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By THE STAR STAFF

The banking industry issued a warning on Thursday that the elderly population would be more vulnerable to cybercrime if a proposed bill requiring financial institutions to offer customers the option to conduct all transactions online is implemented.

During a public hearing of the House Committee on Banking, Insurance, and Commerce, chaired by New Progressive Party Rep. Jorge “Georgie” Navarro Suárez, both public and private entities voiced their concerns regarding House Bill 147, which seeks to amend the Puerto Rico Banking Act (Act 55-1933) to add the requirement.

“It is well known that the elderly population tends to conduct many of their daily errands and transactions in person, as this is part of their psychosocial well-being and helps maintain their health and mobility,” AARP Puerto Rico State Director José Acarón noted. “There is a human element in personal interaction that can never be replaced by virtual service.”

He pointed out that financial exploitation, identity theft and money laundering are significant threats that this demographic may face, particularly since adults aged 60 and over represent 30% of Puerto Rico’s population. Acarón also referenced a study by Bank Safe, an AARP initiative, which found that older adults value banking services that include personal interaction.

Despite this, the study revealed that nearly 63% of seniors conduct banking transactions online or through mobile applications at least once a week. Acarón emphasized that while digitalization is essential, it should be implemented selectively. To illustrate the point, he noted the home banking service already offered by some banks in the United States, which is specifically designed for individuals over 70 years of age or for those with disabilities who meet certain criteria.

Rep. Ángel Morey Noble, the bill’s author, defended the measure, stating that it aims to facilitate banking services for older adults who experience mobility challenges and have difficulty completing in-person transactions. He noted that he had previously filed a bill with the same intent four years ago, which passed in the House but failed to progress in the Senate.

“The legislative goal is to improve access for older adults,” the lawmaker said. “This initiative comes from constituents over the age of 80, who have faced challenges having their children assist them with banking transactions in branches, especially when they have mobility limitations.”

The Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions (OCIF) and the Banks Association of Puerto Rico expressed agreement that the legislation could introduce various risks, ranging from the potential closure of branches of medium or small institutions to an increase in bank fraud.

“This could have an unequal economic impact and put the system’s stability at risk,” OCIF Deputy Commissioner

Mónica Rodríguez Villa warned. “Not all financial institutions have the technological infrastructure, economic resources, or necessary risk tolerance to implement platforms that support all their online services.”

Rodríguez Villa suggested that the proposal could be viewed as “undue interference in the free market” and opposed the notion of an absolute mandate for total digitalization. She indicated that the agency might support the bill if amendments were made to eliminate the uniform requirement for complete digitization.

Similarly, Zoimé Álvarez Rubio, president of the Banks Association, reiterated her opposition to the bill, stating that it could jeopardize the health and financial stability of banking institutions. She also cautioned that the requirement could be “impossible and extremely costly,” especially for larger banks. There are currently nine commercial banks in Puerto Rico, Álvarez Rubio said. While the Office of the Ombudsman agreed to remove the mandatory aspect of the bill, they suggested that its implementation should occur gradually. Reps. Lisie Burgos Muñiz, Emilio Carlo Acosta and Jerry Nieves Rosario also participated in the public hearing.

By THE STAR STAFF

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez announced Thursday that the legislative body approved, with the support of the Popular Democratic Party [PDP], the Puerto Rican Independence Party, and the Dignity Project party, Joint Resolution 193, ordering LUMA Energy, the private operator of the island’s electric power transmission and distribution system, to immediately cease charging all fees for the Supplemental Study and grid improvements that would have been required for systems up to 25 kilowatts by

Regulation Number 8915.

“In the House of Representatives, we put our actions where our word was with the people,” the House speaker said. “From the beginning, we have been against the $300 fee, and today, in a tripartisan effort, we approved Joint Resolution 193, ordering LUMA Energy to immediately stop charging this or any similar fee.”

The legislation, approved 41-0, eliminates customer charges for photovoltaic systems with a capacity of less than 25 kilowatts and directs the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau to adopt modern standards by completing a new Interconnection Regulation. In the relevant

Owner arrested for animal abuse after abandoned husky dies

By THE STAR STAFF

The San Juan Municipal Police arrested Aurangelis Santos González, 29, of San Juan on Thursday for violations of Law 154 for the Welfare and Protection of Animals.

According to the investigation by Officer Grace Torres, the defendant left a Siberian

husky unattended for several weeks, without food or basic care. The complaint was filed by the owner of the apartment where Santos González lived, who alleged that the woman abandoned the home, leaving the animal locked up.

Upon entering the apartment, the owner found the pet in a dehydrated and moribund state. Officers arranged for its

cases, any modifications or improvements that may be required will be corrected by the transmission and distribution system operator.

“The use of photovoltaic energy systems in Puerto Rico has experienced a significant increase in the last five years,” noted Rep. Víctor Parés Otero, the main author of the measure.

“According to Juan Saca, president of LUMA Energy, there were approximately 110,000 residences in Puerto Rico with photovoltaic energy systems as of December 31, 2023. Imposing a charge on these families would be a moral blow to this industry.”

“These charges in Regulation Number 8915 are contrary to the spirit and letter of the

transfer to a veterinarian, but despite several days of treatment, the dog died.

The case was to be reviewed with the prosecutor on duty while the arrested woman remained in a cell.

“This unfortunate incident reminds us of the importance of promptly reporting any signs of animal abuse,” Municipal Police Commissioner Juan Jackson Rodríguez said in a written statement. “The San Juan Municipal Police are vigilant and have a specialized unit that ensures the well-being of animals. We urge the public to contact us if they suspect any abuse. Your call could save a life.

To report animal abuse, citizens can call 787-480-2020 or 787-751-2233.

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public policy declared in Act 17-2019, better known as the Puerto Rico Energy Public Policy Act, which establishes as a requirement that 100 percent of the energy produced in Puerto Rico be renewable by 2050,” the San Juan District 4 legislator added.

“Access to renewable energy must be accessible to all,” added Rep. Héctor Ferrer Santiago, the PDP minority leader. “With this resolution, we are telling LUMA and PREPA [the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority] that they have stopped putting obstacles in the way of citizens seeking cleaner and more economical alternatives. Puerto Rico needs an energy policy that puts people first.”

According to the police investigation, the defendant left a Siberian husky unattended for several weeks, without food or basic care. Officers arranged for its transfer to a veterinarian, but despite several days of treatment, the dog died.

Measure to cancel $300 fee for customers with solar systems clears House in unanimous vote CPAs choose new governing board chairman, membership

By THE STAR STAFF

Within the framework of its Annual Convention, the Puerto Rico Certified Public Accountants Association

(CCPA by its initials in Spanish) announced its new governing board for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, which was sworn in at the professional organization’s assembly held last Saturday at El Conquistador Hotel in Fajardo.

The new governing board chairman is CPA David A. Rodríguez Ortiz, who has over 25 years of experience and is currently the president of the firm SAGEZA LLC. Throughout his career within CCPA, he has held various positions both on the governing board and in its committees. In 2012, he was appointed as a member of the Puerto Rico Department of State’s accountancy board.

Subsequently, in 2016-2017 Rodríguez Ortiz served as president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce.

“This year we will be setting the course for our institution under the motto: ‘Charting our course, beyond the numbers,’” Rodríguez Ortiz said during his swearing-in speech. “CPAs are not only accounting experts, auditing experts, and tax experts. We are strategists, ethical leaders, and trusted advisers. This motto

is an expression of how our role in society has evolved: we want the CPA to be recognized as a key partner in the most important and transcendent decisions in Puerto Rico, both at the business and government levels.”

The CCPA Executive Committee was constituted as follows: immediate past president, Cynthia J. Rijo Sánchez; president-elect, Gerardo Torres Roldán; first vice president, Carlos de Ángel Ramírez; second vice president, Andrés Dávila Suárez; treasurer, Alexis Ortiz Ortiz; assistant treasurer, Yaritza Figueroa Hernández; secretary, Gerardo Rodríguez Negrón; and assistant secretary, Michelle de la Cruz Soto. The directors are: Felipe J. Crespo Claudio, Yvonne Huertas Carbonell, William E. Guardiola Vargas, Nicole López Santiago, Carlos Alejandro Santana, Ángel Morales Lebrón and Karen Rochet Laboy.

Mayors create consortium to deal with vegetation impacting power lines

By THE STAR STAFF

The mayors of several municipalities in the central region of the island, including Naranjito, Corozal, Cidra, Barranquitas, Aibonito and Orocovis, have joined forces to create a municipal consortium to address the critical issue of vegetation that interferes with power transmission and distribution lines.

The vegetation problem significantly impacts the reliability of the electrical system in their communities.

In a written statement, Naranjito Mayor Orlando Ortiz Chevres highlighted a staggering fact: “Eighty-five percent of the outages in our electrical system are due to vegetation.”

He emphasized the necessity for active involvement from local governments in finding solutions.

“This consortium proposal will allow our municipalities to pool our strengths and resources to effectively collaborate with LUMA Energy in the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of our electrical infrastructure,” Ortiz Chevres said.

The Naranjito mayor further elaborated on the implications of

Naranjito Mayor Orlando Ortiz Chevres, center, pointed out an eye-opening fact: “Eighty-five percent of the outages in our electrical system are due to vegetation.”

the initiative, stating: “This step reflects our genuine commitment to ensuring the quality of life for our residents, particularly in our mountain communities, which often face unique challenges.”

Recognizing the importance of broader collaboration, the consortium intends to invite mayors from neighboring municipalities, including Cayey, Comerío and Aguas Buenas, to join their efforts.

“The union of our wills is essential to achieving concrete results that will substantially improve the well-being of our communities,” Ortiz Chevres said.

He reiterated that “this effort is not directed against anyone but is instead in favor of the communities we serve, ensuring that our residents benefit from a more reliable and stable electricity system.”

The mayors also announced their intention to present their collaborative proposals to Gov. Jenniffer González Colón for her consideration and support. They said they are optimistic that the proposed partnership between the municipalities and the central government will serve as a catalyst for transformative changes in the island’s energy landscape, ultimately leading to a more efficient and dependable power supply for all residents.

Judicial employees union calls for review of salaries

By THE STAR STAFF

Amílcar Gerena Román, the president of the Judicial Employees Association, has called for a review of the classification plan for judicial branch employees to ensure their salaries are fair.

Recently, the Financial Oversight and Management Board approved a proposal from the Office of Human Resources Transformation and Management to review the salary scales for central government employees next year. In light of that proposal, Gerena Román has requested that judicial employees be treated equally with respect to their counterparts in the executive branch.

“A new compensation plan was implemented for judicial branch employees in 2023. However, this plan adversely affected the salaries of our colleagues,” Gerena Román said in a radio interview. “We are asking for a review of the new salary scales under equal conditions. We want to know if the employer intends to respond to this request, as the [oversight] board did

with the state government. We seek to have the new salary scales reviewed in line with market conditions and implemented for judicial employees by 2026.”

If the salary scale adjustment is approved, a courtroom clerk could receive a raise of $278, while an assistant bailiff might see an average increase of $400. Additionally, a social worker could receive a raise of $550.

However, despite the information being provided by the judicial branch, the union leader stated that employees had not received any communication regarding the changes.

“This information is new to us. That’s why we are making our demands public; we need to ensure a level playing field,” Gerena Román said, emphasizing the secretive nature of the judicial branch regarding such matters. “We are public employees just like those in the executive branch. We represent the face of the courts. When citizens visit our judicial centers, they are greeted and assisted by secretaries and bailiffs who provide excellent service.”

