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Firefighters criticize veto of pension adjustment bill
By THE STAR STAFF
The United Firefighters Union of Puerto Rico (SBUPR) voiced strong outrage Monday over Governor Jenniffer González’s decision to veto Senate Bill 647, known as the Firefighters’ Reasonable Retirement Adjustment Act, without any explanation to the public or the first responders directly affected by this decision.
“On Sunday, we found out, just like everyone else, through the media about the Governor’s veto. This came after the La Fortaleza Chief of Staff requested 24 hours for us to respond just last Wednesday. Instead of sticking to her word, she opted for a silent and cowardly veto, reflecting a blatant lack of respect for the brave men and women of the Puerto Rico Firefighters Bureau who risk their lives every day,” stated José Tirado, president of the Firefighters Union.
Tirado expressed that the Governor’s inaction not only demonstrates insensitivity but also shows a clear disregard for those who have dedicated years of service to Puerto Rico.
“We will stay organized, firm, and determined—because a dignified retirement is not a handout; it’s a matter of basic justice for public servants who put their lives on the line daily, especially when there are identified funding sources that won’t affect the General Fund,” Tirado said.
He announced plans to share updates on new actions and initiatives in the coming days to continue this vital fight.
On Friday, both active and retired firefighters marched
to call for the Governor’s immediate signature on the bill, which had been unanimously approved by the legislature and had been sitting before her for 28 days. The deadline for signing or vetoing the bill expired on Saturday.
“The sacrifices our firefighters make can no longer be brushed aside. This bill represents a promise of justice—both financial and moral—for those who have devoted their lives to public service,” Tirado emphasized on Friday. “We demand that the Governor heed the cries of those working under extreme conditions, with meager wages and limited resources. We aren’t asking for privileges; we are demanding dignity.”
Tirado criticized the Governor for previously referring to the firefighters who aided in rescue efforts during a nightclub fire in the Dominican Republic as “heroes.” “What we’re asking is simple: where there’s talk, there must be action. Otherwise, it veers into hypocrisy,” he asserted.
The bill’s approval and subsequent creation of the law would ensure that firefighters can retire receiving 50% of their average salary. Currently, Tirado explained, retired firefighters receive about 23% of their income from 2013, which translates to less than $500 per month.
According to Tirado, this initiative wouldn’t strain the government’s budget, as the funds would come from income generated by Fire Prevention Certificates, required for shortterm rental properties, and deposited into a trust designated specifically for that purpose.
Economic power to women violence survivors
By THE STAR STAFF
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his initiative seeks to give women survivors not only their voice, but also their economic power,” said Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez in a written statement.
The agreement provides financing of up to $3 million and the necessary support to support the creation or expansion of businesses led by women referred through OPM programs. Participants will receive individualized guidance, workshops on financial education, leadership, business formalization, and access to new markets.
“These women won’t just be creating businesses. They’re rebuilding
their lives, leading their futures, and making decisions that were previously denied them due to fear and control,” said BDE President Carmen A. Vega Fournier. This initiative is based on Law 74 of 2023, which recognizes economic violence as a form of abuse. Its manifestations include restricting access to money, impeding professional development, and controlling financial decisions.
The officials agreed that economic empowerment is an effective tool for breaking cycles of violence. The funds can be requested at fixed rates starting at 4 percent, according to the BDE. For more information, citizens can visit www.bde.pr.gov or call 787-6414300. They can also visit the BDE centers in San Juan, Ponce, Yauco, or Mayagüez.
President of the Firefighters Union José Tirado.
BDE President Carmen A. Vega Fournier and Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez.
Forensics and Police partner to identify unclaimed bodies
By THE STAR STAFF
The Institute of Forensic Sciences (ICF) and the Puerto Rico Police formalized an agreement on Monday to improve communication with the families of unidentified or unclaimed deceased individuals, with the goal of facilitating their identification and eventual claim.
“Since its creation in 2024, the Identification Unit has done extraordinary work on cases that require scientific verification. With the fieldwork carried out by police officers, we will expand and speed up contact with families. This collaboration will allow us to identify more cases and provide quicker responses so that citizens can claim their deceased relatives,” said ICF Executive Director Dr. María Conte Miller in a written statement.
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EThe agreement includes participation from the Police Bureau of Community Relations and the Office of Missing Persons under the Auxiliary Superintendency of Criminal Investigations. These units will support the effort through home visits, guidance to family members, and accompaniment throughout the process. The police will also assist with transportation for families who have difficulty reaching the ICF.
“The commitment of the Puerto Rico Police goes beyond crime prevention. We are also a source of support and compassion for our communities. This partnership with the Institute of Forensic Sciences allows us to help many families finally receive answers, say goodbye to their loved ones with dignity, and find closure,” said Police Superintendent Joseph González in a written statement.
The agreement will be implemented across all 13 police
regions and aims to strengthen access to truth and dignity for the deceased, as well as emotional well-being for their families. Training sessions for staff have already begun through joint efforts between both agencies.
to evaluate Xuvo Technologies contract with Health Department
xecutive Director Francisco J. Domenech Fernández of the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Authority is facing criticism for failing to submit the Health Department’s contract with Xuvo Technologies for federal evaluation.
On May 19, 2025, the Department of Health executed a contract with Xuvo Technologies, LLC, to implement a software program on its website for the issuance and renewal of permits, certifications, or licenses. According to the website of the Comptroller’s Office, the contract is set to expire on June 30, 2030, and involves a payment of $5 from the Department to Xuvo for user licenses and services provided. The agency replaced TecSecure with Xuvo amid concerns about data control but did not hold a tender process for Renovacionesonline.
In a letter dated August 1, the Oversight Board stated, “The contract was not submitted to the Oversight Board for its consideration in accordance with the Contract Review Policy established under Section 204(b)(2) of PROMESA.” This policy applies to all
contracts or related contracts, including any amendments, modifications, or extensions, with an aggregate expected value of $10 million or more, in which the Commonwealth or any covered
Justice clears DNER secretary of wrongdoing
By THE STAR STAFF
The Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Justice, Hon. Lourdes L. Gómez Torres, announced that the agency has sent an official communication to the Office of the Special Independent Prosecutor Panel (OPFEI), recommending not to appoint a Special Independent Prosecutor (SIP) to investigate the Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER), Waldemar Quiles Pérez.
The recommendation follows the completion of a preliminary investigation conducted by the Division of Public Integrity and Comptroller Affairs (DIPAC).
“After a thorough analysis of the evidence gathered and applicable legal standards, we concluded that there is no sufficient cause to believe that Secretary Quiles Pérez engaged in criminal conduct in the matters reviewed. Therefore, it
was recommended not to proceed with the appointment of a Special Independent Prosecutor,” said acting DIPAC director, prosecutor Sonia Martínez Ortiz.
The investigation stemmed from a referral submitted on January 14, 2025, by at-large Senator Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, who alleged possible irregularities related to Administrative Order 2025-01, signed by the DNER Secretary on January 9, 2025.
The order was reviewed under the provisions of the Puerto Rico Penal Code (Law 146-2012), Law No. 1-2012 (Organic Law of the Office of Government Ethics of Puerto Rico), and Law No. 2-1988, which governs the OPFEI.
“We carefully assessed the allegations in light of Articles 254, 262, 263, and 269 of the Penal Code, related to undue influence, dereliction of duty, negligence, and perjury, respectively. We also considered Article 4.2(b) of the Ethics Law.
instrumentality is a counterparty.
A preliminary review of the contract available on the Comptroller’s Office website revealed that Xuvo can charge a processing fee for each transaction on the Department’s website, ranging from $5 to $20. The Department will deposit these processing fees into a bank account in Xuvo’s name, and Xuvo is responsible for reconciling the amounts.
It is important to note that the basis for determining whether a proposed contract meets the policy’s $10 million threshold is its aggregate expected value, not just the amount paid by the government for the contract.
The Oversight Board emphasized, “Considering the processing fees that Xuvo is entitled to under the contract, the aggregate expected value of the contract is considerably higher than the $5 that the Department shall pay to Xuvo for user licenses and services.” In light of media reports concerning the competitive procurement process for the contract, the Oversight Board requested that the Department submit the contract and all required documentation by August 8, 2025.
No evidence was found to support any criminal violation,” Martínez Ortiz added.
In compliance with Law No. 2-1988, the notification was sent today to the members of the OPFEI Panel, as well as to the complainant and the respondent parties.
The Justice Secretary submitted her recommendation and the corresponding preliminary investigation report to the OPFEI.
Secretary of the DNER Waldemar Quiles Pérez
Executive Director Francisco J. Domenech Fernández of the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Authority
ICF Executive Director Dr. María Conte Miller
DNER evaluates seaweed on US beaches
By THE STAR STAFF
The Specialized Sargassum Division of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) acted on Monday in response to the significant accumulation of sargassum along U.S. territory beaches.
High concentrations of seaweed have impacted the beaches of Sardinera in Fajardo, Condado, the San Juan Bay entrance, Escambrón, and the U.S. Coast Guard docks. Additionally, officials are conducting assessments in Río Grande and other coastal towns, as announced by Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) Secretary Waldemar Quiles.
To accurately gauge the volume of this unprecedented sargassum event and to evaluate wind conditions, a drone will be deployed over the affected areas of Río Grande. This critical information will be shared with municipal administrations to develop a robust action plan.
“We are confronting an unprecedented sargassum event in Puerto Rico’s modern history. Recently, many coastal municipalities have recorded sargassum concentrations at alltime highs for this century. In response, our personnel from the Specialized Sargassum Division will commence removal operations in the Sardinera area of Fajardo. Teams have also been dispatched to various locations in San Juan to evaluate the situation, and we will coordinate closely with Coast Guard leadership to maximize our efforts,” the Secretary stated in a written announcement.
“According to research from the University of Central Florida and recent data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), over 40 million metric tons of sargassum are expected to flow through the tropical Atlantic, surpassing the
previous record of 38 million tons. Since January, our personnel have been proactively addressing this sargassum season, and we are treating this issue with the urgency it demands,” Quiles emphasized.
“I strongly urge the mayors of the affected municipalities to submit Form 113. Enabled by the executive order signed by our Governor, Jenniffer González, this form allows for the use of public funds to tackle this emergency effectively,” the DNER Secretary concluded.
On July 1, 2025, the Governor signed Executive Order 2025-037, which is designed to streamline processes, ensuring that government agencies can take immediate action to manage the proliferation of this algae and mitigate its impacts. This executive order also provides exemptions to expedite our response to this pressing issue.
Sargassum is a type of brown algae belonging to the genus Sargassum. The EPA describes it as “widely distributed throughout tropical and temperate oceans, in shallow waters and coral reefs, as well as in the open sea.”
According to the environmental advocacy website paralanaturaleza.org, Puerto Rico is currently grappling with the most significant influx of these floating algae recorded this year. Julio Morell, a seasoned professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez Campus (RUM), remarked that this challenging event began unfolding around the weekend of June 11 and is still in progress. He noted that satellite imagery continues to reveal vast quantities of this macroalgae lingering in the Atlantic waters. Historically, the peak season for sargassum in the Caribbean typically spans from July to August.
The exact reasons behind this dramatic surge of sargassum remain somewhat enigmatic. However, experts specu-
late that various contributing factors, including agricultural runoff, elevated water temperatures, and fluctuations in wind patterns, ocean currents, and rainfall, might be exacerbating the phenomenon, as highlighted in reports by The Guardian. Looking ahead, predictions indicate that 2025 could set a daunting record for sargassum accumulation in the Atlantic, with scientists anticipating a staggering 40% increase compared to the previous high noted in 2022. This development poses a significant environmental challenge for the Caribbean region. Puerto Rico’s coastlines are already experiencing the repercussions: since mid-May, popular beaches such as Playa Santa in Guánica and Punta Santiago in Humacao have reported significant sargassum build-up, creating discomfort for both residents and visitors alike
Recently, many coastal municipalities have recorded sargassum concentrations at all-time highs for this century.
Judge dismisses suit that sought to stop natural gas monopoly
By THE STAR STAFF
Superior Court Judge Anthony Cuevas Ramos has dismissed former Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority board head Luis Aníbal Avilés Pagán mandamus petition that sought to compel the government to halt the consolidation of a monopoly over natural gas in the U.S. territory.
The court held that it lacked the authority to issue the type of relief sought, a mandamus or order against a public official. Instead, the judge noted that the plaintiff would have to seek a declaratory judgment, through which a court can adjudicate the application of a law to a particular set of facts.
