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By THE STAR STAFF
There is division in Puerto Rico over the increase in the U.S. military presence on the island due to tensions with Venezuela.
While pro-statehood interests support the military presence because it shows the United States needs Puerto Rico for security reasons and have called for a reopening of military bases, opponents fear the U.S. Navy will reactivate bases and contaminate their beaches with weapons residue.
“It gives anxiety, nerves, discomfort, knowing well how our community has been directly affected by the militarization of the archipelago,” said Ilandra Guadalupe Maldonado, who was born in the offshore municipality of Vieques, in a report from EFE. “I would not like to think of a repetition of history.”
The U.S. Navy used part of the offshore islands -- the municipalities of Vieques and Culebra -- as a firing range, and rented those areas to other nations to test their weapons. To date, the cleanup of the remnants of unexploded ordnance has not yet been completed.
“Six decades of militarization have left us with contaminated land, a contaminated population, [and] fractured education, culture, identity -- the list is long,” emphasized Maldonado, 27, a member of the Vieques Women’s Alliance, an organization that was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, and which sued the U.S. for human rights violations associated with military maneuvers.
The young woman from “La Isla Nena,” as Vieques is known, which has the highest prevalence of cancer in Puerto Rico, says her relatives remember with euphoria when popular demonstrations in 2003 managed to expel the U.S. military from Vieques. A few years later, the U.S. Naval Base at Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba shut down.
Maldonado views Gov. Jenniffer González Colón as promoting the militarization of Puerto Rico. The governor has welcomed the practices and appears to be in favor of the United States’ attempts to topple Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has been charged with heading a drug cartel. Maduro this week warned Puerto Rico against supporting President Donald Trump’s intentions against Venezuela.
“The threats from drug trafficker and dictator Nicolás Maduro portray the gang-like nature of his regime,” González Colón said Wednesday. “As governor of Puerto Rico, I will continue to defend the security of our island and the Caribbean against drug trafficking and its cartels. The drugs and violence that spill into our streets as a result of their operations rob our people of peace and life every day.”
“During the campaign, we made it clear that sectors of the left in Puerto Rico and now the Popular [Democratic] Party,
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth is greeted by Puerto Rico government and military officials at Muñiz Air National Guard Base in Carolina on Monday. Not everyone on the island welcomes the recent buildup in the U.S. military presence. (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)
instead of condemning Maduro and standing in solidarity with the suffering Venezuelan people, prefer to defend a criminal by repeating his narratives and even justifying his attacks,” the governor said. “Today, we see that script in action, when instead of defending our American nation, they side with a dictator who threatens our people.”
While the United States has issued a $50 million reward for the arrest of Maduro on charges of drug trafficking, the United Nations has found no evidence supporting that Venezuela is responsible for the drugs going to the United States.
A UN report says only 5% of the drugs reaching the United States is from Venezuela, while 87% is from Colombia and Ecuador.
The organization SOLi – International Solidarity of Puerto Rico, a member of the World Peace Council -- issued a strong statement, repudiating the growing U.S. military presence in the territory and the recent statements of González Colón, who described Puerto Rico as “the border of the United States in the Caribbean.”
According to the entity, the governor’s official position “contributes to fueling tensions that threaten regional peace” by supporting the use of the island as a strategic military platform under the pretext of the fight against drug trafficking, and aligning itself with Washington’s verbal and diplomatic aggressions against sister countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Senate moves to investigate use of net metering funds
By THE STAR STAFF
Sen. Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) minority leader in the upper chamber, said Wednesday that the Senate approved his request for information to oversee the use of funds generated by the Net Metering Law.
“This Law 115-2007 establishes a distribution of accumulated and unused electricity credits for customers with solar panels in their homes,” he said.
According to the law, 25% of those accumulated credits are allocated to the Department of Education (DE) to provide credits or reductions on the electricity bills of Puerto Rico’s public schools.
“How is this money being used? How much is it?” Hernández Ortiz queried. “Yesterday [Tuesday] in the Senate, we approved our request for this information.”
Net metering is a billing system that allows customers who generate their own electricity using renewable sources (such as
solar panels) to receive credits for the excess energy they send to the grid, which they can then use to offset their bills. Specifically, it employs a bidirectional meter that records both the energy consumed from the grid and the energy produced and exported to the grid, allowing for the calculation of the difference and the application of corresponding credits.
On Aug. 14, the PDP delegation in the Senate condemned a recent action by the LUMA Energy consortium, which imposed a $300 fee on each customer connected to a net metering system, allegedly to conduct a supplementary study.
“According to data provided by LUMA, there are 142,000 customers connected to solar panel systems in Puerto Rico,” the delegation stated. “If studies are necessary, let them cover the costs. The homes with solar panels have been installed specifically to avoid the issues caused by LUMA.”
It is estimated that 32,000 customers have received notices demanding the $300 fee. This could represent $9.6 million for the company.
“But if we consider the total number of customers connected to this system, it amounts to a potential $42.6 million for LUMA in the end,” Hernández Ortiz said. “We strongly condemn this action. From the Senate, we have always defended the Net Metering Program because we stand with consumers.”
Residents go to high court for proper review of residential-commercial project in Escambrón
By THE STAR STAFF
The Escambrón Unido alliance announced Wednesday that it filed a petition for certiorari with the Puerto Rico Supreme Court to halt a residential and commercial project in the Escambrón Resort area, Sixto Escobar Park, Third Millennium Park, and beaches 8, 9 and 10, following the dismissal by the Court of Appeals of an administrative review.
“This plan includes the construction of new structures in the maritime-terrestrial easement area, the relocation of the Old San Juan wastewater pumping system, a parking lot within Sixto Escobar Park, and the alteration of the hotel structure,” said Sonia Fritz, spokesperson for Escambrón Unido, in a written statement. “This is not about preventing the restoration of this historic space, but rather ensuring that the values that distinguish it and belong to all of Puerto Rico are protected.”
The petition -- filed with the support of nine intervenors
and the Legal Clinic of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law -- requests that the Supreme Court review the appellate ruling that dismissed the administrative review. The group argues that the Permit Management Office approved the location consultation without an Environmental Impact Statement or public hearings, in violation of laws and regulations.
In the brief, the community argues that the administrative action affects public, environmental, recreational, spiritual and aesthetic interests protected by the Puerto Rico Constitution. “These interests are more than valid and sufficient to demonstrate our legitimacy in this process,” said Lilia Tirado, a spokesperson for Escambrón Unido. “No one has a more genuine interest than those who daily enjoy, use, and defend this natural space.”
The group argues that the case provides the Supreme Court with an opportunity to clarify the rules for active standing in land use planning processes, to ensure that citizens have a
or public hearings,
violation of laws and regulations.
real voice in decisions regarding lands of high ecological, historical and cultural value.
House speaker delivers SUVs for Vieques seniors
By THE STAR STAFF
In order to provide greater services to senior citizens residing in Vieques, Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez earlier this week delivered two sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to the mayor of the offshore island municipality, José “Junito” Corcino Acevedo. The ownership of the vehicles -- a white 2015 Ford Explorer with seating for five and a white 2014 Ford Edge, which also seats five -- which previously belonged to the lower chamber, was transferred to the Vieques municipal administration. They will be used at the Luisa Guadalupe senior center, which directly serves some 70 seniors daily.
“Supporting municipal efforts to improve the quality of life for seniors is one of our priorities,” Méndez said. “Therefore, when the mayor mentioned their need for vehicles to transport seniors, as well as food, we set about identifying what we had available to meet that request. Today, we are donating two SUVs in perfect condition for the use of seniors served by the Luisa Guadalupe senior center in Vieques.”
The House speaker, who represents District 36 (Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques and Culebra) emphasized that the vehicles “meet a real need.”
“The center serves 20 seniors directly at its facilities every day, as well as provides food to 48 across the island municipality,” he said. “With these two SUVs, that number could double, as
they now have the capacity to carry more prepared meals, as well as assist seniors with their appointments and other matters.”
Corcino Acevedo said the donation represents a unique opportunity to expand services to a significant segment of the population.
“As you know, we in Vieques have the same demographics as the rest of the island: a senior population that grows every day,” he said. “The Luisa Guadalupe Senior Center has the potential to serve more seniors; however, until today we didn’t have the additional resources to do so. […] These SUVs are essential in our effort to increase the services provided by the municipality.”
According to 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data, 17.1% of Vieques’ population -- about 1,200 people -- is over 65 years of age.
Escambrón Unido argues that the Permit Management Office approved the location consultation without an Environmental Impact Statement
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Bill filed in Congress to transition Puerto Rico from PAN to SNAP
By THE STAR STAFF
Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera and Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced the filing of a bill in Congress on Wednesday to transition Puerto Rico from the Nutrition Assistance Program (PAN by its acronym in Spanish) to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) with bipartisan support.
“The SNAP program would provide more funding for people who currently receive the PAN, and this is a bipartisan bill supported by Democratic and Republican members of Congress,” Hernández Rivera said at a press conference. “It’s a bill supported by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, who honors me with her presence today. It’s a bill that recognizes that hunger has no zip code, that hunger has no partisan affiliation, that hunger is neither
Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said that for “us Puerto Ricans, the issue of the transition from the PAN program to the SNAP program is vital.”
[Democratic] Party nor NPP [New Progressive Party], but rather a problem that deserves to be addressed and solved.”
González Colón added that for “us Puerto Ricans, the issue of the transition from the PAN program to the SNAP program is vital.”
“This is not an issue that divides the resident commissioner and me as governor. This was part of our party’s governing platform, and, as resident commissioner, we continually filed this same bill,” she noted. “The only provision that has changed, and which we agree with the commissioner on in this bill, is that it adds, instead of five years, the transition period from the government of Puerto Rico to this program to 10 years, which would allow for a balanced transition for the federal government.”
The governor pointed out that the U.S. De-
partment of Agriculture recommended in 2022 a 10-year transition scenario that would not increase federal costs associated with short-term budgetary pressures over that timeframe. She added that her administration is moving forward on technology, processes and training to meet the program’s requirements.
The resident commissioner maintained that the measure seeks greater equity for families currently receiving the PAN program and that the supporting coalition includes members of Congress from both parties.
Both officials emphasized that the proposal requires federal legislation to be implemented and called on the public and private sectors to support the transition with the objective of expanding access to and quality of nutritional assistance on the island.
House lawmaker: LUMA requirements on infrastructure to hike construction costs
By THE STAR STAFF
District 29 Rep. Gretchen Hau Irizarry has expressed concern over the requirements imposed on infrastructure needed to connect to electrical service that are causing increases in construction costs.
