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Mayors seek data on distribution of municipal ‘rescue’ funds

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Mayors Association

President Jorge “Georgie” González Otero has requested detailed information from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Executive Director Orlando Rivera Berríos and Financial Oversight and Management Board Executive Director Robert Mujica regarding the distribution of funds from the recently announced “municipal financial rescue” program.

The allocations were made prior to the end of the fiscal year, along with specific guidelines for their use. In his letter, González Otero raised concerns about the criteria and evaluation system used to determine the distribution of funds, citing inconsistencies in the process.

“Our organization represents 41 mayors, and we are requesting detailed information about the evaluation process conducted by the Office of Management and Budget to establish the final distribution of funds to municipalities,” González Otero said in a written statement. “Specifically, we have outlined four key points in our letter.”

The Association’s Popular Democratic Party-affiliated mayors asked the OMB and the oversight board to provide information on the following: first, the methodology used to apply the evaluation criteria; second, the formula or weighting system used to allocate the funds; third, the specific results of

the analysis conducted for each municipality; and fourth, the individual score for each municipality, including both those that were selected and those that were not.

“In accordance with the principles of government transparency, this information is essential to assess the fairness of the fund distribution from the aforementioned program, which is taken from the General Fund budget,” noted González Otero, who is the mayor of Jayuya. “Therefore, we would appreciate the requested information and an urgent meeting to gain clarity regarding this distribution.”

González Otero expressed concern about the fiscal situation many municipalities are facing due to budget cuts and the elimination of the Equalization Fund, alleging that the most recent allocations do not reflect fair or equitable criteria.

“It is widely recognized among our community that municipalities are the frontline service providers, not only during emergencies but at all times,” he said. “After being stripped of $350 million designated for community services and the elimination of the Equalization Fund, many municipalities are now in a precarious position, and there are serious inconsistencies in the distribution announced last week. This is the basis of our complaint, and we await prompt attention to this matter.”

ACLU: Witnessing, including recording video, of ICE interventions is constitutionally protected

By THE STAR STAFF

Annette Martínez Orabona, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Puerto Rico, expressed on Thursday her rejection of statements made by Rebecca González Ramos, special agent in charge of the Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), about possible criminal actions against those who witness interventions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The ACLU of Puerto Rico is following up on the statements by González Ramos regarding the witnessing of ICE detentions, Martínez Orabona said.

“For the ACLU, it is important to remind citizens that freedom of expression is a protected right, both in the United States Constitution and in the Puerto Rican Constitution,” the island ACLU director said. “This includes verbal statements and actions such as recording the interventions of law enforcement agents, legitimate actions that do not constitute a crime.”

ACLU of Puerto Rico Executive Director Annette Martínez Orabona (LinkedIn)

Martínez Orabona added that an arrest without an arrest warrant or without a court order signed by a judge is, in principle, illegal, so she urged the media and journalists to inquire about the existence of such warrants in each intervention carried out by ICE and HSI.

She noted that the ACLU has documented numerous incidents in which citizens have faced retaliation for recording the interventions of federal or state agents, raising concerns about the respect for constitutional rights during immigration operations.

Mayors Association President Jorge González Otero

First local gov’t efficiency report shows 90% of active regulations have not been updated in years

By THE STAR STAFF

Arecent report from the Deregulation and Administrative Efficiency Initiative has brought to light an eye-opening statistic: over 90% of the active regulations registered with the Puerto Rico Department of State have not seen updates in the past five years.

The initiative, regarded on the island as a local version of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, whose staff was led until recently by multibillionaire businessman Elon Musk, highlights a critical examination of regulations, many of which have roots in now-defunct agencies or stem from laws that have subsequently been repealed.

Veronica Ferraiuoli Hornedo, the government efficiency coordinator, presented the findings of the comprehensive report to Gov. Jenniffer González Colón on Monday. The report is underpinned by Executive Orders OE-2025-009 and OE2025-023, which aim to enhance governmental effectiveness and responsiveness.

“This report reflects this administration’s commitment to creating a more efficient, agile, and transparent government,” Ferraiuoli Hornedo emphasized in a written statement. “The IDEA initiative has enabled us to identify regulatory barriers that hinder public sector productivity and negatively impact citizens’ experiences. We are committed to transforming how government operates, with an unwavering focus on results

and service delivery.”

Ferraiuoli Hornedo disclosed that more than 4,000 regulations were meticulously reviewed as part of the initiative. Despite the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act’s requirement that agencies routinely evaluate their regulations every five years, the data indicates that a substantial majority have fallen short of meeting that essential compliance standard.

In response, Administrative Order IDEA-2025-002 mandated that all agencies conduct thorough reviews, classify their regulations, and report on their current status. The move has initiated a structured process aimed at regulatory refinement. Remarkably, 83 agencies have already completed their regulatory self-assessments, resulting in the establishment of a consolidated database encompassing more than 4,000 regulations. Moreover, there are active initiatives currently in progress targeting the repeal, consolidation, or formulation of new regulations across several government agencies. To enhance transparency and citizen engagement, a digital compliance dashboard is also in development, which will allow the public to track the refinement efforts in real time.

Looking ahead, the second phase of the initiative will introduce the Regulatory Efficiency Certification as a mandatory criterion for all newly formulated regulations. The administration plans to broaden the scope of digital signatures across various administrative processes, streamlining operations significantly. Furthermore, the IDEAL system will see expansions through inter-agency integrations, with the aim

of fostering greater collaboration and efficiency. A centralized citizen services platform will be introduced as well, which will feature an intelligent virtual assistant designed to enhance user interactions and provide immediate assistance.

Furthermore, planned reforms are set to include significant updates to the tax system and the permit application process, as well as the development of performance metrics, accomplished in collaboration with key bodies such as the Puerto Rico Planning Board, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Department of Economic Development and Commerce. An innovative energy efficiency plan targeting public buildings will also be designed, aiming to optimize operational costs and promote sustainability within government infrastructure.

Officials said the multifaceted approach reflects a strong commitment to improving government functionality and enhancing the overall citizen experience.

Energy Bureau lowers LUMA’s proposed quarterly adjustment

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) on Monday reduced the adjustment factors proposed by private grid operator LUMA Energy for the quarter beginning today, July 1, which will result in a reduction of about $5 on the bill of a residential customer who consumes 800 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month.

“An unsubsidized residential customer who consumes 800

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kilowatt-hours per month will see a reduction of approximately $5.01 on their bill, equivalent to a 2.5 percent decrease in the consumption charge,” the PREB stated in a resolution and order.

The new approved fuel purchase adjustment factor is $0.119003 per kilowatt-hour, a decrease compared to the current factor of 0.129224. According to the document, the reduction was greater than the one initially proposed by LUMA Energy.

The PREB also evaluated proposals related to the power purchase adjustment and corrected errors found in the data

residents with special needs receive

By THE STAR STAFF

In preparation for the peak of hurricane season, Cidra Mayor Delvis Pagán Clavijo delivered 102 solar panel batteries to residents with special needs in the municipality.

The equipment distribution was made as a result of an allocation of federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act program, with the goal of providing energy backup to people who depend on electrically powered medical equipment or who require specialized care.

“My team and I are committed to providing the best quality of life for our fellow citizens, especially those most in need,” the mayor said during the delivery ceremony held at Hacienda Sabanera. “Thanks to this effort, more families

submitted by LUMA. It also denied the requested increase of the energy efficiency charge, which will remain unchanged for the next fiscal year.

The regulator warned LUMA of sanctions if it fails to comply with the terms established in the resolution and urged both LUMA and Genera PR, the operator of the island’s legacy power plants, to fulfill their regulatory responsibilities expeditiously and diligently.

The new factors will be effective starting today.

solar-powered batteries

in Cidra can now feel at ease knowing they have a support system when the power goes out.”

The batteries, along with their respective solar panels, were presented to citizens who previously requested the equipment through the municipality and met the criteria established by federal and state agencies. The effort is part of the municipal government’s preventive strategy to protect its vulnerable population from potential power outages caused by storms.

Pagán Clavijo emphasized that the project is also part of a broader hurricane season preparation plan.

“We have already developed and have our work plan ready for this hurricane season,” he said. “We hope none hit, but if one does, our entire municipal team knows how to respond. Planning and rapid response can make all the

difference in these emergencies.”

Government Efficiency CoordinatorVeronica Ferraiuoli Hornedo

The battery-solar panel units were presented to Cidra residents who previously requested the equipment through the municipality and met the criteria established by federal and state agencies.

Renowned painter Luis Germán Cajiga dies at 90

By THE STAR STAFF

Renowned painter and visual artist Luis Germán Cajiga has passed away at the age of 90, a loss that was confirmed by the municipality of Quebradillas in a message shared on social media.

“The Municipal Administration of Quebradillas joins the Cajiga family in mourning the loss of the illustrious painter and passionate advocate for Puerto Rican culture, Luis Germán Cajiga. He was not just an exceptionally talented artist but also a devoted painter whose vibrant works profoundly captured the essence of our culture,” stated the note of mourning posted by the municipality. “We celebrate his creative legacy, which will endure in the beauty of each piece that reflects the rich identity of our people: from our lively streets to our cherished traditions.”

Cajiga was born on Aug. 21, 1934, into a modest family in Quebradillas where his mother crafted his shirts from discarded flour sacks, a testament to their humble beginnings. This simplicity framed his early years and ignited a passion for art that would later blossom into an extraordinary career.

Throughout his life, Cajiga emerged as one of Puerto Rico’s most celebrated “costumbrista” painters, creating artworks that were vibrant reflections of Puerto Rican life. His paintings depicted colorful jíbaro scenes, traditional wooden houses, hardworking oxen teams, and the stunning red flamboyán flowers that dot the island’s landscape. In addition to his

striking paintings, he skillfully produced posters, silkscreen prints, engravings, poems, and insightful essays, showcasing his multifaceted talent.

At just 17 years old, Cajiga sought the help of Doña Inés María Mendoza, the then-first lady of Puerto Rico and wife of Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín, after learning how she helped artist Alfonso Arana pursue studies abroad. Cajiga wrote her a letter, including two small paintings as a heartfelt appeal for assistance to continue his own artistic journey.

Mendoza recognized his potential and helped him gain admission to the Graphics Workshop of the Community Education Division in San Juan, where he was introduced to the inspiring teachings of mentors Lorenzo Homar and Rafael Tufiño. There, he honed his skills over six transformative years, learning various printing techniques such as silkscreen printing and linocut.

His artistic vision was greatly influenced by the works of French painter Maurice Utrillo, who captured the streets of Paris. Similarly, Cajiga found inspiration in the enchanting streets of Old San Juan, translating their beauty into his own captivating representations.

In the wake of his death, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón extended her sympathies to Cajiga’s family, honoring the profound impact he had on the cultural landscape of Puerto Rico.

“Today, Puerto Rico bids farewell with deep gratitude and respect to Maestro Luis Germán Cajiga, an engraver, painter,

and poet whose artistic expressions delicately and powerfully shaped the visual soul of our island,” the governor’s message said. “[...] Cajiga embraced art as a means to celebrate our identity, our vibrant streets, and our rich history, capturing the hearts of entire generations with his unique sensitivity. Trained alongside prominent figures such as Lorenzo Homar and Rafael Tufiño, his work transcended the confines of museums, borders, and time, leaving an indelible mark on the collective memory of our people. Today, we reflect on his legacy with admiration and affection, certain that his artistic contributions will continue to illuminate the path for the sons and daughters of this beautiful land.”

By THE STAR STAFF

The island House of Representatives confirmed Rosachely Rivera Santana, the mayor of Gurabo, as secretary of state on Monday, with a unanimous vote from all delegations.

Government Committee Chairman Víctor Parés Otero said Rivera Santana submitted all the required documentation and reiterated that she will not hold both positions simultaneously.

The official appeared before the Government Committee on Friday, where she requested that the vote be held on Monday,

the last day of the regular session, in order to complete the transition process in the Gurabo municipal council.

Spokespersons for the legislative delegations stated that after evaluating her file and meeting with the nominee, they found no impediments to her confirmation. Some highlighted her openness to dialogue and willingness to improve communication between the central government and the representative districts.

Rivera Santana is assuming the second-highest position within the constitutional cabinet at a time when the executive administration was seeking to complete the permanent appointment for the State Department.

Spokespersons for the legislative delegations stated that after evaluating her file and meeting with Rosachely Rivera Santana, they found no impediments to her confirmation.

House confirms Rosachely Rivera Santana as secretary of state Vega Baja to host inaugural summer beer festival

By THE STAR STAFF

Vega Baja is preparing to host the Almibar Summer Beer Fest on Saturday, July 19 starting at 2 p.m. in the José Francisco Náter public plaza, where a free celebration of music, culture and homemade beer will join the calendar of summer events in Puerto Rico.

Organized by the Almíbar Coffee & Beer Gallery, the event will have 30 varieties of beers and a varied gastronomic offering, local arts and crafts and continuous entertainment during the afternoon and evening.

The musical program will include live performances by Skapulario, Sol D’ Menta, Inzmnia y Orquesta Los Friends, with music mixes refreshing the atmosphere

between each band and animation on the dance floor by DJ Sergio.

The initiative, conceived by young entrepreneurs from Vega Baja who bet on their people with the backing of La Mega 106.9 FM and the municipal government of Vega Baja, aims to promote the culture of beer in the north of the island and support the cultural development of Vega Baja.

Luis Germán Cajiga, 1934-2025 (peoplepill.com)

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Senate slogs through votes on marquee policy bill with passage still in doubt

By CATIE EDMONDSON and CARL HULSE

Senate Republicans on Monday beat back multiple Democratic attempts to derail their sweeping tax cut and domestic policy bill, as they continued to hunt for the votes to pass President Donald Trump’s first-year legislative agenda.

On a marathon day of voting on proposed changes to the legislation, Republicans held firm against Democratic attacks on the measure’s cuts to Medicaid and federal nutrition programs as well as an accounting gimmick the GOP employed to mask the true impact of the bill on the deficit.

Republicans said they were imposing changes to Medicaid that would make the program more sustainable, though nonpartisan analyses showed more than 11 million people could lose coverage.

