Monday Mar 16, 2026

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Fiscal board chastises LUMA for executing contract without bidding

By THE STAR STAFF

Despite conditionally approving it, the Financial Oversight and Manage ment Board criticized LUMA Energy ServCo LLC for signing a $43.5 million contract with Evertec Group LLC without conducting competitive procurement and at a higher cost.

The decision was communicated in a letter dated March 10, addressed to LUMA Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Offi cer Juan Rogers Menchaca.

According to the oversight board, the contract covers the continuation and ex pansion of LUMA’s comprehensive billing system, including printing, address valida tion, invoice mailing, digital bill design and electronic delivery. The agreement would replace Contract No. 2021‑L00068, which expired on March 11, and originated from a competitive procurement process in 2020.

The new contract, worth up to $43.6 million over three years, was awarded through a direct, non competitive process. LUMA said a new request for proposals (RFP) would take about 18 months and cause extra costs during the switch to a new vendor. The energy grid operator also said the higher prices reflect increased printing volume and more detailed bill content required by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau.

However, the oversight board pointed out that it has rai sed similar concerns multiple times over the past two years,

especially when reviewing changes to the current Evertec contract. The board emphasized that the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Eco nomic Stability Act (PROMESA) requires public contracts to encourage market competition, and delaying a competitive process until fiscal year (FY) 2028 would let Evertec provide services for 10 years without a new bid.

As a result, the board approved the contract only on the condition that LUMA eliminate two proposed one‑year contract extensions and com mit to launching a competitive procurement process before the new contract expires. LUMA must resubmit the contract with a revised term before execution and must notify the board when it issues the new RFP.

During its budget review, the oversight board confirmed that LUMA has enough funds in its FY 2026 PREPA budget to cover the contract costs. However, it warned that this depends on LUMA’s own budget certification and stressed that the utility must ask for budget adjustments if the contract causes overspending in future years.

The board also criticized the timing of the submis sion.

The letter, signed by General Counsel Jaime A. El Koury, made clear that the oversight board’s review only covers compliance with PROMESA’s Section 204(b)(2). It does not include legal due diligence, background checks, or verifying compliance with procurement laws. Any major changes to the contract must be sent back for further review.

Work on PR-181 begins with $12 million federal investment

By THE STAR STAFF

Rehabilitation work has begun on highway PR 181 a route connecting hundreds of families and traveled daily by more than 30,000 residents, primarily from Trujillo Alto, Gurabo and San Lorenzo.

While serving as resident commissioner, Gov. Jenniffer González Colón allocated $3 million for the project for fiscal year 2023 as part of Community Projects funds directly allo cated by members of Congress. As governor, she allocated the remaining $8.9 million, drawn from funds under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which González Colón helped craft while serving as a member of the U.S. House Committee on Trans portation and Infrastructure. That allocation managed at the federal level by the Federal Highway Administration is admi nistered locally by the Highways and Transportation Authority.

“This project, financed by $11,986,396 in federal funds that we secured, represents a valuable use of federal resources that

will benefit the residents, workers, and students who rely on this highway,” the governor said at Sunday’s groundbreaking in Gurabo. “With this allocation, we no longer have to wait.”

The governor made the announcement alongside Florida U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody (R Fla.), Puerto Rico Secretary of State Rosachely Rivera Santana, who was the mayor of Gurabo when the reconstruction funds for the roadway were first requested, and other officials including current Gurabo Mayor Vimarie Peña Dávila.

Moody said the governor “is frequently in Washington, D.C., engaging in dialogue with us regarding how we can advance important projects that impact not only roads and transportation, but also the electrical grid and public safety.”

The reconstruction work will entail the milling of existing asphalt, repaving, thermoplastic pavement marking, installation of reflective pavement markers, construction of drainage dit ches, installation of guardrails, erosion control measures, and preservation work on Bridge No. 2652 over the Gurabo River.

Housing secretary’s departure does not end New Progressive Party division

By THE STAR STAFF

Puerto Rico Housing Secretary Ciary Pérez Peña submitted her resignation on Saturday, marking the end of a month-long controversy surrounding alleged irregularities at an auto inspection center owned by her family in Yabucoa but doing little to end divisions in the governing New Progressive Party.

Her resignation will take effect today,

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón said.

The governor confirmed receiving Pérez Peña’s four-page resignation letter around 1:30 p.m. Saturday, describing the decision as an attempt by the outgoing official to prevent further distractions to the Housing Department.

“The gossip is over, the back-and-forth ends today,” said González Colón, noting that Pérez Peña expressed concern that personal accusations unrelated to her duties

were overshadowing the agency’s work.

After the announcement, Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz, who is vying to run for governor, publicly criticized La Fortaleza’s handling of the controversy. In a sharply worded social-media post, he questioned why the administration had defended Pérez Peña for weeks only to accept her resignation now.

Rivera Schatz accused the governor’s advisers of inconsistency and mocked the administration for what he described as contradictory reasoning.

“They removed her over problems, but might use her later as a spokesperson. Illuminati logic,” he wrote, adding that there was “a select and exclusive group of ‘geniuses’” guiding decisions at La Fortaleza.

The comments come as tensions between the governor and the Senate president have escalated, fueled by disagreements over the investigations into Pérez Peña and the administration’s responses.

In her resignation letter, Pérez Peña wrote that she was stepping down “with mixed feelings,” emphasizing her accomplishments during her tenure. She maintained that the allegations targeting her and her family were “false and malicious,” but acknowledged that they had become a distraction.

“I cannot allow these accusations to minimize the work, progress, and achievements of your administration,” she wrote.

González Colón praised Pérez Peña’s performance, calling her “one of the best Housing Secretaries Puerto Rico has had,” and wished her success in the future. She added that she would remain available to assist Pérez Peña if needed.

The governor also revealed that Deputy Housing Secretary Omar Figueroa Vázquez resigned on Friday. He has been replaced by attorney Luis Augusto Martínez, who will also serve as interim Housing secretary until a permanent appointment is made.

González Colón dismissed speculation that she would nominate Itza García, the current La Fortaleza deputy chief of staff, to lead the Housing Department.

“Even with all the preparation in the world, I need her for the work she is doing now,” the governor said.

The Housing secretary had spent the past month under scrutiny following reports of the alleged irregularities at the family-owned auto inspection center. Although the events predated her government appointment, they triggered multiple investigations and political clashes, culminating in Saturday’s resignation.

Dredging of Carraízo Reservoir completed

By THE STAR STAFF

Gov. Jenniffer González Colón and Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) Executive President Luis Reinaldo González Delgado announced over the weekend the completion of the dredging project for the Carraízo Reservoir. They also announced the allocation of funds for a second phase focused on sediment mitigation and control within the lake.

“This initiative is part of our commitment to transform and strengthen the metropolitan area’s drinking water system,” González Colón said Saturday in written remarks. “After 27 years without any dredging being performed in Carraízo Lake, today we complete a project that increases the reservoir’s capacity and fortifies our water system’s infrastructure against droughts and other climatic challenges we face.”

The dredging project represents a total investment of $106.8 million, funded through federal sources -- specifically the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program -- as well as PRASA.

Some 2 million cubic meters of storage capacity were recovered -- a volume that had been lost over decades due to the accumulation of sediment and debris.

The Carraízo Reservoir supplies drinking water to 171,387 families across the municipalities of San Juan, Carolina, Canóvanas, Trujillo Alto, Gurabo, Loíza, and Juncos, via the Sergio Cuevas

Filtration Plant in Trujillo Alto.

The work, which began in June 2024, included the mobilization of specialized dredging equipment, the implementation of erosion and sediment controls, improvements to the disposal sites for dredged material, and the restoration of areas impacted by the construction work.

“This project represents a strategic investment to strengthen water supply security in the metropolitan region,” González Delgado said. “With its completion, we have successfully added approximately 550 million gallons of water to our system -- representing more than five additional days of supply for the customers who rely on this system. Carraízo is a critical component of our infrastructure, and restoring its storage capacity enables us to respond more effectively to drought events and ensure service continuity for thousands of citizens.”

The dredging of Carraízo Reservoir represents a total investment of $106.8 million, funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program, as well as the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority.

During the dredging operations, a significant amount of solid waste -- which had accumulated in the lake over the years -- was also removed, including tires, vehicles and household appliances. In addition to occupying space that should have been available for water storage, those materials negatively impacted the ecosystem and hindered the progress of the work.

The governor announced further that, as part of the efforts to safeguard the investment made, the agency is currently planning a second phase of the project focused on sediment mitigation and control within the reservoir.

The project already has a projected bid opening date set for April 2029.

Citizens challenge PREPA pension charge in energy bill as illegal, unconstitutional

By THE STAR STAFF

Agroup of Puerto Rico electricity consumers is asking the federal court overseeing the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) bankruptcy to let their lawsuit proceed, arguing that a controversial pension-related charge added to all power bills is unconstitutional and illegally imposed.

The petition, filed last Friday by Eduardo Horrutiener Socias, Cynthia Boscio Matos, José Alberto Morales Rodríguez and the Puerto Rico Medical Emergency Group Inc., represents 1.5 million residential and commercial customers. It aims to block what they call an “unlawful tax” created by the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB). The charge, called the Provisional Charge, was approved on July 31, 2025, and initiated on Sept. 1, 2025.

The plaintiffs, who also represent a class action filed in 2025 against LUMA Energy and others (Case No. SJ2025CV11155), say the PREB went beyond its legal authority under Puerto Rico law when it approved the charge. They argue the fee breaks both the Puerto Rico and U.S. Constitutions because it makes consumers pay for PREPA retirees’ pensions without getting any service in return.

On Feb. 17 of this year, the Financial Oversight and Management Board paused the class action by using the automatic stay that protects PREPA from lawsuits during its bankruptcy process under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). The plaintiffs then filed an emergency motion asking the federal court to lift the stay so the case can continue.

PREPA, the oversight board, and PREPA’s Retirement System have opposed that request, arguing that because the

The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Retirement System says that because the Provisional Charge funds retiree pensions, any order halting or nullifying it would cause “immediate, irreparable harm” to thousands of former authority workers who depend on monthly pension checks.

lawsuit challenges PREPA’s rates and revenues, it interferes with property protected under the bankruptcy stay.

The filing points out that the pension charge is not related to the current operation of the electrical system. It also does not meet the legal criteria for recoverable costs under Puerto Rico’s Energy Transformation and RELIEF Act (Act 57‑2014), which defines what expenses PREPA and its operators can recover through customer rates.

The petition argues that pension payments are pre-petition debts included in the bankruptcy years ago. They are not operating costs such as fuel, maintenance or current labor.

The petition also notes that customers have already paid amounts meant to fund PREPA’s pension obligations for years. However, PREPA’s management allegedly misused or diverted those funds, which led to the Retirement System’s insolvency.

The challenge further asserts that forcing consumers to pay for PREPA’s past pension debts amounts to an unconstitutional taking of private property, and that PROMESA does not override the U.S. Constitution’s Takings Clause.

The petitioners also say the oversight board does not have the authority to impose or require a pension charge. They refer to PROMESA §303, which protects Puerto Rico’s legislative powers, and mention past federal rulings that make clear the oversight board cannot make laws.

PREPA has cited the Fiscal Plan as justification for embedding pension costs into electric rates. But the plaintiffs counter that the plan merely suggested exploring such funding not mandating it and that only the Puerto Rico Legislature could validly impose such an obligation on consumers.

The plaintiffs insist the court should let their lawsuit move forward. They argue they have clear legal reasons to lift the bankruptcy stay. They say the Provisional Charge is an illegal act by PREB and an improper attempt to collect pre-bankruptcy debt from ratepayers.

The federal court has not yet decided whether to lift the stay. If the case moves forward, the class action could have major effects on PREPA’s restructuring and on all electricity customers in Puerto Rico. PREPA’s Retirement System defended the charge, saying that because the charge funds retiree pensions, any order halting or nullifying it would cause “immediate, irreparable harm” to thousands of former PREPA workers who depend on monthly pension checks.

Analysts raise red flags on New Fortress Energy’s financial condition

By THE STAR STAFF

Despite securing a new contract to supply natural gas in Puerto Rico, power plant fleet operator Genera PR’s parent company, New Fortress Energy, is in serious financial distress that analysts say raises red flags for investors and for jurisdictions now reliant on its operations, according to several stateside publications.

New Fortress Energy, a global liquefied natural gas (LNG) company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker NFE, is carrying nearly $9 billion in total debt, with $6.5 billion coming due within the next year. The company has already fallen behind on roughly $500 million in payments, entering a temporary forbearance period as it negotiates with creditors to avoid a full default. The negotiations could lead to creditors taking preferred equity and major corporate assets in exchange for relief -- moves that would prioritize creditor protection and potentially leave common shareholders with little to nothing.

The company’s financial strain is intensified by a trail-

ing 12‑month free cash flow of negative $1.73 billion, an enormous cash burn that far outpaces the $1.7 billion in revenue generated over the same period. Analysts warn that although the company owns significant physical assets and operates within a growing global LNG market, its inability to produce positive cash flow threatens its long‑term viability.

Market indicators reflect this pessimism. NFE currently holds a market capitalization just above $300 million, a figure dwarfed by its $9.6 billion enterprise value. The stark mismatch suggests that the market assumes a restructuring is almost certain -- and that existing equity holders face substantial risk. While management has expressed hope that restructuring could preserve some value for common shareholders, there is no guarantee that negotiations will succeed or that shareholders would emerge with meaningful equity stakes.

The company’s new seven-year contract to supply natural gas had appeared to be one of its most promising bright spots, particularly given Puerto Rico’s push to stabilize a grid already fraught with outages and reliability concerns. Yet financial ana-

lysts caution that even significant new contracts cannot resolve the company’s central problem: its current cash flow cannot service its staggering debt load. Restructuring discussions, by design, focus on protecting creditors first, leaving shareholder interests secondary.

There remains a scenario -- if the company is able to sell assets, renegotiate maturities, and stabilize cash flow where the stock’s low valuation could present upside. But analysts warn that this possibility resembles a high-risk speculative gamble more than a traditional investment. With its debt deadlines approaching rapidly, its cash reserves dwindling, and its operations increasingly dependent on creditor forbearance, NFE is positioned on the brink of collapse.

Investor advisories have emphasized that, while the company’s global LNG assets and its Puerto Rico contract offer strategic advantages, none of these are sufficient to offset current financial realities. Without a transformative agreement with lenders, restructuring could wipe out existing shareholders or significantly dilute their stakes.

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Inside a doomed mission to Cuba: 10 men willing to ‘leave everything’

By PATRICIA MAZZEI and DAVID C. ADAMS

Before Héctor Cruz Correa left his home in South Florida for an ill-fated boat trip to Cuba last month, he told his mother that he was going fishing. He asked her to make his favorite beef soup for the trip.

Another man, Roberto Álvarez Ávila, a father of three, told his wife that he would see her after his shift as a Walmart security guard. A third, Conrado Galindo Sariol, who had spent eight years in a Cuban prison, told his wife he was going to work delivering packages.

None of them returned home.

The three men were among 10 Cuban immigrants who, according to the Cuban government, stowed a stockpile of weapons on two boats in the Florida Keys, set sail and wound up in an armed confrontation with the Cuban coast guard about a mile off the island’s northern coast. The government called it a foiled terrorist attack.

Four of the men, including Cruz Correa, died in the firefight Feb. 25. Álvarez, who had been shot, died nine days later. The five others were all injured and remain detained in Cuba.

A man visits a memorial to the anti-Communist militants who sailed from the Florida Keys and wound up in a gunfight off Cuban shores, held by Cuban exiles in Miami on Sunday, March 8, 2026. Five of the 10 are dead and the rest remain detained in Cuba. Some in the Cuban exile community hailed them for seizing an opportunity to try to provoke unrest in their homeland. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/The New York Times)

More than two weeks later, what the men intended to do that day remains a mystery. They knew one another from TikTok group chats and fringe organizations dedicated to freeing Cuba from communism. Most of them lived and worked in and around Miami and Tampa, two hubs of anti-Fidel Castro sentiment. Their relatives remain skeptical of the Cuban government’s account.

Yet some Cubans in Miami have started to believe that the men might have convinced themselves that a few anti-communist militants could take on the Cuban dictatorship.

Cuba’s economy is on the brink of collapse. Its Communist government looks weaker than at any other point in recent history. After deposing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, who had provided Cuba with an economic lifeline, President Donald Trump has said that the Cuban regime may be the next to crumble. The Cuban government confirmed Friday that it is in talks with the White House over its economic future.

Some in South Florida’s exile community suspect that a handful of their own seized an opportunity to try to provoke unrest in their homeland.

“It was a display of bravery, of courage,” Jorge Luis García Pérez, a well-known activist against the Cuban government who goes by the name Antúnez, said last Sunday during a small ceremony that exile groups held for the men in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. “Those men went there to leave everything.”

A return to old ways

For four decades after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, exiles ran guns, planted bombs and tried to subvert the island’s government from their adopted home of South Florida. Miami’s anti-communist fervor ran so deep that often, the militants were not even prosecuted in the United States.

But those days had seemed long over. The earlier generations of militant exiles had grown old, died or become resigned

to never seeing a democratic Cuba.

Last month’s boat plot involved younger Cuban immigrants, many of whom came to the United States much more recently, suggesting that at least a handful of men had sought to pick up the mantle of earlier generations.

Unlike in the past, however, there has not been an outpouring of support for the 10 men who were on the boat. The ceremony in Little Havana drew maybe 50 people, fewer than organizers had hoped, and no politicians.

Yet those who attended treated the men with reverence.

Sergio Rodríguez of the November 30 Movement, which was founded in the 1960s by former supporters of Castro, said that his group and other exile organizations “will always support any belligerent act or action” against the Cuban regime.

Several attendees mused that if Cuba continued to flail and the White House was unable to reach a deal with its government, like-minded militants might try to take matters into their own hands.

The timing of the shootout led some to initially believe it was the start of another Bay of Pigs, the failed, CIA-backed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade the island in 1961 and depose Castro. But the Trump administration said it knew nothing about the plot.

It also drew comparisons to an incident that took place exactly 30 years before the men set sail from the Keys, in February 1996, when the Cuban government shot down two planes belonging to a Miami-based exile organization, Brothers to the Rescue. A Cuban intelligence agent had infiltrated the group and warned his government about the planned attack.

Relatives and friends of the men on the boat think it could have happened to them, too.

‘Everything was normal’

One of the plot’s masterminds, according to the Cuban government, was Amijail Sánchez González, 48, who was injured

in the shootout. He had co-founded an exile group called People’s Self-Defense about five years ago. His girlfriend, Maritza Lugo Fernández, was accused by Cuban officials of organizing the scheme and allowing the men to train on her ranch near Naples, Florida, where she raises pigs and chickens and grows peppers.

Lugo, 62, is the head of the November 30 Movement. She was jailed in Cuba in 1999 for anti-government activities and left the island in 2002. In an interview, she said that she had been dating Sánchez and that she also knew some of other men who were on the boat. But she had no knowledge of their plan, she said.

“We’ve participated in activities together,” she said. “But it’s a lie that I’m the promoter or the boss of anything, nor did I finance anything.”

