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By THE STAR STAFF
esident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera asserted Thursday that Puerto Rico “is not a colony,” using a public event in Washington, D.C. to reinforce his position that the commonwealth remains a valid, internationally recognized political status for the island.
Hernández Rivera delivered the message while hosting members of the Puerto Rico Mayors Association at a forum marking the 80th anniversary of the appointment of Puerto Rico’s first governor and the 74th anniversary of the Commonwealth Constitution. The event featured Dartmouth College professor David A. Rezvani, whose academic work focuses on political integration and partially independent territories.
“Puerto Rico is not a colony, it is not,” Hernández Rivera said, echoing arguments long made by scholars who view the commonwealth as a unique status model.
He pointed to shared U.S. citizenship, common defense and a unified currency as structural elements that distinguish Puerto Rico from traditional colonial arrangements.
Rezvani, the event’s keynote speaker, supported that view by noting that the United Nations recognized the commonwealth framework in 1952. He also highlighted Puerto Rico’s economic advantages compared with other jurisdictions in Latin America, citing his research on wealth, self-rule and security in non-sovereign territories. Rezvani is the author of “Surpassing the Sovereign State” (Oxford University Press, 2014) and has taught at Harvard, MIT,
Oxford, Trinity College, Brown and Boston University. Mayors Association President Jorge “Georgie” González Otero said the resident commissioner’s stance aligns with his pending legislation, H.R. 9246, the Puerto Rico Self Determination Act, which includes the commonwealth among the options in a proposed referendum.
“We support that measure because it is fair and democratic,” said González Otero, who is the mayor of Jayuya.
The Mayors Association groups mayors from the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party.
A 2025 Hart Research poll of registered voters in Puerto Rico found that 42% favored the commonwealth, compared with 29% who supported statehood, 11% independence and 11% free association.
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico’s mid-summer dry spell continued to intensify this week, with severe drought now affecting 14.3% of the island, according to the latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor, based on data valid as of Tuesday, July 14.
The report shows that 59.3% of Puerto Rico is experiencing some level of drought, a slight decrease from 61.4% the previous week. But within that overall figure, the area classified under severe drought grew significantly -- from 10.5% to 14.3% -- marking an expansion of 3.8 percentage points in the most intense category currently present on the island.
Moderate drought covers 45% of the island, while an additional 23% is considered abnormally dry, a designation used for regions that may be entering drought or beginning to recover. No areas are under extreme or exceptional drought.
The map released by the Drought Monitor indicates that
severe conditions are concentrated in southern municipalities, while moderate drought extends across much of the east and interior. The classifications are used by federal and local agencies to guide decisions on agricultural assistance, loan eligibility and water-resource planning.
Puerto Rico typically experiences a dry period during June and July, but this year’s rainfall deficits are raising concerns for water supplies, crop health and livestock. The island’s heavy dependence on rainfall for drinking water and food production makes prolonged dry spells especially disruptive.
The expanding drought has already prompted government action. Lawmakers have requested information from the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority regarding its drought response plans, and water rationing measures have begun in municipalities such as Río Grande and Canóvanas. Several towns, including Quebradillas, have launched public campaigns urging residents to conserve water.
With river levels dropping and fire danger increasing, agencies continue monitoring conditions closely as the island moves deeper into the summer season.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Family Department is moving forward with a comprehensive plan to strengthen oversight of elder‑care homes, an initiative aimed at modernizing licensing processes, expanding supervisory capacity, and im proving response times to potential risks affecting older adults.
The push comes in the wake of a recent fatal incident in which an elderly woman was abused inside an elder‑care facility in Las Piedras, prompting renewed scrutiny of the island’s regulatory and supervisory systems.
Charges of attempted murder and elder abuse were filed Thursday in the case against Eddie Mojica Peña a caregiver for an 87 year old patient at the Casa Dorada facility stem ming from an incident that took place on July 11.
The agency detailed the ongoing work earlier this week, following comments made by Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes during a press conference Wednesday in which she em phasized that the plan has been under development for several months. It includes immediate actions as well as medium‑ and long‑term projects designed to improve operational capacity, expand the use of technology, and reinforce coordination across the department and with other government entities.
According to the department, one of the central compo nents of the plan is granting licensing personnel access to the SIMCA system, a type of multivariate data analysis software, allowing them to review case histories, complaints, referrals and investigations to conduct more thorough evaluations of each home. The agency is also implementing a uniform process
Family Secretary Suzanne Roig Fuertes has visited numerous long-term care homes across the island to hear directly from operators and residents and to reaffirm the government’s support for the sector.
for issuing, notifying and collecting administrative fines, along with mechanisms to track pending sanctions.
The plan calls for updates to the Sulme system, a digital platform for managing facility licenses, to improve visibility of inspection visits and generate resources for operational improvements, training and additional inspections. A perma nent training program for licensing officers is also underway, covering investigative techniques, conflict management, re port writing, administrative hearings and strategies to prevent
compassion fatigue.
Other measures include digitizing online payment pro cesses; strengthening an internal risk‑classification system to prioritize homes with higher levels of noncompliance; and conducting periodic evaluations of continuing‑education requirements for administrators and operators on topics such as emergency preparedness, infection prevention, medication management and the rights of older adults.
The department is also formalizing collaborative agreements with the Department of Health, the Office of the Advocate for the Elderly, the Firefighters Bureau and the Emergency Management Bureau. A review of the licensing regulation is in progress to standardize inspection criteria, intervention protocols and guidance for personnel. Officials noted they are maintaining ongoing communication with power grid operator LUMA Energy and the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority to stay informed about service‑related issues that may affect homes.
“Our commitment is to continue strengthening supervisory mechanisms to ensure that every home operates in compliance with the law and provides a safe and dignified environment for our older adults,” Roig Fuertes said.
Since taking office, she has visited numerous long‑term care homes across the island to hear directly from operators and residents and to reaffirm the government’s support for the sector.
The Family Department underscored that the plan is part of a broader, continuous effort to raise quality standards, improve institutional response capacity, and ensure more rigorous and efficient oversight of elder‑care homes across the island.
By THE STAR STAFF
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) ended fiscal year (FY) 2023 with higher liabilities, a deeper deficit and a renewed warning from auditors that the public utility continues to face “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue operating.
The audited financial statements, released Thursday to the markets for the year ended June 30, 2023, depict a utility still struggling with long‑standing financial instability as it remains under Title III bankruptcy protection.
Accounting firm KPMG issued a qualified opinion, citing the inability to obtain sufficient evidence to support two major accounting estimates: some $137.8 million in labor‑related claims and about $257 million in materials and supplies. The auditors wrote that “certain employees’ files that were necessary to support management’s assumptions … were either incom plete or unavailable,” and that they could not verify inventory balances due to PREPA’s ongoing operational transition.
The audit also reiterated PREPA’s precarious financial posi tion, noting that the utility has an accumulated deficit of some $10.1 billion, has defaulted on multiple debt obligations and lacks sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they come due.
“The Authority does not currently have sufficient funds avail able to fully repay its various obligations,” the auditors stated. Despite the challenges, PREPA’s total assets and deferred
outflows increased to $11.4 billion, up 6.3% from 2022. Cash and cash equivalents rose sharply up 91%, or $247.8 mil lion driven by higher sales revenues, improved collections and a surge in federal reimbursements. Restricted cash also increased by $383.1 million, largely due to a $447.4 million loan from the commonwealth government to fund reserve ac counts required under PREPA’s generation‑operation contract.
Liabilities, however, continued to grow. Total liabilities and deferred inflows reached $21.5 billion, an increase of $683.9 million from the prior year. Interest payable rose by $422.2 million, including a $336.3 million increase in bond interest even though PREPA has not paid bondholders since entering Title III in 2017. Monoline insurers covered $70.2 million in interest on insured bonds, but those amounts remain recorded as PREPA’s obligations.
PREPA’s net deficit widened to $9.7 billion, up $204.2 million from 2022. Although still negative, the pace of deterio ration slowed significantly compared to the prior year’s $903.3 million increase. The improvement was driven in part by a sharp reduction in long‑term obligations: PREPA’s net pension liability fell by $1.04 billion, and its other post‑employment benefits liability decreased by $88.8 million, reflecting the departure of more than 1,300 employees who transitioned to private operators.
Operating revenues increased to $4.14 billion, up $138.2 million from 2022. Fuel and purchased power costs decreased
slightly to $2.87 billion, reflecting lower global crude oil prices late in the fiscal year. Maintenance and operating expenses fell sharply from $1.38 billion to $870.2 million, largely due to reduced pension costs. Emergency‑related expenses rose to $282.4 million, and impairment losses increased to $104.1 million, driven by damage from Hurricane Fiona.
The audit also highlighted ongoing risks tied to PREPA’s operational transition. Inventory controls weakened during the handoff to private operators, contributing to the qualified opinion. Auditors noted that they were “unable to obtain suf ficient appropriate audit evidence” regarding materials and supplies, and that documentation gaps prevented verification of labor‑related claims.
By THE STAR STAFF
After the positive response of the Puerto Rican people and the island’s Venezuelan community, Casa Venezuela Puerto Rico announced the beginning of a new stage in its humanitarian mission to support Venezuelans affected by the twin earthquakes that shook the South American country on June 24.
“Solidarity has not ended,” said Sonia Cosme, president of Casa Venezuela Puerto Rico. “On the contrary, it is now entering a decisive phase: converting the thousands of items collected into effective aid and making it possible for them to reach the communities that are still facing the consequences of the emergency.”
In the new phase, the organization is concentrating its efforts on raising funds exclusively destined to defray the costs of classification, logistics, transportation and distribution of the aid.
After completing the main collection stage, the objective is to transfer the supplies received to Venezuela. For the moment, Casa Venezuela Puerto Rico will not accept additional donations of items.
“At Casa Venezuela we coordinated the first phase of aid together with the Department of State, under the leadership of Secretary of State Rosachely Rivera Santana,” Cosme said. “The collected items are being channeled to Venezuela thanks to the support of Cáritas, a Catholic Church organization that has a secure network for the
man walks through rubble near a collapsed building in Caraballeda, Venezuela, on Monday, July 6, 2026.
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distribution of humanitarian aid.”
Casa Venezuela Vice President Mary Carmen Díaz noted that meetings and conversations continue to identify safe mechanisms for transporting priority medicines and medical materials, as well as to raise funds for their transportation.
People interested in collaborating can make their donations through ATH Móvil Business, in the name of
CasaVenezuelaPR, she said.
“We have held meetings with professional associations and institutions interested in contributing to the next stages of the humanitarian response, including the Physicians and Surgeons Association of Puerto Rico and the Mochileando Foundation, to mention a few, with the purpose of providing continuity to the humanitarian initiative and evaluating alternatives to address the most urgent needs in Venezuela,” Díaz said.
The magnitude of the solidarity mobilization has also been reflected in the countless initiatives organized in different parts of Puerto Rico, including community meetings, religious activities, cultural events and international caliber sports competitions, which Casa Venezuela said demonstrate that the humanitarian emergency has not ended.
The organization also recognized the many solidarity initiatives that have spontaneously emerged throughout the island. Various organizations, communities, companies and institutions established collection centers or developed their own mechanisms to channel aid to Venezuela.
“At this moment, the main challenge is not to collect more supplies, but to efficiently mobilize the thousands of items received so that they arrive as soon as possible to Venezuela,” Cosme said. “Solidarity does not end when a box is filled; it continues until that help reaches the hands of those who need it most. That is the commitment we assumed with Venezuela from day one and for which we continue to need everyone’s support.”
By THE STAR STAFF
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed expanding cleanup operations at the Vega Baja Old Incinerator Superfund Site after concluding that new analyses justify strengthening measures to reduce residents’ exposure to lead in the soil.
“The EPA is using current science and recent sampling to focus additional cleanup efforts where they are most needed to better protect the Brisas del Rosario community,” EPA Regional Administrator Michael Martucci said.
If the modification is approved, the federal agency will add eight additional residential properties to the cleanup plan and sample four other nearby homes to determine if they also require intervention.
The EPA is proposing stricter cleanup levels at the site than those established in the plan approved in 2010.
