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Governor signs ‘first balanced budget certified by the Fiscal Board’
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón on Wednesday signed ‘the first balanced budget certified by the Fiscal Board’ since the entity created under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) began operations in Puerto Rico in 2016.
“Puerto Rico presents the first balanced budget, the main requirement for the elimination of the [Financial Oversight and Management] Board,” González Colón said at a press conference. “This achievement by our administration is the crucial step for us to regain control of our finances.”
The certification of the budget represents a key step toward Puerto Rico’s eventual exit from fiscal control imposed by Congress.
The budget was approved by the island Senate and House of Representatives. Present at the signing were Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, House Speaker Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez and the chairs of the finance committees in their respective chambers, Sen. Migdalia Padilla Alvelo and Rep. Eddie Charbonier Chinea. Also participating were La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech, Treasury Secretary Ángel Pantoja Rodríguez, and Office of Management and Budget Director Orlando Rivera Berríos.
The general budget amounts to $13.095 million, while the consolidated budget totals $32.609 million, including special state and federal funds. It includes increases in education, health, security, payment of pensions, police overtime pay, municipal services and modernization of the government.
The governor stressed that the budget meets the requirements of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, as well as the commitments of the government program, and demonstrates the fiscal health of the island.
Judge
By THE STAR STAFF
The judge overseeing the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) bankruptcy case has scheduled oral arguments for July 23 on the PREPA bondholders’ pursuit of a $3.7 billion administrative expense claim.
The claim arises from PREPA’s alleged failure to pay bondholders net revenues since the bankruptcy proceedings began in 2017. The Financial Oversight and Management Board, which represents PREPA, has argued that the money was spent maintaining PREPA’s electrical system, and therefore wasn’t net revenue.
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain gave the parties
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said the presentation and signing of “the first balanced budget” represents “the crucial step for us to regain control of our finances.”
“This budget puts us in a position to stand on our feet and be able to continue improving the condition of our treasury,” González Colón said.
The governor noted that the new budget includes an additional $34 million for care subsidies for seniors and people with disabilities, bringing the total allocation to $120 million. An additional $8.6 million was also allocated for child shelter services, for a total of $48.6 million.
Similarly, the budget includes $5.7 million to recruit 100 social workers and 100 social work technicians. In addition, $15 million was allocated for a local childcare voucher program aimed at working-class, middle-class families.
Another $19.6 million was allocated to recruit 800 Puerto Rico Police cadets, $3.7 million to hire civilians to replace police officers in administrative tasks, and $91 million to hire social workers to handle cases alongside the police.
González Colón also announced a $2.6 million allocation to build interview rooms for victims of domestic violence.
up to 90 minutes for oral arguments.
The bondholders assert that their claim does not impact PREPA’s assets, that uninsured disaster repair costs should have been funded by PREPA’s self-insurance fund, and that PREPA’s post-petition collateral use equates to the extension of post-petition credit.
They also claim that they plan to use monthly operating reports to show that PREPA earned $3.7 billion in net revenue over the almost eight-year bankruptcy. The bondholders say PREPA should not exit bankruptcy without paying them the claim in full or negotiating an agreement, but the oversight board said PREPA did not make sufficient revenues, and that bondholders must be paid with future net revenues.
OGPe: Telecommunications tower built in Dorado is illegal
By THE STAR STAFF
The Office of Permit Management (OGPe by its acronym in Spanish) acknowledged during a public hearing before the island House of Representatives on Wednesday that a telecommunications tower built in the Mameyal neighborhood of Dorado was constructed using an improper process.
The situation occurred, the OGPe said, because the operating company, Elite Towers LLC, misinformed the agency about the requirements for completing the project.
The agency, which is part of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, told the House Economic Development Committee, chaired by Rep. Joel Franqui Atiles, that Elite Towers submitted a request for a use permit despite the company’s awareness of a judicial revocation of the project’s original construction permit.
“This is what the agency can observe from the documents: A use permit was certified when the requesting party knew that its construction permit, which provided the basis for certifying the use, had already been revoked,” Miguel Mihaljevich, an attorney for the OGPe, told the House committee.
Mihaljevich detailed that the case began in January 2022 when Elite Towers, through engineer Francisco Rivera Torres, submitted a request to the OGPe for a construction permit for the telecommunications tower, which is located on a lot on PR-698 in the Mameyal neighborhood.
Despite the Municipality of Dorado’s attempts to stop the construction, the OGPe approved and issued the construction permit in September of that same year. The municipal council continued to request administrative reviews, Mihaljevich said.
Dissatisfied with the OGPe’s decisions, the municipal government appealed to the Court of Appeals, which ultimately
A spokesperson for the Office of Permit Management told the House Economic Development Committee that Elite Towers submitted a request for a use permit for a telecommunications tower despite the company’s awareness of a judicial revocation of the project’s original construction permit.
revoked the construction permit due to the Tourism Company’s lack of required recommendations under the Law on Zones of Tourist Interest (Law 374-1949).
Mihaljevich defended the OGPe’s actions, asserting that construction and use permits are filed separately. For the agency, it is impractical to “question every case,” so most permits are presumed valid and in compliance with legal provisions, he added.
“Not only did they continue operating the antenna, but they also reported their compliance and requested the certified use permit,” the lawyer stated. “Even if you have gone through
all the processes, paid all the fees, and fulfilled all the taxes, if the Court of Appeals ultimately revokes it, that permit expires.”
The OGPe is currently considering a new construction permit submitted by Elite Towers, even though the telecommunications tower has already been completed. Mihaljevich noted that the company has a series of requirements as part of the OGPe’s analysis, including certification from a surveyor confirming that the tower is 100 meters away from a staircase located at the nearest residence.
The House investigation was initiated through a resolution filed by Rep. Elinette González Aguayo in response to community complaints about the tower’s proximity to homes and potential health effects on residents.
“I would like to know if someone can certify that this meets the parameters, specifically regarding the distance from the residence, when there are clearly other locations where it could be installed,” said González Aguayo, who represents District 11, including Dorado, Vega Alta and Vega Baja.
She testified at the public hearing that she is a resident of the Mameyal community and is among those affected by the tower.
“Let it be abundantly clear that this process has been fraught with errors and unclear information,” the representative added, while requesting that “serious fines” be imposed on Elite Towers and a summons to a public hearing by the Department of Justice.
The Planning Board stated that the initial findings reflected that, at the time of inspection, the land use and the number of parking spaces complied with the requirements of the granted permits.
In a statement signed by Chairman Héctor Morales Martínez, the agency stated that any further action should be postponed until the administrative evaluation of the dispute is completed.
Senate passes bills to address tourism, animal welfare, creative sector
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Senate took a significant step toward social and economic progress for the island on Wednesday by approving three bills sponsored by Sen. Jeison Rosa Ramos. Senate Bills (SB) 357, 426 and 470 address crucial areas such as accessible and inclusive tourism, animal protection and welfare, and the development of creative industries.
Senate Bill 357 seeks to amend two standing laws to mandate that Puerto Rico’s destination marketing organization and tourism office develop specific initiatives to market the island as an accessible and inclusive destination.
“Accessible tourism is not only a matter of equity, but also an immense economic opportunity for Puerto Rico,” Rosa Ramos said. “With 22% of our population and millions of travelers worldwide living with some type of disability, it is imperative that our island position itself as a place where everyone, regardless of their abilities, can enjoy our natural and cultural treasures.”
SB 426 amends the “Animal Welfare and Protection Act” (Act 154-2008) to modify and increase fines for animal breeders who
engage in animal abuse. The measure is considered a crucial step to ensure that penalties reflect the seriousness of these crimes
“It is time to send a strong message: animal abuse will not be tolerated in Puerto Rico,” Rosa Ramos said. “... With stricter penalties, we seek to deter these behaviors and foster a more sensitive and ethical society.”
The bill seeks to strengthen the existing legal framework, ensuring that Puerto Rico is a leading society in the care and protection of animals, recognizing that this type of violence can have repercussions beyond animals, even impacting human beings.
SB 470 aims to amend the “Act to Promote Puerto Rico’s Creative Industries” (Act 173-2014) in order to reconfigure the composition of the Creative Industries Advisory Council; establish priority in the granting of government permits, licenses and certifications for those industries; and facilitate the leasing of government properties at affordable rates.
“With this bill, we are removing barriers and creating a more favorable environment for [the creative industries] to flourish, generating jobs and positioning Puerto Rico as a center of creativity in the region,” Rosa Ramos said.
Sen. Jeison Rosa Ramos
Governor accuses Energy Bureau of hindering power generation
“If the Energy Bureau is going to impede our generation and our ability to lower costs, then we need to evaluate that situation,” Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said.
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón accused the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) on Wednesday of hindering power generation after the regulator rejected amendments to the contract with Genera, the private operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s legacy power plants.
“I believe that the Energy Bureau still faces a delicate situation regarding energy generation,” the governor said at a press conference.