Free pet vaccination fair being held in Toa Baja

By THE STAR STAFF

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez, along with District 10 (Toa Baja and Cataño) Rep. Pedro Julio “Pelle” Santiago Guzmán, announced on Thursday the holding of a large-scale, free vaccination and deworming fair for dogs and cats in Toa Baja this Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the indoor soccer field in the Campanilla neighborhood.

Among the services to be provided are rabies vaccinations,

deworming and grooming. Veterinarians from the Department of Health, as well as volunteers, will also be available to address any concerns. In Puerto Rico, it is recommended that every dog receive its rabies vaccination annually.

“As part of our efforts to directly assist families in Puerto Rico, we have developed a community impact platform called ‘Leaving Traces,’ which aims to provide services to our people,” Méndez Nuñez said. “... [W]e encourage all residents of the area to come this Friday starting at 10 a.m. to have their pets vaccinated.”

“With this fair, we address a real need for our families, be-

cause owning a pet, whether a dog or cat, is a responsibility,” Santiago Guzmán said. “Tomorrow [Friday], the citizens of Toa Baja will have the opportunity, free of charge, to vaccinate their pets in a family environment.”

Every dog receiving services must have a collar and leash, while cats must be in their cage.

According to several studies, around 75% of families in Puerto Rico have a pet. The Puerto Rican Kennel Federation, meanwhile, estimates that there are about 1.4 million dogs living on the island.

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow his sweeping tariffs

By ANN E. MARIMOW

The Trump administration earlier this week asked the Supreme Court to move swiftly to allow the president to continue imposing sprawling tariffs on nations around the world, setting up a major test of his trade policies and his expansion of executive power.

A federal appeals court late last month invalidated President Donald Trump’s most punishing global tariffs, finding that he had exceeded his authority by invoking a 1970s-era emergency power to tax imports from major trading partners. The appeals court paused its ruling, allowing the tariffs to remain in effect at least until Oct. 14 so Trump could file with the Supreme Court.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to decide by Sept. 10 whether to review the case and to schedule oral argument for the first week of November — just one month after the court’s new term begins. If the justices accept the case, it would be the first to reach the court in Trump’s second term

that directly tests the legality of one of the administration’s signature initiatives rather than addressing the president’s actions on a temporary emergency basis.

Since taking office, Trump has relied on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 as a central part of his efforts to force companies to invest in the United States.

Without the emergency powers, the president and his advisers have warned of major damage to the nation’s economy, military power and diplomatic relations, particularly if the government were forced to pay back some of the billions of dollars it has already collected in tariffs.

The lower court’s “erroneous decision has disrupted highly impactful, sensitive, ongoing diplomatic trade negotiations, and cast a pall of legal uncertainty over the president’s efforts to protect our country by preventing an unprecedented economic and foreign-policy crisis,” the solicitor general told the justices in his request for highly expedited review. The petition had not yet been publicly docketed on the court’s website late Wednesday, but its filing was confirmed by both sides in the litigation.

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policies and his expansion of executive power. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)

Other presidents have invoked the emergency statute, typically to issue sanctions, but Trump is the first to try to use the emergency powers to impose broad levies of 10% to 50% on trading partners.

In April, five small businesses and a dozen states sued, saying Trump’s actions were unlawful.

Lawyers for the coalition expressed confidence in their legal arguments late Wednesday.

“These unlawful tariffs are inflicting serious harm on small businesses and jeopardizing their survival. We hope for a prompt resolution of this case for our clients,” Jeffrey Schwab, senior counsel at the Liberty Justice Center, said in a statement.

A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington last week upheld a lower court decision invalidating the tariffs and finding the president’s actions were not authorized by the emergency statute.

Trump used the emergency law early last month to tax imports from 90 countries. He previously invoked it to impose tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico in response to what he said were those countries’ roles in the fentanyl trade.

The administration’s filing Wednesday emphasized the importance of the tariffs to the president’s agenda and a need for the justices to act urgently.

Trump’s lawyers characterized the tariffs as the administration’s “most significant economic and foreign-policy initiative,” which the president has “determined are necessary to rectify America’s country-killing trade deficits and to stem the flood of fentanyl across our borders.”

A coalition of prominent conservative and libertarian lawyers, scholars and former officials filed a brief in June opposing Trump’s tariffs and emphasizing that the powers to tax must remain with Congress.

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In its 7-4 ruling, the appeals court said the tariffs were a core constitutional power given to Congress and noted that the statute at issue did not include the word “tariffs” nor synonyms such as “tax” or “duty.”

“The power of the purse (including the power to tax) belongs to Congress,” the appeals court said in an unsigned opinion.

Under the act at issue in the case, the president can take certain steps in response to a declared emergency arising from an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to “the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States.” The law says that includes the power to regulate imports, language the Trump administration says means tariffs.

But the appeals court said the statute’s grant of power to the president to regulate imports did not authorize the particular tariffs imposed by Trump’s executive orders.

Florida moves to end vaccine mandates for schoolchildren

By PATRICIA MAZZEI

Florida plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates, including for schoolchildren, rejecting a practice that public health experts have credited for decades with limiting the spread of infectious diseases.

Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, the Florida surgeon general, made the announcement Wednesday alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. DeSantis rose to national prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, and over time he has espoused increasingly anti-vaccine views.

“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” Ladapo, a vocal denigrator of vaccines, said to applause during an event Wednesday in Valrico, Florida, near Tampa. “Your body is a gift from God.”

He added that the administration would be “working to end” all vaccine mandates. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo said, without elaborating.

The announcement comes as the anti-vaccine stance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s health secretary, is causing tumult across federal public health agencies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in particular, has been engulfed in turmoil as the Trump administration has ousted experts, in some cases replacing them with people who align with Kennedy’s views.

Ladapo has faced repeated criticism from others in his field for his stances on public health. He allowed parents to choose whether to send unvaccinated children to school during a measles outbreak in Weston, Florida, in 2024, rejecting long-standing, evidence-based public health guidelines. The misinformation he spread about COVID vaccines prompted a public rebuke from the CDC in 2023.

It is unclear what the process of undoing the state’s long-standing vaccine mandates might look like. But state legislatures are typically involved in setting vaccine requirements for schoolchildren; the

federal government approves vaccines for the public and issues guidance on who should get them.

Ladapo said the Florida Department of Health, the agency he oversees, would do away with rules on vaccine mandates. The agency’s rulemaking authority is laid out in a state statute that requires certain immunizations for schoolchildren.

State lawmakers “are going to have to make decisions,” Ladapo said. “That’s how this becomes possible.”

Republican legislative leaders in Florida did not immediately comment on the announcement, but Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a Republican who chairs the U.S. Senate’s health committee, called the move by DeSantis and Ladapo “a terrible thing for public health.”

“We’re going to start having vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks at school,” Cassidy, a physician, said, adding that “you’re going to have children who come to school with measles and infect other people who either have not been vaccinated or have some sort of disease,

like cancer.”

All 50 states have at least some vaccination requirements for children entering school, though all allow for medical exemptions, and most allow exemptions for religious or personal reasons. The number of students receiving exemptions has been increasing in recent years, and immunization rates have been falling, according to KFF, a health policy research group.

Up to now, the DeSantis administration has focused its anti-vaccine efforts on COVID-19 vaccines; Florida bans COVID-19 vaccine mandates for students and has broadly prohibited so-called vaccine passports, which show proof of immunization. But the state has long required most children entering school to be vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella; chickenpox; and hepatitis B, among other infectious diseases.

Dr. Lisa Gwynn, a pediatrician in Miami and past president of the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, dismissed the argument from Ladapo and other DeSantis administration officials that vaccination decisions should be solely in parents’ hands.

“It’s more than just the decision of a parent,” she said. “It’s about the elderly; it’s about the vulnerable, the immunologically challenged, and how does this impact our society, our community, our neighbors, our relatives.”

Florida has one of the nation’s largest population of older people, having attracted retirees for generations.

DeSantis, who appointed Ladapo as surgeon general in 2021, also announced the creation of a commission to align Florida with goals laid out by Kennedy. The commission will be headed by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife.

“We’ve already done a lot,” Ron DeSantis said. “I don’t think any state has come even close to what Florida has done.”

But, he added, “we want to stay ahead of the curve.”

Kennedy rejects criticism, data and decorum in contentious hearing

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a withering barrage of questioning from a Senate committee on his vaccine policy and his record as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, responding at times with clear disdain for the senators, public health data and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which he oversees.

Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, Kennedy blamed the CDC for the number of American deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, and said he did not trust the data that showed vaccines saved millions of lives in the United States and elsewhere during the pandemic. Kennedy also falsely asserted that there were no cuts to Medicaid in Trump’s domestic policy bill, and rejected bipartisan criticism that his actions were making it harder for people to obtain vaccines.

Kennedy is well acquainted with Washington because of his upbringing in a Democratic dynasty. He spoke in a tone rarely used by a Senate witness — angry at times, dismissive at others — and repeatedly accused senators who belong to his family’s party of lying, telling them they were “making stuff up” and “talking gibberish.”

Some Republicans, including two doctors — Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and John Barrasso of Wyoming — also put Kennedy on the spot. Cassidy, who voted to confirm Kennedy on the condition that he wouldn’t disrupt access to vaccines, said Kennedy was in fact doing so through his actions as health secretary.

“We’re denying people vaccine,” Cassidy said as he concluded his line of questioning.

Kennedy responded: “You’re wrong.”

The hearing was focused heavily on vaccine policy,

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

with members of both parties grilling Kennedy on whether he misled them in his confirmation hearings.

When Kennedy appeared before the committee in January, he repeatedly promised to “do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking” vaccines. Since then, he has installed skeptics to guide vaccine policy, restricted access to COVID vaccines, canceled grants and contracts for vaccine development and given a tepid endorsement of the measles vaccine.

In an exchange with Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Kennedy said he did not know how many people died of COVID and whether the vaccines prevented COVID deaths because “they didn’t have the data.” In fact, hundreds of reports have tracked the efficacy of the vaccines since they debuted in 2021, finding that the shots have saved millions of lives in the United States and elsewhere.

The hearing came during a tumultuous period at the CDC. Lawmakers were rattled last week when the White House fired Susan Monarez, the CDC director whom Kennedy once endorsed.

Her lawyers called the dismissal unlawful and “a warning to every American: Our evidence-based systems are being undermined from within.” In an opinion essay published Thursday in The Wall Street Journal, she accused Kennedy of “a deliberate effort to weaken America’s public-health system and vaccine protections.”

Here’s what else to know:

— CDC turmoil: Experts and former high-ranking agency officials said they feared the CDC, the United States’ premier public health agency, was losing its legitimacy, with lasting consequences for public health.

— Florida: On Wednesday, Florida officials announced theirs would be the first state to end all vaccination requirements for children attending school, a long-sought goal of the medical freedom movement that Kennedy leads.

— Kennedy’s defense: In an opinion essay published in the Journal on Tuesday, Kennedy wrote that his actions would restore trust in the CDC, and blamed its failures on “politicized science, bureaucratic inertia and mission creep.” He said he aimed to “restore the CDC’s focus on infectious disease, invest in innovation, and rebuild trust through integrity and transparency.”

Justice Dept. opens criminal inquiry into Fed governor, elevating Trump’s claims

By GLENN THRUSH, TONY ROMM and DEVLIN BARRETT

The Justice Department has opened a fraud investigation into a Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, elevating claims President Donald Trump has promoted in trying to oust her, according to people familiar with the situation.

The move, which centers on whether she falsified a mortgage application, was instigated by Ed Martin, a hyperpartisan Trump loyalist with little prosecutorial experience. He has said that it is legitimate for federal officials to publicly air criminal investigations into people targeted by the president, even if an investigation does not result in a conviction or even an indictment.

