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Academy launched for prosecutors working drunk driving cases

By THE STAR STAFF

The Department of Justice (DJ) and the Traffic Safety Commission (CST by its initials in Spanish) on Thursday inaugurated a specialized academy for prosecutors, with the goal of strengthening and standardizing the effective prosecution of drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Justice Secretary Lourdes Gómez Torres said the initiative seeks to strengthen the investigative and litigation skills of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

“We are firmly committed to preventing tragedies on the roads and are implementing specific strategies to obtain convictions that will deter this behavior, which puts the lives of all citizens at risk,” she said in a written statement.

CST Executive Director José González Mercado emphasized that driving under the influence of drugs continues to be “a serious threat to road safety.” He specified that, thanks to an amendment to an interagency agreement with the DJ, the CST allocated $1,964,666.75 in federal funds to strengthen investigations, litigation and equipment acquisition.

The Specialized Academy for the Effective Prosecution of Drunk Drivers is organized by the Institute for Training and Development of Legal Thought, directed by prosecutor Joan Hernández Marrero, in collaboration with the Specialized Unit for the Prosecution of Drunk Drivers, led by prosecutor Ruth Enid González Candelaria.

The Specialized Academy for the Effective Prosecution of Drunk Drivers integrates practical exercises that simulate real-life situations from the initial investigation to the final trial, with an approach that combines legal rigor and sensitivity to victims.

The program integrates practical exercises that simulate real-life situations from the initial investigation to the final trial, with an approach that combines legal rigor and sensitivity to victims.

“Driving under the influence of alcohol and controlled substances represents a serious threat to the lives and safety of our citizens,” Gómez Torres emphasized. “Therefore, this administration is committed to providing our prosecutors with the necessary tools to address these types of crimes firmly and sensitively.”

Anti-bullying bill filed in House to protect athletes

By THE STAR STAFF

District 13 (Manatí, Florida, Barceloneta and Arecibo) Rep. Jerry Nieves Rosario, who chairs the House Northern Region Committee, filed House Bill 815 on Thursday, “which seeks to amend Section 7 of Act 133-2024 to establish that any person responsible for harassment and bullying will incur civil liability and that any sports entity will be responsible for acts of harassment and bullying toward athletes in the sports environment if they knew or should have known of such conduct and did not take immediate and appropriate action to correct the situation.”

“It is of utmost importance to us to ensure the comprehensive protection of our athletes and, likewise, the prevention of misconduct in our sports entities,” the lawmaker said. “In our current context, in which the dignity and well-being of athletes must be the priority of all sports entities, it is essential to reiterate and strengthen our institutional commitment to eradicating harassment and bullying at all levels.”

“Based on our current legislation, as well as the ethical principles that govern coexistence and respect in sports, our goal is to establish individual and collective civil liability for those who engage in acts of harassment or bullying, as well as for sports

entities that permit or fail to adequately prevent such conduct,” Nieves Rosario noted.

In civil matters, harassment and bullying constitute reprehensible conduct, which generates direct liability for those who perpetrate it.

Rep. Jerry Nieves Rosario (Facebook via Jerry Nieves Representante Distrito 13)

Garffer calls for increased militarization of PR amid threats from China, Russia

By THE STAR STAFF

As China and Russia ramp up their activities in the Caribbean and Latin America, Puerto Rico stands out as a crucial asset for U.S. security, a government official said this week.

“Due to its geo-strategic position, Puerto Rico is essential for us to safeguard our national security and deploy our assets effectively for deterrence in the region,” Puerto Rico’s Public Safety Secretary and Homeland Security Advisor Arthur Garffer said in an interview with CBN News.

That view is not without controversy, however. Lawmakers from the Puerto Rican Independence Party have accused the New Progressive Party government of attempting to militarize the island, raising concerns about the implications of increased military presence.

Over the past decade, both China and Russia have intensified their focus on the Ca-

Public Safety Secretary Arthur Garffer

ribbean. China has poured billions into trade and infrastructure projects while establishing a spy base in Cuba, causing apprehension among U.S. officials. Russia, meanwhile, has adopted a bold approach marked by arms sales, military training and joint exercises.

“In recent months, significant Russian

military drills took place in the Caribbean Sea, during which a nuclear submarine surfaced, carrying hypersonic missiles,” Garffer noted, underscoring the stakes involved.

Garffer, a former U.S. Army officer with National Guard, NATO and special forces service on his resume, asserts that the encroachment of adversarial nations into the Caribbean is a cause for concern.

“The southern Caribbean is increasingly under the influence of countries that aren’t necessarily friendly to the United States,” he warned.

Andrés Martínez-Fernández, a senior policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing U.S. think tank founded in 1973, elaborated on the implications of the growing threat.

“If China disrupts critical trade routes, the consequences could be dire for the United States, especially as tensions over Taiwan rise,” he said. “We need to critically assess

what strengthening Chinese influence in our hemisphere means for our security.”

Garffer proposes that it’s time for the U.S. to fully capitalize on Puerto Rico’s strategic location.

“We have two deep-sea ports -- one on the eastern coast and one on the southern side -- along with some of the longest military runways in the Caribbean,” he pointed out. “These facilities can be utilized to project power and deter aggression from Russia and China.”

The island’s public safety chief believes that enhancing those facilities is a dual benefit -- bolstering both national security and local safety.

“With drug trafficking, violent extremist groups, and transnational criminal networks becoming more agile, they may shift their operations to exploit vulnerabilities,” Garffer said. “Puerto Rico could become a new entry point into the United States.”

FEMA council to visit Puerto Rico to evaluate disaster response

By THE STAR STAFF

The FEMA Review Council will visit the island on Sept. 24, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced Thursday. The visit is part of a series of sessions being held in various jurisdictions across the United States. It is also part of a strategy that the governor, along with the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA), the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resiliency (COR3), and the Department of Public Safety, is implementing to position Puerto Rico as a key player in evaluating and reforming the Federal Emergency Management

Agency (FEMA) and its processes for disaster response and recovery.

The FEMA Review Council was established by President Donald Trump through Executive Order 14180 to assess FEMA’s capacity to respond effectively and impartially to disasters nationwide. The council is also responsible for recommending changes that will strengthen the agency and enhance its performance to better serve the national interest.

During its visit to Puerto Rico, the council will hold an executive hearing convened by the governor, where agency heads will participate to provide direct input on the proposed FEMA reforms. The discussions are part of a broader

national effort to ensure that all communities, including those in Puerto Rico, are actively involved in the process.

“It is essential that Puerto Rico actively participates in this review process,” González Colón said. “We have experienced firsthand the challenges posed by emergencies and natural disasters, and it is crucial that these realities be factored into any proposed reforms. The visit of the FEMA Review Council represents a unique opportunity to ensure that our priorities translate into concrete actions from Washington. This is part of our administration’s proactive effort to contribute solutions to the national conversation and to ensure

that FEMA becomes a more agile and less bureaucratic agency that directly addresses the needs of our communities. As Resident Commissioner, I secured the allocation of the largest reconstruction funds in Puerto Rico’s history, and now, as Governor, my priority is to ensure that these resources are utilized quickly and effectively.”

The island government reiterated its commitment to working closely with the council and the Trump administration to strengthen disaster response mechanisms, enhance community capacity, and ensure that resources reach those most in need in a timely and effective manner.

Health Dept. orders immediate closure of Hospital del Maestro, suspends license

By THE STAR STAFF

The island Department of Health ordered the immediate closure of Hospital del Maestro within 24 hours on Thursday, after concluding that the institution reduced beds and closed essential services without authorization from the Health secretary, in violation of applicable laws and regulations.

According to the order (Case No. OA12025-0001), the hospital unilaterally reduced its authorized capacity from 255

to just 18 beds, in addition to closing the intensive care unit and the Pediatrics Department, and limiting the use of the Operating Room to three days per week. Those actions, according to the document, “are incompatible with both the scope of the license granted under Law 101 and the authorization granted under the CNC Law and put the safety, health, and lives of patients at risk.”

The order establishes that, within 24 hours, the institution must completely cease operations and transfer all hospitalized

patients in coordination and direct supervision with the Department of Health. Each transfer must include a medical evaluation, acceptance of a receiving hospital, transportation with trained personnel, and complete documentation in the medical record.

The order also provides for the suspension of the hospital’s operating license (License No. 42) and the Certificate of Necessity and Convenience (CNC No. 22158), “which will remain in effect until the institution demonstrates full compliance with Law 101-1965, Law 2-1975, and applicable regulations.”

The administrative hearing on the case was scheduled for Friday, Sept. 5 at 1:30 p.m. in the Department of Health’s courtroom. The order warns that the hospital’s failure to appear could result in a default judgment.

“Pursuant to Rule 43 of Regulation 9321, an immediate action adjudicatory procedure is activated, as this is a situation of imminent danger to public health, safety, or welfare,” the document signed by the Health secretary emphasizes.

Dignity Project asks Trump to center anti-drug trafficking operations in PR

By THE STAR STAFF

The Dignity Project (Proyecto Dignidad), the conservative party of Puerto Rico, announced Thursday that it has formally petitioned President Donald Trump to recognize Puerto Rico as a strategic center for federal operations against drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

The proposal requests the allocation of all necessary resources for investigation, intelligence and law enforcement efforts aimed at dismantling criminal organizations involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and arms smuggling. The ultimate goal is to protect the population and prevent the island from serving as an access point to the United States.

“Puerto Rico has a strategic position

and is prepared to play an active role in the fight against international organized crime,” Dignity Project President Nilda Pérez said.

“This collaboration will not only enhance the security of our island, but will also contribute to stability and peace throughout the Caribbean.”

