John McPhaul
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LGBTQ community kicks off Pride Month with spirited march
By JOHN McPHAUL jpmcphaul@gmail.com
The LGBTQ community turned out in force Sunday for the kickoff of Pride Month, which recognizes and encourages support for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer people.
Hundreds of colorfully festooned marchers walked behind floats blaring music -- everything from Cher (“Do You Believe in Life After Love”) to Cindy Lauper (“Girls Just Want to Have Fun”) -- some carrying clusters of balloons, some dancing in drag down Ashford Avenue, from Parque Indio to Escambrón Beach.
“We come out because we have to defend our rights,” said Gaffino García, 30.
Some represented groups that support the LGBTQ community, such as the True Self Foundations.
Around 70 marchers walked behind the Puerto Rico Cultural Center float. The center provides support for elderly members of the LGBTQ community.
The event had an array of sponsors, including Banco Popular. With the slogan “Hear Our Pride,” Delta Airlines sponsored one float. Another float was sponsored by JetBlue, with the slogan “Just Plane Pride.”
The LGBTQ community turned out in force Sunday for the kickoff of Pride Month, which recognizes and encourages support for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and queer people. (John McPhaul)
Twenty-three-year-old Kala Vélez, a store manager, was not part of the march. She said she turned out “to support the cause.”
Caguas transportation app earns a pair of internat’l recognitions
By THE STAR STAFF
The Autonomous Municipality of Caguas announced Sunday that the Muévete Libre application, which was developed by the team at the municipal Department of Citizen Mobility, obtained two important international recognitions that confirm the transformative impact of the initiative on urban mobility and citizen well-being.
Muévete Libre is a free municipal app -- the first of its kind in Puerto Rico -- that allows citizens to locate system vehicles in real time, see estimated arrival times, check active routes and plan their trips from any device with internet access.
first time Caguas had received the recognition. Last year, the municipality was recognized for the Green Classroom project. “That Caguas has once again occupied this international podium, this time with Muévete Libre, reaffirms the municipality’s sustained leadership in social and urban innovation at the Latin American level,” Caguas Mayor William Miranda Torres said in a written statement.
In May, the Foundation for the Development of Solidarity and Social Inclusion awarded the municipality the Latin American Prize for Economic and Social Development 2026 in the Urban Development category for the Muévete Libre app.
The prestigious international award celebrates leaders and officials who promote high-impact social and economic projects for the benefit of their citizens. It was not the
Mayor William Miranda Torres, right, said Caguas’ latest international recognition, “this time with [the transportation app] Muévete Libre, reaffirms the municipality’s sustained leadership in social and urban innovation at the Latin American level.”
The award will be presented to municipal staff this Saturday at a ceremony in Bogotá, Colombia.
Meanwhile, the app also was the winner in the Family Mobility Focused Innovation category of the 2026 Transportation Innovation Competition, known at the federal level as “Build a Better Mousetrap,” sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and organized locally by the Transportation Technology Transfer Center of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.
As a result of placing first in Puerto Rico, the app qualifies to compete at the national level against the best ideas from all 50 states.
Gov’t broadens water distribution in San Juan metro area
By THE STAR STAFF
The central government has intensified its emergency water distribution operation as thousands of customers of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) continue to face service interruptions, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced over the weekend.
Following a multi‑agency coordination meeting with PRASA, the Puerto Rico National Guard, and private‑sector representatives, officials identified additional resources to be deployed immediately to bolster water delivery in affected northern communities.
“We have been focused from the very beginning on ensuring that our people have access to potable water while system recovery work continues,” González Colón said. “We are mobilizing every available resource from the
Following a multi‑agency coordination meet‑ ing with the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, the Puerto Rico National Guard, and private‑sector representatives, government of‑ ficials identified additional resources to be de ployed immediately to bolster water delivery in affected northern island communities. (Facebook via Puerto Rico National Guard July 30/2025)
government and the private sector to address this emergency with urgency.”
As part of the expanded response, the National Guard activated four 2,000‑gallon tanker trucks to serve communities in Guaynabo and Bayamón.
The Tourism Company has also added high‑capacity trucks each capable of transporting 12,800 gallons which will be filled at a dedicated site in Bayamón to avoid disrupting regular PRASA operations. The units will primarily supply condominium cisterns and sectors in Isla Verde, easing demand on the main distribution system and helping accelerate service restoration.
In addition, the Department of Agriculture coordinated with the island’s dairy industry to identify three milk‑transport trucks that will be inspected and certified by the Department of
Lawmaker proposes 90-day suspension of sales tax on prepared food
By THE STAR STAFF
At large Rep. Ramón Torres Cruz called on Sunday for a 90‑day suspension of Puerto Rico’s 7 percent sales and use tax (IVU by its acronym in Spanish) on prepared foods, arguing that the measure would provide immediate economic relief to families facing rising living costs.
Torres Cruz said the proposal is supported by recently released data from Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez, who reported that net General Fund revenues collected between July 2025 and April 2026 exceeded projections by
roughly $590 million.
“The secretary himself confirmed that we have $590 million above what was projected,” Torres said in a written statement. “The IVU on prepared foods generates about $21.3 million per month. A 90‑day suspension would cost around $63 million, a fraction of the surplus the government already has on hand. There is no fiscal reason to deny this relief to Puerto Rican families.”
Torres Cruz argued that the temporary tax holiday would not only ease pressure on consumers but also stimulate commercial activity.
“This proposal gives families the chance
to save money on daily expenses, while merchants and restaurant owners see an increase in sales,” he added.
The lawmaker noted further that inflation, higher food prices, and rising service costs have significantly eroded household purchasing power in recent years, a concern shared by both consumers and the restaurant industry.
Health for potable water use. Once cleared, they will join the distribution fleet.
Altogether, the government expected on Sunday to add at least 10 additional trucks to the operation by afternoon, supplementing PRASA’s existing resources. The governor also requested that PRASA reassign tanker trucks from other regions to reinforce the northern response.
The measures follow Executive Order 2026‑028, signed Friday, which activated the National Guard to provide logistical, transportation and water distribution support.
“The message to our people is clear: we are taking action,” González Colón said. “All government agencies are working in coordination to deliver water to affected communities and speed up the restoration of service. We will continue monitoring the situation and taking any additional steps necessary.”
Residents are urged to stay informed through PRASA’s official channels for updates on water distribution sites, “oasis” locations and service restoration progress.
While acknowledging that any reduction in tax collections requires approval from the Financial Oversight and Management Board, Torres Cruz pointed to precedent: in September 2022, after Hurricane Fiona, the oversight board authorized a temporary suspension of the IVU on prepared foods, a measure then estimated to cost $16.5 million.
Fiscal board authorizes Housing Dept. to issue $14 million loan for Miramar hotel
By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico has approved, with observations, a $14 million loan agreement to help finance the construction of a new 10 story, 103‑room hotel in the Miramar sector of San Juan.
The loan, to be issued under the Department of Housing’s Economic Development Investment Portfolio for Growth Program (IPG Program), will support a project led by Drift‑Wind Inc., IFJ Corp., and ORC Miramar Corporation. The total development cost is estimated at $50.2 million.
In a June 1 letter to Housing Secretary Luis A. Martínez Román, the oversight board confirmed that the contract complies with the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, which requires that government contracts promote market competition and align with certified fiscal plans. The board emphasized that its review is limited to fiscal compliance and does not constitute a legal or procurement review.
According to the Housing Department, the loan will be fully funded with federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG‑DR) dollars allocated to two
budget accounts totaling $14 million. The IPG Program, overseen by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, was created to stimulate large‑scale economic development in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria.
The loan will mature 20 years after its conversion date, which occurs upon the final disbursement no later than 36 months after closing.
While approving the contract, the oversight board issued one key observation: the Housing Department did not provide a complete record of the 114 applications submitted during the IPG Program’s 2021 intake period.
The board recommended that the agency
ensure full retention of all applications and maintain documentation demonstrating that the evaluation and selection process complied with federal requirements and program guidelines.
The oversight board noted that any material changes to the contract must be resubmitted for review and that the Housing Department must notify the board of any budgetary discrepancies that arise during the life of the agreement.
The hotel project is one of the largest CDBG‑DR‑funded hospitality developments proposed in San Juan and is expected to contribute to the ongoing economic recovery efforts tied to post‑hurricane reconstruction.
Rep. Ramón Torres Cruz
The Financial Oversight and Management Board has certified its own Revised 2021 Fiscal Plan for the University of Puerto Rico after determining that the government’s fiscal plan failed to meet the requirements of PROMESA.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico has certified its own Revised 2021 Fiscal Plan for the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) after determining that the government’s fiscal plan failed to meet the requirements of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).
The certified plan outlines a comprehensive set of corrective reforms to stabilize UPR’s finances, including tuition increases. Without corrective measures, UPR would face operating deficits approaching $420 million by fiscal year (FY) 2026, an inability to pay $600 million in bonded debt, continued pension underfunding, and erosion of academic quality and research capacity.
In a letter dated June 5, the oversight board informed Gov. Jenniffer González Colón and legislative leaders that the government’s proposal “did not satisfy PROMESA’s requirements,” prompting the board to “exercise its authority to develop and certify a compliant plan.”
A central component of the plan is a series of revenue-enhancing measures designed to reduce UPR’s reliance on commonwealth appropriations, which historically covered nearly 70% of its operating budget. The plan calls for continued adjustments to undergraduate and graduate tuition, reductions in tuition exemptions, and expansion of non-tuition revenues. These include higher fees, increased alumni donations, greater pursuit of federal research grants, and new service agreements with government agencies.
Despite tuition increases, the plan includes measures to protect
low-income students, including expanded institutional scholarships and continued alignment of tuition levels with Pell Grant eligibility.
The oversight board also urges UPR to strengthen its capacity to generate revenue from intellectual property, patents and auxiliary services such as continuing education and campus facilities.
To address persistent operational inefficiencies across UPR’s 11-campus system, the plan mandates a broad administrative transformation that includes consolidating duplicative functions, centralizing procurement and enforcing stronger financial controls. Workforce changes are also required by the plan: reductions in non-faculty positions through attrition, elimination of hundreds of trust and senior administrative roles, and targeted reinvestment in faculty to protect academic quality.
Benefit adjustments -- such as reduced employer health contributions and elimination of the Christmas bonus -- are included to bring personnel costs in line with fiscal capacity.
The oversight board highlights UPR’s deeply underfunded pension system as a critical risk, noting that the retirement plan is 57% unfunded with some $1.8 billion in unfunded liabilities. The plan presents two reform paths, both of which require closing the defined-benefit plan. The board signals that the option involving reductions to certain accrued benefits is the only one that fully stabilizes the system without imposing unsustainable annual contributions.
The certified plan also imposes strict governance and reporting obligations. UPR must provide regular updates on cash flow, enrollment, procurement savings, and pension contributions, and must strengthen internal controls across all campuses and component units.
San Juan & Bayamón to collaborate on security Oversight board certifies its own fiscal plan for UPR after rejecting gov’t proposal
By THE STAR STAFF
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo and Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz signed a collaborative security agreement on Sunday that enables the exchange of technology, information and specialized resources between the two cities to strengthen crime prevention, support criminal investigations, expedite emergency responses and bolster public safety.
“The safety of our citizens requires municipal governments to identify new ways of working together,” Romero said in a written statement. “This agreement stems from the conviction that we can always do more to protect our communities and strengthen the tools available to combat crime and respond to emergencies. When we find opportunities to collaborate, we have a responsibility to seize them. That is exactly what we are doing today.”
Rivera added that “[t]echnological tools have transformed the way investigations are conducted and security incidents are handled. Integrating capabilities allows for faster access to information and better use of available resources.”
“Such coordination strengthens our teams’ daily work and improves operational response capacity,” the Bayamón mayor said. “That is one of the main benefits of this alliance.”
As part of the collaboration, the adjacent municipalities will be able to share images, recordings and data captured by their respective surveillance systems when incidents occur within their jurisdictions or impact both. They also will integrate spe-
cialized technology platforms to expedite access to information needed to support criminal investigations, security operations and emergency situations.
Currently, the Municipality of San Juan has nearly 1,200 surveillance cameras installed in strategic areas of the city, 22 license plate readers, artificial intelligence systems for vehicle identification, five autonomous solar surveillance towers, three mobile command centers, a fleet of four drones, and a Digital Evidence Laboratory that supports investigations and the analysis of technological evidence related to public safety matters.
Bayamón boasts the Advanced Technology Center for Security Systems (TASS), featuring 235 surveillance cameras strategically distributed throughout the city, 54 cameras with license plate recognition systems located on major roadways, and a Fusion Center for monitoring and criminal intelligence. Additionally, it operates nine real-time electronic surveillance towers equipped with high-definition cameras, thermal technology, gunshot detection and license plate recognition systems. Its technological infrastructure also includes a mobile command center, surveillance drones, a cargo drone, an underwater drone, and a municipal police force fully equipped with body-worn cameras.
The agreement also promotes training exchanges between municipal law enforcement agencies to strengthen operational capabilities, improve inter-municipal coordination, and share knowledge and experience in specialized areas of public safety.
In addition to information sharing, the agreement allows
a collaborative security agreement on Sunday for the exchange of technology, information and specialized resources between the two cities to strengthen crime prevention, support criminal investigations, expedite emergency responses and bolster public safety.
for the temporary loan of specialized surveillance equipment between the two municipalities to bolster security operations and special events, including five autonomous solar-powered surveillance towers and three mobile command centers. Furthermore, it enables the Municipality of San Juan to make its Digital Evidence Laboratory available to support the analysis, processing, and handling of technological evidence related to investigations and public safety matters. As part of the collaboration, San Juan may also provide specialized support using its fleet of four drones for surveillance, monitoring, search operations and emergency management, subject to applicable Federal Aviation Administration authorizations and regulations.
The agreement will remain in effect until Dec. 31, 2028.
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo, seated left, and Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz signed
As Trump pushes deportations, a skyrocketing caseload strains immigration courts
By JAZMINE ULLOA and HAMED ALEAZIZ
Federal officials have quietly begun fast-tracking cases through immigration courts, pushing dozens of additional cases onto the dockets on certain days in an effort to more quickly process asylum and other claims.
The fast-tracking, which is also intended to increase the pace of deportations, started without any formal notification or announcement from the Trump administration, according to immigration lawyers and court officials interviewed by The New York Times. But a surge of cases has been apparent in numerous courts around the country. Some judges have seen their caseloads double and triple, prompting worries that cases are being rushed through, violating due process rights.
At separate courthouses in Annandale and Sterling, Virginia, in recent days, Times reporters observed long lines and packed dockets. Some immigration judges saw their caseloads more than double, with as many as 100 adults waiting for their cases to be heard. In Annandale, the caseloads have included dozens of unaccompanied minors.
People wait in a hallway for their hearings at the immigration court in Annandale, Va., May 26, 2026. Federal officials have quietly begun fast-tracking cases through immigration courts in an effort to more quickly process asylum and other claims, and also increase the pace of deportations. Lawyers say the tactic is causing errors and confusion. (Salwan Georges/The New York Times)
Lines were also evident at a courthouse in downtown Chicago on a recent weekday, with families spilling out of waiting areas and into hallways. Many cases were being processed in small groups, or in several instances with more than two dozen people appearing at once.
And in New Orleans, lawyers saw the number of cases increase to more than 200 this past Monday and Tuesday in one courtroom alone. The judges at that courthouse typically take only about 30 to 40 cases per day, lawyers said. The morning dockets were so packed and chaotic that lawyers wishing to observe or monitor the proceedings were not allowed in to watch.
Federal officials say that speeding through cases will help alleviate backlogs that have led some asylum and immigration relief claims to languish for years. The slow pace of the process, they contend, creates incentives for people to enter the United States to file claims that may be weak or invalid.
The Justice Department said in a statement that clearing the court backlog was a top priority for the administration and that it was hearing the cases fairly and in accordance with the law.
An official with the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is part of the Justice Department and oversees the immigration court system, said the larger caseloads were a result of the court hiring new immigration judges, and described them as necessary to clear a backlog of upward of 3 million cases this year, according to federal figures.
But immigration lawyers and rights groups counter that the sudden acceleration of the process risks errors, denies immigrants due process and leaves people with little time to find lawyers.
“Everything related to these large dockets or mass
dockets is shrouded in such a strange secrecy,” said Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project, a nonprofit that provides legal services for immigrants. “Our confirmation that they were even happening really came from going to the court on Monday and seeing the large lines of people standing outside,” she added, referring to the proceedings she observed in New Orleans.