She said she last saw Sánchez two days before the shootout.

“Everything was normal,” she said. “I found out from the news, like everyone else.”

A Facebook account that appears to belong to Sánchez shared posts in recent months urging Cuban citizens to join a “definitive battle” against their government. The account shared photos of people holding Cuban flags while making hand gestures resembling guns. One photo displayed a T-shirt with the slogan, “If the price of freedom is life, I will pay.”

Sánchez and another man injured in the shootout, Leordan Cruz Gómez, had been wanted by the Cuban government; after the incident, it said the two had previously been involved in the “promotion, planning, organization, financing, support or commission” of terrorist acts against Cuba.

President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba said Friday that the men had several targets, including military ones, and wanted to “create confusion, to create unease, to sow fear.” He added that an FBI team would soon arrive to take part in the investigation.

Cuban prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against Sánchez, Cruz Gómez, Galindo and the two other survivors, José Manuel Rodríguez Castelló and Christian Acosta Guevara. At the ceremony in Little Havana, Lugo said that her organization planned to caravan to Washington to demand the men’s release.

The Cuban government also filed charges against another man, Duniel Hernández Santos, who it said had been “sent” from the United States to meet the boat. No one at the ceremony last Sunday seemed to know anything about him.

The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Hernández “entered the U.S. illegally” in 2024, during the Biden administration, using an app that allowed certain migrants to cross the border from Mexico at a port of entry. In December, an immigration judge issued a final order of removal against Hernández. “He then chose to self-deport to Cuba in February,” the department said.

The Cuban government identified the dead as Cruz Correa, Álvarez, Michel Ortega Casanova, Pavel Alling Peña and Ledián Padrón Guevara.

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Trump administration approves ultradeep-water oil drilling plan

By LISA FRIEDMAN and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT

The Trump administration late last week approved a $5 billion oil drilling project in ultradeep waters of the Gulf of Mexico over protests from Democrats and environmental activists who said the venture posed significant risks to wildlife and communities.

The project by British energy giant BP would be about 250 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The company projects it will produce 80,000 barrels of oil per day from six wells starting in 2029 in a section of the seafloor that is estimated to hold 10 billion barrels of crude.

Known as Kaskida, it would be the company’s second deep-water project in the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010, which set off the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history.

“Kaskida is a world-class project that reflects decades of technological innovation by BP and the offshore oil and gas industry,” Paul Takahashi, a BP spokesperson said in a statement. Approval “marks an important step forward for the project and is all the more important at a time of heightened global concerns about energy security and affordability,” he added.

Opponents said the extreme pressure and high temperatures required to operate in waters deeper than 5,600 feet heighten the risk of a blowout that could endanger Gulf communities and the marine ecosystem. Environmental groups are expected to challenge the project in court.

The approval of BP’s production plan by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, an agency of the Interior Department, brings the company closer to being able to start drilling, though other federal permitting hurdles remain.

The Interior Department did not respond to a request for comment.

The green light for more drilling in the Gulf comes as the Trump administration tries to blunt the impact of the war with Iran, which has sent oil prices soaring to four-year highs.

Also on Friday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright invoked emergency powers to allow a company to restart an oil pipeline off the California coast that state officials have kept offline since it ruptured in 2015 and caused one of the worst spills in state history. The Energy Department also approved an immediate 13% increase in exports at a liquefied natural gas terminal run by Venture Global in Louisiana.

Wright cast the moves as central to easing reliance on oil imports through the Strait of Hormuz, a portal for one-fifth of the world’s oil supply that has essentially been shut down by the war.

“At a time when Iran and its terrorist proxies attempt to disrupt the global energy supply, the Trump administration remains committed to strengthening American energy dominance,” Wright said in a statement.

Democrats in California accused President Donald Trump of using the war in the Middle East as an excuse to restart offshore drilling in the state, something he has

An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on April 11, 2024. The Trump administration has approved a $5 billion oil drilling project in ultradeep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Kaskida would be the BP’s first new deepwater project in the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010, which set off the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history. (Erin Schaff/

The New York Times)

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A boat disappears

In the Cuban government’s telling, the 10 men traveled from the Keys on two boats with a dozen high-powered weapons; more than 12,800 rounds of ammunition; 11 pistols; and other gear, including boots, helmets and camouflage backpacks. One of the boats broke down en route, the Cuban government said, forcing all of the men and their weapons into the other, a 24-foot boat built in 1981.w

The boat was reported stolen the same day out of Big Pine Key, in the lower Florida Keys, according to a report from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. It belonged to a

contractor who employed Cruz Correa.

The boat owner had found the vessel gone and Cruz Correa’s white Chevrolet truck parked nearby. A neighbor told sheriff’s deputies that she had seen a man park the truck and board the boat by himself.

The owner said that he had assumed that Cruz Correa had taken the boat to go fishing, though he had never done so before. He also said that Cruz Correa had been trying to repair a large boat with twin motors in the days leading up to the fishing boat theft.

A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said that no other boats were reported stolen that day or in the days leading up to the shootout.

wanted to do for months. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California called reopening the pipeline “a political attempt to point the finger at California to divide and distract the American people from his wartime failures and the massive spike in oil and gasoline prices his war has caused.”

BP is one of the largest producers in the Gulf of Mexico, and Kaskida, which the company discovered in 2006, is notable for both its bounty of oil and the technical challenges involved in extracting that fuel.

The oil is buried extremely deep, meaning equipment must be able to withstand incredibly high pressure. But the company has downplayed the risks.

“There’s enough production analogs around Kaskida from similar fields with similar characteristics, so I don’t feel there’s really any risk on the subsurface perspective,” Murray Auchincloss, BP’s former CEO, told analysts in 2024.

In 2023, BP started its Argos project, which was the company’s first since the Deepwater Horizon spill, and which company officials have said is operating safely.

Opponents said BP had not done enough since the Deepwater Horizon disaster to prevent future spills and noted that the company’s emergency plan for Kaskida is similar to what it did 15 years ago: It proposes using chemical dispersants to break oil into tiny droplets and push it underwater.

“It’s deeply disturbing that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved a proposal littered with legal and regulatory flaws, especially given BP’s history in the Gulf,” said Brettny Hardy, a senior lawyer with Earthjustice, an environmental group.

When the project was seeking approval last year, Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., criticized what he called “Donald Trump’s offshore whims.” The Trump administration moved in December to repeal permits for five offshore wind projects along the East Coast, some of which are nearly complete. Companies sued and multiple federal judges have allowed work on all five projects to go forward while the courts consider the merits of the cases against the Trump administration.

On Saturday, Revolution Wind, off the coast of Rhode Island, announced that it had begun delivering power to homes and businesses across New England.

“By blocking already-built wind turbines from coming online and approving dangerous deep-water oil drilling, the Trump administration is giving a green light to oil spills and a red light to lower electric bills,” he said in a statement.

Markey, along with Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., also led a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management noting that in a worst-case scenario, the Kaskida project could result in an oil spill of up to 4 million barrels. That’s more than the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which spilled 3.19 million barrels into the Gulf over 87 days.

They also argued that BP had failed to show it has the equipment to contain a high-pressure blowout and said that Kaskida was an “unacceptable threat to Gulf communities, ecosystems and the climate.”

Fundraising email features Trump at ritual for soldiers killed in Iran war

President Donald Trump salutes as coffins holding six Army Reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait were brought off a plane at Dover Air Force Base, Del., March 7, 2026. The group, Never Surrender, sent out an email on Thursday with an official photograph of Trump wearing a white campaign baseball cap and saluting as coffins holding six Army Reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait were brought off a plane at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on March 7. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)

By EDWARD WONG

AU.S. president’s visit to an Air Force base where flag-draped caskets arrive during the transfer of U.S. troops killed abroad is usually a somber occasion. So are the times when the president is briefed in national security meetings, with details that can lead to life-or-death decisions.

A group raising political donations for President Donald Trump has combined both of those moments into a mass fundraising email.

The group, Never Surrender, sent out an email last Thursday with an official photograph of Trump wearing a white campaign baseball cap and saluting as coffins holding six Army Reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait were brought off a plane at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on March 7.

The email said Trump was “opening up spots on the National Security Briefing Membership,” and that people signing up would get the “get the inside scoop DIRECT” from the president and receive his “private national security briefings, unfiltered updates on the threats facing America.” National security briefings often involve classified information.

The email touting the “extremely lim-

opportunity. Deeply shameful.”

The press office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a potential Democratic candidate for president in 2028, said in an online post that “Donald Trump is fundraising off of dead soldiers.”

The post added: “He is a deeply SICK and DISGUSTING MAN!”

Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey, a former State Department official, wrote online that “I hope the donors’ national security briefing doesn’t skip the ‘Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz’ section that Trump and Hegseth missed.”

Kim was referring to the failure so far of the Pentagon to ward off Iranian attacks in a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman. In retaliation for the initial assault by the United States and Israel, Iranian forces have been firing projectiles across the region and at oil tankers trying to cross the strait to go eastward. That has caused a halt in tanker traffic, and crude oil prices have surged since the start of the war on Feb. 28.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that the Trump administration had misjudged the extent of the Iranian retaliation in the war and that some aides were now pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy for the war, but have been careful not to tell Trump.

At least 13 American service members have been killed in the war, along with hundreds of Iranian soldiers and civilians.

The six Army reservists who were the first U.S. fatalities died in Kuwait when an Iranian drone hit Shuaiba Port. A seventh U.S. service member later died of injuries from that attack.

The occasion when the bodies of dead troops first arrive in caskets in the United States, usually at Dover Air Force Base, is called a dignified transfer. It is typically attended by family members and senior U.S. officials. The military calls it a “solemn movement,” referring to the uniformed troops who carry the coffins across the tarmac. President Barack Obama lifted a ban on news media coverage of it in 2009.

ited” spots has links to a Never Surrender donation website for Trump.

It went on to say: “I’m the strong commander who stares down tyrants, obliterates terrorists, and never backs down. This is for patriots ready to stand with that kind of unbreakable strength. Not for the weak or wavering.”

The email drew attention after posts with images of it appeared on social media accounts, including that of a Huffington Post journalist. CNN reported on the email Friday.

Never Surrender Inc. is a registered political fundraising group that has roots in Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. An email requesting comment that The New York Times sent to the contact address listed on the fundraising email was not answered. The White House and Republican National Committee did not return requests for comment.

The email has drawn condemnation from some Democratic officials and lawmakers.

On Saturday, Democratic lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a statement saying that “Trump never misses a chance to make a quick buck off the backs of the American people, even if it means turning a dignified transfer of fallen service members into a fundraising

How does this end? Four scenarios for what comes next with Iran.

By BRET STEPHENS

The most famous query in the history of modern warfare came from David Petraeus, then a major general, in an interview with Rick Atkinson, then a reporter, during the initial assault on Iraq: “Tell me how this ends.”

When it comes to the war in Iran, there are, broadly speaking, four possible scenarios.

Regime change is the most optimistic one. Some imagine it will take the form of the resumption of the mass demonstrations that the regime bloodily stamped out in January — millions of Iranians marching in dozens of cities, joined by police officers and soldiers and commanders from the conventional army, emboldened by American and Israeli air support, rising to tear down their rulers’ enfeebled apparatus of repression.

Nobody should discount this scenario, especially if Iran continues to be battered militarily and politically, perhaps with the loss of additional echelons of leadership. Nobody should count on it, either, at least not in the short term. However incapable the regime may be of defending its airspace, it remains terrifyingly capable of killing its people. And with so much blood on its hands, it has every incentive to hold on to power.

Regime modification — that is, a regime that stays in place but complies with U.S. and Israeli demands — is another optimistic scenario. It’s doubtful that Mojtaba Khamenei, the new supreme leader, will agree to surrender Iran’s nuclear and missile programs and cease support for regional proxies like Hezbollah. But the new Khamenei’s reign may be very short-lived. And whoever runs the regime next will have to come to grips with its vulnerability and isolation.

That isolation will be especially pronounced if U.S. forces seize Kharg Island, 15 or 16 miles off the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf, which serves as the terminal for roughly 90% of Iran’s oil exports. American control would give the administration the whip hand over most of the regime’s remaining revenues, including its ability to pay salaries for soldiers and civil servants alike. That could help clarify to even the most hard-line elements in the regime whether it is really worth it to enrich uranium or send more munitions to Hezbollah in Lebanon so they can be destroyed by Israel.

But perhaps the regime refuses to yield and the war carries on in much the same way for another two or three weeks before some sort of mutual ceasefire declaration, probably before President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Beijing on March 31.

In this third scenario, all sides declare their own sort of victory and none of them quite believe it. Trump will not have achieved anything like Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” much less had a hand in choosing the regime’s next leader. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will have fallen short of his decades-long dream of toppling the mullahs. And Iran’s leaders will crow that the “Resistance” they supposedly embody proved stronger than the Great and Little Satans combined.

Reality, however, will catch up. The sanctions that have already crippled the regime economically will not be lifted. It’s hard to imagine the war ending before the United States and Israel attack Iran’s remaining nuclear sites, including its buried (but accessible) stores of highly enriched uranium. And any efforts by Iran to conduct spectacular terrorist attacks in the vein of Libya’s 1988 Lockerbie bombing, or to mine the Strait of Hormuz, will only result in another war. The era in which Iranian leaders thought themselves invulnerable is over.

What this third scenario suggests is that the regime will only survive in a zombified state. That could, in turn, lead to an eventual regime change in a few years’ time, possibly because of infighting within leadership ranks, or possibly from another popular revolt. In either case, its days are numbered.

This scenario has an ugly cousin: not regime change, but state collapse. The most worrisome form it could take would resemble Syria during its 13-year civil war, in which the regime would survive in some areas of Iran, fall in others, invite foreign intervention and lead to killing on an epic scale. Along with that killing would come waves of refugees throughout the Middle East and into Europe and Australia.

No wonder Trump dissuaded Kurdish forces in Iraq from crossing the border into Iran. But those forces may not sit still if a weakened Iranian regime starts massacring restive Kurds within Iran’s borders. Much the same could go for Iran’s Baloch minority in the southeast and Iranian Arabs in the southwest.

The Israelis may not entirely mind that scenario, on the theory that a fractured Iran is someone else’s problem. For the United States and our Arab allies, it’s a different story: Longterm infighting in Iran may mean an end to the nuclear threat, but it gives us no rest from Mideast problems.

What, then, should the Trump administration do? My prescription: Seize Kharg Island. Mine or blockade Iran’s remaining ports. Destroy as much Iranian military capability as possible over the next week or two, including a second

Plumes of smoke rise from an oil storage facility after overnight strikes by U.S. and Israeli forces in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2026. “However incapable the [Iranian] regime may be of defending its airspace, it remains terrifyingly capable of killing its people,” Times columnist Bret Stephens writes. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

Midnight Hammer operation to destroy what’s left of Iran’s nuclear capacity and know-how. And threaten the regime with further bombing if it massacres its own citizens, mounts terrorist attacks abroad or returns to nuclear work.

That constitutes the most realistic path to victory at the lowest plausible price in lives, risk and treasure. And for all its admitted dangers, it gives Iran’s people their best chance of winning their freedom. Not bad for a one-month war its critics warned would be another Iraq.

El brasileño Caio Carvalho Ellero se coronó como el campeón del IRONMAN 70.3

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SAN JUAN – El brasileño Caio Carvalho Ellero se coronó el domingo como el campeón del IRONMAN 70.3 Puerto Rico, con tiempo de 4:10:19.

Mientras que el estadounidense Kiel Bur repitió su hazaña del año pasado, llegando en segundo lugar con un tiempo 4:10:43.

En el evento participaron de 1,104 atletas procedentes de 40 países diferentes y Puerto Rico.

El primer puertorriqueño en llegar a la meta fue Brandon Zavala, con 4:24:32, y en el caso de las mujeres, la primera puertorriqueña fue Cynthia Soto, con un tiempo de 5:16:30.

* Primer lugar “overall” masculino: Caio

Carvalho Ellero, Brasil (4:10:19)

* Segundo lugar “overall” masculino: Kiel Bur, EEUU (4:10:43)

* Tercer lugar “overall” masculino: Alejandro Espitia, Colombia (4:15:10)

* Primer lugar “overall” femenino: Kinley Bollinger, EEUU (4:40:39)

* Segundo lugar “overall” femenino: Isabella Luckie, México (4:48:27)

* Tercer lugar “overall” femenino: Allison Hall, EEUU (4:48:54)

La salida oficial del evento se efectuó a las 6:55 am en la Laguna del Condado, donde los atletas nadaron una distancia de 1.2 millas y continuaron hacia el área de transición en el Parque del Tercer Milenio, donde comenzó la ruta de 56 millas de ciclismo a lo largo de la costa norte de la Isla en direc-

ción oeste hacia el municipio de Dorado y de regreso por la misma ruta hacia el Parque del Tercer Milenio para la etapa pedestre. Esta etapa llevó a los participantes a través

del Viejo San Juan en una corrida de 13.1 millas que culminó en el Parque del Tercer Milenio, al lado oeste de la Batería del Escambrón.

Camuy prohíbe menores en las calles desde las 10 de la noche en Nuevo Código

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CAMUY – El alcalde de Camuy Gabriel “Gaby” Hernández Rodríguez anunció que se puso en vigor un nuevo Código de Orden Público que incluye un toque de queda para menores de 10:01 de la noche a 6:00 de la mañana en todo el municipio.

Hernández Rodríguez explicó que el manejo de menores en la vía pública se actualizó mediante un proceso escalonado que comienza con una multa al tutor del menor si es intervenido durante el horario del toque de queda. Si la situación se repite, el caso podrá ser referido al Departamento de la Familia, con el propósito de atender la situación desde el punto de vista de protección y seguridad del menor.

El nuevo código también establece regulaciones más estrictas sobre la venta y consumo de bebidas alcohólicas. La ordenanza prohíbe totalmente ingerir o poseer bebidas alcohólicas dentro de vehículos en movimiento, tanto por conductores como por pasajeros. Además, queda prohibida la venta de alcohol desde vehículos, neveritas, carritos u otros métodos ambulantes, así como la venta para consumo fuera de la estructura del negocio. En el caso de envases de cristal, también se prohíbe su expendio fuera del establecimiento, con excepciones limitadas a mesas autorizadas en algunos comercios.

La reglamentación refuerza además la prohibición de vender alcohol a menores, establece la verificación obligatoria de identificación y dispone que el municipio podrá suspender la patente municipal de un negocio

cuando acumule tres multas relacionadas con estas disposiciones.

En cuanto a horarios comerciales, el código fija el cierre a las 2:00 de la madrugada para los comercios que venden bebidas alcohólicas, con excepciones específicas para áreas turísticas y establecimientos debidamente autorizados.

La ordenanza también endurece las normas para negocios que operen sin permisos requeridos, incluyendo los de la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (OGPE), patente municipal, Bomberos y el Departamento de Salud. En estos casos se establece un sistema escalonado de multas que aumenta en caso de reincidencia.

