when Luca’s mother died a few years ago, he found it helpful to type out his feelings on an anonymous server on Discord.
Can a law rewire those impulses?
Currently, 10 social media services are covered by the ban: Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X and YouTube. The companies have said that they do not believe a blanket ban is the best way to keep children safe, but that they will nevertheless deactivate accounts of children under 16.
“They’re ripping away something that has grown on us and become more part of our lives every day,” Jasmine said.
Two popular apps in Australia in the weeks leading up to the law were “Yope,” a photo sharing app targeting Generation Z, and “lemon8,” a TikTok alternative owned
by the same parent company, ByteDance, portending a potential game of Whac-aMole with regulators.
‘The horse has already bolted’
When Amelie was trying to persuade her parents to allow her on TikTok, she pleaded her case in a five-page, single-spaced letter about not wanting to feel left out.
Her mother, Catherine Best, said she felt that parents had lost control years ago. When Amelie had just started primary school, Best deleted YouTube off her daughter’s schoolrequired iPad because she was watching toy unboxing videos nonstop. The school insisted on reinstalling it because teachers used educational videos on YouTube in class.
“That was really the gateway,” said Best, who said the law was too little, too late. “I feel like the horse has already bolted.”
Amelie said that, like many of her friends, she had two TikTok accounts, both set to private: one for just close friends and the other for a wider group. The account with her friends has her age set to 19, so she was not worried about losing access.
But she was exchanging phone numbers with friends for the first time in anticipation of losing her Snapchat account. This month, the app prompted her to verify her age — set to 16 — with a selfie, and it approved her as being old enough to continue using her account, she said.
Amelie said she recognized how much she reached for her phone. Her screen time “goes nuts” on school holidays.
“It’s just an instinct to pick up my phone,” she said, “which I don’t like.”
James Tomlinson, 9, plays a game on a phone in Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 13, 2025. Australia is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation. (Matthew Abbott /The New York Times)
In Honduras, some voters were swayed by Trump, others angered
By JAMES WAGNER and JEFF ERNST
Before Honduras’ presidential election Nov. 30, José Ignacio Cerrato López, a retiree, had mostly made up his mind.
Although Cerrato López, 62, normally backed the right-wing National Party, he said he had planned to vote for another rightwing candidate, Salvador Nasralla, who was leading by a small margin in some polls, in hopes of kicking the governing left-wing party out of office.
But when President Donald Trump threw his support behind the National Party’s candidate, Nasry Asfura, just days before the vote, and suggested he wouldn’t work with the other top two candidates, Cerrato López said he was surprised but pleased. He said he switched his vote to Asfura.
Trump “said he was going to make things worse,” said Cerrato López, citing fears that the immigration and economic relationships between the countries could deteriorate if the U.S. president’s preferred candidate did not win.
And when Trump announced that he would pardon a notorious former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, a member of Asfura’s party who was convicted last year of working with cartels to flood the United States with cocaine, Cerrato López said he was more confident in his decision because he believed Hernández had helped the military when in office.
Honduras, a small Central American country that is among the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, has weathered a political storm over the past week and a half.
Trump’s intervention in the country’s elections — backing one candidate, denouncing others as “communists,” pardoning a convicted former president and claiming election fraud without evidence — has sparked fears that he has tipped the scales in favor of his preferred candidate. And the contest itself remains unresolved.
Problems with the tabulation of results have fueled doubts about the integrity of the election and brought back memories of the 2017 election that had widespread allegations of fraud and led to unrest. And the top two candidates shunned by Trump have claimed fraud and unjust interference.
As of Saturday afternoon, the Honduran election authority said that Asfura led Nasralla by 0.7 percentage points, or roughly 20,000 votes, with nearly 75% of tally sheets counted.
“We will not allow them to alter the popular will,” Nasralla said Saturday, suggesting, without presenting evidence, that Asfura’s party was messing with the results and calling for election authorities to release more of them.
(This is Nasralla’s fourth time running for president, and he has claimed fraud in other instances.)
On Saturday, the Organization of American States, which observed the elections and noted concerns about the election system, called for the remaining stages of the process to be “carried out with total clarity, maximum efficiency and without any type of delay.”
Over 2,400 tally sheets have been flagged for inconsistencies by the electoral
body — which represents enough votes to sway the election to either of the leading two candidates. An adviser for Nasralla, Arísitides Mejía, said that the campaign would contest many more for what it said were irregularities.
Mejía said that independent voters and “many” supporters of Asfura’s party had intended to vote for Nasralla because they saw him as having the best chance to end the tenure of the governing party, which includes candidate Rixi Moncada.
“But when they heard that about Trump, they went back to their party, and some independents started to have doubts,” he said.
Ricardo Romero Gonzales, who runs an independent polling company in Honduras, said that based on his daily polling, Nasralla had a 9-point lead before Trump’s endorsement of Asfura. After Trump weighed in, he said, the candidates were in a virtual tie.
Romero Gonzales said that roughly a third of Hondurans have a family member in the United States and that people thought about them when voting. He added, “People believe the country will be worse off if we are enemies of Trump.”
Not everyone was pleased about Trump’s involvement in their country’s election.
A few dozen people from Indigenous,
environmental and farmworker organizations marched Thursday to the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Tegucigalpa, to protest the U.S. president’s interference and his pardon of Hernández. Other Hondurans interviewed, though they hadn’t taken to the streets, said they were upset with Trump.
One of the protesters, Arnold Sanchez, 24, a carpenter and an activist with an Indigenous organization, said the Trump administration was “imposing what it wants and not letting us choose what we want.” He said Trump had “instilled fear” in Honduras.
Hondurans who voted for Asfura said they did so in part because they yearned for a better relationship with the United States. They said they worried that a different candidate winning could hurt Honduras, a country that relies heavily on money transfers from many migrants living in the United States illegally.
Alexi Salustriano Vargas, 65, a shoe shiner in Tegucigalpa, said he hoped that Asfura could perhaps stem the tide on Trump’s deportations of Hondurans lacking permanent legal status, or perhaps even have a migrant protection program restored. (Trump has not promised either if Asfura wins.)
“If you don’t have communication with someone, nothing can be done,” he said.
José Ignacio Cerrato López, a retired soldier from the Honduran army, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Dec. 6, 2025. President Donald Trump backed Nasry Asfura days before the Nov. 30 election and denounced his opponents. In a close race, that has potentially tipped the scales. (Federico Ríos/The New York Times)
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Angst turns to anger in Hollywood as Netflix hooks Warner Bros.