The announcement also highlighted Trump’s recent actions against the socialist regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, noting that the regime “maintains influence and ties within political structures in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Nicaragua.” Some of those actors function as public allies of Maduro, while others collaborate with criminal networks such as the Cartel of the Suns and the Tren de Aragua, as well as related ideological groups, the Dignity Project noted. The

alliances, the party said, have facilitated drug trafficking and other illicit activities, posing

a direct threat to the security of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and the United States.

Over the past three years, Puerto Rico has witnessed multiple federal seizures and operations. The U.S. Coast Guard has reported confiscating more than 53 metric tons of drugs, including individual shipments exceeding four tons. Since the U.S. Navy’s withdrawal from Vieques, the island has transitioned from a controlled military area to a critical hub for drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

“These events demonstrate that federal intervention is not just an option, but an urgent necessity,” Pérez emphasized. “Puerto Rico stands ready to assume a strategic role and collaborate closely with federal agencies to ensure the safety of our population and the hemisphere.”

Guánica pier upgrade seen as key to regional economic development

By THE STAR STAFF

House Government Committee Chairman Víctor Parés Otero and Rep. Omayra Martínez Vázquez were slated to visit Guánica on Friday to evaluate the improvements needed to the municipality’s pier in order to establish it as a hub for the economic development of the island’s southern region.

The visit to the port facility was to begin at 10 a.m. and include Guánica Mayor Ismael Rodríguez and Ports Authority Executive Director Norberto Negrón, as well as personnel from the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, community

leaders, and the facility’s concessionaire, among others.

“Our goal is to improve all of Puerto Rico’s dock infrastructure,” Parés Otero said. “That’s why when our colleague and chairwoman of the Housing Committee, Omayra Martínez, brought her concerns about the Guánica pier to our attention, we immediately envisioned a thorough review of these facilities. We’re going to bring everyone involved together to create an action plan to put this dock in the best possible condition so it can become a linchpin of the local economy.”

The hearing is being held under House Resolution 261, authored by Martínez Vázquez, which seeks to conduct a compre-

hensive investigation into everything related to the Guánica pier, including its reconstruction and possible expansion.

The port served for decades as the starting point for the transportation of sugar from the Guánica Central.

“What we want is for the port of Guánica to be rehabilitated so it can bring in supplies and products,” said Martínez Vázquez, who represents District 21 (Lajas, Guánica, Yauco, Sabana Grande, Maricao and Las Marías). “Right now, we have a pollution issue in Guánica Bay that’s even preventing the reconstruction of the seawall, and that’s also affecting the work on rebuilding this historic pier.”.

Comptroller finds deficiencies in Ports fiscal operations

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office (OCPR by its initials in Spanish) has issued an unfavorable opinion regarding the fiscal operations of the Ports Authority, identifying multiple deficiencies in lease management, debt collection and the granting of incentives.

According to report OC-26-03, 36% of the 258 commercial facilities at eight of the island’s nine airports have been operating un-

der expired leases since 1993, which does not protect the interests of the public corporation. Furthermore, unlawful contractual clauses were found that allowed for the occupation of premises beyond the contract terms, through penalties and additional rents.

The audit uncovered several issues, including the Ports Authority allowing a concessionaire to place a trailer on airport land for over 16 years without paying rent. Additionally, six facilities were not included in the property inventory, and a general lia-

bility insurance policy was not mandated for eight contracts.

During the pandemic, the Ports Authority board of directors approved a 40% reduction in monthly rent for 60 days, granting $273,015 in credits to 82 facilities, 61% of which were operating without valid contracts. Furthermore, incentives under the Airport Coronavirus Response Grant program were also provided to concessionaires in similar circumstances, thereby invalidating those benefits, as stated by the OCPR.

The report also notes that it took six and a half years for a legal adviser to process a referral and issue a collection recommendation of $424,910 to a client, leading to perceptions of bias, negligence and poor management. The OCPR highlighted that the Ports Authority accumulated deficits of $302.5 million between fiscal years 2018 and 2021. As of June 30, 2021, accounts receivable totaled $15.2 million, indicating a lack of internal controls that jeopardizes liquidity and suggests potentially inflated asset valuations.

New CDC director is fired, Trump administration says

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, APOORVA MANDAVILLI and CHRISTINA JEWETT

The White House said late Wednesday that it had fired Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after a tense confrontation in which Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to remove her from her position and she refused to resign.

Monarez, an infectious disease researcher, was sworn in just a month ago by Kennedy, but had clashed with the secretary over vaccine policy, people familiar with the events said. Four other high-profile CDC officials quit en masse, apparently in frustration over vaccine policy and Kennedy’s leadership.

Because Monarez had been confirmed by the Senate — previous CDC directors were not subject to such confirmation — she served at the pleasure of the president. Kennedy likely did not have the authority to dismiss her.

Her lawyers insisted she was staying put. But at 9:30 p.m., a spokesperson for President Donald Trump, Kush Desai, said in an email message that Monarez had been terminated.

“As her attorney’s statement makes abundantly clear, Susan Monarez is not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again,” Desai wrote.

“Since Susan Monarez refused to resign despite informing HHS leadership of her intent to do so, the White House has terminated Monarez from her position with the CDC.”

Monarez’s firing, along with the resignations of four of the CDC’s top leaders, will undoubtedly throw the nation’s public health agency into further turmoil after a tumultuous month in which agency employees were laid off and a gunman fired a barrage of bullets at the Atlanta headquarters, killing a police officer and terrifying employees.

Her lawyers, Mark S. Zaid and Abbe Lowell, asserted in a statement earlier Wednesday that Monarez’s situation was symbolic of larger issues.

“It is about the systematic dismantling of public health institutions, the silencing of experts, and the dangerous politicization of science,” Zaid and Lowell wrote. “The attack on Dr. Monarez is a warning to every American: Our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within.”

The clash between Kennedy and Monarez, which had been brewing for days, burst into public view Wednesday. That afternoon, the Department of Health and Human

Services announced on the social platform X that Monarez was “no longer” director of the CDC.

Without elaborating, the agency thanked her for “her dedicated service to the American people,” adding, “@SecKennedy has full confidence in his team at @CDCgov who will continue to be vigilant in protecting Americans against infectious diseases at home and abroad.”

Hours later, Lowell and Zaid disputed the department’s account, saying Monarez “has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign.”

Kennedy and his department, they said, “have set their sights on weaponizing public health for political gain and putting millions of American lives at risk.”

Neither Monarez nor the HHS responded to requests for comment.

Monarez and Kennedy were at odds over vaccine policy, according to an administration official who is familiar with the events.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said Kennedy summoned Monarez to his office Monday and demanded that she resign. When she refused, Kennedy demanded that she remove the agency’s top leadership by the end of the week.

Monarez then called Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the Senate health committee, who in turn called Kennedy, according to the official. Kennedy, furious, summoned Monarez to a second meeting Tuesday and accused her of “being a leaker,” according to the official, and told her she would be fired.

The official said Monarez spoke to other senators as well. On Wednesday, a White House official told Monarez that if she did not resign by the end of the day, President Donald Trump would terminate her.

The four high-ranking agency officials who did resign are Dr. Debra Houry, the CDC’s chief medical officer; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the center that issues vaccine recommendations; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, who oversaw the center that oversees vaccine safety; and Dr. Jennifer Layden, who led the office of public health data.

Some cited an increasingly tense environment within the administration that had become intolerable.

“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health,” Daskalakis wrote in an email

Susan Monarez, the CDC director, appears during her Senate confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 25, 2025. Monarez, who just weeks ago became director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has abruptly left her job after a tumultuous month that included dramatic shifts in vaccine policy and layoffs of the agency’s work force.

(Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

to colleagues, adding that they “continue to shine despite this dark cloud over the agency and our profession.”

Jernigan was deeply involved in the agency’s response to anthrax, swine flu and COVID; Daskalakis helped the nation cope with an mpox outbreak; Layden established the COVID strategic science unit; and Houry built the agency’s opioid response program.

Former CDC leaders said the departures would harm the agency and the nation.

Dr. Mandy Cohen, who ran the agency during the second half of the Biden administration, called the officials “exceptional leaders who have served over many decades and many administrations,” and warned that “the weakening of the CDC leaves us less safe and more vulnerable as a country.”

Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s principal deputy director until her retirement in May 2021, called them “the best of the best.”

“These individuals are physician-scientist public health superstars,” she said. “I think we should all be scared about the nation’s health security.”

The resignations, which coincided with a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to put new restrictions on updated COVID vaccines for the fall-winter season,

occurred at a difficult time for the nation’s public health agency.

This month, a gunman angry about COVID vaccines opened fire on CDC headquarters in Atlanta, killing a police officer, shattering bullet-resistant windows and traumatizing employees.

After the attack, Houry and Daskalakis pushed for Monarez to reassure CDC employees that the matter would be given the attention it deserved.

“We’re mad this has happened,” Houry said in a large group call the day after the shooting. Daskalakis, whose office was among those hit by bullets, told Monarez that employees wanted to see a plan for their safety and an acknowledgment that the attack was not just “a shooting that just happened across the street with some stray bullets.”

It seemed to many employees on the call that Monarez had not spoken to Kennedy directly after the attack. Kennedy did not address the shooting until the day afterward, when he posted condolences on his official X accounts. Trump still has not spoken about the assault.

CDC employees issued an open letter pleading with Kennedy, who has repeatedly cast doubt on COVID shots and other vaccines, to stop spreading “inaccurate information.”

Monarez, while not pointing a finger at the health secretary, echoed their concerns about misinformation in a note to employees.

Monarez was the first nonphysician to lead the CDC in more than 50 years. She had been acting director of the agency since Trump took office, and she was nominated to the top post after the president withdrew his first choice, Dr. David Weldon.