Unlike judges in criminal and civil courts, immigration judges are part of the executive branch, and the Trump administration has taken steps to align them with the president’s pledge to deport record numbers of people. The administration has fired judges seen as insufficiently supportive of the agenda and has narrowed the factors that qualify people for asylum.
The judges who remain have been under pressure to issue deportation orders and rule against asylum cases, a Times investigation found. The rate of asylum grants is the lowest since 2009, according to data analyzed by the Times.
Typical “master” calendar hearings are already crowded sessions where an immigration judge can handle dozens of cases at a time, all of which can be in different stages. They review claims, consider challenges and schedule court dates for people seeking asylum, humanitarian protections and an array of other forms of legal relief that can temporarily shield immigrants from deportation or set them on the path to legal permanent residency.
Many attorneys have taken to informally calling the new, heavily packed proceedings “mega master” calendar hearings.
In New Orleans, Willis said the dockets she watched included a mix of people: respondents who were appearing in immigration court for the
first time, along with immigrants who had trials already set for 2027 but were called in for minor updates on their cases, such as the verification of their addresses.
Some had received notices of their new court appearances the month before, but others had been called in only two weeks earlier or even more recently, she said.
Lawyers said that they had observed judges taking in groups of people at a time, despite their different pleadings and cases. In one instance, a judge saw 15 people at once, running through Arabic, Spanish and Creole interpretations, Willis said.
This past Monday and Tuesday, 89 people in one court alone were declared absent and were therefore deportable, she added. “And that is not because they were ‘the worst of the worst.’ It is because they had a hearing scheduled that they were not able to attend for a variety of reasons,” Willis said.
In Courtroom 11 in Chicago on May 26, Judge Peter A. Kim addressed a group of more than 20 immigrants, a reporter observed. He told them that they had 20 days to submit their cases in writing and warned that the next hearing would be their final opportunity to make the case to remain in the United States.
Alex, a maintenance worker from Honduras, and his adult son were among the immigrants who received the warning. Alex spoke to the Times on the condition that only his first name be used, because he fears government retaliation.
He and his son applied for asylum and obtained temporary humanitarian passage into the country in 2023, but the form of relief is set to expire in December, and their asylum petition remains pending.
He said that he worried that the government’s push to quickly close their case would leave them with no relief. “All we can have is hope and faith in God,” he said.
“It is not a bad thing to want to prioritize older cases,” Briana Carlson, an immigration lawyer who represents clients in Sterling, Virginia, said of the case dockets. “But when we are taking away the power of judges to have individualized hearings, that is problematic.”
Deluged with mail ballots, California takes its time counting votes again
By LAUREL ROSENHALL, JILL COWAN and LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA
Four days after the primary election in California, officials have tallied only about two-thirds of the votes cast, and the races for California governor and Los Angeles mayor remain unresolved.
It can be confounding to Americans elsewhere and has made the Democratic-run state vulnerable to unfounded Republican accusations of fraud.
The reasons for California’s slow count are explained after each election. California relies heavily on mail balloting, which slows the tally because of the work involved to check signatures, open envelopes and inspect ballots before counting them. The state’s leaders take pride in a deliberate process meant to make voting easy while keeping elections secure.
And when voters wait until the final days to submit or send their ballots, as was the case this year, they deluge elections offices with envelopes that must be handled with care.
“It creates what we call the ‘pig-in-thepython’ effect,” Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation, said of the huge volume of vote-by-mail ballots received on Election Day.
But other states that have a lot of mail voting, such as Colorado, Arizona and Washington, seem to have figured out how to securely process ballots and get faster results. Why can’t California count faster?
Different county offices work on different schedules, depending on their staffing or labor agreements. Only five of the 58 counties plan to update vote totals this weekend. Most offices lack the resources to keep staff members on constant rotation, Alexander said.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department dog checks incoming ballots for harmful substances at the Ballot Processing Center in the City of Industry, Calif., Nov. 4, 2025. Counting ballots in California is a complex and lengthy undertaking. In Los Angeles, the choreographed process includes canines, humans and machines. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)
In California, each county decides how much to spend on election operations, creating major differences in their capacity to count ballots, said Ben Gips, who works on state voting policy for Protect Democracy.
Large counties such as Los Angeles and Orange have invested in equipment and staffing that typically allow them to finish counting more than 90% of ballots within a week of an election. Other counties can take three or four weeks.
“Basically, the counties have been trying to fill in for the sort of absent role of the state,” Gips said, “and some counties are more able to do that than others.”
The key areas that require funding are not only staffing and equipment but space to accommodate workers and observers and to securely store ballots. In Yolo County, California, west of Sacramento, election officials knocked out a wall in their building a few years ago to make space to process the growing number of ballots, said Jesse Salinas, the county’s registrar of voters.
“We are at capacity,” he said. “I don’t have any empty space.”
Salinas, who is also the president of the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials, said that more than 50% of the bal-
California to sacrifice accessibility for speed. He empathized with election officials who could face allegations of cutting corners if they counted too fast but suspicions of fraud if they counted too slowly.
California’s top elections official, Secretary of State Shirley Weber, has made it clear at each election that she wants counties to take the time to get it right.
“Accuracy comes before speed,” she said in a statement. “California is the nation’s largest voting state, with millions of ballots to process and count. Taking the time to do this work correctly protects voters’ rights and ensures the integrity of our elections.”
Richer, now a legal scholar with the Cato Institute and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, said California’s commitment to making it easy and painless for Californians to vote was laudable. But in an environment where President Donald Trump and his supporters are questioning election integrity, state leaders should have better prepared to face questions.
lots in his county were either postmarked or dropped off in person on Election Day this year. He described a whirring processing center operated by 25 to 30 staff members, all of them scanning, opening and sorting ballots as quickly as possible.
The office has two envelope-sorting machines that cost $250,000 each.
“Local elected officials are doing everything they can,” he said. “If I had more space and more equipment and more staffing — it’s a resource issue — if I had all that stuff, then it could happen faster,” he said.
In Maricopa County, Arizona, one of the nation’s largest voting jurisdictions, roughly 762,000 mail-in ballots were returned in the August 2022 primary, according to Stephen Richer, who was the top elections official there at the time.
By 12:40 a.m. the day after election night, his office had counted about 82% of the votes. And as a rule, he said, the office tried to have counted 95% of the ballots within 72 hours after polls closed.
“Throwing money and space at it does help the problem, but it doesn’t solve all the problems,” Richer said.
Perhaps the biggest factor, he suggested, is a lack of will among leaders in states such as
“We saw this train barreling down on us for a while now, and the governor and the state Legislature did nothing about it,” he said. “If the only thing you care about is having 22 days to cure a signature on a mail-in ballot, these are the consequences you live with.”
Trump, who has a history of stoking unfounded election conspiracy theories, said this past week that the prolonged votecounting in California was proof that “they’re rigging the election.”
“They still aren’t even close to telling you who won,” he said Friday while speaking at an event in Wisconsin.
The federal Department of Justice sent an assistant U.S. attorney to a ballot processing center in Los Angeles on Friday to observe the counting. And Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, said on social platform X that his office “has multiple election fraud investigations underway,” though he did not provide specifics.
Richer warned that the primary election was merely a preview of what was to come. It is not clear that much would change in California before the general election.
“If you think this is bad, just wait until control of the United States House is in play in November,” he said. “And it comes down to a number of competitive jurisdictions in California.”
An uncertain win for immigrants seeking to stay in US
By JESUS JIMÉNEZ
Aday after a federal judge struck down Trump administration policies that had frozen applications for many immigrants seeking to stay in the country, there was renewed hope that a six-month logjam might be easing.
There are more than 1 million backlogged applications for citizenship, green cards, work permits and asylum. When those applications would move forward, however, was uncertain.
In a strongly worded opinion Friday, the judge, John J. McConnell Jr., wrote that the policies enacted by the Trump administration had effectively made it challenging for many immigrants to stay in the United States.
The policies, which were enacted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which administers the legal immigration system and processes paperwork for immigrants already in the country, put a hold on asylum applications. The agency also paused decisions on applications filed by immigrants from 39 countries under a travel ban, many of them in Africa and the Middle East.
“When USCIS first enacted the policies at the center of this litigation, the agency did not simply place a hold on adjudications,” McConnell wrote. “More fundamentally, the challenged policies placed the lives of countless individuals on hold — solely by virtue of their countries of birth. Over six months later, many of those individuals remain without work, without legal status, and without any
meaningful ability to plan for their futures.”
The ruling was a victory for labor groups that had filed a lawsuit in March against the federal government over the policies. Among those groups was American Gateways, a nonprofit that provides legal services for immigrants.
Edna Yang, a co-executive director of American Gateways, said in a statement that the ruling “reinforces the integrity of our nation’s immigration system.”
“It allows people who have spent decades waiting for the legal system to work as promised to have certainty and a path forward for hard-fought permanent status and family reunification,” she said. “It is important that no administration excludes people based solely on their country of origin.”
Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, said that this decision could allow those with immigration cases to move their applications forward.
But the relief may be short-lived. While it was unclear immediately after the ruling how the Trump administration planned to respond, it was expected that the judge’s order would be appealed.
The White House referred questions about the decision to the USCIS.
James Percival, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of USCIS, said in an emailed statement Saturday that the ruling was “sabotage dressed in legal clothing.”
Chishti said the statement by Percival
signaled the Trump administration would push back on the judge’s ruling.
“It’s definitely not the end of this,” Chishti said, “and this case is definitely headed to the Supreme Court.”
It was unclear how soon Citizenship and Immigration Services would restart processing applications that had been affected.
Kevin Love Hubbard, a lawyer with the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island, said that barring an appeal, USCIS could no longer rely on the policies enacted by the federal government to refuse processing cases.
“I think the decision is obviously new and complex, and it will take some time to filter down through the administrative system to individual people’s applications,” Hubbard said. “The hope and expectation is that, unless there is a different decision on appeal, that USCIS will start processing these applications for people who were illegally put in indefinite limbo.”
The policies that prompted the lawsuit were announced in November after officials said an Afghan national had shot two National Guard members in Washington.
Chishti said that if the case was further litigated, one key question would be whether blanket policies that affect people from certain countries could be put in place in the interest of national security.
“National security concerns are valid — no one can dispute that,” he said. “But it doesn’t merit a blanket ban on all applicants from those countries.”
The policies that were overturned by the court had blocked people from the 39 travel ban countries from receiving final decisions on completed asylum applications, and from receiving green cards through the adjustment of status process, which allows immigrants already in the country to apply for a green card without returning to their native land. It also blocked them from receiving status through employment authorization documents or becoming naturalized citizens.
In 2024, about 240,000 people from those 39 countries received green cards through the adjustment of status process, and about 840,000 became naturalized citizens. In fiscal year 2023, about 22,000 were granted asylum. The countries with the most people to receive green cards or to be naturalized were Cuba, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Haiti.
Jorge Loweree, managing director of programs at the American Immigration Council, a nonprofit advocacy organization for
immigrants, said that even before the policies had been enacted by the federal government, asylum cases were being processed slowly.
“It’s fair to anticipate that the administration isn’t going to do something like prioritize asylum adjudications because of this decision,” Loweree said. “But it should certainly open the door to having many more cases that move than have in the last six months.”
By putting applications on hold, Hubbard said, the federal government was creating challenges for immigrants who had been trying to follow the proper legal process toward green cards or U.S. citizenship.
“This is about people who tried to follow the process and still are being stymied,” Hubbard said.
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Immigrants wait for their appointments at the Annandale Immigration Court in Annandale, Va., on May 26, 2026. A federal judge on Friday, June 5, 2026, invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries. (Salwan Georges/The New York Times)
The White House’s latest provocation is ‘grotesque and terrifying and juvenile’
By M. GESSEN
“They walk among us.” The glowing green letters emerge ominously against a dark backdrop. Above them hover the words “aliens” and “declassified,” suggesting the release — long awaited in some corners of the internet — of secret government files concerning extraterrestrials. Slowly, tantalizingly, more text appears: “For 60 years, the U.S. government has kept a closely guarded secret.” Then the big reveal: It’s not the trailer for a horror film; it’s a White House web page, posted last Thursday. And the scary creatures in question aren’t extraterrestrials; they’re the other kind of aliens — the immigrant kind, the kind hunted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Aliens have been walking among us, living in our neighborhoods, and interacting with us in our daily lives,” the page announces. “They’ve shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences.” That’s the joke: Human beings are described as nonhuman invaders. Fascism, but make it a troll.
This web page, which invites users to look up the number of immigrants supposedly arrested on charges of criminal activity in American cities and towns, belongs to a subgenre of Trumpian gestures that are menacing and sophomoric at the same time. “Grotesque and terrifying and juvenile,” is how Ernesto Verdeja, a genocide-prevention expert at the University of Notre Dame, described it to me. These gestures are hard to write about: The ugliness is undisguised, so what is there to say? And yet, these statements, step by preposterous step, change the world we live in.
With phrases like, “They do not belong here” and, “Deport them all,” the page struck me as an incitement for Americans to commit acts of violence against immigrants. But Benjamin Valentino, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, thinks that the purpose of the page is not to get Americans to do anything: It’s to get them to do nothing, while the government commits its campaign of cruelty against millions of people just trying to live in peace. “They want a majority of the population to turn their backs,” he said. “That’s all that’s necessary.”
Valentino co-founded the Early Warning Project, which assesses the risk of mass atrocities around the world. To be sure, anti-immigrant violence in the United States does not approach the scale of the atrocities Valentino usually studies. But the dehumanizing language of the sort used by the Trump administration is, he said, “a pretty standard indicator” of risk, a necessary if insufficient condition of mass violence directed at a particular group.
“It’s not that it turns normal people into murderers,” Valentino said. “It’s that it turns them into bystanders.”
To the extent that the Trump administration has pulled back on its violent anti-immigrant campaign, it has done so because nonimmigrants have stepped up — in the courts and, especially, in the streets. The most dramatic confrontations
took place this past winter in Minneapolis, but in the months since the federal government ended its occupation of that city, resistance has continued. In Newark, New Jersey, demonstrators have been protesting the conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility. At least 63 people have been arrested in the past week alone. In New York City, a relatively new coalition called Hands Off NYC has, since January, trained more than 7,000 volunteers to peacefully resist ICE. The Aliens web page, Valentino thinks, is intended to discourage this kind of activity.
“The key is that you are supposed to see your city with a big red dot over it,” Valentino said, referring to a map on the website, then click to read, supposedly, the number of immigrants who have been charged with crimes. (For example, “Jamestown, New York: 10; larceny, obstructing the police; Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria.”) “And you see the charges — do you want to risk your life for this kind of person?”
When the page went up, the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration advocacy organization, happened to be hosting a gathering of data experts. Participants thought they saw something interesting. “The page is poorly coded, badly designed, and yet weirdly transparent about some things the administration hasn’t been transparent about before,” Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the council, told me. It appeared that the map was based on raw data of ICE arrests — information that the government had mostly kept secret since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s current term. The map is possibly the best document to date of the scale of the ICE campaign, which, it shows, has raged not only in big cities but in small towns, where it’s sometimes less visible.
As is usual for the Trump administration, the figures are decontextualized and misrepresented. In addition to the map, the page contains a supposed tally of “encounters,” a term that has one meaning in 1970s sci-fi and another in Customs and Border Protection-speak, where it typically refers to instances in which immigrants are apprehended. What struck me after spending too much time staring at the page was that it wants you to be afraid of all aliens: the space kind and the “illegal” kind, but also the “legal” kind, foreign-born people who have been living in this country for decades. As for the counter, it’s tracking nothing. The numbers just tick upward at a perfectly steady pace, one every second and a bit.
Underscoring the sophomoric aspect of this astonishing document is the fact that it’s shot through with references to “The X-Files.” I caught only one of them: The last lines say, “The truth is no longer out there. It’s right here. Right now” — a nod to the show’s tag line. Verdeja, the Notre Dame professor, grew up with the show, so he pointed out some other echoes, such as the combination of interplanetary warfare and a deep-state conspiracy. But superimposed on all that pop culture are the white supremacist tropes. The sentences about aliens “walking among us, living in our neighborhoods,” Verdeja said, read to him like invocations of the Great Replacement theory, which has become so familiar as to seem
almost mainstream. “It’s similar to the way Jews were talked about in Europe in the 1920s and ’30s,” Verdeja said.