By BROOKS BARNES and SHAWN HUBLER
In October, when Warner Bros. Discovery hung a “For Sale” sign on itself, Hollywood was sad. Megaproducer Larry Gordon likened the feeling to a death in the family. In group WhatsApp chats, screenwriters used words like “heartbreaking” and “tragic.”
Now that a sale has been announced, with Netflix striking an $83 billion deal for the Warner Bros. studio and its sibling streaming service, HBO Max, a different emotion is washing through the entertainment capital: Hollywood is mad.
Jane Fonda raged against a deal in a letter to an entertainment trade news publication, calling the end of a stand-alone Warner Bros. “an alarming escalation in a consolidation crisis that threatens the entire entertainment industry, the public it serves and — potentially — the First Amendment itself.”
Michael O’Leary, CEO of Cinema United, a trade organization that represents 30,000 movie screens in the United States, called the Netflix acquisition “an unprecedented threat” and vowed to fight it. “Theaters will close, communities will suffer, jobs will be lost,” O’Leary said, noting Netflix’s policy of giving movies only “token” releases in theaters. (Shares in publicly traded theater chains, including AMC Entertainment, IMAX and Cinemark, fell as much as 8% Friday.)
“This merger must be blocked,” the Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 12,000 screenwriters, said in a statement. “The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent.” The Teamsters’ motion picture division also demanded that “all levels” of government “reject this deal.”
Netflix insisted Friday that it would honor the Warner Bros. business model — that it would continue to release movies in theaters for exclusive runs. “It’s not like we have this opposition to movies into theaters,” Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO, said on a conference call with investors.
“Right now, you should count on everything that is planned on going to the theater through Warner Bros.” to “continue to go to theaters,” Sarandos added.
But many people in Hollywood viewed his comments with extreme skepti-
Pictures of upcoming releases on a wall at the Warner Brothers studio lot, in Burbank, Calif. on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Netflix insisted on Friday that it would follow the Warner Bros. model and continue to release movies in theaters for exclusive runs. But many people in Hollywood were skeptical. (Aleksey Kondratyev/The New York Times)
cism. (“Key words: ‘right now,’” one agent said.) As recently as April, in response to a question at the Time100 Summit about declines at the overall box office, Sarandos said: “What is the consumer trying to tell us?
That they’d like to watch movies at home.” He also called theaters “an outmoded idea” for most people.
Entertainment workers in Los Angeles — camera operators, producers, hairstylists, writers, actors, set designers, editors — have already been struggling with a contracting job market. As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, two union strikes, an exodus of production to cheaper locales and the rise of artificial intelligence tools, tens of thousands of workers have been laid off by Hollywood companies since 2020.
So on Friday, there was a keen understanding that “consolidation” was just another word for “job loss.” It happened in 2019 when Disney bought 21st Century Fox assets from Rupert Murdoch for $71.3 billion. And it happened this year when Skydance Media, led by David Ellison, took over Paramount as part of an $8 billion merger. In October, Paramount began laying off more than 2,000
workers across its movie and television businesses to cut $3 billion in costs.
“Repeated consolidation in this industry has already cost so many film and television jobs, and any merger should be evaluated on its impacts on competition and employment,” Rep. Laura Friedman, a Democrat whose Burbank congressional district includes many of Southern California’s major film institutions, said of the Netflix agreement. “I’ll be watching this deal closely to make sure it supports workers in LA.”
In Los Angeles, where the local political establishment is overwhelmingly Democratic and pro-labor, leaders were cautious.
“Los Angeles’ range of production studios contribute to its status as the shining creative capital of the world,” Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement. “As Los Angeles continues fostering an environment that drives our signature industry, we will continue to boost local production and create more jobs and small-business opportunities right here at home.”
Katy Yaroslavsky, a Los Angeles City Council member whose district includes the offices of the Writers Guild, the Screen
Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and several production studios, said she was focused “on what this deal means for production in Los Angeles.”
“Netflix has been a strong partner to our city, and the entertainment industry supports tens of thousands of good jobs here,” she said in a statement. But, she added, “LA’s entertainment sector is in crisis, and the question is whether this deal strengthens production here or sends more work elsewhere.”
Austin Beutner, a longtime business and civic leader who is challenging Bass for reelection, was even firmer. “I’m concerned about the impact further consolidation will have on jobs in our community,” he said. Privately, City Hall denizens were less guarded.
On one hand, there was some relief in the liberal city that Ellison and his father, Larry, a well-known supporter of President Donald Trump, would not acquire yet another landmark Southern California studio. The Ellisons had been bidding against Netflix for Warner Bros. and HBO Max. (The Ellisons also wanted to buy CNN from Warner Bros. Discovery, but the cable news channel, at least for now, will remain part of a separate corporate entity.)
On the other hand, they noted, the deal is subject to federal regulatory approval and the Trump administration is likely to play a role in any consideration.
Netflix has a lot of jobs here, said a high-level aide to one City Council member, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he did not have the authority to comment publicly on the merger. But, he said, the Federal Communications Commission would have to approve the deal, and the worry would become what Netflix needs to do to appease Trump.
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On a volcanic Caribbean isle, 37 beaches and endless views
By ELAINE GLUSAC
Logistics tend to bump up the price of visiting the Caribbean. But the dual-nation island of Dutch St. Maarten and French St. Martin offers an advantage: It’s a transportation hub for the Leeward Islands, served by most major American carriers and some European ones.
Airline competition usually means flight deals, but can you stay there on a budget? Yes, if you keep it simple by choosing basic lodgings, slow exploring and meals at outdoor spots favored by locals.
Distinctive accommodations and attractions will save you money, but they won’t diminish your experience. (Note that the Dutch side commonly uses U.S. dollars and the French side uses euros.) The following are five budget-travel hacks for enjoying this multicultural island.
Stay near the airport
In many places, staying near an airport is a drab proposition. But on the Dutch St. Maarten side, the main runways at Princess Juliana International Airport lie beside Simpson Bay Beach, one of the longest beaches on the island.
There are several modestly priced hotels on this beach, including Mary’s Boon Hotel, which has a rooftop deck that’s handy for plane-spotting and sunset-watching.
