Monday Jun 1, 2026

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Weather

Administration says it is ready for hurricane season

By THE STAR STAFF

As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, the administration of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón insists it is fully prepared to respond to any emergency, highlighting stren gthened interagency coordination and updated response protocols developed in the wake of recent natural disasters.

Public Affairs Secretary Jean Peña Payano said the government has been working for months to refine emergency plans, identify vulnerable communities, and ensure that state and municipal agencies are aligned ahead of potential storms.

Peña Payano said security and emergency management teams have updated operational protocols and conducted interagency meetings to guarantee rapid response capabilities.

“The government will always be ready,” he said, noting that Puerto Rico’s emergency management system has evolved significantly since Hurricane Maria, the 2020 earthquakes and the COVID‑19 pandemic.

The La Fortaleza official pointed to improvements in communication systems as a key area of progress. He referenced legislation approved last year that standardizes telecommunications equipment across government agen cies, including transmitters and other devices. The goal,

he said, is to ensure that all agencies operate on a unified communication platform during emergencies.

“These details were sometimes overlooked,” he said, citing past incon sistencies in equipment used by agencies such as the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. “The gover nment has to be ready, and what the commissioner of the Board of Directors of Communications [BOC] mentioned is indeed important.”

The BOC, created after Hurri cane Maria, was designed to address communication gaps between the government, the private sector, and affected communities. Peña Payano emphasized that reliable communi cation is essential for coordinating fuel distribution to hospitals, hotels, and other critical facilities that may need to operate as emergency shelters or medical system extensions during a crisis.

“All these sectors pharmaceuticals, medicines intervene, but before Hurricane Maria and other events, they weren’t always visible,” he said. “That’s why all these groups, in one way or another, are always in communication.”

As the hurricane season officially begins today, the administration says it will continue meeting with emergency personnel, public safety officials and private‑sector partners to ensure readiness for any weather event.

By THE STAR STAFF

he Puerto Rican delegation traveling to New York City for Puerto Rican Week activities confirmed on Sunday the participation of the mayor of Cali, Colombia, Ale jandro Eder, who will travel to participate in the 69th Annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade scheduled for Sunday, June 14, on Fifth Avenue in New York.

The Cali mayor will travel at the invitation of Ponce Mayor Marlese Sifre Rodríguez, and will be accompanied by Leydi Yojanna Higidio Henao, the city’s secretary of culture, and Felipe Salcedo Vacca, manager of the Calie Events, Fairs and Shows Corp.

“Ponce is honored by our contractual relationship with the city of Cali, Colombia, where the Salsa music genre is truly impressive,” Sifre Rodríguez said. “So much so that together with our colleague, the mayor of Arecibo, Carlos ‘Tito’ Ramírez Irizarry, we have signed an agreement to join the ‘American Salsa Trail’ project, initiated by the dynamic Mayor Alejandro

Eder. Along with this agreement comes our commitment to create a movement throughout the Americas and the world to formally peti tion UNESCO to declare Salsa music a ‘World Heritage Site.’”

The Ponce ma yor added that besides marching in the parade, Eder has also been in vited to several events scheduled during Puerto Rican Week and “will deliver a keynote address on the to pic of the ‘American Salsa Trail’ and the cultural integration project as a prelude to a possible multinational candidacy before UNESCO.” Cali Mayor Alejandro Eder

Lawmakers leave for Washington to lobby for Medicaid parity

By THE STAR STAFF

Island lawmakers are traveling to Washington, D.C., this week to lobby members of Congress and officials in the executive branch to preserve the island’s current Medicaid funding levels, which are scheduled to expire on Sept. 30, 2027.

Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives Carlos “Johnny” Méndez Nuñez said Sunday that the delegation will focus on maintaining the 76% federal reimbursement rate that has been in place since 2021 under a five‑year agreement.

Medicaid finances the Vital Plan, Puerto Rico’s public health insurance program for low‑income residents. More than 1.5 million people depend on the system, which costs over $2.3 billion a year. Under federal law, Puerto Rico normally receives a capped federal match of 55% far below the open‑ended formula used for U.S. states leaving the island responsible for the remaining share. Congress has repeatedly approved temporary

increases, beginning with a two‑year boost after Hurricane Maria and continuing through subsequent extensions, including the current 76% rate.

Méndez said the delegation will meet with lawmakers and administration officials to underscore the importance of stable funding for the roughly 700,000 Puerto Ricans whose health coverage depends on Medicaid. He added that the group will also advocate for implementing recommendations from the Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico, which concluded in 2016 that equal Medicaid funding is essential to the island’s long‑term economic development. The trip is being coordinated with the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration.

While House Resolution 1, or the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, introduced a $1 trillion reduction to the national Medicaid program over the next decade, it did not include immediate cuts to Puerto Rico’s base Medicaid funding.

The visit comes as the Trump administra-

tion has tied any long‑term extension to stronger oversight and program integrity measures. Administration officials have emphasized the need for “fiscal sustainability” in federal health programs and have argued that any additional Medicaid support for Puerto Rico should be temporary and conditioned on reforms. They have also called for structural improvements to the island’s health system, including better data reporting, stronger anti‑fraud controls, and modernization of Medicaid administration.

While some members of Congress support granting Puerto Rico full parity with the states, the administration has not endorsed that approach, instead favoring time‑limited funding packages with accountability requirements. Officials have acknowledged Puerto Rico’s fiscal constraints under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act, or PROMESA, but have framed them as a reason for responsible budgeting rather than a justification for permanent increases.

Méndez said the delegation intends to present the case that maintaining the current

reimbursement rate is essential for the island’s health system and economic stability, and that the federal government should avoid creating another Medicaid funding cliff in 2027.

Ombudsman calls for united front against high cost of living

By THE STAR STAFF

The fleeting window of peace between La Fortaleza and the island Legislature cannot be wasted on political pleasantries, said Puerto Rico’s ombudsman, Edwin García Feliciano, who has issued an ultimatum demanding that the government form an aggressive, unbreakable united front to force the Financial Oversight and Management Board to open its eyes to the economic devastation tearing Puerto Rican families apart.

The high cost of living is no longer a burden; it is a chokehold,” García Feliciano said. “Those sectors that earn the least and have to perform extraordinary feats to survive are being strangled by the high cost of living, an issue that the government must bring to the board’s attention without delay.”

The ombudsman insisted that the government cannot wait another day to drag the oversight board to the negotiation table.

García Feliciano ripped into what he said was the board’s clinical detachment, blasting them for hiding behind cold spreadsheets and sterile statistics while remaining completely indifferent to the human suffering of marginalized communities.

“We cannot be complicit in the poverty in which many families live, nor in the looming reality that many senior citizens will confront in the face of this threat,” García Feliciano said, stressing the struggles so many in Puerto Rico face trying to stretch a family budget across survival basics like health, education and the safety of their children.

He demanded that the Legislature and the executive branch stop playing defense and force

the oversight board to look at the wreckage they are causing before “this powder keg of social instability explodes … given the severe blow to family finances and the cost of basic necessities.”

“There are no magic solutions to address these issues, but there are ways to do so by prioritizing and implementing them in stages,” García Feliciano said.

To make matters worse, he said, citizens are trapped under punishing, fixed charge increases on electricity bills that were cruelly rubber stamped by the oversight board. The ombudsman called it a direct assault on the wallets of every consumer, particularly the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority retirees who are being forced to pay into their pensions all over again.

Therefore García Feliciano demanded to know why the government is hoarding the pension reserve created by Law 53 2021. While intended for Pay Go obligations, the public is currently bleeding cash to pay for the failures of a corrupt public corporation, he said.

The insults to the workforce, the ombudsman said, continue with the public sector’s Classification and Compensation plans, which he asserted have turned into a complete disaster. Employees who protested their pathetic salary adjustments have been met with months of radio

silence, some agencies haven’t even bothered to draft their plans, and a mountain of cases sits rotting before the Appeals Commission, García Feliciano said. He demanded that the oversight board understand and agree to release funds to increase the government’s health plan contribution for most public employees to a dignified level beyond the paltry $125 where it remains frozen.

García Feliciano also slammed what he considers the “absolute lawlessness and total lack of accountability” for the negligent agency heads who bankrupted the Retirement System by ignoring their fiduciary responsibility in their role as employers. Today, because the island government contributes absolutely nothing under Law 106, he said, workers are forced to retire “into poverty with insulting, microscopic pensions.”

“Puerto Ricans are trapped in a vice grip of scarce and overpriced medical care, skyrocketing food and fuel costs, predatory tolls, and stagnant, pathetic wages,” he said.

The ombudsman declared that “the Legislature and the executive branch must work together to ensure the oversight board carefully addresses these concerns and defends our people.”

Grads in Cayey receive scholarships in tour guide training program

By THE STAR STAFF

Cayey Mayor Rolando Ortiz Velázquez and District 29 (Cidra-Cayey) Rep. Gretchen Hau Irizarry participated in Sunday’s graduation ceremonies for the town’s senior classes in a festive event held at a packed Municipal Theater, with more than 1,000 participants.

“In our city of Cayey we generated the Student Guides project, where the municipality contributes $5,000 for graduation expenses, and in exchange, the students cooperate as tour guides, after training,” the mayor said.

The municipal initiative began in 2022 on the occasion of the reopening of the Ramón Frade León public square in Cayey. “This is based on the proven principle of mutual aid and self-effort, where the municipality makes a cash contribution for the expenses inherent to graduations, and students contribute to the tourist development of the city,” Ortiz Velázquez said.

The Plaza de Cayey generated international news in 2022 for the discovery of an archaeological site with

the remains of more than 500 individuals of various races and ages. As indicated, some of the remains were of people from West Africa, who are understood to have arrived on the island as slaves.

“In view of this discovery, a special design was developed to create an area in which visitors can examine detailed reproductions of finds and where an explanation of the archaeological work is offered,” Hau said. “The foundations of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption were also discovered there, the resting place of the bodies of the founders of the city. We have an area in homage to our ancestors, and at the other end a sculpture of Frade doing his pictorial work, but we also have kiosks with a variety of offerings, [including] a carousel designed especially for Cayey, as a center for family and tourist fun.”

During the ceremony, the graduates’ achievements were highlighted as they take “a very important step,” and the mayor appealed to family values and education as an impetus to continue moving forward.

participated in Sunday’s graduation ceremonies for the eastern-central mountain town’s senior classes in a packed event at Municipal Theater.

Senator seeks answers for illegal Condado discharges

By THE STAR STAFF

At-large Sen. Ada Álvarez Conde has sent a formal communication to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting information, oversight and action regarding federal agreements tied to water contamination and longstanding failures in sanitary infrastructure affecting the Condado area and other communities across the island.

The move comes as San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero Lugo sued the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority over water shortages in a document that does not mention the illegal discharges.

Álvarez Conde said last week that residents deserve clarity on whether the corrective measures required under the federal agreements were ever completed and

Hundreds demand governor’s resignation

By THE STAR STAFF

Hundreds of people gathered in front of La Fortaleza in Old San Juan on Saturday and Sunday to demand the resignation of Gov. Jenniffer González Colón over concerns about Puerto Rico’s water and electrical systems and broader concerns about the direction of the government.

The protest, dubbed “Cita en Calle Resistencia”

(Appointment on Resistance Street), came amid criticism from labor groups and activists amid disputes involving senior officials including Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, who was also a target of criticism by the protesters.

Rivera Schatz and the governor have been feuding in recent weeks, beginning with the governor saying she cancelled contracts with people close to allies of the Senate president.

Rivera Schatz retaliated by launching an investiga-

whether agencies have enforced compliance.

“We cannot normalize continued discharges of wastewater into the ocean in one of Puerto Rico’s most visited areas, nor ignore the risks this represents for public health and our natural resources,” the senator said.

In her letter, Álvarez Conde asked the DOJ to provide the current status of compliance in the federal cases related to the aforementioned issues, details on enforcement actions taken, any identified violations, and any ongoing assessments of environmental or public health risks.

“Condado cannot continue making headlines for contamination problems affecting our coasts,” she added. “Puerto Rico deserves transparency, accountability, and strict compliance with environmental obligations established to protect our people and our ecosystems.”

tion into La Fortaleza Chief of Staff Francisco Domenech Fernández.

Although the governor is only 15 months into her term, the feud has been widely viewed as jockeying for the New Progressive Party’s gubernatorial nomination in 2028. The governor, meanwhile, has been plagued by a series of recent controversies involving appointed agency heads.

The call for demonstrations included several rallying cries: “You promised change and betrayed the people,” “You lie, you divide, and you protect your own,” “You govern for power, not for the people,” and “Puerto Rico deserves respect and dignity.”

