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By THE STAR STAFF
As part of his commitment to providing assistance to the neediest families in the lead-up to Thanksgiving Day, Rep. Víctor Parés Otero delivered dozens of turkeys in the communities of Camino Villegas, Vista Alegre, Canejas and Minao, among others, all located in the Municipality of San Juan.
The legislator also distributed turkeys at Luz Eneida Colón, Rafael Rivera Otero, Evaristo Ribera Chevremont and Arturo Morales Carrión schools, among others.
“We want the families of our [House] District Number 4 to have their traditional turkey for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, Thursday, which marks the beginning of the Christmas season in Puerto Rico,” Parés Otero said. “That’s why, in direct coordination with the San Juan municipal administration, we have been distributing turkeys to communities and schools since last week. Our goal is for San Juan families to enjoy this holiday in harmony and camaraderie.”
Starting early last week, Parés Otero and his team visited various communities in urban and rural areas to deliver the turkeys.
In the case of schools, many were given to participants in the already traditional “Turkey Races” in which young students participate.
“Seeing the joy on our children’s faces when we visit the [...] public schools to distribute dozens of turkeys
is priceless,” the legislator said. “This is the true spirit of Christmas: ensuring that everyone can spend this day in their neighborhood with family and friends.”
70 children & adolescents celebrate Thanksgiving by going after the goal
By THE STAR STAFF
As part of the celebration of Thanksgiving, District 14 (Arecibo and Hatillo) Rep Edgar Robles Rivera held a “Turkey Marathon” this week where all children and young people won.
The event was designed so that all the children, adolescents and other participants returned home with their prize, which in this case was a turkey and a purchase as a complement, ensuring that each family could sit at the table to have dinner and thank God for his blessings. Likewise, for “our beloved angels without wings, that is, for children and young people with the ‘Autism Spectrum,’” Robles Rivera said.
“It was not about competing, but rather about everyone living the full experience, celebrating their effort and dedication,” the lawmaker noted. “Every step they took left traces
that will remain in our hearts.”
The activity took place at Cotto Anexo Special Education School and Víctor Rojas 1 School in Arecibo, where all participants are students with functional diversity and special needs.
In both schools, the transition to independent life is worked on, helping the students develop skills that make them stronger and more confident in their day-to-day activities.
“When you look at these children and young people, you see life stories that shake you,” Robles Rivera said. “They have been through a lot, they have overcome obstacles and yet they maintain hope and joy. … Crossing that goal is not just an achievement, it is the embrace of a community that tells them ‘we are with you.’ That is the heart of the marathon. That each one can sit at his table, enjoy his dinner and give thanks to God, is the greatest reward we can have … Every footprint they leave inspires us all.”
By THE STAR STAFF
Ponce Mayor Marlese Sifre Rodríguez acknowledged earlier this week that military aircraft have been seen at Mercedita International Airport, even though she has not received official confirmation about their operations. The mayor’s comments came as the United States increases its military presence in the Caribbean amid heightened tensions with Venezuela.
“I don’t have any direct information,” Sifre said. “However, at the port we had communication and knew that military ships were arriving, resupplying, and using our facilities. As for the airport, I have seen military planes, but I don’t know if this will be permanent or what exactly is planned.”
The mayor noted that the use of the airport for military purposes now appears more official, raising concerns about what this might signal for regional security.
“I live very close, and I’ve seen and heard the planes. It seems the airport will be used more formally for these operations,” she added. “This always raises concerns because of what’s happening with Venezuela and what might be planned.”
The increased U.S. military activity in Puerto Rico aligns with broader efforts to strengthen its presence in the Caribbean. Defense analysts point to growing unease over Venezuela’s political instability and its territorial dispute with Guyana, which has drawn international attention. Washington has signaled its commitment to safeguarding regional security, deploying naval assets and military aircraft across strategic locations.
While local officials express caution, they also acknowledge that decisions on military deployments rest with the federal government.
“For now, we can only accept what the government decides,” Sifre said.
By THE STAR STAFF
San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo has announced the launch of the request for proposals (RFP) process for the construction of a new skateboarding park at El Escambrón.
The initiative is part of the municipality’s ongoing efforts to strengthen and expand recreational and sports infrastructure across the capital city.
“This new skateboarding park reflects our vision of making San Juan a city where sports, families, and recreation have access to topquality facilities,” Romero Lugo said. “We continue investing in projects that promote well-being, development, and opportunities for our people.”
The project aims to create a modern, safe and accessible space designed for thousands of young people and families.
The Bidding Board has published RFP-2026008, titled CRP-000935 Escambrón Skateboarding Park, available to interested contractors as
of this past Monday, Nov. 24. A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held on Monday, Dec. 1 at 11 a.m., and the deadline for submitting proposals is Jan. 15, 2026, at 10 a.m.
Plans for the park include a molded concrete skate track with areas designed for different types of movements and skills, a multipurpose plaza, shaded green spaces, and amenities for athletes and visitors. The design meets international standards and incorporates accessibility, sustainability and resilience criteria.
The project will be funded through a combination of municipal resources and federal funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Puerto Rico Department of Housing’s Community De-
velopment Block Grant Disaster Recovery program, ensuring a modern and secure facility aligned with the highest standards.
“San Juan continues to move forward with projects that address the real needs of our communities,” Romero Lugo added. “With this initiative, we strengthen the city’s recreational infrastructure and reaffirm our commitment to creating safe, accessible, and high-quality spaces for everyone.”
RFP documents and requirements can be obtained free of charge at the Purchasing and Bidding Division of the Municipal Secretary’s Office, located on the 15th floor of the Municipal Tower on Carlos E. Chardón Street in Hato Rey.
By THE STAR STAFF
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón has announced a major victory for more than 300,000 dual-eligible beneficiaries on the island after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule on Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNP) earlier this week, explicitly excluding Puerto Rico from regulatory requirements that could have severely limited plan options for this vulnerable population.
The exemption follows an official letter sent by the governor on Oct. 7 to CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, warning that the previously drafted policy would impose a one-size-fits-all national model, reducing the variety of benefit packages and undermining the integrated system Puerto Rico has successfully maintained for over two decades.
“Today we see concrete results from our efforts,” González
Colón said. “Since October, we have been warning about the impact this rule would have on our dual-eligible beneficiaries. Thanks to that advocacy, along with the continued work of PRFAA [the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration] in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico has been preliminarily excluded from requirements that would restrict plan offerings on the island. This is a major win for our seniors, people with disabilities, and the stability of our healthcare system.”
The proposed CMS rule now includes a specific exception for territories without a Medicare Savings Program (MSP), including Puerto Rico, meaning the island is fully shielded from the change.
While CMS has opened a public comment period, the determination marks a significant step toward preserving Puerto Rico’s integrated D-SNP model, which has been a cornerstone for delivering coordinated, high-quality care.
The governor reaffirmed her commitment to working with the
healthcare industry, PRFAA, and CMS throughout the comment period to ensure the exemption remains in the final rule.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Office of the Women’s Advocate held an event called “Stories in Construction” earlier this week at the Bayamón Women’s Prison, marking the start of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
The purpose of the event was to promote reflection, empowerment and the strengthening of self-esteem in incarcerated women, highlighting that each one remains the author of her own story and that there is always the possibility of rebuilding her life with purpose and hope.
Gender-based violence affects not only women who are free, but also those who are incarcerated,” said Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez, who led the often emotional activity. “It is essential that we work to ensure that all women recognize their value and dignity.”
The event included a keynote address titled “Stories in the Making: Rebuilding My Courage and Hope,” which explored the power of self-reconstruction and finding value in one’s own story. The women’s advocate emphasized that “it is important for each of you to know that your story doesn’t end here. Today you begin to build your new version.”
Participants also had the opportunity to write phrases on cards that represented their “new story,” creating a sym-
The purpose of the “Stories in Construction” event was to promote reflection, empowerment and the strengthening of self-esteem in incarcerated women, highlighting that each one remains the author of her own story and that there is always the possibility of rebuilding her life with purpose and hope.
bolic mural titled “My Story Continues.” Orange ribbons, the symbol of 16 Days of Activism, were also distributed.
As part of its public policy and through such events, the administration of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón af-
firms its commitment to supporting all women, including those who are incarcerated. The public policy promoted by the administration seeks to empower and guarantee the dignity of every woman in Puerto Rico.
Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Francisco Antonio Quiñones Rivera welcomed the women’s advocate “and her team.”
“We appreciate her efforts to raise awareness about our female correctional population and her commitment to the well-being of our incarcerated women,” he said. “We, for our part, will continue to provide incarcerated women with the rehabilitation, recreation, and education necessary to become better human beings.”
“It is vital that we work together to foster an environment where women can find their voice and rebuild their lives,” Piñeiro Vázquez added, noting that the two agencies “will collaborate to continue supporting these initiatives.”
The women’s advocate concluded her message with a reminder to preserve hope.
“Each of you has a story that continues to be written,” she said. “Even when circumstances are difficult, there is always room to rebuild, heal, and believe in yourselves again.”
By THE STAR STAFF
The financial stability of consumers in Puerto Rico took a hit during the third quarter of 2025, as revealed by the latest Consumer Financial Fragility Index (CFFI) from Estudios Técnicos Inc. (ETI).
After experiencing a mix of trends in previous quarters, the index now shows a consistent downward path, indicating that households are grappling with a more challenging financial landscape.
The CFFI climbed to 44%, up from a low of 33% earlier this year. The increase marks the second consecutive quarter of growth and brings the index back to levels seen before the mid-2024 correction. Leslie Adames, director of ETI’s Economic Analysis and Policy Division, noted that the uptick in the index is driven by rising loan delinquency, a spike in personal bankruptcies, and stagnant real incomes. While consumers are still categorized as moderately fragile, the trend suggests they are edging closer to high fragility.