The project entails removing contaminated soil from properties meeting the new criteria, transporting it off-site, and replacing it with clean soil. In locations where excavation is not feasible, the EPA will install protective barriers and establish land-use restrictions to prevent contact with
By THE STAR STAFF
Attorney Zoé Negrón Comas has assumed the presidency of the Puerto Rico Chapter of the Sierra Club, Chapter Director Hernaliz Vázquez Torres announced this week in a press release.
Negrón is an attorney whose practice focuses on bankruptcy law, consumer protection, litigation and matters related to the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, commonly known as PROMESA.
In addition, she has collaborated closely with the local
Sierra Club chapter for years in advocating for social and environmental justice, particularly in matters related to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and the privatization of the energy system.
Negrón’s legal experience and deep understanding of those issues will strengthen the chapter’s leadership and the work it continues to do in island communities, Vázquez Torres noted.
“I warmly welcome you to this new role and I know that, together with our membership, volunteers and allied organizations, we will continue to build an ever stronger Chapter,” Vázquez Torres said.
contaminated soil.
The former incinerator site operated as a dump and solid waste incineration facility between 1948 and 1979. Housing was subsequently built on part of the land, creating an ongoing risk of exposure to lead and other heavy metals.
As part of the public participation process, the EPA will hold a community meeting this Friday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Monte de Sion Pentecostal Church, where it will present the proposal and answer residents’ questions. At the same time, the Department of Health will independently offer free blood lead testing via finger-prick to interested individuals.
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By MADELEINE NGO and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS
President Donald Trump earlier this week demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to stop vehicles as they seek to detain people in the country without legal status, despite two fatal shootings that led to a temporary halt to the practice just a day before.
Department of Homeland Security officials did not explicitly say whether they were resuming the traffic stops, which they had largely halted after ICE agents shot and killed one person in Houston and another in Biddeford, Maine, in the span of one week. But Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, said in a social media post Wednesday evening that he was “on the same page” with Trump and that they wanted ICE officers to “have all options available to keep them safe” while carrying out the administration’s deportation campaign.
The rapidly shifting policy is part of what has been a recurring pattern as the Trump administration has sought to achieve the president’s goal of mass deportations. As the government’s aggressive tactics have drawn public backlash, Homeland Security officials have scaled back the most visible aspects of their crackdown — only to feel the pressure to ratchet up arrests again.
In a social media post Wednesday, Trump defended the traffic stops and urged ICE to “go back and do your very important job.”
“We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” Trump wrote. “Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.”
The president’s comments underscore his determination to achieve his goal of the most deportations in American history, despite the political fallout.
He is being cheered on by hard-line supporters, who demand that he not back away from his pledge.
“They are caught between the MAGA constituents who want mass deportation and the videos, court decisions, public opinion, on the use of force,” said Gil Kerlikowske, a former commissioner of
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. Trump on Wednesday, July 15, 2026, criticized his administration’s directive to halt Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from conducting most vehicle stops after two fatal shootings, immediately throwing the policy into question a day after it went into effect.
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Customs and Border Protection.
Before the president’s directive on traffic stops, Tom Homan, the White House border czar, tried to downplay the potential impact of the pause in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, saying it was a temporary measure to “make sure we’re doing the right thing.”
However, many arrests occur after ICE officers pull over people in their cars, and the pause threatens to hamper the agency’s ability to increase arrests.
The recent shootings, and Trump’s push to keep up deportations, have created a political challenge for Republicans in tough reelection bids.
Some lawmakers had urged Mullin to impose the pause, including Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican who has supported aspects of the administration’s immigration agenda.
Trump had already been up against dimming public opinion of his immigration crackdown and a drop in support for ICE, particularly after two U.S. citizens were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis
this year. The outrage over their deaths led to fears among Republicans that Trump’s deportation drive could cost them voters in this year’s midterm elections.
After taking the helm of the department this spring, Mullin has tried to strike a softer tone on immigration, vowing to keep the agency out of the headlines and taking a quieter approach to enforcement.
Mullin has pushed for agents to obtain judicial warrants before entering homes and privately expressed skepticism about plans to convert more than a dozen industrial warehouses into immigrant detention centers. That plan was scaled back last month, with ICE planning to off-load many of the warehouses it purchased.
In the spring, the White House also told congressional Republicans to not
focus as much of their messaging on “mass deportations,” but rather on their efforts to arrest criminals. At the urging of Trump, the administration tried to rebrand immigration agents as “NICE” officers.
But while the administration tried to change the optics of the enforcement operation, it never relented on its mission for mass deportations.
Starting in late June, the federal immigration officials began ramping up arrests again amid pressure from the White House for more enforcement. Officials detained more than 10,000 people in five days and were told there was a new standard of hitting 2,000 arrests a day, roughly double the rate of earlier this year.
“We do have to strike a balance between enforcing our laws — we don’t want to dehumanize people,” Vice President JD Vance said during an appearance on “The View” last month. “Law enforcement is always inherently not a very pretty process, especially when you’re dealing sometimes with violent people, with people who are resisting arrest.”
The stepped-up enforcement has come as the department has seen a surge in resources, thanks to Trump’s domestic policy measure that he signed into law last summer, which made ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the federal government. The new funds allowed the Department of Homeland Security to pursue an intensive recruitment push to hire new agents, many of whom are now on the streets.
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By DEVLIN BARRETT
ARepublican lawmaker whose vote will be crucial in advancing Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general demanded that the nominee meet with survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse to win his support.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., made the stipulation during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday for witnesses to discuss Blanche’s nomination. For months, a group of Epstein survivors have tried unsuccessfully to meet with Blanche, who is now serving as the acting attorney general.
Tillis, who is retiring next year, has spoken favorably about Blanche’s nomination, including on Wednesday, when Blanche appeared before the committee. But Thursday, Tillis laid out a new condition related to the Epstein case, which has become a political albatross for both President Donald Trump and the Justice Department leadership, including Blanche.
If Democrats on the Judiciary Committee all vote against Blanche, a single Republican “no” could sink his nomination. Tillis has made similar threats before, including privately signaling he would withhold his support for the incoming defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, but he has frequently dropped his resistance on the Senate floor, appearing loath to challenge the Trump administration when it comes to casting his final vote.
During the hearing Wednesday, in which Blanche’s handling of the Epstein case was a frequent topic of questioning, Blanche was noncommittal about whether he would meet with Epstein survivors. He said he could not do so without their lawyer present, and added that he had an aide who could meet with them instead.
Tillis made clear a day la- ter that he thought Blanche should sit down faceto-face with the survivors.
“I expect that meeting to occur before I’m willing to vote out of the committee,”
Tillis said, noting that the Senate schedule gives Blanche roughly two weeks to have such a meeting before the panel votes.
The senator said he was “trying to get to yes” on Blanche’s nomination. He added, “But this is a very important part of getting to yes. There should not be any reason” Blanche cannot meet with survivors of Epstein’s abuse, he said.
Senators repeatedly pressed Blanche on Wednesday over Epstein, particularly Blanche’s decision to spend two days interviewing Epstein’s convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, after which she was transferred to a more lenient prison camp. Federal prison veterans have said that such a transfer violates agency policy and longstanding practice.
By JUDSON JONES, NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS, DANI BLUM and SALLY GOLDENBERG
Aplume of dense smoke from scores of raging wildfires stretched across much of the northeastern United States and southern Canada on Thursday, prompting officials and health experts in some of the region’s most populated cities to urge residents to avoid spending too much time in the polluted air.
Air quality readings in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis and Toronto surged to levels so dangerous that one public health expert said “nobody should spend time outside.” Conditions were forecast to worsen throughout the day as skylines and tall buildings disappeared from view under a suffocating haze, and dozens of wildfires continued to burn.
By midday, sensors in the Upper Midwest and southern Ontario, where the smoke was at its most dense, were recording the worst air quality in North America. Readings in Washington, Philadelphia and New York City were all at unhealthy levels.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York urged the 8 million residents of the nation’s largest city to stay indoors. “At unhealthy levels, everyone — not just people with asthma
of Jeffrey Epstein and family members of Epstein victims embrace after the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in Washington, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
and heart conditions, not just older adults — everyone may feel health effects,” he said.
Here’s what we’re covering:
— Air quality: Air is considered hazardous when the quality index — which measures the density of five pollutants — tops 300. On Thursday, Toledo, Ohio; Milwaukee and Detroit were among the places with AQI levels over 500.
— Canadian evacuations: In Ontario, where roughly 135 active wildfires were burning Wednesday night, officials were bracing for a potential escalation and widespread community evacuations.
— Political threats: Republican lawmakers from states affected by the smoke threatened punitive action against Canada, accusing the country of mismanaging the wildfires. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, said he would introduce a bill next week to penalize Canada “for this atrocity.”
— The forecast: The densest smoke is expected to move south throughout the day, potentially dipping as far south as Maryland. Around New York City, the worst conditions were expected in the afternoon and evening.
— Climate impact: As climate change drives global temperatures past record levels, the frequency of days when the air is both hot and polluted has been increasing.
By GREGORIO IGARTÚA DE LA ROSA Special to The STAR
Guinness world records are continually recognized around the globe for extraordinary and verifiable events ranging from human feats to global natural phenomena. Once recognized, they are recorded and published by the famous Guinness World Records organization.
In Puerto Rico, there is a political party whose practices certainly qualify for Guinness World Record recognition. This is the Popular Party, which seeks a federal government arrangement for the American citizens of the Puerto Rican territory that operates without the consent of the governed. Since its inception, it has promoted a status that has never held legal recognition, neither under the national constitutional system nor under the international legal framework of free nations. No state or country advocates for its citizens to exist without the consent of the governed with the exception of totalitarian and communist regimes that subject their citizens to the leader’s will. The Popular Party leadership does not use coercion, but it attempts to convince its electorate that having a federal government without consent is a good thing.
This is not a personal matter directed at the Popular Party leadership. The fact is that many of its leaders genuinely believe the indefensible can be defended. Their actions are
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irrational, driven by a logic that defies reason. They fail or refuse to acknowledge that the political relationship with the United States they sell to the people lacks any constitutional validity. It does not fit within the current federal constitutional framework. There is no legal validity to the desire to be an American citizen while simultaneously seeking more federal aid, exemptions from certain federal laws, greater autonomy, and the power to enter into treaties with other countries. It is an extraordinary political path to pursue within the realm of the legally impossible. The United States cannot grant Puerto Rico or its citizens what it cannot grant to the states or their citizens. Doing so would spark a revolution, as everyone would demand the same privileges. Furthermore, such a claim is constitutionally untenable. Consequently, the Popular Party cannot call itself democratic, for that is the very last thing it is. They promote a form of American citizenship that proposes … accepting that Congress legislates for Puerto Rico without us having representation in the enactment of laws that apply to us selectively; that the executive branch makes decisions regarding Puerto Rico without us voting for the president; and, that the Supreme Court resolves cases concerning Puerto Rico without us having a voice or vote in the appointment of its justices. All this is considered «good government» by those seeking to hold onto power.
The Popular Party leadership’s undemocratic insistence on the Commonwealth (ELA) status is delaying our attainment of full equality within the nation of which we are citizens (3.2 million people in Puerto Rico). This stance costs us $25 billion annually due to the differential treatment afforded to states but denied to the territory. It costs us our full democratic rights. It costs us the state of bankruptcy in which we find ourselves. Consequently, after 128 years of being part of the nation, we still lack representation in Congress, whereas Hispanics (10 of Cuban origin) hold 55 congressional seats.
However, it is important to consider that the Popular Party’s undemocratic politics exist within the context of Puerto Rico having been gradually assimilated to the point of functioning (de facto) like an incorporated state. We have been shaped by federalism. Yet, the Popular Party leadership turns a deaf ear and remains stubborn regarding the viable constitutional reality of our relationship with our nation. They ignore the fact that, in 1963, then-Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín requested the presidential vote in Congress and stated, «...we are not pro-American; we are American. ...» They ignore that the late Gov. Rafael Hernández Colón (R.I.P.) said before his death that Puerto Rico was in line to become a state.
