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Laboratories warn about rate cuts applied by insurers
By THE STAR STAFF
The Clinical Laboratories Association of Puerto Rico (ALCPR by its initials in Spanish) issued a warning Tuesday that new rate cuts by health insurers could lead to the closure of laboratories, potentially limiting patient access to essential diagnostic tests that inform medical decisions.
The warning follows Triple-S Advantage’s announcement of another unilateral rate reduction of up to 25%, effective this past August.
“Faced with an anticipated closure of dozens of hospitals and a significant loss of physicians — as well as a persistent shortage of nurses — the common denominator of the crisis affecting our healthcare system is the practices of insurance companies,” stated ALCPR President Felipe Cintrón. “Insurance companies are benefiting from record increases in premiums while continuing to exert economic pressure on independent laboratories that provide critical diagnostic information to both physicians and patients.”
The clinical laboratory sector is increasingly under pressure from insurance companies that compete directly by operating their own laboratories, while concurrently reducing the rates paid to independent providers, Cintrón noted.
In response to Triple-S’s actions, the ALCPR intends to send letters to the president of the insurer and the new executive director of the Puerto Rico Health Insurance Administration -- the body overseeing the Medicare Platinum segment -- requesting immediate action to address the ongoing rate crisis.
The cuts in rates compound existing cost increases, Cintrón said. An economic study prepared for the ALCPR in 2023 revealed that clinical laboratories in Puerto Rico are experiencing stagnation and a decrease in rates from insurers, while healthcare costs have surged by over 24%. For instance, in the Medicare Advantage category, rates fell by 29.5% between 2012 and 2022, while insurance premiums rose by 40.7% from 2010 to 2023. The growing disparity poses a significant threat to the sustainability of laboratory services across Puerto Rico.
of 25-27%. The insurer did not provide any justification for the cuts, except for a vague reference to “alignment” with federal guidelines, the ALCPR noted. The situation continues a two-decade trend of reduced reimbursements for laboratories.
Small laboratories, particularly those in rural areas and small towns serving communities with limited access to healthcare, face an increased risk of closure due to the pressure to lower rates.
“We have absorbed significant increases in the costs of raw materials, profits, and workers’ compensation, all without any rate adjustments,” said Alba Rivera Torres, administrator of the Plaza Oasis Clinical Laboratory in Santa Isabel, in response to Triple-S’s notice. “This latest reduction pushes us below the threshold of economic sustainability.”
Cintrón said the ALCPR supports legislative actions such as Bill 2 of 2025, which would establish minimum reimbursement rates based on actual operating costs and require periodic reviews linked to inflation rates for healthcare costs. The organization also supports Rule 91, which would establish the basis for collective bargaining between insurers and providers.
The ALCPR is demanding that insurers justify rate cuts while laboratory costs continue to rise, citing examples such as COVID-19 and Mycoplasma tests, which laboratories incur for $14, but insurers reimburse between $8 and $12.
“We request prompt action from regulatory agencies and the Puerto Rico Legislature,” Cintrón said. “The healthcare system is facing a critical period. [...] The current situation regarding rates and payment timing is financially unsustainable.”
The variation in prices for specific tests underscores the severity of the situation, the ALCPR president added. For example, the average reimbursement for a complete blood count, or CBC, in Puerto Rico is just $9.60, compared to $75 in the continental United States. Similarly, a comprehensive metabolic panel, or CMP, averages $14.34 in Puerto Rico, compared to $225 in the U.S. Those discrepancies are prevalent for most routine laboratory tests.
According to official communications obtained by the ALCPR, Triple-S has notified laboratories of new rate reductions that will align their rates with 85% of current Medicare rates, effectively resulting in a decrease
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Local filmmakers worry about effects of Trump’s tariffs
By THE STAR STAFF
Following President Donald Trump’s announcement to impose tariffs of up to 100% on foreign film productions, local professionals are already expressing concerns about how the move will affect the industry, which often relies on co-productions with other countries.
Director, screenwriter and producer Glorimar Marrero Sánchez said in a radio interview (Radio Isla) that the president is taking a “narrow” view with this new measure, which currently lacks a start date or details on its implementation.
“They’re trying to impose a tariff on an industry that has historically relied on co-productions. Film is a global business venture,” Marrero said. “Attempting to limit access has a domino effect; this measure could lead to more than just one consequence. Not only will it make foreign films more expensive, but it will also raise costs for audiences. Distributors or exhibitors may decide against bringing these titles to the market, considering this significant increase. This will restrict access to content and diminish our connection to other parts of the world, diverse stories, languages, and narratives.”
If implemented, the tariffs could create even greater challenges for Puerto Rican productions, independent artists and professionals, she added. Marrero, for example, had the opportunity to attend the Goya Awards gala in 2024 for the
nomination of “La Pecera” (2023) for Best Ibero-American Film.
“In Puerto Rico, it would be devastating because co-productions enable us to create films here,” she said. “While we produce 100% Puerto Rican films, ‘La Pecera’, for instance, was a co-production with Spain.”
Marrero highlighted the importance of the Ibero-American market, where the films are in Spanish and involve collaboration with regional countries.
She also warned of potential retaliation from other countries, which could prevent U.S. productions from being shown in their markets.
Uncertainty remains regarding the impact on consumers and how the tariffs will be applied to exhibition projects, Marrero noted. It is unclear whether they will affect new releases, films on streaming platforms, or those screened at film festivals around the world.
“There is some ambiguity regarding how this will be enforced and what qualifies as a foreign film,” she said when asked about the specific stages at which the tariffs would apply. “Will it be based on percentage contributions or the allocation of points by creative directors, for example? This will limit independent filmmakers’ access to international financing mechanisms, which is crucial for promoting co-productions that open markets for us and allow us to explore additional distribution channels.”
Marrero pointed out that production costs begin with the
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Imelda turns into a hurricane
By THE STAR STAFF
Tropical Storm Imelda turned into Hurricane Imelda on Tuesday with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles an hour as it headed toward Florida.
On Tuesday afternoon the storm was headed east-northeast at 12 miles an hour.
Imelda took a turn overnight and on Tuesday was on a course that appeared doubtful for making landfall anywhere near Puerto Rico.
development of an idea and continue until the project is ultimately presented. Therefore, concerns about the tariff increases focus on whether they will be applied to box office sales at theaters or to production companies that decide to film scenes outside the United States.
“This measure undermines the free expression of filmmaking because it jeopardizes the income and economic structures necessary for us to make films,” Marrero said. “It’s incredibly challenging for independent filmmakers to cover the entire cost of production in the United States, given that those costs can be prohibitively high and funding sources are scarce.”
Senate passes bill to provide home assistants for vulnerable citizens
By THE STAR STAFF
Arecibo District Sen. Héctor “Gaby” González Lopez announced Tuesday that the Puerto Rico Senate approved Senate Bill 629, a measure that seeks to create the “Law for the Assignment of Home Assistants to People in Vulnerable Situations.”
The bill, which will now be submitted to the House of Representatives for consideration, aims to establish the obligation to provide a housekeeper or home assistant to bedridden people, people with terminal illnesses, and other vulnerable populations on the island.
“The approval of this bill represents a firm commitment to the dignity and well-being of our most vulnerable citizens,” González Lopez said. “It is critical that we ensure adequate care for those who have significantly contributed to our society.”
The U.S. Census indicates that some 21.3% of Puerto Rico’s population is 65 or older, underscoring the urgent need for
structured home support services.
“The shortage of home caregivers creates a deterioration in the quality of life for our older adults, even leading to avoidable hospitalizations,” the senator added.
González Lopez further emphasized the need for empathy and action, stating: “Every day that passes without assistance for these people is another day of suffering. We cannot allow those in vulnerable situations to feel forgotten or helpless.”
Through the implementation of the measure, the island Family Department would be ordered to identify the necessary funds for its execution.
“The money to fulfill this goal must be forthcoming,” the senator said. “We just need to prioritize by closely monitoring the needs and the rapid growth of our senior population. I trust that just as our administration achieved the important initiative of providing vouchers for childcare, the funds will likewise be identified to recruit a greater number of home caregivers to address this pressing need.”
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Examiner: PREPA’s revenue requirement should include its debt amount
By THE STAR STAFF
Apoint of contention in the ongoing Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) hearings to establish new power rates is whether the rates should reflect any amount to pay PREPA’s debt.
The problem is that the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) remains in bankruptcy and a decision as to how much the public corporation will pay in debt, whether $9 billion or less, has yet to be decided. PREPA bondholders are insisting that they want their debt to be paid.
Scott Hempling, the hearing examiner, noted that the PREB has already stated, via the filing requirements, that it will consider whether to include in the revenue requirement an estimated proxy for legacy debt.
He said nothing in the federal Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA, preempts the PREB from carrying out its obligation to make rates just and reasonable.
“Including in rates an estimate of what will emerge from the Title III process has no effect on that process,”
Hempling said. “Of course, any estimated debt amount included in the rates would be subject to reconciliation with what becomes the actual debt amount.”
He said customers should help pay PREPA’s debt. The legacy debt funded assets that benefit today’s customers.
“Just-and reasonable rates always reflect the costs of assets that benefit the customers paying those rates,” he said, a point he reiterated during a hearing this week. “Not to even consider whether customers in FY26 should pay something toward this debt is arbitrary and capricious.”
Scott Hempling, the hearing examiner in the ongoing Puerto Rico Energy Bureau hearings to establish new power rates (LinkedIn)
While PREPA is correct that it is not known what the final number will be, any number could be right or wrong except zero, Hempling added.
“PREPA wants the Energy Bureau to adopt for debt the one number that everyone knows is wrong. Where’s the logic for that?,” the examiner said. “Yes, the commonwealth government might provide the funds. And for the next three years there might be no hurricanes and no storm costs. Still, we must consider the possibilities and set rates accordingly.”