In response, she has filed House Resolution 475, which directs the House Committees on Housing and Urban Development and Consumer Affairs to conduct a thorough investigation into new specifications and requirements established by LUMA Energy, the private operator of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, for residential structures. The requirements, she said, have led to a significant increase in construction costs.
“Constituents have voiced their worries regarding the high costs resulting from LUMA’s staff requirements related to the infrastructure
necessary for residential projects and electrical service connections. Given this situation, it is essential to investigate the specific requirements, determine whether they drive up connection costs, and, if so, understand the reasons behind the establishment of these new requirements,” Hau said. “It is the Legislative Assembly’s responsibility to investigate matters that impact citizens, and this is certainly one of them.”
Hau, who represents Cidra and Cayey, noted that the increased costs are linked to construction requirements for electrical columns that house energy meters and service connections, both of which are crucial for establishing electricity service at the residential level.
“This continues to impose financial burdens on citizens,” she said. “Therefore, immediate action is necessary to investigate these claims, address the issues faced by the Puerto Rican
people, and understand the rationale behind the consortium’s unilateral implementation of new requirements.”
The legislator highlighted other instances where she said citizens have suffered due to LUMA’s actions.
“It is well-known that citizens have been making public complaints about compensation LUMA must provide for damage to equipment caused by system instability,” she said. “These claims are still unresolved. Thus, I reiterate the need to investigate this new situation.”
She pointed out that the island is bound by a contract that does not adequately address the needs of its constituents.
“LUMA is a service provider that lacks the basic capacity to meet citizens’ fundamental demands for continuous service, for which they pay monthly,” Hau said. “Meanwhile, the
country continues to experience instability in its electrical system, an essential service that affects vulnerable sectors, and now it appears that the connection issues are impacting families as well.”
She also announced her intention to monitor the legislative process to ensure that the measure is addressed as promptly as possible.
Mayagüez public school students to present book on hurricanes, earthquake & pandemic
By THE STAR STAFF
The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Mayagüez Campus will present the book “Para contarnos: memorias que superan numeros” (To Tell Us: Memories That Surpass Numbers) today in Tarzan Hall, featuring texts and works by Mayagüez public school students. In “Para contarnos,” “young people from western Puerto Rico tell us how hurricanes, earthquakes, the coronavirus pandemic, and the hasty return to in-person school disrupted
their school experience and upended their lives,” anthropologist Ivelisse Rivera Bonilla said. “The complexity of everyday life is expressed in incisively simple prose that moves and stuns, shocks and enlightens.”
The publication brings together more than 100 texts and dozens of artworks created by 50 students from socioeconomically disadvantaged sectors of Mayagüez that document their experience following hurricanes Irma and Maria, the earthquakes of 2020, and the pandemic. The co-editors are professors Jocelyn
A. Géliga Vargas and Sandra L. Soto Santiago, from the English Department at UPR Mayagüez. The volume is the result of writing workshops led by Vibeke Betances Lacourt, Beatriz Llenín Figueroa, Jocelyn A. Géliga Vargas and Sandra L. Soto Santiago, and art-making workshops led by S. Damary Burgos and Yasmine Hernández. The workshops took place during summer camps and Saturday sessions at the University Center for Access between 2022 and 2024, with support from several entities and the campus itself.
“‘Para contarnos’ highlights the challenges our youth face in western Puerto Rico. These are enormous challenges,” Géliga Vargas said. “Fortunately, the participants have had the support of a committed team of tutors from the Mayagüez Campus and collaborators who have joined this effort in pursuit of educational justice.”
The presentation will be at 10:30 a.m. and will be led by Betances Lacourt and Burgos. Several of the student authors will read from their texts.
Rep. Gretchen Hau Irizarry
Supreme Court agrees to review Trump’s sprawling tariffs
By ANN E. MARIMOW and ADAM LIPTAK
The Supreme Court earlier this week agreed to a fast-track review of the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs, accepting a case that will test the limits of executive power and the president’s signature economic initiative.
The court set a brisk briefing schedule and said it would hear arguments in early November.
A federal appeals court last month invalidated many of President Donald Trump’s punishing global tariffs, saying the law he relied on did not authorize the administration’s program. The import taxes remain in effect while the litigation continues.
In a 7-4 ruling in late August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the president had unlawfully used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose steep taxes on major U.S. trading partners.
Last week, Trump’s lawyers urged the justices to review the ruling quickly by adding the case to the court’s calendar for the new term that begins in October. They issued a stark warning against allowing the appeals court ruling to stand, saying it threatens to unwind trade deals.
“That decision casts a pall of uncertainty upon ongoing foreign negotiations that the president has been pursuing through tariffs over the past five months, jeopardizing both already negotiated framework deals and ongoing negotiations,” according to the filing from Solicitor General D. John Sauer.
“Few cases have so clearly called out for this court’s swift resolution.”
While the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has repeatedly granted Trump’s emergency requests and cleared the way for
the administration to at least temporarily put into place its policies, the tariffs case will be the first occasion for the justices to hear arguments and weigh the underlying legal merits of a key administration priority.
Five small businesses and a dozen states sued over the tariffs, saying Trump’s actions were unlawful and that the powers to tax must remain with Congress. Their position has support from a coalition of prominent conservative and libertarian lawyers, scholars and former officials.
“These unlawful tariffs are inflicting serious harm on small businesses and jeopardizing their survival. We hope for a prompt
resolution of this case for our clients,” Jeffrey Schwab, senior counsel at the Liberty Justice Center, said in a statement.
The Constitution generally gives Congress the power to tax. But a 1977 statute gives the president broad emergency powers to “deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat” to “the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States.” That includes the power to regulate imports. The president’s lawyers say that language affords him the authority to impose tariffs when he believes an emergency exists.
Trump and his economic advisers say the tariffs and subsequent negotiations with
trading partners are reversing decades of trade policies that have reduced U.S. manufacturing capacity and military readiness. The levies, they argue, have spurred other countries to invest in the U.S. economy.
But the appeals court said the emergency law does not give Trump the authority to impose his sprawling tariffs program. The majority did not decide whether the statute might allow the president to impose more limited tariffs, finding Trump’s particular program so significant and enduring that it must be expressly authorized by Congress.
Trump used the emergency law last month to tax imports from about 90 countries and previously invoked it to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico.
Other presidents have invoked the emergency statute, typically to issue sanctions, but Trump is the first to try to use the emergency powers to impose broad levies of 10% to 50% on trading partners. The administration can turn to other statutes to impose tariffs, but they are more limited than the emergency powers he has relied on.
Separately, the Supreme Court in June refused to fast-track a second case from two toy manufacturers challenging part of the president’s tariffs program. In that case, the companies were seeking to bypass the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which has scheduled argument for Sept. 30. A district court judge sided with the companies, finding that the tariffs were not authorized under the emergency statute and were “an existential threat to their businesses.”
Lawyers for the toy manufacturers renewed their request to the justices in a filing on Sept. 4, asking the court to consider consolidating and expediting the pair of cases involving tariffs.
Latest revelations complicate Trump’s sweeping denials about Epstein
By LUKE BROADWATER
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has proved himself adept at evading the controversies that have dogged him on an almost daily basis. With the vast powers of the presidency at his disposal, he often succeeds in pivoting the national conversation to focus on political terrain he finds more favorable, like immigration or crime.
But for weeks now, there has been one controversy the president has been unable to evade: the public clamor over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender. Now, with the release this week of new information from Epstein’s estate, including a suggestive note apparently signed by Trump, the drip-drip-drip of revelations is complicating the White House strategy of brushing off the entire controversy.
The president’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on Tuesday was once again confronted with questions about the so-called Epstein files, a collection of documents from the law enforcement investigation into Epstein’s abuse of girls and women.
The White House has denied for weeks that Trump sent a bawdy birthday note to Epstein in 2003, the subject of an earlier Wall Street Journal report. But on Monday,
the House Oversight Committee obtained the document and released it. Suddenly, there it was, out in the open for all to see. The drawing of a naked woman. The strange reference to a “secret” shared between Trump and Epstein.
In response, Leavitt at first deflected. She accused Democrats of opportunistically clamoring to release the Epstein documents
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Shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles, May 29, 2025. The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, agreed to fast-track review of the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs, accepting a case that will test the limits of executive power and the president’s signature economic initiative. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
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while Trump was president, something they did not make a major push for during the Biden presidency.
“Why are the Democrats all of a sudden caring about this? It’s because they are desperately trying to concoct a hoax to smear the president of the United States,” Leavitt said.
Then she shifted to denial.
Leavitt again denied that Trump had written the note in question. She said the White House would even support a professional handwriting analyst’s evaluation of the signature, which she said would vindicate the president.
The signature on the note closely matches the first-name-only version of the way the president signed his name in letters to New York City officials at the time.
Leavitt was then asked about another item in the documents released Monday: an oversize check that purports to be a joking payment of $22,500 from Trump to Epstein, to buy a “fully depreciated” woman.
Leavitt again denied Trump’s involvement, saying he “absolutely” had not signed the check in question.
But even as Leavitt called the situation a “hoax” and claimed Trump had no role in the documents released, she said she had never claimed they were fake.
The documents were subpoenaed from the Epstein estate. Under questioning from reporters, Leavitt said she “did not say the documents are a hoax.” Instead, she suggested that someone must have forged Trump’s signature. “The president has one of the most famous signatures in the world, and he has for many, many years,” she said.
It was clear she was following the lead of her boss.
Throughout July, Trump repeatedly attempted to instruct the media and fellow Republicans to move on from the Epstein files. In a post on Truth Social, he urged the GOP to “not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”
But the clamor for the files persisted, and the president repeatedly referred to the controversy as a “hoax,” angering Epstein’s victims.
After the Journal reported on the Epstein birthday note, Trump filed suit accusing the paper and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, of defaming him.
“These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. (Trump has long drawn pictures and even sold them at auction.)
He repeated his denial Tuesday night, saying that “anybody that’s covered me for a long time knows that’s not my language. It’s nonsense.”
Democrats have seized on the controversy. But more concerning for Trump, he has not been able to convince all Republicans to back off an effort to release the files.
Four Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Nancy Mace of South Carolina — have joined with Democrats to support what is called a discharge petition to force the release of the files.
Still, Republicans have mostly fought the effort, and GOP leaders in Congress have largely sided with Trump’s insistence that he played no role in the bawdy birthday note to Epstein.
“I’m told that it’s fake,” Speaker Mike Johnson said of the note.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who leads the Oversight Committee, said that he accepted Trump’s denial about the note.
“The president says he did not sign it, so I take the president at his word,” Comer said Tuesday. He added that he was not inclined to investigate the signature’s authenticity, even as Comer is leading an investigation into the legitimacy of former President Joe Biden’s signature on documents that were signed with an autopen.
