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Meanwhile, another former governor is blamed for PR bankruptcy
By THE STAR STAFF
Popular Democratic Party (PDP) Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago charged on Tuesday that the New Progressive Party (NPP) majority once again protected the interests of former Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced by defeating the request to address Senate Bill 752, a measure that seeks to limit the use of bodyguards for convicted former officials.
“Today, the NPP majority in the House had the opportunity to do the right thing and once again decided to look the other way,” said the PDP minority leader in the lower chamber of the island Legislature. “Why are they protecting Wanda Vázquez so much? What does she know about them that they have already refused to address this issue three times?”
Ferrer Santiago emphasized that the measure, approved unanimously in the island Senate, aims to prevent people such as Vázquez Garced, who is to face sentencing after pleading guilty to accepting campaign funds from a foreign donor, from continuing to receive bodyguard services paid for with public funds.
“There is no justification for the people of Puerto Rico to continue paying for bodyguards for a former official convicted of corruption,” he said. “Even less so when we are experiencing a security crisis that affects every corner of the island. Just today, the sixth massacre of the year was reported, while the government insists on assigning agents to protect a person who has already been found guilty in federal court.”
Authorities on Tuesday morning were investigating a multiple homicide involving three victims in front of the Nueva Cosecha Church on Monserrate Avenue in Carolina.
Ferrer Santiago called on the NPP majority to reconsider their position and allow the measure to be discussed in the full House with the transparency and urgency the issue deserves.
“The country’s security must be the priority, not the privileges of those close to the NPP,” he said. “The people are tired of the political misuse of public resources.”
Vázquez Garced wasn’t the only former Puerto Rico governor to come under rhetorical fire from the political opposition on Tuesday.
NPP Sen. Gregorio Matías Rosario supported Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s recent statements in which she identified former Gov. Alejandro García Padilla as one of the main culprits behind Puerto Rico’s fiscal collapse, stating that the economic crisis the island faced was a direct result
of his lack of leadership, improvisation and poor decisions.
“Governor Jenniffer González is absolutely right. Alejandro García Padilla was the governor who led Puerto Rico to bankruptcy,” Matías Rosario said. “His administration was the one that defaulted on the debt, caused the collapse of public credit, and plunged the country into the worst fiscal crisis in its history.”
“The governor must also emphasize that Alejandro García Padilla signed the disastrous Law 3 of 2013, which eliminated the health insurance plan and cut police pensions by more than half …,” the senator added “They now have to wait until they are 55 years old, whereas before they were 49 years old with 30 years of service, and with a pension of less than 23%. Regular government employees are now forced to work until they are 65 years old, with a pittance of 21 and 22%.”
Matías Rosario went on to contend that under García Padilla’s administration, from 2013 to 2017, more than 95 taxes were approved, debt payments were defaulted upon, the sales and use tax was raised to 11.5%, and bond issues were issued with interest rates of over 10%, opening the door to vulture bonds. This in turn, the senator said, closed Puerto Rico’s access to financial markets and led to the imposition of the Financial Oversight and Management Board.
García Padilla was the island’s most recent PDPgovernor, with NPP candidates for La Fortaleza winning the past three elections.
“It was a four-year period of bad decision after bad decision,” Matías Rosario said. “He brazenly proclaimed that he had ‘fixed the finances,’ but what he did was demonstrate our colonial reality, where unelected individuals have the final say on the daily decisions of our government. Instead of addressing the problems and presenting solutions, García Padilla abandoned his constitutional responsibility and handed Puerto Rico’s future over to a board imposed by Congress. That is the reality that the Popular Party refuses to accept.”
Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago
Czech Republic advocates for Puerto Rican woman who participated in humanitarian mission to Gaza
By THE STAR STAFF
Mothers Against War spokesperson Sonia Santiago said earlier this week that the Czech Republic requested the return of Puerto Rican citizen Zuleyka Morales Rivera, who was detained by the Israeli government on the Sumud Global Flotilla, which sought to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
“Every nation has demanded the return of its kidnapped citizens, except the United States,” Santiago said in a written statement issued on Monday night. “Puerto Rico owes the Czech Republic for this great humanitarian act that saved the life of a Puerto Rican solidarity mission.”
“Zuleyka was handed over by Israel in prison clothes, barefoot, and with only her passport. In prison, she witnessed
the torture of a Palestinian child,” Santiago said. “She was also subjected to cruel and inhuman treatment: she was kept naked outdoors for 23 hours, kneeling on stones, and denied food, water, and sleep.”
Santiago announced that Mothers Against War would hold a protest today.
“This Wednesday, October 8th, at 10 a.m., we will personally demand that Puerto Rico’s Secretary of State Rosachely Rivera Santana and Governor Jenniffer González publicly denounce the human rights violations committed by Israel and ensure the safety and security of Zuleyka Morales Rivera until she reaches Puerto Rican soil,” she stated.
Santiago added that federal officials have warned that they could strip the U.S. citizenship of those who participated in the humanitarian mission for alleged terrorism.
PREB says it was not allowed to explain rate hike in public hearing
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) Associate Commissioner Antonio Torres Miranda stated on Tuesday that the commissioners arrived prepared for the public hearing convened by the House Government Committee, but they were not allowed to present their information or explain the reasons behind the electricity rate increase.
Torres Miranda insisted that the PREB was ready to answer any questions regarding the rate increases, pensions and provisional adjustments. However, he noted that the process could not proceed due to the absence of PREB President Edison Avilés, who is currently on vacation abroad.
“It’s unfortunate that we cannot provide the public with an explanation because we are unable to go to the media,” Torres Miranda said in a press statement. “This was our chance to clarify why the increases occur and what actions we are taking.”
“Under oath, we have confirmed that Edison Avilés had scheduled this vacation before the subpoena was issued. The subpoena arrived on a Thursday, and [otherwise] he could have been here on Tuesday. He left everything prepared for us,” he added. “We haven’t slept at all preparing for the hearing, yet
we weren’t even given the chance to express ourselves.”
Torres Miranda said the hearing would have allowed the PREB commissioners to explain that the regulatory entity identified $68 million that could potentially be returned to consumers in the coming months. That includes $41 million from the federal Energy Department and an additional $27 million due to breaches of natural gas supply contracts.
“We are continuously seeking ways to return money to the public,” he said. “We do not want any additional increases. The commissioners are Puerto Ricans, and we face the same difficulties as the people.”
Torres Miranda also clarified that the increase approved by the PREB is a result of rising fuel costs and disruptions in the natural gas supply, including issues related to the ongoing lawsuit concerning New Fortress Energy barges.
“As long as this lawsuit is pending, we will continue to burn diesel, which contributes to the rate increase,” he noted. “We estimate that approximately 27 million euros could be returned if the supplier defaults. That money will be deferred until November 1st.”
The Government Committee, chaired by Rep. Víctor Parés Otero, had summoned the PREB chairman and the four com-
missioners to explain the increase of some 16.25 euros in the electricity rate. Parés Otero had warned that the legislative body would review the minutes and decisions that led to the adjustment.
The PREB reiterated in its written statement that the rate adjustment is primarily due to the rising costs of fuel and energy purchases and that it is evaluating additional adjustments for customers as soon as the federal funds and identified refunds are confirmed.
Puerto Rico Energy Bureau Associate Commissioner Antonio Torres Miranda said: “This was our chance to clarify why the [electricity rate] increases occur and what actions we are taking.”
Canóvanas to host Paralympic development event
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Paralympic Committee, in collaboration with the Municipality of Canóvanas, the Department of Education, and the Department of Recreation and Sports, announced on Tuesday the initiative “4 in 1 to Boost the Future of the Paralympics in Puerto Rico,” to be held starting Thursday in different venues throughout Canóvanas. The event will integrate, for the first time, educational, cultur-
al, sports and recreational components under a single purpose: to strengthen the development of the Paralympic movement on the island and promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities through sports.
“In Canóvanas, we firmly believe in the transformative power of sport and in the importance of opening spaces where everyone can participate, without limitations,” Mayor Lornna Soto Villanueva said. “We are proud to host this great celebration of inclusion, talent, and hope.”
As part of the initiative, the First Puerto Rico Paralympic Congress will be held, an innovative training program for physical education and adaptive physical education teachers. During the event, participants will receive high-level training from international professionals and Puerto Rican experts, who will share knowledge on inclusion, adaptive sports methodology, and specialized physical education. The congress will also bring together sports directors from neighboring municipalities, strengthening regional collaboration in support of inclusive sports.
Zuleyka Morales Rivera (Facebook via María de Lourdes Santiago)
Senate leader vows prompt alternative to inventory tax
By THE STAR STAFF
After the island Senate approved House Bill 420, which freezes the Inventory Tax, Sen. Thomas Rivera Schatz, the president of the upper chamber, emphasized on Tuesday that the Legislative Assembly will ensure that municipal governments have a solution.
“The Inventory Tax freeze is a commitment the New Progressive Party made in its government platform, and we have now enacted that commitment for five years through the legislation passed in the House and Senate yesterday,” Rivera Schatz said. “The law sets deadlines for presenting alternatives to replace this revenue for municipal governments. We are fulfilling our programmatic pledge while also applying necessary pressure to actively seek a solution before the five-year freeze expires. The Legislative Assembly will not leave municipal governments without a remedy. Our history and record prove this -- we have always supported municipal governments. However, we cannot simply freeze this issue for five years and wait to see what happens afterward. We are taking this matter seriously. Our goal is to establish a schedule for addressing what needs
to be done to effectively find a substitute for the Inventory Tax.” The inventory tax is imposed on businesses based on the value of their inventories, which includes finished goods (ready for sale), partially assembled products (work-in-process), and raw materials. The tax serves as a funding source for financially struggling municipalities, but the business sector is advocating for its elimination.
Bayamón Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera Cruz stated that, for now, municipalities are not facing any immediate issues, as there is a commitment to finding a way to replace the revenue that local councils would lose.
“At this moment, there is no impact on the municipalities because, by freezing the tax, they will continue to receive the same amount as before the freeze. So, there is no problem,” he said. “This is a campaign commitment and a promise to the community that we intend to keep. We hope that the final solution will not negatively affect the municipalities. However, as the Senate president mentioned, we understand that efforts will be made to recover that lost revenue at some point. We have five years to work on this issue, and we must honor our commitments.”
Section of Loiza Street named after famed fashion designer Alfaro
By THE STAR STAFF
The distinguished figure of Carlota Alfaro, a vibrant 92-year-old, stands as an enduring icon of Puerto Rican fashion. Her legacy has recently been solidified with the honorary naming of a section of Loíza Street in the heart of Santurce, a tribute that underscores her immense impact on the fashion landscape of the island.
The newly designated stretch, extending from the bustling intersection of Loíza Street and José de Diego Avenue to the junction with Jefferson Street, will now be known as the “Carlota Alfaro Section.” The recognition is not merely ceremonial; it represents a lasting homage to a woman whose work has intricately woven itself into the fabric of Puerto Rican culture.
San Juan Moda, a platform dedicated to elevating and celebrating the history, talent and excellence of Puerto Rican fashion for over a decade, staged the recent unveiling of the “Carlota Alfaro Section.”
“Carlota Alfaro embodies the very essence and elegance of our industry,” stated Carlos Bermúdez, president of San Juan Moda. “Her legacy isn’t confined to her own accomplishments; it flows through generations, igniting inspiration in every designer, model and fashion enthusiast. Witnessing her name adorn the street where she has shaped countless lives is a moment filled with joy, gratitude, and pride. That she is able to witness this honor in her lifetime is truly a cause for celebration.”
The recognition not only serves as a tribute to a remarkable
teacher, Bermúdez noted, but also represents an act of cultural justice for a woman who has committed her life to enhancing the beauty of Puerto Rico through her artistic vision and relentless discipline. Thus, the Carlota Alfaro Section stands as a permanent testament to the talent, perseverance and creative spirit that characterize Puerto Rican fashion.
The initiative to honor Alfaro was initiated by former Sen. Zoé Laboy Alvarado in Senate Bill 856, which was passed to recognize her significant contributions to the fashion industry in Puerto Rico. The measure was formalized as Law No. 23 on May 15, 2019, and it wasn’t until 2025 that Transportation and Public Works Secretary Edwin González Montalvo saw to the official placement of the sign that immortalizes Alfaro’s name.
“Carlota Alfaro has served as a beacon of fashion education along Loíza Street for over five decades. Throughout this time, she has remained a passionate and devoted merchant in the area, weathering numerous social and economic transformations,” states the measure that led to the designation. “Through her educational institution, she has made a profound and sustained contribution to the economic vitality of this street, not only infusing it with financial value but also revitalizing it with the vibrancy of hundreds of students, enriching the urban landscape with her creativity.”
Born on June 4, 1933, in San Juan, Alfaro discovered her passion for sewing at a young age, launching her first workshop at just 17 on Parque Street in Santurce. In the early 1960s, she established the Carlota Alfaro College on Loíza Street, where she developed and continues to teach her revolutionary Carlota
Alfaro System -- an innovative sewing method that remains distinct and influential.
Throughout her illustrious career, Alfaro has garnered numerous accolades, including recognition at the Dorothy Gray Annual Fashion Competition, winning four out of five awards at the celebrated “Destellos de la Moda” fashion show in 1970, and receiving the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in 1988, presented by then-first lady Nancy Reagan. Today, at the age of 92, Alfaro’s contributions to the world of fashion continue to thrive, making significant impacts on the Puerto Rican economy.
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Carlota Alfaro is seen with her winning costume from the Project Barbie Fashion Design Competition 2009. (Wikipedia)
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Mass layoffs Trump is threatening in shutdown fight may be illegal
By TONY ROMM
Throughout the government shutdown,
President Donald Trump and his top aides have repeatedly threatened to conduct another round of mass federal layoffs, insisting at times that they may have to shed workers to keep essential services from closing down.
