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Governor reopens prosecutor’s office in Aguadilla

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón on Monday reopened the Aguadilla Prosecutor’s Office in a historic building whose renovation involved a $2 million investment in state and federal funds.

“Today we are not only inaugurating a prosecutor’s office, today we are returning to Aguadilla a historic, safe, modern, and functional building, but above all, a dignified space for our people to receive the justice they deserve,” González Colón stated at a press conference.

“The opening of the new Aguadilla Prosecutor’s Office represents an important step in our commitment to offering a close, accessible, and efficient service to the public,” added Secretary of Justice Lourdes Gómez Torres.

The renovation began in 2022 following damage caused by Hurricane Fiona. The building, constructed in 1925 by architect Rafael Carmoega, is located on Progreso Street next to the Aguadilla Court of First Instance and has been included in the National Register of Historic Places since 1985.

The project was managed by the Public Buildings Authority (PBA), with an investment of $1,253,922 from its own funds and American Rescue Plan Act funds secured by González Colón when she was resident commissioner. The Department of Justice invested an additional $540,000 for furniture, security cameras and access control systems.

“The work has already been outstanding between the Department of Justice and the Police, and now we will be even more effective in the fight to achieve a safer Puerto Rico,” Police Commissioner Joseph González said.

PBA Executive Director Félix Lasalle Toro noted that the project included repairs to roofs, windows, slabs, walls, steel beams, general painting, pest control, and the installation of new bathrooms and equipment compliant with the Law for People with Disabilities.

A new air conditioning system was also installed, consisting of central units, mini-split units, and condensers with anti-corrosion treatment, in addition to cleaning and modernizing ducts and controls.

Region’s legislative leaders to focus on AI, food security & climate change

By THE STAR STAFF

From Wednesday to Friday, San Juan will welcome members of the Forum of Presidents of Legislative Powers (FOPREL by its acronym in Spanish) for the organization’s 32nd extraordinary meeting. The event aims to strengthen collaborative agreements among legislators from Central America, the Caribbean basin, Mexico, and other regions.

The announcement was made by Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives and FOPREL vice president.

“Puerto Rico will become the focal point for many legislatures in the Americas [this] week as we host FOPREL’s extraordinary meeting -- a gathering designed to consolidate cooperation agreements, create new opportunities for socioeconomic development, and evaluate mechanisms to address issues that affect us all,” Méndez said in a written statement Monday.

Key topics on the agenda include the use of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in justice and security systems, as well as food supply chain security -- an emerging challenge in the 21st century that has become a national security concern in the United States and its territories, including Puerto Rico. Méndez, who will assume the presidency of FOPREL in 2026, emphasized the importance of the discussions.

FOPREL has been working on AI-related issues for several years. During its April meeting on AI regulatory development, members reviewed legislative progress, including bills introduced in Puerto Rico. Rep. José Aponte Hernández has filed legislation to establish a regulatory framework for AI use in political campaigns and academia, while Rep. José “Che” Pérez Cordero has led a task force on implementing AI in justice systems.

Other topics include combating synthetic illegal drugs and addressing climate change. Presidents of parliaments from Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Mexico will also attend a special session of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives on Thursday commemorating its 125th anniversary.

The reopened Aguadilla Prosecutor’s Office is housed in a historic building whose renovation involved a $2 million investment in state and federal funds.

PR Supreme Court strikes down LUMA’s liability shield, opening door for consumer claims

Private operator warns decision could impact electrical system costs

By THE STAR STAFF

In a landmark decision, the Puerto Rico Supreme Court on Monday unanimously declared unconstitutional a contractual clause that had shielded LUMA Energy from liability for damages caused by power fluctuations and voltage irregularities.

The ruling dismantles a controversial immunity provision that critics say left consumers without recourse for losses tied to Puerto Rico’s fragile electrical grid.

The case, CT-2025-0003 – Department of Consumer Affairs v. LUMA and Others, stems from a lawsuit filed by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO) challenging Section 4.1(g) of LUMA’s Operation and Maintenance Agreement. That clause, approved by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) in 2021, exempted the private operator of the island’s transmission and distribution system from responsibility for damages to electrical appliances -- even in cases of negligence.

DACO argued that the immunity was granted administratively without legislative approval, violating constitutional principles and stripping consumers of basic protections. During public hearings earlier this year, LUMA admitted to rejecting 1,828 consumer claims for damaged appliances, citing the contested clause. DACO maintained that such immunity “places a private company above the people” and undermines accountability for essential services.

The Supreme Court agreed, concluding that the PREB exceeded its authority and that the exemption violated the separation of powers doctrine.

“Consumers cannot be deprived of their right to seek compensation when harm occurs,” DACO Secretary Valerie Rodríguez Erazo said after the ruling.

The decision restores the ability of Puerto Rico residents and businesses to pursue legal claims for damages linked to outages and voltage fluctuations. For thousands of households that have faced costly appliance failures, the ruling marks a significant shift. Before LUMA assumed control of the electrical grid in 2021, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) accepted such claims -- a practice eliminated under

the immunity clause.

LUMA Energy has warned that removing the liability shield could lead to higher electricity rates, citing increased exposure to claims and potential requirements to establish compensation funds.

The private grid operator said in a statement after Monday’s ruling that: “We regret and disagree with the Puerto Rico Supreme Court’s decision regarding the release of liability for PREPA and LUMA. Releases of liability are a common practice and exist for electrical utilities worldwide. The Energy Bureau granted this release considering the state of the system after decades of neglect and mismanagement by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.”

“We are evaluating the scope and impact of this decision on our customers and our next steps,” the statement continued. “We reiterate that any change to the release of liability could affect the cost and operation of Puerto Rico’s electrical system, the current legal framework, and PREPA’s fiscal plan. Meanwhile, we remain focused on working hard every day to improve system reliability and support our nearly 1.5 million customers.”

The company, which manages PREPA’s transmission and distribution system under a 15-year contract, has faced mounting criticism over service reliability, transparency and customer service. Outages remain common despite billions in federal funding for grid reconstruction following Hurricane Maria. The ruling comes amid growing scrutiny of Puerto Rico’s energy sector and calls for modernization. Advocates argue that the decision could spur reforms, including stronger consumer protections and investment in distributed renewable energy solutions. Meanwhile, legislators and regulators will need to address how liability costs are managed without burdening ratepayers.

FICPRO endorses legislative recommendations to address illegal elder care facilities

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Federation of Long-Term Care Institutions (FICPRO by its acronym in Spanish) has welcomed key recommendations from a House committee investigating the clandestine operation of elder care facilities on the island.

FICPRO President Jonathan Morales Adorno said the organization supports efforts to eliminate illegal operations that endanger seniors’ health and safety, but cautioned that public discourse must distinguish between truly clandestine homes and those partially compliant but delayed by bureaucratic hurdles such as pending health certifications or fire inspections.

The committee echoed this concern, noting that resource shortages, red tape, and rising demand for elder care -- driven by an aging population -- have contributed to the emergence of informal facilities.

FICPRO reaffirmed its commitment to a collaborative strategy focused on prevention, education and technical assistance rather than punitive sanctions.

The House committee adopted most of the proposals presented by the organization, signaling a collaborative approach to tackling the issue.

The findings, outlined in the Final Report of House Resolution 258 by the Committee on Older Adults and Social Welfare, stress that “the problem requires a multisectoral response combining oversight, education, and administrative reform, as well as strengthening regulatory agencies.”

Morales Adorno emphasized that one of the federation’s main recommendations was to address the problem urgently through a structural and intersectoral strategy. He also called for long-term care centers to be recognized as essential state services, noting that government action should go beyond punitive measures to include education, guidance and support for operators

seeking to comply with legal requirements.

He urged lawmakers to prioritize legislation granting essential service status to these facilities, particularly during emergencies.

“In times of crisis, these centers should be treated like hospitals,” he said, citing the need for access to fuel, potable water, and bulk food supplies to ensure uninterrupted care for bedridden residents and those requiring oxygen.

The report also recommends that the island Family Department maintain a public, differentiated registry of homes by licensing status -- whether active, under renewal, in compliance, or operating illegally. Additionally, FICPRO’s proposal for temporary provisional licenses under direct supervision while regulatory requirements are completed was included in the committee’s conclusions.

Consumer Affairs Secretary Valerie Rodríguez Erazo

Jonathan Morales Adorno, president of the Puerto Rico Federation of LongTerm Care Institutions

OPM, Albizu University join forces to debunk gender violence myths

Dr. Esther Figueroa, a psychologist with the Office of the Women’s Advocate, directed a series of short videos that debunk misconceptions about gender violence and promote a culture of respect and equality.

By THE STAR STAFF

The Office of the Women’s Advocate (OPM by its initials in Spanish), in a strategic collaboration with the Psychological Counseling Program at Albizu University, has launched a new initiative as part of the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign, which seeks to prevent and eradicate violence against women through awareness-raising activities, guidance, and services available to the community.

The alliance announced Monday promotes education, prevention, and community action to eradicate all forms of violence against women and girls. During this period, the OPM is sharing the educational initiative “Myths About Gender Violence,” which aims

to debunk misconceptions and promote a culture of respect and equality. The short videos, directed by Dr. Esther Figueroa, an OPM psychologist, aim to deepen public understanding of the issue.

“We seek a comprehensive and collective approach, ensuring that victims receive dignified and safe care, and that law enforcement agencies are provided with the necessary protocols for effective intervention,” Women’s Advocate Astrid Piñeiro Vázquez said, calling for deep reflection on the problem. “Gender-based violence thrives on ignorance and social prejudices. That is why, during these 16 Days, we reaffirm our commitment to equality, justice, and the safety of all women, inviting citizens to reflect on those beliefs and attitudes that, often without us realizing it, normalize or justify violence.”

Referring directly to the educational initiative, Piñeiro Vázquez added: “It is imperative to understand that violence is not just physical blows. The idea that if there are no blows, it’s not violence is the most dangerous myth.”

“The reality is that violence includes many forms -psychological, emotional, economic, cybernetic -- that leave deep and lasting scars, and we must name and combat them all,” she said.

Regarding social responsibility, the women’s advocate emphasized that “[w]e must dismantle the idea that the victim must resolve this alone, that it is a private matter.”

“Domestic violence is a social and public health problem that requires the attention of the community, institutions, and, above all, the state,” she said. “Indifference also perpetuates violence.”

Piñeiro Vázquez focused on the complexity of leaving an abusive relationship and the importance of institutional support.