According to PREPA, the Financial Oversight and Management
Board (FOMB) said PREPA will not be able to impose any additional rate increases for debt service above the rates necessary to pay for the fuel and purchased power costs and maintenance costs.
Hempling said the oversight board doesn’t set rates; the PREB does.
“The FOMB doesn’t decide what nondebt costs go into rates; the Energy Bureau does,” he said. “Rate dollars are fungible. There are an infinite number of ways to build a practicable revenue requirement -- one that customers will actually pay -- from debt dollars, operational dollars, fuel dollars, and capital expenditure dollars. The FOMB does not build that revenue requirement; the Energy Bureau does.”
PREPA can use its post-hearing brief to argue against including a legacy debt estimate in rates, Hempling noted.
“But I am not removing the question from this case,” he said. “What I ask from the witnesses are useful thoughts about credible numbers to use, and methods for reconciling estimated debt amounts with later-determined actual debt amounts. PREPA worries that parties in the Title III process could seek to rely on a determination by the Energy Bureau on these matters -- even if based on incomplete or speculative information, or rendered without proper legal authority -- as persuasive evidence against PREPA in the Title III proceedings.”
He said no party and no Title III judge will misinterpret a PREB decision that labels a debt line item as an estimate to be replaced by the debt amount emerging from the bankruptcy case.
Lawmaker: NFE & Genera to blame for blackout that left 120,000 customers in dark
By THE STAR STAFF
Rep. José Aponte Hernández blamed New Fortress Energy (NFE) and Genera Puerto Rico for Monday’s blackout, which left more than 120,000 customers without power for more than four hours.
Aponte, who chairs the House Committee on Federal and Veterans Affairs, has not ruled out sending a communication to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to inform him of this situation.
“Yesterday’s ‘load shift,’ which is nothing more than a blackout, was a direct result of irresponsible business practices contrary to the best interests of the people of
Puerto Rico on the part of NFE and its subsidiary, Genera,” Aponte said. “NFE does not want to use 80-ton tugboats, which are appropriate for safety reasons, to bring the liquefied natural gas (LNG) barge into San Juan Bay, and in an attempt to blackmail the government into allowing the use of smaller-capacity tugboats, which are cheaper but much more unsafe for this type of operation, they did not bring that ship into the port over the weekend, thus leaving the island without fuel for generating units at the San Juan and Palo Seco power plants.”
“NFE is taking advantage of the people’s needs to blackmail the government into lowering safety standards because the LNG barge is urgently needed,” the former House speaker added. “This is a deplorable act, similar to what they did a few months ago when, upon bringing a barge to port, they gave instructions to remove it, trying to get a few more pesos. This action is not only irresponsible, but also goes against national security.”
Aponte asserted that “[t]rying to blame the tugboat pilots for this is a lie.”
“The only person responsible for not having enough generation yesterday is NFE and its subsidiary, Genera,” he said. “That’s the truth.”
Rep. José Aponte Hernández said Monday’s “’load shift,’ which is nothing more than a blackout, was a direct result of irresponsible business practices contrary to the best interests of the people of Puerto Rico on the part of NFE and its subsidiary, Genera.”
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Michigan church attacker is said to have held a grudge against Mormons
By TIM ARANGO, ANUSHKA PATIL and THOMAS FULLER
The former Marine accused of killing four people in a fiery attack on a Michigan church held a deep grudge against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to two lifelong friends and other people who knew him.
The animosity, the friends said, stemmed from a breakup with a religious girlfriend over a decade ago and led the man to rant about the church at his best friend’s wedding, refer to it as the Antichrist and, just days before the attack, spew invective against Mormons to a canvassing politician.
The attacker, identified by authorities as Thomas Jacob Sanford, crashed a four-door pickup truck displaying two American flags into the church building in Grand Blanc Township near Flint, Michigan, during a worship service Sunday morning and then opened fire with an assault-style weapon. A blaze later consumed the church.
Victims as young as 6 were ripped by gunshots. Sanford, 40, was shot dead by the police.
A woman drops off flowers at a police barricade near the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints after an attack on Sunday in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. Investigators this week were digging into the life of the man who killed four people in a suburban Michigan community over the weekend, as well as the fiery remains of the church that he attacked in the middle of a Sunday morning worship service. (Nick Hagen/The New York Times)
Peter Tersigni, who lives in Michigan, said he had known Sanford since preschool and called him his best friend. A four-year stint in the Marine Corps, including time in Iraq, changed his friend from the former class clown into a more serious person, Tersigni said.
But his time living in Utah and heavy use of methamphetamine appeared to change him more. There, he fell in love with a woman who was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the relationship ended painfully, his friend said.
“Mentally he was in rough shape” when he returned to Michigan, Tersigni said.
From then on, Sanford had a problem with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and wasn’t shy about sharing it, Tersigni and his twin brother, Francis Tersigni, recounted in separate interviews Monday.
“He got this whole fascination with Mormons, and they are the Antichrist, and they are going to take over the world,” Francis Tersigni said. It even came up at Peter Tersigni’s wedding, his brother recalled. “All he could talk about was Mormons,” he said. “I was like, dude, nobody wants to hear about this stuff.”
Sandra Winter, 56, rented a room to Sanford in Jeremy Ranch, Utah, and also recalled that he had fallen in love with a woman who was an “extremely religious” member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and felt pressured to join.
“He wasn’t so sure that he wanted to become a member of the church,” Winter said. “But he really wanted to be with this woman.”
As recently as last week, Kris Johns, a candidate for
City Council in Burton, Michigan, knocked on Sanford’s door while canvassing and, within a few minutes, found himself listening to a diatribe about Sanford’s ex-girlfriend, the church and its demands that he remove his tattoos to become a member.
Johns remembers Sanford saying repeatedly, “Mormons are the Antichrist.” He described Sanford as calm, not making any specific threats, but “under the surface, extremely angry.”
Authorities said Monday that they were still investigating what they described as a “targeted act of violence” Sunday morning. They did not ascribe a motive to the attack, but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Fox News, “This was an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith.”
She added that investigators were “trying to understand more about this, how premeditated it was, how much
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planning went into it, whether he left a note.” The attacker’s family was cooperating with investigators, she said.
Two people died of gunshot wounds in the attack, authorities said, and the bodies of two more people were found later in the wreckage of the burned-out building. It was not immediately clear how they died.
Dr. Michael Danic, medical chief of staff at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital, praised the actions of parishioners for saving untold lives. “Those on the scene were absolute heroes,” he said, “going in and out of the fire to drag people out, helping each other to take care of the victims.”
Joanne Bond said her husband, John Bond, a 76-year-old U.S. Navy veteran and software salesperson, was one of the congregants hit by gunfire and taken to the emergency room, along with eight other people. She first heard about the attack in a text message from another member of her husband’s church. (Joanne Bond belongs to a different denomination.)
Joanne Bond rushed to Henry Ford Genesys Hospital, she said, but wasn’t able to see or speak to her husband before he died on the operating table.
Another injured victim, Ben Phelps, was shot in the abdomen, according to his mother, Beckie Swainston. She said Phelps’ 6-year-old son, the youngest victim, was shot in the arm and has been released from the hospital.
Investigators continued to comb through the wreckage of the scorched church Monday, collecting evidence, while others looked through homes, computers and social media accounts associated with Sanford, seeking more clues about his motives and planning.
James Deir, the special agent in charge with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the agency was examining “improvised explosive devices” that were recovered after the attack.
No more victims are expected to be found in the charred remains. Everyone who was in the church at the time of the attack has been accounted for, authorities said.
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Deadlock grows uglier as Congress heads toward shutdown
By CATIE EDMONDSON
The federal government barreled toward a shutdown Tuesday before a midnight deadline as President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress remained deadlocked with Democrats in a spending standoff that was growing uglier by the hour.
Democratic leaders lashed out at Trump for posting a crude, artificial intelligencegenerated video insulting and mocking them Monday night, hours after meeting with them at the White House to discuss the impasse.
The deepfake video superimposed a cartoon mustache and sombrero over Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who was pictured standing silently while Mariachi music played and the voice of Sen. Chuck Schumer was distorted to deliver expletive-laden remarks that included the line, “Nobody likes Democrats anymore.”
Jeffries responded Monday night by posting a photograph of Trump smiling alongside Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
“This is real,” the post said.
In a separate post, Jeffries wrote, “Bigotry will get you nowhere.”
As of midday Tuesday, there were no signs that congressional leaders planned to meet again to try to reach a spending agreement.
“We have less than a day,” Schumer said on the Senate floor, “and Donald Trump is tweeting deepfakes.”
Later Tuesday, Trump threatened to use a shutdown to enact measures that “are bad” for Democrats “and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks at a news conference after the Republican policy luncheon as a government shutdown looms at the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. With a midnight deadline to fund the government approaching, the Trump administration and Democrats traded barbs and blame over who would be responsible for a shutdown. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
things that they like, cutting programs that they like.” Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought, dangled the threat of mass firings of federal employees last week.
“They’re taking a risk by having a shutdown,” Trump said.
Democrats have so far seemed unbowed by those threats.
“That’s just another excuse,” Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., said of Trump’s comments. “They’re doing this time and time again. They’re going to do what they want to do.”
Democrats and Republicans both stuck to their respective demands Tuesday, and they appeared set to spend the day blaming each other for the impasse and the resulting shutdown that appeared more likely with each passing moment. Republican leaders have insisted that Democrats accept a Housepassed bill that would simply extend federal funds at current levels through Nov. 21.
Democrats are demanding more than $1 trillion to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year and roll back cuts to Medicaid and other
health program that Republicans included in their marquee tax cut and domestic policy law that was enacted over the summer.
If the “Obamacare” tax credits are allowed to lapse, about 4 million people are projected to lose coverage starting next year, and prices would go up for an additional 20 million people. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that 10 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 as a result of the health cuts in the new tax law.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the majority leader, has said he would be willing to negotiate separately on extending the tax credits. Many of his senators who are up for reelection next year have endorsed the move. But Democrats were taking government funding “hostage,” Thune said.