“We have pending projects and amendments that have not been addressed, which would give the Government of Puerto Rico more flexibility for increased generation. Thankfully, we haven’t experienced as many widespread blackouts due to a lack of available genera-
tion. We added 700 megawatts in the last five months because the contract allowed for 800 megawatts for seasonal generation, and units are currently being repaired. However, I will assess the need to reconvene the Energy Committee to make recommendations, potentially for legislation.”
Her comments were in response to the PREB’s decision not to approve the amendments to Genera PR’s contract, which includes a payment of $110 million. According to the PREB, the Public-Private Partnerships Authority has not submitted the revised contract for review; therefore, Genera PR cannot access the negotiated funds. Genera PR has filed a lawsuit to compel the regulator to validate the amendments to the operating contract for the electric power plants.
The governor said she will evaluate amending the PREB’s charter law.
“If the Energy Bureau is going to impede our generation and our ability to lower costs, then we need to evaluate that situation,” she said. “I want to start by acknowledging that they are taking their time to assess everything. I appreciate that they haven’t increased electricity rates despite requests from LUMA or Genera, as that would have resulted in unnecessarily higher rates.”
González Colón said she agrees with the role of the regulator, but emphasized the need for it to operate more swiftly, especially in times of emergency.
“I will convene the Energy Committee to evaluate these issues, and I do not have a concrete proposal at this time,” she said.
Fiscal board announces criteria for financial rescue of towns
By THE STAR STAFF
Financial Oversight and Management Board Executive Director Robert Mujica announced on Wednesday the criteria for the financial assistance of 37 municipalities on the island.
The governor proposed a budget of $35 million to be distributed among 45 municipalities. However, the oversight board approved a total of $24.6 million for 37 municipalities. As previously reported by the Star, some municipalities, such as Canóvanas, Cidra and Añasco, raised concerns about being excluded from the funding.
“On June 20, 2025, the Oversight Board and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) agreed to allocate $24,684,000 to support 37 municipalities facing critical financial challenges. The criteria for selecting the participating municipalities and determining their allocations were based on factors such as population, general fund balance, and the liquidity analysis conducted by the OMB,” Mujica stated in his correspondence to OMB Director Orlando Rivera Berríos.
“All participating municipalities must adhere to a special memorandum issued by the OMB, which stipulates that the
Financial Oversight and Management Board Executive Director Robert Mujica
funds can only be used for specific purposes, including payroll, security, and waste management,” Mujica added. “Expenditures for bonds, donations, festivities, and covering deficits from
Cidra to put on its first agricultural fair this Saturday
By THE STAR STAFF
With craft stations, authentic cuisine, agricultural exhibits, farm animals and fresh produce, the Municipality of Cidra will celebrate its First Cidra Agricultural Fair this Saturday.
The fair, which aims to promote agriculture, provide opportunities to encourage the consumption of local products, and offer a place for farmers and consumers to meet face to face, will open at 9 a.m. in the central town’s sports complex parking lot.
“This will be an activity for the whole family, and admission is free,” Cidra Mayor Delvis Pagán Clavijo said. “We want to highlight
our agricultural wealth and foster economic development through initiatives that promote the consumption of what we harvest and have to offer. In Cidra, we deeply value the work of our farmers, ranchers and artisans, and this activity is an opportunity to recognize their efforts.”
Attendees can enjoy a varied program that includes a dairy goat competition, sheep and “Volkey” vehicle exhibitions, a farmers’ market, a family market, crafts, live music, kiosks, and many surprises.
“I extend an invitation to all families in Cidra and across the island to join us, support our work, and be part of this effort to strengthen agriculture in our own communities,” the mayor said.
previous fiscal years are strictly prohibited. Additionally, the municipalities must submit monthly reports to the OMB detailing available, disbursed, and obligated funds.”
“The remaining unallocated amount of $10,973,894 will be held by the OMB for possible disbursements based on additional needs and requirements, subject to the Oversight Board’s approval,” the official continued in the letter. “We will collaborate with the OMB and the municipalities facing financial difficulties to create a framework for assessment, prioritization, financial management, and assistance.”
The municipalities excluded from the bailout funding are Añasco, Barceloneta, Canóvanas, Cidra, Las Piedras, Río Grande, Santa Isabel and Trujillo Alto.
In the distribution of the $24.6 million, Vega Alta and San Lorenzo will each receive $950,000, while San Germán, Villalba, Yauco and Yabucoa have been approved for $925,000 each. Camuy and Patillas will each receive $867,000, and Lajas will obtain $866,000. Corozal has been allocated $843,000, Salinas $822,000 and Juana Díaz $718,000. Meanwhile, other municipalities, such as Aguadilla and Vieques, will each receive $244,000.
Trump’s cuts could leave the US exposed amid a heightened threat from Iran
By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and ADAM GOLDMAN
Soon after the United States bombed Iran’s crucial nuclear facilities, the Trump administration warned that Iran could seek revenge by inspiring violent extremists or launching cyberattacks against U.S. networks.
But many of the federal programs or resources that would defend the nation against such attacks have been scaled back significantly in recent months, after President Donald Trump slashed the federal bureaucracy and reoriented much of the national security apparatus to help with his immigration crackdown.
Trump has cut funding and specialists from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, which helps protect the nation’s power grids, elections and water utilities. In a sign of the heightened risk of a cyberattack, the FBI directed officials in recent days to assist the cybersecurity agency in protecting crucial infrastructure, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.
But that directive came after FBI officials tasked with working on cybersecurity or counterintelligence were asked to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement on routine deportations.
The administration has also purged decades of experience at the highest ranks of the FBI, heightening concerns that the bureau might be unprepared to deal with myriad crises that the agency faces on a daily basis, let alone the possibility of Iran taking revenge on American soil.
And the administration has proposed breaking up a little-known office tasked with detecting potential chemical, biological and nuclear attacks against the United States.
“We are less safe now than we were on
States homeland from those attacks, and we’re going to find that many of those programs have been adversely affected.”
Trump and his allies have long held animosity for CISA, the agency he signed into law in his first term that would eventually declare the 2020 election was one of the best-run in history — undercutting Trump’s claims. In early March, Trump slashed more than $10 million in funding to two crucial cybersecurity intelligence-sharing programs that helped detect and deter cyberattacks and alerted state and local governments about forthcoming attacks on cybernetworks.
CISA has also canceled contracts that affected more than 100 cybersecurity specialists with a range of specialties. In its 2026 budget request, the administration also proposed cutting more than 1,000 positions from the agency, which is funded to hire more than 3,700 people.
Jan. 20 because of the indiscriminate cuts by DOGE, that shift in priority to focus exclusively on immigration and not on counterterrorism or other national security threats, and the loss of institutional knowledge about those national security threats,” said Mary Ellen Callahan, the former assistant secretary of homeland security for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office, which Trump has proposed disbanding. “We are less safe now and the risks are higher now.”
Trump’s aides maintain that his policies have restored national security to the United States by tightening its borders and pursuing sweeping deportations of immigrants in the country without legal status.
The Department of Homeland Security has been quick to publicize arrests over the weekend of 11 Iranians in the United States illegally, including one who was on a terrorism watch list. And the White House has sought to redirect attention to the Biden administration’s border policies, contending that the record number of migrants who crossed into the United States in recent years posed a significant risk to the nation.
“We’re doing everything that we can to keep our people safe,” Vice President JD Vance said Sunday. “This is one of the reasons why border security is national security, is if you let a bunch of crazy people into your country, those crazy people can eventually take action. We’re going to do everything that we can to make sure that doesn’t happen and to keep Americans safe.”
The approach by the Trump administration, however, ignores some of the more modern ways that Iran or its proxy groups could target the United States, according to national security officials.
And even though Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire, national security officials warned that the nation was still exposed to retaliation from Iran or its proxies, particularly one cloaked in sensitive computer systems.
“We are not out of the woods yet in terms of what Iran will try to do as payback,” said Thomas S. Warrick, a former counterterrorism official in the Trump, Obama and Bush administrations. “But there’s a host of DHS programs that were intended to help defend the United
At the same time, Trump is hoping to secure about $175 billion in new spending to enforce his ambitious anti-immigration agenda through his domestic policy legislation, which is still making its way through Congress. The administration has also redirected many federal agents to assist ICE for its deportation campaign, including FBI agents who have been pulled from their usual tasks of cybersecurity, counterintelligence or criminal work.
The Times reported in May that the Justice Department decided that about 2,000 of its federal agents — from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — were required to help find and arrest immigrants lacking legal status for the remainder of the year.
But in the days since the attack on Iran, FBI officials are pivoting to address the threats posed by Iran.
“Perhaps, in hindsight, forcing out the most experienced national security senior executives, and having counterterrorism and counterintelligence agents and analysts spend their time assisting on immigration roundups, might not have been the most well-thoughtout ideas,” said Michael Feinberg, a former FBI agent who spent years handling national security matters before abruptly leaving the bureau several weeks ago.