“The whole issue of what we’re doing with the Medicaid program is to get rid of the waste, fraud and abuse, make it work in the way in which it was intended, to cover the people for whom it was intended,” said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the majority leader.

Democrats expected to lose most of their attempts to change the legislation and send it back to the drawing board, but still wanted to put Republicans on record on a host of issues in the legislation.

“Republicans have said that they don’t want to cut Medicaid,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the minority leader, said at the start of the voting. “Today, we’ll give you the chance.”

The bigger challenge for Republicans was in unifying their own party behind the bill, which polls have shown is deeply unpopular. At least two senators in their ranks, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky, have said they will not vote for the measure. With Democrats uniformly opposed, GOP leaders could afford to lose only three Republican votes in the closely divided Senate. And even then, they would need to call in Vice President JD Vance to cast a tiebreaking vote.

Four defectors would be enough to kill the bill. But at least a half-dozen Republican senators were still undecided, and several issues that could make or break their decisions had not been resolved and were expected to come to a vote Monday afternoon.

Even if Senate Republicans manage to squeeze the bill through their chamber, its fate was uncertain in the other chamber

to make a mistake” in slashing Medicaid and betraying the president’s promise to protect it.

The other known GOP opponent, Paul, scoffed at claims by fellow Republicans that the plan would not add significantly to the federal debt, noting that it includes a $5 trillion increase in the federal debt limit.

“That is an admission that they know they are not controlling the deficit,” Paul said.

Other Republicans were still holding out. Senators were waiting to see if the parliamentarian would allow a spate of measures aimed at winning the vote of Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska to be part of the bill, including a provision that would exempt her state from having to pay for a share of nutrition assistance payments currently financed entirely by the federal government.

of Congress. Hard-right conservatives in the House have raised the alarm about the deficit impact, and others have objected to the Medicaid cuts in the Senate measure, which are deeper than those approved last month by the House.

The vote-a-thon followed a weekend session marked by sharp partisan conflict. Senate Republicans now hope to approve the measure and send it to the House. It would extend roughly $3.8 trillion in tax cuts enacted in 2017 and partially pays for them by slashing spending on safety net programs.

The legislation, which is being considered under special budgetary rules that protect it from a filibuster, would also make significant investments in border security and the military — top priorities of congressional Republicans and the White House.

“We’re going to put in place border security measures that keep it secure,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the Budget Committee chair, in extolling the measure. “We are going to make the tax cuts permanent so your taxes do not go up in December.”

But the nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid as well as reductions in federal nutrition programs that would offset the

cost of continuing the tax reductions have drawn fierce opposition from Democrats and made several Republicans uneasy.

One of the Republican opponents, Tillis, announced Sunday that he would not seek reelection next year after he came under harsh attack by Trump for his opposition to the bill. Tillis said he judged it would be too harmful to North Carolina’s health care system for him to back. He took to the floor late Sunday to assail the measure and Trump, warning that his party was “about

And a clutch of conservatives, including Sens. Rick Scott of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, have demanded a vote on an amendment that would slash Medicaid further, by changing the formula used to determine what share of the program’s bills are paid by the federal government.

Johnson has said he will wait to see whether Republicans adopt that amendment before deciding whether he will support the overall legislation. Should the proposal succeed, the bill could lose the support of senators who are already alarmed at the level of Medicaid cuts it would impose, as well as Republicans in the House with districts with large populations of Medicaid beneficiaries.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) heads to a Senate Republican luncheon as the Senate holds a “vote-a-rama” to pass President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Monday, June 30, 2025. The Senate on Monday headed toward climactic votes on a sweeping Republican-crafted economic and domestic policy bill, with President Trump’s first-year legislative agenda hanging in the balance. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

Suspect identified in deadly ambush of Idaho firefighters

By CHRISTINA MORALES and DEVLIN BARRETT

The man suspected of shooting firefighters Sunday as they responded to a brush fire in Idaho has been identified, a law enforcement official said Monday.

The suspect, who was found dead at the scene, was identified as Wess Roley, 20, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, the official said.

Two firefighters were killed, and a third was seriously wounded in the attack, which took place on a mountain with popular hiking trails outside Coeur d’Alene, according to the authorities. They said the fire appeared to have been set intentionally to lure the firefighters to the scene.

Law enforcement officers exchanged fire with the shooter while the wildfire burned. Later, using cellphone signal data, officials found the body of the suspect on the mountain with a firearm nearby, Sheriff Robert Norris of Kootenai County said at a news conference Sunday night. The authorities said they believed the suspect had acted alone.

Roley’s grandfather, Dale Roley, said in an interview Monday that Wess had expressed interest in becoming a forest firefighter. The suspect, who turned 20 in May, moved to Idaho last year and was living in his own apartment and working for a tree company, his grandfather said.

“He was just trying to figure his life out,” Dale Roley said. “He seemed to be a little bit optimistic.”

Roley said that he was usually in fre-

mountain because the fire was spreading rapidly, the sheriff said.

The authorities have not released the names of the victims. One of the firefighters who died worked for the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department, and the other was from Kootenai County Fire and Rescue, Norris said Sunday. The injured firefighter, from Kootenai County, was in stable condition after surgery, the sheriff added.

The rugged terrain of Canfield Mountain is popular with hikers, mountain bikers and motorcyclists. Recent dry conditions have increased the wildfire danger in the region.

Graham Christensen, a past president of the Lake City Trail Alliance, said the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department regularly performed brush clearing and fire suppression there, and said he did not know of any naturally caused wildfire that had occurred there in the past two decades.

quent touch with his grandson, but that they had last spoken about a month ago because the younger man had lost his cellphone.

“It’s going to be hard to take if it was actually him,” Roley said. “We’re just hoping it wasn’t.”

Firefighters were dispatched after authorities received a phone call about a fire on Canfield Mountain, on the northeastern edge of Coeur d’Alene, at about 1:21 p.m., Norris said Sunday. It was not immediately clear who had made the call; authorities said they did not think it was the suspect.

About 40 minutes later, firefight -

ers said that they were being shot at, the sheriff said.

As the shooting unfolded, firefighters pleaded for help, according to a feed posted on Broadcastify, a website that provides public access to emergency radio communications. One firefighter reported that they were hiding behind a firefighting rig.

More than 300 law enforcement officers from numerous agencies responded, Norris said. The FBI confirmed that its agents were there and helping local authorities.

As evening fell, authorities found the suspect’s body, and moved it off the

Christensen said the attack came as a shock because the area had always felt so safe. “Everybody feels comfortable up there,” he said.

On Sunday, Brian Hadley had been riding up the dirt roads around Canfield Mountain to train for a mountain-biking race when a neighbor called him to share the news about the fire. Hadley turned back, and as he rode down the mountain he heard three gunshots in quick succession. When he reached the parking lot at the base of the mountain, law enforcement officers ordered him out of the area.

“It’s heartbreaking,” he said of the shooting.

Police vehicles patrol an area in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on June 29, 2025, where firefighters were reportedly attacked when responding to a fire in the Canfield Mountain area. At least two people were killed in Idaho on Sunday afternoon after firefighters were ambushed in a sniper attack as they responded to a fire call in a rugged mountain area, the authorities said. (Margaret Albaugh/The New York Times)

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GOP bill adds surprise tax that could cripple wind and solar power

By BRAD PLUMER

Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.

The tax provision, tucked inside the 940-page bill that the Senate made public just into Saturday, stunned observers.

“This is how you kill an industry,” said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a nonpartisan group of business leaders and investors. “And at a time when electricity prices and demand are soaring.”

The bill would rapidly phase out existing federal tax subsidies for wind and solar power by 2027. Doing so, many companies say, could derail hundreds of projects under development and could jeopardize billions of dollars in manufacturing facilities that had been planned around the country with the subsidies in mind.

Those tax credits were at the heart of the Inflation Reduction Act, which Democrats passed in 2022 in an attempt to nudge the country away from fossil fuels, the burning of which is driving climate change. Trump, who has mocked climate science, has instead promoted fossil fuels and demanded that Republicans in Congress unwind the law.

But the latest version of the Senate bill would go much further. It would impose a steep penalty on all new wind and solar farms that come online after 2027 — even if they didn’t receive federal subsidies — unless they follow complicated and potentially unworkable requirements to disentangle their supply chains from China. Since China dominates global supply chains, that measure could affect a large number of companies.

“It came as a complete shock,” said Jason Grumet, CEO of the American Clean Power Association, which represents renewable energy producers. Soon after the Senate bill was made public, Grumet said phones started ringing at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday with “everyone saying, ‘Can you believe this?’”

The new tax “is so carelessly written and haphazardly drafted that the concern is it will create uncertainty and freeze the markets,” Grumet said.

Even some of those who lobbied to end federal support for clean energy said the Senate bill went too far.

“I strongly recommend fully desubsidizing solar and wind vs. placing a kind of new tax on them,” wrote Alex Epstein, an influential activist who has been urging Republican senators to eliminate renewable energy subsidies. “I just learned about the excise tax and it’s definitely not

something I would support.”

Wind and solar projects are the fastest growing new source of electricity in the United States and account for nearly two-thirds of new electric capacity expected to come online this year. For utilities and tech companies, adding solar, wind and batteries has often been one of the easiest ways to help meet soaring electricity demand. Other technologies such as new nuclear reactors can take much longer to build, and there is a multiyear backlog for new natural gas turbines.

The repeal of federal subsidies alone could cause wind and solar installations to plummet by as much as 72% over the next decade, according to the Rhodium Group, a research firm. The new tax could depress deployment even further by raising costs an additional 10% to 20%, the group estimated.

The Senate bill, which is being debated Sunday, would also eliminate federal tax credits this year for consumers to buy electric vehicles and to install solar panels and heat pumps in their homes. And the bill would impose new restrictions on tax breaks for factories that manufacture wind turbines, solar panels and batteries.

In a statement, the White House praised the Senate legislation for “eliminating wasteful environmental policies” and said that “failure to pass the bill would be the ultimate betrayal.”

On June 21, Trump wrote that green tax credits are “a giant SCAM” and should be eliminated, referring to wind turbines “and the rest of this ‘JUNK.’”

Some conservatives voiced support for the bill. If “repealing these subsidies will ‘kill’ their industry, then maybe it shouldn’t exist in the first place,” said Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, a conservative research group that supports fossil fuels. “Extending green giveaways on the backs of American taxpayers is shortsighted and neglectful.”

The latest draft of the Senate bill would preserve tax credits for sources of emissionsfree electricity that can run at all hours — such as nuclear reactors, geothermal plants, hydroelectric dams and industrial-scale batteries — through 2036. The bill would also expand tax breaks for biofuels and would enlarge subsidies for companies that capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and use it to extract oil from underground. But wind and solar power do not fare well. Projects would only qualify for a federal tax credit worth at least 30% of project costs if they finish construction by the end of 2027. Developers say that deadline could be difficult to meet, even for projects that are already underway, since companies often face delays in obtaining government permits or other obstacles beyond their control.

The bill also creates a complex set of rules requiring developers to prove that they are not using components that can trace back to China or other “prohibited foreign entities.” And, starting in 2027, the bill would impose new excise taxes on companies that fail to meet those requirements, even if they are no longer receiving federal subsidies.

Renewable energy companies say that they have been shifting away from Chinese components and toward using domestically made parts, but that the new restrictions are so opaque that it could be tough for many businesses to prove they are in compliance.

“This puts into complete disarray billions of dollars in investments that we’ve all planned,” said Sandhya Ganapathy, CEO of EDP Renewables North America, a leading wind and solar developer.

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The Vineyard Wind Farm in the Atlantic, Sept. 10, 2024. Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry. (Randi Baird/The New York Times)

Stocks

Wall Street analysts split on Circle after blockbuster IPO on lofty valuation concerns

Wall Street brokerages had mixed recommendations on stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group as they began coverage on Monday, with some analysts expressing concerns about its elevated valuation after the stock more than doubled since its market debut.

The New York-based company’s shares were up 4% in choppy early trading.

Circle debuted this month at $69 per share in the first major IPO by a stablecoin issuer. The blockbuster flotation represents the biggest crypto listing since Coinbase’s 2021 debut. The company had priced its IPO at $31 per share.

J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs were the lead underwriters for the offering.

After the industry-mandated quiet period expired, Barclays, Bernstein, Canaccord Genuity and Needham launched coverage with the equivalent of ‘buy’ ratings and price targets above $200 betting on the rapid global adoption of stablecoins as they gain traction, positioning themselves to become integral to the traditional financial ecosystem.

“CRCL is building a market-leading digital dollar stablecoin network, with a strong regulatory edge, liquidity headstart and marquee distribution partnerships. This is hard to replicate, in our view,” Bernstein analysts said in a note.

‘SWITZERLAND’ OF STABLE COINS

Circle is a blockchain infrastructure company best known for issuing USD Coin (USDC), a fully reserved, U.S. dollarbacked stablecoin used across crypto trading, payments, and decentralized finance.

“Circle’s strategic positioning as the “Switzerland” of stablecoins makes it a standout for long-term success,” Canaccord analysts said.

In June, the U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support, marking a watershed moment for the digital asset industry by establishing the first federal regulatory framework for stablecoins.

“CRCL is one of the only ways for public investors to play the blockchain infrastructure theme, and we believe stablecoins are nearing a pivotal turning point,” Barclays noted.

LOFTY VALUATIONS A CONCERN

However, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs pointed to the stock’s elevated valuation, given its rapid rise since the IPO.

J.P. Morgan started coverage with the most bearish view on Wall Street - an ‘underweight’ rating with a price target of $80, implying a downside of 56% from the stock’s last close of $180.43.

“We view CRCL’s business and growth attractively, but valuation appears elevated,” said Goldman, as the brokerage started coverage with ‘neutral’ and $83 price target. As of last close, shares of Circle have sky-rocketed 161% since their market debut.

“While we see potential for strong long-term industry adoption of stablecoins, the range of outcomes are very wide and likely to create substantial volatility in earnings revisions and the share price for at least the near-to-inter-

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mediate term,” Deutsche Bank analysts added.