“The Democrats’ far-left base and farleft senators have demanded a showdown with the president,” he said Tuesday. “And the Democrat leaders have bowed to their demands. Apparently, the American people just have to suffer the consequences.”
Trump and other Republicans continued to hammer at the misleading accusation that Democrats were shutting down the government in order to give health care to immigrants lacking legal status.
Trump’s fake video falsely quoted Schumer as saying Democrats “have no voters left” because of the party’s positions on social policies and wanted to give “illegal aliens” free health care. The fabricated voice added that shutting down the government was a way to get immigrants lacking legal status to vote for Democrats, a claim that embraces a debunked conspiracy theory about noncitizens voting.
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Why is your flight always delayed? Blame government shutdowns.
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
The Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t have enough air traffic controllers to control the nation’s air traffic.
It’s a big problem. Airlines have been forced to delay, reschedule or cancel thousands of flights, especially at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. If you’ve flown recently, perhaps you’ve had some extra time on the tarmac to wonder what went wrong.
A big part of the answer: government shutdowns.
Repeated disruptions to the FAA’s funding over the past 15 years, caused by shutdowns and other budget fights, have played a key role in preventing the agency from hiring and training enough controllers. As Congress lurches and sways toward another potential shutdown, the FAA’s travails illustrate the stakes.
Shutdowns tend to be brief because Americans are soon reminded that the government does important things. But the end of a shutdown doesn’t mean that everything springs back to normal. Some of the damage endures. A government shutdown in 2013 wiped out the annual research season for the U.S. Antarctic Program, causing more than two dozen scientific studies to lose a year of data. Another shutdown, beginning in December 2018, forced the cancellation of about 86,000 immigration court hearings, some of which took years to reschedule. During that shutdown, unsupervised tourists cut down Joshua trees in California’s Joshua Tree National Park. The
slow-growing trees can take 50 years to reach full height.
The funding disruptions are particularly difficult for the FAA. It takes years to train air traffic controllers, and there are limits on how many can be trained at one time. When the pipeline isn’t fed, the agency falls behind — and you end up stuck in the wrong city.
The FAA’s struggles are anatomized in a recent report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which convened a panel of experts to examine why the agency was having such a hard time putting bodies in air traffic control towers.
In the early 2010s, every federal agency was preparing for a large cohort of baby boomers to walk into retirement. The FAA’s challenge was particularly acute because it had hired many of its controllers around the same time, as replacements for the strikers fired by President Ronald Reagan in August 1981.
But the National Academies found that the FAA consistently hired fewer workers than the numbers its internal models showed that it would need. The agency fell short in nine of the 10 years between 2013 and 2023. Over that period, it ended up hiring fewer than two-thirds of the workers it had estimated it would need.
Plane at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, Sept. 23, 2025. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
The reliance on overworked controllers is particularly dangerous, because the FAA relies on outdated technologies that it has struggled to upgrade or replace. As in so many other areas, the United States has fallen behind other nations that use more modern technologies to guide more airplanes safely through crowded parts of the sky.
One possible corrective is to remove the government from its role. Other nations — including Australia, Canada and Germany — have created stand-alone corporations, funded by industry, to operate their air traffic control systems. The FAA already collects a large portion of its funding directly from the aviation industry. It could be fully funded in the same way.
Alternatively, some congressional Republicans are proposing to avoid future disruptions in funding — and in the supply of air traffic controllers — by exempting the FAA’s training programs from shutdowns, as Congress already exempts the air traffic control system.
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The funding disruptions began in 2011, when Republicans who had just taken control of Congress insisted that they wouldn’t raise the federal debt ceiling to meet the government’s existing obligations until the Obama administration agreed to reduce future spending. Under the resulting deal, the FAA was forced to impose a hiring freeze through much of 2013 and 2014. When Republicans seeking further spending cuts forced a government shutdown for 16 days in the fall of 2013, the agency closed its training academy and sent recruits back to their homes. As a result of the disruptions, during those two years, the FAA started training about half the number of controllers it needed.
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The agency hasn’t been able to make up for those shortfalls. One issue is that it has needed the full capacity of its training academy just to meet its existing annual goals. In 2016 and 2017, the two years the agency hit its hiring targets, it was basically treading water.
The second issue is that the hits kept coming. Three shutdowns in 2018 and 2019 once again disrupted recruiting and forced the academy to close.
The impact wasn’t immediate. It takes an average of five years to train controllers to work in the most important facilities. But even before COVID once again shut down the FAA’s training process, the staffing shortages were taking a toll.
In recent years, the government has urged airlines to reduce summer flight schedules at some of the nation’s most popular airports because they can’t handle the volume. United Airlines, for example, cut about 10% of its scheduled flights in and out of Newark because arriving flights were experiencing average delays of two hours. Even with fewer flights, the agency is stretched to the limits of its capacity. The National Academies found the FAA increasingly relies on mandatory overtime shifts and six-day workweeks to cover staffing shortages. The overtime budget has increased by 300% since 2013.
Either approach would improve on the current situation, but both miss the larger point: Shutdowns cause unpredictable and lasting damage. If our elected representatives once again fail to perform their basic responsibilities, and the government once again shuts down, other things will break — and the consequences will be with us for a long time.
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Cumbre en Panamá para impulsar a Puerto Rico como destino de carga marítima
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SAN JUAN – Como parte de su esfuerzo para destacar a la Isla como un destino marítimo importante para el tránsito de carga, el director ejecutivo de la Autoridad de los Puertos de Puerto Rico (APPR), el licenciado Norberto Negrón Díaz, sostuvo una serie de reuniones a principios de esta semana con funcionarios de la Junta de la Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, en donde resaltó los avances en
infraestructura portuaria que sean realizado desde enero con el propósito de aumentar la capacidad de los muelles. Negrón se reunió con altos funcionarios del gobierno y la empresa privada, incluyendo José Ramón Icaza, actual ministro de Asuntos del Canal, presidente de la Junta Directiva de la Autoridad del Canal de Panamá y el secretario de Objetivos de la Presidencia de la República. Además, con el capitán Luis Ruíz Marcos, quien dirige la importante la división de Operaciones de Tránsito de dicha facilidad, entre otros.
“Parte importante de la política pública de la gobernadora Jenniffer González Colón, es robustecer nuestra infraestructura portuaria para buscar nuevas oportunidades que redunden en desarrollo económico para Puerto Rico. Panamá es una plaza muy reconocida por el tránsito de carga marítima y el norte de estas conversaciones está centrado en explicar la obra que se ha estado realizando en nuestros muelles desde enero y la visión de expansión que tiene la Isla. Además de establecer acuerdos colaborativos para fortalecer el plan estratégico que estamos desarrollando en Puertos”, comentó el director ejecutivo de la APPR mediante un parte de prensa.
El Director Ejecutivo de la APPR también visitó el Ter-
minal Portuario de la Cementera Argos en la ciudad de Colón, donde discutió con el director general de dicha empresa en el Caribe, Gary De La Rosa y el gerente general de Cementos Argos en Puerto Rico, José Guillermo Araujo alternativas para la expansión de la operación actual que se desarrolla en Puerto Rico.
Igualmente, Negrón Díaz conversó con el capitán Peter Podest, quien dirige el Centro de Maniobras de Buques a Escala y es parte de los expertos prácticos utilizados para manejar el flujo de embarcaciones en el Canal de Panamá. Como parte de la reunión, el funcionario participó de la simulación en el innovador centro de práctica.
Ocupada maquinaria vinculada a carreras clandestinas de caballos en Juncos
“Los funcionarios en Panamá están bien receptivos a los cambios que se han hecho en todo el ecosistema portuario en Puerto Rico desde enero pasado. Destacamos nuestra estrecha colaboración con la Guardia Costera de los Estados Unidos, así como con otras agencias y el sector privado, enfocado un ambiente de transporte marítimo seguro, con la más novedosa tecnología y bajo reglas totalmente transparentes. Esa estabilidad y lo que se ha hecho en los últimos meses, es la razón por la cual Puerto Rico es un destino tan atractivo para el tránsito de carga”, explicó Negrón Díaz. POR CYBERNEWS
JUNCOS– Una intervención de la Policía de Puerto Rico, adscrita a la División de Bienestar y Protección Animal del área de Caguas, resultó en la ocupación de maquinaria presuntamente utilizada para realizar carreras clandestinas de caballos en el municipio de Juncos. Según el informe policiaco, a las 8:42 de la mañana del martes, la agente Betzaida Díaz acudió a la carretera PR-189, sector Canta Gallo, tras recibir información que apuntaba a una posible violación a la Ley 154 para el Bienestar y la Protección de los Animales. En el lugar,
la agente ocupó el equipo como parte de la investigación.
Durante la intervención, las autoridades entrevistaron a una persona, quien fue citada a comparecer en una fecha posterior para la continuidad de la pesquisa y la posible radicación de cargos.
La Policía exhortó a la ciudadanía a colaborar con cualquier información que ayude al esclarecimiento de casos llamando a la línea confidencial 787-343-2020. También pueden comunicarse a través de la red social X en @PRPDNoticias o en Facebook en www.facebook. com/prpdgov.
Municipio de Ponce asume operación del Centro de Envejecientes Luis Biaggi
POR CYBERNEWS
PONCE – La alcaldesa de Ponce, Marlese Sifre Rodríguez, informó el martes que el municipio asumirá la operación del Centro de Envejecientes Diurno Luis Biaggi, para garantizar la continuidad de los servicios que se encontraban en riesgo de interrumpirse por falta de presupuesto.