Entre otras disposiciones, el código regula la obstrucción de aceras y vías públicas mediante mesas, mercancía u otras actividades comerciales o culturales y establece un proceso formal para solicitar cierres temporeros de calles.

También se prohíben actos deshonestos y relaciones sexuales en espacios públicos, se prohíbe cobrar por estacionamiento en vías públicas, y se establecen multas por estas conductas.

En materia de sustancias controladas, el código autoriza la intervención de agentes municipales, permite la realización de exámenes médicos y contempla sanciones o referidos a tratamiento, según los procedimientos establecidos.

El reglamento también fortalece el manejo de vehículos abandonados, con definiciones más claras de abandono, la posibilidad de remoción inmediata, notificación obligatoria y un esquema de multas, remolque y cargos

por almacenaje, alineado con la legislación estatal vigente.

Además, se actualizan disposiciones de tránsito con un listado más detallado de prohibiciones de estacionamiento, sanciones por señales no autorizadas y multas más altas por ocupar espacios designados para personas con impedimentos, así como la prohibición de utilizar objetos para reservar espacios de estacionamiento, especialmente durante actividades masivas.

El nuevo Código de Orden Público entró en vigor este sábado a las 12:01 de la madrugada y aplica de forma uniforme en los 13 barrios del municipio de Camuy.

Robert Duvall seared himself into our memories even when he wasn’t the star

By MANOHLA DARGIS

The first time you watch the opening of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather,” you may not notice the pale man with the hawklike stillness seated quietly in the room. There are so many other things to look at in this seismic opener, including James Caan’s Sonny as he waits restlessly in the background and Marlon Brando’s Don Corleone, who’s seated behind a desk in pooling shadow and holding a cat as he listens to a man ask him to murder someone. The Don declines to do so though promises to handle matters, and then both men stand. As soon as the petitioner leaves, the pale man suddenly and silently takes his place before the Godfather, materializing from the inky black like an apparition. For the rest of this scene, these two men remain close to each other, the darkness enveloping them like a shroud. Don Corleone is facing the camera while the pale man’s face remains largely obscured. You can’t quite make him out, and he doesn’t say a word as the Godfather speaks, adding to his strange mystery. Yet by the time the scene ends, so much has already been expressed, including the men’s intimacy and the unwavering intensity of the pale man’s supplication. This is a man, you understand, who doesn’t just serve power but also helps make it happen.

In a sense, the same was true of Robert Duvall, who died Feb. 15 at 95. Over his decades-long career, he sometimes took the lead, as in the 1980 drama “The Great Santini,” but was also a brilliant team player. By the time he appeared as the mysterious pale man, aka Tom Hagen in “The Godfather” — the Don’s future consigliere — Duvall was part of a group of Coppola’s close collaborators who over the years and in

Robert Duvall in New York, April 23, 1983. Duvall, who drew from a seemingly bottomless reservoir of acting craftsmanship to transform himself into a business-focused Mafia lawyer, a faded country singer, a cynical police detective, a bullying Marine pilot, a surfing-obsessed Vietnam commander, a mysterious Southern recluse and scores of other film, stage and television characters, died on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. He was 95. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)

different movies would help the filmmaker realize his ambitions. The actor and director made a number of movies together, starting with “The Rain People” (1969), a moving, loosely plotted drama about a pregnant woman (Shirley Knight) who flees her middleclass life by hitting the road. Along the way, she meets two oppositional men, one poignantly wounded (Caan), the other menacingly so (Duvall).

Duvall plays a patrolman, Gordon, who stops the woman, Natalie, for speeding on an atmospherically lonely highway. Wearing sunglasses, the cop is crisply officious at first, but after some banter about her marital status she seems to understand that there’s something else in his attentions. Duvall excelled at tightly wound characters, and though he doesn’t tip what Gordon thinks, you can intuit the danger in the man. Even so, before long, he and Natalie are in a diner, then in bed. Duvall didn’t play roman-

tic roles often, yet while he’s convincingly attractive here, Gordon remains almost imperceptibly on edge. You can see volatility in his darting eyes, hear the impatience in his words. The film ends badly for all of the characters, but by that time all of the actors — Duvall included — are seared into your memory.

I imagine that at that point, Duvall had already quietly bored into the consciousness of a lot of moviegoers who probably didn’t even know the name of the actor who played Boo Radley in Robert Mulligan’s 1963 film version of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

A silent shut-in, Boo is a figure of intense speculation among the local children, a neighborhood boogeyman who’s said to be a near-giant — 6 1/2 feet tall — and “eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch.” By the time Boo appears onscreen near the end of the movie, he has saved two children from death and taken refuge in their house behind a door, standing stock-still with a face that the film’s young heroine, Scout, reads with fast-dawning adult recognition — a face that Duvall fills with a haunting mix of wariness, crushing isolation and childish incomprehension.

Boo Radley’s role in the story is small yet pivotal, and it’s made all the more unforgettable by Duvall’s tamped-down force. It was his first film role, and it initiated a career that built momentum gradually but insistently in films from directors as different as Robert Altman (“Countdown,” 1968) and George Lucas (“THX 1138,” 1971). Although Duvall sometimes had top billing or thereabouts, and certainly could feel like a supernova, he invariably seemed more like a supporting actor than a star. Some of this was a matter of intransigent Hollywood ideas about male beauty that continued even as Old Hollywood gave way to New. Duvall was certainly nice-looking, but his receding hairline and the way his skin seemed to stretch tightly, almost wincingly, across his facial bones doubtless mattered to those cutting the checks.

Duvall’s ability to disappear into roles was another factor in the trajectory of his career, and I imagine so were his native intensity and apparent lack of interest in cozying up to the audience. He never seemed to ask for its love even when the movies did, as in “The Great Santini,” in which he

plays a tough, hard-drinking family man and Marine, Lt. Col. Bull Meechum. In its most famous scene, a driveway basketball match turns into a harrowing battle of wills when Meechum grows enraged that his eldest son is besting him. The father responds first by threatening to beat his wife, and then begins to repeatedly bounce the basketball off the son’s head, violence that Duvall plays with such hard, single-minded focus — and some unnervingly weird barking laughs — that even the tears Meechum sheds later leave you cold.

Duvall had the kind of long, storied career that was possible in an earlier movie era, one that helped define New Hollywood and also outlasted it. He did his share of paycheck jobs, popping up in blockbuster nonsense and forgettable independent films. After winning an overdue Oscar for “Tender Mercies” (1983), he went on to write and direct several appropriately idiosyncratic films: “The Apostle” (1997), in which he played a preacher turned murderer, and the delightfully eccentric “Assassination Tango” (2003), in which he played John, a tangoloving hit man whose story begins in New York’s Coney Island and improbably leads to Buenos Aires, Argentina. There, while on the job, John learns the tango, which may not be an intentional metaphor but nevertheless comes across as one about doing the job while also following your bliss. By that point, the role of Tom Hagen was long behind Duvall. He had appeared in the first two “Godfather” films but declined to appear in the third because the production wouldn’t pay him as much as Al Pacino. It’s understandable, and his refusal — along with the pride that edges it — recalls an early scene in “Assassination Tango” when John gets dressed to go out. He is a strange, complicated cat who’s at once a loving married family man and a dangerous hired gun, and he seems as capable of inhabiting as many roles as the actor playing him. The night in question, he is about to pull off a sanguineous job with his customary finesse. First, though, he puts on a sharp black hat and dark clothes and primps in front of a mirror, dabbing lotion on his cheeks. And then John carefully smooths the wrinkles on his throat, an unmistakably vulnerable moment that Duvall holds on for a few seconds with memorable, sublimely knowing grace.

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US equity fund outflows extend to second week as Iran war sours sentiment

cessive week, to the tune of $2.91 billion.

U.S. equity funds ⁠were ⁠under selling pressure for ⁠a second straight week through March 11 as Iranian attacks on Middle East energy infrastructure and oil tankers increased the risk of economic stagflation.

Investors divested a net $7.77 billion worth of U.S. ⁠equity ⁠funds during the week, adding to approximately $21.91 billion worth of net sales in the prior week, data from LSEG Lipper showed.

U.S. crude prices soared 9.7% on Thursday, taking month-to-date gains to about 42.88% as

Bond funds remained popular for a 10th successive week, attracting roughly $8.21 billion in net inflows.

Short-to-intermediate government and treasury funds saw roughly $4.05 billion in net inflows, the biggest amount for a week since December 24. Short-to-intermediate investmentgrade funds and ⁠municipal debt funds also attracted net purchases of $2.77 billion and $614 million, respectively.

U.S. money market funds gained approximately $1.5 billion in net inflows, as investors extended the recent buying streak for a fourth week.

Flows of money into ⁠emerging ⁠market bond funds fell in the week ⁠to March 11, while those into emerging market equity funds flattened after five straight weeks of inflows, shaken by the war in Iran, analysts said on Friday.

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Investors are fleeing assets perceived as riskier due to the uncertainty caused by the conflict and surging oil prices, even though some say the strong fundamentals of many emerging economies could help shield them from the fallout.

“EM credit had been remarkably resilient to the ⁠AI disruption-driven gyrations ⁠in broader risk markets in February,” Barclays head of EM credit research Andreas Kolbe wrote in a note.

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global oil markets grappled with what ⁠traders ⁠described as the largest ⁠oil supply disruption in history, with shipping in the Gulf and the narrow Strait of ⁠Hormuz coming close to a standstill.

The equity large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap fund segments recorded net outflows of $20.98 billion, $405 million and $8 million, respectively, while the multi-cap sector saw a ⁠net $9.32 billion weekly inflow.

Investors ditched $4.48 billion worth of growth funds ⁠but snapped up value funds for a fifth suc-

“But recent events in the Middle East, and the associated spike in energy prices, have quickly shifted the narrative from a “goldilocks”-type environment to stagflation.”

He was referring to ideal conditions for emerging market assets due to the weaker U.S. dollar, years of post-COVID-19 policy reforms and solid central bank policymaking. Stagflation - low growth and high inflation - could derail that.

Morgan Stanley analysts said outflows from global-mandated emerging market ⁠debt ⁠funds reached $1.1 billion in the past ⁠week, based on data from EPFR, compared with inflows of $3.2 billion in the prior week.

The weekly outflows were the first such drawdown from emerging fixed income since early January.

Matt Vogel, ⁠head of emerging markets strategy with Marex, said the figures show roughly $21 billion had poured into hard and local currency emerging market debt in total during the first couple of months of the year - a record amount for the timeframe and almost two thirds of the $35 billion that flowed in during the whole of 2025.

Vogel said that while the record amount of EM sovereign and corporate debt issued so far this ⁠year had absorbed a large chunk of that, there is still cash available should the situation in ⁠the Middle East improve.

‘No guarantees’ oil prices drop soon, US official says

By EDWARD WONG & MICHAEL CROWLEY

Fears about the global economic fallout from the war in Iran grew Sunday as U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright acknowledged in a televised interview that there were “no guarantees” that oil prices would fall in the coming weeks. A day after President Donald Trump called on other countries to send warships to the region to end the de facto Iranian blockade of the economically vital Strait of Hormuz, foreign governments responded with caution — if at all.

Israel launched a new wave of airstrikes on Iran, while Iranian forces said they were firing at U.S. and Israeli targets as the war continued in its third week, with no end to the fighting in sight.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told CBS News that the country was “ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes” and denied Trump’s claim Saturday that Iran wanted to “make a deal.” “We never asked for a ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiation,” he said.

The Israeli military said it had hit bases of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the Basij militia in the western part of the country Sunday, while Iranian missiles repeatedly set off air raid sirens in Israel.

The danger continued across the broader region. Iraqi officials said four people were injured in a missile attack on Baghdad International Airport that was claimed by the powerful Iran-backed Iraqi

An emergency worker walks through the aftermath of a rocket strike in Holon, Israel, March 15, 2026. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times)

militia Kataib Hezbollah, which previously said it was responsible for an attack on the U.S. Embassy there last week. Saudi Arabia said it had intercepted drones near its capital and in an eastern province, although officials did not say where they had originated.

Araghchi said on Telegram that the Strait of Hormuz — through which about a fifth of the world’s oil passes — “is open to everyone, except American ships and those of its allies.” In practice, how-

ever, the oil shipped through the passage comes from either Iran or U.S. allies such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

Wright told ABC’s “This Week” that the United States needed to destroy Iran’s military capabilities, including those that threaten the strait. “You will see the straits open again in the not-too-distant future,” he said, adding that the war would end in the “next few weeks.”

Here’s what else we are covering: — Oil prices: The price of oil has risen

steeply since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, even as governments around the world — including the United States, which eased sanctions on some Russian oil — have sought to calm the volatility and increase supplies. The average price for a gallon of gas in the United States rose to $3.70, up from $3.45 a week ago and $2.93 a month ago, according to the AAA motor club.

— Death toll: At least 1,348 civilians in Iran have been killed since the start of the war, Iran’s U.N. representative told the Security Council on Wednesday, the latest figure the country has provided. In Lebanon, officials said that 850 people had been killed. And in Israel, at least 12 people have been killed, according to authorities.

— Palestinians: Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in two separate locations, according to Palestinian officials. Four of them were members of the same family, including two young children, shot dead in the occupied West Bank. Israeli officials said their vehicle accelerated toward troops, who feared for their safety and opened fire. In the Gaza Strip, eight police officers affiliated with the enclave’s Hamas-controlled government, which is backed by Iran, were killed in an airstrike, the Gaza Interior Ministry said.

— Americans killed: On Saturday, the Pentagon identified the six service members who died when a refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq last Thursday, bringing the total number of American service members killed to at least 13.

Is Latin America ready to abandon Cuba?

By SIMON ROMERO

For decades, Cuba has been held up as an ideological lodestar by leftists across Latin America. Fidel Castro and his longhaired guerrillas fueled inspiration by slashing illiteracy, expanding public health care and raising life expectancy. Even among opponents, Cuba often earned grudging respect as an unyielding bastion of resistance against generations of Ameri-

can presidents.

But now Cuba is running out of oil, and its economy is nearing collapse. A new wave of right-wing leaders in Latin America see Cuba not as a place of revolutionary nostalgia but of authoritarian dysfunction. And in a seismic shift, the leftists at the helm of the region’s three most populous countries — Brazil, Mexico and Colombia — will not provide Cuba with emergency fuel shipments out of fear of incurring President Donald Trump’s wrath.

“Any gesture of independence now carries the threat of immediate, devastating retaliation” from the United States, said Jesús SilvaHerzog Márquez, a political scientist at Mexico’s Monterrey Institute of Technology. “One simply cannot predict the fallout of President Trump’s ire.”

Taken together, Latin America’s reorientation of its ties to Cuba reflects a sweeping change in the region’s politics, marking a rupture from what had been a wide diplomatic

embrace of the island nation. Latin America’s leaders are now finding the costs of siding with Cuba too high after 67 years of Cuba’s one-party communist state persisting in the face of U.S. resistance.

Mexico showcases this dilemma. It was the Cuban Revolution’s cradle, from which an exiled Castro launched his armed struggle. It was also Cuba’s longtime protector, supplying Cuba with oil while reliably defending it on the world stage.

At the start of the year, Mexico had emerged as Cuba’s top oil supplier. At the same time, Mexico is exceptionally dependent on trade with the United States. In late January, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum halted all oil exports to Cuba after the Trump administration threatened crippling tariffs on countries that provide Cuba with fuel.

Brazil and Colombia, two oil-exporting countries governed by leftists who had previously tried to ease Cuba’s isolation by pressing for the U.S. government to remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, are also doing little to help ease Cuba’s energy shortage.

Venezuela, which came to Cuba’s rescue after the collapse of the Soviet Union and was, until recently, Cuba’s top oil supplier, stopped sending fuel to the Cuban government after U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s leader, killed 32 Cuban advisers in the attack and took control of Venezuela’s oil industry.

Deepening Cuba’s regional isolation, Ecuador expelled all Cuban diplomats, claiming interference by Cuban agents in its domestic affairs. Nicaragua halted visa-free travel for Cubans, cutting off an important route for migrants to reach the United States. Guatemala, Honduras and Jamaica moved to end deals that paid Cuba for providing doctors. Cuba’s medical missions around the world are a crucial source of hard currency for its government.

In Mexico, a proud tradition of assisting Cuba appears to be operating on borrowed time.

Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Mexico was the only country in Latin America to refuse to yield to U.S. pressure exerted on all member countries of the Organization of American States to break diplomatic and trade ties with Cuba.

That stance produced an informal arrangement in which Mexico would consistently defend Cuba in international forums and oppose the U.S. trade embargo, while Castro agreed not to export revolution to Mexican soil.

Under the leftist administrations of Sheinbaum and her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obra-

dor, Mexico’s protection shifted from diplomatic rhetoric to becoming a critical economic lifeline for Cuba.

When Venezuela’s oil shipments to Cuba plummeted in recent years because of economic disarray in Venezuela, Mexico emerged as one of Cuba’s top suppliers of subsidized oil, even as Mexico’s oil industry was hampered by declining production and soaring debts.

After the U.S. increased pressure on Venezuela in the run-up to capturing its leader, Nicolás Maduro, Mexico eclipsed Venezuela in 2025 to become the top oil supplier to Cuba. But not for long.

In late January, when the Trump administration threatened Mexico with tariffs if it continued to ship oil, Sheinbaum’s government shifted to sending food and medicine instead.

Across Latin America, the Trump administration’s blockade of oil shipments to Cuba is testing ties at a crucial juncture. Fuel for vehicles is growing scarce, and blackouts are plaguing the electric grid, raising questions about whether the regime can survive. Cuba on Friday acknowledged for the first time that it was in discussions with the United States to defuse their confrontation.

In Brazil, Latin America’s most populous country, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s administration has had to balance a tradition of supporting Cuba with Washington’s threats of retaliation and growing domestic skepticism of helping Cuba.

“This path of escalating pressure, to systematically asphyxiate the island, ends up victimizing the entire population,” Celso Amorim, Lula’s chief foreign policy adviser, said in a telephone interview.

The U.S. pressure campaign aimed at coercing Cuba’s leaders into making concessions, Amorim said, would most likely have the “opposite effect” of hardening a regime for whom standing up to the United States is a core ideological tenet.

Still, Brazil, with its diversified economy and its status as Latin America’s largest producer of oil and agricultural commodities, could arguably adopt a more assertive posture in alleviating the crisis in Cuba.

But like Mexico, Brazil is limiting its help to

The Capitolio Nacional in Havana, Oct. 28, 2012. (The New York Times)

humanitarian aid, largely of basic food staples. Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras, produces nearly twice as much oil as Pemex, its Mexican counterpart, but has opted against supplying fuel to Cuba.

Amorim said he could not speak for Petrobras. But he cited the company’s extensive web of international banking ties, including in the United States, which could expose it to “secondary sanctions or retaliatory measures.”

A spokesperson at Petrobras, which is publicly traded but controlled by Brazil’s government, did not immediately respond to a query about the company’s approach to Cuba.

Other factors weigh on Brazil’s deliberations over aiding Cuba. With Lula’s leftist Workers Party holding power in Brazil for the better part of the past quarter-century, authorities have faced criticism over previous efforts to bolster Cuba’s economy.