Consumer loan delinquency has steadily risen, going from 2.70% in the first quarter of 2025 to 3.04% in the second quarter, and reaching 3.27% in the third quarter. Similarly, personal bankruptcy cases increased from 904 in the first quarter to 956 in the second, and 962 in the third quarter. Other financial indicators support this downward trend: credit card delinquency rose from 2.15% to 2.40% between the second and third quarters, while auto loan delinquency increased from 3.23% to 3.47%, according to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Those shifts suggest heightened pressure on con-
sumers’ ability to repay their debts and emerging credit risks.
The CFFI is built on five key factors: consumer loan delinquency, mortgage delinquency, the unemployment rate, personal bankruptcy rates, and inflation-adjusted annual income. Together, those variables provide a view of consumer financial health and the ability of consumers to handle economic shocks. The index categorizes risk into four levels: low fragility (0–25), moderate fragility (26–50), high fragility (51–75) and extreme fragility (76–100).
Beyond the immediate findings, there are structural issues that worsen the outlook. Consumer net worth, a marker of longterm financial health, dropped from 31.4% in 2019 to 14% in 2024. This decline mirrors a decrease in the excess liquidity saved in recent years, alongside a rise in overall indebtedness. Additionally, debt as a percentage of disposable personal income increased to 44%, compared to 39.6% in 2022.
Adames cautions that the future may pose even bigger challenges. The full impact of federal tariffs on prices has yet to be felt locally, although some imported products are already seeing price increases.
“If this trend continues, we’ll face greater strain on household budgets, which could further restrict consumers’ ability to meet their financial obligations,” he remarked.
Although the unemployment rate is currently at historically low levels, job creation has slowed, and real income slightly contracted in the last quarter after five quarters of growth. That adjustment, combined with rising debt levels and the potential for tighter credit requirements, may hinder consumer spending -- a crucial factor for short-term economic growth.
The recent trends in the CFFI, along with growing inflationary pressures and increased credit stress, indicate that consumer financial fragility could significantly influence Puerto Rico’s economic landscape in the months ahead.
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, ANTON TROIANOVSKI and KAROUN DEMIRJIAN
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot near the White House on Wednesday afternoon, the state’s governor said, adding that there were conflicting reports about their survival after earlier saying they had died.
The guard members were part of a deployment ordered in August by President Donald Trump. The shooter was also badly hurt, the president said in a post on social media, adding that they would “pay a very steep price.” Local officials confirmed that they had a suspect in custody.
Many details about the shooting, which took place about 2:15 p.m., were still unclear. Officials were planning an impromptu news conference this afternoon near the site of the shooting where new details could be disclosed.
Tim Moye, 48, who is in town for Thanks-
Members of the National Guard at the scene where two Guardsmen were shot near the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. The identity and condition of the Guardsmen were not immediately known and local police said one suspect was in custody. (Eric Lee/ The New York Times)
giving and visiting his son who he said works in the White House, was in the area when he heard what he described as five shots. “I just
saw a bunch of people start running as soon as those shots came,” he said. Here are the details:
— Where it happened: Dozens of emergency responders and police vehicles were amassed at the corner of 17th and I Streets NW near the entrance of a hotel, just northwest of the White House. Local police had cordoned off several blocks as emergency workers tended to one of the apparent victims.
— White House lockdown: The White House was initially put under condition red, which signifies a potential threat to life. It was downgraded to orange, which indicates “high risk,” once it was clear the suspect was in custody. Trump and other top aides were not on the White House grounds Wednesday.
— Controversial deployment: The attack comes amid Trump’s highly contentious deployment of more than 2,000 National Guard troops across the streets and subway stations of Washington, D.C., with many of them concentrated in tourist spots downtown. Last week, a federal judge ordered a temporary suspension of the deployment, which began in August, finding that it was likely illegal.
By MICHAEL C. BENDER
Acoalition of educators, school districts, unions and an advocacy organization for people with disabilities sued the Trump administration in federal court Tuesday, arguing that the government’s latest attempt to dismantle the Education Department was unlawful.
The lawsuit challenges the far-reaching changes announced last week by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who signed agreements to effectively offload the management of some of her department’s important functions to other federal agencies.
The education coalition argues in its lawsuit that the annual appropriations law approved by Congress requires the Education Department to carry out its programs and that McMahon lacks the authority to shift these functions to other federal agencies.
“The information and actions coming out of the Department have been unpredictable, chaotic, and unprofessional,” the education coalition said in the lawsuit. “This experience is unprecedented in administration changes.”
Education Department officials have said that McMahon has the power to transfer education functions to other agencies under the Economy Act, a federal law that allows
agencies to obtain supplies and services from other branches of the government.
The changes that McMahon announced last week included shifting about $28 billion for elementary and secondary schools and about $3 billion for postsecondary education to the Labor Department. The Education Department transferred management of additional programs to the departments of Health and Human Services, Interior and State.
Madi Biedermann, an Education Department spokesperson, suggested that the education coalition had misplaced motivations.
“It’s no surprise that blue states and unions care more about preserving the D.C. bureaucracy than about giving parents, students, and teachers more control over education and improving the efficient delivery of funds and services,” Biedermann said in a statement.
President Donald Trump has prioritized closing the department, arguing that states should be in full control of educating students. But he has focused on cutting staff and shifting programs rather than building support in Congress, where his fellow Republicans in charge of the House and Senate have shown little interest in abolishing the department.
McMahon’s changes, by shifting her department’s responsibilities to other agencies, also appeared to run counter to the goal of
empowering states, critics said. Even some Republicans have said the changes may increase the burden on students, parents and teachers by dispersing education offices across multiple agencies, instead of keeping those programs in the Education Department.
“These changes are also likely to make it much more complicated for states,” Margaret Spellings, an education secretary under President George W. Bush, said in a social media post. “They distract us from the real and critical needs of students — and that’s where our focus needs to be.”
The coalition made its argument in an amended complaint as part of a continuing lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The initial lawsuit, filed in March, was aimed at blocking Trump’s attempt to effectively abolish the Education Department, which can be closed only by an act of Congress.
The judge in that case, Myong J. Joun, temporarily halted the administration from firing more than 1,000 workers in the department while the lawsuit worked its way through the courts. But in July, the Supreme Court reversed that ruling, allowing the administration to cut the agency’s staff in half.
The initial complaint was filed by the Somerville Public School Committee, the
Easthampton School District, the American Federation of Teachers, AFT Massachusetts, AFSCME Council 93, the American Association of University Professors and the Service Employees International Union. The plaintiffs’ coalition, represented by Democracy Forward, a liberal-leaning legal nonprofit involved in dozens of lawsuits against the Trump administration, now also includes the Arc of the United States, a disability rights organization.
The Department of Education in Washington, Nov. 13, 2025. A coalition of educators, school districts, unions and an advocacy organization for people with disabilities sued the Trump administration in federal court on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, arguing that the government’s latest attempt to dismantle the Education Department was unlawful. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)
By PATRICIA MAZZEI
Anxious uncertainty hangs over Venezuelan Americans such as Liz Rebecca Alarcón of Doral, Florida, a heavily Venezuelan city outside Miami. Routine conversations at the grocery store or at Ross Dress for Less have been overtaken by questions about whether, when and how the Trump administration might escalate its use of force against Venezuela.
“‘What’s going to happen?’” friends, neighbors and shopkeepers ask each other, Alarcón said. “We don’t know what the outcome is going to be or what the strategy is.”
The administration has been ratcheting up its pressure campaign against Venezuela for months with deadly boat strikes, which a range of experts in laws governing the use of armed force have denounced as illegal, and a significant buildup of U.S. Naval forces in the Caribbean. Recent days have felt like whiplash, Alarcón and several other Venezuelan Americans said, as military intervention seemed imminent, only to have President Donald Trump say he would be open to talks with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro.
Yet the many Venezuelans who fled to South Florida over the past 25 years — after Hugo Chávez and then Maduro, his successor, came to power — do not all agree on what should happen. The differences of opinion, complicated by unease over Trump’s immigration policies, are creating tense divisions among Venezuelans in South Florida, as supporters of U.S. intervention try to drown out critics whom they consider a small minority.
“In theory, we should be united by the same thing, which is liberty for Venezuela,” said Esteban Hernández Ramos, 30, who lives in Fort Lauderdale. “In practice, there’s this division.”
Hernández left Venezuela when he was 16 and now works for a right-wing media outlet that publishes pro-Trump news in Spanish. He wants the U.S. military to occupy Venezuela for a sustained period — not only to take down Maduro, who is widely seen as having stolen the country’s 2024 presidential election, but also to dismantle the military leadership that has kept him in power.
Alarcón, 36, was born in the United States and works as a Democratic political analyst. She wants a peaceful transfer of power from Maduro to Edmundo González, the diplomat who defeated Maduro in a presidential election last year more than 2-1, according to the Venezuelan opposition’s vote count. But she said she was cynical that Trump’s pressure would result in her desired outcome.
Venezuelans’ ties to South Florida date back decades, but their numbers grew significantly during the Chávez era and again after Maduro
came into power. Embraced by Miami’s influential Cuban exiles, who saw them as ideological brethren fleeing a dictatorship, Venezuelan American voters were courted by Republican politicians, who succeeded in winning many of them over.
Now, disagreeing with Trump is seen among many Venezuelan Americans as unpatriotic and disloyal — including some old enough to remember past disastrous U.S. military interventions in Latin America.
“It’s like, if you’re not 1,000% with them or you don’t want a military intervention, then you’re a collaborator,” said Luis Fernando Atencio, 32, a co-founder of the VenezuelanAmerican Caucus, a Miami-based activist group allied with the left-leaning Latino Victory Project. He said he feared military intervention because it could result in Venezuelans being injured or killed.
The vast majority of Venezuelans in the United States oppose Maduro and would like to see him gone, said José Antonio Colina, a former Venezuelan military officer who fled his country for Miami in 2003 after being accused of planting bombs in Caracas. The United States decided not to extradite Colina, 51, who now runs a group called Politically Persecuted Venezuelans in Exile.
