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Torres Nieves affirms he is president of Politank

By THE STAR STAFF

Manuel Torres Nieves affirmed on Thursday that he is the president of Politank and defended the firm’s corporate structure, maintaining that Francisco Domenech Fernández completely severed his ties with the company following a share repurchase.

In the Department of State’s Corporate Registry, regarding the firm Politank, Torres Nieves is listed as chief executive officer (CEO), secretary, and resident agent.

“In recent months, comments have circulated regarding Politank, its executives, and its clients; these comments stem from a sustained effort by groups with specific interests, who have utilized various forums -- including media outlets -- to advance commercial agendas that are unrelated to the public interest,” Torres Nieves said in a written statement.

“As Attorney Francisco Domenech has publicly clarified on several occasions -- and as our firm conveyed to members of the press last September -- the transaction for the purchase of the firm’s shares was executed through a share repurchase mechanism, whereby the company acquired its own shares and made full payment,” he added. “This transaction entailed his complete separation from the company.”

Torres Nieves made the remarks in a statement issued by Politank, in which he asserted that he presides over the company following Domenech’s departure prior to assuming the post of La Fortaleza chief of staff. He also noted that the firm has operated for over 15 years under a shareholding

structure that, he maintained, is duly established.

The Politank president said further that as part of the transaction, it was stipulated that there would be no additional compensation, royalties, conditional payments, or long-term payment structures. As he indicated, the obligation was fully settled on Jan. 1, 2025 -- the date on which Domenech’s definitive separation was also formalized.

“As part of the buyback transaction, it was established that there would be no additional compensation of any nature -- including, but not limited to, royalties, payments contingent upon company results, or long-term payment structures -- with the entire obligation being fully settled on January 1, 2025,” Torres Nieves said.

He also rejected allegations regarding Politank’s relationship with former official Elisa Muñoz.

“We must clarify that Ms. Muñoz ended her employment with Politank more than three years ago, and there are no financial compensation agreements in place following her departure,” he said.

PREPA bondholder appeals ruling denying administrative expense priority status

By THE STAR STAFF

Monoliner National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. has filed an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, challenging a federal court ruling that denied Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bondholders’ request for administrative expense status, one of the most important forms of priority claims in bankruptcy-like proceedings.

In bankruptcy and in Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) Title III cases, an administrative expense claim refers to obligations that arise after the bankruptcy filing and are considered necessary to preserve or operate the debtor’s estate. These claims -- such as the cost of continuing business operations, professional fees, or certain court-authorized payments -- are granted top-tier priority, meaning they must be paid ahead of most other creditors, including many pre-existing bondholders or unsecured claims.

The notice of appeal, filed this past Tuesday, seeks review of the Opinion and Order Denying PREPA Bondholders’ Motion

for Allowance of Administrative Expense Claim, entered by the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico on March 16.

In the PREPA litigation, bondholders sought to have certain alleged post-petition obligations treated as administrative expenses. If granted, this would have elevated their repayment priority dramatically, potentially reshaping PREPA’s restructuring framework. The district court rejected that argument, prompting the appeal now being pursued by National Public Finance.

The underlying motion denied by the court in the PREPA case was advanced by a coalition of PREPA bondholders. Several major financial stakeholders joined the motion, including Assured Guaranty Inc., GoldenTree Asset Management LP, National Public Finance Guarantee Corp., the PREPA Ad Hoc Group, Syncora Guarantee Inc. and the U.S. Bank National Association, acting as PREPA bond trustee.

By appealing, National Public Finance argues that the district court erred in denying administrative expense treatment and that the bondholders are entitled to priority consideration for the obligations at issue.

Public affairs secretary: Leak of Politank CRIM return could be a crime

By THE STAR STAFF

The publication of a Municipal Revenue Collections Center (CRIM) tax return belonging to the lobbying firm Politank has sparked controversy in Puerto Rico after Public Affairs Secretary Jean Peña Payano warned that releasing such documents could constitute a crime.

The document disclosed Politank’s 2023 CRIM filing, submitted in May 2024, showing assets of $1.8 million. Its appearance in the media raised immediate questions regarding the firm’s financial movements, particularly the significant growth in reported assets and capital within a short period.

Additional documents circulating in the media show that in 2023 Politank reported $1.59 million in assets and $1 million in capital, but by 2024 those figures had risen sharply to $5.8 million in assets and $5.1 million in capital. Critics have questioned how, seven months before the new administration assumed power, Politank allegedly held $4 million in cash used to pay its founder, Francisco Domenech Fernández, who sold his firm and then became La Fortaleza chief of staff. The financial jump triggered further scrutiny and fueled public debate over the transparency and timing of the firm’s internal transactions.

Reacting to the leak, Peña Payano stressed that the pub

Public Affairs Secretary Jean Peña Payano

lication of such tax documents may violate Puerto Rico’s legal protections for confidential financial information. He noted that tax filings are private documents and that the publication of information governed by Puerto Rican law could “possibly constitute a crime.” He emphasized the seriousness of the matter, saying the administration is eval

uating the appropriate steps to take and arguing that the media must be cautious about setting a precedent in disclosing confidential records, regardless of who they pertain to.

The situation brings renewed attention to the delicate balance in Puerto Rico between the constitutional protection of press freedom and the legal framework that safeguards the confidentiality of tax information. While the island Constitution prohibits laws restricting the press and supports the publication of information of public interest, the Internal Revenue Code classifies tax returns as confidential. Journalists could face legal chal lenges if information is obtained through illicit means, though courts have historically leaned toward protecting the press when such disclosures involve matters of significant public importance.

So far, no legal action has been announced against the media outlets that published the Pol itank documents, but Peña Payano reiterated that

“the appropriate steps” are being taken.

Politank has come under public scrutiny amid allegations that Domenech’s former clients at the firm have received juicy government contracts under the current administra tion. Domenech has control over all government contracts.

PREB issues regulation for towns to partake in streetlight repair

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) issued on Thursday the regulation that sets out the rules for municipalities seeking to participate in the repair, maintenance, instal lation, or modernization of public lighting connected to the island’s electrical grid.

The regulation, formally titled the “Regulation for the Authorization, Supervision, and Oversight of Municipal Participation in Public Lighting Connected to the Electric System,” establishes a unified legal and technical framework to guide such collaboration.

The PREB noted that the rule is grounded in several major statutes that govern the Puerto Rico energy sector, including the Energy Transformation and Relief Act (Law 57‑2014), the Puerto Rico Electric System Transformation Act (Law 120‑2018), and the Uniform Administrative Procedure Act (Law 38‑2017). It was also crafted in harmony with the Transmission and Distribution System Operation and Main tenance Agreement involving the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the Public‑Private Partnerships Authority, and grid operator LUMA Energy, along with any future successor op erators. This ensures that all municipal involvement in public lighting remains consistent with the technical standards and operational protocols required for the safe management of the transmission and distribution system.

According to the PREB, the purpose of the regulation is to advance public policy goals related to the reliability, resilience, safety, and efficient operation of Puerto Rico’s electrical system. The PREB emphasized that street light

ing plays a critical role in public safety, urban mobility and quality of life. It acknowledged that municipalities are well‑positioned to support repair and modernization efforts in their communities, but stressed that any such involve ment must occur within an established, regulated structure that does not interfere with system operations or the PREB’s regulatory authority.

To that end, the regulation outlines how municipal par ticipation should be coordinated with the system operator and ensures that all work whether repair, maintenance, installation or modernization adheres to applicable technical and safety standards. It details the procedures for authorizing agreements between municipalities and the operator, establishes the types of interventions municipalities may carry out, and describes the supervision and oversight mechanisms that will apply to all approved projects.

In its cost benefit analysis, the PREB de termined that the regulation does not create significant new expenses for the government or the public. Since it does not establish new spending programs or impose financial obligations on the state, the PREB concluded that its fiscal impact is minimal. Instead, the rule is intended to make better use of existing resources by enabling municipalities to par ticipate in public lighting work in a structured and compliant manner. The PREB noted that this approach may help accelerate repairs,

reduce delays, and improve service to residents without undermining system stability.

The new rules apply to all collaborative agreements in volving municipal work on public lighting that is connected to the transmission or distribution system. They also apply to any individual or entity performing such work under an ap proved agreement. However, the regulation does not extend to lighting systems that operate entirely independently of the electric power grid, such as standalone, off‑grid lighting installations.

or the bureau’s regulatory authority. (lumapr.com)

Lawmaker: Proliferation of gambling offerings in PR will further drive up addiction rates

By THE STAR STAFF

Rep. José Aponte Hernández warned on Thursday that increasing gambling offerings in Puerto Rico will have a catastrophic effect on the mental health of the population given the rising rates of gambling addiction on the island.

“Currently, according to 2014 data, there are more than 55,000 citizens in Puerto Rico with gambling addictions,” the veteran lawmaker said in a written statement. “This represents 0.87 percent of the population, and these reports were made before the introduction of sports betting and only identify those who have been diagnosed with this condition, so the actual number must be much higher.”

“Expanding the gambling industry on the island with the alleged goal of collecting more tax revenue will have a catastrophic effect on the healthcare system, as the number of gambling addicts will surely exceed 100,000, and treatments for this condition are complex and expensive,” noted

the former speaker of the island House of Representatives.

“Treatment sessions for gambling addicts average $168.00, not including other costs, according to reports on the subject

developed in 2025 by the University of Michigan Medical School. The process is also lengthy, with an estimated duration of up to 24 months. Furthermore, the National Council on Gambling Addiction in the United States projects that by 2025, the cost of treating these individuals in the states and territories, including Puerto Rico, will reach $14 billion. This is quite high, and with any expansion of the gambling base, it will only increase.”

According to available scientific information, the prevalence of pathological gambling in the United States ranges from 0.4 to 1 percent. Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico, the rate is higher than in any other jurisdiction in the nation, the chairman of the House Committee on Federal and Veterans Affairs noted. A 2018 report from the Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services Administration confirmed that 7.4 percent of the island’s population may be pathological gamblers, and an additional 6.4 percent may experience gambling problems at some point in their lives.

Deborah Martorell to be honored at UN General Assembly

By THE STAR STAFF

Journalist, meteorologist, private astronaut and science communicator Deborah Martorell will be honored next Tuesday, March 31, in the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York City.

Martorell will be recognized as part of Women Breaking Barriers, a global summit organized by the Rise Now Organization and the United Nations Spotlight Initiative, which brings together women from multiple sectors to address one of the world’s most persistent crises:

violence against women and girls, an obstacle that continues to limit their safety, opportunities and development.

Martorell’s career, marked by breaking barriers in science, media and space, makes her a key voice in the global conversation around this topic.

Beyond her professional achievements, Martorell has maintained a steadfast commitment to defending women’s rights -- from fighting for workplace justice, equality, and access to education, to her more recent collaboration with initiatives such as Kilometers of Change, which promote equity, safety, and community empowerment through

collective action.

“Every step we take to break down barriers matters,” Martorell said in a written statement.

“I have personally experienced the challenges women face, and that is why I am committed to giving visibility to all those who continue fighting to get ahead. Being recognized at the UN General Assembly is an honor I share with them and with all those who continue to pave the way.”