It is not clear which U.S. attorney’s offices are involved in the inquiry, but Cook previously reported in disclosures that she had owned homes in Georgia, Massachusetts and Michigan, according to court records. Federal prosecutors have begun issuing subpoenas, one of the people briefed in the investigation said.

The opening of the investigation, earlier reported by

The Wall Street Journal, comes as little surprise. Martin, who leads the department’s vaguely defined weaponization task force after Senate Republicans scuttled his nomination to be the permanent U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia, signaled his intention to do so as the White House stepped up its attacks on Cook.

The saga began when Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said his office had investigated Cook and found that she appeared to have falsified bank documents to obtain favorable terms on a mortgage. Pulte later referred the matter to the Justice Department for a criminal inquiry, before Trump announced he would fire Cook from the Fed. Cook initially responded in a statement that she would not be “bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet.” But she said she would take “questions about my financial history seriously” and gather the facts. She then sued the administration over its attempted firing, and in a hearing last week, her lawyers depicted her potential ouster as an illegal bid to undermine the traditional independence of the Federal Reserve.

In a statement Thursday, Abbe D. Lowell, the lawyer representing Cook, said the reports suggested the Trump administration was “scrambling to invent new justifications for its overreach,” describing the Justice Department as “perhaps the most politicized” in American history.

“The questions over how Gov. Cook described her properties from time to time, which we have started to address in the pending case and will continue to do so, are not fraud, but it takes nothing for this DOJ to undertake a new politicized investigation, and they appear to have just done it again,” Lowell continued.

A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.

Martin, who has been given few staff but broad latitude to team up with U.S. attorney’s offices around the country, flouted the department’s procedural norms last month by suggesting to Fed Chair Jerome Powell that Cook step aside. Cook’s case “requires further examination,” Martin wrote in a letter to Powell, suggesting that the department could be pursuing an investigation.

Mass migration and liberalism’s fall

By BRET STEPHENS

It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall Street Journal reported, “For the first time, populist or far-right parties are leading the polls in the U.K., France and Germany.” Similar parties are already in power or in government in Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden, to say nothing of the United States.

To say the West’s turn to the anti-immigrant right was the predictable result of Merkel’s calamitous decision to open Germany’s borders does not mean there aren’t still lessons to be learned from it — not least by the world’s most clueless of all major political parties today, the Democratic Party.

Starting around 20 years ago, perhaps earlier, liberal democracy gained two half-siblings: postliberal democracy and preliberal democracy.

Preliberal democracy accepts the practice of regular elections but rejects most of the core values of liberalism: free speech and moral tolerance, civil liberties and the rights of the accused, the rule of law and independence of courts, the equality of women and so on. Turkey un-

der the long reign of Recep Tayyip Erdogan typifies this type of democracy, as did Egypt under the short reign of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi.

Postliberal democracy, by contrast, embraces the values of liberalism but tries to insulate itself from the will of the people. The European Union, with its vast architecture of transnational legislation, is one example of postliberalism; international courts, issuing rulings where they have no jurisdiction, are another; global environmental accords, like the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement (signed by the Obama administration but never ratified by Congress), are a third.

Standing between these two models is old-fashioned liberal democracy. Its task is to manage the tension, or temper the opposition, between competing imperatives: to accept majority will and protect individual rights, to defend a nation’s sovereignty while maintaining a spirit of openness, to preserve its foundational principles while adapting to change. If the frustration of liberal democracy is that it tends to proceed in half-steps, its virtue is that it advances on more secure footing.

That’s the ideal that much of the West essentially abandoned in recent years. On the political left but also the center-right, postliberal policymaking largely determined the outcome of the two most basic political questions: First, who is “us”? And second, who decides for us?

of their own country or asked to pay a share of their taxes for the benefit of newcomers they never agreed to welcome in the first place or extend tolerance to those who don’t always show tolerance in return or be told to shut their mouths over some of the more shocking instances of migrant criminality.

What most of these voters are feeling isn’t racism. It’s indignation at having their normal and appropriate political concerns dismissed as racism. And as long as politicians and pundits of the traditional political establishment treat them as racists, the far right is going to continue to rise and flourish.

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Merkel never sought the approval of German voters to relax the country’s immigration laws and take in nearly 1 million people over the space of a year. Americans didn’t elect President Joe Biden on any promise to let in millions of migrants over the southern border. Post-Brexit Britons never thought they’d bring in an astounding 4.5 million immigrants to a country of just 69 million between 2021 and 2024 — under Tory leaders, no less.

No wonder the reaction to years of postliberal governance has been a broad turn to its preliberal opposite. Not all right-wing populist parties are the same, and there are meaningful differences between, say, the illdisguised fascism of the Alternative for Germany and the pragmatic conservatism of Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister. But all of them have risen on the same core complaint: that postliberal governments used obscure legal mechanisms or simply ignored the law to attempt a social transformation without society’s explicit consent. In America, it’s called replacement theory.

Liberals and progressives typically dismiss replacement theory as antisemitic, racist demagoguery, and no doubt there are plenty of bigots who believe it. But maybe some measure of understanding ought to be extended to ordinary voters who merely wonder why they should be made to feel like unwelcome outsiders in parts

There’s something partisans of the center-right and center-left could do: Instead of discreetly murmuring that, say, Merkel or Biden got immigration policy wrong or that it was morally and economically right but politically foolish, they can grasp the point that control over borders is a sine qua non of national sovereignty, that mass migration without express legislative consent is politically intolerable, that migrants ought to be expected to accept, not reject, the values of the host country and that hosts should not be expected to adapt themselves to values at odds with a liberal society.

At that point, hopefully, the values of liberal democracy — including an appreciation of the virtues of immigrants — might begin to reassert themselves. Until then, the preliberal tide will continue to surge.

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Sorteada la papeleta para elección especial en el Distrito 31

POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – La Comisión Estatal de Elecciones (CEE) definió este jueves las posiciones en la papeleta de la elección especial que se celebrará el 28 de septiembre para llenar la vacante de representante por el Distrito 31, que cubre Caguas y Gurabo, tras la renuncia de Vimarie Peña Dávila. El primer turno en la papeleta será para Roberto López, seguido por José Cabán en la segunda posición, Alberto Fra-

dera en la tercera, Ana María Margarita Ruíz Ramos en la cuarta y Michael López Saldaña en la quinta.

“Como ocurrió en la pasada elección especial, que transcurrió sin ningún tipo de señalamiento, no tenemos la menor duda que la Comisión está lista nuevamente para celebrar esta elección de manera ordenada, confiable y ágil, garantizando que prevalezca la voluntad del electorado del Distrito 31”, expresó el presidente de la CEE, Jorge Rivera Rueda, en declaraciones escritas.

Por su parte, el comisionado electoral del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), Aníbal Vega Borges, recordó que podrán votar los electores afiliados a ese partido con domicilio en los precintos 82 y 84.

La CEE informó que los electores interesados en participar tendrán hasta el viernes 12 de septiembre para inscribirse, reactivarse o realizar cambios en su estatus electoral. El voto adelantado confinado será el 26 de septiembre y el escrutinio el lunes 29.

Arrestan a sujeto por supuesta exposición indecente en avión

septiembre de 2025.

SAN JUAN – El agente especial a cargo del Negociado

Federal de Investigaciones (FBI) Devin Kowalski anunció el miércoles arresto de Antonio Margaro Torres por supuesta exposición obscena o indecente a bordo de un avión.

Según Kowalski el supuesto incidente ocurrió el 2 de

“El involucrarse en conductas que puedan poner en riesgo la operación segura de una aeronave y agredir a oficiales del orden público nunca será tolerado. Quiero ser claro: el FBI siempre perseguirá cargos federales contra cualquier persona que ponga en peligro la seguridad pública en nuestros cielos o intente dañar a los hombres y mujeres juramentados para protegerla”, expresó Kowalski en declaraciones escritas.

Mencionó que cualquier persona con información sobre este caso debe comunicarse con la Oficina de San Juan al 787-987-6500 o a través del portal de querellas en internet: tips.fbi.gov. Las confidencias pueden hacerse de forma anónima.

Five horror movies to stream now

By ERIK PIEPENBURG

This month’s terrors come from stalkers, a witch, a slimy creature — and low blood sugar.

‘Mia’

Writer-director Luis Ferrer has guts. Not the red and viscous kind you usually see in horror, but the kind it takes to make a deeply unsettling psychological thriller that embraces being small and speaks in silence and whispers, not screams.

rror genres — isolation, survival, occult, folk and even found footage — to deliver a macabre tale of witchcraft set in the wilderness.

The story begins as five young women drive to the far-north Canadian Barren Lands to look for a mysterious cabin that supposedly disappeared decades ago. A storm ends up separating them, landing Madison (Anna Shields, Wemple’s writing partner) in a cabin that she thinks may be the haunted one.

There, she’s reunited with Talia (Kaitlyn Lunardi), who seems mostly unfazed by their fate, the first clue that something’s amiss. The second? Those stick figures that were fashioned by a witchy hand and hung in a window.

Wemple cranks up the dread and the body horror as days turn to weeks and the spell that Madison and Talia seem to be under turns darker. (The headbanging scene is a knockout, the amateur tracheotomy, less so.) The action stays at a boil over 80 brisk minutes, right to the nutso ending. (Stream it on Tubi.)

‘Drop’

nar), at a fancy restaurant atop a Chicago skyscraper. Their dinner goes off the rails as Violet gets mysterious texts and photo drops on her phone from a stranger who says he will kill her young son at home unless she murders her date.

As in his slasher comedy “Happy Death Day,” Landon finds the right balance between scary and silly. Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach’s script gets progressively more preposterous as Violet repeatedly excuses herself from the table to obey the dire commands on her phone. (Jeffery Self is a delight as a nervousNellie server.) The finale is eye-rolling, but if you’re at home pigging out on your Summerween candy, you probably won’t care. (Stream it on Peacock.)

‘Pins and Needles’

My mom is diabetic, so I’m familiar with how scary a sugar crash (or spike) can be for her and for me. As awful as that experience is, I’m not mad that writer-director James Villeneuve uses the threat of an insulin deficit as the gimmicky defining terror in his wily new thriller. (Should my mom see it? Absolutely not.)

basement. What’s worse, they have the car with Max’s insulin in it.

Most of the taut 95 minutes of this film focus on the resourceful Max, who munches on a snack bar as she tiptoes down dark hallways and in the corners of the Frankenstein-like laboratory. Catand-mouse stuff can get old fast, but the script’s nifty twists make this a diverting watch. (Stream it on Tubi.)

‘Monster Island’

This “Creature From the Black Lagoon”-inspired movie reminded me of the old-school creature features I grew up watching on Saturday afternoon TV. Only this one’s not for kiddos.

Set during World War II, the film follows two prisoners, a Japanese soldier (Dean Fujioka) and a British prisoner of war (Callum Woodhouse), who wash up on an island. They’re barefoot, shackled and separated by language.

Also, they’re not alone. Living and dead soldiers dot the beach, but beyond the sand stalks something truly sinister: a slimy green Orang Ikan, a mythological sea beast that looks like the “Alien” alien mixed with the angry, hungry thing from “Humongous.”

Writer-director Mike Wiluan tries to deliver a message about enemies forced to work together to overcome a mutual foe that is far more sinister than anything they’ve witnessed on the battlefield. But all that gets muddied in a convoluted script and overshadowed by my main reasons to watch: Fujioka and Woodhouse’s intense performances, a killer creature costume (created by Allan B. Holt and Movie Monsters Inc.) and a doozy of a final showdown between man and monster. (Stream it on Shudder.) The San Juan Daily Star September 5-7, 2025 11

In the nearly wordless opening stretch of “Mia,” we watch as Aaron (Shah Motia), a middle-aged drifter, nervously tools around small-town streets before tailing Brenda (Julie Lucido) and her teenage daughter, Emma (Emiliana Jasper), to the motel where they’re staying. Aaron soon abducts Emma, an attack that takes place on the margins of the frame, as do many other scenes in this disorienting and confined-feeling film.