He made the comparison gingerly, wary of falling into an alarmist cliché. But the ideologues of Trump’s immigration policies are taking no such pains. A couple of days after the “Aliens” page was published, Gregory Bovino, the former head of the U.S. Border Patrol who oversaw the federal immigration operation in Minneapolis, traveled to Portugal for a meeting of far-right politicians to discuss “remigration,” a concept that refers to the forcible displacement of millions of people on the basis of their ethnicity in the wake of World War I — what we now call ethnic cleansing.
Driven by the same nativist and xenophobic ideas, the United States adopted the Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924, which ended mass immigration by introducing national-origin quotas designed to favor Northern and Western Europeans and exclude nonwhite immigrants almost entirely. These quotas stayed in place for four decades — until they were repealed just over 60 years ago, which is when the White House page claims the story of the aliens begins.
The point of making historical connections is not to say that any two actions, or any two eras, are exactly alike. Context always changes. But it’s important to see that this web page isn’t just a troll. It didn’t come out of nowhere. Provocations like this are part of an old and terrible story, and it’s still being written today.
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Monday, June 8, 2026 9
PIP impulsa resoluciones municipales en defensa del carso
POR EL STAR STAFF
SAN JUAN – Las delegaciones del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP) en distintas legislaturas municipales del país, están presentado resoluciones para expresar una firme oposición al Proyecto de la Cámara 1079 (PC 1079), medida controversial que propone enmendar la Ley 292-1999, conocida como la Ley para la Protección y Conservación de la Fisiografía Cársica de Puerto Rico.
La iniciativa municipal reafirma el compromiso con la protección del carso puertorriqueño, la conservación de los acuíferos, la planificación territorial responsable, la seguridad hídrica, la biodiversidad y el desarrollo sostenible.
“El carso no es un terreno disponible para experimentos de flexibilización regulatoria ni para favorecer intereses económicos sobre la ciencia y la protección ambiental. Estamos impulsando estas resoluciones municipales porque proteger el carso es proteger el
agua, los ecosistemas y el futuro de Puerto Rico”, expresó Elvin Joel Estrada García, legislador municipal del PIP en Peñuelas.
El biólogo y educador explicó que Peñuelas es parte del carso del sur y que esta zona tiene una gran importancia ecológica.
“El sistema cársico de Puerto Rico constituye una de las regiones naturales más importantes y frágiles del Caribe, extendiéndose por amplias zonas del país y comprendiendo mogotes, cuevas, sumideros, humedales, ríos subterráneos y acuíferos esenciales para el abastecimiento de agua potable, la agricultura, la industria y el equilibrio ecológico”, comentó Estrada García.
Con estas expresiones coincidió Manolo Díaz Pérez, portavoz de la Secretaría Ambiental del PIP y espeleólogo, quien advirtió que el PC 1079 podría debilitar sustancialmente el marco jurídico de protección ambiental vigente bajo la Ley 292-1999 y el Plan y Reglamento del Área de Planificación Especial del Carso.
“Es altamente preocupante la modificación del lenguaje de política pública de la ley, sustituyendo el énfasis en “proteger y conservar” por un enfoque de “proteger, aprovechar y manejar”, lo que, según sectores científicos, ambientales y comunitarios, desplaza la prioridad normativa hacia la explotación económica de un sistema geológico extremadamente vulnerable”, dijo Díaz Pérez.
“Igualmente, es peligroso que se continue redu-
Exalumnos University Gardens otorga beca
SAN JUAN – La Asociación de Exalumnos de University Gardens High School (UGHS) y la Fundación UGHS otorgaron por primera vez el UGHS Presidential Scholar Award, una beca de mil dólares dirigida a estudiantes graduandos de la institución.
La primera galardonada fue Sara Nieves Morón, integrante de la Clase Graduanda Sereia 2026, quien iniciará estudios en neurociencias en Columbia University, en Nueva York, con planes de continuar estudios en medicina. El reconocimiento es el principal premio estudiantil que conceden ambas organizaciones y toma en cuenta desempeño académico, resultados en
pruebas estandarizadas, liderazgo, servicio comunitario, recomendaciones de profesores y aportaciones a la comunidad escolar.
Nieves Morón formó parte de las mejores puntuaciones de Puerto Rico en las pruebas del College Board, recibió el Premio STEM durante su graduación y participó en organizaciones estudiantiles como el Club de Medicina, el Capítulo Hortus y el Consejo Estudiantil. La selección fue realizada por un comité evaluador a partir de nominaciones sometidas por miembros de la facultad. La beca forma parte de las actividades del 50 aniversario de University Gardens High School y de las iniciativas impulsadas por la recién creada Fundación UGHS para apoyar a estudian-
ciendo las facultades fiscalizadoras del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), incluyendo la eliminación de requisitos de autorización para determinadas estructuras y proyectos dentro de áreas cársicas protegidas. Lamentablemente, el Secretario del DRNA entregó totalmente sus funciones a la construcción desmedida y desprotección ecológica. Waldemar Quiles ha debilitado enormemente la agencia, por lo cual debería renunciar a su cargo”, añadió. El PIP también señaló que es motivo de preocupación la exclusión de procesos reglamentarios de la Ley de Procedimiento Administrativo Uniforme (LPAU), lo cual podría limitar mecanismos fundamentales de transparencia, participación ciudadana, vistas públicas y debido proceso administrativo en asuntos relacionados con la gestión del carso.
En el caso de Barceloneta, la Legislatura Municipal aprobó por unanimidad el pasado 2 de junio, la resolución presentada por el legislador del PIP, Radamés Medina Concepción.
“El carso en Barceloneta es fundamental porque alberga el Acuífero del Norte, la principal reserva de agua subterránea de Puerto Rico que abastece a cientos de miles de habitantes y a la zona industrial. Además, su topografía de mogotes y cuevas sustenta ecosistemas únicos y protege áreas naturales. Es importante que los pueblos, especialmente aquellos dentro de la zona del carso, se expresen y apoyen estas resoluciones como ocurrió en Barceloneta”, comentó Medina.
Líderes del PIP, como la senadora María de Lourdes Santiago Negrón y el Secretario General de la colectividad, Juan Dalmau Ramírez, también habían denunciado que la desaparición de la delimitación y la flexibilización de las protecciones al carso que persigue el PNP favorecería grandemente la construcción del megaproyecto Esencia en Cabo Rojo.
tes mediante becas y otros proyectos relacionados con la comunidad escolar.
June 8, 2026
For Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein, romance is everything
By ASHLEY SPENCER
While working on the third season of “Ted Lasso” — a sports show with the heart of a romantic comedy — Brett Goldstein and one of the “Lasso” creators, Joe Kelly, spent a train ride home lamenting a perceived recent lack of quality rom-coms.
So, they began mapping out a movie script for “an old school rom-com but with ruder jokes” that could also serve as a “love letter to workaholics,” Goldstein said. “We were like, ‘Who’s the best actor to do that with?’ and we both went, ‘J.Lo, obviously.’”
Goldstein, 45, had long been an admirer of Jennifer Lopez and her work, which has included nearly a dozen romcoms ranging from “The Wedding Planner,” “Maid in Manhattan” and “Monster-in-Law” in the 2000s to more recent fare like “Second Act” and “Marry Me.”
“We sent the script to Jennifer with a note that said, ‘We wrote this for you. You’re at the top of our list. It’s a list of one. If you don’t do this, we’ll never make this film. No pressure,’” Goldstein recalled.
Fortunately, Lopez, 56, was also a “Ted Lasso” fan. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, yes. I love Roy Kent,’” she said, referring to the gruff soccer captain turned coach played by Goldstein.
After initially passing because of scheduling conflicts, Lopez eventually signed on to “Office Romance” (streaming on Netflix), which follows Jackie Cruz (Lopez), the chief executive of an airline, and Daniel Blanchflower (Goldstein), a member of the company’s legal team. Sparks fly, but a corporate no-dating policy and a potentially career-ending lawsuit complicate their feelings.
On the surface, Lopez and Goldstein may seem an unconventional pairing.
Yet, inside a Netflix office building in Los Angeles in late May, their onscreen chemistry carried over into a casual offscreen rapport as they squished each other’s faces and playfully bantered during a New York Times photo shoot.
Sitting at a small table inside a cozy suite afterward, the duo discussed “Office Romance,” romantic comedies and romance, in general.
These are edited excerpts from the conversation.
Q: Brett, what gave you the confidence that Jennifer might say yes to this movie?
GOLDSTEIN: If I’m really honest about it, it’s insane that this happened. I accept that it is mad,
but I felt like the script was good, and I felt like we’d seen something in her. There’s a difference in this film compared to her other rom-coms, which is, in all her other rom-coms she’s aspirational, and she’s kind of an underdog. In this, she’s the boss. She has it all, technically, but there’s something missing.
LOPEZ: What I liked about it is that [the other characters] get her wrong. She is an intimidating, strong woman, but they mistake that for she’s a monster. The truth is, when you get to know her, as [Daniel] does, he’s like, “You’re the funniest, goofiest, most lovable person in the world.” I connected to that very much.
Q: The airline employees are either scared to breathe around Jackie or they agree with whatever she says. Is that how people default with you in real life?
LOPEZ: One hundred percent. It makes you crazy because you’re like, can you just relax? I’m fine. I don’t bite — until I know you better. That’s from “West
Side Story!” I quote it all the time. But I don’t bite, and I don’t yell, and I’m not an unkind person. People, just because they see you as this thing out there, it’s almost like you’re a two-dimensional character. Maybe he suspected that’s what my life was like. He didn’t know how I was going to be. He could have thought, well, maybe all these rumors are true.
GOLDSTEIN: It was all a gamble because you can’t audition her. You don’t get to go, can we check this before we commit to making a whole film with you? I knew you’d be brilliant, as in, a really nice person. I wasn’t really worried, but I knew instantly when we had our first Zoom, and we were laughing. It was easy. It was nice.
Q: Jennifer, having only known Brett as Roy Kent, how did your expectations line up with reality?
LOPEZ: You know, I thought he was going to be more like Roy Kent. [Laughs]
GOLDSTEIN: So disappointing, innit?
LOPEZ: No! It wasn’t, actually. It was lovely because he was, as you see, very kind and soft-spoken and gentle. Roy Kent is a very aggressive character who curses, and [Brett] curses like a sailor, which is good, because so do I. But there wasn’t that edge that can be attractive in the movies, but not as attractive in real life.
Q: Brett, did you always plan to play the love interest?
Brett Goldstein and Jennifer Lopez, stars of the new Netflix comedy “Office Romance,” in Los Angeles on May 27, 2026. The Bronx-born superstar and the British comedian have more in common than you think. (Sela Shiloni/The New York Times)
GOLDSTEIN: I wouldn’t have let anyone else do it. There was never anyone else.
LOPEZ: [Laughs] Why write the movie?
GOLDSTEIN: Yeah, then why the [expletive] am I doing this?
Q: How did you know that you would have good onscreen chemistry?
LOPEZ: You don’t know. You hope. And we have different ideas about this. I feel like you can create chemistry.
GOLDSTEIN: You could have chemistry with a bin because you’re that good, but I do think it’s sort of luck and magic.
LOPEZ: You don’t think you can create magic?
GOLDSTEIN: I could give you examples, which I won’t do, of very, very good actors who do a thing together, and they don’t have chemistry. It’s a lottery.
Q: Much of the tension in the film comes from the forbidden nature of the relationship. What are your thoughts on dating colleagues?
LOPEZ: I just feel like, how are you going to meet anybody, especially if you work a lot? It’s kind of ridiculous to think that people who work together would never hook up or find the person that they spend their life with there.
GOLDSTEIN: Yeah, and most people you meet who have been married forever met at work.
Q: Both of you have revisited romance frequently in your work. What excites you about seeing love in its different iterations onscreen?
LOPEZ: There’s nothing more important in life than love. I just think it’s what everybody wants at the end of the day. They want somebody to grow old with and to love them completely and to accept them completely, and that’s what romantic comedies provide is that happily ever after that everyone hopes for. Romance and comedy are really the cornerstones of life.
GOLDSTEIN: It’s the only thing I care about. The reason “Frasier” is a masterpiece was Niles and Daphne. That’s why you’re crying. That’s why you’re invested.
LOPEZ: Or “Cheers,” Sam and Diane. I don’t think it will ever go out of style because I look at my kids and what they like. I mean, look at this thing with “Off Campus” or “Heated Rivalry.” It’s all about — well, sex. But also the romances, and who’s going to get together and who’s not going to get together. That’s what humans want, and they love to see it happen.
Q: What was the first romantic comedy that resonated with you?
BOTH: “When Harry Met Sally.”
LOPEZ: Isn’t it for everybody? I mean, that really changed the game. “When Harry Met Sally” is just these two people going through their lives and finally realizing that best friends are the best lovers.
Q: What are your own versions of happily ever at this stage of life?
GOLDSTEIN: I saw the film “Eternity,” and I really, really loved it because the concept is first love or long love. I don’t want to spoil it, but I think it’s a really good message. I’d say, watch “Eternity” and that will give you the answer.
LOPEZ: For me, because I have had relationships, and I have been married a couple of times and it hasn’t worked out, I realized that my joy is about me becoming more self-aware and more comfortable with the fact that I make my own happiness. My life is fantastic. I have great kids, and I have this beautiful home, and I do what I want in work. That has to be the thing first, even as my kids go off to college now, which I cry every other day about — you can’t bring it up, we’re not going to talk about it — but because of that, it’s like, OK, what is my life now? The only constant in your life is you, so you have to have the greatest romance with yourself.
Q: Brett, is there a specific film of Jennifer’s that is your favorite?
GOLDSTEIN: “Out of Sight” is my favorite Jennifer Lopez film. No. 2: “Antz.”
Q: Really?
GOLDSTEIN: She’s a great ant in it.
LOPEZ: [Laughs]
GOLDSTEIN: When you watch “Antz,” you go, “That’s a fit ant. Who’s the hot ant?”
LOPEZ: What’s three? Don’t lie.
GOLDSTEIN: It’s “Hustlers.” It’s a seriously great film.
LOPEZ: I loved playing that character.
GOLDSTEIN: You’re very good at it.
Q: Have you two talked about future collaborations?
GOLDSTEIN: We’d love to, wouldn’t we?
LOPEZ: Waiting for the script.
GOLDSTEIN: We’d like to Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore it.
LOPEZ: Come up with a few scenarios.
GOLDSTEIN: Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan. None of these are bad things.
LOPEZ: Not bad things at all.
Jennifer Lopez, star of the new Netflix comedy “Office Romance,” in Los Angeles on May 27, 2026. (Sela Shiloni/The New York Times)
Brett Goldstein, star of the new Netflix comedy “Office Romance,” in Los Angeles on May 27, 2026. (Sela Shiloni/The New York Times)
Monday, June 8, 2026 12
After months of war, Iranians sink into disillusionment and despair
retaliation.
It has been a tumultuous year for Iranians. The United States and Israel struck Iran first in June 2025 in a short war and then attacked again starting in late February, hitting factories, airports, seaports, bridges, universities and densely populated residential neighborhoods. President Donald Trump said this latest war was meant to create conditions to displace the regime and to ensure Iran could never get a nuclear weapon.
Negotiations to end the conflict appear to be at a standstill, with one of the main sticking points being the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran shut down internet service to the general public from the start of the war until late May, saying it was for national security reasons. Now that more people are back on social media, many of them are able to communicate with the world and with one another. Their messages paint a dire picture.
the European Council on Foreign Relations. “Accepting the resilience of the regime despite all your hopes is a very bitter moment for those opposing the regime to digest. It has arguably left the regime more powerful than it was.”
Trump’s contradictory remarks about Iran have further inflamed confusion and fury, analysts and several people interviewed said. He initially said help was on the way to Iranian protesters, then threatened to annihilate Iran’s ancient civilization. On Thursday in comments to the media, Trump said that he would “be honored” to meet Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, if a deal was reached with Tehran.
By FARNAZ FASSIHI
When Israel and the United States attacked Iran in late February, some Iranian opponents of the Islamic Republic hoped that it would bring an end to decades of theocratic rule they saw as oppressive.
Now, after devastating strikes and amid a teetering ceasefire, those hopes have been snuffed out. Feelings of disillusionment and despair have taken their place, driven by a reported death toll of 1,700 civilians, vast destruction and an economic implosion that has made daily life a struggle.
A ceasefire has provided some relief from bombs, but an economic war has sent the prices of basic goods skyrocketing. The crippling of critical industries and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz — a key trading route for Iran’s most precious export, oil — have tipped the already troubled economy into free fall.
