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Intersectoral meeting on housing & homelessness set for next week

By THE STAR STAFF

The Moriviví Coordinating Committee (MCC) announced Tuesday that the First Intersectoral Meeting on Housing and Homelessness will be held next Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Hilton Ponce Golf & Casino Resort.

The unprecedented initiative will bring together mayors, third-sector organizations, faithbased entities, healthcare providers, academic institutions, and central government agencies to develop a joint strategy for the prevention and eradication of homelessness in Puerto Rico.

The MCC is a third-sector collective comprising 34 housing and service projects that serve homeless individuals and families in 54 municipalities, including Vieques and Culebra. The organization emphasizes that while housing and support services have historically been concentrated in the metropolitan area, the need is equally pressing throughout the rest of the island, where many communities face significant service gaps.

The meeting seeks to mark a starting point for profound transformation: moving from managing homelessness to preventing and sustainably reducing it. The initiative proposes strengthening municipal coordination with all its components -- citizen services, housing offices, municipal health services and municipal police -- along with community organizations, faith-based entities, academia and healthcare providers. The goal: to create local systems capable of responding in an integrated manner, utilizing real-time

data, and ensuring that every homeless person can be quickly linked to housing and support services.

“This event is a call to coordinate resources, expand capacities, and strengthen collective planning to improve access to housing and essential services in the 54 municipalities we serve,” said Keilyn Vale Lassalle, senior officer at MCC. “Our goal is to bring together all sectors to design collaborative, informed, and effective responses.”

The MCC urged community organizations, municipalities, and the public and private sectors to participate in the event, which is free of charge but requires prior registration (at https://bit.ly/ EncuentroIntersectorialSinhogarismo) on or before this Friday.

Solar associations reject hike in residential charge

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Solar Energy and Storage Association (SESA), along with Solar United Neighbors (SUN), has called on the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) to reject LUMA Energy’s proposal to increase the fixed residential charge from $4 per month to $15, starting Jan. 1, 2026.

“LUMA’s request represents an increase that nearly quadruples the current charge and places an unfair economic strain on households and families across the island,” said Javier Rúa Jovet, SESA’s public policy director.

SESA President PJ Wilson added that “LUMA has failed to provide any analysis on how such a drastic hike would impact a population where over half rely on assistance to meet their basic needs.”

“Introducing an additional fixed charge of $11 per month will only worsen the affordability crisis,” he said.

Wilson further noted that the proposal also includes six new charges that could push the base rate to more than $40.

The organizations argued that the proposal goes against the principle of gradualism in rate design, which the PREB itself advocates in order to ensure predictable and phased adjustments that prevent sudden spikes in charges. They highlighted that an increase of more than 350% is unusually steep compared to other U.S. jurisdictions.

David Ortiz, director of the SUN program in Puerto Rico, stressed that such a significant hike contradicts the goals of efficiency, conservation and energy transition, as it undermines incentives for saving energy or investing in technologies that help manage consumption.

The organizations urge maintaining the current fixed charge while considering gradual adjustments based on volumetric charges per kilowatt-hour to foster efficiency, affordability and support for distributed energy systems.

Keilyn Vale Lassalle, senior officer at the Moriviví Coordinating Committee

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Gov’t officials: LNG deal with NFE will lower energy prices

By THE STAR STAFF

La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech, along with Energy Czar Josué Colón Ortiz, gave assurances on Tuesday that the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply contract with New Fortress Energy (NFE) will lower energy prices.

The Financial Oversight and Management Board approved the agreement, which completely replaces the original proposal submitted by NFE in mid-2025. Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s administration rejected the initial plan -- valued at over $20 billion, with a 15-year term and exclusivity clauses -- and negotiated a new deal it says is aligned with Puerto Rico’s energy policy. The new agreement will significantly reduce energy costs, shorten the contract’s duration, and deliver savings that benefit customers, the officials said.

“This agreement is the result of months of rigorous technical work,” said Colón Ortiz, who also serves as executive director of the Public-Private Partnerships Authority. “We demanded better terms, stronger guarantees, and fair costs. Puerto Rico deserves a stable, reliable, and economically sustainable energy system, and this brings us closer to that goal.”

The new contract has a base term of seven years,

The Financial Oversight and Management Board approved the new liquefied natural gas supply agreement, which completely replaces the original proposal submitted by New Fortress Energy earlier this year. La Fortaleza officials said the new deal will significantly reduce energy costs, shorten the contract’s duration, and deliver savings that benefit customers.

with an option for three more, cutting the duration by more than half. Its estimated cost is about $4 billion -- $16 billion less than the previous proposal. The government also negotiated substantial reductions in charges. Temporary units were reduced from $10.29 to $7.95 per unit, a 22% decrease, while San Juan units 5 and 6 remain at $6.50, consistent with 2019 contract rates. Those changes

will save over $54 million annually, the officials said, and more than $375 million over the contract term, directly lowering customer bills.

The agreement also removes exclusivity, allowing Puerto Rico to diversify natural gas suppliers and ensure continuity if NFE fails to deliver. Stronger legal protections guarantee the government’s right to use critical infrastructure -- even in cases of bankruptcy -- reducing litigation risks and ensuring operational stability, the officials noted.

If NFE cannot supply gas, Puerto Rico can use the San Juan terminal under a tolling agreement of $0.50/ MMBtu, ensuring uninterrupted operations.

“This agreement positions us for a transition to a modern, resilient energy system aligned with Puerto Rico’s strategic interests,” Colón Ortiz emphasized. “It’s a key step toward system stability.”

However, the contract says the conditions of the original contract have not changed from July 2025. Global LNG prices are typically benchmarked against indices such as the US Henry Hub price or the Asian JKM spot price. In July 2025, the Henry Hub natural gas spot price ranged from around $3.12 to $3.60 per MMBtu. The price formula provided shows that the price Puerto Rico will pay is approximately $4.76 per MMBtu, according to calculations done by the STAR.

PR welcomes 19,000 passengers with inaugural arrival of MSC Grandiosa

Ports Authority Executive Director Norberto Negrón Díaz said the MSC Grandiosa’s first visit to San Juan confirms the results of the port infrastructure improvements.

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Tourism Company Executive Director Willianette

Robles Cancel announced on Tuesday that the port of San Juan welcomed some 19,000 passengers with the arrival of the MSC Grandiosa on its maiden visit to the island, along with four other ships.

“We are very proud to welcome the MSC Grandiosa, a ship that reaffirms the cruise line’s confidence in Puerto Rico,” Robles Cancel said in a written statement.

She noted that the MSC Grandiosa shared docks with the MSC World America, the Carnival Magic, the Resilient Lady and

the Seabourn Ovation. She said MSC Corp. has had an estimated economic impact of $20.5 million across its MSC Cruises and Explora Journey lines.

Capt. Hernan Ziti, vice president of itinerary planning, port operations, and commercial services, stated that the simultaneous arrival of two MSC vessels demonstrates the company’s relationship with the island.

“San Juan is a very important destination for us,” he said.

Ports Authority Executive Director Norberto Negrón Díaz noted that the MSC Grandiosa’s first visit confirms the results of the port infrastructure improvements.

$42.7 million in new EPA funds announced to reduce

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced Tuesday that the island will receive $42,688,500 in new allocations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for projects to identify, plan, and replace lead service lines in drinking water systems.

“These funds represent a significant step toward ensuring our families have access to safer, lead-free drinking water,” González Colón said in a written statement.

The governor thanked the EPA and its administrator, Lee Zeldin, for the announcement and highlighted the work of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA) office in Washington.

“Our team has worked tirelessly to ensure the Island is positioned to maximize every available federal opportunity,” she added.

Zeldin noted that the investment reflects the commitment to protecting America’s children from lead exposure and that the funds will be used to replace pipes that pose a risk to communities.

lead in drinking water

PRFAA Executive Director Gabriella Boffelli stated that the allocation demonstrates the administration’s ability to advocate for Puerto Rico’s interests before the federal government. She affirmed that they will continue to collaborate with the EPA and state agencies to ensure the efficient and transparent use of resources for the benefit of Puerto Rican families.

According to the EPA, the funds come from $28.65 million in new allocations and an additional $14.0385 million redistributed by the agency under the State Rotating Drinking Water Program mandate.

Report: Cyberattack disrupts operations in several public agencies

By THE STAR STAFF

Aransomware attack detected last week has disrupted es-

sential operations across multiple government agencies, according to a report from Indiario.

The information was confirmed by La Fortaleza, which emphasized the attack targeted a company that provides services to 14 government agencies.

“During the Thanksgiving period, TrueNorth, a company

that provides services to 14 government agencies, experienced a cyberattack,” La Fortaleza said. “The attack was not on the government itself, but on a company contracted by the government, which consequently affected only the Department of Education, ASES [the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Fund] and the State Insurance Fund [CFSE by its initials in Spanish].”

The government said there is no cause for concern and that security measures implemented by Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service (PRITS) functioned as expected.

According to information obtained by Indiario, the Nov. 25 attack prompted an urgent response from local and federal cybersecurity teams. PRITS is leading the containment efforts in collaboration with the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI.

A senior cybersecurity source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed that the attack commenced when credentials belonging to a vendor with administrative privileges were compromised -- a tactic increasingly observed in recent attacks against state governments in the U.S. and Latin America. This initial breach reportedly allowed the ransomware to spread through critical systems, Indiario stated.

Ransomware is among the most destructive tools in modern cybercrime. It infiltrates networks silently, encrypts files, and demands payment -- typically in cryptocurrency -- for their release. Beyond the technical damage, the real impact lies in disrupting the continuity of services, eroding public trust and

OIG study finds that only 7% of gov’t agencies use AI

By THE STAR STAFF

Arecent study by the Puerto Rico Office of the Inspector General (OIG by its initials in Spanish) reveals that a mere 7% of 90 government agencies in Puerto Rico are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve their services.

The OIG’s research evaluated how well government entities comply with existing technology governance regulations. It underscored the urgent need to adopt artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency, cut costs, bolster internal and external networks, optimize vulnerability management, and ensure the seamless operation and interconnectedness of government information systems.

Conducted in line with Joint Memos OIG-CC-2024-01 and OIG-CC-2024-02, the study involved all 90 government entities and their associated departments, making it the most thorough assessment of governmental technological maturity in Puerto Rico to date, based on standardized criteria.

The goal of the study is to maximize the use of technological resources within government bodies by systematically identifying strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement, as detailed in the report accompanying the study.

One key takeaway is the critical need for government operations to integrate and utilize artificial intelligence. At the time of the study, only 7% of respondents reported employing AI-based solutions to boost service efficiency or lower opera-

tional costs. That figure highlights a significant opportunity for digital transformation that remains largely untapped, even with a variety of available tools.

The intervention also stressed the importance of tightening controls, updating internal policies and enhancing the operational capabilities of the entities to mitigate technological risks and ensure business continuity.

In the realm of cybersecurity, the OIG assessed the pro-

One key takeaway from a study by the Puerto Rico Office of the Inspector General is the critical need for government operations to integrate and utilize artificial intelligence. Data from the study of 90 government agencies highlights a significant opportunity for digital transformation that remains largely untapped, even with a variety of available tools.

destabilizing operations. In government systems, such attacks can halt payroll, healthcare services, educational platforms, and even public safety functions.

The CFSE seems to have suffered the most significant impact, with more than 150 Windows and Linux servers compromised, disrupting financial systems, injured worker service platforms, public portals and internal tools, Indiario reported. ASES reportedly lost access to some 30 servers, affecting databases and communications vital for managing Puerto Rico’s health insurance program. The Education Department also experienced outages on 11 servers, disrupting platforms used daily by teachers and students, including PowerSchool, Time & Attendance, TAL and other school management systems. Although some services remain operational, their availability is described as partial and intermittent.

Authorities are still assessing the full scope of the incident, including whether sensitive personal data protected under federal and local law was exposed. If confirmed, the government would be legally obligated to notify affected citizens and could face federal audits. The restoration process is expected to be lengthy due to the number of compromised servers and the complexity of the systems involved.

The website Ransomware.live, which monitors ransomware attacks, noted that 10 private and public entities have been victims of cyberattacks, including the University of Puerto Rico and the municipal administration of Barranquitas.

tective measures in place across agencies and discovered that more than 40 entities could not demonstrate completion of vulnerability assessments to gauge risks to their systems. Additionally, the study pointed out significant gaps, including a lack of data retention and file encryption policies, no regular drills to prepare for cyber threats, and ineffective connections between the information systems of various agencies and other entities. Moreover, the report evaluated how accessible government agency websites are and how effectively they manage digital content. Of the 90 entities assessed, 69 do not utilize a content management system, or CMS, while 45 lack an accessibility evaluation from the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service, or PRITS.

