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Retailers support ban on plastic bags but insist on consistency in law’s enforcement
By THE STAR STAFF
The United Retailers Center (CUD by its acronym in Spanish) said on Tuesday that a 2015 law banning single-use plastic bags in businesses has led to increased costs for those businesses.
The CUD presented its viewpoint to the Puerto Rico Senate Committee on Economic Development, Essential Services, and Consumer Affairs, chaired by Sen. Nitza Moran Trinidad, regarding the 2015 legislation that prohibited the use of non-reusable plastic bags.
Agnes Martínez, a legal adviser representing CUD President Ramón C. Barquín III at the hearing, expressed support for the measure but emphasized the need for consistency in legislation and public strategies that do not place unfair burdens on local businesses, particularly small and midsize enterprises (SMEs by the initials in Spanish).
“Puerto Rico needs to protect the environment, but it also needs to support its merchants,” she stated on behalf of Barquín. “SMEs are already facing numerous operational costs. Imposing new restrictive measures without consulting those on the front lines -- our retailers -- creates a disconnect between public policy and commercial realities.”
During the hearing, the CUD raised concerns about the lack of uniformity and clarity in the implementation of Act 247-2015, which was originally intended to decrease the consumption of single-use plastic bags. While the center supports the spirit of the law, it criticized the absence of effective educational campaigns and highlighted the economic burden and uncertainty felt by
business owners due to ongoing legislative changes.
“Our recommendation is clear: if we are going to redesign public policy on this issue, it should be a participatory process, backed by data, and include a reasonable guidance period,” Martínez emphasized. “Legislation cannot be enacted without consulting businesses.”
The CUD also warned that many merchants have faced additional expenses by transitioning to more expensive reusable bags without receiving any support or compensation. They stressed further that consumers must also take responsibility for adopting sustainable practices.
While the CUD reaffirmed its commitment to environmental protection, it reiterated that any solution must be pragmatic, collaborative, and grounded in the realities faced by small businesses on the island.
“We are here to contribute,” Martínez said. “We want to collaborate in building a cleaner Puerto Rico while ensuring fairness for those who create jobs, pay taxes, and strive every day to keep their doors open. Without local businesses, there is no country.”.
Cidra mayor’s office kicks off citizen services outreach initiative
By THE STAR STAFF
The Municipal Government of Cidra inaugurated its “Mayor’s Office Near You” initiative over the weekend, an effort aimed at bringing municipal and state services closer to citizens through community fairs, Mayor Delvis Pagán Clavijo said.
With the initiative, “we aim to ensure that services don’t remain in municipal offices, but rather reach the neighborhoods and communities where our people live,” the mayor said. “This first fair demonstrated that when the government is closer to home, needs are addressed more quickly and people feel heard. We will continue to extend this effort to other areas of Cidra because we want a more accessible government that maintains direct contact with its citizens.”
The first event was held at the Alfonso Cotto Sports
Complex, on the Carlos Rodríguez court in the Rabanal neighborhood, and brought together more than 45 service booths, including state agencies, municipal departments, non-profit organizations, and legislative personnel from the Puerto Rico House of Representatives and Senate. In addition to the direct services to citizens in health, housing, transportation and security, among others, attendees enjoyed music performances, free haircuts, and direct guidance from the mayor.
“This is just the beginning,” Pagán Clavijo said. “The idea is for this project to become a permanent meeting place between the government and the people, where every citizen can be certain that their concerns are addressed without unnecessary bureaucracy.”
The mayor added that the program will impact other communities in the coming months, with the aim of covering the entire municipality
Sen. Nitza Moran Trinidad
NPP lawmakers fire back after Maduro’s remarks about PR role in US military actions
By THE STAR STAFF
New Progressive Party (NPP) Reps. José Aponte Hernández, José “Che” Pérez Cordero, Lourdes Ramos Rivera, Víctor Parés Otero, and Emilio Carlo Acosta on Tuesday described Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s remarks earlier this week about Puerto Rico and Gov. Jenniffer González Colón as an “act of desperation.”
The legislators recalled that just a few months ago, Maduro publicly called for the invasion of Puerto Rico to “make it independent.”
On Monday, Maduro, whose government, the lawmakers noted, is recognized by only a handful of nations, the vast majority of them authoritarian regimes such as Russia, China, North Korea, Nicaragua and Iran, said on Russian television that the Puerto Rico governor is joining “a military plan” by the United States against his country.
“This is the same Nicolás Maduro who, in February, called on the Brazilian government to invade Puerto Rico,” the legislators said in a written statement. “He is the same dictator who overwhelmingly lost the July 2024 elections and stole them, maintaining an illegitimate presidency. He is the same oppressor who keeps millions of Venezuelans living in extreme poverty, eradicates freedom of expression, and imprisons all who oppose him, not to mention those who disappear. His statements yesterday, in a media outlet paid for by another dictatorial and oppressive government, that of the Russian Federation, against Puerto Rico, are understood as an act of intimidation to provoke fear, which he has in the face of the actions of the United States Army.”
“Maduro knows that his game of getting rich off the illegal drugs he and his associates allow to transit through Venezuela is coming to an end,” the statement said. “Data indicates that in 2020, Venezuela served as a port for between 200 and 250 metric tons of cocaine, destined for the United States, including Puerto Rico. That’s equivalent to 13 percent of all cocaine worldwide. Now that our nation is taking concrete actions to eradicate this flow, Maduro is afraid, and that’s why he’s spouting what we can only describe as senseless foolishness.”
“Maduro is cornered by his own actions,” the NPP lawmakers said in the statement. “In Puerto Rico, we are not afraid to act on behalf of our citizens, supporting the necessary actions to stem the flow of drugs from Venezuela. Our nation’s Armed Forces will take the actions they deem appropriate.”
On Monday, González Colón downplayed concerns about any retaliation against Puerto Rico in light of the U.S. government’s offensive against Venezuela and its staging of operations at military installations on the island.
“Who’s going to attack us? Maduro’s yola?” the governor said at a press conference. “I believe the naval power of the United States is evident. The power in logistics, in equipment, the thousands of Puerto Rican soldiers who defend our nation in every battle. So, it’s great that we have this presence here and that we are being protected.”
González Colón insisted that the U.S. military actions seek to attack drug trafficking.
“This must have an impact on reducing the number of drugs entering the country and the crime affecting the island,” she said.
“Everyone knows that drugs enter through our coasts, coming from Colombia and Venezuela. More and more drugs continue to arrive here, drugs that rob our people of their lives. Most violent crimes in Puerto Rico are the result of the drug wars. And from here, those drugs travel to the United States, to the East Coast.”
The governor added that the U.S. military activities will continue, and that “Puerto Rico can once again position itself as an operations and logistics hub for the United States government to South America, Africa, and Europe, thanks to its strategic location.”
On Monday morning, as reported by the STAR, González Colón received U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at Muñiz Air Base in Carolina, along with Adjt. Gen. Carlos José Rivera Román and Public Safety Secretary Arthur Garffer. The meeting focused on support for the military personnel stationed in Puerto Rico and efforts against drug trafficking in the region.
On Tuesday, W. Stephen Muldrow, the U.S. attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, said he has “no doubt” that the Venezuelan “Cartel of the Suns” (Cartel de los Soles) plays a major role in the drug trafficking that arrives from the Caribbean Sea in Puerto Rico and its transshipment to the East Coast of the United States.
The so-called “Cartel of the Suns” is made up of Venezuelan military and other officials who use the symbol of the sun to mark their ranks. It is alleged to have allowed the movement of drug shipments from Colombia, Venezuela, Peru or Ecuador in exchange for money, and is also alleged to assist the “Tren de Aragua” organization and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC by its acronym in Spanish, in drug trafficking.
“Well, as we know, countries like Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and Ecuador are countries of origin for cocaine, and now they’re producing more in Mexico and other places,” Muldrow said at a press conference. “Fentanyl, methamphetamine, and many drugs
that they’re sending to the United States. Like another terrorist organization that was designated, the Cartel of the Suns is also a state sponsor of all these types of crimes, whether it’s drug trafficking or any other crime. Tren de Aragua is a tool for them to ship drugs and also to commit crimes in the United States, just like many other countries in South America. Obviously, they controlled the drugs in their country that were being sent directly to Puerto Rico. So, that means these cartels are part of the problem here in Puerto Rico.”
The U.S. Justice Department links Maduro and Venezuelan Minister of the Interior, Justice, and Peace Diosdado Cabello Rondón as leaders of the so-called “Cartel de los Soles.” There is a $50 million reward for the capture of Maduro and a $25 million reward for Cabello Rondón.
Asked whether drug trafficking cases arising from President Donald Trump’s offensive in the waters near Venezuela will be handled in Puerto Rico, Muldrow replied that “as everyone knows, the administration and the Department of Justice are working to eliminate the cartels.”
“That includes those who are sending this poison, this drug, to the coast of Puerto Rico and the United States,” he said. “As we know, drugs enter Puerto Rico directly on speedboats in different ways. And when those drugs arrive in Puerto Rico on speedboats, we will continue to arrest and prosecute those criminals in federal court. And that will be part of the tools we have to put an end to these cartels.”
Muldrow sent a message to the drug trafficking organizations.
“We are very grateful for the resources available here to put an end to these drugs entering Puerto Rico, which are causing so much harm to the community with violence and drug dealing,” the island’s top federal prosecutor said. “They aren’t committing crimes of violence against so many innocent people over shoes or anything else. They’re harming our communities with drugs and the money they earn from them. And I want to send a message: if you decide to commit acts of violence in the community, you’re at the top of the list. If you want the full weight of the federal and state governments to pay attention, keep committing these crimes of violence, and we’ll knock on your door at 6 a.m. and arrest you and anyone else helping that person commit those crimes. It’s over for these cartels to believe they can do what they want to do.”
Rep. José “Che” Pérez Cordero (Facebook via José Che Pérez Cordero)
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela during a ceremony to swear in new members of the Bolivarian militia at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Jan. 7, 2025. (The New York Times)
Senate president introduces amendments to Electoral Code
By THE STAR STAFF
Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz introduced Senate Bill (SB) 717 on Tuesday, which aims to amend the Electoral Code to create a more streamlined, reliable and accessible voting process for all voters.
“These amendments directly address the experiences from the most recent electoral processes,” Rivera Schatz said. “They are designed to facilitate voting, prevent irregularities, and strengthen transparency throughout the electoral process. Puerto Rico deserves modern, fair, and reliable systems.”
The Senate leader highlighted the need to correct the mistakes made during previous elections.
“It is illogical for early votes to be counted only after the general vote count, as was the case in 2024, which unnecessarily prolonged electoral uncertainty and diminished public confidence,” Rivera Schatz asserted. “These reforms will ensure that the counting begins in an organized manner, so we never again face an indefinite delay that undermines the credibility of the process.”
Additionally, he emphasized that the proposed amendments aim to support older populations.
“In the 2024 election, many older adults had to stand in long lines for hours. We cannot allow that to happen again,” Rivera Schatz noted. “With these amendments, we are introducing in-person early voting for individuals aged 55 and older, ensuring they can vote comfortably and with respect.”
SB 717 includes the following key changes the Senate president
said are designed to benefit voters and the democratic process:
In-person early voting for adults over 55: Eligible voters can cast their ballots up to 10 days before the election, which reduces lines and enhances convenience.
More Permanent Registration Boards (JIPs by the initials in Spanish): An additional 23 JIPs will be established, expanding the total to 40, thereby improving access to electoral services and facilitating early voting logistics.
Faster and more transparent vote counting: The State Elections Commission (SEC) must begin counting early votes 30 days prior to the election, preventing delays in result announcements.
Extended voting hours: Polling stations will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., providing voters with more time to participate.
More accurate preliminary results: The SEC will publish partial results at noon the day following the election, helping to avoid confusion on election night while ballots are still being counted.
Uniform closing of the Voter Registry: The registry will close 50 days before the general and primary elections, ensuring certainty and order in the electoral process.
Increased reliability in early and absentee voting: Clear criteria and evidence requirements will be established for requesting these voting methods, ensuring transparency and preventing fraud.
Enhanced electoral security: The use of printed lists will be eliminated unless necessary in emergencies, prioritizing the electronic “E-Poll Book” system to minimize errors and duplication.
Orderly transitions within the SEC: Transition mechanisms will be put in place for directors in the event of changes in the political
majority, ensuring administrative continuity.
“Voting is the most powerful tool of democracy,” Rivera Schatz said. “With these amendments, we aim to ensure the integrity of the electoral process and make it easier for everyone, especially older citizens, to exercise their right to vote safely, reliably, and fairly.”
SB 717 will be reviewed by the relevant committees, allowing for a comprehensive and open legislative debate with the participation of all sectors interested in strengthening Puerto Rican democracy.