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NJ governor calls for calm after protesters clash with police at Delaney Hall

By MAIA COLEMAN and MARK BONAMO

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill again urged demonstrators to remain peaceful early Sunday after a second straight night of clashes between protesters and law enforcement outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka imposed a curfew early Sunday around the facility, where demonstrators threw projectiles, fought over barricades, set fires and scuffled with officers from the New Jersey State Police and the Newark Police Department on Saturday evening and overnight. The detention center has, for the past week, been the site of tense protests over concerns about living conditions at the facility.

“I do not know why these individuals attacked or what they wanted to accomplish, but I refuse to let these dangerous actions detract from New Jersey’s dedication to ensuring public safety, keeping people safe from ICE, and that the people detained inside Delaney Hall are treated with dignity,” Sherrill said in a statement early Sunday, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Hours earlier, Sherrill made a similar plea, urging demonstrators to “bring the temperature down” to avoid escalating immigration enforcement operations and endangering the lives of detainees and other immigrants in the state.

Sherrill criticized the intrusion of “extremist groups” and demonstrators from outside the state, who she said had been interfering in the protests and distracting from the ultimate goal of improving conditions inside the detention center and eventually closing it.

A standoff Friday night resulted in the arrest of six demonstrators, four of whom had traveled from New York and one from Pennsylvania. The state police had assumed control of the area after negotiating the withdrawal of federal agents in hopes of restoring order.

“To the people coming from out of state to create chaos and dangerous situations, you should not be here,” Sherrill said. “You are not helping the people detained at Delaney Hall, you are not helping detainee families and you’re certainly not keeping New Jersey safe.”

Despite the calls for calm, clashes continued.

Late Saturday, protesters pressed against police barricades and shields, wielded makeshift shields of their own and at times struggled with officers for control of metal fencing. Police later deployed tear gas and flash-bang grenades as they sought to disperse the crowd.

Officers in riot gear formed shield lines

Anti-ICE demonstrators and counterprotested yell at one other outside Delaney Hall, a federal detention facility in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, May 30, 2026. Clashes between protesters and armed federal agents here have flared off and on since the Memorial Day weekend; on Friday, federal officials left the area outside the detention center so that the state police could assume control. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times)

outside the detention center, while mounted troopers and officers on foot worked to push demonstrators back.

Around midnight, dozens of state troopers and Newark police officers sealed off Doremus Avenue at the detention center. Officers set up metal barricades, some wearing combat boots and riot helmets, and carrying sidearms and zip-tie handcuffs.

Just after midnight, Baraka issued a curfew covering a half-mile area around the detention center. The restrictions remain in effect nightly from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice.

A public safety alert announcing the curfew was sent to residents’ cellphones at 12:30 a.m.

The groups have clashed frequently over the past week, with protesters sometimes taunting federal agents. The agents, in turn, have tackled demonstrators, spraying chemical irritants and, in at least one case, beating a protester with a baton across the torso, thighs, knee and calves as he tried to flee.

On Wednesday, some members of a group of demonstrators were arrested, and Thursday night, a 26-year-old man from Morris County bit two agents who were trying to remove him during a scuffle outside the facility, authorities said. The man, Brendan John Geier, was charged in New Jersey federal court Friday with assaulting federal officers and causing bodily injury. He was later released with limitations and barred from returning to Delaney Hall.

A lawyer for Geier could not immediately be reached Saturday.

Relatives of detainees and immigrant advocates have said that detainees inside the facility were beaten and doused with pepper spray this past week after some inmates began a hunger strike.

The Department of Homeland Security has denied that there was a hunger strike. The agency also said that there had been a fight involving detainees inside the detention center and that jail staff had broken it up. Officials said that detainees who had been affected had been evaluated by medical workers and that no one had been seriously hurt.

Sherrill said her focus remained on gaining full access to Delaney Hall for the members of her administration, restoring visitation for families and ensuring that detainees received proper medical care.

“We can’t let what’s happening outside Delaney Hall take us away from that mission,” she said.

By ORLANDO MAYORQUÍN

Crews recovered the bodies of two workers who were still missing after an explosion last week at a paper mill in Longview, Washington, bringing the death toll to 11, officials said Saturday. Initially, two people were found dead and nine workers were reported missing after a tank holding 600,000 gallons of a caustic chemical known as “white liquor” exploded Tuesday morning at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging plant on the Columbia River in southwestern Washington. The paper mill uses the chemical to turn wood chips into packaging board used in juice cartons.

The search for the missing carried on through the week and was complicated by the treacherous conditions at the blast site. Crews had to wear special protective gear and undergo a decontamination process because of the dangerous chemicals still present.

At a news conference Saturday, Dana Tucker, the coroner in Cowlitz County, Washington, confirmed the identities of the victims. They were Gilbert Bernal, 52; Tyler Covington, 29; Brad Covington, 27; Robert Wilson, 48; Dale Miller, 54; Jared Ammons, 35; Braydon Finkas, 38; Clinton Doran, 26; John Forsberg, 51; Norman Barlow, 58; and Dillon Miller, whose age was not given.

At the time of the blast, most of the victims had been gathered in an area where workers receive their assignments for the day, officials said.

By Thursday, officials had recovered the bodies of seven of the missing.

Search teams continued to comb through the debris inside the ravaged facility — where heavy items had been scattered — before recovering the final two missing Saturday, Kurt Stitch, the deputy chief of Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue, said at the news conference.

Tucker said the remains of the victims recovered Saturday had been identified based on multiple factors and that a forensic identification process, involving dental records and other methods, was still pending.

“This work has been intense,” Stitch said. “It’s been methodical, and incredibly difficult for everyone that’s been involved.”

The plant explosion is one of the deadliest industrial disasters in recent decades. Nippon Dynawave said it was cooperating with officials investigating the cause of the explosion.

The deadly episode raised questions about the future of the plant, which employs roughly 550 workers, and the potential effects on the local economy.

Paper mills have historically been a major source of employment in the region, though globalization and shifting economic conditions have driven many out of business in recent years.

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Federal and state environmental officials have been on site since Tuesday monitoring the air and waterways around the plant for harmful chemicals.

Officials said the drinking water is safe, but advised the public to stay out of waterways in the storm drainage system that had been contaminated.

There was little concern about the contamination of the Columbia River, officials said, because of its large size.

What the meat industry doesn’t want you to know

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

We raised pigs for a time on our family farm in Oregon when I was a teenager, and they had stronger personalities than some of my human friends.

While some of our pigs were friendly, docile or ingratiating, one sow named Brunhilda was grumpy, vocal and very strong-willed. But she was a devoted mom, constantly checking on her piglets and leading them around our farm — while showing them how to be independent-minded, too.

Nobody would have mistaken Brunhilda for a saint, but nobody could forget her, either. Exasperating as she was, I would never have punished her by locking her in a cage so small, she couldn’t turn around. That sounds like torture to me.

And to many people, it seems. One poll found that 84% of Americans considered it unacceptable for pregnant sows to be kept in tiny cages called gestation crates — as is routine on American factory farms today. Voters in California passed a ballot measure in 2018 by a 63% majority, as did Massachusetts voters in 2016 by a 78% majority, to improve treatment of farm animals and, in particular, to ban the sale of pork from hog operations that tightly confine hogs in this way.

The pork industry, ahem, squealed. It repeatedly filed

lawsuits to block these referendums but lost in the Supreme Court. So having failed both at the ballot box and in the courts, the industry pulled a fast one.

It added a provision, Save Our Bacon, to this year’s farm bill in the House of Representatives to block these state laws as well as any similar future state efforts to improve pig welfare. “U.S. pork producers need a farm bill that protects American farmers from California’s overreach,” protests the National Pork Producers Council. It complains that it is unfair that the California law applies to pork from pigs raised in other states but sold in California.

The farm bill with the Save Our Bacon provision passed the House of Representatives. Now it’s up to the Senate and the eventual congressional conference committee to decide whether to include this provision, which aims — this is my telegraphic version — to suppress the will of voters so that giant meat companies can abuse pigs. Some senators are backing away from Save Our Bacon, but others are expected to push to include it. Enactment of this provision would mark a substantial setback for animal rights in America’s livestock gulag.

Fortunately, at a time when Americans can’t seem to agree on anything else, animal rights are a rare issue on which many conservatives and liberals periodically find common ground. In 2005, American Conservative magazine had a cover showing confined pigs and a cover line that read, “Why conservatives should care about animal cruelty.” Left and right may fight over immigrant rights, women’s rights or LGTBQ+ rights, but many of us do agree on pig rights.

Farm pigs in Ionia, Iowa, Dec. 13, 2012. (Stephen Mally/The New York Times)

mals can’t turn around for the 2 1/2 years that they are in the stalls producing piglets,” a pork producers spokesperson said in 2012. “I don’t know who asked the sow if she wanted to turn around.”

I’m sure some readers are wondering why I’m writing about pigs at a time when there are so many other pressing issues, from the Iran war to Ebola to President Donald Trump’s proposed slush fund. It’s a reasonable question. I’d answer by saying that one of the great but incomplete moral revolutions of our lifetime has been the expansion of our compassion to encompass farm animals in a limited way, even as corporate agriculture pushes in the other direction. The stakes of the Save Our Bacon provision are enormous, for more than 120 million hogs are slaughtered in the United States each year. That is approximately equivalent to the human populations of California, Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania put together and means that roughly four pigs are slaughtered every second, on average, around the clock.

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Prominent conservatives like Tomi Lahren, Mike Cernovich and Laura Ingraham have stood firm against this provision. Cernovich called it “demonic,” and Lahren referred to it in a way that is unprintable here. A number of Republican House members, led by Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, have challenged the measure in Congress.

Opposition to the provision isn’t just about pig wellbeing. Some conservatives object to this effort to overturn the will of voters. Others note that the largest pork producer in America is Smithfield, now owned by a Chinese company, and they wonder why Congress would privilege a Chinese behemoth over the American electorate.

For me, the prime concern is animal cruelty. To confine animals in stinking cages, so many never see the sun or touch earth, is to deny their very nature. The ethos was described in a 1976 article in Hog Farm Management that said: “Forget the pig is an animal. Treat him just like a machine in a factory.”

The hog industry now argues that this system is actually good for pigs, protecting them from predators and cold and heat. “So our ani-

We tolerate cruelty toward pigs, I think, because the suffering is largely invisible and we see pigs as an undifferentiated mass rather than as Brunhildas with emotions, just like our own pets. Many Americans are ambivalent, not wanting animals to suffer unnecessarily yet also wanting inexpensive and tasty meat. The trade-offs are real, for the pork industry indeed excels at producing cheap sausage, but think of your dog enduring what pigs face, and you realize that the moral cost is incalculable.

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SAN JUAN – El Zar de Energía y director ejecutivo de la Autoridad para las Alianzas Público-Privadas, el ingeniero Josué A. Colón Ortiz informó durante la mañana de hoy que el proceso acelerado establecido mediante la Orden Ejecutiva OE-2025-047, emitida por la Gobernadora Jenniffer A. González Colón, para promover nueva capacidad de energía renovable y almacenamiento de energía gracias a importantes incentivos contributivos federales disponibles bajo la legislación conocida como el One Big Beautiful Bill Act, alcanzó avances significativos para la administración.

La Orden Ejecutiva OE-2025-047 fue emitida con el propósito de agilizar la evaluación, negociación, aprobación e implementación de proyectos estratégicos de energía renovable y almacenamiento de energía, reconociendo la importancia de preservar la elegibilidad de dichos proyectos para los Investment Tax Credits (“ITCs”) y otros mecanismos federales de incentivo y financiamiento.

En el caso de dos de los proponentes, los contratos recibieron la aprobación de la Junta de Gobierno de la Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica (“AEE”) el pasado 27 de mayo de 2026. La AEE ya notificó formalmente dichas aprobaciones a los desarrolladores y actualmente se encuentra en espera del

cumplimiento con la documentación y requisitos adicionales necesarios para completar el proceso de evaluación y consideración final ante la Junta de Supervisión y Administración Financiera para Puerto Rico (“JSF”). En el caso del tercer proponente, los contratos recibieron la aprobación de la Junta de Gobierno de la AEE en el día de ayer sábado 30 de mayo de 2026.

Estos proyectos, que en conjunto representan aproximadamente 547 megavatios de generación solar fotovoltaica y 659 megavatios de almacenamiento mediante baterías, forman parte de los esfuerzos de esta Administración para fortalecer el sistema eléctrico de Puerto Rico mediante la incorporación de nueva capacidad de generación renovable y almacenamiento de energía a gran escala. A su vez, contribuirán a diversificar nuestra matriz energética, aumentar la confiabilidad y resiliencia del sistema, reducir su vulnerabilidad y promover importantes inversiones privadas en infraestructura energética para beneficio de todos los puertorriqueños.

parentes y alineados con el interés público. Estos proyectos representan una oportunidad importante para fortalecer nuestro sistema eléctrico, atraer inversión y maximizar los beneficios disponibles bajo la legislación federal aplicable”, expresó el Zar de Energía de Puerto Rico.