President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Aug. 14, 2025. Trump’s signature, both current and historical, has been the source of debate. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
Gesture politics won’t help Palestinians
By BRET STEPHENS
This month, France, Canada, Australia and possibly Britain will recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly. Also, some 1,800 actors and filmmakers, including Mark Ruffalo and Cynthia Nixon, have signed a public letter pledging “not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions.” And the government of Spain imposed an arms embargo on Israel.
Will a single Palestinian in the Gaza Strip be helped in any meaningful way by any of this? No. Will Israel be hurt? Not particularly. Will it exacerbate Western antisemitism? More than likely.
After Madrid announced its embargo, I wondered what weapons, if any, did it sell to Israel. None, as far as I can discover. But, at least until this month’s declaration, Spain was an eager customer for Israeli military equipment, to the tune of over 1 billion euros between October 2023 and last April. Even after Spain decided to cancel a purchase of Israeli anti-tank missiles, it must still rely on Israeli cybersecurity and AI technology.
My advice to Israel, which last year surpassed Spain to become the world’s eighth-largest arms exporter: Reciprocate the embargo fully. Losing those service contracts would weaken Spain’s protection against terrorism. Let Madrid hope that its anti-Israel posturing will keep the threat at bay.
Now take the rest of the list.
France’s announcement in July that it would recognize a Palestinian state will do nothing to bring one into being. Its main effect so far was to provide a diplomatic victory for Hamas, which allegedly responded by hardening its negotiating stance with Israel over releasing its hostages, while prompting right-wing Israeli lawmakers to push harder for territorial annexation in the West Bank.
As for the wished-for boycott of the Israeli film industry, it would only harm the side of Israel least in sympathy with the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It also smacks of an ugly double standard: Do Ruffalo and friends also call for boycotts of, say, Ira-
nian or Chinese arts institutions in protest of the policies of their governments?
Also this month, a flotilla of small ships, with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg among the passengers, will attempt to breach an Israeli naval blockade and reach Gaza with a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid. Her second attempt will probably end exactly as the first one did: in the rear seat of a plane out of Tel Aviv, bringing more attention to herself than her cause.
What, then, do these gestures accomplish? The legitimate needs of the Palestinian people are these: an end to this war; an end to being dragged into future wars by Hamas; an end to the chronic misgovernance of the Palestinian Authority; the establishment of a self-governing political order that improves the lives of Palestinians without endangering the lives of Israelis; the eventual creation, under conditions of mutual trust, of a Palestinian state.
Immediate recognition of such a state advances none of this. It is the proverbial cart before the horse. France and its fellow travelers aren’t aiming to do much to help actual Palestinians. Mainly, they seek to congratulate themselves. Countries achieve irrelevance when moral onanism takes the place of serious policy as the principal instrument of national policy.
Nor does it do anything to change Israelis’ minds. Somewhere near the center of the Israeli psyche lies the thought: The world is out to get us. Save for some shining exceptions, much that’s happened since Oct. 7, 2023, has proved them right: Being accused of genocide the same month they were grotesquely massacred. Watching a pogrom unfold on the streets of Amsterdam. Seeing elderly Jews burned alive in Colorado. Becoming the singular object of a global protest movement that’s utterly indifferent when our NATO ally Turkey bombs Kurds or Syrian forces massacre Alawites.
An excess of fear can lead to serious mistakes, and we’ll find out soon if Israel’s strike on Hamas’ leaders in Qatar was one of them. But if Israel’s usual critics can’t be bothered to appreciate the seriousness of the threat Israelis face daily — from Houthi drones, Palestinian gunmen, Hezbollah rocket fire displacing tens of thousands of Israelis or Israeli women being raped and slaughtered by Hamas — they will have no influence over Israeli thinking or behavior. In their one-sided vehemence, they write themselves out of any meaningful conversation about the Palestinian future.
So what effect do anti-Israel gesture politics actually have?
From Montreal to Paris to Melbourne, diaspora Jews are living through the worst era of open antisemitism since the 1930s. Leaders like Canada’s Mark Carney, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Australia’s Anthony Albanese are no doubt sincere in condemning this. But
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of loved ones following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. “What effect do anti-Israel gesture politics actually have?” asks The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)
they are also contributing to a climate of anti-Jewish demonization by treating Israel as a quasi-pariah state whose presumptive supporters can be viewed as guilty accomplices. In their virtue-signaling foreign policy, they are inflicting genuine harms on their own Jewish citizens. Long term, the Jews will survive this — as we always have. The history of governments that sought to win political favor by harming the Jews is usually a story of disgrace and decline.
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Buscan mejorar pista de aterrizaje en Isla de Mona
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EL CAPITOLIO – La vicepresidente del Senado, Marissa ‘Marissita’ Jiménez, anunció un esfuerzo dirigido a mejorar la infraestructura en la pista de aterrizaje de la isla de Mona, esto como parte del trabajo, en conjunto con el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, de recondicionar dicha facilidad.
“La reserva natural de la Isla de Mona es un lugar único en Puerto Rico. La Comisión de Turismo, Recursos Naturales y Ambientales del Senado visitó dicha reserva hace poco más de una semana para evaluar su funcionamiento. Junto al secretario del DRNA, Waldemar Quiles, recorrimos las facilidades de apoyo, las cuales se encuentran en buenas condiciones. Lo que sí vamos hacer es asistir en los esfuerzos por mejorar la pista de aterrizaje en ese islote, esencial para la transportación de los vigilantes y biólogos que ahí laboran”, expresó la Senadora.
“Nos encontramos evaluando la posibilidad de someter legislación para identificar partidas dirigidas a mejorar esa pista, particularmente el reemplazo de marcadores de viento y rótulos, entre otros. Igualmente, me estaré comunicando con el Director Ejecutivo de la Autoridad de los Puertos para estudiar la posibilidad de que exista alguna partida de fondos federales dirigidos a pistas como esta”, dijo Jiménez.
La pista de aterrizaje en la isla de Mona cuenta con una extensión de 792 metros de largo y 15 metros de ancho. La pista es utilizada primordialmente por naves aéreas del DRNA, al igual que otras agencias gubernamentales en caso de emergencia.
La Isla de Mona, junto al Islote Monito, componene una reserva natural altamente regulada bajo la jurisdicción del DRNA.
De otra parte, cierto personal del DRNA es el único que habita permanentemente la isla de Mona, mientras
que quienes deseen visitar dicha reserva deben obtener un permiso previo para poder acampar, transitar, pescar y cazar. La caza es típicamente de cabras y cerdos salvajes.
En adición, en la Reserva se ubica un laboratorio para la investigación científica, la cual incluye estudios relacionados a las materias de la arqueología, geología, oceanografía, manejo de especies exóticas y conservación de especies amenazadas (iguana de roca, tortugas marinas y pájaros endémicos), entre otros.
ASSMCA llama a la prevención y recuerda líneas de ayuda en el Día Mundial de la Prevención del Suicidio
declaraciones escritas.
BAYAMÓN – ASSMCA llama a la prevención y recuerda líneas de ayuda en el Día Mundial de la Prevención del Suicidio
BAYAMÓN (CyberNews) – La administradora de la Administración de Servicios de Salud Mental y Contra la Adicción, doctora Catherine Oliver Franco, hizo el miércoles un llamado a la reflexión, al apoyo mutuo y a la esperanza en el Día Mundial de la Prevención del Suicidio.
“No podemos ser indiferentes ante el dolor de quienes sienten que ya no tienen salida… cada vida cuenta y merece ser vivida con dignidad y esperanza”, dijo Oliver Franco en
La funcionaria señaló señales de alerta que toda persona debe atender: cambios marcados en la conducta o el ánimo, pérdida de interés en tareas cotidianas, alteraciones del sueño o la alimentación, consumo de alcohol o drogas, expresiones sobre la muerte, reparto de objetos de valor afectivo y actos de despedida. Recalcó que la intervención debe ser inmediata: tomar en serio lo expresado, no dejar sola a la persona, escucharla y conectarla con ayuda profesional.
La gobernadora Jenniffer Aidyn González Colón afirmó que la política pública prioriza la salud mental y la prevención del suicidio, con espacios de apoyo y acceso a profesionales “a solo una llamada”. Indicó que se fortalecen los
canales de contacto para que las personas se sientan escuchadas, valoradas y acompañadas.
La agencia recordó que la Línea PAS opera a toda hora, sin costo y con confidencialidad, en el 1-800-981-0023 y 9-8-8. Las personas sordas cuentan con videollamada en 787-615-4112. También está disponible el chat en lineapas. assmca.pr.gov para quienes prefieren escribir. “Buscar ayuda es un acto de valentía y amor propio”, añadió Oliver Franco. Oliver Franco reiteró que hablar salva vidas, escuchar sana corazones y acompañar siembra esperanza. Llamó a construir una cultura de empatía y solidaridad para que, en Puerto Rico, cada vida cuente y siempre existan razones para vivir.
Celebran en Manatí convención de capacitación laboral
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MANATÍ – La primera Convención de Capacitación Laboral y Desarrollo Económico del proyecto Puente Tecnológico para la Optimización Laboral (PTOL), se celebró el miércoles en el Centro de las Artes de Manatí.
Con la participación de desempleados, subempleados, emprendedores, patronos, líderes comunitarios y representantes de la academia, sector privado y agencias gubernamentales de Barceloneta, Manatí y Ciales. El evento buscó alinear la formación pro-
fesional con las necesidades del mercado laboral, establecer acuerdos de colaboración y potenciar el talento local en industrias críticas.
La convención incluyó paneles sobre políticas públicas, innovación, empresarismo, sostenibilidad y el impacto de la inteligencia artificial. Se celebró además una feria de reclutamiento con patronos como Dorado Beach, Manpower Group, Costa Bahía Hospitality Collection, CARICO, entre otros. Los asistentes participaron en mentorías, exhibiciones de ideas innovadoras y el PTOL Business Pitch para emprendedores emergentes.
La directora ejecutiva del CEMI, Odette Piñeiro Caballero, resaltó que la convención integró educación, empleabilidad y empresarismo, ofreciendo herramientas para transformar el talento en empleos de calidad que fortalezcan la economía local.
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The Boss finally gets a biopic, just not the one we expected
By BEN SISARIO
For months last year, Jeremy Allen White had Bruce Springsteen constantly speaking into his ears.
White was listening, over and over, to Springsteen’s 18-hour audio narration of his memoir, “Born to Run,” as part of extensive preparation to play him in the forthcoming film “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” which dramatizes the rock icon’s struggles to make his 1982 album, “Nebraska.”