“Ellos son pilares de sabiduría, historia y amor. Merecen programas y espacios dignos que fomenten su bienestar y calidad de vida. En Ponce, nuestros viejitos no estarán solos”, dijo Sifre Rodríguez en declaraciones escritas. La ejecutiva municipal explicó que la organización sin fines de lucro Esperanza para la Vejez, que administraba el centro, notificó su cierre al no lograr acuerdos con la Procuradora del Envejeciente. Ante esa situación, junto a
la Oficina de Finanzas y Presupuesto y en acuerdo con la Procuradora, el municipio decidió asumir la administración directa.
El municipio informó que el Centro Luis Biaggi funcionará como Centro Diurno Municipal para Envejecientes. Más de 100 adultos mayores se benefician de los servicios, de los cuales cerca de 50 asisten a las instalaciones y otros 50 reciben alimentación en sus hogares.
A diva’s story is delayed
After blackout sinks a free preview of ‘Master Class,’ the chamber opera about the life of Maria Callas will open Friday at the Conservatory of Music
By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR
Never take a new production before the footlights on a Monday may be the lesson gained by a small but tightly knit group of theater professionals after a citywide blackout caused the cancellation of their unique production of the intimate theater and chamber opera, “Master Class,” an homage to the timeless Greek-American diva Maria Callas penned by Terrence McNally.
The free performance at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music on Monday night was abruptly cancelled after the lights went out in San Juan and did not come back on in time.
Says director Gil Valenzuela: “In 40 years directing I have never ‘not opened’ on opening night.”
of cocoa.
“We could do this work in the dark,” disappointed producer Carlos Carbonell told a milling group of equally disappointed students outside the closed theater, “but we can’t possibly do it without sound.”
The six-member cast with a high-priced makeup artist and other production staff on alert since before 5 p.m. doffed their glamorous costumes and transforming makeup and headed glumly home for, perhaps, a mug
Cordelia González, the celebrated Puerto Rican actress who was to incarnate the role of the great diva, rushed backstage to meet with the crestfallen group of students from Ponce, who did not expect to get another chance to see the unique performance.
The show, which first played on Broadway in 1995, has starred such luminaries as Tyne Daly, Zoe Caldwell and Patti Lupone (the original Evita), will go onstage as planned at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Monday’s unusually timed event was a free performance for Conservatory students and faculty. González, a graduate of Yale School of Drama who has been off the live stage for the last six years, calls the role “one of the greatest challenges of my career.”
The fictional account of the doomed diva’s relatively short life -- she died at 53 in 1977 -- does not fea-
ture her as the coloratura soprano that “La Callas” was, but rather as the woman whose tumultuous nine-year liaison with Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis stripped her of much of the bravado and charisma which earned her the sobriquet of “La Divina” (The Divine One). Many experts called her the greatest opera singer of the 20th century (of all time, many others would say).
To immerse herself in the persona of the tragic star, González read several books about her life and listened for hours to her records.
Her face still caked in “diva” makeup, she drove to her Condado apartment, sharing her small car with a pair of stranded fans.
“I suppose I’ll continue to do so right up to the end,” she said, a bit perplexed to be in character with no outlet for her ill-fated night, but with a perfect opportunity to mold her character for yet another week.
The production’s master classes, patterned on Callas’ teaching in 1972 at the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York, reflect the realism on recordings and writings from the period.
They explore the emotional impact on Callas of growing up in poverty during a major World War and her obsession with fame and perfection, as well as her choice to sacrifice her health and career for love.
Despite being adored by fans, her reputation suffered because both she and Onassis were married at the time of the affair.
She was also embittered by his refusal to marry her and the loss of their baby son hours after his birth. Their relationship lasted until 1968, when the irascible magnate left her for the widowed former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Callas’ three vocal students in the play are interpreted by sopranos Melanie Flores and Elizabeth Rodriguez, both accomplished actors, and by tenor Christian García, one of The Caribbean Tenors quartet. With the iconic pianist Pedro Juan Hernández as their accompanist, the aspiring stars will interpret beloved arias by bel canto composers Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, as well as more dramatic arias by the darling of the 20th century, Giacomo Puccini. Puerto Rican playwright Roberto Ramos Perea will handle the voice of Onassis, and Sebastián Valenzuela will play the stagehand.
Maria Callas in 1959 at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (Wikipedia)
Cordelia González plays Maria Callas in the fictional account of the troubled opera diva’s life written for the stage by Terrence McNally.
Stocks
Markets in Q3: The calm after the storm
After the storms earlier in the year, investors have basked in a steamy summer market melt-up that has added another $5 trillion to record-high share markets and lifted almost everything else, too.
Those looking after public finances in Paris or London may disagree, but it is as if all the fiscal and trade worries have eased and investors are back to doing what they do best - buying expensive tech stocks.
Google’s have leapt almost 40% during a quarter when AI darling Nvidia also became the world’s first $4 trillion company, and China’s nearest equivalent, Cambricon, surged 120%.
The headscratcher, though, is that the usual go-to asset when traders suspect trouble, gold, has jumped another 15% to fresh record highs too and silver almost 30%.
Japan’s yen, another safety play, has dropped but the ominous rumblings in the bond markets certainly haven’t gone away either with the collapse of another French government briefly pushed its borrowing costs above Italy’s for the first time and 30-year yields hitting a record high in Japan.
At the same time, implied U.S. bond volatility has dropped to its lowest in over three years. That’s a sign that markets may be learning to live with the trade war while Moritz Kraemer, chief economist at LBBW and the former head of sovereign ratings at S&P Global, also points to the stock market’s surge.
Not only is price-to-earnings ratio on U.S. stocks now in the top 2-3% in history, just 10 firms also now account for 40% of the S&P 500’s value.
“When you then throw in all the uncertainty around Trumponomics, that’s hard to square,” Kraemer said.
A steadier dollar has also lowered stress levels. While still down nearly 10% for the year - the most at this stage of a year since 1989 - it is up 1% in the third quarter, largely thanks to a weaker yen.
Oil prices are pretty much where they started Q3, whereas gold’s record run leaves it up 45% and heading for its biggest annual jump since 1979. Silver is over 60% higher.
“Gold and silver have been the big trade,” said Saxo Bank’s head of FX strategy John Hardy, explaining the gains have been driven by worries huge government debt loads will lead to “some form of financial repression”.
There has also been the ongoing rise in European weapons makers, up almost 85% this year and leaving everything
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bar Chinese tech stocks and, wait for it, European banks, for dust. That has been driven by U.S. President Donald Trump, too, following signals he will scale back Europe’s military protection forcing the region - and other NATO members - to rearm.
Another small U.S. interest rate cut and Trump’s attacks on the Fed meanwhile have shifted bond markets.
The 30-year Treasury yield surged past 5.1% to its highest since 2007 in May, but is now back at 4.7%, while Switzerland has taken its rates back down to 0%.
The dollar’s stabilisation leaves the euro up 13% for the year, the yen over 6% higher and the Swiss franc up 13.5%, while some of the fastestcharging emerging market currencies had been checked.
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Top Trump aides push for ousting Maduro from power in Venezuela
By JULIAN E. BARNES, EDWARD WONG, JULIE TURKEWITZ and CHARLIE SAVAGE
The push by top aides to President Donald Trump to remove Nicolás Maduro as the leader of Venezuela has intensified in recent days, with administration officials discussing a broad campaign that would escalate military pressure to try to force him out, U.S. officials say.
It is being led by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser. Rubio argues that Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to the United States, which he says poses an “imminent threat.”
In recent weeks, the U.S. military has launched lethal attacks on civilian boats that the administration said were smuggling drugs for Venezuelan gangs. But Rubio is shaping a more aggressive strategy, using intelligence provided by the CIA, the officials said. The Pentagon has built up a force of more than 6,500 troops in the region.
The intelligence agency’s director, John Ratcliffe, and Stephen Miller, Trump’s chief domestic policy adviser, both support Rubio’s approach, the officials added.
The U.S. military has been planning potential military operations targeting drug trafficking suspects in Venezuela itself as a next phase, although the White House has not yet approved such a step, current and former officials say.
Those operations would be aimed at interfering with drug production and trafficking in Venezuela as well as tightening a vise around Maduro.
Because administration officials assert Maduro sits atop Venezuela’s cartel network, they can argue that removing him from power is ultimately a counternarcotics operation.
Rubio repeatedly cites the Justice Department’s 2020 indictment of him and other Venezuelan officials on drug trafficking charges. He recently described Maduro as a “fugitive from American justice” and the head of “a terrorist organization and organized crime organization that have taken over a country.”
At the same time, two senior figures in Venezuela’s opposition say their movement has been planning for what to do if Maduro falls and have been talking with the Trump administration about that possibility.
Trump administration officials have not confirmed whether there have been such exchanges, and the White House did not provide comment on the matter.
In July, Trump signed a still-secret order directing the U.S. military to use force against drug cartels his administration has labeled terrorists. The Pentagon began building up a large
“Maduro is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela; he’s a fugitive of American justice who undermines regional security and poisons Americans, and we want to see him brought to justice,” said Tommy Pigott, the State Department’s deputy spokesperson, when asked to comment for this article.
“The U.S. is engaged in a counterdrug cartel operation, and any claim that we are coordinating with anyone on anything other than this targeted effort is completely false,” he added.
It is generally illegal under international law to use force in another country without its consent or the permission of the United Nations Security Council. But the U.S. government, under the Biden administration, recognized González as the legitimate winner of the 2024 election. If González announces he approves an intervention, the Trump administration could say that was consent.
paper tallies from voting machines collected by the opposition. The Carter Center, an independent vote monitor, found the opposition’s count to be accurate.
But the Venezuelan military has remained loyal to Maduro, despite years of meager pay and political repression.
Drugs and diplomacy
Some senior U.S. officials, most notably Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy to Venezuela and the head of the Kennedy Center, say any attempt to remove Maduro by force would be misguided.
Those officials argue that expanding the campaign against Venezuela into a regimechange operation risks putting the United States in an extended war of the kind Trump promised to avoid.
naval force in the Caribbean.