“While some areas demonstrated adequate compliance, such as general regulatory adherence, technology inventory management, project planning, and tech-related human resources administration, several improvement opportunities remain,” the OIG report outlined. “Enhancements could include bolstering process documentation, implementing regular risk assessments, strengthening data backup and storage systems, and modernizing technological infrastructure.”

The findings emerged after the 90 entities under the OIG’s jurisdiction filled out a questionnaire concerning technology governance, administered through their chief information officers, or officials in equivalent roles. The study encompassed various critical aspects, such as equipment and software license inventories, plans for replacing or acquiring equipment, technology project plans, and measures for infrastructure and data protection, as well as cybersecurity and the use of artificial intelligence.

An initial cybersecurity breach last week reportedly allowed ransomware to spread through critical computer systems in several island government agencies.

Hegseth ordered a lethal attack but not the killing of survivors, officials say

By CHARLIE SAVAGE, JULIAN E. BARNES, ERIC SCHMITT and JOHN ISMAY

The Trump administration earlier this week defended the legality of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea as calls grew in Congress to examine whether a follow-up missile strike that killed survivors amounted to a crime.

The lethal attack was the first in President Donald Trump’s legally disputed campaign of killing people suspected of smuggling drugs at sea as if they were combatants in a war. It has started coming under intense bipartisan scrutiny in recent days amid questions about the decision to kill the initial survivors and what orders were issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

At the White House on Monday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt read a statement that said Hegseth had authorized the Special Operations commander overseeing the attack, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, “to conduct these kinetic strikes.”

She said that Bradley had “worked well within his authority and the law directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated.”

According to five U.S. officials, who spoke separately and on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter that is under investigation, Hegseth, before the Sept. 2 attack, ordered a strike that would kill the people on the boat and destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs.

But, each official said, Hegseth’s directive did not specifically address what should happen if a first missile turned out not to fully accomplish all of those things. And, the officials said, his order was not a response to surveillance footage showing that at least two people on the boat survived the first blast.

Bradley ordered the initial missile strike and then several follow-up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat. As that operation unfolded, they said, Hegseth did not give any further orders to him.

The officials clarified the sequence of events amid the political and legal uproar that has followed a report in The Washington Post last week. It said that Bradley ordered the second strike to fulfill a directive by Hegseth to kill everyone. The reaction has included questions about whether Hegseth specifically ordered an execution of shipwrecked sailors in violation of the laws of war.

Speaking to reporters Sunday night, Trump said that Hegseth had denied ordering a second strike to kill two people who were wounded but still alive after the first one, saying, “Pete said he did not order the death of those two men.”

Trump also sought to distance himself from the follow-up strike, saying he “wouldn’t have wanted that, not a second strike,” although he said the first one was “fine.” He defended his broader policy of having the military use lethal force against people suspected of smuggling drugs. Starting with the Sept. 2 attack, his administration has said it has carried out 21 such strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, killing 83 people.

Hegseth called the Post’s reporting “fabricated” and “inflammatory.” “As we’ve said from the beginning, and in

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a bilateral meeting between President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. The suggestion that Hegseth or his officials targeted shipwrecked survivors has been galvanizing because that would apparently be a war crime even if one accepts Trump officials’ broader argument for the strike campaign. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be ‘lethal, kinetic strikes,’” he wrote on social media.

In another social media statement, on Monday, Hegseth said he stood by Bradley and what he called the admiral’s “combat decisions” in the strike. “Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support,” he wrote. “I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since.”

On Monday, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chair of the Armed Services Committee, said that he had spoken with Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about the strikes and that his committee would conduct a congressional investigation into the matter.

Hegseth also spoke with Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chair of the House Armed Services Committee, according to a U.S. official.

In interviews Monday, two U.S. officials — both of whom were supportive of the administration’s boat strikes — described a meeting before the attack at which Hegseth had briefed Special Operations Forces commanders on his execute order to engage the boat with lethal force.

That written order, they said, did not address what should happen if people survived the first strike.

Several people familiar with the congressional effort said lawmakers had asked to see a copy of the execute order and that the administration refused to turn it over.

The two officials also said Hegseth made no oral directive at the meeting that went beyond the written order. The Post

article did not provide context on when Hegseth gave what its sources described as a spoken order to kill everyone.

The two officials questioned whether the surviving people were Bradley’s intended target in the second strike, as opposed to the purported drugs and the disabled vessel. They argued that the purported cargo remained a threat and a lawful military target because another cartel-associated boat might have come to retrieve it.

One of the officials said the U.S. military intercepted radio communications from one of the survivors to what the official said were narcotraffickers. If so, members of Congress could request those communications as part of its oversight investigation.

The suggestion that Hegseth, Bradley or both targeted shipwrecked survivors has been galvanizing because that would apparently be a war crime even if one accepts the Trump administration’s disputed argument for why its boat attacks have been lawful.

Generally, a military cannot deliberately attack civilians, even suspected criminals, who do not pose an imminent threat. The administration has argued the strikes are nevertheless lawful because Trump has “determined” that the United States is in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels, even though Congress has not declared any such war.

Trump has also “determined” that the crews of the boats are “combatants.” A still-secret memo by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel accepts Trump’s determinations, according to people who have read it, adding it concluded that suspected shipments of drugs are lawful military targets to prevent cartels from using them to finance their war efforts.

A broad range of legal experts reject that analysis. But even if this were an armed conflict, it is a war crime to kill enemies who are out of the fight. That category includes enemy fighters who have surrendered or are otherwise defenseless and pose no threat.

“Members of the armed forces must refuse to comply with clearly illegal orders to commit law of war violations,” the Pentagon’s law of war manual says, adding: “For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.” It also says that it is “prohibited to conduct hostilities on the basis that there shall be no survivors, or to threaten the adversary with the denial of quarter,” which means refusing to spare the life of an enemy who has surrendered or is unable to fight.

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In a reversal, FEMA won’t reinstate suspended workers

By MAXINE JOSELOW

The Trump administration said earlier this week that it was revoking the reinstatement of 14 employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who have been on administrative leave since August, when they wrote a letter to Congress warning that President Donald Trump was gutting disaster response in the United States. The move was an abrupt reversal from last week, when FEMA sent notices to the employees stating that “you are being removed from administrative leave,” according to copies of the notices reviewed by The New York Times.

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of FEMA, said in an email Monday that rogue “bureaucrats” had

sent those notices without the approval of senior department leaders. After those leaders, who are political appointees, read news articles about the reinstatements, they reversed course, she said.

“Reporting revealed that 14 FEMA employees previously placed on leave for misconduct were wrongly and without authorization reinstated by bureaucrats acting outside of their authority,” McLaughlin said, adding that “this administration will not tolerate rogue conduct, unauthorized actions or entrenched bureaucrats resisting change.”

David Seide, a lawyer with the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit group that helped the FEMA employees file complaints challenging their suspensions with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, criticized the administration for subjecting the workers to whiplash. “They’ve done the wrong thing again and this is appalling,” he said.

Seide said senior career officials at FEMA had been informed of the reinstatements. “Their concept of rogue bureaucrat is anyone who’s not a political appointee,” he said.

Of the 14 employees, one was initially fired in midNovember, according to Seide. That worker successfully challenged her firing after her lawyers argued that it

violated federal laws protecting whistleblowers, he said.

The letter to Congress, titled the “Katrina Declaration,” rebuked Trump’s plan to drastically scale down FEMA and shift more responsibility for disaster response to state officials. It came days before the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to ever strike the United States.

The letter accused the Trump administration of violating the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, which Congress passed after the storm shook national confidence in the government’s ability to handle disasters. The landmark law required FEMA administrators to have a “demonstrated ability in and knowledge of emergency management.”

But Trump installed first one and then another acting FEMA administrator who lacked experience in emergency management. The second acting head, David Richardson, told employees in June that he did not know the United States had a hurricane season, a comment that unnerved many workers. The agency later said he had been joking.

After Richardson resigned last month, Karen Evans, a senior political appointee at FEMA, took over as acting administrator Monday. Evans has a background in cybersecurity, and this year she led an overhaul of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Of the 192 current and former FEMA employees who signed the letter, 35 attached their names, while the rest withheld their identities for fear of retaliation. And of those 35, 14 were placed on administrative leave, while the rest have left the agency after accepting buyout offers or other jobs.

The FEMA workers organized the letter alongside Stand Up for Science, a nonprofit group that has protested the Trump administration’s cuts to federally funded scientific research. The group helped coordinate a similar letter in June that accused the administration of politicizing and sidelining the Environmental Protection Agency. After that letter, the EPA placed 144 employees on administrative leave and then fired seven of them.

At FEMA, the very future of the agency is now uncertain.

In Trump’s first months back in office, he said that the agency should “go away” after the hurricane season and that governors should handle more disasters on their own. He also established a task force to consider whether the agency should be abolished or overhauled.

But in the wake of the July 4 floods that devastated the Texas Hill Country, Trump and his aides seemed to soften their stance on FEMA. During a visit to the disaster zone in Texas, Trump said that “some good people” were running the agency.

In recent weeks, the task force presented Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, with a draft report that called for overhauling but preserving FEMA in some form. The final report is scheduled to be made public next week, and it is unclear whether Noem or Trump will accept its recommendations.

A FEMA search and rescue worker in Swannanoa, N.C., after Hurricane Helene, Oct. 6, 2024. The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, said it was revoking the reinstatement of 14 employees who had been on administrative leave since August, when they wrote a letter to Congress warning that President Trump was gutting disaster response in the United States. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times)

The world’s poorest people need your help, and so do you

By LYDIA POLGREEN

In 1980, when I was 4 years old, my family moved to Kenya. My father studied agricultural engineering in graduate school and had long dreamed of working in Africa, hoping to help subsistence farmers improve their lives. His work with organizations like the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank took him across Africa. I was raised believing that investment in development and international cooperation improved ordinary people’s lives.

My years as a foreign correspondent in Africa and Asia taught me to be skeptical of these childhood convictions. I saw firsthand how institutions of the kind my father worked for sometimes reinforced old hierarchies and systems of extraction and exploitation. These days, with wealthy nations sharply reducing their spending on aid to the poorest countries — in the case of the United States, almost entirely eliminating it — the possibility of making strides against the grave problems bedeviling the world’s poorest people seems quite small indeed.

And yet the need is bottomless. Look across the globe and see suffering all around us. Conflicts in places I first wrote about two decades ago — Congo, Sudan, Haiti and

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more — continue to kill, maim and starve civilians. Climate disasters rob people of their homes and devastate their farms and businesses. Easily preventable and treatable diseases like malaria, cholera and AIDS kill or disable millions. In America, the richest nation in the history of the world, children go hungry and are homeless.

So what is to be done? I hope that someday soon, we will invest in systemic solutions to these problems. But until then, I have found myself increasingly convinced that the best way to help people facing catastrophe is to support local organizations working closest to them on the ground — and, whenever possible, give those people money directly.

There is an organization called GiveDirectly that does exactly that: It puts donated cash into the hands of needy people. In war-scarred eastern Congo, it provides money to help make sure children are fed, clothed and can go to school; in nations like Malawi, Liberia and Mozambique, it has facilitated direct cash transfers to some of the poorest people in the world. It also helps Americans. It raised funds for families that lost SNAP benefits during the government shutdown, for example.

Yet in the most dire humanitarian crises, cash is often of little use. In those places, local organizations — often working in concert with the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations — are best placed to provide essential lifesaving support. I have been awed by the work of Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, networks of volunteers that set up communal kitchens, help people flee to safety and rebuild critical infrastructure destroyed in the country’s devastating civil war. You can donate to these volunteers through the Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition.

Mutual aid is a very old idea, rooted in solidarity rather than charity. It came into mainstream consciousness during the pandemic, when so many people across the globe found themselves needing help of all kinds. Community fridges popped up in neighborhoods around the country, as well as groups to help with transportation, health care, child care and schooling when everything shut down. It is built on the idea of equality — neighbors helping neighbors for the benefit of the entire community.