Morale has plummeted at the agency as Kennedy severely reduced the workforce, sharply cut back CDC funding and eliminated some core functions of the agency.

Monarez was expected to run her plans by Matt Buckham, the new chief of staff at HHS, and by Matt Buzzelli, the chief of staff at CDC, according to a person familiar with the unusual arrangement.

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center may be empty within days

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

The number of people being held at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades has decreased sharply and may soon be down to zero, despite the state’s recent insistence that the 2,000 beds at the facility were desperately needed as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants lacking legal status.

Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, wrote in an email last Friday that the detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, was “probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”

The email, obtained by The New York Times, was sent to the office of a South Florida rabbi in response to interfaith leaders who had asked whether they could minister to detainees inside the remote center.

The state has repeatedly declined to say how many detainees it was housing at the center, which opened in early July at a remote airfield. Roughly 900 people were being held there by mid-July, according to members of Congress who visited. More than a month later, the email is the first evidence that the center is not operating at or near capacity. It comes six days after a federal judge ordered that the facility be shut down.

Rabbi Mario Rojzman of the Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus, a synagogue in North Miami Beach, did not share the email with the Times, but he confirmed its authenticity. He said in a statement that Guthrie was responding to a request from him and from other members of an interfaith clergy group working with Miami People Acting for Community Together, a nonprofit organization.

On Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, attributed the drop in the detention center’s population to the Department of

Homeland Security. He said federal officials were deporting detainees or transferring them out of the facility more quickly, perhaps because of the ongoing litigation in federal court.

“Our role is to provide more space for processing and detention leading to deportation,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Orlando. “We are not the ones actually removing them from those facilities.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the state Division of Emergency Management did not respond to a question about how many detainees were being held at the Everglades center.

Rep. Maxwell Frost, an Orlando Democrat, wrote in a legal declaration this week that when he visited the detention center Aug. 20, state emergency management workers told him it was holding approximately 300 detainees. Frost later saw what appeared to be a population count on a whiteboard that read “336,” he wrote in the declaration.

DeSantis said this month that Florida would open a second immigration detention center, named “Deportation Depot,” at a disused state prison west of Jacksonville, because there was a “need” for more detainee capacity. Florida officials said initially that they hoped to be able to hold as many as 4,000 detainees at the Everglades detention center by the end of August, but legal filings show that its capacity remains around 2,000.

A man holds an American

front of the entrance to

a new immigrant detention center located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Fla., July 12, 2025. An immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades threatens protected lands and wildlife, and violated federal laws when the government failed to study potential harms before construction, environmentalists argued in federal court in Miami on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025.

(Ava Pellor/The New York Times)

Last week, a federal judge ordered that no more immigrant detainees be sent to the center in the Everglades, and that it be emptied of detainees and its fencing, lighting and generators removed within 60 days. The judge, Kathleen Williams of U.S. District Court in Miami, ruled that the state and federal governments had failed to consider potential environmental harms before building the center.

The state has appealed that ruling and asked that the ruling be stayed, or kept from taking effect, while it pursues its appeal. As part of the case, the federal government said in a legal filing that the detention capacity created by opening the Everglades center was “essential.”

“Its removal would compromise the government’s ability to enforce immigration laws, safeguard public safety, protect national security, and maintain border security,” Garrett Ripa, the field office director for the Department of Homeland Security, wrote in a legal declaration Saturday, adding that other South Florida detention facilities “are at or above capacity.”

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL

Who cares if you’re healthy so long as you look good?

By TRESSIE McMILLAN COTTOM

Who cares if we are sicker, so long as we look good?

That’s the gist of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science approach to making America healthy. Kennedy pooh-poohs GLP-1s not because they do not work for weight loss and diabetes but because exercise and clean eating are more natural. He has suggested that eating glyphosate-free grain could reduce eczema symptoms and that organic, cellphone-free “wellness farms” are suitable for people suffering from addiction or who take attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder medication.

More tellingly, he has promised to end government “suppression” of treatments like “psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma.” Health, he has long implied, is an easily attainable personal choice; by pursuing it, anyone can look and feel good. If you strip away his famous surname and maybe look past his advanced age, Kennedy is indistinguishable from a beauty influencer. He has niched down his content, narrowly focusing his message on the idea that “clean” and “natural” are synonyms for “healthy.” Scientific recommendations can be overwhelming, even conflicting. So when the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement talks about health, it

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That version of health is bad science. But it is great marketing for beauty, health and wellness products that promise to make you look healthy — whether you are or are not.

As millions of Americans struggle to get access to and afford health care, spending on beauty is growing, so much so that the global market for beauty products grew by 7% annually from 2022 to 2024, in part because manufacturers are merging beauty, health and wellness into one big lifestyle market, in which cosmetic products are marketed as natural parts of clean living.

Products like these can be anything from talc-free eye shadow to hair growth vitamins, to collagen powder to red-light therapy masks to full-body cold plunge pools that you inflate in your backyard. They fill the vacuum that’s created when we prioritize individual responsibility over safe, scientifically sound health policy.

Our national obsession with maximizing our health through individual choices makes clean beauty sound vaguely moral. Social media amps up its appeal. Now, almost any attractive person can hawk a wellness product as clean or natural, as if to suggest that organic products with shorter ingredient lists are inherently virtuous. But the notion that clean and natural are undeniably safe is wrong. It also can be dangerous.

Look at how this mentality has invaded the beauty industry. It is far easier to call a beauty product clean than it is to prove, via science, that a product is safe and effective. Caveat emptor and all of that, but this industry’s consumers are younger than they were when I bought my first Origins skin care box in the 1990s. Preteenagers are among the fastest-growing age group for hair, skin, cosmetic and wellness products.

Many of those products target younger consumers with vague claims for which there are no industrywide, regulated standards. Instead, the half-trillion-dollar industry relies on selfpolicing. For some consumers, that hasn’t been enough.

For instance, a 2022 study found that the hair relaxers used in many Black beauty routines are correlated with higher rates of cancer. Solving this should be easy. Regulators should mandate better products and inform consumers so that they can choose a healthier or cleaner product.

But to manufacture safer beauty products aimed at Black women, companies would have to research what is and is not safe. For a host of reasons, that research barely exists. Black women are underrepresented in clinical trials, for one. And historical racism in the manufacture and distribution of Black products has undoubtedly warped Black women’s consumer power. In economic terms, consumers’ purchasing choices inform what the market produces for them. But when Black women don’t have a lot of available choices, what they buy may not signal what they want.

When people are underserved for a long time, they will create solutions. When the market underserved Black female consumers for generations, many became do-it-yourself beauty pioneers. I remember my grandmother dying her pink “flesh

If you strip away his famous surname and maybe look past his advanced age, Robert Kennedy is indistinguishable from a beauty influencer. (Maria Chimishkyan/The New York Times)

tone” pantyhose in leftover coffee to make them match her skin tone. Her generation also had a homemade concoction that predates today’s mass-produced hair relaxers.

Black beauty culture still has a pioneering spirit. It is common to whip up a homemade conditioner from mayonnaise or a hair clarifier from apple cider vinegar.

But DIY beauty solutions can be a gateway into gimmicks marketed online as clean and healthy. When regulation failed to give Black women better choices, influencers saw an opportunity to capitalize on our risk. There are now many influencers on TikTok who decode product ingredient lists like true crime podcast hosts who promise to get to the bottom of an unsolved murder.

Their credentials vary. Some are scientists; others have more in common with new age gurus. All of them sell the idea that there is an attainable clean beauty protocol available to anyone informed enough, and brave enough to seek it.

If I close my eyes, they sound a lot like Kennedy. He is also very suspicious of multisyllabic scientific compound names.

There is a level at which MAHA makes some intuitive sense, just as it makes intuitive sense to doubt the chemists who put formaldehyde in Black women’s hair relaxers. My gut says that someone should absolutely be in charge of making our products safe. If I made that gut instinct my political identity, MAHA’s convoluted approach to health might make sense.

But slashing scientific research or regulation won’t give me better options. It will mean that more consumers will experience the skewed incentives that Black women have long endured. It will mean more bad options and more individual responsibility for the consequences of those bad options. That is a perfect storm for MAHA’s real market: misinformation.

The movement’s demonization of chemicals shows how an obsession with being “clean” can shut down critical thinking. Many clean-beauty enthusiasts consider anything made in a lab an unnatural, potentially toxic threat to healthy living. But scientific labs are the ideal places to create the sustainable bioidentical dupes of naturally occurring compounds that make our products safe and effective. On the other hand, many things labeled “natural” can be toxic. Vitamin D is — for all intents and purposes — natural. But take too much of it and you’re sick.

Consumers with fewer safe, healthier choices are greater targets for this sort of misinformation and manipulation. So when a beauty influencer like Kennedy takes over a regulatory arm of the U.S. government and brands deregulation and consumer risk as taking care of one’s health, he’s making all of us marks. Americans get sicker and scammers get richer.

Embajadora del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez de la UPR representa al país en internado Fulbright en Canadá

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MAYAGÜEZ

– La estudiante Alondra G. Urrutia

Santiago, del programa de Microbiología Industrial del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR), representó al país en la más reciente edición del internado de verano y programa de investigación Fulbright-Mitacs Globalink, en University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) en Prince George, Canadá.

Luego de sobresalir exitosamente un riguroso proceso de solicitud, la joven oriunda de Río Grande, fue admitida para colaborar en el grupo investigativo de la doctora Kalindi Morgan, quien fue su mentora durante la jornada educativa que se extendió por tres meses.