Aaron thinks the girl is Mia, the daughter he’s been desperately searching for since she was kidnapped 12 years earlier. Emma thinks he’s crazy — until she starts to wonder if perhaps he’s right. Whose memory is right? I won’t say more because the surprises of this humanely observed and tenderly acted two-hander are best experienced cold. (Rent or buy it on Amazon Prime Video.)

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Meghann Fahy gives a dandy performance (as she did on the recent Netflix dramedy “Sirens”) as Violet, a widowed mom who goes on a date with a handsome photographer, Henry (Brandon Skle -

The film follows what happens when a young graduate student named Max (a no-nonsense Chelsea Clark) and two friends get a flat tire near a remote modernist estate and seek help there. No sooner do the friendly homeowners get back than a shocking act of violence occurs as Max watches. The couple (the cartoonishly directed Ryan McDonald and Kate Corbett) run a depraved human harvesting enterprise out of their

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US small-cap stocks break out, but for how long?

Long-lagging U.S. small-cap stocks are having a moment in the sun, but the interest rate outlook, the strength of their earnings and the health of the economy will help determine whether they are experiencing a new dawn or another false start.

The small-cap Russell 2000 surged 7% in August versus a nearly 2% rise for the S&P 500, the stock market benchmark. The Russell index dipped as September kicked off this week on a sour note for stocks, but its recent strength put it within about 4% of its November 2021 record closing high.

However, the S&P 500 is on pace to beat the Russell 2000’s annual performance for the 10th time in the past 12 years, a period that has seen the large-cap index more than double the gains of the small-cap gauge.

“They have underperformed relative to large caps for eons ... so you get to a point where the bar to clear is pretty darn low,” said Jordan Irving, a small-cap portfolio manager at Glenmede Investment Management.

Small caps are central to many strategies that would benefit from a broadening of stocks leading the rally. Investors in recent years have piled into huge technology and growth stocks, which have pushed equity indexes higher but raised worries that the bull market is too concentrated in megacap shares.

While tech is a dominant sector in the S&P 500, the Russell 2000 is more heavily influenced by areas such as financials and industrials that have lagged tech.

Critical to recent small-cap gains are growing expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts because smaller companies are more reliant on debt financing and stand to benefit more from lower borrowing costs, investors said.

The Russell 2000 had its biggest one-day gain in more than four months on August 22, when Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech was interpreted as paving the way for an imminent cut. In the week after Powell’s remarks, BofA clients posted the second-largest weekly inflows into small-cap stocks and ETFs, the bank said, citing data going back to 2008.

While a rate cut is widely projected at the Fed meeting on September 16-17, the extent of further expected easing could sway small-cap performance, with employment data on Friday to test the rate outlook.

If more monetary easing occurs than is currently priced in, “that can be enough to unleash those discounted valuations and that pent-up demand for the small-cap asset class,” said Angelo Kourkafas, senior global investment strategist at Edward Jones.Ailing long-dated sovereign bonds around the world caught a break yesterday on a mix of soft U.S. jobs signals, decent auction buying and ebbing oil prices. The bond bounce and Federal Reserve easing speculation added to Alphabet’s near 10% surge on its antitrust win to lift Wall Street stocks again on Wednesday, with index futures up again ahead of Thursday’s bell. The day ahead brings another stream of labor market updates ahead of Friday’s critical August payrolls report.

* Fed futures rallied to fully price a quarter point interest rate cut later this month after news of falling U.S. job openings added to a downbeat readout from the central bank’s ‘Beige Book’ on economic conditions and relatively dovish sound-

MOST ASSERTIVE STOCKS

ings from Fed officials. Two-year Treasury yields hit a fourmonth low. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday to consider President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Fed board Stephen Miran while central bankers around the world fretted about potential threats to Fed independence.

* Long-dated government bond yields around the world pulled back from record or multi-year highs on Thursday in tandem with the 10 basis point slide in 30-year Treasuries from yesterday’s 5% peak, with Japan’s 30-year equivalent also getting a break after a bond sale there drew enough demand to calm the horses despite being the lowest bid-to-offer

rate since June. UK 30-year gilts rallied too with a 20bp drop in yields from Wednesday’s highs. The dollar was firmer.

* Japan and the United States are in the final stages of talks to implement lower tariffs on Japanese automobile imports within 10-14 days after a U.S. presidential executive order. Japanese stocks rallied, but Chinese stocks sharply underperformed generally higher world stocks - falling the most in nearly five months after media reports of possible regulatory curbs on speculation.

Today’s column explores why the so-called ‘Fed put’ may not work for long-maturity bonds and why lower central bank rates could actually aggravate the problem.

Trump administration says boat strike is start of campaign against Venezuelan cartels

By ERIC SCHMITT, HELENE COOPER, ALAN FEUER, CHARLIE SAVAGE and EDWARD WONG

The Trump administration declared the start of a new and potentially violent campaign against Venezuelan cartels earlier this week, defending a deadly U.S. military strike on a boat that officials said was carrying drugs even as specialists in the law of war questioned the legality of the attack.

The U.S. Navy has long intercepted and boarded ships suspected of smuggling drugs in international waters, typically with a Coast Guard officer temporarily in charge to invoke law enforcement authority. Tuesday’s direct attack in the Caribbean was a marked departure from that decades-long approach.

The administration has said 11 people were aboard the vessel. It was unclear whether they were given a chance to surrender before the United States attacked.

The Trump administration has not offered any legal rationale. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday that administration officials “knew exactly who was in that boat” and “exactly what they were doing,” although he did not offer evidence.

“President Trump is willing to go on offense in ways that others have not seen,” he added.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a news conference in Mexico City that seizing drug shipments in recent years had not dissuaded cartels and traffickers. “What will stop them is when we blow up and get rid of them,” he said.

But some officials at the Defense Department privately expressed concern Wednesday about the administration’s shifting narratives, including where the vessel was headed. Rubio had said Tuesday that it was going to Trinidad, while President Donald Trump said it was the United States. On Wednesday, Rubio changed his version, saying the drug-laden boat was bound for the United States.

The secretary said in Mexico City that drug cartels and traffickers, including those on the boat, “pose an immediate threat to the United States, period.”

Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters.

On Tuesday, Trump said on social media that 11 members of the Tren de Aragua gang, whom he called “Narco terrorists,”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends President Donald Trump’s announcement regarding relocating the Space Force headquarters, in Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. Hegseth warned in an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday that a deadly U.S. military strike on a boat officials said was carrying drugs in the Caribbean was the start of a campaign against Venezuelan cartels. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)

were killed in the strike.

Trump’s post was accompanied by a video of what appeared to be a speedboat cutting through the water, with a number of people on board. An explosion then appears to blow it up.

Congress has not authorized any armed conflict against Tren de Aragua or Venezuela, and several legal experts said they were unaware of any precedent for claiming that a country could invoke self-defense as a basis to target drug trafficking suspects with lethal force.

The Trump administration has deemed several gangs and drug cartels to be terrorist organizations, including Tren de Aragua, and Rubio earlier maintained that this meant the government could use military force against them. But as a matter of law, that is inaccurate: Such designations allow the government to sanction such groups, including by freezing their assets, but do not authorize combat activity against them.

One senior U.S. official said a Special

Operations aircraft — either an attack helicopter or an MQ-9 Reaper drone — carried out the attack after U.S. surveillance aircraft and other sensors, including electronic eavesdropping platforms, monitored cartel maritime traffic for weeks before the strike.

“We have tapes of them speaking,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “There was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people, and everybody fully understands that. In fact, you see it, you see the bags of drugs all over the boat, and they were hit. Obviously they won’t be doing it again.”

Trump’s post Tuesday was accompanied by the only video released depicting what the administration says took place. It appears to show a long speedboat moving briskly through open water when an apparent explosion causes the craft to burst into flames. The video is mostly black and white; it is not clear enough to see how many people are on the boat or whether it is carrying drugs. A Defense Department official questioned whether a boat that size could hold 11 people.

It is also unclear why the military did not interdict the boat instead of blowing it up. In the past, the Coast Guard and even the U.S. Navy have interdicted boats bound for the United States with drugs, detaining and prosecuting the crew.

Senior congressional Democrats said Wednesday that stopping the spread of drugs was a top priority, but not in the way Trump was doing it.

“The administration has not identified the authority under which this action was taken, raising the question of its legality and constitutionality,” said Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, the senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. “The lack of information and transparency from the administration is even more concerning.”

A former senior federal law enforcement official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military matter, said the attack was a “significant change” in U.S. anti-narcotics operations.

“In all of my years of doing this,” the former official said, “I’ve never seen the U.S. military say, ‘OK, this is a drug shipment,’ and then just blow

it up.”

Trump signed a still-secret directive last month instructing the Pentagon to use military force against some Latin American drug cartels that his administration has labeled “terrorist” organizations.

Around the same time, the administration declared that a Venezuelan criminal group was a terrorist organization and that Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, was its leader, while calling his government illegitimate.

In recent days, Maduro has accused Rubio of trying to drag Trump into a bloody war in the Caribbean, one that the Venezuelan leader said would stain Trump’s reputation.

Amid the belligerent rhetoric, the Pentagon has been amassing a small armada of warships in the southern Caribbean, to include three guided-missile destroyers. The Navy has also deployed the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group — including the USS San Antonio, the USS Iwo Jima and the USS Fort Lauderdale, carrying 4,500 sailors — and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, with 2,200 Marines, Defense Department officials said. Several P-8 surveillance planes and at least one submarine have also deployed to the region, officials said.

Officials have indicated that blowing up boats suspected of transporting drugs is not the only way the U.S. military could go after cartels. Special Operations troops could also target drug operatives believed to be of higher intelligence value in seize-and-capture missions, they said.

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Giorgio Armani, fashion’s master of the power suit, dies at 91

By GUY TREBAY

Giorgio Armani, a designer who rewrote the rules of fashion not once but twice in his lifetime, died Thursday at his home in Milan. He was 91.

His death was announced by his company, the Armani Group, which said he had been working “until his final days.”

A reluctant designer but an instinctive empire builder, Armani initially became a household name by adapting a custom from traditional Neapolitan tailors: softening the internal structure of a man’s suit to reveal the body inside. Simply by removing shoulder pads and canvas linings, Armani devised what in the early 1980s became a new male uniform, the easy and almost louche sensuality of which soon enough found favor among a female clientele.

“All the women of my generation, including Hillary Clinton, were wearing jeans in the 1960s,” said Deborah Nadoolman Landis, a costume designer and historian, and founding director and chair of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at UCLA. “But where do you go from Woodstock? How do you professionalize that look when those women start entering the workforce? You professionalize it by wearing a feminized suit from Armani.”

Androgynous, luxurious, positioned somewhere between the stuffy establishment attire popular among male executives at the time and the prim skirt suits favored by many professional women, Armani’s designs offered an alternative form of power dressing.

For a time, in Wall Street corner offices, Madison Avenue boardrooms and the executive suites of many Hollywood talent agencies, an Armani suit was the default uniform of authority, an occupational armor rendered in crepe or cashmere and cast in a somber palette from which the designer would seldom stray.

“Armani is one of those, like Coco Chanel with the little black dress, as important for what he contributed socially through dress as for what he specifically designed,” said Harold Koda, a former head curator of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art who was a curator, with Germano Celant, of an Armani retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2000.

Early to embrace and mythologize Armani, the fashion press was initially magnetized by him as much for his cinematic good looks — piercing blue eyes, a mahogany tan and an athletic physique he would enjoy displaying well into his 80s — as for the assured yet ascetic aura he projected at a time when

fashion designers had begun to emerge as pop culture celebrities in their own right. In the Italian media, he was lionized as “King Giorgio.”