But the firings now under consideration may be unlawful or unnecessary, according to a wide range of budget experts, legal scholars and union officials. They say that the White House is only looking to exploit the fiscal stalemate to further its political agenda, shrink the government and punish Democrats.
At the heart of the matter is a familiar question in Trump’s second term: To what extent may he reconfigure the sprawling federal bureaucracy without a clear directive from Congress?
Trump has already dismissed thousands of civil servants as part of this disruptive reorganization, spurring a wide range of legal challenges from workers who say the president’s actions exceed his authority under law.
Now, Trump has eyed even deeper cuts during the shutdown, a fiscal crisis in which millions of government employees are already on furlough or forced to report for duty without pay. The White House has claimed that the firings would be both necessary and warranted, and that the lapse in funding allows the president to target programs that no longer have money to operate.
“If this keeps going on, it’ll be substantial. And a lot of those jobs will never come back,” Trump said Tuesday, as he appeared to threaten for the first time that those who keep their jobs — but have been furloughed — may not receive back pay.
Unions representing federal workers contend that many of Trump’s threats are illegal. They preemptively sued the administration over its pursuit of mass layoffs last week, arguing that the White House could not legally carry out the dismissals at a moment when the government is only supposed to operate essential services.
“It’s clearly unlawful,” said Rushab Sanghvi, the general counsel of the American Federation of Government Employees, one of the unions that have sued. Sanghvi said he could not think of any other time when a president had pursued layoffs during a shutdown, or tried to justify deep cuts based on a temporary funding lapse.
Budget experts said that the White House had incorrectly presented layoffs as a fiscal necessity, something no other president in the modern era has done. Not even during the longest federal stoppage on record — a five-week closure in
with a law that Trump had signed in 2019, aiming to spare civil servants from experiencing undue hardships during periods of partisan gridlock.
“I would say it depends on who you’re talking about,” Trump said Tuesday when asked about the threat. He later described the opportunity to cut government as one “handed to us on a silver platter.”
The White House first telegraphed its pursuit of mass federal layoffs in late September, days before federal funding officially lapsed. In a memo, the White House budget office, which is led by Russell Vought, told agencies to use the closure as an “opportunity to consider reduction in force” notices, a reference to the formal process by which the government lays off its employees.
required to be carried out.”
The White House memo spurred an immediate outcry from unions representing federal workers, who have fought Trump in court over his many attempts to fire civil servants in droves. This time, the unions rebuffed what they saw as a campaign to use federal workers as a bargaining chip that would force Democrats to the negotiating table.
In their lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California, labor officials said the Trump administration had taken the “legally unsupported position” that a shutdown allows it to terminate staff simply because Congress has not yet appropriated money yet for their agencies.
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Trump’s first term — did the government shed workers so that it could finance the few operations that are allowed to continue.
“They don’t have to lay them off to do that,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the president of the American Action Forum, a conservative group.
The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment, nor have officials in recent days explained why they need to cut workers or what programs would be sustained by mass firings.
The looming threats to the federal workforce fit an emerging pattern under Trump, who has sought to use the government shutdown to pressure or punish his political foes.
Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly rejected Republicans’ demands for a short-term spending deal, as they seek an extension of a set of expiring subsidies that help Americans pay for health insurance, which could total $350 billion. That has enraged Trump, who has responded with a series of punitive measures.
Seven days into the closure, the Trump administration has moved to strip billions of dollars from Democratic-led cities and states, while the president has delighted publicly at times in the “unprecedented opportunity” to cut what he has described as “Democrat agencies.”
The White House also signaled this week that it could also try to deny automatic back pay to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are currently furloughed. Such a move, communicated in a draft memo, appeared in conflict
The White House instructed agencies to focus any proposed staff cuts on positions for which appropriations had run out of money or had no alternative funding source, and had been deemed to be “not consistent” with the president’s political agenda. By the Trump administration’s legal reasoning, these programs without funding during a shutdown are “no longer statutorily
Union leaders also took particular exception to a little-noticed decision by the White House that allowed officials who are plotting the layoffs to continue working through the shutdown, even while most other government programs are halted. Typically, it is only the most vital employees — like air baggage inspectors and federal prison officers — who are treated as exempt from a government closure.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025, after delivering remarks for the Navy’s 250th anniversary in Norfolk, Va. President Trump has already dismissed thousands of civil servants during the eight months that he has held office.
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National Guard troops assemble in Chicago area as Trump officials make visits
By ANNA GRIFFIN, MITCH SMITH, ROBERT CHIARITO and GLENN THRUSH
Troops from Texas assembled in the Chicago outskirts Tuesday, an extraordinary symbol of what local officials have decried as an unconstitutional “invasion” ordered by President Donald Trump, as the homeland security secretary was visiting Portland, Oregon, to show support for a similar incursion there.
Illinois and Chicago officials have contested the president’s deployment orders in court, denouncing the step of moving National Guard forces across state lines without consent from local or state authorities. Trump has also tried to send troops from Texas and California to Portland, but a federal judge has blocked those moves for now, saying they appear unconstitutional.
The president contends that major U.S. cities, almost entirely those led by Democrats, need the military to crack down on crime — something troops are generally barred from doing under federal law — and to protect federal immigration agents from protesters as they try to carry out his mass deportation policies.
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic leaders have accused the president of conducting a campaign divorced from reality in an effort to punish political enemies, sow chaos and consolidate his power under martial law. On Tuesday, troops from the Texas National Guard were assembling at a training center in Elwood, about an hour’s drive from downtown Chicago. Here’s what else is happening:
— Administration officials: Attorney General Pam Bondi said during congressional testimony that Kash Patel, the FBI
An armored vehicle carrying members of a Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Response Team pulls up by a crowd of protesters outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, Ill., on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said earlier this week that the state would use every lever at its disposal to fight the Trump administration’s deployment of Texas National Guard troops to the Chicago area, which he labeled an “unconstitutional invasion of Illinois” by the federal government. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
director, and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, were “on their way to Chicago” along with the troops from Texas. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, was visiting an immigration enforcement facility in Portland. Local and state officials have suggested that the visits are designed to stir further outrage.
— Twin court hearings: Federal courts in two states will hold simultaneous hearings on the National Guard mobilizations Thursday morning. The Trump administration has appealed a federal judge’s decision in Oregon to temporarily block troops from deploying there. A federal judge in Illinois declined to issue a similar block Monday, scheduling a hearing on an emergency request from Illinois officials for Thursday.
— Approval and resistance: State leaders sparred over the president’s authority to send National Guard troops across borders. Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican, defended the action, saying in an interview on Fox News that Democratic-led states “are refusing to enforce the law, and we have chaos.” Pritzker, a Democrat, has called the mobilization a blatant attempt by Trump to assert unconstitutional powers.
— City leaders weigh in: A coalition of cities from across the country filed a legal brief late Monday supporting Oregon’s attempt to block National Guard soldiers from deploying in Portland. The brief also claimed that Trump plans to send troops to 19 more states. City leaders said they were “gravely concerned that any protest — real or perceived — within their borders will result in another unnecessary deployment of the military.”
Neighbors warn neighbors as fear of ICE ripples across Chicago
By JULIE BOSMAN
The signs in Spanish are taped to windows in storefronts all over Chicago: “ICE NO ES BIENVENIDO AQUÍ.”
Warning networks have been operating all day, every day, as people who spot agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the streets text friends and neighbors or begin streaming urgent cautions on Facebook Live.
Even tourists have been drawn into the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, startled by the sight of federal agents marching in camouflage last weekend through the city’s upscale Gold Coast, near the famed Magnificent Mile.
What began quietly in Chicago one month ago as a promise by the Trump administration to increase arrests of immigrants without legal status is now being felt all over this city of 2.7 mil-
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lion people and in the broader metropolitan area encompassing millions more.
Tensions are flaring up like small, intense wildfires. At elementary schools on the West Side, parents have organized to stand guard at dismissal time. Some construction businesses are keeping their warehouse doors open to keep an eye out for ICE agents. Owners of small businesses are doing their own deliveries, to protect their Latino employees from driving through the city streets.
In Edgewater, on the Far North Side along Lake Michigan, a neighborhood Listserv lit up with worries Sunday over a helicopter circling the area. Could it be ICE, one person asked. Is there anything we can do, asked another.
Neighbors came out onto the streets of the Southwest Side on Saturday after a car crash involving federal agents and two motorists, who the Department of Homeland Security said were pursuing the agents recklessly. ICE agents responded with pepper balls and tear gas; the crowd, shouting and waving anti-ICE signs, remained until the federal agents finally left.
Restaurants have cut back hours or stopped making deliveries altogether, unwilling to risk the arrest of their employees.
“We can’t ask anyone to risk their safety just to serve bagels,” one restaurant, Bagel Miller, explained in a Facebook post explaining its closure last weekend.
Berto Aguayo, a lawyer and advocate for immigrants, described a month of rising tensions, political organizing and outright fear, as President Donald Trump’s dragnet ensnared U.S.
People from the community and activists link arms in protest after reports that a woman was shot amid increased ICE activity in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago, Oct. 4, 2025. Neighbors warn neighbors as fear of ICE ripples across Chicago; parents are standing guard at schools, and restaurants have stopped delivering food or simply closed. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times).
citizens alongside immigrants.
“Our family gatherings are filled with crying and trying to figure out how we get past this moment,” Aguayo said. “People are being terrorized. People are being attacked. That’s what it feels like.”
When he visits his mother’s home in Back of the Yards, a neighborhood on the Southwest Side, he said, he sees far fewer people walking around than usual. “Every single person who looks brown is scared,” he said.
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There’s a path out of this divide
By DAVID FRENCH
On Sept. 28, we watched yet another sequel to the American horror show.
An evil man rammed his truck into a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan, opened fire on the people inside and lit the church on fire. By the time the embers cooled and the bodies were counted, we learned that four people were killed and eight were injured — another terrible day in a series of terrible days in a nation that can feel as if it’s coming apart. We also knew what would happen next. Before there was a chance to mourn the dead, partisans online worked to find out the identity of the gunman and his ideology. After all, the combatants in the culture war have a voracious need for political ammunition. It’s important to constantly prove that “they” are evil, and “they” want you dead.
There was even an insidious new twist in the post-shooting debate. A number of Christian fundamentalists online chose that day of grief — the same day that many Mormons learned that the president of the church, Russell Nelson, had died — to proclaim that the Mormon Church, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wasn’t truly Christian. Welcome to America in the year 2025, where every evil act is an opportunity to score political points, and all too many Christians demonstrate profound cruelty in Jesus’ name. But then, something remarkable happened — something entirely unexpected.
A member of the LDS Church, Dave Butler, started an online fundraising campaign … for the family of the shooter. He was killed at the scene and had left behind a wife and young child.
As Sonia Rao, my newsroom colleague reported, the money rolled in. It took only two hours to raise $7,000. By the 12hour mark, the total reached $100,000. By Friday, more than $300,000 had been raised, much of it donated by Latter-day Saints.
The messages attached to the gifts were extraordinary. One donor wrote: “We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are Christians. As Christians and followers of Christ, we ‘mourn with those that mourn, comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and stand as witnesses of God.’ We’re praying for you and your family.”
Another person wrote: “We are heartbroken as we think of what you are going through. You are loved and precious, just as much as any other family. We hope that you will have everything you need, both now and in the years to come.”
It would be understandable for members of the church to look at the suspect’s wife with suspicion, to wait for more facts before they showered the suspect’s family with love and support. After all, it’s only human to ask questions. Did she know anything? Could she have stopped him?
But no. In true imitation of Christ, who — according to Christian theology — died for us while we were still sinners, Latter-day Saints did not wait to pour out their love. They just gave it, unconditionally, to a family they did not know.
We are too divided. We can’t compromise. But hope isn’t a plan — it’s something else, something far more powerful.
When I speak to audiences that are in despair, I like to close with one of my favorite quotes in all of literature. It comes from J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Return of the King,” the final volume of his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
Sam and Frodo are alone in Mordor, the land of Sauron. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is failing. Surrounded by evil, isolated in deep darkness, all hope seems to be slipping away. But then Sam looks up in the sky.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains,” Tolkien wrote, “Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.”
There is profound truth in those words. It reflects the fundamental nature of hope. It’s rooted in eternal truth — as the Book of John says, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” — but it’s also unexpected. It can arise in the most unlikely of circumstances in the most terrible of times.
America has witnessed two remarkable acts of forgiveness in the past month. Erika Kirk forgave the man who killed her husband. Latter-day Saints loved the family of the man who massacred their brothers and sisters. A nation that produces such acts of such love is a nation that still has life. It’s a nation that still has hope.
On Tuesday, Kelsey Piper, a staff writer at The Argument, responded to the Latter-day Saints church’s act of love with a beautiful and true statement. “If America is going to make it,” Piper wrote, “it will be because people choose forgiving things they should never have had to forgive over hurting people they have every right to be angry with.”
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If you combine those who were concerned about polarization with those who said their main concern was the state of American democracy, then worries about the state of our political union become the top concern of American voters.
I see this in real life. When I speak on college campuses or in churches, or when I simply talk politics with friends, I constantly hear different variations of the same questions: Can we get through this? What’s the plan? And perhaps the most poignant question of all — is there hope?
There are, in fact, plans — lots of plans — to restore our nation’s unity and purpose. Whether it’s restoring our country’s capacity to build big things, or amending the Constitution to rein in imperial presidents, or simply doing something about those infernal phones that cause so many children (and adults) to isolate themselves in anxiety and depression, many of our nation’s best and brightest minds are brimming with good ideas.
When I share my own ideas, I get the same response time and again: We can’t do it. People hate each other too much.
That is the essence of grace. Eight days ago, the shadow came for the men, women and children of a church in Michigan. But there is still light and high beauty, and last week the light that flooded America came from people of faith who were determined to demonstrate the character of the Savior they love.