During Lula’s first term, Brazil began financing construction of the Port of Mariel, a deepwater port capable of handling massive cargo ships. Brazil’s national development bank provided more than $600 million for the project.

But the project stalled, saddling Brazil with unpaid debt from Cuba. When Jair Bolsonaro was Brazil’s right-wing president from 2019 to 2023, he used his opponents’ support of Cuba as a rallying cry for his own supporters. Now Lula is facing a reelection bid against Bolsonaro’s son, Flavio Bolsonaro, in what is becoming a highly competitive race.

Cuba’s increasingly draconian crackdowns on dissent, including the expansion of civilian groups that spy and inform on neighbors and new censorship measures criminalizing online criticism of Cuba’s political system, have also hurt Cuba’s standing. As happened in Venezuela under Maduro, who also imprisoned hundreds of political critics, these moves have withered the support Cuba traditionally held in the Brazilian left.

“Cuba’s treatment of the domestic opposition has made it very difficult even for hard-core cadres of the Workers Party to come out in support of the regime,” said Matias Spektor, a political scientist at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo.

Then there is the effect that Cuba’s economic decline is having on Brazil and other countries in Latin America. Since 2020, an estimated 2.75 million people have fled Cuba, the largest demographic decline in the country’s modern history.

This exodus occurs in a context sharply different from a decade and a half ago, when Cuba was the center of a regional embrace driven by revolutionary nostalgia and efforts to consolidate autonomy from Washington during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2009, after Mauricio Funes, a leftist, took office as El Salvador’s president, he made his country the last in the region to recognize Cuba. The island nation seemed to have come full circle from its isolation in the 1960s, when Mexico was the only Latin American country that dared have diplomatic ties with Havana.

Now El Salvador’s president is Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally who has used mass incarceration and the suspension of civil liberties to lower his nation’s crime rate, emerging as a star of the Latin American right. This month, Bukele joined counterparts from countries including Argentina, Honduras, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Paraguay at a summit organized in Florida by the Trump administration.

Forming a broad coalition at odds with Havana, Bukele and others enthusiastically applauded when Trump told the gathering that Cuba’s communist government had been brought to its knees and that “Cuba is in its last moments of life as it was.”

His film is Spain’s submission to the Oscars. He’s not sure how Spanish it is.

By JASON HOROWITZ

Late one September night in a karaoke bar in northern Spain, two giants of Spanish cinema got into a tiff.

Oliver Laxe, whose work was nominated for best foreign film at the Oscars on Sunday, confronted Rodrigo Sorogoyen, a former Oscar nominee. Laxe had heard Sorogoyen had trashed his new movie at a private dinner.

Sorogoyen owned up to it. He didn’t think Laxe’s film, “Sirat,” about a father on a journey with his young son through a Moroccan desert hellscape thumping with ravers, was very good.

Laxe didn’t care enough about its characters, Sorogoyen said, and made a bad technical choice during a crucial scene. Laxe, who later called the critiques “the most stupid thing that I ever heard,” responded in the bar by jokingly telling Sorogoyen that he wasn’t a true director.

“Thank God I’m sure of myself,” Sorogoyen replied. “Because if not that’d kill me.”

The tiff, both directors said in interviews, was a lighthearted one between contemporaries with different styles. Laxe, 43, is a champion of transcendental and sensorial cinema. Sorogoyen, 44, is a flag-bearer for realism.

Their artistic differences, according to both the directors and Spanish film experts, are a sign of a pluralist, sophisticated and mature Spanish cinema bursting with life. A half-century ago, the restoration of Spain’s democracy shaped Spanish filmmaking for decades after. Now, critics say, Spanish film defies easy categorization and includes different voices, styles and stories that have more freedom to transcend the country’s historical trauma.

Spanish cinema is “blooming,” said Jara Yáñez, a film historian and editor of Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, a Spanish film journal.

For years after the death of dictator Fran-

cisco Franco in 1975, Spanish cinema grappled with the country’s emergent new identity — profiting from, but still defined by, Franco’s absence. Filmmakers, especially Pedro Almodóvar, put Spain on the map with a transgressive and visceral vision of a modern, newly democratic Spain that was pointedly trying to shake off its legacy of conservatism.

Yáñez said those films consciously broke away from the censorship of the Franco era, but in doing so, were inseparable from the transition to democracy and the explosion of new Spanish nightlife, music and fashion, a countercultural movement known as La Movida. When, about 20 years ago, a new crop of Spanish filmmakers less burdened by the postFranco historical moment emerged, they could not find enough funding or studios.

In recent years, something changed. Subsidies brought women and their perspectives into the industry. European co-productions and new streaming platforms financed more films in a more professional industry. A transforming Spain created a broader market for new stories and voices. “We had the talent; they needed to have the resources and the trust,” said Domingo Corral, who produced films by Laxe and Sorogoyen.

In addition to Laxe and Sorogoyen, the surging wave of Spanish filmmakers includes Carla Simón — who won Berlin’s Golden Bear award in 2022 and is known for her intimate filmmaking — and Albert Serra, whose provocative imagery, including in his recent documentary about a bullfighter, has won plaudits around the world.

What they, and many others, had in common, said Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, another member of the wave, was a willingness in a deeply polarized country to look at and understand “the other.”

The trajectory of Ruiz de Azúa, 47, also

People watch “The Sundays” at the Verdi cinema, one of the oldest in the city of Barcelona, Spain, on March 7, 2026. Spanish cinema has entered a new and more diverse era, film experts say. Oliver Laxe, the director of Oscar-nominated “Sirat,” embodies the shift. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)

spoke to the change in the Spanish film industry. Finding no film jobs after graduating film school, she spent about 15 years making commercials until getting her break.

She said that while the proportion of Spanish films directed in 2024 by women was still “embarrassing” at less than 30%, she had noticed this year that her work was embraced not as a woman’s movie, but as something that spoke to all of Spain. She felt, she said, “at the adults’ table.”

Sorogoyen had been there for years. His Madrid office is decorated with Spanish and international prizes and his prestige TV series, “The New Years,” which follows a couple’s tormented on-again, off-again relationship over a decade, is all the rage with French critics.

His upcoming film, “Beloved,” starring Javier Bardem, is a potential candidate for France’s Cannes Film Festival, along with Almodóvar’s new film. He said that while Spanish genius was nothing new, the industry fell behind for decades because of the dictatorship, and it took time for this generation’s film-

makers to finally “kill its fathers” and let new voices emerge.

“The explosion that has happened in the last five years is evident,” Sorogoyen said. “It’s like everything has come together.”

Laxe said his Oscar nomination bestowed “legitimacy” on him and his film. That it got made with a significant budget for Spain of more than $7 million — and that Spaniards filled theaters to watch it — was a “sign of maturity” of the country’s film industry, he said.

But he also questioned his film’s place in that industry. “Let’s think about if my cinema is Spanish or not,” he asked on the afternoon of last month’s Goya awards, where fans gathered outside a window and took his picture. While he accepted that he was a Spanish filmmaker, he said that “Sirat” differed from the work of his Spanish peers.

He said that even the seemingly progressive new Spanish films that he technically admired were marked by conservatism because, he said, they wrongly simplified Spanish society to tension between two opposing forces. “I want to transcend duality,” he said.

Laxe said his contemporaries, including Sorogoyen, remained saddled by what he called “costumbrismo,” a depiction of Spanish customs that he sees as old-fashioned and clichéd.

Sorogoyen considered the categorization “pejorative” and said he and other Spanish directors were simply telling the stories of people living in Spain.

But both directors played down any real animosity.

Sorogoyen laughed at rumors that he and Laxe had come to blows in the karaoke bar. Laxe said the two had since joked that they should stage a brawl.

Their artistic difference was “healthy,” Laxe said. “You know, the ecosystem of Spanish cinema is diverse.”

Oil shock’s tentacles grip world economy: ‘This

By PATRICIA COHEN

Bombs are exploding in Iran and the Middle East, but the fallout is rattling households and businesses in neighborhoods all over the globe.

In Kansas, homebuyers saw 30-year mortgage rates edge above 6% this past week. In western India, families mourning the death of a loved one discovered that gas-fired crematories had been temporarily closed.

In Hanoi, Vietnam, gas station owners posted “sold out” signs. In Kenya, tea growers and traders worried their exports to Iran would rot on the dock. And across the United States, Canada, Europe, Britain and Mexico, farmers blanched at the surge in fertilizer costs.

The widening war in Iran has delivered a stunning punch to a worldwide economy that has already been walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s chaotic policymaking.

“This really is the big one,” David Goldwyn, a former U.S. diplomat and U.S. Energy Department official, said of the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important choke point for oil. This is the emergency scenario everyone feared, he said.

Cargo deliveries have been stranded, shipping charges have increased and insurance premiums have skyrocketed. Yes, the price of gas at the pump is affected. But so is the price of food, medicine, airplane tickets, electricity, cooking oil, semiconductors and more.

A drawn-out war between the United States and Iran could have “catastrophic consequences” for the world’s oil market and the global economy, Amin Nasser, the CEO of Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil and gas company, warned this past week.

Yet even if the war, which began Feb. 28 when the United States and Israel struck Iran, wraps up relatively quickly, this latest upheaval is sending consumers, workers and employers on another unnerving and unpredictable ride.

It’s not just that small business owners and corporate executives must once again reevaluate their supply chains, manage additional price increases and track shifting restrictions on who they can do business with. Or that the added uncertainty undermines confidence, making consumers reluctant to spend and businesses reluctant to invest.

It’s that this remapping of power dynamics in the Middle East could set off a string of

really is the big one’

A Chevron facility in Pascagoula, Miss., on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. Countries already walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policymaking are facing potentially lasting economic damage.

(Micah Green/The New York Times)

consequences whose full force might not be known for months or years.

Meg Jacobs, the author of “Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and The Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s,” pointed out that prices didn’t immediately go back down after the oil embargo in 1973 and 1974. They remained high for the rest of the decade.

The supply situation is completely different today, with many more producers, Jacobs emphasized. But the crisis that the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries created with its embargo set off a chain of events that these oil producers never envisioned.

The oil shock prompted other countries, most significantly the United States, to conserve energy and develop fuel-efficient cars and their own oil and natural gas industries. Ultimately, the Arab countries’ monopolistic stranglehold was broken. Oil prices ended up collapsing in 1986.

Today’s actions in Iran and the surrounding region may similarly have consequences that are both unexpected and far-reaching.

Jacobs, for example, pointed to the likelihood of an emboldened and strengthened Russian president, Vladimir Putin. This past week Trump eased some of the restrictions on Russian oil exports that had been imposed to pressure Putin over the war in Ukraine.

Higher oil prices will boost Russia’s beleaguered economy and war machine. And Putin has taken the opportunity to taunt European leaders who supported sanctions on Russian energy after the invasion of Ukraine.

Europeans only recently dug out of their deep dependency on Russian gas and oil. For them, the timing of this energy squeeze could hardly be worse. Producers, still reeling from the impact of the tariffs, must now contend with higher energy costs. That will be a blow to countries like Germany with large, energyhungry chemical, pharmaceutical and auto industries.

Asian economies are even more exposed. They, too, are dependent on energy imports. In addition, poor and middle-income countries are subject to the vagaries of currency exchange rates. And when the dollar or euro strengthens, all their imports suddenly become more expensive.

Central bankers around the world face a difficult combination of circumstances. The United States has a stronger economy than many other countries. Nonetheless, its Federal Reserve confronts the same questions that are confounding other central bankers. Does the central bank raise interest rates to head off a revival of inflation as energy prices spike, or lower rates as labor markets are weakening and growth is slowing?

Elevated rates will also keep borrowing costs high at a time when rich and poor countries are facing record levels of debt. That means more money that might have been used for health care, roads, housing or education instead will go to interest payments on debt.

Carsten Brzeski, an economist at the Dutch bank ING, noted that tech companies, especially those specializing in artificial intelligence, are highly sensitive to interest rate changes. A small handful of these companies have been the main drivers of growth in the U.S. economy — not to mention lofty stock valuations. “It could lead to the sharp correction in stock markets,” he said.

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By DANIAL ADKISON

The boat skipped across the shimmering turquoise water at a breathtaking speed.

“You’d better take off your hats,” the captain had warned before revving up the motor. This was the last loud sound I would hear for the next four days.

After he cut the throttle, we glided toward the sleepy marina that served as a gateway to Pine Cay, an 800-acre private island with about 40 homes, and the luxurious, beachfront Pine Cay resort.

Turks and Caicos, a chain of Caribbean islands just southeast of the Bahamas, teems with high-end, all-inclusive resorts.

These types of resorts had never much appealed to me. As a former Peace Corps volunteer, I had always seen them as sealed off from the surrounding culture. My husband, Chris, and I usually love to venture out and choose our own adventures. And as far as luxury allinclusives went, everything I knew about them essentially came from “The White Lotus.”

So as our boat sidled up to the dock, where the staff awaited in crisp polo shirts, smiles on their faces, golf carts ready to whisk us away, I couldn’t help but note the similarities between the first episode of that series and our own entry into paradise.

The goal at a luxury resort, Armond, the White Lotus hotel manager, advised a young trainee, was to “create for the guests an overall impression of vagueness,” where they “get everything they want, but they don’t even know

In Turks and Caicos, golden silence at a platinum price

An undisturbed beach at the Pine Cay resort in the Turks and Caicos in February 2026. Turks and Caicos, a chain of Caribbean islands just southeast of the Bahamas, teems with high-end, all-inclusive resorts. What many guests seemed to want, and are willing to pay thousands of dollars a night to get, is glorious silence. (Danial Adkison/The New York Times)

A dinner of steak, dauphine potatoes, roasted broccolini and rye manhattans, at the Pine Cay resort in the Turks and Caicos in February 2026. (Danial Adkison/The New York Times)

what they want.”

Did I, a firsttime visitor and interloper into the world of high-end resorts, even know what I wanted?

How would I navigate this world of luxury vagueness?

Serenaded by the surf

Turks and Caicos drew nearly 2 million visitors in 2024, the latest year for which official figures were available, compared with a high of almost 1.6 million before the pandemic. Nearly 81% of the tourists in 2024 came from the United States, many attracted by the exquisite beaches and stunning blue water, as well as by direct flights to major

cities like New York, Boston and Atlanta.

I had chosen Pine Cay from among the numerous luxury options in Turks and Caicos, including Club Med Turkoise, the celebrity favorite Amanyara and COMO Parrot Cay, similarly situated on a private island. The intimacy of Pine Cay intrigued me — it has just 15 suites and cottages — and the imprimatur of Relais & Châteaux, an association of luxury hotels and restaurants, assured me that we’d be eating well.

What most of my fellow Pine Cay guests seemed to want, and were willing to pay thousands of dollars a night to get, was glorious silence. The kind of quiet where “even the wind feels guilty for making noise,” as one of the servers at Pine Cay, a young Antiguan woman named Naffy, succinctly put it. No annoying soundtrack plays at the restaurant, diners speak in intimate tones over their vichyssoise and the rooms have no TVs (though they do have Wi-Fi). What you hear, all day and night, is the crashing of waves and the crackle of the surf receding through bits of coral and shells.

Wealthy travelers are increasingly seeking out resorts where they can disconnect from the noisy world and immerse themselves in peace. “Quiet is the new luxury,” said Misty Belles, the vice president for global public relations at Virtuoso, a consortium of high-end travel advisers.

This kind of peace has a price. At Pine Cay, it’s about $2,800 a night, including 27% in taxes, service charge and facility fees; breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks; kayaking, paddle boarding and sailing; and one snorkeling trip a day. That amount did not include alcoholic drinks or a $190-per-person (plus tax) round-trip group taxi and boat transfer from the airport in Providenciales. (The New York Times never accepts free travel. For the purpose of reporting this piece, we paid for all the costs.)

Inclusive resorts, it turns out, come in a range. Some cover drinks and transfers. Some, like Pine Cay, don’t, which the resort made clear up front. The booking also included an alarming notice that its boat did not run after sunset, and if you missed the last trip, you might have to hire a private charter (about $900, plus tax) or spend the night in Providenciales.

Hidden showers and private vistas

Our bungalow-like room opened right onto the beach. A thatched tiki hut with two lounge chairs sat at the waterside for our exclusive use.

The room had a large screened-in area with chairs facing the ocean, and behind a wall of sliding glass doors, a king-size bed that, when slept in, felt like being wrapped in a cumulus cloud. We had two separate outdoor showers: one on the patio facing the beach, and one in a compact secret garden tucked away at the back.

Guests usually just left their doors unlocked, our host explained, showing us a wooden panel decorated with a sand dollar that served as a do-not-disturb sign. This felt at

first like a “White Lotus”-worthy plot twist, but I soon came to relish not having to carry around a room key. We did, however, lock the doors at night.

Back in the poolside lobby, Sandrine Langlade, the assistant general manager, apologized for what she called the chill in the air. The winds had recently shifted, she told us as Bruno, her friendly cane corso, wandered among the guests. It was 1 degree when we left New York, so 72 and breezy seemed fine to us.

Eat, explore, repeat

Some of our fellow guests aimed to do absolutely nothing. But Chris and I wanted to explore, and eat. We started with excellent avocado toast, the delicate poached eggs mingling with feta cheese on homemade sourdough. A basket of light, flaky croissants and pillowy pain au chocolat reminded us that a French chef ran the kitchen.

We walked along the beach to Sand Dollar Point, a lonely spit that emerges at low tide as a shell collector’s heaven. We found ourselves alone and submerged ourselves in a shallow beryl-colored lagoon. The water was a perfect 77 degrees.

After returning for a lunch of beetroot gazpacho with pumpkin seeds and a drizzle of olive oil; pan-seared tuna with cauliflower purée and mango salsa; and mango gelato, we reserved two fat-tired beach bikes to visit two points of interest: the Aquarium, a shallow, transparent bay perfect for kayaking and paddle boarding, and Devil’s Cut, a narrow, prismatic strait spanned by a rustic wooden footbridge. One of the other guests had mentioned offhandedly that you could order a picnic lunch to enjoy at Devil’s Cut. Should we ask?

I felt awkward testing the boundaries of luxury vagueness. The staff was not going to say no, but would a “yes” quietly incur an extra charge? (It would have been complimentary, I found out later.) The downside of not-quite-all inclusive was the stress of not knowing and being too embarrassed to ask. Nobody wants to be pinching pennies in paradise.

That evening we enjoyed a sumptuous dinner of garlicky Toscana soup, perfectly rare steak with dauphine potatoes and, for dessert, velvety tiramisu. The two rye manhattans, like all of our cocktails, were followed by a small brown folder containing a room charge to sign.

The high price of access

That night, counting the Pleiades on a starlit private beach with only the

pool with waterfalls and fountains, and the scene buzzed with music, shouts and sunburned tourists.

Four days at Beaches can also reach into the five figures, yet most of those smiling guests didn’t seem to have a care in the world. Maybe it’s because at Beaches, the drinks are included.

Asteroid-smashing NASA mission sped up space rocks’ journey around the sun

By KATRINA MILLER

In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid named Dimorphos. The goal of this interplanetary smashup was to prove that if a killer space rock ever threatened Earth in the future, humans could deflect it and save our world.

The mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, worked: The crash shortened Dimorphos’ orbit around a larger asteroid, Didymos, by 32 minutes. It also generated a giant cloud of dust and debris captured by telescopes around the world and in space.

A new study shows that DART achieved more than that. Scientists found that the spacecraft’s impact shifted not only the orbit of Dimorphos around its parent asteroid, Didymos, but also the trajectory of the pair around our sun.

“If we ever find an asteroid that is headed toward the Earth, what we need to do is change its motion around the sun,” said Rahil Makadia, who recently completed his doctorate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and led the study, which was published in the journal Science Advances on March 6. Analysis by Makadia and his colleagues confirmed that shifting an asteroid’s path around the sun was possible.

“We were able to measure that for the first time ever,” he said.

The shift was tiny — a mere 150 milliseconds per journey around the sun. But according to Makadia, such small changes could be enough to help humanity avoid catastrophe in the future.

NASA launched DART in 2021, setting the spacecraft on course to collide with Dimor-

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phos, a 525-foot-wide satellite of Didymos, which is about a half-mile in diameter. Ten months later, DART smashed into Dimorphos at 14,000 mph, to the awe of scientists watching from the ground.

To measure changes in the two asteroids’ orbit around the sun, Makadia enlisted the help of dozens of amateur astronomers around the world, including in Australia, Japan and the United States. They precisely measured the asteroid pair as it passed in front of faraway stars at different parts along its orbit. The known positions of the stars helped the team pin down where Didymos and Dimorphos were in space.

They also used radio measurements of the asteroids before their rendezvous with

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Piecing this data together allowed the researchers to construct a picture of the asteroids’ orbit around the sun. Before the collision, the asteroids zipped around the sun at more than 76,000 mph. DART quickened that speed by about 2 inches an hour.

The researchers also found that the shift in solar orbit resulted from more than just DART’s initial impact. The cloud of rubble kicked up by the spacecraft streamed into space, doubling the amount of deflection compared with the initial collision alone.

“It’s a recoil from the ejecta,” said Steve Chesley, a researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a co-author of the study. The asteroid “gets a kick in the opposite direction,” he added.

Later this year, a spacecraft named Hera, launched by the European Space Agency in 2024, will arrive at Didymos and Dimorphos to refine these measurements. Hera’s data will help scientists analyze the aftermath of DART, including how the shape of Dimorphos changed, how much debris got stirred and whether the ejecta resettled on one of the asteroids or left the pair altogether.

Characterizing exactly how DART interacted with the asteroid pair will inform future efforts to protect Earth from dangerous rocks hurtling through space. Still, this is only one data point. “The more we learn about asteroids, sometimes we say, the less we know about asteroids,” Chesley said.

“They’re all a little different,” he added, but having one point of reference “is a lot better than having none.”

NASA and ESA are both continuing to gather points of reference about other potentially threatening asteroids.

Early in 2025, astronomers said a recently identified asteroid, 2024 YR4, had a small risk of hitting Earth in 2032 with enough power to destroy a city. Within months, they had ruled out any danger from the object to the planet but said it still had a slight chance of colliding with the moon.

On Thursday, NASA and ESA announced that new observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope showed that the moon was also safe from 2024 YR4. They estimate it will pass about 13,200 miles above the lunar surface.

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AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278, Alguacil de la División de Subastas del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, a la demandada y al público en general, les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso, por el Secretario del Tribunal, con fecha 20 de enero de 2026 y para satisfacer la Sentencia por la cantidad de : $248,585.05 de principal; dictada en el caso de epígrafe el el 5 de noviembre de 2025 y notificada el 7 de noviembre de 2025, procederé a vender en pública subasta, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda del curso legal de los Estados Unidos de América, todo derecho, título e interés que haya tenido, tenga o pueda tener la deudora demandada en cuanto a la propiedad localizada en el: Municipio de Carolina, Puerto Rico, que se describe a continuación:

URBANA: Solar marcado con el número trece (13) del bloque “F” en el plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Estancias de San Fernando, radicada en el barrio Hoyo Mulas del término municipal de Carolina, Puerto Rico, con una cabida superficial de 445.50 metros cuadrados; y en lindes al Norte, en una distancia de 27.00 metros con el solar número catorce del mismo bloque; al Sur, en una distancia de 27.00 metros con el solar número doce del mismo bloque; al Este, en una distancia de 16.50 metros, con el solar número diez del mismo blo-

que y al Oeste, en una distancia de 16.50 metros con la calle número ocho. Enclava una casa de hormigón y bloques de dos plantas. Finca 46586 inscrita al Folio 147 del Tomo 1092 de Carolina Sur, Registro de la Propiedad de Carolina, Sección Segunda. Con el importe de dicha venta se habrá de satisfacer a la parte demandante las cantidades adeudadas, según la Sentencia dictada en el caso de epígrafe, por el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Carolina, cuyas cantidades ascienden a $248,585.05, de principal, un segundo principal por $5,375.17 intereses a razón de 9.863% los cuales continúan acumulándose hasta el saldo total de la deuda; más las contribuciones, recargos a razón de 5% de cada pago vencido no recibido dentro de los quince (15) días después de la fecha de vencimiento, mas el 10% del principal del pagare, equivalente a $2,816.00, para cubrir costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados. El tipo mínimo para la subasta será la suma de tasación pactada, la cual es $281,600.00 para la propiedad descrita. Si no produjere remate o adjudicación la primera subasta, se procederá a una segunda subasta y servirá de tipo mínimo la cantidad de $187,733.33. Si tampoco hubiere remate ni adjudicación en esta segunda subasta, se procederá a una tercera subasta, en ésta el tipo mínimo será la cantidad de $140,800.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta se dará por terminado el procedimiento, pudiendo adjudicarse a opción del demandante. Para el lote descrito, la PRIMERA SUBASTA se llevará a cabo el día 6 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a efecto una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 13 DE ABRIL DE 2026 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. De no comparecer postor alguno se llevará a cabo una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 20 DE ABRIL DE 2026 A LAS 9:45 DE LA MAÑANA. La subasta o subastas antes indicadas se llevarán a efecto en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Carolina. Del Estudio de Título realizado el 29 de diciembre de 2026, surge el siguiente gravamen posterior que deberá ser asumido: Condiciones Restrictivas del Reglamento de dicha Urbanización, según Esc. #18 en San Juan el 12 de diciembre de 2012 ante Husmail Figueroa Ríos, inscrita al margen del folio 87vto del tomo 1399 de Carolina Sur, finca #46586. Se le advierte a los licitadores que

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la adjudicación se hará al mejor postor, quien deberá consignar el importe de su oferta en el mismo acto de la adjudicación en moneda de curso legal de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, giro postal o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal y para conocimiento de la parte demandada y de toda(s) aquella(s) persona(s) que tengan interés inscrito con posterioridad a la inscripción del gravamen que se está ejecutando, y para conocimiento de los licitadores y el público en general y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general, una vez por semana durante el término de dos (2) semanas consecutivas con un intervalo de por lo menos siete (7) días entre ambas publicaciones, y para su fijación en tres (3) lugares públicos del municipio en que ha de celebrarse la venta, tales como, la Alcaldía, el Tribunal y la Colecturía y se le notificará además a la parte demandada vía correo certificado con acuse de recibo a la última dirección conocida. Se les advierte a todos los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como la de la subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere al crédito de ejecutante, continuarán subsiguientes entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores, previa orden judicial dirigida al Registrador de la Propiedad de la sección correspondiente para la cancelación de aquellos posteriores. Y para conocimiento de la demandada, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, expido el presente Aviso para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes. Librado en Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 9 de febrero de 2026. HÉCTOR L. PEÑA RODRÍGUEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #278.

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NÉLIDA CRUZ ÁLVAREZ

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POR EDWIN CASTRO CRUZ, FULANO y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: AG2022CV00885. (603). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO, EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA POR LA VÍA ORDINARIA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. AVISO DE PÚBLICA SUBASTA. El Alguacil que suscribe por la presente anuncia y hace constar que en cumplimiento de la Sentencia dictada el 19 de septiembre de 2023, notificada el 28 de septiembre de 2023, la Orden de Ejecución de Sentencia del 3 de febrero de 2026 y el Mandamiento de Ejecución del 4 de febrero de 2026 en el caso de epígrafe, procederé a vender el día 7 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina del Alguacil Regional del Centro Judicial de Aguadilla, área del sótano, al final del pasillo, Calle Progreso Número 70, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos de América, cheque de gerente o giro postal a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Solar 5 radicado en el Barrio Borinquen de Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, compuesto de 623.76 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con Antonio Fonseca Solá; por el SUR, con el solar #6, segregado; por el ESTE, con Antonio Fonseca Solá; por el OESTE, con la calle municipal. Inscrita al folio 130 del tomo 375 de Aguadilla, Finca 21276. Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. La hipoteca consta inscrita al tomo Karibe de Aguadilla. Finca 21276. Registro de la Propiedad de Aguadilla. Inscripción sexta. catastro número: (01) 005066-457-85-000. DIRECCIÓN

FÍSICA: SR 107 KM 2.8, LOT

146 ANEXOS ST BORINQUEN WD., AGUADILLA, PR 00603. El tipo mínimo para la primera subasta será de $46,000.00. De no haber adjudicación en la primera subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA, el día 14 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será de dos terceras partes del tipo mínimo

fijado en la primera subasta, o sea, $30,666.67. De no haber adjudicación en la segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA, el día día 21 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar, en la cual el tipo mínimo será la mitad del precio pactado, o sea, $23,000.00. Si se declarase desierta la tercera subasta, se adjudicará la finca a favor del acreedor por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada si ésta es igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la tercera subasta, si el tribunal lo estima conveniente. Se abonará dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta es mayor. Dicho remate se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer a la demandante el importe de la Sentencia por la suma de $38,196.78 de principal, más intereses sobre dicha suma al 5.875% anual desde el 1 de noviembre de 2021 su completo pago, más $560.37 de recargos acumulados los cuales continuarán en aumento hasta el saldo total de la deuda, más la cantidad estipulada de $4,600.00 para costas, gastos y honorarios de abogados, así como cualquier otra suma que contenga el contrato del préstamo, incluyendo pero sin limitarse a gastos de mantenimiento, inspecciones y otros adelantos “corporate advances”. Surge del Estudio de Título Registral que sobre esta propiedad pesan los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que por la presente se pretende ejecutar. a. Aviso De Demanda: Pleito seguido por Banco Popular de Puerto Rico vs. Rosa Nélida Cruz Alvarez, también conocida como Rosa N. Cruz Álvarez, ante el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Aguadilla, en el caso civil número AG2022CV00885, sobre cobro de dinero y ejecución de hipoteca, en la que se reclama el pago de hipoteca con un balance de $39,106.61 y otras cantidades, según Demanda de fecha 14 de junio de 2022. Anotada en el Tomo Karibe de Aguadilla. Anotación A. Se notifica al acreedor posterior o a su sucesor o cesionario en derecho para que comparezca a proteger su derecho si así lo desea. Se le advierte a los interesados que todos los documentos relacionados con la presente acción de ejecución de hipoteca, así como los de Subasta, estarán disponibles para ser examinados, durante horas laborables, en el expediente del caso que obra en los archivos de la Secretaría del Tribunal, bajo el número de epígrafe y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general en Puerto Rico por es-

pacio de dos semanas y por lo menos una vez por semana; y para su fijación en los sitios públicos requeridos por ley. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito del ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes; entendiéndose que el rematante los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de estos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate y que la propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores tal como lo expresa la Ley Núm. 210-2015. Y para el conocimiento de los demandados, de los acreedores posteriores, de los licitadores, partes interesadas y público en general, EXPIDO para su publicación en los lugares públicos correspondientes, el presente Aviso de Pública Subasta en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, hoy 10 de febrero de 2026. CAROL CHALMERS SOTO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL #526, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA.

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Demandado Civil Núm.: G4CI201500257. Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA (“IN REM”). ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS EE. UU., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PR, SS. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA. Yo, ROLANDO RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA, ALGUACIL

AUXILIAR PLACA #037, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Salinas, a la parte demandada y al público en general les notifico que, cumpliendo con un Mandamiento que se ha librado en el presente caso por el Secretario del Tribunal de epígrafe con fecha 23 de diciembre de 2025, y para satisfacer la Sentencia dictada en el caso de autos fechada 19 de agosto de 2019 y notificada el 22 de agosto de 2019, procederé a vender el día 7 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 9:00 DE LA MAÑANA, en mi oficina, localizada en el Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Salinas, al mejor postor en pago de contado y en moneda de los Estados Unidos

de América, cheque certificado y/o giro postal, todo título, derecho o interés de la parte demandada sobre los siguientes bienes muebles: a. Pagaré Hipotecario por la suma principal de $90,000.00 a favor de Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, o a su orden, con intereses a razón del 9.625% anual y vencimiento a la presentación, garantizado mediante hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura #76, otorgada en Salinas, Puerto Rico el día 28 de marzo de 1996, ante el Notario Público Waldemar Del Valle Armstrong, sobre una propiedad perteneciente al demandado, la cual consta inscrita al Folio #94 del Tomo #274 de Salinas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama, Finca #10,758. b. Pagaré Hipotecario por la suma principal de $179,000.00 a favor de R-G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, con intereses a razón del 12% anual y vencimiento a la presentación, garantizado mediante hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura #121, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico el día 7 de septiembre de 2007, ante la Notario Público Mariluz Cardona Soto, sobre una propiedad perteneciente al demandado, la cual consta inscrita al Folio #254 del Tomo #120 de Salinas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama, Finca #3,957. c. Pagaré Hipotecario por la suma principal de $88,000.00 a favor de R-G Premier Bank of Puerto Rico, o a su orden, con intereses a razón del 12% anual y vencimiento a la presentación, garantizado mediante hipoteca constituida en virtud de la Escritura #180, otorgada en Ponce, Puerto Rico el día 24 de octubre de 20087, ante la Notario Público Rosanna Rivera Sánchez, sobre una propiedad perteneciente al demandado, la cual consta inscrita al Folio #81 del Tomo #113 de Salinas, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama, Finca #3634. Simultáneamente con la venta de los Pagarés Hipotecarios anteriormente descritos en los incisos “a” se procederá a vender el siguiente bien inmueble que los garantiza: (1) RÚSTICA: Parcela de terreno marcada con el número 207 de la comunidad rural El Coco, radicada en el Barrio La Lapa del término municipal de Salinas, Puerto Rico, con una cabida de mil quinientos cincuenta y ocho metros diez decímetros cuadrados. En lindes por el NOROESTE, con la calle número 7 de la comunidad; por el SURESTE, con la parcela de terreno número 206 de la co-

munidad; con terrenos de Asunción Torres y terrenos de Ismael Torres; por el SUROESTE, con parcela de terreno 209 de la comunidad; por el NOROESTE, con la calle número 3 de la comunidad. Existe un canal de riego que discurre de Norte a Sur a través de la parcela. Enclava una edificación propia para establecimiento comercial construida de madera y cemento, con medida de treinta pies por veinticuatro pies. Consta inscrita al Folio Noventa y Cuatro (94) del Tomo Doscientos Setenta y Cuatro (274) de Salinas. Finca Número Diez Mil Setecientos Cincuenta y Ocho (10,758). Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. Dirección Física: C/ Diosdado Dones #207, Com. El Coco, Salinas, PR. Simultáneamente con la venta del Pagaré Hipotecario anteriormente descrito en el inciso “b” se procederá a vender el siguiente bien inmueble que lo garantiza: (2) RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 94 en el plan de parcelación de la comunidad El Coco del Barrio La Lapa del término municipal de Salinas, con una cabida superficial de cero cuerdas con tres mil setecientos cincuenta y cinco diez milésimas de otra, equivalentes a mil cuatrocientos setenta y cinco punto ochenta y siete metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con la parcela número ciento cuarenta y tres de la comunidad; por el SUR, con la parcela número noventa y tres “A” de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con terrenos propiedad de Manuel González (Colonia Amadeo); y por el OESTE, con la parcela número noventa y cinco y la calle número cuatro de la comunidad. Consta inscrita al Folio Doscientos Cincuenta y Cuatro (254) del Tomo Ciento Veinte (120) de Salinas. Finca Número Tres Mil Novecientos Cincuenta y Siete (3,957). Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección de Guayama. Dirección Física: Lot 94 Muñoz Rivera St., Coco Community, Salinas, PR. Simultáneamente con la venta del Pagaré Hipotecario anteriormente descrito en el inciso “c” se procederá a vender el siguiente bien inmueble que lo garantiza: (3) RÚSTICA: Parcela marcada con el número 205 en el plano de inscripción de la comunidad rural El Coco del Barrio La Lapa del término municipal de Salinas, con una cabida superficial de 0.1254 cuerdas, equivalentes a 492.72 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, con calle de la comunidad; por el SUR, con parcela número 207 de la comunidad; por el ESTE, con par-

de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL. LEGAL NOTICE

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Demandante V. FIRST BANK PUERTO RICO Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GB2025CV01006. (Salón: 201). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

SAIDETH CRISTÓBAL MARTÍNEZSAIDETHCRISTOBAL@GMAIL.COM.

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(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 03 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 04 de marzo de 2026. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 04 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. F/SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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Demandante Vs. CARMEN JULIA

SANTANA SANTIAGO Y OTROS

Demandados Civil Núm.: AU2024CV00089.

Sobre: DIVISIÓN O LIQUIDACIÓN DE COMUNIDAD DE BIENES HEREDITARIOS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO.

A: CARMEN JULIA

SANTANA SANTIAGO, LA SUCESIÓN DE MIGUEL ÁNGEL

SANTANA SANTIAGO

DENOMINADOS A, B Y C.

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de febrero 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 12 12 de marzo de 2026. En Aguada, Puerto Rico, el 12 de marzo de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NOEMÍ DEL C. ROMÁN BOSQUES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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Demandante V. BRIAN

DANIEL RODRÍGUEZ

Demandado Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV09959. (506). Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: BRIAN DANIEL RODRÍGUEZ.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de San Juan, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a su última dirección conocida: PDA 24, Calle Bolívar 718, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00909. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, San Juan, Puerto Rico, a 9 de marzo de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. GREISHKA CARTAGENA RÍOS, SECRETARIA CONFIDENCIAL DEL TRIBUNAL 1.

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Demandante V. MERLANY

RIVERA RIVERA

Demandada Civil Núm.: CA2025CV03418. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GRAVAMEN MOBILIARIO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MERLANY

RIVERA RIVERA.

