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Universities in PR to receive over $4.6 million in federal funding
By THE STAR STAFF
Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera announced on Wednesday the allocation of over $4.6 million in federal grants from the TRIO Student Support Services program for university institutions in Puerto Rico.
“Every dollar allocated reflects our fight for greater equity in post-secondary education for Puerto Rico,” Hernández Rivera said in a written statement.
The grants from the federal Department of Education support low-income, first-generation, and disabled college students through tutoring, academic guidance, and support services that aim to improve retention and completion.
The academic institutions in Puerto Rico that will receive the allocations are: Universidad del Sagrado Corazón: $981,847; Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico: $913,861; Antillean Adventist University: $544,728; University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus: $456,263; San Juan University College: $400,841; University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo Campus: $380,834;
Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla Campus: $382,340; Ana G. Méndez University, Gurabo Campus: $359,658; and Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, Barranquitas Campus: $272,364.
Currently, nearly 13,000 students on the island depend on the TRIO program to achieve their academic goals, as part of a national effort that impacts more than 880,000 students in all U.S. states and territories.
Treasury sends over $23.5 million in tax refunds for low-income seniors & retirees
By THE STAR STAFF
Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez announced on Wednesday the sending of a new payment schedule for $23,577,103 in tax refunds for seniors and retirees, just one week before the start of the tax return filing period.
“Today we are disbursing payments to seniors and retirees for $23,577,103, corresponding to 50,140 tax returns. This schedule, added to the more than $9 million sent last week, brings the total payments to $32,569,051, corresponding to 69,451 tax returns,” Pantoja Rodríguez said in a written statement.
The official emphasized that the rate of filing has exceeded that of the previous year. As of July 9, 82,552 tax returns have been received, 9,374 more than in 2024. By that date last year, 24,604 tax returns had been processed and $11,533,617 in refunds disbursed, while this year, 84 percent of the tax returns filed have already been paid.
Payments will begin to appear in taxpayers’ bank accounts in the coming days. The deadline to file Form 481.1 is Oct. 14, and some 200,000 tax returns are expected to be received.
Pantoja Rodríguez noted that service fairs to assist with tax return preparation continue, having already benefited more than 450 people. He announced that the activities will continue throughout July in different municipalities and will be published on official social media and in conjunction with sponsors.
Attendees must bring photo identification and, in the case of Social Security beneficiaries, the SSA Form 1099 for the year 2024. Upcoming fairs will be held at locations such as Plaza AEELA in Hato Rey (today and Friday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.), Antonio Roig Library in Humacao (Monday, July 14, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.), José Marrón Aponte Coliseum in Aibonito (Thursday, July 17, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.), and Centro de Bellas Artes in Culebra (Monday, July 21, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.), among other locations on the island.
Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera
San Juan announces comprehensive plan for Bad Bunny residency
By THE STAR STAFF
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo announced on Wednesday the launch of a special plan by the Municipality of San Juan that focuses on security, emergency management, cleanliness and beautification, economic development, and cultural and sporting events coinciding with Bad Bunny’s residency at the Puerto Rico Coliseum in Hato Rey. The event will feature 30 performances from July 11 to Sept. 14, serving as an unprecedented catalyst for San Juan’s international promotion through the “De Aquí Pa’l Mundo” initiative.
“San Juan is ready to welcome the world with the best of what we have to offer,” Romero Lugo said. “This residency is not just a world-class musical event; it is also a historic opportunity to transform culture into economic development and entertainment into employment. We are planning with vision and executing with purpose.”
Security and emergency management
The security plan includes the deployment of more than125 municipal police officers stationed at the Coliseum,at Placita de Santurce, in Río Piedras, and in Old San Juan. The city will be enhanced with motorcycle, canine and traffic patrols, artificial intelligence surveillance, and license plate readers. For emergencies, ambulances, rapid response units, and fire trucks will be available from Friday to Sunday, between 4 p.m. and 4 a.m. Cultural, sports, and recreational activities
As part of the “De Aquí Pa’l Mundo” initiative, the municipality has organized a series of public events at iconic venues:
“This residency is not just a world-class musical event,” San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo said in announcing the municipality’s plan for the much-anticipated Bad Bunny concert series, “it is also a historic opportunity to transform culture into economic development and entertainment into employment. We are planning with vision and executing with purpose.”
* Wellness at the Beach (Aug. 3) – Yoga, meditation, and an organic market at El Escambrón.
* Urban Run: Vía Libre (Aug. 9 and Sept. 13) – An urban run with live music from Old San Juan to Plaza Colón.
* Water Relays at the Lagoon (Aug. 16) – Recreational competitions in Condado Lagoon.
* Bunny Games (Aug. 30) – Family games, challenge zones, and dancing at Luis Muñoz Marín Park.
* Arena Viva San Juan (Sept. 6) – A beach festival featuring art competitions and workshops at El Escambrón.
Starting this Friday, interested individuals
can visit sanjuan.pr to register for the recreational and cultural activities planned for a historic summer, the mayor said.
Additionally, the municipality has organized a heartfelt initiative: young musicians will perform at Urban Train stations to welcome residency attendees with instrumental renditions of Puerto Rican music and Bad Bunny’s songs. The students, from public schools and youth music training programs, will not only showcase their talents to thousands of people but also will participate in an effort to raise awareness and dignify the role of youth in San Juan’s cultural scene.
“Every young performer at these stations is not just a musician; they are ambassadors for our city and a testament to the potential we unlock when we invest in our people,” Romero Lugo said.
The initiative is further complemented by an immersive work and artistic program, coordinated by the municipality’s Workforce Development Department, involving some 200 young people ages 14 to 21. Through practical experiences, public interaction and institutional support, the youths will develop transferable skills that enhance their employability and strengthen their sense of belonging to the Capital City.
Economic impact and promotion of local business
According to a study by Advantage Business Consulting, the residency is expected to generate a total economic impact of $377 million, of which $302 million will remain in San Juan. The event is projected to create more than 3,600 direct, indirect, and induced jobs, alongside 40,000 hotel stays and a more than 170% increase in short-term rentals,
contributing over $25 million in media value for the city.
In June and July, the municipality conducted meetings with merchants, private sector associations, and tourism leaders to align efforts and maximize the collective impact of the residency experience.
Party zones and collaboration with merchants
The Municipality of San Juan has designated three main party zones:
* Trocadero, in front of the Coliseum, featuring kiosks from six food businesses under the Prueba San Juan program.
* La Placita de Santurce, hosting the Placita Live event series and other collaborations.
* Río Piedras Urban Center, featuring artisan markets, bomba and plena classes, culinary workshops, and live music.
International reach
The Municipality of San Juan has approved the partial closure of roads for the Demo Run F1 event, a collaboration between Bad Bunny, Adidas Originals, and Mercedes-Benz, scheduled for Aug. 2 at the Dos Hermanos Bridge. The exhibition underscores San Juan’s position as a host city for global urban, technological, and cultural experiences.
“This residency and the accompanying initiatives solidify our city as the capital of the Caribbean and a global host of cultural and entertainment events,” the mayor said.
Strategic partnerships
In collaboration with MasterCard, cardholders will have access to free transportation between party zones, along with promotions and discounts at selected merchants. The visibility of the Capital City will also be enhanced at the airport and key tourist locations.
Hotel chain offers specials for Bad Bunny concert series
By THE STAR STAFF
In honor of urban music artist Bad Bunny’s highly anticipated residency at the Puerto Rico Coliseum, which begins this week and runs through September, the Puerto Rican hotel chain Hoteles Vista has announced the availability of accommodations across its three properties: Vista Bahía (Salinas), Vista Azul (Aguadilla) and Vista Verde (Yauco). Each hotel offers all-inclusive packages and special deals for attendees of the musical event.
“We know that many guests will focus on the metropolitan and northern areas, but there is so much more to discover in Puerto Rico,” said Jaime Martínez Cintrón, general manager of operations at Hoteles Vista. “This residency presents a great opportunity for small and medium-sized businesses across the island to showcase what we have to offer our visitors. From
our hotels, guests can enjoy live music, delicious food, and the natural beauty of our mountains, beaches, and countryside.”
As part of the initiative, the hotel chain is planning to offer “chinchorreo”-style transportation from its properties to the Puerto Rico Coliseum, contingent upon having enough guests participating. The service aims to facilitate access to the event from different regions and provide a unique experience for fans.
“We are committed to ensuring a complete experience that includes a concert, comfortable accommodations, exciting activities, local cuisine, and an authentic Puerto Rican atmosphere,” Martínez Cintrón said. “While exploring Puerto Rico, visitors will also immerse themselves in its music and culture.”
Hoteles Vista employs more than 300 people across Puerto Rico, promoting domestic tourism and contributing to the economic development of areas beyond the San Juan metropolitan zone.
Hotel Vista Bahía in Salinas (Instagram via Hotel Vista Bahía)
Manufacturers object to power rate hike to cover PREPA pensions
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Manufacturers’ Association (PRMA) on Wednesday expressed deep concern and strong opposition to the government’s proposal to increase electricity rates to cover the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) pension obligations.
The PRMA warned that the measure would place an additional economic burden on the industrial sector, which is already struggling with unreliable electricity service, high rates and outdated infrastructure.
“We recognize and respect the right of retired PREPA workers to receive their pensions fairly and promptly. This is an act of justice for those who served the country with dedication,” PRMA President Rafael Vélez Domínguez stated. “However, the industrial sector, which is the engine of our economy, should not be penalized for past administrative decisions over which it had no control. Placing this cost on us is not the right path.”
