Wednesday Aug 13, 2025

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Mayors: New FEMA policy could deter reconstruction, jeopardize towns’ financial stability

By THE STAR STAFF

Anew policy from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security threatens to undermine Puerto Rico’s reconstruction efforts and jeopardize the financial stability of municipalities, Mayors Association President Jorge González Otero warned on Tuesday.

The policy mandates that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem must personally approve any Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) purchase, contract, or grant exceeding $100,000, a requirement that the Mayors Association contends is both excessive and misguided.

“This policy severely impacts Puerto Rico, given the urgent needs of our communities,” González Otero said in a written statement. “It’s not merely an administrative hurdle; it could halt critical projects, delay contractor payments, and jeopardize the reconstruction we have worked tirelessly to achieve following Hurricanes Irma and María.”

“This policy severely impacts Puerto Rico, given the urgent needs of our communities,” said Mayors Association President Jorge González Otero, second from left.

The Mayors Association, which is made up of mayors from the Popular Democratic Party, is unequivocally concerned that delays in federal funds could lead to lost financing from missed deadlines. Furthermore, delays in payments throughout various construction phases could escalate project costs and have a detrimental effect on the local economy. That in turn may lead to job losses, diminished contractor activity, and decreased municipal revenue from construction taxes, the mayors contend.

“Every day of delay in disbursement could mean

a school remains unrepaired or a family continues to live under an unsafe roof,” González Otero asserted. “Puerto Rico cannot afford to let bureaucratic decisions in Washington obstruct its progress.”

The municipal organization fully supports the demand made by Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera and other members of Congress calling on FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security to immediately reconsider the directive. They are insisting on the suspension of the policy and the establishment of a streamlined, transparent process that fosters direct communication with local governments -- those that function as the frontline in emergency response.

Tropical Storm Erin’s path monitored for possible deteriorating weather this weekend

By THE STAR STAFF

Bureau of Emergency Management and Disaster Administration Commissioner Ángel Jiménez Colón said Tuesday that the path of Tropical Storm Erin is being monitored, as its approach could deteriorate weather conditions in Puerto Rico over the weekend.

“We are already at the peak of the season and are working in constant communication with the National Weather Service [NWS], municipal offices, and federal agencies to be ready for any emergency situation,” Jiménez Colón said

in a written statement. “The call is not to leave preparations to the last minute.”

NWS meteorologist Ernesto Morales said Erin could strengthen into a hurricane in the coming days and generate swells with waves between 10 and 12 feet northeast of the island, as well as an increase in downpours between Saturday and Sunday.

Public Safety Secretary Arturo Garffer maintained that his agency’s offices have the personnel and resources ready to respond, urging the public to stay informed only through official channels.

La Fortaleza touts initiatives tied to new school year

By THE STAR STAFF

With the new school year commencing today, the island government provided an update Tuesday on the initiatives it has implemented to welcome students back to classes.

At a morning press conference, Public Affairs Secretary Hiram Torres Montalvo, along with Roberto Lefranc Fortuño, executive director of the Office of Socioeconomic and Community Development (ODSEC by its acronym in Spanish), Health Secretary Víctor Ramos, Housing Secretary Ciary Pérez Peña and Transportation & Public Works Secretary Edwin González, provided a summary of the projects and campaigns implemented for the “Back to School” event.

The ODSEC executive director noted that his office made a significant delivery of school supplies to more than 4,000 children in numerous municipalities across the island, with an investment of $251,125.

The initiative, part of ODSEC’s strategic efforts to strengthen child well-being and promote education, reached communities in the following municipalities: Orocovis, Fajardo, Toa Alta, Ponce, Las Piedras, Camuy, Yauco, San Germán, Florida, Las Marías, San Lorenzo, Gurabo, Cataño, Aguas Buenas, Yabucoa, Naguabo, Vega Alta, Lajas, Caguas, Coamo, Culebra, Sabana Grande, Río Grande, Naranjito, Santa Isabel, Patillas, Maunabo, Manati, Ceiba, Arroyo and Villalba, among others.

“Every child deserves to begin the school year with the necessary tools to learn and grow,” Lefranc Fortuño said. “This distribution represents our commitment to the most vulnerable communities and to the future of Puerto Rico.”

The distribution of school supplies included backpacks, notebooks, pencils and other essential items and was enthusiastically received by parents and community leaders.

Housing Dept. & Public Housing Administration promote back-to-school and municipal development initiatives

In preparation for the new school year, Housing Secretary Ciary Pérez Peña, along with the Public Housing Administration (PHA), has launched a series of initiatives aimed at supporting students and school communities across the island. As part of the effort, the two agencies have collaborated with 12 schools located in the municipalities of Carolina, San Juan, Ponce, Mayagüez, Guayama, Caguas, Aguadilla, Arecibo, Humacao, Bayamón, and Vega Alta.

Teams from the Housing Department and the PHA have visited each school to clean, paint, and refurbish green areas. In addition, athletic facilities, playgrounds, and recreational spaces have been renovated, including water fountains, basketball hoops, school cafeterias and gardens. The initiative directly impacts 3,288 students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

At the same time, the PHA has developed activities in public housing projects to prepare children and young people for the return to school. Over the past two weeks, more than 15,000 students in the 328 public housing projects have benefited from the distribution of school supplies, backpacks and other materials. In collaboration with government agencies, school transportation services, therapy, medical appointments, and the processing of vaccination certificates (green papers)

Héctor Ferrer Santiago, the PDP minority leader in the island House of Representatives. “Today, thousands of students and teachers face the same structural failures, staff shortages, transportation disorganization, and security problems.”

The lawmaker pointed to serious situations in schools in Vega Baja, Morovis and Manatí, such as classrooms without electricity, exposed circuit breakers, unplugged generators, and vacant positions for teachers and support staff.

Rep. Lilibet “Lilly” Rosas highlighted that in her region there are schools with roof leaks, a lack of special education assistants, custodian hours cut, poor pest control and a lack of security guards. She also noted that school transportation remains unresolved in several schools and that in many cases the Department of Education has not followed up on the reported problems.

have been coordinated.

In partnership with community and council leaders, organizations were able to offer haircuts and preparation services for the new school year. Likewise, the Housing secretary noted, the PHA continues to strengthen education through agreements with non-profit organizations to offer tutoring to students in their communities. Currently, 211 housing projects have Technology Centers that allow residents to search for information and complete schoolwork.

Municipal agreements for community development

In another effort to strengthen direct service to citizens, the Housing Department signed agreements with the municipalities of San Juan and Yabucoa to transfer land to house community structures. In San Juan, the transfer of Lot 178 in Parcelas Hill Brothers in Sábana Llana was formalized, ensuring the continuity of the Head Start Center and the Community Center. In Yabucoa, land where another Head Start center operates was transferred, reaffirming the commitment to the development of future generations.

Health Dept. strengthens preventive efforts ahead of school year

In anticipation of the return to school, the island Health Department intensified its preventive and educational efforts as part of the “Salud Eres Tú” (Health Is You) initiative, with the goal of ensuring the well-being of the school and general population. The health secretary reported that, as part of this campaign, a total of 454 medical evaluations have been conducted, including: 75 pediatric vaccinations for the return to school, 45 doses of pVAc 3 (a Green Sheet requirement), 112 adult vaccinations, 31 mammograms and 33 HIV screening tests.

PDP denounces failures in school startup, accuses governor of breaking promise for a ‘perfect’ year

Popular Democratic Party (PDP) legislators, meanwhile, charged on Tuesday that the start of the school year was once again marked by infrastructure problems, staff shortages, security deficiencies, and transportation delays.

“In January, the governor assured us that the start of the school year would be ‘perfect,’ but once again, she lied,” said

Rep. Reinaldo “Rey” Figueroa, the PDP spokesperson on the House Education Committee, presented examples in Isabela and San Sebastián, where some schools lack Spanish and English teachers, and suffer from insufficient security, electrical problems, leaks and damaged bathrooms. He noted that at Ceferina Cordero School, the infrastructure is deteriorating, with broken fences, flooded parking lots, and an urgent need for electrical improvements.

The minority lawmakers also documented deficiencies in schools in Vega Baja and Morovis, such as classrooms without electricity, unusable water fountains, a lack of custodians and teachers, unmaintained green areas, and disconnected generators.

“While the governor promised a smooth start, our schools continue to struggle with the most basic needs: safety, access, cleanliness, teachers, and transportation,” alternate minority leader Domingo Torres García said. “It is unacceptable that we continue to improvise with something as fundamental as public education.”

The PDP House delegation demanded an immediate action plan from the Department of Education and La Fortaleza to address the deficiencies.

“Public education cannot continue to be administered based on patches and headlines,” Ferrer Santiago said. “Children cannot continue to be held hostage to the incompetence, improvisation and politicking of the NPP [New Progressive Party].”

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón toured Felipe Gutiérrez Elementary School in San Juan on Tuesday, where she met with teachers and school administrators finalizing their preparations for the start of classes. (Facebook via Jenniffer González Colón)

“Today, thousands of students and teachers face the same structural failures, staff shortages, transportation disorganization, and security problems,” said Héctor Ferrer Santiago, center, the Popular Democratic minority leader in the island House of Representatives.

Fiscal board approves funding for ‘Ama de Llaves’ program

Robert Mujica, executive director of the Financial Oversight and Management Board. The oversight board has approved the allocation of $15 million to 64 municipalities for the “Ama de Llaves” social well-being program, which provides care for senior citizens.

By THE STAR STAFF

The Financial Oversight and Management Board has approved the allocation of $15 million to 64 municipalities for the “Ama de Llaves” social well-being program, which provides care for senior citizens.

The certified fiscal year (FY) 2026 Commonwealth Budget designates $15 million to support municipalities in delivering social well-being services under the “Ama de Llaves” initiative, contingent on the oversight board’s review and approval of a proposed distribution plan.

In accordance with the Commonwealth Budget and subject to compliance with relevant requirements, the oversight board authorized the $15 million distribution.

“The Oversight Board recognizes the challenges that municipalities face in providing social well-being services

to eligible populations, including nutrition, hygiene, personal care, home management, and health support,” the board stated. Based on the established criteria for the “Ama de Llaves” program during FY 2025, as well as the latest demographic, income, and fiscal capacity data available, an allocation has been determined for 64 municipalities.

The criteria used to determine qualified municipalities and their funding allocations take into account factors such as population size, income levels, and municipal fiscal capacity.

Among the municipalities receiving funding are San Sebastián, Juana Díaz, Río Grande, Manatí, Isabela and Culebra, with allocations ranging from $500,000 to $399,000 for Río Grande, alongside various other amounts.

Due to cyberattack, governor signs executive order extending validity of gun licenses

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón has signed Executive Order 2025-46, which extends the validity of all gun licenses issued under Act No. 168-2019 (Weapons Law) that have expired since May 25, 2025.

The measure seeks to protect citizens with expired licenses from legal repercussions while addressing the service disruption caused by a cyberattack.

The order will remain in effect until the superintendent of police certifies that the interconnection with the National Crime Information Center has been reestablished, background checks can be conducted, and the affected licenses have been properly evaluated and renewed, in accordance with legal requirements.

Secretary of State Rosachely Rivera Santana and Associate

Superintendent of Police Col. Diana Crispín were present when the governor signed the order.

The executive order responds to a request from the Corporation for the Defense of Gun License Holders (CODEPOLA), which raised concerns about the impact of several cyberattacks on the island Department of Justice’s digital system last May. The attacks disrupted the issuance of criminal record certificates, which are essential for renewing gun licenses.

CODEPOLA President Ariel Torres Meléndez warned that hundreds of citizens, both members and non-members, have been left with expired or soon-to-expire licenses and are unable to complete the renewal process, despite having complied with the law. Torres emphasized that those affected are in an “uncertain and vulnerable legal position,” and called for an automatic extension similar to the one granted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Housing Dept. to crack down on unauthorized occupation in public complex

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Police agents raided an illicitly occupied apartment in the Nemesio R. Canales residential complex in San Juan in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Housing Secretary Ciary Pérez Peña confirmed.

During the raid, authorities rescued four children, ages three months, 18 months, three years and five years, who were found living in inhumane conditions surrounded by pet feces as well as general uncleanliness. Pérez Peña acknowledged that there is no precise inventory of technically vacant apartments in the complex. However, she gave assurances that efforts are underway to regain control of the inventory for better monitoring of the homes.

“This raid follows an investigation into the previous murders that occurred at the Nemesio R. Canales Residential Complex. It’s not as common because it was an occupied apartment,” the official said. “However, the Department has been informed of the occupation, as we have learned from the various raids conducted by the Puerto Rican police. The new police chief has implemented federal policies, which are quite common in the United States.”

The previous administration had delegated selection and occupancy management to the administrative agents, meaning that the same agents in the residential offices selected and filled the apartments. The lack of centralized control has prevented both the secretary and the

administrator from maintaining an accurate inventory. Pérez Peña said the Public Housing Administration will regain control of the apartments. They are currently in a transition process to take charge of selection and occupancy, which will provide a clearer picture of the number of vacant apartments that can be offered to families on the waiting list, she said.