“Trabajé en la aislación de microorganismos de escarabajos descortezadores sub-boreales del noroeste de Canadá, específicamente bacterias y hongos asociados a tres especies de estos insectos, con el fin de explorar su potencial antimicrobiano. Además, aprendí y apliqué técnicas avanzadas como el uso de un espectrómetro alta resolución, ensayos de desafío y escalamiento para la identificación y análisis estructural de compuestos microbianos”, explicó la alumna en cuarto año del Departamento de Biología.

Alondra relató que según los datos de Fulbright Canada, ella es de las primeras puertorriqueñas en ser seleccionada para esta oportunidad en ese país, lo que considera una hazaña importante para su crecimiento profesional y como boricua.

“Me siento sumamente orgullosa. Para mí, representa no solo un logro personal, sino también la posibilidad de abrirle puertas a muchos más estudiantes de Puerto Rico que deseen aprovechar este tipo de experiencias internacionales”, reiteró.

Según contó, se enteró del internado a través de LinkedIn y comenzó el trámite de solicitud que consistió de tres rondas. En la primera, se requería someter un ensayo, dos cartas de recomendación y el expediente académico. “Tras ser evaluados, los candidatos seleccionados recibíamos acceso a un portal donde era necesario elegir hasta diez proyectos de interés en orden de preferencia. Posteriormente, los profesores encargados podían citarnos para entrevistas. En mi caso, solo tuve una entrevista, ya que la profesora que me contactó fue justamente la investigadora de mi primera opción, y fui aceptada en su grupo”.

Alondra agregó que el programa Fulbright-Mitacs se ofrece en casi todas las universidades de Canadá. En su caso, en la UNBC, compartió la experiencia con 13 estudiantes, incluida ella como única puertorriqueña, otro latinoamericano de México, y el restante, de destinos internacionales como China, Pakistán, Túnez, Francia y Reino Unido.

Estudiante del RUM en Fulbright Canadá

“Fue una experiencia transformadora, tanto profesional como personal. Más allá de adquirir nuevas destrezas en microbiología y química, asistí a mi primer simposio internacional, conecté con estudiantes de distintas partes del mundo y viví experiencias culturales únicas en Canadá. Me reafirmó que soy capaz de adaptarme, crecer como investigadora y seguir construyendo los sueños que antes veía lejanos”, admitió.

Aunque esta fue su primera vivencia global, ya su resumé cuenta con labor investigativa en los laboratorios del RUM de los doctores Alex Veglia, con el proyecto Tracking the abundance of cyanophages in coastal waters of Puerto Rico, y Yadira Malavez, con quien actualmente trabaja.

“Me siento profundamente agradecida con la docto-

ra Morgan por su mentoría excepcional y con FulbrightMitacs por brindarme esta oportunidad. Igualmente, con todos los profesores del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez por todo su apoyo. Esta vivencia marcó un antes y un después en mi carrera científica y me motiva a seguir persiguiendo plataformas internacionales de investigación”, precisó.

A sus 21 años, Alondra tiene sus metas definidas y perfiladas hacia estudios graduados para obtener un doctorado en Ciencia de Alimentos o Microbiología, enfocándose “en cómo los microorganismos influyen en la seguridad y calidad de los alimentos, y cómo este conocimiento puede contribuir al desarrollo de mejores estrategias para proteger la salud pública”, subrayó.

Viernes crucial en la Serie Final Brava: Juncos busca campeonato 11 y Patillas obligado a ganar

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JUAN – La Serie Final Brava Lubricants 2025 de la Liga de Béisbol Superior Doble A continuará este viernes a las 8:00 de la noche con el sexto juego, donde los Mulos de Juncos podrían conquistar su undécimo campeonato o los Leones de Patillas podrían extender la serie a un séptimo y decisivo encuentro. Por segunda vez en la serie se repetirá el duelo mon-

ticular entre los zurdos Luis Cintrón, de los Mulos, y Ryan Muñoz, de los Leones. En su enfrentamiento anterior, Cintrón se acreditó la victoria con seis entradas en cero, mientras que Muñoz lanzó siete capítulos con apenas dos carreras permitidas.

Juncos domina la serie 3-2 y con un triunfo se consolidaría como la franquicia más ganadora de la Liga Doble A con 11 campeonatos. En cambio, Patillas se juega la permanencia, con la misión de forzar un séptimo par-

tido el sábado en Ponce, lo que le daría la oportunidad de alcanzar el primer título en sus 57 años de historia. Cintrón presenta balance de 11-2 y efectividad de 1.54 en 105.1 entradas en la temporada, mientras que Muñoz carga con registro de 8-3 y efectividad de 2.62 en 75.2 entradas durante la postemporada.

Los boletos para el desafío están disponibles en EventosPR.com y el partido será transmitido por WIPR Canal 6 y sus plataformas digitales.

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An omen? PRSO opens season with Mahler’s ‘Tragic’

By PEGGY ANN BLISS

Special to The STAR

The so-called “Tragic” 6th Symphony in A Minor by Gustav Mahler will headline the opening night of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra’s (PRSO) current classical season Saturday.

While it might seem a bit theatrical, even melodramatic, the traditional nickname seems to presage the imminent departure of the group’s musical director and guiding light for the past 18 years, Maximiano Valdés.

Entitled “Máximo Momento,” the 14-concert season, which ends May 9, 2026, will showcase several guest conductors from all over the globe, including some musicians well known to local audiences.

Valdés, who will conduct the opening night monster symphony, was tapped for his present post in 2008, after a 16-year stint at the head of the Asturias Symphony in Spain. In that time, the PRSO has been threatened by a hurricane, a pandemic and a general fiscal crisis, which has limited some of the growth its classical music community had envisioned for it.

Nevertheless, it was just “the right time to move on; it is important for these musicians to be exposed to new ideas,” said Valdés, 75,

at a recent press gathering.

The season’s last concert, the Chilean conductor said, will, not coincidentally, feature another Mahler symphony, the Third, rarely played by the PRSO, like all of the Austrian composer’s works, because of their length, difficulty and increased instrumentation.

Saturday’s concert, which begins at 7 p.m. in the Pablo Casals Symphony Hall at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center in Santurce, will be an exclusive showcase for the mammoth symphony, which can take up to 90

minutes to perform, depending on the tempi (speeds) chosen by each conductor.

The piece was premiered in 1906 in Saalbau Essen, the then futuristic concert hall in Essen, Germany, conducted by the composer.

“No piece of music is strong enough to appear on the same program with (Mahler’s Sixth),” said Elena Sherbanesco, a member of the first violin section who retired in 2021 after 19 years.

Mahler’s personal instructions to the score calls for six tympani (instead of the usual two), eight French horns instead of the usual five, four harps in place of two, and enlarged sections of brass and woodwinds, among other additions in “instrumentation” such as

cowbells and a “hammer which makes a dull thud.”

The PRSO, which had a roster of 75 active members and five on leave as recently as last season, would have had to contract additional musicians to fulfill Mahler’s instructions.

This has most likely been done, according to former principal clarinetist Kathleen Jones, who retired last year after 42 years with the orchestra.

“The extra musicians would have to have been budgeted at the beginning of the year, and I am sure [Valdés] would have done that,” she noted to The STAR.

The orchestra, which is partially funded by the island Legislature, has two other permanent conductors, both Puerto Rican: Emeritus Conductor Roselín Pabón, a veteran of over 40 years, and Associate Musical Director Rafael Enrique Irizarry, who was tapped for his present position 10 years ago. Previously he was the first horn player for many years.

Guillermo Figueroa also held the titular position for 16 years. He will be on a roster

of conductors from abroad who will be featured this season, although no candidate has yet been proposed for the prestigious long-term position. Among fresh faces audiences will see on the podium this season are Joanne Falletta, a favorite of local audiences from the United States; Enrico Fagone, the celebrated musical director of the Long Island (New York) Concert Orchestra, and the much sought after José María Moreno from Malaga, Spain, among others.

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S&P 500, Dow score record high closes as Nvidia results buttress AI rally

The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average notched record high closes on Thursday after Nvidia’s quarterly report fell short of investors’ high expectations but confirmed that spending related to artificial intelligence infrastructure remains strong.

Shares of Nvidia dipped 0.8% after Sino-U.S. trade uncertainties prompted the leading AI chip designer to exclude potential China sales from its quarterly forecast late on Wednesday.

Investors viewed Nvidia’s report, including a 56% surge in quarterly revenue, as confirmation that demand related to AI technology remains strong, supporting a rally in AI-related stocks that has propelled Wall Street to record highs in recent years.

Other AI heavyweights gained, with Alphabet adding 2%, Amazon up 1% and chipmaker Broadcom rising almost 3%.

“Nvidia is such an outlier that to say it was a disappointing print is only against the bar of borderline impossible expectations,” said Ross Mayfield, an investment strategy analyst at Baird. “It’s clear that the primary structural driver of this market, which is AI, is not going anywhere or cooling down.”

The S&P 500 climbed 0.32% to end the session at 6,501.86 points, reaching a record high close for a second straight day.

The Nasdaq gained 0.53% to 21,705.16 points, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.16% to 45,636.90 points, exceeding its previous record high close on August 22.

Seven of the 11 S&P 500 sector indexes rose, led by communication services, up 0.94%, followed by a 0.68% gain in energy.

Nike slid 0.2% after the sports apparel seller said it was cutting less than 1% of its corporate workforce as it struggles to reclaim market share lost to rivals.

Reducing worries of a slowing economy, weekly jobless claims were lower than expected, while a separate report showed corporate profits rebounded in the second quarter.

Expectations that the Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates to shore up economic growth have contributed to Wall Street’s recent gains.

Investors on Friday will focus on Personal Consumption Expenditures data. Any signs of inflation increasing could temper

broad expectations for easing at the Fed’s policy meeting in September.

Traders are pricing in more than an 80% chance of an interest rate cut next month, according to CME Group’s FedWatch.