So my final recommendation is this: Find a mutual aid group working in your community, or in a community you want to support, and offer your time, expertise and resources, not as charity but as an investment in building a more just and equitable world for everyone. The organization GlobalGiving has a database that includes more than 1,000 of them around

Noella Binja talks to a nurse about the health of her daughter Nathalie Minani, who had been treated for monkeypox at the Kavumu hospital in Kabare territory, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Aug. 24, 2024. Easily preventable and treatable diseases like monkeypox, malaria, cholera and AIDS kill or disable millions. So what is to be done? (Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times)

the world. Or find a group working in your own community, and if there isn’t one, why not start one?

Mutual aid is in many ways the antithesis of the kind of thinking about global development that defined my father’s career. Indeed, he left that work with some disillusionment. I’d like to think, like me, he would find in mutual aid’s reemergence the seeds of something better and more humane that could lift us all.

This article is part of Times Opinion’s Giving Guide 2025. The author has no direct connection to the organizations mentioned. If you are interested in any organization mentioned in the guide, please go directly to its website. Neither the authors nor the Times will be able to address queries about the groups or facilitate donations.

Última Súper Luna llena del año será visible este jueves

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – La Sociedad de Astronomía de Puerto Rico informó el martes que este jueves 4 de diciembre, hasta el amanecer del viernes, podrá observarse la última Súper Luna llena del año desde cualquier punto de la isla, visible a simple vista.

La entidad indicó que el fenómeno ocurre cuando la Luna se encuentra más cerca de la Tierra durante su fase llena y presenta un tamaño y brillo ligeramente mayores.

Según la Sociedad, la Luna podrá observarse mirando hacia el este desde las 5:45 de la tarde hasta las 7:15 de la mañana del viernes, con un tamaño 14 por

ciento mayor y un brillo 30 por ciento más intenso, a una distancia aproximada de 221,965 millas.

A la Luna llena de diciembre se le conoce como “Luna Fría”, nombre atribuido por la tribu Mohawk a causa de las temperaturas más bajas y las noches más largas de la época. La organización exhortó a quienes capturen imágenes del evento a compartirlas en su página en la red social Facebook.

La Sociedad de Astronomía de Puerto Rico explicó que desde 1985 trabaja en promover el interés por la astronomía y fomentar la educación científica en áreas como física, química, biología, matemáticas y ciencias sociales, con el fin de acercar el conocimiento del cosmos a la comunidad puertorriqueña.

ACLU pide que se permita la opción de género “X” en certificados de nacimiento

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – La ACLU Foundation y la ACLU de Puerto Rico informaron el martes que presentaron un escrito de amicus curiae ante el Tribunal de Apelaciones para el Primer Circuito en el caso Ínaru Nadia de la Fuente Díaz contra Jenniffer Aidyn González Colón, en apoyo a personas que impugnan la política que limita los certificados de nacimiento al marcador “M” o “F”.

“En Puerto Rico, todas las personas tienen derecho a que el gobierno respete quiénes son y a vivir sin miedo a la discriminación”, dijo Arraiza Navas en declaraciones escritas.

La organización sostuvo que el Tribunal de Distrito concluyó que la política viola el derecho a igual protección, aunque aplicó un estándar de revisión más liviano. Informó que el escrito presentado solicita al

Primer Circuito que afirme esa determinación y establezca que la política debe evaluarse bajo un escrutinio más riguroso por tratarse de personas trans, incluidas las no binarias.

Arraiza Navas expresó que las personas no binarias son un subgrupo de las personas transgénero y que excluirlas de la posibilidad de contar con documentos precisos afecta áreas esenciales de su vida cotidiana. “Cuando el Estado discrimina contra personas trans y no binarias, la Constitución exige un escrutinio más estricto y una protección robusta de sus derechos”, añadió.

La ACLU Foundation y la ACLU de Puerto Rico señalaron que permitir la marca “X” es la única vía para que las personas no binarias cuenten con documentos veraces y que impedir esa corrección mantiene un sistema oficial que reconoce únicamente identidades binarias y excluye a quienes no se ajustan a esas clasificaciones.

Radican cargos contra hombre en Rincón por facilitar arma utilizada en un suicidio

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RINCÓN – Las autoridades radicaron cargos contra James Edward Dale, de 55 años y residente de Rincón, por presuntamente facilitar un arma a un tercero con la intención de que se privara de la vida, informó la Policía el martes.

Según la investigación de la División de Homicidios de Aguadilla, el pasado 23 de octubre, supuestamente Dale le entregó a Dominic Tracy, de 48 años y residente de Australia, un revólver Mag-

num calibre 357 con la intención expresa de que se quitara la vida. Tracy se privó de la vida en el lugar. El caso fue consultado con la fiscal Jeanevys Avilés Ramírez, quien instruyó la radicación por violación al artículo 6.11 de la Ley de Armas. La prueba fue presentada ante el juez Johnny Reyes, del Tribunal de Aguadilla, quien determinó causa probable e impuso una fianza de cinco mil dólares, la cual fue prestada. Dale quedó bajo restricción domiciliaria con grillete electrónico hasta la vista

preliminar señalada para el 15 de diciembre. La investigación estuvo a cargo del agente Harry Muñiz Cordero, supervisado por el sargento Carlos Hernández Minguela y dirigido por el teniente Orlando Camacho.

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Movies written by Tom Stoppard to stream

By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

It is common nowadays for playwrights to go back and forth between stage and screen assignments, but Tom Stoppard, whose death at 88 was announced Saturday, was an early adopter of the practice, with TV credits going back to the early 1960s.

Some entries in his impressively lengthy collection of screenplays were originals, but he was especially in demand both as a script doctor (usually uncredited) and as a go-to scribe for literary adaptations. In that latter capacity, he was able to tackle novels by writers as wildly different as John le Carré, Leo Tolstoy, E.L. Doctorow, Vladimir Nabokov, J.G. Ballard and Ford Madox Ford.

Below you will find a selection of films with Stoppard screenplays that are available on major U.S. streaming platforms. (Those curious about his work on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Despair,” a Nabokov adaptation, will have to poke around YouTube.)

‘The Romantic Englishwoman’

1975

Stoppard was enthralled with the world of letters, and in this Joseph Losey film Michael Caine plays one of the many writers to pop up in the Stoppard oeuvre. Caine’s character is married to a woman played by the mighty Glenda Jackson, with the sexily enigmatic Helmut Berger in the middle — a lineup that, like the film, could not be more mid-1970s. The source material is a novel by Thomas Wiseman, who co-wrote the screenplay, but the Stoppardian touches feel obvious as life constantly bleeds into fiction, and vice versa, to the point where it becomes difficult to tell what’s inspiring what. Stream it on Tubi.

A trifecta of intelligent intelligence

1979

Stoppard had a lifelong fascination with espionage, and amateurs of that genre should check out his work in three movies based on novels by bestselling masters. First is his Graham Greene adaptation “The Human Factor,” a coldly detached drama about the uncovering of a mole inside the British secret service. The wreckage caused in this movie is less cloak-and-dagger than psychological torment. Rent or buy it on most major platforms.

1990

The Cold War is depicted in a flashier way in “The Russia House,” based on a John le Carré book. Sean Connery plays a publisher (there’s that literary connection again) and Michelle Pfeiffer dons a Russian accent as a mysterious woman who sends him an even more mysterious manuscript. Stream it on Tubi.

2002

The best of this trilogy of sorts is the Robert Harris adaptation “Enigma,” a potboiler involving the British code breakers stationed at Bletchley Park during World War II — a great setting for a writer as enamored with the

connection between language and ideas as Stoppard. Rent or buy it on Fandango at Home.

‘Brazil’

1985

Terry Gilliam’s dystopian movie is the funniest tragedy of the past half-century, or the saddest comedy — Janet Maslin described it as “a jaunty, wittily observed vision of an extremely bleak future” in her review for The New York Times. What is certain is that “Brazil” is an incredibly influential film about the pressure to conform and madness as an escape. Stoppard (who wrote the “Brazil” screenplay with Gilliam and Charles McKeown) and his family had left their native Czechoslovakia in 1939, but he always had a strong connection with his homeland — which may have fed the themes of doublespeak, sloganeering, surveillance and authoritarian power found in “Brazil.” Rent or buy it on most major platforms.

‘Empire of the Sun’

1987

Stoppard adapted a semiautobiographical novel by British writer J.G. Ballard for what would turn out to be one of Steven Spielberg’s best films of the 1980s. The story centers on a young British boy (Christian Bale, in his first major role) who spends most of World War II in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai where he must fend for himself. This is likely to have been an evocative setting for Stoppard, who had spent the early 1940s in Singapore with his family, before being evacuated to India. Rent or buy it on most major platforms.

‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’

1990

Stoppard himself directed this screen adaptation of his breakthrough play, from 1966. A comic “Hamlet” spinoff, the story moves the title characters, played here by Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, from the periphery of the story to its center. Verbose, filled with references and wordplay, it is ur-Stoppard. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival; a runner-up was Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” so not too shabby for Stoppard’s

lone directorial effort.

Stream it on Tubi.

‘Shakespeare in Love’

1998

Stoppard’s most famous screenplay remains that of the historical romantic comedy “Shakespeare in Love,” for which he and writer Marc Norman shared an Academy Award in 1999. The movie mixed life, repartee and art in a riff on Shakespeare, this one imagining a story grafting itself onto “Romeo & Juliet.”

“As with ‘Rosencrantz,’ the movie is both Stoppardian and Shakespearean, which is to say it is an antic original but also respectful of its source,” Mel Gussow wrote in the Times. He also pointed out that even though Stoppard and Norman shared the credit, “the dialogue has the linguistic limberness of Mr. Stoppard at his wittiest.” Stream it on Paramount+.

‘Parade’s End’

2012

Boiling down Ford Madox Ford’s modernist tetralogy into a miniseries was no small task, but Stoppard was up for it. The project gave Benedict Cumberbatch one of his finest roles as a government statistician who fights in the trenches of the Great War and is torn between two women. The mood is certainly not light, but “Mr. Stoppard sifts delicious bits of dialogue from the novel’s long, stream-of-consciousness monologues,” Alessandra Stanley wrote in the Times, “and he is especially good at drawing out the light comedy beneath all the ill will and betrayal.” Stream it on HBO.

‘Anna Karenina’

2012

Stoppard returned to Russia over and over again in his work, most notably in his trilogy “The Coast of Utopia.” So it wasn’t a surprise to see him take on one of that country’s literary summits, “Anna Karenina.” According to A.O. Scott’s review in the Times, Stoppard and director Joe Wright’s take on the Tolstoy masterpiece “is risky and ambitious enough to count as an act of artistic hubris, and confident enough to triumph on its own slightly — wonderfully — crazy terms.” Set in a theater, the film was deliberately stagy, with Stoppard focusing on one aspect of the story. “The word ‘love’ is central to the book, and to our movie,” he said. “I decided not to work on including those parts of the novel that might be about something else.” Rent or buy it on most major platforms. “Empire

of the Sun”

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BNP Paribas sees S&P 500 ending next year at 7,500

BNP Paribas strategists expect the S&P 500 will end next year at 7,500, with the index supported by a solid U.S. economy that will fuel corporate profit growth and keep the labor market from weakening significantly.

A 7,500 finish in the benchmark U.S. index next year would mean about a 10% increase from the S&P 500’s current level of 6,829.

They also wrote in their 2026 global outlook note this week that their end-2026 forecast for the pan-European STOXX 600 index is 650, and the strategists see European stocks outperforming U.S. equities in 2026, thanks to accommodative European Central Bank monetary policy and increased fiscal spending.

Balyasny Asset Management posted a 2.5% return in November and is up 15.3% this year so far, a source told Reuters on Tuesday.

The $31 billion multi-strategy hedge fund had led many of its peers in its over-all performance to October.

Citadel’s flagship fund Wellington posted a 1.4% return in November, boosting the fund’s performance for the year to 8.3%, according to two people familiar told Reuters on Monday.

Man Group’s 1783 multi-strategy has returned around 12.5%, the firm’s website showed.

November returns numbers for other big multi-strategy funds was not yet available to Reuters.

Last month showed that ‘buy the dip’ stock market behavior is alive and well, but Wall Street has yet to regain early November peaks and tariff angst is proving hard to shake.

The final month of the year is off to a bumpy start. U.S. manufacturers registered an ongoing contraction of activity as input price growth turned higher again from already elevated levels, with tariffs widely blamed.

ISM’s November factory readout was enough to lift Treasury yields sharply across the curve on Monday and sowed a kernel of doubt about this month’s widely expected Federal Reserve interest rate cut. A third Fed cut of the year on December 10 had been almost fully priced prior to the report, but the chances of a move have been pared back slightly to just over 80%.