Below are brokerage ratings and price targets on Circle:

Brokerage Rating PT

J.P.Morgan Underweight $80

Goldman Sachs Neutral $83

Deutsche Bank Hold $155

Oppenheimer Perform NA

Barclays Overweight $215

Bernstein Outperform $230

Canaccord Genuity Buy $247

Needham Buy $250

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Aerospace supplier TransDigm Group said on Monday it will acquire Simmonds Precision Products from defense contractor RTX Corp for about $765 million in cash.

Simmonds makes fuel and proximity sensing and structural health monitoring products for the aerospace and defense industry.

Cleveland, Ohio-based TransDigm supplies aircraft components such as cockpit security systems and engine sensors for commercial and military jets, and counts planemakers Boeing and Airbus among its customers.

TransDigm said the deal is expected to be financed through existing cash on hand.

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Violence erupts between Israeli settlers and military in West Bank

By AARON BOXERMAN and FATIMA ABDULKARIM

Dozens of Israelis clashed with Israeli troops outside a military base in the occupied West Bank and set fire to a nearby security installation overnight, the Israeli military said Monday, in the latest violence perpetrated by hard-right Jewish extremists in the territory.

A hard-right protest over the Israeli military’s handling of Israeli settler attacks on a Palestinian town devolved into a riot. Extremists attacked security forces with pepper spray and vandalized military vehicles, the military said.

The confrontation occurred against a backdrop of rising tensions between settlers and the security forces over the Israeli military’s response to clashes between the settlers and Palestinians, and at least 11 Israelis have been detained in multiple incidents.

On Friday, an Israeli teenager was wounded by gunfire during clashes with soldiers, according to settler officials, prompting further outrage among hard-line settlers against the Israeli military’s behavior.

Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians have sharply increased in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Roughly 3 million Palestinians live in the territory alongside about 500,000 Israeli settlers under a two-tier legal system some human rights groups have compared to apartheid — a charge sharply disputed by Israel.

Some settlements are relatively sleepy communities whose residents are as likely to have been motivated by cheaper housing as by nationalist ideology. But the most radical, hard-line settlers live in hilltop outposts that former Israeli military officials have said are a regular source of extremist attacks on Palestinians.

Last Wednesday, at least three Palestinians were killed during a confrontation in the town of Kafr Malik outside the city of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

The Israeli military said its troops came under fire after Israeli rioters set Palestinian property ablaze, prompting clashes between the demonstrators and Palestinians in which both sides hurled stones at one another. Five Israelis

The burned wreckage of a car after an attack by Israeli settlers in Kafr Malik, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Friday, June 27, 2025. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)

were detained, the military said.

According to Palestinian eyewitnesses, Israeli extremists descended on Kafr Malik around 7 p.m., arriving on foot and in vehicles. Many were masked, and several were armed. They hurled Molotov cocktails at buildings and cars, setting fires throughout the village, the witnesses said.

The Israeli military said “several terrorists” had fired from within Kafr Malik, leading its forces to shoot back. The Palestinian witnesses said they did not hear any shooting at Israeli soldiers before the troops opened fire.

Two days after the three Palestinians were killed, dozens of Israeli civilians again clashed with Israeli forces near Kafr Malik, including hurling stones at them, the Israeli military said.

The Israeli teenager was wounded during the incident, according to settler officials. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has raged during Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which began when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. More than 850 Palestinians and 40 Israelis have been killed the

West Bank, according to the United Nations’ office of humanitarian affairs, which tracks casualties in the territory.

Over the past few months, the Israeli military has launched a sweeping campaign against Palestinian militants in the north of the territory, displacing tens of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem.

At the same time, Jewish extremists have launched increasingly intense attacks on Palestinian towns in other parts of the West Bank, with mobs burning vehicles and throwing stones.

Israeli authorities do not typically prosecute such offenders, creating a culture of impunity that facilitates further attacks, according to Palestinians and Israeli human rights groups. Yesh Din, an Israeli rights group that examined more than 1,600 cases of settler violence in the West Bank between 2005 and 2023, found that just 3% ended in a conviction.

But Israeli extremist attacks on the Israeli military and police are rare. The violence Sunday prompted condemnation from the country’s top politicians, including settler leaders, but most did not mention the attacks on Palestinians.

“No functioning country can tolerate violent and anarchistic acts such as the burning of a military facility, damage to Israeli military property, and assaults on security personnel by the country’s own citizens,” Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said on Monday.

The United Nations has said that the number of Jewish extremist attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank has risen in the shadow of the war in Gaza. Settler attacks injured more than 220 Palestinians during the first five months of 2025, the highest rate in years, the U.N. said.

Both the Jewish extremist attacks and the lackluster Israeli government response have prompted international condemnation. The European Union and Britain have imposed sanctions on Israeli settlers who are believed to be involved in the violence. The Biden administration also introduced similar U.S. penalties on some settlers, but President Donald Trump quickly reversed that decision.

Canada will scrap tax that prompted Trump to suspend trade talks

By MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFF

Canada’s government announced Sunday night that it would cancel a tax on American technology companies that led President Donald Trump to suspend trade talks between the two countries, handing an important victory to Trump.

Prime Minister Mark Carney discussed the decision to scrap Canada’s digital services tax with Trump on Sunday, Carney’s office said.

In a sign that trade talks were resuming, Canada’s finance minister, François-Philippe Champagne, spoke with the U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer, on Sunday, according to Carney’s office.

The tax, which had been due to take effect Monday, became the latest flash point in difficult negotiations between the United States and Canada on Friday, when Trump said the talks were off. On social media, Trump called the levy a “blatant attack” and said he would

inform Canada within a week about the duties “they will be paying to do business with the United States of America.”

Forty-eight hours later, the Canadian government folded, announcing it would not go ahead with the tax. The Finance Ministry said the government had decided to “rescind the Digital Services Tax in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States.”

Technically, the cancellation of the tax

needs to be approved in legislation, so until that time, the government is suspending its collection.

Canada’s 3% digital services tax has been in place since last year, but the first payments were only due beginning Monday. Because the tax is retroactive, American companies were preparing to turn over roughly $2.7 billion to the Canadian government, according to a trade group for large American tech companies.

The beatboxing, dancing nuns expanding the flock in Brazil

By JACK NICAS

There was a party at the convent. One breakdancer who introduced himself as the Wizard was doing backflips. Another was spinning on his back. There were spotlights, a rapper, two cameramen and a Chevy lowrider with a sound system in the trunk and the bass turned up.

In the middle of it all were Sister Marizele Rego and Sister Marisa Neves — Brazil’s sudden star nuns — and their cluster of backup dancers in habits, crosses and veils.

The nuns were recording the music video for their new song, “Vocation,” which had become a hit since Rego sang the catchy hook and beatboxed as Neves danced in sync on a Brazilian Catholic television show three weeks earlier.

The resulting clip rocketed around the world, racking up tens of millions of views. There were memes, imitations and performances on late-night television. On ABC’s “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg called the nuns a “real-life ‘Sister Act.’”

Now they were lip-syncing in the courtyard of their cloister, trying to extend their 15 minutes of fame with a music video they released Friday. God had sent them viral to draw more young people to the church, they said, and they were trying to carry out his mission.

“Why did something so simple and spontaneous take on such a huge scale?”

Sister Marizele Rego records a live song for her Instagram followers at the Copious Redemption congregation’s headquarters in Ponta Grossa, Brazil on June 10, 2025.

“Why did something so simple and spontaneous take on such a huge scale?” asked Marizele. “Because the Holy Spirit wants to touch people’s hearts.” (Victor Moriyama/ The New York Times)

said Rego, a singing nun who had already attracted 100,000 Instagram followers before becoming a global sensation. “Because the Holy Spirit wants to touch people’s hearts.”

“But besides the Holy Spirit,” she added, “there’s also the algorithm.”

Rego, 46, and Neves, 41, are part of a wider movement in the Catholic Church to let go, loosen up and meet younger audiences where they are — online.

In Brazil, the world’s largest Catholic nation, the church has been hemorrhaging devotees for years. Less than 57% of the country of 200 million now identifies as Catholic, down from 83% 30 years ago, according to government data released this month.

To stop the bleeding, Catholic influencers, pop stars and rock bands are stepping in. Some Brazilian priests — muscular, handsome and in tune — have together attracted tens of millions of Instagram followers. Among them is the

Rev. Marcelo Rossi, who has become one of Brazil’s bestselling musical acts ever. And recently, Catholic DJs have begun playing electronic music at events nicknamed “Catholic raves,” including at Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer in January.

The push is an extension of the Catholic charismatic renewal movement and other groups that for decades have sought to make the church more accessible and engaging — and are now going digital. Next month, the Vatican is backing new events in Rome to gather Catholic online influencers and to award Catholic music acts. Some have called the awards the Catholic Grammys.

Yet, for a few days last month, perhaps only the new pope was getting more attention than Rego and Neves.

The two nuns are from the Sisters of the Copious Redemption, a 35-year-old congregation in southern Brazil of about 80 nuns and 25 religious brothers that focuses on rehabilitating young drug addicts, often using music and art to do it.

Copious Redemption has long bred a relatively laid back and artistic vibe. The founder, a Redemptionist priest, was a prolific painter. Another nun, Sister Inez Carvalho, had her own brief run with fame as a rapper, releasing an album in the 1990s.

This month, a Copious Redemption convent in southern Brazil was full of laughter, and much of it was coming from Rego and Neves. “Do you have life insurance?” Rego asked when getting behind the wheel of a car. When the car sped over a hill — the nuns were late for Mass — Neves shrieked in joy as if she were on a roller coaster.

Both nuns were born to corn and soybean farmers in the agricultural state of Paraná, and both came of age in houses full of music.

The two nuns met in 2007, and the synergy was quickly clear. “If you just start a beat, she starts to dance,” Rego said of Neves.

Rego said she taught herself how to beatbox, creating beats for other nuns as they sang. “I just started making rhythms with my mouth,” she said. “I didn’t even know it was called beatboxing.”

Later, they both realized beatboxing and hip-hop dance were tools to connect with young women at the Copious Redemption rehab centers. Many came off the street and had little in common with the nuns. “It was an instrument to become closer and break down barriers,” Rego said.

That charisma prompted the congregation to select Rego and Neves to recruit new nuns at a time when far fewer women are choosing a life in the convent. In the United States, for instance, the number of nuns has fallen by roughly half over the past 20 years, to about 36,000, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, a nonprofit that studies the church. The number of priests has dropped 18% over that period, to 34,000.

On May 20, Rego and Neves went on a Catholic talk show to promote a retreat to attract new nuns. On the show, Rego began to sing, “Vocation,” a song her congregation had written years ago about God’s calling to serve. But she had added a new hook: “Voca-çao, oh, ohh.”

As Rego sang, Neves said she couldn’t help but dance. They rose from their seats, and Rego began to beatbox. Behind the cameras, the show’s director urged the deacon who had been interviewing them to join in, according to Neves, who could hear the director through an earpiece. He quickly stepped into the rhythm, following Neves’ moves in lockstep.

That moment, distilled into a 30-second video clip, was internet gold. On TikTok alone, it has been viewed more than 34 million times, according to Tubular, a social media data firm. Interview requests quickly arrived from around the world.

Back at the convent, senior nuns spotted opportunity. Sister Daniely Duarte Santos, who runs the congregation’s communication office, called a colleague back from vacation, and they began posting repeatedly to social networks to capitalize on the attention. Within days, more than 50 women had reached out about becoming nuns; they typically recruit only a handful a year.

The nuns contacted a local DJ to create an actual track of “Vocation,” and, in between media interviews, Rego recorded the vocals. The resulting track, with bass and synthesizers, is “techno-pop,” Rego said. It quickly shot up Brazil’s Catholic music rankings on Spotify.

Rego and Neves made the rounds on television, beatboxing and repeating the dance steps at each stop. They recorded the music video, directed by Santos, with a headset over her veil. And on the street, fans have been stopping them for selfies.

“We ask them for one Hail Mary per photo,” Rego said.

A reckless judicial nomination puts the Senate to the test NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

By DAVID FRENCH

Republicans in the Senate may be on the verge of their most consequential capitulation to President Donald Trump so far — and I am not talking about the deficit-busting “big, beautiful bill.”

Last Wednesday, when the eyes of the nation were still fixed on the Middle East, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Trump’s nomination of Emil Bove to serve as a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers cases from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands.

Bove’s nomination is yet another sign that Trump’s second term is beginning (yes, it’s still only the beginning) very differently from his first. Just as he wants sycophants and yes men staffing his administration, he’s now moving toward staffing the judiciary with the same kind of person: judges who will do whatever it takes to curry favor with a president who values fealty above all. By now, Americans are accustomed to the devolution of Trump’s team. Serious people populated the highest levels of the executive branch at the start of Trump’s first term, but now some of the most important positions in American government are held by cranks like Kash Patel, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pete Hegseth.

But as bad as those men are, their influence is ultimately limited — first by Trump himself, who feels completely free to overrule and disregard any decision they make for the sake of his own interests and whims, and second by time itself. Trump’s political appointees won’t be in American government for long, and while they can inflict lasting damage during their short tenures, the next president can replace them and at least start

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Bove, however, would be a problem for a very long time. At 44 years old, he’s been nominated for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. That means he’d long outlast Trump in the halls of American power, and if past performance is any measure of future results, we should prepare for a judge who would do what he deems necessary to accomplish his political objectives — law and morality be damned.

Bove was formerly a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, and after he left the Department of Justice during President Joe Biden’s term, he served as one of Trump’s lead defense attorneys in his federal and state criminal cases.

At the start of his second term, Trump named Bove the acting deputy attorney general, and Bove immediately made himself an instrument of Trump’s vengeance. He ordered FBI officials to compile lists of agents who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He fired Justice Department prosecutors who were hired to work on Jan. 6 cases without any evidence of wrongdoing.

He ordered prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to drop criminal charges against Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, seemingly on the ground that prosecuting Adams could interfere with Trump’s immigration agenda, an action which triggered a revolt in the Southern District.