On Thursday, Fed Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove her from office earlier this week.

Data analytics company Snowflake surged 20% after raising its forecast for fiscal 2026 product revenue, citing AI demand.

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Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones within the S&P 500 by a 1.2-to-one ratio.

The S&P 500 posted 28 new highs and five new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 117 new highs and 52 new lows.

Volume on U.S. exchanges was relatively light, with 13.8 billion shares traded, compared to an average of 16.7 billion shares over the previous 20 sessions.

2 weeks after Trump talks, Russia bombards Kyiv, killing at least 18

By MARIA VARENIKOVA

An hourslong barrage of Russian missiles and drones killed at least 18 people in Ukraine’s capital, including four children, early Thursday, officials said.

The assault, less than two weeks after President Donald Trump’s summit in Alaska with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, showed how the recent U.S. diplomatic flurry has done little to change the Kremlin’s determination to continue fighting in Ukraine.

Since Trump pulled Putin out of Western diplomatic isolation by inviting him to Anchorage, Alaska, Russia has made no significant concessions on any of the major sticking points between it and Ukraine, leaving the two sides no closer to peace. The attack Thursday was Russia’s largest on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, since the Alaska meeting.

Ukrainian authorities said at least 45 people were injured. A five-story apartment building was destroyed, and other homes were damaged. A missile also hit a shopping mall in central Kyiv, authorities said, and buildings belonging to the European Union mission and the British Council suffered damage. European officials denounced the Russian strikes.

In all, officials said, Russia launched 598 drones and 31 missiles in the overnight assault on Kyiv and other cities. Ukraine’s defenses shot down 563 drones and 26 missiles, according to Ukrainian authorities.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said the Russian bombardment was the Kremlin’s answer to the recent diplomatic efforts.

“Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media. “It chooses to continue killing instead of ending the war. And this means that Russia still does not fear the consequences.”

Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, addressed the assault on Kyiv on Thursday, saying that “the special military operation is continuing,” using Russia’s official term for the war, and noting that Ukrainian forces were continuing to strike Russian infrastructure. Peskov also said, “Russia maintains its interest in continuing the negotiation process.”

The Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital came 13 days after Trump and Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska, for a one-day summit to discuss a settlement for the war.

Before the meeting, Trump had said he agreed with Ukrainian and European demands that a ceasefire must precede any substantive peace talks. Russia has insisted that such talks, which could cover difficult questions of Russian territorial gains and Ukrainian security guaran-

Residents of an apartment building after an hourslong barrage of Russian missiles and drones in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. The strikes on Ukraine’s capital, nearly two weeks after the U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska, killed at least 15 people and injured at least 45, officials said. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times)

tees, must come before a ceasefire. That would allow Russia to continue to press its advantage on the battlefield while negotiations drag on.

After the Alaska summit, Trump reversed his demand for a preliminary ceasefire, at Putin’s urging. The fighting has since continued along the front lines, as have missile and drone bombardments on Ukrainian cities.

While Trump has at times voiced frustration with Putin’s continued barrages against Ukraine, he has not followed through on threats to impose new economic penalties against the Kremlin.

“Every conversation I have with him is a good conversation,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. “And then, unfortunately, a bomb is loaded up into Kyiv or someplace, and then I get very angry about it.”

Trump said he still believed that “we’re going to get the war done,” but acknowledged that “it’s tough.”

With the White House continuing its diplomatic efforts, Zelenskyy said Wednesday that his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, and the head of the country’s security council, Rustem Umerov, would meet with Trump’s team on Friday in New York. They will discuss security guarantees to be included in any future peace agreement, according to Zelenskyy.

On Thursday, fires and falling debris were reported in at least 23 locations around Kyiv overnight, and missiles and drones could still be heard flying overhead at dawn. An official with the city’s emergency service said people had been rescued from the rubble of the destroyed apartment building.

Referring to the damage to the EU mission,

Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said Russia had targeted diplomats in violation of the Vienna Convention.

The EU ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Mathernova, said on the social platform X: “Russia’s ‘peace’ last night: a massive strike on Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles. This is Moscow’s true answer to peace efforts.”

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, said on social media that the EU delegation was safe. She said she had separate calls Thursday with Zelenskyy and Trump.

Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, said the Kyiv building housing the British Council, an international cultural and educational institution sponsored by his government, had also been damaged.

“My thoughts are with all those affected by the senseless Russian strikes on Kyiv,” he wrote on X. Britain said it had summoned the Russian ambassador to protest the attack.

In the hours after the strikes, residents of the destroyed apartment building stood around on the grass outside it, wrapped in blankets. Six black plastic body bags lay among poplar trees beside the blasted-out entrance to the building.

Svitlana Lytvynenko, 21, a sales manager, said she had jumped out of bed with her boyfriend after hearing an explosion nearby about 3 a.m. and had run to the building’s

basement. Another strike, this one directly on her building, followed, raising a cloud of dust.

“It started burning and the water pipe broke and the water started pouring on us,” she said. “We ran toward the exit when another explosion hit the building and then rubble fell and people started screaming that we are stuck.”

They managed to climb out, though her boyfriend’s leg was injured, she said, and the couple made it to another bomb shelter. She said she could not speak there because of her panic and the dusty air.

Her neighbor, Denys Otstavkin, 27, did not make it to the shelter in time and was running out of a doorway when a blast came. He and Lytvynenko both said they saw many cars burning and big clouds of smoke.

At least 500 emergency workers were deployed to help people around Kyiv, according to Svitlana Vodolaha, a spokesperson for the city’s emergency service. When emergency workers arrived at the five-story apartment building, she said, people were screaming for help from under the rubble. Three of them were rescued, she added.

Earlier, on Wednesday evening, air-raid warnings and reports from social media sites that track Russian attacks had prompted some residents to head to subway stations to spend the night. Others only came after hearing explosions.

Tetyana Ivashchuk, 64, went to a subway station in central Kyiv at 3 a.m. and spent hours sitting on a bench. “I always come when it’s scary,” she said.

At first, only about a dozen people came to the station, but others arrived as the attacks continued. By 6 a.m., more than 100 people were sleeping or resting on the floor there, even as the first trains began taking others to work.

People stared at their phones, reading updates about the victims. “I see someone died,” said a woman sitting across from Ivashchuk. They both nodded sadly and returned to their screens.

Denmark summons US envoy over a reported ‘influence operation’ in Greenland

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and MAYA TEKELI

Denmark summoned the head of the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen earlier this week after allegations emerged that three Americans with ties to President Donald Trump were running “covert influence operations” in Greenland.

Trump has repeatedly said that he wants the U.S. to “get” Greenland, a huge, strategically important island, mostly in the Arctic, that is a territory of Denmark.

The allegations were published by Denmark’s main public broadcaster Wednesday morning. Within hours, the Danish Foreign Ministry summoned the current head of the embassy, the chargé d’affaires, for a meeting.

“We are aware that foreign actors continue to show an interest in Greenland,” said Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister. “Any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the kingdom will of course be unacceptable.”

Rasmussen called the summons a “preventive conversation.”

It was the second time in recent months that the Danes have summoned an American envoy over issues concerning Greenland. This spring, news outlets reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had been

tasked with gathering more information on Greenland, specifically its independence movement and public attitudes toward U.S. resource extraction. Soon after that story broke, the lead American diplomat was called in.

According to the report published by the Danish Broadcasting Corp., three Americans, including two who were said to have previously worked for Trump, have traveled back and forth to Greenland gathering information and cultivating contacts as part of the “covert influence operations.”

The report did not name the Americans and relied on anonymous Danish officials. There was no immediate response from the Trump administration, whose relationship with Denmark keeps finding new lows.

Denmark has repeatedly rejected Trump’s insistence that the United States take over Greenland. Trump has been pushing the idea for years, first offering to buy the island from Denmark and then, when that did not work, threatening to acquire it “one way or the other” and refusing to rule out using military force.

Greenland, with a population of fewer than 60,000, is loaded with resources, including critical minerals, which have attracted the interest of top officials in the Trump administration. It also served as a base for U.S. military operations during World War II and the Cold War. There is still a remote American installation on the northern side of the island.

Apartments in Nuuk, Greenland, on May 21, 2025. Allegations have emerged that three Americans with ties to President Donald Trump were running “covert influence operations” in the Danish island territory. (Sigga

tionships with politicians, business figures and ordinary citizens. All this was done, the report said, to weaken Greenland’s ties to Denmark and draw the island closer to Washington.

Danish officials declined to identify the three men in the report or say how or if they were connected to Trump allies who have been scouring Greenland for business deals in recent months.

istration but that he continues to “consult with them” along with others. He also joked that he and Trump share a “Vulcan mind meld.”

Drew Horn is another member of Trump’s circle who has been involved in Greenland. A former adviser to Trump and other Republican officials, Horn is now heading the rare earths company GreenMet.

Most Greenlanders do not want to join the United States, according to recent polls, though many have voiced aspirations to break off from Denmark and become an independent country.

The Danish Broadcasting Corp. reported that the three Americans were trying to tap into these divisions. One of them was drawing up lists of Greenlanders who could be recruited into a secessionist movement. The other two, according to the report, were trying to develop rela-

Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., visited Greenland in January to rally support for his father and for various business projects. The effort did not seem to go anywhere; the organizers ended up recruiting people off the street to attend a celebratory dinner.

Another American businessperson, Tom Dans, who was an adviser to the president on Arctic affairs in his first term, recently founded a small nonprofit organization to promote closer U.S. ties with Greenland. Last fall, Dans sponsored Jorgen Boassen, a former bricklayer from Greenland who has become an advocate for a tight alliance with the United States, to participate in Trump campaign events. Boassen has gone on to become one of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters on the island, though he is reviled as a traitor by many Greenlanders.