Fed policymakers are in their traditional quiet period ahead of the meeting, so no more public guidance is expected before then. But the ISM report re-introduced the tariff question. With the Supreme Court yet to rule on the legality of President Donald Trump’s use of emergency powers to introduce the levies, retailers too were emphasizing the pressure.

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Costco became the latest firm to sue the U.S. government to ensure it will receive refunds if the Supreme Court rejects Trump’s sweeping authority to impose those tariffs.

The discomfort spread to stock and bond markets on Monday, with the S&P 500 falling back about 0.5% - irked additionally by the ongoing shakeout in crypto markets. Bitcoin lost more than 5% on Monday, relapsing back below $90,000 before steadying earlier today, and crypto stocks were hit too.

Firmer crude oil prices also weighed after the weekend decision from OPEC+ to keep output levels unchanged early next year.

But with Tuesday’s calendar thin, world markets have calmed somewhat before today’s bell.

U.S. stock index futures crept back higher, with European stocks higher too. South Korea’s Kospi benchmark outper-

formed again with gains of almost 2%.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday confirmed the general tariff rate on imports from South Korea, including on autos, would drop to 15% from last month because South Korea has introduced legislation in parliament to implement the country’s strategic U.S. investment commitments.

Japan’s Nikkei also held the line after a heavy loss there on Monday on stepped up speculation about a Bank of Japan interest rate rise this month. Japanese government bond yields and the yen eased back a bit after a decent 10-year debt auction there.

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Trump intervenes again in Honduras vote, alleging fraud without evidence

By JACK NICAS and JEFF ERNST

Hondurans were heading to bed Monday with two candidates in a virtual tie for the presidency and election officials urging calm and patience as they finished counting tallies by hand.

Then President Donald Trump intervened once more in the small Central American nation’s election.

“Looks like Honduras is trying to change the results of their Presidential Election,” he wrote online Monday night. “If they do, there will be hell to pay!”

His evidence? He said Honduran election officials had “abruptly stopped counting” at midnight the night before.

In reality, Honduras’ election agency had updated the results at about noon local time Monday, roughly nine hours before Trump’s post. And the delay since then was expected.

That is because Honduras employs an electoral system that reports a first tranche of votes — transmitted from polling stations digitally — as preliminary results. Workers then verify all vote tallies by hand, and there is often a delay in between. It is difficult to send all tallies digitally because internet connections can be sparse and unstable in some parts of

the country.

The preliminary results Monday showed a virtual tie in the race. With 57% of ballots reported, two right-wing candidates, Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla, each had 40% of the vote. Just 515 ballots separated them.

Trump endorsed Asfura in the days before the vote, warning Hondurans that the United States would “not be throwing good money after bad” at the country if his preferred candidate did not win. He called Nasralla a “borderline Communist.” And he also said he would pardon a former Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been convicted of helping smuggle cocaine into the United States.

Trump’s post Monday was another extraordinary intervention in the Honduran election, as he stoked controversy, without evidence, just as election officials were calling on citizens to remain patient and peaceful.

Analysts and officials in Honduras and abroad had expressed concerns before the vote that the election could be contested, because the candidates had repeatedly accused one another of plans to rig the results. Many of those accusations had targeted the left-wing governing party, whose candidate trailed by a wide margin in the preliminary results Mon-

Salvador Nasralla, a sportscaster who split with his former ally, the Libre Party, and joined the right-wing Liberal Party to make his fourth bid for the presidency, participates in a campaign rally in Comayaguela, Honduras, Nov. 17, 2025. (Daniele Volpe/ The New York Times)

day.

That fueled worries that Honduras could see a repeat of the unrest that followed the 2017 election, when a similar delay in the vote count sparked disputed results and destructive protests.

Yet on Monday, international election observers said the election had few issues and that they would continue to monitor the count. Even with the razor-thin margin in the race, the nation was calm, and some businesses began to remove the plywood they had installed

in windows in case of protests.

Ana Paola Hall, a top Honduran election official, said Monday afternoon that the National Electoral Council, or CNE, had finished reporting the digitally transmitted first tranche of votes from around the country.

She explained that officials were turning their attention to hand-counting remaining tallies and then going back to verify all the results.

“In the face of this technical tie, we must remain calm, have patience, and wait for the CNE to finish counting,” Hall wrote online. She lauded the nation for its peaceful response.

On Monday night at a CNE office in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, election workers and military personnel unloaded sealed boxes from trucks as a man with a megaphone called out their respective numbers. The boxes were taped shut and labeled with the slogan “building democracy.”

A man who showed identification as an election official said the vote count was on schedule and that workers had started counting the physical tallies at 10 p.m. local time, about an hour after Trump’s post.

“It is imperative that the Commission finish counting the Votes,” Trump said in his post. “Democracy must prevail!”

Venezuela accepts migrant repatriation flight from US amid airspace tensions

By SIMON ROMERO

Venezuela’s government said Tuesday that it had approved a request from the United States for a migrant repatriation flight days after President Donald Trump declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety.”

The announcement underscores how the governments of the United States and Venezuela are still communicating amid heightened tensions over the Trump administration’s military pressure campaign targeting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela’s government had suggested that such repatriation flights were effectively halted because of Trump’s declaration.

“The Aeronautic Authority of Venezuela has received a request from the government of the United States to restart migrant repatriation flights from that country to Venezuela,” Venezuela’s Transportation Ministry said in a statement.

Venezuela has regularly been accepting flights with repatriated migrants from the United States in recent months even as the U.S. military has been striking small boats in the Caribbean departing mainly from Venezuela. The Trump administration claimed the vessels were smuggling drugs, though it has provided no clear evidence to support its accusations. Since early September, at least 83 people have been killed in 21 strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean.

Investigations are mounting into the legality of these strikes, placing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth under greater scrutiny. A broad range of experts have described the strikes as illegal under laws governing the military use of lethal force.

Lawmakers from both parties in the United States have suggested that U.S. military officials might have committed a war crime during one such attack involving a follow-up strike that was ordered to kill two

survivors.

Amid the debate in Washington over the strikes, Trump has mixed threats against Maduro with the possibility of a diplomatic solution. The two leaders spoke by phone last month and discussed a possible meeting.

During the crisis, the repatriation flights have emerged as a rare example of cooperation between the two governments. Since the Trump administration began its immigration crackdown this year, nearly 14,000 Venezuelans returned to Venezuela on such flights, Venezuela’s government said.

The latest repatriation flight is expected to depart from Phoenix and arrive in Venezuela on Wednesday or Thursday, Venezuelan authorities said.

The United States does not have the legal authority to close another country’s airspace, and Venezuela’s government had said such a declaration amounted to a “colonialist threat.”

Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, at a speech in Caracas on Nov. 25, 2025. Venezuela’s government said on Dec. 2 that it had approved a request from the United States for a migrant repatriation flight, days after President Donald Trump declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety” — an act the United States government does not have the legal authority to make. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times)

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What Jamaica wants after deadly hurricane? ‘Visit us,’ island says.

By FRANCES ROBLES

With power still out nine days after Hurricane Melissa swept through western Jamaica, Kellanie Kerr stood in the dark at the stifling hot souvenir shop in Negril where she works, waving a fan at her sole customer.

She tried to “guesstimate” how dependent Negril, a beach town on Jamaica’s far west coast, is on tourism.

“From a scale of 1 to 10? Ten,” she said. “Or maybe 100, because that’s what we use here to survive.”

Kerr is one of the more than 500,000 Jamaicans whose jobs depend directly or indirectly on tourism in the Caribbean country that, in October, was battered by its first Category 5 hurricane.

The storm killed at least 45 people, damaged about 150,000 buildings and homes and crippled the tourism industry, which the island nation relies on for nearly one-third of its economy.

With dozens of hotels wrecked by the storm’s extraordinarily fierce winds and deluges of water, Jamaican authorities are rushing to reopen tens of thousands of hotel rooms in time for the crucial winter travel season. Tourism authorities announced that the country would be back in business for visitors by Dec. 15, which the government considers the start of the season, an ambitious goal that many hotels said they would not meet.

Some hotels still do not have electricity and water. Others were too damaged to reopen.

Still, about 70% of the country’s 35,000 hotel rooms are set to reopen in a matter of weeks, according to the tourism ministry. Jamaican tourism officials and hotel operators are desperately pushing the message: “If you want to support us, visit us.” That point is critical for everyone from street vendors to taxi drivers to the owners of luxury resorts.

Severe damage at Jake’s Hotel in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, on the country’s southwestern shore, Nov. 4, 2025. In the wake of damage wrought by the category 5 Hurricane Melissa at the end of October, officials in Jamaica — a country where tourism accounts for nearly a third of economy — are rushing to reopen dozens of hotels in time to salvage the vital winter travel season. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Authorities planned to prioritize restoring electricity to the city to speed the reopening of those the storm spared.

While the electricity was off for several weeks in Negril, its hotels were largely unscathed.

Sandals, a Jamaica-based company that has eight all-inclusive resorts on the island, said it would reopen five on Dec. 6, but three, including its flagship property in Montego Bay, will remain closed until at least May.

Edmund Bartlett, the minister of tourism, said the industry lost about $62 million just in the first week after the storm.

Jason Henzell, owner of Jakes, a family-owned hotel in Treasure Beach, said one-third of the rooms at his southern coast property were usable. Another third were in bad shape, and the remaining third were “very bad.”

“I have never seen concrete bend in a hurricane before,” he said, looking at the smashed oceanfront honeymoon suites.

But he hopes to open by Dec. 18 and has received calls from loyal customers who plan to come — and bring power tools.

(In the days after the storm, journalists from The New York Times rented four rooms and a villa, which were undamaged and running on generator power.)

“It’s essential for persons to know Jamaica is open for business,” said Henzell, who chairs the south coast chapter of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association.

Houston Moncure, the owner of Bluefields Bay Villas, a luxury boutique hotel on Jamaica’s southwest shore about an hour west of Treasure Beach, a region that took a particular beating, said the biggest obstacle to reopening more hotels quickly will be Jamaica’s ability to import building materials.

He is offering to rebook tourists who had reservations.

“It would compound things and make things much worse if everyone came looking for refunds, in terms of hurting cash flow,” he said.

Five of his six villas are damaged, he said, one of them “catastrophically.”

He looked around the remains of his property and found a missing banister in the swimming pool. All the furniture was piled up so he could send it off to Kingston for refurbishing.

As Jamaicans in hard-hit areas clean up the wreckage and repair damaged buildings, tourism officials and hotel operators want international visitors to know that many neighborhoods are intact.

While the damage was worst on the southwest shore, Ocho Rios, a key tourism destination on Jamaica’s north coast, saw little if any damage.

In Montego Bay, a northwestern city that is Jamaica’s most popular tourism destination, a number of hotels were damaged.

About 40% to 50% of the country’s hotels suffered at least some damage. Nearly two dozen hotels will not reopen until 2026, according to the tourism ministry. But Bartlett said he hoped that by the end of January, 80% of Jamaica’s hotels will be reopened.

“Two-thirds is still active and productive,” Bartlett said, referring to the hotels expected to open in mid-December. “I think that point has to be made a little stronger — that the impact has been on the western part of the island.”

But that’s also where much of the tourism is concentrated. Jamaica’s capital, Kingston, which was not damaged, is in the east — but it is not typically a beach destination.

Christopher Jarrett, president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association, said the ability of hotels to reopen depended not just on the extent of their damage but also on when they got water and power back. Jarrett, who owns two hotels in Montego Bay, is a member of a tourism task force formed to help the industry cut bureaucracy and accelerate recovery.

The COVID pandemic essentially shut down Jamaica’s tourism industry, but it had largely managed to bounce back. The outbreak, however, did not wipe out utilities, Jarrett noted.

Nearly one-third of Jamaica still has no electricity, though about half has been restored to Montego Bay and parts of Negril.

“Let’s be realistic: Right now it’s not a pretty sight on the west coast,” Jarrett said.

Moncure, 40, said he had ridden out the storm in the bathroom of one of the villas, the one where his mother went into labor when he was born. The roof blew off.

Moncure’s grandparents are buried on the property so he is not about to give up, despite all the damage.

“The reason people come to Jamaica can’t be taken by a storm,” he said, choking back tears. “The heart, the culture, the food, the reggae. That’s not gone, and if anything, it will be here in spades, even if the landscaping isn’t perfect.”

He plans to reopen in phases, aiming to have three villas ready by the end of the year.

Jeremy Jones, regional managing director for Sandals, acknowledged that it was going to take some hotels more time.