“Victims don’t return because they don’t want help, but because leaving an abusive relationship is a complex process that requires constant psychological, social, and legal support,” she said. “Our work, in collaboration with institutions such as Albizu University, is to offer this safe and professional support network, especially because the most dangerous stage can happen after a separation, and support is vital.”

Myths debunked: Education for equity

The collaboration with the Psychological Counseling Program at Albizu University allowed for the detailing and debunking of common myths, such as:

Myth: “If there are no blows, it’s not violence.”

Reality: Violence includes non-physical forms such as psychological, emotional, sexual, economic, cyber and verbal abuse.

Myth: “The victim should resolve it alone; it’s a private matter.”

Reality: Domestic violence is a social and public health problem that requires the attention of the community and the state.

Myth: “Domestic violence only occurs in poor or poorly educated families.”

Reality: It occurs at all socioeconomic, educational and cultural levels.

Myth: “If there is love, the abuser can be changed.”

Reality: Violence requires professional intervention and accountability from the abuser; it cannot be corrected with love.

Myth: “Victims always return because they don’t want help.”

Reality: Leaving is a complex process that requires psychological, social, and legal support; it is not a lack of will.

PDP spokesperson calls for NPP senator’s resignation after leaked audio

By THE STAR STAFF

Waleska Avilés Medina, the minority spokesperson for the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) in Añasco, reacted on Monday to a newly leaked audio recording of New Progressive Party (NPP) Sen. Karen Román Rodríguez in which the legislator launches harsh attacks against District 18 (Moca, Aguada, Rincón and Añasco) Rep. Odalys González González and others. Both Román and González were elected under the NPP banner in last year’s general elections.

The 41-second audio, circulating on social media, includes Román, the senator for District 4 (Mayagüez-Aguadilla), making inflammatory remarks about González’s alleged ties to the mayor of Rincón, a member of the PDP, and threatening consequences. Román also accuses the mayor of facing imminent legal trouble and suggests González could face similar issues. The recording further references past political disputes and claims of election interference involving former PDP senators.

Avilés condemned Román’s behavior, stating: “Once again, it is evident that this legislator and alleged evangelical pastor has no respect for others nor for the title she holds in the legislature. If the NPP delegation took action against Senator Roxana Soto Aguilú, even assigning psychological counseling, what do they plan to do with Karen Román, who is a disgrace to her delegation?”

This is not the first controversy involving Román. Earlier this year, another leaked audio revealed her insulting independent Sen. Eliezer Molina Pérez and making disparaging comments about Aguada Mayor Christian Cortés Feliciano and PDP Senate Minority Leader Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz. Román also made headlines in April when Frontier Airlines expelled her from a flight from Orlando to San Juan for allegedly making verbal threats against passengers and crew.

“Due to her conduct, she was not allowed to continue on the flight,” Frontier stated in a written declaration regarding the April 28 incident.

Avilés added that Román’s recent apology on Facebook

was “another insult to voters” and reiterated calls for her resignation. “In the previous incident, she disappeared for two weeks and later mocked the situation on WABA 850 AM, claiming the audio was artificial intelligence,” Avilés said. “Her shamelessness is undeniable.”

Sen. Karen Román Rodríguez (Facebook via Karen Román Senadora Oficial)

Lawmakers suggest follow-up boat strike could be a war crime

By MICHAEL GOLD

Atop Republican and Democrats in Congress suggested earlier this week that U.S. military officials might have committed a war crime in President Donald Trump’s offensive against boats in the Caribbean after a news report said that during one such attack, a follow-up strike was ordered to kill survivors.

The remarks came in response to a Washington Post report Friday that said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given a verbal order to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs, and that this led a military commander to carry out a second strike to kill those who had initially survived an attack in early September.

“Obviously if that occurred, that would be very serious, and I agree that that would be an illegal act,” Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, a former chair of the Intelligence Committee, said on “Face the Nation” on CBS.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said on CBS that if the report was accurate, the attack “rises to the level of a war crime.” And on CNN, when asked if he believed a second strike to kill survivors constituted a war crime, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., answered, “It seems to.”

The lawmakers’ comments came after top Republicans and Democrats on the two congressional committees overseeing the Pentagon vowed over the weekend to increase their scrutiny of U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean after the report. Turner said the article had only sharpened lawmakers’ already grave questions about the operation.

“There are very serious concerns in Congress about the attacks on the so-called drug boats down in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and the legal justification that’s been provided,” he said. “But this is completely outside of anything that’s been discussed with Congress, and there is an ongoing investigation.”

The investigations by both the House and Senate Armed Services committees are the sharpest scrutiny to date by Congress of Trump’s escalating military offensive, undertaken without congressional approval or consultation, which he says is aimed at taking out drug traffickers. They constitute a notable step by Republican lawmakers who have spent much of the year deferring to Trump and refraining from exercising oversight of his actions.

Sens. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Republican chair of the Armed Services Committee, and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the committee’s top Democrat, said Friday night that they had “directed inquiries” to the Defense Department.

“We will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances,” they wrote.

The House Armed Services Committee followed suit Saturday. In a joint statement, Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the panel’s chair, and Adam Smith of Washington, the senior Democrat, said that they were “committed to providing rigorous oversight” of the boat strikes and that they were “taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.”

The United States has built up a military presence in the Caribbean meant to put pressure on Venezuela. Trump administration officials have said that they are trying to deter drug smuggling, and that the boat strikes, which have killed more than 80 people since early September, are part of a purported formal armed conflict with drug cartels. But members of Congress have been voicing concerns over the legal justification being used to conduct them.

The Post reported last week that in the first boat attack, on Sept. 2, there had been survivors in the water after the first missile strike and the military carried out a second one to kill them because of Hegseth’s orders. The Intercept also reported in September that the military had carried out a follow-up strike to kill the survivors of an initial strike.

In a statement Friday, Hegseth denounced the Post’s report. He defended the military’s actions and said officials had been clear in all the operations that the boat strikes were designed to be “lethal, kinetic strikes.”

Speaking to reporters Sunday, Trump expressed confidence in Hegseth. The president suggested that he “wouldn’t have wanted” a second strike that killed survivors, before reiterating that he believed Hegseth had denied that account of the attack. The defense secretary did not directly contradict the Post’s reporting in his Friday statement but called it “fabricated and inflammatory.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the minority leader, called for Hegseth to release “the full, unedited tapes of the strikes so the American people can see for themselves.”

Democrats have repeatedly criticized the boat strikes as illegal, likening them to extrajudicial killings. Kelly was part of a group of six lawmakers who made a video this month that reminded troops they were obligated to refuse illegal orders, though it did not mention any specific order.

On Sunday, Kelly, who is being investigated by the Pentagon for his remarks in the video, said he had “serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over.” He also suggested that lawmakers would put officials “under oath” in their scrutiny of the boat strikes. Turner’s comments and the moves by Wicker and Rogers suggested that Republicans, too, were increasingly concerned about the scope and legality of the operations.

The committees’ promise for stronger oversight also comes as a small number of hard-right Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, have voiced dismay over foreign policy entanglements that they say are at odds with Trump’s promised “America First” approach.

Still, many Republicans have expressed support for the military operations in Venezuela. On Sunday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a close Trump ally, dismissed the Post’s report and defended the administration. Mullin, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Trump was “protecting the United States by being very proactive.”

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) during an event of the 75th anniversary of NATO, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute in Washington, July 9, 2024. Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

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College student is deported during trip home for Thanksgiving

By AMANDA HOLPUCH and ANNIE CORREAL

A19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said on Sunday.

The student, Any Lucía López Belloza, was brought by her parents from Honduras to the United States when she was 7. Her father, Francis López, said in a telephone interview Sunday that neither López nor her parents knew there was an order for her deportation.

“When they arrested Any, that’s when they told her,” said Francis López, a tailor.

He said his employer had arranged and paid for his daughter’s travel to Austin, Texas, to surprise him at work.

López’s lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, described an opaque process for obtaining information about her case, including the grounds for her deportation. He said she had been deported in violation of a court order that a federal judge signed Friday that said López could not be removed from the United States while her case was pending.

López, a freshman studying business at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, was about to board a Southwest Airlines flight to Texas early on Nov. 20.

She was told there was a problem with her ticket, so she went to customer service and was surrounded by immigration agents, Pomerleau said.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency told The Boston Globe that an immigration judge had ordered López deported in 2015, when she was a child. The agency did not respond to a request for comment Sunday.

Pomerleau said he checked her information in the Executive Office for

Immigration Review database and could not find any record of her original deportation order.

“So I’m not convinced she has a removal order, and if she did have one, she should have been notified of it, because she’s completely unaware of this situation,” he said.

On Saturday, after she spent a night detained in Texas, she was put on a bus with shackles on her wrists, waist and ankles before being put on a flight to Honduras, Pomerleau said.

López, who is staying with her grandparents in Honduras, asked that her father speak on her behalf, her father said. He said she had found it upsetting to recount the details of her removal, in particular being detained and shackled.

He said his daughter told him she had not signed any paperwork authorizing her removal from the United States, as some people do to avoid lengthy detentions.

López lived in Texas with her parents and two younger siblings, who are 2 and 5, before going to college.

The family emigrated nearly 12 years ago because of the rampant crime and insecurity in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. López and his wife feared for their daughter as the news was filled every week “with deaths and murders,” he said. “That’s the reason we left.” The family had applied for asylum, he said, but

it was denied, and they were never told they had to appeal to avoid a deportation order.

López described his daughter as organized and studious.

“She had that responsibility — of being the first to graduate from college and being an example to others,” said López, who had sewn her business suits for interviews and internships.

Now, he said, his daughter was reeling being back in the country she left behind so long ago. “She’s trying to assimilate to her new reality,” he said.

Any Lucía López Belloza told the Globe she was worried about how she would continue her education.

“I have worked so hard to be able to be at Babson my first semester, that was my dream,” she said. “I’m losing everything.”

A spokesperson for Babson College did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday.

At the time the López family left Honduras, migration from Central America was growing as people, particularly in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, fled violence, crime and economic stagnation.

In recent years, migration from Honduras surged, with thousands joining migrant caravans and camping at the U.S.-Mexico border.

President Donald Trump made stopping immigration and expelling migrants a central message of his campaigns, even more so in his push for a second term.

In recent days, he again turned his attention to Honduras, endorsing a rightwing candidate in this weekend’s election and seeking to pardon a former president whom many experts blame for spurring mass migration from his country to the United States.