The event will be broadcast live on UNTV (webtv.un.org) starting at 10 a.m. and will also be open to the public by prior registration.

JetBlue adds 4 direct routes to Puerto Rico

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón announced on Thursday the launch of four new direct JetBlue routes connecting San Juan with Philadelphia, Richmond, Va., Norfolk, Va. and Buffalo, N.Y., with an estimated economic impact of $99.5 million for Puerto Rico.

“Puerto Rico continues to solidify its position as a priority destination within the air travel network of the continental United States,” González Colón said in a written statement. “The expansion of these new routes reflects a clear strategy to strengthen our air access, broaden our reach in key markets, and continue generating economic development opportunities for the island.”

Puerto Rico Tourism Company Executive Director Willianette Robles Cancel said “the new connections from

Richmond and Philadelphia began operations on March 26. The routes from Norfolk and Buffalo will launch operations on March 27, as part of the expansion announced by JetBlue in December 2025, and following the commencement of direct service between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico on March 13.”

The connection from Richmond will contribute 25,272 additional seats and generate an estimated economic impact of $17 million, while the route from Philadelphia will add 59,130 seats, with an impact of $42.7 million. The routes from Buffalo and Norfolk will each add 33,696 seats, with estimated economic impacts of $19.7 million and $20.1 million, respectively.

“As the airline with the largest presence on the island, we remain focused on strengthening connectivity, supporting tourism, and making it easier for families and friends to stay connected through our network,” said Dave Jehn, vice president of network planning and airline partnerships at JetBlue.

ICE agents at some airports begin checking IDs in security lines

By CHRISTINA MORALES, CHRISTINE CHUNG, HAMED ALEAZIZ, SEAN KEENAN and ROWAN MOORE GERETY

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stationed at several airports on Wednesday were checking travelers’ IDs and performing other screening duties alongside personnel from the Transportation Security Administration.

Those activities were largely a departure from the roles ICE agents had been performing since Monday at other major airports. They have been deployed ostensibly to ease the hourslong security lines amid a shortage of TSA workers, but have largely patrolled hallways and stood watch.

At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, ICE agents could be spotted instructing travelers to insert their IDs into card readers, verifying their identities on a computer screen and then waving people toward scanning equipment, TSA officers nearby appeared to guide them.

At Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, armed ICE agents wearing ballistic vests checked IDs, looked at travelers’ documents and helped manage the flow of baggage on security conveyor belts. And a traveler at New York’s LaGuardia Airport said that an ICE agent checked his ID when he went through TSA PreCheck.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that ICE agents were checking IDs.

“After receiving standard TSA training curriculum,” ICE officers were “verifying identification using TSA equipment and standard operating procedures,” the agency’s acting assistant secretary, Lauren Bis, said in a statement. She said the officers’ duties also included guarding entrances and exits, and crowd control.

But it was unclear Wednesday afternoon exactly how many other airports were having ICE agents do similar screening work, whether that change was directly related to trying to ease wait times, and why ICE agents at some airports maintained more limited duties.

A TSA worker and an airport security guard in Phoenix said that ICE agents had been doing those screening duties since Monday. At Chicago O’Hare International Airport, ICE agents’ presence appeared to be minimal, and they did not appear to be screening passengers.

Bis added in her statement that having ICE agents perform some screening functions would improve the situation.

“The more support we have available, the more efficiently TSA can focus on their highly specialized screening roles to efficiently get airport security lines moving faster,” she said.

But it was unclear Wednesday whether the move had a widespread effect on wait times.

Some passengers worried that federal immigration

agents were not qualified or authorized to carry out the responsibilities of TSA officers. And some immigrants were concerned that they would be targeted by ICE.

Jennifer Carlin, a nonprofit worker from San Francisco, arrived five hours early to the Atlanta airport Wednesday afternoon after visiting her son in Columbus, Georgia. She still had hundreds of people ahead of her in line.

“You want people to feel confident when they’re coming to the airport to travel,” she said. “You want them to feel confident in the systems, the processes, the people, the security. And I think this is eroding some of the confidence in the American travel system.”

One traveler in Phoenix who did not want to be identified out of fear of repercussions wondered if agents were going to ask for a birth certificate and was afraid of being pulled out of line.

Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center, said the deployment to airports was an affront to Americans after they had “watched ICE agents terrorize their neighborhoods for over a year.”

The changes at some airports came as the shortage of TSA workers inflicted more pain on American travelers.

On Wednesday, Ha Nguyen McNeill, the acting head of TSA, told a House committee that security checkpoints at U.S. airports were experiencing “the highest wait times in history” because of the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

Some 50,000 TSA officers have been working without pay since Feb. 14, when funding for DHS expired over a congressional deadlock on immigration enforcement. More than 480 TSA officers have quit, and absence rates

have soared at major airports across the United States, Bis said.

More than 11% of officers called out sick on Sunday, the highest rate during this shutdown, according to DHS.

Over the past several days, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson and Kennedy International Airport in New York have consistently held the highest TSA absence rates in the nation, creating hourslong security lines and missed flights for travelers.

On Monday, the Trump administration deployed about 150 ICE officers in an effort to address the lines. The agents, many of them unmasked, were seen at several airports walking in small groups and standing near exits.

Though both work under homeland security, ICE personnel are being paid, while TSA officers are not. TSA workers would receive back pay for all their work once the shutdown ends. Democratic lawmakers and the union representing TSA officers denounced the deployment of ICE to airports, calling it disruptive and unhelpful.

Nearly 50 air travel-related companies and organizations, including the Air Line Pilots Association, Airbus, the U.S. Travel Association and the unions representing flight attendants and air traffic controllers, issued a statement Wednesday imploring lawmakers to end the DHS shutdown.

“Congress must act now before our system breaks,” the statement said.

Schumer says Democrats will try to restore clean energy tax credits

By LISA FRIEDMAN

If Democrats win control of Congress in this fall’s elections, they will try to restore and expand tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy that President Donald Trump and Republicans largely eliminated last year, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said earlier this week.

The party would also seek to strip the oil, gas and coal companies of more than $18 billion in new tax incentives enacted in Trump’s sweeping tax measure, he added.

Unless Democrats win veto-proof majorities in both chambers of Congress, which would require landslide victories nationwide this fall, such motions are not likely to become law.

Still, Schumer cast the plan as part of a strategy to lower costs for consumers as the opposition party tries to tap into anxieties about the cost of living, particularly energy prices. Those costs were already high before the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, which has caused prices to surge.

“We have to just build more clean energy,” Schumer said, arguing that offers the least expensive source of new electricity generation.

The senator said he would prioritize a bipartisan effort to make building new infrastructure easier, work to increase the amount of energy available on the grid, upgrade the nation’s transmission lines and make sure data centers “pay their fair share” of taxes and energy infrastructure costs, an idea that the Trump administration has also recently embraced but which Democrats have criticized as insufficient.

“Trump’s attacks on clean energy, and the price spikes it has caused for American families, is a unique opportunity to expand our movement,” Schumer said in a speech Wednesday evening to the League of Conservation Voters, an environmental group.

“We can bring new voters and allies into the fight for a cleaner environment by showing how

clean energy is affordable energy,” he said in prepared remarks.

Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, criticized the plan.

“It is idiotic of Democrat leaders to double down on Joe Biden’s unpopular, costly and failed Green New Scam,” Rogers said in a statement, referring to the Inflation Reduction Act, a law creating billions of dollars in clean energy tax incentives.

“These are the exact same policies that created an energy crisis which skyrocketed gas and electricity prices,” she added.

The Biden administration oversaw record oil and gas production but sought to restrict future fossil fuel use and bolster the manufacturing and consumer adoption of wind and solar energy, electric vehicles and other lowcarbon technologies. Emissions from burning fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change, which is heating the planet to a dangerous extent.

The Trump administration has increased oil and gas development even more. It has also moved to eliminate virtually all federal policies and funding to help renewable power, even beyond the repeal of clean energy tax credits in Trump’s major policy bill last summer.

In a series of unprecedented moves, Trump appointees have tried to rescind permits for five offshore wind farms already under construction. On Monday, administration officials announced that the government would reimburse nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies if it abandoned its plans to build wind farms off the East Coast.

Schumer said he would not support a future Democratic president taking similar actions against the oil and gas industry. He also said he would recommend that Democrats approach climate change regulations differently than they had in the past.

The Biden administration imposed aggressive restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from automobile tailpipes, as well as from coal and gas-fired power plants and oil and gas wells. The Trump administration repealed those policies and then tried to make it impossible for future presidents to regulate greenhouse gases by renouncing the Environmental Protection Agency’s legal authority to tackle climate change.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) departs a post-luncheon news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 24, 2026. Schumer said Democrats would pursue an agenda to reduce energy costs if they win back control of Congress. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

States led by Democrats are suing the Trump administration to restore that authority. But even if they do win, Schumer said a future president should emphasize spurring clean energy development rather than blocking fossil fuels.

“The ability to make solar and wind cheaper has changed a little bit the outlook on regulation,” he said. “You don’t just have to stop things. You can encourage good growth that also reduces emissions.” Instead, he argued the party should focus on consumer costs. For data centers, for example, he said Democrats should support building facilities that use clean energy and pass legislation to ensure that electricity bills would not rise when they are built.

Ferry reform isn’t enough. Vieques and Culebra need reliable access COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES

By ROBERT GEVINSKI

Vieques and Culebra are often described as two of Puerto Rico’s most remarkable destinations. Their beaches are among the most beautiful in the Caribbean, and their character -- defined by nature, small businesses, and a slower pace of life -- continues to attract travelers looking for something different.

Demand is not the problem. Access is. For offshore island municipalities whose economies depend heavily on tourism, that is not a minor inconvenience. It is a structural constraint.

The ferry is not simply transportation for Vieques and Culebra. It is economic infrastructure. It is the primary gateway through which visitors arrive, businesses are sustained, and the private economy functions. When that system operates efficiently, the islands benefit. When it does not, the consequences ripple across restaurants, rental properties, tour operators, and small businesses that depend on a steady flow of visitors. The economy falters.

Residents of Vieques and Culebra depend on the ferry for essential travel, and any system must serve that function reliably. But the needs of residents and the needs of the tourism economy are not in conflict. They are tied to the same system.

Beginning April 1, new pricing structures are set to take effect. These changes are intended to stabilize the system and improve operations. But beyond pricing, there is little clarity on how the system itself will evolve. That raises a larger question: once the system is stabilized, will it be structured to meet the actual needs of Vieques and Culebra?

Modern travel is built on certainty. A traveler planning a vacation today expects to be able to book flights, accommodations, rental

cars, tours and activities months in advance. Entire international trips can be planned, confirmed and paid for online with confidence. That sense of certainty is what allows a destination to convert interest into actual bookings. Vieques and Culebra, despite their appeal, still struggle with this basic expectation.