And the on-again, off-again peace talks, along with U.S. proclamations that the war is over when it’s not, has left both supporters and opponents of the government confused and anxious, according to interviews using voice apps with more than 20 Iranians in Tehran, Isfahan, Ahvaz and
Mashhad in recent days.
“I’m angry. I feel alone,” Kimia, a 25-year-old designer, said in an interview from Tehran. “We don’t matter to the world at all; we’re only seen as tools for war and negotiation, while we are human beings.”
For some of those desperate for regime change, learning that Israel and the United States had initially planned to install a former hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as the country’s new ruler was a painful indignity. In interviews and in social media posts, several said that the disclosure of the plan by The New York Times left them feeling like bystanders in a geopolitical game with direct impact on their lives.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s longtime supreme leader, was killed in strikes on the first day of the war in February and has since been replaced by his son.
“What was this all for?” asked Amirali, a 62-year-old engineer in Tehran, in an interview. “They bombed and destroyed our country, our airports, roads and factories in the name of regime change so they could bring Ahmadinejad? This shows the goal was never to make Iran better or free.”
Like all the Iranians interviewed, Kimia and Amirali asked to be identified only by their first names to avoid any possible
A retired professor in Tehran who was critical of the government said in an interview that people had simply given up on political change and were focused on surviving day to day. A manager of a plastic bottle factory near Mashhad said production was shut down and all employees furloughed because it lacked raw materials after Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s petrochemical industry. A doctor in Isfahan said pharmacies were rationing medicine, and that the Health Ministry had advised doctors to prescribe only essential medications because of shortages.
Many Iranians — even those who have opposed the theocratic regime — say they oppose the war and have suffered enough. They are increasingly looking at diplomatic negotiations as a means for stabilizing the country and the economy.
“I am definitely in favor of negotiations right now given the circumstances,” said Lida, a 44-year-old environmental expert in Tehran who has been opposed to the government. “We lost a lot of lives and lost a lot of our infrastructure. We lost a lot of human resources and, to be honest, I don’t think that war is in our best interest.”
Analysts say that the huge airstrikes led many Iranians who initially supported the war to change their minds.
“This is a moment of Iranians taking stock of the reality and calculating things that have worked and have not worked,” said Ellie Geranmayeh, a senior fellow at
That comment became an instant news headline in Iran, and people flooded social media with commentary and jokes, some referring to the fact that the ayatollah has not been seen in public since the war started. “Well, 90 million people in Iran want to see him too, but it’s a shame they don’t have that fortune. And now you’re arriving late and you want to get ahead of the line?” Ahmad Mosaddegh wrote on social media.
But as the war drags on, some government supporters are also losing patience with their leaders.
Mehdi, a 52-year-old government employee, said in an interview that he had attended pro-government rallies with his wife and children. But he said his salary runs out by the middle of the month, and he cannot afford to buy beef or chicken to feed his family.
And Hamed, a pro-government conservative, said in an interview that “the rising prices don’t distinguish between supporters and opponents of the government; it’s affecting us all.”
Iran’s official statistics center announced last week that inflation had spiked compared with this period last year. The report said the price of cooking oil had increased by 430%, eggs by 345%, rice by 287% and milk by 139%.
“Nobody is thinking of them or taking their opinions into consideration,” Sanam Vakil, the Middle East and North Africa director for Chatham House, said, adding that Iranians she reached inside the country kept asking her what would happen to them. “They are just a casualty in this conflict that is beyond their influence and grasp.”
A woman waves an Iranian flag near a new billboard in Enghelab Square in Tehran, May 24, 2026. After devastating strikes and amid a teetering ceasefire, hopes entertained by some Iranian opponents of the Islamic Republic that the war would bring an end to decades of theocratic rule have been snuffed out. (Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times)
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Pope Leo, after taking on Trump and AI, prepares for new duels in Spain
By JASON HOROWITZ
Pope Francis never made a papal visit to Spain, one of the capitals of European Catholicism, preferring instead to draw attention to the world’s marginalized populations. He turned down invitations from Spain’s king, its prime ministers and even a Spanish reporter who enticed him with a gift of soil from every region of the country. Francis was not enticed. He would go “when there is peace,” he cryptically said.
Now, just over a year after succeeding Francis, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday began a weeklong visit to Spain, his first major European destination since he became pontiff in May 2025.
Francis never clarified what he meant by “peace,” whether it alluded to tensions in the country or the church, or just organizational chaos. But Leo has anyway decided to take the leap into one of Europe’s most politically polarized countries as war rages on several continents and his recent confrontations with President Donald Trump are still raw. The trip may invite further hostility from the White House by bringing together Leo and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain, two of Trump’s biggest international critics on Iran and migration.
Speaking in Spain’s Royal Palace on Saturday, Pope Leo called for “a deeper reconciliation and collaboration” in Spain, but expressed gratitude for its “faithful adherence to international law and multilateralism, which is reflected in an active commitment to peace.”
The visit will showcase the balancing act of Leo’s young pontificate. On the one hand, he is a conciliator, extending an olive branch to conservatives — and countries — who felt Francis’ cold shoulder. He is expected to emphasize unity in the first-ever address by a pope to the Spanish parliament in Madrid, a capital with a history of dictatorship within living memory and a present torn apart by political polarization.
On the other hand, the visit gives Leo, the first American pope, another chance to present himself as a change agent and global figure. After recently finding his voice by standing up to the Trump administration and multinational
corporations developing artificial intelligence, Leo will be visiting a country crossed with political and historical tripwires, where a papal misstep could trigger harsh feelings and damage the fledgling papacy.
Spain is also an increasingly vibrant country that has emerged as a European outlier for liberal policies, including welcoming immigrants, which is in sync with Leo’s own vision. And by speaking fluently in Spanish, Leo, formerly a bishop in Peru who has Peruvian citizenship, will wield an international megaphone that will be heard far beyond the borders of both Spain and the Anglophone world.
“It’s a platform,” Cardinal José Cobo of Madrid said in an interview before Leo’s arrival.
Leo’s visit has plenty of the standard papal stuff. He met King Felipe VI and focused on how to nurture Catholicism in Spain, which, despite the country’s number of self-identifying Catholics plummeting over the past 15 years, is registering a rare uptick in spirituality.
Leo is also expected to draw attention to the church’s landmarks, this time blessing a newly completed tower at the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona.
Thanks to the tower, it is now the world’s tallest church.
Spain also offers Leo a chance to soothe historical grievances with the Catholic Church.
In the past, the Spanish church acted as an essential ally of the Franco regime, which ruled Spain until the 1970s. Even in this century’s now-settled battles over issues including same-sex marriage, the church was a major element of polarization. Francis instead seeded the Spanish hierarchy with new bishops and cardinals who emphasized pastoral leadership over waging war on cultural issues, and Leo seems set to continue in his footsteps.
His address in parliament on Monday, then, will be a key moment for him “to reflect on how the relationship between church and state, church and politics” has been transformed in Spain, said Joseba Louzao, author of “A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Spain.”
After arriving on Saturday, Leo gave a taste of what might be to come, warning against “the temptation to gain popularity by fanning the flames of polarization.”
That unifying approach will probably give politicians from across the ideo-
The throne room of the Royal Palace in Madrid, Feb. 10, 2023. Speaking in the Royal Palace on Saturday, Pope Leo called for “a deeper reconciliation and collaboration” in Spain, but expressed gratitude for its “faithful adherence to international law and multilateralism, which is reflected in an active commitment to peace.” (Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times)
logical spectrum the opportunity to interpret Leo how they see fit, Louzao said.
“There is a temptation there,” Louzao said, “for all political parties to try to use the words of Pope Leo.”
Yet Leo is still expected to offer plenty of ammunition to critics from all backgrounds. The pope is likely to discuss issues that infuriate the left, such as the church’s opposition to abortion, among other subjects that progressive Catholics have called the “pelvic issues” that the church long obsessed over. Some far-left lawmakers have even said they will boycott the pope’s address.
Separately, the church’s emphasis on social justice has put some Spanish right-wing leaders in a position of claiming to be more Catholic than the pope.
At the end of his visit, Leo will visit the Canary Islands to meet with migrants, foregrounding an issue that has enraged Spain’s right wing. While many European countries have closed their doors to immigrants, Spain has opened them.
Santiago Abascal, leader of the farright party Vox, once disparagingly referred to Francis by his surname, calling him “Citizen Bergoglio” to express opposition to his pro-migrant policies. That approach continued after Leo became pope, as Vox attacked Spanish bishops over their welcoming position toward migrants.
Abascal’s interpretation of Catholicism offers another potential flashpoint with Leo. Abascal has tried to appeal to Catholic voters by emphasizing opposition to abortion, gay rights and promoting traditional Spanish family values.
Privately, Leo has told Spanish bishops that he opposes people politicizing the faith. In a November meeting between top Spanish prelates and the pope at the Vatican, Leo expressed concern about ideological forces in Spain exploiting Catholic voters for their own political gain.
“It worries us that they want to approach the Catholic sphere to get votes,” said Cobo, who was at the meeting and was among several attendees who described it in an interview. He said he did not know if Leo was singling out Vox, though he added, “Whoever feels targeted is because they are the ones doing it.”
The world has learned from the last Ebola outbreak, but gaps remain
By STEPHANIE NOLEN
The response to the Ebola outbreak in East Africa, as troubled as it has been, offers signs that the world has learned key lessons from the last huge outbreak of the disease and from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts say.
Their conclusion comes despite the fact the Bundibugyo species of the virus spread unidentified in Congo and Uganda for months, and that hastily erected treatment centers continue to lack even rudimentary medical supplies.
“If the world earned an F on the response to the West Africa outbreak — then we’re at maybe a C+ now,” said Suerie Moon, a global health researcher who led an international forensic review of the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which lasted two years and killed more than 11,000 people.
Among the improvements, she and other experts say, are increased coordination and cooperation among governments and scientists, and more investment in the infrastructure to make fast science possible. Money has already been raised for research on potential vaccines and treatments for Bundibugyo.
“The fact that we’re even talking about clinical trials is a world away from where we were in 2014,” said Dr. Daniel Bausch, who has responded to more than a dozen different hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Africa over a career in infectious disease. “We have to remember that it’s not all doom and gloom.”
But there are conspicuous gaps, notably in sustained funding for research into treatments and guarantees they will be available to anyone who needs help.
What has improved
— Transparency: Aid groups like Doctors Without Borders sounded the alarm in 2014 for months before the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency. WHO leadership was excessively deferential to West African governments that
A health worker, deployed in response to an Ebola outbreak, checks the temperature a motorcyclist passing through the Kanyaruchinya checkpoint at the northern end of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday, May 21, 2026. The response to the Ebola outbreak in East Africa, as troubled as it has been, offers signs that the world has learned key lessons from the last massive outbreak of the disease and from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts say. (Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times)
did not want to face the economic fallout of declaring an outbreak, said Moon, the codirector of the Global Health Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute. This time, the Congolese government and the WHO declared the outbreak within days of confirming that Bundibugyo was causing a rash of suspicious deaths.
— Leadership and coordination: Frustration with the mistakes of 2014 led to the creation of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which has led the response to Bundibugyo alongside the WHO. The two organizations work to ensure that scientists are not needlessly duplicating work. “There is a willingness to collaborate — we are all committed to avoiding having multiple research protocols, multiple initiatives that complicate things and bring no solution,” said Carmen Pérez Casas, the head of pandemic preparedness at global health
agency Unitaid, a WHO partner.
— Vaccine development: The failures in West Africa also spurred the creation of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation, which has international funding and a mission to develop effective and accessible vaccines within 100 days of identifying a new pandemic threat. CEPI has committed up to $61 million to get three vaccines against Bundibugyo into clinical trials, and is helping to pay for advance production of the experimental vaccines so that they can be deployed immediately if clinical trials show they work. “By the time we get to the end of the preclinical work there will be doses ready to go into trials,” said Dr. Nicole Lurie, CEPI’s executive director for preparedness and response.
— Fast clinical trials: The vaccine now used against the Zaire species of Ebola, which caused the West African outbreak, was an experimental product that sat for years on a Canadian laboratory shelf with no money or mechanism to move it into trials until more than a year into the crisis. Since then, researchers have done advance work to design clinical trials and have them approved by governments in countries in which outbreaks are likely, so that vaccines and treatments can be tested fast.
— African research at the core of the response: Laboratories across Africa can now perform molecular testing (though labs in northeastern Congo did not have a test for Bundibugyo early on). African researchers pioneered open access data sharing on genomic sequencing during the last Ebola outbreak, said Dr. Christian Happi, director of the Institute of Genomics and Global Health at Redeemer’s University in Ede, Nigeria. Since then his institute has helped to train scientists in 52 of 53 sub-Saharan countries on the process.
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is still a problem
— The global leader is missing: The United States, under the Trump administration, has withdrawn from the WHO and no longer funds CEPI. The administration also disbanded the U.S. Agency for International Development, which funded local health organizations that did key disease surveillance work and were trusted locally.
— Lack of funding for prevention: The WHO said Friday that the Bundibugyo response will cost $518 million. That’s just emergency spending, on supplies and logistics. Researchers complain that there is typically a surge of funding for Ebola treatment during an outbreak, but that money dries up when the epidemic is over — and it isn’t enough to finish research that may help curb the next outbreak. Only one percent of global research and development spending goes to emerging infectious diseases.
— Access and equity: During the West Africa outbreak, healthcare workers from high income countries who contracted Ebola received experimental treatments, and they lived. Those same drugs were not offered to local medical workers, and several leading African infectious disease researchers died while trying to save their fellow citizens. Three American doctors have been evacuated from the current outbreak in East Africa to hospitals in Europe. Nevertheless, Moon said that the “access norm” — the idea that people in every country must have equal access to vaccines or other medical countermeasures — is now more firmly established.
— Punishment for honesty: Countries are still penalized for reporting outbreaks. The Trump administration slapped an economically damaging travel ban on several African countries after the current outbreak was declared, including some that have not recorded a single Bundibugyo case. “If you share information, you are a victim of your transparency,” Happi said.
Blockbuster SpaceX IPO set to test high-flying US stocks rally
The long-awaited, massive SpaceX initial public offering is expected this week, a major event for the U.S. stock market, with investors wary of possible overexuberance.
Stock indexes fell on Friday as strong jobs data ignited fears of hawkish monetary policy and semiconductor shares tumbled after a torrid run. The benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX), posted a weekly decline after nine straight weeks of gains.
The S&P 500 was still up about 8% in 2026, including a 16% rebound since its late-March low for the year.
“Nothing has stuck in terms of pessimism in the last two months,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist for Nationwide. “There is just this underpinning of momentum, this insatiable appetite for tech holdings and just the technical buying spree that is really dwarfing almost all other inputs.”
This week, investors will also assess fresh data on consumer and producer prices, after the jobs report fueled fears that the Federal Reserve would focus on calming inflation, potentially leading to interest rate hikes. The coming week also brings earnings reports from key companies in the technology sector, which has driven the market’s recent surge despite a sour end to the week.
Some investors have been bracing for a pause, if not a pullback, after the sharp rally. Risks include the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and the potential for renewed spikes in energy prices if Middle East tensions flare.
Spacex in spotlight
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is aiming to raise $75 billion, the most ever for an IPO, in a deal that would value it at $1.75 trillion. Pricing is expected on June 11, with trading to begin on the Nasdaq the next day.
The company has an unusual and diverse set of businesses, including rockets, satellite communications and AI computing. Adding in the involvement of Musk — Tesla’s (TSLA.O), leader and the world’s wealthiest man — and SpaceX’s valuation is tricky to pin down, rising to exorbitant levels by some measures. The company posted a net loss of $4.94 billion in 2025, even as revenue rose 33% to $18.67 billion.
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market, but the sector’s recent outperformance pushed it to more than 39% of the S&P 500’s market capitalization last week, its highest share on record.
The IPO could lure significant attention from retail investors and provide another high-profile way to gain exposure to the AI trade.
The May Consumer Price Index, due on Wednesday, will show how surging oil and gasoline prices are influencing inflation. One concern is the extent to which higher energy prices might be affecting other CPI components, Pride said, ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting this month.
“Getting more data points from some of the AI value chain is going to be important,” Wittmer said. The San
“We’ve got one of the biggest IPOs in history coming ... which I think is the focus of everybody’s interest,” said Jason Pride, chief of investment strategy and research at Glenmede. “The question mark surrounding it is whether it’s an indication of market froth.”
SpaceX’s debut is expected to be followed by other mega IPOs in the coming months from Anthropic and OpenAI, two of the AI leaders. Anthropic, which makes the Claude chatbot, said last week it has confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO.