The president in office, Xiomara Castro, has spent the end of her term trying to balance her obligation to migrants in the United States who lack legal status — of whom there are estimated to be more than 500,000 — with a need to cooperate with the Trump administration, which has come down hard on leaders who do not back its agenda.

By Nov. 20, nearly 30,000 Hondurans had been deported this year, about 13,000 more than in the same period last year, according to Honduran government data.

Honduran officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the case of López.

Her father said he felt it was important to share his family’s ordeal at a time when so many are facing deportation amid Trump’s immigration crackdown.

“I’ve decided to speak because it’s a reality we are facing right now,” he said.

A section of Logan International Airport that contains passenger gates for commercial airliners, in Boston, Sept. 1, 2021. A 19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said. (Cody O’Loughlin/The New York Times)

‘I’ve been doing this work for 25 years and I’ve never seen such fear’ NEW YORK TIMES

By DAVID FRENCH

Matt DeMateo, CEO of New Life Centers of Chicagoland, described the impact of Operation Midway Blitz on the immigrant community he serves succinctly: “I’ve been doing this work for 25 years and I’ve never seen such fear.”

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived in force in Chicago, the immigrant community was plunged into a state of panic. Kids stayed home from school. Parents stayed home from work. Families were afraid to go to church. For New Life Centers, the crisis was a call to action. As DeMateo said over the phone, at New Life, they asked one another, “How do we come together and take care of our neighbors no matter what?”

New Life Centers was born 20 years ago from the New Life Community Church, a nondenominational church with more than two dozen locations across the Chicago area. It began as a nonprofit aimed at addressing the acute needs of people in the church’s neighborhood, and from that beginning it grew, and it kept growing — as neighbors asked New Life Centers to respond to more needs, New Life Centers created new programs.

As DeMateo said, its mentoring programs reach 600 kids. There’s also an athletic program that reaches 2,500

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young people who play basketball, softball, baseball and more. Many of these kids live in the city’s most dangerous communities.

New Life also dedicated itself to peacemaking. Volunteers patrol the streets to try to build relationships, provide support for people without jobs and prevent violence. DeMateo told WGN News that they’ve seen an 80% drop in shootings and homicides, year to date, in Little Village, a neighborhood in Chicago.

The ministry also feeds thousands — 10,000 people per month, according to DeMateo. Many of them come to New Life’s Pan de Vida Fresh Market. Families can come twice per month to pick up fresh food and produce for free at a place that is set up to look like a grocery store, not a food bank. The Fresh Market provides a welcoming, dignified place for distressed families to shop.

When the migrants began to arrive by the thousands by bus in 2022, New Life responded. As DeMateo said, buses full of migrants would arrive from Texas, dropping off people in random spots around the city. New Life opened a warehouse for emergency supplies, created a “landing zone” to welcome new arrivals, and helped put 6,000 people in furnished apartments.

In the book of Leviticus, God says to his people, “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

Providing care for immigrants is one of Scripture’s clearest commands. It is one of the great tragedies of our time that millions of Christians are cheering and applauding the administration’s brutal crackdown on immigrants.

But not all Christians. There are believers, Catholic and Protestant alike, who are rallying to treat migrants with dignity, compassion and respect. New Life gets government funding for parts of its work, but DeMateo said that when it began to support immigrant families during Operation Midway Blitz, it did so entirely on its own.

New Life has also lost staff members to ICE. It saw, in DeMateo’s words, people who represented the “heartbeat and lifeblood of the immigrant community” taken away, with some families separated from loved ones, desperate to find out where they were.

And so New Life went to migrants’ homes. It brought them food. It brought them diapers. It helped them try to find their loved ones.

The story of America is far from perfect, but if there is one constant in our history it’s that American darkness is always answered by American light.

The masked agents of ICE make headlines with their

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aggression. But it’s important to answer those headlines with a different story, of volunteers who fulfill God’s command to love their neighbor — with their time, their money and their friendship.

My family lives in Chicago now — we relocated to be close to our children and grandchildren — and we can see that it’s a city in distress. But the people of Chicago give us hope, and New Life Centers helped give us that hope. They deserve our unstinting support.

This article is part of New York Times Opinion’s Giving Guide 2025. The author has no direct connection to the organizations mentioned. If you are interested in any organization mentioned in the guide, please go directly to its website. Neither the authors nor the Times will be able to address queries about the groups or facilitate donations.

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Gobernadora descarta sesión extraordinaria para reforma contributiva y adelanta que cambios se radicarán en diciembre

AGUADILLA – La gobernadora Jenniffer Aidyn González Colón afirmó el lunes que no con -

vocará a una sesión extraordinaria para atender la reforma contributiva, aunque adelantó que los proyectos serán radicados en diciembre para que la Asamblea Legislativa los considere en enero de

2026.

“No me inclino a hacerla en este momento. Nosotros debemos tener una reunión para presentar los proyectos ahora en el mes de diciembre, en cuestión de que la Legislatura tenga la oportunidad de revisarlos para la próxima sesión”, dijo González Colón en conferencia de prensa.

La gobernadora confirmó que la discusión legislativa sobre la reforma quedará para enero. Afirmó además que su administración busca que los alivios contributivos se reflejen en el ciclo contributivo de abril de 2026. “Entendemos que debemos estar radicando esos proyectos ahora, en el mes de diciembre. Yo creo que hay algunos elementos que son de fácil transición, como rebajar tasas contributivas específicas a los residentes”, expresó.

Añadió que “aquí en Puerto Rico, todo el que se gana 60 mil dólares o más está sujeto a una tasa contributiva del 33 por ciento. El que se gana 5 millones paga porcentualmente lo mismo que el que se gana 60 mil, y eso limita la capacidad de nuestra gente de echar para adelante”.

Sobre si los cambios aplicarán este mismo ciclo contributivo, la gobernadora respondió que “mi meta es que se pudieran hacer esos cambios para la etapa contributiva que se ve en abril de este año”.

7 de cada 10 puertorriqueños recortarán sus gastos navideños según estudio de agencia de publicidad

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SAN JUAN – La agencia de publicidad Arteaga & Arteaga presentó el lunes los resultados de la duodécima edición del estudio la Lista de Santa 2025 el cual concluyó que los más del 60 por ciento de los puertorriqueños harán recortes en sus gastos navideños.

Un 66% afirma que los aumentos afectarán sus compras navideñas, mientras un 68%, afirmaron estar listos para recortar gastos festivos.

Sin embargo, ni el alza en la factura de luz, el costo de alimentos, aumento de aranceles en productos importados o la incertidumbre económica impedirán que los boricuas celebren estas navidades.

“Todo apunta a que los puertorriqueños no dejarán caer su espíritu navideño, pero ajustarán sus celebraciones a una realidad económicamente estrecha. Optarán por compras multicanal, combinando compras presenciales y en línea hasta encontrar el regalo deseado al precio que pueden pagar. Los comercios que ofrezcan precios bajos y variedad de artículos estarán en la mejor posición de sobrevivir lo que a todas luces parece una de las navidades más difíciles, económicamente hablando, para los puertorriqueños,” explicó Juan Alberto Arteaga, presidente de Arteaga & Arteaga en declaraciones escritas.

“El impacto es real, vemos que el consumidor no solo lo está sintiendo, sino que lo está reconociendo y haciendo los ajustes necesarios,” añadió.

La intención de compra de los consumidores refleja una disminución considerable de un 21% en comparación al año anterior, mientras los consumidores se enfocarán en ofertas y especiales (64%), precios bajos (60%) y variedad (50%) al momento de realizar sus compras.

Más de la mitad de los encuestados (53%) dice que está peor económicamente en comparación al año anterior, y un 13% asegura que está mucho peor, ósea que un 66% de los consumidores puertorriqueños está peor o mucho peor económicamente en 2025. El ánimo está, pero el presupuesto parece haber estado bajo el efecto de ‘Ozempic o Mounjaro’ por algún tiempo, ósea que está bien flaco, pero esta realidad no es casualidad sino el resultado de aumentos a diestra y siniestra.

La factura de luz encabeza el ranking del ‘dolor al bolsillo’ con 72% señalándola entre los impactos más fuertes y 46% la mencionan como el aumento más difícil de manejar. A este le sigue el costo de alimentos, con 65% de menciones y un 35% que lo elige el golpe más duro de manejar en tiempo reciente.

Aunque en un principio el tema del aumento en aranceles a productos importados parecía algo forá-

neo, ya forma parte de la conversación y del proceso de ajustes económicos que los consumidores han tenido que realizar para sobrevivir. En efecto, 22% reconoce que esto (alza en aranceles) ha empeorado su situación económica. “Esta tormenta económica, sin duda, es el huracán más intenso de este año, moldeando los planes navideños,” sostuvo Arteaga.

El 66% de los encuestados afirma que los aumentos “sí afectarán sus compras navideñas y el 68% está listo para recortar gastos festivos.” Las categorías más impactadas por los recortes presupuestarios de los consumidores son: Regalos (67%); Decoraciones (66%); Actividades y entretenimiento (40%) y Viajes (35%) entre otros.

Three great documentaries to stream

By BEN KENIGSBERG

The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, The New York Times selects three nonfiction films — classics, overlooked recent docs and more — that will reward your time.

‘The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins’ (2001)

One of the oddities of Oscar history is that “The War Game,” which won the award for best documentary feature in 1967, is not, in the strictest sense, a documentary. Rather, it mimicked the form of one to imagine the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain. Peter Watkins, the director, who died last month, spent much of his career blurring the lines between fiction and nonfiction. Regrettably few of his films are available to stream, but Geoff Bowie’s “The Universal Clock,” a Canadian documentary on the making of his staggering “La Commune (Paris, 1871),” provides a strong introduction not just to Watkins’ working methods but also to his philosophy.

it on Amazon.)

‘Best of Enemies’ (2015)

The title refers to the restrictions then typically imposed by commercial television: the idea that a program had to run 47.5 minutes for an hourlong slot and 23.5 minutes for a half-hour slot. “La Commune,” backed by European broadcasting, came to 5 hours and 45 minutes in its long version. But the length is only the start of the project’s ambition. Watkins had invited actors — generally nonprofessionals — to restage a brief historical moment in 1871 when members of the French working class took control of Paris and governed it with leftist ideals before they were violently suppressed two months later. Watkins’ film shows the events unfold in the present tense, as documented, anachronistically, by TV reporters.