The housing secretary said the administrator estimates that 100% control could be achieved by Sept.1, which will enable the identification of vacant apartments being occupied. The secretary also confirmed that the people under investigation have been arrested, with the adults in police custody and the minors under the care of the Family Department.

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón

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DC, threats of a federal takeover were familiar. Now they are a reality.

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, D.C., was born just a year before the city’s residents were given the right to elect their mayor. In the five decades since, Washington has wrestled with challenges common to many U.S. cities, like violent crime. It has also faced challenges that, given its peculiar status under federal law, it shares with no other American city.

But even in Washington’s unique history, there was no episode quite like the one that Bowser, in her third term as mayor, had to confront Monday afternoon.

“We know that access to our democracy is tenuous,” the mayor said to reporters just hours after the city’s most prominent resident, President Donald Trump, announced that the federal government was going to take over the local police department and deploy the National Guard to the streets of Washington. “While this action today is unsettling and unprecedented,” the mayor said, “I can’t say that, given some of the rhetoric of the past, that we’re totally surprised.”

Protesters organized by the group Free D.C. gather near the White House on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, as President Donald Trump announced plans to take over Washington’s police department. Federal law gives presidents the power to take over Washington’s police force after declaring an emergency, but President Donald Trump is the first president to do so.

(Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

Indeed, Trump has not been shy about his feelings toward the nation’s capital, calling it a “filthy and crime-ridden embarrassment” and “a rat-infested, graffiti-infested shithole.”

For a city that federal law leaves vulnerable to the prerogatives of the White House, the raw rhetoric was a warning. Under the Home Rule Act of 1973, which gave residents the power to elect a mayor and a city council, Washington has a degree of self-governance, but it is limited.

Key roles in the city’s criminal justice system are in federal hands, with the president nominating judges and the U.S. attorney, who serves as the city’s chief prosecutor in most criminal cases. Laws passed by the District of Columbia Council are subject to congressional approval, and budgets are at the mercy of congressional whim. Elsewhere, a state’s governor typically deploys the National Guard. In Washington, however, forces can be deployed on city streets without the local government’s say-so.

And with the declaration of an emergency, a president can come in and, temporarily at least, take over the local police.

Until Monday morning, no president had.

“He’s doing this because he can,” said Charles Allen, a member of the Council who represents the Capitol Hill neighborhood. “He has the ability to place the military on our streets. He has the ability to take over our police.”

In many American cities, the rate of violent crime rose sharply during the coronavirus pandemic and fell in the years afterward, now returning to pre-COVID levels.

Washington’s crime spike lasted longer than that of many cities, but over the past 18 months violent crime there has fallen considerably. The murder rate has declined to 2019 levels, and in January, before Trump took office, the U.S. Justice Department announced that violent crime had fallen to a 30-year low.

This was not the city that the president described Monday, one of “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor” that was in need of “liberation.”

In her comments Monday afternoon, Bowser said that though she believed the president had a mistaken view of the crime situation, she was still committed to bringing down crime in her city.

Given Washington’s vulnerability to federal intervention, Bowser has been calculated in her dealings with Trump, emphasizing in speeches that she shares his goals for the city and making strategic concessions on matters likely to rile him up.

In March, she ordered the removal of the Black Lives Matter mural that was painted on a city street five years earlier as a pointed message to Trump, who was in his first term as president. Afterward, Bowser was candid about how she saw her mission in his second term. Washington residents, she said, “want us to be smart and strategic and get to the other side.”

“And that’s my job: I’m going to navigate us to the other side,” she added.

Some insisted that this approach was the only way that Washington would make it through a perilous era, with a president who has been an unsparing critic of the city and a Congress eager to follow his lead. But some

on the Council have not taken a pragmatic approach, said Chuck Thies, a veteran political consultant, who said the city was now paying dearly for that.

“They should have read the room,” he said, arguing that certain members of the Council had been shortsighted in their refusal to “throw Trump a bone” on criminal justice. Some matters, like the lengths of sentences for juvenile offenders, were mentioned by administration officials in the news conference Monday morning.

Still, universities, law firms and big-city mayors can attest that there really is no guarantee of good graces when it comes to Trump. For many in Washington, all guarantees now seemed shaky.

There have been other encroachments on the city’s autonomy during 52 years of home rule. Before this week, the most significant was a financial control board, established by Congress in 1995 to steer the city out of a fiscal crisis. Marion Barry, the four-term mayor, had earned a loyal following as the defender of the city from outside forces, only to see its authority curtailed in response to his administration’s mismanagement of city finances.

But while the presidentially appointed members of the control board had broad authority over municipal governance for six years, with the power to approve contracts and make personnel decisions, the fiscal emergency that spurred the board’s creation was clear.

The emergency behind the president’s declaration is harder to see, which is what troubles George Derek Musgrove, an author of “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital.”

“There is crime in the city, but it’s not a crisis,” said Musgrove, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The real message that Trump seems to be sending, he said, is that Democratic leaders are simply incapable of running their cities. “Clearly, he wants to make the argument that these people simply can’t do the job,” he said.

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Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 9 de agosto de 2025

Man sentenced to life for killing Maryland woman on hiking trail

By ALEXANDRA E. PETRI and LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA

An immigrant from El Salvador living in the country illegally was sentenced to life without parole Monday for the brutal 2023 killing of a Maryland woman while she was on a hiking trail. It was a coda to a case that Republicans have seized on to justify harsher immigration policies.

The man, Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, was found guilty this year in the rape and murder of Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five. Morin was exercising on a popular trail in Bel Air, Maryland, in August 2023 when, according to prosecutors, Martinez-Hernandez pulled her off the trail, raped her, bashed her head with rocks and strangled her. Her body was found the next day, hidden in drainage culverts, prosecutors said.

Martinez-Hernandez was arrested in June 2024 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and convicted in April of firstdegree murder, first-degree rape, third-degree sex offense and kidnapping, according to court records. Authorities said he had also been linked to a 2023 home invasion in Los Angeles, The Associated Press reported.

Martinez-Hernandez is also wanted in El Salvador in connection with the murder of another woman, according to prosecutors.

Judge Yolanda L. Curtin of the 3rd Judicial Circuit in Harford County, Maryland, sentenced MartinezHernandez to life without the possibility of parole, and an additional life sentence to be run consecutively, according to the state’s attorney’s office for Harford County. Martinez-Hernandez was also ordered to serve an additional 40 years, prosecutors said.

Alison Healey, the state’s attorney for Harford

Michael Morin speaks about the murder of his sister, Rachel, on the second night of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis., July 16, 2024. An unauthorized immigrant from El Salvador was sentenced to life without parole on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, for the brutal 2023 killing of a Maryland woman while she was on a hiking trail. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

County, said in a statement that she hoped the sentence would provide closure for Morin’s family.

“Harford County has never seen a case or a defendant more deserving of every single day of the maximum sentence this court imposed today,” Healey said. “This has been a long and grueling process for Rachel’s family, and it is our hope that this sentence provides some sense of justice as they close this chapter and move forward in their grief and toward healing.”

Randolph Rice, a lawyer for the Morin family, said the family was grateful to authorities for their work on

this case.

“It is a bittersweet type of hearing today because while this guy, the defendant, receives justice, it doesn’t bring Rachel back,” Rice said.

Lawyers listed in court records for MartinezHernandez did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump invoked Morin’s killing when he called for increased border security and mass deportations of immigrants living in the United States without legal status. And the case has continued to fuel his often misleading claims about what he says are the dangers posed by migrants.

Studies show that migrants commit fewer crimes than people born in the United States, but Trump and his supporters have made claims about a wave of violent crime committed by immigrants. Such claims have not been supported by police or court data.

Still, Republicans have called attention to the case of Morin, including on the campaign trail last year, when members of her family spoke to crowds about the murder.

“Open borders are often portrayed as compassionate and virtuous, but there is nothing compassionate about allowing violent criminals into our country and robbing children of their mother,” Morin’s brother, Michael Morin, told a crowd at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last year.

In April, just hours after a federal judge threatened a contempt-of-court investigation over the Trump administration’s deportation flights, Morin’s mother, Patty Morin, spoke at a special White House briefing aimed at freezing the legal debate over the flights. Morin recounted in detail the attack on her daughter.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

The AOC deepfake was terrible. The proposed solution is delusional.

By ZEYNEP TUFEKCI

Last week television host Chris Cuomo took to social media to share a video that purported to show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on the House floor denouncing that Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jeans ad as racist.

“Nothing about hamas or people burning jews cars,” Cuomo wrote, in his X post. “But sweeney jeans ad? Deserved time on floor of congress? What happd to this party? Fight for small business … not for small culture wars.”

Except Ocasio-Cortez had never made that speech. The video was a deepfake, generated by artificial intelligence. Cuomo deleted the post, but not before she chided him for “reposting Facebook memes and calling it journalism.”

“Please use your critical thinking skills,” she added. Ocasio-Cortez is right that this should not have happened, but she’s wrong about the remedy. And so are the great many other well-meaning people who think “critical thinking” or “media literacy” are going to help us detect fake videos. They’re already inadequate to the task, and soon will be totally useless, because the technology keeps getting better and better.

In this case, Cuomo could — and should — have checked whether Ocasio-Cortez had actually made that speech. It would have been easy, since congressional speeches are published and easily looked up. Most cases aren’t that easy to solve. Or one might get lucky and notice a telltale glitch, such as the extra fingers that showed up in early AI imagery. But as AI video generation advances, such glitches are getting rarer.

Besides, deliberate fakers presumably can apply “critical thinking skills” too, to weed out low-quality fakes. If not, there are AI programs that can help do it for them. It’s so fast and cheap to generate video or audio mimicking anyone in any context, saying whatever you want them to say or doing whatever you want them to do, so why wouldn’t someone just generate a whole bunch of them and pick the best?

We had long ago lost photos as definite proof, given how easily they could be manipulated. Audio, too, is increasingly easy to fake. Video was among the last bastions of verification, exactly because it was difficult to fake. Now that that’s gone, the real, and increasingly the only, way to be confident of something that one did not witness is to find a reputable source and verify. Ah, what’s a reputable source, you ask? And therein lies what’s left of our society.

devices and enumerates rules of chain-of-custody and provenance that ensure its videos and claims will be accepted in courts. Only its, of course. For our own good.

In 1971, Herbert Simon — recipient of both the Nobel in economic sciences and its computer science equivalent, the Turing Award — provided one of the greatest insights about what happens when technology switches us from a regime of scarcity to one of glut, as it has so many times throughout history. Discussing the new abundance of information that printing, mass media and computers begat, he noted that “wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.” He was referring to attention, now the most precious commodity of all.

Growing up in Turkey, pre-internet, I ran out of books to read (really) and read the same books again and again. Today information scarcity is a fictional realm, a thing old people describe to baffled kids. It’s impossible now to imagine running out of things to read — or watch or click on or down vote or repost or buy. The day, however, is still 24 hours, so guard your attention at all costs. Simon had it right.

The other crucial thing that the abundance of such easily generated information makes scarce is credibility. And that is nowhere more stark than in the case of photos, audio and video, because they are among the key mechanisms with which we judge claims about reality. Lose that, lose reality.

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Trust the authorities? Well, good luck with that. Authorities aren’t always truthful or correct; making them the final and sole arbiter isn’t going to end well. During the height of vaccine misinformation in 2021, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., proposed a bill giving the Health and Human Services secretary the authority to define what qualifies as health misinformation and limiting Section 230 protections so that social media platforms could be held liable for spreading it. I get the impulse, but science is constantly revising itself (and scientists themselves are not immune to the temptation to spin); what looks like misinformation one year can become mainstream consensus another and vice versa. Anyway, had that legislation passed, it would now be Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exercising that authority. Interestingly, the one arena in which deepfakes have proven to be less damaging than many feared is elections, but that’s not because people were thinking too critically to let themselves get fooled. To the contrary, many people are so willing to believe the worst about politicians they don’t like that crude Photoshops, obviously fake news sites and the stupidest so-called screenshots are all apparently good enough to get the job done. If your primary interest is in having your own tribal hunches confirmed, the verisimilitude of the fakery doesn’t much matter.

In general, however, the higher the stakes and the higher the profile of the subject, the more effort there will be to correct deepfakes and the like.

So where does that leave the rest of us? What happens if the video in question isn’t about a highly public figure whose actions are tracked closely by multiple credible sources — what if it’s a personal matter or a private communication? What if it seems to show someone cheating, stealing, lying? What if it seems to absolve them of those actions? It doesn’t take much imagination to understand the kind of chaos this will unleash: in courts, in personal lives, in social settings.

Caught on camera keying the neighbor’s car? Just claim it was a deepfake. Or produce your own deepfake, showing someone else in the act. Hey it’s your word against theirs. Or maybe it really was a deepfake. How do you disprove it?