The FBI, in a statement, declined to comment on personnel decisions but said the agency does “continuously assess and realign our resources to respond to the most pressing threats to our national security and to ensure the safety of the American people.”
A power plant in La Porte, Texas, June 7, 2022. President Donald Trump has cut funding and specialists from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which helps protect the nation’s power grids, elections and water utilities. (Michael Stravato/The New York Times)
5 takeaways from the New York City mayoral primary
By NICHOLAS FANDOS
Zohran Mamdani, a state Assembly member who campaigned relentlessly against New York’s spiraling affordability crisis, was on the verge of a seismic upset in the Democratic primary for mayor Tuesday, powered by a diverse coalition from brownstone Brooklyn to the immigrant enclaves of Queens.
The result was not final. But Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, declared victory, and Andrew Cuomo, his rival and the former governor, conceded defeat.
Mamdani’s success in one of the first major Democratic primaries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House reverberated across the country and offered a potential road map for Democrats searching for a path back to power.
The Democratic primary winner would typically be considered the front-runner in November’s general election. Yet this fall’s contest promises to be unusually volatile. It will include Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent. Cuomo also still has the option of running on a third-party ballot line, though he has not committed to continuing his campaign.
Here are five takeaways from the primary: Mamdani’s exuberant optimism attracted disaffected New Yorkers.
Mamdani, a third-term lawmaker from Queens, entered the race last fall with a thin resume, virtually no citywide profile and views well to the left of many Democrats. He ended Tuesday as a breakout national figure.
He distinguished himself from a field of 10 rivals by offering an unapologetically progressive economic platform that was as memorable as it was ambitious. He proposed making city buses free, offering free child care and freezing the rent on rent-stabilized apartments — all financed by a large tax hike on the city’s wealthiest residents.
But his success also owed much to his exuberant style, demonstrative love for New York and mastery of social media that seemed to embody the kind of generational change many Democrats say they are hungry for. He filmed himself running into the icy waters of Coney Island in January and speaking with voters in the Bronx who swung to Trump last fall.
It was a stark contrast to Cuomo’s joyless campaign, which featured heavily staged events and a candidate who repeatedly warned voters that the city was in deep trouble that only he could fix.
“Together we have shown the power of the politics of the future, one of partnership and sincerity,” Mamdani said in a speech declaring
victory.
The Cuomo brand seems to have lost its shine.
For four years since resigning as governor in a sexual harassment scandal, Cuomo, 67, has pined for a path back to power.
He thought he had found it in the New York City mayoralty, and campaigned with an air of inevitability. He locked up key labor endorsements, benefited from a $25 million super PAC and witheringly attacked Mamdani as dangerously unqualified for the job, all while making no apology for his past conduct.
In the end, it appears voters were simply not interested in a Cuomo restoration.
He must now decide whether to keep running in November on a third-party ballot line, or accept defeat and the likely end of a political career that included stints as the federal housing secretary, New York attorney general and governor.
“Tonight was not our night,” a deflatedlooking Cuomo told supporters Tuesday night. He added, of Mamdani: “Tonight is his night. He deserved it. He won.”
Mamdani built a novel coalition.
Initial results suggested that Mamdani was succeeding by stitching together a novel Democratic coalition across the city, largely consisting of white, Asian and Latino voters in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.
While Mamdani campaigned on helping
working-class New Yorkers, he ran up large margins in the affluent, brownstone-lined streets of Park Slope, Cobble Hill and Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, as well as wealthy Manhattan enclaves like the East Village and swaths of Midtown.
Mamdani, who would be the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, was also the top vote-getter in predominantly Asian and Latino communities in Queens. They included economically and racial diverse areas like Woodside, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside and Richmond Hill, home to a large South Asian population.
Notably, he struggled more in middleclass, predominantly Black areas in the Bronx and Southeast Queens, where Cuomo retained strong support from his years as governor. Cuomo also won islands of support on affluent Democratic strongholds like the Upper West and East Sides of Manhattan, and in Orthodox Jewish enclaves in Brooklyn, where Mamdani’s views on Israel alienated some voters.
Mayor Adams gets the opponents he hoped for.
He may be down — way down — but Adams insists he is not yet on his way out.
Even before Tuesday’s primary, the incumbent mayor was preparing a scrape-and-claw reelection campaign in November’s general election, which will not use ranked-choice voting. He has gathered petitions to run on one of two ballot lines, EndAntiSemitism and Safe&Affordable, and plans to relaunch his
campaign Thursday on the steps of City Hall. He has long made clear he sees Mamdani as a perfect foil.
The mayor’s allies believe he could pull back together pieces of his scattered coalition, including older Black voters and Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers. He has also inched closer to Trump and his circle, raising the possibility that he could try to claim support from Republicans as well.
But Adams enters the race with profound baggage. His approval ratings from New Yorkers were abysmal even before he was indicted last fall on federal corruption charges. He arguably alienated Democrats more, though, when he successfully urged the Trump administration to drop the charges against him earlier this year.
Progressives generally had a good night. Mamdani’s surge captured the city’s attention, but progressives also won some consequential down-ballot races.
Jumaane Williams, the city’s left-leaning public advocate, easily cruised past a challenge from Jenifer Rajkumar, a state assemblywoman who had allied herself with Adams.
In Brooklyn near Prospect Park, Shahana Hanif, the first Muslim woman to elected to the City Council and an unsparing critic of the Israeli government, fended off a fierce challenge that centered on her views of the war in the Gaza Strip.
In a neighboring district to the south, Alexa Avilés, a democratic socialist, also easily fended off a spirited challenge to her right from Ling Ye, a Chinese immigrant who previously worked for Rep. Dan Goldman, the area’s moderate Democratic lawmaker.
One progressive who appeared to be losing was Justin Brannan, a City Council member from Brooklyn who was trailing Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president and a liberal Democrat, in the race to replace Brad Lander as city comptroller. Levine led by a wide margin, though the race had not been called.
Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters at a Democratic primary night gathering in New York on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Mamdani, a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive economic platform electrified younger voters, surged into the lead in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, putting him on the verge of a stunning upset. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
At Amazon’s biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI
By KAREN WEISE and CADE METZ
Ayear ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Indiana, was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centers rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium.
Over the next several years, Amazon plans to build around 30 data centers at the site, packed with hundreds of thousands of specialized computer chips. With hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber connecting every chip and computer together, the entire complex will form one giant machine intended just for artificial intelligence.
The facility will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power 1 million homes. Each year, it will use millions of gallons of water to keep the chips from overheating. And it was built with a single customer in mind: AI startup Anthropic, which aims to create an AI system that matches the human brain.
The complex — so large that it can be viewed completely only from high in the sky — is the first in a new generation of data centers being built by Amazon, and part of what the company calls Project Rainier, after the mountain that looms near its Seattle headquarters. Project Rainier will also include facilities in Mississippi and possibly other locations, like North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Project Rainier is Amazon’s entry into a race by the technology industry to build data centers so large they would have been considered absurd just a few years ago. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is building a 2-gigawatt data center in Louisiana. OpenAI is erecting a 1.2-gigawatt facility in Texas and another, nearly as large, in the United Arab Emirates.
These data centers will dwarf most of today’s, which were built before OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot inspired the AI boom in 2022. The tech industry’s increasingly powerful AI technologies require massive networks of specialized computer chips — and hundreds of billions of dollars to build the data centers that house those chips. The result: behemoths that stretch the limits of the electrical grid and change the way the world thinks about computers.
Amazon, which has invested $8 billion in Anthropic, will rent computing power from the new facility to its startup partner. An Anthropic co-founder, Tom Brown, who oversees the company’s work with Amazon on its chips and data centers, said having all that computing power in one spot could allow the startup to
train a single AI system.
“If you want to do one big run, you can do it,” he said.
Amazon has been working on the technology used in this complex for almost a decade. In 2015, the tech giant acquired an Israeli chip designer, Annapurna Labs. A year later, at a lab in Austin, Texas, Annapurna — which continued to operate as a largely independent team of engineers — began designing the company’s first computer chip dedicated to AI.
This initial chip, called Inferentia, was not widely used. But developing a viable computer chip requires years of design. Annapurna Labs developed its latest new chip, Trainium 2, alongside engineers at Anthropic. They tailored it for a massive complex like the one in New Carlisle.
“It’s a journey,” said Gadi Hutt, senior director of customer and product engineering at Annapurna Labs.
The Amazon chips are not as elaborate or as powerful as the latest chips from Nvidia, the Silicon Valley chipmaker that dominates AI work. But Amazon believes that by packing twice as many of these simpler chips into each data center, it can provide more computing power using the same amount of electricity.
“If we provide the performance that our customers want,” Hutt said, “then why choose to make a lot of exotic engineering choices that will just slow us down and cause delays?”