“You don’t want to put a product that’s not 100% back on the market,” he said. “You’re going to damage your brand more than anything else. ‘You told me it was great, and now I’ve come, that’s what I’m seeing?’”

Even hotels that suffered little damage — like the Sandals in Negril — had to grapple with the dozens of workers who lost their homes. More than half the staff at the three hardest hit Sandals hotels were displaced, Jones said.

For most hotels in western Jamaica that means efforts are underway not just to fix the hotels, but to also repair the homes of their employees.

Jones said Sandals would use this time to refurbish and refresh hotel properties, making them more resistant to hurricanes.

“Definitely different kinds of roofs,” Jones said. “The slab roofs that stay on? We’re going to probably do more of those.”

Starbucks to pay $39 million in landmark New York City labor law settlement

By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

Mayor Eric Adams announced a $38.9 million settlement with Starbucks earlier this week over violations of New York City’s law guaranteeing fair working conditions, a resolution that city officials said was the largest worker protection settlement in the city’s history.

The city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection found that Starbucks had violated the law more than 500,000 times since 2021 by failing to provide workers with stable schedules. More than 15,000 hourly workers are expected to receive restitution payments under the agreement.

Workers have complained for years that the coffee behemoth was cutting their hours and refusing to give them predictable schedules. The city found that the company “arbitrarily cut schedules and illegally prioritized their own profits over their workers’ rights” across more than 300 locations.

“With this landmark settlement, we’ll put tens of millions of dollars back into the pockets of hardworking New Yorkers and reinforce every New Yorker’s right to a reliable schedule, full hours and basic dignity,” Adams said in a statement.

The city’s Fair Workweek Law was approved in 2017 by the City Council. Fast food employers must give workers regular schedules that stay the same week to week, must provide schedules 14 days in advance and cannot reduce hours by more than 15% without “just cause or a legitimate business reason.”

Starbucks said in a statement that the law was “notoriously challenging for businesses to navigate.” The company said that the violations were “about compliance” and “not about withholding wages or failing to pay partners.”

Adams, a Democrat who will leave office at the end of the month, has criticized Starbucks and stood with the workers, posting photos two years ago from a meeting with them.

His successor, Zohran Mamdani, has also embraced Starbucks workers and supported a strike by some of the company’s unionized workers to help them gain higher wages during contract negotiations.

On Monday, Mamdani appeared with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., alongside striking workers at a Starbucks store in Brooklyn. The mayor-elect said that New Yorkers should expect him to back striking workers even after he takes office.

“When I become mayor of this city, I am going to continue to stand on picket lines with workers across the five boroughs,” he said, adding, “We want to build an administration that is characterized by being there for workers every single step of the way.”

Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is expected to

Starbucks workers picket outside a Starbucks location in Brooklyn, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, to push for higher wages and improved labor practices. Starbucks agreed to the settlement after failing to give workers stable schedules. Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined striking Starbucks workers in Brooklyn. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)

embrace more worker-friendly policies than Adams did, potentially further alienating business leaders who have already expressed skepticism over his affordability agenda.

Mamdani has proposed raising the maximum corporate tax rate to 11.5%, from 7.25%, and adding a 2% tax on those who make more than $1 million to help pay for some of his proposals.

Sanders, who endorsed Mamdani in his run for mayor, assailed what he described as Starbucks’ “corporate greed.”

“We are living in an economy where the people on top have never, ever had it so good,” he said.

Mamdani, who has urged New Yorkers not to patronize Starbucks until the strike is over, said he wanted to show solidarity with the workers, and praised

the city’s settlement.

“These are demands for decency,” Mamdani said. “These are workers who are simply being asked to be treated with the respect they deserve.”

Starbucks Workers United, which represents more than 12,000 baristas at more than 600 locations, voted to authorize a strike at some stores that has lasted 19 days. This year, Starbucks and the union brought in a mediator in a push to revive contract talks, which had stalled over an impasse on wage increases.

For more than a decade, Starbucks workers have raised concerns about harsh working conditions. The company changed some of its practices in 2014.

New York City’s investigation found that most Starbucks employees never received regular schedules, making it difficult for them to manage child care or second jobs. The company also “routinely and unlawfully reduced employees’ hours by more than 15%,” the city found, which made it difficult for them to get by.

Under the settlement, most employees who worked for Starbucks in an hourly position from July 2021 through July 2024 will receive $50 for each week they worked. An employee who worked at a store for a year and a half could receive nearly $4,000.

Julie Menin, a City Council member from Manhattan who recently announced that she had enough support to become the next Council speaker, also celebrated the settlement.

“Today’s victory serves as a message to corporations: NYC will protect workers and hold violators accountable,” she wrote on social media.

Outside the Starbucks in Brooklyn, Mamdani and Sanders were asked about President Donald Trump’s characterizing himself as the “affordability president.” Mamdani, whose meeting with the president at the White House last month was astonishingly affectionate, gave a diplomatic response, saying he was focused on how “we actually deliver” for working people.

Sanders was less tactful, calling Trump a “pathological liar.”

To ease sciatica, keep moving

By AMANDA LOUDIN

Ryan Smith was 23 when he felt a pop in his back while performing a heavy dead lift at the gym. That pop led to an immediate, radiating pain from his spine all the way down the back of his leg and into his foot. A physical therapy student at the time, he quickly recognized it as a possible sign of sciatica.

“The pain was debilitating,” said Smith, now a physical therapist in Maryland. “I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t drive long distances, and I had to stop exercising. All my PT common sense went out the window, and I began throwing everything at it, because I needed relief.”

Sciatica is pain resulting from irritation or injury to the sciatic nerves that start in your lower back and branch down your legs. The pain is often accompanied by a burning or pins-andneedles sensation.

An estimated 13% to 40% of the population will experience sciatica in their lives, most often during their 30s, 40s or 50s. The most common cause is a herniated disc, a condition that actually becomes less frequent as you age.

Unlike with muscles or other soft tissues, there is no consistent way to prevent nerve injury. But there are steps you can take to jump-start the healing process after you experience it.

Identifying sciatica

Sciatica has some unique distinctions from other back, butt or leg pain

and only affects 5% to 10% of people who suffer from lower back pain.

“People often use the term to describe almost any pain traveling down the leg,” said Amy Benton, a physical therapist in Portland, Oregon. But true sciatica starts from the bottom of the lumbar spine, just above the gluteal muscles and usually radiates past the knee.

When the pain stays above the knee, it might feel like sciatica, Smith said, but it usually isn’t.

How to find relief

There’s no easy fix for sciatic pain, and the best healer is time. What eases one person’s pain might not work for the next. Whereas muscles, tendons or ligaments respond well to rehabilitative exercises, the evidence for physical therapy’s effectiveness on sciatica is mixed.

Still, it’s important to find ways to move.

“The worst thing you can do is to keep limiting your life and activity,” said Tom Jesson, a Houston-based physical therapist and author of “Understanding Sciatica.” “If you can tolerate the pain, keep moving as much as possible.”

Most experts agree that gentle exercise, like walking and swimming, is the best place to start. “This will get blood flowing around the tissues and the nerve pathway,” said Benton, who also recommends gentle massage or manual therapy.

Avoid stretching your back in the early stages, especially bending for-

ward. It might seem like a logical way to get relief, but it can aggravate the nerve even more. Likewise, said Benton, don’t massage the space around the nerve in your back with a tennis ball or similar object, and don’t twist through the lower back while carrying weight.

There are a few targeted exercises that can help once the pain has calmed down, usually after the first couple of weeks.

Pain relieving exercises

Doing a prone press-up, which is a gentle version of a cobra pose, can ease nerve pain. Lie face down on the floor with your palms on the floor parallel to your chest. Gently press up, lifting your upper body off the floor but keeping your hands and hips on the floor. Hold for a couple of seconds, then release back to the floor. Repeat this 10 times.

Nerve flossing

Another option is nerve flossing, which gently slides the nerve within its sheath and can help alleviate short-term pain.

There are several flossing techniques for sciatic pain. These are not muscle stretches, so be gentle and focus on ease of movement.

One common variation: Lie on the floor

with your knees bent, feet on the floor. Place both hands behind the knee on the affected leg and pull it toward your chest, with your chin tucked. Hold for about five seconds and then slowly lower the foot back to the starting position. Try once or twice a day for 10 to 20 repetitions, but stop immediately if pain increases.

Moving forward

Exercises and physical therapy can help sciatica, but repair still takes time. “When you compare healing time to something like a calf strain, you’re in for a much longer process,” said Smith.

Most people will begin to feel some pain relief after the first two to four weeks, Jesson said, and more in the first three months. For some, sciatic pain can linger a year or more. Progress often isn’t linear, and you should expect occasional flare-ups.

In Smith’s case, that initial pop was a herniated disc. The most severe pain lasted for only a few weeks, but it was three full years before he returned to his regular strength training.

While there’s no foolproof method for preventing sciatic pain, core stability exercises may help, as does keeping your cardiovascular system healthy. Benton recommends her patients work with a physical therapist or trainer to check their form on major movement patterns, like squats, dead lifts, pullups and pushups.

It’s important to not only identify sciatica correctly, but find exercises you can comfortably do. (Joyce Lee/The New York Times)

The San Juan Daily Star

Is there a little wolf in your chihuahua?

By LISA FRIEDMAN and MAXINE JOSELOW

In the beginning, there was only Tasha. Twenty years ago, the purebred boxer became the first domestic dog to have her genome sequenced, ushering in a new era in canine genetics.

“Once that happened, everything broke open,” said Elaine Ostrander, a canine genomics expert at the National Human Genome Research Institute who was on the team that sequenced Tasha.

In the two decades since, scientists have sequenced the genomes of thousands of dogs — canines of all shapes and sizes, living all over the world and dating back thousands of years.

Researchers are now comparing these genomes and cross-referencing them with other records, like behavioral surveys completed by eager pet owners and pedigreed breeding records dating back generations. (“You know, who begot who,” said Lachie Scarsbrook, a paleogenomicist at the University of Oxford.) These enormous data sets are allowing scientists to ask a wide variety of sophisticated questions about dogs, humans and our long-standing, still-evolving relationship.

A new collection of eight canine genomics papers, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, is a case in point. Among the findings: The genetic diversity of German shepherds plummeted after World War II, and nearly two-thirds of modern dog breeds, including even Chihuahuas, contain traces of recent wolf DNA.

“We’re now answering questions that we couldn’t even begin to think to ask 20 years ago,” said Greger Larson, a paleogenomicist at the University of Oxford. Not all of the answers are simple, and scientists still have plenty to learn, he added.

“But my God, have we made a ton of progress,” he said.

The new collection was edited by Ostrander; Larson; Kathryn Lord, an evolutionary biologist at the UMass Chan Medical School and the Broad Institute; and William Murphy, a comparative genomicist at Texas A&M University.

Here are some of the findings: Disappearing diversity in German shepherds

Many modern dog breeds are highly inbred, leaving them susceptible to an assortment of serious health problems. But questions remain about exactly when and how genetic diversity disappeared from purebred populations.

One possibility is that the drop in genetic diversity dates back primarily to the 19th century, when many modern breeds were created from a small number of founding dogs. Although this phenomenon did appear to occur in German shepherds, the most significant drops in diversity didn’t come until the second half of the 20th century, according to one of the new papers, whose authors included Scarsbrook, Larson and Ostrander.

What happened? The population of German shepherds plummeted during World War II. Then, after the war, breed-

ers relied heavily on a handful of “popular sires,” or male dogs with especially desirable characteristics. Many of the German shepherds in the United States, for instance, can trace their ancestry back to a dog known as “Lance of FranJo,” whose sloping back is now common in the breed.

Wolf DNA in modern breeds

Although dogs descended from wolves, interbreeding between the two types of canines appears to be remarkably rare. Scientists scouring the dog genome have historically found little evidence that wolf DNA continued to flow into dog populations after domestication.

In one of the new studies, however, scientists applied a more sensitive statistical technique to analyze thousands of canine genomes. And they found low but detectable amounts of post-domestication wolf DNA in nearly two-thirds of modern dog breeds, including Alaskan malamutes, Labrador retrievers, cocker spaniels and Chihuahuas.

This wolf ancestry made up just 0.14% of their genomes, on average, but large breeds tended to have more wolf ancestry than small breeds, while sled dogs and hunting dogs had more than terriers, gun dogs and scent hounds, the researchers reported.