In an interview in February, Dans said that he had no role in the Trump admin-

Earlier this year, he led a delegation of American investors to Greenland. The purpose, according to the company, was to “advance projects in the energy, infrastructure, and technology sectors, in coordination with efforts at the White House and in Congress to secure critical supply chains.”

Horn said he does not work for Trump anymore, but in an interview in April, he said that he was “looking to support the president and the administration’s goals.”

The flurry of U.S. attention on Greenland, private and official, seems to be only deepening the divide between Washington and Copenhagen.

“For a long time, they have been trying to walk that difficult line between being very close allies and having huge disagreements at the same time,” said Niels Thulesen Dahl, a political analyst at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. “The Danish government has basically just been waiting for something like this to happen again.”

Trump, with tariffs and threats, tries to strong-arm nations to retreat on climate goals

By LISA FRIEDMAN

President Donald Trump is not only working to stop a transition away from fossil fuels in the United States. He is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal.

Trump, who has joined with Republicans in Congress to shred federal support for electric vehicles and for solar and wind energy, is applying tariffs, levies and other mechanisms of the world’s biggest economy to induce other countries to burn more fossil fuels. His animus is particularly focused on the wind industry, which is a wellestablished and growing source of electricity in several European countries as well as in China and Brazil.

During a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Trump said he was trying to educate other nations. “I’m trying to have people learn about wind real fast, and I think I’ve done a good job, but not good enough because some countries are still trying,” Trump said. He said countries were “destroying themselves” with wind energy and said, “I hope they get back to fossil fuels.”

Two weeks ago, the administration promised to punish countries — by applying tariffs, visa restrictions and port fees — that vote for a global agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping sector.

Days later in Geneva, the Trump administration joined Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries to oppose limits on the production of petroleum-based plastics, which have exploded in use in recent years and are polluting waterways, harming wildlife and have even been detected in the human brain.

Last month, the Trump administration struck a trade deal with the European Union in which it agreed to reduce some tariffs if the bloc purchased $750 billion in American oil and gas over three years. That deal has raised concerns in some European countries because it would conflict with plans to reduce the use of fossil fuels, the burning of which is the main driver of climate change.

“They are clearly using various tools in an attempt to increase the use of fossil fuels around the world instead of decrease,” said Jennifer Morgan, Germany’s former special envoy for climate action.

Also last month, Energy Secretary Chris Wright warned that the United States could pull out of the International Energy Agency after the organization predicted that global oil demand would peak this decade instead of continue to climb.

Wright told Europeans in April that they faced a choice between the “freedom and sovereignty” of abundant fossil fuels and the policies of “climate alarmism” that would make them less prosperous.

Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, said Trump’s goal was “restoring America’s energy dominance, ensuring energy independence to protect our national security and driving down costs for American families and businesses,” and added, “The Trump administration will

President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission speaks with President Donald Trump during a meeting at Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland, July 27, 2025. President Trump is not only working to stop a transition away from fossil fuels in the United States, he is pressuring other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

not jeopardize our country’s economic and national security to pursue vague climate goals.”

Energy experts and European officials called the level of pressure Trump is exerting on other countries worrisome. Last year, the hottest on record, was the first calendar year in which the global average temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels. Along with that came deadly heat, severe drought and devastating wildfires. This year is on track to be the second- or third-hottest on record, according to data from several agencies.

Scientists widely agree that to avoid worsening consequences of climate change, countries need to rapidly transition away from oil, gas and coal to clean energy sources like wind, solar, geothermal power and hydropower.

“At this moment in time it is absolutely imperative that countries double down, triple down, on their collaboration in the face of the climate crisis to not allow the active efforts for a fossil fuel world by the Trump administration succeed,” Morgan said.

The arm-twisting goes far beyond Trump’s actions during his first term, some observers said. As he did in 2017, Trump in January withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, a global pact among nearly 200 countries to fight climate change. But during the first term, Trump primarily focused his energy policy on withdrawing the United States from global discussions about climate change while he promoted domestic fossil fuel production.

This time around, the administration is “actively trying to undermine countries” on global warming, said David L. Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies, an energy consulting firm.

Several diplomats from other countries said that the

administration has used increasingly aggressive tactics to influence international energy policies.

In February, Wright addressed a conference in London via video and called net zero (when the amount of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere is equal to or less than the amount removed) a “sinister goal” and criticized a British law to reach net zero by 2050.

In March, the Trump administration denounced the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which were adopted by nations unanimously in 2015 and include ending poverty and hunger, and addressing climate change. The administration said “the government of the United States must refocus on the interests of Americans,” and course-correct on things like “climate ideology.”

The Trump administration declined to attend global negotiations this summer that are a precursor to annual United Nations climate talks to be held in Brazil in November.

It also skipped an April meeting of the International Maritime Organization where the world’s largest shipping countries agreed to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds as a way of curbing emissions. The body had been expected to formally adopt the fee in October.

But the administration’s announcement this month that it would reject the maritime organization deal shocked many with its blunt promise that the United States would “not hesitate to retaliate or explore remedies for our citizens” against other countries that support the shipping fee.

Meanwhile, virtually all of the Trump administration’s trade deals include requirements that the trading partners buy U.S. oil and gas.

“You see a more systematic attempt to be a fossil fuel first strategy to everything that they do,” said Jake Schmidt, director of international programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

The administration may slow the transition to clean energy by other countries but cannot stop it, Schmidt said. Most countries that signed the Paris Agreement will submit more ambitious targets for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations this year, although some may temper those plans because of the U.S. position, he said.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research organization, argued that the Trump administration was doing the right thing by pressuring countries to reject renewable energy.

“Europe is coming to the United States saying, ‘Help defend us against Russia, help us with Ukraine,’” Furchtgott-Roth said. “Where at the same time, they’re spending $350 billion a year on green energy investments that are slowing their economies.”

“It doesn’t seem to make very much sense to the Trump administration,” she said, adding, “I think we’re going to see more pressure.”

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Rosé Sgroppino

By REBEKAH PEPPLER

Pink, bubbly and lightly bitter, this frosty drink works equally well as a palate cleanser, dessert or hot afternoon cocktail. While this recipe was created with sparkling rosé in mind, feel free to use another dry sparkling wine: Prosecco, cava, crémant or pétillant naturel. A Lambrusco di

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Yield: 1 drink

Total time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

3 ounces/1/2 cup high-quality strawberry, raspberry or cherry sorbet (about 2 medium scoops)

1/4 ounce amaro, such as Amaro Nonino, Montenegro or Averna

2 1/2 ounces dry sparkling rosé

1 brandied or maraschino cherry (optional)

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1. In a small, chilled bowl, add the sorbet, amaro and 2 ounces sparkling rosé. Whisk gently just until nearly smooth, then pour into a chilled coupe or Nick and Nora glass. Top with the remaining 1/2 ounce sparkling wine. Garnish with the cherry, if using, and serve immediately.

Sgroppinos, flavored with rosé or gin and tonic. Long before the Grasshopper, the piña colada and the frozen daiquiri, there was the Sgroppino, a bright, cooling combination of lemon, sugar, ice and clear spirit that was served at an aristocrat’s dinner party in Venice, the story goes. Food styled by Simon Andrews. (David Malosh/The New York Times)

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SpaceX’s giant Mars rocket completes nearly flawless test flight

By KENNETH CHANG

After several disappointing failures, SpaceX’s Starship — the mammoth rocket that Elon Musk hopes to use to take people to Mars — made it all the way up to space and all the way back down to Earth during a 10th test flight Tuesday night.

The largely successful mission was likely a relief to both SpaceX and NASA, suggesting that the development program is back on track. NASA is counting on Starship as the lander to put its astronauts on the moon in the coming years.

“They appeared to achieve all of their test objectives,” Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank, said in an interview. “I think this puts SpaceX back on track.”

On the social platform X, Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA, congratulated SpaceX and said it was a great day for NASA and its commercial partners.

The flight could, at least for now, silence some critics of Musk and SpaceX who suggested that the Starship project was suffering from serious engineering flaws.

Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. Even more ambitiously, Musk says it will be fully reusable, with both stages returning to the launch site and caught by giant mechanical arms.

If SpaceX can pull off this vision, Starship could revolutionize the space industry, enabling the launching of bigger and heavier payloads at much lower costs.

The 400-foot-tall vehicle consists of an upper-stage spacecraft, the Starship, and a powerful booster stage, with 33 engines, known as the Super Heavy.

SpaceX has a “break it and fix it” philosophy of development, unlike the traditional approach of NASA and older aerospace companies that attempt to anticipate all of the engineering problems before a test flight. That leads to more failures, but SpaceX has shown it can be faster and more efficient.

But the seventh, eight and ninth test flights were disappointing, because the upper-stage Starship failed at an earlier part of the flight than on the fifth and sixth test flights, which survived reentry and simulated a landing over the Indian Ocean.

On the 10th flight, the booster successfully simulated a soft landing over the

Gulf of Mexico, and the upper stage made it all the way to the Indian Ocean. While in space, the upper stage deployed eight dummy prototypes of SpaceX’s next-generation Starlink internet satellites, successfully testing a Pez dispenserlike apparatus to push each one into space.

Video coverage of the reentry indicated that the spacecraft’s heat shield was more effective at keeping Starship’s structure intact as it belly-flopped through the atmosphere.

Harrison noted that some problems did occur along the way, including the shutdown of one of the booster’s 33 engines. The booster’s other engines were able to compensate and the mission continued.

During the upper stage’s reentry into the atmosphere, the rear flaps used for controlling the vehicle were partially burned through. A part of the aft portion of the spacecraft also appeared to explode along the way.