LUMA & Genera under scrutiny: Energy Bureau demands disclosure of potential conflicts of interest
By THE STAR STAFF
The hearing examiner overseeing the new power rate case at the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has ordered LUMA Energy and Genera PR to disclose any potential conflicts of interest between their companies’ self-interests and the public interest.
Scott Hempling, the hearing examiner, issued the order on Monday, expressing dissatisfaction with the companies’ previous denials of any conflicts of interest. He highlighted several factors that suggest the existence of such conflicts, despite the companies’ claims otherwise.
Hempling noted that LUMA, as the operator of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority’s (PREPA) transmission and distribution system, holds significant influence over the entry of new renewable energy projects. That influence, the hearing examiner said, is compounded by its status as a subsidiary of Quanta, which is also a competitor in Puerto Rico’s renewable energy market. Genera, meanwhile, operates Puerto Rico’s legacy generation fleet, and its parent company, New Fortress Energy, is a primary supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to both Puerto Rico and Genera.
Both LUMA and Genera’s parent companies are involved
in the business of supplying and modernizing infrastructure for distribution and transmission (LUMA) and for generation (Genera). Therefore, they have a financial incentive to pursue energy solutions in Puerto Rico that involve infrastructure development.
Additionally, LUMA employs “seconded” employees from its parent companies, Quanta and ATCO.
Hempling pointed out that the amount of ratepayer funds
each company seeks for various performance improvement activities can enhance their profitability in several ways: by minimizing potential performance penalties, increasing the likelihood of receiving contractual “incentive fees,” and reducing the chances that the Puerto Rican government might terminate their contracts.
The CEOs of LUMA and Genera are required to submit their pre-filed testimony, labeled “Supplemental Testimony on Conflicts,” no later than Sept. 22. The testimony should address whether the companies recognize any conflicts of interest and describe the measures in place to prevent any harmful actions against Puerto Rico’s electricity consumers.
“It is human nature, and business nature, to seek advantage at others’ expense. If this were not true, we would not need supermarket checkout counters to prevent theft or tax auditors to prevent cheating. We would let utilities set their own rates,” Hempling stated in the order. “The question is not whether one has a conflict of interest; the question is whether one is sufficiently self-aware and honest enough to identify the conflicts and then establish alert systems to prevent acting upon them.”
The rate case, which began earlier this year, aims to determine the revenue requirements and rate design necessary to sustain the operations of the power grid.
Scott Hempling, the hearing examiner overseeing the new power rate case before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (LinkedIn)
Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz
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Many cities say yes to federal police help, but no to ‘occupation’
By SHAILA DEWAN and NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS
In the summer of 2020, President Donald Trump sent federal agents to Kansas City, Missouri, as he blamed liberal mayors for a “shocking explosion” of “bloodshed.”
Mayor Quinton Lucas, a Democrat, bristled at the suggestion that local officials were to blame for his city’s spike in crime. And with distrust of law enforcement at a high after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis that year, he worried about how federal law enforcement officers would conduct themselves on the ground.
Yet over the next few months, Lucas came to endorse parts of the federal mission, named Operation Legend after a 4-year-old Kansas City boy who had been killed by a wayward bullet as he slept.
Working with the local police, federal agents helped track down people with open felony warrants, recovered illegal guns and charged some suspects with federal crimes that can carry stiffer penalties than those available under state law. Now, as Trump renews his promise to tackle crime in U.S. cities, Lucas said he could imagine welcoming the help — if it came with a clear strategy.
National Guard at the New Mexico Law Academy learning from State Police, April 25, 2025. Some mayors and police chiefs said they would welcome more traditional law enforcement cooperation with federal agents, but see the National Guard as a step too far. (Brad Trone/The New York Times)
“I’d say yes in an instant,” he said, if federal agents were sent to help keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and teenagers or to trace bullets used in shootings. “I’d go to the White House and have a press conference with them tomorrow.”
In interviews, many mayors and police chiefs around the country said they were put off by Trump’s recent effort to “take back” Washington, D.C., by deploying the National Guard, and they expressed concerns about the wisdom and legality of using the military to conduct domestic law enforcement.
But those same leaders said they would welcome more of the aid that federal agents routinely provide at the local level in the fight against crime — tracing guns, conducting surveillance, capturing fugitives and serving on task forces with local agencies to root out terrorism, human trafficking and drug rings.
There might even be a place for the National Guard if commanders are willing to collaborate with local law enforcement, said Chief Harold Medina of the Albuquerque Police Department. In March, Medina sent a message to New Mexico’s governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, requesting such help. He said the city was bedeviled by gun violence, fentanyl and a shortage of police officers.
As a result, about 90 Guard soldiers have been detailed to Albuquerque to watch security cameras, operate drones, help keep the public away from SWAT operations and deliver arrest paperwork to prosecutors on time. Their work has freed up local officers to spend thousands more hours on investigations, arrests and patrols.
“Best request I ever made,” Medina said.
But, he cautioned, that Guard deployment was carefully plotted in advance, down to what the troops would wear (polo shirts) and how they would be armed (with pepper spray). The soldiers also received six weeks of training on topics such as de-escalation and crisis intervention.
“I’ve been able to direct what we need help with, and I think that’s the key,” he said. “You have to respect the chief.”
Many local leaders worry that the surge of federal agents Trump is now proposing could come without that kind of planning, and with additional priorities that are in conflict with the desires of cities and their residents — such as deporting people residing in the country illegally.
After its rollout in Kansas City, Operation Legend was brought to eight more cities, where the reception by local leaders ranged from lukewarm to caustic. Many feared a repeat of the crackdown on street protesters in Portland, Oregon, by federal agents in unmarked vans, which had drawn widespread public opposition. In Chicago, the mayor at the time, Lori Lightfoot, opposed the operation in a letter in which she criticized the use of “secret federal agents” who “do not know Chicago” and
who would operate outside the chain of command.
The FBI said that Operation Legend ultimately resulted in more than 6,000 arrests and the seizure of more than 2,600 guns. Those figures might not be entirely reliable; crime experts said it was difficult to tell which arrests were directly attributable to the federal program.
Brandon Johnson, the Democratic mayor of Chicago, signed an executive order last week once again resisting Trump’s vow to send troops into the city, saying he hoped to head off a flood of immigration agents deporting Chicago residents or any attempt to put “tanks in our streets.”
On Saturday, Trump posted a message on his social media site alluding to immigration raids and his renaming of the Defense Department: “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
Johnson said that the city’s Police Department must remain under local control but noted that local officers already collaborated with federal agents, particularly in hunting down guns and drugs, as well as in human trafficking cases.
One federal service that local departments cite as particularly useful is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ crime gun tracing, handled by 25 centers across the country that bring together federal, state and local agencies. In addition, Johnson asked for more help in preventing the flow of illegal guns into Chicago. Trump, though, has proposed slashing the bureau’s budget and roster of inspectors.
The existing collaboration with federal agencies has been cited by other cities in arguing that a dramatic show of force, such as a National Guard deployment, is not needed and could, in fact, be counterproductive.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott of Baltimore, a Democrat, noted a significant reduction in homicides so far this year and chalked that reduction up, in part, to a strong collaboration with federal agents from the ATF, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
“We welcome them sending more,” he said, if the administration wants to deploy more federal agents — but not National Guard troops — to Baltimore.
“We do not want an occupation, and we also want something that is sustainable,” he said.
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Tasa mínima, promedio ponderado, y máxima para préstamos personales pequeños otorgados para la semana que terminó el sábado, 6 de septiembre de 2025
Wealthy NY developers call meeting to plot Mamdani’s defeat
By DANA RUBINSTEIN
Some of New York City’s richest landlords are done sitting on the sidelines of the mayor’s race in New York City.
In an email blast sent out at 6:55 p.m. Monday, the man who is arguably Manhattan’s biggest developer appealed to his exclusive circle, saying that if they did not take immediate action to support former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the election in November would assuredly be won by Assembly member Zohran Mamdani.
“Sorry for the late notice, but there is no more time for delay, discussion, or dithering — we must act decisively to ensure that the next mayor of New York is Andrew Cuomo,” read the note from Jeff Blau, the developer of Hudson Yards, and his wife, Lisa Blau, an investor. “The only viable candidate with the experience, support and gravitas to defeat Zohran Mamdani is Governor Andrew Cuomo.”
The email, acquired by The New York Times on Monday evening, urged recipients to gather Tuesday at 8:30 a.m., less than 14 hours later, at the Pool Room, an exclusive event space in the Seagram Building in midtown, to meet Cuomo and help plot his path to victory.
“We cannot afford hesitation,” the email read. “Every one of us must get involved immediately.”
In addition to the Blaus, the invitation was signed by, among others, a co-owner of the Seagram Building, Aby Rosen; billionaire philanthropist Laurie M. Tisch; and hedge fund billionaire Gregg Hymowitz.
Hymowitz and Rosen did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Tisch could not be reached for comment. A spokesperson for the Blaus declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for Cuomo.
The meeting comes at a potentially pivotal moment in this year’s chaotic race
for mayor as it enters its final eight weeks. Months after Mamdani, a democratic socialist Assembly member from Queens, inspired panic among Wall Street and real estate leaders by trouncing Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor, the general election remains unsettled, with moneyed interests sitting restlessly on the sidelines as they wait for the field to consolidate behind a formidable challenger to Mamdani.
In recent days, the race appears to have shifted slightly in that direction. Jim Walden, a prominent lawyer who had mounted an independent campaign for mayor, said he was dropping out and urged his rivals to unite against Mamdani.
Mayor Eric Adams, who like Cuomo is running as an independent, privately told allies that he was seriously considering jobs that could prompt him to suspend his reelection campaign, and he met last week in Florida
with Steve Witkoff, an adviser to President Donald Trump. Witkoff, in turn, had been helping craft a plan to get Trump to nominate Adams as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. That plan appears to have at least temporarily lost steam.
In a hastily arranged Friday afternoon news conference, Adams insisted he was not going anywhere.
Yet the very next day, Bill Ackman, a billionaire financier who was once so close to Adams that he helped vet the mayor’s campaign manager, urged Adams to step aside.
“I strongly believe that what is best for NYC — Eric stepping aside — is also what is best for Eric Adams,” Ackman wrote on social media. “Eric should know that goodwill is a very valuable asset and the alternative is a very costly liability.”
Advisers to Trump have also discussed finding a job for Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate and founder of the Guardian Angels, something Sliwa has said he will not consider.
These developments appear to have inspired hope among business leaders that consolidation in the mayoral field might soon be at hand.
“The time to act is now,” read the email. “If we fail to mobilize, the financial capital of the world risks being handed over to a socialist this November. We cannot — and will not — let that happen.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for Mamdani suggested that the business leaders’ behind-the-scenes maneuvering reflected poorly on Cuomo, their chosen candidate.
“While billionaires continue to panic and scheme behind closed doors, our campaign is mobilizing tens of thousands of New Yorkers to get involved in the democratic process and rally around an agenda to make this city affordable,” Dora Pekec, a spokesperson for the Mamdani campaign, said in a statement. “That contrast should tell you everything you need to know about this race.”
Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani greets supporters before the start of a Labor Day parade sponsored by the New York City Central Labor Council AFL-CIO in New York, Sept. 6, 2025. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
These peace negotiators say it’s time to
By MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Rob Malley, who has worked on Middle East policy in every Democratic administration since Bill Clinton’s, can’t say exactly when he became convinced that the quest for a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine was doomed.
His doubts were cumulative; there was no epiphany. “As I look back, I wonder how much we really believed in the goal that we said we were pursuing,” he said of decades of U.S.led efforts to bring about a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However sincere all that diplomacy was, it’s ended in ashes.
When we spoke last week, he juxtaposed our current bleak and bloody moment with 1993, the year of the historic Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which seemed at the time to be the beginning of the road toward Palestinian statehood. “Is there any one metric where you would say, thanks to the U.S., things are better today than they were?” he asked.
Malley has coauthored a new book with Palestinian peace negotiator Hussein Agha, “Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine.” It is the story of more than three decades of failure. Malley and Agha — who’d been an adviser and confidant to Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, now president of the Palestinian National Authority — met at a Washington dinner in 1999, they write, “at the height of America’s excitement at the possibility of peace.” Their book is a
bitter epitaph for that time. “The era of the peace process, of the two-state solution, has vanished,” they write.
The goal of a Palestinian state, they suggest, may have always been futile. It certainly had no chance of succeeding while the United States refused to exert real pressure on Israel.