Instead, the Popular Party leadership seeks to maintain a captive electorate blinded by an American citizenship obscured by the Commonwealth (ELA) veil of «wanting to be» solely to retain political power, even at the cost of being undemocratic; INDEED, THEY SEEM TO BE CHASING A GUINNESS WORLD RECORD!
“The Popular [Democratic] Party leadership does not use coercion, but it attempts to convince its electorate that having a federal government without consent is a good thing,” contributing columnist Gregorio Igartúa De La Rosa writes.
Gregorio Igartúa De La Rosa is an attorney and longtime proponent of statehood for Puerto Rico.
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Cuidador enfrenta cargos por tentativa de asesinato y maltrato a adulta mayor en Las Piedras
HUMACAO – La secretaria de Justicia, Lourdes Gómez Torres, informó el jueves que la Fiscalía de Humacao presentó cargos por tentativa de asesinato y maltrato a una persona de edad avanzada contra Eddie Mojica Peña, cuidador de una paciente de 87 años en la institución Casa Dorada, por hechos ocurridos el 11 de julio en Las Piedras.
“Quien asume el deber de cuidar a una persona de edad avanzada adquiere la obligación de proteger su vida, su integridad y su dignidad; jamás debe ponerla en peligro. En este caso, las alegaciones describen una grave traición a ese deber contra la señora Evalina Ortiz Ruiz, una mujer de 87 años, encamada y ciega, que dependía por completo de su cuidador”, expresó Gómez Torres en declaraciones escritas.
De acuerdo con la investigación del agente Gilberto Pérez Burgos, adscrito al Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales de Humacao, Mojica Peña tenía bajo su responsabilidad a Ortiz Ruiz, quien permanece encamada y es ciega.
La pesquisa sostiene que el imputado trasladó a la mujer desde el segundo piso de la institución hasta un almacén en el primer nivel, donde supuestamente le ocasionó heridas y la dejó en el suelo.
Según Justicia, Mojica Peña manifestó después que actuó con el propósito de realizar un “sacrilegio”.
A consecuencia de las heridas, Ortiz Ruiz fue transportada a un hospital, donde permanece recluida.
Astrid Rivera Rivera y Brenda Rosado Aponte, fiscales del Departamento de Justicia, formularon los cargos al amparo de los artículos 93 y 127-A del Código Penal.
“La investigación no concluye con la radicación de estos cargos. Continuaremos investigando si otras personas incurrieron en conducta delictiva por estos hechos, para que sean llevadas ante la justicia”, añadió Gómez Torres.
Enid Cristina Rivera, jueza del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Humacao, encontró causa para arresto, impuso una fianza de 500,000 dólares y señaló la vista preliminar para el 29 de julio.
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SAN JUAN – La presidenta de Servidores Públicos Unidos de Puerto Rico (SPUPR), Concilio 95 AFSCME, Jessica Martínez Santos, denunció el jueves que la falta de personal, la sobrecarga de casos y la escasez de recursos operacionales afectan la capacidad del Departamento de la Familia para atender a menores, adultos mayores y familias vulnerables.
“La situación ha llegado a un punto insostenible. Nuestros trabajadores sociales y técnicos están al borde del colapso físico y emocional. Tienen cientos de casos imposibles de manejar, sin supervisión adecuada, sin vehículos, sin celulares, sin amas de llaves, y el Depar-
tamento sigue negando esta realidad”, expresó Martínez Santos en declaraciones escritas.
Según la dirigente sindical, la escasez de trabajadores sociales y técnicos ha obligado a muchos empleados a asumir una cantidad de casos que dificulta atender con prontitud investigaciones de maltrato, abandono y otras situaciones que afectan a personas bajo la protección del Estado.
Martínez Santos sostuvo que el problema se agrava por la falta de vehículos oficiales, teléfonos celulares, choferes, intérpretes, amas de llaves y otros recursos necesarios para realizar visitas, investigaciones y servicios de campo.
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By MANOHLA DARGIS
Throughout his career, Christopher Nolan has taken on big stories — though especially those of men, their struggles and their wars — and bent them to his virtuosic will. In movie after movie, in darkness and in light, his characters push against the limits of human endeavor and consciousness, testing themselves much like he tests the possibilities of the medium. If the line in his 2006 drama “The Prestige” about how a magician takes something ordinary and “makes it do something extraordinary” sounds like an artist’s statement as well as an article of faith, it is. For Nolan, that something extraordinary is cinema itself.
Nolan’s love of movies and commitment to them — to what they can do, what they can be, what they should be — runs like an electric current through his filmography, lighting it, and oftentimes you, up. That passion is in every frame of his monumental adaptation of “The Odyssey,” one of the most Nolan of Nolan spectacles in its thematic concerns, formal playfulness, kinetic thrills and unabashed showmanship. Few directors close the divide between the art film and the blockbuster like Nolan does; fewer still give the audience something to not simply look forward to but also be excited by. Even as he has continued to refine his filmmaking, notably in his narrative experimentation, he always aims to please.
It seems inevitable that Nolan would eventually take on “The Odyssey,” one of the foundations of Western literature. And why not? The story is a trippy, far-out blast, and has the kind of sinuous, complex layering that has become one of his signatures. Credited to Homer, the original poem consists of 12,109 lines of nonlinear, nonstop talk and action featuring gods, mortals, monsters, weird doings, hospitality rituals and oceans of blood, tears and wine. Whatever the adaptation, the tale is so ingrained in our cultural DNA that even those who haven’t read the original — or Joseph Campbell on the hero’s journey — will be familiar with it, having seen a movie or two. It’s Luke Skywalker’s path and WALL-E’s, too.
The most striking thing about this film, other than its being the first feature shot entirely in IMAX, is that it exists. It is an anomalous bigstudio entertainment that Nolan has filled with stars — Matt Damon is Odysseus! Zendaya is Athena!— and polished to a high gleam, turning a 3,000-year-old poem into a smart, thoughtful film with Old Hollywood allure. It’s a throwback and of its moment, including in how it adjudicates the costs of war. (Who benefits, and who suffers?) Its hero is, to a degree, the cunning, complicated Odysseus who leaps
off the page, but he’s been sweetened and made more psychologically legible for contemporary sensibilities. He’s also played by an appealing actor who excels at elevated everymen.
In outline, the story tracks Odysseus, who has been missing in action for two decades, having gone astray in the wake of the Trojan War. (For more on that, see: “The Iliad.”) He’s now a lost amnesiac. His absence has wreaked havoc on his family, leaving his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), and their adult son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), bereft. Nolan dedicates far more of his version to Odysseus’ magical wanderings than the poem does. But true to the poem, Nolan insistently circles back to the family that Odysseus left behind, reminding you of the agonies of the domestic front that are often devalued or ignored in male-driven fantasies.
The casting of Damon helps shift the story into a more familiar movie register, as do some of Nolan’s other choices. He’s populated the story with many of the poem’s supernatural support team, including Cyclops (Bill Irwin), a giant with a single, hauntingly baleful eye, and Calypso (Charlize Theron), a goddess who evokes a 1960s James Bond vixen and keeps Odysseus as a sex prisoner. Athena periodically pops in to cast a sorrowful gaze on the proceedings, and while Zeus is invoked, he remains offscreen. Nolan’s Odysseus is the hero sung of in the poem’s opening line, but he’s less godlike and his multitudes — warrior, leader, lover, husband, father, trickster, liar — are contained in a sinewy, leathery, fallibly human man.
It goes without saying that this is very much a man’s story, and essentially about his twinned inward and outer journey home. Nolan wrote the screenplay and has largely retained the poem’s kinked narrative arc. He has compressed sections, jettisoned others and omitted many characters, a necessity given the eventpacked original, which in its English-language translations, runs well over 500 pages. Even with these liberties, his version is recognizable in its sweep, fragmentation and multiple story lines, starting with Odysseus’ palace on the island of Ithaca. There, Penelope is weaving and reweaving the same cloth to fend off suitors like Antinous (Robert Pattinson) and Polybus (Corey Hawkins) who, eager to take her husband’s place, have camped out at the palace eating and drinking through its provisions.
Shortly after the film opens, after Nolan has taken the lay of this troubled land and made fast introductions, Telemachus clandestinely sets sail to learn the truth about Odysseus’ fate and it’s on. From the instant that Nolan cuts from a high-angle extreme long shot of Telemachus’ ship on the water to a similarly distant
shot of Odysseus walking through the shallows on Calypso’s beach, the filmmaker has announced himself with a flourish. With one edit, two elegant images and a pair of men separately on the move, Nolan has connected the father and the son visually and narratively, while also suggesting the presence of the divine. In movies, these shots are called God’s-eye views; here, they’re unmistakably Nolan’s.
From here on in, the filmmaker is in his groove. Individually, Odysseus and Telemachus push the story forward as they head toward self-discovery and each other, but they also steer it into the past. Nolan is in his cinematic wheelhouse here and he slips among the time frames fluidly, folding in flashbacks of Odysseus in Troy languishing on its beach with comrades (Elliot Page, among them) and building the wooden horse that will doom the enemy. Like the film, the horse is elegant and massive — posed on its hind legs, it looks fashioned from the ribs of ship — larger than life and holding more than it seems. It’s a totem of Odysseus’ genius and cruelty; it’s also an emblem of Nolan’s filmmaking, imposing in its beauty and scale.
The performances are uniformly good, though Damon’s Odysseus is tamped down and notably devoid of charisma, as if he were as hollow as the wood decoy. In action-adventure terms it’s a counterintuitive choice even if it serves Nolan’s tricky, more non-triumphalist ends. One upshot, though, is that few of the actors, Damon included, manage to hold you with the same emotional force that Nolan’s filmmaking does. Both Holland and especially Hathaway have bracingly strong moments, but his character has too little presence and hers remains shrouded in mystery, which Nolan expresses by filming her behind a latticed screen or the threads on her loom. Mother and son are
sympathetic; they’re also routinely upstaged by Pattinson’s wildly enjoyable flop-sweating suitor whose demise you hunger for.
After watching “The Odyssey” again, I flashed on something that Martin Scorsese once said about another film: “The emotion is the emulsion.” Nolan’s gifts are excessively obvious, and even when his characters don’t stir you, his filmmaking does. Among other qualities, he doesn’t know how to make an ugly image and this one is filled with rapturous beauty. Nolan employs beauty strategically, using it to seduce viewers into stories that can seem needlessly byzantine to some — especially by impoverished mainstream industry standards — more the provenance of the art house than the multiplex. Nolan asks us to dream bigger. His “Odyssey” is a classic in every sense, a transporting affirmation of the art and a work of pure cinema.
‘The Odyssey’
Rated R (absurdly) for violence and some language. Running time: 2 hours 52 minutes. In theaters.
Brookfield-backed data center provider Csquare’s shares opened marginally lower before closing 1.57% lower in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday, after the initial public offering was priced below its marketed range.
Shares opened at $20.9 after the Dallas-based company priced its IPO at $21 per share, below its marketed range of $23 to $27. It closed at $20.67, valuing the firm at $3.2 billion.
The debut underscores investors’ caution toward new listings, even for companies benefiting from booming AI-driven data center demand, as markets scrutinize valuations and pricing.
The company’s decision to price below its marketed range suggests investors remain selective despite the AI frenzy.
“Csquare likely had to price below the range because investors saw attractive exposure to data-center demand amid substantial leverage and continued losses,” said IPOX Research Associate Lukas Muehlbauer.
“Investors were not willing to support the marketed range, pointing to a selective buyer’s market that is not simply taking anything with AI exposure at any cost.”
However, growing investor appetite for companies supporting AI development has sparked a wave of listings in the sector.
The debut comes a week after South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix’s $26.5-billion U.S. listing.
It also follows the blockbuster debut of chip designer Cerebras Systems, as well as Blackstone-backed data center REIT, which raised $1.75 billion in its U.S. IPO in May.
“Still, completing the deal shows that the market remains open for AI-infrastructure companies, although the reception looks disciplined rather than overheated,” Muehlbauer added.
Standard Nuclear’s shares slid about 10% in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Thursday after the company slashed its offering size by about half as investors remain cautious about valuations.
The Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based company’s shares opened at $13.50, below its offered price of $15 apiece, giving the nuclear fuel firm a valuation of $2.17 billion.