A visitor can book a flight to Puerto Rico, reserve a property on either island, arrange transportation, and plan an itinerary -- yet still have no reliable way to confirm how they will get there. Ferry tickets are not available far enough in advance to allow for complete trip planning, and air travel, while faster, is often prohibitively expensive for families. The result is a gap in the planning process that introduces hesitation. And in tourism, hesitation has consequences. A destination that cannot be fully planned is often quietly set aside in favor of one that can.

This issue did not emerge overnight. Over the past decade, Vieques and Culebra experienced a rapid transformation in how tourism functions. The expansion of short-term rental platforms dramatically increased the number of available accommodations. Properties that were once invisible to the broader travel market became accessible to a global audience, and the islands’ capacity to host visitors grew quickly.

The local economies responded. Restaurants opened and expanded, tour operators increased capacity, and rental services scaled to meet rising demand. The private sector adapted in real time. But one critical piece of the system did not keep pace: transportation. Vieques and Culebra grew as destinations, but their access system did not expand with them.

Today, the ferry system still operates in ways that reflect an earlier, smaller version of the islands’ tourism economies. The result is a mismatch between demand and access. The islands are capable of hosting visitors, but the system that brings them there does not consistently align with that capacity. The issue is not only how many people can travel, but when and how they are able to do so.

“The ferry is not simply transportation for Vieques and Culebra. It is economic infrastructure,” contributing columnist Bob Gevinski writes. (Facebook via Vieques Culebra Ferry Watch)

economies adapt to and often welcome. Businesses expand, new services emerge, and investment follows demand.

The alternative is less visible, but more concerning. When access limits the number of visitors who can reach the islands, the economy adjusts downward. Businesses scale back, hiring slows, and growth becomes cautious. Over time, the islands operate below their potential -- not because demand is absent, but because access is constrained.

The ferry is not just moving passengers. It is determining how much of the islands’ economy is allowed to exist.

A ferry network that moves people efficiently benefits everyone who depends on it.

The changes taking effect on April 1 represent an important step toward stabilizing the ferry system. But stabilization alone is not the finish line.

The expectation that follows is clear: a system that not only functions, but functions in a way that reflects the realities of how Vieques and Culebra live, work and grow.

Reliable access is not a luxury for these islands. It is the foundation of their economies.

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Travel patterns to and from the islands are predictable. Residents often travel early in the morning to the main island for appointments, errands or work, returning in the evening. Visitors, by contrast, tend to move during the middle of the day, checking out of accommodations in the morning and arriving in the afternoon. Yet the ferry schedule does not fully reflect these patterns.

High-speed passenger vessels capable of making the crossing in 30 to 60 minutes are available, but they are not consistently deployed in a way that maximizes movement during peak travel periods. In the middle of the day -- when visitor demand is highest -- there are often gaps in service rather than a steady flow of departures. Capacity that exists but is not deployed when demand is highest is effectively capacity that does not exist.

If the goal of the current changes is to create a more functional ferry system, then scheduling must be part of that conversation. A system that operates reliably but does not match demand is still a system that falls short of its potential.

There is also a broader economic dynamic at play. If access to Vieques and Culebra improves and visitor numbers increase, the islands will likely experience periods of strain. Restaurants may become busier, services more stretched, and availability tighter. But those are the kinds of pressures that functioning

And as these changes take effect, the question is no longer whether the ferry system can operate. It is whether it can deliver the level of access that the islands already depend on.

Robert Gevinski is a resident of San Juan and Vieques, founder of Paraiso Realty, and a real estate professional who has served on the boards of the Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association as well as the Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust, with an interest in economic development and sustainability.

Hospital Pavia Caguas: Donde el cuidado de la mujer es prioridad

Por Lcda. María Jacobo

Directora Ejecutiva

En Hospital Pavia Caguas, reafirmamos nuestro compromiso con la salud integral de la mujer, ofreciendo servicios especia lizados y tecnología de avanzada en cada etapa de su vida. Nuestro enfoque está centrado en brindar atención ac cesible, humana y de excelencia, respal dada por un equipo multidisciplinario altamente capaci tado.

Contamos con servicios de gine cología y obste tricia, orientados al cuidado preven tivo, diagnósti co y tratamien to, así como al acompañamien to durante el em barazo. A esto se suma la cirugía bariátrica y la plástica, ofreciendo alternativas que contribuyen al bienestar físico y emocional de nuestras pacientes.

Uno de nuestros pilares es el Breast Institute, donde se ofrecen estudios especializados como mamografías, MRI de seno, sonomamografía y densitometría ósea, herramientas clave para la detección tem-

prana y el cuidado preventivo. De igual forma, disponemos de servicios de cirugía oncológica de seno y biopsia guiada por estereotáctica siendo procedimientos mínimamente invasivos. En el Instituto se brinda atención integral a las pacientes que enfrentan un diagnóstico de cáncer y guiadas en este proceso por nuestra navegadora de seno.

Nuestro Centro de Radioterapia y Centro de Cáncer complementan esta oferta con un equipo de médicos especializados que ofrecen tratamientos avanzados, garantizando un manejo completo y coordinado de la salud oncológica femenina.

En Hospital Pavia Caguas, las mujeres cuentan con los servicios y especialistas que necesitan, en un solo lugar, con el compromiso de cuidar su salud con sensibilidad, respeto y excelencia. Porque entendemos que cuidar de la mujer es cuidar de la vida. Para información adicional se pueden comunicar al 787-653-3434.

Five horror movies to stream now

By ERIK PIEPENBERG

This month’s picks include a disastrous vacation, a macabre homecoming and a witchy healing session.

‘Bone Lake’

Drugs, alcohol, sex toys, beefcake, physical seduction, emotional manipulation, taboo attractions and an arrow shot through a pair of testicles. Those are just some of the sinister pleasures in this nutty, darkly funny and very entertaining erotic thriller from director Mercedes Bryce Morgan and writer Joshua Friedlander.

Sage (Maddie Hasson) and her partner, Diego (Marco Pigossi), face a “Barbarian”-like conundrum: They’re booked at the same lakeside estate as Will (Alex Roe) and Cin (Andra Nechita), an equally attractive 30-something couple. They all agree to share the space, but I’m not giving anything away when I point out that one couple knows far more about their unexpected housemates than the other does — intel that fuels their descent into utter madness.

The film’s attempts at misdirection are see-through, but who cares when you have actors, especially the nimble Hasson, who make the obvious seem anything but. There’s a message here about surveillance and technology, and how elites are “trying to make us not trust each other,” as Sage puts it. That’s fine, but the real joy is in watching beautiful people sow and battle betrayal in nasty and gruesome ways. (Stream it on Netflix.)

‘Mother of Flies’

From their home in the Catskills, the Adams’ make singular horror movies about worlds and bodies gone mad, in a style that looks like an Iron Maiden album cover mixed with a psychopath’s Polaroids. Their latest supernatural drama, directed Toby Poser, her husband, John Adams, and their daughter Zelda, is perhaps their most opaque and personal film. Horror fans looking for a propulsive story might want to steer clear, but those interested in a tender but un-

settling exploration of anguish should check this one out. Poser plays Solveig, a reclusive witch who gets a visit from Jake and his college-age daughter, Mickey, in hopes that Solveig knows the right kind of witchcraft to cure Mickey’s terminal cancer. (Father and daughter are played by John and Zelda Adams.) But what’s with the talking corpse in the woods near Solveig’s home? And what does she mean when she mournfully tells Mickey, “Your curse is my gift?”

The story is sometimes frustratingly opaque, but overall the film is folk horror gold — a tragic tale of motherhood punctuated with stomach-churning viscera, ominous greenery and stillness. As they say about that other Addams Family, this family inhabits a world that’s mysterious and spooky and all together ooky. I’m all in. (Stream it on Shudder.)

‘Other’

David Moreau’s one-take apocalyptic nightmare, “Mads,” was one of my favorite horror movies of 2024. While his latest film doesn’t quite live up to that the nihilistic punch of “Mads,” it’s an engaging psychological thriller that won me over with a mix of creepy atmospherics, emotional heft and a terrific use of Veruca Salt’s 1994 song “Seether.”

The film opens as Alice (Olga Kurylenko) returns to her childhood home after the strange dark-of-night death of her estranged dark-spirited mother. What Alice doesn’t know is that she’s being watched on camera and tracked in the dark by a scurrying, growling something. Moreau intersperses surveillance footage with excerpts from VHS clips of Alice, a former teen beauty queen, being barked at by her domineering mother, a relationship that has Alice tightly in its grips.

The film loses steam when Moreau introduces a shrill YouTuber character. Still, this is a disturbing meditation on unrealistic beauty ideals and how past traumas, especially

for young women with abusive mothers, can lay the foundation for punishing futures. (Stream it on Shudder.)

‘Death Name’

Like most Tubi originals, Réi’s supernatural drama is short (81 minutes) and the acting ranges from decent to cringy. But Réi and writer Regina Kim managed to elevate what could have been a Tubi clunker.

Filmed in elegant black-and-white, the disquieting opening scene finds a woman hiding in a closet as a mysterious figure in a hat inches her way. Typical horror stuff. But the setting is early 1950s Korea, and what happens next sets up the film’s frightening and heartbreaking exploration of modern Korean identity and the lasting legacies of the Korean War.

The story centers on Sophie Park (Amy Keum), a Korean American college student who has been told by her grandmother, who is struggling with early signs of dementia, never to speak her Korean name. When a friend speaks it, the sound seizes Sophie’s phone, a sign that her name carries sinister qualities. When Sophie brings home her new boyfriend, Jun (Kevin Woo), her grandmother becomes enraged, another sign that evil is afoot. Grandma’s anger, it turns out, is rooted in fear as much as love. (Stream it on Tubi.)

‘Psycho Therapy’

I’m a huge fan of Britt Lower, the Emmy Award-winning actress of the sci-fi drama “Severance.” She’s a master at understatement who can channel rage, fear, love and sympathy through a simple stare. Her nuanced approach to humor and pathos is the reason — the only reason, honestly — to see this comedic psychological thriller from writer-director Tolga Karacelik.

The film is about a man named Kollmick (Steve Buscemi), who introduces himself to Keane (John Magaro), a struggling novelist, by telling him he should write about a serial killer, a topic Kollmick knows well because he says he used to be one. (The film’s subtitle is “The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer.”) After Keane introduces Kollmick to his wife, Suzie (Lower), they begin having therapy sessions led by Kollmick, centered on the couple’s marriage and Keane’s career, both of which are disintegrating. Twists ensue.

Karacelik nails neither the dark nor the comedy. (A similar conceit didn’t work in “How to Be a Serial Killer.”) But Lower does, mesmerizingly. (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)

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Wall Street bets US corporate earnings will withstand surging oil prices

Wall Street is confident that strong corporate earnings will prop up ⁠stock ⁠prices that have slumped since the Iran war began and set ⁠oil prices surging, rekindling worries about inflation.

The S&P 500 has dropped nearly 4% since the war began at the end of February, with oil prices jumping more than 30%.

Despite the turmoil, expected first-quarter earnings growth for the S&P 500 stands at 14%, according to LSEG data. That compares with 14.4% at the start of the year and the 12.4% estimate from October 1.