The SpaceX IPO is “an important benchmark,” said Matt Wittmer, a portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments, adding that “the company itself will be playing
“The Federal Reserve is going to be watching this like a hawk,” Pride said. “They’re going to want to see those pieces continue to remain stable and not increase as a pass-through from the energy and food prices.”
In the wake of the spike in energy prices, futures are factoring in a greater chance the Fed raises interest rates this year rather than cuts, after markets had anticipated equity-friendly rate decreases at the start of 2026.
Other economic data this week includes Thursday’s report on producer prices.
Quarterly reports from tech companies Oracle (ORCL.N), and Adobe (ADBE.O), will also be in focus. Tech has long dominated the U.S. stock
The results will test the strength of the tech trade and the rebound in the software industry, which was hit hard to start the year on concerns about AI disruptions. Shares of Oracle are up more than 9% this year, while Adobe is down 28%.
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As Trump toughens rules on Cuba’s economy, hotel chains pull out
By FRANCES ROBLES
The Trump administration’s campaign to force Cuba’s economic unraveling achieved key gains last week, when three international hotel chains and a bank that processes Visa and Mastercard transactions withdrew business from the communist nation to avoid violating new U.S. regulations.
Foreign businesses had until Friday to pull out of any venture in Cuba run by the Cuban military conglomerate that controls about half the nation’s economy. On Thursday, the U.S. government announced it was imposing sanctions on another swath of Cuban officials and entities, including the armed forces.
Business leaders whose companies stay in Cuba risk losing their visa to travel to the United States and having their assets frozen. The companies themselves could also face sanctions, such as losing access to American banks.
The increasing exodus of businesses from Cuba will lead to increased unemployment and fewer financial resources for Cuba’s government, aggravating an increasingly untenable economic crisis.
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that he uses to drive tourists at $40 an hour in Havana, Dec. 14, 2024. The Trump administration’s campaign to force Cuba’s economic unraveling achieved key gains last week, when three international hotel chains and a bank that processes Visa and Mastercard transactions withdrew business from the communist nation to avoid violating new U.S. regulations. (Jorge Luis Baños/The New York Times)
While the United States has long prohibited most American companies from trading with Cuba, these new regulations, called “secondary sanctions,” are a major escalation, because they target foreign companies and financial institutions.
Cuba’s Central Bank announced Wednesday that a bank that processes Visa and Mastercard transactions had withdrawn to comply with a recent executive order from the White House that threatened sanctions against foreign companies doing business in Cuba.
The Cuban government, which did not name the bank, called the decision part of President Donald Trump’s “strategy to strangle the Cuban people.”
Spanish hotel operator Iberostar said it would end its partnership to run 12 hotels for Gaviota, Cuba’s tourism company, which is part of the Business Administration Group, a military conglomerate known by its Spanish acronym, GAESA.
Another Spanish firm, Meliá, said it would withdraw from its partnership running 15 Cuban hotels. Blue Diamond,
a Canadian company that ran dozens of hotels in Cuba, also announced it was pulling out.
Citing an announcement from the company, news reports said Indonesian chain Archipelago International had also closed shop. The website for the company’s Aston Hotels in Cuba showed it was “no longer available for accommodation.”
The proposed U.S. sanctions are part of a series of stringent measures by the Trump administration designed to cripple Cuba’s economy and force economic and political change.
Trump on Thursday told reporters in Washington that Cuba had “sort of collapsed.”
Repeating a statement he had made in the past, he said he would “handle” Cuba as soon as his administration moves on from the conflict with Iran. “As soon as that’s done, on our way back, we’ll just make a little brief stop,” the president said without providing specific details.
Trump’s tightening vise on Cuba, including an effective oil blockade, is worsening a humanitarian crisis, leaving millions of people enduring extended power outages and struggling to find food and gasoline.
The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it was adding five more Cuban officials and five entities to a list of sanctioned people and companies, including President Miguel DíazCanel and his family.
Vast neighborhood groups organized by the government, called the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution and known for spying on local residents, were also targeted, as was Cuba’s gold mining venture.
“The entities and individuals designated today direct or fund the regime and its efforts to mobilize its radical revolutionary movements in the United States and around the world,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.
Two major shipping companies, one German and the other French, had already announced plans to cease operations in Cuba.
The United Nations’ World Food Program was forced to put off plans to purchase nearly 3,000 tons of food for Cuba “because we cannot find a shipping solution to bring it to Cuba,” said Etienne Labande, the agency’s Cuba country director.
The World Food Program, which was helping supply provisions for Cuba’s subsidized food rations, is also trying to find other ways to pay for fuel from Cuba’s national network because it can no longer pay with Visa or Mastercard, he said.
The Trump administration’s sanctions against foreign companies, announced in May, largely targeted GAESA, the military conglomerate that operates everything from retail businesses to the tourism industry.
Seth Eisen, a spokesperson for Mastercard, said the decision to withdraw had not been made by Mastercard.
The bank that had managed the company’s transactions decided to limit operations in Cuba, and without the foreign financial partner, Mastercards will not work to make purchases in Cuba, he said.
Visa, Iberostar and Blue Diamond did not respond to a request for comment. Meliá, in a statement, said its decision to leave Cuba “was made out of a deep sense of corporate responsibility,” but that the impact of its decision was limited because most of its hotels were already closed.
Cuba’s tourism sector has largely collapsed. In January, the Trump administration blocked fuel deliveries to Cuba, which limited the availability of jet fuel and led several airlines to cancel service.
“The reach of these sanctions was much wider and stronger, especially among the hotel chains,” said Paolo Spadoni, a political economist at Augusta University in Georgia who studies Cuba’s tourism industry.
The State Department acknowledged that the withdrawal of the hotel firms was precisely what the measures were intended to accomplish.
“Our sanctions are deliberately targeted to prevent the Cuban military and security services from profiting off international investment in Cuba to fund their continued oppression of the Cuban people and threat to U.S. national security,” the State Department said in a statement provided to the New York Times.
“Companies choosing to exit the Cuban market are making a prudent decision to comply with U.S. law and avoid enriching a regime that routinely violates fundamental human rights.”
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By boat and bike, losing yourself in Dutch tulip country
By ELAINE GLUSAC
In the Netherlands, each junction of the cycling paths that web the provinces of North and South Holland, has a number. On a sunny April morning, cycling south from the city of Haarlem to the tulip fields that patchwork the countryside in swaths of fuchsia, yellow and cardinal red, I set out via way points 23 and 90.
And yet, even with the backup of a GPS app, within two signposts I took a wrong turn, my cycling companions took a different wrong turn and it would be hours before we reunited.
“We give you maps and directions, you have the GPS and you have a brain,” said Ben Eijkelhof, a guide with Boat Bike Tours on the eight-day cycling trip primarily in South Holland. “That is the most important thing.”
A Dutch company, Boat Bike Tours, staged the trip from a river ship, a floating base camp that cyclists left each morning, carrying a sack lunch packed from the breakfast buffet, and returned to each afternoon for dinner and overnights.
Self-guided cycling trips are among the company’s most affordable (from 799 euros, or about $927) and least structured, offering opportunities to detour for those, like me, interested in navigating.
The route “is a great puzzle,” promised Lenneke Mommersteeg, another of the two guides overseeing the trip, during an orientation on the first day. “In one week, you are going to see everything on a postcard of the Netherlands: the tulips, the cheese, the windmills.”
Even more, it turns out, if you take a wrong turn.
Shipboard staging
The trip departed from Amsterdam, where pricier river cruise ships tie up close to the central train station in the frenzied heart of town. Six bus stops away, I found the 92-passenger Arkona docked at the quiet port of Minervahaven.
Arkona’s 47 cabins occupied two levels. On the main floor, a lounge at the bow and dining room at the stern bookended several cabins with floor-to-ceiling windows.
On a lower level, my comfortable twin berth had a smaller window just above water level, a pair of duvet-topped single beds and an efficiency-size bathroom. Generous storage cabinets contained bike panniers stocked with air pumps and emergency repair kits that we could clip to our bicycles for the week.
Bike racks filled half of the open-air observation deck atop the ship. I found my seven-speed Dutch Azor hybrid bike among the fleet of mostly e-bikes (my rental cost was 91 euros for the week; e-bikes cost 252 euros). A ramp from the deck swung down when the ship was moored, allowing cyclists to roll on and off.
Blooms and birdsong
The Netherlands famously expanded by claiming land from the sea, creating meadows of marshes — known as polders — drained by windmills in an intricate system of canals, locks and channels.
Our first day of cycling introduced the fertile countryside filled with small farms, spring blooms and birdsong.
I set out solo on canal paths lined in bushy yellow rape-
A cyclist stops at a field of tulips near Hillegom, the Netherlands, on April 18, 2026. A weeklong, self-guided Netherlands biking tour, whose base is a riverboat, offers participants plenty of opportunities to get hopelessly, and entertainingly, lost.
(Melissa Schriek/The New York Times)
seed and over bridges to the village of Breukelen, the namesake of Brooklyn, New York. By the time I reached a series of lakes nearby, where bike paths on ribbonlike islands split the waterways, I linked up with the only other English-speaking riders who were not on e-bikes: a pair of women from western Canada. We formed a trio I nicknamed Team Real Bike.
In Utrecht, parked bicycles seemed to line every bridge and canal. We locked ours in an underground garage dedicated solely to bikes (free) to meander around the medieval center and eat lunch beside the soaring Gothic Dom Church.
Late that afternoon, the ship set a course southwest for Rotterdam via a lock that drew passengers to the top deck to watch massive iron gates close behind us and the chamber slowly fill with water before the front gates were opened, releasing us to a higher waterway.
‘Amsterdam without the crowds’
Cycling from Rotterdam the next day took us past some of Holland’s tallest windmills in the town of Schiedam, famous for its ginlike liquor, jenever, before continuing to Delft. Mommersteeg described Delft, the home of painter Johannes Vermeer and blue ceramics, as a “little Amsterdam, without the crowds.”
Despite navigational quandaries — we attributed an extra 3 miles a day to signpost errors — we reached Delft with time to picnic in the impressive main square, surrounded by gabled buildings and anchored by the very old Nieuwe Kerk or New Church. Around the corner, Oude Kerk or Old Church, leaned like the Tower of Pisa.
In town, Boat Bike cyclists met up for group admission (7 euros) to the Royal Delft porcelain factory, known for its signature blue-and-white designs on everything from collectible platters to souvenir Dutch clogs. I developed a new appreciation for the detailed work after watching an artist in a hushed room hand paint an intricate floral design on a vase.
Windmills and gouda cheese
Two evenings moored in Rotterdam offered time to explore the modern city, rebuilt after it was leveled during World
War II. The country’s second largest city provided a departure from the historic towns and pastoral countryside that filled the days.
“Today you will cycle through the real green heart of Holland,” announced Eijkelhof, outlining the day-four route from Rotterdam via a 35-minute water bus (5.60 euros with a bike) to the small town of Alblasserdam, gateway to Kinderdijk, a UNESCO World Heritage site of 19 preserved 18th-century windmills.
An island in Kinderdijk’s canals was just wide enough for a bike path, allowing us to ride beside the largest concentration of windmills in the country. Most of them, built around 1740, are inhabited and operational, still pumping water in the lowlands.
From Kinderdijk we cycled roughly 13 miles to Gouda, another canal-threaded charmer known for cheese — I bought an award-winning aged Gouda from Gouds Kaashuis on the main square — and stroopwafels, syrup-filled wafer cookies (free samples at Kamphuisen Siroopwafels).
Aiming to meet the ship in the quiet village of Nieuwpoort, we missed another turn in the polders and consoled ourselves for the extended ride with views of storks, Northern lapwings with curling head plumes and shaggy Highland cows.
Tulips and dunes
After a rural day five that included sampling cheeses at an organic cheese farm and frequent sightings of goat kids, lambs and ducklings, the ship relocated to Haarlem, northwest of Amsterdam, to position us to reach the tulip fields to its south on day six.
Tulip season is a brief and vibrant time to visit Holland. Droves of visitors, often on river cruises, travel to the popular Keukenhof garden, where a nearly 500-acre flower exhibition opens for about seven weeks each spring (next year, the garden is scheduled to open from March 18 to May 9).
I opted to ride the canal-side paths and park lanes that allow cyclists access to the agricultural fields in bloom.
After two hours, in a Dutch version of the adage “All roads lead to Rome,” I reunited with the lost members of Team Real Bike at the south end of the flower fields. There we turned west toward the sea, leaving Holland’s sown wonder for the grassy dunes of the Zuid-Kennemerland National Park that naturally buffered us from the North Sea winds.
Cyclists ride beside the largest concentration of windmills in the country, in Kinderdijk, Netherlands, on April 22, 2026. (Melissa Schriek/The New York Times)
As Ebola spreads, scientists race to find vaccines and treatments
By CARL ZIMMER
As the Ebola outbreak spreads in Congo and Uganda, health workers are rushing to provide supportive care, hoping that some patients will recover on their own, while isolating the sick and tracing contacts of the infected.
Missing from the fight? Vaccines and drugs that might stop the virus. Dismayed by the scale of the burgeoning epidemic, scientists are scrambling to find them.
On June 1, two major nonprofit vaccine organizations announced tens of millions of dollars of funding to develop vaccines. Experts from the World Health Organization have also recommended testing a handful of monoclonal antibodies and other drugs as potential treatments.
Researchers said that it would take months find out whether these measures work. But the treatments will probably still be valuable at that point, because the outbreak is likely to continue raging.
Health workers disinfect a coffin containing the body of a man presumed to have died of Ebola at a hospital in Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 25, 2026. As the Ebola outbreak spreads in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, health workers are rushing to provide supportive care, hoping that some patients will recover on their own, while isolating the sick and tracing contacts of the infected. (Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times)
“It’s going to take a long, committed response to bring this outbreak under control,” said Richard Hatchett, the chief executive of CEPI, a nonprofit that supports the development of vaccines and other pandemic countermeasures.
One reason that Ebola disease is so hard to fight is that it is not caused by a single kind of virus. When scientists refer to “Ebola virus,” they mean a species first discovered in 1976, in what was then Zaire.
Since then, researchers have identified five other species of viruses in the same genus, including one called Bundibugyo virus.
Like Ebola virus, Bundibugyo virus causes Ebola disease — producing symptoms such as sudden fevers, muscle pain and vomiting. The infection can lead to uncontrolled bleeding and rapid organ failure, killing a substantial fraction of patients.
Bundibugyo virus is responsible for the current outbreak of Ebola disease. Before now, it had caused only two small outbreaks since its emergence in 2007.
Most of the outbreaks of Ebola disease over the past 50 years have been caused by Ebola virus. As a result, there are two licensed treatments and one vaccine specifically for it, and nothing specifically for Bundibugyo virus.
These two species of viruses split from a common ancestor long ago — probably millions of years ago — and have been evolving in different directions ever since.
So maybe it’s no surprise that doctors were confused when patients started coming to clinics in Africa with symptoms of Ebola in April. Diagnostic tests were designed to recognize genetic sequences from the more common Ebola virus. Doctors are just now gaining access to tests that can detect Bundibugyo.
Evolution has altered the molecules, known as glycoproteins, that stud the surfaces of these two viruses. Both species use glycoproteins to latch onto cells and slip inside.
When people become infected with either virus, their immune systems start making antibodies that stick to these glycoproteins and block the viruses from infecting cells. If this immune response is strong enough, people can recover from Ebola disease.
To make a vaccine, scientists looked for a way to train the immune system to make those antibodies. Erbevo, the licensed vaccine, consists of a harmless virus, known as VSV, engineered to carry Ebola virus glycoproteins that prompt the production of protective antibodies. In 2014 trials, the vaccine provided 100% protection against Ebola virus.
But experts doubt that it will provide strong protection against the Bundibugyo virus. About a third of the building blocks in Bundibugyo glycoproteins differ from those carried by Ebola virus.
“It’s just different enough on the surface that your immune system finds it to be a different thing,” said Erica Ollmann Saphire, a virus expert at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in San Diego.
To halt the current outbreak, doctors would need to give people a vaccine proven to work specifically against Bundibugyo virus. That doesn’t yet exist, even though scientists have been researching the species since it was first discovered.
That’s the gap that CEPI is hoping to help fill. The group will offer up to $61 million to prepare three candi-
date vaccines for clinical trials.
IAVI, a nonprofit organization that develops vaccines, will receive up to $3.2 million for a VSV-based vaccine. The group already has experience in creating these vaccines for other viruses, including Sudan virus, another species that has caused Ebola disease.