Eventually, the fashion flock would move on from a design vocabulary his critics occasionally derided as repetitive and out of step. Yet if this troubled Armani, he never let on, possibly because the colossal advertising budgets deployed by his family-held company (which in 2023 posted revenues of $2.65 billion) all but guaranteed his work would receive lavish and largely reverent coverage in the press. As it turned out, the unruffled selfassurance he maintained was validated when, in recent years, the pendulum swung back to the styles of the 1980s, and Armani was once again lauded as a style prophet.

Alliance with stardom

Although anything but camera shy, Armani nevertheless viewed himself less as a performer in what he once termed “the movie of life” than as its presiding spirit. And cinema, as he declared in “Made in Milan” (1990), a 20-minute documentary about him directed by Martin Scorsese, had always been his true love.

“I would like to have been a director,” Armani said in the film. “The passion is still in my blood.”

In certain ways, it was this passion for the movie world, and for a constantly changing roster of the genetically favored, that would result in what is generally considered Armani’s most durable contribution to his field and his second recasting of fashion’s canon. Sooner and perhaps better than anyone else in the industry, he aligned himself with movie stars and their putative glamour, in the process making his name all but synonymous with redcarpet dressing.

By now, the symbiosis of celebrity and fashion is so institutionalized that few are surprised to see stars stepping out for designers as glamorous and well-remunerated sandwich boards. But Armani was among the first to court them, going so far as to establish a corporate beachhead in Hollywood to identify and cater to the sartorial needs of the occupationally fabulous.

“Giorgio started the whole thing of giving clothes to celebrated people, public figures,” said model and actor Lauren Hutton, who portrayed a senator’s wife in “American Gigolo” (1980), the film often credited with introducing Armani’s designs to a mainstream public. “Designers really didn’t give away clothes back then.”

Yet Armani did so, and lavishly, with the result that movie stars such as Michelle Pfeiffer, whom he referred to as an early muse,

Giorgio Armani, before a fashion show in New York, Feb. 2, 1993. Armani, a designer who rewrote the rules of fashion not once but twice in his lifetime, has died. He was 91. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times).

could be relied upon to appear at awards shows in clothes that boosted their currency in the emerging realm of fashion as mass entertainment.

“I was one of the first designers to dress stars on and off screen,” Armani told the British newspaper The Telegraph in 2013. “They didn’t always have a particular style, or the dress sense to know what to wear for an occasion. I helped them feel more confident and relaxed.”

A household name

Fittingly, it was through film that Armani first entered mainstream consciousness as a designer, when critics and audiences alike thrilled to a scene in which a bare-chested young Richard Gere, portraying a high-end escort, selects his evening’s wardrobe from an array of sensual earth-tone suits and knit ties in Paul Schrader’s noir tale “American Gigolo.”

In that film, Gere “succeeded in displaying the sensual, natural feel of my style and the new relationship between the garment and the body it represented,” Armani told The Telegraph in 2013.

“Thanks in part to that film, my label rapidly became a household name,” he added, notwithstanding an ongoing debate about whether, in truth, Gere wore anything by the designer on screen.

Unquestioned is the effect Gere’s bristling, insolent sexuality in “American Gigolo” had on men’s fashion, and the shift it triggered in the rules of dressing. This was as true in the sports arena as in the boardroom, as witnessed by the elevation of Pat Riley, then head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, from the arena sidelines onto the cover of GQ.

Armani’s designs would be seen on screen as well as off, worn by stars such as Sean Connery and Robert De Niro in “The Untouchables” (1987); by Christian Bale and Michael Keaton in separate iterations of the “Batman” franchise; by Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013); and by Don

Johnson in the hit 1980s police drama “Miami Vice,” in which a pale Armani jacket over a Tshirt created another new template for casual attire.

And he would prove himself an instinctive and canny industrialist, one whose name would be attached to multiple clothing lines, fragrances, cosmetics, shoes, watches, jewelry, hotels and restaurants; as many as 250 movie, opera and theater productions; and uniforms worn by Alitalia flight attendants and English and German soccer teams — and whose business model (20% of the products earn 80% of the profits) became a standard element of training in fashion academies.

An interest in medicine

Giorgio Armani was born July 11, 1934, in Piacenza, a town on the Po River about 45 miles south of Milan. He was the middle of three children of Maria Raimondi and Ugo Armani. His father was employed before and during World War II as a clerk in the offices of the local Fascist party.

Movies were Armani’s first love. He often attended them with his father, finding in the darkened cinema his one reliable means of escape from the terrors of life in wartime Italy. Early in life, these were anything but remote abstractions; when Allied forces began a concerted bombing campaign in 1940, strafing Italy north to south from Turin to Naples, his family home was struck by a shell.

Although the family emerged unscathed, Armani was severely injured shortly after the end of the war when a live mine detonated on a street near his home and set him ablaze. He was not yet 10.

He eventually recovered, the single visible reminder of the incident a scar where a shoe had burned into his foot. As a result of the experience, he would later set his mind on pursuing a career in medicine, which he had come to view as a noble and selfless profession.

“A.J. Cronin’s books about being a country doctor made a deep impression on me,” he wrote in his autobiography, titled simply “Giorgio Armani” (2015). “I loved the idea of a person who saved the lives of the elderly and the young alike.”

Educated initially at the Liceo Scientifico Respighi in Piacenza, Armani moved with his family to Milan in the late 1940s and, after high school, studied medicine at the University of Milan. After a brief and unpromising stint there, he broke off his studies to join the army; owing to his medical training, he was assigned to work in an infirmary. There was little enough about his beginnings to suggest his eventual trajectory.

US and Mexico vow to fight crime while respecting sovereignty

By EDWARD WONG

The United States and Mexico said earlier this week that they would move forward with security cooperation to dismantle organized crime groups, focusing on drugtrafficking cartels, and to limit migration while respecting each other’s “sovereignty.”

That seemed to indicate that the Trump administration could limit unilateral cross-border actions against suspected criminals. President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico had made clear that any U.S. incursions would be unacceptable.

The announcement came in a joint statement after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Sheinbaum at her office in Mexico City on Wednesday morning, along with Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico’s foreign minister, and its security minister, Omar García Harfuch.

The statement lacked details, except to say that the governments would form a bilateral “high level” group to coordinate actions.

“We both understand that cartels are a threat to the national security of both Mexico and the U.S.,” Rubio said at a news conference, adding that the governments were engaged in “cooperation that respects the integrity and sovereignty of both countries.”

Rubio praised Mexico for arresting dozens of people whom the U.S. government considers to be “high-value targets” and transporting them to the United States to face drugtrafficking charges.

“There’s no other government that’s cooperating as much with us in the fight against crime as Mexico,” Rubio said.

Sheinbaum wrote on social media later Wednesday that she had had a “cordial meeting” with Rubio, and that the two governments had reached an understanding on security cooperation after months of discussions.

De la Fuente praised the joint anti-crime efforts between the two countries, while saying there are “particularly sensitive and complex” issues in the relationship that the nations needed to handle carefully. He said that as long as the governments respect “each country’s sovereignty, each country’s territorial integrity,” the cooperation would be fruitful.

A soldier assigned to the Joint Task Force/Southern Border provides surveillance at the US border wall in Douglas, Ariz., April 21, 2025. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)

Sheinbaum and her aides have been trying to cooperate with the Trump administration on major issues, notably counternarcotics efforts and limits on migration. But they are also trying to project resistance to what many Mexicans consider to be bullying by an American leader.

Sheinbaum also aims to show that her administration is willing to investigate powerful political figures in Mexico who have been linked to the drug trade.

Rubio is making his third trip to Latin America as secretary of state and has scheduled meetings in Mexico and Ecuador. While representing Florida as a Republican senator for 14 years, he tried to shape policy across Latin America, taking a hard line on Cuba, where his parents are from, and on Venezuela.

Rubio praised the U.S. military’s lethal strike on Tuesday against a boat in the Caribbean. Trump said that the boat was being used by drug traffickers traveling from Venezuela and that 11 people had been killed.

He and Rubio gave different accounts of the likely destination of the boat on Tuesday — Rubio said it was probably going to Trinidad and Tobago or elsewhere in the Caribbean, while Trump said it was bound for the United States.

At the news conference in Mexico City on Wednesday, Rubio said that the boat’s eventual destination was the United States, and that destroying such vessels was necessary to stop drug shipments.

“What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them,” he said, adding that Trump aimed to “wage war” on drug cartels.

Rubio said criminal groups and the traffickers working for them, including those on the boat Tuesday, “pose an immediate threat to the United States, period.” Trump can use any means to end the threat, he said.

“Instead of interdicting it, on the president’s orders,” he said, the United States blew up the boat. “And it’ll happen again.”

Trump has tried to project greater U.S. power across the Americas. He has also threatened the governments of Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama.

Trump and Rubio say Mexico must crack down harder on drug cartels, even though law enforcement agencies under Sheinbaum have made many more arrests compared to those of recent administrations. Trump has said the cartels are responsible for the fentanyl addiction problem in the United States.

Trump has signed a directive ordering the Pentagon to take military action against certain Latin American drug cartels that the administration has labeled terrorist organizations.

Several large Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, are among the criminal groups in Latin America that the State Department in February designated foreign terrorist organizations.

Mexican officials are asking their U.S. counterparts to clamp down on the flow of weapons from the United States to Mexico. Mexican cartels are using military-grade weapons in combat with one another and against law enforcement agencies.

Rubio said Wednesday that ending the arms shipments would be one focus of the new coordination group.

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La propiedad propuesta para el proyecto ubica dentro de un Distrito R-I, Residencial Intermedio, según el Mapa de Calificación de Suelo de Caguas. La solicitud se evaluará a tenor con las reglas 6.1.3, 6.3.1, 2.1.10 y las secciones aplicables del Capítulo 8.5 del Reglamento Conjunto.

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Inside Trump’s unorthodox climate attacks in courts nationwide

President Donald Trump participates in the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation summit in Pittsburgh, July 15, 2025. The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on “polluter pays” laws and lawsuits that try to force fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate change. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

By KAREN ZRAICK

The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on “polluter pays” laws and lawsuits that try to force fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate change.

There are dozens of these legal fights playing out nationwide. They have become increasingly significant as the Trump administration weakens federal efforts to fight global warming.

The latest move came last Friday, when the Justice Department asked a judge to permanently block New York state from enacting its new Climate Change Superfund Act, a law requiring oil companies to pay billions of dollars to fund projects to protect against intensifying heat, floods, wildfires and other damage from climate change.

“New York has declared war on those responsible for supplying our nation with reliable and affordable energy,” lawyers for the Justice Department wrote.

A senior adviser to Gov. Kathy Hochul, Ken Lovett, shot back that the law was intended to “protect everyday New Yorkers, not corporate polluters” and accused the Justice Department of “federal overreach.”

The Justice Department had sued New York over its law this year, and also Vermont, the only other state with a climate superfund law. Similar laws have been proposed in California, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

In other actions, the Justice Department this year also took aim at Hawaii and Michigan with a highly unusual

legal tactic: It preemptively sued both of those states to try to prevent them from suing oil companies.

Many legal experts were especially taken aback by these two lawsuits, which represented a particularly unorthodox attempt to stop the growing number of suits filed by state and local governments. Suing to block another party from suing is an extraordinary move.

It may not have gone as planned. Hawaii filed its lawsuit the very next day, while Michigan’s attorney general vowed not to “be bullied” as she decides whether to do so.

In the Hawaii lawsuit, the state alleges that BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other companies covered up what they knew about climate change and should help bear the costs of the resulting damage. Numerous other states and communities have filed similar lawsuits.