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Cámara de Representantes anuncia feria de salud y bienestar para las familias de Comerío y pueblos de la montaña
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COMERÍO – Comprometido con la salud, el bienestar y la calidad de vida de la ciudadanía de los pueblos de la montaña, el representante del Distrito 28 — que incluye los municipios de Naranjito, Corozal, Barranquitas y Comerío — Axel “Chino” Roque Gracia, anunció la celebración de la Feria de Servicios del Gobierno, que se llevará a cabo hoy miércoles, 8 de octubre de 2025.
La actividad, busca continuar acercando los servicios esenciales a la comunidades. Esta feria tendrá lugar en la Plaza Pública de Comerío, de 9:00 a.m. a 1:00 p.m., donde las familias pueden tener acceso de manera directa a servicios de las principales agencias estatales, municipales y entidades privadas.
Participarán los departamentos de Salud, Familia (ADFAN, ADSEF y ACUDEN) y Agricultura, junto a sus dependencias. También estarán presentes el Programa
WIC, la Oficina de la Procuradora de las Mujeres, la Procuraduría de las Personas de Edad Avanzada, Casa Juana Colón, LUMA Energy, la Legislatura Municipal de Comerío y la Asociación Pro Bienestar de la Familia Comerieña. Igualmente, las organizaciones Salud Integral de la Montaña (SIM) y Acción Social ofrecerán orientación y servicios a los asistentes.
“Esta feria es una oportunidad para que nuestra gen-
Frustran escalamiento en escuela de Las Piedras
LASPIEDRAS – Un individuo fue sorprendido por las autoridades mientras intentaba cometer un escalamiento en la Escuela Leoncio Meléndez, en el municipio de Las Piedras, luego de ser detectado por los sistemas de vigilancia electrónica instalados en el plantel. Como parte del protocolo establecido, se activó de inmediato la Policía de Puerto Rico y el personal de supervisión de la compañía Genesis Security, logrando
frustrar el incidente y recuperar el equipo sustraído.
Según se informó, durante los pasados meses se han documentado múltiples instancias en las cuales la tecnología, combinada con una respuesta rápida y coordinada, ha permitido proteger la propiedad pública y el equipo escolar, contribuyendo así a la seguridad de las comunidades educativas.
Genesis Security reiteró su llamado a la ciudadanía a colaborar en la protección de los planteles. En caso de identificar movimientos sospechosos en las escue-
te del centro de la isla tenga acceso fácil y cercano a los servicios que necesita. Queremos que cada familia se sienta respaldada, escuchada y atendida. Agradezco a la Administración Municipal de Comerío, entidades gubernamentales, y la empresa privada por unirse a este esfuerzo para llevar soluciones concretas a nuestros constituyentes. Nuestra invitación a que se den cita para aprovechar este espacio y tengan la oportunidad de realizar sus consultas, solicitudes y reclamaciones de manera directa con las agencias presentes”, manifestó el representante Roque Gracia.
Para más información, el legislador exhortó a la ciudadanía a comunicarse a través de sus redes sociales oficiales o llamando al 787-721-6030.
“Mi compromiso es trabajar cada día por nuestra gente, acercando los servicios a sus manos y asegurando que cada familia de nuestros pueblos de la montaña cuenten con las herramientas y el apoyo que merecen”, concluyó el legislador.
las, pueden comunicarse con el Centro de Monitoreo al 787-776-2410.
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Can sweet songs prevail over bloody ones? Mexico is giving it a try.
By JAMES WAGNER
One winner sang a ballad fusing mariachi and hip-hop. Another belted out a song she wrote about a missed opportunity with a crush. A third wooed voters with a booming ode to Mexico.
Their stage looked much like a knockoff of Eurovision, “American Idol” or “The Voice.” Except the organizers weren’t a television network or production company, but the Mexican government.
The national music contest, the first-of-its-kind “Mexico Sings,” ended Sunday night as the crowning event of an unusual, monthslong government campaign involving more than 15,000 contestants. The goal? To move popular Mexican music away from drug cartel culture and toward more wholesome lyrics.
“Here begins the new generation of Mexican artists who show that Mexico does not need to promote crime and violence, but that with love we can sing for hope and for the Mexico we all want to build,” Sergio Maya, 21, the singer who won best performer, said at a news conference Sunday night.
He and his supporters face steep challenges in reaching that goal.
Sergio Maya, who won best performer, center, and the other contest winners, Carmen María González, right, and Galia Siurob, second from right, during the final of “México Canta” (“México Sings”), a government-run music contest at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris in Mexico City, Oct. 5, 2025. On Sunday, three contestants were crowned winners of the inaugural, government-run “Mexico Sings” competition, meant to promote songs that aren’t about drug cartels or violence. (Luis Antonio Rojas/ The New York Times)
Corridos, traditional storytelling ballads, have been a popular part of Mexican culture since the 19th century. But in recent decades, a prominent genre has been narcocorridos, recounting — sometimes in graphic detail — the violent, real-life exploits of drug traffickers.
Narcocorridos and modern descendants like corridos tumbados — which combine singing, rapping and traditional Mexican music — have exploded in popularity in the last few years, breaking records through artists like Natanael Cano and Peso Pluma.
But as Mexico has wrestled with the effects of organized crime, particularly amid pressure from President Donald Trump to crack down on cartels, a movement started sweeping the country this year to counteract music deemed damaging to society and Mexico’s image.
Critics argued that narcocorridos promoted the violence and criminal activity that have ravaged the country. Several municipalities and states went as far as virtually banning the genre, making it a crime to play music that celebrates the drug trade and other crimes.
Defenders of the music say that banning songs does not address the problems of crime and violence.
Popular Mexican musicians, including Luis R. Conriquez and Grupo Firme, soon announced that they would stop performing those songs, and even faced backlash from fans as a result. Another powerful motivator also emerged for artists: the threat of losing U.S. visas, as one group did in March after performing with a cartel leader’s face displayed onstage.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has said she opposes outright narcocorrido bans, and called for promoting music with
different messages instead.
“This effort is primarily aimed at changing song lyrics, so that all of the condoning of violence, drugs, abuse and the disparagement of women changes, and so that there are all kinds of songs, about love, heartbreak, childhood, whatever,” she said in August.
In April, the Mexican culture ministry and the Mexican Music Council opened the competition for online submissions. The theme of the inaugural contest: “For peace and against addictions.”
Musicians had to be between 18 and 34. The songs had to be three minutes or less, and in Spanish, an Indigenous language or Spanglish, and have a foundation in traditional Mexican music. Contestants were split into six regions: three in Mexico and three in the United States.
The prize for each winner was a contract with an independent, national or international record label.
On Sunday, the winners of each region plus a few other contestants performed at a historic theater in Mexico City. Common themes were love, immigration and Mexican culture on both sides of the border.
“There are people who don’t feel represented by these narcocorridos and this is an opportunity to say, ‘Look, glory also comes in another form,’” Roger Gregorio, 30, said in an interview Friday. (An engineer, he performed a song he wrote about his community, in the Yucátan Peninsula, in Spanish and Mayan.)
Over 220,000 people voted online on Sunday for best
song (won by Carmen María González, from Tijuana, for her pop tune) and best performer (Maya), while a jury of experts voted separately (their prize went to Galia Siurob, also from Tijuana).
González said in an interview she was grateful that the Mexican government was promoting young artists with lyrics unrelated to cartels. She moved to Mexico City six years ago to pursue a career in music and, like many in the competition, worked other jobs to make ends meet. She funded her own album in 2023, which she recorded in her closet, and works at a restaurant part-time now.
“This was always my dream,” Siurob, 19, said Sunday. “It’s really crazy.”
Several participants and organizers said narcocorridos became popular because they reflected a harsh reality, and also because listeners dreamed of the lives of luxury depicted in the songs. Still, they said they were hopeful that non-narco music would also succeed.
Miguel Ángel Trujillo, the Mexican Music Council director, pointed to Peso Pluma’s most popular song
“Ella Baila Sola,” which is not a narcocorrido.
With this new competition, he said, “a seed has been planted of, ‘Hey, if we listen to this, we’re supporting a violent movement in our country.’ And we’re all tired of seeing so much violence.”
Before the final, more than 9 million people had tuned into the competition on public television in Mexico, said Claudia Curiel de Icaza, Mexico’s culture minister. It was also streamed online.
The influential Tex-Mex band Intocable helped the contestants polish their songs during the contest and even performed during the final. And several large record labels, such as Universal and Warner music groups and Sony Music, will be among those vying to sign the three winners.
“The industry, the government and the youth united for a message of peace,” said Curiel de Icaza.
The finalists who did not win prizes Sunday said they felt like they had. All of them will go on a government-run tour of Mexico and the United States.
And the idea, Trujillo said, is that this competition returns annually.
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Systematic hedge funds hit with daily losses in October, says Goldman Sachs
Systematic hedge funds have lost money every day since October began, according to a Goldman Sachs client note.
These speculators, whose algorithms ride market trends until they peter out and who use market signals rather than views on the economic aspects of the company stocks they trade, have printed negative returns each day since the start of October, the note released late on Monday showed.
As of Monday, systematic or quantitative hedge funds were down around 1.8% for the month so far in one of the worst four-day trading returns in almost two years, said Goldman.
Losses stemmed from crowded trades and a sell-off where funds, seeking to curtail losses, rushed to dump bets simultaneously.
When traders rush for the exit, the markets move against them as each new speculator looking to exit trades has to wait in a queue as advantageous prices deteriorate.
Hedge funds lost money on long bets expecting asset values to rise as well as short wagers betting that asset prices would fall, said the Goldman note.
“What we’ve witnessed over the past four days is a textbook example of a multi-layered quantitative fund unwind. This isn’t about a fundamental reassessment of company earnings or economic data; it’s a technical deleveraging event where the market’s own plumbing seized up,” said Bruno Schneller, managing director at Erlen Capital Management.
Even as these funds suffered, Nasdaq and S&P indexes reached record levels, shrugging off the ongoing government shutdown while AI-related deals continue to roll on.
Hedge funds, particularly those that follow market signals, will engage in popular bullish trades but also put on hedges. As hedge funds rushed to flee trades, short positions which might have hedged, or protected positions elsewhere, also turned into losses.
“This highlights the inherent fragility that can build when too much capital chases the same quantitative signals,” added Schneller.
World stock markets cooled a touch on Tuesday after another AI-spurred start to the week, with Washington’s shutdown putting the spotlight Federal Reserve speakers rather than data and overseas attention on Japan’s new prime minister and the absence of one in France.
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In the U.S. and Europe, the “pain [was] mostly felt on the short leg”, on wagers betting that asset values would decline, the Goldman note said.
Still, systematic hedge funds remain up around 11% for the year to date, said the note.
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In Israel, 2nd anniversary of Oct. 7 attack is quiet but inescapable
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Israel marked the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack that began its longest war in subdued fashion Tuesday, with new hopes of ending the conflict but with hostages still in captivity and its exhausted military adding to the death toll of Palestinians and to the destruction in the Gaza Strip.
The arrival of the Jewish harvest festival, Sukkot, a national and religious holiday, shut down most businesses across Israel for the day. The government delayed official remembrances of the war’s traumatic first day until Oct. 16, after the end of the High Holiday season.
But Tuesday’s milestone was inescapable.
There were quiet gatherings at some of the kibbutzim near Gaza that suffered the most in the massacres of Oct. 7, 2023, and informal events drew participants throughout the country.
In the city of Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, about 20 runners in T-shirts with messages advocating the return of the hostages made their way early in the morning along a popular route surrounding the town, which is home to Nimrod Cohen, a soldier held hostage. Passing cars honked in solidarity.
Hundreds of Israelis came to Hostages Square in the center of Tel Aviv, silently meditating over art installations and memorials to those still captive and citizens killed on Oct. 7 or while in captivity. Israel believes that about 20 living hostages are still being held in Gaza along with the remains of 28 others who died in captivity.
Ilana Yahav, 69, a therapist, said Oct. 7 had opened so many wounds that it was impossible to care for everyone who was suffering.
“If you were there, or someone in your family was there, or you only saw a video — it will be a lot of years of treatment,” she said.
Tzlil Sasson, 38, and her husband had driven from Lehavim, east of Gaza, with their three young children.
“It was important for us as parents to bring them here, to remember, and to pray,” she said. “Maybe, in a couple of days, the hostages will be free — we hope.”
In Kfar Aza, a tiny kibbutz less than 2 miles from Gaza where at least 62 neighbors were killed and 19 taken hostage, several dozen residents held a memorial that began with a moment of silence at 6:29
A displaced person from Gaza City sells supplies at a camp for displaced people in Nuseirat, in the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. The somber milestone of the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel came with peace talks underway, hostages from the Hamas-led attack still in Gaza, more than 67,000 Palestinians dead and Israel more isolated than ever. (Saher Alghorra/The New York Times)
a.m. That was the moment on a Saturday morning when Hamas began launching thousands of rockets, overwhelming Israel’s air-defense system.
Under cover of that aerial onslaught was the main Hamas offensive: an invasion by thousands of assailants who swarmed across the fence separating Gaza from border towns anddozens of tiny agricultural communities. They killed residents in their homes, gunned young people down at a music festival and overran Israeli military bases.
All told, Hamas killed some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took about 250 captives back to Gaza. It was the bloodiest day in Israel’s history and the deadliest for Jews anywhere since the Holocaust.
A shocked Israel mobilized to unleash a devastating military response that has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians in the past two years, including both civilians and combatants, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
It has wounded tens of thousands more, flattened thousands of buildings and reduced much of the territory’s infrastructure
— and its landscape — to rubble, shrapnel and sand.
On both sides of the Israel-Gaza border, the war seemed far from over Tuesday.