Just as bad, however, as a situation in which all sources, no matter how dubious, lay equal claim to truth is one in which only one source claims that privilege. I fear a future in which the government deploys even more and more kinds of surveillance

It would be nice if, like members of Congress or large media organizations, we all had a large staff who could be dispatched to disprove false claims and protect our reputations and in that small way buttress the sanctity of facts. Since we don’t, we need to find other models that we can all access. Scientists and parts of the tech industry have come up with a few very promising frameworks — known as zero-knowledge proofs, secure enclaves, hardware authentication tokens using public key cryptography, distributed ledgers, for example — about which there is much more to say at another moment. Many other tools may yet arise. But unless we start taking the need seriously now before we lose what’s left of proof of authenticity and verification, governments will step right into the void. If the governments are not run by authoritarians already, it probably won’t take long till they are.

Chris Cuomo at his office in New York, Dec. 12, 2017, when he was employed by CNN. Cuomo’s unwitting sharing of a deepfake video last week could have been avoided if he’d checked into the video’s veracity first, but most such cases aren’t that easy to solve, a Times columnist contends, “because the technology keeps getting better and better.” (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)

Puerto Rico tiene las sanciones

más severas contra el ‘wheeling’ y

‘stoppies’

en

todo

los Estados Unidos

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SAN JUAN – El presidente de la Comisión de Transportación e Infraestructura de la Cámara de Representantes, José ‘Cheito’ Hernández, informó que la nueva Ley 110-2025, establece las multas más altas en toda la nación a motociclistas que realizan maniobras como el ‘wheeling’ y los ‘stoppies’, entre otros, en las carreteras de la Isla.

“Quiero agradecer a la gobernadora Jenniffer González por convertir en ley el Proyecto de la Cámara 375. Esta es una medida que se necesitaba. Hoy Puerto Rico se convierte en la jurisdicción de los Estados Unidos con la escala de multas y acciones para prohibir el ‘wheeling’ más robusta. Además de una multa sustancial de hasta $5,000 por cada infracción asociadas con piruetas, le damos brinda garras a la Policía de Puerto Rico para suspender licencias y hasta confiscar motoras, algo que no tenían anteriormente”, comen-

Solicitan donantes de sangre para paciente en Cabo Rojo

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CABOROJO – Xiomara Chaluisant Sánchez, residente de Cabo Rojo, será sometida el jueves a una cirugía de corazón abierto que requiere donaciones de sangre y apoyo económico para cubrir gastos

médicos no cubiertos por su plan de salud.

“Quienes puedan donar sangre deben comunicarse con el Banco de Sangre del Mayagüez Medical Center al 787-652-9200, extensiones 72206 o 72221, e indicar el nombre de la paciente”, informó la familia en declaraciones escritas.

tó el también Representante por el Distrito #3 de San Juan.

“La ley también obliga a los motociclistas a utilizar chalecos reflectivos en horas de la noche y prohíbe el uso de los vehículos todoterrenos en las autopista y zonas naturales, entre otros. Quiero agradecer a los grupos de motociclistas que fueron parte de este esfuerzo. Ellos reconocen la necesidad de regular el uso de estos vehículos en las calles de Puerto Rico. Esta medida se hizo en consenso con ellos”, añadió el legislador del Partido Nuevo Progresista.

“Esta es una ley muy necesaria para detener el aumento en accidentes causado por personas que realicen maniobras como el ‘wheeling’ y los ‘stoppies’ en nuestras carreteras”, sentenció.

En el mes de febrero Hernández radicó la resolución de la Cámara 85 la cual buscaba evaluar medidas de disuasión a esta práctica que coloca en riesgo la seguridad de conductores y peatones.

Los donativos económicos se reciben a través de la plataforma ATH Móvil al número 787-618-5692. Cada aporte ayudará a costear la cirugía y contribuirá a su pronta recuperación, según se informó.

La familia solicitó la cooperación de los medios de comunicación para que el llamado llegue a más personas dispuestas a colaborar. También agradecieron el respaldo recibido por vecinos, amistades y organizaciones comunitarias del área.

Turismo estrena holograma de Olga Tañón en campaña

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S AN JUAN – La Compañía de Turismo de Puerto Rico presentó el lunes una nueva fase de su campaña pro-

mocional “The Sounds of Puerto Rico”, que combina tecnología e íconos musicales para resaltar la cultura local, con la participación de la artista internacional Olga Tañón como imagen principal.

En esta etapa, los visitantes que lleguen al Aeropuerto Internacional Luis Muñoz Marín serán recibidos por un holograma de la cantante, conocido como “La Mujer de Fuego”. La proyección forma parte de una experiencia inmersiva diseñada para que los turistas sientan la energía y calidez de la isla desde el momento en que pisan suelo boricua.

“Con la integración de un holograma de Olga Tañón, desde el Aeropuerto Luis Muñoz Marín, añadimos una experiencia innovadora y única para los visitantes que llegan a Puerto Rico. Queremos que desde el primer momento sientan la energía, la calidez y el sabor de nuestra isla”, expresó la directora ejecutiva de Turismo, Willianette Robles Cancel, en declaraciones escritas. Tañón, por su parte, destacó que más de 50 millones de personas han llegado a Puerto Rico en los últimos

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cinco años y que ser parte de la bienvenida oficial “es un honor que me llena de orgullo”. Añadió que esta iniciativa invita a conocer o redescubrir la música, la cultura y el espíritu puertorriqueño a través de la tecnología, dejando “un impacto positivo en cada persona que recibamos”.

La campaña comenzó con activaciones en la Plazoleta del Coliseo de Puerto Rico y en estaciones del Tren Urbano, así como rotulación especial en el Coliseo José Miguel Agrelot. La segunda fase amplió el alcance a los terminales A, B y C del aeropuerto y al área de recogido de equipaje. Además, hasta el 14 de septiembre, Ventana al Mar en Condado será escenario de presentaciones musicales, DJs y artesanos todos los fines de semana. Robles Cancel subrayó que el proyecto forma parte de la visión de la gobernadora Jenniffer González Colón para enriquecer la experiencia turística con propuestas auténticas y memorables que integren cultura, tecnología e innovación, y fomenten la descentralización del turismo en Puerto Rico.

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When reggae went digital

By PATRICIA MESCHINO

In 1984, the corner known as Big Road was a crossroads for the economically struggling Waterhouse community of Kingston, Jamaica. There was sporadic violence from warring political factions and crime from local drug gangs. It was also a spot where neighborhood musicians, including singers Junior Reid and Half Pint, and vocal groups Black Uhuru and Wailing Souls, would congregate.

Noel Davey, then 26, was an aspiring musician who played the melodica, a wind instrument with a keyboard. He could perform, by ear, any popular song of the day. “People saw a certain talent in me,” Davey recalled, “and said, if this youth had a keyboard, he would do a lot better.”

George “Buddy” Haye of the Wailing Souls told Davey he had one at his home in California and promised Davey that when he returned to the United States, he would send it. After a time, Davey received a Casio MT-40, an electronic keyboard programmed with 22 instrument sounds, a mini bass keyboard and six preset rhythms, one of which formed the basis for a revolution in Jamaican music. “I got that instrument for a reason,” he said. “It brought about a big difference in the music.”

Before the year ended, Davey had recorded “Under Mi Sleng Teng,” with lyrics lauding marijuana (sleng teng) over cocaine (“no cocaine, I don’t wanna go insane”) written and performed by Davey’s friend Wayne Smith. The song, reissued on 7-inch vinyl by an independent reggae label, VP Records/ Greensleeves, this week to commemorate its 40th anniversary, is believed to be among Jamaican music’s earliest digital productions. The new sound was initially referred to as digital reggae to differentiate it from traditional reggae music. Davey and Smith’s creation is likely dancehall reggae’s most “versioned” riddim, used in over 500 songs according to Riddim-ID, a website that catalogs the reuse of these instrumental backing tracks.

“I never heard anything like the ‘Sleng Teng’ before — it wasn’t played by a band, it was just a continuous repetition of a keyboard,” said Johnny Osbourne, who had a hit using the riddim with “Buddy Bye.”

In the years since it was first recorded, “Sleng Teng” has been sampled or interpolated by artists across multiple genres, including 2 Live Crew (“Reggae Joint”), Sublime (“Caress Me Down”) and Snoop Lion (“Fruit Juice”), aka Snoop Dogg. In November 2021, Meta featured “Way in My Brain,” a track by the British breakbeat collective SL2 that samples “Under Me Sleng Teng,” in a global ad campaign.

The “Sleng Teng” riddim was a result of Davey and Smith’s experimentation. The throb of a preset bass line caught their attention, but they at first couldn’t figure out what key needed to be pressed to trigger it. Once Davey discovered that it was the “rock” preset, he slowed down its measure, played a few chords on top of it and created the “Sleng Teng” template.

The duo played their riddim for a few producers who quickly dismissed it. “It was very light compared to what a band would play in the studio,” Davey said. “They didn’t take it seriously, because the electronic sound was so different.”

It wasn’t until they visited the studio of Lloyd “Prince Jammy” James, in December, that “Sleng Teng” took its ultimate form. Jammy, a mentee of the dub pioneer Osbourne “King Tubby” Ruddock, made a few adjustments to the riddim. “I slowed the tempo down to a reggae beat, overdubbed piano and percussion,” he said in an interview in April. “I played a syndrum on it and made it into what we know it as today.”

Smith’s lyrics, seemingly inspired by Barrington Levy’s 1983 hit “Under Me Sensi,” round out the song, recorded in early 1985. In an interview with the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, Smith said Jammy had been hesitant about releasing the song before Smith reminded him: “You’re not paying us, so just put it out, you’ve got nothing to lose.” Smith died in 2014 at 48.

Jammy, who maintains that he embraced the riddim from the outset, premiered “Under Me Sleng Teng” on his Super Power sound system at a dance in Waterhouse. “It was a Friday night,” he said. “‘Sleng Teng’ was recorded that same week, we made a cut of it, played it and it tore up the whole place. Right after, artists converged on my studio because everybody wanted a piece of that riddim.” Shortly thereafter, he came to be called King Jammy.

By February 1985, the riddim was the primary weapon in a friendly international musical competition known as the “Sleng Teng Clash.” David Rodigan, a British DJ and reggae aficionado, opposed Jamaican radio legend Barrington “Barry G” Gordon, each armed with versions of “Sleng Teng,” many cut specifically for the showdown. The battle aired live on Jamaica Broadcasting Co. radio and days later on Capital Radio in London, and played a significant role in broadening the riddim’s influence.

“‘Sleng Teng’ revolutionized the concept of making music, just like AI has today,” Rodigan, a longtime host of reggae shows on British radio, said.

In the immediate aftermath of “Under Me Sleng Teng,” studio musicians who previously built reggae riddims around the lyrics and melody of a song were sidelined as producers favored digital beats. “The idea that computers could play riddims enabled people to make music even if they weren’t technically qualified to do so,” Rodigan said.

Davey, who went on to play keyboards with reggae acts including Damian and Julian Marley and Black Uhuru (winners of the Grammys’ first award for best reggae recording in 1985), became a target. He said he was once confronted at Skateland, a Kingston roller skating rink and live music venue, by an angry musician before the fracas was broken up by Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace, the drummer and star of the 1978 reggae

In the years since it was first recorded, “Sleng Teng” has been sampled or interpolated by artists across multiple genres. (clintonlindsay.com)

movie “Rockers.” “I had many ‘Sleng Teng’ confrontations,” Davey said.

Several years ago, Augustus “Gussie” Clarke, a Jamaican producer and publisher, brokered a deal between Davey and King Jammy to share composer credit for “Sleng Teng,” with Clarke’s company serving as co-administrator of the song and Jammy retaining publishing. “It has worked well and he has gotten millions of [Jamaican] dollars from that agreement,” Clarke said of Davey.

Still, Davey marveled about the effect of his keyboard tinkering: “Many great moments have come from ‘Sleng Teng’ and I wouldn’t swap it for anything.”

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S&P 500, Nasdaq at record highs as moderate inflation lifts rate hopes

Wall Street’s main indexes advanced on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting record highs, as news that July inflation rose broadly in line with expectations bolstered bets on a Federal Reserve interest rate cut next month.

The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2% on a monthly basis in July, while annual inflation came in slightly below forecasts, drawing calls from U.S. President Donald Trump to lower interest rates.

Yields on shorter-dated Treasury bonds - a reflection of interest rate expectations - slipped and rate futures showed traders are giving an 88.8% chance that the Fed could lower rates by about 25 basis points in September.

“The CPI data is supportive for equities overall, getting some good news with the Fed looking more on track to cut in September and potentially more transitory inflation,” said Katherine Bordlemay, co-head of client portfolio management, fundamental equities at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

“The first thing I’d guide is continue to lean into the theme of the big are getting bigger. We continue to have conviction around megatech and technology.”

Alphabet rose 1.3% as Perplexity made a $34.5 billion cash offer to buy the company’s Chrome browser.

Intel Corp climbed 4% after Trump said he met its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, on Monday, praising Tan and calling the meeting “very interesting.”

Last week, Trump had demanded Tan’s immediate resignation, calling him “highly conflicted” over his ties to Chinese firms.

At 2:03 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 509.74 points, or 1.16%, to 44,485.32. The S&P 500 gained 66.78 points, or 1.05%, at 6,440.23 and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 268.51 points, or 1.26%, to 21,653.92.