Bowie interviews the actors who took part in the experiment, whom Watkins instructed to be themselves, and to express their own positions on what was happening, instead of speculating on how they might have reacted in the 19th century. (“I don’t want you to wear a mask,” he tells one performer.) “La Commune” was shot in sequence, and frequently in long takes. The cast members appear to become partisans of Watkins’ working methods (“This film shows me that what I see on TV is really mediocre, frankly,” one woman says) and bring their own histories to the film. Watkins also shares his theories on the “monoform,” the name he gave to what he saw as the audiovisual barrage offered by ordinary television, which he felt was conceived with a predetermined meaning and sought to manipulate viewers when it should be trusting them. Bowie supplements footage of Watkins’ radical shoot with interviews of TV power players gathered for a conference in Cannes, France. They are about as cautious in their views as Watkins is vanguard. (Stream it through the National Film Board of Canada. Rent

Watkins would probably not have approved of the televised clash memorialized in “Best of Enemies” — although there wasn’t exactly a foreordained outcome when ABC paired the left-wing Gore Vidal with the right-wing William F. Buckley for a series of debates aired during the 1968 Republican and Democratic national conventions. Watching clips of the men’s bouts today is almost like watching transmissions from another planet. With a banter that seems directed at a viewership that no longer exists, if it ever did, the two patrician writers compete to see who can land the most devastating witticism. Even when Buckley lost his cool, calling Vidal a homophobic slur and threatening to hit him (“Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered”), he phrased it in a perplexing way. Plastered?

Directors Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville (this was well before Neville’s Anthony Bourdain film raised questions over its use of artificial intelligence) bring on experts like filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer, a friend of Vidal’s who had also edited his writing, and Buckley biographer Sam Tanenhaus, a former editor of The New York Times Book Review, to appraise the men’s legacies. Buckley’s brother Reid Buckley expresses continued disdain for Vidal, whom he says always leaves him with “a residue, in my opinion, when I watch him, of nausea,” while linguist John McWhorter, currently a New York Times Opinion writer, makes observations about the way Vidal and Buckley talked.

All of which is interesting enough, but it pales compared to watching two political commentators — always bridesmaids themselves in politics — who plainly despise each other try to keep smiling on live TV. The film suggests that both men remained obsessed with their encounters: Buckley wrote an essay trying to understand why he snapped, while Vidal, Tyrn-

auer says, screened the debates at home. “Best of Enemies” means to document a moment in the history of television, but it’s also a study in the psychology of the 20th-century public intellectual. (Stream it on Fandango at Home, Pluto, Roku, Tubi and YouTube Movies & TV. Rent it on Amazon and Apple TV.)

‘My Mom Jayne’ (2025)

“Law & Order: SVU” star Mariska Hargitay was just 3 when her mother, Jayne Mansfield, died in a car crash in 1967. Hargitay herself was in the back seat and only survived because her 6-year-old brother had the presence of mind to ask where she was — that is, why she hadn’t been retrieved from the wreck. In “My Mom Jayne,” Hargitay sets out to learn more about a parent of whom she had no memories, and whose public image differed starkly from her private life.

Early on, we see a clip in which Mansfield was a guest on Groucho Marx’s show; Marx emphasizes that she is far more than the ditzy-blonde avatar her audiences perceived. In another clip, she bristles that her figure had received more attention than her intellect. “My Mom Jayne” explains she was multilingual and had a passion for piano and violin. She was exacting about her career and harbored ambitions to be a serious actress, but was told at an early Paramount audition that she was wasting her “obvious talents.” Hargitay confesses to being upset by the highpitched, Marilyn Monroe-esque voice with which Mansfield spoke in movies and on TV, which wasn’t how she talked in life. (There is brief footage in which she speaks about wounded veterans that the movie presents as showing the real her.)

But “My Mom Jayne” is more than a simple effort to show that Jayne Mansfield was deeper than her fans knew at the time. Her troubled relationships with men and early death left Hargitay with tangled family dynamics (she was raised by Mickey Hargitay, the bodybuilder who was Mansfield’s second husband, and Mickey’s later wife, Ellen, in what’s portrayed as a loving, close-knit group) and a lot of questions about the past. “My Mom Jayne” is in some ways closer to documentary psychodramas like Lynne Sachs’ “Film About a Father Who” than it is to a standard celebrity portrait, and it has a tenderness that is rare in the genre. (Stream it on HBO Max. Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home and YouTube Movies & TV.)

“The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins” (2001)

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Wall Street slips as yields rise, crypto stocks tumble

Wall Street’s main indexes slipped on Monday, pressured by a rise in Treasury yields and as investors digested data that pointed to softening manufacturing activity in the United States.

Declines were most noticeable in crypto stocks, with Coinbase down 5.8% and Bitfarms losing 6.6%, as bitcoin fell 6.5% and dropped below $85,000, with the crypto market losing over $1 trillion in value since hitting a record of around $4.3 trillion, according to CoinGecko.

Strategy, the world’s largest holder of the cryptocurrency, slumped 11% and cut its earnings forecast for 2025, citing a weak run in bitcoin.

An ISM survey showed manufacturing activity shrank for the ninth straight month in November, as factories reported weakening new orders and rising input costs driven in part by tariffs.

Investors are parsing through a slew of data reports to gauge the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision when it meets in December.

While most policymakers have struck a cautious tone, dovish signals from a few key voting members, along with reports that White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett is a leading contender to succeed Powell, have stoked bets on further monetary easing in the months ahead.

Traders see an 87.6% chance of a 25-basis-point interest rate cut in December, roughly doubling the odds from late last month, according to CME Group’s FedWatch Tool.

Investors are also waiting for a delayed September report on the Personal Consumption Expenditures Index, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, due on Friday.

Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth, said the lack of inflation data due to a recent government shutdown was making policymakers cautious about a potential interest rate cut.

“But I think that he (Powell) will probably err on the side of protecting the overall economy by cutting rates and then holding off after that by being more hawkish when he makes his comments after the meeting.”

At 11:41 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 226.85 points, or 0.48%, to 47,489.57, the S&P 500 lost 20.26 points, or 0.30%, to 6,828.83 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 81.02 points, or 0.35%, to 23,284.67.

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Declining issues outnumbered advancers by a 1.47-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 1.9-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.

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Sri Lanka is ‘a disaster zone,’ as cyclone deaths surpass 350

By PAMODI WARAVITA and MUJIB MASHAL

Sri Lanka’s recent history has been riddled with serious setbacks. But President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has declared that the cyclone that hit the country last week is the “largest and most challenging natural disaster in our history.”

In 2004, as the island nation of 22 million was trying to wind down a decades-long civil war, the Indian Ocean tsunami killed tens of thousands and caused billions of dollars in damage. In recent years, Sri Lanka has faced terrorist attacks, the COVID pandemic, and an economic collapse that saw food and fuel supplies dry up.

Then, late last week, Cyclone Ditwah landed, unleashing a wave of flooding and landslides across the country and submerging entire towns. On Monday, the death toll climbed past 350, hundreds were missing and tens of thousands of people were displaced.

“The estimated scale of destruction is severe,” Dissanayake said.

The flooding and landslides have affected more than 1 million people, and emergency response efforts have been overwhelmed. On Monday, rescue teams, aided by person-

nel and aircraft from neighboring India, were trying to reach areas that had become inaccessible. More than 15,000 homes have been destroyed, according to a United Nations assessment released on Sunday.

The cyclone has moved on to India’s southern coast, but more heavy rainfall and flooding was predicted in some parts of Sri Lanka, a tourist favorite for its scenic beauty and heritage sites.

Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne, the president of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, one of Sri Lanka’s largest community-based development organizations, said that all the country’s 25 districts have been affected, and that floods and landslides had a severe effect in about 22 of them.

“The whole country is a disaster zone, except for a few places,” he said. “That’s the difference between the tsunami and this one — the tsunami was only coastal areas.”

“It’s massive, massive damage in terms of infrastructure, houses, livelihoods and also businesses,” he said.

In the east of the country, a region ravaged by the Sri Lankan army’s campaign against the Tamil Tiger insurgents during the civil war, the cyclone has added to the wounds of the conflict.

Krishnapillai Pragash, 50, has been farming in Batticaloa district since he was 15 and said six of his 10 acres of land were destroyed.

In the final stretch of the civil war, which ended in 2009, Pragash went to Qatar to work as a migrant laborer. Farming in Sri Lanka had become difficult with constant harassment from the military, which viewed the Tamil population with suspicion, he said.

In 2018, Pragash returned to farming. Before the cyclone hit, he was just beginning to recover from the government’s devastating decision to restrict chemical fertilizers, in part to preserve dwindling foreign exchange reserves as the economic collapse loomed. Transportation disruptions during the pandemic lockdown added to the misery.

“We are safe for now,” he said by telephone. “But the question is how rebuilding is going to happen in the future.”

In the coastal district of Gampaha, in the west, more than 17,000 people were moved to safety centers set up by relief agencies. Others took shelter in a line of tents that dotted the main road to keep an eye on their homes in the village below, even though the buildings were submerged.

Ganga Niroshini, 46, said she kept a flashlight pointed toward her house all night

from a makeshift shelter.

“Our area is known for drugs,” she said. “We’re scared that drug users will break into our houses as the water recedes, or steal our vehicles.”

Some services were starting to return to normal. By Monday, authorities had partly restored train services, electricity and telecommunications. But it will take time to repair the country’s infrastructure, with at least 10 bridges damaged and more than 200 major roads remaining “impassable,” according to the country’s road development authority.

Access to clean drinking water remained a major problem in large parts of the country.

The reconstruction effort will be a challenge for the government, which came to office last year on the back of a large protest movement that overthrew a powerful dynasty that many Sri Lankans blamed for mismanaging the economy. Dissanayake was trying to get the country back on track with an International Monetary Fund bailout and cost cuts.

“With the nation affected from end to end, this is a highly challenging exercise that needs to be conquered,” the president said Sunday.

Trump-endorsed candidate and sportscaster lead Honduran presidential race

By ANNIE CORREAL and JEFF ERNST

Election authorities in Honduras said Monday morning that the conservative former mayor endorsed by President Donald Trump and a sportscaster rival were virtually tied in a presidential election that many predicted would be volatile even before Trump weighed in on the race.

The preliminary and partial results showed that Trump’s pick, Nasry Asfura, and the sportscaster, Salvador Nasralla, were in the lead, with ballots from nearly 56% of polling places counted. The candidate for the left-wing party in power, Rixi Moncada, was trailing far behind, the early results showed, with around half the votes cast for each of the right-wing candidates.