Amazon, which has been building data
centers for more than 18 years to run its online retail business and to rent computing services to other businesses, has accelerated its data center expansion for work on AI “pretty significantly,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, an Amazon vice president, standing in a construction trailer at the site in Indiana.
Just a few months after OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, Amazon was in talks with electrical utilities to find a site for its AI ambitions. In Indiana, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, or AEP, suggested that Amazon tour tracts of farmland 15 miles west of South Bend that had been rezoned into an industrial center. By the end of May 2023, more than a dozen Amazon employees had visited the site.
By early 2024, Amazon owned the land, which was still made up of corn and soybean fields. Indiana’s legislature approved a 50-year sales tax break for the company, which could ultimately be worth around $4 billion, according to the Citizens Action Coalition, a consumer and environmental advocacy organization. Separate property and technology tax breaks granted by the county could save Amazon an additional $4 billion over the next 35 years.
The exact cost of developing the data center complex is not clear. In the tax deal, Amazon promised $11 billion to build 16 buildings, but now it plans to build almost twice that. The total number of buildings is not determined yet and will depend in part on whether the company gets permission, over vocal commu-
nity opposition, to build on a 10-acre wetland in the middle of the complex. Amazon intends to build on the wetland, pointing out that it is a small, shallow wetland, not a major nature preserve.
To bury the fiber optic cables connecting the buildings and to install other underground infrastructure, Amazon had to pump water out of the wet ground. One permit application showed that the company requested permission to pump 2.2 million gallons an hour, for 730 days. State officials are now investigating if the process, known as dewatering, is the reason some neighbors are reporting dry wells.
Some locals have protested the way the project has progressed, complaining that it has caused water problems, increased traffic and noise and significantly altered the look and feel of this agricultural community, and that it could ruin the small natural wetland in the middle of the complex.
“You can see the mountain of dirt they are ready to shove on those wetlands,” said Dan Caruso, a retired mail carrier who lives in New Carlisle, pointing to a cluster of tall trees next to a newly plowed parking lot at the construction site. “Wildlife depends on those wetlands.”
By early June, seven buildings had been constructed and bulldozers were moving dirt on the site of an eighth. What is currently being used as a parking lot will soon become the ninth.
Amazon’s approach differs from that of Google, Microsoft and Meta, companies that are packing far more powerful chips into their data centers and relying on more energy-intensive techniques to cool the chips down. Because Amazon is using a significantly smaller chip, the company can cool its new complex in simpler ways. It pumps air from outside the buildings through handlers the size of cargo containers and in hot months uses municipal water to cool the air.
The approach is more efficient, according to Kalyanaraman, so the company can use more of the available electricity to run its AI chips.
AEP has told regulators that new, largescale data centers will more than double the amount of peak power it must provide Indiana, from about 2.8 gigawatts in 2024 to more than 7 gigawatts by approximately 2030. Amazon’s campus alone accounts for about half of the additional load growth.
“It will be the largest power user in the state of Indiana by a country mile,” said Ben Inskeep of the Citizens Action Coalition.
The new Amazon Web Services facility in New Carlisle, Ind., where the tech giant plans to build around 30 data centers, on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. The facility will consume 2.2 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power a million homes. Each year, it will use millions of gallons of water. And it was built with a single customer in mind: the AI start-up Anthropic, which aims to create an AI system that matches the human brain. (AJ Mast/The New York Times)
Investors returned to US long-term bond funds in May
dling appetite for long-term bonds.
U.S. long-term bond funds drew massive inflows in May, reversing April’s drawdown and indicating investors sought the safety of higher-yielding debt, as they weighed a host of uncertainties around trade tariffs, inflation and fiscal deficits.
According to Morningstar data, U.S. long-term bond funds attracted $7.4 billion in May, their largest monthly inflow in over two years, after facing sharp outflows in April.
Jeana Doubell, fixed income analyst at Morningstar, said inflows into long-term bond funds in May reflect investor expectations of weaker growth and a view that bonds offered better value than other riskier assets.
U.S. long-term bonds were sold off heavily in April on concerns that U.S. tariff measures could fuel inflation, while expectations that President Donald Trump’s tax bill could inflate the deficit and Treasury supply added to the pressure.
However, analysts said those concerns have eased as trade talks progress, rekin-
“Long-bond prices are susceptible to inflation, and recent data shows very little inflation above the Fed’s 2% target,” said Chris Gunster, head of fixed income at Fidelis Capital Partners. “As long as inflation is less of a concern, then long-dated Treasuries should reassert themselves as a hedge against equities and other risk asset declines.”
“The smart investors should already be locking in longerterm rates,” he said.
The Morningstar data showed short-term bond funds saw $5.8 billion in outflows after strong inflows the previous month, while intermediate-term bond funds attracted $4.2 billion.
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF led with inflows of $4.3 billion, while iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond ETF and iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF received $1.2 billion and $625 million, respectively.
U.S. stocks took a breather on Wednesday, pausing a twoday rally as the tenuous Israel-Iran cease fire continued to hold and investors pored over a second day of congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
Tech shares lifted the Nasdaq, while the S&P 500 ended flat. The benchmark index remained within striking distance of its record closing high reached on February 19.
The blue-chip Dow ended in negative territory.
“It almost feels like back to your regularly scheduled bull market,” said Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at Carson Group in Omaha. “We’ve dealt with the tariffs, we’ve dealt with the Middle East drama, but stocks continue to defy the odds by moving higher with the realization that the U.S. economy remains quite resilient.”
“But today it’s almost like watching paint dry as we’re all waiting for the S&P 500 to make new highs,” Detrick added.
Nvidia shares touched a record high, lifting its market value to $3.75 trillion and making it the world’s most valuable company.
Among the 11 major sectors of the S&P 500, technology, communication services, and healthcare advanced on the day. Defensives such as real estate, consumer staples and utilities underperformed the broader market.
“The lifeblood of a bull market is rotation,” Detrick said. “And to see technology and communication services taking back the baton is really a good sign that this surprise summer rally likely has legs.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 106.59 points, or 0.25%, to 42,982.43, the S&P 500 lost 0.02 points, or 0.00%, to 6,092.16 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 61.02 points, or 0.31%, to 19,973.55.
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NATO agrees to a big increase in military spending, pleasing Trump
By STEVEN ERLANGER and LARA JAKES
ANATO summit designed to please President Donald Trump ended Wednesday with his European allies approving an ambitious spending goal to meet the threat of a militarizing Russia, and clinching a long-elusive public commitment from the mercurial American leader for the alliance’s collective defense.
Since his first term, Trump has been pressing for the allies to spend more on their own defense. On Wednesday, after a oneday meeting in the Netherlands, they agreed to raise their spending on the military to 5% of their national income by 2035.
That amount consists of 3.5% on traditional military needs like troops, weapons, shells and missiles, up sharply from the current target of 2%. It also includes another 1.5% on “militarily adjacent” projects like improved roads and bridges, better emergency health care, better cybersecurity and civic resilience.
Trump was pleased.
“This was a tremendous summit, and I enjoyed it very much,” he said at a news conference at the end of the meeting. He added that he understood the central role the United States plays in the defense of Europe. “They want to protect their country, and they need the United States and without the United States, it’s not going to be the same,” he said.
Trump has long denigrated NATO allies as freeloaders, relying on the United States for protection, and Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have described Europe as a drain on U.S. security resources. The president has even mused publicly about withdrawing from the alliance.
But the summit’s brief communiqué,
done,” Rutte told Trump in a private text message that Trump posted on social media.
Even if countries spend unevenly, the result would be a very large increase in Europe’s military spending. The hope is that the money will be spent effectively and on critical areas such as air defense and satellite intelligence, where the U.S. is currently indispensable. There will be a spending review in 2029.
Trump has ordered a review of where U.S. troops are now stationed, and where they should be in the future. That is likely to affect what forces NATO wants each ally to have, from troop numbers to equipment.
Despite the promises, many governments, especially in the west of Europe, will have a difficult political task to convince their publics that the threat to their security is real, and that money must be spent for deterrence.
unanimously approved Wednesday, included a restatement of the allies’ commitment to collective defense in Article 5 of the NATO pact. The president has often been reluctant to commit publicly to Article 5, though he often does in private.
At his own news conference, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte expressed frustration over continued questions about Trump’s commitment to Article 5. He urged journalists and politicians “to stop worrying,” adding: “The United States is totally committed to Article 5. How many times do we want them to say this?”
The summit won praise from Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del., who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
“This will be remembered as a landmark summit,” he said in an interview in The Hague. “The agreement to spend 5% is a significant step forward toward a shared commitment to our collective security.”
But he cautioned that “this money has to be coordinated and spent well, or it will do little more than run up costs and inflation.”
Others were skeptical.
“All the big challenges were left off the agenda,” said Torrey Taussig, a former Europe director for the National Security Council under former President Joe Biden. There was “no meaningful deliverable for Ukraine, despite a fourth year of a land war in Europe,” she said, and no discussion of future policy toward Russia or the rising challenges of China.