The scientists also detected wolf DNA in every one of the free-ranging village dogs they studied. And many of these village dogs, they found, had wolf DNA in genes linked to their sense of smell. “It seems to hint that there was some sort of adaptive advantage, perhaps” in free-ranging dogs having a wolflike sense of smell, said Audrey Lin, a postdoctoral fellow at the American Museum of Natural History and an author of the paper.

The problem with dog DNA tests for behavior

Some dog DNA tests promise to give curious owners new insights into their pets’ temperaments and behavior, revealing whether their dogs have genetic variants that have been associated with friendliness or fearfulness, for example.

But in a new study of 151 of the variants that have been linked to canine behavior, scientists found that not a single one accurately predicted the behavior of individual dogs.

The studies that originally identified these variants, the researchers concluded, were fundamentally flawed. Instead of assessing the behaviors of individual dogs, these studies used breed as a proxy for behavior. To identify the underpinnings of friendliness, for instance, researchers looked for genetic variants that were more common in friendly breeds than in less amiable ones.

In the new study, researchers used data from Darwin’s Ark, a large community science project of pet dogs, to test these associations in thousands of individual dogs. Were dogs with a purported “fear” variant, for instance, actually more skittish than those without it? “We found zero associations with behavior,” said Lord, who was an author of the study.

In many cases, variants that scientists had previously linked to canine behavior were actually associated with some of the highly heritable physical traits that vary between breeds. For example, a variant that had previously been linked to fear and aggression turned out to be associated with leg length and height.

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Dogs in an off-leash area of

in Brooklyn, Feb. 1, 2023. New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)

Shared behavioral genes in dogs and people Lord’s findings don’t mean that there aren’t genes related to canine behavior. But the best way to identify those genes, she said, is to compile and analyze large data sets on the genes and behaviors of individual dogs.

Another team of scientists did just that in a separate study, analyzing genetic and behavioral data on more than 1,000 dogs enrolled in the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study. The researchers ultimately identified 18 genes that might be related to various aspects of temperament and behavior, including trainability, fear of strangers and aggression toward other dogs.

Two-thirds of these genes, they found, had also been associated with cognitive or neuropsychological traits in humans. For instance, a gene that was associated with nonsocial fear in dogs — that is, fear of things like fireworks and vacuums — had previously been linked to things like mood swings, anxiety, irritability and sensitivity in people.

“Maybe what we’re picking up here is that there is a biological driver for a tendency toward finding life pretty stressful,” said Dr. Eleanor Raffan, a veterinarian and geneticist at the University of Cambridge and an author of the study. “It’s not that we can say it’s the exactly the same biology going on, but it perhaps gives us a bit of a clue as to why dogs are displaying these signs of being fearful when they’re out there in the world.”

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN MUNICIPIO AUTÓNOMO DE VEGA BAJA

Peticionario V. ADQUISICIÓN EN PLENO DOMINIO DE LOTE MARCADO CON EL #4 DEL BLOQUE N DEL PLANO DE INSCRIPCIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD VEGA BAJA LAKES, LOCALIZADO EN EL BARRIO ALGARROBO DEL TÉRMINO

MUNICIPAL DE VEGA BAJA, CON UN ÁREA SUPERFICIAL DE 611.28 METROS CUADRADOS. COLINDA POR EL NORTE, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE 36 METROS CON EL LOTE #5 DEL BLOQUE N; POR EL SUR, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE 36 METROS CON EL LOTE #3; POR EL ESTE, EN UNA DISTANCIA DE 17 METROS CON LA PROPIEDAD DEL SEÑOR DIEGO PORTALATÍN Y POR EL OESTE, EN 17 METROS CON LA CALLE #10-A DEL BLOQUE N. ES SEGREGACIÓN DE LA FINCA 3,593 DE VEGA BAJA; LUISA AVILÉS DÍAZ, FULANO DE TAL Y ZUTANO DE TAL EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS

Parte con Interés Civil Núm.: BY2025CV04629. Salón: 502. Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA (IN REM). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: LUISA AVILÉS DÍAZ, SUCESIÓN LUISA AVILÉS DÍAZ COMPUESTA POR PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS Y ZUTANO DE TAL, REPRESENTANDO PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS Y/O SUS SUCESORES Y A CUALQUIER OTRA PERSONA NATURAL O JURÍDICA CON INTERÉSURB. VEGA BAJA LAKES, CALLE 10 N-4, VEGA BAJA, PR 00693.

Se les notifica y emplaza que el Gobierno Municipal Autónomo de Vega Baja, en virtud de la Ley General de Expropiación

de 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada, la Regla 58 de las de Procedimiento Civil, según enmendada, 32 L.P.R.A, Ap. V. R-58, en todas aquellas disposiciones que sean de aplicación; el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley Núm. 107 del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Municipal Núm. 95, Serie Núm. 2024-2025; ha radicado en esta Secretaría una Petición de Expropiación para la adquisición en pleno dominio sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Lote marcado con el #4 del bloque N del plano de inscripción de la comunidad Vega Baja Lakes, localizado en el barrio Algarrobo del término municipal de Vega Baja, con un área superficial de 611.28 metros cuadrados. Colinda por el norte, en una distancia de 36 metros con el lote #5 del bloque N; por el sur, en una distancia de 36 metros con el lote #3; por el este, en una distancia de 17 metros con la propiedad del señor Diego Portalatín y por el oeste, en 17 metros con la calle #10A del bloque N. La propiedad que se adquiere consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección IV de Bayamón, bajo la Finca número 5,942, Tomo 124, Folio 67. Número de catastro: 035-051-159-04-000. El Municipio Autónomo de Vega Baja pretende ceder esta propiedad al Banco de Tierras Comunitarias de Vega Baja (Vega Baja CLB, Inc.) de conformidad con el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico y que dicha entidad gestione la rehabilitación de las propiedad con el fin de atender el problema de escasez de vivienda para sus compueblanos, conforme la Ordenanza Municipal Núm. 95 Serie 2024-2025. No se consignó suma de dinero como compensación justa y razonable dado que el inmueble fue valorado en $112,000.00 y se dedujo la cantidad de $101,501.00 por concepto de multas, gastos de limpieza, mantenimiento, gastos necesarios y/o convenientes a los fines de eliminar la condición de estorbo público o gastos de mitigación de una declaración formal de estorbo público, a tenor con la sección 5(a)(5) de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa de 12 de marzo de 1903, según enmendada y $21,729.79 por el concepto de deuda de contribución sobre la propiedad inmueble. Luego de realizadas las referidas deducciones, el Peticionario cuenta con un crédito a su favor por la cantidad de $11,230.79. No habiéndose podido emplazar personalmente a la Parte con

Interés antes relacionadas por residir fuera de Puerto Rico y/o desconocerse quien le representa, este Tribunal ha ordenado que se emplace por edicto, que se publicará una vez por semana durante tres semanas consecutivas en un periódico de circulación diaria de Puerto Rico. Disponiéndose que deberá la peticionaria de notificar por correo a la persona emplazada en los 10 días siguientes a la publicación del último edicto, por correo certificado con acuse de recibo una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda a las partes de la cual se tenga la información de la dirección. Se le notifica que, si desea presentar objeción, o defensa a la incautación de la propiedad, deben ustedes radicar su contestación ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la última publicación de este Edicto, debiendo notificar con copia de dicha Contestación a la Parte Peticionaria, a través de: Lcda. Susana M. Pesquera Colom, cuya dirección es: PO Box 20074, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-0074, Teléfono (787) 568-3126, Correo electrónico: spesquera@crhpr.org. Este término será improrrogable y de no contestar en el término señalado el Tribunal le anotará la rebeldía y dictará sentencia en un término no mayor de cinco (5) días, conforme lo dispuesto en el Artículo 4.012 A del Código Municipal de Puerto Rico. Del o los demandados comparecer o contestar la demanda, el Tribunal citará para juicio, el que será celebrado en un término no menor de quince (15) días ni mayor de treinta (30) días de haberse contestado la demanda. Una vez celebrado el juicio el Tribunal dictará sentencia en un término no mayor de cinco (5) días. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 29 de octubre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN OSCAR ABELLEIRA FERNÁNDEZ, ETC.

Demandantes Vs. ROBERTA MARÍA SCHARON VILLANUEVA

Demandada Caso #: SS2024CV00959. Sa-

lón #: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA PROPIEDAD COMERCIAL. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. Yo, BRAULIO PÉREZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Sebastián, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 17 de octubre de 2025, notificada el 20 de octubre de 2025 y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 6 de agosto de 2025, procederé a vender el día 20 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre el siguiente bien mueble: Pagaré Hipotecario por la suma principal de $210,000.00, a favor del Portador, con intereses a razón de 4% anual y vencimiento a la presentación, garantizado mediante hipoteca constituida en virtud de la escritura #4, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de abril de 2018, ante el Notario Público Andrés J. Ramos Cámara, sobre la siguiente propiedad: Simultáneamente con la venta del Pagaré Hipotecario anteriormente descrito se procederá a vender el siguiente inmueble que lo garantiza: “URBANA: Barrio Norzagaray de San Sebastián. Solar frente a la Calle Andrés Méndez Liciaga de San Sebastián. Cabida superficial de SEISCIENTOS VEINTIOCHO PUNTO VEINTE METROS CUADRADOS (628.20 m/c). Linderos: NORTE, con Sucesión de Luis Cervoni y con Antonio Mayol Navas; SUR, con la Calle Miraflores, hoy Calle Andrés Méndez Liciaga y con la Calle Prolongación; ESTE, con la Calle Betances donde radica; y OESTE, con Narciso Rabell Fernández y con terrenos de la Administración de Terrenos.”

Contiene una casa de concreto armado de una sola planta, dedicada a comercio de nueve (9) metros de frente por once punto setenta (11.70 m) de fondo. Actualmente tiene un sótano y una segunda planta. Inscrita el día 25 de junio de 2018 en el Sistema Karibe, finca 17,576 de San Sebastián, inscripción sexta de

dominio, Registro Sede Oeste, Sección de San Sebastián. Número de catastro: 129-012-02534-001. Dirección Física: #37 Calle Betances, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, 00685. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante, por una suma no menor de $210,000.00, cantidad en que fuera tasada para efectos de la primera subasta en caso de ejecución judicial. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 20 DEL MES DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, por una suma no menor de $210,000.00. De no haber remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrara una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 27 DEL MES DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, para la cual servirá de tipo mínimo dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, es decir, la suma de $138,600.00. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrara una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día 3 DEL MES DE FEBRERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, para la cual servirá el tipo mínimo de la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, es decir, la suma de $105,000.00. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen: Hipoteca en garantía de Pagaré, a favor del Portador, por la suma principal de $210,000.00, con intereses a razón de 4% anual y vencimiento a la presentación, garantizado mediante hipoteca constituida en virtud de la escritura #4, otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el día 6 de abril de 2018, ante el Notario Público Andrés J. Ramos Cámara. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes posteriores: Se advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga(n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, un vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre

ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el(la) deudor(a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, sí los hubiera al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 28 de octubre de 2025. BRAULIO PÉREZ ROSA, ALGUACIL. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA Sala de San Juan. Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, por sí y en representación de Rafael Rodríguez Díaz Demandante vs. Municipio Autónomo de San Juan; John Doe y Richard Doe Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2025CV10115. SOBRE: Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS. A: JOHN DOE,

RICHARD DOE

Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado ante el Notario Público Rafael A. Geigel Vasallo, bajo affidávit número 1,966, a favor de Municipio de San Juan, o a su orden, por la suma de $13,344.00, sin intereses y vencedero en 30 años, suscrito el día 11 de diciembre de 1986, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 253, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Rafael A. Geigel Vasallo, inscrita al Folio 81 del Tomo 1233 de Río Piedras Norte, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Segunda (II) de San Juan, Finca Número 34,884, inscripción 2da. Modificada en cuanto a los términos que convinieron el repago de la regalía federal, según consta de la Escritura Número 223, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 18 de octubre de 1987, ante el Notario Público Rafael A. Geigel Vasallo, inscrita al margen inscripción 2da, Folio 81 vto del Tomo 1233. El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble, que se describe como sigue: “URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento Número M-UNO (M-1). Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la primera planta del edificio “M” del CONDOMINIO CHATEAU SAN JUAN, situado en la Avenida Cesar González en el Barrio Hato Rey NORTE, (Nuevo Centro de San Juan) del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico. El área aproximada es de novecientos setenta y cuatro (974) pies cuadrados equivalentes a noventa punto quinientos treinta y tres (90.533) metros cuadrados. Son sus linderos los siguientes: Por el NORTE, en veintiocho pies tres pulgadas (28’ 3”) lineales y en cinco (5) alineaciones, con área exterior común y con área de pasillo del edificio; por el SUR, en veintiocho pies tres pulgadas (28’ 3”) lineales y en tres alineaciones, con área exterior común; por el ESTE, en cuarenticinco pies ocho pulgadas (45’ 8”) lineales y en seis (6) alineaciones, con área exterior común, con área de escaleras y pasillo del edificio y con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento M-dos (M-2); por el OESTE, en cuarenticinco pies ocho pulgadas (45’ 8”) lineales y en dos (2) alineaciones, con área exterior común y con pared que lo separa del Apartamento N-dos

(N-2). Consta de balcón, salacomedor, cocina, laundry, un baño y medio y tres dormitorios. La puerta de entrada de este apartamento está situada en su lindero Este. Le corresponde un estacionamiento identificado con el mismo número del apartamento. Le corresponde una participación en los elementos comunes del condominio de 1%.” Consta inscrita al Folio Ochenta y Uno (81) del Tomo Mil Doscientos Treinta y Tres (1233) de Río Piedras Norte, Finca Número Treinta y Cuatro Mil Ochocientos Ochenta y Cuatro (34,884), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Segunda (II) de San Juan. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lic. Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal de San Juan, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, 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, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 17 de noviembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario. GLORIAM MARTINEZ RIVERA, Sub-Secretario.