But even as facts on the ground — the mushrooming of the settlements, the cataclysm of Oct. 7, 2023, the decimation of the Gaza Strip— have made a two-state solution seem ever more fanciful, it’s a hard concept to abandon. “Deep down, believers in two states, confronted with all reasons to surrender their faith, fall back on a single argument: There is no alternative,” write Agha and Malley. “Partition is considered inevitable even as it becomes harder to imagine because they are not capable of imagining anything else.”
Malley’s indictment of the peace process is striking given his own lifelong role in the foreign policy establishment. He was part of the team that organized the Camp David summit in 2000, a somewhat frantic attempt by a lame duck Clinton, working closely with Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel, to engineer a settlement with the Palestinians. Later, he served as President Barack Obama’s point person on the Middle East, where he led negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal. He was President Joe Biden’s special envoy for Iran, working with his former high school classmate Antony Blinken, Biden’s secretary of state.
Yet partly thanks to his unlikely family history, Malley didn’t have the same innate bias toward Israel as many of his colleagues. His father was an Egyptian Jew but a committed antiZionist Arab nationalist; he introduced a young Malley to Arafat during a family trip to Algiers. Malley didn’t share his father’s radical leftist politics, writing that while his father viewed Israel purely as an illegitimate colonial power, he saw “two competing national movements in need of some kind of coexistence.” But Malley was an outsider to the liberal Zionist culture that shaped many of the Americans he worked with.
He’s long been hated by the pro-Israel right, which was gleeful when, in 2023, he was put on leave from his position in the Biden administration because of an investigation into his handling of classified documents. Malley said his lawyers were told this year that the case had been closed, and he never learned precisely what it was about, describing the experience as “Kafkaesque.” He regrets the fact that, due to his suspension, he couldn’t resign from the Biden administration over its role in Israel’s brutalization of Gaza.
two-state solution
Given his record, nothing Malley says about the Middle East is likely to be taken seriously by conservatives. But even those who cling to the dream of two states should reckon with his and Agha’s analysis. I’m the sort of person they refer to in their book, someone who has lost faith that there will ever be a Palestinian state but can’t envision a workable, tolerable alternative.
Israel is not going to dismantle itself. A binational state with equal rights for all sounds appealing in theory; in practice, the last thing Israelis and Palestinians want is closer relations. In a May poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, only 14% of Palestinian respondents favored the creation of a single state for all. Forty-seven percent said they wanted a Palestinian state within the borders that existed before 1967.
In “Tomorrow Is Yesterday,” Malley and Agha float a few ideas besides the creation of a single, binational state, including a Palestinian confederation with Jordan. “Israelis, almost viscerally unwilling to entrust their future to the Palestinians, hold a more sympathetic view of Jordan for reasons historical, political and psychological,” they write. They’re aware of all the obstacles to such a confederation, including Palestinian nationalism and Jordanian reluctance to accept millions of new Palestinian citizens. No resolution is without grave difficulties; their point is that options exist.
There’s something academic about this entire debate, since there’s not going to be a remotely humane resolution to this conflict anytime soon. In the near term, we’re staring down Israel’s annexation of the West Bank — de facto if not official — and the ethnic cleansing of Gaza carried out with the full support of President Donald Trump. For the foreseeable future, the only state between the river and the sea is likely to be Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel.
But as “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” makes clear, the terrible status quo is exactly what makes easy slogans about a two-state solution dangerous. By acting as if a Palestinian state is on the horizon, we perpetuate the illusion that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land is temporary. Invoking two states helps European countries — and the Democratic Party — justify their support for Israel even as they condemn starvation in Gaza. If we believe in two states, we can believe in a future where Israel is both Jewish and democratic, and thus worthy of liberal support. If that future is never coming, then talk of two states is an alibi, not an aspiration.
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LA FORTALEZA – El secretario de Asuntos Públicos, Hiram Torres Montalvo, dijo el martes que la administración de Jenniffer Aidyn González Colón no evalúa propuestas para el uso de energía nuclear y que ese tema no está ante la consideración de la gobernadora.
“Nuestro programa de gobierno no incluye una propuesta que considere el uso de energía nuclear”, dijo Torres Montalvo en conferencia de prensa.
“En estos momentos no se está evaluando ningún tipo de propuesta; no está en el escritorio de la gobernadora”, añadió al responder si la opción quedaba descartada a futuro. Sostuvo que entrar en escenarios hipotéticos “sería sumamente especulativo”.
GUAYANILLA
– Catholic Extension Society anunció el martes el comienzo de la primera fase para conservar y encaminar la reconstrucción de la Parroquia Inmaculada Concepción, con labores de apuntalamiento y demolición selectiva tras los daños causados por los sismos de dos mil veinte.
“La Parroquia Inmaculada Concepción es un símbolo de fe e identidad para el pueblo de Guayanilla; este esfuerzo protege la estructura y renueva la esperanza de devolverle la vida a este espacio”, dijo el ingeniero Walmer Martínez en declaraciones escritas.
La obra está a cargo de DFM Contractors bajo la supervisión del principal oficial de reconstrucción,
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El funcionario afirmó que el enfoque del Ejecutivo es robustecer la generación existente y aumentar la reserva en megavatios para evitar interrupciones. Indicó que se trabaja para sostener márgenes de reserva que, según dijo, rondan los mil doscientos megavatios, y que se continuará el esfuerzo para estabilizar el sistema eléctrico.
La Cámara de Comercio de Puerto Rico solicitó al Negociado de Energía y a la Autoridad para las Alianzas Público Privadas que incluyan energía nuclear y otras tecnologías de nueva generación en las subastas para adquirir tres mil megavatios adicionales. “No podemos limitar opciones cuando existen tecnologías que pueden complementar de manera efectiva las fuentes actuales”, expresó su presidenta, Margaret Ramírez Báez, en declaraciones escritas.
ingeniero Walmer Martínez, y es liderada por la Diócesis de Ponce, representada por el padre Carlos Collazo, junto al párroco, padre Melvin Díaz Aponte. El templo, edificado entre mil ochocientos treinta y ocho y mil ochocientos cuarenta, figura entre los últimos construidos bajo el dominio español en la isla y quedó en ruinas tras los terremotos, inoperante y en riesgo de colapso.
La fase inicial incluye el apuntalamiento total de la estructura para evitar un colapso, demoliciones selectivas en áreas irreparables, limpieza del área, disposición de escombros y mitigación de materiales peligrosos como plomo. También contempla estudios arqueológicos por Chronicle Heritage con excavaciones de hasta un metro para identificar posibles restos del antiguo cementerio
Guayanilla
parroquial, en coordinación con la Oficina Estatal de Preservación Histórica y el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña.
Esta primera fase cuenta con una inversión aproximada de 3 millones de dólares y, según se informó, se extenderá cerca de un año, con la creación de treinta a treinta y cinco empleos directos y veinte a veinticinco indirectos. La Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias otorgó su aprobación durante la última semana de agosto, paso clave para poner en marcha el plan.
“Para nuestra comunidad, este proyecto representa esperanza y compromiso con nuestra fe y nuestra historia; es el primer paso para devolverle vida a nuestra parroquia”, expresó el padre Melvin Díaz Aponte, párroco de la Inmaculada Concepción.
Le dicen que no a la Cámara de Comercio sobre considerar establecimiento de energía nuclear en la isla Identifican a hombre arrastrado por corriente en el área de Infinity Pool en Naguabo
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NAGUABO – La Policía informó el martes que identificó como Carlos Rohwel Ramos Pagán, de 26 años y residente de Vega Baja, al hombre que murió tras caer de un risco y ser arrastrado por corrientes de agua en el área recreativa conocida como Infinity Pool, en el barrio Cubuy de Naguabo.
Según el informe policial, una llamada al Sistema de Emergencias 9-1-1 alertó el lunes en la tarde sobre un hombre que sufrió una caída de aproximadamente 80 pies de altura en la zona boscosa de la carretera 191, río Sabana.
La Uniformada indicó que personal de emergencias médicas, la Unidad de Rescate y agentes del distrito de Nagua-
bo iniciaron la búsqueda y localizaron al joven sin signos vitales en horas de la noche.
De acuerdo con el parte policíaco, el agente José A. Caraballo, adscrito a la División de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de Humacao, continuará con la pesquisa en unión a la fiscal Astrid Rivera, quien ordenó el traslado del cuerpo al Instituto de Ciencias Forenses para los análisis correspondientes.
La Policía exhortó a la ciudadanía a que, de poseer información que ayude al esclarecimiento de este caso, se comunique a la línea confidencial al 787-343-2020. También pueden escribir a través de X (anteriormente Twitter) en @ PRPDNoticias o por Facebook en www.facebook.com/prpdgov.
With ‘Color Theories,’ Julio Torres throws shades
By ALEXIS SOLOSKI
Julio Torres would like to design a hotel. Or a lake house. He has plans for a sand castle competition and a coffeetable book that may also be a pop-up book. Once between takes for “Problemista,” the 2024 film that he wrote, directed and starred in, his co-star Tilda Swinton grabbed his hand and whispered that they should conceptualize a theme park. Martine Gutierrez, a performance artist and close collaborator on the deranged television comedy he created, “Fantasmas,” thinks that he should run for governor. It’s possible.
A former writer for “Saturday Night Live,” a standout on the dreamy, bizarro TV show “Los Espookys,” a children’s book author, an indelible late-night guest and a stand-up comedian who often sits down, Torres always seems to be adding more hyphens to what is already an impressively multihyphenate life.
With the opening of his first off-Broadway play, “Color Theories,” at Performance Space New York, he has added two more: monologuist and playwright. If “Color Theories” is not perhaps his most personal work (that honor likely goes to “Fantasmas”), it is a pristine distillation of his coolly absurdist approach and his commitment to aesthetic experiment.
“Can colors be theatrical?” Torres mused. “We’ll find out.”
I met Torres, 38, on a July afternoon, at his studio in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn. He wanted a studio, he said, mostly so that he could decorate it. For a long time, his favorite color was clear. “It’s still something that innately calls to me because there’s something very soothing about it,” he said. Consequently a lot of the furniture was see-through. There was also a swirly lamp, a red desk, several narrow chairs built to look like chess pieces. The vibe was loosely Italianate — art deco via the 1980s. Many of the surfaces looked like they would be great for doing cocaine. On a teal table was a boxed-up robot, and there were several teetering stacks of coffee-table books, most focused on fashion and interior design.
“You can tell that his daydreaming is strong,” Tommaso Ortino, the set designer for “Color Theories,” had told me on the phone the day before. I could!
Daydreams are important to Torres. As are aesthetics. His surroundings, his wardrobe, his conduct of life all seem related to his artistic practice. In person, he is elegant, precise, with a desert-dry deadpan. With him, everything is a joke. Or maybe nothing is. It’s hard to tell. That afternoon, he had accessorized his summery shorts-and-shirt outfit with a necklace with the charm of a grandfather clock. He opened the front of the clock. A metal mouse peeped out. The mouse worked the clock, he reasoned.
Born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Torres moved to New York City in his early 20s to study literature at the New School. He found a job as an archivist, trading his student visa for a work visa. In 2016, he was hired to write for “Saturday Night Live.” And three years later, he received
a green card recognizing his status as an alien of extraordinary ability, which feels unusually right. (Visa trauma is a subject of both “Problemista” and “Fantasmas.”) There is something otherworldly about him, a sleek, elfin outsiderishness. He knows this. His Instagram handle is @spaceprincejulio.
“He’s on the outside, but you want to be outside with him,” said writer and comedian Fred Armisen, who later found a role for Torres in the bilingual HBO show “Los Espookys.” “It’s not like, oh, poor weird guy. It’s like, that’s where I want to travel to, that planet.”
Jeremy Beiler, who often wrote with Torres on “Saturday Night Live” (their teamwork includes the flawless commercial parody “Wells for Boys”), observed this, too. “He has this really refined observational sense of the world,” Beiler said. “You feel a bit like you’re entering his world when you talk to him.”
On “Saturday Night Live,” Torres created one sketch about a sink and two about font choices. His dream sketch, which never aired, was about a janitor at the Metropolitan Opera who falls in love with a chandelier. If these sketches were surreal, there was also a gravitas to them, a melancholic sense of longing. “Pure art,” is how Armisen put it.
“Saturday Night Live,” which is filmed live, is a little like theater, as is “The Tonight Show,” where Torres made guest appearances as a Halloween costume and Christmas gift correspondent. Torres’ first comedy special, “My Favorite Shapes,” was even more theatrical. The 2019 HBO special was filmed live during a two-show night at Elsewhere. Which seemed like a waste.
“Walking away from that and looking back at that show, that beautiful set that we built, I kept thinking, What a shame that this only existed for literally one night,” Torres said. So he began to think about a show that would last longer, though not too long, as he believes he lacks the stamina. (“Color Theories” has a limited run.)