“Since that regime is there by force,” he said of Maduro, “it has to be taken out by force.”
But some Venezuelan Americans, including Colina, cannot accept the pressure campaign given the Trump administration’s simultaneous push to end temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants. In Doral, business owners and residents have noted that the city feels quieter as Venezuelans get deported, leave voluntarily or stay in their homes out of fear.
“There are at least 660,000 Venezuelans that are being threatened to be sent back to Venezuela under this regime that apparently is about to be attacked by the U.S. military,” Adelys Ferro, another co-founder of the VenezuelanAmerican Caucus, said at a news conference last month. “How can you reconcile these realities?” she asked.
Ousting Maduro should take priority over deporting Venezuelans and leaving their fate in Maduro’s hands, Colina said. He could accept Trump’s immigration policies if Maduro and his allies were no longer in charge, he added.
He and other exiles who have long condemned Maduro have lately found themselves vilified by other Venezuelans for questioning Trump. On social media, Colina said, many try to shut him down.
Such behavior, he said, “is irresponsible and does not take into account the suffering of thousands of Venezuelans.”
A restaurant in Doral, Fla., a heavily Venezuelan city outside Miami, on Nov. 22, 2025. Venezuelans’ ties to South Florida date back decades, but their numbers grew significantly during the Chávez era and again after Nicolás Maduro came into power. (Saúl Martínez/ The New York Times)
César Miguel Rondón, one of Venezuela’s best known radio journalists, who fled the country for Miami eight years ago, has also faced online attacks for voicing skepticism about Trump’s approach. He has been called a Maduro government collaborator, an attitude he says leaves little room for nuance or middle ground.
Social media has turned into “a sort of firing squad,” Rondón said in an interview.
“Here, I’ve had to take great care in opining, for reasons very similar to why I had to be careful in Venezuela,” he said. “I had to leave Venezuela precisely for opining and calling out the dictatorship. But here, the intransigence, especially among ourselves, has become something incredible.”
At least some of those who criticize Rondón and others see any questioning of Trump’s approach as an implicit questioning of María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last month. She has been a strong supporter of the American pressure campaign.
“It sows many doubts,” Hernández, the young conservative, said of the opposition to U.S. military intervention. He wondered whether Venezuelans in that camp truly want Maduro gone, refusing to consider that they are instead grappling with what role, exactly, the United States should play.
“Maybe it’s naïveté. Maybe it’s complicity,” Hernández said of the skeptics’ hesitation. “One has room to debate, but what more is there to debate?”
En este Día de Acción de Gracias, celebro junto a ustedes la grandeza de nuestro pueblo. Agradezco cada familia que con su esfuerzo, unión y esperanza hace de Cayey un lugar lleno de bondad y progreso. Sigamos trabajando juntos, con fe en el futuro y amor por nuestra ciudad.
By BRET STEPHENS
Although the Thanksgiving story is typically associated with the harvest feast of Pilgrims and Wampanoags in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 404 years ago this fall, the national holiday Americans celebrate every fourth Thursday of November only began thanks to a presidential proclamation from Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the same year he delivered the Gettysburg Address.
That’s not just historical trivia. What we are meant to commemorate on Thanksgiving isn’t merely a mythologized version of our origins. It’s a celebration of American rebirth — and of the possibilities, personal and political, that go with it.
The idea for a national Thanksgiving holiday was not Lincoln’s own. It came from Sarah Josepha Hale, among the most influential Americans you’ve probably never heard of. “A partial list of Hale’s achievements on behalf of women,” wrote Melanie Kirkpatrick, Hale’s biographer, “includes leading the fight for property rights for married women, campaigning for women to be welcome as teachers in public schools, supporting medical education for women, creating the first day care center for small children and the first public playground, founding a society dedicated to increasing the wages of working women, and helping to found Vassar College, the first college for women.”
That wasn’t all Hale did. She wrote a bestselling antislavery novel. She spent decades as editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, the most widely circulated magazine in the United States before the Civil War. She wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” And, beginning in the 1840s, she petitioned president after president to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Why was Hale obsessed with setting a national date for Thanksgiving? “There is a deep moral influence in these periodical seasons of rejoicing in which a whole community participates,” she wrote in 1835. But her purposes were also political: A national holiday, she argued, could help preserve the Union. Among her fiercest opponents, unsurprisingly, were Southerners who thought that designating a holiday was an issue for the states to decide.
In September 1863, following the Union’s victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Hale again petitioned the president for an “annual Thanksgiving” to have “a National and fixed Union Festival.” In Lincoln and William Seward, his secretary of state, she found receptive ears. On Oct. 3, Lincoln proclaimed
“a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.”
The proclamation, drafted by Seward, is somewhat verbose. It extols American plenty even amid the carnage of war. “Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle or the ship.” But there are also unmistakably Lincolnian touches. It speaks of “our national perverseness and disobedience,” implores “the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation,” and commends “to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers.”
Those lines would echo, more poetically and profoundly, in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. They are also of a piece with Lincoln’s larger political project, which went beyond saving the Union or even abolishing slavery.
It was about the perpetuation of our political institutions — the subject of Lincoln’s first significant political speech, at the age of 28, in Springfield, Illinois, in 1838. How does one keep faith with the spirit that animated the founding of a liberal republic once the founders are long dead? How does one establish a “rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression,” as he put it in an 1859 letter in honor of Thomas Jefferson?
Part of the answer, Lincoln believed, lay in ritual. In 1838 he had spoken of the need to create a “political religion of the nation,” to which “the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.” In 1863, Hale supplied him with an ingenious solution: a festival in which everyone could — and would want to — participate, not from a sense of obligation but with a feeling of joy.
That’s the genius of the holiday. Nobody — except your uncle — likes to talk about politics at the Thanksgiving table. Nobody should need to, either, because the occasion itself is inherently political. It’s an opportunity for families and friends and, by extension, communities, states and the country itself, to have a national reset. It’s when we remember that we can still be capable of setting everyday arguments aside, of recalling common bonds, of indulging a soft patriotism that’s also potent because it’s so unobjectionable. Thanksgiving, far more than the star-spangled Fourth of July, is what makes us Americans all over again.
That was also the spirit of the Gettysburg Address, another purported act of remembrance of the dead that is, in fact, an opportunity for rededication by the living — a “new birth of freedom.” The question for successive generations of Americans is: What kind of freedom should it be?
For Lincoln, the new birth meant saving government of, by and for the people, and a nation where all are equal. For Hale, it meant extending the boundaries of opportunity for women. For Thomas Edison, it was about advancing the reach of science: In 1877, just 14 years after the first national Thanksgiving and while Hale was still alive, he read “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for the first-ever phonograph recording.
Down the generations, what we can most give thanks for
isn’t just abundance. It’s the abundance of freedom, created by people for whom possibility and renewal, even in a world of bitterness, was theirs — and ours — to seize.
In an undated image provided by Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, Sarah Josepha Hale. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA via The New York Times)
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SAN JUAN – La Fondita de Jesús celebró su tradicional almuerzo de Acción de Gracias para las personas sin hogar el miércoles, en el que voluntarios se unen de forma especial para añadir al menú un abrazo solidario, amor y esperanza para los más vulnerables de la comunidad.
“Nuestra celebración de Acción de Gracias es un recordatorio poderoso de que la verdadera abundancia se encuentra en la solidaridad y la hermandad. Hoy damos gracias por cada vida que acompañamos y por cada historia que se sienta a nuestra mesa”, expresó Geraldine Bayrón-Rivera, directora ejecutiva de La Fondita de Jesús, organización que cumple 40 años de servicios en Puerto Rico.
Bayrón-Rivera agradeció a la empresa SC Johnson, que ha auspiciado el almuerzo de acción de gracias de La Fondita de Jesús por los pasados 25 años. La celebración, como cada año, tiene el toque puertorriqueño de inicio de la Navidad, e incluyó un acto religioso, música, juegos, regalos y servicios de salud en la Unidad Móvil para
más de un centenar de personas sin hogar y participantes de sus servicios. La Fondita, además de sus almuerzos diarios a personas sin hogar, impacta con sus servicios las vidas de adultos mayores, personas marginadas, jóvenes sin techo y familias empobrecidas de la comunidad, muchas de ellas con niños.
“La Fondita de Jesús nació para hacer comunidad, y cada Acción de Gracias nos recuerda por qué existimos. Compartir es un acto de amor que transforma vidas y fortalece nuestro espíritu colectivo. Cuando servimos un plato caliente, también servimos un mensaje claro: eres importante, perteneces, y juntos podemos construir un mañana más digno y lleno de oportunidades”, planteó Bayrón-Rivera, sobre el tradicional almuerzo de acción de gracias de la organización que dirige.
La directora de La Fondita destacó la labor de cientos de voluntarios de la comunidad, muchos de los cuales se movilizan de forma especial en el evento de Acción de Gracias. “Damos gracias por la generosidad que moviliza a nuestra familia extendida de voluntarios, donantes y colaboradores. Su amor multiplica nuestra mesa y hace
posible que hoy celebremos con tanta esperanza. En un mundo que a veces excluye, nosotros elegimos incluir. Elegimos ver, escuchar y acompañar. Nuestro almuerzo de Acción de Gracias es un testimonio de que la fraternidad sigue siendo la fuerza que sostiene nuestra misión. Cada rostro que se ilumina nos recuerda que la gratitud no se mide en cosas, sino en vínculos. Este es un espacio de encuentro, de dignidad y de profundo amor por nuestra gente. Acción de Gracias en La Fondita de Jesús es una siembra de esperanza: sembramos solidaridad hoy para cosechar vidas transformadas mañana”.
By MARISSA R. MOSS
Madi Diaz was sure she’d do something eventually with the blue toilet, sink and bathtub that now sit idle in her driveway.