The hotel’s landscaped compound offers a variety of rooms, many with efficiency kitchens. Several small grocers are within walking distance, and Market Garden supermarket is a 25-minute walk away. Rooms start around $135 a night.
Nearby, the Azure Hotel & Art Studio, painted a standout shade of blue, also offers rooms with kitchenettes, including one solofriendly studio and more spacious suites. Rooms start from $115. For those looking for a longer stay, a one-bedroom Airbnb offers beach access outside the door.
But what about noise? Takeoffs by large planes grabbed my attention over six spring nights at the beach, but they were infrequent and mostly during the daytime.
Take a hike
Perhaps because it’s a sweaty endeavor, hiking isn’t the first activity promoted in many Caribbean destinations. But volcanic islands like St. Martin/St. Maarten offer many hilly routes with panoramic views that are free.
Some of the best provide a payoff in a cooling swim. That’s one attraction of Back Bay trail, a 1.3-mile round trip over coastal scrub with desert cactuses, grazing goats and rock outcroppings covered in sunning iguanas, along a frothy shoreline.
About a half-hour walk from the trailhead, brightly painted signs point to a “natural pool” down the slope. This is where larger
rocks create a wall separating the crashing surf from the calm shallows that invite swimmers to jump in (avoid the sea urchins in the rocky crevices).
The start of the path in the Guana Bay residential area is hard to find; look for a basketball court and scour the hillside beside it to find the unmarked trailhead.
More ambitious hikers can go to the summit of Pic Paradis, at 1,391 feet the highest peak on the island, for views well out to sea. A steep trek on the French side, it’s roughly a 2.5-mile round trip on a paved road that leads to a forested track. Start from the activities hub Loterie Farm (entry, 10 euros, about $11.50), which provides maps and access to bathrooms.
Dine at Lolos
As the French tell it, lolos, or small outdoor restaurants commonly centered on barbecues, originated in the villages of enslaved people in the 17th century. The restaurants remain bargain sources of grilled fish and ribs, crab and chicken curry.
In the town of Grand Case on the French side, lolos often feature oil drum grills and aromatic smoke. Fish and meat pile the grates at Cynthia’s Talk of the Town, where an order of grilled snapper and ribs with sides of rice and beans, coleslaw and johnnycakes (savory fritters) feeds two for about $30.
Lolos are often locally owned and operated. “Eighty percent of my business is local,” said Brian Breedy, the chef and owner of Breedy’s Pit Stop Seafood Shack at Kim Sha Beach on the Dutch side, where the menu, written on a blackboard, changes daily.
The strip of lolos where Breedy operates was largely established after Hurricane Irma in 2017 when many restaurants were damaged.
“This is what most of the people come to the island for, beach and barbecue,” he said.
Still, the umbrella term “lolo” covers a wide variety of restaurants and includes vegan stalls like Irie Gardens in the Dutch capital of Philipsburg.
Tour Philipsburg’s murals
Grab a strawberry smoothie from Irie Gardens and explore the city through its Phil-
A hiker on the Back Bay trail, which runs along the shoreline in St. Maarten, on June 8, 2025. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
Guests at Mary’s Boon Hotel on Simpson Bay Beach, St. Maarten, on June 8, 2025. The dualnation island of Dutch St. Maarten and French St. Martin offers lots of frugal diversions, including vivid street murals, hilly hikes and local barbecue. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
A fish dish at Breedy’s Pit Stop Seafood Shack in Simpson Bay, St. Maarten, on June 11, 2025. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
ipsburg Art Walk, a beautification project featuring 22 murals by local artists.
After Hurricane Irma dumped sand and water in stores and hotels across the island, including in Philipsburg, local business owners spent several years cleaning up, only to have the pandemic squash tourism again in 2020.
“A lot of buildings were still closed when tourism reopened” after the pandemic, said Marla Chemont, a spokesperson for the St. Maarten tourism board.
Nonprofit Be the Change Foundation devised the dual-purpose project to renew devastated buildings and sustain local artists. Most of the artworks lie within a block or two of Great Bay beach in the center of town. Plaques contain artists’ statements and QR codes that link to a map of the mural locations.
The open-air art exhibition celebrates the island in bright colors and inventive patterns, often painted in alleyways and across
a variety of surfaces from corrugated metal doors to utility boxes. Subjects include psychedelic jellyfish, a ubiquitous bird known as the bananaquit, an underwater landscape and, from tattoo artist Christford Shillingford, an endemic lizard known as a bearded anole with tribal tattoos.
Other works focus on the culture of the island, including a playful mural by artist Nascha Kagie featuring thought bubbles in the local dialect, such as “Where you be?” and “Watating!” (Are you serious?).
Between murals, the route takes in Philipsburg landmarks: an 18th-century courthouse, school and salt warehouse. Comb the coast
For an island you can drive around within an hour — it covers about 35 square miles — St. Martin/St. Maarten is rich in coastal intrigue, with 37 beaches and other natural attractions.
While taxis are available, it’s cheaper to go beachcombing by car. Walking distance
from Simpson Bay Beach hotels, Sixt Rent the Car is where I rented an economy car for a day that, with fees, totaled about $75.
Perhaps the island’s best-known beach, Maho Beach, lies just beyond the airport’s main runway, where photographers camp out
to try to get shots of swimmers and sunbathers with an Airbus A350 or a Boeing 787 just overhead.
As the larger half of the island, the French St. Martin claims most of its beaches, including the quiet Happy Bay (between the capital, Marigot, and Grand Case), which requires just a short hike to lose the crowds. West of Marigot, Baie Rouge, or Red Bay, offers snorkeling around a rocky point.
Near Baie Rouge, explore David’s Hole, a collapsed sea cave with natural arches. Swimmable in fair conditions, David’s Hole churns dangerously when the ocean is choppy, though the tide pools nearby tend to be calm.
On the opposite side of the island, time your visit to Rotary Lookout Point at low tide to walk out to a deserted islet. (Wear water shoes to protect your feet from sharp stones on the ocean floor.) It is close to the St. Martin Nature Reserve, which protects most of the north coast of the island, including mangroves and salt ponds that are ideal for birdwatching.
Not far from Maho, end the day in Cupecoy at Dany’s Cupecoy Beach Bar, a rustic shack with $3 beers and priceless sunset views.