Puerto Rico is facing one of its most severe energy crises in recent history. The average electricity rate on the island is 24.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. With the potential increase proposed by PREPA, electric power transmission and distribution system opera-
tor LUMA Energy and legacy power plants operator Genera PR, that rate could rise to 37 cents per kilowatt-hour, the PRMA asserted, significantly exceeding the national average of 17.45 cents. Adding a charge to cover accumulated liabilities from years of
mismanagement at PREPA is, according to industry leaders, unacceptable for the nation’s productive framework.
“This proposal would negatively affect our companies’ global competitiveness, hinder investment, jeopardize job creation, and
Governor signs a dozen bills into law
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón signed the first 12 bills from the closing session of the Legislative Assembly into law on Wednesday. The bills address various topics, including combating stigma against HIV patients, making technical corrections to existing laws, and expanding oversight measures, among others.
The Governor’s Office is currently receiving legislation recently approved by the Legislature. Once each bill is received, the advisory team reviews it and provides recommendations to the governor, who then decides whether to sign it. The number of bills that have reached La Fortaleza fluctuates daily. Even after receiving legislative approval, bills go through a verification process and require signatures from the legislative leaders before final submission.
The following is a sample of the new laws:
Law 35-2025 (House Bill [HB] 540)
Authored by Speaker of the House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, the measure amends Act No. 6-2025, known as the “Single Digital File for People with Disabilities Act.” It also, among other provisions, establishes a 10-day period for the relevant agencies to digitize and store participants’ documents in the digital file.
Act 36-2025 (Senate Bill [SB] 446)
The administration bill (A-023) amends Act No. 91-1991, known as the “Judge and Judge Candidate Evaluation System Act.” The amendments aim to make technical corrections, strengthen confidentiality in the judge evaluation process, ensure procedural integrity, and serve other related purposes.
Act 37-2025 (SB 511)
As A-057, the administration bill amends Act No. 15 of April 14, 1931, known as the “Department of Labor and Human Resources Organic Act.” It authorizes the Bureau of Legal Affairs to represent employees who have agreed to use arbitration as a method to resolve disputes arising under their private employment contracts and serves other related purposes.
Act 40-2025 (HB 26)
Authored by House Speaker Méndez and District 31 Rep. Vimarie Peña Dávila, the act amends Act 8-2017, known as the “Government of Puerto Rico Human Resources Management and Transformation Act.” It restores the authority of the Office of Management and Transformation of Human Resources to certify employees for public service, among other purposes.
Act 42-2025 (SB 29)
Authored by Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, the amendment modifies Act 248-2018, known as the “Bill of Rights of Persons Living with HIV at Any Stage in Puerto Rico.”
undermine the country’s ability to achieve sustainable economic growth,” Vélez Domínguez stressed.
The PRMA urged the government and relevant authorities to explore responsible alternatives, such as identifying funding sources outside the fee system, including budget reallocations or establishing a special fund with both state and federal participation. The private sector entity also suggested creating a trust or fee stabilization fund as a financial mechanism to mitigate fluctuations in electricity rates, with resources stemming from savings generated by new generation projects, reductions in fuel costs, or other system efficiencies.
Additionally, the PRMA recommended conducting a specialized and independent audit of PREPA to gain a clear understanding of its actual debt structure and the factors contributing to its accumulation, and accelerating the energy transition by focusing on a modern, diversified, and sustainable electricity grid, which has real potential for long-term cost reduction.
“The current situation should be viewed as an opportunity to structurally reform the energy system,” Vélez Domínguez said. “Puerto Rico cannot continue to repeat the mistakes of the past.”
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón signed bills into law on Wednesday to, among other things, combat stigma against HIV patients, make technical corrections to existing laws, and expand oversight measures.
The amendment aims to eliminate potentially stigmatizing language, include definitions of relevant concepts, clarify the rights of individuals diagnosed with HIV, and specify the responsibilities of the Department of Health, among other related purposes.
Act 43-2025 (SB 164)
Authored by Senate President Rivera Schatz, the amendment modifies Act No. 135 of Sept. 1, 2020, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Forensic Sciences Act,” to eliminate the agency’s board of directors and establishes the terms and methods for appointing the executive director.
Puerto Rico Manufacturers’ Association President Rafael Vélez Domínguez
Families wait for word of missing as Texas floods death toll nears 120
By EDGAR SANDOVAL
Officials in Kerr County struggled to provide answers Wednesday morning about their response to a devastating flood that swept through the Texas Hill Country nearly a week ago, killing at least 119 people statewide.
The bulk of those deaths were in Kerr County, where the death roll reached 95 on Wednesday and officials said 161 people were still missing — a major increase from the numbers they were citing earlier in the week.
Statewide, 173 people were unaccounted for, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said, as searchers continued to sift through the muddy remains of cabins, campers and trailer parks.
Facing questions about a lack of warning sirens and other disaster plans, officials in Kerr County gave an extensive account of their rescue efforts as the Guadalupe River rose early Friday, saying hundreds of people had been saved by local emergency crews.
“They rescued people out of vehicles. They rescued people out of homes that were already flooded, pulling them out of windows,” Officer Jonathan Lamb with the police department in Kerrville, the county’s largest city, said at a Wednesday news conference. He added, “I know that this tragedy, as horrific as it is, could have been so much worse.”
But officials said other answers about preparations and response would have to wait for an extensive review. “If improvements need to be made, improvements will be made,” the county sheriff, Larry Leitha, said at the news conference.
Pressed about the timeline for when in-
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Volunteers and members of law enforcement comb through debris in an area where cadaver dogs indicated the scent of decomposition on the riverbank on the Guadalupe River outside of Comfort, Texas, on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. No survivors have been found since Friday in Kerr County, where the worst flooding occurred. The statewide death toll rose to 119, with at least 173 unaccounted for statewide. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
creasingly urgent warnings from the National Weather Service were shared with residents, the sheriff asked for more time. “I believe those questions need to be answered,” he told reporters, adding, “We’re going to get that answer. We’re not running. We’re not going to hide.”
Abbott, when asked similar questions Tuesday about investigating what went wrong, referred to such inquiries as the “words of losers” and compared disaster response to football, saying only losing teams focused
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The governor said state lawmakers, who cut property taxes by $51 billion this year while funding only a small portion of a backlog of flood management projects totaling some $54 billion across the state, would be focused on solutions instead.
As the grim search for the missing spread farther across Hill Country on Wednesday, some family members received the news they had been dreading. A woman who survived the floods, but whose mother, stepfather, aunt, uncle and cousin were missing, learned that the bodies of her mother and stepfather had been found.
“To have her as a mother was a treasure I will forever cherish,” the woman, Hailey Chavarria, wrote in a Facebook post about her mother, Michelle Crossland. “I’m sorry it’s not the update anyone wanted.”
Jermaine Jarmon, 52, who lives north of Austin in Travis County, was among those awaiting news Wednesday. His 16-year-old daughter, Felicity Jarmon, was still missing. Jermaine Jarmon, also known as “JJ,” had already received word that his longtime partner, Alissa Martin, 54, and his son Braxton Jarmon, 15, had died in the floods.
The family was caught up in the fast-moving floodwaters that surged out of the
creek running through their backyard. Jarmon said the family had heard no official warnings that the flood was coming. A neighbor alerted him, he said, not the fire department a mile away.
“They could have gone up and down the street with sirens on,” he said.
For now, as he waits for word of his daughter, Jarmon said he was trying to survive one day at a time. “That’s all I can do,” he said. “For the rest of my life.”
The floods, striking at a region filled with summer camps and vacationing families, now stand among the deadliest U.S. disasters for children in several decades. In Kerr County alone, 36 children were killed, including many from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls.
Twenty-seven campers and staff members have been confirmed dead, according to the camp. The bodies of five campers and a 19-year-old counselor had not yet been recovered as of Wednesday morning, officials said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Abbott ordered Texas flags to be lowered to half-staff until July 14 to honor the flood victims. “Texas stands united in mourning and in our resolve to support those who strive to heal and recover,” he said in a statement.
In addition to the deaths in Kerr County, at least seven people were killed in Travis County, eight in Kendall County, five in Burnet County, three in Williamson County and one in Tom Green County.
Stories of the lost continued to emerge Wednesday. The daughter of Katheryn Eads, who was camping in Kerr County when the floods swept through, described her mother in an email to The New York Times, saying Eads had worked in early education as a psychologist, helping children in the foster care system, and then spent time as a college professor.
“She was an incredible wife, daughter, mother, grandmother and person who spent her life helping kids,” wrote Eads’ daughter, Victoria Eads. Katheryn Eads was camping in a trailer with her husband, Brian Eads, who survived by clinging to a tree.
“We both got swept away, and then I lost her,” Brian Eads said while searching for his wife at a church shelter on the day of the floods. He tried to swim through the swift-moving dark water toward her voice, he said, but lost track of her when he was struck in the head by flood debris. The
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In flooded Texas, questions about FEMA’s role and fate
By MAXINE JOSELOW
At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had swiftly deployed personnel to Central Texas, as catastrophic floods roared through the region.
“You had people there as fast as anybody’s ever seen,” Trump told Kristi Noem, who leads the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA’s parent agency.
But FEMA has been slow to deploy certain teams that coordinate response and searchand-rescue efforts, according to half a dozen current and former FEMA officials and disaster experts, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly.
The current and former officials cautioned that every disaster presents unique challenges and that FEMA plays a supporting role to state and local emergency management agencies.
Still, the experts said that the extent of the destruction in Texas, the number of missing people and the complexity of the response would normally trigger a bigger, faster deployment. The death toll in Texas from the floods climbed to at least 111 on Tuesday, with at least 173 people still missing, including 161 in Kerr County, which sustained the worst damage, state officials said.
at least 104 people. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times)
did in this situation.”