The market debut highlights that investors remain selective despite renewed enthusiasm for nuclear power, fueled by surging electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centers and supportive U.S. policies.
Technology giants and utilities are increasingly seeking carbon-free, round-the-clock electricity to support the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure, driving renewed interest in nuclear energy.
“We have more demand than we have production capability. The capital that we already had on our balance sheet and this new capital, positions us to expand our production capability,”
Standard Nuclear CEO Kurt Terrani told Reuters in an interview. While companies linked to the nuclear supply chain have attracted attention, investors have been cautious towards high-risk businesses.
Still, companies in the sector are expected to benefit from a series of executive orders moved by the Trump administration in May 2025, designed to speed up reactor approvals and support the
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U.S. President Donald Trump aims to quadruple the country’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 to meet rising electricity demand from data centers, electric vehicles and cryptocurrencies.
“This administration has been incredibly effective in policy. Beyond the United States, we see there’s huge opportunities for nuclear, where you need reliable, clean, low-cost energy,” Terrani said.
He said hyperscalers and data center operators “are very interested in advanced nuclear” because it makes economic sense and offers reliable power.
By MAX BEARAK, SHIRIN HAKIM, FARNAZ FASSIHI and RAVI MATTU
The United States launched a new set of attacks against Iran on Thursday, even as the two countries signaled that they were open to diplomacy to end a war that has, for now, narrowed to focus on control of the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump welcomed Iran’s decision Wednesday to release Dena Karari, a dual American Iranian citizen who had been charged with espionage and held for two years, describing it as a goodwill gesture. Separately, in a speech broadcast on Iranian state television Wednesday, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the country’s top negotiator, hinted that new talks were still possible to end the conflict, even as he defended Iran’s stance on controlling the strait and warned that it was fighting an “existential” war.
Despite those potential openings to diplomacy, both sides continued to use their militaries in their attempt to exert control over the strait for a sixth straight day. Analysts say that the conflict, which began Feb. 28 and which Trump said would last just weeks, now risks turning into another American forever war.
The U.S. military has been conducting waves of strikes over the past week on what it describes
as Iranian command centers and air defense and surveillance facilities, including overnight in the port city of Bandar Abbas. Iranian state media reported Thursday afternoon local time that Qeshm Island, strategically located in the strait, had been hit, and the U.S. military said it had launched a new set of attacks several hours later.
The Iranian military said that it had launched strikes on U.S. military assets in Jordan and Ku-
wait. The Kuwaiti army said on social media that it had intercepted Iranian drones. The Jordanian military said it had shot down eight Iranian missiles and that there were no casualties or damage.
Ebrahim Zolfaghari, an Iranian military spokesperson, said in a statement that “all infrastructure in the region will be crushed” if Trump made good on his renewed threat to tar-
get bridges, power plants and other civilian sites. Such attacks could be considered war crimes under international law.
Aerial attacks were also reported in parts of Iran on Thursday, according to state media. The reports said air defenses were activated in Tehran, the Iranian capital, and strikes were reported on Semnan Airport, about 145 miles to the east.
Here’s what else to know:
— Naval blockade: The U.S. military said it had disabled an oil tanker and “redirected” two vessels in the Strait of Hormuz in the first 24 hours since reimposing a naval blockade on Iranian ports Tuesday. Central Command also said that it had fired on an oil tanker near Kharg Island, Iran’s oil export hub, the first time it has targeted a commercial vessel since the new blockade began.
— American released: Iranian authorities freed Karari, who had been prevented from leaving the country since December 2024. Her lawyer, Jared Genser, said Karari had been caught up in Iran’s long-held practice of apprehending dual citizens to use as political pawns.
— Gas prices: The average price of diesel in the United States rose above $5 a gallon Thursday, the first time it has done so since June, as renewed fighting over the Strait of Hormuz puts pressure on energy prices.
By ED AUGUSTIN
Adrián Silva Guerra saw the streetlight flicker back to life. It was 2:08 a.m. on a Thursday. An electric repairman, Silva Guerra quickly got up from his concrete stoop and went inside, leaving the front door ajar so the night air would drift over his 7-year-old son sleeping on a foam mattress.
He walked into his workshop, sat down next to a stack of broken televisions he cannibalizes for spare parts and began to solder. A ribbon of smoke wafted from a green-and-copper circuit board he was working on to repair a television. He did as much as he could until, two hours later, he was plunged back into darkness.
“I’m a slave to the current,” said Silva Guerra, 32, haggard and sleep-deprived.
Shortly before the lights went out, his mother, Zucel Guerra Brise, 52, left their house in Santiago de Cuba, the country’s second-largest city, along the southeastern coast. Thanks to the trickle of electricity, the ovens at a local privately owned bakery made bread that night.
Guerra’s wife, Analeidis Arias Matos, their two young children and Zoe, his grandmother.
Over nearly two days in May, a reporter and a photographer watched as the family members struggled under some of the most miserable conditions they said they had ever endured.
Their circumstances are a microcosm of the struggles facing Cuba, which is experiencing its worst humanitarian crisis since a revolution nearly seven decades ago paved the path to communist rule.
All this has left Silva Guerra and his extended family living on the edge — eking out a pittance of income, unable to feed themselves adequately and at the mercy of short bursts of power at unpredictable times.
The bodega, a state system that once guaranteed food staples at extremely low prices, began faltering because the government lacks enough money to import food. Now, it’s all but vanished.
She lined up to buy 100 small rolls of bread, preparing to walk the city’s streets and resell them so her family would have money for lunch. She paid 7 cents per roll and sold each for 9 cents.
Silva Guerra, his mother and his father, Luis Silva Aldana, 64, a primary-school teacher, cobble together the equivalent of less than $60 a month. With this they must sustain their fourgeneration family, which also includes Silva
The Trump administration has applied a stranglehold on Cuba, demanding political and economic change from its leaders. The Cuban government’s repression and failed economic system have exacerbated the consequences of a decades-old U.S. trade embargo.
Since the start of the year, an effective American oil blockade and a wave of new sanctions on top of existing ones have crippled the Cuban state, leaving it without enough fuel to run the country. (Cuba experienced a nationwide power outage July 6.)
In some months the Silva Guerra family doesn’t receive any rice, beans, eggs or chicken from the state — just a roll of bread for each of them every third day. The government says it is out of diesel fuel needed to transport food. Food prices at markets have surged nearly 20% this year, according to official figures.
With electricity available for barely four hours a day, their income has shrunk: Even working as fast he can at night when the power usually flows, Silva Guerra, once the family’s main breadwinner, contributes little to the family pot.
The family yearns for “chorote,” a thick breakfast drink native to eastern Cuba made from toasted corn flour, sugar and milk. Instead, in the morning, Arias Matos tore loaves of white bread into quarters and swirled together some water with a sachet of white powder to make a mango-flavored soft drink.
This was breakfast. And not just for the family.
“If I don’t eat breakfast here, I don’t eat breakfast at all,” said Lazaro Figueroa Tamayo, 52, a longtime family friend who once cut sugarcane but now works as a cook in a hospital.
Also at the table was another family friend, Rolando Galan Labrada, 59, and his 6-year-old daughter, as well as a neighbor’s 7-year-old son who comes by every morning to eat.
Silva Guerra then walked her children — Alejandro, 6, and Anna Jeline, 4 — up steep hills to school. Legend has it that their neighborhood, Chicharrones, was named after street vendors who during the Spanish colonial period sold pork cracklings to people watching troubadours.
United States.
Everyone in this tight-knit community seems to know each other. Doors open directly out onto the street. Vendors sit on stools selling washing detergent, coffee and lollipops. People carry buckets of water from houses that have water to houses that do not, either because of shortages or broken pipes.
Most of the food people here eat now comes from the private sector. Money sent from the Cuban diaspora in Florida and Spain buys chicken, rice and beans.
The Mexican government, which stopped shipping oil to Cuba after the Trump administration threatened tariffs against countries that continued providing fuel, is shipping packs of rice, bags of split peas and bottles of vegetable oil to children under 4 and adults over 65.
People in the neighborhood fortunate to have enough to eat give whatever extra they have — a chicken leg, a pound of rice, a cup of sugar — to those going through harder times, particularly families with children.
while squelching individual freedoms, encouraged people to care for each other — through egalitarian ideology and mass mobilizations that reduced illiteracy, vaccinated the population and sent doctors abroad.
“People who have the least show the most solidarity,” he said. “Despite all its failures, the Cuban revolution taught people to share and help one another. A lot has been lost, but part of that remains.”
This street-level solidarity persists because it works — people give out of altruism, but also on the understanding that they may need something in the future.
For Silva Guerra, who fixes some of his neighbors’ work tools for free, “it’s a way of living together.”
Figueroa Tamayo, the family neighbor, has a tender relationship with Zoe Brise, 73, Silva Guerra’s grandmother, who had been bedbound and in a cast since she fractured her hip in a fall.
He lifts her from her bed, which is in the kitchen since there is no space anywhere else, to the bathroom and to the living room so she can socialize.
cleared out as people hurried inside to wash clothes and charge their devices.
“Electricity!” Zucel Guerra Brise, Silva Guerra’s mother, shouted. She plugged in a hot plate her son had cobbled together from a wooden stool, a sheet of zinc and the coil of an old rice cooker and started to boil chicken.
Salsa music played from speakers inside Silva Guerra’s workshop. Within minutes, two women arrived with a DVD player that wasn’t working.
He smiled for the first time that day: “When the power comes on, I can put my skills to use.”
But it did not last. Fifty-seven minutes later the music died. He did not have enough time to fix the DVD player, and it was another day Silva Guerra earned no income.
“It torments me,” he said. “When there’s no power, my mind starts to wander. I think about what I can sell to buy a packet of spaghetti.”
He said he has started getting migraines because of stress.
In the late 1950s, residents here — including Adrián Silva Guerra’s great-grandfather — helped Fidel Castro’s rebels wage urban guerrilla warfare, hiding them from a police force under the control of a dictator aligned with the
These humble acts of generosity multiplied many times over coupled with targeted state food programs to vulnerable groups “is what’s keeping people alive,” said Walter Mondelo, a law professor at the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago’s major university, who is suffering the same hardships as many other Cubans.
“He carries me with a bit of spice because he wants to marry me,” she said laughing.
The next morning, the two Silva Guerra children were kept home from school. The family had no money to pack them snacks. “I have nothing to give them,” Silva Guerra said. From page 11
Analysts say that Cuba’s socialist model,
When the lights flicked back on at 1:23 p.m. that afternoon, everyone in the home suddenly got excited. Beyond the front door, the street
Without public transport, with no money to go out and have fun, and with having to make sure someone is home when the power comes on, people’s worlds have gotten smaller. The days are monotonous and predictable.
By THE STAR STAFF
Aguadilla Mayor Julio Roldán Concepción announced this week a $300,000 investment in the northwest coastal town’s economy through the municipal “Capital is Future” incentive program for the urban center.
The program will allow the Medellín, Colombiabased restaurant chain GABO to receive a $50,000 incentive to soon establish a branch in Aguadilla.
Roldán emphasized that Aguadilla continues to expand its international reach and generate concrete results for its economic development as a direct result of a recent trade mission to Itagüí, Colombia.
“Today we are pleased to announce that the renowned restaurant GABO, inspired by the literary work of Gabriel García Márquez, will open its doors in Aguadilla in the coming months,” the mayor said in a Tuesday press release. “This venture represents an initial investment of $300,000 and the creation of 15 jobs during its opening phase, with a projection of reaching 50 jobs in the first 18 months, according to its owners Edgardo Hernández, Joanset Feliciano, and Christian Matías.”
Roldán noted that Aguadilla continues on the path of economic and social growth “thanks to the results of the trade and government cooperation mis-
sion” to Itagüí, where the municipality “developed strategic initiatives in tourism, economic development, services for people with disabilities, and participatory governance.”
“During our visit, we shared best practices and sought genuine partnerships; our people are the ones who benefit,” the mayor said. “Itagüí welcomed us with tremendous warmth, and today we return with concrete projects that will strengthen our economy and quality of life.”