The pier behind Cynthia’s Talk of the Town in Grand Case, St. Martin, on June 11, 2025. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
A plane flies over Maho Beach, St. Maarten, on June 11, 2025. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
David’s Hole, near Baie Rouge (Red Bay), a collapsed sea cave with two stone arches, in St. Maarten, on June 8, 2025. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certifica-
do, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 7 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “RÚSTICA: Solar marcado en el plano de inscripción del proyecto de solares Urbanización Vista Alegre, con el número F-Once (F-11) y radicado en el Barrio Vacas del término municipal de Villalba, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.0947 cuerdas, equivalente a 372.4880 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la Calle Número 6 del proyecto; por el SUR, con el solar número F-10 del proyecto; por el ESTE, con la Calle Número 3 del proyecto; y por el OESTE, con el solar número F-12 del proyecto.” Inscrita al folio 29 del tomo 154 de Villalba, finca 7412, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 29 del tomo 154 de Villalba, finca 7412, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I, inscripción 2ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. VISTA ALEGRE, 611 (F-11) CALLE ORQUIDEA, VILLALBA, PR 00766. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $187,500.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 23 de mayo de 2100. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $187,500.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Pon-
ce, el 14 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $125,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $93,750.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 22 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 1:45 DE LA TARDE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $56,253.73 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $53,130.19 en intereses acumulados 4 de noviembre de 2024 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $13,137.64 en seguro hipotecario; $9,891.04 de contribuciones; $954.84 de seguro de la propiedad; $1,825.00 de tasaciones; $460.00 de inspecciones; $4,833.00 de adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $18,750.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta.
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Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 7 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar identificado con el número Quince (15) de conformidad con el plano de inscripción certificado por el Agrimensor José A. Cancio Rivera, licencia número 9328, radicado en Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico zona urbana de la Urbanización
Extensión Las Flores, barrio Tijeras del término municipal de Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 1064.9063 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en una alineación de 24.83 metros con la Calle Número 6 de la Urbanización Extensión Las Flores; por el SUR, en 28.27 metros con franja de terreno de seguridad de la quebrada; por el ESTE, en 36.12 metros con el solar número 15 de la Urbanización Extensión Las Flores; y por el OESTE, en 49.63 metros con el solar número 16 de la Urbanización Extensión Las Flores. Sobre el descrito solar enclava una casa de concreto de una sola planta diseñada para residencia familiar.” Inscrita al folio 89 del tomo 350 de Juana Díaz, finca 14556, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 209 del tomo 530 de Juana Díaz, finca 14556, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I, inscripción 7ª. Propiedad localizada en: EXT. LAS FLORES, #15 CALLE 6, JUANA DIAZ, PR 00795. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $405,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 18 de mayo de 2090. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $405,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 14 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $270,000.00, 2/3 par-
tes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $202,500.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 22 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 2:15 DE LA TARDE. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $193,784.47 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $97,362.68 en intereses acumulados 4 de febrero de 2025 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.516% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la sumas de $13,610.39 en seguro hipotecario; $6,510.00 de cargos por servicio; $2,391.35 de contribuciones; $475.00 de tasaciones; $560.00 de inspecciones; $6,103.00 de adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $40,500.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de octubre de 2025. JAVIER N. SEGARRA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL PLACA #820.
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CARATTINI, YAMILA RODRÍGUEZ CARATTINI Y YARITZA RODRÍGUEZ CARATTINI (QUIEN ESTÁ POR SÍ EN ESTE PLEITO), COMO HEREDEROS DE DICHA SUCESIÓN; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE EDWIN VEGUILLA COLÓN; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE HIPÓLITO RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.) - PARTE CON INTERÉS
Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2023CV00149. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aibonito, Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 10
de octubre de 2025, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar número 1. Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Asomante de Aibonito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil ciento noventa y seis metros cuadrados con cuatrocientos sesenta y ocho milésimas de otro (1,196.0468 m.c.), equivalentes a cero cuerda con tres mil cuarenta y tres diez milésimas de otra (0.3043 cdas.). En lindes por el NORTE, con Petronila Torres y con la Parcela identificada en el Plano de Inscripción dedicada a uso público Carretera Municipal; por el SUR, con Remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; por el ESTE, con Solar número 2; y por el OESTE, con remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega. Inscrita en la finca 15,014, al folio 84 del tomo 270 de Aibonito. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. Además, el Alguacil que suscribe, hago saber a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5½% anual, vencedero el día 1 de febrero de 2041, constituida mediante la escritura número 25, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de enero de 2011, el notario Mario A. Quiles Rosado, e inscrita al folio 128 del tomo 273 de Aibonito, finca número 15,014, inscripción 8va. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 16 de octubre de 2014, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aibonito, en el Caso Civil número CD014-0075, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por la Vía Ordinaria, seguido por el Banco Popular
de Puerto Rico, versus Edwin Veguilla Colón, su esposa Yaritza Rodriguez Carattini también conocida como Yaritza Rodriguez Caratini y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $160,639.74 más intereses y otras sumas, anotado el día 9 de noviembre de 2015, al folio 176 del tomo 283 de Aibonito, finca número 15,014, Anotación A. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada a su favor el día dictada en este caso, el 8 de agosto de 2025, notificada el 15 de agosto de 2025, en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $155,579.53 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 5.50% desde el 1ro de febrero de 2016; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $16,826.60 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 15 DE ENERO DE 2026 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el Centro Judicial de Aibonito, Aibonito, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $168,266.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 22 DE ENERO DE 2026 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $112,177.33, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 29 DE ENERO DE 2026 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $84,133.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase 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 de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a
tenor con lo dispone el Articulo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito 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. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de octubre de 2025.