“El progreso alcanzado durante las pasadas semanas demuestra que es posible adelantar proyectos estratégicos para Puerto Rico mediante procesos rigurosos, trans-

Charlas sobre lactancia en Auxilio Mutuo

El ingeniero Colón Ortiz, destacó además que los avances alcanzados durante las pasadas semanas han permitido concluir satisfactoriamente los tres procesos de negociación, colocando a los proyectos en posición de continuar avanzando a través de las etapas regulatorias y corporativas restantes. “Ahora confiamos en que la AEE, los desarrolladores y las demás entidades participantes puedan completar de manera expedita los pasos regulatorios, contractuales y documentales que aún restan, de forma que estos proyectos puedan beneficiarse plenamente de los incentivos contributivos y mecanismos de financiamiento que persigue la legislación federal conocida como el One Big Beautiful Bill Act, así como de los objetivos de política pública establecidos en la Orden Ejecutiva OE2025-047.”, añadió el Zar de Energía. POR CYBERNEWS

SAN JUAN – La lactancia suele generar dudas frecuentes entre madres, embarazadas y familias con bebés lactantes. Preguntas como si “la madre produce poca leche” o si “amamantar debe doler” son parte de los mitos comunes que aún provocan preocupación y desinformación durante esta etapa.

Sobre estos y otros temas se hablará mañana lunes, 1 de junio, durante la conferencia gratuita “Hable-

mos de Lactancia”, que se ofrecerá de 6:00 p.m. a 8:00 p.m. en el 9no piso del Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, en Hato Rey.

La charla estará a cargo de Maritza Medina, educadora perinatal certificada en lactancia materna y presidenta de la Coalición para la Lactancia Materna en Puerto Rico, junto al personal clínico de Maternidad del Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, que aportará su conocimiento y experiencia en el acompañamiento de madres, bebés y familias durante el proceso de embarazo, parto, pos-

parto y lactancia.

Durante la conferencia también se abordarán los beneficios de la lactancia, su impacto físico y emocional, la depresión posparto, la llamada “hora dorada” y la importancia de aclarar mitos que pueden afectar la confianza de las madres durante el proceso.

Las conferencias se ofrecerán libre de costo el primer lunes de cada mes, de 6:00 p.m. a 8:00 p.m., y se extenderán hasta diciembre. Para ver todas las fechas disponibles, puede acceder a www.auxiliopediatrico. com. También puede comunicarse al 787-758-2000, extensión 1380, o al 787-348-1010.

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‘Spider-Noir’ is a multicolor spin on ‘Spider-Man’

By ESTHER ZUCKERMAN

“Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” the latest movie featuring the web-slinging Marvel hero, arrives in theaters in July. But last week a very different Spider-Man came to television.

“Spider-Noir” premiered Monday, May 25 on the MGM+ cable channel and began streaming on Amazon Prime Video last Wednesday. Nicolas Cage plays the title character, a version of Spider-Man who lives in 1930s New York and works as a private investigator. He doesn’t wear a red and blue suit, opting instead for a black mask and a billowing coat.

If this sounds familiar, it is because Cage is reprising, somewhat, his role from the Oscar-winning animated feature “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” (2018). But “Spider-Noir” is designed to stand on its own.

The series, developed by Oren Uziel, also comes with a gimmick: It will be available to stream in both black-and-white and color. How does it relate to all the other friendly neighborhood Spider-Men we’ve come to know over the years? Here’s what you need to know before diving in.

Where have you seen this character before?

The noir iteration of Spider-Man was first introduced to comic books in 2008 as part of a series that placed various Marvel heroes in retro settings. He became more widely known with his appearance in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” as one of many Spider-variants who team up with Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) and Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson) to help fix a dimensional rift.

In “Into the Spider-Verse” the character is voiced by Cage and is also named Peter Parker. He explains that in his universe it is 1933, he’s a private eye, and he likes to drink egg creams and fight Nazis. He is illustrated in black-andwhite.

Confusingly, the character in “Spider-Noir” is not the one from the film. Amazon said the series is not a spinoff of “Into the Spider-Verse,” even though it features Cage and overlapping members of the creative team, including Amy Pascal, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, executive producers on the series.

So who is the ‘Spider-Noir’ version of Spider-Man?

In the series, he is Ben Reilly, another name associated with Spider-lore.

The first Ben Reilly character was created in 1975, by famed comics writer Gerry Conway and artist Ross Andru, as a clone of Peter Parker. That isn’t the case here. This Ben is an investigator in New York who once fought crime as a masked hero, known as the Spider, but stopped after the death of his fiancee, Ruby. Reilly’s spidey sense endures, however, and it is effective in his casework — so effective that in the “SpiderNoir” premiere, he ends up in the cross hairs of a villainous gangster named Silvermane (Brendan Gleeson). Reilly is forced to re-embrace his alter ego.

Uziel said that when Pascal, Lord and Miller approached him about creating a “Spider-Man Noir” show, he immediately thought of Cage for the role, even though he had never starred in a television series. But the actor already understood the concept, which Uziel described as, What if Humphrey Bogart happened to be Spider-Man?

“It’s not the same version he portrayed in the ‘SpiderVerse’ movie,” Uziel said in a video interview. “But he’s familiar with it, and I’m familiar with it.”

Are there other familiar Spider-Man characters?

Many. One of Reilly’s allies is Robbie Robertson, a journalist played by Lamorne Morris (“New Girl”). Robertson has appeared in various Spider-Man stories, most notably Sam Raimi’s movie trilogy, portrayed by Bill Nunn.

Reilly’s investigation leads him to a nightclub singer named Cat Hardy (Li Jun Li of “Sinners”). Her name resembles that of Felicia Hardy, better known as Black Cat. Another moniker that might ring a bell: Flint Marko, played by Jack Huston (“Boardwalk Empire”). Marko is the alter ego of Sandman, who was portrayed by Thomas Haden Church in “Spider-Man 3” (2007). British actor Abraham Popoola plays Lonnie Lincoln, also known as Tombstone.

Uziel said he tried to find the “superhero equivalent” of “all those fun classic situations that a detective might find himself in and characters like a femme fatale or a heavy.”

So you can watch this in black-and-white or color?

Yes. “Spider-Noir” is being released in both “authentic” black-and-white and what is being billed as “true hue” full color. Uziel said the initial plan was to make the show in blackand-white, but then Amazon suggested that they release two versions.

Uziel saw it as a chance to honor both of the show’s foundational genres. The black-and-white version could introduce superhero movie fans to the aesthetic of classic films like “The Third Man” (1949) or “Double Indemnity” (1944). At the same time, he said, a noir fan might see the color version and appreciate how comic book movies can be “incredible works of art.”

Making a show for two formats wasn’t easy. The costumes, sets and props had to look as good in black-and-white as they did in color.

“We had to find the right palette for everything that would end up looking great in both,” Uziel said. “It was a lot of work, a lot of trial and error.” For example, red lipstick wouldn’t do, because it would look like black lipstick in monochrome.

How should you watch it?

Uziel suggests that viewers watch all the way through in whichever version they prefer. “Then, if you’re interested, give it a shot in the other one to see how it changes the experience,” he said.

Jobs report on tap for soaring US stocks as rate path, bond yields eyed as risks

Investors will turn to an important labor market update this week as they weigh whether simmering inflation and the potential for interest rate hikes could derail the rally in U.S. stocks.

Broadcom’s (AVGO.O), results also pose a test in the coming week for the red-hot AI trade. Last week, U.S. equity indexes continued their charge higher, with the benchmark S&P 500 (.SPX), posting a gain for a ninth straight week. The index is up more than 10% on the year, while the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC), has climbed 16%.

Technology stocks have led a resurgent market on the back of strong profit outlooks driven by the AI boom, after tech and other influential megacap stocks were hit hard in March.

“That group really had a significant correction,” said Chuck Carlson, CEO at Horizon Investment Services. “What has really been a fuel for this market was investors going in looking at the values that had been restored in that group, seeing that earnings were still growing at pretty rapid rates, and going to buy them.”

Markets have also been buoyed in recent weeks by hopes for an end to the Iran war, which has now stretched to three months. Asset prices remain susceptible to developments in the conflict heading into this week.

Jobs report to jolt markets?

The monthly employment report, due on June 5, comes as investors are increasingly worried about persistently high inflation, and the potential that this will lead to rate hikes that would be unwelcome for stocks.

Data on Thursday showed that the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index rose 3.8% in the 12 months through April, the largest rise since May 2023, driven by higher energy prices amid the Iran war. The Federal Reserve tracks the PCE inflation measures for its 2% target.

“If you were to get a hot employment report alongside still-rising inflation numbers, I think it continues to change the outlook for Fed policy,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at the Schwab Center for Financial Research. “If it were to be a weaker-than-expected report, then maybe it calms fears that the Fed is going to have to shift to a tightening stance.”

May’s payrolls report is expected to show an unemployment rate of 4.3% and an increase of 85,000 jobs, according to a Reuters poll as of Friday.

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An increase of more than 150,000 jobs might be problematic for equities if it fuels fears about an “overheating” economy that also drives U.S. Treasury yields higher, said Angelo Kourkafas, senior global investment strategist at Edward Jones.

“We have enough indications that economic activity remains solid,” Kourkafas said, including the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow model tracking to 3.8% second-quarter growth, following a blowout first quarter for U.S. corporate profits.

He said that suggests markets should be “less concerned about that recessionary outcome ... but more so are we talking about a potentially overheating economy?”

Broadcom on tap, yields simmer

Quarterly results on Wednesday from semiconductor firm Broadcom (AVGO.O), the sixth-largest U.S. company by market capitalization, could cause ripples on Wall Street. Semiconductor shares skyrocketed in recent weeks over optimism about rising chipmaker profits amid the massive AI infrastructure buildout.

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Since the March 30 market low for the year, the Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index (.SOX), has jumped about 80%, while Broadcom shares climbed more than 50%. The S&P 500 is up more than 19% in that time.

Other U.S. economic data next week include reports on manufacturing and services sector activity. Another key inflation report the following week will be among the last data before Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting as chair on June 16-17.

Futures pricing is indicating a greater chance of a rate hike this year than a cut, despite President Donald Trump’s fervent wishes for the Fed to ease monetary policy.

The potential for rate hikes along with rising inflation is factoring into the recent rise in bond yields.

Although benchmark U.S. Treasury yields have backed off somewhat, with the 10-year yield around 4.45%, rising yields are a risk for equities, Carlson said. Higher bond yields stand to translate into higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, while also creating more investment competition for stocks.

“If you saw a real spike in interest rates that was maintained ... that would be the thing that I think would be most disconcerting for investors,” Carlson said.

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The US boat strike campaign has now killed more than 200 people

By MAX BEARAK and JOSÉ MARÍA LEÓN CABRERA

More than 200 people have now been killed in a bombing campaign by the U.S. military against people it has accused of smuggling drugs in the waters off South America, after a string of deadly attacks over the past week.

The military said Saturday that three men had been killed in the eastern Pacific during a strike ordered by Gen. Francis Donovan, the head of the Southern Command, against a boat that was “engaged in narcotrafficking operations.” Their deaths bring the total killed to at least 202, in more than 60 strikes.

The strikes have been shrouded in secrecy. Few bodies of those killed have been recovered, and scant physical evidence exists of debris or the drugs the Trump administration claims the boats were transporting.

A wide range of legal experts say the strikes are illegal because the military is prohibited from deliberately targeting civilians, even if they are believed to have committed a crime, unless they pose an immediate threat. Experts also say there is no evidence that the strikes have had any impact on the amount of cocaine reaching the United States from South America.

The death toll, however, only accounts for one dimension of the consequences of the lethal campaign.

Coastal communities in Colombia and Ecuador, where most of the boats are thought to have begun their journeys, are counting the losses not just in relatives who never returned, but in how the attacks have upended the lives of those who make their living from the ocean and now fear it.

Residents described entire communities abandoning fishing because the small “lanchas,” or speedboats, used by traffickers and fishers are often indistinguishable.

“Fishermen endure the forces of nature: wind, rain and sun. But they also face pirates, and on top of that, now there is this bombing thing,” said one Ecuadorian woman from a fishing family in San Mateo, a seaside town of 5,000. Like many in these coastal Ecuadorian villages, she asked not to have her name published for fear of retribution from the government, which has actively supported the bombing campaign. The Ecuadorian government did not respond to requests for comment.