The defendants have asked the court to stop the proceedings while the Justice Department’s lawsuit unfolds.

When the suit was announced, Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii said that it was about “shifting the costs of surviving the climate crisis back where they belong, and protecting Hawaii citizens.” The complaint noted the state’s vulnerability to flooding and the increased risk of blazes like the deadly 2023 Maui wildfires.

Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. a lawyer for Chevron, said that Hawaii’s lawsuit “ignores that Hawaii is the most petroleum-dependent state in the country,” according to federal data, and noted that a state law deems adequate supplies of petroleum “essential” for the health and safety of its population. Elise Otten, a spokesperson for Exxon Mobil, struck

a similar note, calling Hawaii’s suit “a real head scratcher” because of the state’s reliance on petroleum-powered ships to import goods.

The Trump administration and its allies say that climate-change lawsuits like these threaten the American energy industry and, by extension, national security.

There is also a brewing effort to get Congress to pass a federal shield law protecting fossil fuel companies from litigation, similar to the measure that immunizes gun manufacturers. In a letter to the Justice Department in June, 16 Republican state attorneys general asked the administration for such protections for the fossil fuel industry.

The Justice Department declined to comment on the letter.

The Republican attorneys general also suggested restricting federal funding for states that impose climatechange liability on energy companies. That would apply to New York and Vermont because of their Climate Superfund laws.

Industry trade groups and Republican attorneys general have also filed their own lawsuits against “polluter pays” climate measures. Their position, like those taken by the companies and the Justice Department, is that the measures amount to de facto regulations on emissions, and that federal laws overrule states on matters related to climate change. They also argue that imposing penalties on industry would drive up the prices people pay to fuel their cars or heat their homes.

That, however, is up for dispute. In a recently filed amicus brief in the Vermont case, several economic experts who support the law argued that energy prices are driven by supply and demand and the cost of production, not by one-time payments of the sort that would be required by the law. The group included Joseph Stiglitz, an economist at Columbia University who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001.

“This conclusion is based on established and wellaccepted economic principles,” they wrote, adding that the government’s claims “are inconsistent with both economic theory and experience.”

The states have also argued that the measures are within their authority to protect their citizens. In Vermont, two environmental groups, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont and the Conservation Law Foundation, have backed the state’s superfund law, calling it “a constitutional exercise of Vermont’s traditional sovereign authority to raise revenue and protect the health, safety, and well-being of its residents.”

The climate-change lawsuits filed against oil companies — roughly three dozen in total since 2017, all making similar arguments but with differing claims and defendants — are winding their way through state courts around the country. Exxon Mobil and Suncor last month petitioned the Supreme Court to revisit a decision by Colorado’s highest court allowing Boulder’s lawsuit to continue.

The Supreme Court has previously declined several requests to take up the cases, perhaps because they remain

in early stages. None has gone to trial yet. After years of procedural fights over whether they belong in federal or state courts, some are now advancing. Nevertheless, any trials quite likely remain years away, if they ever happen.

The next court hearing to watch will come in October, when the Maryland Supreme Court is expected to hear an appeal brought by Baltimore after its case was dismissed by a lower-court judge. The Justice Department submitted an amicus brief in that case in July, urging the justices to affirm the dismissal.

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The liability shield they have proposed for fossil fuel companies is modeled on a 2005 law that protects gun manufacturers from litigation when their guns are used in crimes.

Several attorneys general who signed the letter did not respond to requests for comments about it, nor did several Republican leaders in Congress. Industry groups have said an immunity shield is

not their first priority.

Still, the idea has already met resistance from environmental groups and local governments. “It’s a nonstop effort by the oil and gas industry to somehow get a get-out-of-jail-free card in regard to these cases,” said Richard Wiles, president of the nonprofit Center for Climate Integrity, which supports the litigation.

This year, nearly 200 nonprofit groups signed a letter to Democratic leaders asking them to oppose a liability shield.

And, over the summer, the National Association of Counties, which includes

more than 3,000 counties, passed a resolution opposing “any legislation that would limit or preempt counties’ access to courts or give companies immunity from lawsuits over damages and costs.” The resolution noted that extreme weather events were straining municipal budgets and resources.

“There’s growing harm to all corners of the country,” said Brigid Shea, commissioner of Travis County, Texas, who sponsored the resolution. “And yet, there hasn’t been the political will to take the actions necessary. So accessing the courts is one of the few tools in our toolbox.”

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BIMBA Y LOLA and Café Caleta showed off this summer with touches from Spain

By JUDY GORDON-CONDE and JENNIFER CONDEPOWERS

An exciting event took place in Old San Juan with BIMBA Y LOLA, a creative fashion collective from Spain and the iconic Café Caleta, joined together to share an immersive summer experience, with a beachy atmosphere – all with the signature BIMBA style. Stylish guests enjoyed the music and cocktails – featuring authentic Mallorcan pomadas and tinto de verano wines – hosted by Alejandra García, aka La Madrileña, co-founder and owner of the restaurant.

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Under the radar New Zealand wines to seek out now

By SIMON ELEGANT

The modern history of New Zealand wine is surprisingly short, particularly here on the South Island, home to regions including Central Otago and North Canterbury that, in just a few decades, have shown themselves capable of producing stunning wines.

Only in the 1960s, at the same time Napa Valley in California was beginning its ascent, did New Zealand make it legal to drink wine in restaurants. In the 1970s, the government sponsored a program to transform vineyards, pulling out lackluster hybrid grapes that had been used to make cheap fortified wines, which accounted for the vast proportion of production, and replacing them with vinifera, the species of all the best-known wine grapes.

Still, by 1998, when Napa’s cult cabernets were making themselves irresistible to wealthy consumers, only about 10 vineyards existed in Central Otago, a region better known for its access to winter sports in the mountain range known as the Southern Alps.

“Vineyards were met with a degree of incredulity,” said Duncan Forsyth, proprietor of Mount Edward Winery in Gibbston in Central Otago, who arrived in the region in 1992 to ski and never left. “There was a disbelief you could grow grapes.”

New Zealand today is best known for its sharp, pungent sauvignon blancs, particularly those from the Marlborough region in the northeastern-most part of the South Island. Those have proved wildly popular around the world, but they are most often mass-produced commodities and, to my mind, a rather limited calling card for a country capable of producing such distinctive wines.

In a week touring the South Island this year, focusing on the Central Otago and North Canterbury regions, I was far more interested in the superb pinot noirs, chardonnays, rieslings and chenin blancs I found, as well as a host of other wines that, depending on a winemaker’s interests and explorations, were often excellent.

New Zealand was the sixth largest wine exporter in the world by value in 2023, according to Tendata, a trade analyst. The United States was the No. 1 market for those exports, at least before President Donald Trump’s recently imposed 15% tariff on the country’s products. Of the New Zealand wine imported into the United States, 93% was white, and 85% of those white wines were sauvignon blanc. Not a lot of the other wines are available to Americans.

That means you might have to search long and hard for some of the best wines I tried, from producers including Mount Edward, Rippon, Felton Road, Two Paddocks and Burn Cottage from Central Otago, and Black Estate, Pyramid Valley and the Hermit Ram in North Canterbury. Some of my favorite producers such as Sato Wines, which makes pure, precise wines in Central Otago, and Bell Hill Vineyards in North Canterbury, which makes world-class pinot noirs and chardonnays, are barely imported at all into the United States.

In Central Otago, Rippon was present at the creation of the region’s wine history. The estate dates to 1895, when the

A sweeping view of Rippon Vineyard, on the shore of Lake Wanaka in the Central Otago region of New Zealand, June 17, 2025. Despite its short history of wine, New Zealand producers in the country’s Central Otago and North Canterbury regions are making bottles that are ravishing and distinctive. (Tatsiana Chypsanava/The New York Times)

great-grandfather of Nick Mills, the current proprietor, purchased a huge swath of land. Over the century since then, much of it was sold. What remained, on the western shore of Lake Wanaka, became Rippon.

Mills’ father, Rolfe Mills, wondering what to plant on the land, noted similarities to the schist he had seen in Portuguese vineyards while serving in World War II. He began to experiment, planting 25 or 30 grape varieties, raising capital by selling pieces of the farm.

“He didn’t know pinot noir was going to be the way, but it floated to the surface fairly quickly,” Mills said. Nick Mills went to Burgundy to study viticulture, returning to take over in 2002. Rippon had always been organic, but Mills felt the biodynamic viticulture he had seen in Burgundy would fit naturally at Rippon.

The wines today are gorgeous, textured and precise, with an earthy minerality running through them.

Many of Central Otago’s leading lights today worked at or were deeply influenced by Rippon. The region grew slowly until 2002, when Robert M. Parker Jr., the leading critic of the era, visited the region and wrote glowingly of the wines.

“From there, we couldn’t sell enough wine,” Forsyth said, “mostly fruity, sweet and ripe, stuff that the average punter thinks is great.”

North Canterbury is less well known than Central Otago, but wines from its best producers are no less interesting or accomplished. The best producers there, as in Central Otago, farm organically, biodynamically and regeneratively.

Black Estate was named for its founders, Russell and Kimiko Black, who planted their first vineyard in 1994, but has been owned since 2007 by Nicholas Brown and Pen Naish, a thoughtful, experimental husband-and-wife team. The estate now comprises three vineyards, each with its own personality and challenges.

The Damsteep Vineyard in particular is a gorgeous site, about 18 acres of limestone, sandstone and clay just about 6

miles from the South Pacific. The 2023 Damsteep pinot noir was fresh, lively and textured yet well structured. It would be fascinating to try again in 10 years. I also loved a powerfully stony 2023 chardonnay and a complex, floral chenin blanc, both from the Home Vineyard.

Black Estate also makes an excellent cabernet franc, which, like the chenin blanc, was inspired by the wines of the Loire Valley. Both are made without sulfur dioxide, an almost universally employed stabilizer and antioxidant. The cab franc is aged in amphoras.

One of the more unusual North Canterbury producers is Theo Coles of the Hermit Ram. He has recently planted his own vineyard on a super windy site, but mostly, he buys small lots of grapes from naturally farmed vineyards throughout North Canterbury.

Coles is an iconoclast, much given to experimentation. His wines are unusual — perhaps a blend of pinot noir and gewürztraminer or sauvignon blanc and chardonnay — but they are almost always interesting and distinctive.

“I make wines with structure but without tannins,” he said. “What does New Zealand taste like? Forest and animals.”

I’m not sure I would describe any of his wines that way, but I loved his 2023 Dead Flowers, that blend of pinot and gewürz, juicy, saline and easygoing — “one plus one equals three,” is how Coles described it. I also loved his herbal 2022 Urchins chardonnay and a light, elegant 2017 Limestone Hills pinot noir.

Perhaps no vineyard on the South Island is as unusual as Bell Hill Vineyard, first planted 28 years ago in a onetime lime quarry with the Southern Alps on the horizon. From its original area of roughly 20 acres, Bell Hill now covers almost 100 acres though only 10 acres or so are planted, entirely with chardonnay and pinot noir.

The married proprietors, Marcel Giesen and Sherwyn Veldhuizen, make no bones about their inspiration.

“Burgundy, that’s where our heart beats,” Veldhuizen said.

The former quarry, chalky limestone and weathered topsoil, forms a bell shape, hence the name.

The current vintage of Bell Hill is 2020, meaning the wines receive an unusual amount of aging before they are released.

“The wines want that time,” Veldhuizen said. “They’re very shy in their youth. It’s not the easy way or the cheap way.”

The wines are superb. A 2020 Limeworks chardonnay, made from a single parcel of vines, was stony, herbal and pure, while a 2017 chardonnay was tense and energetic with gorgeous minerality. A 2020 pinot noir was fresh and delicate with precision, finesse and clarity.