JUAN O. BURGOS, ALGUACIL REGIONAL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO. ***
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
LUCÍA COSME VARGAS
Demandante Vs. RAQUEL ROSA
CARMONA, por sí y como miembro de la SUCN. DE BENITO ROSA GONZÁLEZ y de la SUCESIÓN DE EVARISTO
ROSA GONZÁLEZ; ELÍ SAMUEL ROSA COSME, t/c/c como ELÍ SAMUEL
COSME ROSA, por sí y como miembro de la SUCN. DE EVARISTO
ROSA GONZÁLEZ, de la SUCN. DE VÍCTOR
ROSA GONZÁLEZ y de la SUCN. DE MANUELA
ROSA GONZÁLEZ; VIVIANA FRANCISCA
ROSA ANDINO, por sí y como miembro de la SUCN. DE EVARISTO
ROSA GONZÁLEZ y de la SUCN. DE FRANCISCO ROSA GONZÁLEZ; RAQUEL CHICLANA
ACEVEDO y TONY CHICLANA ACEVEDO, por sí y como miembros de la SUCN. DE HIRAM
CHICLANA ROSA, t/c/c HIRAM CHICLANA, t/c/c HIRAN CHICLANA ROSA y como miembros de la SUCN. DE ORLANDO CHICLANA ACEVEDO; MARÍA ACEVEDO ROSA y VÍCTOR MANUEL
ACEVEDO ROSA, t/c/c
VÍCTOR M. ACEVEDO ROSA, por sí y como miembros de la SUCN.
DE SU PADRE ROBERTO
ACEVEDO ROSA; ANA GONZÁLEZ DOMÍNGUEZ, por sí y como miembro de la SUCN. DE SU CÓNYUGE ROBERTO
ACEVEDO ROSA; JOHN DOE y JANE ROE. Demandados CIVIL NÚM: TO2025CV00977.
SOBRE: Usucapión; Reanudación de Tracto Registral Art. 183, Ley Núm. 210-2015. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. S.S. A: Sucesión de Benito Rosa González; Sucesión de Evaristo Rosa González; Sucesión de Víctor Rosa González; Sucesión de Manuela Rosa González; Sucesión de Francisco Rosa González; Sucesión de Hiram Chiclana Rosa, también conocido por Hiram Chiclana, también conocido como Hiran Chiclana Rosa; Sucesion de Orlando Chiclana Acevedo; Sucesión de Roberto Acevedo Rosa, viudo de Otilia Rosa González y Sucesión de Roberto Acevedo Rosa, casado con Ana González Domínguez;
John Doe y Jane Roe, como posibles herederos de las Sucesiones antes mencionadas; Viviana Francisca Rosa Andino, por sí y como miembro de la Sucn. de Evaristo Rosa González y de la Sucn. de Francisco Rosa González; Ana González Domínguez, por sí y como miembro de la Sucn. de su Cónyuge Roberto Acevedo Rosa; y/o terceros quienes también puedan tener algún derecho o reclamación sobre la propiedad, de los cuales se desconocen sus nombres y domicilios y/o las personas ignoradas y/o desconocidas a quienes pudiera perjudicar la Demanda Enmendada de Usucapión, Reanudación de Tracto Registral, e Inscripción a favor de la parte demandante en el Registro de la Propiedad, de la finca que más adelante se describirá y/o a toda persona en general que con derecho para ello desee oponerse a esta solicitud.
POR LA PRESENTE: Se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto, a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en la acción promovida por la parte demandante de Usucapión, Reanudación de Tracto Registral, e Inscripción a favor de la parte demandante en el Registro de la Propiedad sobre la siguiente finca: Rústica: Predio de terreno identificado con el número TRES (3) en el plano de inscripción localizado en el Barrio Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de MIL SETECIENTOS SIETE PUNTO OCHO MIL CUATROCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y CINCO METROS
CUADRADOS (1,707.8455 mc) equivalentes a cero punto cuatro mil trescientos cuarenta y cinco cuerda (0.4345 cda.) en lindes por el NORTE, con predio identificado con el número dos (2) en el plano de inscripción; por el SUR, con el predio identificado en el plano de inscripción con el número cuatro (4); por el ESTE, con propiedad de doña Celsa Ramos y por el OESTE con el predio identificado en el plano de inscripción para uso público como camino de acceso a predios segregados. Finca número: 15,825, De-
marcación Toa Alta del Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Bayamón Sección III. Catastro número: 084-067-580-09-000. La referida propiedad se encuentra localizada en Barrio Mucarabones, Sec. Los Frailes Solar 3 Toa Alta, Puerto Rico 00953. Debe presentar el original de su escrito a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior Sala de Bayamón, PO Box 60619, Bayamón, PR 009606019 y notificar copia del mismo al representante legal de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Ramón A. Pérez González, 6 Calle Hatillo, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; Tel.: (787) 646-2100. Se le advierte, además, que el Tribunal señalará vista en este caso en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la Demanda Enmendada. 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. 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 treinta (30) días a contar a partir de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte demandante, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 20 de octubrte de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, Secretario(a) Regional. Neida Quiles Santana, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE GUAYNABO
LUGO MENDER GROUP, LLC
Parte Demandante V. CHRISTOPHER SÁNCHEZ FIGUEROA; CÓNYUGE
ABC Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2024CV01106. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. Sala: 202. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: CHRISTOPHER SÁNCHEZ FIGUEROA. Mediante la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. La abogada de la parte demandante es, Lcda. Amarys Bolorin Soliván, Lugo Mender Group, LLC, 100 Carr. 165 suite 501, Guaynabo, P.R. 009688052; Tel: (787) 707-0404 / Fax: (787) 707-0412. Por este medio se le emplaza y se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración y de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle, disponiéndose además, que en los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto se le dirigirá por correo certificado con acuse de recibo una copia del Emplazamiento por edicto y de la demanda presentada a su última dirección conocida en: Condominio Málaga Park Apartamento 7C, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00971; Calle Añasco 840 Suite 335, San Juan, PR 00952. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, a 26 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
LESLIE ANN MEJÍAS CORREA
V. JUAN ARCE SOTO Civil Núm.: FA2025CV01126. Sobre: EXEQUÁTUR. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JUAN ARCE SOTO.
Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se le ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal, una Solicitud de Exéquatur. Se emplaza y se le requiere para
que notifique a la Lcdo. Ian A. Lebrón Ward, cuya oficina queda en el Condominio El Centro 1, Suite 249, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00918.Teléfono (787) 630-4697, abogado de la parte demandante, copia de la Contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la notificación de este Edicto. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer dentro de un término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación del edicto, se concederá el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. DADA en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 1 de diciembre de 2025. Wanda I. Seguí Reyes, Secretaria Regional. Diana López Figueroa, Subsecretaria.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE BOSCO CREDIT X, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ZOBEIDA ENID MARTÍNEZ LUGO T/C/C ZOBEIDA ENID MARTÍNEZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV04515. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 22 de septiembre de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 24 de julio de 2023, notificada el 1 de agosto de 2025, procederé a vender el día 7 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad:
URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Núm. 11-D SUR, localizado en la Undécima Planta de apartamentos de la Torre Sur del inmueble al Régimen de Propiedad Hori-
zontal denominada CONDOMINIO ST. MARY’S PLAZA, que radica en el Núm. 1507 de la Avenida Ashford, Sector del Condado San Juan, Puerto Rico. Es de forma irregular y está construido de hormigón y bloques de concreto a ser utilizado para fines residenciales. Tiene su entrada principal por su lado Oeste, que lo comunica con el vestíbulo que conduce a los ascensores y a escalera por donde tiene acceso a su vez a la vía pública. En lindes por el NORTE, en 46’ 6”, con el espacio exterior del apartamento C del piso y áreas comunes; por el SUR, en 47’ 0”, con el espacio exterior; por el ESTE, en 57’ 10”, con el espacio exterior; y por el OESTE, en 57’ 10”. El apartamento tiene aproximadamente 1581.75 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 147.13 metros cuadrados incluyendo el área del balcón al lado Norte. Consta de sala-comedor, vestíbulo, balcón, tres habitaciones cada una con closet (uno de ellos tipo walk in closet), dos baños, cocina, linen closet, área de lavandería, calentador de agua, estufa, balcón y cuarto de servicio. A este apartamento le corresponden dos espacios para estacionamiento de automóviles marcados con el Núm. 11 DS, localizado en el área de estacionamiento del condominio. Corresponde además a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales del inmueble una participación de 0.695008%. Inscrita al Folio móvil del Tomo 1,066 de Santurce Norte, Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de San Juan, Finca Número 39,982. Dirección Física: Cond. Marys Plaza II Apt. D-11, 1485 Ave. Ashford, San Juan, PR 00907. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $500,973.95 más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $659,063.38. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 14 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $439,375.59. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el 22 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el
Legal de bienes gananciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $67,808.00, anotado el día 21 de julio de 2022, al tomo Karibe de Ponce, finca número 48,526, Anotación A. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 05 de noviembre de 2025. Miguel A. Torres Ayala, Alguacil Auxiliar Placa #560.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BA-
YAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. IAN JOSE MONTAÑEZ DEL VALLE COMO PARTE DE LA SUCES MONTAÑEZ Y DE LA SUCESION DE CARMEN LYDIA DEL VALLE VAZQUEZ T/C/C CARMEN LYDIA DEL VALLE T/C/C CAMEN L DEL VALLE T/C/C CARMEN DEL VALLE Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00601. (Salón: 505). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM.
MARINILDA RIVERA VARGASMRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COM. VALERIE ENID IBARRA RODRÍGUEZ - LCDA.VALERIEIBARRA@GMAIL. COM. A: IAN JOSÉ MONTAÑEZ DEL VALLE COMO PARTE DE LAS SUCESIONES DE ERNESTO MONTAÑEZ DEL VALLE, DE ERNESTO DOMINGO MONTAÑEZ SANTIAGO
T/C/C ERNESTO D. MONTAÑEZ T/C/C ERNESTO MONTAÑEZ Y DE CARMEN LYDIA DEL VALLE VÁZQUEZ
T/C/C CARMEN LYDIA DEL VALLE T/C/C CARMEN L. DEL VALLE T/C/C CARMEN DEL VALLE A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: 118 VEGA SERENA, VEGA BAJA, PR 00693; URB. SANTA PAULA, 2B-5 CALLE 1, GUAYNABO, PR 00969; 974 PARK ST. APT. 418, CLEARWATER, FL 337555527; 7720 S ROCKING K RANCH LOOP UNIT 46, TUCSON AZ 85747-0223. FULANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE ERNESTO MONTAÑEZ DEL VALLE; MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE ERNESTO DE DOMINGO MONTAÑEZ SANTIAGO
T/C/C ERNESTO D. MONTAÑEZ T/C/C ERNESTO MONTAÑEZ; Y ZUTANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE CARMEN LYDIA DEL
VALLE VÁZQUEZ T/C/C
CARMEN LYDIA DEL VALLE T/C/C CARMEN
L. DEL VALLE T/C/C
CARMEN DEL VALLE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de diciembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de diciembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 02 de diciembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. KEISHLA M. SANTIAGO CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LEGAL FISH PR LLC Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: HU2025CV00699. (Salón: 205). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: LEGAL FISH PR LLC, PLATINO EQUIDAD LLC, DOUGLAS F. HEIMBACH, BARBARA J.
HEIMBACH, SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES
HEIMBACH HEIMBACH; DIRECCION; 100 OCEAN DR., SUITE 112, HUMACAO, PR 00791; 56 THREE SPRINGS LANE, MIFFLINBURG, PA 17844; 733 JUNE
LAKE LANE, BRANDON, FLORIDA 33510 Y 743
HOUSE WREN CIRCLE, PALM HARBOR, FLORIDA 34683.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de diciembre de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 01 de diciembre de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. VIGERMINA NEGRÓN RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2025CV03795. (Salón: 507). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: VIGERMINA
NEGRON RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de diciembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando
usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de diciembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 02 de diciembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (Fdic) como síndico de bankers MORTGAGE SERVICES LLC Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2025CV03204. (Salón: 702). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
MARITZA DEL CARMEN GUZMÁN MATOS - MGUZMAN@ PARTNERSLEGALSERVICESPR. COM.
A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE, POSIBLES TENEDORES DE PAGARÉ
EXTRAVIADO DESCRITO MÁS ADELANTE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de diciembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se
considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de diciembre de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 01 de diciembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN
ARNOL GRIMALDY
ORTIZ RAMOS
Parte Demandante Vs. JANELLIE GARCIA
Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: SG2025CV00711. Sobre: COBRO DE DIENRO ORDINARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: JANELLIE GARCÍA.
POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Lcda. Caren A. Ruiz Pérez RUA Número 19,900 #5 Cale Luz Celenia Tirado San Germán, PR 00683
Tel/Fax: 787-264-4444
Email: ruizcaren@yahoo.com Expedido bajo mi firma y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 25 de noviembre de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MILITZA LORENZO VEGA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO WENDELL W. COLON MUÑOZ
Parte Demandante Vs. CITIBANK NA; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES
DESCONOCIDOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AR2025CV01352. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. Estados Unidos de América, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, ss. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcda. Marjaliisa Colón Villanueva, al PO BOX 7970, Ponce, P.R. 00732; Teléfono: 787843-4168. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cancelación de pagaré extraviado. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que se extravió un pagaré que consta de la escritura número ciento noventa y uno (191), otorgada en Arecibo, Puerto Rico el día quince (15) de mayo de dos mil tres 2003, ante la notario María Isabel García Mantilla, se constituyó hipoteca en garantía de pagaré a favor de Citibank NA., o a su orden, por la suma de setenta y cinco mil dólares ($75,000.00), con intereses al seis y siete octavo par ciento (6 7/8%), vencedero el primero (1ro) de junio de dos mil veintitrés (2023), e inscrito al folio cincuenta y cinco (55) del tomo mil doscientos setenta y dos (1,272) de Arecibo, finca número cuarenta y tres mil trescientos sesenta y cuatro (43,364). lnscripción segunda (2da). Que grava la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el veintidós (22) del bloque A, de la calle número once (11) en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Paseos Reales, antes Puertas de Este, localizado en los Barrios Santana y Factor del término municipal de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos quince punto cero cero (315.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NOROESTE, en una distancia de veintidós punto cincuenta (22.50) metros, con el solar número veintitrés (23), en lindes por el NORESTE, en una distancia de catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros, con la calle número once
(11); por el SURESTE, en una distancia de veintidós punto cincuenta (22.50) metros, con el solar número veintiuno (21); por el SUROESTE, en una distancia de catorce punto cero cero (114.00) metros, con la calle marginal. Enclava casa. Inscrita al folio doscientos veinticinco (225) del tomo novecientos ochenta y seis (986) de Arecibo, finca número treinta y cuatro mil trescientos sesenta y cuatro (43,364). Registro de la Propiedad Sección Primera (1ra) de Arecibo. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 12 de noviembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ALEXANDRA ÁLVAREZ NATAL, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. DORAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION T/C/C DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION y DE DORAL BANK; DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, ORIENTAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, LA SUCESIÓN DE JORGE B. MALDONADO RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C JORGE BENITO MALDONADO RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR SUTANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO, LA SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA O’NEILL DE MALDONADO T/C/C MARGARITA DEL ROSARIO O’NEILL SANTOS T/C/C MARGARITA O’NEILL SANTOS COMPUESTA POR PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO
DESCONOCIDO, LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL
RAMÓN MALDONADO O’NEILL T/C/C ÁNGEL RAMÓN MALDONADO COMPUESTA POR ÁNGEL CALEB MALDONADO COLÓN Y PERENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO
DESCONOCIDO, GISELA COLÓN BÁEZ EN LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE ÁNGEL RAMÓN
MALDONADO O’NEILL T/C/C ÁNGEL RAMÓN
MALDONADO, CARMEN MARGARITA MALDONADO O’ NEILL, VANESSA DE LOURDES
MALDONADO O’NEILL COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JORGE
B. MALDONADO RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C
JORGE BENITO MALDONADO
RODRIGUEZ Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA O’NEILL DE MALDONADO
T/C/C MARGARITA DEL ROSARIO O’NEILL
SANTOS T/C/C
MARGARITA O’NEILL
SANTOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2025CV04722. (403). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ÁNGEL CALEB
MALDONADO COLÓN
COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ÁNGEL
RAMÓN MALDONADO O’NEILL T/C/C ÁNGEL
RAMÓN MALDONADO; CARMEN MARGARITA
MALDONADO O’ NEILL Y VANESSA DE LOURDES
MALDONADO O’NEILL
COMO PARTES DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JORGE
B. MALDONADO
RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C
JORGE BENITO
MALDONADO
RODRIGUEZ Y DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA O’NEILL DE MALDONADO T/C/C MARGARITA
DEL ROSARIO O’NEILL
SANTOS T/C/C MARGARITA O’NEILL
SANTOS A LA SIGUIENTE DIRECCIÓN: JARDINES DE CAPARRA, A7
CALLE 1, BAYAMÓN, PR 00957. FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ. SUTANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JORGE B. MALDONADO
RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C
JORGE BENITO MALDONADO
RODRIGUEZ. PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA O’NEILL DE MALDONADO T/C/C MARGARITA DEL ROSARIO O’NEILL SANTOS T/C/C MARGARITA O’NEILL SANTOS. PERENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE ÁNGEL RAMÓN MALDONADO O’NEILL T/C/C ÁNGEL RAMÓN
MALDONAD.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 26 de octubre de 1989, Jorge B. Maldonado Rodríguez t/c/c Jorge Benito Maldonado Rodriguez y su esposa Margarita O’Neill De Maldonado t/c/c Margarita Del Rosario O’Neill Santos t/c/c Margarita O’Neill Santos constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 384 autorizada por el notario William de la Cruz Jr., en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 1,667 por la suma de $45,300.00, a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation o a su orden, devengando intereses al 8½% anual y vencedero el 1ro de noviembre de 2019, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número siete (7) de la manzana “A” y la Urbanización Jardines de Caparra, situada en el Barrio Juan Sánchez del Municipio de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos doce metros cuadrados (312.00) y en lindes por el NORTE: con propiedad de Colón Rivera distancia de trece (13.00) metros; por el SUR: con la calle Uno (1) distancia de trece (13.00) metros; por el ESTE: con el solar ocho (8) distancia de
veinticuatro metros (24.00); y por el OESTE: con el solar seis (6) distancia de veinticuatro metros (24.00). Contiene una casa de concreto y bloques para una familia. Inscrita al folio 177 del tomo 570 de Bayamón, Finca 25,976. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 1475 de Bayamón, Finca 25,976. Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección I. Inscripción quinta. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 6 de noviembre de 2025, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. YOLANDA CRUZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs. MARGARET ANN MONTAGUE
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00970. 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: MARGARET ANN MONTAGUE. Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se
les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se les advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 13 de noviembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES ERNESTO JIMÉNEZ VÁZQUEZ
PETICIONARIO EXPARTE
Civil Núm.: MV2025CV00097. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - LEY 118 - 2022. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A
QUIENES PUDIERA AFECTAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. A: JUANA JIMÉNEZ SANTIAGO y/o TODOS LOS POSIBLES SUCESORES, HEREDEROS O CAUSAHABIENTES DE JUANA JIMÉNEZ
SANTIAGO POR IGNORARSE SU EXISTENCIA O PARADERO. A: JOSÉ OTERO JIMÉNEZ y/o TODOS LOS POSIBLES SUCESORES, HEREDEROS O CAUSAHABIENTES DE JOSÉ OTERO JIMÉNEZ
POR IGNORARSE SU EXISTENCIA O PARADERO. A: RAMONA OTERO JIMÉNEZ y/o TODOS LOS POSIBLES SUCESORES, HEREDEROS O CAUSAHABIENTES DE RAMONA OTERO JIMÉNEZ POR IGNORARSE SU EXISTENCIA O PARADERO. A: SOFÍA OTERO JIMÉNEZ y/o TODOS LOS POSIBLES SUCESORES, HEREDEROS O CAUSAHABIENTES DE SOFÍA OTERO JIMÉNEZ
POR IGNORARSE SU EXISTENCIA O PARADERO. A: NAZARIA OTERO JIMÉNEZ y/o TODOS LOS POSIBLES SUCESORES, HEREDEROS O CAUSAHABIENTES DE NAZARIA OTERO JIMÉNEZ
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Caguas, Carolina & Ponce earn victories in LBPRC
Sammy Hernández had a hit in each of his at-bats as the Ponce Lions defeated the Santurce Crabbers 4-2 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Hato Rey on Saturday night.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Caguas Criollos, Carolina Giants and Ponce Lions all earned victories in Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC by its initials in Spanish) games on Saturday night.