“So much is happening, yet nothing is happening. ... Companies inherently are becoming more resilient to geopolitical risks, particularly U.S. companies,” Krishna Chintalapalli, portfolio manager at Parnassus Investments in San Francisco, said in an interview with Reuters.

Crude prices have surged as the war has ⁠choked off supply through ⁠the Strait of Hormuz, feeding inflation fears and dimming hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts this year.

JP Morgan estimates that “each sustained 10% increase in oil prices could yield a 15 to 20 basis point hit to GDP” and that if oil prices stay around $110 per barrel for the rest of 2026, consensus EPS estimates could adjust lower by 2% to 5% or even more should oil prices move still higher.

On Wednesday, U.S. oil futures traded around $91 and global benchmark Brent crude was near $103.

Investors worry that surging prices for oil and related products such as fertilizer could rekindle inflation, dent consumer spending and discourage rate cuts by the Fed. Still, earnings expectations have remained largely intact.

“The companies we talk to, whether they’re in the midst

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of the ⁠AI boom, ⁠or they are consumer-oriented companies like Walmart, ⁠or they’re industrial companies like FedEx, they take a certain level of uncertainty will remain going forward as par for the course,” Chintalapalli said.

LSEG data through Friday showed that of the 120 earnings forecasts for the first quarter from S&P 500 companies, 48% were positive ⁠with 44% negative relative to analyst estimates.

“Many companies noted that it was early days or too soon to tell what the impacts will be,” said Lori Calvasina, head of U.S. Equity Strategy at

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RBC Capital Markets, in a recent note that analyzed company commentary. She added that “the outlook commentary we read left us thinking companies have had good reasons for staying calm,” with the risk to earnings more likely to be in the second half of the year.

Airlines, among the most susceptible companies to rising crude prices and reduced discretionary spending power by consumers, have helped alleviate concerns over the upcoming earnings season. United Airlines and Delta Air ⁠Lines recently announced that demand remained strong, affording them leeway to raise fares even as surging fuel prices forced them to cut flights.

Cuban patients are dying because of US blockade, doctors say

By ED AUGUSTIN and JACK NICAS

As a nationwide blackout in Cuba stretched into a second day this past weekend, the stakes were rising for Jorge Pérez Álvarez.

The 21-year-old suffers from a genetic disease preventing his lungs from pumping air on their own. He needs a ventilator at all times to keep breathing.

His ventilator’s backup battery is supposed to last more than a day, but that has been tested repeatedly in recent weeks, including three nationwide outages that each pushed up against its limits. And with the power out for hours every day, there is hardly enough time to recharge it.

“I don’t know how long we can keep going,” said his mother, Xenia Álvarez, standing near her son’s crumpled body in his bedroom in a poor neighborhood of Havana. “His life depends on electricity.”

The U.S. oil blockade on Cuba is fast exhausting the country’s supply of fuel, causing daily blackouts, food shortages, canceled classes and black-market gas prices approaching $40 a gallon. It is also crippling Cuba’s universal health care system, a state institution once considered a triumph for a poor nation but is now struggling to provide basic care.

In interviews, six Cuban doctors said that rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics across Cuba were causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable.

“I can’t tell you how many deaths, but I’m sure there are more than in the same period last year,” said Dr. Alioth Fernandez, chief anesthesiologist at Havana’s largest pediatric hospital. “I see it in shift handovers, in colleagues’ comments and in children I’ve operated on.”

The blockade’s effects are cascading through the system. Hospitals are canceling surgeries and sending patients home because doctors and nurses can’t commute to work. Clinics are struggling to administer treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis because of power outages.

Many ambulances are parked because drivers can’t find gas. Pharmacies are largely empty because the virtually bankrupt state is struggling to buy medicine.

Production of medicine has been mostly halted because factories run on diesel. Vaccine makers are searching for ingredients because flights that once carried them are canceled because of a lack of jet fuel. And refrigerated vaccine stocks could soon spoil if the blackouts continue.

“This is not subtle; this is extreme,” said

Dr. Roxana Martínez Rodríguez, right, who said her caseload had doubled because so many health workers had quit or left Cuba, sees a woman and her newborn daughter at a clinic in Havana on March 13, 2026. As gas shortages cause food prices to soar, Martínez Rodríguez said her patients aren’t receiving milk or supplements like folic acid, which the state once provided regularly. “It’s a luxury to buy a cabbage,” she said.

(Jorge Luis Baños/The New York Times)

Paul Spiegel, a public health expert at Johns Hopkins University who has led public health responses in Afghanistan, Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. “You’re already seeing hospitals changing how they are operating.” As happened during crises in those other places, he said the conditions were forcing Cuban health workers throughout the system to triage patients. “The magnitude and who will be affected will depend on these horrible decisions they have to make,” he said.

The blockade is compounding problems that were already mounting for Cuban health care.

While Cuba’s stagnant state-planned economy and international isolation have fueled decades of widespread poverty, the nation’s free health care system has long been a bright spot. That is in part because the government has spent about a fifth of its budget on health, about twice the global average, according to the World Health Organization.

Until the COVID-19 pandemic, life expectancy and infant mortality rates in Cuba were comparable to those in developed countries, while doctor-to-patient ratios were among the world’s best, according to the World Bank.

But stricter U.S. sanctions on Cuba, which began under the first Trump administration,

have posed major challenges. They have prevented hospitals from replacing aging equipment, complicated international payments and logistics, and caused U.S. and European medical suppliers to halt contracts because they feared running afoul of U.S. rules. Economists estimate the sanctions also cost the state billions of dollars in lost income.

Those sanctions, along with the pandemic and Cuba’s failed economic policies, have led

to a deep recession. The state’s major bet on tourism, including millions of dollars invested in towering hotels, backfired. Mistimed monetary policies destroyed the value of the Cuban peso, driving down the already minuscule average state salary to the equivalent of $13 a month. And despite a slow opening of the economy, the Communist government’s political repression has disabled true economic alternatives.

In 2018, the infant mortality rate in Cuba was four per 1,000 births, lower than in the United States. By 2025, that rate had more than doubled, to 10 deaths, almost twice as high as the U.S. figure.

The sanctions’ consequences took several years to ripple through the health system, said Ruth Gibson, a Stanford University doctor who studies the impact of sanctions on public health. The impact of the oil blockade, she said, “will likely be exponentially more severe.”

The Cuban government said this month that 96,400 patients were awaiting surgery, though it was unclear how many were added to the list since the blockade. Fuel shortages have delayed vaccines for more than 30,000 children, the government added, and caused inconsistent radiation therapy and kidney dialysis for nearly 20,000 patients.

Medicine is also in desperately short supply. This month, a pharmacy in one poor Havana neighborhood was locked in the middle of the workday, and its empty shelves could be seen through a cracked window. Handwritten signs on the door warned customers that purchases were strictly limited.

“It’s been reported that people are reselling medicine, and thus we’ll inform the police,” one sign said.

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Across town, the William Soler Pediatric Hospital was eerily quiet. The hospital is operating with a skeleton staff, with many doctors, nurses and patients trudging miles under the Caribbean sun to get there.

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helps to keep their lights on when other parts of the city are dark. Yet this month, hospitals have had to rely on backup generators during three nationwide power outages.

Fernandez, the chief anesthesiologist, was keeping a 2-month-old boy sedated during surgery when one blackout hit. The lights and equipment monitoring the baby’s vital signs suddenly went dark for a few minutes, until the generator kicked in. “When you’re in the middle of it,” the doctor said, “it feels like an hour.”

Elsewhere in the hospital, doctors and nurses dashed to ventilators that were pumping air into the lungs of sick newborns. The machines’ battery systems died years ago, so health workers have to squeeze a rubber pump to keep the babies breathing until the generators start to work.

With fuel running so short, the gas generators may be only a temporary savior. Nurses in the hospital’s neonatal unit said they already have plans for a fully powerless hospital: swaddle newborns in blankets and put them back into dead incubators,

hoping they stay warm enough to survive.

Cuba’s last shipment of oil arrived Jan. 9. Nations had halted shipments after threats from President Donald Trump, but now eyes are on a Russian tanker that could arrive by early next week.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel has warned Cubans that the nation’s power grid is deeply unstable and that things are likely to get worse.

In response, the government has installed solar panels on neighborhood health clinics and nursing homes, as well as the homes of 120 sick children who require access to air conditioning. The government said it has also given solar panels to 10,000 health and education workers so they can work remotely.

But new challenges are cropping up across the island. Taps are running dry because water pumps depend on the failing power grid. Sanitation is getting worse. And food is becoming harder to find, according to the top United Nations official in Cuba.

Trump delivers new threats, escalating effort to pressure Iran

By ERICA L. GREEN, ADAM RASGON, NATAN ODENHEIMER and RONEN BERGMAN

resident Donald Trump on Thursday ratcheted up pressure on Iran to accept a proposal to end the war, warning them that otherwise “we’ll just keep blowing them away.”

The president issued his threat at a Cabinet meeting hours after Israel said it had killed a naval commander who had been leading Iran’s effort to close a vital oil shipping route. At the meeting, Trump and a top adviser offered differing assessments of Iran’s openness to negotiations. Iran has publicly rejected the overtures, though privately it has signaled some willingness.

“They’ll tell you, ‘We’re not negotiating,’” Trump said. “Of course, they’re negotiating. They’ve been obliterated.”

Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for Trump, offered a more cautious interpretation. He said that he and the president’s sonin-law, Jared Kushner, were still trying to convince the Iranians “that this is the inflection point, with no good alternatives for them other than more death and destruction.”

Trump told reporters he didn’t yet know whether he would extend a deadline he gave to Iran to fully open the Strait of Hormuz, the vital oil route, by Friday or the United States would “obliterate” power stations in Iran. Trump said it would depend on what his negotiators, Witkoff and Kushner, reported back.

Internally displaced people and fishermen gather by the seaside in the evening at the Beirut International Exhibition and Leisure Center in Beirut, March 22, 2026. Lebanon ordered the expulsion of Iran’s newly appointed ambassador on Tuesday, a rare rebuke of Tehran over its backing of Hezbollah. (Diego Ibarra Sánchez/The New York Times)

— Hardening demands: Diplomats said Trump’s 15-point peace plan calls for what would amount to a complete termination of Iran’s nuclear program and strict limits on its missile arsenal. Iran said in comments carried on state television Wednesday that Iran would not end its attacks unless the United States paid war reparations and recognized Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz.

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Pakistan’s foreign minister confirmed Thursday that his country has been facilitating back-channel communications between the United States and Iran, including relaying a 15-point U.S. proposal aimed at ending the war. But Pakistani officials did not say whether they would soon host any high-level foreign officials, appearing to play down the prospect of formal talks between the two sides after four weeks of war.

Although Trump insists Iran is willing to negotiate because it is close to defeat, missile launches by Iran at Israel continued unabated Thursday.

Here’s what else we’re covering:

— Commander killed: Israel said Thursday that the Iranian naval commander it killed, Alireza Tangsiri, played a pivotal role in shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. Iran did not immediately comment on the claim.