Then came the U.S. military strikes on civilian boats. Trump has announced three such operations in international waters since Sept. 2 that have killed at least 17 people, without presenting a legal basis for the attacks. He described the first two as targeting Venezuelans but has not given the nationality of the people killed in the third strike. Planning for expanding military operations into Venezuela was reported earlier by NBC News.
Rubio met with five opposition figures in May who secretly fled to the United States in what he called a “precise operation.” He has praised the opposition leader, María Corina Machado, whom he called by her nickname, the “Venezuelan Iron Lady,” in a tribute this year.
Pedro Urruchurtu, an adviser to Machado, said in an interview that the opposition had developed a plan for the first 100 hours after Maduro’s ouster that would involve a transfer of power to Edmundo González, who ran for president against Maduro last year.
Independent monitors have said that election was marred by fraud and that González — who has since been exiled in Spain — was its legitimate winner.
“What we’re talking about is an operation to dismantle a criminal structure, and that includes a series of actions and tools,” Urruchurtu said, adding: “It has to be done with the use of force, because otherwise it wouldn’t be possible to defeat a regime like the one we’re facing.”
The State Department said the administration was focused on fighting drug cartels.
During his first administration, Trump supported a different opposition leader’s attempted uprising against Maduro and imposed punishing sanctions on Venezuela. But the current efforts appear far more expansive, mainly because of the U.S. military strikes and buildup.
Only a small number of officials are involved in White House planning conversations on Venezuela. Some people briefed on the discussions suggested that Rubio and his allies were first looking for ways to oust Maduro without having to resort to direct U.S. military action.
The ‘fugitive’
In recent weeks, Rubio has spoken vigorously of the Trump administration’s intention to force Maduro to answer to the Justice Department indictment.
The State Department increased a reward to $50 million for any information leading to Maduro’s arrest and conviction on the drug charges.
Trump has not explicitly stated that his goal is to depose Maduro, but he has boasted about the new military campaign in the Caribbean.
“We’ve recently begun using the supreme power of the United States military to destroy Venezuelan terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicolás Maduro,” he said last week in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
“We will blow you out of existence,” he added.
Rubio has said Trump “is going to wage war on narco-terrorist organizations,” despite the lack of congressional authorization for any armed conflict with them.
Law experts say the lethal military strikes on suspected drug smuggling boats have been illegal.
In last year’s election, roughly 70% of the population voted for González, according to
Speaking at a Conservative Political Action Committee event this month in Paraguay, Grenell said there was still time for diplomacy.
“I believe in diplomacy,” he said. “I believe in avoiding war.”
In an interview with The New York Times last Friday, Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, said that her country was not a major producer or exporter of drugs and that she had “no doubt that one of the strategic objectives” of the Trump administration “is what they call ‘regime change.’”
Rodríguez said Venezuela sought to continue dialogue with Grenell and to normalize economic relations with the United States, saying that Trump’s base had voted for economic growth, “not more wars.”
This month, Maduro sent a three-page letter to Trump insisting that his country did not export drugs.
The letter, dated Sept. 6, called for talks to ease the tensions, multiple people briefed on its contents told The New York Times. The letter had remained undisclosed until Sept. 21, when Rodríguez posted it online and said it had been delivered to Washington through an intermediary.
Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokesperson, said last week that the administration received the letter but had dismissed it.
Yván Gil, Venezuela’s foreign minister, said one sign his nation wants diplomacy is that it still accepts twice-weekly flights of deportees from the United States.
“We are willing to discuss everything that needs to be discussed with a neighboring country, a country that is an economic power, a military power,” Gil said. He added that a large conflict would lead to “excessive migration” and economic collapse that would “destabilize the entire region.”
But there is one thing that is not on the table in any negotiation, he said: Maduro’s exit.
Members of the Bolivarian militia, a reserve military force, march in support of President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times)
With new US proposal to end war in Gaza, a rare moment of triumph for Netanyahu
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and AARON BOXERMAN
Heading into their meeting Monday, the question was whether President Donald Trump would apply enough pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to end the war in the Gaza Strip.
Ultimately, Netanyahu got almost everything he could have hoped from Trump’s proposal — a demand that Hamas release the hostages immediately and lay down its weapons, without which Israel would have carte blanche to keep pummeling Gaza.
As for Israeli troops, they would get to remain in Gaza’s perimeter for the foreseeable future. There was such a stinting nod to the aspiration of statehood for Palestinians that the proposal all but suggested they just keep dreaming. And the Palestinian Authority would be left playing no role in Gaza anytime soon.
It was a rare moment of triumph that showed Netanyahu could still get much — if not all — of what he wanted despite Israel’s mounting international isolation. Just last week, several European countries recognized a Palestinian state over Israeli objections, while a diplomatic walkout left Netanyahu addressing a mostly empty room at the United Nations.
On Monday afternoon, standing alongside Trump, Netanyahu praised the U.S.-backed plan as fulfilling his own conditions for ending the war with Hamas. And Arab and Muslim governments, including the Palestinian Authority, appeared ready to fall in line.
As for Hamas, it would have no say at all in the future governance of Gaza, making explicit what had been left vague in earlier attempts at ending the conflict.
Still, the group and its leadership have been so decimated by the war, and it faces so much apparent pressure from Muslim countries including its patrons in Qatar and Turkey, that its acquiescence is not impossible to imagine.
Hamas’ leaders now must decide whether to accept Trump’s plan, negotiate its terms or reject it outright. All the options carry serious risks for
the Palestinian armed group, which has managed to survive two years of an Israeli onslaught by fighting a dogged insurgency.
Hamas negotiators were expected to meet with Turkish officials Tuesday in the Qatari capital, Doha, “to push for an end to the war through this plan,” according to Majed al-Ansari, a spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry.
On Tuesday, Trump told reporters in Washington that he would give Hamas “three or four days” to respond to the proposal.
Hamas would struggle to accept a deal that would amount to surrendering its rule in Gaza, but brushing off a clear path to ending the conflict would risk further angering Palestinians who have lived through nearly two nightmarish years of killing and devastation. Some Palestinians in Gaza accuse Hamas of fighting a war for its own political survival at their expense.
Ibrahim Madhoun, a Palestinian analyst close to Hamas, said the Trump plan was “based on excluding Hamas,” making it difficult for the group to accept. Hamas officials have previously said key elements, such as surrendering their weapons, would be a red line.
Hamas could still agree to the proposal — or at least accept it as a basis for negotiations — to end the war, he said. But many of the plan’s 20 other points were downright unclear, meaning they would require protracted talks to hammer out, he added.
“Each clause is such a minefield as to require its own separate agreement,” Madhoun said.
After hearing the terms of the proposal, Mahmoud Abu Matar, a 27-year-old sheltering in central Gaza, said a vast majority of Palestinians living there would most likely support the deal so as to put an immediate end to the violence.
“We don’t want any more war and bloodshed,” he said. “The ball is now in Hamas’ court.”
Some of the most important players in the Trump-Netanyahu vision for Gaza did not speak at the White House on Monday. Among them were Arab and Muslim nations that have offered to provide troops or funding for a peacekeeping force to provide security in Gaza, including
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
Those countries had laid down clear conditions for their postwar involvement, including that Israel fully withdraw from Gaza and commit to a pathway to a Palestinian state. They also stipulated that the Palestinian Authority must invite them to Gaza, so they would be seen as supporting the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people rather than as another occupying power.
The plan outlined by Trump and Netanyahu met none of those conditions. Not only would Israel retain a security buffer inside Gaza’s borders, but the multinational peacekeeping force would also take possession of territory directly from the Israeli military. The Palestinian Authority, for its part, would be cut out of the picture until it so completely reformed itself that Netanyahu scoffed at the prospect as a “miraculous transformation” unlikely to happen.
As for a Palestinian state, the proposal said only that as Gaza is rebuilt, “the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” — if the Palestinian Authority’s reform program “is faithfully carried out.” Yet nothing was said about who would
determine this or how.
As favorable as the proposal appeared to Netanyahu, it did entail concessions that he could find politically costly to make. The references to Palestinian statehood someday, the encouragement that Palestinians remain in Gaza and the flat rejection of Israeli annexation of Gaza “completely shatter the far right’s dreams,” Nadav Eyal, a columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, a centrist Israeli newspaper, wrote Tuesday.
The foreign ministers of eight Arab or Muslim-majority countries offered a qualified embrace of the Trump-Netanyahu proposal in a joint statement early Tuesday, affirming their readiness to cooperate with it. They made it clear, however, that they still insisted on a “full Israeli withdrawal” and on the establishment of “a just peace on the basis of the two-state solution, under which Gaza is fully integrated with the West Bank in a Palestinian state.”
Without any role planned for it in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority nonetheless welcomed Trump’s “sincere and determined efforts” to end the war and affirmed its “confidence in his ability to find a path toward peace.” It went on to say that it wanted “a modern, democratic and nonmilitarized Palestinian state.”
The Palestinian Authority also said it was committed to changing textbooks that critics say demonize Israel and to abolishing the payment of stipends to Palestinian prisoners and their families. It said it would invite international scrutiny of those changes.
President Donald Trump listens as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaks during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Improvements abound as Camarero Racetrack rebrands itself
Through the new “Camarero VIP” customer loyalty program, players can accumulate points every time they make a bet and then redeem them for exclusive rewards, creating a more personalized and beneficial experience. (Facebook via Hipódromo Camarero)
By THE STAR STAFF
The Camarero Racetrack announced earlier this week that it is rebranding its image to attract more customers and launching significant improvements for horse racing fans.
Among the improvements, officials highlighted the complete renovation of the video gaming machines operating under the LUCKY CASH name, which now offer new games and greater variety. Additionally, the MEGA LUCKY Jackpot has been increased to $100,000, making it the largest in Puerto Rico, providing more opportunities to win with a bet of just 18 cents.