Also, the commitment is to raise spending to 5% over a decade, and that is a long time. Some countries may never reach these targets.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said before the summit that Spain would spend 2.1% of its GDP on defense, “no more, no less.” Slovakia and Belgium also hinted that the 5% pledge was going to be impossible to meet.
But Rutte worked around Spain with a bit of mushy diplomatic language. The communiqué said “the allies” — not “all allies” — had agreed to the 5% figure.
Rutte presented the agreement as a victory for Trump, praising him for pushing the Europeans to do what was necessary in their own interests.
“You will achieve something NO American president in decades could get
That is “where the rubber hits the road,” said Rachel Rizzo, a European defense expert at the Atlantic Council. “Will European leaders expend the political capital to sell this commitment to their publics?”
But speed is also crucial, with some intelligence agencies warning of a Russian threat to Europe within three to five years of the end of the Ukraine war.
Ukraine was reduced to the sidelines in this summit, though President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Trump. They were scheduled to meet last week at the Group of 7 summit in Canada but the president skipped their meeting, citing a need to return to Washington to handle the conflict between Israel and Iran.
In his news conference, Rutte promised “continued support” for Ukraine with money and equipment.
The communiqué did not mention the prospect of Ukraine’s future membership in the alliance, apparently as another gesture to Trump, who opposes it. But Rutte made a point of repeating NATO’s long-standing pledge of eventually admitting Ukraine.
“Our aim is to keep Ukraine in the fight today so that it can enjoy a lasting peace in the future,” he said. “We stand by Ukraine in its pursuit of peace and will continue to support Ukraine on its irreversible path to NATO membership,” echoing last year’s communiqué in Washington.
President Donald Trump, accompanied by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, arrives to participate in a session at World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands, during the 2025 NATO summit, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
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The bombing of Iran may teach an unwelcome lesson on nuclear weapons
By MARK LANDLER
It has been nearly two decades since any country elbowed its way into the club of nuclear-armed nations. President Donald Trump, with his bombing of three Iranian nuclear installations last weekend, has vowed to keep the door shut.
Whether Trump’s preemptive strike will succeed in doing that is hard to predict, so soon after the attack and the fragile ceasefire that has followed. But already it is stirring fears that Iran, and other countries, will draw a very different conclusion than the one the White House intended: that having a bomb is the only protection in a threatening world.
The last country to get one, North Korea, has never faced such an attack. After years of defying demands to dismantle its nuclear program, it is now viewed as largely impregnable. Trump exchanged friendly letters with its dictator, Kim Jong Un, and met him twice in a fruitless effort to negotiate a deal. In Iran’s case, Trump deployed B-2 bombers just weeks after making a fresh diplomatic overture to its leaders.
“The risks of Iran acquiring a small nuclear arsenal are now higher than they were before the events of last week,” said Robert J. Einhorn, an arms control expert who negotiated with Iran during the Obama administration. “We can assume there are a number of hard-liners who are arguing that they should cross that nuclear threshold.”
Iran would face formidable hurdles to producing a bomb even if it made a concerted dash for one, Einhorn said, not least the knowledge that if the United States and Israel detect such a move, they will strike again. It is far from clear that Iran’s leaders, isolated, weakened and in disarray, want to provoke him.
Yet the logic of proliferation looms large in a world where the nuclear-armed great powers — the United States, Russia and China — are viewed as increasingly unreliable and even predatory toward their neighbors. From the Persian Gulf and Central Europe to East Asia, analysts said, non-nuclear countries are watching Iran’s plight and calculating lessons they should learn from it.
“Certainly, North Korea doesn’t rue the day it acquired nuclear weapons,” said Christopher R. Hill, who led lengthy, ultimately unsuccessful, talks with Pyongyang
in 2007 and 2008 to try to persuade it to dismantle its nuclear program.
The lure of the bomb, Hill said, has become stronger for America’s allies in the Middle East and Asia. Since World War II, they have sheltered under a U.S. security umbrella. But they now confront a president, in Trump, who views alliances as incompatible with his vision of “America first.”
“I’d be very careful with the assumption that there is a U.S. nuclear umbrella,” said Hill, who served as ambassador to South Korea, Iraq, Poland, and Serbia under Democratic and Republican presidents. “Countries like Japan and South Korea are wondering whether they can rely on the U.S.”
Support for developing nuclear weapons has risen in South Korea, though its newly elected president, Lee Jaemyung, has vowed to improve relations with North Korea. In 2023, President Joe Biden signed a deal with Seoul to involve it more in nuclear planning with the United States, in part to head off a push by South Korean politicians and scientists to develop their own nuclear weapons capability.
In Japan, the public has long favored disarmament, a legacy of the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. But it has begun debating whether to store nuclear weapons from the United States on its soil, as some members of NATO do. Shinzo Abe, a former prime minister, said that if Ukraine had kept some of its Soviet-era bombs, it might have avoided a Russian
invasion.
President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use tactical nuclear weapons early in that conflict gave pause to the Biden administration about how aggressively to arm the Ukrainian military. It also deepened fears that other revisionist powers could use nuclear blackmail to intimidate their neighbors.
Iran’s strategy of aggressively enriching uranium, while stopping short of a bomb, did not ultimately protect it either.
“To the extent that people are looking at Iran as a test case, Trump has shown that its strategy is not a guarantee that you will prevent a military attack,” said Gary Samore, a professor at Brandeis University who worked on arms control negotiations in the Obama and Clinton administrations.
Samore said it was too soon to say how the Israeli and American strikes on Iran would affect the calculus of other countries. “How does this end?” he said. “Does it end with a deal? Or is Iran left to pursue a nuclear weapon?”
Experts on proliferation are, by nature, wary. But some are trying to find a silver lining in the events of the last week. Einhorn said that in delivering on his threat to bomb a nuclear-minded Iran, Trump had sent a reassuring message to U.S. allies facing their own nuclear insecurities.
“In Moscow, Pyongyang and Beijing,” Einhorn said, “they’ve taken notice not just of the reach and capacity of the U.S. military, but the willingness of this president to use that capability.”
President George W. Bush looks over a cache of centrifuges used to produce enriched uranium that Libya turned over to the U.S., at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., July 12, 2004. The bombing of Iran may teach an unwelcome lesson on nuclear weapons; will America’s pre-emptive strike discourage other countries from pursuing a weapon — or just the opposite? (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Mission not accomplished
By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Israel may have astonished much of the world with its tactical skill in its recent war against Iran, but at least for now, it’s lost. With the help of cheerleaders on Fox News, Israel pulled Donald Trump into its war; The New York Times reported on his eagerness to take credit for a mission that appeared to be succeeding wildly. But then Trump turned around and forced Israel to back down, declaring a ceasefire and lambasting the country for its continued bombing.
In a satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies, damage at the Fordo enrichment facility in Iran after the U.S. strikes, June 22, 2025. A preliminary classified U.S. report says the American bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites sealed off the entrances to two of the facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings, according to officials familiar with the findings. (Maxar Technologies via The New York Times) The San Juan Daily
If that ceasefire holds, it will mean, thankfully, that this harrowing episode has concluded without triggering World War III, as some feared. But it also hasn’t achieved Israel and America’s primary objective, which was ending Iran’s nuclear program. Indeed, it now may be more likely, not less, that Iran will become a nuclear power.
On Tuesday, the Times, The Washington Post and CNN all reported on a preliminary classified report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, which found that the U.S. bombing campaign set back Iran’s nuclear program by months, not years. It’s early, but Iran appears to have removed much of its highly enriched uranium before the attack, possibly to secret facilities. The sites that were hit apparently didn’t sustain as much damage as people in the administration had hoped, with many centrifuges remaining intact.
Meanwhile, Israel has shown Iran the extent of its intelligence penetration into the country and cannot, at least for the foreseeable future, continue its war without enraging Trump. Nor is Trump likely to restart the war anytime soon, since doing so would puncture his narrative of success.
“Now the U.S. and Israel have basically demonstrated their capabilities,” said Jon Wolfsthal, who was a senior director for arms control and nonproliferation on Barack Obama’s National Security Council. “They shot their shots,” he said, and they neither got rid of Iran’s nuclear program nor toppled its regime.
Iran has obviously been weakened and humiliated by Israel’s assault, which revealed how profoundly its government had been infiltrated by foreign intelligence, and how isolated it is globally. But its own pitiful performance in the war could create new incentives for it to rush toward a nuclear weapon. “They’ve been attacked by two nuclear states,” Wolfsthal said. “It’s made getting a nuclear weapon seem more necessary from a security point of view.”
Until 12 days ago, he pointed out, Iran was at least partly cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency, giving it access to the country’s nuclear materials and facilities. “All that’s now lost, and I don’t think it’s going to come back anytime soon,” he said. Trump pulled out of Obama’s hard-won nuclear agreement with Iran out of spite, and now we’re reaping the results.