“From the outset, this court noted that the acts that allegedly constitute breaches of ministerial duties by the co-defendant officials date back to 2018 and extend to the present… the chronological order of the events and their outcome are incompatible with the mandamus action. Plaintiff essentially seeks that this court retroactively declare
these acts null and void through a mandamus action,” the judge reasoned.
“Contrary to Plaintiff’s theory, contracts entered into by the agencies and/or public corporations herein in past years cannot be challenged through a remedy such as mandamus. Instead, Plaintiff has at its disposal the mechanism of a declaratory judgment,” he concluded.
At the center of the lawsuit is the exclusive contract awarded to New Fortress Energy (NFE) for the operation of Piers A and B at the Port of San Juan. The lawsuit contends that the natural gas supply contracts were signed without effective competition or adequate regulatory review.
“This appeal requests something fundamental: strict compliance with the laws of Puerto Rico. It seeks to prevent the establishment of a vertically integrated private monopoly over natural gas, which would violate the current legal framework. The complacency of these agencies cannot be allowed to transform essential infrastructure into an asset controlled by a single entity,” stated Avilés Pagán.
Superior Court Judge Anthony Cuevas Ramos
Many Jewish voters back Mamdani. And many agree with him on Gaza.
By LIAM STACK
Ben Sadoff knocked on roughly 1,000 doors as a canvasser for state Assembly member
Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary campaign in New York City, and the voters he met brought up the same issues again and again: the cost of rent, the cost of child care and the sense that things in the city were going in the wrong direction.
One thing they did not frequently mention was Israel, he said. And when voters — including Jewish ones — did bring it up, their comments often focused on their anguish over Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, where starvation is spreading and about 60,000 people have been killed, according to officials in Gaza.
“I think this campaign has really shown us something we have known for a while,” said Sadoff, who is Jewish and works as a bike mechanic in Manhattan. “There are a million Jewish New Yorkers who have wide-ranging opinions on all kinds of issues.”
Zohran Mamdani, the state Assemblyman and presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee, speaks alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network in New York, June 28, 2025. Mamdani has criticized Israel in ways that were once unthinkable for an elected official in New York, home to America’s largest Jewish population.. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times)
Mamdani’s commanding victory in the Democratic primary for mayor alarmed many Jews who are concerned by his outspoken criticism of Israel. But he won the votes of many other Jewish New Yorkers, some of whom said in interviews that they were unbothered by that criticism and inspired by his intense focus on affordability. Often these voters said that Mamdani’s views on Israel, and his vocal opposition to its treatment of Palestinians, echoed their own.
Mamdani has criticized Israel in ways that were once unthinkable for an elected official in New York, home to America’s largest Jewish population. He has decried Israel as an apartheid state. He has said it should ensure equal rights for followers of all religions instead of favoring Jews in its political and legal system. He has supported the movement that seeks to economically isolate it, known as Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
And he has endorsed the view of Israel’s leading human rights organizations and of genocide scholars — including some in Israel — that it is committing genocide in Gaza, an allegation the Israeli government has denied.
Mamdani’s positions on Israel have alienated him from Zionist Jewish groups, many of which have accused him of being antisemitic, a charge that he denies. His views also became a line of attack for some of his primary rivals, including former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running in the general election as an independent.
Steve Israel, a former Democratic member of Congress who represented parts of Long Island and Queens, said that Mamdani’s primary victory was “‘Twilight Zone’ stuff” for some Jewish New Yorkers.
“Mamdani’s positions on Israel up to now are way out of the mainstream of the Jewish community, and the irony here is that his progressive policies on economic issues would
have at least a plurality of support by Jewish voters,” he said. “But the toxicity of his positions on Israel have just become impossible for those same voters to forgive.”
Yet none of Mamdani’s stances kept him from winning a decisive primary victory over Cuomo, his closest competitor.
It is difficult to determine how many Jewish voters supported Mamdani because even in New York, the Jewish population is too small to be measured with precision by most polls. Neighborhoods with large numbers of Orthodox Jewish residents voted overwhelmingly for Cuomo. He also won other heavily Jewish areas such as Riverdale in the Bronx, though outside of Orthodox neighborhoods, the Jewish population is generally not concentrated enough to allow analysis using precinct-level vote data.
But Mamdani enjoyed a broad victory that suggests at least some backing from many different constituencies, and preelection polls, which generally undercounted support for him, showed him earning double-digit support among Jewish voters.
Data from the ranked choice voting process also shows that Mamdani was selected as an alternate choice by two-thirds of voters whose top choice was Brad Lander, the city comptroller and the highest-ranking Jewish official in city government, who made his identity a key part of his campaign and who cross-endorsed Mamdani during the primary.
Jeffrey Lerner, Mamdani’s communications director and one of his many Jewish advisers, said in a statement that it was “no surprise that thousands of Jewish New Yorkers proudly cast their
ballots for Zohran in the June primary, despite relentless fearmongering from Republicans and the billionaire class.”
In recent comments at the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, New York, Cuomo attributed Mamdani’s victory to both a surge of support from younger voters and a shift in the way younger people think about Israel and antisemitism.
Cuomo, who has made unflinching support of Israel part of his political brand, joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team after the International Criminal Court accused him of war crimes and issued an arrest warrant for him last year.
In his remarks, Cuomo asserted that more than half of Jewish primary voters had cast their ballots for Mamdani, though he did not back up that claim. He appealed to the synagogue’s wellheeled and mostly older congregants for their help.
“With those young people, the under-30 people, they are pro-Palestinian and they don’t consider it being anti-Israel,” Cuomo said, according to a recording posted online by The Forward, a Jewish news organization.
“Being anti-Israel to them means anti-Bibi’s policies, anti-Israel government policies,” he added, referring to Netanyahu by a common nickname. “And they are, and they were, highly motivated, and they came out to vote.”
Though Mamdani did drive up turnout among younger voters, his supporters come from a range of age groups, many of whom share his belief that you can criticize Israel while still supporting Jewish New Yorkers.
Lisa Cowan, 57, a philanthropy executive in Prospect Heights who is Jewish, ranked Mamdani second on her ballot, after Lander.
She praised Mamdani’s focus on affordability and the “positive spirit” he had brought to the campaign. His comments on Israel did not bother her, she said, because he struck her as “a nuanced thinker” and “someone who loved New York and loved New Yorkers.”
Mamdani has said that fighting antisemitism would be a priority for him as mayor, and has promised to increase funding to fight hate crimes in New York by 800%.
12 Years after bankruptcy, a changed Detroit is picking a mayor
By MITCH SMITH
The last time Detroit voters chose a new mayor, the local government was largely controlled by the state, the population was in free-fall and the city was careening through the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
A dozen years later, Detroit is functional again. Local control of City Hall was long ago restored, the city’s bond rating is on the upswing and the streetlights are back on. And after decades of hemorrhaging residents, the city has seen slight upticks in population in the past two years, according to Census Bureau estimates.
Now, with Mayor Mike Duggan not running for a fourth term, a large field of candidates wants to lead a changed Detroit, population 645,000. The candidates and their supporters broadly agree that Detroit is better off than it was, and that the city’s downtown and midtown were transformed in the Duggan years. At stake now, residents say, is Detroit’s next chapter, and whether the renaissance in parts of the city will spread to still-struggling neighborhoods.
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“I think a lot of people are concerned that, as our current mayor leaves, do we have someone in place that can sustain what is in place,” said Mary Sheffield, the City Council president and leading candidate in preelection polling. She said Duggan had “made some tremendous progress in helping Detroit move forward” and has emphasized her collaboration with him on the Council.
Other candidates, while acknowledging some of Duggan’s successes, have described Detroit as a “tale of two cities” and promised to prioritize people and places that they said had been overlooked.
“The divide that is happening in the city, that continues to happen in this city, is epic,” said Todd Perkins, a lawyer who is among the candidates competing for a spot in the November general election. “We’ve got the No. 1 riverfront in the country, we have a bustling downtown. And then you go 2, 3 miles outside of there, and you see despair.”
Voters will have their pick of nine candidates who qualified for the ballot when they go to the polls Tuesday. The top two finishers will face off in a November election.
Sheffield, who would be the first woman to lead Detroit, has consistently led in polling, but the race for
second is far less clear. Contenders include James Craig, a former police chief; Fred Durhal III, a city council member; Saunteel Jenkins, a former City Council president; Solomon Kinloch Jr., the pastor of a large church; and Perkins. Craig is a Republican, and the other leading candidates are Democrats, though the election is officially nonpartisan.
Residents and candidates alike describe Detroit, where nearly one-third of people live in poverty, as a work in progress. Those who stayed through the worst days of state-appointed emergency management and bankruptcy voiced pride about Detroit’s improved reputation, as well as relief that city government was now providing the basics again. Ambulances come when you call. The grass in parks is being mowed.
Many, though, described an uneven recovery that had not fully taken root in corners of the vast city, which covers 139 square miles. Sections of vacant, overgrown land stretch along blocks where houses and shops stood decades ago, when Detroit had nearly 1.85 million residents. Jenkins, one of the candidates, said “the overwhelming majority of neighborhoods in the city of Detroit have not been turned around.”
Duggan, who is Detroit’s first white mayor in decades, won reelection by overwhelming margins in each of the past two cycles and retains high approval ratings in Detroit, where around 75% of residents are Black.
This election is poised to return a Black leader to City Hall, with many of the frontrunners coming from Detroit’s churches and political establishment. The discussion on the campaign trail has focused less explicitly on race than on the disparities between thriving
business districts that have attracted newcomers and struggling neighborhoods where those who remain have deep ties.
In interviews, Detroiters said there were not enough grocery stores, that buses do not run often enough and that safety remains a concern even as homicides have dropped.
“I think he’s done, I want to say, a decent job,” Glenda McGadney, a retired federal worker, said of Duggan, whom she did not vote for in prior elections. “What I don’t like about him that is that he had an opportunity, I think, to do more in the neighborhoods, and he did not do that.”
Jinnie Andrews, who lives in a senior apartment building that Sheffield visited recently, said she was a fan of Duggan and was looking for someone who would build on his work. But Andrews, like others, said she wanted to see more growth in her part of Detroit, and pressed Sheffield on how she would fill vacant buildings that once housed CVS and Rite Aid drug stores.
Some candidates have been quick to praise Duggan. Durhal said that “I honestly think Mayor Duggan has done an amazing job” and pledged to work on “continuing to eliminate the narrative that there is a tale of two cities.”
A longtime Democrat, Duggan recently left the party and decided to run for governor of Michigan as an independent. He said he broadly agreed with the mayoral candidates’ focus on developing neighborhoods, though he noted that property values in many parts of Detroit had doubled or tripled during his tenure.
“Some neighborhoods, when I came in, had 10% abandoned homes and some had 80% abandoned homes,” Duggan said. “The ones with 10, 20, 30, 40% abandoned homes came back faster, and the others took more work. And if I were running for reelection again, I would be talking about reaching those other neighborhoods.”
The mayoral election comes a year after Michigan, a closely divided swing state, played a crucial role in returning President Donald Trump to the White House. Detroit, the state’s largest city, is heavily Democratic and most of its voters selected Kamala Harris, but Trump performed better in the city than in previous elections. He also offended some residents when he said that “our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president.”
“I would love to see a mayor from this city really go toe-to-toe with him and reclaim our reputation,” said Janice Gates, who works for a nonprofit.
Others were looking for a different approach. Andrews said she was no fan of Trump, but would like the next mayor to try to work with the president if possible. Craig, a former police chief in Detroit and Cincinnati and the only prominent Republican running for mayor, has pitched his relationship with the president as a selling point.
“I say, ‘Look, don’t judge me because of the relationship,’” Craig said. “Whether you like him or not, he’s the sitting president, and we will need federal help.”
Mayor Mike Duggan of Detroit, left, meets with patrons during a visit at a cafe in Detroit, on Sept. 13 2024. With Duggan not running for a fourth term, a large field of candidates wants to lead a changed Detroit, population 645,000..
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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL
The quiet girls’ revolution underway in Africa
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Secrets swirl through homes and villages around the world, and in a poor district of Makeni, Sierra Leone, they involve what families do to the genitals of their daughters.
More than 2 million girls around the world endure genital mutilation before their fifth birthday each year, and most women here in the West African nation of Sierra Leone have been cut. We often think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities or what governments do to dissidents, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they love.
In a low-slung home in the city of Makeni, a mom explained why she wants her daughters to be cut: It is her culture. It keeps girls chaste. It marks their sacred transition into womanhood and welcomes them into a community.
But her daughter, Alimatu Sesay, 18, was having none of that. “I’m not ready to go” get cut, she said firmly. “It is my right.”