Having done a show about shapes, colors was a logical next step. (An early draft of the script also included some letter-based content, including Torres’ long-held opinion that Q should go later in the alphabet.) Torres has always had strong, specific takes on colors. “Like I realized the other day that the only reason I bank at a bank is because it’s green,” he said. He also mentioned that he has recently become comfortable “with the richness of purple.” Ortino, his set designer, had told me that Torres has prejudices against yellow and navy blue, which meant that I had to change my interview outfit.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Torres made a few posts in which he assigned sounds and facial expressions to different colors, material he repurposed in “Fantasmas.” He also played with these ideas in his stand-up routines. Color helps him to understand the world — “not unlike the way that people use astrology,” he said.
And “Color Theories” is a working out of this idea, with particular colors described, though he warns the audience that he may not get to every shade. “If your color does get mentioned, please celebrate quietly to yourself so
Julio Torres in Prospect Park in Brooklyn area of New York on Aug. 6, 2025. In his first Off Broadway play, the artist and comedian behind “Fantasmas” and “Problemista” is bringing audiences into his off-kilter world. (David Billet/ The New York Times)
as not to make the person next to you jealous,” a line in a provisional version of the “Color Theories” script read. That script was largely built from notes and drawings that Torres had made in a sketchbook. “The first and longest part of the process and the most joyful part of the process is opening a sketchbook and just scribbling, seeing what goes with what,” he said. He let me flip through it. There were childlike drawings of colors and shapes (a squiggle, a sunburst) and mysterious lists of words, written at all angles: “speakeasy,” “dolphin,” “electoral college,” “piñata.” For purple, a sublist read: “mystery,” “lilac,” “stepmom.” This would, somehow, become comedy.
He hopes that the set for “Color Theories” will resemble a sketchbook, which will open beneath and behind and around Torres, and that the onstage stagehands will wear sculptural paper costumes. He was also working with a composer, Lia Ouyang Rusli, to create sounds for the various colors. “Green should also sound like we combined the sounds of yellow and blue, and so that’s fun,” Torres said.
About three weeks after I met him, Torres began a stripped-down version of the show in London, an effort to finish and refine the script. Early response was positive. “This hour leaves you tickled pink,” a critic for The Guardian wrote. For Torres, the show remained slightly mysterious, just out of his grasp. He remained serene.
“I am still in search for an ending,” he wrote to me after the first few performances. “The ending will reveal itself soon. Or it won’t, and the show will never end.”
Stocks
S&P 500 and Nasdaq notch record high closes, investors bet rate cut
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched record high closes on Tuesday, while UnitedHealth rallied, and a downward payrolls revision supported expectations the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates to shore up economic growth.
The U.S. economy likely created 911,000 fewer jobs in the 12 months through March than previously estimated, the government said, suggesting that job growth was already stalling before President Donald Trump launched his global tariffs.
Financial markets have priced in a 25 basis point cut at the Fed’s policy meeting next week, and futures trading suggests a nearly 10% chance of a 50 basis point cut, according to CME’s FedWatch tool.
Recent nonfarm payroll data for July and August also pointed to weakening labor market conditions.
“This does nothing to dissuade the Fed from moving 25 basis points,” said Paul Nolte, a market strategist at Murphy & Sylvest in Chicago, about the payrolls revision. “We don’t know month by month and won’t for a few more months yet, but it points out that labor is weak.”
UnitedHealth jumped after it said it expects enrollment in top-rated Medicare insurance plans to be in line with its expectations, which could mean bigger payments from the government to the health insurer.
JPMorgan Chase rose 1.7% after a senior executive said investment banking revenue will grow in the low double digits for the third quarter and that markets revenue would grow in the high teens percentage rate for the third quarter.
“That’s all good news, signs of a good, thriving economy. M&A is coming back after Trump’s Liberation Day put a screeching halt to that,” said Jed Ellerbroek, a portfolio manager at Argent Capital, referring to U.S. tariffs announced in April.
The S&P 500 climbed 0.27% to end the session at 6,512.61 points, its highest close ever. The Nasdaq gained 0.37% to 21,879.49 points, also a record high close. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.43% to 45,711.34 points.
Eight of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes rose, led by communication services, up 1.64%, followed by a 0.71% gain in utilities.
Year to date, the S&P 500 has gained about 11%, while the Nasdaq is up 13%.
Shares of Apple fell 1.5% after the company unveiled new iPhones that failed to excite investors.
Broadcom dipped 2.6% after the world’s second most valuable chipmaker gained in the five previous sessions.
Investors will focus on a producer inflation report on Wednesday and consumer prices data on Thursday to gauge the impact of Trump’s tariff policies, and whether a case could be made for more aggressive interest rate cuts.
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Russian bomb hits crowd of retirees, killing at least 23, Ukraine says
By MARIA VARENIKOVA
ARussian bomb exploded Tuesday in a crowd of older people as they picked up pension payments in a village near the front line in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 23 people and injuring 18, authorities said.
Bodies of victims could be seen in a video shared online by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and independently confirmed by The New York Times as showing Yarova, the village that was struck. The blast occurred in the town’s center, hitting near a church, cemetery and school.
When the bomb detonated, people were lined up near a state postal vehicle to receive their monthly cash retirement payments. The state postal service, Ukrposhta, delivers the money to those in villages who cannot travel to banks.
Zelenskyy wrote on the social platform X that the strike, the latest in Russia’s unrelenting attacks on Ukrainian towns and cities, should prompt a global reply.
“A response is needed from the United States,” Zelenskyy wrote. “A response is needed from Europe. A response is needed from the G20. Strong actions are needed to make Russia stop bringing death.”
On Sunday, after Russia launched a huge barrage of drones and missiles at Kyiv and other cities, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration was prepared to “increase pressure” economically on Russia
to get it to negotiate. Europe is planning a new round of sanctions against Russia.
The bombing in the village came after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that sanctions would not “be able to force the Russian Federation to change its consistent position,” indicating that Moscow did not plan to stop fighting anytime soon.
According to the head of the Ukrainian postal service, Ihor Smiliansky, the state-owned company regularly changes the distribution point for pensions in villages near the front for security reasons.
Young girls run past as people stop in Kyiv on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025, to survey the wreckage left by an hourslong barrage of Russian missiles and drones the day before. A Russian bomb exploded Tuesday in a crowd of older people as they picked up pension payments in a village near the front line in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 23 people and injuring 18, authorities said. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times)
This time, the vehicle was parked under trees to be less visible to Russia’s drones, he said. It is possible that a collaborator gave away the coordinates to Russia, he said, though he offered no direct evidence to support that claim.
In addition to the large numbers of older people who were killed or injured when the bomb hit the crowd, the postal worker making the delivery was badly injured in her leg, Smiliansky said. “Luckily our workers go through first aid trainings and the driver could stop the bleeding and she is now safe in a hospital,” he said.
Smiliansky said he believed that Russia had deliberately targeted the postal vehicle and the crowd around it, adding that it was the first time a Russian bomb had hit a pension distribution site.
The head of the local military administration told Ukrainian media that it would consider moving future payment distributions to safer locations.
The administration head, Oleksandr Zhuravliov, said he had arrived to a gruesome scene after the bomb was dropped. “I came there and saw many dead,” he said. “What else is there to say?”
He said the injured were taken to hospitals in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk and were undergoing treatment.
Nepali troops move to restore order as death toll rises to 22
By BHADRA SHARMA and ALEX TRAVELLI
Nepal’s military began deploying troops late Tuesday in Kathmandu after a day on which rampaging protesters set upon the South Asian nation’s political elite both in government offices and in their homes.
A day after government forces opened fire on protesters, killing at least 19, smoke billowed from fires set at parliament and the Supreme Court in the capital, Kathmandu, as well as from the homes of lawmakers past and present. The wife of one former official was badly burned. Hotels and airports were also attacked.
The violence, which began Monday, continued even after the Nepalese prime minister resigned and the government retreated from a ban on social media platforms like WhatsApp that had incensed Nepalese already angry over official corruption.
The heads of Nepal’s main security agencies issued a joint statement appealing for calm and calling on political parties to find a peaceful way out of the crisis. But after the resignation of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and other top officials, it was unclear who, if anyone, was in charge. Later in the day, after the death toll climbed to 22, the
army said it would step in. Just after midnight, soldiers and well-armed police officers could be seen on some city streets in Kathmandu. They encircled groups of protesters and, in some cases, forced them to their knees, with hands crossed behind their heads.
The chaos stemmed from a government ban issued last week on major social media platforms that lit a fuse on years of anger and frustration over corruption and economic inequality.
Here’s what else to know:
— Ban reversal: Social media is a critical tool in Nepal, where many citizens work abroad and send money back home. Last week, the authorities banned 26 services, including WeChat, YouTube and LinkedIn, which it said had failed to register with the government. By Tuesday morning, they were all back online.
— South Asia: The crisis is unfolding similarly to how other unrest has in the region. Barely a year ago, similar scenes played out in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Its prime minister, long the most powerful figure in the country, disappeared after being driven from office by angry street protests. About three years ago, the same happened in Sri Lanka.
— Youth and democracy: The demonstrators in Nepal,
who appeared to be mostly teenagers and young adults, have embraced the label “Gen Z protest.” Free speech is prized in Nepal, which has maintained robust space for debate as similar rights have shrunk in other South Asian countries.
— Economic crisis: Outrage has also been growing over economic inequality and what many Nepalese see as the government’s failure to aggressively pursue high-profile corruption cases. The country’s biggest lingering crisis centers on jobs.
— Resignations: Oli had been elected in 2024 for a fifth time as Nepal’s top official, and it’s not clear who will replace him. In all, four Cabinet ministers stepped down, including three from the Nepali Congress, which is in a coalition government with Oli’s Communist Party.
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In a world of strongmen, a weakened Macron
By ROGER COHEN
President Emmanuel Macron of France took his sweet time after the snap parliamentary election last year and waited almost two months to name a prime minister, Michel Barnier, who lasted just three months. He then waited a week to name François Bayrou, whose government collapsed Monday after nine months.
This time, though, he decided on the next prime minister in a little more than 24 hours — ultimately settling on Sébastien Lecornu, a close ally who is the departing defense minister.
This apparent show of resolve is in keeping with late Macron, a leader now in office for more than eight years, with about 18 months left in his presidency. His sometimes brusque determination has intensified as his impatience with domestic politics has grown and his unpopularity has risen. His favorite phrase of late has been: “To be free in this world, you have to be feared. To be feared, you have to be powerful.”
This somber assessment of a devoted European, a passionate believer in the rule of law and the peace magnet of European integration, reflects Macron’s dismay at the world of strongmen — from Washington to Beijing by way of Moscow — that has hardened during his presidency.
His frustration at a fragmented international sphere of bullies has made for a restive president. He recently called President Vladimir Putin of Russia an “ogre,” drawing a furious response from Moscow. Macron and Putin were once close enough to be in regular contact.
His isolation on an equally fragmented domestic front has also made for a weaker president at an especially critical moment for a democratic France and Europe, as they try to stand up to a global authoritarian drift.
The country’s dire economic situation, forcefully if quixotically underlined by Bayrou, may lead to a downgrade of its sovereign debt rating as early as Friday, when the Fitch ratings agency is to issue a new review of France. A downgrade would mean more costly borrowing, with France already paying more than once crisis-ridden Greece.
For Macron, it appears that there are no good options. Parliament is blocked in a threeway split between the far right of Marine Le Pen, his own battered center, and a shaky alliance of the left and far left whose most outspoken representative is Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“Never has Mr. Macron been so alienated from the French people nor as contested in the National Assembly,” Alain Duhamel, a prominent author and political scientist, said in an interview. “Each time he loses a prime minister he is weakened.”
Both Le Pen and Mélenchon, who do not think alike but may act alike, as they did Monday to bring down the government, want Macron’s neck. Mélenchon wants him to quit, precipitating an early presidential election; Le Pen wants to force him to dissolve parliament and call a legislative election that she believes would deliver power to her party.
only a parliamentary election would reveal how the electorate wants to overcome the impasse.
Charles de Gaulle for himself, allows Macron to do just that.
Twice defeated, and convincingly, by Macron in her presidential bids in 2017 and 2022, Le Pen declared in the National Assembly on Monday that, for the president, “Everything suggests that juridically, politically, even morally, a dissolution is not an option, but an obligation.” It is not, in fact, an obligation. But if Macron is as committed to French democracy as he has often declared, it is hard to argue with the fact that the country is blocked, even paralyzed, and
A recent study by the IFOP polling institute found that Le Pen’s National Rally and its allies would get about a third of the votes in the first round of snap parliamentary elections, comfortably ahead of other parties, with the potential to be so dominant in the second round of voting that a prime minister from its ranks would become inevitable.