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“This is still early innings of this process and just as the Fed will be beginning to cut rates in the autumn, that’s when the inflation data will probably start to be registering some of these more direct tariff price increases and it’s going to complicate the rate-cutting decision,” said John Velis, a macro strategist at BNY.

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Russia makes a swift battlefield advance, seeking an edge in Trump talks

Mourners attend the funeral of Vasyl Churhovych, a Ukrainian soldier who was killed near Pokrovsk a week earlier, in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, May 20, 2025. Russian forces are striving to shape the battlefield to their advantage before a high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin, making a swift advance in eastern Ukraine after months of grinding battle. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)

By CONSTANT MÉHEUT

Russian forces are striving to shape the battlefield to their advantage before a high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, making a swift advance in eastern Ukraine after months of grinding battle.

In recent days, Russia’s troops broke through a segment of Ukraine’s defensive line near the city of Pokrovsk, a longtime stronghold. They have advanced several miles into Ukrainianheld territory, threatening to outflank Ukraine’s positions.

“The situation is quite chaotic, as the enemy, having found gaps in the defense, is infiltrating deep inside, trying to quickly establish a foothold and accumulate forces for further advancement,” said DeepState, a Ukrainian group with ties to the military that maps the battlefield.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said in his evening address Monday that the Russians “are redeploying their troops and forces in ways that suggest preparations for new offensive operations” and that they are “not preparing for a ceasefire or an end to the war.” Ukraine, too, is seeking an edge before the Russian-American peace talks Friday in Alaska. Ukraine has ramped up attacks on Russian oil refineries, doubling down on its strategy of pressuring Russia into making concessions during negotiations by targeting the Kremlin’s main revenue source to fund the war.

Pressing their advantage as peace talks gather pace has been a recurring tactic of both sides throughout the current war and the one

that preceded it starting in 2014. Ukraine’s bold June drone attacks deep inside Russia, which destroyed many strategic bombers, came just a day before negotiations in Istanbul. In 2015, Russia intensified fighting during ceasefire talks, surrounding the eastern town of Debaltseve, to force political concessions from Ukraine.

Russia’s recent push near Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region, sends a stark warning that Moscow’s forces remain capable of making rapid gains on the battlefield. It comes as Putin is expected to present Trump with major demands during Friday’s talks, which could include an insistence that Ukraine cede the part of the Donetsk region that Ukraine still holds.

Pokrovsk, which was once a critical logistical hub for Ukrainian forces in the east, is now semiencircled from the northeast to the southwest. Ukrainian troops must pass through a narrow 10-mile corridor to enter the city, leaving them vulnerable to drone attacks.

Russian forces are likely to try to tighten their noose around the city to force Ukrainian troops to withdraw, a tactic they have successfully used to capture other cities.

Pasi Paroinen, an analyst for the Finlandbased Black Bird Group, which tracks battlefield movements, said Russian forces had quickly infiltrated Ukrainian lines at a depth of roughly 10 miles in the past three days, a contrast to Russia’s usual slow grind.

The “next 24-48 hours will likely be crucial” in whether the Ukrainian army can contain the push, Paroinen wrote on the social platform X.

Even as both sides keep fighting, they have tried to show Trump, who has long condemned the war as a costly waste of lives and resources,

that they remain committed to pursuing peace.

After Russia increased drone attacks on Ukrainian cities during talks last month between Moscow and Washington, Trump’s typically lenient tone toward Putin soured noticeably. “He talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening,” Trump said of Putin. “So there’s a little bit of a problem there. I don’t like it.”

Since the beginning of August, however, Russia has significantly scaled back its drone attacks in what analysts have called an apparent attempt to curry favor with Trump. While Russia launched an average of 201 drones per night in July — a record in the war — the figure has dropped to 78 drones per night this month, according to a New York Times analysis of data released by the Ukrainian air force.

“The Russians know very well how to read Trump’s mind,” Oleksandr Kraiev, the director of the North America program at the Kyiv research group Ukrainian Prism, said in a phone interview. “It’s not a coincidence that drone attacks have decreased.”

But with Trump’s history of deference to Putin, Ukraine is concerned that the Russian leader may succeed in winning Trump over to his perspective on the war by securing a oneon-one meeting that could sideline Zelenskyy.

The Kremlin has long said an end to the fighting would need to address what it calls the “root causes” of the war — shorthand for a range of issues, including the existence of Ukraine as a fully independent and sovereign nation aligned with the West.

To prevent that outcome, Ukraine has rallied its European allies to pressure the Trump administration against letting Russia dictate the terms of the peace talks. A statement released Tuesday by all European Union member states except Hungary said that “the path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine.”

On Tuesday, Zelenskyy said that a trilateral meeting with Trump and Putin would take place in the future, but that no date had been set. The Trump administration has said it is working to set up such a meeting.

Several European leaders, together with Zelenskyy, will join an online meeting with Trump on Wednesday. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the discussions would focus on “options to exert pressure on Russia,” on preparations for potential peace negotiations and on issues of territorial claims and security.

Kyiv and European capitals are especially worried that Trump could agree to Russia’s demand that Ukraine cede sizable portions of land it still controls. Trump has insisted in recent days that a peace deal would involve “some land swapping” — to which Zelenskyy responded, “Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier.”

Ukraine and its European allies insist that any meaningful peace talks begin only after a ceasefire and that the current front line should be the starting point of negotiations. But with Russia’s swift gains in the east in recent days, this line may have shifted by Friday.

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Trump’s cartel order revives ‘bitter’ memories in Latin America

By SIMON ROMERO and ANNIE CORREAL

Just a decade ago, the era of U.S. wars, coup plots and military interventions in Latin America seemed to be ebbing when the Obama administration declared that the Monroe Doctrine, which long asserted U.S. military supremacy in the Americas, was dead.

Now this cornerstone of foreign policy is roaring back to life, resurrecting fears over U.S. military interference in the region after President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to use military force against certain Latin American drug cartels.

Leaders in the region are still trying to decipher what Trump’s order could mean. Mexico and Venezuela, two nations where the administration has designated cartels within their borders as terrorist groups, seem especially vulnerable.

But up and down much of Latin America, any whisper of reviving such actions could also unleash a chain reaction resulting in a surge in anti-American sentiment. The news of Trump’s order has already intensified a wariness against intervention from abroad, even in Ecuador and other countries plagued by violent drug wars in recent years.

“I’m a right-wing conservative, so I want armed citizens and the military actually shooting,” said Patricio Endara, 46, a businessperson in Quito, the Ecuadorian capital. “But I wouldn’t agree with having foreign soldiers in Ecuador.”

That skepticism draws from the bitter memories left by the long record of U.S. military interventions in the region, whether through direct or indirect action, as during Colombia’s long internal war.

“Those are formulas that have shown, to the point of exhaustion, their failure,” Iván Cepeda, a Colombian senator, said in an interview.

These kinds of interventions “inflict im-

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pa., Aug. 3, 2025. Trump’s order for the Pentagon to use military force against certain Latin American drug cartels is triggering fears that the U.S. might return to a pattern of Monroe Doctrine-like military interference in the region. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

mense damage,” said Fernando González Davidson, a Guatemalan scholar, pointing to how such actions often strove for regime change. “The U.S. leaves power in the hands of a corrupt and criminal class aligned with its own interests.”

A U.S.-backed coup in 1954 in Guatemala ousted a democratically elected leader over concerns that a land reform project threatened United Fruit Co., a powerful American corporation with large tracts of land there.

In the decades that followed, that Guatemalan coup became a rallying cry across the region by exposing U.S. Cold War policy as a tool for protecting U.S. interests over democratic principles and national sovereignty.

Long before the U.S. military’s involvement in the region became so contentious, President James Monroe’s assertion in 1823 that the United States could use its military in Latin America had more bark than bite, historians say.

But in the 1840s, President James K. Polk invoked the doctrine to justify the MexicanAmerican War, which produced the U.S. conquest of Mexican lands now comprising states such as California, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.

That humiliating outcome, and other U.S. military interventions in Mexico in the 1910s, profoundly shaped Mexico’s political identity, fostering a strong sense of nationalism that is often in opposition to the United States.

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico tapped into such sentiment Friday when she rejected the use of U.S. military forces in her country. She made it explicitly clear that Mexico has ruled out any kind of “invasion.”

U.S. military action inside Mexico would be disastrous for bilateral cooperation on issues like migration and security, said Arturo Santa-Cruz, an expert on U.S.-Mexico relations at the University of Guadalajara.

Territorial expansion came into play again during the Spanish-American War in 1898, solidifying the United States’ emergence as a global power when it took Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines from Spain.

President Theodore Roosevelt followed in 1903 by sending warships to support a revolt by separatists in Colombia. They formed Panama and gave the United States control over the Canal Zone, which Panama fully regained only in 1999.

Roosevelt created his own corollary to the Monroe Doctrine the next year, claiming that the United States should exert “police power” in the Americas when it found cases of flagrant “wrongdoing.”

This pivot turbocharged U.S. interventions, and protecting American property often was the justification.

ground in places including the Dominican Republic and Grenada, driven by concerns about communists in these countries.

So many interventions had the effect of unifying much of Latin America around the issue of sovereignty. Such positioning was on display when Latin American countries recently closed ranks to oppose Trump’s threats to regain the Panama Canal.

“There’s been an iron will among Latin Americans to define one of their core values as national sovereignty and nonintervention,” said Alan McPherson, a historian at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Even as the Cold War was easing in 1989, the United States once again intervened in Panama to depose its de facto leader, Manuel Noriega, who was wanted by U.S. authorities on drug trafficking charges.

For the Americans, it was “Operation Just Cause,” said Efraín Guerrero, a community leader who gives walking tours in Panama City to keep alive the memory of the U.S. invasion. “But for us, it became ‘Forgetting Forbidden,’ because we have to remember all those who died.”

That intervention could provide a template for a similar action in a country like Venezuela, where the United States has doubled a reward, to $50 million, for information leading to the arrest of its leader, Nicolás Maduro, whom U.S. officials accuse of links to gangs such as Tren de Aragua and the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico.

Since the news of Trump’s move appeared Friday, some critics of the Venezuelan regime have called for the U.S. military to do just that, asking the U.S. president to order U.S. troops to go after Maduro, just as they targeted Panama’s president in 1989.

In Cuba alone, U.S. forces intervened on three occasions from 1906 to 1922.

During the Cold War, the United States found new ways to intervene. This included supporting coups that ousted democratically elected leaders in Guatemala, Brazil and Chile.

U.S. forces also kept intervening with boots on the

“Let’s hope he does it,” said a Venezuelan woman in the city of Maracaibo, who asked that her name not appear for fear of Maduro. “This is what we have been waiting for, for years — for Maduro to leave or for Trump to take him. We Venezuelans would happily give him away.”

“This move or threat by the Trump administration,” said Christopher Sabatini, a Latin America expert at the London-based Chatham House, “is going to really touch that historic and deeply felt popular nerve” about U.S. interventions in Latin America. However, he said, throughout history there was also, often, “a particular sort of partisan faction that was lobbying the United States to get involved.”

Layoffs? Price increases? Companies make hard choices as Trump’s tariffs set in.

By SYDNEY EMBER

Barry Barr has taken a number of cost-saving measures in recent months to keep his outdoor apparel company afloat during President Donald Trump’s destabilizing trade war.

He froze his spending on marketing and even prohibited his employees from traveling to see customers.

But while he waited for Trump’s tariffs to come into better focus, he resisted making more consequential decisions at his company, KAVU True Outdoor Wear. He didn’t raise prices on its fall lineup. He continued manufacturing bags, woven shirts, polar fleeces and other items at factories in China, India and Vietnam, even though Trump had signaled that those countries would face stiff duties.

“It’s a sit and wait, honestly,” he said last month. “We just don’t know.”

More recently, Barr was trying to wrap his head around the punishing new tariffs that were set to click on shortly after midnight last Thursday. It was hard for him to know whether the slate of duties on about 90 countries would ultimately hold, given the ever-evolving nature of Trump’s trade policy.

Last Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order that would double tariffs on India, to 50%, beginning this month in an effort to stop the country from buying Russian oil. He also threatened to impose a 100% tariff on foreign semiconductors.

The latest tariff orders confirmed for Barr that he would have to raise prices and lay off employees in the months ahead.

“There will be some tough decisions to be made for sure,” he said. “You have to put your big-kid pants on and do it.”

Barr’s thinking is emblematic of the shift in strategy occurring at companies across the country.

For manufacturers, retailers and other businesses that rely on imported goods, Trump’s tariff policy has become an exercise in forbearance. Since the spring, companies have had to contend with a series of delays, fresh threats and haphazard deals that have scrambled their ability to make long-term decisions.

“We kind of saw this summer as a holding period for a lot of firms,” said Courtney Shupert, an economist at MacroPolicy Perspectives. “Firms were saying, ‘Let’s wait and see if demand is going to be stronger or weaker.’”

But now that many of Trump’s tariffs have officially set in and his trade policy seems to be solidifying, many companies are concluding that they can no longer afford to hold back.

On recent earnings calls with investors, public companies including shopping conglomerate QVC Group, footwear brand Allbirds and eyewear vendor Warby Parker openly talked about their tactics to handle the escalating tariff costs, including increasing prices.