For the moment, it might be a good thing that Trump is taking his cues from Fox News and relishing what he views as a great triumph. The more he’s convinced he already won, the less likely he is to resume the war, with all its attendant risks. What we’re seeing is in some ways a repeat of 2018, when Trump announced, after his preposterous summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, that there was “no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea.” It wasn’t true, but because he believed it, he became much less belligerent.
It is perhaps the best that can be hoped for with Trump: not a real victory, but a Potemkin one.
La mayoría de edad es a los 21 años dice gobernadora sobre acompañantes de menores a los conciertos de Bad Bunny
POR CYBERNEWS
CATAÑO– Luego de las expresiones de la secretaria del Departamento de la Familia, Suzanne Roig Fuertes sobre la presencia de adultos acompañando a menores a los conciertos de residencia de Benito Antonio “Bad Bunny” Martínez Ocasio, la gobernadora Jenniffer Aidyn González Colón sostuvo el miércoles “que será igual que cualquier otro concierto”.
“Lo que tienen que saber es que esto es lo mismo que cualquier otro concierto. Lo mismo que cualquier otro evento que el cine, que cual-
quier otro evento. Menores, tienen que ir acompañados por sus padres o por su encargado, punto. Esto no cambia absolutamente nada”, dijo la gobernadora a preguntas de la prensa.
“Esto es lo mismo que ocurre para cuando un menor está en la calle. Esto no es este evento Todos los eventos (los menores) tienen que ir acompañados por un adulto, hay gente que envía un adulto y un grupo grande de niños, pero tiene que haber un adulto”, añadió.
Al preguntarle a la gobernadora, si un adulto debe tener 18 o 21 años, González Colón contestó “21 es la mayoría de edad, que puede ser una per-
sona delegada”. En el Código Civil de Puerto Rico, se establece la mayoría de edad a los 21 años. Además, en la pagina del Coliseo de Puerto Rico, en las reglas del evento de Bad Bunny se establece que “Por política del Coliseo y por su seguridad, se requiere que todo menor de 15 años o menos deben estar acompañados por un adulto mayor de 21 años en todo momento. Esta regla aplica para todos los eventos que se llevan a cabo en el Coliseo de Puerto Rico”.
La secretaria de la Familia sostuvo que en los conciertos del cantante habrá personal de la agencia.
Muere hombre al caer mientras removía panal de abejas en Isla Verde
ISLA VERDE – Un hombre murió el martes en la noche tras caer desde una escalera mientras intentaba remover un panal de abejas en una residencia de la urbanización Villa Mar, en Isla Verde, informó la Policía.
Según el informe preliminar, una llamada al Siste-
ma de Emergencias 9-1-1 alertó a la Policía cerca de las 8:00 de la noche. Al llegar al lugar, los agentes encontraron el cuerpo del hombre en el área de la piscina.
Las cámaras de seguridad mostraron que el perjudicado se encontraba subido en una escalera removien-
do el panal, cuando perdió el balance y cayó al suelo, golpeándose la cabeza. El impacto le provocó la muerte en el acto. La víctima no ha sido identificada.
Personal de la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de Carolina, junto al fiscal Sergio Calzada, están a cargo de la investigación.
Josefina Santos/The New York Times
‘Sisu,’ ‘Final Score’ and more streaming gems
By JASON BAILEY
This month’s streaming suggestions include poignant biographical portraits, comingof-age dramas, a late-career leading role for a legend and more.
‘Sisu’ (2023)
You have to congratulate Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander for his commercial savvy: With this sleeper hit, he’s concocted a lean, mean mixture of the most joy-buzzer elements of “John Wick” and “Inglourious Basterds.” Set in the final days of World War II, it tells the story of a gold prospector (Jorma Tommila), who looks, at first, like a harmless soul. But he has a past. A former commando, he’s described as a “one man death squad,” and when a Nazi platoon steals the gold he’s recently recovered, he sets about getting it back — and killing anyone who gets in his way. Helander stages his action with grindhouse glee, cheerfully breaking bones by the handful and spurting blood by the bucket, and indulging his audience in the simple pleasure of watching Nazis squirm. (Stream it on Peacock.)
‘Final Score’ (2018)
deniably evocative. (Stream it on Netflix.)
‘Remember’ (2015)
Six years before he died, Christopher Plummer played one of his final leading roles — and a juicy one at that — for the gifted director Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”). Plummer stars as Zev, an Auschwitz survivor hunting an official there who escaped justice; Martin Landau is a friend and fellow survivor who plots their shared mission of vengeance. The catch is that Zev is succumbing to dementia, which makes him less reliable (and perhaps more dangerous). Benjamin August’s twisty screenplay is kept together by the fine performances of Plummer and Landau, two pros who can make any scene convincing. (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)
‘Garbo: Where Did You Go?’ (2024)
“Die Hard” is approaching its 40th anniversary, but it still casts a large shadow over action cinema (as we’ve seen). Yet the quality so few of its imitators manage to replicate is the unique charisma of the star Bruce Willis, whose John McClane was both an action hero and a relatable, vulnerable Everyman. This taut thriller, which is essentially “‘Die Hard’ in a sports arena,” boasts a rare, successful match for that protagonist. Dave Bautista’s compelling mixture of soul and brawn is a good, clean fit for Knox, a vacationing retired military man battling Russian revolutionaries who have taken over a London stadium during a high-profile soccer match; he’s likable and charismatic, which keeps the stakes high. Scott Mann’s direction is energetic, executing crisp action beats, including a motorcycle chase down the arena’s corridors and an especially memorable kitchen brawl. It’s somehow both ingenious and ridiculous, and that’s just as it should be. (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video and Peacock.)
‘Jazzy’ (2025)
Director Morrisa Maltz burst onto the indie scene with her 2023 narrative debut, “The Unknown Country,” which
was playing art house theaters as its star Lily Gladstone was accumulating plaudits for her work in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” “Jazzy” is something of a spinoff, with a brief return for Gladstone’s character, while focusing on a minor “Unknown Country” character, Jazzy. As played by the wonderful Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreaux, Jazzy is a young Lakota girl in South Dakota who does some serious growing up over the course of a surprisingly expansive 86 minutes. The picture has a messy, offhand quality, as if we’re eavesdropping on these lives, rather than seeing them carefully staged for the camera. Its conflicts are relatively minor — such as a schism between Jazzy and her best friend, Syriah (Syriah Fool Head Means, also excellent) — but “Jazzy” understands how, at this age, every moment feels revelatory. (Stream it on Hulu.)
‘Mid90s’ (2018)
Actor Jonah Hill quietly pivoted to directing with this seemingly autobiographical memory play that focuses on a young man named Stevie (Sunny Suljic) on the precipice of his teenage years. Stevie has trouble fitting in — until he falls in with a group of young skateboarders and begins appropriating their style, slang and bad habits. Hill wisely chooses not to simply set his film in the mid-1990s; he apes the look and style of that period’s indie cinema, shooting on super 16 mm and recalling low-budget sleeper hits like “Kids” and “Welcome to the Dollhouse.” He sands down some of the rough edges of those provocative pictures, but nevertheless crafts a snapshot of a specific time and sensibility that’s un-
These days, even among certain circles of cinephiles, Greta Garbo is remembered less as an actor (much less a human being) than as a mystique, an embodiment of celebrity malaise and zealous privacy. Director Lorna Tucker attempts to break through the persona to the person in this fascinating biographical documentary, using film clips, interviews with experts and associates, archival audio and deliberately artificial dramatizations. Tucker uses multiple unconventional framing devices (plus narration by Noomi Rapace) when one would probably do, but it’s a welcome respite from the typical bio-doc tropes, allowing her to follow Garbo’s trail through Hollywood’s studio system and New York’s socialite circles, and even to observe the reflections and regrets that haunted Garbo late in life. (Stream it on Netflix.)
‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ (2024)
Ernest Cole was a gifted South African photographer whose images of the horrors of apartheid, collected in his influential 1967 volume “House of Bondage,” were an essential chronicle of that period. But his life was something of a mystery — he moved to New York City shortly before the book’s publication and continued taking photos, but never published a follow-up and slowly disappeared from public life. Esteemed filmmaker Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”) attempts to solve that mystery with this fascinating documentary. Coupling his photos with narration (the photographer’s own words) read with searching intensity by LaKeith Stanfield, Peck constructs an essential tribute to a vitally important artist. (Stream it on Hulu.)