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LEGACY MORTGAGE

ASSET TRUST 2019-PR1

Demandante V. R&G PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, AHORA BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CD2025CV00337. (Salón: 801). Sobre: CANCE-

LACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARJALIISA COLÓN VILLANUEVAMCOLON@WWCLAW.COM.

A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de noviembre de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 26 de noviembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARIEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs MIGUEL ANGEL COLON PEREZ

Parte Demandada

Civil Número: SI2025CV00085. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: MIGUEL ANGEL COLON PEREZURB. PORTALES DE JACARANDA D1, CALLE YAGRUMO, SANTA ISABEL, PR 00757 - O SEA, LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante,

ha presentado ante este Tribunal demanda contra usted por Cobro de Dinero. Representa a la parte demandante el abogado cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consignan de inmediato:

LCDO. RAMON MAURAS VALENTIN Apartado 474 Coamo, Puerto Rico, 00769 Teléfono (787) 825-5051

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. Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, a 18 de noviembre del 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JOAN M. ROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN

FRANKLIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE BOSCO IX OVERSEAS, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. VÍCTOR ANTONIO

MARTÍNEZ DE JESÚS, HILDA NOELIA VALENTÍN ROMÁN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SS2025CV00410. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: HILDA NOELIA VALENTÍN ROMÁN, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENE GANACIALES COMPUESTA CON VÍCTOR ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ DE JESÚS.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. Las abogadas de la parte

demandante son: Lcda. Lisa M. Aponte Valderas, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 6222320. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general de la Isla de Puerto Rico una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma, 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 Superior, Sala Superior de Vega Baja, con copia a las abogadas de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle, disponiéndose además, que en los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, la parte demandante le dirigirá por correo certificado con acuse se recibo, copia de la Demanda y del Emplazamiento por Edicto a sus últimas direcciones conocidas en: HC 3 Box 32511, San Sebastian, PR 00685-7526; PO Box 450, San Sebastian, PR 00685; y Bo. Cidral, RD 111 Km. 26.0, San Sebastián, PR. 00685. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy 17 de noviembre de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. JESSICA MÉNDEZ ROMERO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs. WILFREDO NIEVES MARCANO

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CA2025CV02420. 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: WILFREDO NIEVES MARCANO. Por la presente se le 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 le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma 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 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 le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a su última dirección conocida: Villas de Loíza, Q41 Calle 19, Canóvanas, PR 00729. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 20 de noviembre del 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA.

MELISSA RIVERA ROMERO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs. RAFAEL CRUZ TAPIA Y DAMALY QUIÑONES MONTALVO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: TO2025CV01138. 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: DAMALY QUIÑONES MONTALVO.

Por la presente se le 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 le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1)

sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma 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 Superior, Sala de Toa Alta, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Urb. San Pedro, 107 Calle Ramón Rivera Cruz, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 00949. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 20 de noviembre de 205. ALICIA AYA-

LA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. DAVID BERRÍOS

SANTIAGO Y MIGDALIA VÁZQUEZ REYES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: TO2025CV01089. 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: DAVID BERRÍOS

SANTIAGO Y MIGDALIA VÁZQUEZ REYES.

Por la presente se le 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. 1. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma 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 Superior, Sala de Toa Alta, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Urb. Palacio Imperial, 1330 Iberos, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico 00953 y Urb. Toa Alta Heights Calle 19 #O-51, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico 00953. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, a 20 de noviembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. CARLOS ANTONIO RIVERA LÓPEZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: BY2025CV04800. Sala: 505. 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: CARLOS ANTONIO RIVERA LÓPEZ.

Por la presente se le 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 le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma 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 Superior, Sala de Bayamón, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Bo. Cedro Arriba, Carr. 152 Km. 13 Int, Naranjito, Puerto Rico 00719 y HC 72 Box 4067, Naranjito, Puerto Rico 00719. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 20 de noviembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. KEISHLA M. SANTIAGO CRUZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. GABRIEL ENRIQUE QUILES DE THOMAS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2025CV01883. (Civil: 401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM.

A: GABRIEL ENRIQUE QUILES DE THOMAS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se 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 26 de noviembre de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 26 de noviembre de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. ROSA M. VIERA VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. DANIEL ELIAS REYES Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09405. Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: DANIEL ELIAS REYES. Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberán presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https.// unired.poderjudicial.pr., salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Municipal, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 24 de noviembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. HÉCTOR LUIS

RAMOS MÉNDEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09406.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: HÉCTOR LUIS

RAMOS MÉNDEZ.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Municipal, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 24 de noviembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. ALEXANDER CRUZ ESCALERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09404.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROREGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: ALEXANDER CRUZ ESCALERA.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de San Juan, Sala Municipal, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 24 de noviembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO REGIÓN JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SAN JUAN FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JOHN DOE; RICHARD DOE

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV08739. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. 1. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra. Se les notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a su derecho convenga, en el presente caso. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SU-

MAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://poderjudicial.pr/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. 2. En la Demanda se alega que, como parte de la garantía del préstamo se encuentra una hipoteca a favor de FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, por la suma principal de $109,600.00. INTERESES: 5.50% anual. VENCIMIENTO: 1RO DE FEBRERO DE 2023. TASACIÓN: $183,150.00. CREDITOS GARANTIZADOS:

Garantizándose los siguientes créditos adicionales: Tres sumas equivalentes al 10% de la cuantía original del pagaré, cada una, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; para intereses, en adición a los garantizados por la ley; y para cubrir cualquier anticipo que pueda hacerse bajo este contrato. PAGARE: Suscrito bajo el testimonio 12528. En virtud de la escritura número 4 otorgada el 23 de enero de 2003, en San Juan, ante la Notario Teresa Jiménez Meléndez, Según la lnscripción 11ᵃ, al FOLIO 101vto del TOMO 737 de RIO PIEDRAS SUR. 3. La descripción de la finca grabada # 4937 es la siguiente: Urbana: Solar: 18 BLOQUE 2-A. URBANIZACIÓN FAIR VIEW de Rio

Piedras Sur. Cabida: 467.94 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con los solares número 5 y 6, distancia de 15.39 metros. Sur, con la Calle número 32, distancia de 13.00 metros. Este, con el solar número 17, distancia de 32.19 metros. Oeste, con el solar número 19, distancia de 34.14 metros. Enclava una casa de concreto para una sola familia. Se segrega de la finca 1683 inscrita al folio 122 del tomo 43 de Rio Piedras Sur. lnscripción en el sistema Karibe, finca 4937, demarcación Río Piedras Sur, Registro San Juan, sección IV. Se les apercibe y notifica que, si no contestan la demanda radicada en su contra, radicando el original de la misma y enviando copia de su contestación al abogado de la parte demandante: Lcdo. Luis F. Piñeiro Enríquez; Edificio Asociación De Maestros, 452 Avenida Ponce De León Ste. 515, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; Teléfono 787-5476239; Correo Electrónico lawpineiro@yahoo.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la Demanda, sin más citar, ni oír. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 2 de octubre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA I. COLÓN RIVERA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. JUAN BAUTISTA MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ, JOHN DOE

Demandados

Civil Núm.: PO2025CV02389. Sobre: SUSTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: JUAN BAUTISTA MARTÍNEZ RODRÍGUEZ

COMO TENEDOR DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Popular Mortgage, Inc., o a su orden, en el cual se garantizaba la hipoteca constituida por la escritura 34 otorgada el 20 de marzo de 2015 ante el Notario Público María del Rosario Pujol Thompson, inscrita al folio 223 del tomo 565 de Yauco, finca número 13,479, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Segunda Sección de Ponce. Dicho Pagaré fue suscrito bajo el número de testimonio 3,176 ante dicho notario público. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente 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://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar 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. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393

BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP

500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901

Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664

rdiaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 18 de noviembre de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑO-

NES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JOAN M. ROSARIO ALBINO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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EMILIANA CORTÉS RIVERA Peticionaria EXPARTE

Civil Núm.: AG2025CV01662. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - LEY 188 - 2022. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA AFECTAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

Por la presente, se le notifica que la parte Peticionaria de epígrafe ha presentado ante este Tribunal una solicitud de Expediente de Dominio, solicitando adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca: RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Cerro Gordo del término municipal de Aguada, con una cabida de MIL QUINIENTOS VEINTE METROS CUADRADOS CON NUEVE MIL SEISCIENTOS DIECISIETE DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (1,520.9617 m.c.) equivalentes a tres mil ochocientos setenta diezmilésimas de cuerda (0.3870 cds.), colindando por el NORTE con camino de acceso, por el ESTE con terrenos de la Sucn. Juan Cortés, por el OESTE con terrenos de la Sucn. Juan Cortés y por el SUR con terrenos de la Sucn. Juan Cortés. La Parte Peticionaria se encuentra representada por: LCDA. CAROLINA GARRIGA CESANÍ, RUA 15227 Calle Resolución #33, Suite 302 San Juan, PR 00920 Teléfono: 787-782-6500 x. 250 Correo electrónico: cgarriga@ titlesecuritygroup.com Se le apercibe y notifica para que comparezca, si lo creyere pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro del plazo improrrogable de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, a exponer sus derechos en el expediente de dominio promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir

su dominio sobre la finca antes descrita. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia, previo escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria, 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 pertinente. 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.poderjudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico a 22 de octubre de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. DENNISE MARIE VARGAS ROMÁN

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2025CV02053. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANDREA CAROLINA CHAVES FIGUEROA - LCDA. CHAVESFIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM. KARINA PAOLA CINTRÓN NEVÁREZ - CINTRONKP@GMAIL.COM. A: DENNISE MARIE VARGAS ROMÁN, P/C LCD. ANDREA CAROLINA CHAVEZ FIGUEROA; LCDA. KARINA PAOLA CINTRÓN NEVAREZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edic-

to 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 25 de noviembre de 2025. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 25 de noviembre de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. ADELAIDA LUGO PACHECO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO

Demandante V. ÁNGEL GABRIEL OLIVO LÓPEZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CB2025CV00171. (Salón: 0001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JOSÉ F. GIRAUD MEJÍASJGIRAUD@MCMLAWPR.COM. A: ANGEL GABRIEL OLIVO LOPEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de noviembre de 2025. En Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, el 25 de noviembre de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE

CAGUAS FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. FRANCISCO ROLON CARRILLO

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025CV02362. (Salón: 802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOSJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM. A: FRANCISCO ROLON CARRILLO - SJ4 PLAZA MIRASOLES, URB HACIENDA SAN JOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de octubre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de noviembre de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 25 de noviembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA ROCIO DEL MAR MALDONADO CORCHADO Demandante V. JORGE EMIR MARTINEZ BADILLO Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AG2025RF00524. (Salón: 404 RF). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. IVONNE MARIE GONZÁLEZ SAMOT - IVONNEM.GLEZSAMOT@GMAIL. COM. A: JORGE EMIR

MARTINEZ BADILLO62 AVENIDA ESTACION ISABELA PR.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de noviembre de 2025. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, el 26 de noviembre de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LILLIAN PÉREZ CANDELARIA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARO TERRI ANN WOODARD Parte Demandante Vs. CAITLYN OLIVIA KOUNTZ Parte Demandada Caso Número: FA2025RF00259. Sobre: CUSTODIA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: CAITLYN OLIVIA KOUNTZ - DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA DESCONOCIDA. 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, radicado el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notificando con copia al abogado del (o de la) demandante, LCDA. MILDRETH GONZALEZ REYES, a la dirección: CALLE GARRIDO MORALES #98 E, SUITE 202 DE FAJARDO, PUERTO RICO 00738, con teléfono (787-6081519) y correo electrónico (lcdamildrethgonzalez@gmail. com). Este case trata de custodia de menor de edad. Usted 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 electróni-

ca: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a contestar dicha Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del último EDICTO, podrá dictarse SENTENCIA EN REBELDÍA en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda. DADA EN FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de noviembre de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JOSANDRA GÓMEZ VENTURA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

E.M.I. EQUI TY MORTGAGE, INC., COM AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE LPZ INVESTMENTS, LLC.