“I think we can, over the medium term, mitigate

His foreign suppliers lowered their prices slightly to account for the cost of the tariffs, which helped somewhat.

Barr weighed manufacturing some items in a factory his company works with in Seattle but decided against it, in part because it would be too expensive and impractical to import the sewing machines he would need. He was also concerned that the tariffs would make buying fabric and other raw materials from abroad too costly. He is looking into whether he could move some production to factories in Central America but is not yet sure it will be possible.

As the tariff landscape began to take firmer shape, however, Barr started to enact deeper changes.

He chose not to raise prices on items in KAVU’s fall lineup, even though the items were subject to some tariffs when they arrived in the United States this summer. But the persistently high tariff rates compelled him to increase prices for next year. KAVU products are sold in about 2,000 U.S. retail locations. The company also exports its goods to 26 countries.

(Grant Hindsley/The New York Times)

the impact of tariffs,” Andrew Rees, CEO of the footwear brand Crocs, said Thursday. He outlined plans to raise prices, reduce business expenses and wring savings out of the company’s supply chain, including by negotiating with factories.

How quickly businesses act could have wide-ranging implications for the economy. Should more companies decide to pass on price increases to consumers, that could push up inflation and chill consumer spending.

Many companies in recent months also hesitated to fire, or hire, workers amid the tariff unpredictability, reminiscent of the labor hoarding after the worst of the pandemic. If companies begin to have more confidence in the tariff rates, that moratorium could break. Indeed, the latest jobs report from the Labor Department, which was released Aug. 1, suggested that businesses might be closer to that tipping point than previously thought.

In several interviews by phone and text message in recent days, Barr, who started KAVU in 1993, recounted how his business had contended with mounting pressure because of Trump’s tariff policy.

Barr has long paid some levies on products. But the extra tariffs that Trump revealed in April, which included since-modified duties of 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, were much more onerous.

At first, Barr chose to swallow Trump’s baseline 10% tariff, as well as tariffs against China that had already kicked in.

But as the trade war dragged on, he started to consider other solutions.

“There’s absolutely no way I can make a profit this year absorbing all these tariffs,” Barr said. “It’s bigger than any tax bill I’ve had to pay.”

Working off the assumption that tariffs for Vietnam and India would settle around 10%, and China around 37.5%, Barr increased retail prices for his company’s summer 2026 line by about 15% to 30% — the most he believed customers would pay. Under the new pricing, the retail cost of a pullover made in China would rise to $120 from $90. A button-down shirt produced in India that used to retail for $80 would be $105.

But with the tariff rates settling higher, Barr is now worried he will have to raise prices even more. The U.S.’ trade deal with Vietnam, for instance, stipulates a 20% tariff on goods from the country, and India is facing 50% tariffs.

At the same time, KAVU’s preseason sales for next summer came in 15% lower compared with sales for this summer season.

With his profit margin shrinking and business expenses already shaved to the bone, Barr said he would probably have to lay off some of his 28 employees in the next three to four months.

“You’ve got to save money somewhere so the company can move ahead,” he said.

KAVU True Outdoor Wear’s flagship store in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Aug. 8, 2025. Businesses that had been in a holding pattern during the early months of the Trump administration’s trade war are starting to plan ahead with more conviction; for KAVU, it will mean higher prices to consumers on many items.

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NASA is getting fired up about a nuclear reactor on the moon

By KENNETH CHANG

Nuclear reactors have been generating power on Earth for more than 70 years. How hard would it be to place one on the moon to provide copious, continuous energy through the cold, dark, 2-week-long lunar nights? And could that be accomplished in less than five years?

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is now also NASA’s acting administrator, called for just that last week: a reactor producing 100 kilowatts of electricity — enough to power about 80 households in the United States — that would launch to the moon before 2030.

Why put a nuclear reactor in space?

Nuclear reactor technology would transform the ability of humanity to travel and live in the solar system. Many of NASA’s robotic spacecraft today operate at power levels equivalent to what a few incandescent light bulbs consume. That limits what scientific instruments can be put on board.

The International Space Station gets its energy from swaths of solar panels, but that is not practical for human habitats on the moon, where the cold, dark night lasts two weeks, or on Mars, where the sun is farther away and dimmer.

Nuclear reactors would also enable faster and more efficient propulsion systems.

Putting radioactive energy sources in space is not unusual. The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, which are still operating after launching in 1977, are powered by plutonium, with the heat of natural radioactive decay turned into electricity. The plutonium heat initially generated 470 watts. In the decades since, the power output has dwindled to about 225 watts.

But the plutonium power sources on the Voyagers are more like batteries than nuclear power plants on Earth. Fission — the chainreaction splitting of atoms like uranium — releases much more energy than solar panels and the power sources on the Voyagers.

This is what Duffy’s order aims to harness.

“The Secretary has made it very clear in his new role as acting administrator that we need to go bigger and bolder than what we did with Apollo,” said a senior NASA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the background of Duffy’s directive.

“Everything needs power,” the official said.

A reactor and a kilogram of uranium would be able to produce “as much energy as a freight train full of coal,” said Bhavya Lal, a former associate administrator for technology, policy, and strategy at NASA. Lal recently wrote a white paper that argued for a demonstration of a nuclear reactor in space by 2030 with Roger Myers, a former executive at Aerojet Rocketdyne. “That changes the paradigm.”

How would a nuclear reactor on the moon work?

A reactor on the moon would not operate in quite the same way as one on Earth.

For one, it has to be small enough and light enough to fit inside a rocket. Safety precautions would include not turning the reactor on until it reached the moon

On the moon, there is also no water or air. The surface swings between 250 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and minus 400 degrees at night. Those make it more difficult to manage the reactor’s temperature to keep it operating efficiently. Proposed designs of lunar reactors typically include large radiators to dissipate heat.

Kevin Au, the vice president of lunar exploration at Lockheed Martin, said the biggest challenge of a higher-power reactor would be developing materials that could survive hotter temperatures for use in the conversion of heat to electricity.

Still, experts say building such a power source falls within what is realistically possible.

“It’s not science fiction,” said Sebastian Corbisiero, a senior program manager at Idaho National Laboratory who leads the Energy Department’s space reactor program. “This is very doable.”

How feasible is the lunar reactor plan?

However, building a reactor and launching it by 2030 seems unrealistic to some outside experts. They also call it somewhat perplexing because NASA is not currently planning anything on the lunar surface that would require a reactor there that soon.

“It’s just a very aggressive, frankly unrealistic timeline for something that is good and should happen,” said Kathryn Huff, a former nuclear energy official at the Department of Energy who is now a professor of nuclear, plasma and radiological engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “My understanding is that its intent was to power an outpost. So it feels a little silly to do so without an outpost.”

Beyond the necessary work to design and build a lunar reactor, navigating the regulatory approvals for launching one would take a couple of years, Huff said.

The NASA official said the 2030 date aims to provide focus and motivation.

“Urgency is the name of the game,” the official said. “If we put it too far in the future, we’re not going to achieve it, right?”

Duffy’s directive also cites plans by China and Russia to build a nuclear reactor for a lunar base near the moon’s south pole. The fear is that a keep-out zone around the reactor could limit what the United States could do on the moon.

The official declined to say how much money would be devoted to the program, but said it could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, or more than $1 billion.

Who might build a nuclear reactor for NASA?

In 2022, NASA, along with the Idaho laboratory, awarded contracts for initial design studies for a lunar reactor that would produce 40 kilowatts. Those small-scale efforts were led by Lockheed Martin, which has built many of NASA’s spacecraft; Westinghouse, a heavyweight in the nuclear power industry; and a collaboration between two startups, Intuitive Machines and X-energy.

All three studies failed to fit their reactor designs within the goal of weighing less than 6 metric tons.

“The technology does not exist to do that,” said Vincent Bilardo, executive director of the nuclear space program at Intuitive Machines, which twice has landed small spacecraft on the moon. “It’s more like a 9- to 10-metric-ton system at that 40-kilowatt power level.”

A fission system producing 100 kilowatts would probably be more massive. For the reactor itself, “it’s not that huge of a change,” said John Kennedy, who leads the space nuclear program at X-energy.

But other pieces like the radiation shielding and the apparatus for converting heat to electricity would have to be larger, Kennedy said.

Duffy’s directive, however, says the lander taking the reactor to the surface would have a payload capacity of 15 metric tons.

No such spacecraft currently exists, but cargo versions of the two landers that are being developed to take astronauts to the moon’s surface — SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon — would meet that requirement.

Both Bilardo of Intuitive Machines and Au of Lockheed Martin said their companies would bid for the NASA contracts. Other companies could also submit proposals.

“We’re glad to see this coming out,” Au said. “This is right in line with our strategies.”

In an undated rendering from NASA, a concept image of a lunar surface nuclear reactor. Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA, has issued a directive to fast-track efforts to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. (NASA via The New York Times)

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE

VIRGINIA ALTAGRACIA CORTIJO CONDE Peticionaria EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: PO2025CV01696.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO

POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EEUU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

EDICTO: A: ANTERIORES DUEÑOS O SUS HEREDEROS; COLINDANTES

DESCONOCIDOS O SUS HEREDEROS; PERSONAS AUSENTES QUE, DE NO ESTARLO, DEBIAN SER CITADOS EN PERSONA O POR CORREO CERTIFICADO CUYO PARADERO SE DESCONOCE; CUALQUIER

PERSONA A QUIEN PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN SOLICITADA;

Se informa que se radicó en este Tribunal una petición a favor de VIRGINI ALTAGRACIA

CORTIJO CONDE para que se declare a su favor el dominio de una finca rústica, que se describe a continuación: RUSTICA: Predio de terreno localizado en el Barrio Guaraguao, del término municipal de Ponce, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de Mil Doscientos Ochenta y Nueve Metros Cuadrados punto Ocho Mil Novecientos Sesenta y Cinco Diezmilésimas de otro (1,289.8965 m/c), en forma triangular y en colindancias por el Norte con Flor De Liz Torres Hernández y con camino municipal Las Lomas, por el Sureste y Este con camino municipal Las Lomas, por el Suroeste y Oeste con Blas Velázquez González. Contiene una Casa de una planta construida en bloques y cemento armado, que mide de frente treinta y seis (36) pies por veinticuatro (24) pies de fondo por nueve (9) pies de luz, contiene un cuarto dormitorio, sala, comedor, cocina, un baño y walking closet. Contiguo existe otra estructura que contiene lavandería, covacha y garage de dieciocho (18) pies de frente por doce (12) pies de fondo, por nueve (9) pies de luz, construida en cemento, techada de planchas de gabalum. Existe en dicho pre-

dio de terreno otra estructura en ruinas. La parte peticionaria adquirió la propiedad por disposición en testamento abierto de quien fuera su esposo Héctor Velásquez Chamorro. La parte peticionaria ha mantenido posesión de la propiedad por más de diez (10) años, en concepto de dueño, de manera pública, pacífica, continua e ininterrumpidamente, a título de dueños y con justo título. De tener algún reparo con lo solicitado, deben presentar sus alegaciones en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Ponce, dentro del término de 20 días, a contar desde la fecha de la última publicación del último edicto y remitiendo copia de éstas, a la representación legal del peticionario aquí relacionado.

JOSEPH BROCCO SANTIAGO P.O. Box 608 Peñuelas, PR 00624 Tel. / Fax: 787-836-3020

e-mail: Lcdo.Joseph.BroccoSantiagohotmail.com En cumplimiento de una Orden dictada por este Tribunal, expido el presente bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Ponce, Puerto Rico, 3 de julio de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL, CENTRO JUDICIAL, PONCE, PUERTO RICO. KEILENE RODRÍGUEZ MELÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO MMG PRCI CR, LLC

Plaintiff V. BMF, INC., ORLANDO MAYENDIA DIAZ, JULIO BLANCO DARCY, HIS WIFE WANDA MENDEZ QUIÑONES AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN, ADNREW BERT FOTI TALLENGER, HIS WIFE, EVA JUDITH PAGAN BURGOS AND THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP CONSTITUTED THEREIN; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO (DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA)

Defendants Civil No.: 19-1461 (BJM). Re: COLLECTION OF MONEY, FORECLOSURE OF PLEDGE AND MORTGAGE. NOTICE OF SALE. TO: BMF, INC., Orlando Mayendia Diaz, Julio Blanco Darcy, his wife Wanda Mendez Quiñones

and the Conjugal Partnership constituted therein, Adnrew Bert Foti Tallenger, his wife, Eva Judith Pagan Burgos and the Conjugal Partnership constituted therein; United States Of America, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Departamento De Hacienda), General Public, and all parties that may have an interest in the property.