Under Trump, FEMA faces an uncertain future. The president has said he wants to eliminate the agency by the end of November and to shift more responsibility for emergency management as well as more of the cost to the states.
In an internal update Tuesday morning, FEMA said it had deployed about 70 search-and-rescue workers to Kerr County and had sent around a dozen others who could help manage responses to Austin. Another unit of about 40 personnel was on standby, able to be in place on short notice.
That staffing was dwarfed by the response from the state, which had deployed more than 1,750 personnel and more than 975 vehicles and other equipment by late Monday, according to the Texas Division of Emergency Management.
In remarks Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, made a point of highlighting state action as well as assistance Texas had received from other states, such as a loan of four Black Hawk helicopters from Arkansas. He thanked “fellow governors, other states” with hardly a mention of the federal government.
“Texas has a very robust emergency management program,” said Elizabeth Zimmerman, a former associate administrator at FEMA and now a senior executive adviser at IEM, a consulting firm. She added that W. Nim Kidd, chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management, had decades of experience and “a huge staff to support him.”
Representatives for FEMA did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday, including questions about how many personnel were on the ground in Texas and what they were doing.
At the Cabinet meeting, Noem said, “We as a federal government don’t manage these disasters; the state does. We come in and support them. And that’s exactly what we
Since its creation in 1979, FEMA has grown more complex and expensive, as climate change has made extreme weather events more frequent and severe. The agency’s budget for the past fiscal year was roughly $35 billion. Trump has established a council to decide FEMA’s fate; the panel is set to meet Wednesday.
Two former FEMA officials expressed surprise that the agency had not dispatched a larger team to Texas to coordinate efforts with state and local emergency management agencies. A larger team would typically help set up a disaster recovery center where flood survivors could apply for financial assistance from FEMA.
In comparison, on the fifth day after Hurricane Helene battered several southeastern states last fall, FEMA deployed about 160 personnel to help manage the response, with half the workers in the hardest-hit parts of North Carolina, according to the agency’s internal update that day. Trump repeatedly criticized FEMA’s handling of Helene under the Biden administration.
One factor contributing to delays is bureaucratic red tape at the Homeland Security Department, according to a government employee familiar with the matter. Noem is requiring that she review and approve all new expenses over $100,000, including the deployment of search-and-rescue teams, according to the employee and an internal memo
reviewed by The New York Times.
“Requests for approval of obligations above the $100,000 threshold must be submitted via memo through the Executive Secretary process,” Noem wrote in the memo. “As with any request for secretarial approval, please allow a minimum of five days for front office review.”
Since Trump took office, FEMA has lost about a quarter of its staff, including some of its most experienced leaders, like the head of the agency’s disaster command center.
Cameron Hamilton, FEMA’s former acting head, was pushed out of the agency in May after he testified before Congress that he did not believe the agency should be eliminated. David Richardson, his replacement, has no background in disaster response and told employees last month that he did not realize the country had a hurricane season. It was not clear if Richardson was joking.
Trump said last month that if a state were to get hit by a hurricane or another disaster, “the governor should be able to handle it. And frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor.”
When asked Monday whether the Trump administration still planned to dismantle FEMA, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, demurred.
“The president wants to ensure American citizens always have what they need during times of need,” she said. “Whether that assistance comes from states or the federal government, that is a policy discussion that will continue.”
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Volunteers Weston Pavlik, left, and Dave Alexander prepare breakfast for search and rescue workers at a staging area in Kerrville, Texas, before dawn on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Rescuers were set to continue scouring debris from the catastrophic floods in Central Texas on Tuesday, even as hopes for finding more survivors faded and the death toll climbed to
With taxes and tariffs in place, Trump takes reins on US economy
By TONY ROMM and COLBY SMITH
His expensive tax cuts have been signed into law. His steep global tariffs are taking clearer shape. And his twin campaigns to deregulate government and deport immigrants are well underway.
With the major components of his agenda now coming into focus, President Donald Trump has already left an indelible mark on the U.S. economy. The triumphs and turbulence that may soon arise will squarely belong to him.
Not even six months into his second term, Trump has forged ahead with the grand and potentially disruptive economic experiment that he first previewed during the 2024 campaign. His actions in recent weeks have staked the future of the nation’s finances — and its centuries-old trading relationships — on a belief that many economists’ most dire warnings are wrong.
Last week, the president enacted a sprawling set of tax cuts that he believes to be the ingredients for rapid economic growth, even as fiscal experts warned that the law may injure the poor while putting the U.S. government on a risky new fiscal path.
President Donald Trump signs legislation during a Fourth of July celebration event outside the White House in Washington, July 4, 2025. Trump enacted a sprawling set of tax cuts that he said would generate rapid economic growth, even as fiscal experts warned that the law may put the country on a perilous new fiscal path. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
Then, on Monday, Trump began to issue his latest round of tariff threats, insisting that “we’re done” negotiating as economists warned about a potential surge in consumer prices that could arise from taxing imports.
The White House also proceeded with its aggressive and legally contested plans to eliminate scores of federal regulations and deport millions of migrants. The immigration crackdown, in particular, could come to the detriment of many sectors like agriculture, which rely heavily on foreign labor, experts believe.
So far, the U.S. economy has remained resilient in the face of these seismic changes, while Trump has ascribed the faintest hint of negative news to his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
“I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy because he’s done a terrible job,” Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press in May.
But the president has now achieved broad swaths of what he set out to do, making him responsible for the highs or lows on the horizon. The coming months will serve as a gauge of
whether he is merely enjoying a calm before a damaging storm — or if the president is correct in asserting that his agenda is not as perilous as many economists have feared.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
For the moment, the U.S. economy appears strong, even as it shows some early signs of strain.
David Kelly, the chief global strategist for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, still described the U.S. economy as a “relatively healthy tortoise,” resilient and expanding, slowly but surely. He projected the nation’s gross domestic product, a measure of its total output, would grow about 1% by the end of 2025 compared with the year prior.
But, he added, the economy had reached a “bit of a diversion in the road,” as some of Trump’s new policies start to take effect.
At the heart of that agenda is a sprawling and expensive new domestic policy law, which Trump signed into law on July 4. The package primarily preserves a set of low tax rates clinched during the president’s first term, while provisioning new, and in some cases generous, tax reductions for businesses, seniors and certain workers, including those who earn overtime.
Many Americans, particularly the wealthy, could see lower tax bills in the coming years, congressional analysts previously found. But Republicans financed that package with deep cuts to federal safety net programs, which could leave poorer Americans worse off under a law that’s still expected to add more than $3 trillion to the debt.
Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said the cost of the legislation would send the nation’s fiscal imbalance to a level not seen since after World War II. That would weigh down private inves-
tment and push up the costs of borrowing money, not only for the government but also for average Americans.
“This will slow economic growth,” predicted MacGuineas, whose group supports deficit reduction.
Trump and his top aides have swatted away those predictions. Last month, they estimated that the tax measure — and the rest of the president’s agenda — would generate enough revenue and economic activity to reduce deficits by as much as $11 trillion. Even conservative economists have said some of the administration’s predictions are overly rosy.
“The growth that’s just attributed to the tax cut is way too hot, even compared with what conservatives like me would say,” said Glenn Hubbard, who served as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. “It’s just way, way, way out of line.”
Some of that revenue is expected to come from Trump’s tariffs, which he broadened this week. Targeting an initial batch of 14 countries, the president on Monday threatened duties as high as 40% unless those nations strike favorable trade deals with the United States.
A day later, Trump promised to unveil new duties on imported drugs, computer chips and copper, as he promised that “the big money will start coming in on Aug. 1.” The president’s top advisers have said they expect to collect more than $300 billion from tariffs by the end of the year.
On Monday, the Budget Lab at Yale, a nonpartisan research center, estimated that the president’s duties — including those to come next month — would cause households to lose about $2,300 on average in income this year.
But the White House has long rejected similar projections and produced estimates of its own. It found on Tuesday that the price of imported goods had fallen faster than overall goods prices since February. Trump’s top aides said it showed that the president’s tariffs were not leading to “an acceleration of inflation,” though economists later questioned elements of the report.
“There’s no sustained pattern of a tariff driven price pressure anywhere,” Stephen Miran, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said on CNBC.
The vast uncertainty, particularly around tariffs, has frozen the Federal Reserve, which has left borrowing costs untouched for months as it waits to see the fuller effects of Trump’s policies. That has provided the president with a convenient “fall guy” in Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, whom Trump has branded as “Mr. Too Late” for not lowering borrowing costs as he has demanded.
“If you end up with things like tariffs pushing up inflation and pushing down growth in the short term, then it can almost suit you as president to blame bad economic data on an ‘incompetent’ Fed chair,” said Mark Dowding, the chief investment officer for fixed income at RBC BlueBay Asset Management.
Wall Street pushes out end of Fed balance sheet wind-down, minutes show
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Financial market participants have pushed out yet again the end date for the effort to shrink the size of the Federal Reserve’s large balance sheet, the minutes of the U.S. central bank’s June 17-18 policy meeting showed on Wednesday.
The drawdown of the Fed’s stock of bonds is now expected to stop in February when the balance sheet stands at $6.2 trillion, big banks and money funds told the U.S. central bank ahead of last month’s policy meeting, the minutes noted. That represents a small shift from what survey respondents said ahead of the Fed’s policy meeting in early May, when they eyed a January end date, and $6.125 trillion in total holdings.
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lion to the current level of $6.7 trillion.
The Fed more than doubled its bond holdings to stabilize markets and then provide stimulus to the economy beyond what could be delivered by near-zero short-term rates. The QT program has been aimed at removing excess levels of liquidity from the market as part of a broader monetary policy normalization, but there’s been ongoing uncertainty when that process could end, and at what level of holdings the Fed would be able to rest at.