Voters went to the poll just days after Trump endorsed Asfura and announced he would pardon an unpopular ex-president from Asfura’s National Party who was convicted on drug-trafficking charges in U.S. federal court last year.

Asfura had 40% of the vote, versus 39.8% for Nasralla, according to the preliminary and partial results. The gap between the two candidates was roughly 4,000 votes.

A member of Asfura’s campaign said it would wait until all votes were counted and electoral authorities announced the final results to declare victory. But at party headquarters in Tegucigal-

pa, the capital, Asfura’s supporters were already celebrating late Sunday, with some jumping up and down and others in tears.

Nasralla said the lead was so small that it amounted to a “technical tie.” His party insisted that when votes came in from the industrial north of the country, thought to heavily favor their candidate, he would be the winner. At a hotel in the capital, Nasralla took the stage and danced before a jubilant crowd.

“I have no doubt I’m going to win,” he said.

If the early lead holds, it will signal a victory not only for Asfura, a 67-year-old former mayor of Tegucigalpa known as Tito and Papi, but for Trump. On the eve of the vote, Trump suddenly declared the governing party “the Communists,” and threw his weight behind Asfura. On Friday, Trump also pledged to pardon the ex-president, Juan Orlando Hernández.

A billboard for National Party presidential candidate Nasry Asfura, a former mayor who has been endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Nov. 17, 2025. Election authorities in Honduras said early Monday that Asfura and a sportscaster rival were virtually tied in a presidential election that many predicted would be volatile even before Trump weighed in on the race. The banner reads “Honduras: We will be fine!” (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times)

Many fighting climate change worry they are losing the information war

By LISA FRIEDMAN and STEVEN LEE MYERS

When nearly 200 nations signed the 2015 Paris agreement, acknowledging the threat of rising global temperatures and vowing action, many hoped that the era of climate denial was finally over.

Ten years later it has roared back, arguably stronger than ever.

As delegates wrapped the annual United Nations climate talks Nov. 22, those who have campaigned to reduce the use of fossil fuels expressed growing alarm that forces arrayed against them are gaining ground in the information war.

The oil, gas and coal industries continue to downplay the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously heating the planet. It’s a strategy that has been echoed by oil-rich countries such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and — under the Trump administration — the United States.

President Donald Trump mocks global warming as a hoax, cheered on by a chorus of influencers online who regularly promote disinformation on social media platforms that once tried to curtail it. While such views have long been dismissed as conspiracy theories, their influence on the global policy debates has clearly grown.

The final statement of the U.N. talks, which were held in Belém, Brazil, did not even use the words “fossil fuels.”

“We thought that good ideas would get people to act,” J. Timmons Roberts, a researcher at Brown University and executive director of its Climate Social Science Network, lamented in a briefing on the eve of the talks.

“In fact there’s been a quite systematic campaign that’s been sophisticated and extremely well funded,” he said. “They have succeeded at undermining climate action globally.”

This year’s climate summit took place against a backdrop of increased drilling and mining — in Brazil, the host government recently granted a license to the state oil company to explore new sources of oil near the mouth of the Amazon River.

Even so, Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, opened the talks by denouncing obstructionists who “reject scientific evidence and attack institutions.”

“They manipulate algorithms, sow hatred and spread fear,” he said, describing a surge

in disinformation and propaganda aimed at blocking action to slow climate change.

The problem has become so acute that the summit, for the first time, put the issue on the agenda. A coalition of countries and international agencies issued a separate “Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change,” calling on governments to address climate disinformation, promote transparency and protect journalists, scientists and environmentalists.

The initiative is light, however, on details about how governments should go about it.

By Friday, only 21 of the nearly 200 countries that signed the Paris agreement had also signed the disinformation declaration.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who was in Belém and has attended several climate summits, said the global embrace of the Paris agreement by most governments and major corporations for a time obscured the still-fierce opposition to ending fossil fuels.

“I think there was some confidence at the time that when governments got together, and everyone put forward their national commitments, everybody felt we were just going to sort of breeze past that,” Whitehouse said. “Now, I think, there is a better understanding of the true nature of the fossil fuel disinformation and corruption campaign.”

Lula said that this year’s summit would “deliver yet another defeat to denialism.” Instead, it struggled to build consensus.

The final conference statement did endorse the call to promote “information integrity” and provided more money for vulnerable countries hit by climate catastrophes.

But it included only a voluntary agreement among nations to begin discussions on a “road map” to an eventual phaseout of fossil fuels. The modest outcome was only achieved after a bitter standoff with oil-producing countries from the Persian Gulf.

Critics blamed the meager results on oil, gas and coal interests that have been increasingly present at U.N. summits in recent years. One review of delegates by a group called the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition found 1,600 fossil fuel representatives participated in the Belém talks, a number that includes diplomats from countries with state-run oil companies.

“Once again, fossil fuel lobbyists outnumbered many delegations from the countries most affected by the climate crisis,” Brice Böhmer, climate and environment

A train filled with coal passes through Wyco, W.Va., Oct. 12, 2025. 1,600 fossil fuel representatives, including diplomats from countries with state-run oil companies, participated in COP30, according to a review by the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition. (Jared Hamilton/The New York Times)

director for Transparency International, a Berlin-based nonprofit group, said in a statement.

For critics of the environmental movement, the shifting sentiment on display in Brazil was a victory after years of pressure on energy industries.

“There’s a lot of reality that has hit,” said Steven J. Milloy, the founder of JunkScience. com, a website that has disputed the scientific consensus on climate change. “People are realizing now that we need fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are here to stay.”

Polls consistently show that a majority of adults globally and in the United States consider climate change to be a serious threat.

At the same time, a growing body of research is warning that climate misinformation — from misleading claims from Trump that wind turbines “kill all the birds” to viral hashtags proclaiming clean energy is a scam — is steadily growing, amplified by social media.

The strategy is not subtle, a recent study found. Climate skeptics present their position as “projecting rationality, authority and masculine self-control” while those who acknowledge global warming “are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized and irrational imagery,” and labeled “alarmists” who propose radical solutions.

Political campaigns deploy the same playbook. Republicans frequently claimed the Biden administration was trying to

“emasculate” American drivers by forcing them into electric vehicles. Lee Zeldin, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator, has labeled climate change a “religion” instead of what it is: a matter of physics.

Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, said that Trump was pursuing “energy addition, not energy transition.”

“The president has set a strong example for the rest of the world by reversing course on the Green Energy Scam and unleashing our natural resources, like beautiful, clean coal and natural gas, to strengthen our grid stability and lower energy costs,” she said, citing arguments that many economists dispute.

Still, Trump’s policies threaten more than 500 solar and energy storage projects in the U.S. that were set to provide 116 gigawatts of capacity. His administration also terminated a $4.9 billion loan guarantee for an 800-mile transmission line that would have carried mostly wind power from the Great Plains to some of the most strained parts of the nation’s power grid.

Social media platforms, podcasts and other forms of media regularly amplify climate misinformation.

While critics have called on social media platforms to do more, they have instead retreated from efforts to fight climate disinformation. “It’s easier now for climate skeptics to get their message out,” said Milloy, who previously served as an adviser on Trump’s transition team for the EPA.

YouTube prohibits promoters of climate disinformation from monetizing their accounts or buying ads, but a number of studies have argued that it does not enforce its rules vigorously.

“A lot of people are making a lot of money off this clickbait stuff,” said Rachel Cleetus, a senior policy director for climate and energy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, which advised on the information integrity declaration. “This is not just some neutral space where information is flowing.”

Whitehouse said profits will always be the bottom line for the fossil fuel industry and others opposed to meaningful efforts to fight climate change.

“At one level we’ve been losing the climate disinformation war all along,” Whitehouse said. “We are where we are because we were completely ineffectual in fending off a decades-long disinformation bombardment.”

Zillow removes climate risk scores from home listings

By CLAIRE BROWN

Zillow, the country’s largest real estate listings site, has quietly removed a feature that showed the risks from extreme weather for more than 1 million home sale listings on its site.

The website began publishing climate risk ratings last year using data from risk-modeling company First Street. The scores aimed to quantify each home’s risk from floods, wildfires, wind, extreme heat and poor air quality.

But real estate agents complained they hurt sales. Some homeowners protested the scores and found there was no way to challenge the ratings.

Earlier this month Zillow stopped displaying the scores after complaints from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, which operates a private database funded by real estate brokers and agents. Zillow relies on that listing service and others around the country for its real estate data. The California listing service, one of the largest in the country, raised concerns about the accuracy of First Street’s flood risk models.

“Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived de-

sirability of that property,” said Art Carter, California Regional Multiple Listing Service’s CEO.

In a statement, Zillow spokesperson Claire Carroll said the company remains committed to providing consumers with information that helps them make informed decisions. Real estate listings on Zillow now display hyperlinks to First Street’s website, and users can click through to view climate risk scores for a specific property.

The development highlights a growing tension within the real estate industry. Fires, floods and other disasters are posing more risks to homes as the planet warms, but forecasting exactly which houses are most vulnerable — and might sell for less — has proved fraught.

First Street models have shown that millions more properties are at risk of flooding than government estimates suggest.

Other real estate sites, including Redfin, Realtor.com and Homes.com display similar First Street data alongside ratings for factors like walkability, public transportation and school quality.

When researchers randomly displayed these flood risk estimates to 18 million people browsing Redfin, those who saw the feature were more likely to search for homes with low flood risk, according to a working paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research last November.

The Redfin experiment, which lasted for three months, affected sales of 8,150 properties that were listed as being at high risk of flooding and reduced their total sales prices by about 1% of their value, according to the paper.

Zillow’s own research has found that homes with high fire and flood risk scores were less likely to sell than homes with medium or low scores, though it did not attribute the sales trends to the climate risk scores.

The California Regional Multiple Listing Service has asked the other large real estate listing platforms to remove certain details about flood risks from their listings.

“When we saw entire neighborhoods with a 50% probability of the home flooding this year and a 99% probability of the home flooding in the next five years, especially in areas that haven’t flooded in the last 40 to 50 years, we grew very suspicious,” Carter said.

In many states, sellers are not required to disclose information about whether a house has flooded recently or if it is vulnerable to wildfires. Other sources of data, like the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, have been criticized for being out of date.

“With forward-looking models, we can’t check their outputs against a record, they are necessarily forecast-

ing events that have not yet happened,” said Madison Condon, an associate law professor at Boston University who has studied climate risk.