Another reason to try this approach is a 2014 study in which scientists tried out a VSV vaccine against Bundibugyo virus on monkeys. It provided 100% protection.
While VSV vaccines have a long track record, they have a downside: Scientists have to grow the carrier viruses to make the vaccines, a process that can take several months.
A second vaccine is being developed at the University of Oxford, based on a different viral vector called an adenovirus. In 2020, the Oxford team used these adenoviruses to create a COVID vaccine manufactured by AstraZeneca, which is estimated to have saved more than 6 million lives in the first year of their use.
The researchers have made vaccines for other pathogens, including Sudan virus. “In essence, we are building on what we have done before,” said Teresa Lambe, who is leading the Bundibugyo effort.
CEPI has awarded Lambe’s team up to $8.6 million to develop an adenovirus vaccine carrying Bundibugyo glycoproteins. The vaccine is already being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
Thanks to the institute’s manufacturing capacity and the speed at which adenoviruses grow, the researchers say they could have vaccines ready for clinical trials in humans in one to two months.
But the Oxford researchers have never tested an adenovirus vaccine against Bundibugyo virus in animals before. So they’ll also have to carry out those studies in the months to come.
CEPI is also awarding up to $50 million to Bostonbased Moderna to create an mRNA vaccine for Bundibugyo. Moderna produced one of the two authorized mRNA vaccines for COVID during the pandemic.
Gavi, another vaccine nonprofit, also announced Friday that it would provide $40 million to support the manufacture of leading Bundibugyo vaccine candidates.
The world would be better prepared for outbreaks of pathogens such as Bundibugyo if scientists could push forward research when there isn’t a public health emergency raging, Saphire said.
And rather than try to make vaccines and drugs that work only against the pathogen that’s suddenly killing people, researchers could look for treatments that are effective against many related species.
“It’s straightforward to do,” she said. “It just takes leadership, will, and the funding to do clinical studies.”
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN JOSÉ DAVID
FONSECA SANTIAGO
Parte Peticionaria V. EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV01306. Sala: 606. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS
A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA Y LOS QUE ESTÁN AUSENTES.
POR LA PRESENTE, se notifica a ustedes que se ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal una Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio con el fin de justificar e inscribir a favor de la parte peticionaria, el dominio a que tiene derecho sobre el inmueble que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Predio de terreno sito en Santurce Norte de esta ciudad en el Barrio Seboruco, llamado también Chícharo, detrás de la Calle San Jorge Parada 25, compuesto de una superficial de once mil trescientos treinta y seis metros con cuarenta decímetros cuadrados, (11,336.40) y que tiene las colindancias siguientes: por el NORTE, antes Juliana Cortijo en 38 metros y 4 centímetros hoy con Victoria Marrero y Tapia; por SUR, en 38 metros con 64 centímetros antes con la Sucesión Andrades hoy Valentina Verdejo y Vicente Rosa; por el ESTE, en 275.25 centímetros antes hoy con la sucesión de Francisca Caballero, hoy con Damián Cruz, Celestino Andrades y el Obispado de Puerto Rico; y por el OESTE, en 278 metros con 85 centímetros antes con Jacinto Pastrana, el Padre Isern, hoy con Doña Dolores y Doña Gloria Gabiño, Don Julio Carreras, Matías Jordán, Don Carmelo García, el Obispo de Puerto Rico, Don Luis Velez y el Dr. Eufemio N. Bocanegra, cuyo predio se encuentra cruzado de Este a Oeste por la llamada antigua calle o carretera del Seboruco que la dividió en dos parcelas una de una cuerda y veinticinco centésimas de otra que da al Sur equivalentes a 4,931.70 metros cuadrados y la otra parcela que da hacia el Norte de una cuerda con cincuenta y seis centésimas
de otro o sea 6,139.41 metros cuadrados y sobre las cuales parcelas se encuentran enclavadas 8 casas cuadrados y sobre las cuales parcelas se encuentran enclavadas 8 casas de madera terreras techadas de zinc y de cartón todas propiedades de la compareciente más la que siempre hubo enclavada en la finca propiedad en común y la que pertenece hoy a Divina y Visitación hoy sus herederos.” Se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días, contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca antes descrita. Se les notifica que deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte peticionaria a través de su representante legal: Lcdo. Luis G, Parilla-Hernández y/o Lcdo. Pedro I. Torres Crespí P.O. Box 195168 San Juan, P.R. 00919-5168
250 Muñoz Rivera Ave., 6th Floor San Juan, P.R. 00918
Tel. (787) 766-7000
Email: lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com ptorres@ferraiuoli.com
Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy día, 27 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA I. COLÓN RIVERA, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
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Peticionario V. ADQUISICIón DE
PROPIEDAD DE 196.827
METROS CUADRADOS
LOCALIZADA EN #160 CALLE MANUEL
CORCHADO, SANTURCE, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00911; JOSÉ
FIOL Y SU ESPOSA ARCADIA COLÓN CADA UNO POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; BANCO DE SAN JUAN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09055. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOSÉ FIOL Y ARCADIA COLÓN; A: BANCO DE SAN JUAN; A: LAS SUCESIONES DE JOSÉ FIOL Y ARCADIA COLÓN, COMPUESTAS POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL.
RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad 196.827 metros cuadrados localizada en #160 Calle Manuel Corchado, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00911, para eliminar un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio.
DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: URBANA: Solar: 8. BARRIO SANTURCE de Santurce Norte. Cabida: 196.827 Metros Cuadrados. Urbana: Solar ubicado en el Barrio Santurce de esta ciudad, Sección Norte con una cabida de ciento sesenta y cuatro metros cuadrados con setenta y seis centímetros de otro, identificado con el número ocho (8) en el plano de lotificación. Colinda por el NORTE, en una extensión de dieciocho metros sesenta y siete centímetros con el solar identificado en el plano con el número nueve vendido a Antonio Rodríguez García; por el SUR, en dieciocho metros cuarenta y tres centímetros con una zanja propiedad de la capital de Puerto Rico; por el ESTE, en una extensión de nueve metros y cuarenta y seis centímetros con la Manuel Corchado; y por el OESTE, en una extensión de
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ocho metros diez centímetros con propiedad de Nicolás Hernández. EDIFICACIÓN: Sobre el solar descrito ha edificado una casa de una sola planta construida de concreto que mide veinte pies de frente por treinta y ocho pies de fondo y consiste de tres habitaciones, sala, comedor, cocina y cuarto de servicio sanitario, según surge de la inscripción 1a. Es segregación de la finca 6916, inscrita al folio 188 del tomo 160 de Santurce Norte. Finca Número 17,900, Folio 129, Tomo 486 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM: 041-052-283-31001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada; el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 71, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. La abogada de la parte demandante es el Lcda. Angelisse Ortiz Cruz cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: lcda.angelisseortiz@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírlos. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2026 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, Sala 1003 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la
Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 07 de mayo de 2026. SRA. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
EL GOBIERNO MUNICIPAL AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN, REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO
Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 260.2446 METROS CUADRADOS LOCALIZADA URB. EL PRADO, 517 CALLE ITALIA, SAN JUAN, 00917; FRANCISCO ANGUEIRA, MARIA LUISA CASTRO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV08662. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: FRANCISCO ANGUEIRA Y MARÍA LUISA CASTRO, LAS SUCESIONES DE FRANCISCO ANGUEIRA Y MARÍA LUISA CASTRO, COMPUESTAS POR ANTONIO, RENÉ, RADAMÉ Y GRACIELA, TODOS DE APELLIDOS ANGUEIRA CASTRO, LA SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO ANGUEIRA CASTRO, COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS. RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 260.2446 metros cuadrados localizada Urb. El Prado, 51 7 Calle Italia, San Juan, 00917, para eliminar un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL
SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: URBANA: Solar Radicado en el Barrio Hato Rey, Urbanización El Prado del término municipal de San Juan. Este marcado con el número 517 de la calle Italia. Colinda par el OESTE, su frente, con la calle Italia. Cabida de 260.000 metros cuadrados. Colinda al NORTE con el solar número 515 de Ángel Cases Velázquez, al SUR con el solar número 519 de Angelique Doble Bravo y por el ESTE con el solar número 516 de la calle España propiedad de Alejandro Ramirez Richard. Finca Número 4367, inscrita al Folio 67 del Tomo 80 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección II. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM.: 063-053-240-18-001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 71, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. La abogada de la parte demandante es el Lcda. Angelisse Ortiz Cruz cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: lcda.angelisseortiz@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a con testar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírlos. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 2 de septiembre de 2026 a las 9:00 de la mañana, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser
compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 07 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ
COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LIZ M. RIVERA DÍAZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE JOSE
FELIPE RIVERA MILLETY, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO
COMO JOSE RIVERA MILLETY, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS CARMEN RIVERA FASANO, JOSE
RIVERA RAFANELO, GERARDO RIVERA RAFANELO, RENE RIVERA RUIZ Y LUIS RIVERA RUIZ Y FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; MERCEDES RUIZ RAMOS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MERCEDES RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE FELIPE RIVERA MILLETY, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO JOSE RIVERA MILLETY; SUCESION DE RENE RIVERA RUIZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS LEANNE RIVERA SALVAT, NICOLE RIVERA SALVAT, MICHELLE RIVERA SALVAT Y MICHAEL RIVERA SALVAT Y FULANO DE CUAL Y ZUTANO DE CUAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; SUCESION DE LUIS RIVERA RUIZ, COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE CUAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV06019. (403). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA “IN REM”. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: SUCESION DE JOSE FELIPE RIVERA MILLETY, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO JOSE RIVERA MILLETY, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS CARMEN RIVERA FASANO, JOSE RIVERA RAFANELO, GERARDO RIVERA RAFANELO, RENE RIVERA RUIZ Y LUIS RIVERA RUIZ Y FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; MERCEDES RUIZ RAMOS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MERCEDES RIVERA, POR SÍ Y EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE
FELIPE RIVERA MILLETY, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO JOSE RIVERA MILLETY; SUCESION DE RENE RIVERA RUIZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS LEANNE RIVERA SALVAT, NICOLE RIVERA SALVAT, MICHELLE RIVERA SALVAT Y MICHAEL RIVERA SALVAT Y FULANO DE CUAL Y ZUTANO DE CUAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; SUCESION DE LUIS RIVERA RUIZ, COMPUESTA POR MENGANO DE TAL Y MENGANO DE CUAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM). Yo, EDGARDO ELÍAS BARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, Algua-
TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SEBASTIAN A CABRERA ZAYAS - URB WOODBRIDGE PK 7
ALLEN ST, TOA ALTA PR 00953-9500.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAO), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Parte Demandante Vs. ADELIZ ALICEA HERNANDEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TO2026CV00083. 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: ADELIZ ALICEA HERNANDEZ - RR 5 BOX 3228, TOA ALTA PR 00953-9682; URB PRADERAS DEL RIO 3122 CALLE RIO COCAL, TOA
ALTA PR 00953-9113.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.or/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Parte Demandante Vs. CHARIANA SERRANO CARMONA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GR2025CV00351. 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: CHARIANA SERRANO CARMONA - HC 2 BOX 13110 GURABO PR 007789615.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección
June 8, 2026
electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BARCELONETA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. HENRY A FEBLES MIRANDA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: FL2025CV00028. 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: HENRY A FEBLES MIRANDA - HC 3 BOX 3725, FLORIDA PR 00650. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su
sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BARCELONETA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de abril de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. LOURDES AGOSTO JIMÉNEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE LUNA CHICA, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. HECTOR X NEGRON SANTIAGO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TO2026CV00077. 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: HECTOR X NEGRON SANTIAGO - PRADERAS DEL RIO 3069 CALLE RIO BUCANA, TOA ALTA PR 00953; 3530 WARBLEY WAY, KISSIMMEE FL 34746-2000.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMAy el sello del Tribunal,
en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE GUILLERMO OLAVARRIA SULIVERAS, también conocido como GUILLERMO OLAVARRIA SULIVERA y como GUILLERMO OLAVARRIA SULIVERES y SUCESION DE SUSANA SANTIAGO
RODRIGUEZ, compuestas por sus hijos SANDRA IVELISSE OLAVARRIA
SANTIAGO, FRANCES
VANESSA OLAVARRIA
SANTIAGO y GUILLERMO
JOSE OLAVARRIA
SANTIAGO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: GM2025CV00567. (302). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: SUCESION DE GUILLERMO
OLAVARRIA SULIVERAS, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO
COMO GUILLERMO
OLAVARRIA SULIVERA Y COMO GUILLERMO
OLAVARRIA SULIVERES
Y SUCESION DE SUSANA
SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTAS POR
SUS HIJOS SANDRA
IVELISSE OLAVARRIA
SANTIAGO, FRANCES
VANESSA OLAVARRIA
SANTIAGO Y GUILLERMO
JOSE OLAVARRIA
SANTIAGO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM). Yo, MYRIAM ÑECO, ALGUACIL PLACA #107, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 2 DE JULIO DE 2026 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala
Superior de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Guayama durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 9 DE JULIO DE 2026 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 16 DE JULIO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Seis (6) del Bloque “C” en el plano de la URBANIZACIÓN JARDINES DE LAFAYETTE del Barrio Guásimas del término municipal de Arroyo, Puerto Rico, con un área de TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y OCHO PUNTO CERO CERO (338.00) METROS CUADRADOS; y en colindancias por el NORESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con terrenos de Sucesión Murdock; por el SUROESTE, en trece punto cero cero (13.00) metros, con la Calle “A”; por el SURESTE, en veintiséis punto cero cero (26.00) metros, con el solar número C guion Siete (C-7); y por el NOROESTE, en veintiséis punto cero cero (26.00) metros, con el solar número C guion Cinco (C-5). Contiene una casa de concreto de hormigón y bloques. La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al Sistema Karibe de Arroyo, Registro de la Propiedad de Guayama, finca número 1,658, inscripción segunda. La dirección física de la propiedad antes descrita es Urb. Jardines de Lafayette, Solar C-6 Calle A, Arroyo, PR. La subasta se llevará a efecto para satisfacer a la parte demandante la suma de $$39,230.67 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 6.125% anual, desde el día 1ro de enero de 2025, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $7,000.00 estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta para el inmueble será la suma de $70,000.00 y de ser necesaria una segunda subasta, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3
parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $46,666.67 y de necesitarse una tercera subasta la cantidad mínima será la mitad del precio pactado, es decir la suma de $35,000.00. De declararse desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta 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. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, continuarán subsistentes, 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 vendida en pública subasta se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Podrán concurrir como postores a todas las subastas los titulares de créditos hipotecarios vigentes y posteriores a la hipoteca que se cobra o ejecuta, si alguno o que figuren como tales en la certificación registral y que podrán utilizar el montante de sus créditos o parte de alguno en sus ofertas. Si la oferta aceptada es por cantidad mayor a la suma del crédito o créditos preferentes al suyo, al obtener la buena pro del remate, deberá satisfacer en el mismo acto, en efectivo o en cheque de gerente, la totalidad del crédito hipotecario que se ejecuta y la de cualesquiera otro créditos posteriores al que se ejecuta, pero preferente al suyo. El exceso constituirá abono total o parcial en su propio crédito. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 28 de abril de 2026. MYRIAM ÑECO, ALGUACIL PLACA #107, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL, SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs.
TERRENCE RICKRODE, JENNIFER KRIKETTE RICKRODE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
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: TERRENCE RICKRODE, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; JENNIFER KRIKETTE RICKRODE, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
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
Civil Núm.: VB2026CV00385.
Tribunal, hoy día 7 de mayo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA
ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUBSECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE VEGA BAJA
VACATION OWNERSHIP
LENDING LP
Demandante V. JUAN DEL PUEBLO, JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIERA OTRA PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: VB2026CV00399. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO, JUANA DEL PUEBLO y cualesquiera otra persona desconocida con posible interés en la obligación cuya cancelación por decreto judicial se solicita.