Demandante V. CARLOS OMAR RODRIGUEZ STRUBBE POR SI Y EN REP DE CR MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2025CV04353. (Salón: 703). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD COMERCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES @CMPRLAW.COM. A: CARLOS OMAR RODRIGUEZ STRUBBE Y CR MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic-

to. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de noviembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 24 de noviembre de 2025. ALICIA

AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ALEJANDRO MONROY

FARIA, también conocido por Alejandro Monroy, por sí y como miembro de la SUCESIÓN DE LUIS

GILBERTO MONROY

GONZÁLEZ y otros; EDUARDO MONROY

FARIA, también conocido por Eduardo Monroy, por sí y como miembro de la SUCESIÓN DE LUIS

GILBERTO MONROY

GONZÁLEZ, también conocido por Luis Gilberto Monroy y otros

Demandantes Vs. SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RAMÓN VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO SALVADOR VÉLEZ SANTIAGO y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y Jane Doe, por sí y como miembro de la Sucesión de JOSÉ RAMÓN VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO ÁNGEL

VÉLEZ SANTIAGO y otros; ROGELIO VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y Jane Doe por sí y como miembro de la Sucesión de JOSÉ RAMÓN VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO; LUIS VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y Jane Doe por sí y como miembro de la Sucesión de JOSÉ RAMÓN VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO; ADOLFO VÉLEZ SANTIAGO, y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y Jane Doe por sí y como miembro de la Sucesión de JOSÉ RAMÓN VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO; MERCEDES VÉLEZ SANTIAGO, y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y John Doe por sí y como miembro de la Sucesión de JOSÉ RAMÓN VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO; JUANITA

VÉLEZ SANTIAGO, y la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta

por este y John Doe por sí y como miembro de la Sucesión de JOSÉ RAMÓN VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO; ELOINA

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Demandados

Civil Número: AR2025CV01606. Sala: 403.

Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE JOSÉ RAMÓN VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO, COMPUESTA SALVADOR VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO, ÁNGEL VÉLEZ SANTIAGO, ROGELIO VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO, LUIS VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO, ADOLFO VÉLEZ SANTIAGO, MERCEDES VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO, JUANITIA VÉLEZ SANTIAGO, ELOINA VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO, FRANCISCO VÉLEZ, NILDA VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO, RAFAEL GONZÁLEZ ROSA, ARCADIO VÉLEZ

SANTIAGO.

Por la presente se le notifica que la parte demandante ha presentado en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Utuado, en el caso de epígrafe, una Demanda sobre SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA, por la SUCESIÓN DE LUIS GILBERTO MONROY GONZÁLEZ, también conocido por Luis Gilberto Monroy, ALEJANDRO MONROY FARIA, EDUARDO MONROY FARIA, también conocido por Eduardo Monroy, por sí y como miembro de la SUCESIÓN DE LUIS GILBERTO MONROY GONZÁLEZ,, contra ustedes para que se liquide la

comunidad de bienes existente al día de hoy entre las partes de epígrafe y que se pueda vender el inmueble, que ordene al señor Alguacil comparezca en representación de los demandados de epígrafe en el instrumento sobre compraventa y se pueda presentar dicha sentencia con los documentos complementarios que se incluyen con la presente demanda y así se le ordene al Registrador de la Propiedad que la misma sea inscrita y emita cualquier pronunciamiento que proceda en derecho. Representa a la parte demandante, el abogado cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna de inmediato:

LCDA. CYNTHIA V. ROSARIO GONZÁLEZ

Urb. Villamar Calle Domingo Rubio 34 Arecibo, Puerto Rico 00612 Tel. (787)400-6376 - (787)878-9633

Email: cvionnette@yahoo.com

Se le apercibe que para que presente al Tribunal, su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, y notificar al abogado de la parte demandante. 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 secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia previa 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 demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Expedido bajo la firma y sello de este Tribunal, en ARECIBO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de noviembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante V. WILSON R TORRES MORALES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: TJ2025CV00112. (Civil: 406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NO-

TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: WILSON R TORRES MORALES. (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 NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. WANDA IVELISSE DEL VALLE ALVARES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2025CV03279. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A) A LA PARTE CO-DEMANDADA: WANDA IVELISSE DEL VALLE ALVARES; A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) PO BOX 7011 CAROLINA, PR 00986; (B) BARRIO QUEBRADA NEGRITO SECTOR VALLE BUENOS AIRES LOT 9 TRUJILLO ALTO, PR 00976.

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte co-demandada Wanda Ivelisse Del Valle Álvarez, adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $77,058.39 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de junio de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.25% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte codemandada Wanda Ivelisse Del Valle Álvarez adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $9,081.10 y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 64, otorgada en Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, el día 20 de julio de 2017, ante la notario Zoila Espinoza Vaquer, de la finca número 24,330, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 81 del Tomo 443 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, sección Cuarta. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando 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:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, aperci-

biéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 25 de noviembre de 2025, en Carolina, Puerto Rico. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MELISSA RIVERA ROMERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ MCLP ASSET COMPANY, INC. Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE HUMBERTO RINCÓN GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR ELLEN NATALIE RINCON ORREGO; VANESSA ORREGO LATTKE POR SÍ Y COMO CÓNYUGE SUPÉRSTITE EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CRIM

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01941. Salón Núm.: (207). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE HUMBERTO RINCÓN GONZÁLEZ COMPUESTA POR ELLEN NATALIE RINCON ORREGO; VANESSA ORREGO LATTKE POR SI Y COMO CONYUGUE SUPERSTITE EN CUANTO A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTURARIA; PORTADOR, O A SU ORDEN: CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM): Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte deman-

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Blue Jays & Brewers make contact hitting a powerful force again

The MLB’s top regular-season teams, the Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers, led their leagues in batting average and contact rate. High-contact players like the Blue Jays’ Ernie Clement, pictured, and the Brewers’ Sal Frelick have grown from quiet contributors to known commodities. (Instagram via ernieclement28)

By MITCH BANNON / THE ATHLETIC

Four days after the Toronto Blue Jays peppered 12 hits across Yankee Stadium, winning Game 4 of an American League division series, the Detroit Tigers’ president for baseball operations, Scott Harris, leaned into the microphone at his end-of-year news conference. As he outlined Detroit’s offseason plan and 2026 vision, the Blue Jays’ recent success lingered in his words.

“We need to make more contact as an organization,” Harris said. “We need to move the baseball more in the big leagues than we are.”

The proclamation was just the latest indication of a narrative that emerged in 2025, one centered on making more contact.

The MLB’s top regular-season teams, the Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers, led their leagues in batting average and contact rate. High-contact players like the Blue Jays’ Ernie Clement and the Brewers’ Sal Frelick have grown from quiet contributors to known commodities.

In an era dominated by whiffs and home runs, the Blue Jays used contact to transform

themselves from 74-win also-rans to American League champions. Toronto’s 20-win improvement and path to the World Series appeared so attainable for every other franchise hoping to make it to the playoffs. The allure is straightforward: Invest in contact and coast to the top of the sport.

But many executives are not sure how replicable that style is for other clubs. Repeating it, even for the Blue Jays, will not be so simple.

“That’s just part of the sports industry in general,” the Blue Jays’ president, Mark Shapiro, said. “A narrative gets written based upon an outcome. People try to say, what parts of that can we learn? Good executives, good organizations are trying to stay ahead of that. By the time they react to it, it’s probably too late.”

Bat-to-ball dominance is not particularly new in modern baseball. The mid-2010s Kansas City Royals rode league-leading contact to consecutive World Series appearances, including a title in 2015. From 2017 to 2023, no franchise posted a higher contact rate than the Houston Astros. Even as home runs are undeniably crucial to postseason success, the league’s top team in contact rate has advanced to at least the division series in nine of

the past 10 years.

Through it all, though, power remains king.

The balance between power and contact remains a debate in front offices, possibly because fans want the high-contact style deployed by the Brewers and the Blue Jays to become a new normal. Fundamental defense and a steady stream of balls being put in play are more entertaining than six strikeouts, a walk and a homer.

But a baseball executive who cited those fan desires also said that a lineup filled with players with high batting averages can, for some reason, appear scarier than an equally productive lineup of high-whiff power hitters. Never mind that the perception is more narrative than proven reality.

The noise of that contact narrative still reaches the ears of baseball’s top decision makers. Brewers general manager Matt Arnold pointed to recent rule changes — with infield shifts banned in 2023 — as a potential opening for more contact success. His Brewers flourished alongside the Blue Jays, capturing baseball’s attention with contact during the regular season. Frelick and Caleb Durbin became two of the MLB’s most difficult hitters to strike out. They ranked in the top 10 in contact rate.

The New York Yankees, at least by public perception, may be the antithesis of a contactfirst team. They struck out the third most in baseball in 2025, more than any other postseason team, while leading the MLB in home runs. At a news conference last week, when asked if the Yankees wanted to be more like the Blue Jays, team owner Hal Steinbrenner underscored the value of slugging and contact. He did, however, say the Yankees have been searching for more balance on offense, citing the addition of Jazz Chisholm Jr. in 2024.

“Guys that can put the ball into play,” Steinbrenner said. “I do think you need that. You can’t simply be a slugging home run team.”

In an era in which pitching is better than ever, general manager Chaim Bloom of the St. Louis Cardinals said teams that consistently made contact stood out more. When pitching plans are built around exploiting swingand-miss tendencies, the Atlanta Braves’ general manager, Alex Anthopoulos, said contact teams could frustrate pitchers more than any other. The Philadelphia Phillies’ president for baseball operations, Dave Dombrowski, noted that the talk of success in Milwaukee and Toronto might have an effect on team building across the league.

“I find that it’s sort of a copycat league,” Dombrowski said. “If it works, people follow it.”

But as the three general managers noted, the issue with building teams geared toward more contact is not necessarily one of desire. Most teams have sought high-contact players through the three-true-outcomes era (home run, walk, strikeout), they said. The skill is not ignored.

“It’s finding the players to do it,” Dombrowski said. “That’s sort of the secret. They’re not always easy to find.”

As power became a premium, productive contact players have become increasingly scarce. In 2015, 82 hitters posted contact rates over 80%. By 2025, that number has fallen to 53. That’s part of what makes replicating the 2025 Jays and Brewers so difficult.

Teams may be able to find their version of Clement or the Brewers’ Joey Ortiz. But filling a lineup with the likes of Brice Turang, Frelick, Alejandro Kirk, Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is not simple. They were five of just 24 players last year to post a contact rate over 80% and a weighted runs created plus over 110.

The Jays and the Brewers were among just seven teams with multiple players who fit that description; 11 teams had none.

Prioritizing contact at the cost of overall production can go too far. Over the past five years, the Washington Nationals and the Cleveland Guardians ranked top five in team contact rate while ranking bottom 10 in weighted runs created plus. Good contact, bad lineups.

“Really,” an AL executive said, “you just want good hitters.”

While the Tigers may be in search of more contact entering 2026, teams like the Astros and the San Diego Padres now seek more power after embracing more contact. Even for the Blue Jays, general manager Ross Atkins said, bat-to-ball was not a planned team identity. It was just one piece of the offensive puzzle.

Toronto has been a high-contact team for the past three years. The Blue Jays ranked top five in contact rate in 2023 and 2024 as well. But it was the rest of the offensive profile that failed them. In both years, they ranked outside the top 10 in slugging. Not until 2025 did the Blue Jays find the right balance. Toronto led all teams in batting average in the postseason, but also led in on-base percentage and home runs.

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