As part of the transformation, the racetrack is also introducing the new “Camarero VIP” customer loyalty program. Through the system, players can accumulate points every time they make a bet and then redeem them for exclusive rewards, creating a more personalized and benefi-
cial experience.
In line with the renewal process, the agencies’ image has been refreshed, delivering franchise-style brand guides, which include new uniforms, more up-to-date and attractive signage, and an expanded entertainment and promotion offering that elevates the quality of the experience at each equestrian agency.
Camarero also has invested in remodeling its television studio with cutting-edge digital technology, which will allow for more innovative and dynamic broadcasts. The new phase includes creative sections designed to entertain and unite the entire equestrian family. “Pica Dera” will soon debut, hosted by renowned producer and host Luis Vigoreaux, where prominent equestrian personalities will share their favorite recipes to enjoy at home while following the excitement of the races.
Meanwhile, “Tu Pueblo, Tu Agencia” will debut, a program dedicated to highlighting the equestrian agencies in
each municipality, their representative figures, and the most distinctive attractions of each town, promoting both the sport and domestic tourism. Additionally, new sections are being incorporated, featuring the participation of the versatile female jockey and sports commentator Andrea Rodríguez, thereby expanding the diversity and perspective of Camarero programming.
For Camarero Racetrack, equine welfare is a fundamental priority. As part of the new phase, the venue is promoting a comprehensive plan that includes supporting responsible retirement programs in partnership with universities, developing a research program, and creating new alternatives for retired horses through the “Segundo Galope” equine adoption and retraining program.
Camarero is also working on implementing new regulations and best practice protocols, as well as on improvement and beautification projects for the stables, to ensure a safer, healthier and more dignified environment for its horses.
For Camarero Racetrack, equine welfare is a fundamental priority. (LinkedIn via Camarero Race Track, Inc.)
Sky caterers receive perfect score
By THE STAR STAFF
Sky Caterers in-flight kitchens at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina and Las AméricasJosé Francisco Peña Gómez International Airport in the Dominican Republic were recognized this week with the highest rating in the quality and food safety audits conducted by Delta Air Lines, one of the most demanding airlines in terms of catering standards.
Augusto del Valle, corporate director of catering for the Caribbean at Sky Caterers, said both operations achieved a perfect score of 100% in the two standards
evaluated: food processing quality and food processing safety.
“Delta is extremely rigorous in its audits, and we managed to meet, and even exceed, all established parameters,” del Valle said. “This achievement is a source of great pride for all our kitchen employees in both countries.”
Ada Torres, director of operations at Las Américas Airport, noted that Delta hires the services of the international firm Medina Quality, recognized for conducting unannounced audits, which guarantees an objective evaluation based on actual operating conditions.
Sky Caterers operations at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina and Las Américas-José Francisco Peña Gómez International Airport in the Dominican Republic achieved a perfect score of 100% in the two standards evaluated by Delta Airlines: food processing quality and food processing safety.
‘The offseason is now its own season’:
By ELAINE GLUSAC
Cinque Terre, Italy, in thermal layers. Ireland in ceaseless rain. For decades, I restricted most of my European travels to fall because, whatever the weather, I enjoyed the feeling of having the hotel, trail, restaurant or cathedral — well, maybe not the Duomo in Florence — to myself.
But I won’t be alone this year. From resort towns in Europe to popular summer destinations in the United States, places once emptied by October are now brimming with guests. Booking.com reported notable growth in searches for traditional beach trips such as the Hamptons — up 78% year-over-year in September and 45% in October — and Cape Cod. Searches for rooms in Dublin are up 35% in the fall over summer, according to Expedia, and Virtuoso, a consortium of highend travel agencies, says that fall bookings have climbed 30% this year.
At Fairmont hotels in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, occupancy in the shoulder seasons — fall and spring — has nearly doubled since 2019. Omer Acar, the CEO of Raffles and Fairmont hotels and resorts, credited remote work, the boom in music and event travel, and “guests seeking to travel based on their passions as opposed to seasonality.”
‘The new summer’ Fall’s surge owes some credit to the broader boom in travel. Last year, 1.4 billion people traveled internationally, up from 673 million in 2000, according to the
Fall travel comes into its own
No longer the secret of savvy travelers, autumn is becoming the season of choice for people looking to escape summer heat and overtourism. Hotels and tour companies are taking note. (Ryo Takemasa/The New York Times
World Travel & Tourism Council.
With more of them seeking better access and fewer crowds, “the offseason is now its own season,” said Jared Sternberg, the president and founder of Gondwana Ecotours, which offers nature-focused tours.
Growth, of course, diminishes the deals that were once the reward for bundling up for walks on the beach in Cannes rather than stripping down for a swim. Dollar Flight Club, a platform for sourcing sale airfares, found that fall prices for European flights had been rising since 2022. In Portland, Maine, the Canopy by Hilton Portland Waterfront hotel offers October rates within $50 of those for peak season in July and August. At Envoyage, a network of travel agencies, advisers have sold Rhine River cruises from October through December at prices on par with or even higher than those charged May through September.
“Fall has become the new summer in Newport,” said Anney Jasinski, the director of marketing and communications at the Chanler at Cliff Walk hotel in Newport, Rhode Island, where room bookings doubled from 2023 to 2024 for September and October.
The effects of climate change and overtourism
In some destinations, climate change has encouraged fall travel by extending milder weather. In the French Riviera, September — when highs average in the low 80s — is now as busy as August. This year,
the luxury cruise line Silversea announced year-round sailings in the Mediterranean. And in the Italian Alps, with diminished early snows, the Grand Hotel Courmayeur Mont Blanc will remain open this fall for the first time, rather than closing in midSeptember and reopening in December for the ski season.
Dry conditions are “effectively extending the autumn season,” said Chiara Borghi, the marketing manager at R Collection Hotels, which runs the resort.
Travelers escaping overheated homelands have driven fall bookings at Nimmo Bay in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. Originally a summer-only fishing lodge, the resort has transitioned over the past decade to a six-month season, with wildlife watching, paddling, and culinary and wellness offerings alongside fly-fishing for coho salmon, with no fall discounts.
“Nimmo Bay recognizes that the fall has its own special magic and appeal, and we have not felt the need to discount the rate for guests from around the world to agree with that,” said Fraser Murray, the owner of Nimmo Bay.
The fallout from overtourism — including shoulder-to-shoulder summer crowds in places like Venice and Dubrovnik, Croatia, and anti-tourism protests in Spain — has pushed some travelers to delay departures to later in the year.
To ease the pressure, sustainabilityminded operators like Intrepid Travel have championed the shoulder season — its fall
bookings in Italy are up more than 25% this year — and introduced trips to lessertraveled destinations such as Uzbekistan and Romania.
Foliage, harvests and salmon runs
Color tours and harvest events — the enduring appeals of fall — have long inspired travelers. Foliage fans can catch the changing spectrum of the Sequatchie Valley outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, at Bolt Farm Treehouse — a collection of tree houses, mirrored cabins and geodesic domes — at rates nearly 15% above the summer average. In the Alentejo region of Portugal, fall’s traffic rivals summer’s, driven by grape harvests, olive oil pressings and mushroom foraging.
Growing awareness of lesser-known natural phenomena, such as elk rutting in the American West and coral spawning in the southern Caribbean, has contributed to fall’s spike. Alaska’s fat bear competition in Katmai National Park has grown so popular that one outfitter is offering a series of late September trips to photograph the telegenic grizzlies bulking up on fall salmon runs, even though the park’s lodge closes Sept. 18 and seeing the bears requires a daily floatplane trip.
Still, people travel for myriad reasons — say, a bucket-list museum visit or spa splurge — that have nothing to do with the weather, so why not pursue them (if you can) when the hassles are fewer? In Kennebunkport, Maine, guests of the Nonantum Resort can now sequester themselves in a floating sauna on the Kennebunk River, which has boosted fall bookings before the resort’s seasonal closure in December.
In the Colorado Rockies, Aspen has lost about 30 days of skiing since 1980 to climate change. But with the exception of a few weeks pre- and post-ski season, Aspen is perpetually busy thanks to events, heat-fleeing visitors and savvy marketing.
This year, travel’s growing fall frenzy has pushed my Europe visit beyond October to the grayer month of November.
“October is no longer a secret whispered among in-the-know travelers,” said Annarita Aprea, the director of sales and marketing at the Casa Angelina hotel on the thronged Amalfi Coast in Italy, where the cognoscenti have traded summer stays for fall ones. “It has confidently taken its place as the crown jewel of the year,” she said.
10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 24 de septiembre de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 24 de septiembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. ENEIDA ARROYO VÉLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
1. SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL DIEPPA
ÁLAMO COMPUESTA
POR PAULA RIVERA
CUEVAS, SHARON DIEPPA RIVERA, MARÍA DIEPPA RIVERA, IRIS
YAZMIN DIEPPA RIVERA, MARITZA DIEPPA
RIVERA, JANET DIEPPA RIVERA; 2. PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS
Demandante V. 3. CARMEN M. RIVERA
GÓMEZ en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 4. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y su cónyuge
JULIO A. RODRÍGUEZ
LÓPEZ y este en su carácter personal y en representacion de dicha Sociedad Legal de Gananciales; 5. MANUEL RIVERA PEDRAZA en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 6. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y su cónyuge BEATRIZ MIRANDA PANET; 7. REINALDO LÓPEZ MORALES en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 8. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y su cónyuge
Zutana de tal; 9. Asociación de Residentes Estancias Siervas de María Inc. (Urbanización Estancias de Siervas de María ahora Urbanización
Estancias de Monteverde); 10. INCOSA (PUERTO RICO) INC. 11. LAS QUINTAS 957, INC. 12. JOSÉ ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN por si
y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA; 13. DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y JOSÉ ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN; 14. SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES compuesta por JOSE ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN Y DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA 15. FULANO DE TAL, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; 16. PERSONAS NATURALES O JURÍDICAS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DENOMINADAS A, B, C, D, E, F Y G 17. ASEGURADORA W 18. ASEGURADORA X, Y, Z
Demandada
Civil Núm.: CG2025CV01509. Sala: 802. Sobre: ACCIÓN DE DESLINDE, AMOJONAMIENTO, ACCIÓN REINVINDICATORIA, Y DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO. A: REINALDO LÓPEZ MORALES en su carácter personal y como miembro de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y su cónyuge Zutana de tal; a Zutana de tal por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales por esta y su cónyuge REINALDO LÓPEZ MORALES; a Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por REINALDO LÓPEZ MORALES y Zutana de tal. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL DIEPPA ÁLAMO COMPUESTA
POR PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS, SHARON DIEPPA RIVERA, MARÍA DIEPPA RIVERA, IRIS
YAZMIN DIEPPA RIVERA, MARITZA DIEPPA RIVERA, JANET DIEPPA RIVERA Y PAULA
RIVERA CUEVAS una Demanda sobre ACCIÓN DE DESLINDE, AMOJONAMIENTO, ACCIÓN REINVINDICATORIA, Y DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. 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 publica-
ción 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://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. La representación legal de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas-Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-394-6306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 2 de septiembre de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 4 de septiembre de 2025.
IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ,
SECRETARIA GENERAL. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS 1. SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL DIEPPA
ÁLAMO COMPUESTA POR PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS, SHARON DIEPPA RIVERA, MARÍA DIEPPA RIVERA, IRIS YAZMIN DIEPPA RIVERA, MARITZA DIEPPA
RIVERA, JANET DIEPPA
RIVERA; 2. PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS
Demandante V. 3. CARMEN M. RIVERA
GÓMEZ en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 4. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y su cónyuge JULIO A. RODRÍGUEZ LÓPEZ y este en su carácter personal y en representacion de dicha Sociedad Legal de Gananciales; 5. MANUEL
RIVERA PEDRAZA en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 6. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta
por esta y su cónyuge
BEATRIZ MIRANDA PANET; 7. REINALDO LÓPEZ MORALES en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 8. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y su cónyuge Zutana de tal; 9. Asociación de Residentes Estancias Siervas de María Inc. (Urbanización Estancias de Siervas de María ahora Urbanización Estancias de Monteverde); 10. INCOSA (PUERTO RICO) INC. 11. LAS QUINTAS 957, INC. 12. JOSÉ ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA; 13. DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y JOSÉ ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN; 14. SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES compuesta por JOSE ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN Y DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA 15. FULANO DE TAL, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; 16. PERSONAS NATURALES O JURÍDICAS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DENOMINADAS A, B, C, D, E, F Y G 17.
ASEGURADORA W 18.
ASEGURADORA X, Y, Z Demandada
Civil Núm.: CG2025CV01509. Sala: 802. Sobre: ACCIÓN DE DESLINDE, AMOJONAMIENTO, ACCIÓN REINVINDICATORIA, Y DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO.
A: INCOSA (PUERTO RICO) INC. Y LAS QUINTAS 957, INC.
Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL
DIEPPA ÁLAMO COMPUESTA
POR PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS, SHARON DIEPPA RIVERA, MARÍA DIEPPA RIVERA, IRIS
YAZMIN DIEPPA RIVERA, MARITZA DIEPPA RIVERA, JANET DIEPPA RIVERA Y PAULA
RIVERA CUEVAS una Demanda sobre ACCIÓN DE DES-
LINDE, AMOJONAMIENTO, ACCIÓN REINVINDICATORIA, Y DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. 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://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. La representación legal de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas-Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-394-6306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 2 de septiembre de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 4 de septiembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
1. SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL DIEPPA ÁLAMO COMPUESTA POR PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS, SHARON DIEPPA RIVERA, MARÍA DIEPPA RIVERA, IRIS YAZMIN DIEPPA RIVERA, MARITZA DIEPPA
RIVERA, JANET DIEPPA RIVERA; 2. PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS
Demandante V. 3. CARMEN M. RIVERA
GÓMEZ en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 4. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y su cónyuge
JULIO A. RODRÍGUEZ
LÓPEZ y este en su carácter personal y en representacion de
dicha Sociedad Legal de Gananciales; 5. MANUEL RIVERA PEDRAZA en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 6. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y su cónyuge BEATRIZ MIRANDA PANET; 7. REINALDO LÓPEZ MORALES en su carácter personal y como miembro de la 8. Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y su cónyuge Zutana de tal; 9. Asociación de Residentes Estancias Siervas de María Inc. (Urbanización Estancias de Siervas de María ahora Urbanización Estancias de Monteverde); 10. INCOSA (PUERTO RICO) INC. 11. LAS QUINTAS 957, INC. 12. JOSÉ ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN por si y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA; 13. DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por esta y JOSÉ ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN; 14. SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES compuesta por JOSE ANTONIO PAGÁN MACHÍN Y DINAYDA BURGOS RIVERA 15. FULANO DE TAL, SU ESPOSA FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; 16. PERSONAS NATURALES O JURÍDICAS DE NOMBRE DESCONOCIDO DENOMINADAS A, B, C, D, E, F Y G 17. ASEGURADORA W 18. ASEGURADORA X, Y, Z Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2025CV01509. Sala: 802. Sobre: ACCIÓN DE DESLINDE, AMOJONAMIENTO, ACCIÓN REINVINDICATORIA, Y DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EDICTO.
A: MANUEL RIVERA PEDRAZA en su carácter personal y como miembro de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por este y su cónyuge BEATRIZ MIRANDA PANET; a BEATRIZ
MIRANDA PANET por sí y en representación de la Sociedad Legal de Gananciales por esta y su cónyuge MANUEL RIVERA PEDRAZA; a Sociedad Legal de Gananciales compuesta por MANUEL RIVERA PEDRAZA y BEATRIZ MIRANDA PANET. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante SUCESIÓN DE MANUEL DIEPPA ÁLAMO COMPUESTA POR PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS, SHARON DIEPPA RIVERA, MARÍA DIEPPA RIVERA, IRIS YAZMIN DIEPPA RIVERA, MARITZA DIEPPA RIVERA, JANET DIEPPA RIVERA Y PAULA RIVERA CUEVAS una Demanda sobre ACCIÓN DE DESLINDE, AMOJONAMIENTO, ACCIÓN REINVINDICATORIA, Y DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. 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://tribunalelectronico. ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, 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. La representación legal de la parte demandante es la Lcda. Ketsy Ann Lozada Serrano, con dirección postal Estudio Legal & Notarial Abogadas-Notarias, PO Box 1274 Las Piedras, Puerto Rico 00771, teléfono: 787-394-6306 y correo electrónico lozadaserranoketsy@gmail.com. Expido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 2 de septiembre de 2025. Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 4 de septiembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA GENERAL. ZAIDA AGUAYO ÁLAMO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNA DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE
AGUADILLA SATURNINA CALVENTE MIRANDA
Peticionaria
EX PARTE
Civil Núm.: AG2025CV01550. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO (RECTIFICACIÓN DE CABIDA). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS; A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir su domino sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través de SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor del peticionario en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Solar número cinco (5), radicado en el Barrio Arenales Altos del término municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, compuesto de DOS MIL CUATROCIENTOS OCHENTA Y OCHO PUNTO CINCO MIL CERO SETENTA Y OCHO METROS CUADRADOS (2,488.5078 MC), equivalente a CERO PUNTO SEIS MIL TRESCIENTOS TREINTA Y UNO CUERDAS (0.6331 CDAS) y en lindes al NORTE: con Carretera PR 494; al SUR: con Laura Juarbe Acevedo; al ESTE: con Luis A. Mercado Arocho, Ángel Salamanca Miranda y César Méndez Sánchez; al OESTE, con Hugo Juarbe Pérez. Enclava una estructura en hormigón para uso residencial. Número de catastro: 025-047-001-10-
000. La abogada de la peticionaria es la Lcda. Janice Soto Cardona, HC 5 Box 54748 San Sebastián, PR, 00685; Teléfono: 787-896-2022. Se le informa que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 24 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de 20 días a contar de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por el peticionario, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, PR, a 24 de septiembre de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE AGUADILLA DARIO GONZALEZ
GONZALEZ; MAYRA ROMAN ROSADO
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: AG2025CV00563. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCION DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MAS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRA Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los 20 días contados a partir de la última publicación de este Edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Deberá usted presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá
presentar su alegación en la secretaria del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Galateo Bajo, Sector Chevin Román Termino Municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, marcado con la letra 1 en el plano de inscripción y con un área superficial de mil trescientos diez punto cuatro seis cinco cinco metros cuadrados (1310.4655). En lindes al NORTE, con carretera José Perez Perez; al SUR, con carretera PR 4476, José Perez y Sara González; al ESTE con José Perez y a OESTE con carretera PR 4474 y Sara González. Enclava una edificación dedicada a uso residencial. Contiene residencia. NUMERO CATASTRO :026-011-03203-998. Luego de mensura da dicha finca la descripción en la que consta. RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Galateo Bajo, Sector Chevin Román Termino Municipal de Isabela, Puerto Rico, marcado y con un área superficial de mil trescientos diez veintiséis punto nueve mil seiscientos setenta y seis metros cuadrados (1326.9676). Equivalente a cero punto treinta y tres cuerdas(0.3376) en lindes al NORTE, con carretera José Perez Perez; al SUR, con carretera PR 4476, José Perez y Sara González; al ESTE con José Perez y a OESTE con carretera PR 4474 y Sara González. Enclava una edificación dedicada a uso residencial. Contiene residencia. NUMERO CATASTRO :026-011-032-03998. El abogado de la parte peticionaria el LCDO. ISMAEL PEREZ NIEVES, PO Box 534, Isabela, Puerto Rico 00662; Tel: (787) 872-1500. Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 9 DE ENERO DE 2026, A LAS 4:15 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Este edicto deberá ser publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de veinte (20) días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, de identificar en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto,
el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, a 10 de junio de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ ÁNGEL DAVID CORDERO ORTIZ
Demandante Vs. DAVID J. CORDERO LOPEZ
Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2025RF00405. Sobre: PENSIÓN ALIMENTARIA DE HIJO ADULTO. EDICTO.