As for Mélenchon, whose support remains significant, he wants to go further. He has called repeatedly for Macron to quit and make way for a presidential election. “We would then have the possibility of changing the Constitution to prevent the abuses of power by a presidential monarchy and the privileged,” Mélenchon told the daily Le Parisien recently.
The leftist leader is seeking a mobilization of protests that may be galvanized by Macron’s decision to appoint Lecornu, a politician very much from his centrist entourage. In effect, he has made clear that he does not care how much his choices are contested or he himself is vilified. The Constitution of the Fifth Republic, designed by
“If the feeling is Macron just does not listen, it is conceivable we could see some sort of rerun of the yellow vest movement,” Duhamel said, referring to the mass protests by sectors of French society that felt forgotten or ill-used. They began in 2018 and for a time brought France to a virtual standstill.
Already, a disparate and nebulous movement called “Bloquons Tout,” or “Let’s Block Everything,” is urging protesters to bring France to a standstill Wednesday. On Sept. 18, labor unions have called for massive work stoppages and protests to express anger over any austerity budget that would penalize lower- and middleclass workers.
France is hard to change and unforgiving of presidents who try. The wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip appear intractable to the point of near insolubility. Macron has attempted to make his mark on all three fronts and forge a better, more prosperous and peaceful future.
For the moment, however, he finds himself cornered, with no obvious direction in which to turn.
President Emmanuel Macron of France arrives for a meeting at the White House on Aug. 18, 2025. Macron, thwarted at home, has become increasingly frustrated and weakened at a critical moment for his country and Europe. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
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Raid on Georgia EV battery plant raises new risks for a shaken industry
By FARAH STOCKMAN and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT
The immigration raid last week on an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia owned by two South Korean manufacturers was yet another setback for what had been a fast-growing industry in the United States.
The sector was beleaguered by lower-than-expected demand for electric vehicles, tariffs on raw materials and the rapid phaseout of a federal tax credit for purchases of EVs, which have led companies to delay or scale back production.
The exterior of LG Energy Solution’s battery cell manufacturing plant in Holland, Mich., on April 30, 2025. Foreign manufacturers are facing new risks, including a backlash from American workers and greater scrutiny of their staff’s immigration status. (Brittany Greeson/ The New York Times)
But the raid at the plant under construction in Ellabell, Georgia, which is owned by carmaker Hyundai and battery supplier LG Energy Solution, raised more risks for foreign manufacturers in the United States. Immigration officials arrested 475 people. Of them, about 300 were South Korean citizens, according to the South Korean foreign minister’s office.
It is not yet clear how many of those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week were building the plant and how many were workers brought in to install and calibrate specialized equipment, or to train the local workforce.
Some American workers in the area have complained that they have not been given a fair chance at employment at the $7.6 billion taxpayer-subsidized complex, which has been billed as the largest economic development project in Georgia’s history.
These labor tensions have been building as the federal government, seeking a stronger foothold in the battery business, has wooed foreign companies to expand manufacturing on U.S. soil.
The United States is relatively new to making these batteries. The leading manufacturers are based in Asia, and they typically bring engineers and technicians from their home countries to set up new factories, where assembly lines of robots coat, slice and assemble the components that help power a car. Much of the battery cell technology is proprietary, and there is little margin for error.
“When you don’t have a whole cohort of people who know how to run cell-
making factories, you rely heavily on the folks from the home factory,” said Celina Mikolajczak, who was been an executive at battery companies including Panasonic.
That practice has not gone over well with U.S. labor unions that want those jobs, said Betony Jones, who was director of the office of energy jobs at the Department of Energy during the Biden administration.
“EV battery companies are very secretive about IP, so they were bringing in their own workers when it came to installing their machines and maintaining their machines,” she said, referring to intellectual property. “But unions were really pushing for that work.”
Over the weekend, LG Energy Solution said it had suspended all U.S. business trips except for customer meetings, conferences and exhibitions, and advised all traveling employees to “immediately return home or remain at their accommodations, considering their current work status.”
The company’s pullback comes as investment in U.S. battery manufacturing was beginning to slow. Tesla’s success in popularizing electric vehicles, paired with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act three years ago, brought a flood of money to the sector. Companies poured roughly $80 billion into U.S. battery manufacturing since the middle of 2022, up from around $10 billion in the three years earlier, according to Rhodium Group, a research firm that tracks investments with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Energy
and Environmental Policy Research.
But the business outlook was darkening as EV sales fell behind many companies’ lofty expectations. The Trump administration’s efforts this year to raise trade barriers and remake federal energy policy to be more favorable toward fossil fuels introduced new uncertainty and financial challenges. Perhaps most notably, starting next month, electric vehicles will no longer be eligible for a $7,500 tax credit that had helped make the cars more affordable for many buyers. Other critical sectors have used labor from abroad as they build in the United States. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., for example, relied heavily on labor from Taiwan at its plant on the outskirts of Phoenix.
The raid has also caused outrage in Seoul, South Korea, where major media outlets ran articles highlighting the poor conditions in which Korean workers would be held, and included a photograph released by ICE of the workers being arrested. News outlets also focused on the difficulty South Korean companies experience in securing work visas for the technicians they need to complete plants in the United States.
South Koreans can enter the United States without a visa for 90 days under a visa-waiver program that allows them to participate in tourism or attend some business meetings, but not full-time work, according to Julia Gelatt, associate director of the U.S. immigration policy program of the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research think tank. A temporary business visa, known as B-1, allows for short-term training and consulting, but not full-time construction work.
On Sunday, the two countries reached a deal to free those detainees and send them home to South Korea via a chartered plane, according to Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff for President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea.
Still, the sweeping nature of the raid could make skilled technicians more apprehensive about coming to the United States, even for short stints. That could
increase the cost of establishing new U.S. factories and slow construction.
“The current situation is creating a dilemma,” said Andrew Yi, a Seoul-based partner for Roland Berger, a consulting firm. Strict enforcement of certain visa rules “would in the short term delay the completion of the factories that are going up.”
Barry Zeigler, business manager of Local 188, a union that represents plumbers, pipe fitters, welders and HVAC service technicians for 15 counties in Georgia, said South Koreans were working as welders and pipe fitters in the Georgia plant — jobs that he said should have been given to Americans. He said he had visited the plant in the past, adding that about 65 members of his union were hired by subcontractors to lay pipes there, but were let go a few months ago.
“People think the Koreans are here to do a special job; that’s BS,” he said, adding that politicians had turned a deaf ear to his complaints about the factory until the raid.
In a statement, LG Energy Solution said the company prioritizes “the safety and well-being of our team” and that its $25 billion investment in North American manufacturing would create about 14,000 jobs in the United States by 2027. Hyundai said the company was “committed to maintaining the highest safety standards.” It also said its employees “are required to comply fully with U.S. laws and regulations.”
The politics are awkward for Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, a Republican who embraced the Biden administration’s clean energy policies, showering the project with an estimated $2 billion in tax credits and incentives in a bid to make Georgia the “electric mobility capital of the country.” President Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked both electric vehicles and Kemp, who resisted Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election results in Georgia.
Marie Hodge Gordon, director of communications at the Georgia Department of Economic Development, released a statement that emphasized the fact that electric cars — the Hyundai Ioniq 5 — had already begun rolling off the assembly line at the auto plant on the site. It stressed that the incentives for the project “are based on new, long-term Georgia jobs, not the roles under investigation by law enforcement.”
Albania seizes its moment in the sun
By VALERIYA SAFRONOVA
In southern Albania, practically swimming distance from the Greek island of Corfu, the city of Butrint has stood for thousands of years. Its crumbled remains are a history buff’s dream: an open-air theater from when the city was a Greek colony, a Byzantine baptistery and a Roman aqueduct. Foxes, peregrine falcons and golden eagles roam the 36-squaremile national park that encompasses Butrint’s archaeological treasures.
A 10-minute bus ride away from Butrint, in the low-slung, modern beach resort of Ksamil, tourists lounge on sun beds, dance to pounding techno and maneuver personal watercraft around a picturesque bay made popular by social media influencers, who compare its lush setting to the Maldives.
Albania is the kind of destination where a traveler can start the day with a walk through antiquity and end it with a twirl on the sand. That might be one big reason so many people are going there. Last year, 11.7 million people visited the country — up from 10 million the previous year — and they not only headed to the beaches and historic sites, but also explored the mountains and lakes in the north, and the unspoiled Vjosa Wild River National Park, one of The New York Times 52 Places to Go in 2023.
“Albania is still an exotic place for a lot of people,” said Frenkli Prengaj, who operates tours for Discover Albania and spent two days driving me around. “When a tourist comes to Albania, they don’t have a lot of expectations. They discover the history and realize we have a lot in common with Europe, a lot of history with the Ottomans. We’re somehow stuck between East and West.”
The country, sandwiched between Greece and Montenegro along the Adriatic and Ionian seas, declared independence from Ottoman rule in 1912, and starting in the 1940s, spent decades under a Stalinist dictatorship, isolated from the rest of the world, until 1992. In the late 1990s, Albania suffered an economic crisis followed by a period of turbulence that nearly exploded into civil war, but in recent years, the political situation has improved, and tourism, fueled in part by low prices, has boomed.
The new Albania
The buzzy resort of Ksamil
provides a striking example of the new Albania. During the decades of dictatorship, small numbers of volunteers were sent to Ksamil to establish agrarian communities, explained Dorina Dhima, a freelance guide. The area remained restricted, however, Dhima said, “because people could escape and swim to Corfu.”
“There were maybe four apartment buildings,” Dhima said.
That era is long gone, though you can still find moments of quiet among Ksamil’s souvenir stands, hawkers and hordes of beachgoers. I enjoyed a peaceful lunch of tender octopus (1,800 lek, or about $22) with a view of the crystal-clear water and foliage-covered islands at a beach bar called Freskia e Jonit.
But visitors who prefer a less frenetic beach holiday might choose to focus on seaside destinations Jala, Borsh or Dhermi, an hour to two hours north. When I traveled in 2023 to Dhermi for the Kala music and wellness festival, I was delighted by the natural beauty of the landscape and the local hospitality.
About 20 minutes from Ksamil or a 30-minute ferry ride from Corfu (one-way tickets from about $14 to $33), the seaside city of Saranda offers a similar laid-back vibe: public beaches, a vibrant boardwalk that’s flooded in the evenings with well-dressed locals on promenade, and plenty of eating and drinking options with excellent seafood, like Haxhi and Marini. I stayed at the chic LaFe Boutique Hotel in the city center and spent a happy evening watching multigenerational families and groups of friends from my perch next to the
Saltwater Swim Lanes, where the athletically inclined do laps in the Ionian Sea.
Red roofs and juicy tomatoes
Albania has long represented a bridge between East and West, the Balkans and the Mediterranean world. Because of centuries of Ottoman rule — and despite decades of official atheism — nearly half the population identifies as Muslim. The country’s historic sites reflect that historic heterogeneity.
Berat, a UNESCO World Heritage site about two hours south of Tirana, Albania’s capital, lines the banks of the river Osum, the red-tiled roofs of the town’s houses rising along the valley’s soft slopes, with hundreds of windows facing outward like watchful eyes.
Berat Castle (free entry), an open-air complex of buildings above the city, includes a Byzantine church, the ruins of one of the first mosques in Albania and a neighborhood of still-occupied 18th- and 19th-century homes, some of which are guesthouses. It also features the Onufri Iconographic Museum, which showcases religious objects dating as far back as the 1300s, including an ornate carvedwood iconostasis (decorated screen) that combines Baroque and Byzantine elements (entry with an audio guide, 500 lek).
When I visited Berat in late June, the city was silent until sunset, when the streets suddenly filled with children riding bicycles, men playing dominoes and hawkers selling plastic cups stuffed with plump grapes and cherries for about 100 lek.
The abundance of fresh ingredients made eating in Albania a delight. At Amalia Homemade Food in Berat, I took approximately a dozen identical photos of my tablescape — it was just that charming. My salad with tomatoes was so juicy and vivid, I felt as if I had unearthed some long-lost knowledge of what a tomato should taste like.
The rest of the set menu included baked cheese and vegetables in clay pots; whole peppers stuffed with rice and herbs; eggplant topped with garlic, pepper and tomatoes; burek, or phyllo dough layered with spinach and cheese; and Vienna steak, a cut of meat stuffed with cheese (11-course menu for two, 28 euros, or $32).
Touring a Cold War bunker
Booker Prize-winning Albanian author Ismail Kadare described the city of Gjirokastra, about 2 1/2 hours south of Berat, as a “prehistoric creature that
was now clawing its way up the mountainside.”