Danielle Sassoon, a former law clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia who was then the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District, resigned, declaring that she did not see “any good faith basis” for Bove’s legal position. Another attorney with impeccable conservative credentials, Hagan Scotten, wrote perhaps the most scathing resignation letter I’ve ever read.

“No system of ordered liberty,” he wrote, “can allow the government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.”

On Tuesday, a former Justice Department lawyer named Erez Reuveni filed a whistleblower complaint that included claims that Bove said in a March meeting that the Justice Department should consider saying “fuck you” to courts that enjoined efforts to deport immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act. Bove denies Reuveni’s account.

Even before Trump’s second term, Bove was a controversial figure. During his first tenure at the Department of Justice, he faced an internal investigation over alleged mistreatment of subordinates. His superiors initially recommended a demotion but then later decided against it.

In a Truth Social post announcing Bove’s nomination, Trump included this ominous line: Bove, he wrote, will “do anything else that is necessary to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” That statement caused Ed Whelan, a senior fellow in the Ethics and Public Policy Center, to write in National Review that there is a “danger that Bove, if confirmed, would leap to the top of Trump’s list for the next Supreme Court vacancy.”

Context matters here. Trump’s nomination of Bove comes just as he turned on Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. In May, Trump called Leo — a man who was instrumental in helping Trump nominate the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade — a “sleazebag” and a “bad person who, in his own way, probably hates America.” He attacked the Federalist Society for giving him “bad advice” on judicial nominations.

Trump’s first-term judicial nominees are conservative, but (with very few exceptions) they are not Trumpists, and that means when Trump’s demands conflict with the text and the original meaning of the Constitution, they’ll side with the Constitution over Trump — an unforgivable outrage to the president.

Judicial liberals no doubt have many differences with the Federalist Society, but as a rule, both conservative and liberal jurists share commitments to the Constitution, the rule of law and the judiciary as the branch of the federal government that is tasked with interpreting the law, not with driving public policy or political agendas.

In other words, liberal and conservative judges have mainly differed in their judicial philosophies, not in their commitment to integrity and America’s liberal democracy.

Bove, by contrast, has signaled as clearly as he can that he is committed to Trump.

But he kept quiet about this at his confirmation hearing. During his testimony Wednesday, Bove not only denied that he’d threatened to defy court orders, he said, “I am not anybody’s henchman, I am not an enforcer.”

But actions, as you may have heard, speak louder than words, and Bove’s actions indicate that Trump was exactly right when he said that Bove would do “anything else that is necessary” for the MAGA movement.

There is recent precedent for a Republican revolt against a Republican president’s judicial nomination: when George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers, his White House counsel, to the Supreme Court. Republicans reacted strongly, believing that she was undistinguished and inexperienced in constitutional law and lacked a clear record of a conservative legal philosophy compared with other potential candidates.

Republicans weren’t betraying the president; they were exercising their constitutional responsibilities. Bush ultimately withdrew her nomination, and replaced her with Samuel Alito. Our nation does not need vengeful political operatives on the federal bench. Bove is a far worse nominee than Miers. Critics questioned her experience and her qualifications. They did not question her integrity. But with Emil Bove, integrity is precisely what is in doubt.

Emil Bove III, a senior Trump administration official nominated to a federal appeals court in Philadelphia, testifies at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 25, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/ The New York Times)

Comienza desembolso del incentivo Summer EBT para estudiantes

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – El Departamento de la Familia, a través de la Administración para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico de la Familia, anunció el lunes el inicio del programa Summer EBT 2025, con el que más de 300,000 estudiantes recibirán un incentivo de 177 dólares para la compra de alimentos durante el receso escolar de verano.

“La asistencia se originó en la pandemia y ahora se convierte en un programa permanente de verano”, explicó la secretaria de la Familia, Suzanne Roig Fuertes en declaraciones escritas.

La inversión total asciende a 59,848,656 dólares y beneficiará a menores entre las edades de 5 a 18 años, matriculados en escuelas públicas y privadas participantes del Programa de Almuerzos Escolares del De-

partamento de Educación. Los primeros desembolsos se emitirán el 1 de julio a estudiantes con datos confirmados, mientras que el 9 de julio comenzarán los pagos diarios a casos que requirieron revisión de datos.

El beneficio será depositado directamente en la Tarjeta de la Familia y podrá utilizarse en más de 3,000 comercios autorizados. Las familias participantes del PAN, TANF o el Programa de Almuerzos Escolares que ya tengan su información validada, no tendrán que realizar ningún trámite adicional.

Por su parte, el administrador de ADSEF, Ramón Burgos Bermúdez, exhortó a los padres a utilizar los fondos dentro del periodo establecido de 122 días. “Nuestro objetivo es que ninguna familia se quede sin recibir esta ayuda”, añadió.

Para información o validación de datos, las familias pueden acceder a http://serviciosenlinea.adsef.pr.gov/

Arrestan a dominicano por supuestamente agredir a un agente federal

SAN JUAN – Un ciudadano de la República Dominicana, identificado como Bernis Díaz de la Cruz, de 20 años, fue arrestado el viernes y enfrenta cargos federales por supuestamente agredir a un agente de la Patrulla Fronteriza con un vehículo en un incidente ocurrido el martes en Puerto Rico.

“El Departamento de Justicia no tolera ataques contra los oficiales que protegen nuestras comunidades”, expresó W. Stephen Muldrow, el fiscal federal para el Distrito de Puerto Rico en declaraciones escritas.

Según los documentos presentados ante el tribunal

federal, Díaz ignoró las órdenes de los agentes, aceleró el vehículo e intentó atropellar a uno de ellos, quien vestía su uniforme oficial y estaba frente al automóvil.

El agente logró esquivarlo, y el vehículo terminó impactando otra unidad oficial.

Las autoridades federales indicaron que Díaz no tiene estatus migratorio legal para permanecer en los Estados Unidos y enfrenta cargos por obstrucción y agresión a un oficial federal con un arma peligrosa, que podrían conllevar hasta 20 años de prisión.

La investigación está a cargo del Negociado Federal de Investigaciones (FBI, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Patrulla Fronteriza del Sector Ramey, mientras que el caso es procesado por el fiscal auxiliar César Rivera Díaz, como parte de la operación federal “Take Back America”.

TRS remueve a la senadora Roxana Soto Aguilú de la Comisión de lo Jurídico por un 3 por ciento de “productividad”

sebt o comunicarse al 787-773-5883. También pueden escribir al correo electrónico sebt@familia.pr.gov. POR CYBERNEWS

El presidente del Senado, Thomas Rivera Schatz, anunció el lunes la remoción de la senadora Roxana Soto Aguilú, conocida como la “abogada motorizada”, como presidenta de la Comisión de lo Jurídico, tras señalar que la comisión solo atendió un tres por ciento de las medidas referidas durante el primer semestre del cuatrienio.

“El que no trabaje le quitamos la comisión”, expresó Rivera Schatz en el hemiciclo del Senado.

trabajo”.

Rivera Schatz presentó estadísticas comparativas del desempeño de las comisiones legislativas, en las que destacó que la Comisión de lo Jurídico, presidida por Soto Aguilú, solo atendió un tres por ciento de las medidas referidas. Mientras, otras comisiones, como la de Juventud, Recreación y Deportes, alcanzaron hasta un 73 por ciento de productividad.

En una segunda intervención, la senadora añadió: “El señor presidente del Senado tiene 224 medidas radicadas al día de hoy y quien le sigue de todo este pleno del Senado es esta servidora con 163 medidas. Yo puedo entender muy bien lo que son las estadísticas de comisión y eso lo que reafirma una vez más es que realmente no se estaba haciendo el trabajo que correspondía y se tomaron las medidas correspondientes, pero me reafirmo que soy una mujer laboriosa, una legisladora de primer orden y que antes de que se acaba el cuatrienio yo voy a dejar las mejores piezas legislativas de codificaciones de Puerto Rico. Esas son mis expresiones”. POR CYBERNEWS

“No es un asunto de confianza, compañeros. No es un asunto de trabajo. Los senadores no necesitan la confianza aquí nada más que del pueblo de Puerto Rico. Y la confianza del pueblo de Puerto Rico se gana con el

Por su parte, la senadora Soto Aguilú respondió desde su escaño: “Gracias por hacerme el tema de boga el día de hoy por entender que simplemente por ser despojada de una comisión no hay de dónde sacar información de mi trabajo legislativo que vuelvo y repito al día de hoy tengo 163 medidas de mi autoridad radicada esas son

mis expresiones y que Dios bendiga a esta sesión legislativa”.

Beyoncé pauses concert after car prop mishap left her dangling over crowds

By JOHNNY DÍAZ

Superstar singer Beyoncé gave thousands of fans a scare during a concert in Houston on Saturday, as a car prop in which she sang high above the crowds suddenly tilted sharply to one side in an apparent malfunction.

The moment, which was caught on video, showed Beyoncé wearing a white cowboy hat with an American flag by her side performing her song “16 Carriages” from the back of a red convertible when it slanted in the air over the crowds.

“Stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Stop,” Beyoncé calmly announced as she paused the performance over the roaring crowd, which called for her to be brought down.

The car and Beyoncé were harnessed to cables and she could be seen gripping one as the vehicle continued to dangle over concertgoers, who held up their illuminated smartphones like candles.

Beyoncé, 43, was slowly lowered to safety, much to the joy and relief of her fans who cheered her.

above the crowds suddenly tilted sharply to one side in an apparent malfunction; she was slowly lowered to safety afterwards. (The New York Times)

“OMG, she scared me,’’ one fan shared in a video.

In another clip when she was back onstage, Beyoncé told the crowd, “If ever I fall, I know y’all would catch me.”

It was not clear what led to the mishap. Parkwood Entertainment, Beyoncé’s management company, said in an Instagram post that “a technical mishap caused the flying car, a prop Beyoncé uses to circle the stadium, and see her fans up close, to tilt.” The company said, “She was quickly lowered and no one was injured.” A representative for NRG Stadium, where the concert took place, did not give further details.

In a compilation of images from the show, the company also included one of Beyoncé performing from the dangling prop.

The concert, in her hometown, was the first of her two shows at NRG Stadium this weekend.

The concerts are part of her international Cowboy Carter Tour, which opened in April in Los Angeles, to support her 2024 album, “Cowboy Carter,” which won album of the year at the Grammys this year.

‘My Mom Jayne’ review: An exceptional family tale

By NATALIA WINKELMAN

When Mariska Hargitay was 3 years old, her mother, Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield, was killed in a car accident. Hargitay was seated beside her brothers in the back of the vehicle, and was lodged under a seat during the crash. She was almost left behind by rescuers, until her brother asked about her. In her moving documentary “My Mom Jayne,” Hargitay relays this past trauma with a mixture of sorrow and gratitude.

Best known for starring as Olivia Benson, the dogged detective in “Law & Order: SVU,” Hargitay begins the film — her feature directorial debut — by explaining that she set out to learn about Mansfield, the mother she hardly knew. But instead of the typical biographical approach of interviewing historians and writers, Hargitay sits down for intimate conversations with her three elder siblings, whose testimonies she pairs with archival material depicting Mansfield’s life in the public eye.

As Hargitay shows, the grainy footage tells one story while the family’s recollections tell another. Over her career, Mansfield curated an image of a ditsy coquette. She affected a Minnie Mouse speaking voice and received leering men with a genial giggle. This performance of va-

cuity belied Mansfield’s profound intellect and talents as a classically trained violinist, but it was an easier sell in Hollywood, and so she used the persona as a stepladder to climb to the top.

For much of her life, Hargitay judged her mother for these acts, and although she doesn’t draw a line from Mansfield’s work as an actress to her own, it’s tempting to wonder whether Hargitay’s powerhouse role in “SVU” was a disavowal of the blonde bimbo archetype. It’s this tension that makes “My Mom Jayne” as much an experiment in autobiography as in biography, closer in kind to Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell” than the polished or salacious celebrity profiles clogging up streaming platforms.

Like that predecessor, “My Mom Jayne” eventually builds to a brave personal disclosure where Hargitay shows how the mysteries encircling her mother’s life complicated her own identity as a daughter and sister. She makes the revelation with gentle courage, in a spirit of honesty and appreciation for the small ring of people who loved her family enough to avoid sharing the information.

Folded into the project are questions about what defines a person’s legacy. Is it the face one puts on for the world or the private one shared with kin? Since Hargitay has little memory of Mansfield, how does she reconcile her mother’s

many selves? Hargitay explores these ideas in voice-over, and settles on a generous understanding of Mansfield that centers on her talent for music. These efforts offer a clean conclusion, but it is the exquisitely relatable messiness of this exceptional family tale that lingers.

‘My Mom Jayne’: Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes. Watch on Max.

Beyoncé performs on the opening night of her Cowboy Carter Tour at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., on Monday night, April 28, 2025. Beyoncé gave thousands of fans a scare during a concert in Houston on June 28, as a car prop in which she sang high

Mariska Hargitay with her mother, Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield (Instagram via groovyhistorypics)

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Fifty years after ‘Jaws,’ shark science is still surfacing

By ALEXA ROBLES-GIL

When Steven Spielberg’s famous mechanical shark, Bruce, first appeared on-screen in the summer of 1975, Chris Lowe thought it looked fake.

Lowe, who now leads the Shark Lab at California State Long Beach, was 11 that year. He had grown up on Martha’s Vineyard, the island in Massachusetts where “Jaws” was filmed. He had watched Spielberg’s crew transform his hometown into “Amity Island.” Some of his schoolmates served as extras; he saw the mechanical shark in person.

But one of the film’s characters in particular captured his attention: marine biologist Matt Hooper, portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss. Lowe credited Hooper for first stirring his curiosity about shark scientists. “Hooper kind of got me interested in this idea that there are scientists that get paid to study sharks,” he said.

Lowe wasn’t the only one.

“Jaws,” the highest-grossing movie of its time, cast a long shadow over the reputation of sharks. Throughout the 1970s and ‘80s, these ocean predators were vilified as voracious monsters and were drastically overfished. The only good shark was a dead shark, the thinking went.