Sesay’s mother, Mariama Sillah, laughed and rolled her eyes. She herself was cut as a young girl, and generations of the female lineage have belonged to the secret Bondo society that conducts the cutting. She doesn’t want her daughter left behind.
But Sesay has seen the damage. She’s heard horror stories from friends. And she doesn’t see it as a rite of passage but as a brutal relic of the past.
Yet Sesay knows that her mother wants what is best for her, and she doesn’t resent her for it. “She is my everything, my light,” she said, embracing her mom with both arms.
And Sillah said she would not force her daughter, even if
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she thinks she is making a mistake. The argument grew more impassioned when it moved to Sesay’s younger sister, newly 9 years old: The mother said she wanted the girl cut, while Sesay said she’d do anything to protect her.
To an American like me, appalled by the practice and allowed to listen in, the conversation reflected something hopeful — not only Sesay’s resistance but also the way that more girls are pushing past the taboo of talking about female genital mutilation, or FGM. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to report on the practice, because traditionally it has been unmentionable, but it seems to be losing its silencing power. In a journey across Sierra Leone and Liberia, I found some young women were reluctant to discuss the topic, but many others were willing to candidly discuss it.
Here in West Africa, FGM usually entails cutting the clitoris and the labia minora. Some other African countries practice a more extreme version, infibulation — removing the clitoris and labia, and then sewing the vaginal opening shut to ensure virginity before marriage. More than 230 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM, according to the World Health Organization.
The practice, also sometimes called female genital cutting or female circumcision, is often meant to reduce female sexual pleasure and thus disincentivize sex outside marriage. But in West Africa, it can also mark a girl’s transition into womanhood and welcome her into one of the culturally revered Bondo and Zoes female societies.
As it has become more possible to discuss FGM, it has also become possible for health officials to discuss the consequences. Cutting is often done with an unsterilized razor blade, without anesthetic, and the risks include infection, hemorrhaging, pain during intercourse and diminished sexual desire.
Fatmata Kondowa, a midwife in Makeni who underwent FGM as a child, said that infections are common but often go untreated because of the insular nature of the societies. Girls sometimes die, she said, and then are buried quietly and secretly.
FGM is so horrific and widespread that it should be much higher on the global human rights agenda. To their credit, organizations like the United Nations Population Fund, UNICEF and U.N. Women have long spoken out against the practice, as have many aid groups. But my
conversations with women and girls left me thinking that the most effective path to bring about change isn’t outside pressure but education.
Time and time again, I heard the same refrain: Education gave girls a vocabulary to name what was done to their bodies and a framework to say no before it could happen. It gave them access to biology, to human rights, to peers who shared their resistance. It gave them voices, sharpened by facts, strong enough to challenge their mothers, their aunts, their entire lineage.
So I came to see girls’ education as the most effective tool we have to dismantle FGM from within. Not international condemnation, not even criminalization — though both are crucial. It’s the girl in a school uniform, textbooks under her arm, asking her mother: “Why?” And the mother, for the first time, pausing before she answers.
In Bo, Sierra Leone, I asked a group of more than 20 girls if they wanted to be initiated into the secret societies, meaning that they would be cut. Nine hands shot up immediately.
As I was tallying the number in my notebook, a 35-yearold mother named Fatu pulled me aside. She said that many of the girls who raised their hands don’t actually want to be cut. In this community, she said, noninitiated girls are marginalized, and women in the Bondo secret societies pick fights with them to pressure them into submission. Fatu said that for this reason, she sent two of her daughters to live in a different village for their safety.
Mabinty Thoronka, a 19-year-old who was initiated when she was 4 or 5 years old, said that women in the Bondo society will “flog you” if you resist.
“They say that you are stubborn,” she said.
Sierra Leone’s Parliament has weighed a ban on FGM. The Caucus on Female Genital Mutilation has urged the societies to continue without FGM. International bodies continue to urge lawmakers to criminalize the practice, framing it not as a cultural rite but as a human rights emergency.
Tity Sannoh, 22, a Freetown resident, was initiated when she was 12 years old. She felt pain in her vulva for two years after being cut, and she said she has lingering trauma as a result.
She described what happened to her: “You have more than five, 10 people. Some will hold your mouth for you not to shout, so people won’t hear. Some will hold your feet, spread your feet widely. Some hold your hand.” Then one person holds the clitoris and cuts it underneath. Sannoh said she did not sleep for the next two days because of the pain. “I started having tender pain in my leg down to my foot,” she said.
When someone like Sesay opens a biology textbook, she learns about infection and scar tissue and trauma. But she also absorbs a far more dangerous idea in the eyes of the cutters: that she has a right to say no. And that is the quiet revolution already underway — in classrooms, in whispers among friends, in small communities like Sesay’s, where a daughter brings to the table the talk of girls’ rights.
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Obra maestra La Salud llega al Hospital UPR Dr. Federico Trilla
La pintura se exhibe de forma permanente en el vestíbulo del hospital, transformando el espacio de entrada en una experiencia de contemplación y conexión.
ElHospital UPR Dr. Federico Trilla anunció la incorporación de una obra maestra del arte puertorriqueño a su vestíbulo principal: La Salud, del artista Francisco Boira y Castells. Esta pieza, donada por la empresa Triple-S, marca el inicio de un esfuerzo institucional para integrar el arte como una forma de apoyo emocio-
nal, aprendizaje y bienestar en el ambiente hospitalario, para beneficio de nuestros pacientes, visitantes y el equipo de trabajo.
“La obra La Salud representa una alianza con el legado del arte puertorriqueño y, al mismo tiempo, un tributo a la vocación de cuidar. Cada visitante será recibido por una escena que invita a reflexionar sobre la compasión, el conocimiento y el acto de sanar. Como hospital universitario, también vemos en esta pieza una expresión clara de nuestra misión educativa: formar profesionales que integren ciencia, sensibilidad humana y excelencia clínica”, expresó la Lcda. Yelitza Sánchez, directora ejecutiva del Hospital UPR Dr. Federico Trilla.
La pintura se exhibe de forma permanente en el vestíbulo del hospital, transformando el espacio de entrada en una experiencia de contemplación y conexión. Su presencia refuerza el compromiso del hospital con un modelo de atención centrado en el ser humano, donde la ciencia se encuentra con la cultura y el cuidado adquiere nuevas formas de expresión.
“Esta obra nos recuerda que el arte tiene un espacio prominente en promover sanación al igual que el paciente, el médico y la comunidad”, dijo el Dr. José
Novoa, principal oficial médico de Triple-S. “Esta donación es un paso más en la alianza por la salud que trabajamos con el Hospital UPR Dr. Federico Trilla, con el cual iniciamos un proyecto para atender la salud materno infantil”.
El tema de la educación en salud, presente en la obra, enlaza directamente con uno de los pilares fundamentales del Hospital UPR Dr. Federico Trilla: su rol como centro académico de formación clínica. Afiliado a la Universidad de Puerto Rico, el hospital alberga programas de residencia en Medicina de Emergencia, Psiquiatría, Medicina de Familia y otras once especialidades médicas. Como hospital universitario, promueve un entorno donde la enseñanza, la investigación y la práctica clínica conviven a diario para formar profesionales de la salud con preparación científica, sensibilidad humana y compromiso con la excelencia.
La integración de esta obra forma parte de la estrategia institucional del hospital para humanizar los espacios de salud. Diversos estudios han demostrado el impacto positivo del arte en la recuperación emocional y física de los pacientes, así como en la reducción del estrés en entornos clínicos. Esta iniciativa también busca acercar el hospital a la comunidad, fomentando una relación más abierta, inclusiva y transformadora. La Salud está ubicada en el nivel G del hospital y puede ser visitada por el público general durante el horario regular.
Alcaldesa de Morovis anuncia nueva sede de la Legislatura Municipal
Laalcaldesa de Morovis, Carmen Maldonado González, anunció que la Legislatura Municipal contará con una nueva sede, ubicada en la carretera 159, Avenida Corozal.
Según la Ejecutiva Municipal, estos esfuerzos forman parte de su compromiso con el fortalecimiento institucional y el desarrollo ordenado del gobierno municipal.
“La democracia se sostiene con hechos. Esta nueva sede es una muestra clara de que creemos en las instituciones y trabajamos para dignificar su labor”, expresó la Alcaldesa.
La nueva sede busca ofrecer mejores condiciones de trabajo a los legisladores municipales y facilitar el acceso de la ciudadanía a los procesos legislativos,
en un ambiente funcional, accesible y representativo.
“Agradezco a los miembros de la Legislatura Municipal por su trabajo y compromiso con nuestro pueblo. Esta nueva sede es también un reconocimiento a esa labor”, añadió Maldonado González.
Con esta acción, la Administración Municipal reafirma su compromiso con el respeto entre poderes y la defensa de las estructuras que permiten el funcionamiento democrático.
“Nuestra gestión va más allá de obras visibles; también es fortalecer la institucionalidad que garantiza el bienestar común. Apostamos al orden, al respeto y a la buena administración pública”, concluyó la Alcaldesa.
Al centro, la alcaldesa de Morovis, Carmen Maldonado González, junto a miembros de la Legislatura Municipal.
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Five horror movies to stream now
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
This month’s picks include menacing grandparents, famished vampires and pernicious cultists.
‘Best Wishes to All’
Vampires usually lust after blood. But in Yuta Shimotsu’s delightfully warped debut feature, the suckers are after a different precious resource that’s even trickier to attain: happiness.
Yearning for a getaway from the city, a young Japanese nursing student (Kotone Furukawa) travels to the countryside to visit her grandparents (Masashi Arifuku and Yoshiko Inuyama), who almost immediately start grilling her about her personal happiness. (The characters are unnamed.) The young woman gets a reprieve from her relatives’ probing questions when she reunites with a handsome young farmer (Koya Matsudai) she knew as a child. So far, nothing weird.
It doesn’t take long before our heroine notices odd things at her grandparents’ house, including a childhood photo with a face scratched out and thumps coming from the second floor. During a meal, her grandparents start oinking like pigs. But then a guy in underpants with his eyes and mouth sewed shut starts crawling across the floor and — I won’t say more. But it’s here that Shimotsu takes a sharp turn into Yorgos Lanthimos territory, finding vivid horror and dark humor in a fable about family values gone haywire. It’s a sick hoot. (Stream it on Shudder.)
‘Sinners’
A hot summer day is a good time to be inside and (re) watch Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster mashup of bloodsucker thriller and engrossing historical drama, set one day in a small Mississippi town during Jim Crow.
An electric Michael B. Jordan stars as the twin brothers Smoke and Stack who, along with a blues musician named Sam-
mie (Miles Caton) and other townsfolk, fight off a band of vampires led by Remmick (Jack O’Connell), an Irishman. Coogler deftly draws on classic action-horror films — “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Salem’s Lot,” “Assault on Precinct 13” — to tell a goreforward story about American racism, with “Beloved” and its Black considerations about the afterlife haunting the perimeters.
Too bad Coogler repeatedly links vampirism and racism with a bullhorn instead of a whisper. “I want your stories and I want your songs,” Remmick says, his teeth bared, belaboring the obvious.
Bonus: The film comes in a Black American Sign Language (BASL) version, which HBO Max notes in a news release, is “a distinct dialect of American Sign Language with its own dynamic history and unique grammar.” (Stream it on HBO Max.)
‘So Fades the Light’
It’s been 15 years since Sun (Kiley Lotz) survived a deadly raid on the compound of the Iron and Fire Ministry, an end times cult that worshipped and feared her as a girl god-queen. The group’s Jim Jones-like leader (D. Duke Solomon), is freshly out of jail, and with a van and a plan, Sun drives across Michigan to confront him and the trauma he left behind.
That’s the setup to this slow-burn, hallucinatory revenge drama by Rob Cousineau and Chris Rosik, a filmmaking duo from suburban Detroit who go by Get Super Rad. Their scrappy and smart movie is a wonderful example of regional horror filmmaking made on a dime that nonetheless feels rich with understanding, especially about forgiveness. Sun’s vengeance quest takes her to old-school diners and past shuttered factories, locations that cinematographer John Anderson Beavers renders handsomely.
Cousineau’s script is unusual for a cult thriller in that its earthly deity is an innocent young girl, not a power-hungry
man, giving the film’s religious concerns a refreshingly feminist bent. The ending feels too tidy, but the trip there is a doozy. (Rent or buy it on major platforms.)
‘The Human Hibernation’
Portuguese director Pedro Costa isn’t a name you’d associate with horror. But the formal elements that make Costa’s films so singular — languid scenes, neorealist casting, painterly composition — kept coming to me as I watched this beautiful and malign feature debut from Spanish filmmaker Anna Cornudella Castro.