— New attacks: The Israeli military said Thursday that it had struck targets in Isfahan, in central Iran. Iran also launched strikes against U.S. allies and sites in the Persian Gulf. In Abu Dhabi, falling debris from a missile interception killed two people, authorities in the United Arab Emirates said.

— Death tolls: The Human Rights Activists News Agency has reported that more than 1,440 civilians have been killed in Iran. Almost 1,100 people in Lebanon have been killed, authorities there said Wednesday. At least 15 people were killed in Iranian attacks on Israel, officials said. The American death toll stands at 13 service members.

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case

By CECILIA KANG, RYAN MAC and ELI TAN

Social media company Meta and video streaming service YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress, a jury found earlier this week, a landmark decision that could open social media companies to more lawsuits over users’ well-being.

Meta must pay $4.2 million in combined compensatory and punitive damages, and YouTube must pay $1.8 million.

The bellwether case, which was brought by a now 20-year-old woman identified as K.G.M., had accused social media companies of creating products as addictive as cigarettes or digital casinos. Citing features like infinite scroll and algorithmic recommendations, K.G.M. sued Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, and Google’s YouTube, claiming they led to anxiety and depression.

The verdict in K.G.M.’s case — one of thousands of lawsuits filed by teenagers, school districts and state attorneys general against Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snap, which owns Snapchat — was a major win for the plaintiffs. The finding validates a novel legal theory that social media sites or apps can cause personal injury. It is likely to factor into similar cases expected to go to trial this year, which could expose the internet giants to further financial damages and force changes to their products.

The personal liability argument draws inspiration from a legal playbook used against Big Tobacco last century, in which lawyers argued that the companies created addictive products that harmed users. The companies have largely dodged legal threats by citing a federal shield, called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects them from liability for what their users post.

TikTok and Snap both settled with the plaintiff for undisclosed terms before the trial started.

Wednesday’s verdict follows a ruling this week by a New Mexico jury in another case brought by the state attorney general there, which found Meta liable for violating state law by failing to safeguard users of its apps from child predators. That jury decided on Tuesday that Meta should pay $375 million in the case.

The trial in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles County began last month, with the jury of seven women and five men taking more than a week of deliberation to reach its verdict. The $6 million in financial damages are a drop in the bucket for Meta and YouTube’s parent company Google, which bring in billions in revenue every quarter.

But lawyers, parents and consumer interest groups supporting plaintiffs in other suits hailed the jury’s decision as a major step to rein in social media giants.

“This is the first time in history a jury has heard testimony by executives and seen internal documents that we believe prove these companies chose profits over children,” said Joseph VanZandt, one of K.G.M.’s lawyers.

“We respectfully disagree with the verdict and are evaluating our legal options,” a Meta spokesperson said.

Google also said it disagreed with the verdict and plans to appeal. “This case misunderstands YouTube, which is a responsibly built streaming platform, not a social media site,” said José Castañeda, a Google spokesperson.

Though the California Superior Court

of Los Angeles County verdict is an initial victory against tech giants, legal experts said it was unclear if the decision would represent a similar turning point. Eight other cases brought by individual plaintiffs are slated to go to trial there. A set of federal cases brought by states and school districts in Oakland, California, at the U.S. District Court of Northern California, are scheduled for jury trials this summer.

“There is a long road ahead, but this decision is quite significant,” said Clay Calvert, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right think tank, and expert on media law. “If there are a series of verdicts for plaintiffs, it will force the defendants to reconsider how they design social media platforms and how they deliver content to minors.”

But most efforts to regulate social media in the United States have failed.

K.G.M., whose first name is Kaley, filed her lawsuit in 2023 against Meta, Snap, YouTube and TikTok. Kaley, who lives in Chico, California, said she had begun using social media at age 6 and claimed the sites caused personal injury, including body dysmorphia and thoughts of self-harm.

Her case, which was presided over by

Mark Zuckerberg, center, Meta’s chief executive, departs after testifying in a tech addiction trial at California Superior Court of Los Angeles County in Los Angeles, Feb. 18, 2026. The social media company Meta and the video streaming service YouTube harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress, a jury found on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, a landmark decision that could open social media companies to more lawsuits over users’ well-being. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)

Judge Carolyn Kuhl, represented one of the strongest personal injury cases among the thousands of suits filed.

Before the trial, lawyers for the companies argued to the judge that the cases should be dropped, invoking speech protections. Lawyers for the plaintiff countered that the case was about product design, not speech.

While Snap and TikTok settled, lawyers for Meta and YouTube proceeded, saying they had a strong legal defense. It was too hard to prove social media was addictive and caused personal harms, the companies said.

During opening arguments, one of K.G.M.’s lawyers, Mark Lanier, presented the jury internal company documents from Meta and YouTube that showed tech executives knew of and discussed the negative effects of their products on children. Lanier argued that features like infinite scroll, algorithmic recommendations and auto-play videos were designed to entice and hook young users to compulsively engage with the platforms.

Meta countered that K.G.M.’s mental health issues were caused by familial abuse and turmoil. YouTube argued that it was not a social media company and that its features were not designed to be addictive.

During the five-week trial, K.G.M.’s lawyers grilled Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri. The executives rejected claims that Instagram, which K.G.M. began to use at age 9, could be described as “clinically” addictive. K.G.M. testified about her childhood and using social media as both a creative outlet and an escape from bullying at school. She spent hours a day on Instagram and posted hundreds of photos using beauty filters to mask her insecurities, which she said led to her body dysmorphia.

Nearly half of colorectal cancers now occur in younger patients, study shows

By NINA AGRAWAL

Nearly half of all new colorectal cancer cases now occur in adults younger than 65, signaling a major shift in the demographics of the disease, according to new data published earlier this month by the American Cancer Society.

“This was always a disease that was Grandpa’s disease,” said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer of the American Cancer Society. But among people 65 and older, colorectal cancer rates have been steadily declining since the mid-1980s, thanks in large part to widespread screening that can catch precancerous polyps and early-stage cancers.

By contrast, studies in recent years have shown colorectal cancer rates on the rise among adults younger than 50. The new paper showed that rates among adults ages 50 to 64 also increased between 2013 and 2022 and that rates of rectal cancer in particular climbed among all ages combined after years of decline.

Researchers have observed what’s called a “birth-cohort effect” with colorectal cancers, meaning that successive generations — in this case, beginning with those born in the 1950s — are showing progressively increased risk. People born in 1990 are twice as likely as those born in 1950 to develop colon cancer, and four times as likely to develop rectal cancer.

“This isn’t necessarily an age-specific thing — this is a generational thing,” said Andreana Holowatyj, an assistant professor of hematology and oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee who wasn’t involved in the study.

The study also found that the new cases were driven largely by cancers of the far side of the colon and the rectum, rather than cancers in other parts of the colon, which are more common among older adults.

The distinct location of the cancers and the rising rates suggest that there may be unique drivers of the disease in younger generations. For example, scientists suspect environmental exposures that began around the 1950s may be partially responsible. Much of the ongoing research is fo-

Studies in recent years have shown colorectal cancer rates on the rise among adults younger than 50. The new paper showed that rates among adults ages 50 to 64 also increased between 2013 and 2022 and that rates of rectal cancer in particular climbed among all ages combined after years of decline. (Freepik)

cused on changes to the gut biome and inflammation associated with modern products such as ultraprocessed foods, microplastics and antibiotics, the study said.

The new findings also have important implications for

identifying and treating these cancers, experts said. What should younger people look out for?

Doctors recommend routine screening starting at age 45 for people who are at average risk of colorectal cancer. A colonoscopy is considered the gold standard for screening. People who have a family history of colon cancer or of precancerous polyps, particularly before age 60, are considered to be above-average risk. The general rule of thumb for these people is to begin screening a decade before the earliest age at which a family member had a polyp or cancer, Dahut said, but people with such a history should consult their doctor.

The new study found that 3 out of 4 adults younger than 50 were diagnosed at Stage 3 or 4, partly because they were not routinely screened and also because it often takes longer for younger people to receive an accurate diagnosis. Dr. Andrea Cercek, co-director of the Center for Young Onset Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said her patients often had anemia or abdominal pain, both symptoms of colorectal cancers, that was initially blamed on other causes, like heavy periods or inflammatory bowel disease.

Because people younger than 45 aren’t routinely screened, experts say it’s particularly important for them to pay attention to potential symptoms, which can also include fatigue, unexplained weight loss, diarrhea, constipation, blood in the stool or other changes to bowel habits.

How are colorectal cancers treated?

People diagnosed with nonmetastatic colon cancer typically have surgery, which may be followed by chemotherapy, Cercek said. Colon cancer doesn’t commonly require radiation.

People with nonmetastatic rectal cancer usually receive chemotherapy and radiation before proceeding to surgery, Cercek said. The radiation in particular can have damaging and lasting consequences for male and female fertility, said Holowatyj. About 30% of patients who undergo rectal cancer surgery will also need a permanent ostomy, an opening that reroutes stool to an external pouch, Cercek said. Even those who don’t can face a lifetime of bowel issues resulting from surgery.

For this reason, researchers such as Cercek are looking for new ways to avoid surgery as treatment. For example, research has found that some colorectal tumors with specific mutations can respond well to immunotherapy alone. What’s the prognosis for rectal cancer? Or colon cancer?

Rectal and colon cancer have similar long-term survival rates. The most important factor for both is the stage at diagnosis. Among patients diagnosed with cancer that had not spread beyond a local area, 91% survived five years, compared with 15% of patients diagnosed with cancers that had spread to distant organs or tissues.

Despite being more commonly diagnosed at later stages, younger people had similar or higher survival rates than older people, the study found. In part, that was because they were healthier to begin with and were more physically active after treatment. “Stage for stage, young people will do better,” Dahut said.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA

TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA

NILSA MÁRQUEZ

VILLAFAÑE, MARÍA DEL CARMEN MÁRQUEZ

VILLAFAÑE, MIGUEL

ÁNGEL MÁRQUEZ

TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO

COMO MIGUEL

ÁNGEL MÁRQUEZ

VILLAFAÑE, BALBINO MÁRQUEZ TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO BALBINO MÁRQUEZ

VILLAFAÑE, LUZ

NEREIDA HERNÁNDEZ

TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA

COMO LUZ NEREIDA

MÁRQUEZ VILLAFAÑE, Y LUZ MARÍA VILLAFAÑE

RAMOS TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO LUZ

MARÍA VILLAFAÑE, QUIENES COMPONEN LA SUCESIÓN DE BALBINO MÁRQUEZ ROMÁN

TAMBIÉN CONOCIDO COMO BALBINO MÁRQUEZ

Parte Peticionaria EX-PARTE

Civil Núm.: AG2026CV00285. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE.UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. A: A LOS POSIBLES HEREDEROS Y/O LEGATARIOS DE PABLO MÁRQUEZ PÉREZ Y ANASTACIA ROMÁN CRESPO; LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LAS FINCAS QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBIRÁN Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE.

POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante

este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la última publicación de este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe a continuación:

RÚSTICA: Sita en el barrio Rocha de Moca, Puerto Rico, compuesta de QUINIENTOS VEINTISIETE PUNTO CUATRO MIL SETENTA Y SIETE DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE METROS CUADRADOS (527.4077 MC), equivalentes a CERO PUNTO MIL TRESCIENTAS CUARENTA Y DOS DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE CUERDAS (0.1342 CDAS), en lindes por el Norte, con Javier Márquez Velázquez; por el Sur, con Sucesión Miguel Sanabria Sierra; por el Este, con Waldemar Cordero Vázquez; y por el Oeste, con carretera municipal. Enclava una estructura dedicada a vivienda. Catastro: 071000-007-21-000. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://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 de este Tribunal, y notificar copia de la misma a la representante legal de la parte peticionaria, quien es: LCDA. JANICE L. SOTO CARDONA

RUA NÚM. 22,690 HC 5 BOX 54748 SAN SEBASTIÁN, PR 00685

TEL: (787) 896-2022

EMAIL: lcdajanicesotocardona@ gmail.com

Se le informa, además, que el Tribunal ha señalado vista en este caso para el 23 de octubre de 2026, a las 9:00 de la mañana, mediante videoconferencia, a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido(a) por abogado y presentar oposición a la Petición. Este edicto será publicado en tres (3) ocasiones dentro del término de 20 días, en un periódico de circulación general diaria, para que comparezcan, si lo desean, a alegar su derecho. Toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo se identificará en letra tamaño 10 puntos y en negrillas; toda primera mención de persona natural y/o jurídica que se mencione en el mismo, conforme a lo dispuesto en las Reglas de Procedimiento Civil, 2009. Se le apercibe que, de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o, en su defecto, los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días

a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. POR ORDEN DE ESTE TRIBUNAL, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello oficial, en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 9 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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EX PARTE

Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV01535. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO. CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: AMERICO RODRIGUEZ, SU ESPOSA ALIDA FERRER RAMIREZ Y/O HEREDEROS.

Por la presente se le cita a fin de que comparezcan por ser dueños anteriores si quieren alegar su derecho sobre la siguiente finca: UNO - RUSTICA:

Parcela de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA Y TREINTA Y DOS CENTIMOS, equivalentes a cincuenta y una áreas, ochenta y ocho centiáreas y doce miliáreas, sita en el barrio de Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo; colinda por el NORTE, con un camino servidumbre; por el ESTE, con terrenos de Carlos E. Torres Pagán, antes, hoy Eloísa Ferrer viuda de Ramírez, o sea, la finca letra “A”; por el SUR, con terrenos de Radamés Ramírez Ferrer; terrenos de José Antonio Díaz Torres; y en parte con terrenos de Pedro Camacho, y los de Eladio Zapata, antes, hoy de Antonio Díaz Torres. Número de Catastro 356-069253-48-000. DOS - “RUSTICA”: Parcela de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA Y VEINTICINCO CENTIMOS, equivalentes a cuarenta nueve áreas y trece centiáreas; sita en el barrio Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo; y colinda, por el NORTE, con un camino vecinal, por el ESTE, con terrenos de la Sucesión de María América Díaz Torres; por el SUR, con terrenos de Radamés Ramírez Ferrer; y por el OESTE. Con terrenos de Carlos E. Torres Pagán, antes, hoy Eloísa

Ferrer Viuda de Ramírez, ósea la Finca letra “B”. Número de Catastro 356-069-253-48-000. TRES -“RUSTICA”: Porción de terreno compuesta de UNA CUERDA, equivalentes a treinta y nueve áreas y cuarenta miliáreas, radicada en el Barrio Llanos Tuna, término municipal de Cabo Rojo, y colinda; por el Norte con terrenos de Leona Padilla y otros de José Díaz; por el Este, con don José Díaz; por el SUD, con terrenos de Jacobo Cabassa y otros de Virginio Cruz y por el Oeste con camino vecinal. Tendrán un plazo improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, los interesados y/o las partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados, podrán comparecer ante el tribunal, a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la contestación de ésta a la parte demandante por conducto de su abogado el Lcdo. Saúl Zapata Ripolls a PO Box 6086. Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 0681, teléfono 787-450-5850 a fin de alegar lo que en derecho proceda. Extendido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal hoy 2 de febrero de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. EVELYN GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE THE MONEY HOUSE, INC.

Demandante Vs. LA SUCESION DE JOSE

ANIBAL FERRER PAGAN

T/C/C JOSE A. FERRER

PAGAN COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES (CRIM)

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV07354. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO

Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (VÍA ORDINARIA). 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 SAN JUAN, 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 14 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA en su oficina sita en el local que ocupa en el edificio del TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN, SALA SUPERIOR, todo derecho, título e interés que tenga la parte demandada de epígrafe en el inmueble de su propiedad que ubica en: URB.

SUMMIT HILLS #560 (Q8) CALLE YUNQUE (5) SAN JUAN, PR 00920-4214 y que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 8 del bloque Q en el Plano de Inscripción de la Urbanización Summit Hills, localizado en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras del término municipal de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con una cabida de 331.00 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 13.78 metros, con la calle número 5 de la Urbanización; por el SUR, en 12.70 metros, con los solares número 16 y número 17 de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en 25.00 metros, con el solar número 9 de la Urbanización y por el OESTE, en 25.00 metros, con el solar número 7 de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa. La propiedad antes relacionada consta inscrita al Folio 196 del Tomo 942 de Monacillos, bajo la finca número 13,148, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta del inmueble antes relacionado, será el dispuesto en la Escritura de Hipoteca, es decir la suma de $176,000.00. 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 21 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 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 $117,333.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta se cele-

brará una TERCERA SUBASTA en las oficinas del Alguacil que suscribe el 28 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 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 $88,000.00. La hipoteca a ejecutarse en el caso de epígrafe fue constituida mediante la escritura de hipoteca 79 otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 28 de marzo de 2024, ante el Notario Orlando Camacho Padilla, inscrita al tomo Karibe de Monacillos, inscripción Decimoprimera (11ra), bajo la finca 13,148, en el Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera. 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 ascendente a la suma de $174,285.49 por concepto de principal, desde el 1ro de abril de 2025, más intereses al tipo pactado de 6.75% anual que continúan acumulándose hasta el pago total de la obligación. Además, La Sucesión de José Aníbal Ferrer Pagán t/c/c José A. Ferrer Pagán adeuda a la parte demandante los cargos por demora equivalentes a 4.00% de la suma de aquellos pagos con atrasos en exceso de 15 días calendarios de la fecha de vencimiento; los créditos accesorios y adelantos hechos en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca; y las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado equivalentes a $17,600.00. 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 SAN JUAN, 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 las constancias del Registro de la Propiedad. Por la presente se notifica a los acreedores desconocidos, no inscritos o presentados que sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante o acreedores de cargos 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 San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de marzo de 2026. MARÍA DE LOURDES LÓPEZ MOREIRA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN. ***

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BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS LUIS AMARO RESTO COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA NOEMÍ MARTÍNEZ RIVERA; LYMARIS AMARO ECHEVARRÍA, CARLOS LUIS AMARO ECHEVARRÍA Y KARLA KARINA AMARO CALDERÓN; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV06584.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: SUCESIÓN DE CARLOS LUIS AMARO RESTO COMPUESTA POR SU VIUDA NOEMÍ MARTÍNEZ RIVERA Y SUS HEREDEROS CONOCIDOS COMO LYMARIS AMARO ECHEVARRÍA, CARLOS LUIS AMARO ECHEVARRÍA Y KARLA KARINA AMARO CALDERÓN; FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS Y/O PARTES CON INTERÉS EN DICHA SUCESIÓN - COMUNIDAD MONSERRATE, LOTE 70-C, CALLE RUISEÑOR, VEGA ALTA PR 00692; PO BOX 258, VEGA BAJA, PR 00694-0258; NOEMÍ MARTÍNEZ RIVERA: 507 ELKWOOD CT KISSIMMEE FL 34743; LYMARIS AMARO ECHEVARRÍA: 31 MASTER ST. ROCHESTER NY 14609; CARLOS LUIS AMARO ECHEVARRÍA: 3246 WINTON RD. S APT. J-31 ROCHESTER, NY 14623; KARLA KARINA AMARO CALDERÓN: 3290 SPRING VALLEY DR. FINTA ML 48504. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www. poderjudicial.pr/index.php/ tribunal-electronico/, salvo que el caso sea de un expediente físico o que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del tribunal y notificar copia de la misma al (a la) abogado(a) de la parte demandante o a ésta, de no tener representación legal. Si usted deja de presentar

su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. Además, se le apercibe que. en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera del hogar, el inciso de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquiera otra medida en el mejor interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. De ser el demandado un heredero de una sucesión, se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que de no expresarse dentro de ese término de treinta (30) días, en torno a su aceptación o repudiación de herencia, la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. También se le apercibe a los herederos antes mencionados que luego del transcurso del término de treinta (30) días antes señalado, contados a partir de la fecha de publicación de este edicto, se presumirá que ban aceptado la herencia del(los) causante(s) y, por consiguiente, responden por las cargas de dicha herencia conforme dispone el Artículo 1,578 del Nuevo Código Civil, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11,021. Representa a la parte demandante, la representación legal cuyo nombre, dirección y teléfono se consigna de inmediato: BUFETE FORTUÑO & FORTUÑO FAS, C.S.P. LCDO. JUAN C. FORTUÑO FAS RUA NUM.: 11416 PO BOX 3908, GUAYNABO, PR 00970

TEL: 787-751-5290, FAX: 787-751-6155

E-MAIL: ejecuciones@fortuno-law.com

Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de! Tribunal, hoy 18 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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Demandante V.

DAVID CORBURN

WELLINGTON Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00765.

(Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR).

Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. GETZEMARIE LUGO RODRÍGUEZGLUGO@MPMLAWPR.COM.

LUIS C MARINI BIAGGI - LMARINI@ MPMLAWPR.COM.

A: DAVID C. WELLINGTON, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES

KATHLEEN A. WELLINGTON, POR SI Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES

GANANCIALES Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS - 2219 SE 20TH AVE., CAPE CORAL, FL 33990-3109.

(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 enero de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 20 de marzo de 2026. NOTAS DE LA SECRETARÍA: SE ENMIENDA A LOS FINES DE SER PUBLICADA. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 20 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. CHRYSTHINE FONSECA RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAGUAS SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante v. ANIBAL DE JESUS RUBET

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CY2025CV00406

(SALÓN 802). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ

NOTIFICACIONES@ORF-LAW.COM A: ANIBAL DE JESUS RUBET

HC 44 BOX 13324, CAYEY PR 00736-9797

(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 MARZO 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 18 de MARZO de 2026. En CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, el 18 de MARZO de 2026. IRASEMIS

DIAZ SANCHEZ, Secretario(a). f/SANDRA TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE PONCE SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE. ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC

COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante v. CATHERINE CORNIER RIVERA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: PO2025CV00856

(SALÓN 504 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE

SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ

NOTIFICACIONES@ORF-LAW.COM

RONEIL LOUZAU PASTRANA

RONEIL.LOUZAU@JUSTICIA. PR.GOV

A: CATHERINE CORNIER RIVERA

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 DE MARZO 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 19 de MARZO de 2026. En PONCE, Puerto Rico, el 19 de MARZO de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRU QUIÑONES, Secretario(a). f/ MICHELLE VAZQUEZ OLIVIERI, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Demandante v. JAVIER A CASTILLO MUNOZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: PO2025CV02744 (SALÓN 504 CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ

NOTIFICACIONES@ORF-LAW.COM

A: JAVIER A. CASTILLO MUNOZ

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 DE MARZO 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 20 de MARZO de 2026. En PONCE, Puerto Rico, el 20 de MARZO de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRU QUIÑONES, Secretario(a). f/ MICHELLE VAZQUEZ OLIVIERI, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA.

ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante v. ALEX A RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: DO2025CV00086 (SALÓN 201B). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ

NOTIFICACIONES@ORF-LAW.COM ALEX A RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ CON ALTOS DE MIRA FLORES 969 AVE HIGUILLAR APT 622 DORADO, PUERTO RICO 00646-8219

A: ALEX A RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 20 DE MARZO 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 20 de MARZO de 2026. En TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico, el 20 de MARZO de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, Secretario(a). f/MARITZA BONILLA HERNANDEZ, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE UTUADO SALA SUPERIOR DE ADJUNTAS

FELICITA

VELEZ MORALES

Demandante V. LEONIDES

PLAZA RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: AD2025RF00029. (Salón: 1). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARIELLE RAMÍREZ GONZÁLEZMRAMIREZ@SERVICIOSLEGALES. ORG. MILAGROS CAQUIAS SANTIAGOMCAQUIAS@SERVICIOSLEGALES. ORG.

A: LEONIDES PLAZA RODRIGUEZ - 106

LOCUST ST APT 1, WATERBURY, CT 06704. (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 marzo 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 17 de marzo de 2026. En Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, el 17 de marzo de 2026. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. WANDA I. RIVERA PÉREZ,

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

COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO CAGUAS

Demandante V. MYRIAM ROSA FIGUEROA DAVILA T/C/C

MIRIAM R FIGUEROA DAVILA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: JU2025CV00119. (Salón: 801) Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS.

MARCOS RAÚL CORTÉS REYESMCORTESREYES@GMAIL.COM.

A: HEREDEROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN FIGUEROA DÁVILA.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 17 de marzo 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 19 de marzo de 2026. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 19 de marzo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. SANDRA TRINIDAD CAÑUELAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN.

MARIA YUDELKA

LOZADA

Demandante v.

JESUS DARIO TAVERA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SJ2025RF01550

(SALÓN 701 RF). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SHARON W. ACHECAR MARTINEZ SHARONWACHECAR@YAHOO.COM A: JESUS DARIO TAVERA (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 DE MARZO 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 19 de MARZO de 2026. En SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, el 19 de MARZO de 2026. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, Secretario(a). f/LOIDA GARCIA ROLON, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE CIALES JOSÉ JAVIER MARRERO OLMEDA Y OLGA EDITH MARRERO OLMEDA Demandantes Vs. RENÉ MARRERO OLMEDA Demandado Civil Núm.: CI2026CV00032. Sobre: DIVISIÓN DE COMUNIDAD HEREDITARIA. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: RENÉ MARRERO OLMEDA - 1102 WYN NS DR SANFORD, NC 27330. POR LA PRESENTE se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal por la parte demandante una Demanda Enmendada, cuyos hechos se detallan en la misma, la cual puede ser examinada en la secretaría de este Tribunal. REPRESENTA a la parte demandante, el Lcdo. Víctor M. Rivera Torres) con dirección en Ave. Fernández Juncos #1420, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909,

teléfonos (787) 727-5710, email: victor.rivera@rcrtrblaw. com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que si no comparece en el término de treinta (30) días desde su publicación, el demandante podrá solicitar que se dicte sentencia en rebeldía, declarándose con lugar las contestaciones, sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy día 5 de febrero de 2026. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Pilar H. Mercado González, Sub-Secretaria.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. SUCESION DE MAXIMINO

DIAZ DELGADO T/C/C

MAX DIAZ DELGADO

COMPUESTA POR FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL Y POR CARMEN IRIS

MENENDEZ GARCIA POR SÍ Y COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESIÓN

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2021CV01757. Sala: 503. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FULANO Y SUTANO DE TAL COMO POSIBLES MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE MAXIMINO DIAZ DELGADO t/c/c MAX DIAZ DELGADO. POR LA PRESENTE se les emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá radicar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/sumac/, salvo que se presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá radicar el original de su contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente y notifique con copia a los abogados de la parte demandante, Lcdo. Roberto C. Latimer Valentín, al PO BOX 9022512, San Juan, P.R. 00902-2512; Teléfono: (787) 724-0230. En dicha demanda se tramita un procedimiento de cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca bajo el número mencionado en el epígrafe. Se alega en dicho procedimiento que la parte Demandada incurrió en

el incumplimiento del Contrato de Hipoteca, al no poder pagar las mensualidades vencidas correspondientes a los meses de octubre de 2020, hasta el presente, más los cargos por demora correspondientes. Además, adeuda a la parte demandante las costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado en que incurra el tenedor del pagaré en este litigio. De acuerdo con dicho Contrato de Garantía Hipotecaria la parte Demandante declaró vencida la totalidad de la deuda ascendente a la suma principal de $85,850.56, más intereses acumulados que al presente se encuentran a razón del 8.250% anual, desde el 1 de septiembre de 2020, hasta el presente y los que se continúen acumulando hasta su total y completo pago; más una suma equivalente al 5% de cualquier pago que esté en mora por más de quince (15) días desde la fecha de su vencimiento; más una suma equivalente a $13,680.00, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado todo según pactado. La parte Demandante presentará para su inscripción en el Registro de la Propiedad correspondiente, un AVISO DE PLEITO PENDIENTE (“Lis Pendens”) sobre la propiedad objeto de esta acción cuya propiedad es la siguiente: URBANA: Solar uno del Bloque R, rural Plano Inscrito de Magnolia Gardens Development Barrio Pájaros, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, con un área de cuatrocientos treinta y cuatro punto treinta y siete metros cuadrados. Lindando al NORTE, en una distancia de diez y nueve punto cincuenta metros con la Calle número quince; al NORESTE, en una distancia de cinco punto cincuenta metros en arco con las calles número quince y diez y ocho; por el ESTE, en una distancia de quince punto cincuenta metros con la calle número diez y ocho; por el SUR, en una distancia de veintitrés metros con el solar número dos; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de diez y nueve metros con el solar número treinta y cuatro. Contiene una casa residencia de hormigón y bloques para una sola familia. Consta inscrita al folio 146 del tomo 306 de Bayamón Sur, finca número 13,452, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección I de Bayamón. SE LES ORDENA a ustedes a que dentro del término legal de treinta (30) días, contados a partir de la fecha de notificación de la presente Orden, acepten o repudien la participación que les corresponda en la herencia de la SUCESIÓN DE MAXIMI-

NO DIAZ DELGADO t/c/c MAX DIAZ DELGADO. De no hacerlo dentro de dicho término, se dará la herencia por aceptada. SE LES APERCIBE que, de no hacer sus alegaciones res-

ponsivas a la demanda dentro del término aquí dispuesto, se les anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. A 11 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. MIGDALIA CRUZ REYES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO LUCAS EMANUEL URIA THEIS, A.K.A. LUKE BELMAR; CAPITAL CLUB LLC; ECOM SOCIETY LLC; DBH DIGITAL LLC, D/B/A GEM HUNTERS

Plaintiffs V. TAN BOON KIAT, A.K.A. STEVE TAN

Defendant Civil No.: 25-CV-01661. (GMM). DEFAMATION (LIBEL/SLANDER); TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE; DAMAGES. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

To: TAN BOON KIAT, A.K.A. STEVE TAN.

Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on 03/11/2026 by the Honorable Gina Méndez Miró, United States District Judge (Docket No. 7), you are hereby SUMMONED to appear and respond to the Complaint no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by filing the response with the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Marini Pietrantoni Muñiz, at Suite 900, 250 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan PR 00918, Tel. 787705-2171; Manuel A. Pietrantoni (mpietrantoni@mpmlawpr. com); Claudia S. Delbrey Ortiz (cdelbrey@mpmlawpr.com).

This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to the defendant Tan Boon Kiat, a.k.a. Steve Tan, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to its last known address. Should you fail to appear or respond to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, the summons is issued pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. 4(f) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. San Juan, Puerto Rico, on this 17th day of March, 2026. ADA I. GARCÍA-RIVERA,

ESQ., CLERK OF THE COURT, U.S. DISTRICT COURT. ANA DURAN, DEPUTY CLERK.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR CENTRAL DRUG DORADO, INC., ET AL. Demandantes V. MUNICIPIO AUTÓNOMO DE SAN JUAN, ET AL. Demandados V. MIGUEL IGNACIO ARIAS CARBONELL, ET AL. Terceros Demandados Civil Núm.: SJ2024CV10409. (805). Sobre: DAÑOS Y PERJUICIOS. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOHN DOE O sea, la parte demandada arriba indicada.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere al tribunal su alegación responsiva dentro de los 30 días de haber sido diligenciado este emplazamiento, excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, 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. Información del abogado de la parte demandante: LCDA.

ILEANA M. RIVERA TORRES / RUA 16305 / OFICINA LEGAL

RIVERA TORRES, LLC. / Calle Muñoz Barrios #37, Cidra PR 00739 / riveratorres@bufeteirt. com /Tel.: 787-434-1615 / Cel.: 787-633-1944. EXTENDIDO

bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, hoy 16 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARLA RIVERA CLIMENT, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE TOA ALTA BILLY RIVERA

SEPULVEDA

Demandante V. DAISY FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: DO2025RF00009. (Salón: 201B). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MICHELLE DALILA COLLAZO TORRESCOLLAZOTORRESMICHELLE@ GMAIL.COM. DAISY FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ - 303 CHFP DAVIS ROAD UNIT 310 CON CORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ESTADOS UNIDOS 03301. REGISTRO DEMOGRAFICO - PO BOX 11854, SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, 00910. REGISTRO DEMOGRAFICO DE PR - DEPARTAMENTO DE SALUD - NOTIFICACIONESTRIBUNAL@ SALUD.PR.GOV. A: DAISY FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de marzo 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 20 de marzo de 2026. En Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, el 20 de marzo de 2026. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Maritza Bonilla Hernández, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. PEDRO A RIOS VELEZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2025CV05363. (Salón: 401). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM.

A:

PEDRO A RIOS VELEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de marzo 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 20 de marzo de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 20 de marzo de 2026. Alicia Ayala Sanjurjo, Secretaria. Jeralice Cruz Pomales, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE ARECIBO SALA SUPERIOR DE CIALES

JOSE EDGARDO

WHATTS SANTOS

Demandante V. FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CI2025CV00439. (Salón: 101 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EMANUEL RESTO MARCANORESTOMARCANO@GMAIL.COM. A: FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO, MORTGAGE ONE GROUP CORP., ABC INC. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 19 de marzo 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 19 de marzo de 2026. En Ciales, Puerto Rico, el 19 de marzo de 2026. Vivian Y. Fresse González, Secretaria. Brunilda Hernández Méndez, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

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Demandante V. MARISELY RAMOS VELEZ

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: YU2025CV00304. (Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM.