Gjirokastra looked to me more like something from a storybook, its stone houses decorated with elaborate wood carvings and clustered around crooked cobblestone streets. But it’s a picture book with a dark side. In the center of the city sits the Cold War Tunnel, one of the thousands of bunkers that dictator Enver Hoxha built around the country during his reign, from 1944 to 1985, out of fear of a foreign attack. To join a tour (200 lek), head to the Experience Gjirokastra tourism agency on Cerciz Topulli Square.
If you make your way up past the historic center of Gjirokastra, you can visit a centuries-old castle (entry 400 lek), parts of which were used as a prison, most recently during Hoxha’s regime. The prison cells and torture chambers have been left mostly untouched and are a haunting museum (200 lek). The additional entry fee includes access to the Arms Museum as well as the Museum of Gjirokastra, which offers a compact but thorough history of the region.
As I walked down the slope from the castle toward the Rose Garden Hotel, where I was staying, I could see the sun beginning its slow descent behind the mountains, leaving streaks of dusty orange and pink above the stone city. A melodic call to prayer filled the valley, reminding me once again of Albania’s rich cultural tapestry. The busy beach resorts, just on the other side of the mountains, seemed centuries away.
A shop in Gjirokastra, Albania, in July 2025. Gjirokastra’s houses, decorated with wood carvings around crooked cobblestone streets, give the town a storybook feel. (Ilir Tsouko/ The New York Times)
Beachgoers in Ksamil, Albania, in July 2025. Ksamil, once home to a small volunteer community working in agrarian communities, has transformed into a popular beach resort spot. (Ilir Tsouko/The New York Times)
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL
DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
DEMANDANTE VS. GABRIEL GARCÍA
GARCÍA, SU ESPOSA
LILIBETH ROSADO
JIMENEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NÚM.: CI2025CV00110.
SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO
PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Ciales, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 29 de mayo de 2025, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 11 de julio de 2025 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación:
RÚSTICA: Situada en el Barrio Cialitos, Sector Veredas, del término municipal de Ciales, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de mil novecientos sesenta y cinco punto tres mil doscientos cuarenta y seis metros cuadrados (1,965.3246 mc), equivalentes a cero punto cinco mil cuerdas (0.5000) y en lindes, por el NORTE, en cuarenta y ocho punto ciento siete metros (48.107), con Carretera Municipal asfaltada; por el SUR y el ESTE, en veintidós punto ochocientos cuarenta y tres metros (22.843) y sesenta y uno punto doscientos cincuenta metros (61.250), respectivamente, con el remanente de la finca principal de la cual se segrega; y por el OESTE, en ochenta y cuatro punto ciento cincuenta y cinco metros (84.155), con Monserrate Lugo Otero. Finca Número 9,920, inscrita al folio 70 del tomo 206 de Ciales.
Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Manatí. Dirección Física: BARRIO
CIALITOS SEC. VEREDAS
CARR. 149 INT. CIALES PR 00638. Se anuncia por medio
de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 7 de octubre de 2025, 10:00 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Ciales. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $65,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 14 de octubre de 2025, 10:00 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $43,333.33. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 21 de octubre de 2025, 10:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $32,500.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $174,098.37 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 6.0000% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a
la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello, hoy día 30 de julio de 2025. GERARDO E REYES
MELENDEZ, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL
DEVELOPMENT A/C/C
LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESIÓN DE AURORA CRESPO RÍOS Y SUCESION DE ADOLFO RÍOS ARVELO, AMBAS COMPUESTAS POR SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS AURORA RÍOS CRESPO T/C/C AURORA BENIQUEZ, JAVIER RÍOS CRESPO, ANA RÍOS CRESPO T/C/C ANA CHUQUISANA, MARTIN RÍOS CRESPO Y SANDRA RÍOS CRESPO; SUCESION DE VICTOR RÍOS CRESPO; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS
DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHAS SUCESIONES
DEMANDADOS
CIVIL NÚM.: AG2024CV02067. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 20 de mayo de 2025, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 18 de julio de 2025 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número cinco (5) de la Manzana G de la Urbanización Villas de Piedras Blancas, situada en el Barrio Piedras Blancas del Municipio de San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, compuesto de trescientos cuarenta y tres punto veintiocho metros cuadrados (343.28 m.c.), colindando por el NORTE, en catorce metros (14.00 m), con los solares diez (10) y nueve (9) de la Manzana G de dicha Urbanización; por el SUR, en catorce metros (14.00 m), con la Calle Cinco (5) de dicha Urbanización y servidumbre de paso a favor de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company; por el ESTE, en veinticuatro punto cincuenta y dos metros (24.52 m), con el solar número seis (6) del Bloque G de dicha Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en veinticuatro punto cincuenta y dos metros (24.52 m), con el solar cuatro (4) de la Manzana
G de dicha Urbanización. Finca Número 24,250, inscrita al folio 40 del tomo 512 de San Sebastián. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de San Sebastián. Dirección Física: URB. VILLAS DE PIEDRAS BLANCAS SOLAR # 5-G SAN SEBASTIAN PR 00685. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 2 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, Sotano, al final del Pasillo, Calle Progreso #70, Aguadilla, PR. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $73,500.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 9 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $49,000.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 16 de octubre de 2025, a las 9:30 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $36,750.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $53,244.79 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 7.250% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. Si transcurren los referidos veinte (20) días, el tribunal podrá ordenar, sin necesidad de ulterior procedi-
miento, 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a la devolución del monto consignado más no tendrá derecho a entablar recurso o reclamo adicional alguno (judicial o extrajudicial) contra el demandante y/o el acreedor y/o inversionista, dueño pagaré y/o su abogado. Si se anula la venta, el comprador tendrá derecho a la devolución del depósito de la venta judicial menos los honorarios y costos incurridos en el proceso de venta judicial. No tendrá ningún otro recurso contra el acreedor hipotecario ejecutante ni la representación legal de éste. Por la presente, también se notifica e informa a Fulano de Tal y Sutano de Tal, personas desconocidas que puedan tener derechos en la propiedad o título objeto de este edicto. La Venta en Pública Subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga y gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la Primera, Segunda y Tercera Subasta, si eso fuera necesario, a los efectos de cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha Subasta. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, 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. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento del caso de epígrafe están disponibles en la Secretaría de este Tribunal durante horas laborables y para la concurrencia de los licitadores expido el presente Edicto que se publicará en un periódico de circulación diaria en toda la Isla de Puerto Rico por espacio dos (2) semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana y se fijará, además, en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Alcaldía y la Colecturía de Rentas Internas del Municipio donde se celebrará la Subasta y en la Colecturía más cercana del lugar de la residencia de la parte demandada. EN TESTIMONIO DE LO CUAL, expido el presente que firmo y sello,
hoy día 5 de agosto de 2025. CARLOS D AVILES LOPEZ, ALGUACIL, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOP-MENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
DEMANDANTE VS. SUCESIÓN DE YANIRA ROMÁN SANTIAGO COMPUESTA FELIX CUBERO COMO HEREDERO CONOCIDO Y/O PARTE CON INTERÉS; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN
DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: AG2024CV01983. SOBRE: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO ANUNCIANDO PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe, funcionario del Tribunal de la Sala Superior de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, por la presente anuncia y hace saber al público en general que en cumplimiento con la Sentencia dictada en este caso con fecha 27 de mayo de 2025, y según Orden y Mandamiento del 15 de julio de 2025 librado por este honorable Tribunal, procederé a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor, y por dinero en efectivo, cheque certificado o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal con todo título derecho y/o interés de la parte demandada sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar C-29 de la Urbanización Pradera Real en el Barrio Bajuras de Isabela, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos metros cuadrados (300.00m.c.) y colinda por el NORTE, con el solar C-31; por el SUR, con la Calle número 1 conocida como Calle Úcares; por el ESTE, con el solar C-28; y por el OESTE, con el solar C-30. Finca Número 24,036, inscrita al folio 116 del tomo 440 de Isabela. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Aguadilla. Dirección Física: URB. PRADERA REAL SOLAR C-29 ISABELA PR 00662. Se anuncia por medio de este edicto que la primera subasta habrá de celebrarse el día 2 de octubre de 2025, a las 10:00 de la
mañana, en mi oficina sita en el edificio que ocupa el Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Aguadilla, Sotano, al final del Pasillo, Calle Progreso #70, Aguadilla, PR. Siendo ésta la primera subasta que se celebrará en este caso, será el precio mínimo aceptable como oferta en la Primera Subasta, eso es el tipo mínimo pactado en la Escritura de Hipoteca para la propiedad, la suma de $86,600.00. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta primera subasta por dicha suma mínima, se celebrará una segunda subasta el día 9 de octubre de 2025, a las 10:00 de la mañana en el mismo lugar antes señalado en la cual el precio mínimo serán dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $57,733.33. De no haber remanente o adjudicación en esta segunda subasta por el tipo mínimo indicado en el párrafo anterior, se celebrará una tercera subasta en el mismo lugar antes señalado el día 16 de octubre de 2025, a las 10:00 de la mañana, en la cual el tipo mínimo aceptable como oferta será la mitad (1/2) del precio mínimo pactado en la escritura de hipoteca, la suma de $43,300.00. Si se declare desierta la tercera subasta se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo mínimo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Con el importe de esta venta se habrá de satisfacer el balance de la sentencia dictada en este caso el cual consiste en el pago de $77,523.50 de principal, más intereses convenidos al 4.8750% anual más recargos hasta su pago, más el pago de lo pactado en la sentencia para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. Se dispone que una vez celebrada la subasta y vendido el inmueble relacionado, el alguacil pondrá en posesión judicial a los nuevos dueños dentro del término de veinte (20) días a partir de la celebración de la Subasta. 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 demandado/deudor la ocupen. El Alguacil de este Tribunal efectuará el lanzamiento de los ocupantes de ser necesario. Si la subasta es adjudicada a un tercero y luego se deja sin efecto, el tercero a favor de quién se adjudicó la subasta solo tendrá derecho a
SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Queda emplazado y notificado de qué en este Tribunal se ha radicado una demanda de cobro de dinero; ejecución de hipoteca en su contra Se le notifica que 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. poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan y enviando copia a la parte demandante:
Lcda. Lisa M. Aponte Valderas; Lcda. Delia M. Castellanos Gorritz Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices
P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 622-2323 / Fax (787) 622-2320
Se le apercibe y notifica que si no contesta la demanda radicada en su contra dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citárseles, ni oírseles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, a 28 de agosto de 2025. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretaria Regional. LUZ ENID FERNÁNDEZ DEL VALLE, Secretaria Servidos.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE OCTAVIO SANTIAGO LÓPEZ Y MILAGROS ECHEVARRIA ALICEA (Demandantes) Vs. NARCISO FIGUEROA VELÁZQUEZ, PRICILA VELÁZQUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE NARCISO FIGUEROA VELÁZQUEZ Y PRICILA VELÁZQUEZ, JUAN VELAZQUEZ YAMBO, RAMONA AQUINO FIGUEROA, SUCESION DE JUAN VELAZQUEZ YAMBO Y RAMONA
AQUINO FIGUEROA, SUCESIÓN DE DELFINA SANTIAGO TORRES O CUALQUIER PERSONA CON DERECHO DE PROPIEDAD SOBRE EL INMUEBLE EN CUESTIÓN (Demandados)
Civil Núm.: PO2025CV02020. Sobre: USUCAPIÓN (PRESCIPCIÓN ADQUISITIVA). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO Y MANDAMIENTO DE INTERPELACIÓN. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
DE PUERTO RICO.
A: NARCISO FIGUEROA VELÁZQUEZ, PRICILA VELÁZQUEZ, SUCESIÓN DE NARCISO FIGUEROA VELÁZQUEZ Y PRICILA VELÁZQUEZ, JUAN VELÁZQUEZ YAMBO, RAMONA AQUINO FIGUEROA, SUCESIÓN DE JUAN VELÁZQUEZ YAMBO Y RAMONA AQUINO FIGUEROA, SUCESIÓN DE DELFINA SANTIAGO TORRES O CUALQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON DERECHO DE PROPIEDAD SOBRE EL INMUEBLE EN CUESTIÓN. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se presentó una Demanda donde se solicita la Usucapión de la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar: 287, de la Comunidad Rural Marrueño de Ponce Sur. Cabida: 476.14 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con terrenos de Carmen Vázquez. Sur, con calle dos de la comunidad. Este, con la parcela 288 de la comunidad. Oeste, con la parcela 286 de la comunidad. Finca número 743, de la Demarcación: Ponce Sur. Los demandantes tienen la posesión física de la propiedad antes descrita desde hace más de treinta (30) años.
POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que notifiquen dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes de haber sido publicado este emplazamiento excluyéndose el día de la publicación Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual debe acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica https://uni. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar su contestación ante el tribunal correspondiente notificando copia a la abogada del demandante la licenciada Carmen J. Collazo Rodríguez, Urb. Valle Costero, 3117 Calle Palma, Santa Isabel, PR 00757, tel. 939-208-4787; email: ccollazorodriguez1@gmail.com. SE LE APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones responsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. SE ORDENA a los herederos de los causantes Narciso Figueroa Velázquez, Pricila Velázquez, Juan Velázquez Yambo, Ramona Aquino Figueroa y Delfina Santiago Torres, o a los posibles herederos desconocidos, a que dentro del mismo término de treinta (30) días a partir de la fecha de la notificación, ACEPTEN O REPUDIEN la participación que les corresponda en la he-
rencia de los causantes. Se les apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, se tendrá aceptada.
EXTENDDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, En Ponce, Puerto Rico a 26 de agosto 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES SECRETARIA REGIONAL. HILDA J. ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN JULIO BAUTISTA ABREU Y OTROS
Demandante V. DIANA MALDONADO GAUTIER
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2025RF00875. (Salón: 704 RF). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARÍA D. PAGÁN HERNÁNDEZMARILUPAHE@YAHOO.COM. A: DIANA MALDONADO GAUTIER.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 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 02 de septiembre de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 02 de septiembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. EMELY RAMÍREZ ALGORRI, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN BANCO POPULAR DE
PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. LA SUCESIÓN DE BEATRIZ RIVERA MATOS Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: SJ2023CV01712. (Salón: 508 CIVIL). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BELMA ALONSO GARCÍAOFICINABELMAALONSO@GMAIL. COM. MARINILDA RIVERA VARGASMRIVERAVARGAS@YAHOO.COM. A: MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLE HEREDERO DESCONOCIDO DE BEATRIZ RIVERA MATOS. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de septiembre de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictadoSentencia, 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 los10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, SentenciaParcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30días 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 05 de septiembre de 2025. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 05 de septiembre de 2025. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MARTHA ALMODÓVAR CABRERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ.
LAURA ENID CRUZ
ROLÓN, de por sí y en representación de la Sucesión de Emilio Castillo Colón compuesta por: Christian Emilio Castillo Negrón; Tania E. Moldenhauer, también conocida como Tania Esther Castillo Negrón; Carmen Chastity Castillo Alequín; y Mariano Emilio Castillo Alequín PARTE DEMANDANTE VS La Sucesión de Ramón Rivera Cherena compuesta por Carmen
Fortunada Rivera Cherena; Sucesión de Matilde Rivera Cherena compuesta por Carmen Sofia González Marrero, Sucesión de Esperanza González Marrero compuesta por Alfredo González González; Sucesión de Josefina González Marrero compuesta por José Luis Freyre González; Sucesión de José Andrés González Marrero compuesta por Sonia Noemí Collazo González, Humberto Collazo González y Julio Andrés Collazo González; y Sucesión Julio González Marrero compuesta por José Andrés González Sánchez, María del Carmen González Sánchez, Raquel González Alvelo, Yolanda González Berríos y Julio Alberto González Alvelo y/o sus posibles herederos Jane Doe y John Doe; Emilio Castillo Alequin; y Fulano De Tal y Sutano De Tal PARTE DEMANDADA CIVIL NÚM.: MZ2025CV01244. SOBRE: DOMINIO CONTRADICTORIO; REANUDACIÓN DE TRACTO; ACCIÓN DECLARATORIA DE USUCAPIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA, El PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS A: EMILIO CASTILLO ALEQUIN DIRECCION DESCONOCIDA
POR EL PRESENTE, se le emplaza para que presente al Tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día de su publicación. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial. pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/ 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 a la representación legal de la parte demandante, quien es: Lcda. Janice Lymarie Soto Cardona RUA 22,690 HC 5 Box 54748 San Sebastián, PR 00685 TEL. (787)896-2022; (787)238-0952
Email: lcdajanicesotocardona@ gmail.com
Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribu-
nal 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 precedente. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado (a) en los casos que proceda. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 4 de septiembre de 2025. Lcda. Norma G Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional. JOSSIE D BOBE RODRIGUEZ, Secretario (a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR E.M.I. EQUITY MORTGAGE, INC., COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIOS DE SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY
Demandante Vs. JAVIER FELICIANO PEREZ, GLORIA ENID SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS
Demandados Civil Núm.: CB2025CV00423. 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: JAVIER FELICIANO PÉREZ, POR SÍ Y COMO REPRESENTANTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON LA SRA. GLORIA ENID SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ; A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) PO BOX 493 BOQUERON, PR 00622; (B) PO BOX 1342 CABO ROJO, PR 00623-1342; (C) URB. ESTANCIAS DE MONTE GRANDE ESTATES C-4 CALLE 2 CABO ROJO, PR 00623.
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 de $51,029.85 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de febrero de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 4.00% 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 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 $6,090.00 y cualquiera otros adelantos que se hagan en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca número 452, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de diciembre de 2003, ante el notario Rafael A. Malavé Lebrón, modificada mediante la escritura número 371, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 24 de abril de 2014, ante el Notario Magda V. Alsina Figueroa, de la finca número 28,046, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 19 del Torno 830 de Cabo Rojo, Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. 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 las 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 04 de septiembre de 2025, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. Lcda. Norma Santana Irizarry, Secretaria Regional. Alexandra M. López, Secretaria De Servicios A Sala.
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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYAMA
HIPOLITO RAMOS T/C/C
HIPOLITO RAMOS ORTIZ Demandante Vs. ENEIDA RAMOS T/C/C ENEIDA CASTRO Demandado Caso: GM2025CV00654. Sala: 302. Sobre: CONVALIDACIÓN SENTENCIA (EXEQUÁTUR). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: ENEIDA RAMOS T/C/C ENEIDA CASTRO - 61 - K BELLEVUE SQUARE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06120. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza, se le notifica que una demanda ha sido presentada en su contra y se le requiere que conteste la misma dentro de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, que será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en Puerto Rico, radicando el original de contestación de la misma ante el Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Caso (SUMAC) presentada electrónicamente mediante https://tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial. pr/sumac2018/ y notificándole con copia fiel al representante legal de la parte Demandante: Lcdo. Christian A. Santiago Montalvo, Calle Enrique González, #42, Esquina Calimano, Guayama, Puerto Rico, 00784; PO BOX 471, Guayama, Puerto Rico, 00785; teléfono (939) 219-8766; email: lcdosantiagomontalvo@gmail.com. Se le apercibe que, de no hacerlo, se podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin citarle ni oírle más. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, En Guayama, Puerto Rico, hoy 18 de agosto de 2025. MARISOL ROSADO RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. LUZ MARÍA GUZMÁN SANTIAGO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CAROLINA ISABEL CHICLANA ORTIZ Demandante Vs. PEDRO ADRIANO RODRIGUEZ Demandado Civil Número: CA2025RF0014. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO
A: SR. PEDRO ADRIANO RODRÍGUEZ - SE DESCONOCE SU DIRECCIÓN.
Se le notifica a usted que se ha radicado en esta Secretaría la solicitud del epígrafe. Se le emplaza y requiere que radique en esta Secretaría el original de la contestación a la Demanda de Divorcio y que notifique con copia de dicha contestación a la Lcda. María Pagán Hernández, P.O. Box 21411, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928-1411, teléfono 787-282-6734, abogada de la parte demandante, dentro de las treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Podrá 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 como se explicó anteriormente. Si dejare de hacerlo, podrá dictarse contra usted sentencia en rebeldía concediéndole el remedio solicitado en la demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Carolina, a 29 de agosto de 2025. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ZORAIDA RIVERA LÁTIMER, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS SHIRLY M. FELICIANO ALICEA T/C/C SHIRLY MAULEON
Peticionaria V. JAMES
MAULEON RAMOS
Peticionario
Caso Núm.: CG2025RF00613. Sala: 601. Sobre: AUXILIO DE JURISDICCIÓN, DESACATO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: JAMES
MAULEON RAMOS.
Por la presente se le notifica a usted que se le ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal, una Solicitud de Orden, auxilio de jurisdicción, desacato, y alimentos. Se emplaza y se le requiere para que notifique a las Lcdas. Wendolyn Torres Rivera y Edith Marie Echevarría Suárez, cuya oficina queda Barrio Cañaboncito Km. 6.2 Sector la Sierra, Caguas Puerto Rico 00725. Dirección postal: Po Box 9721, Cidra Puerto Rico 00739. Teléfono (787) 7046893, abogadas de la parte demandante, copia de la Contes-
tación a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la notificación de este Edicto. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer dentro de un término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación del edicto, se concederá el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. DADA en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 3 de septiembre de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SHEILA ROLDÁN RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR MARIE CARMEN MUNTANER RODRÍGUEZ Y OTROS
Demandantes Vs. SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO MUNTANER ORAMAS Y OTROS
Demandados Civil Núm.: JA2024CV00018. Sobre: DESAHUCIO EN PRECARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO
POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: ELIZABETH SIERRA MUNTANER; LESLIE REBECCA MUNTANER ORTIZ; EVELYN SHERMAN SIERRA MUNTANER; QUINCY MUNTANER ORTIZ; SALLY MUNTANER; SUCESIÓN DE CARMEN EMILIA MUNTANER
MARRERO COMPUESTA
POR JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE; SUCESIÓN DE IVÁN MUNTANER
MARRERO COMPUESTA
POR JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE; SUCESIÓN DE ANTONIO MUNTANER
ORAMAS COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; SUCESIÓN DE MARTA ANA MONTANER
MARRERO (T/C/C
MARTA ANA MUNTANER
MARRERO) COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; SUCESIÓN PEDRO
ANTONIO MUNTANER
MARRERO COMPUESTA
POR JANE DOE Y JOHN DOE; SUCESIÓN DE QUINTO MUNTANER
MARRERO (T/C/C
QUINTIN MONTANER
MARRERO) COMPUESTA
POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE; SUCESIÓN DE RAMÓN MONTANER
MARRERO (T/C/C RAMÓN
MUNTANER MARRERO)
COMPUESTA POR JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE;
SUCESIÓN DE PEDRO
ANTONIO MUNTANER
MARRERO COMPUESTA
POR TOMY MUNTANER Y SALLY MUNTANER.
El Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala Superior de Utuado, dictó la siguiente providencia:
“El Tribunal ha examinado la Demanda Enmendada y la “MOCIÓN SOLICITANDO SE AUTORICE A EMPLAZAR POR
EDICTOS”, presentada esta última el 18 de junio de 2025. De estas surge que los siguientes son partes necesarias y legítimas en el pleito, y que existe contra esta una reclamación que justifica la concesión de un remedio: 1. Elizabeth Sierra Muntaner 2. Leslie Rebecca Muntaner Ortiz 3. Evelyn Sherman Sierra Muntaner 4. Quincy Muntaner Ortiz 5. Sally Muntaner 6. Sucesión de Carmen Emilia Muntaner Marrero compuesta por Jane Doe y John Doe 7. Sucesión de Iván
Muntaner Marrero compuesta por Jane Doe y John Doe 8. Sucesión de Antonio Muntaner
Oramas compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe 9. Sucesión de Marta Ana Montaner Marrero
(t/c/c Marta Ana Muntaner Marrero) compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe 10. Sucesión Pedro Antonio Muntaner Marrero compuesta por Jane Doe y John Doe 11. Sucesión de Quinto Muntaner Marrero (t/c/c Quintin Montaner Marrero) compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe 12. Sucesión de Ramón Montaner Marrero (t/c/c Ramón Muntaner Marrero) compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe 13. Sucesión de Pedro Antonio Muntaner
Marrero compuesta por Tomy Muntaner y Sally Muntaner. Por razón de ello se ordena su emplazamiento mediante la publicación de edicto. Dicho edicto se publicará una (1) sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Se dispone que se les envíe a las partes codemandadas previamente enumeradas, con las excepciones que más adelante se detallan, copia de esta orden, el emplazamiento y la demanda enmendada presentada, dentro de los diez (10) días de la fecha de la publicación del edicto, a su última dirección conocida mediante correo certificado con acuse de recibo. La Parte Demandante queda relevada de enviar copia de esta orden, el emplazamiento y la demanda enmendada presentada a las siguientes partes codemandadas: a. Leslie Rebecca Muntaner Ortiz b. Quincy Muntaner Ortiz c. Sucesión de Carmen Emilia Muntaner Marrero, compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe d. Sucesión de Iván Muntaner Marrero, compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe e. Sucesión de Antonio Muntaner Oramas, compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe f. Sucesión de Marta Ana Montaner Marrero (también conocida como Marta
Ana Muntaner Marrero), compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe g. Sucesión de Pedro Antonio Muntaner Marrero, compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe h. Sucesión de Quinto Muntaner Marrero (también conocido como Quintín Montaner Marrero), compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe i. Sucesión de Ramón Montaner Marrero (también conocido como Ramón Muntaner Marrero), compuesta por John Doe y Jane Does. Se ordena a la Secretaría del Tribunal expedir el emplazamiento por edicto correspondiente.”