Though Hamas is weakened and its arsenal depleted, after 7 a.m., rocket sirens sounded in Netiv HaAsara, an Israeli community on Gaza’s northern border, and the Israeli military said a projectile had fallen in the area.
In Deir al-Balah, in Gaza, Israeli warplanes could be heard overhead at 1 a.m. and again after 5:30 a.m. As the sun rose, gunfire could be heard in the eastern part of the town, along with the blasts of occasional artillery rounds.
Ahmed alHaddad, 51, a Gaza resident who said he, his wife and their four children had been displaced five times, said their suffering
had surpassed what his grandparents had told him about the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” when Palestinians were displaced in Israel’s war for independence.
“This war is the harshest, the most merciless,” he said. “It feels like history repeating itself, only harder.”
Back in Israel, a moment of silence in kibbutz Kfar Aza at 6:29 was anything but, as drones whined, helicopters flew overhead and explosions frequently ripped through the air.
Zion Regev, a municipal leader, read out an adapted version of the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning. His voice dropped as he noted that “our Gali and Ziv” — two brothers from Kfar Aza still held hostage in Gaza — had yet to return home.
“Some say what happened is receding into the distance, but for me, it’s stronger than ever,” said Nitzan Kaner, 37. She said she was trapped for about 30 hours when militants attacked.
On Tuesday morning, she said she had experienced a sleepless night. “I couldn’t stop thinking about what we went through.”
A few minutes away, hundreds of Israelis visited the site of the Nova music festival, where more than 300 people were killed. Signs bearing the faces of the victims are arranged in rows, like dancers at a rave.
Anat Magnezi held a poster with a photo of her son Amit, 22, who was killed, over her own face.
“I wish that all the world would see this and know what happened to us and that it is real,” she said. “But all the world is against us now.”
Roman Fourmann, whose stepdaughter Dana Petrenko, 23, was killed along with her boyfriend, stood with his family at a small memorial erected in their honor.
“It feels no different today than when it happened two years ago,” he said. “We go to work, we keep on living. But we can’t shake the feeling that it’s still Oct. 7.”
Trump, drug cartels, Venezuela and war: What we know
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Tensions between the United States and Venezuela have escalated as the U.S. military attacks boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration says are smuggling drugs.
There have been mounting signs that the administration may be engineering some kind of confrontation with Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, who was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on drug trafficking and corruption charges in President Donald Trump’s first term. Trump’s team has called Maduro an illegitimate leader.
But the endgame remains opaque. Here is what we know.
Trump aides are pushing for a regimechange operation.
Some top aides to Trump want him to approve a military operation to remove Maduro from power, The New York Times has reported. The proponents of a regime-change push include Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser; John Ratcliffe, the CIA director; and Stephen Miller, Trump’s chief domestic policy and homeland security policy aide.
Rubio in particular has been ratcheting up rhetoric about Maduro. The State Department in August doubled a reward for his capture, and in September Rubio told Fox News, “We’re not going to have a cartel, operating or masquerading as a government, operating in our own hemisphere.”
Trump says the United States is in an armed conflict with the cartels.
The Trump administration has made a series of disputed claims about Maduro and drug cartels.
The Trump administration has designated several Venezuelan criminal organizations as terrorist organizations. They include Tren de Aragua and the so-called Cartel de los Soles, which the U.S. government has described as a Venezuela-based criminal group.
Trump and his aides have accused Maduro
of controlling Tren de Aragua and of heading Cartel de los Soles.
Last week, the administration told Congress that Trump had “determined” that the United States was engaged in a formal armed conflict with certain drug cartels his administration has deemed terrorists — without identifying the groups.
The United States has built up military forces near Venezuela.
In late July, Trump signed a still-secret order directing the Pentagon to start using military force against the groups his administration had designated as terrorists. And since August, the U.S. military has built up a significant amount of naval forces in the south Caribbean Sea.
The military has deployed eight warships, several Navy P-8 surveillance planes, MQ-9 Reapers and one attack submarine to the region. The flotilla includes multiple guided-missile destroyers, attack aircraft and an expeditionary unit carrying thousands of Marines.
It has also moved advanced F-35 fighters to Puerto Rico, among other things. The total force in the region, ashore and afloat, is more than 6,500 personnel.
Military specialists say the forces go far beyond what would be necessary or useful for the purpose of interdicting small vessels suspected of smuggling drugs.
The United States has already attacked Venezuelans at sea.
The U.S. military has carried out four known strikes targeting go-fast-style boats in the Caribbean Sea that Trump or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have said were smuggling drugs for “narco-terrorists,” without offering evidence. The strikes were in international waters, they said, and killed a total of 21 people.
The first strike, on Sept. 2, remains the most disputed, not just because it was the first but also because of lingering questions about what happened. Trump said the boat was carrying 11 people, all of whom he declared were members of Tren de Aragua. In a report to Congress, Trump justified the strike as a matter of self-defense against drug traffickers.
cused Trump of trying to start a war.
Two figures in Venezuela’s opposition have said they have been making plans to try to take the reins should Maduro be ousted and have been talking with the Trump administration about it. Administration officials have been coy about the extent of their engagement with the opposition.
Trump’s assertions are contested.
Maduro and his administration are widely considered corrupt, and election observers and the Biden administration accused him of stealing the 2024 presidential election in Venezuela.
But many other claims by Trump and his team have come under sharp scrutiny.
That boat appeared to have turned around before it was attacked because the people onboard had apparently spotted a military aircraft stalking it, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The second boat strike, on Sept. 15, killed three Venezuelans, Trump said, without specifying a particular group. An administration notice to Congress called the three people “unlawful combatants.”
The third, on Sept. 19, also killed three people, he said, this time without specifying a nationality or group.
On Oct. 3, Hegseth announced the fourth such strike, which he said killed four people. He similarly asserted that they were “affiliated” with one of the cartels and gangs that the Trump administration had designated as foreign terrorist organizations, but did not specify which. He also did not identify the nationalities of the dead.
The Trump administration is weighing strikes inside Venezuela.
In response to a directive from the White House, the U.S. military has drawn up plans to expand the campaign with strikes inside Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter. It is not clear whether a kill or capture operation targeting Maduro is among those options, nor if Trump has approved any type of strikes on Venezuelan soil.
Venezuelans are watching intently.
Maduro and his administration have denied that the people killed were drug traffickers and have ac-
The Trump administration calls various drug cartels “narco-terrorists” because it designated the groups terrorists. That was an unprecedented use of that authority. As a matter of the ordinary meaning in the English language, terrorists are violent groups that are motivated by ideological or religious ends, not the mere pursuit of illicit profits.
Trump says Maduro controls Tren de Aragua, but the U.S. intelligence community rejects that claim. The administration treats Cartel de los Soles as an actual group, but some specialists in Latin American crime portray it as more a metaphor for institutionalized networks of corruption in Venezuela’s military and broader government.
The Trump administration has justified its attacks on suspected drug smugglers as national self-defense at a time of high overdose deaths in the United States, but the surge in overdoses has been driven by fentanyl, which comes from Mexico, not South America.
Trump’s legal assertions are also contested.
A range of specialists in the laws governing the use of force have disputed the Trump administration’s claim that it can lawfully kill people suspected of drug trafficking like enemy troops instead of arresting them for prosecution.
As a matter of domestic law, Congress has not authorized any armed conflict.
As a matter of international law, for a nonstate group to qualify as a belligerent in an armed conflict — meaning its members can be targeted for killing based on their status alone, not because of anything they specifically do — it must be an “organized armed group” with a centralized command structure and that is engaging in hostilities.
The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Tren de Aragua, at least, consists of “loosely organized cells of localized individual criminal networks” and is “decentralized.”
And the administration has not offered any analysis to back its assertion that trafficking in a dangerous product counts as “hostilities” as if it were an armed attack.
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela at a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Sept. 15, 2025. Some top aides to President Trump want him to approve a military operation to remove Maduro from power. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times)
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Commercial aviation may soon feel shutdown’s impact, official warns
By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN
Afederal program to subsidize air travel to rural areas will run out of funding by Sunday unless the government shutdown ends, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said earlier this week, predicting other interruptions to air service if the standoff wears on.
The loss of funding for the Essential Air Service, which pays subsidies to commercial airlines to maintain flights at smaller airports that might otherwise lose service, is poised to become the first aviation-related effect passengers feel as a result of the shutdown that began Wednesday.
“There’s many small communities across the country that will now no longer have the resources to make sure they have air service in their communities,” Duffy told reporters, noting that “every state across the country will be impacted” if the program’s coffers run dry. About 175 communities are eligible for the service, including 65 in Alaska.
But while the service has outsized importance in heavily rural areas, Duffy’s other warnings signaled the potential for
broader problems.
Transportation Department officials are tracking a “slight tick-up” in air traffic controllers calling in sick, Duffy said, noting that he was concerned that the shutdown was complicating controllers’ ability to focus on their already stressful jobs.
Controllers are required to work through the shutdown without pay, like some other federal workers. Even though nearly all will receive back pay after it ends, extended shutdowns in the past have forced federal workers to seek loans or take other steps to secure their finances.
On Monday afternoon, Denver International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey experienced ground delays because of air traffic staff shortages, with Denver reporting delays of around 40 minutes, and Newark delays of almost an hour. An FAA spokesperson did not offer details about how many controllers had been absent, or how long the staff shortfalls were expected to affect flight traffic.
Widespread delays at airports brought about a swift end to the last shutdown, in 2019. Back then, air traffic controllers began calling in sick at a few important sites, and the in-
creased pressure on Congress and President Donald Trump helped them reach a deal to reopen the government on the 35th day.
Duffy lamented Monday that the already stressful job of being an air traffic controller in the midst of a national shortage was being compounded by the shutdown.
“Now what they’re thinking about as they’re controlling our airspace is, how am I going to pay my mortgage, how am I going to make my car payment,” Duffy said.
Officials in charge of the air traffic controllers union have also voiced concerns that the shutdown is putting undue strain on controllers. On Sunday, they released a video warning controllers against organizing any sort of walkout, and stating that “such actions are illegal” and “risk your careers.”
Duffy said Monday that the situation had not yet reached a critical point, and the airspace was still safe. But if there are more sick calls, he said, the agency would reduce the flow of air traffic to a rate that is safe.
“If we think there’s issues in the airspace, we will shut it down,” he said. “We will close it down, we will delay.”
Treasury defends lawfulness of minting a $1 Trump coin
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
The Trump administration earlier this week defended its plan to mint a $1 coin bearing the image of President Donald Trump despite the fact that an 1866 law dictates that only the deceased can appear on U.S. currency.
Initial designs for the coins released by the U.S. treasurer last week stirred controversy and accusations that the Trump administration was violating the law so that Trump could honor himself by putting his face on a coin. The 1866 law enshrined a tradition that individuals could appear on U.S. currency only posthumously to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy.
But in a post Monday, the Treasury Department said that featuring Trump on a coin in celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday was authorized under the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020.
Quoting from the legislation, it noted that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was exercising authorities to issue coinage “with designs emblematic of the United States semiquincentennial” and that the proposed images reflect Trump and his vision for America.
“On this momentous anniversary, there is no profile more emblematic for the front of this coin than that of our serving President, Donald J. Trump,” the Treasury Department said in a post on the social platform X.
According to draft images of the coin, the “heads” side would feature Trump’s profile and the “tails” side would depict an image of him standing before the American flag and pumping his fist under the words “Fight, Fight, Fight.” The coin would be legal tender and go into circulation in 2026.
The 2020 law does appear to put restrictions on images of the “tails” side of new coins. It states that “no head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of specified coins.”
President Donald Trump departs Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Sept. 21, 2025. The Trump administration on Monday defended its plan to mint a $1 coin bearing the image of President Trump despite the fact that an 1866 law dictates that only the deceased can appear on U.S. currency. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
Like many Trump administration policies, the fate of the coin could ultimately be decided by the courts.
The initial restriction on featuring the living on currency came in 1866. An explanation of the legislation on an archived page from the Treasury’s website noted that the act “was caused by an uproar over the actions of the chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Spencer Clark,” who had “placed himself on a five-cent note and had a large quantity of them printed before it was noticed.”
That page has been removed from the Treasury’s website.
The cost of producing the coins is not clear. It will depend in large part on the materials used and the number of coins minted.
The decision to produce a new coin — albeit a commemorative one — comes after Trump this year ordered the Treasury Department to stop producing pennies because they cost more to make than they are worth.
But Trump is no stranger to currency controversies. During his first term he delayed an Obama administration plan to make American abolitionist Harriet Tubman the face of the $20 note after calling the change “pure political correctness.”
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7 places to take a beach getaway during hurricane season
By GABE CASTRO-ROOT
Beach season doesn’t end at Labor Day. Less sizzling temperatures, thinning crowds and dropping prices — even as water temperatures stay warm — can make fall a perfect time to seek out sun and sand.
But for many popular beach destinations in the Caribbean and eastern United States, that good news comes with an asterisk: the risk that a hurricane can disrupt your plans.
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, typically peaking around Sept. 10, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which predicted “above-normal hurricane activity” this year. One hurricane, Erin, formed in the Atlantic in August. Now, Hurricane Gabrielle is on course to strike Portugal’s Azores, a remote volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, this week, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The clear waters of Arikok National Park, which covers nearly 20 percent of the island of Aruba, Feb. 29, 2020. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, often collectively called the ABCs, sit off the coast of Venezuela, far enough south in the Caribbean Sea that hurricanes almost never reach them. (Scott Baker/The New York Times)
Nowhere is 100% safe from storms, of course. The devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina last fall discredited the idea that some places could be “climate havens.”
Still, careful planning can help manage the risks, and the following places are generally considered safer bets during hurricane season. But always check guidance from local officials for up-to-date information.
The ABC Islands
Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, often collectively called the ABCs, sit off the coast of Venezuela, far enough south in the Caribbean Sea that hurricanes almost never reach them.