The delegation gave a presentation in the Itagüí town
square highlighting Aguadilla’s tourism offerings: its beaches, culture, gastronomy and unique attractions. The visitors and hosts also shared experiences on initiatives aimed at transforming the lives of families, including the Participatory Budgeting model, through which residents choose the projects where municipal resources are invested.
“Itagüí and Aguadilla share a vision of communitycentered development,” Roldán said. “This exchange will allow us to continue expanding programs that empower our residents.” During the mission, Roldán and Director of Community Affairs and Social Development Karolina Augusto held meetings with the Itagüí Mayor Diego Torres and his team regarding inclusion programs for sectors of the population in need.
The GABO venture “represents an initial investment of $300,000 and the creation of 15 jobs during its opening phase, with a projection of reaching 50 jobs in the first 18 months, according to its owners Edgardo Hernández, Joanset Feliciano, and Christian Matías,” Aguadilla Mayor Julio Roldán Concepción said.
The delegation visited the Comprehensive Care Center for People with Disabilities in Itagüí, where they learned about service models, interacted with children and young people, and received basic sign language training.
“Inclusion is a priority for our administration,” Roldán said. “Learning from centers that have already achieved extraordinary results will allow us to continue expanding services for our population with disabilities.”
“We continue to grow and open ourselves to the world,” the mayor reiterated. “This mission reaffirmed that when we share best practices and seek genuine partnerships, our people are the ones who benefit. Today we return with concrete projects that strengthen our economy and quality of life.”
By IVAN PENN
PJM, the nation’s largest electrical grid operator, on Tuesday released results of an electricity auction that would add $6.3 billion in costs to the bills of millions of households and businesses within the next three years, an increase driven by the power demands of data centers.
During the annual auction, power companies supplied prices that they were willing to accept to supply electricity to PJM at times of peak demand. Those prices are then factored into the electricity rates that are eventually charged to the grid’s customers in 13 Eastern states and the District of Columbia.
In a statement, PJM said data centers were increasing electricity demand throughout the region.
“These auction results show that demand for electricity continues to grow faster than electricity supply,” David Mills, president and chief executive at PJM, said in an announcement of the auction results. “We are working with government and industry leaders on multiple fronts to restore that balance by bringing on new generation as fast as possible and managing the growth of new load on the grid.”
Over the last few years, individuals and politicians have grown frustrated with PJM’s operations as electricity prices have steadily increased. At the same time, anger over data centers has spread nationwide. New York on Tuesday announced the nation’s first statewide moratorium on construction of the giant facilities, a one-year pause to assess their impact on the environment and energy use.
The PJM grid supplies electricity to 67 million people from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to Chicago. The network of power systems includes the world’s largest cluster of data centers, in northern Virginia.
“Demand growth is not going away,” said Patrick Cicero, a former state-appointed consumer advocate for Pennsylvania who is now counsel for the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project, which assists low-income consumers. “The bottom line is high prices are going to remain in place.”
In its role as a regional grid manager, PJM effectively sets a significant portion of retail electricity rates, but governors and their appointed regulators have little sway over it. PJM is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, not state lawmakers.
PJM’s annual auctions help determine the electricity
costs for the two years after the auction. Since 2024, the auctions have added in total about $29 billion in costs to all utility customers in the PJM region because of data centers, according to Monitoring Analytics, PJM’s independent market monitor. The market monitor also produced the estimate of $6.3 billion in additional costs from the latest auction, which was held on June 30.
The high costs have so angered Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, that he sued PJM in December 2024. Shapiro and PJM reached a settlement that capped the price set by the auction, saving consumers billions of dollars.
The PJM grid has often had only a thin buffer of excess power during extreme weather such as the recent heat dome that sent temperatures soaring across the East.
Shapiro and other governors have complained that PJM has been too slow to connect more power plants, solar and wind farms, batteries and other resources that would have helped lower prices and eased strain on the grid.
PJM’s grid serves all or part of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, as well as the District of Columbia.
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO. THE FINLEY GROUP, INC., as and only as the general receiver for FX Airguns USA, LLC
Plaintiff v. DYNAMIC ADVENTURES
ENTERPRISE, INC., f/k/a SUCCESS ADVENTURE ENTERPRISE, LLC; JONATHAN TUELLER a/k/a JONATHAN ELVEGAARDTUELLER; and EVELYN ELVERGAARD a/k/a EVELYN ISRAELSEN
Defendants
Case No. 26-00133 (FAB). NOTICE OF SALE.
To: DYNAMIC ADVENTURES ENTERPRISE, INC., f/k/a SUCCESS ADVENTURE ENTERPRISE, LLC; JONATHAN TUELLER
a/k/a JONATHAN ELVEGAARDTUELLER; and EVELYN ELVERGAARD a/k/a EVELYN ISRAELSE; AND GENERAL PUBLIC.
WHEREAS: On August 26, 2025, and consistent with the terms and conditions of a certain Judgment by Consent executed by the parties, a Judgment (“Judgment”) was entered in favor of plaintiff The Finley Group, Inc., as only as the general receiver for FX Airguns USA, LLC (“Finley Group”) against Dynamic Adventures Enterprise, Inc., f/k/a Success Adventure Enterprise, LLC; Jonathan Tueller a/k/a Jonathan Elvegaard-Tueller; and Evelyn Elvergaard a/k/a Evelyn Israelsen (collectively, the “Debtors”). The Judgment by Consent granted Finley Group, among other things, the right to execute the Judgment entered in connection with the Judgment by Consent and request the foreclosure of the Real Estate Collateral, as defined therein and described below, pursuant to the terms and conditions agreed by the Debtors and Finley Group, in the Judgment by Consent and Settlement Agreement. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by interested parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico in 300 Recinto Sur St. in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. WHEREAS: pursuant to the terms of the aforementioned Judgment, Order of Execution, and the Writ of Execution, the undersigned Special Master was ordered to sell at public auction for U.S. currency in cash, or certified or
bank manager check without appraisement or right of redemption to the highest bidder and at the office of Rondapro, 441 Calle E, Frailes Industrial Park, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00969, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the plaintiff, the following property, described in the Spanish language (the “Real Estate Collateral”): Property 830. RÚSTICA: Predio de terreno radicado en el Barrio Bairoa del término municipal de Caguas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de NOVECIENTOS MIL CUATROCIENTOS OCHENTA Y CUATRO PUNTO TRES MIL NOVECIENTOS SESENTA Y UN METROS CUADRADOS (900,484.3961 M.C.), equivalentes a Doscientos Noventa y Nueve punto Ciento Ocho (299.109) cuerdas, en lindes por el NORTE, con terrenos pertenecientes a Vannina, terrenos de P. Ocasitas, terrenos propiedad de Lakeshore Development, terrenos de la Urbanización La Serranía, parcela D del piano de inscripción, parcelas E, F, I, H, G y K del plano de inscripción y con Pera Zavala; por el SUR, con Leoncio Velázquez, Domingo Lasa Quiñones y Rosa María Álvarez Polanco; por el Este, con Manuela Quiñones Cabezudo, Petra Zavala, parcela D del piano de inscripción y terrenos de la Urbanización La Serranía; y por el Oeste, con terrenos de la secesión de Eloy Juncos y la parcela D del plano de inscripción. Se forma por agrupación de las fincas 245 y 612, inscritas a los folios 93 y 39 de los tomos 500 y 12, respectivamente de Caguas. Se segregan varios solares siendo el anterior el remanente de esta finca. Property 830 is recorded in page 1 of volume 17 of Caguas, First Section. WHEREAS: The Real Estate Collateral is encumbered by its origin by: (i) Mortgage in favor of Dynamic Adventures Enterprise, Inc., or to its order, in the principal amount of EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
($895,000.00), with annual interest at 15%, due on its presentation, constituted pursuant to the terms of deed number 22 executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the twenty-sixth (26) of August two thousand twentyfive (2025) before Notary Mariana Nácer Elizalde, recorded at Karibe volume of Caguas, property number 830, inscription 65th. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any
property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied or legal) shall continue in effect it being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. THEREFORE, the FIRST public sale shall be held on July 24, 2026, at 9:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $895,000.00 in accordance with Mortgage I ($895,000.00).
In the event, said first auction does not produce a bidder and the Real Estate Collateral is not adjudicated, a SECOND public auction shall be held on July 31, 2026, at 9:00 AM. The minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $596,666.67, which is two-thirds of the amount of the minimum bid for the first public sale. If a second auction does not result in the adjudication and sale of the Real Estate Collateral, a THIRD public auction will be held on August 7, 2026, at 9:00 AM, the minimum bid that will be accepted is the sum of $447,500.00, which is onehalf of the minimum bid for the first public sale. The Special Master shall not accept in payment of the Real Estate Collateral to be sold anything but United States currency (cash), or certified or bank manager checks, except in case the Real Estate Collateral is sold and adjudicated to The Finley Group, Inc., in which case the amount of the bid made by Finley Group shall be credited and deducted from its credit; Finley Group being bound to pay in cash or certified check only any excess of its bid over the secured indebtedness that remains unsatisfied. If the third auction is deserted, Finley Group may proceed to coordinate the execution of a deed of conveyance with the Marshal within twenty (20) days of the public sale, to take title of the Real Estate Collateral in partial satisfaction of the Judgment. WHEREAS: said sale to be conducted by the Special Master pursuant to the Amended Order of Execution. Compliance with all foreclosure proceedings are subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico pursuant to article 107 of the Registry of the Property Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (30 L.P.R.A. § 6144), and the corresponding deed of conveyance and possession to the Real Estate Collateral will be executed and delivered by the Special Master after delivery of such Order of Confirmation. Once the Real Estate Collateral is adjudicated in payment of the credit guaranteeing the mortgage(s), and the price does not exceed the value
thereof, all junior liens must be canceled provided that said junior creditors be notified of the public sale of said Real Estate Collateral. For further information, reference is made to the Judgment entered by the Court in this case, which can be examined in the Office of Clerk of the United States District Court, District of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 25, 2026. By: Joel Ronda, Special Master. Ronda Legal Services, LLC rondajoel@me.com 787565-0515.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE GLADYS HUGHES CALVO T/C/C GLADYS GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR IDALIA GONZALEZ HUGHES; FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CG2025CV02709. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que suscribe por la Secretaría del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América el día 5 DE AGOSTO DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO
JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en #159 CALLE SINFORIANO CARRION GURABO
TOWN GURABO, PR 00778 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Sinforiano, del Municipio de Gurabo, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 152.568 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 9.37
metros (9.35 metros, según Escritura de Hipoteca), con la Calle Sinforiano Carrión; por el SUR, en 9.37 metros, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados; por el ESTE, en 16.00 metros, con un solar ocupado por la señora Bienvenida Vázquez; y por el OESTE, en 16.60 metros, con un solar ocupado por el señor Inocencio Estrada. En dicho solar enclava una estructura mixta dedicada a vivienda. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita en al Folio 225 del Tomo 94 de Gurabo, finca número 3,323, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $73,599.77. Si no hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la primera subasta del inmueble mencionado, se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 12 DE AGOSTO DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. En la segunda subasta que se celebre servirá de tipo mínimo las dos terceras partes (2/3) del precio pactado en la primera subasta, o sea la suma de $49,066.51. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el día 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Para la tercera subasta servirá de tipo mínimo la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado para el caso de ejecución, o sea, la suma de $36,799.88. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura número 288 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 13 de diciembre de 2008, ante el Notario Público Lizbet Avilés Vega, la cual consta inscrita al Folio 137 del Tomo 436 de Gurabo, inscripción quinta (5ta); modificada mediante la escritura 97 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 30 de junio de 2011, ante el Notario Público Reggie Diaz Hernández, la cual consta inscrita al folio 137 del tomo 436 de Gurabo, al margen e la inscripción quinta 5ta, finca número 3,323, en el Registro de la Propiedad de Caguas, Sección Segunda. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer al Demandante total o parcialmente según sea el caso el importe de la Sentencia que ha obtenido desde el 15 de diciembre de 2025 ascendente a la suma de $53,023.85 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de marzo de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 5.00% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago
total de la obligación. Además La Sucesión de Gladys Hughes Calvo t/c/c Gladys González adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de las escrituras de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $7,346.30. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al Procedimiento incoado estarán de manifiesto en la SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR durante las horas laborables. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación del inmueble y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante continuarán subsistentes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio de remate. La propiedad no está sujeta a gravámenes anteriores y/o preferentes según surge de las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores conocidos y desconocidos que tengan inscritos, no inscritos, presentados y/o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca del actor y a los dueños, poseedores, tenedores de o interesados en títulos transmisibles por endoso o al portador garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito del actor que se celebrarán las subastas en las fechas, horas y sitios señalados para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les conviniere o se les invita a satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, otros cargos y las costas y honorarios de abogado asegurados quedando subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante. La propiedad objeto de ejecución y descrita anteriormente se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores una vez el Honorable Tribunal expida la correspondiente Orden de Confirmación de Venta Judicial. Y para conocimiento de licitadores del público en general se publicará este Edicto de acuerdo con la ley por espacio de dos semanas en tres sitios públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía. Este Edicto será publicado dos veces en
un diario de circulación general en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas. Expido el presente Edicto de subasta bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy día 30 de junio de 2026. EDGARDO ALDEBOL MIRANDA, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS, SALA SUPERIOR.