The film opens as humans emerge from a below-ground hibernation, their hands emerging through dirt. Back on land, they return home to shoo away the animals that took over their living rooms, in hopes of returning to life as they knew it before some kind of disaster hit Earth. Like cultists, these humans dress in the same dark uniforms, signaling that a new world order is in place. Their attempts to communicate with animals through silent screams suggest that the laws of nature have been upended too.
As this meditative and mysterious film inches along — serving science fiction atmospherics, lots of despair and almost no discernible plot — the horrors of living on its uncanny planet become disturbingly clear. I watched this movie around midnight on a rainy night. For maximum unease, I suggest you do the same. (Stream it on Tubi.)
‘Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project’ From director Max Tzannes, who wrote the screenplay with David San Miguel, comes this goofy, from-the-heart love letter to indie horror moviemaking, complete with shot-for-shot nods to “The Blair Witch Project” and to “Waiting for Guffman”style ensemble improv comedy. It’s a charmer.
Chase (Brennan Keel Cook), a young filmmaker from Milwaukee, treks to a forest in the middle of the California nowhere with his eager cast and crew to make a Bigfoot found-footage movie called “The Patterson Project,” which sounds a lot like a certain groundbreaking found footage film set in the Maryland woods.
Unfortunately, what Chase and the French documentary crew following him find is a remote cabin with spotty power, occult-looking trinkets and a leading actor named Danielle Radcliffe, not the Radcliffe they were expecting — foreshadowing a tough road ahead for their scrappy shoot. But those hiccups are nothing compared to what happens when someone opens a book of necromancy, and this entertaining horror mockumentary takes a tonal detour in which laughs give way to the creeps. (Rent or buy it on major platforms.)
“Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project”
“Best Wishes to All”
Stocks
Indexes end up 1%; investors ramp up rate-cut views after weaker payrolls
All three major U.S. stock indexes ended more than 1% higher on Monday as investors sought bargains after the previous session’s selloff and increased bets for a September rate cut in the wake of Friday’s weaker-than-expected jobs data.
Tesla shares rose after the electric vehicle maker granted CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares worth about $29 billion.
Odds for a September rate cut now stand at about 84%, according to CME Fedwatch. Market participants see at least two quarter-point cuts by the end of this year.
Friday’s bleak July jobs data also accompanied steep downward revisions for May and June.
“Today is just a little bit of dip-buying. It does show a pretty healthy sign of folks out there looking for an opportunity to get in,” said Mike Dickson, head of research and quantitative strategies at Horizon Investments in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“It’s a little concerning in the sense the labor market ... definitely appears to be weaker than people expected. A bit of an offset to that is the renewed rate cut expectations. There’s a high probability we’re getting a September cut.”
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq had hit a string of record highs recently.
According to preliminary data, the S&P 500 gained 92.06 points, or 1.48%, to end at 6,330.07 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 400.43 points, or 1.94%, to 21,050.56. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 588.78 points, or 1.35%, to 44,177.36.
Investors were still digesting U.S. President Donald Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday, accusing her of faking the weak jobs numbers.
Also on Friday, Fed Governor Adriana Kugler unexpectedly resigned, which could open the door for U.S. President Donald Trump to reshuffle the central bank’s leadership in his favor.
Trump has been pushing the Fed to cut rates.
Among rising shares, Spotify gained as the music streaming platform announced plans to raise the monthly price of its premium individual subscription in select markets from September.
Joby Aviation jumped after the company said it will acquire helicopter ride-share company Blade Air Mobility’s passenger business for up to $125 million.
Whatever the market take was from Friday’s surprisingly soft U.S. payrolls update has been overshadowed by the instant firing of the statistician responsible for them - leaving more questions than answers about the veracity of these numbers and all those in the future.
The massive downward revisions to prior months’ job totals were a bigger initial jolt than the slight miss to July payrolls or the uptick in the unemployment rate. But President Donald Trump’s dismissal of Bureau of Labor Statistics boss Erika McEntarfer over what he called “rigged” data means investors now either dismiss the July report or assume future reports will be massaged to be more favorable to Trump.
* Trump’s firing of McEntarfer has prompted investors to revisit April’s questions about damage to U.S. transparency and institutional integrity - qualities that, for many, have been at the heart of America’s long-standing exceptional economic and financial performance. The early resignation of Federal Reserve
Board
Governor Adriana Kugler, also on Friday, now gives Trump the chance to put a third nominee on the seven-person Fed board - increasing his influence on the central bank while he is demanding steep interest rate cuts.
* The jobs data release on Friday has prompted market futures to price an 85% chance of a Fed cut next month - compared to less than 50% beforehand - and more than fully price two cuts by year’s end. U.S. Treasury yields plunged to their lowest in over a month. Ten-year yields clocked the biggest one-day fall of the year and the 2-30-year yield curve widened to its steepest in over three years. The dollar swooned, giving back a chunk of last month’s rally. Most of these moves were pared back slightly first
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* U.S. stocks ended down more than 1% on Friday, having already been jarred by the August 1 tariff announcements, and the VIX ‘fear index’ jumped above 20 for the first time since June - likely reflecting unexpected jobs market weakness and a duff earnings outlook from Amazon. Futures were back up more than 0.5% ahead of Monday’s bell as another heavy week of earnings beckons and Palantir tops Monday’s diary. With two-thirds of the S&P 500 having reported Q2 updates, the blended annual profit growth rate for the 500 firms is running at 11% - almost twice estimates one month ago and back roughly to where expectations were on January 1.
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U.S. envoy is expected to visit Russia as Trump’s Ukraine deadline nears
By NATALIA VASILYEVA
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s envoy for peace missions, may travel to Russia this week as the United States continues to press the Kremlin to agree to a peace deal in Ukraine, Trump said.
Witkoff “may be going to Russia” on Wednesday or Thursday, the president told reporters late Sunday. The visit would come as Trump’s 10-day ultimatum nears for President Vladimir Putin of Russia to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine or face U.S. sanctions.
Asked what Witkoff’s message for Russia would be, Trump said: “We’ve got to get to a deal where people stop getting killed.”
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, told Russian news agencies Monday that it would “not rule out the possibility” of a meeting between Witkoff and Putin this week.
Frustrated by deadly Russian attacks in Ukraine and a lack of progress on talks, Trump said July 28 that he would give Moscow 10
Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s envoy for peace missions, speaks with reporters outside of the White House in Washington, March 6, 2025. (Maansi Srivastava/The New York Times)
to 12 days to end the conflict or face a new round of financial penalties. Trump has repeatedly threatened to punish Russia over its es-
calating attacks in Ukraine but so far has not followed through.
Asked late Sunday what would happen if Russia does not agree to end the war by his deadline, Trump said: “Well, there will be sanctions, but they seem to be pretty good at avoiding sanctions.”
Trump began his presidency with overtures to Putin, claiming that Ukraine had provoked Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 and that Moscow wanted the war to end.
Although he initially welcomed Washington’s mediation efforts with Ukraine, Putin has been dragging his feet on a number of ceasefire offers. He has also suggested counterproposals or insisted that a simple ceasefire would not resolve the underlying causes of the conflict as Moscow sees them.
Putin has not directly responded to the White House’s ultimatum but has said that people who are disappointed with the lack of quick progress toward a peace deal have “inflated expectations.”
Russian and Ukrainian officials last met briefly in Istanbul in July for talks aimed at ending their war but made little headway.
Putin is open to direct talks with Ukraine and would be willing to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, if all Russian preconditions for the meeting are met, Peskov told reporters Monday, repeating a familiar Kremlin assertion.
The Kremlin is unlikely to halt hostilities immediately, observers say, as Russian troops are waging a summer offensive in Ukraine and have been making territorial gains. Meanwhile, Ukraine has been struggling with delays in arms shipments and insufficient combat troops.
In another sign of his frustrations with Russia, Trump said Friday that he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be repositioned in response to social media threats from Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president. It was unclear whether any submarines had changed position.
El Salvador’s leader is autocrat to some, Godsend to others
By ANJIE CORREAL and MARÍA ABI-HABIB
He has swept away checks and balances. His government has made mass arrests. And his lawmakers just rewrote the constitution to let him lead indefinitely, raising fears that the man who once jokingly called himself the world’s “coolest dictator” isn’t kidding anymore.
But for many Salvadorans, President Nayib Bukele has been a godsend.
By cracking down on gangs, which not long ago gave El Salvador a reputation as the world’s murder capital, Bukele has instead made his country one of the hemisphere’s safest. Average Salvadorans can walk the streets without fear, let their children play outdoors and run businesses without threats of extortion.
Homicides have dropped from several thousand a year to just over 100, according to the government — a rate lower than Canada’s. So when lawmakers in Bukele’s party abolished presidential term limits late last week, Salvadorans were far from uniformly opposed. Bukele’s success in restoring safety has made him enormously popular, even as his tactics have raised alarms among human rights groups. But the question he seems to face, experts say, is how long that support can last as problems mount beyond the gangs.
“Maybe I’ll feel differently if you ask me in 10 years; I don’t know,” said Cecilia Lemus, who runs a nail salon in San Salvador. “But for today, I have no problem with him being reelected.”
She added: “I don’t know if this is going to be like Venezuela; I don’t think we’re headed toward being Cuba, though I don’t know.”
Bukele may have chosen to solidify his power now for several reasons, experts said. His approval ratings are still soaring; his slow economy is humming along, albeit by borrowing heavily from the nation’s pension fund. And President Donald Trump is in office — happy to praise Bukele after sending him deportees and to dismiss human rights concerns.
A leader who solves a major crisis can “become wildly popular, and the population will give you a blank check, for a time,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist who studies Latin America and is a coauthor of “How Democracies Die.”
“Bukele is a smart guy, and he knows that a blank check isn’t forever. He’s had an incredible run, he has so much support, but no leader’s popularity in the history of world has lasted forever,” he added. The electoral overhaul “will protect him for the day that the electorate moves against him.”
Bukele has sharply criticized Nicaragua and Venezuela for similar moves, but Sunday, he de-
fended El Salvador’s constitutional overhaul. Most “developed countries allow the indefinite reelection of their head of government, and no one bats an eye,” he said on social media, drawing a comparison to European parliamentary systems, where in fact lawmakers have the power to remove leaders. “But when a small, poor country like El Salvador tries to do the same, suddenly it’s the end of democracy.”
Bukele’s security strategy has won him admirers in the region — and a degree of imitation by other leaders battling drug gangs, like those in Costa Rica and Ecuador. But El Salvador’s neighbors largely remained silent after his latest move.
And some Salvadorans are starting to ask for more from Bukele, including economic growth, basic social programs and help dealing with rising costs.
Bukele has struggled to make changes economically in particular, experts say, and has not released a comprehensive plan to do so beyond efforts to attract more tourists. Since he came to power in 2019, El Salvador’s growth has lagged behind its neighbors Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Last year, growth slipped to 2.6% from 3.5% in 2023, and it is expected to stall again this year, at 2.2%, according to the World Bank. About a third of the country lives in poverty.
Bukele may have solidified his power before
things could slip further, Levitsky and other analysts said.
Another factor may be the occupant of the White House.
During the Biden administration, the State Department denounced “significant human rights issues” in El Salvador, spotlighting abuses in prisons after Bukele’s mass arrests, which have left more than 80,000 people behind bars.
But Trump has made clear he is not interested in policing human rights abroad, cutting State Department entities that work on those issues. This spring, Trump sent deportees accused of being gang members to Bukele’s prison system.
Along with abolishing term limits, the constitutional changes eliminate runoff elections, extend presidential terms to six years from five and move up the presidential election by two years, to coincide with legislative elections in 2027. If Bukele is reelected that year and completes his term, he will have served for at least 14 years.
A spate of protests this year may have been another driver in cementing Bukele’s power sooner rather than later. His government has “lost control of the narrative” in recent months, said Noah Bullock, executive director of Cristosal, a Salvadoran human rights group whose employees recently fled the country.
From triumph in Iran to starvation in Gaza: Netanyahu squanders his moment to halt the war
Palestinians at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. A growing hunger crisis in the territory after Israel imposed a blockade has been widely condemned, including by many of Israel’s allies. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)
By PATRICK KINGSLEY
When Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, led the country to a military victory over Iran in June, both his allies and rivals portrayed it as his finest
achievement. Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition from his far-right government allies to reach a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Six weeks later, the prime minister has squandered that moment. The talks between Hamas and Israel are, once again, stuck. Israel is now pushing for a deal to end the war in one go, instead of in phases. But like Hamas, Netanyahu has refused to make the compromises needed for such a deal to work — and the credit that he accrued in June has evaporated, both domestically and overseas.