Sadly, American consumers have little chance of seeing for themselves how good they are. Bell Hill currently has no official U.S. importer, though an individual shop here or there may import the wines directly.

“It’s been incredible to be in the New Zealand wine business for 43 years, from the dark ages,” Giesen said. “It’s been a beautiful journey.”

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Caso Núm.: TB2024CV00581. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

NILDA OLIVOS NIEVES - URB LAS COLINAS E6 COLINA ARAMANA, TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO, 009494911.

A: NILDA

OLIVOS NIEVES.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05837. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2025, este

Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. CARLOS L.

DIAZ CRESPO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2024CV06342. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: CARLOS L. DIAZ CRESPO.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a

usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. SHEILA RIVERA OLMEDA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2024CV06363. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM.

A: SHEILA RIVERA OLMEDA.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. JOSE L GONZALEZ PACHECO

Demandado(a)

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A: JOSE L. GONZALEZ PACHECO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. LUIS A GONZALEZ FUENTES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03212. (Civil: 406). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: LUIS A. GONZALEZ FUENTES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-

cribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA.

MARICRUZ APONTE ALICEA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. CYNTHIA SANCHEZ PAGAN

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2024CV00757. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. A: CYNTHIA SANCHEZ PAGAN. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso

de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. JESSICA T RODRIGUEZ SERRANO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: NJ2024CV00190. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. OSVALDO L. RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ ORF-LAW.COM. JESSICA T. RODRÍGUEZ SERRANO - HC 73 BOX 4701 NARANJITO, PUERTO RICO 00719-9239. A: JESSICA T. RODRIGUEZ SERRANO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NÉLIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. ANA M. DAVILA RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a)

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EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. RICARDO

ALONSO MORALES

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: VA2024CV00259. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO.

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A: RICARDO ALONSO MORALES.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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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 28 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARILYN COLÓN CARRASQUILLO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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TORO MORALES. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de julio 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 28 de agos-

to de 2025. En San Germán, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2025. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MILITZA LORENZO VEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. LUIS A RODRIGUEZ PADILLA Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MT2024CV00559. (Salón: 101). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

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LUIS A RODRIGUEZ PADILLA - URB PORTOFINO, CALLE ICACO 142, MANATÍ, PUERTO RICO, 006749405.

LUIS A. RODRIGUEZ PADILLA - URB EL NARANJAL, CALLE 5 H4, TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO, 00949-4212. A: LUIS A RODRIGUEZ PADILLA, LUIS A. RODRIGUEZ PADILLA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de agosto de 2025. En Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Parte Demandante Vs. ANGEL E. VERDEJO SANTIAGO

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2024CV03728. 403. 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: ANGEL E. VERDEJO SANTIAGO - URB CASTELLANA GDN DD4 CALLE 32, CAROLINA PR 009831908; URB VISTAMAR 112 CALLE ANDALUCIA CAROLINA PR 009831839.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAROLINA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 14 de abril de 2025. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. AIXA M. MONTES MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC

Demandante v. JOSE R.

FONSECA ESTRADA

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05838 (SALÓN 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO/ NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM JOSE R. FONSECA ESTRADA URB PRECIOSAS VISTAS DEL LAGO, A37 CALLE 10, TOA ALTA, PUERTO RICO, 00953-3714 NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A: JOSE R. FONSECA ESTRADA (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de AGOSTO de 2025. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 27 de AGOSTO de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, Secretario(a). f/NELIDA OCASIO ORTEGA, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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Demandante v. WANDA I RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2024CV05816 (SALÓN 500-A). Sobre: NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERA NATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM

NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO A: WANDA I. RODRIGUEZ

RODRIGUEZ

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 DE AGOSTO DE 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia,

Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de AGOSTO de 2025. En BAYAMÓN, Puerto Rico, el 27 de AGOSTO de 2025.

ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, Secretario(a). f/NEREIDA QUILES SANTANA, Secretario(a) Auxiliar del Tribunal.

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ORIENTAL BANK

Demandante V. DORAL BANK POR CONDUCTO DEL FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CG2025CV02091. (Salón: 703). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JUAN C. SALICHSJSALICHS@SPLAWPR.COM. A: FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DE NOMBRES DESCONOCIDOS DE UN PAGARÉ CON FECHA DE 2 DE MARZO DE 1998 A FAVOR DE DORAL BANK, O A SU ORDEN, POR LA SUMA DE $16,000.00, CON INTERESES AL 10 ½% ANUAL, VENCEDERO EL DÍA 1 DE ABRIL DE 2013, BAJO EL AFFIDÁVIT NÚMERO 8784, EL CUAL FUE GARANTIZADO POR UNA HIPOTECA CONSTITUIDA MEDIANTE LA ESCRITURA NÚMERO 168, OTORGADA EN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, EL DÍA 2 DE MARZO DE 1998, ANTE EL NOTARIO PÚBLICO CÉSAR A. VÉLEZ MIRANDA, E INSCRITA

AL FOLIO 242 DEL TOMO 1,351 DE CAGUAS, FINCA NÚMERO

48,020, REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE PUERTO RICO, SECCIÓN I DE CAGUAS, INSCRIPCIÓN 3ª. EN EL PROCEDIMIENTO DE EPÍGRAFE, LA DEMANDANTE ORIENTAL BANK, ALEGA QUE EL MENCIONADO PAGARÉ SE ENCUENTRA EXTRAVIADO, QUE LA DEUDA EVIDENCIADA POR EL MISMO HA SIDO EXTINGUIDA, Y, POR TANTO, SOLICITA LA CANCELACIÓN DE LA HIPOTECA ANTES RELACIONADA - DIRECCIÓN DESCONOCIDA. (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 agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. MARIEL CRUZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE AGUADILLA SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN SEBASTIÁN GABRIELA IDELISSE

MONTALVO GONZALEZ

Demandante V. SOFIE HAGEN NAKKEN

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: SS2025CV00299. (Salón: 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: EXEQUÁTUR. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

JANICE LYMARIE SOTO CARDONA - LCDAJANICESOTOCARDONA@ GMAIL.COM. A: SOFIE

HAGEN NAKKEN. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 22 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. PEDRO RAMOS RIVERA Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SS2025CV00035. (Salón 0002 DISTRITO Y SUPERIOR). Sobre: ACCION CONTRADICTORIA DE DOMINIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA. ALEXANDER MORALES SOTO LCDO.ALEXANDERMORALES@ GMAIL.COM

JANICE LYMARIE SOTO CARDONA LCDAJANICESOTOCARDONA@ GMAIL.COM A: ISMAEL RAMOS GALARZA Y CARMEN LUZ RAMOS GALARZA TAMBIEN CONOCIDA COMO CARMEN L RAMOS GALARZA, CARMEN LUZ RAMOS Y COMO CARMEN L. RAMOS; A FULANO DE TAL Y SUTANO DE TAL, JANICE LYMARIE SOTO CARDONA (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 14 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debi-

damente 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 28 de agosto de 2025.

Notas de la Secretaria: ENMIENDA PARA EFECTOS DE RETIRAR A LA LIC. JANICE SOTO DEL EDICTO. En SAN SEBASTIAN, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2025. SARAHI REYES PEREZ, SECRETARIA. F/LAURA LUGO CRESPO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC COMO AGENTE DE SERVICIO DE ARCPE 1, LLC Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO COMO UN POSIBLE SUCESOR DE DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION H/N/C H. F. MORTGAGE BANKERS (ACREEDOR HIPOTECARIO ORIGINAL) Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: CG2025CV01281. (Salón: 703). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CM -PRLAW.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS CUYA DIRECCIÓN SE DESCONOCE. A LA PARTE CO-DEMANDADA: FRANKIE ROSARIO NIEVES, VIVIAN VILLAFAÑE GÓMEZ Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; A LAS SIGUIENTES DIRECCIONES: (A) URB. HACIENDA SAN JOSE 822 VIA PLACIDA, CAGUAS,

1288. Esta es la descripción sin haberse descontado una segregación por expropiación y sin constar remanente. Finca Número 283-A, Folio 159, Tomo 152 de Rio Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan 11. CODIFICACIÓN NÚM: 063021-070-10-001. ENTIDAD EXPROPIANTE Y CITAR LA LEGISLACIÓN EN VIRTUD DE LA CUAL SE EXPROPIA: El procedimiento de Expropiación Forzosa se instituye por el Municipio de San Juan, conforme a la Autorizada de la Ley General de Expropiación Forzosa del 12 de mayo de 1903, según enmendad, el Código Municipal de Puerto Rico, Ley 107-del 14 de agosto de 2020, según enmendada; la Ordenanza Núm. 1, Serie 2021-2022 y la Resolución Núm. 71, Serie 2024-2025 de la Legislatura Municipal de San Juan. El interés y el fin para el cual el Municipio de San Juan se propone a adquirir la propiedad es para mejorar el área eliminando un estorbo público declarado por el Municipio. Quedan emplazados y notificados que en este Tribunal se ha radicado Demanda de Expropiación Forzosa. La abogada de la parte demandante es el Lcda. Angelisse Ortiz Cruz cuya dirección postal es: 1353 Ave. Luis Vigoreaux, PMB 270, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 00966 cuyo número de teléfono es (787) 273-0611 y su correo electrónico es: Icda. angelisseortiz@gmail.com. Se les advierte que este edicto se publicará en un periódico de circulación general una sola vez y que, si no comparecen a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma en el Tribunal, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará Sentencia concediendo el remedio así solicitado sin más citarles ni oírlos. Este Tribunal ha señalado para el 29 de octubre de 2025, a la 10:30 Sala 1003 del Centro Judicial de San Juan, el cual ubica en Hato Rey, PR, para la Vista del caso, en cuyo día se determinará el justo valor de la propiedad y las partes. a ser compensadas y a cuya vista podrán ustedes comparecer y ofrecer prueba de valoración, aunque no hayan contestado la Petición. Expedido por Orden del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 22 de agosto de 2025. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ

COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. CARMEN MOLINA

GARCIA, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA.

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DEMANDANTE VS. ANA AILEEN BALSEIRO GONZALEZ

DEMANDADO

CIVIL NUM. SJ2025CV5436. SOBRE: DIVISION DE HERENCIA, EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. SS.

A: SRA. ANA AILEEN BALSEIRO GONZALEZ

O sea, la parte demandada

Se notifica a usted que contra usted se ha radicado en este Tribunal una demanda sobre División de Herencia. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a la abogada de la parte demandante:

LCDA. MYRNA E. LOPEZ COLON RUA 8639, COLEGIADA 9897 127-8, Calle 71 URB. VILLA CAROLINA CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO 00985 TEL. 787-932-5116 myrnaelopezcolon1984@gmail.com copia de la contestación a la demanda o cualquier alegación responsiva que proceda en el presente caso, dentro del término de treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación del Edicto, apercibiéndose que, de no hacerlo así, se dictará sentencia en rebeldía en su contra. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual podrá acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo comparezca por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentarla a la Secretaría del Tribunal de Instancia, Sala de San Juan. Si dejare de hacerlo o comparecer al pleito, podrá dictarse Sentencia en rebeldía en contra suya concediendo el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle y/o cualquier otro procedente en derecho, incluido el pago de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. Expedida en San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy dìa 21 de AGOSTO de 2025. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. JESSICA SOTO PAGÁN, Secretaria Regional.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE CAROLINA SALA SUPERIOR DE CAROLINA LLACG COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND

Demandante V. SUCESION JOSE

PATRICIO RIVERA ORTIZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CA2024CV03349. (Civil: 403). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA

POR EDICTO.

FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM.