“We live in fear of these strikes,” she

said, “and because of that, many people have stopped going out to fish.”

In Ecuador and Colombia, residents described being caught between forces beyond their control: an emboldened Trump administration that has dismissed accusations of wrongdoing while offering little proof to back up its claims, and drug traffickers who often prey on fishermen, commandeering their boats to use for their own purposes.

The lines between fishermen and traffickers can blur, too, some said. In low seasons, or simply as a way to make more than fishing’s meager income provides, some fishermen take occasional trafficking jobs to get by.

Unlike Ecuador’s right-leaning government, Colombia’s leftist president, Gustavo Petro, has sharply criticized the strikes, calling them “murder” and claiming, in the case of one strike in October, that a Colombian fisherman had been killed. After that strike, Petro suspended intelligence sharing with the U.S. military for the purposes of the strikes.

On Colombia’s Guajira peninsula, where The New York Times found the first physical evidence of one of the strikes in December, nearly all the men had left the towns of Puerto López and Siapana, each just a few miles from where a bombed boat and two bodies of its crew members washed ashore.

Aristótele Palmar García, a police inspector in Siapana, said the area had become a ghost town.

“Youth who made their living fishing, you know, selling, buying, they’ve gone to the city now, driving motorcycle taxis, that kind of thing,” García said. “I ask them how it’s going for them and they tell me, ‘To be honest, I’m about to throw in the towel.’”

Colombia’s state-run forensic agency said in an emailed statement that they still had the bodies of the two people that washed ashore in December in their custody, but that they had not been able to “establish the identities.”

The strikes reached their peak in December, with 14 that month. But the pace has recently begun increasing again, and the pe-

riod between April 11 and May 8 saw a strike nearly every three days.

During that time period, the military increased the number of secret fixed-wing attack aircraft and armed MQ-9 Reaper drones operating from bases in El Salvador and Puerto Rico, allowing the military to accelerate the strikes.

Before the increase in aircraft, a suspected drug boat might have had a 50% chance of evading the military, a U.S. military official told the Times in an interview. Now that is down to about 25%, the official said.

Neither the military nor the administration has disclosed any information about the strikes except for social media posts that contain grainy videos of the strikes themselves.

In November, the Times examined video of more than 40 strikes and consulted military aviators and weapons experts, and found that the U.S. military used both drones and crewed aircraft, contrasting with traditional stop-and-board operations by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Fishermen in Ecuador said they had feared harassment in the past by the U.S. military, as well as from their own, patrolling nearby waters, but that the possibility of being bombed by a drone was particularly unnerving.

“We don’t want anyone to fish anymore,” said Johnny Valencia, 59, a lifelong fisherman from Jaramijó, a few miles north of San Mateo. Now he picks up plastic bottles that wash up on the beach and sells them to recyclers, earning even less than he did fishing.

“We eat once a day, twice a day,” he said, “or sometimes go to bed without even having a cup of coffee.”

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Inside the Ebola epicenter, the virus rages with little to stop it

By DECLAN WALSH

In the cramped, dilapidated Ebola ward, a 5-year-old boy languished on a bare mattress, a tissue stuffed into his nose to stanch the incessant bleeding. His father stood over him, eyes clouded with worry.

A few beds away lay the body of Christiane Bahati, 21, who had died seven hours earlier but had not yet been taken away. Her shoes were still tucked under the bed, her wailing relatives gathered outside the ward doors.

The body, covered by a thin sheet, was highly contagious. Yet hardly anyone in the ward was protected. Relatives came and went, carrying food and water to ailing patients because the hospital had none to give them. A few wore rubber gloves or pulled a scarf across their mouths. Most had nothing at all.

In the next ward lay the hospital’s laboratory technician, also sick. Seven other hospital workers had already died from suspected Ebola. Few of the staff members had ever been trained to fight the disease, and the most rudimentary equipment was in dangerously short supply: tests, protective suits, goggles, masks, even drinking water.

Outside, the sound of hammering broke the hushed silence. Aid workers from Doctors Without Borders were racing to erect isolation tents and disinfection stations.

Dr. Alex Bogole, a Congolese doctor in the hospital’s intensive care ward, was furious.

The virus had been spreading for months, virtually unimpeded, “and this is the best we can do?” he said, the frustration pouring through his protective gear.

This is the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in Congo, and the front line is completely overwhelmed.

The Congolese Health Ministry declared the outbreak on May 15, and it has ballooned into the third largest on record. Two weeks later, the international response is being outpaced by the virus, and there is almost nothing to slow it down. Aid groups warn that without urgent intervention, this could be the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak ever.

Bogole was never trained for this and was angry at everyone — at the Congolese government for failing to detect the outbreak until perhaps six weeks after it began, and at the world, which has barely mobilized help here in Mongbwalu, a remote gold mining town of about 150,000 where the outbreak is believed to have started.

“They hold meetings and meetings,” he said, struggling to contain his disdain. “What is the purpose of these meetings? People are dying, people are getting infected, people are in danger. It’s very slow.”

I arrived here with Arlette Bashizi, a photographer for The New York Times, after taking a bumpy, three-hour journey from the regional capital, Bunia, on what has become the Ebola highway, a rutted dirt road that began spreading the disease long before anyone detected it.

Giant trucks, curling through lush hills, leave blinding clouds of dust. Edgy-looking Congolese soldiers guard checkpoints that are often little more than string. Gold miners and people fleeing rebel conflict stream in and out of Mongbwalu,

Health workers carry a coffin with the body of Rev. Sylvestre Atama, a popular and charismatic preacher who died of Ebola in the mining town of Mongbwalu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 25, 2026. In a remote gold mining town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, medical workers struggle to beat back a surge of deaths and infections.

(Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times)

providing an excellent vector for the spread of the virus.

Through April and into early May, doctors in Mongbwalu found themselves fighting a mysterious disease that was taking dozens of lives in the town. It turned out to be Bundibugyo, a virus that causes Ebola. There is no approved vaccine or treatment.

As of Thursday, at least 1,077 suspected cases and 246 suspected deaths had been recorded in this outbreak, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 400 of those cases are in Mongbwalu, a town in the heart of gold country and surrounded by rebel-held territory in Ituri province, in northeastern Congo.

Ebola has swamped this hospital’s meager capacities.

Test kits for this species of the disease are hard to come by, and there is no triage station, so arriving patients who do not have Ebola risk being infected by those who do. In fact, it is hard to know who has Ebola because test results from the regional capital, some 50 miles away, take four days or more to arrive, said hospital director Dr. Richard Lokudu.

By then, many patients have died.

“I’ve been telling people that we need results immediately,” Lokudu said.

Wailing drifted into his office. Several times a day, news of the death of an Ebola patient sets off explosions of grief, he said. Relatives screamed, gesticulated and rolled around on the grass. Looking into his notebook, Lokudu produced a tally: At least 30 patients had died at the hospital over the previous 12 days. Many more had died in their homes across the town.

Beyond the hospital gates, residents were gripped by fear and confusion, he said. Mongbwalu had not been touched by the last Ebola outbreak in Ituri, which began in 2018 and did not end until 2020. Now, faced with a sudden surge in deaths, many refused to accept that the virus was real and focused their ire on the hospital, Mongbwalu General, which has 135 beds.

Some said the outbreak was a moneymaking plot concocted by Congolese doctors and foreign aid workers. Others

called it a curse. Often, doctors say, the early symptoms of Ebola resemble other ailments, such as malaria or typhoid, so by the time patients go to the hospital, many are already very sick and die quickly, heightening suspicion and distrust.

An angry crowd gathered outside the hospital’s front gate, where armed soldiers stood guard. “Killers!” people shouted at us when we arrived, confusing us for foreign aid workers.

Two nights earlier, assailants had burned down an isolation ward in the hospital, shortly after Doctors Without Borders put it up. In the chaos, 18 patients suspected of having Ebola fled their beds and vanished into the town, potentially spreading the virus even more.

A four-wheel drive vehicle with a smashed window was parked outside Lokudu’s office. A day earlier, angry residents had chased him through the hospital grounds, flinging rocks, he said.

“We really are in a terrible crisis,” he said.

“We’re here to save them,” he added. “They think we want to kill them.”

Lokudu believes he may have treated one of the outbreak’s first victims.

On April 6, he said he operated on a young woman who had suffered a miscarriage during a late stage of her pregnancy. As he performed a cesarean section, he noticed unusual splotches of blood on her organs. Six hours later, he said, the woman died. In the weeks that followed, the medics who treated her fell sick.

The anesthesiologist died on May 9, Lokudu said. The surgical assistant died a day later. Lokudu said he also fell sick around the same time, but survived. He is not sure how, though he noted that he had been vaccinated during the previous outbreak, albeit for a different species of Ebola.

hat saved me,” he said.

Experts at the WHO say that a vaccine against this species of Ebola could take six to nine months to develop. Until then, “we must make do with what we have,” Lokudu said. “Otherwise, who will do it?”

The doors of the Ebola ward swung open. A Red Cross worker emerged, wearing the same kind of a protective suit we had put on to enter the hospital wards. Spraying disinfectant in his path, he was followed by volunteers carrying a sealed white bag.

It contained the remains of Bahati, the 21-year-old whose body had lain there for many hours after she had died. Mourners grieved as the body bag was placed in a coffin, wailing and beating themselves. “Show us her body!” one cried out.

Her husband, Héritier Alezo, watched from a distance. He still had not told their boys, aged 2 and 3, that their mother was gone. “How would they understand?” he said.

He impatiently rejected the conspiracy theories that were circulating in the streets to explain the scourge. He had the ultimate, most painful proof.

“In my opinion,” he said firmly, “Ebola exists.”

The door to the Ebola ward closed again. But there were also glimmers of hope. The ailing 5-year-old boy, Emmanuel Cyrille, fought on.

LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO BAUTISTA CAYMAN ASSET COMPANY

Plaintiff V. LYDIA ESPINAL RIVERA A/K/A LIDIA ESPINAL RIVERA A/K/A LYDIA ESPINAL COLLADO

Defendant Civil No.: 16-1672 (GLS). COLLECTION OF MONIES AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE - IN REM. NOTICE OF SALE.

To: DEFENDANT AND GENERAL PUBLIC.

On November 7, 2024, this Honorable Court issued Summary Judgment against Defendant, Lydia Espinal Rivera a/k/a Lidia Espinal Rivera a/k/a Lydia Espinal Collado (hereinafter “Defendant”) in favor of Bautista Cayman Asset Company (Bautista).

To date, Defendant has not satisfied the Judgment. As of October 15, 2024, Defendant owes Plaintiff the total amount of $339,205.81 which is distributed as follows: $210,114.42 in principal; plus interests in the amount of $100,534.05, which continues to accrue until full payment of the debt at $29.18 per diem; plus accrued late charges in the amount of $4,684.62; and any other advance, charge, fee or disbursements made by Bautista, on behalf of Defendant, in accordance with the Promissory Note I, the Loan Agreement as well as under the other loan documents, plus costs of $1,513.50 and agreed attorney’s fees in the amount of $22,359.22. Additionally, as of October 15, 2024, Defendant owes Plaintiff the total amount of $136,930.68 in principal in accordance with the Promissory Note II, the Loan Agreement as well as under the other loan documents. Accordingly, the court issued Judgment for the total amount of $476,136.49. The Obligations will be satisfied only with the proceeds obtained from the foreclosure and judicial sale of the Property. Pursuant to said judgment and the Order of Execution of Judgment, the undersigned appointed Special Master was ordered to sell, at public auction for U.S. currency in cash or certified check, without appraisement or right to redemption, to the highest bidder, at the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, or at any other place designated by said Clerk, to cover the sums adjudged to be paid to the

plaintiff, the following property:

“URBAN: Lot of rectangular shape that measures twelve point zero zero (12.00) meters at its front by twenty-one point zero zero (21.00) by its back, marked with number ten (10) of Block GY of the Puerto Nuevo Development, Property of Everlasting Development Corporation of Monacillos, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, with a superficial area of two-hundred fifty-two point zero zero (252.00) square meters with boundaries by the NORTH, SOUTH, EAST y WEST, with lands of the Everlasting Development Corporation and facing East, with Main Street now Avenue or Andalucía Street of the Development. Upon this lot is erected a house made of concrete and blocks.”