But the film also ushered in an era of curiosity, inquiry and shark science. It produced a generation or more of researchers fascinated with these creatures that remain largely unknown.

“I call it a blessing and a curse,” Lowe said.

Before “Jaws” premiered in 1975, most shark research was conducted by the U.S. Navy. Much of it involved experimenting and testing repellents to prevent shark attacks on sailors. Very little was known about sharks, and the research sought to understand why they attacked people.

Dave Ebert, a shark scientist at San Jose State University, first saw the film in 1975 as a high-school student in California. It fueled a passion to study sharks. The following decade was “kind of like the Wild West” for shark science, he said. There were countless open questions: How many species of shark exist? How far do sharks travel? Do they migrate? Where do they breed? How old do they get?

“If you could think of something, it’d be like, ‘Oh, go check it out,’” Ebert said. His academic adviser had been a consultant on the movie’s mechanical shark.

To Ebert, the movie brought sharks out of the shadows, where they had been relatively understudied, and into the public light. Ebert specialized in finding the “lost species” — elusive and rare sharks. He has discovered more than 50 species all over the world.

Today, biologists have identified more than 500 shark species. But none has been as closely studied as the species featured in the film: the great white shark. Research has helped dispel its reputation as a man-eating machine. The animal, Carcharodon carcharias, turned out to be much more complex than initially thought. It can live up to 70 years and is migratory, and some become highly specia-

lized to take down marine mammals. Biologists typically refer to it simply as a white shark, dropping the “great” that has signified a misplaced otherness.

Greg Skomal, 63, a shark biologist for Massachusetts Marine Fisheries, had wanted to study white sharks since he first became a marine biologist. In the early 2000s, seal populations around Cape Cod had rebounded after years of excessive hunting. As the seals returned, white sharks followed.

Skomal and his team studied white sharks in the Atlantic by tagging individuals and tracking their movements. The researchers discovered that the predators migrated along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and that some even entered the open ocean.

In 2018, a man was killed by a white shark off Cape Cod, the first fatality there since 1936. Stunned by the attack, Skomal said he immediately found himself juggling the dispassionate study of white sharks and the negative connotations that accompany these animals. “Just like Matt Hooper,” he said.

Many mysteries still surround white sharks, including questions about their reproductive biology, a topic that Lowe referred to as the “Holy Grail.” Where do white sharks mate? Where do they give birth?

“We can tell you where they’re going,” Skomal said. “But it’s really hard for us to tell you what they’re actually doing.”

In 2018, scientists confirmed the existence of a white shark nursery in the New York Bight, just off Long Island, based on data from sharks they had tagged years earlier. “Who would have thought that you could go right outside New York Harbor a few miles and find baby white sharks?” said Tobey Curtis, a shark scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Curtis, who works with more than 40 shark species, credited the white shark for being a gateway into shark science. When he and his team are out at sea studying the species, they often invoke quotations from “Jaws.”

“So, any shark that comes up, swims by the boat, we just say, ‘That’s a 20-footer,’ even if it’s 3 feet long,” he said.

The film inspired many scientists, and it may have been inspired by the shark science pioneers who came before. Don Nelson, Lowe’s predecessor and founder of the Shark Lab, was a leader of shark science when the movie came out. At the time, Nelson was developing tracking technology to study sharks at California State Long Beach.

Nelson was asked to advise on a shark facts poster that was used in the film, according to Spielberg’s production company.

If nothing else, scientists inspired by “Jaws” have helped shift the notoriety that these ocean creatures garnered after the film premiered. Fifty years later, people’s attitudes toward sharks have changed, too.

“People are looking at them differently based on all the things we’ve learned about them,” Lowe said. “I think people respect them more.”

To Dave Ebert, a shark scientist at San Jose State University, the movie brought sharks out of the shadows, where they had been relatively understudied, and into the public light.

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With flu shot vote, Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism comes full circle

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Adecade before he became President Donald Trump’s health secretary, the environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on a talk show hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz to promote his latest book, “Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak.”

The book, published in 2014, explored an obscure mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, that was removed from most vaccines, but not flu vaccines, more than two decades ago. Oz noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had deemed the vaccines that still contained thimerosal “safe and effective” and said they did “not present a public health risk.”

Kennedy did not buy it. “We found 500 peer-reviewed studies,” he insisted. “Virtually every one of them said that thimerosal is a potent neurotoxin that should not be in vaccines.”

On Thursday, the new members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, hand-selected by Kennedy after he fired all 17 members of the previous panel, decided it would no longer recommend annual flu shots that contain it. Thimerosal’s appearance on the committee’s agenda in the first place shocked public health leaders, who have long considered the matter settled.

But it was not a surprise to people who have followed Kennedy closely. Thimerosal started Kennedy down a path of questioning vaccine safety, and Thursday’s vote was the culmination of a long personal journey. It offers a window into how, as secretary, he is pursuing his own passions and installing old allies in positions of influence.

“He’s got a big passion for this subject, and he knows this probably better than anybody,” said Eric Gladen, who featured Kennedy in his 2014 film, “Trace Amounts,” which espoused a link between thimerosal and autism.

Critics say that in resurrecting an old controversy, Kennedy could brew mistrust rather than ease it. Numerous studies, including a 2004 report by the Institute of Medicine and a 2010 review of the medical literature, have rejected a link between the preservative and autism. Oz, who now runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, noted on his 2014 show that any link had been “ultimately discredited.”

But Kennedy embraced the theory, and traveled the country with Gladen to promote the film. At the time, Gladen headed an organization called the World Mercury Project. He joined forces with Kennedy, who later took over World Mercury Project and turned it into Children’s Health Defense, the advocacy group Kennedy led until he ran for president.

“It’s unbelievable, when I sit down and think about it,” Gladen said. “There is nothing better that could have possibly happened for his book, the film, our organization, to get him into a position where he now oversees the CDC and the FDA, and oversees what I consider to be a massive disaster and to try to make it right.”

When Kennedy became health secretary, he installed

A nurse prepares a flu shot for a six month old patient in Pittsburgh, Feb. 28, 2020. Thimerosal, an obscure mercury-based preservative, was removed from most vaccines, but not flu vaccines, more than two decades ago. (Kristian Thacker/The New York Times)

David Geier, who promoted the theory that mercury in vaccines is linked to autism, as a special government employee in the Department of Health and Human Services, to work on a study of vaccine safety.

Geier was fined in 2012 by Maryland regulators, who found he had practiced medicine without a license. Kennedy has defended Geier, saying the finding was reversed by a court.

Now Kennedy has enlisted another ally in the thimerosal battle, Lyn Redwood, president emeritus of Children’s Health Defense, as a special government employee. Redwood, a nurse, is the parent of a child with autism and a founder of Safe Minds, a nonprofit that worked in the early 2000s to reduce children’s exposure to all sources of mercury.

In 2004, Redwood published an article arguing that the theory that thimerosal caused autism was a “plausible hypothesis that should not be dismissed.” She was invited as an expert to Thursday’s advisory committee meeting, where she made a presentation to the panel arguing that thimerosal should be removed from flu vaccines.

Notably, Redwood did not make an aggressive case on Thursday that the preservative caused or was linked to autism. Rather, she focused on its role as a “neurotoxin,” which she said posed a particular risk to pregnant women and fetuses.

At one point, she invoked a study that “did not support a causal association between early exposure to mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines” and “deficits in neuropsychological functioning” in 7- to 10-year-olds. The study did, however, find an association with tics, which “can be very debilitating,” she told the panel.

Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who served on the advisory committee from 1998 to 2003, remembers Redwood protesting the CDC at that time, when health experts were originally debating thimerosal’s risks. He objected to an advocate making a scientific presentation to the advisory committee.

“It wasn’t clear to me that she was saying autism anymore, like she did 25 years ago,” he said of her presentation Thursday, adding, “It’s like Whac-a-Mole. They just keep moving onto the next thing.”

Ordinarily, such a presentation would be preceded by an analysis from CDC experts. But the panel on Thursday did not hear from the CDC. The agency posted a document on the advisory committee’s website on Tuesday that concluded “the evidence does not support an association” between the preservative and autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.

But the document was taken down the next day. A spokesperson for Kennedy, Andrew Nixon, said that it had not gone through the proper vetting, but that committee members had been given copies of the document.

The panel voted 5-1 on Thursday to stop recommending flu vaccines that contain the preservative. It was unclear how manufacturers would respond, and how the recommendation might affect access to flu vaccines. Some flu vaccines are already available without thimerosal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SEBASTIÁN MUNICIPIO DE SAN SEBASTIÁN

Demandante Vs. JOSE ESTELA JIMENEZ Y OTROS

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SS2024CV00817.

Sobre: EXPROPIACIÓN FORZOSA. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.U.U., SS. A: JOSÉ ESTELA JIMÉNEZ, PROPIETARIO; OTRAS PARTES CON INTERÉS; JOHN DOE, RICHARD ROE, OTRAS PARTES CON INTERÉS.

Este caso de expropiación forzosa es para una adquisición de un terreno que se describe:

URBANA/RUSTICA: Propiedad marcada en el Plano de Mesura emitido por el Agrimensor Licenciado, Juan Carlos Dávila García, licencia número 10865, con un área de ciento treinta y siete punto sesenta y siete (137.067) metros cuadrados, localizada en la Calle Jesús T. Piñero Núm. 15, Barrio Pueblo, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. Propiedad con linde al Norte por, Lucrecio Méndez Alicea por el Sur, calle Jesús T. Piñero, por el Este, Fidel Rodríguez De Jesús y Oeste Rosalía Rosa Román. La propiedad antes mencionada no aparece inscrita (Según datos de Registro de la Propiedad de San Sebastián). Numero de Catastro: 129-012-011-31-001. Con el fin de eliminar Estorbos Públicos, a tenor con la Ley 107 de 2020, según enmendada, la Ordenanza Núm. 11, Serie Núm. 2020-2021, según enmendada y la Ordenanza Municipal Núm. 41, Serie Núm. 2023-2024. Por la presente se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, y notificar al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte peticionaria o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de pre-

sentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia previa a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Dirección del abogado parte demandante: Lcdo. Noel A. Arce Bosques, RUA 9058, Calle Muñoz Rivera 10, Lares, Puerto Rico; Tel.: (787) 897-3112; Email: noelarce@gmail.com. Dada en San Sebastián, Puerto Rico a 4 de junio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante vs. Maribel Crespo Muñiz y Sucesión de Carlos Jesús Reyes Collazo t/c/c Carlos Reyes Collazo, compuesta por Maribel Crespo Muñiz, Fulano(a) de Tal, Sutano(a) de Tal y Juan(a) del Pueblo; John Doe y Richard Doe, como posibles herederos desconocidos

Parte Demandada Centro de Recaudación de Ingresos Municipales; Parte con Interés CIVIL NÚM.: AG2018CV00068. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU. EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, Esteban Atiles Feliciano, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 12 de mayo de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 23 de junio de 2021, notificada el 24 de junio de 2021, procederá vender el día 3 de septiembre de 2025 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina, localizada en el Sótano al final del pasillo del Tribunal de Primera Instancia Sala Superior de Aguadilla, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda

de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la los siguientes bienes muebles: a) Pagaré Hipotecario por la cantidad de $121,800.00 con intereses al 7.35% anual sobre dicha suma y vencedero a su presentación, suscrito el 28 de mayo de 1999 ante el Notario Luis G. Rivera Marin mediante el testimonio número 1747, y garantizado mediante la Escritura de Hipoteca Número 57 otorgada en igual fecha ante el notario Luis G. Rivera Marín, donde se constituye hipoteca por la cantidad de $121,800.00 sobre la propiedad, cuyo valor en caso de ejecución de hipoteca se determinó en $145,000.00. b) Pagaré hipotecario por $49,200.00, suscrito el 18 de agosto de 2005 con intereses al 6.05% anual sobre dicha suma, vencedero a la presentación y garantizado mediante la Escritura de Ampliación de Hipoteca Número 345 otorgada en igual fecha ante el notario público, Luis G. Rivera Marín, donde se amplía la hipoteca constituida de $121,800.00 por la cantidad de $49,200.00 sobre la propiedad, cuyo valor en caso de ejecución de hipoteca se determinó en $171,000.00. Simultáneamente, con la venta de los Pagarés Hipotecarios anteriormente descritos, se procederá a vender el siguiente bien inmueble que lo garantiza proporcionalmente: La propiedad hipotecada a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: (1) RUSTICA: Solar numero Siete (7) radicado en el Barrio Camaseyes de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, denominado con el numero Siete (7) en el piano de inscripcion compuesta de PUNTO DOS MIL DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA CUERDAS (.2290CDAS), o sea, NOVECIENTOS METROS CUADRADOS (900.00MC). En lindes por el NORTE, en diecinueve punto noventa y siete metros (19.97m) con la calle; por el SUR, en diecinueve punto setenta y cuatro metros (19.74m) con el solar numero Cuatro (4); por el ESTE, en cuarenta y siete punto cero seis metros (47.06m) con el solar numero Ocho (8) a segregarse y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y cuatro punto , doce metros (44.12m) con calle existente. Inscrita al Folio 37 del Tomo 516 de Aguadilla, Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Sección de Aguadilla, Finca Número 27,990. Dirección Física: Bo. Calero 107 Calle Los Crespo, Aguadilla, PR 00603-6710. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte de-

mandante las cantidades adeudadas, ósea, la suma principal de $163,752.10, más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla. La primera subasta se llevará a cabo el día 3 de septiembre de 2025 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $166,144.45. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una segunda subasta, el día 10 de septiembre de 2025 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $110,762.97. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una tercera subasta, el día 17 de septiembre de 2025 a las 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $83,072.23. Cuando se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si esta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes gravámenes (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Scotiabank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $121,800.00, con intereses al 7.35% anual, vencedero a la presentación, constituida mediante la escritura número 57, otorgada en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de mayo de 1999, ante el notario Luis G. Rivera Marín, e inscrita al folio 37 vuelto del tomo 516 de Aguadilla, finca número 27,990, inscripción 3ra. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 3ra., en cuanto al principal que se amplía por la suma de $44,344.45, para un nuevo principal que será por $166,144.45 y el interés que será al 6% anual, vencedero el día 1 de mayo de 2046, mediante la escritura número 136, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de abril de 2016, ante la notario Ana E. Gorbea Padró, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Aguadilla, finca número 27,990, inscripción 6ta. Modificada nuevamente la hipoteca de la inscripción 3ra., en cuanto al principal el cual se amplía por la suma de $49,200.00, para un nuevo principal que será por