“The First Street models might provide a good enough answer for certain questions or certain hazards,” she said. “But what level of accuracy is good enough changes substantially if the question is about one specific property you are about to spend your life savings on.”

In a statement Matthew Eby, First Street’s CEO said, “Our models are built on transparent, peer-reviewed science and the full methodologies are publicly available for anyone to review on our website.” He added that the company’s models have been validated by major banks, federal agencies, insurers and engineering firms.

When Melissa Savenko, a real estate agent, listed a home in Richmond, Virginia, for sale last summer, she said it immediately sparked interest from buyers in California, who made plans to hop on a plane to see the property.

But then the buyers saw the Zillow listing with a flood risk rating of 7 out of a maximum risk of 10. They canceled their plans.

Savenko, who knows the neighborhood and sold the same house 15 years earlier, thought the flood risk rating was a mistake. She tried to get Zillow to remove it.

“It made no rational, logical sense whatsoever that this one house was tagged with this crazy flood risk and houses around it had a 1 or a 2 flood risk,” she said.

Zillow does not allow sellers to remove climate risk data upon request. Its competitors Redfin and Realtor.com do.

Flooding from Hurricane Milton in Punta Gorda, Fla., Oct. 10, 2024. Zillow, the country’s largest real estate listings site, has quietly removed a feature that showed the risks from extreme weather for more than one million home sale listings on its site. (Paul Ratje/The New York Times)

By KENNETH CHANG

NASA’s latest robotic mission to Mars, ESCAPADE, should perhaps have been named the Great Escape, given how many times it has eluded doom.

The data that the mission eventually collects will provide clues about why Mars, which once possessed a thick atmosphere and flowing water on its surface, is today cold, dry and almost airless.

The mission, which launched Nov. 13, could also serve as a “trailblazer” for how NASA could get more bang for its buck from its science missions, said Rob Lillis, the mission’s principal investigator.

NASA initially rejected Lillis’ proposal several years ago. Later, ESCAPADE — a shortening of Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers — only got the go-ahead from NASA because of a federal government shutdown in 2018.

And then it got kicked off its ride to space.

For all these troubles, the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, which is leading the mission, and Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, together delivered two identical spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center in Florida last year — on time and on budget.

But the rocket that would eventually launch it — a brand-new design called New Glenn from Blue Origin — was not ready.

So the two spacecraft were shipped back to California and put in storage, and mission planners had to figure out yet another path to Mars.

This mission has nine lives, Lillis said, referring to the mythical resilience of cats.

“It’s something we joke about on the team,” said Lillis, a planetary scientist at the Berkeley laboratory.

Just before the launch, though, there were a couple more minor delays.

Bad weather — and a cruise ship entering the “keep out” zone near the launchpad — scuttled the first launch attempt. Then a second launch attempt was called off because of worries that a huge solar storm could scramble the spacecraft’s computers.

The two spacecraft, named Blue and Gold after the Berkeley school colors, are each about the size of a mini fridge. They are to enter orbit around Mars in September 2027, but because the sun will be inconveniently located between Earth and Mars at that time,

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blocking communications, the science mission won’t start until June 2028.

This is the first time that a mission to another planet has used multiple orbiters to make simultaneous measurements in different locations.

At the beginning of what will be a yearlong science campaign, the two will play follow-the-leader along an elliptical orbit, coming within 100 miles of the surface of Mars and swinging out as far as 4,300 miles. That will allow observations of changes in magnetic fields and the solar wind — a stream of charged particles from the sun — that occur over short periods of time.

Six months later, the two spacecraft will shift into different elliptical orbits, one swinging farther out, the other moving a bit closer. That will allow measurements of the longdistance effects from the buffeting of the solar wind. One of the spacecraft could be in front of Mars, measuring the incoming solar wind, while the other is behind Mars, observing how the planet’s magnetic fields reverberate.

The two spacecraft carry identical instruments: a magnetometer to measure the magnetic fields; a device called an electrostatic analyzer, which produces images showing the distribution of negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons and ions; and a probe that measures the temperature, density and voltage of the charged particles.

Each also carries a camera built by students at Northern Arizona University.

All of that came at a bargain-basement price tag of $94.2 million, which includes developing and building the spacecraft, launch-

ing them and operating them for the next few years.

That may sound like a lot, but traveling to another planet is not cheap. The last orbiter that NASA sent to the red planet — the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, or MAVEN, which launched in 2013 — cost nearly $600 million.

With the rise of entrepreneurial space companies and tiny spacecraft known as CubeSats, NASA officials have wondered whether “small” deep-space missions might be feasible. In 2018, the agency announced SIMPLEX, short for Small, Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration.

The upper limit on cost for a SIMPLEX mission was set at just $55 million, and to save money, the missions had to ride along on an upcoming launch of a larger spacecraft.

Lillis proposed that ESCAPADE could join Psyche, a NASA mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid, on its journey through the solar system.

It did not look like a winning proposal at first. Instead, it seemed that NASA would choose an orbiter that would travel to Venus, Lillis said.

Then the federal government shut down in 2018.

That delayed the SIMPLEX decisions by several months. Lillis said that by the time NASA finished its evaluations, there was not enough time for the proposed Venus orbiter to be ready for the launch it needed, and it was eliminated from consideration.

NASA chose ESCAPADE instead.

There were more twists. After NASA

chose SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch Psyche, it moved the launch date ahead by one year. That powerful rocket also meant that Psyche no longer needed to swing past Mars for a gravitational boost on the way to the asteroid, and ESCAPADE no longer had a direct ride to Mars.

The ESCAPADE team came up with an elaborate alternative. “In hindsight, it was kind of crazy,” Lillis said. It failed a design review.

NASA did throw the team a lifeline: It gave them nine months and $1.8 million to come up with another plan.

Instead of ESCAPADE hitching a ride with another spacecraft, NASA said it would now buy a separate launch for the mission. But it would not say which rocket, and now the ESCAPADE spacecraft would have to propel themselves out of Earth orbit to Mars. The design they had could not do that. The spacecraft had to be bigger.

NASA eventually selected New Glenn, which is almost comically oversized for ESCAPADE. It’s like driving a tractor-trailer truck to deliver a couple of pizzas. Because this was to be the first launch of New Glenn, Blue Origin offered a deep discount to NASA, charging only $20 million. (Blue Origin has not said what New Glenn will cost for other customers.)

The two ESCAPADE spacecraft were completed in about 3 1/2 years, almost a sprint in the aerospace world, and Lillis proudly noted that Berkeley and Rocket Lab delivered them at a cost of $49 million.

That sprint was followed by another wait when New Glenn was not ready in time. And that created yet another challenge. Earth and Mars come close to each other once every 26 months. ESCAPADE missed the window last year. One option would have been to wait until next year. But Jeffrey Parker, an orbital mechanics expert at Advanced Space in Westminster, Colorado, looked into other options.

“We studied no fewer than a dozen ways to get to Mars during 2025,” Parker said.

The two spacecraft, after their successful launch this month on New Glenn, are now on a trajectory calculated by Parker. They will travel along a kidney-bean-shaped orbit that loops around L2, a point in space where the gravitational forces of the sun and Earth balance. A year from now, they will swing around Earth again and fire their engines to head toward Mars.

An image provided by Rocket Lab shows an artist’s concept of an ESCAPADE spacecraft above Mars. The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Nov. 13, 2025, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. (Rocket Lab via The New York Times)

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el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. JAN DAVID ANDERSON; MARTHA CASTELLANO JOSPER; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: VB2025CV00009. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 17 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble

perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Unit Week 43, VACATION CLUB RIGHT corresponding to unit A-404, of HACIENDA DEL MAR, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-404, and includes the right to use such unit during the 43, week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 43, Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-404, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrito al folio 75, del tomo 232 de Vega Alta; Finca número 12646. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,103 inscrita al folio 1 del tomo de hoja móvil 49 Vega Alta, inscripción primera en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $17,159.38 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A404, semana 43. La fecha y hora de la subasta

es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 2:10 p.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA. HACIENDA DEL MAR

OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v.

CELIA ANA PANTOJA

QUIÑONES t/c/c CELIA

PANTOJA

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV01084. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 17 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: VACATION CLUB

RIGHT: Unit week 6. Vacation Club Right corresponding to Unit A602 of Hacienda del Mar, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-602 and includes the right to use such unit during the 6 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12.00 noon on the 6 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-602, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16,871 inscrita al folio 1 móvil del tomo 95 de Vega Alta, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $16,704.32 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A

602, semana 6. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 2:20 p.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v.

MARK STALLYBRASS; JANICE STALLYBRASS, T/C/C JANIE

STALLYBRASS; y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV01113.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: 1 Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 17 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: UNIDAD A-306 SEMANA 47. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-306 and includes the right to use such unit during the 47 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 47 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-306, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absenc of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Esta des-

cripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 13,162 inscrita al folio 1 del tomo de la hoja móvil 50 de Vega Alta, inscripción primera en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $5,386.35 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A306, semana 47. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 2:30 p.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de

NOVEMBER de 2025. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. MARY HOPE HASTINGS Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV01110. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 18 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: Apartamento Multivacacional: A-302. CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Unit Week 38, VACATION CLUB RIGHT corresponding to unit A-302, of HACIENDA DEL MAR, Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A302, and includes the right to use such unit during the 38, week of each year until December 31 of the Year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 24, Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-302, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the HACIENDAS DEL MAR, VACATION CLUB REGIME and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may

use units of this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first come first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrito al folio 35, del tomo 232 de Vega Alta; Finca número 12638. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 16,684 inscrita al folio 4459 del tomo 332 de Vega Alta, inscripción 2da en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $15,357.47 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A302, semana 38. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 2:40 p.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo

de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de NOVEMBER de 2025. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. RICHARD KATZ; HEIDI BETH LIPTON, y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00564. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 18 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Vacation Club Right: unit week (12) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B806 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B-806 and includes the right to use such unit during the first (12TH) week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the FIRST (12TH) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of

a right to use a specific week in Unit B-806, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18200 inscrita al folio106 del tomo 288 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1RA en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $11,091.16 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B806, semana 12. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 2:50 p.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga inte-

rés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA.