“I bought them off Facebook Marketplace at 1 a.m. in a van somewhere in Montana, I think,” the singer and songwriter said, seated at a picnic table in her yard wearing a white tank top and jeans on a muggy, late-summer day. Or maybe it was Ireland while touring with Kacey Musgraves, or Italy while playing as a member of Harry Styles’ band? The past few years have been such a blur, but she had every intention of installing the pieces at her cream-colored cottage when things settled down. Because in Diaz’s world, there’s always a vision, even if it doesn’t work out.
The Nashville, Tennessee-based musician has been trying to make this house a home, though it hasn’t been easy: Between her relentless touring schedule and writing songs for her new album, “Fatal Optimist” (out last month), she’s barely been here long enough to take care of her lawn. “I’ll probably power wash this house and stay forever,” Diaz said, sipping coffee from a ceramic mug made by her mother. “Make it look a bit less like a haunted woman lives here.”
Diaz hasn’t always been this sure that her roots belong in Nashville, but for well over a decade the city has embraced her as a vital, connective force, managing to thread the needle between the country and pop worlds without really belonging to either. Her vocals have appeared on songs by Musgraves, Miranda Lambert and Charlie Worsham, her songs cut by Maren Morris and Kesha, praised for their emotional qualities. She’s toured with Waxahatchee, My Morning Jacket and Little Big Town, and her 2024 album, “Weird Faith,” was nominated for two Grammys.
“Madi has one of my favorite voices in this world, but it’s matched equally by her pen game,” Morris said, praising her “brilliant poetic lens.”
In the wake of all the attention and accolades, Diaz decided to make something ambitious in intimacy and lyricism, not pop bombast. “Fatal Optimist” is deeply sparse and stripped-
down, driven primarily by Diaz’s strong yet uncannily tender voice and acoustic guitar, so bare you can hear her fingers slide and stick on the strings.
“I could’ve seen myself getting stuck in my head and being like, man, we’ve really got to show out now,” said Diaz, who attended the Grammys with Musgraves and ate hot wings afterward in her dress. “But I’d already decided this was the direction.”
Diaz can trace her resolve (or, as she put it, her “relentlessness”) to her childhood in rural Pennsylvania, where she was homeschooled by her musical parents. Her father taught her how to play Alice in Chains songs on guitar, and she was drawn to Sheryl Crow and the Chicks. At 15 she was admitted to the Paul Green School of Rock, now infamous for the accusations of sexual abuse and misconduct made public against Green by former students, including Diaz.
“It was a really toxic place, and it took me a long time to find my voice,” she said. “I was afraid of my own power, and the power of an emotional lyric. That it’s not stupid to be vulnerable.”
Diaz attended Berklee College of Music in Boston but dropped out when her scholarship ended. She made good friends there, though: Worsham and Kyle Ryan, who went on to become Musgraves’ bandleader. Diaz and Ryan moved to Nashville together as a musical duo, and he still lives nearby. They exchange cookies at Christmas.
“Everybody who heard Madi sing was hypnotized,” Worsham said. “She wrote songs that have this ache.”
Nashville was good to Diaz initially, but she got antsy. “My mom is Peruvian, and I missed hearing Spanish,” she said; Diaz soon moved to Los Angeles in 2012, but the city wasn’t all she’d envisioned. Though she had “a hot girl moment” as part of a rock duo called Riothorse Royale, everything else stalled. Her personal life did too, when her two-year relationship with songwriter Teddy Geiger ended. Diaz would go on to write the 2021 album “History of a Feeling” to process her emotions about the breakup with Geiger, who came out as transgender and transitioned after they split. Her ability to carry both empathy for the pain Geiger weathered while putting weight to her own experience was striking, and the indie label Anti- signed on to release the project.
“It’s hard to talk about pain, and it’s hard to talk about people and love changing,” Diaz said, who ended up moving back to Tennessee in 2017. It was still her home, and she realized she was more connected to the Nashville songwriting community than anything else. “It just felt like part of my DNA, though it’s not very cool,” she added, recalling times she felt out of place around the indie and rock musicians on her la-
The country-pop musician Madi Diaz in Central Park in New York, Sept. 11, 2025. The singer and songwriter, based in Nashville, Tenn., has written songs for Maren Morris and toured with Harry Styles. Her new album, “Fatal Optimist,” was released in October. (OK McCausland/The New York Times)
bel. “They don’t understand it. They’re like, ‘What’s a writers’ round?’”
Styles knew, apparently. He invited Diaz to be a part of his Love on Tour band in 2023 via DM; the message was so shocking that Diaz just replied “HA.” She eventually said yes, and she and Styles ended up connecting over Patty Griffin and Joni Mitchell, and the books they were reading (at one point, Styles had picked up the feminist text “Women Who Run With the Wolves”).
It was the thrill of a lifetime, but while her career was surging, her personal life was splintering: Diaz and her partner, whom she’d hoped to marry, separated. After the Styles tour ended, she found it hard to go back home. “When I finally walked into this house and opened my suitcase, I just started bawling,” she said. “There was no avoiding it, and I didn’t know how to celebrate what just happened either. It was so massive, and it felt like everything hurt.”
She also returned in constant physical pain, caused by how she angled her hip while playing the guitar. It took seven months to get a diagnosis, and the agony drove her to the brink: “I said, ‘If this is what life is, I don’t want to do it.’”
Diaz always prided herself on her optimism, though there needed to be limits, and what was the bright side of so much hurt? It was making her ambivalent, indecisive, even capable of lying to herself to search for it. But that optimism was beautiful, too, in a world that often sees the worst in people first. While out on tour, she wrote in her journal: “I just feel like I’m fatally optimistic.”
The songs for the new album started to come at a songwriting retreat in Nantucket, pushed to the surface by solitude. “‘Fatal Optimist’ is almost a parental advisory warning,” Diaz said. “Be careful what you say to me because I’m going to believe you, and believe the best in you.”
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The benchmark S&P 500 should end next year at 7,500, helped by a resilient U.S. economy and an artificial intelligence-driven “supercycle,” according to Dubravko LakosBujas, J.P. Morgan’s head of global markets strategy.
The index ended Tuesday at 6,765.89. If the S&P 500 finishes next year at 7,500, it would mean a gain of 10.9% from here. The forecast is close to the 7,490 median year-end 2026 target in a new Reuters poll of equity strategists.
The J.P. Morgan outlook, released late Tuesday by LakosBujas and his team, is based on two more interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve followed by an extended pause, but they
over-year.
“Despite AI bubble and valuation concerns, we see current elevated multiples correctly anticipating above-trend earnings growth, an AI capex boom, rising shareholder payouts, and easier fiscal policy,” they wrote.
Most major global stock indexes should trade higher by the end of 2026 but will struggle to repeat this year’s surprisingly strong performance, according to a Reuters poll of equity strategists, with over half expecting a correction in the coming months.
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In April when the White House suddenly imposed sweeping tariffs not seen since the 1930s, the move sent the benchmark U.S. S&P 500 tumbling over 10%. Since then the index has recovered all of its losses and is up around 40% with tech and artificial intelligence stocks leading the charge.
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noted that if the Fed eases policy further than that, the S&P 500 could surpass 8,000 in 2026.
“The U.S. is set to remain the world’s growth engine,” they wrote.
Lakos-Bujas sees S&P 500 earnings growth of 13-15% for at least the next two years. According to LSEG, analysts expect 2026 S&P 500 earnings growth of 14.3% year-
A 56% majority of analysts, 49 of 87, in the November 13-25 poll said a correction in most of the 15 global stock indexes surveyed was likely or very likely, while 38 participants said it was unlikely, including six that viewed such an event as very unlikely.
Back at the start of the year, a slightly smaller majority of analysts had expected a correction to hit stock prices in three months.
“This year’s strong gains will be difficult to replicate ... This suggests slower returns and potentially higher volatility in 2026,” said Angelo Kourkafas, senior global investment strategist at Edward Jones.
Twelve of 15 global stock indexes surveyed will post fewer gains in 2026 than they have so far this year, poll medians showed.
Although India’s BSE, NSE and France’s CAC 40 were expected to notch slightly higher gains over the next 12 months, the projected outperformance was just a modest 1% or less.
Meanwhile, fueled by gains in technology stocks - and especially AI-related companies - the S&P 500, which is up 14% for this year, will rise 11.7% from its current levels to 7,490 by the end of 2026, the sample’s median estimate showed.
However, lofty technology valuations and an exuberance over the AI trade are pressuring stocks as market valuations approach their highest since the dot-com bubble 25 years ago, according to LSEG Datastream.
“Investors appear to have grown complacent - after all, things have gone well so far. But this is precisely where the danger lies for markets. Ignoring risks doesn’t make them disappear,” said Berndt Fernow, deputy director at LBBW.
By SIMON ROMERO
As the Trump administration weighs using force to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, former diplomats and even some prominent critics of Maduro worry that his political opponents in Venezuela are promoting exaggerated claims and falsehoods to justify a U.S. intervention.
Maria Corina Machado, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October and is considered the opposition’s de facto leader, has recently amplified debunked claims that Maduro fixed elections in the United States, aligning herself closely with President Donald Trump and his allies.
“I have no doubt that Nicolás Maduro, Jorge Rodríguez and many others are the masterminds of a system that has rigged elections in many countries, including the U.S.,” Machado told Bloomberg News, referring to Venezuela’s president and the head of its National Assembly.
Trump followed over the weekend by amplifying unproven assertions that Venezuela interfered in the 2020 election.
Machado and other opposition leaders have also argued that Maduro simultaneously heads two different drug-trafficking organizations threatening U.S. national security. The Trump administration has similarly sought to link Maduro to both groups.
The Trump administration has designated those groups, Tren de Aragua and the Cartel de los Soles, as terrorist organizations. Trump officials have also claimed that the United States was in a state of armed conflict with “narcoterrorist” drug cartels to legitimize strikes on 21 boats, which have killed at least 83 people since September.
But the administration’s own intelligence agencies, experts on Latin America’s drug trade and other Venezuelan opposition figures have rejected the idea that Maduro wields control of the two groups or is weaponizing them against the United States. While experts agree that figures in Venezuela’s military have been involved in drug smuggling, some doubt these organizations are even transnational drug cartels.