$171,00.00 y el interés que será al 6.05% anual, vencedero a la presentación, mediante la escritura número 345, otorgada en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el día 18 de agosto de 2005, ante el notario Luis G. Rivera Marín, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Aguadilla, finca número 27,990, inscripción 7ma. Nota Se observa que en la inscripción 7ma. Se expresa que este Asiento se extiende en esta fecha, toda vez que el documento que motivó el mismo fue presentado bajo la finca número 27,470 de Aguadilla y no por la de este número. AL ASIENTO 2022107883-AG01 DEL SISTEMA

KARIBE, se presentó el día 16 de agosto de 2022, Instancia de fecha 8 de agosto de 2022, ante la notario Lisa M. Aponte Valderas, mediante la cual se solicita se corrija la relación de las modificaciones motivadas por la escritura número 136 (inscripción 6ta.) y escritura número 345 (inscripción 7ma.), ya que las mismas fueron inscritas en el orden incorrecto, la escritura número 345 debió ser inscrita previa a la escritura número 136. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen posterior: Aviso de Demanda de fecha 5 de diciembre de 2018, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, en el Caso Civil número AG2018CV00068, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, seguido por Scotiabank de Puerto Rico versus Carlos Jesús Reyes Collazo, también conocido como Carlos Reyes Collazo, Maribel Crespo Muñiz y la Sociedad Legal de Bienes Gananciales compuesta por ambos, por la suma de $163,752.10, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 9 de julio de 2020, al tomo Karibe de Aguadilla, finca número 27,990, Anotación “A”. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Registro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre am-

bas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 10 de junio de 2025. ESTEBAN ATILES FELICIANO, ALGUACIL. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V.

JOSEFINA RIVERA MIGENES; Y LA SUCESIÓN DE POLICARPIO

RODRIGUEZ RIVERA T/C/C POLICARPO

RODRIGUEZ RIVERA COMPUESTA POR; MARIA DE LOURDES RODRIGUEZ RIVERA; LOURDES MILAGROS RODRIGUEZ RIVERA; LAURA RODRIGUEZ RIVERA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; JOSEFINA RIVERA MIGENES, EN

LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; SECRETARIO DE LA VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: AI2025CV00222. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: LOURDES MILAGROS RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA POR SI Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE POLICARPIO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA T/C/C POLICARPO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE POLICARPIO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA T/C/C

POLICARPO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA - DIRECCIÓN:

LOTE D-11, K.M 2.5 CARR. 722 BO. ROBLES Y CUYÓN, AIBONITO, P.R. 00705.

Por la presente se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra con-

cediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. Además, se les interpela judicialmente, a tenor con el Artículo 959 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 2787, para que en un término de treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este edicto, excluyendo el día de su publicación, acepten o repudien, mediante instrumento público o comparecencia judicial especial, la herencia de la causante, POLICARPIO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA T/C/C POLICARPO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA, apercibiéndosele que, de no expresarse dentro de dicho término, se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. Por consiguiente, según B.B.V.A. v. Latinoamericana, 164 D.P.R. 689 (2005), responderían por las cargas de dicha herencia. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Aibonito, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de junio de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V. SUCESION DE MARIA VICTORIA ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, COMPUESTA POR RAMPHIS FIDEL MARTINEZ ORTIZ; GILBERTO MARTINEZ ORTIZ; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2025CV01548. Sala: 605. Sobre: STITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: FULANO(A) DE TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS O PERSONAS CON INTERÉS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARIA VICTORIA ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ. Por la presente se es notifica

que se ha presentado en este Tribunal a Demanda de sustitución de pagaré extraviado de epígrafe en Ia cual se solicita Ia sustitución de un pagaré por Ia suma de $52,000.00, con intereses al 4.25% anual, suscrito el 18 de febrero de 2018, ante el Notario José M. Biaggi Junquera, número de affidavit 30,006. La Escritura Núm. 12, mediante Ia cual se constituyó una hipoteca voluntaria en garantía del pagaré antes descrito, consta inscrita a Ia finca número 21,725, del Registro de a Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Ponce. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogados de Ia parte demandante, con copia de Ia contestación a Ia Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a Ia publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta Ia Demanda radicando el original de a misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), aI cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en Ia Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a Ia parte demandante, se le anotará Ia rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de Ia parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de junio de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. BRENDA L. SANTIAGO LÓPEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE LUQUILLO EN FAJARDo CARMEN

LÓPEZ PARRILLA

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA PEÑA ROSARIO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MARGARITA PEÑA ROSARIO, MAXIMINA ROSARIO PEÑA, MAXIMINA ROSARIO Y MARGARITA

ROSARIO, COMPUESTA POR NORA ROSA ROSARIO, BRUNILDA ROSA ROSARIO, Y LA

SUCESIÓN DE NANCY

ROSA ROSARIO, COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; Y, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Demandado

Civil Núm.: LU2025CV00079. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. A: NORA ROSA ROSARIO Y A LA SUCESIÓN DE NANCY ROSA ROSARIO, COMPUESTA POR FULANA DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL; TODOS POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA PEÑA ROSARIO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO MARGARITA PEÑA ROSARIO, MAXIMINA ROSARIO PEÑA, MAXIMINA ROSARIO Y MARGARITA ROSARIO; Y, HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la demandante ha radicado una Demanda sobre Liquidación de Comunidad de Bienes. Habiéndose ordenado la publicación de un Emplazamiento por Edicto para emplazarlo a ustedes, durante el término que establece la Ley, en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico. POR ESTE MEDIO, se le emplaza por Edicto y requiere a ustedes, parte demandada, para que, cada uno, notifique a la LCDA. JOSEPHINE M. RODRÍGUEZ RÍOS, RUA 15736, dirección PO BOX 889, FAJARDO, PR 00738, Tel. (787) 4035056, y/o a su email: josephine. rodriguez@gmail.com; y, al LCDO. RICARDO M. PRIETO GARCÍA, Tel. 787-860-0875, Email: oficina@prietolawoffice. com; con copia de su contestación a las alegaciones de la Demanda en este caso dentro de los 30 días, contados desde el siguiente día a la fecha de la publicación de este Emplazamiento por Edicto, usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier

otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más escucharle, ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA, y el sello del Tribunal en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy 25 de junio de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYDIA E. RIVERA MIRANDA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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WILFREDO LUGO FABRE

Demandante V. JUAN CARLOS LUGO MALDONADO Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: FA2025CV00327. (Salón: 303). Sobre: DESAHUCIO EN PRECARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JOSEPHINE M. RODRIGUEZ RIOS - JOSEPHINE.RODRIGUEZ@GMAIL. COM.

RICARDO M. PRIETO GARCIAOFICINA@PRIETOLAWOFFICE.COM.

A: JUAN CARLOS LUGO MALDONADOURB. SANTA ISIDRA 1, C2 CALLE 3, FAJARDO, PR 00738.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de junio de 2025. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 25 de junio de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA L. PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE YAUCO ISMAEL SANTIAGO

CARABALLO; RAMONITA ROMAN RIVERA

Peticionarios

EX - PARTE

Civil Núm.: PO2025CV01561. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: Persona desconocida o persona ignorada, colindantes, dueños anteriores, herederos, causahabientes, y cualquier otra persona natural o jurídica con interés que crea tener algún derecho real sobre esta propiedad o que crea ser perjudicada con la inscripción solicitada. Por la presente se notifica que Ismael Santiago Caraballo y Ramonita Román Rivera han presentado una Petición ante este Honorable Tribunal para que se declare a su favor el dominio del siguiente inmueble: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno identificada como el Solar 1A, sita en el Barrio Consejo de Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, compuesta de Quinientos treinta y dos metros cuadrados con novecientos setenta (532.9704 mc), equivalente a cero cuerdas con ciento treinta y cinco milésimas de cuerda (0.1356 cdas); En lindes por el NORTE, con José H. López Merced; por el SUR, con José H. López Merced; por el ESTE, con José H. López Merced; y por el OESTE, con camino Municipal. Consta edificada una propiedad de dos (2) planta en cemento dedicada a vivienda. Catastro finca de procedencia: 337-000-010-25-000.

Abogada de la parte Peticionaria LCDA. CAREN A. RUIZ PEREZ

RUA 19,900

#5 Luz Celenia Tirado San Germán, P.R. 00683 TEL. (787) 264-4444 ruizcaren@yahoo.com

Y se le notifica a usted, que este Tribunal ha ordenado se le cite para que de verse perjudicado por la inscripción que se solicita pueda oponerse oportunamente a este expediente de dominio; advirtiéndole que de no presentar oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde la publicación de este edicto, los promoventes podrán obtener que se apruebe esta solicitud de Expediente de Dominio y se mande a inscribir a su nombre, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Ponce II, el dominio del predio de terreno anteriormente descrito. De no tener representación legal, puede acceder a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr. Este Tribunal ordenó que se publique la pretensión por tres

(3) veces durante el término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que los que tengan algún derecho real sobre el inmueble descrito, las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, y en general, a todos los que desearen oponerse, puedan efectuarlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la última publicación del presente escrito. Por tanto, libro la presente en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico hoy día 23 de junio de 2025 bajo mi firma y sello oficial. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DELIA APONTE VELÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE SAMUEL ALBERTO SANTIAGO GONZALEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV01221. Sobre: COBRO DE DLNERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESID ENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL EST ADO LIBR E ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SUCESION DE SAMUEL ALBERTO SANTIAGO GONZÁLEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL - URB. SAN JOSE, 361 (AH-6) CALLE BISBAL, HATO REY, SAN JUAN, PR 00923; REPARTO SAN JOSE, EL BISBAL #361, SAN JUAN, PR 00923. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del

tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservacion de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionado s que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 6 de mayo de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS DE SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

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CRISTINA

MORENO ROMAN

Demandante V. EXPARTE

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: LR2025CV00082. (Salón: 10). Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CYNTHIA V. ROSARIO GONZÁLEZ 0 CVIONNETTE@YAHOO.COM. FISCALIA - FISCALIAUTUADO@ JUSTICIA.PR.GOV. JUNTA DE PLANIFICACION - PO BOX 41119, UTUADO, PUERTO RICO, 00641. A: CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA QUE PUDIERA TENER INTERÉS EN ESTE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO Y/O EN LA PROPIEDAD QUE MÁS

ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE Y ESPECIALMENTE A SUCESIÓN RAMÓN ROMÁN LÓPEZ Y A SUS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE, QUIENES ERAN VECINOS DE LARES, PUERTO RICO, SUCESIÓN DE JUAN BAUTISTA GONZÁLEZ, Y A SUS POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE, QUIENES ERAN VECINOS DE LARES, A JUAN F. ROMAN MEDINA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDINTE DE DOMINIO.

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

SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. VANESSA MARIE GARCÍA BRIZZIE, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2022CV08043. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, IRMA D. CARMONA CLAUDIO, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 9 de junio de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada y notificada en el caso de autos fechada 6 de mayo de 2025, procederé a vender el día 30 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: HORIZONTAL PROPERTY: Family Unit number 602 (North) of the Condado Tower Condominium located at Washington Street Corner of Doctor Ashford Avenue, Santurce, Puerto Rico, which family unit is located in the 6th floor with its balcony facing Washington Street. lt is an irregular rectangular shaped apartment measuring 38’3” equivalent to 14.71 meters, long and 33’4” equivalent to 10.16 meters wide, making a total area of 1441.17 square foot, equivalent to 133.93 square meters. lts boundaries are as follows: on the NORTH, 33’4” equivalent to 10.16 meters with exterior common elements of the building such as concrete columns and block partitions separating it from the exterior facing the property of Marina Sandoz viuda de Mc-Connie, Atlantic Ocean and interior proper elements of the apartment, such as block partitions and window walls: on the SOUTH, 33’4” equivalent to 10.16 meters with interior common elements of the building, such as concrete bearing walls separating it from unit number 601 South and interior proper ele-

ments of the apartment and block, such as concrete bearing walls and block partition wall separating it from the entrance doorway leading to a common hallway; on the EAST, 38’3” equivalent to 11.66 meters which exterior common elements of the building, such as windows walls and concrete bearing walls and columns and exterior proper elements of the building facing Washington Street; on the WEST, 48’3” equivalent to 14.71 meters with exterior common elements of the building such a windows walls and concrete bearing walls and columns and exterior and interior proper elements of the building facing property of Camelia Soto before Behn Brothers. The main entrance door is on the East side and communicates with the common hallway of the ground lobby. The above described family unit consists of a master bedroom of 204.30 square feet equivalent to 18.98 square meters. A master bedroom closet of 19.62 square feet equivalent to 1.82 square meters. A secondary bedroom closet of 17.02 square feet equivalent to 1.58 square meters. A secondary bedroom of 120.78 square feet equivalent to 10.29 square meters. A fourth bedroom of 104.81 square feet, equivalent to 9.74 square meters. A fourth bedroom closet of 11.84 square feet, equivalent to 1.10 square meters. A bathroom of 22.39 square feet, equivalent to 2.17 square meters. A bathroom for the master bedroom of 43.59 square feet, equivalent to 4.05 square meters. A bathroom secondary of 34.65 square feet, equivalent to 3.22 square meters. A corridor of 52.31 equivalent to 4.86 square meters. A linen closet of 4.16 square feet, equivalent to .39 square meters. A third bedroom closet of 19.62 square feet, equivalent to 1.82 square meters. A third bedroom of 110.38 square feet, equivalent to 10.25 square meters. A living dining room of 387.53 square feet equivalent to 36.01 square meters. A front porch of 39.16 square feet, equivalent to 39.16 square feet, equivalent to 3.63 square meters. A kitchen of 129.90 square feet, equivalent to 12.07 square meters. A general storage closet of 24.42 square feet equivalent to 2.27 square meters. An entrance hall of 18.35 square feet, equivalent to 1.70 square meters. Said unit has a percentage of 3.0162% in the general common areas and a 50% interest in the restricted common areas and facilities of its respective floor. Consta inscrita al Folio #143 del Tomo #560 de Santurce Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de San Juan, Finca #20,369. Dirección Física: Cond. Condado Tower, 30 Calle Washington, Apt. 602,

San Juan, PR 00907. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $323,254.66, más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 30 DE JULIO DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $349,968.08. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 7 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $233,312.05. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el 14 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $174,984.04. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afecta el siguiente gravamen (a ejecutarse): Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Centro Hipotecario de Puerto Rico Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $380,000.00, con intereses al 6 1/8% anual, vencedero el día 1 de octubre de 2020, constituida mediante la escritura número 393, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de septiembre de 2005, ante el notario Hilda Maria Martinez Class, e inscrita al folio 99 del tomo 1,119 de Santurce Norte, finca número 20,369, inscripción 18va. Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 18va., en cuanto al principal el cual se cancela parcialmente en la suma de $30,031.92, para un nuevo principal que será por la suma de $349,968.08, con pagos mensuales de $1,547.57, vencedero el día 1 de abril de 2053, un último pago de $8,697.95, según consta de la escritura número 113, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de marzo de 2013, ante el notario Leilany Del Carmen Carrión Del Toro, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Santurce Norte, finca número 20,369, inscripción 20ma. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de The Money House Inc., o a su orden, por la suma principal de $50,100.00, con intereses al 8 1/2% anual, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2017, constituida mediante la escritura número 60, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de junio de 2007, ante el notario José

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Carlos González Bonilla, e inscrito al folio 99 del tomo 1,119 de Santurce Norte, finca número 20,369, inscripción 19na.