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Parte Demandante Vs. VICENTE VEGA GUZMAN, SU ESPOSA LUZ SOLEDAD VAZQUEZ PEREZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA POR CONDUCTO DEL FISCAL FEDERAL DE LA CORTE DE DISTRITO DE ESTADOS UNIDOS PARA EL DISTRITO DE PUERTO RICO
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: BY2024CV05474. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA Y COBRO DE DINERO. ANUNCIO DE SUBASTA. El suscribiente, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, a los demandados de epígrafe y al público en general hace saber que venderá en pública subasta en la Oficina de Alguaciles, sita en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Bayamón, al mejor postor, en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América en efectivo, cheque certificado, o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, el derecho que tenga la parte demandada en el inmueble que se relaciona más adelante para pagar la SENTENCIA por $285,261.22 de balance principal, el cual se compone de un primer principal por la suma de $230,193.41 y un principal diferido por la suma de $55,067.81, más los intereses adeudados sobre la suma de $230,193.41 computados al 5.95% anual, desde el día primero de abril de 2020 hasta su total pago y completo pago; más la suma estipulada para honorarios de abogado pactada en la escritura de hipoteca y cualesquiera otras sumas que por cualesquiera concepto legal se devenguen hasta el día de la subasta. La propiedad a venderse en públi-
ca subasta se describe como sigue: URBANA: Solar radicado en la Urbanización Plaza de la Fuente, localizado en el Barrio Mucarabones del término municipal de Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, que se describe en el Plano de inscripción, con el número, área y colindancias que se relacionan a continuación: numero del solar letra G guion veintinueve (G-29), área del solar número quinientos punto treinta y cinco (500.035) metros cuadrados. En lindes por el Norte, en treinta punto dieciocho (30.18) metros, con el solar numero veintiocho (228) del bloque G; por el Sur, en treinta y seis punto setenta y seis (36.76) metros, con el solar número treinta del bloquee G; por el Este, en catorce punto cero cero (14.00) metros, con la calle número ocho y según plano con la calle número siete (7) del proyecto; y por el Oeste, en diecisiete punto ochenta y dos (17.82) metros, con terrenos de la Autoridad de Tierras. Inscrita al folio doscientos cuarenta y seis (46) del Tomo cuatrocientos cuarenta y cuatro (444) de Toa Alta, finca número veintidós mil setecientos sesenta y siete (22,767) Registro de la Propiedad de Bayamón, Sección III. Dirección Física: 1049 Egipto St., Plaza de la Fuente Dev., Toa Alta, PR 00953. Dicha propiedad se encuentra afecta a los siguientes gravámenes posteriores: EMBARGO FEDERAL: A favor de Estados Unidos de America, contra Vicente Vega Guzman, por la suma de $21,268.22, presentado el 12 de diciembre de 2006, notificación número 331815706, seguro social xx-xx-7713 anotado al folio 146, asiento 2, libro de Embargos Federal numero 3. EMBARGO FEDERAL: A favor de Estados Unidos de America, contra Vicente Vega Guzmán, por la suma de $6,163.91, presentado el 13 de junio de 2007, notificación numero 368667207, seguro social xxxx-7713, anotado al folio 35, asiento 1, Libro de Embargos Federal numero 4, renovado al 10 de enero de 2017. EMBARGO FEDERAL: A favor de Estados Unidos de America, contra Vicente Vega Guzmán, por la suma de $13,417.96, presentado el 17 de diciembre de 2007, notificación número 406994407, seguro social xxxx-7713, anotado al folio 67, asiento 5, Libro de Embargos Federal numero 4, renovado al 4 de julio del 2017. EMBARGO: A favor Estados Unidos de America contra Luz S. Vazquez Perez, por la suma de $9874.03, seguro social xxx-xx-1584 del 20 de junio del 2008, anotado al Libro 4 pagina 144 asiento 3. EMBARGO: A favor de Estados Unidos de America contra Luz S. Vazquez Perez, por la suma de $29,228.41, notificación nu-
ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MI-
LLIANIE RIVERA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Parte Demandante Vs. MADELINE HERNANDEZ PEREZ
Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2025CV03636. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. Sala: 803. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MADELINE HERNANDEZ PEREZURB BONNEVILLE GDNS K34 CALLE 6, CAGUAS PR 00725-5841; URB VISTAMAR 1173 CALLE CASTILLA, CAROLINA PR 00983-1660.
POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 8 de abril de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA J. TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.
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PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE CARIDAD JEANNETTE CRUZ SANTIAGO
Demandante V. XAVIER TOSADO RIVERA
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2026RF00256. (Salón: 404 - RF Y MENORES).
Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
LIZAIDA IRIZARRY ROSARIOLIRIZARRY@SERVICIOSLEGALES. ORG.
A: XAVIER TOSADO RIVERA PARA SER NOTIFICADO MEDIANTE EDICTO - P/C LCDA.
LIZAIDA IRIZARRY ROSARIO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 23 de junio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 08 de julio de 2026. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 08 de julio de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. LETICIA TORRES CASIANO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Demandante V. ANA MERCEDES TORRES CARABALLO Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00996. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JESSICA D. MARTÍNEZ BIRRIELJMARTBIRR@YAHOO.COM. A: ANA MERCEDES TORRES CARVALLO,
T/C/C ANA MERCEDES JUNIO, POR SÍ; FULANO Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO MIEMBROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE JAIME JUAN JUSINO SANTIAGO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2026. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2026.
ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. CHRYSTHINE FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. WILLIAM TRINIDAD TORRES
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2026CV00261. (Salón: 701). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: WILLIAM TRINIDAD TORRES.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una
sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARÍA COLLAZO FEBUS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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Demandante V. GLENDA L CANALES GUERRIDO
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: BY2025CV05800. (Salón: 502). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: GLENDA L CANALES GUERRIDO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2026.
ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SANDRA BÁEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AIBONITO SALA SUPERIOR DE COMERÍO ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. LISSETTE DIAZ DIAZ Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BQ2025CV00174. (Salón: 001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: LISSETTE DIAZ DIAZ - HC 3 BOX 80798, BARRRANQUITAS PR 00794-8704; 1 RES CANDELARIO TORRES APT 20, NARANJITO PR 008719-2102. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2026. En Comerío, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2026. MAYRA L. CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. CARMEN APONTE FLORES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGUEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ
BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO
Demandante V. SUC. MARIA EVANGELISTA LUGO
RODRIGUEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MZ2024CV02194. (Salón: 207). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. REGGIE DÍAZ HERNÁNDEZRDIAZ@BDPRLAW.COM. A: SUCESIÓN DE MARIA EVANGELISTA LUGO RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR OVIDIO MONTES LUGO, MANUEL MONTES
LUGO, JOSE F. MONTES LUGO; SUCESIÓN DE JUAN RAMÓN MONTES LUGO COMPUESTA POR JOSUÉ MONTES
GONZÁLEZ, LISSETTE MONTES GONZÁLEZ Y OVIDIO MONTES GONZÁLEZ; SUCESION DE VICTORIA MONTES LUGO COMPUESTA POR RONALD RODRÍGUEZ MONTES, NELSON RODRÍGUEZ MONTES, REBECCA RODRIGUEZ MONTES Y VICTORIA RODRÍGUEZ MONTES; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LAS SUCESIONES DE MARIA EVANGELISTA LUGO RODRIGUEZ, JUAN RAMÓN MONTES LUGO Y VICTORIA MONTES LUGO.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2026. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2026. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO BARBARA RODRÍGUEZ MONGE
Demandante V. OMAR SANTIAGO BETANCOURT
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CE2026RF00008. (Salón: 202 SUPERIOR). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
CARLOS A. ROSARIO RIVERAROSARIOCAR@GMAIL.COM. A: OMAR
SANTIAGO BETANCOURT - 1107 DONCASTER CT, KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA 34758.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 07 de julio de 2026. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 07 de julio de 2026. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. ROCHELLY COLÓN RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS MARIA ESTHER CASTRO GARRIGA
Demandante V. MERVIN A CASTRO GONZALEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2025CV01199. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COMPRAVENTA Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. SHEILA LEE RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍNEZ - SRODRIGUEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. A: SUTANA DE TAL,
DE POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SLG COMPUESTA CON SU ESPOSO MERVIN A. CASTRO GONZÁLEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de junio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de julio de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA PARA INCLUIR PARTE DEMANDADA Y ACTUALIZAR FECHA DE EMISIÓN. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS MARIA ESTHER CASTRO GARRIGA Demandante V. MERVIN A CASTRO GONZALEZ Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025CV01199. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COMPRAVENTA Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. SHEILA LEE RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍNEZ - RODRIGUEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. A: JEANIEL E. CASTRO JIMÉNEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de junio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de
circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de julio de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA PARA
INCLUIR PARTE DEMANDADA Y ACTUALIZAR FECHA DE EMISIÓN. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA
AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
MARIA ESTHER CASTRO GARRIGA
Demandante V. MERVIN A CASTRO GONZALEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2025CV01199. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COMPRAVENTA Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
SHEILA LEE RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍNEZ - SRODRIGUEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG.
A: FULANO DE TAL, DE POR SÍ Y EN REPRESEACIÓN DE LA SLG COMPUESTA CON SU ESPOSA NANCY R. CASTRO GONZÁLEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de junio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha
de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de julio de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: SE ENMIENDA PARA INCLUIR PARTE DEMANDADA Y ACTUALIZAR FECHA DE EMISIÓN. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIO AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
MARIA ESTHER CASTRO GARRIGA
Demandante V. MERVIN A CASTRO GONZALEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: CG2025CV01199. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COMPRAVENTA Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. SHEILA LEE RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍNEZ - SRODRIGUEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. A: MERVIN A. CASTRO GONZÁLEZ, DE POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SLG COMPUESTA CON SU ESPOSA
SUTANA DE TAL.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de junio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de julio de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
MARIA ESTHER CASTRO GARRIGA
Demandante V. MERVIN A CASTRO
GONZALEZ Y OTROS
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025CV01199. (Salón: 705). Sobre: COMPRAVENTA Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. SHEILA LEE RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍNEZ - SRODRIGUEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. A: NANCY R. CASTRO GONZALEZ, DE POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACION DE LA SLG COMPUESTA CON SU ESPOSO FULANO DE TAL
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de junio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de julio de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARTA E. DONATE RESTO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR FELICIDAD ONEILL
REYES Y OTROS
Parte Peticionaria Vs. ROBERT S. ORTIZ PADIN
Parte Peticionada Caso Civil: SJ2026MU01709. Sobre: LEY 54. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTOS. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. Se enmienda a los fines de corregir fecha de notificación. Para poder cumplir con términos de publicación.
A: ROBERT S. ORTIZ
FIGUEROA, CALLE
DE DIEGO, SAN JUAN, PR 00923. Se le notifica mediante este edicto que, el 02 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal declaró con lugar la petición de orden de protección instada en su contra al amparo de la Ley 54-1989. La orden expedida en su contra fue debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de sus términos ya que, de violarlos, podría incurrir en delito grave por el que se pudiera ser procesado criminalmente. Este aviso se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico dentro de las 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Puede presentar un recurso de revisión a apelación a la orden dictada en su contra antes de que advenga final y firme, en el término de 30 días contados a partir de ser notificado. Por tanto, se le dirige esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de publicación de este edicto. Copla de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos con fecha, 02 de julio de 2026. San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 07 de julio de 2026. Reducido escrito hoy 8 de julio de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.