“That was on in the house all the time,” White, best known as the star of the FX series “The Bear,” recalled in a recent video interview. “When I’d go for a run, when I’m going for a walk, when I’m making dinner. It was helpful to have his voice with me all the time.”
“Deliver Me From Nowhere,” written and directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart”) and set to be released Oct. 24, has its share of the high-decibel heroics endemic to rock biographies, like a sweat-drenched White belting out “Born to Run” to a roaring arena crowd or jamming before a smaller gang of the Jersey Shore faithful at the Stone Pony.
But by focusing on “Nebraska” — a gallery of desperate, despairing characters, rendered in starkly acoustic form — and the depressive breakdown that Springsteen experienced in the aftermath of its creation, the film instead tells a story about the fragility of mental health and the limits of art alone to sustain it. In one striking scene, adapted directly from Springsteen’s memoir, the man usually seen as the platonic ideal of the stadium-commanding rock titan enters a therapist’s office and, without uttering a word, erupts in tears.
Cooper’s goal, he said, “was never about telling the whole story of Bruce Springsteen.”
“I was striving to make something that was quieter and more interior, which is about this very specific time in Bruce’s life,” the director added, “about a man who’s facing some of the trauma that he’s been carrying since childhood.”
“Deliver Me From Nowhere” is the first time that Springsteen has allowed his story to be dramatized on film, and it’s no accident that “Nebraska” is its heart. Springsteen has said he views the album as perhaps his best, but it has long stood out as an oddity, and maybe a mystery, in his body of work.
Made at the same time that he began working on songs that two years later ended
up on “Born in the U.S.A.,” Springsteen recorded “Nebraska” alone on a rudimentary fourtrack tape machine in a rented house in Colts Neck, New Jersey, not far from where he grew up in Freehold. Springsteen worked on it in the months after a successful tour for “The River,” his first No. 1 album, which brought with it industry pressures to keep the hits rolling.
Warren Zanes, a musician and academic who first heard “Nebraska” as a teenage guitarist in the 1980s band Del Fuegos, said that despite his love for the album, he had long had difficulty comprehending it as a career move.
“It was, to me, one of the greatest left turns in the history of popular music,” Zanes said.
After reading the minimal description of “Nebraska” in Springsteen’s memoir — which is immediately followed by a detailed, probing account of an emotional crisis on a cross-country drive — Zanes began working on a book about the album, interviewing Springsteen and his longtime manager, Jon Landau. That book, also titled “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” was published in 2023, and Cooper based his screenplay on it.
Cooper’s film portrays Springsteen in this period as solitary and troubled, but also obsessively fruitful, drawing inspiration from Terrence Malick’s 1973 crime-spree drama “Badlands,” from the abrasive New York punk duo Suicide, from his own past. Springsteen develops the “Nebraska” songs while conjuring painful boyhood memories of his brooding, heavydrinking father, who is seen in one black-andwhite flashback striking the young Bruce. Eager for escape but fearful of losing the solidity of his roots, Springsteen begins a relationship with a single mom named Faye — a classic workingclass Jersey girl, sweet but tough — but he cannot commit to her. (A composite figure, Faye is the only major character in the film not fully based in fact.)
“Bruce was haunted, not in the gothic sense, but spiritually,” said Cooper, sporting a black Stone Pony cap, a nod to the stalwart club Springsteen frequented. “I think he was haunted by his very emotionally distant father, haunted by this kind of myth of America — people who are striving for the American dream and falling short.”
Cooper said that he and Springsteen were determined not to make a hagiography, but rather to capture the singer-songwriter’s struggles and failings in addition to his successes.
“I wasn’t interested in mythologizing him,” the director said. “I wasn’t chasing the Boss. I’m chasing the man in a bedroom in Colts Neck with a four-track recorder, trying to make sense of his life, the trauma that he’s carried since he was a child.”
Once closely guarded, Springsteen’s experiences with depression eventually began to creep into his public biography, and he addressed them head-on in his 2016 memoir. His relationship with his father was also an undercurrent in “Springsteen on Broadway,” his 2017 solo storytelling performance.
“Long ago, the defenses I built to withstand the stress of my childhood, to save what I had of myself, outlived their usefulness,” Springsteen wrote in his memoir. “I relied on them to wrongly isolate myself, seal my alienation, cut me off from life, control others and contain my emotions to a damaging degree. Now the bill collector is knocking, and his payment’ll be in tears.”
White, Cooper said, was the only person he considered for the film’s lead. “I think they thought that I could tell a complex story with quiet moments, and with physicality,” White said.
But the actor hesitated at first. The part involved a significant amount of performance, but White was not a singer and had never played guitar. “I was like, ‘Look, I’d love to do this with you,’” he recalled telling Cooper. “‘I love Bruce. Are you sure you don’t want a guy that knows how to do these things already?’”
“And then at some point, Scott shared that Bruce wanted me to do it,” White added. “And at that point I went, OK, I’m not going to stand in this man’s way.”
Much of the film centers on Springsteen’s close, almost brotherly relationship with Landau, who as a music critic had championed Springsteen before becoming his manager and occasional producer. Their storied partnership, dating to 1975, is one of rock’s longest and most successful.
Jeremy Strong (“Succession,” “The Apprentice”) plays Landau as empathetic yet pragmatic. When he hears “Nebraska” for the first time, the manager strives to understand not only the music, but also what it says about his client’s wounded psyche. “He has a kind of magisterial sensitivity,” Strong said of Landau.
But Landau knows there is a limit to how much he can help Springsteen. At the end of
Actor Jeremy Strong in Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug. 21, 2025. The Boss finally gets a biopic, just not the one we expected; Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong, the stars of “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” and the director Scott Cooper on capturing a haunted rock icon. (Charlotte de la Fuente/ The New York Times)
Jeremy Allen White in Los Angeles, Aug. 24, 2025. (Ryan Pfluger/The New York Times)
the singer’s road trip, when he arrives to an empty new home in Los Angeles, he makes a desperate phone call to Landau, who tells him, “You need help — professional help.” Springsteen begins therapy, which he has credited with turning his life around.
Still, a degree of tension surrounds the release of “Nebraska,” especially with not-sosubtle pressure from the record company, CBS.
Of course Landau and Springsteen are ultimately vindicated. “Nebraska” went to No. 3 and was hailed by critics as a masterpiece of dark Americana. His next album, “Born in the U.S.A.,” elevated Springsteen to the level of global superstar.
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Making sense of the forces driving global markets
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Surprisingly soft U.S. producer price inflation figures on Wednesday spurred outside bets on a half a percentage point cut in U.S. interest rates next week, pushing Wall Street to new highs, lifting gold, and pulling bond yields lower. In my column today I look at how the combination of Fed rate cuts and sticky inflation will reduce ‘real’ U.S. rates and yields, spelling bad news for the dollar.
If you have more time to read, here are a few articles I recommend to help you make sense of what happened in markets today.
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Oil prices spiked on Wednesday after an Israeli attack in Qatar’s capital Doha, and the Polish zloty had its worst day in over a month after Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace, the first time a member of NATO is known to have fired shots during Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The moves weren’t too dramatic, but were a reminder to investors of the political risk in pockets around the world that can quickly spill over into asset prices and market volatility.
‘Real’ rate dip threatens to pull down dollar
The dollar has been beaten down this year as investors have priced in a resumption of the Federal Reserve’s rate-cutting cycle. But even if lower nominal rates are already reflected in the greenback’s price, lower ‘real’ rates may not be.
The greenback has gotten a bit of respite recently after recording its worst start to any calendar year since the era of freefloating exchange rates was introduced over 50 years ago. But it will face a renewed headwind if its real interest rate support evaporates, which currently seems likely.
If the Fed pulls the rate cut trigger next week, as expected, it will be doing so with inflation around 3% - a percentage point above the central bank’s 2% target. Further easing amid sticky prices means the gap between the U.S.’s inflation-adjusted or ‘real’ interest rate and those of its developed market peers should narrow – bad news for the dollar.
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Boat suspected of smuggling drugs is said to have turned before US attacked it
By CHARLIE SAVAGE and HELENE COOPER
AVenezuelan boat that the U.S. military destroyed in the Caribbean last week had altered its course and appeared to have turned around before the attack started because the people onboard had apparently spotted a military aircraft stalking it, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The military repeatedly hit the vessel before it sank, the officials added, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. President Donald Trump has said he authorized the strike and claimed the boat was carrying drugs.
The disclosures provide new details about a military operation that was a startling departure from using law enforcement means to interdict suspected drug boats. Legal specialists who have called it a crime to summarily kill suspected low-level smugglers as if they were wartime combatants said the revelations further undercut the administration’s claim that the strike was legally justified as self-defense.
Trump announced the strike last week, saying it took place in international waters and had killed 11 people who he said were transporting drugs “heading to the United States” and were part of a Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. He has not put forward evidence to support those assertions but has said “we have tapes of them speaking.”
While the White House has not provided a detailed legal rationale, it has put forward the outlines of a novel argument that using lethal military force was permissible under the laws of armed conflict to defend the country from drugs because 100,000 Americans die annually from overdoses. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said people suspected of smuggling drugs toward the United States pose “an immediate threat.” Trump, in a letter to Congress, justified the attack as a matter of self-defense.
Many legal specialists, including retired top military lawyers, have rejected the idea that Trump has legitimate authority to treat suspected drug smuggling as legally equivalent to an imminent armed attack on the United States. Even if one accepted that premise for the sake of argument, they added, if the boat had already turned away, that would further undermine what they saw as an already weak claim of self-defense.
“If someone is retreating, where’s the ‘imminent threat’ then?” said Rear Adm.
President Donald Trump returns to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after attending the men’s final of the U.S. Open in New York on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025. The White House argument that using military force against a Venezuelan boat was permissible under the laws of armed conflict has raised questions from many legal specialists, including retired top military lawyers. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times)
Donald J. Guter, a retired top judge advocate general for the Navy from 2000 to 2002. “Where’s the ‘self-defense’? They are gone if they ever existed — which I don’t think they did.”
Rear Adm. James E. McPherson, the top judge advocate general for the Navy from 2004 to 2006 who later served in the first Trump administration in several prominent civilian military roles, including general counsel of the Army, agreed.
“I would be interested if they could come up for any legal basis for what they did,” he said, adding, “If, in fact, you can fashion a legal argument that says these people were getting ready to attack the U.S. through the introduction of cocaine or whatever, if they turned back, then that threat has gone away.”
The White House did not directly address questions about the boat’s maneuvers or the nature of the strike, instead repeating the administration’s position on the attack. Trump “acted in line with the laws of armed conflict to protect our country” from “evil narco terrorists trying to poison our homeland,” said Anna Kelly, a White House spokesperson.
Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesperson, said, “This strike sent a clear message: If you traffic drugs toward our shores, the United States military will use every tool at our disposal to stop you cold.”
The U.S. Coast Guard, sometimes with help from the Navy, has frequently interdicted boats suspected of smuggling drugs
in the Caribbean Sea, searched for illicit cargo, and — if its suspicions were accurate — arrested the people aboard for prosecution.
Trump has long wanted to take much harsher steps against drug trafficking, including saying that drug dealers should get the death penalty. In his first term, he praised President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines for doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem” in the nation where Duterte’s government had approved the summary killing of suspected drug dealers. Duterte now faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court over his drug war.
After returning to office, Trump directed his administration to begin labeling various Latin American criminal gangs and drug cartels as terrorist organizations, breaking with the tradition of limiting that status to violent groups that are motivated by ideology rather than illicit profit. Legally, such a designation permits sanctions like freezing a group’s assets, but it does not create authorization to use military force against it.
In July, Trump signed a still-secret directive instructing the Pentagon to use military force against some of the criminal groups his team had designated as terrorist organizations. The attack on the boat last week appears to signal an opening phase of operations stemming from that directive.
Trump, in announcing the attack, posted a 29-second video on social media that edited together several clips of aerial surveillance. It showed a speedboat cutting through the water, with a number of people onboard, before an explosion.
But officials briefed on the strike said that the video does not tell the entire story. It does not show the boat turning after the people aboard were apparently spooked by an aircraft above them nor does it show the military making repeated strikes on the vessel even after disabling it, the officials said.
Trump’s aides have boasted that the operation is only the beginning of a war against suspected drug smugglers. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters last week, “We smoked a drug boat, and there’s 11 narco terrorists at the bottom of the ocean, and when other people try to do that, they’re going to meet the same fate.”
Adding to the legal controversy is uncertainty over what standards, if any, the Trump team has set for the strength of the intelligence about who and what is on a boat for the U.S. military to summarily kill
everyone aboard. Trump joked last week that not just drug smugglers but also fishermen may now think twice about going to sea in the region.
“I think anybody that saw that is going to say, ‘I’ll take a pass,’” Trump said. “I don’t even know about fishermen. They may say, ‘I’m not getting on the boat. I’m not going to take a chance.’”
One open question is where the boat was headed. Rubio initially told reporters last week that it was probably headed toward Trinidad and Tobago or some other country in the Caribbean, but administration officials have since characterized it as destined for the United States.
Another is what it was carrying. Some have expressed doubts that a vessel of its size would need an 11-member crew. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has called it “despicable and thoughtless” to glorify killing people accused of crimes without trials, has argued that if there were drugs, it was more likely cocaine than fentanyl — the drug most responsible for overdoses.
On Tuesday, Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNN that the administration had provided no evidence that the boat was taking drugs to the United States.
“If there’s a civilian boat that’s suspected of anything, particularly in international waters, you have to make an attempt to stop the boat,” he said, describing what he said was supposed to be standard rules of engagement. “You only fire, really, if fired upon.”
The legal question is whether Trump can simply choose to reject that approach and shift the problem of drug smuggling from law enforcement rules to the harsher framework of wartime rules, especially when Congress has not authorized any armed conflict with gangs and cartels like Tren de Aragua.
Geoffrey Corn, a retired uniformed lawyer who was the Army’s senior adviser for law-of-war issues, said he believed Trump’s and Hegseth’s order was not justified as an act of self-defense. He expressed concern that what he saw as an apparently illegal order was passed down through the military chain of command and carried out.
The apparent turning of the boat before the attack began, he said, reinforced that judgment.
“I think it’s a terrible precedent,” he said. “We’ve crossed a line here.”
What to know about Israel’s airstrike on Hamas in Qatar
By EPHRAT LIVNI
Israel attempted to kill senior members of Hamas’ leadership in an airstrike earlier this week in Qatar, a primary mediator to end the war in the Gaza Strip and a U.S. ally.
The Israeli attack on Qatari soil could complicate ties between the nations and undermine ceasefire negotiations.
Here’s what to know.
Why did Israel attack?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement Tuesday that they had ordered the attack on Qatari soil “in light of an operational opportunity” and “given the fact that it was this Hamas leadership that initiated and organized the Oct. 7 massacre,” as well as subsequent attacks on Israel.
“Over are the days when leaders of terror enjoy immunity anywhere,” Netanyahu said in a speech later Tuesday, in reference to the strike.
Who was killed?
Palestinians gather to view the wreckage after Israeli warplanes destroyed an 11-story high-rise building in Gaza City following a warning on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. Israel attempted to kill senior members of Hamas’ leadership in an airstrike Tuesday in Qatar, a primary mediator to end the war in the Gaza Strip and a U.S. ally. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)
A Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Majed al-Ansari, said the attack in the capital, Doha, had targeted a residential building where senior Hamas politicians lived. The area hit was near schools and foreign embassies. The strike killed a member of Qatar’s internal security forces and injured others, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Hamas said that Israel had failed to kill senior officials in the group. But the son of Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’ chief negotiator, was killed in the attack, as was his office manager and three other people affiliated with Hamas.
How have Qatar and others responded?
Qatar denounced the attack, as did others in the international community.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister, said, “We have reached a decisive moment where there must be a response from the entire region to such barbaric actions.” He accused the Israeli government of trying “to sabotage every attempt to create opportunities for peace.”
Middle Eastern nations, including Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, condemned the strikes, as did France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, who called it “unacceptable, whatever the reason” and Keir Starmer, the prime minister of Britain, who warned it could “risk further escalation across the region.”
President Donald Trump said on social media Tuesday that he did not make the decision to attack Qatar and was informed of it too late to stop the strike. “Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very
hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker Peace, does not advance Israel or America’s goals,” he wrote. “However, eliminating Hamas, who have profited off the misery of those living in Gaza, is a worthy goal.”
How unusual is this?
Though Israel has assassinated Hamas leaders and other enemies on foreign soil, the attack in Qatar stands out because the nation has been seen as neutral and an important intermediary. Israel has previously avoided alienating it.
Israeli leaders view Qatar with some suspicion, but its negotiators visit often and it is a strong U.S. ally, hosting an American military base.
Netanyahu’s government has been emboldened in the past year, while its enemies are weakened, to act more aggressively around the region, bombing Iran for 12 days in June, carrying out strikes and ground incursions in Syria, and invading Lebanon last year for the first time since 2006 to fight the militant group Hezbollah.
What assassinations abroad has Israel carried out?
Ismail Haniyeh, who led Hamas’ political office, was killed last year while visiting Iran with a bomb planted in the guesthouse where he was staying. Katz, Israel’s defense minister, later acknowledged Israel’s role in the assassination.
Israel has carried out multiple killings of nuclear scientists and others in Iran, and, while at war with Iran in June, targeted Israeli attacks killed top Iranian government and military officials.
Last year, Israel also killed top officials of Hezbollah, in Lebanon, including its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and his presumed successor, Hashem Safieddine. Hezbollah began regularly firing on Israel shortly after the war in Gaza began, prompting first retaliatory fire and then a devastating Israeli offensive; a ceasefire was reached in November.
Israel carried out an airstrike last year in Syria that killed top Iranian military officers who worked with Hezbollah. Last month, Israel killed senior members of the Houthi group in Yemen, including the militia’s prime minister, Ahmed al-Rahawi. The Houthis have been attacking Israel and commercial ships in the Red Sea. Like Hezbollah, the group is backed by Iran and said it was acting in solidarity with Hamas.
Where do ceasefire negotiations stand?
Hamas said in a statement that their officials were discussing a ceasefire proposal by Trump when they came under attack.
The new proposal envisions a comprehensive agreement rather than the staggered approach to talks taken previously, and Trump on Sunday predicted that there would be a deal “very soon.” But the proposal appears to leave some of the most difficult points to be hammered out in further negotiations.
Qatar will continue serving as a mediator in the war, Sheikh Mohammed said Tuesday, but the country’s government has also formed a legal team to determine how to respond to Israel’s attack.
Trump administration halts IRS crackdown on major tax shelters
By JESSE DRUCKER
The Trump administration is quietly dismantling efforts by the IRS to shut down a slew of aggressive tax shelters used by America’s biggest multinational companies and wealthiest people.
The administration, bowing to pressure from industry groups, right-wing activists and congressional Republicans, is quickly rolling back several IRS law enforcement efforts, including one aimed at a lucrative tax shelter used by companies such as Occidental Petroleum and AT&T.
The IRS crackdown was projected to raise more than $100 billion over 10 years.
In April, the IRS said it would rescind Biden administration rules that had required companies using such tax strategies to report them to the agency, a change making it more difficult for auditors to find the transactions. The agency also eased a pair of rules that target abusive shelters, including one that imposes penalties on wealthy Americans who used an insurance tax scheme that multiple courts have tossed out.
In late July, 20 House Republicans asked the IRS to withdraw yet another line of attack on the transactions, one providing guidance to auditors on how to analyze the tax shelter deals.
That letter was “an attempt by elected officials to influence audits by the Internal Revenue Service of specific taxpayers,” said Larry Gibbs, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s IRS commissioner. “From the standpoint of the integrity of the system, I am concerned about it. It’s politicizing the tax process.”
The IRS is also turning on its own staff. Over the past several months, right-wing groups targeted the agency, accusing officials involved in the anti-tax-shelter efforts of being members of a “deep state” and biased against Republicans. The IRS suspended several employees, including some who worked on the crackdowns. The highest-level official, Holly Paz, is a longtime, respected agency official who ran the division that oversees large business and was placed on leave in late July.
“Based on my experience with Holly Paz, over a number of years, she is experienced, she is professional and she has been a leader at the IRS,” Gibbs said. He added, “I don’t find the attack on her to be credible.”
An IRS spokesperson did not respond to a series of questions.
A Treasury official said the department “withdrew the Biden administration’s guidance because it would have imposed enormous and retroactive compliance burdens on many ordinary, legitimate business transactions and honest taxpayers.”
Beginning in 2022, the Treasury and IRS began to express concerns about a potentially abusive transaction known as “basis shifting.”
The details are complex, but at their heart, they can work like this: Companies that buy expensive equipment often take gradual tax deductions equal to the cost, because of something called “depreciation.” Federal tax rules permit those deductions because, in
theory, the equipment becomes less valuable each year.
For example, oil companies typically can take depreciation deductions for much of the expensive equipment they buy to construct and operate their wells. Those deductions in turn shield profits from tax. If a company spends, say, $1 billion on steel pipes to line its oil wells, it could deduct nearly $150 million annually for seven years.