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For some time, market participants have expected the Fed to stop QT this year. But earlier in 2025 the Fed slowed QT in order to reduce the risk of market disruptions while the Treasury Department took action to deal with government financing needs during wrangling over the government’s official borrowing limit and its broader budget needs.
Much of that uncertainty was resolved last week with the passage of a Trump administration budget bill that lifted the borrowing cap, which will allow the Treasury to sell more debt. Increased debt sales will cut into the reserve levels the Fed has been trying to shrink with QT.
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The Fed has been shrinking the size of its balance sheet since the summer of 2022 in an effort referred to as quantitative tightening, or QT. The central bank has allowed set amounts of bonds it bought during the COVID-19 pandemic to mature and not be replaced, in an effort that so far has taken the overall stock of cash and bonds it holds from a record $9 tril-
The reserves now stand at around $3.3 trillion, a level that’s been steady for some time. The minutes released on Wednesday said market participants told the Fed they see reserves dipping to $2.9 trillion due to QT. Respondents also said the Fed’s reverse repo facility, which held $227 billion on Wednesday, should move to a “low” level.
Wall Street indexes closed higher on Wednesday after Federal Reserve meeting minutes fueled hopes that inflation pressures from President Donald Trump’s tariffs would not derail interest rate cuts this year and the tech-heavy Nasdaq led gains as Nvidia briefly reached a $4 trillion valuation.
The minutes for the mid-June meeting showed that most Fed officials said they expect rate cuts will be appropriate later this year, with price shocks from Trump’s import taxes expected to be “temporary or modest.” However, there was little support for a rate cut at the end of July meeting.
Nvidia finished higher after it became the world’s first company to hit a $4 trillion market value on Wednesday morning, solidifying its position as one of Wall Street’s most favored stocks to tap in the ongoing surge in demand for artificial intelligence technologies.
“Fed officials suggested that they believe inflation will be higher down the road. At the same time, many or most officials suggested that they expect lower interest rates at some point this year. Those two things don’t match,” said Chris Brigati, chief investment officer at SWBC, an investment company in San Antonio, Texas. “Perhaps they’re starting to put a little bit more weight into what’s going on with the labor market.”
Putin, undeterred by Trump’s words, escalates his war against Ukraine
By ANTON TROIANOVSKI and PAUL SONNE
President Vladimir Putin of Russia is brushing aside President Donald Trump’s professed disappointment in him and is pushing ahead in Ukraine with renewed intensity, having already priced in the possibility of new U.S. pressure, analysts and people close to the Kremlin said.
The Russian leader is convinced that Russia’s battlefield superiority is growing, and that Ukraine’s defenses may collapse in the coming months, according to two people close to the Kremlin, who insisted on anonymity to speak candidly about sensitive diplomacy. Given Russia’s ongoing offensive, they say, Putin views it as out of the question to halt the fighting now without extensive concessions by Ukraine.
“He will not sacrifice his goals in Ukraine for the sake of improving relations with Trump,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
Putin’s recalcitrance highlights a stark reversal from some expectations earlier this year, when Trump came into office and aggressively pursued a rapprochement with Moscow, having pledged on the campaign trail to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Trump’s friendly approach to the Kremlin and an Oval Office shouting match with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine seemed to offer a rare opening for Putin.
Trump’s clear sympathy for the Russian leader, many Russians hoped, could yield sanctions relief, Western investment, arms-control deals and a favorable geopolitical realignment in Europe. All Putin needed to do, it seemed, was accept a Ukraine ceasefire that would
Ukrainian firefighter and rescue workers carry a victim of a Russian airstrike that hit an apartment building in Karamtorsk, Ukraine, about 15 miles north of the city of Kostyantynivka, June 22, 2025. (David Guttenfelder / The New York Times)
have allowed Russia to keep the territory it had already captured.
But Putin wanted more. As Russia has gained on the battlefield, and Ukraine has struggled with a dearth of men to defend its front lines, Putin’s military ambitions have only increased.
As Trump makes his frustration with Putin known, it has become clearer that Putin is prepared to risk his relationship with the U.S. president in service of what has emerged as his overarching goal after 40 months of full-scale war — achieving Ukraine’s capitulation to his demands.
Putin’s determination to keep up Russia’s onslaught, coupled with escalating bombardments, led up to Trump’s most recent outburst of frustration with Putin, on Tuesday. Despite six phone calls between the two leaders since February and two rounds of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, Russia has only escalated.
“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump told report-
ers. “He’s very nice to us all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Putin has tried hard to be “nice.” He has pitched the White House on business deals like mining rare earths or taking a stake in Russian gas supplies to Europe. He offered Russia as a neutral Middle East mediator even as Trump was preparing to bomb Iran, Russia’s closest ally in the region. He has continued to shower Trump with public compliments.
“He’s a courageous man, that’s clear,” Putin said of Trump at a news conference in Belarus late last month.
But the one thing Putin has not done, as Trump acknowledged on Tuesday, is offer meaningful concessions on Ukraine. At the Belarus news conference on June 27, Putin said he recognized Trump’s frustration, referring to the president’s recent acknowledgment that the war in Ukraine was harder to end than he had thought.
“That’s how it is,” Putin went on. “Real life is always more complicated than the idea of it.”
The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, reiterated that sentiment in comments on Wednesday and played down Trump’s harsh remarks about Putin.
“We are taking this calmly,” Peskov said. “We expect to continue our dialogue with Washington and our effort to repair our seriously broken bilateral relations.”
Trump, the Kremlin spokesperson added, has a “fairly tough style in the phrases he uses.”
Putin has been prepared for Trump’s patience to snap, according to the two people close to the Kremlin. He has understood, they said, that Trump could eventually implement new sanctions, after six months in which the administration has issued no new sanctions against Russia related to its invasion of Ukraine.
“Putin really values and is investing in a personal relationship with Trump,” Stanovaya said. “But at the same time, he never had any illusions about how American policy toward Russia might develop. And the Russian leadership has always prepared for the worst.”
So far, the U.S. president’s sanctions threats against Russia have proved empty. Neither has he signaled a willingness to ramp up military support in a way that would change the battlefield balance, and European countries don’t appear to have the capacity to do so on their own. One of the people close to the Kremlin said that Putin expected to still be able to make a deal on sanctions relief with Trump when, at some point in the future, the Russian leader finally is ready to end the war.
“Putin is very rational to some extent,” said Stefan Meister, a Russia expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. “If there are no increasing costs from the other side, why should he change his behavior?”
Putin’s goals in Ukraine go well beyond maintaining control over the swath of Ukraine that his troops have captured. He wants the NATO alliance to commit not to expand further eastward and roll back its infrastructure. He also wants Ukraine to adopt a “neutral” status and cap the size of its military, in addition to protecting the use of the Russian language under Ukrainian law.
And he has continued to insist that Ukraine withdraw its forces from territory that he claims to be part of Russia, frustrating a Trump administration that had expected Putin to accept a ceasefire at the current battle lines.
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Dueling US efforts botched a deal to swap Venezuelans held in El Salvador for Americans
By FRANCES ROBLES, JULIE TURKEWITZ and ZORAN KANNO-YOUNGS
The Trump administration’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was overseeing a deal to free several Americans and dozens of political prisoners held in Venezuela in exchange for sending home about 250 Venezuelan migrants the United States had deported to El Salvador.
But the deal never happened.
Part of the reason: President Donald Trump’s envoy to Venezuela was working on his own deal, one with terms that Venezuela deemed more attractive. In exchange for American prisoners, he was offering to allow Chevron to continue its oil operations in Venezuela, a vital source of revenue for its authoritarian government.
The discussions, which included the release of about 80 Venezuelan political prisoners, and the two different deals were described by two U.S. officials and two other people who are familiar with the talks and sought anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue.
The State Department never sealed the deal. The top U.S. officials did not appear to be communicating with each other and ended up at cross purposes. The approximately 250 people expelled from the United States are still being held in a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. And it became clear that while Trump’s White House once said that it had no control over the detainees in El Salvador, it was willing to use them as bargaining chips.
Both U.S. tracks — one managed by Rubio and the other led by the envoy, Richard Grenell — involved speaking with the same Venezuelan representative, Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, one U.S. official and the two other people said.
The conflicting diplomatic efforts signaled a monthslong divide over how to approach Venezuela and resembled the chaos that permeated Trump’s first term, when competing officials vied for influence with the president. But the lack of coordination left Venezuelan officials unclear about who spoke for Trump and, ultimately, left both American and Venezuelan detainees imprisoned.
The offer to swap Venezuelan migrants in El Salvador for prisoners remains on the table, one of the U.S. officials said. The White House is not willing, for now, to
extend Chevron’s license in Venezuela.
Grenell declined an interview request but said in an email that The New York Times’ account about the separate deals was bogus.
A person close to Grenell who is familiar with the talks with Venezuela said Grenell did not believe that a swap involving the Venezuelan migrants was going to happen because he believed that Trump would never have authorized the release of accused gang members. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect the sensitive nature of the ongoing negotiations.
Trump’s aides said that there was no tension between any of the diplomats.
“There is no fraction or division,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement. “The president has one team, and everyone knows he is the ultimate decision-maker.”
The United States is paying the Salvadoran government millions of dollars to detain migrants who the Trump administration claims are all members of a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, and who it said had come to the United States to commit crimes.
The negotiations over the swap, which were led by the State Department and John McNamara, the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, who also oversees Venezuelan affairs, had
advanced to the point where in May, Venezuela was set to send a state plane to El Salvador to retrieve the men, one of the two people said.
At the same time, the United States planned to send a plane normally used for deportations to Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, to pick up the political prisoners and the Americans. McNamara planned to fly to Caracas to oversee the handover.