Aviso de Demanda de fecha 7 de septiembre de 2022, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ2022CV08043, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Gitsit Solutions, LLC., contra Vanessa Marie Aban Brizzie; Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por la suma de $338,250.89, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 17 de marzo de 2023, al tomo Karibe de Santurce Norte, finca número 20,369, Anotación “A”. Aviso de Demanda de fecha 30 de septiembre de 2024, expedido en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, en el Caso Civil número SJ2024CV09084, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, seguido por Franklin Credit Management Corporation as Servicer of Bosco IX Overseas LLC versus Vanessa Marie Cabán Brizzie, por la suma de $44,459.40, más intereses y otras sumas adicionales o en su defecto la venta en Pública Subasta, anotado el día 24 de octubre de 2024, al tomo Karibe de Santurce Norte, finca número 20,369, Anotación “B”. Embargo a favor del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, contra Vanessa Caban Brizzie, Condominio Condado Tower número 30, Calle Washington Apt 6-N, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907-1523, caso número xxxxx-7479, por la suma de $9,057.45, por concepto de Contribuciones Sobre Ingresos, según Certificación de fecha 20 de noviembre de 2013, presentado el día 20 de noviembre de 2013 y anotado al folio 139, Orden SJU-13-0312 del Libro del ELA número 5, (Ley 12). Subordinado el Embargo antes relacionado sin cambio de prioridad, en beneficio de la deuda hipotecaria por $380,0000.00 que surge de la inscripción 18va., según Certificación de fecha 28 de agosto de 2018, Número de Embargo SJU-130312 anotado el día 14 de septiembre de 2018 al Asiento 2018-006848-EST del Sistema Karibe. Se le advierte a los licitadores que la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tenga (n) interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción de los gravámenes que se están ejecutando, que los mismos serán eliminados del Re-

gistro de la Propiedad, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el termino de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía, y se le notificará además a la parte demandada y a su abogado o abogada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo siempre que haya comparecido al pleito. Si el (la) deudor (a) por Sentencia no comparece al pleito, la notificación será enviada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a las últimas direcciones conocidas. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Y para conocimiento de la parte demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 25 de junio de 2025. IRMA D. CARMONA CLAUDIO, ALGUACIL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COAMO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. AIDA LUZ QUINONES ESPADA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CO2024CV00494. (Salón: 1). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ QUIÑONES, FULANO(A) DE TAL T/C/C FRANCISCO MIRANDA RODRÍGUEZ QUIÑONES, MENGANO(A) DE TAL T/C/C ANGEL LUIS RODRÍGUEZ QUIÑONES

Y ZUTANO(A) DE TAL

T/C/C DAVID RODRÍGUEZ QUIÑONES, COMO ÚNICOS Y UNIVERSALES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE AIDA LUZ QUIÑONES ESPADA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de junio de 2025. En Coamo, Puerto Rico, el 26 de junio de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ

RIVERA, SECRETARIA. MARÍA DEL C. MERCADO FUENTES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MANATÍ

SANTOS RODRIGUEZ ROSARIO Y NIVIA ENID MACHUCHA PAGAN

Parte Demandante V. CONSOLIDATE MORTGAGE AND FINANCE CORP

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: MT2025CV00435. Acción Civil De: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIP EXTRAVIADO (MATERIA O ASUNTO). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CONSOLIDATE MORTGAGE AND FINANCE CORP (NOMBRE DE LA PARTE DEMANDADA QUE SE EMPLAZA) - SE DESCONOCE (DIRECCIÓN DE LA PARTE DEMANDADA QUE SE EMPLAZA).

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los cases al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los cases que proceda.

JORGE L COUTO GONZALEZ

Nombre del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante, o de la parte, si no tiene representación legal 8958

Número ante el Tribunal Supremo (RUA), si es abogado(a) PO BOX 197, MANATl PR 00674

Dirección

787-884-3303

Número de teléfono; número de fax coutolawyer@gmail.com

Correo electrónico

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 10 de junio de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ANGÉLICA AYALA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS

FELIPE DIAZ BAEZ Y OTROS

Demandante V. SUCESION DE VICTORIO RODRIGUEZ ORTIZ Y

OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CG2024CV03227. (Salón: 705). Sobre: ACCIÓN

CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. IVETTE ROSSANA GARCÍA CRUZGARCIACRUZLAW@GMAIL.COM. A: SUCESIÓN DE VICTORIO RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ Y A LA SUCESIÓN DE ÚRSULA RIVERA, COMPUESTAS POR JUAN RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, PEDRO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, BASILIO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, HIJA #1, HIJA #2, HIJA #3 E HIJA #4. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de junio de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 26 de junio de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN REBECCA OCASIO BERRÍOS Y GIAN EMMANUEL GELPI ARROYO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandantes V. SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION; FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO (COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE BANCO SANTANDER PUERTO RICO); EMIL ROBERTO PUIZINA CIRADEL Y

DONNA MARIE PUIZINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES COMPUESTA POR ELLOS; Y JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE, COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2025CV02957. Sala: 702. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ HIPOTECARIO EXTRAVIADO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: SANTANDER MORTGAGE

CORPORATION; EMIL ROBERTO PUIZINA CIRADEL Y DONNA MARIE PUIZINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS:

Se les emplaza y notifica que se ha presentado una demanda en este caso en la cual en síntesis la parte demandante alega que allá para el 14 de julio del año 2004 se otorgó una Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Santander Mortgage Corporation, por la suma principal de $465,750.00 con intereses al 5 3/8% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2009 (de la inscripción no surge el número de testimonio), constituida mediante la escritura número 519, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 14 de julio de 2004, ante el notario Jose E. Franco Gómez, e inscrita al folio 231 del tomo 1748 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 63,551 inscripción 5ta, extendidas las líneas en virtud de la Ley para Agilizar el Registro de la Propiedad (Ley 216 del 2010) el día 18 de mayo de 2012 (Presentado el día 19 de agosto de 2004 al Asiento 1470 del Diario 1237). Se modifica la hipoteca por la suma de $465,750.00, la cual se encuentra presentada al asiento 1,470 del diario 1,237, antes relacionada, con un balance pendiente de $429,916.05 a esta fecha, en cuanto a los intereses que serán al 6.75% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2034, según la escritura número 97, otorgada en Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el día 25 de junio de 2009, ante el notario Rogelio I. Guzmán Lloveras, inscrito al folio 231 del tomo 1748 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 63,551, inscripción 5ta, extendidas las líneas el día 18 de mayo de 20152 (Presentado el día 3 de julio de 2009 al Asiento 1452 del Diario 1282). Modificada la hipoteca de la inscripción 5ta, en cuanto al interés que será al 4% anual, los primeros 24 pagos, luego del 25 al 6.750% anual, vencedero el día (no se expresa),

constituida mediante la escritura número 22, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 23 de febrero de 2012, ante el notario Rogelio I. Guzmán Lloveras, e inscrita al tomo Karibe de Bayamón Sur, finca número 63,551 inscripción 6ta. Que la obligación garantizada por dicha hipoteca fue pagada en su totalidad, quedando solamente por cancelar el pagaré que la garantizaba. El demandante manifestó que nunca recibió el pagaré original para su cancelación y desconoce su paradero, por lo que concluyó que el pagaré estaba extraviado.

Pueden examinar la demanda en su totalidad en los autos de este Tribunal El abogado de la parte demandante es:

ARSENIO COMAS RODÓN RUA: 11344

P. O. Box 270386, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927

Tel. 787-765-3027 Fax. 787-765-3043 Correo electrónico: acomas@ comasrevuelta.com

Deberán notificar su contestación dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se les apercibe que de así no hacerlo, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda. La parte co-demandada deberá radicar el original de la contestación de la demanda en este Tribunal, con copia a la parte demandante. DADO bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal y por orden del mismo, hoy 12 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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SALA SUPERIOR DE AIBONITO CASCADE FUNDING

MORTGAGE TRUST AB2

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE ALEJANDRINA

SANTIAGO RIVERA, COMPUESTA POR GERARDO ORTIZ

SANTIAGO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO

POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: AI2025CV00056.

Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S A: GERARDO ORTIZ SANTIAGO. El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de 2020, dispone: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, conforme al Art. 1578, supra, y el caso Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria vs. Latinoamericana de Exportación, Inc., 164 DPR 689 (2005), les ordena que el término de treinta (30) días, hagan declaración aceptado o repudiando la herencia de la causante, ALEJANDRINA SANTIAGO RIVERA. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a la aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la misma se tendrá por aceptada. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: Lcdo. Andrés Sáez Marrero T.S.P.R. Núm. 18074 TROMBERG, MORRIS & PARTNERS, LLC 623 Ponce de León Avenue Executive Building, Ste. 1100A-2 San Juan, PR 00917 Tel. 877-338-4101 / Fax: 561-338-4077 prservice@tmppllc.com / asaez@tmppllc.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, hoy 13 de junio de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RIVERA, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR NYDIA IRIS ROHENA HERNÁNDEZ, VIUDA Y MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DE PABLO LUGO ARROYO

Demandante Vs. HANSEL LUGO ORTIZ, HANSEL LUGO RAMOS

NEELYAM LUGO RAMOS Y NELYANIS LUGO RAMOS, MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE PABLO LUGO ARROYO Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2025CV01633. Sobre: LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD. EDICTO. ESTA-

DOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR. A: HANSEL LUGO ORTIZ, NEELYAM LUGO RAMOS, HANSEL LUGO RAMOS Y NELYANIS LUGO RAMOS, TODOS CON ÚLTIMA DIRECCIÓN CONOCIDA

EN 1420 CABOT DR. CLERMONT, FL. 34711:

POR LA PRESENTE: Se les notifica que en el caso de epígrafe se ha presentado una demanda solicitando Ia Liquidación de Ia comunidad de bienes que existe entre los herederos del causante Pablo Lugo Arroyo Pablo y Ia demandante. Se les apercibe y advierte a ustedes, como herederos, sucesores o personas con interés propietario en el caudal relicto de dicho causante que de no contestar Ia demanda presentada en este caso, radicando el original de su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando Ia siguiente dirección electrónica: HTTPS:// UNIRED.RAMAJUDICIAL.PR, salvo que se represente por derecho propio en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva ante Ia Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera lnstancia, Sala de San Juan, y notificando copia de Ia misma a Ia parte demandante, por conducto de Ia licenciada Dalmaris Betancourt Betancourt, a su dirección en Urb. Baldrich 200 CalIe Manuel F. Rossy, San Juan, PR 00918, teléfono número (787) 630-1296, dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días a partir de Ia publicación de este emplazamiento por edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en Ia Isla de Puerto Rico, se le anotará Ia rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado en Ia demanda, sin más citarle no oírIe. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 27 de mayo de 2025, en Carolina, PR. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ROSA M. VIERA VELÁZQUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs. LUIS ÁNGEL VARGAS OTERO

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2025CV01545. (201-B). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - REGLA 60. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS

DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: LUIS ÁNGEL VARGAS OTERO. Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda en su contra sobre Cobro de Dinero. Se le notifica para que comparezca ante el Tribunal dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga, en el presente caso. Se le notifica que deberá presentar su alegación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.poderjudicial. pr., salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Centro Judicial de Bayamón, Sala Municipal, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Andrea Carolina Chaves Figueroa; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; achaves@ esqlegalpr.com. Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía en su contra y se dictará sentencia en su contra, conforme se solicita en la demanda, sin más citársele ni oírsele. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal a 17 de junio de 2025.

ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. VILMA M. ORTIZ SILVA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. RICARDO PEREIRA RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2024CV06902. (Salón: 402 SUPERIOR CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARIE L. QUIÑONES TAÑÓN - MARIEQUINONES@LBRGLAW.COM. ROBERTO CARLOS LÁTIMER VALENTÍN - LATIMERRC@LBRGLAW. COM. A: SUCESIÓN DE RICARDO PEREIRA

RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR NEURIS TERESA CAMPOS DE PEREIRA; RICARDO PEREIRA NIEVES, JORGE

RICARDO PEREIRA

CAMPOS, MARCOS JR. PEREIRA, CARIMEL PEREIRA Y FULANO Y

SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS.