But at a certain point, the deductions run out, which may mean the profits generated by the oil wells are no longer sheltered from tax.
The basis shifting transactions targeted by the IRS effectively create a whole new series of deductions from thin air, permitting the companies to start sheltering the profits from tax all over again — without spending any new money.
The deals were promoted by two major accounting firms, Deloitte and EY, people familiar with their activity said.
These schemes are “very aggressive,” said Peter Barnes, a veteran lawyer at Caplin & Drysdale, a Washington, D.C., law firm specializing in taxes. “Some tax advisers are not only pushing the edge but even stepping over it.” He called Treasury’s plans to pull the regulations “very unfortunate.”
The shelters exploit the complex world of partnership tax rules, a subspecialty of the law little understood by IRS examiners and
even many experienced tax lawyers.
In 2021, The New York Times reported that a lack of expertise at the IRS meant the agency was largely incapable of auditing large partnerships, like private equity firms, oil and gas enterprises, real estate businesses, and venture capital firms. The IRS soon set up a unit to scrutinize the area.
A variety of groups lobbying to kill the crackdown on basis shifting — which relies on partnerships — also want to eliminate that new audit group. In a letter to the IRS, the National Association of Manufacturers accused the team of “contributing to the overreaching and unduly burdensome administrative state that the current administration is seeking to curtail.” The organization did not defend the underlying deals, but instead criticized the process that led to the crackdown.
Already this year, nearly the entire senior team of IRS lawyers with partnership expertise has left the agency, an unusual mass exodus even for a new administration.
One of the companies being examined by the IRS is Occidental Petroleum. The company, which is based in Houston and one of the country’s biggest oil producers, carried out a reorganization in the wake of its $55 billion acquisition of Anadarko in 2019, making “an adjustment to the tax basis in a portion of its operating assets,” according to securities disclosures.
The transaction helped create a future stream of potential tax deductions totaling nearly $13 billion, according to an analysis of the firm’s filings by Kevin Markle, a tax accounting professor at Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business.
As a result of the moves, in the first quarter of 2022, Occidental reported a tax benefit of $2.7 billion. The transaction helped drive the company’s effective tax rate down to just 6% that year, compared with the statutory rate of 21%.
The transaction is still under IRS review, according to the company’s most recent securities disclosure. An Occidental spokesperson, Jennifer Brice, declined to comment.
A similar series of transactions used by AT&T was identified in an IRS memorandum, but the company’s name was removed from that filing.
“Like many large companies, we routinely have a number of items under review” by the IRS, said an AT&T spokesperson, Jim Kimberly. “We are a responsible taxpayer and will continue to cooperate fully with the agency.”
The headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington on Feb. 25, 2025. Over the past several months, right-wing groups have targeted the IRS. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA
TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INS-
TANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA
EDWIN SOTO SANTIAGO
Parte Peticionaria EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: AG2025CV01383. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS
A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA.
POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe a continuación:
RÚSTICA: Solar ubicado en el Barrio Malpaso, Sector Cesar Ruiz, Carretera número cuatrocientos diecisiete (417) de Aguada, Puerto Rico. PREDIO
A con una cabida superficial de MIL SETECIENTOS VEINTINUEVE PUNTO DOS MIL QUINIENTOS NOVENTA Y UN METROS CUADRADOS (1,729.2591 MC), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO CUATRO MIL CUATROCIENTAS CUERDAS (0.4400 ODAS). En lindes al NORTE con quebrada y faja verde para uso público. Al SUR, con Agustín Ruiz, con quebrada y con Brunilda Cáceres; al ESTE, con quebrada, Brunilda Cáceres y camino municipal; y al OESTE, con Agustín Ruiz, quebrada que separa de los terrenos de Francisco Ramírez y de Omar Sánchez. Número de Catastro Parcela de Procedencia: 097-024-001-80. No consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. 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://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal, y notificar copia de la misma al representante legal de la parte peticionaria, quien es:
LCDO. GIL G. VILLANUEVA HERNÁNDEZ
SERLEGINT LAW, LLC PO BOX 5030 PMB 1704
AGUADILLA, PR 00605
TEL (787) 890-8080
CORREO ELECTRÓNICO: info@ serlegint.com Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 27 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 2:45 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido(a) por abogado y presentar oposición a la Petición. Este edicto será publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de 20 días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Se identificará en letra negrillas tamaño 10 puntos toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días, a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por los peticionarios sin más citarle ni oírle. POR ORDEN DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, libro el presente en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de agosto de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. VISTAS DE CANÓVANAS I, INC.,
Plaintiff v. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, as Receiver of Doral Bank, et als.
Defendant Case No. 16-02568 (FAB)(MEL). NOTICE OF SALE. To: VISTAS DE CANÓVANAS I, INC., RAMÓN MAC CROHON BLANCO; AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On August 27, 2018, and consistent with the terms and conditions of a certain Judgment by Consent and Settlement Agreement executed by
the parties, a Judgment (“Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff Bautista Cayman Asset Company, now Bautista REO PR Corp. (“Bautista”) against Vistas de Canóvanas I, Inc. (“Borrower”) and Mr. Ramón Mac Crohon Blanco (the “Guarantor” and together with the Borrower, the “Debtors”). The Judgment by Consent granted Bautista, among other things, the right to execute the Judgment entered in connection with the Judgment by Consent and request the foreclosure of the Real Estate Collateral, as defined therein, pursuant to the terms and conditions agreed by the Debtors and Bautista in the Judgment by Consent and Settlement Agreement. On July 17, 2024, this Court entered an Order Authorizing Execution of the Judgment (the “Order of Execution”), designating Mr. Joel Ronda Feliciano as Special Master (the “Special Master”) for the execution of the Judgment. On July 18, 2024, this Court entered, in accordance with the Order of Execution, a Writ of Execution (the “Writ of Execution”). The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Clerk of the United States Federal Court in Old San Juan. WHEREAS: pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or bank manager check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property, described in the Spanish language (the “Property”): Property 15,939. RUSTICA: Compuesta de 417,287.6511 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 106.1693 cuerdas, sita en el Barrio Hato Puerto del término municipal de Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. En lindes por el NORTE, con Sucesión José Pagán Mundo y con Sucesión Rafael Calderón Rivera; por el ESTE, con Juan Torres Medina, Pedro Fuster, Neftalí Ortiz, Emilio Vega y con Sucesión Juan Monge; por el SUR, con el Río Canóvanas; y por el OESTE, con Río Canóvanas y con la Carretera PR 185. Segregada parcela A de 2,912.795 metros cuadrados; parcela B de 100.0937 metros cuadrados; parcela D de 10,746.5396 metros cuadrados y parcela C de 35.3517 metros cuadrados al Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, fincas número 15,997; 15,998; 15,600 y
15,999, respectivamente. Property 15,939 is recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, Property Registry, Third Section of Carolina. WHEREAS: The Property is encumbered by its origin by: i) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority. (ii) Easement in favor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for use and benefit of the Department of Natural Resources of Puerto Rico. (iii) Perpetual easement of way in favor of property number 9,183 as dominant property over property number 7,712 as servient property. (iv) Mention of perpetual easement of way in favor of property number 12,668 as dominant property over property number 12,671 as servient property. (v) Mortgage I securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS
($825,000.00), property number 15,939 responding for the amount of FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS
($425,000.00) with interest at Prime Rate, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 411 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the eleventh (11) of November two thousand four (2004) before Notary Public Elaine Villanueva-Martínez, recorded at page 178 of volume 387 of Canóvanas, property number 12,754, 7th recording. (vi) Mortgage I securing a mortgage note in favor of Doral Bank, or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($825,000.00), property number 15,939 responding for the amount of FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
($400,000.00) with interest at Prime Rate, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 411 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the eleventh (11) of November two thousand four (2004) before Notary Public Elaine Villanueva-Martínez, recorded at page 167 of volume 387 of Canóvanas, property number 7,712, 15th recording. Property 15,939 is encumbered by itself: (vii) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 26 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-fourth (24) of April two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Rodney W. ColónOrtiz, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 2nd recording. (viii) Easement in favor of the Puerto Rico Electric Power
Authority, with a value of $1.00, per Certification dated May 18, 2006, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 3rd recording. (ix) Restrictive covenants and easement in equity, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 35 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-eighth (28) of June two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Rodney W. Colón, recorded at page 124 of volume 389 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 4th recording. (x) Mortgage II securing a mortgage note in favor of its bearer, or to its order, in the principal amount of SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($16,675,000.00), with annual interest at 6%, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 63 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twentieth (20) of December two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Manuel Correa- Calzada, recorded at page 183 of volume 391 of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, 5th recording. (xi) The rank of the mortgage that encumbers this property by its origin, for the amount of EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($825,000.00) (Mortgage I) was equaled in rank to that of the mortgage for SIXTEEN MILLION, SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($16,675,000.00) (Mortgage II), pursuant to the terms of deed 64, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twentieth (20) of December two thousand six (2006) before Notary Public Manuel Correa-Calzada, recorded at pages 124 and 183 of volumes 389 and 391, agora of Canóvanas, property number 15,939, on the margin of the 1st recording. (xii) A notice of complaint presented on May 18, 2017, which complaint was dated September 4, 2009, issued by the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico, San Juan Division, Civil Case Num. KAC2009-0837, followed by Doral Bank against Vistas de Canóvanas I, Inc., in the principal amount of $6,412,431.29, which notice of complaint is recorded at the Karibe volume of Canóvanas, Property 15,939, Annotation A. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that
the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on September 19, 2025, at 9:15 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $17,500,000.00 which is the sum of the minimum bid for Mortgage I ($825,000.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($16,675,000.00), which Mortgages were equaled in rank. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on September 26, 2025, at 9:15 a.m. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $11,666,666.67, which is twothirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale, specifically, the sum for Mortgage I ($550,000.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($11,116,666.67), which Mortgages were equaled in rank. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD public auction will be held on October 3, 2025, at 9:15 a.m., the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $8,750,00.00, which is one-half of the minimum bid for the first public sale, specifically, the sum for Mortgage I ($412,500.00) and the minimum bid for Mortgage II ($8,337,500.00), which Mortgages were equaled in rank.1602568The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the Property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank manager checks, except in case the Property is sold and adjudicated to Bautista, in which case the amount of the bid made by Bautista shall be credited and deducted from its credit; Bautista being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. If the third auction is deserted, Bautista REO may proceed to coordinate the execution of a deed of conveyance with the Marshal within twenty (20) days of the public sale, to take title of the Property in full satisfaction of the Judgment. WHEREAS: said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Order of Execution. Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article 107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the
Property will be executed and delivered by the Special Master after delivery of such Order of Confirmation. Once the Property is adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgage, and the price does not exceed the value thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior creditors be notified of the public sale of said property. For further information, reference is made to the Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 14, 2025. By: Joel Ronda, Special Master. Ronda Legal Services, LLC, rondajoel@me.com, 787-565-0515.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMON.
ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante v. CHEF JOMAR RIVERA, INC.; JOMAR RAFAEL RIVERA OCASIO, LAURA VANESSA CRUZ RAMOS, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta entre ambos
Demandado
CIVIL NÚM. BY2023CV06539. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA Y A LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES
YO, EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, al público en general, POR LA PRESENTE HAGO SABER: CERTIFICO Y HAGO SABER Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario de este Tribunal, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, en mi oficina, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, el día 17 de septiembre de 2025 a las 9:30 de la mañana de la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Apartment number one dash C (#1-C), located on the left wing of the first floor of the South Building of Condominium Las Torres with a floor area of seven hundred forty eight point cero cero (748.00) square feet; bounding on the NORTH, with outsider area facing central yard located between building, in a distance of twenty nine feet eleven inches (29’11”); on the SOUTH,
with access balcony and outside yard facing parking area, in a distance of twenty nine feet eleven inches (29’1”); on the EAST, with common reinforced concrete wall in Boundary with central core dividing both Wings; in a distance of twenty five feet (25’); on the WEST, with common reinforce concrete wall in boundary with apartment number one dash B (#1-B), in a distance of twenty five feet (25’). This apartment consists of a living-dining room, a kitchenette, three bedrooms, one bathroom, and a balcony leads to the common lobby on said floor and to elevators and stairs way which in turn lead to a through fare. Le corresponde a este apartamento punto seiscientos treinta y tres por ciento (.633%) en los elementos comunes generales del condominio del cual forma parte. Consta inscrito al folio 181 del tomo 629 de Bayamón Sur, finca #29138, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Primera Sección. La dirección física es: Condominio Las Torres Sur 1-C Lobby, Calle Gonzalo Rivera, Bayamón, PR 00956. Los tipos mínimos fijados para la ejecución del bien inmueble antes mencionado lo son las sumas de $85,000.00 para la Primera Subasta; $56,666.67 para la Segunda Subasta; $42,500.00 para la Tercera Subasta. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, hasta donde sea posible, el importe de la sentencia dictada el pasado 5 de junio de 2025 se dictó y notificó Sentencia en el caso de epígrafe, ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: $80,277.80 de principal, más $19,489.89 de intereses acumulados a esa fecha, más los que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la suma de $802.78 en recargos y otras penalidades, más los que continúen acumulándose hasta el pago total y completo de la deuda, más la suma de $8,500.00 por honorarios de abogados pactados. En caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 24 de septiembre de 2025 a las 9:30 de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para ésta será $56,666.67 que es las dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta el día 1ro de octubre de 2025 a las 9:30 de la mañana, y el tipo mínimo para esta subasta será $42,500.00 que es la mitad del precio mínimo pactado para la primera subasta. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera su-
basta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Todas las subastas deberán ser acordadas y celebradas según lo ordenado por el Tribunal. La subasta antes indicada se llevará a cabo en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. El inmueble antes relacionado NO consta afecto por gravamen preferencial. El inmueble antes relacionado consta afecto por el siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda del día 21 de noviembre de 2024, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, en el Caso Civil número BY2023CV06539, seguido por Oriental Bank, contra Chef Jomar Rivera, Inc.; Jomar Rafael Rivera Ocasio, Laura Vanessa Cruz Ramos, por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales Compuesta entre ambos, por la suma de $80,277.80, anotado el día 27 de marzo de 2025, al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 29,138, Anotación
A. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna, continuarán subsistentes; entiéndase que el rematante los acepta y quedan subrogados en la responsabilidad del mismo sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Para la publicación de este edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana, durante dos semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, libro el presente en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de AGOSTO del 2025. EDGARDO ELIAS VARGAS SANTANA, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA BAYAMON. ****
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. NASHALI M. VAZQUEZ OLIVO
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2024CV06372.
(Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: NASHALI M. VÁZQUEZ OLIVO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. ALEXANDRA J CRUZ RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TA2024CV01220. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: ALEXANDRA J CRUZ RIVERA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 04 de septiembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO
SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V. DELVIS I VAZQUEZ RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TB2024CV00635. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: DELVIS I VAZQUEZ RIVERA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 04 de septiembre
de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Demandante V.
JULIEMIL HART NOUEL
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CT2024CV00157. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: JULIEMIL HART NOUEL.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V.
RAFAEL R ALDANA
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TB2024CV00536. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre:. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: RAFAEL R. ALDANA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. WANDA L. CARABALLO DIAZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: DO2024CV00219. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: WANDA L. CARABALLO DÍAZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. ANGEL L DIAZ RAMOS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TA2024CV01265.
(Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: ANGEL L DIAZ RAMOS.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 04 de septiembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto
Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO
ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. GILBEN J CAMACHO VICENS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: YU2024CV00240. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.
A: GILBEN J. CAMACHO VICENS - P/C LCDO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 31 de agosto 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 05 de septiembre de 2025. En Yauco, Puerto Rico, el 05 de septiembre de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS
FUND, LLC
Demandante V. MAX QUINTERO MARTINEZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV10126. (Salón: 905 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: MAX QUINTERO MARTÍNEZ - 1871 CALLE BOSQUE PDA 25, SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO 00912. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de septiembre 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 05 de septiembre de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 05 de septiembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN LÓPEZ VILCHES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC Demandante V. ANGEL L SIERRA TORRES
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2024CV10131. (Salón: 905 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: ANGEL L. SIERRA TORRES - COND SAN JUAN CHARLETS 8050
CARR 844 APT 77 SAN JUAN PR 00926-9896; BO CAIMITO ALTO OA CARR
176 CAM ANDINO LOS FIGUER, SAN JUAN PR 00926.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de septiembre 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 05 de septiembre de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 05 de septiembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN LÓPEZ VILCHES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TRUJILLO ALTO SALLY ANN MARTINEZ JIMENEZ Demandante Vs. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO EN SUSTITUCION DE DORAL BANK CORPORATION, SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE Demandado
Civil Núm.: TJ2025CV00454. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: DORAL BANK; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE.
POR LA PRESENTE se le NOTIFICA Y EMPLAZA que ante este Tribunal se ha radicado una acción en el caso de epígrafe mediante la cual se solicita la cancelación de un pagaré hipotecario a favor DORAL BANK CORPORATION, por la suma principal de $104,900.00, con
intereses al 7.5% anual y vencimiento el 1 de diciembre de 2027, en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, según la Escritura No. 731, otorgada en San Juan, el 10 de diciembre de 1997 ante Reinaldo Segurola Pérez, inscrita al folio 25 del tomo 282 de Trujillo Alto, finca No. 14355 BIS, inscripción 6ta. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal y notificar con copia de la Contestación a la Demanda a la parte demandante Lcdo. Ivan Octavio Malavé De Jesús, Urb. Park Garsdens, P1-9 calle Chapultepec, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00926, Tel (787) 767-3293, correo electrónico ivanoctaviomalave@ gmail.com, dentro de los próximos 30 días a partir de la publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. 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 sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 2 de septiembre de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOURDES DÍAZ MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN ANA ROSA SANTIAGO Demandante Vs SUCN. PABLO SANTIAGO ORTIZ; COMPUESTA POR X, Y, Z; SUCN. MARIA LOPEZ JIMENEZ COMPUESTA POR A, B, C Demandados
Civil Núm.: SS2025CV00605. Sobre: DOMINIO CONTRADICTORIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCN. PABLO SANTIAGO ORTIZ; COMPUESTA POR X, Y, Z; SUCN. MARIA LOPEZ JIMENEZ COMPUESTA
POR A, B, C.
Por el presente edicto se le notifica que la parte demandante en
esta acción ha presentado una Demanda sobre Acción Contradictoria de Dominio en contra de ustedes. Por la presente se les emplaza y requiere para que contesten dentro de los 30 días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, notificando con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Nelson D. Soto, PO Box 813, San Sebastián, PR 00685. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se le apercibe que, si 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 San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de septiembre del 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN CARLOS GUSTAVO
BORREGO CONDE
Demandante / Plaintif V. DIANA KIKER
Demandado / Defendant Caso Núm.: SJ2025RF01162.
Sobre: DIVORCIO / About: DIVORCE (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE) (IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES). SUMMONS BY EDICT. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, SS. To: DIANA KIKER640 DAY AVE SW APT 2, ROANOKE, VA 24016. YOU ARE HEREBY summoned to file with the court a responsive pleading within days after service of this summons on you, excluding the day you were served. You must file a responsive pleading through the Unified Case Management and Administration System (SUMAC, by its Spanish acronym), which you may access at: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, unless the case has a paper record or you are a self-represented litigant, in which case you must file your responsive pleading with the Clerk of the Court and serve a copy of the same on the plaintiff’s attorney or on the plaintiff without an attorney. If you fail to file a responsive pleading within the cited term, the Court may render judgment by
default against you for the relief requested in the complaint or any other relief the Court may deem proper in the exercise of its sound discretion. Furthermore, you are advised that the Court may grant the following relief in cases under Law No. 57 of 2023, as amended, known as the Abuse Prevention, Family Preservation, and Child Safety, Well-being, and Protection Act, including placement of the child outside of the home, the commencement of proceedings to terminate parental rights, or any other measure in the interest of the minor child. [Law No. 57 of 2023, Section 33(b) and (f)]. You are advised that the Court will order a Custody Ratification hearing as provided in Section 34 of the Law No. 57 of 2023 and your appearance at that hearing is mandatory. You are advised of your right to appear with an attorney when applicable.