The Venezuelan political prisoners, many of whom were arrested while protesting fraudulent elections held last year, would have been given the choice of staying in Venezuela or going to live in El Salvador, according to one of the people close to the talks.
The swap would have included a range of people who protested the 2024 election results in Venezuela, including a man jailed for criticizing President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela on TikTok and a former mayor arrested in August.
The deal would have freed 11 Americans and U.S. citizens, including Lucas Hunter, who was arrested in January, and Jonathan Pagan Gonzalez, who was arrested last year.
El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, first hinted at such a deal in late April. He suggested on social media that a “humanitarian agreement” would exchange all the Venezuelan migrants for Americans in Venezuelan custody and some Venezuelans.
At the time, Venezuelan officials publicly dismissed the proposal and demanded that their “kidnapped” countrymen be returned.
While Rubio and McNamara focused on the prisoner swap, Grenell worked on a deal of his own. Before pitching it to the Venezuelans, Grenell called the president to tell him about the offer and believed he had the president’s support. But Grenell had not actually received the president’s final approval, according to one of the U.S. officials.
The White House had already heard from a group of Florida Republicans, Cuban Americans, who threatened not to support Trump’s tax and domestic policy bill if the administration eased oil sanctions against Venezuela. Trump’s aides believed that allowing Chevron to export oil from Venezuela would jeopardize Trump’s domestic policy agenda. Now that the bill has passed, it is unclear if administration officials will change their minds on the Chevron license.
The exchange arranged by the State Department was set to take place in late May. That month, Grenell went to Venezuela on a separate mission in which he won the release of Joseph St. Clair, an Air Force veteran held in Venezuela.
Senior Trump administration officials still view Grenell as a valuable player in the administration, even though some say they believe that he moved too fast — and without the necessary buy-in — in the episode.
Grenell, the person close to him said, was surprised to learn about the swap, and is the only authorized negotiator on any deals with Venezuela. But since the episode, Rubio has taken the lead in talking to the Venezuelans, one of the U.S. officials said.
The Venezuelan and Salvadoran governments did not provide comment for this article.
The relatives of some Americans detained in Venezuela expressed frustration over the failure of the efforts to win their freedom.
“The sense that we parents had was that you had various people talking, but they weren’t working together — one negotiator would say one thing, and another would say something else,” said Petra Castañeda, whose son, Wilbert Castañeda, 37, a Navy SEAL, was arrested last year in Venezuela. “You would think they would be duly coordinated.”
Inmates at the Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 11, 2025. CECOT is a sprawling compound with eight hulking cell blocks — each can hold around 3,000 prisoners.(Fred Ramos/The New York Times)
For Israel, it pays to be a winner
By BRET STEPHENS
Acore misconception about Israel’s policy since Oct. 7 is that the country has favored military action at the expense of diplomacy. The truth is that it’s Israel’s decisive battlefield victories that have created diplomatic openings that have been out of reach for decades — and would have remained so if Israel hadn’t won.
In Beirut on Monday, Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, said he was “unbelievably satisfied” by the response he got from President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon on U.S. proposals to disarm Hezbollah, reportedly in exchange for critical financial aid after a six-year economic crisis. Aoun’s government is the first in the country’s history to make progress in disarming Hezbollah’s strongholds near the Israeli border — a basic condition for Israel to withdraw from five military outposts it still occupies in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah is not a group that will go quietly — not if it has any other option. But it’s because Israel destroyed it as an effective fighting force last year that it’s now possible for the Lebanese state to again possess the most basic form of sovereignty, a monopoly on the use of force within its borders. And it’s only because of Israel’s victory that there’s a realistic prospect of a peace agreement between Jerusalem and Beirut as part of an expanded Abraham Accords.
There’s a similarly hopeful story in Syria, where last week the Trump administration lifted sanctions on the government of President Ahmad al-Sharaa. The United States has been a step ahead of Israel in warming to al-Sharaa, who once led a branch of al-Qaida and whom some Israeli leaders still see as a closet jihadi. Now there are reports of talks between Jerusalem and Damascus aiming at a de facto peace agreement.
Where that goes remains to be seen. But it’s unlikely that al-Sharaa’s insurgents could have come to power if Israel hadn’t first destroyed Hezbollah, depriving the regime of Bashar Assad of one of its most effective military arms. And neither Jerusalem nor Damascus might have been amenable to talks if Israel hadn’t first destroyed many of Syria’s remaining weapon stockpiles in December, giving al-Sharaa an incentive to seek a diplomatic outcome and Israel confidence that it wouldn’t face another menace to its north.
Then there’s the Gaza Strip. After President Donald Trump’s White House dinner with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Monday, Israeli officials suggested they were close to a deal that would pause the fighting in exchange for Hamas’ release of more hostages. Trump has speculated that an agreement could happen this week.
This is happening not because the Netanyahu government or what remains of the leadership of Hamas has suddenly realized that there’s been far too much devasta-
tion and suffering in Gaza. There has been, and it’s in everyone’s interest to see it end. But humanitarian calls, however sincere, or moral hectoring, however loud, have contributed next to nothing to stopping the fighting. Wars don’t end because Greta Thunberg gets on a boat.
What has counted is the calculus of force. On Hamas’ side, its growing diplomatic flexibility is almost entirely a result of its proximity to total defeat. According to the BBC, one Hamas official has privately described a situation in which 95% of the leadership is dead and Hamas has lost control of 80% of its territory. Many Gaza residents have turned against Hamas, looting the offices of its security headquarters and increasingly turning to local clans for food and protection. These are the conditions under which Hamas’ remaining members may finally agree to lay down their arms and go into exile, at last creating the possibility for a permanent end to fighting, new governance and badly needed reconstruction.
On Israel’s side, diplomatic flexibility has three authors. The first is the Israeli public’s understandable exhaustion with 21 months of fighting. The second is pressure from Trump to reach a deal — and Netanyahu’s eagerness to please him.
But neither factor would have been sufficient if Israel hadn’t achieved its military success over Iran, crowned, from an Israeli point of view, by America’s participation in the campaign.
At a stroke, Israel humiliated its most formidable adversary (and Hamas’ principal patron), demonstrating not only its capacity but also its courage to take on the mullahs directly and survive their reprisals intact. It advertised its capabilities to Saudi Arabia, which may now be more amenable to joining the Abraham Accords — not out of a softhearted desire for peace but out of a hardheaded interest in cementing military, economic and technological ties with the Jewish state. It created at least the possibility that Iran might choose to forgo its nuclear ambitions out of fear of seeing them destroyed again. And its victory gave Netanyahu the upper hand over his far-right coalition partners, allowing him to sign a deal that probably wouldn’t cause his government to collapse.
Critics of Israeli policy have argued that the cost of its military victories lies in its isolation on the world stage or in the contempt in which it is held by people like Zohran Mamdani and Tucker Carlson. There’s also no doubt that hatred of Israel has done much to contribute to growing
antisemitism, although it’s equally true that antisemitism lies at the root of much of the hatred of Israel. Then again, Israel doesn’t exist to placate the feelings of its detractors and defamers. It exists to protect Jewish life and uphold Jewish dignity in a world too intent on destroying both. If diplomacy now has a chance of succeeding, it’s because in geopolitics, as in life, it pays to be a winner.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel arrives to meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
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MANATÍ – El secretario del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, Waldemar Quiles, informó el miércoles que 65 nuevos vigilantes se integraron al Cuerpo de Vigilantes, tras culminar la academia de formación.
“Ustedes serán la primera línea de defensa en la lucha por proteger nuestros recursos naturales y el medio ambiente”, expresó Quiles en declaraciones escritas.
La ceremonia se llevó a cabo en el Centro de Convenciones José Miguel Class en Manatí donde se graduaron los nuevos miembros, 49 hombres y 16 mujeres.Los vigilantes serán asignados: 19 a la Región de San Juan; 24 a la Región de Guayama; y 22 a la Región de Humacao, lo que eleva a 296 el total de vigilantes activos.
Los cadetes fueron capacitados en áreas como primeros auxilios, derechos civiles, derecho penal, uso y manejo de
armas de fuego, reglas de evidencia, procedimientos criminales, navegación y redacción de informes, como parte del currículo ofrecido por el Sistema Educativo Ana G. Méndez.
El programa es organizado por el Headway Institute of Strategic Alliance (HISA) y contará con la participación de 130 jóvenes líderes seleccionados de entre miles de solicitudes. Solo 16 fueron escogidos de América Latina y apenas 2 del Caribe, lo que resalta el logro de Piñero Torres. El currículo del Youth Fellowship se enfoca en temas de políticas públicas, liderazgo global y cooperación internacional, fomentando el pensamiento estratégico y el intercambio entre jóvenes agentes de cambio de diversas culturas.
En octubre de 2024, Piñero Torres también fue la única joven puertorriqueña becada para participar en el Programa para el Fortalecimiento de la Función Pública en América Latina, celebrado en España y Colombia, junto a otros 31 líderes emergentes.
Buscan a hombre acusado por masacre en Las Marías
LAS MARÍAS – Agentes de la Policía de Puerto Rico adscritos a la división de Inteligencia y Arrestos del área de Mayagüez solicitaron el miércoles cooperación ciudadana para localizar a Luis Rivera Rivera, alias 27, de 22 años y residente de Barranquitas, acusado por múltiples delitos relacionados a una masacre ocurrida el 17 de junio en Las Marías.
El caso fue radicado por el fiscal Luis Flores Velázquez junto al agente Ángel López Sánchez, adscrito a la división de Homicidios de Mayagüez, quienes presentaron la prueba ante el juez Luis F. Padilla Galeano del Tribunal de Mayagüez.