A broad range of experts in laws governing the use of lethal force say the U.S. attacks at sea are illegal and have described them as murders. They argue that the administration has not established that an armed conflict ex-
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado at a campaign rally in Guanare, Venezuela, on July 17, 2024, days before the presidential election. As President Donald Trump raises pressure on President Nicolás Maduro, Machado is also moving to align herself closely with Trump. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times)
ists between the United States and Venezuela.
As Trump considers further moves against Maduro, some longtime experts on Latin America have expressed skepticism over the reasoning for a potential mission aimed at regime change, saying they echo missteps in Iraq that produced years of protracted war. The Iraqi quagmire fueled concerns that foreign politicians might promote exaggerated narratives to persuade the United States to overthrow leaders of other countries.
“It’s time to summon the ghost of Ahmad Chalabi,” said John D. Feeley, a former U.S. ambassador to Panama, referring to the Iraqi politician who had a pivotal role in making the case for the United States to invade Iraq by providing false information that Saddam Hussein’s regime had weapons of mass destruction and operational ties to al-Qaida.
Feeley, who worked for Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, said it felt as if he were watching similar events unfold. He questioned whether Trump officials were relying on dubious information about Maduro’s operational control of drug trafficking and the ease of trying to topple him.
“It’s unbelievable how these guys are too stupid to read their own history and know that they’re headed for the same thing,” Feeley said.
In response, a White House official said Maduro’s government was a narco-terrorist cartel and that Maduro was not a legitimate
president.
Machado has emerged as the most prominent figure in Venezuela making the argument that Maduro is a cartel kingpin.
“We all know that the head of the Tren de Aragua is Maduro,” Machado said in a podcast interview with the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. “The regime created, promoted, and funds the Tren de Aragua.”
Through a spokesperson, Machado declined repeated requests to comment for this article. In an interview with The New York Times last year, she described Maduro’s ouster as a matter of “hemispheric security” and, therefore, international importance.
For years, leaders in the Venezuela’s often fractious opposition have made claims that Maduro was orchestrating a vast drugtrafficking organization. There is little doubt, experts say, that illicit smuggling is enmeshed in Venezuela’s government. Several senior officials who have broken with the regime have accused top leaders of profiting from the drug trade.
“In our case the cartel is the state,” David Smolansky, a Venezuelan politician who represents Machado in Washington, said in an interview.
In 2020, during the first Trump administration, the Justice Department indicted Maduro and other Venezuelan officials on drug-trafficking charges, accusing them of trying to “flood the United States with cocaine.” It specifically mentioned Cartel de los Soles, describing it as a drug-trafficking group directed by Maduro.
The claims have not been tested in U.S. courts, but Trump officials breathed new life into the indictment this year, doubling the reward for Maduro’s capture to $50 million.
But experts who have analyzed the Venezuelan drug trade for decades say the Cartel de los Soles is not a literal organization but shorthand for drug trafficking in the armed forces. That phenomenon is not unique to Venezuela, afflicting democratic and authoritarian countries alike in the Americas.
Drugs do pass through Venezuela, but of the cocaine reaching the United States from South America, less than 10% flows through Venezuela, the DEA found. And Mexico, not Venezuela, produces fentanyl, the primary driver of overdose deaths in the United States.
Regarding Tren de Aragua, drug trade experts point out that it originated in a prison in Venezuela’s Aragua state and American intelli-
gence agencies circulated findings in February that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan government. Its leader is thought to be Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, who escaped from the prison.
Latin American countries, including Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Paraguay, have recently joined the United States in designating the Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist organization, which some Venezuelan opposition leaders cite as bolstering their case against Maduro.
“These designations mean the Maduro regime is now like the Taliban, the only government in full exercise of power recognized as a terrorist organization,” Smolansky said.
Asked about proof that Maduro leads two drug cartels, he replied: “This might be new to citizens in the United States or elsewhere in the region, but Venezuelans have been enduring this for over 20 years.”
Still, no evidence has been found that Tren de Aragua is engaged in cross-border drug trafficking, according to Insight Crime, a research group focused on organized crime.
Machado, however, has kept pushing her assertions about Maduro and drugs.
“Everybody knows that Venezuela is today the main channel of cocaine, and that this is a business that has been run by Maduro,” Machado told CNN. “The regime has turned Cartel de los Soles into one of the most powerful criminal structures all along this continent and other continents as well.”
The origins of using the term Cartel de los Soles to describe illicit military activities stretch back to an era well before Maduro became president in 2013. The term gained traction after a 1993 scandal when the CIA worked with the Venezuelan military to send a ton of cocaine to the United States in a bid to infiltrate Colombian cartels.
Machado’s recent focus on debunked claims that Venezuelans had rigged U.S. elections — an argument Trump’s supporters have used to falsely assert that he won the 2020 election — have fueled claims that she is embracing misinformation to gain favor with the Trump administration.
“She’s saying our problem is actually your problem because it’s a national security issue for you,” said David Smilde, a Venezuela expert at Tulane University. “This can fit into existing agendas in D.C. and provide an extra emphasis to citizens who are not specialists in Venezuela.”
By ANA IONOVA
Brazil’s Supreme Court earlier this week ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to start serving a 27-year sentence for overseeing a failed plot to hold onto power after losing the country’s last election.
After the nation’s top court rejected an initial appeal by Bolsonaro’s lawyers challenging his sentence, the court ruled that he will begin serving his sentence at a federal police facility in Brasília, the capital.
The court’s ruling Tuesday brought to a close a multiyear effort to hold Bolsonaro accountable for his role in a far-reaching plot to overturn the results of the 2022 election and remain in power following his loss at the polls.
The case became a severe test of Brazil’s young democracy after President Donald Trump tried to help his political ally by imposing punishing tariffs and sanctions in an attempt to pressure Brazil into dropping the case. But Brazilian authorities did not cave and Trump appears to have moved on.
Bolsonaro is already in custody at the federal police facility. He was arrested Saturday after he told police that he took a soldering iron to the ankle monitor tracking his movements while under house arrest, setting off suspicions that he was trying to flee. Bolsonaro blamed his medications for causing “hallucinations” and “paranoia” that the device might be used to eavesdrop on him.
Bolsonaro’s lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The former president’s defense team had asked the court to allow Bolsonaro to serve his sentence at home because of health problems linked to complications from a stabbing attack in 2018.
The court rejected the request after he tampered with his ankle monitor. As Bolsonaro begins serving his sentence, his defense team may try again, submitting medical evidence to support its argument.
In September, Brazil’s Supreme Court convicted Bolsonaro and seven of his allies of organizing a vast conspiracy to overturn the 2022 elections and assassinate the winner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, before he took office as president.
Bolsonaro had been under house arrest since August, watched closely by police because the Supreme Court justice overseeing the case deemed him a flight risk.
Analysts widely expect Bolsonaro to remain in prison for a short time before the Supreme Court ultimately allows him to serve out the rest of his sentence at home, though it is not yet clear how long he may spend behind bars.
Bolsonaro’s defense team has argued that his poor health, which includes frequent attacks of hiccups and vomiting, “makes his safe stay in a prison environment impossible” because he needs constant medical care.
“He should serve the time he was given,” said Antonio Carlos de Almeida Castro, a veteran Brazilian lawyer who has defended politicians and business moguls. “But given that he appears to be very ill, he may have the right to house arrest.”
This is not the first time a former Brazilian president has faced prison. Lula, who was in office from 2003 to 2010, was sentenced to more than a decade in prison in 2017 for receiving kickbacks from a construction company, though his conviction was later tossed out and he was freed after serving 580 days in prison.
Another former president, Fernando Collor de Mello, who led the country from 1990 to 1992, began serving a nearly nine-year prison sentence for corruption earlier this year, though he was moved to house arrest after just over a week because of his health.
Bolsonaro’s conviction relied on troves of evidence showing that he and his inner circle had spent months undermining voters’ confidence in Brazil’s elections systems and then, after he narrowly lost to Lula, attempted to keep him in power.
The plans included dissolving the Supreme Court, annulling the election result and giving the military sweeping powers. Beside planning to assassinate Lula, prosecutors said the plot also involved planning to kill a Supreme Court justice who had overseen Bolsonaro’s case.
Bolsonaro denied the charges and said he had no knowledge of any assassination plot. He claimed that he sought ways within Brazil’s Constitution to correct what he claimed
was a stolen election, though a review by Brazil’s military found no evidence of electoral fraud.
After Lula became president, Bolsonaro’s supporters stormed government buildings in January 2023, a destructive rampage that echoed the U.S. Capitol riot two years earlier.
Even as he was jailed, Bolsonaro’s allies continued to place their faith in a halting attempt by his political allies to pass a bill in Brazil’s Congress absolving him.
His supporters claim that the case against Bolsonaro was an attempt to end his political career and keep him out of next year’s presidential elections. Despite his legal troubles, the former president remains a significant force on the Brazilian political right.
Still, Bolsonaro is ineligible to run in next year’s presidential elections because of a separate ruling by another court. And his conviction and jailing in the coup plot means that he will be permanently barred from running for office under the Brazilian Constitution.
By SARAH KLIFF and BIANCA PALLARO
When Dr. Elizabeth Bostock took over the obstetrics department at Rochester General Hospital in New York in 2019, she was alarmed by its high rate of C-sections: 40% of healthy, firsttime mothers were delivering in operating rooms.
The figure was far higher than the 24% recommended by the federal government. When needed, the procedure can be lifesaving, but its overuse can prolong recovery, complicate future births and sometimes risk the mother’s life.
“Most of the worst disasters I’ve seen in my career — hemorrhages, sepsis — are related to C-sections,” Bostock said. “There is inherent risk in doing abdominal surgery.”
Bostock tried to tackle the problem through a series of discrete changes. In 2021, low-risk patients began getting routed to midwives. A new checklist in 2023 required various steps to promote vaginal delivery before surgery. Perhaps most important, she said, she had uncomfortable discussions with doctors about their individual surgery rates.