F/ ARMANDO L JIMÉNEZ LAUREANO
Attorney for Plaintiff Carlos G. Borrego Conde RUA 13800 / Bar Member 15134 PO Box 367844 San Juan, PR 00936-7844 Tel. 787-473-1780 ajimenez@capr.org
Issued under my hand and and seal of the Court, this 3 day of September, 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, NAME OF THE REGIONAL CLERK. MILAGROS VÁZQUEZ
VELÁZQUEZ, NAME OF THE ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE COURT.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO MARIO JOSE PEREZ CORREA Y OTROS
Demandante V. JESUS MANUEL PEREZ TORRES Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2023CV01289. (Salón: 205). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ANNE M. GALANES VALLDEJULINANIGALANES@GMAIL.COM. A: JESUS MANUEL PEREZ TORRESDIRECCIÓN: URB. JARDINES DE HUMACAO CALLE A #C-6 HUMACAO PR 00791-3742. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 04 de septiembre de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
DEBORAH
NIEVES DAVILA
Demandante V. FELIX LUIS DAVILA MARTINEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TB2025CV00276. (Salón: 701). Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE LA COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NEYSA N. GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ - NEYSA.GONZALEZ@ PRBUSINESSGROUP.COM. A: FELIX LUIS DAVILA MARTINEZ, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de setiembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de septiembre
de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 02 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS CARIBE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Demandante V. EMMANUEL BONILLA GONZALEZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025CV00951 (Salón: 802). 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. A: EMMANUEL BONILLA GONZÁLEZ.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 de septiembre 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 04 de septiembre de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 04 de septiembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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M&T 043087 ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR. Inversiones La Cima LLC
Demandante v. La Sucesión Hilda Benítez Sánchez t/c/c Hilda Benitez-Sánchez t/c/c Hilda Benítez compuesta
por Judith Bouronet Sánchez como posible heredera y a Fulano y Fulana de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos, Demandada.
CIVIL NÚM: HU2025CV00120. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor quién pagará de contado y en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, giro postal o por cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia el día 21 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en Urb. April Gdns E20 Calle 8, Las Piedras, PR 00771 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA:Solar marcado con el #20 del bloque E (E-20) de la Urbanización April Gardens, localizada en los Barrios Tejas y Montones del término municipal de Las Piedras, Puerto Rico,con un área superficial de 244.32 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #21 del bloque E, en una distancia de 24.00 metros; por el SUR, con el solar #19 del bloque E, en una distancia de 24.00 metros; por el ESTE, con la calle # 8, en una distancia de 10.18 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar #7 del bloque E, en una distancia de 10.18 metros. Sobre dicho solar enclava una casa construida de concreto armado y bloques para fines residenciales. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en el Folio 135 del Tomo 136 de Las Piedras, finca número 6881, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $148,500.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una segunda subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 28 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la prime-
ra subasta, o sea la suma de $99,000.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una tercera subasta en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 4 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:45 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $74,250.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 450, otorgada el día 9 de julio de 2015, ante el Notario Priscilla M. Santiago Acosta y consta inscrita en el Tomo KARIBE de Las Piedras, finca número 6881, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción tercera. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $127,251.97 más intereses al tipo pactado de 8.505% anual desde el 7 de junio de 2022. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Los cargos por servicio y las primas de seguro continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $14,850.00. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores ni preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Surge de un estudio de título que, sobre la finca descrita anteriormente, pesan los gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta mediante este procedimiento que se relacionan más adelante. A los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de, o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso, o al
deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se la apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2029, 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) menos fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante el Lcdo. Javier Montalvo Cintrón, RUA #17,682, Delgado Fernández, LLC, PO Box 11750, Fernández Juncos Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-1750. Tel. [787] 274-1414, jmontalvo@ delgadofernandez.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN M. PINTADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN SEBASTIÁN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC
COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. ORLANDO GUZMAN ORTIZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SS2025CV00233. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ORLANDO GUZMAN ORTIZ - BO PIEDRAS BLANCAS CARR 111 KM 24.0, SAN SEBASTIAN PR 00685-9281; HC-3 BOX 31934, SAN SEBASTIAN PR 00685.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección
electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN SEBASTIAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de julio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. IVELISSE ROBLES MATHEWS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. SHARON NEGRON DONES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00623. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SHARON NEGRON DONES - URB MOUNTAIN VW B11 CALLE 13, CAROLINA, PR 009878082.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cual-
quier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de julio de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. SHEILA M. VAZQUEZ RASPALDO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV04211. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SHEILA M. VAZQUEZ RASPALDO - BDA BUENA VISTA 159 CALLE 3, SAN JUAN PR 00917-1505. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO
MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico,
hoy día 30 de julio de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA I. COLÓN RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. OSCAR I. GARCIA BERRIOS Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00667. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: OSCAR I. GARCIA BERRIOS - COND BRISAS DE PARQUE ESCORIAL 300 BLVD MEDIA LUNA APT 201, CAROLINA PR 00987-5139; BO SANTA CRUZ CALLE FINAL ALMENDRO, CAROLINA PR 00985.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de julio de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. DEMANDANTE VS. TERENCE JAMES EGAN, KATHLEEN ANNE EGAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM. : VB2025CV00659. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. ss. A: TERENCE
JAMES EGAN, por sí y representación Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales; KATHLEEN ANNE EGAN, por sí y representación Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES, C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 2750655, 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 20 de AGOSTO de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. DEMANDANTE VS. STEVEN DANA LUND, KIMELA NOREEN LUND t/c/c KIMELA NOREEN WEBB Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NUM. : VB2025CV00658. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. ss. A: STEVEN DANA LUND, por sí y representación Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales; KIMELA NOREEN LUND t/c/c KIMELA NOREEN WEBB, por sí y representación de la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES
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) 2750655, 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 20 de AGOSTO de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO LA SAGRADA FAMILIA
Parte Demandante V. NORYMAR LAVIERA SOSTRE
Parte Demandada
Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV02495. Sala: 901. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: NORYMAR LAVIERA SOSTRE.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: AGS LEGAL GROUP, LLC
Abogados de la parte demandante
Lcdo. Ricardo A. Acevedo Bianchi - RUA 20637
Lcdo. José R. González RiveraRUA 13105
Lcdo. Juan A. Santos BerríosRUA 9774
P.O. Box 10242
Humacao, Puerto Rico 00792
Teléfono: (939) 545-4300
Email: rab@agslegalpr.com o jrg@ agslegalpr.com
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva, con copia a la representación legal de la parte demandante, dentro de los 30 días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día su publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://uni-
red.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, 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. Extendido bajo mi firma y Sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de agosto de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LAURA C. REYNOSO ESQUILÍN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
KP EL FORTRESS, LLC Demandante V. ORC DISTRIBUTION, INC. Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2025CV01465. (Civil: 407). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ELIZABETH DEL PILAR VILLAGRASA FLORESEVILLAGRASA@FERRAIUOLI.COM. ROBERTO A. CÁMARA FUERTESRCAMARA@FERRAIUOLI.COM. A: ORC DISTRIBUTION, INC., ROBERT BORGETTI. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de septiembre 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 05 de septiembre de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 05 de septiembre de 2025. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Denisse Minerva Torres Ruiz, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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Juana Díaz, Isabela notch wins in BSNF
By THE STAR STAFF
The Monarcas of Juana Díaz and the Pollitas of Isabela secured victories on Tuesday night in the National Women’s Superior Basketball league (BSNF by its initials in Spanish).
The Monarcas (Monarchs) won their third game of the season, rallying from an early double-digit deficit to defeat the Gigantes (Giants) of Carolina 62-59 at Guillermo Angulo Coliseum in Carolina.
Carolina led by 16 points, 27-11, after a Brittney Cedeño 3-pointer with 51 seconds left in the first quarter. However, a 36-13 comeback by the Monarcas between the second and third quarters turned the score around, 49-40.
Imani McGee led Juana Díaz with 23 points and 18 rebounds, Tess Amundsen added 12 points, and Leyinska Rivera contributed 10.
For the Gigantes, Aisha Sheppard finished with 27 points and Charity Harris had 10.
The Monarcas improved to 3-3 with the win, while Carolina saw its record fall to 3-4.
At Roger Mendoza Coliseum in Caguas, meanwhile, Lasha Petree scored 23 points as the Pollitas defeated the Criollas of Caguas, 85-79.
The victory put Isabela in first place with a 5-2 record while Caguas fell to 2-4.
chipped in 11 points.
Alisia Jenkins led the Criollas with 21 points. Jackie Benítez and Denise Solis each scored 12.
Ganaderas force a brief 3-way tie atop standings
The Ganaderas of Hatillo created a temporary threeway tie for first place on Monday night by defeating the Leonas of Ponce 75-62 at the Francisco “Pacho” Deida Coliseum in Hatillo.
The tie included the reigning champions, the Cangrejeras of Santurce, and the Pollitas, with all three teams holding a 4-2 record.
Hatillo took the first quarter 17-13. The Leonas briefly seized control in the second, 20-18, after a jumper by Talia von Oelhoffen capped a 5-0 run with 8:10 remaining.
Naomi Smith responded with a floater and Mckenzie Forbes added a 3-pointer to swing momentum back to the Ganaderas, 23-20, with 7:14 on the clock. The home team led at halftime, 35-28.
A deep shot from Ariel Jones marked the largest lead of the night, 58-41, with 3:16 left in the third quarter. Hatillo led 62-46 at the end of the period.
The Ganaderas’ offense was led by Forbes with 31 points, Jones with 14 and Essense Booker with 13.
Quionche Carter provided 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Pollitas, while Anisha George added 20 points and 12 rebounds, and Kaelynn Satterfield
For Ponce (1-4), Shelby Cheslek posted 22 points and 12 rebounds, Talia Von Oelhoffen scored 12 points, and Taya Corosdale added 11 points and 12 boards.
Senate honors Lancheras, Puerto Rican Women’s Basketball League champs
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Senate held a special ceremony to honor the Lancheras of Cataño, the new champions of the Puerto Rican Women’s Basketball League (LBPF by its initials in Spanish).
A unanimously approved Congratulatory Motion 1180 was presented at the event by Sen. Carmelo Ríos Santiago.
The motion, which had several co-sponsors, including Sen. Migdalia Padilla Alvelo, recognizes the historic achievement of the Cataño team and highlights the contributions of its players to the development of women’s basketball in Puerto Rico.
Cataño Mayor Julio Alicea Vasallo, accompanied by first lady Bethzaida Rodríguez Torres, thanked the Senate for the tribute and reaffirmed the municipal administration’s commitment to sports.
“At the municipality, we have prioritized the reconstruction of the Cosme Beitía Sálamo Coliseum, with a federal investment of more
than $8.1 million, which will allow us to return a modern, first-class facility to our people,” the mayor said. “This project, along with the rehabilitation of community courts and the youth tournaments we have promoted, is the best guarantee that sports in Cataño have a secure future.”
Alicea Vasallo added that “the presentation of this recognition, approved across party lines, demonstrates that the Lancheras are not only the pride of Cataño, but of the entire island.”
Ríos Santiago emphasized that “this achievement by the Lancheras is a triumph that belongs to all of Puerto Rico.”
“At the Senate, we reaffirm our commitment to continue supporting this team and women’s sports, because we know the positive impact it has on our youth and communities,” he said.
The team’s manager, María Figueroa, stated that the recognition validates the effort, dedication, and sacrifice of each player, who today inspire new generations of athletes on the island.
Imani McGee led Juana Díaz with 23 points and 18 rebounds.
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