Rivera Rivera enfrenta cargos en ausencia por asesinato, tentativa
de asesinato, secuestro y varias violaciones a la Ley de Armas. El juez encontró causa para arresto y expidió una orden con fianza de 3 millones de dólares. Según la investigación, Rivera Rivera y Carlos Ruemmele Torres, de 35 años, asesinaron a Ramón Soto Vázquez de 57 años, Agnes Rivera Castillo de 58 años y Kristal Martínez Román de 38 años, además de herir a un hombre de 51 años en la carretera 497, kilómetro 4.3 del barrio Río Cañas.
Cualquier persona con información que pueda ayudar en la localización del acusado puede comunicarse con el Negociado de Inteligencia y Arrestos a los teléfonos 787-7930457, 787-343-2020 o 1-800-981-3635. Toda llamada será tratada con estricta confidencialidad.
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INTENCIÓN DE EMITIR PERMISO DE INYECCIÓN SUBTERRÁNEA
El peticionario, Bristol-Myers Squibb Holding Pharma Ltd Liability Company (BMS Manatí), cuya dirección postal es PO Box 30100, Manatí, Puerto Rico 00674-3000, representado por el Sr. Francisco Malavé, Senior Director of Drug Product Manufacturing Operations, ha solicitado al Área de Calidad de Agua (ACA) del Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA) emitir el permiso de operación UIC-21-47-0014, para un (1) sistema de inyección subterránea (SIS) Clase VI, bajo las disposiciones del Reglamento para el Control de la Inyección Subterránea (RCIS) y la Ley Federal de Agua Potable Segura, según enmendada 42 USC 300f et seq. (LFAPS).
El SIS consiste en un (1) sumidero natural localizado fuera de los predios de BMS Manatí para la disposición de aguas de escorrentía pluvial, así como descargas incidentales de aguas de enfriamiento, lavado de superficies exteriores (que incluyen calles, aceras, cunetones y edificios) sin detergentes, aguas subterráneas no contaminadas (incluyendo pero no limitado a aguas subterráneas extraídas durante trabajos de construcción y/o mantenimiento de pozos), aguas de manantial, drenaje de cimientos o excavaciones que no esté en contacto con aguas de proceso, descargas de sistemas de control de incendios, aguas de actividades de control de incendios, agua potable y/o agua de irrigación, generadas por BMS Manatí. El referido SIS está ubicado en la Carretera PR-686, Km 2.3, Barrio Tierras Nuevas Salientes, Manatí, Puerto Rico.
Luego de realizada la evaluación correspondiente de los documentos sometidos, el DRNA tiene la intención de emitir el permiso de operación para la instalación antes mencionada en conformidad con los requisitos del RCIS y de la LFAPS.
Esta notificación se hace para informar que el DRNA, ha preparado el borrador de permiso de operación de forma tal que el público interesado pueda someter sus comentarios con relación al mismo. El permiso contiene las condiciones y prohibiciones necesarias para cumplir con los requisitos reglamentarios aplicables.
Copia de la solicitud del permiso de operación que sometió el peticionario ante el DRNA, el borrador del permiso y otros documentos relevantes estarán a la disposición del público para ser examinados, a petición del interesado mediante el envío de un correo electrónico a la siguiente dirección: hectorarroyo@drna.pr.gov o visitando el ACA, cuya oficina está localizada en el Piso 3, Ala A del Edificio de Agencias Ambientales Cruz A. Matos, Carretera PR-8838, Km 6.3, Sector El Cinco, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Copia de dichos documentos pueden adquirirse en el ACA, entre las 8:00 a.m. y las 4:00 p.m. de lunes a viernes o escribiendo a la siguiente dirección: Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, San José Industrial Park, 1375 Avenida Ponce de León, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926. Las partes interesadas o afectadas pueden enviar sus comentarios por escrito a la Sra. Vanessa Del Moral Rosario, Secretaria Interina de la Secretaría Auxiliar de Cumplimiento Ambiental o solicitar una vista pública por escrito al Secretario del DRNA, a la dirección antes indicada. Los comentarios por escrito o la solicitud de vista pública deberán ser sometidos al DRNA no más tarde de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de publicación de este aviso. La fecha límite para someter comentarios puede ser extendida si se estima necesario o apropiado para el interés público. La solicitud para una vista pública deberá señalar la razón o las razones que en la opinión del solicitante ameritan la celebración de esta. De realizarse una vista pública los interesados o afectados tendrán una oportunidad razonable para presentar evidencia o testimonio sobre si se emite o deniega el permiso, si el Secretario del DRNA determina que dicha vista es necesaria o apropiada. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy 7 de julio de 2025.
Waldemar Quiles Pérez
Secretario
Este anuncio se publica conforme a lo requerido por la Ley Núm. 416-2004, según enmendada, conocida como “Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental”, los reglamentos aprobados a su amparo; y las leyes y reglamentos federales aplicables. El costo del Aviso Público es sufragado por la entidad peticionaria.
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Five horror movies to stream now
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
This month’s picks include a full-throttle vampire movie, a heartbreaking ghost story, a creature-feature comedy and more.
‘Bleeding’
“Bleeding”
Not since “The Outwaters” blew me away two years ago have I been as wowed by a debut horror feature as I was with writer-director-actor Andrew Bell’s brutal new vampire film. If his muscular direction and compassionate script are any indication, Bell is going to be a name to watch.
The film takes place in a small suburb in the United States, only the setting is a dystopian future where blood is a drug. Eric (John R. Howley) and his cousin Sean (Jasper Jones) are surrounded by the consequences of addiction: Eric’s brother died of an overdose, and Sean’s alcoholic father kicks him out of the house after finding and destroying Sean’s stash. Unable to pay back his dealer, Sean convinces Eric to break into an empty house, where they discover that a former classmate, Sara (Tori Wong), has become a vampire whose blood is being harvested by unscrupulous.
Is this a vampire film? Yes. But like the very best of that genre — “The Addiction,” “My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To” — Bell’s movie is more than just an exercise in empty bloodsucking. It’s a mythic coming-of-age story, underscored by the opioid epidemic. It’s a cautionary tale, warning against making assumptions about what makes a monster. It’s a stark and foreboding cinematic experience, thanks to Daniel Cho’s sublime cinematography that makes evil out of shadows. This is full-throttle horror, and one of my favorite movies of the year. (Stream it on Screambox; rent or buy it on major platforms.)
‘Presence’
I fell hard for Steven Soderbergh’s heartbreaking and formally thrilling ghost story when it came out in January. I remember leaving the theater feeling unsettled but also deeply moved, almost to the point of tears, by how Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp dealt with the aftermaths of loss.
The film has elements of a standard haunted house story: Mom and Dad (Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan) move with their teenage kids (Eddy Maday and Callina Liang) into a beautiful home in a lovely neighborhood. But in an emotional twist, their story is told from the point of view of another, unseen character: a spirit who watches the goings-on of their new housemates, especially the young daughter. The spirit mostly minds their business until, in one of the year’s most sinister scenes, the ghost takes a break from the spirit world for a vengeful detour into the living one. (Stream it on Hulu.)
‘It’s Coming’
I watched Shannon Alexander’s movie because Tubi recommended it. I had no idea what it was, other than a documentary about a family and a ghost. What it turned out to be is an unnerving real-life study of parenting and the paranormal, delivered with the chills of found footage horror.
The film follows Ashley Roland-White, a mother of five who says she’s been seeing an entity (who looks like one of
the Backstreet Boys) since she was a girl. Javier, her 7-year-old son, talks matter-of-factly about encountering a long-legged creature inside his family’s cramped Brooklyn apartment.
“I just see him looking at me,” Javier tells the camera, making my skin crawl, before adding: “Demons are the worst.” In one memorable shot, Javier’s hair sticks out sideways, as if being pulled by someone unseen.
Visits by exorcists and a self-described medium add to the mystery — or the hokum, depending on your tolerance for divination — of Roland-White’s fears. Is this a documentary about a family besieged by a naughty phantasm or a portrait of a family in psychological crisis? I’m still not sure, and that’s the scary part. (Stream it on Tubi.)
‘Frankie Freako’
Gonzo writer-director Steven Kostanski is back with another creature-feature comedy, and like his previous “Psycho Goreman,” this one is wildly imaginative and gloriously puerile.
Set in the 1980s, the film follows Conor (Conor Sweeney), an aspirational yuppie who’s desperate to not be as square as his boss and his sex-starved girlfriend think he is. To the rescue comes a late-night television commercial for a phone line that, for just $1.99 a minute, offers Conor a chance to learn how to party from Frankie Freako, a creepy, red-faced gremlin puppet. Conor’s call brings Frankie and his rowdy gang of fellow nastyminded friends to his home, where crushed cans of Fart Cola are just one sign of the terrors to come.
With a barely cohesive plot, Kostanski leans on Coyote vs. Roadrunner-style violence, and it wears thin quickly. But he displays a deep appreciation of ’80s mini-monster horror comedies like “Gremlins” and “Critters,” but with a touch of “Bad Taste,” and I’m not mad. The puppets get a C+ for being lifelike — they basically just move from side to side — but an A for creative goblin conjuring. (Stream it on Plex.)
‘The Surrender’
Anyone who has ever cared for a dying relative should brace themselves before watching the feature debut from writer-director Julia Max.
Robert (Vaughn Armstrong) is dying in bed at his home, and his daughter, Megan (Colby Minifie), and wife, Barbara (Kate Burton), are at each other’s throats. Despite their bickering, mother and daughter care for each other deeply. But Barbara’s love for her husband goes beyond her marriage vows, and the grave: She’s convinced that with the help of a stranger with supernatural powers she can bring her husband back from the dead. She’s right. Almost.