SOLESNIR CAMPUDONI CARABALLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA
MARIA ELENA
BAEZ ORTIZ
Demandante V. WILSON REYES ALMONTE
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: VB2026RF00014. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
IRMA S. NIEVES GARCÍA - LCDA. IRMANIEVES@GMAIL.COM. A: WILSON REYES ALMONTE.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)
EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 08 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando
usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de julio de 2026. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. AMALIA I. MONROIG RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. NOEL RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CA2025CV03642. (Civil: 408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: NOEL RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, NOEL RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 24 de junio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS
ROBLES, SECRETARIA. ROSALYN MELÉNDEZ GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC
Demandante V. ARLENNE I DE LA CRUZ PEREZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CN2025CV00528. (Civil: 408). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.
A: ARLENNE I DE LA CRUZ PEREZ, ARLENNE I DE LA CRUZ PEREZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 18 DE JUNIO DE 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de julio de 2026. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 10 de julio de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS
ROBLES, SECRETARIA. ROSALYN MELÉNDEZ GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS
YANELIS
MARTINEZ GONZALEZ
Demandante V. ALEXANDER
ROBLES RODRIGUEZ
Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025RF00845.
(Salón: 504). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EVELYN LOPEZ DIAZEVELOD107@YAHOO.COM. A: ALEXANDER ROBLES RODRÍGUEZ
- 230 KIMBALL ST., FITCHBURG, MA 01420. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de mayo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de julio de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. YOLANDA TORRES CAMACHO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN
LUIS
GONZALEZ HERNANDEZ
Demandantes Vs. LA SUCESION PRESUNTA Y DESCONOCIDA DE CATALINA GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR VANESA SANTIAGO, ERIC SANTIAGO Y SALVADOR SANTIAGO
Demandados
Civil #: SJ2025CV09796. Sobre: ACCIÓN CIVIL. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EUA. A: LA SUCESION PRESUNTA Y DESCONOCIDA DE CATALINA GONZALEZ COMPUESTA POR VANESA SANTIAGO, ERIC SANTIAGO Y SALVADOR SANTIAGO, CUALQUIER PERSONA IGNORADA QUE
PUDIERA TENER INTERÉS DOMINICAL EN
LA PROPIEDAD OBJETO DE LA PRESENTE ACCION CIVIL.
Por la presente se les notifica a ustedes, que se ha presentado en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de San Juan, la demanda de epígrafe, en la que, en síntesis, se alega que son ustedes parte indispensable en la demanda sobre usucapión sobre un predio de terreno que en el que podrían tener algún interés y que se describe del siguiente modo: “RUSTICA: en el barrio Caimito del término municipal de Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, compuesta de 4.185 cuerdas, colindando por el NORTE con Don Gabriel Rondón, por el SUR con Don Pedro Marín, por el OESTE con Don Lorenzo González y por el ESTE con la carretera número 842. Consta inscrita al folio T del tomo Karibe, finca número 24618 Registro de la Propiedad San Juan IV.” Es abogado de la parte demandante el Lcdo. Andrés J. Rodríguez Burgos, quien tiene bufete abierto en el #30 de la Calle Reparto Piñero, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 009695650, Teléfono 787-720-9553 y se notifica a ustedes que de no comparecer a contestar esta demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes después de haberse publicado el edicto, la parte demandante podrá solicitar la anotación de rebeldía y lograr que se dicte Sentencia, concediéndosele el remedio solicitado sin más sin más citarles ni oírles. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/ salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 10 de junio de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN N. MOLINA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONFIDENCIAL I.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE VERONICA CRUZ MIRANDA Demandante V. FRANCISCO
VALENTIN ZAYAS
Demandado(a)
Caso Núm.: PO2026RF00161. (Salón: 405 RF Y MENORES).
Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.
WILNELIA GARCÍA SIERRALCDAWILNELIAGARCIA@GMAIL. COM.
A: FRANCISCO VALENTIN ZAYAS, PARA SER NOTIFICADO POR EDICTO; P/C: LCDA. WILNELIA GARCÍA SIERRA.
(Nombre de las partes que se le notificación de sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 07 de julio de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de julio de 2026. En Ponce, Puerto Rico, el 09 de julio de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. TANIA M. MELÉNDEZ CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE LAJAS FARLIE VAZQUEZ ACOSTA, DANIEL VAZQUEZ ACOSTA, FABIAN VAZQUEZ ACOSTA, LUZ DELIA ORTIZ VAZQUEZ, MARISOL ORTIZ
VAZQUEZ Y JOSE ANGEL ORTIZ VAZQUEZ
Demandantes V. BLANCA FLOR VAZQUEZ HENRIQUEZ; GLORIA MERCEDES VAZQUEZ HENRIQUEZ; SUCESION DE CRISTOBALINA HERNANDEZ
Demandados
Civil Núm.: LJ2026CV00026. Sobre: DESAHUCIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.
ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE
July 17, 2026
LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESION DE CRISTOBALINA HERNANDEZ ROSADO. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que la parte demandante, por conducto de su abogado, LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS, con oficina en 2510 Carretera 100, kilómetro 3.5 de Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623, dirección postal Po Box 582, Boquerón PR 00622, número de teléfono (787) 851-3582 y correo electrónico: clsegarra@ yahoo.com, ha radicado ante este Tribunal una demanda sobre Desahucio. Se le apercibe que si no compareciera usted a contestar dicha demanda, dentro un término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaria del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente.
LCDO. CARLOS L. SEGARRA MATOS RUA: 15441
Dirección Postal: Po Box 582, Boquerón PR 00622
Dirección Física: 2510 carretera 100, kilómetro 3.5 Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico 00623 Tel. (787) 851-3582
Correo electrónico: clsegarra@ yahoo.com
Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, el 8 de julio de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. CAROLINE HERNÁNDEZ VALENTÍN, SUB-SECRETARIA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN CARLOS ULISES CHACÓN MARTÍNEZ
Demandante Vs. EDUARDO RIVERA SANTIAGO; MARITZA PEREZ GARCIA Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOSE ANTONIO MALDONADO COLLAZO; FULANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD DE
BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; MIGUEL ANGEL CINTRON MIRANDA; MENGANA DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD DE BIENES GANACIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; COMPAÑÍA ASEGURADORA
A, B, C; SUCESIÓN DESCONOCIDA DE MIGUEL ANGEL CINTRON MIRANDA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, Y SUTANA DE TAL
Demandados
Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV07719. Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE UU, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS.
A: SUCESIÓN DESCONOCIDA DE MIGUEL ANGEL CINTRON MIRANDA COMPUESTA POR FULANO DE TAL, MENGANA DE TAL, Y SUTANA DE TAL.
Carlos Ulises Chacón Martínez, ha presentado ante este Tribunal demanda contra usted, a través del Lcdo. José Luis Novas-Debién, RUA: 11257, con dirección en el P.O.Box 193021, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919 Tel. 787-754-8300, y correo electrónico jnovas1@ gmail.com solicitando la concesión del siguiente remedio: Que se condene a la parte demandada al pago de una cantidad no menor de CIENTO DIEZ MIL DOLARES ($110,000.00) más costas, gastos y una suma razonable en concepto de honorarios de abogado. A solicitud de la parte demandante, el Tribunal ha ordenado el emplazamiento por edicto de la parte demandada; en cumplimiento de dicha orden se ha ordenado su emplazamiento por medio de este edicto que se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general diaria en Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Se le apercibe que si no comparece usted a contestar dicha demanda dentro del término de 30 días a partir de la publicación del edicto, podrá dictarse sentencia en rebeldía en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, a 3 de julio de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ADELLE
NAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA
RIVERA APONTE, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN MILAGROS EDMEE LOPEZ CAMARENO, MARIELA LOPEZ
CAMARENO, NILSA I. PELLICIER LÓPEZ ET ALS.
Demandantes Vs TOMASA LOPEZ
RONDON, MARTA LOPEZ RONDON ET ALS.
Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV00313. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.
A: TOMASA LOPEZ RONDON, MARTA LOPEZ
RONDON, MARIBEL LOPEZ, UDVALDO
LOPEZ, ANGELO NIEVES, RICARDO NIEVES, MERCEDES NIEVES, GLADYS NIEVES, EMILY
MARY NIEVES, LOUIS
CARLOS NIEVES, A-R RASHID NICHOLAS NIEVES, SUCESIÓN “T” DESCONOCIDA; DEMANDADOS “D”, “E” Y “F”; DEMANDADOS “X”, “Y” Y “Z”.
Por la presente se le emplaza y notifica que se ha presentado en la Secretaría de este Tribunal, la Demanda del caso de epígrafe, solicitando Partición de Herencia del cual usted pudiera ser parte. Se le apercibe y advierte que de no contestar o alegar en contra de la Demanda, radicando el original de la contestación ante la Secretaría de este Tribunal, y notificarle con copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Sonia E. Rivera Lebrón, al Box 1876, Rincón, P.R. 00677; Tel. (939) 630-5690; correo electrónico ser.lawoffice@yahoo. com, dentro de los próximos treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación de este edicto, el cual será publicado una sola vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general en Puerto Rico, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírles. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 16 de abril de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. LAURA C. REYNOSO
ESQUILÍN, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.
LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBU-
SALA SUPERIOR DE COROZAL IVAN MARRERO MOLINA
Peticionario
EX-PARTE
Civil Núm.: CZ2026CV00177. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.