WHEREAS, on January 25, 2023, Judgment was entered for the total outstanding principal balance in the amount of $4,392,502.61 with interest accrued until full payment, plus mortgage and risk insurance premiums, late fees and any other amounts agreed in the mortgage deed, from the date stated above until full payment thereof, plus 10% for attorney’s fees and costs. The records of the case and these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico or by accessing the electronic court records. WHEREAS, pursuant to said Judgment, the undersigned SPECIAL MASTER, Joel Ronda-Feliciano, was ordered to sell at public auction for US currency in cash or certified check, without appraisal or right to redemption to the highest bidder at his office located in 441 E Street, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, PR 00969 (coordinates 18.3698579 –66.1124836) the following property: “REMANENTE: SOLAR

“B”: LOTE INDUSTRIAL: Predio de terreno de forma irregular que radica en el Barrio Rio Cañas del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con cabida de siete mil ochocientos ochenta y un punto cero novecientos ochenta y tres metros cuadrados (7,881.0983 m2). En lindes por el NOROESTE, con el solar “A” que se segrega, en distancia de ciento noventa y dos punto cuatro mil setecientos cincuenta y cuatro (192.4754) metros por el SUR, con el cauce del Río Cañas en varias alineaciones, en distancia de cincuenta y dos punto cuatro mil cuatrocientos sesenta y nueve (52.4469) metros; y por el NORESTE, con la carretera insular número setecientos noventa y ocho (798), distancia de cuarenta y cinco punto dos mil quinientos noventa y dos (45.2592) metros. Finca número cincuenta y un mil seiscientos sesenta y nueve (51,669) inscrita al folio ciento cincuenta (150) del tomo mil

cuatrocientos ochenta y nueve (1489) de Caguas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera de Caguas. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It is understood that the potential bidders acquire the property subject to any and all the senior liens that encumber the property. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax liens (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts then and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and the bid price shall not be applied toward the cancellation of the senior liens. WHEREFORE, the FIRST PUBLIC SALE will be held on SEPTEMBER 19, 2025, AT 9:00AM, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $4,104,000.00. In the event said first auction does not produce a bidder and the property is not adjudicated, a SECOND PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on SEPTEMBER 26, 2025, AT 9:00AM, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $2,736,000.00. If said second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the property, a THIRD PUBLIC AUCTION shall be held on OCTOBER 3, 2025, AT 9:00AM, and the minimum bidding amount that will be accepted is the sum of $2,052,000.00. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. For further particulars, reference is made to the Stipulated Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the aforementioned office of the Clerk of the Unites States District Court. San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 15 day of July, 2025. Joel Ronda-Feliciano, Special Master, Tel: (787) 565-0515, email: rondajoel@me.com.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ

JOSE HERIBERTO LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ; MIRNA GISELA PABON

BALLESTER Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Peticionarios

EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV00945.

Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO; ART. 195 LEY DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD INMOBILIARIA DE PR. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTOS.

A: RAMÓN ORTIZ RODRÍGUEZ, RICARDO PADRÓ MARTÍNEZ Y ROBERTO VARGAS LÓPEZ EN REPRESENTACIÓN DEL CÍRCULO FRATERNAL LAJEÑO, INC., MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ Y A JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE. El Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez dictó la siguiente providencia:

“ORDEN: Vista la solicitud sobre publicación de edictos, la petición que se acompaña sobre Expediente de Dominio y las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal ordena que se citen por edictos a Don Ramón Ortiz Rodríguez, Ricardo Padró Martínez y Roberto Vargas López en representación del Círculo Fraternal Lajeño, Inc., quien fue la entidad corporativa dueña anterior de la propiedad, cuyo expediente de dominio se solicita, a los miembros desconocidos de la Sucesión de Carlos Rodríguez y a John Doe y Jane Doe, como posibles personas con interés en el predio. La propiedad inmueble sobre la cual se solicita el expediente de dominio se describe de la siguiente manera: RUSTICA: Solar identificado con el Número Uno (1) localizado en el Barrio Lajas Arriba, Carretera “P” “R” Ciento Diecisiete (PR-117), Kilometro Dos punto Ocho (km. 2.8) Interior del término Municipal de Lajas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de OCHO MIL DOSCIENTOS NOVENTA Y NUEVE PUNTO NUEVE MIL QUINIENTOS CINCUENTA METROS CUADRADOS (8299.9550 m.c.), equivalentes a DOS PUNTO MIL CIENTO DIECISIETE CUERTAS (2.1117 CDAS.). En lindes por el NORTE, con canal principal de riego del Valle de Lajas (A.E.E.); por el SUR, con Círculo Fraternal Lajeño y carretera municipal; por el ESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de Carlos Rodríguez; y por el OESTE, con el señor José López Rodríguez. Dicha propiedad no consta inscrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Los edictos se publicarán en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días en un periódico de circulación general de la isla de Puerto Rico.

En vista de encontrarnos ante demandados desconocidos y/o cuyo paradero se desconoce se exime a la Parte Peticionaria del envío por correo certificado de la acción civil de marras a la última dirección conocida de éstos. DADA en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 18 de julio de 2025. TOMAS E. BAEZ COLLADO, JUEZ SUPERIOR”. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE VICTOR MANUEL PAGAN VELEZ COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV01318. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el 26 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB. VENUS GARDENS #641 (EE 18) CALLE CUPIDO SAN JUAN, PR 00926-4803 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Sabana Llana, de Río Piedras, término Municipal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, marcado con el número dieciocho del Bloque “EE” de la Urbanización Venus Gardens, con una cabida superficial de trescientos treinta y ocho metros cuadrados, en colindancias por el NORTE, con la

Avenida A, en una longitud de trece metros; por el SUR, con la calle número catorce, en una longitud de trece metros; por el ESTE, con el solar número diecinueve del propio Bloque, en una longitud de veintiséis metros; y por el OESTE, con el solar número diecisiete del propio bloque, en una longitud de veintiséis metros. Sobre el descrito solar enclava una casa residencial de concreto y bloques. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 150 del Tomo 373 de Sabana Llana, bajo la finca número 14,590, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $159,333.00. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 3 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $106,222.00. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $79,666.50. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca 352 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de agosto de 2021, ante el Notario Juan Manuel Casanova Rivera, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Sabana Llana, inscripción decimoctava (18va), bajo la finca 14,590, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Quinta. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma de $150,776.72 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2024, más intereses al tipo pactado de 3.50% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además La Sucesión de Victor Manuel Pagán Vélez adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en

exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $15,933.30. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas.

Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 23 de julio de 2025. PEDRO HIEYE

GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR. ***

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYAMA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. IRIS MARGARITA GOTAY RIVERA, JOANNE MARGARITA

RODRIGUEZ GOTAY, CHAMPION MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ORIENTAL BANK, JOHN DOE

Demandadas Civil Núm.: GM2025CV00401. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: CHAMPION MORTGAGE

CORPORATION Y JOHN DOE COMO TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ a favor de Champion Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $45,450.00, con intereses al 10% anual, vencedero el día 1 de junio de 2028, constituida mediante la escritura número 13, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 16 de mayo de 1998, ante el notario Giovanni Picorelli

Ayala, e inscrita folio 83 ágora del tomo 93 de Santa Isabel, finca número 5,101, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama, inscripción 4ta. Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que debe contestar la demanda incoada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del presente edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia

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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. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE

DEMANDANTE:

Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP Suite 209 500 Calle De La Tanca San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdiaz@bdprlaw.com

Expido este edicto bajo mi firm a y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 12 de junio de 2025. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. SANDRA COLÓN GUZMÁN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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DAMIÁN ALBERTO

MOLINA BETANCOURT

Demandante V. JOMARIE HERNÁNDEZ OQUENDO Demandado

Civil Núm.: BY2025RF00831. Sala: 3003. Sobre: FILIACIÓN - IMPUGNACIÓN DE RECONOCIMIENTO VOLUNTARIO.

EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A LA PARTE

DEMANDADA: JOMARIE HERNÁNDEZ OQUENDO CUYA DIRECCIÓN ES 11 ADDAMS ST., IRVINGTON, NJ 07111.

Se le emplaza para que presente ante este Tribunal su Contestación a la Solicitud de Autorización dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto excluyéndose el día de la publicación, 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 de epígrafe y enviar copia por correo regular o electrónico a la representación legal de la parte demandante cuyo nombre y dirección postal es la siguiente: Lcda. Adamarys Feliciano Matos, 51-46 Ave. Main Ste 1-A Bayamón PR 00959, Teléfono (787) 204-3128. Si usted deja de presentar alegación responsiva dentro del término requerido, el Tribunal podrá anotar la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio soli-

citado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hoy 5 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. ISABEL C. SOUCHET BURGOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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Parte Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ALEJANDRO VÉLEZ DE JESÚS, Y OTROS

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV04422. (604). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO; EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: ALEXANDRA

VÉLEZ DE JESÚS.

Queda emplazado y notificado de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de cobro de dinero; ejecución de hipoteca en su contra. Se les notifica que deberán 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. poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcdo. Jorge García Rondón Rua #12,562 267 Calle Sierra Morena, PMB 538 San Juan, PR 00926 Tel: (787) 203-5222 Email: jafgrondon@outlook.com Se les apercibe y notifica que si no contestan la demanda radicada en sus contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a hoy 1 de agosto de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE COAMO ESTRELLA HOMES II, LLC

Demandante V. JULIO DELFÍN DE JESÚS

REYES, EFRAÍN DE JESÚS REYES, MARÍA YELI DE JESÚS REYES, COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ERIDA REYES SÁNCHEZ Y COMO MIEMBROS CONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DELFÍN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ; JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ERIDA REYES SÁNCHEZ Y COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DELFÍN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ; FULANO DE TAL Y FUTANA DE TAL COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE ERIDA REYES SÁNCHEZ Y COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE DELFÍN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ Demandados

Civil Núm.: CO2024CV00286. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA E INTERPELACIÓN. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Coamo, hago saber a la parte demandada JULIO DELFÍN DE JESÚS REYES, EFRAÍN DE JESÚS REYES, MARÍA YELI DE JESÚS REYES, como miembros conocidos de la sucesión de ERIDA REYES SÁNCHEZ y como miembros conocidos de la sucesión de DELFÍN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ JOHN DOE & RICHARD ROE como miembros desconocidos de la sucesión de ERIDA REYES SÁNCHEZ y como miembros desconocidos de la sucesión de DELFÍN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ FULANO DE TAL Y FUTANA DE TAL como miembros desconocidos de la sucesión de ERIDA REYES SÁNCHEZ y como miembros desconocidos de la sucesión de DELFÍN DE JESÚS SÁNCHEZ y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el 23 de junio de 2025, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta por el precio mínimo de $77,578.96 y al mejor postor, pagadero en efectivo, cheque de gerente o giro postal, a nombre del alguacil del tribunal, la propiedad que se describe a continuación: BO. LAS FLORES #92 PASEO LOS TULIPANES, COAMO, PR 00769, y que se describe de la siguiente manera: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el #92 en

el plano de parcelación de la comunidad rural San Ildefonso del Barrio San Ildefonso del término municipal de Coamo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 0.2951 cuerdas, equivalentes a 1,160.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el con calle de la comunidad; por el Sur, con la parcela #92A de la comunidad; por el Este, con las parcelas #92I, #92H, #92G y #92 F de la comunidad; por el Oeste, con la parcela #938 de la comunidad. Finca 11024 inscrita al folio 50 del tomo 190 de Coamo, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La finca antes descrita se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes: (i) Hipoteca constituida por Delfín De Jesús Sánchez y esposa Erida Reyes Sánchez, en garantía de un pagare, a favor de Santander Financial Services Inc., d/b/a Island Finance, o a su orden, por $77,578.96, al 11. 95%, vencedero el 30 de diciembre de 1899 (así surge en letras, no hay números), según Esc. #378, en Coamo, a 18 de diciembre de 2007, ante Ramón I. Ortiz Palmier, inscrita al folio 76 del tomo 298 de Coamo, finca #11024, inscripción 7ma, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. (ii) Aviso de Demanda: Del 16 de julio de 2024, radicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Coamo, en el caso civil CO2024CV00286, sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca, por $70,879.22, seguido por Luna Performance, II, LLC, versus Julio Delfin, Efraín, María Yeli de apellidos De Jesús Reyes, como miembros de la Sucesión Erida Reyes Sánchez y Delfín de Jesús Sánchez, anotado el 25 de febrero de 2025, finca 11024 de Coamo, anotación A y última, Registro de la Propiedad de Barranquitas. La hipoteca objeto de esta ejecución es la que ha quedado descrita en el inciso (i). Será celebrada la subasta para con el importe de la misma satisfacer la sentencia dicta el 29 de abril de 2025, mediante la cual se condenó a la parte demandada pagar a la parte demandante la suma de $70,879.22 de principal, más $5,269.41 de interés al 30 de junio de 2024, que continuarán acumulándose hasta el saldo total al 11.95% anual a razón de $20.97 diario, $1,535.00 de cargos por demora, $1,715.00 de otros cargos, $75.00 de recoverable balance, $7,757.89 de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, más cualquier otro desembolso que haya efectuado o efectúe la parte demandante durante la tramitación de este caso para otros adelantos de conformidad con el Contrato Hipotecario, incluyendo primas de seguro de hipoteca, prima de seguro de siniestro y cargos por demora. La PRIMERA SUBASTA será celebrada el día 4 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025