As in “Bring Her Back,” Max’s film is a meditation on the horrifying lengths the living will go through to beat death. The drama lags at the beginning; Max has said that the early, claustrophobic scenes were inspired by Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” — an ambitious order she doesn’t fill. Still, a fantastic, Clive Barker-style finale, and Minifie and Burton’s devastating performances throughout, make up for the monotony. (Stream it on Shudder.)
The San Juan Daily Star
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By CHRISTINE CHUNG
For the last several days, travelers at airports like LaGuardia and HartsfieldJackson Atlanta International have been reporting a big surprise at airport security checkpoints: They’ve been allowed to keep their shoes on.
A dreaded Transportation Security Administration rule that had been in place since 2006 appeared to be quietly ending with little fanfare and no official announcement from the agency — until now.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, confirmed the nationwide policy change during a news conference at Ronald Reagan National Airport, just outside Washington, on Tuesday afternoon.
“We’re so excited that we can make the experience for those individuals traveling throughout our airports in the United States much more hospitable, more efficient for them, more timely, and that they can get to their destinations and spend much more time with their loved ones,” Noem said.
Advances in how the TSA screens passengers made the change possible, Noem said, describing a “layered” approach that includes new technology, improved equipment, additional TSA officers and the recent enforcement of Real ID requirements.
“We’ve gone back and looked at our security processes, looked at the efficacy of everything that we do,” Noem said. “All of that has been evaluated to see what is effective, what should stay in place and what should be removed to streamline the process.”
The change comes as air travel booms in the United States. The TSA said it screened more than 900 million people last year, a 5% increase over 2023. This summer, TSA security checkpoints have been busier than ever. On July 7, more than 3 million travelers passed through airports, setting a record for the most screened in a single day.
Though the shoes-on policy may usher in faster standard security lines, perhaps on par with expedited screening lines, having TSA PreCheck still comes with perks, said Bobby Laurie, a former flight attendant and a co-host of the TV travel show “The Jet Set.” PreCheck, a trusted traveler program for lowrisk passengers, includes “an added background check that allows you more privileges than just leaving your shoes on,” Laurie said. The program has been steadily growing since its inception in 2013. Last summer, the TSA announced that it had more than 20
million members. Noem said Tuesday that she believed PreCheck would remain useful for travelers.
PreCheck travelers can keep belts and light jackets on, and they are also allowed to leave personal electronics and liquids in their carry-on bags.
Security experts said the last few years have seen significant advancements in screening technology.
Keith Jeffries, a vice president of K2 Security Screening Group, which specializes in airports, said the industry had made “huge strides.” Among those he listed: biometrics systems that verify identity and are now being used at baggage check and boarding, and vastly improved body and baggage scanners.
But it’s not just one technology that has enabled shoes-on security, he emphasized.
“It’s a combination of the overall security system improving — what is the intel telling the folks; why should we make this change?” said Jeffries, who was previously a TSA federal security director at Los Angeles International Airport.
Noem alluded to new TSA screening developments in the near future, including a pilot program at select airports that would allow travelers to pass through checkpoints without interacting with officers.
“I think over the next six to nine months, you will see, across the country, pilot lanes and security checkpoints that will give us even more advancements and make this security process much more streamlined for the traveler,” Noem said.
What about the future of the widely loathed policy limiting liquids in carry-ons?
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE ELSITA VALERIO GERMOZEN
T/C/C ELSITA VALERIO
T/C/C EXITA VALERIO GERMOZEN T/C/C
ELISITA VELERIO COMPUESTA POR MARIA Y ARELIS DE APELLIDOS MACARIO VALERIO; JOEL, DAVID, ZAIDA Y ANABELLE DE APELLIDOS MACARIO
RIVERA; CHARLIE
MIRANDA MACARIO Y PATRICIA FERRUZOLA
TAVAREZ; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV05213. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 30 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB. COUNTRY CLUB #978 CALLE HIPOLAIS SAN JUAN, PR 00924 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número veintisiete (27) del bloque CE de la Urbanizaci6n Campo Rico, según plano de la Urbanización Campo Rico, Country Club, localizado en el Barrio Sabana Llana de Río Piedras, del término municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatrocientos tres
punto veintiséis (403.26) metros cuadrados. En 1indes por el NORTE, en dieciocho punto cincuenta y dos (18.52) metros, con el solar número veintiocho (28); por el SUR, en tres punto dieciséis (3.16) metros, con el solar número dieciséis (16); por el ESTE, en nueve punto ochenta y dos (9.82) metros, con la calle número veinticuatro (24); por el OESTE, en veintiséis punto setenta y cuatro (26.74) metros, con el solar número veintisiete (27); y por el SURESTE, en veintiséis punto diez (26.10) metros, con el solar 26 del bloque CE de dicha urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto para uso residencial. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 11 del Tomo 108 de Sabana Llana, bajo la finca número 4,577, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $112,389.41. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 6 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $74,926.27. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 13 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA.
Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $56,194.70. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca 638 otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 27 de diciembre de 2001, ante el Notario Alfredo Rivera Mendoza, inscrita al tomo móvil 870 de Sabana Llana, inscripción decimoctava (18va), modificado en cuanto a su principal que será de $112,389.41, en cuanto a su pago mensual de principal e interés será por la cantidad de $609.46; en cuanto a su vencimiento que será el primero (1ro) de marzo de 2052, según consta de la escritura de modificación de hipoteca número 31, otorgada el día 25 de febrero de 2012, en San Juan, Puerto Rico ante el Notario Público Carlos O. Bermúdez Monroig, la cual está inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, inscripción decimonovena (19na), ambas
escrituras se encuentran bajo la finca 4,577, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $96,393.74 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de enero de 2024, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.375% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la Sucesión de Elsita Valerio Germozen t/c/c Elsita Valerio t/c/c Exita Valerio Germozen t/c/c Elisita Velerio adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% 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 $11,200.00. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acree-
dor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de junio de 2025. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN FIRSTBANK
PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs JORGE CARLO
SANCHEZ MARCHOSKY
Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2017CV03009. Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA).
EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JORGE CARLOS SANCHEZ MARCHOSKY, Y OTROS; AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL Y A LOS ACREEDORES DE LOS SIGUIENTES
GRAVAMENES
POSTERIORES:
El Alguacil que suscribe, anuncia 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 de San Juan, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, de contado y por moneda del 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 demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Extensión Highland Park, situada en el barrio Sabana Llana, del término municipal de Río Piedras, que se describe con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: Solar #4-B de la manzana FL; área del solar:450.00 metros cuadrados; en lindes por el Norte, con el solar #5-B del bloque FL, distancia de 30.00 metros; Sur, con el solar #3-B del bloque FL, distancia de 30.00 metros; Este, con la calle #1, distancia de 15.00 metros y por el Oeste, con la calle #8, distancia de 15.00 metros. Enclava casa. Finca “18347”, inscrita al folio “60” del tomo “448” de Sabana Llana, Sección V de San Juan. Dirección física: Urbanización Highland Park, 4b Calle 1, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00924. Catastro número: 7908706842904000. En relación a la finca a subastarse se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $132,850.51, con intereses al 6.25% anual, vencedero el día 1 de diciembre de 2052, constituida mediante la escritura número 53, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de noviembre de 2012, , ante el notario Ernesto Rovira Gándara, Inscrita al Tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana. Inscripción 7ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 23 DE JULIO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, San Juan. En relación a la propiedad a subastarse, la cantidad mínima de licitación en la Primera Subasta será la suma de $132,850.51. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 4 DE AGOSTO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $88,567.01. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA
SUBASTA el día 11 DE AGOSTO DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $66,425.26. Dicha Subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de CIENTO VEINTISEIS MIL CUATROCIENTOS OCHENTA DOLARES CON
CUARENTA Y DOS CENTAVOS ($126,480.42) más intereses a razón del SEIS PUNTO VEINTICINCO (6.25%) anual desde el primero de mayo de 2017, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago. Así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la anterior obligación y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo la suma de TRECE MIL DOSCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CINCO DOLARES CON CINCO CENTAVOS ($13,285.05) para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la Escritura de Hipoteca y del Pagaré Hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuaran subsistentes. Se entenderá, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el Tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Se informa que la propiedad objeto de ejecución se adquiere libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, a 18 de junio de 2025. IRMA D. CARMONA CLAUDIO, ALGUACIL PLACA #492. ***
LEGAL NOTICE
Attorney(s): ALAN S. PORWICH
Attorney Id No.: 025201979
Law Firm: FEINTUCH, PORWICH & FEINTUCH
Address: 591 Summit Avenue
Suite 500
Jersey City, New Jersey 07306
Telephone No.: (201)656-8600
Fax No.: (201)656-7125
E-mail:
a.porwich@fpflawyers.com
Attorney(s) for Plaintiff(s): EDWIN MORALES
SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY, CHANCERY DIVISION FAMILY PART, HUDSON COUNTY
EDWIN MORALES
Plaintiff(s) vs. SUZANNE BUCCOS
Defendant(s)
DOCKET NO.: FM-09-00096525 . CIVIL ACTION: Summons. FROM THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY
To the Defendant
Named above:
The plaintiff, named above, has filed a lawsuit against you in the Superior Court of New Jersey. The complaint attached to this summons states the basis for this lawsuit. If you dispute this complaint, you or your attorney must file a written answer or a general appearance in accordance with R. 5:4-3(a) with the Superior Court in the county listed above within 35 days from the date you received this summons and complaint, not counting the date you received it. A directory of the addresses of each deputy clerk of the Superior Court is available in the Civil Division Management Office in the county listed above and online at https://www.njcourts.gov/ public/directories/court-services/ clerks-legal-offices.