A: JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN JOSE

PATRICIO RIVERA ORTIZ T/C/C JOSE RIVERA

ORTIZ T/C/C JOSE P RIVERA ORTIZ; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO

POSIBLES MIEMBROS

DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN ALTAGRACIA

MARIA ALFAUD

DE RIVERA T/C/C

ALTAGRACIA M. ALFAU

T/C/C ALTAGRACIA M ALFAU SANEAUX.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 27 de agosto de 2025. En Carolina, Puerto Rico, el 27 de agosto de 2025. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. KEILA GARCÍA SOLÍS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO SALA SUPERIOR DE VIEQUES B. FERNÁNDEZ & HNOS., INC.

Demandante V. VIEQUES MARKET INC.

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VQ2025CV00009. (Salón: 001). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARISTELLA SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ - MSANCHEZ@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM. A: VIEQUES MARKET INC.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que sus-

cribe le notifica a usted que el 25 de junio 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 25 de agosto de 2025. En Vieques, Puerto Rico, el 25 de agosto de 2025. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. OLGA N. MORALES TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante V. DVR LLC, POR SÍ Y H/N/C ECOMAXX BARRIO PUENTE; Y/O H/N/C ECOMAXX ARECIBO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: CD2025CV00111. (Salón: 803 - CIVIL). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARISTELLA SÁNCHEZ RODRÍGUEZ - MSANCHEZ@ DELGADOFERNANDEZ.COM. A: DVR LLC, P/C DE SU AGENTE RESIDENTE, DARÍO RODRÍGUEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término

de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de agosto de 2025. En Caguas, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2025. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. GLORIMAR RIVERA RIVERA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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VAPR FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Demandante V. JOSE A PADILLA GARCIA

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00452. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: COBRO DE DINEROORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ADELA SURILLO GUTIÉRREZADELA.SURILLO@GMAIL.COM.

A: JOSE A. PADILLA GARCIA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 28 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de agosto de 2025. En Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MARITZA ROSARIO ROSARIO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. REYNALDA MENDEZ FERNANDEZ Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: UT2025CV00117. (Salón: 10). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. MARICELI PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ - NOTIFICACIONES@ GARCIACHAMORRO.COM. A: SUCESION DE ANGELA FERNANDEZ RIVERA Y LA SUCESION DE EUGENIO MENDEZ ROSARIO COMPUESTA POR REYNALDA MENDEZ FERNANDEZ, EUGENIO MENDEZ FERNANDEZ, JOSE LUIS MENDEZ FERNANDEZ Y MARTA MENDEZ FERNANDEZ T/C/C MARTHA MENDEZ FERNANDEZ; FULANO DE TAL, FULANA DE TAL, ZUTANO DE TAL, ZUTANA DE TAL, A, B Y C COMO HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE SUCESIÓN DE EUGENIO MENDEZ ROSARIO Y LA SUCESION DE ANGELA FERNANDEZ RIVERA. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto)

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 27 de agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 28 de agosto de 2025. En Utuado, Puerto Rico, el 28 de agosto de 2025. DIANE ÁLVAREZ VILLANUEVA, SECRETARIA. MARIELA QUILES BORRERO, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. RF MORTGAGE Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: BY2025CV02318. (Salón: 403). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. FRANCES L. ASENCIO GUIDOFRANCES.ASENCIO@GMLAW.COM. A: URBAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.; FINANCE OF AMERICA REVERSE, LLC.; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARE EXTRAVIADO; JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESION MARTHA ORTIZ TIRADO. (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 agosto de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 26 de agosto de 2025. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 26 de agosto de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. YOLANDA CRUZ VARGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante V. EXPARTE

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: JD2025CV00296.

(Salón: 1 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: PROCEDIMIENTO ESPECIAL EXPEDITO DE EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO, REANUDACIÓN DE TRACTO Y USUCAPIÓN (LEY NÚM. 118-2022). NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. CAROLINA J. GARRIGA CESANI - CGARRIGA@ TITLESECURITYGROUP.COM. A: LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA AFECTAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE; A: JIMMY MARRERO MIRANDA Y/O TODOS LOS POSIBLES SUCESORES, HEREDEROS O CAUSAHABIENTES DE JIMMY MARRERO MIRANDA POR IGNORARSE SU EXISTENCIA O PARADERO; A: CERVELLÓN MARRERO Y/O TODOS LOS POSIBLES SUCESORES, HEREDEROS O CAUSAHABIENTES DE CERVELLÓN MARRERO POR IGNORARSE SU EXISTENCIA O PARADERO. P/C LCDA. CAROLINA J. GARRIGA CESANI. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de julio de 2025, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 01

Camacho-Quinn to miss World Athletics Championships in Tokyo due to injury Plataneros clinch top spot in LPVS with perfect record ahead of playoffs

Olympic champion hurdler Jasmine CamachoQuinn will continue her full rehabilitation process and hopes to participate in other upcoming international competitions.

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rican Olympic gold medalist and hurdler Jasmine Camacho-Quinn officially announced that she will not compete in the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Tokyo due to a foot injury.

“This has been one of the most difficult decisions of my career,” Camacho-Quinn said in a written statement. “I have prepared intensely for the World Championships, but my foot injury has made it impossible to perform at the level I demand of myself. Although it pains me not to be able to compete, my priority is to fully recover so I can come back stronger. I want to thank my family, my support team, and the fans for their constant support -- I promise this is just a minor setback and the best is yet to come.”

Camacho-Quinn’s representative, Paul Doyle, stated that “Jasmine is an extraordinary competitor, but if she’s not physically at 100 percent, she can’t do justice to herself or her country. Her health and long-term career must come first.”

“She has shown incredible determination during this recovery process, but we felt the right thing to do at this time was to step back,” he said. “We are confident that she will return to the track with the same world-class quality that has made her one of the best hurdlers in history.”

Camacho-Quinn will continue her full rehabilitation process and hopes to participate in other international competitions.

Going into the final week of the Puerto Rican Superior Volleyball League regular season, Corozal boasts a flawless record of 9-0 with a total of 26 points.

By THE STAR STAFF

The Plataneros of Corozal secured first place in the standings of the Puerto Rican Superior Volleyball League (LPVS by its initials in Spanish) after defeating the Reyes of Juana Díaz on Wednesday night at Howard T. Jason Stadium in Corozal.

The LPVS regular season enters its final week of action, and with the three points earned from Wednesday’s victory, Corozal improved its flawless record to 9-0 with a total of 26 points. First place is now out of

reach for the Toritos de Cayey, who have only two matches remaining and hold a 6-4 record with 19 points.

With the loss, the Reyes stand at 3-6 with nine points.

Set scores in the Plataneros’ win were 2518, 24-26, 25-18 and 25-17.

Upcoming matches in this fifth week of competition are scheduled for Friday at 8 p.m.: the Criollos de Caguas will visit the Reyes at Dolores “Toyita” Martínez Coliseum in Juana Díaz, while the Toritos will face the Plataneros at Howard T. Jason.

Puerto Rico pulls out of women’s baseball World Cup Qualifiers in Venezuela

By THE STAR STAFF

The Puerto Rico Baseball Federation (FBPR by its initials in Spanish) announced Thursday that the women’s national team will not participate in the World Cup Qualifiers scheduled for later this month in Venezuela, after receiving a recommendation from the State Department and Secretary Rosachely Rivera Santana, who warned of security risks related to diplomatic tensions between the United States and the South American country.

“We regret having to make this decision, but we understand that it is the most responsible and sensible one to protect the safety of our players and all the Women’s National Team staff,”

FBPR President Dr. José Daniel Quiles said in a written statement.

The federation leader recognized the effort and commitment of the players and coaching staff, who have been preparing intensively for the international event over the past few months.

“We want to thank our players and coaching staff for their dedication during this preparation phase,” Quiles added. “Puerto Rico will continue to seek alternatives to ensure our Women’s Team can participate on international stages and continue to represent our island with dignity.”

The FBPR notified the president of the WBSC (World Baseball Softball Confederation) Americas, Aracelis León, of the decision, who expressed her gratitude for the efforts made by the federation to participate in the tournament.

Sudoku

How to Play:

Fill in the empty fields with the numbers from 1 through 9.

Sudoku Rules:

Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every 3x3 square must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Crossword

Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

Something out of the ordinary may appeal to you, Aries, especially if life seems dull these days. Nothing says you can’t indulge yourself as long as what you’re considering isn’t dangerous or something you’ll regret. To bring some excitement into your life, just think through the means of attaining it. Perhaps all you need is to try a new sport or go out this evening.

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

It’s a great day to set some goals or review existing ones, Taurus. If you don’t have a working list, it’s time you started one. Brainstorm without censorship. Let your thoughts flow and write them down. Then prioritize the list, add the steps needed to reach each goal, and consider the time frame. Map out your life and go where you want.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

Make yourself available to someone in need of a friend, Gemini. Don’t turn anyone away even if you’re busy or under the weather. Chances are the person who comes to you needs the advice and support that only you can offer. Listening doesn’t take that much energy, and that may be all that’s required. Leave yourself open to others.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Take care of yourself if you feel tired, Cancer. There’s no shame in slowing down or taking a day off if it’s needed. If you can spend a day in bed, go for it. This can be more restorative than you know. If some things must get done, delegate or work on a laptop in bed. Take heed when your body tells you it’s had enough. Give yourself the rest you need.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

Music can soothe the savage beast, Leo. If you feel rather savage yourself, turn on some music. Dance and sing aloud. You’ll be amazed at how this reduces stress and increases energy. Many find it therapeutic when times are tough and emotions run high. Try it for yourself. Expand your listening range to include many musical styles. You’ll be glad you did!

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

If you feel sluggish today, Virgo, put on some upbeat music to get you going. Whether it’s your favorite tune or the radio, it will help a great deal. Dance a little or sing while you tend to your work. Housework, filing - just about anything goes more quickly with a little rhythm. It also makes it more fun! Bring some enjoyment to your day.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Try then try again today, Libra. It can feel terrible to fail at something. Sometimes you just want to hide rather than face the possibility of humiliation. If success is important to you, you need to overcome your embarrassment and fear. Most people have to try more than once, especially when striving for important goals. Don’t give up. Your goals are worthy of the effort.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

Consider talking with a good friend today, Scorpio. Don’t let your pride get in the way of getting the support and help you need. If you’ve made a mistake or fear you’ve done something wrong, don’t walk around with guilt. Sit down with a confidante over a cup of coffee and share what’s happening. Remember that everyone ends up in positions like this at some time.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

It might be time to face a recent failure, Sagittarius. No one is exempt from disappointment, of not succeeding at something. It’s part of reaching a goal, no matter who you are or what you’ve done in the past. Even the most accomplished people have had to face this. You aren’t alone in your feelings. Give it another shot. Things will work out.

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Don’t delude yourself, Capricorn. While it can be a real temptation to see what you want to see, there’s danger in doing so. A pipe dream can only last so long. It’s never permanent! Rather than playing this kind of trick on yourself, take off the blinders and face what’s before you. Even if it hurts, it will likely be far less painful now than later.

Aquarius

(Jan 21-Feb 19)

Do you need a change of pace, Aquarius? If things are beginning to feel boring and you’re apathetic, chances are that you do. All you have to do is figure out what to shift. If you’re home most of the time, change the furniture around. It can make the house seem new. Consider putting up new pictures or bringing in fresh flowers. Switch your schedule around. This will energize you.

Pisces

(Feb 20-Mar 20)

Mind your physical health today, Pisces. Don’t push yourself if you’re feeling tired and run down. Seriously consider taking a day off from everything to get the rest your body needs. This can prevent more serious ailments by bolstering your strength and immune system. If you can’t take a day off, consider what you’ll do when you’re forced to take a week because of illness.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29

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