In the United States during that period, cesarean rates for first-time mothers ticked up. But Rochester General’s rate declined steadily and dramatically, reaching 25% this year.
That drop is among the steepest at the 1,600 hospitals that regularly report cesarean rates to the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that publishes metrics of hospital quality, according to a New York Times analysis of its most
recent data.
Many doctors see rising C-section rates as an intractable problem. Some physicians point to women giving birth at older ages, with more complications like obesity and high blood pressure, and say the extra cesareans are inevitable.
But the success of Bostock and others shows that less surgery is possible when administrators are willing to confront the problem.
“Any hospital can do this,” said Rebecca Clark, a nursing professor who studies Csections at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
In 2021, Clark published a paper showing that many fixed characteristics of a hospital — whether it was a tiny, rural facility, for example, or a bustling academic medical center — had no relationship to its C-section rate. Two factors that do matter, she and others have found, are an obstetrician’s pay and the doctor’s personal beliefs about the surgery.
Physicians and hospitals usually earn more money when they perform a cesarean, though it often requires less time. The average insurance payment to a hospital for a C-section is about $17,000. For vaginal delivery, it is just over $11,000. Studies have found that when insurers make the payments equal, surgeries decline.
Attitudes toward childbirth also affect surgery rates. For nearly a decade, Dr. Emily White VanGompel of the University of Illinois Chicago has surveyed staff members
of maternity wards. She has repeatedly found that hospitals whose doctors and nurses have more negative, fearful views of childbirth have higher C-section rates.
“We need to look at the fact that it is not all objective medical decisions,” said Dr. Moeun Son, an obstetrician at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.
Surgery can even be a matter of time management preferences. In 2020, Son and other researchers analyzed the medical records of more than 115,000 women at 25 hospitals who had tried to have a natural labor. The researchers wanted to know whether the time of day had any influence on whether an obstetrician opted for surgery.
If C-sections were medically warranted, then the procedures would happen evenly throughout the day. But the researchers found that C-sections clustered in the early evening. Doctors, it seemed, were avoiding late-night deliveries.
Some doctors contend that the country’s stubbornly high C-section rate is unlikely to change, given the underlying medical problems of mothers today.
“The amount of high-risk work we do has increased exponentially,” said Dr. Catherine Bernardini, who oversees the obstetrics department at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Pennsylvania, where the C-section rate has risen by around 11 percentage points since 2021. She attributed the change to women having babies later in life and with more health complications.
Others’ experiences suggest that some factors are within a doctor’s control.
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Illinois has dropped its C-section rate by one-third since 2019, hitting 20% this year. The hospital did so with surprisingly simple changes, said Joan Culver, director of patient care services.
In monthly meetings, Culver made doctors aware of their C-section rates compared with their peers’. She also hung “first little lamb” signs on the doors of first-time mothers’ rooms, reminding staff that such women usually needed more time.
“I went into this with some trepidation because the number had not moved in years,” Culver said. “But then we were able to drop it dramatically.”
Money, Midwives and Patience
A nurse monitors a fetal heart rate at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., on Nov. 13, 2025. While C-sections for first-time mothers ticked up across the U.S. in recent years, Rochester General Hospital dropped its rate dramatically. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times)
Bostock oversees labor and delivery at five hospitals that are part of the Rochester Regional Health system. Three have substantially reduced their C-section rates since 2021, according to Leapfrog. Rochester General, a large teaching hospital that delivers about 1,800 babies a year, saw the biggest drop.
The hospital had reformed its payment system for obstetricians before Bostock took over, no longer paying doctors more for surgery than natural labor. In 2020, that policy was extended to the system’s other hospitals as well.
One obstetrician on her team, Dr. Paul Cabral, said that under the old system, money could sit in the back of his mind as the end of his shift drew near and a woman he’d spent hours caring for had not yet delivered.
“I’m going to go home and somebody else is going to receive the financial reward,” he remembered thinking. Now, he said, that doesn’t happen. “You’re ending up being a little more comfortable around not doing a C-section.”
In 2021, Bostock began automatically routing low-risk patients into midwifery care. And last year, she gave midwives their own department within the hospital system, allowing them to make their own decisions about how they practice, rather than being overseen by obstetricians.
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QUIÑONES SOTO, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, a la 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, con fecha 16 de septiembre de 2025 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $47,598.27 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 11 de junio de 2025, notificada y archivada en autos el 23 de junio de 2025, publicada el periódico The San Juan Daily Star el 30 de junio de 2025 y notificada el 1 de julio de 2025, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Humacao, Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describen a continuación:
Descripción: Urbana: “SOLAR radicado en la Urbanización
Extensión Verdemar, situada en el barrio Punta Santiago del termino municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el numero, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: numero del solar mil ciento doce (1112); área del solar TRESCIENTOS SIETE PUNTO OCHENTA Y CINCO (307.85) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el Norte, en veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros con el solar numero mil ciento once (1111) de dicha urbanización; por el Sur, en veintitrés
MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao. Del Estudio de Título realizado el 26 de septiembre de 2025, surgen los siguientes gravámenes posteriores que deberán ser cancelados: Hipoteca constituida a favor de la Autoridad para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por $5,000.00 sin intereses, vencedero el 10 de julio de 2009, según Esc. #575 en (no se expresa lugar de otorgamiento) el 10 de julio de 2003 ante Rafael Antonio Vélez Pérez, inscrita en virtud de la Ley 216-2010 al folio 183 del tomo 334 de Humacao, finca #14081 inscripción 6ta. Aviso de Demanda expedido el 8 de enero de 2015 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, caso civil HICI2015-00007, sobre Acción In Rem y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria seguido por Doral Bank vs los esposos José Luis Tañon Rodríguez y Norma Iris Díaz Fonollosa donde se solicita el pago de a deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 6ta por $57,000.00 reducida a $47,598.27 o la venta en publica subasta, anotado al tomo Karibe el 4 de mayo de 2016 finca #14081 de Humacao, anotación A. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte The San Juan Daily Star
punto cincuenta (23.50) metros con el solar numero mil ciento trece de dicha; por el Este, en trece punto diez (13.10) metros con la calle numero treinta y tres (33) de dicha urbanización y por el Oeste, en trece punto diez (13.10) metros con terrenos propiedad de José Morales Serrano. Contiene una casa de vivienda de hormigón y bloques de una sola planta con marquesina y balcón. Inscrita al folio ciento ochenta y uno (181) del tomo trescientos treinta y cuatro (334) de Humacao, finca numero catorce mil ochenta y uno (14,081) Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $47,598.27 de principal, 6.00% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $1,258.36 de reserva de “escrow” los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, $150.00 de otros gastos, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $57,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $38,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $28,500.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao. Del Estudio de Título realizado el 26 de septiembre de 2025, surgen los siguientes gravámenes posteriores que deberán ser cancelados: Hipoteca constituida a favor de la Autoridad
para el Financiamiento de la Vivienda de Puerto Rico por $5,000.00 sin intereses, vencedero el 10 de julio de 2009, según Esc. #575 en (no se expresa lugar de otorgamiento) el 10 de julio de 2003 ante Rafael Antonio Vélez Pérez, inscrita en virtud de la Ley 216-2010 al folio 183 del tomo 334 de Humacao, finca #14081 inscripción 6ta. Aviso de Demanda expedido el 8 de enero de 2015 en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, caso civil HICI2015-00007, sobre Acción In Rem y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria seguido por Doral Bank vs los esposos José Luis Tañon Rodríguez y Norma Iris Díaz Fonollosa donde se solicita el pago de a deuda garantizada con la hipoteca de la inscripción 6ta por $57,000.00 reducida a $47,598.27 o la venta en publica subasta, anotado al tomo Karibe el 4 de mayo de 2016 finca #14081 de Humacao, anotación A. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el
precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 12 de noviembre de 2025. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. RAQUEL QUIÑONES SOTO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JOSE L. TAÑÓN RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C
JOSE LUIS TAÑÓN RODRÍGUEZ; NORMA
I. DÍAZ FONOLLOSA
T/C/C NORMA IRIS
DÍAZ FONOLLOSA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: HICI201500007. Sobre: ACCIÓN IN REM DE EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, RAQUEL QUIÑONES SOTO, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, a la 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, con fecha 16 de septiembre de 2025 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de $47,598.27 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el 11 de junio de 2025, notificada y archivada en autos el 23 de junio de 2025, publicada el periódico The San Juan Daily Star el 30 de junio de 2025 y notificada el 1 de julio de 2025, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Humacao,
Puerto Rico, el bien inmueble se describen a continuación: Descripción: Urbana: “SOLAR radicado en la Urbanización Extensión Verdemar, situada en el barrio Punta Santiago del termino municipal de Humacao, Puerto Rico que se describe en el plano de inscripción con el numero, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: numero del solar mil ciento doce (1112); área del solar TRESCIENTOS SIETE PUNTO OCHENTA Y CINCO (307.85) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes por el Norte, en veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros con el solar numero mil ciento once (1111) de dicha urbanización; por el Sur, en veintitrés punto cincuenta (23.50) metros con el solar numero mil ciento trece de dicha; por el Este, en trece punto diez (13.10) metros con la calle numero treinta y tres (33) de dicha urbanización y por el Oeste, en trece punto diez (13.10) metros con terrenos propiedad de José Morales Serrano. Contiene una casa de vivienda de hormigón y bloques de una sola planta con marquesina y balcón. Inscrita al folio ciento ochenta y uno (181) del tomo trescientos treinta y cuatro (334) de Humacao, finca numero catorce mil ochenta y uno (14,081) Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $47,598.27 de principal, 6.00% de intereses, los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; $1,258.36 de reserva de “escrow” los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la deuda, $150.00 de otros gastos, más costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados pactados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $57,000.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $38,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $28,500.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 4 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA
demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Humacao, Puerto Rico, a 12 de noviembre de 2025. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. RAQUEL QUIÑONES SOTO, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN COMPU-LINK (COMPULINK CORPORATION DBA CELINK)
Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE LUZ TERESA GONZÁLEZ ARGUESO T/C/C LUZ T. GONZÁLEZ ARGUESO T/C/C LUZ GONZÁLEZ ARGUESO COMPUESRTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV08944. Sala: 604. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA - IN REM. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. Al: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DE NOMBRE
DESCONOCIDO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE LUZ TERESA GONZÁLEZ ARGUESO T/C/C LUZ T. GONZÁLEZ ARGUESO T/C/C LUZ GONZÁLEZ ARGUESO.