Outfielder Nelson Velázquez drove in four runs to lead the Criollos to a 4-1 victory over the San Juan Senators (Senadores).
It was the fourth consecutive win for the Criollos, who now have a .500 record at 1111. Meanwhile, the Senators remain in last place in the LBPRC with a 7-14 record.
The Criollos set the pace for the game in the first inning, scoring two runs in their first four at-bats, keyed by Velázquez’s double to left field. Then in the third inning, it was the Caguas cleanup hitter’s two-run home run that extended the lead to 4-0.
The Senators didn’t get on the board until the eighth inning, when Calvin Estrada scored on a ground-rule double by Jadiel Sánchez.
Luke Taggart (4-0) picked up the win after pitching two scoreless innings in relief. The right-hander allowed one hit and struck out three. José Espada earned the save by pitching a scoreless ninth. The loss went to Rubén Ramírez (1-1), who gave up all four of the Criollos’ runs in five innings.
Elsewhere, the Giants (Gigantes) secured a 6-5 victory over the Mayagüez Indians (Indios) at Isidoro “Cholo” García Stadium in Mayagüez.
Carolina extended its winning streak to three games and improved to 10-12. Mayagüez (10-10) dropped to fourth place in the standings.
The Giants attacked the Indians’ pitching early when, in the second inning, Steven Ondina singled to center field, driving in Ryuta Hirose and Miguel Pabón to put Carolina up 2-0. Mayagüez answered quickly in the bottom of the inning. After loading the bases, Martín “Machete” Maldonado hit an RBI single and Robbie Merced hit a ground ball for an RBI force out to tie the game at 2-2.
In the fifth inning, Carolina’s bats spoke again against reliever Lucas Vega as the Giants scored four runs courtesy of a double by Johnathan Rodríguez, a single by Ezequiel Pagán, a bases-loaded walk, and a sacrifice fly by Miguel Pagán, making the score 6-2.
The Indians narrowed the deficit to 6-5 in the top of the eighth with RBI singles from Emmanuel Rivera, Anthony García and Isan Díaz.
The win went to left-hander R.J. Martínez (2-2), who allowed two runs on four hits in his five-inning start, in which he struck out seven. Right-hander Ren Mukunoki earned his second save. The loss went to Vega (2-1), who gave up the four runs in one-third of an inning.
Finally, catcher Sammy Hernández had
Arroyo, Dorado to face off in COLICEBA finals
By THE STAR STAFF
Ta hit in each of his at-bats, and left-hander Kazuto Taguchi looked solid on the mound as the Lions (Leones) defeated the Santurce Crabbers (Cangrejeros) 4-2 at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Hato Rey.
Even with the loss, Santurce remains at the top of the winter league standings with a 14-8 record, followed by Ponce in second place at 12-9. Hernández went 4-for-4 with a run scored and three RBIs. Meanwhile, Taguchi (3-2) allowed two hits, struck out two, and walked two in his six-inning outing.
The Lions scored all four of their runs on doubles. The first of the three two-baggers came off Hernández’s bat in the second inning to give Ponce a 2-0 lead. In the fourth inning, Hernández and Matt Bottcher each hit RBI doubles to extend the lead over the Crabbers to 4-0.
Santurce scored its two runs in the seventh inning on a single by Jeremy Arocho and a sacrifice fly by Spencer Packard.
Taguchi picked up the win for Ponce, while right-hander Andrew Marrero earned his sixth save of the season. The loss went to right-hander Collins Wiles (0-1), who allowed all four of the Lions’ runs in four innings.
he Bucaneros of Arroyo defeated the Azucareros of Yabucoa 12-1 on Friday at José “Cheo” Cruz Stadium in Arroyo and will play the Guapos of Dorado for the COLICEBA championship.
Right-hander Yadier Rolón was dominant on the mound, pitching five scoreless innings to earn the victory for Arroyo. Julio
Morales, Brian Ortiz, Edwin Sánchez and Ian Martínez pitched in relief.
The Bucaneros set the tone in the first inning when a double by Tony Brian Méndez cleared the bases for a 3-0 lead.
Méndez capped off a standout night at the plate with five RBIs, four hits and three runs scored for Arroyo. Francisco Ati Cruz went a perfect 3-for-3 with one RBI, while Elerie Rivera contributed three hits and two runs scored. Yabucoa’s only run came on a solo home run by Johnuelle Ponce in the eighth inning.
The Bucaneros of Arroyo will play the Guapos of Dorado in the COLICEBA finals. (Aldwin Santiago)
The Guapos were 5-3 winners over the Marlins of Ceiba in the other semifinal series on Saturday night at Moisés García Stadium in Guaynabo.
Dorado scored all the runs it would need in the third inning as Pedro Crespo,
Ian Laureano, Edgar Corsino and Eliel Figueroa drove in runs and the Guapos went on to eliminate Ceiba.
Dorado will be making its first appearance in the COLICEBA finals.
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