Property number 7,168 (previously 6, 7147), recorded at page 115 of volume 195 of Monacillos. Registry of the Property of Puerto Rico, Section III of San Juan. Physical Address: #618 Avenida Andalucía, Puerto Nuevo, San Juan, PR. The Property is described in the Spanish language as follows:

“URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide doce punto cero cero (12.00) metros de frente por veintiuno punto cero cero (21.00) de fondo marcado con el número diez (10) de la Manzana “GY” de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo, Propiedad de Everlasting Development Corporation de Monacillos, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de doscientos cincuenta y dos punto cero cero (252.00) metros cuadrados en lindes por el Norte, Sur, Este y Oeste con terrenos de Everlasting Development Corporation y dando frente al Este, con la calle denominada Puerto Nuevo Main Street de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto y bloque. Inscrito al Folio ‘115’ del Tomo ‘195’ de Monacillos, finca número ‘7,168’ del Registro de la Propiedad de San Juan, Sección Tercera.” Dirección Física: #618 Avenida Andalucía, Puerto Nuevo, San Juan, PR. The property is subject to the following liens: BY ITS ORIGIN: Construction Restrictive Covenants. BY ITSELF: MORTGAGE: In favor of RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, in the original principal amount of $100,000.00, plus 2% prime rate interest, due on presentation, constituted by deed No. 62, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 26, 1999, by Notary Public Carlos Castillo Matos, recorded at page 29 of volume 766 of Monacillos, property number 7168, 13th inscription. MORTGAGE: In favor of DORAL BANK, in the original principal amount of $230,000.00, plus 8% annual interest, due on September 1,

2020, constituted by deed No. 368, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 31, 2005, by Notary Public Reinaldo Segurola Pérez, recorded at page 61 of volume 920 of Monacillos, property number 7168, 18th inscription. MODIFICATION: The aforementioned mortgage in the amount of $230,000.00, was modified by deed No. 434, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 30, 2010, by Notary Public Magda Vanessa Alsina Figueroa. Its principal was partially cancelled to the amount of $223,592.28. The interest will be 1.074% annual, starting on January 1, 2011 through December 1, 2011; then January 1, 2012 through December 1, 2012 the interest will be 8.95% annual then February 1, 2013 until the last payment, the interest will be 2.50% prime rate, the due date was established on September 1, 2045, last payment of $31,352.20, recorded at page 61 of volume 920 of Monacillos, property number 7168, 19th inscription. LAWSUIT ANNOTATION: Issued by the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico, San Juan District, on May 23, 2013, Civil Case number KCD-2013-1252, for Debt Collection and Foreclosure pursued by Doral Bank against Lydia Espinal de Rivera, for $223,592.46, plus interest, recorded on July 18, 2013, at page 198 of volume 994 of Monacillos, property number 7168, “A” annotation. MODIFICATION: The aforementioned mortgage in the amount of $230,000.00, was modified again by deed No. 296, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 20, 2014, by Notary Public Gadiel O. Rosado Rivera. It’s modified as follows: establish a new due date on presentation, The interest will be 10% annual recorded at page 198 of volume 994 of Monacillos, property number 7168, 20th inscription. LAWSUIT ANNOTATION: Issued by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, on April 8, 2016, Civil Case number 161672, for Collection of Monies and Foreclosure of Mortgage pursued by Bautista Cayman Asset Company against Lydia Espinal Rivera, a/k/a Lydia Espinal Collado for $210,114.42, plus interest, recorded on April 20, 2016, at Karibe System, property number 7168 of Monacillos, “B” annotation. HOMESTEAD RIGHTS: Constituted by deed No. 4, executed in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on May 31, 2016, by Notary Public Esteban Santana Rosado, recorded at Karibe System, property number 7168 of Monacillos, 21st inscription. Potential bidders are advised to verify the extent

of preferential liens with the holders thereof. It shall be understood that each bidder accepts as sufficient the title and that prior and preferential liens to the one being foreclosed upon, including but not limited to any property tax, liens, (express, tacit, implied, or legal), shall continue in effect. It being understood further that the successful bidder accepts them and is subrogated in the responsibility for the same and that the bid price shall not be applied toward their cancellation. The lien executed is over the property, and for the purposes of the first judicial sale the minimum bid amount is as follows: a. The amount of $230,000.00, as set forth in the mortgage deed, shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the first public sale. Should the first public sale fail to produce an award or adjudication, two-thirds of the aforementioned amount or $153,333.33 shall serve as the minimum bidding amount for the second public sale. Should there be no award or adjudication at the second public sale, the minimum bidding amount for the third public sale shall be $115,000.00. Said sale to be made by the appointed Special Master is subject to confirmation by the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico and the deed of conveyance and possession to the property may be executed and delivered after the judicial sale. Upon confirmation of the sale, an order shall be issued canceling all junior liens. THEREFORE, public notice is hereby given that the appointed Special Master, pursuant to the provisions of the Judgment herein before referred to, will, on the 12TH DAY OF JUNE 2026, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder the property described herein, the proceeds of said sale to be applied in the manner and form provided by the Court’s Judgment. Should the first judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the SECOND JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Notice will be held on the 19TH DAY OF JUNE 2026, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Should the second judicial sale set hereinabove be unsuccessful, the THIRD JUDICIAL SALE of the property described in this Noti-

ce will be held on the 26TH DAY OF JUNE 2026, AT 10:30 A.M., in the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, Room 150 - Federal Building, 350 Carlos Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. The records of the case and of these proceedings may be examined by the parties at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, Federal Building, Chardón Avenue, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 15th day of April 2026. AGUEDO DE LA TORRE, APPONTED SPECIAL MASTER.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION

Demandante Vs. SUCESION NORMA CELIDE TORRES

MELENDEZ T/C/C

NORMA CELINA TORRES MELENDEZ T/C/C NORMA C. TORRES MELENDEZ T/C/C NORMA C. TORRES COMPUESTA POR NORMA SANTIAGO TORRES, JOSÉ ANTONIO SANTIAGO TORRES, JOMAR SANTIAGO TORRES; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: PO2024CV03410. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Ponce, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los

Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 24 DE JUNIO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “URBANA: Solar número 31 del bloque “B” de; plano de Urbanización Jacaranda, radicado en el Barrio Machuelo Arriba de Ponce, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 820.67 metros cuadrados; colindando por el NORTE, en 20.00 metros con los solares B2 y B3; por el SUR, en 24.70 metros con Calle “C” de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en 33.55 metros con el solar B-30; y por el OESTE, en 47.28 metros con el solar B-32. En este solar enclava una casa en hormigón reforzado y bloques dedicada a vivienda.” Inscrita al folio 81 del tomo 2066 de Ponce Norte, finca número 34192, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 81 del tomo 2066 de Ponce Norte, finca número 34192, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección I, inscripción 4a. Propiedad localizada en: URB. JACARANDA, 31-B CALLE C, PONCE, PR 00730. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretario de la Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano. Suma de la Carga: $375,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 30 de junio de 2095. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $250,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal

de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 1 DE JULIO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $166,666.67, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $125,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, el 8 DE JULIO DE 2026, A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $144,313.79 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $126,828.77 en intereses acumulados al 24 de noviembre de 2025 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 3.566% anual hasta su total y completo pago; mas $16,264.60 de seguro hipotecario (MIP); $6,965.00 de cargos por servicio; $1,191.80 de contribuciones; $9,168.48 de seguro; $470.00 de inspecciones; $8,753.83 de adelantos pendientes; más la cantidad de 10% del pagaré original en la suma de $25,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. A tenor con la Regla 44.3 de Procedimiento Civil se condena a la parte demandada a pagar intereses aplicables sobre el importe de la presente sentencia incluyendo costas y honorarios de abogado, desde esta fecha y hasta que sea satisfecha. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en

Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 20 de abril de 2026. JAVIER N. SEGARRA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. MANUEL MALDONADO, ALGUACIL PLACA #820.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE BAYAMÓN BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO Demandante V. AIDIGALIS SANTIAGO LATORRE Demandados

Civil Núm.: BY2025CV06373. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE SUBASTA. El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Bayamón, Bayamón, Puerto Rico, hago saber, a la parte demandada y al PÚBLICO EN GENERAL: Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 6 de mayo de 2026, por la Secretaría del Tribunal, procederé a vender y venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor la propiedad que ubica y se describe a continuación: URBANA: PROPIEDAD HORIZONTAL: Apartamento 8-203. Apartamento residencial de forma irregular localizado en la Segunda Planta del Edificio ocho (8) del Condominio Quinta Real, situado en la Carretera número dos (2) del término municipal de Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. Área neta del apartamento: mil doscientos diecinueve pies cuadrados (1,219.00 pc), equivalentes a ciento trece punto veintinueve metros cuadrados (113.29 mc). En lindes: colinda por el NORTE, con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento ocho guión dos cero dos (8-202), en una distancia de cuarenta y seis pies con seis pulgadas (46’06’’), equivalentes a catorce metros con dieciocho centímetros (14.18 m); por el SUR, colinda con pared medianera que lo separa del apartamento ocho guión dos cero cuatro (8-204), en una distancia de cuarenta y un pies con dos pulgadas (41’02’’), equivaletnes a doce metros con cincuenta y cinco centímetros (12.55 m); por el ESTE, colinda con espacio aéreo, en una distancia de treinta y un pies con diez pulgadas (31’10’’), equivalentes a nueve metros con setenta centímetros (9.70 m); y por el OESTE, colinda con espacio aéreo, en una distancia de treinta y un pies con diez pulgadas (31’10’’), equivalentes a nueve metros

Demanda y del emplazamiento a su última dirección conocida. Expedido bajo firma y sello de este Honorable Tribunal en Arecibo Puerto Rico, a 11 de mayo de 2026. VIVIAN FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ANGELITA PADÚA SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

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

GLORIA ESTHER VIRUET LÓPEZ

Demandante Vs MANUEL ANTONIO IRIZARRY AVILÉS

Demandado

Civil Núm.: CG2026RF00086. Sala: 502. Sobre: EXEQUÁTUR. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: MANUEL ANTONIO IRIZARRY AVILÉS4444 FREEDOM RD., KISSIMMEE, FL 34746.

Se le notifica por medio del presente edicto, que se ha radicado en este Tribunal una demanda de exequátur, contra usted. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique su Contestación a la Demanda a la Lcda. Lorimir Couret Fuentes, a la siguiente dirección: Servicios Legales de Puerto Rico, Inc., Calle Acosta 1, PO Box 338, Caguas, Puerto Rico 00726, (Teléfono: (787) 743-9103), dentro del término de treinta (30) días a partir de la publicación de este edicto, el cual se publicará en un periódico de circulación general diaria una sola vez. Se le advierte que, de no comparecer en forma alguna dentro del término legal establecido, la parte demandante podrá obtener sentencia en rebeldía en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle. Por Orden del Juez de este Tribunal, en Caguas, Puerto Rico, a 5 de mayo de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA DEL TRIBUNAL. SHEILA ROLDÁN RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR JUST PALLETS AND CRATES, LLC

Demandante V. PUERTO RICO PALLET RECYCLING, INC.

Demandado Civil Núm.: BY2026CV01479. (505). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESI-

DENTE DE LOS EE.UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PUERTO RICO

PALLET RECYCLING, INC. - DIRECCIONES

CONOCIDAS: BO. ESPINOSA SECTOR LAGUNA II, CARR. #2, KM. 25.5 DORADO, PUERTO RICO 00646; CALLE YABUCOA C-9 MIRADOR MAR CHIQUITA, MANATÍ, PR 00692; Y PO BOX 1646, VEGA ALTA, PR 00692. Por la presente se le notifica que se ha radicado en su contra una Demanda de Cobro de Dinero. Se le emplaza y requiere para que notifique a: Lcda. Elizabeth Villagrasa Flores R.U.A. Núm. 16.877

Email: evillagrasa@ferraiuoli.com 250 Ave. Muñoz Rivera Piso 6

San Juan, PR 0018 P.O. Box 195168 San Juan, PR 00919-5168 Tel: 787-766-7000 / Fax. 787-766-7001

Abogados de la parte demandada, con copia de respuesta a la Demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto Usted deberá presentar alegación responsiva a través del Sistema

Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired.ramajudicial.pr/ sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y con el sello del Tribunal. DADO hoy en Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 13 de mayo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. KEISHLA M. SANTIAGO CRUZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE FAJARDO

RICHARD CRUZ T/C/C

RICHARD CRUZ CRUZ T/C/C RICHARD CRUZ

ROMERO

Demandante Vs. CARMEN IRIS

RIVERA GARCÍA

Demandada Civil Núm.: FA2026RF00020. Sala: 202. Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADI LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: CARMEN IRIS

RIVERA GARCÍA.