“They’ll have to do some work there,” Harrison said. “But even with that, it maintained perfect control and was able to do the splashdown as intended.”

The mission ended with the spacecraft

flipping to a vertical orientation and simulating a landing. It then toppled over into the waters of the Indian Ocean. A camera on a buoy that SpaceX had placed in the water there captured Starship’s final moments as the ship exploded.

That is not a surprising fate when a structure as tall as a 17-story building that contains leftover methane fuel topples over.

The Super Heavy booster similarly exploded in the Gulf of Mexico after its simulated landing. Each blast was anticipated by SpaceX’s flight planners.

SpaceX had hoped to accomplish most of the objectives of Tuesday’s launch during the test flights earlier this year.

“So maybe they’re six months behind where they wanted to be,” Harrison said. “If they can get another test flight within six weeks or so, they can start to catch up, especially if they have more successes like this.”

Then Musk’s company can tackle other technical challenges that it will have to overcome in order to reach the moon and Mars.

On Monday night, Musk said during SpaceX’s coverage of a launch attempt that he hoped the company would demonstrate

next year the ability to transfer propellants between two Starships while in orbit. Without refueling, a Starship can only reach low-Earth orbit. Before heading to more distant destinations, its tanks will have be refilled with liquid oxygen and liquid methane propellants carried by multiple additional Starship launches. SpaceX therefore has to also demonstrate the capability to launch multiple Starships in quick succession.

Last year, Musk said that SpaceX would launch the first Starships to Mars, without any people aboard, in 2026. More recently, he said that is still the goal but is less confident that it is achievable.

Then there is SpaceX’s contract to land NASA astronauts to the moon.

Artemis III, the mission that is to take two astronauts to the lunar surface in the south polar region, is scheduled for late 2027. A version of Starship is to be used as the lander, to take the astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon.

With the delays in Starship’s development, Artemis III will almost certainly not launch until 2028 or later.

As NASA’s moon efforts slip into the future, China is making steady progress with its program to land its astronauts there before 2030. It announced this month that it had successfully tested a lunar lander.

Even after Tuesday’s successful test flight, Harrison said he thought there was a greater than 50/50 chance that China would reach the moon before NASA did with Artemis III. If that happens, “it’s not the end of the world,” he said. “It is more of a psychological kind of hit than anything.”

China’s steady, methodical pace could lead to it establishing a moon base first as well.

But for one night at least, Harrison had fun watching SpaceX succeed instead of stumble. He is looking forward to an upcoming test flight when the upper-stage spacecraft is to return to the Texas launch site and be caught by the launch tower.

Harrison said he wanted to see how frequently SpaceX can launch Starship for the next test flights. If it is every six weeks or so, “They can get this back on schedule,” he said.

But if two to three months pass between launches, Harrison warned, “that’s really going to grind things to a halt in terms of Artemis III.” A rear-facing image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS from the Perseverance Mars rover as it drives up toward the rim of the planet’s Jezero Crater, Nov. 11, 2024. After several disappointing failures, SpaceX’s Starship — the mammoth rocket that Elon Musk hopes to use to take people to Mars — made it all the way up to space and all the way back down to Earth during a 10th test flight Tuesday night. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via The New York Times)

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA DAVID CABÁN LÓPEZ Y SOR ÁNGELES

MÉNDEZ LÓPEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA ENTRE AMBOS

Peticionarios EX-PARTE Civil Núm.: AG2025CV01322. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS

E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS; A JUAN MÉNDEZ MOLINA, MINERVA MUÑIZ

MÉNDEZ, LILLIAM MARTÍNEZ PETERSON, HÉCTOR L. MARTÍNEZ

Y/O SUS HEREDEROS; A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁ Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por el peticionario para adquirir su domino sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través de SUMAC, al cual puede acceder utilizando la dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor del peticionario en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. RÚSTICA: Sita en el Barrio Cibao de

San Sebastián, Puerto Rico; con una cabida superficial de TRESCIENTOS CINCUENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO SEIS MIL CIENTO TREINTA OCHO (354.6138 MC.) metros cuadrados, equivalentes a CERO PUNTO NOVECIENTOS DOS DIEZ MILÉSIMAS (0.0902 CDA.) de cuerda; al Norte, con Gloria I. Lugo Ramos, al Sur, con la carretera estatal cuatrocientos cincuenta y cinco (455); al Este, con Juan Méndez Molina; y al Oeste, con Gloria I. Lugo Ramos. Enclava una estructura en hormigón de una sola planta para uso residencial. Número de catastro: 101-000-003-85-001. La abogada de los peticionarios es la Lcda. Janice Soto Cardona, HC 5 Box 54748 San Sebastián, PR, 00685; Teléfono: 787896-2022. Se le informa que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 13 DE MARZO DE 2026, A LAS 2:00 DE LA TARDE, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la petición. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de 20 días a contar de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por el peticionario, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, PR, a 8 de agosto de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NILDA TORRES

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SORRENTINI Peticionarios EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: MZ2023CV02244. Sala: 207. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: PERSONAS IGNORADAS/ DESCONOCIDAS O QUE PUDIERAN TENER ALGUN INTERES EN

LA

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POR CUANTO: La parte peticionaria por conducto de su abogado, Lcdo. Carlos L. Segarra Matos, con oficina en el # 2510 de la Carretera 100 kilómetro 3.5 en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico y dirección postal PO Box 582 Boquerón PR 00622, ha radicado una petición en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, solicitando la inmatriculación y el dominio en el Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico Sección de San Germán, del inmueble que se describe de la siguiente manera: RÚSTICA: Marcada en el plano de mensura aprobado por ARPE como solar número seis (6), porción de terreno compuesto de mil quinientos sesenta y seis punto cuatro cero uno dos metros cuadrados (1,566.4 4012 mc) equivalente a cero tres mil novecientas ochenta y cinco diezmilésimas de cuerda, localizado en el barrio Llanos Tuna del municipio de Cabo Rojo, colindando por el norte con terrenos propiedad de la sucesión de Francisco Asensio; por el sur con el camino Los Asensio de diez metros de ancho; por el este colinda con el solar número siete (7); y por el oeste con más terrenos de la sucesión de Francisco Asensio. Identificado de acuerdo al plano catastral con el número: tres tres dos guión cero nueve cero guión dos nueve seis guión cero uno guión cero cero cero (332-090-296-01-000). POR

CUANTO: El tribunal ordena la citación de las personas arriba nombradas, que pudieran tener algún interés en la propiedad o que puedan ser perjudicados por su inscripción para que comparezcan a formular alegaciones si así lo desean, dentro del término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la última publicación de este edicto o a comparecer a la vista en su fondo señalada para el 11 de agosto de 2025 a las 9:30 de la mañana en la sala 207 del Centro Judicial de Mayagüez. A tales fines, el edicto se publicará tres (3) veces en un periódico general de circulación diaria dentro del término de veinte (20) días. Se le advierte que, de no haber oposición, se dictará resolución concediendo lo solicitado. POR CUANTO: Expido el presente edicto en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 29 de julio de 2025. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

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AVISO A ACREEDORES DE DON RICHARD MACHADO GONZÁLEZ

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POR LA PRESENTE se les notifica que se ha iniciado la preparación del inventario en sede notarial del caudal relicto del causante RICHARD MACHADO GONZÁLEZ. Se les requiere para que toda reclamación con los correspondientes comprobantes bajo juramento sea presentada y dirigida al peticionario por conducto de su abogado a la siguiente dirección y dentro del plazo de treinta (30) días contados desde la publicación del presente edicto:

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Se le advierte que, de no responder a este Aviso, los procedimientos para la formación y liquidación del caudal del causante continuarán sin más citarle ni oirle.

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Demandante V. SUCESION DE RONALD ZAPATA FAGUNDO COMPUESTA POR RONALD ANTONIO ZAPATA VEGA, LYANN CRISTINE ZAPATA VEGA, YULIANNE MARIE ZAPATA VEGA, Y LINETTE VEGA REYES T/C/C

LINNETTE VEGA REYES

COMO VIUDA, SUJETA A LA CUOTA VIUDAL USUFRUCTUARIA; LINETTE VEGA REYES

T/C/C LINNETTE VEGA REYES; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIONES DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV09299.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE

AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 1 de agosto de 2025, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: Propiedad Horizontal: Apartamento número trescientos ocho (308), localizado en la tercera (3ra) planta del Edificio número dos del Condominio Torres de Andalucía que radica en la calle Marginal Oeste de la Carretera Estatal número ciento ochenta y uno (181) (Expreso Trujillo Alto), kilómetro uno (1), hectómetro (2), Barrio Sabana Llana, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. Tiene un área superficial de ochocientos ocho punto setenta y tres pies cuadrados (808.73 p.c.), equivalentes a ochenta y cinco punto trece metros cuadrados (85.13 m.c.) y consta de sala, comedor, tres (3) dormitorios, cocina, lavandería, baño y clóset. Colinda por el NORTE, por donde tiene su acceso de entrada y salida con un pasillo que lo comunica con el resto del Edificio; por el SUR, con el patio delantero; por el ESTE, con la pared que lo comunica con el apartamiento número trescientos nueve (309); y por el OESTE, con la pared que lo separa del apartamiento número trescientos siete (307). Le corresponde un porcentaje en los elementos comunes de cero punto dos tres nueve cero porciento y un espacio de estacionamiento identificado con el mismo número del apartamiento. Inscrita en la finca número 25,070, inscrita al folio 281 del tomo 617 de Sabana Llana, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección V de San Juan. La dirección de la propiedad es: 308 Torre D Andalucía II San Juan, PR. El producto de la subasta se destinará a satisfacer al demandante hasta donde alcance, la SENTENCIA dictada 11 de junio de 2025, este Honorable Tribunal dictó Sentencia, notificada el 17 de junio de 2025 en el presente caso civil, a saber la suma de $53,162.18 por concepto de principal; generando intereses a razón de 6.00% desde el 1ro de octubre de 2017; 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 $5,500.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado; y demás créditos accesorios garantizados hipotecariamente. La adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el acto mismo de la adjudicación, en efectivo (moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América), giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del alguacil del Tribunal. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a efecto el día 10 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el Centro Judicial de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Que el precio mínimo fijado para la PRIMERA SUBASTA es de $55,000.00. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una SEGUNDA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la SEGUNDA SUBASTA será de $36,666.66, equivalentes a dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Que de ser necesaria la celebración de una TERCERA SUBASTA la misma se llevará a efecto el día 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en la oficina antes mencionada del Alguacil que suscribe. El precio mínimo para la TERCERA SUBASTA será de $27,500.00, equivalentes a la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo estipulado para la PRIMERA subasta. Si se declarase 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 de la tercera subasta, si el Tribunal lo estima conveniente; se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si esta es mayor, todo ello a tenor con lo dispone el Artículo 104 de la Ley Núm. 210 del 8 de diciembre de 2015 conocida como “Ley del Registro de la Propiedad Inmueble del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”.