A: TODOS LOS QUE TENGAN CUALQUIER DERECHO REAL EN LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE, PERSONAS IGNORADAS, NATURALES O JURÍDICAS, A QUIENES PUEDA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DE DICHA FINCA A FAVOR DE LOS PETICIONARIOS Y A LAS PERSONAS DESCONOCIDAS, NATURALES O JURÍDICAS QUE TUVIEREN DERECHO A OPONERSE O SE CREYERON CON DERECHO A OPONERSE A LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL INMUEBLE QUE SE DESCRIBE MÁS ADELANTE. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que se ha presentado ante este Tribunal el expediente arriba mencionado con el fin de justificar el dominio a favor de los Peticionarios sobre la siguiente propiedad: RUSTICA: Solar ubicado en el barrio Palmarejo del término municipal de Corozal, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 827.989 metros cuadrados equivalentes a 0.2106 cuerdas. Colinda por el Norte: en distancia de 12.49 metros lineales con Claribel Rivera Ramos y en tres alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 18.93 metros lineales con Sucesión Ramón Molina García; por el Sur en distancia de 22.49 metros lineales con Sucesión José Bou Rodríguez; por el Este en distancia de 15.76 metros lineales con Andy López Cintrón y en 12.23 metros lineales con José Ortiz Collazo; y por el Oeste con dos alineaciones que totalizan una distancia de 39.57 metros lineales con la carretera estatal PR-164. Enclava el terreno dos estructuras para fines residenciales, ambas de una sola planta construidas en cemento y bloques. Jesús Marrero García, abuelo del Peticionario, obtuvo el dominio de la propiedad descrita en el párrafo anterior por razón de Compraventa en la década de los ’80. Posteriormente, el Peticionario se mudó a la antes referida propiedad con su padre, Demetrio Marrero García. Este último falleció en el 2003, fecha desde la que el Peticionario ha mantenido el
dominio absoluto de la propiedad, objeto de la presente petición. Se desconoce cómo se configuró la propiedad, surgiendo del Registro de la Propiedad que la misma no se encuentra inscrita ni pertenece a ninguna otra finca de mayor cabida. SE LE NOTIFICA que este Tribunal ha ordenado que se le cite como persona que está en posesión de parte o todos los predios colindantes de la finca descrita, o tenga interés para que haga oposición a este expediente si se viere perjudicado con la inscripción solicitada; advirtiéndole que de no hacer oposición dentro del término de veinte (20) días a contar desde la publicación de este edicto, los Peticionarios podrán obtener que se apruebe este expediente y se mande a inscribir a su nombre la finca antes descrita en el Registro de la Propiedad. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC) al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// tribunalelectronico.ramajudicial.pr/sumac2018 salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal, notificando a la representación legal en la dirección de récord: LCDA. LIZANNETTE MORALES CRESPO PO BOX 270-518 SAN JUAN, PR 00928 TEL. 787-945-5233 EMAIL: lmorales@lmclegal.com
POR ORDEN DEL HONORABLE JESUS SOTO AMADEO, Juez de este Tribunal, expido la presente en Corozal, Puerto Rico, hoy a 6 de julio de 2026, bajo mi firma y sello oficial. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR. LUISA I. ANDINO AYALA, SUBSECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR. LEGAL NOTICE
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CREDITO JESUS OBRERO
Demandante Vs. FULANO DE TAL
Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2026CV03510. Sala: 703. Sobre: PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANO DE TAL - COMO POSIBLE TENEDOR DEL PAGARÉ. Por la presente se les notifica que la parte demandante, ha presentado ante este Honorable Tribunal Demanda donde se solicita se cancele el siguiente
pagaré, el cual está extraviado, así como hipoteca que garantiza su pago: Un Pagaré a favor de First Security Mortgage, Inc., por la suma de NOVENTA Y UN MIL DÓLARES ($91,000.00), más intereses al ocho y medio por ciento (8 1/2%) anual, vencedero el 1 de mayo de 2049, ante el Notario Público Mario A. Quiles Rosado. Referido pagaré fue garantizado con una hipoteca constituida mediante Escritura de Hipoteca, según escritura número 74 de fecha 15 de abril de 2019, otorgado en San Juan, Puerto Rico, ante el Notario Mario A. Quiles Rosado, inscrito al Sistema Karibe, finca número 19839 de Bayamón Sur, inscripción décima séptima (17ª), Afidávit 17666. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique al: Lcdo. Héctor R. Crespo Milián, RUA 7474, Urb. Paradis, #1 Calle Angel L. Ortiz, Caguas, Puerto Rico, 00725, teléfono (787) 744-4459 / 745-0480, correo electrónico: lcdocrespo@gmail.com; con copia de su alegación responsiva a la demanda dentro de un término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto. Usted debe presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal correspondiente. Por la presente se le apercibe que de no comparecer a formular alegaciones dentro de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la fecha de la publicación de este Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia de acuerdo con lo solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, hoy día 9 de julio de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN M. PINTADO, SUBSECRETARIA.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ RYAN ZAMIR MERCADO ROJAS
Demandante Vs. JULIÁN JOSÉ MERCADO SOTO; JULIMAR ROJAS
Demandados
Civil Núm.: CB2026RF00033. Sobre: ALIMENTOS ENTRE PARIENTES. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: JULIÁN JOSÉ MERCADO SOTO -
80208B NORTH LEWIS AVENUE FORT DRUM, NUEVA YORK, 13603. POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Alimentos Entre Parientes de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Mayagüez, PO BOX 1210 Mayagüez, PR 00681-1210, notifique al Lcdo. PAUL ALEXANDER CURRAN NIEVES, personalmente al 177 Calle Balboa Mayagüez, PR 00680; o por correo a 177 Calle Balboa, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680, Teléfonos: (787) 423-3557, Abogado de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Mayagüez. Dada en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, a 09 de julio de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. NILDA L. IRIZARRY RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.
ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE JUANA DÍAZ MUNICIPIO AUTÓNOMO DE JUANA DÍAZ Peticionario V. ADQUISICIÓN EN PLENO DOMINIO DE SOLAR #769, UBICADO EN LA CALLE #34 DE LA COMUNIDAD RURAL AGUILITA, EN JUANA DÍAZ, PUERTO RICO, IDENTIFICADA DE ACUERDO AL PLANO CATASTRAL CON EL NÚMERO DE PARCELA 390-004288-28-000, INSCRITA COMO LA FINCA 8426 DEL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD, SECCIÓN I DE PONCE, DE DUEÑO DESCONOCIDO; JORGE L. RIVERA CARRIER, T/C/C JORGE RIVERA CARRIER Y JORGE L. RIVERA, MARÍA I. MORALES,
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Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9
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2. ___ Army (Palmer's fans)
3. Like purple mountains?
4. Technique-teaching composition
5. Noted movie terrier
6. Gonzales and Reno (abbr.)
7. More emaciated
8. Brush mix?
9. Trench
10. Daniel Decatur ___, minstrel who wrote "Dixie"
11. Wagner opus
12. Fundraising event
13. Neck, in Northampton
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20. Alleviate
22. Nuclear org. ended in 1974
25. Neutral capital
26. West's "____ Angel"
28. Utter an expletive
29. New Year's song word
31. Asthma sufferers' needs
32. When the sun is at its zenith, generally
34. "Might want to rethink that"
35. State confidently
37. Scapola or clavicola
38. Recognizing that
39. ____-Man
41. Paradisaical
44. New piece of info
45. High school student
47. White House workers
48. Kitchen gadget
49. ____'Pea (Popeye's boy)
51. Hire out
52. Japanese soup ingredient
55. President before JAG
A supporter of Argentina’s national team holds up a photograph of Diego Maradona following Argentina’s victory over England in a World Cup semifinal match on Wednesday, July 16, 2026, in Rosario, Argentina, the birthplace of soccer legend Lionel Messi. Messi assisted on both of Argentina’s late goals in a 2-1 win. (Sebastián López Brach/The New York Times)
By TARIQ PANJA
On the face of it, the mission was clear: Win two games, a World Cup semifinal and final.
Since England’s last World Cup championship, in 1966, victories in big moments have proved so elusive that they represented something of a national block. Instead of a run to the tournament’s final game, England’s
collective trauma will continue, heaping on more years of hurt to add to the country’s soccer anthem, “It’s Coming Home.”
To make the outcome even more painful, the team’s 2-1 defeat in the semifinal Wednesday in Atlanta came against Argentina, a nation that is arguably England’s biggest World Cup rival. Their games are a collision of politics, culture and sports. For Argentina, beating England means more, and
with a berth in the World Cup final at stake, it was hardly any surprise that the Argentine players stayed on the field after the game to commune with their mass of supporters behind the goal.
They sang about previous glories — victories over England — and the possibilities to come. England and its vanquished coach had long since disappeared.
For England, coach after coach has been unable to break this spell of heartbreak.
For this World Cup, England’s national soccer federation turned to Thomas Tuchel, a gangly German technician, to lead the team. Minutes from the glory of a place in the World Cup final, his players allowed Argentina and Lionel Messi to take their places, their late goals equalizing and then eliminating England’s initial 1-0 lead. Argentina will face Spain in the final Sunday.
In two of the last three World Cups, England has faltered in the semifinals, failures that will only intensify what has become a national nightmare.
In British pubs Wednesday night, hope for finally getting over the hump turned into the grim knowledge that it would be at least four more years before another chance would come.
The previous coach, Gareth Southgate, had gotten England tantalizingly close to its goal. In his eight-year run in the role, he lifted belief in the team and turned himself into someone more akin to the voice of a fractured nation.
Still, he could not get England over the line. And for Tuchel, hired at great expense in 2025, there was one big job. And he knew it, too.
The players were masters of their own
By THE STAR STAFF
The Vaqueros of Bayamón defeated the Gigantes of Carolina-Canóvanas 72-68 on Wednesday night at Carlos Miguel Mangual Coliseum in Canóvanas to take a 3-1 lead in the National Superior Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) league Confer-
ence A semifinals.
The Capitanes of Arecibo, meanwhile, evened the Conference B semifinal series at 2-2 with a road win over the Santeros of Aguada.
Bayamón led 35-28 at halftime, extended the lead to 11 early in the third quarter, then held off Carolina the rest of the way.
Jassel Perez led the Vaqueros with 17 points and eight rebounds, while Javier Mojica scored 13 points and Gary Browne added
12.
George Conditt once again led the Gigantes with his third double-double of the season, recording 16 points and 11 rebounds. He was followed by Daniel Rivera with 13 points and seven rebounds, while Tremont Waters finished with 10 points.
At Ismael “Chavalillo” Delgado Coliseum in Aguada, the Capitanes beat the Santeros, 100-93.
After a tightly contested first half, Arecibo
downfall in a way familiar to England’s teams of the past, despite their new German coach. Defending a one-goal lead, the English team defended deeper and deeper into their own territory until the walls caved in.
“There was blood in the water and we went for it,” Argentina’s coach, Lionel Scaloni, said at a postgame news conference.
And yet it was somehow inevitable that Messi would have the final say. As the minutes appeared to be ticking down on his World Cup career, the 39-year-old, perhaps the game’s greatest player, assisted both Argentine goals.
After the final whistle, Argentine players held up a banner claiming sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, known in Argentina as the Malvinas. Argentina has disputed Britain’s sovereignty over the islands that have been under British rule for about 200 years.
Quarterfinals
Thursday, July 9
France 2, Morocco 0
Friday, July 10
Spain 2, Belgium 1
Saturday, July 11
England 2, Norway 1 (AET)
Argentina 3, Switzerland 1 (AET)
Semifinals
Tuesday
Spain 2, France 0
Wednesday
Argentina 2, England 1
Third Place Playoff
Saturday
France vs England, 5 p.m. ET (FOX, Telemundo, FOX One)
Final
Sunday
Spain vs Argentina, 3 p.m. ET (FOX, Telemundo, FOX One)
The Vaqueros of Bayamón (in blue) lead the National Superior Basketball league Conference A semifinals 3 games to 1 after a 72-68 road win over the Gigantes of Carolina-Canóvanas on Wednesday night. Game 5 is Friday night at 8 in Bayamón.
ramped up their offense in the third quarter, scoring 31 points to build a 77-62 lead.
Just when it seemed the Capitanes had the game in the bag -leading by as many as 21 points in the fourth quarter -- Aguada’s offense came alive with a run that narrowed the gap to just five points in the game’s closing stages.
Four players -- Derrick Walton, Isaiah Miles, Timothy Soares and Justin Reyes -- scored 17 points each for Arecibo, while Alfonso Plummer added 10 points and six assists.
John Holland, Joel Soriano (12 rebounds) and Rigoberto Mendoza each scored 17 points for Aguada, while Jacob Wiley and Iván Gandia added 14 and 13 points, respectively.
By THE STAR STAFF
Puerto Rico National Team manager Juan “Igor” González announced earlier this week the 24-player roster that will represent the island in the baseball tournament at the Santo Domingo 2026 Central American and Caribbean Games.
The squad is composed primarily of active players from the Superior Double-A Baseball League and includes 12 position players and 12 pitchers.
Key players include infielder Yadiel Rivera, who has six
seasons of Major League experience. Also on the roster are outfielder Rubén Castro -- a two-time Double-A MVP and batting champion -- left-handed pitcher Luis Leroy Cruz, and fellow southpaw Jorhan Laboy, who has represented Puerto Rico at the U-23 level.
The team also features the 2026 Double-A Pitcher of the Year, Anthony Borrero, as well as MVPs Edison Mora and José “Pocholo” Rivera. Mora also won the federation tournament’s batting title in the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
Puerto Rico will compete in Group A alongside the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Curaçao. The team will make its tournament debut on July 31 against the Dominican Republic at 7 p.m. at Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium in Santo Domingo.
Group stage play continues for Puerto Rico on Aug. 1 against Cuba and concludes on Aug. 2 against Curaçao. The second round will take place Aug. 4-6, with medal matches scheduled for Aug. 7.
The roster consists of position players Kevin Santa, José “Pocholo” Rivera, Yadiel Rivera, Alexis Torres, Kevin Luciano, Kerby Camacho, Roberto “Bebo” Peña, Rubén Castro, Jan Hernández, Edison Mora, Anthony García and Jadiel Sánchez. The pitching staff will consist of left-handers Luis Leroy Cruz, Jorhan Laboy, Noel Pinto, Miguel Ausúa, Sidney Duprey, Héctor Hernández, Jorge Benítez and Luis Cintrón, as well as right-handers Rubén Ramírez, Joshua Torres, Miguel Mejía and Anthony Borrero.
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