Por la presente se le emplaza para que notifique a CARLOS A. ROSARIO, abogado de la demandante, RUA 8625, P.O. Box 190968, 00919-0968, Tel. (787) 923-2266 y correo electrónico rosariocar@gmail. com, copia de la contestación a la demanda radicada por la parte demandante dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación general, por orden del Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda, copia de la cual se le acompaña, radicando el original de la Contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Fajardo, hoy día 28 de abril de 2026. WANDA L. SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. DENISSE CASILLAS NIEVES, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA MUNICIPAL DE CAGUAS. MARIA I. COLÓN RIVERA

PARTE PETICIONARIA vs. JUAN ALBEL ORTIZ RIVERA

PARTE PETICIONADA CÍTESE AL TRIBUNAL DE CAGUAS

SALA ESPECIAUZADA DE VIOLENCIA DOMÉSTICA SALÓN 107, PRIMER PISO

CIVIL NÚM. CD2026MU00136. SALA: 107. SOBRE: LEY NUM. 54-1989. ORDEN DE CITACIÓN POR EDICTO. P/C Lcdo. Rafael L. Reyes Almodóvar

Programa Practica Privada Compensada Servicios Legales de Puerto Rico A: JUAN ALBEL ORTIZ RIVERA 1501 Blue Ridge Dr Apt 9311 Georgetown, TX 78626

Por la presente se requiere a usted para que, sin pretexto alguno comparezca a este Tribunal el 27 de mayo de 2026, a las 11:00am en la sala Especializada de Violencia Doméstica, Salón 107 del Centro

Judicial de Caguas, a la cual podrá comparecer por sí solo o representado por un abogado. En el día antes mencionado, se celebrará la vista en su fondo sobre una Orden de Protección solicitada en su contra. Se le advierte que, si alguna de las partes del caso del epígrafe es menor de edad o persona incapacitada judicialmente, deberá comparecer a la vista representado por su madre, padre o tutor legal, según corresponda. Y en virtud de la cual estampo en esta mi firma y sello hoy 13 de mayo de 2026. POR ORDEN DEL JUEZ, Hon. CARLOS J. CAPÓ HERNÁNDEZ. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, Sec Regional. MARY DE JESÚS HERNÁNDEZ, Secretaria Auxiliar del Tribunal.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

MILEICHA

REYES FIGUEROA

Demandante Vs. JONATHAN

PERALTA PABÓN

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SJ2026RF00225. (704). Sobre: CUSTODIA. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE P.R., SS.

A: JONATHAN PERALTA PABÓN - 8213 WESLEY

MANOR CT 7. APT 8-110 ORLANDO FLORIDA 32821.

Por la presente se le emplaza para que notifique al Licenciado Michael A. Cruz Rodríguez, de Servicios Legales de Puerto Rico, Inc., Centro Metropolitano, P.O Box 21370, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928, Teléfono 787-763-5103, correo electrónico: macruz@servicioslegales. org, copia de la contestación a la demanda, radicada por la parte demandante dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación general, par orden del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la demanda, copia de la cual se le acompaña, radicando el original de la Contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará

sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, hoy día 15 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. LYMARIS LABOY NIEVES, SECRETARIA DE SERVICIOS A SALA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN SALA DE FAMILIA Y MENORES MARITZA

SOLANO MORETA

Parte Demandante Vs MICHELLE TORRES SOLANO, LUIS HOMMY BLONDET MARTÍNEZ

Parte Demandada Caso Núm.: BY2026RF00802. Salón: 4005. Sobre: CUSTODIA, FACULTADES TUTELARES. EDICTO. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDNETE DE LOS E.U., ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR.

A: LUIS HOMMY BLONDET MARTÍNEZ; A: DIRECTOR(A) DE LA INSTITUCIÓN CORRECCIONAL: COLEMAN I U.S. PENITENTIARY - 49099069 USP COLEMAN I U.S. PENITENTIARY, P.O. BOX 1033 COLEMAN, FL 33521.

Por la presente se le emplaza para que notifique, con copia de la Contestación a la Demanda radicada por la parte demandante dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto, que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación general, por Orden del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Familia y Menores de Bayamón a: LCDA. AMANDA LACLAUSTRA VIDOT RUA: 23205 alaclaustra@servicioslegales.org notificaciones-bayamon@ servicioslegales.org SERVICIOS LEGALES DE PR INC APARTADO 2699 BAYAMON PR 00960 TELS: (787) 785-3858

Se le apercibe que, de no contestar la Demanda, copia de la cual se le acompaña, radicando el original de la Contestación ante el Tribunal correspondiente con copia a la parte demandante, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por

derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal correspondiente dentro de los treinta (30) días de haber sido diligenciado este Emplazamiento, si la citación se hiciera en la isla de Puerto Rico; excluyéndose el día del diligenciamiento, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda. EXPEDIDO, bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal Superior de Puerto Rico, Sala de Bayamón, hoy día 15 de mayo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. GRENDA L. VÉLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE HUMACAO LLACG COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND

Demandante Vs. SUCESION JUSTINO RODRIGUEZ RIVAS

COMPUESTA POR FREDDIE RODRIGUEZ, BLANCA RODRIGUEZ; JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; SUCESION EDDIE RODRIGUEZ

COMPUESTA POR JOHN ROE Y JANE ROE COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA; CENTRO DE RECAUDACION DE INGRESOS MUNICIPALES

Demandados

Civil Núm.: HU2025CV00788. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LA PARTE DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Humacao, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor, por separado, de contado y por moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América y/o Giro Postal y Cheque Certificado, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 30 DE JU-

NIO DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: “RUSTICA: Solar: 4. BARRIO JÁCANAS de Yabucoa. Cabida: 4,511.66 Metros Cuadrados. Linderos: Norte, con camino municipal existente. Sur, con el solar tres (3) y/o Harry Rodríguez Morales y el solar cuatro A (4-A) y/o José Ramón Medina Díaz. Este, el solar cuatro A (4-A) y/o José Ramón Medina Díaz y camino municipal existente. Oeste, con camino municipal existente y el solar tres (3) y/o Harry Rodríguez Morales. Descrito el Remanente según inscripción 2. Se segrega de la finca número 17138 de Yabucoa.” Inscrita al folio 149 del tomo 286 de Yabucoa, finca número 18,425, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al Tomo Digital Karibe, finca número 18,425 de Yabucoa, Registro de la Propiedad de Humacao, inscripción 3ª. Propiedad localizada en: SOLAR 4 KM 5.3 PR 9902 INT., SECTOR PIEDRA BLANCA, BO. JACANAS, YABUCOA, PR 00767. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas anteriores o preferentes: Nombre del Titular: N/A. Suma de la Carga: N/A. Fecha de Vencimiento: N/A. Según figuran en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por las siguientes cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante: Nombre del Titular: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Suma de la Carga: $240,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 14 de mayo de 2085. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo de mínima subasta la suma de $240,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 7 DE JULIO DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $160,000.00, 2/3 partes del tipo mínima establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se estable-

ce como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $120,000.00, la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Humacao, el 14 DE JULIO DE 2026, A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a la suma de $247,926.58 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $9,861.80 en intereses acumulados al 30 de septiembre de 2025 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.060% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $24,000.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado. La venta en pública subasta de la referida propiedad se verificará libre de toda carga o gravamen posterior que afecte la mencionada finca, a cuyo efecto se notifica y se hace saber la fecha, hora y sitio de la PRIMERA, SEGUNDA Y TERCERA SUBASTA, si esto fuera necesario, a los efectos de que cualquier persona o personas con algún interés puedan comparecer a la celebración de dicha subasta. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. Expedido en Humacao, Puerto Rico, hoy 24 de abril de 2026. JENNISA GARCÍA MORALES, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. GEYSHA M. RIVERA ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #378.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR ORIENTAL BANK Demandante Vs. JONATHAN CENTENO RUIZ; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2023CV05032. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. (VÍA ORDINARIA). EDICTO DE SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente CERTIFICA, ANUNCIA y hace CONSTAR: Que en cumplimiento de un Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que le ha sido dirigido al Alguacil que

LUIS NAVARRO CEPEDA, COMO LUIS VIERA Y COMO LUIS NAVARRO, COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR VIERA TORRES, JUAN VIERA TORRES, MARTHA VIERA TORRES, FULANO DE TAL Y FULANA DE TAL COMO

POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; LA SUCESIÓN TERESA TORRES SERRANO, TAMBIÉN CONOCIDA COMO TERESA TORRES, COMPUESTA POR HÉCTOR VIERA TORRES, JUAN VIERA TORRES, MARTHA VIERA TORRES, SUTANO DE TAL Y SUTANA DE TAL, COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS CON INTERÉS EN LA SUCESIÓN; CENTRO DE RECAUDACIÓN DE INGRESOS

MUNICIPALES; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA

Demandados

Civil Núm.: FA2025CV00735. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO , SS. A: LA PARTE

DEMANDADA, AL (A LA) SECRETARIO(A) DE HACIENDA DE PUERTO RICO Y AL PÚBLICO

GENERAL:

Certifico y Hago Constar: Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia que me ha sido dirigido por el (la) Secretario(a) del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Fajardo en el caso de epígrafe procederá a vender en pública subasta al mejor postor en efectivo, cheque gerente, giro postal, cheque certificado en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos de América al nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, en mi oficina ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 7 de julio de 2026 a las 11:00 de la mañana, todo derecho título, participación o interés que le corresponda a la parte demandada o cualquiera de ellos en el inmueble hipotecado objeto de ejecución que se describe a continuación: RÚSTICA: Solar que se marca con el número siete (7) en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Colinas El Verde, propiedad de Río Grande Corporation, sita en el barrio Jiménez de Río Grande, Puerto Rico, con un área de 563.6443 metros cuadrados.

En lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de 19.017 metros con terrenos de don Victoriano Figueroa; por el SUR, en una distancia de 19 metros con la única calle de la Urbanización; por el ESTE, en una distancia de 30.065 metros con el solar número seis de la Urbanización; y por el OESTE, en una distancia de 29.268 metros con el solar número ocho de la Urbanización. Inscrita al folio 175 del tomo 94 de Río Grande, finca número 4965, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de Carolina. Propiedad localizada en: Urb. Colinas El Verde, Lote 7 Calle 3, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico 00745. La propiedad objeto de ejecución no está gravada por cargas preferentes a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante. Según figura en la certificación registral, la propiedad objeto de ejecución está gravada por cargas posteriores a la inscripción del crédito ejecutante que se describe a continuación: HIPOTECA en garantía de pagaré a favor de The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $228,000.00 con intereses a razón del 5.56% anual y vencimiento el 4 de enero del 2083. Constituida por la Escritura 407 otorgada en Carolina el 7 de julio de 2010 ante el notario Raúl Rivera Burgos. Inscrita el 18 de octubre de 2011, al folio 109 del Tomo 523 de Río Grande, finca 4965, inscripción 9ª. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad de la propiedad y que todas las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes al crédito ejecutante antes descritos, si los hubiere, continuarán subsistentes. El rematante acepta dichas cargas y gravámenes anteriores, y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Se establece como tipo mínimo de subasta la suma de $228,000.00, según acordado entre las partes en el precio pactado en la escritura de hipoteca. De ser necesaria una SEGUNDA SUBASTA por declararse desierta la primera, la misma se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo, el 14 DE JULIO DE 2026 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $152,000.00 dos tercios (2/3) partes del tipo mínimo establecido originalmente. Si tampoco se produce remate ni adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se establece como mínima para la TERCERA SUBASTA, la suma de $114,000.00 la mitad (1/2) del precio pactado y dicha subasta se celebrará en mi oficina, ubicada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Fajardo el 21 DE JULIO DE 2026 A LAS 11:00 DE LA MAÑANA. Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para, con su producto

satisfacer a la parte demandante, el importe de la Sentencia dictada a su favor ascendente a las siguientes cantidades: la suma de $144,865.58 en intereses acumulados al 3 de diciembre de 2025 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.560% anual hasta su total y completo pago; y otros gastos acumulados. La suma global vencida, líquida y exigible incluyendo intereses y otros gastos acumulados es de $275,764.86 y los cuales continúan acumulándose; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $22,800.00, para gastos, costas y honorarios de abogado; así como cualquier otra suma que se haga en virtud de la escritura de hipoteca, todo ello de acuerdo a los términos de la Sentencia dictada, la cual es final y firme. Se notifica a todos los interesados que las actas y demás constancias del expediente de este caso están disponibles en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante horas laborables para ser examinadas por los (las) interesados (as). Y para su publicación en el periódico The San Juan Daily Star, que es un diario de circulación general en la isla de Puerto Rico, por espacio de dos semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, así como para su publicación en los sitios públicos de Puerto Rico. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de gravámenes posteriores. Expedido en Fajardo, Puerto Rico, hoy día 18 de mayo de 2026. DENISE BRUNO ORTIZ #266, ALGUACIL DE SUBASTAS, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, CENTRO JUDICIAL DE FAJARDO, SALA SUPERIOR. JORGE A. ORTIZ ESTRADA, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #622.