Por la presente se le notifica que ha sido presentada en este

Tribunal una Demanda en su contra en el pleito de epígrafe. El abogado de la parte demandante es el Lcdo. Jean Paul Juliá Díaz, Rivera-Munich & Hernández Law Offices, P.S.C.; P.O. Box 364908, San Juan, PR 00936-4908; Tel. (787) 6222323 / Fax (787) 622-2320. Se le advierte que este Edicto se publicará en un (1) periódico de circulación general una (1) sola vez y que si no comparece a contestar dicha Demanda radicando el original de la misma a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal Superior, Sala de Carolina, con copia al abogado de la parte demandante, dentro del término de treinta (30) días contados a partir de la publicación del Edicto, se le anotará la rebeldía y se dictará sentencia en su contra concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. En un término de diez (10) días a partir de la publicación de este Edicto, la parte demandante le notificará por correo certificado con acuse de recibo copias del Emplazamiento por Edicto y de la Demanda a sus últimas direcciones conocidas: Urb. Country Club, MY26 Calle 436, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00982. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello de este Tribunal, Carolina, Puerto Rico, a 9 de marzo de 2026. LIC. KANELLY ZAYAS ROBLES, SECRETARIA. DENISSE TORRES RUIZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE GUAYNABO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. FELIXBERTO BAEZ NEGRON

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: GB2025CV00806. (Salón: 201). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. JEAN PAUL JULIÁ DÍAZJPJULIA@RMMELAW.COM. A: FELIXBERTO BÁEZ NEGRÓN.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada

en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de marzo de 2026. En Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, el 10 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. SARA ROSA VILLEGAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE PONCE LONGBRIDGE

FINANCIAL LLC

Demandante Vs. IRMA SANTIAGO

ECHEVARRIA T/C/C IRMA SANTIAGO; ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA

Demandados Civil Núm.: PO2025CV01078. 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 21 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 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: “URBANA: Solar número 3 del bloque “J” del

plano de inscripción de la Urbanización Santa Elena, radicada en los Barrios Jagua y Pueblo, este último lugar conocido por “Los Sitios” del Municipio de Guayanilla, compuesto de 353.20 metros cuadrados. En lindes por el NORTE, en 25.11 metros con el solar 2 del bloque “J”; por el SUR, en 25.10 metros con solar número 4 del bloque “J”; por el ESTE, en 13.92 metros con Sucesión Blasini; y por el OESTE, en 14.22 metros con la Calle 13 de la Urbanización. En este solar enclava una casa de hormigón reforzado y bloques de una sola planta, dedicada a vivienda.” Inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 65 de Guayanilla, finca 2068, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II. La Hipoteca Revertida consta inscrita al folio 187 del tomo 240 de Guayanilla, finca 2068, Registro de la Propiedad de Ponce, Sección II, inscripción 9ª. Propiedad localizada en: URB. SANTA ELENA, I-3 CALLE UCAR, GUAYANILLA PR 00656. 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: $192,000.00. Fecha de Vencimiento: 8 de agosto de 2086. 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 $192,000.00, 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 28 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, y se establece como mínima para dicha segunda subasta la suma de $128,000.00, 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 $96,000.00, 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 5 DE MAYO DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 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 $142,200.56 por concepto de principal, más la suma de $53,430.30 en intereses acumulados 28 de mayo de 2025 y los cuales continúan acumulándose a razón de 5.250% anual hasta su total y completo pago; más $15,265.02 de seguro hipotecario; más $5,220.00 de cargos por servicio; más $14.08 de contribuciones; más $628.90 de seguro contra riesgo; más $240.00 de inspecciones; más $2,510.00 de adelantos de honorarios de abogado; más la cantidad de 10% del pagare original en la suma de $19,200.00, 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 Ponce, Puerto Rico, hoy 21 de enero de 2026. JAVIER SEGARRA MALDONADO, ALGUACIL REGIONAL. ISRAEL SANTIAGO GONZÁLEZ, ALGUACIL PLACA #650.

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

Demandante V. GILBERTO NEGRON CONDE, WANDA HERNANDEZ COLON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados Civil Núm.: BY2025CV06573. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO, COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: GILBERTO NEGRON CONDE, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON WANDA HERNANDEZ COLON; WANDA HERNANDEZ COLON Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON GILBERTO NEGRON CONDE - 11 AVE LOS DOMINICOS, APT 8 ALEGRIA NORTE, BAYAMON PR 00957. De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO. Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar a. Al 24 de noviembre de 2025, por el préstamo de auto xxxxxx-70510830 la cantidad de $41,085.92 de principal; más $3,603.23 de intereses acumulados a razón del 11.70% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más $371.50 de cargos por demora, más los que se acumulen hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados. b. Al 24 de noviembre de 2025, la parte codemandada Gilberto Negrón Conde adeuda a FirstBank por el préstamo personal xxxx-xx-xxxx-1519 la cantidad de $3,376.54 de principal en pérdida; más una suma equivalente al 10% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados. c. Al 24 de noviembre de 2025, la parte demandada adeuda a FirstBank por la tarjeta de crédito xxxx-xx-xxxx-0917 la cantidad en pérdida de $2,704.70, más una suma equivalente al

10% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado.

Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle.

Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 23 de febrero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. VIVIAN J. SANABRIA, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR SHEILA ENID MONTES MUÑIZ

Demandante Vs. JUAN CARLOS PÉREZ GUTIERREZ

Demandado

Civil Núm.: MZ2026RF00113.

Sobre: DIVORCIO (RUPTURA IRREPARABLE). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO.

A: JUAN CARLOS PÉREZ

GUTIERREZ - 324 BROCK BRIDGE RD, LAUREL MARYLAND 20724.

POR la presente se le notifica que se ha presentado una Demanda, copia de la cual se le incluye con el presente Emplazamiento por Edicto. Por la presente se requiere a usted para que dentro de los treinta (30) días de ha berse publicado el edicto, presente en el Tribunal correspondiente el original de la contestación a la demanda y notifique copia de la misma al abogado de la parte demandante, el Ldo. Yamil I. Rosado Ramos, Servicios Legales de P.R., Inc., PO Box 839, Mayagüez, P.R. 00681-0839; Teléfono: (787 ) 832-7620; Fax (787) 831-2600; Email-notificaciones-mayaguez@servicioslegales.org y/o yirosado@servicioslegales.org. 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 presente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted

deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en 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 Ml FIRMA Y EL SELLO DEL TRIBUNAL, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy 23 de de febrero de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA REGIONAL II. NILDA L. IRIZARRY RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ RELACIONES DE FAMILIA SALA SUPERIOR MAYAGÜEZ

DEBORAH RODRÍGUEZ CAZULL

Demandante V. GREGORY LEE

GALLOWAY

Demandado Civil Núm.: MZ2026RF00058. Sobre: (DIVORCIO). EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: GREGORY LEE GALLOWAY - 28-A URBANIZACION

FINQUITAS BETANCES, CABO ROJO, PUERTO RICO 00623.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la Demanda de divorcio dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su Alegación Responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr/sumac salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su Alegación Responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su Alegación Responsiva dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar Sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la Demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el Tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia a la abogada de la parte de la parte demandante, la Lcda. Desiree Denizard Vicente, Servicios Legales de PR, Inc., Apartado 839, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 00681, teléfono (787) 832-7620

a la dirección de correo electrónico: ddenizard@serviciosleqales.org. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, hoy día 25 de febrero de 2026.

LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MYRNA TORRES GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

RODRIGUEZ CAZULL V. GREGORY LEE GALLOWAY

Caso Núm.: MZ2026RF00058. Sobre: DIVORCIO. NOTIFICACIÓN - CITACIÓN PARA VISTA.

A: SR GREGORY LEE GALLOWAY; P/C LIC DESIREE DENIZARD VICENTE - PO BOX 839 MAYAGUEZ PR 00681; DIR SR LEE: URB FINIQUITAS BETANCES

28 A CASO ROJO PR 00623; PO BOX 954 BOQUERON PR 00622.

Se le requiere que comparezca ante el (la) Examinador(a) de Pensiones Alimentarias LIC KIANI M. RODRIGUEZ HERNANDEZ para que muestre causa por la cual no deba dictarse sentencia, resolución u orden, según lo solicitado en la Petición presentada por la parte CON INTERES en relación con su obligación de prestar alimentos a favor de los (las) menores habidos entre las partes: La Vista se celebrará: por videoconferencia: Fecha: 15 de abril de 2026 Hora: 9:00 de la mañana. Por ser este un procedimiento expedite de alimentos, se le advierte, que de estar debidamente citado(a) y no comparecer a la vista, el (la) Examinador(a), conforme dispone el Art. 13 incise C. de la Ley Orgánica de la ASUME, podrá celebrar la vista en su ausencia y recomendar que se dicte orden de pensión alimentaria o filiación. Se incluye copia de la Petición. Usted deberá llenar en su totalidad la Planilla de lnformación Personal y Económica (PIPE) (OAT 435) y entregarla a este Tribunal en un término de cinco (5) días antes de la Vista ante el (la) Examinador(a). La Planilla deberá ser juramentada antes de entregarla. Expedido bajo mi firma y sello del Tribunal, en MAYAGÜEZ, Puerto Rico el 25 de febrero de 2026. LIC. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY,

SECRETARIA REGIONAL.

JACQUELINE SANTIAGO

ORTEGA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

SALA SUPERIOR DE SAN JUAN

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. MARÍA JOSELYN JÉREZ TEJADA

Demandada

Civil Núm.: SJ2019CV08892. (506). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE GARANTÍAS. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: PUBLICO EN GENERAL.

El Alguacil del Tribunal que suscribe anuncia y hace constar: A. Que en cumplimiento del Mandamiento que me ha sido dirigido por la Secretaria del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Puerto Rico, Sala de San Juan, en el caso de epígrafe, venderé en pública subasta y al mejor postor de contado y en moneda de curso legal y corriente de los Estados Unidos de América y cuyo pago se efectuará en efectivo, giro postal o cheque certificado a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, todo derecho, título o interés que tenga la Parte Demandada en el bien inmueble que se describe a continuación: URBANA: Solar de forma rectangular que mide doce metros de frente por veintiún metros de fondo marcado con el número dos de la Manzana FM de la Urbanización Puerto Nuevo, propiedad de la Everlasting Development Corporation, que radica en el Barrio Monacillos de Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, con un área superficial de doscientos cincuenta y dos metros cuadrados, en lindes: por el NORTE, SUR, ESTE, y por el OESTE, con terrenos propiedad de la Everlasting Development Corporation y dando frente al Norte con la calle denominada Calle número cuarenta de la Urbanización. Enclava una casa de concreto para fines residenciales. Dirección Física: Urb. Puerto Nuevo, 1108, Calle Ballona, San Juan, PR 00920. Finca 6,797, inscrita al folio 115 del tomo 185 de Monacillos, Registro de la Propiedad de Puerto Rico, Sección Tercera de San Juan. B. Que los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado están de manifiesto en la Secretaría del Tribunal durante las horas laborables bajo el epígrafe de este caso. C. Que se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titularidad y que las

cargas y gravámenes anteriores y los preferentes, si los hubiere, al crédito ejecutante, continuarán subsistentes, entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad de los mismos, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. La propiedad a ser ejecutada se adquirirá libre de cargas y gravámenes posteriores. D. Que la Propiedad se encuentra afecta los siguientes gravámenes posteriores a la hipoteca que se ejecuta en la presente causa de acción: Hipoteca en garantía de un pagaré a favor de Doral Financial Corporation, o a su orden, por la suma principal de $114,939.00, con intereses al 8% anual, vencedero el día 1 de agosto de 2029, constituida mediante la escritura número 669, otorgada en San Juan, Puerto Rico, el día 19 de diciembre de 2001, ante el notario Luis Fernando Castillo Cruz, e inscrita al folio 1 del tomo 6 de Monacillos, finca número 6,797, inscripción 12da. (Así Surge). E . Dicha subasta se llevará a cabo para satisfacer a la parte demandante el importe de la sentencia que ha obtenido ascendente a la suma principal de $78,873.80, más la suma de $30,489.06, que incluye intereses según pactados, cargos por demora y otros cargos, que se acumulan diariamente hasta su total y completo pago, más la suma de 10% del principal, por concepto de costas, gastos y honorarios de abogado. La PRIMERA SUBASTA se celebrara el día 13 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en la Oficina del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de San Juan, por el tipo mínimo de $114,939.00. De declararse desierta dicha subasta se celebrará una SEGUNDA SUBASTA el día 20 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA, en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la segunda subasta lo sera 2/3 partes del precio mínimo de la primera, o sea, $76,626.00. De declararse desierta dicha segunda subasta, se celebrará una TERCERA SUBASTA el día 27 DE ABRIL DE 2026, A LAS 10:30 DE LA MAÑANA en el mismo lugar antes mencionado. El precio para la tercera subasta lo sera 1/2 del precio minima de la primera, o sea, $57,469.50. Y PARA QUE ASÍ CONSTE, y para su publicación en un periódico de circulación general y por un término de catorce (14) días en los sitios públicos conforme a la ley, expido la presente bajo mi firma y sello de este tribunal, hoy 4 de marzo de 2026 en San Juan, Puerto Rico. MARÍA DE LOURDES LÓPEZ MOREIRA, ALGUACIL AUXILIAR.

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DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE ADJUNTAS

FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. MARISOL CASTILLO CARABALLO

Demandada

Civil Núm.: AD2024CV00247. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EDICTO DE SUBASTA. AL PÚBLICO EN GENERAL; A LA PARTE DEMANDADA YA LOS TENEDORES DE GRAVÁMENES POSTERIORES.

YO: MARIANGELY ROSADO ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #953, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior de Caguas, al público en general: CERTIFICO Y HAGO

SABER: Cumpliendo con un Mandamiento de Venta de Ejecución de Sentencia del Secretario del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Adjuntas, venderé en pública subasta al mejor postor en moneda legal de los Estados Unidos, el cual se encuentra en el Lote de First bank localizado en: Centro Industrial Río Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr.175, Entrada Carrraízo, Caguas, Puerto Rico, el día 10 DE ABRIL DE 2026 A LAS 9:30 DE LA MAÑANA el siguiente bien mueble:

Marca: JEEP

Modelo: RENEGADE

Núm. de serie: ZAACJAABXHPG58916

Año: 2017

Tablilla: IZP190

La venta se llevará a cabo para con su producto satisfacer hasta donde sea posible, para responder por las siguientes cantidades a la parte demandante el balance de ($24,552.99) por concepto de principal, más mil novecientos cuarenta y ocho dólares con cincuenta y cuatro centavos ($1,948.54) por concepto de intereses acumulados a razón de quince punto cuarenta y cinco por ciento (15.45%) los cuales continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de Ia deuda. Asimismo, la Parte Demandada deberá satisfacer la suma de mil doscientos veinte y siete dólares con sesenta y cinco centavos ($1,227.65) por concepto de honorarios de representación legal, costas y gastos según fuese pactado en el contrato de venta condicional cedido a favor de la Parte Demandante. Por tal razón dicho producto será consignado judicialmente para que su desembolso este condicionado a la ulterior resolución por el Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe. Se apercibe

a todos los interesados que el vehículo objeto de la subasta se encuentra localizada en el Centro Industrial Río Cañas, Calle North, Lote 1516, Carr. 175, Entrada Carraízo, Caguas, Puerto Rico, por lo que todo aquel que quiera participar de su subasta podrá pasar por dicha localización, en horas laborables, previo a su celebración, para inspeccionarlo físicamente. La subasta se llevará a cabo el día ya la hora señalada habiendo las personas interesadas inspeccionado o no el mencionado bien. En adición, por la presente se informa que siendo la propiedad a subastarse un bien mueble no habrá tipo mínimo en la misma, por lo que el vehículo sera adjudicado al mejor postor en ese momento. La forma de pago deberá ser en efectivo, giro o cheque de gerente a nombre del Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera lnstancia. Si se declarase desierta la subasta, se dará por terminado este procedimiento pudiendo adjudicarse el acreedor el vehículo dentro de los diez (10) días siguientes, si así lo estimare conveniente, por la totalidad de la cantidad adeudada, si ésta fuera igual o menor que el monto del tipo de la subasta, y abonándose dicho monto a la cantidad adeudada si ésta fuere mayor. Los autos y todos los documentos correspondientes al procedimiento incoado estarán manifiestos en la Secretaría del Tribunal con competencia sobre el caso de epígrafe durante horas laborables. De acuerdo con el mejor conocimiento de la parte demandante, la propiedad antes descrita que ha de venderse en subasta no tiene gravámenes anteriores, ni posteriores. Se entenderá que todo licitador acepta como bastante la titulación y que las cargas preferentes, si alguna continuará subsistente; entendiéndose que el remanente los acepta y queda subrogado en la responsabilidad del mismo, sin destinarse a su extinción el precio del remate. Para la publicación de este Edicto en un periódico de circulación general una vez por semana durante dos (2) semanas consecutivas, y para la colocación del mismo en tres (3) sitios públicos visibles del municipio en que se celebre la subasta, al igual que en el municipio en que reside la parte demandada, Iibro el presente en Caguas, Puerto Rico, hoy 4 de marzo de 2026. MARIANGELY ROSADO ROMÁN, ALGUACIL PLACA #953, TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA, SALA SUPERIOR DE CAGUAS.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE GUAYAMA ROC CDGY, LLC

Demandante V. IVAN DAVID JIMENEZ GONZALEZ, FRANCES MYRIAM ENRIQUEZ DE JESUS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandada Civil Núm.: GCD2010-0445. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO Y EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA. AVISO DE VENTA EN PÚBLICA SUBASTA.

A: IVAN DAVID JIMENEZ GONZALEZ, FRANCES MYRIAM ENRIQUEZ DE JESUS Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENENS GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; Y AL PUBLICO EN GENERAL:

El que suscribe, Alguacil del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala Superior, Centro Judicial de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico, hago saber a la parte demandada y, al PUBLICO EN GENERAL, y a todos los acreedores que tengan inscritos o anotados sus derechos sobre los bienes hipotecados con posterioridad a la inscripción del crédito del ejecutante, o de los acreedores de cargas o derechos reales que los hubiesen pospuesto a la hipoteca ejecutada y las personas interesadas en, o con derecho a exigir el cumplimiento de instrumentos negociables garantizados hipotecariamente con posterioridad al crédito ejecutado, siempre que surjan de la certificación registral, para que puedan concurrir a la subasta si les convenga o satisfacer antes del remate el importe del crédito, de sus intereses, costas y honorarios de abogados asegurados, quedando entonces subrogados en los derechos del acreedor ejecutante, a saber: ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Embargo por la suma de $53,794.00, contra: Iván David Jiménez González y Frances Myriam Enriquez De Jesús, según certificación suscrita el día 25 de enero de 2006, anotado al folio 100 del tomo 6 de Embargos del ELA, orden 2732, el 30 de enero de 2006. Anotado bajo la Ley #8. ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO: A cuyo favor aparece inscrito un Embargo por la suma de $51,237.84, contra: Iván David Jiménez González y Frances Myriam Enriquez De Jesús, según certificación suscrita el día 27 de agosto de 2007, anotado al folio 101 del tomo 6 de Embargos del ELA, orden 2737, el 5 de septiembre de 2007. Que en cumplimiento con el Mandamiento de Ejecución de Sentencia expedido el día 6 de febrero

ción. 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 06 de marzo de 2026. En Fajardo, Puerto Rico, el 06 de marzo de 2026. WANDA SEGUÍ REYES, SECRETARIA. LINDA I. MEDINA MEDINA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE MAYAGÜEZ SALA SUPERIOR DE MAYAGÜEZ

KALIVETT AVELLANET

CRESPO

Demandante V. LUIS SANTIAGO JIMÉNEZ

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: MZ2025RF00732. (Salón: 302). Sobre: CUSTODIA - MONOPARENTAL O COMPARTIDA Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ALANIS PAULINA MÉNDEZ LORENZO - APMENDEZ@ SERVICIOSLEGALES.ORG.