Yo, MARÍA DE LOURDES LÓPEZ MOREIRA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, 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 DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, San Juan, 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 20 de agosto 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 8 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA; y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 15 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 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 San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe con fecha de 23 de octubre 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: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número CINCO guión “I” (5-I). Está situado en la esquina Noroeste del Edificio “Conocido como Sky Tower I” en el nivel Cinco (5) saliendo de los elevadores en dirección Norte. Es de forma irregular enmarcado en un rectángulo que mide de ancho Cuarenta Pies con Nueve y Media pulgadas (40’ 9 ½”), por Cuarenta y Tres pies con una y
consecutivas. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores sujeto a lo dispuesto en los Artículos 113 al 116 de la Ley 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015, según aplique. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de noviembre de 2025. FDO. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante v. DAMASO ORTIZ SOTO, NOEMÍ A.E.
ORTIZ t/c/c NOEMÍ
ESCALERA RIVERA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados
CIVIL NÚM.: CA2024CV03372. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Jorge L Ayala Colon, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 10 de octubre de 2025 por la Secretaria de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Vacation Club
Right: unit week (30) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A-802 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A-802 and includes the right to use such unit during the first (30) week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the FIRST (30) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club ora successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-802, the use ofthe said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the
owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número #13,835 inscrita al folio 21 del tomo 252 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayarnón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $16,853.91 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 802-32. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 9:30 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaria del Tribunal de Carolina. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona
que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 13 de noviembre de 2025. Jorge L. Ayala Colón #125, Alguacil Superior.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. CARMELO
PIZARRO CASTRO
Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2024CV09095. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, Alf. Freddy Omar Rodriguez Collazo, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 26 de septiembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: VACATION CLUB RIGHT: unit week (31) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B-512 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B-512 and includes the right to use such unit during the first (31) week of each year until
December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the FIRST (31) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day ofthe following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club ora successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-512, the use ofthe said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units ofthis Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed ofDedication ofhacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2575% in the Facilities and common expenses ofvacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 14353 inscrita al folio 216 del tomo 260 de Vega Alta, inscripción Ira en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners Association, Inc., el importe .de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $11,047.85 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B 512-31. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 9:50 a.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el titulo del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del rema-
nente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaria del Tribunal de San Juan. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 13 de noviembre de 2025. Alf. Freddy Omar Rodríguez Collazo, Alguacil Superior. ***
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
MARITZA DEL MILAGRO
ACEVEDO COLLAZO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA
POR MARITZA D. ACEVEDO COLLAZO, MARITZA D. ACEVEDO, Y COMO, MARITZA
ACEVEDO
Peticionaria Vs. EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV01205. Sala: 307. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ARTEMIO ACEVEDO
AYALA, ANTERIOR DUEÑO; O SU SUCESIÓN; TODOS LOS HEREDEROS Y/O CAUSAHABIENTES DESCONOCIDOS O
CONOCIDOS, Y A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y/O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA. Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal una Petición sobre Información de Dominio con el fin de inscribir a nombre de la peticionaria, MARITZA DEL MILAGRO ACEVEDO COLAZO, CONOCIDA POR MARITZA D. ACEVEDO COLLAZO, MARITZA D. ACEVEDO, Y COMO, MARITZA ACEVEDO, la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: PARCELA 1: Porción de terreno sita en el Barrio Duey Alto, Sector Los Seda, del término municipal de San Germán, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de SETECIENTOS VEINTIUNO PUNTO TREINTA Y SEIS SETENTA Y DOS (721.3672) METROS CUADRADOS, colindando por el Norte, con un solar propiedad de la Sucesión de Artemio Acevedo Ayala; por el Sur, con terrenos propiedad de Hamilton Quiñones Quiñones; por el Este, con terrenos propiedad del Sr. Miguel Santiago Del Valle; y por el Oeste, con calle de Uso Público que la separa de los terrenos propiedad del Sr. Daniel Montalvo Seda y el Sr. Edgar R. Cupeles Lamboy. Catastro número: 56-309-000005-11-000. No consta inscrito en el Registro de la Propiedad. La abogada de la parte peticionaria lo es: Lcda. Nilda M. López Quiñones, con oficina establecida en el 112 Calle Dr. Veve, Suite 1A, San Germán, Puerto Rico 00683, siendo también la dirección postal, números de teléfono: (787) 354-9776 y (787) 978-3729, y correo electrónico: lcdanildalopezquinones@gmail.com. La publicación de este Edicto se hará en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico. Se le apercibe que, si no compareciera a contestar dicha petición, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la publicación del último edicto, podrá dictarse Resolución concediendo lo solicitado en la Petición. EXPEDIDA BAJO MI FIRMA, y el Sello del Tribunal, Sala de Mayagüez, hoy 10 de noviembre de 2025. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SALIX Y. MÉNDEZ REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
MIGUEL ANGEL COLON
Demandante Vs EDWIN LLERA RIVERA - SE DESCONOCE
PARADERO; SUCESION MARINA
MONSERRATE VEGA, IDENTIFICADOS COMO
JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE - SE DESCONOCE SUS NOMBRES Y PARADERO Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2024CV00324. Sobre: PARTICIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDTCTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE MARINA
MONSERRATE VEGA.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte Demandante, una Demanda Enmendada de Solicitud de Partición de Comunidad de Bienes. El representante legal de la parte Demandante es la Lcda. Yarisa Rullán Alcover, con la siguiente dirección postal: Apartado 371265, Cayey, Puerto Rico 00737-1265, Teléfono: (787) 738-3916 y correo electrónico lcda.yarisa.rullan@hotmail. com. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda, radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia a la abogada del Demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio aquí solicitado sin más citarle, ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de noviembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA ANA EMILIA ORTIZ JIMENEZ
Demandantes Vs. SUCESION DE ANA FELICIANO CRESPO, COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR GRAJALES FELICIANO
Demandados
Civil Núm.: AG2025CV01291. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DOMINIO CONTRADICTORIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE
AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: SUCESION DE ANA FELICIANO CRESPO, COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR GRAJALES FELICIANOCARRETERA 459 KM 2.3, BARRIO CAMASEYES, AGUADILLA, PUERTO RICO,00603.
POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en la demanda presentada por Ia parte demandante para sobre el desahucio. 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.poderjudicial.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. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lcdo. DAVID VILLANUEVA MATIAS, PO Box 43, AGUADILLA, PR, 00605; Tel. 787-882-0404. Correo electrónico: lic.davidvillanueva@outlook.com. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en una (1) ocasión dentro del término de treinta (30) 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. 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. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 12 de noviembre de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NILDA TORRES ACEVEDO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante V. ALEXANDER TORRES ROCHE
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2025CV00527. (Salón: 302). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ANDREA CAROLINA
CHAVES FIGUEROA - LCDA. CHAVESFIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM. KARINA PAOLA CINTRON NEVAREZ - CINTRONKP@GMAIL.COM.
A: ALEXANDER TORRES ROCHE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 17 de noviembre de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 17 de noviembre de 2025. WANDA
SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA CARIBE FEDERAL
CREDIT UNION
Demandante V. GLORIA MILAGROS
SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2025CV01784. (Civil: 408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
KARINA PAOLA CINTRÓN NEVÁREZ - CINTRONKP@GMAIL.COM.
A: GLORIA MILAGROS
SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 18 de noviembre de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 18 de noviembre de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.
BENITO MUÑIZ VALLE Demandante V. JEANNETTE
FERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025RF00242. (Salón 503). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSE ANDRES MERCADO MONTALVO
LCDO.JOSEMERCADO@GMAIL. COM
A: JEANNETTE FERNANDEZ RODRIGUEZ (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de OCTUBRE de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos
de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 14 de OCTUBRE de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 14 de OCTUBRE de 2025. IRASEMIS DIAZ SANCHEZ, IVELISSE VAZQUEZ SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante V. NORBERTO LAMBOY ACEVEDO LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE Y JANE DOE
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2025CV00710. (Salón: 401 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ANDREA CAROLINA CHAVÉS FIGUEROA - LCDA. CHAVESFIGUEROA@GMAIL.COM. KARINA PAOLA CINTRÓN NEVÁREZ - CINTRONKP@GMAIL.COM.