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

Jorge José Ibáñez Blondet, José Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Juan Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Mónica Pastrana Ibáñez, Natalia Pastrana Ibáñez, Ana María Rodríguez Ibáñez

Parte Demandante Vs. Sucesión de Isabel Georgina Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Rosana Almeyda Ibáñez, Marta R. Almeyda Ibañez y Julio Eugenio Almeyda Eurite; Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado; Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavell c/p Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavel compuesta por

Edith Marie Ibáñez Abreu, Raquel Francisca Ibáñez Abreu, Martín Thaddeus Ibáñez Abreu, George Fernando Ibáñez Rivera, Allen (Alan) Sheppard Ibáñez, Camille Ibáñez c/p Camille Vigliotty y María Abreu c/p María Ibáñez y como María Abreu Ibáñez; Sucesión de Carmen Nilda Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por sus causahabientes

Rosalinda Torres Ibáñez y Elizabeth Torres Ibáñez y sus herederos desconocidos Richard Roe, John Roe y Jane Roe; Sucesión de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Santiago; Volga Ibáñez Sepúlveda c/p Volga Ibañez de Harzynski y Volga Harsynski, Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Kristina Ibáñez, Stefanie Ibáñez y Olga Gregory; Sucesión de José Luis Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado, Sucesión de Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado compuesta por Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado y Sucesión de Esther Naomi Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV01890. Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA Y/O ACCIÓN CIVIL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: Volga Ibáñez Sepúlveda c/p Volga Ibañez de Harzynski y Volga Harsynski. Por el presente edicto se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda presentada en su contra dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponga su alegación en torno a la solicitud de los demandantes para que se inscriba a nombre de estos las siguientes propiedades: A. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 13 en el Bloque D de la inscripción de la Urbanización San Gerardo, radicada en el Barrio Cupey, del sitio denominado Río Piedras, del término municipal de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 450.68

June 1, 2026

m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 1555, folio 1 del tomo 40 de Rio Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. B. URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Prudencio Quiñones del Municipio de Vieques, con una cabida superficial de 191.00 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 2132, del folio 215 del tomo 52 de Vieques, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal con copia al Lcdo. Raul Rivera Burgos, PO Box 190153, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919; correo electrónico, raulrblaw@ gmail.com. y teléfono 787-2387665. Si usted dejare de hacerlo podrá dictarse contra usted Sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en esta demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de mayo 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

Jorge José Ibáñez Blondet, José Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Juan Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Mónica Pastrana Ibáñez, Natalia Pastrana Ibáñez, Ana María Rodríguez Ibáñez

Parte Demandante Vs. Sucesión de Isabel Georgina Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Rosana Almeyda Ibáñez, Marta R. Almeyda Ibañez y Julio Eugenio Almeyda Eurite; Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado; Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavell c/p Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavel compuesta por Edith Marie Ibáñez Abreu, Raquel Francisca Ibáñez Abreu, Martín Thaddeus Ibáñez Abreu, George Fernando Ibáñez Rivera, Allen (Alan) Sheppard Ibáñez, Camille Ibáñez c/p Camille Vigliotty y María Abreu c/p María Ibáñez y como María Abreu Ibáñez; Sucesión

de Carmen Nilda Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por sus causahabientes

Rosalinda Torres Ibáñez y Elizabeth Torres Ibáñez y sus herederos desconocidos Richard Roe, John Roe y Jane Roe; Sucesión de Vicente

Blasco Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Santiago; Volga Ibáñez Sepúlveda c/p Volga Ibañez de Harzynski y Volga Harsynski, Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Kristina Ibáñez, Stefanie Ibáñez y Olga Gregory; Sucesión de José Luis Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado, Sucesión de Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado compuesta por Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado y Sucesión de Esther Naomi Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV01890. Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA Y/O ACCIÓN CIVIL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A. Kristina Ibáñez, c/p Kristina Ibáñez Gregory, Stefanie Ibáñez, c/p Stefanie Ibáñez Gregory, Olga Gregory, miembros de la sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Delgado. Por el presente edicto se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda presentada en su contra dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponga su alegación en torno a la solicitud de los demandantes para que se inscriba a nombre de estos las siguientes propiedades: A. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 13 en el Bloque D de la inscripción de la Urbanización San Gerardo, radicada en el Barrio Cupey, del sitio denominado Río Piedras, del término municipal de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 450.68 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 1555, folio 1 del tomo 40 de Rio Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. B. URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Prudencio Quiñones del Municipio de Vieques, con una cabida superficial de 191.00 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número

2132, del folio 215 del tomo 52 de Vieques, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal con copia al Lcdo. Raul Rivera Burgos, PO Box 190153, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919; correo electrónico, raulrblaw@ gmail.com. y teléfono 787-2387665. Si usted dejare de hacerlo podrá dictarse contra usted Sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en esta demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

Jorge José Ibáñez Blondet, José Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Juan Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Mónica Pastrana Ibáñez, Natalia Pastrana Ibáñez, Ana María Rodríguez Ibáñez

Parte Demandante Vs. Sucesión de Isabel Georgina Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Rosana Almeyda Ibáñez, Marta R. Almeyda Ibañez y Julio Eugenio Almeyda Eurite; Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado; Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavell c/p Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavel compuesta por Edith Marie Ibáñez Abreu, Raquel Francisca Ibáñez Abreu, Martín Thaddeus Ibáñez Abreu, George Fernando Ibáñez Rivera, Allen (Alan) Sheppard Ibáñez, Camille Ibáñez c/p Camille Vigliotty y María Abreu c/p María Ibáñez y como María Abreu Ibáñez; Sucesión de Carmen Nilda Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por sus causahabientes

Rosalinda Torres Ibáñez y Elizabeth Torres Ibáñez y sus herederos desconocidos Richard

Roe, John Roe y Jane Roe; Sucesión de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Santiago; Volga Ibáñez Sepúlveda c/p Volga Ibañez de Harzynski y Volga Harsynski, Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Kristina Ibáñez, Stefanie Ibáñez y Olga Gregory; Sucesión de José Luis Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado, Sucesión de Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado compuesta por Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado y Sucesión de Esther Naomi Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV01890. Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA Y/O ACCIÓN CIVIL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A. Richard Roe, John Roe, Jane Roe, como herederos desconocidos de Rosalinda Torres Ibáñez y Elizabeth Torres Ibáñez y como causahabientes de Carmen Nilda Ibáñez Aponte. Por el presente edicto se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda presentada en su contra dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponga su alegación en torno a la solicitud de los demandantes para que se inscriba a nombre de estos las siguientes propiedades: A. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 13 en el Bloque D de la inscripción de la Urbanización San Gerardo, radicada en el Barrio Cupey, del sitio denominado Río Piedras, del término municipal de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 450.68 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 1555, folio 1 del tomo 40 de Rio Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. B. URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Prudencio Quiñones del Municipio de Vieques, con una cabida superficial de 191.00 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 2132, del folio 215 del tomo 52 de Vieques, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado

de manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal con copia al Lcdo. Raul Rivera Burgos, PO Box 190153, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919; correo electrónico, raulrblaw@ gmail.com. y teléfono 787-2387665. Si usted dejare de hacerlo podrá dictarse contra usted Sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en esta demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 12 mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

Jorge José Ibáñez Blondet, José Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Juan Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Mónica Pastrana Ibáñez, Natalia Pastrana Ibáñez, Ana María Rodríguez Ibáñez

Parte Demandante Vs. Sucesión de Isabel Georgina Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Rosana Almeyda Ibáñez, Marta R. Almeyda Ibañez y Julio Eugenio Almeyda Eurite; Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado; Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavell c/p Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavel compuesta por Edith Marie Ibáñez Abreu, Raquel Francisca Ibáñez Abreu, Martín Thaddeus Ibáñez Abreu, George Fernando Ibáñez Rivera, Allen (Alan) Sheppard Ibáñez, Camille Ibáñez c/p Camille Vigliotty y María Abreu c/p María Ibáñez y como María Abreu Ibáñez; Sucesión de Carmen Nilda Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por sus causahabientes

Rosalinda Torres Ibáñez y Elizabeth Torres Ibáñez y sus herederos desconocidos Richard Roe, John Roe y Jane Roe; Sucesión de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Santiago; Volga Ibáñez Sepúlveda

c/p Volga Ibañez de Harzynski y Volga Harsynski, Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Kristina Ibáñez, Stefanie Ibáñez y Olga Gregory; Sucesión de José Luis Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado, Sucesión de Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado compuesta por Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado y Sucesión de Esther Naomi Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV01890. Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA Y/O ACCIÓN CIVIL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A. Edith Marie Ibáñez Abreu, Raquel Francisca Ibáñez Abreu, Martín Thaddeus Ibáñez Abreu, George Fernando Ibáñez Rivera, Allen (Alan) Sheppard Ibáñez, Camille Ibáñez, c/p Camille Vigliotty, María Abreu c/p María Ibáñez y María Ibáñez Abreu miembros de la sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavell. Por el presente edicto se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda presentada en su contra dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponga su alegación en torno a la solicitud de los demandantes para que se inscriba a nombre de estos las siguientes propiedades: A. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 13 en el Bloque D de la inscripción de la Urbanización San Gerardo, radicada en el Barrio Cupey, del sitio denominado Río Piedras, del término municipal de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 450.68 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 1555, folio 1 del tomo 40 de Rio Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. B. URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Prudencio Quiñones del Municipio de Vieques, con una cabida superficial de 191.00 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 2132, del folio 215 del tomo 52 de Vieques, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede

acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal con copia al Lcdo. Raul Rivera Burgos, PO Box 190153, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919; correo electrónico, raulrblaw@ gmail.com. y teléfono 787-2387665. Si usted dejare de hacerlo podrá dictarse contra usted Sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en esta demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRIGUEZ

COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

Jorge José Ibáñez Blondet, José Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Juan Enrique Ibáñez Blondet, Mónica Pastrana Ibáñez, Natalia Pastrana Ibáñez, Ana María Rodríguez Ibáñez

Parte Demandante Vs. Sucesión de Isabel Georgina Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Rosana Almeyda Ibáñez, Marta R. Almeyda Ibañez y Julio Eugenio Almeyda Eurite; Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado; Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavell c/p Jorge Julio Ibáñez Clavel compuesta por Edith Marie Ibáñez Abreu, Raquel Francisca Ibáñez Abreu, Martín Thaddeus Ibáñez Abreu, George Fernando Ibáñez Rivera, Allen (Alan) Sheppard Ibáñez, Camille Ibáñez c/p Camille Vigliotty y María Abreu c/p María Ibáñez y como María Abreu Ibáñez; Sucesión de Carmen Nilda Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por sus causahabientes Rosalinda Torres Ibáñez y Elizabeth Torres Ibáñez y sus herederos desconocidos Richard Roe, John Roe y Jane Roe; Sucesión de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Aponte compuesta por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Santiago; Volga Ibáñez Sepúlveda c/p Volga Ibañez de Harzynski y Volga

Harsynski, Sucesión de Jorge Julio Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Kristina Ibáñez, Stefanie Ibáñez y Olga Gregory; Sucesión de José Luis Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado, Sucesión de Carmen Dinorah Delgado c/p Dinora Delgado compuesta por Carmen Mercedes Ibáñez Delgado y Sucesión de Esther Naomi Ibáñez Delgado compuesta por John Doe y Jane Doe Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: SJ2026CV01890. Sobre: SENTENCIA DECLARATORIA Y/O ACCIÓN CIVIL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A. JOHN DOE Y JANE DOE DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS DE ESTHER NAOMI IBÁÑEZ DELGADO.