En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de Vacation Ownership Lending LP, o a su orden, por la suma principal de ocho mil cien dólares ($8,100.00) acumulando intereses al cinco por ciento (5%) anual, vencedero el 1 de febrero de 2008. Dicho pagaré fue garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 133 del 19 de enero de 2001, ante la notario Frances Ramírez Sánchez, e inscrita al sistema Karibe, finca número 14969, sobre la siguiente propiedad: VACATION CLUB
RIGHT: UNIT WEEK THIRTYEIGHT (38). Vacation Club
Right corresponding to Unit B dash Three Hundred Seven (B-307) of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B dash Three Hundred Seven (B-307) and includes the right to use such unit during the thirty eighth (38th) week of each year until December thirty first (31st) of the year two thousand seventy (2070), such week commencing at twelve noon (12:00pm) on the
thirty eighth (38th) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at twelve noon (12:00pm) of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B dash Three Hundred Seven (307), the use of said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club Rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club’s right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. This Vacation Club Right has been assigned a share of one fifty-two hundredth (1/52) of one point two one nine four percent (1.2194%) in the facilities and common expenses of the Vacation Club Regime.” La finca 14969 consta inscrita en el sistema Karibe del Registro de la Propiedad, Sección III de Bayamón; demarcación de Vega Alta. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según descrito detalladamente en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia y notifique con copia de ella a Garriga & Marini Law Office, PO Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, Tel. (787) 275-0655, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar
su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de mayo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. CARMEN JAHAIRA BURGOS MARRERO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FULANO DE TAL
Demandados Civil Núm.: JD2025CV00891. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. A: CARMEN JAHAIRA BURGOS MARRERO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON FULANO DE TALFÍSICA: MANSIONES DE PASEO REYES CALLE REY FERNANDO D 60 JUANA DIAZ, PUERTO RICO 00795; POSTAL: MANSIONES DE PASEO REYES CALLE REY FERNANDO D 60 JUANA DIAZ, PUERTO RICO 00795. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haberse publicado este emplazamiento por edicto, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá
presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al ( a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a esta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le 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 mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Núm. 57-2023).
Se le 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, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de mayo de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. CONSUELO ELAINE RIVERA PADILLA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AÑASCO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN
Parte Demandante Vs MUNICIPIO DE AÑASCO, SUCESIÓN ANDRÉS NAZARIO ÁLVAREZ COMPUESTA POR ÁNDRES NAZARIO TIRADO, LUIS ÁNGEL NAZARIO TIRADO JORGE NAZARIO CASTRO, THALIA ELISHA NAZARIO CASTRO Y LA VIUDA LUZ VIRGINIA TIRADO JAVIER, FULANO DE TAL, JANE DOE
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AÑ2026CV00150. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN, PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA. EDICTO.
A: FULANO DE TAL.
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650335, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamiento y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Puede
usted obtener más información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente 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 de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Añasco, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de mayo de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AÑASCO. YAHAIRA TORRES MATÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AÑASCO COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE RINCÓN
Parte Demandante Vs MUNICIPIO DE AÑASCO, SUCESIÓN ANDRÉS NAZARIO ÁLVAREZ COMPUESTA POR ÁNDRES NAZARIO TIRADO, LUIS ÁNGEL NAZARIO TIRADO JORGE NAZARIO CASTRO, THALIA ELISHA NAZARIO CASTRO Y LA VIUDA LUZ VIRGINIA TIRADO JAVIER, FULANO DE TAL, JANE DOE
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AÑ2026CV00150. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN, PRESCRIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA. EDICTO.
A: JANE DOE. Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, P.O. Box 277, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681, Tel. 787-2650335, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamiento y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo a la última dirección conocida. Puede usted obtener más información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU-
MAC), 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 de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Añasco, Puerto Rico, hoy 8 de mayo de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE AÑASCO. YAHAIRA TORRES MATÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE LUZ MILAGROS GARCÍA
CORREA T/C/C LUZ M. GARCÍA CORREA COMPUESTA POR FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS, LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ PEÑA T/C/C
RAFAEL MARTÍNEZ PEÑA T/C/C RAFAEL MANUEL PEÑA COMPUESTA POR ALEX RAFAEL TRINIDAD MARTÍNEZ, GABRIELA CRISTAL GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, JULIO GARCÍA CORREA, SUTANO y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISIÓN DE CAUDALES RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2026CV00710. (403). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO e INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: ALEX RAFAEL TRINIDAD MARTÍNEZ, GABRIELA CRISTAL
GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, JULIO GARCÍA CORREA POR SÍ y POR CONDUCTO DE SU PRESUNTA TUTORA LEGAL MARITZA PÉREZ CORREA COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE RAFAEL ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ PEÑA T/C/C RAFAEL MARTÍNEZ PEÑA T/C/C RAFAEL MANUEL PEÑA a las siguientes direcciones: URB. COUNTRY CLUB, HP4 CALLE 236, CAROLINA, PR 00982-2666, URB VEREDAS, 475 CAMINO DE LAS AMAPOLAS, GURABO, PR 00778-9692, COND. TROPICANA, 5890 CALLE TARTAK APT A807, CAROLINA PR 00979-5926 Y URB COUNTRY CLUB, HP14 CALLE 236, CAROLINA, PR 00982-2666; FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LUZ MILAGROS GARCÍA CORREA T/C/C LUZ M. GARCÍA CORREA; SUTANO y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS RAFAEL ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ PEÑA T/C/C RAFAEL MARTÍNEZ PEÑA T/C/C RAFAEL MANUEL PEÑA. Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega se adeuda las siguientes cantidades: $123,995.73 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.25% anual desde el 1 de agosto de 2025 hasta su completo pago, más $187.44 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $10,320.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipotecariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 4 del bloque HP del plano de inscripción de la Tercera Extensión de la Urbanización Country Club, situada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo de la Municipalidad de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 381.68 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE: en 14.79 metros
con la calle numero 236; por el SUR: en 18.40 metros con los solares números 27 y 28; por el ESTE: en 23.00 metros con el solar numero 5; y por el OESTE: en 23.00 metros con el solar número 3. Según la segunda inscripción se ha construido una residencia de concreto de una sola planta, para una sola familia, que consta principalmente de 5 cuartos, un baño, balcón y marquesina. Inscrita al folio 71 del tomo 114 de Carolina Norte, Finca 4,120, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. La escritura de hipoteca y su modificación constan inscritas al tomo Karibe de Carolina Norte, Finca 4,120, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección I. Inscripción décimo tercera (13ra) y décimo quinta (15ta). La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los herederos que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de los causantes dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento al Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico del 1930 y Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan la herencia de los causantes; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. 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, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826 y (787) 708-0566, 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 13 de mayo de 2026 en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. WANDA DÍAZ GUZMÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
MENORES SHAN LI MARTINEZ RIVERA
NILKA DESIREE
RIVERA SANTIAGO
Demandante Vs. PEDRO JULIO
NEVÁREZ SANTIAGO
Demandado
Civil Núm.: AR2026RF00345.
Sobre: PRIVACIÓN PATRIA POTESTAD Y/O CUSTODIA
CON FACULTADES TUTELARES. EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: PEDRO JULIO
NEVÁREZ SANTIAGO - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA.
Se notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda que exhibe el epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Wilma I. López Mora de la Corporación de Servicios Legales de Puerto Rico, Centro de Servicio Directo de Manatí, representante legal de la parte demandante (P.O. Box 403, Manatí, PR 00674-0403, Teléfono (787) 854-1885, correo electrónico wlopez@servicioslegales.org y notificacionesmanati@servicioslegales.org), dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación general, por orden del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo, radicando el original de la Contestación a la Demanda en el Tribunal, 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 radicar el original de la misma en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Si dejare de hacerlo podrá dictarse contra usted Sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda. Se exime a la parte demandante de que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del edicto se le dirija al demandado por correo certificado con acuse de recibo una copia de la Demanda y del emplazamiento a su última dirección conocida ya que se acredita desconocer la misma.
Expedido bajo firma y sello de este Honorable Tribunal en Arecibo Puerto Rico, a 20 de mayo de 2026. VIVIAN I. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA.
JACKELINE J. RIVERA RAMOS, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALAS DE FAMILIA Y
Parte Demandante V. JHAN MARXEL TRENCHE MORALES
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: BY2026RF00869. Sala: 3003. Sobre: PRIVACIÓN DE PATRIA POTESTAD. EDICTO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDNETE DE LOS E.U., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. A: JHAN MARXEL TRENCHE MORALES990 NW PALM LAKE DR APT. 3, STUART, FLORIDA 34994.
Por la presente se le emplaza para que notifique, con copia de la Contestación a la Demanda radicada por la parte demandante dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación general, por Orden del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Familia y Menores de Bayamón a: LCDA. AMANDA
LACLAUSTRA VIDOT
RUA: 23205 alaclaustra@servicioslegales.org notificaciones-bayamon@ servicioslegales.org SERVICIOS LEGALES DE PR INC APARTADO 2699
BAYAMON PR 00960
TELS: (787) 785-3858
Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la Demanda, copia de la cual se le acompaña, radicando el original de la Contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal correspondiente dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, si la citación se hiciera en la isla de Puerto Rico; excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, hoy día 20 de mayo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MARÍA A. RUIZ QUIÑONES, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
June 8, 2026
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SHELKY ESPINAL NORBELTO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV02376. (505). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SHELKY ESPINAL NORBELTO, FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 711 CALLE FELIPE R. GOYCO, BO. OBRERO, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00901. De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO. Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar al 23 de febrero de 2026 por el préstamo de auto xxxx-xx-70217172 la cantidad de $26,730.54 de principal; más $3,387.45 de intereses a razón del 15.95% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más $312.00 de cargos por pago tardío y los que se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, conce-
diéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.
Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919
Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 15 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
MUNICIPIO AUTONÓMO DE SAN JUAN
REPRESENTADO POR SU
HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO
Peticionario V. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 252
METROS CUADRADOS
LOCALIZADA EN #613 CALLE JULIO C. ARTEAGA, URB. VILLA PRADES, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00924; ANGEL MANUEL
LOPEZ SANCHEZ, MARIA ISABEL LOPEZ SANCHEZ, ANA GLORIA
LOPEZ ROMERO, VICTOR MANUEL
LOPEZ ROMERO Y NYDIA NEREIDA LOPEZ ROMERO
Peticionada
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Parte con Interés
Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV02313. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ANGEL MANUEL
LOPEZ SANCHEZ, MARIA ISABEL LOPEZ
SANCHEZ, ANA GLORIA
LOPEZ ROMERO, VICTOR MANUEL LOPEZ ROMERO Y NYDIA NEREIDA
LOPEZ ROMERO. RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 252 metros cuadrados localizada en #613 Calle Julio C. Arteaga, Urb. Villa Prades, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00924.
DESCRIPCION AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SU-
FICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: URBANA: Solar: 33-W. URBANIZACIÓN VILLA PRADES (AHORA BUENOS AIRES) de Sabana Llana. Cabida: 252 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, en doce metros con solar número Dos del bloque W de la urbanización. Sur, en doce metros con la calle D de la urbanización. Este, en veintiun metros con el solar número treintidos del bloque W de la urbanización. Oeste, en veintiun metros con el solar número treinticuatro del bloque W de la urbanización. Contiene una casa de concreto de una planta con techo de hormigón de dos aguas, que contiene tres dormitorios, salacomedor, cocina, baño y balcón. Finca Número 677, inscrita al Folio 26 del Tomo 18 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM.: 063-096-061-33802. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 10, Serie 2025-2026 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo publico declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Pablo Guerrero Sanfilippo cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: pguerrerosanfilippo@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírles. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 29 DE JULIO DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer
y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 1 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN MOLINA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MUNICIPIO DE SAN JUAN, REPRESENTADO POR SU HONORABLE ALCALDE, MIGUEL ROMERO LUGO
Parte Peticionaria Vs. ADQUISICIÓN DE PROPIEDAD DE 313,1449 METROS CUADRADOS LOCALIZADA CALLE HENNA ESQ. CALLE PROVIDENCIA, NÚM. 2121 SECTOR VILLA PALMERAS, BO. SANTURCE, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00915; JUAN HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Partes con Interés Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV00107. Sala: 1002. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ.. RE: Adquisición en pleno dominio y a título absoluto de la propiedad de 313,1449 metros cuadrados localizada
Calle Henna Esq. Calle Providencia, Núm. 2121
Sector Villa Palmeras, Bo. San, para eliminar un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio.
DESCRIPCIÓN AMPLIA DEL SUJETO EXPROPIADO SUFICIENTE PARA SU IDENTIFICACIÓN: URBANA: Solar: 120. BARRIO VILLA PALMERAS de Santurce Norte. Cabida: 313,1449 Metros Cuadrados.
URBANA: Solar radicado en la Sección Norte del Barrio de Santurce de esta ciudad de San Juan, Puerto Rico con una cabida de ciento veintinueve punto veinticinco metros cua-
drados, colindante por el Norte, en diez metros con el solar número ciento veinte propiedad de Juan Ángel Giusti; por el Sur, en diez punto cero nueve metros con la Calle Henna; por el Este, en trece punto sesenta metros con José Malavé Rosario; y por el Oeste, en doce punto veinticinco metros con el solar número ciento dieciocho frente. Finca Número 16136, inscrita al Folio 492 del Tomo 22 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección I. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM: 041-063-354-09-001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendada, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 20212022 y la Resolución Núm. 71, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. La abogada de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Angelisse Ortiz Cruz cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: lcda.angelisseortiz@ gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírlos. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 2 de septiembre de 2026 a las 9:00 de la mañana, Sala 1002 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 5 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE BENITO GARCIA AROCHO Y LA SUCESION DE EMILIA VALE BABILONIA AMBAS COMPUESTAS POR MARISOL GARCÍA VALE, JOSÉ A. GARCÍA VALE, EFIGENIO GARCÍA VALE, BENJAMÍN GARCÍA VALE, MERCEDES GARCÍA VALE, MIRIAM GARCÍA VALE, BENITO GARCÍA VALE, JOSELYN GARCÍA VALE, IRAIDA GARCÍA VALE, WILFREDO GARCÍA VALE, FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE AMBAS SUCESIONES Demandados Civil Núm.: AG2026CV00393. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: BENITO GARCIA VALE; IRAIDA GARCIA VALE; Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BENITO GARCIA AROCHO Y DE LA SUCESION DE EMILIA VALE BABILONIA. 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, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato
to del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 19 de mayo de 2026. Héctor L. Peña Rodríguez, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Carolina.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JANICE LYNN NASH T/C/C JANICE LYNN NASH FLAGG
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2025CV03661. (Civil: 409). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM. A: JANICE LYNN NASH T/C/C JANICE LYNN NASH FLAGG. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de mayo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de mayo de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FINANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITIES ACQUISITION TRUST
2018-HB1
Demandante V. SUCESION JOSE
ANTONIO BURGOS
MANSO T/C/C JOSE A. BURGOS MANSO T/C/C
JOSE BURGOS MANSO
T/C/C JOSE A. BURGOS
T/C/C JOSE BURGOS Y
OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV07384. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.
EUGENIO C. ROMERO DE JUANECROMERO@HOTMAIL.COM.
FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM.
JESSICA ENID NÁTER CRUZADOJNCLAW@OUTLOOK.COM.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION JOSE
ANTONIO BURGOS
MANSO T/C/C JOSE
A. BURGOS MANSO
T/C/C JOSE BURGOS
MANSO T/C/C JOSE ANTONIO BURGOS
T/C/C JOSE A. BURGOS
T/C/C JOSE BURGOS; ROSA IDALET BURGOS
RIVERA, MARIZEL
BURGOS MARTÍNEZ, JOEL ANTONIO
BURGOS RIVERA, JOSÉ
MANUEL BURGOS
GONZÁLEZ T/C/C JOSÉ
EMANUEL BURGOS
GONZÁLEZ; JOHN DOE
Y JANE DOE COMO
POSIBLES MIEMBROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION JOSE
ANTONIO BURGOS
MANSO T/C/C JOSE A.
BURGOS MANSO T/C/C
JOSE BURGOS MANSO
T/C/C JOSE ANTONIO
BURGOS T/C/C JOSE
A. BURGOS T/C/C JOSE BURGOS.
(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 mayo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de
mayo de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ D. HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. YONIEL
ROSADO CANCEL
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CB2023CV00489. (Salón: 503 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM.
A: YONIEL
ROSADO CANCEL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de octubre de 2024, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de mayo de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA POR ORDEN DEL TRIBUNAL. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2026. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, Secretaria. Alejandra K. Ríos Cortés, 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 ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. ALFREDO DEL VALLE REY
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: YB2025CV00322. (Salón: 205). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. A: ALFREDO DEL VALLE REY - DIRECCION: URB EXT VILLAS DE BUENAVENTURA
572 CALLE ZAFIRO, YABUCOA PR 00767-9805. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de mayo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de mayo de 2026. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 29 de mayo de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
ANA IVETTE
TORRES GARCIA
Demandante V. MELVIN ALEXIS OJEDA MORALES
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2026RF00231. (Salón: 103 RELACIONES DE FAMILIA Y MENORES - CIVIL). Sobre: CUSTODIA - MONOPARENTAL O COMPARTIDA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MÓNICA BERENICE CORDERO RIVERA - MBCORDERO@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. WILMA I. LÓPEZ MORA - WLOPEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG.