“Sisu” (2023)
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Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Radicada en el Barrio Caimital Bajo del Municipio de Aguadilla, con una cabida superficial de cuatrocientos sesenta y uno punto siete mil trescientos sesenta y ocho metros cuadrados (461.7368 m.c.), equivalentes a cero punto mil ciento seten-
ta y cinco de cuerdas (0.1175 cdas.) En lindes al NORTE, con carretera 4111, al SUR con Jovita Galarza, al ESTE con Jovita Galarza y al OESTE con Sucn. Margarita Meléndez. La antes descrita propiedad no se encuentra inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Libre de cargas y gravámenes. Codificación Número 046-000001-07-001. Valor de la propiedad: OCHENTA MIL DOLARES ($80,000.00). El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. Jose Ferrari Pérez, Apartado 988, Victoria Station, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Tel. 787-8913670. Email: jferrarilaw@gmail. com. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 14 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 9 de mayo de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
TERESA RIVERA REYES REPRESENTADA POR SU APODERADA NANCY SANTIAGO RIVERA
Peticionaria EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: BY2025CV01434.
Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R. A: SUCESIÓN DE HECTOR R. CONESA DROSS, JOHN
DOE Y RICHARD ROE, PERSONAS
IGNORADAS A QUIENES
PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION SOLICITADA O A CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE TENGA INTERES EN DICHO BIEN Y QUE PUEDA SER PERJUDICADA POR DICHA INSCRIPCION.
Por la presente se les notifica que la parte peticionaria ha presentado en este Tribunal una acción para inscribir la propiedad que se describe como sigue: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno ubicado en el Barrio Lomas del término municipal de Naranjito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de MIL CUATROCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO DOS MIL
TRECE METROS CUADRADOS (1,459.2013 mc), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO TRES MIL SETECIENTOS DOCE
CUERDAS (0.3712 cdas.). En lindes por el NOROESTE, en seis alineaciones distintas que suman Sesenta y Cinco Punto Trescientos Veinte Metros (65.320 m) con camino asfaltado sin salida; por el SUR, con una distancia de Cuarenta Punto Doscientos Nueve metros (40.209 m) con terrenos propiedad de Juan F. De Hoyos Ferrer y la Sucn. de Héctor R. Conesa Dross; por el ESTE, en dos alineaciones distintas que suman Cuarenta y Tres Punto Setecientos Veinticuatro Metros (43.724 m) con camino municipal y por el OESTE, con una distancia de Ocho Punto Doscientos Setenta y Dos metros (8.272 m) con terrenos propiedad de Ferdinand Morales.” En dicho predio enclava una residencia en concreto dedicado a hogar. Que la Propiedad antes descrita no esta inscrita en el registro de la propiedad. Se le notifica ademas a toda persona que tenga algún derecho real sobre el inmueble anteriormente descrito o cualquier persona ignorada que pueda ser perjudicada por esta inscripción y en general a todo el que tuviere motivo para oponerse, que tendrá que presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, en un término de veinte (20) días, a partir de la fecha de publicación del último edicto, excluyendo el día de su publicación. Representa a la parte peticionaria, el abogado cuyo nombre y dirección se consigna
de inmediato:
LCDO. HÉCTOR M. MARRERO
MARRERO 95 CALLE GEORGETTI, SUITE 1
APARTADO POSTAL 283
NARANJITO, PUERTO RICO 00719
TELÉFONO: 787-869-0806
Emil: marreroh@gmail.com
En Bayamón, Puerto Rico a 3 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
SALA DE BAYAMÓN
CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC
Demandante V.
ANGEL MANUEL ALBERT COLÓN T/C/C ANGEL MANUEL ALBERT
T/C/C ANGEL ALBERT COLÓN T/C/C ANGEL M. ALBERT COLÓN, BLANCA IRIS TRINIDAD
VÉLEZ T/C/C BLANCA I. TRINIDAD VÉLEZ T/C/C
BLANCA TRINIDAD T/C/C
BLANCA I. ALBERT, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2024CV07191. Sala: 501. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL.
A: ANGEL MANUEL ALBERT COLÓN T/C/C
ANGEL MANUEL ALBERT
T/C/C ANGEL ALBERT
COLÓN T/C/C ANGEL M. ALBERT COLÓN, BLANCA IRIS TRINIDAD
VÉLEZ T/C/C BLANCA I. TRINIDAD VÉLEZ T/C/C
BLANCA TRINIDAD T/C/C
BLANCA I. ALBERT, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA. Yo, EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados, acreedores y al público en general con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, por la presente CERTIFICO, ANUNCIO y HAGO CONSTAR: Que el día 9 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico,
procederé a vender en Pública Subasta, al mejor postor, la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria mediante Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, la cual se notificó y archivó en autos el día 13 de febrero de 2025. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el 16 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 23 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA; en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que ha sido liberado por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 25 de abril de 2025, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número 2 de la Manzana 66 de la Urbanización Sierra Bayamón con un área de: 350.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes: por el NORTE, con 100 pies de servidumbre de paso, distancia de 14.00 metros; por el SUR, con la calle 45 distancia de 14.00 metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número 1, distancia de 25.00 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número 3, distancia de 25.00 metros. Contiene una casa de cemento diseñada para una familia. Afecta por su procedencia, afecta a Servidumbres y Condiciones Restrictivas. El número de catastro de la antes descrita propiedad es: 061-093-607-02-001. Finca número 4,516, inscrita al folio 83 del tomo 105 de Bayamón Norte. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. Dirección de la Propiedad: 66-2 45 St., Sierra Bayamón, Bayamón, PR 00959. La subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer, hasta donde alcance, el importe de las cantidades adeudadas a la parte demandante conforme a la sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: de $163,047.72, de balance principal del préstamo, con intereses ajustable al 3.651% anual, a la fecha de 28 de febrero de 2025, y que continúan acumulándose, más la cantidad de $24,150.00, cantidad pacta-
da para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; más recargos acumulados hasta la fecha en que se pague la deuda; más cualquiera suma de dinero por concepto de contribuciones, primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, así como cualesquiera otras sumas pactadas en la escritura de hipoteca, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 153 otorgada el día 17 de noviembre de 2089, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante la Notario Público Alejandro J. Mues Arias y consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Norte, finca número 4,516, inscripción 12da. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos 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 acreedor ejecutante. Entiéndase: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $241,500.00, con intereses al 3.651% anual, vencedero el día 17 de noviembre de 2089, constituida mediante la escritura número 154, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de mayo de 2014, ante el notario Alejandro J. Mues Arias, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Norte, finca número 4,516, inscripción 13ra. Que la cantidad mínima de licitación en la primera subasta del inmueble antes descrito será la suma de $241,500.00 según se establece en la escritura de hipoteca antes relacionada. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en su primera subasta se ordena la celebración de una segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, en la cual, la cantidad mínima será una equivalente a 2/3 parte de aquella, o sea la suma de $161,000.00; desierta también la segunda subasta de dicho inmueble, se ordena la celebración de una tercera subasta en la cual, la cantidad mínima
será la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, es decir la suma de $120,750.00. La propiedad se adjudicará al mejor postor, quien deberá satisfacer el importe de su oferta en moneda legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América en el momento de la adjudicación, entiéndase efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, y que las cargas y gravámenes preferentes, si los hubiese, 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 del remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad en un estudio de título efectuado a la finca antes descrita. Una vez efectuada la venta de dicha propiedad, el Alguacil procederá a otorgar la escritura de traspaso al licitador victorioso en subasta, quien podrá ser la parte demandante, cuya oferta podrá aplicarse a la extinción parcial o total de la obligación reconocida por la sentencia dictada en este caso. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Se dispone, conforme con la sentencia dictada en este caso que, una vez efectuada la subasta y vendido el bien inmueble, los adjudicatarios sean puestos en posesión del mismo dentro del término de veinte (20) días por el Alguacil de este Honorable Tribunal y los actuales poseedores lanzados del referido inmueble. Y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general, se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley, mediante edicto, en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, una vez por semana, por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto de Subasta para conocimiento y comparecencia de los licitadores, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 16 de mayo de 2025. EDGARDO ELÍAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #193, ALGUACIL DEL TRIBUNAL DE
PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE BAYAMÓN.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN LUNA COMMERCIAL II LLC
Demandante Vs. SAMUEL ANTONIO FIGUEROA MARTÍNEZ, BETSY MARTÍNEZ OYOLA Y LA SOCIEDAD DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV03420. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE PRENDA & EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (“IN REM”). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, IRMA D. CARMONA CLAUDIO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 21 de mayo de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 2 de abril de 2025, notificada el 9 de abril de 2025 y publicada el 11 de abril de 2025, procederé a vender el día 15 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente bien mueble: Pagaré Hipotecario por la suma principal de $135,000.00 a favor de Banco Santander Puerto Rico, o a su orden, con intereses a razón de 8% anual fijo y vencimiento a la presentación, garantizado mediante hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura #63, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 22 de mayo de 2002, ante el Notario Público Jorge Puig, sobre una propiedad perteneciente a Samuel Antonio Figueroa Martínez y su esposa Betsy Martínez Oyola, la cual consta inscrita al Folio #143 del Tomo #261 de Río Piedras Sur, Finca #8,510, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta (IV) de San Juan. Simultáneamente con la venta del Pagaré Hipotecario anteriormente descrito se procederá a vender el siguiente
MILAGROS ROBLES
FORASTIERI T/C/C
MILAGROS ROBLES Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: GM2025CV00026. (Salón: 702). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA
POR EDICTO.