A: MARISELY RAMOS VELEZ.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 DE MARZO 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 17 de MARZO de 2026. En YAUCO, Puerto Rico, el 17 de MARZO de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ

QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. MELISSA RIVERA ROMERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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RENATO ADOLFO SOLORZANO AMAYA Demandante Vs. ERIKA ZAYD ACEVEDO Demandada Caso Núm.: SJ2026RF00104. Sobre: DIVORCIO POR RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ERIKA ZAYD ACEVEDO - PRADO CALLE 50 #7043, MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA 330911. Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada, en este Tribunal por la parte demandante, una demanda de divorcio contra usted, por la causal de ruptura irreparable, en la cual se solicita que se disuelva el vínculo matrimonial entre las partes. Es abogada del demandante, Renato Adolfo Solorzano Amaya, la Lcda. Alba Meléndez Romeu, cuya dirección postal, electrónica y teléfonos es: P.O. Box 194205, San Juan, PR 00919; Teléfonos: (787) 789-4172 / (787) 245-1194; dirección electrónica: albamromeu@gmail.com. Se le advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una solo vez, que usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal, dentro del término de treinta (30) días, a partir de la publicación del Edicto, con copia a la abogada de la parte demandante. Si usted deja de presentar la alegación responsiva, dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente, sin más citarle ni oírle. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 20 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. JESSICA COLÓN TORRES, 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.

ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ

Demandante V. ILUMINADA

BURGOS BAEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CA2025RF00750

(Salón: C). Sobre: DIVORCIO - RUPTURA IRREPARABLE. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. LIZBELLE ANDINO ROSADO LCDANDINO@GMAIL.COM

A: LUMINADA BURGOS BAEZ

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 16 de marzo 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 17 de marzo de 2026. En CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, el 17 de marzo de 2026. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. F/ ZORAIDA RIVERA LATIMER, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. LINDA G ORTIZ GALARZA

Parte Demandada

Civi Núm.: SJ2025CV09272. Sala: 905. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: LINDA G ORTIZ GALARZA - URB REPTO METROPOLITANO 1196

AVE AMERICO MIRANDA, SAN JUAN PR 009212229.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418

San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE F OLMEDA MELENDEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09271. Sala: 905. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOSE F OLMEDA MELENDEZ - URB SAN AGUSTIN 429 CALLE SOLDADO ALCIDES REYES, SAN JUAN PR 00923-3214.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:///www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2026. GRISELA

RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. DIANA C. PÉREZ SIERRA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE FAIRWAY ACQUISITIONS FUND, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. DANNY R CHESTARO VASQUEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10206. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: DANNY R CHESTARO VASQUEZ - COND PARQUE LOS MONACILLOS 1800

CALLE SAN GREGORIO APT 303, SAN JUAN PR 00921-4621.

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 (SUMAO), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www/poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel-ramosddorflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 27 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARMEN MOLINA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA BAJA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Parte Demandante Vs. CRISTOPHER RODRIGUEZ RIVERA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV04197. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CRISTOPHER RODRIGUEZ RIVERA - URB LOS MONTES H 11 CALLE MARTINETE, DORADO PR 00646. 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 respon-

siva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-85183, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel. ramos@orflaw.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMAy el sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de enero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. GLORYMAR SALDAÑA QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Parte Demandante Vs. FERNANDO RIVERA COTTO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09422. (603). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: FERNANDO RIVERA COTTO - URB MATIENZO CINTRON 525 CALLE SOLLER, SAN JUAN PR 00923-2115.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su

sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 28 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODREIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. CARLA RIVERA CLIMENT, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. JOSE A SANCHEZ LOPEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2025CV03058. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JOSE A SANCHEZ LOPEZ - URB COMUNIDAD PUNTA

DIAMANTE 1641 CALLE LEONE, PONCE PR 00728-2309; 444 CALLE DE DIEGO APT 807, SAN JUAN PR 00923-3055. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Osvaldo L. Rodríguez Fernández cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, te-

léfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law. com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en PONCE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de enero de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. YAHAYRA CALES ECHEVARRÍA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SAN JUAN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. MAYRA TORRES GARCIA Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV10474. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MAYRA TORRES GARCIA - RES LOS LIRIOS 915 CALLE CERRA APT 62, SAN JUAN PR 00907-5107; 308 W MEADOWVIEW RD, GREENSBORO NC 27406-3610.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colon cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, hoy día 26 de enero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE

RIVERA RÍOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO

MCLP ASSET COMPANY, INC.

Parte Demandante Vs. MILAGROS DEL ROSARIO PÉREZ MIRANDA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: GB2023CV00814. Salón Núm.: (201). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA Y COBRO DE DINERO. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS. A: MILAGROS DEL ROSARIO PÉREZ

MIRANDA: EUROBANK, O A SU ORDEN: Y AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: El Alguacil que suscribe, certifica y hace constar que en cumplimiento de Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Guaynabo, procederé a vender en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América. Todo pago recibido por el (la) Alguacil por concepto de subastas será en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del (de la) Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Todo derecho, título, participación e interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: URBANA: APARTAMENTO NÚMERO C GUIÓN DOSCIENTOS UNO (C-201): PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento residencial de dos (2) niveles de forma regular, localizado en los dos (2) pisos bajos del edificio “C” construido en hormigón, bloques, acero estructural y materiales accesorios en el CONDOMINIO PLAZA DE TORRIMAR I, en el Barrio Frailes de Guaynabo con un área de dos mil doscientos veintisiete punto trece pies cuadrados (2,227.13 p.c.) equivalentes a ciento catorce metros cuadrados (114.00 m.c.) con las colindancias siguientes: PRIMER NIVEL: con un área de seiscientos veinte punto treinta y ocho pies cuadrados (620.38 p.c.) equivalentes a cincuenta y siete punto sesenta y cuatro metros cuadrados (57.64 m.c). En lindes por el NORTE, en veintitrés pies tres pulgadas (23’3’’), con el exterior y la escalera; por el SUR, en veintitrés

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Undefeated Cangrejeras blank Valencianas in LVSF quarterfinals

By THE STAR STAFF

The Cangrejeras of Santurce defeated the Valencianas of Juncos in straight sets on Wednesday night at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in Hato Rey in the Section A quarterfinals of the Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF by its initials in Spanish).

It was the first postseason match for the Valencianas (0-1). The other team in Section A, the Pinkin of Corozal, is also 0-1 after losing to Santurce (2-0).

The match scores were 25-23, 25-19 and 25-23.

The Cangrejeras came from behind in the first set, closing it out with a 9-3 run. In

Tamara Otene had 13 points as the Cangrejaras of Santurce notched a straight-sets victory over the Valencianas of Juncos in the LVSF quarterfinals.

the second set, they reached set point at 2419 following a block on Leandra Mangual, and secured the set with a sharp spike by Helena Grozer from Zone 4, taking a twosets-to-none lead.

In the third set -- following the technical timeout, at which point Santurce led by a slim 16-15 margin -- the teams traded points from 16 through 22.

The Cangrejeras set up the outcome with two consecutive scoring spikes: one by Tamara Otene from Zone 4 and another by Neira Ortiz through the middle, reaching set point at 24-22. After Juncos scored another point, Otene sealed the set and the match victory, 25-23, with another scoring spike from Zone 4.

Vaqueros defeat Osos on the road

By THE STAR STAFF

The Vaqueros of Bayamón defeated the Osos of Manatí 73-71 on Wednesday night in a Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) game at Juan Aubín Cruz Coliseum in Manatí.

Bayamón entered the final quarter with an eight-point lead following a solid first half,

during which they managed to pull away by as many as 14 points. However, the Osos made a run at the start of the fourth quarter, closing the gap and keeping the game within a single possession.

In a high-intensity finish, the Vaqueros executed in key moments to hold onto their lead during the final minutes.

Manatí remained in contention until the

very end, but failed to convert on its final possession.

Gary Browne was the standout performer for the Vaqueros, recording 15 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists. Renaldo Balkman and Javier Mojica each contributed 12 points.

Chris Ortiz led the Osos with 19 points and 8 rebounds.

In the team statistics, Santurce held the advantage in blocks (12-6), service aces (3-1) and passes (28-26). Juncos came out ahead in digs (54-49), attacks (43-39) and assists (12-10).

Leading the Cangrejeras’ offense were Otene (13 points), Andrea Rangel (12), and Grozer (10).

Mangual and Haley Bush finished with 13 points each for Juncos.

Section A quarterfinal play continues this Friday at 8 p.m. when the Cangrejeras visit the Pinkin at Carmen Z. Figueroa Arena.

In Section B, the Criollas of Caguas (1-0) were to host the Leonas of Ponce (1-0) at Roger Mendoza Vidal Coliseum on Thursday night.

Olympic Committee announces broad ban of transgender athletes in women’s events

By TARIQ PANJA

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned transgender athletes from competing in the women’s category at the Olympics, after telling its members to conduct mandatory genetic testing for wom-

en’s competitions.

The decision, the most consequential since Kirsty Coventry was elected last year as the first woman to serve as president of the IOC, followed a board meeting and months of speculation over the organization’s policy on one of the most contentious issues facing global sports. The rules will be applicable from the next Olympics, in Los Angeles in 2028.

As Coventry, a decorated Olympic swimmer from Zimbabwe, campaigned to lead the organization, she frequently said how important it was to protect the women’s category amid broader — and often bitter — debates about the participation of transgender athletes in sporting competitions.

Under the new policy, eligibility will be determined by a one-time gene test, according to the IOC. The test, which is already be -

ing used in track and field, requires screening via saliva, a cheek swab or a blood sample.

The IOC consulted a number of experts as it grappled with how to handle an issue that was becoming a growing concern for sports leaders. Late last year, Dr. Jane Thornton, the IOC’s medical and scientific director and a Canadian former Olympic rower, presented the initial findings of a review of athletes who are transgender or have differences of sexual development, known as DSD, and are competing in women’s sports. That analysis, which has not been made public, stated athletes born with male sexual markers retained physical advantages, including among those who had received treatment to reduce testosterone.

Until now, the IOC’s guidance had permitted transgender women to compete with reduced testosterone levels but left the final de -

cision to individual sports federations. Track and field, swimming, boxing and rugby generally restrict transgender athletes from competing in the women’s category.

Women’s sports have been a critical front in a polarizing and public debate over transgender issues that was further inflamed last year when President Donald Trump signed an executive order prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in women’s college sports.

Track and field became the first major sport to introduce mandatory DNA sex testing for athletes entering women’s competitions last March. That came less than a year after the issue of eligibility erupted at the Paris Olympics in 2024, when the boxing competition was upended by ugly scenes inside and outside the ring over the participation of two women who went on to secure gold medals.

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