MELVIN ALEXIS OJEDA MORALES2YAVIAN@GMAIL.COM. A: MELVIN ALEXIS OJEDA MORALES. (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 junio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de junio de 2026. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 02 de junio de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ANGELITA PADÚA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ MARLIN SANTOS LUGO
Demandante V. IRAMIS SANTOS CORDERO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2026RF00032. (Salón: 303). Sobre: CUSTODIA - MONOPARENTAL O COMPARTIDA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GLADYS J. RAMOS ROSARIOGRAMOS@SERVICIOSLEGALES. ORG. A: IRAMIS SANTOS CORDERO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de mayo de 2026, 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 procedi-
miento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de junio de 2026. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 02 de junio de 2026. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. LOURDES GARCÍA CUEBAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. PJ SECURITY AND COLLECTION CORP.; EXECUTIVE SOLUTIONS LLC; JOSÉ POUPAL ANDINO; MARIE COLÓN MORALES
Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2026CV00130. 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: PJ SECURITY AND COLLECTION CORP.; EXECUTIVE SOLUTIONS LLC; JOSÉ POUPAL ANDINO.
Por la presente se les notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se les advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma 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 Superior, Sala de Carolina, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará
la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante les notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: a la codemandada, PJ Security and Collection Corp. a: Urb. Villa Carolina, Calle 16 #35-23, Carolina, PR 00983 y P.O. Box 5109, Bayamón, PR 00960; a la codemandada, Executive Solutions LLC, a: Urb. Villa Carolina, Calle 16 #25-83, Carolina, PR 00983 y P.O. Box 5109, Bayamón, PR 00960 y al codemandado, José Poupal Andino, a: Ciudad Jardín I, 45 Calle Higuereta, Gurabo, PR 00778; 3817 Milenia Blvd #310, Orlando, FL 32819. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 18 de mayo de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ROSA M. VIERA VELÁZQUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. FIDEL ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ COLÓN Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2026CV00024. (Salón: 504 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: FIDEL ALBERTO GONZÁLEZ COLÓN. (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 junio de 2026, 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 edic-
to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 03 de junio de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 03 de junio de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. GÉNESIS PIZARRO QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE REY D. COTTO GONZÁLEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES
HEREDEROS, FULANO(A) DE TAL, MENGANO(A) DE TAL. PERENCEJO(A) DE TAL Y ZUTANO(A) DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; Y LILLIAN NEGRONI MELÉNDEZ
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2025CV04396. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO E INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE REY D. COTTO GONZÁLEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS, FULANO(A) DE TAL, MENGANO(A) DE TAL. PERENCEJO(A) DE TAL Y ZUTANO(A) DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.
Por la presente se les notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 6222320. Se les advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda Enmendada radicando el original de la misma 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 Superior, Sala de Caguas, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Emplazamiento e Interpelación por Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda Enmendada sin más citarles ni oírles. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Emplazamiento e Interpelación por Edicto, la parte demandante les notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento e Interpelación por Edicto y de la Demanda Enmendada a las últimas direcciones conocidas: Bo. San Antonio, Carr. 175 Km. 1.3, Caguas, PR 00725; y HC 5 Box 55288, Caguas, PR 00725. Se les interpela judicialmente además conforme al Art. 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico (31 L.P.R.A. § 11021), para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este Emplazamiento e Interpelación por Edicto, excluyéndose el día de su publicación, acepten o renuncien mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial la herencia del causante Rey D. Cotto González, apercibiéndoseles que, de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005). Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 20 de mayo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT
PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, INC.
Demandante V. RAFAEL A VAZQUEZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TJ2025CV00533. (Civil: 406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: RAFAEL A VAZQUEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de mayo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución
en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de mayo de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2026.
KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. KATHYA M GUZMAN
FIGUEROA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2025CV05439.
(Salón: 501). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: KATHYA M. GUZMAN FIGUEROA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 DE MAYO DE 2026, 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 consi-
derará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de mayo de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante V. MIGUEL A ORTIZ VEGA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CI2025CV00404. (Salón: 101 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: MIGUEL A ORTIZ VEGA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de mayo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de mayo de 2026. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 28 de mayo de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. JANETTE GONZÁLEZ VARGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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PROPERTIES, LLC Demandante Vs.
MAVEN MAKER’S MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC; COMPAÑÍA ASEGURADORA ABC, INC.
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV00706. Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: MAVEN MAKER’S MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC - PASEO LOS CORALES 1, 595 MAR INDICO, DORADO, PUERTO RICO 00646. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante una demanda sobre daños y perjuicios, cuyos hechos se detallan en la misma, la cual puede ser examinada en la secretaría de este Tribunal. REPRESENTA al demandante el Lcdo. Víctor M. Rivera Torres con dirección en Avenida Fernández Juncos #1420, Santurce, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfonos (787) 727-5710, fax (787) 268-1835, e-mail: victor.rivera@rcrtrblaw.com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, el demandante podrá solicitar que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía, declarándose con lugar la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día de de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARLA RIVERA CLIMENT, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
DAVID BURGOS CRUZADO
Parte Peticionaria Vs. EX-PARTE
Parte Peticionada Civil Núm.: BY2026CV02482. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO.
A: FACUNDO RODRÍGUEZ ÁLVAREZ; DUEÑO ANTERIOR, O SUS HEREDEROS, CESIONARIOS O CAUSAHABIENTES. TODA PERSONA CON INTERÉS.
EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, a todo lo que tenga algún derecho real sobre el descrito en este expediente de DOMINIO las personas ignoradas a quien pueda
perjudicar la inscripción y en generarla toda persona que desee oponerse. Por la presente se le notifica que comparezcan, si creyeren que les conviene, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de 20 días a partir desde que fueron notificados de esta CITACIÓN, y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno sito en el barrio Algarrobo, del término municipal de Vega Baja, con un área de cuatro mil ochocientos ochenta y uno punto mil ochocientos noventa y siete (4,881.1897) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a uno punto doscientos cuarenta y dos (1.242) cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con Juan Santiago Vázquez y Seferino Prieto; por el SUR, con Montiano Ascanio antes, hoy Miguel Ángel Figueroa; por el ESTE, con Elías Díaz; y por el OESTE, con sucesión de Rafael Sostre Otero. Debe notificar con copia de sus alegaciones a la representación legal del promovente, Lic. Reinaldo Otero Santiago, 11 Calle Parque, Parcelas Amadeo, Vega Baja, P. R. 00693-5119, con teléfono (787) 855-6729, email: reinaldo.otero@gmail.com o Lic. Reina C. Rivera Rey, P. O. Box 1840, Manatí, P. R. 00674-1840, con teléfono (787) 855-6729, email: lcda.reinarivera@gmail.com. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 21 de mayo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
IRVING
RAMOS VILLANUEVA
Demandantes Vs. JUAN CARLOS RIOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: AG2025CV02224. Sobre: COBRO DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JUAN CARLOS RIOS - CARR. NÚM. 2, CERCA ESCUELA ADAM, AGUADILLA, PR 0060. POR LA PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los 30 días de haber publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.
ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte demandante es: LCDO. DAVID VILLANUEVA MATÍAS P. O. BOX 43 AGUADILLA, PR 00605 Tel.: (787) 882-0404 lic.davidvillanueva@outlook.com
Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 07 de abril de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MYRNA L. RIVERA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. WILLIAM MELENDEZ SANTIAGO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TO2026CV00073. 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: WILLIAM MELENDEZ SANTIAGO - PO BOX 748, TOA ALTA PR 00954-0748. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAOC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema
SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf0law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Parte Demandante Vs ANGEL C LOPEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TO2026CV00070. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ANGEL C LOPEZRR 1 BOX 12419, TOA ALTA PR 00953-8613. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAOC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.príndex.php/ tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMAy el sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de abril de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
Sabana Grande sweeps Yauco to win Southwest Section title
By THE STAR STAFF
The Petateros of Sabana Grande rallied for six runs in the ninth inning on Saturday to complete a series sweep and were crowned the new Southwest Section champions after defeating the Cafeteros of Yauco 11-8 as part of a slate of seven games in Superior Double-A Baseball League postseason play.
With the 4-0 sweep at Mario “Ñato” Ramírez Stadium in Yauco, Sabana Grande became the first team to qualify for the 2026 “Carnaval de Campeones” (Champions’ Tournament). The Petateros are undefeated in the postseason with a 7-0 record.
Although the Cafeteros led 8-5 in the ninth, the Petateros stormed back in the top of the inning to clinch their first sectional title since 2016. Juan Rodríguez pitched two scoreless innings in relief to earn the win for Sabana Grande, while Jesús Ramos worked the bottom of the ninth to record the save.
Ángel Lasalle drove in three runs with two hits for the Petateros. Steven Carrero, Joshua López and Jessy de la Cruz each scored two runs.
In the East Section, the Mulos of Juncos moved to the brink of repeating as section champions by defeating the Artesanos of Las Piedras, 5-2. Star left-hander Luis Cintrón pitched 6.1 innings, Kenny Burgos earned the save, and Jan Rivera hit a home run for Juncos.
In the Metro Section, the Gigantes of Carolina moved within one win of the title by beating the Guardianes of Dorado, 4-1, backed by Héctor “Heto” Acevedo’s 10 strikeouts
over 8.1 innings.
In the North, the Tigres of Hatillo routed the Titanes of Florida, 14-2, moving closer to their first sectional championship. Hatillo leads the series 3-1. Right-hander Rawell Rivera pitched eight innings to earn the win for Hatillo, while Jonathan Nieves drove in three runs and Erick Espinosa scored three.
In the South, the Maratonistas of Coamo got back on track by routing the Peces Voladores of Salinas, 16-2. Coamo leads the series 3-1 as they look to reclaim the sectional title after a sevenyear drought. Ángel “Potoco” Flores led the Coamo offense with three RBIs, while Fernando Amaro and Melvin Reyes each scored three runs.
In the Central Section, the Pescadores del Plata of Comerío avoided a sweep by crushing the Toritos of Cayey, 12-2, backed by seven strong innings from left-hander Héctor Hernández, a home run by Yadiel Rivera, and three RBIs by José “Pocholo” Rivera. The Toritos lead the series 3-1.
win the Double-A Southwest Section title on Saturday.
In the Northwest, the Libertadores of Hormigueros notched their second win to tie the series, defeating the Patrulleros of San Sebastián, 4-3, behind 6.2 innings from left-hander Omar Meléndez. Marvin Galarza
pitched the remainder of the game and earned the save. Ramón Agosto drove in two runs and Carlos Vicente scored twice for Hormigueros.
Manatí outlasts Santurce in overtime
Ponce & Bayamón also post wins in BSN
By THE STAR STAFF
The Osos of Manatí, Leones of Ponce and Vaqueros of Bayamón were winners on Saturday night in the Superior National Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) league.
At Juan Aubin Cruz Coliseum in Manatí, the Osos defeated the Cangrejeros of Santurce 95-93 in overtime, in a game featuring 43 lead changes that was decided in the final moments of the extra period.
After a back-and-forth affair that appeared to swing Santurce’s way late in the fourth quarter, the Osos tied the game at 84 at the end of regulation on Jameer Nelson Jr.’s buzzer-beating threepointer.
Although the Cangrejeros managed to tie the score at 89 after Manatí took an early lead in over-
time, Tyquan Rolon converted a three-point play to make it 95-93 with 20 seconds remaining, ultimately sealing the victory with a final defensive rebound.
Nelson led the way for Manatí (10-16) with 39 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in 42 minutes and excelling in the clutch. Kristian Doolittle added 25 points and eight rebounds while shooting an efficient 53.8% from the field, while Rolon contributed 15 points and played a key role in overtime.
Davon Jefferson led Santurce (11-14) with 21 points and 10 rebounds, while Walter Hodge Jr. scored 20 points, including four three-pointers. D.J. Wilson posted a double-double with 12 points and 16 rebounds as the Cangrejeros dominated the boards 49-32 in the loss.
At Juan Pachín Vicens Auditorium in Ponce, meanwhile, the Leones defeated the Santeros of Aguada, 98-91.
In a one-possession game just inside the final two minutes, Thomas Robinson scored back-toback baskets to extend Ponce’s lead to seven points with 53 seconds left, and the Leones sealed the win from the free-throw line.
The Santeros tried to narrow the gap with free throws of their own, but came up short.
Robinson led Ponce (11-16) with 22 points
The Petateros of Sabana Grande rallied for six runs in the ninth inning to beat the Cafeteros of Yauco 11-8 and complete a series sweep to
Thomas Robinson scored 22 points, shooting 83.3% from the field, and grabbed nine rebounds as the Leones of Ponce defeated the Santeros of Aguada 98-91 on Saturday night.
and nine rebounds, shooting 83.3% from the field. Tjader Fernández contributed 20 points with efficient perimeter shooting, while Jalen Bernard Crutcher added 15 points and six assists
Jacob Wiley led the Santeros (11-13) with 28 points and 11 rebounds, while Iván Gandia scored 16 points and Rigoberto Mendoza added 14 points and seven rebounds.
At Fernando “Rube” Hernández Coliseum in Gurabo, the Vaqueros defeated the Mets of Guaynabo, 10391.
With Bayamón leading the back-and-forth contest 83-81 with just over four minutes remaining in the fourth period, Jae Crowder nailed a corner three-pointer to push the lead back to five points. From there, the Vaqueros executed at the free-throw line, defended well and got a late 3-pointer from Jassel Pérez to seal the win.
Pérez led Bayamón (17-10) with 29 points in 30 minutes, hitting four three-pointers and coming up big during crunch time. Crowder contributed 26 points, while Jordan Cintrón added nine points and 11 rebounds as the Vaqueros dominated the boards 50-36, in addition to getting 33 points from their bench.
Jaysean Paige led the way for Guaynabo (12-13) with 24 points, followed by Devin Williams with 21 and Torrey Craig with 18.
Cidra remains unbeaten in LPSF after sweeping Salinas
By THE STAR STAFF
TNBA
Finals (Best-of-7; all times Eastern)
Game 1
New York Knicks 105, San Antonio Spurs 95
Game 2
Friday
New York 105, San Antonio 104
Game 3 (New York leads 2-0)
Today
San Antonio at New York, 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
Game 4
Wednesday
San Antonio at New York, 8:30 p.m. (ABC)
NHL Stanley Cup Final (Best-of-7; all times Eastern)
Game 1
Vegas Golden Knights 5, Carolina Hurricanes 4
Game 2 (Vegas leads 1-0)
Carolina 4, Vegas 3 (OT)
Game 3
Saturday
Vegas 5, Carolina 4 (OT2)
Game 4
Tuesday
Carolina at Vegas, 8 p.m. (ABC)
Game 5
Thursday
Vegas at Carolina, 8 p.m. (ABC)
he two-time defending Women’s Premier Softball League (LPSF by its initials in Spanish) champion Bravas of Cidra stayed undefeated (4-0) as they swept the Caribeñas of Salinas, 1-0 and 4-3, in a doubleheader at Luis “Papa” Rivera Park in Cidra on Saturday.
Jasmin Speth and Odhi Vázquez combined for the shutout in the first game. The day’s second victory required a solid relief performance from Vázquez. After Speth allowed three runs in just one-third of an inning, Vázquez took over and dominated for 5.2 scoreless innings, racking up 11 strikeouts to secure the win.
In Humacao, the visiting Leonas of Ponce completed a sweep (8-2 and 10-0) of the Grises.
Janiliz Rivera and Jenelle Cruz led the Ponce offense in the first game, each hitting a home run. In the second game, Eden Echevarría and Yahelis Muñoz also homered for the Leonas.
Meanwhile, the Valencianas of Juncos and the Prodigiosas of Sabana Grande split their doubleheader.
The Valencianas took the first game 3-2, but the Prodigiosas bounced back in the second game with a 3-2 victory of their own.
Import pitcher Morgan Smith once again looked dominant for Sabana Grande in the nightcap, pitching all seven innings, allowing two unearned runs, and striking out eight batters.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 30
Odhi Vázquez recorded a save and a win for the Bravas of Cidra in their doubleheader sweep against the Caribeñas of Salinas.
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