A $ 175.00 filing fee payable to the Treasurer, State of New Jersey, must accompany your answer or appearance when it is filed. You must also send a copy of your answer or appearance to plaintiff’s attorney whose name and address appear above, or to plaintiff, if no attorney is named above. A telephone call will not protect your rights; you must file and serve a written answer or appearance, with fee of $175.00, if you want the court to hear your defense.
If you do not file and serve a written answer or appearance within 35 days, the court may enter a judgment against you for the relief plaintiff demands, plus interest and costs of suit. If judgment is entered against you, the Sheriff may seize your money, wages or property to pay all or part of the judgment.
If you cannot afford an attorney, you may call the Legal Services office in the county where you live or the Legal Services of New Jersey statewide toll free hotline at 1-888-LSNJ-LAW (1888-576-5529). If you do not have an attorney and are not eligible for free legal assistan-
ce, you may obtain a referral to an attorney by calling one of the Lawyer Referral Services. A directory of the addresses of each deputy clerk of the Superior Court is available in the Civil Division Management Office in the county listed above and online at https://www.njcourts.gov/ public/directories/court-services/ clerks-legal-offices.
Date: December 11, 2024. Michelle M. Smith, Superior Court Clerk.
Name of Defendant to be Served: SUZANNE BUCCOS
Address of Defendant to be Served: Urb. Villa Fontana Park, 5x20 Calle Parque Alianza, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00983
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SECRETARIO DE VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO T/C/C SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV10389. (Salón: 503 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. PAMELA CRISTAL SANTIAGO OLIVIERI - PCSO.LAW@GMAIL. COM. A: FIRST SECURITY MORTGAGE, INC.; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edic-
SARO VALENTÍN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. PEDRO L. APONTE ACOSTA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: JD2024CV00693.
(Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR).
Sobre: Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ
FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: PEDRO L. APONTE ACOSTA - P/C LCDO. OSVALDO L. RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de julio de 2025. En Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 01 de julio de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. GLORIVEE MORALES SÁEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. FELIX L. ROCHE TORRES Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: JD2024CV00696. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: FELIX L. ROCHE TORRES - P/C LCDO. OSVALDO L. RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de julio de 2025. En Juan Díaz, Puerto Rico, el 01 de julio de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. GLORIVEE MORALES SÁEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICOTRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MWPR, LLC
Demandante V. HAYDEE MORALES PIOVANETI POR SI Y EN SU CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA DE LA SUCN. DE HÉCTOR ANTONIO DELIZ BARRERA Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2019CV13107. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCISCO J. FERNÁNDEZ CHIQUÉS - FFC@FFCLAW.COM. A: LIZANNE DELIZ MORALES E IAN MANUEL DELIZ MORALES T/C/C IAN M. DELIZ MORALES COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE
HECTOR ANTONIO DELIZ BARREDA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 01 de julio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de julio de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 02 de julio de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ D. HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ASOCIACIÓN DE PROPIETARIOS DE LA URBANIZACIÓN VILLAS DE BUENA VISTA, INC. Demandante V. MARIA DE LOS ANGELES ORTIZ FILOMENO Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05100. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
MELVYN E. FONTÁN LOZADAMELVYNFONTAN@GMAIL.COM. A: LOURDES ORTIZ FILIMENO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de abril de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el
procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de julio de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 01 de julio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO MCLP ASSET COMCPANY, INC.
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MARIA DOLORES CARRILLO DE LEON T/C/C
MARIA DOLORES
CARRILLO T/C/C
MARIA D. CARRILLO DE LEÓN, COMPUESTA POR ROGELIO LUIS ROBLES CARRILLO; MARIA MILAGROS FARGAS CARRILLO; LUIS FELIPE FARGAS CARRILLO; SUCESIÓN DE JOSE DOLORES
ORTIZ SANTANA
COMPUESTA POR: SARA ORTIZ Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: FA2021CV00564.
Salón Núm.: 307. 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 MARIA DOLORES
CARRILLO DE LEON T/C/C MARIA DOLORES
CARRILLO T/C/C
MARIA D. CARRILLO DE LEÓN, COMPUESTA POR ROGELIO LUIS
ROBLES CARRILLO; MARIA MILAGROS FARGAS CARRILLO; LUIS FELIPE FARGAS CARRILLO; SUCESIÓN DE JOSE DOLORES
ORTIZ SANTANA
COMPUESTA POR: SARA
ORTIZ Y FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM); ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA: Y AL PÚBLICO 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 Fajardo, 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 demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 141B, en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Espanta Sueño del Barrio Florencio del término municipal de Fajardo, con una cabida superficial de 842.06 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con parcela número 142 de la Comunidad; por el SUR, con Calle de la Comunidad; por el ESTE, con parcela número 141-A de la Comunidad; y por el OESTE, con parcela número 141-C de la Comunidad. Consta inscrita al folio 275 del tomo 307 de Fajardo, finca número #13,263, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. La propiedad objeto de ejecución está localizada en la siguiente dirección: Bo. Florencio, 141-B Comm. Rural Espanta Sueño, Fajardo, P.R. 00736. Según figura en el Estudio de título, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada al siguiente Gravamen posterior a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra José D. Ortíz Santana Seguro Social xxx-xx-9246 y María D. Carrillo De León seguro social xxx-xx-0918, en la suma de $2,550.76, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 24 de abril de 2013, presentado el día 24 de abril de 201 y anotado al folio 152 del Libro del ELA número 1, (Ley 12). No podemos precisar que una de las personas embargadas y el titular de esta finca sean la misma persona. Se le notifica al acreedor posterior anteriormente identificado para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de
abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Se informa que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación con la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $57,679.99, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #280, otorgada en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de junio de 2003, ante el notario Arlene Echevarría Rodríguez, e inscrita al folio 10 del tomo 476 de Fajardo, finca número 13,263, inscripción 6ta. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 5 DE AGOSTO DE 2025 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $57,679.99. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2025 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $38,453.32. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2025 A LAS 11:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $28,839.99. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma de $20,609.97, con intereses a 5.004% anual, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2021, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, más los cargos por demora que se corresponden a los plazos atrasados desde la fecha anteriormente indicada a razón de la tasa pactada de 5% de cualquier pago que éste en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento, más una suma equivalente a $11,535.99, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secre-
taría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, a 20 de junio de 2025. SANDRALIZ MARTÍNEZ TORRES, ALGUACIL #737, ALGUACIL CONFIDENCIAL, TRIBUNAL DE FAJARDO. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #622, TRIBUNAL DE FAJARDO.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SUCESIÓN DE MARCELINO MARZAN RIOS, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS:
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV02542. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: RAMÓN MARTÍNEZ REYES - #2101 URB. ALTO APOLO, CALLE ONFALA, GUAYNABO, PR 00969.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte Peticionario una Petición sobre Expediente de Dominio por los hechos que se detallan en la misma, la cual puede ser examinada en la secretaría de
este Tribunal. REPRESENTA al Peticionario el Lcdo. Víctor M. Rivera Ríos con dirección en Avenida Fernández Juncos #1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfonos oficina (787) 727-5710, móvil (787) 5653477, e-mails: victorriverarios@ rcrtrblaw.com & info.vrr@rcrtrblaw.com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, los Peticionarios podrán solicitar que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía, declarándose con lugar la Petición, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 25 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA INTERINA. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN SALVADOR BURGOS VILLANUEVA Y OTROS Demandante V. POPULAR MORTGAGE INC Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV02097. (Salón: 905 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LIZBET AVILÉS VEGALIZBET_AVILES@YAHOO.COM. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se
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California rejects Trump demand to remove trans athletes from women’s sports
By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA
California education officials this week formally rejected a federal demand to bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, a decision that the Trump administration indicated would result in repercussions.
The administration nearly two weeks ago declared that the California Department of Education had violated federal law by allowing transgender girls to compete on female sports teams. It gave the state until Monday to reverse its policies or face “imminent enforcement action.”
President Donald Trump and other federal officials ramped up their pressure on California after a trans girl qualified for California’s state track and field meet at the end of May. The president at that time threatened to withhold federal funding from the state if it did not bar the trans athlete from competing in the girls competition at the event.
The athlete was allowed to compete and finished in first place in the high jump and triple jump, but meet officials compromised by also awarding medals to girls based on where they would have finished had the trans girl not participated.
Len Garfinkel, general counsel for the California Department of Education, notified the Trump administration Monday that it “respectfully disagrees” that the state had violated girls’ rights under Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination, and would not comply with the administration’s requests, according to a letter shared with The New York Times.
The California Interscholastic Federation, a nongovernmental body that oversees high school sports in the state, also declined to change its pol-
icies, according to screenshots posted on social platform X by Linda McMahon, the U.S. education secretary. McMahon signaled that California would face en-
forcement actions and that the state would hear next from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
California has allowed transgender student athletes to compete on teams that align with their gender identities for more than a decade under a law signed in 2013. More than 20 states nationwide have similar policies. California leaders indicated last month that they had no intention of changing their policies, and complying with the Trump administration demand would have required a legislative change.
Out of 5.8 million K-12 students in California public schools, fewer than 10 were estimated to be trans students participating in athletics, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office.
But Trump and other Republicans this year have seized on comments that Newsom made in March on his podcast. The governor, a Democrat, said that the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports was “deeply unfair.”
As the president demanded that California bar the trans athlete from the state track and field meet, he cited Newsom’s own comments. McMahon did the same in a post on X on Monday.
“Turns out Gov. Newsom’s acknowledgment that ‘it’s an issue of fairness’ was empty political grandstanding,” she wrote.
California’s state high school track and field meet in Clovis, Calif., May 31, 2025. California education officials formally rejected a federal demand to bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, a decision that the Trump administration indicated would result in repercussions. (Adam Perez/The New York Times)