La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquiere libre de toda carga y gravamen que afecte la mencionada finca según el Artículo 102, inciso 6. Una vez confirmada la venta judicial por el Honorable Tribunal, se procederá a otorgar la correspondiente escritura de venta judicial y se pondrá al comprador en posesión física del inmueble de conformidad con las disposiciones de Ley. Para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda aquella persona o personas que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción

del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de todos los licitadores y el público en general, el presente Edicto se publicará por espacio de dos (2) semanas consecutivas, con un intervalo de por lo menos siete días entre ambas publicaciones, en un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico y se fijará además en tres (3) lugares públicos del Municipio en que ha de celebrarse dicha venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Se les informa, por último, que: a. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la secretaría del tribunal durante las horas laborables. b. Que 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. EXPIDO, el presente EDICTO, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 7 de agosto de 2025. PEDRO HIEYE GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL, DIVISIÓN DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

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Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GM2020CV00040. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (IN REM). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HÉCTOR E. MÁRQUEZ NERIS, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 3 de julio de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 8 de mayo de 2025, notificada el 9 de mayo

de 2025, procederé a vender el día 7 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RUSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número cuatrocientos cincuenta y tres (453) en el plano de parcelación de la Comunidad Las Palmas del barrio Las Palmas del termino municipal de Arroyo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de trescientos cincuenta punto cero cero (350.00) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número cuatrocientos cincuenta y dos (452) de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número cuatrocientos cincuenta y cuatro (454) de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con la parcela número cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete (457) de la comunidad; y por el OESTE, con la calle de la letra L de la comunidad. Inscrita al Folio 22 del Tomo 170 de Arroyo, Registro Inmobiliario Digital del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama, Finca Número 6,380. Dirección Física: Bo. Nuevas Palmas, Lot. 453 Calle L, Arroyo, PR 00714. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, o sea, la suma principal de $37,085.86 más intereses al tipo convenido y demás términos y condiciones, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guayama. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 7 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de $42,150.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 15 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $28,100.00. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el 22 DE OCTUBRE DE 2025, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad (1/2) del tipo mínimo fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, la cantidad de $21,075.00. A la propiedad no le afectan gravámenes preferentes. A la propiedad le afectan los siguientes gravámenes

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A new kind of fighting man

By JACK CROSBIE

On a baking-hot night in Las Vegas at the end of June, Payton Talbott stood in a chain link cage across from a man he needed to hurt. He dropped his arms loose to his sides and shook them out. His mouth hung slightly open, eyes flat and expressionless. His opponent stared back.

In the cage, Talbott says, everything else drops away. The referee disappears. The fans disappear. Life becomes simple.

At 26, Talbott is one of the fastest rising stars in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the largest organization for the sport of mixed martial arts in the world. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs in at 136 pounds and has more than 70 inches of reach on his punches, which he deploys with a creative, flashy style that has captivated fans.

He also dresses, on occasion, in mesh crop tops; appears in videos pole-dancing; and records experimental audiovisual projects with an eclectic list of collaborators, including the electronica artist Arca, who is transgender, and the mercurial singer Frank Ocean.

Talbott knows that he is an anomaly in his chosen discipline. So, too, does the UFC’s fan base, members of which have speculated widely on his masculinity, sexuality and fighting ability, filling comment sections with insults, jibes and occasional support.

“I just think in my head, like — why do I have to be manly?” Talbott said. “Why does my image and what I wear have anything to do with my fighting? And even if it did — what do you care?”

Somewhat unavoidably, people do care. In the past half-decade, the UFC has become a touchstone for the new form of brash, bro-y

masculinity sweeping through popular culture. Tech founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have egged each other on to fight in a cage match, and Zuckerberg has both trained and competed in martial arts. The UFC’s president, Dana White, is a friend and ally of President Donald Trump, who has become the organization’s most prominent fan and recently promised to hold a fighting event on the White House lawn next year.

In the gym, fighters say, ability, respect and dedication to the sport are the only currencies that matter. But online, and in the public eye, Talbott finds himself at the unlikely nexus of a culture war that cannot be settled in the cage.

In the gym

Talbott came to the sport the same way many of its stars do. After some experience wrestling in high school, he walked into a mixed martial arts gym as an angry 19-year-old looking for the kind of combat he’d seen on TV.

“I was not in a good place,” Talbott said. “So it was therapeutic to just go for two hours every day and fight strangers.”

Talbott’s gym, Reno Academy of Combat, sits in a small shopping plaza, and has two entrances: one to the MMA gym, and the other to the gun store and indoor firing range.

The head coach and owner, Rick Collup, a grizzled former fighter from the lawless era of early-2000s underground MMA, runs the gym in laissez-faire fashion. In the bathroom, a neatly printed sign reads: “Please clean up your own blood and throw up.”

“The first day I was there, I sparred,” Talbott said, referring to a practice fight. Like many new students, he thought sparring was meant to be performed at “100%” intensity, which made him stand out — and not in a good way.

“One of the fighters pulled me aside and

was like, ‘You’re going to go with me next round,’” Talbott remembered. That fighter beat him up, he said, badly.

Until this year, Talbott held an undefeated professional record of 9-0, with several highlight-reel knockouts. But in the cage in January, facing a veteran named Raoni Barcelos, Talbott floundered. The older and far bulkier Barcelos threw him around the ring, raining down strikes and decisively winning the fight.

Online, comments sections exploded. One commenter suggested Talbott should stick to pole dancing and painting his nails.

Payton Talbott, left, a rising star in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), the largest organization for the sport of mixed martial arts in the world, trains at the Reno Academy of Combat, in Reno, Nev., July 31, 2025. What happens when the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s hottest prospect doesn’t fit the sport’s hypermasculine mold? (Emily Najera/The New York Times)

Talbott said he struggled with severe vertigo for weeks after the match. When he recovered, however, he was eager to get back in the cage. In early June, the UFC asked him to step in on short notice to square up against the Brazilian fighter Felipe Lima, another one of the sport’s rising stars in the 135-pound bantamweight division.

It was a risky decision: Consecutive losses can crush an up-and-coming fighter’s prospects. Particularly poor performances can cause the UFC boss White to unceremoniously dump a fighter from the roster.

With 10 days to go, Talbott was back in the gym, focusing on drilling specific scenarios he might encounter in fighting Lima. Collup hovered around the cage, arms crossed, making small corrections.

Not a ‘woke’ fighter

Earlier that day, Talbott was hanging around his room in a T-shirt, soccer shorts and Adidas sambas, working on a new album — one of his “side quests,” or hobbies, which include skateboarding, urban exploring and an array of artistic pursuits.

Sprawled on the couch, before setting to work on a DJ deck, he reflected on how his experience as a fighter had shaped how he expressed himself outside of the cage.

“I think when I first started getting good at MMA, I felt a need to balance that out,” Talbott said. “The stronger I felt, I also felt like I needed to feminize myself when appropriate. I think it’s just like a subconscious thing.”

Talbott is uninterested, though, in being the “woke” UFC fighter, as he put it. Between rounds of the video game Elden Ring, Talbott’s roommate, a childhood friend, asked him how he felt about being seen as a role model for a

different sort of masculinity in the UFC.

“I don’t feel like I owe anyone anything,” Talbott replied, sounding annoyed. “I think I’m just going to try to be myself and the people who get it will get it.”

Back in the ring

On the night of his fight against Lima, Talbott entered the arena to a walkout song he had produced himself: a remix of an electronica song by Arca that sampled the Deftones’ “Feiticeira.”

In the opening minute of the match, Lima came forward swinging hard, catching Talbott several times. After a few more minutes, Lima dove forward into a takedown, hoping to pin Talbott to the mat, but Talbott wriggled out and rolled, ending up on top, raining down punches.

“He’s showing great improvement in his grappling — great improvement!” Joe Rogan, that evening’s commentator, crowed on the UFC’s broadcast.

In round two, Talbott stalked Lima around the cage. Lima shot takedowns again and again. Again, Talbott defended. At one point, after pummeling Lima on the floor, Talbott stepped back and allowed his opponent to get up.

“Payton, don’t play with him!” Collup shouted from the corner.

But now Talbott was having fun. He broke into a grin. In the third round, the crowd got on his side, chanting, as they did for many American fighters: “USA! USA! USA!”

“He’s living up to the hype,” Rogan exclaimed.

The fight ended after three full five-minute rounds. After a short deliberation, the judges gave their verdict: Talbott was the winner, by unanimous decision.

“I love my job, I really do,” he said after the fight.

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