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. ALEXANDER MIRETSKY; NINA MIRESTKY T/C/C/ NINA NIDERMAYER; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado

CIVIL NÚM.: VB2024CV00878. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 18 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad

Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B 507 WEEK 3. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-507 and includes the right to use

such unit during the 3th week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070 such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 3th Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B507, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the facilities and common expenses of the vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Haciendas del Mar, inscrita al folio 126 del tomo 257 de Vega Alta finca 14155. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18237 inscrita al folio móvil 1 del tomo 105 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $13,627.38 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B507, semana 3. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 3:00 p.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción

el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN. HACIENDA DEL MAR

OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante v. ANA IRMA BIBILONI LIZARDI Y LA SUCESIÓN DE JACINTO SANTIAGO NEGRÓN (QEPD) COMPUESTA POR: JACINTO SANTIAGO

BIBILONI, JR., GABRIEL SANTIAGO BIBILONI, LUIS MANUEL SANTIAGO BIBILONI, CARLOS JOSÉ SANTIAGO BIBILONI Y SU ESPOSA ANA IRMA BIBILONI LIZARDI

Demandado CIVIL NÚM.: BY2024CV05538.

SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 18 de

noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: A-206 SEMANA 32. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Apartamento: A206 SEMANA 32. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit A-206 and includes the right to use such unit during the 32 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12.00 noon on the 32 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-206 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $16,607.68 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A206 semana 32. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 11 de diciembre de 2025, a las 3:10 p.m. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de

su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 20 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. LUIS F. ORTIZ ROSA #888, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR. ***

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante V. RAFAEL EDUARDO DE ROJAS BRITO, SANDRA MARGARITA ROGER MARIÑO y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV05738. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO.

AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG.

FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 24 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: unit week (50) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit B806 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit B-806 and includes the right to use such unit during the (50TH) week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the (50TH) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-806, the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 18,216 inscrita al folio móvil tomo 105 de Vega Alta, inscripción 2da en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $14,700.02 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B 806-50. La fecha y hora de la

subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1ro de diciembre de 2025. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA

BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V.

LEI HOLDINGS, INC.

Demandado Civil Núm.: VB2025CV00045. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ

COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 20 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad

Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO

CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Solar: UNIDAD A-702 SEMANA 48. Cabida: 101.42 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, in a distance of thirty six feet and five inches (36’5’’) with building north exterior wall. Sur, in a distance of thrity six feet and five inches (36’5’’) with the corridor. Este, in a distance of twenty fivefeet and ten inches (25’10’’) with unit dash seven hundred one (A701). Oeste, in a distance of twenty six feet and ten inches (26’10’’) with unit A dash seven hundred three (A-703). This specific vacation club right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned unit A-702 and includes the right to use such unit during the 48th week of each year until December 31, 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the 48th saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club o a sucesor Club o a sucesor Club notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in unit A-702, the use of said unit during described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period on time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owner of Vacation Club right in the Hacienda del Mar Vacation Club Regime and other owners of the timeshare or Vacation Club right in resort throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club may use the unit to which this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this Vacation Club Regime and such other affiliated resort, as more fully described in the deed of dedication of Hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the Vacation Club Regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la

finca número 15,383 inscrita al folio 1 del tomo móvil hoja 84 de Vega Alta, inscripción 4ta en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $17,693.15 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 702-48. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:10 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1ro de diciembre de 2025. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, AL-

GUACIL SUPERIOR #352. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. JOHN PAUL MOONCOTCH; MARY JO MOONCOTCH; Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: VB2024CV00561. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 20 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: CONDOMINIO CLUB VACACIONAL HACIENDA DEL MAR de Vega Alta. Apartamento Multivacacional: B-705 SEMANA 8. Cabida: 101.45 Metros Cuadrados. Apartamento: B-705 SEMANA 8. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the above mentioned Unit B-705 and includes the right to use such unit during the 8 week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12.00 noon on the 8 Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit B-705 the use of the said unit during the described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation. Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation

basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 1.2194% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Se separa del Régimen Vacacional Hacienda del Mar finca 14167 al folio 186 del tomo 257 de Vega Alta. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 15207 inscrita al folio móvil 1 del tomo 81 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $12,737.38 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad B 705-08. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:20 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por

escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1ro de diciembre de 2025. ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.

Demandante V. VÍCTOR MANUEL DÍAZ COLÓN; LUZ DELIA ROMERO LUCCA y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandado Civil Núm.: CA2024CV03194. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. AVISO DE SUBASTA. Yo, ALG. FREDDY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, Alguacil del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Vega Baja, al Público HAGO SABER: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que se me libró con fecha de 25 de noviembre de 2025 por la Secretaría de este Tribunal en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor con dinero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o letra bancaria con similar garantía, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada de epígrafe sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble perteneciente a la parte demandada, la cual se describe a continuación: Propiedad Multivacacional: unit week (29) Vacation Club Right corresponding to unit A-206 of HACIENDA DEL MAR., Vacation Club Regime, located in the Sabana Ward of the Municipality of Vega Alta. This specific Vacation Club Right is coupled with a special property right to the Unit A-206 and includes the right to use such unit during the first (29) week of each year until December 31, of the year 2070, such week commencing at 12:00 noon on the FIRST (29) Saturday of each calendar year and ending at 12:00 noon of the same day of the following week, coupled with the membership in the Hyatt Vacation Club or a successor club. Notwithstanding this specific vacation club right allocation of a right to use a specific week in Unit A-206, the use of the said unit during the

described time interval is subject to the exercise by the owner of certain priority rights during a fixed period of the time prior to the commencement of said interval. In the absence of such exercise, other owners of vacation club rights in the Haciendas del Mar, Vacation Club Regime and other owners of timeshare or vacation club rights in the resorts throughout the world affiliated to the Hyatt Vacation Club, may use the unit to with this vacation right pertains during the above described interval on a first come, first serve reservation basis, and the owner of this vacation club right may use units of this Vacation Club Regime and in such other affiliated resorts, as more fully described in the Deed of Dedication of hacienda del Mar, a Vacation Club Regime to the vacation club regime. This vacation club right has been assigned a share of 1/52 of 2.63132% in the Facilities and common expenses of vacation club regime. Esta descripción de la propiedad corresponde a la finca número 12876 inscrita al folio 26 del tomo 236 de Vega Alta, inscripción 1ra en el Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a Hacienda del Mar Owners’ Association, Inc., el importe de la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por la siguiente cantidad: $16,156.09 por concepto de cuotas de mantenimiento de la unidad A 206-29. La fecha y hora de la subasta es como sigue: SUBASTA: Se celebrará el día 18 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta de dicha propiedad se llevará a efecto en mi oficina situada en el local que ocupa este Tribunal en el Centro Judicial de Vega Baja, advirtiéndose que el que obtuviere la buena pro de dicha propiedad consignará en el acto del remate el importe de su oferta en moneda legal, en adición a los gastos de la subasta, siendo éste el mejor postor. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante el título del inmueble y las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistiendo, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remanente. Si se declara desierta la subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse al demandante la finca dentro de los veinte (20) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Vega Baja. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda persona que tenga interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que

se está ejecutando, si alguna, y para la concurrencia de licitadores y para el público en general el presente aviso se publicará en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, dos (2) veces por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones. Se fijará, además, por espacio de dos (2) semanas mediante avisos por escrito visiblemente colocados en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio donde ha de celebrarse la subasta, estos lugares son, por ejemplo: la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la comandancia de la Policía más cercana al Tribunal de Vega Baja. Se notificará a la parte demandada copia del edicto de subasta mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Expido el presente aviso bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal de Vega Baja. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, a 1ro de diciembre de 2025. ALG. FREDDY OMAR

RODRÍGUEZ COLLAZO, ALGUACIL SUPERIOR #352.

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Demandante V. CARLOS L TORRES TORRES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: VI2025CV00040. (Salón: 001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN - GABRIEL.RAMOS@ ORF-LAW.COM.

A: CARLOS L TORRES TORRES - 106 W MAIN ST., HONEOYE FALLS, NY 14472-1104. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir

de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. En OROCOVIS, Puerto Rico, el 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. MAYRA L. CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. BRENDA DÁVILA BURGOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. MARIA DEL C FELICIANO CABAN

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: LR2025CV00160. (Salón: 1). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: MARIA DEL C FELICIANO CABANHC 3 BOX 9833

LARES PR 00669. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de noviembre de 2025. En Lares, Puerto Rico, el 24 de noviembre de 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. CARMEN GONZÁLEZ CORDERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JAIME AGUSTÍN COLÓN MELÉNDEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES

COMPUESTA CON LAURA ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ

T/C/C LAURA ROSADO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2025CV00545. (Salón: 205). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM.

MARINILDA RIVERA VARGASMRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COM.

A: LAURA ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ T/C/C

LAURA ROSADO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON JAIME AGUSTÍN COLÓN MELÉNDEZ A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: VILLAS DE MONTECRISTO, 10B, NAGUABO, PR 00718, URB. SABANERA 348 CAMINO DEL PRADO, CIDRA, PR 00739-9455, URB. LEVITTOWN LAKES, G35 CALLE

MAGDA E, TOA BAJA, PR 00949-4510, HC 1 BOX 4858-7, NAGUABO, PR 00718-9453.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de noviembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de

PONCE

noviembre de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 25 de noviembre de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. DALISSA REYES DE LEÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. JOSE A RIVERA ORTIZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: YU2024CV00571. (Salón: 202). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. KENMUEL JOSÉ RUIZ LÓPEZK@KASASRUIZ.COM.

NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

A: JOSE A RIVERA ORTIZ - URB MUÑOZ RIVERA

21 CALLE SONATA, GUAYNABO PR 00969; PO BOX 963 SANTA ISABEL PR 00757-0963; 1802 STORY AVE APT 3B BRONX NY 10473-5010.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de julio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de noviembre de 2025. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 25 de noviembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. BRENDA G. ZAMOT SALGADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. PEDRO L SANTIAGO ROSADO

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2025CV01374. (Salón: 406 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

GABRIEL ANTONIO RAMOS COLÓN GABRIEL.RAMOS@ORF-LAW.COM. ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC - PO BOX 361110 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00936-1110.

PEDRO L SANTIAGO ROSADO3466 PONCE BYP PONCE, PUERTO RICO 00728-1508.