All three islands have direct flights from U.S. cities, including New York and Miami, and Aruba also has regular nonstop service from cities such as Atlanta, Boston and Charlotte, North Carolina. The islands remain part of the Netherlands, with varying degrees of autonomy, meaning
U.S. citizens need a passport but not a visa to visit.
In Aruba, Arikok National Park, which covers nearly 20% of the island, features sand dunes, oceanfront cliffs and the Fontein Cave, whose undulating walls and pillars are home to Indigenous drawings made thousands of years ago (and a bat colony, too).
Bonaire’s coastal biodiversity includes flamingos, mangroves and sea turtles, and Curaçao’s brightly colored capital, Willemstad, a UNESCO World Heritage site, combines Dutch colonial architecture with Caribbean and African influences.
Costa Rica and Panama
These Central American nations, which border both the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, are outside the typical reach of Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes and offer rainforests, beaches and major cities within easy distance of one another.
Fall is the rainy season in both countries, and visitors this time of year can expect lower prices and fewer crowds. Both have direct flights from a variety of U.S. cities, including New York, Houston and San Francisco.
Along both nations’ Pacific coastlines, relax on white sand beaches and watch humpback whales frolic in the (relatively) warm water. If you’re looking for a more active trip, venture into the lush interior of the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica for hiking and horseback riding, and Chagres National Park, north of Panama City, for kayaking and fishing.
But remember, neither country is immune from storms: Research has found that climate change is making both increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather, including bursts of high-intensity rainfall.
Hawaii and Southern California Hurricanes pose a serious risk at some of the most popular U.S. beach destinations, including those in the Carolinas, Florida and along the Gulf Coast. Head west, and you can get your tan on without worrying so much that your trip will be foiled by a major storm. (Of course, such extreme weather does occasionally affect Hawaii: Tropical Storm Kiko, downgraded from a hurricane, caused dangerous surf as it passed near the islands this month.)
Beaches in Hawaii and Southern California are popular tourist destinations anyway. But the fall is shoulder season, and crowds typically diminish while the weather stays pleasant. The peaceful water and white sand at Lanikai Beach, on Oahu, rival the best Caribbean beaches, and Makena State Park, on Maui, is known for its sweeping coastline far from commercial development and a dormant volcanic cinder cone.
In California, explore jagged rock formations at Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve north of San Diego, and bask in the sun at Huntington State Beach near Los Angeles.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ CARLOS ORTIZ DE JESÚS
Demandante Vs. LILLIAM ORTIZ CARRERO, CARLOS ORTIZ CARRERO, SAÚL SEGUINOT CARRERO, SUCESIÓN DE MARIA CARRERO, NEREIDA CARRERO ECHEVARRÍA, DEPARTAMENTO DE TRANSPORTACIÓN Y OBRAS PÚBLICAS, MUNICIPIO DE AÑASCO Y A LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: MZ2024CV00730.
Sobre: USUCAPIÓN EXTRAORDINARIA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: A las personas ignoradas y desconocidas a quienes pudiera perjudicar la inscripción del dominio a favor de la parte demandante en el Registro de la Propiedad, Sección de Mayagüez, de la finca que más adelante se describirán y a toda persona en general que con derecho para ello desee oponerse a este expediente.
POR LA PRESENTE, se notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable 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 la parte demandante para adquirir su dominio sobre la siguiente finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende pertinente. RÚSTICA: Radicado en el Barrio Marías del término municipal de Añasco, Puerto Rico, con
una cabida superficial de QUINIENTOS SESENTA Y CINCO PUNTO CERO NUEVE NUEVE TRES METROS CUADRADOS (565.0993 m/c), equivalentes a 0.1430 cuerdas. En lindes por el NORTE, con Lilliam Ortiz Carrero, Carlos Ortiz Carrero y Saúl Seguinot Carrero; al SUR, con Sucesión de María Carrero; ESTE, con Nereida Carrero Echevarría y por el OESTE, con la Carretera PR-4603. La abogada de la parte demandante es: Lcda. Lourdes M. Ortiz Pagán, P.O. Box 593, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623, teléfono (787) 831-1984 y correo electrónico: lourdesm_ortizpagan@ hotmail.com. Este edicto será publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de 20 días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan si quieren alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de personal natural y/o jurídica que se mencionen el mismo, se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y negrillas, conforme a lo dispuesto en la 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 demandante, sin más citarle ni oírle. POR TANTO, libro la presente en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 26 de agosto de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. YAHAIRA TORRES MATÍAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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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 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: 025-047-001-10000. 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.
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estADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA
SUPERIOR DE UTUADO JENIFFER VÉLEZ PÉREZ COMO ALBACEA Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE: (I) LA SUCESIÓN DE LUIS ANTONIO VÉLEZ
SANTIAGO, COMPUESTA POR ELBA A. VÉLEZ GONZÁLEZ, LUIS A. VÉLEZ GONZÁLEZ, ZAHIDEE VÉLEZ GONZÁLEZ; Y (II) LA SUCESIÓN DE NEREIDA PÉREZ ACEVEDO, COMPUESTA POR JENIFFER VÉLEZ PÉREZ Y ANTONIO L. VÉLEZ PÉREZ
Parte Peticionaria Vs. EX PARTE Civil Núm.: LR2025CV00217. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: PERSONAS IGNORADAS O DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD Y TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE AL EXPEDIENTE.
Por la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado en la Sala Superior de Utuado, Tribunal de Primera lnstancia de Puerto Rico, una petición sobre lnformación de Dominio con el fin de justificar e inscribir en el Registro de la Propiedad, a favor de los peticionarios, el derecho de dominio que alegan tener sobre el exceso de cabida de 209.215 metros cuadrados en la finca que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Barrio Pueblo de Lares. Solar: Cabida: ochocientos nueve punto cuatro seis cinco (809.465) Metros Cuadrados. LINDEROS: NORTE, en treinta y cuatro punto tres tres (34.33) metros con Sucesión Luis Vélez. SUR, en veintiocho punto ochenta y cinco (28.85) metros con Sucesión Arselio Torres. OESTE, en veinticuatro punto cincuenta (24.50) metros con camino municipal. ESTE, en veintisiete punto trece (27.13) metros con camino
municipal. Número de Catastro: 159-041-097-20-001. La parte promovente esta representada por los licenciados Luis G. Parrilla Hernández (RUA número 16,736) y Pedro I. Torres Crespi (RUA número 21,694), P.O Box 195168 San Juan, PR 009195168 250; Muñoz Rivera Ave., 6th Floor San Juan, PR 00918; Tel.: (787) 766-7000. Correos electrónicos: lparrilla@ferraiuoli.com y ptorres@ferraiuoli. com. Se le notifica a usted que este Tribunal ha ordenado su citación, para que presente oposición a este expediente, si se viesen perjudicados con la inscripción que se solicita; advirtiéndole que de no hacerlo dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde que fuera usted notificado de esta citación, la Parte Peticionaria podrán solicitar y obtener la aprobación de este expediente de dominio y la correspondiente inscripción a su nombre en el Registro de la Propiedad el dominio de la finca anteriormente descrita. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Petición, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Por Orden de este Tribunal, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello oficial. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de septiembre de 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIA I. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HATILLO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. MARGARITA
PADIN IGARTUA
Demandada
Civil Núm.: HA2024CV00355. (101). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO (EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL: PÚBLICO EN GENERAL. A: MARGARITA
PADIN IGARTUA; AUTORIDAD PARA EL FINANCIAMIENTO DE LA VIVIENDA DE PUERTO RICO POR TENER CONDICIONES RESTRICTIVAS A SU FAVOR BAJO EL “PROGRAMA PROTEGIENDO TU HOGAR” POR LA CANTIDAD DE $5,698.26. Yo, ÁNGEL DE J. TORRES PÉREZ, ALGUACIL SUPERVISOR #PLACA 770, Alguacil de este Tribunal, a la parte demandada y a los acreedores y personas con interés sobre la propiedad que más adelante se describe, y al público en general, HAGO SABER: Que el día 20 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico, venderé en Pública Subasta la propiedad inmueble que más adelante se describe y cuya venta en pública subasta se ordenó por la vía ordinaria al mejor postor quien hará el pago en dinero en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del o la Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Camuy durante horas laborables. Que en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta a celebrarse, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA para la venta de la susodicha propiedad, el día 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA y en caso de no producir remate ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el 3 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en mi oficina sita en el lugar antes indicado. La propiedad a venderse en pública subasta se describe como sigue: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número Doscientos Veintiocho (228) en el plano de parcelación de la COMUNIDAD RURAL CARRIZALES del Barrio Carrizales del término municipal de Hatillo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de CERO PUNTO DOS SIETE OCHO SEIS (0.2786) CUERDA, equivalentes a MIL NOVENTA Y CINCO PUNTO TRECE (1,095.13) METROS CUADRADOS. En lindes: NORTE, parcela número Doscientos Veintiséis (226); SUR, parcela número Doscientos Ventiséis (226); ESTE, Calle número Uno (1); OESTE, parcela número Doscientos Veintisiete (227). Edificación: Casa vivienda de una sola planta, construida toda en hormigón
vamen posterior, una vez sea otorgada la escritura de venta judicial y obtenida la Orden y Mandamiento de cancelación de gravamen posterior. (Art. 51, Ley 210-2015). En relación a la finca a subastarse, se establece como tipo mínimo de licitación en la Primera Subasta la suma de $88,200.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca #689, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de septiembre de 2004, ante el notario María Isabel García Mantilla, inscrita al folio 139 del tomo 1733 de Caguas, finca #48,927, inscripción 11ma. La PRIMERA SUBASTA, se llevará a cabo el día 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mis oficinas sitas en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, el tipo mínimo para la primera subasta es la suma de $88,200.00. Si la primera subasta del inmueble no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una SEGUNDA
SUBASTA el 6 DE NOVIEM-
BRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo sitio y servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes del precio pactada para la primera subasta, o sea, la suma de $58,800.00. Si la segunda subasta no produjere remate, ni adjudicación, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 17 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar y regirá como tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta la mitad del precio pactado para la primera, o sea, la suma de $44,100.00. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo, para con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor, a saber: La suma global de $53,296.06, la cual se desglosa a continuación: la suma principal de $51,771.87, más intereses acumulados a razón de 5.625% anual desde el 1 de marzo de 2023, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago, una suma diferida de principal y la cual no genera intereses de $1,523.19, los cargos por demora equivalente al 5% de todo pago mensual que se encuentre en mora por más de 15 días desde la fecha de vencimiento, más la cantidad de $8,820.00, para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, más cualquier otra suma que resulte por cualesquiera otros adelantos que se hayan hecho la demandante, en virtud de las disposiciones de la escritura de hipoteca y del Pagaré hipotecario. Para más información, a las personas interesadas se les notifica que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado, estarán de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal, durante las horas laborables. Este EDICTO DE SUBASTA, se publicará en
los lugares públicos correspondientes y en un periódico de circulación general en la jurisdicción de Puerto Rico. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los referentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes. Se entenderá que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente Escritura de Venta Judicial y el Alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial al nuevo dueño, si así se lo solicita dentro del término de veinte (20) días, de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedimiento, que se lleve a efecto el desalojo o lanzamiento del ocupante u ocupantes de la finca o de todos los que por orden o tolerancia del deudor la ocupen. Expedido en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 3 de septiembre de 2025. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR PLACA #282.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HATILLO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE R RIVERA PEREZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: HA2025CV00122. 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: JOSE R RIVERA PEREZ - BO. BAYANEY PARC. MANUEL CAND CALLE-E, HATILLO PR 00659; HC 3 BOX 32458 HATILLO 00659-7820.
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 senten-
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cia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en HATILLO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de agosto de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ROSIMAR LÓPEZ ROBLES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR. LEGAL NOTICE
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Parte Demandante V. MORTGAGE STORE OF PUERTO RICO
P/C OFICINA DEL COMISIONADO DE INSTITUCIONES FINANCIERAS (OCIF); POPULAR MORTGAGE; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00540. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. Sala: 202. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto. En dicha demanda se reclama la cancelación un pagaré otorgado el 11 de junio de 2002, ante el notario Ahmed R. Arroyo Romeu, a favor de MORTGAGE STORE OF PUERTO RICO, por la suma principal de $60,900.00 de principal, con intereses al 8.00% anual, vencedero el 1 de julio de 2032. Para garantizar el pago de dicho pagaré se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria mediante la escritura número 105, otorgada el 11 de junio de 2002, ante el notario Ahmed R. Arroyo Romeu, sobre el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: “Urba-
RURAL ZENON DIAZ VALCARCEL de Guaynabo. Cabida: 248.36 Metros Cuadrados. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número Cuatro manzana M del plano de inscripción del Proyecto PRHA-once denominada Zenón Diaz Valcárcel radicado en el Barrio Amelia del término municipal de Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de doscientos cuarenta y ocho metros cuadrados con treinta y seis centésimas de metro cuadrado; por el NORTE, con la calle número seis, distancia de diez metros con cuarenta y ocho centímetros; por el SUR, con el solar número M-cincuenta y uno distancia de once metros con cuarenta y dos centímetros; por el ESTE, con el solar número M-cinco, distancia de veintidós metros con ochenta y siete centímetros; y por el OESTE, con el solar M-tres distancia de veintidós metros con cincuenta y nueve centímetros. Estructura construida en cemento y hormigón consta de 3 habitaciones, un baño, sala, cocina, dos terrazas, escalera de cemento que da acceso a la calle, por su lado norte, con medida de 104 p/c, valorada en $35,000.00 según inscripción 9na. Es segregación de la finca número 2326 inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 46 de Guaynabo.” Finca número 30,090, inscrita al folio 150 del tomo 777 del Registro de la Propiedad de Guaynabo. 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.