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. La representación legal de la Parte Demandante lo es la Lcda. Cydmarie Brugman Sánchez, RUA: 18,406 P.O. Box 895 Utuado, Puerto Rico 00641 Tel. 787-894-3004 correo electrónico: licenciadabrugman@ gmail.com. Expedido bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal para su publicación, en Utuado, Puerto Rico, hoy día 31 de julio de 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ
VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GLORIA I. RIVERA FONSECA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR DE ADJUNTAS ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. DAVID LAMBOY SANCHEZ
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: AD2025CV00099. (Salón: 2). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NO-
TIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: DAVID LAMBOY SANCHEZ, PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR EDICTO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 29 de agosto de 2025. En Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, el 29 de agosto de 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. LOYDA TORRES IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE SUN WEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC.
Demandante V. SUCESION DE MARIA VICTORIA ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2025CV01548. (Salón: 605 CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
FERNANDO J. GIERBOLINI GONZÁLEZ - FGIERBOLINI@ MSGLAWPR.COM. A: FULANO(A) DE TAL Y SUTANO(A) DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS O PERSONAS CON INTERES DE LA SUCESION DE MARIA VICTORIA ORTIZ
RODRIGUEZ, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DEL PAGARE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 04 de 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 05 de septiembre de 2025. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 05 de septiembre de 2025. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. BRENDA SANTIAGO LÓPEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE HUMACAO SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE RURAL DEVELOPMENT A/C/C LA ADMINISTRACION DE HOGARES DE AGRICULTORES
Demandante V. YACHIRA HERNÁNDEZ REYES
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: HU2025CV00285. (Salón: 206). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM. A: YACHIRA HERNÁNDEZ REYES; DIRECCIÓN: URBANA. PRADERAS DEL ESTE, N-7 CALLE 7, NAGUABO PR 00718; PO BOX 339, CAROLINA PUEBLO, CAROLINA PR 00986; PO BOX 20000, SUITE 116, CANOVANAS PR 00729.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada
en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de septiembre de 2025. En Humacao, Puerto Rico, el 02 de septiembre de 2025. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. KEYLA PÉREZ FIGUEROA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ORIENTAL BANK
Demandante V. FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE ABIGAIL ROSARIO SOLERO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CA2025CV01516. (Civil: 409). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FASJCFORTUNO@FORTUNO-LAW. COM.
A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN DE ABIGAIL ROSARIO SOLERO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 29 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sen-
tencia, 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 02 de septiembre de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 02 de septiembre de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. IDA L. FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante V. WALQUIDIA GISELLE GUMBS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00572. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ASHLEY ANNE CLEMENTE SERRANO - ACLEMENTE@ MPMLAWPR.COM. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM. A: WALQUIDIA GISELLE GUMBS - GINDER ISLAND DR. APT 8C, ST. MARTIN 97150, SAINT MARTIN (FRENCH). (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA
SANJURJO, SECRETARIA.
MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. LUIS ANTONIO VÁZQUEZ MÉNDEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00557. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. Ashley ANNE CLEMENTE SERRANO - ACLEMENTE@MPMLAWPR.COM. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM.
A: LUIS ANTONIO VÁZQUEZ MÉNDEZ, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE ÉSTE COMPONE, ANA MERCEDES RIVERA REYES, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES QUE ÉSTA COMPONE Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 13307 FALCON POINTE DR., ORLANDO, FL 32837.
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR
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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC Demandante V. JOHN TROIA Y OTROS Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00497. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM. LUIS C. MARINI BIAGGILMARINI@MPMLAWPR.COM. A: JOHN TROIA, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES ANISSA TROIA; POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 12698 NW 9TH CT, CORAL SPRINGS FL 3307.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA.
MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. OLGA C. BURGOS MARTY
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TJ2025CV00242. (Civil: 408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOSJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM.
A: OLGA C. BURGOS MARTY.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. OLGA C. BURGOS MARTY
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: TJ2025CV00242. (Civil: 408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JOSÉ A. LAMAS BURGOSJLAMAS@LVPRLAW.COM.
A: OLGA C. BURGOS MARTY.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 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 03 de septiembre de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 03 de septiembre de 2025. Kanelly Zayas Robles, Secretaria. Keila García Solís, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Demandante V. MICHAEL MAYSONET LUGO
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: TB2025CV00331. (Salón: 201B). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM. A: MICHAEL MAYSONET LUGO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 02 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 02 de septiembre de 2025. En Toa
Alta, Puerto Rico, el 02 de septiembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NERI AIDA SANFELIZ RAMOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, Demandante, v. SUCESION DE GILBERTO ROLANDO QUEVEDO MOTTA COMPUESTA POR JENNY QUEVEDO OQUENDO, JOANNA QUEVEDO MORALES Y ROLANDO QUEVEDO MORALES, JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE GILBERTO ROLANDO QUEVEDO MOTTA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (C.R.I.M.) – parte con interés, Demandados CIVIL NÚM.: CA2025CV01206.
SALA: 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. SS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO E INTERPELACIÓN dirigido a: JENNY QUEVEDO OQUENDO, 2415 Third Avenue, Dothan AL 36301 JOANNA QUEVEDO MORALES, 5380 Cornestone St., Halton City TX 76117; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD DOE COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DEL GILBERTO ROLANDO QUEVEDO MOTTA
Queden emplazados, notificados e interpelados, que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda 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 noviembre de 2024, la parte demandada le adeuda a la parte demandante las siguientes cantidades: $151,421.53 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6.00% desde el 1 de octubre de 2024; 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 $16,598.82 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: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento 4904 ubicado en el tercero y cuarto piso del Edificio número 49-50, en su sección número 49 y en su lado derecho, cual edificio está localizado en el lado Sureste del inmueble sometido al Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal, conocido por Condominio Veredas del Parque, ubicado en el Barrio San Antón del Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, cuya entrada y salida dan hacia el área de estacionamiento; está construido de hormigón reforzado y bloque de hormigón con un área de piso de dos niveles de 1,463.53 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 135.96 metros cuadrados. Su forma es aproximadamente rectangular y consta de 2 niveles; el primero ubicado en el tercer piso y el segundo en el cuarto piso, que a su vez da acceso a la azotea. Su entrada está localizada en el tercer piso orientada hacia el Noreste del edificio y da acceso directamente al vestíbulo de dicho piso que a su vez da acceso a elementos comunes generales de la propiedad a través de los pasillos, escalera y acera para llegar la vía pública. El primer nivel ubicado en el tercer piso está dividido en los siguientes elementos: una cocina, una sala-comedor, un medio baño un closet, para lavandería, un balcón y unas escaleras que dan acceso al segundo nivel ubicado en el cuarto piso. Contiene un calentador de agua y gabinetes de cocina. El tercer piso tiene una cabida de 671.44 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 62.38 metros cuadrados, en lindes por el NORESTE, en 19’1”con el apartamento 5004; por el SUROESTE, en 21’8” con el exterior del edificio; por el NORESTE, en 30’4” con el apartamento 4903; y por el SURESTE, en 30’4” con el exterior del edificio. El segundo nivel ubicado en el cuarto piso esta divido en los siguientes elementos: 3 cuartos dormitorios con sus closets, unidos por un pasillo central, dos baños, uno con acceso al pasillo central y el segundo ubicado dentro del área del cuarto dormitorio principal, y una escalera con acceso a la azotea y al tercer piso. A este apartamento le corresponde el uso exclusivo de la azotea sujeto a las disposiciones de ley sujeto a las limitaciones contenidas en la Escritura de Constitución de Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal. El cuarto puso consta de un área de 792.06 pies cuadrados, equivalentes a 73.58 metros cuadrados en
lindes por el NORESTE, en 21’7” con el apartamento 5004; por el SUROESTE, en 23’10” con el exterior del edificio; por el NOROESTE, en 34’ con el apartamento 4903; y por el SURESTE, en 34’ con el exterior del edificio. Le corresponde en forma permanente e inseparable dos espacios de estacionamiento los cuales están debidamente identificados en el plano de estacionamiento que se une a la primera copia certificada de la Escritura del Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal y que forma parte de los planos generales del Condominio. Los espacios de estacionamiento que le corresponde a este apartamento serán adjudicados en la escritura de individualización y compraventa y llevaran el mismo número del apartamento. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los elementos comunes generales el 0.5455104%. Le corresponde a este apartamento en los gasto de operación y mantenimiento general del condominio el 0.5509534%. Finca número 55,760, inscrita al folio 157 del tomo 1369 de Carolina, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección II de Carolina. 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
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WM CAPITAL PARTNERS 76, LLC Demandante V. THE MORTGAGE HOUSE Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AR2025CV01148. (Salón: 101 CIVIL - CRIMINAL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JAVIER MONTALVO CINTRÓN - JMONTALVO@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM.
A: JOHN DOE; RICHARD ROE; THE MORTGAGE HOUSE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 02 de septiembre de 2025. En Hatillo, Puerto Rico, el 02 de septiembre de 2025. VIVÍAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SUHAIL SERRANO MOYA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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PR falls 3-0 to host Japan, but advances to super round of U-18 World Cup
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico’s U-18 national team lost 3-0 to Japan on Wednesday at Nishizaki Stadium in Okinawa, closing out the preliminary phase of the World Baseball Softball Confederation U-18 Baseball World Cup with a record of three wins and two losses, good enough to secure a spot in the tournament’s super round.
“The team has been playing good defense, which was what we lacked against Japan,” Team Puerto Rico manager Eddie González said at a press conference. “The pitching has done an exceptional job. We are among the top teams in ERA and strikeouts. We continue to adjust our offense day by day.”
The home team combined Raito Oku-
mura, Saku Hayase and Ikki Nishimura on the mound to limit the Puerto Rican offense. Hayase earned the win in relief, and Allem Borrero took the loss after going two and a third innings with one run allowed.
Japan scored its first run in the second inning with two outs, when Shintaro Sakamoto bunted to third and Yu Yokoyama scored from second. The second run came in the sixth inning after a defensive error, and the third on a wild pitch in the seventh.
“Now it’s time to lift our heads, regroup, come together as a team, rest, and prepare to go all out for the super round,” González added.
After a short rest, Puerto Rico was slated to open the super round against Panama today at 9:30 p.m. (Puerto Rico time) in Okinawa.
Ponce to host NORCECA Men’s Final Six featuring continent’s volleyball elite
By THE STAR STAFF
Ponce will host the prestigious NORCECA Men’s Final Six volleyball tournament Oct. 6-12 at Juan “Pachín” Vicéns Auditorium.
The Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation (FPV by its initials in Spanish) announced Tuesday that the high-level competition will feature the top national teams from across the continent, including Puerto Rico, Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and -- pending final confirmation -- Cuba or Suriname, depending on Cuba’s participation status.
Tickets will be available soon through the official FPV website: www.fedpurvoli.com.
In line with the FPV’s commitment to its community, all youth affiliates will enjoy free general admission, accompanied by one adult. Additionally, referees, coaches and institutional affiliates will also receive complimentary general admission.
FPV President Dr. César Trabanco acknowledged the unwavering dedication of Ponce Mayor Marlese Sifre Rodríguez and her team to ensuring the success of the event, creating an environment where athletes, fans, and media can fully enjoy the experience.
Eddie Casiano returns to coach the Vejigantes of Ponce
By THE STAR STAFF
The management of the Vejigantes of Ponce announced this week the return of Eddie Casiano as coach for the upcoming season of the Puerto Rican Basketball League, scheduled to begin in November.
“Eddie is part of the history of Puerto Rican basketball,” said Joel Medina, general manager of the Vejigantes, in a written statement. “His experience and leadership make him the ideal person to lead us again.”
“With him at the helm, we are confident that Las Máscaras will once again be protagonists and we will fight to give our fans the champion-
ship they so desire,” he added.
Casiano, a former coach of the Puerto Rican national team and a local basketball champion many times over, returns with the goal of leading the franchise to the highest honor. His presence, Medina said, marks a new chapter for the Ponce team and strengthens the organization’s sports project.
Last season, the team advanced to the National Final Four, an achievement that raised fans’ expectations for the new season.
The combination of young talent with Casiano’s veteran experience and strategy points to a competitive season for Ponce and the island, the organization said.
Juan “Pachín” Vicéns Auditorium in Ponce
Allem Borrero took the loss after going two and a third innings with one run allowed.
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