A: PEDRO L SANTIAGO ROSADO, ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 60 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. En PONCE, Puerto Rico, el 24 de NOVIEMBRE de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN JUAN MATOS SANTIAGO Y OLGA IRIS BURGOS ROSADO

Demandante V. PREFERRED MORTGAGE

CORPORATION; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y

JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2025CV05564. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: 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 Preferred Mortgage Corporation, por la suma de $27,000.00. El pagaré por fue suscrito el día 9 de mayo de 2006, ante el notario Jose Amiama Laguardia, garantizado por hipoteca constituida mediante la Escritura número 26, otorgada en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, inscrita al folio 196 vuelto del tomo 291 de Toa Alta, inscripción 2da, sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: SOLAR NÚMERO 3. Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Mucarabones del término Municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil doscientos ochenta y seis punto mil veinticuatro metros cuadrados, equivalentes a cero punto tres mil doscientos setenta y dos cuerdas, en lindes por el NORTE; con área dedicada a uso público número 3; por el SUR; con los solares números 4 y 6 a segregarse; por el ESTE; con área dedicada a uso público (área de parque); OESTE; con el solar número 2 a segregarse. FINCA: #14224 Inscrita al folio 196 del tomo 291 de Toa Alta, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón III. 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 pre-

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sentar 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/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, y notifique con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Zilmarie

Delgado Pieras, 33 Calle Resolución, Suite 302, San Juan, PR 00920-2727; Tel. (787) 7826500, 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

LEGAL NOTICE

American Towers LLC is proposing to increase the ground space for an existing telecommunications tower compound by 14.58’ x 21’ along with a 30 ft. buffer surrounding the current and proposed lease area at Ave. 65 de Infanteria, Km, 11.6, Ave. Marginal, Municipio De Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00987, Parcel ID: 088-099-025-15. American Towers LLC seeks comments from all interested persons on any potential significant impact the proposed action could have on the quality of the human environment pursuant to 47 C.F.R. Section 1.1307, including potential impacts to historic or cultural resources that are listed or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Interested persons may comment or raise concerns about the proposed action by submitting an e-mail to enviro.services@americantower.com. Paper comments can be sent to: American Towers LLC, Attn: Environmental Compliance, 10 Presidential Way, Woburn, MA 01801. Requests or comments should be limited to environmental and historic/cultural resource impact concerns and must be received within 30 days from the date of this publication. This invitation to comment is separate from any local planning/zoning process that may apply to this project. Re: 22511017

bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de octubre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NERI A. SANFELIZ RAMOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR TRIBUNAL I.

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American Towers LLC propone ampliar el espacio disponible para un complejo de torres de telecomunicaciones existente en 14.58’ x 21’, incluyendo una zona de amortiguamiento de 30 pies alrededor del área de arrendamiento actual y propuesta en la Av. 65 de Infantería, Km 11.6, Av. Marginal, Municipio de Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00987, Parcela ID: 088099-025-15. American Towers LLC solicita comentarios de todas las personas interesadas sobre cualquier posible impacto significativo que la acción propuesta pudiera tener en la calidad del entorno humano, de conformidad con la Sección 1.1307 del Título 47 del Código de Regulaciones Federales (47 C.F.R. § 1.1307), incluyendo posibles impactos en recursos históricos o culturales que están incluidos o son elegibles para su inclusión en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos. Las personas interesadas pueden enviar sus comentarios o expresar sus inquietudes sobre la acción propuesta enviando un correo electrónico a enviro. services@americantower.com. Los comentarios en papel pueden enviarse a: American Towers LLC, Attn: Environmental Compliance, 10 Presidential Way, Woburn, MA 01801. Las solicitudes o comentarios deben limitarse a cuestiones relativas al impacto ambiental y a los recursos históricos/culturales, y deben recibirse dentro de los 30 días posteriores a la fecha de esta publicación. Esta invitación a comentar es independiente de cualquier proceso local de planificación/zonificación que pueda aplicarse a este proyecto. Ref.: 22511017

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Arroyo & Dorado on the cusp of COLICEBA finals

By THE STAR STAFF

The Bucaneros of Arroyo and the Guapos of Dorado are on the verge of reaching the Central Amateur Baseball League Confederation (COLICEBA by its acronym in Spanish) finals after each team won their respective league semifinal games held this past weekend.

Both teams lead their respective series 2-0 in a bestof-five format.

Arroyo blanked the Azucareros of Yabucoa 7-0 on Sunday, thanks to a brilliant combined effort from pitchers Orlando Díaz and Jean Alvarado at Francisco Rosario Paoli Stadium in Maunabo.

Díaz earned the win with a solid eight-inning perfor-

Walk-off hit in 10th lifts Mayagüez

By THE STAR STAFF

The Santurce Crabbers, San Juan Senators, Caguas Criollos and Carolina Giants all split doubleheaders on Sunday in the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (LBPRC by its initials in Spanish).

The Crabbers (Cangrejeros) won the first game of a doubleheader, 3-1, while the Senators (Senadores) returned the favor with a 3-1 victory in the second game.

With the split, the first-place Crabbers have a record of 13-5 and the Senators stand at 6-12.

Crabbers’ starting pitcher Juan Hillman struggled with his control early in the first game, but kept the Senators off the scoreboard until the third inning, when he gave up three hits to the five batters he faced. The last of those hits, by Darlin Moquete, drove in San Juan’s first run.

Santurce tied the game in the bottom of the inning when Rubén Castro drove in Jeremy

mance, allowing six hits. Luis Román contributed offensively with a home run and two RBIs. The loss went to Bryan Bermúdez, who allowed five runs in 3.2 innings.

Meanwhile, the Guapos defeated the Marlins of Ceiba 8-1 on Saturday at Perucho Cepeda Stadium in Cataño. Dorado has now won seven straight and remains undefeated in the postseason.

Right-hander Andrés Santiago was dominant for the Guapos, pitching five innings and allowing only one unearned run while striking out four. At the plate, Ian Laureano hit a home run with two RBIs, Carlos Medina had a standout 3-for-4 performance, and Pedro Crespo contributed two hits and two runs scored.

Benigno Cepeda took the loss for the Marlins, allowing four runs and 10 hits in six innings.

The Bucaneros of Arroyo are a win away from the COLICEBA finals after blanking the Azucareros of

A pair of doubleheader splits in winter league play

Arocho from second base. In the fourth, a solo home run by Shed Long Jr. over the right-field fence gave Santurce a 2-1 lead. Senators starter Brady Tedesco, continued to struggle. First, he walked Brian Navarreto. Then Andrew Velázquez singled, and Jack López followed with an RBI double that made the score 3-1.

Tedesco (0-3) took the loss, allowing Santurce’s runs in three and two-thirds innings. Blake Abeyta (3-0) earned the win for Santurce, pitching two scoreless innings. Righthander Case Matter recorded his second save.

Moquete led the Senators’ offense in the second game. The outfielder drove in two of the team’s three runs with doubles in the third and fifth innings, the latter to make it 3-0. San Juan also got a solo home run from Jan Mercado to lead off the fifth. A double by Long Jr. drove in Santurce’s only run in the sixth inning.

San Juan right-hander Ethan Routzahn (1-0) earned the win, pitching two scoreless innings, and Josh Mallitz recorded the save. Austin Bergner (1-1) took the loss for Santurce, allowing all of the Senators’ runs in four innings.

At Roberto Clemente Walker Stadium in Carolina, the Criollos and Giants (Gigantes) also split their doubleheader as Caguas won the first game and Carolina the second, both by a score of 4-1.

In the nightcap, the Giants snapped a seven-game losing streak and remained in fourth place in the standings with an 8-10 record. The Criollos, meanwhile, remained in fifth place at 7-11.

In the opener, a double by Jonathan Morales gave the Criollos an early 2-0 lead in the fourth inning. Then rookie Gustavo Meléndez

drove in the third run for Caguas off Giants starter Matt Givin with a groundout to first base.

The Giants scored their lone run when Adrián Rodríguez hit a ground ball into a double play to shortstop in the fifth inning. The Criollos scored their final run in the seventh inning on a wild pitch by Colin Poche.

Left-hander Héctor Santiago (1-1) earned the win for Caguas, allowing one run in his five-inning start. Right-hander Yacksel Ríos recorded his first save of the year. Givin (0-1) took the loss after surrendering three runs in three and one-third innings.

In the second game, Yasser Mercedes and Jan Hernández hit solo home runs for the Giants’ first two runs in the second inning. The Criollos closed the gap to 2-1 in the top of the third inning when Nelson Velázquez singled in a run. In the bottom of the inning, Mercedes combined with Josh Hatcher to drive in two more runs with doubles and extend Carolina’s lead to 4-1.

Right-hander Eddy Reynoso (1-0) earned the win, pitching one-third of an inning. Osvaldo Berríos recorded his first save of the season. Brendan Cellucci (0-1) took the loss, allowing two runs in two innings.

Indians win delayed opener in extra innings; 2nd game rescheduled

At Isidoro “Cholo” García Stadium in Mayagüez, a walk-off single by Anthony García in the 10th inning lifted the Mayagüez Indians to a 4-3 victory over the Ponce Lions.

The second game of the doubleheader will be played on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Mayagüez. It will be a seven-inning game, as the

first game went past 10:30 p.m.

After a delay of almost three hours due to inclement weather, the Indians (Indios) took an early lead in the opener after Emmanuel Rivera singled to make it 1-0 in the third inning. The Lions (Leones) tied it up in the fifth on an error by Indians pitcher Luis Quiñones that allowed Kevin Santa to score.

Two innings later, a wild pitch by Indians pitcher Patrick Halligan resulted in Dalton Guthrie scoring the go-ahead run for Ponce. However, the Lions’ fortunes were reversed in the bottom of the seventh inning when Mayagüez’s Robbie Merced crossed home plate on a wild pitch by Andrew Marrero to tie the game 2-2.

Because it was a doubleheader with the second game shortened to seven innings, the tie-breaker rule for the regular season was activated, which places a runner on second base for both teams at the start of each extra inning, with no outs. Both teams scored in the 10th inning, beginning with Ponce’s William Simoneit driving in a run with a double in the top half to make it 3-2. Mayagüez answered in the bottom of the inning when an RBI double by Eddie Rosario tied the score and García followed with the game-winning single.

Right-hander Michael Reed (1-0) earned the win for the Indians after pitching one-third of an inning. Harold Cortijo (2-1) took the loss after allowing two runs in one-third of an inning.

With the win, Mayagüez improved to 9-8, while the Lions fell to 10-7, placing the teams third and second in the LBPRC standings, respectively.

Yasser Mercedes hit a solo home run in the second inning to help the Carolina Giants break a seven-game skid and beat the Caguas Criollos in Sunday’s nightcap at Roberto Clemente Walker Stadium in Carolina.

Yabucoa 7-0 on Sunday. (Aldwin Santiago)

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