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Demandante V. SUCESION DE JORGE LUIS LOPEZ COLON COMPUESTA POR SU HIJA JENNIFER
MARY PHILLIPS T/C/C JENNIFER MARY LOPEZ; DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA POR CONDUCTO DE LA DIVISION DE CAUDALES
RELICTOS; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES
Demandado
Civil Núm.: RG2025CV00307. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
A: SUCESIÓN DE JORGE LUIS LÓPEZ
COLON COMPUESTA POR JENNIFER
MARY PHILLIPS T/C/C JENNIFER MARY LOPEZ - 9 INNIS AVE. RONKONKOMA, NY 11779-4106.
Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la demanda de epígrafe. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. 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 esta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios
que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, hoy día 09 de septiembre de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIONES DE CARLOS RENÉ MELÉNDEZ MONTES Y LILLIAN ROSADO ÁLVAREZ COMPUESTAS POR CARLOS RENÉ MELÉNDEZ ROSADO Y FABIO JOSSUÉ MELÉNDEZ ROSADO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE CARLOS RENÉ MELÉNDEZ MONTES Y LILLIAN ROSADO ÁLVAREZ; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV03863. Sala: 701. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, S.S. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN DIRIGIDO A: CESIONES DE CARLOS RENÉ MELÉNDEZ MONTES Y LILLIAN ROSADO ÁLVAREZ COMPUESTAS POR CARLOS RENÉ MELÉNDEZ ROSADO, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO HEREDEROS DECONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE CARLOS RENÉ MELÉNDEZ MONTES
Y LILLIAN ROSADO ÁLVAREZ.
Queden emplazados, notificados e interpelados, que en este Tribunal se ha radicado De-
manda sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca de la que surge lo siguiente: Que se ha incumplido con las cláusulas de la escritura de hipoteca objeto de ejecución por haberse dejado de pagar las mensualidades vencidas desde el día 1ro de febrero de 2025, la parte demandada le adeuda a la parte demandante las siguientes cantidades: $78,309.24 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 3.50% desde el 1 de enero de 2025; cargos por demora los cuales al igual que los intereses continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda reclamada en este pleito, y la suma de $10,716.70 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La propiedad hipotecada cuya ejecución se solicita tiene la siguiente descripción y localización: URBANA: Apartamento residencial número K-306, en el 3er piso del Edificio K del condominio River Park localizado en el Barrio Juan Sánchez del término municipal de Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de fabricación de setecientos ochenta y seis pies cuadrados (786) equivalentes a 73.04 metros cuadrados, siendo sus mayores medidas lineales aproximadas, 34 pies ½ pulgadas en su mayor largo y 25 pies 3 pulgadas en su mayor ancho. Colinda por el OESTE, con pared que los separa del apartamento residencial K-108; por ESTE, con pared exterior del edificio K; por el NORTE, con pared exterior del edificio; y por el SUR, con pared que los separa de un vestíbulo de uso común y el exterior del edificio K. Su puerta principal de entrada está situada en la colindancia Sur y lo comunica a un vestíbulo común que le da acceso a espacios comunes dentro de los límites del condominio y sus terrenos que a su vez le da acceso a una vía pública. Se compone de sala-comedor, cocina, balcón, 2 habitaciones-dormitorios, baño, pasillo y closets. Le corresponde a este apartamento una participación de 0.1810% en los elementos comunes generales del edificio de cual forma parte, y un espacio de estacionamiento marcado K-306. Finca Número 4,352, inscrita al folio 156 del tomo 101 de Bayamón Norte, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección III de Bayamón. 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. Además, en cuanto a la interpelación de los herederos del causante, a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que
les corresponda en la herencia del causante conforme dispone el Artículo 959 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2787. de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá por aceptada. También se les APERCIBE a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 957 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. §2785. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar y notificar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Los abogados de la parte demandante son: ABOGADOS DE LA PARTE DEMANDANTE: Lcdo. Reggie Díaz Hernández RUA Núm.: 16,393 BERMÚDEZ & DÍAZ LLP 500 Calle De La Tanca Suite 209 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901 Tel.: (787) 523-2670 / Fax: (787) 523-2664 rdíaz@bdprlaw.com Expido este edicto bajo mi firma y el sello de este Tribunal, hoy 9 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA GENERAL. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN GERMÁN ORIENTAL BANK Demandante V. ANA GARCIA MERCADO, CRUZ CRUZ SANTANA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: SG2025CV00362. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: ANA GARCIA MERCADO, CRUZ CRUZ SANTANA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.
POR MEDIO del presente edicto se le notifica de la radicación de una demanda en cobro de dinero por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que usted adeuda a la parte demandante, Oriental Bank, ciertas sumas de dinero, y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado de este litigio. El demandante, Oriental Bank, ha solicitado que se dicte sentencia en contra suya y que se le ordene pagar las cantidades reclamadas en la demanda.
POR EL PRESENTE EDICTO se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index/php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. El abogado de la parte demandante es: Jaime Ruiz Saldaña, RUA número 11673; Dirección: PO Box 366276, San Juan, PR 00936-6276; Teléfono: (787) 759-6897; Correo electrónico: legal@jrslawpr.com. Se le advierte que dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación del presente edicto, se le estará enviando a usted por correo certificado con acuse de recibo, una copia del emplazamiento y de la demanda presentada al lugar de su última dirección conocida: Lajas Arriba, Carr. 117 KM 7 HM 7, Lajas, PR 00667; HC 5 Box 24700, Lajas, PR 00667-9458. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal en San Germán, Puerto Rico, hoy día 10 de septiembre de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL AUXILIAR. MILITZA LORENZO VEGA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandante Vs. LA SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR EMILIO ORTIZ SERRANO T/C/C VÍCTOR E. ORTIZ SERRANO COMPUESTA POR JOEL ORTIZ CLAUDIO E IAN ORTIZ DÍAZ REPRESENTADO POR SU MADRE CON PATRIA POTESTAD IVELISSE DÍAZ RODRIGUEZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2024CV02563. (702). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte Demandada: IVELISSE DIAZ RODRIGUEZ EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE SU HIJO IAN ORTIZ DÍAZ COMO PARTE DE LA SUCESIÓN DE VÍCTOR EMILIO ORTIZ SERRANO T/C/C VÍCTOR E. ORTIZ SERRANO A SUS ÚLTIMAS DIRECCIONES CONOCIDAS: URB. VILLAS DE GURABO II, F36 CALLE 3, GURABO PR 00778, URB. VILLAS DE GURABO, F36 CALLE 1, GURABO PR 00778-2378, URB. VILLA GUADALUPE 2, 18 CALLE 18, CAGUAS, PR 00725, URB. VILLA GUADALUPE, II18 CALLE 18, CAGUAS, PR 00725-4057, PO BOX 2104, JUNCOS, PR 00777-2104, 1254 CROES AVE APT 2R, BRONX, NY 10472-2856 Y 998 LONGWOOD AVE APT 37, BRONX, NY 10459-5119. Queda usted notificado que en este Tribunal se ha radicado demanda sobre ejecución de hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en la que se alega que se adeuda las siguientes cantidades $63,660.70 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 8.95% anual desde el 1 de enero de 2024 hasta su completo pago, más $319.00 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $8,160.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. La propiedad que garantiza hipote-
cariamente el préstamo es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar F-36 radicado en los Barrios Rincón y Celada del término municipal de Gurabo con una cabida superficial de 181.6 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el: NORTE: con área de parque en 15.79 metros; por el SUR: con el solar número F-35, en 18.36 metros; por el ESTE: con la calle número 3, en 10.58 metros; por el OESTE: con Villa Alegre, en 10.89 metros. La propiedad y la escritura de hipoteca constan inscritas al tomo Karibe de Gurabo, Finca 19713. Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección II. Inscripción segunda. La demandante es la tenedora por endoso, por valor recibido y de buena fe del referido pagaré objeto de la presente acción. Se interpela a los demandados para que acepten o renuncien a la herencia de la causante dentro de los 30 días subsiguientes a la fecha que fuesen emplazados o requeridos que contesten, para darle cumplimiento el Artículo 1578 del nuevo Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. § 11021, entendiéndose que, si no se expresan dentro de dicho término, aceptan el caudal relicto; la renuncia se hará por instrumento público o por escrito judicial. La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo Puerto Rico 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 10 de SEPT de 2025, en Caguas, Puerto Rico. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA.
VIONETTE ESPINOSA CASTILLO, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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SALA DE GUAYNABO SECRETARIO DE VIVIENDA Y DESARROLLO URBANO
T/C/C SECRETARY OF
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Demandante Vs. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO
Demandados Civil Núm.: GB2025CV00598. Sala: 201. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, personas desconocidas que se designan con estos nombres ficticios, que pueden ser tenedor o tenedores, o puedan tener algún interés en el pagaré hipotecario a que se hace referencia más adelante en el presente edicto, que se publicará una sola vez. Se les notifica que en la Demanda radicada en el caso de epígrafe se alega que el siguiente pagaré hipotecario se encuentra extraviado: El día 14 de marzo de 2008 la señora María del Carmen Almaraz t/c/c María del Carmen Almaraz Quintana y como María del Carmen Almaraz Y Quintana formalizó un préstamo revertido, para lo cual se emitieron dos (2) pagarés como evidencia del préstamo concedido. Uno de dichos pagarés fue expedido por la suma principal de trescientos setenta mil quinientos dólares ($370,500.00) a favor del Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, y fue garantizado por una segunda hipoteca constituida mediante la escritura número 46, otorgada el 14 de marzo de 2008, ante el notario Luis Rafael Rodríguez Vélez. Dicha hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 44 del tomo 1530 de Guaynabo, finca número 2346, inscripción 8va-F. Para garantizar el pago de dicha obligación por la suma adeudada se otorgó una Hipoteca voluntaria, la cual hacemos referencia en el párrafo anterior, sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: URBANA: Solar número 8 de la Manzana “G” de la URBANIZACIÓN GARDEN HILLS, sito en el Barrio Pueblo Viejo de Guaynabo, compuesto de 1,047.14 metros cuadrados; colindante por el Norte, Sur y Este, respectivamente, con los solares números 9, 7 y 10 de dicha manzana; y por el Oeste, con la intersección de la Calle Green Hilly Ramírez de Arellano Boulevard. Catastro #086013-074-09-001. El inmueble gravado mediante la hipoteca antes descrita es la finca número 2346, la cual consta inscrita al folio 44 del tomo 1530 de Guaynabo. Registro de la
Propiedad, Sección de Guaynabo. La obligación evidenciada por el Pagaré extraviado fue satisfecha en su totalidad. Sin embargo, dicho gravamen no ha podido ser cancelado por haberse extraviado el original. Además, el Pagaré no ha podido ser localizado, a pesar de las gestiones realizadas. Según consta en el Registro de la Propiedad, el Pagaré fue expedido a favor del Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano, o a su orden, por lo que es el acreedor actual. Además, fue el último tenedor conocido del Pagaré antes descrito. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando El siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
Lcda. Pamela Santiago Olivieri RUA NUM. 22028 HMB Law Group, LLC 33 Calle Bolivia Suite 201 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00917 Tel: 939-759-7668
E-mail: psantiago-olivieri@ hmblawgroup.com psco.law@gmail.com Expedido, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 12 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL INTERINA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. LEONIDAS A DURAN MORONTA
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV05106. (902). 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: LEONIDAS A DURAN MORONTA - URB SAN AGUSTIN 438 CALLE 4, SAN JUAN PR 00926-1924; REPTO UNIVERSIDAD 375 CALL CITADEL P2 3, SAN JUAN PR 00923.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel. ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de agosto de 2025. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARGARITA MUÑIZ MÉNDEZ, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. CHEILYN ROMAN MARTI Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV00887. 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: CHEILYN ROMAN MARTI - URB VILLAS DEL OESTE 898 CALLE ACUARIO, MAYAGUEZ PR 00682-1543; 4 RES COLUMBUS LNDG APT 50, MAYAGUEZ PR 006822904.
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 MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de agosto de 2025. LCDA. NORMA SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. ANNETTE GUZMÁN MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Parte Demandante Vs. IVELISSE A MARTINEZ VALENTIN Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV04313. 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: IVELISSE A MARTINEZ VALENTIN - URB MONTE CARLO 1244 CALLE 2, SAN JUAN PR 009245272; HACIENDA REAL 487 CALLE REINA DE LAS FLORES, CAROLINA PR 00987.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente
dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel. ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 15 de agosto de 2025. SRA. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ENID DÍAZ RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE JUANA DIAZ. Island Portfolio Services, LLC como agente de Ace One Funding, LLC PARTE DEMANDANTE VS. EFRAIN OQUENDO FRANCO PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM. SI2025CV00054. 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: EFRAIN OQUENDO FRANCO 102 Orange Street , Mifflingtown PA 17059 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 siste-
ma SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colon 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 JUANA DIAZ, Puerto Rico, hoy día 1 de agosto de 2025. CARMEN G TIRU QUIÑONES, Secretario(a). CONSUELO ELAINE RIVERA PADILLA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY
MORTGAGE, INC., COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE LPZ INVESTMENTS, LLC.
Demandante Vs. CARLOS OMAR
RODRIGUEZ STRUBBE Y CR MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC.
Demandados
Civil Nú.: BY2025CV04353. Sala: 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A La Parte CoDemandada: CARLOS OMAR RODRÍGUEZ STRUBBE Y CR MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC.; A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) 1774 LEE JANZEN DRIVE KISSIMMEE, FL 34744; (B) 1400 AVE. FERNANDEZ JUNCOS, SAN JUAN, PR 00909; (C) 707 AVE. HIPODROMO SAN JUAN, PR 00909; (D) 4701 OLD CANOE CREEK RD UNIT 702102 SAINT CLOUD FL 34769; (E) AVE. BARBOSA 142,144 & 146 CATAÑO, PR 00963.
Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca en su contra, en la cual se alega entre otras cosas que la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma $299,442.75 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de mayo de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 18.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además la parte demandada adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 5.00% de la suma de aquellos
pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca equivalentes a $30,000.00; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $30,000.00; igualmente la parte demandada se obligó con la compareciente, en caso de ejecución de hipoteca, a pagar una suma adicional equivalente al monto de la suma de cinco (5) mensualidades de interés sobre el Pagaré Hipotecario para cubrir intereses en adición a los garantizados por ley y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 276, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de octubre de 2023, ante el notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, modificada mediante la escritura número 95, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 31 de marzo de 2025, ante el notario David Cardona Dingui, fincas números 1,514, 692 (antes 1,474 de Bayamón Sur) y 792, Folios 221, 1 y 01 de los Tomos 28 de Cataño, 10 de Cataño y 12 de Cataño, Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección Cuarta. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectando por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notifique copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su Rebeldía y dictar Sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con
el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 26 de septiembre de 2025, en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN M. PINTADO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUCESIÓN DE SONIA AISA JIMÉNEZ PRIETO, COMPUESTA POR LUIS OQUENDO JIMENEZ, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN, DEPARTAMENTO DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES DE PUERTO RICO (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: BY2025CV04361. (501). Sobre: INTERPELACIÓN; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS.
EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION DE SONIA AISA JIMÉNEZ PRIETO - 34-56, CALLE 44, SIERRA BAYAMÓN DEV., BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO, 00961; URB. SIERRA BAYAMÓN, 56-34, CALLE 44, BAYAMÓN, PUERTO RICO, 009614427. De: BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO.
Se le emplaza y requiere 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), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramaiudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Garantías en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene a la parte demandada a pagar: la suma principal de $75,783.91, más cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan dia-
riamente hasta su total y completo pago, más los intereses acumulados al 4% desde el 1 de febrero de 2025, hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado hipotecariamente asegurados. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Por la presente el Tribunal de Instancia, conforme a lo establecido en el Artículo 1578, supra, le ordena a Fulano de Tal y Mengano de Tal, que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia de la Sucesión Sonia Aisa Jiménez Prieto. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó la herencia se tendrá por aceptada Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 15693 PO Box 360786, San Juan, PR 00936-0786
Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com
EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 26 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SUB-SECRETARIA.
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Demandante Vs. MILLIE DAVIDSON T/C/C MILAGROS HUERTAS PEÑA COMO ALBACEA DE LA SUCESION DEL DR. DOMINGO HUERTAS RIVERA COMPUESTA POR MILAGROS HUERTAS, ILIA IVELISSE HUERTAS VELAZQUEZ, HERNAN HUERTAS VELAZQUEZ, ROBERTO HUERTAS INFANTE, LIZETTE HUERTAS RIVERA t/c/c/ LIZETTE HUSSAR, ANA LYDIA HUERTAS CARRION, SUCESION DE DOMINGO HUERTAS ROBLES, COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL
Demandados
Civil Núm.: HU2025CV01261. Salón Núm.: 208. Sobre: CONSIGNACIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E. U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MILLIE DAVIDSON T/C/C MILAGROS
HUERTAS PEÑA, COMO HEREDERA, MIEMBRO Y ALBACEA DE LA SUCESIÓN DEL DR. DOMINGO HUERTAS RIVERA; LIZETTE HUERTAS RIVERA T/C/C/ LIZETTE HUSSAR COMO HEREDERA Y MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DEL DR. DOMINGO HUERTAS RIVERA; HERNÁN HUERTAS VELÁZQUEZ COMO HEREDERO Y MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN DEL DR. DOMINGO HUERTAS RIVERA; SUCESION DE DOMINGO HUERTAS ROBLES, COMPUESTA POR “FULANO DE TAL” Y “SUTANO DE TAL”.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que contesten la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y enviando copia al abogado de la parte demandante: LCDO. ENRIQUE NASSAR RIZEK, PO Box 191017, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-1017, Teléfono (787)409-8776. En dicha Demanda se tramita una acción de consignación para depositar los dividendos que le corresponden a la parte demandada.
Se les apercibe que de no contestar la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía, y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado contra usted en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de septiembre de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
LISA M. FIGUEROA RUIZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ARECIBO
RAMON GONZALEZ Y MARITZA MOLINA
Peticionarios EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: AR2025CV01729. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: a todo aquel que
tenga algún derecho real o interés sobre el inmueble descrito en la petición de dominio que muestra el epígrafe; a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, a los anteriores dueños y sus sucesores, Félix Méndez Millán, Julio Molina Ocasio, también conocido por Julio Molina y Luz Neida Torres Rivera, también conocida por Luz Neida Molina, al dueño de la finca colindante por su lado Norte, Manuel Rosario Molina y Teodora Rosario Molina, Confesor Rosario y Eligio Torres González y sus sucesores; al dueño de las fincas colindantes por su lado Sur, Carmen Torres González y Heriberto Vázquez; al dueño de las fincas colindantes por su lado Este, Ruperto Ponce, Municipio de Arecibo y Heriberto Vázquez y sus sucesores; y al dueño de la finca colindante por su lado Oeste, Valentín Méndez, Esteban Laboy Martínez y el Municipio de Arecibo; a las personas ignoradas a quienes pueda perjudicar la inscripción, y en general a toda persona que desee oponerse: Por la presente se le notifica para que comparezcan si creyeren que les conviene, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los VEINTE (20) DÍAS a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir el dominio sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Miraflores sector Biafara, del término municipal de Arecibo; compuesta de CINCUENTA CENTIMOS (0.50 CDS) DE CUERDAS y en lindes por el Norte, con la finca principal de la cual se segrega perteneciente a los hermanos Manuel y Teodora Rosario Molina por partes iguales y con cabida de Dos y media Cuerdas (2.50 cds); por el Sur, con Carmen Torres; por el Este, con Ruperto Ponce y por el Oeste, con Valentín Méndez. Catastro número: 053-084-839-19-000. Que aproximadamente para el año 2002 dicho solar fue interrumpido por un camino asfaltado por el municipio hacia la carretera estatal #637 km 2.7 de seis punto cincuenta (6.50) metros de ancho quedando dividido dicho solar en los dos solares que se describen a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar A: Parcela de terreno radicada
en el barrio Miraflores sector Biafara, del término municipal de Arecibo; compuesta de SETECIENTOS OCHENTA Y UNO PUNTO CINCUENTA Y DOS CERO CINCO (781.5205 MC), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO MIL NOVECIENTOS OCHENTA Y OCHO CUERDAS (0.1988 CDA) y en lindes por el NORTE, con Confesor Rosario; por el SUR, Carmen Torres González; ESTE, camino municipal y por el OESTE, con Esteban Laboy Martínez. RÚSTICA: Solar B: Parcela de terreno radicada en el barrio Miraflores sector Biafara, del término municipal de Arecibo; compuesta de QUINIENTOS SESENTA Y UNO PUNTO OCHO MIL CIENTO CINCUENTA Y SIETE (561.8157 MC), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO MIL CUATROCIENTOS VENTINUEVE CUERDAS (0.1429 CDA) y en lindes por el NORTE, con Eligio Torres González; por el SUR, Heriberto Vázquez; ESTE, Heriberto Vázquez y por el OESTE, con Camino Municipal. Deben notificar con copia de sus alegaciones al Lcdo. Fernando H. Padrón Jiménez, PO Box 2833, Arecibo, PR 00613-2833. Tel. / Fax (787) 816-6732. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico a 16 de septiembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. PILAR H. MERCADO GONZÁLEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE JOSE ANIBAL FERRER PAGAN T/C/C JOSE A. FERRER PAGAN COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV07354. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A LA PARTE CODEMANDADA: FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION JOSÉ ANÍBAL
FERRER PAGÁN T/C/C JOSÉ A. FERRER PAGÁN, A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) PO BOX 10202 SAN JUAN, PR 00908-1202; (B) URB. SUMMIT HILLS #560 (Q8) CALLE YUNQUE (5) SAN JUAN, PR 00920-4214. Por la presente se le(s) notifica que se ha radicado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal una Demanda Enmendada en Cobro de Dinero y Ejecución de Hipoteca por la vía ordinaria en contra de La Sucesión de José Aníbal Ferrer Pagán t/c/c José A. Ferrer Pagán, en la cual se alega que adeuda a la parte demandante por concepto de hipoteca la suma de $174,285.49 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además La Sucesión de José Aníbal Ferrer Pagán t/c/c José A. Ferrer Pagán adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $17,600.00 para cubrir cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 79 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de marzo de 2024, ante el notario Orlando Camacho Padilla, de la finca número 13,148, inscrita al Folio 196 del Tomo 942 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera. Por razón de dicho incumplimiento, y al amparo del derecho que le confiere el Pagaré, el demandante ha declarado tales sumas vencidas, líquidas y exigibles en su totalidad. Este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le(s) cite a usted(es) por edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general. Quedan emplazados y notificados de que en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda enmendada en su contra. Se les ordena a que dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de José Aníbal Ferrer Pagán t/c/c José A. Ferrer Pagán. Los codemandados miembros de La Sucesión de José Aníbal Ferrer Pagán t/c/c José A. Ferrer Pagán, se incluyen en la demanda enmendada ya que como herederos responden por las cargas de la herencia según lo dispuesto en Nuestro Ordenamiento Jurídico. Se les apercibe y notifica que, de no expresarse dentro de ese término de 30 días en torno a su acepta-
ción o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se les apercibe que luego del transcurso del término de 30 días antes señalado contados a partir de la fecha de la notificación de la presente Orden, se presumirá que han aceptado la herencia del causante y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme el Artículo 1578 del Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. 2785. Se ordena a la parte demandante a que, en vista de que La Sucesión de José Aníbal Ferrer Pagán t/c/c José A. Ferrer Pagán, se incluye a los herederos y herederos desconocidos de José Aníbal Ferrer Pagán t/c/c José A. Ferrer Pagán denominados Fulano y Fulana De Tal, proceda a notificar la presente Orden mediante publicación de un edicto a esos efectos una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de la Isla de Puerto Rico. Se le(s) emplaza y requiere que dentro de los sesenta (60) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto excluyendo el día de la publicación de este edicto conteste(n) la demanda radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la Contestación de la Demanda a las oficinas de CARDONA & MALDONADO LAW OFFICES, P.S.C. ATENCIÓN al Lcdo. Duncan Maldonado Ejarque, P.O. Box 366221, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-6221; Tel (787) 622-7000, Fax (787) 6257001, Abogado de la Parte Demandante. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le(s) advierte que si dejare(n) de contestar la Demanda en el período de tiempo antes mencionado, podrá dictarse contra usted(es) Sentencia en Rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado sin más citarle(s) ni oírle(s). EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el Sello del Tribunal. DADA hoy 30 de septiembre de 2025, en San Juan, Puerto Rico. GRI-
SELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. SUCESION DE SAMUEL ALBERTO SANTIAGO
GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV01221. (Salón: 604 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM.
A: SUCESION DE SAMUEL ALBERTO SANTIAGO GONZÁLEZ, COMPUESTA POR SUS HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERES FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 30 de septiembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01 de octubre de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 01 de octubre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LUZ D. HERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING THROUGH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Plaintiff V. JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE AS UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF EDNA BELEN SANTIAGO-ORTIZ
Defendants Civil No.: 21-1023. (FAB). NOTICE OF JUDGMENT BY PUBLICATION.
To: JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE AS UNKNOWN MEMBERS OF THE ESTATE OF EDNA BELÉN SANTIAGO-ORTIZ.
THE CLERK OF THIS COURT notifies you that on August 26, 2025, this Court notified judgment in favor of plaintiff, United States of America. The judgment has been registered, and the terms of the judgment are available for review in the Clerk’s office. THEREFORE, you are notify that judgment has been entered against you in this case. Notice will be deemed effective, and the thirty (30) day term to file a notice of appeal will begin, the day this judicial notice is published in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico. A copy of this Notice of Judgment by Publication and the Judgment will be sent by plaintiff to the defendants’ last known address by certified mail, return receipt requested, within ten (10) days of the one and only publication of this judicial notice. San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2nd, 2025. ADA I. GARCÍA-RIVERA, ESQ., CLERK OF THE COURT. ANA DURAN, DEPUTY CLERK. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN VICTOR ENRIQUE CARDONA COLLAZO
Parte Demandante V. JAVIER O. ORTIZ GONZÁLEZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV04977. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; ACCIÓN QUANTI MINORIS; DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS; SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JAVIER O. ORTIZ GONZÁLEZCARRETERA 6690, COVE BY THE SEA APT B5 VEGA ALTA, 00692. POR LA PRESENTE, se le notifica que usted ha sido demandada en el presente caso con el propósito de ejecución de hipoteca. Representa a la parte demandante, la abogada nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: Lcdo. Ernesto Polo Meléndez RUA 14,600
PUERTO RICO BUSINESS GROUP, LLC 1666 Ave. Ponce de León San Juan, PR 00909
Se le apercibe que si no compareciere usted a contestar dicha demanda a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder
utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, se le podrá anotar la rebeldía y se podrá dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado, sin más citarle ni oírle. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 1 de octubre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA E. COLLAZO, SUBSECRETARIA.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. JULIO CESAR DELGADO SÁNCHEZ; Y A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CA2025CV02353. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JULIO CESAR DELGADO SÁNCHEZ - DIRECCIÓN: APT. 906-C, TROPICANA COND. PASEO LOS GOBERNADORES, CANGREJO ARRIBA WARD, CAROLINA, PR 00979.