International condemnation of the growing starvation in Gaza, which aid agencies and many foreign government have largely blamed on Israel’s 11-week blockade on the territory this year, is at its peak. Partly to protest Israel’s responsibility for that situation, several long-standing allies of Israel have pledged to recognize a Palestinian state in the near future.
Domestic opposition to the war in Gaza is at an all-time high, and calls are growing for the remaining hostages held by Hamas to be returned through a diplomatic deal. Israel’s ability to sustain the war, amid growing fatigue among its military reservists, is increasingly under question. After a rise in death by suicide by reserve soldiers, the military has set up a committee
to investigate how to better support those leaving service.
“Israel is in the tightest spot it has been in at any point in the war,” said Michael Koplow, an analyst at Israel Policy Forum, a New York-based research group.
“It is dealing with a societal crisis over the continued war and plight of the hostages, a military crisis over the lack of clear aims and reservist fatigue, a diplomatic crisis over its close European allies lining up to unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood, and an existential crisis over its eroding standing in the U.S.,” Koplow said.
The protraction of the Gaza conflict also reflects President Donald Trump’s failure to capitalize on the leverage he accrued during the war with Iran. By joining Netanyahu’s attacks, Trump gave Israel a symbolic victory. At the time, analysts expected him to demand that Netanyahu repay the favor by drawing the war in Gaza to a close.
“He had all the leverage in the world to say to Netanyahu: ‘Now we need to end this,’” said Daniel Shapiro, a fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based research group, and a former U.S. ambassador to Israel.
“Instead, Netanyahu seemed to persuade Trump to give him more time,” Shapiro said. “Now, things are just dragging and dragging.”
More than 140 migrants dead after boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen
By SAEED AL-BATATI and VIVIAN NEREIM
More than 140 migrants were killed when their overloaded boat capsized as they tried to cross the sea between the Horn of Africa and Yemen, the International Organization for Migration said Sunday.
The boat trip across the Gulf of Aden is the first part of one of the most dangerous migration and smuggling routes in the world, which desperate men and women from Ethiopia and other East African countries traverse as they attempt to reach oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
The boat, believed to have been carrying 150 people, capsized Saturday night near the southern Yemeni province of Abyan, Yemini health and security officials said. The IOM said in a statement said that 68 Ethiopian migrants had died. There were
at least 12 survivors. An unknown number of passengers remain missing. The death toll is expected to rise as more bodies wash ashore, the local officials said.
“This heartbreaking incident underscores the urgent need for enhanced protection mechanisms for migrants undertaking perilous journeys, often facilitated by unscrupulous smugglers who exploit desperation and vulnerability,” the IOM statement said.
Abdul Kader Bajamel, a health official in Zinjibar, said, “The bodies of the dead and at least a dozen survivors, including two Yemeni smugglers, were taken to hospitals in Abyan.” He added, “Because the hospital’s morgues could not accommodate this large number of bodies, and to avoid an environmental crisis, the governor of Abyan ordered the immediate burial of the dead and formed an emergency committee to search for the missing.”
Salah Balleel, a health official in Khanfar district in Abyan, said that a hospital in the district had received one dead migrant and treated 11 survivors.
“The small boat was carrying far too many people,” Balleel said. “We provided first aid and other medical assistance, and all the survivors have since left the hospital.”
The migrants’ journey, called the Eastern Route, is one of the “busiest and riskiest migration routes in the world,” according to the IOM. Tens of thousands of people attempted the trip last year, fleeing conflict, poverty, drought or political repression in countries including Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia.
To reach Saudi Arabia — where many hope to find work and disappear into a vast informal economy — they must first traverse Yemen, which shares a long, porous border with the
kingdom.
Yemen has been torn apart by its own war since 2014, when the Houthis ousted the internationally recognized government from the country’s capital, Sanaa. A Saudi-led military coalition — backed by U.S. military assistance and weaponry — embarked on a bombing campaign to rout the militia from power. Hundreds of thousands of people died from the violence, disease and starvation that resulted, in what became one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The Gulf of Aden seen from Sirah Island, Yemen. Crossing the gulf is the first step in one of the world’s most dangerous journeys for migrants. Tens of thousands attempted the trip last year.
‘Unprecedented’ investment fund seals deal for Japan and expands Trump’s influence
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after participating in the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation summit in Pittsburgh, July 15, 2025. President Trump will get to decide where to invest Japanese money and the United States will keep 90 percent of the profits, the White House said. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
By ANA SWANSON
wisdom on trade and taken an expansive view of the control presidents should have over the economy.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, on Wednesday described the investment as the “centerpiece” of the trade deal with Japan. She said the funds would be spent “at President Trump’s discretion and direction into key industries such as energy, semiconductors, critical minerals, pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding.”
Speaking at an artificial intelligence event Wednesday, Trump referred to the fund as a “signing bonus,” and claimed that Japan was willing to pay up front for the privilege of negotiating with the United States.
For other countries that did not negotiate, he said, the United States would impose “a straight simple tariff” of 15% to 50%.
The announcement of the Japan deal came one month after the Trump administration announced another unusual deal with Japan, in which the government agreed to sell U.S. Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel, but reserved a “golden share” for Trump, one that allowed him to veto some company decisions.
Douglas Irwin, a trade historian at Dartmouth College, called the move to set up the investment fund, like the golden share plan, “unprecedented.” He said that previous presidents had encouraged other countries to increase their foreign investments in the United States, but had not, to his knowledge, demanded to have those investments made at their own direction.
Last week, Ryosei Akazawa, the Japanese trade negotiator, sat across from President Donald Trump’s desk in the Oval Office, clustered alongside the U.S. secretaries of Treasury, commerce and state, trying to persuade the president to back off from the punishing tariff rates he had threatened on Japan.
As a carrot, American and Japanese negotiators offered Trump an extraordinary proposal: Japan would create a $400 billion investment fund that Trump himself could decide where to invest, with half of the profits flowing to the U.S. government.
The fund represented a significant expansion by the president over domestic investment, an idea that pleased Trump. He set about renegotiating some of the terms, crossing out numbers and
scribbling on a placemat-size visual aid brought to the meeting by Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary. In the end, Trump upped the ante and announced that Japan, already the country’s largest foreign investor, would create a fund of $550 billion to invest in the United States, with the U.S. government receiving 90% of the profits.
The announcement has raised significant questions about whether that investment will materialize, and how the president will decide where to direct the funds. But the provision appears to be the key way that Japan — which was reluctant to open its agricultural markets to U.S. exports and insistent on lowering Trump’s tariffs on cars — was able to persuade the president to agree to a trade deal.
It is also another novel approach to economic policymaking by Trump, who has smashed Washington’s conventional
anese investment fund stemmed from Lutnick, who also helped to negotiate the stake in Nippon. Lutnick proposed the rough arrangements for a fund to the president in January, after hearing that Japan was unlikely to open its markets to the degree Trump wanted, an administration official familiar with the talks said.
Trump was not satisfied with the initial structure proposed to him at the beginning of the year. But the idea of obtaining funds that could be invested in sectors critical to national security, like pharmaceuticals and minerals, while also making money to pay off U.S. debt, appealed to him, the official said.
The agreement was hammered out in a series of meetings between American and Japanese officials, including eight visits to Washington by Akazawa, and video calls with Lutnick that ran late into the night.
The official said that the president would get the final say in the investments and that profits would go to the U.S. Treasury and could be used to pay down federal debt. The United States could see some returns in a year, he projected. Some projects could include investments in new American factories that would be leased back to the companies.
The Commerce Department would be in charge of execution, with Lutnick’s newly created “investment accelerator” playing a key role, another administration official said. Another person familiar with the plans said that the mechanics still needed to be determined.
The exact details were not clear, but the fund’s total appeared to include equity, loans and loan guarantees. The
Three people familiar with the negotiations said that the idea for the Jap-
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Baggage
fees are everywhere. Here’s how to use a credit card to get around them.
By NIA DECAILLE
Southwest Airlines was the last big holdout. When the carrier ended its free checked-bag policy in May, it joined the other major U.S. carriers — and most airline passengers began paying at least $35 for their first checked bag.
Of course, there are ways around the fees: You can spend enough with an airline to earn a loyalty status that includes a waiver, upgrade your fare to include baggage, or pack light enough to need only a carryon. And then there’s the option recommended by most travel enthusiasts: a credit card that comes with perks.
Typically, travelers have two options: a general credit card used to earn rewards in various categories, including travel, or an airline-specific credit card. Here’s what to know about rewards cards and how they can help offset the cost of checked baggage fees.
Option 1: General travel credit cards
The biggest utility of a general credit card, which allows customers to accumulate points that they can redeem for discounts on travel, is flexibility. Cardholders, particularly ones looking for a deal, are not beholden to a particular airline to find the most efficient or cost-effective routes. Customers can also use general rewards cards to earn points at grocery stores, gas stations and other eligible partners.
“If your goal is to earn more valuable rewards that you could use toward free flights down the line and other travel, you’re better off with a general travel rewards card just because those rewards are a lot more flexible,” said Benji Stawski, the content director of the Daily Drop, a travel newsletter.
Premium travel credit cards, which often have big fees, are all the rage when it comes to accruing rewards points and earning perks. The Chase Sapphire Reserve card, for example, comes with a hefty $795 annual fee and includes a $300 travel credit per year that can be applied to baggage fees, among other perks. American Express Platinum, which has a $695 annual fee, offers a similar benefit with a $200 flexible travel credit.
Jess Bohorquez, who uses the TikTok moniker @PointsbyJ, suggested travelers compare each card’s benefits with its annual fee. American Express Platinum’s flexible travel credit, for instance, could cover the minimum fee for a checked bag on at least five one-way flights, while Chase Sapphire Reserve’s flexible travel credit adds up to more than a third of its annual fee.
Option 2: Airline-specific credit cards
The cost of loyalty to an airline depends on the traveler’s needs and how often they tend to travel (and with whom).
Most airline credit cards guarantee one checked bag for free, which takes some of the guesswork out of
how to compare the credit with that offered by general rewards cards. Airline cards incentivize spending with a specific carrier, which can limit travel options, but they could be ideal for frequent travelers with more luggage and anyone who lives near a particular airline’s hub and would be more likely to be a regular customer.
The free baggage guarantee can also be advantageous for cardholders with families or group travelers. “The benefit is that perk then extends to other people on your same reservation. So let me stress that if you’re traveling as a family that’s often checking bags, that could be a huge savings,” Bohorquez said.
Here’s a breakdown of annual fees from the major airline credit cards that offer at least one free checked bag:
— Southwest ($35 first checked bag, $45 second checked bag)
Rapid Rewards Plus card comes with a $69 annual fee and offers a free checked bag for up to eight people, early check-in twice a year as well as ways to earn double points on hotels, ride shares and car rentals. The Rapid Rewards Premier Card, with a $99 annual fee, and the Rapid Rewards Priority card, with a $149 annual fee, offer additional perks.
— JetBlue ($40 first checked bag, $60 second checked bag during peak season and prepaid more than 24 hours before departure )
JetBlue Plus card comes with a $99 annual fee and includes a free checked bag for up to four travelers on JetBlue-operated flights. The JetBlue Premier card, which carries a $449 annual fee, offers other benefits too.
— United Airlines ($40 first checked bag, $50 second checked bag)
Mileage Plus Explorer customers pay an annual fee of $150 after any promotional offers, which includes a free checked bag. Other perks include priority boarding, a $100 airline credit and two passes to the United Club lounge. The Mileage Plus Quest card has a $350 annual fee and includes two free checked bags, while the Mileage Plus Club card bear a $695 fee with the same bag perk as the Quest card, along with additional benefits.
— Delta ($35 first checked bag, $45 second checked bag)
Delta SkyMiles Gold cardholders pay a $150 annual fee after promotions. Cardholders will also receive a free checked bag waiver for a maximum of nine people on the same reservation for a Delta operated flight. The Delta SkyMiles Platinum card, which has a $350 annual fee, and the Delta SkyMiles Reserve card, which has a $650 annual fee, include the same bag benefits as well as additional perks.
— American Airlines ($40 first checked bag, $50 second checked bag)
AAdvantage Platinum Select carries a $99 annual fee after promotions, and cardholders are allowed one free checked bag for up to four guests for domestic flights. The AAdvantage Admirals Club has a $595 annual fee and includes the same perk as well as other benefits.