(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 junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 25 de junio de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 25 de junio de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN ELIETTE LEONOR VELAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ

Demandante V ZORAIDA VELAZQUEZ TORO; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SG2025CV00368. Sobre: PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.

POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que contesten la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Deberán radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder en la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante

el Tribunal correspondiente y notificar con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcda. Caren A. Ruiz Pérez a #5 Calle Luz Celenia Tirado, San Germán, Puerto Rico 00683, Teléfono: 787 264-4444 / (787) 362-5770 y correo electrónico: ruizcaren@yahoo.com. Por la presente quedan notificados los codemandados John Doe y Jane Doe, que la parte demandante, ha radicado una demanda en este Tribunal alegando la pérdida de un pagaré a favor de Zoraida Velázquez Toro, por la suma principal de $21,033.33, con intereses al 5% anual, con vencimiento el 6 de febrero de 2018 identificado con el número de affidávit 2,026 ante la Notaria público Georgina Rivera Enseñat constituida mediante la Escritura 4 sobre Hipoteca otorgada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico el 7 de febrero de 201 ante la misma Notaria. La hipoteca gravó la propiedad inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado antes en el Barrio Rayo, luego Carretera número Dos o Calle Francisco Mariano Quiñones esquina Calle Unión, hoy Carretera #2 o Calle Francisco Mariano Quiñones esquina Calle 65 de Infantería del pueblo de Sabana Grande, compuesto de 297.74 mc; en lindes por el NORTE, en 18.33 metros, con la Carretera #2 o Calle Francisco Mariano Quiñones; por el SUR, en 18.55 metros, con un solar que formó parte de este perteneciente, antes a los esposos Constantino Torres y Odila Lugo, hoy a Agnes Odila y Nataniel Torres Almodóvar; por el ESTE, en 12.25 metros, con la prolongación de la Calle Unión antes, hoy Calle 65 de Infantería; y por el OESTE, en dos alineaciones, la primera de 5 metros y la segunda de 7.43 metros, con solar de Miguel A. Franco. Según la inscripción 8ª se construyó un edificio comercial residencial de bloques y concreto reforzado. Catastro 335-046-049-18-001. Inscrita a la finca 2,039 de Sabana Grande por el Sistema Karibe. Se alega por la parte demandante que no existe persona alguna con derecho como acreedor ni por ningún otro concepto sobre dicho pagaré hipotecario y que se interpone esta acción para que el Tribunal, conforme al Artículo 122 de la Ley Hipotecaria, según enmendado, y luego de los trámites legales pertinentes, dicte una Sentencia declarando cancelado el pagaré hipotecario antes mencionado, luego de los trámites legales correspondientes. Se les apercibe que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en San Germán, Puerto Rico. A 25 de

junio de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. CAROLINE HERNÁNDEZ VALENTÍN, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. DOUGLAS FRED HEIMBACH Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2024CV01538. (Salón: 208). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BALDOMERO A. COLLAZO TORRES - BCOLLAZO@LAWPR.COM.

A: DOUGLAS FRED HEIMBACH, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO

DOUGLAS HEIMBACH, Y BARBARA JOE HEIMBACH, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO

BARBARA HEIMBACH, POR SI Y COMO COADMINISTRADORES DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, A SUS ULTIMAS DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: 100 OCEAN DR. STE. 112, APT. 112, HUMACAO, PR 00791; THE MARBELLA CLUB COND., APT. 112, HUMACAO PR 00791. (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 junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de junio de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 24 de junio de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETA-

RIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES

Demandante V. VICTOR MANUEL RIVERA PAGÁN Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AI2025CV00126.

(Salón: 001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM.

A: LUZ ENEIDA SANTIAGO CRUZ, POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR VICTOR MANUEL RIVERA PAGAN Y LUZ ENEIDA SANTIAGO CRUZBARRIO QUEBRADA GRANDE, LOTE 1, CARR. 749 KM 1.0 (INT), BARRANQUITAS PR 00704; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: HC-1 BOX 4617, BARRANQUITAS PR 00796-1144; PO BOX 1144, BARRANQUITAS PR 00794 Y RR 1 BOX 12255, OROCOVIS PR 00720. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de junio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de junio de 2025. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 24 de junio de 2025. ELIZABETH GONZÁLEZ RI-

VERA, SECRETARIA. MARÍA

I. CRUZ ORTIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES

Demandante Vs. JUAN ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: BY2025CV01518. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: JUAN ENRIQUE

RODRÍGUEZ DÍAZ -

BARRIO ANONES, LOTE 3, 813 KM 2.5, SEC. SIERRA, NARANTITO PR 00719; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: 43 SECTOR VILLA OLA, NARANJITO PR 00719; Y HC-75 BOX 1729, NARANJITO PR 00719.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. La suma adeudada asciende a $134,706.18 de principal. Esta suma no incluye los intereses acumulados los cuales aumentan a razón del 3.1250% de intereses al año, hasta su completo pago ni cargos por demoras, ni el diez por ciento (10%) para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. El inmueble gravado ubica en RÚSTICA: Lote 3: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Anones del término municipal de Naranjito, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de setecientos treinta punto doscientos veintiséis metros cuadrados

(730.226 m.c.), equivalentes a cero punto ciento ochenta y seis cuerdas (0.186 cdas.) y en lindes: por el NORTE, con parcela dedicada a uso público; por el SUR y ESTE, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; y por el OESTE, con el lote 2 del piano de inscripción. Finca Número 11,016, inscrita al folio 44 del tomo 172 de Naranjito. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Barranquitas. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato:

BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUANUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO , PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law. com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 18 de junio de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Vivían J. Sanabria, Sub-Secretaria.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE DELIA RITA RAMOS TURULL

COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDO GABRIEL CURET SOTO, POR SÍ; SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO IVÁN GABRIEL CURET

RAMOS, ALEJANDRO GABRIEL CURET

RAMOS Y BEATRIZ MARIE RODRÍGUEZ

RAMOS; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

Demandados

Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV00481.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE DELIA RITA RAMOS TURULL COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS

CONOCIDOS COMO IVÁN GABRIEL CURET

RAMOS, ALEJANDRO

GABRIEL CURET

RAMOS Y BEATRIZ

MARIE RODRÍGUEZ

RAMOS; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL

COMO HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

- URB. JARDINES DEL PUERTO, SOLAR # 17-A, CABO ROJO PR 00623; DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: URB. JARDINES PUERTO, A-17, 4224 CALLE DIANA, CABO ROJO PR 00623; URB. RIO CRISTAL, APT. 6227, CALLE VALVINO 30, MAYAGÜEZ, PR 00681 Y PO BOX 308, MAYAGÜEZ PR 00681-0308; 15 UPLAND AVE, READING, PA 19611.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar

su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970 TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

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Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal , hoy 17 de junio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. CARLOS ALBERTO MONTAÑO DÍAZ

Demandada

Civil Núm.: CA2025CV00808. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CARLOS ALBERTO MONTAÑO DÍAZ.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de octubre de 2024, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $113,573.70, más intereses a razón del 3.00% anual, desde el 1 de septiembre de 2024, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, así como todos aquellos créditos y sumas que surjan de la faz de la obligación hipotecaria y de la hipoteca que la garantiza, incluyendo una suma equivalente al 10% de la suma principal ($13,989.60), por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar número ocho (8) de la manzana número ciento setenta y seis (176) de la Urbanización Villa Carolina del Barrio Hoyo Mulas de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con un área de trescientos cuarenta y ocho punto cero

cero (348.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en catorce punto cincuenta (14.50) metros, con la calle número cuatrocientos cuarenta y uno (441); por el SUR, en catorce punto cincuenta (14.50) metros, con los solares número once (11) y número doce (12); por el ESTE, en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar número nueve (9) y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro punto cero cero (24.00) metros, con el solar número siete (7). Enclava una casa. Finca número 30,938 inscrita al folio 134 del tomo 770 de Carolina. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. SE LE APERCIBE que de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Carolina, Puerto Rico. A 13 de junio de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SAMARY RODRÍGUEZ ESTRADA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Parte Demandante Vs. JORDY ROBLES RODRIGUEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TB2024CV00371. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JORDY ROBLES RODRIGUEZ - BO PUERTOS CARR 695 KM 4.4, DORADO PR 00646; HC 33 BOX 5202, DORADO PR 00646. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar

su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH OLIVERAS PÉREZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A DEYA GONZALEZ Y OTROS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2025CV00393. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANA DE TALURB VALLE VERDE 1 AT8 CALLE RIO OROCOVIS, BAYAMON PR 00961-3255. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puer-

to Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en BAYAMON, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de mayo de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. LUREIMY ALICEA GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. DORIS M. RIVERA CHARON Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV02358. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: DORIS M. RIVERA CHARONURB EL VEDADO 216 CALLE ALMIRANTE PINZON, SAN JUAN PR 00918.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 16 de mayo de 2025. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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The advantages of attacking the net in tennis

By STUART MILLER

Tennis is dominated by rallies from the baselines as players with supercharged groundstrokes try to overwhelm their opponents by blasting shots that are fast, deep and heavy with topspin, occasionally throwing in a drop shot to throw them off balance.

As a result, players attack the net less frequently than they did in the past.

“The ball is being struck so hard with so much topspin it gets below the net really quickly, which makes it hard to volley,” ESPN analyst Patrick McEnroe said.

But players who take advantage of short balls from their opponents to fight their way forward can seize control, winning points more quickly than those who stay at the baseline.

Ask top tennis analysts to name the elite volleyers in the sport and there’s little debate on who’s best: Carlos Alcaraz — the recent winner of the French Open and defending two-time Wimbledon champion — is the unanimous choice.

McEnroe said that Alcaraz “has the best combination of speed, explosiveness and soft hands.”

Alcaraz’s footwork and agility also enable him to get back quickly and annihilate lobs, Pam Shriver, also an ESPN analyst, said. “His movement going backwards is incredible.”

That ability to go backward well means he can move closer to the net, Martina Navratilova, a Tennis Channel analyst, said, which makes volleying easier, especially because he reads his opponents so well and can quickly cut off the lanes for passing shots. “He can push off to go back or explode forward.”

Still, the experts also agreed that most of the top singles players were missing out on op-

portunities because they largely came up short in their willingness, confidence and skill in this crucial component of the game.

Many players think the game has gotten too fast for them to control their volleys and so they hold back, Shriver said, even on the grass at Wimbledon, the surface best suited to net play because it is faster and the ball stays lower than it does on other surfaces.

“Just about everyone can develop better skills at making that split-second decision when to move towards the net,” she said. “There’s huge room for growth. Players are leaving chips on the table.”

Navratilova agreed, saying this missing link could be what has been holding some players back from winning the Grand Slam, pointing to Alexander Zverev as an example.

McEnroe said that Taylor Fritz would benefit from improving at the net, while noting that Daniil Medvedev had fallen in the rankings in part because he never got comfortable moving forward.

Even the top-ranked Jannik Sinner, who McEnroe said had made his game more diverse and improved at coming forward, had work to do. “If he gets really comfortable at the net it could be the difference between him just reaching the semifinals or winning Wimbledon.”

That is not to say there are not players who do well at the net, even if they lack Alcaraz’s mix of aggression, moxie and wizardry.

Brad Gilbert, an ESPN analyst, said Barbora Krejcikova, the defending Wimbledon champion, won on grass because she handled the net game well, but especially on grass, where balance was vital.

“You need a lower base on grass,” Gilbert said. “If you overdo the split step or jump too

Carlos Alcaraz, of Spain, reacts during the U.S. Open men’s singles semifinal match against Daniil Medvedev, of Russia, at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, Sept. 8, 2023. ESPN analyst Patrick McEnroe said that among the top volleyers in pro tennis, Alcaraz “has the best combination of speed, explosiveness and soft hands.” (Michelle V. Agins/ The New York Times)

high, you can slip, so it’s trickier at Wimbledon.”

Navratilova said that in the WTA, the three best players at the net were Coco Gauff, Emma Navarro and Karolina Muchova, adding that Muchova was the rare woman comfortable with chipping a low slice and coming in behind that less-powerful shot; Shriver put Muchova in her top three alongside Jessica Pegula and Jasmine Paolini, with Pegula and Paolini being the best at knowing when to come in and anticipating the passing shot once they had arrived.

Shriver said that Gauff and Muchova, like Alcaraz, excelled at going back on lobs. Still, Navratilova said Gauff had been too passive recently and “needs to take more advantage of her speed and ability.”

Navratilova and Shriver said the women who played doubles — like Pegula, Paolini and Gauff — often succeeded at the net in singles, which helped their overall game.

For the men, it might seem odd to give Novak Djokovic a “most improved” citation, as McEnroe did. However, Gilbert explained that earlier in his career, Djokovic came in only when it was a sure thing, but he now came forward more and “has a really good understanding for the net.”

McEnroe said that, among the mere mortals, “there aren’t many guys who pop out,” although he and Navratilova cited Tommy Paul as having used aggressive net play, in part, to

climb up in the rankings. “He’s the best of the American players in combining soft hands and technique and he’s super fast,” McEnroe said. Navratilova also said Hubert Hurkacz was a strong volleyer.

Gilbert praised Lorenzo Musetti for improving his net game and coming in more, while McEnroe was impressed by Sebastian Korda, but said “he doesn’t take advantage of his skills there enough.”

Tall players should have an edge, but Gilbert said “the best player that I’ve ever seen cover the net was John McEnroe — he was only 5-foot-11 1/2 , but he could read every angle.”

And Navratilova added that while the tallest players often had the best overheads (in addition to Gael Monfils “because he can jump 10 feet high”), if you’re 6-foot-4 or bigger then it takes extra strength and technique to get low and hold the proper position on the volley. “If you bend at the waist, you collapse and hit the ball into the net, so that can be more difficult for the taller guys.”

Of the “big boys,” she said Ben Shelton had the strongest technique; Patrick McEnroe agreed, but said Shelton dropped his wrist on the backhand volley.

Shriver said more players might start coming to the net.

“People stand so far back to return serve now,” she said, “that the server will see coming to the net as part of their strategy again.”

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