A: LUIS

SANTIAGO JIMENEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de marzo de 2026. En Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, el 09 de marzo de 2026. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. LOURDES GARCÍA CUEBAS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ACTING THROUGH THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-FARM SERVICE AGENCY

Plaintiff V. JORGE LUIS MERCADO RIVERA A/K/A JORGE L. MERCADO RIVERA, MILAGROS MERCADO CAMACHO A/K/A MILAGRO MERCADO CAMACHO A/K/A MILAGROS CAMACHO VILLANUEVA AND THEIR CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP

Defendants

Civil No. 3:25-CV-01284 JAG. Re: FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE; COLLECTION OF MONEY. SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.

To: JORGE LUIS MERCADO RIVERA A/K/A

JORGE L. MERCADO RIVERA, IN HIS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND AS A MEMBER OF THE CONJUGAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED WITH MILAGROS MERCADO CAMACHO A/K/A

MILAGRO MERCADO CAMACHO A/K/A MILAGROS CAMACHO VILLANUEVA - RD. 105, KM 38.1, BUCARABONES WARD, MARICAO, PR 00606; 1652 SW SCHLEICHER LN, PORT ST. LUCIE, FL 34984. Pursuant to the Order for Service by Publication entered on 03/06/2026 by the United States District Court, you are hereby SUMMONED to appear, plead or answer the Complaint filed herein no later than thirty (30) days after publication of this Summons by serving the original plea or answer in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, and serving a copy to counsel for plaintiff: Attorney Juan C. Fortuño Fas, at PO Box 3908, Guaynabo, PR 00970, telephone number 787-751-5290, email address: dcfilings@fortunolaw. com. This Summons shall be published by edict only once in a newspaper of general circulation in the island of Puerto Rico. Within ten (10) days following publication of this Summons, a copy of this Summons and the Complaint will be sent to defendant party JORGE LUIS MERCADO RIVERA A/K/A JORGE

L. MERCADO RIVERA, in his individual capacity and as a member of the conjugal partnership composed with Milagros Mercado Camacho a/k/a Milagro Mercado Camacho a/k/a Milagros Camacho Villanueva, by certified mail/return receipt requested, addressed to their last known address. Should you fail to appear, plead or answer to the Complaint as ordered by the Court and noticed by this Summons, the Court will enter default against you, as such, proceed to hear and adjudicate this cause against you based on the relief demanded in the Complaint. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, summons is issued pursuant to Fe. R. Civil P. 4(e) and Rule 4.6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, this 9th day of March, 2026. ADA I. GARCIA-RIVERA, ESQ., CLERK, U.S. DISTRICT COURT. ANA DURAN, DEPUTY CLERK.

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CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN

GIAN EMMANUEL GELPI

ARROYO Y OTROS

Demandante V. SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2025CV02957. (Salón: 702). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. ARSENIO COMAS RODÓNACOMAS@COMASREVUELTA.COM. A: SANTANDER MORTGAGE CORPORATION; EMIL ROBERTO PUIZINA CIRADEL Y DONNA MARIE PUIZINA Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS; JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE, DEMANDADOS DESCONOCIDOS.

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

EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedi-

miento 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 06 de marzo de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. MIRCIENID GONZÁLEZ TORRES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

Demandante V. JOSE A RODRIGUEZ

FIGUEROA T/C/C JOSE RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA Y OTROS

Demandado(a)

Caso Núm.: AR2025CV02276. (Salón: 401 - CIVIL SUPERIOR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO ENMENDADA.

DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CMPRLAW.COM.

A: JOSÉ A. RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA T/C/C JOSÉ RODRIGUEZ FIGUEROA, POR SÍ Y COMO

REPRESENTANTE DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES COMPUESTA CON LA SRA. MELISSA E. VÁZQUEZ DE HOYOS T/C/C MELISSA VÁZQUEZ DE HOYOS.

(Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 26 de febrero de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión

o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de marzo de 2026. Notas de la Secretaría: se enmienda por orden del juez para volver a notificar. En Arecibo, Puerto Rico, el 10 de marzo de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. VANESSA GONZÁLEZ MALAVÉ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA

CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE VEGA BAJA

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. LA SUCESION DE GLORIA ESTHER VEGA SOLER T/C/C GLORIA VEGA SOLER Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: VB2025CV00960. (Salón: 201 CD, CM, TR Y CR). Sobre: EJECUCIÓN DE HIPOTECA: PROPIEDAD RESIDENCIAL. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. DUNCAN R. MALDONADO EJARQUE - EJECUCIONES@CMPRLAW.COM.

A) JULIO VEGA SOLER Y JOHNNY VEGA COMO MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA ESTHER VEGA SOLER T/C/C GLORIA VEGA SOLER, A LAS SIGUIENTES

DIRECCIONES: (A) URB. PARCELAS AMADEO 58 CALLEE VEGA BAJA, PR 00693-5126; (B) VILLAS DEL NARANJAL APTO. 3

F CALLE 45 VEGA BAJA, PR 00693 (EDIFICIO PLAZUELA CALLE JOSE JULIAN ACOSTA +45).

B) FULANO Y FULANA DE TAL COMO POSIBLES HEREDEROS DESCONOCIDOS DE LA SUCESIÓN DE GLORIA ESTHER VEGA SOLER T/C/C

GLORIA VEGA SOLER, A LAS SIGUIENTES

DIRECCIONES: (A) URB. PARCELAS AMADEO A58 CALLE E VEGA BAJA, PR 00693-5126; (B) VILLAS DEL NARANJAL APTO. 3

F CALLE 45 VEGA BAJA, PR 00693 (EDIFICIO PLAZUELA CALLE JOSE

MLIAN ACOSTA +45).

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

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

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA CENTRO JUDICIAL DE BAYAMÓN SALA SUPERIOR DE BAYAMÓN ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Demandante V. YOLANDA GUZMAN SERRANO Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: BY2025CV01986. (Salón: 500-A). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. NATALIE BONAPARTE SERVERANATALIE.BONAPARTE@ORF-LAW. COM. A: YOLANDA GUZMAN SERRANO. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 05 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando

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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 06 de marzo de 2026. En Bayamón, Puerto Rico, el 06 de marzo de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA. IRIS ÁLVAREZ CLEMENTE, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

ADRIEL YAEL MOLINA ROSADO Y OTROS

Demandante V. FEDERAL DEPOSIT

INSURANCE CORPORATION Y OTROS

Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: MT2026CV00063. (Salón: 102 SALA SUPERIOR). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN O RESTITUCIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO. NOTIFICACIÓ DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. EDELI M. PLÁCERES MIRANDAEPLACERES@PLACERESLLC.COM. A: JOHN DOE Y RICHARD ROE. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 09 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 10 de marzo de 2026. En Manatí, Puerto Rico, el 10 de marzo de 2026. VIVIAN Y. FRESSE GONZÁLEZ, SECRETARIA. SHEILA I. RIVERA MORALES, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL

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Parte Demandante Vs. WANDA I GONZALEZ BERRIOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CG2025CV03440. 703. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS.

A: WANDA I GONZALEZ BERRIOS - HC 4 BOX 45498, CAGUAS PR 00727-9623.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en CAGUAS, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de enero de 2026. IRASEMIS DÍAZ SÁNCHEZ, SECRETARIA. LIZ WHARTON ROSA, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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March 16, 2026

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Parte Demandante Vs. EMMANUEL

PEREZ SANTANA

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TO2025CV00727. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: EMMANUEL PEREZ SANTANA - RR 1 BOX 14080, TOA ALTA PR 00953-9771; PO BOX 1283, CANOVANAS PR 00729.

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

MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 11 de diciembre de 2025. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. NERI A. SANFELIZ RAMOS, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL I.

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Parte Demandante Vs. CARLOS RIVERA MORENO

Parte Demandada

Civil Núm.: AI2025CV00486. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDIC-

TO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CARLOS RIVERA MORENO - REPTO ROBLES C39 CALLE ACERINA, AIBONITO PR 00705-3911.

POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// www.poderjudicial.pr/index. php/tribunal-electronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Natalie Bonaparte Servera cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección natalie.bonaparte@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@ orf-law.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en AIBONITO, Puerto Rico, hoy día 20 de enero de 2026. MAYRA L. CABRERA GARCÍA, SECRETARIA. MARITZA APONTE RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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

Parte Demandante Vs. JENNY A LOPEZ VAZQUEZ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TO2025CV01335. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: JENNY A LOPEZ VAZQUEZ - URB PALACIOS DE VERSALLES 1788 AVE PALACIOS DE

VERSALLES F303, TOA ALTA PR 00953-6002. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.nr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

Parte Demandante Vs. IVAN R MORGADO BERRIOS

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TO2025CV01464. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: IVAN R MORGADO BERRIOS - URB MADELAINE P16 CALLE OPALO, TOA ALTA PR 00953-3551. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del

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

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE TOA ALTA ISLAND PORTFOLIO SERVICES, LLC COMO AGENTE DE ACE ONE FUNDING, LLC Parte Demandante Vs. CHRISTIAN G ORTIZ MARTINEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: TO2025CV01337. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: CHRISTIAN G ORTIZ MARTINEZURB PALACIOS DEL RIO II 782 CALLE TALLABOA, TOA ALTA PR 00953-5124. POR LA PRESENTE se le emplaza y requiere para que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este Edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), la cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Si usted

deja de presentar su alegación responsiva dentro del referido término, el tribunal podrá dictar sentencia en rebeldía en su contra y conceder el remedio solicitado en la demanda o cualquier otro sin más citarle ni oírle, si el tribunal en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 009368518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@ orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orf-law.com.

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en Toa Alta, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2026. ALICIA AYALA SANJURJO, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. SUHAIL DÁVILA CRUZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT PUERTO RICO, LLC COMO AGENTE DE MIDLAND CREDIT MANAGEMENT, INC. Parte Demandante Vs. LOURDES I VELAZQUEZ Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: PO2025CV03116.

Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: LOURDES I VELAZQUEZ - COMM EL PARAISO 68 CALLE 6, PONCE PR 00731; HC 7 BOX 3419, PONCE PR 00731-9657.

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

ción, lo entiende procedente. El sistema SUMAC notificará copia al abogado de la parte demandante, Gabriel Ramos Colón cuya dirección es: P.O. Box 71418 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-8518, teléfono (787) 993-3731 a la dirección gabriel.ramos@orf-law.com y a la dirección notificaciones@orflaw.com. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el sello del Tribunal, en PONCE, Puerto Rico, hoy día 22 de enero de 2026. CARMEN TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. SANDRA GONZÁLEZ RODRÍGUEZ, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE CABO ROJO

BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Parte Demandante Vs. COOPERATIVA DE AHORRO Y CRÉDITO DE CABO ROJO (CABO ROJO COOP), DORAL FINANCIAL CORPORATION, SANA INVESTMENT MORTGAGE

BANKERS INC., T/C/C SANA MORTGAGE

CORPORATION, SUBSIDIARIA DE DORAL MORTGAGE

CORPORATION T/C/C

DORAL MORTGAGE, LLC, FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE

CORPORATION (FDIC) COMO SÍNDICO DE RG MORTGAGE

CORPORATION y DE DORAL BANK,

ORIENTAL BANK COMO SUCESOR EN DERECHO DE RG PREMIER BANK OF PUERTO RICO, DEBORAH ZAPATA

ACOSTA T/C/C DEBORAH ENID ZAPATA ACOSTA, WILMER AVILÉS RIVEIRO Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS, FULANO Y MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ

Parte Demandada Civil Núm.: CB2025CV00829. (0200). Sobre: CANCELACIÓN DE PAGARÉ EXTRAVIADO POR LA VÍA JUDICIAL. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS E.E.U.U., EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: FULANO y

MENGANO DE TAL, POSIBLES TENEDORES DESCONOCIDOS DEL PAGARÉ.

El 20 de mayo de 1992, Deborah Zapata Acosta t/c/c Deborah Enid Zapata Acosta y su esposo Wilmer Avilés Riveiro constituyeron una hipoteca en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, conforme a la Escritura núm. 91 autorizada por el notario Luis R. Rivera Mendoza en garantía de un pagaré suscrito bajo testimonio número 11,280 por la suma de $35,000.00, a favor de la Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Cabo Rojo (Cabo Rojo Coop) o a su orden, devengando intereses al 9½% anual y vencedera el 20 de mayo de 2007, modificada mediante la Escritura núm. 259 suscrita el 4 de noviembre de 1993 ante el mismo notario, sobre la siguiente propiedad: RÚSTICA: Localizada en el Barrio Guanajibo del Municipio de Cabo Rojo, situada en Carretera. Tiene una cabida de 1,364.4911 metros cuadrados. Linda: NORTE: en 31.79m, con Petra Acosta; SUR: en 27.71m., con la Carretera 311; ESTE: en 50.06m, con Rosa Emilia Bracero; OESTE: en 42.73m, con Consuelo Bracero. Enclava casa. En su inscripción 2ª, se expresa que contiene una casa construida de hormigón armado y bloques, con medio balcón, al frente, dedicada a vivienda, la que mide veintiséis pies de frente por treinta y seis pies de fondo y nueve pies de luz, dividida interiormente de departamentos que sirven de sala-comedor, cocina, tres dormitorios, y un servicio sanitario; y tiene además una marquesina de diez pies y nueve pulgadas de ancho por veinticinco pies de fondo, a la derecha entrando; y tiene también una terraza al fondo de los mismos materiales, abierta pero techada, de ocho pies de ancho por trece y medio pies de largo. Inscrita al folio 60 vuelto del tomo 430 de Cabo Rojo, Finca 14860. Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. La escritura de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 61 del tomo 430 de Cabo Rojo, Finca 14860. Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. Inscripción tercera (3ra). La escritura de modificación de hipoteca consta inscrita al folio 62 del tomo 430 de Cabo Rojo, Finca 14860. Registro de la Propiedad de San Germán. Inscripción cuarta (4ta). La parte demandada deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Administración y Manejo de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la

secretaría del Tribunal. Se le advierte que, si no contesta la demanda, radicando el original de la contestación en este Tribunal y enviando copia de la contestación a la abogada de la Parte Demandante, Lcda. Belma Alonso García, cuya dirección es: PO Box 3922, Guaynabo, PR 00970-3922, Teléfono y Fax: (787) 789-1826, correo electrónico: oficinabelmaalonso@gmail.com, dentro del término de treinta (30) días de la publicación de este edicto, excluyéndose el día de la publicación, se le anotará la rebeldía y se le dictará Sentencia en su contra, concediendo el remedio solicitado sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPEDIDO bajo mi firma y el sello del Tribunal, hoy 13 de febrero de 2026 en Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. MARÍA M. AVILÉS BONILLA, SUB-SECRETARIA. LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE HUMACAO HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS

ASSOCIATION, INC. Demandante Vs. EDGARDO VIERA MALDONADO, JEANNETTE RODRIGUEZ ALVAREZ, Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS Demandados Civil Núm.: HU2025CV01749. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: EDGARDO VIERA MALDONADO, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; JEANNETTE RODRIGUEZ ALVAREZ, POR SÍ Y EN REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES; SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE BIENES GANANCIALES, COMPUESTA POR AMBOS.

Se les notifica a ustedes que se ha radicado mediante el sistema SUMAC una Demanda por la parte demandante HACIENDA DEL MAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. solicitando un Cobro de Dinero. Se les emplaza y se les requiere que notifiquen a la Lcda. Jessica Martínez Birriel, GARRIGA & MARINI LAW OFFICES,

C.S.P., P.O. Box 16593, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00908-6593, teléfono (787) 275-0655, correo electrónico: jmartbirr@yahoo. com, con copia de su contestación a la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Dentro del mismo periodo de treinta (30) días ustedes deberán presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual pueden acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/ index.php/tribunal-electronico/, salvo que se representen por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberán presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Si dejaren de contestar podrá anotarse la rebeldía y dictarse contra ustedes sentencia en rebeldía concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la Demanda, sin más citarles ni oírles. Además, se les apercibe que, en los casos al amparo de la Ley Núm. 57-2023, titulada Ley para la Prevención del Maltrato, Preservación de la Unidad Familiar y para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de los Menores, entre los remedios que el Tribunal podrá conceder se incluyen la ubicación permanente de un (una) menor fuera de su hogar, el inicio de procesos para la privación de patria potestad, y cualquier otra medida en el interés del (de la) menor. (Artículo 33, incisos b y f de la Ley Núm. 57-2023). Se le advierte de su derecho a comparecer acompañado(a) de abogado(a) en los casos que proceda. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal, a tenor con la Orden del Tribunal, hoy día 18 de febrero de 2026. EVELYN FÉLIX VÁZQUEZ, SECRETARIA. LAURA DE JESÚS GONZÁLEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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

FIRSTBANK

PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. ERICA L. CLARKE, FULANO DE TAL Y LA SOCIEDAD LEGAL DE GANANCIALES COMPUESTA POR AMBOS

Demandados

Civil Núm.: SJ2025CV11293. Salón: 503. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO Y REPOSESIÓN. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LI-

BRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: ERICA L. CLARKE - CARR 937 CALLE CARMEN HERNANDEZ, URB EL COMANDANTE, SAN JUAN PR 00924; PO BOX 6642, SAN JUAN PR, 914-6642.

De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar Al 13 de noviembre de 2025, por el préstamo de auto xxxx-xx-70512594 la cantidad de $25,380.05 de principal; más $2,102.27 de intereses a razón del 11.95% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más $366.10 de cargos por pago tardío y los que se acumulen hasta su total y completo pago; más una suma equivalente al 5% del total adeudado para honorarios de abogados.Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882 Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919 Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 24 de febrero de 2026. GRISELDA RODRÍGUEZ COLLADO, SECRETARIA. ELIZABETH AGOSTO NÚÑEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO

Demandante V. MIEMBROS DE LA SUCESION DE VICTOR

JOSE GONZALEZ PONCE COMPUESTA POR:

YESENIA CORDERO CALERO; JESSICA

SARAHI GONZALEZ

CORDERO; ARIANA

MICHELLE GONZALEZ

CORDERO; VICTOR

ANDRES GONZALEZ CORDERO

Civil Núm.: IS2025CV00180. Sobre: INCUMPLIMIENTO DE CONTRATO; COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: SUCESION DE VICTOR

JOSE GONZALEZ PONCE COMPUESTA POR:

YESENIA CORDERO CALERO; JESSICA

SARAHI GONZALEZ

CORDERO; ARIANA

MICHELLE GONZALEZ

CORDERO; VICTOR

ANDRES GONZALEZ

CORDERO - 1009 CALLE WIND, URB QUINTAS DEL ATLANTICO, ISABELA PR 00662.

De: FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO.