A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina del Alguacil, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Coamo, Puerto Rico. Servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la cantidad de $77,578.96 sin admitirse oferta inferior. De no haber remate ni adjudicación, celebraré SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la que servirá como tipo mínimo, dos terceras (2/3) partes del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $51,719.31. Si no hubiese remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, celebraré TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar en la que regirá como tipo mínimo, la mitad del precio pactado para la primera subasta, o sea, $38,789.48. El Alguacil que suscribe hizo constar que toda licitación deberá hacerse para pagar su importe en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América, de acuerdo con la Ley y de acuerdo con lo anunciado en este Aviso de Subasta. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables. Se entiende que todo licitador que comparezca a la subasta señalada en este caso acepta como bastante la titulación que da base a la misma. Se entiende que cualquier carga y/o gravamen anterior y/o preferente, si la hubiere al crédito que da base a esta ejecución continuará subsistente, entendiéndose, además, que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción cualquier parte del remanente del precio de licitación. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. Vendida o adjudicada la finca o derecho hipotecado y consignado el precio correspondiente, en esa misma fecha o fecha posterior, el alguacil que celebró la

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subasta procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura pública de traspaso en representación del dueño o titular de los bienes hipotecados, ante el notario que elija el adjudicatario o comprador, quien deberá abonar el importe de tal escritura. El alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la confirmación de la venta o adjudicación. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Y PARA CONOCIMIENTO DE LOS LICITADORES Y DEL PUBLICO EN GENERAL y para su publicación de acuerdo con la Ley, expido el presente Edicto bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal. En Coamo, Puerto Rico, hoy 11 de julio de 2025. Edwin Torres Moreno, ALGUACIL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA DE COAMO.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR. GITSIT Solutions, LLC, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Separate Trustee of GITSIT Mortgage Loan Trust BBPLC1, Dmandante v. La Sucesión de María Emilia López Rosado t/c/c María Emilia López Rosado t/c/c María E. López compuesta por Carlos Ezequiel Tirado López, Egard Colón Tirado t/c/c Edgardo Colón Tirado, Luis Colón Tirado, Karina Tirado Aponte, Kathia Tirado Aponte, Fulano y Fulana de Tal como posibles herederos desconocidos

Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: SJ2025CV00655. SOBRE: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, El Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. A la parte demandada: Egard Colón Tirado t/c/c Edgardo Colón Tirado, Luis Colón Tirado, Karina Tirado Aponte y Kathia Tirado Aponte como miembros de la sucesión de María Emilia López Rosado t/c/c María Emilia López Rosado

t/c/c María E. López a su última dirección conocida FISICA: #1663 (B-34) Atlas St., Summit Hills Dev., San Juan PR 00920-4364 t/c/c Solar #34, Bloq. B. Urb. Summit HIlls, Barrio Monacillos, San Juan PR 00920-4364 POSTAL Calle Atlas #1663, Summit Hills, Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico 00920; 13807 Vanderbilt Rd. Odessa, FL 33556; 705 Hidden Springs Dr. Apto. 28, Decatur, AR 72722; 11106 Anarbor, Fld. San Antonio TX, FL 78254

Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante la suma de $341,068.26 por concepto de principal, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.810% anual desde el 22 de febrero de 2017. Dichos intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $28,200.00 y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 127, otorgada ante el Notario María Georgina Chévere Mouriño, el día 8 de abril de 2010, sobre la finca número 706 inscrita al folio 232 del Tomo 19 del Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si comparece por derecho propio y no radica por SUMAC debe enviar copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de MARTÍNEZ & TORRES LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcda. Vanessa M. Torres Quiñones vtorres@martineztorreslaw.com P.O. Box 192938, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-2938; Tel (787) 767-8244, Fax (787) 767-1183, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, po-

drá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oirle(s). Se ordena a los herederos de los causantes, a saber: Carlos Ezequiel Tirado López, Egard Colón Tirado t/c/c Edgardo Colón Tirado, Luis Colón Tirado, Karina Tirado Aponte y Kathia Tirado Aponte (en conjunto “los herederos”), a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto, ACEPTEN O REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de los causantes María Emilia López Rosado t/c/c María Emilia López Rosado t/c/c María E. López. 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, se tendrá por aceptada. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 15 de julio de 2025, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Griselda Rodríguez Collado, SECRETARIO(A). Brenda L. Báez Acabá, Secretaria Servicios a Sala.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. JESSICA

ROSADO OROPEZA Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: TA2025CV00434. (Salón: 201B). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOSJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM.

JESSICA ROSADO OROPEZA - RR 5 BOX 8770 TOA ALTA, PUERTO RICO 00953-7869.

A: JESSICA ROSADO OROPEZA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 04 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual

puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de agosto de 2025. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 04 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA BONILLA HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. JESSIKA M. VARGAS CARO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AÑ2025CV00109. 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: JESSIKA M. VARGAS

CARO - CARR 402 KM 8.2 BO HATILLO, AÑASCO PR 00610-0643; PO BOX 643, AÑASCO PR 006100643.

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@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO

MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en AÑASCO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de junio de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. LIZBETH VÁZQUEZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUA-

DILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE MOCA EN SAN SEBASTIÁN SUCESION DE FREDDY MENDEZ MENDEZ COMPUESTA POR BARBARA EILEEN MÉNDEZ, DARLENE ANNETTE MÉNDEZ, FRAY MARTIN MÉNDEZ Y KENNETH JAMES MENDEZ

Demandantes V. ADOLFO GONZALEZ HERNANDEZ Y NEFTALINA MEDINA; JOHN DOE

Demandados Civil Núm.: MO2025CV00088. Sobre: ACCIÓN CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.

A: JOHN DOE.

El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Moca dictó la siguiente providencia: “Vista la solicitud para la orden de emplazamiento por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal ordena que se cite por edicto al Codemandado JOHN DOE. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6 (a) (c), mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndoseles que de no hacerlo se les anotará la rebeldía sin más citarles ni oírlos. Se exime al Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del Codemandado John Doe, por no conocer la misma. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada en Aguadilla - San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, a 30 de julio de 2025. JUAN CARLOS AVILÉS

FELIÚ, (FIRMADO) JUEZ SUPERIOR”. Se le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en el presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a la abogada de la Demandante, la Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, PO Box 5272 Carolina, PR 00984-5272,

tel. (787) 945-5233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 5 de agosto de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA.

LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SUBSECRETARIA.

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PENTECOSTAL

M.I. (MOVIMIENTO INTERNACIONAL)

Demandante V. SUCESION DE MARCOLINA LOPEZ

GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR MARTINA LOPEZ

GONZALEZ, ISABEL LOPEZ GONZALEZ, DOMINGO LOPEZ

GONZALEZ, JUAN LOPEZ

GONZALEZ, JAIME

LOPEZ GONZALEZ, ANGELINA LOPEZ

GONZALEZ, JOSE LOPEZ

GONZALEZ, EMILIA

LOPEZ GONZALEZ Y MATILDE LOPEZ

GONZALEZ; JOHN DOE

Demandados

Caso Núm.: AR2025CV01326. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN, REANUDACIÓN DE TRACTO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R.

A: JOHN DOE.

El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Arecibo dictó la siguiente Orden: Vista la solicitud para la orden de notificación por edicto, y cónsono con las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil vigentes, el Tribunal autoriza y ordena que se le notifique por edicto la Demanda de epígrafe a John Doe. El edicto se publicará conforme a la Regla 4.6 de las de Procedimiento Civil, 32 L.P.R.A. Ap. V, R. 4.6, mediante la publicación de un solo edicto en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico, a los efectos de que presenten cualquier oposición a la Demanda dentro del término de treinta (30) días a contarse de la publicación del edicto, apercibiéndoseles que de no hacerlo se continuará con los procedimientos sin más citarle ni oírle. Se exime a la Parte Demandante del requisito impuesto por la Regla 4.6 de Procedimiento Civil de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda y del edicto a la última dirección conocida del notificado, por ésta no ser conocida. Se ordena a la Secretaria expida el correspondiente Edicto. Dada

en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 4 de agosto de 2025. SANTIAGO CORDERO OSORIO, (FIRMADO) JUEZ SUPERIOR”. Se le advierte que, si no comparece al Tribunal en el presente caso, enviando copia de su posición a la abogada de los Demandantes, la Lcda. Lizannette Morales Crespo, PO Box 5272 Carolina, PR 00984-5272, tel. (787) 9455233, dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación, se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a 4 de agosto de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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CREDIT UNION

Demandante Vs. JUAN CLAUDIO HERNÁNDEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2025CV02084. (502). 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: JUAN CLAUDIO HERNÁNDEZ.

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 su 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 Superior, y enviando copia a la parte demandante: Lcda. Karina P. Cintrón Narváez; PO Box 193813, San Juan, PR 00919; kcintron@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 1 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. SANDRA I. BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. FRANCISCO JAVIER

NIEVES MAESO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO FRANCISCO NIEVES MAESO Y SU ESPOSA JOSIRIS LYNETTE RAMIREZ PAGAN, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO JOSIRIS RAMIREZ PAGAN Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2025CV02166. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: FRANCISCO JAVIER

NIEVES MAESO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO FRANCISCO NIEVES MAESO Y DE JOSIRIS LYNETTE RAMIREZ PAGAN, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO JOSIRIS RAMIREZ PAGAN, POR SÍ Y COMO COADMINISTRADORES DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le notifica que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría por la parte demandante, Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la Vía Ordinaria, en la que se alega adeuda la suma principal de $157,174.85, incluyendo la suma de $32,499.52 de principal diferido, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 4.625% anual, desde el día 1ro de febrero de 2023, hasta su completo pago, más recargos acumulados, más la cantidad de $15,500.00, estipulada para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado, así como cualquier otra suma estipulada en el contrato de préstamo, todas cuyas sumas están líquidas y exigibles. La propiedad hipotecada a ser vendida en pública subasta es: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apar-

tamento residencial número B guión Doscientos Uno (B-201), localizado en la segunda planta del Edificio “B” de! CONDOMINIO PATIOS SEVILLANOS, situado en la Carretera Estatal Ramal PR-860 del Barrio Las Cuevas del Municipio de Trujillo Alto, con una cabida de MIL CIENTO SETENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO ONCE (1,174.11) PIES CUADRADOS, equivalentes a CIENTO NUEVE PUNTO ONCE (109.11) METROS CUADRADOS. En linderos: NORTE, en 26’ 5”, con el elemento exterior; por el SUR, en veintiún pies diez pulgadas (21’ 10”), con el elemento exterior y en cuatro pies una pulgada (4’ 1”), con el área común; por el ESTE, en treinta pies una pulgada (30’ 1”), con la pared medianera del apartamento número B guión Doscientos Dos (B-202) y en dieciséis pies diez pulgadas (16’ 10”), con el área común; y por el OESTE, en cuarenta y cuatro pies cinco pulgadas (44’ 5”), con la pared medianera del apartamento número A guión Doscientos Dos (A-202) y en doce pies seis pulgadas (12’ 6”), con el elemento exterior. La puerta principal de entrada de este apartamento se encuentra en su colindancia Sur. Consta este apartamento de sala-comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios, dos servicios sanitarios, cuatro closets y una terraza. A este apartamento le corresponde como elemento común limitado pero asignado de forma exclusiva, permanente e inseparable dos espacios para estacionamiento que acomodan dos vehículos de motor. Estos espacios para estacionamiento se identifican con la letra del Edificio donde se encuentra situado el apartamento y el número de este. Este apartamento tiene una participación en los elementos comunes generales del Condominio de cero punto sesenta y cinco porciento (0.65%). La escritura de hipoteca se encuentra inscrita al folio 141 vuelto de! tomo 771 de Trujillo Alto, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Cuarta, finca número 28,522, inscripción quinta. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de la publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que el caso sea 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 de-

mandante 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 de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. La información del (de la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante es la siguiente: Lcdo. Baldomero A. Collazo Torres RUA Núm. 10,189

Bufete Collazo & Surillo, LLC P.O. Box 11550

San Juan, P.R. 00922-1550 Tel. (787) 625-9999 Fax (787) 705-7387 E-mail: bcollazo@Iawpr.com

Se le notifica también por la presente que la parte demandante habrá de presentar para su anotación al Registrador de la Propiedad del Distrito en que está situada la propiedad objeto de este pleito, un aviso de estar pendiente esta acción. Para publicarse conforme a la Orden dictada por el Tribunal en un periódico de circulación general. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente Edicto que firmo y sello en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy 1 de agosto de 2025. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante Vs. ROSA GLADYS CÁMARA RAMOS T/C/C ROSA G. CÁMARA RAMOS T/C/C ROSA GLADYS CÁMARA T/C/C ROSA GLADYS CÁMARA-RAMOS T/C/C ROSA G. CÁMARA T/C/C ROSA CÁMARA RAMOS T/C/C ROSA CÁMARA T/C/C GLADYS CÁMARA Y LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA Demandados

Civil Núm.: CA2024CV03854. Sala: 409. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN

RICO.

A: HUMBERTO CAMACHO MATOS.