NORBERTO LAMB ACEVEDO LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR ÉSTE Y JANE DOELAMBOYAISSEN@GMAIL.COM. A: NORBERTO LAMBOY ACEVEDO; JANE DOE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del
término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 21 de noviembre de 2025. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 21 de noviembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN
JAIMARIE DE FATIMA HERNANDEZ TORRES Demandante Vs. MIGUEL ANGEL
TAPIAS- REY VERA Demandado
Caso Núm.: SS2025RF00075. Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: MIGUEL ANGEL
TAPIAS-REY RIVERA1400 N ALMA SCHOOL RD #272, CHANDLER, AZ 85224, O SEA LA PARTE DEMANDADA ARRIBA MENCIONADA.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Benjamín Hernández López RUA #18,760 545 Calle Gabriel Cardona Moca, Puerto Rico 00676 Tel. (939) 202-0892
lcdobenjaminhernandezlopez@ gmail.com
Advertencia: Este es un documento oficial del Tribunal que se relaciona a sus derechos. Léalo con detenimiento. Si usted no lo entiende, consulte a un(a) abogado(a). POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 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 Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que si dejara de presentar una alegación responsiva dentro del referido termino se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, conce-
diendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y CON EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, hoy día 20 de noviembre de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. JESSICA MÉNDEZ ROMERO, SUB SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE EN EL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA DE PUERTO RICO SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
NICOLE MARIE
TORRES MENDEZ
Parte Demandante Vs. IVAN AYUSO RIVERA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GR2025RF00102. Sala: 502. DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS U NIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO A: IVAN AYUSO RIVERA. Por la presente se emplaza y se le requiere para que notifique a la Lcda. Magali Díaz Figueroa, P.O. Box 9644, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726-9644, con copia de la Contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio instada en su contra dentro de los treinta días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en la isla de Puerto Rico por orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Primera lnstancia de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Caguas a 12 de noviembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. IVELISSE VÁZQUEZ SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE FAJARDO LUIS OBED
MORALES CARABALLO
Demandante Vs. OSMARY ANDINO CARRASQUILLO
Demandada
Civil Núm.: FA2025RF00277. Sala: 203. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE).
EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A LA PARTE
DEMANDADA: OSMARY ANDINO CARRASQUILLO CON DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA EN
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Y CUYA ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA
LO FUE: RESIDENCIAL YUQUIYÚ, EDIFICIO D, APT. 27, LUQUILLO, PUERTO RICO 00773. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. La abogada de la Parte Demandante es la Lcda. Jaymari Correa Avés, P.O. Box 51 Naguabo, Puerto Rico 00718; Tel. (787) 512-0825. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general de la Isla de Puerto Rico una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda de Violación De Derechos Civiles radicando el original a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe con copia a la abogada de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Disponiéndose, además, que en los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, la Parte Demandante le dirigirá al codemandado por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, copia de la Demanda y del “Emplazamiento por Edicto” a su última dirección conocida. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 17 de noviembre de 2025, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JOSANDRA GÓMEZ VENTURA, SUB-SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR OSVALDO MONTERO VARGAS
Demandante Vs. PAULITA, ANGEL SANTOS, GERTRUDIS, CARMEN SOCORRO DE APELLIDOS CALDERON MONSERRATE E ISMAEL, MYRNA IVELISSE, CARMEN NOEMI DE APELLIDOS GONZALEZ MONSERRATE
Demandados Civil Núm.: AR2025CV02009. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE
CONTRATO, DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS, ENRIQUECIMIENTO INJUSTO. EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E. E. U. U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CARMEN SOCORRO CALDERÓN
MONSERRATE; ISMAEL GONZÁLEZ CALDERÓN; MYRNA IVELISSE GONZÁLEZ CALDERÓN Y CARMEN NOEMI GONZÁLEZ CALDERÓN.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demandante dentro de los treinta (30) días de haberse publicado el edicto, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. 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.
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TEL.: (787) 872-4646 / CEL. (939) 642-0432 Email: ivonnem.glezsamot@gmail.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de noviembre de 2025. Vivían Y. Fresse González, Secretaria Regional. Vanessa M. González Malavé, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA
HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante Vs. RICHARD SILVERMAN, BETSY SILVERMAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00859. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIA-
DO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: RICHARD SILVERMAN, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; BETSY SILVERMAN, POR SÍ Y REPRESENTACIÓN DE SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se les advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 15 de octubre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
1. Idle of Monty Python
2. Moon over Milano
3. Site with filmographies
4. Handsome Greek god
5. Skedaddle
6. Poetic p.m.'s
7. German high
8. "Strut" singer Easton
9. Sparkled
10. Grab a bite
11. "In Cold Blood" writer, to pals
12. Birth control option, briefly
13. Formerly
18. Toyota's luxury brand
22. Horror-film creature
24. "Why am ____ bad guy here?"
26. Club
27. Like two-digit number systems
28. Nepal's southern neighbor
29. Lithe
30. Change in form
31. Harrison's "Star Wars" role
32. Bridge ancestor
33. Pond organisms
34. Fix a leaky joint
38. Prior nights
47. ____ Dawn Chong
48. On the other hand 52. Just manages 53. "Old MacDonald" ender 54. Attacker of allied ships 57. Singer Stefani et al.
Singers James and Jones
Outdoor gear retailer, with "The"
In ____ (even)
Bound bundles
71. Rapper Combs
72. Item on a to-do list
40. ___ tuna
41. Pirates' refuge
44. Hot and bothered
46. Place on a scale
49. Core issue
50. Makes amends
51. Dieter's catchword
55. Top-drawer
56. "____ Little Tenderness"
58. "I couldn't ____ thing"
59. Spinoff of CBS's "JAG"
60. Hide-and-____
61. Fade away
62. Singing syllable
63. Poetic contraction
64. Block add-on
66. 2000 pounds
By THE STAR STAFF
The Mayagüez Indians, Caguas Criollos and Ponce Lions were all winners on Tuesday night in a trio of games in Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC by its initials in Spanish).
Isan Díaz homered and Anthony García delivered timely hits as the Indians (Indios) defeated the Santurce Crabbers, 7-2. Despite the loss, the Crabbers (Cangrejeros) remained in first place in the standings with a 10-3 record. Mayagüez, meanwhile, sits in fourth place at 5-8.
Díaz finished the night going 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs, while García went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and one RBI. Their performances helped the Indians bounce back from two straight losses.
The Indians scored early in the game. With one out in the first inning, Eddie Rosario hit a ground ball to right field that he stretched into a double. Rosario advanced to third on a pop-up by Emmanuel Rivera and scored the first run of the game on a single by García.
The Crabbers came out aggressively in the second inning, with Rubén Castro and Brian Rey hitting consecutive singles, while Shed Long Jr. laid down a perfect bunt to load the bases. A sacrifice fly to left field by Johneshwy Fargas brought in Castro. Four consecutive hits gave the Tribe their second lead of the game in the fourth inning. García, the designated hitter, led off the bottom of the fourth with a double. Then Díaz singled to put runners on the corners, and Mario Feliciano drove in Gar-
cía with the second hit of the inning to center field, making it 2-1. Danny Ortiz then drove in two more runs with the Indians’ eighth hit of the game, extending the lead to 4-1.
An inning later Díaz homered to right field with García on base to make it 6-1.
An error by pitcher Edwin Sánchez in the eighth inning allowed the Indians’ seventh run to score. Santurce scored their second and final run of the game on a single by Long Jr. in the ninth. Right-hander Patrick Halligan (1-1) earned the win after shutting down the Cangrejeros and striking out three batters in two innings of relief. Meanwhile, left-hander Juan Hillman took the loss, allowing four runs in three innings.
In Carolina, six Ponce pitchers combined to shut out the Giants 1-0 at Roberto Clemente Walker Stadium.
With the win, the Lions moved into sole possession of second place in the standings with an 8-5 record. Carolina dropped to third place at 7-6.
Right-hander Orlando Ortiz-Mayr allowed three hits in his fourinning start, while Harold Cortijo, Eric Torres, Andrew Marrero, Gabriel Rodríguez and Lenny Torres Jr. continued his work out of the bullpen. Cortijo earned his second win, pitching one inning in relief, and Torres Jr. recorded his second save of the season. The Lions scored their only run in a third inning in which the Giants’ defense committed two errors. Aldemar Burgos led off with a single. Dalton Guthrie then hit a ground ball that rolled into left field, driving Burgos home for a 1-0 lead.
Mayagüez (5-8) showed why they might not be in fourth place for long.
The loss went to left-hander Jonathan Bermúdez (0-1), who allowed Ponce’s run during his three and two-thirds innings of work.
Finally, the Criollos halted the San Juan Senators’ winning streak from last week with a 9-1 victory at Hiram Bithorn Stadium. Although the Senators (Senadores) finished last week with three consecutive wins, they remain in last place in the standings with a 4-9 record. Meanwhile, Caguas is tied with the Mayagüez for fourth place at 5-8.
The only run for San Juan came on a double by Randal Díaz to left field in the third inning.
The Criollos evened the score in the fifth inning on an RBI single by Jonathan Morales. With two outs, Caguas got to reliever Ivan Houellemont as Bryan Torres singled to drive in the second run. A wild pitch made it 3-1.
Caguas secured the victory with a six-run rally in the ninth, highlighted by singles from Torres and Nelson Velázquez, a sacrifice fly by Vimael Machín, and a double by Morales.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation announced the Men’s Division All-Star Team for Week 5 of the 2025 Men’s Superior Volleyball League, highlighting the most outstanding players in each position.
The undisputed star was the opposite hitter for the Plataneros of Corozal, Jalen Penrose (#14), who earned Player of the Week honors and was also recognized as the Best Opposite, reaffirming his offensive dominance in the league.
Best Attackers
• Clarke Godbold (#22), Changos of Naranjito
• Spencer Oliver (#31), Plataneros of Corozal
Both attackers excelled with their power and effective ness at the net.
Best Blockers
• Nick West (#42) , Patriotas of Lares
• Abraham Tamayo (#24), Nuevos Gigantes of Carolina
The defensive walls of Lares and Carolina commanded respect at the net.
Best Setter
• Kevin Rodríguez (#55), Cafeteros of Yauco Rodríguez demonstrated his vision and technique by masterfully distributing the ball and facilitating the Caf eteros’ attack.
Best Libero
• José Pacheco (#47), Patriotas of Lares Pacheco shone in the backcourt, displaying exceptional r eflexes and court vision.
LVSM WEEK 6 SCHEDULE
Friday, Nov. 28
• Yauco at Corozal (8 p.m.)
• Carolina at Naranjito (8 p.m.)
Saturday, Nov. 29
• Guaynabo at San Sebastián (8 p.m.)
Sunday, Nov. 30
• Naranjito at Yauco (7 p.m.)
• Corozal at Lares (5 p.m.)
NOTICE: The game scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 30, Adjuntas at Carolina, has been rescheduled for Thursday, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m., due to court availability in Carolina.
Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 21