Se le emplaza y requiere que conteste la demanda dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a la publicación de este edicto. Usted deberá presentar su alegación responsiva a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://www.poderjudicial.pr/index.php/tribunalelectronico/, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la secretaría del tribunal. Este caso trata sobre Incumplimiento de Contrato y Cobro de Dinero en que la parte demandante solicita que se condene al demandado a pagar Al 17 de septiembre de 2025, un balance de cancelación de $20,304.44, de principal a razón de 7.50% los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más $100.00 de cargos por demora los cuales se continúan acumulando hasta el total y completo pago de la deuda; más una suma equivalente al 30% de los honorarios de abogados según pactados. Además, se solicita se ordene la reposesión del vehículo en controversia y, de no ser suficiente el producto de la venta del mismo para cubrir la suma total adeudada, se solicita la ejecución de la sentencia

que en su día se dicte sobre cualesquiera otros bienes del demandado. Se le apercibe que, si dejare de hacerlo, se dictará contra usted sentencia en rebeldía, concediéndose el remedio solicitado en la demanda, sin más citarle ni oírle. Lcdo. José Antonio Lamas Burgos Número del Tribunal Supremo 16,882

Po Box 0194089, San Juan PR 00919

Teléfono: (787) 296-9500 Correo Electrónico: jlamas@lvprlaw.com

INTERPELACION JUDICIAL:

Vista la Solicitud de Interpelación y la declaración jurada adjunta presentada por FIRSTBANK PUERTO RICO, se declara la misma Con Lugar y se ordena a Fulano de Tal y Mengano de Tal. El Artículo 1578 del Código Civil de Puerto Rico, 31 L.P.R.A. sec. 11021, dispone lo siguiente: “Transcurridos treinta (30) días desde que se haya producido la delación, cualquier persona interesada puede solicitar al tribunal que le señale al llamado un plazo, para que manifieste si acepta la herencia o si la repudia. Este plazo no excederá de treinta (30) días. El tribunal apercibirá al llamado de que, si transcurrido el plazo señalado no ha manifestado su voluntad de aceptar la herencia o de repudiarla, se dará por aceptada.” Por la presente el Tribunal de Instancia, conforme a lo establecido en el Artículo 1578, supra, le ordena que en el término de treinta (30) días, haga declaración aceptando o repudiando la herencia de la Sucesión de Victor José Gonzalez Ponce. Se le apercibe que de no expresar su intención de aceptar o repudiar la herencia dentro del término que se le fijó la herencia se tendrá por aceptada. EXTENDIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y Sello del Tribunal, hoy 25 de febrero de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA. AWILDA CABÁN SÁNCHEZ, SUB-SECRETARIA.

LEGAL NOTICE

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE MAYAGÜEZ BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. DELINÉS ROMÁN ORTIZ, RICARDO M. PAGÁN DIODONET

Demandados Civil Núm.: MZ2025CV01721. Salón: 206. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO.

A: RICARDO M. PAGÁN DIODONET. POR LA PRESENTE: Se le

notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired. ramajudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Mayagüez, P.O. Box 1210, Mayagüez, P.R. 00681-1210 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 10 de febrero de 2026. LCDA. NORMA G. SANTANA IRIZARRY, SECRETARIA. JOSSIE D. BOBE RODRÍGUEZ, SUBSECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL GENERAL DE JUSTICIA TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE PONCE BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO

Demandante Vs. KELVIN NEGRÓN GARCÍA

Demandado

Civil Núm.: SI2025CV00147. Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO. EMPLAZAMIENTO POR EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO. A: KELVIN NEGRÓN GARCÍA.

POR LA PRESENTE: Se le notifica que contra usted se ha presentado la Demanda sobre Cobro de Dinero de la cual se acompaña copia. Por la presente se le emplaza a usted y se le requiere para que dentro del término de TREINTA (30) días desde la fecha de la Publicación por Edicto de este Emplazamiento presente su contestación a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando

la siguiente dirección electrónica: https://unired.ramajudicial. pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación responsiva en la Secretaría del Tribunal de Primera Instancia, Sala de Ponce, P.O. Box 7185, Ponce, P.R. 00732-7185 y notifique a la LCDA. GINA H. FERRER MEDINA, personalmente al Condominio Las Nereidas, Local 1-B, Calle Méndez Vigo esquina Amador Ramírez Silva, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00680; o por correo al Apartado 2342, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 00681-2342, Teléfonos: (787) 832-9620, Abogada de la parte demandante, apercibiéndose que en caso de no hacerlo así podrá dictarse Sentencia en Rebeldía en contra suya, concediendo el remedio solicitado en la Demanda sin más citarle ni oírle. EXPIDO BAJO MI FIRMA y el Sello del Tribunal hoy 9 de febrero de 2026. CARMEN G. TIRÚ QUIÑONES, SECRETARIA. CONSUELO ELAINE RIVERA PADILLA, SUB-SECRETARIA.

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ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO TRIBUNAL DE PRIMERA INSTANCIA SALA DE SUPERIOR DE AGUADILLA JOSÉ ANTONIO ECHEVARRÍA MÉNDEZ Y PAULINA MÉNDEZ ECHEVARRÍA

Peticionarios EXPARTE

Civil Núm.: AU2025CV00585. Sobre: EXPEDIENTE DE DOMINIO - LEY 118 - 2022. EDICTO. ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA, EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EL ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO, SS. A: MARÍA MILAGROS ECHEVARRÍA MÉNDEZ; CARMEN IRIS ECHEVARRÍA MÉNDEZ; LAS PERSONAS IGNORADAS Y DESCONOCIDAS A QUIENES PUDIERA PERJUDICAR LA INSCRIPCIÓN DEL DOMINIO A FAVOR DE LA PARTE PETICIONARIA EN EL REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD DE LA FINCA QUE MÁS ADELANTE SE DESCRIBE Y A TODA PERSONA EN GENERAL QUE CON DERECHO PARA ELLO DESEE OPONERSE A ESTE EXPEDIENTE. POR LA PRESENTE, se les notifica para que comparezcan, si lo creyeren pertinente, ante este Honorable Tribunal dentro de los veinte (20) días contados a partir de la publicación de

este edicto a exponer lo que a sus derechos convenga en el expediente promovido por la parte peticionaria para adquirir su dominio sobre la finca que se describe más adelante. Usted deberá presentar su posición a través del Sistema Unificado de Manejo y Administración de Casos (SUMAC), al cual puede acceder utilizando la siguiente dirección electrónica: https:// unired.poderjudicial.pr, salvo que se represente por derecho propio, en cuyo caso deberá presentar su alegación en la secretaría del Tribunal. Si usted deja de expresarse dentro del referido término, el Tribunal podrá dictar sentencia, previo a escuchar la prueba de valor de la parte peticionaria en su contra, sin más citarle ni oírle, y conceder el remedio solicitado en la petición, o cualquier otro, si el Tribunal, en el ejercicio de su sana discreción, lo entiende procedente. “RURAL: Predio de terreno radicado en el barrio Laguna del término municipal de Aguada, con una cabida de DOS MIL TRESCIENTOS VEINTITRÉS METROS CUADRADOS CON SEIS MIL TRESCIENTOS CUARENTA Y SIETE DIEZMILÉSIMAS DE OTRO (2,323.6347 m.c.), equivalentes a cinco mil novecientos doce diezmilésimas de cuerda (0.5912 cdas.), colindando por el NORTE con terrenos de Sucesión Echevarría Feliciano por el ESTE con quebrada; por el SUR con terrenos de Ramon Echevarría Ruiz y por el OESTE con camino de acceso pavimentado.” La antes mencionada propiedad no tiene cargas ni gravámenes y el número de catastro de la parcela de procedencia es: 126-000007-71. La Parte Peticionaria se encuentra representada por: LCDA. CAROLINA GARRIGA CESANÍ, RUA 15227 Calle Resolución #33, Suite 302 San Juan, PR 00920

Teléfono: 787-782-6500 x. 250 Correo electrónico: cgarriga@ titlesecuritygroup.com

También se le informa que el Tribunal ha señalado Vista en este caso para el 25 de septiembre de 2026, a las 2:45 de la tarde mediante videoconferencia a la cual usted puede comparecer asistido por abogado y presentar oposición a la Petición. Se le apercibe que de no comparecer los interesados y/o partes citadas, o en su defecto los organismos públicos afectados en el término improrrogable de veinte (20) días a contar de la fecha de la última publicación del edicto, el Tribunal podrá conceder el remedio solicitado por la parte peticionaria, sin más citarle ni oírle. En Aguadilla, Puerto Rico a 19 de febrero de 2026. SARAHÍ REYES PÉREZ, SECRETARIA REGIONAL. ARLENE GUZMÁN PABÓN, SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DEL TRIBUNAL.

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

BANCO POPULAR DE PR Demandante V. SUCESION DE GUILLERMO OLVARRIA SULIVERAS Y SUCESION DE SUSANA SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ COMPUESTA POR SUS HIJOS SANDRA IVELISSE, FRANCES VANESSA Y GUILLERMO JOSE OLAVARRIA SANTIAGO Y OTROS Demandado(a) Caso Núm.: GM2025CV00567. (Sala: 302). Sobre: COBRO DE DINERO - ORDINARIO Y OTROS. NOTIFICACIÓN DE SENTENCIA POR EDICTO. BALDOMERO A. COLLAZO TORRES - BCOLLAZO@LAWPR.COM. A: GUILLERMO JOSE OLAVARRIA SANTIAGO, COMO MIEMBRO DE LA SUCESION DE GUILLERMO OLAVARRRIA SULIVERAS, TAMBIEN CONOCIDO COMO GUILLERMO OLAVARRIA SULIVERA Y COMO GUILLERMO OLAVARRIA SULIVERES, Y DE LA SUCESION DE SUSANA SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ. (Nombre de las partes que se le notifican la sentencia por edicto) EL SECRETARIO(A) que suscribe le notifica a usted que el 06 de marzo de 2026, este Tribunal ha dictado Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución en este caso, que ha sido debidamente registrada y archivada en autos donde podrá usted enterarse detalladamente de los términos de la misma. Esta notificación se publicará una sola vez en un periódico de circulación general en la Isla de Puerto Rico, dentro de los 10 días siguientes a su notificación. Y, siendo o representando usted una parte en el procedimiento sujeta a los términos de la Sentencia, Sentencia Parcial o Resolución, de la cual puede establecerse recurso de revisión o apelación dentro del término de 30 días contados a partir de la publicación por edicto de esta notificación, dirijo a usted esta notificación que se considerará hecha en la fecha de la publicación de este edicto. Copia de esta notificación ha sido archivada en los autos de este caso, con fecha de 09 de marzo de 2026. En Guayama, Puerto Rico, el 09 de marzo de 2026. Marisol Rosado Rodríguez, Secretaria. María Ramos Negrón, Secretaria Auxiliar Del Tribunal.

PR eliminated from World Baseball Classic

Puerto Rico’s 8-6 loss to Italy in the quarterfinals on Saturday ended the national team’s participation in the 2026 World Baseball Classic.

By THE STAR STAFF

Team Puerto Rico lost 8-6 to Italy on Saturday at Daikin Park in Houston, bringing their participation in the 2026

Cangrejeras

World Baseball Classic to a close.

Team Italy (5-0) took control of the quarterfinal contest early with a fourrun outburst in the first inning, a surge that ultimately proved decisive. The Italians added four more runs in the

fourth inning to extend their lead.

Puerto Rico (3-2) was the first to get on the board, courtesy of a solo home run by Willi Castro in the first inning. However,

the Italians responded immediately in the bottom half of the same inning. Vinnie Pasquantino tied the game with an RBI single, Dominic Canzone drove in another run to give Italy a 2-1 lead, and shortly thereafter a single by Jack Caglianone made it 3-1. The fourth run came via a sacrifice fly by JJ D’Orazio.

In the second inning, Puerto Rico narrowed the gap on the scoreboard when Martín “Machete” Maldonado was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, driving in Heliot Ramos for the national team’s second run.

Italy rallied for four more runs in the bottom of the fourth on a pair of two-out RBI doubles. After fan interference was called on Andrew Fischer’s bases-loaded fly ball to the right field wall, bringing two runs across, another ground-rule double down the right field line by D’Orazio plated two more runs to make it 8-2.

In the eighth inning, Puerto Rico mounted

reach 18-0 with 3-set victory over Corozal

The Cangrejeras of Santurce remained undefeated in 18 matches by sweeping the Pinkin of Corozal in straight sets on Friday night. (Heriberto Rosario Rosa – FPV)

By THE STAR STAFF

The Cangrejeras of Santurce tallied their 18th victory of the season -remaining undefeated in the Women’s Superior Volleyball League (LVSF by its initials in Spanish) -- on Friday night by sweeping the Pinkin of Corozal in straight sets at Roberto Clemente Coli-

seum in Hato Rey and securing all three available points from the match.

The set scores were 25-19, 25-21 and 25-19 as Santurce (18-0) increased its accumulated points total to 51.

For its part, Corozal remained in third place in the LVSF standings with a 9-10 record and 27 points.

Holding a two-sets-to-none lead, the

Cangrejeras put the third set -- and the victory -- away after leading 16-14 at the technical timeout following a middle attack by Kara McGhee. Santurce extended the lead to 20-15 with an attack by Helena Grozer from Zone 4, an offensive deflection by Adriana Rodríguez through the middle, an effective spike by Tamara Otene from Zone 4, and an ace serve by Grozer.

Santurce reached set point at 24-19 with Grozer attacking against the Corozal block. On the very next play, the Cangrejeras closed out the set and the match with another effective middle attack by McGhee.

Santurce outperformed Corozal 4735 in attacks, 10-5 in blocks, 5-2 in aces, 63-53 in digs and 24-15 in assists. The Pinkin held the edge in passing, 38-37. Leading the Cangrejeras’ offense were Grozer with 15 points, Otene with 14, Andrea Rangel with 12 and McGhee with 10.

Ivania Ortiz’s 17 points led Corozal.

a four-run rally -- fueled by an RBI grounder by Eddie Rosario, a wild pitch by Italy reliever Joe La Sorsa, and an RBI single by Christian Vázquez -- bringing the score within two runs, which would be the final margin.

Lefty Sam Aldegheri recorded the win for Italy, and Greg Weissert picked up the save. Right-hander Seth Lugo took the loss after allowing the game’s first four runs while recording just one out.

Having concluded their participation in the Classic, Team Puerto Rico members were to return to their respective organizations to resume their professional commitments.

Dominican Republic-United States winner vs. Italy-Venezuela winner, 8 p.m. (FOX) mlb.com

World Baseball Classic (All times Eastern)

Quarterfinals

Friday

At loanDepot park, Miami Dominican Republic 10, Korea 0

At Daikin Park, Houston United States 5, Canada 3

Saturday At Daikin Park, Houston Italy 8, Puerto Rico 6

At loanDepot park, Miami Venezuela 8, Japan 5

Semifinals

At loanDepot park, Miami

Sunday

Dominican Republic (5-0) vs. United States (4-1), 8 p.m.

Today Italy (5-0) vs. Venezuela (4-1), 8 p.m. (FS1)

Final At loanDepot park, Miami

Tuesday

Sudoku

How to Play:

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

Sudoku Rules:

Every row must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

Every column must contain the numbers from 1 through 9

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

Crossword

Aries (Mar 21-April 20)

It’s a good thing you have a flexible attitude, Aries, especially today. Your adaptive powers could be put to the test as you find yourself surrounded by fickle emotions and stubborn attitudes. Don’t get too hung up on getting straight answers from people today, for they’re apt to be just as confused as you about certain issues. Play it cool for now and ride the waves easily to shore

Taurus (April 21-May 21)

You could be frustrated by others’ lack of commitment today, Taurus. You could try to make plans with people but they keep changing their minds about what they want to do. Perhaps they’re emotionally insecure and afraid to take the next step. Don’t let other people hold you back. Make plans and stick to them. Other people will fall into place accordingly. You don’t need to prod them.

Gemini (May 22-June 21)

You should be feeling emotionally strong today, Gemini, although you could find that an idea runs through your head that asks you to slow down and take things once step at a time. The internal dialogue could drive you crazy if you aren’t careful. The most important thing to do now is simply follow your heart. Do what you love to do, and associate with the people you love and respect the most.

Cancer (June 22-July 23)

Make the effort to get to a body of water today, Cancer. Whether it’s the ocean, a river, or lake, the sense of expansion and comfort that you’ll find there will be extremely healing. Know that you are the greatest healer you have for yourself and that you have incredible power to share this gift with others, too. Augment this healing energy with a return to nature.

Leo (July 24-Aug 23)

You may find it hard to connect with your emotions today, Leo. It could be that it’s difficult to find a bit of quiet time when you can really sit down and listen to your inner voice. There are distractions all around that are pulling you in many different directions. Keep in mind that these forces aren’t necessarily acting in your best interests.

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23)

You may find that your heart is bouncing back and forth like a tennis ball today, Virgo. One minute you could be drawn one way, while the next minute you’re drawn in a completely different direction. Instead of trying to fight this feeling, take advantage of it. Consciously or unconsciously, what you’re really doing is exploring. Try new things until you’re sure that you’ve found what you need.

Libra

(Sep 24-Oct 23)

Your energy level is high today, Libra, but don’t let this turn into a head-in-the-clouds attitude. Keep one foot firmly planted on the ground, because you may need to keep a level head in a work or personal situation. Keep in mind that the best way to deal with this is to use your positive energy to heal the difficult situation instead of letting this difficult situation get you down.

Scorpio

(Oct 24-Nov 22)

You could think that your life is too boring for anyone else to care about, Scorpio. Don’t fall into a well of self-pity and convince yourself that there simply isn’t enough excitement in your life and never will be. Believe that you have the power to cure any such downtrodden feeling that you might have at this time. Consider joining a spiritual support group where you can honestly share your feelings.

Sagittarius

(Nov 23-Dec 21)

In an effort to be the brightest and best star on the stage, Sagittarius, you might actually be driving away the most important members of your audience. Make sure that you aren’t putting on different masks with different people just so you can appease those you’re with. Others can see right through any disguise you try to put on. Trying to deceive others is simply a sign of disrespect.

Capricorn

(Dec 22-Jan 20)

Go ahead and make a list today, Capricorn. Powerful emotions are likely to lure you from your current path unless you have some sort of concrete plan to fall back on. Put idle hands to use by delegating tasks to the people around you. You’ll be amazed at the little blocks of time you have when you stay on task and keep yourself and everyone else around you in motion.

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)

If you look carefully today, Aquarius, you’re apt to notice aspects of people that you never noticed before. There could be a frenzy of activity that catches you in its net and takes you away. Look to other people for guidance as you go along. When you ask for help, you’ll get it. At the same time, you’ll learn a great deal about the people who end up helping you.

Pisces (Feb

20-Mar 20)

Be careful about becoming too stubborn today, Pisces. This is one of those days in which you’re asked to build a structure in a very windy area. If you insist on using the most rigid materials, you’ll find that the structure you build ends up snapping in two. If, however, you construct your building with flexible materials, it will bend in the wind and last far longer.

Answers to the Sudoku and Crossword on page 29