Por el presente edicto se le emplaza para que presente al tribunal su alegación responsiva a la demanda presentada en su contra dentro de los treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación de este edicto y exponga su alegación en torno a la solicitud de los demandantes para que se inscriba a nombre de estos las siguientes propiedades: A. URBANA: Solar marcado con el número 13 en el Bloque D de la inscripción de la Urbanización San Gerardo, radicada en el Barrio Cupey, del sitio denominado Río Piedras, del término municipal de la Capital de Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 450.68 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 1555, folio 1 del tomo 40 de Rio Piedras, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Cuarta de San Juan. B. URBANA: Solar radicado frente a la Calle Prudencio Quiñones del Municipio de Vieques, con una cabida superficial de 191.00 m.c. Inscrita a la finca número 2132, del folio 215 del tomo 52 de Vieques, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Fajardo. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: http:// unired.ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal con copia al Lcdo. Raul Rivera Burgos, PO Box 190153, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919; correo electrónico, raulrblaw@ gmail.com. y teléfono 787-238-

7665. Si usted dejare de hacerlo podrá dictarse contra usted Sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en esta demanda. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en de San Juan, Puerto Rico, hoy día 4 de mayo 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. MICHELLE RIVERA RÍOS, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

CAPITAL TITLE SERVICES, INC

Demandante V. ORIENTAL BANK; JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA

Demandados Civil Núm.: CA2026CV01569. Sala: 410. Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JUAN DEL PUEBLO Y JUANA DEL PUEBLO COMO POSIBLES TENEDORES Y CUALESQUIER PERSONA DESCONOCIDA CON POSIBLE INTERÉS EN LA OBLIGACIÓN CUYA CANCELACIÓN POR DECRETO JUDICIAL SE SOLICITA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. 1. En este caso la parte demandante ha radicado una Demanda para que se decrete judicialmente el saldo de un (1) pagaré hipotecario a favor Ponce Federal Bank FSB o a su orden, por la suma principal de $67,150.00, con intereses al 9 1/2% sobre el “prime rate” anual vencedero a el 1 de abril de 2018, constituida mediante la escritura 90, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 10 de marzo de 1988, ante el notario Ruben Rivera Vera e inscrita al folio 72 del tomo 788 de Carolina 1, inscripción 1era.sobre la propiedad que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar número quince (15) del Bloque “Q” de la Urbanización Jardines de Country Club, radicada en el Barrio Sabana Abajo del término municipal de Carolina,

Puerto Rico, con una cabida de trescientos treinta punto setenta y ocho metros cuadrados (330.78 m.c.) en lindes por el NORTE, en una distancia de trece punto cincuenta metros (13.50 m.) en línea recta, con la acera que lo separa de la calle número diez (10); por el SUR, en una distancia de trece punto cincuenta metros (13.50 m.) en línea recta, con el solar número diez (10); por el ESTE, en una distancia en línea recta de veinticuatro punto quinientos dos metros (24.502 m.), con el solar dieciséis (16) del bloque Q; y por el OESTE, , en una distancia en línea recta de veinticuatro punto tres metros (24.03 m.), con el solar número catorce (14) del bloque Q. Enclava una casa de hormigón y bloques constituida para una sola familia, contiene tres (3) habitaciones dormitorios, dos (2) baños, sala, comedor, cocina, laundry room, balcón y marquesina doble. Finca Número 38,375, inscrita al folio 72 del tomo 788 de Carolina. Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección 1 de Carolina. La parte demandante alega que dicho pagaré ha sido saldado según más detalladamente consta en la Demanda radicada que puede examinarse en la Secretaría de este Tribunal. Por tratarse de una obligación hipotecaria y pudiendo usted tener interés en este caso o quedar afectado por el remedio solicitado, se le emplaza por este edicto que se publicará una vez en un periódico de circulación diaria general de Puerto Rico. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio. Debe notificar con copia de ella a la abogada de la parte demandante la Lcda. Lizbet Aviles Vega, Urb. Los Sauces, Calle Pomarrosa #222, Humacao, PR 00791; Tel. (787) 354-0061, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto, apercibiéndole que de no hacerlo así dentro del término indicado, el Tribunal podrá anotar su rebeldía y dictar sentencia concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, en Carolina, Puerto Rico, hoy día 13 de mayo de 2026. LCDA. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. MILLIANIE RIVERA SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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

JOEL RIVERA ORTIZ

Demandante V. NAQUITA

SHANTELL LESKO

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AR2025RF00876. (Salón: 103 RELACIONES DE FAMILIA Y MENORES - CIVIL).

Sobre: PATRIA POTESTADPRIVACIÓN, SUSPENSIÓN O RESTRICCIÓN. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

MÓNICA BERENICE CORDERO RIVERA - MBCORDERO@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. WILMA I. LÓPEZ MORA - WLOPEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG. NAQUITA SHANTELL LESKO1701 STATE HILL ROAD, APT. N.1, WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA, ESTADOS UNIDOS, 19601. A: NAQUITA

SHANTELL LESKO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de mayo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de mayo de 2026. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. ANGELITA PADÚA SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE SAN JUAN SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN RICHARD HERNANDO CASTRO BAEZ

Demandante V. BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO, COMO SUCESOR EN INTERÉS DE WESTERNBANK PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: SJ2025CV11414. (Salón: 504 CIVIL). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SEN-

TENCIA POR EDICTO. FERNANDO L. SEPÚLVEDA SILVAOFICINAFLSS@YAHOO.COM. A: FULANO DE TAL ÚLTIMO TENEDOR CONOCIDO

ZUTANO DE CUAL CUALQUIER TENEDOR DESCONOCIDO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 21 de mayo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 22 de mayo de 2026. En San Juan, Puerto Rico, el 22 de mayo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. GÉNESIS PIZARRO QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2026CV00081. (Salón: 301). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. SAIDETH CRISTÓBAL MARTÍNEZSAIDETHCRISTOBAL@GMAIL.COM

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Yabucoa hurlers blank Patillas in Double-A Southeast section final

Azucareros, Toritos & Petateros stake out 2-0 series leads

By THE STAR STAFF

The Azucareros of Yabucoa, Toritos of Cayey, Petateros of Sabana Grande, Tigres of Hatillo, Gigantes of Carolina, Maratonistas of Coamo, Mulos of Juncos and Libertadores of Hormigueros were winners on Saturday in the Superior Double-A Baseball League sectional finals.

In the Southeast section, the Azucareros shut out the Leones of Patillas 1-0 behind a combined pitching effort from Cristián González, Alberto Rosario, Arturo Martoral and Joan Román.

Rosario earned the win after pitching one inning, while Román picked up the save. The game’s only run came in the eighth inning when Kevin Santa singled in Christian Vázquez as Yabucoa took a 2-0 series lead.

In the Southwest, the Petateros defeated the Cafeteros of Yauco, 13-3, powered by three RBIs each from Jessy de la Cruz and Alejandro Ruperto. Walter Hernández took the win for Sabana Grande (2-0) after working five innings, and Jesús Ramos went the rest of the way without allowing any runs to earn the save.

In the Central section, the Toritos edged out the Pescadores del Plata of Comerío, 4-3, behind a home run by

Osvaldo Torres and Alexander Márquez’s three RBIs. Lefthander Juan Carlos Burgos earned the win in relief, and veteran Ramesis Rosa picked up the save as Cayey took a 2-0 lead in the series.

In the North, the Tigres bounced back with a 10-6 victory over the Titanes of Florida to tie the series. Rawell Rivera pitched the first seven scoreless innings to earn the win.

Ángel “Gallo” Rosa and Erick Espinosa each hit a home run.

In the Metro section, right-hander Héctor “Heto” Acevedo pitched a complete game to guide the Gigantes to a 5-1 victory over the Guardianes of Dorado to even the series at one win apiece.

Acevedo struck out nine batters and allowed seven hits and one run for Carolina. Kevin Meléndez drove in three runs, and Alexis Torres hit a home run.

In the East, the defending champion Mulos rallied for five runs in the ninth inning and two in the 12th to walk off the Artesanos of Las Piedras, 7-6. Joel Fuentes delivered the game-winning hit, driving in two runs. Francisco López pitched one inning to earn the victory. Star left-hander Luis Cintrón worked two scoreless innings in relief, having previously pitched six innings on Friday in the first game of the series.

In the Northwest, the Libertadores manufactured two runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Patrulleros of San Sebastián, 3-2, in the series opener thanks to impeccable relief pitching from Roy Geigel and Marvin Galarza.

In the South, the Maratonistas of Coamo routed the Peces Voladores of Salinas 13-2 on Friday, recording their seventh consecutive victory and getting off to a strong start in the section finals. Veteran pitcher Alexander Woodson held the opposition scoreless through the first five innings to earn the win, while Jonathan García drove in five runs with a home run and a double.

Sabana Grande, Salinas win by shutout in women’s softball

By THE STAR STAFF

The Prodigiosas of Sabana Grande and the Caribeñas of Salinas were winners on Saturday with the first shutouts of the 2026 Women’s Softball Premier League (LPSF by its initials in Spanish) season.

Prodigiosas pitcher Morgan Smith worked all six innings of the contest, striking out eight batters to guide Sabana Grande to a 3-0 victory over the Grises of Humacao.

Luna Taboas led the offensive attack with a triple and two RBIs.

The Prodigiosas completed the sweep in the second game of the doubleheader, defeating Humacao, 7-0. Pitcher Alyssa Ramírez earned the win after allowing just one hit and striking out three batters over three innings of work.

Chloe Malau’ulu drove in two runs for the winners.

In Salinas, the Caribeñas also opened the season with a shutout, defeating the Valencianas of Juncos, 3-0.

Mexican pitcher Yeraldine Carrión was the standout performer from the circle, pitching all six innings and recording six strikeouts to earn the win.

The Valencianas bounced back to win the second game, 3-1, and earn the split.

Xeana Kamalani was credited with the victory after pitching two innings and recording three strikeouts.

Morgan Smith went the distance, striking out eight, to guide Sabana Grande to a 3-0 win over Humacao in

Bayamón, Santurce, Caguas earn come-from-behind wins in BSN

Travis Trice (13) had 14 points and eight assists as the Criollos rallied in the second half to top the Santeros and win their fourth straight at home.

By THE STAR STAFF

The Vaqueros of Bayamón, Cangrejeros of Santurce and Criollos of Caguas notched victories in the Superior National Basketball (BSN by its initials in Spanish) league on Saturday night.

At Juan Aubin Cruz Abreu Coliseum in Manatí, the visiting Vaqueros defeated the Osos, 98-95, after trailing for much of the game.

Down 77-67 to open the fourth quarter, Bayamón stayed within range and rallied in the final minutes for the comeback road victory.

Jae Crowder led the Vaqueros (16-9) with 25 points and five rebounds. Khary Maurás added 20 points, Gary Browne contributed 18 points and nine assists, and Jordan Cintrón finished with 16 points and eight rebounds.

Kristian Doolittle finished with 25 points and 14 rebounds for the Osos (8-15). Jameer Nelson Jr. added 21 points, while Cheick Diallo made his debut with 13 points and 20 rebounds.

At Arquelio Torres Ramírez Coliseum San Germán, meanwhile, the Cangrejeros defeated the host Atléticos, 95-92.

San Germán dominated the start of the game, building a lead of up to 14 points in the first quarter, fueled by the scoring of André Curbelo.

However, the Cangrejeros rallied in the second frame and the teams went into intermission with the score tied at 38.

Santurce took control in the third quarter (27-19) and led 65-57 entering the final period.

In a high-pitched fourth quarter that featured the ejection of Atléticos head coach Eddie Casiano and his assistant, Manolo Cintrón, the hosts responded, cutting a 12-point deficit down to just one point in the final seconds. However, Santurce executed better from the free-throw line to secure the victory.

Davon Jefferson led the Cangrejeros (11-12) with 21 points and 15 rebounds. Walter Hodge added 18 points, Jordan Howard contributed 17, and Isaiah Piñeiro finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Curbelo scored 25 points for the Atléticos (15-9), Nick Perkins had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and Montrezl Harrell contributed 19 points and 18 rebounds.

At Roger Mendoza Coliseum in Caguas, the host Criollos trailed by as many as 13 points in the first quarter but came back to thump the Santeros of Aguada, 99-83.

Aguada led 45-39 at halftime, but the Criollos rallied after the break to tie the game in the third quarter, taking a 71-66 lead heading into the final 10 minutes.

Caguas (15-8) continued to widen the gap in the fourth quarter, eventually leading by 14 points down the stretch to secure its fourth consecutive victory at home.

Moses Brown led the Criollos’ offense with 25 points and 16 rebounds. Christian “Cuco” López added 22 points -- including five three-pointers -- while Travis Trice contributed 14 points and eight assists.

Jacob Wiley finished with 19 points and nine rebounds for the Santeros (11-11). Matthew Lee added 19 points and John Jenkins contributed 17.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 21

NBA Conference Finals

(Best-of-7)

Western Conference

Game 1

San Antonio Spurs 122, Oklahoma City Thunder 115 (2OT) Game 2

Oklahoma City 122, San Antonio 113 Game 3

Oklahoma City 123, San Antonio 108 Game 4

San Antonio 103, Oklahoma City 82 Game 5

Oklahoma City 127, San Antonio 114 Game 6

San Antonio 118, Oklahoma City 91 Game 7

(San Antonio wins series 4-3)

Saturday San Antonio 111, Oklahoma City 103 Eastern Conference

Game 1

New York Knicks 115, Cleveland Cavaliers 104 (OT) Game 2

New York 109, Cleveland 93 Game 3

New York 121, Cleveland 108 Game 4

(New York wins series 4-0) New York 130, Cleveland 93

NBA Finals

(Best-of-7; all times Eastern)

Game 1

Wednesday

New York Knicks at San Antonio Spurs, 8:30 p.m. (ABC) Game 2

Friday

New York at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. (ABC)