The pre-dawn cyclists climbing Colombia’s capital
By JORGE VALENCIA
An hour before the sun rose on Bogotá, before the daily tasks began piling up and before the cars and fumes took over the streets, Carolina Sarmiento pedaled her road bike into the frigid darkness.
The 32-year-old accountant joined a pack that continued picking up other cyclists as they rode along a highway toward the mountains east of the city.
“This has got to be a lot of love for cycling,” she said. “I mean, who gets up when it’s this early and this cold?”
As it turns out, a lot of people do. At an altitude of 8,500 feet, Bogotá is cool yearround and especially bitter before sunrise. But more than 100 spandex-clad cyclists arrived by 5:30 a.m. at the city’s eastern edge, congregating at the foot of Monserrate Mountain to set off together on a 5.9-mile, 1,800foot climb.
In the bicycle-crazed, early-rising capital of Colombia, predawn group rides have become popular among cyclists looking to exercise before work or school. The group rides offer an added layer of protection that’s especially appealing to cyclists rattled by crime in recent years.
They make steep ascents into the Andean hilltops, or altos, surrounding the city. They draw dozens or hundreds of cyclists —
virtually all of them men — and sometimes reach 35 mph, earning themselves the name of “trains.” Start times and locations are posted online for anyone to drop in, and regulars say they’ve developed strong friendships with
other riders.
At Monserrate Mountain that morning, a popular group called El Tren del Verjón met for its twice-weekly climb to the Alto el Verjón peak. Somewhere in the tangle of flashing red taillights and sculpted calves and thighs, Juan Carlos Ochoa, 53, a salesperson, was eager to take off.
“I like the adrenaline I feel when I ride with so many people,” he said. “A lot of them are faster than I am, and that motivates me.”
Road cycling has long been a popular sport in Colombia, second only to soccer. But it has surged in the past decade, as three of the country’s top riders have made the podium in the Tour de France, said Kevin Daniel Rozo, a sports anthropologist in Bogotá who has researched the country’s cycling culture.
Those cyclists give Colombians a reason to be proud of their country, Rozo said. “Especially after the height of drug trafficking in the 1980s, it’s been very important to create a national identity based on positive images,” he said.
The first rays of light broke from behind the mountains as the cyclists climbed the first mile toward the hilltop. Most were out to exercise before work, but also because it’s common in Colombia to seize the day. A report
by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 2023 concluded Colombia was the earliest rising country in the world.
“It’s not so much that we like getting up as it is that we have to,” said Juan David Quitian, co-founder of El Tren del Verjón. “Otherwise the day gets away from us.”
Up the hill, police officers waited at key turns, with two more patrolling on a motorcycle, an effort to address the frequent bike robberies in Bogotá.
Ruben Darío Peña, 44, a truck driver, said he rides a modest aluminum-frame bike when he’s alone and saves his flashier carbon fiber frame for the train.
Peña started riding in 2021 to get back in shape after the first year of the pandemic. He lost more than 30 pounds, he said, and he also quit smoking and dramatically cut back on drinking. “It’s been a radical change,” he said. “I was having problems with alcohol, and trading the beer for my bicycle has been a way to love myself.”
Sarmiento, the accountant, also took up cycling in 2021, in her case seeking relief from depression and rumination. On advice from her therapist, she went out on her bicycle one Sunday, and slowly embraced the male-dominated sport of road cycling. She now rides four mornings a week.
On the ride, she basked in the scent of the eucalyptus trees lining the mountainside road. In between long breaths in and out, she heard hummingbirds and woodpeckers chirping with the dawning day.
After 49 minutes of vigorous pedaling, Sarmiento reached the top of Verjón hill, and she was greeted with high-fives from a dozen fellow riders. They drank coffee and steaming hot sugarcane tea and ate cheese rolls and guava paste snacks.
“The overthinking is gone,” she said. “On my bicycle, I feel calm.”
A view of the city during the cyclists’ ride, in Bogota, Colombia, June 26, 2025.
At an altitude of 8,500 feet, Bogota is cool year-round, especially before sunrise, but more than 100 cyclists arrive by 5:30 a.m. to congregate at the foot of Monserrate Mountain to set off on a 5.9-mile, 1,800-foot climb. (Nathalia Angarita/ The New York Times)
The San Juan Daily Star
Cyclists from the “Tren del Verjon” group ride up toward Alto El Verjon in Bogota, Colombia, June 26, 2025. At an altitude of 8,500 feet, Bogota is cool year-round, especially before sunrise, but more than 100 cyclists arrive by 5:30 a.m. to congregate at the foot of Monserrate Mountain to set off on a 5.9-mile, 1,800-foot climb. (Nathalia Angarita/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO.
MCLP ASSET
COMPANY, INC.
Plaintiff, v.
JEANICE AIMIR
MIELES LOPEZ
Defendant
Civil Action Num.: 17-cv-01473
(JAG). Matter: Collection of Monies and Foreclosure . NOTICE OF SALE.
TO: JEANICE AIMIR
MIELES LOPEZ: POPULAR MORTGAGE, INC.; AND TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC:
WHEREAS: On May 30, 2019, Default Judgment in Collection of Monies was entered and granted in favor of Plaintiff to recover from defendants the following sums: The principal sum of $150,890.27, for principal balance and interest at a rate of 3.625 percent per annum due as of June 1, 2015. The interest continues to accrue until the debt is paid in full, plus 10% for attorney’s fees and costs equivalent to $14,507.00, to cover, costs, expenses, and attorney’s fees guaranteed under the mortgage obligations, plus the payment of late charges in the amount of 5.0% of each and any monthly installment not received by the note holder within 15 days after the installment is due. The interest continues to accrue until the debt is paid in full. In addition, Defendants were ordered to pay plaintiff accrued late charges and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by plaintiff on behalf of defendants, in accordance with the mortgage deed, and Mortgage Note. That on May 20, 2025, the Court entered an order granting execution of the attachment affecting the property, with writ of execution of attachment issued on May 20, 2025. The order of attachment shall cover the amount of the Default Judgment above cited and awarded to Plaintiff. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Room 150 or 400 Federal Office Building, 150 Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: Pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution thereof, the undersigned Special Master or its appointee was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the fo-
llowing address: Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698414, -66.1125080), to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property described in Spanish: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número cinco del bloque “B” en el Plano de Inscripción, localizado en el Barrio Puente del término municipal de Camuy, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos quince punto quinientos treinta metros cuadrados (315.530 m.c.). En lindes por el NORTE, con lote B guión cuatro (B-4), con distancia de veintitrés punto quinientos sesenta y cuatro metros (23.564); por el SUR, con lote B guión seis (B-6), distancia de veintitrés punto quinientos treinta metros (23.530); por el ESTE, con calle uno (1), distancia de trece punto cuatrocientos metros (13.400); y por el OESTE, con la Urbanización Villa del Carmen, distancia de trece punto cuatrocientos metros (13.400). Sobre dicho solar se ha edificado una estructura de hormigón y bloques de cemento para fines residenciales, la cual ha sido construida de acuerdo a los planos y especificaciones aprobados por la Administración de Reglamentos y Permisos y por las demás agencias gubernamentales correspondientes. Property #20,803 recorded at KARIBE volume of Camuy, Property Registry of Puerto Rico, Arecibo II Section. First inscription. The writ of attachment is recorded as Annotation C at the Property Registry of Arecibo, Section II, lot of land #20,803. Property address: B-5 Las Veredas Dev., Camuy, P.R. 00627. The Order of Attachment was duly recorded at the Property Registry of Puerto Rico, Arecibo II Section, and described in the Spanish Language as follows: Anotación de Embargo, según Orden expedida el día 13 de enero de 2025 y Sentencia del día 30 de mayo de 2019, por el United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, en el Caso Civil número 17-1473(PAD), sobre cobro de dinero, seguido por Lime Homes, LTD, contra Jeanice Aimir Mieles López, en la suma de $150,890.27, anotado el día 30 de enero de 2025, al tomo Karibe de Camuy, finca número 20,803, Anotación C y última. WHEREAS: This property is subject to the following liens described in Spanish: • Senior Liens: NONE • Junior Liens: 1. Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Popular Mortgage Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $10,000.00, con intereses al 5.50% anual, vencedero el día 1 de febrero
de 2040, constituida mediante la escritura número 31, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 29 de enero de 2010, ante el notario Roy R. Sánchez Vahamonde Dieppa, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Camuy, finca número 20,803, inscripción 5ta. 2. Aviso de Demanda del día 6 de septiembre de 2012, expedida en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Quebradillas, en el Caso Civil número CICD2012-0081, sobre Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Popular Mortgage Inc., versus Jeanice Aimir Mieles López, por la suma de $142,433.86, anotada el día 22 de enero de 2024 al tomo Karibe de Camuy, finca número 20,803, Anotación 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/sold 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. Because this is a case of money collection, it does not have a minimum rate or bid. The sale will take place to satisfy the amounts owed per the Default Judgment entered on May 30, 2019. The AUCTION will take place on August 8, 2025 at 9:00 a.m., at the office of Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, 00969, Puerto Rico (18.3698414, -66.1125080), whose sale at public auction was ordered by the Order of Execution of Judgment dated May 20, 2019. The undersigned Special Master shall not accept in payment of the property to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified checks, except in case the property is sold and adjudicated to the plaintiff, in which case the amount of the bid made by said plaintiff shall be credited and deducted from its credit; said plaintiff being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. WHEREAS: Said sale to be made by the undersigned Special Master subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property will be executed and delivered only after such confirmation. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued cancelling all junior liens. For further
particulars, 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, 2 day of june of 2025. By: Josel Ronda, Special Master.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAGUAS
MINERVA
ROLON GARCIA
Peticionaria
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: CG2025CV01406. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S.
A: CUALQUIER PERSONA QUE PUDIESE TENER INTERÉS Y TODA PERSONA A QUIEN
PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA.
POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte peticionaria, una petición de expediente de dominio solicitando la inscripción del inmueble que se describe en dicha petición a nombre de dicha peticionaria. La peticionaria, Minerva Rolón García es hija de Dona Isabel García García, fallecida en Cidra, Puerto Rico, el 21 de noviembre de 1990, habiéndose constituido su Sucesión a tenor con la Resolución expedida por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Caguas, en el caso civil número EJV91-746. La peticionaria obtuvo la posesión de dicho terreno por cesión o donación de su madre, Isabel García García, quien lo adquirió desde hace muchos años pero no cuenta con documento alguno que acredite dicha cesión. Antes de ésta fallecer, le cedió en vida a la parte peticionaria todo derecho sobre la propiedad inmueble antes descrita. Sin embargo, desde que ocurrió dicha cesión la peticionaria ha estado poseyendo el inmueble como dueña por mas de 30 años. La descripción exacta del bien inmueble objeto del procedimiento es el siguiente: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Carretera #734 KM 4.0, sito en el barrio Arenas del término municipal de Cidra, Puerto Rico, identificado en el plano de mensura con el número Lote 3A, con una cabida superficial de 347.5448 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0880 cuerdas. En lindes al Norte, en 8.7269
metros con un camino público; al Sur en 12.5461 metros con la Carretera #734; al Este en 29.1243 metros con Ana D. Rolón García; y al Oeste, en 30.3946 metros con la Sucn. Luis Rolón. Se le notifica que 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 Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Cidra y enviando copia a la representación legal de la parte peticionaria: LCDO. VICTOR M. RIVERA TORRES, con dirección en la Avenida Fernández Juncos 1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909, teléfono 787-727-5710. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria general en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, a fin de que cualquier persona interesada pueda comparecer ante el Tribunal, dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, a fin de alegar lo que al derecho de estos convenga. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 23 de mayo de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. RUTH N. PEDRAZA ALEJANDRO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN JULIO
CAMARENO PEREZ
Peticionario
EX-PARTE
Ciivl #: BY2025CV03214. (500). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA
PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LAS FINCAS QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁN Y A TODA
PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE: se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de las veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación e este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre las fincas que se describen más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El abogado de la parte peticionaria es el Lic. Jaime Rodríguez Rivera, cuya dirección es #30 Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, PR 00969-5650, Teléfono 787-720-9553. Los predios a inscribir son los siguientes: “A: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno en el barrio Mamey de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 2297.6686 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.0.5820 de cuerda. En lindes por el NORTE: en 2 alineaciones que suman 37.67 metros con Federico Pagán; por el SUR: en 4 alineaciones que suman 52.16 metros con Altos de Magdalena Inc; por el ESTE: en 34.00 metros con Pedro Camareno Camareno, en 5.22 metros con camino dedicado a uso público y en 6.50 metros con Julio Camareno y por el OESTE: en 4 alineaciones que suman 65.12 metros con Federico Pagán”. B: “RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno en el barrio Mamey de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 964.07 metros cuadrados, equivalentes a 0.2353 de cuerda. En lindes por el NORTE: en 15.00 metros con camino dedicado a uso público; por el SUR: en 29.12 metros con camino dedicado a uso público; por el ESTE: en 44.23 metros con sucesión Camareno Pérez y por el OESTE: en 3 alineaciones que suman 47.42 metros con Alturas de Magdalena Inc y
en 6.50 metros con parcela de Julio Camareno”. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación el edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 23 de junio de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria Regional. Nélida Ocasio Ortega, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN FEDERICO MONTAÑEZ DELERME
Demandante Vs. EMILIA MONTAÑEZ MEDINA Y OTROS
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2023CV09944. Sala: 1003. Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HERIDATARIOS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMéRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. A: ALFONSO MONTAñez DELERME, DEPARTAMENTO 161, HC 01, PO BOX 29030, CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO 00725; EMILIO MONTAñez DELERME, 1076 KENSIGTON PARK DIVE, UNIT 208, ALTAMONTE SPRING, FL 32714; PEDRO JAIME MONTAñez DELERME, CALLE MEXICO T-388, URB. ROLLING HILLS, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00987; FERNANDO MONTAñez DELERME, CALLE ELBA 1469, URB. CAPARRA HEIGHTS, SAN JUAN, PuERTO RICO 00920; LIBERTAd MONTAñez DELERME, HOLLYWOOD ESTATE, RODEO DRIVE 18, SAN JUAN, PUERTO
RICO 00926; MARTA MONTAñez MEDINA, URB. JARDINES DE TRUJILLO ALTO, CALLE 1, CASA A26, TRUJILLO ALTO, PUERTO RICO 00972; EMILIA MONTAñez MEDINA: MARISOL díaz MONTAñez, MARIO ENRIQUE díaz MONTAñez, EDNA IVETTE díaz MONTAñez, NORBERTO GONZáLEZ montañez, CARLOS HIRAM SANTIAGO MONTAñEZ, óSCAR MEJía MONTAñEZ; MARTA MONTAñEZ MEDINA; FEDERICO MONTAñEZ MEDINA; GABRIEL MONTAñEZ MEDINA; héCTOR GABRIEL MONTAñEZ LóPEZ, CARMEN LILLIAM MONTAñEZ LóPEZ, JOSé MANUEL MONTAñEZ LóPEZ, ELIZABETH montañez MéNDEZ, MARTA MONTAñEZ MéNDEZ; ELIZABETH MONTAñEZ MEDINA: TANIA ENID SANTOS MONTAñEZ, RAFAEL SANTOS MONTAñEZ, TAYRA SANTOS MONTAñEZ, MARía ELENA RADILLO MONTAñEZ, MARía ELENA sáNCHEZ; RAYMOND MONTAñEZ MEDINA; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; PAULA REGINA MONTAñEZ TORRES: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL; FRANKLIN MONTañEZ DELERME: FRANKLIN MONTAñEZ HERNáNDEZ, EMILIO MONTAñEZ HERNáNDEZ, FREDERICK MONTAñEZ HERNáNDEZ, JOHANNA MONTAñEZ CLAUDIO, JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE, púBLICO EN GENERAL. El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera lnstancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandante en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: Urbana: Solar compuesto de doscientos un metros cuadra-
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor de RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO o a su orden, por la suma principal de $22,000.00, con intereses al 5 7/8% anual, vencedero el día 1 de marzo de 2011, constituido mediante escritura número 219, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 3 de marzo de 2004, ante el notario Armando J. Martínez Vilella, inscrita al folio 142 vuelto del torno 1811 de Bayamón Sur, inscripción 3era, sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Parcela de terreno en la Urbanización Rexville, situada en el Barrio Pájaros del término Municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación; Solar 6 de la Manzana C-2, con un área de doscientos treinta y siete metros, cincuenta de cuadrados (237.50 m.c). En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar 47, distancia de 10.00 metros; SUR, con la Calle 17A, distancia de 10.00 metros; ESTE, con el solar 5, distancia de 23.75 metros; OESTE, con el solar 7, distancia de 23.75 metros. En este solar enclava una casa residencial para una familia. Finca Número 44,998 Inscrita al folio 166 del tomo 1002 de Bayamón Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón I. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/,
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salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Lizbet Avilés Vega, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791; Tel. (787) 354-0061, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de julio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE
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Demandante Vs. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHOS DE DORAL BANK; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES CON INTERÉS
Demandados Civil Núm.: TJ2025CV00402. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE (PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS CON POSIBLE INTERÉS).
En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un pagaré a favor de Doral Bank, o a su orden, por Ciento Trece Mil Trescientos Noventa y Tres Dólares ($113,393.00), con intereses al siete punto noventa y cinco por ciento (7.95%) anual, vencedero el primero (1ro) de noviembre de dos mil veintinueve (2029), constituido por Rosita Rodriguez Aleman según consta de la escritura número ochocientos veinticuatro (#824), otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día veintidós (22) de octubre de mil novecientos noventa y nueve (1999), ante el Notario Público Edgardo Del Valle Galarza, inscripción 10ma y última, y está garantizado por hipoteca sobre la propiedad que se describe como sigue: “URBANA: Solar marcado con el #1 del Bloque L, de la Urbanización Ciudad Universitaria, radicada en el en el Barrio Las Cuevas del término municipal
de Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 332.47 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con el solar #2, en distancia de 25.00 metros; por el SUR, con la Calle #16, en distancia de 21.244 metros y mitad de un arco de 2.943 metros; por el ESTE, con la Calle #5, distancia de 10.915 metros, mitad de un arco de 2.943 metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar #28, en distancia de 12.43 metros”. “Enclava una casa de concreto diseñada para una familia”. Inscrita al folio 213 del tomo 787 de Trujillo Alto, finca número 6659, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta. La parte demandante alega que dicho Pagaré se ha extraviado, según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de unas obligaciones hipotecarias, y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se les emplaza por este Edicto que se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma 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 Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Trujillo Alto en Carolina , con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón, a PMB 538, 267 Sierra Morena, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00926 dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarles ni oírles. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto por Orden del Tribunal, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 29 de julio de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. YASHMIR PABÓN ORTIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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Parte Demandante Vs. LUIS A. ESTRADA ENCARNACION
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: RG2025CV00193. 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: LUIS A. ESTRADA ENCARNACION - PAR BELLA VISTA 36 CARR 186 H0, RIO GRANDE PR 00745-0602; PO BOX 602 RIO GRANDE 00745. 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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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 FAJARDO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de junio de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. SHARON SAINT HILAIRE AVILES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV02910. 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 SAINT HILAIRE AVILESURB PUERTO NUEVO 1219 CALLE CALI, SAN JUAN PR 00920-3837;
RES VILLA ESPERANZA
EDI 9 APT 116 SAN JUAN 00926.
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 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de junio de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. JOHANNA ALMESTICA JIMENEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2024CV00932. 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: JOHANNA ALMESTICA JIMENEZ - URB ALTO APOLO 51 CALLE ORFEO, GUAYNABO PR 00969-5035; 1663 AVE PONCE DE LEON APT 902 SAN JUAN PR 00909. 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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
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Parte Demandante Vs. ADRIANA B. PEREZ ESCUTER
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: LU2024CV00130. 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: ADRIANA B. PEREZ ESCUTERURB COLINAS DE GUAYNABO G4 CALLE HUCAR, GUAYNABO PR 00969-6211. 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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de pre-
sentar 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@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. BENYAMIL PEREZ SANTO DOMINGO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TB2024CV00366. 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: BENYAMIL PEREZ SANTO DOMINGOBO MACUN 76 CALLE ALELI, TOA BAJA PR 00949.
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/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro 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@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. IRVIN JOEL ALVAREZ JURADO Demandado
Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV03627. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: IRVN JOEL ALVAREZ JURADO. POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y qμe se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente, dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que 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, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz
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Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Las Lomas, 1585 Calle 36SW, San Juan, PR 00921-2031. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de julio de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. JESSICA
SANTIAGO PEREZ
Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV04137. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO
POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JESSICA
SANTIAGO PEREZ.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda. POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia
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, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr. com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Urb. Las Lomas, 1765 Calle 26 SO, San Juan, PR 00921-2448; 10880 Cameron CT #104, Dave, FL 33324. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de julio de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOYDA M. COUVERTIER REYES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LUIS BENJAMÍN
ROSADO GUTIÉRREZ POR SI Y JUNTO CON MILAGROS DEL CARMEN ROSADO GUTIÉRREZ COMO HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BENJAMÍN ROSADO LOPEZ, Y LA SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS GUTIÉRREZ ESCOBAR; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE BENJAMÍN ROSADO LOPEZ; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MILAGROS GUTIÉRREZ ESCOBAR; EVELYN CRUZ RAMOS COMO HEREDERA CONOCIDA DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESUS CRUZ DONATO; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE
JESUS CRUZ DONATO; SECRETARIO DE HACIENDA; SECRETARIO DE JUSTICIA Demandados Civil Núm.: RG2025CV00019. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A La Parte Demandada: FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JESUS CRUZ DONATO. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, notificando copia de la misma al (a la) abogado (a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al caso de Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia que le corresponda de estas: Sucesión de Jesus Cruz Donato. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. Deberá presentar 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. La parte demandante ha radicado una acción de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca por deuda vencida y la misma está garantizada sobre la siguiente propiedad: Descripción: URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Dolores del municipio de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 184.07 metros cuadrados. En lindes al Norte, en una distancia de 11.20 metros, con la Ca-
lle Dolores; al Sur, en tres alineaciones descontinuadas de 4.60 metros, 5.00 metros y 1.00 metro, con un solar municipal ocupado por el señor Cecilio Miranda; al Este, en una distancia de 18.80 metros, con otro solar propiedad del señor Cecilio Miranda y al Oeste, en dos alineaciones descontinuadas de 3.60 metros y 1.80 metros, con otro solar propiedad del señor Cecilio Miranda y 12.80 metros, con el solar propiedad de la Iglesia Adventista. Enclava una casa. Finca #3966, inscrita al folio 124 del tomo 80 de Rio Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección III. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: García-Chamorro Law Group, P.S.C., 1225 Ave. Ponce de León, Suite 706, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907, Tel. (787) 977-1932, Fax (787) 722-1932. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 10 de julio de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA GENERAL. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. PUERTO RICO FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; THE MORTGAGE HOUSE, INC.; AWILDA RIVERA PINTO; FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV05240. (602). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: THE MORTGAGE HOUSE, INC. A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: COUNTRY CLUB, 915 ROBERTO SANCHEZ VILELLA, SAN JUAN, PR, 00924, AVE. MONSERRATE AB-20, VALLE ARRIBA HEIGHTS, CAROLINA, PR 00983, 915 AVE. CAMPO RICO, SAN JUAN, PR, 00924 Y 954 PONCE DE LEON AVE., SUITE 400, SAN JUAN, PR, 00917. FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.
Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación
de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 22 de junio de 2007, Awilda Rivera Pinto constituyó una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 207 autorizada por el notario Ulises Santiago Tejada en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 905 por la suma de $105,000.00, a favor de Puerto Rico Federal Credit Union o a su orden, devengando intereses al 7.00% anual y vencimiento al 1ro de julio de 2037, sobre la siguiente propiedad descrita en inglés: URBANA: PROPIEDAD
HORIZONTAL: Family unit J nine of Los Olmos Condominium of El Cinco Ward, Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, which family unit is located on the ninth floor its main entrance door faces North and has access to the common corridor on that level. Its is an irregular rectangular shaped apartment with a maximum length of thirty six feet ten inches equivalent to eleven point twenty three meters and a maximum width of twenty four feet two inches equivalent to seven point thirty seven meters, having a total area of seven hundred eighty three point seventy nine square feet, equivalent to seventy two point eighty one square meters. Its boundaries are as follows: NORTH: thirty six feet ten inches, equivalent to eleven point twenty with three meters with common bearing walls that separate it from common stairway and interior half of walls, exterior of windows and door that separate it from common corridor; SOUTH: thirty six feet ten inches equivalent to eleven point twenty three meters, with exterior of windows walls, that overlook the front yard; EAST: twenty four feet two inches, equivalent to seven point thirty seven meters with common bearing wall that separates it from family Unit I; WEST: twenty four feet two inches, equivalent to seven point thirty seven meters with common bearing wall that separates it from common stairway and family Unit K. Inscrita al folio 176 del tomo 79 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, Finca 2590. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. La hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 33 del tomo 309 de Monacillos Este y El Cinco, Finca 2590. Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección V. Inscripción décima. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original
de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 11 de julio de 2025, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LOYDA M. COUVERTIER REYES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA BAJA
COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE AGUADILLA
Parte Demandante Vs JOSÉ ELÍAS CRUZ
ALVAREZ Y OTROS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TB2025CV00121. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESEIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JOSÉ ELÍAS CRUZ ALVZ, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías, ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamientos y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo certificado a la última dirección postal conocida de récord: RB Levittown Lakes, FN 28, Calle Mariano Brau, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico 00949-2850. En dicha demanda se le reclama la suma de $15,869.57, por concepto de préstamo personal concedido el 1 de septiembre de 2021 por la cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Aguadilla. Pueden ustedes obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración
de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicjal.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy 30 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA BAJA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYNABO SECRETARIO DE VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO
T/C/C SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Parte Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00595. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. SALA: 201. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, personas desconocidas, como posibles tenedores del pagaré hipotecario extraviado o que puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto. Se les notifica que en la demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el siguiente pagaré hipotecario se encuentra extraviado: El día 29 de enero de 2015 el señor Arturo Segal Jiménez t/c/c Arthur Segal Jimenes, Arthur SegalJiménez, Arturo Segal y Arthur Segal formalizó un préstamo revertido, para lo cual se emitieron dos (2) pagarés como evidencia del préstamo concedido. Uno de dichos pagarés fue expedido por la suma principal de doscientos dos mil quinientos dólares ($202,500.00) a favor del Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, y fue garantizado mediante una segunda hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 43, otorgada el 29 de enero de 2015, ante la notaria
Priscilla M. Santiago Acosta. Dicha hipoteca consta inscrita al Folio 215 del tomo 1518 de Guaynabo, finca número 21412, inscripción 14ª. Para garantizar el pago de dicha obligación por la suma adeudada se otorgó una Hipoteca voluntaria, la cual hacemos referencia en el párrafo anterior, sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento número 6-E, apartamento individualizado de concreto armado y bloques de hormigón, de uso residencial, identificado con el número 6-E y localizado en la parte Norte del Edificio conocido como CONDOMINIO EL JARDÍN EN SAN PATRICIO del Barrio Pueblo Viejo, término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Tiene una cabida superficial de 89.216 metros cuadrados aproximadamente y consta de una sala, un comedor, una cocina, un dormitorio con su closet, dos baños y un balcón. La puerta principal está localizada en la parte Sur del inmueble lo cual lo comunica con el corredor, el vestíbulo de elevador y a la calle. Colinda por el Norte, en 38.06 pies, con elementos exteriores del edificio; por el Sur, en 38.06 pies, con elementos comunes del edificio; por el Este, en 21.06 pies, con el apartamento número 6-F, en 2.08 pies, con los elementos exteriores del edificio y en 1.09 pies, con elementos comunes del edificio; y por el Oeste, en 23.07 pies, con el apartamento número 6-D. Corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes del inmueble una participación de 0.905%. Le corresponde el estacionamiento marcado con el número 20. Catastro #086004-352-40-045. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca número 21412 inscrita al Folio 215 del tomo 1518 de Guaynabo, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Guaynabo. La obligación evidenciada por el Pagaré extraviado fue satisfecha en su totalidad. Sin embargo, dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original. Además, el Pagaré no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Según consta en el Registro de la Propiedad, el Pagaré fue expedido a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por lo que es el acreedor actual. Además, fue el último tenedor conocido del Pagaré antes descrito. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al
cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Lcda. Pamela Cristal Santiago Olivieri
RUA 22028
HMB Law Group, LLC
33 Calle Bolivia Suite 201 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00917 Tel: 939-759-7668
E-mail: psantiago-olivieri@ hmblawgroup.com psco.law@ gmail.com
Expedido, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, hoy 16 de julio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
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Demandante V. LADISLAO RAMOS PANTOJA; SECRETARIO DEL DEPARTAMENTO URBANO Y VIVIENDA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2025CV01687. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA, 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: LADISLAO RAMOS PANTOJALA ALHAMBRA DEV., 2018 (11) SEVILLA ST., PONCE, PR 00716; PO BOX 480, ADJUNTAS, PR 00601.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se
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represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en las casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP
500 Calle De La Tanca, Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de julio de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. EREINA AGRONT LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. ORIENTAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO; FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE RG MORTGAGE CORPORATION; FIRST EQUITY MORTGAGE BANKERS, INC T/C/C FEMBI MORTGAGE; JOSÉ MALDONADO OMAÑA, CELESTE ROLDÁN ACEVEDO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; FULANO Y
MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00483. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. Sala: 201. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JOSÉ MALDONADO OMAÑA, CELESTE ROLDÁN ACEVEDO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA
POR AMBOS A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: URB QUINTAS REALES, M7 CALLE REY JORGE V, GUAYNABO, PR 009695286 Y PO BOX 915, GUAYNABO, PR 009700915;
FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ. Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre cancelación de pagaré extraviado por la vía judicial. El 29 de septiembre de 2008, José Maldonado Omaña y su esposa Celeste Roldán Acevedo constituyeron una hipoteca en San Juan, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 825 autorizada por la notario Georgette M. Rodríguez Figueroa en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 13,495 por la suma de $53,000.00, a favor de RG Premier Bank of PR o a su orden, devengando intereses al 7 3/8 % anual y vencimiento al 1ro de octubre de 2023, sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Quintas Reales situado en el Barrio Santa Rosa de la Municipalidad de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el plano de inscripción de la urbanización con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación, solar #7 del bloque M con un área de 330.00 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORTE:, en distancia de 22.00 metros con el solar 6 del bloque M de la urbanización; por el SUR:, en distancia de 22.00 metros con el solar 8 de la urbanización; por el ESTE;, en distancia de 15.00 metros con el solar 2 del bloque M de la urbanización; por el OESTE:, en distancia de 15.00 metros con la calle 6 de la urbanización. Enclava casa de concreto de dos niveles. La propiedad consta inscrita al folio 260 del tomo 988 de Guaynabo, Finca 35295. Registro de la Propiedad de
Guaynabo. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 119 del tomo 1252 de Guaynabo, finca 35295. Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. Inscripción undécima. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 16 de julio de 2025, en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
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Email: jrg@gonzalezmorales.com abogados de la parte demandante, cuya dirección es la que deja indicada, con copia de su Contestación a la Demanda, copia de la cual le es servida en este caso, dentro de los TREINTA (30) días de haber
sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Debe saber que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo 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 el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 17 de julio de 2025.
EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. ARSENIA MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE VICTOR MANUEL PAGAN VELEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV01318. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB. VENUS GARDENS #641 (EE 18) CALLE CUPIDO SAN JUAN, PR
00926-4803 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana, de Río Piedras, término Municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número dieciocho del Bloque “EE” de la Urbanización Venus Gardens, con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y ocho metros cuadrados, en colindancias por el NORTE, con la Avenida A, en una longitud de trece metros; por el SUR, con la calle número catorce, en una longitud de trece metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número diecinueve del propio Bloque, en una longitud de veintiséis metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número diecisiete del propio bloque, en una longitud de veintiséis metros. Sobre el descrito solar enclava una casa residencial de concreto y bloques. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 150 del Tomo 373 de Sabana Llana, bajo la finca número 14,590, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $159,333.00. 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 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $106,222.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $79,666.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca 352 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2021, ante el Notario Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, inscripción decimoctava (18va), bajo la finca 14,590, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $150,776.72 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2024, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obli-
The San Juan Daily Star
gación. Además La Sucesión de Victor Manuel Pagán Vélez adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $15,933.30. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas.
Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de julio de 2025. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. MARIA D. SANTOS ARROYO Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2025CV01410. 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: MARIA D. SANTOS ARROYO - 6 CALLE MONTANER , PONCE PR 00730-3850; 1027 WILSHIRE BLVD APT 301 LOS ANGELES CA 900173047.
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 Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en PONCE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de junio 2025. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. LOYDA TORRES IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Governor welcomes new world champion of the World Boxing Council
By THE STAR STAFF
The governor of Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González Colón, welcomed world boxing champion Subriel Matías Matthew on Friday for the official presentation of the World Boxing Council (WBC) World Champion belt. The moment marks a historic milestone, as it is the first time in history that the WBC has presented a title on Puerto Rican soil.
“Today we celebrate the triumph of an extraordinary athlete and, above all, the in-
domitable spirit of our Puerto Rican youth. Subriel Matías’s historic feat is proof of the talent, discipline, and passion that thrive in our communities. Receiving this belt in Puerto Rico, for the first time in WBC history, is a source of deep pride. Honoring Subriel at La Fortaleza is not just a tribute to his victory, but a clear message: Puerto Rico believes in its youth, in the power of sports, and in the transformation born from effort and excellence,” stated González Colón, who also presented the boxer with a proclamation recognizing his achievement.
Bayamón takes first win of the finals
By THE STAR STAFF
The Vaqueros de Bayamón dominated Game 1 of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) finals on Sunday, defeating the Leones de Ponce 92-76 at the Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum.
Bayamón took early control of the game with a 25-19 first quarter. The visiting team responded in the second quarter, tying the score at 37-37 by halftime.
In the second half, the Vaqueros picked up the pace and dominated the third quarter, entering the final period with a comfortable 68-51 lead. They finished strong and sealed the victory with a final score of 92-76.
Javale McGee scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Alongside McGee, Stephen Thompson also delivered a standout performance with 21 points, followed by Chris Duarte with 14, Gary Browne with 11, and Alex Abreu with 10.
In the loss, Jezreel De Jesús scored 24 points and Jordan Murphy added 13.
The series continues today at the Juan “Pachín” Vicéns Auditorium in Ponce for Game 2.
Matías, a native of Fajardo, became world champion in the 140-pound division on July 12 after defeating Dominican boxer Alberto Puell at the iconic Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York. This victory makes him the first Puerto Rican to win a WBC title in this weight class, cementing his place among the greats of global boxing.
The ceremony was attended by WBC President Mauricio Sulaimán, who personally presented the iconic green and gold belt. The gesture highlights the caliber of the athlete and the international organization’s commitment to supporting the development of sports on the island. Also in attendance were Alberto Guerra, President of the Central American Boxing Federation (Fecarbox); Edgardo López Sasso, WBC representative in Puerto Rico; Speaker of the House Carlos “Johnny” Méndez; Carolina District Senator Héctor Joaquín Sánchez; Senator Rafael “Rafy” Santos, Chair of the Youth, Recreation, and Sports Committee; Department of Recreation and Sports Secretary Héctor Vázquez Muñiz; and Deputy Secretary Miguel Laureano.
The boxer was accompanied by his wife Yachari Lee Benabe Rosado, his daughters Subrielyz, Darianys, and Ahmedlia, his promoter Juan Orengo, his manager Pedro Cruz, and his trainer Nelson Adams Jr.
“Fajardo is known for its great boxers. Today, Subriel Matías Matthew joins that list of exceptional fighters from Fajardo who have
elevated Puerto Rico’s name through their performance in the ring. The newly crowned WBC World Champion at 140 pounds is a shining example of dedication and commitment, both in and out of the ring,” said Speaker of the House Carlos “Johnny” Méndez, who also represents District #36, which includes Río Grande, Luquillo, Fajardo, Ceiba, Vieques, and Culebra.
“Subriel Matías has become a symbol of hard work and perseverance. What’s more, all of his training was done in one of our newly renovated municipal boxing gyms, where hundreds of children and youth witnessed his preparation. In Maternillo, Fajardo, and throughout Puerto Rico, we are proud of our new world champion, and Subriel knows he can always count on us,” said Fajardo Mayor José Aníbal Meléndez Méndez.
The governor emphasized the importance of honoring athletes in official settings such as La Fortaleza: “Recognizing our athletes in official spaces like this sends a powerful message of support for sports and our youth. This event represents a proud moment for all of Puerto Rico.”
Meanwhile, Secretary of Recreation and Sports Héctor Vázquez Muñiz highlighted the social impact of sports on the island: “This is a day that will go down in Puerto Rico’s sports history. Subriel Matías’s triumph honors the legacy of our great champions and opens a new chapter full of possibilities for future generations.”
The San Juan Daily Star
The governor of Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González Colón, welcomed world boxing champion Subriel Matías Matthew on Friday for the official presentation of the World Boxing Council (WBC) World Champion belt.
The series continues today at the Juan “Pachín” Vicéns
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