A: DAVID J. CORDERO LOPEZ.
Por la presente se le emplaza y se le notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal la Demanda de Pensión Alimentaria Hijo Adulto en el caso de epígrafe contra usted. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando: la dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr.sumac/. Se le apercibe y advierte a usted, que de no contestar la Demanda radicando el original de la contestación ante la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, y notificar copia de la contestación de ésta a la parte Demandante; por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo. Luis Roberto Santos Montalvo con oficina localizada en 256 Calle Concordia, Barrio El Seco, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; teléfono (787) 833-5466, y cuya dirección postal es P.O. Box 1809, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-1809. 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 por la parte demandante en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de septiembre de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA, SECRETARIA GENERAL, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ. NILDA L. IRIZARRY RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA WILLIAM RIVERA FALCONI, EVELYN LOPEZ MORALES, AMBOS POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES
Demandante Vs. RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, LUEGO SCOTIABANK DE PUERTO RICO HOY ORIENTAL BANK; JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE
Demandados
Civil No. CA2025CV02866. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ.
Por medio del presente edicto se les notifica de la radicación de una Demanda de Cancelación de Pagaré Extraviado en la que se solicita la cancelación del siguiente pagaré hipotecario, que se ha extraviado, luego de haber sido saldado por el deudor hipotecario: Hipoteca por la suma de $48,700.00, representado por un pagaré a favor de RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, o a su orden, con interés al 8 1/2%, vencedero el día 1 de diciembre de 2014, según consta de la escritura #976, otorgada en Carolina, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Angel H. Colón Vázquez, inscrito al folio #233, del tomo 416 de Carolina Sur, inscripción cuarta, finca número 16,622. La parte demandante solicita del Honorable Tribunal que declare Con Lugar la demanda y en su consecuencia ordene al Secretario del Tribunal que expida Mandamiento al Registrador de la Propiedad correspondiente, para que dicho funcionario proceda a cancelar en los libros a su cargo la referida hipoteca dejando la propiedad aquí descrita libre de dicho gravamen hipotecario. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la deman-
da, 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, según enmendada, conocida como 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 que el Tribunal estará citando para la vista de Ratificación de Custodia, según dispone el Articulo 34 de la Ley Núm. 57 2023 y se exige su comparecencia. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Copia de dicha contestación debe remitirse al abogado del demandante, Lcdo. Alejandro J. Cacho Rodríguez, 54 Calle Resoluciόn, Suite 303 San Juan, PR 00920 Tel: (787) 722-2242; Fax: (787) 722-2243, cacho@cacholaw.com dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la fecha de publicación de este Edicto. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de septiembre de 2025. Lic. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYAMA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A RIVERA RUIZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GM2025CV00469. 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: MIGUEL A RIVERA RUIZ - URB HACIENDA LOS RECREOS H 11 CALLE 1, GUAYAMA PR 00784; URB BDA BLONDET 127 CALLE F, GUAYAMA PR 00784-6812. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y
Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en GUAYAMA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de agosto de 2025. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA. CARMEN J. VEGA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE JUANA DÍAZ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. CARLOS L TORRES TORRES
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: VI2025CV00040. 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: CARLOS L TORRES TORRES - 106 W MAIN ST, HONEOYE FALLS, NY 14472-1104.
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 re-
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beldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel. ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Orocovis, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de agosto de 2025. MAYRA LIZ CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. BRENDA LEE DÁVILA BURGOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. MIGUEL A GARCIA MONTANEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2025CV01300. 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: MIGUEL A GARCIA MONTANEZ - URB MANS DEL SUR 63 CALLE VIGIA, COTO LAUREL PR 00780-2086; CERRILLO HOYOS SECT MAMEYES CARR 14, COTO LAUREL PR 00780.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San
Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en PONCE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 6 de agosto de 2025. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. GERARDO RIVAS CANCEL Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CB2025CV00129. 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: GERARDO RIVAS CANCELCARR 308 KM 5.8, CABO ROJO PR 00623; PO BOX 608, CABO ROJO PR 00623-0608. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CABO ROJO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 5 de agosto de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
Sudoku
How to Play:
Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.
Sudoku Rules:
Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
Crossword
The Javier
Báez experience has been excruciating & exciting, just like the Tigers’ season
By CODY STAVENHAGEN / THE ATHLETIC
They smiled and they sighed, they danced and they hugged. They freed themselves of the tension and celebrated this ridiculous ride.
Somewhere in the middle of all that, as Javier Báez slapped the backs of his Detroit Tigers teammates and manager A.J. Hinch grabbed the brim of his cap and exhaled, Báez yelled: “I’m going back to the playoffs!”
For four years, Tigers fans have groaned at the flailing swings and shaken their heads at the ceaseless chases. They have lived with the good and bartered with the bad, cursed the contract and hollered for the highlights. The Javier Báez experience has been excruciating and exciting, strange and stupendous. You could say the same about the entire 2025 Detroit Tigers season.
In a year of ups and downs, twists and turns, no player had personified the madness quite like the $140 million shortstop who spent time as a center fielder, a bench player and — in the most important weekend of the Tigers’ season — a hero.
“He lives for these moments,” Hinch said after the Tigers clinched their playoff berth Saturday with a road win over the Boston Red Sox. “He loves these environments that are a little bit rowdy.”
How important is Báez to the Tigers?
In the 74 victories he has been a part of, Báez has hit .295 with an .810 on-base plus slugging percentage.
In 51 losses, his average is .192, and his OPS is .461.
When Báez staged a remarkable and redemptive first half, the Tigers were the best team in baseball. When his performance waned, his team staged a historic collapse and blew a 14-game lead in the American League Central.
But with the Tigers fighting for their playoff lives at Fenway Park, there was the best version of Báez, diving in the grass, sliding in the dirt, slapping a hit to the opposite field and helping the Tigers keep this oblong odyssey going a little bit longer. They captured the AL’s final wild-card spot and are facing the Cleveland Guardians, the team that overtook them in the AL Central, in the playoffs.
In the clubhouse Saturday as his team celebrated, Báez stood near a back wall, goggles atop his head, shirt soaked with Champagne. He had hip surgery and missed the Tigers’ run to the playoffs last year. He was in Florida doing rehab when his teammates partied. It was tough for him to see the Tigers winning without him.
Now on the penultimate night of the 2025 season, here Báez was, right back in the middle of it all.
“It really means a lot to me,” he said.
After his surgery last year, there was a time when it felt like no guarantee that the Tigers would bring Báez back. Although he was due $73 million over the next three years, his Tigers tenure had mostly been a grisly mess. He hit only .184 last season.
So, Hinch told Báez in spring training, if he wanted to contribute in 2025, the role might look a little different. The Tigers were constructed largely with a revolving door of parts, priding themselves on utility and matchups. Báez was their highest-paid player, but now he was being asked to take on a versatile role like nearly everyone else.
Javier Báez with the Detroit Tigers in 2023. When Báez staged a remarkable and redemptive first half this season, the Tigers were the best team in baseball. (Wikipedia)
Báez’s response was straightforward. “If I stay healthy, I’ll do whatever, man,” he told reporters. “I can even catch, if you need me.”
When injuries hit the Tigers in spring training and early in the season, Báez embraced the idea of playing center field. It was something he had always dreamed of doing. He held down the position at a high level, worth plus-2 defensive runs saved in 53 games.
Báez was invigorated by the challenge, and his long-dormant bat also awakened. His batting average peaked in May at .319. The boos that fans had long poured on him turned to cheers. His jerseys again flew off the hangers. Báez is still the Tigers’ most visible brand, their most famous player. He started the All-Star Game in center field.
The second half of the season was a more trying journey. Báez played some outfield, some third base and even made nine appearances at his old home of second. He returned to shortstop as the Tigers got players such as Parker Meadows back healthy. But then Báez’s bat fell off the cliff. His chase rate rose to its old levels.
Báez walked only one time in his final 197 plate appearances of the season. In the past month, he battled an illness, fouled a ball off his face and dealt with a nasty black eye. He watched as the at-bats shifted toward Trey Sweeney, and he was recently scratched from a game with neck soreness.
But Báez was back in the lineup four days in a row to end the season. He singled twice last Thursday against the Guardians and drove in a
run. He did the same thing Friday in Boston, working counts and taking pitches to the opposite field. On Sunday, he hit his first home run since Aug. 2, a three-run blast that accounted for all of Detroit’s runs in the 4-3 loss.
Báez’s time with Detroit has been plenty frustrating, but he has never been accused of not caring. The Tigers signed him nearly four years ago, hoping he could be the piece that helped end their rebuild. He came to Detroit wanting to be part of an organization’s rise.
Detroit’s final month — a stretch that featured 21 losses in 29 games — has been frustrating and agonizing for everyone involved. “It’s been hard. It’s been taxing,” Hinch said.
For all his faults, Báez has been through baseball’s wringer and knows what it takes to play and win.
“In the beginning of the season, we were taking off,” Báez said. “But we didn’t lock in with what we were doing.”
He continued: “Everything has to click. The hitting, the pitching, the defense, the base running, the mental game. I think we got away, a little bit, from that.”
But with their division lead erased and their playoff lives at stake, the Tigers won two of three, just enough to survive, just enough to get in a postseason tournament that is always filled with surprises and magic.
It took four seasons, one surgery, countless strikeouts and dozens of mesmerizing plays. Now Báez is finally headed to the playoffs as a Tiger, on the back of a journey all too fitting for his career and for this team.
“As everybody knows, we did something really crazy in the first half,” Báez said. “If we get that click to play together and play good, there’s no chance to beat us.”
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