Se le apercibe que la parte demandante por mediación del Lcdo. José F. Giraud Mejías ha radicado la acción de epígrafe en su contra. Copia de la demanda, emplazamiento y del presente edicto le ha sido enviado por correo certificado a la última dirección postal conocida de récord: URB. BORINQUEN M-13 CALLE 13, CABO ROJO, PUERTO RICO 00623. En dicha demanda se le reclama la suma de $66,624.94, por concepto de préstamo hipotecario concedido el 20 de febrero de 2021 por la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Cabo Rojo. Puede usted obtener mayor información sobre el asunto revisando los autos en el Tribunal. Se le apercibe que tiene usted un término de treinta (30) días para radicar contestación a dicha demanda de cobro de dinero y/o cualquier escrito que estime usted conveniente a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de epígrafe, pero que de no radicarse escrito alguno ante el Tribunal dentro de dicho término el Tribunal procederá a ventilar el procedimiento sin más citarle ni oírle. Dada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 3 de julio de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA GENERAL, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE MARGARITA CANALS TORRES COMPUESTA POR MARGARITA DEL CARMEN CANCEL CANALS y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO; LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN ANTONIO CANCEL CANALS COMPUESTA POR LYANN MICHELLE CANCEL CALLEJAS, SUTANO y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 20

Civil Núm.: MZ2019CV01246. (207). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. REQUERIMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN POR EDIC-

TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: LYANN MICHELLE CANCEL CALLEJAS COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JUAN ANTONIO CANCEL CANALS A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: 2718

OLDFIELD DR., MONROE, NC 28110-5400, URB. GIRASOL, E-14 CALLE TULIPÁN, CABO ROJO, PR 00623 Y PO BOX 1401, CABO ROJO, PR 006231401.

SUTANO Y PERENCEJO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE JUAN ANTONIO CANCEL CANALS.

Queda usted notificado que el 2 de diciembre de 2024 se dictó Sentencia en el caso de epígrafe concediendo a la parte demandante el importe de: $34,195.58 más intereses sobre dicha suma al 7% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2019 hasta su completo pago, más $79.92 de recargos acumulados, los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $7,040.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La sentencia recae sobre la siguiente propiedad: URBANA: Solar identificado con el #14 del Bloque E, en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Girasol de Cabo Rojo, localizada en el Barrio Miradero de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico término municipal de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, con cabida superficial de 338.65 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, distancia de 26.05 metros con los solares E-15 y E 16; por el SUR, en distancia de 26.05 metros, con el solar E-13; por el ESTE, en distancia de 13.00 metros, con la calle #10; y por el OESTE, en distancia de 13.00 metros, con neighborhood facilities. En su colindancia Este discurre una servidumbre a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Se enclava en este solar una estructura de hormigón reforzado y bloques de concreto, con las facilidades usuales, para residencia de una familia. Inscrita al folio 64 del tomo 638 de Cabo Rojo, Finca 22254. Re-

gistro de la Propiedad de San Germán. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 66 del tomo 638 de Cabo Rojo, Finca 22254. Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. Inscripción segunda. Se interpela a los herederos para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia del causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte interpelada deberá presentar su contestación 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 contestación en la secretaría del Tribunal, radicando el original en este Tribunal y enviando copia a la abogada de la parte demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo PR 00970-3922, Teléfonos: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, advirtiendo que de no hacerlo se tendrá por aceptada la herencia. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 21 de julio de 2025 en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Lcda. Norma G. Santana Irizarry, Secretaria. Evelyn González Hernández, Sub-Secretaria.

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FIRST BANK, PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE JOSE BORIA DE LEON, COMPUESTA POR SHEILA BORIA, LINETTE BORIA TORRES, ELSIE MARIA BORIA TORRES Y JENNIFER BORIA TORRES, VILMA MARTINEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DE LA SUCESION DE JOSE BORIA DE LEON

MARTA GRCIA GELPI

T/C/C MARIA GARCIA

GELPI, ADMINISTRACION PARA EL SUSTENTO DE MENORES Y EL CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: CG2023CV04347. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Caguas, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que los autos y documentos del caso de epígrafe estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables y que venderá en pública subasta al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina en este Tribunal el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $47,856.97 de balance principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $46,378.32 y un principal diferido por la suma de $1,478.65, los intereses vencidos sobre el principal de $46,378.32 computados al 7.125% anual desde el día primero de julio de 2023 hasta su total pago; más las primas de seguro hipotecario y riesgo, cargos por demora sobre cada mensualidad de principal e interés adeudadas, disponiéndose que si quedara algún remanente luego de pagarse las sumas mencionadas, el mismo deberá ser depositado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal para ser entregado a la parte demandada; más la suma garantizada en la hipoteca para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado del acreedor demandante, más cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquier concepto legal se devenguen hasta el total y completo pago de esta sentencia hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el numero setenta y seis (76) en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Rural Canta Gallo del Barrio Mamey del termino municipal de Juncos, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS SETENTA Y SEIS PUNTO DIECINUEVE (376.19) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, con la calle once (11) de la comunidad; por el Sur, con la calle siete (7) de la comunidad; por el Este, con la parcela setenta y siete (77) de la comunidad; y por el Oeste, con la parcela numero setenta y cinco (75) de la comunidad. Inscrita al folio cinco (5), del tomo trescientos sesenta y cinco (365) de Juncos, finca numero trece mil quinientos ochenta y cuatro (13584), Registro de Caguas II. Dirección física: 76 Lot Carr 189, Bo. Canta Gallo, Juncos, PR 00777. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo

el día 4 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y servirá de tipo mínimo para la misma la suma de $64,000.00 sin admitirse oferta inferior. En el caso de que el inmueble a ser subastado no fuera adjudicado en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 11 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA y el precio mínimo para esta segunda subasta será el de dos terceras partes del precio mínimo establecido para la primera subasta, o a sea la suma de $42,666.67. Si tampoco hubiera remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 18 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA y el tipo mínimo para esta tercera subasta será la mitad del precio establecido para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $32,000.00. El mejor postor deberá pagar el importe de su oferta en efecto, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse el inmueble al acreedor hipotecario dentro de los diez días siguientes a la fecha de la última subasta, si así lo estimase conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada conforme a la sentencia, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuera mayor. Se avisa a cualquier licitador que la propiedad queda sujeta al gravamen del Estado Libre Asociado y CRIM sobre la propiedad inmueble por contribuciones adeudadas y que el pago de dichas contribuciones es la responsabilidad del licitador. Que se entenderá por todo licitador acepte como suficiente la titulación y que los cargos y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes en entendiéndose que el rematador los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse su extinción al precio rematante. Todos los nombres de los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surgen de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus in-

tereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. Y para conocimiento de licitadores, del público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico y en los sitios públicos de acuerdo a las disposiciones de la Regla 51.7 de las de Procedimiento Civil, así como para la publicación en un periódico de circulación general diaria y en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas con antelación a la fecha de la primera subasta y por lo menos una vez por semana. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento indicado estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables. (Art. 102 (1) de la Ley núm. 210-2015). Expedido el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 17 de julio de 2025. Edgardo Aldebol Miranda, Alguacil Del Tribunal De Primera Instancia, Sala De Caguas.

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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 Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de junio de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA PADILLA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. ARAM A. EBRAHIMIAN ORTIZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MT2024CV00554. 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: ARAM A. EBRAHIMIAN ORTIZ - URB JARD DE MONACO 1 F19 CALLE MANUEL G TAVAREZ, MANATI PR 00674; 218 W OLEY ST, READING PA 19601.

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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 MANATI, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de junio de 2025. Vivían Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Sheila Rivera Morales, Secretaria Auxiliar.

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The Bayamón Vaqueros won the BSN finals series in five games.

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Vaqueros win 17th BSN championship in 5 games Ángel Macías, 1957 Little League World Series star, dies at 80

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Ángel Macías, a dazzling, ambidextrous 12-year-old pitcher from Mexico who threw a perfect game in the 1957 Little League World Series to win the championship, a feat no other player has repeated, died July 27 in Monterrey, Mexico. He was 80.

Little League International announced the death.

Playing for a factory-sponsored team from Monterrey, the 12-year-old Macías was the tournament’s unicorn. He could pitch with either arm and was a switch-hitter. He played first base as a left-hander and the rest of the infield (and outfield) as a right-hander.

He also threw one-hitters in two of the regulation six-inning games that the Monterrey Industrial Little League team won in district, state and regional tournaments to qualify for the World Series. In another game, he struck out 15 batters.

“There is a 12-year-old Mexican baseball player whose name is Angel but who is a diamond devil to his opponents,” The CourierJournal of Louisville, Kentucky, wrote before Macías’ team played a regional game in that city. “Some jest that Angel Macías of Monterrey must, indeed, be bewitched.”

His manager, César Faz, told the newspaper: “He’s quite a good pitcher — our best. As a matter of fact, he is the best boy we have at every position.”

Despite rumors that he might pitch left-

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The Bayamón Vaqueros (Cowboys) claimed their 17th Superior National Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) championship on Monday night by defeating the Ponce Leones (Lions) 82-68 at Rubén Rodríguez Coliseum in Bayamón.

The Vaqueros took the best-of-seven series in five games.

Star import Danilo Gallinari, who turned 37 last Friday, led Bayamón with 24 points, followed by Gary Browne and Javier Mojica with 16 each. Rayjon Tucker contributed eight points off the bench.

Browne also handed out eight assists and veteran Renaldo Balkman grabbed a dozen rebounds off the bench for the Vaqueros.

For Ponce, Matthew Mooney led the way with 17 points,

handed in the final game of the World Series, the 5-foot-3, 88-pound Macías faced a team of much bigger boys from La Mesa, California, as a right-hander.

He dominated them, allowing no base runners in a 4-0 victory. He struck out 11 players, including the last three. The seven other hitters grounded out.

“We could have been seated there for all the game because no one got a fly ball,” Jose Maiz, an outfielder and pitcher for Monterrey, said in a video on the Little League website. In 2023, he told the MLB website that Macías “had a very good fastball and a very good 12-6 curve. We called it ‘The Drop.’”

Bob Considine, a syndicated sports columnist, wrote that Macías had shown “the grace of a matador and the pitching savvy of a Don Larsen” — who had pitched a perfect game for the New York Yankees in the previous October’s World Series.

There have been six other perfect games in the Little League World Series, but Macías’ was the only one thrown in a championship game.

A few days after winning the title, the Monterrey team traveled to Washington, where the players met President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In a photograph and a newsreel taken on the grounds of the White House, Macías showed the championship trophy to the president. On a tour of the Capitol, he placed his uniform cap on the head of Lyndon B. Johnson, the Senate majority leader.

Back home in Monterrey, the team was hon-

Jordan Murphy added 15, and Jared Ruiz had 10. Michael Devoe had six assists.

Mojica’s three-pointer gave the Vaqueros the lead for good, 13-10, with 4:23 left in the first quarter. Gallinari then sank two free throws to increase the lead to five, 15-10, with 3:34 left on the clock. The first quarter ended with Bayamón in front, 22-15. The first half ended with the home team holding a 40-34 edge.

The Vaqueros opened the second half with a 9-2 run to extend the lead to 59-46 after two free throws by Gallinari with 2:41 left in the third quarter, which ended with Bayamón up 62-53.

The biggest margin of the night was 78-61, after a free throw by Browne with 3:15 left in the fourth quarter.

Gallinari, a versatile 6-foot-10 forward from Italy with 15 seasons of NBA experience under his belt, was named MVP of the finals.

ored with a parade attended by thousands of fans.

Ángel Macías Barba was born Sept. 2, 1944, in Aguascalientes, Mexico, to Juanita Barba and Anacieto Macías. He was among the 11- and 12-year-olds who joined the Monterrey Industrial Little League team on what would be a nearly monthlong journey, which ended in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the home of the league, where the World Series games take place.

Monterrey’s title was the first for an international team in the Little League World Series. Monterrey won the title again the next year.

In the aftermath of the perfect game, Les Biederman, a sports columnist at The Pittsburgh Press, wrote, “You know, a funny thing, one man in baseball said, if the Pirates did sign the 12-year-old, he could play right away and help the gate.”

Macías’ pitching feat was the subject of a feature film, “The Perfect Game” (2009), with Jake T. Austin as Macías.

Macías continued to play baseball into adulthood. In 1962, he signed a major league contract with the Los Angeles Angels. He played two seasons in the lower minor leagues of the Angels’ system as an outfielder, not as a pitcher. He told The New York Times in 1957 that his favorite player was Mickey Mantle, the Yankees’ slugging center fielder and fellow switch-hitter — or, as he phrased it though an interpreter, a “turnover hitter like me.”

He then spent the next decade playing for teams in Mexico.

His survivors include his wife, Josefina Martínez, and three daughters, Josefina MacíasMartínez, Marta Patricia Macías-Martínez and Diana Laura Macías-Martínez, as well as five grandsons, two granddaughters and two greatgrandsons.

After his playing days, Macías worked as the director of human resources at a textile company. But he remained involved in baseball in various capacities, including as an international adviser to the Little Leagues of Mexico.

In 2017, he was inducted into the Little League Hall of Excellence.

Ángel Macías was a dazzling, ambidextrous 12-year-old pitcher from Mexico who threw a perfect game in the 1957 Little League World Series to win the title. (Instagram via ouresquina)

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