Por la presents se les notifica que se ha presentado en este Tribunal la Demanda de epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcdo. Fernando Gierbolini; MONSERRATE, SIMONET & GIERBOLINI, 101 Ave. San Patricio, Edificio Maramar Plaza, Suite 1120, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968; Tel: (787) 620-5300, abogado de la parte demandante, con copia de la contestación a la Demanda dentro de las treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una (1) vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general. Se le apercibe que si no contesta la Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representa por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior dentro del término antes indicado, y notificando con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía
y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado a favor de la parte demandante sin más citarle ni oírle. EXTENDIDO BAJO Ml FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 3 de octubre de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ROSA M. VIERA VELÁZQUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN
UE MONTEHIEDRA HOLDING II LLC
Demandante V. PALETAS DE PUERTO RICO INC. H/N/C PALETTAMERICA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2025CV02322. (Salón: 503). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MAURICIO O. MUSTIZ LUCIANOMMUNIZ@MPMLAWPR.COM. NATALIA DEL CARMEN NEGRON ROURE - NNEGRON@MPMLAWPR. COM.
A: PALETAS DE PUERTO RICO INC., POR MEDIO DE SU AGENTE RESIDENTE PALETAS DE AMERICA INC. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de septiembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 30 de septiembre de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 30 de septiembre de 2025. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Ivette M. Marrero Bracero, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA DE ARECIBO BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE JESÚS ROMÁN RIVERA
Demandante Vs. FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE
Demandado Civil Núm.: AR2025CV01849. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE, RICHARD DOE. Quedan ustedes notificados que la demandante de epígrafe ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como co-demandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación vía judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado ante el Notario Público Jaime V. Biaggi Busquets, bajo affidávit número 4,292, a favor de Firstbank Puerto Rico, o a su orden, por la suma de $24,000.00, con intereses al 6.250% anual y vencedero el 1ro de julio de 2020, suscrito el día 30 de junio de 2005, garantizado por hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura Número 70, otorgada en Hatillo, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Público Jaime V. Biaggi Busquets, inscrita al Folio 176 del Tomo 1301 de Arecibo, Registro de la Propiedad, Sección Primera (I) de Arecibo, Finca Número 11,116, inscripción 16ta. El mencionado pagaré hipotecario grava una propiedad inmueble, que se describe como sigue: “URBANA: Solar radicado en el Barrio Tanama de Arecibo, Puerto Rico, compuesto de doscientos seis metros cuarenta centímetros cuadrados (206.40 m/c); lindando por el NORTE, con doce metros con la Sucesión Balseiro antes, hoy, Carmelo Colón; por el SUR, en doce metros, con la calle número dos; por el ESTE, en diecisiete metros veinte centímetros, con José Santos Rodríguez y Angel Serrano; y por el OESTE, en diecisiete metros veinte centímetros, con el resto de la finca principal de donde ésta se segrega. Contiene un edificio de dos plantas de concreto armado con su porch.” Consta inscrita al Folio Ciento Cincuenta y Dos (152) del Tomo Doscientos Treinta y Cuatro (234) de Arecibo, Finca Número Once Mil Ciento Dieciséis (11,116), Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Primera (I) de Arecibo. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lic. Antonio A. Hernández Almodóvar, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009364908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax
(787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal de Arecibo, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del edicto, se le anotará la Rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de septiembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA DÍAZ, SUBSECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO
ESTRELLA COMMERCIAL LLC
Demandante Vs. JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE
Demandados Civil Núm.: RG2025CV00470. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE. Quedan notificados que la parte demandante ha radicado en este Tribunal una Demanda contra ustedes como codemandados, en la que se solicita la cancelación judicial de un Pagaré Hipotecario extraviado a favor de Doral Mortgage Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $45,500.00 e intereses a razón de 7½% anual, vencedero el 1 de marzo de 2009, suscrito el 15 de febrero de 1994 ante y refrendado por el Notario Público Bernardo Colón Barbosa, sin referencia al número de testimonio o affidávit del instrumento negociable. Para garantizar el referido Pagaré Hipotecario, ese mismo día se constituyó hipoteca voluntaria, a través de la Esc. #51 otorgada ante el referido notario público, sobre la siguiente propiedad inmueble: RÚSTICA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Alturas de Río Grande, situada en el Barrio Ciénaga
Baja del término municipal de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización, con el número quinientos ochentiuno del Bloque “M”, con un área de trescientos sesentisiete metros cuadrados con seis centímetros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en trece metros tres centímetros, con el solar quinientos cincuentidós del Bloque “M”; por el SUR, en trece metros con la Calle Trece; por el ESTE, en veintiocho metros setentiún centímetros, con el solar quinientos ochenta del Bloque “M”; y por el OESTE, en veintisiete metros setentiséis centímetros, con el solar quinientos ochentidós del Bloque “M”. El inmueble antes descrito enclava una casa de una sola planta, de concreto reforzado y bloques de concreto para fines residenciales. Consta inscrita al Folio Cincuenta (50) del Tomo Ciento Sesenta (160) de Río Grande, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera (III) de Carolina, Finca Número Ocho Mil Tres (8,003). *Dicho gravamen inmobiliario consta inscrito al Folio #53 del Tomo #160 de Río Grande, Finca #8,003, inscripción 5ta* Se les advierte que este Emplazamiento por Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, RiveraMunich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C., P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009364908, teléfono (787) 622-2323, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Emplazamiento por Edicto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Tratándose de personas desconocidas, se exime a la parte demandante del requisito de enviar por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copia de la Demanda presentada y del Emplazamiento por Edicto a las últimas direcciones conocidas dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes a la publicación. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de septiembre de 2025. WANDA I. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. NERYSA ALEXANDRINO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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The Yankees’ chances to maximize peak Aaron Judge is on the line
By KEN ROSENTHAL / THE ATHLETIC
As reporters entered the New York Yankees’ clubhouse, the only audible sound was of the showers running. The Yankees could not get the stench off soon enough.
The division series was not over on Sunday, but the Yankees were one loss away from another season of failing to win a title with Aaron Judge at the peak of his powers. Judge turns 34 in April. He is not slowing down, save for a bum elbow that limits his throwing. But how many more chances will the Yankees get before he starts to decline?
The question is not yet pressing, even though the Toronto Blue Jays scored 22 of the first 23 runs in the opening two games of this series, leaving the Yankees to “rally” from a 12-0 deficit Sunday in a 13-7 defeat. But even if the Yankees were to win the next two games in New York, starting with Game 3 on Tuesday night, Game 5 would be back at Rogers Centre in Toronto, where they are 1-8 against the Blue Jays this season.
The past two games were nothing like the four-game sweep at the hands of the Blue Jays from June 30 to July 3, when the Yankees embarrassed themselves with their sloppy play. Fans cannot pin this on manager Aaron Boone, nor should the Yankees’ front office. The Jays, riding the split-fingered fastballs of veteran right-hander Kevin Gausman and rookie Trey Yesavage and an offense that seemingly could do no wrong, were simply the better team.
“The biggest takeaway for me is that our level of execution needs to be better,” injured Yankees right-hander Gerrit Cole said. “But their level of execution is objectively hard to deal with at this point. They’re just
raking right now.”
In the aftermath, the Yankees were left with little choice but to resort to the usual backagainst-the-wall, one-game-at-a-time cliches. Judge recalled his rookie season in 2017, when the Yankees rallied from two games down to beat Cleveland in the American League Division Series. They overcame the same deficit against Oakland in 2001.
“There’s been a lot of weird things that have happened in baseball this year,” Boone said. “This would not be the weirdest, us rallying.”
Boone is right. A win by Yankees left-hander Carlos Rodón over Blue Jays righty Shane Bieber in Game 3 would put the Jays in a difficult spot, trying to close out a Game 4 with a bullpen game against red-hot Yankees rookie Cam Schlittler. Gausman would return for a potential Game 5 in Toronto against Yankees lefty Max Fried, who has a 9.42 ERA in three starts at Rogers this season after pitching three innings Sunday and getting rocked for seven runs. At this point, the Yankees would welcome that winner-take-all problem.
The Yankees trailed the Jays by five games in the AL East on Sept. 16, then won 11 of their final 12 to finish with the same record, only to lose the division in a tiebreaker. They then prevailed in two elimination games against the Boston Red Sox in the wild-card series. So again, the challenge they face is not insurmountable. But for a franchise that measures success only by World Series titles, the thought of another disappointing exit is troubling.
The Yankees’ competitive window, mind you, never closes. And while outfielders Trent Grisham (34 homers) and Cody Bellinger (29) are among the team’s potential free agents, they will either be re-signed or replaced. By the end of next season, the rotation could include Rodón, Schlittler, Gil and Fried, plus Cole and Clarke Schmidt coming off Tommy John surgeries. That is a heck of a starting point.
Then again, Cole will be 35 next season — like Judge, not getting any younger.
“I’m not concerned,” Cole said. “The track record of putting a team out there that has the potential to make the playoffs every year, go deep into the playoffs and win the World Series is rather great. You mentioned some of the aging players. We have a lot of good young players, too. And obviously, we can acquire any type of player whenever we want through all three markets. So, no, I’m not concerned.”
Fair enough. The Yankees, with 27 consecutive winning seasons under general manager
Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees runs the bases after hitting a home run in the first inning of the Opening Day baseball game between the Yankees and San Francisco Giants at Yankee Stadium in New York, March 30, 2023. “Judge turns 34 in April. He is not slowing down, save for a bum elbow that limits his throwing. But how many more chances will the Yankees get before he starts to decline?” columnist Ken Rosenthal asks. (Hiroko Masuike/ The New York Times)
Brian Cashman, always seem to figure out a path to contention. But much of their recent success is attributable to Judge. And while Judge is 8 for 18 this postseason with two walks, his only extra-base hit is a double. And in his biggest at-bat — bases loaded, none out, with the Yankees trailing 2-0 in the sixth inning of Game 1 in this series — Gausman struck him out.
Think about it: Judge might win his third MVP award in four years, but Jays superstar Vladimir Guerrero Jr. arguably has produced more electrifying postseason moments in two days, with a first-inning homer in Game 1 and a grand slam in Game 2, than Judge has in his entire career.
Again, the series is not over. One can even argue that the Jays needed to win the first two games, given that the pitching matchups in the next two seem to favor the Yankees. But the Yankees also appeared to hold an edge with Fried, a $218 million free agent, facing Yesavage, who was making his fourth major league start. Eleven strikeouts in 5 1/3 hitless innings later, we saw how that turned out.
Losing to a hot team in the playoffs would not necessarily be cause for finger-pointing and self-loathing. Losing the way the Yankees did in last year’s World Series, stumbling
all over themselves against the Los Angeles Dodgers, was worse. But in the end, the essential result would be the same.
Another year of missed opportunity. Another season lost with the clock ticking on Aaron Judge.
MLB Playoffs Division Series (Best-of-5) ALDS
Tuesday’s Games
Seattle Mariners at Detroit Tigers (Series tied 1-1)
Toronto Blue Jays at New York Yankees (Toronto leads 2-0)
Today’s Games (All times Eastern) ALDS
Mariners at Tigers, 3:08 p.m. (FS1)
Blue Jays at Yankees (if needed), 7:08 p.m. (FS1)
NLDS
Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs (Milwaukee leads 2-0), 5:08 p.m. (TBS)
Philadelphia Phillies at Los Angeles Dodg ers (Los Angeles leads 2-0), 9:08 p.m. (TBS)
The San Juan Daily Star
San Juan Senators extend Kenen Irizarry’s contract by 2 years
By THE STAR STAFF
The San Juan Senators secured the permanence of player Kenen Irizarry for the next two seasons on Tuesday, extending his contract as part of the core
Yauco-born Kenen Irizarry, 25, has eight seasons of professional baseball experience and has been a key player for the San Juan Senators with his offensive and defensive consistency.
of the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League team.
“With this extension, we ensure we have one of the most versatile players on the team,” Senators General Manager Joey Solá said in a written statement. “He can play in the infield, he can play in the outfield, and he’s a great hitter. He gives us stability, as he can play any position in the infield, and it’s very important to have him on our roster.”
Irizarry, 25, has eight seasons of professional experience and has been an important figure for the San Juan team due to his offensive and defensive consistency. The Yauco native has most recently played in an independent league for teams in Ohio and Quebec, Canada.
“Thank God for making this possible. Grateful for the opportunity to continue wearing the San Juan Senators uniform for two more years,” Irizarry said in a written statement. “The Senators have become my home. The best is yet to come.”
The Senators will kick off the 2025-26 season on Nov. 6, when they visit the Mayagüez Indians at Isidoro “Cholo” García Stadium.
Isabela and Carolina secure spots in BSNF playoffs
By THE STAR STAFF
The Pollitas of Isabela and the Gigantes of Carolina secured their respective places in the Women’s National Superior Basketball (BSNF) playoffs on Monday night.
The Pollitas defeated the Ganaderas of Hatillo 66-54 at José “Buga” Abreu Coliseum in Isabela.
Anisha George led the Pollitas with 15 points and 13 rebounds. Lasha Petree added 15 points, and Quionche Carter had 14.
Mckenzie Forbes scored 19 points and Okako Adika scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Hatillo.
Isabela currently sits in third place with a 9-5 record, while the Ganaderas remain in sixth place at 6-7.
At Roger Mendoza Coliseum in Caguas, Aisha Sheppard led the way with 26 points to secure the runner-up Gigantes’ place in the postseason with a 73-72 victory over the Criollas of Caguas.
Charity Harris and Kiara Leslie each added 12 points for Carolina.
Asia Taylor led the Criollas with 23 points, Kai James added 11 points with 10 rebounds, and Amanda Paschal
had 10 points.
Carolina is currently 9-7 in fifth place. The Criollas, meanwhile, have a 5-9 record in the eighth and final playoff spot.
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Lasha Petree had 15 points to help the Pollitas of Isabela secure a spot in the BSNF postseason.