ILIA CRISTINA RAMÍREZ MARTÍNEZ - RAMIREZ@GLSLEGALSERVICES. COM.
A: MILAGROS ROBLES
FORASTIERI T/C/C
MILAGROS ROBLES.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de 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 20 de junio de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 20 de junio de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. VIONNETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. CARMEN RODRÍGUEZ JUSINO
Demandada
Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV00683.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: CARMEN RODRÍGUEZ
JUSINO - URB. SULTANA PARK, 52-JJ CALLE MARGINAL, MAYAGÜEZ PR 00680; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: HC-1 BOX 5528, SAN GERMÁN, PR 00683-
9703.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NÚM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970
TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL:
ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 20 de junio de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
Demandante Vs. HÉCTOR MANUEL DÍAZ ALEJANDRO E IRIS
YOLANDA GRILLASCA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2025CV00829.
Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: HÉCTOR MANUEL DÍAZ ALEJANDROBARRIO SANTA OLAYA, LOTE 5, CARR. 830 KM 5.2, BAYAMON PR 00956; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: 2025 DIXIE BELLE DRIVE, APT. D, ORLANDO FL 32812 Y URB. IRLANDA HIGH, CALLE CAPELLA FE 9, APT. A, BAYAMÓN, PR 00956.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de las Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte
de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:
BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155
E-MAIL:
ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 20 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs. JEANNE
MARIE UPHOUSE
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00410. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JEANNE MARIE UPHOUSE.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en
rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se les advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 30 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA INTERINA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE JORGE LUIS DAVILA RIVERA COMPUESTA POR VICTORIA AYALA RODRÍGUEZ POR SÍ Y COMO VIUDA, AMANDA DÁVILA
AYALA; “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE JORGE LUIS DAVILA RIVERA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2025CV01744. Sala: (401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: “JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE” COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE JORGE LUIS DAVILA RIVERA - VISTAS DEL MORRO, 30-A RUISEÑOR ST., CATAÑO, PR 00962; PO BOX 248, CATAÑO, PR 00963.
La parte demandante ha declarado la totalidad de la deuda que origina la presente causa
de acción vencida; y al día 1ro de octubre de 2024, la parte demandada le adeuda a la parte demandante las siguientes cantidades: $41,590.43 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 7.50% desde el 1 de septiembre de 2024; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $9,990.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La parte demandada constituyó la hipoteca sobre el siguiente bien inmueble: URBANA: Solar número treinta bloque A, Urbanización Vista del Morro, situada en el término Municipal de Cataño, Puerto Rico, con cabida de doscientos cuarenta y cuatro punto cincuenta metros cuadrados; en lindes: por el NORTE, con el solar número cinco, distancia de nueve punto setenta y ocho metros; por el SUR, calle número tres, distancia de nueve punto setenta y ocho metros; por el ESTE, solar veintinueve, distancia de veinticinco metros; y por el OESTE, solar número treinta y uno, distancia de veinticinco metros. Contiene una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia. Finca Número 4,320, inscrita al folio 258 del tomo 96 de Cataño, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección IV de Bayamón. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera
de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE
DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMUDEZ & DÍAZ LLP
500 Calle De La Tanca, Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy, 13 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LUIS JUAN NIEVES TORRES
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2024CV02970. (Salón: 602 CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA - LAWOFFICES. GINAFERRERMEDINA@GMAIL. COM.
A: LUIS JUAN NIEVES TORRES, PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR EDICTO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 12 de 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 16 de junio de 2025. En Pon-
ce, Puerto Rico, el 16 de junio de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. LOYDA TORRES IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante V. RAFAEL LORA RAMIREZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05210. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. RONEIL LOUZAU PASTRANARONEIL.LOUZAU@ORF-LAW.COM. A: RAFAEL LORA RAMÍREZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 de 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 18 de junio de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 18 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. IVETTE M. MARRERO BRACERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Double-A Carnival of Champions begins on July 3
By THE STAR STAFF
The 2025 Double-A Superior Baseball League Carnival of Champions will begin on Thursday, July 3, with a game between the Peñuelas Petroleros and the San Sebastián Patrulleros at Juan José “Tití” Beníquez Stadium in San Sebastián, the Puerto Rico Baseball Federation announced Wednesday.
“The Champions Carnival schedule will be announced this weekend, once the deciding games of the Central and Eastern sec-
tions are completed,” the Federation noted in a written statement.
The event will feature the top eight teams of the tournament in a round-robin format, with a single matchup between each opponent. The top four teams at the end of the phase will advance to the semifinals.
The Salinas Voladores (South) team, the Petroleros (Southwest), Patillas Leones (Southeast), Camuy Arenosos (North), Dorado Guardianes (Metro), and Patrulleros (Northwest) have already qualified. The Central and Eastern sections will be deter-
mined this Friday.
During a meeting held on Tuesday, Federation President Dr. José Daniel Quiles and Executive Director Efraín Williams González discussed logistical details of the Carnival with league representatives and leaders, including the schedule, rules and safety measures.
In a new development, it was announced that there will be online ticketing to facilitate access to the games, and spectators will be prohibited from bringing insulated cups into the stadiums.
Puerto Rico Boxing Championship reactivated after 14 years
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Professional Boxing Commission will reactivate the Puerto Rico championship this Saturday with a fight that will crown a new national champion, as part of the “Road to Glory” card to be held at Rafael G. Amalbert Coliseum in Juncos. “Reviving the Puerto Rico championship is, without a doubt, working to promote sports traditions and giving an additional boost to Puerto Rican boxing,” Recreation and Sports Secretary Héctor Vázquez Muñiz said in a written statement.
The last fight for a local title was held on Oct. 28, 2011, in Guayama, when Abner Cotto defeated Fer-
nando Torres by unanimous decision to win the lightweight division crown.
“The main objective of reviving the iconic tradition of crowning a local champion is to create new spaces that will allow local boxers greater opportunities for exposure and promotion,” Commission President José Miguel Pérez said.
In this new phase, John Bauzá and Omar Rosario will face off for the national title in the super lightweight category. The winner will receive the Sixto Escobar Belt, the official symbol of Puerto Rican champions, as part of the restart leading up to the centennial of professional boxing on the island, which will be celebrated in 2027.
Añasco ready to welcome hundreds of athletes at Playatón 2025
By THE STAR STAFF
The Municipality of Añasco is ready to welcome hundreds of athletes from the Department of Recreation and Sports’ (DRD by its initials in Spanish) sports training centers to Playatón 2025, to be held this Friday through Sunday at the Tres Hermanos Municipal Beach Resort in Añasco.
The events, which begin on Friday with recreational activities and a domino tournament for seniors, will continue on Saturday and Sunday with competitions by DRD athletes as part of the first stop of the “Beach Circuit” organized by the island sports agency.
“We are investing in partnerships with the municipalities to maximize our efforts to bring recreation and sports to all corners
of Puerto Rico,” DRD Secretary Héctor Vázquez Muñiz said. “Añasco has top-level sports facilities, and our collaborative effort has allowed us to develop an event that will appeal to everyone, as well as an excellent forum for our developing athletes.”
In addition to the DRD competitions, the municipality, through its Sports and Recreation Office, will hold pickleball, dominoes, cartwheel and CrossFit competitions, and a 5K marathon for youth and adults.
Añasco Mayor Kabir Solares García said the event is not only part of a significant investment in sports, but also a boost to the economy of the western coastal town through tourism, especially significant during the summer season.
“We are investing in sports and recreational tourism, which has been successful
in different parts of Puerto Rico,” the mayor said. “Every day we see basketball courts and baseball and soccer stadiums packed thanks to the various events being held, and that’s what we’re working toward. We want to promote this tourism in our town, and what better way to do it than in one of the largest beach resorts in all of Puerto Rico.”
“We expect a large audience throughout the weekend,” he added. “Approximately 2,500 to 5,000 people will visit us during these three days of events and activities that will undoubtedly benefit every one of our town’s merchants.”
In addition to the sports offerings, the municipality has prepared entertainment for each evening, featuring a performance by Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and a grand finale with Gisselle. Visitors can enjoy arti-
sans, music, food and refreshments during the three days of activities.
The San Juan Daily Star
The San Sebastián Patrulleros will host the Peñuelas Petroleros on Thursday, July 3 to open the 2025 Double-A Superior Baseball League Carnival of Champions.
The winner of Saturday’s super lightweight championship bout in Juncos will hoist the Sixto Escobar Belt, the official symbol of Puerto Rican champions.
Hundreds of athletes from the Department of Recreation and Sports’ training centers will compete in Playatón 2025 from Friday through Sunday at the Tres Hermanos Municipal Beach Resort in Añasco.
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